The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-03-16

n city or W1ch1ta KANSAS, has
adopted the manager plan of city gov
eminent as authorized by a state law
enacted less than a month ago.
U~norganized laborers struck at the
plant of the Union Iron works at Ala
media, CAL, the largest shipbuilding
establishment on the Pacific coast.
Labor leaders said between 400 and
500 men were out.
The Mexican consulate general in
New York is issuing passports to
Germans at the ate of more than 100
a day.
A bill seeking to extend to women
the right to vote for presidential cleo
tors was defeated in the New Hamp-
shire house of representatives 204 to
152. A similar bill recently was de-
feated in the senate.
San B%ernardino county, California.
authorities are seeking to learn who
owns a train of twenty-four carloads
of potatoes found on a railroad siding
there with nothing to indicate the
name of the consigner or consignee.
WASHINGTON.
Lacking legal authority to estab-
fish general censorship, the admins
tration has appealed to the patriot
ism Of the country's newspapers and
cable companies to suppress informa-
ton about the movements of Ameri-
can merchant craft, now to be arm
ed against German submarines.
President Wilson from a sick bed
on March 9 ordered the arming Of
American merchant ships against
Germany's ruthless submarine war
fare, ana at the same time issued a
proclamation calling an extra session
of congress to meet April 16.
After more than 100 years under
rules permitting debate limited only
by the physical endurance of senators
and the provisions of the constitu-
ton, the senate on March s by a vote
of 76 to 3, put power in the hands
of two-thirds of it's members in the
future to limit discussion and to say
when a vote shall be taken on a
pending measure.
Secretary Lansing and Attorney
General Gregory have advised Presi-
dent Wilson that he has full authority
to arm merchant ships against illegal
attacks by German submarines.
Lack of funds will prevent the fed
eral trade commission from undertake
ing the food cost investigation order
ed by President Wilson. Congress
failed to make an appropriation.
FOREIGN.
The British government is negotiat
ing for the purchase of the entire
1917 wheat crop of Canada, it is an
nounced.
Fifty-nine Americans taken from
vessels sunk by the German raider il
the south Atlantic and brought t.
Swinemuende on January 1 on boar
the captured British steamer Yarrow
dale were released from q%uarantin
March 9 and left for the Swiss froI
tier.
Bitter fighting has taken place
Champagne, with the French will
standing German attacks and takin
further trenches, says the lateS
French official communication.
Count Zeppelin is dead, accordin
to a dispatch from Berlin received b
Reuters Telegram company. Coun
Ferdinand Zeppelin became famous a
the age of 20 as the builder of tn
worlds first practical dirigible ba
loon.
The Canadian cabinet council ha
decided not to place an embargo OF
cation has shown that in excess o
domestic requirements there are L
500, 900 bushels of potatoes in the dc
minion.
A memorial service for Mrs. Mar.
Hoy and her daughter Miss Elizabetl
Hoy of Chicago, who lost their live
by the sinking of the British steame'
Laconia by a German submarine, wal
held in London, March 8.
George w. Guthrie, American am
bassador to Japan since 1918, dieC
suddenly of apoplexy on March 8 a
Toxic.
The Russian foreign office hai
transmitted to Germany, Austria, Bull
garia and Turkey a lengthy protes
against alleged violations of usage
of warfare, attaching citations of nu
merous specified instances and as
serting the right to retaliate in kind
The Prussian food controller ha
declared, it is asserted, that the dis
tress was such that a more sever
state of things, especially in the larg
industrial centers, could hardly b
imagined.
The presentation by the Irish ne
tionalists in the British house of con
mons on March Z of a resolution cal
ing for the immediate application c
the home rule statute to Ireland pre-
cipitated one Of the most bitter SCI
sions in months and threw the HON
rule question back into it's old pos
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