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rnrow VOLT XLIV. NO. 13,761. - POETLAXD, OBEGON, .MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1905. PBICE FIVE .CENT3. CANAL AT STAKE Celilo Project Was Na tion's Pledge. . OREGON GAVE LANDS Government Imposed That Condition. nOHWiTHHOLDSMONEY lWould Provide Only for Co lumbia Jetty. HE SAYS RELY- ON PORTAGE leglect of Waterway Above The Dalles Will Bring Forth Strong Protests From the Entire ' Inland Region. In December, 1903. the Legislature of Oregon appropriated $100,000 to secure right of way for Cclllo canal. This was done In compliance with a stipula tion of tho "War Department that the canal project should not begin until "right of way and release from all damages have been conveyed, to the United States free of cost." The richt of way has been secured by the State of Oregon, and now the state is waiting for the National Gov ernment to carry out its part of the agreement. But Chairman Burton, of the House rivers and harbors committee, has an nounced that no money will be appro priated for the canal unless the apprc priati&n for the .iettr at the mouth of X the irCJumbii shall be diminished. Neglect of the proposed Celilo canal' at the present session of Congress -will arouse strong protest from the great region which Is drained by the Columbia River and which long has looked forward to the time when that stream shall be en unobstructed highway for Its com merce. Chairman Burton, of the House com tnittee on rivers and harbors, has said: "I am strongly disposed to think we shall have to omit any appropriation for The Dalles-Celilo canal." and when pressed by the Oregon delegation to recommend an appropriation for the canal, has sug gested that the Pacific Northwest might eecure money for that Improvement by lessening its demand for funds for the gnouth of the Columbia. In a dispatch from Washington published in this paper aast Thursday, Mr. Burton was quoted ma follows: I am strongly disposed to think we shall jhave to omit any appropriation for The Daltes iCelllo Canal. The total cost of the plan would Jtie J3.SOO.000, and it is useless to begin with to. partial appropriation. Again, there are numerous other projects In Oregon, notably the mouth of Columbia, which will require large appropriations. Would it not be well to to for the time the portage railway that can be completed at comparative ly small expense, and would indicate whether traffic from below the falls would develop In sufficient amount to make it desirable to canal ise the river for 12 miles at and near The Dalles: Two Improvements Needed. The Columbia River needs Improve ment at two places at the mouth, where a jetty -s under construction to deepen the channel; at Celilo Falls, 200 miles In land, where a canal eight and one-half miles long will have to be built to con nect the upper and lower parts of the river for navigation. That the National Government owes to the Pacific Northwest the early comple tion, not of one ot the two projects, but of both, is the universal opinion of resi dents in the Columbia basin.. Chairman Burton has viewed the Columbia River and perceived the possibilities of the re gion tributary to it. Should his commit tee fall to provide for the two projects, vigorous protests will be sent to Wash ington, citing that both improvements are essential to the growth of the Pacific Northwest, and that the National Gov ernment Is in duty bound to carry them forward, especially the one at Celilo. Eince the State of Oregon has secured Sor the canal a right-of-way under a pledge from the National Government that the canal forthwith would be built as soon as possible. Good Faith Is at Stake. If the canal project Is to be abandoned for the time, as Mr. Burton suggests, the rivers and harbors committee will be given to understand that the people of Oregon believe good faith has not been kept. And it the committee shall propose to grant money for the canal In lieu of adequate funds for the jetty. It will be informed that Oregon and the Northwest regards tho proposal as bad faith as the other Ir 1903 the State of Oregon was in formed that the National Government WGUld not begin construction ot the canal until "right-of-way and release from all damages have been conveyed to the 1'nlted States free of cost." Such was tho recommendation of a special board of Government engineers, and the recom- " mcndatlon was approved by the chief of js-nglneers and the Secretary of War. ' JLccerdincly, in December 1993, tha Le- ', lslature appropriated 5100.000 to procure right-of-way. All the necessary lands have been deeded to the National Gov eminent by the State of Oregon. Uncle Sam's Share Not Done. Governor Chamberlain insists that the Natlcnal Government has entered Into a contract with the State of Oregon, that Oregon has performed, its Dart of the contract, and that Uncle Sam should now do his share. Said he yesterday: There Is an implied contract between the United States and the State of Ore eon. by the terms of which the Govern ment is pledged to construct the canal from the Big Eddy to CelUO. This con tract was thoroughly understood both by the Legislature and myself when the 5100,000 was appropriated in 1303 for the right of way. It was understood that on condition the appropriation was voted and the right .of way was secured for the canal and deeded to the Government, then the Government would on its part accept the deeds and build the canal. Understanding Was Definite. "The state baa done Its part," continued the Governor, ''and the National Govern ment should do likewise. I do not wish to be understood as saying that there was an express agreement entered Into be tween the Government and the state, but there was a general understanding that the Government's part of the work would be done provided the state did Its share as requested. "To drop the subject now would be tin just to us. We must keep fighting to gain anything, and must fight hard. "I am not In favor of allowing the ap propriation to go over until another ses sion of Congress. It is easier to keep life In a man by keeping him breathing than it is to allow him to die and then attejnpx to breathe the breath of life into biro. To allow the appropriation to go over would mean that the canal project would be put to sleep. If we cannot get the full ap propriation for both the Columbia River Bar and the canal we must have enough to keep at work on both. The canal should not be held back for the mouth of the river, for it Is of too great im portance to the development of the state and of the Northwest to be neglected or delayed." Senator D. J. Malarkey has decided views on the question of the canal and its appropriation. "Certainly I think the Government is pledged to give an appropriation for the canal," he said. "The state appropriated and purchased the right of way. with the understanding that the National Government would do its part, and now I do not think it is right for the United States to go back on the promise. I do not believe in sacrificing the canal for the bar and I feel that the appropriation for the canal should be allowed. If not In full, at least In part, so that the work can be started. The Portage Road is a temporary makeshift." Canal Is All-Important. Judge Charles H. Carey is of the rathr opinion and does not fear the loss of the oar appropriation on account of any fund which might be given for "the co'cs trac tion of the canal. "I am sure the Government is nlfideod to build the canal," he said. "And I think it was so. understood wen the state se cured the right of way. We have gone to a great deal of trouble and expense and now the Government, in all good faith, should follow. If it was a question of sacrificing the bar appropriation I should be uneasy, but we shall get that anyway! "The construction of the canal Is the great and Important thing just now. We must open up the interior, and must keep faith with the people of the uppper river. Portland is at a place where It must either go forward or backward, and If the river is unimproved and the railroads center on Puget Sound and at San Fran cisco, Portland Is left high and dry. "In every other place the great water ways are open except here. The canal should have been built ten years ago. Commerce cannot develop unless you give it the facilities. The Government seems to expect us to build up the commerce and then wait for the facilities. I think the appropriation should be given now by all means and construction should com mence." Portage Road a Makeshift. "It is my opinion that the Government was tacitly pledged to the construction of the canal," said S.M. Mears. "The tem porary nature of the Portage Road was recognized, therefore it should not be al lowed to stand in the. way of the canal. I think -a little appropriation should be given, if only just enough to commence work and keep the Government pledged to its completion. If this is not done I am afraid the project will -die. We should not allow that to happen. We should have a working appropriation at least." J. Frank Watson thinks that the matter is too Important to pass over. "The Portage Road is but a temporary make shift and will not suffice," he said. "The Government is tacitly pledged to construct the canal and we. should expect and ask for the appropriation." "Now is the time "to commence." was the opinion of W. A. Hears. "Public In terest is worked up in Washington and Idaho .and should not be allowed to. die out. -Heretofore we have had to fight our battles alone and sometimes against the quiet opposition of the interior peo ple and Interests. Now it is the other way. Large business projects are con templated in Spokane and elsewhere. -looking towards the completion of the canal as a factor for their development. The Portage Road is a makeshift and I always thought It would work against the Interests of the canal; now I am afraid It will do so." State Senators for Canal. ' SALEM. Or., Jan. 15, (Special.) Sen ator Pierce, of Umatilla, and Senator Bowerman, of Gilliam, Sherman and Wheeler, say that at this time they do not deem it advisable to admit that Ore gon may be compelled to give up either the Federal appropriation for the Im provement ot the mouth of the Columbia or for the construction of the Celilo Ca nal. They say that Oregon spent 5100,000 to secure a right of way for a Govern ment canal, and that the state should In sist upon the Governments carrying, out that work as well as keeping the channel at the mouth of the Columbia open for ships. While they say It is evident that the canal could be or little use without the improvement at the bar. they think Oregon should not at this time make a se lection between the two appropriations mentioned, "which ,,-ay be, construed to-be' aiTaVaa4oaent of eltkec," ' DEED OF A CRANK FreiJerick-Stafue Dyna miter Confesses. CAUGHT IN PHILADELPHIA He-Sent the infernal Machine , to the Umbria. PRISONERjjS'WELL IDENTIFIED Say6 He Is a Member of a Society Formed to Destroy British Ship ping In United 8tates Ports Deati Engine in Valise. PHILADELPHIA. Jan, 15.-"Gcssler Rousseau," who was arrestitl in th's city xnursaay with an unloaded Infernal ma chine In his possession, admitted to the police today that ho Is the man who at tempted to destroy the statue of Fred erlck the Great In Washington last Tuts day. and also that it' was he who sent ;he trunk containing an Infernal machine to the British steamer Umbria in New York in May, 3903. The prisoner, whose reputation Is not Known, made the admissions In tne office of Captain Donaghy. of the Philadelphia detective bureau, after he rind been iden tified br persons brought here from New York and Wasfclrgts-.u for that purpo.e He gives no reasons for the attempted outrage except that "there are too many foreign affairs In this country." After having Rousseau under ftrti :.li thj afternoon, the police c'assified him as an American patriotic fanatic" The prisoner gave no information voluntarily to tho police, he admitting only inoso things which the police had fastened on him. Both the Washington and New York authorities want tha man. and it Js probable that he will be turned over to tho prl;ce ot the latter city. The apprehension of Rousseau was due to the disappearance of Owen Kelly, a wealthy Irish-American, who is promi nent in Irish-American sociUcs In this country. Kelly disappeared on October 24, and from time to time the newspapers have published articles on Xha my.Tjr"ous disappearance. Thursday Rousseau called on Patrick Kelly, the brother of the missing man and offered, to take him to his brother In New -York for 5500. He sala he ano" Owen Kelly belongod tJ fc"irt so cieties that were organ Tied fcr the pur pose of blowing up British shlirs In Amer ican ports. The valise he carried, he sul, contained explosives. Infornal Machine in Valise. Patrick Kelly notified the police, and Rousseau was taken into custody. The valise contained an infernal machine of the clock arrangement variety, but no explosives. About the ruichlu was wtapred. a Washington, newspaper. This gave the police the clue that, he might know something of the explosion t-t the statue of, Frederick the Great, end his picture was taken and sent to ! oth the Washington and New York authorities, In the meantime he was alu supecteS ot kro.wlng something of the steamship Umbria incident. Today Captain Boardman, of the Wash ington detective force, and Alfrea Carter. colored, and George H. Hazel, cabmen of Wnshlngton, who saw the man who at tempted to blow up .the statu, and De tective Sergeant, Arthur Carry, of New York, ant a Mrs. Curry, who keeps a boarding-house In the latter city, arrived tiere for the purpose of Identifying the prisoner. When Rousseau was brought into the office of Captain Donaghy, Hazel said: "I guess you know me." To which the prisoner replied: "How do you do?" Rousseau bowed to Carter and then greeted Mrs. Curry. Having satisfied themselves beyond doubt that the iden tification was complete, the police officials of the three cities set to work in ob taining a confession from the prisoner. Intended to Try Again. In reply to a question, he admitted the outrage on the statue. He said he had manufactured the infernal machine him self, and that It consisted of a candle, fuse and "dynamite engine." Where he made it he would not say. The failure to destroy the statue, he said, must hnve been due to the melting tallow spoiling the fuse or interfering with the dyna mite. Rousseau then gave the police the In teresting Information that he bad In tended making a second attempt to blow up the statue, this time with a time- clock machine. As It was difficult to get past the sentries after nightfall, he In tended going to the arsenal at about dusk, arrange the infernal machine so' that it would explode at about midnight and then hang It on the statue. Regarding the sending of the infernal machine to the 6teamer Umbria. Rous seau said that he had made part of the Umbria Infernal machine In Chicago and then took It to New York In a trunk. Ho admitted writing the note to Police Com misloner Greene, which read: The Mafia greets you and wishes you well. The society has declared war against England and has ordered the destruction of every steamer flying the British flag that sails out ot New York. The society has undertaken to clear New York harbor of British ships, and It will succeed." It was this note of warning that led to the finding of the trunk before It was pWced en the steamship. Noncommittal on Umbria incident. The prisoner was closely questioned re gardlns the motive for blowing up the Umbria, but was noncommittal. He said. that he we born la America, an that he was a farmer. Where in America he was born and where his present home is be would not say. He admitted his name was not Gcssler Rousseau. He said he had read much and that he was a student of social econ omy. He took the name of "Gessler Rousseau" because two of his ideals had those names Albrecht Gesaler, the Swiss dictator, who, tradition says, was killed by William Tell in 1307, and Jean Jacques Rousseau, the French philosopher and writer, who died In 1778. Captain, Donaghy said Rousseau would not say anything ot the Owen Kelly af fair, and the police believe he knows notnlnc about it. He was -also, silent about the mysterloos societies iWepoke about for. dynamiting. ships, and would not incriminate anyone. The police, after they concluded their "sweating" process, express ?d the telltf that he is what they term an "American patriotic fanatic" ;' that Is, sane on every suoject ex.-jpt those of an n.crnutIonal character. Rousseau will be kept here for the pres ent. As the Infernal machine found In his possession here was not loaded,- he has committed no crime. He Is held for attempting to extort money irom Patrick Kelly under false pretenses, An affair l:ko the Umbria Incident Is a felony pun ishablo by 20 years' imprisonment. Dynamiter Lived In Chicago. CHICAGO, Jan. 15. Gcssler Rous seau, who was arrested in Philadel phia. Is well known to the people In Chicago. He lived under the name of Russell at 278 Washington Boulevard, where he had a workshop. In 188S Rus sell came under the notice of the po lice. In November. 1902, he was sur veillanced because of his apparent act ivity In manufacturing contraband goods. -He seemed well supplied with money and paid liberally for every thing1 he bought. THREAT TO RAILROAD KEN. Roosevelt's Plan of Regulation t Se Followed" by Cut In Wages. , BOSTON, Jan. 15. In an address before the BrotberboodAit Locomotive Engineers, Division 6L on the occasion of its 40th anniversary, today. President Lucius Tut tle, of the Boston & Maine Railroad, spoke of President Roosevelt's proposal that railroad rates be regulated under Congressional supervision and authority. Mr. Tuttle declared thatsuch a policy, if carried out, must Inevitably affect the Income of the 1,000.000 persons who .gain their livelihood directly from the rail roads. He did not think it had been or could be shown that the makers of the Constitution ever had any .other thought In mind In connection with the delegation to Congress of the power to regulate In terstate commerce relations than a well- defined Intent forever to prevent the erec tion by any state-of any. customs, tariffs tor other -barriers that. shouM be an ob- 'structlon to the free currents of com merce. - ' ' y "The railroads of 1903," he. 6ald. "were able only to pay their shareholders' art average dividend of less than 3 per cent, and' any further general reduction of rates -mnst -necessarily be; followed by a reduction of operating expenses." Armour Company's General Denial. CHICAGO, Jan. 13. A complete denial of the charges made by witnesses of the Interstate Commerce Commission inves tigation -of the business methods of the Armour Refrigerator Car Lines was made today by a representative of Armour & Co. "The most sensational of all the mis statements made against us," said he, "have been offered by a Boston commis sion man, the president of a refrigerator car company. ."The entire proceeding against our com pany has been characterized by perjured, biased and false testimony, instigated by this Boston carowner, who seeks to have the railways build their own cars under patents of his company. This fact has been carefully kept In the background all during the Investigation." Fishermen Will Clear Harbor. TOKIO. Jan. 15. It Is reported that 100 fishermen will be sent to Port Arthur to assist In clearing the harbor and vicinity of mines. C0HTEHTS OP TODAYS PAPEB The Weather. TODAYS-Occalonal rain; southeast winds. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 42 'Stg.; minimum. 36. Precipitation, 0.07 Inch. War In the Far East. Cossack raiders under General Mlstchenko are cut oft by General Oku. Page 4. Unsuccessful attacks made on Nluchwang. . Pate 4. Effort by Russians to prevent transportation of General Nogl'a guns. Paso 4. National. Annual report ot the Philippine Commission on conditions In the -islands. Page 11. Senator Mitchell will personally lay his case before Senate. Pace 1. Statehood bills stand little chance of paxsinr the Senate. Page 3. Political. , Henry Watteraon wants to know if Democracy Is dead. Pace 1. Republican bolters will prevent the election of Niedrinshaus to the United States Senate from Missouri. Page 3. Ferelca. Premier Comb'es announces bis resignation and that ot the rest of the French Cabinet Page S. General Trepoff, ex-Chief of Police of Moscow, narrowly escape assassination. Page 4. Trade relations of Japan with the United States. Page 1. Domestic. "Gessler Rousseau." a fanatic, confesses tc attempt to dynamite Frederick the Great's statue in Washington. Page 1. Mrs. Chadwick smuggled pearls into the United States by the peck. Page 4. Bow Miss Clara. Webb, of Chicago, attempted to shoot an attorney for wealthy man. Page 4. PsxIAc Coast. Otyrapla House chamber has some remarkable acoustics. Page 5. Steamer Geo. Y Elder has bard passage to San Francisco. Page 3. Sports. Oregon sportsmen air their varylnr need. Page 8. Canto of the estrangement between Portland Kennel Club and Western Kennel League. Pag 10. rcrtUsd sad TtctaKy. Failure of Celilo app.roprUUoB would cause storm In Northwest. Page 1. Celilo. Cac&I project. Is linked with history of state. Page 11. .Legislature .reconvenes at Salem today, with Important business, ahead. Page 10. tumni um cation received outlining policy of Crook County -skeerkiuers. Page 12. Alaska,.' is to have strong laieiKadeat. eihlilt at-Xewj aati CUrir KiyeaKlo. Pass 3. HAILS AT FATE Watterson Writes Char acteristic Letter. PERIL OF A SINGLE PARTY Dominion of JefFersonian Re gime Is Recalled. . IS DEMOCRATIC PARTY DEAD? Kentucky Editor Wonders Whether ' He and Those of His Way of Thinking Are to Be Barred From Party Councils. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 15. Mr. Wat terson, in a letter from London, says In "13 Democracy in the United States quite dead, and can it get no decent bur ial because certain Democrats 'hug the dry bones' or, let us say, the Constitution to their bosoms? Are there not auy tra ditio'hs left. us? Is commercialism so fixed a principle of the National life that such terms as centralization and Imperialism, having no longer a vital meaning, cease to frighten anybody except the political aged and effete? "Is the policy of aggression and expan sion so set that nothing can check or change or modify it? "Were Cleveland's two. terms but 'dead eddies. borne along by the main current, nowise diverting or seriously affecting it? Must we accept Theodore Roosevelt as the founder of a new school of ethics and policy, upset ting and replacing the Jeffersonlaa school of ethics and policy? "Go ask Mr. Root and Mr. Hay and Mr. Taft. or any other one of the elect, and each will answer. Yes.' and the outer as pects seem at least to sustain them. They are undoubtedly In the swim. They have, as it were, the world in a sling. They stand much as Jefferson and his followers stood a century ago. "Certain gentlemen In knee breeches and powdered wigs, fogyfled patricians like -Ctatfcawnrth Tl-,T.t-., t- "j--uM-ttiiu. Ajuuvemeur I Morris and old Tom- T-lrWnc ana true, made sure that the country was. -gone to the devil-Jefferson being the aeviu It did not quite get there, but It came by the prolonged dominion of a single party perilously near it. - "Shall those of us who venture to chal lenge the unanimity of the late general elections, who would call a halt upon the breakneck speed we are going and ques tion the optimism of the unthinking and the Intolerant absolutism of party domin ation, discipline and spirit, be shut out of court as too perverse or too old to be considered good Americans? "Suppose a stray bullet had hit that handsome Rough Rider on- San Juari Hill or Czolgosz bad failed ot his aim? "Strange are the whimsies of fortune." CONDITIONS m JAPAN. American Minister Tells of Trade Re Iatlons With This Country. WASHINGTON. Jan. 15.-The State Department has received an interesting report from Mr. Grlscom. the American Minister to Toklo. dealing with the pres ent economic conditions in Japan and her trade relations with the United States. Mr. Grlscom, In several statistical con tributions compiled from official sources, compared the first' njne months of the present conflict with the same time last year. The present year shows an increase in exports of ;6.4,159, and ah increase In imports of S10.0S0.597. During the same period the Increase of exports In specie and bullion amounted to $41,403,394, and the increase In Imports to $1,842,370. During the period in review exports to the United States .were valued at $33, 898.622 and Imports therefrom at 719.486, showing, as compared with the same period of 1303, an Increase In ex ports of $3,919,277 and an Increase In Im ports of $2,702,538. Raw silk was the principal item of. export, showing a marked Increase. There was a reduced export of tea and coaL Kerosene oil, leather, rails, flour and sugar were im ported from the United States in larger quantities than during the same period last year, while cotton imports declined. Domestic Loans Easily Floated. Mr. Grlscom describes the readiness with which the Japanese domestic loans have been floated. With the proceeds of the foreign loan of $18,665,000, for which the customs receipts were pledged as se curity by the government, the latter re paid the money borrowed from the Bank of Japan, by which the amount of specie reserve held by the Central Bank was augmented and the expansion of converti ble bank notes was checked. The total amount of the national debt of Japan at the end ot September stood at about $44416.000. War taxes have been increased on land. Incomes, business transactions, sugar, mines, bourses, customs, consumption of woolen textiles, consumption of kerosene and stamps, while a hew source of con siderable revenue Is found In the tobacco monopoly. The official estimate of the anticipated net Income to be derived from that source tor ine year ending March 31. 1905. Is $12,966,212. and $16,000,000 for the year ending March 31. 1906. The government-owned railroads, like wise, which are valued by the Ministry of Finance at about $9o,000,600, and are estimated to bring In a net income of $4,750,000 for tha.comlng year. This Item and the- tofcCr monopoly, are the assets upon which it Is generally supposed, further foreign loans can be raised. At the beginning of the war the specie re serve In the Bank of Japan fell from $58,481,000 in December to $34,043,500 in May, when the first foreign loan was doubtless .responsible for an increase, to $58,646,000 In August, the normal condi tion. Decrease in Taxes. Owing to the abandonment of local pub lic works and Improvements there has been a falling oft in taxes officially esti mated in round numbers at $10;000.000. The reports from the Toklo and Osaka clearing-houses for October, 1904, show an increase of $21,157,611 In the value of bllls cleared over the same month In 1903. Although other clearing-houses exist, Mr; Grisccmb believes' these two houses Indi cate the trend of business in the coun try. The metallic currency circulation of Japan for October, 1904, shows a decrease of $2,791,630. The Japanese Department of Finance estimates that at the end of October, 1904, Japanese bank notes of the value of about $895,353 were circulating In Manchuria and Corea. During the entire year 1903, postal savings deposits In Japan Increased $1,446,977, while during the first nine months they increased $2,558,735. The increase of $19,630,944 in deposits in the leading banks of Japan, from January 1, 1903, to August 1. 1904. Mr. Grlscom says, has been markedly free from fluctuations. Steam Tonnage of the Empire. Mr. Grlscom is informed by the Japan ese Department of Communications that December 31, 1903, Japanese registered steam vessels a,bove 20 tons numbered 1088, with a gross tonnage of 657,269 tons. In September, 1904. they had increased to 119S vessels of 753.148 gross tons. Dur ing nine months ending September 30, 1904, there were added to Japan's mer cantile fleet 146 steamers q 161.802 gross tons, and there was a loss, mainly due to casualties of war, ot 41 steamers of 86.034 gross tons, showing a net increase of 105 steamers of 95,768 tons. The report says that the necessary abandonment during the war by several leading Japanese steamship lines of their services to foreign countries already has had considerable effect in changing the channel of trade as, for instance, a large falling off in the importation of raw cot ton from India, which was the principal source of Japan's supply and which trade ha3 gone to China. Great Yield of Rice. A striking feature in the industrial his tory of Japan during the past year 13 the unusual abundance of nearly all agri cultural products, especially the unprece dented yield of rice, the yield of rice be ing estimated at about 248.145.000 bushels for 1904-, an Increase of about 17,000,000 bushels as compared with 1903. The average yield of rice since 1S91 has been 199,759.794 bushels. - Other cereal crops, especially barley and wheat, show considerable Increases as compared with previous year. On the basis of the present market value of rice, Mr. Grlscom estimates that the Increased income of the country Irom this source will be $22,820,850 above last year. C0EP0KATI0NS BEGIN TO SEE Action of the President Forces Con pliance With Present. Laws. . ORBGONIAN NEWS BTJREAtJ, Wash ington, Jan. 14. Corporations now thor oughly understand that President Roose velt means business and that violations of the law will be prosecuted under the present statutes, and that the public is not to bo plundered for tho purpose of fattening any corporate interests, as long as there Is a law to reach them. This was probably very well understood before the last election, as the President has never Intimated to any one a change In his belief that the laws of tha United States and the Government of this coun try were founded upon equality to every body. 4 It was charged against him during the last campaign that he had sold out to the corporations, and that the corpora tions had made terms with him. This was false then, and everybody that un derstood the character of the President believed it false, and the votes of the people showed that they very well un derstood him. It has been said by some men, and among them shrewd corporation lawyers and stockholders In large corporations, that there was enough law on the stat ute books now. If enforced, to correct nearly .every evil that Is complained of In tho way of trusts and In the matter of discriminations by railroads against the public. ThePresIdent Is not a lawyer, and has not studied the corporation laws. He - cannot know all they contain, but gradually he Is finding out that there is plenty of law and that a rigid enforce ment of what has already been, done by Congress, will go a long way toward cor recting abuses which the people have suffered- so long. Realizing what the President Intends to do, the corporations are" somewhat aghast at the Idea advanced that further re strictions should be put upon them, and they may make some effort to conform to the laws which are already in. force. It Is not to "run amuck," to quote a statement made by, Attorney3eneral Knox after thet merger decision, and ruin business Interests everywhere that tho President Intends, but to seek justice to everybody, to give everybody a "square deal," to use his own words. MME. I0XJBET IS DEAD. Peasant Mother of French President Was Near the Century Mark. PARIS', Jan. 15. Mme. Loubet, mother of the President, died at Marasanne to day from congestion of the lungs, aged 92 years. The President's son, Paul, and other members of the ' family were at her bedside when she expired. President Loubet had expected to leave this evening for Marasanne, but the announcement of the death of bis mother came before he was able to depart. Mme. Loubet contributed much to the President's prestige, as she was a type of the simple country class. The funeral will take place on Tuesday, and Presi dent Loubet will leave Paris tomorrow In order to attend. Many officials and mem bers of the republic corps have called at the Elysee Palace to express syxnDathy with the President LLDENY FRAU Mitchell to Address United States Senate. EXPLAHATION IN DETAIL Will Show Ail Connection With Land Cases. ; AFTERC0URSE IS UNDECIDED If His Colleagues Receive Him Cor dially He Will Resume His Seat In the Upper House After Making His Statement; OREGONLA.N NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Jan. 15. Senator Mitchell, after consulting a number of friends and fellow-Senators, has decided- to go Into the Senate tomorrow or Tuesday, obtain rec ognition at the first opportunity and make a statement In self-defense. Whether or not he will remain In the Senate and con tinue to attend its sessions he has not de termined. Up to this time Senator Mitchell has adhered strictly to precedent. Since his indictment he has not entered the Senate chamber nor attended a single commit tee meeting. Several days he did go to his own committee-room at the Capito , but refrained from mingling; with his fellow-Senators In the Senate restaurant. His luncheon was served in hl3 own " IPs room. During the ten days he has been In Washington dozens of Senators have called upon Senator Mitchell- to assure him of their confidence in him and to ad vise him to disregard precedent and go back into the Senate as if he were not under Indictment. Some have advised him to follow the example of other Senators who have been indicted and remain away until he is cleared by the courts. Senator Mitchell does not desire to force his presence upon the Senate, if it would in any way be undesirable, but has de cided to go upon the floor and. defend himself against the charges made by the Federal grand, jury in Portland. He wllj, . I explain in- aetau nis enure .ponnecuon with tho land-fraud cases under examina tion. He will answer every charge made against him and will, he Is confident, be able to convince any fair-minded man of his entire innocence of any wrongdoing. Senator Mitchell has the right as a Sen ator to make such a statement on the floor of the Senate, and no objection will be raised when he seeks .recognition. The Senator's future course will be governed largely by the manner in which the Sen ate receives his explanation. If it be comes apparent that he is welcome back among his colleagues he will probably re main, otherwise he will not again in trude. During the past week Representative Hermann attended the sessions of tho House of Representatives on four differ ent days and responded to every rollcall when present. No objection whatever was raised to his participation In the proceed ings of the House, nor was he shunned, on account of his recent indictment. There was nothing In the actions of his col leagues toward him to indicate that ha was distinct from other Congressmen. Baker May Get Federal Building. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Jan. 15. If the omnibus public building bill I3 passed this session, an appropriation will be made for erecting a Federal building at Baker City, on the site heretofore purchased; The House nub commlttee has favorably reported Repre sentative Williamson's bill appropriating $SO,0C0 for this building. The whole committee. In framing tha general bill, 13 including only appropria tions for enlarging existing buildings or erectihg buildings on sites now owned by the Government, and Is confining itself to projects favorably reported by the sub committees. Unless further money is aske'd for the Portland Fostoffice. Oregon will receive no consideration In the pend ing bill beyond the Baker City Iteml TRAGEDIES 0E COTTON STRIKE Weaver Cuts His Throat; Loomf ixers Try to. Die by Means of Gas. FALL RIVER, ' Mass., Jan. 15. Today, with which began the 26th week, of its continuance, added its quota to the trage dies associated with the cotton-mill strike here. John Neville, a weaver, whd, with Jiis crippled wife, had suffered much, after reading of the failure ot the strike confer ence at Boston yesterday, stood before a mirror and drew a razor across his throat. He died immediately. The striking Ioomfixers, James Logan, Michael Waddington and Peter Hudson, who since the mills closed have lodged together ln one small room, were found unconscious by Illuminating gas today and removed to a hospital. They will recover. Free Ports Are Advocated. NEWCASTLE. Jan. 15. The monthly report of the Boilermakers' & Iron and Steel Shipbuilding Association, comment ing on the world's output, attributes Ger many's success in shipbuilding to her free ports and the free admission of raw and manufactured material for shipbuilding. The report adds that should the United States adopt the same free policy she would soon dispute with Great Britain the maritime and commercial supremacy of the world. Police Sergeant is Killed. WARSAW, Jan. 15. It is reported from Kristokoff that a revolutionary demonstration on January 8, there had signed and passed revolutionary proc lamations. , A police Sergeant was killed and a dragoon wounded. The murderer was arrestee