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TIIE STJXDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND. APRIL 24, 1910. 4 COALITION BLASTS HOPES OF TORIES British Liberals and Irish Now Work Together to Crush '; Power of Lords. ENEMY SUNK IN DESPAIR Only Doubt Is as to King's Altitude; Tories Striving to Anger Him by Underhand 'Tricks Kdward Is Nervous About Outcome. BY T. P. O'CONNOR. Special Ctblo to the CMcuko Tribune. Copy right. 1910, by Tribune Co.) LONDON, April 23. The suspense of the week has ended in the complete Identifi cation of the Liberal and Irish parties with the veto campaign and whole hearted support of the hudjret. This has naturally produced an aftermath of tran quility. The transformation of the -whole Bituation has produced a correspond in g transformation in the temper of the par ties and of the House of Commons. The flnal hope of the Tories and the Irish factionists disappeared when, on Monday, William O'BTlen's attack on the veracity and the good faith of Chancellor Lloyd-George and on the policy of Red mond ended In a pitiful fizzle. O'Brien's charges were so completely disproved that even Balfour, In whose interest the attack was made, dropped O'Brien and accepted Lloyd-George's good faith. O'Brien Weak, Tories In Despair. O'Brien, with Healy, now is steadily upporting the Tories and the House of Lords, but O'Brien's power is crumbling daily and Healy's vitriolic attack on Red mond and the Irish party seals his doom in the- South at the next election. The Tories, jubilant for weeks In the hope of defeating the Liebrals by the Irish vote on the budget, now are sunk In despair. The budget is passing through all the stages with perfect tranquility. even apathy, after many months of fierce f denunciation. Every Liberal is . looking to the next election and a straight fight ? over the" veto of the Lords with perfect r confidence, while the Tories are resigned ; to despair. The Tory papers already are rais ; ing the cry of compromise, but no com- promise is possible on terms which the j' Liberals. Tories or Irish could accept. i. The next general election will be 1 even more fierce than the last. The j Tories will attempt to play tho pop I ularity of the King against the Liberals and will wave the bloody shirt of anti Irish feeling, representing the Liberals' as being kicked into an attack on the . King by Redmond. Trying to Arouse Kdward. It is uncertain as yet what line the King will take. O'Brien and Healy I have played into the hands of those who- adv-tne him to resist the advice of the Liberals by lauding him as the v most popular man in England and by 1 - 'representing the- Liberals as play ing a dirty game with Redmond, in driving "him into a corner. All Ireland stands enthusiastically behind the action of Redmond, while the Irish in England, who always have , favored the budget, especially the land taxes, are generally sympathetic. The Liberal and Labor parties are inex--, presslbly relieved at the avoidance of ' a rupture between tho English and Irish democracies. The democracies, indeed, are more closely knit in this ' fight than in any previous epoch of the history of the two nations. The ; irishmen in England .will swell the gigantic popular demonstrations now ' preparing to demand the abolition of the Lords" veto. All ' of the British f: democracy also is Immensely grateful . to Redmond-for that -firmness of atti tude which induced the Liberal Cabinet finally to adopt stern, uncompromising and prompt action in the campaign against the Lords. Storm Over Piggott's Ghost. . The week wound up in one of the fiercest storms for years in the Cora cons Anderson, head of the secret service, who found Lecaron as a wit ness for the Times in the commission to inquire into the 1 igrrot forgeries, con fessed part authorship of the Times' in famous libels and gave the Irish party a splendid opportunity for re opening the hideous story of the joint campaign of the Times and the Tory ministry in 1889 to destroy the Par nell Irish movement in the Mouse of Commons. Anderson thrilled tho House w ith his terrible- stories of the visits of detectives and agents of the Times to John T-aly and other Irish prisiiners undergoing life sentences with tempt ing offers of liberty and mercy on con dition of their giving perjured evidence to connect Parnell with the dynamite and other outrages. Ho terrible was , tJae case that Balfour joined in the con-- deinnation of Anderson. Rage and Threats ltrak Out. The violent denouncement of the d baXe came, when James Campbell, the Irish attorney-general In .the last Tory - ministry, repeated that it was still doubtful whether Parnell was not as- - sociated with the Phoenix Park rnur , ders. The presiding officer refused to compel Campbell to withdraw, and the Irish members, bursting into wild in- dlgnation, detarmJned to shout him down. Hoarse cries of rage filled the chamber and physical violence seemed . certain till an opportune closure mo tion by Winston -hurchill brought the scene to an end by closing Campbell's mouth. So strong was the rage of the Irish men that the fate of the Ministry hung in the balance for some minutes lest a combination of Irish - and Radicals herald -defeat the Government, entail ing the immediate resignation of Churchill and perhaps a break-up of One Ministry. Shall Guaranties Be Conditional? i Everything turns on the difference be- rween guaranties and conditional guar ' arrtees. The conditional guarantees mean that the King, after be has insisted on another appeal to the country, should place the ministers in the position to say to tlve country that he would enable them to pass tbLr veto bill Into law, whether the peers liked It or not. The general Impression is that he will not refuse the conditional guarantees. But in case he ' refnses there is nothing open to the gov- rniment but to resign. In that event the King would send for Mr. Balfour. " I hear from all sides that there is noth ... ftig which Balfour dreads so- much at tWa moment as taking office. Of course, he would have to dissolve the present House of Commons Immediately. Neither the Liberals nor the Irish would allow him to- get a single vote; they would Hlng him out of office on any pretext, and this would be a position too humiliat ing for him to accept. He would then hftv to dissolve Parliament. But if he should not get a decisive majority his path -would be just as difficult in the next Parliament as In this. The Irish would show him no mercy, and they would put him out unless ho immediately offered them a measure of home rule. This he would find it difficult if not impossible to do. On the other hand, ho is beset by difficulties just as great over the ques tion of protection. He is not -a pro tectionist himself, but his party is vio lently and almost unanimously protec tionist. If. he' had a majority, they would insist that he at once use it to bring in a protectionist measure, and there is nothing which he so much dreads. . ' Liberals Kager for Kleotlon. All the same, the Liberals are anx ious that the dissolution should be left in theih hands, with tho conditional guarantees, rather than that it should ba carried out by a Conservative gov- 1 TALIKST BOY I.V PORTLAND t I C'KLKHHATES BIUTHOA V. V ' t - - I : r i .1. Samuel Jmnen, J. Samuel James celebrated his sixteenth 'birthday on Friday. Sixteen guests were invited and the evening was spent in games and other amusements. Mr. James enjoys the distinction of being the tallest hoy jn Port land for his ape. His height is 6 feet 6 inches, and he weighs 235 pounds. ernment. And the Liberals want to rush the election because they are at the moment better prepared for It than the Tories. The Tories spent money like water at the last election, but the Liberals did not; Indeed, there were complaints from many constituencies that they did not spend enough money and w .lost some seats "for want of a few '.hundred dollars. It looks to me, then, as though it. would be difficult to avoid a general election in June. King; Is Very Nervous. ' " The King is very nervous and anx ious about the whole business. He used all his persuasion to get the Lords to reject the budget, and they very much exasperated him. He foresees that it will be difficult to keep his name out of the struggle, and that does not promise well for the dynasty. Alto gether, royalty knows that it is face to face with a serious crisis, in which its own fortunes are involved. These considerations make the Lib erals think that the King will not want to see the struggle prolonged until it gets so hot that nobody knows what will be the outcome. Optieal Association Elects. The Oregon State Optical Association held its annual meeting April 22 and elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Lr. S. W. Potter; vice-president. Dr. E. M. Dal las; treasurer. Dr. D. W. Kolle; secre tary, C. Christensen. In accordance wlt'li the state laws, the following names were submitted to the Governor for his selection of one 'new member on the examining board In optometry: l'. ( Christensen, E. O. Mattern and E. M. Dalliis. Chapel Our to Visit Ftorest Grove. FOREST GROVE, Or., April 23. (Spe cial.) Rev. Jacob R. Buck, pastor of St. Anthony's Church of this city, hae re ceived word that St. Anthony's chapel car, commonly known as "the Catholic Church on wheels," will be in this1 city the latter part of May. The chapel ia doing missionary work for tho Catholic Church and will be in Forest Grove on week and at Cornelius for one week. It lias been traveling in different parts of trie Willamette valley. STORM 'S LOSSES TOTAL S30.000.000 West Must Go to Rescue of East, as Fruit and Vege tables Are Ruined. BLIZZARD WORST IN YEARS With Zero Weather Through Middle West, Wind, Sleet, Snow and Frost Cause Widespread Iam age Gale Lashes Lakes. i-okt;.axi itnjoys bukshxnk, while middle west is swept bv bxjzzabj. With Portland enjoying beautiful weather, with the temperature during the past two days around the 78 point, with sun shining- and roses budding, it Is with regret that the Eastern visitor here reads of the Spring mow storm which parsed over the Middle Weet Friday and Saturday and carried destruction to at least eight states totalllsg prob ably 30,000.000 damage. This has been the most unusual Spring In the history of the Bast- Aa early as the first of March. Spring opened and for weeks sunshiny weather has been enjoyed. CHICAGO, April 28. (Special.) Western and other f rult-produclng states will be called upon this year to supply all of the Middle Western states. In addition to their regular business, for 'no fruit, with tho possi ble exception of strawberries and a few late grapes, will be grown in six or eight states. Of these Michigan and Missouri have here tofore been counted upon for very large supplies, but they will be forced to buy everything this season. Loss to Be $30,000,0-00. Thirty million dollars is a rough es timate made tonight of the loss in this year's fruit crop by the cold tempera tures and bllzzardous condition which obtained through the Upper Mississippi Valley last night and today and ex tended as far East as Ohio. Fears are expressed by conservative observers in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, Indiana and Missouri that small fruits, with the exception of late strawberries, will be a ottal loss. ' Unofficial reports tonight are that Kansas has suffered a loss of 18,000,000; Iowa, $8,000,000; Michigan. $5,000,000; Wisconsin. $1,000,000; Illinois, $4,000, 000, and Indiana, $3,000,000. Boats Tossed Like Corks. Lake Michigan, lashed Into fury by a fierce northwest gale, tossed about like corks all boats, then on its surface, and kept within harbors all other craft. The blizzard played a number of freak pranks in Chicago, in one in stance lifting the roof from a barn and dropping it on a slowly-moving loco- rmotlve on the tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St- Paul Railroad. There was a general impeding of steam railway, elevated and surface passenger traffic in this city and the Northwest. Several Inches of snow fell in Mil waukee during the storm and the bliz zard extended into Northern Michigan, where a fall of two feet was reported. A wind Mowing 48 miles an hour ac companied the storm. Tne low temper ature was distributed all over the storm area. Among reports of temper atures below freezing mark that were received in Chicago today were: Galeshurg, 111., 15 above zero; Du buque, la., 18 above; St. Louis, 17 above zero; Unlonville. Mo., 16 above zero; IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT SMARTLY DRESSED MEN WEAR THIS SEASON ASK BEN SELLING MLCHIEF MAKER A Surprise in Brooklyn. An adult's food that can save a baby proves itself to be nourishing and easily digested and good for big and little folks. A Brooklyn man says: "VI hen baby was about eleven months old lie began to grow thin and pale. This was. at first, attributed to the heat and the fact that his teeth were coming, hut. in reality, the poor little thing was starving, his mother's milk not belnK sufficient nourishment. "One day after lie had cried bitterly for an hour, I suggested that my wife try him on Grape-Nuts. She soaked two teaspoonf ills in a saucer with a little sugar and warm milk. This baby ate so ravenously that she fixed a sec ond which ho likewise finished. "It was not many days before he for got all about being nursed, and has since lived almost exclusively on Grape Nuts. Today the boy is strong and robust, and as cute a mischief-maker as a thirteen-months old baby ia expected to be. "We have put before him other foods, but he will have none of them, evi dently preferring to stick to that which did him so much good his old friend Grape-Nuts. "Use' this letter any way you wish, for my wife ami 1 can never praise Grape-Nuts enough after the bright ness it lias brought to our household." Grape-Nuts is not made for a baby food, but experience with thousands of babies shows it to be among the best, if not entirely the best in use. Being a scientific preparation of Nature's grains, it is equally effective as a body and brain builder for grown-ups. Head the little book, .'The Road to Well v! lie," in pkgs. "There's a Rea son." " Hvr-r' rend the above letter f A new one appears from time to lime. They rre Kf-ntilue, true, . and full ot human Inter!. Mm NO MADE-TO-MEASURE EXCLUSIVE TAILOR PRODUCTIONS can be any better in fit of fabric than those made for us by New York's BEST WHOLESALE TAILORS while ours cost you about ONE-HALF the tailors' price. It will be CLQTHES ECONOMY for you to examine ours before purchasing MEN'S SUITS $20 to $40 YOUNG MEN'S SUITS $15 to BOYS' SUITS $5 to $20 $30 A VISIT to our LITTLE WOMEN'S, MISSES' and GIRLS' DEPARTMENT will repay you. . fgese 1jJjag Pf LEADING CLOTHIER Milwaukee, 18 above zero; Chicago, 18 above zero. The average temperature throughout Iowa was 24 above and in Missouri and Kansas 32 above. The St. Louis mark sets a record for any date after April 20 in the 74 ' years that records have been. kept there. " T Storm Passing Slowly. -. The storm is expected to reced. to the southeeast slowly. All hope of fruit and early veg etables In Wisconsin is gone: Truck gardens suffered around Chicago, and apple trees in the Southern part of the state were damaged. Grain crops are believed to be safe in the most Instances. In some locali ties wheat and sprouts have been frozen to ' the ground, but the roots have not been damaged, according to statements of grain men. Few fields of corn have been planted and per manent damage is not expected to this grain, even where seeds have sprouted. Topeka, Kans.. reports. freezing weather all over the state, probably fatal to all small fruite and to thou sands of apple and peach orchards. Des Moines fears the loss in Iowa may reach $10,000,000. Wisconsin Fears Worst Possible. Madison. Wis., sends a report that practically all small fruits and early vegetables are killed and that thou sands of trees may have been killed. Secretary True, of the State Board of Agriculture, fears the worst. It was 25 above zero at Springfield, 111., this morning cold enough, it is believed, to have destroyed almost every prospect for fruit and early ber ries. Garden truck is black with the frost. Snow fell to a depth of four inches. Columbus, Mo., reports that Central Missouri escaped the killing frost last night, but that a severe night is ex pected tonight, and the great Ozark Mountain fruit region is menaced with destruction. Berrien County, Michigan, a great fruit community, is believed to have sustained a loss of $2,000,000. Other fruit producing counties suffered similarly. The temperature at St. Jo seph Js at the freezing point tonight and it is fortunately cloudy. Ohio Expects Freezing. A message from Columbus says freez ing weather is expected in Ohio to night. Strawberry raisers are burning fires tonight to save what was left of their crops after the cold weather. Fruit box factories, which were working overtime, closed today and will not resume Monday unless . the weather prediction for tonight proves incorrect. Secretary Sandles, of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, said tonight it made him shiver to estimate the loss to Ohio in case the low temperatures of the West reach to the Buckeye State tonight. Immigration Will Reacli 1,000,000. WASHINGTON, April 23. According to present Indications immigration to the United States for the fiscal year. 1910, promises to reaeh 1.000,000 people, if the record for the first nine months of the year is maintained. The arrivals for March were 136,750 and for the nine months of the fiscal year 667,949. It has been several years since the immi gration fiKures reached the million mark, the last year being 1907 when 1. 285,349 aliens were admitted to the United States. Of the immigrants who were admitted during March 110,207 were male and 26,539 were female. Of these, 8400 were German. 31.806 were from the South of Italy, 2203 were Polish and 6906 Greek. BETA THETA PI, BANQUETS Portland Alumni Dine Active Chap ter at Louvre. The Portland alumni of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity banqueted the University of Oregon Chapter at the Louvre last night. There were about 50 members present and an enjoyable evening was passed which included speeches and a general social time. There are about 40 Beta Alumni in the city ,and it is their custom to hold such smokers and banquets at regular intervals during the year. Beta Theta 11 numbers among its members some of the foremost men- of tho country. Beta Rho, the University of Oregon Chapter, was Installed last Fall. Oregon City, who was then chosen sec. retary of the permanent Open Kivel Association, today sent out notices tJ every delegate to the recent convention urging a big attendance at the first session of the permanent organization at Oregon City next Wednesday, April 27. Ir. Wilson Ilelivcrs Lecture. INDEPENDKNCE. Or.. April 23. Pr. Clarenco True Wilson, of Portland, addressed a large and appreciative audience in the Opera House last even ing, on the subject of state wide prohU hition. Delegates Given Notice. ALBANY. Or., April 23. (Special.) Wallace It. Struble, of Albany, who served as secretary of the big open river and freight rate convention here last week, and W. A. Shewman Jr.. of L lAYER S CO. Portland'! Oldest Grocers. 148 Third Street Both Phones Pai-lfle. Main 9432 Home. A 4432. Good News We Offer Tou Swlft'a Premium llama and Baron 2 per Ita. less Than Saturday's Price. Best Creamery Butter 701 Per Roll. "The Store That Will Treat Tou night." An Announcement A S HAS been widely published by the press, the forty Eilers Stores in Western America have been consolidated into one concern, with headquarters in this city. This establishes in Oregon and the City of Portland the largest and financially strongest musical instrument house in America. From the day the first Eilers Store was opened at 107 First street, in this city, it has been our aim to make every customer a satisfied Customer, and it has been our purpose to furnish more value to the piano-buyer than could any other concern. To accomplish this aim, we have established a system effecting truly wonderful savings which go to the benefit of our customers. The concentration of management and the absolute commercial independence that this consolidation makes possible will enable us to continue the carrying out of onr policies in the future as we have in the past; and this in view of important music trade combinations of large magnitude in process of forma tion East, is of utmost concern' to the piano-buying public of the great West. Furthermore, Eilers Music House will be enabled to branch out in the manufacture of pianos and other musical instruments, and industry still in infancy, but destined to become of great importance upon the Pacific Slope. The Record The wonderful growth of this busi ness has taken place within a periodi of little more than ten years. Kveryone interested in pianos will ask the question: "How could a husi nefs of ttuch tremendous magnitude be built in so short a time?" The answer is easily made. From the very beginning it has been the foundation principle of the Eilers houses to Klve to every piano buyer more for the money than any one else could. It is our aim to sell the highest prrade pianos, whether grand or upright styles, at the price regularly paid for a medium - grade piano, and to sell medium-Rrade pianos for the money usually spent for a poor piano. Poor pianos we will not sell under any cir cumstances. Every' Instrument we sell is backed by our binding guarantee, and we can not guarantee what we know is poor. Every piano we sell we aim to make the means of creating new customers for us. If the Eilers Piano Stores have ffrown to be tho erreatest In America, it is because their methods are riht. . They have met the needs of everv patron, giving the best of service for the smallest amount of money. Our Sincerest Thanks In making this announcement we'feel that this opportunity should not be permitted to pass without a cordial expression of our sincere gratitude to innumerable kind friends and thousands upon thousands of customers who, by their generous patronage, their kindly assistance aud their many expressions of good will, have enabled us to grow from humble beginnings to what the foremost New York musical jour nals have designated "the largest and foremost retail piano organization in the world." " We hope that careful, courteous attention to every detail of our business may merit in the future the same liberal share of generous patronage that has been bestowed upon -us in the past. Portland, Oregon, April 24, 1910. EILERS MUSIC HOUSE, Stores Everywhere. A New York Tribute Editorially the "Musio Trades'' the official organ of the U. S. music trade published in its last issue the follow ing: "The three - million - dollar corpora tion of the various Eilers enterprises on tho Pacific. Coast is now fairly under way, and the benefits of the combination are becoming apparent. The combination Includes forty stores and agencies scattered over several thousand miles of territory, its aim is to reduce expenses and curtail the cost to the buyer, in which effort it ought to be successful, as the purchasing power of forty ytores makes to the manufacturers a setltnsr proposition that ia most attractive. We have many larger manufacturing corporations in the music, trade, but the Eilers .Music House la tho first dealer to build up a business that required three million dollars as its capitalisation,"