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TUB OOURIKH la davuUd to th. bmt Intonat of FRAY and WBCELlCIl COUNTY. Thalltoalpatnm. M.of thaaltluna of Oil. mm Mob la napaotf ullr aollclud, PubfUW mrr Tmndr by RUSSELL D. PRICE. SubMriptbaj Bates PwTwr U)0 HI Month. ,..,,.,..,., JO ThrMaUmths M VOL. XIV. SPHAlf, WIIEELEB COUNTY, OBEGON,' TIIUBSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1016. NO. 31. 641 CONGRESS ADJOURNS 'Record Shows Appropriations Exceeding by More than Half Billion Past Year's Expenditures. Washington, D. C. .The first see lon of tbt Sixty-fourth congress, which adjourned Friday, Sept 8, was concerned chiefly with national do ' fense. When the gavel fell congresa had directed reorganization and re-equipment of the army and navy for defense of the country at the unprecedented coat of 1055,000,000, with authoriza tions that will Increase the total in three yeart to nearly $800,000,000, With all other expenditure!, appropri ations were brought to the grand total of 11,037,583,682, the greatest aggre gate In the country's history, and ex ceeding that for the last fiscal year by more tban hair a billion dollars. expenditures, necessitated by pre paredness and the calling into action of military forces to meet the Mexican emergency, demanded revenue legisla tion in the closing days of the session. Congress responded by doubling the normal tax on incomes, creating an in- , herltance tax, munitions tax and mis cellaneous excise taxes to raise $305, 000,000, and by directing the aale of $130,000,000 Panama Canal bonds, Congress established a tariff com mission, a government shipping board to rehabilitate the American merchant marine; a workmen'a compensation commission to administer a new uni form compensation law; a farm loan banking system; a child labor law; enlarged the system of self-govern ment in the Philippines and enacted many other Important laws which had been contemplated by the administra tion, Host Important legislative enact ments of the session, exclusive of laws for national defense, Included the fol lowing: Government ship law - Appropriat ing $50,000,000 to operate ships in foreign and coastwise trade when un able to lease them to individuals or private corporations. Child labor law Denying Interstate commerce to products of mines and quarries employing children under 16 years of age and factories, mills, can neries and other establishments em ploying children under 14 years. Kural credits law establishing a farm loan board In control of a system of farm loan mortgage banks. Workmen'a compensation law Pro viding uniform sick and accident bene fits for employes of the Federal gov ernment and benefits to dependents In case of death. Emergency revenue law Providing for doubling the normal income tax on the lowest class; making an addition al surtax ranging from 1 per cent on that portion of incomes exceeding $20,000 to 13 per cent on amount of incomes in excess of $2,000,000; levy ing a graduated tax of 1 to 10 per cent on inheritances ranging from $50,000 to $6,000,000; a 10 per cent net profit tax on manufacturers of munitions, 6 per cent net profit tax on manufac turers of materials entering into muni tlons; a license tax on actually invest ed capital stock of corporations capi talised at more than $99,000; wine, beer and liquor excise taxes and mis cellaneous stamp taxes. uood roads law Providing for co operative Federal aid to the states for construction of highways , and appro priating $75,000,000 to be spent in five years. Postal savings law Amendment in creasing the amount which individuals may deposit from $500 to $1000 with interest, and a additional $1000 with out interest. Federal reserve Amendments, in cluding amendment to the Clayton anti-trust law permitting officers and directors of member banks to become officers and directors of not more than two other non-competing banks; amendments permitting national banks to establish foreign branches, liberal izing regulations for discounting com mercial paper and permitting member banks in towns of 6000 or less popula tion to act as agents for insurance companies. Railroad legislation Creation . of a joint sub-committee of senate and house interstate commerce committees to investigate necessity for further legislation for railroads and the Inter state Commerce commission, question of government ownership of public utilities and comparative worth of government ownership as against gov ernment regulation. Railroad eight-hour day law Estab lishing eight hours as the standard for reckoning the compensation of railroad employes operating trains in interstate commerce after January 1, 1917, and providing for a commission of three to investigate the effects of the eight hour standard, present wages not to ' , reduced during the Investigation, nor for 80 days thereafter, and work in excess of eight hours to be paid for at a pro rata rate. Tariff Creation of a non-partisan tariff commission of five members to investigate and advise congress on tariff revision; repeal of the free sug ar provision of exiting tariff law; amendments increasing duties on dye- stuffs to encourage manufacturing dye- stuirs in the United States; enactment of an anti-dumping provision to pre vent dumping of foreign-made goods at less than foreign market prices; authorization for the President to re taliate against foreign nationa prohib iting Importation of goods from the United States by laying an embargo against imports from offending na tions. Cotton futures act Providing a pro hibitive tax on cotton sold for future delivery in fictitious or wash sales. rnuippines Law to provide for a more autonomous government ef the islands, enlarging self-government. reorganizing election laws, establish ing an elective senate and promising independence whenever, in the Judg ment of the United States, the Philip pine people demonstrate capability for it Appropriations for all purposes were: Aarieultui I Z4.Mft.M2 Army 287.6U6.630 iMplomatlc and eonaular i.M&UM Itlmrict of Columbia 12 Ml.ooT FurUllction. ,, ,., 26,7ft.060 IndLn affair 10.W7.M4 loiialativ. and .mkuUv n.Wtt.OlM Military Aoulwnjr 1.2 OU Navy .... Sia.3dO.UMl Pmuton lftf AMI run Ho. tonic SM.W7.679 Klwr and harbor 40.6WI.ias Hundry civil rn.rtW.28A Parmanmt appropriation. 131.074.S7 Bhicplng bill , , I0.IOO.OUO !llciieii..,,, " 72.W0.0U0 Kural cnMIU..., S.IOU.OUO Rood road... S.OUO.OOO Flood. Z.O00,OUO JAPAN WOULD PUT ADVISERS IN CHINESE MILITARY ACADEMES Pekln In addition to demanding police power In South Manchuria and inner Mongolia as one of the terms of the settlement of the incident at Cheng lhlatun, . in Eastern Mongolia, japan, It was learned in government circles here, has also secretly suggested to China that the employment of Japan ese mlltary advisers at the large Chi nese centers and of Japanese instruc tors in the Chinese military schools would be highly desirable. - ' The Chinese press says the granting or the Japanese demands would mean the abandonment of Chinese sover eignty in Inner Mongolia and in South Manchuria. ' China's dependency upon Japan for money, it Is maintained In semi-official quarters, renders her unable to ignore either the Japanese demands or sug gestions unless financial assistance is found elsewhere. wsng nung-Nien, tne Chinese com missioner who Investigated the inci- Publisher for Defense. NEWS ITEMS ,' Of General Interest About Oregon Oregon Victims Alleged to Have NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS; GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS I Portland Wheat- Bluestem. $1.80; forty-fold, $1.28; club, $1.27; red fife, $1.28; red Russian, $1.26. Flour Patents, $6.20; etrsighta, $6.60 6; exports, $6.60; valley. Lost $30,000 to Promoter !"' whole whe,t- IM0; rahm' STREETCAR Uflj GET OTHER UNIONS' AID Eugene Offtors of the United States government are investigating the record of F, G. Mathison, San Francisco real estate dealer, arrested In Oakland, Cat., Monday, according to a statement made here by District At torney J. M. Devers. Attorney Devers Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $23.60 per ton; shorts, $26.60; rolled barley. $3536. Corn Whole, $42 per ton; cracked. $43. Hay Producers' prices: Timothy, Eastern Oregon $16.6018 per ton; timothy, valley, $16 16; alfalfa. Labor Trouble hi New York Extends to 75,000 Worfars. SYMPATHETIC STRIKE 03DEED aiao .tated that th. authorities bsdto. "ILSSS ,V5i5?!?;.? Stow . Hand, Longshoremen, Bar- tenders, Machinists, Moulders, Printers and Brewers Aid. Grand total '. 1 1.S37.6K3.682 In addition to the total there were authorisations for expeditures in fu ture years, including naval, good roads, tariff commission and other ex penditures to bring the total to approx imately $2,000,000,000. but these amounts do not properly apply to the appropriations for the fiscal year. In addition congress enacted an un usually large amount of miscellaneous legislation, including reorganisation of the patent office; provision for trial of space system in place of weight sys tem for payment for railroad mail service and leaving to the Interstate Commerce commission determination of the method and rate of pay; crea tion of a National Park bureau in the department of the Interior; establish ing warehouse regulations for cotton and grain and providing a new grain grading law; extension for a year of the government War Risk Insurance bureau; uniform law making bills of lading negotiable. Proposed legislation which failed of enactment and has gone over until next winter includes the immigration bill; the corrupt practices act to limit campaign expenditures for election of the President, Vice President and members of congress; a vocational ed ucation bill passed by the senate; con servation legislation, including the public lands water power bill, the Shields navigable streams water power bill, which failed in conference; the oil leasing bill, including relief for California oil men; a flood control bill which passed the house and a bill to establish citizenship for natives of Porto Eico. Four treaties were ratified by the senate. The most important were the long-pending Nicaraguan convention providing for the acquisition of a canal route and naval stations rights in the Bay of Fonseca for $3,000,000 and that ratified in the closing hours pro viding for the purchase of the Danish West Indies for $26,000,000. Another was the treaty with the Kepublic of Hayti providing for an American finan cial protectorate. The much-disputed pending treaty with Colombia, after several years of consideration, Was favorably reported from the foreign relations committee with an amend ment reducing from $26,000,000 to $16,000,000 the proposed amount to be paid for the partition of Panama. Joseph H. Colt, president of the publishing house of Moffat, Yard &. Co., has been elected chairman of the board of trustees of the American De fense Society. dent at Cheng Chiatun, in which six Japanese and four Chinese soldiers were killed in a clash between troops of the two garrisons, reports that the trouble began with a street fight between a Japanese civilian and a Chinese sol dier. Japanese soldiers attempted to force their way into the Chinese bar racks to arrest the soldier. A Jap anese soldier, the commissioner says, slashed the Chinese sentry with sword, where upon firing began. Revenue Bill ia Effect Now; Stamp Tax IsJAboushed Washington, V. (J. When the new general revenue bill became effective Saturday business men throughout the country were relieved of the stamp taxes which they have been paying since December 1, 1914, and which were to have continued until December 31 of this year. The stamp taxes repealed include those paid on telegraph and telephone messages, parlor-car seats and berth tickets, bonds, debentures, certificates of indebtedness, certificates of stock, transfer bills of sale, promissory notes, express and freight manifests and bills of lading, bonding instruments, con veyances, insurance policies, entry of goods, passage tickets, protests, per fumery, cosmetics and chewing gum. that Mathison, who is charged with having obtained title to real estate in Lane and Linn counties worth from $30,000 to $40,000 in exchange for bogus abstracts of title to Texaa land. did not operate alone and that other arrests revealing a conspiracy to de fraud on an extensive scale are prob able. .,'... , District Attorney Devers prepared reqiustion papers for Mathison. to be signed by the governor. In the event a Federal charge ia perf erred the state will likely turn the prisoner over to the Federal authorities for trial he saia. in one or tne letters in tne posses sion of the officers Mathison ia said to have written that he had "unloaded the Oregon stuff" and had done very well. The "Oregon stuff" referred to s alleged to have been land to wihch be had obtained title in exchange for alleged worthless abstracts of title to Texaa land. Attorney Devers stated that in the cases he had investigated, the ab stracts of title which on their face were genuine and set up a clear chain bf title purported to have been made by an abstract company which did not exist. The records in the county in which the lexas land ia located con tain no record of such abstracts. The land Mathison purported to con vey to the Lane county farmers alleged y have been swindled of their farms, telongs to Mrs. H. M. King, reputed M be .a multi-millionaire, of Corpus inrisu, lex. it is part or her ranch, which consists of a Mexican grant that has never been subdivided. Her agent. Attorney Robert Kleberg, in a letter to District Attorney J. M. Devers stated that Mathison was unknown to him. From Andrew Bossen, who swore to the complaint against Mathison, title to Lane county land worth $10,000 and $600 in personal property was obtained in exchange for an abstract of title calling for 320 acres of the Texas land. Bossen announced some time ago that be had sold his farm and that he was going to Texas to develop his newly acquired land. . From Pierce & DeheL of Pleasant Hill, titile to a 820-acre tract of Lane county land was obtained by Mathison. Marvin Martin, of Brownsville, Linn county, gave a deed for 378 acres of Oregon land and a note for $2800 for an abstract of title to 480 acres of Texas land. S. J. Johns, of Myrtle Creek, Doug las county, was about to complete an exchange of his property for Texas land offered by Mathison. He took Mathison's abstract of title to an at torney. There was some question as to Texas law and letters of inquiry written to attorneys in Texas revealed that the abstracts of title were not genuine, it is stated. Greece Awaiting Allies's Decision. and vetch. $12 012.60; cheat. $11: clover, $10, Butter Exchange prices: Cubes, extras, no bid, 80e asked. Jobbing prices: Prints, extras, 8234c; but- terfat. No. 1, 81e; No. 2, 29c, Port land. Eggs Oregon ranch, exchange prices, current receipts. 27c dozen. Jobbing prices: Oregon ranch, candled, 2830e; selects, 32c Poultry Hens, 13i(ai4ie per pound: broilers, 1617c; turkeys, live, 18 ZZe; docks, llMJc; geese, 9llc Veal Fancy, 12J13c per pound. Pork Fancy, 12a13c per pound. Vegetables Artichokes. 75cfi$l per dozen; tomatoes, 3060c per crate; cabbage, $1.76 per hundred; peppers, 45c per pound; eggplant, 67c; let tuce, 2026e per dozen; cucumbers, 2550e per box; beans, 3c per pound; celery, 7585c per dozen; corn, 10 Z5c Potatoes New, 90c3$1.15 per hun dred; sweets, 3i4c Onions California. $1.60 per sack: Walla Walla, $1.60 per sack. Green Fruits Apples, new, 75c $1.86 per box; cantaloupes, 60e$1.60 per crate; peaches, 4075c per box; watermelons, lie per pound; plums, 75c$l per box; pears, $L251.60; grapes, $1.101.75; casabas, lie per pound. Sack Vegetables Turing, $1.26; carrots, $1.25 1.85; beets, $1.25 Hops 1916 crop, nominal; 1916 contracts, 9c, nominal. ' Wool Eastern Oregon, fine, 2326c per pound; coarse, 3032c: valley, 30 3Zc iasara Bark uid and new, 4?c per pound. Cattle Steers, prime, $6.50(26.76; good, $66.60; common to fair, $5 6.60; cows, choice, $55.60; medium to good, $4.50g)5; ordinary to fair, $44.60; heifers, $45.75; bulls, $3 4.25; calves, $36. Hogs Prime, $9.559.65; good to prime mixed, $9.50 9.60; rough heavy, $8.759.25; pigs and skips, $8.258.75. bheep Lambs, J5.6U 8.25; year ling wethers, $5.766.50; old wethers, $5.606; ewes, $3.605.50. London Great importance is at tached in dispatches of Saturday to Reuter and the Exchange Telegraph to the conference at Athens between the entente ministers and!Premier Zaimis The Greek premier seemingly made no definite statement regarding the Greek government's intentions, but sounded the diplomatic representatives regrading the feeling of their govern ments in the event of Greece's depar ture from neutrality. The ministers replied that they welcomed proposals from the Greek government, which they would submit to their own gov ernments. . - v Baker Mill is Burned. Baker Fire destroyed the sawmill of the Oregon Lumber company at South Baker Monday afternoon, caus ing a loss of $40,000, with no insurance. The blaze is believed to have started by Powder-like sawduBt in the engine- room, igniting from the fire under the boilers. In an instant the entire mill was ablaze and burned rapidly. For a many other buildings were threatened, but the Baker fire department and 150 men worked heroically and kept the flames from spreading. Several cars of lumber were pulled to safety just in time. French Plants Visited. Paris Members of the American Economic Mission, now viBiting France, were received Saturday by David Mennet, of the National Associ ation of Economic Expansion, and also conferred with representatives of vari ous industrial groups concerning ways of developing the commercial relations of the two countries. During the stay in Paris the members will visit the principal industries and the biggest e tablishments working for the army. Villa Chase to Start.' Chihuahua City Mexican govern ment troops are preparing to take the field in a vigorous offensive against Villa and his bandits, reported to be in the Santa Clara canyon. This an nouncement was made by General Ja cinto Trevino, following a conference with Generals Matios Ramos, Domingo Arrieta and Elsondio. General Tre vino withheld details of the plans formulated, but said 15 pieces of artil lery have been sent for the campaign. Man IOO Years Old Dies. ' Salem George W. Bennett, aged 100 years and 6 months, died Monday at the State Insane hospital. He had been a patient .of the hospital since 1910 and previous to that time was an inmate of the Soldier's Home at Rose burg. Mr. Bennett was born in New York and served through the Civil war. He had no known relativiea and the body is being held pending instructions from Bennett's guardian. Captain J. A. Duchanan, of Roseburg. Heavy Rain Causes Loss to Growers. Sheridan The Bhowers of Saturday settled down into a Bteady drizzle. threatening wholesale damage to grain and hops. Hoppicking commenced with the growers anxious to get the crops in. They estimate a 20 per cent loss already 100 bales of the 600 that j was estimated as the season output from this section. No Slump in Produce Market Tacoma There was no slump in the produce market as a result of jobbers loading up with the expectation of a railroad strike and high prices when it opened Tuesday after being closed two days. None of the Tacoma jobbers overloaded, although all had good stocks on hand when they opened. The ar rivals were heavy, especially in canta loupes and peaches, including several cars of Elbertas. Ebertas are now 75 cents a box and dealers are advising housewives to make their preserving peace purchases now, as the price will likely not drop any lower. The short age of the crop and heavy Eastern de mand is responsible for the high price this year. - Although beef prices dropped. half a cent a pound on the opening of the market, pork and mutton advanced from half a cent to 2 cents a pound. Dressed hogs advanced from 12 to 14 cents a pound, and . Diamond T. C. lambs from 14 to 16 cents a pound. Hog products in the East have ad vanced heavily during the past month and the result is being felt here. Heavy export trade is thought to be responsible, as there is no shortage in the hog crop in the Middle West. Mut ton, because of high prices last spring, caused heavy selling of the parent stock, with the result that there were fewer 1916 lambs than there other wise would have been. Egg and butter prices opened un changed. Cheese shows a strong ten dency to advance and the price may be a cent higher all around by the end of the week. Cheap Peaches Are Not Expected. Portland The peach market holds firm, and, in the opinion of Front- street dealers, will continue so throughout the season, as there is not likely to be any over-supply. The best yellow peaches are held at 65 and 75 cents a box. The market is about 20 cents over the level customary at this time of the year. Cantaloupes were in large supply and weak. Prices had a wide range of $1 to $1.60 a crate, ac cording to quality. Buyers gave the preference to California cantaloupes at the higher prices over Toppenish stock. New York A strike of stage em ployes, longshoremen, brewery work ers, machinists, bartenders, moulders and printers in sympathy with the un ionized carmen who quit their places four days ago, was decided upon at a meeting of the heads of their unions Sunday night, according to an an nouncement by Hugh Frayne, state or ganizer of the American Federation of Labor. A resolution was adopted calling on all unionized wage earners in Greater New York, Yonkers, Mount Vernon, White Plains and New Rochelle to sanction a strike "in support of the contention of the street railway men of their right to organize." The resolution recomjueuded that the workers in the various trades "lay down their tools until the employers are forced to recognize the carmen's union." "According to State Organ izer Frayne, approximately 76,000 men and women are enrolled in the unions that were represented at the ' meeting Sunday night. Before a sympathetic strike can be declared, however, it was explained by the union leaders, it will be necessary for them to call mass meetings of their respective unions and put the proposition to a vote of the members. The delegates at the -meeting, it was said, assured William B. Fitzgerald, organizer of the carmen's union, that their members were "willing to fight to a finish, morally, physically and financially in the interest of trade unionism." Officials of the railway companies, when informed of the action of the union leaders, asked whether the build ing trades were to be included in the recommendation for a sympathetic strike. They were told that no action with respect to these unions had been taken."; The meeting of the union delegates followed a meeting held earlier in the evening at which Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, and officials of the Central Federated Unions in New York and Brooklyn, as well as the heads of car men's union, were present, f Undivided moral and financial sup port of all trade unionist in Greater New York was pledged in a resolution adpoted at this conference ' by - the striking carmen. Undersea Lner Commerce Abandoned by Germany New York Despite the success of the Deutschland venture, Germany is prepared to abandon, for the time be ing at least, her merchant submarine program because of failure of the Bre men to reach an American port, ac cording to reports that hs been re ceived from abroad. . From an official source it has been learned that the Bremen eluded the British Channel patrol and should have arrived in America 10 days ago. The absence of the vessel has convinced maritime experts that the submarine has been lost at sea. ' It is probable thathei: fate never will be known. The September seas are admittedly hazardous and this fact may explain the fate of the Bremen. There ia practically no chance for submarines to make the undersea passage in the winter. One report which has gained favor here is that Germany intended to aend several submarines across the sea and the first one reaching here waa to be termed the Bremen. The losses of others, this rumor said, were to be concealed. This is hardly possible, however, as the British admiralty is known to have been disappointed at the failure to capture the Bremen. - Perils to Trade Cited. New York Danger to the foreign trade of the United States from eco nomic alliances being formed by Eu ropean belligerents was pointed out by the National Foreign Trade council, of which James A. FarrelL president of the United States Steel corporation, la chanman, in a report made public here Monday. The council has been in vestigating recent European trade measures and considering the possible effects of retaliatory legislation.