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TIIE MORNING OREGOXIAN. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1907. 7 SALE OF YAQUINA LIE CONFIRMED Harriman to Take Over Cor vallis & Eastern Within Two Weeks. PRESIDENT HAMMOND OUT Expected That J. P. O'Brien Will Head Complete Sew Set of Offi cials, With G. W. Talbot as the Vice-President. Within two weeks the Corvallis & East ern Railroad will be formally taken over by the Harriman Interests and operated by official chosen from the Harriman ranks. A. B. Hammond, president of the road, tendered his resignation at a meet ing of the directors in Albany on Mon day. HJs successor has not yet been elected, 'but it is expected that J. P. O'Brien, general manager of the Harri man lines In the Pacific Northwest, will be president of the road. It Is said that the Corvallis & Eastern will be operated as a separate line and will retain its name and individuality. The date has not yet been set for a meeting of the directors to choose the next president of the road, but it is ex pected to take place within the next two weeks. At that time the property will be formally taken over. It Is understood that G. W. Talbot, now general manager and treasurer of the C & E., will be made -vice-president and general manager, succeeding J. K. Veatherford, of Albany, as vice-president. Mr. Talbot will probably retain his Portland offices. J. A. Shaw is now secretary of the road, and his successor has not yet been decided upon. It Is probable that H. P. Connor or W. R. Litzenberg, of W. W. Cotton's staff of attorneys, will ' be elected to that position. The Corvallis & Eastern is 142 miles long, extending from Yaquina, on Ya nulna Bay, to Idanha, in the foothills of the Cascades. Connections are made at Albany with the main line of the South ern Paoltic. The line operates IS locomo tives, 10 passenger cars and 302 freight and miscellaneous cars. Prior to the sale of the property Pres ident Hammond had planned extensions to the property at each end. He mapped out a survey from Yaquina to Newport and from the present terminus at Idanha ai'ross Central Oregon to Detroit. Whether these extensions will ever be realized cannot now be learned. Mr. O'Brien has not been informed what the plans of the Harriman management are for the road, and as he has no official connection with the line as yet, he has not made recommendations. General Manager Talbot, of the C. & E. leaves tonight for New York, and it is understood that upon his return another directors' meeting will be held and the proposed changes in officials put into ef fect. The formal transfer of the C. & E. property fully confirms the story recently printed in The Oregonian telling of the purchase of the property by Mr. Harri man. SUBMIT RIGHT OP WAT CASE Judge Burnett to Decide Fight OTer Garibaldi Survey. Further testimony was taken yester day In the law offices of Snow & McCamant before Judge Burnett on the right of way fight between the Astoria & Columbia River Railroad and the Pa cific Railway & Navigation Company over points of conflict in the surveys of the two roads near Garibaldi. The hear ing was held here by stipulation, -and after evidence was Introduced by the Lj'tle road, the case was submitted and briefs will be filed before July 6, when Judge Burnett will give his decision. The case hinges on the good faith of the two roads, and each sides seek to establish this point. The Lytle road seems to have the advantage, as it is already actively engaged In construction, with a monthly payroll of from J20.000 to J30.O00. In addition, further activity is to be begun on the Tillamook end this month, when a shipload of construction materials, including a train of construc tion cars and a locomotive, will be sent forward. The A. & C. has so far made surveys at the points in question, but has not started actual work as yet. The principal testimony taken yester day was that of Chief Engineer Davis, of the P. R. & N. Co., who could not testify when the case was up before on account of illness. The disputed ter ritory offers the best route between the Tillamook country and the Nehalem Valley. ALDER-STREET LOOP BEGUN New Track Will Eliminate Switching on First 6treet. Work was started yesterday by crews of the construction department of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Com pany in digging up Alder street between First and Second preparatory to laying the tracks on Alder to complete a loop for O. W. P. cars, which will hereafter run from the west end of the Madison street bridge to Second and down Second to Alder, where tl-y will loop down to First and thence out First to the bridge. When this short piece of track is fin ished, the congestion on First street will be reWved and the switching of cars back and forth on Jhat street will no longer be necessary. McMurray to Attend Association. The Spring session of the Transconti nental Passenger Association will be held in Chicago, June 19. Representatives of all thev Western railroads will attend to discuss various phases of the new Inter state Commerce Commission regulations as they apply to passenger traffic. Other matters of regular association business will be brought up and disposed of. Wil liam McMurray, general passenger agent for the Harriman lines In the Pacific Northwest, will leave Friday to attend the session. St. Johns Postofflce Grows. Postmaster Valentine, of the St. Johns Postofflce, has received a substantial In crease In his salary as a result of the growth of the business of that office. His salary has been increased from $1000 to J1.VD. This increase in the business of the St. Johns Postofflce has been made within a year. Posters for Rose Fiesta. William McMurray, general passenger aent for the Harriman lines in this ter ritory, has received proofs of the big poster he is issuing to advertise the com ing rose show. These will be distrib uted throughout the state, calling atten tion to reduced fares on the Oregon lines because of the fiesta. The poster is s very attractive one, and is 20 by 27 Inches in size. It is printed in three colors and shows a splendid Oregon red rose, with green leaves on a brown background. Printers have orders to print 2500 of these posters for distribution through the rail road agents all over the state. Columbia Views for Jamestown. Enlarged photographs of beauty spots In the Columbia Gorge are being framed by the Harriman passenger department and will be sent to Chicago the last of this week. The Chicago offices of the Harriman system will then send the pic tures on to the Jamestown Exposition, where they will be on display throughout the fair. These pictures are the best views of Oregon scenery ever made and are certain to attract a good deal of attention in the East. Forty of the best views are to be sent, already framed. Duplicate sets are also being made for later distribution. CHINAMAN GIVEN DAMAGES Lew Wj Hin, Victim of the Caynse Wreck, Recovers $5000. Lew Wy Hin, a Chinaman, who sued the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company for $20,000 damages for a broken back, alleged to have been sus tained by him in the Cayuse wreck last April, was awarded a verdict for $5000 damages by a Jury in Circuit Judge Sears' court yesterday afternoon. The case occupied more than three days, considerable time being taken up by Attorney Thomas O'Day by the examination of maps to prove his con tention that his client was injured, owing to the faulty construction of the COMPLETE LIST OF PRIZES FOR PORTLAND ROSE SHOW AND FIESTA Committee Announces That Cash Prizes of $3100, and Trophy Frizes of $1250 Will Be Awarded. A complete list of prize awards for the Portland Rose Show and Fiesta was compiled yesterday by those in charge of the big event. The list Is an at tractive one throughout and the variety of awards Is large. The most attrac tive cash prize Is one of $250 for the best all-Oregon float. Substantial awards are offered for automobiles, carriages and various kinds of vehicles in both the cash and trophy classes. The total cash prizes amount to $3100, and the value of the trophy prises is $1230 more. The complete list is as follows: . Class B First. Second. 1 All-Oreson float (Portland not to oompeto) $250 $150 2 Fraternal society float 100 T5 3 Push Club, Portland and suburbs 100 75 4 Automobile touring car 100 75 6 Automobile runabout K5 fir, 6 Tallyho, four or more horses 100 75 7 Carriage and team i 75 50 8 Special feature float or vehicle 100 75 0 Trade float 100 75 Class B First. Second. 10 Automobile Touring car Trophy Trophy 11 Automobile runabout Trophy Trophy 12 Tallyho. four or more norses Trophy Trophy 13 Carriage and pair .' Trophy Trophy 14 Pony, carriage and pair Trophy Trophy 15 Horse and buggy Trophy Trophy Ifi Horse and cart Trophy Trophy 17-Pony and cart (four wheels) Trophy Trophy IS Pony and cart (two wheels) Trophy , Trophy 19 Saddle horses, couple Trophy Trophy 20 Saddle horses, tandem Trophy Trophy 21 Saddle horses Trophy Trophy 22 Saddle ponies, couple Trophy Trophy 23 Saddle ponies, tandem Trophy Trophy 24 Saddle pony ...... Trophy Trophy 25 Bicycle Trophy Trophy . For Decorations City Streets and Buildings, $975 cash. Class A First. Second. Best decorated city block, both sides of street $300 $150 Best decorated building 150 100 Best decorated store front 11)0 50 Best decorated window 75 50 For Rose Show 23 classes; cash and trophy prizes, value $750. For School Children's Parade, June 20, 1907: Class B Five solid silver cups for schools making best appearance. Section 1 First. Second. Best six tea roses, each a different variety .................... Cup Cup Best twelve teaYoses, each a different variety Cup Cup Best six hybrid tea roses, each a different variety Cup Cup Best twelve hybrid tea roses, each a different variety Cup Cup Best six hybrid perpetual roses, each a different variety Cup Cup Be9t twelve hybrid perpetual roses, each a dlferent variety..... Cup Cup In these exhibits of section 1, a climbing sport of a bush variety shall be deemed of the same variety as the rose from which it Is a sport. A noisette rose shall be counted as a tea rose. Climbing teas, hybrid teas and hybrid per petuals shall be counted the same as though bush varieties. Two roses of the same variety in any one of said exhibits shall disqualify such exhibit. Section 2 First. Second. Best one tea rose Cup Cup Host one hybrid tea rose Cup Cup Best one hybrid perpetual rose Cup Cup Best one climbing rose Cup Cup Best six roses of one variety Cup Cup Best twelve roses of one variety Cup Cup Best eighteen roses of one variety ft -- Cup Cup Best twenty-four roses of one variety 7 Cup Cup The foregoing prizes of section 2 will be awarded only when roses are es pecially exhibited therefor, and not In connection with the same rose -or roses in exhibition for other prizes. Section 3 First. Second. Best general display of roses Cup Cup In awarding this prize the roses exhibited by the same person In competi tion for other prizes shall be taken into account as though entered expressly for this prize.. There shall be a second prize awarded In each of the foregoing competi tions to the display next best to the one awarded first prize in each such com petition. For Professional Florists First. Second. Third. Fourth. Best general display of decorative plants and artistic arrangement of same. Including cut flowers and floral designs Cup Cup Cup Cup roadbed at the scene of the accident. The O. R. & N. Company, represented by Attorney Arthur C. Spencer, con tended that the wreck was the result of an act of God. In yesterday's argument Attorney O'Day Informed the Jury the only cure for "these casualties" is to bring: the railways to account. This reference was objected to by the opposing at torney and sustained by Judge Frazer. Attorney O'Day then concluded his argument 'advising the Jury to hold the O. R. & N. responsible for "this casualty." The Jury deliberated on the case about an hour before return ing a verdict. Lew Wy Hin not only blamed faulty construction of the roadbed for the Cayuse wreck and his incident injury, but also claimed the train was proceed ing at an illegal rate of sped. He has been confined in a hospital since the disaster. ALLEGES HE WAS BTJXCOED E. P. Cadwell Answers Complaint Filed by Frank A. Sweeney. K. P. Cadwell, in answer to a com plaint filed by Frank A. Sweeney charging the former with fraud, en tered a counter complaint yesterday accusing Sweeney of a similar offense. Cadwell claims Sweeney fraudulently induced him to purchase ten shares of stock in the Morgan Mercantile Agency at $100 a share and of carrying out a scheme involving the transfer of 400 acres of land. Cadwell prays to be awarded judgment for $8100, claiming to have sustained the loss of that amount by bofch transactions. Last year Sweeney was awarded a default Judgment for $1053.36 by Circuit Judge Sears. This Judgment was set aside and the case was reopened. Cadwell alleges he purchased the stock in the Morgan Mercantile Agency, being assured by Sweeney he could make $500 a year by working for the corporation. He says he found the company Insolvent and the stock to be valueless. He further alleges that the 400 acres of land involved Instead of being fertile and heavily laden with crops as represented was barren and mountainous. Contract to Repair Northwestern. VICTORIA. B. C, June 11. The con tract for repairing the steamer North western, now in drydock at Ksqulmault, has been awarded to the British Colum bia Marine Railway Company, of Esqul mault, the price being in the neighbor hood of 40,WO. FANS QUIT GAME Refuse to Support Team on Down-Grade. TEAMS JUST PAY EXPENSES Poor Judgment In Selection of Play ers, and Hard Luck Since, Con tribute to Disastrous Season for the Beavers. The reputation of Portland's fandom, famed throughout the Pacific Coast League circuit, for loyal attendance at games, even if the home team was a tall ender, will have to be revised. One touch of championship honors has given the fans a desire for good baseball, and al ready, by staying away from games, the fans are beginning to show their dis pleasure with the aggregation Manager McCredie has brought together this sea son. The attendance last week must have been an eye-opener to the owners of the Portland Club. A nice Sunday crowd Journeyed out to the Vaughn street grounds, but even with this large crowd, San Francisco hardly made more than ex penses. In none of the games played in Portland, not even during the palmy day of Ben Ely's barn stormers, has the at tendance been so bad as it was last week. There is nothing to it Portland has been putting up rotten baseball. The winning of a nice, snappy game once in a while like that of Sunday last, will do for the first couple of weeks of the opening season, but It will not do, after the sea son is almost old enough to wear whiskers. While it must be admitted that Man ager McCredie has had more than his share of troubles, and he has played the season thus far with a sadly crippled lot of men, it cannot be expected that the fans will Interest themselves and offer much sympathy because of this. McCredie made a mistake' last Spring when he surrounded himself with a lot of green players. When things began to break badly for him and he knew Fresno was to be abandoned, he should have grabbed such men as Charley Doyle, McLaughlin and Dashwood. These old heads of the team would have acted as an anchor to the youngsters. In the minds of some of the knocking fans, there is an impression that the MoCredies are not trying to sign players. This is not true, for Manager McCredie has had at least a dozen deals for play ers fall through since he returned home. He has brought players, only to have them receive injuries or go wrong some other way. Others bought have refused to come to the Coast. And in a measure, a young ball player who is good enough to attract the attention of a Class A baseball manager, does not relish the Idea of Joining a team that Is riveted to the cellar. Ambitious young players don't want to Join a losing team, and they can't be blamed. This is why McCredie is having so much trouble to get new players. As the Portland team stands now it Is a very weak organization. Califf is not pitching the ball this year that he did last season. Groom and Klnsella are good pitchers, and with a team behind them up in fielding and hitting, they would win a majority of their games. McCredie, before he expects the fans to return to the game, must get a shortstop and a firstbaseman. Joe Fay is so much better and faster than Shinn, that the contrast in their playing is startling. As a fielder, few shortstops have anything on Fayi His weakness is at bat. McCredie's outfield needs a patch or two also, and above all he must have pitch ers who can't be pounded all over the. lot. men who can hit the ball and. when they are on bases, make the circuit with out being always clouted around. RAIN PREVENTS THE GAME I Los Angeles Ball-Tossers Arrive, but Are Forced to Rest Captain Dillon and Manager HI Henry Berry landed here yesterday morning witn their band of Los Angeles ball tossers, ready once more to take Portland down the line. It wasn't to be.- Old J. Pluve beat the Loo-Loos to it yesterday, and the rest won't hurt either team. If Manager McCredie can persuade the weather man to switch the wind and shut off the faucet, there will be an engage ment on the Vaughn-street lawn this afternoon. Captain Dillon did not bring Hosp North with him this time. The injury that the little fellow received when he fell during one of the games here, has kept him out of the running ever since. Just how long Hosp will be out of the game Dillon does not know. San Francisco 2 ; Oakland 5. OAKLAND, June 11 The home team bad a lucky bunching of hits today in the fourth Inning, when three safe hits in combination with other plays netted four runs. In the sixth, two hits pro duced another run. Cates officiated on the slab for the locals. Score: San Francisco ....0 1 01 000002 7 1 Oakland ;..0 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 5 8 1 Batteries Jones and Street; Cates and Bliss., LUXCHEOX TO MR. SIMOXS Members of Multnomah Club Re member Their Former President. George W. Simons, who has recently returned after a long absence from the city, was given a genuine surprise yesterday at noon. In 1906 Mr. Simons was president of the Multnomah Club. During his term of office he was very popular with all of the club members. At the termination of his presidency he left the city to travel and it was not until yesterday that the members of the Multnomah Club, who made up the board of directors in 1906, could get a chance to show their appreciation of Mr. Simons' services. A luncheon was decided upon and Mr. Simons was invited to what he sup posed was Just to be a gathering of the club officials who served in 1906. Seated at the table were George W. McMillan, now president of the club: W. H. Chapin, A. C. Campbell, C. F. Swigert. Chester Murphy, A. O. Jones, A. S. Rothwell, Edgar Frank, J. S. McCord, George W. Hoyt and W. R. Woodward. After the luncheon was over Presi dent McMillan called upon Mr. Chapin. To the surprise of Mr. Simons, Mr. Chapin began to talk about him and wound up by presenting him with a gold watch fob. Mr. Simons returned thanks feelingly. NORTHWEST LEAGUE. Butte 6; Tacoma 3. BUTTE. Mont., June 1,1. Inability to find Roosevelt at critical times cost Ta coma the opening game today in the se ries with Butte. Score: Butte 1 0000600 6' 6 3 Tacoma . 10 0 0 0 0 0 1 13 3 3 Batteries Roosevelt and Wilklns; Claf Iln and Shea. Umpire Howlett, Vancouver 5; Spokane 4. SPOKANE June 11. With the game ap parently lost to Vancouver. Manager Mc Intyre, in Vancouver's half of the ninth, hit for what would have been a home run in an earlier Inning. He drove two men in and won for the visitors. Score: R.H.E. Vancouver 1 0 020000 26 12' 4 Spokane 0 0000001 34 3 1 Batteries Nelson, Chevalier, Legore and Spencer; Jensen and Swindells. Um pire Ehret. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Yesterday's Scores. At Philadelphia St, Louis, 3; Philadel phia, 0. At Boston Boston, 2: Cleveland, 0. At New York Detroit, 10; New York, 2. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Yesterday's Scores. At Pittsburg Pittsburg, 7; Brooklyn, 4. At St. Louis New York, 8; St. Louis, 7. At Cincinnati First game: Boston, 2; Cincinnati, 1; second game: Cincinnati, 7; Boston, 3. At Chicago Philadelphia, 6; Chicago, 6. Plan New State League. SEATTLE, Wash., June 11. A six-club Washington State League has been or ganized, and will be composed of Ballard, Everett, Yakina, Walla Walla and two towns yet to be selected, which will probably be Olympia and Centralis, The schedule will, so be arranged that the dates of games will not conflict with those of the North western League. Pendleton may be taken in. A meeting will probably be held in Seattle within a few days to arrange the details. SEASIDE TO BE CAMPSITE National Gnard to Participate In Coast Maneuvers. That the entire National Guard of the state will be able to participate in the Coast defense maneuvers about the mouth of the Columbia River is very likely. Announcement was made from the headquarters of Adjutant General Finzer, yesterday, that Seaside will be the place of the annual en campment for all troops excepting the seven companies provided for in . the Government appropriation. General Finzer is now In communication with the artillery district commander with a view to arranging for participation of the Seaside camp. Under an encampment order to be Issued very shortly, the troops as signed to Seaside will leave Portland for camp July 8. The seven companies assigned to Fort Stevens and Fort Co lumbia will depart two days earlier. It is intended to work out a plan whereby the Seaside troops can march to the mouth of the Columbia, bivouac lng In the field over night. They can be thrown into the ' mimic campaign either as an attacking for-e as a sup port to the posts in warding off a theoretical landing party. The formal encampment order will be issued from headquarters within the next few days. Fenced Government Land. t , Charged with illegally fencing 440 acres of Government land, Williams Collins, a stockman, of Spray, pleaded guilty before Judge Wolverton in the United States District Court yesterday morning. He was fined $250 and sen tenced to one day in the Multnomah County Jail. Collins denied that he had enclosed as much as charged and that he had constructed a mile and three quarters of fence on Government land. tit We . DERBY DESKS standing desks in the various lengths; typewriter desks of the best improved drop-center construction. Design and appointment are practically perfect, and selected materials only are used in every part of their construction. Derby Desks - are made in golden oak and mahogany and finished in the flat or dull finishes. IS Hroun DfT!j i 11 0000 jj MACEY FILING CABINETS THOMPSON IS EXTRADITED MUST RETURN FROM LONDON FOR TRIAL AS THIEF. "Billy" Winter Finally Assured That Bartender Accused of Robbing Him Will Get Justice. LONDON. June 11. James Thomp son, wanted in Portland, Or., for grand larceny, was extradited today. A Port land detective will sail with him June 29 for the United States. Joe Day, formerly in the employ of the city as a detective, was sent to London for Thompson by William (Billy) Winter, proprietor of the lxg Cabin saloon. Thompson worked as bartender for Mr. Winter three years ago, and is charged with the theft of some valuable diamonds and a sum of money. When the arrest was made Day was selected and immediately started on the Journey. THE REVOLUTION IN OREGON How the Initiative Has Completely Changed the Old Constitution al System. PORTLAND, June 11. (To the Editor.) Tour editorial on the 'Initiative" in this morning's Oregonian, in which you gave a very interesting historical statement on the meaning or Republic," and set forth that In mv statement we in Oregon have de parted from the republican form of govern ment, and are now a pure aemocntcy. Buy ing that I evidently meant that a pure de mocracy cannot be properly called a repub lic, moves me to write you, in an attempt to make my meaning more clear. It seems to me that historically your editorial on the meaning of a republic is correct. But it was not my intention to be understood as pin(mine that a. cure democracy canot be properly called a republic, in the broad meaning or tnat wora. joy co-.ouii-is Century Dictionary one learns what a broad term republic is, ana nisi.orica.iiy yuui sltlon is correct. But I was dealing with the tefm as used in the United States, and as understood in- our everyday language. In our everyday language a "republican form of government" means a government where the people elect their representatives, and which is provided with -written constitution, and divided into three departments, execu tive, legislative and judicial, all separate, yet working harmoniously together. In a pure democracy, the people pass and repeal their lawi themselves, are not goverened by a written constitution, and keep a much more stringent control over their officers than In our republican form of government. The important thing is for our people In Oregon to realize the revolution in our form of government which we have enacted by the initiative and referendum. Let this be realized and recognized, and terms are Immaterial. For Instance, we now have In our local government, the democratic, town meeting of New JSngland, changed by means of Initiative and referendum in local affairs, so that the town meeting may be held, with out meeting in a town hall, by means of petitions circulated and filed and an elec tion. Such power as Is left to local officers is left to them by sufferance of the people, by lack of the people passing the laws themselves, or falling to veto them by means of the referendum, rather than the old form of representative municipal gov ernment in which the people elected their officers and the officers passed the laws. In other words, the people now do the legis lating directly, and every voter Is a mem ber of the law-making body directly. In stead of Indirectly. Now, every voter votes directly upon such Issues as are desired to be legislated upon. Instead of leaving that to the representatives. This may take the form of noninterference, but it is true Just the same, as It Is true that a member of the Council votes on a measure, though he does not actively participate In the meeting. He has the right to actively participate, and if he passively participates, he still partici pates. What Is left of our republican form of government, our representatives, our Con stitution, our courts, Is left merely by suf ferance or by indifference of the people. Whenever It Is desired to make any change, no matter how radical, all we have to do is to propose It as a Constitution amend ment, and if carried, it becomes the supreme law, superceding all other laws. Constitu tional or otherwise. This can now be done directly by vote of the people themselves, and a very simple procedure brings the question before the people for decision. Under our present system there Is no check, there is no Constitutional limitation, there is nothing to protect life, liberty or prop erty, other than the good common sense of the majority, and the transportation facili ties with which the minority may get out of the State of Oregon. Our people should realize that we have departed absolutely from the checks and balances of our . former .Constitutional gov ernment. We should no longer talk of our old form of government the republican form of government of our fathers and which exists still in the other states and the power of the Legislature and the Gov ernor 1 and the courts to protect the life, liberty and property of the minority and of the Individual.. We should look at the sit There is a vast difference in Office Desks in the design, con struction, material and finish. " Derby quality" is the strongest guarantee ever offered to the purchaser of a dependable office piece. They are made right the leading desks in the business world. The Derby line includes desks for all purposes roll-top desks with high and low backs; single and double flat-top desks; lCOMPLETE-H0U5E-FURni5HER5! uation as it is, and realize that what power Is left the Ooverner, the Legislature and the courts Is left them merely by sufferance, and that this power may be taken away or changed at any election by a bare majority of the voters In a perfectly simple and legal manner. Under the old system of represent ative government republican form of gov ernment there was more deliberation and there were constitutional limitations. Offi cers had to be elected, their acts had to be constitutional, or they werevold as In con flict with the constitution, and In order to change the constitution, there had to be an amendment made to the constitution, which took some considerable time, and gave op portunity for deliberation, and we did not change the constitution lightly. Now, we have no written constitution in the former sense. Under our initiative and referendum, a few persons can directly propose the most drastic changes in our laws, and call them constitutional amendments, and If they are i approved at a general election by a ma- Jority of the voters, who express their senti ments upon the question, it becomes a part of the constitution and is beyond the reach of the Governor, the Legislature or the courts. It Is the supreme law of the land. Thus we have a pure democracy, in which the people may enact directly their law, free from the restraints of a written consti tution, and without power in their repre sentatives, In the Legislature, or their courts to interfere or do otherwise than carry out the supreme law of the land, and that Is the last will of the majority, ex pressed directly in the last constitutional amendment and adopted by the same means as any other initiative law. The name only Is different. Under our former republican government, this was not so. Under our former form of republican government the majority could amend the constitution, but it was not sup posed the constitution would contain statutes or body of law generally, and great care was exercised in amending the constitution. The constitution, when amended, was carried out by the Legislature, and the Governor and the courts. Under the former republican system. If the majority exercised their Ideas by elect ing officers, officers could only do acts which were constitutional and if their acts Interfered with the constitutional rights of the minority, the minority were entitled to the protection of the government and of the courts, from the unconstitutional acta of the majority. What I wish to emphasize is that the rights of the minority to constitutional pro tection have been eliminated, or may be eliminated whenever the majority desires to do so, and they may be eliminated di rectly by the majority of the people. Moreover, we are steadily progressing toward the Idea of pure democracy, which is that whatever the majority of the voters vote for. Is right, and must be upheld as the supreme law of the land, and no other consideration can be taken into account. In other words, whatever is approved as a constitutional amendment by a bare ma jority of voters, at any general election, at once becomes the supreme law of the land. This is & great revolution in our form of government. Let us realise it. RALPH R. DUNIWAT. SUCCESS OF CLUB CERTAIN More) Than $60,000 Subscribed to Livestock Association. "With more than $60,000 already sub scribed In response to an informal canvass, the promoters of the Portland Country Club & Livestock Association are sanguine of the success of the pro ject. This situation was disclosed at an enthusiastic meeting of the solicit ing committee at the Commercial Club rooms yesterday. Forty members of the committee attended the meeting and reported subscriptions aggregat ing $60,000 towards the capital stock of $150,000. Another meeting: of the committee will be held this morning; when a pro gramme will be outlined for soliciting among the larger Interests of the city who have not yet been asked to sub scribe etock. With the encouragement they have received the members of the committee feel confident they will be able to raise the balance of the stock before another meeting to be held Thursdi -. June 20. "Greater interest was never mani fested In a similar project In this city." said a member of the committee yesterday. "Interest In the plan to form the club Is by no means confined to Portland. We have received several inquiries from men throughout the state who are desirous of subscribing from $100 to $500 in stock. That this interest is genuine we have further assurance through newspapers pub lished in all sections of the state. We have in our possession clippings rep resenting a majority of the country newspapers in the state and they all heartily Indorse the plan to organize a country club and livestock associa tion. There exists not the slightest question but that the capital stock will be subscribed within the ten days our soliciting committees will canvass." Inheritance Tax Is $59 7. That $597 Inheritance tax is due the state was reported yesterday In the settlement of the estate of A. T. Webb the entire Inheritance amounting 'to $83,020. The devisees are: Martha Agnes Webb, $28,226.80; Clara Louise MACEY SECTIONAL A BOOKCASES Webb, Martha Agnes Wilson and Mary Elizabeth Webb, daughters, each $15, 497.15; Belle J. Webb, a sister, $1550.40; Victor Borg, a friend. $830.25; Fanny C. Webb, a sister, $4151.13; T. M. C. A., $830.25, and the same amount to the Portland Sanitarium. BUSES KODAK DKVKLOPrYO. Imperial Hotel Also Scenic Photos. r-i ttr wss CYSsms; isrrJM. 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