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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1909)
BRIEF NEWS OF THE STATE Logging camps are resuming in var ioxii parts of the slate. There were 198 marriage licenses is sued in Union county during 1908. The Pacific Express company has filed its report for 191)8 witn the secre tary of state. Four thousand acres of timber land in the Siletz river country has just been sold for $250,000. Wisconsin lumbermen have purchas ed a heavily timbered tract in Tilla mook county. The consideration is said to have been almost $1,000,000. The transfer involves 14,000 acres. Timbermon are of the opinion that Oregon timber will change hands with more activity the coming summer than ever before, and at steadily advancing prices. The Tillamook county tax levy has been fixed at 15 mills. The Josephine county court has fixed the tax levy at 23 mills. Irrigation ditches around Milton and Freewater are badly choked with ice. Athena farmers are agreed that the deep miow assures a good wheat crop next year. The Gerking wheat ranch west of Athena has been sold for $24,000, or $100 an acre. An old water suit, which has been pending in Kaker county courts for two years, has been settled. Flour is 25 cents per barrel higher in Portland. Chinese at Astoria are shipping salt ed shad to China. The Coos county tax levy has been fixed at 15 mills. Weston plans to lay crushed rock on the principal streets. A man has been shot near Cottage Grove who was mistaken for a deer. The Roseburg Commercial club has moved into new and more commodious quarters. Eugene objects to the formation of a new county with the seat of govern ment at Cottage Grove. Lincoln county is anxious to have an ocean line established between the Ya quina bay and San Francisco. An automobile line is to be put on between Vale and Burns, taking the place of stages. The trip will be made in six hours. T. M. Dimick, of Marshfield, has been appointed treasurer of Coos coun ty to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John D. Dully. Reports from the Umatilla Indian reservation say there is great suffering among cattle and horses because the Indians failed to provide sufficient food for the winter. The broom handle factory at Bandon is doing a rushing business. Milton fruit growers will use a bet ter system in packing fruit and thus realize more money for their crops. Thirty more births were recorded hi Tillamook county during 190 than the previous year. A new law is proposed that will pro tect China pheasants better than the one now in force. The new glass doors to the senate and house chambers are proving a great convenience to all. PORTLAND MARKETS. Barley Feed, $27e 27.50 per ton; brewing, $28. Wheat Bluestom, $1.05; club, 92c; fife, 92c; red Russian, 90c; 40-fold, 90c; valley, 95c. Oats No. 1 white, $33 per ton. Hay Timothy, Willamette valley, $14 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $17(rT8; clovre, $12; alfalfa, $1213; grain hay, $12013. Fruits Apples, 75c0$3 per box; pears, $10 1.75 per box ; quinces, $10 1.25 per box; cranberries, $14,500 15 per barrel; persimmons, $101.25. Potatoes $1.500 1.65 per hundred; sweet potatoes, 2'4c per pound. Onions Oregon, $1.50 per hundred. Vegetables Turnips, $.1500 1.75 per sack; carrots, $1,250 1.50; par snips, $1,5001.75; beets, $1.50(, 1.75; horseradish, 80 10c per pound; arti chokes, $1.40 per dozen ; beans, 22'cc per pound; cabbage, 2'(c per pound; cauliflower, $1.50 per dozen; celery, $ 1,5005 per crate; cucumbers, $1.75 02.25 per box; eggplant, 11c per pmnd; lettuce, $101.25 per box; par sley, 30c per dozen; peas, 20c per pound; poppers, 150 20c per pound; pumpkins, 10 1 c per pound ; radishes, 30c per dozen ; spinach, 2c per pound ; sprouts, 10c per pound; squash, lofl Js'c epr pound; tomatoes. $1,7502. Butter City creamery, extras, 3G01 37c; fancy outside creamery, 320 ''35c per pound; store, 180 20c. Eggs Oregon ranch, 47SjO50c: Eastern, 37J..040C per dozen. Poultry Hens, 15c per pound; spring, large, 140T5c; small, 160 17c; mixed, 140 1 4 c; ducks. 19 0; 20c; geese, 100 11c; turkeys, 18020c. Veal Extra, 10(T0ac per pound; ordinary, 70 8c; heavy, 5c. Fork Fancy, 8.jc per pound; large, 70i7sc. . Mutton 60 8c per pound; lambs, 8 (aS hie Hops 1908, choice, 7,k-c per pound; good prime, 6,S0z7c; fair prime, 60: 6Lac; medium, 5a06c; 1907, 202s'c; 1906, 10(1 hie Wool Eastern Oregon, average best, 100114c per pound, according to shrinkage; valley, 15(l6)s'c; mohair, choice, 18(J19c. ANTI-JAPANESE BILLS. Measures Before Californir Legisla ture Attract Attention. Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 15. The three anti-Japanese bills introduced in the assembly by Grove L. Johnson, of Sacramento, and the one by A. M Drew, of Fresno, prohibiting aliens from holding land in the state, have attracted such wide interest that the 1,000 copies of each ordered printed are aireaay exnausieu ana there is a demand for more. The Johnson bills are designed to prevent Japanese being members of corporations ; to segregate all Japan ese, by defining the limits within which they must live. The two first named were introduced last session by Mr. Johnson, and action upon them was suspended at the telegraphic request of President Roosevelt during the diplo matic negotiations between the United States and Japan over the action of the San Francisco school board in ex cluding Japanese youths from public schools and assigning them to the in stitutions set aside for "Mongolians." The Japanese claimed they were not Mongolians, and Assemblyman John son introduced an amendment speeify- ng "Japanes'1" in the law. It was this measure to whose enactment the president objected, and it was killed. lhe bill relating to directors of cor porations prohibits aliens from being members of such boards, and its pur pose is to prevent competition of pow erful Japanese concerns witn Ameri cans. The thirJ Johnson bill is new. It gives municipalities power to pre scribe the limits within which unde sirable, improper and unhealthy per sons, or persons whose practices are dangerous to the public morals and health of a community," shall live. ONE JUROR PASSED. Difficulty of Securing Talesmen to Try United Railroads Official San Francisco, Jan. 15. Patrick Calhoun, traction magnate on trial for alleged giving of a bribe, adopted his expected defense today, when Attorney Stanley Moore, by his questioning of Auuust Hansen, attempted to show that the indictment was the result of a plot hatched by Rudolph Spreckels to make out a case atrainst the head of the United Railroads. Other frag mentary evidence of Calhoun's scheme of defense has been brought out in the examination of prospective jurors, touching on the late car strike, the granting of immunity, and the juror's general sentiment in the matter of unionism. The third day of Calhoun's trial saw the first juror in the case temporarily passed. He is Joseph Dixon, a sales man for Marcus Hart, a haberdasher. He sits subject to peremptory chal lenge. Dixon was passed by the de fense last night, and after a brief ex amination tnis morning was accepteud by the prosecution. During the exam ination the clerk said he could try the case thoroughly and squarely. The juror said he knew Ale Ruef, but did not care to comment on his conviction, that he favored Calhoun's stand in the last car strike, and that he was at one time a union man, but withdrew because of the hours he had to work. Before the prosecution finished the examination of Dixon the juror made complaint to Judge Lawlor that an agent hail approacted his wife yester day afternoon and questioned her in re gard to her husband s feeling in the graft case?. Mrs. Dixon said the man claimed to be a real estate agent. FLAY FORESTRY POLICY. Work Is Total Failure, Gooding Tells Sheepmen's Convention. Foeatello, Idaho, Jan. 15.- One thou sand sheepmen attended the opening session of the National Woolgrowers' convention in this city yesterday and listened to a bitter arraignment of the Federal forestry bureau by President F. W. Gooding, of Shoshone. Declar ing that the government in its admin istration of the national forests and the reclamation service has failed woe fully, President Gooding urged that congress be asked to name a commit tee of Western men to intesvtigate and report any needed changes in the rules and regulations governing these two bureaus. From nearly every Western state delegates are present. The biggest single delegation arrived from Boise, Idaho. It included Governor Brady and a number of state officials, also about half the members of both houses of the state legislature. The forenoon session of the conven tion was devoted entirely to the mid winter sheep show. More than 600 sheep are entered. Predicts Tree Famine. Washington, Jan. 15. "The time is coming in this country when trees will be as scarce as diamonds, unless im mediate steps arqtaken to preserve our forests." This was the dark picture painted in an address by Secretary of Agriculture Wilson at the 29th annual meeting of the American Forestry as sociation. The secretary declared our forestry growth is getting scarcer and scarcer and we are using three times as much wood as we are growing. Japan Takes Slight Notice. Tokio, Jan. 15. Though certain of the Japanese newspapers are seriously exercised over the anti-Japanese bills before the California legislature, others style the matter as a tempest in a teapot. There is no tendency to find sinister design in the increase in the American navy, newspapers gene rally expressing the opinion that America's growing interests in the Pa cific demand a stronger navy. BRIEF DAILY REPORT ON THE WORK OF GONGRESS Saturday, January 16. Washington. Jan. 16. The entire Bession of tHe senate today was devot ed to a memorial service for the late Senator William Pinckhey Whyte, of Maryland. Alter the adoption of reso lutions of respect the senate at 2:38 p. m. adjourned. Washington. Jan. 15. An elaborate analysis of the Sherman anti-trust law, bv Jenkins, of Wisconsin, was the feature of tcday's session of the house. The pension appropriation bill techni cally was under consideration, but the tfime was given over to general debate Other speakers were Nye, who enter tained the house with an address on law and lawmakers: Douglas, of Ohio, who advocated autononmy for the Por to Ricans, and Burton, of Delaware, who made a plea for postal savings banks. In reporting the naval appropriation bill to the house today the committee on naval affairs fixed the amount need ed for the maintenance of the naval service duriner the fiscal year 1910 at $135,062,888, as compared with $122,- 062,485, the present appropriation The bill contains recommendations for an increase of the navy by two 26,000 ton battleships, ' five torpedo boat de stroyers, four submarine boats and four fleet Collier3. Friday, January 15. Washington, Jan. 15. An amend ment in the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill increasing the salary of the president to $100,000, of the vice president and speaker of the house of representatives to $20, 000, with $5,000 additional allowance for carriages and coachmen for the vice president and speaker, and in creases for the judiciary aggregating $328,500, precipitated a lively discus sion in the senate today. Washington, Jan. 15. Private bills had their inning in the house of repre sentatives today, almost the whole ses sion being given up to their consider tion. Many were passed. The bill of Representative Hawley, of Oregon, to pay surviving volunteers of the Cayuse Indian war of 1847 and 1848 $1.50 a day lor their services as shown by the muster rolls, passed the house today. The benefic.aries are John Minto, Charles Bolds, Ellen E Hackett, M. A. Cornelius, Mary J. Keizur, Amada Reese, Mary Carnahan, Polly C. Butler and Sarah E. Schautz. President Roosevelt today sent to the house of representatives a special message vetoing the bill authorizing William H. Standish to construct a dam across the James river, in Stone county, Missouri, to divert a portion of the waters of that stream through a tunnel, to create electrical power. The president holds that the bill guar antees valuable monopolsitic privileges and does not rovide for conditions OS S' ntial to protect the public interests. He refers to former communications showing a tendency to monopolistic encroachments upon natural resources. Thursday, January 14. Washington, Jan. 14. The Ananias club was discussed in the senate today by Tillman, who declared that state ments made by Attorney General Bona parte and Postmaster General Meyer in leply to his reply to charges made against him by the president in rela t on to his contemplated purchase of Oregon timbtr land made them eligible to membership in that organization. Tillman wanted to know what degree of falsehood was to be charged to the two cabinet officers "or Leaf clerks or bootlicks and whatever the pres'dent has around him." lie suggested that there should be a meeting of the exec utive committee of the Ananias club to determine what degree should be con ferred upon "Charles J. Bonaparte and this man Meyer." Washington, Jan. 14. For a time today in the house it looked as though that body would further resent the president's statement affecting mem bers of congress and the secret service by ordering the printing of 2,000,000 copies ot the proceedings or last r ri day, tabling his remarks. A resolution to that end was presented by Landis, of Indiana, but so strong was the sen timent against it that it was tabled. Wednesday, January 13. Washington, Jan. 13. Senator Ba con today introduced a resolution as serting the right of congress to call on the executive departments for all pa pers and information in their posses sion. An appropriation of $161,018,000 for pensions was agreed to today by the committee on pensions in drafting the annual pensions bill. This amount is over $2,000,000 less than the appropri ation last year, which was $163,053, 000. In the report to the house it will be shown that. the republic has expend ed since its beginning $3,751,108,809 in pensions. The committee inserted in the bill a provision that the IS pen sion agencies throughout the country be reduced to one, to be located in Washington. Congress has failed to $438,000 for Bremerton. Washington, Jan. 14. Among the appropriations to be made for the Tug et Sound navy yard in the naval appro priation bill are the following jtems: Continuing construction of the new drydock, $400,000; railroad extension, $10,000; sewer extension, $8,000; im provement of construction plant, $20, 000. Representative Jones has been requested by the people of Spokane to secur an apprporiation to aid the Na tional Irrigation congress. agree to such a proposal heretofore. Washington, Jan. 13. Working with only a' small quota of members, the house of representatives devoted its entire time today to consideration of the District of Columbia appropria tion bill. Mann, of Illinois, furnished a little diversion for an otherwise dull day by defending the house rules, and this led him into several sharp brushes with Gardner, of Massachusetts, one of the so-called insurgents. Tuesday, January 12. Washington, Jan. 12. A spirited speech by Foraker, of Ohio, on the use of private detectives in investigating the Brownsville affair was the feature in the senate today. Foraker laid aside his manuscript several times during his address to inject remarks that were pointedly aimed at the president, although hs refrained from the men tion of Mr. Roosevelt's name. Evi dently referring to the president, he declared that men who made charges and insinuations would some time "be where they can be called to account." Lodge replied to Foraker's remarks, declaring that the use of the $3,000,000 fund appropriated in 1899 as an emer gency war fund for the president dur ing the Spanish war in the employment of detectives on the Brownsville case was not in violation of the law. The senate adopted Foraker's reso lution calling on the secretary of the treasury for an itemized statement of the expenditure of the $3,000,000 ap propriated by act of March 3, 1899, to be expended at the direction of the president as an emergency fund. The bill granting permission to the city and county of San rrancisco to use the Hetch-Hetchy and Lake Elea nor valleys of the Yosemite National park for a reservoir was again under consideration at a public hearing of the house committee on public lands to day. No action was taken by the com mittee pending the hearing of further evidence. An amendment to the executive and judicial appropriation bill was offered by Senator Knox today providing for the creation for an under secretary of state at a salary of $10,000 and a fourth assistant secretary of state at $4,500 a year. Monday, January II. Washington, Jan. 11. For acquiring all private holdings in the Sequoia and General Grant National parks, Califor nia, in which are located the big trees and other wonders, the senate today passed a bill appropriating $90,000. The senate spent the greater part of the day listening to Tillman in an at tack on the president in connection with the secret service. The presi dent has intimated that the senator was implicated in Oregon land frauds and this is denied by Tillman. Washington, Jan. 11. Representa tive Englebright, of California, today introduced a bill requiring the secre tary of the interior to procure the ap proval of congress before he expends any money after July 1, 1909, for irri gation works for the storage, diversion or development of water supply for re clamation of arid and semi-arid lands. Another bill by Mr. Englebright re quires like approval before he fan cre ate or add to any national forest with in the state of California. An amendment to the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, increasing the salary of the pres ident to $100,000 and the salaries of the vice president and speaker of the house to $20,000, was today reported. It was then referred to the committee on appropriations. Soil Surveys Failure. Washington, Jan. 12. A serious blow was given to the plan for the continua tion of soil surveys by the Department of Agriculture when the executive com mittee of the Association of American Agricultural colleges and experiment stations appeared today before the house committee on agriculture and testified that the work as now carried onw as of little value to the farmer. Members of the executive committee who criticized the present work of the bureau of soils included Dr. W. K. Jordan, director of the New York Ag ricultural Experiment station and four others. Employes Carried Free. Washington, Jan. 13.- The Inter state Commerce commission has insti tuted an inquiry into the matter of transportation by interstate carriers of employes and property of ex-employes free of charge. It has developed that, through contracts made by ex press companies with the carriers, a considerable amount of property and a large numbers of persons are transport ed free by the carriers. The commis sion will investigate these contrcts. Pitchfork Prepares for Jab. Washington, Jan. 14. "Many peo ple are sending me material in regard to Roosevelt's dark and crooked ways and I am preparing a speech in which I will try to redeem my promise," said Senator Tillman today. He said he did not know how soon he would be able to deliver his speech, but he wou'd make it before the president retired from office. Roosevelt to Hear Gompers. Washington, Jan. 14. President Roosevelt will have a conference with President Gompers and other officials of the American Federation of Labor at j the White House today. The confer ence ia at the request of Mr. Gompers. READY FOR CALHOUN. Heney Thinks Trial Will Be Shorter Than Ruef's Last. San Francisco, Jan. 13. Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Rail roads, flanked by his corps of attor neys, faced Judge Lawlor today at the opening session of his trial on a charge of offering a bribe of $4,000 to Super visor Fred P. Nicholas. Assistant District Attorney Francis J. Heney, standing at the prosecution's desk for the first time since he was shot down during the trial of Abe Ruef, began the preliminary motions of what promises to be the most renowned trial in the history of California. Twenty months have elapsed since Calhoun was first indicted on charges of offering bribes to the men who com posed the boodling board of supervis ors under lorm.-r Mayor Schmitz. During that time three supplemented indictments were returned against the traction magnate and on one of them he now faces the bar of justice. The court's ban has been placed on delays. The prosecu; ion has announc ed that no further continuances will be asked and the defense has professed itself ready for trial for several months. Calhoun, in his desire for a speedy hearing, has instructed his at torneys to lay aside all technicalities. Attorneys predict it will take but two weeks to secure a jury and but another two weeks to put in all the evidence. Should this be the case, the hearin will not e.ual in length the Ruef trial, which consumed four months. SANTA FE FINED. California Railroad Commission En forces Rate Law. San Francisco, Jan. 13. The Santa Fe Railroad company was found guilty before the State Railroad commission today of carrying oil shipments be tween Bakersfield and this city at a lower rate than that fixed by state law and fined $5,000 by unanimous vote of the commissioners. The com pany was also adjudged guilty on six other counts charging unjust rate dis crimination, but no penalty was fixed. The specific charge on which the commissioners acted was that the rail road company had carried oil shipments from Bakersfield to this city for the Associated Oil company at 25 cents a barrel, whereas the legal rate fixed by the board is 37.8 cents a barrel. The board also found the Southern Pacific company guilty of rate discrim ination on six counts, but no penalty was fixed, as the board declared no proper legal foundation for the pro cedure had been laid by the previous board of commissioners. SECOND MINE HORROR. At Least One Hundred Men Caught in Colliery by Explos'on. Welch, W. Va., Jan. 12. At least 100 miners were trapped by an ex plosion in the Lick Branch colliery today, marking the second disaster in the mine within two weeks. Relatives of the victims of the pre vious explosion, when 50 men were killed, are known to be in the mine to day. The explosion this morning occurred jut after the full quota of the day shift had gone to work and it is known positively that 250 " men were in the mine at the time. A relief train with surgeons and sup plies was rushed from Bluefield and the buildings about the shaft have been turned into hospitals. The state mine inspector and four assistants inspected the mine just be fore the previous explosion and pro nounced it one of the safest and best ventilated in the region. Another in spection was made after the explosion, but did not reveal the cause. Switchback, the scene of the disas ters, is in McDowell county, in the center of the Flat Top coal fields. Kansas Wants Reforms. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 13. Governor Walter R. Stubbs delivered his first message to the Kansas legislature that convened yesterday in its 16th bien nial session. Mr. Stubbs earnestly recommended the enactment of a pub lic utilities law; asked the legislature to pass certain amendments to the pres-; ent primary election law to make it ' still more effective, and urged careful consideration of some safe bank guar antee plan; demanded a flat two-cent passenger rate law, ana sam an anti pass statute should be passed. Mayor Would Send Bell. Philadelphia, Jan. 13. Communica tions from officials and clubs of the chief cities of the Pacific coast states requesting Mayor Reyburn and the members of the council to agree to j send the Liberty Bell to San Francisco. ! Portland and Seattle during the com- j ing summer are arriving every day at the city hall. No replies have been ! sent, but the mayor has declared him-1 self in favor of sending the bell if it can safely be done. ' Find Judge for Oil Case. j Chicago, ' Jan,. 13. Judge Albert Anderson, of Indianapolis, will preside ' at the next trial of the cases against the Standard Oil company in which Judge K. M. Landis imposed a fine of i $29,240,000. Judge Anderson will be in charge of the case Monday and will convene court to set the case for trial. Turkey Agrees to Sell Soil. London. Jan. 13. A central news dispatch from Constantinople states (5240.000,000) at 4 l.. per cent. A that Grand Yizier Kiamil Pasha has part of the loan will probably go to notified Austriam Minister Tallavincini , Mher continental countries, but it does that Turkey accepts Austria's indem-. not appear that the United States sub nity offer of $10,800,000. scribed for any part of it. W00LMEN TO TALK OVER WAREHOUSE Pinchot Sends Caustic letter Which Bears on Grazircj Question. Association Not Favcrable to Exist ing Hubs of Go.vernmert Ques tion of Tariff on Wool Will, Cause Shrrp Debate- Some Vill Want It Increased. Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 14. Questions of great concern to the sheepraisers of the United State3 and especially of the Western range states will arise at the three days' convention of the National Woolgrowers' convention, which will begin here today. The storage warehouse plan, which is, in brief, to place the bulk of the wool crop in the hands of a co-operative selling agency, to hold for what is considered a fair price, meanwhile borrowing money on the stored pro duct, will be the principal subject at issue. A committee has been busy for several months securing pledges of wool and arrangements have been made to lease a warehouse in Chicago or some other center as soon as the re quired 25,000,000 pounds of wool is guaranteed. It is not thought that much opposi tion will develop, but the details of the plan may be criticised and its feas ibility que.-tioned. Government regulations in relation to grazing on forest reserves will un doubtedly be attacked. It was the known attitude of the association on this point that prompted the chief for ester, GifFord Pinchot, to decline an in vitation to the meeting in a sharp note which further strained the relations between the Forestry department and the woolmen. In his letter Mr. Pinchot advised the secretary of the association that he did not care to attend the convention until it should show by its action that it wa3 prepared to view the grazing question in a more liberal spirit. While all the delegates will be in favor of a tariff on wool, there may be a debate a3 to whether the present duty is sufficiaent. Utah woolgrowers, and perhaps others, have adopted reso lutions asking that the present duty be increased. In other quarters the pre vailing tariff is regarded as ample the needs of the industry. for SAIL WITH FLEET. Son of Turkish Ruler Will Probably Return With Battleships. Constantinople, Turkey, Jan. 14. Great excitement prevails among Turks on account of the visit of the American fleet to Turkish waters. Four battle ships are now at Smyrna, and four more are coming to remain until Janu ary 24. Admiral Schroeder, second in command, is coming to Constantinople in the battleship Louisiana. One of the sultan's sons probably will go with the squadron to America, and it is re garded as certain that 30 Turkish offi cers will go. The grand vizier, naval minister and naval circles generally are intensely interested in the visit of the fleet, as this will be the first occasion since the revolution when warships of a great power have entered the Ottoman ports. Authorities are anxious to impress the visitors with the fact -that they are thoroughly civilized now, and that Turkey is on th road to become one of the great naval powers of the world. The American vessels w'll carry the Turkish officers as guests, two officers going on each battleship. New Shocks Cause Panic. Rome, Jan. 14. A slight earthquake shock was exper'enced at an early hour this morning throughout Lombard, Yenetia and Tuscany. No damage was done, and no one was injured, but ow ing to the general unea---iness resulting from the recent visitations in Calabria and Sicily, the people for a moment were thrown into a condition bordering on a panic. According to the records of the observatories, and especially the establishment maintained at Florence by the Jesuit Fathers, the center of the disturbance was near Lembach. I Take Evidence in East, j Pittsburg, Jan. 13. Testimony to be used in five United States land cases ! now pending in Oregon will be taken 1 here tomorrow before United States Commissioner William T. Lindsey. i Considerable secrecy is maintained re- garding the cases, but it is known that five expert chemists, members of the Carnegie Technical school, have been summoned as witnesses and it is said a number of prominent Pittsburgers will also be called. Russia to Borrow Again. St. Petersburg. Jan. 14. The Rus sian finance ministry has closed an ar , rangement with a syndicate, including the principal banking houses of Paris, for a loan of 1.200,000,000 francs