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6 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1905. Entered at the Postofflce at Portland, Or., aa aecond-claas matter, suBScmraox rates. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By Mall or Express.) Dally and Sunday, per year $9.00 Dally and Sunday, six months ...... 0.00 Dally and Sunday, three months BS Daily and Sunday, per month Dally without Sunday, per year i.jw Dally without Sunday, six months...... 3.30 Dal.y without Sunday, three roontna l)a:lj without Sunday, per month Funday, per year i Sunday, six months Sunday, three months w BV CARRIER. Dally without Sunday, per week 15 Dally, per week. Sunday included 20 THE WEEKLY OREGONIAN. (Issued Every Thursday.) Weekly, per year L50 Weekly, six months TAeekiy. three months HOW TO REMIT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are ai the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. w The 8. C. Beckwlth -Special AKenCTrrNew Tork. rooms 43-50 Tribune building. 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Cooper & Co.. 748 Market street; Goldsmith Bros., 230 Sutter nrd Hotel St Francis News Stand: L. E. Lre Palace Hotel News Stand; F. W. Pitts, 1U0S Market; Frank Scott. SO EUls; N. "I"ral1ey Movable News Stand, corner Mar It' and Kearney streets; Foster & Orear. IV -ry News Stand. Washington, I. C. Ebbltt House. Pennsyl- snla avenue. IORTLAND. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 23. A GOOD TIKCE OF WORK. A franehipe has been granted by the Cty Council of Chehalls, Wash., which by Its .modern and enlightened provl-s- mis shows that Chehalls has a Council ailve to progressive thought and care ful of the public Interests for which it is trustee. The franchise Is granted to an -,c-trk railway and power -company; and since such franchises arc now In great dermoid and are "bestowed too frequently in reckless disregard of the .merest of the public, some study of Its excellent features may appear neither untimely nor profitless. To begin with, the grant is limited to thMy-flve years. The Council wisely refrained from trying to settle for all ime what the relations shall be be tween Chehalls and Its street railways. The easement of the corporation in the highways of the city is to terminate with the life of the generation which confers it. This is well. Future gener ations have their rights also, and may desire to make terms entirely different. New Inventions are likely to appear within thirty-five years which will su persede trolleys. The city should be free to adopt them upon advantageous terms Long franchises amount to a "enunciation of all Improvement. They deliver the future to the Inexorable tjranny of greed. The SL Helens Im provement Company, which is seeking franchises over the county roads of "Washington, asks for a fifty years' grmt. This is too long. The lifetime rf one generation is ample. Perhaps it k excessive. The best thought of our day suggests twenty years as fair to both the grantee and the public. How the street railway property created under the admirable Che halls franchise is to be disposed of at the termination of the thirty-five years s not stated in the news report. Two ways suggest themselves. T(he grant to the corporation may be renewed un der terms still more favorable to the fty and for a shorter period; or, should our progress In civic virtue be what it ought during the next third of a cen tury, Chehalls may perhaps take pos session of the property and manage It -is successfully, as many foreign cities lo. American patriotism and business sense are as yet probably unequal to surh a task, but may we not hope to grow somewhat in the course of thirty five years? Are we to remain supinely content with civlc Ideals so low and public dishonesty ' so flagrant that America must forever hide her face in shame as the moral pariah among the nations? Again, it is noteworthy that the City Council has exacted compensation for the franchise. After ten years the city 's to receive 25 per cent.of the net earn ings of the corporation. This is very moderate compensation, but it is some thing. It indicates that the shameful custom of squandering the rights of the public In the highways, as the de bauched monarchs of other days flung privileges right and left to the infamous instruments of their vices, has passed away. At any rate, It Is passing. The divine right of corporations to plunder the public Is no longer accepted, with meek submission. A franchise is not tangible wealth, but it Is wealth and has value as such. The recognition of Immaterial property is ancient and firmly fixed in Anglo-Saxon Jurispru dence. Blackstone expounds its nature as a' commonplace. He adverts to ad owsons as an example. An advowson Is the right of presentation of a candi date to a living in the English Church. It is absolutely immaterial. It cannot be seen or weighed-or measured. Yet it has value. It Is bought and sold. The same Is true of franchises. While eluding the senses they are property none the less. The New Tork statute so declares and the Federal Supreme Court has sustained the statute. The Assessor of Multnomah County has fixed the valuation of the franchise of the Portland Railway Company at 5600.000, and the Board of Equalization has confirmed his estimate. The mar ket value of this franchise is some 54,000,000. so that the public is still far from receiving, its dues; but the assess ment Is a step, and a Jong one, in the right direction. Consider finally the provision in the Chehalls franchise that the books and records of the grantee must -be open at all times to inspection by the City CounclL This is the provision which President Roosevelt told the railroad employes he would like to see enforced against the railroad corporations. The Interstate Commerce Commission In cludes Alt among its recommendations to Congress. It is honest, equitable and thoroughly commendable. The attorney of the grantee argued against free in spection of Its books by the Chehalls Council. One wonders why. Is not the public a party to the transaction, and a most interested party? Has not the creator and benefactor of a corporation abundant right to inquire what use its benefactions are put to? Too often the right has lain in abeya"nce' and the creature of the law has taken advan tage of the public indifference to plun der and outrage his benefactor; but for all that the right remains intact and It is encouraging to see It exercised In Chehalis. Why should the railway company object? Have they some ne farious scheme to conceal? Are they planning some game of stock-watering which requires secret and misleading complexities of bookkeeping? How could the city exact its 25 per cent of the net earnings without access to the grantee's accounts? What a corpora tion really likes Is first to wheedle or defraud the public out of an uncondi tional, perpetual grant, and then to turn on the silly spendthrift and tell him to be damned for his folly. But this fashionable and agreeable method does not seem to work In Chehalis. PURGING THE BAR. "The bar," remarked Mr. Corwin S. Shank, of Seattle, before the Bar Assoclatn, "ought to be purged of its unworthy members." In this beautiful and touching sentiment all men must concur. The bar needs purg ing, needs it sadly; but, so far as one can see from Its report, the grievance committee of the Bar Association la not the cathartic to ault this particular pa tient. The committee has done as well as its predecessors, let us hasten to add, which amounts to saying that ' it has done nothing. The resolutions of the Oregon bar to purge Itself have always turned out very much like FalstafTs resolution to purge and leave sack. The bar as an organization has never effected much in the way of self-purification. It has not been left entirely to its sins, but the scraps of redemption have come from without, not from with in, like salvation for humble sinners. SL Rayner was disbarred largely through the efforts of a single Individual; he was restored to full fellowship at the bar through the activity or the com plaisance of leading lights in the Bar Association. The lame and Impotent report of the retiring grievance committee deals with seven cases of unworthy conduct by members of the bar. One case is that of a man who got admission to the bar in Nevada by lying. He then tried to use that Nevada admission to admit him to practice In Oregon. His appli cation was held up. The committee in vestigated the case and proved beyond question that he had lied; then they got scared. It occurred to them that they had proved the man a scoundrel with out first having "written and verified charges" filed against him, and this would never do. The man might be a scoundrel and they might know he was, but if their knowledge did not come to them with exactly the proper frills and twists they would not use it. To accept a plain, demonstrated fact as a fact and act upon it accordingly seems be yond the ability of the modern lawyer. In the face of their knowledge of the man's character, which was drawn from court records, the committee with drew the protest against his admission to the Oregon bar. Could anything be more absurd? Several of the other cases were similar or worse. When the charges were preferred In proper form the committee found some other reason for not investigating. When -no reason at all could be discovered, they neglect ed to set a date. As a last resort they left the matter to their successors. The net result of the purging thus far seems to be wind. The grievance committee has in almostevery Instance neglected facts and the merits of the case and based its action on some trivial matter of technical form, Just as the whole legal profession In. America seems pos sessed with a mania for exalting vain tricks and intricate chicanery above the straightforward search for justice. The lawyer Is an officer of the court. It Is his duty to assist In bringing to light the truth and effecting Justice be tween litigants. But Instead of doing that duty the great army of lawyers are In large part using their Ingenuity to bury the truth under subtle techni calities, to exclude It by absurd rules of evidence, to pervert It to the ruin of lit igants. It is notorious that, their ap peals, new trials and dilatory pleas amount to the denial of Justice to poor litigants and almost uniformly effect the escape from Justice of rich ones. Too many of our eminent lawyers to day are engaged, not. In helping to ad minister and interpret the law. as they ought, but in efforts to outwit the law for the benefit of wealthy clients and criminal corporations. There is a great deal more of the appearance of virtue and public, spirit In the legal profession than there is of the reality. If they would 'cease to boast of their past achievements, which have been glorious, we all concede, and devote themselves to purging the profession not only of its unworthy members, but also" of its unworthy ideals and unmeritorlous practices, there would be great gain both for the lawyers and for the Na tion. IRRIGATION' HERE AND ELSEWHERE. The work,- preliminary and construct ive, that is being done In connection with the Government's great Irrigation scheme is widespread, enormous in ag gregate, and carefully supervised ,In de tail. Oregon's arid, or semi-arid, land area is much less than that of Montana, the Dakotas and.other Rocky Mountain States; yet this area Is still large, and in the general distribution of Govern ment favors this state Justly claims its share. In Montana, for example, there are being exploited at this time what is known as the Huntley project, involv ing the excavating of about 644,000 cubic yards of earth. About 330,000 feet of beam lumber, 140,000 pounds of steel, and about 14,000 cubic yards of con crete will be required in the canal con struction for a total distribution length of 133 miles. It is expected that a large portion of the land included In this re clamation project will be divided into farms of forty-acre tracts, forming an invitation to settlers that will be irre sistible. The Madison River project is another scheme to open up semi-arid lands to settlement In that state, sur veys for which have been made. Re connaissance surveys have been com pleted on the Lake Basin and Clark's Fork projects, a large area in both dis tricts having been topographically sur eyed, while field surveys on the Sun River and Milk River projects have been brought to a doe and, progrese In each instance will soon be reported at Washington. These are but a few of the great ac tivities that are in progress for the re clamation of arid lands. We have heard nothing that Indicates that any of these projects and others In the Rocky Mountain States is likely to be "turned down" by the Interior Depart ment. They have been conducted care fully, under strict Governmental super vision, as have been the several smaller projects in our own state, and they ap pear to have found favor at Washing ton. For this we are glad. Any scheme that proposes to extend the ara ble area of the country and multiply Its homes is significant of National progress of help that looks, to self help andof effort that tends to relieve congestion In the great cities so incom patible with the genius of our National life. Oregon asks to be permitted to share, to the extent of her needs In this line, the unbiased favor of the Government All of the state's uncultivated lands are not timber lands, liable to suffer spolia tion from timber thieves, aided and abetted by venal officials; nor are all of these lands in the well-watered valleys of Western Oregon. A vast expanse in Eastern and Southeastern Oregon .awaits irrigation "to laugh Into plenty beneath the settler's feet," aa Hamlin Garland fancifully expresses It. The state Is In an .unfortunate position at the National capital Just now. Its in terests have suffered arc suffering se verely from lack of Tepresentation. And when to this is added the apparent hos tility of the Secretary of the Interior to its Irrigation projects, and the ap parent hostility of the Secretary of War to the improvement of Its river chan nels, it must be conceded that the time for vigorous protest is at hand. HAVING FUN AT ANNAPOLIS. Here is the "code" at the Annapolis Naval Academy for fourth classmen: They must keep away from certain walks, turn squarely at corners, never look at an upper classman, never talk to girte, observe certain regulations about eating, and reply most respect fully when spoken to by upper class men. All this transpired at the Meri wether court-martial yesterday. Meri wether Is a young brute from Louisi ana who had high notions about his own dignity and very deservedly low notions about the morale of the Institu tion. He became greatly incensed at a fellow-midshipman named Branch and grossly insulted him, knowing that, un der the cadets' "code," Branch must challenge him to a fist fight. Branch under coercion did challenge him, and after twenty-two rounds of furious fighting received injuries from which he subsequently died. Now the academy authorities are 'quickened into action. They propose to punish somebody. But Meriwether Is not wholly, or even primarily, respon sible forj the death of young Branch. He did not Intend to kill Branch. They simply proposed to fight It out, precise ly as many others had fought it out. to satisfy the demands of the "code." The code is to blame, and the naval author ities are to blame for the code. Why not put the commandant at Annapolis on trial? It will. doubtless develop. If inquiry is made, that he knew all about the code. If he didn't know It. he didn't know much about what the ca dets were doing, and he was and is unfit for his place. But no doubt there will be a little flurry about this Meriwether-Branch episode, and then it will be forgotten and the young gentlemen at Annapolis, who are so Jealous of their honor and so careless of their country's honor, will take things again in their own hands and tie obstinate under-classmen on railroad tracks, or bind them hand and foot and take them by force many miles into the country, leaving them there, or roll them in barrels until they suc cumb from sheer exhaustion. It was this latter variety of playful entertain ment that caused the death at An napolis, some years ago, of young Strang, an Oregon midshipman. One might think that so shocking and de plorablean event would lead to stern discipline at Annapolis, but It didn't. COMl'ULOUY VACCINATION. There is never a time In which agita tion in regard to compulsory vaccina tion is not in progress In some part of the' country. Between the advocates of vaccination, who demonstrate volubly from the records that It Is the state's and the community's only safe resource against an always possible epidemic of smallpox, and the opponents of the measure, who arc In open revolt against the Introduction of the virus of a loathsome disease into the human system, a wide gulf is fixed, each side being invulnerable to the arguments of the other. Of late years the complica tion has been Increased by injection Into the opposition of the religious scruples of a large class, so that now the battle is being fought more stubbornly than ever. Of course, as long as vaccination is the voluntary act of an adult person, or the authoritative act of the parent, no logitimate stay of proceedings can be lodged against it. But when health authorities, business managers of mer cantile and other concerns and school boards make the vaccination of those under their temporary control compul sory, a cry against the infringement of personal liberty goes up, and not Infre quently the courts are called upon to decide between the two contending ele ments. The question was met upon this Issue. In the Supreme Court of the United States, for the first time recent ly, the case being that of Jacobson vs. the State of Massachusetts. The fight was against the compulsory vaccination law of that state, and the action was brought under the plea that compulsory vaccination was in contravention of the fourteenth amendment of the Federal Constitution. which provides that no state shall make or enforce any "law which would abridge the privileges or Immunities o.f citizens of the United States. The decision of the Supreme Court was that the personal liberty secured by the fourteenth amendment against state legislation abridging the privi leges of citizens is not infringed by the state law making vaccination compul sory. The Supreme Court declares fur ther that the Legislature was author ized to make a choice between the the ory of those who regard vaccination as worthless or injurious and the generally accepted theory that vaccination is of the greatest- value as a protection against smallpox. A number of State Supreme Courts have been appealed to in regard to the constitutionality of compulsory vacci nation, and the decision has uniformly been that such legislation is but the legitimate exercise of police power for safeguarding the public health. The Federal Supreme Court now holds that such legislation is permissible under the Federal Constitution. The editor of the Green Bag, in calling attention to the decision, notes that the court sustains the right of the state to enforce a com pulsory vaccination law with reference to adults, and by implication sanctions the- requirement as applied to children attending the public schools. The Mas sachusetts law was attacked on the plausible ground that it interferes with personal liberty and Is opposed to the spirit of the Constitution. This conten tion the court of last resort holds is untenable. The police power of the state Is extensive, and operates accord ing to the emergency presented. In Its legitimate exercise the liberty of the In dividual may be reasonably restrained for the public welfare. The contention in this state is confined to the school authorities, who use discretionary power in the premises. Wc have no state compulsory vaccination law, and the power of the School Board extends no farther than to decline to receive children into the public schools who have not, within a reasonable length of time, been vaccinated. This power, ac cording to a late decision of the Attorney-General, is arbitrary and not in consonance with law. In the meantime, smallpox, like the poor, we have always with us. The type of the disease in re cent years, owing to sanitary regula tions, is not malignant. But since no body wants to havcfit, and the quaran tine that It imposes is exceedingly dis tasteful, the majority of people will ac cept vaccination as a precautlonary measure and become- Immune to the vexatious and disgusting malady. The matter is one of which it may be said, "The prudent man foreseeth the evil and hldeth himself, while the simple pass on and are punished." The atrocities perpetrated on the wretched natives of the Congo Free State under the Jurisdiction of King Leopold'of Belgium surpass In system atic, coldblooded cruelty even those that the Jews have lately suffered in Russia. The Congo .cruelties are perpe trated In the name of trade, the natives being compelled, by the most horrible punishment, to bring in rubber to the Belgian monopoly that controls the rub ber trade. These punishments are. in flicted regardless of the fact that as the rubber forests are worked out the peo ple cannot execute the command of their masters. The Rev. C. B. Antsidel. a Baptist missionary, publishes In a late number of the Independent a re view of the evidence that was brought out before the commission appointed by the British government to investigate the matter, and concludes his paper with the statement that the British government Is bringing some pressure to bear on Leopold to put a stop to these atrocities, adding: "If the United States would do. likewise, the combined effect of such action could not be re sisted by Leopold." It is certainly time that measures were taken by civilized nations to force the conscienceless old mercenary who wears the crown of Bel gium to withhold his oppression from the suffering blacks. The slave trade, with Its dire cruelties, has no chapter in all its history that records greater out rages upon humanity than are detailed In the blood. record of Leopold's gov ernment of the Congo State. And yet these shocking cruelties go on and on, year after year, practlcaly unchal lenged by civilized nations. George B. Bobbins, president of the Armour Car Lines, a corporation oper ating 12,600 cars, refused, in a recent hearing before the Interstate Commerce Commission, to answer the question as to whether the company gave preferen tial rates to Armour & Co.. declaring in substance that it was none of the commission's business if it did. It is evident that some power, to which rail road corporations are amenable, will have to be Invoked or the railroads will soon have the "Ladd grip" on all the business of the country. The business of Armour & Co. being with the public in the widest sense. Is not a "private matter Into which the Interstate Com merce Commission has no right to In quire," as alleged by Mr. Robblns. It is a matter in which the public has a vital interest, and this Inquiry wns in direct line with the purpose for which the commission was created. Yet a lit tle longer and greed will overreach It self and impertinence be brought to book. ' The remarkable prosperity of the rail roads is not confined to the lines that traverse the new and rapidly develop ing districts of the West, for complaints of car shortage are heard in all parts of the United States. Another evi dence of the enormous Increase In traffic is that the Erie Railroad, one of the pioneer roads of the East, running through a country that has been thick ly settled for half a century, this year has added 159 locomotives to its equip ment and has appropriated Jlo.OOO.OW for other improvements. r The Citizens' Industrial Association of America adopted at St. Louis a reso lution that labor unions, which It calls labor trusts, "should be prosecuted In like manner as are trusts of capital." Labor unionists who know how trusts of capital are prosecuted will not be much scared at this threat. . The polioy-holdcrs are now to pay McCurdy only $75,000 per year, which Is only 50 per cent more than the people of the United States pay President Roosevelt But, then, McCurdy has a large family to support also at the policy-holders' expense. The Government is determined to as certain, through the Meriwether court martial, whether the commandant or the midshipmen are running the An napolis Naval Academy. The Inquiry might well extend to the aVerage Amer ican college. Mr. Piatt never asked the insurance companies for that money, and never promised them anything. It was pol-lpy-holders' money, and the benevolent management had to get rid of It some how. A Montana man wagered that he could drink a quart of gin. and he won his bet. But he died. Which is of less Importance In Montana than to be a loser. Stale and Unprofitable. Puck. One day a football player appeared In the classroom during the football season. The students were deeply shocked, yet they managed to preserve the outward forms of respect. But when presently It turned out that the follow knew his les son, mere was none so poor to do him reverence. "He's gone stale!" was the sneering whisper which 'ran from lip to lip. SILHOUETTES Perhaps If an Investigation were made It would develop that the evil Influence 'against Oregon In Washington City is the reputation and character of some three certain 'members of Oregon's Congression al delegation. s Why don't the Administration let the railroads alone? They will regulate their own rates all right, alt right. Senator Burton Is another man wlip should make It a practice to burn hla letters. . He who is not prepared to suffer Is not prepared to live. Whm a woman says "You rascal." to a man, -he wants to kiss her. When one man says It to another, he wants to fight. When life eoases to be a puzzle. It ceases to be a pleasure. The Boyvllle vigilantes ought to tar and feather that iindor-3heriff who ar rested thi boy who .climbed the fence to seo the Sherman-Chemawa Indian foot ball game. That arrest was the meanest act done In this town during a whole year. It Ik funny to see a freshman make up in college toes, but It becomes dlstressinc- when a man of 40 wours an Ingrowing hat, The discovery of cold in Vermont Is re ported. It must have been made in a dentist's office. The difference between a youne man's fiancee and his "steady company" is the difference between King's Heights and blomown. A person who wears the smile that won't come off is as great a bore as the one who carrios his troubles around in a sieve. It will be noticed that when a preacher "accept a call" a "raise" usually accom panies the "call." Whenever I sec "a man who was" I think of haunted housos and shiver. For a man who wears whiskers Jim HIH seoms to be considerable of a sue CtMHI. The time has come In Republican poli tics In this state when the voters should call for a new pack of cards, sec then opened and watch the deal. The Old-TInicr's Story. Yesterday. aftr tho adjournment of the State Bar Association. Major Gulliver G. Grlsjloback and his friend. Judge Ananias Chlckenglzzard. dropped Into the ollxlr laboratory, and. after eating a few eor nttcoplasVof nock drench, the Judge lapsed Into a reminiscent mood. "D'ye remember the great deer hunts we used to have In the brakes of the Yamhill. Major?" asked he. filching an unsanitary-looking sardine out of the free will lunch offering. "Ah reckon as now Ah do. begob." re sponded the Major. In his soft Southern Oregon drawl, "and pesky good times we had, too." The Judge was silent for a moment, and then began to narrate with his mouth full. "I recollect In particular a race wc had after a big buck, one day In that cold Winter of 'Si and S5. Wc started the deer about nine miles south of Dayton. In the sand hills. Wo were mounted and had a pack of Siberian spaniels and col lies, the best dcec dogs anywhere In the county. They were known as the dogs In tho manger, and have made Yamhill famous. As I said, wc started early In the morning of a hot day. just before sun-up. I remom'bonlt as If It was yes terday, for sugar-beets and castor-beans wero rlpo. and life seemed worth living. Tho scent of new-mown hops was in the air. and 1 felt almost reconciled to Cleve land's election. As I say. the bear was flushed tbout nine miles west of Dayton, and struck out across the prairie, bound ing over rocks and fallen logs as If he was scared to death. I emptied both barrels of my Smith-Premier hammcrless Into tho flock, and broke one's wing, but he hid In the grass and thorc was no time to look for It. as we were In full cry and he was running like an express train, with his antlers hold high, like the masts of a ship. By this time It was getting woll along In the afternoon, and' the sun was hotter than blazes. We could seo the tall sycamores along the banks of the Yamhill, far away, and wc knew that the deer was making for the river. We quickened our pace, expecting every min ute to break the springs of our buggy, for our team was In a dead run. In stantly we were at the river's brink. Tho broad stream was a glare of ice. and tho bear did not hesitate a moment, but. sliding and slipping, he lumbered across to tho other side, the dogs right nt his heels. On the other side was a big wheat field, with a lot of men harvesting. Right into that waving field of yellow grain ran the splendid buck, with his eyes bulg ing and his tongue bulging out. He dashed right by a binder which a big, brawny blacksmith was driving, who, quick as a flash seized the psychological moment and the pitman-rod of the binder and cut that deer's head off clean as a whis tle and by the time we caught up with the dogs the harvesters had the carcass skinned and dressed. It weighed 350 pounds, and I have the antlers in my hall to this day." The Judge 'paused, panting with excite ment at the recollection of the stirring scene. Mayor Grlstleback's eyes were also beaming. "Ah remember perfectly well that hunt." said he excitedly. "I was the man with the pitman-rod. Have another dill pickle, sah. for old time's sake." ' A man who can pay compliments as gracefully as Harry Whlttler should be able to break up every happy' home in Portland. " It seoms to be a fact that a criminal always breaks down before he coughs up. There certainly are enough Smiths in Oregon to elect.- E. L., of Hood . River, Governor. ' ' Gents discuss gentlewomen,, but gentle- women nover discuss gents. ' The' world has grown so old that It laughs at Its own senility. He who practices the habit of thinking should talk through 'a. filter. When the wedding presents and the marriage settlement come in at the front door, Cupid climbs out of a back' window. He who would teach should' first learn. Not many do. ARTHUR A. GREENE; JAPAN'S GREAT NEW NAVY. Will Build Huge Battleships or High Speed. VICTORLV. B. C, Nov. 22. The Japan ese Admiralty has entered upon an elab orate scheme of naval expansion which Is expected to be approved at the coming session of the Diet. According to news by tho Shawmut today. Admiralty officials say Japan's best ships are beginning to be out of date, and larger ships with much heavier armament and higher speed will be builL The Jijl Shimpo says the battleship of tho future navy of Japan will displace 22.C0Q tons and have an armament of 14 12-lnfth guns and a speed of 20 knots, while the future cruisers will displace 15,000 tons and have a speed of 23 knots, but no offi cial announcement haa been made In this regard. The Nippon gives a list of warships about to be laid down In Japanese yards, as follows: At Yokosuka. battleship S.U suma, 1S.C0O tons; at Kure, battleship Aki, 1S.0C0 tons; armored cruiser Tsukuba, 14. 000 tons, to be completed In February. 1905; armored cruiser Ikoma. 14.000 tons, to be launched In December, 1305; armored cruiser Ikubi, 14.000 tons, to be laid down at Yokosuka; armored cruiser Kurama. 14.000 tons. The five submarines recently added, built in America In sections, gave such success that the squadron will be increased. The destroyer Asakaze was launched at Kobe on October 2S. and four others are in course of construction. A second-class cruiser and a dispatch-boat arc being built at Sasebo. The steamer Shawmut. of the Boston Steamship Company, arrived here today from Manila with a cargo of .14.000 tons of hemp, matting, tea and goneral merchan dise, valued at $1,200,000. RETURN OF VICTORIOUS ARMY Soldiers Lnud With Great Acclaim. Mikado to Receive Generals. VICTORIA. B. C, Nov. 22. Great prep arations are being made for celebrating the" return of the Japanese armies from Manchuria, according to advices by the steamer Shawmut. Major-Gcneral Sakai and the Tumen army, from North Corea. wore landing at Ujina. amid great ac claim, when the steamer sailed, and 36 transports were waiting at Dairen (Dalny) for other troops. Trafllc on Japanese railroads has been Interrupted, and preparations are bolng made to make a record in celerity. AH the, troops are expected to be home In six months. Officers of the rank of Major General and upward will proceed at once to Toklo to have audience with the Em peror. wWIe the different divisions will be sent to the divisional headquarters to be demobilized. Kurokl's army will arrive after the Tumen arm. Marshal Oyama and staff are expected at Toklo in December. Merchants of Yo kohama have erected an arch costing $6000 at the railway station in honor of the troops. Enemies Unite to Fight Flrq. VICTORIA. B. C.. Nov. 22. News was received from Sakhalin that, when tho Japanese were handing oyer Northern Sakhalin to the Russians, fire broke out at Alejandro vflka and dostroj-cd 30 build ings. Russians and Japanese fought the fire side .by side. Return of Russian Troops. VICTORIA, B. C. Nov. 22. The Russians propose to send six army corps home from Manchuria, but to allow three army corns of 322,000 men and 1400 guns to remain for the time being. The movement of the six home-going armies is expected to oecupy IS months. Japan's New Big Gun .Factory. VICTORIA, B. C.. Nov. 22. An immense gun factory, with 20 large buildings, cov ering 83 acres. Is being established on the Sunilda Rlvcr. near Toklo, by the Japan ese military authorities, where 4000 men will be employed In making lFeavy ord nance. ST. PAUL WAS INTERESTED Opposed Franchise Asked by North ern Pacific. TACOMA. Wash., Nov. 22. (Special.) President Jones, of the Chamber of Com merce, tonight Inadvertently gave away the secret of the ownership of the tide-, lands recently transferred to the Paclfie Railway. The disclosure was made while Mr. Jones was relating the history of the opposition to the franchise asked for by the Northern Pacific- to tho proposed Dempsey mill on the tide flats. President Belllngham of the Council, declared tho trustees of the chamber, were to blame for the way the matter had bn dnlnvtxi If they had knowledge of the inside facts ana naa not maae mem Known to the members of tho Council. In reply Jones took the floor and wont Into tho matter In detail. After corre spondence was begun with the Northern Pacific for the snur track thp Mltwntik Railway matter began to be much talked oi ana jones iook me matter up with President Eirllng. of the Milwaukee & St. Paul road and offered to use his In flueneft to lipad off tli 'nrthiim Ta and one day lTfe received a telegram from rresiuent jarung urging him not to give It to them." This related to the ordinance that called for tho tracks that would straddle tho land purchased by J. T. Woodward and later turned over to th Pacific Ttniinrsv Jones then stated that as the ordinance had since been modified tho Milwaukee people were no longer opposed to It. This sentiment was also brought out by At torney Herbert Griggs, who stated that he represented the Pacific Railway Com- panj-. JEWS FLEEING TO PALESTINE Zionist 3Iovcmcnt Given Great Im petus by Massacres. ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. 22. DisnAtiha from Southwestern Russia !nd!cnt thnf the Zionist movement has been eivmn a powerful Impetus by the recent Jewish dis orders. Hundreds of Jewish families are leaving or preparing to leave for Pales tine. Three hundred fled from ndM to day. NORTHWEST DEAD. Peter Irvliijr. .. wh.ui.i. x uier Irvine, nioneer of Tacoma. anH most nromlnent and wealthier xitino died at 11:45 tonight from paralysis, with wnicn ne was stricKen a week ago. His nearest relatives are a married sister In Ontario and two nephews Peter H. Irv ine, of Tacoma. and T v. Ti-,.irT. North Yakima. Mr. Irving had never mameu. .Airs. C. A. McFarland. EUGENE. Or.. Nov. 22. fSoecIal.) Mrs. C. A. McFarland died last night at the home of her daughter In Spring field, from the effects of Injuries re ceived last week, when she received a fracture of the hip-bone In a fall. She was 87 years old and came to Oregon from Minnesota in 1372. Report on Devlin Estate. TOPEKA. Kan.. Nov. 22. The report of the C. J. Devlin receivers appointed by the. United States District Court made Its appearance today. It phowa the total as sets, to be H.S56.34S. and the total liabili ties 54.c52.20S. The contingent liabilities were estimated at $674,639. but their value has not yet been fully deterrnined. FIGHTS BETWEEN UNIONS. Longshoremen -and Seamen Will Ar bltrate Xhelr Feud. PITTSBURG. Nov. 22. One of the most interesting features of today's sessions of the American Federation of Labor convention was the reading of a reply from Governor Penny packer to the communication of the convention asking that he issue a supplemental call for the extra session of the Gen eral Assembly which would include certain legislation in the interest of labor unions and employers liability laws. The answer was read just be fore the convention adjourned for the day. It stated that the authority to issue such a supplemental clause was seriously questioned and advised the convention to get legal advice on the matter. The reply will bo considered by the special committee of the con vention that was given charge of tr.e affair In the start, and a report will Ukidy be made tomorrow. The sessions today were of interest to the delegates of the Longshoremen's Union and the Seamen's Union, both in ternational bodies, which have been quarreling over the jurisdiction over certain conditions of workmen for some time. Their long-standing diffi culties occupied the time of the con vention for much of the morning, an I practically all ythe afternoon. It was decided to have the two unions appoint an arbitration committee and settle the matter between themselves. The dispute between the Brewery Workmen's Union and the Engineers and Firemen's Union was settled by tho Engineers and Firemen in th? Brewery Union body, being permitted to join their respective unions with out detriment to them as union men. There has been considerable political talk during the past week and from what is- said in the convention now- It looks as though there will be .but two changes in the offices this year. Thesa will be by the retirement of Fifth Vlee Prosldent Kldd and Eighth Vice-President Spencer, the latter a Plumbers Union official. It Is possible the elec tion of officers -111 be reached tomor row. Notwitnstanding the fact that on Monday It will be decided to hold the usual annual banquet. It was an nounced by the entertainment commit tee today that the decision, had been reversed, and for the first time In the history of the Federation tho conven tion will adjourn finally without a ban quet. President Gompers' report was again before the convention at this mornings session, and the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: "Recommending the exelualon of Chi nese, Japanese and Corenn labor from this country" and its possessions; pro hibiting the employment of child labor: Instructing the executive council to se lect one labor organization against which an Injunction has been granted, employ competent legal talent and car ry the case to the United States Su preme pourt to test the constitutional ity of the Injunction laws now In forc; pledging support to the striking print ers and recommending the calling of a meeting of the International Women s Labor League to djust differences said to exist in thut auxiliary of the Fed eration." Eight Hours for Dlnmondcutters. NEW YORK, Nov. 22. Eight hours are. to constitute a day's work in the diamond-cutting and polishing Industry here after, under an agreement reached yester day by committee representing the union and the manufacturers. The employes In this city arc less than 400. BUSINESS MEN TAKE HOLD RoTorm Movement for Better Rail ' roud Rate Legislation in Montana. BUTTE. Mont.. Nov. 22. The business men of Helena have taken steps to form a state organization of representative busi ness men from every section of Montana for tho purpose of assisting In tho reform movement for better railroad rate legis lation. The plan of the organization will be to assist in carrying out President Roosevelt's scheme for Government con trol of railroads. A call has been Issued by tho Helena men asking for tho co-operation of the entire state. Business and commercial organizations are mvttea to send one or two representatives to a meeting to be held In Helena December 14. for the pur pose of organizing. Among other things. It Is proposed to petition the Senators and Representatives to support President Roosevelt In his battle against the rail road, trust and to assist Montana in her fight against railroad rato discrimination. AMENDS CIVIIj SERVICE RULE President Inserts Provision for Sum mary Dismissal of Clerks. WASHINGTON. Nov. 22. The Presi dent has Issude an executive order amending civil service rules In sub stalice to conform to his recent order relative to the dismissal of employes In the classified service without hear ing, by direction of the President or head of An. executive department. As laid down In the rule, which i3 an amendment to civil service rule xli. thlK principle is prefaced by the fol lowing statement: "2 No person shall be removed from a competitive position except for such cause as will promote the efficiency of the service." Anothor difference from the order or Octobor 17 Is the substitution for the phrase "Such removal will be made without hearing" of the words -'such removal may be made without notice to such officer or employe." SUPPLIES FOR THE WHALERS Expedition Under Charge of Cana dian Mounted Police Goes North. VANCOUVER. B. C. Nov. 22,-Sergeant S. Fitzgerald and Constable J. Walker, of the Northwest Mounted Police, sailed for Skagw&y today to carry mall and a lim ited quantity of medical supplies to the fleet of 11 whalers frozen In for the Win ter at Herschel Island, far within the Arctic Circle. The men are sent by the Dominion government, and will make the trip from Dawson by dog team, accom panied by five experienced "mushers." They expect to make the round trip by next June. Stevens' Return Delayed. WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. In view of a statement by General Davis, chair man of the advisory board of en gineers, that the first draft of the board's majority and minority reports will not be completed before Decem ber 15. Chairman Shonts, of the Canal Commission, cabled John F. Stevens, chief engineer of the Commission, not to sail from the Isthmus before De cember 6. Sent to Jail for Contempt. OREGON CITY, Or.. Nov. 22. (Special.) Because he persisted In orally Interrupt ing a witness In the hearing- of the case of the State against Carl Johnson. In the Circuit Court this afternoon. Jacob Enne, of Clackamas, was this afternoon sen tenced by Judge McBride to five days In the County Jail for contempt of court. Offer of funds made by friends to pay a fine was refused