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The Daily Norffiwesteirm SECOND EDITION FIVE O'CLOCK OSHKOSH, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1915. SIXTEEN FAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. danelles a cruiser of the allies had been GERMAN NAVAL AIDE UNCLE SAM PROMISED ENRY FORD KILLED AT FOND DU LAC. Motorcar la Rnn Ilown by Faaaeagrr Train Driver Slnln.

(Special to The Northwestern) Fund da I-ac. Deo. 3. Henry FUNERAL OF THOMAS ROCHE. Servlrea for Pioneer Rraldrnt and City OfB.lal Mill Be Held Tomorrow Morning.

Funeral services for Thomas Roche. HOHASTIR HAS FALLEN, RUSS ENTER BULGARIA, hit three times and forced to retire. An allied torpedo boat was attacked by a Turkish aeroplane after it had stranded on the coast of the bay of Saros. The statement follows: 'At some points of the Dardanelles front there has been fierce fighting; with bombs. Two hostile cruisers near Ana- farta and two near Artbuynu partici- IT pated with land batteries In a bombardment.

Our artillery replied, dam aging trenches of the enemy and destroying machine gun positions at Ar- niburnu. Our artillery thrice hit a hostile cruiser near Seddul Bahr. compelling it to retreat. One of our aeroplanes dropped bombs on a torpedo boat of the enemv which had stransjed on the northern coast of the gulf of Saros, two miles west of Cape Eridsche." LA FOLLETTE AT LANCASTER He Charges Philipp Administration with Confeaaed Wenkaeae on Financial Mattera. (Soecial to The Northwestern.

Lancaster, Dec. 3. Senar La Follette In his speech here this afternoon charged that the passage of an emeraencv appropriation DM was confession of the Philipp administra tion that It was unable to cope wnn the financial situation of the state and handle Its affairs in a business-like wav. "This law is without a parallel, so far as I am aware." declared the senator. "It makes the appropriations of the Philipp administration, subject to unlimited increase at tne win 01 mree men." Senator La Follette repeated his charge that many of the taxes heretofore paid by the state out of the state taxes had now been shifted to the counties and towns.

He declared that the people would still find that their taxes are high, but that the shift had merely been made from one pocket to another. Senator La Follette laid particular stress on the state highway law, calling attention that the highway state tax heretofore collected direct was now taken from the general fund. As a re sult he predicted there would be little over a million of dollars in the general fund next July, "whereas the pro gressive administrations left a legacy of J3.000.000 balance on July 1." 'Never in the history of state govern ment has there been such a Juggling with state finances in an effort to make it appear that state taxes were lower," declared the senator. The state dairy and food department was considered in briefer form than in his Monroe speech. He charged that the efficiency of the dopartment had deteriorated under the present administration and concluded by saying: "Apparently, in accordance with the declaration of the governor in his message to the legislature, business In cluding that of food adulterators is to be "helped" instead of "hampered.

A. H. Kessler, w. C. Livingstone and David Schreiner were in charge of the meeting.

SHIP HAS ROVING CAREER. The American Boat Andrew Welch Has lleen in Hasardoua Trip. (By Associated Press.) London. Dec. 3.

A Copenhagen dis patch to the Exchange Telegraph company filed yesterday says: The American steamship Andrew Welch lias become a center of attention in Scandinavia. Her history to date follows in brief: "After being chased by British patrol boats in the Atlantic and by British submarines in the North sea, crippled by a series of storms, she put into Bergen in distress. Norway granted the stranger permission to return to England but she started for fiaelmstad, Sweden. Again experiencing bad weather, she took refuge outside the Skaw, finally arriving at Haeluistud, where it was found there was no received tor. her cargo or Deans valued at The vessel remained auiet for some days but last night a steamer arrived from Lubeck to csnvoy her to Germany.

A start was made in the night but a Swedish torpedo boat arrived on the scene and forced the Andrew Welch to turn back to llaelmstad." Available maritime records do not list steamer called the Andrew welch The American bark of that name, a ves sel of 863 tons, sailed from San Fran cisco August 19 with a cargo of beans for llaelmstad. A disnatch from Uliris tiania on November 15 said the bark had been towed into Clinstiausand. hue wns hoarded hv a nnrty from a British patrol boat oil the Shetland islands, It was said, 'and ordered into Lerwick, but a storm "carried the vessel towards the Norweeinn coast where she was taken in tow by the steamer nussiana. BRITISH STEAMSHIP SUNK. The Lang-ton Hall Victim of Subma rine in (By Associated Press.) Tendon.

Dec. 3. The British steam ship Langton Hall has been sunk, Part of her crew nas rvacneu ianu. The Langton Han evidently was an vict of the sunmarine cam paign in the Mediterranean. She left Calcutta October 28 for Philadelphia and New York, and was reporxea at a nn Kovember 23.

She was owned hv the Hall line or Liverpool, was tsu feet long, built in' 1905 and of tons gross. HA fc.l-CA.lj LAlUiU. Philadelphia. Dec. 3.

Agents in this cltv of the British steamer Lang ton Hall, sunk in the Mediterranean mar T.nne. understand that vessel was heavily loaded with a general cargo made up mostly of jute, goat and other skins, burlap and cocoanut on. These cargoes are usually very valuable and it is believed the Langton Hall's was worth about a half million dol lars. The fact that the Langton Han naa been sunk was privately known In marine Insurance circles here yesterday but nothing was permitted to reach the public until today's press cable message arrived. WESTERN UNION MEN HAPPY.

(By Associated Press.) New York, Dec. 3. Telegraph oper ators all over the United States em ployed by the Western Union Telegraph company are rejoicing today over the news that after the first of next year all traffic employes will receive annual vacations with pay. "All regularly assigned employes who have been in the service of the comnanv for two years or more will receive two weeks' vacation, and those who have been continually in the service for one year will receive one week's vacation," reads the company's announcement. Operating employes, who have been regularly assigned, but who have worked for the company the equivalent of full time for each period also will receive vacations.

It is stipulated- that the vacations shall be employed for rest and recreation and not used in other employment. The cost to the company is estimated at $2,000,000. will in all by to the the for STEEL SUPPLY EARLY. MILL SOT BK NECESSARY COMPLETION OF THE TWO FOR COMPLETION OF TWO til ANT BATTLESHIPS. TO PRICES HAVE BEEN BOOSTED; Eleven Loiupnalra Offer to Brain til Delivery of steel for'Warahl Within Six Mantua at Prlers Th Ha use from Thirty to Forty Fd Cent More.

Than (or Material chased for Bnttlcahlp Calif orala-X I Private Bida Rejected. (By Press.) Washington, D. C. Dec. 3.

There be no delay In delivery of steel for battleships No. 43 and 44 if the gov-ernment undertakes their construction navy yards. Bids from eleven steel companies, opened today at the navy department offered to begin delivery within six months and complete it within two years. Prices show an apparent increase of from thirty to forty per cent over material purchased for the battleship California over a year ago. Private bidders for the two ships indicated there would be delay in deliveries of steel and conditioned their proposals on this circumstances.

All private bids were relected as exceed ing the 17,800,000 limit of cost nxeo. congress. All navy yard estimates were well bfljow that figure. CAREFUL STUDY NEEDED. It will take a carelul study of the i steel bids to show if they are similar estimates supplied by the steel companies to the navy yards and upon which the yard figures were prepared.

Secretary Daniels sought direct bids from the companies to verify the yard figures and also in order to get the proposals in Ruch shape that binding contracts could be made. The Carnegie Steel company apparently was lowest bidder for the majority of steel needed which rune into many millions of pounds. On the biggest lots of plates the Carnegie figures were $.0816 and $.1125 a pound for different classes. SOME OF THE FIGURES. The same company made low offers high tensile steel prices ranging from $.0263 to $.0645 a pound and was the only bidder for various kinds of shaped steel.

The American Steel foundries of Chester, was low bidder for steel casting at $.06 per pounds and the Carbon Steel company of Pittsburg was low for nickel steel plates at $.0559 per pound. SHARP PROTEST ON HOCKING United slates to Muke Vlgorona Rep resentation to Fniclnnd Over Seizure of That Ship, (By Associated Press.) Washington, D. Dec' representations will be made to Great Britain by the United states against the requisitioning of the American steamship Hocking without prize court proceedings. Tnis became known to day after the receipt of official confirmation from American Consul Gen eral Young at Halifax of reports that the Hocking had been held. The ship has been detained at Halifax since her seizure by a British warship while enroute from New York to Norfolk.

ASK BILLS FROM CONGRESS. National Conference on Marketing; and Farm Credlta Adviaea. (By Associated Press.) Chicago, 111., Dec. 3. Represents tives of forty-six states and Canadian provinces who attended the national conference on marketing and tarm credits.

Issued a statement today em bodying a score of recommendations to congress urging its cooperation in im proving conditions affecting the Amerl can farmer. The statement asked the appoint ment by congress of a commission of Ave members to investigate the results of land settlement in the west and other sections of the country "to remove the obstacles to acquiring farms and the modifications needed in sue cessful land settlement systems of other countries to insure their success ful operation In the United States. Existing conditions In the Irrigation sections of the country could be corrected, the statement added, by the en actment of legislation by the states or by the nation, which would provide money to be loaned to settlers to aid in the preparation of public land for cultivation. The conference, It was set forth, will strongly oppose any plan that will end mainly in real estate speculation and Increase In land values to the dis advantage of settlers. Any plan for aiding settlers," the statement said "by a better system of rural credits should be preceded by an effective plan for preventing an in crease of land values.

The department of agriculture was urged to establish standards of measure and quality for all merchantable farm product. U. S. MAKING ITS OWN DYES Suoli la Declaration of an Eastern Chemical Expert. (By Associated Press.) Pittsburg, Dec.

3. Dr. Raymond F. Bacon, director of the Mellon lnstl tute of industrial research of the uni versify of Pittsburg, in a speech yes terday declared that the hundred most essential dyes and the hundred most needed drugs, the supply of which had been cut off by the European war, are now being made In the United states He said America did not intend at present to make the thousands of coal tar dyes and medicinal products which have been made in Germany but the most important ones would be manu factured here. As an Instance of the rapid growth of the chemical industry this country, he said tnat rour com oanies have recently bVen formed in the Pittsburg district and that two of the plants have already been openeo.

"If reasonable government protection can be given to the Industry in Its early stages American technical skill will show itself able to build up In America a chemical Industry which win bestirn clent to takfl care of American need and to get Us share of world trade, Dr. Bacon declared. DEMOCRATS HONOR CLARKE. (By Associated Press.) Washington, I). (., Dec.

3. Senator James P. Clarke of Arkansas Was chosen todHy for president pro tempore of the senate bv the Democratic caucus. Sen ator Clarke defeated Senator I'omerene of NOT DESIRED III II. S.

STCH is SIBSTAM E. IT IS I MJKR. STOOD, OF IKORM ATI BV MR. LANSIM1 TO CO I' XT VOX BERSSTOHKF, IN BOY-ED TOO ACTIVE. with Conaplralora of the rg-Amerlcan l.lne, Convlrt-trn York, Ilaa Rendered of the German Embaaar Kon Grata, and Farther reednre In the ae la up to lin Government, (By Associated Press.) Washington, 1.

C. Dec. 3. The state doiiurtuieiit announced formally late to dHy that it bad asked fur the recall of Captain Hoy-Ld ana captain von Pa ueu. naval and military attaches re spectively of the (iermuu embassy here.

because of the "oujeotiouuoie activities connection with military sud naval matters." Washington, I). Dec. 3. Secretary Lansing is understood to hare informed Count von BernstorlT, the German am-bnssaior, that Captain Buy-Kd, naval attache to the German embassy, had rendered himself "persnua nun grain" to the United States government as the result of his connection with the conspirators of the Hamburg-American line who yesterday werefouud guilty in New York. The subject was understood to have boeu the subject of discussion at the cabinet meeting toduy.

Secretary Lansing at the end of the cabinet meeting ilatly refused to answer any questions on the subject and other members of the cabinet were euunllv silent. The (Sermun embassy also refused to talk about it. ON GERMANY. The state department believed be of the opinion that as Captain Boy-Ed had admitted his connection with the financing of the operations which the New York Jury gave a verdict as being illegal, there was nothing else to do but inform the German government of its views. By Informing the ambassador that the attache is "persona nun grata," the United States leaves it with the Gorman government as to the manner In which.

Captain Boy-Kd shall terminate his connection with the embassy. This the usual diplomatic procedure In the case of an attache of an embassy or a legation whom the United States finds objectionable. RENEW BEQUEST AT VIENNA. Vienna. Dec.

3. The American Am bassador, Frederick C. I'eniieid, today repeated his request to the Austrian government that it make a reply to the American note respecting the circum stances in connection with the sinking of the steamship Ancona in the Modi terranean by an Austrian submarine, ss result of which several Americans lost their lives. Tha Americsn note was livered by Ambassador Peufield on November 22. The Austrian government informed the ambassador last week Unit it desired more tinia to formulate its reply.

INDICTED AT Cleveland. Dec. 3. Four indict ments were returned by the Cuyahoga county grand Jury -today- against- ljr Emerlch W. Klttegl.

alios Bitter, ar rested Tuesday for a check fraud, following investigation by United States department of Justice agents for his connection with attaches of foreign govesfiments which aro engaged in. the Eurooean war. The indictments were ror carrying concealed weapons, obtaining under falsa pretenses and forgery, thcro hplna- two of the latter. The first indictment alleged Rittegi carried a revolver when arrested. The second sets that he rave Miss Claire Darby of Cleveland, a worthless check for $50 after she had loaned him J700 for experiments with "liquid fire of which ho claims to be the inventor, The third indictment alleges that Rlttegl forged the name of Guy D.

Gaunt, British naval attache at Wash ington. to a check on the Kiggs Na tional bank of Washington. The fourth charge is for the alleged forgery of the jianie of P. Zweldlnek to a ch Baton Erlck Zwledinek Is Austro-Hu arlan charge at wasnmgion, actm successor to former Ambassador Duiuba. APPOINTMENT A SURPRISE.

Views of Oshkoah Lady Named on special Inveatlsatlng Committee for 1 nlveralty Athletics Mrs. George A. Buckstaff of this city has been named as a member of the speclul committee of the board of re gents to make a special Investigation of conditions of athletics at the university of Wisconsin. The appointment of thl committee came as a sequel to a.JaMbr from Coach Juneau of the football team, expressing his willingness to step aslda of a new man If It Is the de sire of the regents that he do so, Mrs. Buckstaff said today that her appointment on the committee came as a surprise to her.

She atttenued the meeting of the board held at Madison Wednesday evening, but left before the session adjourned, and It was during hor absence that the appointment was mad. "1 was taken completely by surprise," said Mrs. Buckstaff. "I do not profess to know much about athletics and had no suspicion that I would be appointed. Just what will be the plan of the committee Is something I cannot I expect we will try to gather all information possible from every source, and that the investigation will go back over conditions existing for several years.

"It has been hinted that Coach Juneau has been hampered In his work and had to labor under some adverse conditions. This Is a feature which will probably bo taken up, as well as other matters. 1 do not know much about It, but I am interested In athletics and believe keeDlns all the students In good physi cal condition. we nave a proiennwnui course In physical training for students ho orooose to tescti that suoject ana there are more than seventy stuuenis taking the course, of whom sixty are women. There has been a popular oe-mand for such an "Investigation aa Is to be made, and there must bs something done to bring to light th exact facts as they exist." FIRE DUE TO AN EXPLOSION.

Two Men Injured and Daraaae of Eighty Thonaand Dollnra. (By Associated Press.) Latrobe. Dec. Two men were In lured and the idant of the Peters Paper company was damaged to the extent of $80,000 at Klnston, near here, early today by an explosion. The company has been engaged In the manufacture of roofing paper for use in the trenches on the western Kuropean battle front.

LiDTi itMr i Conneello Hanibb rd inl Atlantic I'erabna 2 city of at be R. M. AND AIDES ARE GIVEN PASSPORTS THE STATE DEPARTMENT PERMITS J()1HKV TO NOR WAV, SWEDE, DENMARK AMD THE NETHERLANDS, XEr-TRAL ATIONS. PEACE PARTY READY TO SAIL The Liner Osrar 11 Will Carry Am eric an reace Expedition to Europe, Arriving About Ten Days Before Christmas, the Day Set for War to End by Henry Ford In Meantime. Enaland Quickly Squelchea Any Hint That Peace Would Be Desirable to Her.

(By Associated Press.) J'urU, Dec. The Kreuch section ot ho Women's International League for rennoueut IVuce bus been ordered by the l'aris authorities to discontinue the distribution of peace pamphlets. 1'ho oHiccrs of the French section were sum moned before the commissioner of police today to explain their activities. The women maintained tlmt they were acting according to their philosophical convictions. Washington, D.

Dec. 3. Henry Ford was granted a passport by tho statu deportment today to visit Norway, Sweden, Denmurk, and The Netherlands. A representative brought his application from New York. The citizenship bureau of tho department by noon had issued more than 125 passports to pence advocates who will sail from New York tomorrow on the steamship Oscar II.

None made application to visit any other than neutral countries, i There whs no difilculty encountered the issuance of passports except In a few- catses whore the applications were defective. PLANS FOR SAILING. New York, Dee. 3. The Scandinavia-American line Oscar on which Henry Ford has taken passage for his peace expedition to The Hague, will leave New York tomorrow afternoon, on schedule time according to agents of the line.

Mr. Ford has engaged her first and second cabins for his peace envoys. In addition 450 passengers, going homo to Norway, Sweden and Denmark for the holidays, will occupy the third class quarters. All passports will bo examined at tho pier and, it is said, no person will bo permitted', to kg aboard without one. Hulverd Jacobsuu, tho line's manager, says the Oscar II.

should be nt Christiana by December 14 or 15. Concerning the possibility that British warships might take the steamer to Kirkwall he said thut few of the line's steamers hud been taken there recently as the British government was content wllh stopping tho vessels oft tho north const of Scotland and sending un olrlcer on board to examine the passenger and cargoi manifests. NO 1NTKKBST IN LONDON. London, Dec. 3.

Speculation about tho possibility of peace, talk that seems to come from Switzerland, Koine, Madrid, or America, always vaguu ami usually negative, strikes no audibly responsive chord in London. The more tho fortunes of war appear to turn against the allies, the lesa the Britian seem inclined tg listen with patience to any suggestion that peace can come through other means than military achievement. It Is argued on all sides that Iondon will not consider peace Suggestions from any source while Germany remains in Belgium. When Charles TTeYelyuu in the house of commons last week ventured to express the view tiiut there is nothing inherently disgnicef ul or huiinliiitiug iu obtaining by negoliutiou, rather tliau by fighting, the aims "for which we arc lighting" and urged the government to Inform the house of uuy proposals of peace, he was lint repenting opiuions which led his distinguished and scholarly father to withdraw trom the cabinet with Lord Morley and John Burns when win-was declared. I'KACH CHAMPION Moreover, his statement that teruiiuu- tiou of the war by negotiation would give a greater guarantee of permanent peace because less hatred would be engendered, served to emphasize the spirit of the house and the people ut A.

lionur Law said it was useless folly to pretend to believe that Germany would give "1 Belgium, Poland and Alsace until she was beaten. 'i V. O'Connor said that such a speech would be forbidden in the French chamber, the Kussinu duma or tho German reii hstag, anil the discussion closed Villi the announcement of a third member that Mr. Trevelyau's constituents in Yorkshire had already selected auother Liberal for his seat, as they could not tolerate his opinions. All observers agree that the peace advocates in Great Britain have dwindled in numbers.

The element is now credited with being among wars most oul spoken adherents, labor leaders hav ing thrown themselves eugeriy im ine Iiord Derby in his recruiting campaign. It is admitted on every hand that the fortunes of war do not nt present favor the. allies. Still the British are not dismayed and the universal belief is that any chancellory which "sounded" Downing street on the possibility of ppace would find no welcome. That "men, munitions and money" wnl win the war is the common conviction that no adversity has shaken.

WAR TAXES IN BELGIUM. (By Associated Press.) Brussels, Dec. 3. Cnder a decree Issued bv General von Blssing. the German governor general of Belgium, the authorities of the provinces of Antwerp and Brabant are called to meet in spe-i-i on Hntnrdav to discuss the matter of war Theso provinces have not yet coneereu measure promulgated for the collection of war tuxes.

Contributions are due on December 10. I'OUiBK, fun Fun re. a. 7:10 Pay l.rt 91 Forecast for laennslu Fair tonlghl and Saturdnjl nllghtly colder In -treine east portion tonight. Loral oSsprvatlona.

Tempe-mura, 7 a.m. 0 1 p. iu. Rear Fair Fair electrician and first assistant chief the fire department, will take place tomorrow morning. John W.

Scott post. So. 241, 11. A. will hold a service at the home.

1654 Doty street, 8:15 o'clock. The church service will be at 9 o'clock at St. John's Catholic church on South Park avenue. Rev. James t.

llogun officiating. The interment will take pluce at Riverside cemetery. Active pnllbearers wU Mayor John Mulva, Henry Barber. Charles Stracy. John Whltely.

George Nodlne, and Michael Ftttpatricn-. Tne honorary pallbearers are G. W. Brlggs, A. Spink.

L. H. Milliken, William Perrv. Fire Chief It. A.

Brauer and Police Chief Henry F. Dowiing. ADOPT TAX BUDGET. MIOH CIIAWES MADE! IS AI'PHO-I'HIATIOftS, BIT TOTAL AMI HATE RKMAI AM PREVI- oi si.v axxoi xcrcn. Addition la Made to the Industrial Hoard Education Fund for Equipment, and Library ftets Part of the Hon Desired for Ilnylng Hooka-Other Fnnda llrninln na In Tentative Hudstci.

with but a few minor changes from the original draft, the tax budget of the city of Oshkoah for the year commencing December 1. 1915. was adopted bv the commission council today. The chanaes made do not affect the total amount of taxes to be raised nor the rate of taxation, the amount, of taxes Vicing left at and the rate at tl.55 on each UuO worth of assessed property. in the budget as It was aaopiea au addition of J700 wus made to the Industrial board of education fund, to be used to pay for machinery and other equipment already ordered.

Another 1T00 will be received from the state. so that the fund available for that pur- post will be 11,400. The $700 added to this fund was deducted from the school repair fund, reducing that fund from $3,000 to $2,300. Making a cut of $200 In the original appropriation of $1,000 for crushed stone and gravel in each of the throe street district funds, enabled the council to add $BO0 to the public library fund, this amount being added to the original fund of $1,000 for the purchase of books. The library trustees yesterduy asked that this book fund be Increased from $1,000 to $2,000, but the addition of $600 was all the council found It possible to grant.

NO OTHKU CHANGKH In the case of the Industrial school fund, the members of the board of in dustrlul education waited on the coun cil last evening and urgently requested Unit some provision be made for the purchase of necessary machinery and equipment for the Industrial school. The board had Included an estimate for this purpose in its budget, but the council eliminated It In tho tentative budget. The council did not see its way clear to make an appropriation for a municipal nurse. All of the ninoiiuts for the oilier funu, to be raised by taxation are the same us they wore tixed in tlie tentative published recently in this paper. In llio resolution adopting the budget I he city clerk was directed to mtiko out a tax roll of the city according to law and the mayor and clerk to sign the warrant for the collection of the tuxes as called for in the I The commission council also adopted today the plans and speciliea tions for the new filtration plant, prepared by Col.

Henry A. Allen of Chicago, the city's consulting engineer, nud approved by the Wisconsin railroad commission mid the state board of health. No action was taken relative to instructing the board of public works to advertise for bids for the construction of the plant This will be done Inter. CACSKS KOU KATE. In reply to interrogations as to why the council found it necessary to increase the tax rate five cents on each $1(X) worth of property over the rate last year, Mayor Mulva, speaking for the entire council, made the following state ment! "In nrennring the tax budget for the leriod commencing December 1, lf15, nd ending December 1, lUUV the com mission council had to conform tlifm- lvcs to present conditions.

While it wis necessary to hx the tax rate at a lit increase over that of last year to raise money to meet absolute k-ssities, the council esteem tlioin- snd the taxpayers generally ror-ute in thnt it was possible to keep tin from going still higher. Here. ai some of the conditions that bad to hi met: There 'bounty I hu been an increaso in the tax ot above that of last year; there Is an estimated In the income tax of $4,300 from that af Inst vcar: the furnishing and equipment of the new High school had to be proviaeo. lor nun yem, amounted to there Is $17,559.50 of bonds and Interests in the present budget more than last year, mis Deing the first series of the new High school bonds that fall due. EXTRA There was an overdraft of In the noor fund, which accrued on ac count of tho unemployment prevailing last winter; $5,650 had to be provided In this budget to pay tie Mrs.

Martha Hutchinson judgment rendered against the city bv the supreme court, tins Doing nn old case dating buck to 1910, before the present torm or government. came Into existence. There also had to be $2,200 provided in tne present uuugei to pay the Mrs. Adrenna Allen judgment, and $1,560.20 had to be provided In this budget for tne neaitn depart ment on account or unroreseen contagious diseases during the winter of 1915. There are other points that might be mentioned, but- these are nurncient to explain why some of the things that have been asked for could not be grant ed this year snd why It was necessary to make a slight Increase in tna tax rate over that or last year.

"The commission council had reduced the cltv expenses to the minimum and certainly would have iikcci to nave naa a lower rate of taxation, nut it was impossible with the present conditions to have a lower rate wiinout oorrow-ing money, and this the council did not deem wise tinder present conditions." Concluding his statement. Mayor Mulva said: "The budget provides for all the running expenses of tho city In every department and sufficient money should be raised by taxation to meet theso expenses. This is always consid ered a good business policy. This the council has done and the council re- nuests and expects every board, com mission and dopartment to cooperate with them and live within this budget." Overworking your friends or jour credit is no way to keep them. I in Bidder, driving a delivery car for the Treleven company, was instantly killed this morning when bis automobile was struck by the Chicago North passenger train due in this city at o'clock at the corner of West Fbllett street and North Brook street.

His neck was broken. LITERACY TEST TO BE URGED FOR IMMIGRANT J. HIHXICTT OF ALABAMA DETKRM1XED TO AG AIM PRESS THIS II I I.I. BEFORE COSUKUSS. (Special to The Northwestern.) flHhlntfrtnn D.

Dec X. Aa imi' tho general preparedness plan. Representative John L. Burnett uf Ala bama, chairman of the house commit tee on Immigration announced that on the opening day of congress he will introduce tha Immigration bill. In practically the same form in which tt reached President Wilson (luring tha last congress and was vetoed by the latter.

Mr. Burnett declared his purpose to press the bill through the house. It will be recalled that President Wilson vetoed tha bill on substantially the same grounds on which former Presi dent Taft vetoed a similar measure, both holding that the provision requiring a literacy test was In contraven- lon of the long-estaoilsiied national policy of handling immigration. An attempt will be made, according to Mr. Burnett, who has been fighting for the bill for years, to got a two thirds -vote for the measure In both senate and house.

He is very confidant hat it will pass the house by a large majority, but is not disposed to be satisfied with that showing and will ot stop short of a two-thirds vote. The senate last time passed the bill over President Wilsons veto, but it failed to pa8 the house over the veto by a margin of eight votes, thirteen lame duck" members, who had previ ously supported the measure, going ver to the opposition. Shipping Interests Blamed. Mr. Burnett and his friends have fre uently charged In congress that the hipping Interests, more especially of New York, were responsible for the failure of the bill In past years.

The doughty Alabama Democrat, in discussing th matter, asserted with emphasis that there is more need now than ever before for the passage of an immigration law that will keep out undesirables. The baslo principle of the bill Is the literacy test, which was trongly urged by the expensive lmml gratlon commission which a few yeara ago toured Europe on a junket ae luxe. Mr. Burnett was a member of tha commission, but always has Insisted vehemently that there was no junket about It and that the 1750,000 expend ed was a good Investment, or would be If congress would be sensible and en act an immigration law with teeth in it regardless of the views of the occupant of the White house. rie now ininss tnai at mo cuuuiu-.

slon of the European war the better class of Europeans will remain at home' and assist In upbuilding of the coun tries now locked in a death grapple. while the riff-raff will take advantage of the first opportunity to rush to this country and escape the rigors of the reconstruction period at home. or tins reason he is anxious to put up the bars against future alien hosts. Would Bar Undesirable. "I am especially desirous," said he, of shutting out the bomb thrower and that class of cltiiens who have shown themselves disloyal to the United States since the European war began." I think the provisions of the bill re lating to criminal offenses would debar these.

I am also for the exclusion ot militant suffragists, who would 'destroy property and endanger life and limb, and believe that women's organizations generally support me in this It Is believed that poweriui inenas of President Wilson in congress will urge that the hill be pigeon-holed for the session on account of practical po litical considerations. The politicians worked very hard to hold back the bin during the last congress, and President Wilson was not at all anxious to place himself on record one way or the other In the matter. F. W. C.

SENT TO REFORMATORY. Menaaha Man Who Stole from null store la Sentenced Sou Ilia Former Eacnpadea. Frank Rclmer of Mcnashaf, who nleaded guilty in municipal coirt last Monday to a charge of burglar in the night time in connection with the theft of eight coats valued at $100 lrom the store of the Janurey-urove aompany at Neenah, was sentenced hi Judge Goss this morning to a termof one year and six months In the st.te reformatory at Green Bay. Helmet; had nothing to say before sentence ms oronounced. except to state in repry.

to a question by the court that he had never before been convicted of a criminal offense. In a statement to the court relative to the young man case, District Attorney D. K. McDonald said it was his nriiflnal idea to have mm placed on probation. Upon investigation, now- he naa round mat mis was noi Reimer's first escapade, that his career indicated that he wag entirely resrionsible for his acta and that ne should be placed where ne would De under dlscinlne.

Mr. McDonald stated that Reimer more than two years ago was com mitted to the Northern Hospital for the Insane and that a record of his cae would Indicate that he feigned insanity In order be committed there to escane prosectition for an of fense involving a girl. He was ad mitted to the hospital October 23. 1913, and discharged February 7, 114, when it waa definitely ascertained tnat ne was not Insane. Two or three days before he was committed Reimer was found, tied hand and foot, on the porch of a summer cottage at Butte des Morts.

At first he appeared to be unable to tell how he came to be In that predicament, but later admitted that some of his friends ha4 tied him up and left him at the cottage at his own request. There was a young woman with whom Reimer appeared to be infatuated mixed up in this incident, which created considerable of a sensation at the time. Reimer's actions and talk were so strange then that he was believed to be Insane and it was thought best by the authorities to commit him to the Northern hospital. MRS. BASHFORD IS DEAD.

(Special to The Northwestern.) Madison. Dec. 3. Mrs. Rarah A.

Bashford. widow of the late Justice K. M. Bashford, died at her home here this mnrniug after a short illness, rihe is survived by her daughter, Mrs, Florence Spensley of Minneapolis. PrmJ ic.K A e- of in to is a I I Lb FORCES OF Al'gTRIA AD GERM.UT 1 OCCt PV STRATEGIC VCITY IS SE1RBIA AND RI 8S1A CARRIES Ot'T PROMISE! TO ITS ALLY.

BALKAN SITUATION MUDDLED. Luodon Pusxled Over the Fact That the Auatrlan and Biot the Bulgarian Fin- Wai Hoisted at Monastir, the Bulgmriana Hrmalnlng Sooth of the City Italy Cauaea Some Speculation, Also, by Her Attitude Toward Ueruinny The Official Rrporta. (By Associated Press.) London. Dec. 3.

Occupation of Mona- tir by an Austro-Germun force at 3 e'clock yesterday afternoon is reported by Keuter's correspondent at Salouiki. tTlie correspondent, who says his information was received in a telegram from Fiorina, Greece, adds that the only ilag hoisted when the city was occupied was the Austrian. The Bulgarians did not enter Monastir, Remaining at Kenali, south of the city. It is reported, however, that they will tnarch into Monastir today. RUSSIANS IX BULGARIA.

"News that the Kussians have entered Bulgaria has aroused intense interest ud there is some speculation as to the next development," Keuter's correspondent at Saloniki telegraphs. "It is expected this move will have a far reaching effect on the internal situation of Bulgaria, and will modify the whole aspect of affairs in the Balkans." No direct and specific confirmation has been received in London of this message. Jt is recalled, however, that last week Emperor Nicholas was said to have promised Premier Pachitch of Serbia The appearance of a Russian army in Bulgaria within a week. NO OFFICIAL REPORT. Circumstantial accounts of the occupa tion of Monastir, in southwestern berbia, Iby an Austro-German force and tue tit-ting of telegraphic communication with the citv are retarded here as ample evi rl price that the Macedonian capital has fallen, although no official report to that effect has reached London.

The effect of the capture of Monastir, the last Serbian city of importance to hold out on the -is if the Anglo- French forces, is awaited with the (rreatest interest for the pentration by the invaders or wis part 01 luaceuoma mar threaten the flank of the allies in the Vsrdar and Cerna valleys, where they- are on defensive. No important events have occurred there for some time jbut with Monastir in the hands of their opponents the allies may soon be en-cared in an important battle. In Montenegro the Austriang continue their advance. Elsewhere in the nortn-rn Balkans no heavy fighting has been reported of late ITALY'S COURSE PUZZLES. Italy's adhesion to the agreement not to conclude a separate peace was welcome news in England, but the failure of Foreign Minister Sonnino to give iore than a vague promise of military suDDort to Serbia caused some disap pointment.

Little light has been thrown vet utton the mystery of Italy's policy In not declaring war on Germany. In this connection it is noted that other nations face a similarly delicate It is reported the Austrian flag, instead of the Bulgarian, was Ihoisted over Monastir. presumably in an ieffort to relieve Bulgaria of the possi ibilitv of offending Greece. Except for Ilussian reports of minor successes on the Dvina, in the north and Ion the Styr in Galicia no news has been ireoeived from the Russian front. Artil lery and mining operations occupy the fighters along the western battle line-Fog and incessant rain are delaying 'operations on the Austro-Italian front Reports from the Dardanelles indicate the combatants are engaged almost (continuously in minor encounters which jdo not seem to have any marked effect their respective positions.

THE BERLIN REPORT. Berlin, Dec 3. Various minor opera tions along the western front are re- corded in today's official statement by army headquarters. No infantry onorations of moment are chronicled. INear Lombartsiide, near the east of INleuport in Belgium, nosuie u'rencn Uutnosts were surprised by a German jdetachment and several prisoners were itken- West of Roue a French biplane was forced to land under the fire of Ger man artillery and its occupants, two officers were made prisoner, westenae.

fin a I IH II nmsi, dhmcfu 'J British monitors but without ef fect, according to tne omciai state ment German troops of General von Lin- aineen's army on the Kussian rront at- wkAd a Russian detachment near TVirt.nrtvii. nn the Styr river in Volhvnia. north of the railway from Kovelto Sarny. Sixty-six men were to iron nrisnnar hv the Germans. Scattered Serbian detachments in the region southwest of Mitrovitza, near the Montenegrin Doraer, were unemtu Toiitnnlo forces in engagements yes terday and more than 1,200 Serbians were taken prisoners, it was announcea by German army neaaquariers.

GAIN BY AUSTRLVNS. Paris. Dec. 3. A further retreat of fi, MnnteneeTlns under Austrian pres sure, the Petrograd movement lnvolv evacuation of Plevlje Is re corded in an official statement from i Montenegrin headquarters maue puo 'll han tnrlav BS follows: "Following the arrival of strong colums of the enemy from the vicinity of Prlboll and Metatka our troops on Tw.mhar 1 received orders to evacuate the city of Plevlie and to retire on their JandvA nosttions.

"The night passed without incident importance" the French war oinc announced this afternoon. SNOW IN CAUCASUS. r-nnoiantinonle. Dec. 3.

Fighting be. the forces of Grand Duke vih-io. and their Turkish opponents Von the Caucasian front is proceeding wnnmt oHveroA weather condi- wic a Hons. An official statement Issued today says: "Activity on the Caucasian is hampered by fresh snow, which 'la ten feet deep, and also by cyclones. The Turkish was office announced today that la tha fighting at of Ohio after a spirited contest, lhe vote was 2H to 23.

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