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! PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. I.. "0. 15,607. LIBERALS SCOFF AT Oregon Idea Disliked by British Radicals. TORIES BECOME UNIT FOR FT .Representative Institutions in Peril, Says Asquith. CHAMBERLAIN URGED MOVE iuopl of Canada CItrd In Faror of Irish Homo Hole First IU co ttons Today Will Show How Public Opinion Trends. LONDON. Dec S. The few days of Ctscusslon In the general election cam- patgn leave It clear that Liberals, aa a party, will bare none of a referen dam on tariff reform. The Liberal leaders, from Premier asquith down. In their publio speeches since the pronouncement or Air. uai four. the opposition leader, of bis will ingness to leave tariff reform to a t.f.i.iilnm. have frankly deprecated the referendum as being unsulted to Grtit Britain and as tending to oe stroy the responsibility of representa tive Institutions. Meantime, however, further famil iarity with the Idea baa bad the ef fect of uniting the Unionist party and press In Us favor, and Mr. Balfour's courage In adopting It la balled as bavins; secured for bis party an excel lent prospect of victory. Chamberlain for Referendum. It Is a curious fact that at the time ef the rupture of the recent veto eon ferenee. aa Inspired statement In the Times asserted that both sides to the conference bad rejected the referen dum. If that be the case. Mr. Balfour's Decision must have been an after thought, and It Is asserted In well In formed quarters that be first consulted Joseph Chamberlain and obtained bis acquiescence In the proceeding; to helve temporarily tariff reform by trains; recourse to tha referendum. Campaigning was again In full blast tonight. Mr. Balfour said In a speech at Grimsby that no Irishman would thank the people for aa Independent Irish Parliament nnleea It were "ac companied by a British subsidy." Give Ireland What Canada Has. Sir Edward Grey, tha foreign minis ter, said In a speech at Berwick: . The greater measure of devolution la necessary to sava the Hem of Com mons from periscJcar by tha congestion ef business) and to sava Its reputation aa an Imperial authority. There la nothing la John Redmond's borne rule proposals which la not In full force In the Cana dian pro tnees." Mr. Blt-rel. ChWf Secretary for Ireland, criticisms; tha referendum proposal la a speech at Bristol, said It would bar to be accompanied by universal suffrage. There were other qoeetlonav Mr. BtrreU said, besidee tha tariff and borne rule. Were the Tories, he asked prepared to submit to a referendum questions of the nary and army expenditure, conscription, capital punishment, the nationalisation of railways and the budget? 1 S Elected Unopposed. Tha nucleus of tha New Ilou e rf Commons was formed today by the un opposed nomination and consequent re turn of 11 Unionists and four Radicals. All wera members of the last House, eo there has been no transfer of seats from one party to the other. Tba Unionists e:ected Include Joseph Chamberlain. Birmingham! A. J. Bal four. City of London t George Wynd ham. Dover, and J. 3. Harmood-Kan-ner. Liverpool, while Thomas Burt Long, the representative of the miners In Morpeth, comrs back on the Lib eral slje. A. A. llaworth bad an unexpected walkover In South Manchester, the Unionist candidate. P. K. Ulazebrook. appearing six minutes after the time for filing nomination had explred Ulatebrook explained that he thought the hours for filing nominations were from 11 to 1 o'clock, but bis protect waa disallowed and Haworth waa de clared elected. Today's rolls Will t-how Trend. Tomorrow will see TO polls. The constituencies are so scattered throughout the United Kingdom that tbe results should furnish a fair in dex of tbe feeling of the country. ThlrO'-e'x of these seats formerly were held by Liberals. !t by Unionists and eight by Laborltea. In ma,ny cases the majorities wera so small tha ver dict of last January may easily be reversed. Political prophets are at sea, aa the elections are being held on the old register, and there have been so many removals since Spring that the can vassers have been unable to trace many thousands of the voters on record. Con sequently the vote probably will be smaller than heretofore. One Unionist forecast Is a net gala of it seats and Unionist optimists see the possibility of aa anti-government landslide. However, the confluence of trie Liberals In a return to power with aa undiminished coalition majority la Mat a. REFERENDUM ORIENTAL KNOWS MADAME 'POSSUM SENATOR DEPETV TELLS TARS AT LOTUS CLUB FEAST. Statesman Illustrates New Idea In Diplomacy a Best Sntted to Tafl Admlnistralon. VEff YORK. Dec. 1 Jules P. J a" rand. Ambassador from Prance, waa the guest of tha Lotus Club tonight. In tha banqoet ball were members oi club and a few Invited guests. Among others at tbe speakers' table were Charle magne Tower, formerly Ambaasaacr w Oerraaay. and Senator Chauncey M. The new school of diplomacy, as ne enneetvae If vti exnounded by Senator IV pew. who said that tha beat results were obtained by frank Interchange of opinion. He said Ambassador Jusserano did more by becoming a member of President Roosevelt's "tennis canine i than bv observing tha ancient formali ties of a diplomatist's position. The senator continues.: -Th. renreaentetlTS of one of the Oriental countries, talking with me after President Taft waa elected ana k.h h, wa Inaugurated, and during the time he waa having that series of possum dinners In Georgia, maae mm 1-4 ,ki him Tha Oriental's English was limited, but excellent ss far aa It went. "I said to him. Tou have been emi nently successful with President Roosevelt. Now then, ss a preliminary acquaintance with his successor, X should advise you to learn to love 'possum.' mmtA lh, r IjkntAl- 1 haVS had the pleasure of meeting "possum's wife. but I never knew him. -Yti trtmnA th French Ambassador, neither has to eat 'possum nor play 'possum. .With Tart's alert mind. Ju dicial Judgment, and wide experience In many fields of Government activity, and eepeclally In diplomacy, he appre ciated tba value of having a friendly country represented by such an am bassador as Mr. Jusserand." COOKING SCHOOL NO JOKE Suffragette Urges Society Women to Give Lessons to Husband. SPOKANE. Wash- Dec J. (Special.) I am sorry Mrs. F. T. Emery consid ers ths matter of establishing a cooking school for men In the light of a Joke." said Mrs. May Arkwrlght-llutton today. -I think It would be a splendid Idea. I bops ths plan will Include . the hus bands of all classes of women as well aa the suffragists. Ths society women tbe women who work for church fairs, bazaars snd the tagging of people for charity, even to running a streetcar for charity their husbands should also be Included. I have tried a few of the 'stunts' myself and know that It does not require half the strenuoslty and neglect of home duty to cast a ballot that It does for many of tha activities In which the wo men of tha present day Indulge. 'I would like to sucgest the names of some of our well known suffragists for Instructors In such a school, as among them are some of tha best cooks In Spo kane. OREGON COW BRINGS $700 W. O. Minor t.ets Top Price) for Shorthorn at Chicago Show. f CHICAGO. Dec 2. (Special.) -Bright Star. a Shorthorn cow brought to the International Livestock Exposition by W. O. Minor, of lieppncr. Or., was sold to day for ITtO. The animal la 1 years old. Mr. Minor baa secured top prices for all the breed animals be brought to the show, besides winning several prises with them. Governor Spry, of Utah, who was ex pected to visit the exposition again today, did not arrive. Tha reception commit tee was Informed that he had gone di- reotly back to Utah from Kentucky. W. A. Forbes, of Sacramento. Cal Is attending the show, with the Intention of buying too dairy cattle to take back to tie California farm. He la the pro prietor of one of the largest dairies on the Coast. AID COMES JUST TOO LATE 31 an Too Weak to Grasp Line Sinks to Death Companion Saved. BELLINGHAM. Wash.. Deo. Gil bert Ha gen. 40 years old. a carpenter residing In Bclllnsham, was drowned snd his four companions narrowly escaped a similar fate in Chuckanut Bay late to day when a small fishing dory In which they were riding, eapslxed. The five men mansged to cling to oars and the overturned boat for an hour and a half until tbe little cannery tender Spokane arrived. A line was thrown to Hagen but be was too weak to grasp It and sank before the tender could coma alongside. Glrard Pout sen and Erne Llnd. two of those pulled out of the water, were eo benumbed that they were nearly lifeless. Hagen Is survived by three small children. "LAME DUCK ALLEY" NAMED White) Mouse Corridor Becomes Walting-lloom by New Order. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. One of ths corridors at tha Whits House execu tive offices usually given over to ths public waa screened off today by or der of Secretary Norton, and here after will ba need as an additional waiting room for callers. A well-known Senator today chris tened the new waiting place, "Lame Duck Alley." It Is expected to ba in constant use this Winter. PEACE OVERTURES ARE IDE BY DIAZ V Agents Go to Rebels With White Flag. PRESSURE BROUGHT TO BEAR Outside Interests Anxious to See Mexican Revolt End. AMMUNITION SMUGGLED IN Loyal Guards Find Smugglers, but Latter Escape WItb Booty Gov rrnmenfs Move Is First of Kind In Thirty Years. CHIHUAHUA. Mex.. Dec. 1-The peace commission appointed by Presi dent Dlas left here tonight to confer with the revolutionists at San Isldro. The revolutionists promised to facilitate the passage of the commission's special train, which floated a white flag. This Is the first time In 30 years that the Mexican government has .made such overtures. EL PASO, Tex., Deo. 2. The "mrarrec ttonary troubles In Mexico took on an entirely new and unexpected aspect here tonight when It became known that the government had made overtures of peace. The peace commission haa been appointed by Dlas. according to a spe cial dispatch from Chihuahua, and Is composed of Chihuahua men, but the per sonnel Is not given. Ths explanation of this move Is that foreign Interests have brought strong pressure to bear on tha government to end the turmoil by placating the Insur gents. DOUGLAS, Aria. Dec 2. It Is reliably reported today that the rebels have suc cessfully smuggled 6000 rounds of am munition over the International line Into the stats of Sonora. Mexican guards discovered the camp of the smugglers in the Sierra Madre Mountains on the East San Bernardino ranch. In San Simon Valley, two. nights ago. The campers opened fire and a brush with the line guards ensued. Smugglers Get Away. The smugglers succeeded In getting away with the ammunition. The source of the purchase of this ammunition was traced to a Mexican named Manuel Ines. who was arrested and placed in Jail at Agua Prleta, across the line from Douglas. He was later removed and taken toward Cananea or Bermoslllo. Friends be lieve that Ines was shot on his way to prison. Rebel sympathisers in this city charge that American line riders sup ply ths Mexican authorities with, the names of all Mexicans buying arms and ammunition on this side of tha Una. This list Is distributed on tbe Mexican side, and when any of them cross. over roarlud4 on Pim ) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS tlie Weather. TEST-CROAT'S Maximum ttriprmtai 51 TODAY'S Haini outberlx wind. Rfrndtim becomes leading Issue In Brit- tart salsutlnn oamnalrn Pi-rsl 1 Dlas makes peace, overtures to Mexican r-BUtiia. rigt 1. VmtloamL President Taft conslderlns; many names for supreme Court appointment. Face Ore iron's census, by counties, will probably be announced by tbe Census Bureau to day. Washlntion leads ail states except Uatianoma. page 8. New York attorney arouses Ire of United eia,ies supreme Court, pace . roes of Bellinger In Waehington bare new pian. page 2. Fish output second in Talue In Altika Fc 15. Taft devotes himself to task of raraltSnff President Bchurnum wonld amend Consti tution If neceaaary to curb trusts. Page X Domes tie. Wen riling Is taken to scene of the alleged crime. Page 8. Jockey Club cannot account for $320,000 spent to defeat bills. Page t, Olive FVemstad sounds warning to girls of danger in cocktails. Page 8. Depew expands on new diplomacy at din ner to French Ambassador. Page 1. Woman to sav husband testifies to wrong doing, page . Sports. Washington and Lincoln High School foot ball teams will play championship game today. Page 8. "Chick" Wright defeats Dunlway at bil liards, 1200 to 483. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. Legislature may add two members to Bn preroe Court. Page 7. R. A. Booth, of Eugene, elected president of Oregon-Idaho . M. C A. Page 7. Mate mistakes landmark and Alaska liner goes on rocks, page ft. Charles Kirk, of Everett, admitted to ball on murder charge on showing probable innocence, page 13. Commercial and Marine. ' Eastern Inquiry for brewing barley. Page 19. Wbeat selling at Chicago due to Wall street weakness. Page 19. Holiday trade good at all canters. Page 18. Short covering causes firm closing of stock market. Page 19. Nine tramp vessels chartered to load grain here. Page 18. Hog prices are steady. Page 19. Portland and Vicinity. Negro offers secret of living by wits at modest price. Page 9. Seven in Lama ted couples divorced. Page 9. Reduction in price of Pullman berths will not appease public, la belief. Page 12. Southern Pacific to expend $1,000,000 In next 13 months on new roundhouses and shops In Portland. Page 1. Mosler apples sent to Emperor of Germany. Page 14. Al Flade In Jail, accused of complicity In white slave traffic. Page 13. Government sends expert to make report on pnstoffice sire apart from that of Dr. HU1. Page 11. Wage scale controversy may yet result In strike of railroad engineers in the west. Pave 14. "flyer" on- Southern Paclfla Portland to Eugene, to make 4-hour run. Page l. East Side clubs discuss method for obtain ing Public Service Commission. Page 18. Pie. containing 1T5 pounds of apples wins prize. Page 14. Central Labor Council moves for early vote on taxation in Multnomah County. Page 4. DOG ATTACKS FILM CANINE Picture of Thieving Quadruped Arouses Gas Hager's Bluch. VAXCOTJTER. Wash.. Dec 2. (Spe cial.) 'Bluch, . the bulldos; belonging to Ous Hager. last night attacked a dog shown In a moving picture screen. The dog waa pictured stealing provisions for bis master and Bluch, who did not like this, dashed up the steps to the front of the stage and threw his body sgalnst the dog In the moving picture, barking as be did so. The picture dog soon disappeared and Bluch walked down tbe aisle and lay down. THE RAINBOW'S END. 111 w JOCKEY CLUB FUND SPENTBYBELMONT No Record Is Kept of Thousands Gone. WADSWOHTH'S NAME INVOLVED Money Paid to Lawyer "Rec ommended" by Speaker. $320,000 USED AT ALBANY Metropolitan Turf Association Has No Books, Though It Still Has . $120,000 Invested Legis lators Probe Scandal. KEW TORK. Deo. 2- The books of the Jockey Club, the organization that controls and sanctions horse raoing throughout the United States, were nroduced before the Joint legislative Investigating committee today and showed that In 1906, 1907 ana mvs ins club emended 1320.000 for legal ex penses, advertising and a press bu m a ii inMr'iniF fn the bnolcs. the heaviest ernenrilturea were In 1907. the Tear preceding tne passage oi tne anu- bettlng bills. In that year by tne en- trio, t h - IacbI MrnMiMH ware 2171.620, The year previous they were 292,642, and In 1908, the year In wmcn tne Hughes legislation finally prevailed by one vote, they were 252,500, paid out of a special fund. Belmont Controls Fund. Frank JC Sturgls, treasurer of tha Jockey Club, testified that all these disbursements were at the personal direction of August Belmont, chairman of the Jockey Club, and that 242,290 of the special fund was paid to E. P. Coyne, a lawyer recommended to the club by James W. Wadsworth, Jr., speaker of the Assembly. The books of the Metropolitan Turf Association, composed of makers of books on the races, were not produced, as bad been directed,, because John J. Kvans, treasurer of the association, said that none were kept. He admitted, how ever, that the association still has in vested a fund of 2120,000. Sturgls was asked to explain the nature of the three accounts, numbers 1. 2 and 3. He replied that number 1 represented moneys spent by the Jockey Club in Its own interests, that number 2 contained expenditures made in favor of other rac ing associations contributing to the Jockey Club, and that number 3 was for joint expenditures. Money Paid to Lawyer. Other payments to Coyne were read from the books snd the witness testified that he made them "at August Belmont's Instance," and knew only that they were for legal expenses. Receipted bills were produced show ing that Coyne received $42,290 In 1907 (Concluded on Page 6.) PORTLAND-EUGENE FLYER INSTALLED SEW TRAIN" TO MAKB 4-HOUR B.UX TO VATT.KY CITS". Southern Pacific Puts on Evening Fast Service In Time to Aid Christmas Shoppers. A four-hour passenger service will be established over the Southern Pa cific between Portland and Eugene, be ginning tomorrow evening. A new, fast train, leaving here at 6:30 P. M., and arriving at Eugene "at 10:30 P. M., will be placed in service. This will be operated In conjunction with a new train, replacing. No. 14, that will leave Eugene at 6 A. M. and arrive here at 11 A. M. The effect will be that of giving the people of Eugene and Intermediate points an opportunity of leaving their homes at a convenient hour in the morning, arriving in Portland in time to do a day's business and return to their homes at no unreasonable hour of the night. But six stops are provided In the new southbound schedule. They are at East Morrison street, Oregon City, Wood burn, Salem, Albany and Junction City. With the Inauguration of this service the equipment will consist of three day coaches and a baggage car, provided with all the modern conveniences of the standard Southern Pacific trains. This is the first four-hour service ever attempted between Portland and Eu gene on a local train. Being placed on the schedule at this time, the new train will be a great convenience to Valley people who desire to do their Christmas shopping In Portland. Heretofore, travelers were required to wait here until 8 o'clock in the evening, and did not arrive In Eugene until 2 o'clock the following morning. In time It Is expected that the northbound train corresponding to the four-hour "flyer" will have Its time similarly reduced. GREATER BERLIN PROPOSED City 'With Suburbs Annexed Would Have 3,500,000 Persons. BERLIN', Dec. 2. The Pruss'lan gov ernment has drawn up a bill compell ing Berlin and the suburban munici palities to combine on a great Berlin. The population of the metropolitan area is nearly 3,500,000. The measure provides for an admin istration of the greater city, similar to that of the London County. Council, tbe authority of which would be con fined to matters of transportation, a supervisory control over building plans and the acquisition of suburban lands for a permanent forest and meadow girdle about the whole. The Council would have 100 mem bers, about one-third of whom would be elected from the City of Berlin proper, with three-flfths of the total population. ' This apportionment is de signed, probably, to limit the Socialist influence. The capital has. long been vainly ne gotiating for a greater municipal or ganization. PIOUS STUDENT IS DUCKED California Sophomores Resent Pre vention, of Annual "Beer Bust." BERKELEY, Cal., Dec. 2. (Special.) Willard W. Beatty, of 2302 Clay street, a San Francisco member of the sopho more class of the State University, was ducked in the famous "Chem pond" on the campus, as a result of his active work in prohibiting the annual "beer bust" which was recently scheduled to take place and was prevented by city authorities. The "wets," who are thought to have administered the ducking, seized Beatty while he was on his way to a sorority dance in evening dress. He was hustled into' the baptismal pool and aa he rose to the surface was poked back three times. Friends of the moistened student are said to be much incensed over the matter and threaten to bring it to the attention of the students' affairs commit tee. RUSSIAN DIES, AGED 106 Man Who Saw "apolcon Was Xot Harmed by Drink or Tobacco. NEW TORK, Dec2. Joseph Zeltlin, a Russian, who died in Brooklyn to day, was 106 years qld. He spent most of his time in Moscow' and said he saw Napoleon when he Invaded Kusala In 1812. He smoked and drank and said it did not hurt him. WOULD-BE RESCUER DIES Traction Superintendent Electrocut ed Vainly Trying to Save Youth. NORRISTOWN, Pa., Deo. 2. In a heroic but unsuccessful attempt today to save the life of Frank Hahn, aged lg years. Lewis Rowan, assistant superin tendent of the Schuylkill Valley Traction Company, wis electrocuted in the com pany's powerhouse here, together with the youth. MUFFLER PUT ON GOTHAM Flat Wheels, New Auto Horns and , Other Noises Barred. NEW TORK, Dec 2. Police Com missioner Cropsey has decreed that New York must be a noiseless town and today Issued an order for the police to put a hush on "flatwheeled" trolley cars, new fangled automobile horns and other disturbers of the city's quiet. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TO SPEND MILLION Huge Work Announced by J. P. O'Brien. PLANS ARE FULLY PREPARED Both East and West Side to Have Many Improvements. t? SHOPS WILL BE REBUILT New Bridge Over Willamette Makes New West Side Roundhouse at Once Imperative Work to Be Done in 1 S Months. Improvements including the erection of a new roundhouse on the West Side of the river, the ereotion of a new round house, repair shops and other modern buildings on the East Side and involving an aggregate expenditure of Jl, 000,000 are planned by the Southern Pacific for this city for the next 13 months. The building of the West Side round house is the most urgent need of the company and this work probably will be started early in the new year. Tha west approach of the new O. R. & N. bridge will interfere with the present roundhouse to such an extent that much of it will have to be torn away. White contemplating a way out of this diffi culty Southern Pacific officials decided to build a new structure entirely. The present roundliquse Is old and not up to the modern standard of similar buildings in use by the company in other cities. It haa been in use virtually since the road was built into Portland. It Is no longer large enough to accommodate all of the engines In the local yards and those running out of Portland: The need of a new structure has been apparent for some time. The building of the bridge hue brought the situation to a point that, necessitates immediate action. Location Not Selected. "We have not yet s?lected the location for our ne .v building," said J. P. O'Brien, general manager of the Iiarriman lines here yesterday, "but It will be some where near the old one. As the work on the new bridge proceeds it brings us nearer the time when the structure will have to be built. We have not yet com pleted plans or decided definitely what will be done, but it is certain that an other roundhouse will replace the pres ent one within the next year." 1 Plans for the East Side improvements have not progressed so far as have those for the West Side. However, it is be lieved that definite announcement regard ing this work soon will be made. The present East Side shops are inade quate to accommodate the ever increas ing amount of work that has to be done there. Some of the men are required to do their work out of doors. More than 350 men now are employed there but with increased facilities sufficient work would be brought here to allow an ad ditional number- to find employment. " Several years ago plans for complete new shops, involving a cost of more than $1,000,000 were drawn, but only one build ing was erected when the work was ordered to stop. Since then nothing has been done. Mr. O'Brien again has recommended the Improvement, but It has not been officially authorized. New Plans Are Extensive. Yesterday new plans, including many of the improvements provided for in the former scheme, were submitted to him. A number of additional facilities are covered in the new arrangement, the whole calling for an expenditure that may approximate the amount originally appropriated. Mr. O'Brien has the new plans under consideration and if they meet' with his approval, will ask that -they be adopted. "We need a new plant on the East Side as well as the new roundhouse on tbe West Side," said Mr. O'Brien, after looking over the drawings. "The com pany contemplates making this improve ment, but It has not yet authorized the expenditure. I hope to receive a favor able report on these recommendations so that we can arrange to start work at once." The Southern Pacific Company owns a 40-acre tract on the East Side, only a small portion of which Is covered by the present plant. This is large enough to accommoaate all the new work con-' templated. CONVOY ASKED FOR CHART Owner Will Lend Revered Relic, If Battleships Will Guard. NEW YORK, Dec 2. If the United States will send a convoy of battleships to escort the chart from Germany to this country, the first map on which the word "America" appears may be brought across the Atlantic. The offer to permit the document to be brought here has been made to Presi dent Taft by representatives of the owner of the historic document, which rests In Castle Wolfegg, Kingdom of Wurtem burg, Germany. Great honor should be paid to tha venerable document, the owner thinks, including the convoy of a squadron of battleships. The map was made In UOi land was discovered recently