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PORTLAXD, THURSDAY, FED. 7.
We were guilty of extreme dema
gogical stupidity in our pledge that
Cuba should have national independ
ence. By that covenant we are con
cluded against any interference with
her course as an independent nation.
The certain consequence will be another
war for Cuba. If Cuba should repudi
ate the financial obligations that stand
against her other nations will press
her, and we shall be asked to inter
pose. If she do not repudiate these ob
ligations, they will wreck her, or will
bring her into relations with other pow
ers Inimical to our peace. Ever since
the demagogic declaration was made in
regard to Cuba, at the outbreak of the
Spanish War, The Oregonlan has be
lieved, and frequently has declared,
that we should be compelled to fight
another war on account of Cuba. For
Cuba, as John Quincy Adams declared
so l-mjr ago as 1S23, "is an object of
transcendent importance to the com
mercial and political interests of the
United States." Tet now it is certain
that Cuba, as an independent country,
e Ither through her own wish or external
force, will assume relations with some
ether power or powers which we cannot
auow. The truth is, there can be no
independent sovereignty in Cuba, to
continue any length of time.
The fact that nothing In this world
of a material character is or can be
"free" has often been demonstrated to
a long-suffering public, but never more
forcibly than at the present session of
the Oregon Legislature. The free school,
we all know, is merely a term "UEed to
designate schools which the property-rwii-rs
of tle district are taxed to
maintain. Free bridges are built and
k'-pt up at enormous cost to the people
in supervision and repairs every year.
Tree libraries appeal to those who
lae, to place books in the hands of
truse who have not, either by direct
taxation or by donation. The free kin
dergarten proposes to take infants just
cut of arms, wash their faces and make
them otherwise presentable, according
to the civilised -idea; look after them
Ira stated number of hours each day,
and teach them pretty tricks and man
x rs at the expense of generously dls
l."scd persons, and latterly at the ex
r n e of the taxpayer. The State Nor
mal Sfhool is the elaboration of the
lira that teachers should be turned out
"free to follow their vocation the
bills, of course, t be met by taxation.
And so It goes, from Mother Goose in
the kindergarten to Greek in the State
University. Everything Is said to be
"free," while in reality property-owners,
municipal, county and state, are
f reed to meet the constantly enlarged
und constantly recurring expense.
There is apparently to be no end to
"free" things voted by open-handed
representatives of constituents who are
pleading for legislative economy and
denj ing themselves, to meet the yearly
Increasing tax levy which prodigality
In ghing to all comers renders neces
sary. It would seem that the most un
sophisticated member of the lawgiving
body might look with suspicion upon
any proposition to put anything or any
cilice under the state's wing "without
salary." There is certain to be a hook
concealed In this pretense of civic vir
tue that will in due time be lowered
Into the state treasury, baited perhaps
with "necessary expenses" incurred in
the discharge of a duly authorized pub
lic duty, and drawn out, after a time,
with a roll of bills attached. What
right, for example, had we to suppose
that the state coujd enjoy the purely
crramental addition to its official list of
a state biologist, without an expense
attachment? It is true the expense ac
count of this official during the first
term of his incumbency is not large,
Lut does not all experience show the
r-rwer of the official entering wedge in
forcing open a channel to the state
treasury? New demand's upon the pub
lic funds, whether urged in the name of
necessity, philanthropy or progress
should be scrutinized carefully and all-wed
with the greatest discrimination.
The catch-word "free" should be the
catch-word of alleged progress no
Ijnger. It should rrilher arouse at once
the suspicion of all careful legislators
and induce the closest scrutiny of the
measure proposed In its name. The
something for nothing demand, already
Impudent enough, grows in boldness
and Increases in volume through legis
late e dalliance, with it under the guise
cf a public benefaction.
Temporary abeyance of the cheap
money craze as a "paramount issue
premises to enable Congress to enact
seme rational coinage and banking leg-
islation, without regard to the cross of
gold or the man with the blistered
hand. The Hill and Overstreet meas
ures for maintenance of the partty are
proper and promising complements of
the act of March 14, 1900, and the at
tention given in committee to the. Cov
ering bill indicates that even in bank
ing reform some positive advance may
be made. Mr. Covering's bill under
takes to permit National banks to issue
currency beyond the amount of bonds
deposited by them, under proper safe
guards. Under his plan a bank of
$1,000,000 capital and with $500,000 In
bonds deposited to secure circulation,
would be permitted to Issue guaranteed
notes not to exceed 5100,000. But after
three years this maximum would be In
creased to $200,000, and after six years
to 5400,000. There is a provision for a
tax of y per cent on the guaranteed
notes while they are out, and for a
guaranty fund of 5 per cent of the
amount of notes thus issued. The
safety fund and the assets of the bank
would amply secure the noteholders.
The bank currency could be easily in
creased to meet the demands of busi
ness, and without the necessity of lock
ing up additional bank capital in Gov
ernment securities. This is not a radi
cal or a dangerous departure from es
tablished practice, and in operation it
would prove a useful educational influ
ence in familiarizing the people with
the idea of credit currency. Issued and
retired by banks in response to varying
needs of trade. Only In this gradual
way can the fiat-paper Idea be elimi
nated from ordinary thinking.
The Cuban question gains in impera
tiveness so rapidly as to augment the
probability of an extra session of Con
gress immediately upon the .new Inaug
uration. This and the Philippine emer
gency will supplement the Insane desire
of Mr. Hanna for enactment of the sub
sidy bill, so that the extra session must
be considered among the probabilities.
Ordinarily a session at the beginning of
an Administration is to be desired on
grounds of both theory and practice.
Our wont in this matter is as awkward
as our election of Kepresentatives be
fore the new members have their chairs
fairly warmed. If either of Oregon's
men in the House had been defeated
last June, he would still- be sitting,
while the newly elected man would
come up for renomination when he had
had only three or four months of actual
service. Analogous to this is the elec
tion of Senators in January to take
seats in December. "With gentlemen of
leisure on Virginia estates, this gap is
not wholly undesirable; but with busy
men whose time is worth something,
the obstacle to public service is appre
ciable, and busy men are just the men
we need in Congress. The extra ses
sion in March, If it could become a fix
ture, would be helpful In this direc
tion as well as facilitate the public
business by giving It attention when
attention is required. Congress has in
finitely more to look after now than it
had twenty years ago, and the new
problems are of a sort that do not settle
by standing. The proper kind of prog
ress Is achievable under a system where
a popular mandate is passed to a Con
gress fresh from the people and acted
on promptly. In a business era, polit
ical work should be done on business
principles.
Again it becomes The Oregonian's
painful duty, from which it fain would
shrink, to admonish the sworn friends
of silver hereabouts that the welfare
of the toiling masses is in peril, and
that unless they speak out at once, Irre
parable mischief may be done. No
fewer than three bills are before Con
gress looking to the firmer establish
ment of the gold standard, and so far
as we are advised, no counter proposal
has been made, and here in Oregon, at
least, no voice has been upraised in pro
test. If these bills are passed, the bur
dens of misery laid upon us by the
gold standard will be made heavier.
The "appreciation of gold" and the
"corresponding fall In the prices of
commodities produced by the people"
will bear upon us with added grievous
ness. "Prostration of industry" and
"impoverishment of the people," now
evetj ..here visible as the effect of the
crime of '73, will grow more Intense.
The policy of gold monometalism,
"which has locked fast the prosperity
of an industrial people in the paralysis
of hard times," will be fastened more
securely upon our necks, and our inci
dental "financial servitude to London,"
In evidence of late under the gold
standard, will be more galling and Irre
movable. Meanwhile, not one of the
measures absolutely necessary to our
industrial salvation, without which no
business can be done or happiness en
Joyed, has been attended to. The free
and unlimited coinage of silver at 16"
to 1, without waiting, etc.; the abol
ishment of the 200-cent dollar, the adop
tion of a bimetallic price level, the de
nunciation of gold contracts, the res
toration of the money of the Constitu
tion all these things are dishonored by
neglect of friend and foe, and the coun
try is rushing headlong to beggary and
perdition, without a word of protest
from Milt Miller or Bishop Barkley. Is
business too lively in Lebanon, or have
our self-sacrificing patriots lost concern
for the tolling masses of this country,
gentlemen?
A PROBLEM FOR TIME.
The negro labor experiment in the
Vesta cotton mills at Charleston, S. C,
has again failed, and the works will be
closed and the machinery moved to a
section of the state where white labor
is more abundant than it is in Charles
ton. It is not easy to understand why
white labor should be less obtainable
In Charleston than elsewhere In South
Carolina, unless some peculiar social
stigma is attached in that city to cotton
factory work. The failure of negro
labor at the Vesta mills is the unrelia
bility of the average negro. Just as
soon as he gets a little money he wants
to quit work and spend it. The Colum
bia State says of negro labor:
He will work today, and "lay off" tomorrow.
He may be oounted on until pay day, but
after that, when he has a few days' "rations"
oo band he is apt to be absent from duty.
In the domestic economy of this section, this
race characteristic is so well known that its
manifestations occasion no surprise; the house
keeper is not perturbed when the cook falls
to come in time to prepare breakfast; the
farmer Is accustomed to like lapses' on the part
of his laborers. It Is something which cannot
be cured, and hence has to bo endured, as long
as the South is dependent upon negro labor.
In other parts of the country the cook and the
laborer may "leave." but they bold It a point
of honor to "give notice." Not so with the
negro. He leaves when he gets ready and she
does the same. It was with labor of this sort
that the Vesta mill experiment was tried, and,
naturally enough. It failed. We can run our
he uses and out- farms with that labor after a
fashion but not our factories.
I This Is doubtless true of the Southern
negro, and It will continue to be true
until he emerges from his present state
of childishness. It will take many
years of the education of superior in
dustrial example and environment to
awaken his ambition and energies. It
is not a hopeful spectacle at present,
but it Is not more discouraging than
the spectacle of the Georgia "crackers,"
the degenerate "poor" whites of that
great state, who allow their wives and
daughters to. do factory work, but de
cline to work themselves. There Is
more hope for an undeveloped negro
than there Is for a degenerate white
man.
MORGAXv CARXEGIE AXD AFTER
WARD. Such stupendous aggregations of
capital as are represented In this latest
enterprise of Pierpont Morgan cannot
fail to arrest the attention of every
thinking man. Mr. Morgan is among
the safest and ablest of our construct
ive financiers, and his power is never
likely to be exerted with deliberate pur
pose of mischief. But every man with
such vast resources and influence at
command cannot be depended upon to
use them either wisely or honestly, and
even in the acknowledged designs of
these great "harmonizations" there is
involved a distinct menace to the gen
eral welfare.
The temptation comes to men in posi
tions of such power, to use them in con
trol of the sources of production, the
processes of production, the commodi
ties themselves and the world market
In which raw materials are bought and
finished output sold. When Morgan
controls the iron mines, steel and wire
mills, barges and railroads that haul
the product to market, and sets the
price of ore in the -mine and wire and
rails at the mill; just as Havemeyer
controls sugar and Rockefeller oil and
Clark and Rockefeller copper, who Is
going to guarantee that this immense
power over commodities and markets,
producers and consumers, will be
wisely or beneficently exercised?
The records so far are reassuring.
Standard OH has crushed out rivals but
has reduced the cost of light. The
sugar trust has corrupted legislation,
but increased the number of pounds
for a dollar. Railroad combinations
have eliminated competition but have
steadily improved facilities and reduced
rates. But these mitigating circum
stances largely exist because so far the
combination has been unable to perfect
Its control over sources of production.
One trust made money and that started
up another. Havemeyer found himself
confronted by Arbuckle, Federal Steel
by Carnegie. Now the question Is
whether this Imperfection of complete
control is constant or conquerable. If
Havemeyer and Arbuckle and Spreckels
Join hands; If Carnegie sells out to
Federal Steel, where is competition to
come from? The Portland jobber gets
low rates through concessions from
rival transcontinental lines; but if Ca
nadian Pacific and Great Northern and
Northern Pacific and Union Pacific and
Central Pacific and Southern Pacific
and Santa Fe merge their ownership
into a common directorate, or "harmo
nize" Into a complete understanding,
who except one man on Wall street Is
going to say what portion of 'Oregon's
lumber going East or Mississippi's cot-1
ton coming West Is to go for carriage?
The economic effects of the move
ment can doubtless be borne. Natural
law Is hard to circumvent with perfect
success. But what of the political ef
fects? We know what has built up the
steel interests to their present gigantic
proportions an iniquitous tariff, which
has enabled the ardent protectionist,
Mr. Carnegie, to put 585,000,000, more or
less, In his pocket. We know what has
contributed largely to the railroad "har
monizations" unwise legislation, both
of the neglectful and the predatory
order. That is, we know what might
have kept us from falling into this
state, but the preventive is not now a
cure. Nor Is the question, after all, so
much what is best to be done as what
demagogues will persuade the people
Is best. The most obvious effect on
present-day politics in the United States
Is a sudden and widespread oppo
sition to the Republican party, which
is the friend and protector of honest
wealth and labor, as well as the guide
and philosopher of our so-called infant
industries capitalized at a few millions
or billions each.
Mr. Morgan is achieving many nota
ble "harmonizations," and Mr. Carnegie
is reaping some delectable realizations.
Incidentally, each is building up a so
cialist sentiment in the United States
which will some day seize Mr. Morgan's
railroads for the possession of Govern
ment and the spoil of politicians, and
perhaps level Mr. Carnegie's numerous
libraries to the ground in a frenzy of
vengeful hate.
A DYING SXAKE WIGGLES ITS TAIL.
The wretched remnant of A. P. A.ism
In Massachusetts appears to have an
organ at Boston, the tiltlzen. In its
issue of the 26th ult., this dying snake
of obsolete political intolerance wig
gles its tail through nearly four col
umns of editorial denunciation of an
article that appeared In The Oregonlan
of December 30, 1899, which commended
the late Governor Wolcott for his un
flinching hostility to A. P. A.ism In'
1894 in conjunction with Governor
Greenhalge and United States Senator
Hoar. Incidentally, Governor Wolcott
was commended as perpetuating the
spirit of absolute religious tolerance in
the matter of eligibility to political of
fice that had always been shown by the
great voices of Massachusetts, like
Channlng and Parker, In the pulpit;
John A. Andrew and Wendell Phillips
in politics. This utterance of The Ore
gonlan Is described by the Citizen as
an attack on "certain stalwart Protes
tants of Massachusetts," and as pictur
ing Channing, Parker, Andrew and
Phillips as panegyrists of Romanism.
Then, having impudently erected this
man of straw, the Citizen proceeds to
quote from the sermons of Channing,
Parker and other liberal Unitarians
certain criticisms of Romanism to prove
that The Oregonlan has been guilty of
misrepresentation and falsehood In the
matter of the opinions of these great
men. The Oregonlan never pretended
that these men were panegyrists of Ro
manism. It never went beyond the
statement that while free critics of the
theology of the Catholic church they
were always stalwart defenders of ab
solute toleration and uncompromising
denouncers of all religious tests for
office and all attempts to mix religious
creeds with practical politics.
Dr. Channing and Theodore Parker
were not defenders of the theology of
Rome, any more than wa3 John Wes
ley, who was never weary of expressing
his admiration of Loyola as a true
Christian and a moral hero, just as
Channlng and Parker confessed their
admiration for the saintly life and
beautiful Christian spirit of the great
Fenelon. To criticise the theology of
Rome in legitimate polemical discussion
is one thing; to proscribe a Roman
Catholic for political ofllce because of
his creed Is quite another thing. For
anti-Catholic mobs or political pro
scription because of religious faith Dr:
Channing had nothing but Indignation
and contempt; for the Catholic arch
bishop of his day In Boston he had the
highest personal esteem as a devout
Christian and a true philanthropist.
Dr. Channlng and Parker were as
stanch defenders of religious tolerance
and as hearty enemies of the spirit of
A. P. A.Ism in their day as are all lead
ing Americans, whether statesmen or
preachers. Does not President McKin
ley, devout Methodist, pay the highest
official respect to Cardinal Gibbons and
Archbishop Ireland? Has not BlshopJ
Keane, of the Roman Catholic Church,
preached on invitation before the Har
vard Divinity School and before Yale
College? Is not Archbishop Ryan, of
Philadelphia, every year among the
honored guests of the descendants of
the Puritans on "forefathers' day"?
In a mere polemical discussion of
theology Catholics and Protestants will
continue to differ sharply, but that dif
ference of free speech within and with
out the pulpit has nothing to do with
political proscription and religious tests
for ofllce which stands for A. P. A.Ism.
It is not a question of what the great
men of Massachusetts have thought of
popery. The Oregonlan never raised
that question. The real question Is
whether The Oregonlan Is right or
wrong in Its quoting Channing, Parker,
Andrew, Phillips, Hoar, Greenhalge and
Wolcott as hostile to the spirit and
practice of A. P. A.ism from the days
bf Channlng, when Protestant mobs
burned a Catholic orphan asylum In
Cambridge, Mass., and burned two
Catholic churches in Philadelphia, to
1894, when a faction of the Republican
party tried to revive the stupid "native
Americanism" and "know-no thlngism"
of 1854-56.
Political proscription becauEe of re
ligion failed miserably then, and it al
ways will fail in this country, because
It is utterly inconsistent with our fun
damental, constitutional separation of
church and state and our" prohibition of
religious test for office. A. P. ''A.lsrri
ran up against this rock both at the
North and at the South before the war,
when Governor Wise, of Virginia, who
hanged John Brown, denounced "know
nothlnglsm." The editor of the Citizen
Is not to blame for being a blather
skite. He was born that way. But he
Is to blame for being knave enough to
pretend that when The Oregonlan
quoted Channlng, Parker, Greenhalge,
Wolcott, Andrew and Phillips it quoted
them as p&negyrists of popery.
The Chicago Woman's Club recently
resolved that It "regrets the exclusion
from membership in the General Fed
eration of Women's Clubs of the
Woman's New Era Club (colored), of
Boston, and rea'ffirms its unwavering
belief in equal opportunity to all, with
out regard to race, color, religion or
politics." On the other hand, the Rich
mond (Va.) Woman's Club shows by
the tone' of Its discussion that it is un
alterably opposed to the recognition of
colored women by white clubs, and that
the Southern women's clubs are likely
to secede from the National Federation
of Women's Clubs if such recognition
is insisted upon. The objection is not
well taken, because recognition as a
member of a club does not carry with it
social recognition any more than the
recognition of a colored man as mem
ber of the United States Senate carries
with It social recognition by his fellow
Senators. When Senators Bruce, Pinch
beck and Revels were members of the
United States Senate, they were on a
level in the Senate chamber with all
other Senators, but oiitside of it the
social relations of the Senators were
governed by other considerations.
If there is to be a constitutional con
vention Multnomah County is not given
representation enough by the Brownell
bill. Multnomah has one-fourth of the
population by the census and more
than one-fourth of the taxable valuation
on the assessment rolls, yet Is to have
only one-sixth of the members of the
convention, or 11 out of G6. There Is
no justice or fairness in this apportion
ment. But probably there will be no
convention. Whenever there shall be
one, all the people should be equally
represented.
The expectation of a speedy break in
the Senatorial deadlock at Salem is
perhaps fathered by the wish. Every
body wants a break but the candidates
and the members, and in these mat
ters the few rule with small regard to
the consent of the governed. Let us
hope that by 1903 a general election
will have simplified the problem and
reduced the Legislature's part to the
function of registering' the popular ver
dict How anxious "the --people" are to
make charters may be judged from the
fact that with a general Incorporation
law on the statute-books, every town
waits for the Legislature to make Its
charter for it.
British Columbia lumbermen want a
retaliatory tariff on American Imports.
They should have It. This is a form of
reciprocity whose fairness is within the
comprehension of the dullest.
Because the Kansas prohibitory law
is not enforced, Mrs. Nation feels justi
fied in smashing property and inciting
riots. She reserves the right to select
which law she will obey.
Catholic distrust of Masonry is inter-
esting, when we consider Its source as
the object of equal superstition among,
for example, the Jews. We are all
afraid of the unfamiliar.
Roosevelt is going to Washington.
That's one item. There'll be another
when he moves. But other men are
doing things. His candle Is under a
very opaque bushel.
Portland's railroad to the Nehalem
may not be built, but If its advocacy
hurries the Northern Pacific and O. R.
& N. in there, it will have served Its
purpose well.
Why don't the barbers ask for a law
to restrain them from working after
8 P. M. week days?
Is Cuba to be our Transvaal?
IRON AND STEEL EXPORTS FOR 1900
WASHINGTON. Feb. 2. No feature of
the exportation of the calendar year 1900
has been more remarkable than that of
manufactures of Iron and steel. When
the total for 1S99 passed the 5100,000,000
line much surprise was felt in other parts
of the world, and the opinion was ex
pressed at home and abroad that the high
prices which prevailed in the beginning
of the year would cause a reduction of
these exports rather than an increase.
This expectation failed of realization. On
the contrary, the year 1900 made even a
larger gain than did the year 1899, and
brought the grand total of iron and steel,
exclusive of iron ore, up to 5129.633.4S0, or
more than 5100,000,000 in excess of the year
1890, when the total was a little above
527,0000,000, and more than double that of
1S97, when it was 562,737,250.
Almost every important article shows an
Increase in 1900 over any preceding year!
Pig-iron amounts in 1900 to 54.500,000,
against 53,250,000 in 1899 and 52,500,000 In
1898. Builders' hardware shows a gain
of about 51.WO,000 over 1S99. and $2,000,000
over 1898. Steel rails amount in value to
nearly $11,000,000 in 1900, against about
56,000,000 in 1S99. Electrical machinery,
which is greatly in demand in all parts of
the world. Increased from 52,500,000 In 1S93
to 55,250,000 In 1900. Sewing-machines in
creased from 53,000,000 in 1898 to 54.500,000
in 1900, and typewriters, from 52,000,000 In
1S9S, to nearly 53,000.000 in 1900.
The destination of the articles of Amer
ican manufacture, and especially of our
machinery, is literally to every part of
the world. Our sewing-machines, type
writers and scientific Instruments go to
Asia, to Africa and to the islands of
Oceanica; and, what Is more remarkable,
they go to experienced Europe, with all
her facilities for manufacturing and Us
skilled workmen. Of the 56,788,000 worth
of. instruments for scientific purposes, In
cluding telephone and telegraph instru
ments, over 51,000,000 worth went to the
United Kingdom alone, nearly 51.000,000 to
France, and 5500,000 worth to Germany.
The United Kingdom and Germany each
take over 51.000,000 worth of our sewing
machines out of a total exportation of
54,500,000 worth. Over 51.000.000 worth of
typewriters actually went to the United
Kingdom, and 5500,000 worth to Germany.
Of the total exportatlons of builders'
hardware, amounting In value to 59,782,402,
over 52,000,000 worth went to the United
Kingdom, nearly 51,000,000 worth to Ger
many, about 5500,000 worth to France, and
another $1,000,000 worth to other Europe.
Of the 510,895,416 worth of steel rails ex
ported In 1900, over 51,000,000 worjh went
to Europe and nearly $4,000,000 worth to
British North America.
The following table gives the exports of
scientific Instruments, sewing-machines
and typewriters In the calendar year 1900,
as complied from the December statement
just issued by the Treasury Bureau of
Statistics. It shows that these complicat
ed and delicately adjusted machines and
Instruments are distributed to even the
most distant parts of the world, and is a
deserved tribute not only to the skill of
the American workman, but also to the
quality and reliability of his work and of
the articles which his labor produces.
Exports of sewing-machines, typewriters
and scientific instruments from the United
States in the salendar year 1900
Sewlng
Exported to Machines.
United Kingdom 51,071,903
France 134,598
Germany 1,019,300
Other Europe 393,807
British North America 171.313
Central America 37,536
Mexico ., 343,437
Santo Domingo 8,173
Cuba 121,803
Other West Indies ...-. 27,376
Argentina 206.232
Brazil 106,259
Colombia 7,912
Other South America 187,085
Chinese Empire 7,508
British East Indies 14,765
Japan 20,671
British Australasia 567,755
Philippine Islands 385
Other Asia and Oceanica 28,777
Africa 12.2S9
Other Countries . , 30,332
Total 54.510,221
SALMON LEGISLATION.
Recommendations of Committee
to
Confer With Washington.
SALEM, Or., Feb. 6. The special com
mittee appointed to confer with a like
committee of the Washington Legislature
presented the following recommendations
for enactment of laws:
Closing season, during which the taking
of salmon In the Columbia shall be un
lawful: Present law March 1 to April 15, and
August 10 to September 10, In each year.
Proposed change March 1 to April
15, and August 15 to September 10.
Protection of anadramous fish during
spawning season:
A law prohibiting taking of such fish
In any manner on any spawning bed
above Celilo Falls, except for propaga
tion. Spearing, foul hooking, etc.:
A law prohibiting the taking of fish
at any time with spear, gaff or foul
hook of any kind, except in tho case of
Indians.
Protection of salmon In tide water:
A law prohibiting the taking of the
young fish between March 1 and May 1
in each year.
T.ic question of Sundiy prohlbiticn, a
matter of vital Importance to the fishing
industry, was discussed at considerable
length, but no definite conclusion has yet
been arrived at on account of certain
prejudices against It in the State of
Washington. Your committee Is there
fore awaiting further advices from our
Washington contemporaries," conclude.
te rtj.crt
Members of the Lobby.
The following faces are to be seen In
the lobby: Judge Webster, C. M. Idle
man, Robert G. Morrow, Dan J. Ma
larkey, Charles F. Lord, C. E.. Kindt,
Robert Catlin, Jake Beck, A. P. Tlfft,
W. W. Sweeney, John A. Carr, C. H.
Mclsaac, W. M. Kllllngsworth, William
T. Gardner, Buck Myers, John Moran of
Monmouth, Jacob Bloch, C. N. Rankin,
George Steel, B. B. Tuttle, T. C. Powell,
Jack Matthews, C. A. Burckhardt, J.
C. Moreland, W. P. Swope, "Count"
Senofsky. H. P. Ford, Tony Noltner,
Charles M. Lockwood, W. N. Gfttens,
"Sam" Wolf, Harry Grove, George Hill,
Dr. John Welch, Captain Gray,
C. H. Carey, R. Clinton, Dr.
Emmett C. Drake, Sam Howard, F. W.
Taylor, Lydell Baker, Joseph Buchtel,
Frank V. Drake. W. M. Davis. N. H.
Alexander, Isaac Stern, Joseph Marks,
Sam McCartney, Judge O'tJay, ueorge a.
Durham, F. M. warren, sanaerson iteea,
W. W. Cotton, Zera Snow, Wallace Mc
Camant, W. P. Keady.
Law in Regard to Peddlers.
Senate bill No. 50. by Williamson, of
rronlf Ponntv which bill Was OaSSed by
ftne Senate today, has for Its object the
strenirLiieiiiiiK ul. hic , iciaiuih i.u ytu-
dlers. The principal change made in the
old law Is that it is made a misdemeanor
for any person to peddle in this state
without first obtaining a county license.
The old law made the proceedings against
a violation of the law civil. Instead of
criminal.
Sennte Passed Daly's School Bill.
The Senate tonight held its first even
ing session, and considered in committee
of the whole Daly's school bill. It was
amended in some particulars and report-
ed favorably to the senate, xne senate
then passed the bill.
Daily Treasury Statement.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. Today's state
ment of the Treasury balances In the gen
eral fund, exclusive of the $150,000,000 gold
reserve In the division of redemption,
shows:
Available cash balance $ 141,218,214
Gold ..i, 79,175,037
LEGISLATION AT SALEM.
SALEM, Or., Feb. 6. The Sen
ate committee on assessment and
taxation has pratlcally completed con
sideration of the Sweek tax bill, and
will be ready to report In a day or two.
The committee has been conferring with
the Portland Taxpayers' League, and has
adopted many of Its suggestions. Changes
have been made In the original text of the
measure. For example, it has been de
cided that the Sheriff 6hall continue to be
the tax collector. Delinquent tax publica
tions shall be made in much the same
manner as at present. The contract shall
be let by the County Court, and the price
for the four required weekly Insertions
shall not exceed 25 cents per nonpareil
line, standard column measurement. The
measure seems to have the favor of the
Legislature.
The House today passed the Brownell
bill, providing that earnings Of all em
ployes be exempted from any process,
when shown to be necessary for Support
of families, for 30 days. Under the pres
ent law, It is said that any one, after se
curing a Judgment, could enforce execu
tion, a defect which the proposed law is
Intended to correct. Dresser, Whitney and
Butt argued in favor of the bill, and
Hedges, Nottingham and Schumann In
opposition of the measure. The bill was
'passed by one vote, the ayes being 31,
noes 25, absent 3. Hawkins was excused
from voting.
Sanderson Reed has arrived here, bring
ing with him the provisions of the charter
prepared by a committee of the Taxpay
ers' League relating to street improve
ments, assessments, repairs, sewers, etc.
He was authorized to notify Senator F.
P. Mays, of the Multnomah delegation,
that City Auditor Devlin approves of the
measure. It is stated that the Taxpayers'
League, in its connection with the new
charter, has not taken In political mat
ters, but has only considered the other
general features of the charter. It Is said
that the charter will be Introduced the
latter part of this week.
Fulton's usury bill, which passed the
Senate yesterday, prohibits the taking of
Interest, In excess of the legal rate, by
means of dues, premiums, fines or other
subterfuges, and provides a forfeiture of
all interest, and the payment of costs of
suit as a penalty for violation. The pres
ent law provides for a forfeiture of both
principal and interest to the school fund.
The proposed law applies to Illegal con
tracts heretofore made, authorizes the re
covery of interest unlawfully paid on an
usurious contract, and provides that it
shall not be necessary to prove a corrupt
Intent.
Eddy of Yamhill introduced a resolution
today recognizing the valiant services of
Captain Charles E. Clark, commander of
the battleship Oregon, and authorizing the
state to present him with a testimonial
sword, to coat $G00. One-half of this
amount has been secured by public sub
scription, and the Secretary of State Is
authorized to draw a warrant for the re
maining portion of the sum. The resolu
tion was referred to the committee on
resolutions.
The House bill providing for the ap
pointment of a public administrator, re
ported adversely by the Judiciary commlt-
Scientific
Typewriters. Instruments.
51,031,307 $1,623,426
1SS.497 937,948
503-.935 500,316-
436.339 830.004
60,375 200,523
4,303 67,562
72.507 351,886
1,070
43,417 830,310
6.016
30.487 302.692
8,942 216,497
1,883
31,903 247,452
C.014 56.095
13.765
17,179 331.166
95.S29 323,005
18.167 24,282
74,820 239,590
36.548 144,581
,3,128 61,597
$2,736,455
$6,788,933
tee, has been given another chance for
life. County Judge Cake, on learning that
the bill had been unfavorably reported,
lost no time In hastening to Salem. As a
result, Heltkemper moved that the bill
be re-referred to the Multnomah delega
tion, and there it now lies, with a good
show of being favorably reported upon.
The bill, although framed to affect Mult
nomah County alone, will meet with op
position. The joint committee of the two houses
for the inspection of the Oregon Sol
diers' Home reported this afternoon,
copies of the report being presented to
each house simultaneously. In the Sen
ate the report was received and placed
on file. The House adopted the report
and ordered It printed. The committee
found that the Home had been con
ducted in a careful, systematic manner;
the accounts all properly and correctly
kept, and recommended as follows: A
general appropriation of $24,000, $6000 for
a hospital, $3500 for a laundry, $1200 for
painting and repairs, $350 for sidewalks
and repairs, $300 for purchase of horses.
A recommendation was also made that a
better water supply be provided for the
Home.
The commissioners of the Pan-American
Exposition have presented to the
Joint ways and means committee an esti
mate of the amount of money necessary
to cover the expense of the Oregon ex
hibit. The items are freight, $5500; col
lecting and Installing exhibits, $6300; ad
vertising, $7500; salary of one superinten
dent and 12 subordinates for eight months,
$10,000; miscellaneous, $1000. Total, $30,300.
The decision of the ways and means com
mittee will not be reached before tomor
row night.
Barrett of Grant today introduced a
resolution providing for an amendment to
the constitution by striking out section 35
of the bill of rights,- This refers to the
restriction upon the rights of negroes and
mulattoes, which are, In fact, abrogated
by the fourteenth amendment of the
United States Constitution. A similar
amendment to the constitution was pre
sented for adoption by the people at the
last general election and was voted down.
Barrett of Grant has Introduced a bill
in the House abolishing the barbers' com
mission. He does this, he says, at the
request of a number of persons who think
that the barbers should have been satis
fled to let well enough alone. The pres
ent law provides for payment of license
I an(j registration, and all the barbers have
compjled with Its requirements,
Representative Hemenway. who has
been seriously Indisposed for some days,
was quite 111 last night, and it was feared
that he had typhoid fever. His physician.
Dr. J. N. Smith (Representative for Mar-
t.. -.,, , i la Inflnv TnilfVh hfiF
he hopes, soon be all right.
Representative Nottingham today pre
sented to the House the long delayed
Bingham primary bill. It will also be
presented to the Senate by Senator In
man. Senator Hunt also introduced today
a primary measure similar to the Dresser
House bill.
The Senate delegation from Multnomah
the other day discovered that It had not
effected an organization an oversight
that wag corrected by the unanimous se
, iectj0I1 0f Senator Inman as chairman.
The Booth bill for making the state levy
on the basis of the average assessments
for the past five years was reported fa
vorably to the House this morning, with
come minor amendments. The prospects
for its passage are good.
The Sweek bill for the purpose of ex
empting the Portland crematorium from
taxation, and other crematories, has
passed the Senate.
; NOTE'ANDUOMMExNT.f' . J4
Give us this day our dally ballot 'for
Senator.
Ate tho Common peepul getting Tho
Commoner right along? "
Kruger is conducting his death with bis
usual prudence and deliberation.
Carrie Nation is going to Chicago, which
is already run over with lawless char
acters. Sir Thomas Upton had better lift the
cup quickly, or Mrs. Nation will have it
smashed.
There Is no Joy the world can rive.
Like that It takes away;
I picked up fifty cents last night
And Jost the same today.
No, Gentle Reader, when R. L. Steven
son wrote "The Wrecker" he had never
heard of Mrs. Nation.
"There'll be a heavy frost tonight,"
The weather prophet said.
An actor heard him say it and
Fell straightway cold and dead.
Mme. Bernhardt has inspected the Chi
cago stockyards, and she will hereafter
slay Scarpla with a top maul.
And the poor mountain liens do not even
have the satisfaction of seeing their, mar
tyred relations' names In the papers.
Roosevelt is going to Washington March
2. By that time, it is expected, that the
Colorado mountain lion will be extinct.
Kansas City rises to remark that Chi
cago hasn't got all the footpads In the
country, and Seattle proceeds to prove it.
A New Tork man who recently died left
all his money to his boardlng-houso
keeper. In direct defiance of the comlo
papers.
General von Waldersee Is a great sol
dier, but wait till he goes up against
Field Marshal Hohenzollern, of the Brit
ish Army.
If the Supreme Court has really decided
that the Chicago drain a go canal must
close, Bryan's plan to abolish that august
body will be warmly espoused in the
Windy City.
Senator Quay says he "was not par
ticularly anxious, to return to the Senate."
He conducted his campaign like a man
who was rather afraid he would be'
elected.
There's a racket in the Transvaal of a very
lively kind,
And there's trouble up In China, where the .
powers are combined,
While In little Venezuela, rebels fifty thousand
strong
Keep an Insurrection going, hot and heavy,
right along.
But the fiercest of these struggles, you will
find, is merely play.
If you thirst for real excitement, take a run
down Kansas way. '
Aguinaldo and his bandits in the far-off Phil
ippines Play the leading roles In many rather san-
gulnary scenes.
And the savage Yaqul Indians on the plains
of Mexico,
With their terror-striking warwhoeps keep the
greasers on the go;
But the wildest of these outbreaks will be
found a little ttat.
If you're really hunting trouble, Kansas Is
the place for that.
Since that devastating, deadly peace commis
sion of the Czar's
Fired all carth-treadlng mortals with the spirit
ef one Mars,
There have been all kinds of pow-wows, anl.'
the sons of every clime
War and wrangle with each other when they
hftvn th ntwn time?
I But while bloody war Is raging and the weaker
nations fall,
For good, genuine excitement, game old Kan
sas beats them all.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAniERS
Husband What makes you stand all thlB
nonsense and Impudence from the cook? Wife
She does. Philadelphia Record.
Our Fickle Climate "I got my cutter down
yesterday." "Did you? Ride?" "Nop. Dust
ed it and put It back." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Not That Dr. Kure I fear, sir, that you
have been living too high. Jaundlee It ean't
be that, doctor; yeu know we've moved out
of that elgKt-story Hat. Ohio State Journal.
Preferred Dogs. Visitor Why do the rest
dents of this town keep so many degs? Mr.
Suburb For protection. They are cheaper
than police. Visitor But dogs are dangerous
to inoffensive persons. Mr. Suburb So aro po
lice. New Tork Weekly.
He I wish I was worth a million dollars..
She I don't like to hear you talk that way..
It sounds mercenary. He So that I could glvo
It all to you. dear. She Aft all. It Is not .
money that one cares for, but the things that
money will buy. Boston Transcript.
Hope for the Better. Employer Now, where,
have you been all this time? At the matinee,
I suppose. Come, confess. Ofllce Boy (In fear
and trembling) Yes. sir, I was. Employer
I'm glad to hear It. Perhaps you've picked
up a new tune. I was getting tired of that
old one you whistle. Philadelphia Press.
Hearing a faint rustle In the dark hallway
below, the elder sister, supposing the young
man had gone, Jeaned over the balustrade and
called out: "Well, Bessie, have you landed
him?" There was a deep, sepulchral silence
for some moments. It was broken by the hes
itating, constrained voice of the young man:
"She hasl" Tlt-Blts.
To the Loser.
C. F. Lester In January Success.
So you've lost your race, lad?
Ran It clean, and fast?
Beaten at the tape, lad?
Rough? Yes. but 'tis past.
Never mind the losing
Think of how you ran;
Smile and shut your teeth, lad
Take it like a man!
Not the winning counts, lad.
But the winning fair;
Not the losing shames, lad. '
But the weak despair;
So, when failure stuns you.
Don't forget your plan
Smile and shut your teeth, lad
Take It like a man!
Diamonds turned to paste, lad.
Night Instead of morn?
Where you'd pluck a rose, lad.
Oft you grasp a thorn?
Time wilt heal the bleeding
Life is but a span; ,
Smile and shut your teeth, lad
Take It like a man!
Then, when sunset comes, lad.
When your fighting's through.
And the Silent Guest, lad,
Fills his cup for you.
Shrink not clasp It coolly
End as you began;
Smile and close your eyes, lad
And take It like a man!
Good-Dye cr Howdy-DO.
James Whltcomb Riley.
Say good-bye, er howdy-do
What's the odds betwixt the twot
Comln'goin' every day
Best friends first to go away
Grasp of hands you'd ruther hold
Than their weight in solid gold,
Slips their grip while greeting you
Say good-bye er howdy-do.
Howdy-do, and then good-bye
Mixes Just like laugh and cry;
Deaths and births, and worst and best.
Tangled their contrerlest-; -Every
Jlnglln weddln" bell
Skeerln' up some funeral knell
Here's my song and there's your sigh;
Howdy-do and then good-bye,
Say good-bye er howdy-do
Just the samo to me and you;
'Taint worth while to mako no fuss,
'Cause the Job Is put on us;
Some one's runnln' this concern
That's got nothln else to leam
If he's willln' wo'll pull through.
Say good-bye er howdy-do I