Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-04-08
Primary Bond Issue Will
Call for $4,000, 100000 to
Cover the First Needs of
the United States and Her
Allies.
COUNTRY is RAPIDLY
OUTLINING IT'S PLANS
Criticism of Congress for
Adjourning Over Sunday
Heard at the Capital-All
Departments of Govern
ment Working Day and
Night.

Washington, April Preliminary
plans for American allied war coop
GRAFTON, and shaping of congress acts
on raising money and men, were the
two potent domestic developments to-
day in TIE drive for victory against
Germany.
Five billion dollars TO cover the first
needs of America and her allies, will
be raised in the primary bond issue, it
was officially announced tonight, at
the close of day of deciding finance
matters.
Other bonds will be issued as needed,
thought the idea still is to make the
war as much "pay-as- you-go" as is
possible.
Congress itself was not in session.
WAR DEVELOPMENTS.
War at arms seeped in through the
navy department. Tales of raiders
streaking along the Atlantic to harass
commerce gave the navy its first thrill
though tonight these stories had not
been verified.
Fast on the heels of these stories
came the news of how the German
crew of the informed cruiser Cormo-
rant, at Guam, had blasted their YES
sci, rather than surrender it to Amer
lean hands, how some of the Ger
mans had sacrificed their lives, and
how the others had been imprisoned.
While conferences about money
and men proceeded and while allied rep
Notwithstanding America in
TO the war-talked cooperative plans,
the navy itself stopped up possible
wireless leaks by taking into it's own
hands all the commercial stations.
Meanwhile the department of JUS
tice and the secret service cont nued
its hunt for German plotters.
GREETINGS TO RUSSIA.
The diplomatic branch of the gov
eminent tool. the important step of
sending Russian greetings, bespeaking
a steadfastness and internal concord"
that would see the war through to a
successful finish-a finish that could
by no chance see Russia separated
from the other great democracies by
a separate peace.
The diplomatic branch. too, waited
upon word from Austria about the
breach in relations reported ordered
by the Viennese government. The gen
eral view here was that the report
was quite likely, though official COM
ment was withheld.
HUGE WAR BUDGET.
At the capitol, while the nations leg
islators We're absent, two solemn
groups of men with great purposes,
discussed the immediate problems be-
fore the nation.
Secretary Of the Treasury McAdoo
discussed the great war budget" of
about OO,O0O,OOO and the problem
of loaning a huge sum-from $4,000
900, 900 to $5,O)0,OO0,O0O to the allies.
In another branch of the congress
structure, Secretary of War Baker and
q group of his advisers counselled with
the house military committee as to the
hundreds of thousands of youths need
ed to wage courageous and success
full war. Baker asked that the bill in
clude the drafting of technical corps
automobile engineers, mechanics, and
others.
There was some talk tonight about
congress recess to Monday-tallI that
the legislators ought to have damned
the war bills through, and that the
house and senate ought to have passed
them by reclamation today.