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Volume jjf Number 102.
4 NEW BERN, NOTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1917.
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Calls For
Congress Prepares
To Grant Demands
Gravely and Solemnly The President Presents the
Full Situation to Joint Session of Congress, and
Advises Representatives of American People to
Take Steps to Exert All Powers and Employ All
Resources To Bring The Government of Ger
many To Terms and End The War.
OUTBURST DF ENTHUSIASM WHEN
PRESIDENT DECLARES 1 WILL
NOT CHOOSE PATH OF SUBMISSION'
Nation's Chief Makes It Clear That The War The
United States Is About To Embark in Is Not a
War of Conquest But One for "The Rights Of
Mankind; A ar Against The Prussian Auto
cracy and Not Against The German People.
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 2. Gravely and
solemnly President Wilson tonight demanded that
the United States recognize the s'tate of war Ger
many has thrust upon the nation, and exert all of
its powers to bring the government of Germany to
terms and end the war. Before the Congress, in
joint session, the President bitterly and dispassion
ately arraigned the German government for its
warfare "against mankind," and urged the repre
sentatives of the people to act at once to put an end
to the destruction of "men, women and children"
in the submarine zone.
In calm silence but with determined faces, the
Senators and Representatives listened as the Presi
dent told them:
"I advise that the. Congress declare ' the , recent
course of the Imperial German government to be
in fact nothing less than war against the govern
ment and people of the United States: That it for
mally accept the status of a belligerent which has
thus been thrust upon it and that it take immediate
steps not only to put the country in a state of de
fense, but to exert all its powers and employ all its
resources to bring the government of Germany to
terms and end the war." - 7
- Brought face to face with the fatal plunge into
the maelstrom of, the struggle which for three
1 years has convulsed the world, the Congress irame
' diately took, calmly but enthusiastically, the first
steps toward declaring the existence of war and
making ready for its prdsecution'. A joint resolu
tion worded . almost ; exactly in : the President's
phraseology, was introduced in both the House and
Senate immediately after his speech was conclud
es. Congressional leaders called the proper com
mittees together tomorrow jnprning to take up the
resolution for immediate action. The leaders de
clared tonight that both houses would be prompt in
making the declaration recommended by the Pres
ident and in providing legislation to mobilize the
man power, money power and all the resources of
the nation for the coming struggle. ; The spirit in
Congress was calm but determined and it evidenc
ed itself in a wild outburst of enthusiasm when the
President in the course of his address declared:
"We wiUhnot choose ths path of submission."
For minutes the Congress and the spectators
(: ! f" ' 3.)
An
Immediate
L
IS ATTACKED BV
IIITEJACIFIST
After Receiving First Lick, The
Senator Comes Back With a
Swinging Right.
I FREE-FOR-ALL
WASHINGTON, ' D. C, April 2.
Pacifists and patriotism clashed in
the capital today on the occasion of
the gathering of the new Congress.
It was a verbal clash in the earlier
hours of the morning when the
throngs of "peace at any price" ad
vocates assembled around "the great
white pile on the hill," and began
their series of buttonholing attacks
on legislators, but it culminated to
ward the middle of the afternoon in
actual fistcuffs when the dignified
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, re
senting the charge of cowardice from
the lips of one of the buttonholers,
called his opponent a liar and when
the peacemaker swung a staggering
blow into his face.
The attack upon Senator Lodge
was followed by a free-for-all mix-up
between the senator's secretaries, a
telegraph messenger boy and the fol
lowers of the bellicose pacifists oc
curred. In a narrow haUway in the
main building of the capitol, just off
the rotunda, Alexander Bannwart, of
Boston, accompanying Mrs. Anna
May Hilliard, of Cambridge, had
stopped at the senator's private of
fice in the course of a presentation of
the arguments to legislators. Sena
tor Lodge politely told Bannwart
he thought he needed no information
as to the attitude of Massachusetts
in the present international emer
gency. ,
"Anyone who wants to go to war
at a time like this is a coward," Bann
wart hissed at the, senator.
"You're a liar," crisply enunciated
Senator Lodge, hia eyes flashing and
his form stiffening,
In a second Bannwart had planted
a blow at the senator's chin. . The sen
ator staggered at the force of the im
pact and nearly lost hia balance, but
he came back with a swinging right,
and out of the senator's, office piled
the clerks and secretaries to end the
fight; ' -?,: ' v 4 ,-.
llSiTfli
Suggested That Armed Craft
Be Provided to Protect the ,
i. '"It would not be impossible for' o
hostile' submarine to come as far as
Hatteras llnlet, unload a small boat;
with a couple , of . guns aboard, : send
the boat, up the Pamlico and play
havoc "in Washington,'! said Captain
Dave Hill this morning : in speaking
of the means which Washington has
for its defense.' Nr .; ,
"It appears to me that the thing
we ': ought to " do,"-: he continued,
"would be to try to get some guns
down this way.; They have them for
protection of other .cities " and, in
case of war, I think ; it would i. be
highly essential that we have a few
small-armed craft in these' waters.
It' would be an easy matter for
a submarine to carry one or two
small boat3 in its hold for use in those
waters along the coast where the
depth is too shallow for t-e su'miar-
FEARS GERMAN
SUBS
if
Army
"We will not choose the
path of submission."
Woodrow Wilson.
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 2.
The United States will accept Ger
many's "State of war" and will meet
force with force, if the amended reso
lution introduced tonight by Chairman
Flood, of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, prevails. This resolution
will be considered by the House For
eign Affairs Committee when Con
gress meets tomorrow. It is:
"Whereas, the recent acts of the
Imperial German Government are
acts of war against the government
and the people of the United States.
"Resolved, By the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United
States of America, in Congress as
sembled,. That the state of war be
tween the United States and the Im
perial Genaan Government which has
thus been thrust . upon the United
States is . hereby formally declared
and, . '
- That the President be and is here
by authorized and directed to take
immediate steps; pot only to put the
country in a thorough state of defense
but also, to exert all of its power and
employ all of ' its resources to carry
on war against the Imeprial German
Government and to bring the conflict
to a successful termination." . , .
An. identical resolution was intro'-.
duced in the Senate by Senator Mar
tin,' the Democratic floor leader of
that body. .;.r."fvVv,;;p::A;.;';.'..!';;.
Every Available Man "Able to
Bear Arms Must Go To
The Front, s , t
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; COPENHAGEN, via London, 'April
2. Germany, according to informa
tion reaching here from Berlin, now
is gathering to the colors every avail
able man for the supreme military ef
fort to bring the War to a victorious
conclusion in this year's campaign,
a goal which Field Marshal Ton Hin
denburg and his advisors consider by
no means impossible of attainment.
No, Moude, dear; in discussing cur
rent topics it isn't absolutely neces
sary to limit ymm-i if to the subject
IH MEASURE IS
INTRODUCED IN
BOTH HOUSE
AND SENATE
CALLS
ALL MEN TO COLORS
iTEME
of Half Million Men
DEMOCRATS IN
FULL CONTHOLL
OF Tf HOUSE
Organization Effected 3y Close
Margin, With Aid of Four
Independents.
P CLARK IS
RE-ELECTED SPEAKER
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 2.
The War Congress was organized to
day by the Democratic party and the
v. iy was cleared tonight for immed
iate legislative action to support
President Wilson in hostilities with
Germany. The Democratic organiza
tion of the House was accomplished
by a narrow margin, with the aid of
four representatives elected as inde
pendents. The Senate, with a safe
Democratic majority had already been
organized in special session of the
upper house, held March 5.
The election of Champ Clark as
speaker, and other House officers, the
adoption of Democratic House rules
and the election of the House commit
tees, kept the House busy from noon
well into the evening, when arrange
ments were completed for a joint ses
sion of both houses to hear Presi
dent Wilson's war address.
The session was marked by sombre
business-like earnestness as the rep
resentatives of the people confront
ed a legislative decision that may
throw the United States into the
maelstrom of war. Democrats and Re
publicans in patriotic declarations
even as they fought for partisan or
ganization of the House.
The defeat of Republican Leader
James R. Mann for speaker was ac
complished by the defection of three
representatives from his standard
and the decision of independents to
give the House control of the admin
istration. .The vote was: Clark 217;
Mann 205; Lenroot, of Wisconsin, 2;
Gillette, of Massachusetts, 2.
Clark received the votes of 213
Democrats, Schall, of Minnesota, Pro
gressive; London, of New York, Soc
ialist; Randall, of California, Prohi
bitionist; and Martin, of Louisiana,
Progressive-Protectionist.
CAPITOL DURINC
Extreme Precautions Taken Be
cause of Feeling Between War '
Advocates and Pacifists, .v
' WASHINGTON, D, C, April 2.
Two troops of eavalry were ordered
to the capitol tonight tg guaru against
any disorder shile the President de
livered .his war message. The sold
iers rode through the city to the cap
itol about half an hour before the
President was scheduled to start up
Pennsylvania Avenue with an escort
of secret service men. The high feel
ing between pacifists and war advo-.-
ics, v.l - c . ' ! !'p cily, led to
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PRESIDENT WILSON
s closely Guarded
American Armed
Ship Is Destroyed
"Aztec" Was Torpedoed Without Warning Off
The French Coast, According to Dispatch Re
ceived at French Embassy at Washington
Eleven Members of Crew Missing.
SECRETARY DANIELS AWAITS THE
OFFICIAL REPORTS REFORE CMC
DOT NIES OF GUN CRE1 ABOARD
WASHINGTON, D. c, April 2.
Eleven of the crew of the armed Am
erican steamer "Aztec," torpedoed
without warning off the French coast,
are missing, according to a dispatch
received at the French embassy to
night. No complete list of survivors
of the ship was contained in the dis
patch, which was garbled in transmis
sion and which mentioned two missing
boats after referring to the eleven
men missing. The dispatch, as giv
en out by the French embassy, read:
"The French misister of the navy
has given the foreign office the fol
lowing information:
"The American steamer 'Aztec,'
armed, bound from New York to
Havre, has been sunk without warn
ing April 1 off Ouessant. The torpedo
CALL TO
TO ENLIST IN
New Bern Company Needs 75
Abie-Bodied Men to Bring It
To War Strength.
Are our people patriotic ? When
our nation is in peril it is the duty
of Our people to respond. Surely this
section is not less patriotic than oth
er sections of the country.
Lieutenant F. T. Brandt of the local
Naval Militia is in need of seventy-j
five able bodied men to put his divis
ion on d war footing.' 'The govern
ment gives good pay, the pay rang
ing,from $24.20 por month to $77.00
and rations, outfit of clothing and
medical attention.1 :
The locat division ; now. has but
thirty-eight qualified' men. Let our
men respond to the call of patriotic
duty.1 'Obey the impulse and com
municate with t Lieutenant ' P . T.
Brandt," New Bern, at once and get
information as to how to enlist. Do
not delay: , You have the opportunity
to serve your, country.-
The usuaf monthly1 meeting of tne
Craven County Board of Education
was held in the office of Mr.' S.' M.
Brinson, superintendent of public in
struction; ' ' yesterday- morning, ' . and
the usual routine Of business was at
tended to. ; V: ' v
extreme precautions
throughout the city.
by the police
IT
AN OPPORTUNITY TO
POWERS
struck amidship, destroying the wire
less apparatus and generating great
quantities of asphyxiating gas. The
first boat broke in two while being
lowered. The second 'boat took off the
captain, Lieut. Fuller Gresham, the
naval officer in charge of the ship's
guard and 15 men of the crew. A.
"The third boat tooK off the second-'
officer and 18 men. Eleven men are
missing. The boat with the captain
was sighted by the French cattle ship
'Sirius' and this ship took the surviv
ors aboard. Searching for the oth
er." Secretary of the Navy Daniels said
he had no official information as to
the sinking of the Aztec but that he
would make public the names of the
gun crew aboard just as soon as he
could get a complete list of them.
P
Learned That Officials of War
Department Will Designate it
as Mobilizing Point.
While nothing definite has been an '
nounced by the war department, rel
ative to the National Guard and vol
unteers mobilizing at Camp Glenn, it
has been learned from a confidential
source, that this is the decision ar- :
rived at by those n charge. It was
also reported in New Bern last night
uiaL ncvcini viut.eiB aiiu men aiv OA-
pected to go to Camp Glenn today to
prepare for the " arrival of s the '
troops. ', ; " ' -
In addition to the members of the'
National. Guard,' it . is expected that
several thousand volunteers will bft
sent there for training.. - The volun
teers will riot- only come from North
Carolina, but from other States along,
the Atlantic Coast, Arrangements '
are being made to provide quarters
for several thousand Volunteers,
Frances Boyd, Louis.Boyd and
Pearle Foy, colored, were darraigned
in Police Court- yesterday 'charged
with engaging in" a ' fight ' Saturday
night. Louis . Boyd " was ? dismissed
and the two-women found guilty and
fined five dollars and taxed with the,
cost. Walter Edwards, colored, was
taxed with the cost for discharging a
pistol within the city ttmits.
CAMP GLENN AS
SEEMS
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