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VOL. XLIL 20. 13,032. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 17, 1902. PHICE FIVE CENTS. These Dogs DR. FOWLER'S EAT and MALT Hakes 1 T xuscle There's A BEVERAGE For Sale by BLUMAUER & HOCH, Sole Distributers, Wholesale Liquor and Cigar Dealers AT Assets $331, 039,720.34 Surplus $71,129, 042.06 "STRONGEST IN THE WORLD." L. Samuel, Manager, 306 Oregonlan Building, Portland, Oregon PHIL METSCEAN, Pres. SEYEHTH AMD WASH1HGT0U STREETS, POBTUKD, OREWI CHANGE OP MANAGEMENT. European Plan: .... $1.00, $1.50, $2.00. per Diy tem, it will be as perfect as we kqow how to make it. It will probably cost you more than if somebody else did the work, but it will be thejbest. w. g. Mcpherson Heating and Ventilating Engineer 47 FIRST ST., bet. Ash and Pine GAS' AND ELECTRIC FIXTURES LATEST DESIGNS MOST REASONABLE PRICES e LATEST DESIGNS MOST OUR PARQUETT FLOORING must be seen to be appre- I Z ciated. Only thing of the kind in Portland. See our seir-iignting gas mantles. 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ROTHCHILD BROS., Agents ARE WELL KNOWN As the label of the celebrated BEAU BRUMMEL 5c Cigar For sale by all dealers Smoke no other DISTRIBUTERS:7 Blumauer-Frank Drug Co. Wholesalend Importing Druggists Life and Strength In Every Drop" OR A MEDICINE All Drurglsts. LliJJ O. W. ICNOWLE8, Mh yoiir heating sys ORIENTAL SPLENDOR... In colorlBsrs nad design ttIII be found In onr hoy and beautiful display of Floor Coverings EXCLUSIVE CARPET HOUSES J.Q. Mack&Co. 86 and 88 Third St. Opposite Chamber of Commerce. REASONABLE PRICES & FIXTURE CO. OREGON $3.00 Per Day and upward. Opposite Cordray's Theater Hi RISES I He Will Ever Fight Changes in Tariff. SO INFORMS PRESIDENT Declaration Is Made at Oyster Bay Conference. NATIONAL POLICIES TAKEN Up 3o Attempt Is to Be Made to Revise the Tariff, bnt the President Will Maintain His Position as to Trusts end Cuba. CONFEREES. .President Roosevelt. Postmaster-General Payne. Senator Hanna. Senator Spooner. Senator Allison. , Senator 'Aldrlcb. Senator Ledge. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Sept. 16. The staff correspondent of the Washington Star at Oyster Bay begins his dispatch today In the following sensational manner: "As long: as I remain In the Senate, and can raise a hand to stop you. you shall never touch a schedule of the tariff act." The foregoing quotation is credited to Senator Hanna, and the correspondent continues: , "With flushed face and clenched flat. Senator Hanna delivered this ultimatum to the Repub licans who were discussing with him the ad visability' of the President's recommending a revision of some of the alleged over-protected schedules of the DIngley law. This was the spirit In which Senator Hanna entered the conference at Sagamore Hill today. Senator Aldtich is inclined to side with him. Senators Allison und Spooner take the opposite view, or tb.it wroe of the' high rates of thoDlngley act eoulO-be reduced. If Senator Hanna. uttered the' -words with which Tie is credited, and they sound very muc'h like him, 'It means that he and the ultra-protectionists do not intend that thrre shall be any tariff revision. On the other hand, those who claim to favor re vision and others who do favor revision are rather lukewarm, and will not go to the ends for revision that the opponents of revision will to prevent it. This spirit was manifested by the anti-revisionists w;hen called together by the President Just before Congress adjourned, and it dampened the ardor of those who would like to see some changes made. DECISION OF CONFERENCE. No Tariff Revision, but Cuban Reci procity Is to Be Urged. "OYSTER BAY. N." Y., Sept. 16. Senat ors Hanna, Spooner. Allison, Aldrlch and Lodge and Postmaster-General Payne spent several hours wlth President Roose velt today and discussed' with him the en tire political situation, having reference to the conditions in the Western States, which the President is to visit on his ap proaching trip. The parties to the confer ence were very reticent after they re turned from Sagamore Hill, but it can be stated on reliable authority that it was decided to make no attempt to revise the tariff at the coming session of Congress; that the President Is to maintain his posi tion as to the trusts, and further that he is to Insist on hi3 demand for reciprocity with Cuba. It is understood that ho will fully outline his policy regnrding this lat ter question in some of the speeches he Is to make on his Western trip. It also can be stated on excellent authority that the coal strike was not discussed. The President's purpose in having this conference was to ascertain if there had been any marked political changes in the different sections of the country during the past year. The conference, it is said, showed that there had been none. "The conference was entirely harmoni ous," said ono of the gentlemen who par ticipated In it, but who declined to per mit his name to be published. "No differ ences of opinion developed, and the Pres ident's position on the different questions discussed were indorsed. We talked over the entire political situation, especially that in the states through which the Pres ident is to "pass. The coal strike was not talked about." The Senatorial delegation arrived here at 12:20 P. M., coming from Long Island City in a private car of President Bald win, of the Long Island road. The Sen ators refused to see a number of news paper men who were on the train. On their arrival here, they were driven at once to Sagamore Hill In President Roose velt's traps. They left In the private car at 10:10 P. M. for Long Island City. Post masterrGeneral Payne came over earlier In the day from Center Island. He left at 6:S5 P. M. for New York. The Associated Press bulletin from Du buque announcing that Speaker Henderson had declined to be a candidate for re-election to Congress was the first intimation of that fact that any of the President's Senatorial callers had received.! They had nothing to say on the subject.' EVEN COCKRELL DESERTS 30 TO 1. Bryan Leader Advises Constituents to Drop the Issue to No Avail. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Sept. 16. Senator Cockrell was one of the leading spirits in the move that Bryanlzed Democracy, and turned- the convention of 1S36 into a free-silver. Pop ulist organization. His declaration in opening the Missouri campaign that un der present conditions It is "neither wise nor Judicious to urge the restoration of free coinage of silver," Is taken to put a nail in that phase of Bryanlsm which has controlled the Democracy foi so long. It suits one facUon of the Democratic party very well, but the Bryanltes say that the Missouri state platform, which specifically indorses the Kansas . City platform, takes precedence over anything that Cockrell may say. AMERICANS ARE STOPPED Colombian Troops Place Obstruc tions, on Panama Railroad. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. Secretary of the Navy Moody today received the fol lowing cablegram from Commander Mc Lean, of the Cincinnati, who arrived at Colon yesterday: "Yesterdajr I went to Panama; Train stopped twice by obstruction plate iron, etc., placed on track. After train passed, saw government soldiers replace obstructions. Accompanied by Consul and Commander Potter, of Banger, called on governcr. Friendly conversation. Re turning to Colon this .morning, stopped by obstructions. Soldiers were compelled to remove them. Soldiers then stood on track. By my direction, train moved on, and soldiers Jumped away. Will guard trains. No revolutionists in sight, but rumored coming toward railroad." The fcregolng dispatch was undated, except as coming from Colon, but is ac cepted as referring to events of Monday. The oltlclals at Washington are not in clined to Jump hastily at the conclusion that the obstruction of traffic by gov ernment soldiers was inspired by th6 Colombian Government Itself, but are ready to believe that the act was for the purpose of ascertaining if any revo lutionists occupied the train. Commander McLean's dispatch as given above is not in full, some portions con taining expressions of opinion on the Commander's part having been elimin ated. It is understood that at a meeting of Commanders McLean and Potter and the United States Consul with Governor Salazar at Panama, the latter disavowed responsibility for the acts of the gov ernment troops. AMERICANS FEEL SAFER. t Arrival of Warships at Panama Brings Feeling of Relief. NEW YORK. Sept. 16. Among American citizens on the Isthmus there is now a feeling of relief, as there Is now a United States warship at each end of the Panama railroad, cables the Panama correspond ent of the Herald. There are no indica tions of an Immediate attack by the revo lutionists. In a personal interview with Acting General Superintendent Prescott, of the Panama Railroad regarding the application of iJTidav's decree to natives employed by the corporation, he said that his company is doing everything possible to protect them, and its own property, in accordance with the treaty of 1846, embodying the contract with the Colombian Government, and with the assistance of all employes of the Panama, road In attending exclusively to their official duties, company interests will be fully protected. The company's representatives are endeavoring to do whatever they can to facilitate traffic. Americans Confer With Salazar. PANAMA, Colombia, Sept. 16. Com mander Potter and Commander McLean, of the cruisers Ranger and Cincinnati, respectively, and the Acting United States Consul here. Mr. Ehrmann, hd conference yesterday with General Sala zar, commandqr of the government forces" on 'the isthmus, which lasted oyer an hour, and in the course of which many important points were discussed. The matter of the interpretation of article 35 of the treaty of 1S46, by which the United States, by certain concessions made by Colombia, guarantees the neutrality " of the Isthmus and traffic across it shall not be interrupted, was also taken up in the conference. The conference ended most cordially with the expression of the hope that everything would be set tled amicably. No news has been received here of the. movements of the rebel General Herrera. The revolutionary fleet has been reported off Punta Mala. Wisconsin Off for Panama. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 16. The United States battle-ship Wisconsin sailed to night for Panama. Queen Wilhclniina Opcn.n Congrcus. THE HAGUE, S-pt. 16. Queen Wilhel mlna opened the States-General In per son today. She appeared to have com pletely recovered from her Illness. CONTENTS OF TODAY'S PAPER. Political. Speaker Henderson declines to accept nomina tion for Congress In Iowa. Page 1. Senator Hanna announces that he will ever oppose tariff revision. Page It Prominent Senators confer with President and decide on National policies. Pago 1. Ex-Chief Devery carries New OTork Democratic primaries. Page 2. Uencrnl. Death of Nicholas Fish, New York banker, furnishes a murder mystery. Page 3. Coal operators confer, but take no 'action to ward ending strike. Page Government will supply men to fight forest fires in Wyoming and Colorado. Page 3. Sport. Twa local records smashed at State Fair races. Page r. Seattle defeats Butte, 2-0. Page 5. Helena defeats Spokane,. 13-4. Pago 5., National and American teague scores. Page 5. For in en. French Marine Minister makes highly sensa tional speech about Germany, France and Italy. Page 2. '- Prince Chin, the notorious Chinese rebel, mys terlourly escapes execution a second time. Page2. London firm takes bonds of Japan for Osaka harbor work. Fage 2. Commercial and Marine. 4 The Northwestern prune crop this year will be. short. Page 13. Bearish weather bore down grain prices at Chicago. Pare 13. Tension in the New Tcrk money market slight ly relieved. Page 13. Oregon Short Line may compete for Oriental trade. Page 12. Pacific Coast. Yesterday was Press day at the Salem State Fair. Congressman Tongue spoke at banquet in the evening. Page 5. Annual meeting of the Oregon Woolgrowers' Association is in session at Pendleton. Page 12. Mrs. Waggoner, the woman who discovered Merrill's body, elopes with the convict's brother. Page A. ' Danger from forest fires is now over. Fifteen victims were burled at Kalama. Page 4. Washington State Democratic convention at Tacoroa disposes of Us work by acclamation. Page 4. Portland and Vicinity. Citizens raise $3405 for fire relief fund. Page 14. Union ir.en protest to Port of Pprtland Com "mlsslon at building of drydock In Vancou ver. Pace 11. Death of. Mrs. J. M.'Thoburn. Page 7. Jury acquits Frank Hcllen, A. C. Baxter and O. J." McKlnncy of gambling. Page 11. Trial of A. T. GladUec for murder delayed by Dr. K. A. J. Mackenzie's absence. Page 11. Mrs... Balllngton Booth tells of her work for reform of prisoners. Page 10. Union men plan labor laws. Page 10. School attendance shows Increase. Pace 10. BAR DEPTH, 20 FEET Bad Condition at Mouth of the Columbia, CHANNELS NOT NOW CLEAR Steamship Elba Strikes Three Times . While Crossing Polamhnll's Ex perience What Pilots Have to Say. ASTORIA, Or., Sept. 16. (Special.) There is more urgent need at the present time than ever before for work on the Im provement of the mouth of the Columbia, DECLINES NOMINATION FOR CONGRESS ON ACCOUNT OF HIS TARIFF VIEWS DAVID JB. HENDERSON", OF lOWAi for never since the ' great waterway has been used by shipping has the bar been in a worse condition than it is now. So say all the pilots whose business it Is to guide vessels into and out of the Colum bia. Where four years ago, according to Government surveys,' there was 29 feet of water at mean low tide, only 20 feet can be found now, and the conditions. In place of improving, are apparently grow ing worse, and during the past year the water has shoaled fully two feet. A year ago there were two distinct channels, one leading to the northward, with 23 feet of water at its shallowest point, and the other leading southward, with nearly the same amount of water, and a much shorter .distance across the shoals. But now there are virtually no channels. Abench of sand three-fourths of a mile in width, and of about even depth, has formed clear across the mouth of the river, some three miles beyond the end of the jetty, and at no place on it Is a depth of more than 20 feet to be found. The "menace which this condition is to shipping is illustrated by, the experience of the German Steamship Elba, which was taken out by Pilot . Gunderson on September o, drawing 24 feet of water. There was an S.7 tide, and the bar was smooth, but the steamship touched the bottom three times while crossing. The British steamship Polamhall, which draws 24.6 feet when loaded, left out to day to complete her cargo at Tacoma, be cause it was not considered safe, to take her across the bar when loaded to more than 23 feet. Pilot A. E. Cann, In discussing the mat ter this evening, said: "Something should be done, and Imme diately, to relieve the conditions at .the mouth of the river, temporarily at least. Last vear the bar began to shoal during the storm3 of December, and if it does the same this year, with the large num ber of loaded vessels en route to this port, the delays to shipping will be worse than ever. A channel could readily be dredged out pending the completion of the jetties, and I hope the Government will take hold of the matter at once." "DON'T EXTEND THE JETTY. Dnt Bnild Jetty From North Side, Says Captain Woods. "When the Government engineers come to town, just say we'd like to iee them." said Csptain G. W. Woods, yesterday. Captain Woods is an Oregon bar pilot. "The Columbia bir Is la very bad shape. We don't dare to take a vessel over that draws more than 23 feet. A 23-foot draught means that only about four or five feeet of water is under the keel. If the bar keeps shoaling as It has been doing, we shall have trouble piloting vessels of even IS feet draught." Captain Woods declared that no good would come of extending the present jetty. "All the pilots agree with me In this," he said. "We are practical men, who know as much about that bar as does anybody. It's no theory with us, just solid fact. Not a day passes but we .sound every channel of the bar. We know its whims, how its currents flow and how its 6ands shift. "I tell you that no sensible man can advocate extension of that Jcttj. I tell you just as plainly that the only remedy Is a Jetty built from the northern cape. Extension of the present Jetty is against the laws of nature. The Jetty is too long now. Why build it out further? Would it contract the mouth of the river? Would it do any good simply to parallel the cur rents? "Some people say: 'Add to the jetty and force the river up against the north ern headland. This Is absurd. Look at this map of the bar. Between Cape Dis appointment and the Jetty is a mass. of water 1 miles across and 10 to 14 fath oms deep. It races along at the rate of four and five miles an hour. Throw this great body of water up against the cape? It is Impossible. You can't force that current up to the cape, but you can bring the cape down to the current by a Jetty. All the jetties In the world could not drive that current up to that headland. "The mouth of the Columbia is a Jetty harbor with a 'soft' side. By this I mean there is a Jetty only on one side. If there was ever a Jetty harbor with a soft side that did not give trouble, you may use my head for a football. Gray's Harbor is a soft-side harbor, and look how it his been shifting and shoaling. Such jetty arrangements have given trou ble on this coast wherever they have been tried. "Look at the map again. Sec what a wall has been' built against the mouth of the river in that jetty. The course to sea ought to be as straight as an arrow from Scarboro Head. This is the natural drift of the currents, In a straight line. " To throw those currents up against Cape Disappointment would be to work against Nature. It couldn't be done. This Is just as clear as a problem of geometry. You can't twist those great currents out of their natural line, but you can bring another jetty down to those currents and narrow the channel that way. The cur rents have been crowded northward al ready. Just as far as they will go. VI t has done no good to lengthen the jetty beyond the Clatsop spit, and why then should the Jetty be longer? Four or five years ago, we had 29 feet of water on the bar at low tide. After that the Jetty was extended. But, ever since the extension the bar has been shoaling. The whole trouble comes from the strong cur rent that sweeps out around north of Sand Island, from Baker's Bay, and past the northern cape. It strikes the main current of the Columbia crossways. The result is a churning and a swash ing that stirs up a never-ending source of sand and deposits it in the channel. Build the northern jetty and the north current will join the main current nat urally. Sand will collect on both sides of the jetty and fortify it. just as sand has done on both sides of the present Jetty. "We are told the north Jetty Is 'in con templation.' But really. It his been con templated too long. "I'd be willing to live on pea soup for a 5'car If I could only see a beginning on that Jetty." MUCH BAD MEAT SOLD. St. Louis Inspector Gives Dnmnglng Evidence Against the Trust. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 16. Partly decayed meat, which had been treated chemically to hide Its condition, as well as sausages contoining potato flour, unhealthy kidneys ground up, and other adulterations, were sold In St Louis and other large cities of the country, between August 21, 1S99. and. May 2, 19C2, by the packers trust, ac cording to the testimony given today by Thomas L. O'Sulllvan, Meat and Live stock Inspector, of St. Louis. O'Sulllvan was the first witness called today by Attorney-General Crow, when the taking of testimony was resumed by Commissioner Kelnley In the beef trust inquiry. SENATOR BARD IMPROVING Physicians Are More Hopeful for California Senator. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Sept. 16. 10 P. M. The condition of United States Senator Thomas R. Bard, who is dangerously ill of pneumonia, is more favorable tonight. There has been a slight' decrease in tem perature and pulse, and hi3 physicians prof esS to be more hopeful. MANY FLOOD SUFFERERS. People In New Mexico Are Living on Decayed Corn and Beans. SANTA JE, N. M.. Sept. 16. Governor Otero today received the harrowing de tails of the' suffering caused by tlie re cent Mlmbres Valley flood. A letter from the relief party says: "Rations have been distributed to 86S people. Crops are iaia waste, and people are living on decayed corn and beans." Merchant Mysteriously Disappers. NEW YORK. Sept. 16. Samuel F. Nich ols, of Brooklyn, a member of the Havana Mercantile Company, has mysteriously disappeared from Havana, says a dispatch to the Tribune. He was last seen on Sat urday morning' in the park. His bank ac count is untouched. HENDERSON IT Speaker Quits Iowa Race for Congress. DECLINATION HANDED IN His Views on the Tariff Prompt the Action. DOESN'T AGREE WITH PEOPLE He Does Nqt Believe the Trusts Can Be Curbed, or That" Free Trade Wholly or In Part Will Ben efit the Country. CAREER OF HENDERSON. Born in Scotland. March 14. 1S40. Settled in Iowa. 1S49. Enlisted In Union Army. 18G1. Made Colonel in Army. 1864. Admitted to the bar. 1865. Collector, of Revenue, Third Iowa dis trict. 1863-60. Assistant United States District At torney, 1860-71. Elected to Congress in 18S2. and has served tontlnuously since. Elected Speaker of House. 1S09;. re elected. 1001. DUBUQUE. la., Sept. 16.-Speaker Hen derson, finding that his views in respect to the treatment of trusts by reducing the tariff In whole or part are not in accord with the views of many of his party in Iowa, today declined to accept the nomi nation for Congfess, and withdrew from the race. He addressed the following let ter to C. E. Albrook, of Eldora, la., chair man of the notification committee: My Dear Sir: I have never answered the kind notice communicated by you and your associates, advising me of my nomination for the 11th time, by acclamation, as Republican candidate for Congress for the Third Con gressional Disirlct of Iowa. Reported condi tions in the public mind In my district upon public policies induced me to take this delay. Since my return to the district, I have mad a careful study as to the sentiment in the district and state, and I believe that there is no little sentiment, and a growing one. among Republicans, that I do not truly represent their views on the tariff question. Believing this condition to exist, and knowing that I do not agree with many of my people that the trusts to which I am and have been opposed can be curbed or the people benefited by free trade, in whole or in part. I must decline to accept the nomination so graciously and enthusiastically made. I have devoted 20 of the best years of my life to the service of my people and my country, and have fought for what I believed to bo best for the farmer, the laborer and the business interests of this district and state. I am grateful for the devotion that has ever been accorded me, and to the hour of my death will hold in a grateful heart the memory of that devotion. I will later on give in some detail my views and convictions on our condi tions and on public questions, and state my reasons why the Republican party and its poli cies should continue In the conndenco of the voters of the United States, and why the doc trines of the Democracy should flnu no lodg ment in the faith and teachings of the Re publican party. Very truly yours. D. B. HENDERSON. When asked for the reason for his with drawal. Speaker Henderson said: "My letter to Chairman Albrook Is the whole thing In a nutshell. You cannot kill the trusts by applying free trade without killing our own Industries. The foreign trusts are fighting the American trusts, and I do not believe that, for the purpose of controlling American trusts, we should make a market for foreign trusts, thereby crushing out the industries of this country. After my conference last Saturday at Waterloo, hearing the views of the chairman of my district. I con cluded that my views on the tariff ques tion were at variance with those of my party, and I did not desire to appear In a false position." A Letter to the Voters. Speaker Henderson also directed an ad dress to the Republican voters of the Third Iowa District. He says, being a Republican, he is a protectionist, and if he ever entertained a doubt as to the wis dom of the protection policy, a comparison between the present and the past would blot out such doubt. He then speaks with satisfaction of the tariff plante of the last two National platforms. Con tininj'. he says: v "Fpr three years I have advocated giv ing control of trusts to Congress. In my judgment proper supervision can never be had until Congress has power to treat them. I am glad to see from speeches made by our fearless and upright Chief Executive that he is advocating Federal control over these corporations, and while hi all quarters they may sneer at it, I have not seen any proposition yet, except this, that seems at all likely to bring re lief. No proposition has ever been made by the Democracy, except to put every thing on the free list and give the country free trade. In other words, they propose to kill the child dead in order to cure It. They propose to slaughter every Interest in th1 United States, whether capital or labor in a wild and blind effort to provide a remedy for trusts. In my opinion, if combinations could be regulated and con trolled we would Ji:ve very little denland for changes in the tariff laws. "I am not prepared to say I would be willing to strike down and destroy Ameri can combinations and let foreign combina tions come in and do the work, but I would like to control our dwn corpora tions, so that there could be fair play among the American people. I mu3t say, and emphatically, that I do not believe a single schedule of the Dingley tariff law can be so amended as to relieve the people from the oppression of trusts or combina tions pf capital, however named, and that such action must involve the retarding : Concluded on Third Page.)