Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-04-27
news REVIEW OF
THE PAST week
War Councils With Leaders Of the
Allies Are Opened in Wash
ington.
FIGHT OVER CONsCRIPTION
Dents Committee Rejects Presidents
Plan-Enemy Submarine Report
ed Near New York--Nivelle
smashes German Lines
Between Reitns and
Scissors. a..r
eY EpWARp W. PIcKARo.

For America at war the outstand-
Ing event of the past week was the
opening OF the great allied war coun-
ellis in Washington. Headed by such
eminent men as British Foreign Min
lister Balfour and Rene Viviani, former
premier Of France, the commissions
from England and France arrived In
the national capital, we're installed in
fine residences and at once began the
series Of conferences with the heads
of the American government and Of
Its armed forces.
In order to insure the safety of the
commissioners, the government quite
properly suppressed all news of their
movements; and 1t is In no hurry to
tell what transpires at the conferences.
II is safe to say. however, that the re-
suits Of the meetings will be moment
GUS. .f
Congress provided enough sinews of
war for the present by passing the
bill for the issuance of $7,OO0000,O0
Of which $3,OO0,OO00O0 is to be lent to
the allies. There was not a single op-
posing vote In either house or senate.
Congress also appropriated 100000
600 as an emergency war fund to be put
at the disposal of the president.
conserlptlon still In Doubt.
President Wilson continued through
out the week HIS strenuous fight for
selective cOnscripton. but arguments
and threats were alike vain so far as
the house military committee was con-
cerned. The committee rejected. 13 to
8 the administration provision, and
then adopted an amendment offered by
Chairman Dent providing that the
president should call for 100000 volun-
teers under the existing volunteer act,
and should apply conscription only
when he decides that such additional
forces cannot be effectually raised and
maintained under the call for volun-
teers." The house agreed to take up
the army bill on Monday.
In the senate committee the presi.
dent fared better, for the administra-
tion bill with the selective conscrip.
tion feature was accepted by a vote OF
10 to 7. II is the hope of the admin
istration thpt the senate will pass this
bill before the house acts.
Impressed by the strength of the op
position to his conscription plan, es
pecially In the ranks of the Democrat
ic party, the president on Thursda,
issued an appeal to the public to sup
port his proposition.
Administration leaders protest tina
the advocates of the volunteer system
have spread the idea that under tn,
conscription plan there is no room TO
the volunteer system, whereas tn
presidents plan leaves the way opel
for 100000 volunteers to serve for tn
duration of the war only.
At the beginning Of the week Pres
ident Wilson issued a remarkable proc
lamatiOn to the nation, calling on a
the people to give to it, in their rt
spective capacities, their united, fu
service for the successful prosecutio
OF the war. Such call was doubtles
needed to arouse individuals, but r,
cent events show that the industrie
of the country already are completed
organized and proceeding to carry OF
the plans outlined by the council {
national defense. The work done an
being done by that body Of patriot
men is revealed as most comprehel
sive and complete, and when it
known in It's entirety will astonlsh Il
people Of America.
U-6oats In American Waters7
Are there any German U-boats
American waters7 Berlin says "n