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price and in no case will Mr.. Wilson
allow this source to dry up.
Calls Wilson Self-Willed,

ScnWeSel IN report attached. The
president has broken all the bridges
behind him and made his point of
view so definite that it is impossible
for him to retreat from this position.
"As last autumn. he can always,
through his personal influence, either
force the house of Representatives to
take his point of view against their
better Judgment, or on tie other hand,
In the senate can overthrow the reso,
luton already voted in favor of pro-
hibiting the export of guns and muni-
tions.
Cannot Persuade States.
In the circumstances, any at
tempts to persuade individual states
to vote parallel resolutions through
their legislative bodies, offer no adj
vantages. apart from the international
difficulties which the execution of this
plan presents.
The proposal to forbid passenger
ships to carry munitions stands on a
different footing, however Mr.. Bryan
and his Democratic supporters would
stand for this prohibition, and l be-
lieve the president would not show
himself so intransigeant with regard
to this action.
Chicagoan Is Quoted.
LAS for the note to protest against
British interference with shipping
which has so often been notified and
as often postponed, / learn that the
issue is delayed in consequence of the
imminent declaration of cotton as
contraband. The feeling which OBJ
tains amongst the great American i'm
porters was accurately represented in
Mr.. Meagher's (Meeker?) speech.
Meagher is one of the principal ex-
porters of the United States, for he
is partner in the Chicago firm OF
Armour & Co., who, with the firm of
Swift, control the meat market of the
! whole Western hemisphere.
Mr.. Meagher, whom / recently met
on a yacht and whose acquaintance l
had already made in Chicago, absolute
ly regards England's acts as arbitrary.
No fewer than 81 ships with meat and
bacon shipments of his firm for Swed-
en-, valued at $19,0O0,0O0, have been
detained in English ports for months
under suspicion that they ultimately
are intended for Germany.
Packing Houses ParaIyzed.
1.-THE negotiations are being so long
drawn out, because Mr.. Meagher and
hic compapiopc will not aooopf a Low, ,
compromise, but insist on full compen.
sation or the release of the consign.
ments, in which the bacon may still be
sound.
"My Informant further gave me to
understand he has not yet played his
last trump, namely, refusal to inn
port meat to England under the cir
cumstances. He-that is to say the
above named slaughtering houses
control the Argentine market. At the
present moment they are paralyZed
| here also by the action Of the British
admiralty, for the latter has com
Wandered most of the English freight
ships intended to transport meat from
Argentine.
Discusses Cotton contraband.
What the immediate result here OF
| making cotton contraband will be is
| hard to say. The anger of those in.
| terested in cotton will be enormously
| increased but on the other hand the
| fear of threatened confiscation may
make the leaders Of the cotton trust
SO yielding that they against their bet.
ter judgment may agree to the sale OF
the greater part of the greater supply
en- bloc to England, who would be
in position in the future to control
the whole cotton market, and on peace
being declared, to force on the whole
world this essential raw material.
(signed,) C. DUMBA." .
Papen's Letter to Wife.
The letter from Captain Won Papen
the military attache to the German
embassy, addressed to his wife and
describing the stealing of portfolio
from Heinrich Albert, commercial at
] tache of the German embassy at Wash
ington, on an elevated railroad train in
New York says:
"You can imagine the sensation
among the Americans. Unfortunately
some very important things from my
reports were among them, such as the
buying Of liquid chlorine and about
the Bridgeport projectile company az
well as documents regarding the buy
ing up of phenol from which explosives
are made, and the acquisition Of
Wright's aeroplane patent.
But things like that must occur
The sinking of the Adriatic (Sic) may
well be the last straw. / hope in oul
interests the danger will blow over
How splendid on the eastern front.
Il always say to these idiotic Yam
KEGS that they had better hold theil
tongues. 1t is better to look at al
this heroism with full admiration. M.
friends in the army are quite differ
ent in this way"