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THE GAZETTE-NEWS Hu TIM Associated Press Service. It la In Erery Respect Complete. Member Audit Bureau Circulation. WEATHER FORECAST mm FAIR TONIGHT. VOLUME XX. NO. 304. t. ASHEVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 4, 1916. PRICE 2 CENTS0" Tr,Lln x mm T IN STATEMENT OF Views in Opposition to Conti nental Army Plan Are Much Discussed in Delega- " tion Circles. CONTINENTAL FEATURE IS CRUX OF THE FIGHT If This Were Withdrawn Pre paredness Program Would Go Through Congress, It Is Thought. (By Parker R. Anderson.) . Gazette-News Bureau, The Rlge-s Building, Washington, Feb. 4. The statement of Governor Craig, that he is opposed to the proposition of establishing a continental army, was read with Interest In Washington. n view of the fact that the continen tal army program of President Wilson "is the crux of the fight here on his preparedness program" and the state ment of the governor that an over whelming majority of the people aro with the president's preparedness plans, was the. chief subject of conver sation around the capitol and In the clonk rooms of the house. The president went west on his now famous speech making tour with n other motive than to , convince the country that his continental army, program should bo put throug h con gress. There Is little. If any fight, en the naval program. The president btated in one of his speeches that the navy Is ready ' for immediate war." Mont pvtry one Is willing to concedo something in favor of the navyv but no one has come forward in support of the continental army proposition except Secretary of War Garrison and his "general staff" familiarly called "war department chair warmers" around Washington. More than this. President Wilson, less than a year ago, made pointed reference to the continental army and in his last messuge, which he read to a joint session of both houses, urged congress to adopt this plan of rein forcing th enrmy. He gave it as his opinion that the plan would work well and that he had faith in the patriotism in the young men of the country and the generority of the employers to enable the coutnry to carry out this program. As further evMenre that Mr. Wilson is determined on this pet Idea of the continental army, it is pointed out that during his speeeh-maklntf tour which was brought to a close at St. Louis yesterday, he visited tho states from which come members of the houso military nlTalrs committee, known to be against tho continental army prop osition. Ill first speech was made in New York. Iteprcsetnutives Farley and Caldwell coma from that state, iwo members come from Pennsylva nia; one from Ohio; one f om Iowa; one from Illlnnols, and one from Kan bnj. In each of these states the Pres ident n.jue at least one speech. In many instances a half dozen. It is known, and has been known at the White House for some time, that not a klngle democratic member of the house military atTalrs commit tee will vote for the continental army phase of the preparedness program. Jl is equally as certain that this com mittee with its democratic majority, will report a bill In KHVor of Increas ing the national guard by providing for Increased numbers of man and re deral psy for both onVera and men, A strong report against the continental plan will be n.ad. This phase of the situation. It Is ron'ended by men clone to the Whlto House, caused President W ilson to visit the home states of members of congress who are opposing his pro rum In the commutes on the very eve of his departure from Washington the prealdeut was urged not to advo rato the continental progiain, but ho Is said to have announced thut his inlrd was firmly set upon this plan. Adjutant General loung, of North Carolina, who has been here for Sev ern I duys, told the Uuiettt-NewH cor respondent that an overwhelmingly large majority of the people of the State are against the phase of the pro gram. The national guard, officers und all, are bitterly opposed to IV he aid. With the fact before the public, will it be contended thut they are In ' lavor of the administration's pro .rain? This program means the abso lute annihilation of the states' na tional guard end the eventual propo rtion cf compulsory enlistment. Io North Carolina favor this plant If so, the should sdviee thtlr c6ngrssmsn how te tola. 1 REFUSES TO ADMIT SINKING LUSITANIA WAS ILLEGAL ACT Berlin's Suggestion for New N ote of Regret Does Not Con tain Word "IUeagl" Berlin Considers One of Most Se rious Crises of War Has Arisen in Connection With the Lusitania Case. Berlin, Feb; 4. Information has' reached the Associated Press which Indicates that under no circumstances will the German government admit that the sinking of the Lusitania was an illegal act The new instructions fofwarded to Ambassador Bernstorft at Washington contain Simply one phrase of the new formulation of tho proposed note of regret for the sinking of the Lusitania. The suggested sen tence Is short, containing only eight words, and it does not contain the word, "Illegal," This represents the extreme limits of Germany's conces sions In the Lusitania case. The view is entertained here that one of the most serious crises of the war has arisen in connection with the case and It is impossible to fore see the outsome from any indications here. The result of the negotiations ap parently hinge solely on the single word, "Illegal." In the way, of an agreement between the United States and Germany stand only the seven letters, expressing the conviction which President Wilson and Secretary Lansing Insist must be embodied in the German formula eypressing re gret for the sinking of the liner with the loss of American lives. . The Associated Press Is authorita tively and positively Informed that Germany cannot and will not desig nate as illegal the sinking of a liner by any submarine. Virtually there is not other diffi culty In the way of settlement remains and , the new Instructions forwarded to Ambassador Bernstorff on Tuesday contain merely the new formula by which Germany hopes to satisfy Washlfip'Mi .vithout humiliation to Germany. """" ' ' ' A Zeppelin airship and probably all her crew, has been lost In the North sea and It Is probable that she met her fate through the fire of Passengers And Prisoners Liberated From The Appam More Than 400 of Those Aboard Crew Permitted to Land British Ambassador Prevails After Sharp Controversy With Appam's Agents, Who Opposed Landing of Crew. Washington, . Feb. 4. Secretary Lansing Indicated today that tho United States hod decided to hold that the Prussian-American treaty would govern the case of the British liner Appam. captured And brought into Hampton Koads by a German prlxe c(ew, ft Germany contends. All that now remains will be the Interpreta tion of the application of the treat terms. It was disclosed furthei that th sole ouestlnn to be decided by tho Interpretation was how long the prize might be permuted to remain in American waters. Newport News, Va,, Feb. 4. Nine teen days of ceaseless vigil for the short-handed German prize crew aboard tho former British liner Ap pam ended late last night when the last of more than four hundred British passengers and prisoners climbed over the ship's tide to liberty on American soil. And for the first time since Lieutenant Berg and his twenty-two men boarded the liner from the raider, which captured her on the night of Jnnunry J 5. most of the Germans slept peacefully with a few of their number on watch. All British subjects and the one naturallxcd American, O. A. Taglla ferrl. quit the ship, leaving the price rommsnrter with the twenty Germans who had been prisoners on the Ap pam, Including three women. Captain Harrison and the Appam's British crew Ml their vesel only af ter there had been a shsrp controversy between agents of the owners, Elder Juarez Isolated When Villa Attachs Montezuma El Paso, Feb. 4.--Jui,re was com pletely Isolated tarry today from com munication with Chihuahua City, as the result of the attack made yester day of Francisco Villa on the gsrrl son at Montemma. about 100 miles south of here. Beyond establishing hat Villa him.olf U1 tha attack no w B4 best, received htre early U- Dutch anti-aircraft guns. An English trawler reaching Grimsby reports having Been in tho North sea the Zeppelin L-19 partly submerged and with seventeen to 20 men clinging to her gas envelope. AiJ was refused the Germans because they outnumbered the crew of the trawler. Fifty shots, some of which it Is be lieved hit her, were fired at a ZeppO' lln Wednesday morning as she flew low In a fog over the Island of Ame land, off the coast of Holland. This airship, according to an Amsterdam report finally disappeared northward a course which would have taken her out into the North "sea. Thirteen men of the crew of the collier Franz Fischer were drowned when the collier was sent to the bot-! torn In two minutes by a bomb drop- ped by one of the Zeppelins returning from the raid made on England. Only three men of the Fischer were saved. Heavy bombardments are in prog ress in various points along the west ern line, especinlly in the region of Loos, held by the British and around Neuville, where the Germans recently captured French positions. The Brit ish are carrying out mining opera tions around Hulluch. Near the Bols Des Buttes, north of the Alsne, the French put down a German attack against their trenches. Thore Is comparative quiet on the Russian front except for bombard ments and minor infantry engage ments. Unofficial advices say that floods In the Styr river region have compelled the Teutons to abandon strongly fortified positions and that many deaths have occurred from pu! monary troubles. Along the Austro-Itallan front heavy artillery duels continue. Noth lng new has come through with re gard to the situation In Albania. A dispatch from Athens gives a report of an encounter between Bulgarians and entente allied detachments at the junction of the Greck-Serblan-Bulga- rian frontiers, In which the entente allies repulsed the Bulgarians. Liner Held by German Prize Dempster company and the British embassy at Washington. Tho com pany desired its men to remain on the liner to support the claim that tho Germans forfeit their prize by re maining In neutral waters. But the embassy insisted that every British subject deport as soon as permission had been granted by tho prize com mander on the demand of the United Stains government. , Plans were chunged eevry hour dur ing the afternoon and evening, but tho embassy's authority prevailed finally and a special boat was provided to tnke the Appam's crew of one hun dred and fifty-live to Norfolk, to await the railing of a steamer for Now York tonight. In the meantime tho one hundred and fourteen passengers nn l the one hundred and thirty-six Brltlah seamen captured with the other seven ships taken by the raider Ponga or Moewe, had been transferred ashore by steamers. Five of the seamen, ono Englishman and four Lascars of the crew of the Clan MacTavlsh, all suffer ing from several wounix, were remov ed to a local hospital for treatment. All the rest, with most of the pntwen gers, were placed aboard river steam ers for Norfolk. An old Dominion liner was being held at her dock to take them to New York. The British government is raring for nil passenger and the err us of the capture'! freighters and will seni them on to England tiliourd tho flrat available ship. Tho Elder Dempster enmpuny will arrange tor the return oF the Appnm'a crew. lay which Indicated how the fighting bad resulted. Troops were hurried from Chihua hua City to attack Villa, while rein forcements were en mute to Monte suina to aupport the Carranza troops there. It It believed that should the fight ing be prolonged VlUa will be sur rounded on ail aid. N FAVORED BY 3 Small, Pou, and Britt Support ing President's Program Others Want "Reason able Preparedness." POU TRYING TO LINE UP BACKWARD ONES Fourth District Man Is Confi dent "Big Army and Navy" Will Have a Majority. (By Parker K. Anderson.) : Gazette-News Bureau The Riffgs Building Washington, Feb. 4. A careful poll of the house mem hers from North Carolina recently developed the fact that only three members from the state Represen tatives Small, Pou and Britt have made up their minds to support the president's preparedness program as has been outlined by the white houso and war and navy departments. Mr. Pou, the most ardent supporter of the administration, may not vote for the continental army plan, though he has not definitely decided on this de tail. He: prefers, however, that the national guard be Increased. Major Stedman, Mr. Doughton, and many of the others favor "reason able preparedness," whatever that means. But they will not support the continental army .H proposition. Mr. Doughton was convinced over a year ago by the statements of President Wilson and Secretary of the Navy Daniels that - we are "-Already- BUffi" clently prepared to defend our coasts against an Invading foe. Mr. uougn ton will not now suppqrt the bellion dollar five year program which con gress has been asked to adopt. "The statements made by the presi dent and Secretary Daniels less thun twelve months ago," said Mr. Dough ton, "convinced me that we were pre pared from a military standpoint from any clanger that might reason ably be expected. Of course It Is nat possible to prepare against all possi ble danger. If we did we wquld nave to have an army and navy as large as that of the entire world. However, I would be willing to vote for a rea sonable lncrense that Is, a policy that would not cause an unreason able tax levy on the people. "But I will not support the adai- tional billion dollar five year pro gram. I am also opposed to turning this great republic of ours into an armed military camp; and believe, If such a course Is ever adopted it will lead to the speedy downfall of our republic, as has been the case with all other republics who followed the policy." If 90 per cent of the people of North Carolina are with the presi dent, therefore, a very large majori ty of the congressmen are not in har mony with their constituents. If Mr. Wilson gets more than four votes for his proposition as it now stands, he himself would be greatly surprised. Mr. Pou, who is endeavoring to line up the backward ones fur the administration, is confident that they will have a majority when the time comes for a vote. lie thinks congress will get together and pons the bills. He said: "It Is being said that the demo crats of the house are hopelessly di vided over the question of prepared ness. I believe it will soon develop that this Is not true. "The president has presented a program to congress. He has asked that the present standing army of 9 2,1) 7 J men be Increased to 141,8-13, that the national guard of 129,000 Lo considered a part of the program and that a continental army of 4U0.000 be organised from the citizens of the nation by training 131,000 men about two mouths during the year for the next three years. "I have asked some of our cut- leagues In Ihe house who are listed as opponents of preparedness to Indi cate Just what they are willing to stand for. It Is conceded thut some increase In our military and naval es tablishments Is necessary, and wlnm these goiitlemon Indicate just What increase they are willing to vote for, the difference between their own Iders of preparedness and the pro gram of the president is so small as to hardly Justify a bitter fight. When all plans have been carefully con- clderud and digested It will be seen that, the program of the presldont Is slmplf very necessary precaution taken by ' great nation to preserve peace. "The other day It was admitted on the floor of the house In a delists that a 'marauding expedition' as the spesksr railed It, could be landed on the Atlantic seaboard and for a time do 'much damage.' But thla speaker went on to say 'that Invading expedi tion would never live lo see home again.' This Isst statement may tir Continued, oa pf two). TEXTILE MEN ASK SEVERAL QUESTIONS In Telegram Today to Labor Conference Southern Mill Em ployers Inquire Why Keating Bill Does Not Include N. Y. Tenements Secretary Lovevays It Does C. L. Coon Speaks. The assembly room at the Batv y Park hotel was well filled this morn ing at 10:30 with men and women in. terested in the proceedings of the na tional child labor committee. General Secretary Owen R. Lovejoy presided In the absence of Homer Folks, chair man of the committee on prevention of tuberculosis. ' General Secretary Owen R. Lovejoy read a telegram from the Southern Textile association, which was in sub stance as follows: "If child labor produces all the evils that your organization claims it does, why does not the committee provide for education of children and relieve suffering In the mill districts of the south? And please explan to the conference why the Keating bill was not framed so as to apply to New York tenements where babies make flowers to decorate women's hats.".. ".": ...... Outline of 'Answer.': ... Outlining the answer that will be sent to the manufacturers, Mr. Love joy said that in the first plaice the committee raised and expended only $60,000 a year while the public school fund in the United States amounts to $500,000,000 annually. The burden of education belongs to the bigger fund, he declared. As to suffering, the national committee, said the secretary, tries to secure the passage of mothers' pensions for fam. illes in need. And through its agita tion for child labor laws It does not, except In rare cases, reduce any fam ily to poverty. When It does occur, appeals are made to the community to give aid. As to the Keating bill, framed as it is to apply to all factories and workshops, it Includes the tenement shops that the telegram refers to; and the secretary stated that If today's meeting were In session In New York city the emphasis of discussion would be laid on conditlonn there where 13,- 000 chldren are at work, many- of them from four to eight years old. The regular program was preceded by an exhibition of stereopticon views showing conditions in North Caro Una cotton mills. Lewis W. Hine of New York, director of exhibits for the committee, was In charge of this feature, giving the explanatory com ment for each picture. Introducing1 Mr. Hine Secretary Lovejoy said that Mr. Hine was the best disliked man on the staff of the national commit tee because he was continually go ing around gottlng photographs that contain Interests wished to withhold from the publicity the director gave them. He stated that the director had been threatened with having his pic ture published In the Congressional Canadian Parliament Building Now In Ruins Magnificent Structure Swept by Attributed by Some to Bomb or Infernal Machine Cost Over Six Million Dollars. Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 4. Canada's! magnificent parliament building which rfost more than $0,000,000 lay In ruins today, swept by a fire which was at tributed by some to a bomb or Infer nal machine. At least six lives were lost and many persons were Injured. Tho flames were under control early today, after having rnged for six hours. The financial loss Is difficult to estimate, but the contents of the building were of great value. The building covered four acres of rroiind and was rated as ono of the finest gothic structures on the conti nent. Tho origin of the fire can only be determined by an Investigation which it Is understood will begin at once. The ftsmes started In the reading room of the house of commons and many Agree that the lire was) preceded by an explosion which blew open the door of the library and knocked down several people who were standing Relief Work Sections Little Hock, Ark., Feb. 4. Relief work In the district flooded by the breaking cf the levees of the White and Arkansas rivers today was fast i being systematized under the direc tion of committers which had estab lished headquarters her and at 1'lnr Bluff. An expedition with supplies of inou ana otner necessary anicics ieu Pine Bluff enrly todsy for points where the refugees are congregated end plans were being perfected for ihe establishment of a onuU rfu Record, but that it was hoped that no such calamity would befall the organ ization. The Slides. Mr. Hine stated that the pictures of young children, some of them show ing injured hands or legs were not meant for an attack on North Caro lina industries; they were aimed at the employers of child labor. Some of the slides showed children as young as 8 years old who within the past three months have been found em ployed in mills In this state. Mr, Hines exhibited pictures of Injured boys and girls to refute the state ment that a cotton mill is a safe place to work. Director Hine also gave an account of the work of Miss Eunice Sinclair of Fayetteville who has been inves tigating conditions in North Carolina mill towns. Secretary Lovejoy called on W, H. Swift of Greensboro to make a statement as to what he has seen In North and South Carolina In his work as secretary for these states. Mr. Swift said that the officials show him through their plants and that no denial is made that children under the age limit are worked. He declared that in his travels he had not been looking for strong and well developed boys and girls; he had been inter ested In the frail, stunted and over worked and, he concluded, "they are there and they will remain there un til we say that they shall not re main there." C. L. Coon, secretary of the North Carolina child labor committee, was introduced by Mr. Lovejoy as one of the most vigorous fighters In the ranks or those opposing the exploita tion of childhood for gain. Mr. Coon read a paper showing how child la bor interferes with the process of ed ucating the states' rising generations. Saturday's Program. There will be no afternoon session. The program for Saturday evening is as follows: Saturday Morning, 10:30 O'Clock. 10:30-11:30 A Get-Together con ference. , Informal discussion of practical steps and experiences in child labor reform. Present your local problems at this session. Conference of state committees and local workers. 11:30 Conference of state com mittees and local workers. Special attention will be given to the operation of the eight hour day in Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey. Addresses by Richard K. Conant, secretary, Massachusetts child labor committee, Boston, Mass.; Douglas r. Falconer, secretary. New Jersey child labor committee, Newark, N. J.; George A. Hall, secretary New (Continued on page twoj. Flames, Origin of Which Is nearby. They say they believe the lire was caused by a bomb or infernal machine. rollce were on gunrd at both doors of the library and there were others in the room itself, so that It would have been difficult for anyone to havo entered the room to set the fire. It was suggested that the fire mlcht have started from a smouldcrimr clgnr, but smoking In the room was prohibited. In the room were thou Siindi of papers and they caused the fire to spread rapidly. The smoke rolled tip in dense volumes, out of the doors and Into the chamber of tfw house of commons which body won In session. With he spreading of tho ularm the members of the house, the spectators In the galleries and attend ants lied In a panic for the windows, doors and lire escapes. So swift whs the progress of the fir that some in the building narrowly escaped with lhir lives. In Flooded Systematized gee camp outside of the flooded area. number of small boats which were to be used In reaching the people ma rooned In Isolated districts were being hurried to the flooded regions from I'lie Bluff. A dispatch from Lake Village In Chlrot county In the extreme south cast corner of Arkansas suited that two-thirds of the county Is undated and that the water is spreading In ward th east and wn of Carroll pariah In Louisiana. THINKS PEOPLE ARE WITH HIM President Returns to Washing, ton, After Campaign, Con vinced Middle West Is For "Preparedness." CAMPAIGN SUCCEEDED BEYOND EXPECTATION Presidents' Advisors Want Him to Make Another Tour Both in South and West to Urge His Plans. On Board President Wilson's spe cial car, Indianapolis, Ind Feb. 4. President Wilson started back to Washington last night convinced that the people of the middle west are with him on the issue of national de fense and are prepared to Insist that congress take speedy action. He fin ished his speaking tour In St. Louis yesterday and expressed the convicy tion that his mission had succeeded: beyond his great hopes. President Wilson's advisers bellevo he has explained clearly why he con siders immediate preparedness imper ative, has won many converts to tho movement and has given new impetus to a discussion of the cause. From, the sympathetic attitude of most of his audiences, from the enthusiasm his every appearance in public has evoked, from the huge crowds which, have greeted him, they have drawn the conclusion that the people over whelmingly support his plans ac least in the middle west. The president's official family want him to start on another tour. Soma of them liken his swing through. the middle west to an operation not yet completed. En route to Washington, last night they looked both south f.nt west Io& the setting of his next ap- . pearance in the role of champion oi national preparedness. The south beckoned with many hands. Senators and representatives, from most of the southern states al ready have asked him to include their sections on his next tour. To this have been added invitations from many public bodies, with Texai strongly assorting her claims. Them is a feeling among some of his most intimate advirers that in choosing tho scene for his next plea to the people, the president could pay no greater compliment to his own political party by going Into Its stronghold. Minneapolis, Ct. Paul and Denver have presented what they consider strong claims and It is probable that If the president makes another pre paredness tour it may Include thosa cities and then swing south in Texas) possibly returning by way of New Or leans, Birmingham or Louisville, al though nothing haa been decided con cerning this. At least one hundred thousand per sons, his advisors estimate, heard tho president's chief speeches. Fully fifty thousand more crowded about tho rear plutform of his cor during his tivo minute talks and hardly fewer than ha'f a million others have been bank ed on the sidewalks In various cltieit to watch him pass. An audience of fifteen thousand swayed with a tumult of cheering iit St. Louis when the president told them, that the United States should have the greatest navy in the world. "1 believe the navy of the United Stutes should huve the greatest navy in the world. "I believe the navy of the United States should be unconquerable," he said. "The greatest In the world." The president declared that subma rine commanders abroad have instruc tions which fur the most part conform with international law, but the art of ono commander might set the world, afire. Including America, "Upon the ocean there are hundreds of cargoes of American goods," ha said. "Cotton, grain and all the boun tiful supplies America la sending out to tho world any one of those car goes, any one of those ships, may be the point pf contact that will rln, Amerlca Into the war. For tho first time during the tour the president told how one set of bel ligerents was cut off from the world, lie will! this kept the United State! from helping them as It would like. Ho inado the statement In trying to how mat tne i nncu siuies w reany neutral. The president said he came away from Washington thinking that the country was with him on the Issue of preparedness, and was going back knowing that It Is with him beyond his great out hopes. Apparently UI4 conviction of this grew with each sue ceeUIng day; deepened In Kansas Olf last nttfht when h asked "Would o volunteer!" and received a thund I lng "yes" from every section of th I tree t convention hall; and reached its) i climax with the demonstration. Chllsgo, Feb. 4. The conviction of Donn M. Roberts, former mayor of Term Haute, lnd., and It other wh war found guilty with hlul of election fraud, ha been sustained by th fed eral district court cf appeal bar.'
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