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ORDER TO ARM EXPECTED WITHIN FEW HOURS
DAILY CALENDAR
gun Sun Hours of Light Phase of
Rises Sets Daylight Autos the Moon
6:52 6:31' 11:39 7:01 (V;
Forecast: Fair tonight and tomorrow;
colder tonight.
• temperatures, 7 a. m. to noon:
*6. 37. 41. 43,' 17 50.
Moon sets 6:51 a. m.
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VOL. ii, NO. r3“. ,£KkG.k?7A?..ER.J^LBE service of
THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS.
OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLA:, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 7, 1911.
GERMAN PRESS LAUDS STONE AND LA FOLLETTE
MOVE IS LAUNCHED TO OUST “GUM SHOE BILL”
Hjj l nitri! 1‘rcss.
Amsterdam, March 7.—Senators
Stone and LaFoliette are lauded
by German press comments as
representative of "tho best spirit
in America,” according to dis-
patches received here today sum-
marizing German editorial views
on the Senate filibuster.
As a whole the German press
regards the filibustering Senators’
stand as proper in stemming
“Wilsons unreasonable ambition."
and in voicing the sober senti-
ment of the American people whs
"do not propose to join the In-
sanity of war.”
Bitter comment on
PRESIDENT IS
ADVISED OF
RIGHTTO ACT
nv ROBERT J. RENDER.
T nited Press Staff Gorreapondenf.
Washington, March 7.— Formal
uia. nuuiess — — ____- announcement by the President
by the Loltal*'“Airaelger j «ball be power boats, 'lowered
LEST HE FORGET
by i mtrd brtits.
Biloxi, Miss.. March 7. —
Thomas Collins, local black-
smith. forged a 40-pound
iron cross and sent it to-
day to Senator James K.
Vardanian with the inscrip-
tion ‘ LEST TilK KA1S*-I{
FORGET.”
When Berlin Got the News From the Senate
ports, and us part of their equip-
ment, two or more small boats,
i submarine chasers, having un-
President I u-'iial speed capacity. The Plan
Wilson's inaugural address was ; is to have these ^oats, which
made
which
a “meglomaniao” and
his speech "desccraled”
tional capital.
the Navy Daniels to arm Ameri-
zonF of danger. They are Hun c,n merchant ships is expected
1 to hover about tho merchant fllr!,!1 n a ^ours*
: ships, scout for hostile craft and Ule 1 res,dent, it berauw known
| attack when seen.” —Sen. Stone, 0,1 highest authority, has
dubbed the President as ; to _the surface on reaching a
declared
the na
Stone I3 Denounced
In Ov/n Home State
1 in .ins speech
i Saturday.
in the senate, on
he lias the power
Hy 1 niif-’i /v s. Florida City Gets
St. Louis, Mo., March 7.—! Busy In Protest
Senator Wm. J. Stone was hard Hu I nihil /v*.
hit in resolutions passed by sev- j Pensacola, Flu., March
eral local Democratic organiza-
tions today.
He was branded a traitor and
asked (o give an account of his
actb.n in not supporting Fred
dent Wilson’s armed neutrality.
Fuch organization endorsed an * of S'11. .Stone in
editorial printed in the Post-Dis- president's armed
Pensacola businessmen today do- j
cided to ask Florida's members
of the I . S. senate- Bryan and
Fletcher to introduce in that
body the resolution thev adopted
last nlsiit branding t.c- action
opposirg tho
neutrality re-
pa'eb which said in part: quest as "'ittlc short of treason.’
' The lack of a cloture rule is Clergymen of every creed and
not the only flaw in the o-rgani- la> m n of every political faith
zation of the U. S. Senate. There led the meeting,
is another—there is "Gumshoe
IVir Stone at the head of the.
foreign rolatlo'ns committee.
“Resignation from the chair-
manship of the foreign relations
committee and from the Senate
would be the most becoming act
of Stone’s career- If Stone is not
Demands Removal
Of Senator Stone
1.11 / •, (i •' l ‘ 1 is >'.
Nc w York, March 7. Demand
for removal of Sen. S'otie from
th«x '’’airmanship of the sena’'
foreign 'relation; committee was
been told
do this.
| Immediately the order is issued
Secretary Daniels will Instruct
j commandants of navy yard- at
Boston, Philadelphia, San Fran-
■ cisco and other yards to Issue the
: gars they have available.
The President’s decision was
reached shortlv after a cenf’r-
enoe at the White House today
wi'h Senators.
He conferred also with Secre-
tary Lansing whom h» instructed. .
together with Attorney General
Gregory to prepare for him a '
format opinion as 1o whether he
had power to go ahead with h’s
I armed neutrality plans, despite
! the filibuster that deprived him
1 of Congressional sanction.
Order to arm ships would
eliminate the
is believed.
special session,
man enough to resign th- chair- i made today by the National In
manship, ho sfculd bp kickf-tl out | tense society,
by the patriotic majority.” ■ ---
HARD LABOR
; Nebraska AcFon
; Condemning Norfis
j by I mini i>n*<
i Lincoln, \ob.. March
. resolution
A I
Kansas City Club
Condemns ‘Wilfuls’
by I nurd br?**.
Kansas City, Mo.. March 7.— j resolution branding Sen. Norris
Kansas City’s co-operative club. |of Nebraska as a “traitor to the
composed of representatlvT1 busi-1 People of his state and of the
ness and professional men at a j * • will be considered by1
meeting today adopted a resolu- j Nebraska senate today,
tion censoring Senator Stone.1— . , _
Rep. Shackelford and Rep. Deck- j J'0‘°raao senate s
er. of Missouri, for opposing the Resolution Bitter
LEFT WIFE
armed neutrality bill.
“Giving Comfort To
William of Germany"
Hi/ I nilld Hrry*.
Topeka. Kas.. March 7.-
participated by 11 "other wilful
Hu I nihil Hush
i Will T. Granthuni, it r., got
the limit one yar on the county
I roads and a $500 fine Wednes-
day for deserting IDs wife and j
peope of tne . s. stand aghast couldn't give him more,
and shocked at the action of, The wife went insane- after
-A res-* ,!los° . * w’h°. j her husband deserted her and
olution denouncing the filibuster ,i!™irf.'a u,'wiu'^!'’,e<1 nl,J,lfi,,'r- is now In the Norman asylum.
lod by Senator LaFoliette and rif„, „ °f ® ‘p,,r. The youngest child, t ight months,
tittii majority or congre-ss and j|j at
Drov e* (j,c adoption of mens- ,,tiiors'
fly r nitrd Hr fit
Washington, March 7.—The Tight to end filibustering fm
| opened in the senate this afternoon hy Senator Walsh ©<
'Montana, who declared:
“Traitors might find their way into the halls of congress
and hy filibustering, hold the senate at bay while a foreign
foe thundered at our gates.
“The revolution had its Benedict Arnold.
“Ten members of the senate were expelled for treason
in 18O1.
‘A vice president has been indicted for treason at one
time in our history.
‘A member of this senate was once expelled for perfi-
dious negotiations with enemies of this country.
“Can the senate make a rule under which it might bo
held at bay?’’
fly I nihd 1‘rttt. i death and taxes.”
Washington, March 7. A bit-1 Stone denied himself t.o every*
ler fight against retaining Wm. ! one today. Even notes sent $4
.1. “Gum Shoo Hill” Stono as to hint, in tho seclusion of Me
chairman of tho foreign rehi- office, saying the country would
tlons committee will he made by j Ilk# to hear his side of the cose,
members of his own party despite failed to draw him out H©
• be heretofore inviolable «enlor-| refaaed absolutely to so• any
one.
Ri-Partlsan TTouse.
In the hou.eo tuere Is taJ-M
of a bi-partisan organization,
especially If Independents show
a tendency to lie up proceed*
lugs.
As things stand now they hold
the whip hand. By going II
alone thev can tie house buslneen.
Hence, Republicans arfd Demo*
crats alike are talking of com*,
bining to choose a speaker—*
probably (’hump Clark—-and aet*
lug in unison on any big buMneo©
affecting International affair*
They do not want the charge t©
lie against them that they or©
making the nation appear die*
united In a crisis.
An equal distribution os t©
committee assignments and evesi
patronage Is the house plan.
Tho def-v administered th©
ity 1 ule that has always pre-
vailed In such matters.
Ono of the most prominent
Democratic senators, a leader In
the fight to pass the armed neu-
trality measure, is authority for
this statement.
A unique .situation however j
exists in the new annate.
Senator Kent last Friday pre-j
1 nti.i a resolution, which was
adopted, continuing the annate
committees of the thou closing
f nate during the present special
session.
In the midst of tho rules
fight, yesterday, Senator Owen
held that inasmuch as tho 04th
congress died Sunday, it could
! not in any way govern or even
j suggest rules for the new senate.
Owen pointed out that the 16
new numbers had every right to
demand a say even during the
special session, since they hail,
no voice in tho last session. At| president's armed neutrality reoo*
a Democratic caucus held today, j lutton by “the little group X
direct sptrf
men.” will be acted upon by the ; ,)res nore int( n:,ed
Detention hospital. The
-------- who range up to 12
, . .. ,, . pro" years, are with Hie mother's poo-'
Meet the. lives and property ofj pU>- nPar Fort supply. '
‘SIXTH’ IS ROUGH ON
THE CONSTITUTION
EDISON INSISTS ON
SANDY HOOK STATION
Kansas legislature today.
The resolution declares the fill-! American clYlzetTs
buster has “placed the American ; -These 12 men de«ei-.c
people in a false position before; condemnation of the entire
the nations of the earth.” anil (j.m ••
that it has “left the warring! ____
powers of Europe to believe w» ; Calls Stone One
are a divided nation and. worst of .'Kaiser’s Doien”
of all. at the most critical mo- . . , ,
ment, has given comfort and as-! 'pi,'. , .. . i "•llpD j1® drew
sistanee to William of i>:n.:itiy.' rllun l 'ni i.' March -The 1 cue' k in Packingtown,
the open. Inveterate and barbaric 'r ‘..A . 'I,1-' Y :todaydrinking and 1 it for
enemy of thl* republic.” ' one " " V’. T'. >to,n« “,s.'lhat nl?ht-
The resolution also cloture of!®"®. 0f th® Ka,ser 8 Uozen’
rt„ba,e be Immediately adopted ^ ,onr „ thjs senB(or from
*■' ,}l " ' rn'l,p s” fl1'. ! Missouri retains the committee
buster may never again be used^ chairmanship. America’s armor
to humiliate our national honor.
A cow would have more con- immortalization,
the: Fid»ration than you.” Judge
na*jZwick told Granthum. “A cow
• - - the constitution
The .sixth legislature is due for! Prevent such f ood damage as
usually occurs In the spring.
The most popular method of
the constitution, is by
adopting the name and numbor
Hit I'nitnl Hri'.n.
Annapolis, Mil., March
Thomas A. Edison, chairman of
! the naval adv < ry board, may
resign If the r.acai • xperlmenting
11 steering committee
be natnt d. .
To Name Hltclw*K'k?
Tills committee will re organ- '
i/e the senate of tho CSth con- I
gress.
Senator llltehcork, wlio ranks
next to Stone on the foreign re-!
lations committee |n Feniorlty, I
vv 11. it is eenfid'-ntly believed,
a reed Stone as chairman,)
! Iiould tlie fight on Stone oust
him
“Reasonable cloture"-—a oom-
piomlne to modify til- unlimited
j liebato rule of tho F"uute was
agreed upon at a confer- nee be-
lt ween President Wilson and
Democratic senators at the
White House this afternoon as a
tnmal proposition to be pie-
1 tited to It* publicans. Donio-
7__’crats met with Republicans In
■onliMnn conference.
While the fight against, re-
tem mi of Stone undoubtedly
will j wilful men” is Che
I to those who want to o.ut th©
ancient, unlimited debate rul*
from the senate regulations.
It has discovered more ways
cow waning
would not. leave its cal,'. I'll • wulve
give you th-. limit and am sorry) HnT since statehood,
it's not more.” , The climax was reached late
Granthum said lie god peeved j Tuesday afternoon when sui>-
lie drew a small pay )x,i-ters of the session's bulkiest
started, i»;ii an anti-flood measure
Guthrie j drawn nnder direction of local
i men—tried to ram it thru final
to his: passage without Its ever having
(Continued on Pag» Seven 1
E.P. BOYD FILES
FOR SAFER JOB
E. P. Boyd. TT. S. government
expert, loaned by the federal
ire.tsury department to supervise
the state capitol work, filed Wed-
nesdav for commissioner of pub-
lic safety. 1
Bind declared himself unqual-
|f:cdly lor municipal ownership
of electric plant.
Ills experience as municipal
authority for tho government In
li he bitter and perhaps call j Manilla leads him to be partlcu-
laboratorv is not t ill at Sandy to: t!i condemnatory comment on , lv nn advre nte of municipal
Hook, it was re port's! there to- the floor of the senate, many) own' 'ship, he said,
day when the Inventor filed a senators assert it may be futile. | J H. Johnston filed for school
minority report with Navy S*One or these said: I board.
rotary Daniels favoring tL■ N< w "You know this seniority rule! Thev scrompan'ed each other
dork site. j regarding chairmanships is Ilkelto the filing place.. _
He asserted a letter
wife was returned.
Day
Threats of Violence
If La Follette Appears
III/ Hnitril Hrim.
Wheeling. W. Ya.. March
Wheeling duos not care to
$S20 to hear Senator LaFoliette
givo his lecture tomorrow on
"Undermining Democracy.”
Backers of tho lecture course
announced receipt of a telegram
from LaFoliette today declaring
he will appear unless his lecture committee would be like leaving
cf defense against tho asgres-,
! sion* of Germany will be mater-1
‘ 1 a TI y weakened In times like
; these * * < * 1t Is litgh’y
Important that the man nf the
head o Hiis committee should
he a senator single in devotion
to h:- own country, of staunch
loyalty and unquestioned Integ-
rity.
“Ftone ha* failed. He can no
longer tv trusted or respected.
To leave him at the head of this
is definitely cancelled
On# hundred business men
here recently tel"graph*d LaFol-
lettee condemning his part In the
filibuster.
Threats of violence in case La-
Foliette comes, have been made
by local people.
the cute of the outer wall open
to the enemy.”
The Plain Dealer then itreos
that the other It senators '.'l>e
not forgotten.”
Big Noise Frightens
___ Nervous City Hallera
“Editorial That Neods , i,v hal! occupants got a ee-
Lditonw inat rteetrt ,pr„ h!l0rk Wednesday when a
No Reading jthunderou- no.*" was heard. Al-
t*U I mi.’i Hrr*t. ready f-igbtened because fhe
AVashlngton, March 7. — The! building had been condemned a
Washington Times today ran a! near panic resulted.
half tone of Pen. Stone In the
t>ody of au editorial headed "An
editorial that needs no reading.”
Just above Slone's picture «ai
the following:
“Treason against the F. tv
shall consist only In levying war
against them or tn adhering to
their enemies or in giving them
AID, nml comf»r".” Art. HI.
See. ill. Constitution < ’ F s
Just below S’ore's ;c a
printed:
"Expert offina's of the cavj
department hare devf <-d a
eehetne pj- program t r placing
er. board the n:»r- halt: h.; «
jrta-. they 00 cut from on
Investigation found that n safe
in movies h*d be°n tipped oit.
Oreeon Pctit’on
Asks Lane’s Resignation
fl.« f nitrd H, 1.
Portland. Ore . March 7.
RIFTS IN THE LUTE
OF PROTEST
fly f nit'd Hirst.
Monroe, Wis.. March 7. —
?evi ntern officials of Monroe
and Grcen-co today sent a
telegram to senator LaPal-
llte endorsing his attitude
toward th*« "armed neutral-
ity resolution Tho signer#
included practically all pub-
lic otfirlais here.
Madison. Mis., March 7.
auction of Senator La Follette
In oppos.ng President Wil-
son's armed neutrality b II
"e* endorsed todaj hy St.
M: Uael's Society of the Holy
Redeemer Church. *
State Senator Geo Skogmo
today prevented action on a
resolution condemning La
Follette, pv forcing reference
of th' resolution to a com-
mittee.
Dos Motnes, Iowa. March 7.
— The resolution condemning
two Iowa V. S. senators, Cum-
mins and Kenyon, for helping
the armed neutrality filibus-
ter was expunged from the
re-'ords of th< Iow-a leg’sla-
r ire to ;av v.v uu -nlmoua vlve
voce vote. There was no de
©s’e
c'arlng
5 en tl.
with
Itr: I.
to rn.
that he
that "we. the under-.
o# O’f." it
ni • and humiliation vour
■o ' ;>h< ' ! ‘he honor o'
?. a: thl* hurt "tit all
a ie;-*i*tijon to tie went :
Harry 1-ane. *’« ir.an.5tng
reslen. is being circulat-*
Ofwgcn *ou v
-el-on said no word*;
•w* -3 w<U. ■ -~^i 1 1
La Follette’* Friend
Buys Picture
H'j In.hi Iri.
Madison. H, . .'Jar u *
picture of r-en. La Follette
put up tor sale for one
1 beep road except by title and
J perhaim by its authors. To read
it would take an hour or more.
One Fiiibusterer.
A lone fllibusterer. Hep. W.
N. Barry of Ok pinch, demanded
! olH-dirnco to tiie constitutional
nequire-ment of reading at buieth
before roll call.
Reading Clerk X. A. Gordon
began to read, the house emptied
rap illy and a few lenders gath-
ered to plead with Barry.
Disney. Muskogee, studied fh*
constitution, aid in if. minutes
addressed Speaker Fro Tern.
Waldrep in the chair.
He cited a eeetlon permitting
two-thirds of a quorum to waive
reading a bill at length. Just
before signing of the enrolled
Cop"..
Waldrep I#’ It be invoked for
th" p eent s' nation ar 1 door-
kceper* began to round up mc-rr,-
be it. Two-third# and more
voted to ppspend the read** g
an-l Waldrr-p put the id!’ rn
rod call
Bill Fall*.
Altho nr -m hers a-er# wfliing
to dispep-e with he-arlng fh» Mil
rer 1, evidently they wer# un-;
w il'lng to p»- • if s’.e- Dart ■■'s '
ffgiu rnd :• failed by ,.e cht1
vote ; rt*p filenn Condon j
lodved a Tuoftofi fo reconsder
The bill, w'..i~h bears the
name* of Jon»*. Tieey and Ever-
hart escribe* a drainage code
wfc!
top*,:
here today. Frank Blied.
• ' I-a Ftpl’e*te, te'cght *D
sn-5 : .sen p,. J *.4 e:*-
#afia«.
. -A
was
cent
friend
BRITISH ALMOST IN
REACH OF BAGDAD
/?’» / n.tfd Pre*a.
Tjood-on. March T -— Brit
truop- hii vo ?T>r»"f>t. Sf tj
• - ..
a^a
h i
w*
Depose ‘Gum Shoe Bill’Stone and then Watch Him
to continue in the posit:
How long must the people 01 the I niied States MifTer the humiliation. «l:- ;rac
ot hating Gum Shoe Mill’ Stone at the h< ;<1 of the senate committee on foreigi
Lnfortunately this malignant person will he a member of the incoming
tinder the rules of senatorial court, v is entitled
years and a half he has befouled.
1 he chan manship of the senate i iiuini'i tec *.n jureign relations
the presidency.
Tt is a terrible thing that it should hr occupied hv a man of tl
Bill” Stone.
v anu menace
1 relations?
congrecs and
hicli tor two
"tarn
to
“Gum Slvc
tru
it her
resj.
h
id of tlie
di>
»val
ri erman kaiser
senators who pre
•ID
held
nd treat lierv
he floor of
By a technical evasion this
being lined up with tlie clexcn -
trality resolution.
But as a matter of fart his
For four hours last Saturda
ment .agaimtt the merits of the armed neutrality resolution
Really his purpose was to prevent the senate ft
Furthering this speech. Stone
can ships.
This wa* a secret which had come t
committee.
Stone had no other wav of getting thi
save.)
ented
fr-
ah si
>tc
are grea
■enatc o>
uteiv
neu-
rgu-
itn
ing on the
told how the navy department prop
to
h:m because
ns
ion
! *\meri-
ot tlie
table
hie would not have dared t
even for “Gum Shoe Bill."
So he iust let the information dr
The effect was the same.
The kai«er has the information
Stone is unfit to hold a position
time.
That hi* fellow senators 'honT
of its most important committee
country—is inconceivable.
He should be deposed and own
information to
direct to the knise-
hi- friends
That
dent of h.
and
of am
Sh
res rM >nsi
c pc^1
m p
thf
Hit.
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