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THE SUNDAY' OREGOXIAN, 3 PORTLAND, DECEMBER 22, 1907. - - i" , - 1 I0UE .WHIP ILL STREET John Wesley Gaines Would Punish Financiers. SAYS THEY STARTED PANIC Thinks Congress Should Remain in Session Till Punishment Is Meted' Out to Those Guilty of Caus ing the Recent Flurry. WASHINGTON. Dec. 21. "We- should have gone to Wall 'Street anl throttled the thieves and returned to the honest poople their hard earnings." So John Wesley Gaines proclaimed In the House of Representatives today y way of protest against the adjournment of the House for the holidays. Mr. Payne, of New Tork, laughingly Inquired what subject was before the House. "Oh, replied Mr. Gaines, "I expect more than the gentleman from New Tork will laugh in Wall Street at what I say. but that does not deter me from con- flemning their Imposition and outrage upon the plain people of this country, who are not responsible for this highway set of imposing an unnecessary panic upon the defenseless people. I say that we should stay here through the holidays ind rivet down these vultures who have forced this condition." It was the duty of every member, he aid, to stay here and attend to business. "Not as Democrats, not as Republicans, but as Americans, representing the American people." After being In session 20 minutes the House adjourned until January 6. NEW BILLS IX THE SENATE Owen Proposes Guarantee of Depos its Burkett's Grazing Bill. WASHINGTON. Dec. 21. A bill provid ing security to depositors of, banks and tor the prevention ot hoarding of cur rency, was introduced today by Senator Owen, of Oklahoma. It fixes a tax upon ill deposits and from the fun thus created provides for the payment in full of all depositors when a bank is de clared insolvent. The Secretary of the Treasury is directed to maintain a fund Of $100,000,000 in Treasury notes, which may be loaned on bonds to 90 per cent of their value. The bill provides that dvances from it shall be cnargea for at the rate of 6 per cent for the first four months and thereafter at the rate of 8 per cent. Senator Burkett reintroduced his grac ing bill of last session. It provides for the leasing of the public domain to cat tle owners for the maintenance of their itock. giving, however, settlers the right to enter and to locate upon land at - any lime. WOULD HAVE A VICE-ADMIRAL Senator Warner Introduces Bill Es tablishing That Rank. WASHINGTON, D,ec. 21. - Senator :f R arner, of Missouri, today introduced kill creating the rank of Vice-Admiral in lie Navy. Should it become a law it will permit he promotion of Rear-Admiral Evans to the proposed rank, but the measure is not Intended to accomplish that alone. Its purpose being to provide for a rank, that when the Navy is represented abroad does not render it necessary for the com mander to allow officers of other coun tries whose navies, are of less importance vu lane precedence over mm. BRIEF BUT LIVELY SESSION Gaines' Outburst Preceded byHep burn's Protest Against Shirking. WASHINGTON, Dec, 21 After being m session aDout zu minutes, the House of Representatives today adjourned until January . ine proceedings were en livened 4iv A ir-l iif .Hii House for Its Inaction and for taking sucn a long recess at a time "when we should have gone to Wall Street and throttled the thieves and turned back to ine nonesi people tneir nard earnings." Gaines was preceded by Hepburn of Iowa, who protested against what he said Was the Indiscriminate wav In arkt,h committees were given authority to sit aunng tne session or tne House, thereby laiuiiigtiiiciiiucia ig -uc immune 1 1 u ill ar rest in case it became necessary to secure a auorum. Both Williams and De Armond were upon tne noor, but took no notice of each uuier. GRANTS RELIEF TO MIXERS Senate Passes Suspension of Assess, ment Work on Clalm Washington, Dec. 21. The Senate today passed a bill suspending during the year 1907 the requirement that mlpers shall do at least J100 of work annually during we penuu in wnicn rneir claims are be lng perfected. Cullom introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the const! tution, limiting the terms of the Presi dent and Vice President to six years and prohibiting re-election for a second term. A number of other bills and resolutions were introduced. After being In session 45 minutes, the Senate today adjourned until January t. FIVE JURORS ASKED QASH Doney Named Others Who .Would Sell Their Verdict. BUTTE, Mont.. Dec. 21.-Flve members or tne jury panel in Judge Lynch's de partment of the District Court are Imnli. cated in an attempted bribery, according iu miiuaviis cnarging juror Amos Doney with bribery, which were read to th court yesterday. Detectives Larkin and Morrissey with James V. Collins, presi dent of the Olympia Brewing Company. u" wnvy stated while seeking a bribe of Collins to clve him a. vrrii,i i a damage suit pending, that Jurors Hugh Wright, J. Doyle. Harry Richards and George Tippet were ones who could be fixed with him. The officers were secreted in Collins' office when Doney was trapped into repeating his offer to arranrn l diet. The affidavits also stated that Doney declared that Maury and Hogevoll a well-known firm of lawyer.-, had a list of those jurors of the panel with whom verdicts could be arranged, Doney advis ing Collins of their ability to secure ver dicts for their clients, "as th.w h.j . cinch." The affidavits have caused a sensation. Schooner Puts Back for Shelter. SAN FRANCISCft rw . l schooner Metha Nelson, which sailed December 18 for Everett, returned to port yesterday seeking: shelter from the gale outside and tn ni... sails which were blown away off Point iwcauu wsi i nursaay, SCENIC FHOTOS FOR CHRISTMAS. Kiser'a make fine presents. 248 Alder. ACTIVITY OF. THE .SERVICE RECLAMATION WORK CARRIED OX OX LARGE SCALE. Summation Shows Equipment Is Valued at $1,000,000 and 16, 8 68 Men Have Been Engaged. ORBGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash lngton, Dec. 20. A summation of the work of the-Reclamation Service for 1907 shows that it haa dug 1816 miles of canals, or nearly the distance from Washington to Idaho. - Some of these canals carry whole rivers, like the Truckee River 4n Nevada and the North Platte in Wyoming. The tunnels exca vated are 56 In number, and have an aggregate length of ten and three fourths miles. The Service has erected 214 large structures, including the great dams In Nevada and the Minidoka dam in Idaho, SO feet high and 650 feet long, It has . completed 670 headworks. flumes, etc. It has built 611 miles of wagon road in mountainous country and into hereto fore Inaccessible regions. - It has erected and has in operation 830 miles of tele phones. Its own cement mill has manu factured 80,000 barrels of cement, and the purchased amount is 403,000 barrels. Its own sawmills have cut 3,036,000 feet B.. M. of lumber,, and 23.6SS,0O0 feet have been purchased. The surveying parties oi tne service have completed topo graphic surveys covering 10,970 square miles, an area greater than the com blned areas of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The transit lines had a length of 18.900 linear miles, while the level lines run amount to 24,218 miles, or nearly sufficient to go around the earth. The diamond drillings for dam sites and canals amount to 66,749 feet, or more than 12 miles. Today the Service owns and has at work 1500 horses and mules. It operates nine locomotives, 611 cars and 23 miles of railroad, 84 gasoline engines and 70 steam engines. It has constructed and Is operating five electric light plants. There have been excavated 33,419,222 cubic yards of earth and 4,745,000 cubic yards of rock. The equipment now on erated by the Service on force account work represents an investment of J1.000, 000. This work has been carried on with the following force: Classified and registered service, including Washington office, 1126; laborers employed directly by the Gov ernment. 4448: laborers employed by con tractors. 10, 9. or a total of all forces of 16,363. The expenditures now total nearly $1,000,009 per month. As a result of the operations of the Reclamation Service eight new 'towns have been es tablished, 100 miles of branch railroads have been constructed, and 14,000 peo ple have taken- up their residence in the desert. MEXICANS, TO FACE COURT Charge of Instigating'. Revolution Contrary to Neutrality Laws. LOS ANGELES. Dec. 21. The three Mexican revolutionists. Ricardo Flores Magon, Antonio Villareal and Llbrado Rivera, who have been in jail here since August 23, were today held by United States Commissioner Van Dyke to answer to the Territorial Court, at Tombstone, Ariz., on the charge of in stigating a military movement against the Government or Mexico, in violation of the neutrality laws of the United States. Each was held in bail of 5000, which was not furnished, and they were remanded to jail. The attorneys announced that they will resist their removal to Arizona in every possible way, and that if -unsuc cessful here, the fight will be con tinued in the Arizona courts. They profess to fear a plot to spirit the men across the border into Mexico and shoot them for their alleged olfenses. VOLCANO ON THREE SHIFTS Savail's Eruption May Destroy Whole Samoan Island. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21. Advices from Tutuila, Samoa, state that the vol cano in the Island Savall, In German Samoa, Is working with greater activity than it has done since the first outbreak, and that the eruptions are submarine. Lava Is flowing into the sea at the rate of 7000 tons a minute. Dr. Frledlander, German professor of geology, says other portions of the island may be destroyed. He has traveled through American Samoa and declares that district will be free from anv volcanic action. The rainfall for the present year will exceed all records since the American flag was raised, as It now amounts to al most 200 inches. Gathering of Cupid's Victims. CHICAGO. Dec. 21. Judge Carpenter yesterday granted legal separation to Mrs. Antonio Uhlir from Joseph Uhlir on the ground of cruelty, but made her sign a waiver to all claims for alimony and relinquish her dower rights In his property. Uhlir is 64 years old and the woman 62. It was the third matrimonial venture for both, and the woman's second husband. John Cerveny, was one of the principal witnesses against her. She was Cerveny's second wife, and, while he was disgusted with that match, he, according to a state ment- made to Mrs. Uhlir's attorney, pro posed marriage to one of the witnesses who herself is a "grass widow." This woman, whose first husband Is dead asked the lawyer what he thought about It, and he advised both to sit down and not again go out to dinner together. Nearly every witness called had been married two or three times. Strangely enough, Mrs. Uhlir sought and secured the right to take the name of her first husband, Albert Sotek, the only one or tne trio she burled. Giannone May Get New Trial. NEW YORK, Dec. 21. When Pletro Giannone was called in the Supreme court tor sentence on a conviction of at tempted murder yesterday his attorney's request lor a stay or judgment was al lowed. The court will Investigate the al leged confession of Bruno Cordea, that he committed perjury when he told on the stand that Giannone employed him to kill L.ulgl Favatti. Cordea has been ordered before the court from Sing Sing, where- he Is serving a five -year sentence for an assault upon Favatti, and If he tells the same story that he tells In the affidavit now In the possession of Giannone's law yer, Giannone will doubtless be granted a new trial. - - - . Black Hand Blows Up Tenement. NEW TORK, Dec. 21. A five-story tene ment house on First avenue was shaken from basement to roof early today by the explosion of a dynamite bomb, meant, the police believe, for Angelo Traflcanti, DarDer wno lives with his wife and four children on the first floor. Every window in the building was blown out and the doors on the first floor were torn from their hinges, but no one wa3 hurt. The authorities think the explosion the work of the Black Hand, but Trafi canti, who is a Sicilian, says he has re ceived no warnings of any sort and does not believe he has incurred the enmity of any organization. Five Tons of Bullion.. LONDON. Dec. 21 Prli. bullion welff-hlncr fivo tnna anil .. sen tins f500.000, were dispatched this morning to Liverpool for shipment to New Tork on the Campania, which sails luuay. SHOPPING SHOULD BE DONE AT OUR STORE where you avoid the rush and crush of the department stores. Competent and courteous salesmen will give you proper attention and all the time required In our stock you will find only HIGH CLASS furnishings at no higher prices than the ordinary sorts elsewhere. If your purchase bears our label it will be a guarantee to the recipient that it is correct Our stock includes EXCLUSIVE STYLES in NECKWEAR HANDKERCHIEFS MUFFLERS SUSPENDERS HOUSE COATS LOUNGING ROBES GLOVES AUTOMOBILE RUGS FANCY VESTS UMBRELLAS SUITCASES TRAVELING SETS in fact everything for gentleman's wear Our JUVENILE DEPARTMENT is overflowing with good things for the little fellow. ' HAT, GLOVE and Merchandise orders at the hat departmer t MM Mi TDM ATKINS MUST BATHE CARBOLIC BATH AND DISGRACE FOR THE UNWASHED. Regulations Require Cold Plunge Once a Week AH the Year. Soldiers Are Objecting. LONDON, Dec. 14. Mingled amuse ment and Indignation has been caused among the men of the First South Staf fordshire regiment at some extraordinary instructions In regard to baths which re cently appeared in the battalion orders. The instructions state: "Every man in the battalion is to have a bath at least -once a week. The quar termaster will allot one bathroom for the use of each company. When a man has a bath he will be given a ticket by the man in charge of the bathroom, which he will hand to the color sergeant of his company the same day. "In each company a roll is to fce kept showing the days on which men have baths. Any man who is not recorded on his company roll as having had a bath Overloaded lift Stock For Christmas and for New Year's of the Best, Neatest and Cleanest . . - SELECTED FDRNITDRE MADE IN AMERICA 116 Carloads Unloaded This Year t More Furniture than three-fourths of the furniture houses of this city imported. We will force the entire stock. Guarantee price and quality of parlor, dining-room, bed room, den and office furniture, carpets and draperies. EMI JENMNG ' HOME OF GOOD FURNITURE. Portland's Largest Furniture Store Cor, Second and Morrison on or before Thursday in each week will be paraded on Friday or Saturday after noon and washed by a fatigue party un der the superintendence of the color ser geant and his section commander. Men w.ho have to be paraded for washing will not be granted furloughs or passes." The punishment prescribed for the re fractory soldier who has conscientious objections at this time of the year to the cold baths generously provided for by the regimental authorities Is not the most drastic provided for m the instructions. "Any man found in a dirty condition will be at once washed in a carbolic bath, made a prisoner, and severtly punished." He will be charged 12 cents for the car bolic bath. The men ungratefully describe the course prescribed as "workhouse treat ment." They point out that there are only eight baths for the use of the whole regiment, and that in none of these can hot water be obtained. If a man wants a warm bath he either has to purchase hot water from the regimental cook or go some distance to the Church of Eng land Soldiers' Home, where he has to pay 8 cents for the luxury. ' CARD OF THANKS. te desire to extend our sincere thanks to the many friends who extended their sympathy atid kindness during our recent bereavement. We are especially grateful for the many beautiful floral pieces. MRS. "KUERTEN AND FAMILY. LEADING CLOTHIER JURY DP EXPERTS DECIDES SIX WOMEN FROXOrXCE WOM AX'S SUIT LOVELY1 FIT. First Female Jury In World's His tory Reaches Verdict la Fa vor of Tailor. DENVER, Colo., Dec. 21. (Special.) It took six good women and true just ten minutes in Justice Carlon's court to find for plaintiff In the now celebrated case of Victor Porel against Mrs. James W. Wallwork. Besides -being the first case ever tried 'before a woman Jury, first In all the history of the world, the action had other highly Interesting features. The case was a suit case. Victor Porel, "tailor to gentlewomen," as his sign says, made a 60 suit for Mrs. Wallwork, which, she alleged, did not fit and refused to pay for. He, sued for his money and when the suit was fitted in court, the women Jurors pronounced it a "lovely fit." Endless variety of leather roods at Glll-s. 8 SONS