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4 TH5 MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, APRIL B, DEFENSE OPENS E String of Witnesses Contradict Evidence Offered by Prosecution. SON AND SON-IN-LAW SPEAK Say Meldrum Visited Hermann Un invited Gatley Says Rowland Declared Evidence He After wards Gave Was False. ORBGONJAN" NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, April L Numerous witnesses for the defense were placed on the stand to day to Impeach the testimony brought out by the prosecution during the past seven weeks of the Hermann trial. Their statements, while contradicting consider able testimony offered hy Government witnesses, had no direct bearing on the principal points at issue, though their denials had the effect of weakening the prosecution to a slight extent. Henry Meldrum. during his examina tion, testified that he called to see Her mann at the request of H. P. Gatley, son-in-law and associate counsel of the defendant. Four witnesses, including Hermann's wife, son and son-in-law. tes tified that Meldrum's- visit was voluntary and not suggested by the defendant or his representatives. Contradict Meldrum and Howland. Mrs. Kate Silvrrstein, of Portland, con tradicted Meldrum's statement that she had been offered 200 for the use of her name in making dummy entries, and later Mr. Gatley and Orville Dodge testified that J. W. Rowland, chief clerk of the Surveyor-General's office, had declared prior to going on the stand that the "de fense had tried to make hlni swear to a d d He, but that he would stay here till h 1 froze over before he would do It." Rowland, on the stand, denied hav ing made such a statement. Before the defense, began the examina tion of witnesses today. Irvln Ritten house was recalled to identify the tele gram from C. W. Fulton to Hermann sent October 1, 1839. prior to the former's election as Senator, and alluded to while he was on the stand, in which he said: Fulton's Telegram Identified. Prosecution Instituted herf against W. B. Burke and others, soma personal friends, charging conspiracy to defraud the Govern ment by flllnc on timber lands. Defendants willing to relinquish and Prosecuting At torney willing in that event dismiss, if you mo advise. Won't you request dismissal? Answer. (Signed.) C. W. FULTON. The records of the Land Office failed to disclose a copy of Hermann's reply, the presumption being that It was copied In his "personal" letter books. Mrs. Maud Silverstein, of Portland, Or., was the first witness called for the de fense. Her testimony was calculated to show errors In the statements made for the Government by Henry Meldrum, ex-Surveyor-Gcneral of Oregon, to the ef fect that Mrs. Silverstein was offered 1200 for the use of her name In connec tion with land entries. The witness said she had never received such an offer and had seen Meldrum but once, and that was to ask for a position in his office, to wfilth she had been recommended by Blnger Hermann. She did not get the position. Meldrum's Visit to Hermann. 8. D. Hermann, son of the defendant, denied the statements of Meldrum that ynung Hermann and Mr. Gatley had in vited Meldrum to call on Blnger Hermann and Mr. Gatley. He testified that he gave Mr. Gatley Meldrum's address and office telephone number. Officer Brcnnan. of the local police force, told of directing Meldrum to Uatley's res idence late one Saturday night. Meldrum had a wrong addreBs, which he said was given him by the clerk of the hotel. Mrs. Cora Hermann, wife of the defend ant, testified to letting Meldrum Into U Gatley residence that same night and overhearing a conversation between de fendant and Mr. Meldrum. Mrs. Hermann contradicted Mr. Rlttenhouse. who testi fied regarding a conference she had in a Portland restaurant with the defendant. Mr. Rlttenhouse said that he and Chris Muller were dining together. Mrs. Her mann said that a Mr. Huff also was pres ent at the table with Mr. Rlttenhouse and Mr. Muller. Mrs. Hermann was corroborated on the last point by Mr. Muller. Gatley Answers Meldrum. H. P. Gatley gave testimony Intended to discredit Meldrum and Rowland as witnesses. This testimony reluted to statements made during their stay her since Ute trial began. Meldrum, the wit ness said, told the deftsdant and himself during this visit of Meldrum to the Gatley residence referred to, that he- knew noth ing against the defendant, believed he was an honest man, was always on top uid would come out of this trial on top. As to Mr. Rowland, Mr. Gatley told of a conference between Mr. Rowland, Mr. Worthlngton, Hermann's chief counsel, and himself. In which Mr. Rowland said that the United States Attorney wanted him to testify that he saw Hermann and Mays together In the Oregon Surveyor General's office at tho time, when Mays ordered a map made of the Blue Moun tains section, that "this was a d lie and ho would see tnem in h before he would o testily. Rowland, however, did so tes tify last week. Try to Impeach Robertson. Several witnesses testilied that the late Nathanh'l McKay was in feeble health during the Spring of 1902. This evidence was Introduced to Impeach the testimony of Harry C. Robertson, then secretary to Senator Mitchell, who said that Mr. Mc Kay went out for Mitchell and obtained a package of (20 bills as change. Orville Dodge, of Oregon, who was an appointee of Hermann in the Land Office. nd remained there during Hermann's administration, testified that Hermann regularly bought postage stamps of him. He could not say how many, but he be lieved the amount averaged at least 1 a month. RAILROAD POLICY DEFINED (Continued From First Page.) severe, would not be lasting. Some thing can be done by legislation to help the general prosperity; but no such help of a permanently beneficial character can be given to the less able and less fortu nate, save as the results of a policy which shall inure to the advantage of all Industrious and efficient people who ct decently. Power of Circnt Wealth. "XeU while not merely admitting, but insisting upon this, it is also true that where there ts no governmental restraint or supervision, some of the exceptional men use thrlr energies not In ways that HERMANN CS are for the common good, but In ways which tell against this common good. The fortunes amassed through corporate organization are now so large and vest such power in those that wield them as to make it a matter of necessity to give to the sovereign that is to the Govern ment, which represents the people as a whole some effective power of super vision over their corporate use. In order to insure a healthy social and industrial life, every big corporation should be held responsible by, and be accountable to, some sovereign strong enough to control its conduct. I am in no sense hostile to corporations. This is an age of combina tions and any effort to prevent all com binations will be not only useless but in the end vicious because of the contempt for law which the failure to enforce law inevitably produces. State Supervision Ineffective. "Experience has shown conclusively that it is useless to try to get any adequate regulation and supervision of these great corporations by state action. Such regu lation and supervision can only be effec tively exercised by a sovereign whose ju risdiction is co-extensive with the field of work of the corporation that is. by the National Government. I believe this regu lation and supervision can be obtained by the enactment of law by the Congress. Our steady aim should be by legislation, cautiously and carefully undertaken, but resolutely persevered In. to assert the sov ereignty of the National Government by affirmative action. "What is needed is not sweeping pro hibition of every arrangement, good or bad, which may tend to restrict compe tition, but such adequate supervision and regulation as will prevent any restriction of competition from being to the detri ment of the public, as well as such super vision and regulation as will prevent oth er abuses in no way connected with re striction of competition. examine Railroad Accounts. "The best possible regulation of rates would, of course, be that regulation se cured by an honest agreement between the railroads themselves to carry out the law. Such a general agreement would, for instance, at once put a stop to the efforts of any one big shipper or big rail road to discriminate against or secure ad vantage over some rival; and such agree ment would make the railroads themselves agents for enforcing the law. The power vested in the Government to put a stop to agreements to the detriment of tho public should, in my judgment, be accom panied with power to permit, under spe cified conditions and careful supervision, agreements clearly in the interest of the public. "A system of examination of railroad accounts should be provided similar to that now conducted Into the National banks by the Bank Examiners; a few tirst-class railroad accountants, if they had proper direction and proper authority to inspect books and papers, could accom plish much in preventing wilful violations of the law. Let me most earnestly say that these recommendations are not made In any spirit of hostility to the railroads. I be lieve that on the whole our railroads have done well, and not ill, but the railroad men who wish to d: well should not be exposed to competition with those who have no such desire, and the only way to secure this end Is to give to some Gov ernment tribunal the power to see that Justice Is done by the unwilling, exactly as it Is gladly done by the willing. "The opponents of Government regula tion dwell on the difficulties to be en countered and the intricate and involved nature of the problem. Their contention is true. It is a complicated and delicate problem, and all kinds of difficulties are sure to arise In connection with.any plan of solution, which plan will bring all benefits hoped for by its more optimistic adherents." Earnings Grow Under Rate Law. In his message to Congress at the be ginning of the second session of the 59th Congress, December 2, 1906, the President said: "The interstate commerce law has rath er amusingly falsified the predictions both of those who asserted that it would ruin the railroads and of those who as serted that it did not go far enough and would accomplish nothing. During the last five months the railroads have shown increased earnings and some of them un usual dividends; while during the same period the mere taking effect of the law has produced an unprecedented hitherto unheard of number of voluntary reduc tions in freight rates and fares by the railroads. It must not be supposed, how ever, that with the passage of these laws it will be possible to stop progress by in creasing the power of the National Gov ernment over the use of capital in in terstate commerce. For example, there will ultimately be need of enlarging the powers of the Interstate Commerce Com mission along several different lines, so as to give larger control over the rail roads. "It cannot too often be repeated that experience has conclusively shown the impossibility of securing by the ac tions of nearly half a hundred different states' Legislatures anything but Ineffec tive chaos in the way of dealing with the great corporations, which do not operate exclusively within the limits of any one state. In some method, whether by Na tional license law or in other fashion, we must exercise, and at an early date, a far more complete control than at present over these great corporations a control that will, among other things prevent the evils of excessive overcapitalization, and that will compel the disclosure by each big corporation of its stockholders and of its properties and business, whether owned directly or through subsidiary or affiliated corporations. This will tend to put a stop to the securing of inordinate profits by favored individuals at the ex pense, whether of the general public or the stockholders, or the wage-workers. Good and Bad Combinations. "The actual working of our laws has shown that tho effort to prohibit all combinationsf good or bad, is noxious where It Is not ineffective. Combina tion of capital, like combination of la bor, Is a necessary element of our pres ent Industrial system. It Is not possible completely to prevent it. and if It were possible such complete prevention would do damage to tho body politic What we need is not vainly to try to prevent com binations, but to secure vigorous and ad equate control and supervision of the combinations so as to prevent their in juring the public, or existing in such form as inevitably to threaten injury for the mere fact that a combination has se cured practically complete control of a necessity of life would under any cir cumstances show that such combina tions was to be presumed to be adverse to the public interest. It Is unfortunate that our present laws should forbid all combinations. Instead of sharply discrim inating between those combinations which do good and the combinations which do evil. Rebates, for instance, are as often due to the pressure of big shippers (as was shown in the case of the Standard Oil Company, and which has been shown Blnce by the Investigation of the tobacco and sugar trusts) as to initiative of the big railroads. Often railroads would like to combine for the purpose of preventing a big shipper from maintaining improper advantages at the expense of small ship pers and of the general public. Such a combination, instead of being forbidden by law, should be favored. In other words, it should be permitted to rail roads to make agreements, provided those agreements were sanctioned by the In terstate Commerce Commission and were published. With these conditions com plied with. It Is Impossible to see what harm such a combination could do to the public at large." Melba Is Olf for Europe. NEW YORK, April 1. Mme. Melba sails for Europe on the Kaiser Wllhelm der Gross tomorrow; ST. JOHNS ELECTS K.G. COUGH MAYOR A. M. Esson Defeats W. Thorndyke for Position of Recorder. TOTAL VOTE CAST IS 625 In Most Hotly-Contested Election Ever Held In That City Repub licans Are Generally Success ful, Only 3 Being Defeated. In the most spirited election ever held In St. Johns, K. C. Couch was yesterday elected Mayor, and A. M. Esson, Re corder. It was around "these two offices that greatest interest centered. Mr. Couch received 345 votes, and S. C. Nor ton, his chief opponent, 220. For Recorder Mr. Esson received 333 votes, while 273 ballots were cast for W. L. Thorndyke. The new officials and their exact vote follows: Mayor, K. C. Couch, 345; Recorder, A. M. Esson, 333; Treasurer, G. M. Hall, 313; Oouncllmen-at-large W. H. King, 298; B. T. Liggett, 267; Charles Lindquist, 273; First ward A. R. Jobes, 152; S. L. Dobie. 196; Second ward V. W. Raser, 113; L. E. Walksr, 128. G. M. Hall,- A. M. Esson and S. L. Dobie, of the People's Ticket, were elect ed, but the rest of the Republican ticket was successful. Recorder Thorndyke, Re publican, was defeated for re-election in the hardest fight of the campaign. Mr. Thomdyke's campaign, however, is re garded generally as satisfactory. A. M. Esson, the newly elected Recorder, is a young man of excellent character and. it Is thought, will make a creditable officer. At the election yesterday a total of 625 votes were cast, nearly 200 more than last year. In spite of the sharp rlvalry good order was maintained throughout the day. Following 1b the vote by wards: First Ward Mayor K. C. Couch. 181; O. R. Downs. 24; S. C. Norton. 152. Re corder W. L. Thorndyke, 149: A. M. Esson. 215. Treasurer A. F. Kaemlein, 160: G. M. Hall. 200. Councilmen-at-large W. H. King. 160; B. T. T,eggett, 146; Charles Lindqulst, 156: c J- Anderson, 51: H. S. Hewitt. 130; W. D. Weeks, 168; W. W. Windle. 15. First .Ward A. R. Jobes. 152: H. C. Hunter, 130; J. H. Black. 89; S. L. Dobie, 196; C. S. Thompson, 119; L. Richard, 25. Second Ward Mayor K. C. Couch, 164; O. R. Downs. 17; S. C. Norton, 68. Re corder W. L. Thorndyke, 124; A. M. Esson. 118. Treasurer Adam F. Kaem lein. 128; George M. Hall, 113. Councilmen-at-large H. King, 128; B. T. Leggett, 121; Charles Lindqulst, 117; C. J. Anderson, 24: H. S. Hewitt. 72; W. D. Weeks. 69; W. W. Windle. 90. Councilman First Ward W. W. Raser, 113; L. E. Walker, 128; E. C. Hurlburt, 47; D. C. Rogers, 67; J. a Dowey. 107; L. Richard, 32. K. C. Couch, elected .Mayor, said after it appeared that his election was certain: "I have conducted a clean campaign and entertain for my opponents the high est respect. They all treated me well. It is my intention to handle the affairs of the city in a business-like way. The ordinances of the city government shall be enforced and order maintained. As far as the City Hall is concerned. It shall be my .purpose to at once enter on an investigation and I shall endeavor to see that the interests of the city are safeguarded In every respect. "We have a growing city. There have been some dissensions, but I trust that we shall overcome them and all pull to gether for the good of the town. I did not seek the office. It is a case where the office sought the man, however un worthy the man may be. Let us work together and be harmonious." S. C. Norton. People's, for Mayor, said: "I congratulate Mr. Couch on his elec tion. He is in every way capable of giv ing us a good and clean administration. He has conducted a clean campaign. I shall retire from official life, but shall retain a lively interest in public affairs." LOOKS BAD FOR SWEATBOX CONFESSIONS IN LESLIE MUR DER CASE REPUDIATED. Leopold Says His Was Extorted by Brutality Nicholas Says Leo pold Was Not With Him. CHICAGO, April 1. Leonard Leopold, one of the defendants in the Margaret Leslie murder trial, declared on the stand today that he had never known Margaret Leslie and had never seen her. He said that he had been kept in the office of Chief of Police Collins from 8 o'clock on the morning of Saturday until 6 o'clock on-the afternoon of Sunday, and that during that time he was repeatedly kicked and throttled by the police be cause he would not admit that he mur dered the actress. He said he had been denied food and water, but was told by the police that he could have what he wanted If. he would make a confession. Howard Nicholas, the other defendant, testified that a theatrical man named Harry Clayton, not Leopold, was with him the night Margaret Leslie was killed. This is the first time Clayton's name has been mentioned In connection with the murder, and Is a direct repudiation of the confession said to have been se cured from Nicholas by the police. Harry A. Kane, a clerk in the Palace Hotel when the actress was murdered, testified that Leopold was not seen at the hotel on the night of the murder and that It would have been Impossible for him to get to Clayton's rooms without be ing noticed. DEBATE ON LAND PROBLEM Russian Parties Can't Agree and No Result Is Expected. ST. PETERSBURG, April 1, The dis cussion of the agrarian problem, to which the first Russian Parliament almost en tirely devoted its legislative activity, be gan in the lower House today. More than 100 speakers Immediately signified their Intention of participating in the de bate, to which, according to the plans of the Parliamentary leaders, only one day per week will be devoted. The ques tion is considered to be of far less im portance now than It wa last year. Neither the Constitutional Democrats nor the Socialists have much hope of arriving at practical results during the life of the present Parliament. They are con vinced that any measure Involving the compulsory expropriation of land, which la the basic principle of all the Liberal solutions, will Immediately be vetoed by the Emperor and be regarded by the Cabl- J net as a Justification for the dissolution of Parliament. The House, however, was forced to be gin the discussion of the agrarian prob lem as a concession to the peasant con stituents of many of the members. Each political party has put forward three or four spokesmen to explain the features of the programme, but the great mass of the speakers are peasants, whose re marks will contribute but little to a solu tion of the question. The real work will be done by the committee to which the various projects will be referred. The project of the Constitutional Democrats is practically Identical with last year's draft. It involves the compulsory expropriation of all estates above established maxi mums to be determined in each province by committees created for this purpose. The bill contemplates individual owner ship, whereas the project of the Group of Toil, which was also re-introduced today, proposes the nationalization of all the land In the Empire. The National Social ists introduced a bill repealing all Pre mier Stolypln's temporary agrarian legis lation, but this will probably be allowed to die a natural death in committee. The first speaker today was Prince Svlatopolk-Mirsky, a landowner of Bes sarabia and a relative of the ex -Minister of the interior, who made a long speech in defense of Individual property, quoting liberally from American and English au thorities upon the subject. Mourning for Murdered Editor. MOSCOW. April 1. The funeral of Dr. Jollos. editor of the Russkl Viedomostl. who was assassinated here March 27, was held tqday. Several members of the lower house of parliament, many students and the general public followed the body to the grave. A number of wreaths from various newspapers and scholastic bodies were laid on the coffin. Several speeches were made at the cemetery. E TWO RACES TWO STRONG MOVEMENTS ARE STARTED IN THE SOUTH. Five Wealthy Men Stake Fortunes and Lawyers Will Work on Reform of Laws. ATLANTA, Ga., April 1. Two great movements looking toward the solu tion of the race problem in tho South, especially In Georgia, have been launched and have gained the support of some of the most prominent men in the country, according to a state ment made by a conference of the Atlantic Evangelical Ministers' Assocl tion today. One movement is being headed by Dr. John E. White, pastor of the First Baptist Church, who re ported to the conference that it Is gaining great headway. He said: Five of the wealthiest men in the South have put all they have back of thla move ment. We contemplate the organization of all the moral forces of the South in one great body and the appointment of a com mission, composed of the best and- most learned men of the South, to handle the problem and deal with tho situation affect ing the relationship of the races. The other movement is being fostered by ex-Governor W. J. Northen of Georgia, who has been urging in speeches all over the state the estab lishment of better relations between the races. The plan contemplates the selection of a state commission com posed of lawyers, whose duty it shall be to have the laws of the state so revised as to do away with the pres ent objections to the legal manner of trying and punishing persons charged with criminal assault and to provide for the punishment Of the leaders and members of mobs. HE HOLDS NEGROES INNOCENT Captain Macklln Does Not eBUeve They Fired on Brownsville. WASHINGTON, April 1. Captain Edgar A. Macklln, of Company C. Twenty-fifth Infantry, testified today In the Senate Brownsville Investigation. He said today that after he had examined the garrison to ascertain the effects of the shooting and, finding no damage there, he went outside the gate, and at the mouth of an alley not far from the garrison wall he found six cartridge clips and seven cart ridge shells of the type used for the Springfield rifle. These shells were found In a circular space about 10 inches In diameter, which he declared to bo an im possible position unless they had been placed there by someone. Captain Macklln said he had done every thing possible to discover who did the shooting, including the careful questioning of the men of his command. Senator For aker asked the witness to give his opin ion as to who did the shooting and he said: "Well, I don't think the men did it." He described the attitude of his men toward the investigation and said he had read every line of testimony that had been taken in the various inquiries and that he is convinced that the firing was not done by the men of the Twenty-fifth Infantry. At the afternoon session Captain Mack lln was cross-examined, principally as to his whereabouts when the shooting oc curred and the evidence given by former negro soldiers that they had been unable to find the Captain In bis quarters when Major Penrose sent them to arouse him. Captain Macklln said that he did not be lieve the soldiers had come to his quar ters. The shells which Captain Macklln plpked up outside the garrison wall were put In his desk, he said, and were forgotten un til after the battalion left Fort Brown. Search for them later had been unavail ing. Chairman Warren questioned Captain Macklln concerning the attack upon him at Fort Reno after the Brownsville af fray, when the Captain was shot through the head. 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"Officers of my regiment tried to make me believe that the shooting was for the purpose of robbery." he said, "but it Is my own theory that it was not." He said the shooting had been done by a masked negro, but that he knew noth. Ing more concerning it. Corporal Knowles, of Company A. Twenty-fifth Infantry, is under arrest, charged with having com mitted the assault, but Captain Macklln said that the evidence against Knowles is purely circumstantial. RACE WAR IN OKLAHOMA TOWN WTiltes Summoned to Fight Band of Negro Avengers. FORT WORTH, Tex.. March 2 At 1 o'clock this morning a telephone message received here from Durant, I. T., says that an appeal had reached there for all the Deputy Marshals at that point to go at once to Cale station, five miles away on the Missouri. 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