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LXXXVI— 16 PAGES No. 55
PATRIOTIC DISPLAY
MARKS INAUGURAL;
CAPITAL DRENCHED
WILSON WILL
NOT ABANDON
RIGHT TO ARM
President Stands Firm For Armed Neutrality Policy and
Indicates That Nation May Be Drawn by Circumstances
Into a More* Active Assertion of American Rights on
High Seas.
NOTHING WILL ALTER COUNTRY'S THOUGHT
OR PURPOSE, CHIEF EXECUTIVE DECLARES
Rights too Clear to Be Obscured and too Deeply Rooted in
Principles of National Life to Be Altered, Mr. Wilson
Says in Inaugural Address Following Formal
Ceremonies.
By Associated Press
Washington, March 5. President Wilson took the oath of
in public at 12.45 o'clock this afternoon and delivered his in
augural address before a great crowd which packed the plaza at the
east front of the Capitol.
\ ice-President Marshall had been inaugurated in the Senate
chamber at 12.03 p. m.
\\ ith a new consecration to the nation's service the President,
touching on the international crisis, declared there could now be no
turning back from the tragical events of the last thirty months which
have brought upon Americans a new responsibility as citizens of the
world. 1 lie President declared anew that America must stand for
peace, stability of free peoples, national equality in matters of rights;
that the seas must be free to all and that the family of nations shall
not support any governments not derived from the consent of the
governed.
Sounding a solemn warning to the nation against any faction
or intrigue to break the harmony or embarrass the spirit of the
American people, the president called for an America "united in feel
ing, in purpose and in its vision of duty, of opportunity and of
service."
At the conclusion of his address the President led the inaugural
procession back to the White House where it passed in review be
fore him.
COLD RAW WIND
WHIPS CROWD IN
GREAT PAGEANT
I roops Used to Guard Line of
March For First Time
Since 1861
ashington, March 5. lnaugura-1
tion day began under leaden clouds*
that threatened to spill rain or snow |
at any moment. A cold raw wind 1
whipped the rain-soaked decorations
of the capital and swept the water- j
logged grandstands which have stood
under drenching downpours for nearly
a week.
Hours before the time for the cere
monies at the capitol the city was
astir making the final preparations \
for the show. Pennsylvania avenue was j
covered with a thick coating of fine
sand to dry the route of the proces-1
sion. Troops assigned to the Presl-,
dent's guard or to the procession were i
moving through the city to their!
places; platoons of Boy Scouts as-!
signed to assist in preserving order!
were marching to their posts. Thou- i
sands of spectators who had no places!
on the reviewing stands were beginning
to pack the avenue behind the lines
of s'out steel cables strung from the
Whit) House to the capitol to keep;
the aver.ue absolutely clear of every-'
thing. j
No Morning Engagements
President Wilson was up at 8
o'clock and took breakfast before nine
with members of his family and his
house guests. He had no engage-1
ments before the time of his departure
for the capitol at 11 o'clock. Hl3|
inaugural address which was sent to'
the public printer late last night was:
returned to the White House early this
morning and finally gone over by the I
President.
The President had a touch of cold j
yesterday but was better this morning 1
and although worried over the Inter
national situation was said by his
physician to be in good condition for
the inaugural ceremonies.
The wind switched about and stirred
up the rainy looking clouds
blue patches appeared in the sky.
Then the sun broke through and flood
ed the soaking streets and stands with
its warm rays for a few momenta, only
to disappear again. It began to look
as if it might clear up enough to avoid
rain or snow at any rate.
Marsliul's staff' in Mne
At 10 o'clock Major General Scotf.
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NATION CANNOT
ABANDON RIGHTS
SAYS PRESIDENT
County Drifts Toward More
Active Participation in War
1 lian an Armed Neutrality
Washington, March s.—President
Wilson's inaugural address was as fol
lows:
"My fellow citizens:
"The four years which have elapsed
since last I stood in this place have
been crowded with counsel and ac
tion of the most vital interest and
consequence. Perhaps no equal pe
riod in our history has been so fruit
ful of important reforms in our eco
nomic and industrial life or so full
of significant changes in the spirit
and purpose of our political action.
We have sought very thoughtfully to
set our house in order, to correct the
grosser errors and abuses of our in
dustrial life, liberate and quicken the
processes of our national genius and
energy, and lift our politics to a
broader view of the people's essential
Interests. It is a record of singu
lar variety and singular distinction.
Hut I shall not attempt to review it.
It speaks for itself and will be of in
creasing influence as the years go by.
This is not the time for retrospect.
It is time rather to speak our thoughts
and purposes concerning the present
and the immediate future.
"Although we have centered coun
sel and action with such unusual con
centration and success upon the great
problems of domestic legislation to
which we addressed ourselves four
years ago, other matters have more
and more forced themselves upon our
attention, matters lying outside our
own life as a nation and over which
we had no control, but which despite
our wish to keep free of them, have
drawn us more and more irresistibly
into their own current and influence.
Cannot Avoid l*rolilcni
"It has not been possible to avoid
them. They haveaffected the life of the
whole world. They have shaken men
everywhere with a passion and an ap
prehension they never knew before.
It has been hard to preserve calm
counsel while the thought of our own
people swayed this way and that un
der their influence. We are a compos
ite and cosmopolitan people. We are
of the blood of all the nations that
are at war. The currents of our
thoughts as well as the currents of
our trade run quick at all seasons back
and forth between us and them. The
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HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1917.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
K
SENATE NADERS
CALL A CAUCUS
TO CHANGE RULE
Washington, March 5.—A Demo- j
cratic Senate caucus has been called
for to-morrow morning, at which will'
be discussed a cloture rule to prevent,
filibusters such as killed the armed j
neutrality bill.
Responsive to the President's ap- j
peal to the Senate to change its rules'
WILSON FLAYS SMALL
BAND WHICH KNIFED
NATION'S INTERESTS
By Associated Press
Washington. March 5. President
Wilson believes the killing of the arm
ed neutrality bill by the Senate fili
buster before adjournment yesterday
may effectually prevent him from ex
ercising executive prerogative to arm
merchant ships, and advocates imme
diate reform of rules by the Senate at
the session called for to-day, to pre
vent a small minority from holding up
legislation in the future. After 12 !
senators led by Senator LaFollette had i
defied the wish of an overwhelming
majority to vote on the neutrality bill!
until forced adjournment yesterday
noon, carried the measure down to its 1
death, President Wilson issued a
statement denouncing the obstruction-]
ists and expressing doubt whether he
can proceed to ttrni ships without leg
islative sanction.
Referring to the filibuster. the
President's statement said:
"The result in this case is a com- j
plete paralysis alike of the legislative |
LITTLE GROUP OF WILFUL MEN
RENDERS AMERICA HELPLESS
The President's statement in full
follows:
"The termination of the last session
of the Sixty-fourth Congress, by con
stitutional limitation, discloses a situa
tion linpaAUeled in the history of
the country, perhaps unparalleled in
the history of any modern Govern
ment. 11l the immediate presence of
a crisis fraught with more subtle arid
far-reaching possibilities of national
danger than any other the Government
has known within the whole history
of its international relations, the Con
gress has been unable to act either to
safeguard the country or to vindicate
the elementary rights of its citizens.
More than live hundred of the live
hundred and thirty-one members of
the two Houses were ready and
anxious to act; the House of Repre
sentatives had acted, by an over-
j so that "a little group of wilful men"
might not continue to make the coun
! try "helpless and contemptible" before
j the world in the submarine crisis, the
j cloture movement was initiated to
! day by the Democratic leaders.
Thirty-three members already have
I agreed to co-operate with the anti
j filibuster movement.
f and executive branches of the gov
ernment.
"A little group of wiliul men, rep
resenting no opinion but their own,
have rendered the great government
of the United States helpless and con
temptible.
Action Incredible
"Although as a matter of fact the
nation and the representatives of the
nation stand back of the executive
with unprecedented unanimity and
spirit, the impression made abroad
I will, of course, be that it is not so, and
that other governments may act as
! they please without fear that this gov.
eminent can do anything at all. We
cannot explain. The explanation is
j incredible."
Although Senator La Folic tte had
intended to bring his fight on the neu-
I trality bill to a dramatic climax by de
livering a long speech tip to the hour
of adjournment, he was prevented by
a parliamentary maneuver by which
Senator Hitchcock, leader of the 7
I members who favored the bill and
j wanted to vote, occupied that time
I with a speech of his own.
I whelming majority; but the Senate
j was unable to act because a little
?roup of eleven Senators had deter
mined that it should not.
"The Senate has no rules by which
debate can be limited or brought to an
end; no rules by which dilatory tac
-1 tics of any kind can be prevented. A
single member can stand in the way
of action if he have but the physical
endurance. The result in this case is
a complete paralysis alike of/ the
I Legislative and of the executive
I branches of the Government.
Need MaM I'rcsslnjf
i "This inijbility'of the Senate to act
• has rendered some of the most neces
sary legislation of the session im
possible, at a time when the need for
it was most pressing and most evi '
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ELEVEN DROWN IN
ATTEMPT TO SAVE
STANDARD TANKER
Boats Launched by Coast Guard
Cutter Capsize in Heavy
Seas
TUGS SENT TO HELP
Crew on Wrecked Vessel Can
Be Seen Moving About
on Decks
■ By Associate,/ Press
Philadelphia, March 5. Eleven
seamen from the United States coast
guard cutter Yamacraw, battling with
tremendous seas to render assistance
to the steamer Louisiana, stranded off
| Ocean City, Md., lost their lives last
night when two lifeboats were cap
j sized. A third lifeboat sent out by
the Yamacraw to search for the other
! two safely rode the breakers and re
i ported the loss of eleven men to the
life savers on shore, according to a
telephone message from the coast
guard station at Ocean City.
The Louisiana, bound from Tampi
co, Mexico, for Philadelphia with
"rude oil. stranded yesterday during a
heavy storm. \
The Yamacraw sent out a lifeboat
with nine men and failing to hear
I from it within a reasonable time it
was discovered by means of flare sig
nals exchanged with the Louisiana,
that the men had not reached the
i stranded steamer. Another boat with
two men was launched and when this
also failed to reach the Louisiana, a
third boat was manned and sent to
search for the others.
Russ Brothers Repurchase
Their Ice Cream Plant
Russ llrothers have repurchased the
! ice cream business which they sold
' about a year ago to Oeorge Hall.
The plant is located at Sixteenth and
Walnut streets. The transaction was
completed last week. Russ Brothers
are now manufacturing ice cream at
their old stand.
LEBANON LAWYER
MET WITH FOUL
PLAY, DR. SAYS
Impossible For Shirk lo Htibe
Sent Two Bullets Into His
Own Brain
By Associated Press
Lebanon, Pa., March s.—Dr. Ilies
ter Bucher, of Readiifg, who was sum
moned to Lebanon to assist in per
forming an autopsy upon the remains
of Howard C. Shirk, the lawyer who
was so mysteriously shot, declared to
day that his investigation leaves no
doubt that the man met with foul
play. According to Dr. Bucher it
would have been impossible for him
to send two bullets into his brain, as
the first caused death. Dr. Bucher
stated that the dead man had a severe
bruise on the head and that it drew
blood from the scalp, leading- to the
belief that he was knocked down with
a heavy blow.
Not His Pistol
The theory that robbery was the
motive of the crime is scouted by Dr.
Bucher. There was nothing to "indi
cate it, he said. It is said that a clue
to the supposed murderer of Mr. Shirk
has been furnished to the Lebanon
county authorities by the widow of the
murdered bank president and leader
of the Lebanon county bar. Mrs. Shirk
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[THE WEATHER]
For llnrrinhuric nnd vicinity! Fair
iiihl colder to-nlKht, with lowent
temperature about 10 decree*;
Tucndny fair, continued cold.
For Kaatern Pennsylvania: Cloudy
to-night, probably hiiow In north
portion; much colders Tuenday
falr, continued colilt ntronic
north went ulnd* to-night dimin
ishing Tuesday.
River
Tbe upper main river nnd all tribu
tarily above llarrUluirn will con
tinue to fall. The rime of one foot
in the river nt llarriwlnirg In the
1 tint twenty-four hourn In back
water, iluc to the choked condi
tion of the channel below. If the
channel contlnuen choked the
river will rine ntendlly at Harrin
liurKt but probably not ftufficient
ly to do any damage.
(General Condition*
The nlugglnh ntorm that wan cen
tral near New Orleann, Saturday
morning, linn moved nlowly north
eantuiird with Incrennlng
strength nnd In now central over
New Jeme>. It haw canned nnow,
rain and uleet over prnctically all
the enatern half of the country
during the laitt twenty-four
houm. The weather hnn cleared
In the Southwent and over most
of the- M isniMnlppi Valley, Incluil-
Inu the western part of the l.ake
Hckloii. dlnturbance central
over Snakstchewan !inn canned a
decided rlne In temperature and
nome rain In the ftorthwent.
There ban been a general fall of
2 to 34 degreen In temperature
from the I'lalnn States cant ward
nlnce Innt report.
Temperaturei 8 a. M.i 30 degreen
above aero. ,
Stint ItlNen, 0t32 a. m.
Moon t Full moon, March 8, 5:02
p. m.
River Stnuei 11.4 feet above low
water mark.
Yentcrday*n Weather
Htghent temperature, JM.
I.owent temperature. SI.
Mean temperature. 82.
Normal tea' erature, 33.
Single Copy, 2 Cents
WANTS RECRUITS
AND NOT SO MUCH
WAVING OF FLAGS
Col. Finney Favors Public
Drill of All City's Guardsmen
in Market Square
M E N ARE NEEDED
Desires .Young Men to Quit
Shouting and Enroll in
Local Companies
"Recruits anil not so much flag? wav
ing: is what we want," said Colonel
Maurice E. Finney, of the Eighth regi
ment, this morning when a reporter for
the Telegraph broached the idea of a
public drill of all Harrisburg Guards
men in Market Square.
"I am heartily in favor of n public
drill by the National Guardsmen, but
not at the present time," said Colonel
Finney. There is too much work to
be done, with the spring Inspection
coming on and the impassible condition
lof the streets. As soon as the weather
conditions are favorable and the work,
now commanding the attention of the
guardsmen is completed I am in favor
of the drill and will do all I can to aid
the project."
Captain George C. Jack, of the Gov
ernor's Troop, Is also in favor of ihc
i project as is Captain of Police Joseph
I Thompson. Captain- Thompson stated
! that the police would do everything In
their power to make the drill possible
and would co-operate with the National
Guard officers in every detail.
To Hold I'll". lie Drill
With the head officers In favor of
the drill it is almost certain that the
residents of Harrisburg wil be privil
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SNOW GRIPS NEW ENGlnnd
1 "Boston, March s.—New England was
! in the grasp of one of the most severe
i snowstorms of the winter to-day. 'Vlth
| the exception of the southeastern coast
I where rain was general the stoiin
raged fiercely during the early hours
with a stiff northeaster "blowing. Many
| points reported more than a root of
| snow, the storm being se
| vere in Maine. Six inches of snow
had fallen in Boston at 8 o'clock this
: morning and it continued rs the day
advanced.
*
WILSON SEEKS LEGAL ADVICE j
■.... i.gton, March s.—President Wilson has referred j
Hi: legal advisois hi:; doubts of his power to arm Ameri !
c.u h.ps m the absence of authority from Congress. Some ]
dec'sion is expected from the Attorney General within the ]
n?xt twenty-four hours. j
U. E. CHURCH GROWS j
York. Pa., March s.—Of the bulk ot committee re- \
ports disposed of to-day in the rush to bring the twenty- |
third annual Central Pennsylvania conference of the United I
Evangelical Church to a close to-night at. East Prospect, ]
tXM oi the 6ttwtJcal cwmnt was received with intere-1.
I revealed an encouraging growth of the church m the con
ference. It is expected that the conference appointments
will be announced late to-night. '
ARREST ALLEGED THIEF IN PHILA
Harrisburg.—Peter Muntz, wanted in this city for the
theft of $38.50 from the boardinghcuse ot Peter Schlitt,
1408 Wallace Street on Feb. 23, was arrested to-day in j
Philadelphia by the police of that city
1
PLOTTED TO BLOW UP PRESIDENT
HOBOKEN, N, J., MARCH 6. —A MAN WHO GAVE i
HIS NAME AS FRITZ KOLB WAS ARRESTED HEKL' j
TO-DAY AND CONFESSED, ACCORDING TO THL
POLICE, OF A PLOT TO BLOW UP PRESIDENT
WILSON. J (
BIG PASSENGER STEAMER SUNK j!
New York, March b. —Advices received here from Ki-> ]|
Janeiro and London indicate that the Royal Maial Steam
\ . !
packet lined, Drina, of 11,483 tons, with passengers and if
cargo from the former place, has been sunk between Li;.- [
PROMINENT WOMEN TO OPEN EXHIBIT JJ
Harrisburg.—Addresses by Mrs. Charles Frailer, wife |!
of the President of the State Board of Chantie and Mrs ; 1
Edward W. Biddle, Presidertt of the Philadelphia Civic jj
Club, Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock will open an exhibit |!
on Feeble Mindness at 2C6 Walnut Street.
i * ! j
]!
MARRIAGE LICENSES ij
Hrure Karl Deardorf nn<l \<ln May ('rune, Sim Cumberland.
John l.nwrrnrr Hair, MlllrraburK, anil Klr llrbri-ra Amis, Ltvrf*oL c
Jacob K. lloUaruirl au<l Kdun I. I'ruiidfoot, >llll<-rlnir K .
I.eonard Tlioninn \><-ly and KHaabetb >lary Kyan, Harrlaburg.
Mfoln SKriKiiuull and Itetrra lima tmlroaf, HarrlMburK.
(•eorite Umt> Iloxldorf, HarrlMburK, and lluth Katharine Reed, Pea
brook.
i HOME EDITION
2 NEW CHURCHES
TO BE ERECTED IN
CITY'S OUTSKIRTS
Ham-is Street U. E. to Establish
New Congregation Near
Riverside
'COLORED MISSION
|East Pennsylvania Eldership of
I the Church of God to Finance
Erection of Structure
Two now church buildings will be
oreeteil In this city in the near fu
i ture.
The congregations of the Church of
i God will establish a negro mission in
Monroe street north of Cumberland
and a committee from the Harris
Street United Evangelical Church is
looking for grounds in the vicinity of
Riverside, to establish a new church.
The church extension committee of
the East Pennsylvania eldership of the
Church of God, has appointed a spe
cial committee composed of C. J. Mil
ler, Penbrook: C. S. Meek, Harrlsburg,
and J. B. Martin, Middletown, to take
; charge of the erection of a new mis
j sion for negroes on Monroe street,
i The committee has already purchased
j a plot of ground 75 by 90 feet on
Monroe street just north of Cumber
land. The cost of the mission will be
j about $3,000. and will be borne by
| the congregations of the eldershiu.
Present liuilding Too Smi'.ll
At the present time there is a negro
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Receiving Bids For
Portable Island Bleachers
Hids are being received by City Com
missioner K. 'A. Gross for portable
bleachers to be erected on Island Park
during the coming track and field
meets.
Owing to the large crowds which an
nually attend these meets, lack of seat
ing space at times lias made it neces
sary to provide room for some of tin
spectators inside the track, interferin.v
with some of the events, and causin
delay. At least 1,000 additional seal
Will be provided. An appropriation <
SSOO was made in the annual budget ti
pay for the bleachers. They will be
(erected on the west side of the track.