CONGRESS CONVENES TO DECIDE NATION'S COURSE WITH WAR-MAD KAISER (Continued From Page One) colors fluttered and rippled from jp buildings, automobiles and almost every point of vantage. The street car companies placed them on their cars; svery traffic policeman's "go-go" sisn had a flag fluttering from its peak. The Capitol was a wave of color. To Vote Huge Credit Chairman Simmons, of the Semite Finance Committee, conferred with Secretary McAdoo on the amount of money needed immediately by the gov ernment. It was agreed not to go into details until alter Congress takes ac tion defining the attitude of the United States and then Secretaries McAdoo and Baker and Daniels will again dis cuss the question with Senator Sim mons and also with House leaders. Senator Simmons said he thought the credit to be granted to the Presi dent by Congress should be a large one. The amount fixed, ho added, would not mean that all. of it was to be used or that much more might not be asked for later. Senator Simmons said there was no longer any doubt that war with Ger many would be declared to exist al though the form of the resolution had not been determined upon. Prays of Patriotism The House session opened with Clerk South Trimble presiding until organization was perfected. The chaplain included in his prayer a plea for patriotism. Nearly the entire Senate member ship was present when Vice-President Marshal called for order and, after (he invocation, the President's proclama tion calling the extraordinary session was read. In the Senate the chaplain also re- | ferred to the problems confronting] Congress. The Senate after being in session about ten minutes recessed to await | organization of the House. Senators ! "Martin and Gallinger, the two party leaders, were appointed ta act with the ! House Committee in notifying Pi esi-j dent Wilson that Congress is ready to [ receive a communication from him. In moving for a recess until S p. m. j Senator Martin said: President is Silent "I understand there is a strong | probability that the House will per- i feet its organization by 3 o'clock and I that the President will be pleased to j address a joint session as soon as it is j complete." The President in his addres.s it is j .1 Ita GAIL KANE, who has made a sensational hit in the Harp of Life, says: I find Adams Black Jack Chewing Gum is delicious and also excellent for relieving a cough." P tljUU^" MONDAY EVENING, - - rT T -^.w nr I\lL< £•, I^l/. understood, will refer to the tradition al friendship between the American 1 people and the German people and to differentiate between the German gov ernment and the people it rules. He also will recount his efforts to restore peace lo Europe and to maintain peace with Germany. Before going to Congress, the Presi dent di|( not take even members of his cabinet into his contidence on the exa'ot, terms of his address. From in ! formation he has called for and gen . eral discussions at cabinet meetings, i they know that he has concluded that • war wi'tli Germany seems inevitable. Ballot at 1(1 O'clock i Speaker Clark was placed in nomi nation for the speakership by Repre sentative Schall, of Minnesota, a Pro gressive. Republican Leader Mann was nomi nated for speaker by Representative Green, of Masp.. and seconded by Rep resentative Lenroot, of Wisconsin. Balloting began shortly before 1 o'clock. The voting occupies about fifty minutes. Three Absentees Four hundred and twenty-nine of the four hundred and thirty-three liv ing members of the House answered present. * The absentees were Repre sentative Capstick, of New Jersey; Helgesen, of North Dakota, and Bleakley, of Pensylvania, Republicans, and Representative Lee, of Georgia, Democrat. Two members-elect are dead. Immediately after the rollcall. Rep resentative Schall, Progressive, of I Minnesota, addressed the House, say |ing he would vote for Champ Clark for j Speaker. I Schall prefaced his remarks by de lclaring the country should stand united in this crisis and stand by the! President. Democrats Applaud i "I. with my sightless eyes," he said, I "would be of little use to my country ion the Held of battle but I can cast Imy vote to help it. I know of no bet- ' iter way to stand by the President than 1 ito return his party to the control of I the House." Democrats applaucFerr' Schall, but Republicans were silent. | "The gentleman front Minnesota I has placed Mr. Clark in nomination,"! I said Clark Trimble, j "I am glad to." said Mr. Schall. Representative Green, Republican. I |of Massachusetts. then nominated j Ucpresentativo Mann, of Illinois, fori Speaker. Representative Lenroot, of Wisconsin, seconded ttye nomination. Clwllciised by Lrnraot Lenroot said that as a Republican ho could not allow to go unchalleng ed the assertions of Representative Schall. lit: has said that patriotism demands that the organization of this House be turned over to the Demo crats, said I.enroot. "1 cannot admit that Republicans are less patriotic than Democrats. There ought not to be any partisanship in considering the great questions that will come before this Congress. There will be none on the Republican side of this house. What we need is the assistance of every American, no matter what his politics may be. "Tills is no time for any man to criticise the President of the United States but I do say in this hour it would be better if the President were compelled under the organization of this House to consult Republicans as well as Democrats." Balloting Begins iialloting for Speaker then began. When Martin, of Louisana, Progres sive-protectionist, voted for Clark, ap plause broke loose. A moment later Representative London, Socialist of New York, and Randall, Prohibition ist of California, also voted for Clark. A cheer was given when Miss Rankin voted for Mann. Republican Vote Split * All of the Democrats present and four < I the so-called independents, Martin, Progressive - protectionist of Louisiana; Schall, Progressive, of Minnesota; London, Socialist, of New York, and Randall, Prohibitionist, of California, voted for Clark. Two Republicans, Gardner and Full er, of Massachusetts, voted for Rep resentative Lenroot, of Wisconsin; Representatives Dallinger, of Massa chusetts, and Gray, of New Jersey, for Representative Gillett, of Massachus etts, and Representatives James, of Michigan and Haskell, of New York, Republicans, voted present. Former Senator Mason, of Illinois, was the only Republican who voted j for Clark. The speaker was escorted j to the chair by a committee of which Representative Mann was the chair man. Ho was greeted with applause from both sides of the Chamber as he spoke in part as follows: "We Arc All Patriots'' "It is absolutely unnecessary and superfluous to lecture the membership on patriotism. We are all patriots, as are the people who elected us. We are all Americans whether natives or for- eign-born, as our constituents. On many questions we are 'distinct as the billows, yet we are one as the sea' when the honor and safety of the re public are involved. Politics finds no place in this house when the general welfare and the common defense of the nation are at stake. Let all the ends we aim at be our country's and in the accomplishment of these ends may the God of our fathers be with us and guide us in the way which will re dound to the honor and perpetuity of the greatest republic that ever exist ed in all the llood of time." The speaker took the oath at 1:50 and members then were sworn into office in groups by States. Need Much Legislation President \yilson within the next day or two probably will confer with Congressional leaders on legislation desired by the administration. The War and Navy Departments aro ready with recommendations to further strengthen the army and navy as soon as Congress acts. Several representatives had prepar ed bills, all relating to the national emergency, for introduction as soon as the House met. Among them were measures to provide for a declaration of war, or a declaration that a state of war exists; compulsory military training and extension of large credits to the entente allies. President Wilson's address was sent to the public printer.early this morn ing and he held himself ready to de liver it -as soon as the House was or ganized. Meanwhile the President went golf ing but arranged to return to the •White House before noon, the hour set for the convening of Congress. He made no engagements for the day. A resolution to declare war between the German empire and the United States as prepared by Representative Gardner, of Massachusetts, Republi can, says: "That war be and the same is hereby declared between the German empire and the United States of America and the President is au thorized and directed to use the whole land and naval forces of the United States against the said German em pire, its subjects and dependencies." The preamble sets out that the tri umph of Germany would destroy the liberty of the world, "that the gran deur of the United States will not permit its share of the burden of war to be borne by other nations." and "that Germany has continued to de stroy American ships and to take American lives." GERMANY CALLS AGED TO COLORS Kaiser Prepares Huge Army For Supreme Drive on Entente Copenhagen, April 2.—Germany, ac cording to information reaching here from Berlin, is gathering to the colors every available man for a supreme mil itary effort to bring the war to a vic torious conclusion in this year's cam paign—a goal which Field Marshal von Hindenburg and his advisers consider by no means impossible of attainment. Without altering formally the law of military service the German authori ties have in practice extended the peri od of service beyond the forty-fifth year and are retaining with the colors, and in many instances for lighting duty with active units in the front line, Landsturm men who have passed this age. The policy of the German War De partment, as stated in the Reichstag this week by a military representatives, is to withdraw those men over forty five from tile front line after they have done six months of duty there, but military exigencies compel the holding of these over-age men for service in the so-called etape, or region behind the actual fighting front. For some time the German authori ties, in a grand combing out of men earlier pronounced unfit for service, have been mustering men on the very verge of the age limit, but up to the present they have announced that, the necessity ha 9 not yet arisen for legis lation raising the age limit to sixty five, as has been done in Austria-Hun gary. .SCHOOL NOTES CENTRAL The S. P. Q. R. Society will meet this evening with Miss Evelyn Speakman, SOU North Seventeenth street. The pro gram committee has arranged the fol lowing: "To Virgil," Miss Margaret Landis; "Legends About Virgil," Miss Martha Cresswell; "On An Old Latin Text." Miss Mary Dietrich; "Eucela dus," Miss Evelyn Speakman; "Stories From the Aeneid," Harry Mell, Paul Selsam and William Bretz. The mem bers of this societv are all students of the classical departments, and will ad journ this evening by singing "Arma Virumnue Cano." The faculty advisors, Miss Mary Katherine McNiff and Miss Edna Engle, will be present. RUSS KFEATS TURKS By Associated Press PetrograU, April 2, via London.— British Admiralty per Wireless Press. —Russian troops moving westward from Kerlnd in Persia, are approach ing the Mesopotamian border near Khanikin, continuing to drive the Turks before them, to-day's War Of fice statement indicates. Two addi tional towns have been occupied by this column. IiABOR SCARCE IX SOUTH By Associated Press Atlanta. Ga., April 2.—A growing scarcity of labor is being felt in every industrial center of the south as a re sult of the exodus of negroes to ern m 'Cttj .n* •writers, under promis i i hit,! > wages "Lu' 4* ject of Shafer i Redeei eran 1 n riaburj noon. Kl.ov ' r. i o > Elect • .1 * Guild c M •• h.x,j >rpiJ ,u annual ii> t-' •. v suited m for I#l n.;i . i Ident; * ?•--. d'-r preside vlce-pn treaßur • i U > rli secretai IH)L .r ! M Two lr • ceived - .1 put lnti i Hold. f (* British Take Three Towns After Desperat Fighting By Associated Press London, April 2.-—The British have captured Croisilles qfter a desperate defense by the Germans, Reuter's cor respondent at British headquarters re ports. The towns of Longatte and Doignies also have been captured by the Brit ish who took some prisoners. 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Sentanel Cold Tablete when b „ kach , and dull misory In Hdney region It generally means Jf'ou have been break that cold in a few hours. "Sfc No quinine. No habit forming S r w .SS STSSTIf fiS.'MJS I^,and they become sort of paralyzed drugs. ZDC any druggist. and losgy. ' When your kidneys get sluggish and clog you must relieve them, like you relieve your bowels; The Sentanel Remedies Co., Inc. removing an the bodys urinous waste. t else you have backache, sick head rinrinnatij Ohio ache, dizzy spells; your stomach sours, • tongue is coated, and when the weath er is bad you have rheumatic saa.sar&ar & ULLI jLI.U-1.E1.1.1.DQi.1-1.1.1.1.1.1.l water scalds and you are obliged to • W t-B JI.MBMMMMMMWMW ■ ■ ■ W M seek relief two or three times during the night. Enjoy life—health. Get rid of those backaches! | physician at once or get from your' pharmacist about four ounces of Jail O a. 1 V* J_ D'll Salts; <ake a tablespoonful in a glas* oentanel IVlCtney rills Of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act ■t. combl'ed with liihia, and has been W gist. Ciuarantccd. used for generations to clean and 'tlniulnte sluggish kidneys, also to (W. sS xi.„ lr neutralize acids In the urine so It no Ihe bentanel Kemedies C.0., lac. longer irritates, thus ending t.iadder JmT Cincinnati, Ohio. weakness. Jad Salts Is a life for regular ■■■■■■■ M_M aMM MM M meat eaters It la inexpensive, cannot injure and makes u .l.lil,trul, effer vescent lithla-water drink. SHE HAS TWO MATES JAILED Sheloygan, Wis., April 2. —Sheriff George Goodell has two men In his custody, one for non-support and the other for abandonment, the warrant for each having been sworn to by the same woman. Nearly two years ago Joe Eppling was arrested on complaint of his wife for abandonment. She se cured a divorce, but Kppllng was sent enced to the county jail for two years, the sheriff to secure employment for him and the wages he earned to bo used tor the support of his children. The sentence and order have been car ried out. '•UNLOADED" PIKTO*, Lebanon Pa., April /2. Bentz, 19 years old, off yesterday from a bullet head immediately above the The police found he had accidental!] killed himself in demonstrating hi claim that his revolver was not loaded When he first pointed the weapon his companion, llarry Deckert, am pulled the trigger, there was no dis charge, and Deckert strongly reprovct him for his dangerous act. Thef Bentz, in further evidence of his con tention, pressed the muzle to his own head and again pulled the trigger. Th.ll time there was a discharge and Bent) fell fatally wounded.
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