Waterloo Evening Courier And Waterloo Daily Reporter (Newspaper) - December 6, 1915, Waterloo, Iowa GERMANY MAY CONTEST DISMISSAL OF VON PAPEN AND Out-of-Town Buyers will now find Waterloo all ready nod at at this time to A5 GOODS AND WATERLOO DAILY REPORTER WEATHER FORECAST Chicago Dec Unsettled weather with rain tonight or day warmer and central tions tonight Courier 4 1858 1868 WATERLOO IOWA DECEMBER 6 1015 PRICE THREE CENTS CONGRESS OPENS MOMENTOUS ISSUES FACED Good Fellows of Cedar Heights Prepare Christmas Contribution Are You in Mr Good OF U.S STEP Von Calls for ment of Cases Against Military and Naval Attaches DIPLOMATIC ISSUE MAY RESULT OVER INCIDENT Procedure Contrary to tional Usage Embassy May Deny Charges FOR CHRISTMAS FUND Previously Reported Washington D C Dec Count von Bernstorff today pre- sented to state department a com- asking for the reasons for the request for the of t Captain and Captain von Papen the German naval and attaches respectively It was stated authoritatively in the communication that the ambassador would under no ask the United States to get safe conduct for the attaches The German government was represented as considering it in- cumbent upon the United States return the attaches in safety to and their successors here Should it develop from the state department answer dents than the and the testimony at the trial of the con- of the line were considered by the United States in asking that the attaches be withdrawn German will contest the withdrawals Should the depart ment reply that those two incident alone were responsible the with place without fur ther inquiry or The embassy has been as considering that It and the at taches stand before the bar of publi opinion In such circumstances th understanding is that the will deny that the attaches have i any way been connected with any thing under attack other Archibald incident and the American case BREAKS PRECEDENTS this action is considered by of the stale department to be contrary to precedents of diplomatic procedure Under all diplomatic usage it Is only necessary for the United States to indicate to Germany that the attaches are persona non grata and it is not necessary to give a reason for asking for their Captain and Captain von Papen were in Washington today and conferred several times with Count in beautiful picturesque Cedar Heights a rural community settled mainly by some of the brightest and best people of Waterloo and Cedar Falls the Good Fellow spirit is ing a firm hold The residents of Cedar Heights are deeply interested in all religious educational and civic affairs They have a strong com- munity center club and hold ings for entertainment and self-help But in the midst of their multiplicity of affairs they have time to think of the poor children in Wa- who were it not for the of the Good Fellows would Christmas remembrances The contribution from Cedar Heights will probably be a big load of garden products Organization of the forces to ad- minister the Good Fellow fund is ing rapidly forward Mrs A H Holt is taking a conspicuous place in the proceedings and will receive reports from the members of the ing committee Mi's F E Friend will act aa secretary of the executive committee which will be made up of the chairmen of the various But while this work is going on ODD FELLOW n An informal order to N GL spare needy Waterloo children the pain of on mas and to insure their comfort the winter with useful Good Fellows Great Benefit A big Majestic theatre benefit for the Good Fellow's Fund was proposed this morning by ager Frudenfeld of the Bridge street theatre Mr BY DIPLOMATS Roumania's Policy Wavers While Russian Troops Are Held Up on Her Frontiers SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS BEGINS HISTORIC SESSION CHAMP CLARK RE-ELECTED he most important part of the is the accumulation of a fund arge enough to bring Christmas Joy o boy and girl In the city the public -is impressed with he necessity of the early donations of cash clothing and provisions GREECE STILL OBSTINATE IN REFUSING CONCESSIONS popular feld says he has booked the star com- pany of the season which will em- brace a series of the best vaudeville acts ever brought to Waterloo and included In this is the company of trained nurse girls The is an- for four performances be- ginning Dec 19 The benefit performance will be Monday night Dec 20 The theatre be packed and undoubtedly will be Everyone buying a ticket day Dec 20 evening performance will get more than his in the to be presented besides this they will have the satisfaction of contributing toward the low fund Details concerning the will be given a little later but enough is said now for advance for every seat in the house Tickets should be spoken for at an early date as standing room is sure to be the card displayed for the evening of the Good Fellows benefit Re-Elected as Speaker of the Lower House SEIZE SHIP Revolt in Shanghai Put Down After Hot Battle Seized Vessel Set on Fire France WillNot End War Until Alsace Is Won Shanghai Dec breaks by small bands of rebels in the last twenty-four hours have been put down by the authorities who now apparently have the situation well in hand The cruiser seized day afternoon by forty men who boarded her from a launch was abandoned by the rebels early today Paris Dec will not make pence until Alsace and Lorraine are won Belgium and Serbia restored and German imperialism and Prussian are put beyond he of Albert Thomas under secretary of war said yesterday The declaration of Mr Thomas is attaching spread attention as it IK one of the first statements from a re- sponsible cabinet official ing the attitude of the ment in regard to peace The statements of M Thomas were made in an address to a large crowd assembled last evening in memory of the dead of the war of 1870 M Thomas There will be no peace until our Issues Manifesto Ad vising People Not to Vote in General Elections London Dec solution has yet reached of affairs in the Balkans Russian troops tho long poised for action near the frontier have not yet so far as is known left their own territory policy still is one of wavering and the Greek situation diplomatic parleys and all sorts of reports of a successful settlement remains undeveloped According to the latest reports from Athens both the entente group of powers and the Greek government are holding their entente reiterating its demands and Greece refusing to make concessions inconsistent with her An official communication has been issued at Athens to the effect that the Greek press does not sent the views of the Hellenic which is said to be tic regarding a successful settlement but the ground for this optimism which has failed to Impress the paper and public either at Athena or in London Is not given Premier Skouloudis again red yesterday with King Constantino who afterwards received the French minister to Greece discussing the situation at some length Since most of the questions ing says Reuters correspondent al Athens are of a military nature the impression is general that their lution depends upon the decisions of the war council at Paris MORE ACTIVE Italy's adhesion to the pact o FIRST SESSION RT Many Momentous Questions ed Old Guard Members Back New Faces in the Senate Re-Elected as President Pro Tern of Senate after she had been shelled and set on Alsace and Lorraine are definitely PRESIDENT CONFER OX ARMY Washington D C Dec man Hay of the house military com- mute conference with President son today on the details of Mr Hay's If SB understood and the administration leaders are In practical accord on the measure the measure Mr Hay and Chairman Chamberlain of the senate military committee also have had several conferences with tary Garrison fire It was reported at first that the crew of the bad mutinied but it developed today that the by the cruiser of other ships and the arsenal was carried on under compulsion from the rebels who surprised and overpowered tbe crew Three men on the cruiser were killed and five wounded An attack from land on the al at midnight was repulsed quickly after some rifle firing The third outbreak occurred at -I o'clock this morning A party of thirty or forty rebels attacked the throwing bombs which killed one policeman three The outlaws were dispersed by troops AHho a ber of shot fell in the foreign ment no damage of lance was done there CHAMP CLARK Increases Sought By Every De- Defenses Swell Enormous Total Would Regulate All Rural Washington D C- Dec H M Tomier today introduced a which it passed will relieve the rural route situation in Town The takes out of the hands 1 of the postmaster general the establishment of rural routes lind the pay bC carriers ami standardizes routes for vehicles to bo not more than miles in length at f for carrier and routes of not more than miles for motor vehicles a year The restricts automobile delivery service to roads thus making Iowa certain of routes of the shorter length 1 as part of the French unity There will he no peace until our unfortunate brothers of Belgium and Serbia are assured of recovering their home in complete security and There will be no peace until man imperialism and Prussian is put beyond the possibility of resurrection There will be no peace until a tem of right founded upon the union of the allies and ported by the free adherence of has abolished forever the lence of war TO END Whatever may be the sacrifices France united will go steadily for- London agreeing not to conclude a separate peace and the arrival in Paris of General Porro second in command of the Italian army are re- here as gratifying signs of the increasing solidarity of the en- tente allies and it Is hoped by the British public that this closer union will soon bear fruit in a more getic Balkan campaign The Bulgarians announce a further pursuit of Serbian forces thru ian territory The retreat of the Serbians is reported to have ed the character of a precipitate flight along tbe river D C Dec mates for the most elaborate pro gram of expenditures ever o an American congress in times o peace worn submitted today propos ing a total outlay of or more than waa lust year The great in crease is almost wholly duo to th administration plans for militar preparedness More than 000 of the total is for direct expend tures on the army and navy with millions more and other fortification work Washington 15 C Doc greHs is in session again after a nine Both houses reas today marking of the Sixty-fourth congreea Much important business faces th members Since the gavels last fol In two houses many momentous questions ing all others arc thoso caused by European war but they do not compose the entire program In ad- dition to the questions of national defense and revenues which fall under the general head of pre- the merchant marine and rural credits legislation promise to command much attention Many in- centering mainly about problems are to ho inaugurated ml an interesting tight will ensue u the senate over a proposed nle The first business before the oday was the election of a speaker Trimble the clerk called the sody to order Members then to the election oC the speaker he Democratic majority made the re-election of Champ Clark of souri a foregone conclusion Maun of Illinois the Re- candidate for speaker was he choice of the Republicans for their leader OF HODY Two hundred and thirty rats 107 Republicans six sives one Socialist and one ent compose the new house The dozen or more Republicans of the old guard who went down in de feat three years ago only to bo re turned to the lower house Democratic opponents last fall formed an interesting group Jo seph G Cannon former speaker o the house and now well on towar 80 years of ago stood out ly If he finishes his present term he will have served forty years in congress eight years as speaker er Republicans who remained at home during the last congress to ro- Senate and Lower House Adjourn After tion and Brief ials President to Bead Message Tomorrow SENATOR JAMBS P CLARKE 1 Administration Estimates Total Nearly Half Billion to Be Spent in 1916 SPEAKER CLARK PAYS TRIBUTE TO MANN j Predicts Body Be in I Almost Continuous During Existence Senator James P Clarke in Senate Chair Washington D C Dec Congress reassembled at noon day for what promises to be the most important and historic sion of a Proceedings in both houses and senate were brief being confined I entirely to and for- introduction of some bills and resolutions In accordance with custom both soon adjourned and sent a to formally notify dent Wilson that congress was in session Tomorrow the real work of the session begins when President Wi I son del his annual address to a loint session assembled in hall of the house Speaker Clark was re-elected and sworn in amid cheers from the floor and galleries In the seriate the was perfected by the election of Clarke of sas as president Vice President Marshall was not in the appear today were Nicholas worth of Ohio William B McKinley VV A Rodenberg William W son George E Foss John A Sterling and Charles E Fuller of Illinois Hill of Connecticut Cyrus A of New Hampshire and wards Scutari Further north the NoL a establishment of tho Austrians report that the asked for loss than was grins fighting on their frontier have j given last year Mauy requests wera been repulsed after offering violent made for because of to be used in coast Benjamin K Focht of Pennsylvania Meyer London the first Socialist elected to congress from New York On the other fronts only sporadic artillery duels and small ments of local importance are re- ported accomplish this end BY ments of the war in Europe The state department asked for many increases including for additional clerical force in the department additional for Washington D C Dec administration's estimate of military and naval expenditures including tho first year's cost of the new tional defense program was sent to congress today with a total asked for the army and for the navy For the two branches the increase asked over the appropriations last year is about exclusive of the amounts for fortifications in other Hems which may be included In a general scheme of military defense The entire plan calls for something over In excess ot the last appropriations The war department asks an in- chair for the opening ADDRESS BY CLARK In his opening address to the house the speaker paid tribute to Re- publican Leader Mann and predicted a practically continuous session after I am profoundly grateful to you for the high honor of the speakership thrice conferred by your friendship and he said I the Democrats for their personal good will which has attended me all days here By reasons of the amazing growth of our beloved country the bewildering increase of business the time is in sight when the con- gress will remain practically in crease ot more than 000 f or I I this into history as a attracted much attention MANY Senate proceedings always are is for aviation to be made immediately available with more for the development of The senate and sallenes Pre- an aviation motor For the pay of gented the usual scene James M rim the army Is asked an quieter than those in the house As j increase of more than to striking as the return of old faces to the house was the absence of miliar countenances in the senate Senators Root of New York Iowa to Get Four New Postoffice Buildings in 1916 before the terrible obstacles which j Dec j for transportation and sub- confront them justice and liberty of Greece has and instead of the the salaries of charges de affairs and on of Bristow of Kansas have only one which our nation in arms opens to them with the machine gun and cannon sued a manifesto addressed in asked before to enable the name of the liberal party to the j president to meet unforseen i pie of his country advising abstention The declaration of M Thomas voting in the forthcoming rives added significance from The manifesto was fact in addition to his connection 21 but its transmission increases is the cabinet he is one or the leaders iby telegraph was prevented by the for collecting the income tax an In- arising in the diplomatic and consular service A large Item in the treasury de- Washington B C Dec the estimates presented to congress today the treasury department asked for following appropriations for Iowa for fiscal year ending June To complete postoffices al ington at Charles City at Grinnell at Maquoketa For continuation sites and ings at Chariton at roll at Cedar Falls at Cherokee For installing lookouts in fices at Davenport at Boone at Keokuk building Des Moines courthouse of the Socialist party I Greek government and It reached crease of over last year Maurice Barres president of paris today by mail league of also Thp manifesto calls attention to i used to hire 485 deputy collectors at the memorial meeting I which among other things will be i i used to hire 485 deputy collectors at the fact that the internal crisis was per year compared with 127 Crawford of South Dakota Perkins of California and Stephenson of Wisconsin missing from the Re- publican side Democratic ranks missed Thornton of Louisiana White of Alabama and Camden of Kentucky pay about more enlisted men The quartermaster department asks tor an increase ot more than 000 for supplies and about 000 for clothing camp and garrison equipment Pay tor the navy with men instead of as at present is put The first business the new senators was swearing In Most of them is the meaning of the solely by the wresting collectors in 1915 The same termination of France to carry on the of from those to whom the war to the he asked ut people had confided in at the last means re-establishment of the ejection pean equilibrium and that no peace M venizelos will be made until Alsace and raine are returned and we are anteed security from the Germans 1917 SISTERS SEPARATED FOR -IS YEARS the constitution is deformed into a ment wants to enforce the cotton futures act The department of commerce ed for many increases for gathering Information at homo and abroad on simple scrap of paper and we find commerce industry and manufacture ourselves at present in a deviation Among the items included arc from our policies amounting to to promote and develop the com- pression of the constitutional re- gime three years Mrs S A Phillips of Syracuse Kan and Mrs S of San Bernardino Cal sisters have been separated Long ago each gave up the other dead Last week Mrs Phoebe Graff of this city cousin of the sisters found a letter lost thirteen years ago and thru it via Dec cd and them i Imperial ukase was issued today 1 An ordering the enrollment of the class ot 1917 In 1916 Martin's El Tovar Cigar now Advertisement SAYS TWO ATTACKED THE Washington D C stute department received today a message from Consul Mason at Tunis giving the substance of an affidavit made by Guiseppe an An- cona survivor to the effect that the Ancona was attacked simultaneously by two submarines one on each side the one on the port side shelling her interests of tho United States and to be devoted to the j same ends with particular reference I to South and Central America Labor conciliators the labor de- says will need this year in place of Tho Children's Bureau for more than last year The department of agriculture ed for tVe same as last year for eradication of foot and mouth disease to enforce the ready are known in political circles Among tho Republicans came James W of New York successor to Root who attracted at- tention as the youthful speaker of the New York assembly Charles lurtis of Kansas who succeeds tow and Warren Harding of who succeeds Burton Oscar W Underwood of Alabama former of the house led the new Democrats Other crats who took the oath were James D Phelan of California J C W Beckham of Kentucky Robert F Broussard of Louisiana Edwin S Johnson of South Dakota and Paul O Husting of Wisconsin The ate now Democrats fifty-six and Republicans forty Tomorrow shortly after noon the house and senate will sit in joint session in the hall of the house to hear President Wilson deliver his annual address Continued on page 7 Smoke Big Head a good Cigar an increase from last year and prentice seamen In place of For completion of vessels on the stocks and repairs and preservation of those in commission the estimate is an increase of about For completing submarine torpedo boats heretofore authorized mate is 344 lasl year For submarine bases ig asked The big item in the new navy gram is an of as the first year's for hulls and machinery of Iwo ships two battle cruisers three scout cruisers 15 destroyers two gunboats one hospital ship one fuel oil ship This compared with an appropriation of In last year's program For the hulls and outfits of five fleet and 25 coast submarines first work Is asked ed with last year For armor and armament of vessels the estimate is against last year For aviation is asked an in- crease of and for reserve ammunition for which Baker the secretary called the I slon to order and the chaplain I ed for divine guidance for the of peace at home and its re- abroad Thirty-two senators then were sworn in Each was corted by his colleague MINORITY UNITES Washington D C Dec ate Republicans met in caucus day with assurances a united mi- lority for the first time since ation of the Progressive party Senator Poindexter of Washington attended the conference and joined ts organization For some time he called himself a Progressive and did not participate in Republican Senator Gallinger of New shire was re-elected chairman of the conference and floor leader and was authorized to name on committees He also was made the Republican nominee for president pro tern Senator Wadsworth of New was elected secretary of the ence there was no appropriation last year pled THRONG PRESENT Washington D C Dec opening ot the Sixty-fourth today drew thousands the capitol The day began with overcast skies and sharp cold Hundreds began the historic building early be- fore noon the hour set ot the gavels in the house and ate practically every seat wms
