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T PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, .1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. XXV-NO. 42. AT Full Recognition of the Union Demanded. WAGE INCREASE IS ABANDONED Exporters in Turn Drop Fight for the Open Shop. BUT PROVIDE EXCEPTIONS Insist That Gralnweighers, Samplers and Machine Men Shall Xot Join tnion Sole Hitch to Ending Strike. I PRESENT PTATTS OF WATER IRONT STRIKE. GRANTED BT EXPORTERS Full recognition of union except a to wfghers. samplers and machine men; nine-'nour day at T.5 cents an hour with overtime at 52H cents an hour; half day minimum for over time. GAINED BT GRAI.VHANDLERS Increase of 2 4 cent an hour in overtime and half day minimum for overtime; virtual recognition of union; reduction of working day from ten hours to nine. ABANDONED By gralnhandlers. demand for wage Increase from 35 to 40 cents an hour; by exporters, the open shop, except as to three classes of employes as stated. OBSTACLE TO FETTLEMBNT Demand of strikers for full recog nition of union. If the) Grainhandlers' Union -will con cede the right of the Exporters' Associa tion to control the weighers, samplers and machine men employed on the wheat docks, the waterfront strike that has ab solutely tied up all foreign shipping in Portland harbor Is ended. Every other question has been settled and only on this one seemingly trifling point are the strikers and their former employers still at outs. Both, however, stand firm to sain it. and the outcome is still in doubt. At any rate, there will be no arbitration.- tor nothing now remains to be ar bitrated. There is no longer a wage ques tion in controversy, and. except as just stated, the open shop has been given up by the employers. The men are willing to return to work, virtually on the old terms, and the exporters are perfectly willlns to recognize the union as to the actual dork laborers. All these questions have been settled at a 6eriet. of conferences between a com mutes from the Exporters" Association and a like committee from the Grain handlers' Union. Both sides have made concessions, and despite the fact that the difference over the. one remaining ro:nt is serious there is reason to hope tnat it will not long stand in the way of an amicable adjustment of the entire controversy. Talk of a general sympa thetic strike may be regarded as idle. Granting that the exporters carry the one point on which the negotiations are now centered, the settlement of the strike will not be barren of results to the strik ers. While they will gam little in the matter of actual wages, they will win complete recognition for their union and a shorter working day. besides minor con cessions in betterment of their condition. Employers. Gain Main Point. On the other hand, the employers will lose nothing of material value and will gain the one point which they have in sisted on from 'he start a wage scale which they can afford to pay and still compete with the wheat-shippers of Puget found. Though the closed shop may have Its draw-backs, it also has its advantages, and as the grainhandlers are paid by the hour the shorter day will not work to their injury. If the question of union recognition can be settled in the matter of the employment of weighers, samplers and .s v ks. fennlor Roosevelt! STR KERS BALK F1LC0NC SI machine men. who constitute not to exceed ten per cent of the working force on the grain docks, the grain handlers will return to work under what is known as the Port Costa scale, viz.: 35 cents an hour for a nine-hour day, 52 . cents an hour for overtime, no broken day to consist of less than a half day's work. Before the strike the grainhandlers -were getting 35 cents an hour for a ten-hour day with 50 cents an hour for overtime, paid for the overtime actually worked. The half-day minimum constitutes one of the most important concessions made by the exporters and it is their claim that it was voluntarily granted. They add. however, that it had never been refused, and that if it had been requested before the strike it might have been granted. Employers Are Confident. For the grain exporters it may be said that they regard the strike as W.-tually settled at the present mo ment Their contention is that the a- I 'f " ' - I s - . f . ' , -k X - Jt 4 i W. J. Burns, Secret Service Stan. Who Is Assisting in Ferreting Oat San Francisco Grafters. titude of the gralnhandlers on the status of the weighers, samplers and machine men is captious and must ulti mately be abandoned at the dictates of common sense. They insist that the weighers, samplers and machine men are not justly to be considered as gralnhandlers and should be regarded in the light of dock foremen and su perintendents or clerks, much of their work being of a clerical nature. This is the stand taken by W. J. Burns, publicity agent of the Export ers' Association, who last night gave The Oregonian the views held by that organization. '"We are disposed to yield nothing on the one point now unsettled." said Mr. Burns. "We. must, submit that we regard the de mand that the weighers, samplers and ma chine men shall be union men as unjust and unfair to us as employers. We are perfectly willing to recognize the union as to the men actually employed in hand ling grain, but the duties of the weighers and samplers, especially, are such that it Is positively necessary to the conduct of our business that we have direct con trol over them. We regard them as over seers and superintendents of the actual grainhandlers and believe that in order to perform these duties well they must be independent of the union and directly re sponsible to their employers, whose orders they must see carried out. Their duties are to some extent clerical, and personally I can see no merit in the con tention of the union that they must be come its members. 'I have strong hopes that we shall soon arrive at a satisfactory settlement of the strike and I cannot believe that trouble over this one point will imperil the peace negotiations." Strikers Take Gloomy View. Russell E. Sewell. attorney for the grainhandlers. who has conducted the ne gotiations with the exporters on their be half, takes a far less optimistic view of the situation. He admits that the obstacle to a settlement is the one stated by Mr. Burns, but denies that it is a small one. In fact he thinks that it will result in breaking off all negotiations looking to ward a settlement. Mr. Burns is authority for the state ment that the matter of compelling the weighers, samplers and machine men to join the union was only recently injected into the controversy. Prior to the strike, he says, the union had never insisted that the weighers., samplers and machine men should be of its membership, and while some of them were union men. the ques tion of their- status was left open from year to year, although the docks were commonly regarded as unionized. "Some of them." said Mr. Burns last (Concluded on Page 2.) n iortlunt Cbinamen Lose Confi dence iu tbe Joss. HEflEY TO PROBE GRAFT AT M GIT! Detective Burns to Be His Assistant. SPRECKELS WILLCOLLEGT FUND District Attorney Langdon Makes Heney Deputy. INVESTIGATION HAS BEGUN Secret Service Man During the Past Two Weeks Has Secured Enough Evidence to Warrant a Vig ' orous Prosecution. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Oct. 2D. (Spe cial.) Francis J. Heney, who obtained a National reputation through his conduct of the land fraud cases, is to undertake the prosecution of the charge of graft ing made against Abe Ruef. Mayor Sch mitz and numerous public officials, and is to be assisted by William J. Burns, one of the best-known operators in the National secret service. Rudolph Spreckels has undertaken to collect the necessary funds and the pros ecution will be made before the new grand jury through the office of the Dis trict Attorney. For this puropse Dis trict Attorney Langdon has made Heney a deputy in his office and will turn over to him every facility of his office and the full conduct of the case. The an nouncement of this comes through ' a statement from District Attorney Lang don which is in part as follows: Crime on the Increase. "In view of the conditions prevalent in the City and County of San Francisco the unusual increase in crime which threa tens to grow worse as the Winter sets in ana in view of the numerous charges of official graft and malfeasance in office. I have determined to seize the opportunity presented by the impanelment of a- grand jury which has been set for next Wed nesday by Hon. Thomas F. Graham, the presiding judge of the Superior Court in the City and County of San Francisco, to inaugurate a systematic and thorough investigation into these conditions. "It is my own duty to do so, and in pur suance of that duty and in view of the magnitude of the task, I have decided to seek the best assistance obtainable. It is my purpose to set at rest these charges of official graft by either proving them false or convicting those who are guilty. If the charges be untrue their falsity should be demonstrated to the world, so as to remove the impressions which have been circulated to the injury of the credit and fair name of the city. Investigation to Be Searching. "This is to be an honest, fair, thorough and searching investigation. We shall protect no man. We shall persecute no man, but we shall prosecute every man who is guilty, regardless of position or standing in the city. In order that we may have the benefit of experienced ser vice in this work I have requested Mr. Francis J. Heney. who has won national fame for his work In the prosecution of the Oregon land-fraud cases, to become a regular deputy in my office. Mr. Heney has accepted. "It is unfortunate that this work should be commenced during a political compaign, but the conditions in San Francisco today require that radical ac tion be taken at once and though I may be charged with instituting this investiga tion at this particular Juncture for politt. cal advantage, I must ask the public to judge me by the results attained, which will be the best answer. "I am not unmindful of the great difficulties involved in this investiga tion. It will be both laborious and costly. The money available under the appropriations made to the District Attorney's office and the grand jury is, of course, utterly inadequate. Often previous investigations by other grand Ambitious A PICTORIAL REVIEW OF THE WEEK BY CARTOONIST MURPHY ! i Ifev. ' jS "r- WNSj juries have been made abortive because of this lack of funds to meet expenses. Citizens to Supply Funds. . "In the present instance we shall not suffer this handicap. I am author ized to announce that Mr. Rudolph Spreckels has guaranteed that he will personally undertake the collection, from public-spirited citizens of San Francisco, and to provide for the ex penses necessary to make the investi gation thorough, and surely good -results must ensue. "WILLIAM H. LANGDON. "District Attorney." The plans for this campaign against graft and malfeasance in office have een under way for some weeks. Heney. at the solicitation of Spreckels. agreed to take up the matter, but in sisted that he should have the assist ance of Burns, who secured the evi dence in the land-fraud cases. Leave of absence for Burns was obtained from the Treasury Department, and he came to the city and entered upon the work of securing evidence in the graft cases two weeks ago. The preliminary work was done under Concluded on Page 2.) CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER Th Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 5S degrees; minimum, 36. TODAY" S--Fa ir and warmer; northeast winds. Great Storms. Many lives lost and much damage done at Batabano, Cuba. Page 2. Picking up alive and dead along ice coast of Florida. Page 2. Snowstorms block railroads in Dakota. Page 3. Big steamer runs ashore near Cape Henry. Page 2. "National. Pules adopted to enforce pure-food laws-Page- 3. Politics. Hearst's league incorporated and under his ' absolute control. Page 1. Hughes makes vigorous attack on Hearst in gas fight. Page 2. Hearst answers Murphy's charges of graft ing by leaguers. Page 2. McNichol charges Emerson, fusion candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, with libel. Page 2. Domestic Farmers forming combination to sell their own product. Page 17. Reported scheme to consolidate packing firms under English company. Page 1. Countess of Carlisle elected president of "W. C. T. U. Page 13. import. College football games in the East. Page 4. Hylas wins big stakes at Belmont Park. Page 4. Northwestern football scores University of Oregon 10. Astoria 0; Columbia Univer sity 0. Pacific University 0; Oregon Agri cultural College 17. Alumni 0; University of Washington 4, Seattle High School 0; University of Idaho 23, Coeur d' Alene High School 0. Page 4. Fight of O'Brien and his old sparring part ner, Cooley, was rank fake. Page 19. Multnomah beats Albany at football, 34 to 0. page IS. Portland Hunt Club holds first chase of sea son. Page 18. Review of play of Chicago championship teams. Page 19. Pacific Coast. F. J. Heney and Detective- Burns employed to run down graftrs io San Franctsco. Page 1. - Warden A. P. Kes at the Wall Walla peni tentiary, is removed and M. F- Kincaid app6inted. Page 6. Over a score of divorces are granted at Ore gon City. Page 7. Mrs. D. F. Maynard. Seattle's oldest pioneer, is dead at 81 years. Page 13. Sheriff Lundson of Washington County, Idaho, to be arrested for malfeasance in office. Page &. Five men killed by falling walls at Ban Francisco. Page 3. Portland and Vicinity. Grainhandlers abandon demand for wage increase, but will not accept partial rec ognition of union; hitch over trivial point. Page J. Creditors seek whereabouts of Palmist Clar ence H. Truth. Page 10. Free Masons lay cornerstone of new temple in Portland. Page 10. Mrs. Carey M. Snyder declares she ha told all she knows about murder of her hus band and will leave for Kansas City to day. Page 12. Murderer Hose haunted by face of wdman, he killed. Page 17. Jefferson Myers, president of Oregon James town commission, leaves for Virginia to look for site for possible Oregon build ing at fair. Page 2S. Party of strikebreakers assaulted on Stark street dock, and two men badly beaten. Page 12. Strong English demand develops for Ore gon hops. Page 14. Growing activity in Portland real estate market. Page 20. Features and Departments. Editorial. Page S. Church announcements. Page 40. Classified advertisements. Pages 21-27. Sinking a caisson for the new bridge across the Willamette. Page 43. Homer Davenport's invasion of the Arabian Desert. Page 47. Where Colonel E. D. Baker fell. Page 49. Interview with General James F. Bell. Page 49. Judge Ben Lindsey, the bad boy and the old un- Page 45. World's two most enterprising seaports. Page 44. In the thick Af the New York theaters. Page 46. Letters from the people. Page 36. Will Tart tepeat Roosevelt's success? Page 43. Chuckwagon Cal on Cuban politics. Page 43. Book reviews. Page 37. Social. Pages 30-&1. Dramatic. Pages S2-33. Musical. Page 34. Household and fashions. Page 47. Ham Burr. Page 50. Youths department. Page 51. Mr. Harriraan's Designs for tbe Future. HEARST'S LEAGUE IS CORPORATION Yellow Light on So Called Independents. BOSSISM BECOMES FINE ART Committee Alone Has Power to Nominate Ticket. HEARST RULES COMMITTEE Original Methods of Running the Party Make His Cohorts Furious. Tammany Methods of Bossism Crude by Comparison. NEW YORK, Oct. 20. (Special.) The ordinary or garden variety of In dependence Leaguers is daily-descending upon the Gilsey House with leaps and bounds. They are indignant at recent revelations. ut the situation is so funny it ought to be made into a comic opera. For the Independence League, formed to war on the bosses, is a trust itself. Shortly after the city election last year the league was organized, but no body knew at that time that it had been Incorporated. The league was regularly registered with the Secretary of State at Albany, just as are social clubs, but with this Important differ ence: All power to conduct business is vested in the executive committee, the names of whose members appeared in the corporation papers, and who have power to fill all vacancies. And a ma jority of the committee are Mr. Hearst's employes on his New York papers, while the others are his closest political friends. In consequence it is shown that the great "state convention" ar Carnegie Hall was the dizziest kind of a .teat. The delegates, who thought they were running things, did not know it, but tey were absolutely powerless. They could nominate all the tickets they wanted, but thev would never get them on the official ballot, for the only per sons who have authority to say who the lucky men should be are the mem bers of the executive committee. County Committee Dazed. This fact was brought to public no tice when the New York county com mittee decided to defy Hearst and run things itself. The New York county committee is made up of representa tives from every Assembly district in Manhattan and The Bronx, and, in theory, is the governing body of the party. The leaders of the committee were highly indignant when the Hearst-Murphy judicial slate was an nounced, not becaus'e of the deal, but because two of its members had been turned down. These two were Thomas Gilleran and John Palmier!, and they engineered a bolt. A special meeting was held, eery speeches made, and a committee sent up the state, with the following message to Mr. Hearst: "Unless Tammany withdraws two of its candidates and replaces them with Gilleran and Palmieri. the county com mittee will at once place a full judicial ticket in the field." County Chairman Timothy Driscoll headed the committee on protest, which swept in upon Mr. Hearst while his car was quietly resting on a switch at Corning. N. Y. In eloquent words the committee presented its ultimatum, but the candidate didn't seem a bit im pressed. "So you mean to put up a judicial ticket?" he said, inquiringly. Mr. Driscoll replied that the voice of the people and the welfare of the downtrodden toilers demanded It, and that there would be no compromise. Mr. Hearst smiled. Then . he ex plained that the Independence League had been incorporated on February 13 last, and that all power was vested in Tbe the executive committee, whose mem bership he enumerated. What power have we got. then?" asked . Mr. Driscoll, when he realized the .situation. Mr. Hearst smiled again, shook hands all around, and .the dazed envoys were hurrying back to New Torltf before they knew it. - They decided to make the best of an unpleasant situation and formally adopted resolutions of renewed confidence "in the wisdom of our peerless leader. William Randolph Hearst." but added that they did so "in view of the importance of the campaign." Only Make Xoise Like Delegates. But the news has leaked out and the ordinary members are mad my. but they are mad: All of them who can spare car fare have been hiking to the Gilsey house to make things miserable for the unhappy Max Ihmsen and his aides. "When I realize." said Henry Petersen, of Montgomery County, "that I came down here last month and made a noise I rs . , I N 1 j i L' i t j 1 V 1 1 I fr-aex oiifarnjiirii nnnryi;irfigrtiiiriinmifij W. H- Langdon, District Attorney of San Francisco, Who Has Em ployed F. J. Heney to Prosecute Grafters. like a delegate for two days, and was simply a farmer, it makes me wild. I've told Ihmsen what I thought about It, but there are a few things I forgot, and I think I'll go back and tell them to him." Practical politicians unite in saying that the "Hearst idea" was the greatest thing of its kind ever heard of. "A Tammany leader is supposed to be the finest example of a boss," said one man today. "But if his constituents de cide to do so they can turn him out of office at any time. Hearst's plan is sim ple but effective. Suppose the. Independ ence League members all over the state decided that John Jones was the man they wanted for Governor. They could hold primariee and conventions until they were tried out, but the name of John Jons would not go on the ballot unless the executive committee wanted it to. The voice of the people could go wailing through the land, but the edict of the executive committee would be the thing that counted. AH Tinder Hearst's Thumb. "What Hearst says goes with the ex ecutive committee. They are all employed on the Hearst newspapers, except John Ford and Samuel Seabiiry, who have re ceived their reward by being named on the Hearst Tammany ticket for Justices of the Supreme Court. I have been told, although I don't know absolutely whether it is true or not. that all the Hearst employe, committeemen have filed ceir blank resignations with Hearst and that he can simultaneously eject them from business and politics at any time he sees fit. It strikes me that this is probably true, for Hearst has undoubtedly taken the most careful precautions against treachery. But doesn't Hearst beat an ordinary boss as far as the Empire State Express does a handcar?" And in the meantime the screams of the rank and file of the Independence League are hourly increasing in volume. It Is getting so bad that the workers up at the Gilsey House are wearing ear muffs. Great Gale- Hits- Charleston. CHARLESTON, S. C Oct. 20 Spe cial.) A 62-mile storm struck Charleston this afternoon, with indications of a still further increase of wind during th night. The tide continues several feet above the normal, but no material damage Is ex pected from this source, unless the wind hauls to the eastward from due north, from which direction it has been blowing all day. Charleston seems to be the cen ter of the low-pressure area on the South Carolina coast. Many marsh-hen hunters are caught in the stprm, and loss of life is feared. " - . ' Ohio Judae Couldn't Save Him. PACKING y British Holding Com pany Projected.. UPTON IS NEGOTIATING DEAL Great Corporation With Capi tal of $500,000,000. BIG SIX TO BE SOLD OUT Packers Hold Daily Conferences With Lipton, Which Confirms Belief That Scheme Is Incubating. CONCERNS EN PACKING MERGER. ARMOUR CO. Capital $20,000,000. represeatftd by stock held almost wholly by the Armour family. Tho company i.sueft no statement of the volume of business, but tt 1 estimated to be between J200.000.000 and $250,000,000 a year. J. Ogden Ar mour Is president. SWIFT i CO. Capitalized at $50,000,000 and has a bond Issue of $5,000,000. Ac cording; to the statement for 1905 the cross sales amounted to $200, 000,000. , The company has paid T per cent dividends on the stock since 1S08. Louis F. 6wift Is pres ident. SCHWARZSCHILD SULZBER GER Capital stock $5,000,000 common nd $5,000,000 preferred, of which there has been Issued $4,372,400 of the common stock. There la outstanding $3,000,000 three-year 5-per-cent gold bonds due In 190$. The balance-sheet December 31, 1905, shows $4,792,039 surplus, against $4,444,521 for the year be fore. NATIONAL RACKING COMRANY Capital stock authorized and Is sued, $15,000,000, and ha assumed $1,550,000 of the G. H. Hammond & Co. bonds, $270,000 of Omaha Packing Company bonds. Volume of business not published. NELSON MORRIS A CO. Capital $30,000,000. .. No report Is made of volume of business to Stock Exchange. CUDAHT CO. Capital $10,000,000. but makes no report to the Stock Exchange. . of gross earnings. CHICAGO. Oct. 20. (Special.) Rumors that an English holding company is being organized to take over all the packing in terests of the United States flew thick and fast in LaSalle street today. The capital of the concern is said to be close to $500,000,000, and J. Ogden Armour is mentioned as the practical chief of the corporation. While nobody In a position to give the facts concerning such a move would say anything one way or the other on the sub ject, certain things that have recently transpired in the street are called signifi cant by students of similar financial pro ceedings. The tickers In brokerage houses also brought the same rumor from Wall street, and by putting two and two to gether, local financiers seemed ready to believe there must be something definite) in the air. Lipton Interested in Deal. Attention on the Stock Exchange for some time has been centered largely on activity in Swift & Co. shares. In most quarters it was sought to explain these by declaring that the trading had ail the earmarks of pure speculation. But in the midst of these explanations the rumor was rife that the Swift concern was to turn over the Armour packing property. This idea is said to have evolved from frequent conferences, in which both Swift and Armour interests predominated,, but (Concluded on Page 2.) Football Season Opeaa RE COMBINED -,"