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THE -SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, JUNE 12, 1910. BRITISH PARTIES PLAY FOR SAFETY Both Want Lords Question Settled, but Both Desire Credit of Peace. COUNTRY GROWING WEARY Leaders Hands Forced Both by King and Nation's Desire for Rest, but Followers of Each Party May Itevolt. BY T. P. O'CONNOR. M. P. (Special cable to Chicago Tribune. Copy right. 1U10. by Tribune Company.) LONDOS, June 11. The party lead ers are like two billiard champions at the turning point of a game with bis stakes. They are playing for safety. Each wants to gain the credit of seeking- peace and to escape the discredit of plunging the nation into a war. The concession, while partly Insin cere, has at its back two factors. The first is the general weariness of the country and a loathing of the rever sion to the rancors, of the' big light, and the second is a genuine desire not to plunge the new King into the gi gantic difficulty of choosing between the two parties on an issue so mo mentous. In reality, both sides dread the ne gotiations and would avoid them if possible. But the pressure from the King and the pacific mood of the na tion forced both their hands. While some independent journalists suggested peace, the majority of the Tory papers cried for war, and Balfour played golf and said nothing. Liberals Dread to Yield. The Liberal leaders, in the meantime, hesitated before awakening again the suspicion of their courage and unity In the fight against the Lords, which nearly wrecked them at the beginning of the year. It was Lloyd-George's enthusiasm, tenacity and faith in his own power of carrying everything that won the day. But Lloyd-George is alone optimis tic It is difficult to see what com prises either Bide can offer or accept without raising revolt among their own followers. The Labor party and the Irish stand ready. The Labor party and the Irish, watchful and suspicious behind Asquith, and the backwoodsmen in the House of Ixrds and the extreme protectionists In the House of Commons menace Bal four, but Lloyd-George evidently hopes that even abortive negotiations are better than none; they will relieve the Liberals of the responsibility of mak ing war without exhausting every ex pedient to produce peace. Lloyd George also evidently believes that the King would be much better disposed to the Liberals when they came to make their demand for guarantees if they had Bhown a disposition to avoid a crisis. Redmond's Stand Xot Known. The views of the Irish leaders are not known, as they are still absent in Ireland, but the indications' are that they are watchful and disturbed. Red mond, during his recent visit to Lon don for the Roosevelt lunch, again de clared his readiness to continue the hearty support of the government so long as the ministers stood staunchly by Asqulth's declaration of his policy In regard to the Lords. Redmond, however, is equally em phatic In declaring his freedom of ac tion, if not hostility, if the govern ment showed another inclination to climb down. Redmond will probably form no opinion until he reviews the situation on his arrival 1n England. In .the meantime. Redmond has achieved a notable victory in Dublin, Inducing several candidates to with draw from the Harbor division of Dub lin rendered vacant by the death of Harrington and getting William Abra ham unanimously chosen by the con vention, which means also his unop posed election. Blow Struck at O'Brien. William Abraham is an Irish Pro testant and a Nationalist" who, after a quarter of a century, was turned out of Parliament by William O'Brien in the last election. Abraham's selection by Dublin meant a reply to O'Brlenlsm and O'Brien's cruel calumny that the alliance of the Irish party with the Hibernian order meant religious in tolerance. It is impossible now to forecast the date of the general election, or, in deed, anything else. Events are chang ing hour to hour with kaleidoscopic rapidity and completeness, but I have a firm faith that things will ultimately take shape favorable to Ireland and the Liberal-Irish alliance. The members of the Tory party have begun to admit what they have been thinking secretly for some time, that their chance of defeating the Liberals to any serious extent in another and early appeal to the country was very small. But has compromise taken any shape as yet which holds out the promise of the struggle being closed between the two parties? Certainly not. And yet t!.ere are signs of distress on the part of the Tories which show that they are in a much more reasonable frame of mind than they were before the King's death. It may be that they recognlxe that the new King has not the same power and nrestigei as his rather ana mat, therefore, if the Liberals were forced into a fight with him, it would not be so much to their disadvantage as a fight with his extraordinarily popular father. Whatever the cause, their mood is certainly very much chastened. They have abandoned the present constitu tion of the House of Lords even more than they had done during the recent sittings of Parliament. It Is at last acknowledged that the Liberals have a just ground of complaint in the fact that they are in a permanent minority of 40 in a House of 600 members, and some contrivances are suggested by which this grievance, so tardily ad mitted, may be removed. Cripps Suggests Compromise. There is only one suggestion made up to the present which holds out any semblance even of an accommodation on this point. It is made by tfir Alfred Cripps. who belongs to a curious sec tion of the lawyers of England. Every session of Parliament all bills for the construction of railways, street-car lines, canals or other work of the kind have to be brought before committees of both houses of Parliament. As mil lions of money sometimes depend on these fights between rival corporations. the lawyers who represent them are more highly paid than any other section of the legal profession. Sir Alfred t'rlpps for many years was the leading figure in the Parliamentary bar. as It Is called, and made a gigantic income. Tt is, however, one of the disabilities of this branch of the legal calling that ha Parliamentary lawyer has to aban don Parliamentary practice as soon as he becomes a member of Parliament. The late Sir William Harcourt gave up 75,000 a year of income as a Parlia mentary barrister when he began the Parliamentary career that was to be so illustrious. Similarly. Sir Alfred Cripps had to abandon an even large income when he was elected to the House of Commons. He is, it will be seen. then, a man of note, and his words carry some weight. His suggestion is that the deadlock caused by the inequality of parties in the House of Lords should be relieved by confer ences between the two bouses in which presumably the Tories and liberals in the House of Lords' should be represent ed, not as in the house itself by more than 12 to L but by something approach ing equality. Such a conference might come to an agreement and Liberal legis lation might have some chance, which it hasn t now. But the objection to this proposal is that it comes after all only from a pri vate and unofficial spokesman, and no body yet knows how far it represents the views of the men who really count, like Lansdowne and Balfcur. For all any body knows, these gentlemen may still De in the same irreconcilable spirit as be fore the close of the Parliament sittings. Revolution Not Welcome. What, however, rather weakens the po sition of the Liberals is that everybody rather shirks from either of two plans: First, from maklrg the House of Lords quite impotent, for Englishmen are too conservative to like one-chamber govern ment, and. secondly, the even stronger objection to the creation of 600 brand new peers. The .English are not revolutionary in spirit, and therefore they will be in clined to gratp at any compromise which win save them from revolutionary action. And, of course, the Liberals, too, appre ciate the unpopularity of another general election at this particular moment. However, all this is mere speculation. We shall now get Into the region of actuality, as Parliament is reassembling and politicians again have to face the realities of the situation. It will be im possible, I believe, for the Liberals to make any serious abandonment of their determination to get rid, in some way or another of the present paralyzing power of the House of Lords. If the ministers attemnted to do so. they would be abandoned by their own followers. The Labor members and Irish would be in open revolt, and any revolt in the ranks of the coalition probably would be the end of the government. It Is quite possible that the government will not De sorry to postpone the election till January, but a September election still must be counted among the possibilities. T. P. O'CONNOR. TAFT OPENS BIG TRACT 203,635 ACRES ELIMINATED FROJI WALLOWA FOREST. Land Affected Is Either Grass-Cov ered or Alienated So That It Is Hard to Administer. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, June 11. The President has signed a proclamation eliminating 203.65 acres from the Wallowa Na tional forest, Oregon. The elimination Is the result of a careful examination made by the United States Department of Agriculture during the past Sum mer, which disclosed the fact that the areas now eliminated were either open grass land with very little timber or timbered areas so largely alienated mat rurtner administration by the Forest Service was considered imprac ticable. T. he lands released are not needed for watershed protection, and are not considered to be chiefly valu able for National forest purposes. the principal eliminations occur in townships 1 and 2 south, range 47 east; townships 1 and 2 north, ranges 45. 46, 47 and 48 east; township 3 north, range z east; township 4 north, ranges 42 and 43 east; townships 5 and 6 north, range 46 east, and township 6 north. range 47 east. In addition, a strip of land from one-half mile to three miles wide is eliminated along the southern boundary of the forest, in ranges 42 to 47 east. Section 6 and the west half of section 5, township 4 north, range 42 east, is transferred from the Wal lowa to the Wenaha forest, the area having been isolated from the Wallow by the large eliminations. The unappropriated portions of the areas eliminated by this proclamation win De restored to settlement and en try alter having been advertised in th local papers by the Secretary of th interior. DENNETT TO BE VINDICATED House Committee Finda Hitchcock's Charges Groundless. WASHINGTON. June 11. A complete vinuicacion or commissioner Fred Den nett. or tne General Land Office, of the cnarge of reckless expenditures. brought against him by Representative Hitchcock, of Nebraska, Democrat, will be the report of the majority of the House committee on department ex penditures. If there is a minority report it nrac- tically will be based on the allegation or iavoritism and unauthorized ex penditures for "Jack" Ballinger's trip across the continent from Washington to Seattle, where he left the Govern ment service to go Into private bust ness. "Jack" Ballinger is a nephew of Sec retary Ballinger, and Mr. Hitchcock said the young man Intended to resign when he left here and that the allow ances of his traveling expenses and per diem pay, under a designation of "spe cial temporary inspector" of offlceB, was a "final rakeoff and an outrage on the Treasury." The majority report will say that R. A. Ballinger was not then in public office, and nobody had any idea that he would be Secretary of the Interior. $3000 IN ORE THEIR LOOT Masked Men Hold T-p Mine Foreman and Make Getaway. WINNEMUCCA. Nev, June 11. Two masked men entered a tunnel of the Na tlonal Mining Company at National, north of this place, late last night, and at the point of revolvers compelled the night shift boss to give up & sack of high grade ore valued at about 93000. As there is no peace officer at the mln lug camp, the Sheriff has been notified and has gone to the scene of the' robbery. Bleaehed-Flour Case Drags. KANSAS CITY. June 11. It was ex pected by all concerned in the bleached flour case, being tried in the United States Circuit Court here, that the Gov ernment would have rested its side of the case by the end of this week. How ever, with several more witnesses to take the stand for the Government, and all the testimony for the defense yet to be offered, the chances favof several days more of trial. Compara tively little progress was made in to day's session, as Saturday is a short day in court. FORESTS BURNED BY CARELESSNESS District Forester Tells About Efforts Made to Keep Down Fire Loss. NORTHWEST RECORD GOOD Last Year Damage Is Estimated at $74,409 Government Selling Much Timber in Oregon Re serves Pine Is Studied. 'We axe making -every preparation to keep up the record of the past two years in keeping down the fire loss in the Na tional Forests," said the District For? ester. C. S. Chapman, yesterday. r-acn. mile ,oi trail or telephone line built means that the work of our force ia Just that much more effective. We shall have but a small Increase over last year In the number of men for the work this Summer, but they will be able to give better satisfaction than ever before "in the history of the service. Last year the loss through fire of merchantable timber was $74,409 and the year before $101,009. The value of timber In the National Forests of Washington and Oregon Is not less than J650,000.000, so the record is unusually good. Our force during the Summer in Washington and Oregon is approximately 450 men. Nearly all these men are State Fire Wardens in addition to being employed by the Government. They of course have other duties to perform, but from June 1 to September 30 the chief duty of every National Forest officer is to keep down fires. Carelessness Causes. Fire. In fire protection, the great danger is that we grow careless. A couple of good years is apt to make people careless Just as a year of great loss makes them cau tious. The great object sought is to make everyone realize that we have to guard continually against the possibility of dis astrous conflagrations. Our records show that most Vires are the result of some man's carelessness. And there is no question that it is care lessness. No good citizen of Washington or Oregon wants to help destroy the greatest resource of the Pacific North west. It Is not the vicious and willful firebug that we have to fear, but the careless citizen, who doesn't realize what may be the results of his carelessness. 1 'So many people during the past few years, through the agency of the Forest Service, the Western Forest & Conserva tion Association, the Washington Forest Fire Association, and the Conservation Associations of Oregon and Washington, have become interested in fire protection, that I feel confident for the future. With better laws and more help from .the states (for they are interested if anyone is), and with all those who thoroughly realize the importance of the movement taking it up with their associates in a true, missionary spirit, I believe we are going to have a lean crop of fires in the Northwest from now on." Much Timber Is Sold. On the Crater Forest in Southern Ore gon a sale of about 5,000,000 feet of yellow pine and white fir is being advertised at a flat rate, of $2.75 a thousand. On the Fremont Forest, also tn Oregon, the Pais ley Lumber Company was the successful bidder on 4.218,000 feet of Western yellow pine at $2.70 a thousand and 782,000 feet of white fir at $1 per thousand. The Hoover Lumber Company has just purcnased 1.112.000 feet of Douglas fir, cedar and hemlock at $2.50 per thousand. on the Santiam River in the Oregon For est. Another sale in the Oregon Forest of about 4,000,000 feet of mainly Douglas fir and cedar has Just been advertised at a flat rate of $2 per thousand. A number of fiales are being made to small operators throughout the district. who are coming more and more to depend on tne National Forests for their source of -supply. The main advantages in the purchase of Government timber are small payments and no fire risk. Timber to Be Estimated. The Forest Service plans to do system atic work this Summer estimating the timber in the National lorests. Three large parties will be put in the field, two in Washington, in the Olympic and Sno- qualmie forests, and one in Oregon on the Umpqua and Cascade forests. These par ties will be made up mainly of students from the forest schools in Oregon and Washington. The work besides giving a large numDer summer employment, will atford them valuable woods experience. The parties will be under the direction of men who have had both technical and practical training, and- an experienced lumberman and cruiser will assist. The working season in the Northwest is so short that it will take a number of vears to finish the work which 'Will be begun tnis year. Yellow Pine to Be Studied. The Forest Service also plans to conduct a study of the Western yellow pine, the most Important tree of E&stern Oregon and Washington. Two parties of three men each, in charge of a man trained in the work, will spend the Summer in East- ern Oregon getting figures in regard to the growth and yield of this species They will work at various places where lumbering operations are going on and the object will be to get data which will show how fast the tree- grows and what yield may be expected In a given time. These data, together with the observations made in the field as to the habits of the tree. will help to determine the beet way to manage It. CHICAGO GETS GIANT BANK Two Institutions Merge With Capital of $20,000,000. CHICAGO. June 11. By a merger of the Continental and Commercial Na tional banks of Chicago, agreed on to day by a vote of directors of the two banks, this city will have the second largest banking institution in the coun try. The capital stock of the two banks, Independently considered, totals $17 000,000. The stock of the merged bands, however, will be $20,000,000 Their combined deposits are $164,433, 935; their combined surplus and profits, $8. 968, 993. George M. Reynolds, president of the Continental, senior in point of service. to President Roberts, of the Commer clal. as well as the head of the richer bank, will be president of the new bank. Death Sentence Affirmed. LONDON. June 11. Official advices from Cairo state that the courts there to day confirmed the sentence of death im posed on the student Wardani, who shot and killed Boutres Pacha Ghali. the Egyptian Premier and Minister of For-' eign Affairs.- SACR In It PORTLAND TAKES JUMP ROSE CITY SHOWS INCREASE IX BUILDING OPERATIONS. Official Figures Place This City in Third Place of Pacific Coast Cities Los Angeles First. CHICAGO, June 11. (Special.) "Four of the Pacific Coast cities make an espe cially fine showing in building gains for May," according to official figures pub-: lished in the Construction News. They are Los Angeles, 80 per cent: Tacoma. 6S BABY WASTED TO A MERE SKELETON With Terrible Eruptions Grew Worse in Spiteof Doctors Would Scratch and Tear Flesh Unless Hands were Tied Mother Says HE WOULD HAVE DIED BUT FOR CUTICURA "My little son, when about a year and a half old, began to have sores come out on nis face. I had a phy sician treat him, but the sores grew worse. Then they began to come on his arms, then on other parts of his body, and then one came on his chest, worse than the others. Then I called another physician. Still he grew worse., At the end of about a year and a half of suffering he grew so bad that I had to tie his hands in cloths at night to keep him from scratching the sores and tearing the flesh. He got to be a mere skeleton, and .was hardly able to walk. " My aunt advised me to try Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. So great was her faith in them that she gave me a small piece of the Soap to try and a little of the Ointment. I took them home without any faith, but to please her I tried it and it seemed to dry up the sores a little. I sent to a drug store and got a cake of Cuticura Soap and a box of the Ointment and followed directions. At the end of two months the sores were all well. He has never had any sores of any kind since. He is now strong and healthy, and I can Bincerelv say that only for the most wonderful Cuticura Remedies my pre cious child would have died from those terrible sores. I used only one cake of Cuticura Soap and about three boxes of Ointment. "I am a nurse and my profession brings me into man' different families and it is always a pleasure for me to tell my storv and recommend Cuticura Rem edies. Mrs. Egbert Sheldon, R. F. D. 1. Litchfield, Conn., Oct. 23, 1909.V Complete External mod Internal Treatment for K-rery Humor ot Infants. Cblidren and Adult eon nu ol Cuticura Soao (ZSe. to Cleanaa the Skin. Cntteura Ointment (50.) to Heal Ue Skin and Cutl eura RaeolTent (SOc ). (or in tba form pi Ctaocolata Coated pills. 2Se. per vial ot SO) to Purify Ua Blood. Sold throuanout tfce world. Potter Dn: Cnem. Corn 9ole Prone . 135Co!utnbus Are.. Boun. Mug. ar Vlauad Free. Cuticura Book ea &kta Dtwaaaa, saB GIRLS' and MISSES' WASH SUITS and DRESSES Comprising our entire stock of NEW GOODS No old goods or left-overs, only choicest exclusive styles all to go at ONE-HALF PRICE Our NEW DEPARTMENT, 3d Floor will pay you to call this week per cent: Portland, 58 per cent; San Francisco, 28 per cent Seattle shows a decrease of 16 per cent: Spokane, '2, and San Ilego. 57. Permits Were taken out in S3 cities in the month Just closed for 30,161 buildings, involving a total cost of J6S.986.T21, as against 19.277 buildings, aggregating in cost t82.126.092. for the same time a year ago, an Increase of 844 buildings, and a decrease of $14,139,971, or 17 per cent. There were increases in 29 cities and decreases in 24. Decrease in eost was not general, but specific. It is significant that the decreases are in the big cities, while increases are in places of moderate proportions. It is be lieved, however, that there is good reason for the decrease in most instances, this time, because the granting of one big permit is sufficient to change the aspect of the situation very materially. Happy Camp Hit by Fire. TREKA, Cal., June 11. Happy Camp, a small town In the western part of Siski m 5 - 'New East Morrison and E. 7th Sts. We have five fine stores for rent in the above new fireproof building, just completed, at the corner of East Morrison and Seventh streets; reasonable rates; long leases given. Modern , glass fronts and thoroughly up to date in every detail of con struction. Good Location for Any Line of Retail Business For full particulars, apply to M M GE 1 you County, was partly destroyed yester day by a fire originating in the Chinese, quarter, which was swept away entirely. Ten business buildings on the south side of Main street also were consumed, the Cudahy Hotel being among the few struc tures saved. No estimate of the loss has been made. From the town the fire spread to the adjoining forest, where It is being fought by forest rangers. LOST FISHERMEN NOVICES Men Drowned Prove to Be New Hands at Work. ASTORIA. Or., June 11. (Special.) The two men who were drowned on the Columbia River bar, near the end of the jetty, on Thursday, were Kb lie Tara, captain, and Theodore Strom back, boat-puller. They were both latlves of Karlstad Finland, unmar ried and recently arrived in this coun -v.-, Si ....... . ' V - Mf . " 3 V Vw .LiNtV ail for ST 1 SALE LEADING CLOTHIER try. They were inexperienced in fish ing, except that one of them had acted as boat-puller for a few weeks. Two weeks ago they purchased a boat and net from the Columbia River Packers' Association and started fish ing, their lack of knowledge of fishing in the Columbia being the direct causi of their drowning. There is very little hope of finding their bodies. ADELINE GENEE MARRIES Duke of Newcastle Gives Bride Away and Alexandra Sends Gift. LONDON, June 11. Adeline Genee. the dancer, and Frank S. N. Isitt, of London, were married In All-Saints Church, Margaret street, today. ' The Duke of Newcastle gave the bride away. The Queen-Mo' her, Alex andra, sent the bride a diamond brooch. 'f Phone Main 3244 r v i.aa-ir' -rW !