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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1906. GALL ON ROOT TO REBUKE LEOPOLD Congo Misrule Roundly Denounced. POWERS CAN ENFORCE REMEDY Seven Counts in Severe Indict ment for Tyranny. BLACKS IN EFFECT SLAVES Taxed and Made Prisoners, Mur dered and Robbed by Brutal Sen tries and Hostile Tribes Uncle Sam's Moral Power In-roked. NEW TORTC, Dm. 25. A letter elmed by J. Pierpont Morgan, Dr. Lyman Ab bott and other prominent citizens of New York, was addressed to Secretary of Statn Elihu Root today, dlrei-tlng his attention to conditions in the Congo Free State, where, It Is asserted, flagrant Inhumanity exists, and urging him on behalf of the American people to use the moral support of the United States Government to cor rect the abuses from which the Congo natives are alleged to be suffering. The communication Is as follows: "Over a year has passed since the re port of the commissioners chosen by the chief executive and virtual owner of the Congo to investigate conditions in that state was published. In splto of their natural desire to give all possible credit to their sovereign, the commissioners felt constrained to report the existence of measures and practices of flagrant inhu manity. Among these measures and prac tices are the following: Counts in the Indictment. "First The exaction of a labor tax so oppressive that many natives on whom it falls have little, if any, freedom. "Second Appropriation of land to such an extent that the natives are practically prisoners within their own territory. "Third The employment under author ity of the government as sentries of cruel, brutish blacks, chosen from hostile tribes, who murder, pillage and rape the people for whose protection the govern ment is aVowedly established. "Fourth The abuse of the natives by white representatives of officially recog nized companies. "Fifth The binding of little children to years of labor at uncertain wages by con tracts they do not understand, and even more serious maltreatment of children, supposedly under the Immediate care of the government. "Sixth Great Injustice in the adminis tration of the courts, so that the natives dread the name of Boma, the place where the Judicial system is centralized. "Seventh The sending out of punitive expeditions, not for the purpose of es tablishing peace and order, but for the purpose of terrifying the natives Into paying a tax which. 1 as administered, even the commissioners regard as in human. Cull Leopold to Account. "It is to be remembered that these are not charges brought against the Congo government, but findings of the commis sion which was appointed by the chief executive of the government to investi gate and report upon the facts. Acting upon these findings, a second commission, also appointed by the King, has recom mended measures of reform. No steps have been taken to adopt them. There Is ho evidence that the Congo government is undertaking seriously to remedy these evils. The powers which created the Congo government have clearly a right to call that government to account. Inasmuch as the United States gave its moral sup port to the establishment of the Congo government, it Is Justified in giving its moral support to any undertaking to se cure conditions in the Congo that will not disgrace civilization. "We wish to as . sure you that for any measure you may adopt In order to give the powers such moral support of the United States, you will have otlr earnest and urgent ap proval. " Signed by Influential Men. The letter Is signed by the Rev. Messrs. Lyman Abbott, Henry Mottet, Wilford L. Bobbins. George William Knox, Charles II. Tarkhurst. John P. Peters, William R. Richards. Anson P. Atterbury, Percy 8. Grant and Messrs. William Jay Schlcffe lln, W. H. Douglas. Charles A. Schieren, Spencer Trask, George Haven Putnam, Kverett P. Wheeler, Robert C. Ogden, J. Pierpont Morgan. D. Wills James, R. Fulton Cutting, J. Cleveland Cady and W. J. Havemyer. NEILL TO BE PEACEMAKER Labor Commissioner Will Intervene in Sunset Route Strike. HOUSTON. Tex.. Dec. 25. Pending the arrival of Commissioner of Labor C. B. Netll. who is on the way from Washing ton to this city at the request of Chair man Knapp. of the Interstate Com merce Commission, to offer his friendly offices in reaching a settlement between the Southern Pacific and its striking locomotive firemen and engineer members of the Firemen's Brotherhood, there have been no changes in the strike situation today. Mr. Neill is expected to reach here Thursday, when he will offer his services to the contending parties. v Vice-President Thornwell authorized the following statement to the Associat ed Press in connection with the strike: 'A large percentage of the firemen be longing to the Brotherhood discontinued work at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Since the strike occurred we have moved abso lutely every passenger train on our lines. A number of them were run In several sections and all practically made their schedule time. "Anticipating the possibility of adding to the congestion which is general on ail the lines In this section at tfils time, we save notice to connecting lines in this section that temporarily -we would dis continue receiving freight from them in carload lots, and also discontinued the receipt of livestock and perishable freight on our lines. We have, however, been moving a large percentage of our freight trains, giving preference to the movement of local freight so aa to minimize tha Inconvenience to local communities. The situation Is exceedingly favorable and hourly growing better. 1 he trouble was caused entirely by the feeling and controversy between the two organizations running locomotives. and no question of wages, hours or any other grievance is the issue." Imported Men Replace Strikers. " SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. 25. Many of the men who took the places of the strik ing firemen on the San Antonio division of the Southern Pacific Railway have been Induced by the strikers to stop work, and their places are being filled with im ported men. It is understood here to night that the Brotherhood of Firemen is contemplating calling out all union fire men on the Harriman lines. The local Southern Pacific officials say they are moving all the trains, passenger and freight, they desire on this division. JAPANESE RUSH TO HAWAII Sargent Will Report and President Send Facts to Congress.. CHICAGO. Dec, 25. A dispatch to tha Tribune from Washington says: There is to be a new and independent re port on the Japanese immigration ques tion, and when it is completed the Presi dent will transmit it to Congress with an- EEV. CHARLES H. PARKHCRST, CONGO other message, making tha third on this subject. Frank Sargent, the Commissioner-General of Immigration, was at the White House yesterday and gave President Roosevelt a summary of his investigation of the Japanese tide of Immigration Into California and Hawaii. As he has but Just arrived here and not even begun preparation for.his official report, the Commissioner-General was unwilling to give an outline of his conclusions. His report will have great bearing upon the settlement of the Japanese difficulty on the Pacific Coast, however, because all of this Oriental Immigration now comes from Hawaii, and if the flow from Japan to Honolulu can be stopped the fear of Caliornians of an Inundation of Japanese will disappear, violation of law and order will cease, and normal labor conditions on the Pacific slope will be restored. AIDS TO GET FOREIGN TRADE Government Will Furnish Samples of Goods Sold. WASHINGTON. Dec. 25. American manufacturers who are desirous of cap turing some of the trade in the Orient, South America and other countries now enjoyed by foreign manufacturers, say the representatives of the Bureau of Man ufacturers of the Department of Com merce and Labor should apply to that Bureau for its varied line of samples of goods which find ready market in those countries. These samples consist of cotton yarns, piece goods, belts, braids, handkerchiefs, gloves, laces, towels, etc., which are manufactured In foreign coun tries and sold in China, Japan, India, Aus tralia. Turkey. Egypt. South Africa and South America. Any or all of these sam ples, the report states, will be sent upon application by manufacturers, chambers of commerce and other commercial or ganizations. Roosevelts Going to Pine Knot. WASHINGTON. Dec. 25. President and Mrs. Roosevelt and the Roosevelt children will leave for -Pine Knot. Mrs. Roosevelt's country home In Virginia, early Thursday morning. They will re main until December 31. NEGRO CREMATES HIMSELF Drives Out Wife and Children and Burns House Over Head. FORT FORNEY, Tex., Dec. 25. Last night Jake Malone, a negro living on the farm of J. L. Groves, about three miles south of town, went home drunk and took a razor and ran his wife and children off the place. He then went in the house, locked the door and set fire to the building. When the fire was discovered and the neighbors ar rived it was too late to rescue him, and he was burned to death. Found Murdered on Street. MOBILE. Ala., Dec. 25. John McKen lie, a master plumber of this city, was found murdered in a principal street here early today. McKenzle's throat was cut from ear to ear, the head being almost severed from the body. An old knife with blood on it was found on a sidewalk near the body. . Two Young Skaters Drowned. GRAYVII.LE, 111., Dec. 25. Carson Sta ley and Karl Melrose, aged 7 and 15 years respectively, were drowned in a pond near here this afternoon. Both boys were skating cm the pond when they broke through the ice. UN STANDS BY SITE RIGHTS Government Has No Powers Not . Delegated by the Constitution. HAS ALL POWERS NEEDED Supreme Judge on Golden Wedding Anniversary Declares Against Root's Doctrine of Enlarg ing Federal .Authority. WASHINGTON, Dec 25. (Special.) Justice Harlan has signalized his golden wedding anniversary by an emphatic dec laration on the question of an Increase in Federal over State power. This issue was recently brought to the fore by the re markable New York speech of Secretary WHO PROPOSKS INTERVENTION IN STATE. Root, who is regarded as the President's spokesman. The venerable Jurist, when asked whether, after serving as a soldier and a Judge, he was prepared to say that an Increase of Federal power is to be de sired, said: "I served in the Civil War as colonel, and have been on the bench 29 years the 10th day of this month. I can say now what I have said in many Judicial decis ions, and such has been the uniform doc trine of our court, that the Federal Gov ernment has no powers except those delegated to it by express grant or by necessary implication from express grants. "I think the Federal Government has all the powers it needs for the pur pose of accomplishing the objects for which the Government was established, and that any tendency to enlarge its powers by loose construction of the words of the Constitution ought to be restricted. "I think the preservation of the States, with all their Just powers, is essential to the preservation of our liberties." KILLED By HIS PLAYMATE BAKER CITY BOY FATALLY SHOT WHILE HUNTING. Harry Bell Is Unable to Attract At tention for Hours After He Had Killed Myrou Eardley. BAKER CITY. Or., Dec. 25. Myron Eardley, the 13-year-old son of J. W. Eardley, an employe of the Oregon Lumber Company, was shot and killed this afternoon while hunting, about six miles south of town by the accidental discharge of a 44 caliber rifle In the hands of his playmate, Harry Bell, who is nearly crazed by the affair, and who for Peptiron Pills Ironize the blood, fed the nerves and brain, ton me stomach, am digestion, and give eweet, restful, natural sleep. 60c. or fl. IruggiBtsorby mallof ug Hood's Pills The best laxatf-re rath art to After-dinner pill, Tmrely vegetable easy to take, easy to operate. 5c. Druggists or mail. C. I. Hood Co.. LoweLL If MjuJc Hood It a Good. Am !ARRGW Ctapeco Shrunk Quarter Size Collar io cenrs cacn, s tor w cw Makeri of cinett and Monarch Bhirta Cwoys Remember tb axative Rromo 'ays Remember tha Full Jimt umme Cores a CoM in One Day, in 3 Days m 9 m 1 1 Crip on every box. 2ia hours was left alone with the corpse by careless ' passersby. The Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of accidental shooting. NOT. LIKE TWENTY-FIFTH Troopers of the Ninth Readily Tell About Escapade. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Dec. 28. A full Investigation into the reported riot on a Fort Leavenworth-bound car Christ mas eve is being conducted by Captain Walsh, commanding the squadron of the Ninth Cavalry (colored). Captain Walsh said tonight: " "Three men are under arrest. I am told there were no shots fired in the car by the soldiers. The conductor claimed such, but an old sergeant of the Eighteenth Infantry says they were bricks breaking the windows. There was an argument over the payment of fare between a trooper and the conductor, which led to the trouble. "There is no desire on the part of either the white or colored soldiers who were on the car to shield their comrades; they are makipg statements voluntarily of what they know." ORDERED TO LEAVE CHURCH French Priest Furnishes First In stance of Closing Building. IPARI3. Dec. 25. The first instance of the closing of a church under the separa tion law has occurred at Azay sur Indre, where the Mayor, in writing, ordered the cure to leave both the presbytery. and the church edifice, which, he declared, the communal authorities would take over in pursuance of the law. The cure conse quently quitted the edifice, which was closed. French Transport for Morocco. TOULON, Dec. 25. The naval authori ties have received urgent orders to pre pare the transport Lanlve to proceed to Morocco. WILL ENJOIN NEW STOCK i- - Minnesota Insists Consent Is Neces sary for Stock Increase. MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 25. E. T. Young, Attorney-general of Minnesota, will file tomorrow his papers in an injunction suit on the part of the state seeking to pre vent the additional issue of $60,000,000 in stock by the Great Northern Railway. The Great Northern Is a Minnesota cor poration, and under the state law Is re quired to secure the consent of the State Railway and Warehouse Commission be fore issuing new stock or other securities. This has been done, though stockholders have been notified by official circular that they may buy the new stock at par. CHANGES OLD FOR . NEW Former Mrs. Blaine Engaged to Rough Rider Officer. WASHINGTON. Dec. 25. Mrs. Jamea G. Blaine, Jr., formerly Miss Martha HIchborn, who secured a divorce in South Dakota several days ago. an nounced tonight that she would soon be married to Paul S. Pearsall of New York, a lieutenant in the regiment of Rough Risers during the war with Spain. WOMAN HAS GREAT NERVE Continued From First Page.) of the policeman she made her way, passing other houses. Roberts was awak ened by her and ' opened the door as she sank at his feet. "With the aid of his wife the policeman revived the wounded woman and she told him of her experience. He went to the O'Rourke home, where he found the body on the floor. Mrs. O'Rourke was removed to the home of a friend, where a surgeon ex amined her wounds. The surgeon said that unless complications set in she would recover. The greatest fear Is that the awful Btrain .she endured while her husband sat by to see if she was dead and while she waited for him to give a sign or life will have a deterrent effect. Actor Ends Life With Gas. NEW YORK, Dec. 25. Neil Florence an actor, 46 years old, was found dead in his room at a boarding house in West Twenty-third street today. The apartment was filled with Illuminating gas, which was escaping from two open jets. MAIL ORDERS This Department will make right whatever is wrong. Send for any article in this advert'nt SI THREE TEMPTING SPECIALS OBTAINABLE ON WEDNESDAY ONLY AFTER -CHRISTMAS SPECIAL Women's Tailor'd Suits Wednesday you may obtain a saving in Women's Tailored Suits that should mean a great deal to you. Our stock of Suits of all the broken lines that have been selling all this season from $17.50 up to $25.00 will be quickly sold at the low figure mentioned. There are many styles, but not many Suits of any one style. All are of this season's newest designs. Long, medium and short Coats all the late skirt 'effects; all sizes, colors and materials. Special at $12.75 Good Merchandise Today Starts Sale of Holiday Goods Beginning this morning, Lipman, Wolfe & Co. offer the most extraor dinary bargains in all Holiday Goods, including Leather Goods, Jewelry, Pictures, Calendars, Toilet Articles, Art Needlework, Pyrography, etc. An unequaled opportunity to furnish the home with useful articles of high quality At Extraordinary Low Prices! No prices are advertised because ALL HOLIDAY GOODS ARE REDUCED special large discounts will be given from the regular marked prices. Do not fail to attend the sale Today, for the choicest articles will go at these tremendous bargain prices. First Display of New 400 VICTOR TALKING MACHINES, $10 to $100 350 Mew, Stylish Corsets Actual $1.75 Values 98c As an extraordinary Wednesday inducement, we offer 350 new, perfect and stylish corsets, selling every day at $1.75, in three distinct styles; all made of fine white French coutil, with wide lace, beading and ribbon around top and double row in front with ribbon bow; front and side hose supporters. First style medium bust, princess hip, sizes 18 to 30; second style high bust, short hip, sizes 18 to 24; third style low bust and short hip, sizes 18 to 22. Regular $1.75 values and an extra- t5as, ordinary special Wednesday bargain at...."- See Third Street Window Display LVERFIELD'S IS THE FASHION CENTER $12.75 Only Quality Considered Our Prices Our Great After-Christmas Spring 1907 LINGERIE Extraordinary Wednesday Fine Taffeta Petticoats Reg. $8.75 Values $4.98 400 Petticoats of the best and heaviest quality Taffeta silk. Splendidly made, with section flounce, shirred and tucked. Come in Black, Navy, Red, Brown, Gunmetal, Changeable Green, Changeable Red, Changeable Blue, and Changeable Green and Red. While they are regularly sold at $8.75, they're really $10 values. Magnificent bargains at the Special Price See Third Street A SUGGESTIVE FU R ANNOUNCEMENT Now, since the rush in our factory is more or less weakening, the manager of this department says he will be able to handle all the remodeling obtainable, and GREATLY REDUCE THE PRICES, so as to give you all a chance to have your old garments made over to LOOK LIKE NEW. He GUARATEES ALL WORK turned out by his large force of skilled fur-makers, and will be glad to demonstrate the possibilities of said department. Are Always the Lowest WAISTS Popular Prices Sale $4.98 .. Window Display ON EASY PAYMENTS ENTIRE CORNER OF FOURTH AND MORRISON STREETS SPECIAL! Brook Mink Ascot Ties $4 Handsome Muffs to Match $5 These articles were especially selected because of their popularity, and, judging from the amount we have sold this season, there shouldn't be one left when the store closes.. They formerly sold for: Ties, $6.00; Muffs, $7.00; special for Wednesday only Ties $4.00; Muffs to match, $5.00.