THE MORNING OREGON IAN, SATURDAY, MAY 2,' 1908.
TRUST RESPECTS
- NOT CONTRACTS
Raises Price of Paper to Pub
lishers in Defiance of
Conditions.
NO EFFORT TO PROSECUTE
All Information Given to Attorney.
General, Says Xorris, but Ig
nored McCormick Tells of
the Trust's Methods.
WASHINGTON", May 1. Testifying
today before the House" select commit
tee on wood pulp and paper, Medill
McCormick, publisher of the Chicago
Tribune, explained his several paper
contracts of the last ten years and
said that, .although, he had a rive-year
contract, with one year yet to run,
with tne International Paper Company,
the price had been raised from ll.SB
per hundred to $2.20.
Further evidence was submitted by
John Morris, representing the Ameri
can Newspaper Publishers' Association,
in support of the association's declara
tion that there is a combination or
agreement in restraint of trade among
the several groups of papermakers.
The hearing will' be continued tomor
row. Three Unwilling Witnesses.
Mr. Norris informed the committee
regarding steps taken to acquaint the
Attorney-General with the existence
of a paper manufacturers' pool and
submitted for the private Information
of the committee a copy of allegations
made by the publishers embodying the
names of three persons who had knowl
edge of the matters complained of.
Those persons, he declared, were not
Willing witnesses. Mr. Norris said fur
ther that practically all the evidence
lie had furnished the committee had
long ago been placed in the hands of
the Attorney-General.
"I doubt." he said, "if it was even
read."
How the Trust Works.
Vnder a riprid cross-examination by
Miller. Mr. McCormick testified that
shortly before making his last contract
with the International Company he had
bought paper from a Watertown, N. T.,
mill. Subsequently a traveling repre
sentative of the Watertown Company
xskeri to be relieved of the contract, and
on the same day, within an hour, an
agent of the International Company ap
peared in his office and asked for the
contract. He Journeyed to New Tork
In the company of both men. he said,
and the contract with the Watertown
Company was canceled as requested. He
could not explain how .it happened that
tho two agents were in Chicago at the
fiame time. ,
Speaking of the increased price of pa
per. Mr. McCormick said it meant an
additional outlay by him of $100,000 a
year. He added that, if the committee
would look Into the condition of some
of the smaller publishers, tt would find,
that in many instances men ' who after
years of hard work had built up a good
living had lost that living.
NEARLY' ALL VOTE TO STRIKE
Cleveland Street Carmen Cast Bal
lots Strikebreakers Ready.
CLEVELAND, O.. May 1. At 1
o'clock this morning, when the night
men employed on the traction lines
Appeared at the Trades and Labor Hall
to cast their votes, Vice-President
Hehncr of the union said:
"Ninety-flve per rent of the men have
voted for a strike: the counting today
will be a mere formality."
Officers of the streetcar company
said they had 4000 men on the waiting
list and did not fear a strike.
RESTRICTS SECRET SERVICE
Mottle Passes Measure in Spite ol
Violent Opposition.
WASHINGTON. May. 1. Tho House
spent all of today's session in considering
and passing, paragraph by paragraph,
under suspension of the rules, the sundry
civil appropriation hill. As the outcome of
a determined effort to strike from the
bill a restriction prohibiting the employ
ment of secret service employes in any
detective work other than the guarding
of the President and the running down
of counterfeiters, which was vigorously
opposed by members of tho appropria
tions committee, the limitation was
agreed to and the paragraph adopted in
substantially its original form.
Objection by Democratic members, in
pursuance of the minority filibuster, to
unanimous consent defeated the passage
of a bill for the printing and distribu
tion of 100.000 copies of a special report
by the Department of Agriculture, de
scribing diseases of cattle.
LE1SIIMAX
M L'ST
EXPLAIN
To Be Asked About Releasing Turk
l'roni Prosecution.
WASHINGTON, May 1. Representa
tive Murdock, of Kansas, today took up
with tho State Department, the alleged
action of Ambassador Lelshman, in en
deavoring to induce Mrs. Bernard War
kentin to sign, a paper releasing the
Turkish Prince, who accidentally shot
her husband on a railroad train near Da
mascus, from prosecution. The State
Department will request an explanation
of the Ambassador. The matter has not
gone so far as filing a formal complaint
against Mr. Leishman and probably will
not. at least, until his explanation is re
ceived. AGREE ON TWO BATTLESHIPS
House Conferees Approve Senate Ap
propriation tor Them.
WASHINGTON. May l.-The House will
agree to the Senate amendment, to the
naval appropriation bill, which adds to
that measure an appropriation for the
construction of the two battleships
authorized hy the bill. The House naval
affairs committee, at a meeting today
preliminary to the House-Senate confer
ence on the amended bill, discussed the
various Senate amendments and informal
ly reached an understanding as to which
of them ought to be accepted and which
opposed.
Postpone Bill Guaranteeing Bonds.
WASHINGTON. May 1. After hearings
lasting over a month the House commit
tee on territories today voted to postpone
until next December, consideration of the
bill guaranteeing Interest on construction
bonds for a period of 30 years on rail
roads built la Alaska where $500,000 or
more. has been expended on the construc
tion of the roads.
GREAT INCREASE IN DEFICIT
Is Nearly $52,000,000 for Ten
Months of Year.
WASHINGTON, May 1. The monthly
statement of the Government receipts
and expenditures for April. 1908. shows
the total receipts to have been $43,919,321
and the expenditures J59.888.7S4, leaving
a deficit for the month of nearly $16,
000.000, a deficit for the ten months of
the present fiscal year of $51.64,616 as
against a surplus for the corresponding
period last year of $o6.475fcol.
The statement shows that during these
last ten months there has been a falling
off in the receipts of $41,397,562 and an
increase In expenditures of $66,722,804.
making a difference in the condition of
the Treasury of $108,130,366.
Corean's Case Postponed.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 1. N. M. Chun,
the Oorean charged with complicity in
the assassination of Durham White Stev
ens, the Amerlcan'diplomat, who was shot
and killed by Coreans at the Ferry build
ing in this city, on March 2, last, was
arraigned before Judge Conlon today. At
the request of the attorneys who have
been retained by local Coreans to defend
Chun, the hearing was continued for one
week. In Wang Chang, who fired the
shot that killed Stevens, was held to
answer for murder.
Two New Appointments.
WASHINGTON, May 1. The Presi
dent sent to the Senate today the fol
lowing nominations:. To be United
States Attorney, for the District of Mon
tana, James W. Freeman; to be Assist
ant Secretary of Commerce and Labor,
William K. Uehler, of California.
New Minister From Holland.
THE HAGUE, May 1. J. Loudon, Min
ister of the Netherlands at Toklo, has
been appointed diplomatic representative
of his government at Washington. He
will succeed R. de Marees van Swlnderin,
who has been made Foreign Minister of
the Netherlands cabinet.
Again Probe Campaign Funds.
WASHINGTON. May 1. Senator Gore
introduced a resolution today providing
for an Investigation by the Senate com
mittee on privileges and elections of Con
tributions of corporations to elections.
The resolution was referred to the com
mittee. National Banknote Circulation.
WASHINGTON, May 1. The monthly
circulation statement shows the total cir
culation of National bank notes on April
30, 190S, to have been $697,645.6!!, which is
an Increase for the year of $97,731,857 and
an increase for the month of $1,288,332.
Taft Strong for Isthmus.
CHARLESTON, S. C. May 1. Secretary
of War Taft and party sailed for Panama
on the naval transport Prairie today. The
party expects to reach Panama on the
morning of May 6.
DEAD ON MATSHUSHIMA 207
Loss on Wrecked Japanese Warship
Finally Learned.
WASHINGTON, May 1. Commander
Dougherty, American naval attache at
Tokio, today cabled the Navy Depart
ment: that the total casualties by the
explosion on the cruiser Matshushlma
yesterday were 207 men. His dispatch
Is as follow-":
"Toklo, May 1. Matshushlma was
destroyed at Pescadores April 30. Mag
azine explosion. Loss, 23 officers, 33
midshipmen, one . warrant officer and
150 men."
Model Concrete House Probable.
Percy H. Wilson in Cement Age.
A brief resume of Mr. Edison's work
on his plans for a cheap monolithic house
seems to conclusively prove: (1) That a
house can be built in the way he states;
(2) That every pract'eal construction
problem involved can be solved; (3) That
a mixture of concrete can be obtained
which will insure its flowing to all parts
of the forms thus avoiding voids. Mr
Edison's experiments have not gone far
enough as yet to definitely determine the
following: First. Does the addition of
the necessary colloid delay the setting
of the concrete or affect its strength?
Second, Will the stone separate from the
sand and cement and form a non-uniform
mass either in placing, or at a later
period, due to the action of the laws of
gravity? The first of these items very
naturally affects only the cost of the
building. The second affects its stability
and must be solved definitely before the
building of a house In this way can be
successfully accomplished. On the whole
the idea is one of rather revolutionary
type in engineering construction, but
Judging from what Mr. Edison has al
ready accomplished toward the solving
of the practical difficulties which have
arisen, it Is likely that he will in the
end be successful in building a house in
the way he has planned.
Rain's Effect on Animals.
New York Press.
"Lions, tigers and all the cat tribe
dread rain," said a soo keeper. "On a
rainy day they tear nervously up and
down their cages, growling and trem
bling. We usually give 'them an extra
ration of hot milk. That puts them to
sleep. Wolves love a gray day of rain.
They are then very cheery. Treacherous
as the wolf is. no keeper need fear him
on a rainy day. He is too happy to
harm a fly. Snakes, too, like rain. They
perk up wonderfully as the barometer
falls and the damp makes itself felt in
their warm cases of glass. Rain makes
monkeys glum. They are apt from in
stinct, when they see It through the
window, to clasp their hands above their
heads and sit for hours. That attitude,
you know, makes a kind of shelter. It
is the primitive umbrella. So, when it
rained, the naked promltive man and
woman sat gloomily in the primeval
swamps of giant ferns."
Wireless -Telegraph Demonstration.
A demonstration of wireless teleg
raphy was given last evening at the
Portland Public Library by the Pro
gressive Club. This club was organ
ized for the purpose of furthering
wireless telegraphy, and at present hag
a membership of about 40. The
demonstration was given by three
members of the club, Mr. Austin, Mr.
Bristol and William Kellaher. Mr.
Bristol exhibited an induction coil con
structed by himself. Mr. Austin made
the instruments used to illustrate the
talk. A large crowd was present and
was well pleased. The public is in
vited at any time to the meetings.
which are held in the children's room
of the Portland Public Library every
Friday evening at 7:45 o clock.
Helie and Anna in Rome.
ROME. May 1. Madarrie Gould and
Prince de Sagan. who arrived here yes
terday from Naples are spending their
time sightseeing. They continue to deny
themselves to interviewers. .
National Bank Is Closed.
OIL CITY. Pa., May 1. The Controller
of the Currency today directed the closing
of the doora of . .the National Bank of
Eajt -Bradii .. ..
FROTH AND FRENZY
Senator Davis Raves Against
the Newspapers.
CALLS .THEM SCAVENGERS
Arkansan Treats Senate to Some of
His "Temperate Language" in
Striking Back for As
saults of Press.
WASHINGTON, May l.--In the Senate
today. Senator Davis, of Arkansas, moved
to discharge the committee on the judi
ciary from the -further, consideration of
his bill, "for the suppression of trusts.
pools and combinations in trade." He
spoke for about two hours, reading much
of the time from a typewritten statement
which he said he had prepared in ad
vance, "that no intemperate language
might escape his lips on this occasion,"
thing which he said he had never done
before.
During his speech he roundly denounced
the trusts, commended the President's
recent message outlining -measures for
relief, spoke of the removal of the motto.
In God We Trust from the coins, and
declared that John D. Rockefeller, the
Standard Oil Company and J. Pierpont
Morgan should be indicted for treason.
He also paid his respects to the press.
his remarks in that connection being as
follows:
'Let scavengers of plutocracy howl;
truth. God's, living truth, where are its
defenders? Miserable travesties upon
noble manhood, post-graduates in all arts
of slander or defamation, I challenge the
subsidized press; the people know your
designs and spurn your pretense, whether
under show of argument or mere sub
servient hypocrites. Go, damnable imps
of pelf and greed, 4 defy your taunts.
Tear to fragments my political career if
it comport with your execrable will.
Stifle and distort my utterance. Not sat
isfied, if such be your brutal frenxy, lash
my poor form into insensibility. Then, if
it be your further pleasure, gnaw from
my stiffening bones every vestige of quiv
ering flesh. Howl in wretched bestiality
through my innocent blood as it drips
from your fiendish visages. Drag then.
if you want, what remains. In tne tntn
and vermin of your foul dens and burn
It upon the altar of Baal or scatter it be
fore the friendly winds of heaven to your
betters the carrion crows of the fields.
All that they may do, all and more, if
there yet be open further depth of infamy
to a polluted, besotten press. "These
readv servants of greed, what have they
not done or attempted to fasten still more
securely an autocracy upon us? It seems
to be their special function, not simply to
pervert truth, but to threaten and ter
rorise public men. Dare a Senator align
himself with the people? What? Yes.
men. illustrious servants of the people
have lifted honest voices here and else
where against the march of plutocracy, to
fall ambtished. politically assassinated,
and by whom? By the trusts wearing
masks. Ah, sir, newspaper masks. But.
Mr. President, insignificant as am I, if
my political career be marked, let them
sharpen their blade, for I will be here at
the appointed hour, and while here only
God can stay my voice In behalf of or
ganized united labor and tne yeomanry
of America."
MORSE PAYING HIS DEBTS
New England Friends Help De
throned Trust King.
with- -vrvpv Ma v 1. Charles W.
Morse, former vice-president of the Na
tional Bank of North America, has with
his friends turned over to Charles A.
Hanna, receiver, nearly $260,000 in cash
i ,.itfa in settlement of close to
$500,000 of the bank's claims against Morse.
The money and securities were put up
by certain New England friends of Mr.
Morse.
THE DAY'S DEATH RECORD
A. B. Richards, Indian Fighter.
NEBRASKA CITY. Neb., May 1. A. B.
Richards, an old plainsman and Indian
fighter, died here last night, aged 68 years.
He came to Nebraska from Canada tn
1885, and ran a store or ranch for prairie
freighters at O'Fallons Bluff, near where
North Piatt now is. He was known by
the Indians as O'Chilla. or "The Kid."
He was engaged in many fights with the
Indians in the early days. In later years
he accumulated considerable wealth.
Charles L. Lovering, Manufacturer.
TAUNTON, Mass., May 1. Charles L.
Lovering. widely known in manufactur
ing circles and treasurer of the Merri-
mac Manufacturing Company, died here
today, aged 76 years. He . was also a
trustee of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
PERS0NALMENTI0N.
W. B. Glafke, who has been sick at
his home for several days from ptomaine
poisoning, is recovering and hopes to be
on the street again Monday.
J. p. O'Brien,- general manager of the
Harriman lines in this territory, left the
city last night for 6an Francisco, where
he goes on business for the allied roads.
He expecta to be away a week.
Rev. Warren H. Landon, of San
Anselmo Theological Seminary is ex
pected next week to take charge of the
services of Calvary Presbyterian Church
during the rest of the month of May.
CHICAGO, May 1. (Special.) W. L.
Vinson, of Baker City, Or., is at the Au
ditorium Annex.
NO LIGHT 0NTHE MYSTERY
' (Continued From First Pace.)
news to me." said Ingram, when seen at
the State Prison this morning. "While
I was tried and convicted of the killing
of -Dunlap, the disappearance of Jones
and the rumor that I had made away
with him was the principal cause of my
conviction. Of course the disappearance
of Jones was not a matter of evidence
against me in the trial, but the jurors
all knew that Jones had disappeared
and that I was suspected of killing him.
If it had not been for that influence
upon the minds of the jury I would never
have been convicted. There was no evi
dence against me that was worthy of
credit.
"Dodson confessed to the killing " of
Dunlap and tn order to save his neck
told a story implicating me. That evi
dence, together with the prejudice that
had been worked up because of the dis
appearance of Jones, was all they had.
upon which to convict me. , In reality
I am serving here because Jones dis
appeared Just at the right time to throw
suspicion upon me. Now that he has
returned I think the people out at Grants
Pass will take a different view of my
guilt.
"It is not true that I made an affidavit
in which I said that Jones had been mur
dered for his money and that his body
had. -been -cut up. and placed) in a. .sack.
Baking
The obIt Baking Powder marie
with Royal firape Cream of Tartar
mads from cranes vs
o r
Insures healthful and
delicious food for every
, nome every day
Safeguards yonr
alum and phosphate of lime
I made no affidavit of any kind. Dis
trict Attorney Reames came to my cell
in the jail and talked about Jones, evi
dently for the purpose of trying to get
me to say something that would connect
me with his disappearance. He tried in
various ways to draw me out, and in the
course of the conversation, which was a
very Informal one, I expressed various
opinions as to what might have become
of Jones. I also said that if he had been
murdered near his home I thought I
could find his body, for I knew every
inch of the ground around there. But
I didn't pretend to know anything about
what had become of him.
"After our conversation Reames gave
me a written paper of several, pages,
which he said was an account of our con
versation. He asked me to sign it, which
I did. I did not read it and do not know
now what was in it."
, Regarding the remarks attributed to In
SATDRDAYSPEGIALS
ON SALE ALL DAY
7f
Wash Ba sin
Royal Enamel Ware
19c
Regular Value 35c
No. 8 Teakettle
Royal Enamel Ware
W
63c ..
Regular Value $1.25 jlSfegl
Don't Purge the
Bowels Do as Nature Does
Nature gets her laxatives from food.
If you ate plenty of fruit, coarse food
and green vegetables, you would
get laxative enough.
But you eat fine food, and too much of
it. And you exercise too litUe.
So it is vital that you help the bowels
in another way.
But don't use salts or pill cathartics.
Never employ harsh physic.
Nature does all things gently. Give
her gentle help.
Cascarets are vegetable. They have
just the same effect as a laxative
food.
They never gripe, so you know they
don't irritate.
They act in Nature's way. Yet they
axe just as effective as violence.
Powder
food against
gram concerning the disappearance ' of
Jones,' Andrew Dodson, who is serving a
life term, says the account in today's
Oregonian is substantially correct.
"In the presence of myself. District At
torney Reames. and several other per
sons," says Dodson, 'Ingram declared
that when Jones' body was found, it
would be found to be cut in two pieces.
He gave other details. I did not think
at the time that Ingram knew anything
about it. but thought he was giving them
"hot air,' as was his custom. The re
appearance of Jones shows that he didn't
know anything about it."
Both Dodson and Ingram have been
model prisoners. It is apparent that there
was little evidence against Ingram ex
cept the testimony of accomplices. His
reputation and the disappearance of
Jones undoubtedly were of great Influence
with the jury.
6-Qt.BerlinKettle
Royal Enamel Ware
33c
. Regular Value 65c
14-Qt. Dishpan
RoyalEnamelWare
49c
Regular Value 75c
While harsh physic ruins the stomach,
Cascarets aid digestion.
While harsh physic callouses the
bowels, Cascarets restore the natural '
functions.
Every effect is curative.
Those who are well informed about
laxatives employ only Cascarets.
Cascarets are caady tablets. They are Mid
by all drutrrists, but never in balk. Be sure t.
get the genuine, with CCC on every tablet.
The box is marked like this:
The vest-pocket box Is 10 cents.
The month-treatment box 50 cents.
12,000,006 boxes sold annually.
822
1 The paper used on
wsm SMPERfM.ES
is of such quality that you taste
just the tobacco.
And the tobacco used in Imperi
ales is so pure, clean, conscientious-
ly selected and judiciously blended
that it supplies a flavor known to
no other cigarette.
Furthermore, in Imperiales the
paper is crimped, not pasted, and
the individual mouthpieces cool the
smoke.
Smoke them all day long if you
want to no after effects;
The men of the West smoked over
125,000,000 Ivtperialcs Cigarettes
in igoy.
10 for 10c
Sold Everywhere
THE JOHN BOIXMAN COMPANY, Manufacturer, San Francisco
ppf
you will be interested in the
cost and nutritive value of
your food.
Shredded Wheat
contains the greatest amount
of muscle-building, brain
making material in the most
digestible form and at the
least cost. A food for the
outdoor man and the indoor
man for the invalid and the
athlete j
For breakfast heat the Biscuit in oven,
pour milk over it (hot milk in winter) and
a little cream. If you like the Biscuit for
breakfast you will like toasted TRISCUIT
(the Shredded Wheat wafer) for luncheon
or any meal with butter, cheese or manna
, lade. At your grocers.
ill
Special Low Fares
To the East and Return
VIA-
Northern Pacific Railway
Including St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, Chicago,
St. Louis. Omaha, Kansas City, St. Joseph, Etc.
0
For full Information regarding rates, routes, etc.,
to points East, call on or write
A. D. Charlton, A. G. P. A.
ruehei Philip of 'Wurtemhrir has con
trived a bajidage that Is so scientifically con
structed that manufacturers have taken out
patents covering the right to make It in
H
fen
Why Not Mix
Brains. With
Your Eating?
If you
mix brains
our eating
253. Morrlana Street
Portland, Or.
fnrrtsn countries. The Durham In raid to b
the most popular of all the royal ladl'c of
Germany, and much of her popularity is due '
to her Interest in the sick poor.
-. ' ' J