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Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-24
MONEY COMMITTEE
CUTS SCHOOLS DOWN
House Finance Body Makes Decided
Trim on Appropriation for Uni,
versity and Normal Schools.
NUMEROUS BILLS ARE KILLED
From staff Correspondent

From staff Correspondent
LINCOLN, March 23.--(Special.)
The finance, ways and means COM
mittee has been true to ITS promise
to cut appropriations along all lines
and today the state university and
the normal schools were the main
sufferers. The work OF the committee
is approved by the house in nearly all
cases.
Il don't see how these fellows ex-
pect the democratic party to con-
tinue in power" said a prominent
democrat this morning. Gripping
of public institutions will never get
us anywhere. For two years from now
the institutions will be in such a Grip
pied condition that the people will
run over each other to get to the
polls to put the republicans back in
power am tired of the whole darn
bunch"
The university is cut in the committee
report from Sl.325,OOO allowed it during
the last bennium to sl,lSO,OOO for the com
ing two years. This is a reduction OF
sl45 900 in the provisions for university
support In addition the university is al
lowed to use it's cash fund receipts, esti-
mated al s5OoOOO for the two years. 1t will
also have the use of several hundred
thousand dollars received from the United
States government.
Normal schools Cut.
In dealing with the four normal schools
the special committee has cut down their
total appropriation by sls6.50o as COM
pared with two years ago. In the 1913-H
- -
Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-24
Daughter of Leslie
Shaw Sues Iowa &
Omaha Receiver

ln distriet court in Counsel Bluffs yes
tsTdsY was begun the trial of tho suit
% Enid shas against August DammFov.
receiver % the ioEa a Omaha shoft Line
railroad. sssking % recover funds put
into the rad in CONGESTION vith the At
iantic NortheTu a southsru deal in which
ths mort Lins wss Involved
Enid shas u q daughtsF o. f,ruisr
upssruar ant secretary q the Trvasary
Lssiis ~ shap. 80 - aAid ta have alnk
. snau fortuns in ths AtiaHtsc. Sorthsrn
-outhFru rad IN aa atasfups io feat
d. as 10 ths sasi ara Ia Ensiana % fs-
hrhiitsis a. uns. shirh kas h~sa ne
teus ~ rartfatiau trtssen tee ~ o.
tsfsrts uhtrh 49, nshtine fof coutfoi n
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tauf. rrst
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Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-24
U. S. TO INSTITUTE
LIBEL PROCEEDINGS
AGAINST ODENWALD
Washington Instructs District At
torney at Porto Rico to Bring
Action in Case of Run
away Ship.
ANOTHER BREAK IS FEARED
Capital Hears that This Ship and
Another Hamburg Liner Will
Try to Flee in Darkness.
DEsTRoYERs SENT TO SCENE

WASHINGTON, March 2S.-At-
torney General Gregory late today
instructed the United States district
attorney Of Porto Rico to institute
libel proceedings against the German
steamship Odenwald. which at
tempted Sunday TO leave San Juan
harbor without clearance papers.
Under this decision the ship can
be held pending settlement OF the
question whether IL shall be for
feited to the United states under the
recent Joint resolution of congress
prescribing penalties in such cases.
nestroyers TO san Juan.
\ While the Department of Justice was
considering the legal phases OF the oden-
wald case. treasury officials had before
them report from San Juan that fear
vas felt that both the odenwsld and an
other Hamburg American liner. the Pres
icent. might under cover OF darkness slip
past the guns of Morro Castle and dash
Tor the sea. secretary Daniels was In
formed Of the situation and after con-
ference with the president. Admiral
Fletcher at Guantanamo, was instructed
In dispatch two destroyers to San Juan
end the coast guard service ordered the
cutter Algonquin. now cruising In the
West Indies, to steam at once for that
port.
Attorney General Gregory's action, in
dicating the purpose OF the government
a. ~ tho nfen-
valid by due process Of law in the dis
trict court for Porto Rico, attracted much
attention in official and diplomatic cir
cles
First Definite Action.
1t is the first definite action begun by
the administration under the new con-
gressional authority. II was explained
tonight that the owners Of the ship might
give bond and secure its release from
custody pending disposition Of the case
IN the court, although 1t was not likely
that such course would be followed.
Officials are waiting for further In
formation before taking any action under
the criminal sections OF the neutrality
resolution, for violation of which the own
ers or master of the odenwsld might be
to fine and imprisonment
The general subject OF enforcing neu-
trality has been brought prominently to
the front by. the situation in Porto Rico.
Although treasury officials are said to
be satisfied there is no truth in reports
OF plans TO slip some of the fast German
steamers in port in New York and Bos-
ton to sea, conditions in New York are
such that Captain II p Rerfhoif coTn-
mandant OF the coast guard service, has
been over to confer with Collector Of
Customs Malone about possible measures
TO be taken to keep a strlcter watch on
ships.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-24
Fifty-Six Dead, the
Latest Estimate in
Avalanche Disaster

VANCOUVER. y. c. March a-Tifty-
Six dead and twenty-five injured was the
latest official estimate made today ~
casualties IN the avalanche disaster early
sunday az the mineTs camp IN the
britannia mines, limited. on Howe sound.
twenty-five miles north OF Vancouver.
LoOzensd by melting snow. parts Of the
mountain-sids far above the mine level
save vay and snoS snd rock crashed
onto The buildings u the camp. bUFyins
many Of the victims 80 they slept
Among the dead are q. = Copslana. en-
glussr - the copper and silver mine. ani
hia ~if~ 20 seattle one other woman.
wife o.; . .uinef. aad her tao children
~ three children % anothsT family are
toen 90 have hssn kuisd
Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-24
Agricultural Bill
Tied Up in Committee
LION staff Correspondent.I

LINCOLN. March z3..-(Special Tele-
gram. 1.-The agricultural activities bill
which had AN inning before the senate
comnlttec last nigid is tied up with a
tie vote la the committee and the action
OF one OF its members is needed before
IL fate can be- determined.
rhe committee hy a vote % three 20
three. Bygisnd. i.ahncrs and Henry vot-
Ink to report Il out without rccommenda-
ton and Kiechell. shunwsy and Gates
Voting against. were unable 20 come to an
aEreeneut and the seventh membsr.
Robertson % Holt will nave % settls ths
matter. Il h. generally believed that o.
all vote 10 report H out. Tor no other
reason than O. Eirs u chance before
the senate
Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-24
GREATER OMAHA BILL
UP AGAIN THURSDAY
Made Special Order in Senate After
Howell and Grace Have Row
Upon Floor.
THOMPSON IN FOR DRUBBING
lFrom 2 staff Correspondent

(From staff Correspondent
LINCOLN, March 23.-(SpecialO
The action OF state Chairman w.
II. Thompson Of the democratic state
committee in coming to Lincoln and
taking a hand in the Omaha annexa-
ton fight was made the subject OF
public charges by Senator Howell OF
Douglas county on the floor OF the
senate this morning, the senator
charging Grace of Harlan, who had
made a motion not to concur In the
house amendments to the annexation
bill, with carrying out the orders OF
the state chairman.
Howell for the space Of about twenty
minutes fought desperately to Kill the
motion. All that the Douglas county
delegation wanted was time. he said.
They didn't know yet wether they wanted
the amendment or not.
Undue Influence Charged.
Howell openly made the charge on the
floor of the chamber this morning that
"undue influences had been brought to
bear BY the anti-annexatIonists." He did
not specify what the influences were, but
his implication was plain.
The day was finally saved for the an
uexationists by a motion by Kohl OF
Wayne to make the motion not to concur
In the house Amendment special order
OF business for Thursday morning at 10
o'clock The motion carried.
IL the bill goes to conference, Its friends
see dangers ahead. II is rumored that
the committee appointed would probably
be antI-annexationist in its makeup.
Feeling I'm senate.
on the other hand many members of
the senate. It Is feared? will never con-
sent TO adopting the house amendmqA1,
which Beal of Custer this morning
termed miserable subterfuge." Beal
voted for the straight forcible annexation
as II left the senate.
The Parriott amendment provides for
the submission OF the uestion 20 vodte
Of the entire electorate affected.
Grace Resents Charge.
Grace of Harlan resented Howelfs
charge that he had received his inspira-
tion against the bill from Chairman
Thompson. He resented II at the top of
his voice and before Howell got through
talking. For awhile the two OF them were
going II together and the senate chamber
took on the aspect OF Bedlam.
Then Hoagland, OF Lancaster farther
riled the ire of the Harlan county MEM
ber by objecting that outside interests
should dictate to the Douglas county
delegation: that Il should not have a little
time 10 make up its mind as TO what Il
wanted to do.
Naf BVOad-MInded.
Grace insisted that he was not an
outside interest" that he was vitality
interested as he had relative I'm South
Omaha. Then Howell strenuously scored
him for not being broad-mlnded enough
man 10 let this interest so by the board
Some of his dearest friends and relatives
were IN South Omaha, he said.
Mates OF otoe Joined with the Douglas
county men In seeing no reason why
the fst should be kicked into the fire all
at once
Kick II in sud let 1t sizzle" retorted
Grace.
ouinby Of Douglas was In favor OF
going 10 the mat az once.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-24
PIONEER ELECTRIC STrsET
RAILROAD MAN DEAD

ANStsroN. Ais NsF.h Al 4 Gat-
bart. eel snasn in ranvaf .ur'sa
iirauEiaat ~ caaHtry dtrd sf usiiirlas-
treriiai tasisr sftsF go oreratian. srra-t
iuE g. private sfFt.es fa frtrn.tt re
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fsfwdy sffrst rarss1 m tts t'siis.f
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Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-24
e3K% of Food
From the Farm

Statistics compiled by the [.
S. Dept. of Agriculture show
that 63l@%o of food used by the
farmer was furnished by the
farm itself.
The average city man
spends from "a to J of his
total income for food
alone. to say nothing of
other expenses.
The farmer is the lucky man
today; his industry and the soil
make him so. And the farmers
of the middle west are the most
prosperous, lin the world.
A careful reading of the
farm lands column Of The
Bees want ad section 70.
day viii show you the way
70 become a producer in
stead OF a consumer. the
pick Of the farms, the
631sF kind. are offered
daily in The Bee.
TsLsphons Tyler 1000
THE OMAHA BEE
EssDbody Rsa4s Bee Wear AdL
Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-24

zee arrss sNrsilsrtIF drained VALLEY
farra. iu raru aTri aifaifa hrif
seatleastrfl scotia lasafa . miles
vel lnnf renfir aiurinE hIars taam
anll suffullii lEnlsnrhrarf 80.
Elslnfsf ~ hiEa rrif - fafI11a fTlrs
81 81 rFf sFra
EeF fartEs9 iaferaaatlaa assat
tnta eVFoFtaNllfs eaa tAa Wnat
"A ssEslsa ~ Tas Rss teaag.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-24
Fall of Przemysl is Said to Mark Re.
moval Of Last Obstacle of Ad-
vance of Russians Beyond
the Carpathians.
SLOW PROGRESS IN STRAITS
Latest Intelligence Indicates that
Forts in the Narrows Are
Still Intact.
LULL IN BOTH TRENCH ARENAS
The Days War NetUs'

LATEST RUSSIAN Invasion ot Ger
many L. said to have met with the
same fate ~ Its predecessors. To
days official German Conimuuicn-
tioN contains the announcement
that the Russian forces which cRp-
tured Memel. nj the northern cnd
of FnEt Prussia, hnve BEEN driVen
hack and thnt German troops have
cRrtIrcd the Russian town OF
rottingen.
Rl sstANS are stiIi on the offensive
In northern Poland. but so far ~
the days dispatches show, their
attacks have been attended by no
important results.
FIELD MARsHAG SIR JOHN
FRENCH. commander of the BRIT
ish forces In the field, says the
war with not he of long duration.
ITALY is PREPARING rapidly for
whatever may result from the me-
Eotiations with Austria, now rcp-
resented Rs having reached an Inn
portRnt stage. a royal decree is
soon TO be signed eHta bIishinR
rules designed to suppress spies.
OFFICIAL RUSSIAN communication
Describes the battle which pre.
ceded the fall Of PrSemysI. II IL
said that the troops left the
fortress 20 the eastward in n final
effort 10 break through the RUS
sian Hines az any cost but were de-
feated quickly.
UNFAVORABLE WEATHER SIM
prevailed at the DnrdaneIies yes
terday and no further nttacks ON
the Turkish Qualifications were
attempted The Vvarahips of the
"'iied fleet did not leave their out
posts.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-24
The Weather

Tor Omaha. Council Bluffs ana vicinity
Fair; warmer.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-24

Tsmraratrre nnf ore i-itaftHu ffun ~
rnrr-tai al nlaaEa flrHr Narrn ant rlfn
-aruf eth co. Iar. Ean Ffnff
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CONTINUED on Page Five. Column Two.J
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a tOtHI OF TUTIy-IOuT
Absent Foster. Hyneis. Kline, PaTrtott
Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-24
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
FEIRoGRAD (Via London), March
23.-The Russian war office an
nounced today that 117,00o men
were captured at PrzemysI.
The statement from the war office
follows:
According to figures given by
General Kusmanek, late commander
at Przemysl, the number of prisoners
who surrendered to the Russians was
nine generals and ninety-three Off
GERS OF the general staff, 2,5OO off
GERS and officials and 117.OOO men,"
LONDON, March 25.-The fall of
Przemysl Is characterized here as the
throwing down Of the last bar OF the
gateway into Hungary and an early
Russian advance In that direction is
expected.
The latest authentic information
from the Dardanelles sets forth posi-
lively that only the secondary de-
lenses Of the straits have suffered
from the bombardment of the allied
fleet. the other forts in the narrows
being intact.
This report finds confirmation In the
present status or the diplomatic situation
In the near east which indicates that the
Balkan states are no nearer Intervention
In the quarrel than they were when tho
battleships Of the allies first appeared
off the Dardanelles. In spite OF the op-
timistic tone OF the Gi ieek press. Il Is
not generally believed in London that
the entente powers have made any fur
ther advances to the new Greek cabinet.
(ContInued ON Page Five. Column TWo5
Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-24

Fullest and timeliest sport
news and gossip in The Bee
day by day. Special Sport
Section every Sunday.
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place and the things that the war in
Europe has emphasized. This year
the marines and the bluejackets will
have a bigger task, for II is now recog-
nized that the inch gun must give
way to a more formidable rapid fire
weapon. Accordingly. it will be neces-
sary at Guantanamo for the advance
base eNpeditionary force to transport
from the ships heavier ordnance, and
to land these pieces and haul them up
to the crests Of hills TO their logical
strategical points Of vantage.
This year even more than last sea-
son the aerOplane will play an impor-
tant part in the joint operations, and
the planting of naval defence mines
and their proper guarding VIII figure
more Conspicuous,y than heretofore At
the same tinf the big battle craft will
thunder away at target practice and the
destroyers will do their utmost to excel
in torpedo efficiency.
The war in Europe has made 1t clear
in close combat, and to this end both
| the sailors and the marines will have
plenty Of target practice ashore, II is
not commonly known, nut the rife
| range at Guantanamo surpasses any
thing of the sort elsewhere the world
over The butts are so arranged that
200 men can fire simultaneously at the
/ targets and the score OF each be prop
, erly recorded The equipment at
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ties, and installed ready for firing.
Methods for both direct and ind rect fire
have been perfected for both fixed and
fed artillery Mine fields have been
laid, and an aviation camp has been
cstah ish,d.
THE problems Of supply for the nu-
merous outlying camps have been well
worked out in watrrless country al
most devoid of supplies. \ very com
plete system of communications, in
Guiding twenty-four miles oil telephone
system, "A radio plant. night and day
Photograph system and flag semaphor
system, has been established. All parts
Of this work seem to have been done in
an extraordinarily efficient manner"
Guantanamo would be in time of war
no less important as base for our
squadrons than Culcbra Island; in fact
it would Ice one OF several posts binding
Panama dcfcnsively with the Atlantic
coast, and Admiral Fletcher will have
this season To do at Guantanamo all
that, Admiral Badger did at Culchra
plus the lessons learned at the latter
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GERMANY IN WAR TIMES

nose pushing its way across the heaV-
ems, thousands of feet above our narrow
canyon Of street. The nose became a
faCe-eyeless. mouthless, eXprcssion.ess,
but still face; the face became head,
and the head "A great golden body Ike
the wood cuts Of Leviathan in old fam
lily Bibles, Then the Zeppelin sailed into
full view.
A Bavarian soldier standing beside
me turned his head away and caught
my eye. His face was radiant with
happiness. He grabbed me impu.sively
hy the shoulder. God" he said, and I
know the oath was prayer, ITS beau
tiful! it's beautiful And you can bet
your life it will blow hell out of any
thing the English have"
one night | WAS near the Dom-thc
cathedral which stands opposite the
Kalscr's palacc-when / saw a large
crowd gathered about one OF the exits,
At least 5000 men and women were
there thronging the marble steps, over
flowing onto the sidewalks and streets,
and all standing in absolute silence,
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shape of hght.ng ships Of the first
hat.le line, torpedo craft submarines
ana auXiliarlcs. In addition TO this the
number Of the defending marines and
the attacking h.uciackets and sea sol
diors VIII DE considerably greater than
heretofore.
At Culebra last year in the brief
period Of eight days, two days less than
the programme contemplated the adj
vance base organization accomplished
wonders in terrifying the several posi-
tons and in making ready for the
scheduled attack. This time the de-
tenders at Guantanamo will have their
hands full at every stage of the game,
and no matter what the weather may
be. they must get their heavy weapons
and ammunition ashore in time To meet
the supposed enemy.
There are real perils and no end
of hard work in this undertaking, but
these did not daunt the participants a
year ago, and Admiral Fletcher may
reasonably expect of his sailors and
marines the same enthusiastic coopera-
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Social Democratic party. in spit. Of APP
pallingly unjust laws directly intended
TO keep a large part of The laboring
class disfranchised and in spite of a
Socialist code which hampered the
spread of the movement by bullying its
press and breaking up its pubic
meetings.
When the war broke out the German
Socialists had 112 Deputies in Tho
Rclchstae; all of them, like their So
c!alst brethren the world over, pledged
10 peace. The laborer of Germany had
no quarrel with the laborer of France:
therefore, Socialists reasoned he GER
tainly would not go forth with a gun to
shoot the laborer of France merely be-
cause a scheming prince OF Berlin or
Vienna ordered him to go. But he
WENT
on August l Socialists were called to
the colors like everybody else and they
responded without a dissenting voice.
| ON August the ReiChstag Socialist
! bloc voted for the war budget, and went
so far as to cheer at the toast Seine
Majestat der Kaiser, Volk and Water
land, sic leben hoch,-Long live his
| Majesty the Kaiser; the People and
the Fatherland" Eight days after the
mobilization the Reichsverban EUR
| Bekampfung der Sociademokra;ie CIm-
perial Union for Fighting the Social
Democratic party, a powerful organ
| iZatlon, having locals in all parts Of
! Germany, and organized by a General
| in the imperial army for the purpose
| II annihiatng the Socialsts-this pow
erful union d.sbanded, declaring that
| there were no more Socialists to fight;
| that all now are Germans and brothers:
and 1t gave its books its money and
its office furniture to the Red Cross
"On September 3 Ludwig Frank, a
| Social Democratic Deputy in the Re. chs
tag, and by some considered a sort OF
successor to the famous leader, Bebel
died fighting against the French in Al
SAGE Lorraine. Frank was 40 years OLD:
he had been a leader in a movement TO
organize an international Socialist or
gani2ation which would make war for
ever impossible; and he was not a con-
script soldier, but a volunteer.
That is not all, TortcdertS, the daily
newspaper published by the Social
Democrats, which has always been
anathcma to conservative Germans. and
which has never been allowed on news
stands in public or seml-public places,
such as railway stations, subwayS and
hotels, has now appeared on these news
stands cheek by jowl with the Bcr-
liner LOkdi-A inspired or
gan Of the German Government. on
July 20 VOrlCdcrtS was lecturing Gen.
Won Falkehhayn on the villainies of
Prussian militarism; on September . il
received from the hands II this same
General won Falkenhayn permission 10
circulate among the soldiers,
Between these two dates there had
been a revolution in Germany; but not
the kind Of revolution which the leaders
Of German socialism had expected
Something had broken loose against
which recalc.trant spirit struggled in
vain. II was the wild, ungcvernable
spirit of war.
German socialism is dead,
| But hundreds OF movements are dead,
and hundreds pf thousands of men
are dead The war is a holocaust. The
whole nation is bleeding the whole
world is suffering, For what? ! do
not know
tCopUtJht, CoHicy'sl