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o VOLUME XII. Bryan- JOHNSON Hi LEGISLATURE RE FUSETO SWERVE-"STANB PAP' AGAINST PBESII .SECRETARY OF STATE TO LEAVE SACRAMENTO HAVING-FAILED TO ACCOMPLISH HIS PURPOSE, AND WILL VISIT-SAN FRAN I CISCO TOMORROW. CODE MESSAGE MAY H0LDLAST APPEAL OF WILSON Governor Johnson and His Administration Would Not Dare to. Give Up Their Original Purposes In Excluding Japanese Senator Works Warns Administration Policies to Proceed With Care. Washington April 29. President Wilson is standing fully as "pat" as Governor Johnson on the anti-alien matter and insists the words "Ineligi ble to citizenship" contained in the California bill, violates the treaty ex isting between Japan and the Unites) States. This was the only announce ment made at the White House today following a cabinet meeting when ad ditional instructions to CoL Bryan were sent in code by telegraph. The cabinet reviewed Bryan's actions at Sacramento and declared he had done - his duties perfectly. ' " ' Sacramento, April , 29. Governor Hiram Johnson and . the legislators are standing pat, and the bill exclud ing aliens ineligible to citizenship from ownership of land, will be passed and the mission of Secretary of State Bryan will result in failure. This in a word is the situation in the Japanese embroglio so far as anyone can tell from the outside this morn ing. During the forenoon the situation was halted pending receipt of a mes sage from Washington in answer to telegrams sent by, Bryan last night It is expected Bryan will hear from the president during che . morning hours and another conference with the legislature held. Unless at this conference Bryan will be able to impress the legislators with the necessity of changes, it is ot probable that further efforts will be made to block the objectionable California legislation. Bryan, if he loses in his mission HBYiSHD MILLIONAIRE ALLEGED WHITE SLAVERY TESTIFIES. Long Beach Spender Who is Accused of Breaking "Slave" Laws Talks. Los Angeles, April 29. George H. Bixby, the millionaire Long Beach Resident who is charged with white slavery, and who has been in hiding for days, went before the gran I juty investigating whit slavery, tod. He remained in the jury room 10 minutes. It is reported he will gh? testimony frequently hereafter. GRIND JURY Wilson. INT'S ADVICES this afternoon, will probably go to San Francisco tomorrow and be a guest of the exposition officials and may go direct from San Francisco to Washington again. - ' Brjan's Itinerary Ready. Arrangements are completed for the visit of Col. Bryan in San Francisco tomorrow. He will, according to the present plans, leave here at 8:13 to morrow and remain in San Francisco until the following morning, the guest of Panama exposition officials. After being shown over the exposition grounds he will be entertained at a banquet. It is not certain, this noon, if he will return here or not, but will probably go to Washington direct. After laying the cornerstone at the Y. M. C. A. building, Bryan received a long cipher message from Wilson, believed to be an answer to Bryan's reports on the attitude of the Cali fornia legislature regarding the anti- J alien laws. The message, it is said, contains further instructions for Bryan and another executive confer ence is expected during the day when Bryan will again taks up the dis cussion of the alien legislation with the legislators. President Shows Attention. -Washington, April 29. President Wilson and John Bassett Moore, counsellor of the state department, conferred ftom 7 until 10 o'clock this morning over the alien bill. Two telegrams were received by the president last night from Bryan but their contents, or the contents of Wilson's answers have not been made public. It is understood the president and Moore attempted to answer every objection raised by the California leg islators. WORKS DEFENDS STATE State Government Should Not and Must Not Coerce California. Washington, April 29. Defense of the stand taken by Governor John son and members of the California legislature, was voiced by Senator Works of California today. "Every state has the right to provide by law who will own its land and except aliens from this right' The national government has no right to enact any law or make any treaty either denying or impairing the rights of states," said the California senator. "Governor Johnson and the Cali fornia legislature are strictly within their rights when they insist on en acting the alitn law, whether it ex cludes all or bit one nation. If the government treaty infringes that r'.fM, the state W not bound to abide by it provisions On the other hand LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, Mediation Proms F. Brother Slays Girl's Abductor RICH CHICAGO ITALIAN MEETS DEATH THROUGH LOVE Hatchet Matches Gun i When Band of Italian Attempt to Kidnap GirL FatiUtiea Result. Chicago, April 29. Nearly decapi tated by a hatchet in the hands of the girl's brother, Tony Marasato, rich young Italian, was killed today when with a friend he attempted to kidnap Anne Forte, aged 19. She had rejected him. During the melee a bullet struck and fatally wounded Frank Alana a passerby. The girl was en route from work with her brother'when they were set upon by he band. Marasato, draw ing a gun, attempted to frighten Pas quello Forte but the latter seized a hatchet from a pils of lumber nearby and hacked his sister's foe before he could fire. Forte has fled. the president is within his right when he is endeavoring to persuade the state to waive its rights and re spect the treaty, but neither our gov ernment or any foreign nation has the right to coerce a state and no self respecting state would submit to dic tation or coercion from either source." Works concluded. . JOHNSON IS SENTIMENT-BOUND Public Opinion Forbids Him to Give in Which Is Generally Predicted. Sacramento, April 29. From the very hour when it became known that President Wilson desired to send Col. Bryan to California, it was predicted that Governor Hiram Johnson (Continued on Page Eight) YOU'RE .i MINORITY IS lis FINAL TARIFF STAND WILL CENTER STRENGTH AGAINST IMMEDIATELY EF FECTIVE CAULSE OF BILL. BUSINESS DESERVES TIME Republicans See They Cannot Thwart Tariff Bill But Hope to Prevent the Bill Becoming Law aa Sooa aa Signed by the President General Debate . Closed and Amendments Heard. Washington, April 29. With gen eral debate on the tariff bill closed the house began consideration of the Underwood measure for' amendment today. Chairman Underwood insists he doesn't intend to impose gag rule but proposes to try allowing the five minutes debates to "run open" unless the minority attempts other tactics. Minority Sees Defeat. The minority admits there is no chance of amending the bill but they intend to wage a fight against the first paragraph which makes the bill effective the day after it is signed by the president. Republicans contend .the country's businessmen should be given time to regulate business to new conditions imposed by the Underwood bill and it shouldn't become effective for months. The president has arranged for a conference next Thursday with western and southern senators who are opposed to his free wool and sugar plans. NEXT. Bartholomew in Minneapolis Journal. 1913. FRIEDMANN INSTITUl J IN 36 STATES. - i g 3 . : ' ; H Washington, April 29.-' g fusal to express an opinio g ? the efficacy of the Friedr treatment, was voiced by Dr. : W. C. Rucker, assistant sur- geon of the public health ser- rice. Dr. Rucker declared the services and activity regard- ing the supposed cure will be confined to bacteriological in- vestigation to determine the safety of the awum. After his . formal report Tie will have no further connection with . the treatment The government - will have no authority of Friedmann institutes which will bo established in 86 of the states. REFERENDUM MOVEMENT SIFT ED TO THE. BOTTOM.. First Step to Organize "Anti-Referendum on Schools" Cub Taken. Biting expose of the methods al leged to be prompting II. J. Parkison of Willamette Valley, to invoke the referendum on the University of Ore gon appropriation, concise portrayal of the terribly congested conditions at Eugene, and a general review of the whole referendum situation were heard last evening by a handful of men and women voters at the Com mercial club parlors when Miss Emma Wold of Portland lay before the aud ience in brief manner the Parkison- University squabble. The immediate result of the meeting was the ' ap pointment of a committee consisting of City Attorney J. P. Rusk, County School Superintendent E. E. Bragg, and Court Reporter H. R. Hanna to lay plans for the formation of a club to carry on the fight against Parki son crowd which is throwing the state into nearly as much expense for a special election as the amount invol ved represents, was set out by Miss Wold, representing the organization formed in Portland to oppose the ref erendum. She said: The late legislature made some ex cellent provisions for the state educa tional institutions. Among them were two measures providing for a total appropriation of 1175,000 for a building and additions to buildings at the University of Oregon. No one questions the need of these buildings, no one charges extravagance in the plan for additional room there where already the last corner of the last basement has been cleared out for class rooms, where every class room is filled to overflowing, and the question of comfort and of decent air has to be regarded as nonexistent - Now comes one H. J. Parkison and other souls dissatisfied with the edu cational system of the state, who propose a program by which the af fairs of state education may be created to their fancy.- In this pro gram the first step is the invoking of the referendum on the $175,000 ap propriated for permanent improve- (Continued os Page Eight.) FARO'S AIM EXPOSED NUMBER 157. fruitless 5L : - AUSTRIAN MONTENEGRIN WAR CERTAIN Nn SPEEDY DECLARATION OF WAR BY EMPEROR JOSEPH IS BOTHERING EUROPE. BALKAN STATE DEFENSIVE Situation in Austria and Montenegro Over Scutari Becomes Alarming and all Europe May Become In volved in the Affair Montenegrin Prince May Bombard Austrian City on Border. Vienna, April 29. Following a con ference with Emperor Joseph tonght, Foreign , Minister Von Cherchtold semi-officially stated Austria will de liver a 24-hour ultimatum to Motene gro tomorrow morning to evacuate Schrutari. If Montenegro has not evacuated by Thursday morning, Aus tria will immediately move ., troop across the frontier and formally de clare war. -. Vienna, April 29. Speedy declara tion of 'war between Austria and Montenegro is indicated in a state- -nient by Emperor Franz Joseph in which he declares he is determnied to worst Montegrlns out of Scrutari. Reports from Balkan states are alarming. Prince Danilo of Monenegro is on the march to occupy hills dominating Cattao the Austrian city and it is re ported he may bombard the place. Danilo also will be in a position to avoid Austrians landing at Antivari. There is much apprehension that the conflict will involve the rest of Europe. , London, April 29. Unwilling to. wait longer for the powers to act. Austria has announced she would take immediate and independent ac tion against Montenegro and force King Nicholas to evacuate Scutari. according to Vienna dispatches to the London Daily Mail, which corroborate the report that an Austrian army was started yesterday toward Scutari. HEALTH FAILS OFFICIALS FIND HER TOO ILL TO RETURN. Suffragette Leader Unable to Re cover From Recent Hunger Strike. London, April 29. Superintendent Quinn from Scotland yard and a sur geon from Holloway prison where the recent hunger strike resulted in the collapse of Mrs. Pankhurst'a health, visited the suffragette queen ofil dally today an! reported her to I t too ill to return to the prison to finish the three-year sentence. Her health is frail and her recovery Is in doubt PANKHURSTS i i - i ?v,! J 1 1 .: -. v.
