HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXVI — No. 80 20 PAGES
UNITED STATES AT
WAR WITH GERMANY;
READY TO MOBILIZE
EXPECT BIG
VOTE FOR WAR
DECLARATION
La Follette Takes Advantage of Rules and Forces Senate to
Delay of a Day Before Action Can Be Cast; Complains
When Patriotic Senators Criticise Him For Purposely
Playing Dilatory Tactics
LOOK TO CHIEF EXECUTIVE TO AUTHORIZE
FULL WAR STRENGTH OF ARMY AND GUARD
Overwhelming Majority For Resolution in Both Branches of
Congress Forecast When Ballot Is Taken; Senate Prob
ably Will Wait For House to Act; President Keeps in
Close Touch With Administration Leaders
"Right More Precious Than Peace!" Says President
It Is a depressing and oppressive duty, gentlemen of the Congress,
which I have performed in thus addressing you. There are, it may be,
many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a fearful thing
lo lead this great, peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and
disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance.
But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight Tor the
tilings which we have always carried nearest our hearts—for democracy,
lor the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their
own governments for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a uni
versal dominion of right by such n concert of free peoples as shall bring
peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything
that we arc and everything that we have, with the pride of those who
know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her
blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happi
ness, and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can
do no other.
(Full text of President Wilson's speech will be found 011 page 12)
By Associated Press
Washington, April 3. JLhe United States really is at war with
the German empire to-day, the formal recognition of
Congress.
livery agency was moving to gird the nation against the govern
ment which President \V ilson in his address to Congress character
ized as a natural foe to liberty.
Ihe cabinet at a war session was called to discuss the exten
sion of credits to the nations already at war against Germany; the
laising of money by taxation for use of the United States in the war'
the equipment of the Navy to the fullest state of efficiency to cope'
with the submarine menace and the raising of a great army on the
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Patriotism Above
Politics; Democrats
Postpone Dinner
The Central Democratic Club last
evening voted to postpone its Jefferson
Day dinner, April 13, at which Senator
Ollie M. James was to have spoken.
The club took the position that this
is no time for partisan demonstrations,
• that all Americans should stand to
gether regardless of party and that
political orations are out of place.
This was the announcement made by
Henry Opperman, chairman of the
committee, at the conclusion of last
evening's meeting.
I THE WEATHER, I
For Hnrrlaburg and vicinity: Folr
to-nlghtl \Velne*dny purtlv
cloudy; not murk change In tcm-
Pfratnrr, lowest to-night nbout
38 degree*.
For Kastern Pennny Ivnnln: Fair to
night, Wednesday overc-mtti not
much change In temperature)
moderate northwest wind* be
coming variable.
River
" The main river and the loner por
tion* of ItN principal tributaries
'Will rise slowly. The upper por
tion* of the main trlbuturle* mil
probably begin to fall to-night.
A atngc of about 7.6 feet la Indi
cated for Harrlsburg Wednendny
mornlnr.
General Condltlona
The dlaturbance that was ccntrnl
over the l.ake Region, Monday
morning, ha* passed off north
eaatnard, eaualng light ralna in
the Lake Region and Upper Ohio
Valley and thence eastward to
the Atlantic coaat.
Temperature i 8 a. m.. 42.
Sunt Rlaea, 5(42 a. in.
Mooni Full moon. April T.
River Stagei 0.0 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Hlgheat temperature, 72.
. l.owet temperature. 60.
Mean temperature, 60.
fiamal temperature, 45.
I "'K . )
\ President Wilson's Cabinet Meets
Many Volunteer to
Raise Military Forces
For War With Germany
President Wilson's message to Con
gress has brought numerous offers to
Governor Brumbaugh for the organi
zation of military units of various
kinds and the mail to-day contained
many such propositions. As the Na
tional Guard has not even been called
into service and the Federal Govern
ment has not indicated what it desires
in the way of military support from
Pennsylvania all such letters are re
ferred to the Adjutant General and
filed for future use.
General Stewart said to-day he had
no information from Washington and
was awaiting any call the national
government might make. "The Guard
is ready for service," was his com
ment.
Freedom ol House
Floor Restricted
After Hot Debate
An effort to suspend indeflnitelv the
rule to keep' everyone except ex-iegis
lators, State officers, authorized per
sons and families of members froro
the floor of the House was voted down
135 to 42, to-day after a debate in
which Speaker Badlwin took part.
The enforcement of the rule began
two weeks ago. but was so rigid that
members voted to admit their families
Complaints were made by men in
terested in legislation and A. C. Schaef
fer, Schuylkill, sought to suspend the
rule. He charged there had been dis
crimination in admitting people, say
ing some persons who were urging
legislation were barred out.
Speaker Baldwin left the chair to
answer the Schuylkill member, declar
ing that to set aside the rule meant
confusion and that the dignity of the
House at a critical time would be
thrown to the four winds. He said it
was difficult to enforce the rule, but
that progress was being made.
Mr. Schaeffer insisted on his motion
and demanded a roll call,
HARRISBURG, PA.,TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, 1917
Battle Hymn of the Republic
1
II MINE eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the
lyi Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes
of wrath are stored;
lie hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift
sword,
His truth is marching on.
CHORUS
Glory! glory! Hallelujah! Glory! glory! Hallelujah!
Glory/glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.
o
1 have seen Him in the watch fire of a hundred circling
camps;
They have.builded Him an altar in the evening dews and
damps
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring
lamps,
His day is marching on.
3
I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of
steel;
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace
shall deal;
Let the hero, bom of woman, crush the serpent with his
heel,
Since God is marching on."
4
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call
retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment
seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my
feet!
Our God is marching on.
5
In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
LARGER CABINET
MAY BE NAMED
BECAUSE OF WAR
Secretary of Munitions and
Transportation Rumored
in Capital
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., April 3. —The
Council of National Defense and its
civilian advisory committee was in spe
cial session at the War Department
again to-day at work on immediate
mobilization of national resources and
energies for war with Germany.
Reports have been current for some
time that additional cabinet members
might be appointed to direct such
work in co-operation with the council.
It has been said that a secretary of
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U. S. WILL NOT
BLINDLY ENTER
PEACE SESSION
Germany Must Lay Down
Terms as Evidence of
Good Faith
By Associated Press
Washington, April 3. Whether
the German government will permit
publication In Germany of President
Wilson's address was a question of
great interest to-day at the State De
partment. The sharp line drawn by
the President in his address between
the German people and the autocracy
which rules them is regarded as pro
viding additional fuej for the unrest
in Germany which lias been recognized
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FIND ONE or THIRTEEN DEAD
By Associated Press
Hull, Mass., April 3, —The drowning
of thirteen young men. who were not
seen after they left Naliant in a* power
boat last Thursday night, was virtually
established last night when the body
of one of their number, Martin F.
Welch, of Lynn, was found on the
beach at Nantasket. It is believed
the boat foundered off Winthrop.
(Ehf Star- 3M>epmbrnt
PENNSYLVANIA
WILL PUT ALL AT
DISPOSAL OF U. S.
Resolution in House For $2,-
000,000 Emergency Appro
priation
Pennsylvania defense measures will
be outlined by State officials and legis
lative leaders to-nieht.
Attorney General Brown will submit
to the Governor, the fiscal officers and
legislative leaders the bills to author-"
ize issuance of bonds for defense
There is no constitutional limit to the
amount of bonds that may be issued
for the protection of the state from
invasion. Details of the proposed is
sue will be ai ranged to-night.
The legislative leaders will have a
meeting at 9.30 p. m. to decide upon
the provisions for handling the I
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50,000 SLEDGES
CARRY SIBERIAN
PRISONERS HOME
Unprecedented Migration Made
Possible by Russian
Revolt
By Associated Press
Tyumen, Siberia, March 31, via Pet
rograd and London, April 3. Fifty
thousand sledges, carrying victims of
the old regime back to freedom in the
new Kussla from the mines and con
vict settlements of Siberia, are speed
ing in endless chain across the snows
of North Asia toward the nearest
points on the Trans-Siberian railway.
Thefr passengers range from members
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READING PLACES BIG ORDER
By Associated Press
Philadelphia, April 3. The Phila
delphia and Reading Kallway Com
pany to-day placed an order for 1,000
gondola cars with 100,000 pounds
capacity, 600 lo the Standard-Steel Cur
Company and 600 to the Pressed Steel
Car Company. An order was also
placed for 1,000 boxcars of 85,000
pounds capacity. 500 each to the Am
erican Car and Foundry and Pullman
companies
28 ARE LOST IN
SINKING OF U. S.
ARMED STEAMER
Only Nineteen of Crew Ac
counted For by American
Ambassador
BLUEJACKETS ABE SAVED
American Naval Guard Make
Way to Safety After
Attack
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., April 3.—A dis
patch from Ambassador Sharp, dated
at Paris, 5 p. m. yesterday, said nine
teen survivors from the Aztec were
landed yesterday afternoon at Brest
and twenty-eight persons still were
missing and their rescue was doubtful
because of the hea"vy sea and storm.
New York, April 3.—Eleven men of
the crew of the American steamship
Aztec probably were lost when the
vessel was sunk Sunday night by a
German submarine near Brest,' France, j
The crew numbered thirty-nine, of
whom seventeen were Americans.
Twelve American bluejackets, com
manded by Lieutenant William F.
Gresham, detached from the crew of
the gunboat Dolphin and placed aboard
the Aztec as an armed guard, were
saved, according to dispatches from
the French admiralty.
The Aztec was the first armed
American mercharit vessel to fall vic
tim to German submarine warfare.
She left New York for Havre on March
18 with a cargo of foodstuffs and gen
eral supplies valued at more than
$300,000.
Details of Momentous
Happenings at Washington
Carried in Special Editions
All Harrisburg knew last night of I
President Wilson's advice to Congress
that it declare this country In a state
of war with Germany, within a few
minutes after the President had
spoken the momentous words. The
HARKISBUUG TELEGRAPH was the
medium through which the people
learned of the step their Chief Magis
trate had taken in the great crisis now
facing the nation.
Ten minutes after the President had
uttered the words for which all th®
world had been waiting with im
patience and anxiety, the TELE
GRAPH issued a war extra that went
into all sections of the city and coun
tryside.
Two editions of the war extra were
issued, the first containing a part of
the President's message and a com
plete account of the many eventful
happenings at the National Capitol.
The second edition followed imme
diately with the full text of the mes
sage.
Thousands of copies of the war
extra were sold in the first half hour,
after they appeared on the street.
Scores of newsboys scattered into all
parts of the city with their bundles of
the "extra," returned in a short time
for another supply. Everywhere in
the downtown district crowds were]
standing silent reading the
words. • ■
"War extra!" was the cry of the
messengers bearing the ominous tid
ings from Washington. It resounded,
through the slumbering precincts 6t
the city and penetrated into the dark--'
ened chambers of the peaceful. Men
rushed to doors and windows in their
pajamas to flip the "newsies" a coin
and grab a paper. The darkened
homes suddenly lighted up. The city
had awakened.
Mayor Meab Taken to
Hospital; Amputation
of Foot Is Necessary
Arrangements were completed to
take Mayor E. S. Meals to the Har
risburg hospital late to-day, where
surgeons will amputate his right foot
just above the ankle. This announce
ment was made to-day.
Mayor Meals has been critically ill
for about two fonths and has been
confined to his home, Third and
North streets. The decision reached
is in accord with the convictions of
Dr. George B. Kunkel, Dr. Park A.
Deokard, Dr. Frank B. Kann, of Har
risburg, and Dr. Charles Meals, of
Braddock, a nephew of Mayor Meals,
who have been attending him. The
Mayor showed considerable improve
ment during the past week.
Great Wave of Patriotism
Sweeps Through Railroaders
A great wave of patriotism swept
through the Relly street shops of the
Pennsylvania Railroad this noon when
the hundreds of employes returned
from lunch carrying American flags.
Before starting work the men placed
the flags, over 800 of them, In all parts
of the shop. The men are under Fore
man James C. Dorwart and work in
the machine, erecting and pipe shops.
MISTER OUT MARRIED MEN
Washington, 1). C., April 3 .—Na
tional Guardsmen with depepdent
families will be mustered out of the
Federal service, it was announced to
day at the War Department. Some
guardsmen' who came back from bor
der service and have again been callfed
into the Federal, service are found to
have close relatives solely dependent
upon them. The War Department has
ruled that men in these circumstances
shall be mustered out and department
commanders have been so instructed.
EXECITE MEXICAN IIEBRI,
By Associated Press
Mexico City. April 3.—Jose Sobel
Robls, a former Vllllsta and Zapatista,
was executed at Oaxaca yesterday. He
accepted amnesty from President Car
ranza and violated his pledge.
Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION
CITY WILL PAY
EMPLOYES WHO
RALLY TO FLAG
Council Adopts Patriotic Meas
ure Designed to Give Full
Salaries
ALL WORKERS INCLUDED
Ordinance Made So That Many
Families Will Be Relieved
of Distress
All city employes who enlist in re
sponse to the call of President Wilson
for volunters, wil lbe paid full salar
ies while in service.
This was decided to-day by City
Council in an ordinance introduced by
Commissioner William H. Lynch, and
which probably will be pased finally
next Tuesday. It will include every
employe whether on day or salary
rate. The entire ordinance follows:
"Whereas, the President of the
United States has called for volunteers
for the defense and upholding of the
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Speech on "Why We Should
Not Declare War" Lasts
Fully Half a Minute
"Why We Should Not Declare War"
was the title of a speech to be given
by a Junior of Teeh High school in the
public-speaking class yesterday after
noon.
'After making a very polite bow to
the pupils present the student began to
declaim with the oratory of a poli
tician the reasons why the United
States should not enter the war. Ills
■speech lasted about a half a minute,
t'pon his first mention of the word
Germany he was ordered to stop speak
ing and report at the teachers' room"
at the close of the day's session. In
telling the pupil to stop speaking a
professor said: "We don't want any
pacifists like Stone or Bryan in our
public speaking classes." Only the
ringing of the bell marking the end
of the period saved him from the ven
geance of his fellow "patriotic" stu
dents.
I
WHITLOCK LEAVES BELGIUM
London, April 3.—Brand WnitJock, American minister
I to Belgium ami a number of relief workers left Brussels late
I yester on a ;p"< ul • for Switzerland.
, T. R. CONGRATULATES PRESIDENT
I Washington. April 3.—Colonel Rootevelt stopped ow
| here to-day on his way home from Florida to call on
| dent Wilsn at the White House and congratulated htm on
| his message
i BIG BILLS GO IN
| Harrisburg.—Mr. Woodward introduced in the House
to-day the general appropriation bill calling for a (otal of
| $35,016,900. Dean, LaArcnce, introduced a health insur
| ance bill affecting all men mking less than SIOO a month,
| one-fifth to be borne by the employe and remainder divided
| equally between State and employer The Governor this
afternoon went into conference with Attorney General
Brown regarding a bond issue for defense purposes
ISLAND PARK AS CAMP SITE
Harrisburg. ■— Troops from Philadelphia reached Har
risburg shortly before 3 o'clock this afternoon. One bat
talion, it i 6 said, will camp at Island Park, and will furnish
guards for both sides of the Susquehannan river. Another
1 battalion went to Rockville and will be distributed between
Dauphin and Marysville.
LODGE'S ASSAILANT REPENTS
Washington, April 3.—Alexander Bannwart, pacifist,
who ye-oterday attacked Senator Dodge, repented today
saying that he sow the error of Ivs ways after reading the
President'i address. Lodge did not prosecute him and
Bannwcrt was released
GERARD COMING AT 3.32 P. M THURSDAY
Harrisburg.—James W. Gerard, former ambassador to
Germany, who will address the Chamber of Commerce here
Thursday evening, today Sec. McColgin as followv.
"WW* arrive in- Harrisburg at 3.32 P. M. Thursday aitef
noon on the Pa. Limited."
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Kdrrard lloiimitn Ilahbyahnw and Anna May Miller, Huramelatown.
liny Allen Mtrnuli. I.ykrnx tamnnhlp, and l-'loreaee l.oiilac Klock,
l.ower Uahaue; townahlp, Itorthmnlierlnnd county.
(iurrnf)' 11. Troiitman, J oral on towniikl|i, .'Sortliumlierland county, nnil
Flortact Hoffman, l.rkrna toniMklp.
Harkua Drayton and Tlpey Norman, -Marrlahuru.
I.eroy Abner Hovrrtrr mill Homnlne Marvarrt (.111, UarrlabiirK.
Alfred M. Cleland and Minnie Rather Berkley, Koynlton.
GREAT BLANKET
OF TROOPS BEING
SPREAD SECRETLY
OUT OVER STATE
Strategic Points to Be Placed
Under Heavy Guard; Rock
ville Bridge and Other Im
portant Structures Will Be
Watched
SOLDIER MOVEMENTS
UNDER CENSORSHIP
Government Places Restric
tions on News; Philadel
phia Soldiers to Be Located
West of This City; Munit
ions Plants to Be Pro
tected
By 8 o'clock this evening 2,000
militiamen will be doing special
guard duty along the railroad
lines running into Harrishurg and
nt the Bethlehem Steel Company's
Steelton plant. At each of the
following places one company is
now on duty: Kockvillc, I.emoyne,
Marysvillc and Wago Junction.
Troops sent out from Philadel
phia last night and to-day are
scattered along; the main line of
the Pennsylvania Railroad as far
north of Ixtck Haven and west to
Altoona. One train came over the
low grntlc line this afternoon, dis
tributing troops at Wago Junc
tion. Lemoyne, Marysvillc and
points along; the Middle division.
Troops to be ordered out late to
day will be sent to the Reading
lines.
Government censorship regarding
the piovement of troop trains went
Into effect to-day. While it was ad
mitted that plans were complete for
sending state troops to all railroad and
industrial plants, neither the Pennsyl
vania Railroad or Philadelphia and
Reading Railway officials In this cl^y
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