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4 THE MORNING OREGOMA5, SATUK DAY, B1AX 16, 1IM38. SPERRY ASSUMES CHIEF COMMAND Thomas Lowers Flag and the Fleet Has New Squad ron Chiefs. MUCH OFFICIAL CEREMONY along: the northern coast of Molokai so that they may be seen from the settle ment, which the lepers are not permit ted to leave. Dayton, as Senior Officer, Nominally Commands Both Atlantic and Pa cific Fleets Close of Naval Career of Thomas. . BAN FRANCISCO. May 15. Rear-Ad-mira! Charles Stillman Sperry assumed pnmmand today of the Atlantic fleet. Rear-Admiral Charles M.. Thomas, who succeeded Rear-Admiral Evans as Commander-in-Chief, hauled down hfs flag at 10:40 A. M. from the truckr of the Connecticut and ten minutes later Admi ral Sperry was received on board the flag ship with the salutes and other naval honors befitting his pdsltion. Admiral Thomas, who had actual command for only six days... although he served for many weeks as senior officer present dur ing the enforced absence of Admiral Evans, issued no farwell address. The honor of being- rowed ashore also was dispensed with at his own request and he returned to the wharf in a Bteam barge. Much Martial Ceremony. When Admiral Speiry took command, the reorganization of the fleet immediately was carried into effect and throughout the noon hour the waters of the bay echoed the call of bugles, the ruffle of drums and the strains of martial music. Rear Admirat W. H. Emory transferred his flag from the Georgia to the Louisiana, the new flagship of the second squadron, third division. Captain Richard Wain wrlght gave up command of the Louis iana, and became senior officer of the second division on the Georgia. Captain Seaton Schroder, commanding the Virginia, assumed command of the fourth division and took up his quarters on the new flagship Wisconsin. Both Captains Sohroeder and Walnwright will be promoted to the grade of Rear-Admiral in July, Although still, in fact, an Independent force, the Atlantic fleet passed technically and temporarily today jinder control of the Pacific fleet. Rear-Admiral Dayton, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific fleet, outranks Admiral Sperry and thus be came aenlor officer in command of the combined fleets. It had been intended that the Pacific fleet should sail early this morning and thus avoid change of command, but under orders from "Wash ington, is held here to await further In structions. Salutes to New Commanders. The honor of a salute from Ml ti7 vessels of the fleet could not be paid to Admiral Hperry today, but will he fired as soon as the Pacific fleet leaves, or as soon as the Atlantic fleet sets sail for Puget Sound points Mon day morning at 10 o'clock. Admiral Sperry was saluted today, when he hauled down on the Alabama, by the guns of that vessel and was saluted by the Connecticut as he repaired Aboard that flap-ship. The hauling down of Rear-Admiral Dayton's red flag and the flying of hfs blue pennant of senior command called out a nalute of thirteen guns from the flagship "West Virginia, of the Pacific fleet. The Connecticut also paid a parting salute to Admiral Thomas. Thomas Earns Commendation. Although he will not retire until October next. Admiral Thomas today ended his active naval career of nearly 47 years. He served as second In command .to Admiral Evans during the recent trip of the Atlantic fleet, and by reason of the illness of the Commander-in-Chief had to assume all of the social and official duties incident to the call of the battleships at the various South American ports. To Admiral Thomas loyalty to the commander-in-chief, to his tact, personal ity and graciousness of manner the officers of the fleet attribute much of the diplomatic success which attended the cruise from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The oalls made upon him were calculated to wear out a much younger man, hit he attended all the functions where hfs presence was re quired. Under orders from Admiral Sperry, the bronze battleship target practice trophy today was transferred from the battleship Illinois of the Atlantic fleet to the armored cruiser Maryland of the Pacific fleet, and the trophy pen nant of red was broken from the fore truck of the latter vessel. During the day over a thousand bluejackets were conveyed through the city in observation cars and shown various points of interest. Many offi cers and men went to Santa Rosa aa the guests of the citizens of that place and participated in the annual rose carnival. The final baseball champion ship game was played this afternoon. BOURNE HOPES NOT DEAD (Continued From First Pace.) Ized convention, have never Intended to and will not support Cake In June. At the same time, the Bourne peo ple are known to have their suspicions of Cake's sincerity and his loyalty to Statement No. 1. They questioned the earnestness of his position on the statement when he first bpca.ne a candi date, and It was not until W.- S. U'Ren entered the contest that the Repub lican candidate positively declared him self. The Cake and Bourne people be came reconciled and everything pro ceeded smoothly and without a ripple until the meeting of the Republican State Central Committee, when the Ful ton forces convinced W. M. Cake that it would be necessary for him to con sent to a resolution declaring for Taft for President if he should be elected chairman of the state committee. Cake Between Two Kires. At that time and since. . CaKe denied that W. M. Cake had made any con cessions in order to get the state chair manship, but the Bourne people satis fied themselves from other members of the State Central Committee that such PROTEST IS LOUD Commercial Bodies Adopt Res olutions Against Advance. MEANS $1.75 PER CAPITA If Proposed Increase In Official Classification Territory Is Put Through, Injunctions Will Be Asked Unless Arbitrated. -CHICAGO, May 15. Representatives of more than 300 commercial organizations from all parts of the country at a meet ing here today adopted resolutions pro testing against the proposed advance in railroad freight rates but agreeing to submit the question of the justice of committee voted to support the Aldrlch bill in preference to the Vreeland measure, but on the floor of the Sen ate all but four members of the minor ity voted against the passage of the bill as amended. The Democrats who voted for the bill were Daniel, Johnson, Owen and Teller. An equal number of Republicans voted against passage, being Borah. Bourne, Brown and Hey burn. The final vote was 47 ayes and 20 noes. Aldrlch called up the House bill for passage at 2 P. M., and offered the amendments agreed upon in committee. They were adopted without debate or discussion. Newlands called up a resolution which he had offered earlier in the day. in structing the finance committee to make several amendments requiring the banks to keep three-fourths of their reserve In their own vaults, propos ing the loan of deposits in excess of five times the capital and surplus of banks and still to further increase the amount of legal tender notes. The proposed amendments were given scant consideration and when New lands had concluded the bill was put on its passage. Several Senators in quired whether time was to be given for discussion of the bill. Aldrlch re plied that discussion could be had when the conference report was brought in for adoption. Any debate at that time, however, would be on the adoption or rejection of the report. When the bill goes to the confer ence, the House members undoubtedly II IIIMWHIMIII.ll.il II III IIMHIIII III llll I I HI I " " " " - '.'V" - v ! ' .' ' W V . lillfiillBliil life . ..iSli SHE WAS ARMY OFFICER MRS. EMILY WOODLEY. DIES AT AGE OF 73. For Bravery and Heroic Service as Army Nurse, Lincoln Gave -Her a Commission. PHILADELPHIA, May 15. Mrs. Emily E. Woodley, who had the distinction, it is said, of being the only woman being regularly commissioned an officer in the United States Army, the only woman member of the G. A. R. and the last of 35 young women from this city who en listed as nurses in the Civil War, died at her home here today, aged 73 years. Mrs. Woodley was president of the Na tional Association of Army nurses of the Civil War. She was a widow. Mrs. Woodley was 26 years old when she enlisted in 1861. For her bravery and heroic service. President Lincoln confer red upon her a commission as Captain in the Army. CRUISER MARYLAND, WHICH HAS WON THR TARGET-SHOOTING TROPHY AND IS CHAMPION OF THE NAVY. Walter A. Wkoff, Author. PRINCETON, N. J., May 16. Walter Augustus Wykoff, assistant professor of political economy in Princeton University, died here tonight. He was the author of "The Workers and several other soclol ogical works. Ex-Congressman J. II. Howell. BLOOMINGrTON, 111., May 15. Ex Congressman J. H. Howell died here today, aged 75 years. He was a captain in the Civil War. INJURIES TO MATSUSHIMA DItVDOCK FOR SEVEN VESSELS Torpedo-Boat Flotilla to Rest Before Trip to Portland. SAN FRANCISCO. May 15. Seven bat tleships will go Into the dry dock at Bremerton Navy-yard next month," after the Atlantic licet ends its cruise among the cities of Puget Sound. These ves sels compose most of the second and fourth divisions of the fleet, the Georgia, New Jersey. Rhode Island and Virginia, of the second division, and the Illinois, Missouri and Kearsarge. of the fourth division. The Atlantic fleet will be represented in Its entirety on Its northern tour with the exception of the Alabama and Maine, which will have to stay to go into dry dock at Hunters Point. The Alabama docks May 29 and the Main May 23. After the torpedo flotilla ends its present visit at Sacramento it will sail down the Sacramento River to Mare Island, where a stay of a few days will be made before the little war vessels take their run up the Coast to Portland, Or. an arrangement was made. It was then that the Bourne forces became suspicious and charged Cake with try ing to satisfy both the Fulton and the Bourne factions. W. E. Wlliamson has intrenched him self as chairman of the Congressional committee of the Second District and is tvsn more determined to hold on to the Job than he was before the Fulton forces attempted to oust him In Thursday's convention proceedings. Furthermore, Williamson has already assumed active management of the campaign In the Second Congressional District in the in terest of Congressman Ellis for re-election and the other candidates on the Re publican ticket. Demand Williamson's Removal. The Fulton men are equally as persis tent in their demands for Williamson's removal as chairman, but the young rep resentative of the Bourne camp refuses to be bluffed or forced from the posi tion he secured by catching the opposi tion asleep. Committees on campaign subscrip tions are finding their task a difficult one. Candidates have been assessed from $20 to 1000, and to date it is reported that only two of the office seekers have paid their assessments. They were H. M. Cake, wbo was asked to contribute $1000 to the campaign fund, and County Clerk Fields, who has given $500 for campaign purposes. It is reported that the candidates were assessed in the following amounts: H. M. Cake, for United States Senator, $1000; J. W. Bailey, State Dairy and Food Commissioner, $250; Sheriff R. L. Stevens, $750; County Clerk Fields. $500; County Assessor Sigler. $750; Dr. Ben L. Norden, for Assessor, $100; County Treasurer Lewis. $200; candi dates for State Senator, $50 each; can didates for Representative. $25. each; George J. Cameron, for District Attor ney, $550; candidates for Justice of the Peace, $200 each. Sacramento Greets Torpedo-Boats. SACRAMENTO. May 15. Forty thou sand persons greeted the torpedo boats Fox. Davis and Farr&gut and the torpedo-boat destroyers Preble and Perry as they steamed to anchor early this even ing opposite J and K streets. Twenty one guns were fired as the flagship Pre ble, leading the others in - single file, passed the foot of Y street and when the salute was finished, the guns on the trim little vessels of war boomed their answer amid the cheers of thousands. Lepers Ask to See) Fleet. SAN FRANCISCO. May 15. Mall ad vices from Honolulu say a request has come from the leper settlement or Molokai that when the fleet arrives hers from San Francisco the vessels hall sail close euough to ths shors CONVENTION IN A NEW LIGHT News From Portland as Printed In a Washing-ton Journal. " OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington Mav 15. The Wash'ngton Herald, which, for a year past, has printed numerous interviews with Senator Bourne in which he set forth his views regarding the "second elective term" question, prints today what purports to be a press dlS' Datch from Portland, setting forth the events of Republican convention day there In a somewhat new light. In part the disDatch says: Senator Bourne was not elected a delegate, but It Is the consensus of opinion that hts letter to the convention, stating In the most positive terms that he would ignore instructlons-.to vote for any one but Roosevelt as the party nom inee for President, and his expressed de sire to be left out of the delegation if the delegates were not instriicted for the present occupant of the w hlte House, had much to do with this outcome. "The convention opened with wild dis order, and the fight was on from the out. set. The Taft men had uphill work to do, but they were helped by Bourne's elimination of himself. "Senator Fulton's election as a dele gate was the climax of the fight, his se lection being made unanimous. After Bourne's telegram was read, his follow ers realized that he could not be forced to retrace his steps, and his name was not presented to the convention when It be came apparent that the convention was determined to take 'Roosevelt , at his word.' The Herald also prints an editorial ap proving Bourne's course and sayB that Bourne, a product of the direct pri mary law, represents 80 per cent of the people of his state, and in fact, of most sections of the country. STR1Z1E ON IN CLEVELAND Men Yote at Three o'clock No Cars After 5. CLEVELAND. O., May !. At Z o'clock this morning the Streetcar Union voted unanimously to strike. At 5 o clock all cars will cease to run. Mm. Gould Goes to Paris. MONTE CARLO, May 15, Prince Helle de Sagen, Mme. Gould and the latter's children left for Paris by to night's express such advance to the Interstate Com merce Commission without appeal to the courts. In the event of the rail roads refusing to consent to arbitration the Federal courts are to be asked, to issue injunctions against the railroads in every district where an attempt may be made to increase the rates. The conference authorized Chairman Cuppman to appoint a committee of 15 to carry out the terms of the. resolutions. "The proposed advance of 10 to 15 per cent- in official classification territory," the resolutions declare,, means an in crease - of freight charges of about $100,000,000 annually, which is an acute additional burden upon the business in terests of the country. What the Advance Means. Just what the advance In freight rates proposed by the Eastern railroads within the territory of the official classification terri tory alone, which comprises the section east of the Mississippi River and north of Ohio, will mean in increased cost of. living Is set forth in a table of statis tics by the Illinois Manufacturers' As- sociation. The table, together with' legal opinions and recommendations, will be presented today at the confer ence here of representatives of 50 of the largest industrial organizations of the East and Middle West. "The railroads propose to tax every man, woman and child In the country $1.75 a head," is the first contention set forth. "That Is jUBt why the Illinois Manu facturers Association has called the conference on railroad rates. The in crease contemplated will raise the pres ent gross freight revenue of the roads In the official classification territory from approximately $1,000,000,000 to $1,140,000,000. Each Person Must Pay $1.7 5. There ere 80,000,000 people in the country, so each one will be called on to contribute $1.75 per annum to cof fers of the railroads. This is an aver age of $9.33 from each family, or almost twice as much as the average family pays in taxes, and $2 more than t average contribution to religious pur poses. It would pay the average man's life insurance for six months, buy food for his family for over 10 days. "If the railroads are losing money, so are the shippers and so are the work ing men who are out of Work or on short time. What we propose is that this conference will result in rousing the public so that the railroads will be forcedto abandon their selfish policy of attempting to shift all the burden of hard times on to the shoulders of the public. The railroads shared boun tifully in the prosperity of the last 10 years. Let them now pay their share of the Nation's reduced Income." will contend Btrongly for retention of the provision of the Vreeland measure creating clearing-house districts and Issuing National bank notes on guar anteed commercial paper. START ROAD TO HILLSBORO Rights or Way Secured and Grading Crews Set to Work. HILLSBORO. Or., May 15. (Special.) All right-of-way matters near this city have been satisfactorily adjusted and the Oregon Electric has a farce of several hundred men between here and Garden Home, clearing right-of-way. grading and building bridges. As a result of the activity real estate has been -on a boom and scores of new residence buildings are going up in this city. STRETCH OF 500 MILES DONE Portage La Prairie and Earl United. Steel to Edmonton In Fall. WINNIPEG, Man., - May 15. The last pike In the Grand Trunk Pacific Rail way between Portage La Prairie, Man., and Eari. Saskatchewan, was driven yes terday. This gives a completed line 500 miles long. The steel will be laid into Winnipeg next month from the west and into Edmonton next Fall. ANOTHER SKIRMISH IN HOUSE Bill Sent to Conference Alter Burton and Williams Spar. WASHINGTON, May 15. The Vree land currency bill, as amended by the Senate, went to the House at 6:15 o'clock this afternoon and Immediately was called ud by Burton of Ohio, who moved to suspend the rules, disagree to . the amendments and ask a conference. In the opinion of Williams, the minority leader, the bill as amended by the Sen ate was Infinitely worse than the Vree land bill. He urged his colleagues to vote against the motion to disagree to the Senate amendments, saying that, .If the motion was lost, the bill would have to go to the banking committee.. : The Democrats applauded Fowler of New Jersey when he read a letter con tradicting a statement by Vreeland yes terday that the First National Bank of Atlanta, a bank with $1,000,000 capital, supported the Vreeland bill. The letter was from a Mr. McCord, of Atlanta, who denied that there was any First Na tional Bank in that city, nor was there any bank In the state with a greater capital than $500,000. Referring further to Vreeland' 3 statement tl.t he had 40 other such letters, Fowler said: "I challenge this new apostle of finance and currency from the hopyards and hayfields of Cattaraugus County to file in the record tomorrow those letters." - Again getting the floor. Burton grilled the Democrats for their action yesterday in "side-stepping'' a vote on the Will iams bill. Williams inquired if it was not true that a minority bill was specifically de signated by number in the rules and also if Burton did not know that the Williams bill contained a clerical error to correct, for which no opportunity was afforded. ' . 'It was," replied Burton, "a t.111 that you had until .the month of March to perfect." Democratic Jeers greeted his statement that he had no doubt if Williams had explained the error to the House a chance would have been given to perfect It. "I ask that now," ' demanded Williams, but Burton said he came too late, and he proceeded to hold Williams up to ridi cule for advancing such an excuse. The vote resulted: Yeas. 150; nays, 103; "present" 6, and the bill was sent to conference. The Speaker announced the names of Vreeland of New York, Burton of Ohio, Weeks of Massachusetts, Re publicans, and Glass of Virginia and Pujo of Louisiana, Democrats, as the members, on the part of the House. Loss of Life Due to Fact Men Were Sleeping at Time of Explosion. VICTORIA, B. C, May 16 Details of the disaster to the Japanese training ship Matsushima at Makong in the Pescadores were received by the steamer Monteagle, which arrived today. The explosion, which resulted In the loss of 207 lives, in cluding the sons of Prince Oyama and other prominent Japanese, was due to shlmose powder in the magazines taking fire. The heavy loss of life was due to the fact that the disaster took place when most of the complement of 446 were sleeping. A salvage steamer has been sent and it is expected the famous flag ship of the Chtno-Japanese War will be raised. The naval officers report the in juries as follows: A large hole near the waterllne fore and aft of the starboard gun, the after part of the vessel is wrecked, a hole being torn through the deck by tho explosion. Divers found difficulty in making their way to the cabins to recover bodlee until this wreckage was cleared. The for ward part Is little damaged. When the Monteagle left, 235 saved had been taken on board the other training ships and 32 bodies shipped to Japan. A number of fishermen were engaged with nets seek ing for bodies. The wife of Captain Yaahiro of the Matsushima, whose body was recovered, had Just given birth to a child when Bhe received the news of the disaster. FAIRBANKS BOLT IN TEXAS Many Republican Delegates Quit Convention, Which Indorses Taft, FORT WORTH, Tex.. May 16. The regular state Republican convention met here today with representatives present from 240 eounfies. Before the convention could organize, Moses Harris, from San Antonio, and Delegate Baer, of Lamar County, organised a bolt and a large num ber of delegates withdrew. The bolt was in the interest of Vice President Fairbanks and the bolters will send a full contesting delegation to Chi cago. ,The regular convention Indorsed Presi dent Roosevelt and instructed for Taft. Man Who Exposed Copperheads. CHICAGO. ' May 15. Felix Grundy Stidger, exposer of the "Golden Cir cle," who dropped dead here last Mon day at his home, was burled today. Stidger was a Secret Service man dur ing' the last two years of the war. He worked his way into the order of BILL IN CONFERENCE (Continued From First Pace.) bers from each house,, to be appointed by the presiding officers, to be called the National Monetary Commission, whose duty It shall be to Inquire into and report to Congress what changes are necessary or desirable In the mone tary system of the United States or In the laws relating to banking. All sf the Demccratlo cnemfcsra of taa DESCRIBES FAILURE TO ERROR Bryan Comments on Currency Bill. Approves Filibuster. WASHINGTON, May 15. William J. Bryan visited the Capitol today, con ferred and lunched with John Sharp Williams, held an informal reception in the lobby of the House, listened smil ingly to the assurances of Southern Representatives that their states will support him at Denver and In the hall chatted with newspapermen. The fact that only six Democrats In the House voted yea for the Williams currency bill, the measure indorsed by Mr. Bryan in the Commoner and whose support by a solid Democratic vote was by the Nebraskan prophesied. Mr. Bryan at tributed to a typographical error. "The stenographer," said he, "Inad vertently omitted two words in tran scribing the bill from dictation and this omission was in effect so serious a sort that It changed the real purport of the act- Had not this error been made I am sure that nearly every Democrat in the House would have voted for the bill." Touching the course of the Congress In this session, Mr. Bryan said: "I en tirely approve the Democratic filibuster which has been carried on In the House under the leadership of Mr. Williams." CLOSING-OUT SALE. Fine tailor-made suits, coats, waists, skirts, etc., at closing-out prices. Must be sold at once. Profit no object. Mc Allen & McDonnell, Third. vd Morri son streets. m fxr r small time, Father," said a boy, once upon a "when I grow up I to be boss of the United States Senate." He was. Later years later a United States Senator said, "We have no bosses here!" "Correct," said Nelson W. Aldrich, "you have no bosses; you have a boss." They had. But they have a boss no longer. Why? Read The Boss' Last Stand, in this week's issue of THE SAT URDAY Evening Post, and find out why. Another Young Lord Stranleigh story tells how the foolish young nobleman took a town out of pawn and made twenty-five mil lions between two "games of billiards. 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