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TIIE MORXKSG OREGOXIAX. THURSDAY. DECE3IBER 1. 1910. MARK TWAIN IS NOTABLES' THEME Union's Brains, Power and Wealth Pay Tribute to Mem ory of Greatest Humorist. CARNEGIE HALL IS SCENE firan How ells Pmldn al Assembly, Speaker Cannon Sounds Praise) of Author Champ Clark Re calls Him as Lobbyist. NEW YORK. Not. !. The intellect the power and the wealth of the land gathered at Carnegie Hall tonight to fay tribute to the memory of Mark Tiralrt. William Dean llowetls presided. Jo serh O. Cannon. Speaker of the Home of Representatives, and Champ ( lark. Speaker that mar be. spoke from the platform. Dr. Hnry Van Dyke, of Prlnreton, IT.nrr Wattersnn. lieorge W. Cable. Booth Tarklngton. J. llerpont Mor gan. Jho I.uther I.nng and many otr. ere were amona those Invited. The meeting waa under the auspice of the Ai-adeuiy of Arts and Letters. Mr. Howell spoke briefly. "I believe I ran safely promise." he said, "that the commemoration will not b formal or funereal. The man him- elf could no more be formalized than fame. Ills tvtd genius ranged at will through all the was of life. N.ivr that It Is freed to the pathless amplitude of the skies It could hardly offer the pattern of a conventional observation. I If th. mind ancl rnuke of our com liemoratlon could be left to him. wa might Imagine him saying: Aulhor'a Own Wish Told. "Why. of course you must not make a solemnity of It: you must not have It fiat sort of obsequy. I should want you to be serious about me that Is. sin. -ere. anil you could not be sincere If you ran to eulogy. Hut we don't ob- )-l here to any mans affection: we like to be liked aa well aa ever, and if any of you can remember some credit able thins; about me, I shouldn't mind his telling It. provided always ha didn't blink at the palliating clrcum- stances, tl.e mitigating- things that a Is, sixumpsnr every nooie anion. "I shouldn't like to be made out miracle of humor, either, and left srumhllng block for any man who vn Intending to be modoratrly amusing and Instructive hereafter. At the same time 1 don't suppose a commemoration Is exactly the occasion for dwelling on a man a shortcomings in his life or his literature. "It seems to me thst we are met to night not so much to commemorate a great man as one who still lives In us as a contemporary. Others hereafter may prove him the createst humorist, the kindest and wisest moralist v ho ever lived. We who mere of his ac quaintance ran best offer In our col lective reminiscence a composite like ness of him which will keep him real and actual." Ills Ilook With Iliblc. Joseph Cfcowie recalled that Parwln used 1j say be kept two remedies for sleeplessness at the head of his bed the Bible and Innocents Abroad. "And larwln said he did not know which he read the more." continued Mr. C'hoare. "Hut the story that earned undying fame for the author was the 'Jumping rog" story. Not even Lin coln's two-minute speech at Gettysburg has been read so much or committed to memory so often as that remarkable story." Uncle Joe Cannon was warmly greet ed. l'tl read my remarks,' he said. "It la the first time I've ever read a manuscript to an audience, and 1 con gratulate you upon the fact that It won't be long." The speaker said he knew Mark Twain personally, and he described how Clemens cams to Washington In the Interest of the copyright law. -Finally." said Uncle Joe." l.e tried to persuade me to allow him to lobby en tha very floor of Congress, and wrote me a letter and brought It to me In the Speaker's room." As read by Mr. Cannon, the letter ran: "'Dear Vncle Joe: riease give me the thanks of Congress, not next week, but right away. It Is very necessary. IV accomplish this at once, by persua sion If you can. by violence If yon must. for It Is absolutely necessary that 1 get en the floor for two or three hours and talk to the Congressmen, man by man. 1 have arguments with me. Also a barrel with liquid In it. I have staed away from Congress and let It alone fr T 1 year, and I am entitle! to its thanks. Congress knows this well and It never has puMlrly acknowledged Its appreciation. Stud me a reply at once, wltri an order on the sergeant.at-arma. "'With love and benediction. "MARK TWAIN." - Mr. Cannon added with a smile that , "ne sent hi messenger to summon the congressmen to the Speaker's room, and 'l helped Mark Twain to lobhy." Representative Champ Clark, of M! sourt. who Is prominently mentioned ss en -cesser of Joseph U. Caution ss Speeker of the Ilo'.se cf Representatives, spoke ef Mars Twain aa a "lobbyist" at the Mark Twain Club to, lay. "It was In keeping with the eternal ftnesa ef things." he said, "that a Mis sourtao should participate tn paying lienor to Ifit nmsl f jnto-: Miwtour'at that ntr lived. With me It Is a labor of ioe. which filled the air. while all the world wondered. "He created a profound sensation, as he no doubt Intended to do. a sensation which so far as he was concerned was strictly utilitarian in character and cunningly planned for effect upon hard headed, matter-of-fact solons. Twain Blocks Quorum. "The subject matter of his lobbying w-ss Improvement In the copyright laws, which were badly in need of Improve ment. Speaker Cannon gracefully and graciously turned over one of his rooms to Mark Twain, and In it lie held his court, somewhat, it must be confessed, to the demoralisation of business In t'ongres. for so long ss he remained In the Capitol. It was almost Impossible to maintain a quorum In the House, so eager were members ,to look Into his face, shake his hand, form his acquaint ance and listen to his conversation. All men snd women, and even little chil dren In the street, vied with one an other to do him, honor. His lobbying Frtchlng. 'The great-hearted Mlssourlnn enjoyed It to the limit. He talked with percect abandon on a multitude of subjects, and all the while he lobbied lobbied skilful ly: lobbied tn deliehtful manner: lobbied with side-splitting yarns; lobbied wtrn niilloaoithlral remarks: lobbied with wralLh of remlnlscer.ee; lobbied with SUDDEN CHANGES BEWILDER BRITONS Balfour Now Abandons Tariff Reform as Issue in Com ing Election. ROSEBERY QUITS LIBERALS F i "- '. - fS. .J : .-. v . , i P .IV V;:.- J James J. .alleaker, Aeaallaat Wsyee r.araor, ef ew York, ha la Mela for Aaaasdc OS Mewiber of Maswrw I"arty. fetching argument for Justice and a romplished the substance of what ha sought a rich benefaction to American authors. I think myself happy to have been able to sid him In his self-imposed task of aiding the American writers. They have iu their kindness done me hon or overmuch. The men to whom your gratitude Is primarily and In largest part due aie the members of the committee en patents, headed on the Republican aide bv Mr. t halnnun t urrler. of New Hampshire, and on the Democratic side by the Honorable William Suiter, of New Tork. BR CHARGE PRESSED GAVXOICS ASSAILANT HELD FOIt ASSAVLT OX EDWARDS. "1 consider It my good fortune to have kown this Illustrious aud lovable man personally, and n - bad fortune not to have known htm for a long period, rle was born within a few miles of my Con gressional dtstrfct. at the eondu.-nce of tnree forks of $4it River, a stream of evtl omen to can-lidatcs. on whose briny b.'eom many of them sail Into the gulf cf oMtv;on. "I had read wi'h avidity every word he ewr wrote and counted hira among t.e world's benefactor, but link or fate er fortune so of 1,-rrd things that 1 never b-held b:ni la the fo i.n?ll lie was la the g'reeouj sunset tt of his long, useful and sIctIous Twain Known as Lobbjlet. "The way I came to know Mirk Twain persona'.!)- Is thai three or four ears sa-o he visited Wash'njrton as a lobbyist- Let not the nruillsfi and soummish shudd-r at the term, for Mark Twain was nor only a Ubbtst. but a very prln.-e cf lobby'.s:sx He did honor not only to t!ie lobbyist, but also to those with whom ke lobNed. " S. It came to pass that on a tremors. b day Mark Twain, lobbyist, with his worldwide reputation aa his sxant cour-le-. descended upon the capital In gor geous attire and iS'fl everything before him. Folomon In ail his glorv was rot arraved as wss th's great Mlsswunsn. for In the dea.1 ef Winter he wore a suit o! white flannels, white aa the snow Statutory, Year and Day to Be Pcr m I (led lo Tass IWore Serious Crime Is Put Forward. NriW TORK. Nev. M James J. Gal- legTier. w lio ehot Mayor Uaynor on board egcanishlp last August, was ar raigned In Jersey city today on the charge of atrocious assault with intent o kill Street-Cleaning Commissioner Ed ward of New York, and with carrying concealed weapons; Ed warda was with Mayor Gavnor when the latter was shot. snd In protecting the executive 1 alleged o have been attacked by Gallegher and slightly wounded. Gallegher pleaded not guilty, with cer tain reservations,, and was at one taken back to his ceil. It ss the present plan of Pierre Garvan. the prosecutor, to delay trial of the prisoner on the more arrious charge uutll the statutory period of a year and a day. in which the charge may be changed, has elapsed. In order to be pre pared for any emergency If Mayor Gsy- nor's wound sliould prove to be more Tlous than thus fsr haei appeared. i'rosecutor Garvan said he would bring he rase to trial about December 19. If found guilty on tlie two counts to which he pleaded today. Gallegher can be sen tenced to a total of 15 yeans' Imprison ment. GLASS GETS HEW TRIAL CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT REVKRSES CONVICTION. for Second Time Manager of Pacific Telephone Company Kvadcs Bribery Sentence. SAN FRANCISCO. Nor. JO. (Special.) The Supreme Court this afternoon en tered a minute order reversing Judg ment In the conviction of Louls Glass, vice-president eid general manager of t.'ie !arl(lc TeT. phone ami Telegraph Company, of the charge of bribery and remanded the case for a new trial tn the Superior Court. This is the second ttme Clsss has won a rt. tory. On April It. 1P. tha Ap pellate Court reversed the conviction on errors committed by Judge William P. Iiwlor In his Instructions to the Jury at the time of the trial. This decision wa met hy the state in an application for a rehearing, which was granted. and the entire rase was re-argued a year ago last August, before the Su preme Court sitting en banc. Sine that date it lias been under submission. In reversing the case the first time, the Supreme Court held that Judge Uslor committed a fatal error In his Instructions to the Jurors concerning how they should consider the refusal of Treasurer Zlmmer, of the telephone company, to testify at the Glass trlsX The court held that Lawlor's Instruc tions were prejudicial to the defendant. Glass was indicted by the grand Jury In March. 15i7. charged with bribery. El-Premier Says Lords Have Sur rendered Power to Nation Adop tion of Referendum by Tory Leader Is Masterstroke. LONDON. Nov. 30. The present elec tion campaign Is 1 .ie of amaxing changes. Ird Lansdowne's unexpect ed presentation of a plan for the re form of the House of Lords has been surpassed in suddenness by Balfour throwing over tariff reform as an Issue of the election. Lord Roaebery, In the course of a speech today at Manchester, said: "The House of Lords has ceased to exist: It has surrendered its powers to me nation. This Is a fact of enormous Importance." Lord Rosebrry admitted that It was destbbed repentance, but he contended that deathbed repentance. If sincere, was valid and valuable. , Lord Rosekery jumped the barrier heretofore separating him from the Tories. Although disclaiming all pres ent bias, he roundly denounced his former Liberal allies, who. he declared, were harassing the land, constantly encroaching upon and prejudicing the personal liberties of the country In a way to which their ancestors never would have submitted. Foreign Gold Is Bugbear. Nothing but a nation of slaves, de clared the ex-rremlcr. would submit to Irish dictation, subsidised by foreign gold. Loud cries of "twaddle." "rot," "bosh.-" greeted this outburst, but Rose bcry continued asking whst the effect would have been if foreign gold had been taken Into the United States. "Why." he said, "the people wlio did It would be Irretrievably damned." The liberties of the people were fur ther endangered, the speaker said, by the government's proposal for a single chamber of government. Behind tha Government waa visible the giant spec, ter of Socialism, waiting until tha bar rier of the second chamber was out of the way. t'nder the proposed veto bill nothing could prevent the government from abolishing the House of Lords without interference from any quarter whatever. Continuing. Lord Roaebery. said great care had been exercised by "the United States to safeguard Ita Constitution. "Without any doubt," he aald. "tha United States Is the greatest democracy of the world. Do you suppose the inited States would put a Jot or tittla of their Constitution to the haxard of a snap election?" Balfour's Stroke Skillful. Mr. Balfour's adoption of tba referen dum la generally attributed to pressure from an Influential section of tha Unlon kst Free Trsders, led by Lord Homer, al though It is acclaimed by the bulk of the Unionist party, once their surprise waa over, as a master stroke of skillful elec tioneering. The opposition leader'a change of tactlcc took the old Conservatives com pletely aback and caused consternation among the ardent protectionists. The Liberals, on the other hand, char acterize his attitude aa adroit sllpperiness and opportunism. The Libera! leadens have not yet had time to adjust them selves to the changed conditions. David Lloyd-George. Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Llandrindred Wella tonight, reiterated that the cost of a referendum would be tl0.000.00u. It is a mere device to put a more effective weapon In the hands of the wealthy classed The Liberals would have none of It. Referendum Stand Attacked. Augustln Blrrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, speaking at Bristol, said Mr. Balfour proposal or the referendum waa delusive, dangerous snd unworkable, and calculated to destroy free representative government. The Home Secretary. Mr. Churchill, ad dressed two meetings at Sheffield to night. He said no day passed without some Tory leader overthrowing some snclent principle of the Tory party. DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING Tn a MAN'S vSHOP and do it NOW. Your gentlemen friends will appreciate your gifts if purchased at a store that makes a specialty of MEN'S WEAR Our stock is selected specially for men's needs No bargainized articles in our entire stock. We are Showing complete lines of HOUSE COATS .... $5.00 to $18.00 LOUNGING ROBES . . $3.50 to $25.00 GLOVES $1.50 to $3.00 TRAVELING BAGS . . $5.00 to $35.00 SUSPENDERS 50c to $4.00 BATH ROBES . .... $5.00 to $12.50 NECKWEAR 50c to $2.50 UMBRELLAS $1.50 to $12.50 HANDKERCHIEFS . .... 25c to $1.00 PAJAMAS ......... $3.50 to $6.00 Plenty of Courteous Salesmen who will give you all the time you require to make your selections You avoid the crush of department stores by shopping here, GREAT REDUCTIONS IN LADIES' MAN-TAILORED SUITS AND DRESSES G Leading Clothier Nothing was more astonishing In this wonderful election than the panic that had overtaken that once proud and powerful party. Mr. Churchill was again aubjected to suffragist disturbances, several unruly persons being ejected from the hall. The Ulster movement is growing apace throughout the province. The Uleter men have taken a strong stand against home nils and the offers of a subscription for funds to be devoted to the purpose of or ganising a regiment and the purchase of arms have risen from 150,000 to J130.000 in the last two day. At least 100 menebers, of whom CO are Unionists, will be elected without contest Saturday will see polling for 45 seats, so far as now arranged. Of these, 25 are held by Liberals. Among them are the Manchester constituency, which the Unionists are making every effort to capture. In Ireland, where the voting will take place later, the Nationalists are renominating the present members. Shane Leslie, Nationalist, is again contesting Londonderry City, which wae lost to the Unionists by a few votes in January. The O'Brlenites are re ceiving the financial support of the moderates, who consider John Red mond's plans Impossible and also are disgusted with the Orangemen's threats of violence and bloodshed if the existing government for Ireland Is changed. They have more candidates than In the last election. Donald MacMaster, Unionist, Is given a walkover in Chertsey division of Surrey. Great Lakes Navigation Closes. CHICAGO, Nov. 30. Lifesavers on Lake Michigan with common mind will come into their respective stations at midnight today, register their at tendance, take off their storm clothing, carefully pack away lifesavlng appa ratus and the season of life-saving duty for this " year will-be terminated except for the stations where men with powerful motor boats will remain all Winter. Navigation officially closes tonight. - Cigarmakers' Strike Inquiry On. TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 30. Governor Albert W. Gilchrist arrived here today in answer to the invitation of Mayor McKay that he investigate - the conditions governing the strike of the cigarmakers and the actions of the citizens' committee which has been preserving order since the fac tories were opened. Why do youT Why don't you p raclflc Whalinjr Sale Complete. VICTORIA. B. C Nov. SB. A million dollars was paid over toHy by the Cana dian Northern Pacific Fishing Company M acquire the Pacific Whaling Company. The Canadian Northern Pactflc Fishing Company was recently organised in Lon don with a capital of tliw'. Anililti My that butter la the most nu tritious artk-te of dl.t, and that bacoa ndh. nan. Look- for t he-word aat . . .on-tfae- bottom: of the- loaf! Ir-, I