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TWO EDITIOliS DIILY INTERNA TONAL IIEl'S SERVICE A TT T- A Ti A fyT7nnnn Ft I MATTOON, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY-' EVENING, APRIL 1917. Prlct Two Cnt. rortThlrdJV'etr Nol nn 1 01 v- -w i. i- pi.oday'by'V6te'6;T3 73 GERMAN MERCANTILE FLEET SEIZED 3 U.S; OF LINERS AND FREIGHTERS BE LONGING TO THE KAfSER TAKEN OVER BY THE UNITED STATES TODAY AS ONE OF FIRST MOVES AGAINST GERMANY AFTER RESOLUTION IS PASSED. HOUSE TAKES ACTION EARLYHOUR TODAY NO LONGER ANY DOUBT THAT THE UNITED STATES WILL WAGE WAR AGAINST GERMANY IN UNISON WITH THE ALLIES, AMERICAN SHIPS AND AMERI-' CAN SOLDIERS CO-OPERATING WITH ENTENTE.

m'tm (FLASH.) Washington, April 6. President Wilon signed war at It 13 p. m. Immediately afterward he signed a proclamation calling for volunteer. (I pledge ilegiance to my flao if Inttrnatlonal Newt Service.

Washington, April 6. The United States is at war with the imperial German government. anaxq ineKcpumc ior wmcn it i 1 Wm Internatlonal News Service. New York, April 6. Germany's $51,300,000 mercantile fleet, which had been interned here since the outbreak of the war, was seized by the United States today.

There were twen ty-seven passenger liners, freighters and sailing -ships ia the fleet, among them the Vaterland, one of the biggest and finest passenger liners in the world. The German officers and crews, numbering more than 3000 men, were taken tp Ellis Island for internment This was the first decisive war move against Cermany ra the metropolis, following the passage by the state of war reso 2' lution by congress. The Prinz Eitel Friedrich, Hamburg, Allemania, Print Joachim and Koenig Wilhelm II. were also seized. 1 Collector of the Port of New York Malone was in hi office practically all night.

Between two and three o'clock he went to Hoboken, where a great fleet of German passenger liners and freight ships has been at anchor since the beginning of the war. Later he and a force of custom men went on board the Vaterland. morning passed the Flood-Martin resolution, declaring that a state of war exists. Three hundred and seventy-three votes were cast for the measure. Fifty were cast against it.

Nine members were absent, and Speaker Champ Clark did not vote. Immediately upon the senate convening at noon today, Ubsrty acd justice for all Vice President Marshall will sign be rushed by special messenger to the white house. I here it will be signed by President Wilson, and the United States will be in the war. The signature of Speaker Clark has already been attached to the document. the resolution, and it will then.

wage war in unison with the That the United States will allies was not doubted today. will co-operate tnat not in our it strug-j gle strike at ourenemy with our onjy weapon we could, even though it be a f' American ships and. American soldiers with Germany's other enemies. Waahington, April (5. Vice President Marshall signed the joint resolution, declaring that a state of war exists between the United States and Germany, at 12:14 (oTar Immediately'' nfler the signatnre was attached, a special messenger was did-" patched to the white house with the document.

A few minutes after Vice President Marshall signed the joint resolution, the President and Mrs. Wilson left the white house for a walk, guarded by an unusually large detail of secret service men. 5 By two o'clock this morning more than representatives had made speeches on thff war resolution and many others 'were waiting for an opportunity to spftak. posited in the National Bank of 3at toon: The heirs are Frank Rhinehart, Miss Florence Rhinehart, Miss Ella Rhinehart and Mrs. Jessie Vause, Hughes Klger are the attorneys for the estate.

TUSCOLA FEEDERS ET $90 FOR 4UST ONE HOC Tuscola, 111., April 8.What la proV ably the largest amount of money av-er received for a single hog Sn the open market for shipping purposes in this county was that paid to Robert N. Wright a farmer, and to (X v. Hunt and S. IB. Simonton this weeJL The hoe weighed approximately 00 pounds and was sold at 14.S5 a hundred, but the.

animal was of a class that necessitated ths feeders selling it at an eighty-pound dock. amount paid for the hog after the deduction was faade was almost $90, and had It been of a Quality that woutd hav gone Into the market as straight, it would have brought practically $100. Late in the night Representative Britten presented an 'humiliating to the Democrats and that amendment, designed to prohibit the use of troops in Europe, lZll onotdT iTi Asia or Africa, without the approval of congress, except troops signing from congress, some hisses came from the Democratic side and Tolunteenng for such service. Mr Heflin Bald were from those -i -Chairman JPlood in charge of the resolution, about seven, who were tor the kaiser, o'clock Thursday evening; sought an agreement to have the com SfJ" Nebraska, inittee of the whole rise at eight o'clock and report the resolution Republican, declared the sober second thnncht nf thft AmeHrnn nenntn in- camp. Representative Shackelford of Missouri and Representative Sherwood of Ohio strongly urged Mr, Kltchln to make his speech.

Shortly before three o'clock Representative Kltchln announced that he would speak Against the resolution. Kur entrance Into-the chamber shortly afterward caused a quickening of lagging interest In the debate. Cannon Supports Resolution. Tormer Speaker Cannon, supporting the war resolution, said this was no time for partisan discussion; that the United States Is not ready for war now. but must prepare at once.

Remarking that he had heard it suggested that the President be impeached for arming American ships, Mr. Cannon said "We would not make much headway there." He defended the loyalty of American citizens of German birth. Amid enthusiastic applause, Mr. Cannon announced his Intention of voting for the resolution. Dill Opposes War.

Representative Dill of Washington saying he had spent sleepless nights considering the war question, declared he finally had decided to vote ed States to keep out of the European conflict. Once In, he" added, the government would receive his entire support. Kitchen Excuses Kaiser. Representative Kitchen, who announced he would oppose the resolution said he was not sure that the United States put In the same sllua- tlontnaJ: Germany ln with, resort to the same violations of neutrality that Germany has been guilty of. "Are we quite sure," he asked "if were In war with Germany and Japan, with our ships helpless, with our commerce swept off the seas, with iour food scarce, with our arms and ammunition for our soldiers denied us I violation of neutrality?" Heflln Criticises Kitchen.

Representative Heflln of Alabama, jDemocrat, bitterly criticised Repre-, senta'tive Kitchen, declariim it was to Oermanv warrine on us without using force to prevent it." Gardner Speaks. I Representative Gardner, Republican "we would sacrifice It go to war." Heflin Challenged. Representative Burnett of Alabama ln the course of a speech against the resolution, challenged" Representative Heflin to circulate a petition In the house to secure support for his declar- atln that Majority Leader Kitchen should resign. He also asked his col league to prove himself by enlisting as I private in the army, Ready to Enlist Interchanges between the two Ala-' banians were made to the accompaniment of shouts of applause from both Sides of the chamber and the galler- i 1 1 i.i i i KAHMnHtiAn 8houtlnf? would resign and fight for his coun-' try. Burnett continued his heckling despite the roars of the members and the pounding of the gavel by Repre-j Eentntlvn Fltzeeralri until the sereeant.

1 at-arms produced the mace, symbol of tuf nd conH pelled him to take his seat. i Mann Favors Resolution. 1 took the floor, to support the reso- lno8e oppottlng but said tJlere waB nothing for congress to do but stand by the President wjsni Sa)d Mr. Mann, "to pay tribute t0 the courage of those mem bers of the house who in the exercise of the responsibility cast upon them, have expressed their opposition to this resolution. I want particularly to pay my tributes to the rare courage of the gentleman from North Carolina.

"I do not agree with them, hut this is a time when members of this body, PREPARING TO PROVIDE U.S.ARMY CONGRESS PLANS NOW TO GET MEN TO DEFEND CAUSE TO WHICH UNITED STATES IS COMMITTED. BITTER FIGHT ON PART OF PACIFISTS Men Who Believe in Peace at Any Price Will Contend Conscrip-. tion Principle Contrary to American Ideals. BY GEORGE R. HOLMES Staff Correspondent of the International News Service.

Washington, April 6 With America's entry Into the world war formally declared, congress today set about the task of providing the army to defend the cause to which the United States is committed. Secretary of War Baker went to the capital to explain to the house military affairs committee the administration army bill calculated to raise a force of 1,000,000 men ln a year and twice that number In two years. The military committee met behind closed doors. They realized that theirs Is a solemn task. The bill, which Secretary Baker explained to them, was prepared by the general staff of the army.

It provides first of all for the immediate raising of the present regular army and National (luard to the combined authorized war strength of more than SOO.00O. The new Increments will be added through the volunteer system if responses are sufficiently prompt. Otherwise the troops must be obtained by draft. Similarly the bill provides for the calling to the colors by late summer of the first Increment of a new fighting force of 50.000 men, he chosen by selective conscription. Administration leaders foresee the fight which will be raised first in committee and later on the floors of congress over adoption of the principle of draft and conscription.

A bitter fight by pacifists in and out of congress is bound to be made upon the consertption principle as contrary to the whole spirit of American Ideals. But the administration has made up its mind. The United States has entered the war after full deliberation. Having taken the sword. President Wilson and his advisers ire rally determined That half way measures will be adopted.

An army of hundreds of thousands of men must be raised if America Is to play a fighting part. Mr. Wilson's advisers do not believe that these men can be obtained through the volunteer system. First of all the general staff bill provides for the training of some 100,000 officers and noncommissioned officers who in turn will be the instructors of the youthful hosts to be impressed from farm and factory, school and office and who have yet to receive their first lessons In the rudiments of handling a rifle. To reach war strength the present regular army must be expanded to 278,000 men and about 12.iiO0 officers.

The National Guard Is capable of expansion to 327,000 mWn and about officers. Under the national defense act. the guard would Immediately be taken into the federal service as it was last summer when called to Mexican patrol duty. With the regulars and National Guard augmented to full strength, the attention of the military authorities must be turned to the youth of the country from which it is planned to draw during the next two years an army of 2,000,000 men. To this end.

federal, slate and local authorities will be called upon to cooperate id' registering the young men of the country, between the agos of. nineteen and twenty-five years. Exemptions be made of those physically unfit, those supporting dependents, meets In religious bodies having scruples against the bearing of arms and finally those engaged in industrial pursuits necessary to the conduct of the war. By this means some time in late summer the first increment of 500,000 newly-trained recruits would be available. Within a yar a second increment of 500,000 would be called to the colors with other officer and instruct- Washington, April fi.

With telegrams1 -addressed to every unit of the service, the Navy DepattefltBiFaltedthe Presi-r---dent's word to utilize the entire strength oTthe American nary. This order will bring out the entire reserve of shipp, all naval re- serves and the naval militia of all the stateMhich will at once be mustered into the federal service. active strength of the -navy has, of course, been mobilized for some time, at point" 4. REPUBLICANS WHO VOTED AGAINST THE WAR RESOLUTION Bacon of Michigan. Britten of Illinois.

Browne of Wisconsin. Cary of Wisconsin. Cooper Wisconsin. Davidson of Wisconsin, Dillon of South Dakota Each of Wisconsin. Frear of Wisconsin.

Davis of Minnesota. Fuller of Illinois. Haugcn of Iowa. Hayes of California. Hull of Iowa.

Johnson of South Dakota. Klng of Illinois. Kinkaid of Nebraska. Knutzen of Minnesota. Little of Kansas.

Lundoon of Minnesota. Mason of Illinois. Nelson of Wisconsin. Rankin of Montana, Reavis of Nebraska. Roberts of Nevada.

Rodenberg of Illinois. Sloane of Nebraska. Stafford of Wisconsin. Voigt of Wisconsin. Wheeler of Illinois.

Woods of Iowa. i i i 1 W. Craig. He was admitted to the and. hfgan.

the practice of law in this county. In 1890 Mr. Feagan was elected to the office of superintendent of schools of Coles county and served in that capacity for four years. On retiring from office he engaged In the drug business at 2000 Western avenue, which he had followed continuously since. Mr.

Feapan and Miss Elizabeth Becker were married in this city on January 15, 1890. There are no children, Mrs. Feagan being the sole sur-Tlvor of the Immediate family. Mr. Feagan held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church and in the local Masonic, Red Men, Woodman and Court of Honor lodges.

SOME SPREAD, THIS! Toledo Democrat: Ham laden with hickory smoke as sweet as nectar, home-made rolls, butter churned before breakfast, milk and rream that never saw chalk or water, a score of sweetmeats, pastries and fruits were spread before her guests by Men. F. Jeff Tos-' sey on South Main street, Sunday, the occasion being Senator Tossty'g fifty-second birthday. CHICAGO LIVESTOCK MARKET. International News Service.

Chicago, April 6 The livestock market opened this morning as follows': "Hogs, ll.OuO, fifteen to twenty cents higher; cattle, 1500, strong; aheep, 30O0, strong. No grain markets because of Good Friday. WEATHER. Illinois Fair tonight Some. what warmer In west and south portions.

Saturday unsettled, probably rain In west and south 5-j portion. i 1 '3 WXtn a View TO quiCK action, mere was liumeuiaie oppoBimm. cludIng conRresSj ts being fp)t and Speaker Clark said everybody ought to have a right to speak that a tpn dftvs delay of vote would I defeat the resolution ln its present and the house should stay in session until the early hours of theBCope morning, or all night if necessary. Mr. Flood then withdrew his1 Representative unroot of wiscon- eln, Republican, said he would sup- reqtiest and the speechninking was resumed.

The amendment, port the resolution because not to do i80 wouW mean we wil1 8Ubmit divulged. Passage The house debated the war Assured. resolution far into the night, and Puenos -Aires, April (5. Anti-German are occurring in Rio Janeiro, and the people aredema5fllng war against Germany, says a dispatch from the Brazilian capital today ing of the Brazilian steamship Parana by a German submarine. although -passage-was -assured before adjournment, the leaders Massachusetts, said the united States Is not going to war for 200 mur- predictel a vote could not be reached until early morning.

dered Americanst bu for the rights For the most part the discussion proceeded with an air man- Representative Decker of Missouri unemotional acquiescence, scores of members making brief gahj he believed in national honor, but DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED AGAINST THE WAR RESOLUTION Almon of Alabama. Burnett of Alabama. Church of California. Connelly of Kansas. Decker of Missouri.

Dill of Washington. Dominick of South Carolina. Henley of Missouri. Hillard of Colorado. Igo of Missouri.

Keating of Colorado. Kitchin of North Carolina. McElmore of Texas. Shackleford of Missouri. Sherwood cf Ohio.

Van Dyke of One Socialist, London of New York, and one Prohibitionist, Randall of California, also cast therr votes against the measure. the right to express their opposition to the war, for tomorrow when the 1 war Is declared It, will become the1 duty of all citizens to hold up the honor and power of the republic. "The only thing left for us to do Is to stand by the President elected by the people." C.T.FEAGAN DIES AT EARLY HOUR TODAY Western Avenue Druggist Expires at Memorial Hospital Following Operation for Toe Amputation. Charles T. Feagan, a well known Western avenue druggist, aged sixty-three years, passed away this morning at 1:45 o'clock at Memorial Hospital, where he had been a patient since Wednesday evening.

Death was due to diabetic gangrenous poisoning, a complication developing after a surgical operation for the removal of the great toe of the right toot. Mr. Feagan bad been failing in health for Ave or six years. His decline was more rapid during the two years. Surgeons removed the afflicted toe last Monday, the operation being conducted at the family residence at 1601 Marshall avenue.

The body was remdived from the hospital to the Peers undertaking establishment to be nrepared for burial. Later It was removed to the family residence. Funeral serviceg will be conducted from the First Methddist Episcopal Church at 3:30 o'clock oil Sunday afternoon. Burial will be made in Dodge Grove cemetery. Rer.

R. F. will have charge of the rites. -Members of the Masonic lodge will conduct ritualistic services at the Mr. Feagan was born ln McClelland township, Jefferson county, Illinois, January IS, 1854, a son of Mr.

and Mrs. James W. Feagan. He attended the district schools until nineteen years old, when he entered the Lee Academy, at Loxa, malclng there until graduation. In 1878 Mr.

Feagan began teaching school, a profession that" he Wowed for six years. While thus engaged he studied law at the office of Judge J. i I gpeeches to put themselves on record as reluctantly Washington, April 6. Sentiment for sending an expedition to France at an early date is growing rapidly in the senate. Ho legislation will be necessary to give the administration.

such authority, but it is probable that resolutions will be introdnced to express the senate's indorsement of dispatching troops to the western front. V1' war as the only course of honor. During the day the debate revealed an unexpected strength in the minority opposing the resolution. Confident predictions of not more than a dozen votes against it gave place last night to reports that the opposition might a i ii on the final roll CalL The surprising accession to the minority ranks was to the efforts of Democratic Leader Kitchin, who in a speech, announced he could not with a clear conscience Washington, April 0. The general deficiency bill, carrying flfi 1,000,000, including the 100,000,000 emergency appropria- -tion, to lie placed at the President's disposal, was reported favorably to the senate today by the appropriations committee, with a request for immediate consideration.

Tote for war. Supporters of the great majority, permitted the roll one mTglit be heard, Pacifists Rally. Mr. Kitthin's opposition drew an immediate following from muster upwards of a hundred President's course, sure of a- call to be delayed so that every-! his attitude, Democratic leaders to find he -had-prepared in partr Fellow members of the house i I among the group who have opposed preparedness and armed neutrality, and Inst night many of them who had sat silent and glum in the rear of the chamber throughout the day iiioved down in front and spoke against the resolution. Administration leaders tintiLThamtay had paid little atten-jer.

iion to reports Jhat Keprexentative Kikhm would opptse the res- org drawn from the regular and the national guard, to take thetn in eharge. The army, whatever its ultimate proportions, will, according to present plans, be raised in installments of half a million men. The mammoth estimatfe of for an appropriation for the new army made to congress yesterday is but a starter. It contemplates the carrying out only of the program for one year. Other fabulous amounts must be provided to equip the army with ammunition and reserve supplies when ihe time comes for it to go to the Bring line.

MRS. RHINEHARTS ESTATE HAS BEEN SETTLED I. C. Gannaway filed this afternoon in the county cout at' Charleston documents shewing that the estate of Sarah Rhinehart whose death occurred at recent date, has been settled satisfactorily out of court The' estate consisted of about 1000 de- olntion. jAroused by reports of lastened to his office Thursday a speech opposiifir the resolution.

and senators pleaded vainly with him to abandon his plan. Possible los of the house leadership and his forced exit from public life as well as the demands of patriotism were pointed out to him. Pacifists, learning of the activity of administration support ers, quickly Jumped into the fight. They saw in the winning of Kitchin a possibility of rallying the wavering members buck in oIDmuu at tb country, have.