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TTIE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN. WEDNESDAY. JAXUAITC 3, 1912. CONGRESS EAGER FOR TARIFF FRAY Session May Ignore National Conventions; Canal Legisla tion to Be Early on List. INQUIRIES WILL RESUME Money Trot, Shlpplnff Combine, Har-rc-Mer Tm-t and Others to B. Tnvriillsnted Further. PrnIoW Hill In Senate. WASHINGTON. Jan. I. A busy ses Hon ! in prospect tor Cons-res when It reconvenes tomorrow. The deliber ation mikjr run well Into the Summer without even a halt for the National -nnventions. With the Russian treaty abrogated nl the priuinn hill and uraent de ficiency appropriation! out of the way in the llouee. tariff legislation la ex pected as aoon aa the ways and means committee ran send out the revised schedules. The Jron and steel sched ules probably will come first and are expected within ten days. Tariff leg islation, however, is by no means all that Is on the executive programme, for heals of many Important commit tees are certain to exert pressure for the consideration of pending bills. AiM-lrul Rllla Preaaea. Anti-trust and labor legislation and revision of the statutea relating to in junctions are to be pressed by the idlclary comyilttee. Panama Canal leglIatlon Is to be urged by the committee on Interstate and foreign commerce, members of which have just returned from a three weeks Inspection of the canal sone. The rules committee haa under consid eration Important matters. Including proposed Investigations of the moon trust, the shipping combine and the so. called -harvester trunt." Thla committee contemplates recom mending the appointment of a Joint committee to conduct a broad Inquiry Into all three subjects. Iaa.atrlee Be Reeaiew-L Investigations into the United States Steel Corporation and the sugar situa tion will be resumed next week. Each Inquiry Is expected to result In Im portant recomroenuatlone. The com mittee on foreign affairs will press legislation affecting treaties with for eign nations and the committees on ex penditures In the various departments are planning to renew work with vigor for the purpose of recommending; economies. Many other subjects are to be con sidered, among the most Important be ing the appropriations; which the Dem ocrats have In their control ior the first Uma for If years. Legislation af. fee ting the Army and Navy will be considered. Tariff Caaewa Dae "- The tariff programme probably will be considered In a caucus of the House remocrats soon. Tho wool bill has been postponed until other schedules have been disposed of. Meanwhile, the I . a ... 1 rhamlMl and lUffU schedules are to be considered by the committee on ways and means. Food schedules will be taken op later. The Sherwood pension bill, passed by the House, will come up for the Sen ate's consideration soon. The bill pro viding for the direct election of United States Senators still la In conference. Tuo conferees are to meet within a few days, but thus far no agreement has ben reached. RICHESON HAS COLLAPSE Pa-tor I'nuble lo Bear Mention of Kccent Solf-Mutllation. BOSTON". Jan. I. Rev. Clarence V. T. Rlcheson collapsed In hia cell late to day when two of his counsel. William A. Morse and John M. Lee. broached the subject of his recent self mutila tion. Mr. Morse says the subject had no sooner beeu opened than the former ' Cambridge pastor paled and seemed to lose all strength, sinking back upon M bed. from which he did not rise during the conference. "When we entered the cell Mr. Morse said. "Sir. lUcheson waa sitting up and seemed comfortable, although tie could not walk unassisted. Imme diately upon mention of the act of mu tilation he had a Kinking spell and wo were compelled to turn the subject and discuss other subjects. "The minister Is mentally weak. In the sense that he easily becomes nerv ous and ha certainly will have to im prove greatly to be able to stand trial within two weeks.- CHINESE TROOPS MUTINY (fvt!nnd from First Pare 1 liver It Into the hands of tho war of fice. Prince Chtng. the fonnor Premier and VAMln Vfnlster received a lettee to day from representatives of the Mancha troops In the vicinity of Pekln, threatening to destroy his palace nn- ''leas the boarded money Is delivered ' over to them. When negotiating recently for a for eign loan. Tuan explained that about llo.ooo.eP9 wouia carry ine government on for six months. By that time, he declared, discord would have occurred among the rebels in the south and the nrminrM would return -aduallv to ' their allegiance. Tuan Shi Kal now haa obtained from the Empress Dow ager mora than I2.000.000. which will permit the carrying on of the govern- ' ment beyond the period which tho - rebels have fixe, for the assembly of the national convention. .""FXCI.I.oII IS COMING TONGUE t lilue- Reformer Plan Vnlfk-atlon Through Common Speech. '. SAN FRAXCIdCO. Jan. I. Leader of the revolutionary movement In this country are discussing plans for the unification of the Chinese peoples through the medium of a common language. It Is the Intention of the leaders of this movement to make Eng lish the language of general use la China, but before this bop can b realized there la much of educational work to be done in converting the more than 104 different dialects Into an understandable language for the whole neoDle of China. N'r Poon Chew, editor of a Chines daily paper la this city and one of th moat highly educated Chinos on the Pacific Coast, said today: "Tho progress of China long haa been halted by Inability to convey to th people, as a whole any advanced thought through the medium of a sin gle language. Th Chines In Its pur form Is cumbersome and difficult to trtli, and this fault has been aug mented by th fact that throughout th empire mora than 100 dialects are spoken, none having much- In common with any other. -We who hav worked for th ad vancement of our country have realised from the beginning that education along a common line more than any other one thing, must be depended upon to bring to China the best that Is hoped for in thl progressive move mnt." The leaders of tho progressive move ment realize that the doner China establishes relations with the I'nlted States the more rapid will be China's advancement, and to this effect th purpose is to make English th lan guage generally spoken In China. That English eventually will b th language universally spoken in China I a probability. AMERICANS IN SAFE PLACES few Remain In Inaccessible I--Cl.t.s, Says Official Report. WASHINGTON. Jan. -.Virtually all American residents In China, It was reported to the State Department to day, are safely at th treaty ports. Figures from American diplomatlo rep resentatives In China show that 10 foreigners. Including 35 Americana, were reported on November to have departed down the Yangtse River from Chunking. Sxe-chuen Province, under the convoy of a gunboat. The total number of Americans In the Province of Sheng-sl Is reported to be 12 adults snd nine children: in Kan-su Province 11 American adults and seven children. Thee people are In the Inaccessible regions. Several Americans are said still to be In th provinces of Hu-nan and llu-peh. All American women and children hav left Chang-chow and other In terior points In th southern -"art of Fu-klen. while those In th Immediate vicinity of Iloo-cnow nave wnnurawn to that port. The many American missionaries la Kwang-tung Province ar concen trated at Canton. Wn-chow and other polnta where protection by foreign gunboats Is avallabl. JUNEAU RECEIVER JDUT MCXLEV RESIGNS WHES ASKED TO DO SO BT GOVERNMENT. Action Resnlt of Friction Growing Ont of Alaeka Coal Land Cases Now In Limelight. SEATTLE. Wash.. Jsn. I P. M. Mul len has resigned as Receiver of th Vnlted States Land Office at Juneau. Alaska, are mall advices received rrom the north today. Mullen's resignation. It la said, is the result of friction grow ing out of the Alaska coal land cases prosecuted at Seattle. Mullen was sub penaed by the Government In th cases against the principals In th Stxacey group of claims. Some time ago Mullen received a let ter from the Interior Department Inti mating that his resignation would b acceptable. He asked for an explana tion, and was Informed that the De partment waa convinced that he had shown too little Interest In th coal land eases. -The statement that I showed little Interest In the prosecution Is true," Mr. Mullen Is Quoted as saying. "It was only natural, however, as I knew noth ing as to the validity of the claims, and consequently could only tell of th financial transactions through my of fice. I am satisfied the Government has seriously erred." Mr. Mullen has Been connected wiin the land office In Alaska sines 101. MCIXEX'S SOX COAL. CLAIMANT Young Man Says Father Gte Money for Cunningham Land. -1- 1 T-T-T f Vl'aah Tan ? I Mul len, late Receiver of tho United States Land Office at Juneau, is lamer m . .1 r..ll.n w i. flvnri nro Tn i - IKuaiius " n i -., " - - c nently tn tho Cunningham coal case. On July n. 1SU4. Clarence tuiioun- . , ...j .... . 1 .l,im for lo-nattua nam . - - . Mullen, who was then only 24 years old. Young Munon-was -Mrniua a" i. .. . u t..v nonA of the Cud. ntnKham claimants except Clarence Cunningham, wnom n naa tin--. uv twice. Cunnlngnam a repon snow, that up to January. 1908. Mullen had paid into th association of claimants. exclusive f the purchase prlco of tbo w a...vA XI Vltll,i fa(hr of IttTMl. Iljvv. . --- - l-naUus. signed an affidavit on Novem ber ll.l07. aaying: "I have never loaned or advanced litnatius Mullen any monoy whatso ever f'r the. purpose, of expenditure Upon the LUDDlDKDani ' ...... -. The son testified In the Cunningham hearing that tho money Klven to Cun . . ,. . i h hta fnther. the ninKiiim " " " f -' - Receiver, and explained th payment as being on account of moneys to whL-n ne was emmeu ir - " - - dered his fsther In part during the son's minority. With th father's af fidavit already In hand, the Govern ment did not call him to rebut tho son's tstlmony. FIRE SWEEPS STOCKYARDS Cold Wind Fans Blaxe Into Danger Limits Loss $300,000. CHICAGO, Jsn. . Fire, which broke out tonight for th second time In th packing-house buildings of Swift fc Co. In the heart of the Union Stock- yarrte ana adjoining mo disastrous stockyards fir of a year ago, . . v. . .-h,.i. irlft ni in t and inrmiriiru . " - . many adjoining structures. -. . . . I AAA Amn- The ursx niaxe aiu awuui . ... at- to a warehouse. Tonight's fire, fanned by a cold wind, drove the fire men ba. k and made certain a large loss The fire started In the smoke- - , mtn- hrlflr htlllrilnir nouse. a iooa . and spread to an adjoining warehouse. The firebrands tarried by the wind en tlangered adjoining buildings. . . . , .(.hi. half tn!Of.tr j ne dim" - -. of the building where a year ago Fire . , . II... n mnA - A at h Is jaarsr.ai j "i . " - men went to their death beneath th ruins of the Morris Company ware house. Early estimates of the loss ar from ItOO.OOO to .Suf.". The west wall of th smokehouse was blown out shortly after midnight by suddenly expanding air. Th roof of the building held several firemen, but they rushed to the other side of th building In time to escape being precipitated Into th flames. VEMFKK-1 Or PORTLAND LODC. NO. 4ie! 1 O. B- B. will klndlr atieed the funeral of our late broihfr. Benjamin Wise at Hoi-nan's nutria ing par.ors. id aaj Salmon sirecta. at 1 P. if. t.xiay. BT ORPKR Of THK PRK-IPKXT. Albert 1 Sisoe, Recording Secretary. DRIED ICE IS HOPE Seeress Tells Champ Clark How to Save Nation. SPEAKER SPURNS VOLUME First of Eight Books of are-ne.'s" Re-eelatlons, Written by Hand, Urges That Bryan Be Given Chance to Shine. WASHINGTON, Jan. I. The visions and revelations of tho "Prophetess Irene" In eight big handwritten books, th first of which reached the office of Speaker Champ Clark today. Is the latest advice offered to Democratic leaders on the management of National affairs. "I will send yon seven or eight more of these records containing th full copy of all tho word entrusted to my care Just as fast as I can get It all copied," the "prophetess" says. "I want you to allow W. J. Bryan, Mr. Taft. Teddy Roosevelt, Secretary Cor telyou. the Chief Justice, the secret service and all statesmen to know and have copies of this and all the eight books you will have sent to you. homo day I will see you and may talk to you. If you need any Interpretation of thla word." In the 404 pages of manuscript are the visions which Speaker Clark's cor respondent says, "must bo followed If the United Plates Is to escape the doom of Sodom and Oommorah." Included In the revelations sre Instructions for petrifying and drying lc so It will re semble popcorn; burning water; make cheese nut of straw; shoes out of dog and ealmonsklns; meat out of the bark of trees, and window panes of froxen air. The first of the books or the new revelations mas packed up and returned to the sender, with its express charges collect. SECONDHAND STORE BURNS Proprietor Says Ho Cpsct Bottle of Gasoline Near Stove. Fire broke out In ths second-hand store of 8. Capiat, S29 Front street, at 9:50 last night Two alarms were turned In. the flrf.t, a still alarm, and the second from tox 123. at Front and Salmon streets. The fire started with an explosion which broke out one of the plate-glasa windows. In a few sec onds a second explosion is said to hav followed, breaking ths glass in the op posite window. The damage to store and goods was about 1800, on which Caplan carried 11200 Insurance. As to the- origin of th fire Caplan says that about (:1s. while at his home at 461 Sixth street, he remem bered that he had left the rear door unlocked. He therefor went down to the store tp lock up, and In passing the counter, knocked to the floor a bottle of gasoline nsed for cleaning. Thla was Just in front of a partition. On the other sire was a stove. Cap lan does not know whether It was hot or not. but says he saw the bottla had broken, and. as the partition was be tween It and th stove, did not think of it catohlng fire. DUGDALE NAMES UMPIRES Toman, O'Toole and Monahan Slay Be Officials In Northwestern. eKATTI.R Wash.. Jan. 1. (BoeolaL) Jimmy Toman, who officiated In the TTnfon Aaanclatlon last BOSSOn: J&Ck O'Toole, from th New York Stat League, and Richard Mo nan an. wno oi tfiri.tMi in Montana a year ago. ar th umpires signed by Dugdale. when ho was president pro urn ot in .Turin, western League. Appointments wer mad subject to the approval of the new president. CAPTAIN KINKLE ASSIGNED Artillery Officer to Instruct Oregon Coat Reserves. OREGON IAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash lngtonjan. I. -Captain F. M, Hlnkle, Coast Artillery Corps, now at Fort Rosecrans, Cal., la ordered to Portland to roport to th Adjutant-General of the Oregon National Guard as Inspector-Instructor of the Oregon Coast Artillery reserves. First I-l-Miten-mt A. C. Delacroix, Medical Reserve Corps, Is ordered to Fort Stevens. Or., to servo as a mem ber of a board to meet January 12 to examine candidate for appointment aa second lieutenants In the Army. EDITOR AND WARDEN CLASH (Continue! from First Page.) Coal IS up. dle(aaa I Co. confinement for two days In May. 1810, for refusing to divulge ths source of about 46 found In his possession. As soon as Mors did so. ha was re leased, he said. He showed th visi tors a fair-slxed. well-ligntetl and well ventllated room In which be said Mors was' kept. Statermea Is Qaestloaed. "I question . ths accuraoy of that statement," said Editor Seeley. "I have been reliably Informed that Morse had no mattress s-r-rl no blanket and had to sleep on the Iron slats with only bis coat under bis head." "That Is untrue." th warden re torted angrily. -Who gar you suoh Information T' -Mr. Morse himself, and the physi cian attending him at ths time." The warden called In two deputies In charge at the time and both said they would take oath that Morse had both mattress and blanket. Prejudice la Charged. "You have been prejudiced against Mors ever since that gas stock deal." Mr. Se4ey charged, "and I think your treatment of him has been reprehen sible." -You are at liberty to print any facts In your possession regarding Morse's treatment In this prison," the warden retorted, "but I warn you to stick to facts, or I shall hold you personally re sponsible." The party wanted to know about that "gas stock. deaL" Moyer said that on March 11. 110. soon after the bank-- kwmii a orlsoner. he gave Morse nermlsslon to send a cipher message to New York. The next aay, ne saia , - nnr the matter to Attorney - Oeneral Wlckersham and was Instruct ed not to permit Mors to send mes ucea again. Pome time later, be said. 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