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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1911)
BARRETT PLEADS " THE TURQUOISE That beautiful azure blue stone is rep resented by many original ideas for gifts, appropriate to the occasion. SAN ntANCISCO EX-MAYOR. WHOSE CASE IS ORDERED TO TLIAL AFTER FOUR YEARS' DELAY. DECEMBER If cold December gave you birth The month of snow and ice and mirth Plaee on your hand a Turquoise blue, Success will bless whate 'er you do. IS FOR FREE CANAL That Tells And Place The Gtock TheTime Judge Lawler Gives ex-Mayor of San Francisco and Prosecutor Surprise. Opportunity Declared Open to Increase Annual Trade by $75,000,000. TRIAL OF SGHMITZ ORDERED SOON IIP i - 1 SS ' DISMISSAL HOPES FADE ( nnrt Demands That Case He Heard a Soon a Arrangements Can Be Made Accepting Bribe Is Charge . Made. SAV FRANCISCO. Tee. IS. After mn than four years of comparative Innocnouanrif, the Indictments rcu In ti-Mayor Euene Pchmlta of brib ery In connecl Ion with the municipal erandaf that swept tMa city ahortly after the fire of 10. were given re newed Importance today, when Judge V. r. Lawler ordered that the defend ant he brouaht to trial aa aoon aa Dis trict Attorney Flckert could prepare the evidence. Tit the order of the conrt came aa a surprise, not only to the defence, but to the District Attorney, wii evi denced by the demeanor of Jchmltx lawyer ar by Assistant restrict At torney Berry. The latter asked for a few days In which to prepare his case. The Indictments on which Bchmlta will be brought Jo trial, unless the lla trlrt Attorney conrncea the court that there la no possibility of a conviction. wr returned by the grand Jury In May. 147. There are 11 Indictments, hased on the trolley and gas esses, field Tola la riled. In the trolley case fchmli Is ac cused of hartnK accepted ISO. 000 In rold coin, asserted to have been snipped here from the East by offi cials of the t'nited Kallroads for the purpose of obtaining from tne men Mayor a permit to cperate cars by overhead trolley. Aftr these Indictments era re turned the usual motions were made and denied and the run continued from time to time, neither side maa lr- more than perfunctory objection to the cortlnuancea. Wednesday. Iecem Wr (. Schmlta Informed the court that he was ready to go to trial, and the case waa continued until today, the general belief being that the court would order the Indictments dismissed, aa baa been dona la the majority of the other numerous Indictments re turned In the graft scandal. Caact Kreeo geksslta. Thrse Indictments have nothing In roromoa with the Indictments that re sulted In the conviction of Ochmlta and Abe Ruef. political boss at the time fchmlts waa Mayor. Both men were sentenced to It years aa the result of the conviction on what was known aa th French restaurant extortion cases. Ituef Is serving a sentence, but the State Supreme. Court freed fchmlta on a technicality. Recently Indictments against fatrlck Calhoun, president, and other officials of the I'nlted Hal I roads, were dismissed on motion of the Dis trict Attorney, on the ground that con victlon was Impossible without the evl drnre of "Big Jim" Oallagher. a City Xupervteor at the time the graft scan dal started and th state's principal witnesa. Cases Arm Dtasalsaed. This dismissal was made after the Supreme Court had ordered that the Wendanta be brought to trial within days from the time they announced that they were prepared for trlaL After this ruling of the blither court. S.-hmlt waived this eO-diy right until Weember It was said today that probably Abe Ituef would be brought from tbe peni tentiary to testify against Hchmlta. tba supposition being that he had direct knowledge of tbe alleged I'nlted Kail roads' bribe and also of the gas com pany bribe, the accusation In this lat ter Instance being that Pchmtts accept ed lls.60 to influence Supervisor to violate th pledge to the people to en act a TS-cent gaa ordinance. Galla gher. It waa said. Is not a material witness In these cases. V.V . " -;; ' r - i EICEXE E. SCHMITZ. HYDE JUROR CLEVER Hope of Returning Missing Man to Trial Box Wanes. . DEFENSE CLAIMS POINT should Present Jurj lie Pleiulaaed IleaveieaJ of Charge Against Al leged Swope Murderer to Tie In-clsrvd Illegal. the neat Issue of the magazine, at .which time we will take our readers fully Into our confidence." The other reference to the McNa mara rase are along lines' similar to those followed during recent months, and some of them tell of efforts being made to raise funds to obtain for the McNainaraa "a fair and Impartial trial." EJ-ECTjilCIAX IS SfMMOXED Former Emploie of J. J. McNamara Called Before Grand Jury. FITTPBt'RQ. Dec 1J. Arthur Mey ers, who has recently been employed by a large electrical manufacturing company here, waa aerved with a sub pena today to appear tomorrow before the Federal grand Jury fnvestlgatfng an alleged Nation-wide dynamite plot at Indlauapolla. Meyers, it Is said, was employed for some time by John J. McNamara. ex secretary and treasurer of the Inter national Structural Iron it Bridge Workers' Association. LARGE TRAFFIC IN SIGHT DEMOCRATS WIN STATE ARIZONA VOTE PROMISES ELECT ENTIRE STATE. TO FLEMING DENIES MURDER Railroad Policeman Trial. Enter X'pon Tenth Week. REDDING. Pal.. Dec. IS. Daniel Fleming, charged with the murder of Oeorge Valller. fstlfled In his own de fense today In tbe trial which yester. day entered upon Its 10th week In the Shasta Superior Court. Fleming, at that time a railroad policeman, la rharged with having assaulted the youth because he Was "beating his way." Fleming declared that he first learned of Injury to Valller and bla companion, tlohle. when the train had left Kennett and a passenger told him that he had heard groaning on the top of the car. At Copley he got oft and saw two hu man forms on the roof of the coach, hut the train started before he could Investigate further. From the time the train passed Keswick, he said, until it came to a stop In Redding, he rode In the vestibule of the car. BOOKS ORDERED PRODUCED T?!nt1d VTm Ktrat urgd that, since W. Cooper Morris had spent more than three weeks fraternis ing with the attorneys for the state, the prosecution should bow bo able to furnish him with full description of the securities In the embexallng of which he la charged with having been an abettor. wervtw t salt lleve .teled. In presenting the affidavit Mr. Ma Urker referred to District Attorney cnerone alleged statement to the Counjr Commissioners that the atate had to treat Morrla right to get de sired Information front him. Mr. Cam eron Is alleged to have preaented this aa an excuse for having allowed Morris to live at the Carlton Hotel Instead of lodging him In th County Jail dur ing his stay In the city. A couple of weeks ago the attorneya rr the defense obtained from Judge Getens an order allowing thera to ex amine all the books, paper and other document of th Oregon Havings Trust Company In the possession of the state and Receiver Devlin. They said In court yesterday that they had ob tained little satisfaction from the ex amination and declared -there Waa a l:rositlon on the part of the prose cution to hinder and render their In ilgatlon null and void. They had bn unal'lc. they eald. to find the rwoks and documents they really wanted. The trial of Wilde la set for Janu ary (. a continuance of six day nav Irg been granted recently. KXSSXB CITY. Doc II. No trace of Harry W. Waldron. th runaway mem ber of th Jury that baa been hearing the second trial of Dr. B. Clark Hyde, alleged slayer of Colonel Thomas IL Swope, has been round. Hop that Waldron will' b found soon, virtually baa been abandoned by Prosecutor Conklln and Judge I'orter Ceid. The feature of the case that la wor rying th state'a attorney la the In tention of Hyde's attorneys to assert if thla Jury la discharged that th life of the defendant cannot again De placed In Jeopardy on the charge that ho killed Colonel Swop. .ew Cheers Mite. That th wife of Waldron. who es- one member In the House of Represen caped early Monday morning, has had tatlvea. a Oovernor In the State Capitol word from the missing Juror Is th be- Bt phoenix, and. unless present Indies lief today of the deputies In th county , tlons are materially changed, they will prosecutor's ofne. who hav been try- , make a clean aweep with their state mg in vain w cau """" i ticket, aa a result of the first state oi a firango man. wno rnicrm m horn of Mrs. Waldron last night and held a whispered conversation with her. baa aroused suspicions tn the minds of the officers, who have dls- George Hunt, of Globe, Is Elected Governor -Republicans Concede All Except One Office. PHOENIX. Aria.. Dec, 11. The Demo crata of Arisnna will place two mem bera In the I'nlted States Denate, and election, held yesterday, Tbe State Legislature, from present Indications, will be more than three fourths Democratic, insuring the elec tion or Henry F. Ashurst. of Frescotl. pelled the belief that Waldron la men- , ,nd Mrk gmUh of Tue fo fc tally "d wandering, or thi Vnlt9i 8tmt ,n.tfc Car, Hayden. of ho has killed himself. It Is Vh1onh ; Phoenix, waa elected to the House of th stranger brought news of biro. , Kenresentatlvee. n.nrr. w i , . . : . ' of Globe, waa elected Oovernor. 1 T1 1 . 1 -. There la but one chance that a clean Mrs. Waldron appeared happy afterward. r error r escape neponrw. sweep will not be the Democrat) nor. Waldron's eacape may not hav be I tlon of thIi electlo nd , tar thj office of Secretary of State. Cleve land. Republican, la running strongly the first time he has evaded Jury ser vice by senaatlonal methods, according to today's developments. Hla alx-year-old daughter. May. casually remarked that twice he father had got away from th Jury service In Koswell. N. M. A telegram from Roswell. where Waldron formerly lived, -said that a man by the name of Harry Waldron escaped from serving on a Jury In 1S. As th remaining 11 Jurora filed Into the courtroom thla morning to answer rollcail they showed plainly the effecta of th perplexity' that the present sit uation haa thrust upon them. and may defeat Osborne, of Phoenix, for this position. Chairman J. J. Bird, of the Demo cratic state committee. Issued a state ment tonight claiming tbe election of the Democratic candidatea by majori ties ranging from lSuO to 2000. He alao declared that every county In tbe atate except two would return Demo cratic majorltlea. Apache and lima are conceded to the Republicans small majorltlea. Secretary Hayes, at the Republican state committee headquarters, conceded WHEELS OF DELVE TO MOVE herV.? cVeXnrdts-.t,n"nr.tdn'a' ' chance to win. continue J rrotn rirt Pa. Returns from none of the li cnuntle. are complete, and It may be tomorrow before the exact vote can be given. proaecutlon of the McNamara brothers, but declined to comment on It. . Herbert S. Hockln. secretary of the Iron Workers' Association, returned to- day rrom m. iouis. wnere, u wa re- ported, he had conferred with Presi dent Frank M. Ilyan. Hockln de clared Kyan went to Chicago and said he would return here tomorrow. !tegrrber te Be Called. Almost th first witnesses to be called. It waa learned, would be sten ographers who were employed by John J. McNamara when be was an active official of the union. Mlsa Nora Haley, formerly stenographer to J. J. Mc Namara. arrived today from Chicago. Then evidence gathered by agent of the National Erectors' Association, a defensive organisation of "open-shop" contractors; papers seised In a raid on the Iron Workers Association head quarter, or voluntarily turned over by Ita officials, and detailed confessions of McManigal are to be submitted. Many witnesses have been aubpenaed from cities In which explosions have oc curred. The Iron Workers' Association, from th headquarters where John J. Mc Namara as secretary-treasurer bad bla office. Issued today, through one of Ita publications, the first statement It has made since the McNamara confessions. t ale Paper Csaaseta. The Statement follows: "Just before going to press the sur prising news reached this office that J. J. McNamara and J. B. McNamara hbd entered plea of guilty In the Su perior Court of Loa Angeles County. In view of these pleas, part of tbe con tents 'of this Issue may seem odd te the readers, but all of It was written at a time when we had Implicit faith In the Innocence of these men, and w have, therefore, concluded to- let this matter go out In Ita original form. "Wa have no detail concerning the confession other than thoee contained In th newspapers, but hope to be more fully acquainted with the facta before J FRIEDLANDER'S Ojen Evenings. From now on our magnificent holiday stock of diamonds, watches. Jewelry, toilet ware and art will be ready for your Inspection evenings. Selections win be reserved for the holidays. 110 Washington, bet. 6th and th. e. 9000 VICTOR RECORDS received this week. Our wholesale stock la complete. Sherman. Clay & Co, Morrison at Sixth. t'prlght pianos rented, tt to IS per month Chlckerlng. Kimball. Stelnway, Kohler. and many other popular makea. All rent paid can apply on purchase price If desired. Kohler tt Chaae, ITS Wsphlngton st. Open day and night. Transcontinental Railroads, by Rea son of Rapid Growth of West, Will Gain Instead of Lose by Liberal Policy. - WASHINGTON. Dec. 13. (Special.) John Barrett, director-general of the Pan-An.erlcan Union, continues to be enthusiastically In favor of no tolls on the Panama Canal. In the Decem ber bulletin of the Pan-American Union, under the heading, "The Pan ama Canal Free to the Shipping of the World." he aays: "The Panama Canal, to prove of the treat est nractical usefulness to the United States, should be free to the shipping and commerce not only of the T'nited States but of the world. The United States Is not constructing the canal to gain revenues from .the tolls on traffic. It Is building It purely for commercial and strategic reasons. A free canal. In addition to increasing the commerce of the United States tn ten years to B0 times the cost of opera tion, and Interest, will absolutely de stroy all possibility. In any shape or manner of monopoly In interoceanio traffic." This Is Mr. Barrett'a personal view on the question and Is not officially sanctioned by the Pan-American Union. he says he has made the statement in answer to numerous inquiries from members of Congress, commercial or ganizations, editors, and heads of steamship companies requesting that he give hla unprejudiced opinion on the subject. Caaal Question Studied. Mr.. Barrett's views are based on his study of the Panama Canal and of Pan- American and Pacific commerce, ex tending over IS years In which time he haa aerved as United States Min ister In Asiatic and South .American countries. Including Slanv Argentina, Panama and Colombia, and has alio held his present position as head of the Pan-American Union for five years. The union la an international organiza tion, devoted to the development of Pan-American commerce, friendship and fraternity. Mr. Barrett says: "Legislation for a free canal by Con gress, at Ita approaching session, would Insure the Immediate, complete and permanent success of this waterway , a a new route of International and Na tional commerce. It would Inaugurate, upon the day following Its approval, the greatest activity In preparation for the canal the world has knowg In the history of shipping and commerce. It would end at once all doubts and dis cussions as to tolls and the grave prob lems of preferential treatment of the American vessels, aa they affect our treaty obligations to other countries. "if the United States would experi ence the largest beneflta possible to Ita foreign commerce from the Pan ama Canal, it will make this Intor ocanlc waterway free to the ships of all nations. The only valid reasons for rharglng tolls are to pay the cost of operating the canal and Interest on investment, and to protect the trans continental railways from the compe tition of a free canal. If. then, cor responding and compensating advant ages In each case will result from a free canal. It should be made free, Coaeomer Vjltlmately Pays. "The increase of the trade of the United Statea through a free canal will be so much greater than that through a toll canal .that this Increase in the first year would equal the revenue front tolls for five years, while in ten years the Increase resulting- from a i free canal over that of a toll canal would pay nearly twice over the orlg- i Inal cost of the canal. "The basis for tolls will be the cost of operation plus interest on the in vestment. The official estimate of an nual cost of operation Is $3,000,000. In terest on the outside approximate cost of the canal. $400,000.1)00, at as low a rate as 3 per cent, would be $12,000,- 000. Tolls should therefore bring In an annual Income of $1 j.OiiO.OOO. Upon a conservative estimate of trade experts, the actual traffic in 1915 will aggre gate 10,000.000 tona, which means that every vessel must pay $1.50 a net ton for each passage. On an average meas urement of 3000 tona per vessel, each ship would therefore pny -a tax or toll of $4500 per trip, which In turn must be added to the cost of freight and la ultimately paid by the consumer. That this $4o00 tax on a JOOO-ton steamer engaged In commerce may be a serious burden Is realized from the fact that that sum would probably pay. In the case of the average low-speed freight carrier, the entire wages of the captain and crew from the trip and that the to tal of different payments for such trips in a year through the ranal would be equal to the legitimate Income of the Investment represented by the shtp.'and this anount paid out In canal tolls might therefore prevent the vessel con tinuing to engage In the commerce of the canal. Free Canal Mean Big Trade. "A free 'canal, at a conservative es timate, baaed on the data of trade ex perts, will carry In the first year $75. OO.noo more of the products of the United Statea than a toll canal. At this rate for ten years, without even counting the natural growth from year to year, the increase for that period will pay for the entire original cost of th canal and liberal Interest on the Investment, or $750,000,000. Stated an other way, will the United States de liberately throw away an opportunity to Increase the . sale of Its products Where One p 9 - Should Buy Christmas Gifts of Quality Splendid varieties in all departments, exclusive styles and great abundance of suggestions at this store to : make your Christmas buying a delightful task. The festive season is gradually approaching, so now is the time to select while the various departments present their quota of new and striking novelties. . ..... DIAMOND JEWELRY Of beauty and refinement which must be seen per sonally to be fully appreciated. IF IT'S TO BE A WATCH GIFT we offer the best American and Swiss makes. An elaborate showing of newly designed cases. IN STERLING SILVER ARTICLES The variety is immense and offers many novel ideas for gifts of the exclusive type. ' Diamond Importers, Manufacturing Jewelers, Opticians 283-285 WASHINGTON STREET, BETWEEN FOURTH AND FIFTH Out.of-Town Orders Solicited STORE OPEN EVENINGS $750,000,000 In ten years In order to save $75,000,000 in tolls? A direct an nual tax of $13,000,000 on ships and tonnage means a loss of $7i.0OO.O0O and more, each year, for the commerce of the United States. "The United States Is constructing the canal to provide a new and short sea trade route between the Atlantlo and Pacific, and to be able to protect readily and effectively with its Navy, in case of war, real or threatened, both Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. All ves sels will be or will not be allowed to pasa in the event of war, tolle or no tola. Tolls have however, everything to do with the commercial phase. "A free canal will encourage every ship company or individual In the world to use the canal. It will keep rates between the two coasts of the United States at a minimum and develop an Immense traffic between the Atlantic and Gulf ports and those of California, Oregon and Washington. It will Improve to the largest degree the possibilities of trade between the United States and the West or Pacific Coast of the 12 Itin American coun tries reaching wltji vast potential re sources for 8000 miles from Mexico to Chile. It will bring to the ports of the United States and Latin America ves sels of every flag, providing them with abundant shipping facilities and add ing greatly to their prosperity. "It will, in short, mean the differ ence at the very start between a busy canal doing a great business, with con sequent profit to the industries of the United States, and a dull canal doing small business, with disappointment everywhere tn the United States that so little Rood is belnr derived irotn a waterway costing $400,000,000. "As to the railways, the argument that a free canal will seriously Injure their business Is not well founded. Added to this is also the Inevitable an .1 rapid growth and development and additional prosperity of the Pacific ffoast and Central West resulting from the canal which will reflect on the railroads and more than make up In a few more years for any previous loss of business through the canal." A Tonic Stimulant 1 Am Thinking of a Haberdasher rllS fellow Is up-to-date. I won't write his name here for obvious reasons. But If he will call me up and make an appointment. I'll call to aee him. I want to talk to h.m about doubllnc hla business. 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