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Evening star., 1914-12-22
RAILWAY IS AUCT|ONED

NEW YORK. December 2o--Owner-
ship of railroad, represented by mil
lions of dollars worth of stock, was
auctioned off today on the steps of the
New York county courthouse. The old
stock of the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific Railway Company was put up
at foreclosure sale and was bid in for
s1,135.390 without competition by
James N. Wallace. chairman of the
protective committee for the per cent
collateral trust bonds of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Com
pany. against which the stock was
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Russian Statements

ID, Decemb ton
SeneraIh
Of lnndDt
banko Of of importance to
repo
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to IN whfc
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captured ten
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have beende forcedbs
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number or of the enemy
the direction
veraIe
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CRISIS IN THE GERMAN
MOVEMENT WARSAW
IS YET TO BE- REACHED
Battles in Both Eastern and Western
Theaters Of War Continue to Be
Without Decision.

LONDON December 1927 pm-It only the northern
and southern
the that marked change be noted: the
theaer warfare stubborn
This briefly the situation both the
west today far has been disclosed by official
WARSAW'S FATE STILL IN DOUBT
The ultimate outcome of the German advance Warsaw
still poblemaica, decisive conflict has fought
Although the Russian has retired has
forced and holding line the Bzura from junction
the Vistula.
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Brussels Is Raided by Aviators.

LONDON, December pa Dunkirk
dispatch to the Daily Mail says that
aviators of the allies paid a visit to
Brussels and dropped bombs on the
sheds. which We're set afire
In a night raid airmen of the allies
flew from Dunkirk over the German
coast positions and dropped twelve
bombs. doing considerable damage
They then returned in safety
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KAISER WITH HIS ARMY
ON THE WESTERN FRONT

LONDON, December 22.-The German
emperor, accompanied by the imperial
chancellor. DR.. Won Bethmann-Hollweg !;
the ministers of war and marine and a
numerous suite, has gone to the western
front. according to advices to the Daily
Mail from Copenhagen.
Evening star., 1914-12-22
THE DAY IN CONGRESS.
Senate:

senate:
Met at noon and after brief
transaction of routine business
went into an executive session.
House:
Met at 10 am. and after pass
ing 4 rule for consideration of
the Hobson resolution for a con-
stitutional amendment for ma
tional prohibition, proceeded to
eight hours debate, with pros
pect of an aye and no vote to-
night.
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McClung's Body to Be Sent Home.

LONDON, December 22.-The body of
Lee McClung, former treasurer of the
United States. who died in a private
hospital in London last Saturday as
a result of enteric fever contracted at
Frankfort On Main, will be returned to
the United States on board the steam
er St Paul. leaving Liverpool Saturday.
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War Officially Reported.
German Statement


give
ge
made
whi
n
of
losses o
On
situatio n y our
In
OF the
allies
the be known to
publication
vented:
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Says There Is No Trouble Be-
tween Him and Senate Over
Patronage.
ADMITS RIGHT TO REJECT
NOMINATIONS TO OFFICE
Six Maryland Appointments Under
Consideration-No Time This Ses-
sion for Newlands Bill.

President Wilson declared today that
there is no trouble between him and
the Senate over patronage: that nobody
can make trouble, and that the Senate
has a perfect right to reject any
limitations it sees lit. The President
declared that the administration and Il
democratic Congress is engaged i'll
much bigger work than that of patron
age dissension. and that nobody need
come to the conclusion that the specu-
lation that has been indulged IN VIII
come true.
The President would not outline his
| course as to some of the nominations
that have been rejected by the Senate.
He was in good humor when he WAS
asked questions about the patronage
problem and laushingly assured his
questionerS that he was learning some
thing from the newspapers every day.
The agitation was serving good pur-
pose, he said.
Considers Maryland Appointments.
The President has for long time
been working upon five or six impor-
tant Maryland appointments. Agree
ment has been reached as to two of the
places to be filled, one going to Senator
Smith and the other to Senator Lee.
Decision has not been reached as to the
other places, but the President believes
that there will be agreement, and he
prefers to send in all the nominations
at the same time.
The nominations for the interstate
trade commission are not ready, and
are not likely to go to the Senate be-
fore the Christmas adjournment.
Legislation Goes Over.
Mr.. Wilson said today that while he
has been considering the Newlands
and other plans for a permanent body
to eXpend large sums of money in river
and harbor work in the future, the con-
clusion had been reached that the leg
:slation proposed cannot be enacted at
this session of Congress. Until he is
ready to make recommendations to
Congress he will keep his mind open
on the different propositions that have
been submitted or may be proposed
later.
The President is still receiving commu-
nic.ltions on the subject of amending the
Sherman antitrust act SO as TO permit
combinations OF American business men
doing an export business, but this also is
one of the matters not likely to be put
in form for actual legislation at this
session.
Evening star., 1914-12-22
French Statement

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report"
Evening star., 1914-12-22
Arnold's Death Held Accidental.

Coroner hewitt held an inquest yes
terday afternoon over the body of
David II. Arnold. Treasury Department
employe. who sustained fatal injuries
last Friday morning as result of an
accident to a Treasury Department
motor truck near 9th and L streets
northwest. The jury reached a verdict
of accidental death.
Evening star., 1914-12-22

collateral. The foreclosure action was
brought by the Central Trust Company
Of New York against the railroad com
pany for interest due on bonds valued
at S.1.353.O00.
The price realized for the stock was
SO Z share. The par value is 500,
The sale was regarded in Wall street
as another step in the pending reor-
ganization of the Rock Island system.
Evening star., 1914-12-22
Petrograd Claims a Victory.

Tetrogfad Claims Victory.
North of the Eistula. if the reports
from Petrograd may be believed the
Germans have been whipped and pushed
back over the frontier until their line
midway between Lautenburg and Me
denburg, in East Prussia.
To the south. it is contended in Rus
sian reports, the movement of the Aus
trians through the Carpathian noun
tains has been defeated simultaneously
with the defeat of the garrison at
Przemysl. which was hurled back after
an attempted sortie from this fortress.
Views of Joffre Order.
The British press comments today on
Gen. Joffre's order to advance, as cabled
to London from Berlin.
The papers say that while they are
unable to vouch for the authenticity
of this document, it certainly seems to
coincide with the pressure the allies
are exerting all along the line. 1t is
not believed in London. however. that
the real work of driving the Germans
out of Belgium will begin for some
weeks to come.
Emperor William, according to the
latest reports reaching here. has gone
from Berlin to the western front. This
would indicate, in the view of British
observers, that he regards the situa :
ton there more important and critical
than in the east.
Russian Plan Explained.
Regarding the eastern situation the
following official statement has been
issued at Petrograd:
THE head of the general staff says
that owing to the malevolent reports
widely printed in the newspapers dur
ing the past few days concerning the
condition and strategic positions of our
armies he thinks it fitting to warn the
Russian public against the partiality
and inaccuracy OF these reports
The fact that our armies adopted Z
narrower front was the outcome OF d de-
ciSion arrived at after full and free CON
sider.tion by the military authority.
THE reason for this plan is obvious, IN
view OF the concentration ill front OF our
army of considerable German forces
Moreover. this plan offers other ad-
vantages concerning which. unhappily. we
cannot give details for the present for
military reasons.
Evening star., 1914-12-22
Steady Advance of Teutons.

BERLIN. December % oby wireless) -
Austrian official communications SHOW
that the eastern movement of the Ger
mans through Poland and the northw2rd
movement OF the Austrians through Ca
licia are proceeding steadily and i'll some
sections rapidly.
Special dispatches from the Austrian
general headquarters say that the Aus
TRANS advanced some days as much as
thirty miles. vet an official bulletin states
Evening star., 1914-12-22
MAY NOW SEND FORCES
TO AID OF THE ALLIES
Greece Also Is Given Assurances
That She Will Not Have to
Fight Bulgaria,
BIDS FOR A BALKAN UNION
Sofia Government Thinks Servians
and Greeks Should Make Sacrifices
in Order to Restore Good
Feeling.
PETROGRD, via London. De

PETROGRD, via London. De
cember %. I:,35 p.m.-The Bull
@arian minister announced today
that all agreement had been
reached between Roumania and
Bulgaria under which Rounania
will restore to Bulgaria the prov
iuce OF Dobrudja and most of the
other territory which she ac-
quired from Bulgaria as a result
ri the second Balkan war
This agreement has been
reached without pressure from
either Germany or the allies,
said an official connected with the
Bulgarian ministry. I'VE shall
continue to be neutral, and be-
lieve that Roumania, although
she has no cause to fear us, also
will remain neutral.
Held Back From War.
1t has been asserted here that the fear
of Bulgaria alone had prevented Rou-
mania from invading Austria and entering
the war on the side of the allies.
IF Greece would return kavala and the
Macedonian territory she annexed during
the second Balkan war and Servia would
restore to us the Macedonian provinces
she occupied. despite her agreement of
p,J ,,r,io he m
s;tructed," said the Bulgarian official.
Under those circumstances lasting
pea~ would be established in the Balkans.
But, unfortunately, neither Greece nor
Servia has shown an intention TO revise
the treaty Of Bucharest.
Quotes Servian Crown Prince.
.The heir to the Servian throne.
Prince Alexander. on receiving Prince
Troubetskoy when the prince dellv-
cred his credentials from Emperor
Nicholas at Nish yesterday. said:
'Servia guides her own national inter-
ests.' meaning that Servia was not
ready TO return the Macedonian
provinces
"A reconstructed Balkan union would
favor neither the allies nor Germany,
nor would it have any aggressive m
-eTtions. Roum2nia'S TranSylFanlan
SEPARATIONS, Greece's claims to Turkish
Islands, SeNia's differences with Aus
ria bring about such a conflict OF in
terests that it would be impossible to
rs.rovv the union as q whole one way
or the other Our relations with Tur-
E-. will remain friendly. We do not
desire Adrianople."
Expected to Enter War.
LONDON December 22-Following
ur the categorical assurances of the
bulgarian government of its intention
to maintain strict neutrality in the war,
tie entente powers, Great Britain,
France: and Russia, have giveA gu r.
autees TO both Athens and Bucharest
that Bulgaria. will not attack Greece,
ia the event of the latter country as
sisting Servia, and will not attack
Roumania should the state actively
participate in the war.
This is taken to foreshadow the ap-
proa ching participation of Roumania
and Greece.
Laying in War Supplies.
BERLIN. December %. by fireless-
among the items given out for publ
cation by the offici i press bureau is
the following:
bulgaria has Officially notified vi
emma, Nish and Bucharest of the de-
narture of Hungarian steamers on the
Danube with war material for Bull
garia-
Evening star., 1914-12-22

that the Russians are resisting AN Aus
trian advance with heavy forces on the
lower Donajec, in Galicia, where heavy
ghting is now in progress. This also
is the case i'll the region to the north of
Lupkow pass, in the Carpathians.
The Turks continue to transport troops
across the Black sea to 4 point near
Batum without encountering the Russian
fleet The Turkish army is said to he
supplied with the most modern equip
ment. including armored trans, auto
mobiles. aeroplanes and heavy mortar
batteries. conStantinople also reports up
rislngs of serious dimensions in the Sudan.
II is alleged that the ruler of Oar Fur.
with $4,000 men, is starting to attack the
British province of FL kab, belonging to
the Egyptian Sudan. and that the Moslem
population of Abu Rala has risen against
the English. train transporting Hindu
troops from Suakim to khartum is said
to have been stopped by Bedouins and
prevented from proceeding.
Says Germans Are Nervous.
PARIS. December 22-The French war
office has made public L report of an
eyewitness of events along the battle
line from December Z to December To-
1t says:
During the period from the eth to
the 18th of December the ascendency
gained by our infantry has placed us
IN d position make, III various sec
tions of the front, progress which
seems to have disturbed :he enemy.
The German infantry is more eau
tiouS, and continuous sniping by them
denotes certain amount of nervous
ness. The fact that they are using
searchlights and lighting rockets more
and more reveals their fear of at
tacks.
After the expensive and useless cX-
periments of last month, our adversaries
hpr tn he r,.drr al
to defensive measures and it is we who
on the whole of the front have as
sumed the offensive.
Also, in the artillery duels. our bat
terleS are showing more and more their
superiority
Germans Restoring Railroads
AMSTERDAM, via London, December
22.-The Telegraph learns from Berlin
that the Germans have restored the
railways from Charleville, in the de
;Jartment CT the Arlcnnes. opposite
MoZieres. 10 Rheims. and from Hirson,
in .Aisne. to Mon; medy. in the depart
ment of Meuse. twenty-five miles north
oi Eerdau. which the French destroy 81
when retreaJIIs carry in the war. The
railways to GlTet, in the department
of ArdenneS. on the Belgian border.
according TO the same dispatch will be
onened shortly. while the bridges oveI.
the Meuse, near Lumes. Flize and Don
cherry. all southeast Of Mezieres, are
again open
Blocked tunnels near Montnedy and
Moholl, the last-nalned point just south
OF MeZieres. have also been put into
condition to he utilized.
According to the newspaper rijd the
Germans have evacuated Middelierke.
There has been conSidera bic movement
among the German troops in West
Flanders.
Evening star., 1914-12-22
Austrian, Statement


issued frOma arm rters:
WE'LL the
Evening star., 1914-12-22
Members to Vote Tonight on
Hobson Resolution for Con-
stitutionaI Amendment.
WOMEN IN GALLERIES
APPLAUD "DRY" ORATORS
Speaker Administers Rebuke, De.
manding Demonstrations Cease.
Great Event in U. S. History.

The first skirmish in the anti
liquor fight was won today when
the House voted, without roll
call, to take up Immediately and
proceed to debate and vote on the
Hobson resolution proposing na-
tlon-wide prohibition by an
amendment to the Constitution.
The scene in the House. as the pre-
liminary debate on the Cantrill rule
progressed. probably will go down in
events in American Legislative history.
and the utterly inefficient galleries were
crowded from end to end, mostly with
women, who could not be restrained
from applauding the sentiments of the
uncompromising advocates of nationwide
liquor reform.
So loud was their applause that at
one stage Speaker Clark, who brooks
no such expressions from onlookers
scolded the women.
The people in the galleries." said he
are here by the courtesy of the House.
ana expressions of approval and dissent
cannot be allowed. The House is here
to transact the public business and is
not a show
1t was 10 o'clock when the House met
today to come to grips over the liquor
question. which had until today been
Kept from the floors of Congress. AS
the members assembled they saw that
Representative Hobson had placed d
great array of anti-liquor placards
upon easels in the well of the House.
and that frieze of white ribbon petit
tions had been hung upon the gallery
rails
Evening star., 1914-12-22
WEATHER.

Fair tonight and Wednesday. with
colder temperature tonight; moderate
westerly winds
Temperature for the past twenty
four hours: High, 43. at 8 pm. yes
terday; low, 90. at am. today.
For full report see page 19.
Evening star., 1914-12-22
Must Fight to the End.

Premier Niviani, stating the views of
the government concerning the war TO
the Chamber of Deputies today, said:
France. acting in accord with her al
lies. will not sheathe her arms until after
taking vengeance for outraged rights;
until she has united for all time to the
French fatherland the provinces ravished
from her by force: restored heroic Bel
gium to the fullness of her ma terial life
and her political independence. and until
Prussian militarism has been crushed.
to the end that il be possible to recon-
struct, on a basis of justice, a Europe
regenerated"
Evening star., 1914-12-22
Laying in War Supplies.

BERLIN, December %. by fireiess--
-Among the items given out for publ
cation by the ofiici / press bureau is
the following:
Bulgaria has Officially notified vi
emma, Nish and Bucharest of the de-
narture of Hungarian steamers on the
danube with war material for Bull
garia-"
Evening star., 1914-12-22

Continued on Second Page)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-02-17
Capital Comment
BY CLYDE II. TAvENNER
Congressman frem the Fourteenth CistrIc..

tons. Today the most earnest plea
labor organizations are making before
this committee is that they shall not
be included in the terms of the Sher
man antitrust act"
DIR. Stanley then told about the Hep
burn bill which wrote unreasonable
into the antitrust saw and at the same
time exempted labor unions.
That bill. which came into congress
backed by millions of money. specific
ally supported by the president of the
United States. skunk away in the dark
ness, and 1t has been a phantom ever
since" declared Stanley. land 1 will
tell you why"
Stanley then quoted from the hear
ings on the Hepburn bill to show that
f. II. Gary. president OF the steel trust,
and Francis Lynde Stetson, chief at
torney for the trust, drew the Hepburn
bill
This bill," said Stanley. which
came very near getting through the
house and senate-this bill that &C
tually eliminated organized labor from
the operation of the act-was drawn
by the same men. by the same pens,
that drew the charter of the United
States Steel corporation, and the char
ter of the Northern Securities COM
pany, and who are the attorneys FOR
the steel corporation now.
I'm spite of the intense opposition
OF great manufacturing concerns to ex-
GLIDING labor organizations from the
operation of this act, they came ana
offered that as a precious inducement
to congress and to organized labor, as
the kings ransom they we're willing
to pay for this amendment. The plain
purpose OF Mr.. Stetson and Mr.. Gary
in eliminating organized labor was TO
secure influence, to popularize this
thing. which was meant to emasculate
the Sherman act"
Stanley told this story in support Of
his argument that the new trust legis-
lation must not contain the word "rea-
sonable" He expressed support for
the proposition to exempt unions from
the trust law.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-02-17

camping ana hunting Tor severar days
in n sort of paradise valley. One day
during a long ride on horseback We
had seen a great many rattlesnakes
and killed a few. an exceptional ex-
perience. That night my cousin woke
up and saw by the. light of the moon
a big RATHER crawling across my chest
He lay for moment fascinated, hor-
ror struck. watching the sinuous curves
OF the reptile. Then he quietly reach
ed for his six shooter, but he could not
see the reptiles head. and he moved
nearer. nolselessly. yet quickly. dread
ing some movement on my part that
should precipitate the very thing he
dreaded. and then he saw that it was
not Il snake at all-only the black and
yellow stripe of my blanket, which
gently rose and fell rs 1 breathed.
Had he fired-well il might have been
bad for me. for he confessed that his
hand shook"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-02-17

the time of the Homestead strike the
steel trust kept at war with organized
labor until it finally crushed it so far
as the steel industry was concerned.
In all that time-20 years-there were
continual efforts made to exempt labor
unions from the Sherman law, and
the steel trust was the great antagon-
list fighting that legislation.
And yet" Stanley told the COM
mittee. companies engaged in trans
portation and production alike came
before the house and senate and offer
ed TO surrender to organized labor.
and to take specifically from under the
operation OF the Sherman act every
labor organization and all farmers or
ganizations not incorporated, If you
would only permit them TO write the
words reasonable or unreasonable
into the organic law. They made con-
cessions that they had refused in ma
tional conventions.
THE act has been used with ire
mendous effect against labor organiza-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-02-17
Big Fund for Knox College.

Galesburg, ILL.,. Feb. IA decidedly
optimistic tone prevailed yesterday at
the annual Founders day banquet com
memorating the ssventy-seventh ami
versary of Knox college. DR.. Thomas
McClelland formall.- announced a gift
OF 100000 from the general educa-
tional board toward an additional en-
dowment of 100000 and said a cam.
paign is about to begin to raise this
amount. The seniors Immediately an
nounced a contribution of $500. During
the year DR.. McClelland received $780,
600 from the late Mrs. ]. T. Mcknight
and $4,000 from Mrs. Cornelia Dudley
for chemistry.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-02-17
A SHORT COURSE FOR TEACH.
ERS

Farming has been benefited by
short courses; why not school teach.
ing?'' Thus argues Dean George +.
James, OF the college OF education OF
the University OF Minnesota. BY
adapting the short-course plan of the
agricultural colleges TO the needs OF
teachers. Dean James hopes TO i'm
prove the teaching standards of his
state. March % school superin-
tendents and principals from ali parts
OF Minnesota will gather at the state
university for a week OF special
courses, designed TO put them in touch
with the latest Developments in edu-
cation.
This seems to be a new and inter.
esting development in higher educa-
ton" says DIR. =. r. Claxton, United
States commissioner OF education, in
discussing the plan. 1T would be
worth while for other universities TO
investigate fits possibilities"
Minnesota's Short Course for
Teachers" will offer real university
opportunities so far as these may be
obtained In the short space OF one
week. The corps OF instructors will
include DIR. Lightner Wilmer. OF the
University OF Pennsylvania: DIR. L. d.
CoffmAn. OF the University OF Illinois;
Secretary c. A. Prosser. OF the Ma
tional Society for the Promotion OF In
dustrial Education; and Commissioner
David Snedden, OF Massachusetts,.