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No. 20.281. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY. APRIL 7, 1916.-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. ONE CENT.

CARMEN ON STRIKE !

ON OLD DOMINION

AFTER CONFERENCE

Railway flffir.ials Refuse to

Deal With Employes as

Union Men.

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LINES TO GREAT FALLS

AND BLUEMONT TIED UP

Delegation Calls Motormen and Conductors

Off Cars at Georgetown

Following Failure to Agree.

MEN QUIT WORK PROMPTLY j

Terminals Were Filled With Suburban

Shoppers. Who Were Left in

Town. Many of Them Having

Their Marketing.

Emplovcs of the \\ ashington

and Old Dominion railway struck

at it o'clock this morning and

traffic on both the Bluemont and

Great Falls divisions is tied up.

The strike was called by members

of a committee representing

the emploves of the road who are

members of Division 699-of the

Amalgamated Association of

Street and Electric Railway Employes

of America, the .newly

formed local union, which embraces

both men of this road and

those of the Washington-Virginia

company.

Refuses to Recognize Union.

A visit xvas paid by this committee,

which consists of Ernest Putnam.

AT F. Patterson. "Walter C. Shertzer.

"William F. Foote and O. F. Carson, to

"William B. Emmert. vice president and

general manager of the road, to obtain

if possible, a reply to the memorandum

rvf agreement submitted to the company

yesterday.

Mr. Emmert informed ope. of the coiprnitteemen

that he would be glad to

receive him and his colleagues as-individual

employes of the road, but

that he could not deal with them as

union members.

The delegation feeling that they could

not recede from their stand as representatives

of the union, left the general

offices and walked to the (ieorgetown

terminus of the road at 36th and i

M streets and told th<- trainmen to j

tr ove no more rolling stock from then j

on. The men quit work promptly. One j

motorman climbed aboard a far then j

In the station and, as he applied the

power, called. "I'm only going to the

barn." amid loud applause.

Suburbanites Left in Town.

The Terminal was filler! with a group

of passengers uniting to go to 'Jreat

K..':. . Hiuemont, l-eesburg. Herndon,

1 _i \ i le. Hamilton, Hound Hill and

h a .j *r*"t o?ljate points. many of them

carrying heavy market baskets.

I where I walk thirty miles to- |

day announced one cheerful soul.

. S":'n : c employes stated that residents

<r the towns served by the road had

been warned not to come to the city

\\ e\|ie. t r*. operate the road and

render the best, service possible under

t e present conditions." said William

B Kmrrert general manager, when

seen by a reporter for The Star, "although

naturally we are unable to

v .a*"antee eHhcr schedule or service."

S'r k rg m?-n ?tated tliat all branches

of ihc ilei?artments of the road were i

sffcted by tcday's move, including

. :-pat?hers ot*i??* rneti and those in

servo with the steam traffic of the

r?ad

Second Strike in Two Days.

Tins is Washington's second railway

strike in two days, a general strike.of

all union employes of the WashingtonVirginia

road having been ordered!

yesterday at a meeting at Ballston, Va.

Officials of this company stated last

night that none of the men of the

Washington. Alexandria and Mount

Vernon division had quit, the strike

being confined to the Kails Church division.

The officials further stated that

service was being maintained practically

on schedule and that conditions

were about as they were yesterday.

Suburbanites this morning reported arrival

here on time or nearly so.

Approximately 10.000 persons, it is

etated. many of w hom are employed in

Washington stores and government departments.

will be affected by today's

strike order.

"The proposed agreement cannot be

tonsiuerea ana ih rererred to only to

say that the adoption of its terms

would probably result in bankruptcy

for the company." states, in part, a

bulletin issued this morning to the

employes of the old Dominion road bv

W. B. Kmmert. general manager, and

posted in the various stations.

Would Meet Employes Individually.

"The officers of the company are ready

arid willing: to meet its employes individually

or collectively and grive careful

consideration to any grrievance," it

continues, "but will not meet or deal

with the representatives of any outside

organization.

TW?. v.? ?: j

tion a readjustment of wages, runs,

etc., contemplating rearrangement as to

train service and increases In compensation

which it expects to make effective

with issue of new time table on or

before June I, 1916.

"As an interstate carrier whose service

is so essential to the convenience,

comfort and health of the public, this

company feels forced to say to its employes

that any one of them who fails

to recognize his responsibility by participating

in a strike may rest assured

that he will not be regarded as a person

worthy of employment in the future,

as there is no possible ground of

grievance which any employe can have

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MEASURE CARRIES

OVER rnooo, 000

Legislative. Executive and Judicial

Appropriation Bill Reported

to the Senate.

SEVERAL AMENDMENTS

ADDED BY COMMITTEE j

New Section Changes the Title of

State Department Counselor to

"Under Secretary."

The legislative, executive and judicial

appropriation bill was reported to

the Senate today from the committee

on appropriations without a suspicion

or suggestion of a "Borland" rider increasing

the hours of labor of the employes

of the government departments

in Washington.

The Senate committee made comparatively

few changes in the bill as it

came from the House, it added to the

bill $392,833. and subtracted from it ;

$14,620. making the net increase $578,213.

The bill as renorted to the Sen- i

ate carries $38,194,262.25. The estimates

submitted to Congress for this legislation

were $40,230,887.25. The legislative

bill passed at the last session

carried a total of $36,904,790.75. the Senate

bill being $1,158,097.50 greater than

the current act.

Section Added to Bill.

The Senate committee has added- a

section to the bifl which reads as follows:

"That no money appropriated by this

or any other act shall be available for

payment to any person receiving more

than one salary when the combined

amount of said salaries exceeds the

sum of .$2,000 per annum, but this shall

not apply to retired officers of the army

or navy whenever they may be elected

to public office or whenever the .''resident

shall appoint them to office by and

with the advice and consent of the Senate."

Another amendment changes the title

of the counselor for the State Department

to undersecretary of state.

Another amendment is that which

provides nine law clerks, one for the

Chief Justice and one for each of tne

associate justices of the Supreme Court,

at salaries not exceeding $3,600 a year.

Provision for Justice Department.

The Attorney General.-under another

amendment, is authorized to enter in

to a contract for. a lease of a modern

fireproof office building for the use of

the Department of Justice for a period

not to exceed five years, renewable at

the option of th<* government, for an

additional period of not exceeding five

years, at an annual rental of $36,000.

and at an annual rental per square

foot of available floor spate not to exceed

36.3 cents.

A similar amendment would authorize

the Secretary of Dabor to lease a mod-j

ern fireproof office building for the

use of his department for a period, not

to exceed five years, renewable, as in

the rase- of the Department of Justice

building, at an annual rental of $34,000.

Summary of Increases.

A summary .of the increases by departments

is contained in the commit- \

tee report. It follows:

Senate?(tfliee of the secretary, $180:

office of the sergeant-at-arms. fold- j

iiig room. $300; assistance to senators,}

$38,800: contingent expenses, $6,800.!

Total. $35,980.

J library of Congres?Reading rooms, j

$1,300; semjtic and oriental literature,]

$000; distribution of card indexes,'

$3,100; library building and grounds,)

salaries. $3,780; resurfacing drivewav j

and repairs to stone curb, $4,000; refit- j

ting boiler rooin and coal vaults, $3,300. j

Total. $1 1,480.

Botanic Garden?Assistants and la-'

borers, $3,500; miscellaneous expenses,

$3,003. Total, $5,403.

Kxecutive. office of the President?

Salaries, $3,340.

Civil service commission?Salaries,

$16,800: traveling expenses. $3,000; field

examiners. $1,80". Total. $30,400.

Department, of State?Salaries (less

lump surn of $30,000 for clerical services

omitted), $43,880; contingent expenses,

$2,f)00; miscellaneous expenses,

$3,720: rent. $7.8SO. Total. $55,480.

Treasury Department, office of the

Secretary?Division of customs, $800; I

office of the supervising architect, $220; j

office of the controller of the Treasury, j

| law books, $250; office of auditor for

j War Department, $1,000; office of audij

tor for Navy Department. $000; office of

I auditor for Interior Department, $10,i

200; office of the commissioner of in]

ternal revenue, $20,000; investigation

and experimentation to secure better

methods of administration, etc.. $5,000;

collecting the income tax. $150,000: mints

and assay offices: Mint at Denver,

wages of workmen, $2,000; assay office

at Deadwood, S. D., incidental and contingent

expenses. $1,000. Total. $191,370.

War Department?Office of the Secretary,

$3,500; signal office, $200; office of

the quartermaster general, $600; conj

tingent expenses, stationery, $5,000. Toj

tab $9,300.

Public buildings and grounds?Sal,

aries of park watchmen, $3,420; pur;

chase and maintenance of motor cycle,

$49<?. Total. $3,910.

State, War and Navy Department

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DAY IN CONGRESS.

Senates

1 Met at noon. ^

Resumed debate on army reor- -L

! ganization bill.

House:

Meet at 11 a.m.

Consideration of rivers and har

( bors appropriation bill continued.

Military committee arranged to

hear Secretary Baker tomorrow

j on the army appropriation bill.

Insular committee recommended i

noaaoira nf DVilHnnlno

( ence bill as passed by Senate./

Passage of bill to pension, at

i $600 per year, superannuated pos- !

| tal employes was urgred upon ;

House post office committee. !

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DISTRICT IK COKGRESS.

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Civil service employes ask com- |

mittee on civil service reform to !

report Keating bill granting the i

right of appeal to federal em- |

ployes reduced or dismissed. j

GERMANS CAPTURE

! A FRENCH TRENCH

IN VERDUN REGION

Paris Claims Counter Attack

Drove Enemy From Most

of Positions.

BATTLE'S FRONT SHIFTED

SLIGHTLY TO THE EAST

Germans Are Making Their New

Drive in the Vicinity of Dead

Man's Hill. '

DEEM HATJCOURT IMPORTANT

German Newspapers Insist Its Capture

Is a Systematic Step in

Plan to Roll Back the

French Lines.

BERLIN, April 7. by wireless

to Sayville.?Capture

from the British of mine

crater positions south of St.

Eloi, near Yores, was announced

today by army

headquarters. The positions

were defended by Canadian

troops.

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LONDON. April ?Following

up sharply their capture of the

t illage of Ilaucourt, in the Avocourt-Bethincourt

salient northwest

of Verdun, the Germans

have shifted the line of their attack

slightly to the east, driving

against the lines betw een Bethincourt

and Chattancourt and penetrating

a first-line trench there.

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of Dead Man's hill, where Germans

and French have been battling

at intervals for weeks for

control of dominating positions.

Paris declares that the Germans

were driven by a counter attack

from the greater part of the captured

position, and that they now

occupy only some advanced sections

along a front of about 30c

yards.

Iva>t of the Meu.-e the French

are continuing their nibbling tactics

and report continued progress

in < ierman communicating

tremflfes southwest of Fort Douaumont.

Paris Admits Gains.

PARIS, April 7. 2:40 p.m.?German

forces have penetrated a French trench

of the first line between Bethincourt

arid the <"hatt\icourt. according to announcement

made today by the French

war office. This locality is in the Ver|

dun region west of the Meuse. A

| French counter attack at once drove

them back from a large proportion ol

the positions thus seized.

The text of the statement follows:

Attack Made at Night.

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"West of the River Meuse in the

j course of a night attack delivered after

a violent preparatory bombardment

'against our positions between Bethincourt

and hill So. German forces

made their way into a French trend

of the first line on the highway between

Bethincourt and Chattancourt

"We at once made a counter attack

which drove the Germans back frorr

the greater part of the possessions

they had been able to seize. At th<

present time the enemy holds only certain

advanced sections along a fronl

of about 300 yards.

"Fast of the Meuse there has beer

j an intermittent bombardment and w<

j have contiiu^ed to make progress Ir

the communicating trenches of th<

enemy located southwest of the For:

j of Douaumont.

"There have been some artillery ox

changes in the Woevre district, btit tht

night along the remainder of the fron

passed quetly."

Haucourt Strongly Fortified.

BKRMN, April 7, by wirelss to Sayvllle,

N. Y.?"German newspapers earn

comment on the capture of the villag<

of Haucourt. northwest of Verdun, bj

German troops." says the Oversee;

News Agency. "They point out tha

the village was exceedingly well forti

fled by all means of modern military

art. the place being a redoubt with ma

chine guns disposed in terraced forina

tion. dominating the whole Forge;

Brook valley.

"While Haucourt held out the Germans

could not cross Forges brook

For this reason, the French defendec

it with the utmost tenacity.

"The capture of Haucourt is an im

portant step in the systematic rolling

up of the French front. The Gcrmai

Isvooaq u'erf inKitrnifleant-"

Will Be Chilean Ambassador to TT. S

SANTIAGO, Chile, April 7.?Santiago

Aldunate Bascunan, who has been tin

Chilean minister to Italy since 1907

will be appointed Chilean amhassadoi

to the United States, succeedinj

Eduardo Suarez-Mujica, who reaignet

in Jq^ary.

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JTH. SHERMAN RESIGNS;

! G. M. ROBERTS IN PLACE

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"ves and Markets Will Go With

T ioying Picture Concern.

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Important changes in the personnel r

of the District government occurred to- e

day wlien the Commissioners accepted ?

the resignation of John H. Sherman as

? superintendent of weights, measures

and markets; promoted George M. Robj

erts. supervisor of playgrounds. to the

vacancy, and named .Mrs. Susie Root !]

Rhodes, member of the board of educa?

tion, as successor to Mr. Roberts. The

, changes will take effect April 14.

Mr. Sherman's resignation came as a ,

surprise. He has accepted a position j

. with a motion picture concern in New t

. York at a salary said to be in excess of a

the amount paid him by the District, j

1 His resignation terminates a service j

i begun May 16, 1914. ^

j Mr. Roberts has been at the head of r

the playgrounds department but a few

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" months, but in that time has reorgan?

ized its administrative machinery. The

1 Commissioners consider that bigger

work is ahead of Mr. Roberts in the

wcif;iii?t iiicudui ra aim in.n i\cio "tK"1 1

merit and consider his selection for the

post a promotion, although both posi3

tions pay $2,500 per annum.

Mrs. Rhodes, widow of Capt. Thomas

c B. Rhodes, has been a resident of

Washington seventeen years and a

member of the board of education four

r years. Prior to coming to Washington

sh< was for five years supervisor of

? physical training in the public schools

* of Salt Lake City. She has taken an

active interest in educational matters

and civic work in Washington. I

Do Not Fail to Get a | ^

Copy of |

Next Sunday s Star

Containing the New '

Beautiful

Picture Section

SELECT SENATOR HARDING I

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)hio Senator to Be Temporary jc

Chairman of the Republican

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CHICAGO. April 7.?Senator Warren (

i. Harding of Ohio was selected tern- c

orary chairman of the republican na- 1

ional convention hv unanimous vote of ; s

he subcommittee on arrangements of j ^

he republican national committee to- ! l

lay on the first ballot.

Other convention officers were >

hoseji: Cafa_yette B. Gleason of New

fork, secretary; William "F. Stone of }

Baltimore. sergeant-at-arms, and g

Jeorge R. Hart of Roanoke, Va., offi- ^

ial reporter.

Senator Harding, when notified of his v

election as temporary chairman of the 1

epublican national convenUon, accept- (

-1 Un..A.. nnrl ? ut T hu

dent of congratulations from his re- c

tublican colleagues.

THAW HOLDS BACK ARMIES, j

rroops Unable tc March Over Roads !

on Russian Front.

PKTROGRAD. April >. via London,

Kpril 7.?An official statement issued

oday from general headquarters says

he breaking up of the ice continues

nd the marshes are thawing, resulting

n muddy roads, which make the movng

of troops impracticable. Artillery

luels continue in several sectors, and a I

lumber of air raids are reported.

In the upper Stripa region, according ,

o the statement, Russian scouts dis- I

lersed enemy working parties, wreckng

trenches which were under conduction.

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DECEMBER I

and MAY I \

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THE old man marrying the :j c

young girl has been tlic !:;

subject of more than one

. literary effort, but never has it a

been so delightfully done as in :j ''

j "The Girl Who Didn't Know," |:| ?

a light-hearted little story by o

Alice MacGowan, which we will ;|' ti

present to our readers next j|j jj

Sunday. |:' t]

Here is a little country girl j-l

I of seventeen, who wants a :

i liomc "with flowers to arrange j

in -the dining room and every- i:' I

thing." The richest man in !j

town proposes to her and is, of 1:.

course, accepted. But this is !{'

only the beginning instead of, |i E

as is generally the case, the |j b

happy ending. I:1 c

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! What happened to a girl who !i; t;

had never been in love before !? a

' is the thread of this story, I:,

which will appear in the next !:! ii

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MATE PENSION BILL

FOR RAILWAY MAIL MEN

tfany Representatives Urge $600

Yearly for Superannuated Clerks

Befwe-the House Committee.

Nearly half a hundred congressmen

tppeared in turn before the House comnittee

on post office and post roads tolay

to urge the passage of the Griffin

lill granting pensions of $600 a year to

uperannuated employes of the railway

nail service, rural free delivery service

nd city free delivery service in the post

ffice, and to post office clerks and other

sivil service employes in post offices.

"We shut our eyes and appropriate

16.000,000 for a battleship that won't

rt.1L .'I AlCCII 1I1II1UICS ailCI OUI1IC 1 t_? v\irowed

submarine operator gets his

>ye on it," said Representative Taggart

>f Kansas, "and then we knock a poor

900 clerk off the rolls, while some one

itamps his cowhide boots and shouts

Economy.' We could do no better bit

>f economy than passing legislation of

he sort contained in this Griffiin bill."

Points to Seed Distributions.

Representative Sherwood of Ohio

jointed out that millions of dollars is

ipent for congressional free seed disribution,

which, he said, was of little

alue to any one, and expressed the beief

that the retirement of aged postal

lerks would be a greater benefit to the

ountry and cost less.

Other congressmen who spoke were

Representatives McArthur of Oregon,

davenport of Oklahoma. Huddleston of

Uabama, Treadway of Massachusetts,

'oleman of Pennsylvania, Mapes ^>f

Michigan, Britten of Illinois. Gallivan

f Massachusetts, Tavenner of Illinois,

laskell of New York, Littlepage of

Vest Virginia, Darrow of Illinois, Dalinger

of Massachusetts, Stephens of

'alifornia. Elston of California, Gray

?f New Jersey, Freeman of Connecticut,

Sstopinal of Louisiana and Smith of

linnesota.

IEARING WILL BE OPEN TO ALL

lesolution for Embargo on Gasoline

Before Committee Next Week.

The Howard resolution for an embargo

against shipments of crude petroeum,

gasoline, kerosene and similar

iroducts and empowering the President

o raise the embargo whenever it is

pparent the price charged consumers

>f gasoline and the other products is

air and reasonable will be given a

tearing next week before the House

nterstate and foreign commerce, the

ommittee decided today.

The hearing will be open to all intersted

in the soaring price of gasoline.

Representative Carter of Oklahoma

ppeared before the mines committee

>day to urge a favorable report on his

ill to provide for a bureau of oil prodcts

for the collection of gasoline and

ther statistics. Pipe line owners eonrol

the price of gasoline, he said, and

isisted that the government should at

?ast own enough pipe lines to supply

heir navy yards with oil products.

GO SLOW. BB.YCE ADVISES

'ormer British Ambassador Opposed

to Hastening Tariff War.

MANCHESTER, April 7.?Viscount

Iryce, addressing- the- free trade memers

of the chamber of commerce at a

omplimentary luncheon yesterday,

eprecated the starting of a war of

ariffs before Great Britain was out of

war of arms.

Passion, he said, was a bad counselor

11 framing economic or political

chemes, and before the war ended

ountries now neutral might come into

t, and their views on any such fiscal

hanges would have to be considered.

Sir John A. Simon, the former home

ecretary. also emphasized the necesity

of realizing that Great Britain

ould not ignore the neutrals or comiletely

control the trade* of Europe

fter the war.

RIGGS BANK MOTION

SET FOR TOMORROW

Counsel to Argue Request for

Bill of Particulars and

Early Trial.

HEARING IS SCHEDULED

BEFORE JUSTICE SIDDONS

U. S. Attorney Laskey Files Affidavit

Denying He Delayed Assignment

of the Cases.

Justice Siddons in Criminal Division

1 will hear arguments of counsel tomorrow

morning at 9:30 o'clock on themotions

for a bill of particulars and to i

advance for trial the cases against

Charles C. Glover. William J. Flat her

and Henry H. Flather, respectively,

president, vice president and former

cashier of the Kiggs National Bank,

charged with perjury. Attorney George

P. Hoover of counsel for the accused officials

asked for an immediate hearing. I

to which the government made no oh- J

jection.

As the time of the court had been j

mapped out for today. Justice Siddons \

decided to defer the hearing until tomorrow

morning. Two hours are expected

to be occupied by counsel in the

argument. The court noted the absence

of the three defendants and asked if

they concurred in the argument being

made in their absence. Air. Hoover

assured the court that no point would

he made of the non-attendance of the

defendants.

With Mr. Hoover at the counsel table

for the defense were Attorneys J. J.

Darlington, W. G. Johnson, Frank J.

Hogan and D. W. O'Donoghue. Mr.

Hoover stated that he had been delegated

to make the opening statement

for the defense on the motions. With

United States Attorney Laskey for the

government appeared Assistant Attorney

General W. C. Fitts and Assistant

United States Attorney Archer.

U. S. Attorney Laskey Files Affidavit

Mr. Laskey filed an affidavit in response

to the motion and appended to

it the voluminous correspondence with

counsel for the defense concerning the

fixing of a date for trial and the furnishing

of a selected bill of particulars.

He also filed a bill of particulars, a

copy of which he furnished counsel for

the defense yesterday. The bill of particulars

comprises a large number of

selected items typical of the different

classes of transactions shown on the

books of the defunct brokerage firm of

Lewis Johnson & Co., in the name of

the Riggs National Bank.

In his affidavit Mr. Laskey declares

that he has not delayed the assignment

for trial of the cases, but has actually

advanced them over others equally important

and many of which have been

pending longer than the Riggs cases.

He expresses the belief that any further

advancement of the case would

seriously impair the efficiency of the

prosecution and that the data in the

case cannot he properly systematized

and prepared for trial before May 8. He

points out that he has voluntarily furnished

a bill of particulars.

Submits Copies of Correspondence.

To substantiate his claim that he has

not delayed the trial of the perjurycharge,

and that in furnishing the

counsel with a more specific bill of

particulars yesterday he kept his word

in this regard. United States Attorney

Laskey submits copies of his correspondence

with the counsel for the defendants.

The "unusual request" referred to in

Mr. Laskey's statement to the press is

shown by this correspondence to have

been the asking by the defendants that

Chief Justice Covington withdraw from

the bench of Criminal Division 1 and

allow some other justice to preside at

the trial. This request was made

through Mr. Laskey, the defense stated,

"because, as district attorney, you have

the election of assigning these cases

for trial in either one of the two criminal

courts." The attorneys for the defendants

expressed "readiness to meet

the chief justice with you by appointment,

should that be desired."

Home delay, Mr. Laskey admits, occurred

in securing a definite answer

from the chief justice because of an attack

of illness and the fact that other

Important issues were pending before

him. *

The letter from the counsel for the

defendants claims the request was

made January 6. that a few days later 1

Mr. Laskey informed him that the ]

chief justice "had stated that he was

naturally unwilling to preside at the

trial of a case where the parties concerned

entertained the view which had

been expressed, especially where the

view was concurred in to any extent

by their counsel." Though he asked

several times for further information

on this point, the counsel for the defendants

claim chat on January 28. he

had received no definite reply.

District Attorney's Reply.

In a letter dated February 4 Mr.

Laskey replied at length, stating that

the first intimation he had that the de- 1

fendants desired an early trial was j

during the conference January 6, and i

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I had no intention or desire to postpone

or delay the trial of the case."

In referring to the request that some

other justice than the then presiding i

chief justice sit in the case. Mr. l^askey's

letter states that the counsel for

the defendants "disclosed to me that

your clients entertained the feeling

that the said justice was prejudiced <

against their! and that their counsel j

was compelled to concur in the defendants'

feeling upon the subject." He 1

says an additional reason was given for J

referring the matter to him because ]

"you did not desire to spread on the

record objections to the justice then

presiding, because of what you claimed

to be his prejudice."

He says that after having reported

Justice Covington's "natural unwillingness

to preside." etc., several subsequent

inquiries by counsel for the defendants

were "of the most casual?one

was made at a lunchroom and the other

at a public exercise place, where Mr.

Hogau and I occasionally see each

other." He claims that no promise was

made to get an answer by Januaty 25

or "any other definite time."

Mr. L*askey writes that "since the return

of the chief justice after his recent

illness he has been engaged in an

exacting trial." He says that on the

date of writing. February 4. he was in- ?

formed by the chief justice "that he 1

had concluded to request me to assign c

the case for trial before some other \

justice sitting in a criminal court," but

that "as a Justice he could not recognize

as a matter of right existing with x

any defendant the exclusion of a trial C

justice for bias." t

In explaining an interview of Jan- e

uary 6. referred to in the letter Of F

(Continued on Second Page.) Jf

V

RATTIF WITH 1 (1(1(1

VIII I LL mill I j\J\JU

VILLA'S TROOPERS

IS EXPECTED NOW

Brigand Trying to Concentrate

His Forces Between Satevo

and Parral. /

COMMANDS OF COL DODD

TRYING TO PREVENT MOVE

IT. S. Columns Would Have Hard

Fight Before the Arrival of

American Reinforcements.

BANDITS PURSUERS SUFFER

Gen. Pershing's Men at Extreme

Front Badly in Need of Shoes

and Clothing, and Mexicans

Are Starving.

IX PASO, Tex.. April 7 \dvance

guards of the American expedition

hunting; Villa are operating

today at Cieneginllas, near

Satevo. and news that Col. Dodd's

cavalry has again come into contact

with the Villa force is expected.

The region between Satevo and

Parral, where Vilia is reported to

be heading, is infested with numerous

bands of Villa brigands.

Villa May Have 1,000 Men.

American refugees from the Benito

Juarez district say that if Villa should

succeed in uniting: these bands he

would have a force of at least 1,000 men

and would be in position to give the advance

American troops a hard battle

before reinforcements arrived.

The latest official information from

the front showed that American cavalry

had penetrated south of San Antonio,

Chihuahua, and was still moving southward

hard on the trail of the bandits.

It is believed that more frequent reports

will now be obtained from Col.

Dodd, inasmuch as it is now possible

for htm to relay his messages by

courier to Chihuahua city and thence

by Mexican telegraph lines to El Paso

for re-transmis6ion to MaJ. Gen. Fun?*

San infnnin

Hinges on Bailroad Negotiations.4

Two Americans, the first to arrive

here from the interior for several days,

reached El Paso today on a train from

Chihuahua city. They said that there

was absolute quiet in the state capital

when they left, but that everywhere

there was apparent a curious feeling of

expectancy that important developments

were imminent.

As has been the case for a week, the

whole Mexican situation seems at a

standstill pending the outcome of th**

negotiations between Washington and

Gen. Carranza regarding the use of the

Mexican railroads by the American expeditionary

force.

Repeated intimations that the supply

situation had reached an acute stage

have received strong support by the

statements made by soldiers returning

from* the front and by references in

letters received here by relativs of the

men and officers in Gen. Pershing s advance

columns.

Troops Short of Clothing.

The question of adequate clothing for

the American soldiers appears to b*

becoming as urgent as that of food.

Stories from the front of the expedients

adopted by troops to repair worn-out

garments, especially shoes, gives sharp

point to this problem:

But the plight of the American soldiers

fades into Insignificance when

compared with the stories reaching

here through Mexican sources of the

uco|irtaio wiiumviio |M C VIUIIIIS aiuunm

the peons in the bandit-ravaged regions

of southern Chihuahua ami Durango,

toward which Villa is heading.

It is said that the unfortunate people

in the district around Torreon, where

Canuto Cano is upholding the cause of

Villa by wholesale looting and murder,

are facing actual starvation.

There is considerable interest here

in persistent reports that Gen. Gavira,

the Carranza commander at Juarez, is

about to be superseded. One story,

published in a Mexican paper, declares

that Gen. Pablo Gonzales is on his way

there from Mexico City and that when

he arrives he will take supreme

iharge of all the Carranza soldiers iu

the field. These reports cannot be

verified, but it is believed that Gen.

Carranza is planning some changes

imong his field commanders.

Reinforcements for Col. Brown.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April 7.?An>ther

column of American cavalrv nr.

"ived at Cusihuirachic to support that

>f Col. W. C. Brown, who reported there

\pril 4, according: to reports at den.

?*unston'w headquarters today.

Col. Brown explained his delay in

endering a report after the engage*

lient a few days ago at Aguascalicnte.s,

lear Bachimva, by saying be and his

'orces had exhausted their money and

te had none to pay the expense of getIng

a message to a commercial wire.

Gen. Bell reported that information

'rom Mexican sources indicated that

lome thousands of the de facto govirnment

troops were being moved

umth to Chihuahua with the ostensible

jurpose of checking the retreat of

ril laConcentrating

Around Chihuahua.

Carranza troops were reported today

>y American Consul Letcher to ho

:oncentrating in the vicinity of Cliiluahua

City.

The reason for s.uch concentrat ion

ras unexplained, but officers at Maj.

en. Funston's headquarters assumed

hat it was part of the de facto govrnment's

plan of co-operation In the

lursuit of Villa, who, according to retorts,

is traveling south beyond Chi*

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