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Arizona republican., 1916-04-29
EXPERTS ON INTERNATIONAL LAW
 D|v|DEDAS TOsUBMAR|NE WARFARE

of the Indiana University said the use should be mainly or substantially for defensive purposes and be mainly con fined to home waters.
 Everett r. Wheeler of New York, an authority on admiralty law, asserted that international law had been large ly swept aside in the war. Its fab ric," he said. "is almost as ruined as the great cathedral at Rheims. It is not now an active working code. We must not concede one jot from the principle of international law in the interest of humanity. We want some thing in the future more powerful than a scrap of paper"
 Prof Reeves declared it was outside the bounds of possibility that an American submarine would eyer sink an enemy Lusitania. He criticized the administration for an alleged change of front regarding the armed merchantmen question.
 Prof. Carl F. Geiser, of Oberlin Ohio University, while declaring his support of President Wilson in the controversy with Germany, suggested ! that the ancient international rule restricting submarines should be ex, i tended.
 Can you expect a nation, fighting for it's very existence to have tn; submarine and not use it? He asked. He suggested a classification of yes sells and cargoes and prohibiting wo men and children from travelling o' vessels carrying war munitions. [ Prof. Guthrie of New York Colleg' said England is not blockading Ger | many because of submarine an' mines and had, therefore establishes the "unheard of illegalized presen blockade" He added that for 10 years England had laid down tn naval law n the world.
 Prof. Theodore P. Ion of Bostor asserted that no belligerent had tn
 right 10 complain if a blockade
 effective or not.
 Captain w. l.. Rodgers. U. s. N | told the society that German sub marines had succeeded in challene ing the supremacy of the Britis 7 navy.
 Charles S. Brand of New Yorl = asked whether the situation facin
 Germany had not justified the use submarine in the Lusit3nia and Su,
 sex cases.
Arizona republican., 1916-04-29
Said to Be Certain That the Jones Senate Measure Will Not Be Accepted by the House in It's Present Form
THAT IS CONCEDED
 BY ADVOCATES
Conferees on the Army h. crease Bill Are Having Trouble With the More Important Amendments Made by the Senate
TRepubIican A. p. Leased Wirel

WASHINGTON. April 2S.-TEe democratic and republican leaders of the house decided today to bring the fight over the Philippine independence bill to a head Monday. They agreed that special rule should be submit ted then providing that the measure now in such Q parliamentary status that consideration otherwise would he impossible for many weeks be taken up for debate and amended and final ly voted on before adjournment.
 Even the champions of the measure concede that there is little hope of it passing in the form it came from the senate as it was probably re- quiTed to be by President Wilson Sorae of the leaders think it's oppon- ents even may defeat the special rule thus preventing it from coming up al an in the near future.
Arizona republican., 1916-04-29
His Wild Charge That the Nomination of Louis D. Brandeis Was Being Held Up by a Republican Fill buster
SENATOR REBUKED
 BY DEMOCRATS
They Admitted That They Were Cause of the Delay; Committee Will Probably Present Unfavorable Re- port on Nomination
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WASHINGTON, April 28.-A stormy debate over the nomination of Louis D. Brandis for the supreme court broke in the senate late today and before it was over predictions were made by two members of the judi ciary committee one of them a dem ocrat, that an unfavorable report on the appointment would follow when the committee reached a vote. Discussion was precipitated when | Senator Sutherland, republican member of the committee read to the senate an interview published yesterday quoting Senator Ashurst as charging that the republican mem bers of the judiciary committee were filibustering in order to delay a vote on the nomination until after the national political conventions.
 Senator Ashurst stood steadfastly by the quoted statement during the heated argument that followed until assured by fellow democrats on the committee that there was no such filibuster. He withdrew the charge at the suggestion of Senator Bran degee after he had denounced execu- tive sessions and charged that the republicans were angered over the nomination of Mir. Brandeis because he was a champion of the masses.
 Tonight it generally was believed that the debate would serve to bring the committee to a vote on the nomination within a few days. Al though senators who took part in the discussion were members of the com mittee
 Senator Sutherland took Senator Ashurst to task both for revealing
 to newspaper men what has taken place in the judiciary committee and for saying that the republican mem
 bers were filibustering.
 Newspaper men did ask me if
 thought the republican members were filibustering against the confirmation . and I said I did" declared the Arizona senator. T said it and I would like Y to see the color of the hair of the
 man who can imprison my thoughts v r Senator Sutherland replied that if Senator Ashurst had been as faith ful in attending the committee meet g ings as the republicans and the
 other democratic senators he would . not make such remark and Senator
 Clarke of Wyoming also said the
 interview stated far from the truth
 'I am not one of those senators
 who pretend to deliberate after their
 minds are made up," continued Sen ator Ashurst. II can we'll imagine
 the consternation of republican sena :
 tors when the nomination of Mir Brandeis came to this senate. Had
 he been a man who spent his life : in steering corporations around the law, they would have been fighting 6 for his confirmation but having
 spent his life in fighting for the : people of the land, casuistry is re.
 sorted to-
 10 He added that the desperation O 70 the republicans was shown by tn, l. fact that they now were reaching ou v to take a man off the supreme cour ,a and to drag him into the mire O 10 politics in an endeavor to defea
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Arizona republican., 1916-04-29
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The situation in Dublin. where the members of the Sim Fein society undertook a raid against the govern ment last Monday, continues serious according 90 last reports. kdvlccs from Belfast are to the effec. that Liberty hall, the headquarters of the sim Fein society was captured by the military after 1t had been shelled oy a gunboat.
 Only aerial and artillery activities marked the progress of the war on the European fields but the British have met with reyerses both in fgypt and in Mesopotamia.
 In the battle near Quatia, according to reports from Constantinople, q British force of four cavalry aquaI- rons has been annihilated by the Turks who captured 300 prisoners besides inflicting heavy losses.
 London announces that an attempt to relieve the force of General Town send at Kut- El-Amara failed when l vessel loaded with supplies grounded in the Tigris river four miles east ol Kut- Fl Amara.
 constantinople claims that British
Arizona republican., 1916-04-29
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

WASHINGTON, April 2S.-Subma- rine warfare upon commerce was de- nOunced by an array of prominent jurists today before the American So- eiety on International Law. Conclud- ing a two day program of addresses on questions relating to the European war. most of the speakers earnestly favored restricting the use of the sub marine and other new war agencies to establish legal bounds and the modification of the international code in their favor.
 Prof. Jesse s. Reeves, of the Uni versity of Michigan, criticized the American position regarding the mer. chant marine
 Admitting that submarines anu mines have legitimate use in mod ern warfare, Prof Amos s. Horsey
Arizona republican., 1916-04-29
REVOLT \ bLON
 AT HUME RULE
 SAYS REDMOND
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LONDON, April 2S.-John Red mond, leader of the Irish national ists in the house of commons tonight gave the Associated Press the fol- lowing statement concerning the up rising in Dublin.
 My first feeling, of course, on hearing of this insane movement, was one of horror, discouragement. and almost despair. l asked myself whether Ireland. as so often before Tn her tragic history, was to dash the cup of liberty from her lips-was the insanity of a small section of her people again to turn all her marvel ous victories of the last few years into defeat and to send her back on the verge of her final recogni- ton as free nation into another long night of slavery incalculable suffering and a weary and uncer- tain struggling.
 For, look at the Irish position to- day. In the short space of forty years Ireland has by a constitutional movement made an almost unbroken- ly triumphant march from pauperism and slavery to prosperity and free dom. She has won back the pos session of Irish lands, she has stayed emigration, she has at last begun an era of national prosperity. Fin ally. she has succeeded in placing on the statute books the greatest charter of freedom ever offered her since the day of Grattan. Is all this to be lost2
 When war came, she made a choice which was inevitable if she was to be true to all the principles which she has held through all heI history and which she had just SC completely vindicated on her owr soil. namely the rights of small na- tions. sacred principles of nationality liberty and democracy.
 l Moreover. the nations for whicf through all her history she had fel the sympathy that comes from com mon principles and common aspira tions were trampled, as she in he time. had been trampled. under tn
 iron heel of arrogant force.
 What has Ireland's felt in the pas
 that Poland, Alsaee. Belgium am
 Serbia have not suffered at tn
 hands of Germany? and I may ad
 also that portion of the soil of Franc
 our old friend and ally, which is i the hands of Germany?
 What has been the record of Ger , many but the suppression of na tionality of freedom and of Ian guage-in short. the suppression ( all things for which. centuries Ire
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Arizona republican., 1916-04-29
Detailed Story Of Msh Rising Told TaUenty- Four Hours Later
 Brought To London By Mall
It Was Then Believed to Be Nothing More Than a Riot on An Extensive Scale; It Has Not Since Diminished
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DUBLIN, Tuesday. April 25 (via London, Apri! 2S) 16:15 p. m.-Dub- lin now has been held up for twenty four hours by a combination of mem bers of the Sim Fein society and fol- lowers of James Larkin. head of the transport workers union and widely known as q strike leader.
 There has been the same violence in the city as marked the big strike in 1913. swhich was headed by Larkin. but supplemented by the use of an armed force with military pretensions and the seizure of strategic points designed to give the disturbance the aspect of revolution.
 Lord Lieutenant of Northcliff in a proclamation today calls the move ment "insurrectionary" and declraes that it is due to foreign prompting. It is he says, somewhat small" He adds that stern measures are being taken to suppress it."
 | The revolution thus far is considered an imitation. though on a much ex- tended scale of the riot at Fort Cha hrol in Paris. which was held by po- litical rioters some fifteen years ago, and the riots in Sydney street in Lon Jon. While it is declared not to have the support of the people generally | and even IS not considered by some of the authorities a rising, the situa . | tion certainly is virtually serious and ! far beyond the dimensions of riot.
 ha 1nN , twenty%four hours and has completely Gis.ocated the life of Dublin. No shops arc open and no business is being transacted Street cars have ceased to run and the gas supply has been cut
 off The use of the telephone between the city and the suburbs has been for
 bidden by the military and the run
 ming of trains to and from the coun- try is very irregular.
 Yesterday (Monday) at midday. tht
 Sim Fein reVolutionists were assem
 bleo as if for ore of their usual pa.
 rades. They were supposed to be go
 ing out for an Easter Monday march
 Some of the rank and file even imag .ned this was their purpose.
 About coo of them. however. tool
 possession Of the general postoffice il
 Sackville street which at the time wa attended by the usual small staff O clerks. There the 800 men remaine i, Ill day and night and still hold fortf Telegraphic and postal communicable
 insofar as 1t goes through this. tn chief postoffice in Ireland, has ceased The raid was beyond the power c
 the police to deal with. Small detach
 ments of Lancers appeared on tn scene but after two or three of the torses had been shot and two or thre of the men wounded. they withdrew
 Since tken the Sim Feiners in tt postoffice have been left alone an
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Arizona republican., 1916-04-29
BETHLEHEM STEEL's PAY ROLL

SOUIH BETHLEHEM, April 2S.- The Bethlehem Steel company today announced voluntary increase of ten per cent in the wages of it's 24,000 em- ployes. This is the third ten per cent advance given the men in the last ten months and will add s170,000 to the monthly payroll of the company It was also announced that the company would spend slS,000000 on improve ments at the local plant during the year and that an aggregate of about s3S,- 00o,000 had been appropriated for ex- tensions and improvements to the various plants of the corporation.
Arizona republican., 1916-04-29
My. Gerard Guest Of Kaiser
 Why He Had Not Beem Told
 Meeting Believed Good Sigm
It is Supposed That the Elm peror Desired to Com. municate Through Him to the President His Views on the Problem
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WASHINGTON, April 28-Ambassa dor Gerard at Berlin, in advising the state department today that he had heen invited to confer with Emperor William at army headquarters said he had not been informed of the purpose of the conference. In fact, secretary Lansing said, when announcing the receipt of MT. Gerard's dispatch. no ex- planation of any kind had accompanied the invitation. |
 The belief prevails here, however, that the emperor desires to discuss the general submarine situation with MT. Gerard and possibly explain in de tail his views for the benefit of Pres iGcnt Wilson. Diplomats, especially those attached to the Teutonic embas- sies, seemed to regard the conference between the emperor and the Ameri- can ambassador as holding a certain degree of hopefulness.
 The attack by a submarine on the British merchantmen Industry" re- ported today and the placing of the crew in open boats 120 miles from shore, created an unfavorable impress sion on officials, although there were no Americans on board and therefore the United States is not directly con- cerred. Germany has admitted that it is only proper to place passengers and crews Of attacked vessels in open boats when they are near shore and the weather is good.
 Optimism regarding the ultimate outcome of the situation was apparent in government circles.
 Because of the visit of Mir Gerard to the emperor. officials seemed in- clined to believe that it would be inn possible for Germany to make reply to the American note before early next 1 week.
Arizona republican., 1916-04-29
GOVERNMENTS WAGE
 SCALE REJECTED
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SEWARD, Alaska, April 2S-The Anchorage Labor union rejected today the wage scale offered by the federal arbitration board endeayoring to set tle the strike among workmen on the governments railroad in Alaska. The strike began February F. The com mittee offered: For common labor, AZ 3-S cents an hour or $350 a day of eight hours; for longshoremen, 56 IA cents ar hour, or S4.50 a day; for car penters. marchinists and other skilled workmen. 70 cents an hour
 According to railroad officials the American workmen at Anchorage were satisfied with the scale but the foreign clement comprising a majority of the common laborers dominated the meet ings of the union yesterday and stood out for a minimum of fifty cents ar
 nour for common labor.
Arizona republican., 1916-04-29
CONFESSION OF MURDER IRenuhlican A Q aacad MLira1

CHICAGO, April 2s.-Edgar Hettin- ger, 19 years old. confessed today to the murder of Mrs. Agnes Middleton. fl years old, according to the police. Het- ti1ger is alleged to have admitted that ne killed the woman the night of April f, in her flat. first striking her on the head with a hammer and then slash ing her throat with a razor. Robbery was the motive
Arizona republican., 1916-04-29
THROWING TROOPS ACROSS LINZ
 IN ANTICIPATION OF CONFERENCE

were being concentrated near Guer- rero.
 The ostensible purpose of this government was given as the pre- vention of the combination of ad- herents of the several Mexican fac tions in the section against the Americans Military authorities here however, seemed satisfied that Gen. eral Pershing's command is amply able to care for itself in even the remotest possibly which might be developed
Arizona republican., 1916-04-29
The Army Increase Bill

WASHINGTON, April 2s. Con ferees on the army reorganization bill reached definite agreements today on many minor differences between the house and senate bills. but made no progress on the three big points at issue--the size Of the regular army the federal volunteer army. and the government nitrate plant.
Arizona republican., 1916-04-29
COTTON WORKERS WAGES
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PROVIDENCE, F. l., April 2S.-An advance of ter percent in the wages of 6,o00 operatives in cotton mills con- trolled by B. B. and P Knight. in this state, was announced today.
Arizona republican., 1916-04-29

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-26
ROLL UP YOUR
Shirt Sleeves

Nonpartisanship will sink or survive
by just the amount of help Seattle men
and women will give it the next two days.
If you have any red blood in you-you
will fight to the last ditch.
Already, all the crooks and grafters in
politics, the cheap political ward heelers,
those who make the public treasury their
private loot, are smrking and snickering
in glee because they think they have
smothered nonpartisanship.
Are you content with that!
Chief Registration Clerk Gaines makes
it possible to continue the campaign for
signatures up to p. m. Thursday Don't
give up the ship! Let us fight TO the last
minute!
Seattle has furnished l4,000 signatures,
as many as the rest of the state put to-
gether, and then some. But Seattle can
furnish quite as many more names. The
petitions are still shy from 1000 to 10000
names. .....
1t is the city's greatest opportunity to
render the state It's most valuable political
service. Seattle can free it from party
slavery. Seattle can make the state set the
example for the whole Union, the example
that merit, and not party bunk, should
guide us in the election of public officials.
Isn't that worth an hour of your
time today? And tomorrow? And
Thursday?
In an hour, you can get 20 signatures
to the Nonpartisan petition. And 500
volunteers can get 10000 signatures. That
would be enough to make Nonpartisan-
shin absolutely certain
Get busy men and women of Seattle.
Nonpartisanship headquarters is at 3l07
Arcade building. The telephone number
is Elliott 42S5.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-26
KAISER SENDS HIS
TERMS UNDER SEAL

or the court. as to this report. or as
to the official view on the peace
suggestions contained in President
Wilson's note II was apparent, how
ever, that officialdom is puzzled by
the American suggestion. consider
ing there Is some diplomatic secret
behind It.
The Italian press today continued
its speculation concerning Wilson'S
step. and found countless possible
motives as impelling Il. These
range all the way from belief that
II was inspired by "Secretar Lam
sings pro-Germanism," down to the
possibility of this being the first
step In America entering the war.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-26

he text of the note reads:
"The high-minded suggestions made by
the president of the United States of America
in order to create a basis for the establish
ment of lasting peace have been received and
considered by the imperial government in the
friendly spirit which was expressed in the
presidents communication.
"The president points out that which he
has at heart and leaves open the choice of
the road.
"To the imperial government the imme-
diate exchange of views seems the most ap-
propriate road in order to reach the desired
results. 1t therefore begs, in the sense Of its
declaration made on December IL, which of
fered its hand for peace negotiations, to pro-
pose immediate meeting of delegates of the
belligerent states at a neutral place.
The text as transmitted over Sayville
wireless by the official press bureau in Ber-
lin does not contain any peace terms.
Whether this is the entire text of the note
was not made clear in the wireless message.
"Also the imperial government is of the
opinion that the great work of prevention Of
future wars can be begun only after the end
of the present struggle of nations.
"It will (namely, the German govern
ment wilD, when this moment shall have
come, be ready with pleasure to collaborate
entirely with the United States at this exalt-
ed task"
The answer finishes with the usual terms
of international politeness.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-26
HOME RULE BILL
LOOKS GOOD TO
CITY OFFICIALS

Mayor '3ill and the city council.
men. II appears Tuesday, will take
off their coats and work for the
home rule amendment to the state
constitution urged by Corporation
Counsel Caldwell In his annual re-
port.
The amendment which would
take control OF city utility fran.
chises out OF the hands OF the pub
lie service corporation and place
complete control with all cities of
10000 population or more. reached
the mayors desk Tuesday.
II cant gee why anybody would
not step out for home rule" said
the mayor. $50 long as II doesn't
affect enforcement OF the dry law
and other criminal statutes"
Councilmen Robert Hesketh and
VIII Hanna both came out In favor
OF Caldwell's proposed amendment
Tuesday.
Mayor GIL said the small com.
munity state Legislators would
probably oppose the measure.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-26
REPLY EvADES US.
Demand FOR TERMS

This official declared he is OF the
opinion tina. the proposals would
be unsatisfactory to the entente
allies Insofar as hope OF arranging
a peace conference at this time Is
concerned"
He expressed the view that the
allies would not consent TO a peace
meeting based on any such answer
as was given In the brief reply.
He held that Germany had di.
rectly lodged the request OF the n.
s. for something specific In the
way OF peace terms.
The German answer SQUARED
with Amb issador Bernstorfrs state
ment that Germany Is willing 10
state her terms at round table
session.
Preliminary examination indlcat-
ed that the entente allies will be
unwilling TO join such a session un.
less they can get something more
definite on which to operate.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-26
BRITISH FEEL
j. s. MAY WIN
ALLIES SOON
BY Ed l.. KEEN
U, p, staff Correspondent


LONDON, Dec. 2e.--British
hostility toward President VII
CON appeared 70 have been con-
sloerably moiiified today. The
change was attributable TO the
latest interpretations OF the mo
tives which impeiled dispatch
of the American note.
London now regards II as hav'
Ing been sent with the main pur
pose OF forcing Germany 10 state
her terms End TO carry the implica
tion that unless these terms are
satisfactory" America may enter
the war on the side Of the allies.
There was. however. consider
able continued criticism OF what
was termed the presidents obscur.
lty and ''infelicity" OF language
and his apparent reversal Of prin'
ciples since May 81. when he stat.
ed that America was not concern.
ed with the causes and objects OF
the war.
The declaration in the Swiss
statement that the Swiss govern.
ment was in touch" with Presi.
dent Wilson five weeks ago was
regarded as conclusively disprov.
ing the almost universal initial be.
lief that the American proffer was
u mere appendix TO the German
peace note.