Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-10-05
NEWS REVIEW OF
The PAST week
House May Decide to Investigate
Bernstorff's Plot to lnflu-
ence Congress.
FIVE NAMED BY TOM HEFLIN
Bulgaria Ready to Quit War-eer-
manys Conditional Offer to Evacu-
ate 5eIgiun-LansIna's Expos
ures Well TImed-Halg Makes
Further Advances In Flanders.
By EDWARD w. PIcKARD.

BY EDWARD w. PICKARD.
The house Of representatives may
determine to investigate itself, or rath-
er the action OF certain of Its men,
bers, as result Of the disclosure of
the Bernstorff plot to influence con-
gress and keep the country from en-
tering the war, by the expenditure Of
$4,000 through some organization.
Representative Tom Heflln of Ala
bama precipltated the inquiry by stat
ing in the house that he knew of some
congressman whose actions were sus-
picious. Called before the rules com
mlttee, he named Senator La Fol-
lette, Representative at Large w. e.
Mason of Illinois, Representatives
Fred A. Britten of Illinois, and Pat
rick ID. Norton and John M. Baer of
North Dakota. He did not accuse
anyone of receiving German money,
but deman7ed that the activities Of
these FIVE men be Investigated.
Bulgaria Wants to Quit.
Bulgaria, having attained the ends
for which she entered the war-the
recovery of DobrudJa, Macedonia, and
parts OF Serbia that were taken from
her In the Balkan war-is ready to
quit lighting If permitted to retain her
conquests. So says Stephan Pan
aretoff, Bulgarian minister to the
United States. His country, he adds,
has no interest in Germany's ambi-
ton to establish q Mlttel Europa, and
would have preferred to enter the war
on the side Of the allies, had their
promises been as unconditional as
those Of the kaiser.
Austria-Hungary, according to ad-
vices received In Washington, Is rap
idly nearing collapse, and the Ger
man war party realizes that peace, II
It is to be Of the German brand, must
be procured within six months or be-
fore America gets fully into action.
There is great distress throughout the
realm of Emperor Charles and his peo-
pie would gladly stop fighting provid-
ed they do not have to yield too much
to Italy.
Germany Offers Belgian Bargain.
The replies of Germany and Austria
to the pope's peace proposals, filled
with high sounding phrases and hypo
crisy, were virtually ignored by the al
lied governments and condemned as
evasive and insincere by the press
Therefore the kaiser came forward
with an addendum, verbally expressed
to the papal nuncio at Munich by For
eign Secretary Kuehlman, in which h
agreed to evacuate Belgium In ordel
to gain peace. But the offer was hedget
about by conditions that made all tn
non-Teutonic world laugh. He de
mnnded that Germany have the righ
to develop her economic enterprise
freely in Belgium, especially in Ant
werp; that Belgium give a guarant
that "any such menace as that whic
threatened Germany in 1914 would Il
future be excluded" that Belgium ur
dertake to maintain the administratlv
separation Of the Flanders and Wa
loon districts introduced by Germany
and not enter into any commercis
treaties aimed at Germany. In r.
turn Germany offers graciously to col
tribute n share of the compensation
be paid to the little nation she ha
ravished.
The new German party organize
by Admiral Won Tirpitz and others ne
now In Office got into action last wee