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T 2 THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, EBftUAfti za, ivu. ' I week. SENATORS FAVOR NEW STATE HOUSE Spirk Resolution Favoring Action to Toil End Passes Body. NO OPPOSITION TO IT (From Staff CorrMpondent.) Lincoln, Feb. 27. (Special.) Without debate the senate passed the Spirk resolution, endorsing a new capitol to be started by the present legislature. Action on the resolution was with held last Fridav. on the objection of some of the senators that the discus sion of the subject, with the bills be fore the house, including one for a $50,000 repair on the old capitol, was not proper. The senate, it was ar gued, should not go on record until the house bills had reached the sen ate. No objections were raised this afternoon and the resolution passed unanimously. SINKING OF LINER LACONf A A CLEAR COT OVERT ACT CaattB4 "r Tmf Om.1 protecting of ships, insisting that the necessity already exists and that the ; United States cannot with self-respect wli lonarer to assert its rishts. Back of all their objections most of the reoublicans want an extra ses sion and contend that congress should not be away from Washington when the nation is or, the brink of war. Another filibuster in the senate is threatened and the democrats fear it, although the president is represented as fully confident that the power he asks will be granted and that there will be no extra session. . All members of the foreign relations committee were practically agreed. however, that a measure giving the president authority to arm merchant ships, defend the neutrality of the United States and to give him author itv to safesuord the property and i rights of Americans on the high teas would be worked out. May Invoke Piracy Statute. The committee hat under considers' tion a law passed in 1819 relating to piracy, in which it authorized the president to convoy ships for their protection in an emergency. I The first aection of the statute pro vided: "That the president of the United States be, and he hereby is, author iied and requested to employ so many of the public armed vessels as in hit judgment the service may require, with suitable instructions to the com manders thereof, in protecting the merchant vessels of the United States and their crews from piratical aggres sions and depredations. This statute also provided that the l commander and crew of any merchant ' vessel of the United States owned '. wholly or in part by a eitisen thereof may oppose and defend against any ' aggression, search, restraint, depreda- tion or aeuure which shall be at tempted upon such vessels or upon . any other vessel owned as aforesaid by the commander or crew of any armed vessel whatsoever.'' Whether the bill under preparation would carry direction tdonvoy ships senators said, had not yet been de termined, but several expressed the view that there would be mcorpc . rated in it a provision similar to that of the law in 1819 which gives author i ity to commanders and crew of mer chant ships to defend themselves. HOUSE APPROVES "BONE DRY" BILL WITHOUT FIGHT (OattiMS im rf Oh.) What Press Says of President's Plan Following is comment of American newspapers upon President Wilson's address to congress asking power to deal with Germany: New York Times: The president L right. The time and the occasion for action have come. Cincinnati Enquirer: Nothing should be more apparent than that the presi dent is concerned merely in the pres ervation of the rights of neutrals. Portland Oregon ian: The course which Mr. Wilson has marked out is not war, but is, as he says, armed neutrality." It may lead to encoun ters with armed ships, as with France in 1798, but, as in that case, war need not ensue. The action contemplated is simply a protection against lawless attack. Washington Post: It is impossible to believe that partisanship can go so far as to impose or deny the request. Charleston (W. Va.) News and Courier: The president should be given the authority he asks at once and by unanimous vote. New York World: There outrht to be no question whatever in congress about granting to President Wilson the lull measure ot money and credit for which he has asked. The powers that the president desires are powers barely short of war, but the situa tion is barely short of war. New York Herald: Mr. Wilson's message appears at first sight to meet only the most moderate demands of the pro-allies. With words carefully chosen, "velvety" we might say, the document impresses the reader as being the least the president could say, if he were to say anything at all. Yet, buried in these seemingly innoc uous sentences and periods, we find a request tor tun power to do just what only congress is permitted to do; that is, to commence war. coston Advertiser: me soeech is Mr. Wilson at his worst It shows amendment directing the postmaster general to renew pneumatic mail tube contracts in large cities for another year. Opponents of the bone drv amendment are jubilant and their hope for its failure is encouraged by the fact that its passage is not abso lutely essential. Postorfice appropria tions have failed In the past and ex isting appropriations have been con tinued by resolution. HOLLWEG CHARGES AMERICA UNFAIR (0HIwm4 1ss IX Oca.) D n msnufeetnrs. Mil, keep tor ssle or tartar, ftira away, tartan sichanke, tranaoort. possess, purckses, .r ta aall or tartar unaer any pretest, any aaalt, spirituous, vinous. fermoDted or othar Intellcetlna llqttora. ax ,-ept for moelelnal, maohajiloal, scleullBo or eenrsmentel purposes, aa Hereinafter oro vlded. Nothing herein contained aball bo iionatruad to prohibit tha making1 ot wlna or rider from (rapes, apples, ola." Station 11. enlltlod, "Paraonal tTaa of Liquors umltatlona. la atrlokan out nni tka following: Inaertad In Ita placo: "Any person Kior purenaeo and seep in Ms Po. aoaalon for modlrat purposes, athyt aloohol treated as required by this act ao u to unfit for uaa aa a bavarata. (It aball unlawful for ny paraon to purchase. ualva. aoeept, dallvar or poaaaaa any lntoal ,-atlns llouor. whathar tha aama waa ob tained bafora or after tha taking- effect of Ibla act, except aloonol whim haa been rendered unlit tor s beverase.1 Thla aec tion doea not apply to wholesale drusvlata. retail charm !, common camera, tnanu- factnrera of alcohol, churob sooda houaea, aa In thla ad denned, or pereona purchaa Ine and keeping nknhol for we In sclentlne laboretories. or noepuaia, or wina ror sac ramontal purpoaea, who have complied with the provisions ot thla act ror the purehaaa, aala, keeping or uae of sueh intoilcatlng liquors." - ' - ' Traueportuv Uaoor. section it. entitled "Carriers Transport. 1 Int." Chanted to read as fallowa (In flret half of tha aection): "It ahall bo unlawful .for any railroad company, eipreae company. common carrier, or any ather carrier or ' paraon. or any ofneer, agent, servant or ; employe thereof, to deliver or permit, aid, r Kvti in delivering, or carry lor ina pur pose oi noiivery, any intoxicating liquor, to any paraon. except pure ethyl alcohol to wholeaale drugglete and wlna for eacreraen. mi purpoaea to wnoleaale drugglete and hurch goods houaea aa provided In thla act." Tha provlatone regardlnt delivery of limited quantities during thirty day pa nada are stricken out aa are alas tha pro. visions limiting delivery to Sunday and during cert In houra an week days. Tha rorm or arnaavir is changed to conform lo tha "bona dry' principle, allowing de livery only to "buatneee" addreaaaa and for mechanical, aaorinuntal, modlolnsi oi aclentlAo purpoaea. Tha followtnt para graph Is added to aection II. "In all eaaei of tha ante of Intoalcattnt Honors, tn which a sklpment or delivery thereof Is made by common carrier, or other carrier, the sale thereof shall ta deemed ta have boon mode la the county wherein the delivery thereof Is made by auck carrier to the consigns. ' A proeeeutlen for any Illegal ale of Intoxleatlng liquor mar bo made In the county wherein the eonetfneo or the consignor reeldee, If within the stats; ectloa II. The worda relation ta "prl- vaie consumption- are stricken out. Chantos In words are made In Sections 41, 41, 4T and IS. Beetles II Is chanted to rea4 ax follows: "The legislature hereby declares this act to be for the Immediate proper nation of the poblto pones, health mnm ssxuty, and au its provisions shall liberally cone trued tor that purpose." Federal Bill In Jeopardy. Washington, Feb. 27. Final pass- ate oi tiie DOStorace aoDrooriatioa bill with the Reed "bone dry pro- iiiDiiMm aincnuraem accmea toaay In grave oouot. Conferees on the bill were unable to break their deadlock on the senate to the state secretary of the foreign office of breaking off -elations and asked for his passports. This form of breaking off relations between great nations living in peace is prob ably without precedent in history. "All official documents being lack ing, I am forced to rely upon doubt ful sources that is upon the outer (Reiner?) office s version of the con tents of the message sent by Presi dent Wilson on February 3 to con gress. In this version the president is reported to have said that our note of January 31 suddenly and without previous indication intentionally with drew the solemn promises made in the note of May, 1916, to the United States government; therefore, no choice compatible with dignity and honor was left other than the way in which had been announced in its note of April 20, 1916, covering the case if Germany should not want to give up its submarine method. If these arguments are correctly re ported by Reuter, than I must de cidedly protest against them. For more than a century friendly relations between us and America have been carefully promoted. We honored them, as Bismarck once put it, as an heirloom from Frederick the Great." Both countries benefited by it, both giving and taking, U. 8. Favors Entente. since the beginning of the war things have changed on the other aide. of the waters. Old principles were overthrown. On August 27, 1913, during the Mexican troubles, President Wilson in a solemn roes sane to congress declared that he in tended to follow the best usage of in ternational war by a prohibition of the supplying of arms to both Mexi can parties at war against each other, One year later, in' 1914. these usages apparently were no longer considered good. "Countless materials of war have been supplied by America to the entente and while the right of the American citiien to travel without hindrance to entente countries and the right to trade without hindrance with France and England, even through the midst of the battlefields, even the right of such trade as we had to pay for with German blood while all these rights were jealouily him very evidently undecided what to do in face of this great crisis. St. Louis Republic: Events are crowding forward in such a way as to leave small hope for continued peace without dishonor. The inevitable break approaches, and when it comes Germany will be the aggressor and the country will stand united behind our president. Kansas City Journal: There seems to be a reluctance to leave the whole matter in the president's hands and undoubtedly the country will asree that the president and congress should be in the closest possible touch, which can only be done by keeping congress in acsaiuil nitoi liic mauKuienun. Chicago Herald: The president does not want war; congress does not want war: the nation does not want war; but in the life of every people there come moments when the desire for peace must be subordinated to pitiless necessity. Congress should grant the president tne power ne seeks. It is not a declaration of war. It is a steo nearer war. Kansas City Star: At a time when Dr. Dernberg is assuring the Ger man people that the American gov ernment is paralyzed by division of public sentiment there ought to be no delay. Any attempt at political jockeying will invite aggression by Germanv. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: There is nothing in the address that indi cates a firm and unfaltering purpose to uphold the right of American ojtl lenship, nothing that promises cer tain action for maintenance of Amer ican honor, nothing to impress the German government with the strength of American SDint and American de termination. We do not fear the oositive acts of Mr. Wilson when congress adjourns and he is left the solitary power upon which we must depend. We are quite sure that he will not rush us into war, Milwaukee Sentinel: The general impression of the president is that if guarded, the same rights of American citizens toward the central powers did not seem to be as worthy of pro tection and as valuable." Speaking of relations with the Unit ed States, the chancellor said: "I would fully understand it if the United States as a protector of inter national law should have bartered for its re-establishment in equal fashion with all the belligerents and if desir ing to restore peace to the world had taken measures to enforce the end af the bloodshed. But I cannot possibly consider it a vital question for the American nation to protect interna tional law in a one-sided fashion, only against us. Our enemies and Amer ican circles which are unfriendly to ward us .thought that they could point out an important difference between our course of action and that of the British. England, they have satisfied themselves, destroys only material values, which can be replaced, while Germany destroys human lives, which are impossible to replace. "Well, gentlemen, why did the Brit ish not endanger American lives. Only because neutrl countries, and espe cially America, voluntarily submitted to the British orders, and the British therefore could attain their object without employing force. What would have happened if Americans had valued unhampered passenger and commodities traffic with Bremen and Hamburg as much as that with Liver pool and London r If they had done so, then we should have been freed from the painful impression that, ac cording to America, a submission to British power and control is compat ible with the essential character of neutrality, but that it is incompatible with this neutral policy to recognize German measures of del tense. "Gentlemen, let us consider the whole question. The breaking off of relations with the United States and the attempted mobiliztion of all neu trals gainst us do not serve for the protection of the freedom' of the seas proclaimed by the United States. These actions will not promote the peace desired by President Wilson. They must consequently have encour aged the attempt to starve Germany and-multiply the bloodshed. "We regret the rupture with a na tion which by her history seemed to be predestined surely to work wtih us, not against us, but since our honest will for peace has encountered only jeering on the part of our enemies there is no more going backward. "There is only 'going ahead' possi ble for us." there is any man in the country who may be sately trusted to steer cicar of war, if that can possibly be done, he is the man. - , Nebraska State Journal: I lus is not war unless Germany chooses to make it an occasion for declaring war. Without abroprating a national right or compromising the nation's cour age, the president still clings to the possibility of acceptable adjustment. SpringhcM (Mass.; nepuuiiun. The plan of the president seems to be all that the present national exi gency would warrant, in the opinion of the majority of the American peo- Ple. .. . :.t ... . New York sun: ine mystical u- dress delivered to the Sixty-fourth congress yesterday throws no light on the president's plans for the pro tection of American commerce or for the preservation of the nation's honor, now attacked, insulted and outraged by Germany's acts on the high seas. Its muddle of sentimentalities merely affords addi tional reason that at this time no ex traordinary powers should be trans ferred in blank. Chicago Tribune: The specific au thority for which President Wilson asks is to release American com merce. If our armed ships go through the Great Britain block ade, we are at war with Germany. The phrase does not matter. The condition is there. If we go to the point where we are to use armed vessels to protect our com merce with Germany during the war, we must drive a proper bargain and make sure that Great Britain's armed vessels will protect our vessels after the war. Philadelphia Public Ledger: The crisis is so grave, we are so far from full readiness to meet it. that the moderation of the president's lan guage, the deliberation with which he takes one step at a time, the care with which he avoids any suggestion of war, is likely to meet with general approval. Thirteenth Daughter Will Marry a Thirteenth Son Galesburg, III., heb. .co. A teenth daughter will marry a thir- thir- teenth son, when Miss Lea Thurston of Farmington, 111., becomes the bride of Albert A. Oliver, at Havre, Mont. Miss Thurston left today for Montana. The ceremony is to be this Munatorbert Library to Harvard. Cambrliine, Ms.. Feb. 26, Hurvard uni veralty will Twelve the library of the laf Prof. Hugo Munaterberg. ll waa announced today, Old-Time Engineer At Fairbury Is Dead Fairbury, Neb., Feb. 27. (Special Telegram.) John P. Mergan, a well known Kock island passenger en- died this morning gmeer ot this city, a week. of pneumonia. He had been ill about Mr. Merean was active in municipal affairs of Fairbury and had served as counciuman. He entered the service as locomotive fireman nearly a quar ter of a century ago and was consid ered one of the msot competent en gineers at this place, being a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He was 45 years of age. He is survived by his wife, son, daughter and father. The Knights Templar will' have charge of the funeral services. Blue valley division of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers will also at tend in a body. Gerard and Party Reach Corunna to Sail for U. S. Madrid (Via Paris), Feb. 26. Am bassador Gerard and party have ar rived at Corunna, according to a mes sage received here from the governor of Corunna tonight. (The ambassador left Madrid yesterday afternoon and will take steamer from Corunna for the United States. Give your Want Ad a chance to make good. Run it in The Bee. Prepare This tor a Bad Cough-It's Fine Ckssptr mmt Bully Doea ts Work t. 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