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Newspaper Page TextTTTE OKKGOMAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, , 19US. WILLIAMS MIS CURRENCY BILL the policy of retrenchment favored by Republican leaders in the House. The Xavy Department today sent to the House supplemental estimates calling for an appropriation of $1,120,000 for repair and conversion of war craft as follows: To convert the cruisers Baltimore and BLACK HAND CHIEF )San Francisco into mine-laying, ships. JlOO.Ot'O; to rent the engines and boners 01 these vessels. JoOO.OGO: to equip the Brooklyn as an armored cruiser. $75,000, for repairs, alterations and changes neces sary to make the Alabama. Illinois. Kearsae, Kentucky and Iowa effectiveas battleships, $400.(10: for general repairs to the engines and boilers of the Paul ones, so as to make that craft effective as a torpedoboat destroyer, $45,000. Desperate Criminal Is Arrest ed in New York. Allows Half National Bank Re serves to Be Kept in Bonds. HAS BAD RECORD ABROAD SOLDIERS TELL GRIEVANCES INLAND '.EMPIRE VISITORS ' RESTRICTIONS ON LOANS State Banks and Trust Companies May Accept Provisions Treas ury Notes for Currency and Guaranty of Deposits. WASHINGTON". Feb. 7. What will he knuwn as 'the minority currency bill" was introduced today by Representative John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, the Democratic leader of "the House, who drew the measure as a result of a har monious conference of Democratic mem bers of the House committee on banking. The bill will come before the House in the shape of a minority report from that committee. . Among the provisions of the bill are tti e following: It repeals all laws permitting National banks to keep three-tiftlis of their re serves In National banks of reserve cities and similar laws permitting such deposit of one-half of the reserve amounts.. It provides that not less than one-half of the reserves now required to be kept in lawful money In central reserve cities shall be hereafter held in gold or gold certificates. It does away with the payment of Na tional bank examiners by the fee system and substitutes salaries not less than ftJiOOO nor in excess of $50M yearly, with actual expenses. Limits Liabilities and Loans. It provides that the total liabilities of any National bank, exclusive of the lia bilities of Its members, shall not exceed one-tenth of the bank's paid-in and un impaired capital stock and one-tenth of its unimpaired surplus funds: and that in no event shall the liabilities exceed SO per cent of the capital stock. No Na tional bank shall loan In the aggregate more than seven times the amount of its laid-up capital plus its unimpaired sur plus. May Keep Reserve in Bonds. ' Any National bank may keep 60 per cent of its reserve in United States bonds. r bonds of states or in the bonds of certain municipalities, but not more than one-fourth of the total reserve may be kept in state or municipal bonds: and the bonds shall be acceptable only of such municipalities as have maintained their bonds at or above par for six years preceding, have been in corporate ex istence 10 years, have never defaulted In their funded debt and whose net debt loes not exceed 18 per cent of tieir taxa ble property. The i'o'f roller of the Currency, imme diately after the passage of the bill, shall furnish a copy of the new law to each bank in the country and inquire If It will accept the provisions. Consent shall be binding and the liabilities attaching to consent may be enforced by the Con troller. Agreement to accept the pro. ions shall entitle state banks and trust companies to the benellts of the new law. Treasury Notes as Currency. The elastic feature of the bill is con tained in a section which provides that the Inter-convertible bonds may bo de posited "'In the nearest sub-treasury." and the depositing bank shall receive in Heu thereof United States emergency Treasury notes subject to taxation, re deemable, at any time in legal tender. For the creation of a fund of $15,000,000 for the payment of depositors of failed banks operating under the provisions of this law there Is authorized imposition of a tax of one-sixteenth of I per cent on the deposits of banks so operating and whose consent to be so taxed has been oltlnlned. The final section of the bill provides that no bank officer shall make a loan for the purpose of stock gambling. AVAK CLAIMS BILL PASSED Map L Senate Arouses Southerner to Its Defense. WASHINGTON. Feb. 7. The session or the House of Ileprosentatives to day 'was devoted almost entirely to consideration of the omnibus war claims bill, which was passed after considerable discussion. It carries a total appropriation of $313,000. A rip ple of excitement was caused by Macon of Arkansas, who. in the course of the debate, defended the Senate against what he suid were aspersions cast upon that body by Payne, New York, when he predicted that the Sen ate would load the bill down with a number of unmeritorious claims. The bill covers claims for stores and supplies furnished the Army of the United States during the Civil War, claims of volunteer officers for serv ice pay and claims by churches, col leges and other societies. During the discussion of the bill, Mann of Illinois gave notice that if the measure should come back from the Senate loaded down with all kinds of ilaims which have no place there, ho would exhaust every parliamentary means to prevent its passage. He was pssured, however, by Hasktns that he himself would fight nny Senate addi tion of surplus claims. The bill contains an Item of $417 for John K. Butler, of I-iine County, Orrgon. A joint resolution was adopted giv 'Ing each of the two Philippine Com missioners In Congress the same sal ary of $7500 enjoyed by members and Senators with an additional $2000 each in lieu of mileage. A number of private claims bills nlso were passed and the House then adjourned until Monday. CONFERS ON" COAST DEFKXSE Navy Committee Consults Bell To Vole on Battleships Monday. WASHNIGTON, Feb. 7. General Bell, chief of staff of the Army, by Invitation of Representative Hobson, of Alabama, spent three hours today with the House committee on naval affairs, discussing the needs of a larger Navy In relation to the Pacific Coast fortifications and defense. The fortification of Subig Bay. near Ma nila, and the need, of a drydock at Pearl Harbor, near Honolulu, were considered. A bill appropriating SL-OO.OOO for commence ment of the latter project has been intro duced. Next Monday the committee will vote on the Navy appropriation bill. The vote will decide whether the committee shall recommend the construction of four bat tleships, as urged by the President and Secretary of the Navy, or cut' down that estimate by one-half in line with Meusures Taken for Better Rations In the Army. NEW YORK, Feb. 7. There have been plenty of -responses, both from officers and enlisted men, to Secretary Taft's invitation for an expression of reasons of discontent and unrest in the Army. The reasons given as contrib uting to disturbing conditions are the practice inarches, compulsory exercises in the gymnasiums and inadequacy of the ration and of the cutting off of "extras" in the way of food and the character of extra work. The Depart ment has already taken steps to amel iorate some of these conditions. The ration has been increased and Congress has been asked to pass a bill to create a corps to do extra and nonmilitary work now required of sol diers. The monetary value of the increase authorized in the ration is a little more than 2 cents per ration. There will be also established a haversack ration made of bacon, hard bread, cof fee and sugar and possibly canned beef, to be used for emergencies. ROOSEVELT EXCEEDS POWER Appointment of the Acting Public Printer Not Binding. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. William S. Rossiter, appointed as Acting Public Printer in place of Public Printer Sell ings, went -to the Treasury Department today to have his bond approved. The department refused to consider the mat ter, on the ground that the President had exceeded his authority in appointing Mr. Rossiter; that under the law th As sociate Public Printer, Captain 11. T. Brain, succeeds to the vacancy. Under this Informal ruling, Mr. Rossiter later in the day stepped aside and his place was taken by Captain Brain, who will administer the Government printing office as acting Public Printer for tfie time being. Mr. Rossiter, however, does not relinquish the work of inquiry laid out for him by the President. His posi tion in the Government printing office be comes that of the President's personal representative and he is proceeding with the Investigation. Late this afternoon Captain Brian took the oath of office as acting print er and immediately entered upon the discharge of his duties. COLISEUM T0SEAT 11,000 Many Alterations on Republican National Convention Hall. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. Chairman Harry S. New, Secretary Elmer Dover and other members of the subcommit tee of the Republican National Com mittee, practically have completed the hall arrangements for the National convention, which Is to be held in Chi cago next June. The convention will assemble . in . the Coliseum the scene of many . historic gatherings which was designed and erected with Special reference to the needs of a political convention. In the opinion of Secre tary Dover, while arrangements for previous conventions in the Coliseum have: been excellent, they will be bet ter this year than ever before. The platform, instead of being at the center of one side of the Coliseum, will be at one end. . The total number of seats according to present plans Is 11,011, which in cludes the, scats provided in the bal cony that extends around the hall. On a raised platform above the floor of the auditorium will be provided seats for the chairman and secretaries of the convention and 56 seats for. members of the National committee. The sec tion . immediately in the rear of the platform provided, for specially invited guests will contain 1826 seats. Directly in front of the platform and extending on both sides of it are the sections pro vided for working members of the press. These sections will give desk room for 416 writers. In the body of the hall 1000 seats are provided for the delegates and immediately back of them 1000 more have been set aside for the alternates. On each .side of those two sections and in the rear of them are 3615 seats for the spectators. The balcony sections contain 319S seats for the general public. SELEQT CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Republican Members and Senators Meet in Joint Session. WASHINGTON. Feb. 7. With complete harmony of action the joint caucus of Republican Senators and members, held In the chamber of the House of Repre sentatives tonight, elected me members of their congressional campaign "commit tee. Representative James H. Sherman of New York presided. Several" states failed to submit the names of their rep resentatives on the committee and a reso lution was adopted empowering the com mittee to name such representatives in the event that no choice is made by the State delegations by February 19. . The list so far as made tonight in cludes: California, James C. Needham; Montana, Charles N. Pray; Nevada, Senator George Nixon; Oregon,, blank; Washington. William E. Humphreys Ari zona, blank; Alaska. Thomas Cale. Denver Prepares for Crowds. DKNVKR, Feb. 7. The local commit tee of the Democratic National Com mittee, having in charge the details for quartering and entertaining delegates and visitors during the National Demo, cratic Convention in July, announces that there will be no excessive charges permitted for hotel and other accommo dations. The committee also wishes to assure the public that Denver is able to furnish quarters for an enormous crowd. Nine sub-committees were ap pointed yesterday arid the work' of pre paring for the comfort of the visitors parceled out to them. Northwest Committee Members. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Feb. 7. Oregon has not chosen her member of the National Repub lican Congressional campaign commit tee, but it is probable that Congress man Ellis will be named for the com ing campaign. Representative Hum phrey succeeds Cushman of Washing ton and Representative French again represents Idaho. Reduces Duty on Sugar. BERLIN. Feb. 7. The Reichstag to day passed the Brussels sugar' con vention bill. It adopted also a resolu tion "to reduce the existing- duty on sugar from 1 to 10 marks per metric hundredweight, beginning In April 1909. ' Pellegrino Mule Charged AVith Ex ploding Bomb in Tenement- House, Which Injured 20 Children Last December. NEW YORK, Feb. 7. In the arrest to day of Pellegrino Mule, a big, gaunt Sicilian, who is alleged to be under sen tence of life imprisonment in Italy for murder, the police have the leader of one of the most desperate black hand gangs in the country. The specific charge on which he was arrested was having exploded a bomb in a big tene ment house in First avenue last Decem ber. Twenty children were Injured by the fire that followed the explosion. The Italian Government had furnished the police here with a transcript of Mule's criminal record in his own coun try and it was a most appalling one. Among other crimes he. is alleged to have committed in his native' province is the decapitation of a citizen who informed against the band of brigands of which he was a leader. ARREST BLACK-HAND MEMBERS Six Italians Responsible for Threat ening Quay's Life. PITTSBURG, Feb. 7. Six ' Italians, members of an alleged Black Hand So ciety, were arrested in a body today at Sewickley Heights, a fashionable suburb. The foreigners are said to be responsible for the threatening letters mailed recent ly to Richard R. Quay, son of the late Senator Quay, C. C. Scafe. P. P. Snyder and Harlon Singer, wealthy residents of the Heights. The men captured today maintained headquarters in an old shanty in the woods. Three Italians were arrested in the same place a week ago. Since then Black Hand letters have threatened death if proceedings were not dropped. AMEND HEPBURN MEASURE Commission to Be Allowed to At ta'ck Rates. WASHINGTON. Feb. 7.-The Senate committee on interstate commerce today practically reached an agreement to amend the Hepburn law so as to allow the Interstate Commerce Commission the right to initiate proceedings against a railroad when in- its judgment a rate is too high or the practices of a road are such as to produce the effect of an un fair rate. The bill is designed to meet the com plaints of many people to the effect that roads often take advantage of no com plaints to Impose unfair rates and that often in their manner ot manipulating freight hauls they manage to impose what is practically an increased rate on the shipper in an indirect manner. Under the proposed amendment switching opera tions and consequent charges will be scrutinized by the Commission, also the shipment of livestock where unnecessary time is consumed. NO REASON TO REDUCE TOUC'E Railroads Should Employ Sufficient Operators, Says Knapp. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. Martin A. Knapp. chairman .of the Interstate Com merce Commission, "said before the House Committee on Commerce today that he did not believe a railroad had good reason for not manning its telegraph stations with a sufficient number of men when it was a question of higher wages or no operators. This was in answer to questions put by various members of the committee con cerning the petitions of railroad com panies asking for an extension of the time limit in which they should have a stipulated number of telegraph operators at each station. Mr. Knapp said that in many cases the railroads have not tried to meet the requirements of the law. "The Commission will not undertake to say whether the roads could not get men if they were to pay the price," suggested Mr. Sherman. Mr. Knapp replied: "The roads, I believe, can get men in a reasonable time if, they pay enough for them." REFUSES TO ALTER PASS BILL Proposed Amendments Rejected by Senate Committee. WASHINGTON. Feb. 7. The Senate committee on interstate commerce today decided to go squarely on record against most of the bills now before the com mittee that propose enlargements of the pass privilege clause of the new interstate commerce law. It reported unfavorably on Senator Stone's bill providing for the issuance of transportation to publishers of newspapers in payment for advertising and on Senator Cullom's bill allowing large transfer companies to exchange passes .with the railway companies in or der to gain free transportation for their employes soliciting business on trains. The committee decided to make a fa vorable recommendation of . Senator Clapp's bill authorizing railroad compa nies to grant free transportation to fur loughed and pensioned employes. S. H. Cowan and Murdo Mackenzie, rep resenting the Stock Growers' Association, appeared before the committee 1n support of Senator Culberson's bill regulating the supply of cars and empowering the Inter state Commerce Commission to make rules in respect to carrying freight. NEW ROUTE FOR BURLINGTON Has Approved Line From Montana to Nebraska. CHEYENNE, Wyo.. Feb. 7. That the Burlington Railroad directors have approved of a new transcontinental route from its connection with the Nor.thern Pacific in Montana to its terminus at Kearney, Neb., was stated by General Manager Holdredge of the Burlington, in a hearing before the State Engineer of Wyoming today. The hearing was for the purpose of listening to a protest by the Burling ton against the erection of a power dam on the Big Horn River by Asmus Boysen. OPPOSITION TO FULTON'S BILL Railroads Object to Increasing the Power of Commission. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Feb. 7. The Senate committee on interstate commerce today re ceived the subcommittee report in dorsing Senator Fulton's bill amend ing the rate law so as to suspend the application of an increased freight rate made by a railroad pending a hearing before the Interstate Com merce Commission on behalf of the protesting shippers. The committee decided to report the Fulton bill to the Senate next week, amending it, however, to give the In terstate Commerce Commission author ity to suspend the proposed change in the practices of railroads 'pending a hearing on protests a well as a change of rates. The bill will provoke extend ed discussion in the Senate, as it is looked upon as extending the power of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion in great degree, and this will be fought with vigor by railroad interests. TOURIST RATES NOT DECIDED Question Submitted to Committee With Power to Act. SAN DIBGO. Cal., Feb. 7. Present in dications are that the Passenger Traffic Association will not complete its business at the Coronado meeting, as almost everything has been put over to a later meeting or referred to committees wrTh power to act. This includes the whole question of Summer tourist rates to the Pacific Coast, which has been left with a special com mittee of which President Charlton is chairman. It will not be decided until after their return to Chicago". ' Deputy Guilty of Manslaughter. GOLDB'IELD, New. Feb. 7. George Gibson, deputy sheriff, on trial the sec ond time for the murder of Richard Maunsell. a well-known mining engineer of Goldfield, in a downtown resort some months ago. was adjudged guilty of In voluntary manslaughter today and will be sentenced Monday. . The first jury disagreed. , Big Order of Steel Rails. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7. It was learned today that the steel rail orders of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company amount to 55,000 tons, of which the United States Steel Corporation is awarded half. The price could not be learned. VOTE FOR OPEN SUNDAY Immense Petition Against Closing Sighed in Chicago. CHICAGO. Feb. 7. Thirteen thousand and fifty feet of signatures representing the desire of exactly 168.062 voters to pass upon the merits of the Sunday saloon question.' have- insured the appearance of a little ballot bearing this at the Spring election April 7. The great mass of petitions which have been circulated by workers for the United Societies was gathered last night, making a formidable appearance as they were prepared for the binder. Stacked to gether they made a pile six feet, eight inches high. The saloon adherents declare the votes which these "petitions represent guarantee an overwhelming majority for an open Sunday. Today the petitions were load ed on a dray and carried to the office of the election commissioners in the city hall. lyocal Option Fight in Illinois. CHICAGO. Feb. 7. Headed by what One of the 1 Essentials of the happy homes of to-day Is s. vast fund of information as to the best methods of promoting health and happiness and' right living and know ledge of the world's best products. Products of actual excellence and reasonable claims truthfully presented and which have attained to world wide acceptance through the approval of the Well-Informed of the World; not of individuals only, but of the many who have the happy faculty of selecting and obtaining the best the world affords. One of the products of that class, of known component parts, an Ethical remedy, approved by physicians and commended by the Well-Informed of the World as a valuable and whole some family laxative is the well-known Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. To get Its beneficial effects always buy the genuine, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggists. PORTLAND TRUNK MFG. CO. THE LARGEST TRl'NK MANUFAC TURERS I- THE NORTHWEST. 3 Stores 3. 54 Third. Corner Pine. 107 Stxtb. Near Stark. 29 Morrison, r First. V I . If KdS&My but back (Less Than a Cent a Cup) N - Is made with scrupulous, conscientious care and old fashioned attention to cleanliness, purity, goodness and quality. No Cocoa at any price can be better or more delicious. Your grocer sells and recommends it. 1 . promise to be hot campaigns in Spring field. Bloomlngton and Decatur. resi dents of several Illinois counties will vote on the saloon question in the Spring. Yesterday was the last day for filing pe titions asking that the issue be submit ted to the voters, and reports received from many counties indicate that the anti-saloon adherents have been success ful In obtaining enough signatures to al HEALTHY HAIR It is now possible for everyone to Have healthy and rich-looking hair by using Newbro's Herpicide, the ORIGINAL remedy that "kills the dandruff germ." - The presence of the dandruff germ in the scalp causes, first, dull, brittle and lusterless hair, with later, dandruff, itching scaln and falling hair. All of these disagreeable symptoms will disappear, and , the hair grow as Nature intended, if the dandruff germ is destroyed and kept out of the scaln. Don't wait for chronic baldness, for it is incurable. Herpicide stops itching of the scalp, almost instantly. . "I cannot speak too highly of Newbro's Herpicide it keeps my hair and scalp in excellent condition." Omaha, Neb. (Signed) MRS. NETTIE KARBACH. Two Sizes, 50c and $ 1 .OO At Drug Stores " " t . uuo. .-ori,ii - O. (1 1.3. If a substitute In suggested, bu.T genuine Herpicide at the next drug store for Sale at All Draa-atorva. Applications at Prominent Bnrber Shop. Sherman, Clay & Company STEINWAY PIANO DEALERS OPPOSITE POSTOFFIGE We have in our safe, envelope, the last line of the "Limerick" which appears below. The line has six words and ends in one rhyming with "ale." Ghirardelli's Cocoa can full of silver dollars (93) to the person who correctly supplies the missing line. One person mar send as many solutions as correct answer may be sent in any form. we prefer that it be written upon the of a label taken from any size can of Ghirardelli's Cocoa. Answers must be mailed on or before March IS. plainly ad dressed to GHIRARDELLI'S CONTEST DE PARTMENT. 20 MONTGOMERY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. Here's the "Limerick"3OTr- irTni'i'WTTT''.!!i low the question to be balloted on at the polls. It is estimated that 1200 towns will take part in the contest. Iron Furnaces to Resume. CHICAGO. Feb. 7. The plant of the Federal Furnace Company at South Chi cago will resume operations February 20. giving employment to fiflO men. BY USING Send tOc In stamps t Hrrnirldc Co Iept. Oetroll, Midi., tor simple! Guaranteed under the Food and Iruir A r-t 1 .. . un i nil i . i . . in a sealed and witnessed We will give a half-pound they wish, there is no limit. The m A sickly young student at Yale Tried to strengthen himself upon ale, But a wise "College Widow," Said, "Cut it out, Kiddo, 11 a PORTLAND TRUNK MFG. CO. For (ommfrrlal and Theatrical Trunks iuu ran lord for Five Year. 3 (Store 3. fit Third, Vomer Pine. 10? Sixth. N'mir Stark. 2.M Morrif-on, Near Hrt. FOR ALL 7L4f. I - ' - i $ e J. - , . v 1 5 M RSN ETTI EKARRACH - .