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• *<r FIOHTING THE SUBS had b«ni adopted, he Maid, would mi ligate 11 by degrmi. Sir Edward informed the House that an anti-submarine department i _ . had been established in the admir- tRITISH NAVAL LEADERS TELL' alty, composed of the most experi enced and capable men in the nary. In the first 18 days of February, the first lord of the admiralty an- nuuuced, 8i* allied and neutral _ steamers of more than ,1/000 tons f ABQflN KIVF^ flUT NFWtl ha ^ be « n l08t * their 10181 tonnage ag uAnuUn 111 V Li) UUI IlLVVU sre^atln^ 268,000. This was com OF DANGER TO BE MET Head of World's Greatest Navy An- * i- Bounces Losses 1/p to February 19 —Says Three-fourths of Armed Merchant Ships Escape While Only One-fourth of the Unarmed . Get Away—klmrchill Says Submarine Warfare Has “Thrown the British - Fleet on a Intensive Attitude.'’ TONNAGE SUNK SIN< K FEBRUARY’ I IN WAR ZONE TOTALS 377,912 . A record of the^ tonnage sunk to date, compiled from the Brit ish Admiralty’s figures and re ports received from other sources, follows: Previously Reported. 1 Tonnage. Total reported by Lloyd’s and other sources up to February 19 .245,437 Additional tonnage sunk in Allied waters and.ac knowledged by Sir Ed ward Carson .. .. .. 58,563 i R Total to February 19 ..304,000 ‘ Reported by Lloyd's and.. * other sources on Feb ruary 19 and 20 .. .. 19.03 4 Reported Sunk Wednesday. Ships. Tonnage Rosalie. British «. , • • 4.237 4,217 "Oceania, Italian. "Oceania, Italian. .* . . • • 4.237 Skoglaad, Norwegian S.fMI Minas, Italian .. . . 2.854 Gido. British . - 2.093 Giuseppe. Italian .. .. • • 1.856 Centurion. British .. • • 1.828 "Aphrodite. French .. • • 600 Brigade. British • • 425 Total reported sunk Wednesday .. .. • • 24.384 Reported Hank Thenulay. Perseus, British .. .. s' • 6.728 Carso. Britiah .. . . • • 3.242 Arbon. Dutch a s 3.598 Skogland. Swedish .. s # 3,264 Teowyn. Britiah .. .. s • 132 John Miles. Britiah .. * s €87 Sigrld. Russian .. .. • • 2,114 Allee. Norwegian .. .. s s 709 X Totak reported sunk Thursday 10.474 Grand tofegl sunk to date •• vSy** •• ..*n.tll Hunimary of Whip* Sunk L X No. Ship# American Other neutrals .. .. .. British TV.. Other belligerents .. .. X 9 Reported sunk by Berlin 1 41 »! 12 pared Y 1 ^ losses of 69'vessels of 201,000 tons in the first 18 days of December and with 65 vessels of 182,000 tons the first 18 days of January. + Including smaller vessels, said Sir Edward, the total number of ships lost, both Allied and neutral, during the first 18 days of December, the first 18 days of January and the first 18-days of February were, with their tonnages, as follows: • Ships. Tonnage. December .. 119 223,000 January ., A .'. ^ . 'At 1-98,wO February .. . . 134 304,000 The total number of vessels ply ing to and from United Kingdom ports during the first eighteen days of February was 12,949, the number of arrivals being 4,076 and of de partures 6,873. The estimated number of ships in the so-called dan ger zone at any one time was 3,000. In the face of all these sinkings and the accompanying sacrifices and trials, the first lord of the admiralty said he had not heard of a single sailor who had refused to sail: 1 That' was what was going to win the war, he declared. Neutrals might be ner vous and frightened, but they would follow the British example and he believed would shortly resume their sailings. Sir Edward said be proposed in the future, daily if possible, to pub lish together, the number of losses by mines and torpedoes and the .number of merchant ships entering and leaving the ports of the United Kingdom. He would also publish a list of vessels which had been attack ed by and escaped from submarines. Sir Edward a^id he believed the problem of the submarine menace could be solved, but it could only be solved If the nation acted i) the way he indicated in conjurfcUon with the navy. That It would be solved, how- i vtr, he was certain. . t iling forty encounter* of lirltUh »hJp» ,*ith German *uI>marine* in the lafft eighteen dnym he gave in- lurenlhvg details. While adiiumtiA that in some cases the evidence of actusl sinking was vague and doubt- | ful, nevertheless he conildered that ^an enormous achievement. He said that a few days ago British destroy ers attacked an endmy submarine, which was hit, the captain being killed. * The submarine dived, but was so injured It was obliged to rise again, and was captured and Ita crew taken prisoner. Another submarine was sunk by a transport In still * another Instance two patrol boats reported the sinking of two enemy . submarines without themselves suffering say casualties. The.full r*Port appeared to establish that one of these had been actually sunk, but there was doubt about the ■Moad. Two other cases from which he quoted disclosed some of the meth ods adopted for fighting the sub marines. In one of thsss he re ferred to reports from an airship which had dropped bombs where a submarine had submerged. A sim ilar report came from a seaplane which had used the same method were received, and the reports ran fr6m certainty through probability, down to possibility and Improbabil ity. r Winston Spencer Churchill,, for merly first lord of the admiralty, who followed Sir Edward Carson as speaken said: "The present submarine danger arose from new efforts and new de vices adopted by the Germans cince August, 1914. Our sole anxiety arises from the activity not of ships of the German fleet, which existed before the beginning of the war, but from those which have been con structed since. ^ "Serious as the danger is. R should hot be exaggerated. Although Admiral Jellicoe has beeh called to deal with the submarine menace in place of Barpn Fisher, as I urged last year—a course which was not possible before* the Jutland battle when r we . took .Ibe measure of the German fleet—I still am of the opin ion that means should be found to employ Baron Fisher’s fertile genius." GEN. FUNSTON DIES FAMOUS GENERAL PASSES AWAY WHILE ON THE BORDER SERVE# COUNTRY WELL Commander of Southern Department Won Fame in t'apture of Agni- n&ldo—Took Charge of Vera Cruz —handled San Francisco Situation —Helped Cubans in Their War of Independence. Chief, was the achievement which brought Funston prominently to the attention of the American people but he performed many services for his country besides which were probably more difficult. ' His administration of) affaire in Vera Crux, where he carried out the president's orders with a firm hand, simply holding' the city when every influence about him was centred upon forcing the American army into actual fighting, with the Mexl- 1 was probably the most notable aerv kf of hi career. The American troops had been in possession of Vera Cruz only a few days when one of the Mexican gen erals sent in a message in the most polite terms that he was udable long erto restrain his troops and that they were about to advance and drive' the Ambricaiis into the sea. ;“ff you caa't hold your troops back. I can," was the laconic mes sage Funston sent back. Funston, a native of Ohio and reared on a Kansas farm, had & re markable,career before he became a soldier. Few people know that his first work was a scientists with a SMASH PRECEDENT SENATE NOT TO BE CALLS 111 SPECIAL SESSION WILSON WAIVES CUSTM President Doesn’t Fare to Have Up- per Body on His Hands at ginning oif His New Rtitution Does Not Make H sary for the Senators to v Cabinet Again. Maj. Gen.’Frederick Funston, com mander o' the Southern department Colonel Churchill said he agreed I tlie u [ nt fJ , v^ tal .® aarm y 8ln 5 le that merchant ship building should J’ uar y I s1 ' 11* 1J>, died suddenly at a _ _ virtually monopolize Great Britain’s I ^l® 1 ln ® an Antonio, rexas, Monday | toward botany. As an agent of construction. Tlie chief object of the I a .^ ew ^ ^ 11 11 ® department of agriculture in grand fleet was an offensive, hut the I ifeh'ed. dinner, fie collapsed and felll t 00 k p ar t j n the Death Val- suhniarinc ~jLarfare had i ar g e |y unconscious while seated in the lobb> I j e y * expedition, then he explored thrown the Dritish fleet on n defen-1U} e hotel talking *1111 Irienils an<l iin( j (V ;0 British Northwest sive attitude. The former first lord l-laying witb-litt(i IliiM .Bilvorbarg ot I hud crossed Alaska to the Arctic of the admiralty said he believed the M°i ne8 * lovva, a guest with herl ocean traveled from McKenzie submarine menace would be over- P 81 ® 0 * 8 at the hotel. Death was eh I river to Bering sea—a journey of come, and urged the admiraity^to I m08l _ i n8tan l a !'® 0U8, <jeI1, * u P 8 l° n 1 about 3,500 miles, discover some methods for maintain- |. wa i> vears ola. I He camped in the Klondyke during ing a naval offensive against Great Kver since March, 191”*. a 5|~the winter of 1F93 and then alone Britain’s enemy. • . was placed in command of all l uRed Uj oate( j d own the Yukon in a canoe. Although there were good grounds c’ 18 *® 8 ^ 0 ^® 8 0D y 1 ® Mexican border, I a journey of hundreds of miles for. believing the submarine cam-1 ” un8 ^ 011 ia f, at an > UIl | through a wilderness, without ceelng paign would not exercise a decisive I UHUal P ace - At critical times .n bor-j another human being. Soon after ^influence this year on the fortunes d® 1 * developments he frequently re-j t, e resigned from the depart- of war. Colonel Churchill said, Great ma ^ ne d on oU ty 1.0 hours of ine 24. n^m of agriculture and traveled in Britain could not afford to assume ri,e handling of regulars disposed Kj ex j co that It was an evil whffch could con- °I at various stations on the border,! when the last Cuban insurrection tinue to increase indefinitely, nor t 1,e I^rshing expedition and, of late. | j jro j ie out Funston applied to the while It continued was Great Britain rea, * raI1 fc em ® nts regular revolutionary junta in New Y'ork for entitled to assert flfat time was on!* 11 * 1 ® providing for the ret urn of Na-1 service with the rebel army but the her side. He considered it remark- ll° nal Guardsmen have entailed M(Cubans suspected him of being a spy able that Great Britain at last had K’ 001,111011 * a uiouiit oT de l a, l work, I or an agent 0 j l j |e g tale|l run . reached a high degree of atriagency | P robal) '>’® XC ®® < 1 1,| K l*l at i wl, * c J l *°| nlng down * violators of neutrality in her blockade without losing the any commanding general of the l nit- lawll good will of neutral*.. ,* • .I®* 1 States since thfkWgrofBecooalon. I Finally he convinced them of his The entry of the. United States I Only Monday van. r unato11 I Intentions and for many wefeka. In into the war,* Colonel Churchill add-|P 1 * ,e<1 orders for the r ed, would derange ' decisively .ttwl 18 * 1 th ® ll1 * lower East Side of New York, fearful equipoise between conflicting I amount of work ^hicli has rallen 1 | a ’y |)|| | 0|| instructed rarruita in the uni inn* which now nslntml. Thnltd him, Gen. r uniton » only recrea-1 0 f machine guns, of which lion or relaxation for nearly a year I Cubans were ignorant." Soon has been an occasional dlnnei party j afl< . imar( j wai| | nlo with a few frianoa. _ \ - '^TY^uban army with a commission Only recently Gen Funston re-1 „ waB in th „ pnu,^*** Sir Edward Canon, making hit debut aa Aral lord of the admiralty in the Britiah Houaa of Commons Wednesday, had an Infpiring story to tall of the allant accomplishments of the British navy, and It was still more welcome because of the unex pected and Intereating revelations aa to the extent to which the navy la countering the submarine menace. . *«The sacrifices which the nation is asked voluntarily to bear in the shape of self-rationing and the daily rise in food prices makes tha sub marine danger the most absorbing 2 uestion of the moment, and Sir Kd- ard Carson's statement was llsten- 'vd to by an expectant House with in tense interest. Admiral Lord Fish er. chairman of the invention board. . Admiral-Jellicoe, first sea lord: and Admiral Lord Bcrcsford, and other naval experts were in the galleries. The public and press have been daily^ exhorting the government to a more liberal policy of publicity, but few thought that there would be any deviation from the policy of secrecy hitherto pursued. Hence the first lord's showing how submarines are * being fought by destroyers, sea- ^ planes, and other means, and with what apparent success, together with his promise of further publicity in the future, proyed the most attrac tive feature of hia speech. Besides indicating the gigantic work of the navy during the war, the transport of 8,000,000 men, 9,0010,- 000 tons of explosives, and 47,000,- 000 gallons of petrol up to the end of October last, and the examination of over twenty-five thousand ships, Sir Edward Carson gave statistics of ship movements, which will tend to restore public confidence as to the extent the submarine war is likely to achieve its object t indicating the progress of arming merehantmen, with an increase of 4 7 per cent, in the last few months. Sir Edward, claiming no magic remedy for the evil, expressed the confident belief that the evil would be gradually mitigated. 7 He admlt- tel that the Allies losses were seri ous enough, but were not equal .to "the blatant and extravagant brav ado'' of the German account of them. Sir Edward said, the House .would ^expect him to deal mainly with the growth of the submarine mefiace. and he would db so by surveying the work of the. navy. He emphasized f ie importance of what the grand pet was doing, pointing out th*t k as assisting the expeditions in M***- opotaipla. Saloniki and Egypt, and had to keep the seas'clear. Upon the whole, he continued, the coun try had suffered leas pri vat ions than any of the belligerent*. Mir Edward ankl the against another submarine X air I nations which now existed. The present relations between the United States and Germany, he* declared, showed consideration for neutral rights, and humanity would not go huf cases in which submarines »re attacked, without committing mselt as to the result of the at- Sir Edward gave instances of cthT were himaet tacks. He said that tha degree of evidence of reported sinkings varied enormously. Referring to shipbuilding. Sir Ed ward said that not 8 single slip would be left.tMcfeopied during the coming month and that steps would be taken to meet the demands in this respect, both of the admiralty and of the mercantile marine. He appeal ed to the workers to labor with un remitting energy and to the nation to consent to the restriction If Hm- ports in order to make easier. Uk^ task of the admiralty. The minister a^so briefly referred to measures which the admiralty had urged oh the government to restrict imports to absolute essentials for carrying on the war and feeding the population, which the premier was about to announce, in order to liber ate the largest amount of tonnage for war purposes. The future naval program, he declared, must be fram ed largely with a view to alleviating as speedily as* possible the loss s caused by the submarines. The government was unable to lay down a number of large battleships, of which there were a good many, thanks to Winston Churchill. What was wanted was to build craft most readily available and to make good the losses in the mercantile marine. A junta of the admiralty, the ship ping controller, and the board of trade, had bepn appointed to arrange how these two programs should best be carried Tli© arming T>f merchant ships, said Sir Edwards, involved an enormous amount of work, but was progressing more rapidly each week. Of the armed mer chantmen, he said, 78 per cent, escaped the submarine, while of the unarmed on css 24 per cent, escaped. . v . . In conclusion 9»r Edward Carson said there was not .a particle of truth in the allpgatioh, that the gov ernmenthad forbidden the publica tion of the losses of shipping and that, so far as he was concerned, he would % not* he a party to a conceal ment of these losses. Turning to the desirabifity of giv ing details of enemy losses in sub marines, Sir Edward said the nollcy or silence was a policy least liked by the Teutonic Allies. . *'A submarine starts out on its camralfn of murder, and all that is known' by the German admiralty it that she did not return. 1 ’ said 81 r Edward. "Everything else iaT mys tery ~ (o (Srpnbiica- tion of sorb loanes. said Sir Edward. tbo difficulty of with enruiaty Lb# dnatruefioo of wholly unrewarded, and this wa»|* urn ® <1 from an inspection trip which I»hen he won h|s rank of Justification of the foreign policy of I 100 * 1,4,11 ** ,ar 88 Nogales. AnrMer 0 [ that Funaton’a active Vlhscount Grey, former ancretary fo^| al,M, inspected the American expeoi-l^^,^ j B ^ t’aitad States tnralgn aftatra. [tlouary forces In Mexico Just before I arni y H* speedily reached they came out.^, Tkaan trips. wll Mthe top of the list of brigadiers, bui one to Brownsville. Texas, and a brief I *hen there were vacancies In the Hat visit to Austin. Texas, last year, w *^*| 0 f major generals he was passed over virtually the only occasion when he no ]9mm %h * n #|1 Um ^ by p w(di , nlJ , ssi w a—.. .^, ha# nlHMPnt fro» ** ** 81 Taft and Roosevelt At times Fun Mlmw Ri*turh«iM e* by striker, ami [ the border trouble developed #lon almovt dMMlr « < | of furtlM . r ^ Two weeks ago Gen. fr unatou I nation, but with rharacteristic ten fered an stuck of £*«*"**"•**• I aeity he .tuck to the army use his own expression. Ifm»«ht t w||9fl| V#ra rr||1 wai| out sione La, * f h ® I Maj. Gen Wood, chief of staff, Im under the care of Lieut, i ot M; ML| mediately mdnrted Funston as th< Ireland of the tuedlral corps. Mouth CLASHES IN PHILADELPHIA Hympathl Minor disturbances by strikers sad their sympathisers with numer ous arrests, occurred Thursday In the neighborhood of the Franklin dugar Refinery, after p large force of PfenaMpkig police established • a ’dead line*' several blocks from the plant. The mosj serious dash re sulted when a motor truck loaded with negro strike breakers was apaadlgg away from lha refinery Strikers attacked tha truck and Ha police guard with bricks and the po lice retaliated with shot, two of which wounded Roman Wachahki- sky. a striker. In the shoulder end leg. The attackers dispersed sad the injured mah was arrested and re moved to a hospital. • More than one hundred steve dores engaged to load sugar on five vessels tied up in Philadelphia join ed the longshoremen’s strike Thurs day. A police guard was placed about the w harves and ships. WANTS COLOMBIA PAID President Urges Meunte to Ratify Proposed Treaty. President Wilson has sent n letter to Chairman Stone of the Senate for eign relations committee, urging ac tion during this session of Congress on the treaty to indemnify Colombia the separation of Panama. ; has been indicated recently tnat *hefu would be no action on the Co- lombihti treaty during the present session 6f Congress but the president is-very anxious that it be ratified so as to clearNiway one of the potent sources of fnfcjion in Pan-American relations. The president i^ssaid to have point ed out that in the eVent of hostiliti .s l < ween the United $hU;es and a for eign power, it would b^unfortunate if any misunderstanding fisted with any country in this hemisphere. Sen ator Stone called a meettngXof the foreign relations committee for\jiext Wednesday to lay it before the p ident’s letter. era department, and regained nor mal health and *p!rtth» "For three dnpi,** Col. Ireland said. “Can. Fun- ston had been entirely well.’! Nevertheless nt dinner Gen. Fun ston was particularly abstemious and ate only sparingly of the aimpleet dMgMggb'*''" Col. Malvern-Hill Itarnum. Gen mediately selected Funston as th^ logical man tor the field com maud Every, army of fleer expected there wohld he fighting of tha hard guer Ilia hind learned In the Phillpplnee and every one agreed that when Fun ston landed in Verm Crns he ’ would start something *' Hut when Fuaston aaloaded troupe sad relieved the aavy of session of the city he learned that SSSm !fc£*nL ?."£Vo rTVm mister fsther^n California \o M 1 * 4 WlUt * Tk# °* lh# l,t,1# Itlag Bar father la tanrormia. • No rommsnder ran only be realised by arrangements for. Gen. Funston a fun- 1 m u 7 7 eral have been made la Vera .Col Ireland, who has been Gen Funston s physician for some time, said: "Gen Funston’i death was caused, . mrmr A ,».«• , K * «- mir by •nictaa »chltro.l. of Iho brtorto. g* *gy_ of the heart -Death was almost Im- those who were with him Crus la thoee crucial hoars Thousands of Americana thronged the city with * tha moat extreme stories of condittona in the Interior mediate and without pain/' Gen. Funstoifs last words were In admiration of 'a waits the hotel or chestra was playing. “How beautiful It is." he said. Then he lapsed into unconsciousness. _ Besides his wife. Gen. Funston is survived by three children. Frederick Funston Jr., aged 10 £f*rs; Barbara Funston. nine, and Kilsr.beth Fun ston. aged eight months. MnJ. Gen. Funston's sudden death great shock to high offi- enthustasm for "finishing the job’’ was high among the younger officers when Americans were insulted, even fired upon. American troops were kidnapped by the Mexicans, one sol dier was killed and burned, the camps were raided by marauders. Every provocation to spdr a fight Ing man to action was given; but Funston never forgot his orders, whatever his own emotions might have been. < Besides Maj Oen. Scott, the chief of staff, there are now five major WIN’T ABANDON BLOCKADE Germany Replies to Declaration a Made by Brasil. Brazil’s declaration to Germany that she does not recognize the sub marine blockade and leaving with Germany the responsibility for all acts from which Brazilian merchant marine may suffer in. violation of in ternational law, has elicited from Germany a statement that the block ade will not be abandoned. It is announced officially that the German foreign office has declared to the Brazilian minister in Berlin that it regrets' neutral interests should suffer on account of military measures. Nevertheless Germany has reported the unchangeable determi nation to maintain the-* submarine blockade, to .abandon, which would involve national annihilation; In ’ case of the , loss of Brazilian ships the German government, the foreign efflce says, will suggelt dip lomatic investigations. * Kteveasoa to Coagretft. W. F. Eleven so g* of ih-»t-r:..id was elected to succeed the lata D. R. Finley aa repreaeatative of tha Fifth South Carolina congrevsional district la tha f S Sapp of lancaalar by a The other two are Oen. Pershing and Gen. Bliss, now on duty at the war department as assistant chief of staff. Army men thought it prob able Monday night that Oen. Per- came as a great snoca to nign 0111-1 ~ — ^ , rials of th? army ami to ITe.ldrnt K‘ >ne ™ , » th « •» Wilson He was one of the dl.tln- ™ nd ° f **• Southern department. and one of whom greater things were! ' on - ^ ood *• -If** expected in the*future. The young- • ( hicago and Gen. Ball at. Baa est major general in the line, vigor-1 * " alrea<lir command depart pus and apparently healthful, he had| m ® r J“ 8 ' been counted on by Ms superiors for many years of active service. - The news reached the war depart ment in a brief dispatch from the headquarters of the Southern depart- ,, . . ment saying Gen. Funston had died I wOul<L be grten the command, of heart failure. It was telephoned | ?. ou .Kb no official statement was to to Secretary Baker’s home, where a o iv , ww dinner was being given to the trresi- f Q 8I>< .flPgv^wai^qiPHpl^ayffected by dent with most of the ranking army r h ® news. Gen. r unston s unas^um- offioers in Washington among the inR wa >' s endeared him to all with KUegtg - . I whom wa_s associaliiiU- be-aaidr r—7 5—r —TTrrrr: : 7~ I "and his military efficiency earned ~3ecietary Baker made aio a * I t | ie ron fl dence 0 f ^e war department. e L jThe secretary of war recently sent en. Fujiston’s death is a loos to|jj| m a commendatory letter about his the hnny and a loss to the country. I conduc ^ 0 f affairs on the_^ border Duringxthe trouble on- thfi- Mexlr-an^jjiie his service at San Francisco at border IHs work has. been .difficult, time of the earthquake and at exacting and delicate. His conduct I y era Cru Z not soon be forgotten, has been thalof a soldier and he hastPersonally, | ^geT the loss of a real exemplified thbshigh tradition of the | f r i en( j •* r ; American army nv his quick^intellt- gent and effective\actions. Throughout it arK the sympathy between Gen. Funstoh. and the de partment has been conaftlete anrt'qo shadow of disagreement nas arisen. I am deeply grieved personaRy at his death and feel this hi^ loss Ho the country Is very great.’’ Maj. Gen. Pershing, who has bbert in command of the El Paso districtj since the withdrawal of the Ameri can expedition, ffom Mexico, auto- EXPECT BATTLE IN CUBA Rebels and (Jovermnont * Force# About to riaah. Wit^ thW troops under Gens. Con- stiegra, fglessias and Pujol believed to be concentrated at Camaguey >rovince, the Cuban public Is expect- atvjtly awaiting the apnouncement President Wilson is 'conslderies breaking anotLc.' precedent 01 umivw than a hundred years' standing bp not calling the cuktomary session of the Senate immediately at the begtm- ning of his new term. Inauguration arrangements, al ready much upset by the fact that March 4 falls on Sunday, may be further disarranged by the abandon ment of the special session, which In a measure would change^ entirely the method and ceremonies qf inaugura tion of the vice president. The president's purpose, as under stood at the capitol, is to avoid a special session of the Senate unleae an extraordinary session of the whole congress is necessary at the The Senate called In special as is the custom, to confirm appoint ments of cabinet members end oth ers. would be powerless to leg late to any purpose alone, but them would be nothing to prevent the body from remaining in session as long ae it pleased and discussing any subject. It chose. The understanding at capitol was that such a situation to be avoMM If possible. President Wilson has not decided* so far aa la known, what he will do about taking the oath of office womm time before the public ceremonies on Monday. March 6. Secretary Lan sing has advised him that It vnnM be proper to take the oath March 4. and.then take it agi the public ceremony. There some Indications that tha. pi Ight deride not to taka say oath aft. all Haiti Monday. March 5 Theft would leave aa latenrai, strictly «peaking, during which the country would be without n president, beft there Is precedent for soch action. March 4 fell on Sundny la tttf« whan President Monroe entered hie and term. On the advice of Chief Justice Marshall. President took no oatk antll the f< Monday President Taylor the precedent set by Monroe In 1149, ha delayed taking the of office patll March ft. There la a precedent for taki the oath prior to March ft If deal Wilson wishes to follbw R_ President Hayea took It oa March 1. a Saturday, immediately after, the announcement of tha concluden of tha memorable contest with There was no announcement President Wilson's plans at Whlta Houea. but among adm Hob landers at the capitol It to he -understood that uni Wilson changed\hta mind would be no Special session of Senate. Jest what the pi would do about taking tha oath unknown. Tha special session of tha la la accordance only with many years standing While prestdent la required to taka a oath at tha beginning of a m his cabinet officers, if they require no new oath ,aad confirmation. The cabinet aa inch, quite < trary to widespread opinion, in recognised by tha constitution, members are appointed . under broad terms providing for public of ficers who serve during tho pi of the president and tha statutes sting the executive departmental Therefore, they require no ment and no new conflrmattea new members should be which does not now appear to bm planned, they could be given ft ck». appointments. * / The news (hat - President Wileom might abandon the special Senate session caused officialdom to until it refreshed its memory looked up the constitution and Ini It w&h found that the president doing no more than breaking m precedent for which he. Jias set m. pace since coming into office. When the situation aa it aXfecte his inauguration was referred im Vice President Marshall, he explain ed* the constitutional meaning, j. When aaked tnfonn&lty Vice ident Marshall disposed of the tion by saying: “Under the law of the land I cam take the oath of office any time ft please on or before March 4, In the presence of a notary public and file it witl| the secretary of the SeoateL "The Senate has nothing to dm with my election. It is customary for the president pro tempore of the Senate to swear ip the vice president. However, should the president decide not to call the Senate in* extra sea- sion, I shall take the oath of office am Saturday or Sunday and file it wftb the secretary of the Senate. I do not: have to take an oath in the presence* of the new Senate. By virtue of. fftm law, and my election. I am presiding officer of the Senate whenever it la in session and not by the will of the flailgti." ~ matically will suddeed to the duties that a battle has begun between the of commanded of the Southern de-1 government troops and the rebels capital city .of the prov- partment until an appointment has 1 under been made. Recently made a majorlaguey, t general, he is the only officer of that I ince rank now assigned to the department. The fttMMfc if the opposing As immediate successor to the I forces is not known. The government command. Gen. Pershing will have | lias been sending all available troops charge of many details of the move- and new militia Halts to unknown The present Senate dies Marcfi 4 and "the Senate of the sjxty-flfth Con gress is unorganized and could not Presidente Gomez for Cam- convene until next December ment tff'TlTb remaining units of the >Vtonal Guard ordered home from the border last Saturday. It is ex pected that this movement, plan# for which were worked oat by Gen Fan- •ton an virtaally his last military defy, will go forward withoat lattr- raptigsr^ destinations, supposedly to Camag uey. two trains loaded with troops having gone forward while the ships composing * the republic ., strength have been and ammunition to by the men ia the field la called by the president. Vjf the special aession U not railed, newly and re-elected senators, thirty-* two to all. will not be twora ia am March ft. Within the memory eft Present, members sack a thing newer has occurred before . • ^ e e e —