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VOL,. XLVI. XO. 14,294. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER, 1, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MIGHTY Tfl FOR ROOSEVELT Cuban Situation Adds Complications. GROWLS FROM THE SENATORS Prompt Action Taken Viewed as Encroachment. JEALOUSY AT THE BOTTOM Anti-Trust Attack on the Standard Oil Is Put In the Background by the Intervention in Island Affairs. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. (Special) High officials of the Administration and a fair sprinkling of leading Senators and Congressmen, who have been conspicuous by their absence from the capital, during the Summer, are back in town,, in antici pation of the return of the President and his suite tomorrow afternoon. With the return today of Secretary Root from hia memorable tour of South America, all the members of the Cabinet, with the excep tion of Secretaries Taft and Shaw, are on the ground. Secretary Taft, however, is on dual duty In a more turbulent field, and by virtue of the cable and the telegraph may be said., to be doing business Just the same aa If at his desk in the War Department. Secretary Shaw is still spreading his doc trine for hustling. Senator Foraker ls among the notable arrivals of the Senatorial contingent. Al though not a member of the committee on Cuban resolutions. Senator Foraker took a very prominent part in the legis lation leading up to the affairs of Cuba, and Is likely to be a prominent figure again when Cuba's tangled affairs once more get before the country. Foraker a Central Figure. Foraker is chairman of the committee on Pacific islands and Porto Rico, and In a way the three committees Draught Into existence Dy tne recent territorial devel opment of the United States, and the Spanish War the committees on Philip pines, Paclfio Islands, and Porto Rico and Cuban relations are closely associated In their work. It ls possible Senator For aker. in spite of his somewhat strained relations with the White House, may con fer with the President on pending condi tions, as well as the Ohio political situa tion. President Roosevelt will return from a strenuous vacation, if it may be called a vacation, to plunge head over heels Into work that will require more atten tion than is usually commanded at like periods during a Presidential term. Whether recent developments, especially with regard to Cuba, will interfere with the President's plans to visit Panama in November, is an unsettled question. If the Cuban mess be not straightened out before the time set for his departure. It Is deemed highly probable that the President will remain at the White House to direct matters. Tabks Before the President. The Cuban situation. the anti-trust EIGHTEENTH (MOUNTAIN) BATTERY, WHICH LEAVES THE VANCOUVER ARMY crusade, which the President early in the Summer, speaking with regard to the then inaugurated legal investigation of Standard Oil, characterized as the most important movement of his administra tion; preparations for completing the Roosevelt programme of legislation at the hands of the 59th Congress, and on top of these things the sudden developments of a most intensely important political situation in the President's home state, as well as in connection with the coming Congressional elections, furnish an in dex of the perplexities confronting . the Chief Executive. Altogether there is about to be inaugurated a busy Fall season in White House circles that was not anticipated when Congress ad journed In June. The anti-trust attack on Standard Oil, whioh may result in the dissolution of that giant monopoly, necessarily now must share attention with some previ ously unforeseen problems. But the Roosevelt system thrives on hard work and a multiplicity of duties. Any Idea that the pyrotechnics and public Interest in the Fifty-ninth Congress are. exhausted by its first memorable session may Just as well be banished. Trouble Brewing in Senate. The Senate session, instead of a tran quil rounding out of matters left un finished as a partial result of the long-drawn-out contest over rate regulation seems destined to be a hummer all the more so because the complications previ ously unanticipated must be crowded for solution, if solved by this Congress, into the few months ending with the 4th of March next. When Congress left Washington last Summer the rapproachement between the President and the Senate had been pretty well established., but now there are rumblings presaging a new war between the Administration and the lords of law making. Cuba Is the casus belli. From hostile Senatorial sources come hints and innuendoes to the effect that the Presi dent has been "usurping his prerogatives again." That lie has exceeded his au thority by intervening in Cuba without consulting Congress is the charge. Old Issue of Jealousy. As some worthies of expertness as to constitutional law and international com plications are disposed to interpret the Piatt amendment, that article of Inter national legislation did not confer its powers of interference in Cuban affairs upon the President, but at least partially reserved to the legislative branch of the Government the right to have the author itative word In time of emergency. It's the old Issue of jealousy between the rights and prerogatives of Congress and the Executive. The same cry was raised when President Roosevelt recog nized the Republic of Panama and by a master stroke paved the way for actually beginning work in the international canal. Back of the hostility with regard to Cuba, which seems bound to find- open expres- ion a3 soon as Congress meets, there lie in some measure interests that profess to fear annexation is the immediate aim of the Administration. How the. general Roosevelt legislative programme may be complicated by Cuban affairs ls a question of important consid eration. Especially is this true with re gard to' the Philippine tariff. Cabinet Meeting for Tuesday. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. President Roosevelt, the members of his family and his "official entourage are expected to reach Washington from Oyster Bay at 4:15 P. Jl. tomorrow. All members of the President's Cabinet, except Secretary Taft, also will be in Washington by to morrow evening. The President has in dicated his desire that they be present at the Cabinet meeting, which will be held at 11 A. M. Tuesday. It is expected that the Cuban situation will be one of the principal topics of consideration. Official Notice Not Yet Given. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. Notice of the American intervention In Cuba has not yet been officially sent to the for eign powers. It is expected that the President, who will return from Oyster Bay tomorrow, and Socretary Root, who returned to Washington today, will consider tomorrow whatever ac tiou is to be taken in that direction. SOLDIERS LEAVE FOR CUBA TODAY Mounted Batteries at Vancou ver Ready for Trip Across the Continent. PROMPT IN EMERGENCY Not a Hitch Delays Preparations for Departure Call to Arms Is Welcomed Troops Expect to See Service. VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Wash., Sept. 3Ck (Special.) To assist in protect ing life and property and in preserving peace in Cuba the "Pearl of the An tilles" is the peaceful, rather than war like, mission which will start the Seven teenth and Eighteenth mountain batteries now stationed here across the continent to Newport News at an early hour to morrow morning, and which later will lead them to the scene of the present West Indian imbroglio. It will be the first time that these troops, equipped bet ter than the foot or mounted soldiery of any other post in America to wage war fare among the mountain passes and in accessible highlands of Cuba, have been away from the Columbia River garrison since their return from the Philippines nearly two years ago. save for their short trip to San Francisco to do patrol duty following the earthquake. The speed and lack of confusion with which these batteries have been made ready for field duty and the dispatch with which they will be started on their jour ney indicates that the officers of theDe. partment of the Columbia for some time have been prepared for the present emer gency, and have been ready to send to the front whatever details of troops might be ordered out from any of the three branches of the service, infantry, cavalry or artillery. Others Anxious to Go. To meet the exigencies of the situation the artillery batteries at this post were selected by the departnent at -Washington to mobilize at Newport News with the first expedition of 6j00 troops. As a matter of fact should it be deemed neces sary by President Roosevelt or Secretary Taft to order out a second expedition practically every foot soldier, cavalryman and artilleryman at-he-Vancouver- post would be ready to go when the -order comes, so well provided for the Cuban emergency is the local garrison. That the men are anxious for such a call goes without saying. The batteries will leave in the morning just as soon as the two special trains, one of ten passenger coaches to carry the officers and men, and one of about 25 baggage and stock cars to convey the mules, officers' mounts, baggage, provis ions and equipment, are ready to receive the detachment. ' . As soon as Colonel A. B. Dyer, cavalry military secretary of the Department of the Columbia, received orders from Washington Saturday night for the dis patch of the two mountain batteries to Newport News he issued orders tcf pre pare for the immediate departure of the troops. He got into communication with tiie traffic officials of the Northern Pa cific at once and the railroad company began routing "empty" baggage and stock cars to Vancouver to make up the freight special as quickly as possible. Cars Are Now in Waiting. A dozen cars were on the side tracks near the barracks by the late afternoon. some having arrived early In the day, while the passenger special to carry the .officers and men Is expected to reach here .shortly after midnight. The quartermaster's department, act ing under orders from Chief Quarter master Samuel R. Jones, of the Depart ment of the Columbia, worked practically all night Saturday night, all day today and far into the night loading the bag gage, cars with provisions for the men, feed for the animals, heavy baggage, field outfits and tents, and the. stock cars with tho horses and mules. Meantime the quarters of the two bat teries were, the scenes of hurried prep arations for the leave-taking. All day today the boys were busy emptying their lockers at quarters and packing their clothing, personal effects, writing ma terial, mysterious looking packages of ribbon-bound letters and what not - In their knapsacks. They were a happy lot. and the envy of the infantrymen and cavalrymen, for here they are facing a Budden . break In the dull monotony of routine barrack life, with unknown ad ventures before them, new experiences which every regular covets.. Last Stroll in the Parks. The boys sang and whistled as they packed their kits and gathered together their accouterments, and many of them are to be seen strolling' about the pic turesque little parks and groves of the reservation tonight with sweetheart, or sister perhaps, . glancing dreamily now and then at the moon and humming snatches of "Good-Bye Dolly Gray," or like sentimental war ballad. The town was thronged with visitors (Concluded on Page 8.) CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 71 decrees; minimum. 4S. TODAY'S Rain: cooler; southerly winds. Cuba. Saturday the first of the expeditionary force of 6600 men will be landed In Cuba. Page 1. Most of the infantry and artillery will be mobilized at Newport News, Va. Pago 1. Transport Sumner sails from New York Monday with troops and supplies. Page 1. General Funston reaches agreement with In surgents to lay down arms. Page 3. Storm on the Gulf. Total number of deaths from gulf storm may reach 125. Page 3. Forts demolished and five warships are wrecked at Pensacola. Pure 3. Foreign. ' Sixteen balloons sail away from Tullerlea gardens, in Paris, in International race. Page 2. Delegates from 31 governments to meet at Ber lin and discuss wireless telegraphy. Page 2. Final action being taken by Russian govern ment for distribution of land to peasants. Page 2. National. Senate may throw obstructions) in the way of Rooseveit's policy in Cuba. Page 1. Secretary Root arrives in Washington from. bouin American tour. Page s. Marked decrease In the pension roll shown by report of Commissioner Warner. Page 3. Domestic. Bernard Shaw declares simplified spelling can be attained by enlargement of the alphabet. Page 1. John D. Rockefeller ia mUslng from his For est Hill home. . Pae 8. Bishop Williams says the Bible ls not the word of God. Page 8. Pacific Coast. Tillamook citizens guarantee right of way and terminal for the Pacific Railway Sc Navi gation Company. Page 4. Hill has secured bay front for terminals at San Francisco. Pajre 8. Seattle will attempt Tuesdav to raise S50O.O0O for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacino fair. Page 4. Sports. Pacific Coast scores: Portland 3-3, San Fran cisco 1-1; Seattle 4-0, Fresno 0-2; Los An geles 4. Oakland 0. Page S. Joe Walcott fights a 20-round draw with Billy Rhodes, of Kansas City. Page 5. Portland and Vicinity. Automobiles in collision on Llnnton road. Pace 8. Councilman Masters answers B. Lee Paget' attack. Page 8. Portland sawmill men do not fear Increase In price of loirs. Page 4. Archbishop Christie home from Coos Bay. Page 14. Whirlwind week's campaign to start today for closing up of Y. M. C. A.-Y. W. C. A. 1060.000 building fund. Page 12. Mounted batteries leave Vancouver Barracks for Newport News this morning, en route to Cuba. Page 1. Bishop Warren preaches to 4000 people at Sunnyside; dedicates church at Lents. Page 8. Portland nlmrods depart for quail and pheas ant covers. Paae 6. Sunday sermons by Portland pastors. Page 9. Father O'Hara preaches at the Cathedral on ' The Catholic Church 1800 Years Ago." Page 9. POST EARLY THIS MORNING FOR IS NOT REAL REFORM Bernard Shaw Says Spelling Should Be Simplified by Greater Alphabet. CURTAILING IS PLEBEIAN .Irish Satirist Advises tJse of New Letters, Designed by an Artist, to - Define the Pronunciation of - the Consonants and Vowels. (Copyright Cable to Sw York Times. Printed by Arrangement.) LONDON. Sept. 30. George Bernard Shaw has set forth his views on spell ing reform in the following character istic letter to the editor of the Times: "Sir It is to be regretted that the scheme of the Simplified Spelling Board so energetically and wisely forced on our attention by President Ruzvelt (if he will allow me to simplify him to that extent) has been received not only with the outburst of Ignorance and folly which any sensible proposal may nowadays count on, but with a false delicacy which has led genuine pho netic experts to withhold serious tech nical criticism. IL IS bad enough to have men of let ters passionately defending such a re cent absurd and transient aberration as our pseudo-etymological spelling. on the ground that It is the spelling of the Bible and Shakespeare (a libel gross enough to make Tyndall and Shake speare turn In their graves), but it is far worse to have the defects of the scheme passed over In polite silence by the people who know authoritatively that, though the President does not overrate the enormous importance of spelling reforms, his methods cannot be regarded as an advance on those of Artemus Ward and Josh Billings. Mohammed's Luck at Reforming. "I tried to express this myself by comparing his action to the reform cal endar by Mohammed, who divided the year Into 12 lunar months, with results on tho caravan season arrangements from which Arabian commerce has not recovered to this day, but I find that most of your contemporaries regard Mohammed's arrangement as an excel lent one, and accordingly report me as enthusiastically in favor of the Presidential spelling. "Pending some really authoritative comment by Henry Sweet, whose pro posals of ISal are hardly to the point today, or by a home expert of his school, let me Dolnt out a few obvious shortcomings in the scheme. To begin with, It ls not really simplified spell ing. It ls shortened spelling, which Is quite a different matter, as short spell ing may leave a foreigner or a child quite as much in the dark as to the sound of a word as the long one, and It anxiously disclaims any pretense to be phonetic. Now, It ls doubtless wise when a reform is Introduced to try to persuade the British public that it ls not a reform at all, but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least, and the fact is that a board which disclaims phonetic spelling puts itself out of court. "Unphonetlc spelling ls aa impossible a figment aa secular education. Unless we adopt the system of Chinese ideo graphs and learn by heart a separate arbitary symbol for every word in the dictionary, we must spell phopetically ABBREVIATION CUBA FIRST-LIEUTENANT EDWARD W. WILHELM IN CENTER, We may corrupt and confuse our spell ing by etymological fads, spelling 'def with a 'b' and 'fortn' with an 'ig.' just as we might spell 'man' 'mapn' or 'mkyan,' to show that we are descend ed from the apes or monkeys. But we shall not spell 'man' 'ape,' nor shall we ever spell 'cat' 'dog.' If we did, the only result would bo that we should pres ently spell 'dogma' 'catma.' We cannot get away from phonetic spelling, be cause spelling is as necessarily and In evitably phonetic as moisture is damp. Excuse for Beating Children. "To say that English and French spelling are not phonetic Is absurd. All that It means is that the French and English spell much worse than the Ger mans and Italians, being relatively conceited and inhibitlve people, who take an uppish delight in making knowledge difficult, not to mention their love of excuses for punishing children. English spelling contains thousands of excuses for rebuking chil dren, for beating them, for imprisoning them after school hours, for breaking their spirits with impossible tasks. It is more effective even than teaching a short-sighted child the clock and then beating it because It cannot tell the time from Big Ben. "But in the long run phonetics have their revenge. When we begin by re fusing to spell as we pronounce, we end by having to pronounce as we spell. Etymologists, to show the French origin of the word 'oblige,' refused to spell it phonetically,' and a generation of superior persons despised those who dVid not say 'obleege,' and were themselves despised by the still more select circle who said 'obleezb.' But who dares say 'obleege' now except Joseph Surface on the stage? "Envelope" as an Example. "The history of the word 'envelope' tells the same story. 'Ongvelope' and 'annvelope' have had their day. We spelt It 'envelope.' and now we pronounce it 'envelope.' The American reformers want us to spell 'catalogue' "catalog." The word is in such common use that its pronunciation has been traditionally maintained In spite of the spelling. But what of 'epilog' and "prolog" ? These two words, which most Englishmen never utter or hear uttered in their lives, and the rest use perhaps once in 30 years, are on those rare occasions mispronounced nine times out of ten as 'epiloag' and 'proloag.' "As the working classes become more literate and please themselves by drag ging into ordinary conversation more and more long words that they have never heard pronounced, they Introduce ways of their own of pronouncing them, found ed necessarily on spelling. 'Programme.' a vulgarism that offends- the eye as 'Paris' pronounced 'Paree' in English of fends the ear, has in my hearing been pronounced so as to rhyme with 'damn.' That is how we shall have to pronounce it some day. I foresee the time when I shall be forced to pronounce 'semicon scious' as 'see my conscious.' Murderins rfJie. Alphabet. "The worst cf it ia this want of con science in spelling that has lea to an archy and indifference in the interpreta tion of spelling. London children are de liberately taught to speak hideously by teachers who speak that way themselves. I have passed a public elementary school and have heard a class of children cho rusing the alphabet aa follows: 'I.' 'ber-ee,' 'seh-ee.' 'der-ee.' 'er-ee,' "aff." ger-ee.' 'lche,' "awy," "Ji" "ki." 'al,' am,' 'an.' 'ow,' 'per-ee,' 'kio,' 'aw,' 'ass,' ter-ee,' 'yer-eeo,' 'ver-ee,' 'dabblyew,' 'ax,' "wawy," 'zad.' "Already the West End and Oxford have acquired- more than half this horri ble pronunciation, and they will soon ac quire it completely. They are lulled into false security by the fact that the coarse ly nasal resonance of the costermonger distinguishes him socially from the Ox ford graduate in spite of the identity of their mispronunciation. But the snarl will no doubt conquer Oxford In time. When smart Bociety says "ow now' for oh no." and 'dahn tahn' for 'down town,' and calls 'humbug with a gun' 'hambag with agan,' it ls not very far fjpm com plete mastery of the language of what it (Concluded on Page 2.)- TROOPS ARE TO BE LANDED SATURDAY Mobilization of Forces at Newport News TRANSPORTS ARE ENGAGED Second Expedition Is to Be Held in Readiness. TAFT HAS 5000 SAILORS Should Trouble Break Out, These Could Be Landed From War ships to Keep Order Tntil Arrival of Soldiers. WASHINGTON. Sept. Sn. - Americaa troops are now moving toward Cuba Mobilization of the forces will be at Newport News, Va., for the most part, although a part of the expeditionary force to Cuba will be sent from New York and Tampa. Fla. Advices received at the departments of the military to day Indicate that all Is quiet in Cuba and that the Insurgents intend to lay down their arms. The probability is the United States forces in the island will be landed only as a precautionary measure. So far as officials are advised no trouble of a sen. ous kind is anticipated, but In accord ance with Instructions from President Roosevelt hurried preparations are being made for the sending of' an expeditionary force of the Army to Cuba. The first American troops will be land ed at Havana next Saturday. Meantime the marines and bluejackets from the American fleet In Cuban waters will pro tect American interests and support Sec retary Taft. the Provisional Governor of Cuba, in the preservation of order and the protection of life ana property. Second Force to Be Sent. In official circles here American Inter vention was regarded as inevitable. Hot long ttr may continue it is impossible to foretell. The' nature of the Intervention and the preparations for it indicate a supervision of Cuban affairs on the part of the American Government for an In definite period. Arrangements have been concluded not only for the expeditionary force to Cuba of about 6SnO men, but for a second force of equal numbers. No orders for the mobilization r.t v.-. second force, of course, have been 1st, sued, but If the men are needed all ar rangements have been completed for hurrying them to Cuba at the earliest possible moment. Whether more troops than are Included in the first expedition will be sent to Cuba will depend upon the developments in the island during tne next ten days. It ls certain, however, tha.t a. jinfflnUnt force of American troops will be main tained In Cuba to sunnort thu nmvldnnai government and to insure security to life) and Drorjertv nendlne- tliA ataHl(nirvim of a stable government by the Cubans. Great Activity in Departments. Operations in all departments of the military establishment of the Govern ment today were on a war basis. The) (Concluded on Pag 2.) BOTTOM ROW