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Mrs. McKinley Passes
Into the Shadow.
DIES AT 1:05 P. M. SUNDAY
Peaceful Are Last Hours of a
Life of Suffering.
HOLD FUNERAL WEDNESDAY
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President Roosevelt and Prominent
Public Men Plan to Attend Serv
ices Incidents In Life of the
Murdered President's Wife.
CANTON. May 26. Mrs. William Mc
Kinley, widow of the late President, died
at her home here at 1:05 o'clock this af
ternoon.. For many years Mrs. McKinley had
been an invnlid. She recovered from the
shock of her husband's tragic death, but
It left Its mark, and when it was known
that she had suffered a stroke of paraly
sis, little hope was felt that she could
survive. The end came peacefully, al
most Imperceptibly. Mrs. McKinley
never knew of the efforts made to pro
long her life, or the solicitous hope
of her sister and other relatives and
friends for her recovery.
At the McKinley home when death
came there were present Beeretary Cor
telyou, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Barbour, Mrs.
Sarah Duncan, Mrs. Luther Day, Justice
and Mrs. William R. Day, Doctors Porte
man and Rlxey and the nurses.
"Mrs. McKinley lived longer than was
expected," said the Secretary.
Showed Remarkable Vitality.
"Her vitality was wonderful," said Dr.
Porteman. It was by Secretary Cortel
you that announcement of the , demise
was given to the public. As this was
flashed over the land, William McKinley
Post aVid George D. Harter Post, G A.
R., were forming In line and to the
strains of the "March Rellgioso" went
to the First Methodist Episcopal Church
to listen to the annual memorial address,
which was given by Dr. Buxton, Mrs.
McKtnley's pastor.
The funeral arrangements so far as
made are that Dr. Buxton will have
charge of the services, which are to be
simple. They will be held at the Mc
Kinley home at 2 o'clock Wednesday af
ternoon. Secretary Cortelyou is direct
ing the arrangements, and will remain
here until after the funeral. ' Dr. Rixey
left here at 5:33 this evening for Wash
ington. He will join President Roose
velt and go with him on his trip to In
dianapolis and Lansing this week.
President to Attend Funeral.
It was announced tonight that Presi
dent Roosevelt and Secretary Loeb will
arrive in Canton Wednesday morning to
attend the funeral services. Vice-President
Fairbanks, who had often been a
house guest of the McKlnleys, is expect
ed to reach here in time to attend the
funeral services.
The body of Mrs. McKinley will be
placed in the vault In Westlawn Ceme
tery, which holds also the remains of
her martyred husband, until the comple
tion of the National Mausoleum on Monu
ment Hill, when both caskets will be
transferred to receptacles in that tomb.
From numerous friends of Mr.' McKinley,
Mrs. Barbour this evening received tele
grams of condolence on the death of her
sister. Among them were telegrams
from President Roosevelt and Vice-President
Fairbanks.
Thirty Tears an Invalid.
Mrs. McKinley's life of almost sixty
years had been made familiar to the
Ration by the fact that more than half
of it was a period of invalidism.
Through all this, however, she showed
a firm and unwavering belief In the
career of her husband and by her
cheering words, in spite of personal af
flictions, encouraged him when there
was darkness at hand.
She believed that his staf of destiny
would never set until he had become
President of this land, and for more
than a quarter of a century cherished
that belief until her hopes were real
ized. After President McKinley's death she
expressed a desire to Join him, and
prayed day by day that she might die.
Later,, however, she frequently told
friends that she desired to live until
the completion of the McKinley Mauso
leum, which is the gift of the Nation
and which is to be dedicated on Monu
ment Hill, September 30, next.
Born . in Home of Wealth.
Ida Saxton McKinley was born in
Canton. June 8. 1847. James A. Saxton,
her father, was an Intellectual and pro
gressive business man and banker; his
wife a woman of extraordinary culture
and refinement. Ida Saxton was reared
in a home of comfort and ease. After
attending Canton schools, she was . a
pupil at a private school at Delhi,
N. Y. Later she went to a Cleveland
academy and finished her education at
Brook Hill Seminary. .Media, Pa., where
she spent three years.
Part of her young womanhood was
spent In the Stark County Bank, whicn
belonged to her father. On several oc
casions she had charge of the institu
tion. While she taught Sunday school in
the Presbyterian Church, young Law
yer McKinley was Superintendent of
tie First Methodist Episcopal Sunday
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DEATH GAME
school. Among many admirers and
suitors, the handsome young soldlerj
who had been with Grant and Sheridan
and won distinction in the Shenandoah
Valley, was the favored one.
By James Saxton, her father, these
words were spoken to McKinley when
the hand of the daughter was gained:
"You are the only man I have ever
known to whom I could entrust my
daughter."
On January 25, 1871, William
McKinley and Ida Saxton were united
in marriage. The wedding was the
first performed in the then new Pres
terian Church.
. Health Shattered by Grief.
After an Eastern trip, including
Washington, and a short time of board
ing, the McKlnleys purchased the home
on North Market street, which in later
years became famous as the McKinley
cottage.
It was during their short sojourn in
this home that Mrs. McKinley's health
broke down under the burden of grief
that was theirs. There were born to
them two daughters, Katie, on Christ
mas day of 1871, and Ida, on April 1,
1873. Ida. died In August, 1873, and
Katie the following year. During tbls
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period Mrs. McKinley's mother also
passed away, and "under the combined
burden of these losses Mrs. McKinley
became an invalid.
Her life as the wife of William
McKinley was a most happy and de
voted one. They never "kept house"
while he was in Congress, because of
her invalid state. She, however, de
sired to be with him as much as pos
sible, and spent much time in Wash
ington. On his campaign tours while
he was Congressman, Governor and
President, she Journeyed with him so
far as practicable.
Their Home at Canton.
After Governor McKinley's term of
office ended they came to Canton in
January, 1896, In time to celebrate
their silver wedding anniversary in
the first home of their early married
life. This wedding anniversary was
the beginning of a year and two
months residence in Canton, during
which time Mr. McKinley was nomi
nated and elected President of the
United States. At Washington, as the
first lady of the land, she was unable
to act as hostess at brilliant social
functions.
After the crushing blow which came
to her when the assassin's bullet
struck down her husband, friends de
spaired of her life for a month or more.
However, she rallied and, excepting
periods of great depression, for sev
eral years enjoyed better health than
usual. She would not consent to leave
her Canton home.
Mrs. McKinley was fond of drama.
She and her husband numbered as one
of their most intimate friends the late
Joseph Jefferson, who was frequently
a guest of the McKlnleys. Among
her diversions were the crocheting of
slippers, which she bestowed as keep
sakes to friends, handed to the needy
or gave to bazaars. More than 3500
pairs of slippers were contributed by
her.- ...
Always Fond of Children.
Mrs. McKinley was fond of flowers,
the rose being her favorite for many
years. In recent years the President's
carnation shared a place in her ad
miration. Bereft of children at an
early stage of married life, she showed
her Intense affection for children until
the end of her lif,U was a common
thing foru. her .,fco stop her carriage
when driving along the street- and call
to her some prattling child and kiss it
or ask to embrace an attractive baby.
The McKinley estate which was left
by the President was appraised at
$215,000 when the Inventory was made.
It has increased in value since that
time. By the terms of the will of Mr.
McKinley the estate at the death of
Mre. McKinley was to be divided equal
ly among his brother, Abner McKinley,
now deceased and sisters, Mrs. Duncan
and Miss Helen McKinley, of Cleveland.
Mrs. Hermanus Baer (Mabel McKinley)
Is the daughter and heir of Abner Mc
Kinley. - .
GREAT SORROW AT CAPITAL
President Plans at Once on Receipt
of Sews to Attend the Funeral.
WASHINGTON. May 26. While little
hope was entertained here for her recov
ery, the news of the death of Mrs. Mc
Kinley caused profound sorrow in the
National Capital, where she so long made
her home while her husband was a mem
ber of Congress and later President.
President Roosevelt learned of her death
shortly after 2 o'clock, when he received
a telegram from Secretary Cortelyou, who
has been in Canton since Mrs. McKinley
was first stricken. He Immediately an
nounced that he would leave for Canton
Tuesday night to attend the funeral.
Secretary Root and Secretary of Agri
culture Wilson, the only members of the
Cabinet who served under President Mc
Kinley. and Rev. Frank M. Bristol of the
Metropolitan Methodist Church, who was
the McKinley pastor, were deeply touched
when they were told that Mrs. McKinley
had expired. There were expressions of
regret from many officials whose duties
brought them in contact with the White
House, and from all the- attaches of the
Executive Mansion, many of whom served
there during the McKinley Administra
tion. All paid the highest tribute to the
memory of the late President's widow.
President Roosevelt will be accompanied
on his trip to Oanton by Secretaries Root,
Concluded on Paso 3.1
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NORTHERN PACIFIC
Rumored Canal Builder
Will Have Place. ,
HOWARD ELLIOTT LEAVING
Has Wanted to Quit for Some
Time Past.
BREACH WITH YOUNG HILL
Railroad Men Tell Stories of Louis
Hill's Ability to Stir TTp Trouble
and Say the Officials Could Not
Get Along Well With Him.
SEATTLE. May 26. (Special.) If
John F. Stevens comes back to the Hill
service as president of the Northern
Pacific it will afford a striking example
of tardy recognition and will, inci- I
dentally, show that James N. Hill has
come into a sphere of influence in the
management of the Hill systems that
the general public has failed to recog
nize. John F. Stevens is the strong
personal friend of James N. Hill. High
railroad officials know that the former
Panama engineer broke with Louis W.
Hill before he left the Great Northern
service and that in choosing a suc
cessor to Howard Elliott, James J. Hill
listened to his Northern Pacific son
rather than the one at the head of the
Great Northern.
Elliott May Leave in September.
That it is only a matter of time be
fore Howard Elliott leaves the North
ern Pacific has been known for months.
Railroad men fix the time of his retire
ment in September, when the annual
meeting is held and an accounting of
stewardship made. It is said that John
F. Stevens Is a strong candidate for
the presidency at that time. ,
If the curtain could be lifted long
enough it would probably become gen
erally known that Elliott has tendered
his resignation oftener than any other
Western railroad man. He has wanted
for months to leave the Hill service.
Some of those resignations he tendered
were peremptory notices he would quit,
but each time James J. Hill and his
advisers induced Elliott to remain.
It is not a case of too much James J.
Hill, with President Elliott, of the
Northern Pacific, as it is a case of too
much Louis W. Hill. In high railroad
circles there has been no Bee ret of the
fact that friction has existed between
President Elliott and President Louis
Hill, of the Great Northern.
Louis Hill a Trouble-Maker.
High railroad officials tell Interesting
stories of the sharp interchanges be
tween the younger Hill and President
Elliott. They tell, for Instance, of an
episode that occurred when President
Elliott, .in conference with his counsel,
was shaping a policy in this state after
the first railroad commission legisla
tion of 1905. Louis Hill happened in
and brusquely declared he had settled
the entire question while in New York.
Elliott patiently went back and recan
vassed the situation, ignoring Hill's
declaration. That incident is said, to
have started the breach that has been
growing wider for more than two
years.
There is a long list of Northern Pa
cific and Great Northern resignations
that popular fancy has attached to
James J. Hill's action or suggestion,
but which railroad men declare Louis
Hill has brought about. The list goes
back to C. S. Mellen's day and in the
recital of this list ought to be told the
fact that Mellen, just a short time ago,
is said to have told a friend that his
trouble was not with the elder, but
the younger Hill. Both the Mellen and
Elliott resignations are charged up by
railroad men to the younger Hill.
In the Great Northern service the
list of sudden and unexpected retire
ments include:
J. W. Blabon, fourth vice-president.
Ben Campbell, fourth vlce-preBident-
J. D. Farrell, assistant to the presi
dent and president of Great Northern
Steamship Company.
ueorge T. Slade, son-in-law of James
J. Hill, and general superintendent.
J. C. Eden, assistant traffic manager.
John F. Stearns, chief engineer.
Stevens Appointed Over Protest.
The Stevens resignation was the first of
this series, and came at a time when
Louis Hill was Just climbing into power.
Railroad gossip carries a story to the ef
fect that Stevens and the younger Hill
had a stormy session before Stevens laid
his resignation on the desk of the elder
Hill.
James N. Hill, now first vice-president
of the Northern Pacific, had to drop out
of railroad work a few years ago because
of 111 -health, but he has always been a
close friend of Stevens. When a vacancy
in the Northern Pacific presidency was
impending, James N. Hill is credited with
suggesting Stevens' appointment. Ha did
not want the place himself, and he did
want Stevens named. Over Louis Hill's
protest, it is recited, the appointment was
offered by James J. Hill. To this extent,
at least, Stevens has been justified,
though he waited years for the justiflcaj
tlon. '
Ben Campbell was taken from the Har
riman service and given autocratic powers
4, in the Great Northern. He could not com-
STEVENS
EVENTS. OF COMING WEEK
In Memory of Soldier Dead.
Thft features of the national &t
ervance of Memorial day. next
Thursday win be the unveiling of a
monument to General Henry W.
Lawton. at Indianapolis, where
President Roosevelt will deliver an
address, and the unveiling of a
. statue of General James IS. B.
Stuart by the United Confederate -Veterans,
at Richmond, Va.
On the same day Governor
Charles E. Hughe., of New Tork.
and Governor CurtU Guild, Jr., of
Massachusetts, will speak at the un
veiling of tablets to celebrated
Americans in the Hall of Fame at
New Tork University.
Monument to Jefferson Davis.
The programme of the Grand
Camp of United Confederate Vet
erans, which B-1I1 be held at Rich
mond, Va,, beginning next Thurs
day and continuing until the fol
lowing Monday, will Include the un
veiling of the memorial erected to
the memory of Jefferson Davis.
This will take place on the closing
day, when an imposing parade will
be held.
President Roosevelt will deliver an
address at the semi-centennial cele
bration of the founding of the agri
cultural colleges In the United States
at Lansing, Mich., on Friday. Secre
tary of War William Taft will speak
before the National Millers' Associa
tion in St. Louis on next Thursday,
Memorial day.
Cotton Mills to Raise Wages.
The wages of about 85,000 cotton
mill operatives in southern New Eng
land will be advanced an average of
10 per cent on Monday. The Inter
national Cotton Conference will be
held at Vienna May 27-80.' More
than 250 delegates, 10 of whom are
Americans, will attend the convention.
pel the railroad to build new equipment
as often as he wanted it, nor run trains
as he would have them, but in traffic
matters he was to be supreme. Sud
denly there comes an unexpected an
nouncement that Ben Campbell has re
signed and will go to the New Tork, New
Haven St Hartford, under C. S. Mellen,
once of the Northern Pacific. Then gos
sip tells the story of a break with Louis
Hill.
It is an open secret that J. W. Blabon
left the Great Northern to go to the Al
ton at a lower salary, and he took the
steps to get out from surroundings that
were not congenial.
George T. Slade, son-in-law of James
J. Hill, was involved in trouble for months
before he left. He found the road rocky,
no matter what he did, and good railroad
man though he was, he would not stand
it any longer. Slade was ill about the
time he retired, and he fretted consider
ably over the troublous circumstances.
James J. Hill is not charged with put
ting trouble .In -Slide's way.
J. ih Farrell quit the Great Northern
service because he was Interfered with
by Louis Hill, though given complete au
thority by the Great Northern's president.
Farrell, being & wealthy man, was com
pletely Independent anil perfectly willing
to step out and go abroad for the first
recreation he ever took, and he, like the
others, passed up to Louis Hill the abso
lute control that he apparently wanted.
Steamers Managed From Inland.
Louis Hill has been president of the
Great Northern Steamship Company and
has been managing the company from St.
Paul for more than a year. For three or
four months there has not been an ex
ecutive official of the steamship com
pany on this Coast. If the captains'
charts, for example, show that their
course has been too close to dangerous
reefs, they must be passed upon in St.
Paul, and if a captain should be cau
tioned, he would have to await that cau
tion by cable. Louis Hill took over the
steamship company and has been running
it from an inland office two days re
moved from his principal port. There is
a difference between the steamship busi
ness of the Mississippi and the Great
Lakes, but all the Hill shipping interests
have been lumped in a St. Paul office.
"Jack" Eden simply threw up his Job as
assistant traffic manager because he did
not have to exist under the conditions
that prevailed in the service. For that
matter- S. Gardner Yerkee, assistant gen
eral passenger agent, "got a hunch" and
went into the real estate business. To
Terkes came a most flattering offer, and
he is much better off in his new place,
but friends knew that Terkes was sus
picious of conditions at the top.
CHOPS BOY'S HEAD OPEN
FATHER CHARGED WITH BRUT
AL MURDER OF HIS SOX.
Mother Says Lad Was Forced to Sup
port His Idle Sire, Who Often -Quarreled
With Him.
NEW TORK, May 26. Dominick Zlssa,
23 years of age, was found dead in bed
today by his mother, his head having
been crushed by blows from an axe which
was on the floor beside the bed. On the
strength of Mrs. Zissa's story, her hus
band, Antonio Zissa, was arrested. The
mother said that her son was the sole
support of the - family, her husband
not having worked for some months.
Father and son frequently quarreled, the
father demanding money, and the son
refusing it. Antonio, his wife said, had
often threatened to kill the boy. She
left the tenement In which they lived for
a short time early today, leaving her son
asleep and her husband in the kitchen.
When she returned the husband was
gone, and when she went to wake her
eon for breakfast he was dead.
Jealous of the Japanese.
LONDON. May 26. The Times' Toklo
correspondents -of Japan do not attach
great importance to the attacks on the
Japanese restaurants . in San Francisco,
which they attribute to the jealousy of
American restaurant-keepers in conse
quence of successful competition.
THOUSANDS ARE
. "nintn m iniir
MiluHu
Whiskey and Beer Are
Great "Cure All."
DRUGGISTS WORK OVERTIME
Fill - Prescriptions for AH Ills
Flesh Is Heir To.
GROG-SHOPS ALL CLOSED
Thirsty Become "111" in Great Num
bers and Drug Stores Do Thriving
Business Some Maladies Are
Prevalent In Topeka.
TOPEKA, Kan., May 26. (Special.)
A large part of the people of Kansas
were "111" today. Untold thousands
are victims of all sorts of complaints.
A record of the "sick" ones makes
Kansas look like an infirmary.
Coincldentally the drug stores did
more business today than they have
done in many years probably than ever
before. In spite of the epidemic of varie
gated diseases the doctors had a sleepy
Sunday, but before night the drug
clerks were wan and worn from over
work. All Kansas used the same medicine
beer and whisky. Skeptical persons
see a connection between .this condition
of affairs and the fact that the saloons
have been closed and the brewers and
wholesale liquor dealers driven out of
business.
Whiskey and Beer "Cure-Alls.
There is Just one way to get a drink
in Kansas now go to a drug store and
sign a certificate to the effect that the
beverage is for medical purposes.
Moreover, the purchaser must desig
nate the malady with which he la af
flicted. Everyjulsease known to med
ical science has its victims, according
to these certificates. Insomnia and in
digestion are the most common, but
St. Vitus' dance is running wild and
the palsy Is staggering through the
state. Chlckenpox is flying around and
yellow fever victims walk the streets,
and nobody seems afraid of catching
it from them. Grip, JBrlght's disease,
mumps, bronchitis, dandruff, epi
lepsy, typhoid fever, scarlet fever,
pneumonia, cuts and burns, deafness
not to mention corns, warts and bun
ions for all these things and many
more beer or whisky is the only sure
remedy, guaranteed to cure or money
refunded.
Not in many years has this town been
"Jointless." The dena where intoxicants
were sold openly in violation of law, are
closed, locked and barred.
The consequence is that drugstores of
a certain class are now doing a thriving
business. The certificate-signed purchas
ers are filed monthly with the Probate
Court.
Rapid Increase In Maladies.
Since April 16 the cases of Insomnia and
indigestion have shown their greatest in
crease. Before that only a few hundred
certificates of liquor and beer purchased
were filed a month. Now many thou
sand certificates are filed in a month.
Fully 90 per cent of these certificates
specify that beer was purchased to re
lieve insomnia or Indigestion. Some of
the certificates show that the signers
must have chronic cases, because signa
tures are found quite often during the
monthly period reported. Names of
prominent people are attached to these
certificates.
The gathering of second-hand bottles
from alleys and waste paper boxes,
thrown there by those who have
quenched their thirst, is a new Topeka
enterprise, and numerous small boys are
making good wages picking them up and
selling them to druggists for refilling. It
is by no means an uncommon sight to
see youngsters trudging the streets and
alleys and particularly the alleys of
Topeka. a basket on either arm, which
they fill with a speed commensurate with
the cases of "sickness' the night before.
NOT SO, SAYS MR. FRICK
Denies Report He Is to Give Pitts
burg $5,000,000 Art Institute.
NEW TORK, May 26. H. C. Frick
today denied the published report that
he was to erect at Pittsburg at a cost
of $5,000,000, a building to be 'known
as the Pittsburg Academy of Fine Arts.
Of the story Mr. Frick said: -
"It is absurd. I am not going to
give Pittsburg an art institute."
ALL WEEK T0GET A JURY
Little Chance of Hay-wood's Trial
Beginning Yet.
BOISE. Idaho, May 26. From present
Indications it would seem that another
week must elapse before the taking of
testimony can begin In the trial of Wil
liam D. Haywood, first of the alleged
"inner circle" of the Western Federation
of Miners to face a jury in answer to the
state's charge of conspiring to murder
ex-Governor Steunenberg. But 12 mem
bers of the second special venire of pro
posed jurymen remain. A 13th talesman
was drawn Saturday afternoon. Just prior
to adjournment, and, is confined with the
trial panel. He has yet to be examined
as to all of his qualifications.
In addition to the vacancy which he
may or may not fill, there remain four
peremptory challenges, two with the pros
ecution and two with the defense. The
opposing attorneys seem determined to
use up every challenge the law allows.
This means that only seven of the Jurors
have been selected, and the trial has been
in progress for more than two weeks' ac
tual time. It is predicted that the re
maining members of the venire now in
attendance will be exhausted by tomor
row evening, and a third will then have
to be summoned by the Sheriff. If this
step becomes necessary, the task wll oc
cupy the greater part of Tuesday and
Wednesday, and Thursday, being Memo
rial day. there will be no session of
court. The Jury may be completed Fri
day evening or Saturday.
In either event, it Is probable that the
attorneys for the state will ask for an
adjournment until Monday morning, in
order that the opening address, or state
ment of the prosecution's case, may lm
mediatelybe followed by supporting evi
dence. The people of Boise, busy with the so
cial and commercial activity of their pros-
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Henry C. Frick, who denies he will
present Pittsburg with a S5.000.000
art institute.
perous little city, and never wildly ex
cited about the trial, have become less
interested than ever because of the delay
in securing a Jury.
GOVERNOR S YACHT BOONS
2t ARROW ESCAPE OP HUNTING
PARTS' FROM DEATH. "
Boat Catches Fire and Is Total Loss.
Party Picked Up by Steamer
Queen City.
. VICTORIA, B. C. May 26. Lieutenant
Governor Hon. James Dunsmulr and
party, who left here some weeks ago
on a bear-hunting expedition to Gardl
ner' Inlet, arrived home today by the
steamer Queen City, which picked them
up after all had narrowly escaped
death as a reasult of the burning of
the Governor's steamer Thistle on Fri
day in Queen Charlotte Sound. The
fire followed an explosion in the bunk
ers, due to spontaneous combustion,
and in five minutes after the alarm was
given and the engineers ran up leav
ing the vessel racing ahead with red
hot engines, the steamer was envel
oped with flames.
The millionaire Governor and party
and ship's crew escaped in the Gov
ernor's launch and boats, which were
launched with difficulty, owing to the
swerving of the vessel in ' plunging
ahead with engines and helm untended.
The Governor, Captain Blssett, and a
Chinaman escaped in the launch and
Major Audaln, the Governor's son-in-law,
and A. W. Burton and Robert
Barkley, their guests, with the crew
took to the boats.
Fortunately the weather was good,
or all would have been drowned by the
swamping of the boats. They left the
burning ship at noon, and after 8 P. M.
reached Hardy Bay, famished and ex
hausted. The Queen City called next
day and brought them to Victoria.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
- "Tb Wealier. '
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 82
degrees; minimum, 63 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; northwest winds.
Portland and Vicinity.
Dr. Clarence True Wilson preaches, praising
administration of Mayor Lane. Page 5.
Portland, gets touch of real summer heat;
.82 In shade. Page 12.
Fort of Columbia organizes to fight lawsuit.
Page 9.
Memorial services held in Montavtlla Bap
tist Church. Page 8.
Warm discussion at First Christian Church
on merits of Christian Science. Page S.
Sports.
Beavers win from Los Angeles, 5 to I.
Page 4.
St. Johns beat Frakes at fit. Johns. 8 to 3.
Page .
Secretary Long of Pacific Coast League
says there will be no change of umpires.
Pags 4.
Foreign.
Troublous times ahead for Ire4and because
of fata of council bill. Page 2. ,
National.
President Roosevelt wrestles with tariff re
form; when should It begin? Page 1.
Secretary Taft comes out -fiat-footed for
tariff reform. Page 1.
Domestic.
Mrs. McKinley dies at her Canton home.
Page 1.
Father charged with brutal murder of his
own son. Page 1.
Dead body of priest found in trunk In New
York lodging house. Page 2.-
Kansas people go suddenly "111" and con
sume vast quantities of beer and whis
key. Page 1.
Pacific Coast.
Calhoun's men accused of breaking car win
dows and reporting it work of strikers.
Page 3.
Lieutenant-Governor Dunsmulr and hunting
party have narrow escape from death.
Page 1.
Amount paid by. Ban Francisco Gas Com
pany as bribe money - has been made
public Pag 8.
Oregon City raises saloon licenses. Page 3.
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TARIFF REVISION
TICKLISH PROBLEM
When to Begin Is Vital
- Point to Party.
ROOSEVELT PONDERS ON IT
Finding Time "Ripe," He Will
Urge Next Congress to Act.
FACTOR IN THE ELECTION
Rate Tinkering This Tear Slight En
danger Success of Party, but If
Nothing Is Done Party Must
Suffer Blame for Delay.
TAFT FOR REVISION.
WASHINGTON. May 26. (Spe
cial.) Secretary Taft Is the tariff
revision candidate for the Repub
lican Presidential nomination, and is
not disturbed by the denunciation of
him by the Protective Tariff League
that has said he cannot expect any
support from that organisation un
less he declared tor the stand pat
policy.
Secretary Taft declined to declare
for the stand pat policy for the rea
son that he believes that the country
needs a revision of the tariff. In
discussing this Interview and the ac
tion of the Protective Tariff League,
the Secretary said;
"I am a tariff revisionist. No man
can win the next election who does
not favor changes In the tariff. I
agree with the position taken by the
American Manufacturers' Associa
tion, which recently declared In favor
of a revision.'
OR.EOONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, May 26. President Roosevelt is
firmly convinced that the tariff should
be revised, but he is In doubt as to when
It can'' best be revised. This is- the
optnlori of then close to the Administra
tion; men who have talked with the
President about the tariff and who know
his ideas and his desires.
It has been no secret that the President
has long believed It advisable to modlfs
the Dingley tariff lawl , His views on.
that subject have been exploited from
time to time, though he has never gons
to the extent of urging tariff revision in
any of his annual messages to Congress.
Two years ago the President was seri
ously considering the advisability of send
ing in a special message to Congress
urging a revision of the tariff. He had
a conference with the various party lead
ers, at which he clearly expressed his
own views, but finally, on the advice of
a majority of those present, decided to
postpone his recommendation. Congress,
at that time, was deeply engrossed with
the railroad rate bill, and It was feared
that the injection of the tariff issue
might result in the defeat of both, meas
ures. Lift Burden From Consumers.
Now that the rate bill has been enacted
into law, and other Important questions
have been disposed of, the President is
seriously considering the advisability of
embodying in his next annual message to
Congress a recommendation that th
Dingley law be remodeled to meet chang
ing conditions. Industries that required
protection when that law was enacted,
are no longer in the "Infant class." Th
greet steel trust, that has flourished be
yond precedent under the generous pro
tection of the Dingley law, no longer
needs the- full protection thrown around
it by that statute.
There are other industries that are now
able to stand alone; Industries which,
like the steel trust, have grown so rich
that they are now selling their products
abroad cheaper than they sell them in
the American market It is the Presi
dent's idea that the Dingley law should
be so modified as to afford only reason
able protection to American industries,
and relieve the country from the payment
of undue tribute to corporations that are
now waxing fat at public expense.
Chance to Turn Political Trick.
In deciding when to urge revision of
the tariff the President has an opportu
nity to play some very adroit politics.
He Is fully aware of the opportunity, and
because of his desire to get the best re
sults for the Republican party, and at
the same time secure the best results for
the country at large, he deems it expe
dient to ponder long before reaching a
decision. He is not relying entirely upon
his own Judgment, but is consulting the
big men of the party.
There are strong indications that the
Democrats propose to bring the tariff
issue to the front in the next national
campaign. If radical issues are elimin
ated, a sane candidate is nominated, and
tariff reform Is made the dominant issue
the Democrats will be In a position to
poll a much heavier vote then they se
cured in the dayg of Bryan and Bryan
ism, and later under Parker and a so
called "safe and sane" platform. Con
servative Democrats, men who favor the
nomination of Senator Gray, of Delaware,
or some other man of his type, think
they see signs of victory ahead, provided
the party will name a strong candidate
and run him on a tariff platform. And
there are not a few Republicans who pre
dict that the strongest candidate their
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