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6 THE MOBMXG OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1906. )$ fejJPOTtfflt Entered at the Poetoffice at Portland. Or.. l Second-Clans Matter. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. "CJ (By Mall or Express.) DAILY. SUNDAY INCLUDED. Twelva months. .' 18.00 FIX montha 4.23 Three months 2. '23 One month .7.1 Delivered by carrier, per year 9.00 Delivered by carrier, per month .7.1 Less time, per week 20 Sunday, on year 2.50 Waekly. one year (Issued Thursday)... 1.S0 Gunriay and Weekly, one year 8.50 HOW TO KKM1T send postofflce money order, expreee order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The 8. C. Beck with Special Auratsf New Tork, rooms 43-oU Tribune building-. Chi cago, rooms 510-512 Tribune building. KEFT ON BALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex. Postofflca News Co.. 178 Dearborn street. ft. Paul. Minn. N. at. Jnarle. Commercial Elation. 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We think It fan be said with cer tainty that the voting- in no state has ever been so eccentric as that in Ore gon last Monday. It shows that many thousands of Republicans" voted at ut- terly orot purposes with each other; and moreover, that each voter of many thousands made up his own ballot at utterly cross purposes with himself. Here is a state in which Republicans, or men who call themselves such, are a great majority not less than three fifths of the whole electorate. For can didates on whom they did not disagree they have throw n 25,000 to 30,000 major ity. Tet they have given the Demo crats the Governor and have thrown but a bare plurality for the Republican candidate for the United States Senate, at tl!e same time voting with such unanimity for members of the Legisla ture that the Democrats have not a single member, out of sixty. In the House, and but six in the Senate, one of whom is a. "holdover." A multitude of Republicans, for rea sons purely personal to themselves, or upon considerations of merely selfish character, voted for the Democratic nominee for Governor, rather than for a man of excellent fitness and charac ter, who, though the Republican candi date and nominated under a primary law which assured entire freedom from bosses, combinations or machines, was not their own particular "man" for the place; and therefore they preferred a Democratic Governor to a Republican not of their own choice or factloti. The thought was, "If we can't have it, let it go to the Democrats." Again, a multitude of Republicans voted against Bourne for Senator, not because they expected or desired a Democrat though some of them would, since they couldn't have their own "man"; but they wanted to beat Bourne before the people, and throw the contest into the Legislature, where they would have a chance to juggle it up, and mayiiap get a Senator who would respond to their own selfish In terests or demands. At the same time a Republican Legislature was neces sary, or there would! be a Democratic Senator; so these persons who helped to beat Bourne yet wanted a chance for their man, or a chance to make cale of the office, voted so solidly every where for the Republican candidates for the Legislature, that we have the unexampled result of hut six Demo crats in that body, and not a single one in the House. Work of this kind, with its results, shows the extent to -which factional spirit exists In the Republican party of Oregon. It Is the direct consequence of factional work heretofore, under the leadership of one or another, living or dead, whose contests have racked and divided the party, and planted within it. permanently, it seems, the habit and practice of working politics for per sonal and selfish interests, rather than from any consideration of the public welfare. AH know how this habit was introduced into our politics and who did it. The, abuses that proceed from this action have led to results here not witnessed in any other state. On this page of The Oregonian we reprint an article from the Minneapolis Tribune, written by one thoroughly acquainted with conditions in Oregon, which it Is worth the while of every citizen of the state to read and ponder. These fac tional contests have produced the initi ative and. referendum, - the direct pri maries and Statement No. 1 measures pointed at as eccentricities and "fads" by people In other states, but adopted as remedies for the excessive abuses .tnd corruptions bred in Oregon by these low and selfish views of politics, and by the degrading methods employed to support them. . A higher view of the objects of polit ical action Is the necessary cure. A common expression Is. "I'll not vote the ticket; there's nothing in it for me." We doubt if there Is another electorate 1u the United States so deeply cor rupted. It extends equally to the Dem ocratic party and similarly through it; for this party also has had its full share in the general corruption, and many times when Republicans have re volted Democrats have supplied their places and carried the Republican bosses through. Of these operations the debauched and degraded condition .of politics in Oregon is the natural and legitimate result. Men do not gather grapes of thorns nor figs of thistles. Representatives of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, largest of the Japanese steam ship line?, have been inspecting Port land harbor with a view to placing a line of steamships on the run between this city and the Far East. Of all the nations whose flags can be found on the high seas, no other has the opera tion of merchant marine vessels down to so low a cost as the Japanese. If this country were engaged in or de pendent on freight-carrying instead of freight-producing as a business, this feature of the Japanese industrial en terprise would be a serious menace to us. So long, however, as practically the entire population of the Pacific Coast - is engaged in the business of producing cargo for other countries, no hardship will be felt if this, cargo is carried in Japanese vessels at rates far below those at which our own people could carry it. The Japanese line will not be rejected, simply because it will be in a position to carry freight cheaper than it can be carried by the trust-controlled vessels which fly the American flag. , THE COPYRIGHT BII.I.. A copyright bill is now before Con gress which, if it passes, will at last put literary property on something like the same footing as other property. On original works of genius it allows copy right for the full -period of the author's life and fifty years more. On certain other literary productions the period is fifty years, and for labels and the like it is twenty-eight. This makes a sub stantial change in the present law, which terminates all copyrights after forty-two years at most. The proposed bill allows the author thirty days after his book is published to file a copy and secure a copyright, ' whereas 'under the present law the book must be filed and registered before publication. The recognition of literary- property has been slow both In England and America, and we have managed to lag well in the rear of most civilized coun tries in the matter. For a long time American publishers lived by pirating successful books which appeared in England until the practice became an International scandal. . Later the evil was checked by a' sort of gentlemen's agreement which gave the exclusive right of reproduction to the publisher whom the author might select. . .This enabled British authors to reap a cer tain profit -from the sales of .their works in America, but the sums turned over were wholly voluntary. A famous in stance of this kind of an arrangement was the publication of Herbert Spen cer's works by. the Appletons. These books sold much better in America than in England for several years, and the distinguished philosopher drew a profit from this country while in his own he was losing money. Emerson arranged for the first publication in the United States of some of Carlyle's writings un der the same system, and the Harpers likewise published many works of Dick ens, George Eliot and,. Thackeray. A modest sum was generally paid to the author, but the arrangement was unsat isfactory. The adoption of international copyright has made the property of British authors secure in this country and protects American authors abroad, though that has hitherto been a matter of less consequence. The purpose of the pending bill is to remedy the defects in our 'domestic copyright law. There Is no good rea son why a man who writes a book should not enjoy the profits from Its sale during his life and bequeath them to his family for a reasonable term. This Is the most harmless and the most equitable of all monopolies. It deprives no person of a right; it hampers no man in his business; it does not restrict com petition. The rewards of literary work, as Mr. Putnam, librarian of Congress, well says, are small at best. There is no danger of creating bloated and over weening fortunes by long copyrights. On the other hand the better protection of literary property may perhaps en courage its creation In this country. To be sure, we already have more than enough of a certain sort, but It is not the right sort. We all long for the ap pearance of the great American novel, for a national drama, for a heaven-born poet. This bill, if It becomes a law, may hasten the advent, of all df them. But again It may not.- The quality of a poet's song has never heretofore de pended much upon-his pay. '6till, .It is better not to starve him. THB MSSON OF THE RXINS. The value of steel for structural pur poses upon an experimental basis be fore has been so plainly demonstrated by the forces of earthquake and fire that it is no longer problematical. San Francisco, but now one - of the most beautiful cities of the earth, and seem ingly as enduring as any, writes in the record of a ruin wrought in a few hours a lesson of enormous significance to mankind. This lesson is illustrated by gaunt monuments of steel, which, stud ded with eyeless sockets, row on row, stand overlooking a vast wilderness of masonry in ruins and areas swept bare even of, ashes where stood mansions strongly and cunningly, constructed of wood and stone and glass. The story told by these ruins, says Henry Harrison Suplee. a mechanical engineer, in a late number o Harper's Weekly, is full of lessons, not only to the builders of the new San Francisco, but for many who are tobuild else where. Pursuing the . subject in the light of the developments and of me chanical science, this writer sees no reason why buildings cannot be con structed to withstand heavy vibrations. In point of fact, he asserts that struc tures are built every day that resist vibrations as heavy and violent as were imposed by the earthquake shock at San Francisco. Railroad bridges are in evidence in support of this statement. Many of these receive from the impact of advancing trains and from the hammer-blow of locomotive driving wheels shocks and sudden stresses which, had not provision been made for them in de sign and construction, would wreck them utterly. Again, every great ocean liner, exceeding in length, in many in stances, more than double the height of the tallest building, is subjected to buf feting and vibrations as great as, if not greater than, the tremors of earth quake, and yet the steamship is but sel dom seriously strained or weakened. The deduction is simple. The railroad bridge and steamship are built to rer.ist vibrations. The engi neers know the treatment . to which these structures will be subjectefl and plan for them. It Is not beyond reason to .expect the designer of the new San Francisco to profit by the experience of the bridge builder and shipbuilder, and in so doing to present his .work with equal confi dence that it will withstand earth vi brations. Engineer Suplee goes on to show how, with this accomplished, the lofty modern building-may be made in destructible by fire also. The great steel cage should be finished with the minimum amount of wood, with floors of reinforced concrete; the partitions should be Integral parts of the building, not mere screens; while ' overhanging cornices sham imitations of non-existent structural features should be. altor gether omitted or replaced with some safer and more consistent ornamenta tion. t Other suggestions and details are given which show with reasonable cer tainty that commercial buildings may be made proof against earthquake and fire. If this were not possible, it would be folly indeed to rebuild San FranciBco upon Its oft-shaken site, itself the prod uct of seismic disturbance. . It is be lieved, however, -that it is within the power of the engineer and architect so to direct the work of reconstruction that no disaster similar to that which laid the city in ruins last April need be feared in the future. In order that this result may be attained, it is essential that many Individual interests yield to the common good, and that a broad and comprehensive system of reconstruction he adopted' before individual action shall have gone so far as to render united operation impossible. This Is the danger that now, according to the esti mate of the mechanical engineer, threatens San Francisco. ... '' MR. BRYAN. The indications are that Mr. Bryan will be the next candidate of the Demo cratic party for President of the United States, and that his nomination will be almost unanimous. That portion of hia party which was loyal to him In for mer campaigns has lost nothing of its enthusiastic devotion. The faction which rejected him with contumely is now ready to hail him as a prophet and deliverer. The Democrats of the West and South have been Bryan men ever since the historic denunciation of the cross -of gold at the Chicago conven tion. Those of the East, formerly classed by the great leader as his ene mies, so much so that when he went to New York to speak he said heas in vading "the enemy's country," no longer find his personality repulsive or his principles dangerous. The scatter ing "Gold. Democrats," found here and there the country over when free sil ver was a living issue, were invariably and bitterly hostile to Bryan. Now they- have forgotten their animosity. To them he is no longer . a blatant demagogue, as in the days of yore, but a leader far more safe and quite as sane as the feebly lamented Judge Par ker. .Has Bryan changed, or his party? Perhaps both have changed. We may say one thing with certainty; the radi cal element in the Democratic party has made no advance toward conservatism. It Is as radical as ever and in some re spects more so. The money question is no longer at the fore, but other issues have replaced it. Upon Government ownership, municipal trading, extension of the mail service, state insurance, protective legislation for workingmen, an old-age pension system, and the control of corporate enterprise, to speak of a few projects only, the sentiment of radical Democrats has changed only to strengthen. Knowledge of these mat ters has spread more widely among the voters. They are better understood than they were four years ago. The conservative faction in the Dem ocratic party is between two fires. On the one hand they see Roosevelt at the head of the Republican party making a victorious fight for honest govern ment, equal enforcement of the laws and abolishment of special privilege. On the other they see Mr. Hearst pos ing as the prophet of a sentiment which might easily forget to discriminate be tween honest and dishonest wealrh. Where the movement which he heads would stop if it came into control of the Government nobody can say. The conservative Democrats dread him. His political development bodes nothing but evil to them and their possessions. They dread Roosevelt almost as much, but for a different reason. This con servative element in the Democratic party is composed largely of the benefi ciaries of special privilege, of men who have grown rich and great through non enforcement of the laws, through cor ruption of state and city governments. The gas monopoly in New Tork 1s ma nipulated by Democrats of this sort. They dread strict enforcement of the laws quite -as much as they do Mr. Hearst's socialism. Their interest and advantage lie in that system of an archy which we have been living under during the last few decades where the law is simply a bugaboo to scare the weak-minded. Hence they have no love for Roosevelt, who wishes to subject the rich and poor, the great and small, to equal and impartial laws. Compared with Hearst, Bryan Is a conservative. The Belmonts and Ryans of his party choose him as the less of two evils. If they could avoid choosing either they would gladly- do so. but that course is not open to them. Compared with Roosevelt, they prefer Bryan for several reasons. The fact that he be longs to their own party is not one of them, for these men really care nothing for party. Their own interests are the only thing that they think worth fight ing for. But If Bryan were elected President by their aid, and he could not be elected otherwise, he would be un der immeasurable obligation to them and possibly they, might -control him. Of controlling Roosevelt they have not a shadow of hope. If they ever enter tained such an expectation they have definitely and forever abandoned it. Bryan they might control. He has never yet experienced the delights of power. How he would act as President nobody knows. He might prove to be of iron will and unbending integrity; hut also he might prove to be putty in the hands of the trusts and monopolists who had supplied the funds to elect him. They are willing to run their chances. If he turns out to -be a Presi dent of lofty character and high ideals he will be no worse than Roosevelt for their purposes; if he turns out a man of plastic clay he will be a great deal bet ter. In any case they will lose nothing and they stand a chance to gain im mensely. Therefore the conservative Democrats are for Bryan. As for Bryan himself, like all untried men, he is an enigma. Under the ripen ing of time he has grown astute and wary. That he has abandoned the Ideals of his younger days. Ideals which charmed the radicals of his party and bound them to him through good and evil fortune with inflexible loyalty, is not probable; but he has acquired dis cretion in stating and advocating them. He has learned the virtues of silence. As a candidate he will stand for discon tent, very likely for that type of dis content which seeks betterment through revolution; hut this will not frighten away his conservative supporters, for they know that the candidate appealing for votes is a different creature from the official securely seated in the Pres idential chair. Concerning a man of Bryan's unfathomable shrewdness it is unsafe to make prophecies. He never was a mere politician. He may now be something more than a mis I guided enthusiast. There is a possibil ity that he has become a statesman. It is quite natural that the beef pack ers should rally to their aid and defense the cattle-growers of the West. The influence of these cattlemen is of value for more reasons than one. Their repu tation as a class Is excellent, and the moral support which they could give measures of value to the meat Industry would far outweigh that which could be put forward by the beef-trust barons. The latter are so thoroughly discred ited by reason of the shameful disclos ures made by Mr. Russell and Mr. Sin clair, about a year ago, and recently discovered by the President, that they are sadly In need of reinforcements which can lend. an air of respectability to their cause. The loss, through the awful exposures that have heen made, will not seriously injure the millionaire packers, but it will fall heavily on the cattle-growers If the movement now under way to exclude American meats from Germany and Great Britain gains much headway. Thus do the innocent suffer with the guilty, and at the same time fail In securing any of the profits. The Central Oregon farmers are com plaining of the invasion of a new pest. The sage rat is this latest addition to the list of nuisances with which the farmers of Crook County have to con tend. It is said to be nearly as de structive to vegetation as the jackrab bits which formerly ate up most of the alfalfa crop of that region. The sage rat has none of the redeeming feat ures of the Jackrabbit. The latter, if not too old and tough, could occa sionally be -used for food, but the sage rat is unfit for anything but fertilizer, and is not so easy to convert into that commodity as his more nimble but less numerous predecessor, the jackrabbit. Crook County would offer a good field for a Pied Piper of Hameiin, and. ow ing to the scarcity of the population, there would be but little danger of his "piping" away very many children. Consul Liefeld sends from Baden, in the beautiful Black Forest, some details about German, .mountaineering clubs which should prove suggesUveto Amer ican lovers of outdoor life. There- re fifty-four mountain clubs in Germany, with 142.603 members. The Swabian Al pine Club has 28,000 members, the Hartz Club 17,000, the Baden Black Forest Club 10,710, with annual dues of $1.25. The members are business men, trades men and hotelkeepers, as well as actual climbers. In Oregon, mountaineering clubs are not so large because the mem bers are mountain-climbers, not mer cenaries. Let each of the half-hundred German clubs send a delegate to Port land a year from now and we will teach them something about scenery, the use of alpenstocks, muscle and endurance. Revolutions in Central America are of about as frequent occurrence as ultimatums in Turkey, and advices from Washington state that the latest of these periodical farces has Just been concluded with the repulse of a party of patriots who were invading Guate mala. ' The Guatemalan troops not only repulsed the invaders, but they fright ened the leader, General Castillo, out of the country in disguise on a fruit steamer. The revolutions down there, where the sun shines warm, are never attended with' many fatalities, but. if the leaders place much value on their lives, they are careful to leave the country as soon as the tide of battle sets against them. On the two members of Congress the Republicans have about 18,000 majority. It would be two or three thousand more but for the fact that the entire liquor interest in the First District tried to defeat Hawley. Perhaps it will be ad mitted, even by "non-partisans," that the vote on members of Congress has political and party significance. This, with the fact that o'f ninety members of the Legislature eighty-four are Re publicans, perhaps will be some indica tion that Oregon is not yet a Demo cratic state. There are some reasons to regret the failure of Hon. Josephine Smith, Demo crat, to be re-elected' to the House. There ought to be one Democrat, and it ought to be Smith. Smith challenging to mortal combat the whole fifty-nine Republican members' would be the most awesome spectacle of the ages. And he would never fear to do it. In pure lung-power Smith is the match for fifty-nine Republicans anywhere. The Missouri Democrats, In conven tion assembled, solemnly declare that William Jennings Bryan was cheated out of the Presidency in 1896 by the corrupt use of money-v. No doubt. No doubt. In order to test the whole mat ter, and to vindicate Bryan, let the Democrats put him on the same plat form and try it over again. The whole strength of the liquor in terest in Oregon was thrown to Gov ernor Chamberlain. In the First Dis trict, for some reason or no reason, it was thrown against Hawley for Con gress. The habit the liquor trade has of meddling with strife not belonging to it is the source of -most of the difficul ties it encounters. Mr. Wilson goes to Washington and tells Congress there is nothing the mat ter with the packing-houses. The City of Chicago takes advantage of his ab sence to look into the situation, and through an inspector' describes the con ditions as "filthy and dirty." Mr. Wil son should have locked up before he went away. The Municipal Association, it is an nounced, will look after the shrievalty contest "and demand fair play on be half of Sheriff Word." A good idea, if the Municipal Association also demands fair play on behalf of Sheriff Stevens. Certainly the women were received with courtesy at the polling-places. They should be received with courtesy everywhere, and they usually are. But that isn't a particularly good reason for giving them the ballot. News that the Democracy of Missouri and Arkansas is for Bryan for Presi dent will be mighty interestin' readin' for that other great Democrat, William Randolph Hearst. Says Collier's Weekly: "After all his faults are counted, Mr. Roosevelt re mains the most widely Influential cre ator of moral political sentiment in America today." The packers have undertaken a large contract when they start out to dis credit President Roosevelt a contract that has a strong taint of embalmed beef. Oregon is undoubtedly the only state in the Union where one Democrat can and does uniformly outvote -three Re publicans. In this election there has been some addition, and a. good, deal of division, but there will not be silence. Now the howl of fraud has been raised. It was in all respects a success ful election. Divide 62.000 Republicans by 23,000 Democrats, and the result is Chamber lain. - . . A 8TXDV FOR OREGON. Some of the Cooae-queoc-ea - of Selfish - aad Factlonml KITert la Polities la Oar State. . Minneapolis Tribune. Corruption in government Is the surest breeder of socialism among the people. For all but a few persons whose men tal operations are eccentric, the Ideas of state socialism represent only harmless Intellectual vagaries. But disgust and despair of present institutions may lead many minds generally sane to entertain the idea of new government experiments which seem harmless and promise to be helpful. The cult of socialism has grown might ily on the exposures of corruption in government and business made in the last few years. The latest news of land In dictments in Oregon suggests a concrete example of this. Long before the cam paign of exposure began, public attention was drawn to the curious development of socialist Ideas in Oregon. That prosper ous state, where the average standard of public Intelligence is perhaps the highest on the Pacific Coast, seemed the peculiar victim of every kind of political fad and vagary. Oregon was the first state to adopt the Initiative and referendum. It pushed the direct primary farther than any other. It has tried singular experiments with the extreme idea of prohibition. It is al ways toying with woman suffrage, not as an end, but as & means of moral reform. Here are all the signs of a community so disgusted with the results of govern ment as it is that the people are willing to try almost any political nostrum as a remedy for them. In the last few years the Federal Courts have revealed the eeed of socialism in Oregon. Its whole public service has been honeycombed with corruption. Its Fed eral land offices have been debauched by speculators to rob the people of their heritage. The contagion has spread to state courts. legislation and administra tion In touch with them. Municipal gov ernment has been made an agency of private profit at public expense. State Legislatures have been bought and sold like cattle. When the day of reckoning came three out of four, of the Oregon members of Congress were indicted for felony, and have escaped punishment only by death and the law's delay. Whole business com munities have been ripped up by grand juries, and extradition officers have rav aged other states for accomplices. There is no effect without a cause. Here Is the cause of socialism in Oregon. "Uncle Joe" Had Something to Say. New Tork Times. Senator Beveridge came over to the House to talk statehood with the Speaker, and dropped in while Landls was talking tariff. It was in the middle of a mix-up, when Chairman Curtis was trying his level best to restore order. "Uncle Joe" had something he wanted to say to Beveridge. He stood in the aisle and leaned over the desk, where the Senator sat, with one arm around Beveridge" s neck, and paid not tho slightest attention to the doings of Curtis. Bang, whang went the gavel. "No further business will be done until order is restored," cried Curtis. "Gentlemen in the aisles will take their seats. Those who desire to con verse will retire to the cloakrooms." Bang, bang, went the gavel. Grad ually the others sat down, and the con versation died away. Soon only "Uncle Joe" was standing and talking, and he kept it up, utterly regardless of . Curtis and the steady thump of the gavel. But Curtla was not discouraged. He thumped harder, and he raised his voice. By and by some one behind "Uncle Joe" touched his arm. The Speaker looked up as if annoyed, and caught the stern declaration of Cur tis. Then a grin came over his face', and he sat down. "The gentleman from Indiana will proceed," said Curtis, and Landis went on. Then "Uncle Joe" got to work again with Beveridge. Se-reai Hundred J. B. Ferskers. Washington, D. C, Cor. New Tork Tribune. There are 700. Joseph Benson Fora kers In the Southern States, according to the latest reports, and all of the genus pickaninny. This Interesting situation arises from the fact that for a time the Southern negroes hailed the Senator from Ohio as a savior from the almost Intolerable conditions which attended traveling for the negro in the region where the "Jim Crow", law reigns un disputed. For a time Senator Foraker's mail wa. flooded with advices of the arriv al of new pickaninnies, destined to be known as "Joseph Benson Foraker Washington Jones," or something equally ornate and simple. The total number of these is said to be slightly over 700. Senator Foraker Is rejoiced to re flect that most of the pickaninnies are Baptists, so that If their parents deter mine to rename them they will at least not have been indelibly christened. Will Agala See Dr. I.orena. ' Chicago Inter Ocean. Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Armour have left France and are on their way to Vienna, where they go with their little daughter to visit Dr. Lorenz, whose difficult opera tion on Lolita. performed two years ago. proved successful, enabling the little girl to walk. Miss Lolita Is a jolly little maid, and many tales are told of her pranks. One morning gome months ago the young lady was missing about the house, but she appeared before . the family about noontime bearing an exceedingly modest demeanor. Soon a maid announced to Mrs. Armour that the table silver, usual ly used for luncheon, had disappeared. Little Lolita giggled, then she burst Into laughter, and finally, after enjoying her joke to the full, she confessed that she had hidden it. Training Home for Engaged Coaplea. A London cable dispatch. Speaking at a public meeting yester day, the bishop of PJpon, who wishes to see established a training home for engaged couples, said he regretted that while immense pains were bestowed upon traihing for law and medicine, and where great issues of the state were involved, there was no training for those about to undertake far more responsible duties toward human be ings. Some sort of educational home, where they would learn how to fulfill their duties, seemed to be necessary, and it -would be well if there were also a home of rest for betrothed couples after an educational course on the eve of marriage. Bryan's Address July 4 Loadoa. Constantinople Cable Dispatch in New Tork Sun. TVilliam Jennings Bryan said recently that he would witness the Sultan's pro cession to the mosque on Friday, and then go to St. Petersburg, where he will attend a session of the Douma. From St. Petersburg he will go to Norway and Sweden. He expects to be in London by July 4. Mark-Rakers After Carnegie. New Tork World. The Pennsylvania Railroad people, in insisting that Mr. Carnegie used te "receive more rebates than any other shipper in any line of business," seem disposed to muck-rake the retired iron-master. MAY WRECK. CONFERENCE. Threat of Argentina to Leave Assem bly at Kio. WASHINGTON, June 6. Argentina is not pleased with the programme agreed upon for a third Pan-A'.ner-Ican congress to be held ; Bio de Janeiro next July; and It will require all the skill Secretary Root possesses to prevent the withdrawal of several of the Latin-American republics from the congress. Although Argentina is more dissatisfied than any other South or Central American power, there are several republics far from pleased with the programme, which sympa thize with the slight which Argentina feels. The Drago doctrine is the cause of Argentina's grievance. It was the de sire of Mr. Portel, the Argentine Min ister, that this doctrine should be one of tne subjects considered at the Rio congress. The Drago doctrine, which was promulgated by the celebrated Argentine Jurist, L. F. Drago, at the time of the Venezuelan blockade by Germany, Great Britain and Italy, holds that force cannot be used by one power to collect money owed its citi zens by another power. After much discussion the committee on programme for the congress pre pared the following section relating to the general subject covered by the Drago doctrine: A resolution recommending that the sec ond peace, conference at The Hague be re quested to consider the extent to which the use of force for the collection of public debts la admissible. Tnls statement of the subject was very distasteful to Argentina and sev eral other powers. It practically ad mitted that force is justifiable in some cases and provoked a great deal of comment. The result was .the re statement of the subject in the fol lowing compromise terms: A resolution recommending that the aec ond peace conference at The Hague be re quired to consider whether and. it at all. to what extent the use of force for the collec tion of public debts is admissible. This statement does not grant that the use of force Is ever justified, but is not a clear statement of the sub ject covered by the Drago doctrine, in the opinion of a number of the countries which are to participate in the congress. Mr. Drago, who was named by Ar gentina as one of its delegates to the Rio congress, is reported to have an nounced that he does not care to at tend and participate in the discussion of the programme as agreed upon. Under the rules agreed upon a change in programme can be effected at Rio Janeiro by the vote of two-thirds of the countries represented, and conse quently there will be a strong effort to make changes in case the countries which are dissatisfied participate. Many South American diplomats be lieve the Drago doctrine should not be submitted to The Hague for con sideration, but should be adopted by the powers on this continent without regard to "what European countries may have to say about it. Several of the powers in the western part of South America are said to be in sym pathy with Argentina's position on the Drago doctrine and interesting devel opments are expected. Several other sections of the pro gramme are also unsatisfactory to a number of powers which will partici pate in the deliberations. The arbi tration section does not please Bo livia and several of her neighbors who wanted the section made so broad that it -would also cover the disputes in the past as well as those which may arise hereafter. Colombia and several other Western republics also desired the consideration of questions relating to commerce passing over boundaries and the regulation of navigation on streams flowing through two or more countries, but these subjects were not passed by the programme committee and can be discussed at Rio Janeiro only by consent of two thirds of the powers represented. AVOIDS CHARGE OF HERESY. Episcopal Rector Resigns on Account of Hindoo's Sermon. t KANSAS CITT, Mo., June 6 Rev. Charles Ferguson, of this city, as a re sult of publication in Boston inti mating that a charge of heresy might be made against him on account of statements made recently in his church in this city by Pundit Krishna, a Hin doo reformer, today tendered his res ignation to Bishop Atwill, of this dio cese of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Rev. Mr. Ferguson stated that he had committed no ecclesiastical crime, but that he had resigned to pre vent the embarrassment of the mem bers of the diocese. Pundit Krishna had been invited by Mr. Ferguson to fill the latter's pulpit. In his discourse he at tacked the American church in gen eral for assuming to send missionaries to his country to convert his people. He said, in effect,-that American mis sionaries were incapable, and that the Americans had better keep them at home, that his country did not want them. Mr. Ferguson later apolo gized for the Pundit's remarks, saying that the visitor was incapable of ex pressing himself in the English lan guage. Test Suit on Public Ownership. CHICAGO. June 6. Proceedings to test the validity of the Mueller law and the Issuance of $75,000,000 in certificates by the city were commenced in the Circuit Court' today. A bill asking that the city officials be enjoined from attempting to raise money on the certificates was filed by E. L. Lobdell. F. B. Peabody and John Maclaren. all business men of this city. A decision is expected from the Supreme Court of the state within six months. It Is from the sale of these certificates that the advocates of municipal owner ship of the street railways expect to de rive the funds for purchase by the city of Chicago. GET OFF From the Philadelphia Inquirer. SHOWING THE METHOD INTRODl'tED BY THE STANDARD OIU AND NOW BEING SO 8LTt ESCH LLV TRIED BV THIS RAILROADS. MAY TIE VP ALL RAILROADS Frelglilliandlers Demand Rejected and Strike Is Threatened. CHICAGO. June 6. General mana gers of the 23 railroads entering Chi cago have decided that they will not grant any increase In wages to their f reighthandlers and a strike of 400 men appears Imminent. The men re ceive SI. 75 a day and demand No Strike Against 'Western Union. GOLDFIELD, Nev., June 6. Governor Sparks and Attorney-General Sweeney came here today to learn what action had been taken last night by the Min ers' Union in the matter of the proposed strike against the Western Union Tele graph Company. The strike had been planned by the officers of the Indus trial Workers of the World and threatened to involve all of the union men here. The Miners' Union refused to countenance the proposed strike and this action virtually disposes of the threatened trouble. The Western Union is now conducting business as usual with its old force. Governor Sparks spoke very plainly to the laborers and said that any violence would be quickly checked oy the National and state gov ernments. New York Carpenters Locked Out. NEW TORK, June 6. The four trade associations of employers in the Building Trades Employers' Associa tion who employ carpenters met yes terday and passed a resolution de claring a lockout of the Brotherhood of Carpenters, to go into effect today. The lockout will affect 12,000 carpen ters in the metropolitan district and throw into idleness thousands in other trades: The lockout is to con tinue until the striking carpenters in Brooklyn return to work, in accord ance with the arbitration decision of Justice Gaynor. This decision has been submitted to the local unions for a referendum vote of approval. The voting will occupy some 10 days. Troops Hold Down Ohio Miners. DILLON VALE, O.. June 6. The mi litia is in full control of the situation in the mining district around Bradley, Smithfield. Plum Run and Dillonvale, and no trouble is looked for. Officers of the United Mineworkers have issued instructions to all locals to refuse to accept the scale of 1903 temporarily in order that operators mav induce the old employes to clean up mines and get ready for resuming operations. Unless the 1903 scale is signed by the opera tors, none of the union men will return to work. Millers Secede From Union. WHEELING. W. Va., June 6. By a two-thirds vote striking miners of the Hitchman Coal Company at McMechen last night decided to apply for work at the mines today, thus severing the ties with the miners' organization, on tne ground that the latter had not lived up to its contract respecting paj-ment of wage benefits. An inde pendent miners' organization will be formed, national in its scope. Two hundred miners are employed at the works. Egg Inspectors Locked Out. CHICAGO. June 6. This city is using uninspected eggs today for the first time in many years. All members of the Egg Inspectors' Union, who have been de manding an increase in wages, were locked out today, and all the egg houses In the city with the exception of two have agreed to make no terms with the union without the sanction of their association. About 2,000,000 eggs are Inspected here daily, and today all the Inspectors are Idle. Shut Women and Boys From Mines. LONDON, June 6. The 17th Miners' In ternational Congress at its session today adopted motions demanding the passase of laws totally prohibiting the employ ment of women in the mining industry, and employment of boys under 16 in un derground work. The motions were sup ported by the American delegates. ORDERS GRAND INQUEST. Judge Calls Grand Jury at Denver and Fines Officials. DENVER, June 6. Judge John I. Mulllns, in the criminal division of the District Court today, entered formal orders for the calling of a grand jury to investigate the alleged frauds in the election of May 15. for the setting aside of District Attorney George Stid ger, and the appointment of a special prosecutor, and for the appointment of elisors to select the grand jury. This action was taken on petition of the Honest Elections League. The court postponed proceedings for five days. - Judge Mulllns fined Fred A. Williams, chairman of the Republican City and County Central Committee, and Wil liam T. Davoren, chairman of the Dem ocratic City and County Central Com mittee, I2J0 each, and J. F. Brady, chief clerk of the Denver Gas & Elec tric Company, J50 for contempt of court In refusing to be sworn In the election investigation. The attorneys for the various defendants gave notice that they would ask the Supreme Court for a writ of error. Dedicate Columbus Building. NEW HAVEN. Conn., June 6. The Knights of Columbus dedicated their new National headquarters today. Proposed insurance changes were discussed, but no definite action was taken. At the banquet given to the member of the National Council, in Music Hall tonight, the speakers included United States Senator J. M. Gearin. of Oregon, on "The United States," and Joseph Scott of Los Angeles, on "He Comes Out of the West." THE EARTH