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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.
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