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VOL. XLYI. yO. 14,18. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 1906. CENTS. 18, BAILEY REPEATS L His Good Faith Was Not Challenged. QUOTES CHANDLER IN SUPPORT flallroad Senators Proposed to Use Texan. TILLMAN WITH ROOSEVELT iKocuments Show Suspicion Not on Jllin, but His Alliance Was. Sought Accuses Roosevelt of Inspiring Attack. WASHINGTON, May 17. Senator Bailey again todny took the floor In the Senate to make a further explanation of his con nection with the efforts to secure an un derstanding between the President and the Democratic Senators on the railroad rate bill, basing his statement on articles Jn the Chicago Tribune and the New York Tribune charging him with bad faith in that connection, and giving ex-Senator Chandler as authority for that statement. He caused to be read a series of letters and memoranda, beginning with a request from himself to the ex-Senator for a copy f any statement that he might have made that Justified thlB statement. This was followed by the reading of the following letter from Mr. Chandler to himself, dated May 16: Chandler Explains Note. I hava your letter of today and I enclose to you a copy of a memorandum sent by me to the White House on the morning of XVednnday. April 11. I think the memoran Hum was not dated, but my retained copy is iated April 11. 1 did not therein give the I'rA-Udsnt any assurance as to your attltuBe relative to the so-railed same, because I had rot sssn you and did not feel authorized by ensitllna Mr. Tillman had then aald to give any assurance in your name. At 3 P. M. I V. ... x- ... -v -m- ;0iv an '. he than e me that neither he nor jourself were entering Into games with the railroad Senators: and at :30 I saw the president and told him what Mr. Tillman bad said and that he need have no appre hension on tha subject. I enclose to you copies from my diary. April 13 I saw Mr. Moody, and again on the 14th. and arranged with him to se Mr. Tillman and yourself on the next day. Sunday, the 15th. Text of Note to I.oeb. Then followed the memorandum to Sec retary Loeb. and that was aoompanled by an extract from Mr. Chandler's diary. The memorandum was as follows: The game of the railroad Senators ia to support Bailey's amendment and Induoe him to aifree to a broad right of court review. "What that la to be W not certain, but the rrlnrlral object la to "beat him" (meaning Ihe President). Mr. Tillman, however, con siders himself a acting with the President t pass the review claims with the minimum amount of court power and will not enter Imo any such game. The diary extract read: April 11 at :IB P. M. saw Senator Till man at the Colonial about railroad rate legislation. At So at the White Houee aaw J'rcsMrnt Roosevelt alone upstairs. Talked or railroad rates and many other things for more than an hour. He was very sraclous. At ab..ut 10:S0 went to Colonial; with Till man until 11:46. Says Lie. Was Modified. Proceeding with his remarks. Bailey said that the New York Tribune of today had put the matter somewhat differently from yesterday's presentation. thus 'modifying the lie." lie quoted an ar ticle In which It was stated that copies ft Mr. Chandler's letter to the President had been in circulation among Democratic Senators. To this statement Bsiley gave special attention, saying that he had made Inquiry sufficient to assure him that not one of the Democratic Senators had ever seen the document, much less cir culated It. He continued: "I did not yesterday know that any Senator on the Republican side had seen it. but I am enabled to say now that on yesterday the President showed It to one of them and also to a member of the House, and, if this statement is denied, I can call names Good Faith Xot .Impugned. Me then declared that if Mr. Chandler had never spoken another word there was not a syllable in his memorandum concerning himself to Justify the state ment that he (Chandler) had Impugned his t Bailey's) good faith. "He does not tay that T was playing a game," he went on. "but that others were. T will tay that the game was played to catoh others, and very successfully." Further construing the memorandum, he called attention to the fact that the effort was to "beat the President." "With that." he added. "I ought to have sym pnthy. but at the time I did not." He then called attention to the fact that upon the President's authority. Mr. Chandler s veracity had been challenged in the Senate by Lodge, and asked: "In view of that fact, does It lie in the miuith of those people to assail me with a statement like thst from a man whom they have denounced as a false witness?" Continuing, he said: Would "ot Deal With Traitor. Tbe President did not consider this memor andum an Impeachment of my good faith. The proof of that is that, with the memoran dum before him. within three day he asked me to confer with his Attomy-cneral on this vital" question. It is Inconceivable that th President, with a suspicion of my Integ rity In his mind, would permit his Attomey Oeneral to transmit to me an amendment in tended to be Incorporated In this great meas ure. I have no words to express my opinion of those who would treat with those whom HIS ANGRY DEN A they suspect' of treachery, and only traitors would do it. . Bailey then read briefly from the reply of the Chicago Tribune's correspondent to his speech of denunciation made on yes terday and. continuing, said: Shaft Aimed at Roosevelt. My attack does not seem to hava disturbed the correspondent of that paper, because he says he waa overlooked In my attack on the President. Perhaps he regards it aa being overlooked to be called an unqualified, ma licious liar. He aaya he has not the Chand ler memorandum before him. but he attemota to quote from it. Now, where did. he see It? I did not show it to him. Ex-Setiator Chand ler did not show It to him. It 1 addrsased to Mr. Loeb, the Prealdent'e secretary. I will leave U to the country, and the Senate to say who furnished bim hia Information concerning It. The Texas Senator spoke of his own faults, admitting that he has at times justly been called arbitrary, dictatorial, intemperate in speech and rash, but be declared that he had never intentionally done a man an injustice, and that he had never done a wrong without making repa ration when the fault was called to hia notice. He said that no man ever before had imputed to him a lack of candor, no man had ever charged him with double dealing, and no man could do so now and escape his denunciation. Brands Accuser as I.lar. "Across the brow of such a man."' he said he would put "the brand of liar, so that all men may know htm and shun him." No one else spoke on the subject. Dur ing the entire speech, there was intense interest In the Senate and the galleries. HEF, PRESIDENT DECLARES HIS SUP PORT OF MEASURE. Tells Merchant Marine League It Needs Missionary Work to Get Through House. WASHINGTON. May 17. To about 25 of ficers and members of the Merchant Ma rine League of the United States, who called upon him today, the President ex pressed himself aa heartily in favor of the ship-subsidy bill now pending in the House. The measure has passed the Sen ate. The President told his visitors that he needed no argument to convert him to the belief In a policy of building up the mer chant marine of the country. He was confident, he said, that the legislation now before the House would go far toward beginning the proper building up of a mer chant marine, and it was with pleasure that he would give his aid to getting through legislation of that sort. While the President Indicated , to his callers that he personally was in sympa thy with their efforts to get the bill through Congress, he said it would be necpRry for them to do some missionary wbrk to Induce the House to pass it. STATE'S CAUSE VERY WEAK Terranova Girl Will Very Probably . Be Acquitted. NEW YORK, May 17. (Special.) With admittedly as weak a case as ever made by a ' Prosecuting Attorney in a noted murder case in this city, the prosecution in the trial of Josephine Terranova rest ed late this afternoon and the defense will begin Friday morning. It now seems likely that the case will get to the Jury by Monday night next at latest. It is the general belief about the Crim inal Court building that the girl will be acquitted of the murder of her aunt, the specific crime for which she Is now on trial, and that the District Attorney will not prosecute the charge of murder ing her uncle. Inasmuch as he considers the present case strongest. In fact, the rumor that the jury had already made up its mind as to the action it will take in the case became so persistent this af ternoon that Justice Scott, who is pre siding, felt called upon to warn the Jury that they must not discuss the case and that they must refrain from reading newspapers. Cuban Guards Killed in Feud. HAVANA, May 17.-Three members of the rural guard were today found shot to death at Las Mengas, In the Province of Pinar del Rio. Investiga tion disclosed the fact that they bad been killed in a quarrel with two other rural gunrdsmen, who, after the affray, fled to the woods with their horses and guns. Rural guards are in pursuit of the men. TO BEARD THE CI Address Ready to- Pre sent to Despot. NOT A VOTE CAST AGAINST IT Six Dissenting Members Leave Before Adoption. DEBATE ON ONE CHAMBER Strong Minority Favors Amendment. Ministers to Be Questioned About Incitement to Riot and Brutality to Prisoners. ST. PETERSBURG, May 18. 3:S0 A. M.) Sitting until long after midnight, the lower house of Parliament set its seal upon its first great work, the adoption of the address in reply to Emperor Nicholas' speech from the throne at the Winter Pal ace, setting forth the aims and aspirations of Russia's millions. Despite attacks both from the right and from the left, the lead ers of the Constitutional Democratic party held their followers together to the last, and the address was adopted substantially in the form in which it was proposed by the committee and as already telegraphed by the Associated Press. After the ad dress was adopted the House adjourned subject to the call of the President. Only Six Members Dissent. After the reading of the final draft. M. Petrajetsky took the rostrum and ap pealed for an unanimous vote. Count Hayden stated that he and his friends, although approving of the address Jn gen eral, were unable to vote for certain de tails, and would withdraw In order that no opposing voice might be heard. He then left the hall, followed by five mem bers. The address was thereupon unan imously adopted. . President Mouromtseff was anxious to request an immediate audience of the Em peror today, if possible. On his visit to the Emperor, President Mouromtseff will be accompanied by special members of the committee which drafted the address. Amnesty Demand Defined. The lower house's demand for amnesty, the kernel and most pressing point in Its address, was altered at the last moment by the committee itself, which, in re sponse to criticisms of lndeflnlteness in the expression,' "full political amnesty," substituted "amnesty for all crimes com mitted from religious or political motives, as well as agrarian offenses." The com mittee also accepted a new clause to meet the wishes of the discontented in tbe army and navy, asking the Emperor to revise the conditions of service on the basis of right and Justice. Most of the other amendments proposed in the closing hours of the debate fell by the wayside, only one out of 31 proposed alterations, of the agrarian paragraph, for example, being accepted. The discussion of this plan lasted four hours, practically every peasant in the house taking the ros trum to voice' the demands of his constit uents for "land and liberty." Poles Not Satisfied. The paragraph with regard to the rights of the various nationalities was adopted without change, though it was expected that the Poles would demand a fuller statement for autonomy. . The only inci dent toucning this paragraph was a sar castic fling at the consideration shown the national group, uttered by an old Rus THE LITTLE PARLIAMENT sian priest, who proposed to satisfy the discontent of the border nationality, even if the integrity and name of Russia perish in the process. The last feature of the debate was an attempt by Professor Kavalevsky to in troduce a declaration in favor of peace and pan-Slavism as the guiding principle of the empire: but an amendment, com mending Emperor Nicholas for his peace manifestos and pledging the government to cherish the aspirations of the Slavo nian principle outside the empire was re jected. Right Thinks Reply Offensive. The debate was resumed when Par liament met today. Count Heydeju a prominent member of the Ritrhe. took the first occasion today-' declare that the Right did not oppose In principle the substance of the reply to the speech from the throne, although it regarded some of the paragraphs as unfortunate and un necessarily offensive to the Emperor. Prince Peter Dolgoroukoff. vice-president of the Lower House, spoke warmly in favor of a one-chamber Legislature. At the same time he thought it entirely proper that the Council of the Empire, as an advisory body to the Emperor and without legislative functions, could be continued. Kiseleff, of Penza, also de clared himself In favor of a one-chamber Legislature. He said a two-chamber Legislature might be well enough in the United States and Great Britain, but that Russia proposed to give the Western world generally a lesson in true democ racy. Professor Maxim Kovalevsky, of Kharkoff, thought it of vital importance that the Council of the Empire should be shorn of power to participate with the lower house of Parliament in consid eration of the budget. Split on Single Chamber. The vote on Prince Dolgoroukoff's proposition to Incorporate a demand for a one-chamber Legislature in the reply to the Czar developed the first big split of the session, the amendment being rejected by only 253 to 153 votes. Rapid progress was then made on the other planks so far as the recom mendations regarding the agrarian question. The following additions suggested by Professor Maxim Kova levsky, of Kharkoff, were made: No new taxes shall be levied with out the consent of Parliament. Budget or taxation projects accept ed by Parliament shall not be altered by a non-representattve body. Parliament shall have control of all loans. ' In the paragraph providing for the abolition of class privileges, the House decided to demand equality of rights without distinction of sex, as well as of nationality or religion. The right to petition was inserted, and by a practically unanimous vote the Em peror was asked not only to abolish the depth penalty, bnt to suape-tiij Imme diately throughout the empire the ex ecution of all persons ' sentenced to death.. The debate ended sensationally with discussion of a motion by M. Stako vltch to insert in the address an ap peal to the people to stop political as sassination. M. Roditcheff and others opposed the motion, which was re jected. The House added to the paragraph of the address dealing with the Agrar ian question, a single amendment, in cluding the eccleastlcal domains In the list of properties subject to expropria tion. Professor Kovalevsky proposed an additional paragraph demanding lib erty for every national group and a guarantee of freedom for all races, particularly the Slav. This proposal was rejected. QUESTIONS FOR MINISTERS Why Have Not Inciters of Riot Been Punished. ST. PETERSBURG. May 18. (1:40 A. M.) Before the lower house took a recess. President Mouromtseff read from the chair two Interpellations adr dressed to the Minister of the Interior and signed by the requisite 30 Depu ties, which probably will form the first order of business today. The first interpellation refers to par ticipation by the police in the work of inciting one portion of the population Concluded on Page 4.) SCHOOLMASTER AND HIS DEMOCRATIC CLASS HASTEN TO REAP FRUITS OF FRAUD Denver Corporations Canvass Votes. MAYOR SIGNS THE FRANCHISES People Will Contest Election Just the Same. REEKS WITH ROTTENNESS Legal Proceedings Forestalled by Early Meeting of Election Com mission and Mayor's Ready Aid Evidence Piles Up. DENVER. Colo.. May 17. (Special.) The corporations which w;re granted fran chises on the face of fie returns !n Tues day's election have lost no time in reap ing the fruits of their dearly-bought vic tory. Before the promised contest could be inaugurated by the Municipal Owner ship and Honest Elections Leagues, will ing servants of the corporations took ac tion to bind the city to carry out the plans of their masters. An early morning can vass of the returns. Its completion before the District Court convened, the certifica tion of the result of the election to the Secretary of State, were the first steps. Then the Mayor signed the franchises, and tomorrow morning the city's official organ will print the ordinances granting the franchises, thus closing the coolly planned and quickly executed scheme to forestall a contest and bind the city hand and foot. Count in Their Franchises. Fearful of the institution of proceedings which would cause a District Judge to take steps to supervise the canvass of the returns, the corporations Induced the three members of the Elections Commis sion to meet this morning at 7:30, make a hasty canvass of the vote on the fran chises asked for by the Tramway Com pany, the Light Company and the North western Terminal Company, and certify the result to the Secretary of State. According to the figures thus compiled, the tramway franchise carried by 185 votes and the light franchise by 615 votes, and the terminal franchise by 3169 votes. No one opposed to the franchises was admitted to the room while the canvass was being made. A crowd of corporation workers assisted the commission in Its work, however. Contest Will Surely Follow. The indecent haste of the Elections Commission will have no material effect upon the contest proceedings, which will be surely Instituted. There was a re port at the City Hall today that the City Clerk would now destroy the fran chise ballots, thus wiping out every evi dence which is essential in court proceed ings. Fraudulent Votes in Thousands. The Tramway and light companies know they cannot afford to have Tues day's election thoroughly probed into. The evidence of the corporation's crooked work Is piling up In the offices of the Mu nicipal Ownership League and the League for Honest Elections. In a day's hearing in court, it Is said, enough fraud can be proved In any one Capitol Hill ward to overcome the tram way majority. Thousands of bogus tax receipts were voted on by the corpora tion's supporters. Many of the men who used these illegal receipts were repeat rs and not entitled to a vote on any prop osition. In some precincts the Judges permitted all who were believed to fa vor the franchises to vote. Despite all these Irregularities, the as sertion is made that the franchises were beaten when the count was concluded on Tuesday night. The officers of the Municipal Ownership League issued a statement tonight which closed as follows: "The election reeked with rottenness, and the result cannot be accepted. The corporations will not be permitted to steal 350.000.000 of special privileges, while there is a court to which an ap peal may be taken." Unite for Civil Service Reform. WASHINGTON, May 18. A permanent organization of the Civil Service Commis sions of the country was formed as a re sult of a meeting of the representatives of state and municipal civil service com missions with that of the general gov ernment, which came to a close yester day. Its object is the promotion of the civil service reforms turoughout the coun try by supplying information to National, state and municipal civil service commis sions. These officers were elected: President, Charles S. Fowler, New York City Com mission; first vice-president. Dr. J. C. Mason. New York: second vice-president. Henry Sherwin; secretary-treasurer, o.n T. Doyle, of the United States Civil Ser vice Commission. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTF,RDAT'& Maximum tPmjvntur. flO; mfnlmum temperature, 43. Precipitation, .oi inrh. TOTAT"3 Shovem. aoutherly winds. Rum La. Parliament adopts reply to Csar with only six objectors. Page 1. Democrats already split by Radical element. Page 1. Questions to ministers about riots and cruelty to prisoners. Page 1. Court of inquiry fir (is StoeRel wrong in surrendering Port Arthur and he may be disgraced. Page 1. National. Bailey quotes Chandler in defense of his rate policy and again assails Roosevelt. Page 1. Senate makes much progress with rate bill and railroad Senators denounce it. Page 4. House' passes differential for Pacific Coast shipbuilders. Page 4. Naturalization bill up In House. Page 4. Piles secures concessions to loggers In rate bill. Page 2. Senate committee's reasons for sea-level ca nal. Page President declares for ship subsidy. Page 1. Garfield produces documentary evidence against Standard Oil Company. Pag 4. Evidence ot rebating against Pennsylvania railroad. Page 3. Politics. Denver corporations rush canvass of votes on franchises, but election will be con tested. Page 1. Domestic. Presbyterian General Assembly electa mod erator. Page 5. Cumberland Presbyterians will go to law on church union. Page 5. Episcopal Church Congress opposes heresy trials. Page 5. Preacher accused of arson pleads Jekyll Hyde nature. Page 3. Carrying news of San Francisco disaster to Arctic whalers. Page 5. . - -' ' - ' Hpo.rt. Mlsa Sutton wins tennis matches. Tage T. Portland defeats Oakland by score of 8 to 4. Page T. Pacific Coast. Grand Jury indicts the "Cockney Kid" and three Rainier saloonmen. Page 6. Dr. Withycombe and party address attentive audiences in Union County. Page 6. Captain Anderson, of Aberdeen, drowned while fishing near mouth of Columbia. Page . Colfax wheat rate hearing ia postponed to later In June. Page 6. Activity on Northern Pacific Grangeville and Riparla branches. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Salmon market stimulated by losses at San Francisco. Page 15. "Wheat strong and higher at Chicago. Page 15. Stock market sagging. Page 15. Sensational decline in tin at London. Page 13. . Kittitas Valley woolgrowers strong. Page 15. Oregon lumber meets demand In all parts of the world. Page 14. Attempt will be made to float the steamer Geo. W. Elder today. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Outlook is bright for Republican success. Page 10. Portland will not be Ignored In future in the Government Bureau of Statistics. Page 11. Court decides in case involving thousands of acres of timber lands that partition is Impracticable and orders their sate. Page 14. Miss Gertrude "Woodruff chosen for Queen of the "Made in Oregon" Exposition. Page 10. San Francisco fire may lead to smuggling of Chinese into the country. Page 11. Councilmen would amend the route of Pence's proposed street railway. Page 16. Democratic campaign calumnies prove roor backs for party. Page 10. Pollca break up Democratic open-air meet ing, mistaking It for anarchists' gather ing. Page 10. T HERO" STOESSEL No Excuse For Giving Up Fortress. DISGRACE AND PRISON AWAIT Effort to Have Report Sup ' pressed by Emperor. KUR0PATKIN TO SAY "NO" Generals Fear to Make Russia Hldlc uIoub. but Disgraced Command er Demands Blunderer Shall Share Disgrace. ST. PETERSBURG, May 18. Spe cial.) Unless findings shall be smoth ered or the Czar interferes. General Stoeasel, defender of the fortress of Port Arthur and acclaimed hero ot the Russian side of the disastrous struggle with Japan, will be dismissed In dis grace from the army and confined for a long: term of years in a fortress as one who has betrayed his trust. The fact became known in army circles late last night, when Informa tion was received here that the Court of Inquiry which had been investigat ing: the surrender of Port Arthur had arrived at conclusions which are now in the War Office's hands, awaiting transmission to the Czar, and that they are in every respect unfavorable to General Stoessel. Condemnation Is Sweeping. An officer who is in a position to have received accurate information re garding the verdict states that it is one of the most sweeping ever found by a Russian court. General Stoessel's action in surrendering the fortress is declared to be Inexcusable In the ex treme, a at the time shu. showed the wliHe flag he had on hand all the am munition he needed for three months at least; there was an abundance of supplies and medicine, and his troops svere In no way discodraged. In fact, it is asserted, that the surrender was made over the protest of all the gen eral officers In the fort, all of whom later were Instrumental In having a Court of Inquiry probe into the facts surrounding the surrender. May Make Public Ridiculous. The question what Is to be done with the verdict of the court, however, is most momentous. If It be made pub lic and General Stoessel disgraced, the one bright spot of the war In the minds of the Russian people will be wiped out. When Stoessel returned from the scene of action he was met by a representative of the Russian government as soon as he landed on Russian soil and as soon as possible he was sent for by the Czar and per sonally thanked for his valor. There fore, to go back on all this Is to maka the Czar and. the leading army officers the laughing stock of all Russia. It will be another confession of weakness that is likely to bring the army more and more Into contempt. Because of this, there is a general belief that the findings of the court are to be suppressed. General Stoessel will receive a quiet hint to leave the country and the findings will be buried In the records of the War Office. Kuropalkln's Friends in Arms. ' However, there are some men In tha army who are using all their Influence to have the report published. They are close friends of General Kuropat kin, who claim that Stoessel's stupidity In the defense of Port Arthur, more than anything else, contributed to the early defeats of the Russians south of Liao Yang. As Kuropatkln was pub licly disgraced, they claim that so shall Stoessel be, no matter who is held up to ridicule thereby. LORDS REJECT LiABOR BILL Oppose Excluding Aliens Who Come to Replace Strikers. IjOXDOX. May 17. The House of Lord3 today, toy 96 to 24 votes, rejected the sec ond readtnar of the bill introduced in the House of Commons by James Keir Hardie, the Labor leader, the object of which is to prohibit the entrance into Great Brit ain of aliens to take the place of British workmen during trade disputes. Tho measure had previously passed the House of Commons without discussion. The arbitrary action of the House of Lords In throwing out the bill ii defply resented by the Labor members of Parlia ment, and was the absorbing topic of dis cussion in the lobbies tonight. Mr. Hardie blames the government for not taking charge of the bill, while the government contends that Its programme already 3 too heavy. COMPROMISE OX HOME RULE British Government Vi'HI Offer Ire land Iocal Government. LONDON, May 18. The Standard today says It Is understood the government in tends at the next (session of Parliament to Introduce an Irish local government Mil, which will be a compromise between the so-called revolution scheme and home rule. CLUIR CONDEMNS i