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K PORTLAND. OREGON, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. T TTI "0. 16,505. 18, V SULZER DECLARES TRIAL WAS FARCE" Reforms Predicted as Certain Result. DOWNFALL LAID TO MURPHY Tammany Chieftain Blamed for "Political Lynching." CONSCIENCE STILL CLEAR Debts. Xow About $76,000 Have Increased Since Candidacy, Assets nave Dwindled, Says ex-Official. ALBANY, N. T., Oct 17. In going out of office today, as a result of the verdict of the Impeachment court. Will iam Sulzer today Issued a statement, in which he denounced the tribunal which removed him as "Murphy's high court of Infamy." He said that "Mr. Murphy controlled the Assembly . and ordered the impeachment, and con trolled most of the members of the court and dictated procedure and wrote the Judgment. He was judge and Jury; the prosecutor and bailiff." Sulzer declared that his trial was "a political lynching as far as the Tam manyized part of the court was con cerned." . ' He asserted he had not taken the stand In his own defense because he . realized that his story attacking the Tammany- leader would be ruled out. General Denial Entered. He entered a general denial of all the charges of. the Impeachment articles, denied that he had ever asked Allan A. Ryan to obtain the influence of Murphy or Republican State Chairman Barnes to stop the trial; said the testi mony of Henry Morgenthau dould be explained; asserted that every dollar that had been given him during his campaign had been properly accounted for; that he was $76,000 in debt; that ho had been "faithful to his trust." and that he handed back to the people "the commission they gave me,"uiftarhlshed and unsullied." "Had I but served the boss with half the zeal I did the state William Sulzer would never have been impeached," . he said. Sulzer Maintains Innocence. The statement opened by saying: "In response to requests, from friends throughout the state for some expres sion from me, I can only say, at this time, that I am glad that my trial is over. "By virtue of a power beyond the present control of our electorate, I now hand back to the people the com mission they gave me and I hand it back to them untarnished and unsul lied. "My lips have been sealed for weeks, while I patiently have submitted In silence to abuse and villiflcatlon. "However, after stating my case to my counsel, and, by their advice, on August 11, I made the following state mcnt." Governor Sulzer then quoted a state ment in which he had denied that be had used campaign contributions for his personal ends, that he speculated in Wall Street, or that he had an ac count with Fuller & Gray or Boyer & Grlswold. He said he knew nothing about the transactions with these firms, testified to before the Frawley committee, until his attention was brought to them by the Frawley com mitlee. Speculative Account Denied. The statement asserted that the liar ris & Fuller account was not a spec ulative, but a loan account, made on stocks paid for years before his nom lnatlons, and that certain checks given him in the campaign had been de posited to his personal account and thereafter he had paid the amount of these checks to the campaign commit tees. - He then continues that no legal evi dence was adduced at the trial which disproved that statement. He goes on: "Subsequently on September 14, I gave out another statement as fol lows: 'The stories that I am going to resign are false and malicious. The purpose in circulating them must be evident to anyone. I am going to stand trlaL " 'I have said some hard things about some of the Senators and they have said some hard things about me, but this is a trial, not a political fight. ' "They are both Judges and Jurors, and I believe most of them are large enough and honest enough to do me Justice.' "These are the only statements or interviews I have made or given out since the Assembly by the orders of 'the boss' adopted the resolution of Impeachment. Trial Characterized as Farce. "Of course, when I Issued the last statement, I did not think Senators Wagner, Frawley, Ramsperger. Banner, Brown, Blauvelt and Tnompson would act as my Judges as they either were Interested personally in the outcome of my trial or had acted as my pros ecutors and condemned me before trial or on account of personal grievances had expressed an opinion as to my guilt. The casting of votes by these Senators vitiated the judgment, because had they refused to vote as a senso of decency should have Induced them to do I would not have been convicted on (Concluded on Pas 8,) unTri MAM DADQ 1 nu l L.U mm, urn j AT LIFE IN HOTELS IDLEXKSS STRIKES AT FOUNDA TION OF SOCIETY, HE SAYS. Movement in America Toward Apart ments Declared to Be heading Women to Envy and Waste. . LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17. (Special.) A. C. Bilicke, president of a local hotel company here, who has Just returned from an extensive tour of Europe, where he lisited all the big European hotels, contends that America Is so far ahead of Europe In hotel development that little can be learned abroad. He also said, after a year's stay abroad, that the United States had less home life than any other country In the world. . "Over here." said Mr. Bilicke, "we are coming to live more and more In hotels or apartment hotels. Every year peo pie move into hotels and give up their homes. It is changing our family life completely and I believe it Is striking at the foundation of our society. "Our women have so little to do when they live in hotels. They are too Wti mate, too closely associated with other women. Envy, jealousy. Idleness and wastefulness follow. I believe that every family should have a home, no matter how small. They should be a rnmmunitv in themselves. This was borne upon me most strongly- during my recent trip." PIN-MONEY PLAN NOT LIKED City May Rule Against women Workers Not In Need of Jobs. -"Pin money" employes of the city are now under fire. Members of the City Commission have a. plan under serious consideration to eliminate from the service women who have husbands supporting them and women who are merely working for the city to provide money for luxuries. It is proposed that women who have to support them selves and possibly others shall be given the preference in all city em ployment. " A quiet investigation has revealed the fact that there are many women In the city service who have husbands well able to support them, and there are others who are working merely to have "pin money," the employment not being necessary. OREGON WILL GET SHARE Secretary Would Atone for Neglect in Reclamation Matters. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Oct. 17. If Congress authorizes the additional loan of $100,000,000 to the reclamation fund that will be rec ommended by Secretary Lane, a con siderable share of this money will be expended In the Northwest. Realizing that Oregon has been grossly discrimi nated against in the past, the Secre tary will allot sufficient money to com plete the West Umatilla project, and in all likelihood the Deschutes project or some other Central Oregon project as well. Washington, It Is understood, will receive an allotment to build the big Palousa project, and Idaho money for the Black Canyon project, which ad joins the. Boise project now being built. No definite allotment has been made and none will be made until the money Is available. SHEEP RESCUE BEING TRIED Trail Through . Blue Mountains Ex pec ted to Release 1200. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Oct 17. (Special.) An effort to break a trail into the Blue Mountains is being made by the Saunders brothers, of Freewater, who own 1200 sheep now imprisoned by the snow In a deep canyon back of Toll Gate. The sheep have been without food for a week. The owners are using saddle horses and hope to be able to drive out the sheep single file. Several other sheep men of this locality have flocks In sim ilar predicaments. Losses have been small so tar, but unless the animals can be brought out soon the loss will be heavy. CARNEGIE STICKS TO "NIP" Laird of Sklbo Insists His Drinking Is Ordered by Doctor. NEW YORK, Oct. 17. (Special.) Andrew Carnegie, looking old end not too well, arrived today on the Maure tan la. "Do you still take your thimbleful of Scotch whisky every day?" the Laird was asked. "Of course I do," he replied emphat ically, "but I want you to understand that I am strictly temperate. "The Kaiser and I have been ordered to take half a glass of extra fine Scotch whisky with our meals. It's the doo tor's order, and It does not come under the head of drinking." Mr. Carnegie has been abroad two months. He spent most of his time m the golf links. LOTS YIELD $250 EACH Celery Proves Profitable City Crop ml Klamath Falls. KLAMATH FALLS, Oct. 17. (Spe cial.) Two vacant lots planted to cel ery early last Spring will yield 7000 bunches for the owners, Webber & Jensen. They have a ready market for all of this, and the value of ' the crop Is estimated at 1500. There is an increased demand from outside points for Klamath County cel ery and growers are realizing - top prices for their product. AIRSHIP BURSTS IN i 28 KILLED Shattered Hulk Drops 900 Feet to Ground. NAYY OFFICERS LOSE LIVES Entire Admiralty Trial Board of Seven Wiped Out. EVERY PASSENGER DEAD 'L-2," Designed lor War Service by Germany, Destroyed Above Johan nisthal on Trial Trip, With Big Company Aboard. FATES OF ZEPPEMX A IKS HI VS IX BECENT YEARS. Zeppelin IV, August, 1908; blown against shed by gale of wind and .wrecked. Zeppelin II, April, 1910; carried away by gale In maneuvers and wrecked. Seutschland VII, June 23. 1910; caught Id storm and smashed. Zeppelin IV, August 4 1908; struck by lightning. Zeppelin L-I, September 8, 1913; collapsed over sea in fleet maneu vers; 13 killed. This was the first of the mishaps to Zeppelin aircraft in which there was any fatality. Zeppelin L-II. October 17. 1913; exploded over JohannlsthaJ while on trial trip, with loss of 26 lives, some of the highest German aviation offi cers among the victims.' BERLIN, Oct. 17. Twenty-eight per sons were killed today near Johannls- thal in the explosion and fall of Count Zeppelin's latest dirigible balloon, the L-IL The 28 men represented the entire personnel of the admiralty board which was to conduct the final trial of the dirigible looking to Its acceptance by the government as a new unit of the German aerial navy, the pilot and cry a and invited guests. - Every person that went aloft in the big airship is dead. Guest's Byes Burned Out. Twenty-seven of them were killed almost instantly by the explosion of the gas In the balloon or burned to death as the flaming wreck fell to the ground from a height of 900 feet and enveloped! (Concluded on Page 2.) II ' . . " T INDEX CFTODAFS NEWS The Weather. rasTEBDirs Maximum temperature. 60 decrees: minimum. 4? decrees. TODAT8 Cloudy; probably rain; easterly winds. Foreign. Twenty-eight killed when great German war-airship explodes. Page 1. National. Llnd is Informed Huerta Is about to resign. Page X. i Domestic. siilser removed by vote of S to 12. Page 2. Sulxer calls his trial "political lynemng. Pare 1. Glynn sworn In as Governor of New York. Pare 2. Bryan says new currency bill ought to make banks happy. Page 1. Illinois women admit they oppose Judge be came ha Tnav decide againsi Page B. Leather merchant confesses he killed wife suicide compact denied. Page S. Mrs. Eaton's mother testifies daughter be lieved Admiral Insane. Page 3. Wife of captain of wrecked rteamer Merced last to quit vessel. Page 6. Hotel president warns against life In hotels. Page i. Episcopal bishops decide to permit discon tinuance of use of communion cup. Page 4. Sports. Pacific Coast League results: Los Angeles 32, Portland 6; Sacramento 7, Venice 8; Oakland 2, San Francisco O. Page 7. Portland Academy defeats Kill Military Academy, 13 to 0. Page 6. Leading Eastern football elevens face op ponents rated as easy today. Page 6. Beavers will be feted on return to Portland. Page 7. Idaho defeats Washington State College, 3 to 0. Page 6. Pacific Northwest. E. W. Green, Portland salesman, is found In dazed condition at Grants pass, rage i.-. Millionaire's daughter, now mother of four. accepts J20 monthly "mothers' pension. Page 1. New Investigation of Medford killing to be made as result of convicted men a state ment blaming Fricas. Page 12. Mark Woodruff tells of North Yakima Grow ers' Association. Page 12. Skamania County farmer victim of myste rious shooting. Page 13. Commercial and Marine. Hide prices in all markets unusually strong. Page 17. Large stocks of wheat In Europe cause slumps at Liverpool ana umcago. rage xi. Gradual advance in New York stock values. Page 17. Volume of trade in most lines larger than year ago. Page 17. Repairs to Chinook, without pump, to cost 13,000 and no decision made regarding them. Page 16. Portland and Vicinity. Presbyterian synod moves to bring "Drys" to agreement. Page 9. My wife has gone back on me," says John Alaga in admitting crime. Page IS. Ax of budget committee fails on Health Department. Page 10. Portola girls arrive today. Page 11. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 13. Oregron editors lay down pens and take up problems in orattory. page is. Symphony orchestra fund is almost com pleted. Page i. Brides-to-be guests of honor at luncheon by Mrs. Whitney Morden. Page 10. Private detective" tells of experience with "medical specialists." Page 4. Florida Needs No An tl-Alien Act. ; TXxJAHARSEEr. Fla., Oct. 17. Gov ernor Trammell has decided that an antl-allen land law would be In conflict with the state constitution, which ex pressly forbids it, and will call no spe cial session of the Legislature to con sider such an act. Representative Clark recently called on the Governor t0 convene the Legislature to pass a J law similar to California's. HE'S LOOKING US OVER TODAY. HUERTA TO RESIGN, UNO IS INFORMED United States May In fluence Choice. VARIOUS NAMES SUGGESTED Acceptability to Washington Factor in Outcome. INTERVENTION NOT NEAR Administration Again Denies Far pose ot Using Force Diplomats at Mexico City Said to Have Urged Action. WASHINGTON. Oct, IT John Llnd, President Wilson's personal represen tative In Mexico, has reported from Vera Cruz Indications of General Huer ta's InteDtion to resign the provisional presidency. Mr. Llnd has advised the Presldant that If the Information that has come to him is reliable, the United States may be called on indirectly to Indicate whether It will recognize or open nego tiations with Huerta's successor. Ap parently various names are being sug gested, and acceptability to the Amerl can Government, It is thought, might inf.uence the final choice. New Negotiations Denied. From Mr. Lind's report, which was filed Wednesday, there arose today ru mors of fresh negotiations with the Huerta government by . the United States, but at the White House and State Department it was declared that communication had not been resumed. Speeches in Congress and other sug gestions today for an armed protector ate over Mexico in conjunction with other nations were met by high Admin istration officials with the declaration that such an act would impair the sovereignty of Mexico. Attention was called to President Wilson's original instructions to Mr. Llnd, In which he denied any such purpose or possibility. It Is -said that the President remains of the same mind. Britain Wants K Territory. London dispatches that Great Britain looked with disfavor on the suggestion of armed Intervention, because It would not benefit British interests, while It might by annexation of territory or in demnity recompense the United States, (Concluded on Page 2.) CHILD OF LUXURY IS MOTHER IN PENURY MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTER GETS $20 COUNTY PENSION. Hardest Tiling Is to Use Gravy for Batter and "Spread" Jelly, Says AVoman With Four Children. SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 17. (Special.) There is a millionaire's daughter In Spokane who receives a "mothers' pen sion." This woman was raised In luxury. Now she Is a pauper and all that saves herself and four small .children from starvation is the 20 a month allowed her by the county. "The hardest thing I had to do was to use gravy instead of butter and to spread the children's Jelly when we had It, Instead of letting them take a spoon ful." This was the woman's statement to day to Deputy Probation Officer Miss L. B. Breese, who is detailed by the county to make monthly rounds of In vestigation to every home where the "mothers' pension" Is distributed. Miss Breese tells a touching Incident relative to her visit to this woman's home. "I went to her little home one day this week. She showed me some small presents which some neighbor children had given to the poor woman's oldest girl the night before. 'Do you think I was extravagant to have a party for my little girl?' said the widow. "It didn't cost anything, because the neigh bors brought everything in. It made the little children happy and there Isn't much that I can do for them now.' " BUILDING BILLS OFFERED Hawley Asks Money for Pour Cities in Oregon. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Oct. 17. Representative Haw ley has Introduced bills appropriating $100,000 each for the purchase of sites and the erection of public buildings at Oregon City, Corvallis, Ashland and Grants Pass. He also has introduced a bill authorizing the establishment of a lifesavlng station at the mouth of the Sluslaw River, and one authoriz ing the establishment of a mining ex periment station at Grants Pass. Mr. Hawly has reintroduced his bill of the last Congresses, which prohibits the General Land Office from using the secret reports of special agents as the basis for cancelling land entries. Un der this bill the Government can use as evidence only reports which have been submitted to the entryman af fected, and must consider the entry man's answer with the report. BIRDS IN HOTEL PALMS Parrots and Pigeons Used at Society Ball Defy Capture. SAN FRANCISCoTbct. 17. (Special.) The birds used at last night's society event, the Brazilian ball In the Hotel Oakland, to carry out the jungle effect, have taken possession of the ball room and defy capture. The parrots, cockatoos, pigeons and other birds are percned toaay in the high palm trees close to the "Brazilian sky," and ef forts to dislodge them with sticks were unsuccessful. Manager Reiter of the hotel said that the birds probably would have to be starved' In order to make them tame enough for capture. Frightened by the music and the merry din, a monkey jumped on the train of a society matron's gown last night, and before the beast could be captured part of the beautiful dress was torn to pieces. FIRST PLACEGIVEN OREGON Record in School Attendance Said to Be Due to Compulsory Law. SALEM, Or., Oct. 17. (Special.) That Oregon ranks first in the percent age of attendance of school children is a statement made by the School Super. ntendent of Erie County, Pa., In a let' ter received from him by Superintend ent of Public Instruction Churchill to. day. The writer says that his informa tion was obtained from the comparative tudy of school systems in the various tates as compiled by the Russell Sage Foundation. Oregon's excellent showing, accord ng to the Superintendent of Erie Coun ty, is due to the compulsory school law, and he asks Superintendent Churchill to send him a copy of the law with all Information and blanks In regard to Its nforcement in this state. MAGINATION NEARLY KILLS Man Who Drinks Water, Thinking It Acid, Suffers Agonies. . SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Oct 17. Imagination nearly killed Rex Lang behn today. A druggist arranged to save his life by filling an order for carbolic acid with a harmless fluid Langbehn wrote a farewell note to his wife, drank the liquid and apparently uffered all the agonies of poisoning. He was rushed to the county hos pital, where It was said 'he would re cover from the mental shock. Lang behn lives In Gromberg, Cal., and form- rly resided In Detroit. CRUISER ALBANY MISSING War Vessel Is Two Days Overdue at Honolulu. HONOLULU, Oct. 17. The cruiser Albany, whose arrival here has been momentarily expected, is now two days overdue and has not been heard from by wireless. The Albany has been attached to the first division of the Asiatic fleet and was homeward bound. She is a third- class cruiser In charge of Commander Mark L Bristol. BE HAPPYSAYS BRYAN Secretary Praises Cur rency ALDUS AID NGT WANTED "Most Remarkable Measure We Ever Had" Discussed. TARIFF PROMISE VAGUE Lower Prices Mean Greater Demand and Greater Demand Increases Prices Again, So Outcome Is Most Uncertain. WATERLOO, la,, Oct. 17. Secretary of State Bryan spoke tonight at the Iowa State Dairy show In defense of President Wilson's administrative pol icies. He defended the pending cur rency bill, the new tariff law and the Income tax and attacked the critics of these measures. "For generations the national banks have held the government's money In return for contributions to campaign funds and support of the Republican party," he said. Secretary Bryan was speaking of the pending currency bill. "The currency bill is the most re markable currency measure we ever have had," he said. "It gives to the bankers enough to make them happy and doesn't enable them to make enough to make the people miserable. There is one feature about this bill that should enlist the support of every banker doing a legitimate banking business. Heretofore It has been neces sary to put up bonds to secure Gov ernment money, but by the provisions of the new bill the Government lends money without requiring bonds. Government to Issue Money, "It lets the regional bank take col lateral from the banks within the zona and the zone banks put their guarantee on the collateral. This enables the Government to-put into a community more money than It takes out. The Government asks In return some thing every bunker should be willing to concede; namely that the Government should issue the money itself. Why let the banks Issue the money In times of peace when the Government must issue it in time of trouble? I believe the banks can well concede this point. They will have to concede it whether they want to or not. Bankers' Control Denounced. "The bankers had a meeting in Bos ton the other day and the papers said that when the question arose as to whether banks should be controlled by a board of bankers, they all shouted: 'We think the banks ought to be con trolled by bankers.' "Do you know of any other class of society that wants to control Itself? What would you think of a railroad that said, 'We must control the Inter state Commerce Commission that con trols us In the railroad business'? Did you ever hear of railroad men claiming that they should control one-half of the commerce commission or one mem ber of the board? You never heard It. "What do you regulate the banks for? For the benefit of the people who do business with them. Whose money have the banks? Why, the people's money. Whose money do they get from the Government? The people's. They who say the banks shall control themselves while they handle tho peo ple's money. x "It Is presumptuous, impertinent, au dacious, and the bankers themselves ought to be ashamed of It. AlUrlch'a Approval Kot Wanted. "The way some bankers talk you would Imagine that business communi ties exist for the benefit of the banks. -It will be just about as absurd to say that people eat in order to furnish a demand for farm products. This bill means that the banks are to fulfill the principles of their existence and are to live for the accommodation of busi ness and not for its control. We are to have 12 or more regional banks and no central bank. Mr. Al- drich complained the other day that he did not like this bill. That is the reason it was written this way, so he wouldn't like it. If the bill suited him. it wouldn't be fit to print. If he was pleased with it, it would be bad. Ho prepared a bill and after he had taken look through the country ne re signed from public life." cheaper Living May Be Uneven. Mr. Bryan discussed with newspaper men the relation of the tariff and cost of living. I believe that the new tariff will lower the cost of living on some sched ules more than on others," he said. The extent of the reduction Is diffi cult to calculate in advance, because number of lactors enter into the situation. The tendency of a fall in prices is to Increase the demand, and an increase in the demand will to -some extent check the fall. Then, again, the fall In prices tends to Increase the demand for better qualities In goods, which has to be taken into considera tion. There has been a material reduc tion In the tariff on woolen goods, which means that part of the savings will go into better quality. Less shod dv nd fnore wool will be used. In predicting the future ot this country as the consequence of the tariff law. (Concluded oa I'e 4.) BANKS SHOULD