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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1919
Page
2
In a pivotal move the Lodge resolution opposing the Covenant gains the backing of thirty seven U.S. senators. The action signals strong congressional stance against the treaty and frames early opposition within the Senate.
Fragmented report details Republican leaders in Washington opposing rapid ratification of a peace treaty. Notes negotiations and potential defections as the Senate debates the treaty, with reference to positions and possible votes affecting outcome. Observers describe a tense standoff shaping the national policy and political dynamics.
Disjointed notes discuss President Wilson and the federal role, demobilization of troops, and labor shifts after conflict. Reports cover German forces, Allied reparation talks, and a price conference committee estimating Allied payments. Mention of the Third Army intelligence bureau and casualties abroad.
Milwaukee men Budish aged 28 and George Contigan aged 12 were rescued about fifty miles from Milwaukee after drifting for eighty seven hours. A fishing boat spotted them while returning from a net gathering trip. They were exhausted and fought to save their boat as it teetered toward sinking from damaged teak.
President Wilson spent two hours at the capital discussing the League of Nations and urgent congressional work. He urged speed on appropriations and war contract settlements, while noting progress on the proposed constitutional measures and conference reports amid Senate and House deliberations.
The War Department reports officer and enlisted strengths with discharges through February. New York cabled an invitation for Ag inwinatien to attend a Rocky Mountain Club dinner in New York on April, marking the king's birthday anniversary. Hoover in Paris to deliver the invitation. Washington House moves quickly to repeal the semi luxury tax, proposing 10 percent after May 1 on apparel and other items above set values, awaiting Senate action before adjournment.
Peace envoys move to internationalize Constantinople, dissolving the Hierpenian empire and creating a Turkish state in Asia Minor. Negotiations among Poles and Ukrainians break down. Western newspaper briefs report on League of Nations debates, amendments, and anxieties. Also notes signing of a major revenue measure in Washington and new tax impacts on beverages, tobacco, automobiles, and consumer goods.
The ex emperor faces arrest and a government led inquiry into his private wealth amid revolutionary pressures. Investigators found he could legally free 75,000,000 marks, but the state allowed only a temporary hold of 100,000 taiches while determining ownership.
HV Keeling, an English trade unionist, arrived from Russia and says Lenin Trotzky and Soviet officials know the game is up but do not know how to exit it. He admits initial attraction to Bolshevism and calls its present phase a starvation conspiracy.
The United States mint dispatched 8,253 silver bars valued at 4 million dollars to India. The shipment will travel via San Francisco before reaching its destination.
The Senate passed the annual Indian appropriation bill in Washington. The measure carries 1,000,000 dollars in addition to the 14,500,000 dollars provided in the House bill.
Berne conference urged by peace societies of Sweden Norway Denmark and Holland to discuss destruction of surrendering German warships. Delegations from England France Italy Germany and Austria-Hungary to attend as part of a League of Nations effort. President Wilson warns Congress that US entry is pivotal to the League amid disarmament debates.
Madrid remains under martial law with troops patrolling main avenues after riots targeting profiteers and butcher shops. The government restored order but closed some theaters and halted bakeries. In Washington, six German submarines surrendered in British harbors will be shipped to the United States for public display and study by American experts. The Navy notes these subs represent varied types from mine planters to deep sea cruisers and are not part of any U.S. submarine allocation.
The War Department received preliminary test results from an American built aircraft at Ithaca New York. Officials claim world speed and climbing records with an official speed of 163 miles per hour and a 10 000 foot climb in 4 minutes 52 seconds.
Western Newspaper Union reports widespread disorders as soldiers' councils vote for strikes in many cities. Munich, Leipzig, Halle, and other centers face rail and telecommunication shutdowns. Government troops clash with Spartacists in Hamborn. Bavarian efforts to declare a soviet republic unfold as Weimar passes army bill.
The volunteer Kubin Cossacks push against Bolshevik remnants in the northern Caucasus after the capture of haci kuvkny. Bolsheviks flee in all directions toward Georgievsk and nearby regions as loyalist forces seize motor trucks and execute prisoners, including generals Ruxsky and Radke.
Nnn terens dispatches report the government near collapse as hours pass in Herlin. Officials consult with the Workmen's Council after a Weimar manifesto denounces attempts to dissolve the national assembly and calls for democracy while warning of worsening economic distress and famine.
New York reports Representative Victor He inte of Cincinnati flew in to keep an engagement after train connections failed. He was piloted from Washington by Lieutenant Harmon, an army aviator, and arrived in 100 minutes of actual flying time.
Thomas W. Gregory, retiring attorney general, will accompany President Wilson to Paris as general adviser and unofficial counsellor during the peace conference. His resignation from the cabinet took effect Tuesday, with A. Mitchell Palmer succeeding him, and Gregory will begin his new role on the President's second European visit.
The text suggests the president will not run again after March 8 1921, noting he did not explicitly declare noncandidacy for 1820 but implied focusing on writing history. Source describes his remarks to Democratic national committeemen as leaving no other interpretation than history writing.
Deputy Sheriff Herman Vierke encountered a prisoner in Geneva's new jail sawing at the cell bars during rounds in November. The uneasy scene featured the inmate continuing to try with the saw while Vierke expressed calm confidence in the jail's sturdiness and rules.
A prisoner, once model, received clean silk shirts every other day. Vierke found the model prisoner’s cell empty after two toolproof bars were cut. Nell Gallagher was arrested in Cedar Rapids Iowa claiming she pulled silk threads from shirts and used emery dust to saw through bars.
Felix Lappelle, a Detroit iron worker, awoke perched over Jack's Run on Pittsburgh bridge work, over 100 feet above ground. Firefighters ascended the cables and lowered a rope to rescue him, after he claimed the dream of climbing the bridge sronwork. Temperature hovered between freezing and 40s, marking the midwinter stunt.
A Greek man named Cosmic Stefen fell for a hotel silverware ruse in St Louis losing 1872 dollars after two strangers swapped a package and vanished. In Macon Georgia a trunk of whiskey moved from Augusta via a suspect trick, leading to a 52 dollar fine after federal agents intervened. In Kansas City a three year old buck deer escaped from William Tanner’s herd causing about 150 dollars in damage.
Mixed late market quotations show prices for hides, salted and cured, with weights and discounts. Includes Chicago beef cattle and sheep values, wool and lamb figures, flour mill notes, and New York cotton futures with March and July bids. Nearly 15,000,000 acres in Canada grow wheat.
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