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ID MUSE DISPUTE ALLIES TO VifiOROliSLY PRO TEST NEW 1. S. RULING NOT ARM Intention to Attnck Sudi ▼«w*els K<'<|ui, « s Decision on UteE Fnrt of l. S.-—Serious Controversy im Bxpecte<l With Great Britain and * ®arh of Her Allies. A<lniinis( ration officials accept it •• a certainty that the lTilted States will become embroiled in a Utter controversy with Great Bri tain and her allies In the event the state department issues* regulations nlvinn armed mer chant ships the status of warshi]>s - and limiting their stay in Ameri- ~ - caa ports. •acretary of State Lansing has ad mitted that the diplomatic* repre- sontatives of the Kntente had dia- < usaed informally with him the mem orandum .sent to the Allies, suggest ing the advisability of disarming ail merchant ships in order to avoid a further complicatioii of'the suhma-' rine difficulty and facilitate com merce on the high seas. The secre- •ary would not indicate, however, that the Kntente diplomats ‘disap proved the suggested plan. There is no longer any doubt in official circles that Gnsat Britain. France. Italy. Japan and Russia will not subscribe to the disarming pro posal. This is more especially true of Great Britain and Italy, but the other Kntente powers will join ,ln their refusal if requested to do so. It Is recognized that Great Britain will take the lead in matter* of this" kind because of the great extent of her commerce and her absolute con trol of the seas. As heretofore stated, the proposal was made in the best of good faith and in the firm belief that benefit would result to ail cummerca-lf guns wv>rw'removed from merchant ships flying Kntente flags Despite the con tentions advanced In press dispatches from London, officials are still con vinced that the disarming of mer chantmen would be of great advart- tagw even to British commerPe. since, they believe, it would rob Germany and Austria of the only excuse they rave for attacking merchant vessels without Warning It can be stated on authority that the Vhitente powers will cite as a precedent notes sent to belligerents earlier ih the war in which the United State* went on record as admitting the lawful right of merchant ship* to carry small guns for defense. In this connection it Is recalled that Scere-. iary Lansing made It plain in send ing oat the disarming proposal that his suggestion was advanced because of "change conditions.** Itoili Gcrmanr and Great Britain have invaded the right* of neutrals . aa laid sluwn In International law, and have done ho hra/enly. each at tempting fn Justify Its action on the ground that the oilier did It tlrnt. “Changed conditions’* were advanced as the excuse by both sides In their attempts to explain lllegpi^acts and restrictions to the United States and other neutral nations That conditions of warfare have changed with the coming of the sub marines Is beyond nut’sG 0 *' That guns of small calibre could easily de stroy submarines can not be denied. Without having committed the Unit ed States to any deflnltf position, of ficials feel that these changed condi tions should be recognized in some way. When Secretary Lansing sept his disarming suggestions to the Kn- tentn powers If was not With a view »--!« niaking easier the work of the lurking submarine, but.,on thn con trary in the hope of materially Ijmlt- ing Us radius of action and iom- pclllng the observance of the require ments of international law by sub ■marine rommande r s. Secretary I^msing • said that it would not tie qorrert to assume that the United States will adopt tho de clared position of Germany and rec ognize armed merchantmen as ships of war. He reiterated bis declaration that the United States has not yet taken a position on this issue, and will not until it is directly presented. The state department lato Satur day afternoon received from Ambas sador Gerard at Berlin an official copy of the German memorandum an nouncing the deeisiorrof the German government to sink armed merchant- mon of tihe Kntente allies, and 'that ■"orders making the new policy effec tive had been issued by the German admiralty to all submarine and war ship commanders. These orders will go into effect on February 29. The official text of the memoran dum, with its various appendices, covers fourteen -typewritten pages, and makes about five /thousand words.. .-V similar statement of the policy of Austria-Hungary has been handed to Ambassador Penfield at Vienna and ts 1 . being Cabled to the state-department- The Berlin memorandum makes plain the pur|>oses of Germany to treat all armed merchant ships as no longer enjoying the status of peaceful merchantmen and to deal with them as if they were warships. It also ex plains that Germany is informing tho hUed States and other neutral pow;/ ers of this state of affairs in order that they may warn their citizens not to risk their lives or prqjpfty on armed merchant shlps. f ‘ The delivery of, .this notification open* a new and serious-diplomatic controversy between the United States and various belligerent powers.. In view of the strong proba bility that the United States will take kin advanced position in favor pf PTreatlng armeiA merchantshlpk TRIED TO POISON DINERS; 1 ipincp III POLICE HUNT ANARCHIST LLttULIl ill Ulan Advanced to Day Slilitia and Itequire Srrvlce Outside Country. The proj bsals of the National Guard association-for federalization, of the state troops were before the military conmUttees of congress in the fornv of a bill drafted ; by repre sentatives of the association at the re quest of the Senate committee. Force is given to the reguiations contem plated by a provision limiting par ticipation in the federal pay feature to officers, men or organizations com plying with certain specified re-quire- ments. , The scale of annual pay proposed follows: Major generals, $SQ0; bri gadiers, $709; colonels, $600; lieu tenant colonels, $550; majors, $525; captains, $500; first lieutenants. $300; second lieutenants, $250. Un listed men would be paid on the basis of 25 per cent, of the pay rates of the regular army, a private receiving approximately $45 a year. The niaxiinum Tnimbor of troops provided for by . the bill is 5001 for each congressional district, or a tbtal peace strength of approximately 200,- 000? an increase of 70,000 over the present strength of National Guard. Tlfey would form a separate branch of the_ regular army in time of war when called Into the federal service. The act would take effect\3uly 1, 1916. FORD TO FIGhYPREPAREDNESS To l-uunch National Advertising * w Scheme Against Militarism^ It warf announced Sunday that Henry Ford is preparing Vo‘ihunch a country-wide campaign of newspaper and magazine advertising against the program for huge navn^ and military expenditures now before congress. it was safd Mr Ford intends soon to carry out his announced intention to devote millions of dollars to an educational catupaigh against war and preparedness, which he declared to be the first step toward actual war. None of the details of the plan could he obtained, except that Mr. Ford had lieen considering the cam paign for some time and that “ all the people of the country would be reached by it ” Soup Served at Banquet Had Been- KITCHIN OLT OF JtARMONY ON POPULATION 101,208.315 Americans Imreaslng at Kate .^<>f 2,tMMI.tMM) a Vear. Census bureau exoerts estimated Sunday that the population of the United States ott January J last was I0l.2uk.3l5 and that .by July 1 It would be l02.0t-7.302 On July I last year they figured the impulatlnu at I I fi West* rn states-have led in growth. Washington heading thn list, with Oklahoma. Nevada. North Dakota and New Mexico fol lowing in the order nauieo. The bureau's estimates are based on tl|e rate of increase between the I sort' and Ik 10 census that they will travel ph such vessels at their own risk. ’ Tills !■ likely to prodnre a dif-' Scull diplomatic controversy with Great Britain and her allies at a «*—- whew this country i* ea- ULES BILL PASSED Droxidew Alternative Fine or wen- teiicc i>n FirM Offence. The House concurred In the Senate amendments to the Liles bill provid ing for a ehatngung sentence for sell ing intoxiratieg liquors The hill was ordered enrolled for ratification and the “clinch *r" was put on The bill provides for an optional punishment In the case of violation of the statute regulating storing and seHAng of liqi!«»~. for the first offense Otherwise Hie bill remains unchanged from its passage, in the House. * THANKS PRESIDENT House Militun foinmitlee l.lkei Attitude on Prejni red ness. Hi' The House military eon.imittee Fri day adopted a resolution.'authorizing Chairman Hay to express to Presi dent Wilson its appreciation of the .spirit Of broad-minded fairness in which lie is dealing with prepared ness problems. a:ul to thank him for Ins defence of-the limitary commit tees as disclosed 5 in his x eorrespomi- ence with former Secretary Garri son. /V — ' \ deavoring to,tiring about a modus vivendl regarding the status of merchantmen. S' : ■ ■ - * •• It was pointed out in high official ''quarters that the United States would have to reach a decision quick ly, only seventeen days remaining be fore the effective date of the German declaration, after which commanders of German anti Austrian submarines are expected to receive orders per mitting the torpedoing without warn ing of any ship that is armed. Diplomatic reprosentatives of the Entente alliMpinItVashington have orally inforiOTd .Secretary Lansing that their governments are unwilling to addp.t, the Suggestion for the dis armament of their merchant vessels. ft became known that should the ,'CniUMl States modify it* present rule with res|>ect to the use of the ports of tills country by armed merchant ships a protest would lie made by Great Britain, TYanee, Japan, Belgium, and Russia,, as serting the right of merchant shi|is to carry armament for defensive purpose* and alleging that for the United States to adopt a different course would amount to a change in the rule* of maritime war dur ing the war. ami a violation of Amertran neutrality. ..bqlanL rontentlon’of The ‘Brittsb gov- Htarficter AM warning American. Prriment u thlt a certain number of T’olsoned-!—Many People Nar row ly Escape Deatlk. ' . , ■ ' : ‘ • y* Police of every Targe city of .Hie United States were asked Sunday night to aid-j In the man-hunt for Jean Chrones, alleged anarchist, and since last .September an assistant chief of the University Club at Chi cago. ADMINISTRATION BILIS In the mtnd 6f 'Chrories -a' rtilnd rhbUltmWh'AVTio Now Ulan Consoll- inflamed from reading I. W. W. and “red flag” literature, and from asso ciation with anarchists—the police believe the plot was hatched to poi son 200 distinguished men, at the banquet Thursday night at the club to the new Chicago archbishop. Geo. W. Mundelein. Chrones, alies John Cones, alias Julius Crones, prepared the soup stock whicii brought sudden illness to more than 100 of the guests. He returned to his home., 2,201 Prairie Avenue, where he had a room fitted up as a chemical laboratory and where he carried on experiments as a student in chemistry enrolled with a eorrespondenee school. With extreme care he burned let ters. pictures, and qll his papers which may have had any significance in an inyeetigation. Chrones- disap peared Wednesday night at 11.20 oYLoolt. leaving a stench in his room from burning papers and chemical experiments. He failed to destroy six bottles of poison.Hone an empty bottle which had contained arsenic, his I. W. W. literature, and a lot of explosives and equipment which the police say. were used to make bombs. On Thursday night, after a kettle of soup poisoned with, arsenic Jiad been served at the archbishop's ban quet. and th^ police sought to find him, Chicago had swallowed him up. WANTS NAVAL RESERVE Blue ^Suggest* Pltui for Reinforcing PenionDet of Fleet. Amendments to the naval reserve law prepared by tho naval depart ment. presented to the House naval committee Wednesday J*y Hear 'Ad miral Blue, proposes virtually a new act by which department hopes to get thirty thousand reservists within ■ Tew years and maintain an ample sup porting force automatically regulated by the size of the navy; It Is proposed to change the term of enlistment to voluntsrysenrollment in the reserve: make reservlsets sub ject to the articles of war only when under call for service; revise the rate of pay; grant preferences to men who have served sixteen years, and who seek government employment ashore, retirement rights to men who serx'e thirty years continuously In the navy and transfer fflsteen anil twenty-year men ia the regular line. TO UNITE FOR DEFENCE Garrison’s Resignation Awakens This development hat the cause of the ant I-pr<-paredness element In Uie Hoiim*. It has brought to this element a belated realization of the necessity of getting the party together/•on a defense, program -a compromise bill, if it iw to be that-^ w hich must be supported by all Dem ocrats. Otherwise, it is contended, the Republicans will wield the bal ance of power and get the credit for preparedness. Within tho last several days con ferences 1 have been held among the anti-preparedness men. These con- fej-ences have resulted in this deci sion: . Ration for Adequate Defense A n t i -1 Yeparedn ess Members Have Lost Some Strength. GERMANS HAVE SO ZEPPELINS I-wlent 'I-Klein l^-nger ami Afore Guns. Garry Highly Zeppelins are now in the German. service. It appear* from In formation developed at Friedrich- sliafen, where th« r Zeppelin works ars located. One of the latest type that is having a trial trip this w'eev Is I.Z-95, which is taken to mean that it is the ninety-fifth In the aeries -luting from the beginning of the war, fifteen haring been lost, It is said. The newest model seems consider ably longer than previous types. It Is of fish-like shape and gray tinted, by the means of aluminum powder, it ffc explained The bondolas are of plated steel. Each has sis machine guns lu its quick fire battery and ap paratus for throwing bombs and air torpedoes. It is reported that a new air torpedo more powerful than any previously used Is about to be given a trial. French Gruiser Ijost. The French cruiser Admiral Char- u- r. it is fe,ared by the Bfitish min istry of marine, has been lost while patrolling the Syrian roast. The cru ; «er has not been heard from since February 8. when a German dispatch reported that a submarine had sunk a-French warship. •Vants I*race, e Telegraph company Bulgarin The Kxchan of London received the following dis patch- Sunday ■'from Athens: "It is confirmed. in-Entente cireles that Bul garia has made overtures for a sep arate peace to the Kntente powers.’’ Veni/.elos to Gome Back. The Paris Journal’s Athens' corre spondent says that former Premier Venizelos of Greece- has decided t-r return to active political life, be coming a candidate for .a vacancy in the chamber of deputies. ^Austrian Seaplanes Attack. Austria!? ff&aplanesvhave attacked the town -of -Ravepna, in northeast Italy, and’sevefaTothcr places in the vicinity. Fifteen persons are said to ha^-j been killed and a number in jured.. Distilleries Become Armories. ■ The British government will im mediately take over all the-large whiskey distilleries and use them as munition -factories, says the London Daily Chronicle. Graliafn-W'hite Wounded. Claude Graham-W'bite. the British aviator, has been woupdecl gravely. No details have been obtained. He was commissioned a lieutenant last month. British merchant vessels have been armed, but only as % precautionary measure, adopted solely for the de fease. and that under existing rules of International law this is n fight of nil merchant vessels when attacked Turkish Vessels Sunk. On the Black Sea Russian [QrpedQ boat destroyers have sunk additional Turkish'salllng vessels and have <je-_ stroyed bridges and depots ashofe. Orman Gunboat Hunk. The German gunboat Helwig von Wlsemann has been sunk on I-a be Tanganyika, Africa, by the Belgians. The resignation of Lindley M. Gar rison as secretary of war has brought congress to a realization of the-char- acter of the situation confronting the country in the matter of military pre paredness: ' Conditions in Washington ap proach the chaotic^ hut it was appar- "Ynt that CObgresSmen who had been indifferent or opposed to the admin istration’s ■national defense plans had arrived at the conclusion, as a result of the attention attracted,to thei'r at titude by the retirement of Mr. Gar rison, that sometllingjShould be done and quickly to meet the conditions emphasized by the ex-secretary of war in appealing for action.—’* The lirst move indicative of the awakening took the form -if a vir tual notice to Representative (Taude kit-Tiin of North Carolina, the chosen leader of tho House, that he iniist take immediate step* to procure pre paredness legislation nr retain the leadership in name only. If Mr. Kitchin fails to respond the ifcfhal leadership is likely to lie as sumed by Senator Chamn Clark, v.Tio appears to be willing to feaVy the ros trum and lead the fight on the floor for the passage of national defense measures. Prominent Democratic representa tives, including a considerable num ber who share Mr. Kilrliln's view that there is no occasion for pre paredness, have hinted to him, and are ready to make the hints more palmed.- that nntesw fie Tonsfilldlfesi the Democratic forces behind the ad ministration's call for a stronger army and navy the Republicans-will take matters into their.own hands and get the credit fog the legislation enacted. • A ronsrleaiioun attempt to -leM-rllie the conditions that |rre\al| In Ixith houses of congress might np|M>ar like exaggeration. There Is no real lead ership. This applies to some extent to the Republicans, although they are more united than their Democratic brethren Mr. Kitchin. the majority leader. Is not only opposed to pre paredness. but is looked up<fn as the leader of (host* Democrats who are against the i-residcnt'a effort to press national def-ner legislation. Whatever leadership exists Is iiianMwerwd in the cointuttteen. -This applies to the Sviiule as well as to the House. In the House eointAUtee on military affairs practically every member, without regard to party lines. Is opiHised to the president’s suggestions of an adequate military increase program.' -0 While* the larger, number of Ue- publicatt retTcib'ntatIves are credited with favoring legislation for the fur- uratton of a large force of troops con trolled by Hie national government. Hie Republican mem hers of the mili tary committee stand with their Iietn- ocratic associates in favoring the pro posal to place reliance in time of war mainly on the militia* of the states, instead of a national rtserve army. The Senate committee on military affairs is more friendly toward a na tional army of citizen .soldiers, but shows a disposition to confine its ef^ forts to providing for a large increase In tlie regular standini; military establishment and accept a -House amendment-to encourage state or ganizations. Indifference over the preparedness program is apparent elsewhere in . the Senate, and recent happenings in that body have indi cated a lack of leadership generally. The close friends of Mr. Kitchin in the House have concluded finally that he now occupies an unhappy posi tion. He .is the accredited leader of the House Democracy, but is in sym pathy with none of the paramount policies of the? administration. Representative Rainey of Illinois is to steer the' tariff commission bill through tlie lower chamber, because the chaiynan of the ways and means committee, Mr. Kitchin. can not ac cord it whole-hearto'd support. . Mr. Kitchin told the president he “might vote for tt. v The administration ship purchase hill is to be in charge ot Representa tive Alexander of Missouri, and it is doubtful if Mr. Kitchin even makes a brief speech in it favor. The army and navy bills wilt he pressed for passage liy Representa tive Hay and Padgett, respectively, but Hie co-operation of tlie majority leader will tie lacking* unless his view’s change, No one yet knows who will have charge of the revenue-raising legisla tion or what that legislation will He. ■Reader Kitcdiin will be'behind the bill if,it consists primarily of provi sions for increasing the income tax rates. He will oppose all special taxes, and he is lukewarm about tire administration proposal for a sweep ing provision, to prevent European products from beingJ-Mumpeiil’.iii the United Slates at ruinously low.price*. It-became know n that this situa tion has begun to worry influential Democrats of,jhe House who are per sonal friendp of-the-majority leader. They chafe" nntKr conditions which mean that the North Carolinian Is a leader in name only that the House has practically no leadership bn ad* ministration measures. 'Since the resignation of Mr. Gar rison. the pacifist Democrats have taken stock of their cumjaign. The corrvs|M>ndence between the presi dent and Mr. Garrison revealed that Mr. Wilson was willing to treat with congress, that he sought its advicp ami ex*operation in the defense program, and Hint he per mitted his xerrrtary of war to re- , sign because the latter was evi dently averse to any compromise. “That Majority Leader Kitchin ... must be- persuaded if possible -to -lead v* information., sbo.w- - 4itha negotiations for an agreement '• s,D ? e country has among Democrats as to prepared ness. ‘■That if Mr. Kitchin continues to hold aloof, Speaker Clark should take the floor and become the actual leader of the Hotpsfi majority. “That, as the’president has shown a willingnes^Ao recognize that con gress is doing its best to frame na tional defense legislation, he stufuld be met half way by Mr. Kitchin and other Democrats who have shown a disposition heretofore to oppose the entire aTlministration program fANAlA LAND HOLDERS " ARE ROBBING GOVERNMENT Commission Bay* Present Value fop \l<aii<l Seized Years Ago When Worthless. Maj. Gen. Geo. W. Goethals Satur day charged that the United States is being "robbed’’ o> triBtween $16,000,- 909 and, 1 $17,"00/0,0(hUHhtough land- deals in the Panama catuil zone. He laid before tlie House interstate corn- country been called upon to pay between $17,000,000 and $13,000,000 foC lands worth less than $1,000,000. The land deals at Panama have been handled thrrffigh a joint land connaisHion comprising two represen tatives of the United States and two of the Panama republic. • Under the treaty between the Unit ed States and Panama, which ceded the canal ione to this country, thia joint land commission has had exclu sive authority to settle the land claims of priyate tiersons'Whose prop- It is planned that during the com---f, r,y boen * a ken over in connec tion with, the building of the canal. Gen. Goethals told the committee that a provision In the treaty pre scribing that .land..should he paid on the basis of the/valuatfon on which the treaty had been consummated, had been totally disregarded and.that the lan'd commission had awarded vast sums for land which a fe,w year* ago was practically worth nothing. Ing week some close friends of the majority leader, preferably Repre sentative Page of North Carolina, shall go to Mr. Kitchin and advise a “get-together" conference of Demo crats. Mr. Kitchin will be told that tlie party'is suffering because of the spectacle now presented; that the country is evidently behind a reason able preparedness program, and that a compromise bill, giving much of what the administration asks, must bo put through by Democratic votes. It was confidently asserted by a prominent anil-preparedness Detno- ernt that, with the exception of four or tlxe ineniliers, all Democrats eon he IM-rsuadcd to get together in tlie present erlsis. Failure to reach an understanding, he said, would mean the spectacle of a party in control that lacked the votes to put through its own legislation and an adminis tration that must depend on Repub lican support to redeem Itself. TILLMAN SAYS ROBBERS CAtt NOT BLACKMAIL NAVY “NONSENSE,’’ SAYS CHAMP; KITCHIN IS ALL RI6HT Threat of Armor Maker* Gaa Not Prevent Building of Naval • Plant. A bill for a government armor plate factory was approved by the Senate naval committee Tueeday within a few minutes after manufac turer! had served notice that should such a plant be established the price charged the aovernment for armor made by private conrerna would be Increased nearly one-half. The bill carries sn appropriation of eleven million dollars for purchase or construct too ot a government far- f lory with annual output of not lea* than twenty thomaqd tons. That Is | only enough for two first class bat- | tleships. and thus a large part of the armor needed in the navy’s increased building program would hsvs to como from private plants. The threat of the private manufac turers was communicated to the com- | mittee by Senator Penrose, who said the Rctldehem and Midvale enm- I panic* were among those who had j agreed to an Increase of two hun- 1 -1 red dollars a ton If the government ! factory proposal went through. The I navy department n6w pays about $425. ' Senator Tillman, chairman of the committee and author of the bill, told Mr. Penrosa that “the threat of the armor barons" could not prevent passage of the measure. “I guess we can find a way to stop the rob bers." he added. "In time of trou ble we coul4 seize their plants and operate them by right of eminent uomaln.” The proposal for a government plant has the barking of Secretary Daniels and Senator Tillman will pres his bill for early passage. GERMAN LOST HEAVY Amsterdam Paper Kays Teutonic Total Reaches 2,377,378. The Amsterdam Courant states that the Prussian casualty lists num bered 420 to 429 show 19,339 dead, wounded and missing, and Prussian lists'numbered 430 to 439 show 18,- 34 9 dead, wounded and missing. The total Prussian losses are computed by this newspaper as 2,377,378. The German military losses include also 335 lists of casualties of Wurttem- burg forces, 247 Bavarian lists, 248 Saxon lists, 60 navy lists and some lists concerning German officers and non-commissioner officers in the Turkish service, accprdinlg to The Courant. S|x*aker Ih-nount e* Effort.* Itring Mmle to t au** Strife Among Ikmocrat*. Speaker Clark iiwued a statement Sunday night characterizing as non sense talk of ousting Representative Kitchin from the House majority leadership because of his opposition to 'the preparedness program and othor adminhdrattnn plans. He said he ex|»crted to leave the speaker’s chair whenever he felt it necessary to oppose any measure, but would do so without any Intent to supplant Representative Kitrhln or any other committee chairman or leader “It’s a pity.” said the Kpeaker, ’ that ail Iteraocrata do not agree about all things, but Mr. Kitrhln has as much right to his opinion as tba president has to his or I hava to mine. "No man ran bull a proposition through the House by main strength. The entire philosophy of surcesa In that able and tumultuous body Is to tske things by the smooth handlo, to rub the hair the right way of tho hide and to confer freely with members persuading rather than attempting to drive, yielding In non-essentials, firm as a reek on fundamentals. Thera arc four hundred and thlrty-Bvo members, and every one of them has a perfe. t right to his opinion and to express it whenever and wharever it seems to him meet and proper. "If the busy bodies who are trying to stir up strife by magnifying small difference of opinion among Demo crats would help eliminate thesfc dif ference* they would constitute them selves patriots lD*tead of marplots.'' PLOTTERSTCCL'SED Grand Jury Indicia German and German (’on*ala. Weeks of Investigation by depart ment of justice agents resulted Tues day in the voting of Indictments by a federal grand Jury In San Francisco against prominent figures In what ara considered here to be two of the bold est plots involving questions of Amer ican neutrality that have been un covered since the European war ba- gan. Among those against whom Indict ments were voted, according to n message received in Washington, nra Franz Bopp, German consul-general; Baron E. H. von Shack, vice-consnl of Germany, and Maurice Hall, the Turkish consul-general. THE HOUSE PREPARES Speaker Clark and Republican I/eader Mann fought side by side in the House Monday for adequate na tional defence. With party lines ob literated. most of the members fol lowed their leaders and two navy measures were passed without a dis senting vote. One, to- provide for adding three hundred midshipmen to the entering class at Annapolis next July, passed 173 to 0, and the other, to equip navy yards for construction of battleships Numbers Forty-three and Forty-four, passed without a roll call. *<• CRUISERS OFF THE CAPES Allies Probably Expect Oilier Prizes , at Newport News,. British ship masters 'arriving at Newport News Tuesday reported that two allied cruisers—one British and the other French-—are patrolling tlfe coast off the Virginia capes. Slncq there is .no probability of the German prize Appam putting to sea in the near future, marine men take the presence of the warships outside, to mean that the aHted government ex pect other prizes’icaptured by the mysterious Gqjunan raidsr-U> be brought to Hampton Roads.. ^Germans Seize Ship. A Stockholm diapatch to the Daily Telegraph.Friday says that the Swed ish steamship Frlga with coffee and piece goods for Gothenburg has been seized by the-Germsns and taken into Swinemunde. J. P. Morgan In Ix'ndon. J. P. Morgan arrived in London Friday morning by.special train from Fcimouth. where he landed Thues- dsy from the Holland-Amorton Uns stssmihlp Rottsrdsm. Seven Miners Killed. Seven workmen were killed and two injured by a gas explosion In at Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal com pany mine at Plymouth, Pa., late Tuesday. All the victims were of for eign, birth and several of them left Targe families. Rhett Heads Chamber. R. G. Rhett, former mayor of Charleston, Friday was elected presi dent of the Chamber of Commerce of the Unitbd States In session at Wash ington. Favors Conciliation Board. The bill to create a board of con ciliation for the investigation and arbitration of industrial diapgtM passed second reading in th# House Thursday night without opposition. Eighty-two Midshipmen Dismissed. SecreUry Daniels Friday approved the recommisadetlons of the academic board at tile uval academy dismiss ing eighty-two midshipmen *or failure in their studies. Won’t Appoint I The president will not appoint n southern man to succeed Mr. Garrl- •on. It wee sold Friday U well In formed clrtise. JU5