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r THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX. PORTLAND. DECEMBER 17. 1911. 'V: HE IBS IN DDI CLASH OVER NUINE Mississippian Intimates That Rules Alone Save Leader Mann From Drubbing. RETORT IS MADE IN KIND Trouble Arises Over Proposal to Sell Battleship Relics to Prlrate Con cerns "Why Not Seamen Bones?" Is Asked. WASHINGTON. Dee. 1. A sharp clash between Representative Mann, of Illinois. Republican leader of the House, and Kepresentative Slsson. Democrat, of Mississippi. srave the House an exciting moment today. What many members characterized as a chal lenge was hurled by Representative Flxson at the Illinois member, who. he said, was protected by the rules of the House from what Mr. Slsson would like to do or say to him. "i do not ask for any protection by the rules of the House. Mr. Mann re torted sharply. The House broke Into an uproar, which soon quieted, and consideration of the appropriation bill proceeded without further hostilities between the two members. The Interchange, which threatened for a moment to have unpleasant con quences. resulted from Mr. SIsson'a ef forts to secure the adoption of the amendment permitting the hull of the Maine to be sold to private concerns. Mill lllats at Deaet-ratloa. "I am surprised that the gentleman has not Included In his proposition the selllr.a- of the bones of the seamen who riled In the Maine." Mr. Mann said. "Both would brtna- large sums of money. "Mr. Chairman. I have never declined In resent any Insult when it Is offered. Mr. Kisson said, when he refrained the floor. "On the contrary I have always been willing- and ready to take care of myself: but the rules cf the House will not permit me. perhaps, to do and to ur the thtnjrs that are necessary to ) "If the srentlrman from Illinois has nv i"lre In nny way -to cast any re jections, either upon me or my mo tive', in this matter, then I want to .iy to hlra that there are times " Rales Save Real ComfHrt. Here Mr. Si.iaon. who had been spesklng with g-reat deliberation, paused. Mr. Mann was listening- In tently. "It would be. perhaps, better for me not to state Just exactly my opinion about that matter." Mr. Slsson con tinued, "because I might subject my elf to a violation of the rules of this llouae. Hut on numerous occasions he has seen fit, not only by his words. but by his manner, to be offensive to members of this House and I think, Mr. Chairman, that it Is not at all becoming- In the (rentleman to make this sort of an Insinuation when he Is protected by the rules of the House. The Democrats applauded the Mis sissippi man. Mr. Mann was on bis feet Immediately wltn the statement that he asked for no protection of the House. The two members kept aloof the remainder of the day. which Indicated that nta home was in Portland, Or., and his name Dan Mc Lean. One month previously, October 1. to be precise. Dan McLean dropped Into the office of the England National Bank of Little Rock. Ark, and deposit ed a large amount of money. "Keep this for me, he said, "It may be five years before I claim It, unless I happen to Invest It In real estate." The clerk noticed his shabby dom ing and wondered why he should have the sum of money, but It was deposited In his name. When he was found dead at Eldo rado, the Sheriff telephoned the bank, 100 miles distant, telling them of the passbook found on the man's person. They sent Instructions that a photo graph be taken and the body burled. A copy of this photograph and an ac count of the circumstances has been sent by the England National Ban A to Jerry E. Bronaugh. asking him to Investigate any persons claiming rela tionship with the man. The bank 01 flclals say the money Is being cared for by them and they want to pay It to McLean's relatives. If the dead man has any. There are a number of McLeans in the directory, the only Dan McLean being Daniel S. McLean, at 107J Eighteenth street. There was no one at the resi dence when The Oregonlan reporter called. HOME AND POSTAL PLAN AGREEMENT Phone and Telegraph Combi nation Will Fight Western Union and Bell. WIRES WILL BE EXCHANGED COAL PANIC PREDICTED BrrcMixocs operators want RIGHT TO COMBINE. TRUST REMEDY SUGGESTED liramlt-i Would Have Government Stop Iatronlzins; Transgressors. WASHINGTON. Dec. 1. "Stop the (Government from buying its supplies from trusts that have been prosecuted by the Iepartment of Justice and the American people will bellnv in the sincerity of the Uovernmenfs fight against trangrrsslon of the Sherman Kiitl-tru.-t law," Louis I. Brandeis. of Boston, told the Senate Interstate Com merce committee today. He favored creation of a. commission with broad powers of Investigation of corporations, including the right to hear appeals and to publish the Infor mation It (rained, and denounced the overcapitalisation of corporatlona Mr. Brandeis criticised the star rhambe-r session of the Circuit Court of New York. In which the plan of reor ganisation pi in. ru .-i n n n . fompanr was discussed. "Those who ' were present." said Mr. Brandeis. "were pledged to secrecy as to what trans pired" Henrr B. Joy. of Detroit, president of an automobile, manufacturing concern, testified that he believed in combina tions with Federal regulation and that there should be a board to regulate la terstate corporatlona Declaration Is Made That 1,500,000 Persons Will Be Affected If Bankruptcy Is Forced. WASHINGTON. Dec H. Danger of a general Industrial panic throughout the United States as a result of the bituminous coal mining situation was expressed as the opinion of J. F. Cal breath, Jr., of Denver. Colo, secretary of the American Mining Congress, who Is In this city to open permanent head quarters for the mining organization. Mr. Calbreath declared that the panle was likely to come unless some reason able plan could be adopted by which the bituminous coal operators could be permitted to 'get together, tinder the supervision of a trade commission similar to the Interstate Commerce Commission or otherwise, so as to pre vent the ultimate bankruptcy of many of the bituminous coal producers. Bankruptcy was bound to come, he said, because of cutthroat competition, which now compelled most of these pro ducers to sell their coal at an actual loss; and as $760,000,000 la Involved la the Industry and 1.600.000 persons are dependent directly or Indirectly on It, the results of such bankruptcy, he added, would be widespread. The American Mining Congress. Mr. Calbreath said, would demand legisla tion giving the operator a fair profit. but at the same time allowing the con suming public to get Its coal as cheap ly as economical operating expenses mould allow and also making certain that the lives of the mlneworkers would be amply protected. Speaking Connection Between Los Angeles and San Francisco to Be Established Merger With Pacific Is Denied. LOS ANGELES. Dec 1. (Special.) Home telephone service to San Fran cisco and other distant points will be possible within a comparatively short time when the details of a proposed agreement or possible merger between the Los Angeles Home Telephone com pany and the Postal Telegraph Company are completed. This Is the result of the- coast war that has been waged since the American Bell Telephone Company bought the Western Union. A. B. Cass, president of the Home company, today announced the plans for the exchange of the service be tween the Home and Postal. He said he desired to set at rest rumors that have been In circulation for several weeks that the Pacific States Telephone ec Telegraph would buy the Home company and consolidate the two. "The Home company," said Cass, "Is planning a more vigorous campaign for business than ever and will soon be operating a long distance service unexcelled by any other. Already the plans for the exchange of service be tween the Postal and our company have progressed so far that we have In stalled Home telephones In the Postal offices in this city and all their busi ness will be done over Home phones. On the other hand, they will use our wires for telegraph purposes to points with which they are not now connected. and we shall use theirs to southern California and other state posnts not now served by our system. Advices from San Francisco are that Henry T. Scott, president of the Pacific States Telephone Telegraph Company, snd Theodore N. Vail, presi dent of the American Telephone A Telegraph Company, are on their way from New York to Los Angeles for the purpose of looking Into the -situation. EX-EMPLOYE IS ACCUSED Inscribing of Threatening Letter Charged to Mill Worker. PARSON SENT TO PRISON FJght Years Given to Charity Col lector for Reflection. MOZEMAN. Mont.. Sec 1 Eight years tn the penitentiary was the sen tence imposed today upon Rev. John R Hedberg. who. until four weeks ago, was pastor of a Swedish mission church at Anaconda. Hedberg pleaded guilty to the charge of obtaining money under false pre tenses. He was brought from St. Paul to answer the allocation that he had oMa:red K'0 from Miss Christine Matt son ani oter persons of Hozrman on the r'.a tliat It was tJ be used for . h.irlrv. It went Instead for worldly pleas ures, lirdt-erg Is I years old. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT ILL Operation for Appendicitis Performed Karreswfttlly. Charged with sending threatening letters to Andrew J. Kroenert. presi dent of the University Shingle A Lum ber Company. Walter Cox. a former em ploye of the company, was locked up In the County Jail last night. "Mr. Kroenert: Tou know that yon are doing wrong, we will give you three days to rite it. If you don't, we will get you. We know how to use Iesd, dynamite and fire. Don't be a fool. lours for peace or hell Com mittee of Justice." reads the letter which Cox Is charged with having written. By a comparison of his time-check receipt and the letter. Detective B. F. Smith was able to And Cox, who was for five years an employe of the com pany of which Kroenert is president. Cox was discharged some time ago. BAPTIST PASTOR SUICIDE Insomnia Drives Victim to Cnt Ar teries In Bathtnb. NEW YORK. Dec 1. Rev. Chris tian J. Olson, psstor of the Fourth- Avenue Baptist Church In Brooklyn. was found dead today In a half filled bathtub with arteries In bis wrists severed. For several months Dr. Olson had been suffering from headaches and In somnia and lately he feared he was going Insane. CRIMES LAID TO .BOOZE Klamath Indians Illicitly Supplied, Say Government Agents. KLAMATH FALLS, Or, Dec 1. (Special.) The arrests here of Gus Redeker. charged with giving whisky to a Klamath Indian, and Jack Palmer, a Klamath Indian accused of drunken ness by Superintendent Watson, of the Klamath Indian reservation, draw at tention to the fact that most of the trouble on the reservation Is due to In toxicating liquor. It Is against the United States laws to sell or give whisky to an Indian, but this law is violated with great frequency. On the Klamath Indian reservation the past year there have been three killings which have led to murder charges against Indians. All of these affrays are ascribed directly to Intoxi cating liquor. In Lake County there was an Indian woman killed by her husband while he was drunk, but he was acquitted. Every year reports are made to the Department of the Interior. Indian Af fairs, under the head of "Offenses." The following Is from one of the reports made by Captain Applegate, when he was Indian agent: "The evil of Illicit liquor trafflo around the reservation seems to grow 1th the Increase of values within the lnes and Is always a menace to the peace and prosperity of our reservation people. The ease with which any man can secure a Government license to sell Buy Your Presents for Men at a Man's Shop ELLI Snug CloitMer EEMS NO Ladies and Misses' Man-Tailored Coats and Folo Coats iNow on taie Those Priced at $12 50 to $18 00 Now $10.00 Those Priced at $20.00 to $35 00 Now $15.00 Every Reduction Absolute Aggressive Unquestioned liquors by the gallon, even on the line of the Indian reservation. Is responsible for much of the trouble. The author ity does not confer upon him the right to sell tn less quantities than a gallon, nor In any quantity to an Indian, but he establishes his place of business, not to observe the law, but to make money, any way, every way possible, and he finds devious ways to convey the liquor to the Indians and It Is very difficult and often Impossible to secure the evi dence under which an Indictment can be brought We have, however, made some notable examples during the last year and shall continue to do whatever Is possible to curtail this great evil." Fraternity Has Banquet. George H. Williams Chapter of the Phi Alpha Delta, a fraternal society of lawyers, gave a banquet last night at the Imperial Hotel in honor of the new members of the chapter. At the con clusion of a ritualistic menu that was laid for 50 covers, addresses were de livered. Among the honorary members present at the banquet were Judge Wolverton, Judge Bean. Judge Mor row, Robert F. Maguire, A. E. Clark and A. C. Schmltt. PORTLAND MAN WINS BRIDE Boston Girl to Become Wife of Howard Russell Shroeyer. LOWELL, Mass.. Dec 16. (Special.) An engagement reception that brought together many society people of Lowell and Boston was held tonight In honor of Miss Louise Talbot, of Low ell, who Is to become the bride of Howard Russell Shroeyer, of Portland, Or. The announcement of the engage ment Is made by Mrs. Julian Talbot, of Lowell, mother of Miss Talbot. Mr. Shroeyer, who was In the class of 1908 at Harvard Law School, Is well known to Lowell and Boston society people. It was In his college days that he first met Miss Talbot. Tonight's reception was a brilliant event. - Miss Talbot and her mother re ceived In the parlors of the mansion In Nesmith street. The house was pret tily decorated. Miss Talbot's father was the late Julian Talbot, one of the most widely known men of his day. Miss Talbot has a large social and family connec tion among the most prominent In this city. She is accomplished and intellec tual. Her friends had long expected the engagement announced tonight. An early wedding Is expected. Ashland School Census Taken. ASHLAND, Or, Dec 16. The school census of Ashland, just completed, shows a gain of nearly 100 children between the ages of 4 and 20 years, compared with one year ago. There are now listed exactly 1499 children of legal age within the district. whereas a year ago there were 1410. The boys and girls run remartkably even In point of numbers, the total number of boys listed being 753 and girls 74. Glove Orders For Xmas To Be Sure The Ha 'ID x rice TT TT .F W- me Has Caught aie Up T NEW 0. K. J3ARBERSH0P Hss opened downstairs in the Wilcox building, located at Sixth and Wash ington, entrance on Sixth, and opening week has proven to the public that It Is the most sanitary and finest equipped barbershop In the northwest. "Glad you fellows started this sale just before Christinas," said one. of our regular customers. "It gives me a chance to have some good liquors for my own table and to remember some friends." Yes. The sale is timely, indeed. It is the result of a large purchase an immense addition to our huge stock. Bather than be overloaded, we are cutting in half the price of the stock on hand. Included are Choice, Well Aged Wines, That Are Priced Like This: The regular $1.50 grade of any of the above wines, 7ttr gallon C The regular $2.00 grade of any of the above wines, d f ff gallon J1.UU The regular $3.00 grade of any of the above wines, djf Cri gallon p.JV The regular $4.00 grade of any of the above wines, 2 00 Old Partner of Carnegie Dies. PITTSBtHO. Dec 11 Thomas Noble Miller, aged (. merchant, manufac turer. Inventor and pioneer steel man. died here today after a two days' Ill ness. . Mr. Miller formerly was engaged with Andrew Carnegie and Henry 1'hlpps In the steel Industry. Rent a used piano. Stelnway, Chlck- erlng. Mason A Hamlin, tl per month. Koh!er Chaso. 175 Washington St. Beer OUR MILD AND DELICATELY FLAVORED SPRING VALLEY BEER DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME, NET PRICE WHEN BOTTLES ARE RETURNED $1 Doz. NKW YORK. Pc 1 An orrilon for rPn,llcltl w prform-d tody n l"ornliw Ymi?rbt;t- Mr. Vandr- tilt wan p trie ken t!tre days o. Tfc bulletin a tawued; "Mr. Van lrbt: I wn t opera tM on this morning. The result of the operation entire ly satisfactory. There are no compli cations, and Mr. VanderbKt is resting easy." BANK IS SEEKING HEIRS Dan McLean, of Tort land. Dies at Arkansas Town. Leaving Fortune. One day last November at KMorado, In the southern part of Arkansas, a an. wasted by exposure and sickness. dropped dead In the street On the body the Sheriff found a bankbook IHIoodi Sarsaparilla So combines the great "curative principles of Roots, Barks and Herbs as to raise them to their highest efficiency; hence its un equal ed cures. It purifies, enriches and revital izes the blood and builds up the whole system as no other medicine does. Take it only three doses a day. Oet It todsy In usual liquid form or tabli Our Customers Tell Us They Never Bought Such Good Whiskies Before, at These Low Prices: Have a good supply for the making of Christmas drinks for use in ease of illness. We sell only the qualities that we can guarantee. Monogram" "VThiskey, a grade, g a L reg. $3.5 0 tr A r- " Marble " Hiiskey, a reg. $ 4.0 0 An jH grade, g a L D70 "Sunny Trail," a regular $5.00 grade, JQ A the gallon gj(TJ "Special Reserve," old private stock, Q QC $6 grade, gal CD3eZ0 -SUNNYBROOK- Bottled in bond a welcome gift to some critical friend. 85c A BOTTLE- Phone Your Orders Prompt Attention. PHONES .Main 5S9, A 1117 Spring Valley . Wine Coo The Big Store. Entire Corner Second and Yamhill. chocolated Bleu called Mnausa