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SEX ATE CHANGES Kl LES TO CHECK FILIBUSTERS .? \r.. T.I 11 -Alter nunurea ieai>? ui .uanuvu i<i>b Methods, 1'pper House Adopts Ke gulation to Prevent "Handful of WilfuU Men'' to iialk .Expressed Will of Majority?New Flan Goes Through With but Three Dissent ing Votes, All Factions Uniting to Its Support?Some Hard Words Mark Debate Which Precedes Ac tion of Upper House. Washington, March 8.?After more than 100 years under rules permit ting debate limited only Dy cue physical endurance of senators and the provisions of the constitution, the senate tonight, by a vote of 76 to 3, put power in the hands of two-thirds of its members in the future to limit discussion and to say when a vote .shall be taken on a pending measure. Never while the amendment is in the senate rule book can a "little group of wilful men," as President JvVilson called those he held respon sible for the defeat of the armed neu tmiitv hill nr^vftnt a vote on a bill "before the senate if two-thirds of their colleagues will otherwise. The organized filibuster as recognized In the senate is dead. Action came unexpectedly arier six hours debate on the new rule drafted *>y a bi-partisan committee. Although both Democrats and Republicans had approved the change in caucus and Senator Martin, the majority floor ]eader? had given notice that the senate wouid be kept in continuous session until a vote was taken nearly every one looked for a mufch longer discussion. Senators La Foliet<e and Gronna, two of those who opposed the armed neutrality bill, and Senator Sherman, who favored it, cast the negative votes. Senators Cummins, Kenyon, Kirby, Lane, iNorris, Stone and Vardaman, who were against the armed neutrality bill, voted for the amendment. Colleagues of most of the senators absent announced that if they had been preseDt they would iiave supported it. The exact use of the rules will not "become apparent until it is enforced but it probably can not be success fully used to prevent the spectacular one-man filibusters by which senators have talked bills pending in the clos ing hours of a session to a legisla tive grave. Such filibusters probably can not be prevented unless they are foreseen but an organized affair which vo TOnnn#>d two davs or more ahead of a session's end can be dis posed of easily. In brief, the new rul$ provides that on petition of 16 senatbrs to close debate on a pending measure the sen ate by a two-thirds vote on the fol lowing day bnt one may limit debate thereafter to one hour to each sena tor. It includes provisions to pre vent dilatory tactics and the introduc tion after cloture is ordered of amend ments not germane to the pending Trill. Not Same as House Rule. "" "rxnni/yra -arhn faVOrftd the .Tiau v acuaiui a change do not look upon it as ^ cloture rule such as prevails in the liouse of representatives, where the rules committee with a majority be hind it can set the limits upon speech and the hour for a vote. Others who fear that the action tonight merely forecasts a more drastic change in the future, declared it was but the entering wedge and that the days of the senate as the only legislative body in the world wnere mere can uui uc full and free discussion are numbered. The debate today started peacefully "but before it had continued long ir. "branched into discussion on the arm ?d neutrality bill and the president s statement about the 12 men he held responsible for a failure to get a Tote upon it. There were some bitter criticisms of the president and of Jthe newspapers. Senator Cummins de clared that any man in the senate or out, if "high or low," who said he attempted or conspired to prevent a vote on the bill "deliberately falsifies." j Senator Townsend said the presi-j Kent's statement was unjust, unfor tunate and in his opinion unconsti- j tutional, as an attack upon a coordl- j nate branch of the government. j Senator Norris announced that he favored cloture rule, but was opposed and would still be opposed to the armed neutrality bill unless modified. He asserted the side of those who op- j posed that measure had never reach ed the people. Senator Smoot said if the president would call a special session of con gress and the friends of the armed neutrality bill would not take all the time, the measure could be passed in three days after it reached the senate floor. May Speak Late. The last speaker was Senator La Follette, the central figure of the fill- j Notice to Contestants Tin . r in wneat wowiog All persons who have entered the contest for prizes offered by us in Wheat Growing will please send us their names and post office address by March 15th. a i ni ? Anderson rnospnaze and Oil Company Anderson, S. C. WOMAN NOW IN PERFECT HEALTH | What Came From Reading a Pinkham Adver tisement Faterson, N. J. ? "I thank you for the Lvriia K. Pinkham remedies as thev ! have made me well and healthy. Some time ago I felt so run down, had pains in my back and side, was very irregular, tired, nervous, had such bad dreams, did not feel like eat ing and had short breath. I read your advertisement in the newspapers and fn a Ivkt+lp rvf TiVdia E.Pink MWWiUW'U W Vi. J M MWVV v. ?-? ham's Vegetable Compound. It worked | from the first bottle, so I took a second j and a third, also a bottle of Lydia E. j Pinkham's Blood Purifier, and now I am I just as well as any other woman. I ad i vise every woman, single or married, | who is troubled with any of the aiore ! said ailments, to try your wonderful Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier and I am sure they will help her to get ! rid of her troubles as they did me."- j Mrs. Elsie J. Van deb Sandb, 35 No. XorK st, rarerson, in. o. Write the LydiaE. Pinkham Medicine Co., (confidential) Lynn, Mass, if yoa need special advice ' buster. He said he would not dis j cuss his position on the neutrality j bill now but might have sometnmg to ! say about it later. i Pointing out that some of the most I important appropriations bills, inclua I ing the navy and array measures, had J been presented to the senate only a ! short time before March 4, he asked: "We they 80 long coming to the | senate because it was undesirable that j they be discussed here?" The army j bill was presented, he said, with a j provision never bef ">re dared to be J preeented to an American congress? J with universal conscription or univer- j sal military training embodied in it. "You pile up legislation of that sort," he continued, "and then 48 or 50 hours before the end of the ses j sion you bring in a bill that trenches j on the constitutional authority of I congress and demand that debate ' shall be made to conform. With this j * ? j 1^1 j ' 1 sort to a ruie ana an iron nana icuu ! on this body from outside, with a ! congress that has reduced itself in a \ little less than three years to little J less than a rubber stamp, do you j liot think this sort of cloture would: be pretty effective?" The senator^ read extracts from The Congressional j Record of previous debates on cloture: showing how many famous sena- j tors had opposed it. i "I have no apology to make for! my action in trying to defeat thej ' armed neutrality bill." said Senator! | Gronna. "I was opposed to that bill j | and am now, and if it were'before the! 'senate I should talk against it and j ; should vote against it." When Senator Smith of Georgia! 'said the change in rules would be j I useful to prevent occurrences such j j as that of the past week. (Senator j Stone remarked: I "If our action results in the senate j ! being able to do same business, then I the occurrences of the last week hare not been <in vain." A resolution was prepared by Sen ; ator McLean of Connecticut request : ing the president to call a special j session of congress March 20 because "important measures vital to the | honor and safety of the nation re j quire immediate attention." He was 1 unable to introduce It today because i 1 of the rules fight, but may bring it ! up tomorrow. Winded Creatures. \ "Is your wife trying to make a so I cial butterfly of you?" j "No," replied Mr. Crumox. "I: don't stand any chance of being a1 winged creature of airy grace. If' you want to classify me you'll have' to get away from the insects and try! birds. I'm the goose that lays the golden eggs." TNB H SKALD AND NEWS ONE Y?A$ FOR $1.50. Kiieumatism accacKS ine "outiide" man. Pains and aches stiffen hi. joints and musclei and reduces his efficiency. At the first twinge get Sloan's Liniment, easy to apply, it pene trates urtihout rubbing and soothes the soreness. After that long drive or tedious wait in the cold rain apply Sloan's Liniment to those stiff fingers, acmng wrists ana arras. ~ For gout, neuralgia, toothache, bruiset, spraini, cold feet, it is promptly effective. At all druggists, 25c. 50c. and $1.00. O.YE WHAT A LIBRARY MEASS TO A TOWN By \oble Foster Hoercrson, President, Hogreon Brothers, Builders. Every town no matter how small sliould have a public library. Such a building symbolizes the recognition by a community of its mental hunger, its jintelleotual aspirations, its longing MAMSOX MEMORIAL LIBRi I j A Building Which Proclaims the La | Attractive Because of its Dignitj i of thought, as a church edifice ex presses the same qualities in terms of moral and splrtual need. It is a great unifying force for better things. As a mere building it gives new tone, character and stability to a town. It suggests growth, perman ence, and a spirit of progress, a reatt ? Q rpai n^ed of its people should be met in a broad, public spirited way. The library in site, surroundings, material -and construc tion, should be the best, the finest best, the people can provide. The building should not be cramped and hedged in, but free and clear on all four sides, as if proclaiming in its own freedom of breathing space the larger mental freedom it offers to all. The library should be, within and without, a thing of beauty. It should in its exterior attract dv us uiftiuij, simplicity, solidity and fineness. It should by graceful touches in treat ment be made kindly looking and in viting the passer-by to rest, to mer.tal refreshening and inspiration. Its ar MEXICO CITY AND BERLIN IX RADIO COMMUNICATION Powerful Wireless TelegTaph Plant Reported Semi-Offieially to be in Operation. Washington, March 8.?Information hoC rparhf^d the government from a semi-official source that through the perfection of a powerful wireless tele graph plant in Mexico City direct communication between the Mexican capital and Germany has been estab lished. >'442 Officials realize that if confirmed this news is of great importance and an investifiation has been ordered. Through connection by Mexico City with the land telegraphs leading into the United States, Germany would be able to obtain complete exemption from the censorship imposed upon its + r> k-,t tVio AmpripA/n Gov C'OILi ill U J I.UU ernment at the wireless stations at Sayville and Tuckerton and by the British and French governments in their control of the Atlantic cables. Far reaching possibilities thus would be opened for the violation of American neutrality or even for men acing the national safety in the criti cal situation existing. Sea raider3 and submarines might be directed and full information concerning the de parture of ships from American ports furnished. German agents in this country might keep in close touch with Berlin and in case of war even more serious results might foHow. "i1 ? AffllAlQl Ortlirf p<3 in. i4 rom uin5cuii"Uiii.vj.ai uvma formation has reached Washington that secret meetings are being held by Germans in Vera Cruz and In Mon terey to determine upon uniform ac tion by Germans in Mexico in the event of war between the Unitod States and Germany. COUNT ZEPPELIN ""r"r 1 ^ ? nc?r?n i ~rcr i V 11 AS rAjSWfclJ A WAX Inrentor of Great Airship Dies of I? Flamation of Lnngs. London. March 8.?Count Zeppelin is dead, according to a dispatch from Berlin, received by Reuters Tele gram company. According to a Ber lin xeiusraiii u aiiBumicu uj "vuiv. ^ Amsterdam correspondent, Count Zeppelin died this forenoon at Char lotteburg. near Berlin, from inflama tion of the lungs. THE HERALD. ANb NEWS. OSCE YEAR FOR ONLY $1-50. * I chitecture should oe of the best, 110 J matter "how simple the building, for ; it should in its appearance express I its consciousness of the glory and : ' privilege of its mission. Within it ; i should be bright, cheery, calm and i restful, finished in quiet tones, and i uv, A.Kairc that toll nf rnmfort so V\ itu VV^? * ? A. - | ' that one may forget one's body in the joy of reading. i ia real library is not a mere room ' with rows and rows of book-lined | shelves, mere books gathered hurried I RY, MADISON CONNECTICUT. rser Mental Freedom it Offers to AIL r, Simplicity, Solidity and Fineness. fy and carelessly from various sources; it is a place where only the . best can enter. It is a room where ! the greatest genuiseo ana thinkers of ' the ages, past and present, come into your presence and talk confidentially : and inspiringly with you at your word i Arvmmond. fVioro io nn fPWTVP no I aloofness, nothing but fine, frank | companionship in the world of let | ters. The library should be a town's best j investment, paying the largest divi ! dends in education, character, cul | ture. development. It should be a civic and social centre with rooms for lectures, music, debates, discus sion. a vital factor in the life of the , community, not a building set apart ! for occasional use as a source of in formation or a means of distraction. It should be a constant inspiration. ! What it means to a town is nmueu only by what the people determine it shall mean. , RAYMOND, the Registered Durock j Jersey boar is now ready for service 'J at the home of J. W. Henderson. See me or phone 106. 3-9-4tp 1 "T DD mmiiliMilililillllllNiar PLAN TO OVERCOME 11 LOSSES BY U-BOATS Tbonsand Vessels of Thousand Tons 1 Each (oald be Built for $100, 000,000. Xew York. March S.?A plan where by cargo tonnage can be created In this country "faster than Germany u can sink it," has been devised by F. c Huntington Clark, an American en- t< ai'turums tu ctii axiiiuuxieeuiyui ^ here tonight before a joint session of f< the Automobile Club of America, the $ Aero Club of America and the Motor boat Club of America. S The new type of vessel, it was said, a could be built in great numbers quick- a ly at small cost and by men of little skill. Er.ch vessel would be mastles9. ? smokeless and of diminutive size and would have such low visibility as com- J] pared with the great steel ships now ^ afioat, that it could be seen by a sub marine at barely more than a third ; of the distance at which the 10,000- " ton steamship notsr i3 detected. | ^ In addition, it was asserted, the new a craft, propelled entirely by motor,' 0 would offer a smaller mark, would be more easily manoeuvered in event of an encounter and because of its small t( draft of from eleven to thirteen feet, 2 torpedoes that ordinarily would sink , the larger vessel of steel construction [ would "pass idly beneath it." It was estimated that a thousand vessels at 1,000 tons each could be b built at a cost of $100,000,000 in a 0 year. These boats would be 185 feet over all with thirty-six foot beam. I Mr. Clark's plan is to utilize an of the coastal wooden ship yardg -v which now have a capacity of 250,000 c tons a year. To enlarge these plants, t: it was asserted, would require nothing; more than the clearing of additional j beach or bank, the laying down of: more cheap wooden ways and the set-: ting up of additional lumber planing J and sawing machinery. RUB-MY-TISM?Antiseptic, Relieves a Rheumatism, Sprains. Neuralgia etc j * I "p0?TEftS O-ROASfEf 5 Vt W OrL?AN* I'.S* "I The Luzianne Guarantee: If, after using the contents nf a ran. vou are not satisftcd in every respect, your gro cer will refund your rrioney\ Ask i The Reily-Taylor Go He Smiles? when 1 cup of Instant P( This wholesome f cheers without demc after-price of nervou because it contains the harmful elemei and coffee. V r "There's a ^ Sold by Grocers i?LPi>'G THE GRAIN CKOP TO "COME BACK* op Dressings Being: Urged More Tklf Year Than Ever to Overcome Win ter Damage and Losses by Heary Rains. Agricultural authorities seem to be rging this year, especially the appll ation of top dressings of fertilizer o help the winter damaged grain rops and to supply some of the plant :>od that the heavy rains have wash. d out. In a statement sent o:it by the Farm ervice Bureau. Prof. J. X. Harper, well known Southern agricultural uthority says; "It always pays tc top dress grain, specially oats. This year there has een a wet winter and the nitrogen as been washed out of the soli, rrains that survived the severe win ?r are in need of assistance in get ing a good start. Therefore, if max aum crops are to be expected, top ressings should be applied at once. I)o not wait until Easter" says this uthority. "That is too late. Ftar ats and -wheat we would recommend fertilizer analyzing 8 per cent phos horic acid, 6 per cent ammonia, this d be applied at the rate of 200 to 00 pounds per acre broadcast.** The Prose Period. 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