The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-31
RUSSIA WOULD SEIZE
 ALASKA. HE DECLARES

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 Russia with her grievances, she who
 sent aid to the union at a time when
 it was threatened, feels that because of | English influence the administration in l power the last 10 years lent It's aid to | Japan against her. Russia remembering
 this wrong. now in an offensive and de- | fensive alliance of life and death with | Japan, would not lose her opportunity. 1 Russia with her grevance-now so great | that she has no treaty with the United | States of either companionship or amity I-promptly would aid in seiZing Alaska ! and the north near her.
 The north and the south. now united, would sail to the North sea to protect | Alaska and to theorient, to the Philip pines. The army would be divided, on part in Mexico and the other part nov ing to our possessions to protect them, England, feeling under those conditions no friendliness to us (we would not seek her help on the north without friendship and South America already imbued with a feeling that when under the adminis- tra ton of Colonel Roosevelt, we perform ed a Caesarian operation on Colombia | and excised from her the government of Panama. only waits that it may duplicate | the performance upon one equally de- | fenseless on the south near to the canal zone; furnishing supplies to the enemy | and supporting the assault In what a | SDlendlu CDflu1I1OH we lWOulu fStdfiu. Gdu, | indeed. it Is to contemplate.
 Senator Lewis appealed to Congress to 1 trust the President hoping that We may 1 return to the doctrine of a true party | Again today in the House a crowded | floor and galleries thronged to a point which broke all records of attendance. I listened to the arguments on the issue. | The President was attacked and defend 1 ed by vigorous orators. The campaign policy of the administration was derided
 and commended. The economic policy of
 granting American vessels free tolls was
 alternately supported and condemned. Walsh Defends President | Attacks on the President brought Rep
 resentative Walsh of New Jersey to his
 feet with a ringing defense. The demo- | crats cheered his tribute to Presiden, Wilson vigorously.
 | Throughout the day men and women | sal for hours in the crowded galleries | without intermssion even for luncheon l Crowds that could not jam their way , into the galleries waited impatiently ir ] the corridors for an opportunity to heal
 the debate on the most important legis- l lative position before the Congress n | a decade.
 | The importance of the occasion was | impressed on the spectators when short ] ly after the House met. Representative
 |, Engle of Florida, a sufferer from rheu. riatism. was wheeled into the House ir an invalids chair. ana from the chaii
 made speech opposing the repeal, l During the day Miss Eleanor Wilson l the Presidents daughter, and severa | White House guests, took places in the 1 executive gallery of the House and lis | tened to the debate for time.
 | In the Senate Senator Owen read into | tho record a plank of the Baltimore plat l form denouncing ship subsidy. This, h, said. was a flat contradiction of the plans | favoring exemption in the Panama cana and was the expression of democratic | doctrine for many years. He insisted | that the agents of the coastwise steam | shiE companies had busted themselve. | arcusing public sentiment and bring te | bear pressure" to get the exemption
 plank into the platform, though not 8 1 state convention of any party had ia | vored it.
 l Now they would like to delay thi 1 natter he added. until they can ge up this artificial sentiment
 l Senator Owen declared he favored re | peal of the navigation laws giving Amer ican-owned and manned ships a coast | wise trade monopoly. Under these laws he declared the companies had so di II v:ced the traffic among themselves tha | they extorted improper rates from tn, shippers.
 I Senator Brstow and Senator Fall de clared that railroad domination of coast wise shipping through arrangement witt
 the Pearson syndicate, controlling tho l Tehuantepec railroad, had created a con dition of monopois irr coastwise traffic The exemption provision of the canal ac was aimed at this monopoly. Senate | Bristow insisted.
 Y Representative Knowland issued state r1ent tonight declaring that if Presden
 Wilson had read his speech instead O some of the newspaper headlines h.
 would have known that he charged n,
 trade or deal He said he merely calle' II attention to facts concerning the visits O II British representatives to Washington and asked whether the Panama cana
 was the price of the elimination O II Huerta.