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rf A fiSSi iBI rA PWI BIG CroCUIATTON Rightly distributed Is THE POSTS dar by day offer to the space buyer mWW Vtei lltev i4 4 jmytk fw Weather Unsettled today tomorrow fair warmer gentle winds mostly southerly Temperature yesterday Maximum 80 minimum 70 4 Pil rrdt tis PJv 4jrfc rj hmHi hs XO 15010 WASHINGTON THURSDAY JULY 19 1917 FOURTEEN PAGES TWO GENTS FT OF I 1 Baker Likely to Draw First Name at 10 A Tomorrow ALL ENDED IN AN HOUR Boats Fail to Fulfill High Hopes of the German People Commerce at All Allied Ports Is Well Kept Up Ben Crowder Holds Rehearsal Finds Plans Work Perfectly CAPSULES ARE TO BE USED iVar Department Completes Final Details and Walts on Boards in Fire States Members of Congress to Be Witnesses of Lottery That Decides Fate of 9639000 Men Method Devised Leaves Everything to Chance Blindfolded Persons to Draw Names Fair to Everv One The draft will be held tomorrow morning at 10 oclock in the tlapitol One of the largest committee rooms will be the scene of the drawing which will determine those of Americas manhood who must first go to the colors The fate of 9659000 men will be settled The actual drawing hinges only upon reports from three States that Special Cable from the London Times to The Washington Post Copyright 1917 by Public Ledger Company London July 18 The naval correspondent of the Times commenting on the submarine returns says There is no material change in the situation and assuredly no improvement It Is perhaps not to be wondered at that there should be growing dissatisfaction in Germany with the results of the submarine campaign The hopes that were awakened by the high results In April have not been fulfilled It is due no doubt to this state of things and for the pur pose of encouraging the German public that the opinions of German leaders have been obtained and used to hearten the people Whether any real satisfaction can be felt in the cryptic utterance of Grand Admiral von Tlrpitz The boat is extremely effective but needs time or the still more mysterious saying of Von Hindenburg The boat performs its office must be doubtful The soldier himself seems to have no great faith in the naval weapon while the originator of the ruthless submarine war has to ask for more time yet he must know that time is working on our side Commerce has been well maintained and there is no material falling off in the use of our ports by the ships of all the allied and neutral nations Traffic returns of the allies do not indicate that any more than one submarine is having the success expected iAAvvwyyvMti Bdats Sink 18 British Ships London July 18 Fourteen British ships of over 1600 tons were sunk by submarine or mine in the last week according to the official report tonight Foub British vessels under 1600 tons were sunk and eight fishing vessels Twelve vessels were unsuccessfully Attacked The weeks arrivals numbered 2828 and the sailings 2920 VITAL DAY FOR BERLIN NO STEEL SURRENDER Reichstag Is Called to Hear Address by Chancellor HIS VIEWS STILL HIDDEN Michaelis Merely Promises Communication From Government Munich Paper Says He Will Follow No Annexation and No Indemnity Peace Program Junkers rge Heintze as Foreign Minister as Snub to Russia Tirpitz Begs Bassermann to Fight Radicals increased from an average of S42 in the four weeks of March to 1014 for four weeks of June The latest return for meir worK oi numbering registration by Germany The number of ships of Cards has been completed all nationalities entering French ports All have assured Provost Marshal Gen Crowder that they are working under high pressure to get their duty done before noon today Kejects House Chamber The War Department yesterday rejected a plan to hold the drawing in the chamber of the House of Representatives Objection was made on two grounds first that it would make a spectacle out of a solemn occasion and second that the noise would be confusing to the tally clerks and might lead to regrettable errors invalidating the entire draft Department Is Beady Everything i ready as far a the War Department i concerned Printed pamphlets explaining the system to be emiN0l in the drawing were distributed to be made public tomorrow The States whiih had nut concluded their work at a late hour last night were Mulligan Pennsylvania and New York Illinois was complete except fur one board in thicago Oue county in Missouri held up the States report The system evolved Gen Crowder last night said leaves all to the ele mem of chance It has been carefully designed to give an absolutely fair deal to every man registered From present prospects the draft will be held tomor row had been planned to hold it in the big reception room of the War Department but it was decided that this was too small The drawing will take one hour A rehearsal of the drawing excluse of on short feature took exactly ti1 minutes yesterday and not an error was made Capsules to Be Used I hope that no numbers will be sent out by telegraph before they have been officially checked up so that no regrettable errors shall cause discomfort to nny nvn or his family The capsules which will be used in the drawing have been carefully prepared The numbers have been verified and have been placed under seal in a place of complete safety They will not be touched before the drawing The numbers will be taken to the Capitol from their present place of safety under armed guard At least thrre responsible officials will have them in charge The final announcement will be made this morning Secretary of War Baker now on a trip dowjj the Potomac will return at 7 oclock Gen Crowder will meet him an hour later and at this conference final details will be announced Conferences also have been arranged between Secretary Baker and the chairmen of the House and Senate military affairs committees These commiUres will be official witnesses on the part of congress to the drawing LOSSES IN THE PAST Over Under 1600 1600 Week tons tons Total April 22 40 15 55 April 29 38 13 51 May 6 24 22 46 May 13 18 5 23 May 20 18 9 27 May 27 18 1 19 June 3 15 3 18 June 10 23 10 S3 June 17 27 5 32 June 24 21 7 28 July 4 15 5 20 July 11 14 3 17 Fishing vessels are not included July shows still a further advance to 1067 Departures are also more numerous Altogether it is clear that the menace of the boat has not yet seriously affected oversea French traffic The Italian returns appear to bear out the same view urges greater use of fight the eub Campaign of Profiteers a Factor itt Ship Controversy PRESIDENT WANTS FIGURES And Goethals Balks Refusing to Be Bossed by Shipping Board President Wilson Wants to Know Just How Enormous Appropriation Is to Be Spent While the Steel Masters Are Basing Their Hopes on Being Able to Make Contracts Without Discussing Details The writer naval aeroplanes to marine or he adds have we overestimated the value of airclft as a means of overcoming the sumbarine Kronstadt Anarchists Lead Renewed Rioting in Petrograd 6 Persons Slain 285 Injured Lenine Pro German Agitator Addresses Reds Who Cry Down With Authority Dancers Villa Headquarters of Rebels New Workers and Soldiers Council Denounces Outbreaks as Treason Against Free Russia London July is A Reuter dispatch from Petrograd filed on Tuesday night reads Gen Polovtseff the military governor of Petrograd has issued the fol lowing order of the day In accordance with an order of the provisional government to relieve the city of armed disturbers of its peace and security citizens are requested not to quit their houses without urgent need to keep their doors and gateways closed and prevent unidentified persons from entering their houses At the same time the troops are ordered to proceed immediately to establish order A passenger steamer and a flotilla of tugs brought several thousand sailors soldiers workmen and work women from Kronstadt to Petrograd this morning They bore banners inscribed Kronstadt Anarchists Club Down with authority Long live the commune Lenine Is Storm Center At the corner of the Nevsky prospect i and tfadovaya street provocative firing was started similar to that of last night It was followed by the opening of random machine gun and rifle Are There was more firing still later in the Liteiny prospect the people in the street taking refuge in the courtyards of the houses and on the rear stairways Part of the Kronstadt party Wires to Tell Story Space has been reserved and wire service arranged for the press so that each number may be sent broadcast over the country from the committee room where the drawing will be held Officials in charge of the drawing today showed how heavily the responsibility weighs upon them Three tally clerks have been selected but their names are not made public They will be responsible members of the provost marshals taff trained especially for the work The system devised by this man will draft approximately 35000 men a minute It is pure mathematics mixed up with luck It will be the result of hours of close study by trained minds By tomorrow night every roan In the country will know his position on the conscription list A few days later he will be officially notified and with this notification will be sent a complete list of the numbers in his district so that he may judge how soon he is likely to be called If among the first quota he will be iven five days to appear before the qoMONuaaoiijOTxsPAfiBt THE MAGAZINE OF FICTION IN NEXT SUNDAYS POST wiU present to Washington readers more good stories by famous writers than wiU be found in the most expensive monthly magazine now on sale at the news standi Read the following list of authors represented in a magazine of fiction that is absolutely free to you SIR ARTHUR C0NAN DOYLE creator of Sherlock Holmes contribute a tale of British army life called The Debut of Bimbashi Joyce It is complete in one installment but it has the qualities that made The White Company a classic JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEAB0DY is the author of the best short love story in next Sundays fiction section It is Naomi a romance fragrant with the ashes of roses MAX R1TTENBERG is writing for The Sunday Poet a series of scientific detective stories each of which describes an amaiing feat by a remarkable reader of others thoughts The story for next Sunday A Royal Command tells why a crown prince kills himself on the night of Ms wedding GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER author of Get Rich Quick Walling ford continues his fascinating story of love and political Intrigue A Tale of Red Soses and TALBOT MUNDAY offers one of the most exciting chap ten he has written in his mystery tale of the Indian Secret Service King of the Khyber Elfles IN NEXT SUNDAYS POST 3E made a pilgrimage to the villa of Mile Kshesinska from which the agitator Lenine addressed them The villa of Mademoiselle Kshesln I Ska dancer ana former favorite of ex Emperor Nicholas was converted into the headquarters of the First machine gun regiment which was one of the prime instigators of the trouble Wagon after wagon with machine guns has arrived there Part of the grenadiers from regi ments at Moscow and Favlovsk were among the antigovernment demon strators Cossacks Patrol Streets Petrograd July 18 Another manifestation of armed sailors and soldiers and workingmen and women In which shots were fired took place along the Xevsky Prospect yesterday Yesterdays disturbances were a rep I etition of those of the day before ex cept that they occurred at 2 oclock in the afternoon whereas the first outbreak occurred around midnight The manifestants were grouped along the same part of the Xevsky Prospect A number of stray shots were heard followed by the firing of rifles against upper windows and rooftops at a seemingly imaginary foe For the first time since the revolution cossacks appeared and patrolled the streets Companies here and there carried machine guns strapped to their saddles the men leading their horses CONTINUED ON FIFTH TAGE SPAIN TO PREVENT DEPUTIES MEETING Steps to Suppress Catalonian Assembly in Barcelona Taken Madrid July IS The government is making preparation to prevent holding the meeting of members of parliament at Barcelona which Is planned for tomorrow in defiance of the wishes of the ministry The Catalonian delegates made a demand for an autonomous government and announced that the meeting would be held in Barcelona in case the government failed to call a session of parliamnt which the cabinet declined to do A number of deputies are on the way from Madrid to Barcelona but it Is estimated that not more than 80 members of parliament and other public men will be present The Impression here is that the movement will not be successful The minister of the interior has announced the arrest of Agulrre Metaca secretary to Alejandro Lterroux the radical leader and Basilio Alvarez an agrarian propagandist San Sebastian Spain July 18 Disorders here caused by strikers bvfi been uf pressed by the Qlice Special Cable from the London Times to The Washington Post Copyright 1917 by Public Ledger Company London July 17 A special from The Hague to the Times says Vorwaerts and the democratic press of Germany indicate that If it is true that Admiral von Hintze German Min ister to Christiania Is selected as im perial foreign secretary it would be an undisguised victory for the annexationists and the pan Germans The Lokal Anzelger and the Industrial employers press under Krupp influences give warm support to Von Hintze overlooking the fact pointed out by Vorwaerts that in view of his record as naval attache at Petrograd in 1905 his appointment would be a direct snub to the Russian democracy It Is sufficiently significant to be considered possible Speaks at 3 OClock Today By the Associated Press Berne Switzerland Tuesday July 17 Private Berlin dispatches state that the speech to the reichstag which Dr Georg Michaells the new chancellor is preparing will be delivered at 3 oclock on Thursday afternoon It is reported that German parliamentary circles are still uncertain regarding his attitude London July 18 A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Berlin via Amsterdam announced that Chancellor Michaelis has asked the president of the reichstag to summon the members Thursday afternoon for a communication from the government Expects a Peace Stand Amsterdam July 18 According to news brought by arrivals from Berlin belief in liberal circles there is that Chancellor Michaelis Is mwely a stopgap who will prepare the way for something in the way of a dictatorship with Gen Dudendorff in supreme control Basel Switzerland July J8 The Neuscte Xachichten of Munich says that the declaration of the new German chancellor Dr Michaelis before the reichstag tomorrow will be for peace having the same general trend as the resolution prepared by the parties of the left Tirpitz Joins in Fight Copenhagen July IS Admiral von Tirpitz has telegraphed an appeal to Ernest Bassermann the national liberal leader who is now an invalid to leave the sanatorium where ha is under treatment and assist in the fight against the bloc resolution In the reich stag The Von Tirpitz i ssage says Xo passing food difficulties or war weariness must be allowed to soften the German peoples determination and render possible a peace which would threaten the future of Germany and its working classes The bulk of the national liberals will probably vote against the non annexationist resolution German Liberals Worried Chancellor Michaelis as a Danish editor remarked is preserving the silence of a sphynx on the German peace program and the questions of internal reform but the liberal press and politicians in Germany manifest an Increasing apprehension that when the sphynx finally breaks silence he will speak with a decided pro German accent Herr Michaelis putting forward of Field Marshal von Hindenburg and Gen Ludendorff to discuss German peace conditions with members of the reichstag his failure to consult parliamentary leaders on prospective new appointments to the imperial Prussian cabinet his antecedents previous environment and to openly avowed satisfaction of the conservative national liberal party men with the change in chancellors contribute as Tuesdays German newspapers show to the marked uneasy feeling In liberal and socialist circles on what the chancellors maiden speech Thursday will show The speech is not expected to go exhaustively into questions of reform or peace as the time is too short for chancellor Michaelis to elaborate a definite program The socialist agency undoubtedly speaking for Herr Scheid emann the socialist leader demands however that Herr Michaelis immediately and unequivocally make clear his attitude on the Prussian franchise reform and the peace formula Center Changes Sides The Lokal Anzeiger also reckons with a deferred presentation of the chancellors program and instances the question of parliamentizing the government It appears unnecessary for Chancellor Michaelis to burn his fingers wjith this question at all because the Catholic center party has already changed sides It explains in an Inspired article in clerical papers that the party interpretation of parllamen tarianlsm is merely the bringing of the government and parliament Into Intl C0NT1NOBD ON EIGHTH PAGE Sixteen Militants at Occoquan Sew Shifts for the Prisoners Tears at Breakfast of Hominy Identity Lost When Silks and Laces Are Replaced by Prison Gray Gingham Known by Numbers Stern Rule of Matron Herndon No S976 Rebels Told to Respond to Name as Police Spelled It Details of the Day Confer With Notable Visitors Summer rate In effect to Pacific coast and Colorado points Santa Fe Railway Woodward Building Tele uhone Mala 7377 Adv BY RYLEY GRANNOX It will help some to have the truth told regarding the quarrel over shipbuilding so here goes The fight is not a personal fight between Goethals and Denman It is a fight between the steel interests and the government and the question is whether the steel men shall rob the government or not The other day the steel men came to Washington expecting to find President Wilson so hysterical over the war that he would pay any old price for steel for ship3 and armor and munitions The steel men had concocted a reason for putting on exorbitant prices Pay us extra they said Xever mind what you pay so long as It is big Then we will hustle and deliver the goods Then if you find we have made big profits you can tax these profits away from us See But President Wilson couldnot see All he could pe was a lot of smooth gentlemen who had combined together to cinch their own government in time of war He then gave out a blast that will be remembered a long time in Wall street It might be called The Death Blow of Profiteering It chilled the steel men to the bone and they jumped on the first train and left Washington They were glad to get away without having their plants commandeered by the inscrutable man in the White House ov Trying to Deceive the Public The report was given out that an agreement had been reached on the price question Well it was an agreement after a fashion The steel men agreed to do anything that the government wanted with this proviso That the prices should yield a reasonable profltrandi that duaxmslderation would be given to necessary expansion Have the steel men laid down Not at all They are busier than ever only they are working in a different way They have discovered that they cannot expect to fool President Wilson so they are now at work trying to fool the public They are busy trying to show that Maj Gen Goethals is hampered in his steel shipbuilding program by William Denman Chairman of the shipping board and head of the emergency fleet corporation If the government board would only stand aside and let the steel people rush through a contract with Gen Goethals without asking or answering any questions everything would be all right Goethals Refuses to Be Bossed All the trouble arises from the fact that the responsible government authority insists upon asking questions about the expenditure of 600000000 of government money The government through its regular shipping board wants to know who is to get this money and what he is to do to earn it Gen Goethals does not want anybody to boss him so he win not answer any questions The sum of 350000000 is ready for building steel ships In yards to be built under contract Who are these contractors How much are they to get Where does Uncle Sam get off The sum of 250000000 is ready for expediting ships now under construction and for the purchase of sbips already constructed Whose ships are to be expedited and in whose yards Who is to be paid extra for doing extra work Who is to have the ships that are expedited How much will the expediting cost and how much is to be allotted to the purchase of ships If these are not pertinent questions to be answered before the government commits itself to the spending of 600 000000 then no questions are pertinent The President was all wrong In trying to prevent manufacturers from bragging of patriotism and charging excess profits if these questions are wrong Wilson Will Checkmate Them One mans guess Is as good as anothers but from my personal observation of the steel men and their maneuvers and my study of President Wilsons antiproflteering manifesto I will wager that the steel Interests of the United States will never secure extortionate profits on steel ships by trying to stampede a contract through on the strength of GenX3oethals splendid reputation and the undeniable necessity for quick action President Wilson is more than a match for these men cunning as they are He will get both quick action and reasonable prices for two reasons First because he is determined to do so and second because he has the power to do so Mr Wilson works in his own distinctive and unexpected way He does not tell his plans to anybody The manner in which he will checkmate the steel combine is not disclosed but there need be no doubt of the result He has more patience than they have more foresight more pqwer and better than all he is working for the government and has the people behind him It is safe to predict that Gen Goethals or whoever handles the shipbuilding program of the United States will answer every reasonable question before any contracts are closed for the expenditure of 600000000 of the people money By a Staff Correspondent Occoquan Va July 18 Down here at the District workhouse where all classes finally reach the same substrata and enjoy alike equal rights the 16 suffrage pickets sentenced to 60 days imprisonment for activities about the White House settled down yesterday to their duties as humble prisoners Tears and conferences and a little sewing were features of the womens first day in he institution Failure on the part of the officials of the institution to draw the color line in the dormitories or at the table was the chief cause of complaint by the militant prisoners as they are known among the other feminine members in the workhouse colony Garbed In the uniform of the institution a grayish gingham dress blue apron blue cotton stockings and heavy shoes the 16 women had practically lost their identity when the call for breakfast led them from their dormitory Treated as Was Jennie long as they stay as guests at the workhouse The prisoners are In abeyance to woman rule They are under the stern hand of Mrs Minnie Herndon who Is In charge of the female prisoners at the institution Mrs Herndon if Judged from her attitude to the pickets yesterday knows neither class nor color Automobiles dashing to and fro with representatives of her new charges the expensive collection of jewelry taken from the prisoners lorgnettes gold or otherwise trained on her by the women and their friends nor nothing else seemed to swerve the determined matron yesterday from carrying out her duties the same as if the new arrivals were the most insignificant of the inmates Look Alike in Prison Garb Which is which inquired a rather inquisitive person as the long line of colored and white women prisoners wended their way from the dormitories to the dining ropm for breakfast And Unless He Should Intercede Malone Is to Appeal CLEMENCY IS DISCUSSED Pardon Believed Unlikely as It Wouldnt End Picketing MAY ASK FOR LEGISLATION They had slept all night in the same several in the little group of lookers room as was occupied by other prison ers colored and white They had been treated without exception in the same manner aa Jennie the town souse as one of the women who was sentenced about the same time they were is known at the workhouse And now at the breakfast table they sat not with fancy table linen or china nor eilver but with the plain dishes and fare of prisoners and directly opposite the numerically superior contingentof colored women sentenced for drunkenness larceny and other crimes and misdemeanors Weeps Over Her Hominy Hominy was the staple for the first meal It looked as if nothing unusual would mark the initial repast of the day for several minutes when the humdrum of the motley throng of those breaking fast was broken by the audible sobs of Miss Hurlburt All women are created equal gruffly ejaculated one of the best known feminine Inebriates of the District as Miss Hurlburt wept copiously over her hominy Silence ordered the matron In charge of the dining room and the meal proceeded anjid suppressed sobs and the titters of oldtlmers All women are treated equally at the institution if the ordeal of the militants first day can be taken as a criterion of what they are to expect as on made vain effort to answer the question Julia OGrady and the colonels lady to paraphase the words of Kipling all look the same in these clothes re marked one of the bystanders Numbers designate the prisoners at the workhouse Mrs Eunice Dana Brannan New York woman of wealth and daughter of Charles A Dana Is to be known as prisoner No 5974 The others are prisoners Nos 5973 5987 inclusive Jeweled Xecklace Commandeered A jeweled necklace which one of the women wore about her neck was taken from her after all the other jewelry in the party had been collected with an exclamation from the matron to the effect that it might take the eye of some other prisoner not sentenced for picketing Breakfast over the women lined up for inspection by the workhouse physician Dr Frank Hornbaker The physician explained in answer to queries by the women that they would not be inconvenienced in the matter of toilet requisites as they had been their first night at the institution You will be more comfortably fixed as soon as we get your effects straightened out and you are settled here said the doctor CONTINUED ON FOURTH TAGE Anthony Suffrage Amendment Discussed at White House as War Emergency Measure Mr Hopkins Agrees to Poll Congress on the Subject Malone Engages Counsel to Take Arrests to Higher Court Fines of Some May Be Paid Forcing Them to Quit LOCKJAW GERMS IN COURT PLASTER Arrests Halt Plot to Spread Terror in Kansas GERMAN CASUALTIES IN JULY 166547 Killed Number 29000 and 37000 Are Reported Missing By the Associated Pres Kansas City Mo July 18 A plot to spread terror through Kansas by the means of disease inoculation through court plaster was stated today by Fred Robertson United States district at torney at Kansas City Kans to have been broken up through the arrests of three men in different towns of that State Tests conducted by Smith government chemist and three aids were said to have revealed tetanus germs on plasters the three were selling and giving away Other germs not yet identified were declared to have been found Might Be Lynched The names of the three were withheld by Mr Robertson as he said he feared the men might be lynched if their identities became known It was understood they are to be brought here for questioning Mr Robertson said he was at a loss to find a motive for the alleged plot The fact that the names of the three persons under arrest were of Germanic origin and other features connected with it might indicate he said that it was of an enemy nature May Be Work of Cranks It is apparent that the persons wanted to start some sort of trouble he said It may be merely the work of cranks or it may have a broader scope So far as learned the arrests were made before any person fell victim to the supposed infected plasters No attempts were made to dispose of the alleged poison to soldiers One Italian Steamer and Four Sailing Ships Sunk By the Associated Press Rome July 18 One Italian merchant steamer and four small sailing vessels were sunk by submarines in the week ended July 15 according to the official statement today Arrivals at Italian ports for the week numbered 558 clearances 499 TWO MOKE RIOT VICTIMS DIE Special Cable from the London Time to The Washington Post Copyrijfbt 1917 by Public Ledger Company London July 18 German casualties in July says the Times were 166547 The killed numbered 29000 missing 37000 and the severely wounded 21 000 slightly wounded 79000 The total of Germanys casualties is now 4500 000 The killed number more than 1000000 the prisoners 326000 the missing 275000 and the severely wounded 591000 The figures represent the casualties as announced in the German official lists CENSORS FOR BATHING GIRLS Atlantic City Names Board to Pass on Beach Costumes Atlantic City July 18 Bathing girls may be deleted by the censor Four officials were designated today to act as censors of bathing suits Bare limbed girls come under the ban Too clingy suits of the semi transparent kind will not be allowed on the beach Men also must wear decorous bathing suits Index to Todays Issue FSf 1 East 8t Louis 111 July 18 The death of two more white men from wounds received in the riots of July 2 brings the total of known whites imiedjtA Bine Army Draft Plans Perfected Rioting Fatal at Petrograd 18 British Ships Sunk Chancellor to Address Reichstag No Steel Surrender Sixteen Militants Sew Shirts Militants Plight Shocks President 2 Aero Bill Held lip Takes Up Ship Plans Food Debates Near End 3 British Gain in West Slavs Hold Their Own Postofflce for Pershings Men 4 Trace Slayers Pistol Asks Death of Mrs Mooney 5 Admiral Grant Joins Fleet Boats Attack Liners 6 Editorial Coniment 7 Society Troops to Go Abroad Slowly 8 Maryland Lists Idlers News of Alexander 10 Sporting Events 11 Financial 14 Board Upheld In Sidewalk Lam Either presidential intercession in the cases of the sixteen suffragists sent to the District of Columbia workhouse yesterday to serve 60 days for picketing at the White House or appeal of their cases to a higher court appeared certain last night After a long conference jith President Wilson A Hopkins former Democratic national committeeman from New Jersey and husband of one of the prisoners declared the President had been deeply shocked at the whole affair and on learning the circumstances has only one thought namely to straighten the matter out Pardon by Wilson Unlikely The advisability of urging the Susan Anthony suffrage amendment as an emergency war measure was discussed by the President according to Mr Hopkins who said he promised to supply the White House with a canvass of Congress to show whether the pro posal could be passed He also declared the suggestion of a presidential pardon for the prisoners appealed to Mr Wilson but as that Wtatld not stop picketing it is not re garded as likely Malone Plans Appeal While Mr Hopkins was conferring with the President Dudley Field Malone collector of customs at New York was planning an appeal in behalf of the women He announced that he had retained George Gordon Battle a New York attorney and another attorney whose name he did not mention to aid him Unless efforts to have the President act are successful the appeal probably will be taken without delay None of the prisoners has expressed a desire to be released buf it is probable that the fines of some will be paid within a few days to set them free Several have small children at home others are old or weak and still others came to Washington expecting to spend not more than a week as pickets Suffrage leaders are ready to pay the fines of any who consent to It Confer With Prisoners Mr Malone accompanied by Mr Hopkins Gilson Gardner whose wife also is a prisoner Miss Lucy Burns and Miss Mabel Vernon conferred with the prisoners at length yesterday Mr Malone was very anxious that an appeal be taken and is said to have offered to act as counsel regardless of theeffect It might have on his government position The prisoners however expressed the view that they would have to serve their sentence anyhow and they had as well have them over with immediately Mr Malone then conferred with Mr Battle Mr Hopkins Frank Walsh a Kansas City attorney and others and announced that he would take the appeal Last night he went to the workhouse and talked with the women again Brownlow Takes Responsibility The chief desire of persons urging the appeal it Is understood is to determine if possible from whom the police obtained their orders to break up picketing in front of the White House Mr Gardner declared he had learned that the instructions were coming from persons higher up but District Commissioner Brownlow who has charge of the police last night vigorously denied that the orders originated with any one except the commissioners who administer the District government We are acting entirely on our own responsibility he said Complaints of Treatment Suffragists complained last night because the prisoners are not being given special privileges at the workhouse They are being treated exactly as other prisoners are forced to eat prison fare and wear prison clothes and are denied the privilege of receiving visitors at will jthe use of their own lollet articles and unlimited correspondence privileges Some of the women were without stockings yesterday owing to a shortage of supplies Mr Gardner said Jail of them are working in ihi sewing rooml Coincident with the reports thitlthe President woiild Probibly interferes in behalf of the sixteen prisoners cam vvjriuiuiuvanVHarJU Jut Ik I feH ai i A i 3t av y9y i f0k 4 dAfmf I kzrM.