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5 HOUSE CALLS ON TUFT FOR FACTS President Is Asked Why Sugar Trust Should Not Be In vestigated. RAINEY RENEWS CHARGES Attorney-General and H. V. Tafft Accused of Favoring Trust Offi cial Senate Exempts All "Water Routes From Bill. WASHINGTON, April 14. The Presi dent today was requested to send to Con gress any facts In his possession that make inadinsable any invetigation of the sugar trust frauds, unless in his judg ment such action might be incompat fiervlce. -ible with the interests of the public A speech by Rainey of 'Illinois charging that Attorney-General Wickers-ham and Henry W. Taft, brother of the Presi dent, had certain legal connections with he trua?t attracted attention. Trust Officials Arraigned. Rainey declared that prominent mem bers of the 8uwr Trust had been in danger of the penitentiary, but had been able to dnfeat Investigation of their meth ods, while the statute of limitations was running against their offenses. He charged that the Attorney-General was row "exhibiting a remarkable sympathy with it officials in their difficulties." "For 14 years, through. Its almost ab solute management and control of the Republican party," declared Mr'. Rainey, the Sugar Trust has been able to wreck great financial institutions; it has been able to shape tariff schedules; through tariff schedules- framed to suit its pur poses it has been able to steal. Indirectly, from the people, and, by bribing Repub lican officials, it has been able to steal directly from the Treasury of the United States untold millions of dollars.' He said that the trust had employed "Standard Oil methods" in attempting to control the production of sugar far be yond the boundaries of the United States. It had started revolutions in Cuba to aid an annexation movement. The free ad mission of J0D.00O tons of Philippine sugar, he insisted, was but a move to help swell the coffers of the pit gar monopoly. He concluded: Real Offenders Untouched. "The Attorney-General of the United States, however, commences his prose cutions and ends them with unimportant officials and $18-a-week checkers, and the real persons guilty of the most colossal fraud in the history of our Government are permitted to go about without pun ishment, without exposure, still posing a honest men. still willing and still able to contribute to the campaign funds of the Republican party." Mr. Olmsted, of Pennsylvania, an nounced that the Secretary of War had sent to the committee on expenditures In the Treasury department various Information concerning the sale of the friar lands in the Philippine Islands, wh-ch he laid before the House. The Information was in response to a reso lution introduced by Mr. Martin, of Colorado, who had asserted that by means of Illegal sales, large tracts of 0Ugar lands had come into the pos session of the sugar trust, f. Representative Mann concluded his opening speech on the railroad bill and Mr. Adamson, of Georgia, senior minor ity member of the committee on in terstate and foreign commerce, spoke In opposition to the measure. Water Routes Marie Exemnt. After devoting two hours to the rail ' 3-0 ad bill the Senate laid aside that meas ure until Monday. The only amendment adopted was one prohibiting the Inter state Coramerre Commission from exer cising jurisdiction over routes which are entirely by water. Consideration of the amendment led to a discussion regarding the Western coastwise shipping. Piles of Washing ton, and Chamberlain of Oregon en gaged in a colloquy as to whether there was miff iclent competition in that sec tion, the former contending that it had been suppressed largely by the railroad shipping lines and the latter declaring that much of the business was done by the steamship lines. Chamberlain also asserted that the rail roads had largely cut out competition on the Mississippi by building lines parallel with that river. Cummins thought the present law should nt be changed. He was opposed to any step looking to a diminution of the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission. lxdge advocated the amendment, say ing it was necessary to withhold exclu sive w m,l- i trnnpuri-uKMi 1 rum me au thority of the Commission. With this view. Bacon agreed. The amendment "eftds: "Nor shall the Commission have the right to establish any through rate, classification, rate, fare or charge, when the transportation is wholly by water." The Senate passed the Warren bill Authorizing the Government to dispose (Of surplus irrigation water. PARTNER WITH NATURE knth Carolina Boy Wins Govern- ment's Prize for Finest Crop. New Tork Evening Mail. There probably is nothing more pro 9aic to t he superficial observer than one-acre cornfield, unless it is an other Just like it, or possibly a little more so. It is merely a patch of grow ing crop, where the combined forces of man and the favoring" sunshine are coaxing nature more or less effectively to smile with a harvest. From the hour of planting, down through suc cessive hoeings to the final process of cutting and husking, the field is nothing- more to the unthinking than a commonplace scene of human activity In which, the work is hard and the. re turns uncertain. But Basvom Usher's one-acre corn field was distinctly different. It was the theater not only of an exploit which charms one's imagination, but of an agricultural triumph that should make every American boy proud. Rascom Usher is 17 years old, and lives In South Carolina. Now, every year the Government organizes a Na tional corn contest for boys, in which 110.000 1n prices is awarded for various achievements, including one for the largest yield from a single acre. Bas com Usher entered last year's contest. He plowed his acre, planted it. culti vated it as he believed it should be. and watched and tended it as if it were som delicate flower bed. The work wa h.ard everybody that ever hoed corn knows that but Bascom Usher forgot tils fatigue in the sheer joy of watching- that corn grow. In due season it was cu and shocked, and a little later it was husked. Then the official committee came around, looked over the results and decided that Bascom Usher's acre had won the first prize. Please consider ' what this victory meant to Bascom Usher in a practical way, and quite apart from the exalta tion of pride which it must have brought to him. His one-acre field pro duced 152 H bushels of corn, which sold as prize seed at $2 a bushel, making $305, and the fodder for $30, or a total of $335. Allowing $135 for labor, the one-acre cornfield returned a tie t profit of $200 a yield rich enough to make the average grown-up corn grower gasp. But the sense of conquest was worth more than the money. Bascom Usher has learned how. He is a master of the soil. He has discovered a new charm in land and become a joint partner with nature in a combination capable of transforming black loam and sunshine into gold. OREGON TAKES STAND W. K. NEWELL VOICES SENTI MENTS ON APPLE-BOX BILL. State Wants Law to Cover All Terri tories Where Fruit Grows, Requir ing Boxes Sta niped . OREGONI AN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, April 5. The printed report of the hearings before the House committee on agriculture on the Leafan apple-box bill contains the testimony of various North western men who appeared in opposition to the bill, among them W. K. Newell, representing the appiegrowers of Ore gon. Mr. Newell's testimony was brief, but to the point. He stated at the out set that he was opposed to the bill In its entirety, both as it proposes to regu late the size of boxes, and as it proposes to establish standards of grades. In part, Mr. Newell said: There are two kinds of products that ul timately should be legislated upon, those that can be adulterated and those upon which fraud can be easily perpetrated. Cer tainly no one would claim that an apple can be adulterated. Therefore it can not be injurious to public health n any way. and it is a simple matter for the pur chaser to guard against fraud in the size of the package. One of the prime objects of this bill Is to standardize the amount of fruit that is to be put into the box. I think we have shown here x-ery plainly this morning, and It was admitted by Mr. Gib son in bis statement to the committee, that the manner of pack made all the differ ence in the world as to how much would go into that box, and we showed plainly, I think, in the questions, with regard to the Lafean box, which is larger than ours and smaller than the Colorado box, that if we both adopt it. with our method of pack, we will get IO per cent If not more into that box than Colorado will. Therefore that object of the bill will be defeated. It Is an impossibility by law to say just how that box shall be packed in all parts of the United States, and just how much shall go Into that box. because, as has been shown here so plainly, that Is a matter of honesty In packing as much as the cubic contents of the box. We are already putting on- our markets half boxes, and It was proposed this year to use a box holding only one-fourth as much as the full box. and put it out as a separate pack age. You cannot set a standard and say no one shall use anything else In the United States. Oregon has already adopted a law requiring every man who puts out a box of apples to stamp his name and the name of the locality where that truit is grown upon the outside of that box; and I want that law to go further and to abso lutely require that the contents of the box, the number of apples, and the tiers of ap ples also be placed on the outside. We do that by custom, but it Is not the law at present. The impossibility of grading that fruit by law has been shown very plainly, name ly, the impossibility of setting down any Jaw which shall require normal color and variety. What would be normal color or this section of the country, would not apply to the further parts of the country, or to other parts of the country. It is dimply an Impossibility, and I will not touch further upon that. I have hart a great many dealings with commission men. all my life., and I have. found them, I must say, just as honest a set of men in the general run as the fruit growers. We have rascals In both classes. I would not impugn the motives of anv man in supporting this bill, not in the slightest degree, but this bill places the" power " in their, bands, and leaves us at their mercy. If we packed a car of ap ples out on the Pacific Coast and shipped it to Chicago or to Xow Tork, and it came In there on a glutted market and they did not want that fruit for some reason, an unscrupulous dealer would have nothing to do but to open a few boxes of those apples and Insert a few off -grade apples and then call in an Inspector and have the car turned down, and we would have no recourse whatever. T do not sav that sny of these men would do a thing of that kind, but we know well enough that there are such men, and we have placed our selves In a position where we would be lia ble to anything like that. We are going to demand, under this law.- an Inspector at every packing-house where we put up fruit and we are going to demand that the fruit be Inspected just as every side of meat Is inspected by the Inspector where it is killed. The apple is a perishable product, and apples may be in perfect condition to day, and a week from now thev may be entirely off quality. It is an absolute im possibility to lay down a law that will govern ajl of them. Therefore we obiect to that part of it entirely and absolutely Now. what Is going to regulate it? Simply the force of commercialism. There have been abnormal conditions in the last three or four years because the crop of the United States has been only one-third or one fourth. I believe, what it normally is and as a natural consequence they have run In all of the poor fruit. These Xew York men will tell you that their cider mills and evaporators have had nothing to do because all the appiee have been put Into the barrels and put on the market Let us have a big crop of fruit some day soon and that will not be done. We are willing to take our chances and to guarantee every box of fruit that we put out, and to stamp on the outside of it what it is but we want the others to be required to do the same thing, and then commercial trade can reg ulate all the rest of It. WOMAN INJURED BY LEAP Tenant of Vancouver Kooming liouse Flee Before Flames. VANtXUVER. Wash., "April 14. (Spe cial. Fire destroyed the building at Second and Main streets, at 5 o'clock this morninp. causing a loss of about JS000, with about VOX" insurance on the build ings, and. about $500 on the fixtures In the. poolhall on the first floor, owned by J. B. Tusant. The fire originated in the rear of the poolhall and spread to all parts of the building before an alarm was turned in. Mrs. Cora Goodwin, who keeps a room. ingr-houee on the second floor, was awakened hj- her 16-yfar-old son. who founa hi way through the smoke to the front window. He, was followed by hie mother, who leaped to the cement aide walk IS feet below, seriously injuring herself. Her son also jumped from the window. Three roomers crawled on the roof of an adjoining building, where they were marooned on a narrow wall until rescued by the firemen. Several others made a rope of sheets and tying them to a bed post, lowered themselves to the ground. rr. Gourand. an eminent French rtietetlt. say a rational diet is one that, "while pleas ant to the taste, maintains the bodily equili brium, favors the easy working of all our organs and reduces to a minimum the work whii-h its .presence necessarily Impose on them." &R SPIRIT IS HIGH Public Sentiment Makes Ger many Disturbing Factor FIGHT IS HELD DESIRABLLE Military Journal Prints Moltke's Praise of Bloodshed with Evi dent Commend at Kn--Editor s Says War Is Healthy. BERLIN, March 3ti. SpeciaI.) So long as Germany continues in the same breath to protest her desire for peace and to proclaim her love of war, she has no rig-ht to complain if she is regarded, as a disturbing element in mundane affairs. The view that war is a good thing in itself, held by rare individuals in other lands, is here the common property of a class. And the important thing is that thte class is the only one which exer cises any considerable influence on the course of imperial policy. The first place in the current number of the general staff publication, which, for purpose of brevity, may be called the Military Quarterly, is occupied by a collation of dicta by Moltke the Great, which have been taken from here, there and everywhere, and arranged in the form of an article. Its purpose may be indicated by the opening phrases,-which are "as foows: Eternal Peace Is Dream. "Eternal peace is a dream, and not even a beautiful one. War. on the other hand. Is a link in God's ordinance for the world. ft develops the noblest virtues of mankind, which otherwise would slumber and become extinct courage and renunciation, fidelity to duty, and self sacrillce even unto the laying down of life. Experience of war endures and hardens the qualities of the man for all time." Even in the United States this is a fa miliar passage, and in this country it is a cardinal clause in the creed of tens of thousands. . which makes It all the more remarkable that the general staff should lead off with it in the current number of the Military Quarterly, as if it were promulgation of a new faith. Pastor Umfrid, an officer of the German Peace Society, had put forward a pro posal that the suspension of Anglo-German naval competition might be brought about by fixing the ratio of the naval estimates of Great Britain to those of this country at two to one. This idea was ridiculed by the Deutsche Reisch post. the organ of Wurt'ternberg Conserv atives. The pastor sent in a reply, which was not, however, published. He com plained, and received by post the follow- ing answer: Opponents Called Morbid. "Dear Sir I cannot print the article in question, as T should have to follow it up with an embittered controversy, which I wish to avoid. The efforts of your society pp-em to me positively -morbid, a special form of modern neurasthenia. War Is a healthy thing. The warlike spirit is the most valuable moral power of a nation. Whoever seek." to abolish war is com mitting a sin against the law of nature and God's ordering of the world. A world without war would perish of in ternal corruption and atrophy. A. Roeder, editor-in-chief." Now a great dear of stupendous non sense is talked particularly in England about Germany's achievements and de signs, naval, military and diplomatic, but the stplrit revealed is the real factor that has to be reckoned with, and it cannot be exercised by amiable asservations of fra ternal affection. OPERA PLAN OPPOSED BEE CHAM SAYS IDEA OF XA TIOXAIi MOUSE IDIOTIC. English Manager Declares That State Control Would Be Blow to Individual Effort. IjONTKDN". April 9. When Mr. "Beech am's season of opera at Coven t Garden closed recently he was asked whether he was satisfied that there was a public for opera in London, outside the grand sea son. "Undoubtedly there Is a public." he re plied. "1 have never questioned that fact myself. If 1 had I should not have started the season, and I should not have arranged a Summer season at His Majesty's Theater and another season of three months at Co vent Garden in the Autumn. Undoubtedly inhere is a field for opera. Why should there not be? I Lon don has 30 or 40 theaters, which during the greater part of the year are very well filled, and if people will go to see melod ram a., pan torn lme and mus leal comedy there is no reason why they should not go to see opera, which is not an inferior entertainment, I believe. In deed, it is very highly organized and is understood to beVather a fine art." "Has the season led us any nearer,' Mr. Beecham was asked, "to that scheme for a permanent national operahouse of which so much was heard some time ago?" "I am glad," he said, "you have asked me that, because the whole idea of a na tional operahouse is preposterous, futile and idiotic. What does everyone mean by it? An operahouse run by some in definite body called the state and sup ported by the state? Can you see the state supporting an English operatic In stitution, and can you see the rate-payer contributing to it? No,. I absolutely be lieve in the individual; and xpera should be international. "But where I differ very much from some of my predecessors is in the be lief that the services of a very large number of English artists of as great ability as many on the Continent, and possessing, for the most part, superior voices, can be utilized, and that a cer tain number of native composers can be encouraged to write fine opera. And why not? It has been in the past a too one sided affair altogether. Opera in this country has been all Italian and German. Therte has been nothing English about it. And yet we have, as I have said, ex cellent singers, who. if they want to get on. have to go abroad to make & suc cess." Mt. Beecham is anxious to give Richard Strauss "Salome," but the authorities still forbid its production. Two More Canneries Planned. ASTORIA. Or., April 14. ( Special.) W. W. Ridelagh, of Seattle, and James W. Parks. of Aberdeen. left this evening for Nehalem and Tillamook to make arrangements for the construc tion of a salmon cannery at each place. The Intention is to have the plants ready for occupation the coming sea Chickens Ailments totBe Discussed. "The Diseases of Chickens" will be the subject of an address tonight here by W. EIGHT YEARS OF SUFFERING CURED BY DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS. . A Washington Woman Relate an E perienca That Will Be of Value to All Pain Burdened Women Everywhere. If you are approaching the fortieth year in a run-down -condition, you wilJ be interested in reading of the benefit that. Mrs. John Utter, of Puyallup, Wash., received from Dr. Williams' Pink Pills after other treatments had failed to help her. She says : ' ' I suffered for eight years from all the pains and sickness that women of rny age are subject to. I was able to work only part of the time and often coold just drag around. Most people would nave given up and gone to bed. I was so nervous that . I could not get much Bleep and was subject to headaches and dizzy spells. My stomach was out ol order all of the time and I was troubled with gas forming on it. I would often have smothering spells when I could not raise myself up. "'I took a great many kinds of medi cines but found no relief until I followed a friend's advice and tried Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. They helped me right away. I could sleep better, was not so nervous and became stronger. I used the pilU for some time and was entirely cured. "Since then I have always had Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in the house. My husband had a severe case of inflamma tory rheumatism which settled in hie bauds and feet. A few boxes of the pills cured him and he has never had a return of the disease." As most of the diseases from which wo men suffer are directly caused by a lack of blood, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have been found unequalled in the treatment of anaemia, green sickness, delayed de velopment, after-effects of childbirth and leucorrhoea. Our free booklet, "Plain Talks to Women," will be sent to any suffering woman upon request. If you have failed to get more than temporary relief from your suffering, the treatment is most likely not a blood builder. Do not neglect then to remove the cause of your trouble but give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a good trial. Dr Williams Pink Pills are sold by all druggists, or will be sent, postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box , six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr Williams Medicine Company Schenectady, N. Y. Professor "E. F Fernot. of the Oregon Agricultural College. The address will bo delivered at the Y. M. C. A. audi torium before the Portland Juuior Poul try Association. Others are Invited' to be present. Secretary Frank Welch, of the Portland Fair & Livestock Exposition, has arranged for epecial prizes to be given this year to junior poul'.ry-raisers, and the youngsters are preparing for their exhibits. WIFE PREDICTS DEATH 'HVBBY". DIES IN" AUTOMOBILE AS W03IAX SAID. Ed wa r d A . M a son , of Xew York , . Killed AVlien Racing Machine Crashes Into Pillar. NEW YORK. March 25. As bis wife had predicted when he told her of his intention to ride in the machine, Ed ward A. Mason, 86 years old, proprietor of aji automobile graragre was killed in the machine. The car, of 50-horse-power, was being" driven in a third at tempt to establish a record in climbing Fort George Hill. As, the big: car raced at 50 miles tn hour past an elevated railroad pillar in the center of the "square at the inter section of the two streets and Naegrle avenue, its rear wheels skidded and the tonneau. in which the man who was killed was seated, was torn away as the back of the car' crashed into the heavy iron -post- Mr. Mason, with three companions in the car, was thrown vio lently to the pavement. The others es caped with slight bruises, but he struck on his head and his skull was crushed.- Twice since he bought the car Mr. Giles had invited Mr. Mason to join him In a test of its speed up the steef Jncline. Mr. Mason's wife persuaded him not to make the trip on these oc casions, but yesterday afternoon he left his garage, together with Mr. Giles, Daniel McNaraara, proprietor of a sa loon, and Roy Lasher, a chauffeur. Two attempts at climbing the hill were successful. But for the third time, as in the two previous tests. Lasher departed from the custom, and swung his car to the left of the ele vated pillar. The speed of the ma chine was so terrific that the body of the car was torn away as it struck the post. The four occupants were thrown to either side. Only Mr. Mason was hurt, and he remained unconscious on the pavement. Dr. Scholer worked over the patient on the way to the hospital, but he died without regaining con sciousness. Word of the accident was sent to Mrs. Mason, and she became hysterical when she reached the police station. She re peated several times her declaration that she warned her husband against entering the car. She was married about a year ago. Lasher was arrested ,on a charge of homicide. NO. 10 Scotch Whisky Distilled in the Highlands " of Scotland from pure Scotcn Barley Malt. Guaranteed Over Ten Iran Old. Geo. S. Clark & Co., Agents 311 .Board of Trade Bldg, Portland, Or. 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Com- ; mencing with defensive tactics in the ! first round with a view to improving ' his speed and footwork, Jeffries, who Is not much given to backing away. " was soon chasing the negro all over the ring. Armstrong said he was glad when It was over. Jeffries' speed was a trifle better than last Monday, but it was evident that he still needs a lot of boxing prac tice to be anything like his former self Bag punching and handball followed. Fast as Jeffries appeared. Manager Sam Berger thought the undefeated champion was a bit off in his work. "He's worried, said Berger, "and I know his heart wasn't in anything he did this afternoon. It may have has countless uses Look at your tooth brush; look at your hair brush, and your sponges through a microscope. You will send for more Gold Dust in a hurry. . Gold Dust not only cleans, but it sterilizes, and you need a package in every bath-room as much as you do in every kitchen,"in every laundry and in every rjantry. 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