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NO PROFITS FOR .
MRS. J. A. PATTON
SWIXDLER SI'FARLAXD SAYS
MOTIVE WAS BEXEVOLEXCE.
POPULACE RAGES
AGAINST CASTtfO
EXPECTS PORTERS
TELLS CHICAGO OF
GREAT NORTHWEST
PORTLAND'S OFFER TO WIXDY
CITY CHILDREN'.
TO LIVE ON TIPS
PULLMAX COMPANY PAYS SAL
ARY OF $25 A MOXTH.
AS LOVING FATHER
GETS SPECI
SECRET SERVICE
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COUNT BOM POSES
NATIONAL
MUSEUM
IVILLINOUIREINTO
MENS
Senate Resents Insult
in Message. ;
PARTIES UNITE ON RESOLUTION
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i - Roilew a'nrf Tillman Ar Partin-
WUIIWJ UIIU 1 1 1 1 I Ml I 1 W Ml
ularly Angry.
ROOSEVELT NOT RESTLESS
But Hale Says Senate fs Restless
and Indignant Republican
Leaders Accept Culber
son's Amendment.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1(5. The Senate
today decided definitely to enter upon
n investigation relative to the portion
of the annual mcRajzre. of the President
which criticises the action of Congress
in prohibiting the detail of secret service
mm to duty In other departments than
the Treasury Department.
The resolution directing the Inquiry has
been In contemplation ever since the
message was received on Tuesday of
last week, but there had been some, dif
ficulty in arriving at the terms in which
It ehouid be couched and In agreeing
upon the proper person to Introduce It.
It was at last decided that Aldrich should
stand sponsor for the measure, and today
after Lodge had completed his speech
on the Brownsville affair, the Rhode Is
land Senator took the floor and pre
sented the resolution.
Culberson Secures Amendment.
Culberson, the caucus leader of the
Democrats, immediately sent up a ub-
stitute which was somewhat more speci
fic. Both measures were promptly re
ferred to the committee on contingent
expenses and almost immediately after
ward Kan from that committee reported
hack the Aldrich resolution with a rec
ommendation that It pass. Culberson
made a prompt objection arid It looked
for a time as if the consideration of the
subject would be postponed until tomor
row. Finally the Democrats made it known
that they would Interpose no objection to
the immediate consideration of the Aid
rich resolution If the portion of the Cul
berson substitute directing the committee
on appropriations to advise the Senate
specifically as to the course of action
it should take with reference to the
message could be Incorporated In It.
The resolution was again referred to
the committee on contingent expenses
and Chairman Kean of that committee
was prompt In reporting a recommenda
tion for the adoption of the AJdrich reso
lution with the addition of the Culberson
provision. After a very animated dis
cussion the resolution was adopted with
out division and thin was the Inquiry
decided upon. The resolution as adopted
follows:
Find Out All About Tt.
Resolved. That that portion of the an
nual me,,, of the rrrsldont relating to
the Secret Service I. hereby referred to the
committee, on resolution., who are Instructed
to Inquire whether the legislation referred
to In th. meM.re ha. Impaired the ef
ficiency or sufflclenry of the force emploved
in the Secret Service; and such committee
are further directed to ascertain what per
son, other than tho.e Included In the Se
cret Service were paid from the Public
Treasury for the fiscal year ended June 30
Jns. for service. connection with the
enforcement of the law. or for work In the
detection or Investigation of possible crimes
or criminal acts or violation of the law In
cluding all special attorneys, special agents.
Inspectors or other employes of any depart
ment of the government, or any branch of
the public service, .no also some Information
a. to all person, whose employment was
authorised by Indefinite or general appro
priations; the Information to contain the
names of all persons so employed or paid,
their previous occupation, the nature of
the work In which they were engaged, bv
whom they were appointed, and upon whole
us reel Ion or recommendation; the Inquiry,
however, not to Include officer, appointed by
the Posldent and confirmed by the Senate
or officer, specifically provided by law. or
laborer, appointed as such and actually en
gared In employment as laborers.
The resolution further authorizes
the committee on appropriations to
subpena wltneses and examine them
under oath and further to report what
action, if any. in the Judgment of the
committee, the Senate should take In
the matter.
Wanton and Gross Insult.
Bailey objected to the resolution be
cause It did not request the committee
to .Inquire Into very "gross and "im
proper words in the President's mes
sage." He said:
"Either Congress Is the most In
famous body that ever assembled In
any part of the world or It will take
some notice of this most wanton and
gross Insult ever given any body In
the world."
Aldrich Insisted that the resolution
provided for Just what Bailey advo
cated, but the Senator from Texas re
torted that, if that was Included In the
resolution. It was in mild terms.
Hale declared the resolution was suf
ficiently strongly worded to permit the
committee on appropriations to make
the kind of report required by Bailey.
Tillman Tours Ont Wrath.
"I would like to inquire from the
Senator from Maine." Interposed Ttll-
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Commercial Club Invites 50 to Tour
This Section and See Wonders
With Own Eyes.
CHICAGO. Dec. IS. (Special.) The
Commercial Club of Portland, through
Its manager, Tom Richardson, tesued an
invitation to the Chicago Association of
Commerce today to bring out at least
50 public school children and show them
the great Northwest. He not only issued
the invitation, "but coupled with it was
the agreement that the commercial or
ganizations of the Pacific Northwest
would settle the bill and would see to it
that the children learned something
about geography and about the most
wonderful rart of the United State.
The ways and means committee of the
Association of Commerce, before Mr.
Richardson appeared today, received the
suggestion with enthusiasm and It is un
derstood that steps will be taken to se
lect, in some manner yet to be deter
mined, a boy and a girl from at least
25 of the best public school and arrange
for them to take the trip under the espe
cial guidance of the Commercial Club of
Portland.
It is Mr. Richardson's idea that after
their trip through the Northwest, the
school children will come back to Chi
cago and write essays and stories about
that section of the country and tell ChL
cago something about - it.
CANNON WILL SEE FAIR
Has Promised to Attend Opening of
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific;
SEATTLE. Dec. IS. "Uncle Joe"
Cannon. Speaker of the National House
of Representatives, will attend the
opening exercises of the Alaska-Yu-kon-Paciflc
Kxposltlon on June 1 of
next year. Hts formal acknowledg
ment of an Invitation is the first made
by any member of the National Admin
istration. Unless either the President or Vice
President comes to Seattle for the
opening exercises, the Speaker of the
House will be the official representa
tive of the National Government. It Is
not believed to be possible to Induce
the President to coine West, but the
Vice-President might find it possible
to attend. Though Speaker 'Cannon
was originally opposed to the exposi
tion appropriation, lie finally consented
to the passage of the measure.
NEGRO BURNED; TO DEATH
Molten Metal Buries Colored Labor
er in Lavalike Mass.
PUEBLO. Colo.. Dec. IS. John Irvine,
colored, employed at the Colorado Fuel
& Iron Company In this city, was In
stantly killed and hisarms, head and
feet burned off his body at 9:25 o'clock
this morning when a blast furnace
burned out, spouting a stream of lava
like metal over a tract alongside of
which Irvine, with two fellow workmen
were working..
The men with Irvine made an almost
miraculous escape, having observed the
accident barely In time, and suffered
only slight injuries. Irvine was immedi
ately buried in the molten metal, and it
required over two hours of labor to dig
his mutilated body out.
FLIRTING IS NOT GROUND
Woman Denied Divorce Because
Husband Ogled Other Women.
SEATTLE. Wash., Dec. IS. (Special.)
Notwithstanding that Otey Newton
Freeland testified emphatically that her
husband was very cruel to her by flirt
ing with other women when he was on
the streetcar or walkings with her on
the street. Judge Griffin decided that
her grievances ' were not sufficient to
Justify a divorce decree, and denied her
petition for freedom from the marriage
bonds, as well as a similar petition of
the husband, this morning.
J. Arthur Freeland, the. husband, as
serted that his wife had deserted him
since July 15 last, but the Judge held
that the desertion was not proved. The
couple were married August 22, 1506.
RUNAWAY SHOT BY OFFICER
Maddened Horse Stopped on Busy
Street by Timely Bullet.
SEATTLE. "Wash., Dec. 16. (Special.)
Unable by other means to check the
flight of a maddened runaway horse. Pa
trolman "William Donlan this afternoon,
on Tester Way, near Second avenue, drew
his revolver and while on the run beside
It, fired a bullet into the animal's brain.
The horse fell dead In Its tracks. ,
The owner. Harry Murphy, an express
man, arrived a few minutes later and was
Immediately seized and taken to the
police station .on a charge of letting the
horse stand without hitching him to a
weight, as Is required by law.
ARREST ALLEGED FORGER
Man Whose Relatives Seek His In
surance Found After Two Years.
PRINCETON. Ind. Dec. IS. Henry T.
Agar, ex-secretary and treasurer of
the Princeton Milling Company, who was
reported drowned in the Wabash River
21 months ago and over whose alleged
death VTO.OOO of Insurance Is In litigation,
was arrested In Harrington, Tex., and
confessed hia identity. After his disap
pearance Agar was charged with forgery
and embezzlement of JIW.OOU.
Roosevelt Contracts for
African Hunt.
NATURALIST TO JOIN PARTY
Prepare Animals. Killed and
Send Them Home.
ROOSEVELTS TO KILL THEM
President Will Pay Kxpenses for
Himself and Son, but Museum
to Pay for Naturalists.
Ten Months In Africa.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. The agree
ment between President Roosevelt and the
Smithsonian Institution as to the Pres
ident's hunting trip in Africa was made
public today by Charles D. Wolcott, sec
retary of the Institution.
The board of regents yesterday consid
ered the President's letter and adopted
a resolution entering into a contract wlta
the President for certain work. The Pres
ident wrote to Dr. Wolcott as follows:
"About the first of April next, I intend
to start for Africa. My plans are, of
course, indefinite, but at present I hope
they will be something on the following
order:
Roosevelt's Hunting Plans.
"By May 1 I shall land at Mombasa and
spend the next few months hunting and
traveling in British and German East
Africa; probably going through or to
ward Uganda, with the expectation of
striking the Nile about the beginning of
the new year and then working down it,
with side trips after animals and birds,
so as to come out at tidewater,' say,
(i bout March 1. This would give me
en months in Africa.
Collect Animal Specimens.
As you know, I am not a game butcher.
I like to do a certain amount of iiunt
"ing, but my re'ttl a.id main Interest is
the Interest of a faunal naturalist. Now
H seems to me that opens the best chance
for the National Museum to get a fine
collection, not only of the big game beasts
but of the smaller animals and birds of
Africa and. looking at it dispassionately,
I believe that the chance" ought not to
be neglected. I will make arrangements
to pay for the expenses of myself and my
son. But what I would like to do would
be to get one or two professional field
taxidermists or naturalists to go with me,
who should prepare and send hack the
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Millionaire's Wife Introduced to "De
. Luxe' Agent by President of
First Xatlonal Bank.
CHICAGO, Dec. 16. -(Special.)-! ames
B. Fortnan, president of the First Na
tional Bank, introduced John M. Mc
Farland, the "de .luxe" book swindler, to
Mrs. James A. Patton, wife of the
Ehanston grain king, according to revela
tions at the trial of the case today. It
was through this introduction that the
$22,000 swindle of Mrs. Patton . was un
wittingly brought about.
The fact of the introduction was re
vealed in the rapid-Are cross examina
tion with which Attorney . Forrest plied
the witness who had turned state's evi
dence In the case against Samuel T.
Warfield. and William N. Cooper, ac
cused of having been leaders in the al
leged swindle. That McFarland was aft
erward arrested In San Francisco at the
instigation of the creditors' "committee of
the Dumont Company was also brought
out by Attorney Forrest.
According to McFarland's story, ''Mrs.
Patton's motive in taking the books was
one of pure benevolence. "She distinctly
refused to take any of the profits." he
declared.
John McFarland admitted that he had
been In jail in San Francisco during the
earthquake. He said he did not know
what the charge against him was.
"Wasn't it forgery and obtaining
money under false pretenses, brought by
the Dumont people : ho was asked.
"No, it wasn't." replied the witness.
Further examination along this line
was cut off by objections. x
CAN COLLECT BUT $50,000
Broker's Clerks Alleged to Have
Specnlated In Xames of Others.
DETROIT. Dec. 16. Interest in the
failure of the brokerage firm of Cam
eron, Currle & Co. last July was height
ened today when Assistant Prosecuting
Attorney Egan said: "Somebody con
verted the goods and money of the cus
tomers of Currie & Co. to his own use.
We have taken the statements of three
clerks to their speculating under the
names of others. They have ducked
and dodged."
Attorney F. W. Stevens, representing
the trustee, in a report to the referee
today said that not over $50,000 of the
$1. 200,000 of book accounts are consid
ered collectible.
Cameron Currie said today he had
turnt-d . o ti-. 'to U trustee all of his
property.
BOOTH IS OPERATED ON
Salvation Army Chief Has Cataract
Removed From Eye.
LONDON, Dec. 16. General William
Booth, Commander-in-Chief of the Sal
vation Army, was operated on this after
noon for cataract. The doctors are hope
ful that he will completely recover his
lght.
ROOSEVELT ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD
Sacks Houses of Chief
Adherents.
MAKES BONFIRE OF PICTURES
Capital of Venezuela Prey to
Rioters All Day.
MAY END DICTATOR'S REIGN
Lottery Is Looted and Stores of
Hated Supporters Gutted Prose
cution of Men Who Fired
on Mob Is Begun.
CARACAS, Monday. Dec. 14 (via Wll
lemstad). Open revolt against Presi
dent Castro and his supporters broke
out here today. Defying the police,
which was powerless against Its num
bers and fury, a great mob raged
through the city. It wrecked the prop
erty of Castro's leading supporters and
gathered together all of his statues and
pictures which could be found and
made a great bonfire of thera on the
Boulevard de Plaza.
Official action deposing Castro from
the Presidency is expected fci ny mo
ment. His power is probably ended.
An enormous crowd of the inhabi
tants of the capital, swelled by people
from the outlying country, gathered in
the streets soon after daybreak. The
people began marching up and down
the main thoroughfares, and it was
easy to see that the ill-temper would
result In violence. The police stood by
and made no attempt whatever to re
strain the mob.
Loot Lottery Monopoly.
The first building to be attacked
and looted was that of the lot
tery monopoly. The offices of the state
enterprise that has enriched itself at the
expense of the people were ransacked and
pillaged.. Furniture was - broken and
thrown Into the streets and piles of' lot
tery tickets were destroyed. The crowd
then moved to the printing office of EH
Constitutional, the organ of President
Castro, of which Gumersindo Rivas is
editor, and pillaged it completely. A
steam laundry belonging to Benor Kivas
was wrecked.
Castro's Henchmen Targets.
. The crowd then turned Its attention to
several drugstores belonging to Senor
Thielen. a son-in-law of General Tello
Mendoza, and turned them Inside out.
General Mendoza was at one time Min
ister of Finance under Castro, and one of
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General Manager Dean Testifies
That Public Tips Because Em
ployes Are Underpaid.
CHICAGO, Dec. 16. The tipping system,
particularly as It applies to the Pullman
Company, underwent a fleeting inquiry
before Interstate Commerce Commis
sioner Lane today. The statement was
made by Richard Dean, general manager
of the Pullman Company, into whose
rates Mr. Lane is inquiring, that the pub
lic tips the porter because he is under
paid, and observed:
"The tipping custom Is the result of
selfishness of persons who desire better
service than their fellows and are will
ing to pay for It."
Counsel for the complaint asked Mr.
Dean:
"What is the salary of a porter?"
"They are paid 12o a month," answered
the witness.
"Dees the company furnish them their
meals?"
"The company does not."
"I think it takes that much to buy
their meals then?" commented the lawyer.
MARINE OFFICERS TO WALK
President Orders Severe Hiding and
Pedestrian Tests.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 16. Physical
tests once in two years for marine corps
officers are prescribed in an executive
order Just Issued. Field officers are re
quired to take a riding trial of 90 miles
in three days and line officers with grade
of captain or lieutenant will have to
walk 60 miles in three days, actual
marching time. Including rests, to be -0
hours.
"In battle." said the order, "time is
essential, and ground may have to be
covered on a run; if these officers are
not equal to the active physical strength
of their companies the men will be
held back, resulting In unnecessary loss
of life and probably defeat. Company
officers will therefore be required dur
ing one of the marches to double time
200 yards with" a half minute's rest, then
300 yards with one minute's rest, and
then complete the test in a 200-yard
dash, making In all 700 yards on the
double time and one and one-half min
ute's rest."
ABTHUR C. SPENCER NAMED
Will Be Special Prosecutor for Stale
In Finch Murder Trial.
Arthur C. Spencer, associate counsel
for the Harrlnian system in this terri
tory, will be associated with District
Attorney Cameron In the prosecution of
James A. Finch for the murder of
Ralph B. Fisher. Mr. Spencer will ap
pear as special prosecutor for the state
in this case at the request of District
Attorney Cameron. Mr. Spencer for
merly was Deputy District Attorney
under John Manning, resigning his
position to accept his present place
with the Harriman interests.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
Foreign.
People of Venezuela rise In revolt against
Castro. Page J.
Turkish Parliament to hold first session to
day. Page 7.
Count Bonl renounces claim for allowance
and his lawyer scores Da Sagan and
Gould. Page 1.
National.
Congress exults over denunciation of
Roosevelt's Panama message. Page fl.
Roosevelt contracts to supply specimens to
National Museum. Page 1.
Senate decides to Investigate Roosevlt'i
Secret Service "insult." page 1.
Domestic.
President Pehurman speaks for inheritance
tax. Pass 2.
Prosecution opens in Hains' trial and gets
rebuke from Judge. Page 5.
MeFarlane says Mrs. Patton's motive In
buying books purely benevolent. Page 1.
Pullman manager admits porters malnly
pajd by tips. Page 1.
Chicago's school children invited to North
west by Portland Commercial Club.
Page 1.
Sport.
Betting men arrested at New Orleans race
track. Faclllc Coast.
Judge Root says he has made no plans for
returning to bench. Page C.
Livestock men in convention at Chehalts.
Page 6.
Ex-Senator George Turner says Mead will
hold over till Cosgrove qualities. Page 7.
Governor thamberlain advocates permanent
conservation commission for state.
Page 7. a
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature.
42.1 degrees; minimum, 34.9.
TODAY'S Fair, northerly winds.
Portland and Vicinity.
Dana Sleeth Indicted by grand Jury for
criminal libel. Page 10.
President Newhall. of East Side Bank, sued
for $7000 by Iowa man. Page 10.
Coyote chased by dogs through city streets.
Paga 10.
Mavor to place on Council responsibility
for fixing city tax levy. Page 10.
Property-owners ask heavy damages for
ground needed for opening of Oak street.
Page 12.
Dr. E. A. Pierce elected president of State
Board of Health. Page 16.
Grand Jury returns 14 indictments and four
not-true bills. Page 10.
Multnomah delegation to House prepares
banking and other laws for considera
tion. Page 11.
State Attorney unmercifully grills Dr.
Whitney In closing of manslaughter trial.
Page 18.
Abstract companies' stenographers must
leave Courthouse to make room for tax
rolls. Page 16.
Portland Credit men recommend bills to
Legislature. Page 11.
Commercial and Marine.
Improved demand for Oregon prunes.
Page 17.
Wheat prices advance slowly at Chicago.
Page 17.
Repurchasing of stocks causes advance.
Page 17.
Shipmasters complain of poor facilities for
supplying vessels with drinking water.
Page Id.
Gives Up Money Claim
Against Anna.
SOLE ANXIETY FOR CHILDREN
Says Princess Threatened to
Disinherit Them.
NONE WORSE THAN PRINCE
George Gould Denounced by Bonl
for Interfering Clemenccau
Say Real Battle Is Between
Two Men Involved.
PARIS. Dec. IS The. last day of the
hearing of the suit brought by Count
Boni de Castellane against his former
wife, the Princess de Sagan. formerly
Anna Gould, in which he petitions the
court to award the custody of his three
children to his mother, the Marquise tie
Castellane. brought out he fact that the
Count had withdrawn his demand that
the court allow him a yearly income of
$t.000 for keeping the children.
M. Bonnet, speaking for the Count, read
a letter from his client filled with indig
nant protests that he should have been
charged with instituting the proceedings
to obtain money, and in which the Count
abandoned his claim for the allowance.
He insisted that his only object In want
ing the children was his solicitude for
their moral and physical welfare.
Count Seeks Public Sympathy.
It is evident that the Count has recog
nized that his claim for the large allow
ance has Injured his case in the eyes of
the court and the estimation of the pub
lic, and his tardy renunciation is con
sidered a clever move to enlist interest
in his favor. Nevertheless, the public is
greatly astonished that the Count should
go to such an extreme.
The proceedings .wr..fiUed with allega
tions from both sides. The public prose
cutor will present his conclusions next
week and the court will then render its
decision. It will either dismiss the
Count's plea or grant him the custody of
the children, or. if doubt exists, will or
der the taking of testimony.
The Princess de Sagan continues to be
sanguine of a favorable decision.
Refuses to Sell Children.
After asking the court to take note of
the modification of the petition of Count
Bonl de Castellane, M. Bonnet launched
into a vigorous denunciation of his ad
versaries today. He charged that on
many points the defendants did not dare
to meet the allegations of the Count, cit
ing particularly the allegation that the
Princess de Sagan was ready to leave her
present husband.
'They did not dare challenge this state
ment," the lawyer said, "because they
know that the proposed separation has
been formally communicated to De Cas
tellane's attorneys."
Continuing, M. Bonnet said that all the
offers of settlement made by the Princess
de Sagan were conditioned upon the
Count's renunciation of the children, but
the Count refused to sell either himself
or his children. The Princess had told
Judge Ditte that, if the children were
taken from her. she would disinherit
them, thus proving that in her eyes
even-thing was a question of money.
Anna as Good a Spendthrift.
Referring to the charges that De Cas
tellane had dissipated his wife's fortune,
M Bonnet Insisted that the Countess was
iust as much responsible as her husband
for the "royal extravagances." such as
the MalakofT palace, the Chateau Marals
and the Charity Bazaar, which alone
coFt $300,000.
The lawyer particularly resented George
Gould's share In the defense, saying that,
now the question of money had been
eliminated. Mr. Gould was playing the
mysterious role of Crawford In the Hum
bert affair. As a matter of fact. Mr.
Gould always had opposed the marriage
of his sister to the Prince de Sagan and
he only finally consented on condition
that there should be a separation of
property.
None Worse Than Prince Hclle.
Does Mr. Gould fear that his sister
will get another divorce and make a
more unfortunate marriage?." asked M.
Bonnet. "No. I can reassure him: the
Princess can find nobody worse than De
Sagan."
The lawyer then asked the court to
order the taking of testimony on points
which the defense had declined to meet.
In conclusion he appealed to the court
to withdraw the three children from the
custody of their mother, who had mar
ried a man renounced by one of the
greatest families of France and who "had
spent a month In prison," and place them
in the care of the mother of the Count,
whose only purpose was to direct her
grandchildren In the right path.
Nothing but Gallery Play.
Speaking for the Princess, M. Ciemen
ceau characterized De castellanes
change of attitude on the money question
as a "gallery play," induced by his tardy
appreciation of the unprecedented char
acter of his demand for an allowance of
$60,000 a year and the severity with which
the public had condemned and ridiculed
him. Touching the Count's statement that
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