Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-02-17

al railroad antipass law.
Washington
Germany and Austria notified the
state department at Washington that
after March l they will consider all
armed merchantmen as warships and
sink them without warning.
Secretary Lansing announced at
Washington that he had sent to the
ro-Hungarian government through
Ambassador Penfield dispatch ask
ing for an investigation and an expla-
nation of the attack by an Austrian
submarine on the American taIk
steamer Petrolite. f
President Wilson told the Chamber
of Commerce of the United Stated at
Washington that America needeh
real scientific tariff board andI he
thought 1t was going to get IL; ujat it
needed real merchant marinsI and
that 1t was absolutely necessary some
beginning should be made at otce to
get that, too.
Lindley M. Garrison, secret try OF
war. and Henry Breckenridge, assist
ant secretary. rendered their }esigna-
lions to President Wilson at Washing
ton, who Immediately acceI them.
Garrison's resignation waAf brought
about by the failure Of WilsoiJto sup
port the continental army plan and the
secretary of war is not in sympathy
with the Philippine bill providing for
the REIMBURSEMENT of Ameri IAN con- !.
troll of the islands. III
A cable dispatch left the bate de-
partment at Washington din Scted to
F. C. Penfleid. ambassador aiIyienna.
instructing him to demand TIL punish
ment of another submarine c3mmand-
er. This time the offense charged
against Austria is assault and robbery
committed upon an Americsh mer-
chant steamer on the high SETS. The
steamer is the tanker Petrolits,
Grave charges against khis d.
Brandeis, nominated by Presidtpt Viii,
son as Supreme court justiceA were
made in public hearing before y sub
committee of the senate at Washing
ton. Clifford Thorne. chairman of the
Iowa railroad commission. made the,
charges.
Representative King introduced in
the house at Washington a bill appro-
priating 100000 for an arms plant at
or near Quincy, H., for the manufac-
ture by the government Of firearms for
the army.
Private armor plate manufacturers
notified the senate naval committee
at Washington they would raise the
price of armor plate 5000 a ton II con-
gress decided to erect or purchase
armor-plate factories for the govern
ment. The committee voted neverthe.
less, 8 to 3, to report favorably Sen
ator Tillmans bill to authorize the ser.
rotary of the navy to provide an armor.
plate factory. The bill would appro-
pirate $11.000,000.
Naval affairs were debated in the
house at Washington for the first time
and the Naval academy increase bill
was passed by vote of IT'S to O. The
bouso a1,o outbnri,ad tha tx,,.ods.s~
use of 100000 to equip Mare Island
navy yard to begin building a dread
naught and the expenditure of $780,
900 to enlarge the facilities at the New
York yard. Speaker Clark and Repub-
lican Leader Mann took part in the.
debates. each favoring the fiaval bills.
Baron Zwiedenik. Austrian charge
d'affaires, called on Secretary Lansing
at Washington and discussed the ques-
ton of armed merchantmen. Austria
Hungary objects to vessels entering
and clearing from U. s. ports carrying
mounted guns.
Complete control and supervision OF
the affairs of Haiti by the United
States are provided for in the treaty
negotiated by the state department at
Washington following American armed
Intervention to quell the instruction
In the negro republic last fall.
The senate foreign relations com.
mittee at Washington voted unani
mously to recommend ratification OF
the treaty establishing protectorate
over the republic Of Haiti.
Mexican RevOu
Word was received at I'll Paso, Tex,
that Guy Johnson. an American min
ing man, has been slain by Mexican
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