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TUFT APPROVES HEW KNOX PUN Telegraphs Senate to Hasten Legislation Making Sena tor Eligible for Position. MESSAGE SENT KNOX ALSO Senator Himself Takes tittle Action In Peculiar Tangle and Says Tliat Matter Is All In Taffs Hands. XTHV ORLEAXa Teh.. II. President elect Taft today gave out the teleprams exchanged between him and Senator Knox, which teem to fumlKh a solution to the constitutional difficulty that has arisen In connection -with Senator Knox"s eligibility for a place In Judtse Taffs Cabinet. Senator Knox wired Judge Taft at follows: "A bill has been introduced In the Sen ate to remove the constitutional bar to my eligibility to the Cabinet by repeal ing the act providing for an increase In Falary for the Secretary of State. I am In no way promoting or liavlns anything to do with the measure. "Tt Is ft matter for you. w'ith the ap pointive power, to determine first whether the proposed action Is desirable or would be effective. Oir minds should be free from all doubt concerning the legality and propriety of the proposed plan before ac quiescing In it. If you have any reason for not approving what is being done, it should be announced, otherwise, an Injus tice may be done to whoever may ne ap pointed. ' rRienedl "P. C. KNOX." Judge Taft today sent in reply the fol- "I sincerely hope, that the bill repealing the increase In salary for the Secretary of Brute will liars "I have no doubt that that will remove all the difficulties of the situation in the licht of its purpose. I should regard vour ineligibility at this time as a great public misfortune and It would be a per sonal disappointment to me too great for m to express. "I have telegraphed Senator Hale, Speaker Cannon and Mr. Payna of my wishes and hopes in tnis resnrn. (Signed) "W. H. TAFT." TANGLE OX HKPl'CTIOX BIIX T House Committees Wrangle Over Wlileh Shall Consider Measure. WASHINGTON. Feb. II. House leaders favorable to the adoption of the Senate Mil reducing the salary of the Secretary of State to tSOOO a year In order to make Senator Knox eligible for the position, have evolved a scheme to avoid sending the bill to the House Committee on Judicial-, which is aid to be opposed to the measure. The bill was not offered to the committee when the House met today and In explanation it leaked out that the com mittee on the election of President and Vice-President Intended to report a bill covering the same subject. This would make It impossible to substitute the House measure for that of the Senate and no rf-rence to a committee would be nepes eary. The telegram of Judge Taft to Senator Hale urging legislation to make Senator Knox eligible has worked a great change of sentiment in the House. Even members of the Judiciary committee, who had believed the bill Inefficient in remov ing the ineligibility, expressed their inten tion to vote for the Senate bill, since thp President-elect so desired It. A -bill of Representative Gaines to de crease the emoluments of the Secretary of State late today was referred to the House committee on election of President, Vice-President and Representatives in Congress. Some of the members of the committee on Judiciary, however, are striving for a way to get hold of the measure. They claim that both the Gaines bill and its counterpart, the Sen ate bill, should have been referred to a committee of lawyers. Instead, the for mer was sent to another committee and iie Senate bill still rests on the Speaker's tah waiting for the U-aines measure to ippearancc. A movement Is being considered xo nave the same state could! not -well b on this committee. ma some members of the committee ask to morrow for . change of reference. Representative Clayton, of Alabama, recognized as on . of the leading lawyers of the House. hIleves that the bill will do all It la intended to accomplish and he will vote in accordance with that view. He contends thatthe House Is not con sidering the eligibility of Senator Knox. That question, he says, will only come before thA Senate when the confirmation of his probable nomination is requested. COXGKESSMEX WANT VACATION Think Middle of March Ample Time for Special Session. WASHINGTON. Feb. 12. Believing that all work and no play is bad for Congressmen, members of the House are urging the President-elect should not call the special session of Congress for the consideration of the tariff to meet until March 15. Some of the members want to take heir families to some ot those famous Southern resorts where the air Is balmy and to recuperate from the" ef fects of the present strenuous session. There are, however, other members who desire the excra fortnight to at tend to private busincsi matters which have been neglected. The Speaker, and perhaps, a majority of the members, aie willing that Sir. Taft should call the special session for March 10 so that the House mar proceed with the business before It without delay. - It is al&o suggested that Congress should be called for March 8, which Is the first Monday following Inauguration day. FITZGERALD GETS HONORS "Will Head Committee on Rules In Next House. WASHINGTON", Ft;h. 12. The unusual tionor conferred upon "Representative Fitz gerald by Speaker Cannon in appointing him chairman of the special committee to investigate the regularity of bills and resolutions signed by more than one mem ber, has brought out the fact that Mr. Fitzgerald Is slated for a position on the committee on rules of the next House. He is the only Democrat to be appointed chairman of a committee during the pres ent Congress. Tiie Democrats on the present committee on rules are the late minority leader. Williams of Mississippi, and Representative DeArmond. of Mis souri. As Representative Tark. of Mis souri, lias succeeded Mr. Williams as mi nority leader, he Is recognized as the log ical successor of the Mississippi Repre sentative on the committee on rules. This would necessitate the retirement of Mr. XieArmond, because two members from MAY LOWER PAPER TARIFF House Committee Said to Favor a General Reduction. WASHINGTON. Feb. 12. With the approach of the special Besslon of Con gress for the consideration of a re vised tariff, activities In regard to the Investigation of wood pulp and print paper are being renewed. The select committee on pulp and paper Investi gation made plans today to discuss the various matters which will enter Into their report to the House. It is understood the committee will rec ommend a considerable reduction In the duty on cheap print paper and probably the removal of the tariff on' grouna wood, under euch oxmditions as would secure the free Importation of both pulp wood and ground wood pulp from Canada. It Is also the desire of the committee to for bid any export tax or any other charge by Canada upon either pulp wood ground or print paper. The tariff on sulphite or soda fiber will not be changed, it Is understood. As the ways and means committee, which is preparing the new tariff bill, has gath ered considerable evidence and Informa tion and as the responsibility for the re vision of the present schedules will rest with that commiuee, inai pari ui . -port of the pulp and paper committee which refers to the tariff will probably be referred to the tarlff-framers in suf ficient time to be embodied in the new bill. 9100,000 to Fight Trusts. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. In a letter submitted to Congress through the Secretary of the Treasury, Attorney General Bonaparte asks that an appro priation of $100,000 be made for the fiscal year 1910 for the enforcement of the anti-trust laws. OULD HOT DESERT CHILD MOTHER'S LIFE DESPAIRED OF . AND BOY IS DEAD. Mass of Rock. Falls on Mount Lowe Pavilion Family Flees, but , Mother Returns for Boy. PASADENA, Cal.. Feb. 12.-Because she would not desert her child In danger. Mrs. Fred Drew, wife of the agent of the Pacific Electric Railroad, at Its sta tion and pavilion in Rubio Canyon, on the Mount Lowe Line, is in a hospital here tonight and her life is despaired of. The child Is dead, buried under tons of earth and rock. At 1 o'clock this afternoon the occu pants of the Dr w cottage, attached to the pavilion, which rested on supports stretched across the precipitous canyon walls. 50 feet high, lieard a rumbling noise, warning them that a great mass of rock and earth had been loosened above the pavilion and was coming down upon them. They made for the door to es cape the disaster, but after seeing her other three children safely outside. Mrs. Drew discovered that Thayer, a boy of five years, was still in the cottage. She rushed inside and was caught by the great mass of rock Blipplng down the canyon wall. The buildings were car ried down the canyon and Mrs. Drew and the boy were buried in the- ruins of the buildings WATER COMPANY'S PLEA House Committee Hears Final Ar guments . on Hetch-Hetchy. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. Edward J. McCutcheon, of San Francisco, before the Senate committee on publio lands today opposed legislation to permit the City of San Francisoo to exchange land for an equal acreage In the Hetch Hetchy Valley In order that the city may provide its own water works. He maintained that the Spring Valley Water Company, which he represents, has an abundance of water to supply San Francisco's needs, and that only additional piping, which the company Is ready to provide, is needed. f.vnr tti1jiti find Mursden Manson, City Engineer of San Francisco, spoke In favor of the exchange oi lanu, saj i iki ih. rlcht to construct the dam already received from the Secre tary of the Interior could be revoked i futurA Seeretarv. an act of Congress being necessary to make it permanent. The hearings were concluded today, and at a meeting to be held next Wednesday the matter will probably be referred to a subcommittee. AMERICA INSPIRED MOVE Chinese Official Says Idea of Opium Reform Came to Him in V. S. i nvnnv Veh 12. An important dep- ..iil, em the United Anti-opium So ciety, headed by Sir Matthew Dodsworth, president of the, organization, xouay pie- .j Tor, shno Yal with an Illumin ated address expressing their gratitude at the firm stand taken by China in the suppression of the opium habit. Tang .Shao Yal is the special com missioner of the Chinese government now on a tour of the world. Replying. Mr. Tang said Tie had obtained his first Inspiration to labor against the opium traffic when In America in the early 70s. He outlined the subsequent efforts to ,ho trnriA until now all the pro vincial Viceroys agree with him that the traffic could be stopped In three years, n-K .. phinnoA rrtvrn mpnt. he savs. great- lv appreciated the co-operation of the United States and Great Britain and. he hoped the international commission now in session in Shanghai would be success ful. J1 . COOPER JURY COMPLETED But State Questions F1tnes9 of Two Members for Service. NASHVILLE. Tenn.. Feb. 12. William Hows, aged 55, a farmer, was accepted to day as the twelfth Juror in the trial of Colonel Duncan B. Cooper. Robin J. Coop er and John D. Sharpe for the murder of ex-Seaator Carmack. Immediately after he was chosen Attorney-General McCann objected to the Jury being sworn and said: "Information has come to the state, which we have not had time to Investi gate, concerning two men already chosen on the Jury. I suggest that the balance of the present venire be retained until we can investigate the charges." Judge Hart then adjourned the case nntll tomorrow. CHANGE IN OJ. & N. TIME Effective next Sunday, February 14, there will be a slight change In the O. R. & N. train schedule between Portland and Spokane. va a hA "Sruikiuifl Fiver." WS leave Portland at 7:W P. M.. arriving mt Spo kane at :00 A. 41., and No. 3, the "Port land Flyer." will leave Spokane at 7:00 P. if., arriving Portland at 8:00 A. M. Rosenthal's great snoa sale Is on. Store Open Tonight Till 9:30 . Olds, Wortm an (Bz Store Open Tonight Till 9:30 Today the L ast SJ ay or Kemnan t Week Spring Shirts Ready Now Tasteful, fastidious men will be pleased with our offerings in Spring haberdashery. We call par ticular attention to the Fifth-street win dow display of new Spring Shirts and Neckwear. Our usual low prices rule, but better qualities and styles than these are not to be had in the most exclusive furnishing stores. Inspect these goods. Men's Shirts, in plain or pleated styles, the new Spring colorings or plain white; sepa rate or attached cuffs; shirts suitable for every occasion. The best makers are represented in our stock. Neckwear, in the latest shades from America's originators of neck wear styles. The new est shapes, the most popular colorings and the finest grade silks made into neat Ties at modest prices. $2.00 Kid Gloves SI. 19 These are odds and ends of splendid Monarch Gloves, famous everywhere as the best $2.00 Gloves to be had. Suede finish in black or white; nearly all sizes; regular price $2.00 the pair ; for the last day of Remnant 01 1 Q Week, we offer this lot, choice for only 0 I 3 30cHoseatl7c$4 Hose $1.98 Women's Black Wool Hose, also plain and fancy cotton, and Children's Fine Black Ribbed Cotton or Cashmere Hose; regular values in either lot to 35c the 1 ? pair, at, the choice .... I I U Women's Black Silk Hose, for dressy wear, embroid ered in colors; all sizes; regularly to $4 the pair ; to close out odds and ends, offered for are today's selling at.. S1.98 Buy Raisins D tree I From the Grower You may buy the best Raisins on the market here, and pay only about HALF the price GOOD Raisins cost you now. MRS V A. MOWATT, of Fresno, California, has brought us a carload of her choiest, freshest raisins, just from her own vineyard and packed under her own supervision. ALL MIDDLEMEN'S PROFIT ELIMIN- " ATED. Direct from produced to consumer, and you get the benefit. 12 to 16 pounds for One Dollar. jC Three sixteen-ounce cartons sell during this sale at the exceptionally low price of MRS. MOWATT is in Portland to edu cate local purchasers to the idea of buying direct and saving for them selves the four or five profits hereto fore necessary. On sale today at our store, center aisle. Buy one pound or as many as you want. RAISINS ARE HEALTHFUL, nutri tious. There is more food Value in one pound of raisins than in four 'pounds of meat. California produces the fin est raisins on earth, yet Scotch and English people eat four to five times as many as Americans and we envy them their sturdy health. RECIPES FREE with each dollar's' worth purchased. These are from Oscar, the famous Waldorf-Astoria chef. You'll find them delicious. Tell how to use raisins for pies, cakes, pud dings, bread, sandwiches, and make' other tempting dishes. Cook book free with every dollar purchase. than candy amount of RAISINS ARE BETTER for children. A certain sugar is required by any child, and tho grape sugar in raisins is the best you can give them. Raisins with nuts make a fine hut health food. Fleasant, wholeso.me, easily digested. RAISIN SANDWICHES Chop" fine one cup of raisins and one cup, of walnuts, together with one cup of whipped cream and season with a little salt. Spread with slices of bread, cut thin. Save 1-3 on Ribbon Widths run from one inch to four and three-quarters inches, thus giving 3-011 ribbons for every purpose. They are in fine satin taffeta, all wanted widths and wanted colors. "Widths and prices as shown below: 1-in. width, regular 8c the yard; special today En only .....du li8-in. width, 10c value. 7 liin. width, 13c value. 9 1-in, width, 18c value 12d fl-in. wide. 21c the yard; cial today only. 31,-in., reg. 30c 2s-in., reg 4-in., reg regular price spe- 25c 14c yard. .20 vard. .17 40c yard. .27 rr ! Fancy Chiffon Veilings, with embroid V eillTlgS ered or velvet dots, in such wanted shades as brown, navy, green, red, tan, light blue, black or white. Values to $1.50 the yard. Special fJQp today at the exceptionally low price of OuO ) jjr I C For women, in pure linen, with hand-embroidered SSk,erCnieTS initial; 6heer or heavy, and regularly worth to 35c each a dainty, splendid quality. A lot of 45 dozen is placed on sale 1 7 today, and they are selling at the low price of only, each. 1 ' f Neckwear g T Bows, tailored linen J collars, embroidered j collars, Windsor ties, JL i fancy lace collars, embroidered Dutch '' collars and small A r silk bows. Regular X values run as high W as C5c; your choice vj V f of over 200 on lip 11 11 ' on sale at, ea. ' II Buy Valentines Today This is your last opportunity to buy Valentines, if you would be in time. Take a peep at the splendid assortment shown here and note how low are the prices; and it is pretty near a certainty that ajl of your friend3 will be pleasantly remembered by you. We have Valen tines of every sort; extremely artistic, worth up to $5.00 each, or Postcards and Comic Valentines, as low as 1 each. Take advantage. 12c Box Stationery, cloth finished paper, with "Poctland. Oregon," embossed on each sheet, Dr. Graves' Tooth Powder, reg. 25c can, special today. Everybody's Safety Razor, holder and plate complete; a razor 1 ft that will shave, each lUu Extra blades, three for 10 Bulk Perfumes, assorted odors, best English or French OT makes, reg. 50c oz., special. . Zuu All Calendars now half price. f-t . A Saturday special in our splendid Corset Section to LsOrSetS day. The Dowager Model Royal Worcester Corset, for full and heavy figures; medium length and medium bust; reinforced. In every way they give good service; a splendid model for Oi OQ stout figures; regular $3.00 model; on sale today at 01 iGu 50c values, special, at only. . XOu Side Combs, large size, shell M color, worth 65c pr., spl Hull Pants Hangers, with wooden clamp, regular price 15c each, special at low price. . All Framed Pictures y2 Price 10c Suit Dept. Savings a-plenty in Portland's largest and best Suit Department today. All Children's Coats sell at half price. Women's Suits, Coats and all sorts of garments are well bargainized. New Spring Suits are on display and prices temptingly low. See to it that you look through our 2d floor. Chinaware Big Bargains Odds and ends in Dinner Sets, unusually fine qualities, priced very low for Remnant Week. Dinner Sets, in white and gold, Ilaviland china, exquisitely beautiful decorations, fine goods, regularly $37.00, at 007 (10 the special price of . . . 00 1 lU U Haviland China Diner Sets, in white and gold, with pink wreath decorations and, gold handles, regular price $117.60, Oyr nn special, this sale 0l UiUll German China Dinner Sets, in pink and green decoration, reg ular price $22.00, spe- M P nn cial price,, this sale. . . 0 I UiUU KITCHEN NEEDS American Waffle Irons, spl. 6S Griddle Irons, special price. 35 Enameled Covered Roasters 40 Ex. grade Wash Boilers. $1.50 Water Pails, special price. .15 Wire Clothes Lines, each..l7 Jletal Polish, the box, only.l2 Brass Bird Cage Hooks, ea.lO Picture Hooks, tho dozen 8 Remnant Shoe Sale-Last Day 51,50 Bargains for men Bargains for women Bargains for children.. Come now and buy at 50c to $2.98 Shoes and Slippers that have been selling for $1.50 to $6.00. By all means take advantage of the bargains offered here, for their like will not be presented again in many a day. 1800 pairs Women's $4 and $5 Shoes remnant price... 420 pairs Women's $2.50 01 fift and ,$3 Oxford and Slippers. 0 lU" Regular lines in Women's tQQ 1Q $5 Shoes, priced today at. ..00i I J Regular lines of Women's Ql) nn $3.50 and $4 Shoes, today. . .OZiUU Small-sized Women's $15.00 Riding Boots, Saturday price has Or flfl been placed at only OfiUU Women's Boudoir Slippers, en large sizes, $1 vals., special... uUu Women Kid House Slippers, $1.50 values, large sizes, only 50 Wimen's Kid Oxfords, regular $2.00 values, the pair, special. .98 Men's Shoes, narrow widths, regular $4, $o and $6 grades. .Jjv.ys . ' i, C?- O'clock this evening we offer two striking specials in Men's Shoes. Come early this evening and choose. Men's Shoes, sizes up to 8, AA and A widths, or sizes to 6V2 in B width, regular $3.50 to $6.00 values; the pair, after six o'clock, OQ OQ (Cannot be exchanged) Oiwu These are exceptional values at the prices we ask: Men's Shoes, in medium widths and all sizes; a superb lot of $3.50 and $4.00 grades ; plain or patent leathers; good styles; choice Of) JQ of many pairs, after 6 o'clock, at. Chinaware Big Bargains Syracuse China Dinner Sets, good quality, very durable, in pink and green decorations, 100 pieces, regularly $16.00 OQ nn value, special OuiUU Semi-Porcelain Dinner Sets, nandsome design, 60 pieces, reg ular price $6.32, spe- OM yr cial price, only Oii'3 Semi-Porcelain Dinner Sets, in green decorations, with gold bor der, 60 pieces, regular Or Mfi price $7.20, special, set..Oui4U 100 pieces, regularly 01 fl Ofl $14.40 the set, special. . 0 I UiOU KITCHEN NEEDS Tin Pie Plates, each only 3 Handled Cake Turners, each.4 Large Heavy Iron Forks, ea . . 2 Solid Metal Teaspoons, set.25 Solid Metal Tablespoons,set 50 Fancy Ring Jelly Moulds, reg. $1 value, special 50 $1.25 fancy Jelly Moulds. . .63 $1.35 fancy Jelly Moulds.. 68 Baby Bonnets at Only 29c A special in the second-floor Infants' Wear De partment to effect a quick riddance of all odd lota of Baby Silk Bonnets; tight-fitting effects, colors or white. Values up to $1.75 each at. .29 Regular values up to$2.50 each go at only.48 Women's $4.50 Silk Umbrellas Special TodayOnly $3.48 Tape edge, Gloria Silk Umbrellas, with gunmetal or horn handles, splendid quality, regularly QQ MQ sold at $4.50 each, special today only UuiTU Women s lea Aprons 4oc Women's Tea Aprons, made of white lawn, round style, with fancy ruffles of embroidery; sell reg ularly at 65c each, special for today 48 Dozens of special bargains in baby things in lots too small to advertise. Come and secure bargains.