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i VOL. LIV. NO. 16,632- PORTLAND. OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. OfTRUST BILL, HOT SHEA PROPOSED Wilson Approves Con tents of 4 Drafted. SHORT GUT Senate and House Expected to Agree on Consolidation. REPORT DUE IN TWO WEEKS President Conrers Witli House Com mltteemen tabor Union Exemp tion Xot Included in Drafts Yet Theater Trubt' Target. WASHINGTON. March IS President Wilson, at a. conference tonight -with the House judiciary subcommittee on trusts, put the stamp of Administra tion approval on tne substance of the four bills -to amend the anti-trust, laws, which the committee submitted in a nrnrtlcttllv final form. There will be another conference at the White House within a week and members of the committee asserted to night that unless protracted discussion should be raised in the full committee when the measures are presented, all four bills to strengthen the Sherman law, covering' interlocking directorates, holding companies, trade relations and definitions of restraints of trade would be reported to the House within a fortnight. Wilson Favor One Bill. President Wilson indicated his be lief that it would be better to con solidate all the bills into one in order to expedite legislation. The Senate in terstate trade committee is expected to favor consolidation. That it will be affected by the House judiciary committee seems practically certain. The President made a number of suggestions to the subcommittee which comprised Representatives Clayton, Alabama; Carlin, Virginia.- and Floyd, Arkansas. He Insisted that personal guilt of individuals in control of cor porations should be prescribed in every bill in order tc break up the evils that have grown up under the present anti-trust laws. The commit tee will revise the bills with this in view and talk with the President again before submitting the measures to the full committee and to the House. Holding Bill Completed. The draft of the holding corporations bill had been completed just before the conference. The measure would make unlawful those holding companies that combine the stock of corporations so as to lessen competition, but would not affect companies which hold the stock of corporations that form essential parts of their business. Holding com panies that are entirely for investment and not for business directly are not prohibited. This would permit com panies like the big insurance concerns to hold the stock of corporations wnicn are not competitors. The committee believes that in this bill it has solved the problem of dis ' enjminating between the holding com pany actively in business and operat ing business by combining a number of competitors into one company, as in the case of the Standard Oil Company and the American Tobacco Company and the corporations that have been compelled to combine a number of con cerns that aro not competitors, but whose combination is necessary to make a unit, or whole, as in the case of an oil company which combined a pipe company, a producing oil com pany, a refining oil company, all mak ing one legitimate business. Subsidiaries Not Included. The committee pointed out to the President that the bill would save to industrial business the investor who buys the stocks and bonds of various corporations, but is not engaged in the business of operating any of them. The bill applies to railroad-holding cor porations, but not to subsidiaries, it drawing the line at substantial com petitors. It includes cotton mills, if mado up of combined competitors; it would prohibit holding corporations of moving-picture concerns, which sought exemption, and would strike at vari ous large holding establishments which made pleas before the committee. The so-called theater trust also would be affected. Theater corpora tions which hold two heaters in any one city, unless it could be proved that they were absolutely non-competing, would be prohibited, but the bill would not destroy a chain of theaters in dif ferent cities in which there was no ele ment of comDetition. Labor Unions Not Exempt. None of the four bills as now framed provides for exemption of labor unions from anti-trust prosecutions. Senator Hughes, of New Jersey, is expected to present an amendment for that pur pose if the bills as they finally reach the Senate have no such exemption. Labor organizations, particularly the American Federation of Labor, have urged the Bacon-Bartlett bill, which would exempt from any prosecution under the Sherman law associations or ganized wholly for the- promotion of labor. The trade relations bill prohibits manufacturers from contracting to pre vent a merchant from handling a com petitor's goods It prohibits final price- (Concluded on Pass 2.) WOMEN, ON WILES, GO FREE IS CHARGE MURDERESSES CRY, SMILE AXD WIX, SAYS PROSECUTOR. Tliirteen Acquittals and One Convio tio'n Convince Lawyer Juries Are to Blame for "Scandal." CHICAGO, March 16. "The manner in which the women who have commit ted murder In Cook County have been able to escape punishment has become a scandal," State's Attorney Hoyne as serted today in a statement issued on the heels of a motion by his office to droD the case against Mrs. Augusta Dietz, accused of murdering her hus band. While the State's Attorney said that the case against Mrs. Dietz was with drawn because of lack of evidence, he declared that it appeared to be impos- oihio to Minvlct a woman who had killed a man in this jurisdiction. "The blame is on jurors," he said, who seem ready to bring a verdict of acauittal whenever a woman cnargea with murder is fairly good looking able to turn on the floodgates of her tears or exhibit a capacity of fainting. "In some cases In which women are charged with murder, the circumstances indicate a brutality and ferocity greater than that displayed by the worst maie TMininRl" Two women were acquitted nere 01 murder charges last week, mawng record of 13 acquitted in three, years and only one conviction. BETROTHED SEE "HAMLET' Secretary McAdoo's Son Is in Party With Miss Wilson. WASHINGTON, March 14. Secretary McAdoo and Miss Kieanor nauui-u wiiann whose engagement was f nounced recently, were the guests of President Wilson at a box party at a local theater tonight. They attenaea nprformance of "Hamlet." It was the first public appearance u the couple since it became Known mi they were to be married. In the party also were Mr. and Mrs. r rancia AHnn. the former a son of the Secre trv-- -Miss Marcaret Wilson, the Presi iios!t daughter: Miss Helen Woodrow Bones and Dr. Cary T. Gray son, U. S. N. TRIVIAL FIRE PROVES FATAL Captain in San Francisco i.-iiuri ment Killed by Heat and Smoke. SAN FRANCISCO, March 16. Captain Daniel Newell; of the Are department. a. 1 1.Ant -5 Tl rl mart. -was overcome, pamy uj - lv by smoke, in a trivial attic nre toaay and died on his way to the emergency hospital. Newell led the way into tne attic. Just as the Are was out ana ms men were ready to withdraw, they saw him fall unconscious. Not until ne iaiiea to revive in the fresh air was tie sup posed to be in any danger. TAG BAN ON AT CITY HALL Commission Rules That Corrupt Practices Act Interferes. The selling of charity tags or badges. t-ha eniinitatinn of contributions for charitable or other purposes is now .inrtor tho ban in the City Hall. The Commission at a meeting yesterday de elded definitely to enforce to the letter the corrupt practices act, which pro hibits city officials from making con tributions. Several times lately women selling tags for charitable purposes have been asked by Commissioner "Brewster not to solicit inside the City Hall. EARTHQUAKE TOLL IS 83 Eye-Witnesses of Japan Disaster Say Entire Families Crushed. TOKIO, March 16. Eighty-three per sons, according to the official estimates, were killed by the earthquake which occurred yesterday in the prefecture of Akita, Island of Hondo. - Eve-witnesses declare that entire families were crushed to death. Great gaps appeared in thr earth and every house in the towns of Omagari, Tokote and i Iizume were wrecked or damaged. Five hundred persons were injured and many are missing. SALEM HAS FLY MARKET Onenins Is 25 Cents a Hundred Subject to Change Without Notice. SALEM, Or., March 16. (Special.) The war on flies in Salem assumed concrete form today when the Com mercial Club announced that it would pay" 25 cents a hundred for the pests. "The market quotation may not hold at 25 cents," said Fred S. Bynon, sec retary of the club, tonight. "We had to make some offer and decided on this for a start. If our offer is found to bo too high It will be reduced and if not high enough to get the results it may be raised." SOLDIER MAY BE FORGIVEN Senate Is Asked to Restore Civil Rights of Socialist. WASHINGTON, March 16. At the re quest of Senator Thompson, the Senate passed a bill today to restore Walter H. Kauffman, a soldier, tb his civiJ rights. Kauffman, a Socialist, was court martialed a year ago at Fort Htevens for disparaging remarks about the flag. no ACCLAIMS HI GILL Mayor Once Depored, Sets Fight Again LATE FOE IS HIS POLICE CHIEF Reorganization of Department Begins First Day. 'PURITY' SQUAD IS TO GO Xew Executive to Abolish Cabarets and Boxes in Noodle-Houses, Bar Youths From Lodging-Houses, Stop Unwarranted Arrests. SEATTLE, Wash., March 16. (Spe ciai.) "Many a good fish gets .the hook," said the epigrammatic Hiram Charles Gill, February 10, 1911, as he left the City Hall, after having been recalled from the Mayor's chair. Today Mr. Gill did what "good fish" seldom do. He came back and was inaugurated as Mayor of Seattle for the second time. Mr. Gill is a plain man, impatient of all ostentation, and it was his wish that he be allowed to walk undisturbed to the City Hall, there to be inaugurat ed quietly. His friends, . however. whose number was demonstrated in the recent election, made his progress to the City Hall from his law office a triumphal procession. People Fight for View. The sidewalks were blocked, and wherever he could be seen he was cheered to the echo, by men and women alike. People literally fought for a good view of him, or for a handshake, and the incoming Mayor was obviously pleased. Without any ceremony he was receiving a personal tribute of affection. At the entrance of the City Hall the crowd gave him three cheers and a tiger. On the second floor of the City Hall another crowd blocked his prog ress, and again three cheers were given. The Mayor's office was filled with flowers for the incoming executive. many of them ornate set pieces. One was in the shape of a large corncob pipe. "Hello, HI," Says Mayor Cotterlll. In the office Mayor Cotterill awaited Mayor Gill. "Hello, George," said Mr. Gill. "Hello. Hi," responded Cotterill. "I wish you success." i Nineteen cameras theri popped and caught the retiring and the incoming Mayors as they shook Hands. Mayor Cotterill handed Mr. Gill the blank form or receipt that the incom ing Mayor always signs to account for (Concluded on Page 2.) CROWDS FfGH t ., - . - : 'f '''' 'L oi J i Option fro 1. JOUS of AMERIC ships emctA&eo ' lti coASTwise s ; ! i PFIC THROUGH J I ' ' ... ......... .... ............ A...... A.. . ......... A....AJ.JL.-.-...-...JiA..tAtJ.-A...-.....-.........J-Ji INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 63 degrees; minimum.-47 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northerly wind, Foreign. Wife of French Minister of Finance kills . editor of "Figaro." Page 1. National. Wilson puts xtamp of approval on four trust bills, recommending consolidation into one. Page 1. Domestic Martial law holds sway along border at Tecate. page 1. Inspectors do not agree on fixing blame for Nantucket-Monroe sea disaster. Page 2- "Mother" Jones says Governor nor Presi dent shall stop her from going back to strike zone. Page 2. Women accussed of murder go free on their' wiles, says Cook, County prosecutor. Page 1. Idle army at Sacramento shrinks from jy 0t to 30O. Page 3- v . Fight for heiress is sequel to divorce gr Chicago dressmakers open war orf Paris de signers and declare they will set Amer ican styles. Page 3. Thrift scorned by Americans in cities. Page 1. Sports. Sportsmen form a state-wide league. Page Beavers are ready for clash with White Sox. Page 8. Jav Gould slays Englishman off feet for court tennis championship. Page U. McCredie thinks team Is stronger than last . year. Page 9. Captain Hodgers says Beavers look best, Sacramento second. Los Angeles third. Page 8. Sox recruits roll Sacramento fans. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. Governor causes thrill in Baker grand Jury probe. Page 6. State school data Issued by Superintendent Churchill of great importance. Page 1. Trial of Laurence Duke on manslaughter charge begun at Seattle. Page t. HI Gill seated In Mayor's chair and Seattle gleeiul. Page 1. Idaho farmer killed by neighbor. Page T. Svatem of nickinu oratorical winners as sailed. Page 8. Portland and Vicinity. Fifty-cent water possible without meters. Page 11. Public sentiment must become more favor able If railroads even are to exist, says C. M. Clark. Page IS. Spectacular fire drill promised as prefix for annual ball. Page 18. United Railway's losses are explained at hearing to Increase Linnton fare, page 11. St. Patrick's Pay will be observed In the churches. Page 18. Commercial and Marine. Wheat consigned to California weakens Southern markets. Page 19. Complaints of crop damage Influence wheat at Chicago, page l. Stock market unsettled by selling for for eign account. Page 19. Higher prices paid for livestock at North Portland. Page 10. Albers Bros. Milling Company will salvage gram on burned aoca. rai i. Bonds for Portland-Alaska ship service signed. Page 14. CANADA MAY CUT DUTIES Reported Reduction Plan AVonld At- feet Farmlnjr Implements. WINNIPEG, Man. March IS. It -was reported here today that the Canadian Government, when the annual budget speech is delivered this month in Ot tawa, would announce a substantial reduction in duties on agricultural im plements. It is understood the duty on bind ers, reapers and mowers will .be re duced from 17 to 10 per cent, and a corresponding cut made In duties on other farm implements. Strong pres sure is being brought to bear on the Government to make a duty of 10 per cent on all farm implements. The reduction, if ratified, will go into effect by April 1, and will greatly encourage the sale of United States implements in "Western Canada. ALL SET FOR THE GREATEST BACKWARD FLIP-FLOP ON RECORD. IRTiAL LAW HAS SWAY BORDER Outrages Near Tecate Precipitate Action MEN AR3R 20 MILES American Patrol Only Short Distance From Mexicans. CITIZENS IN MASS MEETING Governor Requested to Demand of 'lower California Executive De livery of Mexicans Suspected of Murder and Arson. SAN DIEGO, Cal., March 16 Al though no proclamation was issued, martial law existed today along the border for miles each side of Tecate, Cal., following the destruction by fire of a general store containing the United States postoffice and customs office and the murder cf Postmaster Frank Johnston Saturday night by three men declared to be Mexicans. All last night the border was patrolled by American troops from Fort Rose crans. Across the line, not many hun dred feet distant, a force of Mexican rurales performed guard duty, ex changing signals intermittently and otherwise displaying military disci pline. More Ammunition j Ordered. - Every man within a radius of 10 miles, of Tecate is fully armed and rifles and ammunition have been or dered from this city. Governor Johnson was asked today to make formal demand upon Governor Francisco Vazques, of Lower California, for the delivery of the Mexican sus pected of having killed Johnston. Major W. C. Davis, commander at Fort Rosecrans, received instructions from Washington to lend any assist ance to the immigration and customs officials and keep the Department in formed of conditions. He already had taken initiative to the full scope of ins authority. FOUR KIXDS OF MONEY USED United States Coinage Takes First Place in Rebel Zone: DOUGLAS, Ariz, March 16 Four kinds of money are now circulating in the Mexican territory controlled by the constitutionalists. These' are united States currency and the fiat issues of the constitutionalist' govern ment, Sonora State and "Villa money, or that issued by Chihuahua at the nstance of the rebel military com (Concluded on Page 2.) THRIFT IS SCORNED IN AMERICAN CITIES FEW INDUCED TO COMPETE IN CONTEST, SAYS REPORT. Prodigal Spirit and Vague Contempt for Good Husbandry Evidenced Among Municipal Officers. CHICAGO, March 16. The prodigal spirit has imbued American cities with a contempt for thrift, according to a statement of the American Society for Thrift, in which the society announced its failure to induce municipalities to compete for honors as the thriftiest city in the United States. "There seems to be a vague indiffer ence or contempt for thrift prevalent among municipal officers," the report reads. "The prodigal spirit prevails." Of the cities which competed, Daven port. Ia., reported the highest per cap ita bank deposits, $601.01, and Oil City, Pa,, led in the per capita, of stock and bonds investment with an averare per capita of J645.65. PERJURY CHARGE IS MADE Man Aenuitted at Walla Walla ot Horsestealing Rearrested. WALLA WALLA, "Wash., March 16. (Special.) Henry McNeil turned to leave the Superior Court room today when a jury brought in a verdict ac quitting him of a horse thief charge. He was halted by Sheriff Toner, who served a warrant on him charging per jury. McNeil was taken to jail. His bonds have not been fixed. Statements McNeil made on the stand caused the second charge to be made. McNeil was charged with stealing a valuable trotting mare from Samuel Grey, of this city, January 19. Two weeks later he was arrested in the mountains, south of The Dalles, by Deputy Sheriff Barnes, of this county. Witnesses told of seeing McNeil be tween Walla Walla and Hood River with the horse. McNeil said he bought the horse in Hood River January 28, paying $60. GERMAN RIVALRY APPEARS Industrial Factions' Strife Brings Statement From One. BERLIN. March 16. The rivalry be tween various groups of German indus trial men was manifested again today when the Central Association of Ger man Manufacturers issued a disavowal of any connection with the recently founded Central German-American Economic Association. The first-pamed association, which comprises Krupps and other great steel and coal concerns, asserts tliut the or ganizers of the German-American As sociation by its misuse or tne woru "central" induced business men to join it. , The conflict is a long-standing one. It was recently in evidence when the first-named society opposed German representation at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. TAXICAB FEUD , IS AIRED Independents Declare Company Cars Given Advantage at Station. A bitter feud between large and small taxicab concerns as to which shall have the right of way along the streets in front of the Union Depot, was aired yesterday before City Commissioner Daly. The small concerns declare the Terminal Company gives preference to two big concerns while the big concerns deny that they are given any advan tage. Small concerns, which call themselves the "independents," say they are crowded out of their places and ham pered from getting a part of the busi ness. Commissioner Daly took the propo sition under consideration to see what steps are necessary to bring the trou bles to an end. SOAP BOX' HOLDS $150,000 Mall for County Treasurer Piles Up at Vancouver. VANCOUVER, Wash., March 16. (Special.) A common soap box in the County Courthouse contains about $150,000. The contents represent sev en days' mail for the County Treasurer, W. R. Fletcher. So fast has the money rolled in that it cannot be taken care of, and the let ters that contain money are filed in the box. One envelope from the Northern Pacific Railroad Company conUinB a check for $43,000. TIE-UP OF WORK INTENDED Effort Made in Xcw York to Halt Big Catskill AVater System. NEW YORK. March 15. Suit to tie up all work on the Catskill water sup ply system now nearing completion was filed in the Federal Court today by the Ramapo Water Company. The plaintiff company, organized in 1887 with a capital stock of J2,500,000, seeks to establish contracts by which it planned to bring water from the Ramapo Mountain region and to enjoin the City of New York from continu ing work on the Catskill system on the ground that the statutes authoriz ing the Catskill project are unconsti tutional. OFFICE WORRY TOO MUCH County Commissioner Resigns Job Becauso of Small Pay. V TILLAMOOK, Or., March 16. (Spe cial.) County Commissioner Edner, who has been in office for 15 months, resigned today, giving as his reason the worry of the oftice and the small pay. Fosdick Declines Offer. WASHINGTON. March 16 Raymond B. Fosdick, former Commissioner of Accounts of New York City, declined today President Wilson's offer to be come Commissioner ot Immigration at the Port ol J'ew .York. FRENCH MINISTER'S WIFE KILLS E0IT0 Campaign Against Cab inet Member Cause MURDERESS SAYS DUTY DONE Shot Meant to Teach Lesson to "Figaro's" Chief. INTENT TO KILL IS DENIED Paul Bourget, Author, at Scene of Shooting Head or Finance De partment Resigns as Result of Mate's Action. PARIS. March 16. Gaston Cal mette, editor of the Figaro, was shot today by Mme. Henrietta Caillaux, wife of Jose Caillaux, the French Minister of Finance. He died tonight. Mme. Caillaux went to the office ot the Figaro to carry out an act of ven geance against M. Calniette, who had been waging a campaign characterized by extreme bitterness against the Min ister of Finance. She fired at least three times. M. Calmette being wound- , ed in the chest, in the side and the abdomen. . Duty Done, Says Victim. While the editor was being trans ported to the hospital, he said repeat edly: "I have done my duty. 1 have done my duty." Having committed the deed, Mme. Caillaux submitted to arrest, and while employes in the Figaro office were taking the pistol from her hands, she said: "Since there is no justice In this country, I take upon myself an act of justice. Take me where you will." Mme. Caillaux was removed to a po lice station where she underwent a preliminary examination, the substance of which was communicated to the press at her desire. Intent to Kill Drilled. "I am sorry." she said, "for what I was obliged to do. I had no Inten tion of killing M. Calmette and I would be happy to know that lie will recover. I desired only to tfach him a lesson." At the moment of the attack, M. Calmette was preparing to leave his office in the company of Paul Bourget, the author. He excused himself to receive Mme. Caillaux, who fired al most Immediately. In her statement to the police, Mme. Caillaux explained that the campaign against her husband had become in tolerable and she determined to stop it. She consulted an eminent lawyer, who advised her that legal proceed ings would be futile that th?y were often worse in the case of the innocent than in the case of the guilty. She de cided then to take the law into her own hands. She bought a revolver, drove to the Figaro office and sent in her card. MinlMtrr Rraign Office. M. Calmette was most polite and asked what he could do for her. "It is needless for me to pretend that I arri making a friendly call," she answered. "Then I drew my revolver from my muff and fired all the cartridges. M. Calmette tried to take shelter behind a desk." Mme. Calliaux was formerly charged with attempted homicide and removed to St. Lazare prison. Later the charge was changed to homicide. It was officially announced tonight that M. Caillaux had tendered his resig nation from the Ministry of Finance, but that Premier Doumergue withheld his decision until tomorrow. Marcel Prieu was a French merchant of Brazil. Thirteen of his ships were seized by the Brazilian government in 1880 on the charge that the customs regulations had been evaded. Event ually Brizal paid to the French gov ernment an indemnity of $3,000,000. Prieu's claim to this was repeatedly rejected, but his heirs in 18D9 formed a syndicate to prosecute the claim. Banks "Tapped" Is Charge. M. Calmette also charged that M. Caillaux had "tapped" the Comptbir National d'Escompte and other banks to the amount of $30,000. Among other accusations, it was charged tfiat the minister had exerted pressure on the judges to pos&poce trial of Henri Rochette, who was ar rested in Paris in 1908 on the charge of swindling on an enormous scale, thus enabling him to flee to Mexico. M. Caillaux was also charged with au thorizing the quotation on the bourse of questionable foreign loans, whereby vast sums were lost by French inves tors. M. Caillaux contented himself with, issuing " categorical denials. But on March 13 the Figaro printed a fac sim ile of a letter from M. Caillaux to an Intimate friend, dated "The Senate. July 16, 1901," 'at the time Caillaux was Minister of Finance in the Wal-deck-Rousseau Cabinet, in which he said he had been instrumental in crush ing the income tax, although seemingly he was defending the tax. This brought matters to a climax and it was understood that the Finance Minister intended to take proceedings against M. Calmette for publishing a private letter without authority, either from the sender or the receiver. Slayer Is Third Wife. Mme. Caillaux is the Minister's thW wife. She is 39 years old, and her maiden name was Henrietta Rainouej-d. She was the wife of Leo Claretie. broth A (Concluded on f age 2.) 1