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THE MORNING O REGO NI AN, . SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1914. FRENCH MINISTERS TELL OF SGANDA L Public Prosecutor Says He Continued Swindler's Trial at Premier's Order. MONIS BLAMES CAILLAUX Incident Declared of So- Little Im portance It AVas Vrgotten Vn- til Kccrntly Royalist Ulot at Editor's Funeral. PARIS, March 20. The Parliamen tafy scandal over the escape of Henri Horhette, so-called "King of Swind lers. was brought to a crisis today, when Victor Fabre. public prosecutor, testified before a committee of the Chamber of Deputies: Vlt is true that I received the order from Premier Monis to postpone the Koch.-tte trial." Mr. Fabre continued: "When I was beinar examined by this committee in 1912, I was asked whether intervention from above had prompted me to request a postponement of the ' Itochette trial. Availing myself of the secrecy permitted to officials, I re plied 'No.' I did not consider it within my powers to make known my inter view with the 1'remier. Document C'ivrn to M. Brinnd. "When afterward M. Briand, as Min ister, asked me to explain, I gave.liim the document which previously had been in my personal portfolio. He had no right to make public what was con fided to liim as Minister. Kvery sen tence in it. however, is true." M. Monis, the ex-Premier, was called. He narrated that after his ministry fell he was ill for a Ions time. On re covering he read allusions in the news papers to som documents written by Victor Fabre. He added: "So little significance had this Ro chette incident for me that I never mentioned it to M. Caillaux. I com T.lctely forgot it until It came to my attention recently. Authenticity of Declaration Denied. "This .so-called official declaration by Victor Fabiv is not really official. It Is a document prepared by htm to cover himself. I never received it nor ever knew anything by it. I see, by the way it is constructed that it was pre pared after the things had happened. ' Questioned by the President, Jean Jaurts, as tr his conversation with M. CailUux, M. Monis replied that Al. Caillaux liar! considered it unwise for Rocnctte's trial to come on immediate ly, because Koehette"s lawyer intended to f,'o into transactions which would have bet n injurious to public finance at tho time. .Joseph Caillaux, ex-Minister of Fi nance, was then called and M. Jaures ask.'-l him: "Under what condition did you in terfile to cause a postponement of the Itochette affair?" YerMlon of Postponement tjilven. M. Caillaux replied: "Two days after the Monis cabinet Has formed, a managing: director of the newspaper Fttppel railed and asked if it were true that the Government was opposed to the postponement of the Rochette affair and if it had been requested by Rochette' s lawyer. I answered that it was a matter for Kochette's lawyer to take up with the Premier nr th Minlatap tf T u .-, t . . A few days later, Rochette's lawyer came to see me and said his health was so bad that he wished, if possible, to defer undertaking the severe exertions neces sary for Rochette's, defense until he had become strong..' He requested me to transmit his desire to M. Monis. "I asked M. Monis on behalf of Maurice Bernard. the lawyer of Rochette, if the Kovernment was op posed to delay of the Rochette trial. M. Monis said he would have occasion to talk with M. Fabre about it. I mentioned that M. Bernard would be able during the case by his handling of share issues connected with the. Rochette promotions to cause a certain" emotion on the Bourse. Subject Becomes tiosMlp. "M. Monis and I never spoke about the subject again. Several months after ward, Louis Barthou said to me that the members were gossiping in . .the lobbies of the Chamber and saying that M. Monis had exerted pressure on the public prosecutor to procure a delay of the Rochette trial. I empha sized my surprise. One day in Novem ber, 1911. M. Fabre was in my office and I asked what had taken place be tween him and Monis. I told him that stories were going about "He said M. -Monis had asked if there were any objections to the postpone ment of the Rochette trial. M. Fabre had replied that there were none for him personally, but public opinion had to be considered. Upon this, M. Monis had said, "It is a matter of no im portance. I take the responsibility." " RoyalltttM Are Riotous. The funeral of M. Calmete. murdered editor of Figaro, was held today. The services themselves were not disturbed but the Royalists 'were riotous along the line of march of the funeral pro cession. One man was shot for crying: "Caillaux the assassin." Almost all the notable literary and dramatic personages in Paris either were in the little church of Saint Francis de Kales for the funeral serv ice, or followed the hearse to the cemetery. Fix-President Loubct and ex-Premiers Briand and Barthou were among the 9000 persons who went to the place of interment. The route through which the cortege passed was thronged, the spectators Manding bareheaded in the intermittent rain. his way. There wero occasional ex change of shots between outposts, but nothing that assumed even the dig nity of a skirmish. . . Villa Volcano of Eaerg-jr. General- Villa" was everywhere, for now that the eve of battle Is at hand he is a fury of energy, now grabbing the halter of a .refractory mule, now criticising the lashings of a pack sad dle, or snapping - orders at a lesser leader. He went from point to point in his private car, attached to a light engine, and wherever he alighted his horse, saddled and bridled, was in stantly awaiting. "Torreon will be mine in a week," he exclaimed, jubilantly. "Never has a revolutionary army in Mexico had VILLA INVESTS TORREON (Continued From First Page.) the wheels at times almost hub-deep in the sand. In emergencies branches of the tough mesquite bush and soap weed were matted under the wheels, sturdy peons put hands to the spokes, there were streams of profanity ad dressed to mules in a language said to be in this respect the most ade quate in the world. Then the columns would proceed. Marchers' Eyes Bloodshot. The lips of the few foreigners in the army were cracked aud swollen from the heat and alkali sand, but the Mexicans, trained to such conditions, covered their mouths with folds of their blankets and fared better. - All eyes were bloodshot." In this way, amid all the suffering which the harshest waste of the arid land in Mexico can furnish the out skirts of Torreon were reached. There was no opposition and Gen eral Villa said there had been none since he began to repair the railroad south of Jiminiz. The federals con tented themselves with strewing all possible obstacles except bullets la .'y-.--:c:. lift 1 vM wj'.-v. Iff WILSON UNBOSOMS HIMSELF TO CRONIES Desire to Be Plain Human Be ing Confessed in Unusual Informal Address. 'BLESSED INTERVALS' COME President Confesses Resort. to Detec tive Stories to Forget Official Character -Scenes Abroad, However, Preferred. (Continued From Klrpt Page.) MImm Krlice l,ync. Said 1 lie the .Youngest American Prima Uubor, Who Marie Her American Grand Opera Debut In Boston Last Might. better men. Every preparation has been made and 'we cannot fail." tt is no figure of speech to say that the light of battle burned in the rebel leader's eyes. They are extraordinarily wide set, so that when he looks at a visitor at close range they seem almost to cross and their dark depths, almost glowing, seem actually to flame in mo ments oi excitement. His subordinates rarely ever argue with him, and in such moments never. It is a danger signal one which the Scotchman Benton is said! to have failed to heed. . Possible Successor Chosen. General Felipe Angeles, chief of the artillery corps, was named second ill command to take full charge in the event of the death or incapacitation of Villa. Angeles is a member of Gen eral Carranza's Cabinet and was de tached at Villa's urgent solicitation to participate in the battle. He is a vet eran expert of th big-gun arm of the service and many an artillery officer in the enemy's ranks at Torreon re ceived his schooling from him. His loyalty to Madero's memory has en deared him to the rank and file of the 'troops. General Aguirre Benavides was placed in command of the disposition of the troops, although Angeles him self selected the position for his aide. MERE GIRL OPERA STAR YOIXGEST PRIMA DO XX A. MAKES AMERICA X DEBUT. Miss Felice Lyne, ot Yrt 20 Years Old, Meoe of lr. nud Mrs. F. E. Moore, of Portland, Scores. BOSTON, Mass., March 20. (.Special.) After having captured music lovers and critics of other leading nations of the world, during a 40,000-mile tour. Miss Felice Lyne. niece of tr. and Mrs F. E. Moore, of Portland, Or, appeared for the first time in the United States, her native land, in grand opera here tonight and scored an instantaneous success. Miss Lyne is said to be the ; oungest American prima donna in the world. She is not yet 20 years old. Before a fashionable audience Miss Lyne sang Gilda in "Rigoletto" and she had not been on the stage five min utes until her convincing tonal art and fascinating personality had won the audience. Gilda is her favored role, and she fairly radiated in it. The production was given by the Boston Grand Opera Company and the cast in cluded other grand opera singers of fame. Miss Lyne's American debut had been made the occasion for considerable in terest in music circles. The fact that Miss Lyne is a Kansas City, Mo., girl, and a graduate of the Ceijtral High School of that place, had been an nounced, together with the -fact that she took up her musical training un der the famous Mine. Marches), who trained Melba. D'Aubigne and Jean de Reskze also aided in her finishing work. As the star of the Boston Com pany she was the only one of the or ganization to make the 40,000-mile tour through the Old World and Can ada before appearing in her native land. This' had aroused more than passing interest. Her performance more than met expectations. Miss Lyne is a high coloratura so prano of. magnetic charm and rich voice. She is as well an actress. the emotion of the thing is so great that I suppose 1 must have some kind of a mask to conceal it. I really feel sometimes as if I were masquerading when I catch a picture of myself in some printed description. In between things that I have to do as & public officer. I never think of myself as the President of the United States, because I never had had any sense of being identified with that office. Keeling; of Aloofness Returns. "I feel like a person appointed for a certain length of time to administer that office, and J feel just as much out side of it at this moment as I did be fore I was elected to it. "No man could imagine himself the Government of the United States; but he could understand that some part of his fellow citizens had told him to go and run a certain part of it the best he knew how. That would not make him the Government itself or the thing itself. It would just make him respon sible for running it the best he knew how. The machine is so much greater than himself; the office is so much greater than himself; the office Is so much greater than he can ever be, and the most he can do is to look grave enough and self-possessed enough to seem to fill it. Certain Precedents Uncomfortable. "For example, take matters of this sort: i will not say whether it is wise or unwise; simple or grave, but certain precedents have been estab lished that in certain companies the President must leave the room first, and people must give way to him. They must not sit down if ho is stand ing up. It is an uncomfortable thing to have to think of all the other people every, time I get up and sit down and all that sort of thing. So that when 1 get guests in my own house and the public is shut out I adjourn being President and take leave to be a gentle man. If they draw back and insist upon my doing something: first, I firm ly decline. "There are blessed intervals when 1 forget by one means or another that 1 am the President of the United States. One means by which I forget is to get a rattling good detective story, get after some imaginary offender and chase him all over preferably any continent but this. Because the various parts of this continent are becoming painfully suggestive to me. The post offices and many other things which stir reminiscences have 'sicklied them o'er with a pale cast of thought.' There are postoffices to which I would -not think of mailing a letter, which 1 can't think of without trembling- with the knowledge of the heartburnings of the struggle there was in connection with getting somebody installed as post master. Personal Conducting Palls. "Xow if I were free, I would come not infrequently up to these rooms. You know 1 never was in Washington but a few times and but a very few hours until I came last year and I never ex pect to see the inside of the public, buildings in Washington until my term is over. The minute I turn up any where I am personally conducted to beat the band. The curator and the assistant curators and every other blooming official turns up and they show me so much attention that 1 don't see the building. 1 would have to say, 'stand aside and let me see what you are showing me.' Some day after 1 am through, with this office I am going to come back to Washington and see it. In the meantime 1 am in the same cate gory as the National Museum, the Monument, the Smithsonian Institution or the Congressional Library, and everything that comes down here has to be shown the President. If I only knew an exhibition appearance to as-sume-apparently 1 can assume other appearances that do not show what is .going on insido I would like to have it pointed out, so that i could practice it before a lookingglass and- see if 1 could not look like the monument. Be ing regarded aa a National exhibit would be much simpler than being shaken hands with by the whole United States. Crowd Just "Jolly Lot." "And yet even that is interesting to me, simply by like human beings. It is a pretty poor crowd that does not Interest you. I think they would have to be all members of that class that devotes itself to 'expense regardless of pleasure' in order to be entirely un interesting. These look so much alike spend their time trying to look so much alike and relieve themselves of all re sponsibility of thought, that they are very monotonous indeed, whereas a crowd picked up off the street is just a jolly lot a job lot of real human beings, pulsating with life, with all kinds of passions and desires. "It would be a great pleasure if un observed and unattended I could be knocked around as I have been accus tomed to being knocked around all my life; if I could resort to any delightful quarter, to any place in Washington that 1 chose, t have sometimes thought of going to some costumers some the atrical costumers and buying an as sortment of beards, rouge and coloring and all the known means of disguis ing myself. If it were not against the law. You see. I have a scruple as President against breaking the law, and disguising one's self is against the law, but if I could disguise myself and not get caught 1 would go out, be a free American citizen once more and have a jolly time. I might then meet some of you gentlemen and actually tell you what 1 really thought." The President talked Informally. He wore a sack suit and stood with his hands in his pockets as he spoke. He was in a happy mood and his remarks were constantly punctuated with laugh ter and applause. Mr. Wilson is a member of the Press Club, having been elected as an author long before he became President. Members of the Cabinet, Speaker Clark and many officials also were guests of the newspaper men. Manitoba Town Bnrncd. WINNIPEG, Man., March 20. The businesssection of Dumrea, Man., on the Canadian Northern . Railroad, 144 miles southwest of here, was wiped out by fire today. The town hall. Interna tional Harvester Company's warehouse and 10 stores were destroyed. The loss is $150,000. nEnaaasaBaBBSsasBssK ir Gilbert Par Great New Novel "You Never Know Your Luck" . Published Complete in the April Munsey WHEN this novel goes into book form after it has appeared in The Munsey, it will crjst you $1.50; in Munsey 's Magazine it "will cost you 15 cents, and in The Munsey you get it first Sir Gilbert Parker is unquestionably one of the first novelists of the day, and one of the most popular, i His books, at $1.50 a copy, sell up into the hundreds of thousands some of them as much as 400,000. With so tremendous a sale at $1.50, what ought the sale to be at only 15 cents ? Four million copies, I should say, but as the edition' of Munsey 's Magazine for April is limited to 500,000 copies, there will be, on this theory, 3,500,000 disappointed persons. If, therefore, yowwant to make sure of this new Parker novel at a cost of 15 cents, you would do well to get busy with your newsdealer before his supply of the April Munsey is exhausted. . H s - r v Jr SIR GILBERT PARKER Author of "The Richt of Wsy," "The Money Master,' "Seals of the Mishly," "The Judgment House." with a full book-length novel published complete each issue, has hit a new high place in magazine making. I have been studying for a dozenor fifteen years to find a way to give the public brand-new, high-grade books at a price not to exceed 25 cents a copy. I have just now solved the problem through publishing them in my magazine not serial publication, but as complete as if actually in book form. And in The Munsey they are printed on fine book paper, from large, clear type, and are profusely illustrated. The Munsey is jam full of good stuff. Its complete novel covers only one side of it. The other side is rich in illustrations, worth-while articles, short fiction and other material a magazine practically double the size of the average magazine. On all news-stands, 15 cents a copy; $1.50 a year. FRANK A. MUNSEY, NEW YORK HAMILTON BOY HIDDEN STRANGE MEN FOLLOW MRS. JEN SEN AND SON ON RELEASE. Mother .Klees, Pearlna; Motaer-ln-Law Has riot to Reecaia Possessloa. Iamag;e Suit Threateaed. TACOMA. Wash., March 20. (Spe cial.) Trailing Mrs. Jensen to 2807 South C street, the home of her brother-in-law, arter she had been released by Superior Judge Clifford on a writ of habeaus corpus, two strange men, believed by her to be private detectives from Portland. Thursday night at tempted to kidnap Gilbert Hamilton, 6-year-old son of Mrs. Pearl Hamilton Jensen. Mrs. Jensen, with her child, fled and are now in hiding with friAds some where in the city. With the assistance of several friends who were instru mental in obtaining her release from the city jail where she was held on a charge of kidnaping her boy, Mrs. Jensen concealed her son. After the child had been carefully hidden, two of Mrs. Jensen's friends left the house and met the two strangers. Police headquarters wa3 notified and Detective Thompson sent out, but he could find no trace of the strangers. Mrs. Jensen immediately conferred with her attorneys, Frank Carroll and A. O. Burmeister, ex-Deputy Prosecuting1 Attorney. The attorneys advised her to keey Gilbert hidden until her financial con dition is such that she can move to some more secluded place. Attorneys said today that a suit for damages would be instituted by Mrs. Jensen against the mother-in-law. Mrs. Eva Hamilton, of Portland, at once. PENDLETON MEN GUILTY TOTAL OF 91600 PAID IX FIXES BY GAMBLERS. Son of Mayor Matlock Pays Out Larg est Amount, His Penalty Betna; $230f All Bat KiOO Paid. PENDLETON. Or., March 20. (Spe cial.) An aggregate of $1600 was paid in fines today as the result of indict ments returned by the grand jury against gamblers and those who per mitted games in their places of busi ness. Nine men appeared before Circuit Judge Phelps and were assessed from $150 to 5210 each. Wesley N. Matlock, son of Mayor Matlock, was fined the largest amount, his penalty being $250. John Estes was fined $200; John Butler and Pat McDevitt, partners in a bowling alley, $150, jointly. The others were fined $150 each. David G. Smith, Indicted for permitting gambling in his place of business and for perjury, was given until Monday to plead'. The others all entered pleas of guilty. All but $300 of the fines was paid. PROPOSED COUNTY NAMED Siuslaw Is Chosen by Meeting of Helegutes at Mapleton. FLORENCE. Or., March 19. (Spe cial.) A meeting of delegates from the different parts of the district was held at Mapleton today, to deckle, on the boundaries of the new county which it is proposed to form from the western end of Xane County. About 35 dele gates attended. They represented Florence, Glenada,' Acme, North Fork, Mapleton, Indian Creek, Blachley and Alpha. . R. S. Huston, of Florence, was elect ed chairman. (and C. E. Harwood. of Glenada, secretary of t"hc meeting. The question of a name for the new county was discussed and the name "tiiuslaw" was chosen by a large majority vote. The new county, as decided on. is to Include that part of Lane County ly ing west of a line beginntng on the north line of Lane County, at the northeast corner of township 15, range 7, and running south 12 miles, then west four miles, south six miles, east four miles, south three miles, east six miles, and south to the Douglas Coun ty line. v TAFT OPPOSED TO RISK TRl'ST LAW ADVANTAGES XO'I BE SACRIFICED L1UHTLV. RURAL R0UJE TRADE. Since the new parcel post rates have gone into effect the local merchant has an opportunity to compete on an even basis, if not a little better, with the mail order houses. Every merchant who is awake to the opportunity should take advantage of it. There is nothing better for this business than an Edison duplicating machine for producing cir cular letters, price lists, bulletins, etc. We have them for $15, $25 and up wards. A. S. Ashley. Sales Agent, 301 Phoenix building. Adv. Albany Plans for Memorial Way. . ALBANY, Or.. March 20. (Special.) The union Memorial day services in this city this yewwill be held in the First Baptist Church and will be con ducted by Rev. Elbert H. Hicks, pastor of the church. This is the arrangement which was made today by McPherson Post. Grand Army of the Republic, of this city. Rev. D. 11. Leech pastor of the First Methodist Church of Albany, will be in charge of the services at Riverside Cemetery on Decoration day. Union Judgeship Attracts. LA GRANDE, Or.. March 20. (Spe cial.) The race for County Judge seems to be attracting the most atten tion in politics this year. Its incum bent, J. C. Henry, and W. W. Randall are the seekers at the hands of the Re publican voters, while J. R. Oliver and J. F. Phy are seeking the nomination at the hands of the Democrats. Judge Henry has held this place for several years, and it is thought that he will run a good race to succeed himself for this office. Portland Trust Company Gets Bonds LA GRANDE, Or., March 20. (Spe cial.) The Portland Trust & Savings Company were tho successful bidders last night for the $47,392.61 worth of improvement bonds on Spring avenue and Second street, also the West Side sewer. Their bid was 2 per cent above par for the bonds. The Warren Con struction Company offered par and ac crued interest for a part of the bonds. Miss Edna Williams Dies. CLARKSTON, Wash.i March 20. (Special.) Miss Edna Williams, eldest daughter of A. B. Williams, a. promi nent mining man of the Snake River district, died today at her home here from pulmonary tuberculosis, after a prolonged illness. She was 24 years old. POSLAM STOPS ALL ITCHING JNSTANTLY No more Itching when Poslam is used. Nothing but soothing, grateful qomfort as it controls and heals Eczema, Acne. Rash. 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He advocated the enforcement of the present law and would add thereto wherever found necessary, but asserted that its ad vantages migrht be lort to the business world by rvpi-alinir lliut which has been found effective and stood the test before the Nation's highest court. "It hart been made po.stJibl1," ho said, "that the prosecuting machinery of the Government may be properly added to. but I think any other change of tho anti-trust law and especially of the first two sections. to as to require another 20 years to interpret the mean ing of the amendments would interfere with its usefulness, and would not in ure to the public benefit." Mr. Taft emphasized his conviction that trades unions and farmers should not be exempt from the operation of the anti-trust act. He said he hoped such action never would he taken, be cause it would bo class legislation, es tablishing a privilege for a class that is supposed to be powerful enough in votes without any real occasion for the distinction. Comic Opera Favorite lies. MILFORD. Mass.. March 20. Marie Jansen, a comic opera favorite 2,r years ago. died here, aged 65. She was known off the stage as Hattie Johnson. aSSB2SBEEaS3 aHUBBBBBaSASESSSSS Strengthen Your Lungs Is Timely Advice when consumption claims over 350 daily in the United States. Neglected colds, overwork, con fining duties and chronic disorders exert the weakening influence which allows tuber' cular germs the mastery. The greatest treatment that science affords is courage, rest sunshine and Scott's Emulsion. Scott's Emulsion contains pure cod liver oil to clarify and enrich the blood, strengthen the lungs, rebuild wasted tissue and fortify the resistive forces to throw 'off disease germs. Strengthen YOUR lungs with Scott's Emulsion its benefits important to neglect, are too Physicians everywhere proclaim its worth and warn against alcoholic substitutes. 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