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Historic Fight in Senate and House
Ends In Victory for the President
at Late Hour Last Night.
DIFFERENCES TO BE
SETTLED
Measure as Desired
ment Passed Both
gress Shortly Before Midnight Dis
agreement as to
(By United Press.)
Washington April 28. Departing
from a traditional policy framed at its
inception, the Republic will raise its
army of 2,000,000 by selective conscrip
tion. The draft army bill Dassed both
House and Senate shortly before mid
night; the House by 397 to 24 and the
Senate by 81 to 8.
The final vote came after an epochal
session during which the volunteer
system advocates fought fiercely
against the overwhelming current for
the draft and died still struggling.
senators voting against the bill
ere: Borah, George, Gronna, Hard-
J-ick, Kirby, La Follette, Thomas and
irammell.
Joint conferences next week must
spttle differences between the two
Erasures.
The Senafp hill will aiitVinTMao tho
Koosevelf. division, which the House
overwhelmingly rejected.
me senate voted the armv and con-
ff Su dry whicn was thrown out in
iflp House on a point of order.
lrlC benale wants to Hraft mon tio-
Jeen 21 and 27; the House between
"1 and 40.
Other minnr j;frn.nnnnn nn.in,'n;lrn
i UHLCiUIILCO pel UllUlSg
io exernntifina i.-i, ,.,;n
l ' aim iiivt; niu axou
na;;e to be smoothed out.
u IS believed thpro ic nnthirur in.
nipatiblo, however, in the two -bills
pi? aSreement is expected by the
K'tc-hin. I)roo(.- T t
Rank
111 and others who earlier in the
j-n.orui.oi.ivc jcauuciic
dav
striking out the volunteer fea
, - lined up solidly for the bill in
Donfn i reCOrd vote- f the 24
Hnn s there were no national figures.
thaS. ,e. Prhibitionists maintained
inehv ,0 the bitter end attempt
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no rule and then other to force
toncurr
Just
'H'enrp in tV o i j j.;
Tiic . Lllc ociiate ury auuuu.
adopted
voting,
the Senate
.Stn;. " iiuenament
j T-i i
e GmnhaaiTiMv l j. i-i j js.
onlv t k """6 mai me araii was
tnt" .a be employed during the pres
sor k Another amendment, by Sen
Ameritny0n' raiSed the Pay or the
iDg the war Wier frm $15 t0 $3 dUr"
mediately after the vote the Sen
to rcfpes"ed fnr 30 minutes in order
a committee HUSe espionage biU ot
Theeallar.i, ....
vr
X-
vr
0ut the i . crowaed tnrougn
night's debate. But there was
Only
- ml shtly "utter when the his-
iori
The Jsseo-tk-aiiv
tntflre Senate debate was prac-
ception nf t Utsensation' with the ex
close f La Foette's flare up at the
up any
"I1T rnl T -UJJ.ctlJ.lULH.
''I ohS.Uette shouted
unanimous con-
asked
hen Senator Martin
esionaer hni 8 cousent to bring the
UnfmishS ? .so that u coull be the
atr LaPnn ! 6 vote was take Sen
1,3(1 an a "! tlf' rose stating that he
SubstitutaS, dment in the frm of a
wtion for the administration
Smash Enetn
ARM
SHORTLY
By War Depart
Branches of Con
Age.
bill. It was then ten minutes of
twelve and Vice President Marshall
held that under the unanimous agree
ment rule there was insufficient time
for LaFollette to discuss his amend
ment. Flashing angrily LaFolletts
then said in a loud voice:
"Well I'll tell you right now that it
will be a long time before there is an
other unanimous consent rule in this
Senate."
Vice President Marshall replied
merely that he was not responsible
for the unanimous consent rule and
the roll was called.
Senator Vardaman, of Mississippi,
who has opposed wjar asked that he
be excused in the voting.
In ,the House, 8 Republicans, 14
Democrats and London. New York
Socialist, and Randall, California, Pro
hibitionist, voted against the bill.
, The others voting against were:
Bacon, Michigan; Burnett, Alabama;
Church, California; Clark, Florida;
Claypool, Ohio; Dill, Washington;
Dominick, South Carolina; Gordon,
Ohio; Haynes, California; Hilliard,
Colorado; Huddleston, Alabama;
Keating,' Colorado; King, Illinois; La
Follette, Washington; Lundeen, Min
nesota; Mason, Illinois; Nolan, Califor
nia; Powers, Kentucky; Sears. Flor
ida; Sherwood, Ohio; Sisson, Missis
sippi. " 1
Of the 24, four were Californians.
The House army bill was reported
and referred to the Senate military
committee. Senator Chamberlain re
ported the bill back immediately and
moved to strike out all after the pre
liminary enacting clause and insert
the Senate bill. That puts the bill on
the calendar and it will be up Mon
day. It will then be sent to confer
ence where it will be smoothed out and
finally passed.
The bill then will be ready for Presi
dent Wilson's signature.
At 12:34 the Senate adjourned until
noon Monday.
LODZ AND WARSAW RIOTS.
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(By United Press.)
Zurich, April 29 (Sunday).
Serious strikes were reported at
Warsaw and Lodz, In information
received tonight from Germany.
The German military autnoritles
arrested a number of Socialists.
The strikes affected the railway
shops.
i
CARRANZA SOLDIERS
KILLED IN WRECK.
(By United Press.)
El Paso, Texas, April 28. Two hun-
rpnnrt-
J A r.-nirr t-n tl WTOfV Of ft. 1
troop trdin which was dynamited near I
Guzman, eight miles soutn or me Bor
der, by Villistas, commanded by Sala
sar. The reports of the number
killed, however, are unconfirmed, -and
government officials here believe the
figures are exaggerated.
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First American
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To the steamship Mongolia, of th
first American ship of any kind to s
steamship company after word had be
British port. The Mongolia is one o
WITH SUB-MEN
BRITISH
r
IR DEPARTMENT
PREPARED ISSUE
Half Million Men Will Be
Summoned to Colors About
September 1st
GOVERNMENT READY
FOR PROMPT ACTION
When Assured Selective Draft
Bill Would Pass Steps
Taken Many Amend
ments Defeated.
(By United Press.)
Washington. April 28. While Con
T FIRS I
gress was tonight talking its way clo-' miles northeast of Arras. All of Ar
ser to the inevitable the writing of leaux, a mile further north of Oppy,
a selective conscription statute on the had been taken.
books the War Department, finally
assured that the House and Senate
would authorize the President to raise
the Nation's 2,000,000 army as he sees
fit, announced officially that the first
half million men would be called to
the colors about September 1, next.
Should the war last another year,
two out of every five of America's
able-bodied men will be called out.
The Senate decided on age limits of
21 to 27, inclusive. The House voted
for conscripting men between the
ages of 21 to 40, inclusive. Agreement i
to be reached in conference commit
tee next week probably will set some
average betwen the two.
The war machine will begin formation-
in embryo with voluntary regis
tration of men eligible. Slackers will
hp srone after later. Of the more
than 7,000,000 who will register be-'J
tween 600.000 and 800,000 will be
drawn by the jury wheel system.
After physical, industrial and other
exemptions are allowed it is expect
ed 500,000 will remain. These will
be placed immediately in training.
Equipment is expected to be ready
for them at once.
In connection with equipment, the
department announced the second
million men raised will be provided
with the British Enfield rifles. Simul
taneously it was announced the gov
ernment is constructing two new for
eign types of field piece, both far
larger than the present big six-inch
weapon.
The congressional battle today was
fiercely fought. Prohibition for the
army, Congress, all executive depart
ments of the government; the Roose
velt division idea; 'eligibility; age
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y Kaiser May Seek Peace
Merchant Ship
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e Atlantic Transport Line, belongs t
ink a German submarine. Announce
en received from England following
f the largest American freighters a
'E
A
t
First of the Famed Hinden
i burgs Defense Lines Has
Been Turned.
ENTENTE TROOPS GET
NEARER TO LENS
In Massed Attacks Teutons,
Sacrifice Enormous Num
bers Desperation of Fight
ing Equals Any of The War. i
Artillery Thunders Forth !
Death and Destruction.
!
(By United Press.)
London, April 28.-In fighting that
ior intensity and desperation equalled!
any of the conflicts of two and a half'
j cai o ui liiu .gi uat waij i iiu J-i i Lion
forces tonight had apparently turned !
the first of Germany's great defense
lines of the famous "Hindenburg
front." Part of Oppy, the pivotal
point of this defense sector, was in
British hands. The town lies six
Both cities are supposed to consti
tute the northernmost points of the
"Wotan line," running southward
down through Hamblain, Eterpigny,
L'Esperance to Pronyille.
Both positions tonight are canters'
for German counter-attacks that for
sheer violence surpassed any recent
fighting on the western front, even in-
eluding the bloody engagements of;
Vimy Ridge. The Britisn uirust is
toward Douai, northern pivot point of
the Hindenburg line. To stop it Field ,
Marshal Hindenburg is recklessly
throwing thousands of his gray-clad
troopers in massed attack. . EJvery
word from, the front tonight empha
sized the enormous total of the Ger
man losses and this in the face of
the continued counter-attacks.
Haig's resumption of a grand of fen
sive movement today , was almost un-
expected by military experts here. It
had been estimated he would drive
steadily against the Germans at vari
ous points. Keeping them busy all
along the line, the French forces
which achieved such brilliant gains
last week would be freed from any
violent German counter-attacks and
have leisure in which to consolidate
the newly-won ground.
But today's "-'h offensive was
on a tremendous scale. The blow
was struck over a front of several
miles width. Moreover, it was de
clared to the accompaniment of con
centrated artillery drum fire that dis
patches indicated had spread death
along almost, the entire British front
of forty-odd miles. It was a titanic
drive at the very spot where, no later
than Friday, front dispatches had in
dicated a seeming deadlock between j
vast forces on both sides. J
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To Sink A Sub.
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he signal honor of having been the
ment is made by the officials of the
the Mongolia's arrival at an unnamed
float.
FURY
MORE
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B N
ii t x& ii in i w- ii i
THREE TAR HEELS
VOTED AGAINST
THE ARMY BILL
.
Bu Other Congressmen From
Noh Carolina Stood By
1 he Selective Draft.
CONFEDERATE CHIEF
FOI IND TO RF FOR FT
rVJKJlVU IKJ DC rKJEK 11
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iwFiCBCihoiivc l"lo vv At"
The President Congress
man Godwin Also Voted
With Him.
(By Georg H. Manning.)
Washington, D. C, April 28. Con
gressmen Weaver, Godwin, Small,
Stedman, Webb and Robinson, of
North Carolina, voted for the selec
tive draft bill to raise the war army,
when that measure was passed in the
House by a large majority late to
night, and Congressmen Pou, Hood
and Dough ton voted against it.
The vote against it was for the com
mittee bill providing for raising
5,000,000 men by volunteers before
conscription is resorted to, and this
was the plan Hood, Pou and Doughton
favored.
In the Senate, Simmons and Over
man voted for the selective draft. This
is the plan so insistently and earnest
ly urged by President Wilson and rec
ommended by all the heads of the
War Department and the military ex
perts of all the countries at war.
"I voted for the. selective draft
plan because 1 believe it the most
efficient way to win this war,'" said
Congressman Zebulon Weaver, the
new Congressman from the Asheville
district.
"The first few weeks of my service
in Congress have brought me to the
consideration of some of the gravest
and most far-reaching questions that
have confronted Congress in half a
century.
"Whether or not all agree with
Congress in declaring war, it does ex
ist, and we must prosecute it with
an army greater than any this Nation
has ever known. A system is neces
sary not only to raise an efficient
army, and raise it promptly, but to
preserve and mobilize our industries
and maintain our armies in-the field.
"The selective draft merely recog
nizes every man as a volunteer and
calls on him to serve where he is
most fitted.
It is not conscription in tne odious
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1 ssasswftflkt!
UM BESET
ON EVERY HAND
WITH TROUBLE
Unless Russia Yields Germany
May Be Forced to Sue
For Peace
INTERN AL DISCORD
GROWS STEADILY 1
'Submarine Campaign Not
. r o f..i r
Proving Successful Re
verses in West Have De
pressing Effect.
(Bv United Press )
Copenhagen, April 28. Unless Ger-
many succeeds in enticing Russia in
to a separate peace in the immediate
future, she will strenuously resume
her efforts for a general peace. More
over, this time she will seek to coax
peace on her own terms but with a
great show of concessions from her
previous position.
This information came tonight from
an exceedingly well informed diplo
matic source.
From the same authority it was like
wise learned that Germany and Au
stria at the present moment are se
cretly mapping out the exact form of
the peace blandishments they will of
fer. Austria, more sincere than Ger
many in desiring peace, because of
J neater unrest in the dual monarchy,
jig urgmg abandonment of all occupied
territory for the sake of immediate
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;peace.
Emperor Karl faces a near condition
of anarchy in his kingdom. Success of
the Russian revolutionists has affect
ed his Slav subjects.
,Turkey, too, is said to be pressing
for peace, her troops being thrown
back in disaster after disaster in Mes
opotomia and Palestine. Talaat Bey,
grand vizier, is now in Berlin on some
mission.
In Germany itself there is vast dis
quiet among the people. Word has
reached there that the food situation
has now reached a climax.
The government in many cases has
found it was impossible to place re
liance on the army in punishing strik
ers or putting down food demonstra
tions. It was this sort of spirit in the
Russian government that made the
Russian revolution possible.
The tremenfous losses which Ger
many has suffered has undoubtedly af
fected the morala of her troops. It
was pointed out tonight that the re
cent record-breaking captures of Ger
man troops in the Franco-British drive
are a plain indication that the soldiers
are surrendering instead of fighting to
the death as they formerly did.
Although still professing complete
confidence in the submarine warfare,
diplomatic sources were authority for
information that many German officials
were privately expressing doubt of
achieving England's starvation, now
that America's vast resources will be
turned to defeat the submarine block
ade. ,
SON OF SEC. DANIELS
HAS JOINED NAVY
(By United Press.)
Washington, April 28. Josephus
Daniels, Jr., son of the Secretary of
the Navy, today set an example for the
youths of th country when he en
listed as a private in the Marine Corps,
passing up the opportunity of a com
mission. He was accepted as, a pri
vate, class four: and will report to the
inuume uuu . "
slight visional defect was waived.
m
Gigantic Undertaking Before
International Conference
Assembled at Capital.
SYSTEMATIC PLANS
BEING WORKED OUT1
This Nation The Leader in The
Great Combination Against
German Militarism Feed-'
ing The Almost Famine
Stricken People Her Great
est Work.
(By United Press.)
Washington, April 28.-As a result
of the first week's work of the great-
l i est war conference in history, Arner
j'Ica' tdnight had a firm grip on the
""J of toWiji tawtatbuit
' "uu6c " miu iu
European war.
The alMed parley modestly begarf
last Monday as a mere interchange
of courtesies. Then ideas as to how
the JJnited -States could help in the
crushing of Prussianism were ex-
vuaugcu. luuifiui lilt) I tHiHUCitLIUUB
fof developments so far recorded en
compass the world and reach, from,
the home of the Argentinian to the
hut of the moujik in Russia.
Liberty enlightening the world
from her block of stone in New York
harbor took on a new significance.
The situation may be summed up
by quoting an unnameable, though
supreme, authority in world politics,
who said:
"If the time ever comes that the
United States, shall enter the war of
nations it will bring an entirely new
alignment of world forces and resolve
itself into a monumental struggle for ''
the preservation of democracy and of
the occidental race."
The last seven days, in the opinion
of experts in world polities, have
marked the setting in of this trend.
Already, by the appointment in
Elihu Root as . head of the American
committee to Russia and today's
avowed intention of our European al
lies to stand behind that committee
to "prevent a separate peace with
Germany and keep alight the spark
of freedom flickering in the recent
domain of the Czar," the United States
has begun its world leadership.
The second most important phase
of the week's development which
stands out tonight is the rapidity
with which America at war is draw
ing the bonds of mutual interest close
about North and South America.
What the Pan-American union has
striven for years to do; what the com
mercial, industrial and diplomatic
forces of the Nation have sought to
effect a genuine community of In
terest between the Latins of the south
and the Anglo-Saxons of the north
is being accomplished by the war.
Allied conferees here In world par
ley, while, of course, saying nothing
officially, tbday let It be known that
they believe South America logically
and naturally will strongly align it
self with the United y States.
Every war development in South
America since the United States de
clared itself against the Teutonics
has tended to confirm this.
Brazil has severed diplomatic rela-
tions with Germany and is on the '
very brink of a declaration of war.'
Today she made diplomatic soundings
as to the possibility of financial help
from America in case of war.
The population of Argentine has
been clamoring for a break with Ger
many. ' Guatemala today severed diplo
matic relations with Prussianism and
offered all her resources to the United
States to wage war against Germany.
The feeling here in the war capital
of the world tonight is that the en-
tire trend of South American spirit
j is toward pro-North Americanism de-
mocracy. . -
This trend, world authorities de-r
clare, Inevitably involves , the . death
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