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the Sunday- oregoxiax. Portland, may 31, 190s GONGRESSSPENDS IE- Appropriations of Session At tain Total of $1,008,- ' 804,894. REVENUE IS $878,123,011 Chairman Tawney Blames the Dem wratic Filibuster tor Causing Increases by Preventing Adequate Debate. WASHINGTON, May ' 29. Repre nentative Tawney. of Minnesota, chair man of the committee on approba tions, today presented to the House his annual review of fiscal appropria tions and .expenditures. The keynote of his speech was sounded In the dec laration that "the insistent demands of the people and of the puDlic serii-o result in an Increased aggregate wheo nacted into law"; and the "efforts of fv. ir,ri(- tn maintain a policy of greater economy were frustrated by an obstructive and recalcitrant minoi lty." Tawney, In opening, said: The annual expenditures of our Govern ment exceed those ot any government in the world The work of analyzing the estimates for them, of Inquiring Into their necessities together with the needful inquiry into the method, of the departments in administer ing and expending previous aPPPJ'"0" is rapidly becoming the most Important duty and the most prodigious task to M P?'; formed In connection with the '"-g'slaUve de partment of the Government; a task whose magnitude is not appreciated nor is tne labor necessary In Its performance under stood. It requires constant application from the beginning until the close of the ' and the most careful discrimination to pre vent needless appropriations for the Federal Government or unauthorized appropriations for the exercise of governmental f"""'0"! belonging to the states or for the doing of that which belongs exclusively to prUate Interests. Bad Effect of Filibuster. Referring " to" the bemocratic fili buster which has marked the last third of the present session. Tawney said: It Is a matter of sincere regret that to accomplish a political purpose or to i g a n some partisan advantage .ne minority In this house deemed itself Justified, in disre garding Its responsibility by . pursuing tha Jollcy It ha. .followed for almost two months under the leadership- of the dis tinguished gentleman from Mississippi (Williams). a policy which made It necessary ' for .he majority In order to transact any public business to adopt rule, of procedure under which nonpartisan ques tlon. In relation to the appropriation of public money could not be considered with that freedom of . discussion and c ion that otherwise would have enabled this H" to prevent many of the Increase, that were flnullv agreed to. As to the result of this increase, the aggregate of appropriation, made at this .eslon Is larger by many mil lions that It would otherwise have been. Appropriations Exceed Revenue. Tawney said that a review of the de "m;tmis upon Congress this session showed that the estimates of the es tablished public service "d orled for public works aggregated J1B6.000. 000 in excess of appropriations made for the same period during the last session of the Fifty-ninth- Congress and these demands did not rest!" act upon the necessities of the public serv ice but were "supported mainly by of ficial recommendations to Congress hacked by the approval of the press of the country and they consisted largely of increased compensation to the civil and military branches of the public service." ' . Tawnev stated the total appropria tions of the session to be S51. 088.670. He said the total revenues of the Gov ernment estimated to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury are placed at $S"S,123.on; that in addition to the authorized expenditure of J851.08S.670 for the operation of the Government during the next fiscal year, appropria tions are also made as follows: ARKreffute Sum Is $1,008,804,894. In deficiency acts, exclusive of J12.4n6.750 for public buildings authorised at this ses sion $4 -2:t; for requirements of the sinking fund. J18.Ocio.000; for redemption of National bonk notes. $25,000,000; for con struction of the Panama Canal (bond, to be lssuedl. J2ll.rS7.WO;. for miscellaneous and special objects. $1,000,000. Including '$".-.0 000 for the relief of storm and flood sufTerer. In the Southern states, and $403. ooo for the payments of claim, of the Roman Catholic Church In the Philippine Islands, making a grand aggregate for th next fiscal year of $1.008.8l4.8!tl. Tawney said the estimates submitted to Congress by the Executive as a basis for the appropriations made amounted to $1,079,449,288. or an ex cess eff J70.440.SS4 over the total of the appropriations of this session and nn excess of J15S.651.145 over all the appropriations made at the last ses sion. A subtraction of the totals of estimates and appropriations, he said, showed that the present House cut down the estimates for the ordinary operating expenses" of the Government JlZ4.34f.KZ. F.xcceds I.nst Year by $88,000,750. The grand total of appropriations made at this session exceeded those of last session by JSS. 006,750. Tawney submitted a table of major appropriations enacted at this session, which includes: Army. J95,38-,.i47: fortifications. $9,317,145; Navy. $12;, 662,485; pensions, $163,053,000; postof flce, $222,962,392. The increases over last year aggregate $127,393,560. which includes among others: Agricultural, $2,224,816; Army. $16,747,664; diplo matic and consular, J4S5.130; fortltlca- MI9. hut $38.108. OK 3 of this Is due to the absence of a river and harbor bill this year. The net increase this ses sion over last session is $S8.006.750. In conclusion Tawney said: Whatever the unthinking or the superfi cial critic may now say. the Impartial and nonpartisan historian will hereafter record and truthfully state that in the affirmative work performed and In contending against and successfully restricting unconstitutional demands upon the power, and treasury of the Federal floernmcnt the work of no previous session I. comparable with the work of the first session of the 60tn Con gress A census table subjoined shows that according to the census of 1890 the National expenditures were $9.30 per $1000 of National wealth, but the cen sus of 1904 shows an increase to $12.80 per $1000. FROM DEMOCRATIC VIEWPOINT Fitzgerald Denounces Republicans as Extravagant. WASHINGTON. May 30. Fitzgerald of New York, ranking minority mem ber of tile appropriations committee, reviewed the appropriations of the session from a Democratic standpoint. Ho arraigned the. Republican party mercilossiy for what he stigmatized as a "shameful squandering ot the pub OVER BILLION lic funds." He predicted a staggering , deficit to be impending and denounced the President, the executive depart ment of the Government and tie Ee publicans in Congress aa its causes. He said: The country would have been benefited bail the recommendation ot the committees charged with the preparation of the aupply bills been more generally heeded by the House, The Importunities ot those outside are suf ficiently difficult to resist without bavin the members of the Hos,?e take sides asmlnst its committee on questions of expenditure. Tne Congress Is now about to adjourn. This ses sion has been the most profligate In our his tory. Extravagance has run riot; the Treas ury has been -depleted; the public money has been shamefully auanderecL Every energy seems to have been concentrated upon the task of emptying the Treasury and of making Imperative issuance of bonds by the next ad ministration In order to defray the ordinary expedltures of the Government. The dreaded handwriting has apparently been seen on the wall and the Republican party Is demoralized and shaken. "The appropriations for the next fiscal year aggregate the enormous sum of $1,- W8.804,8W, as against aggregate estimates by departments of Jl,077,449,2$8." Mr. Fitzgerald quoted the estimated revenues for the fiscal year 1910 (treasury figures) as $878,123,011, "and," he declared "we shall demonstrate later that this esti mate Is in all probability at least $100,- 000,000 too large and that not more than r85.O00.0u0 is likely to be realized. "Never but once in our history," he said. "did the expenditures of our Government reach the thousand million mark." Mr. Fitzgerald had this to say of the promised tariff revision: For the present fiscal year the receipts will fall $61,000,000 below the estimate. t The In dustrial situation is not improving; ' the ap proach of a National election will not be a stimulant to business; the promise of re vision of the tariff "by its friends" will tend further to accentuate a constantly growing industrial depression. An impartial review of all the facts establishes firmly the convic tion that the repeated warnings of the gen tleman from Minnesota (Tawney) that there will be a deficit of $150,000,000 in the coming fiscal year Is conservative rather than ex travagant. In conclusion Fitzgerald said: "The Republican party is responsible for the results of this session. Responsi bility cannot be shifted from the House to the Senate, nor from the Congress to the executive." AGREE ON DEFICIENCY BILL Both Houses Adopt Keport of Con ference Committee. WASHINGTON, May 30. The confer ence on the general deficiency bill, the last of the great Government sup ply measures acted upon by Congress, was agreed to by both. Houses today. It carries an appropriation of $30, 708,378, of which $12,476,750 la to be gin work authorized by the public buildings bill, the authorizations of which aggregate over $33,000,000. FOUR BABIES FOR SALE Homes Must Be Found for All of Them This Week. Who has the homes to accommodate four of our babies, nearly new and of most refined and prominent parentage? One Is a Chickerlng magnificent cannot be. told from the very latest gracing heretofore one of Portland's foremost mansions, whose owner met with serious reverses. It's worth every cent of its original value $1200 but we'll take less, a great deal less. Come and see. It is truly the most magnifi cently figured crotch mahogany ever used in highest grade piano-making. A beautiful rosewood Stelnway the kind usually sold for $950 every bit as fine as new we'll take half-price? no, but say $565 for it. A superb Hallet & Davis grand one of this country's old reliables the reg ular $900 style can be had now for $485. We want all of them out of the way. The fourth is a most dainty little Steck quarter grand exactly as new genuine mahogany regular New York price $800 one-third off takes It now. These prices should be spot cash. But we'll accept any good, used up right in part payment if needs be. Will also arrange a monthly or semiannual payment plan. If required, for the mere simple interest. See Eilers Piano House at once, corner of Park (8th) and" Washington streets. IT'S TH PLACE To buy ladies' hats; always the latest and best, at " moderate prices. Le Palais Royal, 375 Washington street. Watches at auction. Metzeer's, 342 Washington street. EAST No, that is not all, for whisky means Destroyed Manhood and Womanhood . Broken hearts and sad homes Weepifig and hungry children Profligacy vice disease and crime THE SALOON MUST GO The people of the East Side are in earnest about this matter. The saloon is the arch enemy of manhood and the destroyer of homes. When you vote tomorrow, vote for the good of yourself and family, and the bettertnent of the city. ' VOTE FOR PROHIBITION Mark your Ticket 127 X for Prohibition Vote "No" on the Reddy Amendment. To vote "Yes" means a vote for a " wide open ' town. Vote 321 X No Read article by Samuel Connell on page 9 this section . SESSION CLOSES WITH FILIBUSTER Struggle Continues in Both the - Senate and House to the Very End. LAST BILLS ARE SIGNED Ten Minutes Before Midnight Con gress Suspends Work, Democrats Even Forcing . Rollcall on Motion to . Adjourn. WASHINGTON, May 30. The Demo crats filibustering In the House to the end and La Follette having led a record fili buster in the Senate,the Sixtieth Con gress adjourned for the session at 11:50 o'clock tonight. The last bills were signed by the President before 11. o'clock and both houses, which had with dif ficulty maintained a quorum, scurried to their homes. The House leaders were cheered by find ing on. a roll-call shortly after the House convened, that 15 more than a quorum were present. After, adopting a resolu tion continuing the service of three em ployee of the Department of Justice en gaged In defending Indian depredation claims, the House took a recess until 3 P. M., and then remained In session await ing Uie final action of the Senate on the last bills. Filibuster to the End. At 10 minutes before 9 o'clock Payne of New York asked unanimous consent for the adoption of u. resolu tion fixing the time for the adjourn ment of Congress at 11:50 tonight. Williams of Mississippi objected, and Payne changed the form of his request to a motion to adopt the resolution under suspension of the rules. The resolution Included the usual clause for the apointment of a committee of three members of the House to Join with a similar committee from the Senate in notifying the President that Congress was ready to adjourn and asking if he had any communication to make. Upon Payne's motion. Williams. lead ing -his filibuster forces toward the last ditch, demanded the ayes and noes. The calling of the roll elicited, of course, a solid support from the Re publican side, hilt nn th riom..-.. sitfe there were affirmative as well as negative votes. The resolution was adopted by the vote of 126 to 76. The speaker appointed Payne of New Tork, Hepburn of Iowa and Williams of Mississippi as the committee to notify the President. The Senate meanwhile had annotated Hale and Teller on the committee. Nothing More to Say. The House committee reported at' 9:55 P. M. that the President said he had no further communication to make. The Senate committee reported at 10:3D that the President had "at pres ent :io further communication to make." The Senate took an hour's re cess and, after the usual closing scenes, both houses adjourned ten min utes before midnight. ROOSEVELT SIGN'S LAST BILLS Currency and Liability Among Them. Pocket-A'etoes One Bill. WASHINGTON, May 30. The Presi dent left the White House at 8:50 P. M. for the Capitol to sign bills passed In the last moments of Congress. He ar rived at 9 o'clock. He went immedi ately to the President's room on the Senate floor, where he remained in readiness to sign the bills as passed. The President, shortly before 10 o'clock, signed the compromise cur rency bill, and presented the pen he used in affixing his' signature to Repre sentative Wilson, of Chicago. The President applied a "pocket veto" to the bill to compensate in ventors for inventions used by the Gov ernment. Refusal to sign It killed the DE WHISKY, measure upon the adjournment of Con gress tonight. Previous to his signing of the cur rency bill, the President handed it to Secretary Cortelyou. who carefully read its provisions. Two other members oU ine taDinet were present secretaries Root and Garfield. The President, in conversing, toid several members that he was very well satisfied with the accomplishments of the session. An hour after his arrival at the Capi tol the President had signed all the Tjllls placed before him. Including the public building, the general deficiency and the Government employes' liability bilfci. The President left the Capitol for the White House at II o'clock tonight. 50 minutes before the time xed for adjournment. One bill in which Mr. Cortelyou was interested, giving the Secretary of the Treasury the privi lege of transferring library books in 3ise in that department to the life sav ing service ' had been passed by the Senate and House, but was not enrolled in time to be signed by the President. LIABILITY BILL IS PASSED Senate Also Adopts Report on Public Building Bill. WASHINGTON, May 30. Passage of the Government employes' liability bill and the adoption of conference reports on public buildings and the deficiency appropriation immediately following final action on the Aldrich-Vreelarxi compromise currency measure in the Senate today disposed of most of the remaining important legislation before that body. Wireless From Connecticut. SAN FRANCISCO. May 30. -A wire less dispatch has been received here from the flagship Connecticut which stated that the flagship, with the bat tleships Vermont, Louisiana and Kan sas,' will arrive oft the San Francisco lightship about 11 o'clock, and will proceed into the harbor tomorrow morning. Print Waterways Report. WASHINGTON. May 30. A bill was passed by the House today providing for the printing of 10.000 copies of the preliminary report of the Inland Wa terways Commission, with illustrations. BUY BOOKS FOR STANFORD TRUSTEES ESTABLISH A $500, 000 Fl'SD FOR PURPOSE. Comply With Request Made by Mrs. Jane L. Stanford Shortly Be fore Her Tragic Death. SAN FRANCISCO, May 30. (Special.) The ' board of trustees of Stanford Uni versity has set aside $500,000 as a per manent fund to provide books for the library of that institution. This marks the culmination of t.he efforts of the trus tees to meet the request made in Jrs. Jane L.. Stanford's last communicationto the board Just before her tragic death at Honolulu. At that time the surviving founder of the University requested that her per sonal Jewels, the gifts of Senator Stan ford, be sold to provide books for the magnificent new library, which was sub sequently destroyed by the great earth quake. Before the sale could be con summated Mrs. Stanford died, and the Jewels-went into the hands of the execu tors of her estate. The litigation over her personal estate has just been settled and the Jewels turned -over to the Uni versity trustees. At the sale 'held in New York the price received or them was $300,000. in view of the fact that Mrs. Stanford sold some of her Jewels at a .great sac rifice, when the resources of the Uni versity were tied up by the Government suit, the trustees felt that the value of those gems should be. added to the pro ceeds of the present sale and the whole made a worthy memorial to her devo tion. The appropriation will be known as the "jewel fund," and the income from it will be used exclusively for the pur chase of books. Hand Crushed by Log. George Paris, an employe of a tim ber camp near Cathlamet, Wash., was painfully injured yesterday morn ing by a falling log. His right hand was so badly crushed that the sur geons at the Good Samaritan Hospital, where he was taken during the day, were compelled to amputate all of the ftneers on that hand. That'; s All YOUNGER ME 1 RULE Put Executive Committee in Control of Church. SNUB TO NORTHERN PACIFIC Presbyterians Deprive Paid Agents . of A"oice In Church Government. Matthews Plea for Coast Member Fails. KANSAS CITY, May 30. In selecting the executive committee of the church the executive committee of the church in the last hour before, final adjournment the 120th general assembly of the Pres byterian Church of the United States of America consummated the most im portant act of its entire ten days' de- liberations. This is looked upon as a triumph of progressive church govern ment and equal in importance with the reunion of the church with the Cumber land Presbyterian Church. The creation 'of the executive commit tee wa&opposed by one faction and was as vigorously supported by another, which included the younger element of the as sembly. Na paid agent or officer or -member of a church board and no permanent mem ber of the -assembly may be a member of tiie executive committee except the moderator, who is the chairman. The stated clerk of the assembly was aP' pointed secretary of the committee, but is not a member. A Western Commissioner made an effort to have the assembly place Dr. Mark A. Matthews, of Seattle, on the executive committee, asserting that the Northwest should have representation on the most important administrative body of the church. Dr. Fuller-ton said the Pacific Coast had one representative in the per son of Dr. J. Willis Baer of Los An geles, and it was not ' deemed wise to give the Far West more on account of the added expense occasioned. The assembly supported the moderator's posi tion. Union of Three Churches. The moderator decided that the as sembly could not consider the case of the union of three churches which was under discussion at adjournment yesterday until it converted itself into a church court and reviewed testimony and then arrived at a verdict. The assembly voted against review of the case, which action left the decision of the judiciary committee, that union of the churches was legal and should b: sustained, as the final Judgment of the assembly. Avoid Entangling Alliances. The assembly decided that synods should not ally themselves with the Anti- faaloon Leagues or other non-ecclesiastical organizations, notwithstanding their sympathy with the movements such or ganizations represent. The assembly exchanged fraternal greetings with the United Presbyterian Church. After hearing several routine reports the moderator formally dissolved the General Assembly to meet again at Denver, May 19. 1909. . SURPRISE FOR ALFONSO Spanish Queen Makes Soldier Boy of Baby Prince. PARIS May 30. (Special.) On his first birthday, when he was solemnly enrolled as a recruit in the King's In fantry Regiment, the little Prince of Asturias wore a miniature uniform, correct in every detail. The tiny regi mentals had been made by Queen Vic toria herself, who had also taught her little son to give the military salute. The uniform and the salute were the happy mother's surprise for the birthday clebration. King Alfonso was pleas antly astonished when hi;, son and heir appeared in his mother's arms, wear ing his uniform and the order of the Golden Fleece. And when the infant recruit gravely saluted his father and the officers pres ent, the King was "tickled to death," embracing his son and praising his Queen for the clever surprise she had. planned. KM -why do we advertise? Principally because we believe that we have the best assortment of high grade woolens in Port land, and that advertis ing is the cheapest, quickest and most prof itable way of letting the men of Portland know it. No tailor in the city spends as much money in advertising as we do. No tailor in the city makes as many suits of clothes as we do. These two facts, placed side by side, con vince us that advertis ing is the best way to get the business. ' But, if we advertised and could not deliver the goods, we would soon be found out, and our busi ness would long since have left us. The fact that we are constantly increasing our output of Aeroplanifst Wins AYager. GHENT, Belgium, May 30. Henry Farman, the Knglish aeroplanist, oday covered 1241 metres, or 4033 feet, in his, aeroplane, with two men on board. His companion was M. Archdeacon. The feat was performed In a dead calm. By ATTENTION; ROSE' FESTIVAL VISITORS Some of our Festival visitors may desire to purchase pianos. We have some special values in used pianos that will be of interest to you. We also have the largest line of strictly dependable pianos carried by any house in the West. Read the list Stein way, A. B. Chase, Everett, Conover, Pack ard, Kingsbury, Estey, Emerson, Ludwig, Wellington and Kurtzman. We also have player pianos, organs and talking machines. A SPLENDID VALUE Slightly used Upright Piano, only $238 We invite you to make our store your head quarters during the Rose Festival. , ' Meet your friends here. Have your mail sent here. Sherman Jplay' & Co. Sixth and Morrison, Opposite Postoffice fine clothes is evidence to us that we have "made good." The best dressed men in attend ance at the Advertising Men's Convention to morrow morning will be clad in Columbia Cloth ing. The best-dressed men at every public function in Portland al ways wear Columbia Clothes. In society, business, and in pleas ure stunts," Columbia Tailored Clothes are al ways present.' The rea son: The material is -right; the cut and fit could not be better; the price is always consid erably lower than you would have to pay the ready-made dealer or the alleged "high-class" tailor. The men of Port land get the kind of a suit they want at any price between $20 and $50. OOLBA Grant Phegley, Mgr. Seventh and Stark Sts. bet made with M. Charron in March of this year. He wins $1200. The three attempts maae dy ftir i nomas ljipion o capture ine Ainerita b cup,1 in tntrlTmlo. value of which I' about S250.- tl&va cost him $.Wo.0oo for yachts alone.