THE 3IOR:STXG OREGOXIAN, MONDAY, APRIIi 8 1907.
OF
MEN ARE VOTED
Sensational Charges of Fraud
Are Made in Report of Pol
icyholders' Committee,
LAW EVADED EVERY TURN
Department of Insurance Charged
With Responsibility Inspectors
at Election Made One-Sided
Rulings Entirely.
NEW YORK, April 7. The Interna
tional. Pol ley-Holders' Committee Issued
a statement today pointing out alleged
violations of the present Insurance code
hy the companies in the recent election
of officers and the alleged Inefficiency of
the Department of Insurance In conduct
ing the supervision of the election.
The International Committee," eays
the statement, "has maintained for
months in both the Mutual and New
York Ldfe canvass a force of watchers
and translator and every effort has been
made to protect the interests of policy
holders who have voted against the old
managements, but the rulings of the in
spectors have been uniformly against us,
and being fully satisfied that it is im
possible under the present conditions to
secure a fair count of the votes as
cast, we withdrew our watchers.
"ITrom the beginning the companies,
with the assistance of the Department
of Insurance, have evaded and nullified
in very way possible the law as en
acted. The companies filed lists of policy
holders at Albany which contained thou
sands of incorrect names with false and
misleading addrefses, while they have
given to agents and canvassers, not alone
the correct names and addresses but the
policy numbers of the insured. M
The statement sets forth the various
forms of irregularities charged and de
clares it was practiced on a wholesale
scale. Illustration is given of a family
which waa recorded as casting Ave votes,
the statement adding:
"Investigation showed that not a mem
ber of the family voted In the recent
election and that they had not resided
at the stated address in over two years.
"Numerous instances developed where
agents had sent In proxies and ballots
bearing the names of policy-holders who
had been dead for years, while many
ballots were cast bearing the names of
former policy-holders who had allowed
their policies to lapse.
"The officers of these companies and
the Department of Insurance are re
sponsible lor this condition of affairs."
OVERSTEP BOUNDS OF IAW
Cleveland Renders Opinion on Pro
posed Insurance Legislation.
XBW YORK. April 7. Bx-President
Grover Cleveland, counsel for the Ameri
can Association of Life Insurance Com
panies, has just submitted to that as
sociation a brief In relation to the matter
of salaries paid life insurance companies.
The occasion for its presentation. It Is
stated, is the fact that certain Western
states have now pending before their
respective Legislatures bills that would
limit the salaries of life insurance officers
to $50,000 a year, while In others the limit
is fixed at (25.000 a year.
The brief. It is announced, will be
filed tomorrow with the Wisconsin Legis
lature by Robert Lynn Cox, who will ap
pear as attorney for the Association of
Life Insurance Presidents in opposition
to the hill providing for compulsory, in
vestment of reserve funds in the state,
largely increased taxation of premium
receipts and other subjects.
After calling attention to the fact that
insurance companies are private corpora
tions, M Cleveland says:
"Whether these companies are classed
as stock corporations or mutual corpora
tions, in either case their business in
terests are confined to contract relation
ship basei upon the execution of life
and other incidents attaching exclusively
to the individual policy-holders in each
corporation. It ha been Judicially de
termined beaOOd the reach of controversy
that In legal contemplation these com
panies are within the definition of per
sons, and so far as their rights are con
cerned they are on the same footing as
citizens of the United States and of the
several states. The fourteenth amend
ment to the Federal constitution provides
that 'no state shall make or enforce any
law which shall abridge the privileges
or Immunities of citizens of the United
States, nor shall any state deprive any
persons of life, liberty or property with
out due process of law.
It Is clearly the Intent and inevitable
effect of the contemplated legislation to
abridge these 'privileges and immunities
of corporate citizens of the United States
by Imposing upon them limitations con
cerning the compensation to be paid their
officers and employes, in the face of the
law of their creation and domicile, which
makes them free from such limitation.
A law which forbids the possession and
enjoyment of property by life insurance
companies, except upon a condition which
involves the abandonment of their right
to contract for the equipment and man
agement of their business a right in
herent to their organization, permitted
by the law of their creation and neces
aAry to tho protection of the Interest they
have tn charge and a condition which
exacts as the price of doing business a
surrender of the guidance of sound Judg
ment and safe experience In its prosecu
tion, under a penalty of forfeiture of
interests in common justice to which they
are entitled, cannot be regarded other
wise than bold, unequivocal and un
mitigated deprivation of privileges and
property without a chance for escape.
"Legislation of this character is
new and startling as to indicate a dis
position to depart from all conserva
tive and steady sentiment touching
state , supervision and regulation of
life insurance companies."
He then quotes from several de
cisions of the Supreme Court of the
United States, and says:
"Measured by the standards fixed by
the adjudications of the highest tribu
nal of the land, it seems quite cer
tain that tho legislation we are con
sidering would amount to an unconsti
tutional use of state legislative au
thority. It cannot be claimed that it
would "promote either the health,
peace, morals, education and good or
der of the people.' or increase the In
dustries of the state, develop its re
sources and add to its wealth, and
prosperity." It does not 'proceed with
in reasonable limits and general us
age,' but goes far beyond all former
excesses of state legislation and re
sults In clear and hostile discrimina
tion against particular persons and
classes. Instead of a fair, reasonable
and appropriate exercise of the state s
police power, it assumes the complex
Ion of an unreasonable, unnecessary
and arbitrary Interference with the
rights of the Individual to his per
sonal liberty, or to enter Into those J
PROXIES
DEAD
contracts In relation to - labor which
may seem to him appropriate or neces
sary' He -then considers salaries paid to
presidents and first vice-presidents in.
29 leading companies and adds:
"From this examination it appears
that the total premium receipts of the
29 companies amounted to $440,665,908;
that the percentage of these receipts
paid to presidents and vice-presidents
by all the companies was 29-100 of 1
per cent, that their percentage of their
premium receipts so expended by the
24 companies paying salaries less than
$50,000 was 51-100 of 1 per cent; by
that the percentage of premiums re
ceipts so expanded by the five compa
nies paying to their presidents and
vice-presidents $50,000 per annum or
upward amounted to only 19-100 of 1
per cent. In view of the universally
conceded solvency and soundness of all
companies paying these larger salaries,
no one can have the hardihood to claim
that the small percentage of their pre
mium receipts thus expended could by
any possibility Impair the absolute se
curity of their policy-holders con
tracts, which phase of the subject
might properly be considered a legiti
mate subject of state solicitude, and
these considerations of solvency and
absolute security gain conclusive force
from the fact that the admitted assets
of these five companies amount to more
than $1,500,000,000.
"It seems quite plain, therefore, from
a statement of actual conditions, not
only the payment of the salaries con
demned by this threatened state legis
lation does not in the least impair or
put in Jeopardy the security of the In
sured, but that Its effect on their right
to premium dividends, or participation
in accumulated assets may well be re
garded In individual cases as a negli
gible factor."
After arguing that the doctrine of
comity forbids one state seeking to
interfere with the internal affairs or
citizens of other states except where
absolutely necessary for the protection
of Its own citizens, he concludes:
These corporate citizens of the
United States having entered states
other than their own exhibit In their
defense the certificate of fitness and
approved equipment granted them by
their states. They ask such considera
tion of these certificates as will save
them from Injurious limitations upon
their business operations and such
treatment as their home indorsements
and faith in the American standard of
fair play have led them to expect."
SCIENCE BEATS THE HEN
Contimid. from First Fag.)
this country since 1882 and Is getting
to be a very profitable business, single
feathers being1 worth from $1 to $7 as
taken from the bird. The owner will
realize about $100 a season from each
bird. It Is said tho average age of the
ostrich Is 80 years, and that the value
of matured birds averages about 1500.
The Incubator has made ostrich-farming
In this country a success when It would
otherwise have been Impossible, for the
reason that the habit of this strange
fowl Is to sit upon its eggs at night
and turn them over to the sun's rays
during the day. This works all right
in the warmer countries of which the
ostrich Is a native, but our sun Is not
warm enough to hatch the eggs.
Incubators are also successfully need
In the care of babies prematurely born.
A special kind is made with a crib, au
tomatically ventilated, resting over a hot
water tank. The temperature of the
interior can be kept "absolutely, even,
which Is one of the conditions under
which child life Is maintained. Nearly
even,' well-equipped child hospital In the
country la now supplied with a baby
incubator.
One Machine Holds 340,000 Eggs.
The largest incubator ever built In
America was on a duck ranch at Strouds
burg. Pa. It was built 22 feet square,
with an egg-testing room 10x12 feet In
size adjoining. It cost J3000 and held
20,000 eggs at a time. The yearly capacity
of this monster hatching machine was
80,000 eggs.
With the aid of the Incubator the pro
fessional poultry raiser enters Into large
contracts without fear of failure. A
poultryman in Ohio has an agreement to
furnish a Cleveland commission firm
with 300 dozen young chickens every day.
It is understood that these young broil
ers are to weigh a pound and a half, and
he gets $3 a dozen for them. The way he
manages to keep up with this big under
taking is well worth relating. He has
140 acres devoted to the use of his poul
try plant. The main building is 4S0 feet
long, and there is a row of pens 560 feet
in lenRth. He uses thirty Improved in
cubators with an individual capacity of
300 eggs each. These machines are not
all filled at the same time, but propor
tioned so that some of them will be dis
charging fresh chicks every day.
A large flock of Barred Plymouth Rock
biddies are kept constantly on duty lay
ing eggs with which to stock these hatch
ing machines, and 450 eggs are placed in
them each day. Including Sunday. In
connection with the Incubators there is
a row of pens numbered from one to
ninety. Each day the little chicks from
the machines are turned Into the lirst
pen. They are advanced one pen each
day, and when the last one Is reached
they are ninety days old and are ready
for the market. They are herded from
the incubators through all of the pens,
and Anally into the coops without be
ing touched. They are not handled until
the cook, rings their necks and dresses
them for the' frying pan.
Nets II Im Profit of $25,000 a Year.
A certain proportion of tile eggs do not
hatch, and all of them that are hatched
do not live to make the trip through
tho ninety pens, but the percentage of
loss is comparatively small. The breeder
finds that the 460 eggs which go into the
Incubators every day easily net 300 per
fect broilers at the coops, which are ship
ped to the city dally from pen number
ninety. In order to carry out this sys
tem and meet hiB contract, it will be
teen that the poultryman has something
like 30,000 chicks constantly on hand, to
say nothing of the hundreds of dozens of
eggs tied up In the Incubators or the
great flock of laying hens that supply
the eggs. But he gets to market with
his daily order Just the same. This man
Is cleaning up a profit of 25.000 annually,
and there are many others who are suc
ceeding splendidly at the business.
The "green duck" Industry is largely
dependent upon the incubator. Green
ducks mean Imperial Pekins which were
originally Imported from China. They are
raised by the thousands s and tens of
thousands by artificial means, fed scien
tifically and marketed when they are
from eight to ten weeks old. This is
lust before they molt their first coat of
feathers, at which time they weigh from
eight to ten pounds per pair. Some of
them are fed upon celery seed to give
their meat the flavor of the famous
Southern Canvass Backs, and so success
fully that the difference cannot be de
tected. Separate duck ranches on Long
Island. at Harrisburg. Pennsylvania,
Trenton, New Jersey. Dallas. Pennsylva.
nia. and elsewhere produce annually from
March 1st to August 1st from 20,000 to
30,000 green ducks, marketing them prin
cipally in New Tork and Boston. .This
industry iB also well developed in New
England, particularly in Eastern Massa
chusetts, where there are several ranches
that produce from 20,000 to 25,000 ducks
annually. Two of the largest of these
are located at South East on and Wren
tham. Spoenk. Ixmg Island, is the cen
ter of a large annual production, v fully
100.000 green ducks being grown each sea
son within a few miles of their little
village.
Tomorrow-A- modern Poultry Farm,
NO I FOR ALTON
Civil Action Only Remedy for
Fleeced Stockholders.
HARRIMAN OUT OF REACH
Illinois Attorney-General Advises
Governor Deneen If Charter
Were Revoked, Burden Would
Fall on the Stockholders.
SPRINGFIELD. 111.. April 7. Attorney
General Stead, in an opinion submitted
to Governor Deneen today, expresses
doubt as to whether it is the province
of the State of Illinois to proceed against
E. H. Harrlman and his associates for
the alleged manipulation of the Chicago
& Alton Railway properties. If the state
should revoke the company's charter the
loss would fall on the stockholders, the
Harrlman people already having disposed
of a large portion of their holdings.
The Attorney-General concludes there
fore that the best plan -would be for the
company itself to seek a remedy for the
situation, or even for one or more stock
holders to act. At the same time Mr.
Stead assures the Governor that should
he become convinced on further investi
gation that the state can relteve the
road's conditions he will make the neces
sary moves at once.
Notwithstanding his convictions as to
the wisdom of Immediate action Mr.
Stead insists there is not the least doubt
but that a civil remedy exists against
the "financiers who have wrecked this
prosperous railroad company, and at the
expense of Innocent stockholders and
bondholders have gathered to themselves
a harvest of millions of dollars."
Attorney-General Stead reviews the
testimony given by Harrlman recently
before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission at New Tork, and from the rec
ords of the Illinois Railroad and Ware
house Commission obtained the various
resolutions, certificates and documents
pertaining to the Chicago & Alton Rail
road Company, the Chicago & Alton Rail
way Company and the Consolidated Com
pany, all of which figure in the manipu
lations. The profits made out of the
Alton deals by Mr. Harrlman and his as
sociates are placed by Mr. Stead at $34,
648,000. "As a result of this enormous profit
to themselves," he declared, "the rail
road companies are thrown into hopeless
bankruptcy."
The indebtedness of the companies, as
shown by the figures in the opinion, has
been increased to a total of $80,646,218
since they fell into Harrlman's hands.
Of this amount only $22,600,000, according
to Mr. Harriman's own testimony, says
Mr. Stead, was incurred for improve
ments, betterments or extension of the
roads.
"Over $57,000100 of this Indebtedness,"
concludes the opinion, "or more than 70
per cent of the entire indebtedness cre
ated by this syndicate upon the proper
ties of these capital, were not created
in furtherance of any legitimate purpose
for which a railroad is or can be held
good under the statutes of the State of
Illinois.
Mr. Stead takes up the Alton deal in
great detail, bringing' out the fact that
In 1898 the company paid all its operat
ing expenses and a 7 per cent dividend
on its common and preferred stock and
had $200,000 left. The company's credit
was good and then the syndicate took
hold, purchasing 34,722 shares of pre
ferred and 183,224 of common stock,
distributed as follows: George J. Gould
54,534 shares, James Stillman 54,535
shares, Mortimer L. Schlff 54,635 shares,
E. H. Harrlman 54,5.15, including
smaller numbers of shares taken by
others.
Mr. Stead dates the Alton's difficul
ties from 1899, when its new owners
ordered the issue of $40,000,000 in 3
per cent bonds for improvements. Of
these bonds $32,000,000 were subscribed
by the new stockholders at 65 cents on
the dollar, of which the syndicate re
ceived 97 per cent. Part of the bonds
secured by the syndicate afterwards
were sold at 96, representing a large
profit.
The next move in the series of mani
pulations, says Mr. Stead, was to add
$12,444,175 to the cost and capiallza
tion of the road. This consisted in
part of the income which the stock
holders of the company in former
years had been content to apply to
betterments and permanent improve
ments and which by order of the board
of directors had been charged upon
the books of the company to operating
expenses, and consisted in part of
losses sustained by the stockholders of
other companies.
The next step was to declare a 30 per
cent dividend on May 31, 1900. The
dividend on the stock owned by the
syndicate paid by check to Kuhn Loeb
& Co., amounted to $6,669,180 and was
charged upon the books of the com
pany against "construction expendi
ture capitalization."
The syndicate's profits np to this time
all told, were $14,993,000, when followed
the lease of the Chicago & Alton Rail
road Company's property, to the Chi
cago & Alton Railway Company and the
syndicate ostensibly transferred its
stock to Louis L. Stanton, a dummy.
"Louis L. Stanton" then sold to the
syndicate the stock transferred and
the short railroad line which necessi
tated the issue of 22,000, 3 1-2 per cent
gold bonds, amounting to $13,000,000.
This made the syndicate's profits $24.
648,000. When the syndicate gained control
In 1S59, says Mr. Stead, the road's lia
bilities amounted to $39,000,000. In
1906 the liabilities of the consolidated
company reached $119,046,218, repre
senting an Indebtedness of $80,046,
218 created by the syndicate. Only
$22,500,000 of this was created to im
prove the expenditures. But in ad
dition to the company's bonded in
debtedness, which amounts to over
$59,000 a mile, its capital stock liabili
ties are over $48,000 a mile and its
present outstanding . Indebtedness ac
count of the equipment, trust obliga
tions, is over $3000 a mile. As to a pos
sible remedy, Mr. Stead says:
"Even if the company's charter
should be revoked by the state the
innocent stockholders would suffer
most. I am inclined to the opinion
that the remedy lies with the com
pany itself, or in the event of its
refusal to act, with someone or more
of the stockholders. Or should I be
came satisfied, however, upon further
investigation that an effective rem
edy can be enforced by the state, I
shall not hesitate to Institute proceed
ings. "Whether or not the members of
this syndicate are criminally liable un
der the statutes of the state of Illinois
I express no opinion at this time.
JEWS FEAR MORE ATTACKS
Odessa City Elections Carried by
Order of True Russian People.
ODESSA, April 7. A sensation has been
caused by the results in the municipal
elections just ended, which resulted
in a victory for the next union of True
Russian ronle. Out of 79 mmHi r
the town council, 67 are now members
' tne union. rue previous liberal
council was regarded as the only safe
guard against anti-Jewish disorders,
and the only body capable of Inter
ceding with the authorities against the
black hundred. The Jews are in fear
of fresh outrages and believe these
will occur if Parliament 1b dissolved.
PROTECTION TO IMMIGRANTS
Member of Italian Chamber of Dep
uties Wants Power Extended.
ROME, April 7. Francesco P. Ma
terl, member of the Chamber of Depu
ties, has made public a letter in which
he urges the government to extend
its protection to Italian Immigrants, not
only on board steamers crossing the
ocean, but even after they have dis
embarked in the United States. He
expresses the belief that emlgrajnts to
America are exploited and used for
work in unhealthy sections of the
country. The writer points out that
in 1906. 800,000 Italians emigrated and
that 500,000 went to the United States.
He estimates the total number of emi
grants for 1907 at one million persons.
OFF TO GREET KING EDWARD
King Alfonso and Party Leave Mad
rid for Cartagena.
MADRID, April 7. King Alfonso, the
dowager Queen Maria Christiana, Pre
mier Maura, Captain Nino, Minister of
Marine; Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Allende Salazar, Sir William E. De
bunsen, the British Ambassador to
Spain, and Senor Devllla de Urrutia,
the Spanish ambassador to Great Brit
ain, left today for Cartagena, where
King Alfonso is to meet King Edward,
MEXICAN EDITOR IN JAIL
DARES TO ATTACK CANDIDATE
FOR GOVERNOR.
Attacks Creel's Constitutional Quali
fication People Greatly Ex
cited Over the Incident.
EI. PASO, Tex, April 7-Beoause he
had been arguing that Enrique C Creel,
Ambassador of Mexico to the United
States, could not be elected, the constitu
tional Governor of the State of Chihua
hua, Silvester Terrazas, editor of El Cor
reo, a daily newspaper of high standing
published in the City of Chihuahua, Is In
Jail.
Mr. Creel's father was an American citi
zen, which fact, according to the constitu
tion of the State of Chihuahua, renders
Mr. Creel ineligible for the office of consti
tutional Governor. His father-in-law. Gen
eral Terrazas, has been the constitu
tional Governor of the state for many
years, and Mr. Creel has been "substi
tute." or acting Governor, and is now
an avowed candidate for constitutional
Governor.
El Correo is opposing his candidacy and
has quoted from the constitution those
sections which show his ineligibility.
Inclosing an appeal to Mr. Creel to with
draw as a candidate. El Correo. in Its
issue received here last night, says:
"Will you accept an anti-constitutional
Governorship, which Is almost treason, or
will you decline such an attack without
parallel in your native country?"
Immediately after this article appeared
Editor Terrazas was arretted and thrown
into prison: The arrest has caused a pro
found sensation throughout Northern
Mexico, and is being used not without
effect by the agitators against the Diaz
government, the so-called "revolutionists,"
on both sides of the government.
GENERAL BAKR1I.LAS IS SLAIN
Man Who Might Have Been Presi
dent, Coldly Assassinated.
CTTT OF MEXICO, April 7. General
Manuel Tlarrillas, ex-President of Guate
mala, was assassinated here this evening
as he sat in a streetcar. As the car
stopped, a young man 17 years of aee
climbed aboard and rushed up to the Gen
eral and stabbed him twice, the first blow
severing the jugular vein, the second cut
ting his face. The General died instantly.
The assassin was captured. He gave
his name as Jose Estrada, and his home
as Ocos, Guatemala.
Ex-President Barrillas was generally
considered as strongly associated to the
present government of Guatemala. He
was 62 years of age and was a strong pos
sibility for the next Presidency of the
country. Members of the Guatemalan col
ony here think Estrada was a paid as
sassin. LIST OF DEAD IS GROWING
Heavy Loss of Life and Property in
Storms-wept Alabama.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 7. As com
munication Is established with the towns
in South and West Alabama that were
stormswept Friday, the list of casualties
increases and the loss to property Is
shown to be heavy.
In Coffee County the towns of Central
City, Clay Hatchee and Waterford were
swept away and at least 20 persons were
injured.
At Central City a Mr. Odom was killed
in tne wreckage or His house. At Brock
ton and Enterprise many were hurt by
umg umuHis.
Specials from various parts of Ala
bama say growing cotton has been badly
ALASKANS WELL PLEASED
Governor Hogati Not in Eavor of
Changing Government.
SEATTLE, Wash., April 7. W. B.
Hogatt. Governor of Alaska, reached Se
attle tonight from Washington.
"We got almost everything we asked
of tne last session or Congress." he said
"The people of Alaska are well satisfied
with L ncie bam s treatment of them
This cry for a territorial form of gov
ernment comes rrom political discontents.
To have this change in rnle would mean
an increase in taxation, of 25 cents per
capita for the small population. Together
wrtn tne tact that the country is only
partly developed, this burden is not war
ranted. We can very well afford to go
along as we are, despite the howl of
politicians.
MORMONS AID THE CHINESE
Twenty Tons of Flour Will Be Sent
to Famine Sufferers.
SALT LAKE, Utah. April 7. Twenty
tons of flour were voted for the relief
of the Chinese famine sufferers at the
7Sth Mormon Conference today. The
flour will be taken from the tithing
stores and will be turned over to the
Red Cross Society.
Beauty brfngers are Satin skin cream and
Satin skin complexion powder, uniy 25a.
LIPMAN-WOLFE'S
Good Merchandise
100 High Class
Vals. to $45, Sale at $27.50
100 New Tailor-Made Snits in Eton and Jacket styles, plain tailor-made
and fancy trimmed suits; of plain Panamas, in blackTbrown and navy, and
an endless variety of fancy cloths.
pleated effects,
sale at
Sold
$5NewLingeric Waists $2.98
150 New Lingerie Waists of finest quality lawns and
lace and embroidered fronts and pin-tucked back.
lace insertion trimming, fancy tucked and lace trimmed
regularly up to $5.00. Special for Monday sale
April Sale Dress Goods
Offering the Greatest Value. Ever Given by Any
Reputable Portland Store so Early in the Season.
60c Silk Stripe Wool Challies, new Spring styles at.
yard 35
60c Black and White Suitings, plaids, stripes and
Shepherd checks, 36 inches wide -43c
60c Novelty Suitings, black checks, shadow plaids,
Scotch tartans and Shepherd plaids at, per
yard 47
60c All-Wool Panamas, full line of colors, at. per
yard 47
tl.25 All-Wool Taffeta, hemstitched stripe. 44 in..
In black, cream, brown, gray and reseda, at, per
yard 69
$1.25 to $1.50 Novelty Suitings, 44 to 54 inches wide,
cloths, Panamas, taffetas and mohair, In all the
newest Spring colors, stripes, checks, plaids, etc.,
for Eton and jumper suits; special at. per
yard 98c
$1.75 Black French Voile. 45 inches wide, wire
finish silk selvedge at, yard SI. 48
$1.35 Black French Voile. 42 Inches wide wire
finish at, per yard SI. 15
$1.25 Cream English Yachting Serge, 46 inches
wide, at, per yard , 89
$1.50 Cream and Ivory Ocean Serges, 50 Inches wide,
at, per yard SI. 29
$1.50 and $1.75 Cloths for tailor coats and suits,
tan coverts, checks and invisible plaids. 56 Inches
wide, at, per yard $1.35
Sale $1.50 Black Chiffon Finish Taffeta $1.23
3000 Yds, Black and White Silks for Jumpers 85c
April Lace Curtain Sale Sale of Belt Buckles
$1.19 Corset Covers 75c $8 Suit Cases $5.98
WANTGATEWAYOPEN
Lumber and Shingle Men to
Draft New Complaint,
INCLUDE TOO MANY ROADS
Interstate Commission Wants Joint
Rate Matter Simplified by Hay
ing Hearings on Roads That
Are Directly Concerned.
SEATTLE, Wash., April 7. Opecial.)
A new complaint may be drafted by the
lumber and shingle manufacturers for
presentation before the Interstate Com
merce Commission and the new draft
will affect most of the railroads against
which the Joint rate fight is directed.
The Commission has called attention
to the fact that the present complaint
wirt compel hearings so that each of the
123 railroads involved may be heard, and
this would prolong the Inquiry indefi
nitely. The Commission cannot spare
time to make such an inquiry and is
anxious to limit the suit so as to get
through a test case within a reasonably
short time and allow the same principle
to apply to all similar cases.
It is suggested to the lumbermen that
a new complaint be drafted making the
Hill and Harriman lines alone the parties
defendant. The only question in con
troversy would then be the matter of
compelling the Northern Pacific to make
joint rates via Portland with the Harrl
man lines to points west of the Missouri
River which cannot be reached now by
Western Washington mills.
To Open Portland Gateway.
This is the principal fight that the mills
have been making and It would meet the
demands of the timber interests If such
joint rates could be gotten. The fight
for Joint rates over the others of the
123 roads named In the lumbermen's com
plaint is Intended to open territory that
must be reached through a Joint rate
agreement. It is pointed out. though,
that if the Interstate Commerce Com
mission rules the Portland gateway must
be opened these smaller roads would
hasten to arrange joint rates rather than
stand a protracted legal battle with the
millmen.
Since word has come from the Inter
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state Commerce Commission there has
been a strenuous effort on the part of
the leaders in the lumbermen's fight to
learn whether the mill interests would
be satisfied witl. a limitation of the suit.
Tha millmen started out to make a sweep
ing campaign against the roads and there
Is fear among the leaders that if it all
simmered down to a hearing on the
opening of the Portland gateway consider
able uneasiness would be felt among the
rank and file.
Inspired by Railway Interests.
The millmen are a suspicious lot and
those who have been let in on the secret
of the Interstate Commerce Commission's
request have jumped to the conclusion
that railroad interests are involved some
where and that the suggestion from the
Interstate Commerce Commission is in
spired by railroad Interests.
The complaint of the millmen asking
for the establishment of joint rates over
123 railroads and the opening of the
Portland gateway was received by the
Interstate Commerce Commission Friday
morning. This complaint recites the fact
that a large territory is closed to the
Washington mills because the Portland
gateway is not opened for them. The
other roads are involved as an incident.
Want Complaint Amended.
After the Interstate Commerce Commis
sioners had made a cursory examination
of the papers in the case, a telegraphic
request was made of the millmen to
modify their complaint so as to involve
only the question of opening the Port
land gateway. It was shown that a de
cision In this case would be applicable
to all other controversies and argued that
too many hearings were Involved in the
suit against 123 roads to make the case
practicable. The question of changing
the complaint has been resting since with
the attorneys and the principal officers
of the lumbermen's committee.
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May 8. as follows: A. Lu Frazer, P. L.
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