ft VOL. XLVI.-NO. 14,413. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS. LDDGE IS JABBED WTH PITCHFORK Tillman Roars About Immigration Bill. OPPOSES JAPANESE PROVISION Accuses Roosevelt of Dicker ing With .Unions. OTHER SENATORS CHIME IN Wlifle Roosevelt Is Reaching Afrree- ment With Californians. Senate Is Entertained With Invective. ' JAPAN QUESTION SETTLED. WASHrXGTOX. ' Feb. IS. The Kan Francisco school controversy grow ing out of the segregation of the Japanese school children in that city has been settled. - The 'basis, of 'the- Kreemcnt reached at the" White House conference today Is that Mayor Schmltz and the members of the school board will. Immediately after the passage of the immigra tion bill, as reported by the con ferees In Congress, abolish the Ori ental schools and again admit Jap anese children Into the white schools. The President and Secretary Root assured the Californians that. If the bill Is not passed at this session, an extra session will 'be' called Immedi ately after the adjaurnment on March 4. . The abolition of the Oriental schools refers, of course, only to the use of them by the Japanese. Their maintenance for the C'hlneBo will be continued. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. An agreement to vote tomorrow on tlsp conference re jiort on the immigration bill, which in cludes the provision intended to settle the California Japanese question, was reached In the Senate today as the -result of an entire day of discussion upon that measure. The principal speakers were Bacon and Tillman in opposition to what they regarded as an effort to prevent the South from getting a desir able class of immigrants. Tillman's remarks on the Japanese situ ation brought a warning frum Lodge that if they were continued he should move that the dicusslon proceed behind closed doors. International references were not made afterward by Tillman. Gallinger expressed surprise that the conferees should contend that they had not Injected new" matter into the con ference report, and Carter said he should vote against the report entirely on that ground and predicted Its defeat. Mr. Bacon continued his speech in op position to the provisions which he re gards as inimical to Southern industries. His was not a facetious objection, but, as he insisted, one highly material. Tillman Says South Is Wronged Everyone supposed that this lmmigra .lon bill was dead;" continued Tillman, but. io and behold, an exigency has arisen on the Pacific Coast. Strenuous Individ uals are at work to accomplish a certain end. The able man presiding over the State Department drafts an amendment to the law passed last May by the Senate and last June by the House, and which has been in conference ever since. The conferees take that distinguished gentle man into their conlidence. or rather he takes them Into his confidence, and the Senate is notified that this bill must go through. Why? Speaking in plain terms, to keep the Japanese out of California. But there is a two-fold objection to the measure. The first Is that It is intended to keep Japanese laborers off the Pacific Coast and from getting Into this country, and the conferees, in furtherance of a policy which looks' to sectional advantage, ' have incorporated a provision which changes the law in regard to contract labor which will keep out the little dribble of immigrants who have started southward. And these two provisions, linked together, are to be driven through Congress. The South's in terests are as usual ignored; the Pacific Coast, of course, is taken care of." lillman contended that this proced ure must be in pursuance of a settled policy and made strenuous objection to it. Flint, of California, declared there was no necessity for bringing the Cal ifornia relief measure into the discus sion. Ready to Fight for Exclusion. Tillman Insisted that it was Impossi ble under the rules to do other than consider the two questions together, as tho conference committee refused to withdraw the report and amend it. "I will vote for an exclusion act tomorrow, which will keep the Japa nese out," he added. "I io not see why there should be a prejudice against them, yet I am' willing to keep them out if it brings war." Lodge arose at this. "If," he said, in a low tone, "we are going to dis cuss that question I think we ought to do so behind closed doors." "I am perfectly willing to go behind closed doors," Tillman responded. "Perhaps I can get a heart-to-heart talk with some people who wllr not stay here and listen, but who have got s orders from the White House that this report has got to go through." Rayner asked if a discussion of the legal phases would not be permitted In open session. "There wiis not the slightest objec tion to this consideration," Lodge an swered, "but there are certain phases which all Senators think ought not to be discussed in publio." . "If we have got to pigeon-toe around here," asserted Tillman, "and cannot discuss our own National issues, we have got to a desperate pass." "I don't desire to go into secret ses sion on any of the phases of the bill, the Senator well knows," said Lodge. "But the two are Involved," Insisted Tillman. "If the man at the White House had not taken It upon himself to meddle with everything in the United States we would not have this issue here." . Wants Immigrants for South. Stating his opinion against contract labor to be as strong as that of any one; Tillman said he would give the proper encouragement to desirable lm- Jesse Mlattuck Jones, of Tacoma, J Appointed Washington Railroad N Commissioner to Succeed J. C. Mc-4 , Mlliin. i ' ' ....... A migrants to the South, and he believed the Government would do well to spend $100,J00.000 for that purpose. The South was to be discriminated against, he maintained, because the Senator from Massachusetts had a large num ber of highly respectable constituents who were opposed to the ' Southern States getting immigrants unless they got them- from the slums of the North ern cities. The South did not want this sort f "'scum and riff-raff." Tillman said he realized the only way the conference report could be defeated," under the discipline .thai prevailed, .would be to defeat ft by argument. He was not prepared to adopt such extreme measures. even if the South was discriminated against. Says Roosevelt Dickers. "I want to know why it is," continued Tillman, "that the President of the Unit ed States should be permitted, if this bill becomes a law. and I know it will, to dicker with labor unions, to make bar gains with labor unions? Why should the interests of labor on the Pacific Coast make It possible for the President to issue an executive order to prohibit the landing of a certain class of immigrants? We ought to have a law to regulate such a thing. It ought not to be left to execu tive discretion. There ought not to be any bargaining, here for political pur poses. : ' "We have all heard that In the last Presidential election . an understanding was reached by those who .had charge of the campaign that, if the Mormon vote went a certain way, a certain colleague of ours should be cared for. We hearc" it talked too, that the chief executive, who was the beneficiary of that vote though he did not need it has exerted hiraself to the utmost to carry out that agreement and is -using his Influence to stave off a vote and protect in every way he could the Senator from Jtah. "These' bargains are not conducive to the public welfare. I am sick and dis gusted -with this disposition on the part of the Senate and Congress in actually surrendering everything into the keeping of the- executive." Tillman then made reference to "our friend Wadsworth," who, he said, had fallen outside of the breastworks be cause last Winter he had stood for what he had believed proper on the meat in spection bill. "I do not like that tendency in our National affairs," continued Till man, "but of course, 1 am like a child crying in the night." Lodge Astounds Gallinger. "When Lodge stated emphatically that in his opinion the conferees had not ex ceeded their authority and that they had gone over all the immigration laws, Gal linger got recognition. "I simply rose to say that I am astounded by the answer of the Senator from Massachusetts," said he. "That Is certainly not a crumb, but a chunk, of comfort," responded Tillman. Carter took the position that the con ferees had exceeded their authority. "A vote taken on this question," continued Carter, "will In my judgment result in the defeat of the conference report." Patterson secured unanimous consent for a vote on the conference report before adjournment tomorrow, the discussion to be resumed as soon as the morning business Is out of the way. During the debate a member of the Cabinet who was on the floor told cer tain Senators that the suoject of state Immigration had received the attention of the Cabinet at its meeting today and that there had been a general conclusion that the terms of the bill would not require a new ruling In the South Carolina case. AGREEMENT AT WHITE HOUSE Rescind Separate School Order .When Congress Passes Bill. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. Mayor (Concluded on Page 2.) S5001010 IS HEEDED BY ROADS Must Spend That Sum on Improvements. DON'T KNOW WHERE TO GET IT Hill Lines .Urgently Need In creased Facilities. CAPITAL WILL NOT INVEST St. Paul Road Must Have at Least . $50,000,000 for Pacific Exten sion Pennsylvania Needs $70, 000,000 to Meet Obligations. CHICAGO. Feb. 13. (Special.) A con servative estimate of the amount required to carry out railroad extensions and im provements now begun or urgently needed fixes the sum at not less than JoOO.000,000. and it Is said the expenditure of this money cannot be put off longer than next year. Where it is to come from is the question now bothering railroad finan ciers, in view of the indisposition of capitalists to invest their funds in rail road securities. Among the items which go to make up the total amount needed is one of from $50,000,000 to $60,000,000 to complete the Mil waukee & St. Paul extension to the Pa cific Coast. The Pennsylvania will have to raise at least $70,000,000 to take care of obligations already outstanding.- Of this amount $o0, 000,000 will fall due ' during the current year, and $20,000,000 more will be needed early next year to provide for carrying on the tunnel work that company now has in progress. . The. Norfolk & Western has adopted plans for the expenditure of $34,000,000 in needed improvements, and the beginning of work on these only awaits the success ful floating of bonds, the issue of which has been authorized'. Arrangements appear to have been com pleted by J. J. Hill for the raising of the amount necessary to- construct 3000 miles of new extensions this year. It Is evident to eevry one at all acquainted with the conditions that vast expenditures by. DOth the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific are urgently needed to take care of the traffic requirements throughout the entire widespread terri tory tributary -to them. In fact, there is not a road in any sec tion of the country which does not need vast sums of money to bring it abreast of traffic necessities. WAY BLOCKED BY LAWSUITS Hill Begs Minnesota Not to Betray Plans to Harriman. ST. PAUL, Feb. 15. James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Rail road, at the "hearing today before the4 legislative committee investigating the ore deal, made a statement giving the purpose of the purchase of the land and the organization of the Lake Su perior Company. He said that the land was purchased solely to assure the transportation of immense freight ton nage to the road of which he Is presi dent. But, as the road did not want to have any other business than 'rail roading, the Lake Superior Company, limited, . was. formed lo take over the ore land and hold It In trust. Mr. Hill's statement was made In response to questions by W. R." Begg, general solicitor for the Great North ern, after Representative C. B. Miller, of Duluth, had cjosed the direct ex amination. Just before Mr. Miller closed his ex amination Mr. Hill made a reference to his fight with other railroad Inter ests on the Pacific Coast. He said: ' "There have been dragged Into this hearing in a public way matters that we have excellent reasons for' trying to keep as private as possible. " There was that Vancouver & Takima Rail road transaction. We have lawsuits and lawsuits, while we are trying to build a road , down the north shore of the Columbia River. ' The owners of the railroad on the south shore located a railroad along there and In every tight place tried to get the right of way. ' "I do not know how many lawsuits we have had growing out of our at tempt to build that railroad along the north shore, and I do not know and you do not know that they won't have that Information as. quick as a tele gram can carry It to them. That is not connected in any way with iron ore In the State of Minnesota. I feel that it is haidly right to drag out these matters that may cost us a good deal of money." ' The examination will he resumed by the committee next week. EXPRESS COMPANIES' MISDEEDS Inquiry Sought Into Handling of Produce on Consignment. WASHINGTON. Feb. . lo. Representa tive Kennedy of Nebraska today intro duced a concurrent resolution at the in stance of the Western Fruit-Jobbers" Asso ciation, in which the latter charges that the American Express Company. Adams Express Company and United States Ex press Company are unlawfully engaged, especially in the West, in the business of buying and handling on consignment fruit, vegetables and oysters, thus coming into direct competition with merchants and jobbers engaged in such business. It is charged that the express companies mentioned are thus given opportunity for covering up discriminations and the pay ment of rebates. The resolution calls upon the Interstate Commerce Commission Immediately to in vestigate and report to Congress or to the President, when Congress is not in session, from thr.e- t time as the Invfs tieation proceeds, 'the facts as. to the charges and whether the business com plained of is sanctioned by the articles of incorporation of the companies or is 1n violation of the interstate commerce law. Publicity to Prevent Accidents. NEW ORLEANS. La., Feb.. 15. As a preventive for railroad accidents, com plete publicity Is suggested by Julius Kruttschnitt, director of maintenance and operation of the Harriman lines and vice-president of the Southern Pa cific. "The persons responsible for ac cidents, whether officers or laborers." said he, "should be known to the pub lic, in order that they may be made .to feel the weight of popular displeasure. "We must bring about a closer ob servance of the rules governing the operation of the railroads and a great er respect for danger signals than wo now get from our employes. This can be done only by the widest publicity of accidents." CAUGHT I HOLD THAW SANE JT PRESENT TIME His Lawyers and Jer ome Are Agreed. NO PROSPECTS OF MADHOUSE Trial Will Proceed on Monday With Same Jury.' OPINIONS OF ALIENISTS All Admit Thaw Is Now Sane and Prosecution Says He Was Sane Day After Killing Wife and Mother Will Testify NEW YORK. Feb. 14. Despite appre hension felt over the interruption of the trial of Harry Thaw, there appears no basis for a doubt that the case will be resumed, as planned, on Monday. Juror Joseph Bolton, the death of whose wife necessitated the present recess, has com municated to Judge Fitzgerald his ex pectation of being able again to take his place in the jury box when the case Is called. Thaw, who has been reported as cast down at the possibility of a mistrial, de clared himself in good health when his wife visited him at the Tombs today. With his wife, the prisoner went over the hundred or more letters and belated val entines that the morning mails brought him. ' No Commission In Lunacy, Both District Attorney Jerome and the lawyers for the defense believe the trial will be continued Monday. It Is not ex pected now that Mr. Jerome will ask for the appointment of a commission to in quire into the mental condition of Thaw. Mr. Jerome made this point clear today on the past of the prosecution, while Daniel CTReilly insisted ot fcehalf of the defense that Thaw is of soud mind to day and therefore It would be futile to apply for the appointment of a commis sion in lunacy. Both sides, it is under stood, want to have the case tried out and hope there will be no further delays. Mr. Jerome does not know whether or not Thaw is insane. None of his assist ants know. None of the experts retained for the prosecution know. These experts have not had an opportunity to examine Thaw. They are present in court at the trial with an open mind. They would like to know. If any experts retained for the defense will say that in their opinion Thaw is now insane, the District Attorney will join with them in the request to the court lor the appointment of a commission in lunacy to decide on the question of the defendant's sanity. Thaw himself is credited with having declared that he would not face the asy lum in preference to Sing Sing and the death chamber. Thaw Xot Insane Now. As the case now stands. Thaw Is assumed to be of sound mind. None of the experts called by the defense has called Thaw Insane now. Dr. Evana testified that in his opinion Thaw was of unsound mind when he killed White, that he was of unsound mind during the first three visits he made to the Tombs and that Thaw Improved thereT after. , The alienists to testify for the prose cution will, it is said testify that in their opinion Thaw Is not only sane today, but that he' was sane the day after he killed White. The experts for tho prosecution are Drs. Flint, Mac Donald and Mahon, three of the highest recognized alienists In this country. They will, it Is understood, testify that they have had no way of determining whether Thaw was sane when he killed Stanford "White; that when they saw the prisoner on June 26 and again on June 27, 1906, he refused to submit to i ; - : V t 1 v - A I 'J Senator Henry C Lodce, Who Iff l.eadlnjr the Fight for Settlement of the Japanese Question ia the Senate. an examination and, although during the trial they have observed him' in court, they have no(. been permitted to converse with htm. Wife and Mother to TestlTy. The defense announced today its work for next week. Dr. Wagner and Dr. Evans, the alienists, will be re called to tell of conversations with Thaw, which the court has ruld may be admitted. The prisoner's wife then will conclude her story, after which Mrs. William Thaw, the defendant's mother, will bo. called. For the mother the ordeal, it is believed, will be made as brief as possible. Mrs. Thaw Is ex pected to tell principally of the early life of her son or whether she dis covered in him anything having a bear ing on the present question of his re cent Insanity. Anthony Comstock. of the Socjety for the suppression of Vice, and E. F. Jenkins, superintendent and secretary of the Gerry Society, have been sub- (Concluded on Paare 2. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 49 degrees; minimum. 31 degrees. TODAY'S Increasing cloudiness, followed by rain Sunday; warmer; southeasterly winds. Domestic. Great fortunes made frum small invest ments. Page I. Postal Telegraph Company advances wages. Page 3. Railroads need tMW.OOOOOO for improve- ments. , Page. 1. -Thaw trial to go on; no runacy commlKsion proposed. Page 1. Hill tells Minnesota Legislature how Harri man blocks North Bank Railroad. Page 1. National. Tampering with boilers of cruiser York town almost causes disaster. . Page 2. Tillman and. several other - Senators attack Japanese clause in immigration bill. Page 1. President reaches final agreement with Cal lfornians on school question. Page 1. House votes to build second Dreadnausht. but peace .party makes strong tight. Page 3. Heyburh chooses Allshie for Federal Judge, and protests pour in. Page 2. Discharged negro soldiers tell ' of plot to massacre them. Page 2. Senator Honking threatens to talk river harbor, bill to death. . Page 4. Progress of irrigation in Idaho. Page 4. Oregon legislature. Port of Columbia bill passes lower House. Page 7. t Both Houses pass Juvenile Court bill over Governor's veto. Page J. Senate passes Senatorial reapportionment bill; Multnomah badly worsted. Page 6. Water code bill killed tn House; no hope of revival. . Page tt. House passes stringent anti -gambling law. " Page 6. loggers flock to Salem to fight for and against Brfx bill. Page 7. Representative Freeman vents spleen against newspaper correspondents; whitewashed by House. Page 7. State banking law cannot be passed this session. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Steady movement In hops continues- Chicago wheat prices break sharply. Reaction la stock market resisted. Better weather helps distributive trade. Page 17. Wheat shortage retards loading of vessels. Page 1. Pacific Coast. Residents of Seaside excited over monster found on the beach, page a. Washington Legislature may lock horns over apportionment bill. Page 5. Jury secured to try Steve Adams for nvur- der. Page 5. Butte printers reject demands of publishers and city Is without daily papers. Page 5. Portland and Vicinity. Lafe Pence's flume trestle collapses Into Balche's Gulch with fatal results. Page IO. Package of registered mall, thrown Into rubblfh pile by mistake, found by small hoy. Page 12". Initiative One Hundred at stoYmy session votes for $1000 saloon license. Page 10. Boys employed as electrical linemen loot houses. Page 10. East Side fire limits established. Page 18. Increase of 25 per cent m fire insurance rates, made last year. Is rescinded. Page 12. Rabbi Wise pays eloquent eulogy to Abra ham Lincoln. Page 12. Rabbi Wlllner preaches farewell sermon. Page lo. Franchise asked by flcimomy Gas Company taken from shelf by street committee, and will he readvertlsed. Page Xti. T IN LITTLE T Inventions and How They Were Made. ROMANCE OF PATENT OFFICE Animals and Accident Suggest Useful Things. WOMAN'S GENIUS SHOWN .simple Furls In Nature Give Ingeni ous Men Ideas Some Patents WliW'h Caused Disaster Jeffer son Father of Patent Office. FORTUNES 1G BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. WASHINGTON. Kph. 10.-(SpeciaI Oorrespondir.eo. ) Whenever a new patent comes out. especially some lit tle thins? that anybody might have made, you will always hear the re mark: "Why couldn't 1 have thought of that?" Fortunes are made from even the most trivial contrivance. A man walked from Philadelphia to Washington to patent the gimlet pointed screw, and the simple idea eventually earned him more than a million dollars. The rubber tip on the end of )erifl pencils made ts inventor rich. The metal point on the end of your shoe-string earned a fortune for the woman who thought of it. and tho copper caD that so long adorned the toes of children's shoes earned $2,000, 000 for the lucky person who patented it. Many valuable inventions were hit upon In a most accidental way. The art of making sugar white was dis covered by a harmless old speckled hen. This feathered matron one day went for a walk through a field of clay and later, without taking the pre caution to wipe .'uer ,-fe.W r-w-alk( 4 through a sugar mill on th- pame plan tation, indifferent to the fact that she was scattering clay over the lous mounds of sugar as she passed. Aft erwards it was discovered that wher ever her tracks had fallen on the molt sugar the clay had whitened It. Sci entists took up the matter, and from this incident Introduced the method of bleaching sugar by the clay process. Hog Discovers Dyeing. A dog gave us the art of dyeing cloth in quite as accidental a manner. One afternoon, so many years ago that the date Is of small consequence, a noted man and his sweetheart went for a walk along tiie sands of the sea shore in a far-off country. A little dog trailed along at their heels and, becoming weary of much love-making, finally ran ahead and went fishing among the rocks. One particular shell fish which he captured and devoured exuded a fluid which dyed the hair about his mouth a pretty purple. In vestigation of this incident founded the science of dyeing cloth, which now gives a happy ff.minlne world the pleasure of flaunting so many brilliant colors in its attire. A man from Jlicnigan was told by the doctors to take his wife South for her health. He purchased a big wagon and team for the trip, and thought to make some profit by carrying a stock of feather dusters to sell along the way. One day he went to the factory where his dusters were being made and, while standing in the yard talk ing to one of the employes, picked up from the ground one of the "strut ters" or tail feathers from a turkey, the refuse from the duster factory. He began idly twisting a thread back and forth through Its broken edges, and the Idea of the featherbone came to him from the result of the idle play of his hands. The featherbone Is the successor of whalebone, and Is Indis pensable to the attire of the modern woman. He patented the Idea and re ceived so much money from it that he will never have to travel overland ill a wagon again unless he wants to. Ideas Borrowed From Animals. , A man standing in front of the posl office in Washington. D. C. bent a small piece of tin in his fingers until It took the shape of a T. "This would make a good paper-fastener." he remarked to the man with whom he was talking, and he straightway had the idea patented. An other man made money from the device of an Imbedded string in the end of an envelope to cut the paper as it is drawn out. Still another man added to this Idea by tying a knot in the end of the string to keep it from being drawn through. . It is interesting to note how man has borrowed many of his ideas from the animal world. "Wasps made paper from wood long before man decided It was a good substitute for rags. The folding scissors and folding pocket compass are only copies of the folding lower Jaw of the dragon fly. The flying squid, a species of cuttle fish, has a way of projecting Itself as high as 12 feet above the sur face of the water by forcibly expelling water from its body. Man saw this and invented the skyrocket. The rope-making machine ued in the United States navy yard follows almost the precise lines that a spider does when making his own frail cable. Women have been prominent In tho field of Invention and there are over 3500 different devices credited to their Inge- Poncludd on , Far IT.)