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PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1907.
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DESTROYER
President Reserves
Land by Wholesale.
BEFORE POWER IS RECALLED
Creates Thirty-two Reserves
of 17,000,000 Acres.
ONE-FOURTH IS IN OREGON
On Kve of Signing Bill Which With
draws Authority, lie SIkus Proc
lamations Rescuing Vast Area
From Lumber Syndicates.
WASHINGTON. March 4. Seventeen
million acres of forest lands have been
added to the forest reserves of the United
Slates by proclamations issued by Presi
dent Ttoosevelt and made public today.
Thirty-two forest reserves are selected or
Increased In area by these proclamations.
The following memorandum tearing on
the subject, dated March 2. was made
public at the White House today:
"These forest reserves were determined
upon and the preparation of the neces
sary papers ordered some months ago in
two-thirds of the cases some years ago
in the exercise of the duty imposed upon
me by act of Congress of March 3, 1891.
The utmost care and deliberation have
been exercised in deciding upon the boun
daries of the proposed reserves; in all but
a very few cases long continued and de
tailed field examinations have been made
and in the remainder examinations amply
sufficient to justify the proposed action.
Act Now or Lose Timber.
"The necessary proclamations under
existing law now come before me and the
question is presented whether I should re
frain from acting under the existing law
because there Is now under consideration
by Congress a proposal to change the law
ho as to require Congressional action upon
the establishing oi such; forest reserves.
If I did not act, reserves which I con
sider very Important for the Interests of
the United States would be wholly or in
part dissipated before Congress has an
opportunity again to consider the matter,
while under the action which I propose
to take they will be preserved; and If
Congress differs from me in this action it
will have full opportunity In the future to
make such provisions as it may desire
anent the discontinuance of the reserves
by reformative action, taken with the
fullest opportunity of considering the sub
ject Itself and on Us own merits. If by
any chance land more valuable for other
purposes than for forest reserves Is shown
to have "been included in those reserves,
1 forthwith shall restore it to entry.
Save Land for Momemaker.
"Failure on my part to sign these
proclamations would mean that Immense
tracts of valuable timber would fall into
the hands of the lumber syndicates be
cause Congress has no opportunity to act,
whereas the creation of the reserves
means that this timber will be kept in
the interest of the homemaker; for our
entire purpose in this forest reserve policy
Is to keep the land for the benefit of the
actual settler and homemaker; to fur
ther his interests in every way and, while
using the natural resources of the coun
try for the 'benefit of the present gen
eration, also to use them in such man
ner as to keep them unimpaired for the
benefit of the children now growing up
to inherit the land. This is the final and
exclusive object, not merely of our forest
policy but of our whole public land
lolicy."
Reserves Created or Enlarged.
The forest reserves created or In
creased follow:
Tolyobe. Nevada; Wetiatia, Oregon and
Washington; l.a Animas. Colorado and
NVw Mexico: OolvlHe. Washington; Holy
. Colorado: I'noompahirre, torado;
J'arK Kriibc, Colorado; Imnaha. OreKon: His
P-U. Montana: Big Hole. Idaho and Mon
tana; Otter. Montana; I.ewi and Clark.
Montana: Montezuma, Colorado: Olympic,
Washington; Little Kockles. Montana; ian
Juan, v'otorado; MMite!ne Bow, I'olorado and
Wyoming; Yellowstone. Idaho, Montana and
Wyoming; Port Neufal. Idaho; Palouae,
Idaho: Welser. Idaho; Priest River. Idaho
and Washington; Cabinet. Montana and
Idaho: naimer. Washington: Washington.
Washington; Ashland. Oregon; Coquille, Or
egon; Cascade, Oregon; I'mpqua, Oregon;
Blue Mountain. Oregon.
NEW- RESERVES IX NORTHWEST
President Adds Nearly 9.000,000
Acres to National Forests.
OREGONIAN NWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. March 4. Prior to signing tse
agricultural appropriation bill, which con
tains Senator Fulton's amendment prohib
iting the creation of forest reserves in the
Northwestern states except by the s
thorlty of Congress, the President today
issued a proclamation creating 32 forest
reserves in the six states affected by the
Fulton amendment. His proclamations
add 4.051.00O acres to the reserve area of
Oregon. 4.2W.O0O acres in Washington and
5VO.000 acres in Idaho.
The creation of these reserves probably
marks the end of reserve extension in the
Northwest for many years to come, for
ihe additions now Include most of the
Aeslrable timber land of all six states,
so far as known to the Forest Service.
Being hastily made In order to circum
vent the restrictions of the Fulton amend
ment, the reserves are loosely created and
ro doubt contain much land that will
be found unsuited to forestry purposes
and which will ultimately be restored to
entry.
New Ileserves In Oregon. "
The largest reservation In Oregon was
an addition of 977.000 acres to the Blue
Mountain reserves in Eastern Oregon.
Other additions to existing reserves are:
446.000 to the Siskiyou in Southern Ore
iron. 71.000 acres to the Weneha reserve.
514.000 to the Cascade reserve, mostly on
its Western border, and 154.0OO to the Ash
land reserve in Southwestern Oregon.
To Include the timber land of the Coast
Ransre the President created the Tilla
mook reserve, containing 1S5.0oq acres ; the
Coquille reserve, embodyiny-40,000 acres,
and the Umpqua reserve, with an area
of S02.000 acres.
The Wallowa and Chesniminus reserves
are combined under the name of Imnaha,
and 7K1.000 acres are added. An exact
description of the new reserves could not
be obtained today.
Larjtc Additions in Washington.
In Washington the Washington reserve
is enlarged by the addition of 2.275.000
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acres, which includes practically all Gov
ernment land between the present "Wash
ington and Rainier reserves. This makes
one continuous reserve along the Cascade
Mountains from the Columbia River to
the International boundary. This addition
embraces the Northern Pacific grant, but
railroad lands are not made part of the
reserve and no right of lieu selection
accrues. A new reserve is createa to
Include 857,000 acres of the Colville In
dian lands; the Priest River reserve is
created In Stevens County to contain 310.-
000 acres; the Olympic reserve is enlarged
by 119.000 acres, and 750,000 acres are add
ed to the Rainier reserve.
Most of the forest land in Idaho has
already been reserved. A Palouse reserve
Is created with an area of 192,000 acres;
the Port Neuf is created with an area of
100.000 acres; the Big; Horn is enlarged
by the addition of 20,000 acres, and about
10.000 acres are added to the Weiser re
serve.
Arelile Roosevelt Recovering.
IV ASHING TON, D. C, March 4.
Considerable improvement Is shown
today in the condition of Archie Roose
velt, the third son of the President,
who has been ill since last Friday with
an attack of diphtheria.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
. The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
54
decrees; minimum Jt. -TODAY'S
Increasing cloudiness probably
Wednesday; easterly winds..
Foreign.
Governor Swetten ham's resignation accepted.
Page 4.
Details of European triple alliance. Pags 4.
Great raid on Russian terrorists bomb fac
tory, page 4. - -National.
Congress adjourns and ship-subsidy bill la
killed. Page 1.
President creates many new forest reserves
before new law takes effect. Page 1,
Changes In Cnblnet take place. Page 3.
Many noted members of Congress will not
return. Page 1.
Appropriations by Congress at this session.
Page 4.
Supreme Court upholds law forbidding dese
cration of flag. Page 3.
Domestic
Mldrum and Fulton testify in Hermann
trial. Page X
More cxptrt testimony in Thaw trial;
Thaw's mother may testify today. Page 4.
Has kin on the Irish in America. Page 1.
Hill confirms deal with Harriman on Seattle
terminals, but yields nothing at Port
land. lage 1.
Directors of Now York Central held respon
sible for Bronx wreck. Page 2.
Train robbed in Kan?as and passenger killed
for resisting. Page 2.
Pacific Coast.
By clever move Ruef secures two months'
postponement of trial. Page 2.
Olympia Legislature refuses to muzzle press
of the state. Page 6.
Attorneys for Steve Adams continue bitter
attack on proeecutlon. Page 6.
Normal school teachers find themselves
minus pay checks. Page 6.
Commercial and Marine.
Artificial scarcity in coffee market. Page IS.
Heavy selling breaks Chicago wheat Prices.
Page 1.1.
Violent break In New York stocks. Page 15.
Steamer Manzanlta wanted for a salvor
boat on Puget Sound. Tage 7-
Portland and Vicinity.
Street Railway Company announces Increase
in waccs of conductors and motormen.
Page -V
Council may abolish occupation tax. Page 16.
Old Toadies Home Association planning to
build In near future. Page lO.
Strikers will attempt to tie up all sawmills
this morning. Page 10.
Irregularities may prevent three Initiative
bills from reaching people. Page 14.
Police will continue war on so-called mas
sage parlors. Page 11.
Auditor Devlin holds up salaries of all po
lice captains. Page 14.
Detective Hellyer strikes prisoner and will
be charged, with breaking rules. Page 5.
Robbery of safe In office of . County Board of
Relief hushed op until now. Page 14.
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DEAD DUCKS
LEAVE CONGRESS
Noted Men Defeated
For Re-erection.
SOME WHO FOUGHT ROOSEVELT
Carmack, Millard and Wads
worth Pay Penalty.
BLACKBURN EARNS REWARD
Support of President on Browns
ville Riot Gets Him Place on the
Canal Commission McC'leary
Suffers for Standing Pat.
WASHINGTON, March 4.-It Is prob
able that the designation is resented, but
"dead duck" is the name the surviving
Congressmen apply to those who have
failed of re-election. The Washington
game bag is full of "dead ducks" today.
Nine members of the Senate have yield
ed their seats to their successors. The
surrendering ones are J. Frank Alee of
Delaware, James H. Berry of Arkansas,
Joseph C. S. Blackburn of Kentucky,
Kdward W.' Carmack of Tennessee. Wil
liam A. Clark of Montana, John F. Dry
den of New Jersey, Joseph H. Millard
of Nebraska, Fred T. Dubois of Idaho
and Thomas M. Patterson of Colorado.
President Roosevelt has taken care of
Mr. Blackburn. When the President
needed help in the Senate in the Browns
ville case Mr. Blackburn came to the
front as an ally. The retiring Senator
has been named by Mr. Roosevelt as a
member of the Panama Canal Commis
sion at $10,000 a year.
Berry, One-Legged Confederate.
In losing General Berry of Arkansas
the Senate parts with a one-legged Con
federate veteran who made up in head
what he lacked at the other exremity.
Jeff Davis, the man who will tell the
Senate what he thinks of it when he gets
here so he says will succeed General
Berry.
J. Frank Allee of Delaware never has
shown brightly as a statesman. It is
understood that he 13 not at all sorry
that he Is to go back today to the jewelry
store which he owns in the town of
Dover.
Tennesseeans say that Edward W. Car
mack will be returned by his state six
years hence, If he is living. Mr. Carmack
was defeated by Robert Taylor, "the
fiddler." It was curious, but true never
theless, that Mr. Carmack's antagonism
to Mr. Roosevelt lost him his seat in the
Senate. The people of Tennessee, Demo
crats though they are, have shown a
disposition to support the President.
Penury does not face William A. Clark
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A COUPLE OF VICTIMS OF THE PREVAILING PASSION
of Montana. He has roofs in several
cities of America and of Europe under
which he can live.
John F. Dryden of New Jersey has
been in the Senate live years. He was
chosen to nil an unexpired term. It was
Mr. Dryden's heart's desire to come back
to Washington, but there were enough
Republicans in the Legislature w-ho. did
not favor him to prevent the fulfillment
of his ambition.
Fred T. Dubois of Idaho declares that
Mormonism is responsible for his loss
of a seat in the Senate. Mr. Dubois is
going back to fight the Mormon Church.
Another veteran Democrat who leaves
the Senate today is Thomas M. Patter
son of Colorado. Patterson has been a
follower of the administration on many
occasions. He aroused his Democratic
colleagues two or three times by refusing
to join them in opposition to Mr. Roose
velt. Joseph H. Millard, Republican, of Ne
braska, goes out of office because he was
opposed to the President's policies. He
fought railroad rate legislation and he
fought Mr. Roosevelt's Panama Canal
policy.
In the House today there were 72 mem-
George B. Cortelyou, New Secretary
of the Treasury.
bers whose names will not be called at
the next session. One of the prominent
ones who will not be seen is General
Charles H. Grosvenor of Ohio, who tells
ten stories to the minute and who fights
and jokes alternately with the Demo
crats. James W. Wadsworth of New York
has been in the House for 20 years. He
fought the Beveridge meat inspection law
and In so doing it he fought the Presi
dent. The result was that Mr. Wads-
worth's constituents defeated him at the
polls.
James T. Mcdeary. "Rtand-pp.tter." of
Minnesota J, W.iRabcwk of V iscorsin
J. F. Lacey o,1 .iwa and L. N. Littauer
of New York are other prominent ones
who will go home to stay certainly for
two years. Mr. McCieary is provided for
by appointment as Second Assistant Postmaster-General.
FIRE RAGING IN PITTSBURG
Kxplosion Occurs, and Property in
Business District Endangered.
PITTSBURG, March 5. An alarm
was sounded at 3:15 for a fire In a
building at Fourth Avenue and Chaun
cey Lane in the heart of the down
town district. When the firemen ar
rived, the place was burning' fiercely.
An explosion occured at 3:20 A. M,
and adjacent property Is threatened.
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CONGRESS ENDS
WITH GREAT JOY
Last Act Is Death of
Ship Subsidy Bill.
ROOSEVELT GIVES BROAD HINT
Several Bills Will Be Heard of
in Future.
HOUSE SINGS MANY SONGS
Waves Flaps to Celebrate dose of
Weary Week Fairbanks and
Cannon Receive Thanks Gal
lingcr the Saddest Senator.
WHAT COVGRE8S ACCOMPLISHED.
Meafturtw Which Have Failed.
Publicity of campaign expenditures.
Philippines tariff reduction.
Citizenship for Porto Rlcans.
Copyright revision.
Eight-hour bill.
Antl-injunctlon bill.
Anti-child labor bill.
Removal of duty on works of art.
Conservation of public coal and oil
lands.
Ship subsidy.
Measures Which Succeed.
Immigration restriction.
Limitations of hours of railway
labor.
All appropriation bills.
Financial bill.
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WASHINGTON, March 4. With a new
record for large appropriations and far-
reaching legislation, the Fifty-ninth Con
gress was brought to a close shortly
after noon today. The last few hours
were tame by comparison with what had
been expected. Long before noon Sena
tor GalHnger's fight for the passage of
.the ship subsidy bill had bein abandoned
and the filibuster against it conducted
by Senator Carmack being no longer
necessary, he surrendered the floor, much
to the disappointment of the galleries.
Extreme fatigue, due to continued night
sessions In the House during the last
week, had a dampening effect upon many
Congressmen and the usual excessive
"last day" enthusiasm was confined to
less than half the membership.
Roosevelt Has More Work.
President Roosevelt, with his Cabinet
White House staff and a number of
guests, occupied the President's room in
the Senate wing. Seated at a big table
in the center of the room, he signed bills
as they were enrolled and presented to
him. On account of the dispatch with
which business had been conducted dur-
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the past week there were only 40
bills to be signed today. The President
was at the Capitol for more than an
hour.
When the members of the committee
which waited upon him with the informa
tion that Congress was ready to adjourn
had delivered their message, the Presi
dent thanked them for the laws that had
been enacted, but he added with a smile
that he still had several bills that would
be heard from in the future.
Silver Service for Grosvenor.
Vice-President Fairbanks and Speaker
Cannon received the thanks of the mi
nority for the Impartial manner in which
they had presided over the deliberations
of the two houses, and both made
speeches expressing gratitude at the
words of appreciation.
A feature of the House session was
the presentation of a club silver service
of 300 pieces to General Grosvenor by
his colleagues of the Fifty-ninth Con
gress. In addition to the songs and
stories that usually mark the close of
session, ' the entire House of Repre-
James R. Garfield, New Secretary of
Interior.
sentatives waved flags and sang My
county, 'tis of thee" as the gavel fell
at 12:15 P. Mv In the Senate the last
of the proceedings was a speech by Vice-
President Fairbanks.
Mr. H. R. Puller, who has been repre
senting the various railroad brotherhoods
at the Capitol during the consideration
of the railroad employes' hours bill was
In the room at the time It was signed.
The President shook hands with Mr. Ful
ler. remarking. "You know the President
only sets a percentage of what he
wants."
Mr. Roosevelt told Mr. Fuller that the
measure was a step in the right direction,
and he hoped It would result in more
sweeping legislation in the future.
PROMISES TO REVIVE CORPSE
Gallinger Gives' Up Ship Subsidy
Fight Till Xext Session. .
WASHINGTON, March 4. The ship
subsidy bill, which has been before Con
gress in a more or less prominent way for
the. hist two years, and for the past two
days in a more acute form, finally re
ceived ltn quietus in the Senate at 11
o'clock today, when Gallinger, In behalf
of the measure, rose and finally an
THE - RECONSTRUCTED CABINET.
Secretary of State Ellhu Root,
New York.
Secretary of 'Treasury George B.
Cortelyou, New York.
Secretary of War William H.
Taft. Ohio.
Secretary of Navy Victor H. Met
ealf, California.
Attorney-General Charles J. Bo
naparte, Maryland.
Postmaster-General George von
L. Meyer, Massachusetts. '
Secretary of Interior James R.
Garfield. Ohio.
Secretary -Of Commerce and Labor
Oscar Straus, New York.
Secretary of Agriculture James
Wilson, Iowa.
nounced his decision not to press it for
further consideration. Before making this
announcement he made a last request for
a vote, whereupon Carmack expressed his
regret "that the bill would still lead to
extended debate." ''
Thereupon Gallinger made the final an
nouncement that he would not further
press the measure during this session
Before, however, he came to this state
ment, he entered into a furious though
brief argument in support of the bill,
Two days of "frivolous debate," he said.
had occurred ' upon the measureand he
felt it his duty to call attention to the
salient points involved in connection with
the subject.
"Nine per cent of our commerce Is car
ried in American ships," said Gallinger.
"The remaining 91 per cent is carried in
foreign ships. We pay these forefgn ships
$300,000,000 annually and this sum is dis
tributed among the people of foreign na
tions."
This condition. Gallinger predicted
would not always last. The American
people, who lead the world in agriculture
and manufactures, would not be content
with this condition when It was well
understood.
Concluding, Gallinger said in giving up
the fight for the bill at this session, he
did so without any feeling of hostility or
unkindness. "With thla," he said, "I am
content to Wt the matter rest for the
present. But I want here and now to give
notice to my associates In this chamber
and to the citizens of this Republic that
so long as I remain in public life I shall
not remain silent, but shall exert myself
to the utmost to secure legislation on this
important subjject."
SENATE THANKS FAIRBANKS
Vice-President Tells It How Valu
able It Is to Nation.
WASHINGTON, March 4. The closing
exercises in the Senate did not begin until
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Full Share of Fighting
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MANY LEADERS IN GOVERNMENT
Seven American Presidents of
Irish Descent.
FIRST PLACE IN INDUSTRY
Great Inventors and Manufacturer.
Pioneers of Churches, Catholic
and Protestant) Commercial
Discoverer of Alaska.
BY FREDERIC J. HAS KIN.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. It is said
that two-thirds of the entire Irish race
are in the United States; and that there .
are more Irish In Boston than in any
other city In the world. South Carolina
has the largest Irish population of any
siaie in tne union. Kearly half of tha
Continental troops under Washinrrnn
were of Irish descent, and many of the
most valiant officers of the Revolution
wore small green flags on their coats to
mark their double allegiance.
The connection of the Irish with Amer
ica goes back to the earliest history of
the country. First there is the legendary
visit of St. Brendan, devout missionary
and daring navigator, whose 'supposed
visit to our shores antedated the landing
of Columbus by a thousand years. There
were Irish pilgrims on the Mayflower,
and 500 or 600 members of this race came
over In the stormy times of Cromwell.
As early as 1716, 500 Irish families went
to South Carolina. There were Irish
Quakers In the settlement of William
Penn, and before the Revolution nearly
half of the members of the Pennsylvania
Legislatures were Irish.
Leaders in Revolution.
Nine of the signers of the Declaration i
of independence were either Irish or -f ,
direct Irish descent. John Barry was
given the first Captaincy in the American
Navy, and the naval honors he won for
the Emerald Isle were continued by
Stephen Decatur, of direct Irish extrac
tion. "Mad Anthony" Wayne was Irish
to his finger tips, and was belligerently
proud of It.' Captain Daniel Patrick, the
noted Indian fighter of the Massachu
setts Bay Colony, was born in Ireland.
This undaunted people were the first to
make their way across the Alleghenies,
under the leadership of their country
men, Daniel Boone and David Crockett.
General Sam Houston never failed to re
mark on his Irish blood, of which he was
aggressively proud. Both Miles Standlsh
and John Alden were Irish.
The popular conception that there are
more Irishmen In politics than anywhere
else, is not far from the truth. There Is
an old saying that they have ruled every
other country In the world but their own.
Seven of the 25 American Presidents
have been of Irish descent, and two
Presidential candidates, James G. Blaine
and Horace Greeley, were of that blood.
John C. Calhoun, the master statesman
and orator, was the son of Patrick Cal
houn, born in Donegal County, Ireland.
The first Mayor of New York after the
Revolution was Joseph Duane, the son
of a County Galway Irishman. Massa
chusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont
were once governed by three brothers
named Sullivan. One of the most pic
turesque figures in the whole history' of
American ' politics was General James
Shields, hero of the Mexican and Civil
Wars, Governor of Oregon. Chief Jus
tice of Illinois and the only man who
ever served three terms 'in the United
States Senate, each time from a different
state. He was first sent from Illinois,
then from Minnesota, and finally from
Missouri.
Power In New York Politics.
The power of the Irish in New York
politics is proverbial. The first grand
sachem of Tammany was William
Mooney, also the first to sign its consti
tution. "Honest John" Kelly and Charles
O'Connor were both leaders of Tammany
who fought against the Tweed ring. Rich
ard Croker and his lieutenant and suc
cessor, Charles F. Murphy, are both
Irish. We also have many Irish reform
ers, such as Patrick Moran, District At
torney of Boston; Mayor Dunne, of Chi
cago, and Mayor Pagan, of Jersey City.
Patrick J. Boyle has served eleven terms
as Mayor of Newport, Rhode Island.
Among the Irish In high political places
in all parts of the Union might be named
Tom Taggart. of Indiana; Senator Pat
terson, of Colorado; Senator Carter, of
Montana; Representative Bourke Cochran,
of New York; Representatlva Burke, of
South Dakota; Bernard S. Rodney, dele
gate from 'New Mexico, .and Justice Ed
ward D. White and Justice Joseph Mc
Kenna, of the United States Supreme
Court. Edward A. Mosely. secretary of
the Interstate commerce committee, who
has labored for years to get the railroads
to adopt protective appliances for the
personal sofety of their employes, is al
ways jokingly insistent on his Irish
blood.
Irish in Realm of Finance.
The Irish have a large representation
tn the realm of finance. Thomas Fortun
Ryan, a loyal Son of Erin, Is said by
many to be the coming king of American
finance. If indeed that honor has not al
ready fallen upon him through ths faiN-
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