THE MORNIXG OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1906.
CITY'S SIX-BIT
LIST NOT READY
Executive Board Committee
Reports Insufficient Data
Available for Report.
HARD TO PICK THE GOATS
City's Business Will Be Given to In
surance Companies That Treat
San Francisco Clients Fairly.
Patrolmen Are Penalized.
No immediate action will be taken by
the city toward placing the official taboo
upon the "six-bits" insurance companies.
It was reported to the Executive Board
yesterday by the special committee, con
sisting of D. A. Pattullo. Max Fleiscn
ner and C. A. Cogswell, that no reliable
information is obtainable whereby the
sheep among the insurance companies can
be segregated from the goats, so all ef
forts to discriminate against the com
panies who are not paying their San
Francisco losses in full were postponed
until detailed and reliable data is at
hand.
It is the desire of both Mayor Lane
and the Executive Board to give none of
the city's insurance business to compa
nies who are not doing Justice to their
clients in San Francisco, but as they
believe that it is yet too early to be cer
tain of drawing the line between the good
and bad companies correctly, they will
not attempt to separate them at all. For
the present, the only consideration will
be to see that the various policies on
municipal property are placed with com
panies whose solvency is unquestioned.
Following is the report of the committee
on insurance:
Situation Is Complicated.
"We have endeavored to ascertain the
policy of the various companies In set
tling San Francisco losses, but And that
at this time it Is impossible to get satis
factory information on this point. Our
investigations show conclusively that a
great deal of uncertainty exists regard
ing the situation, and that many com
panies classified as 75-cent companies are
adjusting their losses equitably, while
other companies that have stated they
will pay their losses in full may not be
able to do so.
"We are satisfied It would be a mistake
to follow any classification of companies
already published In placing the city's in
surance, and we recommend that, until
more accurate information is obtainable
regarding the basis on which various com
panies are settling San Francisco losses,
no city policies shall be canceled unless
the Insurance company is In financial dif
ficulties. The important point now is to
make sure that the companies carrying
the city's business are solvent. The ques
tion of discriminating against companies
that lg not ndjust San Francisco losses
equitably should be a matter of consid
eration when the basis on which settle
ments are made by the various companies
is a matter of record, and not of hearsay,
as seems to be largely the case now."
Patrolmen Are Punished.
Several patrolmen were penalized by
the board upon recommendation of the
Police Commission. Slg Myers was found
guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer
and was dismissed from the service. O.
Nelson and Ben Peterson were fined ten
days' pay. and Frank Hart was fined half
his pay for the month of July. Com
plaints against Frank Hart and Samuel
Young were tiled without action.
In the matter of Patrolman Kienlen. to
whom the board had agreed to restore a
fine of one month's salary. Auditor Pevlln
reported that the money had been turned
into the fireman and police benefit fund
and could not he withdrawn. C. R. Hell
yer. a plain-clothes man. was appointed
detective to succeed J. F. Kerrigan, re
signed. The MeCusker subway and East Side
belt line franchises were returned to the
Council without change in the valuation
which had previously been placed upon
them. The Council at Its last meeting
amended the portion of the subway fran
chise which required a fill on East Stark
street in the belief that the Executive
Board would Increase the cash valuation.
The latter, however, held that It had not
taken the fill Into consideration in valuing
the franchise in the first place.
School Girls to Hold Flower Show.
Permission was given the public school
girls of the city to hold a flower show in
the City Hall. July 27 and 2S. under the
auspices of the Mothers' Congress. It Is
said that 500 girls will take part in the
exhibit.
The following bids on street improve
ment were opened:
Burnslde street Warren Construction
Company, J2S.101.
Twenty-fifth street Warren Construc
tion Company, !t.K9S.
East Main street J. R. O'Neill. $2255;
Joplin & Mecks, t22Sl.
East Eighth street Joplin & Meeks.
J503; George Bowers. WS8.
Nlcolai street Star Sand Company,
I6SS2: Francy & Co., $6993; Harry Haward,
J7296.
FOR JOINT STATEHOOD.
President's Influence May Bring
Arizona Into Line.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, July 17. The joint statehood bill
enacted at the late session of Congress
contemplated the admission of only one
state. It being assumed by those who
voted for the bill that Arizona, under the
privilege therein extended, would reject
the offer to come Into the Union Joined
with New Mexico. Since the enactment
of that law, however. President Roose
velt has come out publicly in favor of
the Joint admission of the two great ter
ritories, and his strength may be suffi
cient to bring about this result.
At the present time a majority of the
voters of Arizona are stoutly opposed to
Joint admission with New Mexico, and if
the President kept his hands off there is
no question that Arizona would vote down
the Jointure proposition by a good-sized
majority, although New Mexico would
vole in favor of Joint statehood, as she
has been willing for a long while to ac
cept statehood under any terms. Now
that the President has taken a hand and
la using his influence to have the two
territories Join hands, there Ls a prospect
that sentiment In Arizona may undergo a
change.
Th President is immensely popular in
Arizona, as he is all over the West, and
the very fact that he has publicly urged
the people of Arizona to accept Joint
statehood, as offered by the omnibus bill,
may have the effect of changing a good
many votes. The fact that the President
believes Joint statehood is best under the
circumstances, will be enough, in the
minds of many men, to change tbelr per
sonal views and accept his judgment.
Whether the President'! Influence is great
anough to bring about this result will not
be known until the election this Fall.
But, whatever the outcome, the count in
Arizona will undoubtedly show many
more supporters of joint statehood than
would have been in evidence had the
President taken no hand.
Furthermore, it is believed the Presi
dent will take a hand in this contest fur
ther along, before the question is pot
to a vote, for he ls deeply interested in
having Arizona and New Mexico ad
mitted as a single state and will do
everything in his power to fcrlng about
this result.
IT PAYS TO BE SENATORS
Olflce Gives Opening for Lucrative
Business as Lobbyist.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, July 18. The question ls often
asked in Washington, "Does it pay to
become a United States Senator?" This
does not refer to the honor and influ
ence that go with the office, but purely
to the financial end of the game. Many
men who are or have been members of
that body do not hesitate to reply that
a Senator's salary does not begin to pay
his expenses. And there is no doubt
whatever that" the average Senator
spends more than the J7500 allowed him
by the Government each year, and spends
It legitimately. But there is another way
of looking at It, as evidenced by a re
cent incident.
Matthew C. Butler, former Senator
from South Carolina, will receive a fee
CONTRACT FOR DRAIN-COOS BAY LINE WILL SOON BE LET
cxescu DEL j J
iKC4UA J f i
ROUTE OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINE WHICH IS SAID TO BE PRO
JECTED SOUTH TO EUREKA.
Word ls expected In Portland any day of the letting of the contract for th
construction of the first 40 miles of the Drain-Coos Bay branch of the South
ern Pacific. This road ls said to be the first link in the new coast route that
will follow the ocean shore from Coos Bay to Eureka, cutting out the heavy
haul over the Slstelyous, the route of the present main California line. The
map shows where this road as projected will run.
Everything Is ready to commence work on the Coos Bay line, which is to
be built In the most modern and substantial way, with heavy steel and light
grades and curvatures. This strongly irfdicates that the road will be the
main line, as the expensive construction points to this use.
of $76,000 for pressing' an Indian claim
against the United States, the appropria
tion having been made at the last ses
sion of Congress. Butler retired from
the Senate in 1899 and since then has
boon practicing law and lobbying in
Washington. The fact that he was an
ex-Senator gave him a great advantage
over other lobbyists and is largely re
sponsible for his securing this big fat
fee from the Indians. Had he not been
an ex-Senator, the claim he pressed
would probably not have been paid by
Congress, and Butler would have been
out $75,000. Of course, in the seven years
he has been out of the Senate, Butler
has been making money aside from this
particular case. His $76,000 fee would
seem to Indicate that a temporary Job
in the Senate does pay. If a man intends
to turn lobbyist when, he leaves the Sen
ate. Then take the similar case of ex-Senator
Marlon Butler, of North Carolina
Only a year or so ago he got busy over
the claim of the Colville Indians, which
was paid at the recent session, and now
Butler ls lighting in the Court of Claims
for a fee of $15,000 for his share of the
lobbying. This is easy money for ex
Senators. Evidently it paid the two But
lers to come to the Senate.
Mtlllonnlre With Dual Personality.
Paris Dispatch.
An extraordinary case of double per
sonality is Just recorded. There re
cently died in a splendid mansion of the
Avenue de l'Alma ti M. Charles Rubens
He was supposed to be an American,
was known in society, was a member
of several clubs, and passed away in
his SOth year, leaving an estate which
is said to be worth from li. 000, 000 to
20.000,000 francs. The death was duly
reported and registered at the Ameri
can Consulate, and the Justice of Peace
of the Eighth Arrondissement placed
seals on the property in the house of
the deceased. After this formality was
finished, heirs arrived and declared
that the deceased was not an American
born, but an Alsatian from Mulhausen,
really named Charles Voog. The heirs,
who are numerous, declare that M.
Voog left Alsace in 1S6S, went to Amer
ica, was naturallxed there, and, having
made a large fortune, returned to Eu
rope, settling in Paris. This strange
case is now under Judicial investiga
tion and the estate ls in chancery. It
seems that the deceased left a will In
which a large portion of his property
was bequeathed to one niece. Other
bequests were for a few relatives and
for charitable institutions.
CANNON
ALARMS
FAIRBANKS
MEN
Boom Has Strong Support
Among Indiana Leaders
as in Illinois.
ELEMENTS OF WEAKNESS
Oldest Presidential Candidate and
Opposed by Labor Unionists.
Fairbanks Rustles for Votes,
Especially in South.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington. July 20. Preparations for launch
ing the Cannon Presidential boom are well
under way, and In the near future the
friends of the Speaker expect to make
their formal bow to the public and enter
their bid for popular support of their can
didate. In some quarters the Cannon
boom is seriously regarded, but nowhere
more than in Illinois and Indiana. Illi
nois is interested because Cannon is now
her favorite son the most conspicuous
man Illinois has in public life. Indiana
is interested because Cannon has a
strangle-hold on many of the Indiana
Republican leaders, who would support
Fairbanks if Cannon was not in the run
ning. Cannon possesses many attributes that
tend to make him a strong candidate
before the people. He is one of the oldest
men in public life today, and his entire
time has been given to his party. During
his years as chairman of the appropria
tions committee of the House, and later
as Speaker, he has rendered the party
most valuable service, and in the minds
of some is entitled to further recognition
at the hands of the Republican party.
During his past public career he has
proven himself a man of sound judgment.
of careful deliberation and possessed of
that firmness that Is demanded of every
man in the Presidential chair.
Objections to Cannon.
On the other hand, Cannon is an old
man; he passed the three score and ten
mark last Spring, and will be 72 when the
next Republican Convention assembles.
This country has never had a President
of such advanced years, and there is a
marked prejudice against Cannon on ac
count of his age.
But that is not all. Of late Cannon, as
Speaker, has thrown obstacles in the way
of legislation that has been demanded by
the labor unions of the country, and by
his own personal efforts has defeated
these various bills. This has tended to
make him unpopular among this great
class of voters, and In a campaign in
which Bryan headed the Democratic?
ticket. Cannon would get a very small la
bor vote. Inasmuch as Bryan's nomina
tion now seems assured, it would be very
risky for the Republicans to nominate
Cannon to oppose him. This is one of
the principal weaknesses in the Cannon
boom, and the one most apt to defeat him
before the next convention.
Inroads in Fairbanks' State.
But in spite of the attitude of labor
towards Cannon, the friends of Vice
President Fairbanks are very much
alarmed over the prospect, fearing that,
if Cannon is in the running, he may be
able to get the Indiana delegation at the
convention. Two very powerful and very
conspicuous Republicans in Indiana owe
their National prominence to Cannon, and
because of this fact would probably be
in duty bound to support the Cannon
boom rather than the boom- of Fairbanks
of their own state. Senator Hemenway
was virtually made by Cannon. A com
paratively unknown member of the House
at the time Cannon was made Speaker,
Herr.enway was taken in hand by the new
Speaker, was made chairman of the com
mittee on appropriations, and at once
took rank among the inner circle of
House managers. By reason of this prom
inence, Hemenway was elected Senator
when Fairbanks became Vice-President.
The other Indianan indebted to Cannon
is Representative Watson, the Republi
can whip in the House. He. too, was
brought from insignificance into prom
inence solely by the hand of Cannon, and
he, like Hemenway, would be obliged to
support Cannon at the next convention.
With these two prominent local leaders
against him, Fairbanks would have dif
ficulty in controlling the Indiana dele
gation; hence his uneasiness.
Fairbanks Is Rustling.
Fairbanks, by the way, is keeping in
very close touch with the political situa
tion in all parts of the country. He has
been working quietly to get the support
of delegates from the South and expects
to go into the next convention with the
backing of a majority of the Southern
States. As he travels about the country
he feels the popular pulse, and whenever
he finds a state that has no candidate
in the field, enters into negotiations with
the local leaders in that state in the hope
of getting their support. He is today the
most active of all the Republican candi
dates, In fact, is the only one who is
actually rustling around to get votes this
early in advance.
WHAT USEFUL PURPOSE DOES
PHARMACY BOARD FILL?
Dr. E. Everest, of Cornelius, Asserts
Druggists Are Regulated, While
Other Merchants Are Not.
CORNELIUS. Or., July 20. (To the Ed
itor.) The following Is the copy of an
open letter addressed to Kittle W. Har
bord. secretary State Board of Pharmacy,
Salem, Or.:
Dear Madame Tour letter dated July 5,
addresaed to Mrs. , a registered assistant
pharmacist, notifying her that it was illegal
for her to sell drugs, etc., in the absence of
a registered pharmacist, and that she must
appear at the next regular meeting of the
Board of Pharmacy for the examination as
a registered pharmacist, has been handed to
me, and I am surprteed that anyone should
file such a complaint with you, and I am
till more surprised at the present interpre
tation of the state pharmacy law, and it Is
for the purpose of bringing this matter to the
public attention and especially to the mem
bers of our next Legislature that I write
this open letter to you.
While I do not positively know who filed
the complaint, I have good reasons to sus
pect that thfy came from a junk dealer,
who ls ignorant on every subject except the
value of old junk, yet who under the pres
ent interpretation of the law is selling all
kinds of drugs and medicines without a fear
of prosecution or molestation.
That the general merchant and department
stores are selling drugs and medicines in open
violation of the intent of the present phar
macy law goes without saying, and Is cer
tainly a menace to the health of the general
public. While thinking people will go to
the qualified pharmacist for their medicines,
the great mass of mankind do not stop to
think, but buy where it ls the most conven
ient or the cheapest and run the risk of
getting strychnine dosed out to them for
quinine, or white vitriol for epsom salts, for
there is not one general merchant in a hun
dred who can tell the difference in these and
thousands of other drugs and medicines, yet
these junk dealers have the advantage of
registered pharmacists, as the law does not
reach them. Only the man who Is qualified
and has pacsed the examination comes with
in the meaning of the present pharmacy law
as interpreted, and pray tell me what le
the use of spending thousands of dollars in
educating one's self, and fees to support a
pharmacy board, when the law in . no way
protects him or the Dublic.
I have made diligent Inquiry and so far
have not found a single prosecution for sell
ing drugs by the general merchant or junk
dealer, while those who are registered are
required to keep a record of poisons, etc.,
and must not sell opium and kindred drugs
and medicines except on a doctor's prescrip
tion, yet It is a fact that the general mer
chant, especially the country merchant, sells
all these medicines openly and the law does
not reach him. The pharmacist had better
take In hi drug sign and put up the -Bign,
"General Junk Shop," then he can sell medi
cines Ealore and none can molest.
I have complained about this seeming in
consistency of the present interpretation of
the law, but have never received any satis
faction, and I cannot understand that the
law as interpreted is of any value or pro
tection to the sick and the Board of Phar
macy seems to me to be a useless appendage
and altogether a useless expense to the reg
istered pharmacist and his assistant.
In accord with your notice a registered
assistant cannot sell or put up drugs and
medicines except In the presence of a regis
tered pharmacist, and if such is the inter
pretation of the law, please tell me of what
value an asasistant is to the drug store; to
wash bottles, I suppose ; then we can hire
a Chinaman to do that, and how is the phar
macist to go to lunch or to the bank to bor
roV money to pay his bills long past due?
Why not send -some of these notices to the
junk man who is selling drugs without even
a registered assistant's license? I have
asked the Board of Pharmacy the following
questions, but so far have received no an
swers, and I will ask them over again and
hope that some one will relieve my inquiring
mind:
Can anyone sell medicines and poisons, in
any quantity, if the package is labeled by
some jobbing house or registered pharmacist?
Must a registered pharmacist see his as
sistant put up all medicines and drugs?
Of what value is the present pharmacy law
and Pharmacy Board?
The drug business has been my life voca
tion, and I am not writing out of idle curi
osity. I believe the public should be pro
tected In their medicines as well as their
butter and beer, and that none but compe
tent persons should be allowed to sell tne
same, and while I am nearing the top of
the ladder of years I hope to live long enough
to see a law enacted that can be enforced
that will protect the unfortunate sick from
the grasp of the ignorant and unscrupulous
chaser after the almighty dollar. Tours for
the obedience and enforcement of laws,
DR. EMERT EVEREST.
The above is a letter sent to The Ore-
gonian for publication. It Is a duplicate
of one addressed to the secretary of the
State Board of Pharmacy.
John M. Laue, of the drug firm Laue-
Davis Company. Is a member of the State
Board of Pharmacy, and when seen yes
terday afternoon had this to say in regard
to Dr. Everest's letter:
"The assistant to whom the doctor re
fers is ms wife. The doctor conducts a
drugstore at Cornelius in connection with
his practice, and he is often away from
the store, leaving the whole business m
his wife's hands. Mrs. Everest's standing
as a pharmacist is just this: She has
taken what we call the junior examina
tion and is thereby entitled to act as a
druggist, but only under the supervision
of some senior druggist. She is not at
all entitled to operate a store of her own
or to sell drugs without supervision or
for any great length of time. Dr. Everest
is awav much, or the time; for Instance.
he was In this city today, and his wife is
left to run tne ousmess nerseit, wnich is
pontrarv to law.
"Mrs. Everest could easily enough pass
the senior examination and become en
titled to set up a business of her own if
she wished, but sne prerers not to do tnis,
Dr. Everest and his wife are disgruntled
and the arguments used in the letter are
very iar-ietenea, maeeo."
MEDICINE
See that the above trade-mark, the "Old Chemist," is on each bottle of
DUFFY'S PURE MALT WHISKEY
as it is sold in bottles only, never in bulk. Also note that the seal over the cork
is unbroken. Demand the genuine Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey, the best invig
orating stimulant and tonic, which makes the old young and keeps the young
strong. It has been tested thousands of times during the past fifty years by the
leading chemists and doctors throughout the world and always found absolutely
pure and free from fusel oil. Accept no cheap imitation or substitute. They are
dangerous. Also guard against refilled bottles. Duffy's
by all druggists and grocers, or direct, at $1.00 a bottle.
sent free. Duffy Malt Whiskey Company, Rochester,
TUFT IS RECEPTIVE
Ready to Accept Nomination
for President.
IS ROOSEVELT'S CHOICE
Would Distance All Competitors If
Roosevelt Were to Stay Out ol
It uce Fairbanks and Shaw
Boom Themselves.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, July 20. If William H. Taft, 1
Secretary of War, is a candidate for ;
the Presidential nomination, he must I
be classed at this time as purely a
receptive candidate. He is not launch- ,
ine his own boom and not traveling 1
around the country exploiting himself j
at Government expense. There was not ,
the slightest utterance in his recent
North Carolina speech to indicate that ;
Taft is seeking the nomination or is j
even giving encouragement to those i
men who stand responsible for his
boom In Its infant stages. His talk,
if anything, would probably injure his
boom, for he lit into" the present re
publican leaders in the South in a
manner that would not win their ap
proval. While Taft has not launched a boom,
he is, for all that, a Presidential pos
sibility to be reckoned with in 1908.
If Roosevelt Is not compelled to accept
another nomination, Taft is as likely
a candidate as any the party can of
fer, and in some quarters It is be
lieved that Taft is Roosevelt's choice
for 1908. Of his ability there is no
question. In that line he ranks second
to none, unless it be Secretary Root,
one of the keenest men of the age, but
where Root has an advantage in point
of ability, perhaps (and it ls only a
slight advantage at that), Taft has a
far greater .advantage in being on
friendly terms with the party leaders
from one end of the country to the
other, and In addition is a man of wide
personal popularity. Root is cold, and
has few friends, though many admir
ers. Fairbanks and Shaw Rustle.
There are two other Republican
Presidential possibilities, however, not
as modest as Taft. Vice - President
Fairbanks and Secretary Shaw are
openly pushing their respective booms
in season and out. Fairbanks is con
tinually keeping himself before the
public, something that was almost un
known among Vice-Presidents of the
past. He speaks whenever the oppor
tunity affords; he attends every public
function to which he is invited and in
other ways keeps himself before the
people. He is constantly advertising.
The same is true of Shaw. He makes
more speeches than any other member
of the Cabinet, and In most of his
speeches can be detected a little ad
vertisement for Shaw. Of course, this
ls all right for Fairbanks and all right
for Shaw. Bryan believed in the same
kind of advertising, and he wound up
with a hard bump.
In an open, free-for-all race among
Root, Taft, Fairbanks and Shaw, the
big, genial Secretary of War would
distance all his competitors today, not
withstanding he has never announced
himself as a candidate for the Presi
dency. Taft is th.e kind of man who
would take with the people. In point
of ability he is head and shoulders
above Fairbanks and Shaw, and he
could overcome the Root handicap on
that score without anv difficulty.
Not one of these men could run with
FOR ALL
Roosevelt, however, if he should be
forced into the field again in 1908.
Roosevelt says he does not want an
other nomination, and he is no doubt
sincere; but there is a growing be
lief that he may be compelled to run
again, in spite of his personal desires,
and It is a good bet that he will be
compelled to run if Bryan should be
nominated by the Democrats prior to
the holding of the Republican conven
tion, or if it is a sure thing in advance
that Bryan is to be the Democratic
nominee.
Passing of the Great Editor.
Atlantic.
The immensely large capital now re
quired for the conduct of a daily news
paper in a great city has had important
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consequences. It has made the news
paper more of an institution, less of a
personal organ. Men no longer designate
journals by the owner's or editor's name.
It used to be Bryant's paper, or Greeley's
paper, or Raymond's, or Bennett's. Now
it ls simply Times, Herald, Tribune, and
so on. No single personality can stamp
itself upon the whole organism. It ls too
vast. It is a great piece of property, to
be administered with skill; it is a care
fully planned organization which best
produces the effect when the personalities
of those who work for it are swallowed
up. The individual withers, but the
newspaper is more and more. Journalism
becomes impersonal. There are no more
"great editors," but there is a finer
esprit de corps, better "team play," an
institution more and more firmly estab
lished and able to justify itself.
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