HE MORNING OKEGONIA2S. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 190o. LOCKED IN SftFE Commission Bill Is to Appear Monday. TERMS ARE WELL KNOWN Leaked Out Despite the Effort to Keep Secret 'ANCHOR WITHOUT A CHAIN Favoring Forces Show Little Cohe sion, and the Measure Likely to Pass Washington Legislature Will Be but a Ghost. OLYMPIA. Wash., Feb. 10. (Staff Correspondence):.-, death of Senator Sharp, and consequent early adjournment of both houses today, again delayed ac tion on the commission bill, and it will remain in the Attorney-General's safe un til the return of Chairman Dickson Mon Bay. In the absence of so many of the members of the Joint committee there will toe no further amending or changing until the measure emerges from its caretully guarded resting place. Despite the most careful guarding against leakage, little by little practically Ul of the important features of the re constructed bill have become public prop erty. The disturbing joint-rate provision, which 'was the most serious snag encoun tered since the general ratemaking power was refused, has been settled or evaded in a manner which all but the most stren uous commission men regard as satisfac tory and wnich It is believed will not cause much opposition from the railroads. As has beon mentioned, the most serious sufferer by the enforcement of a joint rate proviso such as the Kennedy bill attempted to force would be the O. It. & N. Co. Joint-Rate Matter Settled. The southeast combine, which through out the session has held the balance of power on the commission matter, would not consent to its passage until the Joint rate matter was settled on a more equi table basis, and the members have at last hit on an expedient which was suffi ciently alluring to induce the radical Spo kane men to stand In with them. The southeast men are all wheatgrowers or represent a wheatgrowing constituency end practically their sole demand for a commission comes from a desire to in crease the profits of the wheatgrower. To this end they have supplanted the Joint-rate proviso of the Kennedy bill with one which confers joint ratemaking pow ers on the board only in cases where wheat is higher in Puget Sound ports than it Is In Portland, or vice versa. The board apparently is to assume that when wheat hauled from mutual territory I cells at a higher price In one market than in the other, the road serving the port where the highest price is paid is receiv ing a higher rate than that to which it is entitled. This will of course stop the secret rebating which formerly existed between the northern roads andbig ship pers operating on Puget Sound, but It is not clear where the shipper will get any benefits from it. Weak Bill a Certainty. With the adjustments of the joint-rate question in a manner apparently satis factory alike to the railroads and the peo ple, there docs not seem to bo much like lihood of a fight from any one but the economists, who may object to distribu ting $60,000 to $70,M0 of the taxpayers money for nothing. "Let go the anchor," shouted the ex cited captain, when his ship drifted to ward the rocks. "The anchor's unshackled; there's no chain.' replied the mate. "Let 'er go anyhow; mebbe it will check her a little," retorted the unreasoning but hopeful skipper. The ship of state over here seems to he in a similar predicament, although it is not the captain that is demanding that the anchor be dropped. But there Is a con siderable number of the crew who seem imbued with the beliof that the drift to ward railroad rapacity can be checked by letting go a commission anchor, with no chain attached. Ono of the most active advocates of the commission a good one if h can get it, and any old kind of a one if he cannot get a good one voiced his sentiments as fol lows: Any Old Bill Will Do. "Of course we want a strong bill if we can pass it, but if we cannot pass it, we ought to take any kind of a measure we can get this time, when, after a two years' trial, the Commissioners can come before tho Legislature with recommendations for the kind of a bill that is needed and it would pass." This might be good reasoning from an officeholder's point of view, but a pros pective financial stringency in the appro priation committee may not warrant a 570,000 appropriation for a railroad" com mission experimental station. The lack of organization Is still one of the most noticeable characteristics of the commission forces, and there is such a wide difference in the views of the various members as to the degree of power that should be granted that it will be impossi ble to ever get them lined up as strong as they were when ex-Governor McBrldo cracked, the whip and applied the iron boot. Chairman Dickson, of the subcommit tee, announced before leaving to attend the funeral of Senator Sharp that the sub committee bill would be brought in early Monday morning. "Unless there is too much amending to be done, or it runs afoul of the capital removal bill, it should reach a vote not late, than Wednesday or Thursday. Senate Opposing Foster. Thirty-two of the members of the Sen ate, last evening made a mild entrance into the political -ght at Washington by sending a telegram to President Roose velt asking him to postpone further Washington appointments until Senator elect Piles reaches the capital. The only members of the Senate who failed to sign the document were Senator Le Crone, Foster's candidate for the Tacoma Post office; Senator Bronson, a business asso ciate: Senator Stewart and seven ab sentees. EL W. W. IN MEMORY OF SENATOR SHARP Both Branches of Washington Legis lature Adjourn Until Monday. OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 10. (Special.) Out of respect to the memory of Senator J. P. Sharp, who died In Ellensburg, Thursday, both branches of the Legisla ture adjourned this morning until 2 P. 31. Monday. A concurrent resolution was adopted providing .for the appointment of a com mittee from Housft and Senate to attend the funeral. In the Senate the commit tee named were Baker, Moore. Bands, Reed and Christian: In the House-the Speaker named Dickson, Hare Hughes, Bishop Mlnard. The committee also in cludes the Speaker and the President of the Senate. The Senate's only other action of con sequence was a short debate over Senator WIlson'i bill which gives the trustees of the Agricultural College supervision over the sales of agricultural college lands by the State Land Commissioner. The bill came in from the committee with a di vided report, the majority recommending indefinite postponement. During the discussion Senator Welsh, defending the majorjty, declared that he was ready to support a bill withdrawing all public lands from sale. He opposed the -plan of permitting local Interests to control their school lands. He declared that politics would influence the trustees, while such a man as tho Governor would be unmoved from such influence. Senator Tucker spoke for the bill and called attention to the fact that the Gov ernor appoints the trustees and as such would be held. responsible, too, for the proper disposition of the lands. The bill was indefinitely postponed. The resolution was received from the Spokane Lumbermen's Association pro testing against the sale of timber lands in a manner that meant tho sacrifice of state as well as of manufacturing Inter ests The House transacted only minor rou tine business beforo adopting the concur rent resolution relative to Senator Sharp's death, and then adjourned. WILL NOT LICENSE GAMBLING Montana Legislature Refuses to Take Off the Ban. HELENA, Mont, Feb. 10. The House today, in committee of the whole, killed a bill providing for the licensing of gambljng. It also killed a bill making trainwrecking punishable with dcatlu Prior to 1901 gambling was a felony in Montana, and as it was impossible? to get a jury to convict, with tli knowledge that a conviction meant a penitentiary sentence, this law was a dead letter. In 1301 the Legislature at the instigation of the gamblers amended the law so as to make It h misdemeanor, punishable by lino or imprisonment, but tho enemies of gam bling slipped in a proviso that sucb cases should be tried in the District Court, not in a Justice Court. Attorney-General Ponovan then exerted his authority to make the District Attnr neys prosecute the gamblers, threat ening them and the Sheriffs with iro peachment and bummary removal if they failed to obey. The result was the total closing of gambling-houses In several cities for some time until the Attorney-General's energy becamft relaxed. The bill just killed was an effort of the gamblers to get from under tho thumb of the Attorney-General and th District Courts and have their business legalized. ARMSTRONG WILL BE HANGED Supreme Court Affirms Findings in Chehalis County Murder. OLYMPIA, Wash.. Feb. 10. (Special.) The Supreme Court today affirmed the Chehalis County murder case of the State of Washington vs. A. A. Armstrong. Armstrong was convicted of murder In the first degree. Reverse was asked under five general heads: The refusal of the trial court to exclude witnesses from the courtroom during tho trial, evidence im properly admitted in rebuttal, improper remarks of counsel, error in Instructions given, error in refusing Instructions re quested. The crime for which Armstrong was convicted and for which he must pay the death penalty was committed In Chehalis County, November 11, 1M3. Armstrong shot and killed John R. Patton in a field belonging to Armstrong, where Patton was cutting wood. The two men had trouble and Armstrong claimed Patton was trespassing. He ordered Patton off, and when the latter refused to go shot him. Receiver for Lynden Bank. BELLINGHAM, Wash.. Feb. 10. W. I. Baker has been appointed by the Su perior Court as receivor for the Kil dall State Bank, Lynden. which closed its doors Monday. Assets are $15,000; liabilities. 513,000. ! i HOLDS UP A CHINESE Paroled Portland Prisoner in i Trouble at Tacoma. JAMES STARTED TO AUSTRALIA Marine Foreman and Would-Be Prize fighter Deserts Ship In This Port and Goes North, Where He Is Arrested. TACOMA,. Wash., Feb. 10. (Special.) Frank James, alias H. G. Brown, alias Frank Sullivan, a marine fireman and amateur prizefighter, arrested Thursday on the request of the Portland poljce, was positively identified today by Lou Bow as the man who held him up and robbed him at the muzzle of a revolver Tuesday night. James was recently sentenced In the criminal court at Portland to five years In the penitentiary on a charge of com plicity in a saloon robbery. He was given a conditional pardon and paroled on con dition that he take a berth on a ship about to sail from Portland for Australia. A few days before tho sailing James deserted and came to Tacoma, where he has re mained since. In fear of getting a heavier sentence in Tacoma for highway robbery. James re turned to Portland tonight In charge of detectives. QUESTION OF LAW'S VALIDITY Montana Supreme Court Hears Argu ment in Heinze Cases. . BUTTE, Mont., Feb. la The Supreme Court at Helena today listened to ex tended arguments on the application of F. Augustus Heinze for a writ of prohi bition directed to District Judge George M. Bourquin, of Butte, to prevent him proceeding In hearing the case of the Boston & Montana vs. Heinze and others, wherein it is sought to recover $3,750,000 damages for ores alleged to have been illegally extracted from the West Colu sa. Piccolo and Gambettl lode claims. Counsel for Heinze attacked the constitu tionality of the statute under which Judge Bourquin recently dismissed the motion directed against 'the motion to strike out Helnze's answer. Judge Bourquin held under that statute that if Heinze failed to answer material questions or to pro duce material records and refused to sign his deposition, he sacrificed his right to answer. Helnze's counsel alleges that that statute Is not constitutional. On" the other hand, counsel for the plaintiff company argued that tho law was valid. That was the only material Issue In the proceedings, but the question Is one of vast importance. The Supreme Court took the matter under advisement. California Senators Admitted to Ball. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Feb. 10. Senator Ell Wright, Indicted by the grand 'Jury of Sacramento County last night on a charge of bribery, was arrested this morn ing. His attorneys say the reason he was not arrested last night was because he could not procure bondsmen and did not want to spend the night in jail. George Egan and Thomas Martin, well known local saloonmen, furnished bonds for lilm at noon today. State Senators Bunkers, French and Emmons, also indicted for bribery, who were placed under arrest last night, have been released on ball of $3000 each. Tho four Senators named are charged with receiving $350 each from Joseph S. Jordan, who has made a confession. It is stated in the indictment that the money was paid and received for the particular purpose of influencing legislation, the spe cific charge being the guarantee of im munity for two building and loan asso ciations. Tho hearing of tho Senators In court Is sot for Saturday, February 18. Montana Business Man's Suicide. KALISPELL, Mont., Feb. 10. J. W. Conner, secrotary of the Board of Trade and prominent in business cir cles, was found in his office at the City Hall today with the top of his head blown off. Messages show the deed, to have been premeditated. Deceased was 42 years of age and well connected. No trouble of a busi ness or private nature is known. Ho was an Elk and had insurance with the Modern Woodmen and Maccabees. He left a widow but no children. Money for Flathead Indians. MISSOULA. Mont. Feb. 10. As the result of sales of the old Bitter Root Indian lands, made by the Government, $C500 will be distributed next week among the Flathead Indians now on REPRESENTATIVES RUDIO AND the reservation. This money will so to about 12 families who refused to move to the present reservation until they were promised by President Gar field. In 1SS2, that they should be paid for the lands they surrendered in the Bitter Root Valley. This will ,be the first payment made under that promise, although sales of the lands have been made by the Government every year. One SO-acre tract, sohl this month, brought $70 an acre. DIVISION OF KOOTENAI COUNTY Idaho Advocates of New Counties Are Very Confident. BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 10. (Special.) In the Senate today Taylor of Kootenai asked and was granted permission to withdraw his bill dividing Kootenai County, creating the County of Clark out of tho northern portion, with Sand Point as the county seat. This action followed a meeting in which the bill was discussed. An adverse report was drawn up, but was not presented to the Senate in view of the withdrawal. The advocates of division pin their faith to the House bill abolishing the old coun ty and creating two new counties, Lewis and Clark, with Sand Point as county seat of the former, and Coeur d'Alene as tho seat of government for the other. The opponents of this measure are con fident of defeating it, while Its support ers maintain that it can be passed. The latter claim 19 votes pledged, with enough more favorable to make them safe. The chances for success of the advocates of division do not appear to be bright. A feature of the Senate proceedings to day was a caucus to consider the report of the special committee to Investigate the office of Miss Scott, Superintendent of Public Instruction. It was decided the committee should report simply the re port of its expert accountant, exonerating Miss Scott from the Implied charge of having charged too much for expenses hi taking mute and blind children to and from schools in other states. NORTHWEST DEAD. Fred M. Smith. SEATTLE. Wash.. Feb. 10. Fred M. Smith, one of the oldest pioneers of Alaska, Is dead in this city at the age of 85 years. Mr. Smith superintended the construction of a Western Union Tele graph line in Alaska in 1865. The line started at New Westminster and was in tended to go to Behring Straits. A cable was to be laid across the straits to con nect with a line being built by the Rus sian government. The Alaska line was abandoned when the Atlantic cable was laid. George Fletcher. ASTORIA. Or., Feb. 10. (Special.) George Fletcher, a farmer living near Skamokawa. died at his home last eve ning of heart failure, after an Illness of about two weeks. The deceasQd was a native of England, GO years of age and had resided in this country since he was a young man. He left a widow, but no children. James McQuillan. BUTTE, Mont, Feb. 10. A Miner spe cial from Dillon, Mont., says James Mc Quillan, an old-timer and formerly prom inent mining and cattle man. Is dead of paralysis. Ho left considerable property. YOUNG BLACKMAILER CAPTURED Threatened Seattle Man Unless Bag of Gold Was Left at Certain Point. SEATTLE, Feb. 10. City detectives to night caught Moses HalU a 19-year-old boy, who was one of two who attempted to blackmail John R. Walthen. a local court stenographer. Walthen has been warned that if he did not placo 5300 in gold on a hydrant at the summit of Queen Anne "Hill, in this city, his resi dence would be blown up with dynamite. At 8 o'clock tonight Walthew placed a bag of washers on the hydrant and soon tho two young men appeared. The de tectives caught Hall, but his partner es caped after elx shots had been fired after him. He fell twice In the chase and it Is believed he was wounded. Poised for Fatal Leap. OREGON CITY, Or., Feb. 10. (Special.) Poised on the rail of the suspension bridge over the Willamette, John Hur guin, just released from three days' in carceration In the City Jail for drunken ness, was about to take his last leap when Chris Kelly and Claud Smith intervened and turned him over to the police again. Hurguln is a stranger in town and is be lieved to be a tinner by trade, as a sol dering Iron was found In his pocket. Military Company of Boys. ASTORIA, Or.. Feb. 10. (Special.) A military company consisting of 40 young boys has been organized In this city by Rev. Mr. Malone, pastor of the First Congregational Church. The company is holding regular drills and expects to com pete In the contests at Portland during the Lewis and Clark Fair. OLSEN - AND STATE SENATOR SENATE STANDS FIRM HOUSE DENIED FURTHER TIME IN WHICH TO FILE BILLS. Members of the Upper House Refuse to Pass Hurriedly on Mass of Undigested Legislation. SALEM. Or.. Feb.- lO.-(SpeciaL)-The Senate today denied a plea from the House for an extension of time within which to send House bills to the upper branch of the Legislature. According to the joint rules adopted, this was the last day upon which bills that have passed one House could be sent to the other. This limitation had been established in order to prevent a congestion of business during the closing days of the session. Instead of being ready to terminate the session in SO days, as Speaker Mills proposed, the House is so far behind In its work that today it was found neces sary to ask the Senate to give the House until the last two days of the session in which to finish Its own work, and send the bills to the Senate for final action. A committee composed of Speaker Mills and Representatives Kay und Smith, of Josephine, was accordingly appointed to go tc the Senate and present the request. "I am opposed to this extension of time." declared Senator Pierce, when Speaker Mills had stated the situation. "This is a proposal to put us back Just where wo were two years ago. I am not going to be put in that position again If I can help It. At the last session we re ceived bills up till the last two days of the session, and then we had such a mass of work on hand that we could not give It fair attention. Wc rushed bills through here as fast as the roll could be called, none of us knowing what we were voting on. "That was the way we put through the assessment law. and the result was that wc came back hero in special session to correct our mistake. If I am compelled to vote upon measures in that way again, I shall vote no on everything, in order to protect myself." It was apparent that the Senate would not extend the time to Wednesday night, as requested, but Senator Rand moved that tho time be extended to Tuesday noon. Pierco moved to amend by making it Monday night at midnight, and the amendment was adopted. This means that any bill that does not pass the House in which it originated before Monday night's adjournment, will be dead by expiration of time. It also means that the last days of the session will not be as crowded with work as at previous sessions, and that it "will be possible to give bills some degree of consideration. It will be found, however, that when the 40 days have passed, the time has been too short for the work the members of this session have laid out for themselves. EXAMINERS OF OSTEOPATHS. Board Sought to Be Created by Bill That Passed the House. SALEM. Or., Feb. 10. (Special.) A state board of osteopathic examiners is created by the bill of McLeod, of Union, which passed the House this afternoon. It is reported that an ax is being whetted for the bill In the Senate. The Governor Is to appoint five practic ing osteopaths who are graduates of os teopathic colleges. These shall serve from one to five years. Examinations for cer tificates to practice osteopathy are to be held on the third Fridays of March and September. No person shall practice os teopathy In the state without obtaining a license from the board. After June 1, 1905. If the bill becomes a law, all persons desiring to practice oste opathy shall apply to the board for licenses, and if they have diplomas from a recognized college of osteopathy,, the license may be granted without examina tion. The license fee is fixed at $10. which fees shall go to the support of the board. This license does not give the holder the right to administer drugs nor perform major surgery. Persons without licenses practicing osteopathy shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by flno from $50 to $100. McLeod said that he was not competent to discuss the merits or demerits of os teopathy, but that he had seen marvelous cures performed by It, and beljeved that its practice should be regulated. He had Introduced the bill at the request of the osteopaths. Dr. Stelner, of Lake, chairman of the committee on medicine and pharmacy, to which the bill was originally referred, said that he did not like to appear narrow-minded, but that he would like to vote for a bill eradicating all such schools. The bill passed, the following voting no: Noes Bailey. Blakeley, Caldwell. Cal vert, Cole. Dobbin, Holcomb, Hudson, Huntley, Jagger. Mears. Settlemeir. Steln er, Von der Hellen, Welch and West. Bramhall, Chamberlain. Cooper, Crang, HAMMER SKETCHED AT OLYMPIA Ira - Y I I V $1.25 I $1.25 TODAY'S SPECIAL A lot of pretty little "Mission style" Tabor- .11 T -1 J J 1 l 3 1 - j1 1 euues, uuiiu oi seieciea oajs, m tne popular "weathered" finish. They are 18 inches high, with 13-inch square tops. They'll wear for years and stand lots of knocking about. Every one is put together with bolts and heavy screws. You can't pull them apart. WEATHERED OAK TARORFTTFS $t ? S Regular Price C 1 ? ltLJ $2.50 J I g r Flint, Hermann. Killlngsworth and Vaw ter were absent, and Sitz was excused. Astoria Teacher Is Suspended. ASTORIA, Or.. Feb. 10. (Special.) A special meeting of the school board was held today to hear the charges against Miss Eva Todd, the teacher In the Adair School who was accused of breaking the quarantine regulations imposed by City Physician Pilklngton, during the time that she was ill with what was supposed to be the first symptoms of scarlet fever. After a full Investigation the board de cided to suspend Miss Todd from her du ties as teacher for a period of 20 days, the suspension to date froin February 3, the last day of the recent "term of the city schools. Whitman Representative Chosen. , WHITMAN COLLEGE, Walla Walla, Wash,, Feb. 10. (Special.) At a tryout here tonight Louis Sutherland, of the junior class, was chosen college orator to represent Whitman In the Intercollegiate contest at Pullman In May. LABOR IN ASCENDANT. Australia More and More Under Rule of Union Forces. Burris Gahan in Booklovers. Far more than one-quarter of all tho citizens of Australia live in Sydney and Melbourne; more than one-third live in the various state capitals: and nearly one-half live In towns of five thousand or upwards. This concentration of people in the cities and the simplicity of the In dustrial system combine to make the or ganization of labor easy and effective. And organized labor, during the last ten years, has played upon the mobility of the party system here to bring about the radical reforms that make these colonies conspicuous. This present ascendency of labor can be traced, curiously enough, to the de graded position of labor at the begin ning. A hundred years ago there were but two kinds of settlors, the convicts and their keepers. Often their positions might have been reversed with equity. When free settlers came, the convicts were hired out to them like slaves. Horny hands became almost as much a sign of disgrace as leg-irons themselves. It was not till the convict system was abolished that honest toil was reputed honorable. Then came the inevitable reaction. The workers, so long despised, could com mand respect when reinforced by the gold-miners and other free colonists. Trades-unionism came in the 'SOs to or ganize their forces, raise their courage and swell their pride. Their pride was soon humbled, but their courage could not be broken. The great maritime strike of 1S90 crippled the commerce of the conti nent and paralyzed a dozen industries in no sense maritime. It was followed dur ing the next three years by shearers' strikes and miners" strikes that coat the governments alone $2,000,000, and the men more than double that. AH the strikes failed. In five years the employers won every strike In every colony. Drought and financial disaster followed fast to swell the ranks of the unemployed and weaken the force of labor. Yet labor turned de feats and difficulties into reasons for bet ter organization. In its victories, capital might have read the ultimate triumph of the vanquished. Henceforth the horny handed stood a political Integer. Ten yeans ago workingmen began to win seats in Colonial Parliaments. Sometimes by merglng with the progressive, sometimes by holding the balance of power between the two old parties, sometimes by stand ing aloof from both and striving for office itself, the labor party in tho various colonies has succeeded in molding recent Australian legation and in making a journeyman printer the Premier of tho continent. Confesses He Robbed Employer. RENO. Nev., Feb. 10. George Morris, for some time a trusted employe of the Wells-Fargo Express Company at Truckee, Cal.. has confessed that ho robbed the office a few weeks ago, secur ing" more than $1200. Morris gave in formation leading to the recovery of $S00 of the stolen money. Any doctor will tell you how nutritious Ghirardelli's Ground Chocolate is. . But the people who drink it are the best exponents of its healthfulness. An ideal winter drink; excellent fcJf children. "