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47 THE MORNING OHEGQIAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1901. te VZ&QXtW&U Catered at the Postofflce at Portland. Oregon, as second-class matter. TELEPHONES, dttorlal Booms. .... Ib6 Business Office . .667 REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Br Hall (postage prepaid). In Advance Dally, with Sunday, per month... ...:....$ 85 Dally, Sunaar excepted, per year 7 SO Dally, with Sunday, per ear - 9 00 Sunday, per ear 2 00 The Weekly, per year 1 60 Xha Weekly. 3 months - 60 To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered, Sundays excepted.l5c Daily, per week, delivered, Sundays lncluded-20c POSTAGE RATES. ' United States. Canada and Mexico: 10 to 16-page paper Jo 16 to 32 page paper 2c Foreign rates double. News or discussion intended for publication in The Oregonlan should be addressed Invaria bly ''Editor The Oregonlan," not to the name of any individual. Letters relating to advertis ing, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan.' 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For sale In New Orleans by Ernest & Co., 115 Roal street. On file In Washington D. C.. with A. W. Dunn. 500 lith N W. For sale In Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck. 906-912 Seventh street. TODAY'S "WEATHER. Fair; northeasterly winds. t , : , PORTLAND, SATURDAY, FEB. 9. Now they say of the great union of steel plants that it is "not a trust, ' only a "combination." But of course the intent is to control production and prices. The output will be strictly reg ulated, prices will be held to uniform ity, and there will be no further com petition. One plant or another will be shut down from time to time, as may be agreed on. What additional profit the protective tariff gives will be ex acted. It is to be expected that every effort will be made to gloss this trans action with fine words. Already the statement Is put forth that "there is no intention to create any monopoly or trust, or in any way to antagonize any people, policy or law." The wonder, then, is why the combination was made. The country cannot be deceived. Eu rope is not. The London Chronicle truly says that "in comparison with this combination all other trusts sink into Insignificance." If the support of the protective tariff be not taken from it, members of Congress will hear from the people in the next elections. Democratic resistance to the subsidy bill discovers the first really sane and robust piece of statecraft the party of Tilden and Carlisle has put out in many years. An effort was made in 1894 to pass a tariff reform act, but it was betrayed in the Senate by Gor man and Smith. President Cleveland's stand for repeal of the Sherman sliver purchase law in 1893 was a piece of real statesmanship, but its political ef fect was thrown away at "Chicago in 1S96, where perished also the same man's sturdy overthrow of mob law at Chicago in 1894. Everything good that Cleveland and the real Democrats did, Brvan and the bogus Democracy dis owned. Here at last we have a stand made by Vest, Teller, Tillman, as well as by CafTery and Lindsay, against a most iniquitous measure, pressed by Republicans from unworthy purposes and with discreditable methods. As far as It goes, this Democratic union against the subsidy bill Is full of prom ise for a rehabilitated party upon com mon and Impregnable grounds. A re markable evidence of Its sanity and -wisdom is afforded in the undisguised sympathy and support the Democratic Senators are receiving from men like Spooner, Nelson and Hale. This bill, with the debate upon it, will afford the Democrats the strongest kind of an Issue upon which to go before the coun try at next year's elections, unless the Democrats throw It away with more rotten-money and free-rlot talks such as they have Indulged since 1896. All that keeps the Republicans In power Is the miserable folly of the Democrats. How long must they study in the school Adversity, and have they really lost all capacity to learn? Mc. Bryan's argument on the silver bills discovers him In the novel attitude of being solicitous for the Treasury's gold. He fears the "endless chain" of the redeemable silver dollar. He trem bles for the parity. How does this com p.rt with his seven years of political effort? "Well, it gives it the lie. He has exhausted language and taxed Ingenu ity to add burdens to the Treasury, perpetuate endless chains and destroy the parity. Every effort to minimize the Treasury note's deadly menace to the reserve he has resisted; eVery ex pedient to Increase the silver obliga tions resting ultimately upon that re serve he has espoused; every assault en the parity he has championed and even organized. Now he changes front. But does he do so in a straightforward manner? Not he. If the gold party's argument against the greenback's end less chain is valid, then a silver endless chain is bad. If Carlisle was right In 1S95, then we can't redeem sliver in gold now, etc. He won't say the Treas ury note was dangerous, because that would discredit his position heretofore. He can't say It was harmless, because that would destroy his chance to criti cise the pending plan. Mr. Bryan's as sumption is that silver stands on its cwn bottom now as "money of ulti mate redemption," but that under the Hill or Overstreet bill its value would depend on its lnterchangeablllty with gold. This idea is susceptible of two Interpretations either he knows better and is dishonest, or he is densely and hopelessly ignorant. In either case, his ad ice is fit for nothing but to be avoid ed. Our silver currency, both coin and paper, rests upon the gold available for Its indirect redemption. 'Without that support, its legal status would avail it nothing. But in that case, he says, "the masses will be doing their business with money which will not legally dis charge their debts." Probably this is the last expiring -wall of "legal tender." The Populist party, built upon the fiat notion of money. Is going to pieces; and the country is coming to understand that the medium of exchange it wants is credit currency of exchangeable value with gold, whether subsidiary coin, notes or bank checks, without re gard to command of Congress that such a thing has value and such another has not. But perhaps the "matchless leader" takes himself too seriously. "We are living In the full glare of the twenti eth century. The Democrats will prob ably want a peerless statesman in 1904 that can be elected. "Whatever basis exists for Mr.Hanna's membership in the G. A. K.. to which he has just been elected. Is effectively con cealed in the biography he supplies the Congressional Record. This narrative represents Mr. Hanna as in the grocery line from 1862 to 1867. His Army serv ice may, therefore, have been modestly suppressed or it may be an after thought pure and simple. That it should have been connived at by the Grand Army itself will surprise no one who knows how sedulously that organ ization eschews politics and values true worth in candidates for office or pen sions. Mr. Hanna, itmay be assumed, does not disregard the possible assist ance this new connection may render him In pursuit of the Presidency, which place he is at pains to deny in a most eloquent and exemplary manner through the Associated Press, whenever occa sion seems to favor. The National chairman, however, all things con sidered, is an abused and misjudged man. His Ideals are not high or his judgments too sound, perhaps, but his motives are good and his methods in the main Irreproachable. He believes in McKinley, he believes in protection, he believes in subsidies; and his devo tion is truly Jesuitical in its assurance that the end justifies the means. His life is clean, he surrounds himself with good men, he is, for his class, an astute and deserving politician. But his class is not a high one. Measured by any meritorious standard of statesmanship, he is, not to put too fine a point upon it, a fool. He imagines that the party can monkey with this subsidy buzz saw, conferring bounties on men and corporations already rich, and do so with impunity. To swap similes some what violently, he will find it a mill stone, likely to grind his party, to pow der. The more it menaces, the harder he sues it. THE METHOD OP MORAL GROWTH In the early stages of human ad vancement there has always been diffi culty of restraining the use of intoxi cants within due bounds. Government undertakes, through severe penalties, to keep alcoholic liquors away from the Indians under Its charge; but self restraint may rightly be looked for in our sovereign citizens. Not much Is to be expected of those with whom en forced abstinence is the only security against debauchery. The notion that not the man who drinks, but the man who sells. Is to be blamed, and that even the liquor Itself Is an accursed thing, is of the order of ideas that be long to the childhood of the human mind, wherein the state of drunken ness Is considered to be merely a state of possession by a god or spirit; in this case by a strong spirit or god, who dwells in all strong drink. "When, in the course of drinking, a man was seized with vertigo or sickness, and lost all self-control, this was considered to be the visitation of the god, and not the fault of the man. It followed that if in the drunken fit the subject of this visi tation did violence to himself or others he was not to blame; he was the mere vehicle of the god's action. Such acts were not viewed as crimes, but only as misfortunes, for which the man should be held to no responsibility. The thought or duty of self-restraint on moral grounds never was present. In every way analogous to this thinking, and but little In advance of It, Is the war that is made on the manu facture and sale of intoxicating drink and on the liquor itself, as a substitute for the moral doctrine that man is a responsible being, not to be blamed for drunkenness, because others make the liquor and offer It for sale. There Is no possibility of getting above a low con dition of moral development, where no tions like this largely prevail. That regime will do for Indians, who are wards of the Government and of whom nothing is to be expected; but it is not the way to press the principle of per sonal responsibility and moral duty, on which character must stand. It Is a relic of the childhood of the race; it makes prohibition laws, which never can be enforced, and then It arms the hysterical woman, prompted by her fanatical male companion, with the hatchet, to vent her wrath on the bar room and Its contents. The pitiable thing Is not the destruction of the prop erty, for such property, devoted to such uses, may be lost to the owner without loss to the community; but the really pitiable and harmful thing is the result of reliance upon such method as a means of promoting temperance and establishing a moral basis in a people. Revulsion from proceedings of this de scription is always sure; as the license of the Restoration followed the Puritan regime. In the moral world man never will get ahead, except on the basis of his own personal and moral responsibility. His freedom to choose evil is absolutely necessary to his choice of good. That he will perish if he goes far in evil ways is certain; and it is right. Self control, not enforced control, is the basis of moral life. It is man's business to learn that everything that Is injuri ous is to be avoided, even though se ductive; and it is his business to know that everything that Is good may be perverted to his injury by excess or misuse. There is little ground for pa tience with those who want to work moral principles backward, for their theory ever has been and ever will be a failure. THE "PEE EYE." A most disreputable organ of dis reputable politicians, who have been utterly repudiated by the people of the State of "Washington, is published at Seattle. It is known in its corner of the state as the "Pee Eye." Of course, it doesn't like The Oregonlan, for The Oregonlan Is purely a newspaper, owned wholly by men who have pub lished it all their lives, strictly on a newspaper basis; while the "Pee Eye" has been continually changing hands and ownership, now the organ of one group of. factionlsts, now of another, till Its latest fall Into the hands perhaps of the lowest gang that, ever owned It. This dirty newspaper, as might be ex- pected,is continually full of vitupera tive matter about The Oregonlan; for the slum newspaper always hates the decent one. It now must needs meddle in the little incident of the other day, between Representative Tongue and The Oregonlan a matter of which it could know nothing; and it proceeds to say: It (The Oreconlan) no doubt Instructed its Washington correspondent to send the dispatch referred to (relating to Mr. Tongue), and al though it bears a Washington date line, it was probably Indented, if not actually put Into words, 'in the office of The Oregonlan In Port land. . . . It is matter of knowledge that it has instructed its correspondents' to manufacture news letters, directing them what line of attack to follow, and leaving to them the arduous and discreditable task of fashion ing facts to fit the theories prescribed. 'These are The Oregonian's methods, repudiated with contempt by journals and journalists who hae not been trained In that evil school. We have no doubt that. If Mr. Tongue could get at the facts, he would find them to be In this In stance as we haie suggested; because In other like cases they are established. This is nothing less than malignant lying, by a newspaper so disreputa ble that the people of "Washington re cently rejected its work and that of the gang which controls it, and through it had assumed dictatorship of the Repub lican party though there was a Repub lican majority of 12,000 in, the state. The Oregonlan stands upon the record of its accuracy in the presentation of news and comment, .won and main tained during a long period of journal istic industry not without the measure of success that sufficiently answers all such, calumniators as the ring-owned, boss-ridden "Pee Eye." OUR MODERN JUGGERNAUT. An American monthly magazine has performed the commendable service of reproducing a number of Instructions issued some time ago by the Turkish Government td the newspapers within its realm. For example: Art. IIL Do 'not publish scientific or liter ary articles too long for completion in a single issue. Avoid the notice, "To be continued," which cause3 an uncomfortable tension of the mind. Art. TV. Avoid blank spaces and suggestive dots In the body of an article. They tend to raise suppositions, and to disturb the tran quillity of the reader's mind, as has lately been seen In the case of the Levant Herald. In this, country, of course, such inter ference with individual freedom would be resented as too autocratic for seri ous consideration which is unfortu nate, as measures of state should man ifestly be judged by their actual ser viceability, regardless of preconceived notions. Much Is to be said for the offi cial Turkish embargo upon excessively long scientific and literary articles, and upon disturbing breaks in the continu ity of discourse. The objectionable "To be continued," observe, is not interdict ed in the case of stories, but only In long essays, which are apt to be tedious and unprofitable. The Turkish point of view in article IV is obviously at vari ance with the American. In the one case "tranquillity" is thought desirable, while In this country the aim is to stir up. Tranquil items, headings and para graphs are In bad odor with our most enterprising journalism. For all that, we may be wrong and the Sultan right, "Who shall say that sensational ism is better than decorous placidity? But the instructions have another aspect. Thus: Art. "VJI. You are absolutely forbidden to publish a, word about attempts on tho es of foreign sovereigns, or acts of sedition in for eign countries, for It Is not good that such things should be made known to our loyal and peaceable populations. It will readily be conceded that pub lication of assaults on sovereigns does a good deal of harm. Put aside the Sultan's regard'for his own head that is not relevant testimony. The anar chist lives and kills for notoriety. If he were denied this, his occupation would be gone. There is much capacity for good, therefore, in the injunction upon seditious stories. And on the other hand, what good do they do? They satisfy a robust curiosity, and perhaps help sell papers. But is the peace and order and average morality enhanced by this particular aspect of the freedom of the press? Now the fact is that the Sultan is al together astray in his premises, for he goes on the assumption that the King can do no wrong. It suits us to proceed on the assumption that the people can do no wrong. "We are all hopeless Idol aters, but our images differ. Tired of Sultan, Emperor, King or Pope, we are people-worshipers. To question "the people's" infallibility well, there's lese majeste few are hardy enough to brave. Somebody once said in a mo ment of aberration: "The people be damned," and regretted It, but nobody has availed himself of our boasted free dom of the press to say that the great masses of the common people are fools and knaves, ignorant and unprincipled, that they ought to be transported oi beheaded. Some may think so, for opin ions are extremely varied, as all ob servation shows. But they are effect ively restrained from saying so, be cause of this mandate, always in effect and enforced: Article L Do not publish in newspaper, magazine, or put forth In a public address, or whisper In private, that the popular Idol, known as the people. Is a god of wood and iron, without power to heal, -without any qual ities deserving of worship or veneration; other wise you will be guilty of sacrilege and doomed to social ostracism, business failure and ulti mate starvation. I am the people and me only shalt thou serve. People-worship is probably all that prevents us from having and enforcing laws, not only against seditious and anarchistic publications, but against sensations Involving reputations and happiness of innocent persons, and all the mass of criminal and salacious stories with which yellow journalism regales the masses. The only thing necessary for universal adoption of the Turkish regime is an empire for each one of us. "Where all were Sultans and promulgated the rules, journalism would be a ceaseless round of joy. THE SPOOXER BILL. The opponents of the Spooner bill pre tend to believe that its enactment would place "a dangerous power in the hands of the President, make him a dictator, and mark the end of the Re public and the beginning of empire." The temporary grant of power by the Spooner bill, enabling the President to administer the civil government of the Philippines until Congress shall other wise legislate, was conveyed in about the same words to President Jefferson in 1S03 in the case of Louisiana Terri tory, and to President Monroe in 1821 in the case of the annexation of Florida by purchase from Spain. United States Senator Spooner has framed his meas ure upon the precedent of the Louisiana bill enacted in October, 1803. It passed the Senate in 1803 by a vote of 26- to 6, and the House by a vote of S9 to 23, and encountered the same kind of opposition from the New England Federalists that the Spooner bill meets today -from men who pretend to be worshipers of Jeffer son, 'Griswold of Connecticut denounced the Louisiana bill of 1803 as an Infringe ment of the Constitution, while his col league, Dana, pronounced" it "complete despotism." . In 1821 the bill for the temporary government of Florida was reported, and contained the same grant of power Included in the Louisiana bill and the Spooner bill, and In language almost identical. Allen of Massachusetts tried to get inserted in the grant by the Florida bill to the President of tempo rary powers, military, civil and judi cial, the words "not incompatible with the Constitution and laws of the United States," but this amendment was re jected without division and the bill passed the House without division, hav ing previously passed the Senate with out division or amendment. In other words, Senator Spooner's bill only proposes to apply to the Philip pines the same process which has al ready twice been employed for the tem porary government of territory ac quired by the United States, In the case of Louisiana in 1803 and that of Florida in 1821. To represent this process as a new, startling, revolutionary and dangerous enlargement of executive power convicts the Democratic opposi tion in Congress of either historical ignorance of past legislation or of dis ingenuous repudiation of methods of government employed by the father of the Democratic party, Thomas Jeffer son. Mrs. Llllle Deveraux Blake, a vet eran in social and industrial agitation work, is said to have declared recently that men should be taught to knit In stead of smoke during otherwise idle hours, whereat Mr. Blake at once be came an object of alleged manly pity. This Idea is not wholly new. A num ber of years ago an energetic woman having occasion to visit the village store in an up-valley town saw half a dozen men throwing horseshoes at a, peg driven securely in the ground. The time was Midsummer, and the hour midday. Clouds of dust arose, begrim ing the faces, hands and clothing of the players; perspiring foreheads were mopped with grimy handkerchiefs, the afternoon wore on, and still the players played. Returning after two hours ab sence in attendance upon a sick neigh bor, the wife of one of the players, her errand at the store having been quickly completed, this practical woman was heard to say in a meditative tone: "Dear me, why don't these men learn to crochet?" Of course such a prop osition would have been met by de risive laughter, and the wounded van ity of the busy idlers would no doubt have sought relief in openly expressed sympathy for the thrifty woman's hus band. These things would be tiresome were they not so vapid. The fruit trade between the "West Indies and the United States has at tained enormous proportions. The United Fruit Company has a fleet of over twenty steamers in the banana trade between "West Indran and Ameri can ports, and contracts for seven new vessels ' for this trade have recently been let. Three of these will be built in England, three in Norway and one in Denmark. The latter a typical steam er of the banana fleet will be a spar deck vessel 227 feet long, 32 feet beam, with, a depth, of 23 feet and a registry of 2000 tons net, though her usual load Will be about, half that. She will draw 14 feet of water; her speed, will be 13 knots, and her cost delivered In Ameri can waters, $107,200. Some idea of the "banana tooth" that has been culti vated by the American people may be gained from this statement, which is made by Consul John C. Freeman, at Copenhagen, who in his official capacity found out and was able to give his Government this data in regard to an important and growing feature of the trade of this country with the politi cally troublesome but commercially profitable "West Indies. Among those detained in the Hanover district, Cape Colony, which is now un der martial law, are Olive Schrelner and her husband, Mr. Crownweight Schrelner, the most strenuous and In telligent of the pro-Boer agitators. Olive Schrelner possesses the faculty of being able to express herself in force ful language without being coarse, and of attracting the respectful attention oven of her strongest adversaries. Though in intense sympathy with the Boers In their struggle to evade Eng lish rule, she has, by the vigorous use of her pen in the portrayal of Boer life and characteristics, done more to in cite disgust for Boer civilization than perhaps any writer on England's side of the contention. She is one of those who firmly believe that the Boers will never yield to British dominion, and her present position and detention in Cape Colony under conditions of mili tary rule may be depended upon to deepen rather than dispel this view. The Holland wedding was one of the prettiest and most interesting events of its kind since the marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert sixty-three years ago. The similarity between the two marriages is striking in many par ticulars, and from thfs a long life, a prosperous reign, domestic happiness and numerous posterity is prophesied for Holland's young Queen. "Wilhel mlna will be fortunateindeed, if she is as happy in her narrow realm as was Victoria in her wider one, even though the full measure of life's common sor rows is filled for her. Mr. "Wilcox Insists he is a good Amer ican, and if certain charges against him are true, he is of the best that is-, he has all the sublimated patriotism and moral superiority of the anti, who prefers Aguinaldo's success to that of the United States. The views the shipping community of Portland holds upon compulsory river pilotage are presented in our local col umns this morning. They are suffi ciently explicit to reveal their signifi cance to the Legislature. The Preston bill has been defeated at Olympia, but this doesn't necessarily mean that It has failed of Its purpose. The railroads know what it did to them, and they won't tell. Observe that there are no more trusts merely combinations and harmoniza tions. Mexico contemplating the gold stand ard?" "Whisper it not to the Commoner! WITH OREGON LAWMAKERS. SALEM, Feb. 8. The Senate today got into a serious parliamentary tangle over the Brownell bill for the care of orphan children, which stirred so much bitter controversy yesterday. It all arose over the re-reference of the measure to the committee on commerce, and just what authority the committee had to make cer tain minor changes and just how they should be altered If the Senate wanted them altered. The discussion was purely technical and was not confined to the merits of the measure. Some amendments were proposed along lines suggested by Senator Kuykcndall. These will be adopt ed, and the bill will doubtless pass next Monday at 2:30, at which time it is made a special order. It will 'be provided that only existing institutions may enjoy Its benefits. The House today refused to concur in the Senate resolution proposing a con stitutional amendment granting woman suffrage. Its action was entirely unlooked for by Mrs. A. S. Dunlway, who Is now in Salem urging the members of the Legis lature to give the women of Oregon an other chance to secure political freedom. During the noon recess today Mrs. Dunl way was industriously engaged in the effort to effect a change of sentiment ambng the House members, and with such success that she secured a promise from Eddy to move a reconsideration of the vote, and Harris of Lane to second it. Both members voted against concurrence. The motion to reconsider will be made next Monday. Mr. Eddy, while he agrees to make the necessary motion to recon sider, does not deem that such action will imply a change of his vote. He will offer the motion out of courtesy to the valiant champion of woman's" rights in Oregon for the past 20 years. Senate bill No. 13, which was passed by the Senate today, will, If it becomes a law, prove of great benefit to every city in Oregon. The bill was introduced by Looney of Marlon, and has for its object the assessment of personal property in the place of Its location, and not in the place of the residence of Its owner, when the measure came up today on final passage. Senator Looney said in explanation of its provisions that It Is Intended to reach business men who reside outside the lim its of cities in which they conduct their business. He stated by way of Illustra tion that there are a number of business men In Salem who had their personal property, money, etc., Inside the city lim its, but who do not pay city taxes on the same because they reside outside the city limits. He expressed the opinion that the same condition prevails In Portland. The essential features of the Looney bill are amendatory of section 2742 of Hill's code, making that section read as fol lows: "All goods, wares and merchandise kept for sale In this state; all stock employed In any of the mechanical arts, and all capital and machinery employed In any branch of manufactures or other business within this state, owned by a corporation In or out of this state, or by any person, whether residing In or out of the state, shall be taxable in the county or city or other municipal corporation where the same may be, either to the owners there of or to the person or corporat'on who shall have charge of or be in possession of the same." Yesterday's correspondence contained the statement that the Marion County delegation has reported favorably upon a House bill Increasing the per diem of the Marion County Commissioners from ?2 50 to ?5. Senator Looney wants It un derstood that it was only the Marlon County House delegation that made this report. He is opposed to this increse and would not have joined In a favorable report upon It. While he thinks the Com missioners may be entitled to somewhat higher compensation, he believes that doubling the per diem Is more than cir cumstances warrant. FOR NEW CODE OP LAWS. Senate Bill to Appropriate $8000 Other Business. SALEM, Or., Feb. 8.-Senator Daly to day Introduced a bill providing for the compilation and publication of a new code of the laws of Oregon, and for the ap pointment of a commission to examine and accept such compilation. The bill appropriates $$000 or so much as may be necessary for the payment for 1000 copies of a new code to be published In accordance with the provisions of this act. The new code must contain the con stitutions of Oregon and of the United States, the general laws now in force, marginal references to session laws, Ore gon Supreme Court decisions, decisions of other states on similar sections, and con tained In the American Decisions, Amer ican Reports, Lawyers' Reports, annotat ed, American and English Encyclopedia of Law, American and English Encyclo pedia of Pleading and Practice, and such other citations as the compiler may deem proper. The bill contains blanks for the Insertion of names of commissioners to be selected by the Legislature, whose duty it shall be in March, 1902, to examine manuscripts submitted to them and to accept on behalf of the state such manuscript as they may deem best. If any two manuscripts are of equal merit, the one upon which the best terms can be obtained shall be ac cepted. The compiler or publisher must submit terms upon which he will furnish the state 1000 copies of the code, and when the 1000 copies have been accepted upon such terms, the books shall be paid for. The 1000 copies are to be distributed among the proper officers of this state and de posited among -the state and other li braries in the United States. The publisher shall sell such codes to the public at not to exceed $12 per set. The printing of this code must be done entirely within this state. After the pub lication of the code, it only shall be In force and shall be received in all courts as an authorized compilation of the stat utes of Oregon. The commissioners are to receive $1S0 each for their services. Senate bill 37, by Brownell, by request, provides for the appropriation of $10 000 for the purchase of 1000 sets of Bellin ger's new code. The purpose of Daly's bill evidently Is to arouse competition In the matter of compiling codes for the state. WANT NO REDISTRICTED STATE. Pendleton Commercial Clnb Asks Legislators to Oppose Bill. PENDLETON, Or., Feb. 8. Through the instrumentality of ex-Senator T. C. Tay lor, the business men of Pendleton have adopted a resolution calling on the mem bers of the Umatilla County delegation in the Legislature to oppose the bill of Senator Hunt, of Multnomah, providing for the redisricting of the state. It is objectionable to people here to add any territory to the Senatorial district of which Umatilla County Is a part, with Morrow and Union. The Hunt bill pro poses "Wallowa County as an addition to the district. Too Many Laws. Condon Globe. And now a few Portland barbers are asking the Legislature to pass a law com pelling all barber-shops to remain closed on Sundays. If this Is not class legisla tion, what is it? "Why not Include all other lines of business In the law and be done with It, or, better still, why not enforce what Sunday laws we have be fore encumbering the statute books with another law which will only be made to be broken? So long as stores, saloons, print-shops, street-car lines, livery sta bles, railroad companies and legislative lobbies continue to do business on Sunday in utter desregard of existing laws why pass special legislation to protect the barbers? The fact Is that the more law3 we have and break the less respect peo ple will have for all law. TALK OF AN EXTRA SESSION. "WASHINGTON. Feb. S. Among the subjects discussed at today's Cabinet meeting were the Cuban Constitution and the possible necessity for an extra session of Congress. Attention was called to the Cuban paragraph In the President's message to Congress at the beginning of the 66th Congress. It Is known that these words fairly express the present views of the President and the members of the Cabinet as developed at today's meeting, but whether the Con- sltutional convention win view the mat ter in the same light is a perplexing ques tion. Persons in a position to be well informed as to the President's purpose believe that an extra session will be in evitable unless Congress shall take some action with respect to Cuba and its re lation to this country. "With that mat ter disposed of, there Is good reason to believe that an extra session will be avoided. A strong effort will be made to render an extra session unnecessary and with this feeling the President Is In full accord. Reports to the effect that the Repub lican leaders of the Seante have fomu lated definite plans for legislation during the present session of Cnogress on the Cuban and Philippine questions are pre mature, but the leaders are engaged In en earnest effort to find a solution of the difficulties which beset them. The Cuban problem offers greater intricacies than the Philippine and Is looked upon as liable to call for much prompter action. There Is a general disposition to accept the Spooner bill adopted as a sufficient pro nouncement on the Philippine question and It is now the plan to have Senator Lodge, chairman of the Philippine com mittee, propose this bill, with possibly some modifications, as an amendment to the army appropriation bill. Senator Piatt, of Connecticut, chairman of the committee on relations with Cuba, is also contemplating the propriety and expediency of presenting an amendment to the Army bill covering the Cuban situ ation, and he, with other lawyers of tho Senate, are gllvng much attention to the subject. Hope of securing Congressional action upon Cuban legislation at the pres ent session has been quite definitely aban doned and the most that Is hoped for Is to secure a declaration of the attitude of this country toward Cuba, which would be a guide to the President during the Congersslonal Interim. The present plan is to try to secure the Incorporation of such a declarion in the Army appropria tion bill as the surest way of getting it throush. THE WAR REVENUE BILL. House Will Disagree to Senate Amendments. "WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. The special meeting of the ways and means commit tee for the purpose of acting upon the rev enue reduction bill ended in something of a surprise by the adoption 6f a resolu tion submitted by the minority through Representative Richardson, of Tennessee, for a disagreement to the Senate amend ments In bulk and requiring a confer ence with the Senate. This was an amendment to the majority resolution, which did not provide for a conference with the Senate. The Republican members had been In conference shortly before, but fixed on no exact programme. Grosvenor of Ohio first moved to report the bill back to the House with a disagreement to the Senate amendments, and Richardson followed with his amendment adding the request for a conference. The vote on the Rich ardson amendment was first taken. All of the Republicans voted against It ex cept Payne and Hopkins, who simply voted present. This would have defeated the amendment had not Babcock changed his negative vote to present. This left! a tie, which was broken when Payne, who had been recorded as present, changed to the affirmative, thus carrying the amend ment. Tho voting was accompanied by good natured badinage. The effect of the commlttees's action, if concurred in by the House, will be to bring about a con ference for the final adjustment of t2fo differences between the two Houses. Following the meeting of the commit tee, the Republican members held a con ference, which did not, however, bring about any change of plans. It was stated afterward, as explaining the Votes of some of the Republican members, that during the conference yesterday the Re publicans were evenly divided on the question of a conference. Considerable feeling was displayed over today's re sults. On the other hand, the Democratic members of the committee were highly elated at the outcome. Some of the Re publican members of the committee openly expressed the opinion Chat the aptlon taken meant the ultimate acceptance of the bill as the Senate had changed It, Increasing the reduction from about $30,- 000,000 to approximately $40,000,000. PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS. Long List Sent by the President to the Senate. "WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-The President today sent the following nominations to the Senate: George P. Bennett, to bo Register of the Land Office at Rapid City, S. D.; George D. Corson, of Illinois, to be agent for the Indians of the San Carlos agency, Arizona. Ordnance Department To be Lieutenant-Colonel, Major John G. Butler. Infantry Captains to be Majors, "Will lam Paulding, Tenth; Lorenzo W. Cooke, Third; Francis Elkton Head, Twenty first. Cavalry First Lieutenants to be Cap tains, S. R. Tompkins, Seventh; Sedg wick Rice, Seventh; Arthur Thayer, Third: John.T. Haynes, Fifth; Cecil Stew art, Fourth; Floyd W. Harris, Fourth; John T. Nance, Sixth; Charles C. Wal cutt, Eighth; John J. Pershing, Tenth; Peter E. Troub, First. Medical Department Captains and As sistant Surgeons to be Surgeons, with rank of Major, Adrian S. Polhemus, As sistant Surgeon; "William C. Borde, Ed gar A. Kearns, Guy L. Eddie, William Crosby, William T. Kneedler. To be Assistant Surgeons, with the rank of First Lieutenant, Arthur W. Morse, of Illinois; Frank C. Baker, District of Columbia; H. S. Klersted. Pennsylvania; A. C. Williams, Georgia; J. J. RelIlyr'.New York; Jerome S. Chaffee, New York. Volunteers First Lieutenant O. Fuque, Twenty-eighth Infantry, to be Captain; Second Lieutenant George M. Holly, Twenty-ninth Infantry, to be First Lieu tenant; First Sergeant Benjamin M. Ben wart, Forty-sixth Infantry, to be Second Lieutenant: Sergeant-Major George B. Kelly, Forty-ninth Infantry, to be Second Lieutenant, Acting Assistant Surgeons, to be Sur geons, with the rank of Major, J. M. Heller, District of Columbia; Arlington Pond, Vermont; Robert H. Zauner, Penn sylvania; Walter Whitney, Illinois. Tongue Wants No Extra. Session. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. Representative Tongue called on the President today and expressed the hope that there would be no extra session. The President said he had reached no final decision In the matter, and gave Mr. Tongue to Infer that no extra session would be called on account of the subsidy bill. If an extra session Is called, It will be entirely on ac.count of the necessity for Cuban leg islation. Resolution of Inquiry. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. Senator Berry today Introduced a resolution In the Sen ate requiring the President to inform the Senate whether the United States Minis ter to China had Joined the representa tives of the other powers at Pekln In demanding the execution of Prince Tuan or other Chinese officials, and if so by whom he was authorized to Join in mak ing such demand. NOTE ANI COMMENT. Drop a nickel in the slot and get 99 days. ,. Today's Senatorial forecast Cloudy, with prospect of a slight change. Hon. Mark Twain's attack on the Ad ministration la about the most humorous, thing he has ever done. Editor Hearst should now endeavor to get Edward VII get out an issue of his . paper. Edwin Markham is so quiet that there is reason to suspect he is engaged In writing comic valentines. Mrs. Nation was born in Kentucky, which shows how foolish Is the assertion that man's career depends upon early en vironment. Now that the weather department has installed a wireless telegraph, it will probably begin to interfere with .climatic conditions in Mars. With all the barber shops closed on Sun day there will be plenty of available weapons to make the Sunday picnics In teresting next Summer. King Edward will probably reign Many years, but It seams 'to- be plelgn. If he hopes 'twill surpass His mamma's, alas! His hopes w 111 be certainly reign. It Is reported that the Bryan Commoner began Its career with a circulation of over 30,000. The editor must have secured the services of the man who estimated his majority before election for olrcutation liar. A French reformer 6ays he can abolish dueling simply by keeping the names of the participants out of the newspapers. Why wouldn't that plan do away with most of the shocking burglaries from, which actresses are such severe sufferers? A man living In a tenement in Batter sea, London, told the children of tho neighborhood that the penny-ln-the-slot gas meter was a new and resplendent bright-red money box, specially designed to accommodate the savings of econom ical youngsters. On this assumption they cheorfully dropped their copper savings Into the slot, and the ingenious deceiver burned the gas which cost him nothing. When the collector came and cleared away all the pennies the chagrin of the children was Intense. The death of the Bishop of London has revived a suggestion for the division of the overpopulated diocese and the recon struction of the diocese of Westminster, which, after having been created by Henry VIII, was allowed to lapse. The Queen recently revived the dignity of the City of Westminster, so it would seem a fit occasion for re-establishing tho bishop's see. There are cathedral and dean and chapter ready. The difficulty is to give to the new diocese a district con taining a population of a mixed charac ter, and to avoid draining all the wealthy population from the diocese of London. When the Prince of Wales was about to visit Niagara Falls, Blondln had a rival, one Slgnor Farlnl, who was a character. He issued an advertisement urging that tho Prince make his initial entrance to the great and glorious United States in a striking manner. Accordingly he proposed that he should wheel the Prince in a wheelbarrow over a tight rope across the gorge to the United States an entrance that would be unparalleled! Then the notice adds: "Should any acci dent happen to His Highness whereby ha should happen to be preolpltated to tho gulf below (of which I assure you there Is little danger), the money taken from tho spectators shall be refunded." PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS Pa What's baby crying for, Dolly? Dolly Just 'cos I showed her how to eat her cake. Tlt-BIts. Mamma (plying the strap) There, there, and there! Now, don't let me catch you In tho pantry again. Tommy Boo! booli I tried not to let jou catch me this time. Philadelphia Record. The Secret of Success. "I don't see how ha can be such a popular clergyman, when he abuses his congregation so." "Easy enough. Everybody thinks he Is talking about every body else." Brooklyn Life. How He Knew. "I think I'll have to read that new novel; they say It's fine. Have yott read It?" "No. I'm afraid It's too long. My wife bought a copy yesterday, and she only got half way through It while waiting for her change." Philadelphia Press. No Ear for Music "Let me congratulate you on your charming playing. Miss Bangs," said the new next-door neighbor, who had dropped In. "I heard you at the piano for several hours this afternoon. Was that Wagner you were playing?" "Oh, dear, no." fluttered Miss Bangs, with a titter, "that was the piano tuner." Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Narration in Relation to Mrs. Nation. H. Bartlett LIndley, in Chicago Journal. She is causing consternation. Dealing out much devastation. With occasional recitation Of the wrongs done all creation By the dram-shop's dispensation Of "liquid hell-Are and damnation. When she gets off at a station , There ensues a great sensation; All the folks of that location Gaze with bated respiration While she makes the declaration That, without fear or hesitation. She will take up her vocation. Wield the ax Of desolation. Waiting not for Invitation. Caring not for egg's gyration (If they've had no incubation). Be he stranger or relation Matters not. Her Imitation Of a cyclone in rotation Is a startling revelation. She may think that civilization Oazes on with approbation When, with but a single ration. She assumes the Incarnation Of a vandal's vindication. To her female congregation She makes effort at oration; Then breaks up affiliation Of those seeking a potation. And compels the segregation Of the selling population Who dispense the distillation. She may have an aspiration To prevent all liquidation By her work styled "inspiration." Thousands give their attestation That she missed her calculation. And could check Intoxication Far more by conciliation And the proper presentation Of philosophical dissertation. Than by such Intimidation, Open to the detestation Of those of peaceful inclination. Here's the truth of the situation: She's achieved a reputation; That's what pleases Mrs. Nation. The Blaclc Bear. Francis Sterne Palmer In Harper. At rustle of leaf the red fawn leaps Its mother trembles while she sleeps A whisper breaks the forest hush. And both are oft through the underbrush. But not a fawn in wild wood born So timid as he of the coat unshorn, This mighty one who shuffles along And never dreams that he is strong; A cowardly bully, put to flight By hares that romp in the still twilight. Barked at by squirrel, by bird-cry stuns;. Belabored by every forest tongue; Gone a black flash ere you can make oi What all in the wood are scolding about. L