NEWS FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL
Change hi Wool Schednle to be
Fought by Wool Manufac
turing Association
COUNTER REVOLUTION
PROBABLEIN TURKEY
Militarists Consider Enver Bey
Too Ambitious and Plan
to Curtail Power
GENERAL SICKLES
SENATOR-ELECT BRADY
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Wanliltigton.-A virtually undisturb
ed tnrlf r on III" variety of article In
thn flim, hemp and Jule ichedula wai
Indicated it Hi tariff revision hearing
before the house way mid mean com
mittee. No action will be taken until
tin) eoiiiiiilltiui consider III schedule
In cxeeutlv session linxt liionlli, tut
members have I iitllcni tl thut they con
sidered tiioitt of tin) dullc Ha already
highly romitltlva.
The committee, which hoard th
testimony of niHiiy manufacturer and
Importer on the flax, hemp and Jut
schedule of the tariff. w not dlspo
d to question tlm Competitive chirao
ler mid luxury classification of many
of tha lures, sinbrolderlci and other
article In th schedule. Thli Indi
cate thut the committee favor re
tention of approximately th sum
rate on ninny Item.
The schedule In on of th most
profitable of th whole tariff scheme,
and produced lest year war than $49,
000,000 of revenue, with dutlr averag
lug bov 49 pr cnt id valorem.
Rom of the article will b reduced
to tlinuUt competition nd bring
revenue.
Wool Sehadul Under Fire
The Wool ichedul will be under
fir tlili week, end It I expected thet
the wooliirowen end wool manufnclur
liil iMoclallon will preaent an un
broken front In their fight galnt any
change In the preeent rate.
Th expectation, however, U thnt
th democratic majority both Id th
commute and houne In the next con
(rent will favor the unit revlelon ai
Incorporated In th Underwood bill
that pned the houa at th last io
alon of congres.
Knox Bend England Not -on Panama
Th next move In th dlplomatlo
klrmlah between Oreat Britain end
th United Htate over th former na
tion' objection to th clauea In th
rutin ma canal bill, which exempli
American shipping engaged In coast
wise, trad from th payment of tolla,
numt come from Kngland.
Until that time, elate department of
ficial declared, they muit refrain
from a discussion of Becretary Knox'i
Dot to Becretary Grey to th effect
that there la no baali for th British
protest. It waa admitted, however,
Utat at leaat two or three additional
"Ctrl mum be exchanged befor a
Jaaali for an understanding could be
Beached. Thla mnkea It practically
uertnln that Woodrow Wilaon will be
Onllod upon to make final dlepoaltlon
of th question, aa It la considered Im
possible thnt the Tnft admlnlatratton
can effect a aettlement befor Mnrch
fourth.
Monopoly In Money Denied.
Accepting aa an "argument" a long
tntumcnt by Henry P. Dnvleon, of
J. I. Morgnn & Co., denying the exist
ence, of a money trust and attributing
the co-operation among financial In
terest to the "weak hanking law,"
the houne money truat Inreatlgntlng
committee closed for tha tlm being
Ita flniinrliil probe. The coininlltoa
will begin within a week consideration
of It report, which will recommend
change In the national bunk law and
legal control of vnriou financial agen
clea. Mr. Davison' itatement wai an
analytical argument baaed on tha ta
ble and chart presented to the com
mittee purporting to ihow control of
i2r,000, 000,000 or reiource by 180 di
rector. The statement denied thla conclu
alon and tet forth specifically that th
firm of Morgnn & Co.' "believe thore
ii no such thing, either In form or fact,
a a money trust."
National Capital Brevltlea.
President Taft retimed to dlamlsa
the criminal anti-trust suit against th
so-called "hnthtub trust."
Democratic manager In the senate
have agreed thnt no bill having any
reference to tho Sherman anti-trust
'law shall receive consideration during
the remainder of thla session of con
gress. Democratic senator In caucus re
affirmed their determination to permit
none of President Taft' nomination
to be confirmed, at this time, with the
exception of army, navy and diplomat
ic appolntmonta,
A dry Inauguration will murk President-elect
Wilson's Induction Into of
fice If a petition presented In the Bon
ate by Senator Gnlllnger, on behalf of
flie Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, la acted upon favorably by
congress. The petition, urges closing
of all saloon In the national capital
en March 4.
Prediction that one of President
elect Woodrow Wilson's f Inst requests
to congresB would be to repeal that
part of the Panama canal law which
grants free tolls to American ships en
gaged In coastwise trade waa made by
Chairman Adamson of the house inter
state commerce committee. In a for
Dial statement.
j.urK,i.mfJ.q.0uioY.iTr7;y
Censril Daniel E. Sickle, who I
accused by th Nw York tat author
Itl of misappropriation of fund.
Brief News of the week
"The Merchant of Venlce'Miai been
barred from New Tork public school,
upon request of prominent Jewish pa
tron of th school.
Th Diamond Match company paid
flue aggregating $2000 for violation
of the Wlaconaln child labor law. Th
complaint allege 2!4 Infraction.
That a girl who doe ber hair up,
wear a hobble aklrt and la commonly
known a "Mia." I too old to be
spanked, i th ruling of Police Judg
Thompson aa Klgln, 111. A father who
spanked waa fined.
The Women'a Recall league of Ban
Franclsc. which I seeking the re
moval of Police Judge Charlea L. Wei
ler. ha 12.000 namea on the recall pe
tition!, 6000 more than are neceiaary
to compel a recall election.
The Minneapolis, Bt. Paul ft Bault
Bte. Marie railroad will spend 125,000,
OnO In building 726 mile of new road,
which will cross Montana and strike
the Canadian Pacific railroad some
where near the Montana-Idaho bound
ary line,
Knormou frauds committed against
the government through Illegal traf
ficking In atolen postage at amp have
been discovered by poatofflce Inapect
ora. PoetmasterOenernl Hitchcock
aaya they involve at leaat 12,000,000
annually.
Th woman suffrage amendment to
the constitution giving women tha bal
lot I the first amendment of eight
which have been Introduced In the
Montana assembly to paaa both bouae
and It may be the first on the ballot
at the election In November, 1916.
The National American Woman's
Suffrage association, as auch, will take
no part in the Inauguration of President-elect
Wilaon on March 4 next
Nor will "General" ftosalle Jonea and
licr "army" of mnrchera have anything
to do wllh the Inaugural parade. The
women any the Imiuguraton la a parti
ann affair and the association la a non
partisan body. '
People in the News
If. R. Wllllnms was elected at New
York a vlco president, director and
member of the executive committee of
the Clilongo, Milwaukee ft St. Paul
railroad. Formerly he was president
of the Puget sound division. -
Senator Kenyon, before the Iowa
legislature, pledged himself to do all
In hln power to aid the Wilson admin
istration, "not from a partisan stand
point, but when the measures advo
cated by the democratic president
would produce the greatest good for
the greatest number."
Senator La Follette announced In a
letter to Governor Carey and other
progressives of Wyoming that' he
would contest Senator Warren's elec
tion on the ground thnt his preferen
tial eloctlon was granted through al
leged extensive frauds in the coal min
ing districts of Uintah county.
Oustnv Carl l.udorn, one of the best
known composers of comic opera and
musical comedy In America, died sud
denly of apoplexy in New York while
calling on friends. He was 49 years
old. Among his popular successes
were "The Burgomaster," he "Prince
of Pllsen" and "The Fair Co-Ed."
Eugene V. Dobs, candidate for pres
ident of the United States on the so
cialist ticket at the recent election,
was arrested at Terre Haute, Ind.,
charged with obstructing Justice by
corrupting a witness In the govern
ment's case against the Appeal to
Reason. The newspaper waa attacked
by the government tor violation of the
postal laws.
The participation of subsidiaries of
the United States steel corporation In
pools organized for the purpose of fix
ing prlcea was known to Judge Elbert
H. Gray, chairman of the corporation,
long before he gave orders that the
pools should be abolished, according
to William E. Corey, former president
of the organization, In his testimony
In the government's suit to dissolve
tle corporation.
Constantinople. Gravest apprehen
sion of further and more serious dis
orders I felt throughout Turkey.
There I a well defined rumor that a
counterrevolution ws planned to
overthrow the committee of union and
progress that seized the sublime porte
after aaaaaalnatlng Nazlra Paaha, coin
Blunder In-chlcf of th army.
It la a mutter of common knowledge
that many of the moat Influential offi
cer of th Turkish army are bitterly
opposed to Knver Bey and hi high
handed method and th newest revo
lutionary plot I said to have th back
ing of th Roldler now at Cbatalja.
Th militarists credited with plan
ning the counter revolution fear the
Influence of Knver Bey. They believe
he Is too radical ai well aa too ambi
tious. They believe that he mean to
make himself absolute dictator of Tur
key, If poaalble, and that practical an
archy would follow th ucces of his
acheme.
AdrlanopJe clearly la th paramount
laau of th Ilalkan war In tb Otto
man mind, and It la believed that re
fusal to give up th city would be Tur
key' eventual anawer to th powers
nd to th alllea, no matter bow many
revolution, counterrevolution! and
minister aucceeded themselves on tb
kaleidoscopic pan of tb Ottoman em
pire. Ixmdon. Th Balkan plenipotenti
aries, who bave received full powers
from their respective government, ap
pointed a eommltte to draft a not to
the Turkish plenipotentiary, explain
Ing why th peace conference muat
now be conaldered broken off.
Wilaon Obrv Landing of Alien
New York. Hundred of aliens,
many of them still clad In the garb of
distant landa, stood before the Immi
gration official In Ellis Island, seek
ing admission to th country, while
Woodrow Wilson, president-elect, ob
served with a scrutinizing eya tb
manner of their welcome.
RAILROADS TO BE DIVORCED
Kruttschnltt Saye 8. P. Will Treat U.
P. a EaaUrn Road
Ban Francisco. Jullu Kruttschnltt
of the board of directors of the South
ern Pacific company, succeeding Rob
ert Lovett, who resigned to take the
chairmanship of tha Union Paclfk
board, haa written a letter to execu
tives of the Southern Pacific In this
city advising that on February 1 the
Southern Pacific will operate inde
pendently of the Union Pacific In ev
ery way.
On that date, Mr. Kruttschnltt says,
the complete divorce of the Southern
from the Union Pacific will be estab
lished. In all such matters as rout
ing or shipping contracts, the South
ern Pnclflc will be expected to consid
er the Union Pacific, If an eastern line
muat be conaldered therein, on an
equality with such roads as the Den
ver & Itlo Grande. Preferential clauses
In contracts or agreementa favoring
tho Union Pnclflc will be under the
Southern Pacific ban, it la understood.
Mackinaw Strike Going Out of Port
Ixis Angeles. The Bteel freight
steamer Mackinaw, en route from Bal
boa, Panama, to San Francisco, vir
Lob Angelea, struck the breakwater
at the entrance to San Pedro harbor
In a heavy fog and came Into the har
bor after several of the crew had been
taken In the boats In the belief that
the vessel was Binklng.
SICKLES' ARREST ORDERED
Accusation Comes as Climax of Dis
tinguished Career,
Albanjf, N. Y. Upon application of
the state authorities, the supreme
court Issued an order for the arrest of
General Daniel Sickles, of New York,
who ns chairman of the New York
MoYiuments commission is alleged to
have failed to account for $28,476 of
the commission's funds.
The total amount of the alleged
shortage was $33,476, but on December
20 last Stnnton Sickles, a son of the
general, paid the Btate $5000 and prom
ised to make good the remainder as
aoon as certain property in Spain,
owned by Mrs. Sickles, could be sold.
The order for General Sickles' ar
rest comes as a climax of a distin
guished and picturesque career. Born
in New York" in 1825, of a wealthy fam
ily, General Sickles served as a sold
ier, legislator and diplomat. At the
outbreak of the civil war General Sick
les raised and equipped at his own ex
pense, five regiments of volunteers,
and aa colonel of one of them went to
the front. He participated in most of
the great battles of the war, Including
Gettysburg, where he lost a leg, and
achieved distinction for bravery, being
rewarded by promotion to the rank of
major-general. ,
Ex-Govrnor Jam H. Brady, who
broke th deadlock and wn sleeted
Unltad gtatea Senator from Idaho.
SERUM IS HELD AT MILLION
Phyalclan Crltlcl Frltdmann'i Atti
tude Toward Dlacovary
Berlin. That Dr. Frledmann wants
$1,000,000 for tb American right to
bla tuberculosis serum, U tb itate
ment made ber. German phyalclan
trongly condemn what tbey call bla
"non-ethical attitude." They go so far
a to ay that ba la mora concerned
In th monetary aspect than the hu
manitarian of bla discovery.
Dr. Frledmann baa so far failed to
carry out bla promise of submitting a
culture to th government He baa
made various excuse for not doing
this, but he denies that mercenary mo
tives govern hli action.
Flooda In South
Memphis. Tenn. The entire delta
section of four states was under water
from 1 to 15 feet deep and families
by the thousands were fleeing In ter
ror from a wall of water that is pour
Ing through a gap 1000 feet wide In
tb levee at Beulab, Miss.
Ten thousand acrea of winter wheat
In western Kentucky, southern Mis
souri and part of Tennessee are sub
merged In water and the loss In crop
will be enormous.
Scouts Killed In Fight With Moral
Manila. A dispatch from Brigadier
General John J. Pershing, command
ing the department of Mindanao, gives
detail! of an engagement at Taglltsl,
between Moroa and detachment of
Philippine icouts and the constabu
lary. Captain Patrick McNally and six en
listed men of the scout were killed.
Lieutenant William Townsend of the
scouts, and Lieutenant Cochran and
Lieutenant Whitney, of the constabu
lary, and 19 enlisted men were wounded.
TAFT DEFENDS HIS
POSITION ON CANAL
Baltimore. President Taft, speak
ing at the annual banquet of the Mer
chants and Manufacturers' association,
defended the administration's attitude
in the Panama canal disagreement
with England. He declared that ita
position was not unpatriotic or dis
honorable and asserted there was no
reason for anyone to oppose the pro
posal for arbitration by an impartial
tribunal.
"Whether you call it a subsidy or
not, I am in favor of making the rates
between the coastB through the Pana
ma canal lower," he said. "Now the
question Is, can we do that under our
International obligations? I think we
can, and If you read the authorities I
think you'll find that we may. But if
we are bound not to exempt coastwise
vessels we can agree to submit the
question to an Impartial tribunal."
The president concluded his speech
with an appeal for constitutional gov
ernment, endangered in the last few
months, he said, by those who propos
ed remedies but who could not furnish
concrete examples of their proposed
reforms.
THE MARKETS.
Portland.
Wheat Club, 86c; bluestem, 92c;
red Russian, 83c.
Oats $27 per ton.
Hay Timothy, $17; alfalfa, $12.
, Butter Creamery, 37a
Eggs Candled, 30c.
Hops 1912 crop, 20c.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 18o; Wil
lamette valley, 22 c
Seattle.
Wheat Bluestem, 92c; club, 86c;
red Russian, 83c.
Eggs 31c.
Eutter Creamery, 36c.
Hay Timothy, $17 per ton; alfalfa,
$12 per ton.
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