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PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1907.
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STEAMER TELLUS I
IS A TOTAL LOSS
Breaks 'In Two After
Going Ashore.
GREW IS REMOVED SAFELY
Ship Is Rapidly Pounding to
Pieces on the Sand.
4000 TONS OF COAL LOST
Bound lYora Nanaimo for Portland
She Hits - Mysteriously Heavy
Swell and Weight of Cargo
Break Her Is Insured.
HOQUIAM. Wat., Sept. 22. (Spe
cial.) The Norwegian steamer Tellus.
coal-laden from Nanaimo for Portland,
which went ashore on the North Spit,
at the entrance to Grays Harbor yes
terday forenoon, broke In two at 7
O'clock, this morning and with her
cargo will be a total Iobs. The steamer
Is now fast going to pieces. The
stranded vessel rested easily up to
midnight, when in a heavy swell, she
besran pounding terrlflVly. Shortly af
terwards she began leaking, her pumps
broke and the engines shifted over a
foot.
At o'clock this morning water was
pouring Into the engine-room and
seven feet of water was in the hold.
At seven o'clock with a report like a
cannon the steel steamer broke in two
at number two hatch.
Crew Is Rescued.
Three mates, three engineers and the
steward, who remained on the wreck,
were taken off by the tug Cudahy,
which stood by during the night. Cap
tain Berg, with a force of 30 long
shoremen, arrived at the wreck about
nine o'clock this morning, but seeing
there was no hope of saving the vessel
er any part of her'-cargo." Teturned to
Hoquiam with his crew.
The tug Traveler, with Second Mate
Nelson, of the Tellus. is standing by
the wreck. Captain Berg believes the
Tellus will go to pieces entirely with
in a few days. The Tellus carried
nearly 4000 tons of coal, valued at
$20,000, for the Independent Coal and
Ice Company, of Portland.
Steamer and Cargo Insured.
The cargo and the ship were both
Insured. The crew will be paid off and
sent to their home tomorrow. Captain
Berg will employ a legal representa
tive tomorrow to look after the in
surance. She is breaking up rapidly
and apparently will not last long.
The Tellus Is a vessel of 1S12 tons
net 'register, owned by Wiliielm Dil
llamson, and has been running as a
collier between Nanaimo and San Fran
cisco. Prior to that time she made
several trips to Nome from British Co
lumbia. Captain Berg Is familiar wfth
the coast and how he came to get on
the beach Is a matter, which puzzles
local shipping men.
Report has it that a drifting buoy
confused the officers of the ship and
she hit before tuey were aware that they
were In clanger. All n.ds to navigation
which have gone adrift, however, have
been accounted for and duly announced
In the reports of the Hydrographic of
fice. The Tellus carried a crew of 23 men,
all of whom were saved.
STATEMENT OF CAPTAIN BERG
Thinks Boat In Safety Till She
Strike!) Buoy Said to Be Adrift.
HOQUIAM, Wash., Sept. 22. (Spe
cial.) Captain Berg, who came to Ho
quiam last night, gave the following
statement of the wreck:
"The weather was clear and fine, and
the sea as calm as a mill-pond. For
this reason we skirted the coast. The
mate was on the bridge and I went up
about 11:30 to find what we were mak
ing. "We were Just abreast of Grays
Harbor, and the mate said, pointing
over the port how: 'There's the whist
ling buoy. He had hardly said the
words when we struck."
Captain Berg Is bitterly denunciative
when speaking of the wreck. It Is
said by local mariners that the mid
channel buoy off the entrance to the
harbor has been adrift for months, and
that the Government officials have been
notified but have failed to replace it.
With the position of the derelict buoy
It was very easy to mistake this for
the whistling buoy, which would mark
a safe course for a passing vessel. Had
Uiere been the slightest blow"or rough
weather the breakers would have
shown and warned Captain Berg, but as
It was he had every reason to believe
that he was In safety.
JAIL BREAK IN CHICAGO
Two Men Make Spectacular Getaway
In Broad Daylight. "
CHICAGO, Sept. 22 After having locked
a Jail guardand a "tru.ty" in a cell, two
prisoners climbed through a window of
the County Jail here this afternoon and
made their escape In plain view of a num
ber of persona who were passing In the
street. A third prisoner, after having
started to descend from the window,
climbed bck when the alarm was
given. Within a few minutes the police
were on the trail of the jailbreakers.but
their capture has not been reported up to
a late hour tonight.
The escape was accomplished by a
clever ruse. Choosing a moment when all
of the prisoners on that tier of cells were
In the exercise-room, one of the prisoners
asked Guard Michael Bloomberg, to un
lock his cell so he might get a pack of
playing cards. John Scott, the "trusty,"
was about to hand Bloomberg a note
when both he and the guard were seized,
the keys secured, and the two were forced
into the cell and locked In. Producing
saws, which are supposed to have been
smuggled to them by some accomplice,
they sawed two Iron bars from the win
dows and descended from the window by
clinging to the bars In the windows below
and dropping into the street. Meanwhile
the other prisoners sang and shouted to
prevent the guard from giving the alarm.
The guard, however, was warned by
the trusty to make no outcry, on penalty
of death and he remained in the cell for
an hour. The men who escaped were Wil-
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Serrao E. Payne, of New York. Who
Will Oppose an Appropriation for
Seattle Exposition.
Ham Rogers. 25 years old, charged with
larceny, and Stanley Weslock, 26 years
old, held for burglary.
SMALL FOR ARBITRATION
TELLS OPERATORS ROOSEVELl
CAN END STRIKE.
Predicts That All Strikers Will Be
' .'. at Work Within Ten Bays,
Willi Victory Theirs.
CHICAGO. 111-. Sept. 22. (Special.) "I
have positive Inside Information that the
companies are ready to arbitrate, and I
predict to you now that you will all be
at work within ten days, and that victory
will be yours."
This was the information given out by
President S. . J. Small, of the striking
commercial telegraphers, at the best-attended
meeting held since the strike wag
declared. There were loud cries of "No
arbitration" when President Small began
speaking, but these grew weaker as he
said:
"I think I have heard that crv before,
but I want to say something on the, other
side. If President Roosevelt should ask
the companies to arbitrate, and they con
sented, what position would it place you
In If you refused?"
"I don't know . that you will get a
chance to arbitrate." he said as the cries
continued. "If Ooloi.el Clowry has his
way about it you won't be given the
chance. "We hava had some bitter experi
ence with arbitration, but if ft comes this
time with the stamp of the United States
Government on it I believe wc can afford
to accept it."
Although he did not say so. President
Small gave the inference that President
Roosevelt was in a fair way to end the
strike. He said it had already cost the
companies $12,000,000. ...
Chairman Wesley Russell said the cot
ton growers of the South are clamoring
for better telegraph facilities, and 'hat
many Southern associations had appealed
to President Roosevelt. The situation, he
said, looked decidedly hopeful.
M.' J. Reldy. of Boston, and S.' K. Kon
enkamp, of Pittsburg, - members of the
National Executive Board, said the strike
would be over In two weeks. '
LEASED WIRE MEN TO REMAIN
Resolution Calling Them Out Is
Again Tabled.
NEW YORK, Sept. 22. A determined
effort to pass a resolution calling out
on strike regardless of their contracts,
all newspaper wire and broker office
operators was made at a meeting of
the local Telegraphers' Union today.
After a long debate, the resolution,
which has before been Introduced at
meetings of the strikers, was again
tabled, but it was said later with the
understanding that it would be taken
up at a meeting next Wednesday.
At today's meeting some of the
speakers declared that the calling out
of the 200 leased wire men was neces
sary to bring the telegraph companies
to terms.
MOORISH CAMPS . BURNED
General Drude Makes a Brilliant
Forced March on Tribesmen.
CASA BLANCA, Sept 22. Negotia
tions for the cessation of hostilities
having failed. General Drude today re
sumed the offensive, and burned the
Moorish camps at Sidl Brahim, south
of Casa Blanca, and dispersed the
tribesmen, who offered but little re
slstance. These operations were
chiefly notable for a, brilliant forced
march of the French troops, who cov
ered forty kilometres Inside of twelve
hours.
Mnlai Hafig Seeking Ally.
TANGIER, Sept. 22. 4,atest advices
from Morocco City state that Mulai
Hafig is marching towards Rabat with
the object of trying to Induce the;Cha
cuis tribesmen to join him In An at
tack on Sultan Ab del Aziz at Rabat.
PLANS TRIP DOWN
FATHER 0F1TERS
President's Tour to
Be Spectacular.
THREE WEEKS IN THE WEST
Will Make Speeches, Greet
Populace, Hunt Wild Game.
INTEREST IN WATERWAYS
Executive to Attend Memphis Con
vention Keokuk Arranging an
Elaborate Reception for the
Nation's First Citizen.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. While the
preparations for President Roosevelt's
Western trip have not been completed,
the programme has been sufficiently ar
ranged to make it certain that the tour
will be one of the most spectacular ever
undertaken by him. He will leave here a
week from today and will be absent from
the seat of government until the 23d or
24th of October. The trip has three dis
tinctive objects: The dedication of the
McKinley Mausoleum, at Canton, O.,
the inspection of the Mississippi
River with a view of arousing interest in
the ship channel from its mouth to Keo
kuk, la., and the Great Lakes, and the
securing of a period of recreation for the
chief executive before the beginning of
the duties of the Winter.
Incidentally there will be some speeches
on the return Journey which will deal
with current issues. The stay at Canton
on Monday, the 30th, will be of only little
more than sufficient duration to permit
the President to pay his tribute to the
memory of his immediate predecessor,
but he there will meet Vice-President
Fairbanks arid, other people' of note and
will make a long speech.
, Keokuk Plans Reception. .
He will then nroceed direct to Keokuk,
where on Tuesday, October 1, he will be
given a notable public reception, deliver,
an address and begin his Journey by boat
down the Father of Waters, said to be.
with the exception of a short voyage by
President Pierce, the first trip on the
river ever made by a President.
At Keokuk the Presidential party will
be met by the Governors of 23 states, all
Interested in all projects looking to the
deepening of the channel of the Missis
sippi and the general improvement of in
land navigation, and these, on another
boat than that on which the President
will travel, will constitute his guard of
honor to Memphis, where the party will
arrive on October 4. There will be two
important stops on the voyage, at St.
Louis on the 2d of October, and at Cairo,
111., on the 3d, and at both pojnW
speeches bearing upon the country1 will
be delivered by the President. ,.r
Reports at all points at which stops are
to be made Indicate that the party will be
entertained on a lavish, scale throughout.
At Keokuk there will be a water pageant
and many citizens will convoy the Presi
dent down the river in crafts of all sizes
for 20 or 30 miles, and a number of them
will Accompany him all the way to Mem
phis. At Memphis the President will find
the Deep Waterways Convention In ses
sion, and he will deliver a speech.
Will Hunt Big Game In Louisiana.
The President will turn his back on
civilization for a period of rest and sport
In the wilds in the northern part of
Louisiana, This part of the programme
has been arranged largely by Civil Serv
ice Commissioner Mcllhenny, a Louisiana
sportsman of good record, and who has
hunted many times over the ground and
has recommended the place in terms of
praise aa being well stocked with game,
both large and small, and sufficiently se
cluded to prevent Intrusion.
The President will be accompanied to
the border of this game section by a staff
from the executive office here, by As
sistant Secretary Latta, and also by rep-
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NORHTGIAJf TRAMT STEAMER WHICH WENT ASHORE AT THE. EXTRAS CE
AND WHICH BROKE IN THE MIDDLE TESTERDAT, BEING
E VENTS OF COMING WEEK.
Public Interest In the United State
Government's actions against al
leged oftRnders win be divided this
week between the hearing of the
Standard Oil Company In New York,
the decision of Attorney-General
' Bonapart and Judge Landis at Chi
cago whether to prosecuta the Chi
cago Alton Railroad for rchaiinn.
and the trial of United States- Sen
ator 'William K. Borah, which will
open at Boise, Idaho. Monday, on
charge of consplrlnr to defraud the
Gorcnent bv securing Illegal entry
of timber lands.
President Roosevelt will return to
Washington this week. ' Secretary
Root wilt start on hi" trip to Mex
ico. The American Bankers' Asso
ciation will convene at Atlantic City, -and
Robert Kulton day will be cele
brated at the Jamestown Exposition.
The hearing of the Government's
action to dissolve the Standard Oil
Company of . New Jersey Is . to be
resumed before a special examiner
In New Tork on Monday.
resentatives of the press associations, but
they will not accompany the hunters on
their quest. A miniature White House
will be established at a convenient place
and Mr. Latta will keep his chief In
formed of important developments In af
fairs of state. The exact location of the
hunting-camp will not be announced untH
It Is established. The camp will be
shared by Mr. Mcllhenny, by Dr. Rlxey,
and a few other Intimates-friends, and
they will have the services of local
guides. Thearty will be in camp from
the 5th to the 21st of October.
Returning, the President , will speak at
Vicksburg and at Hermitage, near Nash
ville. At the latter place he will pay his
respects to the memory of President
Jackson.
HONOR MEMORY OF M'KINLEY
Imposing Ceremonies Next Week at
Dedication of Memorial.
CANTON, Ohio, Sept. 22. Thousands of
persons from many parts of the country
will gather In Canton a week from to
morrow to again honor the memory of
the late President McKinley. . . On . that
day the splendid and imposing memorial
built by contributions from hundreds of
thousands of persons In this and other
countries and erected under- the direction
of the McKinley Memorial. Association,
will be dedicated. The President of the
United States will be the principal
speaker of the occasion, and other dis
tinguished men will make addresses.
Among the noted men who will be here
are Secretary of Agriculture James Wil
son. Secretary Garfleld, Admiral Rixey,
Senators Burrows and Smith, .of Michi-
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CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
... The Weather.
TESTER DAY'S Maximum temperature, 82
degrees; minimum temperature. - 53 de
crees. -
TODAY'S Fair; northerly winds.
' . Forelrn.
French troops make sally from Casa Blanca,
Page 1.
Indians make1 attack on Mexican troops.
Page 4.
National.
President plans extensive trip to West and
Southwest. Page 1.
President Small predicts strike of teleg
raphers will be over in ten days. Page 1.
Seiator Borah will be placed on trial at
'Boise today. Page 1.
Bryan and Beveredge asked to do some
thing practical toward settling capital
and labor disputes. Page 2.
- Political.
Movement to boom Governor Johnson for
Democratic nomination for President.
Page S. (
Nicholas Longworth saya he would refuse
to run for Mayor of Cincinnati. Page 3.
Labor unionists may block non-partisan
ticket in San Francisco. Page 2.
Taclflc Coast.
Norwegian steamer Tellus Is a total loss at
mouth of Grays Harbor. Page 1.
Alaska miners form alliance with Western
Federation to continue strike. Page3.
Frenchman murdered by bartender- In self
defense, near Wallace. Idaho. Page 8.
Heney says land-fraud prosecutions will be
mm finished by November 36. Page 1.
Portland and Vicinity.
More inside history; of Oregon Trust &
Savings Bank comes out. Page 1.
Boy degenerates may be sent to rock pile.
Page 14.
Is life a joke? asks Dr. S. C. Lapham. Page
Page 12.
General Passenger Agent McMurray to get
Ha'rrlman- lines to route tourists this
way for Rose Show. Page 4.
Dr. Clarence .True Wilson calls Conrad trial
a traverty on Justice and urges a heavy
sentence for Essie. Watkins. Page 12.
Sport.
Los Angeles and Portland break even In
double-header matinee. Page 5.
Frakes beat Cubs two games, 2-1 and 7-2,
and take pennant. Ft. John also wins
from Cuba 3-2. Page 5.
STEAMER TELLUS
SENATOR
BORAH
ON TIL TODAY
Seeks Vindication at
Hands of Jury.
REFUSES TO EVADE CHARGE
Declares He Is Innocent of Any
Land-Fraud Taint.
DEEP INTEREST IN CASE
Prominent Idaho and Wisconsin
People Charged With Stealing
Timber Ruick's Grand Jury
Work Investigated.
BOISEJ. Idaho. Sept. 22. United States
Senator "William E3. Borah, who acted as
one of the principal prosecutors for the
state of Idaho at the recent trial of Wil
liam D. Haywood, secretary of the West
ern Federation of Miners, will be placed
on trial tomorrow morning in the United
States Circuit Court here, charged with
conspiring to defraud the Government out
of title to 17,280 acres of Idaho timber
land. Twelve other persons have been In
dicted with Senator Borah, but he will
be the first to face a Federal jury, hav
ing demanded a trial prior to the time
he shall present his credentials as a Sena
tor next December In Washington.
Others of the defendants have Inter
posed demurrers, pleas in abatement and
other legal technicalities, many. of which
are still pending, and have charged that
the United States District Attorney, Nor-
jnan M. Rulck, used improper and illegal
methods while securing the Indictments.
But Senator Borah has simply entered a
plea of not guilty, and has forbidden his
attorneys to take advantage of any tech
nicalitles whatsoever. He has stated as
Ms1 desire that the case should be tried on
its merits. . , .
Investigating Ruick's-Work.
The conduct, of the District Attorney
before the March grand Jury, which re
turned the Indictment against Borah and
others, is now under Investigation by a
specially summoned Federal grand jury,
while Judse Whltson. who Is to preside at
the Borah trial, began yesterday a per
sonal inquiry In open court as to Mr.
Ruick's course, summoning in attendance
all the witnesses cited to appear before
the grand jury. '
It has been charged In affidavits of
three former grand jurymen that Mr.
Ruick made an argument of more than
an hour's length before the grand jury
and urged that Indictments be voted. The
District Attorney has admitted that h-i
reviewed for the benefit of'' the grand jury
1he salient features of testimony which
covered a period of four weeks delibera
tion but denies that his remarks were.
in the line of an argument, it is also
charged that tha District Attorney re
fused to leave the grand Jury room ono
day until the Indictments were signed.
This charge has been denied in the coun
ter-affidavits of rlne former grand Jury
men, who say that the timber land cases
.were not being discussed when the Dis
trict Attorney was requested to depart.
Monster Land Conspiracy Alleged.
The indictments against Senator Borah
and the 12 others charges that they en
tered into a conspiracy with -108 residents
xt Boise, whereby the latter were to take
up timber land claims of 160 acres each
paying a minimum price to the Govern
ment, and later, when the claims were
finally approved, to transfer the land to
the Barber Lumber Company, an Idaho
corporation, whose principal officers are
residents of "Wisconsin. James T. Barber
and Samuel G. Moon, of Eau Claire, Wis
are 'among those Indicted. It Is alleged
that the 108 entrymen swore that they
were taking out the claims for their own
use and benefit, and not for speculation.
These statements are alleged to have
been false, and thei Government attor
neys claim the entrymen had all entered
TO ;RAYS HARBOR SATURDAY
A TOTAL LOSS.
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Into a contract to turn the lands over to
the lumber corporation as soon as their
claims were proved. It is further alleged
that Senator Borah and the other con
spirators provided funds to many of the
10S entrymen to cover the expenses of
taking out their claims.
Deep Interest in Trial.
The interest aroused by the .trial is in
tense In this section of the country.
owing to the prominence of all concerned
In the alleged conspiracy. One of the co
defendants of Senator -Rorah is Frank
Martin, Attorney-General of Idaho, under
former Governor Frank Steunenberg.
who was assassinated by Harry Orchard.
Another defendant, is "John Doe," said
to represent Governor Steunenberg him
self. Among the 106 entrymen named as a
part of the conspiracy, but not Indicted,
are many of the most prominent business
and professional men of Boise. In some
instances five members of a family, "in
cluding wives and daughters, are in
volved. The Government's interest in the trial
of Senator Borah is attested by the
Senator Borah, Who Mill Be Placed
on Trial at Boise Today.
presence here of three special prosecu
tors, to be assisted and advised by Dis
trict Attorney Rulck.
Special Prosecutors Busy.
The filing of charges against the latter
also Influenced the Department of Justice
at Washington in sending special men
here, Iwho could In nowise, politically or
personally, be interested in the prosecu
tion, except as a cause of justice. The
Government claims that the group of
men who operated in Idaho were one of
three groups who operated in the West
and whose prosecutions have aroused
such widespread interest during the last
two years.-
Whilo it is not to be denied that the
Barber Lumber Company has secured
possession of the timber lands Involved
In the present case. It will be claimed
that Senator Borah, acting as counsel for
the lumber company, had no part In the
conspiracy. If one existed, and that he
dealt only with the transfer of the claims
after their purchase had been negotiated
in a legal manner.
William Sweet, one of the 13 Indicted
men. Is said to have turned state's evi
dence, and is also reported In some quar
ters to have repudiated the confession.
The repudiation story' Is also denied.
HOPES TO FINISH SOON
EXPECTS TO END LAND-FRAUD
TRIALS IN NOVEMBER.
Heney Says He- Is Confident of
Speedy Conviction of Hall
and Hermann! ,
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. .-(Special.)
--Francis J. Heney hopes to be able to
finish the trials of all the defendants In
the graft cases in which he is to appear
as special prosecutor by the third week
In November.
"I hope." Heney said today, "that the
graft trials ' in which It is necessary for
me to appear will be concluded before the
end of the third week in November, and
at the present rate of progress I think
that we shall be able to finish them be
fore that time. The Federal Government
has been pressing me to conclude the
prosecution of the land fraud cases pend
ing against Ex-United States District At
torney Hall and Ex-Congressman Binger
Hermann in the United States District
Court of Oregon, but I have not been
able to get away from San Francisco. I
visited Portland a few weeks ao and
talked the matter ' over with United
States District Attorney Bristol. It was
agreed that he should prosecute all the
conspiracy cases which come up at the
October term of the United States Court
before Judge Hunt. I expect to be able
to Join Bristol about the third week in
November and will personally conduct
prosecutions of the trials of Hall and
Hermann. v
"There are obvious reasons for this.
Hall was indicted for complicity In the
Butte Creek cases, and it was I who
laused his removal as United States At
torney. Because of these circumstances I
feel that It Is fitting and proper for me
to conduct his prosecution. I anticipate
that speedy convictions will be secured,
for the evidence. In these cases is very
clear." .
The fact that Heney will leave here In
November for Portland to appear In the
Federal prosecutions-there will In no way
interfere with the graft trials here, which
are expected to proceed just the same.
District Attorney Langdon has already
made arrangements for the prosecution
of the -various graft cases as they come
up. and he will appear In some of them
personally as the.- principal prosecutor.
He will continue to have the assistance
of C. W. Cobb and Hiram W. Johnson as
special prosecutors so long as may be
necessary.
Everything possible will be done to ex
pedite the graft cases and bring them to
a conclubn.
It Is expected that Patrick Calhoun
will be the next defendant called for
trial In Judge Uawlor's court, following
the trial of Tirey U. Ford. The Parkslde
cases against G. H. Umbsen. W. I. Bro
beck. John H. Green, and the cases
pending against Frank G. Drum will then
be called as rapidly as possible to enable
Assistant District Attorney Francis J.
Iency to return to Oregon.
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FIGHT TO
GET FAIR MONEY
Congress Grows Tired
of Expositions.
JAMESTOWN HURTS SEATTLE
Burkett, of Nebraska, Will
Fight Any Appropriation.
PRESIDENT'S AID NEEDED
Speaker Cannon Must Be Won Over'
, in Lower House West Alone in
Support or Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
Enterprise.
ORF.GONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
"Washington. Sept. 22. The miserable
failure of the Jamestown Exposition Is
going to prove a stumbling block in the
path of the. Washington delegation.
when It undertakes to secure an ap
propriation at the next session of Con
gress to aid In the Seattlo Exposition
of 1909. It is no secret that Congress
has been growing more and more Ill
disposed towards expositions as years
have gone by, and the appropriation
for Jamestown would never have passed
had not the entire South joined hands
to force through the appropriation. Cf
course, the South had the co-operation
of states which had previously bene
fited from National appropriations for
their own expositions, and this com
bination was too strong to be over
come. But Seattle will have no such com
bination to force ilirough its bill. The
delegations from the Pacific Northwest
will unite; indeed, delegations from the
entire Rocky Mountains and Pacific
Coast region are expected to be prac
tically unanimous in favor of the Seat
tle bill, but the Far West Is not nearly
as strong In Congress, numerically, e
is the. Southland, and it is not probable
that the entire South will come to the
aid of Seattle, as It went to the sup
port of Virglna in the last Congress.
Burkett Has Knife Sharpened.
Then, too. Some of the states that
have had expositions in the past will
not stand by Washington next Winter.
Floor Leader Payne In the House will
oppose the bill, regardless of the big
appropriation made for Buffalo, and It
Is quite likely that other New Yorkers
will stand with him. This was dem
onstrated last session. There will also
be opposition from Illinois, Pennsyl
vania, and even from some of the
Southern states, aside from Virginia,
which have received Government aid
In time past.
But a very surprising development
is the announcement of Senator
Burkett, of Nebraska, that he intends -to
make a vigorous fight against the
Seattle Exposition bill. Burkett's state
got a large slice of Federal money for
Its Omaha Exposition, but that Is past
and forgotten, and now Burkett I.i
loudly clamoring for reform. "As for
expositions in general," said Senator
Burkett a few days ago. "I think we've
had enough. There Isn't any need for
one out there at Seattle, so far as I
can see. and certainly it isn't of suf
ficient National importance to warrant
the Government In making a big ap
propriation. World's fairs have been run
into the ground of late, and the people
are tired of them. Surely the James-
Wn Exposition has been object-
lesson enough. It cost the Govern
ment a great deal of money and all ac
counts indicate that it is a flat failure."
The Seattle bill wlft go through tha
Senate all right, notwithstanding
Burkett's opposition, for the Senate
passes these bills as a matter of cour
tesy, fl passed the Seattle bill last
session because Senator Piles made tha -request,
and it will do so next Winter
for the same reason, though the new
bill may not have as smooth sledding
in the Senate as did the original bill.
Must Reckon With Vncie Joe. "
In the lower branch of Congress
there is no such thing as legislation by
courtesy, save In very rare instances,
and never, where a large appropria
tion is Involved. Some man may get
a fish hatchery as a personal compli
ment, as did John Allen, of Mississippi,
the House wit, just before retiring to
private life. But no man ever got an ex
position appropriation on that basis, and,
none ever will. The House will refer
the bill to the committee on i exposi
tions; Speaker Cannon and the1 House
leaders will have a heart to heart talk;
with the chairman and leading mem
bers of that committee, and it will be
arranged just what shall be done. The
amount of the appropriation will be
cut down in case the leaders consent
to let the bill go through, and each
individual item will be shaped up to
meet the demands of Mr. Cannon and
his advisers. It Is safe to prfcdict that
the bill which has the O. K. of the
Speaker will not carry $1,000,000 or
anything like that amount, for Speaker
Cannon is one of those men who be
lieves the exposition business has been,
overdone and he stands ready to pre
vent future appropriations if he can, or
to reduce .them as far as possible It
he finds he cannot block their passage.
The probabilities are that Presi
dential co-operation will be necessary
to get through the Seattle exposition
bill. Just as Presidential co-operation,
(Concluded on Fata 3.)