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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1905. - TMAYNOTPftSS Railroad Commission Bill in Danger. LEADERS ARE UNDECIDED Question "Whether a : Feeble Measure Will Satisfy Voters, NO OTHER CAN BE CARRIED Pierce and King Senators. Wilf Vote for "Fair" Law, but Their Definition of "Fair" is Not Exact. OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 8. (Stall Corre spondence.) The subcommittee railroad commission bill Is still In the hands of the after the party Inserted a commission plank In their platform and then failed to pass the bill. The last Republican platform had no commission plank and fewer Democrats were elected than In the previous year when the fight was ex clusively on the "commission issue. It is perhaps unsafe to argue from this that the defeat of the commission bill at this time would cause a still further de crease In Democratic representation two years hence, butit Is an undisputed fact that there is less clamor for the bill than there was when It was defeated two years ago. Mead in Commission Ranks. The commission men have added Gov ernor Mead to their list of supporters, and he will undoubtedly sanction any reason able measure that will be passed; in fact, he so stated on the stump and In his mes sage, but the cold, inhospitable and al most insulting manner in which the Governor was received while he was stumping the rabid commission districts last Fall undoubtedly took some of the keen edge off his commission ardor and in a way his support will be of the kind which he himself received from the ultra commission men. The Pierce County delegation held an Informal caucus this afternoon and ap pointed Representatives Sheet, Roberts and Crandall and Senators Stewart and Davis a committee to wait on the North ern Pacific officials in regard to a com plaint made before the railroad commis sion by Mr. Paulhams a few days ago. Mr. Poulhams charged the railroads with severe discrimination against the fruit growers of the Puyallup district and the delegation will endeavor to secure Imme diate and favorable action on the mat ter. It Is probable that the decision of the railroad men on the case presented by PENSION IS OPPOSED Firemen Bill Is Defeated in the Washington House. ROTH OPPOSES THE MEASURE Other Public Officers With Hazard ous Occupations Would Soon De mand Money From, General Fund of the State - OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. S. (Special.) Senator Tucker's bill providing for Fire men's Relief Association funds and the pensioning of disabled firemen was hope lessly defeated In the House this after noon after an extended debate, led by Roth of Whatcom. During Roth's speech of opposition to the bill It was necessary for Crandall and Maloney to yield their time for debate to Roth, to enable him to overcome the objections of the friends of the bill to his exceeding the 15-minute limit fixed by the rules of the House. Following the announcement of the vote, which stood, ayes 49, noes 37, ab sent and not voting 8, Poyns, who was formerly Fire Chief In Tacoma, gave no tice that he would tomorrow move to reconsider. The principal arguments against the measure by Roth, Reld, Bishop and Fal coner were that the funds, while osten- The Senate today appointed a commit tee to make an examination of thp Soldiers'- Home. This action was the re sult of the filing of a protest with the Governor signed by 28 Inmates of the Home. The protest runs against the reappointment of Superintendent Chamberlain and it makes serious and sensational charges of neglect and filthlness. It follows: Hon. Frank R. Good in sr. Governor. Boise, Idaho Sir: "We. your petitioners, inmates of the Soldiers' Home, respectfully protest asalnst the reappointment of the present commandant of the Soldiers Home, for the following reasons, to-wit: First That the Horpe" is and has been alive with bedbugs, and so effort baa been made to eradicate them by tbe authorities of the 'Home. Second Neither the commandant nor ,the matron (his wife) visits the hospital or slckvrard more than once In three months. The Mck Inmates are neglected, no Utile delicacies, so much relished by sick men everywhere, are ever prepared for them, their beds are unmade unless the sick men make them themselves, or their comrades, out of pure sympathy, make them for them. Third That the matron Is vindictive and overbearing, and apparently is the head ot the Institution. Cleanliness Is not one of the virtues prac ticed by the authorities of the Home, and It is respectfully submitted that If the Adjutant-General of the state or a committee of either house of the Legislature would visit the home atr a. time entirely unex pected by those in authority. such an Inspection would And a condition of things there existing which would call for prompt and efficient remedy. ASSESSMENT FOR FAIR EXHIBIT Dill Giving County Commissioners Power Is Passed by Both Houses. OLYMPIA, Wash.. Feb. 8.T-(SpeciaL) The Blaker bill," extending to County Commissioners the power to appropriate funds equal to a -mill tax on the as sessed valuation, for the purpose of pre paring exhibits at the Lewis and Clark Centennial, has now passed both houses and will go to the Governor. The bill came up In the Senate this FISHING BILL BY MEOLER MARKING OF LOCATIONS BY PILES IS FORBIDDEN. MARSHALL FIELD wffiSMANAGER CURED OF CATARRH OF KIDNEYS BY PE-RU-INA. Features Agreed Upon by Washington-Oregon Conference to Appear in a Separate Measure. OLYMPIA. Wash.. Feb. S.-(Special.) The general fisheries law, under the au thorship of Speaker Megler, appeared in the House this morning. The bill does not include some of the features agreed to by the Oregon and Washington joint conference. It being the Intention to place the matters affecting the Columbia in a separate bill. The Megler bill, however, fixes the licenses as agreed to by the joint conference committee. A side departure in marking fishing lo cations Is provided for. Under the pres ent law the locations are marked by the driving of three piles. The Megler bill provides for the survey of locations and. the filing of plats In the offices of the County Audi tor -and' the State Fish Commissioner. The idea Is known as the Major Millis plan. Major Millis. of the Government engin eering staff, has objected to the driving of piles because they are a menace to navigation. The bill will do away with tills menace and also provide that every vestige of the fishtrap or gear shall be removed within a certain period after the close of the fishing season. The joint fisheries committee this after noon met and decided to recommend for passage the 52500 appropriation for a fish hatchery on the Chehaiis River. The proposed close season agreed to by 6rlti3h Columbia and Puget Sound fish ermen, in conference held In Seattle a HARRY MURPHY SKETCHES, THREE WASHINGTON LEGISLATORS IN CHARACTERISTIC ATTITUDES JOHN T. SHEAHAN John T. Sheahan. who has been for seventeen years manager of Marshall Field & Co.'s wholesale warehouse, and is Corporal, 2d Regiment Infantry, I. N. G.. writes the folowlng letter from 3 733 Indiana ave.. Flat Six. Chicago, 111.: "I caught a cold which seemed to settle in my kidneys and affected them badly. I tried a conple of kidney remedies largely advertised, hut they did not help me any. One of my foremen told me of the great help he had re ceived in using Peruna in a similar case, and I at once procured some. "It was indeed a blessing to me, as I am on my feet a large part of the dav. and trouble, such as I had, affected me seriously, but four bottles of Peruna cured me entirely, and I would not be without it for three months' salary." The ureters are small tubes that con vey from the kidneys their excretion. The pelvis of the kidneys is a sort of reservoir Into which, all of the little tubes of the kidneys empty. All these tubes and cavities are lined with mucous membranes very much like the membranes of the nose. throat or middle ear. The mucous membrane of the kidney Is subject to catarrh the same as tho membrane of any other organ. The catarrh may be acute or chronic. It may be, of the dry .or humid variety. Whenever the kidney is affected by catarrh it Is known as Bright's Dis ease. Peruna is the remedy for catarrh, wherever located whether In the kid neys, the head, the lungs or the pelvic organs. Backache is' usually the first symp tom ot kidney trouble. At the appear ance of the first symptom, Peruna should be taken. Delays are danger ous, often causing: fatal results. Address Dr. S. B. Hartman, Presi dent of The Hartman Sanitarium, Co lumbus, Ohio, for free medical advice. Profit Sharing! Sale Sale Makes Large Saving Come Now On Housekeepers Early Great American Importing Tea Co Our 100 Stores Help Us to Help You 331 Washington St. 223 First St., Portland, Or. Astoria, 571 Commercial Street Oregon City, Main Street Eugene, 30 East Ninth Street Attorney-General, but is expected to be ready, for presentation tomorrow. This bill has been prepared almost exclusively by the House members of the subcommit teeRepresentatives Dickson, Hare, Rel ter and Crane. When they began work on it, Senators Davis, "Van de Vanter and Russell co-operated for a time, but Van de Vanter has been quite ill and the oth ers have been engaged on other commit tee work, and have paid but little atten tion to the measure. Tho commission men have practically abandoned hope of passing a very strong measure, and It Is still a matter of some doubt whether any kind of a bill will be passed. The reason for this is that the leaders of the party are seriously consid ering whether they would b& hurt any worse dt the,, polls two years hence if they killed the bill than if they passed an unsatisfactory bill now. A number of Pierce County and King County Senators were interviewed today regarding their attitude on tho question, and they were almost unanimous in stat ing that they would'support the bill if It was fair, but would not hesitate to vote against it if Jt was not fair. "While de clining to give an exact definition of what they regarded as a fair "bill, they were all opposed to .the-.Kennedy bill. PartoteQeal With Sweeny. The commission men have been bank ing strong on the support of King Coun ty, in accordance with a deal between the members of Sweeny's Southwest combine and Senator Piles. One of the conditions of the Piles' -victory was a promise of commission bill support from the King County men. But the Southeast men arc not such hidebound commission men as some of those farther north, and they will not ask King County or any one else to support a bill that they do not consider fair. The worst feature of the Kennedy bill. aside from the Illimitable power that it places In the hands of one man, is the joint rate proviso previously explained. This provision strikes its hardest blow at the C. R. & Co., and the members of the Southeast committee combine are nearly all In O. R. & X. territory, and get along on better terms with that rail road than some of their neighbors in Northern Pacific and Great Northern ter ritory. .. Bad Deal lor the O R. & N. The Joint rate provision could be manip ulatcd under the Kennedy act so that every branch of the Q- R. & N. Co., and a good portion of the main line in the State of Washington would become merely feeders to the other roads. The South east is opposed to the granting of any puch power and the Northwest, where lucid intervals on thji commission ques tion are less frequent. Is In favor of it. If the fight to keep this provision out of the bill becomes too bitter, the whole thing may be sent to the scrap heap lor, another two years. This would, of course, ongender considerable hard- feel ing, but no more than was . in evidence the Pierce County delegation will have some bearing on their action of. the. com mission bill. E. W. W. FIGHT FOR CAPITAL POSTPONED Seattle Experieces Change of Heart and Will Contest Tacoma's Claims. J OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. S. (Staff Cor respondence.) The capital-removal -fight in the House Is postponed for a week. The bill came over from the Senate yesterday, but was not referred to a committee until today. Speaker Megler selected the judiciary committee and that committee called a special meet ing after adjournment this afternoon to consider the bill. Through the efforts of friends of the bill consideration was post poned until next Wednesday at 7 P. M., at which time the committee will take the bill up as a special order. To offset the demand by attorneys for a removal of the capital to a more con venient location, a bill is proposed which would require the Supreme Court to hold one term In Spokane, one in Seattle and one In Olympia, leaving the headquarters of the court at the capital. The lawyers of the state are perhaps the most In sistent upon the removal bllL They ob ject to coming to Olympia on account of the time required and the poor accommo dations. "The latter have been so much worse than usual since the convening of this session that the bar of the state is said to be practically unanimous In favor ing removal. Olympians allege they .have the bill beaten in the House, but the men behind It assert that while the majority may not be large. It will be sufficient safely to carry the bill through. While Seattle had apparently burled the hatchet when her Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution indorsing the removal of the capital to Tacoma, she left the handle sticking conveniently out of the ground, and Is now getting on her war paint to fight against the removal. The action of the Chamber of Commerce In destroying a sacred tradition by indorsing anything that was for the good of Ta coma was reconsidered and now the prin cipal newspaper of the city has opened its batteries. In spite of this a number of King County men will vote for the re moval of the capital when the bill comes up in the House. E. w. W. Bills Killed in the House. OLYMPIA, Wash.. Feb. S. The House today, upon committee recommendations, indefinitely postponed the Rudene bill. providing "for a return, in' a degree, to the old road supervisor law. the antl trade check bill, the compulsory pilotage bill and the bill providing for an amend ment to the legislation reducing the num ber of Jurors required in certain actions Tho House appropriations committee tonight decided to recommend for pass age Lindsley's bill changing the Little Spokane salmon hatchery to a trout hatqhery, and Dickson's bill providing for tne scoring of dairy products and the in spection of dairy barns, creameries, cheese factories and cbndensarles. . sibly coming from an excise tax on tho net premiums of fire insurance companies, were In'reallty to be taken from the gen eral fund, to which all the tax now goes. They further objected because the pen sioning of firemen would be an entering wedge for the pensioning of policemen, i Sheriffs and other public officers whose duties are hazardous to life and limb. A large Spanish flag that was captured by Dewey at Manila and presented to the City of Olympia was this morning draped from- the gallery, and Roth seized the advantage offered Ho point dramatic ally to the flag and exclaim: "Pension first the men who captured that flag." Reld sarcastically remarked that if the bill were on a second reading he would move to amend by adding the King Coun ty delegation to the list of pensioners, be cause their success in tho Legislature had certainly incapacitated them for any other employment. Webster, LIndsley and Poyns spoke in favor of the bill. The House was keyed to the debating pitch All afternoon. Prior to the, defeat of the firemen's re lief bill thero was a heated controversy over Lindsley's bill requiring that City Councils In cities of the first class shall refer valuable privileges to the vote of the people upon petition of 23 por cent of the electors. In discussion of a motion indefinitely to postpone. LIndsley lost his temper over an accusation made by Maloney of Stevens that the Washington Water Power Company of Spokane was behind the bill. "I rise to a question of personal priv ilege," shouted LIndsley, whose face was red with anger. "Any assertion that my action in this matter is inspired by cor porate influence is an unqualified false hood. Tbe bill was prepared and intro duced without request from or consulta tion with any corporation." Speaker Megler quelled further personal retorts. The bill was objected to by Kenyon, Maloney and Booth on the theory that a big corporation now established might, through the agency of numerous em ployes, demand that franchises granted to rival companies be submitted to a vote of the people, and In the end defeat com petition and Voster monopoly. Kenoyer declared that It was a scheme to prevent other companies getting any of the power from Spokane Falls. He said that he lived In i district that hoped 'some time to profit by the local water of Spokane not now all appropriated. The motion indefi nitely to postpone was lost and the bill went over to third reading. .After a sharp debate the House lndefi nifcly postponed the House substitute bill and the original also forbidding the pay ment of rebates by insurance com panics to other than authorized agents. In Davis' factory inspection bill the $000 death liability clause was changed to $7500 and a motion to cut It out altogether was defeated on a rising vote of 24 to 23. The clause gives to mill and factory own ers the benefits of a maximum liability clause, such ns was defeated by the House yesterday In tho general liability bill. It Is vigorously opposed by labor interests. COMPLAINT OF OLD SOLDIERS Idaho Home Said to Be Conducted in an Improper Manner. BOISE, Idaho, Feb. .8. (Special.) morning and the fight which occurred over theRand bill covering the same features was renewed. Boone," Bratt, Bronson, Christian and Palmer voted against the bill. The measure carries an emergency clause. The House Juvenile Court bill and the House bill extending to 18 years the age limit of females who may be admitted t) the Reform School were also passed by the Senate. The Welsh bill, which provides that the right of eminent domain shall be ex tended to logging companies, was taken up by the Senate out of order and passed. The only vote recorded against the bill was by J. J. Smith: The bill provides for the submission of a constitutional amendment, and, if the amendment is ratified by the people. logging, mining or Irrigation companies will have the right to condemn rights of way across any property between the company holdings and a stream or soma other point it is desired to reach. The landlord liability act was also brought up out of order and passed 23 to 13. It repeals a territorial act which provided that a landlord renting property tQ a saloon can be held liable for .dam ages arising from the unlawful acts of a person obtaining liquor In such saloon. Davis, author of the bll. declared that a person buying a drink in Olympia and later inflicting damages In Seattle, might make the Olympia landlord liable. Palmer insisted that the bill was ttie only re straining influence on landlords to prevent them letting property to Irresponsible parties. The Senate also passed Potts' Senate biU extending the time for removal of timber from state lands purchased prior to March, and Veness Senate bill, grant ing five years' time to new purchasers of state timber to remove the same. tfust before the noon adjournment Sena tor Klnnear demanded an Investigation into the number and work of the Senate employes. He said he had been informed that there were 55 employes drawing an aggregate salary greater than theeom- ned salaries and mileage of the. mem bers of the Senate. As there are but 42 Senators the number of employes is one and one-third to each Senator. He intro duced a motion requiring the appoint ment of a 'committee of three to hold an investigation. Lieutenant-Governor Coon, upon adop tion of the motion, appointed Klnnear, Baker and Sumner. few months ago In an effort to devise some means for protecting the Fraser River sociteyes. will be a special order for the joint fisheries committee next Wednesd?- night. The features of the agreement are embodied in a Senate bill introduced by Earles". The close season is fixed only for 1906 and 1SC3, and be tween July 10 and August 20. Tho majority of the fishery companies on Poiget Sound favor the close season. The principal opponents are Frank Wright, of Belllngham; Representative Schultze, of San Juan County, who has fish Interests, and George O. George, of Astoria, who Is Interested in Puget Sound fisheries. The Earles measure is not ef fective after passage unless British Co- jumoia enacts a similar measure. Work of the Lobbyists. OLYMPIA. Wash.. Feb. S. (Special.) M. T. Hartson. Postmaster of Spokane, and D. T. Hamm. chairman of the Spo kane County Republican Central Commit tee, are In Olympia to work In the Inter ests of Congressman Jones, against the proposed Congressional districting bill. John S. Harpstejn. of Walla Walla, Is in Olympia to secure Indorsements of his candidacy for the position of Federal Judge in the new Eastern Washington judicial district. It is stated that Sena tor Charles T. Hutson, of Franklin County, will be appointed Assistant Dis trict Attorney for the Eastern Washing' ton district. In the dispensing of Federal patronage it is also reported that Representative E. D. Relter. of Lincoln County, will have a position in the Waterville Land Office. Troops Crossing Lake Baikal. -IRKUTSK. Siberia. Feb. S. The trans port of troops, passengers and mails on Ice sleds across Lake Baikal commenced today. TYPHOID GERMS. The microscope shows that in the blood ofevery person suffering from typhoid the little germs can be found as shown above. They are supposed to get into the water or milk we drink. The germs multiply so that one germ is capable of producing about one hundred trillion germs in twen-ty-four hours. 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