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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
CONGRESS GIVES
UP TO PRESIDENT
Sensational Session in Senate
Comes to end With Wilson
as the Victor.
MEMBERS SUPPORT PLEDGE
Senator Gore Starts Trouble by DecIar.
ing Wilson Wanted War with Ger
many-Prompt Denial.

Washington, March 3-Out of a
days developments in President Viii
sons fight with congress, crowded to
the utmost with elements of the sensa-
tional and dramatic, the administra-
ton forces in the senate tonight
emerged with pledges of enough votes
to kill, once and for all, Senator Cores
resolution to warn Americans off
armed ships of the European beIliger-
ents and demonstrate that congress
stands behind the President in his ne
gotiations with Germany.
House to Follow Senate
Action in the senate, it was believed,
will be followed promptly by sitting of
sentiment in the house against the
Presidents foreign policy.
In one of the greatest non-partisan
debates the senate has seen in years,
Chairman Stone of the foreign rela-
tons committee declared he was not
in accord with the President. Senator
Lodge, the ranking republican, pledged
his support to the Presidents deter
mination to secure to Americans their
rights on the high seas and Senator
John Sharp William, just from a sick
bed, delivered a whitening denuncia-
ton of the presidents opponents.
Berlin Watching.
While the senate debated there
came news to the state department
from Berlin which convinced officials
that the dissension in congress was
being used deliberately to weaken the
Presidents hand in Germany.
Confidential advices state that re-
ports received in the German capital
as having come from Washington, de-
clared that congress stood five to one
against the President.
Out of the senate debate came a
turn which, for the moment, threat
ened to overshadow the real features
of the contest and probably disclosed
the basis for the agitation at the cap
itoI
Cores Bomb Shell.
Senator Gore, while the senate sat
rapt in amazement, released a story
that President Wilson, at his confer
ence with congress leaders a week ago
had declared that Germany's insist
ence on her position in the submarine
controversy probably would result in
a breach of diplomatic relations; that
a breach probably would be followed
by war; and that "a state of war might
not be of itself and Of necessity an
evil to this republic, but that. the
United States, by entering upon war
now, might be able to bring it to a
conclusion by midsummer and thus
render a great service to civilization"
A prompt denial of the story was
made by the White House
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
WHOLE SITUATION IN 4 SHARL
No Further Negotiations with Germany
Regarding American Rights Until
Wilson's Demands Are Met.

Washington, March 2.-President
Wilson served notice on congress to-
night that he will consent to nothing
less than a record vote on the anti
administration resolution to warn
Americans of the armed ships of Eu-
ropean belligerents before he goes on
with the German submarine negotia-
tons.
No compromise postponement, such
as a vote of confidence in the presi-
dents foreign policy, will be accept
able. Such an action, it is held, might
be construed in Berlin as justifying
the opinion that the president lacks
the support of congress and his own
party in his demands for a full OBJ
servance of international law, while its
only purpose would be to afford mem
bers OF congress a way to avoid re-
cording their positions before the coun-
try on the straight, out-and-out ques-
ton.
President Wilson made his position
clear to congressional leaders tonight
in uneQuiEocal terms, as the climax to
a day of confusion, uncertainty and
political maneuvering that marked the
opening of his first real fight with con-
gress.
AS if to emphasize that the president
absolutely refuses to continue the ne
gotiations with Germany until the at
titude of congress is settled, it was
made known that the United States
does not consider the latest assurances
from Count Won Bernstorff, the Ger
man ambassador, as broad or as sat
isfactory as those originally given. No
further step will be taken, however,
while the President waits on congress.
Meanwhile, the pending Lusitania
agreement will not be finally accepted.
The whole situation in congress, con-
fused by the Presidents call yesterday
for a vote, was thrown into a snarl to-
day when at an early morning confer
ence the President outlined his posi-
ton to Chairmen Stone and Flood OF
the foreign affairs committees; Senate
Leader Kern, Speaker Clark, House
Leader Kitchin and Acting Chairman
Pou of the house rules committee.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
ARMY BILLS NEARLY READY
and Senate Military Measures
Final Vote Soon.

Washington, Mar. 1.-The campaign
for national preparedness will enter on
new phase in Congress next week
when, in all probability, bills provid-
ing for increasing the army to an ex-
tent never before contemplated in
time of peace will be introduced in
both the House and Senate.
The House military committee will
begin tomorrow its final review of the
measure tentatively agreed upon last
week, which, it is stated, will be al
tered only in minor details before it
is faYorably reported. The final vote
probably will be taken Thursday, but
it will require several days for Chair
man Hay to prepare a report to accom-
pany the bill.
The Senate committee agreed today
to insert only a general provision for
liberalization of the national guard in
its regular army reorganization meas
ure, leaving the task of putting this
legislation in final shape to the joint
conference committee to which the
two bills will 60 By this action the
Senate committee made it possible to
bring out its bill also next week
Before the House naval committee
Rear Admiral Knight today said he be-
! lieved it would take two years and a
half to make the navy sufficient
enough to meet the present German
fleet with any hope of success. The
time limit he set was the minimum re-
quired to build nine battle cruisers
and eight fast scouts. He said it would
take eighteen months to put the ships
of the Atlantic fleet in readiness for
war
Representative FAIR called attention
to published figures stating that in the
last ten years Germany had built 173
fighting ships, England 252 and the
United States 81. Admiral Knight said
he understood a subcommittee of the
naval committee would be named later
to investigate the subject of shipbuild-
ing facilities, public and private. He
advised that the Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Norfolk, Mare Island and
Puget Sound yards be equipped imme'
diately for their maximum output of
big ships.
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CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

in the United States District Court
at Fort Smith, Ark, Judge Frank A.
Youmans granted the government a
verdict for s15,S27.44 against R. P.
Harris of Fort Smith, former president
and chief stakeholder in the Harris
Lumber Company of Eagleton, Scott
County, Arkansas.
Agrumedo, former Zapata and Villista
commander, at the Durango state peni-
Tertiary in Durango City was reported
in a private dispatch received at Eagle
Pass, Texas.
Felix Diaz; nephew of the former
Mexican president, Porfirio Diaz, who
is said to have landed on the east
cast of Mexico to launch a new re-
volt, has effected an understanding
with Zapata and the followers OF
Villa, according to friends of the
latter
Orders approved by President VII.
son the other day restore to entry
liz, 34S acres OF public lands In Yves
tern Wyoming; 1876, 1853 acres in East.
ern Utah and 1O,9Ss acres in West
Central Montana
President Wilson has decided that
he cannot proceed with the German
submarine negotiations while dissen.
sion in Congress weakens his position
before the world, so he called for a
show down on the pending proposals
to warn American off merchant ships
of the European belligerents armed
for defense.
The suxiIiary French cruiser La
Provence was sunk In the Mediterran.
can the other day. It was announced
officially in London It Is be1ieved ssa
Ives were lost
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RIOT AT A CHICAGO LECTURE
Firemen Turn Hose on Mob at Meet
ing of Former Priest-Many
Arrests Made.

Chicago, March 1.-Two patrol
wagons filled with policemen, an am
bulance with it's aids, fire engine, a
truck and a fire crew were called to a
South Side hall last night to suppress
a riot The trouble followed an at
tempt of DR.. Joseph Slattery of Bos-
ton, former Catholic priest, and his
wife, DR.. Mary E, a former nun, to
deliver a lecture. Hundreds inside
and outside the hall were engaged in
the fighting and all efforts to suppress
order failed until the firemen turned
streams of water on the rioters.
When the police finally gained con-
troll nearly 100 persons were arrested.
About thirty of the number were held.
A score or more of persons were in
jured, but as far as the police were
able to learn none dangerously.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
FRENCH REGAIN
LOST POSITIONS
Part of Ground Lost in First
Attack on Verdun Was
RecaptuFed.
GERMANS HUNT A WEAK POINT
kaiser's Men Extending Battle Front
in Effort to Break Through
Lines of Allies.

Paris, March 4-The French have
occupied the highest part of the
mound, on the northern slope of which
the village of DouaumOnt is situated,
and also in counter attacks against
the Germans have regained ground in
the immediate vicinity of Douaumont,
according to the French official com
munication made public this evening.
The bombardment continues very
violent along the entire front from the
west of the Mouse to the Woevre re-
gion.
To Widen Fight Area.
The Germans gradually worked up
their preliminary bombardment of the
Verdun forts throughout Wednesday
night and Thursday morning until in
the afternoon of Thursday it had
reached great intensity. Special at
tention was directed to the French pO-
sitions west of the Mouse between
FORCES and Malancourt, as well as On
the famous Pepper Hill and Douau-
mont positions, from which it is in
ferred that the Germans intend to
make a second effort over a wider
area than the six kilometer front on
which they concentrated masses of
men in the first phase Of the struggle,
with the idea that if it fails to break
the line on the north it may sever it
on the northwest
French Are Not Idle.
With the exception of violent as
saults on Pepper Hill and Douaumont,
the German infantry thus far has not
been engaged in the fray. The COM
mand had gone out to the French
troops not to let the grass grow under
their feet and they profited by the lull
preceding the fresh attack by concen-
trating vast stocks of munitions, fill
ing gaps in their ranks and strength
ening still farther the vital points in
their defenses.
The French await the outcome of
the battle with the fullest confidence.
French Stop Assault.
While it appears certain that Yer
dun remains the principal objective of
the Germans, their offensive is full
of possibilities which will be revealed
as the great battle progresses.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
LANSING is OUT OF PATIENCE
Secretary Lansing Administers Re.
Duke to Ambassador Bernstorff-A
Formal Statement Issued.

Washington, Mar. Secretary
Lansing today administered a rebuke
to Ambassador Bernstorff for what ne
regards as the improper publicity Of
the ambassador
He issued formal statement an
nouncing that reports of the contents
Of the German memorandum laid be-
fore him yesterday by Bernstorff had
not been made public by himself or his
department and further said no state
ments had been made expressing his
departments views regarding the mem
orandum. Morning newspapers printed
what purported to be a paraphrase of
the memorandum.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
SYRUP OF FIGS FOR
A CHILD'S BOWELS
1t is cruel to force nauSeating,
harsh phySic into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days
Remember the dose mother insisted
on-castor oil, calomel. catharties-
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them
With our children it's different
Mothers who cling to the old form OF
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The chiIdren's revolt is weII-found-
ed Their tender little -ins:des" are
injured by them.
II your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious California Syrup of Figs" It's
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
Of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy; they know children
love to take it; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en- the stomach, and that a teaspoonful
given today saves a sick child tonoT-
row.
Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle
OF California Syrup Of Figs" which
has full directions for babies. children
OF all ages and for grown-ups plainly
On each bottle. Adv
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
WOMAN BANDIT RoBs A BANK

Muskogee, Ok, March "A woman
bandit with a male companion walked
into a bank at Millerton, Ok, an in
land town in McCurtain county, yes
terday afternoon, covered the cashier
with a revolver and demanded the
cash. The woman raked about $500,
all the cash in sight, into a bag, keep
ing the cashier covered, backed out Of
the door Mounting horses the robber
pair dashed straight for the noun
tains north Of town. A posse pursued,
but the woman and her companion out
rode them and escaped.
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Remarkable Echo.

Among the most noted echoes is
that heard from the suspension bridge
across the Menai strait The sound OF
a blow from a hammer on one Of the
main piers of the structure is re-
turned in succession from each OF the
crossbeams that support the roadway
and from the opposite pier at the dis
lance of 576 feet, in addition to which
the sound is many times repeated be
tween the water aid NE roadway at
the rate of IS times in five seconds
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
Surely Drv ENOUGH.

Gimme a dimes with O. dried beef
an some crackers" said Uncle Josh
to the young lady in charge Of the rib
bon counter
You have evidently made a mis-
take in the place" she smi1ingly re-
piled. This is a dry goods store"
WAL, now, reckon 1 knoH'd that
b'gosh,' said the old man; an ef
dried beef an crackers hain't dry
goods, then I'd like to know what in
tarnation you'd call 'em?"
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TRAIN INTO SCHOOL WAGON
Three Killed and Several Injured in
Grade Crossing Accident
Near lnola, Ok.

Muskogee, Ok, March "A school
service wagon carrying children to
school near Inola, Ok, was struck yes
terday morning by an Iron Mountain
passenger train at crossing and J.
J. Stiles, the driver employed by the
school board, and Tilday Reynolds, a
13-year-old pupil, were instantly killed.
Thoma Cummins, another pupil, died
on the way to the hospital. Other pu-
pills were dangerously injured. There
were nine children in the wagon.
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ua-dIv Worth consIderino.

Would your wife vote for you as a
candidate for ofhce?" 81 don't think
there's any use Of my bothering my
head about that" replied MI Meek
ton. 81 don't believe Henrietta would
let me run in the first place Wash
ington Star.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
March 10, 1915.

March 10, 1915.
Germans attempted TO break
through Russian line in North Po-
land.
Eichorn's army, retreatins from
the Niemen, harried by Russian
cavalry.
Austrians had successes in West
ern GaIicia.
British cruiser Ariel rammed and
sank German submarine U-12.
German cruiser Prince Eitel
Friedrich reached Newport News
with crews of vessels it had sunk,
including that of American ship W..
P Frye
British collier Beethoven sunk
More DardaneIIes forts reduced
Ghounaris formed new Greek
ministry.
Germany called Iandsturm
classes 1s6e-73 to the coIors.
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1t Is a reliable first aid
A Sorry Lawyer.

Some time ago a man was hailed into
court on a larceny charge. and, not
having counsel at the trial, the judge
assigned a young lawyer who hap
pened to be in the courtroom to rep
resent him
Judge" the prisoner said when the
jury hadsreturned a verdict OF guilty.
can 1 say something's"
You may" the judge answered. "if
you express yourself briefly
It's about my lawyer, judge" the
prisoner answered Il would be very
sorry if he was ever assigned by your
honor to defend an innocent man"
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March II, 1915.

marcn IL 1919.
British gained near Armentieres,
occupied Epinette and advanced
toward la Bassee.
Russians captured LupkoW and
SmoInIk and surrounding heights
in Carpathians.
Dardanus batteries on Oar
daneIles siIenced.
British auxiliary cruiser Bayano
sunk off the coast Of Scotland; 200
lost.
German airmen bombarded Osso-
Wetz.
Bulgaria moved heavy artillery
to Greek frontier.
Germans fined Inhabitants of
Lille 100000.
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aahles - Worth eco Eaeh.

Boston, March 3.-What is a baby
worth? Professor Irving 7. Fisher Of
Yale, urging the adoption Of a bill for
compulsory social insurance for work
men, told the committee on social vel
fare that he estimated the value Of
q baby to be $50
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
RESPONSIVE

'T verify believe that inanimate
things sometimes enter into the spirit
Of a festal occasion Il know it
Last night, when I was going to q
blowout my automobile chimed in with
a couple of its own--Louisyille Cour-
fer,Jourial-
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Plot IN MontreaI Eirea

Montreal, March 2-WhiIe firemen
poured streams OF water on the
charred shells OF the Bonaventure
railway station at 1890 o'clock yes
terday, police and railway officials at
Tibuted the fire to a German plot.
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The srouIe Into Its own

Wheeling. W. Va, March 2.-The
output of stogies in Wheeling totaled
11,543, $50 last month, compared with
1895, 200 for the corresponding month
one year ago, according to an an
nouncement made at the internal reve-
uue office here.
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Should Have Cracked This One.

Chicago, March "a good squir-
rel should take better care Of nuts.
This nut is gone" Luther Widen,
psychologist, who was declared In
sane, left this note behind and es-
capped from the Elgin asylum
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Family of 7 Burns to Death.

Taloga, Ok, Mar. 1.-The bodies of
seven persons were found in the ruins
of a farmhouse, which burned some
time last night near here. The dead
have been Unidentified as NJ Greed,
the occupant Of the house, his wife,
three children and his two brothers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
Directed HIS Own onerstion

Chicago, Mar 1.-Pinioned beneath
q carload of coal, his left arm and left
leg crushed, Henry R. Knudson, a
sWitchman, today directed a surgeon
as to the best way of amputating his
arm and leg. remaining conscious
throughout the operation.
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March 8, 1915.

March 8, 1915.
Russians siienced two German
siege batteries at OssoWetz
Austrians gained ground in the
Carpathians and Gaiicia.
Allied feet forced way further
up DardaneIies, siIencing more
forts.
Russians destroyed Turk ports
on Black sea-
British collier BengroVe sunk in
Bristol channel.
Five convicted of passport
frauds in U. s.
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Seize "a German Ships-

London, Mar. 1T was announced
IN the House of Commons today that
the Italian government had requisi-
toned 81 of the 81 German steamers
interned in Italian ports
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sieoeI's freedom Was Short

Rochester, N Y, March 2.-After
ten months of prison life, Henry Sic
gel, the former New York and Boston
merchant, was rearrested yesterday as
he stepped from the penitentiary.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-03-11
a Harvard Athlete to Mar.

Halifax, Feb. 29.-Dr. George Bar
ton Gluten, president of Acadia Uni
versity, has been appointed an Of
ficer in the Nova Scotia Highland Bri-
gade, and is now engaged in recruit
ing for the brigade.
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johnson off for Spain.

London, March Jack Johnson,
the negro pugilist. and his wife left
London last night for Corunna, Spain.
Johnson was ordered last week to
leave England. It was staten then
that he would sail for South America.
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10 ARMY to Educate Brother.

Princeton, N. J., March 4.-William
West, Princeton senior who disap-
peared and caused a Today search of
several states, has enlisted in the
army so his brother, John. can finish
college. There was not enough money
for both
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VIIIistas Murder an American

Washington, Mar. 1.-Grover C.
Warn, American, was murdered last
night at his home, twenty-five miles
north Of Durango, Mexico, reports to
tie State Department said today.
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March 9, 1915.

Campaign in AIsaee hamPered by
floods.
Germans raised siege of Osso-
wetz and retreated In North Po-
land.
German submarines sank three
British merchantmen many lives
lost.
British seaPIanes dropped bombs
on Ostend.
British government authorized to
take over engineering trade of
country to increase output Of muni-
tions.
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March Is. 1915.

March 13, 1915.
Further gains made by British in
Neuve chaPeIIe region
Russians checked German often
sive against Przasnysz
Austrians repuIsed Russians near
Cisna.
Turks were driven back in Ar
menia and Northwestern Persia.
Submarine destroyed Swedish
steamer Hanna.
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Mh-rrn.

Mr.. Buzzer-"Are you fond Of
apples, Mr. Wrigg?" Mr.. Wrigg-"Am
L? Well, I should say 50. Why, I'm
so fond Of 'em that 1 named my young
est daughter Cora"
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General Lees Adjutant Dead.

Norfolk, Va, March 3.-CoIonel
Walter H. Taylor. "A years old,
known throughout the South, died
here last night. He was adjutant to
General Lee in the Civil war, and
served in every campaign with Lee.
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cave seIf ID MedicaI seienee.

Waukegan, III, March "A two
year fight to delay death that discoF-
cries OF value to medical science
might be made vas lost here IN the
death o9 Dr.. william c. Boason-
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The puma Approves War Loan.

London, Feb. 29.-The finance COM
mittee of the Russian Duma, presided
over by Premier Sturmer, has ap-
proved the new war loan for 1 billion
dollars.
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THE EUROPEAN WAR
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
March z. 1915.

March 2, 1915.
Germans started another drive In
region OF Pilica river.
Austrians retreated in BuIeowIna-
British drove Turks back from
Persian gulf, both sides losing
heavily
VenizeIos, premier of Greece, re-
signed.
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lnu.a cnnrf IInhnIde -.

Sioux City. Ia. March z.-The Iowa
anti-ipping law was held to be IN
constitutional by Judge George Jepson
in the district court here yesterday.
The court held the Law was class lsels.
1sfioa.