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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL C, 1917.
PRICE TEN CENTS
v VOL. 2. NO. 133
WAR IS DECLARED
Three and Half Billion Dollars Asked for U. S. Army and Navy
CONGRESS PASSES AND PRESIDENT
SIGNS RESOLUTION WHICH MEANS
WAR BETWEEN GERMANY AND U. S.
WASHINGTON, APRIL 6. — PRESIDENT WILSON
SIGNED THE WAR RESOLUTION AT EXACTLY 1:13
O’CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON. VICE-PRESIDENT MAR
SHALL ATTACHED HIS NAME TO THE DOCUMENT
A FEW MINUTES AFTER 12 O’CLOCK NOON.
PASSES HOUSE BY VOTE OF 373 TO 50.
WASHINGTON, April 6.—By the overwhelming vote of
373 &> 50, the house of representatives this forenoon passed the
Flood-Martin war resolution. The resolution as passed by
both houses reads as follows:
“Whereas, the Imperial German government has commit
ted repeated acts of war against the government and the people
of the United states,
“Therefore, be it resolved, by the senate and house of the
United States congress, in extraordinary session assembled,
that a state of war between the United States and the imperial
German government, which has thus been thrust upon the Unit
ed States, is hereby formally declared; that the president of
the United States be, and he is hereby authorized and directed
to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United
States and the resources of the government to carry on war
against the imperial German government. To bring- the con
flict to a successful termination, all the resources of the coun
try are hereby pledged by the congress of the United States.”
INTERNED GERMAN SHIPS IN AMERICAN
HARBORS BEING SEIZED AND CREWS TO
BE PLACED IN INTERNMENT STATIONS
NEW YORK, April (>.—The United States government to
day seized all of the German vessels interned in New York
harbor, composing twenty-Seven vessels and comprised of pas
senger and freight steamships and sailing ships, and aggregat
ing in value $71,300,000. Among the seized steamships is the
V'aterland, one of the biggest and finest passenger ships afloat.
The officers and crews of the seized vessels, 3,000 in all. were
| taken to Ellis Island for internment.
SEIZURES IN OTHER PORTS.
WASHINGTON, April 6.—Interned German vessels in
harbors at Boston, Baltimore, New London and Seattle were
: seiifed by United States customs collectors this forenoon. The
crews are being taken care of by United States marshals.
PLACED IN DETENTION STATION.
! SEATTLE, April 6.—Germans aboard the interned Ger
man vessels that were seized this forenoon have been brought
to Seattle and placed in the detention station. .
UNITED STATES HAS GREATEST WAR
RESOURCES IN HISTORY OF WORLD
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WASHINGTON, April 0.—The potential resources being
brought into the world war by the United States is declared to
i exceed those of any other nation in the history of the world.
Though much remains to be done, officials believe the nation’s
destiny is secure now, no matter how prolonged the war may
be, or regardless of what intrigues the Germans may employ
as against this nation.
WOMAN REPRESENTATIVE VOTED NAY.
WASHINGTON, April 6.—In casting her vote against the
’ war resolution, Jeannette Rankin, representative from a con
gressional district in Montana, said: “I want to stand by my
country, but I cannot vote for'war.”
* DAROY BECOMES CITIZEN.
CHICAGO, April 6.—Les Darcy, the Australian pugilist,
I took the oath of allegiance yesterday and received citizenship
papers.
SECRETARY OF TREASURY M’ADOO
ASKS CONGRESS TO APPROPRIATE
BILLIONS FOR CARRYING ON WAR
WASHINGTON, April (!.—Secretary of the Treasury Me
Adoo today asked the congress to immediately appropriate
three billion four hundred million dollars- for army and navy
expenses. Of tlie total amount asked, three billion is required
i for the army and tin* remainder for the navy. The funds will
I be raised through the issuance of United States bonds.
All four of the big appropriation bills, which failed to pass
at the last session of the congress, passed the house yesterday,
under a suspension of the rules. Among them is the sundry
civil bill, in which is included as appropriation of over seven
million dollars for the government railway in Alaska, as well
as other Alaska appropriations. These big appropriation bills
will be pushed through the senate without delay.
ALASKA LEGISLATURE GETTING DOWN
TO BUSINESS, ACTING ON MEASURES
.JUNEAU, April 6.—The Alaska legislature is getting1
down to business, bills being reported from eommittees in rapid
order. Both houses are working several hours daily in coin
mifte *s of the whole to consider proposed legislation.
Daly, of Nome, introduced a bill yesterday, appropriating
$400,000 for road and trail work in Alaska, to be divided equal
ly between the four divisions of the territory, working strictly1
under the provisions of the road bill passed at the last session.
The house received a message from the Alaska Labor
Union at Anchorage indorsing the passage of the general eight
hour day bill and the Aldrich bill allowing workmen to choose
their own doctors and hospitals.
The bill regulating insurance companies doing business in i
Alaska and the bill providing relief cabins along the trail- have1
been recommended for passage by the respective committees.
The bill allowing commissioners jurisdiction over eases in
aiiot her precinct, .through change of venue, has been withdrawn
and a substitute recommended by the committee*.
The bill against the fraudulent transfer of personal prop
erl \ and the bill amending the laws regarding the mortgage of
p< rsonal property, recommended for passage by the commit
tee. have been laid on the table, and will be considered in com
mittee of the whole.
The senate bill giving mayors in cities of the first das- tin*,
light to vote and the senate Bulk sales bill have been turned
down by the house committees.
The house passed considerable time yesterday in consider-i
ing the committee bill for tin* establishment of school districts, j
The committee of the whole recommended its passage.
IN THE SENATE.
The house bill for the establishment of school districts was
introduced in the senate today.
(iaustad has introduced a new tax commission bill.
The committee Dill for divisional high schools was recom
mended for passage.
A good part of yesterday was passed by the senate in a
discussion of the bill providing for a bounty on wolves. (Juu
stad favors a $10 bounty, while Sutherland and Aldrich favor
a $15 bounty.
In the afternoon, the senate passed senate bill No. (i.
amending section 1019, compiled laws of Alaska, relative to
verdicts returned by juries, and also passed a bill amending
the session laws providing for local self-government for native
villages. The bill as amended and passed, exempts all white
residents and property of whites from the provisions of the
old law.
JESS WILLARD TENDERS SERVICES.
WASHINGTON, April (>.—President Wilson was pleased I
today by the receipt of a laconic message from .less Willard, j
world’s champion pugilist, which said: “I will fight. When:
do you want me?”
ROSCOE IN WIRE DRAG WORK.
SEATTLE, April 6.—The commission tug Roscoe, which
recently arrived in Seattle from Seldovia, has been assigned
to duty in wire drag work in Alaska, under the auspices of the
coast and geodetic survey service.
ATTEMPT TO DYNAMITE BRIDGE.
j ' WILLE, Me., April 6.—An attempt was made to
dynamiteftfikifc Maine-Central railway bridge near Waterville
late last night, but the plot was frustrated by watchmen who
appeared on the scene in time to prevent the tragedy.
CHAIRMAN FLOOD, OF HOUSE FOREIGN
RELATIONS COMMITTEE, MAKES GREAT
SPEECH IN FAVOR OF WAR RESOLUTION
\\ ASHIX(i J OX, April t>. ( hairman F lood, of the hou.se
committee on foreign relations, stirred the house to its depths
''hen he said, in opening the dehate on the war resolution yes
terday: “War is being made upon our country and its peo
pie. Our ships are sunk and non-combatant citizens, including
men. women and children, are being foully murdered. Our
merchantmen are being denied the freedom of the seas. Under
such circumstances, there is but one course for our government
to pursue, and that is, (in to the defense of its people and its
honor as a nation. There is no choice as to our course. The
time tor argument has passed. I'he time for action is here. Our
people will rally to the support of their government in this
high and patriotic hour and meet war’s perils as a brave, pa
triotic people should."
READ FROM ZIMMERMANN’S NOTE,
Heading from liitl^rto unpublished portions of German
Foreign Minister Zinmiermann’s note to the German minister
to Mexieo, Congressman Miller, of Minnesota, a member of
the foreign relations committee, declared that the German plot
included the establishment of submarine bases in Mexieo and
orders to German reservists in the United States to go to Mex
ieo and aid that nation in attacks on the United States.
LESS THAN DOZEN IN OPPOSITION.
At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Congressman Fitzgerald
of New York, who was presiding, announced that 70 members
ol the congress still desired to lx* beard on the war resolution.
(M those, he said, less than a dozen would speak in opposition
to the resolution. Hate in the afternoon, it was evident that
the house would reach a vote before the midnight hour and that
the resolution would pass h\ an overwhelming majority. With
tin* passage of the resolution by the house, the president’s sig
nature is alone needed to make the declaration of war against
Germany an accomplished fact.
AMERICAN STEAMER MISSOURIAN IS
SUNK IN MEDITERRANEAN SEA BY A
TEUTON DIVER; CREW BELIEVED LOST
WASHINGTON. April fi. The American steamer Mis
sourian was sunk without warning by a Teuton submarine in
the Mediterranean sea yesterday, according to a dispatch re
eeived today by the state department from the American eon
sid at Genoa. The message says that the ship was a freighter
and carried a big crew, ,‘1‘J of whom were American citizens. No
details are available as to the safety of the crew.
BELGIAN RELIEF SHIP SUNK
LONDON, April tj. The Belgian steamship Trevier, from
New York, laden with Belgian relief supplies, was torpedoed
aud sunk without warning Wednesday by a German submarine.
While the boats of the Trevier were being lowered into the wa
ter. the submarine tired on them, wounding the captain, mate
engineer, donkey engine man and the cook.
GERMANS ENTER FRENCH TRENCHES.
BUT ARE DRIVEN OUT WITH LOSSES
LONDON, April <». Yesterday, 11 it* Germans claimed they
inflicted a sanguinary reverse on the French forces north of
Rlieims, taking 800 prisoners. Paris admits the German troops
entered the French trenches at certain points on a front a mile
and a half in length, hut says the intruders were later ejected
with heavy losses.
FRENCH PRESIDENT PLEASED.
PARIS, April 6.—When the news of the passage of the
war resolution by the United States congress reached Presi
dent Poincare today, he said: “I am proud of America.
France is going to fight side by side with her for future human
ity.”
MEATLESS DAYS IN ENGLAND.
LONDON, April 6.—The food controller has ordered one
meatless day each week in hotels and restaurants throughout
Great Britain. No potatoes may be placed on the table, except
on meatless days.