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Over $7,000,000 Asked
For Government Railway
4 CORDOVA REMEMBERED. 4
4 WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—Con 4
4 gress, which convened at noon 4
4 today in its second war session. 4
4 is faced by mighty problems of>4
4 America's part’in the war. Bil 4
4 lions of dollars in appropriations 4
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4 and measures to put Americans 4
4 in full force beside the allies 4
4 will be the principal business of 4
4 President Wilson's advice tomor 4
4 row. 4
4 The treasury department has %
4 submitted estimates totaling $13, 4
4 500,000,000 for the conduct of 4
4 this government’s war during 4
4 the fiscal year until 1919. The 4
4 budget is the greatest in history. 4
4 Over $11,000,000,000 for war is to 4
4 be realized from taxation and 4
4 the sale of liberty bonds. 4
4 The budget includes $64,500 4
4 which will be asked for the new 4
4 government building at Cordova 4
4 Many items will be submitted 4
4 for the betterment of Alaska. 4
4 and over $7,000,000 for continu 4
4 ing the construction and opera 4
4 tion of the Alaskan railway. 4
4 Two hundred and twenty-five 4
4 thousands dollars for the educa- 4
4 tion of Alaska natives. 4
4 Eigty two thousand five hund- 4
4 red dollars for the medical re- 4
4 lief of natives. 4
4 Ten thousand dollars for the 4
4 Mt. McKinley national park. 4
4 An increase is proposed in the 4
4 annual sum for the support of 4
4 reindeer stations, making $3,500 4
4 An appropriation is asked for 4
^ 4 the establishment of hatcheries 4
4 at Yeo Bay and Afognak. 4
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—The Sixty
fifth congress reconvened today for
its second and “long" sesssion, with
the leaders prepared to stay here un
til autumn. ,
As in the special war session which
ended October 6. prosecution of the
war is the principal task facing the
legislators. Tpday’s opening meeting
was as usual brief and prefunctory,
accompanied by the ordinary scenes
of a new session—handshaking and
other felicitations with well filled gal
leries and much bustle and confusion.
Alter appointment of committees by
both bodies to notify President Wil
son and each other of their presence
for duty and fixing their daily meet
ing hour at 1' o’clock, the senate and
house adjourned until tomorrow out
of respect of members who died dur
ing the recess—Senator Husting of
Wisconsin and Representative Martin
of Illinois.
Arrangements will be made tomor
row for a joint session, probably Wed
nesday, to hear President Wilson de
liver his address, expected to largely
define the legislative program.
Organization of both senate and
house under Democratic control hav
ing bfeen effected at the special ses
sion, both bodies were ready to
plunge into the mass of waiting busi
ness. Legislation, however, is not
expected to get into full swing until
next month, after the Christmas re
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cess, although there is some agitation
to forego the holiday.
i
j Tomorrow will come the initial
f
, flood of bills, resolutions and peti
I
j tions. Among the latter are many pe
| titions accumulated during the recess,
| demanding the expulsion of Senator
| La Toilette of Wisconsin for alleged
disloyalty. His speech last Septem
i her at St. Paul, Minn, was consider
! ed today by the senate privileges and
j elections committee in connection
1 with a sub-committee’s investigation.
General, miscellaneous legislation
j is to come immediately before con
i
gress, possibly including some mea
i sures affecting this country’s course
j in the war in view of widespread sen
timent among returning members for
i declaratons of war against Germany's
| allies, Austria-Hungary, Turkey and
, Bulgaria. Congress is expectd, how
. ever, to follow the views of the Prcsi
I dent in this respect.
Appropriation measures will require
much time. Fourteen general and
probably several special supply bills
, for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
1918, as well as estimates of addition
al money for present war needs are
to be considered, probably immediate
ly after New Year's. Two bills, the
legislative, executive and judicial and
I District of Columbia measures, al
ready are under preparation.
With $21,390,000,000 already appro
; priated for the present fiscal year’s
j needs, many members believe that,
with forthcoming appropriations, the
fifty-billion-dollar mark may be reaeh
j ed for two years of war.
; New. war revenue legislation, is not
scheduled for active consideration tor
^ a month or more. A deficit of
000,0000 in this year’s expenditures
remains to be provided for.
Political affairs will come in for
much consideration during the ses
sion, with considerable speech mak
| ing, in view of general congressional
, elections next fall at which thirty
! two senators, nineten Democrats and
; thirteen Republicans, and the entire
! house membership are to be chosen..
. Many members believe political eam
1 paign necessities may shorten the -es
sion.
The Democrats start the session in
control of both senate and house with
52 Democratic senators against 43
Republicans, with one seat—Senator
! Husting’s—vacant. In the house the
Democrats have 261 members, the Re
publicans 213, with five independents
and one seat vacant.
Several new members joined the
1 house today. Representative Lufkin,
| Republican, of the sixth Massachu
! setts district succeeding Augustus P.
' Gardner, Republican, who resigned;
i Representative Deshlin. Democrat, of
the twenty-eighth Pennsylvania dis
trict, succeeding former Representa
j tive Bleakley, Republican, who resign
ed. and Representative Merritt, Re
! publican, of the fourth Connecticut,
succeeding Representative Ebenezer
! Hill Republican, deceased.
|
; Important war legislation expected
to come before the present session in
cludes measures to give the President
further authority, especially over en
emy aliens. Senator Chamberlain's
bill fo* universal military training,
f I
• and measures to meet labor condi- •
j tions.
Chief among domestic concerns are
prohibition and woman suffrage.
j Senator Sheppard’s proposed Consti-'
tutional amendment whose submission
^ was approved August 1 by the senate j
; tin to 20, will be pressed in the house. j
j while both 'bodies will be urged to I
i. move submission to the so-called <
i
i Susan B. Anthony amendment for !
j equal suffrage, which has been favor- j
ably reported to th^ senate calendar. 1
Speaker Clark soon will appoint a ;
• chairman for the new special house'
I ' ^
I committee on woman suffrage.
Important general legislation pend-,
ing because of its exclusion from the ’
1 last special session are the Webb bill I
prmittng exportors to combine in for
i ■ 1
j eign trade, which has twice passed
the house and in the senate’s unfinish
; ed business; the Shields waterpower
development bill; the Walsh-Plttman
oil and coal land leasing measure, and
the Colombian treaty, proposing pay
| inent of $25,000,000 to Colombia,
j The administration soldiers and
| sailors civil rights bill, which passed
| the house last session but failed to
j get through the senate, soon will be
j taken up by the senr.te judiciary com
Aiittee. it operates in the nature of
moratorium, suspending court pro
cesses against members of the Aineri
\
; can military forces. Other unfinished
, war legislation includes Senator
Chamberlains resolution to subject
aliens to the draft: Senator Caider’s
bills for daylight saving and expedi
tious naturalization of aliens, and
Senator Pomerene’s bills, to enforce
government control of iron and steel
products and for reclamation of tihvs.
I ically unfit men for military service,
j Revision of second class postage
rates for publications also promises
to be agitated during the session.
, Creation of a congressional com
I mittee to supervise war expenditures,
I " hich President Wilson prevented
during the last session, will be urged
by Senator Weeks of Massachusetts
i and other Republicans. The proposal
; of Chairman Fitzgerald of the house
I appropriations committee for a single
committee to control war appropria
tions also is pending.
Closer scrutiny or appropriations
and departmental estimates, during
i the present session is generally pre
dicted. with efforts to prevent extra
\agance while at the same time pro
viding adequate funds for war needs.!
Spectacular features during the!
session are regarded as possible '
developments from the agitation
' against Senator La Follette and oth-!
| ers because of their opposition to
some war legislation. He and Sena-1
j tor Hardwick of Georgia have an
i nounced their intention to seek re
i peal of the dratt law. while Senators
La Follette and Sherman of Illinois
have peace resolutions pending be
fore the senate foreign relations com
I mittee.
I
W ithin the next few days President
Wilson is expected to send to the
senate nominations of many military
I and civil officers appointed during!
the recess or who failed of confirma
tion at the last session.
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The steamer Victoria arrived here
at 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon coming
direct from Seattle and sailed for
Seward at 8 o’clock this morning. |
i Her Cordova passengers were: F. R.1
I Townsend, John Muller, G. W. Waugh,
Mrs. H. May and Miss Loretta Halten.
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(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Dec. 3.—The steamer j
Alameda sailed from here Sunday, j
v. ith the following passengers for
iCordova: Malcom Brock and wife,
Caleb Cornier, E. L. Harwood, Geo,
O’N'ortham, Mrs. Jack Sapiro, Mrs, A.
Larson, S. K. Reed, wife and child,
Mrs. L. D. Bracken, Miss Lena Far
lantf, Migs Frorj TTartwig, Charles
Kitsman and R. Mooney.
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(By Associated Press)
HONOLULU. Dec. 3.— Fifteen mem-!
hers of the crew of the foundered j
steamer 'phor were rescued by the
crew af a X!v|,-*i)ese fishing boat off
Oahu island, for fourteen days they 1
had been afloat in the open and
traveled eight hundred and fifty i
miles. At the Norwegian consulate
it was said the men suffered from
exposure and exhaustion. They had
plenty of food but the water was in
sufficient. The balance of the crew 1
was rescued on November 21 by a
Japanese steamer.
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(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE. Dec. 3.—The striking
telephone4workers vote to return to
work. Under the federal mediation
plan they gatn recognition of the un-'
ion and are advised of a pay provis-j
ion of settlement of future trouble, j
The employes will register with the I
company for return to work immedi
ately. They have been striking a
month.
(By Associated Press)
WISHITA, Dec. 3.—A giant army
balloon broke its moorings at Ft.
Omaha. Nebraska, yesterday and be
gan racing south Today it was some
where over Kansas or Oklahoma,
dragging 6,000 feet of .two inch steel
cable, tearing out telegraph and tele
phone wires for a mile at a stretch.
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Read the Times and keep posted.
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BRITISH WITHSTAND ATTACKS
AND HOLD CAMERA! LINE
♦ WAR SUMMARY. »
♦ The attempt to encircle Byng *
♦ at Cambrai is apparently a com <►
$ plete failure. The enemy cap- ♦
♦ tured positions at a great cost. ♦
♦ but the British line is still firm. ♦
♦ A large number of American <»
♦ engineers were entrapped in an ^
$ encircling movement near Gouz- ♦
> ean court and took refuge in shell ♦
craters. - The British pressed *
♦ forward and the Americans join- ♦
♦ ed the fight valiantly. Engin- ^
♦ eers from New York captured at ♦
» Gouzean escaped and joined the ♦
^ British, their strategy being ♦
> praised. In West Jeruslaem the ♦
it Turks attack a line and are re- ♦
♦ pulsed everywhere with heavy ♦
♦ losses. ^
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♦ DATELESS—The violent ef ♦
♦ forts to destroy the salient before
♦ Cambrai brought little tactical ♦
♦ success, as the British withstood ♦
♦ for three days all attempts to »
♦ break through. Germans gain $
♦ ed a litle ground around Gonnelin ♦
♦ at heavy cost. The British evac- ♦
♦ ated Masnieres. but cajjturcd ♦
♦ many hundreds of prisoners ♦
♦ while a great number of Ger- ♦
♦ mans were killed. American ♦
♦ engineers operating and building ♦
♦ railroads, within British lines ♦
♦ near Gouzean court were caught 4
♦ in the first rush German attack ♦
♦ Many sought shelter in shell ♦
♦ holes from which they were res- ♦
♦ cued by British attacks. Later ♦
♦ the Americans took places in the ♦
♦ British advancing lines. +
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(By Associated Press)
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS, Dec. 3
—The British troops last night reoc
cupied a section of the trench south
west of Bourlon village on the Cam
brai front, which was lost Friday,
the British shelled the to'wn of Main
ieres, which they evacuated.
BERLIN, Dec. 3—The Germans cap
tured 6,000 prisoners at Cambrai since
Friday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Senator
Lodge, the ranking Republican on the
senate foreign relations committee,
favors war against Germany’s allies.
PETROGRAD. Dec. 3.—Under Am
bassador Francis' instructions Major
Ktyth, the American military attache,
protests with the entente embassies
igainst negotiations for armisiee. as
the American loans were made with
the understanding that Russia would
continue the war.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3.—The
Jraft registrant may enlist in the
irmy or navy until December ,15 if
I •
tailed for physical examination Gen.
McClain announces.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 3.—A Polish
ieputy reports the Reischtag that the
Lithuanian food supply is insufficient
tnd the mortality alarming.
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BUENOS AYRES. Dec. 3.—Baron
Ixtwed, the Swedish minister, departs
without the usual official farewells.
PETROGRAD. Dec. 3.—Torotsky
forbids passes to the British-Penning
investigations of Russians interned
in England on political convictions.
I
PARIS, Dec. 3—^he shipping prob
lem has been solved by a stupendous
shipbuilding program. Colby tells the
inter-allied council, which concluded
its sessions yesterday. The military
advisors of Prance, Great Britain, (it
aly and America will continue their
discussions until the policy on the
western front is settled.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—$40,000,
000 of the Red Cross war fund was
spent in the purchase of materials
and relief work in Prance, Belgium,
England, Russia, Roumania, Serbia,
Armenia and Syria. The semi-annual
reports states that it has 5,000,000
' members s
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SAN PRANCISCO. Dec. 3.—The
twelve federal reserve district bulle
j tin says the district purchased $290,
j 000,000 worth of the second Liberty
; bonds. The Arizona copper produc
tion for the year was $200,000,000, and
other metal $60,000,000.
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Dec. 3.—It is expected
the salvaging of the steamer Mari
posa will be delayed until spring on
account of storms. On Saturday the
salvage barge of the Wilson-Sylvester
company at Wrangell was blown
ashore, and the company forced to
cancell its salvage contract as it had
no more barges.
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—The fuel
administration is facing a 50,0^0,000
ton coal shortage and asks operators
to give preference to government or
ders, railways, households, public util
ities, steel plants, aoke ovens and mu
nition plants. *
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