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. , Tiife vmorxtng oRfeoiAy. ioxday, SEPTE3rBER" 14, 1903. W SNAPSHOTS OF OEEGON MEMBERS OF VICTORIOUS OLYMPIC TEAM, WHO ARRIVE IN rrPTT.ATJn TTTIS AFTERNOON" OUR $5.00 01! WELCOME FOR OREGON ATHLETES Ladd & Tilton Bank SCHOOL SUIT PORTLAND, OREGON Established 1859. Oldest Bank on the Pacific Coast. Smithson, Gilbert and Kelly Will Be . Portland's Guests ' Tonight. Capital fully paid - . - - $1,000,000.09 Surplus and undivided profits $500,000.00 WILL REACH CITY AT 5:30 OFFICEES I 1 f - ; .a ' - ' ' --' N " ) f i . art v - 1 Street Parade, Seeches at Multno mah Field, Presentation of Lov iag Caps and Banquet Are Features of the Reception. PROGRAMME FOR ATHLETIC WELCOME. Arrival of Athletes Smithson. Kelly and Gilbert at Union Depot tonlchr at 1:13. Gaeats of honor escorted to Cmn martial Club by mmbn of general committee. Parsd atarta from Commercial Ciub at 8:18. Line of march. Kourth an Sixth to Washington, eaat on WaahlnKton to Third, aouth on Third to Mrrlon. ieit on Morrison to Multno .ah F1e:d and reviewing stand A-Hr!; of welcome, by Colonel Jack'cn on behalf of the etate and by Mayor Lr.e on behalf of the elty. Presentation cf silver lorlns cup to each of the athletes Singing of "America" by the- andlence. Smlthson. Kelly and Gilbert, ea corted to armnaelum. where an In formal reception will be held. Public banquet tendered the ath letes In the Portland Commercial Club. Arrangements are completed for the celebration tonight In honor of the re turning athletes. Smlthson. Kelly an! Gilbert. - The home-coming of .these young; men promises to be one of tha moat enthusiastic demonstrations ever witnessed here. Ever since the cable grama from London announced the achievements of the Oregon boys in the recent Olympic games, there haa been an earnest desire on the part of all classes of citizens to manifest their ap preciation of the efforts of these three young men In some fitting way. To night's demonstration will be the con crete expression of that desire. On the arrival of the guests of honor on the 5:15 O. R. & N. train tonight, they will be met at the L'nion depot by members of the general committee and ) escorted to the Commercial Club, where dinner will be served and the young men ' will be given an opportunity to rest be fore the beginning of the parade. The column will start at 8:15 o'clock. Trie route of the parade will be aouth on Sixth street to Washington, east on Washington to Third, south on Third to Xforrier.. west on Morrison to Mult nomah Field. Addresses of Welcome. On arriving at the e.'uh 'rounds, the parade will pass in review before the grandstand, making a complete circuit of the field. The distinguished guests and citizens will proceed to the sections provided for them near the platform, after which the carriage bearing the guests of honor will be drawn up in front of the speakers' platform. Gov ernor Chamberlain's representative. Col onel Jackson, will welcome the young men to Oregon in the Governor's ab sence, following which Mayor Lane will extend the welcome of the city. The re ception committee will then present each' of the athletes with a silver loving cup, the gift of the citizens of Portland. The exercises on Multnomah Field will be concluded with the singing of "America" by the audience. Immediately afterward the guests of honor will be escorted to the club gym nasium, where an informal reception wli: be held, when the public may have the opportunity of meeting the athletes. Elaborate preparations have been made for the illumination of Multnomah Field. Several bonfires will be maintained while the exercises are In progress and red fire ani Roman candles in large quantities will be burned both along the route of the procession and at the club grounds. The grounds will also be Illuminated with strings of Chinese lanterns. The Interior of the clubhouse Is being taste fully decorated. Many handsome decora tions have been made on their premises by the downtown merchants, and it la expected that others will decorate their stores today. Multnomah Club In Parade. Members of the Multnomah Club will assemble at that place not later than 7:30 o'clock tonight. when they will march In a body to the vicinity of the Commercial Club to take their position in the column. It is expected that Governor Mead, of Washington, and party will participate In the exercises. The officers and crew of the Italian cruiser Pugiia will arrive at the Stark-street dock, at 7:30 o'clock, and the officers will be escorted to the Com mercial Club by members of Colonel Mc Donell's staff. The formation of the parade will be- as follows: First division Platoon of police: grand marshal and aids: Third Regiment In fantry band: officers and crew of R. I. K. cruiser Pueita; Third Infantry Oregon Rational Guards. Second division Athletes Smlthson, .Gll 4Wt and Kelly, drawn by 200 Multnomah Junior boys In athletic costume; dis tinguished guests, citlxens and members of the committee in automobiles; delega tions from educational Institutions In dec rrated tallyhos: Multnomah Club mem bers; Automobile Cluh; newsboys. The grandstand on Multnomah Field will be opened to the public, so that those who prefer to do so may occupy seats before the parade enters the grounds. Both gates will be open for this purpose. Likes Oregon Farmer Picture. PORTLAND. Sept. 12.-(To the Editor.) A compliment is certainly due the artist and The Oregontan for the comely car toon of the Oregon farmer published in yesterday's paper. From time Imme morial the pictures made to represent the farmer have been extremely ludicrous. The stone-ax man. rogue's gallery, and wild man from Borneo have all been imi tated. Having been a farmer sometime.", and now see a good healthy, cheerful, well-dressed barring a necktie farmer picture, is Indicative that times are changing, and that the man who feeds and clothes the world will eventually take his proper place on earth, and should no longer be the special subject for the cartoonist. J. W. R. MHu Jean Gordon, who haa won a Na tional reputation by her work In brhalf of women and children, dona as factory In spector In Louisiana, la not to be re-elected to her office. It Is aaaerted that she haa In curred the enmity of the manufacturers and tha politicians, and In ar-tte of the protests of 'he women of tha state - soe. will be turned out of office. s SEATTLE LIBOR UNIONS GET COURT INSTRUCTION. Federal Referee In Chancery Takes Up Case of Panbury Hat Company's Boycott. SEATTLE. Sept. 13. All the officers and huslnes agents of labor unions in Seattle have b-en cited to produce their books in the United States Circuit Court, so -that W. ' B. 1 Allison, special referee In chancery, appointed in the case of Dietrich Loews et al. vs. Mar tin Lawlor et al., known as the Hamers case, may examine them. The subpenaes were served last week on the officers of the unions and they are allowed a certain time within which to produce their books In court. The United Supreme Court. February 2, last. In an opinion delivered by Chief Justice Fuller, reversed the United States District Court of Connecticut, assessing damages in the sum of 180, 000 against the defendants. The case is widely known as the Danbury Hat case, the action having been brought by Loewe & Co. against the United Hat ters of North America. The plaintiffs are hat manufacturers in Danbury, Conn. The purpose of citing the secretaries of local labor unions into court Is to have the records of these' unions ex amined to ascertain to what extent. If any, they contributed to the alleged boycott against Loewe & Co. ATHLETES ARE WELCOMED (Continued From First Page.) headed a procession to the depot, where after bidding farewell to the hospitable citizens of the Eastern Oregon metropolis the athletes boarded a train for home. They will stop off at The Dalles In the morning, where they will meet Dr. Homer I. Keeney. the delegate from Portland, and accompany him on the remainder of the journey tomorrow afternoon, arriving in Portland shortly after 5 o'clock. The people of Baker City presented Dan Kelly with a handsome loving cup In token of their appreciation of his feats on the athletic field. WILL MAKE STOP AT DALLES Oregon Athletes to Be Extended Wel come by Business Men of City. THE DALLES. Or., Sept. 13. (Special.) News has been received here by Sec retary Patterson, of the Business Men's Association, that Oregon's Olympic vic tors would spend several hours between trains In this city on Monday next. To night arrangements are being made for the reception and entertainment of the athletes. In which the Commercial and Athletic Club will Join with the associa tion in extending a warm welcome to the visitors. ' Harrtman Officials Here. Superintendents of motive power of the various Harrlman railroads -will assem- 10 S SHACKLED LEGISLATORS AND THE PEOPLE Are the Constitution and Federal Lawa Snpreme. or Most Statement Ko. 1 Legislators Carry Ont a Fromiae They Had o Right to Make t Aaka Judge Georsje. PORTLAND. Or.. Sept. 10. (To the Editor.) The people of a, state have no right to require a state legislator to make any prior pledge to vote for any one for Senator, because the National Constitution, that governs us all, makes It the sworn duty of state legislators themselves to select a man for Senator when the proper time comes, and no one has either a legal or a moral right to ask or demand that any legislator fore swear himself or promise away his con stitutional duty of self-selection. It is the legislator's sworn duty to se lect, by his own viva voce vote, and no citizen voter, bound by our National Constitution, can dictate that vote, and no such citizen should fall to recognizn and respect a legislator's right and duty. No citizen voter, morally or "legally, can demand that any candidate, who seeks the office of legislator, shall break his oath of office, of pledge himself so that he cannot carry out his oath freely, or require that the candidate abdicate any constitutional right or duty pertain ing to the office; and it becomes an un justifiable hold-up by a voting citizen, or by 'the voting people of any state In our Union,, to demand that iny candidate thus promise that he will vote for any particular person for Senator. Neither can even the whole people of any state, legally or morally, "instruct" (as Oregon attempted in the last Initiative) any member of a state Legislature to "vote ble In this city today for a general con ference. Among those who will attend are the following, all being registered at the Portland: Major Charles Hlne, of Vienna. Vs.; H. J. Small, of San Fran cisco: VV. T. Helntzmann. of Sacramento; C. C. Bonte. H. Stillman and Ben Bar ton, of San Francisco: P. S. Sheedy. of Los Angeles; J. -O. NefTer, of Chicago; J. F. Dunn, of Salt Lake; J. J. Ryan. J. R. Cade and G. E. Llndsey, of Houston. Tex. SUNDAY SCHOOLS TO MEET Rev. Charles A. Phipps Will Ad dress Workers Tomorrow Night- Sunday school workers of Multnomah County will hold a rally tomorrow night at the White Temple. Twelfth and Tay lor streets, to which all Interested In the work of the Sunday school are cordially invited. A feature of the meeting will be XT' & i 7 Rev. Charles A. Phipps, Sunday . School Field Secretary. the report of Rev. Charles A. Phipps. field secretary for Oregon, who has Just returned from the International lnterde nomlnatlon Sunday school convention re cently held In Louisville, Ky. He will deliver an address on the work accom plished at this great convention. Theie will be special music for tomor row night's meeting and there will be a special adult class demonstration. Local Sunday school workers are looking for ward to the meeting with great Interest. Sermons by Dr. Dyott. "The Place of Toung People in the World Today" was the subject of Dr. Luther R. Dyott's sermon at the First Congregational Church last .night. In the morning he spoke on "The Power of an Earnest. Life." This was the third of a series of sermons which he Is preaching- on "The Life of Paul aa a Pattern for the Twentieth . Century Man." for and elect" any man. whether he have the highest popular vote of a state or not. In this matter the will of the people of Oregon Is not supreme, but subordinate and subservient to the expressed consti tutional will of the people of the United States, who have decreed that members of the respective Legislatures, sworn to do their duty,, shall themselves freely choose a Senator, and not the people of any state, at any so-called election or otherwise. Senators are officers of the United States, elected solely under the terms of the Federal law, and paid by the people of the whole country. They represent the people of the United States, and no peo ple of any state can lawfully elect a Sen ator even from their own state by state law. or define his qualifications, or pre scribe a method for his election. Nor can they , in any manner force or - instruct legislators how they shall discharge the constitutional obligation of their office. We all believe in "the will of the peo ple" when lawfully expressed: but no will of the people of any state can put aside, nor should it attempt to put aside, the constitutional will of the people of the United States. In Oregon many legislators, through more or less election duress, have prom ised, in effect, to abdicate their own con stitutional function and plain duty under Federal law. and to vote, if elected, not for their own free' deliberate choice, or selection, for Senator as will be their sworn official duty to do but on the con trary to vote for whomsoever, white, brown, or yellow, a plurality names for them through some subordinate state en actment for so-called "popular selection." Doubtless neither they, nor the impul sive people, fully realized the seriousness, legally and morally speaking, of such ac tion under our supreme law which all should respect. As one result, Oregon, while enormously Republican In senti ment, and electing overwhelmingly a Re publican Legislature to elect a Senator, yet through this extra-legal "election." attended by "a concatenation of ques tionable complexities." to say the least, has. after a fashion, named a Democrat for our highest political office. But that is a mere Incidental illustration of ab surd working of the system. The real point is the illegality, and worse, of the whole business. . ' ' Before our legislators can now quality, they must each take a solemn oath of office to support and enforce the Federal Constitution, which plainly requires them Individually and collectively to meet and deliberate for themselves, and then them selves select a Senator, anything In the constitution, or the- laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding. Apparently they each re now In this dilemma: While not having exactly fore sworn themselves, they each have fore promised that they will not themselves select, but on. the contrary win. during their term of office vote for the man, tall or short, thick or thin, whom any plurality popular vote in Oregon might thereafter or may hereafter select. This sort of setting to one side of their own sworn constitutional duty themselves to deliberate and select the best man for Senator is thoughtlessly called "carrying out the will of the people,"' forgetting or Ignoring the sovereign will of the people of the United States, who have constitu tionally decreed that . the members of a Legislature shall be the sole Judges to de termine who Is the best man for Senator for the whole people of the United States. Let us not forget that in choosing Sen atorial political officers, this country, in cluding Oregon, Is yet a representative government under National law, and not under control of any state, or Its people, or Its attempted enactments. While it is true that a citizen voter, or a body of citizens, can vote for whom soever he or they choose, yet In this case It is merely a right to vote, or withhold the vote not a right to hold up. or to dic tate that a candidate make any promise violative of his sworn constitutional duty if elected, whether as a condition prece dent to electing him or noL m A law-respecting voter has no right to demand that any legislative candidate ptomlse that he will abdicate or renounce any part of his constitutional rights or duties, to select' a Senator for the whole country, or to demand that he will vote for any one he even does not foreknow, or whose personal Identity is to be polnt 'ed out to him only in some future popular "election." No such private or" popular "hold-up" Is legal or moral, until our supreme bind ing law Is changed to permit direct elec tions, and then it will be unnecessary. No member can legally bind hlmsJf to forego his imperative duty himself to de cide' and select; and. morally he ought never to promise to forego a sworn offi cial duty. Any promise to transfer Senatorial se lection absolutely to any one else is ir reconcilable with his final personal and official oath to do that duty himself. He, and he alone, is the true and lawful judge to decide. .No other voter or body of voters has any right whatever to ask or require that any candidate violate his official oath, and no candidate has any moral right or legal power to promise it. In Senatorial elections the whole thing of tying up legislative candidates in prom ises, or in pledges to any one, or to any corporation, or to any special interest, or even to any fickle majority of the people of any state, is. in principle, illegal and wrong. Until legal change In oUr Na tional representative Government in the selection of Senators; legislators must be left free to decide for themselves, when the time comes then to choose whom soever they deem to be best for the po sition.. . No history of bad legislative bodies can justify disregard of law. Bad legislators In times past have been elected and have left some bad records; but until supreme law is changed, the remedy is not to dis regard the law, but to comply with it and to elect good men to the Legislature. In Oregon, especially under Australian ballot and direct primary, our people have no one to blame but themselves if they do not now elect good legislators who will do their duty and do it well. Under existing law. made so by our founders, it is the business of the people of a state simply to elect good legislators, and the business of legislators to choose a Senator. That such Is the law cannot be gainsaid. Personally the writer favors direct elec tion by the people of a state, but until the people of the United States change the constitution it should and must be an election under law of the land, and not through spasmodic, sentimental and In ternally disturbing attempts to disregard our sovereign law of this whole Nation. Every such effort, before our law is changed, merely insuus aiaxospev iui m HERE is the greatest value ever offered in Boys' Clothing. These Suits are made from selected and tested materials choice weaves of wear-resisting fabrics. The gar ments are cut with lots of etyle and character. All seams are double stitched with silk and every weak spot is reinforced. For Boys From 7 to 18 Years Five Dollars 16S-1T0 THIRD STREET. law of the land, and tends to the suover slon of good citizenship and good gov ernment. . Our questionable Oregon attempt is also having an adverse Influence elsewhere to defeat desired Senatorial election amena ment. We assume to teach the people of the whole country In the election of Federal officers, but no other state, nor any political party elsewhere dreams now of following seriously any "Statement No. 1" or of "instructing' legislators in matters wherein they are vested with their own constitutional discretion, and under oath to do their National duty. Several other states have, thus far. been willing, within the great parties, to defer largely to some party man of popu lar choice, but we try to go far and be- ypnd to force a winning party to elect a Senator from a defeated party. In Oregon solely, we shall have the In congruous result of compelling, in defi ance of our supreme law, if Statement No. 1 be followed, free legislators of one set of political principles, to vote foi men of opposite principles. While it might not be claimed that such an "election." In event a Legislature, in disregard of law, consummated it. will, per se. be unconstitutional the Senate as final Judge seating the beneficiary yet just how Individual members can reconcile any promised and accomplished surrender of their duty whether forced or voluntary, with a fulfillment of their duty, whether forced or voluntary, with a sworn personal responsibility, seems cer tainly a serious question for conscientious solution. Promise' and oath cannot both stand one or the other must fall. If they qual ify, which will it be? For Instance, if a Republican legislator votes for a Demo crat, will it be because he feels bound so to vote on account of some prior promise deemed binding, or .because he believes a Democrat the fittest to repre sent Republican Oregon in the political Senate? Surely no Republican will so vote. If he does, what sort of a Republi can representative Is he? If he so votes because of his prior promise, then where Is his freedom or his constitutional duty or sovereign power to judge and make choice himself, which duty and power he wlH yet solemnly be sworn to exercise. It is unthinkable that he will vote for a Democrat because he likes It. He simply will feel forced to do so because he has bound and fettered himself, and Is not a free legislator. He will be a bound and shackled legislator, and cannot carry out his final solemn and binding oath of office to the whole people, and do duty to his whole country, and Judge and select for himself. There Is no denying It. until our Na tional Constitution -be lawfully changed, it Is against National public policy for any voter, or for the people of any single state to demand that legislators, who In Senatorial matters are National in their functional duty, shall exercise those func tions in this, that or any other way. or elect this, that "or any other man Sena tor, than the one they Judge best. State voters can and ought to elect good men to the Legislature; but their legislative integrity finally to vote freely and con scientiously, under all the light they may have, should be maintained and respect ed; and If any voter holds up, hinders, binds or shackles them, he violates his own duty as a good, true, law-abiding citizen. To qualify, and though acting under oath, violate it and keep the prior prom ise, or qualify, and, acting under official responsibility, . ignore their prior promise, and Judge and choose for themselves, or on mature reflection decline to qualify and be ground between upper and nether millstones, and let the people elect new, unbound legislators these are serious questions for each of them. Though it be reprehensible either to promise to do an unlawful thing, or be elected and not keep one's word, yet one thing Is apparent it ought not to He in the mouth of any voter to complain, who held the candidate up to make a promise inconsistent with known sworn official duty. Every voter is presumed to know the law, and to know that no candidate can deprive or disqualify himself when elected from doing his official duty; and that all promises so to do, whether forced or voluntary, are contrary to law and public policy; and any and all such voters are forever estopped from complaining. Less baneful promises have been de clared by courts void in law, and void in public policy. We now haves First A promlne alx months In advance, to vote for iioine one, until election day, unknown. Second On oath later to do one's duty In full, free, deliberate, viva voce voting-, o judtrr, aelect and elect. If these conflict, aa they surely do, which la to be kept the final onth to exercise the Legislator's osvn Judgment In selection and election, or the prom ise to take and accept somebody elae'a uy sot Which "people are to prevail the people of a state, or the people of the United Stalest To whom will aworn members owe final allegiance and su preme dutyt "No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate One one. and love the other, or else he will hold fast to the one and despise the other." M, C. GEORGE. W. M. Ladd, President. Edward Cookingham, Vice-Pres. W. H. Dunckley, Cashier. Interest paid on time deposits and savings accounts. Accounts of banks, firms, corporations and individuals solicited. We are prepared to furnish depositors every facility consistent with good banking. THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE Head Office: Toronto, Canada. Foreign Exchange bought and sold. Drafts Issued payable in all principal cities. 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