Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-17
Not a Dissenting Voice Raised in
Commons Against Supplying
Treasure and Soldiers.
CAN COLLECT FROM THE KAISER
Labor Leader Says Later Gold Can
Be Taken from Germany.
ALIEN FOES IN GREAT BRITAIN
, Secretary for Home Affairs Tells of
Enormous Numbers of Them in
Concentration Camps
and at Large.

LONDON, Nov. l6.--The meeting of the
House Of Commons today was devoted
entirely to war measures and partisan
politics was lacking.
Premier Asquith requested a vote Tor
f225, 900 900 81, ,125 100000 and another MIL
lion soldiers, both of which the house
GRANTED without a dissenting voice.
The condition and morals of the SOL
diers, the inevitable spy system and the
press censorship were discussed freely
The Greatest Crisis.
The prime minister characterized the
crisis as "the greatest emergency IN
which the country ever has been placed.
He said 100000 men already were under
arms; that the war was costing near
5000 900 per day, and that the govern
ment proposed to lend Belgium $5oVoo'ooO
and Servia 81, 100000 without interest unul
the end of the war
John Hodge the labor member Tor
Lancashire, endorsed the proposal with
the suggestion:
Later we can collect It from the Ger
man emperor
Alien Enemies I'm Camp
Reginald McKenna, secretary for home
affairs, informed the house that there
were 1880 alien enemies in the concentha-
tion camps in the British Isles and 1000
at large.
Walter Hume Long, unionist, said the
country was not likely to be faced with
the stupendous problems of unemploy-
ment which might naturally have been
expected, and he believed all the men
needed would be forthcoming, because the
spirit of the country was so magnificent
He congratulated the government on be-
half of the opposition on its "steadtast
determination to carry the war to a sue
Cessful conclusion"
Mr.. Long, Mr.. Healy and Lord Charles
Beresford discussed the question OF pub
licity and urged that the country should
be given fuller details of the achievements
of the troops in the field.
Wants Dry Ukase.
william Henry Cowan, liberal. proposed
that Great Britain follow Russia's eX-
ample and prohibit the sale OF liquor dur
ing the war Mr.. Healy demanded great
liberty in dealing with the dependents oil
the soldiers:
1--WE are not going to have crippled
warriors in the warehouses again, or
their dependents thrown upon the scrap
heap"
In his closing speech Premier Asquith
placed the burden of the censorship on
France and said it was necessary to defer
TO the wishes of the country which was
doing the greater part of the fighting ano
where the fighting was being carried on
Dealing with the mater of pay, the
premier said:
scandalous and Indecent.
''The insufficiency of the pay Of the
lower ranks of commissioned officers has
long been a reproach to this country but
has become scandalous and an indecencS
when men are laying down their lives
He announced that Earl Kitchener sec
rotary for war, had prepared a scheme
for increased pay. He closed by declar-
ing that sickness among the troops had
not exceeded 10, possibly IS, per cent, anC
that he believed no body of men ever ha'
been brought together who had comporteC
themselves better than the present army