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PORTLAND, OBEGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1904.
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House Committee Will
Block Land Reforms,
MAXWELL TOLO TOO MUCH
Railroads Believed to Be Play
ing for Great Gain.
WANT MARKET FOR HOLDINGS
l-acey, Mondell and Other Men of In
fluence Are Now Willing to Let
the Timber Act Stand
for a Time.
PUBLIC LANDS COMMITTEE.
John F. Laeey. Iowa.
Frank W. Mondell, Wyoming.
James M. Miller, Kansas.
James C Needham, California.
Eben W. Martin, South Dakota.
Joseph W. Fordney, Michigan.
Andrew J. Volstead, Minnesota.
Joseph M. Dixon, Montana.
Philip Knopf, Illinois.
George Shiras IU, Pennsylvania.
J. J. McCarthy, Nebraska.
Francis M. Griffith, Indiana.
John I. Burnett, Alabama.
George P. Foster, Illinois.
William "W. Bucker, Missouri.
Cartor Glass, Virginia.
Bernard S. Rodey, New Mexico.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, "Wash
ington, D. C, April 20. The House com
mittee on public lands is to hold an ex
ecutive session Friday to take action on
the Senate bill repealing the timber and
stone act and authorizing the sale of pub
lic timber to the best bidders. It has
been apparent during the course of hear
ings that has been given on this bill that
the House committee is overwhelmingly
opp jsed to repealing the timber and stone
act, and an adverse report Is looked for
which will mean no remedial land legis
lation this session.
A month ago there was a possibility
that the House committee might report
this bill, although a deal had. been made
between the Senate committee and the
leading monibers of the House committee
to quash the measure and prevent it get
ting before the House. At that time, it
is said a majority of the membors of the
House committee favored the bill and
stood ready to report it, if given an op
portunity. There has been great reversal of sontl
ment, however, due to the admissions
made by George H. Maxwell, presidont of
the National Irrigation Association.
During the hearing on the bill he told
the committee that transcontinental rail
roads and large holders of scrip had
been contributing $60,000 annually to main
tain his association, and that these con
tributors looked to the organization to
exert itself to secure the repeal of the
timber and stone, desert land and home
stead commutation laws.
This admission has been generally taken
by membors of the House to mean that
these scrlpholdors have been making
sjstematlc attempts to secure legislation
which would compel persons seoklng tim
ber lands and large holdings of others to
buy from the railroads or purchase blocks
of scrip. In other words, members gen
erally believe that the agitation for land
r form is instigated entirely by the rail
rjads and scripholdors with a view to in
creasing the value of their lands and
rrovlding a ready market for them. So
strong lias become this belief that all
chance of passing the Senate bill through
the House, even If It could be reported,
has been destroyed.
Chairman Lacey, Representative Mon
dell and other prominent and influential
members of the House committee are de
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though adverse sentiment had not grown
up as a result of Maxwell's admissions.
IRRIGATION WORKS FOR IDAHO
Government Decides to Take In the
Payette Valley Project.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, "Wash
ington, April 20. The Government has
finally decided to take up the Payette ir
rigation project, in Idaho, which contem
plates the reclamation of 140,000 acres
of land in Boise and Payette Valleys, by
diverting the waters of Boise River. Ex
aminations of this project have been
under way for several years, and the de
partment is now convinced the project
is feasible and can be carried out at a
reasonable cost.
During the coming Summer, final sur
veys will bo made for canals and other
works, and It Is expected that contracts
for the construction can bo prepared and
Jot by the end of the season.
The board of consulting engineers will
consist of H. N. Savage, J. H. Quinton
and "W. H. Sanders which will soon ex
amine the Umatilla and Malheur Irriga
tion projects in Eastern Oregon to de
termine which of the two is the better
adapted for Government construction.
The report of this board Is likely to load
to the formal adoption of one or the
othor of those projects.
Work on Postoffice Delayed.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, April 20. Because of a desire to
change the plans, work on the Portland
Postoffice has been further delayed. A
department agent at Seattle has been or
dered to Portland to find out what alter
ations are desired, and report to the de
partment. Rural Mail for Waltsburg.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, "Wash
ington, April 20. Rural free dollvory
service was today ordered established,
May 16, at Waltsburg, "Wash., with one
carrier.
CuUET TIES HANDS OP HLLL.
Plan for Dissolving the Merger Is
Temporarily Restrained.
TRENTON, N. J., April 20. Suit was
begun in the United States Circuit Court
for the Now Jersey district against the
Northern Securities Company, by E. H.
Harriman, W. S. Pierce, the Oregon Short
Line Railroad Company and the Equitable
Trust Company of New York, trustee un
der the Oregon Short X.ine participating
mortgage, to restrain the Northern Securi
ties Company from carrying out the plan
adopted by its directors for the distribu
tion of the stocks of the Great Northern
and Northern Pacific stocks hold in the
treasury of the defendant company. The
facts In the case as recited by the bill of
complaint cover substantially the same
ground upon which was based the inter
vention suits in the United States In the
District of Minnesota, which was decided
on Tuesday adversely to the Harriman in
terests. Judge Andrew Kirkpatrick today issued
a temporary order restraining the carry
ing out of the plan of distribution. The
court has fixed next Monday, April 25, at
11 A, M., in Trenton, for the hearing of
the motion to make the Injunction perma
nent. It is said that this injunction will
operate to prevent the proposed mooting
of stockholders of the Northern Securities
Company called for tomorrow at Hobokon
to vote upon the Northern Securities direc
tors' plan of distribution af the treasury
stock.
Counsel for Harriman Confer.
NEW YORK, April 20. A report was
circulated today in this city to the effect
that a new suit had been started against
the Northern Securities Company, and
that an order in the suit, signed by Jus
tice Geigorlsch, of the Supreme Court,
had been issued returnable tomorrow,
but Justice Geigerisch said he had not
signed any such order. This new suit
was said to have been Instituted by C. H.
Venner, of Boston, who was interested
in the suit brought by the Continental
Securities Company, whose application for
an injunction against tomorrow's moot
ing of the Northern Securities Company
and against the announced method for
distributing the holdings of railroad
stocks was denied by Vice-Chancellor
Bergen, In Jersey City, on Monday.
It was later reported that copies of an
order directing E. H. Harriman and the
Union Pacific Railway to show" cauee
why they should not refuse to accept the
stock to bo distributed to them under
the Hill plan were served upon the coun
sel for Harriman and upon the officers
of the Northern Securities Company, who
must also appear in the action.
A conference of counsel on the Harri
man side was held late in the afternoon
at the office of Kuhn, Ixeb & Co. It was
said afterward that no announcement
was ready as to the plan of action to be
taken.
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Murphy Sure Parker
Can't Carry New-York.
SAME IS TRUE OF HEARST
Boom for McCIellan Is Making
Great Headway,
HIS SUCCESS MEANS TROUBLE
Fornes Would Become Mayor and
Tammany Could Not Control Him
Feeling of Sadness at the
Hearst Headquarters.
NEW YORK, April 20. (Special.) The
Hearst boom is beginning to bag at the
knees.
That's the way the situation looks to a
man on the ground in the East. New
York is on record for Parker and reports
that reach here from other sections indi
cate that delegates Hearst has been rely
ing on are preparing to drop into the
Judge's political game bag.
Boss Murphy, of Tammany, continues
to think the State Convention did wrong
in declaring for Parker. Coming up from
Atlantic City, in company with a number
of newspaper men, he outlined the situa
tion from his viewpoint with great appar
ent frankness.
"The facts in the case are just those,"
he said. "Thoro is a possibility that the
Democrats may win, but it can only be
accomplished by taking advantage of
everything that arises. At the present
time there are only two candidates for the
nomination. One is "William Randolph
Hearst and the other is Judge Parker.
Neither of them could be elected, in my
opinion, and I am absolutely certain that
neither of them could carry New York.
"Democrats from other localities ex
press a willingness to support any man
who we present as the strongest man
and the man who can carry New York
State. If we nominate Parker, we must
take the responsibility if he is defeated.
The result would be that our reputation
would be ruined, and the next time we
presonted a New Yorker we would navo
to combat prejudice and ridicule."
Denies He Made Deal Wfth Hill.
Mr. Murphy declares absolutely that he
has made no agreement with Hill con
cerning the Governorship, but it seems to
bo protty clearly understood that Tam
many -will be asked to furnish tho man
Whatever chance Parker might have to
carry the state would be entirely lost un
less Tammany gives him tho heartiest
kind of support, and a straight Hill tlckot
from, start to finish would mean a fanat
ical scalp-dance in little old New York.
Hill realizes It. Parker realizes it, and
Murphy understands 1L
This explains why the boom for Mayor
McCIellan is making great headway. Even
the most bigoted Republicans admit he
has givon tne city an admirable adminis
tration, and up to date the Tammany
Tiger seems to have had his teeth drawn
and his claws trimmed down. He has
avoided tho mistakes of tho Low admin
istration, but has prevented tho wide-open
town which gamblers and sports goncrally
expected him to introduce.
Tammany men declare, however, that
McCIellan cannot take the nomination, for
it would mean the elevation to the Mayor
alty of tho president of the Board of Al
dermen, who succeeds, under the charter,
in case of a vacancy.
Now President J. V. Fornos is not a
Tammany man. Ho was a reformer two
years -ago, did some grand and lofty tum
bling last year and landed In office again,
but, as "Big Tim" Sullivan said the other
day, "God knows what he is politically."
Tho Tammany crowd realize that they
could not control him, and they don't
know who would. They are afraid he
would give them a lively year, mix every
thing up and cause defeat in 1903.
Murphy, however, is a strong supporter
of Mayor McCIellan and Is seomingly will
ing that the organization should take a
chance, if it will redound to the advantage
of nls friend. Hero Is Murphy's "dream":
The Murphy Dream.
November, 1904 Mayor McCIellan nominat
ed and elected Governor.
November. 1900 Governor McCIellan re
elected. Nov ember. 190S Governor McCIellan elected
President.
Murphy's friends, however, are telling
him that Hill will never help him to carry
out these schemes. Murpny does not trust
Hill and he does not like him. In fact his
language when he talks of the ex-United
States Senator is more emphatic than po
lite. But he believes that Hill will have
to "tote fair" if he wants to help along
his friend Parker.
National Committeeman Norman E.
Marck declares that the National Conven
tion will get over its work In a hurry.
"Judge barker's nomination is as certain
as Roosovelts," he declared. "It Is as
certain as anything In the future can be
that he will be the nomlneo of the Demo
cratic party. I wouldn't be surprised to
see all opposition to him melt away. With
New York in line the other states are get
ting in shape with gratifying promptness.
The Hearst boom, which once looked for
midable. Is getting weaker every day."
Hearst Boomers Mostly Reporters.
"Up at the Hoffman House, where the
Hearst men hang out, there is a feeling
of sadness. Still It has been one of the
funniest campaigns that has ever been
heard of. Tho men in charge of it are
not practical politicians. In fact the
greater proportion of them are men who
have been drafted from the Hearst news
papers. For example, a former city .editor of the
New York American, Max Ihmsen, Is in
charge of the whole affair. His last ad
dress was Texas. Managing Editor
Mooney Is busy In Tennessee. Managing
Editor Lawrence, of Chicago, has Charge
of tho Indiana situation, and Publisher
Nathan Cohen, of Das Morgen Journal,
Hearst's New York German dally, as
sisted by James Farrelly, an extremely
bright reporter, run the Hoffman House
headquartera.
Their associates In the different states
are largely reporters and discredited labor
agitators. For example, in New Jersey an
individual named Dooln was in charge,
and the net result of his work was
"nothing Dooln" principally, It Is said,
because of his personal unpopularity with
men throughout the state.
There is an absolute lack of what poli
ticians regard as necessary organization,
and In almost every state the Hearst men
have endeavored to form organizations
and machines of their very own. This, of
course, has made tho machine men fight
them whether they are opposed to Hearst
or not. and It has caused him to lose a
groat many delegates which ho might
otherwise have counted on for himself.
Hearst clubs have been organized all
over the country, but In this section of
the United States their work has been
absolutely without result. Hearst couldn't
got a delegate from New York with an
ax, and he knows it.
New York Papers Pound Boom.
All the New York newspapers have be
gun to pound the Hearst boom, and the
Hearst papers respond with journalistic
broadsides. Tho Tlme3 has been charac
terized as Belmont's paper, 'controlled by
his tamo Ochs. a play on the publisher's
nnme. Oswald Vlllard, of the Post, has
been called "tho son of a financial pirate
who did what his father would never do,
robbed his defenseless sister," and even
the staid Brooklyn Eagle has come in for
some choice remarks.
The Eagle responded by declaring that
tho man who really runs the Journal and
has the brains is Arthur Brisbane, tho
editor, and gravely declaring that he, not
Hearst, should be the candidate if the
radicals are to control the convention.
This mock boom has been taken up joy
ously by other publications, and the re
sult Is that Brisbane has been given a
great deal of advertising that ho does not
care for.
The Hearst men still Insist that they
will be able to control the National Con
vention and nominate their man, although
they admit that New York has given them
.a very bad black eye. Every morning
tho Hearst papers print a long list of
"glorious victories," many of which they
have to take back the next day.
All In all. It is the most joyful kind of
a campaign, but the Hearst boomers are
beginning to fear that they will be out
of work soon, perhaps even before the
National Convention meets.
TEALNR0BBEES GET $50,000.
Four Men Hold Up Mail Car
Trans-Caucasian Line.
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T1FLIS, ipril 20. A train on the Trans
Caucasian Railway was held up between
Novosenakal and Abasha by four armed
men, who entered the mail car and, after
binding tho officials, escaped with regis
tered letters and valuables worth $50,000.
iATEDOWN
Mr. Stubbs Yields Point
to Lumbermen..
INDUSTRY WILL REVIVE
Southern Pacific Restores Rate
of $3.10 a Ton.
REJOICING UP THE VALLEY
Rail Shipments to California Coast
Points Can Be Resumed-Booth-
Kelly Company Prepares-to
Operate Full Capacity.
The most important result of the recent
visit of Traffic Director J.C. Stubbs, of
the Southern Pacific Company, is the re
duction of the rate on lumber from points
in Oregon to coast points in California
to the former figure of $3.10 per 100 pounds.
In consequence of the raising of the rate
some months ago to $5 to all points
which could be reached by water, there
was a great reduction in the number of
men employed both in the woods and the
mills of a number of companies operating
up the valley. When Mr. Stubbs was here
a delegation of lumbermen waited on
him and obtained from him a promise
to restore the former rate. The good ef
fect of this announcement is seen In the
following dispatch from Eugene:
"Eugene, Or., April 20. (Special.) Noth
ing has occurred for 'a long time which
Is so gratifying to the business interests
of Lane County as the act of the South
ern Pacific Company In restoring the rate
of $3.10 per ton on lumber from Willamette
Valley points to San Francisco. Since
the rate was raised last Fall to $3 per
ton, the vast lumbering intorests of this
county have been unable to operate the
mills to anything like their full capacity,
and as a result nearly every business has
felt some depression.
"The Booth-Kelly Company, which a
year ago was running a force of 1000 men
in four large mills, has only been doing
about one-third of its full business. Now
this company announces that It will at
once Increase Its output and put on its
old force of operatives. The mills that
are running now part time will run full
time, and other mills will start as soon as
HE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW.
logs can be had. Logging crew3 are to be
pu,t In the woods at once."
"Nothing could be of greater benefit
to Lane County than this restoration of
former rates by the railroad."
BLIZZABD RAGES IN ST. LOTUS.
Storm Begins With Sleet and the
Temperature Drops Rapidly.
ST. LOUIS, April 20. A severe storm
raged here today, at times assuming the
proportions of a blizzard. The storm be
gan with a sleet storm, followed by a
fall of 20 degrees of temperature. Fol
lowing there was a snowfall of Ave Inches.
Street traffic was Impeded and trains
were late.
The snow prevented the games between
St. Louis and Chicago National League
teams, and St. Louis and Cleveland Amer
ican League teams, scheduled for today.
Five to seven inches of snow fell within
a radius of 150 miles of St. -uouls.
Snow in Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 30. Dis
patches received report a heavy snow
fall and damage to fruit in Western Ken
tucky. A snowfall at this time of the
year in these localities Is unprecedented.
Light Show at Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY. April 20. A light snow,
accompanied by a fall In the temperature,
fell In Northwestern Missouri today.
Throughout Kansas there was a heavy
rain, an Inch of water falling.
Zero Weather in Vermont.
MONTPELIER. XL, April 20. Central
and Northern Vermont are snow covered
as the result of a snow storm which be
gan last night and still prevailed today.
The mercury stands at zero.
Furious Snow Storm in New York.
OSWEGO, N. Y., April 20. A furious
snow storm with high winds and low tem
perature was raging In this section today.
Blizzard conditions prevail throughout
Northern New York.
Coldest April in Ten Years.
HAGERSTOWN, Md.. April 20. The
coldest weather in April for ten years
prevails in this section. Small streams
were frozen over and wagons crosced on
the Ice.
Heaviest Snow in Thirty Years.
EVANSVILLE. Ind., April 20. The
heaviest snowfall In 30 years has delayed
traffic today and all trains are late. At
Rockport the fall of snow was four inches.
North Carolina Traffic Impeded.
CHARLOTTE, N. C, April 20. A snow
storm today Impeded street-cars and
steam railroad traffic.
WILL LAY GREAT PIPE-HUE.
Standard Oil Company Will Build
From Texas to New York.
CHICAGO, April 20. The morning pa
pers will announce that the Standard Oil
Company has planned to lay a pipe, line
from Texas to New York, with branoh
lines radiating to tho various oil fields.
In this way the entire oil Droduution of
the United States Is to be hand'ed.
As an adjunct to this enterprise refiner
ies will bo erected at convenient Inter
vals. The cost of pumping oil Is said to
be about one-tenth of that of shipping It
by rail.
M T HEIR F I
Japanese Ready to Ad
vance on Russians.
SECOND ARMY SHOWS UP
Potsina Is the Point Where It
ill Disembark.
ENEMY CAN CAUSE NO WORRY
Troops Will Be in a Good Position
to Move on MukdenFeng Hang
Chen Will Be th'o Scene of
a Great Battle.
SPECIAL CABLE TO THE LONDON TIMES
AND PORTLAND OREGONIAN.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 21. The sub
joined telegram from General Kouropat
kin received by the Czar yesterday has
been made public. General Kashtalinsky
reports as follows on April 19:
"AH is quiet on the Yalu. The Japan
ese are throwing up lntrenchments oppo
site Golutzky and further to the north.
"The numbers of Japanese troops are
increasing. They are concentrating at
Wiju and spreading north along the Yalu.
"Cossack sentinels have observed the
lights of Japanese transports near Ching
Tal Tse, opposite the village of Potinsa,
23 versts west of Tatungkau. The vessels
were anchored at a distance of 50 versts
from the shore.
"According to dispatches from General
MIstenchenko, Japanese ships were also
.seen near Sou Chou."
The appearance of Japanese troops off
Potinsa Is believed here to be the begin
ning of the oft-rumored attempt on the
part of the enemy to inaugurate a flank
ing movement. If the troops are landed
under the guns of warships, their landing
cannot be prevented, and they will be in
a position to threaten Mukden, where the
Russian army headquarters are now lo
cated. Military experts here have long regarded
the vicinity of Potinsa as the probable
point of disembarkation of the second
Japanese expedition. It is not far away
from Taku Shan, 12 miles to the cast,
and .connects by road with Port Arthur.
150 miles to the southwest, and Feng Huan
Cheng, 50 miles to the northwest, where
the Russians will make their first ob
stinate resistance.
Though the Japanese are building in
trenchments on the Yalu, It Is believed
they will advance soon. The arrange-
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CONTENTS OP TODAY'S PAPER
Itnsso-JapancMo War.
Second Japanese army will land at Potsina,
and nankins movement la expected to begin
at once. Page 1.
Kouropatkln reports all quiet on the Yalu.
Page 1.
Japanese continue to throw up fortifications
on the Yalu. Page 1.
Domestic.
Toronto flre put over 200 firms out of business,
10.000 men out of employment, and loss
will reach $12,000,000. Page 2.
New Jersey Judge issues temporary order
blocking Hill's plan of distributing the
merger stocks. Page 1.
v Political.
Murphy is confident neither Parker nor Hearst
can carry New York. Page 1.
Olney men make concessions to Hearst dele
gate In Massachusetts. Page 12.
"West Virginia Democratic Convention nearly
has several fist fights; delegates arc for
Gorman first, Parker second. Page 3.
Congress.
House commltteo will prevent passage of bill
te amend land lawn. Page 2.
DollKer addresses the Senate on trusts and
defends Republican policies. Page 12.
House passes one of Senate amendments to
naval bill, then senda It back to conference.
Page 12.
Sports.
Dog show opens and first awards of prizes are
made. Page S.
Wet weather causes ball game to be postponed.
Page 5.
Coast League may abandon Fresno a3 a base
ball town. Page 3.
Commercial and Marine.
Review of local produce and Jobbing markets.
Page 13.
Condition of San Francisco potato trade.
Page 13.
Stock market unsettled by North Pacific con
test. Page 13.
Wheat weak at Chicago on better crop pros
pects. Page 13.
Bids for lumber and building materials opened
at Vancouver, Seattle and San Francisco.
Page 12.
Steamer Ching Wo ordered to quarantine.
Page 12.
Pacific Coast League scores: Tacoma 1. Oak
land 0; Los Angeles 2, San Francisco 5.
Page 5.
Pacific Coast.
Tacoma is to be a wide-open town, under pro
tection of the Major and police. Page 4.
Conference of Piles. Wilson and Furth is with
out result. Page -I.
Ten thousand horses wanted for Japanese War
and domestic purposes. Page 4.
.Portland and Vicinity.
Counterfeiter and his outfit captured; the pris
oner makes full confession. Page 0.
State plumbing law found to forbid the trade
altogether. Pace 0.
Southern Pacific again reduces rates on lumber
to California, and the trade will revive in
the Willamette Valley. Page 1.
Shadowy foundation for charges against High
School boys. Page 8.
Anna Eva Fay tells Tho Oregonlan of her
wonderful powers. Page 7.
Henry Watterson lectures on Lincoln, but re
fuses to talk politics. Page S.
Portland Fresbjtery hears whys preachers are
growing ecarce. and elects delegates to the
General Assembly. Page 8.
L. H. Mooser calls a delegate to Democratic
convention a liar, and narrowly escapes a
blow. Pace 14.
Sweek defeated In contest for chairmanship of
Democratic County Committee. .Page 14.
Council receives protest from saavengers
against garbage ordinance. Page 14.
Council votes against annexation of Montavilla.
and Mount Tabor. Page 14.
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