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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.
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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
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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-
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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.)