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2. THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1920 I? REPUBLICANS UBGE ii ii 3i a a 51 I HI ACT 1 PICT Hitchcock Rejects Caucus to Fix Democrats' Stand. VOTE SOON IS PREDICTION Lodge Claim of 22 Totes of Op posite Party Declared Exaggera tion bf Administration Group. - i WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. Plana- to hasten a final decision on the peace treaty were made by senate republi cans today while the administration leaders were taking counsel among their divided colleagues as to what should be the final democratic stand. The republican determination to bring the question to a conclusion was announced on the senate floor by Senator Lodge, who said, that while today and tomorrow had been. allotted to consideration of pressing . legisla tion, he would call up the treaty again Thursday and would ask that it re main the business of the senate until . disposed of. Meantime, Senator Hitchcock vetoed for the present the proposal for party caucus, sponsored by demo cratic senators who want to end the long controversy by taking the re publican reservations as they stand. Senator Hitchcock said he had talked to those who differed with him as to the course to be adopted and had about decided that to call a caucus would be inadvisable. In some quarters It was predicted that under the programme outlined by Senator Lodge, the treaty could be brought to a ratification vote within a week or ten days. The irreconcil ablea are expected, however, to insist' that there be no hasty action and no in the far east. President Wilson probably would not have selected him without feeling that his appointment would cause no disagreeable incident between the United States and Japan. Minister Called Back. Mr. Crane was appointed minister to China by President Taft in Sep tember, 1909, and a month later, when in San Francisco on the eve of em barking, he was ordered back to Washington. The reason for the -sud den change was not made public at the time, Mr. Crane professing ig norance of it. but diplomats in Wash ington began talking about his speeches, and it began to leak out that someone was offended. It finally developed that a story appearing in a western newspaper accredited to Mr. Crane, and reportnig him as attack- IB QUITS CABINET POST Testimony Adduced in Libel Suit Causes Resignation. t CHICAGO BUSINESS MAJT NAMED V, S. MINISTER TO . CHINA TO SUCCEED OB. PAtX REIVSCH. 2 ! i't ill M .tr -- -5. -s-i---- SMUGGLING IS CHARGED Finance " Minister Said to Have Amassed Fortune During War by Use of Political. Position.. Hi arfiJim mi i Ji.li Charles R. Crane, ng: the Manchurian agreements be tween China and Japan, was the real cause of his recall. The story also nnnenrprl n t h J .innn ta nrpsn and one could predict with certainty how I caused a considerable reaction in much time they mJtfht consume in I Japan over the supposed views of the debate. The decision of Senator Hitchcock Dot to call' democratic senators into a. conference caused considerable sur prise among those who had advanced the suggestion and they predicted that some sort of a party get-together yet would be held before the ratifi cation vote was reached. Republican claims as to the num ber of democrats ready to accept the republican reservations still at 22 with a dozen more needed to insure ratification. The administration leaders con tinued to insist that the figure was exaggerted. ADVENTISTS WILL MEET Quadrennial Sessions to Start Feb ruary 2 6 at Waila Walla. WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Feb. 24. (Special.) Adventists from all parts of the northwest will attend the quadrennial session of the North Pa cific union conference to be held at College Place starting Thursday. February 26, and continuing until Marqh 6, The conference was called last fall but was postponed-because the. new Adventist church Was not completed. C. W. Flail, president of the. union. has advised the local conference presidents in Oregon,, Washington, Idaho and Montana to send practically all of the ordained', and. licensed clergymen as delegates, also the sec retary-treasurers and secretaries of the publishing, .educational, medical, young people's and -Sabbath school departments. ; COW'S WORTHJS PROVED ? Young People's Club Demonstrates t ' Test to Parents. 1 UMATILLA, Or.. Feb. 24. (Special.) i The Umatilla Dairy Herd Industrial club members demonstrated to t,heir ; parents that the best way to get a f fair estimate of the worth of a cow was to use the Babcock test. This ; demonstration was a surprise to many I of the visitors who attended the r souse warming given in the South t high school by the ladies' home bu- reau. t ' The farm boys have installed mod ern equipment In the building and I every means is taken to insure an i accurate test. The club, the first to be organised in the state, has the fol t lowing officers: President, Dan Dob J ler; vice-president. Roger Terxa; and secretary. Leslie Thompson. new minister from the United States to China. Mr. Crane was not the first Amer ican minister to China who failed to reach his post because some govern ment objected to something he had said beforehand. In the previous case it was the protest of China itself which held up former Senator-Henry u. Blair of New Hampshire, who was on his way to take up the legation at Pekin, because he had made certain "yellow peril" statements in senate debates on the Chinese exclusion law which the Chinese felt made him per sona non grata to them. CRAXE MAKES XO COMMENT Envoy Professes to Be Ignorant of Wilson's Selection. BOSTON". Feb. 24. Charles R. Crane, who was here tonight, said he knew nothing of his reported selection by President W ilson to be minister to China. He added that he would no comment unt.i he had received offi clal .notification from Washington. He remarked, however, that in case he were chosen for the post there were several things he would like to know about it before deciding wheth er to accept. AGED PAIR WED QUICKLY Mail Order Couple Meet Friday and Marry on Sunday. PHILOMATH, Or., Feb. 24. (Spe cial.) Abraham Wood, a resident ot Philomath for the past 65 years, re turned yesterday from a trip to Port land, bringrinff with hfm a new wife. Mrs. Louisa Brown came all the way from Columbus, Mont., to meet Mr. Wood. The couple met for the first time Friday, were married on Sunday and came to Philomath on Monday. They had corresponded for several years, however. This is the bride's third marriage and the second mar riage of the bridegroom. DRY LAW TEST CASE SET Rhode Island Motion to Dismiss to ; He Heard March 8. I : WASHINGTON. Feb. 24. Arguments I en the governments motion to dis l miss the original suit instituted by t JRhode Island to test the constitution f atlty of the federal prohibition con- stiutional amendment will be held in the supreme court March S. Assistant t Attorney-General Frierson and Solic t itor-General King will appear for the ? government. I i While the suit will be heard on the I motion to dismiss, all the issues ln l yolved will be argued. Mr. Frierson r said today, and the entire case sub t, in it ted upon its merits to the court. 1 A decision at this term Is expected ft by court officials. i RECALLED ENVOY NAMED (Continued Knm First Pace.) China can only be a conjecture, for While it is not customary for one gov ernment to consult a third govern ment on its selection of diplomats to be accredited to another power, some Official folk in Washington feel that -In view of the previous incident and thp irpneral aspects of the situation OLIVE INQUEST PROMISED California Packers and Others to Make Full Investigation. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 24. California olive packers will meet in San Fran cisco, March 4, with representatives of the state board of health to consider reports from the east of bacillus bo tulinus poisoning attributed to eating ripe olives. Dr. W. H. Kellogg, secretary of the board of health, in announcing the conference, said that an exhaustive investigation had been undertaken by Vr. Karl F. Meyer of the University of California and Dr. Ernest Dickson of Stanford university. TALESMEN AWAIT TESTS Bisbee Kidnaping Case Venire of 4 00 Xames Xears End. TOMBSTONE, Ariz., Feb. 24. Sixty- four talesmen were waiting examina tion (r jury duty in the trial of Harry E. Wootton, first defendant to go to trial charged with kidnaping in connection with the Bisbee depor tations. then court adjourned today. The 64 are all that remained of venire of 400 names drawn last week. BERLIN Feb.. 24. (By . the Asso ciated Press.) Mathias Erzberger, minister of -finance, voluntarily re signed from the cabinet today. Erzberger's resignation came as a climax to a day of. sensational tes timony in his libel suit against Dr. Karl Helfferich. former minister of the treasury. The nature of this testimony, it was considered, left Erzberger no other choice than to relinquish his portfolio. According to the testimony of State Attorney Messerschmidt, which was given with the utmost reserve and caution, Erzberger had smuggled large amounts of his private funds to Switzerland. Previously testimony adduced from Dr. Helfferich involved Erzberger in numerous questionable transactions in connection with the issuance of import and export per mits, and otherwise misuse of his of ficial position and influence in the futherance of ventures in which Erz berger was alleged to be interested. The official statement of Erzber- ger's retirement from the cabinet bases his action on his desire to have an investigation concerning his In- come tax without reference to or in consideration of his official position. The resignation was tendered to President Ebert, who ordered an -in vestigation of the income tax inci dent conducted with all possible speed. Mathias Erzberger brought suit against Dr. Helfferich, formerly vice chancellor and minister of the treas ury, because of attacks in September which Helfferich designated erz berger as a "menace to the purity of our public life," and asserted that he was a dangerous member of the gov ernment. On the witness stand Helf ferich declared that years of obser vation of Erzberger's activities had convinced him that "this man bound to become fateful to German nation and he must be removed from public office if our political life again is to become healthy and normal. He charged that Erzberger was "the British propaganda minister's best ally." Helfferich also said that Erzber ger's fortune was made during the war by utilization of his political and parliamentary position. wardins the candidacy of any partle u!ar presidential candidate, but rs.ther support- the idea or contributing ac tivity alonir republican lines to strengthen the party for the 1920 campaign. The Coos Bay Harbor, of Coos Bay, expresses these sentiments and refers in the article to tne tor mation of a Leonard Wood club in Marshfield, claiming partisanship for special candidates has a tendency to hamper united work within the ranks. The Lincoln day banquet was the op.niner rvn of the republican cam paign in Coos county and at the time a number of sp)akers spoke upon the necessity for active work this year and for onity in the party's work. Mrs. it D. Bromberger, who was one of the speakers, declared the women were witi the republican party, be cause of Its aid in bringing about suffrage, but she warned the gather ing, that the party must keep its pledges, stand for right principles, or it would l&e the women's votes. - SUNT MS PROMISE!) GENERAL- WITHDRAWAL FROM TJ. S. NOW PLANNED. E MANUFACTURER AND LEATHER JOBBER ALSO BLAMED. MARTIAL LAW DECLARED Revolt in Honduras Follows Re cent Elections. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. Martial law has been declared by the Hon duran congress in the southern de- Dartment of the republic, the ; state deoartment was advised today. Re cent advices from Honduras have con tained reports of demonstrations re suiting from the elections held a few weeks ago. Some officials here regarded tne proclamation of martial law in such large part of Honduras as inaicat ing that the revolt against the new president. General Lopez uutierrez, had assumed serious proportions. Op position to General Gutierrez, headed by Dr. Alberto Membreno, former president, is said to be based upon the militaristic policies Gutierrez an nounced before he took office Feb ruary 15. Membreno has remained in Tegucigalpa since his exile from the country. Soviet Government Promises Ships as Soon as Relations With World Become Settled. NEW YORK, Feb. 24. A movement with the avowed object of bringing about a general exodus from America of all Russians "as a protest against the government's conduct of alien de portation cases" was announced here today by the Workers' Defense union, of which Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is the head. The union stated that it had received an invitation from a group of Russians to attend a con ference in Washington at some fu ture date to discuss plans. The Russians back of the movement, according to the union's statement, disclaim any connection with com munist or soviet organizations and declare they are acting because of "injustices inflicted upon foreigners by the government's conduct of de portation proceedings." It vas added, however, that the soviet government of Russia had of fered to provide 100 ships for' the general withdrawal as soon as its re lations with the outside world become more settled. Tentative plans, it was said, call for all Russian workers in the United States to quit their tasks at a given hour and assemble at piers and wharves. A committee claiming to represent 170 men held in deportation cases on Ellis island today announced that it had sent a telegram to Secretary of Labor Wilson demanding immediate release or immediate .deportation to soviet Russia. The telegram declared the deportees are subjected to in human treatment" on the island. Massachusetts Commission Finds Retailers Have Made Little More Than Profit of 19 IS. BOSTON", Feb. 24. The basic reason for the high, prices of shoes lies in the price of leather, and the manu facturer, the leather jobber, tanner and packer have reaped the greatest gain, the state commission on neces saries of life asserted today. Retail dealers, the commission finds, have made little, if any. more profit than in 1913. When the government control of the price of leather was released February 1. 1919, the commission says, "'a period of excessive specula tion ensued, the cost of the product doubling in six months." The report shows that the cost of manufacturing an average pair of medium cost shoes advanced 18S per cent from 1913 to 1919. In the for mer year the average cost was 12.55 and in 1919 it was $7.26. - This high average is asserted to have been due solely to an increase in cost of upper leather from 73 cents per pair in 1913 to (3.25 in 1919. The percentage of manufacturers' gross profit above the cost of manu facture, according to the commission, averaged 9.82 in 1913 and 11.2 in 1919. "In percentage this is a small gain," the commission points out, "but in actual money it Is nearly three-times as much as in 1913. From the annual statements received, it would appear that some manufacturers have made very large profits." Figures given by the commission relative to the retail trade tend to show that the retailers have not in creased the cost to customers in pro portion to the advance they have been forced to pay for stocks. For exam ple, dealers had to pay for men's shoes an average of 161 per cent more ' than in 1913, but the advance to the I public has been only 154 per cent; i women's shoes advanced 154 per cent to the retailers and 142 per cent to the public. niiiiiiniiiiimmiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiinuniiiiiiiuiiiiiiiNiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiii And. if you want your rugs cleaned immacu lately not merely on the surface but deep down all through, try the X VACUUM CLEANER It cleans by air alone the tremendous volume and velocity gets the dirt not the carpet. COMMERCE MONEY URGED INCREASE IN APPROPRIATION HELD NECESSARY. STUDENT STORE PLANNED University of Idaho Undergradu ates Favor Campus Concern. UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, Moscow, Feb. 24. University of Idaho under graduates will soon nave a co-operar ive store at wmch books, stationery, confections and other undergraduate necessities may be purchased. The university student body recently adopted a committee report detailing the feasibility of such a plan. Harmon Hozier of weiser chairman of a committee empowered to invest! gate the student store situation, ob tained statements from all the west- rn colleges having such institutions and conclusions drawn from the data obtained were so favorable that three ndergraduates were appointed to make definite arrangements for the establishing of a store on the imi- ersity campus. PARTY BANS PARTISANSHIP Coos Bay Republicans to Support Principles Not Persons. MARSHFIELD. Or.. Feb 24. (Spe cial.) North Bend republicans do not favor the formation of partisan or- Curtailment Will Injure Foreign Trade Expansion, Declares Marine Committee. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. Increase lrr appropriations for the department of commerce in the legislative, execu tive and judicial appropriation bill, now before the house, will be urged by the merchant marine committee. The bill reported cuts, in the de partment's items from about $12,000, 000 requested to around $3,000,000, in cluding a reduction of more than $1,000,000 for the foreign commercial agents. "The committee feels that this is not the time to curtail efforts to stim ulate American foreign trade," Chair man Greene announced. "While every other nation in the world is endeavor- ng to increase its foreign commerce this reduction in appropriations for the department of commerce would result in embarrassment to our trade extension." Several - commercial ., organizations have telegraphed protests against the appropriation reductions and other protests were presented to the com mittee today by department officials. MISSOURI DEMOCRAT WINS Jacob L. Miiligan Elected in Third Congressional District. JEFFERSON CITY. Mo., Feb. 24. Complete official returns received to day from the Third Missouri con gressional district show that Captain Jacob L. Mill-igan; . democrat, was elected to congress over John E. Frost, republican, by a majority of 1859. Milligan's vote was 13,919 and Frost's 12,060. NEW WAGE SCALE DRAWN 1 I X Action of Several Spokane Unions Indorsed by Council. SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 24. (Spe. cial.) Proposed new wage Ecales for the teamsters' and chauffeurs' and the cooks' and waiters' unions were indorsed by the central labor council last night. By this scale tractor chauffeurs will receive $6 a day, truck drivers $5, steady helpers $4.30 and drivers of light parcel delivery and grocery deliveries $4.25. Truck drivers now are getting $4.35 a day and others in proportion. For chief cooks in class A houses $5.50 per shift, and in clasps B houses $5 is demanded. EUREKA Good Housekeeping Institute In a test of 26 lead ing makes awarded Eu reka with the highest vacuum. It is guaran teed to clean more dirt than others. Test it yourself. 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