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10 Pages Today i -v- i Ji Aiy I. ONE SECTION r,i. TOt,. XC TTTZ'-'XO. 108 ALLIES ABANDON ALL REMAINING tKUNT IN Complete Evacuation of ifhe Peninsula Carried . Out v Without Single Loss. J PANG TO BRITISH PUBLIC British Battleship King Edward VII Blown Up by a Mine Crew is Rescued. Germans Claim Recapture of Positions in the Vosges. London, Jan. 9. - The. remain ing positions held by the Allies of Gallipoli peninsula have now been abandoned with the wounding of only one man among the British and French, according to a Brit ish official statement - jssued to night. This news has been expect ed for several days by the keener observers "of the Near Eastern campaign, for the retirement of troops from Anzac and .Suvla Bay three weeks ago left no strategic advantage to, the retention of.. the tip of the peninsula. Neverthe less, the news will be received with a pang of regret by the. people of the British Isles, as well as the col onies. -'- 3 '- Turks Reseir Activity. I . Renewed activity of various fkinds, noted by the Turkish official communi cation in the past few-days, has pre sumably been in "the nature of prep arations for the final act ol tie Dar. danelles tragedy. Tonight's Turkish ot increasmg1 effectiveness of the relnf or ced Turkish batteries, which have been drawing in and concentrating on 'the Allies' remaining positions. ' , -Another pang to the British public will be caused by t&e announcement tonight of the loss of the battleship King Edward "VTt., which has been blown up by a mine. The brief offi cial statement on this subject does not reveal the scene of the action and merely says that the disaster occur red in a heavy sea, despite-which the entire crew was saved before the ship went down. . The King Edward VII. represented an investment of nearly-51,600,000 and was one of the finest of the last class of pre-dreadnaughts, comparing in general to the American ships of the New Jersey and Nebraska type, and was only slightly older than the Natal, which was sunk by an internal ex plosion about a week ago. No Large Development On the west and east fronts there have been no developments of large importance over the week end. The German communication announces that the Germans have completed the - re capture of positions on Hartsman Well erkopf, taken by the French a few days before Christmas. y Greek correspondents ' continue to assert that the Bulgars ; an , Germans are hastening plans for an attack on Saloniki, but the Austrlans are fighting hard against the Russians and Monte negrins and the Bulgars are largely occupied in a resolute attempt-to reach the Adriatic, from which they are only 40 miles distant, at Elbassan, Albania, England's internal affairs are quiet, pending the reasBemblemeni of parlia ment. There will be a full dress de bate on the compulsion bill Tuesday with David Lloyd -George, minister; of Munitions, and Arthur Henderson, la bor member, who has just resigned from the cabinet, as the probable star speakers. Sir Henry Dalziel, who has been one of the most consistent critics of the government, also will give his reasons why he supports the govern ment on this matter. . - - r The labor party will meet early in the week to consider its position. Un less, however, opposition - to ' the bill develops a strength of which there is no indication now. there seems some small likelihood that the ' government will feel need to appeal to the coun try. . - ; ; . : TURKISH STATEMENT Effective Work of Artillery In Bom bardment of Allied. Positions . Constantinople, via London, Jan. 9. Effective work by Turkish artillery m bombarding Entente allied positions on the Gallipoli Peninsula, is reported m the Turkish official statement Issued today by the war office. The statement Bays:' - ... "On the Dardanelles front Thurs flay night there was rather brisk bomb fighting on our right and left : wings On Friday our artillery for some houra at intervals violently shelled hostile trenches to our right wrng, . causing heavy bombardment. ' In the center.our artillery and our bombs destroyed some hostile trenches and mortars. On our left wing was a feeble artillery duel. Two cruisers, a monitor and four tor-, pedo craft assisted the enemy's lana batteries. . . . . . .' ' "At two o'clock in the afternoon our shells caused an outbreak of fire in the enemy's camp near Teke ' Burnu. "On the night of Thursday our bat teries in the narrows effectively shell ed the enemy's camp near Seddul Bahr, and on Friday . the enemy's batteries (Continued on ' Page Ten.) . ,r- ; . ., . . : . - . . .. " " 4 : ; POSTS ON GALLIPOU While Exports Have Doubled in Past Six Years NO GROUNDS FOR FEAR Maauf actum .Will Not Suffer From Foreign Competition Under Low. - er Tariff the Commerce . , .Report Says. r. Washington, Jan. 9. Investigation by the i Department of Commerce has shown, according to a report made to President Wilson today, that there were i no grounds for fears ed to , Congress by " American manufac turers that a tariff reduction on knit underwear would; force them to cut wages to meet foreign competition. The1 industry In the United States now is in a prosperous condition and wages, in ; fact, , have been increased, the report declares. Dwindling import figures are offered to reflect the situ ation regarding foreign competition, while exports are shown to have dou bled within the last six years. Profits on capital in the 63 establish ments from which data was obtained averaged, the report says, nearly 9 per cent Twenty-eight factories earn ed more than ten per cenU, while eight .reported losses. , : , , Highest profits were found in the southeast. Blame for low earnings of some mills Is given to poor shop man agement, i poor selling methods, lack of .capital," antiquated machinery and poor credits. The - report says manufacturers tried to have the old tariff on knit 'goods of about sixjy' per cent. " increased to eighty Yin "1908 claiming that unless highless protected they could not hold their,' own against ; European" competi tion-, The increase , was denied and creased since and manufacturing - ca pacity has continued to, grow.-- " The manufacturers' . estimate at that time of their labor cost is said to have been too high. Instead of 65"to 75 per cent, of the total cost ' of production part is put at nearer twenty-five. . The decline in imports of. knit goods is noted -since 1909, when they were less than one per cent, of the Ameri can production today, according to the report, they are less than one-half of one per cent. What effect, if any, the war had on imports is not stated, though figures are given to show that imports declined during the first of 1914, before the war started and while the new tariff was in effect. SIX ARE ASPHYXIATED Wife of Chicago Teamster Kill Her self and Five . Children. Chicago, Jan. 9. Mrs. Christiana Maves, wife of a teamster, killed her self and her five children, ranging in age from 2 to 7 by. turning on the gas last night. Her husband suggested that her mind might have become af fected through grief over the death of her mother last summer. . v lYounestown IMPORTS OF!r GOODS DWINDLING EVACUATION OF GALLIPOU MADE WITHOUT AN Y LOSSES Withdrawal of Allies From Turkish Front Marks End of Move ment, the Success of Which Probably Would Have Had an Important Bearing on the Outcome of the War. London, Jan. 9. It is officially an nounced that the complete evacuation of the i Gallipoli . Peninsula has been successfully carried out. General Sir Charles Monro, according to the . official statement,,; reports that only one British soldier was wounded in the evacuation of the peninsula, that there were no casualties among the French, and that all the guns were saved, except seventeen ' worn out ones, which were blown up. The offi cial communication issued this evening- sayB: : ; : ; "General Sir Charles. Mbnro reports the ' complete evacuation, of Gallipoli has been successfully; carried "out-, "All the guns and Howitzers were got 'awayi with the exception of seven teen worn-out guns, which, were blown up by us before leaving. - , , - "Our casualties amounted to one member of the British rank and file, wounded. ' ' " 4 , . ' . "There were no casualties among the French. ; , "General Monro states that the ac complishment of this difficult task was due to General Birdwon, and invalu able aBBiatance rendered In the opera tion of the; highest difficulty ly aox miral DeBobeck and the Toyai; navy, y Under the withdrawal of the- British and 'French forces from the . southern end of the Gallipoli." Peninsula after the evacuation of the" An mc Cove and Suvla Bay positions . on. . the western coast in the middle of December, there has come to an end a movement ,that was begun - with expectations of NO FURTHER RIOTS HO FURTHER; RIQIS SW A Former Congressman and Others Indicted. "I Steel Plants to be -v ... . .. ....... - MEDIATION V State Guards StiU-ln Control. f Sltna. tion 250 Foreigners Have Been Arrested For" Looting Fri day Night. : - t Youngstown, Jan. 9. Believing that the situation is well under control fol lowing two days of tranquility after the rioting Friday night, preparations are being made to reopen the plants of; the . Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, in East Youngstown .and Struthers. President James A. Camp bell of the company , said tonight' that former employes who reported tomor row would be put to work making re pairs . incident to a resumption or op ertations within a few days. He de nied that tsirke breakers would bq imported. ' "It would be useless for us to at tempt to operate our, plant while some of the workers are in the frame of mind they are in now," President Campbell said, "and we will not at tempt to resume operations for sev eral days at least. There are work men who are now in the plant and more , will be put . to ; work if they apply, tomorrow. y President Campbell said that many workmen had informed the company that:, they desired to return to work but -were afraid, as their ramilies had been threatened. ; He denied thai -guards employed by the company were responsible for the riot Friday night which cost the lives of 2 persons and resulted in property loss amounting to . $1,000000 or tnat they fired the first shot. . Mediation of Strike Begnn. Mediation of the strike began here today., Fred CV Croxton, of Columbus, Ohio, representing the state and sent here In an effort to settle the labor difficulties, conferred with represen tatives of both sides. James H. Nutt, director of the public safety of this city, has been appointed to represent the Republic Iron & Steel Company-In the negotiations, who are also on " a strike.- , . ; : . y ; ' y.1,. p Twenty-five thousand t "sightseer Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Ev ery street car "from Youngstown was filled and many "private owners of au tomobiles transformed the machines into Jitney busses to haul the throngs to the scene. v The situation was quiet throughout the day at Struthers, where 600 mili tiamen,' under command of Colonel Ed ward Vollrath, of Buryrus, Ohio, are stationed, four shots, were fired at sol diers by snipers located in the hills but none was injured. Brigadier Gen eral John H. Speaks announced late to day -that the Fourth regiment, whichl is low being held at Benin centre, i& miles north -of here, 'might be ordered home shortly. x Nearly 250 Arrested. The roundup of prisoners who are alleged to have participated in the loot ing Friday night continued today. Nearly 250 foreigners were arrested while wagon loads of articles of every description found in their homes were brought to -the East Youngstown police station. These things, the police allege, were stolen from stores attacked by the mob. Because of the large number of arrests the prisons in Youngstown have (Continued on Page Ten.) achievements, which would have a great bearing on the outcome of the war. Thousands upon thousands of men lost their lives in the enterprise of effect ing landings on the Turkish coast and in the fighting, that has been in prog ress since. - .In addition, a number of battleships, smaller war craft of the Entente Allies have been sunk or de molished as they poured a rain of shell against the Turkish, fortifications in an endeavor to- protect their forces on shore. - , The chief military purpose of : the Dardanelles campaign, which c began in February,. 1915, with the bombard ment of the Turkish forts at the en trance to the Btraits by Entente allied warships, was the capture of. Constan tinople and the opening of the Bos phorus, which connects the Mediter-1 ranean with the Black sea, so that Russia might have-an avenue for the receipt of arms and ammunitions and also- for the exportation of Russian grain. For success . meant the preven tion j of another Turkish invasion - of Egypt, and the permanent safety" of the Suez canal, and England's communica tions with India, y y r - 'r.;YY Politically a victory was expected to have a powerful effect upon the then still neutral Balkan states, Greece; Bul garia, and -Rumania, whose, political status had for generations balanced with that of Turkey In the ever-changing seal eof Balkan politics. There yaw'.Hted the possibility now. realized by Bulgaria's . entrance Into the war, oi pres enting the . establtsbment ";of . a Balkan lmk between the Central Pow ers and Turkey and also of the pos sible opening . of a land . route to In (Continued on Pasre ta St ' Surf- . HASBEGJLJZ C., ION DAY HQBITmG, JAXUAB F 10, 191G ONMTO Will Join Proposed Permanent 1 Peace Board. PCAM'OFcFORD. party Already Delegate From. Norway, Svre de Denmark and -Holland. Have Joined Bryan and Ford to ' Be American Delegates.' - The Hague, (via Iondon),vJan, ,9. Assurance was received that Switzer land is sending five delegate's to join those of the other neutral nations in the permanent peace board which it is planned to form as a result of the Ford Peace Expadition. The Swiss delegates will arrive at The Hague as soon as the interruption to traffic; due to the" war, will permit. Invitations sent to 'the leading. Spanish pacifists to join the peace board have not yet been ' an swered on account of the interruption to communications. With the "Americans leading" ' the movement already has beenV joined by delegates from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland and the expe dition this week purposes to establish a permanent board with five members from. each neutral nation. . It has vir tually been decided that the Americans will name William Jennings ?Bryaq and, Henry Ford. . .. ...y .. The purposes of the board are: First, to obtain expert advice on how' to proceed. Second, to take the initiative in approaching the warring nations with peace terms, and third to be pre pared to sit indefinitely and receive and pass upon peace proposals from what ever source they may be offered. ' This week the expedition will hold meetings at The Hague, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Madame Roalka Schwlmmer, the Hungarian delegate, who . was largely responsible for or ganizing the expedition said today: "Information has reached me from In fluential' sources that the establish ment of an unofficial arbitration body will not be unwelcome. This has given us renewed encouragement that peace is less remote than generally believed.' ,. 4.-' SEEK POLISH ' REXD2F; Cablegram Requeta tttln a Par -M ' Chicago,"TTari.-9. Officers of the Pol-, Ish relief committee and of nine Pol ish organizations, having a total mem bership of 500,000, tonight addressed to Prime Minister Asqulth a cablegram urging that Great Britain lift its block ade sufficiently to allow supplies to be sent to; the destitute of Poland Copies of the cablegram were also tel egraphed to President Wilson and the diplomatic .representatives " of Great Britain, Germany, France,1 Italy, Rus sia and Austria at Washington. POSTMASTER IS ARRESTED C. R. Carter, of Myrtleveood, Ala., Charged With Sfteuse or Funds. j Montgomery, Aja.. Jan. 9. Claude R. Carter, postmaster at Myrtlewooo, Ala., was arrested here today charg ed with appropriating government money to his own use. The amount In volved is said to be $1,620. He was released under bond of $2,000. He is a brother of "Nick Carter," who several years, ago killed "Rube" Burroughs, the notorious bandit. War News at a Glance The complete evacuation of .the Gal lipoll Peninsula by the British and French forces, the withdrawal of the French troops front the summit of Hlraateln, sonth of Hartmann-Weiler kopf. In the Vosge mountains, nnd the lnkfng of the British battleship Kins Edward VII after it had come in con tact with n mine, are the outstanding features In the war news. 'A British soldier wounded was the only casualty suffered in leaving the Gnllipoll Peninsula and the British and French were able to remove ' all their guns, except 17 old ones which were destroyed. There also was no loss of life lnthe sinking of the King Edward VIIw and only tvro men aboard the pre-dread- naneht were grounded. In the Hlersstein, Berlin says, many officers, 1,083 chasseurs and 15 . guns were taken, y Paris, in admitting the evacuation, says it was due to the cap ture by the Germans of a hill to the north of Hlerssteln On the western front little activity has been shown by either side, except In te usual bombardments and min ing operations. Comparative' calm pre vails In the, Austro-Itallan theatre. Considerable lighting la still going on at Catartorysk, on the Russian front. where the Teuton have twice been re pulsed ; with considerable loss in at tempting to capture - that . $own front the Russians. . ' tPetrograd reports that the Austro- Hungarians have been driven 'from the eastern bank of the middle Stripa riv er in east pallcla. Nothing new has come through with regard to the op erations of the Austrlans against the Montenegrins, except that an Austrian fleet has violently bombarded the Mon tenegrin position In Mount Lovcen, near the Adriatic coast. An attach; by the Teutonic Allies against Entente Al Ilea In Greece has ot yet materialised. The Russians y claim : further : snccesa against the .Turks' In the Caucasus re gion. ; ',s':' v'- --'- ' .! - Turkey as a reprisal for "the 'arrest of "consuls of the Central Powers and their allies at SalOnlW, has taken into custody ten : French . nnd . British ; ofll clals who had "remained In their re spective embassies, according to a Ber lin Yvtreleea report. . An Amsterdam din patch says the Turks .also have' in terned one thousand subjects of the Entente Powers In.' retaliation for the treatment of , Turkish subjects at 5 a- IMIRV .-' : . Y ., v mm. : i i ft niirl - - ( - ... . .. . .. . M ! I 1 1 Qj 1 ''' in ii i w J :P?t'-t; lJJ"''"!'-!l!!.','".', U. R. Fowler, former Congressmen Here are three of the men Indicted with Representative Frank Buchanan of Illinois, in connection with plots to help Germany at the cost of American Industry. The photograph Just taken SIX OF THE 11 FORMER NE W HAVEN OFFICIALS INDICTED FOR CONSPIRA Jury, Which Was put Fifty-Two Hours, Failed to Agree in the Cases of Five Qthers---Jurors Are Discharged Case , Government $250,000, it is Estimated. , New York, Jan. 9. -Six of the eleven former directors of the. New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, charged by the government with criminal vio lation of the Sherman anti-trust law, were found not guilty late today by the jury that for nearly three months has ' been trying the case. The jury disagreed ' on . the Ave , others. ' Those acquitted were D. Newtton Barney, Farmington, Conn.; Robert W. Taft, Providence, R. L; James S. Hem- enway, A. Heaton Robertson and Fred erick F. Brewster, New Haven, and Henry K. McHarg, Stamford, Conn. Those" on whom the jury disagreed were William: Rockefeller, New York; Charles F Brooker Ansonia, Conn. ; Charles MI Pratt,-- Brooklyn; Lewis Cass Ledyard, New York, and Edward D. Robbins, ' Newi Haven. The verdict was returned T at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon after - fifty-two hCurs of deliberation, and the jury was discharged. : The, final vote, on the five defendants upon whom the. jurors could not agree stood 6 to four tor acquittal. R;- L. Batts, chief counsel for, tne government, announced that in,. , , due time he would move for a new trial of these five. This will be done, he said, before any effort ..will be made to try the six other, former directors of the road ihat was indicted,' but who are to be tried separately. , " " The jurors did not reach : a verdict until after they had .reported to Judge Hunt' early in the, day that ' they could not agree. up to tnat ume noou they had ben -deliberating without bringing In a verdict of guilt or inno cence collectively. The court then in structed them' to make further; efforts to concur, and that if they .could not agree upon all , to try and reach a de cision on some. The vote of the ques tion at that time also, stood ;8 to 4 for acquittal, it was learned. On returning to ,the jury, room, the jurors renewed their discussion with the courts instructions in mind and ultimately eliminated the six that were acquitted. Two of the, four Jurors who had voted against the defendants orig inally, stood firm however, against Messrs. Rockefeller J reduced Bffffgg Messrs; Rockefeller, Ledyard, Brooker. Pratt and Robbins. Then the other two switched. to their original position, leaving 8 to 4 as the final verdic Y From the time the case was sub mitted to them at 1:30 o'clock Fri day afternoon, the jurors toofe in all eighteen ballots. The first stood six for acquitted, four for conviction and two blank.. It was not. until Saturday that they reached the 8 . to 4 alignment. William Rockefeller"," who is ill. and Henry K.f McHarg, -were not present when the ' jurors, hagard "and- untidy, filed in the court room ."Jo announce their iyerdct. The nine other defend ants, "were in their i usual, seats.., Some of them, during the long: hours of waiting, had laughed and joked with counsel and newspaper men. Others had evinced much nervousness, particu larly after Judge Hunt's instructions today urging' the Jury to bring, in a verdict as to some individuality. With the entrance of the jurymen,' with their hats and coats in hand, 'presaging a verdict, the - mental " state of the de fendants was obviously orte -; of tense strain. . . - :. " '.- 7 ' ' A'ter the t usual - questions, by the court as to whether they had agreed upon a verdict, , tlu .. foreman of , the Jury read off the riames .of those ac- Herman Schultets in ; Washington shows H. Robert Fowler, former representative from Illinois; H. B. Martin, a friend of Dave Lamar, of Wall Street fame, and Herman Schulteis. It was taken after the indictment was found. CY A CQUITTED quitted, then those of the defendants upon whom they had failed to agree. The court thanked the jury but hard ly had he concluded his remarks when defendants' attorneys ana others in the court room were on their feet and there was a . general Handshaking without regard for their status under the verdict, the defendants shook ! handB -with the jurors and with gov ernment counsel. Charges S; Mellen, former president of the New Haven and the chief wit-' ness in the case, was not in court; . . While . they had discussed all the! principal phases ' of the case, - jurors said, the - chief Issues of debate .were the matter of the alleged suppression by the , New Haven of the competition of the Joy ; Steamship Line and tho acqujsition of the Boston & Maine rail road by which the" government charg--es the New Haven ; cdrporated its mo nopoly', of transportation traffic of New England.'"' ''' . v ' .;x The so-called . Billard transactions, -were virtually ignored; the jurors, said, having in the.ppinlon of most of them tbeen .ruled out . by .the court by Judge Hunt. There was also compara tively little-- discussion- on the Mtro-. polltan deal, the que.tipn being wheth- ; er it. was a private, trahsatcion of Robr blnjgT, or a joint tran'satcion. of all, the New Haven .directors. The Grand Trunk also was 'not a pertinent issue, it' was said. . ".' The jurors explained that , they had sought to follow the instructions of the court in his charge - that -they .should decide first whether the, alleged con spiracy, of which the defendants were accused, -was ; in -excess in' lSO.Vhen the government charged it began arid was continuously down . to. the date of the indictment. They reached, no agreement on this question, thy said. Apparently, for the purpose of.- debate, the jurors' assumed that such' a con spiracy existed, and then took up the different phases. . " The participation of . one of the de fendants in, the New Haven's effort to prevent the sale of ' two' steamboats of the Joy Line was as- ubject.'it was said, of sharp debate, y . : Of " the five defendants wnose guilt or innocence was not decided, William Rockefeller was the only one whose term of service as a . New Haven di rector continued throughout the entire time of the alleged conspiracy. He ante-dated Charles F. Brooker by three years. Messrs. Ledyard and Pratt took part in -the transactions which led to the acquisition of tnestock of the Boston & Maine in 190T; and as direc tors of the latter road, became a di rector, of the New Haven hen the Bos ton &Maine was taken over. Edward D. Robbins was " general counsel of the road and figured in the Metropoli tan steamship transacitons, which ac companied thev formation or a number of alleged dummy . corporations result ed in the transfer of the steamships Harvard and Yale , to the Pacific coast. The other directors were little, men tioned in the evidence" and their chief defense .was' that , they depended upon the advice ot ' Chalres S.y Mellen and Edwin D. Robbins. in the acts charged against them, which virtually v consis ted, of casting their votes in -favor of propositions that came before ; the board of directors for approval. The jurors were unkempt-and weary when they arrived at the Federal build ing this morning from the uptown hotel where they had been quartered at night. None. of them had for two ) (Continued on Page Ten.) v H. B. Martin WHOLE N U I BEB 39,439 EXCITEMENT Congress Mtich Calmer After a Week of Open Discus sion in Both Houses. BUSY DAYS ARE AHEAD Deliberations on National Pre paredness Subject Now Well Under Way. Washington, Jan. 9. After a week of open discussion in the Senate and V House, congressional excitement over the foreign relations of the- United' States has been considerably allayed. Administration .leaders appear to havev ' succeeded in prevailing upon most of their colleagues (to adopt fc policy ' ' of patient waiting for complete in vestlgation of recent war zone inci dents by -which American lives 'were sacrificed. ' , ' It is certain, however, that there will be almost daily discussion at the cap-J ital of the conditions affecting the United States as a result of the Euro pean war, now that the bonds of fe- . straint which kept members so lone silent have been broken. In - both houses last week conservative and radical members emphatically accept ed their views regarding the para mount war issues, and in almost every v debate some phase of the foreign af fairs of the nation probably will be injected for weeks to come. Eventually .the Y foreign relations . committee of the' Senate will begin ; consideration of all; matters pertaining 1 v to the European conflict -which have i ' come before it, including proposed in- vestlgation into British interferences ' with neutral shipping and belligerent ' attacks upon neutral ships in which American lives have been sacrificed y or imperilled. The committee - plan- ; fted to begin the task last week bul.. 1 deferred, action pending f urther .ef forts of. the' Sfh-te'Department through diplomatic .' negotiations - with -foreign powers:. .: '- '.; l- . ' ' ' Hoke' Smith to Speak. 4. Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, au ' thor, of the resolution which would di rect inquiry Into the British treat ment of trade, has - given ndtice that he will address the Senate this week on phases of the cotton situation as affected' by the attitude of Great BritT ain. Senator Smith - and other mem bers of Congress today received ca blegrams from the American Associa tion of Commerce and trade in Ber- - lin praylng 'for action to assist Amrl can firms ther declared to be faoing ruin because of 'the British block? ade. '- . ' . ! .: "I did not pay miich attention to j the cablegram," said Senator Smith. "I am not interested in Americans in Berlin.' We want something done for : the Americans , who stay at home. 1 want American citizens in the United ; " states to have their rights." , Deliberation ; on the subject of Na tional preparedness is 'now fairly un der way in both houses of Congress. The leaders agree that it will be many. ' weeks before any definite idea can be formulated as to the naval - ancj army bills. This week, the Senate committee on military' affairs will be givep army rehearing. - , Legislation in the meantime will m be (considered; Representative Klt ,'chin, chairman of the Ways and Means committee, and Senator Simmons, -; .chairman of the Finance committee,,, agreed that it would be . useless' t discuss means -of raising revenue un til the programme is far . enough ad vanced to indicate how much money will be . needed. - ," Representative Heflin, of Alabama," wilL speak Tuesday amplifying his charge 'of a conspiracy . between spec ulators and spinners in the New York cotton exchange to bat down the price of cotton. ' , . , Military Resignation Bill. ; Before the House Military commit tee this week Major General scott; chief of staff of the army, and Major General Bliss, assistant chief, win make statements regarding the military , army reorganization bill. .V Rear Admiral Stanford will continue his testimaony before the naval com-, rhittee regarding conditions , at yards, and docks, in connection with the an nual naval appropriation . bllL Other national . defense proceedings t. wiirbe a hearing brore" the House Rules committee Wednesday when Representatives Hensley, of Missouri; Gardner, of Massachusetts, dnd Tav- enner, of Illinois, will press lor ac tio non resolutions , they have intro duced bearing on the , investigations of national defense 'preparedness prop aganda. , . "- Representative Foss, or Ohio, nas given notice of a speech on the rights of neutrals Tuesday. Secretary Garrison will be called back to,,. the A capital next Wednesday. to explain before the House appropria tions subcommittee oh fortifications . his estimates tf or seacoast defense. Later he will appear before the Senate Military affairs committee. Other committees will begin work tomorrow framing the rivers and har bors bill -which will aggregate approx--imately 40,000,pQ0. the urgent dell- . ciency bill, for which estimates aggre-.f gating ,$3,000,000 already are in for the present fiscal year. The Indian i appropriation bill, aggregating $10,- 000,000, and the postoftice apprppria- tion bill. Hearing on Dye Situation. One of the important hearings .of the session will be on : the dyestuff. situation, f Large delegations . from Connecticut. 1 Massachusetts, and ' else-1 where , are preparing to i appear before the House Ways a,nd Means committee " (Continued on Page Ten.) RELATIONS ABROAD HAS BEEN ALLAYED ill '4 i ! i ! V t i i i fl ! t " 1 i '4 ,1 I I t t .Y'':;v';-y. 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