Semi-weekly herald., 1916-02-28
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NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-Judge Ben
Lindsey and his wife and seven other
members of the Ford Peace party
arrived here today.
CHICAGO, Feb. 24.-May wheat
dropped six cents today, and is now
down to Sl.17ia. The drop was due
largely to nervousness caused by the
German-Ameiican negotiations.
LINCOLN Neb., Feb. 2I.-Un.
known persons attempted to blow up
the state capitol last night. The
janitor reported the discovery of
big bomb partly exploded after a fire
had been started in a fresh inciner-
ator. The bomb scattered the flames
but the janitor succeeded in putting
out the fire before it had done any
damage.
BOSTON, Feb. 24.-All previous
records for the amount of wool hand
led in this country were broken in
1915, according to the textile rec
ords just compiled here and when
the final statistics become available
1t probably will be shown that Bos-
ton has superseded London as the
worlds darkest single wool market
London seldom sells more than a mil
lion bales annually, or not much in
aXsess Of 350,000,00O pounds, and the
corrected figures for 1915 probably
will disclose a smaller amount. I'm
ports to the United States based up
on quantities, aggregated BAG, 0,510,022
pound and tho the final government
import statistics may modify this !
somewhat, they are close. Added to
the domestic clip for the season they
give grand total of more than 6O0,-
OOO,0O0 pounds. The figures demon
strating Boston's Importance as
wool mart are based upon statistics
or receipts compiled by the Boston
chamber of commerce The total
figre is 393,000,000 pounds. which
represents Bostons wool sales for
the year. This is in excess of the
quantity Of wool handled by any 9th
er city,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. %
Champ Clark and Representatives
Flood and Kitchen conferred with the
president for nearly an hour this
morning prior to a cabinet meeting
The president emphatically told them
he would not bulge from his posi-
tion of insisting that Germany recog-
nize every right of American citi-
zen:
Others are reported to have been
just as emphatically told that the
White house overwhelmingly favor
ed the forbidding Of Americans to sail
on armed merchantmen.
The representatives have prom
ised that the house will not act on
the matter today.
Neither side has changed the con-
victions of the other. Clark and
Flood said they had heard an un-
confirmed rumor that Germany might
postpone the decree.
Nlaih Saiu Tie tItire SITUATION WAS
summed up in the letter sent by Stone
to the president and the reply he re-
ceived.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 25.-
Excitement ragged in every depart
ment of the government, caused by
the struggle of the conflicting forces
who fought over the policy that this
country should adopt toward Ger
many. The cabinet held two-hour
session, and declared that it would
unanimously support the president.
1t was resolved not to close the
Lusitania incident while the new sub
marine campaign is threatening to
invalidate the previous promises.
Immediately upon the meeting of
the senate Senators Jones and Gore
introduced resolutions forbidding the
travelling of Americans on armed
merchantmen and requesting the
president not to sever relations with
Germany or any country or to place
the United States in a position where
it could not avoid war with honor
Both resolutions were tabled.
Bryan telegraphed his friends, en-
dorsing the warning to keep off the
armed ships.
A compromise movement has de-
veloped. This proposes the passage
of resolution prescribing the max
imum calibre of defensive armament
permitted on merchantmen, and warn
ing Americans to keep off all ships
carrying arms larger than this.
Officials are greatly in doubt as to
whether Germany will postpone her
new campaign.
The president has expressed his dis
pleasure at the publicity given the
differences between himself and con-