PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECE3IBER
1906.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
VOL. XL VI.-NO. 14,338.
STUING
BLOW
TO STATE RIGHTS
President WillSpeakon
. Japanese' Issue.
WILLDECLARE NATION SUPREME
Assert Need of Exercise of
Federal Power.
INDORSE METCALF REPORT
Japanese Wronged by Labor I'nions
as AVcIl as School Board Will
Put Quietus on Third
Term Talk.
'WASHINGTON. Dec. 13. (Special.) A
special message on the Japanese ques
tion and the California school problem,
supplementary to the treatment of these
came subjects, by President Roosevelt
in his regular message last week, will
be sent to Congress next Tuesday. I am
In a position to state authoritatively that
this special message will be more vig
orous in tone than the f&rmer communi
cation and will not be calculated to cool
the Indignation of Californians previously
aroused.
The special message, moreover, aside
from its local application, will be one of
the most notable and important commu
nications in the entire list of those sent
to Congress by the present executive. It
will bring to a direct issue the cen
tralization scheme of government, which
is likely to Jonn the climax of endeavor
on the part of the Roosevelt administra
tion. Secretary of State Root sounded
the advance note in his most noteworthy
address before the Pennsylvania Society
in New York last night. The Pennsyl
vania dinner speech was planned to pave
the way for what iti to como from the
President himself.
Will Say Nation Is Supreme.
The administration is about 'to take ad
vanced ground regarding tho doctrine of
Federal supremacy over state sovereignty.
The Japanese question raised in connec
tion with the public school system of
California has supplied the opportunity
to give forcible expression to tho mighty
scheme of centralization that is to be
perfected, if possible. That Mr. Roofs
address should have been delivered on
the same day that the discussion of the
problem involved was opening in the
United States Senate from, tho state's
rights standpoint by Mr. Rayner of Mary
land is regarded as a striking coinci
dence. Kill Third-Term Talk.
Still another striking coincidence in
connection with' the same matter is the
authoritative announcement made a few
days ago that Mr. Roosevelt intends to
take steps to put a positive stop to the
attempt to force him to accept a renomina
tion. Regarding himself as out of the
Presidential succession beyond peradven
ture, the President, free from the influ
ence of political effect, is preparing to
play for the biggest stake evolved from
the whole Ilooseveltian programme.
It is not possible at this writing to fore
cast in detail what the President will say
in his second message on the Japanese
question. Accompanying his message,
which, it is understood, will be a full
explanation of the Administration's pro
jected policy as to the supremacy of Fed
eral over state power, will be the report
of the special investigation of the San
Francisco school question made by Secre
tary of Commerce and Labor Metcalf.
Will Adhere to Position.
Regardless of the nature of the report,
the President will adhere vigorously to
the position taken by him In his regular
message, which was written before he left
Washington to visit the canal zone, and
before he had anything at all from Mr.
Metcalf.
But as to the Metcalf report. It has
been learned that its author found much
to condemn in the matter of the treat
ment of Jupanese outside of the school
question. His report, in fact, will fur--nlsh
a new sensation. It will show, it is
understood, labor union tyranny over
Japanese nltich affects the rights held to
be theirs by treaty in even more pro
nounced manner than anything connect
ed with the school imbroglio. Matters of
this nniure cinhra-ed in Mr. Mctcalf's re
port will furnish the key for many argu
ments to be advanced by the President in
his message.
Where State Vails, Nation Steps In.
The President probably will follow the
line of reasoning advanced by Mr. Root
last night, to the effect that it is all right
for the states to run things, so long as
they do It for the good of all the people
of all the states, but that, when state
administration is inadequate in this par
ticular, nothing remains but for the Fed
eral authority to assert itself.
CASE AI.Tj HEADY FOR COURT
. Japanese Taxpayer Will Tcst.Rlghts
iu Schools.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dee. 13. An agree
ment was reached today between United
States District Attorney Devlin and City
Attorneys Burke and Raggett and Presi
dent Altman of the Board of Kducation
as to the statement of facts to be made
the basis of the proceedings to begin In
the State Supreme Court to test the
validity of segregation of Japanese
school children In separate schools.
The statement of facts finally agreed
upon today is essentially the same as the
one drafted last Friday,, which has al
ready been published. A change was
made by the United States District At
torney In section 5, which now draws
attention to the fact that Michitsukl
Aokt, the father of 10-year-old Kei Kechl
Aoki, In whose name the proceedings will
be brought, pays taxes in San Francisco.
The section now reads in part:
That Kel Kechi Aokl was born in the
Kmpiro of Japan and is a subject thereof,
that the said Infant Is of the age of 10 years
and 3 months and, with the exception of be
ing of Japanese descent, has the qualifica
tions provided by tho laws of tne State of
California for admission to the public
schools; that Michitsukl Aokl is bis father,
was born in the Kmplre of Japan, is not a
naturalized subject of the United States and
Is a subject of the Empire of Japan, but is
a resident and taxpayer of the City and
County of San Francisco. That the above
named infant prior to tne adoption of the
resolution of the Board of Education at-
t A
Andrew Carnegie. Millionaire, Who
Favors Inheritance Tax.
tended one or the regular public schools of
the City and County of San Francisco to
which American children and the children
of other nationalities were admitted and
that after the passage of said resolutions
he was prevented from attending said pub
lic schools .other than the said Oriental
school.
The father of the boy is a bookseller
and has refused to allow his son to attend
tho Oriental public school since the
resolutions providing for the segregation
went Into effect.
Another change, perhaps of greater im
portance, eliminates all reference to
Corean and Chinese children' in the state
ment of facts. In section 8 of the orig
inal draft, Corean and Chinese children
attending the public schools were men
tioned with the Japanese in such a man
ner as to indirectly raise the question"
whether o not the segregation could be
construed as unjust discrimination
against the Coreans and Chinese if It was
so in the case of the Japanese.
Mr. Devlin has telegraphed the state
ment of facts in full to Attorney-General
Moody and will awit tinal instruc
tions before instituting the proceedings.
Coolies on Canal Zone.
WASHINGTON, Dpi'. 13. Representa
tive Haines, of California. Introduced a
resolution today requesting Secretary
Taft to advise the House whether Chinese
or Japanese coolies are employed in the
canal zone, and whether their employ
ment is contemplated.
Celtic Carries Heavy -Mail.
NEW YORK. Dec. 13. The steamer
Celtic, which sailed from this port yes
terday for ijiverpool. carried 4033 sacks
of mail, the largest mail ever taken from
a United States port.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Wen I her.
SrKSTERDAY'S Maxiin,um temperature. 43
degrees; minimum tumperature, :IH rifgreeai
TODAY'S Probably fair; easterly wind.
Portland and Vicinity.
Jury acquits O. S. Murray, who killed I,. V"!,
'"titney, Mary Murray's betrayer. Page
10.
W. H. Taft, fugitive Portland real esiata
dalf r. arrested at Red Deer, Alberta
Province, Canada. Page lO.
Board of Trade re-elects old officers. Page 6.
Police Inspector Bruin attacked by saloon
keeper while making arrest. Page 10.
C. E. Loss advises Washington County peo
ple to pay no bonus for Korea t Grove line.
Page 7.
Damaging evidence against defendant in
Hell wood election fraud case. Page 11.
Humors are persistent that Hodson'a forces
seek new candidate for President of Sen
ate. Page 1L
Foreign banks nay proposed state banking
law is aimed to limit their business.
Page 1
1'oreign.
Cardinal Gibbons explains church side of
French crisis. Page 1.
French government summons . priests who
hold, service in violation of law. Page 1.
German Reichstag rejects colonial budget,
and Kaiser dissolves it. Page 4.
King Oscar critically III. Page 6.
English woman suffragists make disturb
ance. Page '2.
National.
Roosevelt yields to Congress In spelling re
form. Page 1. ,
Congress will raise salaries of members and
Cabinet. Page 1.
ItooseveH will write n.atlonal message en
.Japanctc. question. Page 1.
Probable action on Bristol's appointment.
Page o.
Domestic
Maude Adams' mother says sb to have
marrica .enaror brown. Page 1.
Harriman'a excuse for car shortage. Page 2.
ItomRin-e of Portland couple in New "York.
Page 5.
iMitsrmrg namner or i ommcrcp proposes
suppression ol oivorce news. Fage 4.
Civic Federation bears millionaires debate
tax on wealth. Page 6.
Actor commits hara-kiri In New York. Page
Pripst and woman commit suicide together.
Page 5.
Bll7.zH.rd ties up North Dakota railroads.
Page 6.
Sport .
Many serious accidents in bicycle race. Page
7.
Pacific Coast.
Jury !s secured in the trial of Chester
Thompson at Tacoma. Page 12.
Filthy conditions in Washington dairies
scored by cx-presldent o dairymen's as
sociation. Page 12.
Bullets fired by women kill two men in
Idaho. Page 32.
Captain C. M. -Sweet, of the schooner Annie
Larson, shoots an abusive tailor. Page U.
C ommercial and Marine.
Eastern hide markets turn weaker. Page 17.
Wheat up a shade at Chicago. Page 17.
Struggle for control of St. Paul. Page 17. '
1x-al stock market steadier. Page 17.
Mutiny on t'ne bark4inita, bound from Lon
don for Portland. Page 10.
GIBBONS TELLS
E OF STRIFE
French Jacobins Root
ing Out Religion.
CHURCH SIDE OF CONTROVERSY
Ministers Declare Their Pur
pose in Chamber.
CONSTITUTION IS IGNORED
Cardinal Tells How the Conflict in
France Differs From Struggle for
Religious liberty Progress
of Separation Law.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 13. "The American
public does not understand the present
erisis in France." said Cardinal Gibbons,
when asked this evening for his opinion
on the French situation. He continued:
"If I believed that my countrymen
would knowingly see a great; organization
unjustly deprived of its property, tens of
thousands of honest men and noble
women robbed of their just Incomes,
hundreds of thousands of people brutal
ly wounded in what they hold dearest
and most sacred, a majority in the Cham
ber disregard and trample upon the
rights of the minority and the rights of
millions of their countrymen in the name
of liberty would knowingly see tens of
thousands of priests and nuns turned out
of their homes for no crime but that of
loving God; I say, if my countrymen can
see and recognize all this injustice and
refuse genuine sympathy to those who
suffer, then I will leave life without faith
in American love of justice, liberty and
humanity.
"But the American people have not had
these things put fairly before them. In
France the Jacobin party is not dead.
They hate 5od. they hato Christ, they
hate his religion as much' as ever their
fathers hated .them. But they have
learned a more prudent and measured
method of attack. And yet the' utter
ances of such men are received as un
suspectingly by many American as would
he a disclosure by Mr. Cleveland, or Mr.
Roosevelt, or Mr. Taft.
"M. Viviani, the new Minister of Labor,
speaking in the Chamber, of Deputies.
CAS
said: "All of us together, first by our
forefathers, then by our fathers, now by
ourselves, have been attached to the
work of anti-clericalism and Irreligion.
We have snatched the human conscience
from belief In a future life. Do you
think that the work Is at an end? No, It
Is but beginning."
"The Chamber decreed that the dis
course from' which this extract Is taken
should be placarded In every town and
village of France.
Root Out Ancient Faith.
"M. Brland said In an address to
schooltca.ch.ers: 'The time has come to
root up from tho minds of French chil
dren the ancient faith, which has served
Its purpose, and replace it with the light
of free thought; it Is time to get rid of
the .Christian ideas. "We have -hunted
Jesus Christ out of the army, the navy,
the schools, the hospitals, insano and
orphan asylums and law courts; and now
we must hunt him out of the state alto
gether.' "What would we Americans say if a
Cabinet officer were to propose this as
the great aim of his administration?
"In. order to understand the present
situation, it must be borne in mind that
before the French revolution all churches,
all ecclesiastical lands and properties be.
longed to the church by as just a title
as property is owned in our country by
any religious denomination. At the rev
olution, all buildings, landed properties,
funds, etc.; were confiscated by the revo
lutionists. The constituent assembly later
voted for the support of the clergy an
annual budget.
"The present conflict dates back" to
1880, when a large number of religious
houses were closed by order of the gov
ernment and their occupants dispersed.
"Next, in 1901, the law of associations
was passed. By it the schools of reli
gious orders were forced out of existence.
The members of the different religious
congregations, not only male, but female
as well, were sent forth, either to eke
out an existence as best they could in
their own native France or go into exile.
"Finally, in December, 1905, the con
cordat was dissolved and separation of
church and state proclaimed.
"It is essential to bear in mind that
the concordat was a genuine contract
and that this contract was annulled
by the French government, with no
regard to the wishes of the other party.
. Constitution and Laws Ignored.
"Perhaps the feature of the situation
that will surprise us most and call for
our just indignation as Americans, is the
French government's absolute disre
gard for the property rights of the
church. She has been despoiled of the
salaries granted to the ministers of
religion as a compensation for the
funds which tho church relinquishes
under that express condition.
"In addition the law of separation
entirely ignores the constitution and
laws of the state. In America there is
due recognition of the laws governing
every lawful society, while under the
recent French law provisions arc made,
for organizing Catholic worship with
out any proper reference to the duly
authorized officers of the church.
"If the separation of church and state
(Concluded on Page t.)
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Brown Was to Marry
Actress' Mother.
WERE TO MEET MRS. BRADLEY
Ex-Senator Refused to Make
Slayer His Wife.
READY TO PROVIDE FOR HER
Mrs. Annie C. Adams Says She As
serted Utah Woman's Claim
to Xo Purpose; Murderous
Jealousy Foils Her.
NEW TORTC. Dec. 13. (Special.) That
the late Senator Brown of Utah was to
marry Mrs. Annie C. Adams was an
nounced today by Mrs. Adams. In an
Interview Mrs. Adams said:
' "The Senator and I were engaged to be
married on New Year's day, with one
great provision. That was that he should
effect an amicable settlement with Mrs.
Bradley. I fully knew of his relations
with her. as did every one else, and I
insisted that he should provide for her
to her entire satisfaction before we were
married. He promised to do this.
"We were to have met her in New York
this week and were to have gone to Bos
ton, where my daughter, Maude Adams,
is appearing, and we were to acquaint
her with our engagement. We were
then to" have journeyed to his son and
daughter and tell them. We had hoped
to have a union of the two families at
the celebration of the ceremony on New
Year's day.
Might Have Prevented Shooting.
"The last letter I had from Senator
Brown was that lie hoped to be-through
with his legal business in Washington by
yesterday and that he would calf on tm
Wednesday night in the Grand Union
Hotel. I was in Philadelphia when I
heard of the shooting.
"The news of the shooting of the Sen
ator by Mrs. Bradley was a great shock
to me. If I had only known that she was
following him. or that she contemplated
such an act (I never met Mrs. Bradley
(S3)
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and never saw her), but had I known
her desperate state of mind, I would have
gone to her at once and would have pre
vented this tragedy.
"She was jealous. She did not know
that I was insistent that the Senator
should provide for her and her children.
Refused to Marry Mrs. Bradley.
"I was Mrs. Bradley's best friend,"
Mrs. Adams continued. "When the Sen
ator first proposed marriage to me. I
plainly told him it was his duty to marry
Mrs. Bradley. But he gave me every as
surance that a marriago alliance with
Mrs. Bradley was Impossible, lie refused
positively to marry her and told me that,
if he could not marry me. he would not
marry any one.
Under these circumstances I consented
to be his wife if he would arrange mat
ters satisfactorily to Mrs. Bradley. He
told me he would do this and I knew that
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he had communicated with her and asked
her how much money she would need."
MRS. BRADLEY FIIIKD SHOT
Coroner's Jury Reports on Death of
ex-Senator Brown.
WASHINGTON, Doc 13. An Inquest
was held today to determine the rause of
the death of ex-Senator Brown, of
Utah. Mrs. Bradley, who was present,
seemed to try to conceal her face from
observers.
Josephine Kldwell, the maid who heard
the shooting, said she summoned Manager
Talty, of tho hotel, and accompanied him
to the room where Senator Brown wa.s
found lying on the floor wounded, and
Mrs. Bradley standing near. The revol
ver was on the dresser. Mr. Talty cor
roborated the maid's testimony and added
that Heiiatnr Brown, pointing at Mrs;
Bradley, said:
"That woman shot me."
This statement, Mr. Talty said, was
made in response to hi3 Inquiry of Brown,
whether he had attempted suicide.
Detective Burlingamo testified that Mrs.
Bradley told him at tho station-house that
she fired tho shot.
"She told me that she was 'the mother
of two of Brown's children, and of his re
fusal to marry her." said the detective.
She rehearsed the facts of her connec
tion with Hrown.
Dr. White, superintendent of the tenter'
gency Hospital, stated that at one time
during his illness. Brown said that he did
not intend to prosecute Mrs. Bradley in
the event of hia recovery. After further
evidence of a corroborative nature the
jury returned the following verdict:
"Arthur G. Brown came to iiis death
December Ki. 1906. at the Kmergency Hos
pital, from a gunshot wound in the blad
der. Said gunshot wound was caused by
a pistol bullet tired by Anna M. Bradley.
We hold said Anna M .Bradley for the ac
tion of the grand jury."
When the verdict was read, Mrs. Brad
ley collapsed and for a time was in a
serious condition. As soon as she was
able to make the trip, she was removed to
jail. Throughout the inquest, Mrw. Brad
ley had been composed and apparently
unconcerned.
At the jail Mrs. Bradley was seurched.
provided with prisoners' clothing and as
signed to a cell. As the door was closed
she sank on a cot and wept, but was soon
consoled by the attendants.
It is probable that an Indictment will
be voted against Mrs. Bradley in a few
days' by the grand jury, which is now In
session. In view of the fact that the
calendar pf the Criminal Court is filled
up to April 1. it is probable that site will
remain in jail for some time unless her
attorneys arrange to have the case ad
vanced. Mr. Bagley, .of Salt Lake City.
Is on his way to this city to confer with
Mrs. Bradley's Washington lawyers.
The body of Brown will tomorrow after
noon be sent to. Salt Lake City, where
the funeral and interment will take place.
His son. Max, and daughter, Alice, and
Mrs. Annie C. Adam's will accompany the
body.
A number of Senators who served with
Mr. Brown when he represented Utah In
the Senate called at tho undertaking es
tablishment today. Tho metallic casket
1 an exact duplicate of the one in which
the late President McKinley was buried.
Mrs. Annie C. Adams, mother of Maude
Adams.' arrived tonight. Tomorrow she
will tell United States DistrintAttorney
Baker what she knows of the romance
that led to the shooting. She will aT.
visit Mrs. Bradley at the district jail
before she leaves for Salt Lake City to
attoud the funeral of Senator Brown.
LOOK TO STATE FOR RIGHTS
People 'Will Not Pay Dividend on
AVatered Stock, Says Hughes.
ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. 13. Gov-.ernor-elect
Charles E. Hughes was the
guest of honor tonight at ;he annual
banquet of tho Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Hughes said in part:
"The people will not tolerate efforts
to make the public pay dividends on
watered stocks. They are willing to
see legitimate business puy legitimate
profits, but they insist on being fairly
and impartially served, and rightly
look to the state to secure their
rights."
Football Committee to Meet.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13. What probably
will be the last meeting of tho Inter
collegiate football rules committee, as
constituted, has been cabled for Satur
day, December 22, in New York City.
The meeting is unlikely to make any
changes In the rules.
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Cardinal James Gibbon.
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SIMPLE SPELLING
President Yields to the
Opinion of House.
MIRROR OF NATION'S OPINION
Public Documents Will Be
Spelled in Old Way.
TWO STYLES ARE AVOIDED
At Hint From Roosevelt, House
Passes Resolution Standing by
Dictionary Style Executive Or
der Will Bo Withdrawn.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 13. (Special.)
President Roosevelt, for once, has ad
mitted defeat. He today decided to with
draw his order to the Public Printer
calling fo rthe reform Btyle of spell
ing, and hereafter all documents will be
printed in the old-fashioned way. So
much opposition to the innovation devel
oped In the House that the President was
convinced the country was not in accord
with his ideas. These Representatives,
coming directly from their constituents
in all parts of rho country, prove an
Infallible Index to the public mind, and
tho President realizes that the country
does not take kindly to his plan.
Avoids Dual System.
The bringing of simplified .spelling to
an issue in the House Was not wholly
unexpected. Tho House leaders believed
that the President would not tako the
responsibility, in the face of a majority
of the House, of tho confusion and the
great expense which two kinds of spelling
were bound to entail on the Printing
Office. The Supreme Court had already
declined to allow it to be used in quoting
from the law, and Congress did not seem
disposed to accept it in any form, al
though the Senal6"h7is" not yet acted on
the question. In hiH order Inaugurat
ing the simplified spellinig system thi,
President had made, it entirely plain thnt,
if tho opposition to tho new idea should
prove popular, he would not hesitate to
withdraw it at once.
House Acts on Suggestion,
Representative I-andis of the joint com
mittee on spelling had a conference to
day with the President, when the Presi
dent said that ho did not wili to have
spcllinir overshadow matters of great im
portance, and expressed a willingness to
revoke his order for the new spelling In
case the House of Reprcsentativesshould
go on record a opposed to tho system.
Accordingly, late in tho afternoon, Mr.
lyandis Introduced the following resolu
tion in tile House:
Resolved. That It in the stub of the
House of Representatives that hereafter fn
printing reports, documents, or other publi
cations authorized by law. ordered by Con
gress or either branch thereof or emanating
from the executive departments, their hu
reaus or branches and Independent ofices of 1
the Government, the Government Printing
Office should adhere to the standard of or
thography prescribed In generally accepted
dictionaries of the English language.
The measure was passed without a dis
senting vote.
RAItSK OFFICIAIi SALARIES.
Party Leaders in House Agree to
. Take Up Question.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. The House is
seemingly inclined to raise the salaries
of the members as well as those of the
Vice-President, Speaker, Senators and
Cabinet officers. Before resuming con
sideration of the legislative, judicial and
executive appropriation bill today, IJt
tauer of New York endeavored to have a
resolution adopted providing for taking
up the question in the committee of the
whole, but Underwood of Alabama ob
jected to its consideration in committee.
He said, however, he would make no ob
jection to its discussion In the House
after the bill was reported by the com
mittee of the whole.
He added that ho was opposed to the
increase, but said he would not block the
way of serious consideration. Ills sugges
tion formed tho basis of an agreement
that, when the bill shall be reported, the
question of a general advance in salaries
will be taken up and voted upon as an
amendment before the legislative bill is
finally acted upon.
The resolution increases tho salaries or
Senators and Representatives to J7500 and
makes other increases In official salaries.
The resolution also fixes the salaries of
the Vice-Preldent and Speaker at W,Vi
and of Cabinet officers at J12.000.
PASSES INFECTED SHEEP
Wyoming Casts Reflections on Ore
gon Inspector's Work.
LARAMIE, Wyo., Dec. 13. (Special.)
The sheep of Emerson & Newman,
shipped from Nyesa, Or., fo Chicago,
were held up at Rock' River yesterday by '
inspectors, being badly affected with
scabies, and the Government officers will
dip them before they aro allowed to go
on. These sheep were certified for ship
ment by a Government inspector in Ore
gon and it is officially stated here that
this is the fifth shipment of diseased
sheep thrqugh Wyo.lng which has been
passed by the 6amu inspector.
WILL
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