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Pages 1 to 12 VOL. XXVII. NO. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORXIXG. 3IARCII 1908. CENTS. 12. PORTLA-D, OREGON, SUNDAY MORXIXG. 3IARCII 22, ROOSEVELT DECLARES PROGRAK Undertakes to Get New Law Through Congress. TO RESTORE CONFIDENCE Response to Appeal From the Business Interests of the West. AT ISSUE WITH LEADERS Reform of Sherman Law De clared Bad Politics. TARIFF REFORM NEXT YEAR Limit of Injunctions, Employers In ability and Aldrich Ccirrency BUI y Are Favored New Trutt Bill to Be Introduced Monday. ROOSKVKIT8 LEGISLATIVE PRO GRAMME. Induration In favor of tariff re-: vision aftr March 4. HM. Anifiidmrot of anti-trust law, mak ins concessions to both capital and lnhor. limiting power of courts to issue injunctions. VfttMHffc of employer liability bill. T'Htrrtjce of Aldrich currency bill. W A.SHINGTON. March 21. President Tloosevolt has determined on a legis lative programme the enactment of which will be urgeil upon Congress in a speciiil message which he said to day will go in next week. Kach of the piPhfcuren to be proposed in volves perplexing difficult ie and each will have fiir-reaehiuR effects on business ami economic conditions of the country. T h progra mm e is the produc t of im portant, conferences, through which the President has been put in possession of the views of all interests concerned. Like wise t lie attitude of the leaders in both branches of Congress has been made known. Its success depends upon the combined effort, which he believes can be brought to boar in behalf of the whole plan by those affected especially by some one of Ita features. Programme of Xow T.as. The programme includes: A declaration in favor of revision of the tariff in a speclut session to be held after March 4, 1W9. An amendment to the Sherman anti trust law so as to mnke important con rcssWtna to combinations of both labor and capital. Limiting the powers of certain courts in the use of the Injunction in labor dis putes. " " Passage or an employers' liability bill. F'assaae of the Aldrich financial bill. Middle West Pledges Support. The support of the business and financial interests of the Middle Vest was' pledfred to the President on this priRTrnme. after an extended con ference held at the White House last night. A most satisfactory confer- Asltametl ence was held at the President's of fice today with leaders of the .two Houses of Congress. The details of last night's conference were purposely withheld, pending the morning .con ference. At the conclusion of the lat ter, the following statement was made public by Secretary Loeb: "At a conference with the President held at the White House last evening with the following representatives of commercial bodies of the Middle "West: Richard C. Hall, president of the Chi cago Association of Commerce; J. V. Farwell, Jr., member of the Chicago Association of Commerce; Charles H. Waoker, member of the Chicago Asso ciation of Commerce; James E. Smith, president of the St. Ixniis Business Men's League; F. J. Wade, of the ex ecutive committee, St. Louis Business Men's League; H. IZ. Topping, presi dent of the Kansas City Commercial Club; CV D. Parker, ex-president of the Kansas City Commercial Club; K. M. Glendenning, secretary of the Kan- i lliiiiilln- j llliK&iiilsy J j Conpreman W. P. Hepbura. of Iowa. Who Will Introduce Bill to Amend Sherman Anti-Trust sas City Commercial Club; the follow ing arguments were presented to the President and there was a full ex pression of view both on the part of the President and the committees. Stagnation Follows Panic. Mr. President, the organizations we repre sent have a. mcmberc.'hlp of 4300 buslncm men. corporations, firms and individuals engaged in development of the agricultural resources and the manufacturing, commercial and finan cial Interests of the Middle West. In the pursuit of our various Wnea ot bulnec we come In contact with almost every portion of th country, but especlnlly of the Missis sippi Valley. We never were in a more pros perous condition than prior to the panic of last Fall. Our labor .was employed, our capital profitably invested. In a short period these conditions .have changed. Certain Unfa of business are almost stagnant, brought about by the fear of the people as to the stability of some of our Institutions. Money has been hoarded Instead of flowing into the ordinary channels of investment, securities and the various commercial Interests. Two primary causes are responsible for this condition. First, the gross violation of law by pome corporations and- grafting by some public official; and secondly, a deficient cur rency system wholly incapable of responding to needs of commerce when fear and un certainty are engendered into the minds of the masses. Tlie starting of this period of unrest and dlntruwt was the exposure brought about by the insurance investigation in Xew York, where it was shown that the trustees of cor porations acting for millions of people and representing in assets more than a thousand million of dollars had In some instances used the a.-wets of the corporations .in direct violation of law. . Following thla came the great calamity at Han Francisco, almost destroying the sixth great city of the Nation, entailing a Intra of several hundred million dollars, impoverish ing the citizens as well a the insurance com panies. Then upon the heels of this disas ter we find the public officials of that city charged with the violation of almost, every trust, while -the peopie were battling' foi ex istence. We also had the grafting and bribery that waa unearthed in at least three other Impor tant cities, and finally came the exposure of high finance, manipulations of the asset of the gr$ at railroaus, followed by the convic tion of their officials and also of largo In dustrial, corporations, for utter disregard of the laws of the Nation ard the Mate. When thes things are considered, no one can ex press surprise if the confidence of the people should -be shaken. i To you, Mr, President, we accord the credit due for compelling a respect for the law by the great and small alike. We believe that your work toward higher morality will be remembered as a milestone not only In the development of the country's mori!, but as a milestone of the progress of the world. We believe the business integrity of the average merchant in this country is of a higher stand ard than In any other. We therefore appre ciate and commend all ' the more your fear less1, activity, which lias resulted .in raiting the standard, and we realize that no greater service has ever been rendered our country. No great good ha ever been accomplished without oome suffering in consequence, ' but we now urge- you to consider with extreme patience the unusual conditions that prevail and, while abandoning no expressed priuci- Concluded on Page 3.) HARRY MURPHY PLACES A-a-a-h at l as OF NE OPINION ON FORFEITURE HouseCommittee Votes For Action. NO CHANGE IN RESOLUTION Congress to Protect Innocent Purchasers Later. BONAPARTE TO BRING SUIT Jio Doubt House Will Authorize Ac tion Prompt Action Assured. Second Kesolution to Deal With the Purchasers, (By Associated Press.) ' .. WASHINGTON, March 21. Two million acres of land in California and Oregon vested in the Oregon & California Rail road Company, owned by the Central Pa cific, and controlled by EX H. Harriraan, will be subjected to suits for recovery ot title by the United States, if action taken by the committee on public lands is sustained by the House. The committee agreed to report favorably without amend ments a resolution which has already passed the Senate, empowering and di recting the Attorney-General ' to bring suits for the recovery by the United States of the title to. the public lands granted to certain Western railroad companies In cases, where the conditions stipulated in the grants have not been complied with such conditions, for example, as governed the grant of land to the Oregon & Calli fornia Railroad Company in the sixties. Reply to Harrlman's Defi. Under the grant the land was to be thrown open by the company for sale to bona flde settlers of the United States at not more than $2.50 an acre and in par cels not exceeding ItiO acres each. Jt is charged that some of this land was sold by . the Oregon & California Railroad in violation of the conditions named. The refusal of H. H. Harrlman, announced by him at the Irrigation Congress at Sacra mento last year, to sell any portion of the remaining 2,000,000 acres, led to the in troduction by Senator Fulton of the reso lution which the public lands committee acted on favorably today. Chairman Mon dell was authorized to draw the report of the committee, which he will do next week. In discussing the resolution, Mr. Mondell said: Protect Innocent Purchasers. It is the intention of the committee to draft a resolution separate from this one and present it to the House, should the present one be adopted, which will clearly indicate that no right to at tach nny claim to any of these lands shall be acquired by any person until at least a year after the final judgment of a court shall have been rendered. This would not tie up these lands for a year, however. The expectation would be that within that period. Con gress would take action touching the rights of purchasers from the railroad companies and with regard to. the fu ture disposition of the land3. now held by the company should a forfeiture be declared. The second resolution will be due notice to everybody that there Bhall be no authority to enter and that no rights shall attach. CONGRESS TO GRANT.' RKLIEF Allowed One Tear to Legislate for Innocent Purchasers. ORHGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, March 21. By a practically unani mous vote the House public lands, com mittee today ordered a favorable report on the Fulton land-grant resolution. In reporting the resolution without amend ment the commute indicated its satisfac tion with the present action of the Gov ernment's case by B. D. Townsend. However, the committee realized that certain purchasers, who may have in nocently bought In violation of law have equities which should be recognized and a separate resolution will be drawn and presented stipulating that in the event the courts shall decide the suits to be instituted favorably to the Government there shall be a stay in execution, of such IN HIS PICTORIAL CINEOMATOGRAPH SOME Tke Aagelle Jap. decree for one year, thus giving Con gress time to recognize such equities as purchasers may have acquired by reason of having developed land which they bought from the railroad. " . This resolution will also have the effect of preventing the entry of any railroad land that may be forfeited to the Govern ment until one year after the court's decision. This means that all entires or settlements that may have been initiated since the agitation began will be invalid and of no effect. ' ThePulton resolution and that to follow it. are matters of high privilege and can be called up for action in the HouEe at any time. While there will be some op position, it- will likely be slight and will not prevent the passage of the resolutions through the House. , Chairman Mondell will probably report the resolution on Monday. IfAIL TO INDORSE BRYAN Rhode Island Democrats Leave It to -Delegates-at-i.arge. PROVIDENCE, R. I., March Sl.The Democratic state convention in a lively session in Music Hall this afternoon de cided not to indorse resolutions favoring the nomination of William J. Bryan for the Presidency, but referred the reso lutions to the delegates-at-large to act upon their individual discretion. The eight delegates-at-large.. will go to the National Democratic Convention in structed. . ! CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER Tii Weattier. . TijSTE.RDAU? Maximum temperature, 55 degrees; minimum, .'.'.1, . . . TJODAY'&-Falr, followed ' by increasing . cloudiness; wlnda shifting- to southerly. ' ' - ForeljTU, Great, jdoctor" "becomes martyr to study of Xra.ys. Section 4, page 1. -Pops to receive American bishops. Section 4, page 1. . National. Roosevelt defines legislative programme and I Is whipping Congress leaders into line.1 Section 1, page i. House committee decides to recommend land grant resolution. Section 1, page 1.--Bonaparte's argument for forfeiting land grant. Section 3, page 9. Democrats win victory in House, but it is snatched away again. Section 1, page 4. Politics. Bitter liquor campaign In Illinois. Section 1. page 1. Cannon Indorsed, in ' own district. Section 1. page 3. New Mexico for Taf t. Section 1. page I. Opposition to Taft in California gives up. Section 1, page 3. Humphrey nays without ship subsidy Japan .could whip as easily a Russia. Sec tion 1, page 2. . Domestic. Ohio legislator discovers crfclty to con victs. Section L page 3. Girl pay a off her father's defalcation to clear his name. Section r, page B. TrainrobbfrB break Jail at Helena. Section 1, pAge 4. Canvas? of country -l ows ovf: - L-'OOjOOO unemployed. Section X. page 1. Love letters of the McKees shed lurid light on their relations. Sectldn 1. page 2. ' New developments in quarrel in R. L. Ste- venson'B family. Section J, page 2. H ports. Winner of New Orleans Derby beaten in an other big race. Section 1. page 11. American auto reaches Daggett, New; Ital ian auto at Ogden. Section 1, page 3. Athletes training for Columbia Vniversitv track meet. Section 4, page 8- Portland to see good, ring bouts. Section 4, page 7. Local auto law to be amended. Section 4, pago 7. . McCredle quits Santa Barbara because town im too Blow. Section 4, page 7. Slight prospects for new athletic records this year. Section 4, page J. Prospects for Tri-CJty League season bright. Section 4, page tt. Pacific CoMt. Miss Grove breaks fast on 40th day. but could have oontinued It. Section 1, page 1. Signs of concession by tSanford faculty to students. Section 1, page 3. Greut swarm of visitors expected to San Francisco to see fleet. Section 1, page 5. Strange case of Portland Chinese woraaa trying to be deported. Secttion 1, page 5. Mayor Rodgers, of Salem, vetoes ordinance reducing liquor license fee. Section 1, page Washington Railroad Commission short ' of funds. Section 1. page 6. Chinese diplomat's bitter, Bpech against ex clusion law. Section -2, page 2. Commercial and Marine. Deciduous fruit crop outlook in California good. Section 4, page 9. Wheat prices sag at Chicago. Section 4, page 9. Steel 8tot-k salt at top price of year. Section 4. page ft. Surplus . reserve of New York banks stilt growing. Section 4, page 9. British steamship. Taunton i chartered for lumber. Section 4, page S. Portland and Vlclnify. Mayor Lane writes letter to people about lighting of city. Section 2, page 12. Many factions flglit for control of primaries. Section 1, page 10. Prosperous condition of realty market on Kflst Side. Section 3, page 30. Mora big realty dear are being closed. Sec tion ;t, page S. . Four Portland lawyers must answer in dis barment proceedings. Section 1, page 9. John Wynne, convicted of manslaughter, gets one year. Section 1, page 10. Southern. Pacific will put on new and fal train to South. -Section 2. page 12. Connection at Southern Pacific Yam hilt di vision with United Railway ordered. Section 1. page- 10. TVe Miarht Try Thla. OVER A MILLION UNEMPLOYED MEN Effects of the Panic in i East and South. NEW YORK CITY HAS THE MOST Great Cities of East Have an Army of Idle Men. PORTLAND NOT ON THE LIST Canvass of Industrial Centers Shows "611,000 Idle in Big Cities and .396,000 in tlie Slates "'' Outside Cities. NEW YORK, March (Special. )-;In a canvass of the country .to" ascertain the number of unemployed men, dispatches have been received front many Industrial centers with reports . of . conditions, and from these it is estimated that more than one; million men are minus jobs. The reports .indicate more than 600.000 unem ployed' in the chief cities and . nearly 600, OOi) in 'the states outside the cities. - Fol lowins are the estimates: Unemployed in C'Mk-s. in the cities: " ,' ' ." ' Birmingham .... .V.'. . . .......... ! lO.OViO Utile Rock ....J....:. . .. Ji-MW San Frftncipcd 2.".tHWl Denver in.ontr Bridgeport .". J.lKNl WillmlwrtoD . ' noo Chicago -. - 90.00V Indianapolis . 7,70fl Dps Mointis - '. . 500 lerlston " l.'JOO BoFton 4.0H) Detroit 1.Y0O3 st. i.ouis '. so.ooo Butt! '. i 4.450 Omaha . 4.000 GoldflelU . "-""lO Concord . . J.SOM Newark .:t..... 5.000 Trenton 5.OO0 Xcw Vork City . 2r.u.niMi Philadelphia. . ., 100.O0O Vrovldence . .'. 8.67T Knoxville 4.000 Monlpeliier 5.000 Wheeling. 6,000 Total .-...I ....'.': 611,827 Xo . dellnite figures could be obtained from some states, but they were received from cities. ' . States Outside Cities. In the states: Alabama 20.000 California 74.000 Colorado i 1R.(KX Connecticut I :Kl.OO0 Delaware Il.tVtf Illinois '. .200.000 Iowa 2.on Kansas lo.oiKl Maine 12.O00 MasHachasetts 2.".hjo Missouri . 43,000 Montana- '. S.500 Nebraska 9, noo w Hampshire ' 2.5O0 Rhode Island .'. 1S.21I2 Tennessee 25.tO0 Texas :;.ooo Utah-. lO.r.oo Vermont 6..VH1 Virginia 7.300 West Virginia 60.000 Total- . . . .'. ..-.H6.792 Beats Record in Xew York. That there are more unemployed men and women in New York . City today than at any previous time inmany years past Is the belief of union lead ers," charity workers and students of social conditions. Estimates of . the number out of work vary from roo.OOO to 500,000. Ifc is probable that half of the latter number, of 250,000, is about correct. . The following: estimate is given by responsible labor leaders: Carpenters, 10,000; tailors. 8000; rockmen and exca vators, S000; bricklayers, 7000; laborers, 20,000; housesmlths, 9000; asphalt workers, 2000; paperhansers. 2000: painters, 7000; rockdrillers, 2000; engi neers, 2000; pavers, 2000; plasterers, 2000; steamfitters. 500; sheet metal workers. 530: compositors, 2000; press men. 1000; miscellaneous trades, 20.000; unors-anized labor, 145.000; total, 250, 000. Secretary Donnelly, of the General Arbitration Board of the New York building trades, spoke with pride when commenting upon the almost entire ab sence of destitution among union men, OF THE INTERESTING h.R, SMDVt YOUR noHfri 3 ami f:no. Admlttanre. Pnaale t hone Ptrtnre Is He PalatlBtt? despite the fact that at least half f them are out of work at present. MAY T1K VP ALASKA FISHERIES Fishermen Tin-emeu Strike and Slay Involve Other V'nloiis. SAX VKANCISCO, March 21. The re fusal of the' Alaska Packers' Association to conoede the demands of the members' of the Fishermen's Union relative to an. increase in wages for the ensuing season In Alaska. will In all probability result in one' of the biggest shipping strikes in recent years. Tomorrow after noon the rtshermen will hold a special meeting.- and if the majority decides on a strike it may be necessary for the com pany to lsy tip the entire salmon fleet. "According to tile union ' officials, .the wage schedule for this season is fully 7 1-er cnt Iwss 'than last 'year, and they "can see. no reason why the Packers' As sociation does not grant it. Inasmuch as the .Fishermen's Union is affiliated with CoiHPTMmaa Fr&uk W. Mondell . of t tat . X Wyoming, In Charge of Rfelittim & uracnnK sun i r wrmi Lirf Urfuit. the - Waterfront Federation, any strike would affect thp sailors and stevedores, as well as the IfViO or more fishermen. ' President Fort man of the Alaska Pack era -..Association declares that the fleet will sail on time, regardless of the atti tude of the fishermen. D1V1DKXI.S KEEP CP WAGES While Koads Pay, More Than -They ani, wage Stay I p. CHICAGO, March St. TU rjeaid-ilr-ald today says: " , So long "afl many of the big:1 railroad systems .of th' country continue to pay higher dividends than they earn while they continue to borrow enormous sums of money, there will not be a general re duction In wages on Western railroads. This decision was reached at a secret conference of Western railroad presidents in Chicago this week- Following the con ference railway laborers were given to understand : that the Western roads did not contemplate any Immediate reduc tions. No reason for the assurance was given.- It was hoped to keep the reason from the knowledge of the public be cause of the unfavorable criticism upon existing methods , of railroad rating, ac cording." to a prominent railroad official. This was the opinion, ofthis official that business conditions fully warranted a re duction in wages,' but, such reduction would not be tolerated-so long as the roads, or many of them, are paying their stockholders large returns and are con stantly in the market as large borrowers. EQUALS TUN! MlSS fiROVE FASTS 40 DAYS AM) THES EATS. Chicago Teacher Says She Could Con tinue -Fast and Feels -No " 111 Effects. LONG BEACH, Cal., March 21. Miss Etta Priscilla Grove, the Chicago schoolteacher, who has attracted atten tion because of her long fast, at noon today completed the 40th day of her abstinence and announced that she would accede to the request of her sis ter and partake of nourishment this afternoon. In the effort to equal the record of Dr. It. S. Tanner, who fasted 40 days in the '80s, Miss Grove's weight was reduced from 12.1 to 105 pounds, but she declares that she felt no ill effecta from her experience and that she could have continued fasting for a much longer period. t fj . - -r . : I - , . - I V-"'. . i .- jftiLJ EVENTS OF THE WEEK Mm' ill r' ILLINOIS TORN BY LIQUOR WAR Contest Waged In Most Every Town. POLITICAL FIGHT FORGOTTEN Only Question Discussed Now . Is "Wet or Dry." CHILDREN ARE IMPRESSED Sharp Division in All Hanks Kven Causes Boycotts and Obstruct Business Personal "JViend ships Broken , by Conflict. CHICAGO. March 21. ySpeeial.) The hottest and most extensive fight the Prohibltion!sts have ever made in Il linois will sweep toward its finish at the April polls, when nearly 50") cities and villages will vote on the ques tion of "wet or dry." The contest is being waged In sime portion of every county in the state except 12, most ir which went dry lat November. In some of the cities fie fight is bcin carried on with an intensity v seldom equalled and the lines arc lieing so closely drawn between friends of the saloon and the foes that for the time being activi ties In the big political parties have been brought to a practical standstill, that they may not conflict with the strife over pro-bibltioi-.. Split Into Hostile Camps. Outside of Chicago only four of the large Illinois oitles will be without a fifht over the question at the polls next month. They are Qtiincy. Ottawa, Peoria and East St. ljnuls. In the last-named city the question was kept off the ballot becauf-e the petition was filed with ti.3 City Clerk Instead of with the Election Commission. In nearly a dozen of the larger cities t-he saloon fight has developed such bitterness that personal friendships arc being split, business is divided and political lines are being obliterated. In Jollct the contest is so bitter tha the business men are split in two hostile camps and are so much at loggerheads that trade is suffering. Mer chants who are fighting for a dry town are being boycotted by the brewery and distillery interests. Contest Most Intense. In Springfield, the state capital, the contest Is so Intense that 1600 new names were added to the polling lists on registration day, due to the interest in the fight. In Bloomington, Decatur, Danville, Cairo. Rockford, Alton and other cities the methods of conducting the fight are typical of those In use in hundreds of other Illinois communities. Ministers are preaching temperance ?very Sunday; mass meetings are be ing held in churches; street meetings are hcid in the public 'squares; women and children are parading the streets with banners and house-to-house can vasses arc being made by the Women's Christian Temperance Union. In" many cities little children have been im pressed into the campaign and are sent forth to distribute leaflets. Liberty League Active. The Personal Liberty League, recent ly organized by the opponents of pro hibition, is equally active, and Is send ing out tons of literature. . In the sa loons in some of tne larger cities placards are posted showing empty store buildings in Kansas City,' Kan. Over them is the caption; '"Due to the expulsion -of the saloons. The cameras cannot lie." . The fanners are being appealed to by posters, showing the decrease in the consumption of grain If the saloons are abolished. , Prohibition speakers from outside have been brought Into the state bv the Anti-Saloon. League and the Prohi bition state committee, which are in charge of the prohibition crusade. (Concluded on Page 2.) PerhaM They 11 le4 This Time.