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VOL. a.
NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1917.
NO. 2241.
WASHINGTON, D. C..-April 29—
The draft law passed both houses
late last night and after consider
able debating.
The final vote of the House stood
397 to 24. The final vote n the
Senate stood SI to S.
The opponents of the draft bill
insisted that the volunteer system
would secure all the men that were
needed by the United States and
that in opposing conscription they
spoke for the vast majority of the
citizens of the United States.
The supporters of the bill followed
throughout the administration plea
that conscription would eventually
be necessary, and by being in force
from the start would assure the
country of a maximum of fighting
men. all secured with a minimum
of friction.
It was forcefully held that the
experiences in Great Britain had
shown that conscription would he
best enforced from the beginning
of the war and this country would
do well to profit by the experience.
Rancorous charges that opposi
tion to the war was the real basis
for opposition to conscription added
to the liveliness of one of the most
memorable debates held in either
house or senate. The strong vote
for the law in both Houses comes
as no surprise.
TEDDY STUMPS ORDER
UR8E DISPATCH TROOPS
CHICAGO, April 29.—The Roose
velt campaign to rouse the war fever
and to stimulate enthusiasm in the
preparations for military organiza
tions of an unusual degree, began
here when Teddy delivered a speech
in the Stockyards before an over
flow audience and where he was
greeted with the wildest enthusiasm.
Roosevelt however directed his
Temarks solely to urge the dispatch
of a great field force to France
without delay, and it was to this
that he lent all the powers of his
persuasive eloquence and argument.
He declared that the United States
had stood still too long while the
menace of German militarism threat
ened to engulf the world in fright
fulness. Roosevelt said that they
knew where he stood on this ques
ton right along, and he came there
to urge more than ever the vital
need for dispatching American
troops to France immediately.
“I ask that we send a powerful
military force to France immediate
ly, and I ask it in the name of our
children and our children’s child
ren”, he concluded in a storm of
deafening applause,” so that they
may hold their heads high over the
memory of what this nation did In
the greatest crisis that the world in
the history of battling mankind ever
faced”.
Roosevelt expressed himself as
delighted at the reception which
greeted him and his address.
EVERETT DEFENSE RESTED
CASE SATDRDAY EVENING
SEATTLE, April 29.—The defense
rested on Saturday evening in the
trial of Tracy, one of the industrial'
ists who travelled oil the Verona
when the battle took place between
those on board that boat and the
gunmen on the dock in Everett.
AT DREAM TONIGHT
The Dream offers two magnificent
-pictures tonight, one of them a two
Keel Comedy entitled ““Ambrozes
.Sour Grapes”. To-morrow night a
■feature attraction. “Greater Love
Hath No Man” is from the studios
of the Popular Plays and Players
and is an exclusive Metro release,
In addition to Mr. Corrigan, the cast
contains Crawford Kent, Mabel
Wright, Mary Martin, Thomas Cur
ran and William Morse and was dir
ected by Mr. Herbert Blanche, who
also produced “The Shooting of
Dun McGrew” and “The Heart of a
Painted Woman”. Usual prices.
REIIABI.IC TAILOR SHOP.
Front St. S doom west of Alaska
Bank.
.We do the boat j
> CLEANING
PRESSING
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REPAIRING
Lndlea and Gentlemens Clothe*.
The defense succeeded in intro
ducing witnesses to rebut practically
all the vital points brought out by the
prosecution. It was shown that the
allegation that Tracy fired through
the cabin window was impossible to
be proved because the cabin window
was invisible from the dock. It
was testified that Tracy huddled
close behind the smokestack during
the firing. It was testified to by
an Everett city official that the
whole affair had been arranged at
a conference whereat he was pre
sent.
One witness swore that lie saw
MacRae give the signal for the first
shot. Important testimony intro
duced revealed barbarities ot' a hein
ous type practiced upon the Indus
trialists before the encounter, and
the police of Everett were unwilling
witnesses to the fact that while con
ducting their fight for free speech
the men had never offered any viol
ence or resisted arrest.
The case will go to the jury early
this week and the attorneys will
commence arguments In it to
morrow.
BILLINGSLEY DID NOT
GIVE VP AFTER ALL
SEATTLE, April 29.—On Satur
day Logan Billingsley did not give
himself up as he promised. He
writes his daily letter to the Seattle
Star telling them that he does not
want to surrender to the cops and
the cops were at every prominent
corner on Saturday looking for the
reward.
Billingsley in his most recent let
ter repeats his statement that he has
reformed and is going to be good.
He avers that he wants to give him
self up to a reporter to whom he
will confide the whole story of his
escape which is a good one, and he
would like to have the reward go
to the Red Cross Society.
For Coal and General Delivery see
Erickson or, leave order at Mansfield
Tobacco Store.
bat of estimate on /our fob Work
WASHINGTON. D. C., April 29—
Ii is admitted that the War Depart
ment will, under the provisions of
the draft law, raise a huge fighting
force immediately. It is admitted
that two hundred thousand will be
raised by September 1 and the law
has authorized the total drafting ot
two million men without delay.
There is a difference in the con
scription measures as passed the
St-nate and as passed the House, but
these differences will be compro
mised in conference committee of
both.
Thus, the Senate sets the age
limit of those to be drafted at from
21 to 27, while the 'House sets the
age limit of from 21 to 40.
The effort to have the age limit
at from 21 to 45 was voted down
in both houses, it is believed that
the limit will be cut down in confer
ence to be made to graduate, au
thorizing the first call involving a
certain number of years, say uji to
thirty, and thereafter in hatches o£
definite amounts to forty. It is an
nounced that forthwith between
six and eight hundred thousand
names will be drawn by the jury
wheel system which it is stated is
expected to be ready immediately
the President signs the law.
The War Department has been
steadily perfecting the system while
Congress was debating the measure,
confident of its final passage.
TEDDY MAY ORGANIZE
DIVISION AFTER ALL
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29—
The Senate voted on Saturday after
noon to permit Roosevelt to raise a
division for service in France.
The embargo on this bill by the
administration was lifted just as
soon as the Senate had passed the
draft law.
It was feared that the success
which Roosevelt would experience
in raising troops by the volunteer
system for service with him in
France would be a boomerang upon
the draft bill, and for that reason
was removed from the consideration
of the Senate and House until after
the passage of the draft bill.
In spite of this in the debate
against the draft, the opponents of
the administration’s conscription
measures made use of the Roosevelt
statement that he ‘had applications
more than sufficient to raise three
divisions for service in France.
CHICAGO, April 29.—Roosevelt
will make good if he gets his right
to raise a division confirmed by the
House and the President.
He reiterated the statement made
some time previously that he had
more than enough men to raise three
divisions. He states that he has
had to stop taking applications: that
they flooded his mail from all sec
tions of the country and that he was
amazed at the number wanted to
serve under him.
SAYS SEATTLE LEADING
PORT PACIFIC FOR RUSSIA
SEATTLE, April 29.—A Russian
trade expert visiting this city said
that Seattle, it had been definitely
settled, would be the foremost port
for Russian trade across the Paci
fic. He said that Seattle was the
j nearest port to Vladivostock, the
I Russian trade and financial terminal
iu Siberia and consequently it could
not be otherwise.
The Russian official said that the
new government in Russia was also
Irrevocably committed to carrying
on the war nntil the defeat of Ger
LOCAL ITEMS,
The Eagle movie matinee on
Saturday was the center of attrac
tion for all the kiddles and most ot
their parents in Nome. The pro
gram put on was a dandy and all
enjoyed it to an exceptional de
gree.
• • •
Carl Rylander reports that when
he left the Koyuk the water in
Norton Bay was wide open and the
ice all gone out. Usually the ice
comes and goes several times before
finally making its get away, but this
year it was completely, out of sight
and as there had blown a strong
northeasterly wind, the probability
is that it may not return but will
drift steadily to the Straits and go
up the Arctic.
many was assured and he stated
that a separate peace was quite un
thinkable.
He said that after the w’ar was
over, the Russian trade with the
United States on the Pacific Coast
would increase by leaps and bounds,
because the United States had most
to offer in the way of developing
the vast resources of Siberia which
exceeded in richness and vastness
anything else in the world.
The expert is here watching the
organization of the munition and
transportation traffic, and is on a
mission in this respect holding cre
dentials from the new government,
one of the first to arrive in the
United States under these orders.
He said that the Russian revolu
tion was practically a bloodless one.
The fighting was unimportant.
LABORITES LOST OUT
WHO OPPOSED DRAFT
WELLINGTON, N. Z., April 29.—
In the recent elections just brought
to a close an examination of the
victorious and the defeated candi
dates reveals the fact that all the
laborites who opposed the conscrip
tion law lost out in the election
while its supporters won out. Al
most every labor member returned
is an avowed advocate of the draft
law.
It is not expected that the draft
law will be put into extensive effect
immediately.
The defeated candidates deny
that the election was fair and assert
that pressure was brought to bear
upon the situation to effect a defeat
of all who espoused the anti-draft
cause.
They assert and have been assert
ing for some time that rough stuff
goes with the domination of the
present government.
SOME SURGEON'.
LONDON, April 27.—Prof, asor
Gandier of Lille, a noted surgion
even before the war, extracted a
Bulgarian bullet weighing sixteen
grams from the heart of a Russian
officer who is expected to survive
the operation.