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"V THE MORNING OREGQ1VIAN, 8ATT7RIAY, DECEMBER 18, 1909, ROOSEVELT GIVEN I111P FOR EXAMPLE Representative Mann Deplores Criticism From Executives Without Just Cause. ECONOMY TO HIT DISTRICT Officers to iot Xo Increased. Sal aries in Appropriation Bill Which Is Under Discussion Chldren Will Have Playgrounds. WASHINGTON'. Dec. 17. Denunciation of officials of the executive departments of the Government who criticise without just cause was made in a speech by Rep resentative Mann, of Illinois, and also another speech of similar tenor by Rep resentative Fitzgerald, of New York, who said "a certain distinguished official" ' was responsible, therefore, because of the bad example he had set for his subordi nates. This enlivened an otherwise dull session of the House today. It was understood generally that Mr. Fitzgerald had ex-President Rooseve-lt In mind. District Bill Discussed. The District of Columbia appropriation bill was read, but was not put upon its passage, and will be taken up Monday again. Some saving was efffyted by re ducing appropriations for Increases in salaries for District officers by eliminat ing altogether paragraphs making pro visions for new offices. Representative Macon. Arkanses, again assumed the role of the "watch dog of the Treasury" and made points of order against several sections of the bill, and not wholly without success. Children to Have Playgrounds. Rather unexpectedly the House agreed Jo insert in the bill an amendment ap propriating $17.0(10 for playgrounds for children of the District. Near the clone of the day Representa tive Mann made on attack upon Mr. Tweedale, Auditor of the District, for criticising the Government in public speeches. .He said if that official had made statements attributed to him he ought to be discharged. Tyhe Senate was not in session today. WOOIXEY ANSWERS HAWAII Anti-Saloon League Ieader Blames Brewers for Stirring Trouble. WASHIXGTON. Dec. 17. John G. Woolley, superintendent of the Anti Saloon League of the Hawaiian Islands, apepared today before the Senate com mittee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico in support of a bill Introduced by the late Senator Johnson, of North Da kota, to prohibit the sale of intoxicat ing liquors in Hawaii. Woolley declared that a majority of the people would be for Federal legis lation prohibiting the sale of liquor were it not fcfr the opposition aroused by liquor Interests through the circula tion of a report that the effect of such a bill would be to say to the world that the Hawaaians were an unenlight ened race. HARDY CHARGES CORRUPTION Press Subsidized in Ship ' Subsidy Campaign. Says Lawmaker. WASHINGTON. Dec. 17. Charges of corruption -against, members of Congress and of the subsidizing of newspapers for and against ship subsidy which have been made in various American news papers and periodicals, are recounted in a resolution introduced in the House today by Representative Hardy, of Texas, who demands a Congressional investigation. He asked that a committee of "two Democrats and four Republicans, three opposed ,to ship s'tsHy and three favor ing it. be named lo learn to what extent money has been spent by those favoring and opposing ship subsidy, and to what extent newspaper writers and lobbyists mav have been hired." Ballinger Asked for Data. WASHINGTON, Dec. '17. With a view to reducing forest reserve administra tive expenditures, to eliminating non forest lands from the forest reserves and to throwing open to entry all lands more valuable for agriculture, mining jnd grazing than for timber, embraced A the reserves. Representative Martin, r Colorado, today .introduced a reso lution calling on the Secretary of the Interior for comparative data regard ing forest reserve areas. MONEY MADE WITH SHEARS Clever Scheme Transmutes $200 in Notes Into $2 20. ST. LOUIS. Dec. 17. A scheme by which $22 is made out of ten $20 bank notes has been brought to the attention of local banks by the St. Louis officers of the I'nited States Secret Sen-ice. A dozen or more of the altered notes have been received at the Sub-treasury here. This is the scheme, according to an employe of the Sub-treasury: ' Ten $20 banknotes are laid one on top of the other with a quarter-Inch margin i of each note snowline at one end. All are then nrmly held together, and by one stroke with scissors or a sharp knife, each note is divided into two parts one of which is larger than the other. The pieces are then titled together to make a note a trifle less than the regulation e. , There remain nine compete bills and two portions of bills. eaciiX which Is more than three-tifths of a complete bill. The government redeems at full value a mutilated bill which is three-fifths the proper size. By this means. $220 has oeen made out of $200 in $3) notes. STANDARD TAKES APPEAL (Continued From First Page.) pany there are six marketing companies which had 35TT4 selling stations. Fxehauge of Stock Legal. 14. In finding that the Standard Oil Company, of New Jersey, has acquired a commanding volume of the trade by means of a trust. "15. in finding that the seven Individ ual defendants combined to suppress com petition. "lfi. In finding that the exchange of siook for interests jn a single corporation is illegal. "17. In finding that corporations are lrcal entities distinct from stockholders." Assignments IS to 24 argue that the Sherman act does not difTer between va rious forms of competition and that the court erred in finding that the transfer of stock in the 19 companies to the Stand ard Oil Company of New Jersey in creased its power to prevent competition or vested in the larger company the con trol of the so-called "Potentially com petitive" corporations. The next nine assignments deny the court's accuracy in finding that the trans fer resulted In a combination and con spiracy in restraint of trade, that the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey is dominated by the seven individual de fendants, and that the bigr corporation has, since 1899, exercised unlawful pow ers. Securities Case Not at Point. Error ie also alleged in the ruling that a holding company owning the stock of companies that otherwise would be com petitive, is a form of trust prohibited by the Sherman aat. The document then turns to the court's reference to the Northern Securities case, and alleges that error was committed in deciding that the case was ruled by the older decision. The attitude of the rulings regarding the defendant subsidiary companies i next attacked, error being asserted in the findings as to their relations with the Standard of New Jersey. Ori ticism of the decree begins In as signment No. 4&. The court enjoined the New Jersey Company from voting the stock of the subsidiary concerns, smaller companies from paying dividends to the larger, individual defendants from continuing the combination which it found to exist or the formation by them of any similar arrangement looking to the control of price or transportation of petroleum. All these .orders are declared to be in error. The assignment of errors was presented to the court by Frank L. Crawford, of New York, counsel for the Standard Oil Company. BALLINGEB URGES THOROUGH INQUIRY NEW DIPLOMACY ARISES JAPANESE FRIENDSHIP EMBOD IED IX LECTURE. Speech on Land of Mkado Will Be Delivered In Many Cities of This Country. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. New di plomacy was today inaugurated on the part of the Japanese people to dispel all thought of war between that nation and the United States. Masubi Miyakawa was the official diplomat without credentials and with out responsibility to any of the usual authorities to which diplomats bow. This new diplomacy was embodied in a lecture upon the land of the Mikado delivered here tonight for the first time In the United States. Mr. Miyakawa will visit many other cities. , An essential feature of tha ' lecture was a resolution adopted by the school children of Tokio in which they de clared they would never raise a sword against the United States and that they would emulate the example of the boys and girls in the publlo schools of America. Mr. Miyakawa explained how the school children had been taught they would have to fight for the Mikado before the wars with Russia and China. For years before the open conflict had broken out this kind of instruction had been given to the children. The lecture, it is understood, was prepared largely with the approval of leading ' statesmen of Japan. Its pur pose is to promote in this country a friendly feeling toward Japan. INEVITABLE DELAYED BY JAPAN Absorption of Corea Won't Take Place for Some Time. TOKIO, Tuesday, Nov. 23. Undoubtedly the nest important step taken in Corea will be the abolishment of extra territor iality. Under existing conditions in force, since the first of November, the courts of Corea are administered entirely by Jap anese and under Japanese law. It is therefore argued that in view of the fact of the absence of extra territoriality In Japan, there Is no necessity for a contin uance of it in Corea. The conditions now existing in that country point, of course, to gradual absorption. It is pointed out that the dual responsi bility makes administration much more difficult and expensive, and consequently the Ooreans themselves do not derive the greatest amount of benefit from the de velopment of. their resources and the im provement oJ existing conditions. It may be said, however, that Japan is extremely loath to take the final step which, by many, is regarded as Inevitable, and that she will not do so for Gome time to come. New Ambassador Conies. V SAX FRANCISCO. Dec. 17. Baron Yasupa Uchida, the new Japanese Am bassador to the United States, arrived here early today on-the liner Tenyo Ma.ru. He was accompanied by his wife, who is a gfsrduate of Bryh Mawr Col lege. Baron Uchida has not -been in Washington since 1S89, when he was an attache of the Japanese Legation there. He raid today that he had always been unxious i return and that his present appointment was the one he desired most. JAPAN PLANS ECONOMY Budget Reduces -Expenses and' Will Cut Down National Debt. TOKIO. Dec. 17. The budget esti mated for 1910-11, as given out today, decreases estimated receipts $5, 000. 000. Extraordinary expenditures of the War Department are reduced $4000,000. .Provision is made for the addition of $3, 750. 000 to the consolidation fund, which totals $96.500,00. of which $60, 500,000 is to be devoted to the repay ment of the national debt. Kstlmated expenditures are an nounced at $287,000,000. which includes $43,000,000, for war and $37,500,000 for the navy. Receipts are estimated at $267,000. 000, of which taxes will contribute $161,000,000. The sum of $17,000,000 will be devoted to industries. Friends Meet Pinchot's De mands and Will Press -J Them Further. COUNT BONr- LOSES FIGHT - Paris Court Decides Anna ( jou 1 il Has Charge of Child"s Tutoring. PARIS, Dec. 17. The court today decided in favor of the Princess de Sagan in the suit instituted by her former husband. Count Bonl de Cas tellane, who sought an order compel ling the defendant to appoint for the youngest of their sons. Jay, a tutor ac ceptable to the father and who should report to him of the boy's progress. Castellane was condemned to pay the costs. Chins Ting Tans Is Optimist. WASHINGTON. Dec. 17. Chang Tin Tang, the newlv arrived Chinese Minister, paid today that conditions in China and Manchuria had greatly improved and that further progress towards prosperity and International amity was sure to fol-law- RULING MOTIVE SOUGHT Jones and Borah Determined to Get All Tacts in Controversy That Has Stirred Administra tion Circles. OREGONIAS NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Dec. 17. Senatorial friends lot Secretary Ballinger are preparing to introduce and pass a resolution au thorizing sweeping Congressional in vestigation Into conduct of the Interior Department. General Land Office and Forest Service. Secretary Ballinger is in hearty accord with this purpose and said today he would welcome such an Investigation in his department, for he Is satisfied that a fair and Impartial investigation will bring forth satisfac tory answer to every accusation that has been made against Elm and against other officials of his department. Senator Jones, of "Washington, and Senator Borah, of Idaho, are strongly in favor of this investigation and will use their efforts not only to have it authorized, but to make it as sweeping as possible. They are anxious to get at all facts in the controversy that has stirred the Administration, but equally determined to find the motive behind the attacks on Ballinger. Inasmuch as Pinchot's partisans started the move for -Congressional investigation, Ballinger's friends propose to give them all they asked and more. Probably nothing beyond the intro duction of the resolution can be ac complished until after the holiday re- COWLITZ DREDGING FAVORED Engineers Recommend , Appropria tion of $9600 for Channel. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Dec. 17. Army engineers, in a report sent to Congress to day, rec ommend an appropriation of $9600 for dredging a channel 40 feet wide and two and a half feet deep in the Cow litz River, from Castle Rock to Toledo, and the annual appropriation of $2000 to maintain this channel. Last year they recommended an appropriation to dredge the channel 60 feet wide and two and a half feet deep from" the mouth of the Cowlitz to Castle Rock. It Is intended that the whole improve men for the distance of 36 miles shall be carried forward as one project. The engineers report adversely on the proposed further improvement of the Nooksack and Pend d'Orellle rivers, finding that the commerce of , these streams at present do not justify fur ther appropriations. The survey of the Nooksack went to Lynden. The Pend d'Orellle was sur veyed from Newport to Metalline. ONE TERM ENOUGH FOR AVERY Attorney and Land Official Not Seek- ing Reappointment. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Dec. 17. Senators Jones and Piles will take no action looking to selection of a new United States attor ney and marshal for the Eastern Dis trict of Washington until after the holiday recess. The terms of District Attorney A. G. Avery and Marshal George H. Baker are about to expire. Avery is not a candidate for reappoint ment andlt is yet undetermined wheth er Baker" will be recommended for an other term. - Many candidates are in the field. , It is also understood that T.'N. Al len, Receiver of the Olympia Land Of fice, will not be a candidate for re appointment when his term expires next month. In that event the new Receiverwill be chosen in January. Alaska Roads May Get $150,000. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Dec. 17. Appropriation of $150, 000 for the construction and repair of wagon roads in Alaska today was in serted in the Army appropriation bill. WHITE HOUSE IN MOURNING President Tuft Goes to Connecticut, Where Sister-In-Law Died. WASHINGTON. Dec. 17. President Taft left Washington this after noon for Watertown, Connecticut, where tomorrow he will attend the funeral of Mrs. Horace B. Taft. wife of his brother, Horace B. Taft. Mrs. Taft died last night in a hospital in Balti more. The President probably will return to Washington Sunday morn ing. It is probable that the President will cancel nearly all social engage ments for the White House for some time to come. Because of the death of his sister-in-law, the President today authorized the recall of invitations for the dance that was to . have been given in the White House on December 29. COURT HELD AT BEDSIDE Ios Angeles Rabbi, Robbed and Beaten, Cnable to Leave Room. LOS ANGEL.ES. Cal., Dec. 17. Be cause David Cohen, an aged rabbi and jeweler who was assaulted and robbed several weeks ago in his place of busi ness, was too ill from the effects of his injuries to appear today-'at the arraign ment of the alleged robber. Justice Wil liams moved his court to the sick cham ber. Stenographers, attorneys, the clerk, bailiffs and the prisoner took up their stations around the rabbi's bedside and the examination of witnesses' was begun. Floren Franklin. Cohen's- alleged assail ant, was held for trial. BABES LOCKED IN, BURN I Mother Goes Away, Lea-ring Children Alone in House. WINNIPEG. Man.. Dec 17. Two children of Sydney Masters, of Fort Rogue, were burned to death early today. Mrs. Masters locked the children in the house while she was aw ay. Today l 5 rem s luay Let their joy be uncon fined. This is the time of the year when the little folks'should have full sway. Every provision for their comfort and every opportunity for their shopping has been provided by this store. Let this Saturday be siven over to making their hearts glad, with the rapid approach of the one day in the year when they rule the home Let them visit Toyland o TF onman 7Lr IP IWiTXi II: V Tr-TJ UTSi 'rt BIG SPECIALS IN READING LAMPS Sale Decorated Semi-Porcelain J At Holiday Prices-YR. DINNER SETS One special lot has fancy shapes, red flowers, green leaves and gold embossing. Greatly reduced for this sale. c Regular $5.68 value,' 50-pieee set, special.... L.S54.50 Regular $7.20 value, 60-pieee set, special . ...$5.60 Regular $11.20 value, 100-piece set, special . i.$8.50 White with gold border, fancy shapes. Regular $6.32 value, SO-piee set, special 5.t)J Regular $8.00 value, 60-piece set, special S6.2o Regular $12.45 jyalue, 100-piece set, special.. . $9.85 Green border, with fancy gold borderJnside the green. Regular $7.20 value, 50-piece set. Special $5.60 Regular $9.60 value, 60-piece set, special '. .-57.50 Regular $14.40 value, 100-piece set, special....... XX.2o Dainty blue and gold border decoration. Very pretty. Regular $8.15 value, 50-piece set, special ....$6.25 Regular $10.20 value, 60-piece set, special. j7.85 Regular $16.15 value, 100-piece set, special $12.50 Regular $13.00 values, each, only..$ 9.90 Regular $16.00 values, each, only. .$12.75 Regular $19.50 values, each, only. .11.75 Regular $28.50 values, each, only . . $22.50 EITHER GAS OR ELECTRIC LIGHT. Regular $6.90 values, each, only. .$ 5.00 Regular $15.75 values, each, only.. $12.25 Regular $18.00 values, each, only.. $14.35 Children's Coats A re on Sale for Today $9.50 Values for $4.89 $14.50 Values for $6.79, $20.00 Values for $9.99 This includes every Child's Coat instock. They are niade up in broadcloth, serges, wide wale serge, cheviots, mixtures and coverts. The large variety of styles from which to select makes this a particularly inviting sale. Nothing is reserved in this sale. . Two Extra Specials for Women Made especially tempting for Saturday. Two Women's Coats. Materials broadcloth, serges," cheviots, wide wale serges and coverts. Colors, gray, black, blue, brown and mixtures. - ' Values to $30.00 at $13.98 Values to $38.50 at $18.49 School Shoes at Special Prices Today Girl's Friend Maker School Shoes will be offered at special prices today. Misses' and Chil dren's red or black felt slippers, leather tipped, with hand turned soles, very modest and well made. . Sizes from the smallest to misses wearing No. 2. Reg ular $1.00 vai- cn. ues for . ; . . .J U u Red Felt Juliets turned soles it? with black fur trimming hanr!- Misses 98. Sizes 5 to 8. Childs 85 Red Felt Juliets for the baby. Red fur trimmed. C fl n Sizes 1 to 5. Saturday Special 0 U u Same in baby blue, white fur trimmed. Saturday Sp'l 65c Red Top Rubber Boots may be had here only. Cost no more than others. Silk RobeS s a SP50 fr Saturday, we offer Japanese Silk Robes for H?jf Q Q children, from 2 to 10 &m nn yj" & O years; regular $15. Sp'l.$ leSu A special offering of Infants' Hand-made Slips and Short dresses for holiday. Regular $1.75 to $14.00, One-third Off These are suitable for snrla rhev come sweaters $1.98 from S to 14 years. They come only in white and are regularly sold for $2.75 eaeh. ffl QQ Special for today only. ? IU0 m . M - WHITE SLAVE BILL OUT IMMIGRATION COMMITTEE RE PORTS SUBSTITUTE MEASURE. - Covers Ground of Bill' Prepared by ChairmaiL Mann, .of Interstate Commerce Commission. WASHINGTON. Dec. 17. A bill aiming at the suppression of "the white filave traffic and imprisonment andheavy fines for any person importing women into this country for immoral purposes, harboring them after their arrival here or sending them from ' state . to state was reported out of the immigration committee today. The measure is a substitute for the two bills introduced by Representatives Bennett and Sabath, and is intended to cover the ground of the bill prepared by Chairman Mann, of the Interstate Com merce Commission. A maximum penalty of 10 years' Im prisonment and a fine of $5000 is provided Tot violations. - The white slave bill introduced by Chair man Mann of the House committee on interstate and foreign commerce was con sidered also at today's meeting of Mr. Mann's cocnmlttee but was not acted upon. The committee will meet again tomor row. Advocates of the bill believe that one or two of the minority are weaken ing. Contentions of the immigration com mittee that it and not the Interstate Com merce Commission has jurisdiction was brought up at today's meeting of the commerce committee, but it was claimed that the bill in no way divested the im migration committee of its prerogatives. The report recommends additional leg islation by states and territories and the restrict of Columbia along lines of the Illinois law. The substitute bill is changed from the original immigration commit tee's bill, so as to apply to "Persons who are supported by or receive proceeds of prostitution." VICTIM'S MONEY MISSING Coroner's Jury Investigating Rob bery as Well as Wreck. FLAG-STAFF. Ariz., Dec. 17. After be ing In session all afternoon, the Coroner's jury Investigating the case- of the wreck on the Santa Fe Road at Winona yester day adjourned until tomorrow to secure the testimony of members of the train crew. The jury is making an effort to ascer tain what has become of a considerable sum of money found on the body of Mrs. Alice Bennett, the only person killed. Of the 50 passengers injured, not one was so badly hurt as to be unablo to pro ceed eastward as soon as the track was cleared, several hours later. The cause of the wreck remains a subject of dispute. Either the engineer of the limited overlooked the flagman, or the flagman failed to go back far enough to protect his train, according to the statements of witnesses. FARM SWINDLE CHARGED J. F. Wilson Indicted for Defrauding Grangers Through Malls. SAX FRANCISCO, Dec. 17. The Fed eral grand Jury returned an Indictment late today against J. F. Wilson, accused of swindling farmers of this country and Canada out of thousands of dollars by fraudulent use of the United States mails. Other indictments were found against the Long Sugar & Refining Company, of this city, for interstate shipment of adul terated food products, and Wieland Bros., pf this city, for -interstate shipment of misbranded cheese. Postal Plums Fall. REGONIANr NEWS BI'REAU, Wash ington. Dec. 17. Charles Orance was to day appointed rural carrier for route No. 1. at Cornelius. William P. Sedge was appointed postmaster at Dairy. Klamath County. CORNELLS LIVING APART Chauffeur left -without ex pected WITNESS. y Telegram From Detroit First Word Defense Has of Woman's Whereabouts. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. lTgpe cial.) A development in the opening of the trial of Carl Fisher, charged with the killing of Mrs. Dora Feller, July 15 last. In Judge Willis' court today, was a tele gram from Mrs. Marie Cornell, wife of Fred Cornell, dated Detroit, Mich., say ing that she had separated from her hus band, a well-known automobile dealer In this city. It was Cornell's machine, driven tv Fisher, that caused the death of Mrs. Feller. It was expected that Mrs. Cor nell, who was one of the occupants of the automobile, would bo here to tetstify in behalf of her chauffeur. Fisher, but the following message, read by Attornev Drake, dispelled all hope In that direc tion: "The car was running slow when the accident occurred; two lights In front gave warning. Carl was blameless. Fred and I have separated." 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