THE MORNING OHEG0NIAX, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 15, 1909. ROOSEVELTKHflWS STRAIN IS TENSE Single Misguided Act Might Force Rupture With Nip pon, in His Opinion. GRAVEST CONCERN FELT Most of President's Time and Atten tion for Weeks Past Given to Problem of Averting Pos sibility of Break. ORBGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Feb 14. Never, during his long term of office, has President Roosevelt been more deeply concerned over any Na tional question than be Is over the pos sibility of a rupture with Japan. It is not stating It too strongly to eay that the President, knowing the situation as he does, feels that a single misguided act of hostility In this country, may force a rupture, the extent and result of which no man can foresee. The defeat of the anti-Japanese bills In California has for the present postponed the Issue, but has not changed the general situation. From his many conferences with public men and representative citizens from all sections, the President finds that the peo ple do not attach proper significance to the Japanese question. There Is a gen eral disposition to look upon the con troversy very largely as newspaper sen sationalism. But the President knows differently, he regards the situation as un- usually grave, an.l one demanding the most adroit handling. Japanese Question Paramount. As a matter of fact, the Japanese ques tion has occupied the bulk of the Presi dent's time and consideration for the past three or four weeks ever since anti Japanese bills were Introduced in the California Legislature. Daily the Presi dent has been In consultation with the hMds of the State Department: with rep resentatives of the Japanese government, with Senators and Representatives, lead ing men of California and other far western states, and much of his cor respondence has had to deal with tills subject. Latterly ho has been consult ing with other prominent men from Pa cific Coast and Rocky Mountain states, undertaking to impress upon them, and through them, their people, the desir ability of avoiding conflict with Japan. The President has felt all along that if the people of the entire country would once awaken to the true Importance of ; the situation, that public sentiment from the outside would be so strong that the b'tter element on the Paciflp Coast would realize; that the Japanese question. In its present shape, is one that affects the whole Nation, and not any one, or two, or half dozen states where a consider able portion of the population Is made up of Japs. When "'Butting In" Is Necessary. Some of those who have counseled with the President have expressed the view that he should not "butt-in" on the Leg islatures of California, Nevada and othfr states: that he has no such constitutional authority, and that any such action on l is part would be properly resented. The President has replied to such of his ad visors that when a single state under takes to legislate In a way likely to In volve the whole Nation in war with a fopeign power, it is his privilege his duty, to do his utmost to prevent the enact- ment of inflammatory legislation in any such state. In other words, he feels th.-jt it is incumbent upon him, as President of the whole United States, to use his In fluence In any emergency when the hot heads and the agitators of any single state attempt that which means much to the entire Nation. When President Roosevelt first entered the White House, It was predicted by his enemies that he would Involve t he country in war before the close of his Administration. Now that a serious situa tion has arisen, he has gone perhaps farther than any other man in his posi tion would have dared go in an effort to avert war. He has shown that he is -a man of peace; not an advocate of war. He would not for a rr.lmite have peace if It could be had only without honor; yet it is his firm conviction that there Is nothing in the prtstnt situation in Call ; fornia or elsewhere that Justifies war be . tween the United States and Japan. , War Would Be Costly. War with Japan at tills time would be costly to the United States, and It would be protracted. An Army officer of wide experience, who has seen long service in the Orient, speaking of possible trouble with Japan, made this statement: "If war should be declared betwen the United States and Japan, the Japs would have possession of the Philippines within a very few days after the opening of hostilities. They have as complete maps of the islands as we have; they are close by, and could, on short notice, land 10 or 20 times the number of troops we now have there, and our httle military force would be quickly swept out of ex istence. In all likelihood, the- Japs couid capture the Hawaiian Islands with almost tiie same ease, and they could get con trol of much territory, particularly strategic points. In Alnska. "It is not doubted that after a long : selge: after our battleships were sent back to the Pacific, and after a largely augmented Army had been assembled on the Pacific Coast, the United States could regain the territory captured by Japan and the United States would be forced to recover this territory If it sought to re - tain its standing as a world power but the recovery of this domain would not be brought about except at heavy cost, financially, and In the lives of men and hisa of property. A war with Japan, therefore, would be a most deplorable one from our standpoint." President Has Counted Cost. Well informed as is the President, It is not to be doubted that he personally appreciates the situation in all its serious ness, and knows the cost of conflict with tiie Japanese. It Is because, of his knowl edge, and because he has reckoned on the cost, that he is so much concerned in checking hostile action in t he legisla tures of tiie far western states. The troubles of which thoso states complain can. he believes, be adjusted without oitVring serious affront to a foreign gov ernment: Indeed, he still maintains that under an agreement between the United Spates and the Japanese government, the Japanese question is being slowly, but effectually settled. If this process, begun under his direction, is allowed to pro ceed, he f.els certain that the things complained of will be ultimately remedied a.id without bloodshed on either side. If war with Japar. should be precipi tated. Theodore Roosevelt, private citizen though he will be at the time, will find bis way to the front. But he, is not seek ing military honors. He has bent every energy, as never before. ' to mold puhlc sentiment on the Japanese question, he is still laboring In that direction, and if, HaTora March 4, he shall succeed In smoothing out this bothersome situa tion, he will retire feeling he has won one of the greatest victories of his Presi dential career. BIST DAYS rOK CONGRESS Much Work Ahead for Next Two Weeks. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. Congress this week will give all possible attention to appropriation bills, as it has become a pressing necessity that bo'h hbuses shall act promptly If the measures are to be come laws In the few remaining days of the session. The . Senate will take up the naval bill Monday and when that is disposed of the Postotfice bill will receive attention. The Senate is so far behind that night sessions will be necsary. The House is In better shape, but has little time to spa re. Work on the Indian bill will be re sumed Monday. It will be followed either by the Consular and Diplomatic bill or th Fortification Appropriation bill. The Senate has its hands full nnd early attention will be given to the Canadian boundary waterways treaty and the New Foundiand treaty. The Panama and Co lombia treaties may not be disposed of until after March t. The nominators to which there ' are objections will go over with the result that the Incoming President will have an opportunity to fill the places with men of his selection. The House tomorrow will consider the bill giving separate statehood to New Mexico and Arizona and likely will pass It. Prospects for the- bill in the Senate are unfavorable. The bill removing the Constitutional obstructions In the way of Senator Knox's becoming Secretary of State, likely will be favorably acted upon by the Houso. SHOT REVEALS TBI GIRL AHRRSTKI) FOIi WOUND ING HUSBAND. Victim of Shooting Also Husband of Girl's Mother Quarrel Over Valentine. ST. JOSEPH. Mo., Feb. 14. In the shooting of William Smith, a carpenter, here today, which Is expected to result fatally, there came to light one of the strangest entanglements in the lives of three persons ever known. A girl 22 years old, who shot Smith, avers to the police that she married him knowing that her mother was already his legal wife. The three have lived for years together, the man as the husband of both. The shooting this afternoon occurred over the sending ot a comic valentine. The girl, who styles herself Mrs. Cora Smith, while her mother is known by the name of Mrs. William Smith; sent the carpenter a comic valentine. Smith grew angry when he revived It, and after packing up his clothes, started to leave tin; -house. Thinking he was going to desert her. the girl shot him. The girl s mother says she married Smith In 19V2. Her daughter was by a former husband. A year after their marriage, she says, she found that her husband had Improper relations with her daughter. She made him marry the girl, she says, without first securing a divorce. The girl and her husband both bear out the story. Mrs. Cora Smith, who shot her husband, was placed under arrest by the police. She will be held pending Smith's condi tion. REFORM BILL FOR SPAIN Deputies Pass Administration Mea sure After Year's Debate. MADRID. Feb. 14. After a discussion lasting more than a year, the Chamber of Deputies has passed tile local admin istration's bill, the principal features of tho government's programme. It In creases the powers of the municipality and the provincial councils, giving them new prerogatives and providing a cer tain degree of local economy, especially with regard to education, public works and charitable Institutions. There Is every reason to expect that this far-reaching reform measure will pass the Senate and will be put into op eration before the end of the year. CHILI CONCARNE POISONS Wife Dead and Husband Not Ex pected to Recover; LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14. Mrs. H. E. Bennett is dead and her husband has but a slight chance for recovery, as a result of eating canned chili-concarne. Soon after eating the chill Mr. Bennett began to feel 111 and soon fell to the floor. Mrs. Bennett summoned a physi cian, but had hardly left the telephone when she also was overcome, and when the doctor arrived .he found the two unconscious on the floor. Mrs. Bennett died at 11 o'clock Saturday night, after suffering terribly- from convulsions. Ben nett's chances for recovery are slight. MONTANA HAS JAP ISSUE Labor Committee Expected to Rc port Memorial Favorably. HELENA. Mont., Feb. 14. That the Morton anti-Japanese memorial will be favorably reported by the committee on labor in the House seems certain from statements made by members of the committee. They will amend it slightly and In Its amended form the resolution asking that the Chinese exclusion act be continued and extended to take in other Mongolians, will no doubt pass tho House. There is a possibility, however, of the bill to segregate Mongolian school children being enacted. TALES MAY JAR SOCIETY ( Continued From First Page-) take the riding test prescribed by Presi dent Roosevelt last Summer. The troubles of the Tucker family date back to 1H0I. when the Colonel was sta tioned in the Philippines. They became public In J'.OT, when Mrs. Tucker filed charges with the War Department, in when she charged her husband with be ing intimate with Mrs-. Myrtle Pratt, a teacher in the Islands. On pctober 13, Mrs. Tucker swore out a warrant for the arrest of her husband, charging him with desertion. He was arrested and paroled. The following day he left for Hot Springs. Ark., to take treatment at the Government hospital. Mrs. Pratt went with him. Since that time the case has been smoldering and wlH be aired tomorrow. Burglar Makes Small Hani. VANCOUVER. Wash., Feb. 14. (Spe cial.) A buglar entered Ed. Brandon's cigar store, on Main street, from th! rear last night, and tapped the till for as cents and a Mexican dollar, dated 1S71. Nothing else in the store was missing. BERESFDRD IS OUT Retired by Admiralty Before Age Limit Is Reached. CHANNEL FLEET DISPERSED Largest nnd Best Ships of Navy to Be Grouped Under Vice-Admlral May for Home Defense. May Provoke Discussion. LONDON. Feb. 14. It was announced by the Admiralty tonight that Admiral Lord Beresford. Commander-in-Chief of the Channel fleet, will vacate his com mand on March 24. The fleet will then disappear as the chief fighting unit of Admiral I.orfl Charles nerenford. Who Una Been Retired by British Admiral ty Before Age I.lnilt. the first line of Great Britain's naval force. Henceforth the more important vessels of the Channel fleet, under command of Vice-Admiral Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne, now second In command of the Channel fleet, will form the second di vision of the main fleet under supreme command of Sir William May, Second Lord of the Admiralty. It Is understood this means the prac tical retirement t of Admiral Charles Beresford and that 1 : will be placed on half pay. In the ordinary course. Lord Charles would have retired under the age limit in February, 1S11, but the govern ment desired to group all the newest and best ships under Vice-Admiral May's command for home defense. The action of the government, how ever, in thus prematurely "etiring Beres ford, Is likely to arouse again the acri- monious discussions so frequently asso ciated with his name. 52 FURTHER DETAILS OF WRECK ON NEW ZEALAND COAST. Lifeboats Swamped in High Seas. ' Bafts Found to Be More Serv iceable. WELLINGTON. N. Z., Feb. 14. Fifty two bodies have been recovered from the -wrecked steamer Penguin, of the Union Steamship Company, of Welling ton, which went on the rocks Friday night off Cape Terawhite. Six of those aboard the Penguin are unaccounted for. In all, the passengers and crew num bered about JH). The ship struck about 10 o'clock at night, but the captain remained on the bridge and after his vessel slid Into deep water was able to steer her closer in shore. The seas were running high and the small boats and rafts which were launched could not withstand the waves. The boats' and rafts were overturned, but wlille tho boats practically sank, the rafts righted themselves a number of times. Many acts of heroism were performed, some of the stronger of those struggling in the water helping the weaker to re gain the frail crafts. After several hours of suffering the majority of the survivors on the rafts reached the phore, demonstrating that rafts are more serviceable than boats In a heavy sea close to a rocky shore. One of the rafts with ten men aboard thrice capsized, but all scrambled back and were ultimately cast upon the cliff and were saved. Four boats came ashore some hours later and all were badly crushed. CELTIC TO AID SUFFERERS Scorpion Out of Commission on Ac count of Boilers. NAPLES. Feb. 14. The United States gunboat Sc-orpion will be out of com mission for six weeks, owing to the con dition of her boilers. On this occount the supplyship Celtic will remain in these waters in order to aid In the distribu tion of American timber. Commander Huse, of the Celtic, visited the earth quake zone, inspected the work which is now being done, and expressed the warmest admiration for the Italian army and navy, whose performances, lie said, are beyond praise, many of the officers engaged in the earthquake district being wornout by their labors. RACING ENDS IN MONTANA New Law Satisfies Anti-Racing Ele ment of State. HELENA. Mont., Feb. 14. With the sipnlng of the racetraqk bill by Governor Norris, the sate will he without any form of licensed gambling except during fair weeks, at which races are to be held throughout the state. The bill has passed both houses of the Legislature and will ba transmitted to the Governor early this week. The new law is en tirely satisfactory to the anti-racing ele ment of the state. IOWA HONORS GEN. WEAVER Portrait to Be Unveiled in State Historical Building:. DES MOINES. Feb. 14. Tomorrow - . - .. v,- .. V-.-;,' ; T. v t : a y 1 Iowa will pay homage to one of Its dis tinguished citizens when a memorial por trait of General James B. Weaver, twice .candidate for the Presidency of the United States, will be unveiled at tne Iowa State Historical Building. Prin cipal anions the speakers will be W. J. Bryan, one of General Weaver's closest friends. -v The day will start with a breakfast at the Savoy in honor of General and Mrs. Weaver and Mr. and Mrs. Bryan. At 2 o'clock the programme incident to the unvealing of the portrait will begin. At 6 o'clock a banquet will be given at the Savoy under the auspices of the Demo cratic legislators, and attended by both Republicans and Democrats. Governor Carroll will preside at the un veiling ceremonies. Ex-Governor Warren Garst will deliver an address, as well as Colonel Lafe Young and Rev. Father J. F. Nugent. Senator W. D. Jamieson will be toastmaster at the banquet. STDRfilS IH MIDDLE STATES SLEET AND SNOW BLOCK TRAF FIC IN CHICAGO. Lake Steamers Are Behind In Their Schedules! AVI re Service Is Badly Interrupted. CHICAGOr Feb. 14. A heavy fall of sleet and snow, driven by a high wind, interfered with transportation and seriously Interrupted wire communication over a large portion of the Lake Michi gan district today. The storm was gen eral through the Central West. Northern Illinois, Northern Indiana, Missouri and Kansas had little communication with the outside world by wire tonight. vIrt Chicago traffic on the surface, ele vated and steam roads is being operated with difficulty. A gale on the lake made passenger steamers far behind their schedule time. BITTER COLD IN KANSAS Zero Weather and Sleet Ties Up Traffic In Southwest. KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Feb. 14. Zero weather and the worst sleet and snow storm of the Winter prevails in the southwest tonight. All over Kansas the fall of sleet has been heavy, causing de layed traffic and bad wire communica tion. In Oklahoma the storm began Saturday night with a rain followed by a sudden drop of 4S degrees in temperature. Sleet and snow have been falling almost con tinuously'. Streetcar traffic Is paralyzed, and wire service is seriously interrupted. Stock will suffer from the extreme cold. ZERO WEATHER HITS TEXAS Coldest- in Lone Star State Since Blizzard of 1899. FORT WORTH, Tex., Feb. 14. North Texas last night experienced the coldest weather since the blizzard of 1890. The temperature began falling Saturday morning and continued to drop until last night, when 19 degrees was registered. The minimum forecast for today Is two degrees above zero. SNOW BLOCKADES TRAINS Service In Minnesota Badly Inter rupted by Storms. ST. PAUL, Minn.. Feb. 14. Railroad traffic throughout Minnesota was badly blockaded today as the result of a snow and wind storm. The trains on all the lines are many hours late. The tracks are reported as rapidly filling with drift ing snow. Telegraph AA'Ires Are Down. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 14 A heavy Bleet storm north and west of St. Louis has broken many telegraph wires. At Keokuk, la., a hurricane blew down the towers on the bridge across the Mississippi River and all wires eastward were broken. Two Persons Killed In Tornado. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 14. Two persons were killed and seven badly in jured at West Point this afternoon in a tornado. MARSHAL CLAIMS REWARD Starbuck Officer Says He Can Lo cate II. II. Harmon, Missing. WALLA WALLA. Wash., Feb. 14. (Special.) Word was received last night from George Actor. Constable of Star buck, that he was entitled to the reward of 5100 offered to any person who would produce H. H. Harmon, a rancher, who mysteriously disappeared from his home February 5. Constable Actor does not claim to have found the man, but states that he has been informed concerning his whereabouts and is consequently entitled to the re ward. When questioned concerning the matter. Actor would only say that Har mon was at work on a ranch near Star buck and that he could produce him if assured of the money. A city attorney, who has the business of Harmon under control, still believes that he ha3 met with foul play. WIRELESS CATCHES THIEF Arrest Is Made on Board Ship Far Out at Sea. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Feb. 14. The value of wireless telegraphy as an ad junct to the operation of the machinery of Justice was demonstrated today when John Ryan, seaman on board the United States ship New Hampshire, was placed under arrest and confined to the ship's brig at the request of District Attorney Winslow, of Westchester County. The request for the arrest was flashed to the New Hampshire by wireless while that vessel was several hundred miles out at sea on her . way to meet the American battleship fleet. Ryan is wanted for alleged participa tion In a burglary at Ossinning. N. Y. One of the burglars upon being arrested, turned state's evidence and hnpllcated Ryan. RECORD PRICE FOR LAND AVheatfarm of 320 Acres Near Ath ena Sells for $26,500. PENDLETON, Or.. Feb. 14. (Special.) By the sale of 330 acres of Athena wheat land for $26,500 it Is believed that the top notch has been reached for this class of land. Dan and Alex McKenzie have paid this price for the half section owned by the Watrus estate. While the Improvements on the place were Jn cluded. it still remains a record-breaker, as $10,000 a quarter is considered an ex ceptionally good price for wheat land. A few years ago this same place could have been bought for $5000 or $6000. KEEP OUT YELLOWS Assemblyman Drew Fears' Country Will Be Overrun, i TWO RACES NEVER BLEND Declares Americans Will Become Servants of Japanese If Immi gration From Orient Is Not Checked. SACRAMENTO. Cal., Feb. 14. Assem blyman A. M. Drew, of Jj'resno, who recently introduced an anti-alien land bill. In a sermon preached at the Cen tral Methodist Episcopal Church, this city, tonight, spoke In part as follows: "The history of the world teaches that a co-mlngling of the white and yellow or the white and black races, always brings the white race down and never brings the yeHow or black up. It results in a shiftless, worthless mongrel race that the world does not want. The South American countries were settled with the people of the mixed Spanish and negro blood, and that is the thing .that places the South American lauds where they are. "The Monroe doctrine was one of the most pernicious the world has known. That country teems with natural wealth, but tho people who Inhabit It are the most worthless In the world. And now the Monroe doctrine I has crossed the continent to California. I say to you that the white race never has, and never can stand where the yellow or black race meets it. I say to you that if conditions go on as they now are it will not be 50 years until tlje white race becomes the typewrit ers and the servants of the yellow. To compete with the yellow race the white man would starve to death. "The Japanese are fastening them selves to our soil. Only today. a man on the train told me that he had sold I95.00G worth of land In Orange County to a Japaneje. They will buy a tract of land and live in a shanty that a white man could not exist in, and by saving every dollar they accumulate wealth. "If the Japanese comes the white man must go. No perfect man can come from the mixture of blood. The two races cannot live together. I say to you. don't cermit them to take our land: I say to you, don't permit them to drive out our people. "1 think I know why President Roosevelt sent orders to the State of California to keep Its hands off the question of excluding Japanese from our schools, from our lands. This coun try has $400,000,000 of trade with the Chinese eacli year, and I believe he thinks Japan could so manipulate mat ters as to close the doors of Chinese trade to us." ITALY THANKS AMERICA Grateful for Aid Rendered to Earthquake Sufferers. BALTIMORE, Feb. 14. "My govern ment has many things for which to thank th3 people of America since the earth quake in Southern Italy," said Baron des Planches, the Italian Ambassador at Washington. In an interview today. "Besides the great monetary assistance and the sympathy we have received, we are grateful for the scientific informa tion which we have received and the valuable flints which have been given ui by the United States geological survey. This information will be of more lasting benefit to Italy than even the great sums of money that have been sent to our people." Messina was going to rebuild, he said, but profiting by the lessons of the San Francisco disaster, it would be done on different lines. BOY DIES FROM EXPOSURE In Icy AA'atcr Three Hours After Boat Has Capsized. PORT SIMPSON. B. C. Feb. 14. (Spe cial.) Being in the icy waters of Port Simpson Buy for three hours caused the death of Arthur Flewln. aged 15, son of a pioneer resident of the British Columbia Coast, Saturday. With another lad, named Walter Bren tenzen, Simpson tried to cross the bay in a small boat. The water was rough and the boat capsized, rolling over and over. Brentenzen climbed on top of the upturned boat and held up Flewin, who had on heavy boots. Flewin died from th3 exposure, but his companion re covered. CONTRACT COMPANY SUED Portland Firm Defendant in Dam age Suit for Death of AA'orkman. ASTORIA, Or., Feb. 14. (Special.) 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