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Arizona republican., 1916-01-26
PROPOSAL BY GERMANY AS TO THE LUSITANLA
 REPORTED REJECTED
TEUTONIC DINNER
 AT WHITE HOUSE
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 WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-President and Mrs. Wilson gave their second diplomatic dinner at the White House tonight with the representatives of Germany and her allies and the neu- tral nations present. The entente diplomats and the neutrals attended the first dinner last week.
 Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, the ranking diplomat pres ent tonight, occupied a seat next to Mrs Wilson. Austria Hungary ana Turkey were represented by charges daffaireS in the absence of ministers. The Bulgarian minister, Stephen Pan- aretoff, is in mourning for a son killed in the war and did not attend. All of the neutral representatives were pres ent, except the ministers from Costa Rica, the Domicant republic, Ecuador, Honduras and Peru.
 Other guests included Secretary and Mrs. Lansing, Senators Kern of In- diana and Clarke of Arkansas, Repre- sentative and Mrs. Mann, John Bar rett, director general of the Pan Amer ican union. and several relatives of Mr and Mrs. Wilson.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-26
ANCIENT DISPUTE
 IN LABOR ENDED
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NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-The dispute of years standing between the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and JOiners and the International Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, as to which organization should have jurisdiction over dock workers union, was decided today in favor of the carpenters by a committee appointed by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor to determine the merits of the controversy. The com mittee was headed by John Ferguson, president of the Maryland Federation of Labor.
 The decision was declared by Mir. Gompers to be one of the most i'm portant the federation ever has been called ppon to make. Labor leaders asserted it might result in tying up contracts aggregating s5,000,000 on piers in New York alone.
 The dispute was the outgrowth of the contention of the carpenters that the iron workers were virtually act ing as strike breakers" when they is sued a charter to the municipal dock builders who refused to support a strike declared by the other dock workers of this city in 1907. The strikers became affiliated with the brotherhood of carpenters while the municipal employees subsequently ob- tained a charter from the iron workers.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-26
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LONDON, Jan. 25, 9:25 r. M.-The house of lords without division passed late today the second reading of the military service bill.
 The Marquis of Lansdowne, minister without a portfolio, spoke strongly or the necessity of enacting a measure.
 The Archbishop of Canterbury, in the course of the debate, bestowed a benediction on the measure, saying he regarded it as a plain, straightforward, vigorous effort to meet situation eX- tTaordinarily difficult.
 Earl Curzon lord of the privy seal, in concluding the debate. expressed the of the bill was made by those who con tended that it did not go far enough.
 Earl Derby, director of recruiting, said he was convinced that the bill when imposed on the country would not make the disturbance in industrial circles that many had predicted He was more frightened by the extent of the exemptions granted by the govern ment than by the reductions in men available for military service made by the munitions tribunals. Since his re- port was made, four lists of reserved occupations had been issued, and he could not help being apprehensive when he learned that no less than 100000 badges eXempting men from military service had been issued in four days last week.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-26
Faction of Live Stock Con- vention Denounces It's Friendliness for Villa at Expense of Live Stock In terests of Country
THE RESOLUTION
 TO BE OPPOSED
Opening of the Session, Address of President Heard Reviewing Activi- ties of Year and Describ- ing Existing Problems
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FL PASO Tex. Jan. 25.-Storm is threatened in the American National LIrC Stock convention Wednesday or Thursday when the report of the res olutions committee condemning the ad- mlnistratIon policy in Mexico is in troduCed. The resolutions committee it IS unde' 1tood W draft str 'ng resolution favoring action by the Unit ed States to protect the Americans especially the c@FtleInen in Mexico.
 This, it is understood will be uit- terly fought by the administration crowd led by Governor J. B. kendrick of Wyoming. who is q strong Will SOD man. Ta. .eht Mil take place a tie floor ot the conveot.oa IS expected to be the hottest of the week.
 An indication of the trend of sen timert was given in the first session of the convention today when J. D. Jackson. of Alpine. Tex. president of the Cattle Raisers association of Texas. flayed the administration $ handling of the meat importation problem at Juarez when Gen. Fran cisco Villa was in power on the bor- der.
 Consul CarOthers convinced Secre- tary Bryan who saw that his friend Pancho Villa, needed .he money, that the Juarez packing plant, where stol- en cattle were being slaughtered, was being run in sanitary manner and it was ordered reopened after the sec 1Ctary of agriculture had ordered IL closed" declared Jackson. The state ment was greeted with cheers. Pres ident Jacksan's sarcastic reference to Carothers, Bryan and his friend Villa, came at the end of the AL pine mans address on the Cattle Industry of Mexico" MT. Jackson, with H. A. Jastro of California and Col. Ike T. Pryor, of San Antonio were appointed committee at the San Francisco convention to investigate the importation of meats from Mex ico.
 Reporting the work of this com
Arizona republican., 1916-01-26
Giving to Congressmen the Results of Their Observa- tiOns As Accredited Wit nesses on the Battlefields of Europe
ARTILLERY TIPS
 OF GREAT VALUE
Other Army Officers Give to the Committee Their Ideas As to Raising An Army to Man the Guns
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WASHINGTON. D. C., Jan. 25.- Some idea of what American army officers are learning on the battle fields of Europe was given the sen ate military committee today by Col onel Charles G. Treat of the army war college. Much of what the col onel said was treated as confidential, but it is known that he told the com mittee there was an American ob- server with the armies of each bel ligerent nation and that their reports to the war college had been of great value in the preparation of new army plans.
 As a matter of course. Colonel Treat said none of the observers would send home during the war in formation which might be of value to other belligerents should it be- come known in this country.
 Both the congressional committees were given much information today as to artillery tips. Brigadier Gen. eral Crozier chief of ordnance, dis cussed in detail before the house committee the war departments plans for big guns while Colonel Treat a field artilleryman, talked of the lessons drawn from the war.
 Colonel Treat disclosed that the war department has definite informa- tion as to the famous 42-centimetre hoWitzers which the Germans used to crush their way through French frontier forts. The guns can be fired without mounting them on con crete emplacements, he said. and made ready for use in less than an hour and a half after they reach a given point. Both he and General Crozer told of plans for similar guns now being prepared in the war de- partment Primarily they will be used in coast defense work although
Arizona republican., 1916-01-26
GERMANS FIGURE
 ON THE FUTURE
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ZURICH, Jan. 25, via London,- Conferences at Vienna and Budapest between representatives of German and Hungarian shipping companies has resulted in an agreement to organize new trans Atlantic steamship lin, for emigration traffic to America. The capital of the new company is to be $2,000,000, half of which will be sub scribed by the present AustrO Hun garian Navigation company.
 The agreement provides that a ma jority of the directors shall be Hun garians; that the ships if possible, shall be built in Hungary; that they shall fly the Hungarian national flag, and that the officers and crews shall be composed chiefly of Hunsarians. German steamship lines will provide ships until new vessels can be built
Arizona republican., 1916-01-26
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-Agitation for great congressional activity on tie administrative legislative program received a new impetus today when President Wilson asked Majority Leader Kitchin to speed up" work on the house side of the capitol and made arrangements for discussing the subject with other leaders of both houses tomorrow The president is and adjourn in June before the po- litical conventions
 Representative Kitchin gave assur- ances that there was no disposition on the part of the house to delay leg islation, pointing out that within the next few weeks action would be taken on several important applica- tons and other bills. The president has been told, however, that there is danger of long delays in the senate in debates over national defense, shipping, tariff and revenue bills.
 The outstanding features of the leg islative program for the next few months. as Mir Kitchin forsees them are:
 A committee tariff bill will be re- ported by the ways and means com mittee.
 No revenue measure is likely to be reported until the military and naval , committees bring in their bills. This may be weeks or months.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-26
ANXIETY ID HURRY LEGISLATION
 PRESIDENT ASKS LEADERS ID APPLY SPUR

No new waterways projects and no new public building bills will be considered.
 An anti-dumping clause for the tariff law may be reported later.
 In addition to these measures the shipping bill and the Philippine bill are expected by other committee leaders to attract the most attention.
 As result of the decision of the supreme court upholding the income tax law the president is studying anew the problem of raising revenues for the government particularly for the preparedness program.
 Senate committees contributed to the speeding up program today, re- porting favorably on the water power leasing and postal savings deposit increase measures. Senator Kern, majority leader, said tonight that conservation measures would be taken up as soon as the Philippine bill was passed
 The president virtually has com pleted his preparations for leaving Washington tomorrow at midnight fol l New York, where he will speak i Thursday afternoon and night. The program of addresses, as well as leg i islative plans, were discussed with the cabinet during the day. He said tha all of the speeches in the middl,
 west would be extempOraneous al though he has carefully thought ou the general tenor of his remarks.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-26
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25- was made tonight that President Wilson favors the creation of an independent, bipartisan tariff commission, with broad powers to in vestigate tariff duties, the relations between industries at home and abroad and the entire tariff and com mercial machinery of the world.
 The president discussed his plan at length today with Representative Kitchin. chairman of the house ways and means committee, and asked that the committee meet immediately with the view of getting action during the present session of congress. To- morrow he expects to lay the matter befire Senatir Simmons, chairman of the senate finance committee.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-26
NON-PART|SAN TARIFF COMMISSION
 WANTED 0NLYFOR AN EMERGENCY

Although the president previously has taken the position that the powers of tariff commission already reaus. he told Mir Kitchin he felt justified in pressing for the ere ation of a separate commission at this tme because of unusual condi- tions existing in the world, and on account of the interest the United States will have in commercial ad- justments after the present upheaval.
 Representative Kitchin said he per sonally thought the federal trade commission should be clothed with whatever additional powers might be necessary, but that he believed that a majority of the ways and means committee favored new independent body
 As proposed by the president, such a commission would have specific powers to:
 Investigate the administrative and fiscal effects of customs laws now in force or which may be passed in the future:
 
 ra:en of duties on raw materials and those on finished or partially fin- lshed products:
 lnN nNestigate the effects of ad va lorem and specific duties and of those which are a compound of ad- valorem and specific: Examine the arrangement of sched- Iles of duties and the classification of, ttc articles on the several sched- ules:
 Investigate the provisions of law relating to the tariff. and the reg ulations of the treasury department applying to invoices, and other ques- tions with application to the collec- ;ion of customs duties and: Determine generally the working of the customs and tariff laws in their economic effect and administrative IT ethods.
 l A Lew use of a tariff commission proposed by the president would be 1 to discover the possibility of estab- fishing new industries or developing old ones. such as the producton of l dyestuffs, by the use of scientific and practicable methods He would have the commission work in harmony with existing agen- cies of the government having DOW CTS to investigate foreign and do- mestic commerce, in order to avoid duplication. Particularly he would have it assist in securing facts on which any dumping" of cheap for eign products on the American mar ket and the furthering of unfair ocmpetition might be prevented.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-26
ATTACK FORMING AT Fl PAS0
 ON NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION

mittee, MT. Jackson said: "On April ;3, Col. Pryor and myself went to Washington, MT. Jastro being un able to be with us. When we ar lived we were met by an attorney of the Cudahy Packing company. who was armed with letters from Gen. Luis TcrraZas and others saying that they had had no cattle killed in the Juarez packing house. We saw the secretary of agriculture and told our side of the story The result was that the government sent an inspector here and | am told that this inspector sub stnatiated what we had already said about conditions. As a result the JUarez packing plant was closed"
 Then Carothers wrote many let tars to the United States, saying that the plant was being run in a sanitary condition. I don't think he convinced Secretary Houston. But he did con- vince Secretary Bryan. who saw that his friend, Pancho Villa. needed the money. The plant was reopened. but after the recognition of Carranza it was again ordered closed
 The American cattlemen have had a hard time in Mexico during the past three years he declared. They haven't been allowed to brand their owr calves They have seen their own cattle confiscated and rebranded. In many instances they have been forced to turn over their fat cattle without any reimbursement. Some of these cattle have been brought into the United States, and others driven to the river and there slaughtered and the hides brought across. Since the duty has been removed from cattle Americans have spent enough money for Mexican meats to build q fleet of mattleships.'
 Wren the convention was called to order this morning at the Texas Grand theater by President Dwight B. Heard there were upward of five hundred delegates present Addresses of vel come were delivered be Mayor Tom Lea and by J. H. Nations, president of the Panhandle and Southwestern Cattle Growers association who sum nIariLed the cattle business of Arizo- ma, New Mexico and Northern Mex ice by saving that last year three hundred twenty-five thousand head of livestock were handled through Fl Paso. of which 224.0O0 head were cat tie and declared the movement would have been greater but for quaran- tine restrictions.
 President Dwight B. Heard, then delivered his annual address to the convention After introductory and congratulatory remarks MT Heard said:
 The conditions of the livestock in- dustry generally during the past year have not been entirely satisfactory While range producers have received remunerative prices for their stock yearlngs have sold at exceptionally
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Arizona republican., 1916-01-26
I TURK5 DEFEAT
 L|EFFORCE IN
 MESOP UT AM|A
British Expedition Driven Back With Loss of 5000 = Killed. Russians Claim Victory Over Ottoman Troops In Caucasus
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If reports from the Turkish head quarters coming by way of Berlin are
 exact, the British forces in Mesopo- tamia suffered a somewhat severe re verse in their endeaVor to reach the Eesieged town of Kut- Fl -Amara, on the Tigris river. Some 20 miles east
 of kut- Fl -Amara the Turks, in coun-
 ter attacks on the British, drove them back several miles and the British left on the field about 5000 dead. The Turkish losses are declared to have been comparativ light
 It was after this fight, which lasted six hours. that General Aylmer is declared to have requested and ob- tained truce of ore day in order
 that the dead might be buried The British advancing from Nun tefik on the Shatt- El- Hai river, south
 of Kut- El-Amara toward korna, were also compelled to retreat before q Turkish attack, says the report leav- ing 100 men dead. The British reverse
 at the hands of the Turks. however is somewhat offset by the Turkish losses .n battles with the Russians in the neishborhood of Erzerum. A news agency dispatch from Petrograd as serts that apart from the casualties | in actual battles, the Turks lost fifty officers and four thousand men taken prisoners, ana also scores of ma
 chine guns and quantities of ammuni- tion captured.
 Acil 1,o ior q ont mining operations and aeroplane raids. little fighting is going on in any of the i ether theaters of war.
 1 Vienna asserts that there has been no resumption of hostilities in Monte incgro. The king of the Montene-
 grins, with his family. has arrived
 at Lyons. The disarming of the Mon tenegrin army. according to Austrian i dispatches, is progressing without in- i terruption and without resistance. i Allied airmen again have dropped i bombs on Monastir and Gievgeli, and 1 a hundred persons are estimated to have been killed or wounded in the lat ter town. The Germans. on their part. 1 have dropped explosives from aircraft ! on Dunkirl, where five persons were
 killed, and on the airdomes at Nancy ] and factories in Baccarat.
 l While no battles of importance have teen reported from the Russian front, 1 Vienna says the Russians have shelled
 several sections of their line and that l they arc actively reconnitering. tn | official adVices from Petrograd says | the recent successes of the Russians
 have brought them to within less than
 three miles of the town of Pinsk in l N0lhynia.
 1 The British military service bill ia
 making fast progress in the house ot
 lords, after it's passage by the house of commons. The upper house passeo
 the second reading of the measure
 without division.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-26
DISAPPOINTMENT IF CHINESE MONARCHY
 YUAN SH| KA| HAD HINT FROM ALLIES

change might seriously affect China's foreign relations, Yuan Shi Kai was informed that the allies, at least, would be better pleased if the execution of his program was deferred.
 Moreover, it had been intimated that as the allies would refuse to recognize the projected imperial government and the republic meanwhile would have representation in the peace conference which would end the war And with out a voice in the peace councils. China would not be in position to demand and arrange for the recession of the important possession of KiaO Chau, which Japan wrested from Germany under a conditional pledge to restore to China.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-26
UNKNOWN CASTAWAYS
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SEWARD, Jan. 25-The mystery surrounding the identity of the cast aways marooned on Fire Island by Cook Inlet ice field was increased of the mail steamer Dora that Cap tain Cramer and the crew of the launch Traveller, who were believed to be the men on Fire Island. were safe at Seldova. Efforts, so far at tempted by rescue parties to cross the channel and rescue the marooned men have failed
Arizona republican., 1916-01-26
THE MILITARY SERVICE BILL
 ;. ADVANCES ANOTHER STAGE

third reading of the trading with the enemy bill without division, after the adoption of amendments concerning minor details in the application of the measure.
 The feature of the debate was several bitter attacks on the Board of Trade on the ground that it had shown too much leniency to aliens and could not be depended on to enforce the measure with sufficient vigor. But a motion to remove it from the boards jurisdiction was negatived without being put to vote.
Arizona republican., 1916-01-26
The American Government Insists That Berlin Make Acknowledgment Tn a t Attack On Vessel Was Violation of Interna- tiOnal Law
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WASHINGTON, Jan 25. - The United States is understood to have rejected as being partially unsats- factory Cermany's latest proposal in the Lusitania negotiations. Secretary Lansing, with the approval ot Presi- dent Wilson. is said to have so com municated to Count von Bernstorff. German ambassador, during a confer ence late today at the state depart ment.
 The ambassador will confer again with the secretary tomorrow. It is understood he will then submit anoth- CT confidential tentative proposal for settlement, having embodied in it the requirements of the United States After being considered by the presi- dent and Secretary Lansing. the mat ter, unless present plans miscarry, will be transmitted to Berlin for the ap- proval or disapproval of the German government Five or six days may elapse before it is. known whether the Berlin foreign office will assume a view which will coincide with the ad- ministration
 It is considered probable that the .ambassador may forward some recom- merdations with the tentative form Of settlement which, it is said, will con tain every point for which the United States has so ffr contended
 In many particulars the suggested form of agreement designed to include the controversy, which was submitted through the ambassador is acceptable. IL was stated by excellent authority. however, that the United States insists upon hoding the German government to strict accountability for the loss of more than 100 American lives. and desires that the Berlin government ad = init, in effect. that it is liable accord ing to law for the lives of neutrals lost in the commission of an act against a vessel of the enemy
 Both Secretary Lansing and Count Non Bernstorff have agreed that the subject Of their conversation today should be held confidential. They merely allowed it to becOmcA known that another conference would be held tomorrow.
 Secretary Lansing, in referring to the 1 publication of certain facts connected Witc the proposal which is now under stood to have been rejected. declared ! during the day that the statements
 were ''conjectures' and that the pub- i lished description of the informa 1 communication was "supposition un- justified by the Iacts."
 1t was indicated tonight that. while Teutonic diplomatic circles were dis. i appointed over the refusal of the | United States to accept the proposal
 a feeling of optimism regarding tn, outcome still prevailed.
 From sources usually well informed
 came the statement that Germany. il , the proposal. had considered friendshir
 for the United States to a greater ex.
 tent than law in making such conces
 sIops as have been offered The ad
 ministration was represented as takin.
 the position that the law also should
 be brought into consideration.