VOL. XLVI.- XO- 14,571.
TOKTL.AND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1907.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ANSWERS WALL
STREET'S HOWL
Straight Talk From the
President.
RICH MUST OBEY THE LAWS
Serves Notice Will BeNo Let
Up of Present Policies-
INCREASE FEDERAL POWER
Roosevelt, In Speech at Province
town, Flays Predatory Interests
and Takes Fling at "Fnde
slrable Citizens."
NO tET-rP IX EFFORTS TO EN
FORCE THE LAW.
During the present trouble with
the stock market, I, of course, re
ceived countless requests and sugges- '
tlons that I should do something: to
- ease the situation. It may all be
that the Government's determination,
In which, gentlemen, tt will not
waver, to punish certain malefactors
of great wealth, has been responsi
ble for something of the troubles;
at least to the extent of having
caused these men to combine to bring
about as much financial stress as
they possibly can, in order to dis
credit the Government's policy, and
thereby secure a reversal of that
policy so that they may enjoy the
fruits of their evlldolngs. If so,
I am sorry, but it will not alter my
attitude. Once, for all time, let me
say. so far as I am concerned, for
the 38 months of my administration
that remain, there will be no changes
In the policy we have steadily pur
sued, nor let-up In our efforts to
secure an honest observance of the
law, for I regard this contest as
one to determine who shall rule this
GovernmentH--the people through
their Governmental agents or a few
ruthless, determined men, whose
wealth makes them particularly for
midable, because they are behind the
breastworks of corporate organiza
tion. PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Aug. 20.
The laying: today of the cornerstone of
the PllgrLm memorial monument com
pleted the foundation of the Imposing
structure commemorating the first
landing within a few feet of Its base of
the Pilgrim Fathers. The big fleet of
fishing vessels and yacht In the harbor
had for a background eight formidable
warships. The center of attraction was
the Town Hill, whereon perched a wooden
amphitheater adjacent to the site of the
monument. The Mayflower, bearing
President Roosevelt, expected at 11
o'clock, rounded the Cape an hour ahead
of time.
, Previous to landing. Mr. Roosevelt re
ceived the commanders of all the war
ships and the committee of townsfolk.
The crowd at the wharf cheered when he
landed. The President entered a carriage
and proceeded to the monument site, pre
ceded by a band. The route through the
main thoroughfare was a continuous ova
tion. Exercises opened with a prayer by Rev.
eamueJ Eliot, of Boston, president of the
American Unitarian Association. The Ma
Sonic ceremonies at the cornerstone laying
were conducted by Grand Master Balke,
of the Massachusetts Masons.
Mr. Roosevelt was introduced by Gov
ernor Guild. The thousands of people
present greeted the President with pro
longed bursts of applause.
What the President Said.
President Roosevelt was the principal
Speaker. He spoke as follows:
It Is not too much to say that the event
commemorated by the monument which we
have come here to dedicate was one of those
rare events which can In good faith be
railed of world importance. The coming
hither of the Puritan three centuries ago
Bhaptd the destinies of thin continent, and
therefore profoundly affected the destiny or
the whole world. Men of other races, the
Frenchman and the Spaniard, the Dutch
man, the Germanf the Scotchman and the
Swede, made settlements within what is
now the United States during the colonial
period of our history and before the Decla
ration of Independence; and since then there
ha been an ever-swelling Immigration from
Ireland and from the mainland of Europe;
but it was the Englishman who settled in
Virginia and the Englishman who settled
In Massachusetts who did most In shaping
the lines of our National development.
We cannot as a nation be too profoundly
grateful for the fact that the Puritan has
stamped his influence so deeply on our
National life. We 'need have but scant pa
tience with the men who now rail at the
Puritan's faults. They were evident, of
course, for It is a quality of strong natures
that their failings, like their virtues, should
stand out In bold relief; but there Is noth
ing easier than to belittle the great men
of the past by dwelling only on the point
where they come short of the universally
recognised standards of the present. Men
must be judged with reference to the ag
In which they dwell and the work they
bave to do.
F U g rims Laid Nation's Foundations.
- The Puritan's task was to conquer a con
tinent; not merely to overrun it but to
settle it. to till it, to build upon it a high
Industrial and social life; and. while en
gaged In the rough work of taming the
shaggy wilderness, at that very time also
to lay deep the immovable foundations of
our whole American system of civil, political
and religious liberty achieved through the
orderly process of law. This was the work
allotted him to do; this Is the work he
Aid; and only a master spirit among men
could have done it.
We have traveled far since his day. That
liberty of conscience which he demanded for
himself we now realize must be as freely
accorded to others as It la resolutely In
sisted upon for ourselves. The splendid
qualities which he left to hU children. w
other Americans who are not of Puritan
blood also claim as our heritage. Tou. son
tii jiirltana and wa. who are descended
from races whom the Puritans would have
deemed alien we are all Americans to
gether. We all feel the same pride in the
genesis. In the 'history of our people; and
therefore this shrine of Puritanism is one
at which we all gather to pay homage, ne
matter from what country our ancestors
sprang.
We have gained some things that the
Puritan had not we of this generation, we
of the twentieth century, here In this great
Republic: but we are also in danger of los
ing certain things which the Puritan had"
and which we can by no manner of means
afford to lose. We have gained a Joy of
living which he bad not. and which It Is a
good thing for every people to have and to
develop. Let us see to it that we do not
lose what is more Important still; that we
do not lose the Puritan's Iron sense of duty,
his unbending, unflinching will to do the
right as it was given him to see the right.
It is a good thing that life should gain in
sweetness, but only provided that it does
not lose In strength. Ease and rest and
pleasure are good things, but only If they
come as the reward of work well done, of a
good fight well won, of strong effort reso
lutely made and crowned by high achieve
ment. The life of mere pleasure, of mere
effortless ease, is as Ignoble for a nation
as for an individual.
Chance to Work Greatest Blessing.
- The man Is but a poor father who teaches
his sons that ease and pleasure should be
their chief objects in life; the woman who
Is a mere petted toy, incapable of serlou
purpose, shrinking from effort and duty, is
more pitiable than the veriest overworked
drudge. So he is but a poor leader of the
people,, but a poor national adviser, who
seeks to make the nation In any way sub
ordinate effort to ease, who would teach the
people not to prize as the greatest blessing
the chance to do any work, no matter how
hard, if it becomes their duty to do it.
To th sons of the Puritans It Is almost
dles to say that the lesion above all
others which Puritanism, can teach this Na
tion is the all-importance of the resolute
performance of duty. If we are men we
will pass by with contemptuous disdain
alike the advisers who would seek to lead
us into the paths of ignoble ease and those
who would teach us to admire successful
wrongdoing.
Our ideals should be high, and yet they
should be capable of achievement In prac
tical fashion; and we are as little to be
excused if we permit our ideals to be tainted
with what Is sordid and mean and base as
if we allow our ;iower of achievement to
atrophy and become either Incapable of ef
fort or capable only of such fantastic effort
as to accomplish nothing of permanent
good. . The true doctrines) to preach to this
Nation, as to the individuals composing
this Nation, is not the life of ease, but the
life Of effort. If it Mere in my power to
promise the people of this land anything,
I would not promise them pleasure. I
would promise them that stern happines
which comes from the . sense of havlngr
done in practical fashion a difficult work
which was worth doing.
Puritan Had Good Common Kcnse.
The Puritan owed his extraordinary suc
cess in r-bduing this continent and making
tt the foundation for a social life of or
dered liberty primarily to the fact that he
combined in a very remarkable degree both
the power of individual Initiative, of indi
vidual Sflf-help. and the power of acting
tn combination with his fellows; and that,
furthermore, he joined to a high "heart
that shrewd common sense which saves a
man from the besetting sine of the vlslon
aTy and the doctrinaire. He was stout
hearted and hard-headed. He had lofty
purposes, but he ha'd practical good sense,
too. He could hold his own in the rougn
workaday world without clamorous Insist
ence upon being helped by others, and yet
he could combine with others whenever It
became necessary to do a job wlrtch could
not be ae well done by any one man Indi
vidually. These were the qualities which enable
him to do his work and they are the very
qualities which we must show In doing our
work tpday. There is no use in our com
ing here to pay homage to the men who
founded thi Nation unless we first of all
come in the spirit of trying to do our work
today as they did their work in the yes
terdays that have vanished. The problem
shift from generation to generation but the
spirit in which they must be approached, if
they are to be successfully solved, remains
ever the same. The Puritan tamed the
wilderness, and built up a free government
on the stump-dotted clearings amid the
primeva,! forest. His descendants must try
to shape the life of our. complex industrial
civilization by new devices, by new meth
ods, bo as to achieve In the end ;the same
results of justice and fair dealing toward
all. He cast aside nothing old merely for
the sake of innovation, yet he did not hesi
tate to adopt anything new that would
serve his purpose. When he planted his
commonwealths on this rugged coast he
faced wholly new conditions and he haa
to devise new methods of meeting them.
So we of today face wholly new conditions
In our socjal and industrial life.
Must Not Shrink From Duty.
We should certainly not adopt any new
scheme for grappling with them merely be
cause: tt is new and untried; but we can
not afford to shrink from grappling with
them because they can only be. grappled
with by some new scheme.
The Puritan was no Laodicean, no laissez
faire theoriet. When be saw conduct which
was In violation of his rights of the right
of man, the rights of God. aa he under
stood them he -attempted to regulate euch
conduct with Instant, unquestioning prompt
ness and effectiveness. If there was no
other, way to secure conformity with the
rule of right, then he smote down the
transgressor with the Iron of his wrath.
The spirit of the Puritan . was a spirit
which never shrank from regulation of con
duct If such regulation was yecessarv for
the public weal; and this Is the spirit which
we must show today whenever it is neces
sary. The utterly changed conditions of our
National life necessitate changes in cer
tain ' of four laws, of our governmental
methods. Our federal system of govern
ment is based upon the theory of leaving
to each community, to each state, the con
trol over those things which affect only
FLING AT UNDESIRABLE CIT
IZENS. , There ts, unfortunately, a certain
number of our fellow-countrymen
who seem to accept the view that
unless a man can be proved guilty
of some particular crime he shall be
counted a good cl tizen, no matter
how Infamous the life he has led, no
matter how pernicious his doctrines or
his practices. This is the view an
nounced from time to time with
clamorous insistence, now by a group
of. predatory capitalists, now by a
group of sinister anarchistic leaders
and agitators, whenever a special
champion of either class, no matter
how evil his general life, is acquit
ted of some one specific crime. Such
a viw Is wicked whether applied to
capitalist or labor leader, to rich
man or poor man, and all that I've
said as- to desirable and undesirable
citizens remains true.
its own members and which the people of
"the locality themselves can best grapple
wun, wnne providing ror National regula
tion In those matters which necessarily ar
fect the Nation as a whole. It seems to
me that such questions as National sov
ereignty and state's rights need to be
treated not empirically or academically, but
from the standpoint of the interests of the
people as a. whole. National sovereignty
is to be upheld in so far as it means the
sovereignty of the people used for the real
and ultimate good of the people; and
state's rights are to be upheld in so far as
they mean the people's rights. Especially
Is this true In dealing with the relations of
the people as a whole to the great cor
porations which are the distinguishing fea
ture of modern business conditions.
Conditions Demand New Methods.
Experience has shown that It is neces
sary to exercise a far more efficient con
trol than at present over the business uee
of those vast fortunes, chiefly corporate,
which are used (.as under modern condi
tions they almost invariably are) tn inter
state business. When the Constitution was
created none of the conditions of modern
business existed. They are wholly new and
we muet create new agencies to deal ef
fectively with them. There is no objec
tion tn the minds of this people to any
man'e earning any amount or money if he
Concluded oa Page 0-i.
MOB SHOOTS UP
POSTAL OFFICE
Narrow Escape for Men
at the Keys.
RIOT IN AN ARIZONA TOWN
Sheriff and Deputies Arrive to
Guard Operators.
EX-CONVICT PUT IN JAIL
Tronble-Maker Not Believed to Be
Connected With Strike Tele
graph Room Almost Demol
ished With Rain of Bullets.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. W.-An armed
mob attacked the - .ce of the Postal
Telegraph Company at Ash Fork, Ariz.,
at an early flour this morning, and al
most demolished it with a rain of bullets.
The lives of the four er.ployes were
greatly endangered, but so far as known
no one was Injured.
It Is anticipated that the attack may
be renewed tonight, and Governor KIboey
and the Federal Government have been
appealed to for protection. The latest dis
patch trm Ash Fork today stated that
arrangements were being made by the
manager of the office at Ash Fork to
run a special engine to Prescott, the
county seat of Yavapai County, and bring
the Sheriff and a number of Deputies to
quell the riot. '
Bullets Riddle Building.
Nearly every pane of glass in the Pos
tal building was riddied with bullets. The
shooting began about 1 o'clock this morn
ing. The Postal employes made no re
sistance, although one of them trained
a rifle on a number of the mob, but re
frained from shooting. An official re
port of the shooting has been i..ade by
Mr. Swain, one of the electrical engi
neers of the company at Ash Fork, and
forwarded here.
Superintendent Lewis wired as follows:
To Governor Klbbey Last night armed
mob attacked our office at Ash Fork, shoot
ing into the office with revolvers and en
dangering the lives of our employes. They
threatened to renew the attack tonight. I
call upon you to protect the lives of our em
ployes and property of the company at Ash
Fork. Please act promptly.
Federal Protection Asked.
General Manager Nally wires from
New Tork that he has taken the mat
ter up with the Federal authorities
at Washington. A reply from Gov
ernor Klbbey says that he will act
Immediately.
Ash Fork is a small town In Ari
zona on the Santa Fe and the chief
repeating station of the Postal be
tween Los Angeles and the East. Five
men are regularly employed there, but
three of them walked out on the re
-(
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cent order of President Small. One
man has since been sent there from
San Francisco to join the two operat
ors who remained with the company.
Arrest an Ex-Convict.
At the local office of ' the Postal
Company this evening, it was stated
that Sheriff Lowery, accompanied by
two deputies, had arrived on a special
train from Prescott and that soon after
they arrived an arrest -was made. The
man taken into custody is known as
Speck-' Smooth, and it is stated that
he has been identified by one of the
operators as one of the men who par
ticipated in the "shooting up" of the
office. The Sheriff, it is said, has
identified Smooth as an ex-convict.
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President Roosevelt, Who Promises
No Iet-Vp in Fight Against Corpo
ration Law-Breakers.
He is not believed to have had any
connection with the strike.
According to latest advices from Ash
Fork, the Postal office Is guarded by
four Deputy Sheriffs.
CHICAGO WORKING ALL WIRES
Associated Press Operators Return
to Keys In California.
CHICAGO, Aug. 20. The Associated
Press service has made gradual Improve
ment during the past week, in spite of the
strike of its operators. In the Eastern
and central divisions 170 of the old men
are at their keys and less than 60 men are
out. Five of the best men have returned
to the Chicago office and practically every
wire in the Chicago office is manned day
and night. At Indianapolis two of the
best men returned to work yesterday and
they are dropping in gradually throughout
the central division.
The net result yesterday was the return
of four reu'ar men to work, one man re
jected and two applications. Three reg
ular positions outside of Chicago have
been filled by outside men.
In California regular operators are at
work in San Francisco, Bakersfteld, Los
Angeles. Fresno and San Diego, and the
leased wire service is going to papers in
those cities. Other papers are receiving
a news service over the line of the Pa
cific States Telephone Company and the
Western Union and Postal Telegraph
Companies. One operator is at work in
the Portland office.
Operator Not Molested.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 0. Western
Union officials report thai they have
a nonunion operator at work in Pres
cott, Ariz., and that the union miners
in that town have not offered to mo
lest him, despite the reports of threat
ened violence should the company open
their office with nonunion men.
HE WON'T BE HAPPY TILL, HE GETS IT"
Tn
BEGINS
REFORM
WORK
Starts in First on the
Police Board.
FOUR MEMBERS ARE REMOVED
Ousted From Office for Refus
al to Depose Dinan.
DECLINE TO OBEY MAYOR
Discharged Commissioners Declare
They "Will Recognize Xo Author
ity but Courts Threaten to
Employ Force to Hold On.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20. The first
act for the carrying out of his promise
to clean ' up the sub-departments- of
the municipal government was per
formed today by Mayor Taylor, when
he sent to Police Commissioners W. R.
Hagerty, A. M. AVallen, P. F. Finn and
Harry J. Moore a notification of their
removal from office.
A separate notification was ad
dressed to each, and the four docu
ments typewritten and of consider
able length were delivered at a ses
sion of the Board at the City Hail.
They were allowed to He on the sec
retary's desk until the three commis
sloners in attendance at the meeting,
Finn, Wallen and Moore, i had trans
acted a mass of routine business. The
absence of Commissioner Hagerty was
remarked, and the story went the
rounds of the crowd that he was "in
hiding to avoid notice of removal."
At 3 o'clock the Board went into
conference in an anteroom behind
cloed doors, where Commissioner
Hagerty -was awaiting them.
At 4 o'clock, Finn, Wallen and Moore
returned to tho Board room, and an
nounced to the newspaper men that
they had received notification of re
moval from Mayor Taylor, but would
pay no attention to it.
Refuse to Obey Taylor.
Commissioner Finn, speaking for
himself and his associates, said:
"The Mayor assumes to remove us
for cause, alleging, among other things,
that we are not fit to serve because we
have refused to oust Chief of Police
Dinan. We will pay no attention to
Dr. Taylor's communication. We will
continue to be the Board of Police
Commissioners until the courts put us
out if they ever do. That Is the only
removing authority we will recognize."
"What will you do if the Mayor's
new Board comes here and attempts
to take possession of the records and
supplant you?" '. le was asked.
"Leave that to us." he answered.
It was learned that the comnils-
sioners, supported by Dinan, have de
cided to "use force if necessary" to
prevent their appointed successors
from assuming office, and that if an
attempt is made to sleze the Board's
records, Dinan purposes to call in his
bluecoats and eject "all trespassers."
Mayor Taylor in his notification
gives as the reason for the removal of
the Commissioners that they have re
tained 1A office Chief of Police Dinan,
"who has been and is notoriously un
fit for said office, has shown himself
lacking in character and efficiency,
who is now and has been since he as
sumed office an associate of persons
of low morals, and is utterly lacking
either In disposition or energy neces
sary to deal with the criminal classes."
GET ALONG WITHOUT ZIMMER
Heney Introduces Damaging Testi
mony Against Louis Glass.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20. The break
ing of Francis J. Heney's automobile this
morning delayed for nearly half an hour
the resumption of the trial of Louis Glass
for bribery. The Assistant District At
torney and Rudolph Spreckels completed
on foot their journey to the court while
Judge Lawlor and the Jury waited.
John Krause, who was T. V. H-alsey's as
sistant in the alleged bribing of Supervis
ors In behalf of the Pacific States Tele
phone & Telegraph Company, was called.
He toki of approaching Supervisor Thom
as F. Lont-i'gan, showing him the com
pany's plants, lunching him and suggest
ing to him the Inadvisability" of having
a rival telephone system in this city.
Krause told of the visits of Supervisors
to an unfurnished suite of rooms in the
Mills building temporarily rented by Hal
sey for tile purpose, as alleged by the
prosecution, of paying over bribe money.
Krause acted as doorkeeper and admit
ted the Supervisors one at a time to an
inner room, where Halsey was.
With the announced intent of showing
that Glass, acting as president of the Pa
cific States Company, during the absence
from this city of John I. Sabin. in 1905.
authorized the expenditure by Halsey of
moneys in Oakland to defeat the Home
Telephone Company application for a
franchise there, and that the expenses of
the investigation trip of the Oakland City
Council to Los Angeles In that year were
defrayed half and half by the .two tele
phone companies.
Mr. Heney asked Krause a number of
questions, adducing his -opposition activ
ity in Oakland, but sustained objections
by Delmas stopped this line of question
ing, and Krause was temporarily excused.
He will be recalled when the prosecution
has obtained and Introduced as evidence
a certified copy of the Oakland ordinance
granting the Home Telephone Company
a franchise.
The prosecution called Secretary-Treasurer
F. W. Eaton, of the Pacific Tele
phone Company. He read to the jury the
incorporation articles of that company.
The last half of the morning session
was consumed by Mr. Eaton in reading
to the jury the minutes of stockhold
ers and directors meeting in Portland.
Or., at which Louis Glass was success
sively and annually elected to the pf
fipes of vice-president, general man
ager, director and executive commit
teeman of the board of directors of the
telephone corporation; also the recfrd
of a resolution employing him as gen
eral managerto sign disbursement
checks-Tor-San Francisco expendl tures.
The introduction of this mass of docu
mentary evidence was to take the place.
In a measure, of the testimony desired of
Emil J. Zimmer, and which he has re
fused to give, namely, that the telephone
checks on which the alleged bribe monies
were obtained were signed by Glass.
Prosecution will also introduce a clr.
cuiar letter sent by the company to San
Francisco banks after the death of Presl-
oent sabin, directing them to recognize
the signature of Glass on company
cnecKS.
ZIMMER ENTERS OBJECTION
Attorney for Convicted Contuma
cious AVitness Delays Sentence.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20. Argument
against the passing of sentence on Emil
J, Zimmer, vice-president of the Pa
cific States Telephone Company, con
victed of contempt of Judge Lawlor's
Court by a Jury in the Police Court, was
heard this afternoon by Police Judge Wel
ter. Attorney Fairall, in behalf of Zimmer,
claimed that the verdict could not stand,
as It was not recorded before the Jury
was discharged, and that the Jury based
its verdict on only one plea, that of
guilty, falling to find on the Interposed
pleas of "once in Jeopardy" and "previous
punishment for the same offense." He
cited many authorities In behalf . of his
contention.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 89
dpsrees; minimum, 53 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; northwest winds."
Telegraphers Strike.
Armed mob riddles postofflce at Ash Fork.
Ariz. Paga 1.
Reports from Central West and California
Indicate complete resumption of wire
service. Page 1.
Strike to end plug-pulling by railroad tele
graphers. Page 10.
Foreign.
"World powers have to save day at The
Hague by agreeing to policy of arbitra
tion. Page 3.
Moors making movement to capture Balsull.
Page 3.
National.
Roosevelt scores rich lawbreakers in speech
at Provlncetown. Page 1.
Koraker makes
Page 2.
reply to Tart's speech.
Domestic
Wisconsin Republicans are making desperate
errorts to harmonise party In support of
La Follette. Page 8.
Standard Oil issues pamphlet to its friends.
Page 3.
Lawyers discuss Mrs. Eddy's ease. Page 3.
Pacific Coast.
Mayor Taylor begins reform work In San
Francisco. Page 1.
Land Commissioner Ballinger to institute
more reforms in Land Office. Page 8.
Seattle postofflce must be reorganized.
Page 4.
No state funds for Monmouth and Drain.
Page 1.
Sports.
McCredte signs two new baseball players.
Page T.
Commercial and Marine.
Good demand for stocks at New York.
Page 15:
No decline in log prices on Grays Harbor.
Paga, 15.
Portland and Vicinity.
Portland Gas Company wants perpetual
grant at St. Johns. Page 10.
Butter takes another jump towards the dollar
mark. Page 14.
Detective Hellyer is forced to surrender $131
reward, f age 11.
Hoodlums raid "Tongues of Fire" cams-
meeting. fage 10.
Dealers declare city is threatened with fuel
lamina. Page 4.
L
MUST GO ALONE
Board Abandons Drain
and Monmouth.
TEACHERS ARE DISCHARGED
Monmouth, Though, Will Open,
Says the President.
FATE OF DRAIN IN DOUBT
Not Known What School's Friends
Will Do Action Is Result of Res
olution Introduced by W. B.
Ayer Opinion of Lawyers.
SALEM, Or., Aug. 20. (Special.) The
board "of regents of Oregon State Normal
schools today rescinded it3 action of July
IS, ordering that the Monmouth and
Drain Normals be operated this year and
Instead a resolution was adopted declaring
that the schools shall not be operated un
less donations are received and that "no
donations shall be received without the
express understanding and agreement
that no claim will be made for repayment
by the state or Legislature."
The faculty already elected at Monmouth
was discharged and the executive com
mittee authorized to elect a new faculty
when funds are available. No faculty
has been elected by Drain Normal. Ex
President Ressler. of Monmouth, says
that his institution will meet the condi
tions imposed and that the school will' run
next year. Ex-President Briggs, of Drain,
could not say what the friends of that
institution will do.
Resolution Adopted Unanimously,
The resolution that expressed the new
policy of the board was introduced by
W. B. Ayer, and was adopted by unani
mous vote; not, however, until after an
extended discussion was held, during
which Colonel E. Hofer offered an amend
ment, which proposed the acceptance of
donations without condition as to claim
for repayment. Mr. Ayer's resolution was
drawn in accordance with his view of the
powers of the board under the law
creating it and it, Is supported by an
opinion he has obtained from George H.
Williams Dolph, Mallory, Simon and
Gearin.
He took the position that if the board
of regents should accept donations that;
have been made with an announcement
that claim for repayment will be made,
there would be a moral obligation upon
the part of the state to repay the money.
Thus the board would in effect be creat
ing a debt, which it is forbidden to do.
Schools Must Go Alone.
So far as the board of regents has now
anything to do "with the matter, the Drain
and Monmouth schools will not run next
year, and It la up to the friends of the
schools to take action. If they do not
run as normal schools the board will be
willing to lease the buildings for local
school purposes.
Monmouth Normal has an income of
$4500 from the local school district. 14000
from tuition and President Ressler says
that $G000 can be raised by donations. This,
he Bays, will be sufficient, as the teachers!
have agreed to serve for $750 a year each, j
The board today adopted the following
resolution offered by Colonel E. Hofer
and Intended to encourage the preparation
of students for work as teachers:
Whereae, The State University maintains
a department of education, giving courses- in
the philosophy of education and higher peda
gogy; and
Whereas, The State Agricultural College la
gdvinT a training course in agriculture at its
Summer school; therefore, be It
Resolved, By the State Board of Normal
School Regents, that we recognize the State Uni
versity and the State Agricultural College as
Important adjuncts to the normal schools in
the training and preparation of teachers, es
pecially those required In the high schools of
the state, and in order to secure har
monious co-operation in the development of
the educational system of the state, and to
that end we recommend that the committee on
courses of study hold a conference with the
heads of those institutions.
The opinion of the attorneys upon
which Mr. Ayer based his resolution
is In part as follows:
Opinion of the Attorneys.
PORTLAND, Or.. Aug. 13. W. B. Ayer,
Esq., Portland. Oregon Dear Sir: The facts,
as we understand them, concerning which '
you desire our opinion, are as follows:
A bill was passed at the recent session of
the Oregon Legislature undertaking to make
appropriations for the support and main
tenance of the normal schools at Drain
and Mcnmouth during the next two years.
These appropriations were, however, vetoed
by the Governor, and hence are not avail
able. It Is now proposed to supply the lack
of the necessary funds thus occasioned to
operate these institutions until the next
session of the Legislature by means of a
"donation fund," to be raised from among
the friends of these schools. Subscriptions
to this fund are, as we understand, being
made, or are to be mftde upon the express
condition and understanding that an appli
cation will be made to the next Legislature
for a repayment to such subscribers of these
so-called "donations."
It Is our opinion that the board of re
gents of normal schools cannot accept and
use the moneys so raised for the contem
plated purpose.
At the last session of the Legislature an
act was passed vesting the control of the
normal schools In a body styled "the board
of regents of normal schools." I.aws of
Oregon of 1907, chapter 1n. page 348.) Sec
tion - of saia act provides, among other
things, as follows:
"The board of regents shall not sell, mort
gage, or dispose of In any way. the real
estate, . nor borrow money without the ex
press authority of the Legislature; nor
shall they contract Indebtedness nor Incur
"
NORMA
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