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i XLIX.-XO. 13,009. PORTLAND. OEEGOV TIIKniv SESSION TO END AT PON TODAY Senate Will Consider Only T.en Bills. NORMAL FRACAS IN HOUSE Bill for $7500 for Expenses Passes Both Houses. TAX LAWS ARE DISCUSSED In Opinion of Legislature Gross Earnings Statute of 1906 Has Been Tlopealed w Uw Means Greater Income. STATE CAPITOL. Salem, Or.. March 15. (Special.) Tuesday afternoon will end the business of the Oregon Legislature, after a special session of about 30 hours: Only necessary matters -will be ad mitted before the lawmakers, except for the Normal School squabble, which has already Invaded the House, where Nor mal forces are strong. In the Senate, however, the Normal fracas will be cut short. The best that the Normals can hope for apparently is an appropriation to arry them through the current year. To obtain this they may be forced to accept termination of the Normal system and submit to a vote of the people In No vember, 1!H0, as to which of them. If any, shall survive. President Bowerman and his anti N'ormal followers have such a tight hold of the Senate that the Normals are dis heartened. Kxpeoj to Turn Clock Back. The House tonight adopted a resolu tion for adjournment at noon Tuesday. Speaker McArthur said It might be nec essary to turn the clock back. Each house continued the organiza tion of the- regular session this morning; by adopting resolutions declaring Presi dent Howerman and Speaker SicArthur the presiding officers. Three bills have passed both houses, one by Representative Bones, appropri ating J750O for expenses of the special session, one curing a defective emergency clause in the act creating a board to eliminate duplications in curricula of the Agricultural College and the State Uni versity, and one appropriating funds for improvements In state Institutions. When the curricula bill came up in the Senate It was amended so as to cut mention of the Normal schools, at the Instance of Bowerman, who Insisted that the Normals should not be so rec ognised. Bowerman wants all Normal statutes repealed. Hills that have passed the House only are: One by Clemens as to surety compa nies: another by Clemens exempting ho tels In Incorporated towns from the act compelling rope tire escapes; one by Ab bott, curing a defect in the act paying salaries of the Supreme Court clerk, balllf and stenographers; one by Belknap', Having $130 to tho state in payment of (George II. Small; and one by Farrell, curing a defect in the penalty clause of the act compelling doors of public buildings to open outward. The Senate has passed a bill curing a defect in the act appropriating 115,000 for the Union experiment station. Senate. Would Keep "Word. The Senate is adhering closely to a resolution which it adopted this morning, declaring thai only defective acts of the regular session, ten in number shall be considered. The House adopted a similar resolution by a vote of S3 to 26. but It is a dead letter as to normals since the House has admitted a bill to appropriate $120,000 for the normals and has adopted a resolution for separate referendum vote on each of the schools. The bill will come up for passage in the House Tuesday and will probably pass. The ten acts to which the Senate has resolved to limit its work are: 3. H. 16. Ropes for fire escapes in hotels, mil Hetschan. Jr.. of Portland, heads the lobby for the amendment on the ground that in cities where there are Are escape ordinances, the rope act would be a nuisance. ' S. B. 47. So as to authorize Union ex periment station to sell its agricultural products". i. K. S.4. Appropriations for state insti tutions. S. B. 99. Game code so as to protect elk. " M B. -Preventing duplication of studies in colleges; faulty emergency clause. 9. B. 131. New Code; conflict as to number of copies to be published. If. R. 9S. EKtors of public buildings to swing outward; defective penalty clause. H. B. 1SH. Reimbursement Qeorge H Small. H. B. 1-U. Diseases among cattle. ".' ,V.-""cSf,"i,"ies rIerks- stenographers and bailiff Supreme Court. Vetoes Allowed to Host. Both houses refused to consider a re vival for a votoed bill that Increases the salaries In Benton County. The Senate re.lecied the bill from Its list of subjects and the House indefinitely postponed it. It was supported by senator Johnson and Representative Bonebrake. The Senate also refused to include in its list a new bill taking the place of a vetoed act. requiring Supreme Judges to prepare their own syllabi. In the opinion of the Legislature, the two gross earnings tax laws of 1906 are .. dead because repealed by implication by ICuncluded on Page J.J . , " . ixiivxx JUU. BRYAN BLOWS HOT AND COLD AT ONCE HOPES TO RETIRE AXT ALSO TO BE SEXATOR. "Peerless One" Speaks of Chances or Democratic Party in 1910, - Also of His Own Chances. CHICAGO, March 15. (Special.) William Jennings Bryan, thrice candi date for President of the United States, almost pushed the thought of further temptations to seek public office com pletely behind his back in an Inter view today. "I hope that circumstances never again will arise which will cause me to be considered an available candidate for any public office," eaid he. It was a case of "almost, but not quite," however, for the Nebraskan, with great Bagacity, hastened to add that no man could be wise enough to see what circumstances might arise in the future, and that, therefore, he did not mean to say that he would never again become a candidate. "The future of Democracy is bright," he prophesied, "though not for the first time. In 1910 we shall have a majority in Congress. With the supply of new material which Is developing within the party, in 1912 it will be possible to find some new man, who, by logic of events, will be the unanimous choice of his party for President, and who win be the choice of the majority of the voters of this country. "Nebraska has adopted the Oregon plan of popular elections," added Mr. Bryan. "I do not know yet whether I will be a candidate. A Senatorship I aspired to even when a boy. If there seems to be a good chance to elect to the Senate from Nebraska some other Democrat will please me better than to be a candidate myself." MASSACRE STIRS PERSIA St, Petersburg- Hears Sanguinary Rumor From Julfa. ST. PETERSBURG, March 15. A dis patch to the Novoe Vremya from Julfa on the frontier between Persia and Russia, says that 1000 Persian govern ment . horsemen and 600 Infantrymen were marching on Julfa from the Per sian bank of the Araxes River, devastating- the villages in their path and shooting down the people. Already 10 villages, four of them inhabited by Russian subjects, have been pillaged and burned. The troops are ruthlessly killing the fleeing peasants. Many women, carrying their children on their backs, were made to swim the Araxes River to the Russian side, but were shot down. Three hundred homeless families have taken refuge on an island in the river opposite Julfa. LLOYD FORTUNE TO SISTER l-'raternal Bodies Also Remembered by Late Knight Templar. SAN FRANCIS JO, March 15. The will of the late Reuben H. Lloyd, the pioneer lawyer of this city, and past grand mas ter of the grand encamnment. Tfnlirhto Templars, was filed today for probate. greater part or his estate, reputed to be worth about tl.000.000, was left to his sister, Mrs. Mary Hoadley, who is SS years of age. A life interest in certain property is to go to Mrs. Alpha West, a niece, who la in receive Mrs. Hoadley's interevt in the es tate at the latter'a death. The entire estate Is to go eventually to, the three children of Mrs. West Mr. Lloyd directed that J30.000, be di vided among several Masonic and Odd fellow bodies. PLANS WIRELESS PHONES Los Angeles to Make Experiment In Xear Future. LOS ANGELES. Cal., March 15. Wireless telephones are to be estab lished In Los Angeles, and if the ex periment proves to be the success Its projectors claim for It. they will be made a permanent institution. William Dubiller. of Newark. N. J., who is chief electrician of a wireless telephone company,, arrived today. He says the company has control of an in strument by means of which articulate speech can be sent any distance without wires. Some of these instruments will be working in Los Angeles as soon as they can be installed, he says. "YANKEE" STORE JAMMED American Department Idea Makes Hit In London. LONDON. March 15. Fully 150.000 per sons visited a big American department store here today on the occasion of its formal opening. The great majority of the visitors were women, who were anxious to discover what en American store was like. "Yankee" enterprise, as it is generally called here, has electrified the old firms to frantic efforts to outdo the new com petitor. REVIVE THREE-CENT FARE Missouri Railroads' Take Advantage of Mc.Pherson Decision. CHICAGO, March 15. The resumption of a 3-cent passenger rate in Missouri on April 10 to replace the present 2-cent rate, declared confiscatory by Judge Mc Pherson. was decided upon totlay at a meeting here of executive and traffic of ficials of the interested roads. ISSUE UP TO PEOPLE, E House Agrees to Let Voters Decide. THREE SCHOOLS OR NO SCHOOL Senate Opposed to Any -New Normal Legislation. STRONG LOBBIES PRESENT Trouble Starts in House W hen Res olution Is Introduced to Pro vide Money Until Election in Xovember, ' " 1 9 1 0. STATE CAPITOL, Salem,' March 16. (Special.) Normal, schools find them selves in the same plight in the spe cial session, as in the regular one, un able to control the Senate, although holding- the House in the palm of their hand. They have lost ground in both bodies, since the regular session, on ac count of the disaffection of members who do not want the normal squabble dragged back. Altogether their out look is dismal. Foes of the normals in the Senate hold the key to the situation. They control a majority of the members of that body against appropriating funds to keep up the three schools. A ma jority Is likely to consent, however, to grant funds to continue the schools during the current year. This is the best that the normals can expect to win from this Legislature. People to Decide. The Legislature is likely to put up the normal question to the election in November, 1910. for the people to sslect or abolish any of the three normals. The schools are i 'working for this re sult, and the House today adopted 'a resolution for It; but they want funds to keep them going until after that election, and these they cannot appar ently obtain in the Senate. Normal Bill in House. The Senate touched the normals only glancingly today, by adopting a reso lution of Bingham's to consider nine defective measures of the regular ses sion and by directing the education committee to cut out reference to normals in a bill of Speaker McArthur's, which creates a board to remove dupli cation of studies in higher institutions of learning. The House adopted a similar resolution, without specifying the defective bills, by a vote of 83 to 26.' Soon afterwards, however, the House received a bill introduced by Repre sentative Barrett, of . Umatilla, appro priating 140,000 for each of the schools (Concluded on Pose 6.) 'WONDER IF THAT NDRMAL MAYB I : ' TEXAN AND FRIEND AGREE ON MURDER HCSBAXD A VETOES LOSS WIFE'S LOVE. OF Betrayer Confesses, Then Asks "Wronged Man to Shoot "With Careful "Aim. FORT WORTH. Tex.s March 13. (Spe cial.) Fred Morris, in jail here, admits that he deliberately shot and killed Otto H. , Meyer, his former friend. He de clares that Meyer knew his death sen tence had been pronounced and that he unflinchingly accepted his fate. The shooting followed a confession writ ten and .signed by Meyer, that he had won the love of Mrs. Morris; and the avenger will rely on the unwritten law to free him of the charge of murder. He said that as he prepared to shoot, Meyer bared his breast and spread his arms out to offer a fair mark, begging his executioner to take careful aim and be cartain of hitting the heart. NEVADA TABOOS GAMBLING Even Bridge Whist Put in Same Cat egory With 1-aro and Roulette. CARSON CITY. Nev.. March lo.-By a unanimous vote the Senate today passed the anti-gambling bill as amended by the Judiciary committee of the upper house. This vote followed after the amendments had been carried by 10 to 8 and those favoring the abolition . of gambling are jubilant tonight over the successful out come of their fight.' The bill will be given to the Assembly tomorrow and, while Its friends there are not in favor of the amendments, they are lining up to pass it as it now stands. The chief changes made by the Senate are the extension of the time to October 10, 1910, when it shall go into effect, and a provision putting bridge whist and ail other games of cards played for money or prizes in the same category as faro and roulette and the other banking gam bling games. STANDARD FINED $20,000 Oil Company Denied Xew Trial in New York "Concession" Case. BUFFALO, . N. Y., March 15. Federal Judge Hazell today decided the motion of the Standard Oil Company for a new trial and imposed a fine of $20,000. The case hinged on the 8tanlaxl'a accepting concessions from railroads on shipments of oil from Olean, N. T., to points In "Ver mont. NEW SERVICE TO PORTLAND Through Cars From East to ThU City and Los Angeles. SALT LAKE CITY, March 15. As a result of a conference today between General Passenger Agent Lorn ax. of the Union Pacific; D. El Bnrley, of the Ore gon Short Line; J. M. Scott, of the Ore gon Railway & Navigation Company; T. C. Peck and C. E. HoopeY, of the Salt Lake route, and other passenger officials, through cars will be run from the East to Los Angeles and to Portland, Or., by way of Denver. WOULDN'T IMPROVE THE LOOKS OF THE MAP?' INSURGENTS 1'JI f J BITTER - CONTEST Battle of Rules Divides Both Parties. PERSONAL WRANGLES ARE MANY House Adopts Fitzgerald's - Plan, Rejects Clark's. DALZELL IS-TURNED DOWN Wings of Speaker Clipped After Cannon's Re-election and Can non Says He Likes It Says Bryan Suffers Defeat. WASHINGTON. March ,15. After one of the stormiest sessions in its history, the House of Representatives today, re gardless of party alignment, adopted by a vote of 211 to 172 a. resolution by Fitz gerald (Dem., New York), whereby the rules were amended in several Important particulars. Joseph G. Cannon was re elected Speaker. The insurgents did not win the com plete victory they counted on. but suc ceeded in bringing about an exceedingly lively session and obliged the majority to adopt the Fitzgerald resolution, which' is in the nature of a compromise. Victory for Insurgents. The Fitzgerald resolution was a substi tute for one offered by Clark of Missouri. Its adoption was accomplished only after the Insurgents, with the aid of the Dem ocrats, with one or two exceptions, had won a decided preliminary victory by voting down a resolution by Dalzell, making the unamended rules of the Six tieth Congress applicable to the present Congress. Such was the fever heat of the controversy that Clark of Missouri got into a spirited colloquy with Dalzell, who had mounted the rostrum to read the resolution oi the minority leader. Clark, wanted him ordered away from the aesk,-to-whieh Daizell objected, saying he had a right to know what the meas ure contained. This incident led to a controversy with the Speaker, which lasted long enough for Dalzell to get the information he desired, and he re turned to his seat. Clarke and Fitzgerald Quarrel. Shortly afterward, when Fitzgerald's resolution was up, Fitzgerald was drawn into a colloquy with Clark, who desired him to yield for a question. Much bit terness was displayed by the two men. Fitzgerald at first refused to yield. He later did so, but Clark declined his "prof fer of time, remarking that the New York member would live to regret his action, which called forth the retort from Fitzgerald that he was not to be "scared by any threats." As analyzed by parliamentarians, the (Continued on Page s. ) PRICE ETHEL BARRYM0RE FINALLY MARRIED THREE DISPENSATIONS NEED ED FOR CEEEMOX Y. Groom Not Catholic, Bride Not in Home Diocese and Wedding Takes (Place During Lent. BOSTON, March 15. Miss Ethel Barry more, the actress, and Russell Grtewold Colt, of Bristol. R. I., son of Colonel Samuel Pomeroy Colt, were married at the rectory of the Roman Catholic Church of the Most Precious Blood in Hyde Park yesterday, according to an announcement made tonight by Miss Barrymore's manager. The marriage was formally witnessed by John Barrymore. brother of the bride and . by Roswell Colt, brother of the groom. Several church dispensations were necessary, as Mr. Colt Is not a Roman Catholic. His bride is a resident of an other diocese, and it is not the custom of the church to marry in Lent. SHINGLE MILLS WILL OPEN AVashington Association Decides to Lift Ban in Spite of Market. SEATTLE, Wash.. March 15.-(Special ) Announcement has been made by the Washington Shingle Grading Association at its headquarters in Everett that shin gle plants throughout the state which have been closed in order to lend stimu lus to a weak market will resume opera tions March 23. Notwithstanding the par alyzed condition of the market, the cen tral committee has decided that inas much as the financial arrangements for the carrying on of a system of inspec tion will be perfected about March " the wheels will be allowed to resume on that date. Friday morning, in the rooms of the Washington Shingle Graders' Associa tion, will occur a meeting of all grade inspectors of the state, for the purpose of discussing what constitutes an off grade shingle. ANTI-BETTING LAW VALID Louisiana Supreme Court Puts End to Horse-Racing. NEW ORLEANS. March 15. By an unanimous opinion the State Supreme Court today upheld the constitutional ity of the Locke law prohibiting gam bling: on racetracks and approved the sentence of several months' imprison ment and 300 fine imposed on Robert Sheffield and Placfde Frtgererio. who served as bookmakers in a test made of the law at the City Park racetrack. The decision will, it is believed, be accepted as putting an end to attempts to operate racetracks in Louisiana while the law remains on the statute books. It is also considered exceedingly probable that both Frlgererio and Shef field, having simply been used for the purpose of making a test, will be par doned, so far as the imprisonment feat ure of the sentence goes. IRON IN BED STARTS FIRE Astoria School Teacher Is Badly Scorched by Flames. ASTORIA, Or.. March 15. Specia!.) A peculiar accident that narrowly escaped resulting in a serious conflagation oc curred at the Irving Hotel early last even ing. . Miss M. Dobbs. a. teacher In one of the local schools, who Is a roomer at the hotel, placed an electric iron In her bed to keap her warm. She fell asleep within a few moments, but awoke in a short time to find the bed clothing in flames. Springing from the bed, she gave the alarm and the flames were extinguished by the inmates of the house before any damase was done other than the destruc tion of the bedding. The young woman received a few slight burns, but her in juries are not of a serious nature. MISS DRESSLER SHY $7000 American Actress Wilting to Pledge Future Earnings for Debts. LONDON, March 15. The liabilities of Marie DresBler, the American actress, amount to $10,000 and assets to $3000, ac cording to estimates presented at a meet ing of the creditors today. The liabilities, however, do not Include the unpaid sal aries of her conmpay. Miss Dressler's solicitors said she had sold all her jewels to meet the salaries, which were paid at the end of the first week, and offered' to make over one quarter of her future earnings to the amount of $7600. FOURTH SUICIDE IN SERIES Man Who Finds Body or Third Takes Same Poison. VENICE. 111., March 15. Twenty-four hours after he had picked up the body of a suicide, C. B. Smith, a well-to-do resider of this city, ended his life to day 'with carbolic acid. Robert Nichols, the man he tried to aid, drank the same poison. Robert NicTiols had killed himself, after his brother, John, and Miss Beryl Somers had ended their lives. The last three suicides were caused by a love romance. CALIFORNIA REMAINS WET Senate Defeats LoonI Option Mea sure by Tno-to-One Vote. SACRAMENTO. Cal.. March 15. The local option bill was defeated In. the Sen ate this afternoon by a vote of 12 to 25. FIVE CENTS. PLANS AGREEMENT OF PACIFIC ROADS Harriman Expects Con gress to Act. ALLOW RAILROAD POOLING Then Improvements Will Be Rushed Through. LET STRONG HELP WEAK AVizard Refuses to Admit Confer ence Called on Subject and Is Silent About Changes of Managing Officials. PASADENA. Cal.. March 15. Notwith standing all the efforts that have been made to prevent pooling of railroad in terests and combinations among those who control stocks of railroads, there is evidence today that E. H. Harriman has in mind a scheme to bring about a mu tual understanding in regard to traffic rates among all the roads to the Pacific Coast that will be greatly 0 the benefit of the stockholders and that the confer ence which Is to be held at Pasadena while Mr. Harriman is here will be concerned more or less with the plan. Expects Congress to Act. Not all the railroad men who are to take part in the conference, which Mr. Harriman still denies will be held, have arrived and nothing of importance has yet been attempted. C. O. Butterworth, of the New York Central road, will ar rive some time tomorrow, it is expected. Mr. Harriman evidently expects confi dently that Congress at the special ses sion will make some amendment to. the laws governing the Interstate Commerce Commission's work which will permit of the merger he now has In mind. He seemed surprised today over the fact that mention of the matter had not been made in the call for the special session.' Will Rush Improvements Then. Mr. Harriman was asked: "How soon do you expect the railroads to be able to resume work on improvements that were contemplated before the panic?" "YouNmay say." he answered, "that as soon as an amendment is passed giving the Interstate Commerce Commission C Continued on Page 2.) INDEX OF TODAY'S ' NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 60.8 degrees; minimum, 39.3 degrees. TODAY'S Fair, followed by IncreaMnK cloudiness and cooler weather; easterly winds. Special Session, House votes to submit normal Issue to vote of people. Page 1. Republican Legislators greet Governor Ben son with hearty ovation. Pace 7. Legislature agrees to take no action on Chamberlain's vetoes. Page 7. 6-peclal cession proposes rto adjourn at noon today. Page 1. Lively row follows introduction of bill for nre-flghtlng apparatus at Asylum. Page 1 ' foreign. General strike of French telegraphers. Page 5. Servia refuses to give Austria definite an swer on armaments. Page 2. National. Insurgents and Democrats win battle on House rules after bitter debate; Cannon re-elected Speaker. Page 1. Nicaragua, tells Knox she does not seek wax. Page . Becker protesest against Fulton's appoint ment as Judge. Page 3. Politics. Bryan hopes never again to run lor Presi dent, but may run for Senate, page 1. Stephens elected Mayor of Los Angeles, but legal contest Is sure; exposures before grand jury promised. Page 4. Domestic Argument in Cooper trial finished, Jury will take case today. Page 2. Man killed by wronged husband at his own request. Page 1. Efforts to float transport Logan fail. Page 3. Ethel Barrymore marries Colt. Page 1. Harriman says great railroad improvements will be made if Congress legalizes pool ing and plans great transcontinental mergei. Page L San Francisco man confesses murder to save brother's life. Page 4. Sports. Entries are being closed up for the big Marathon race, page 10. E. P. Weston starts to walk from New York to San Francisco. Page 10. Dorando wins Marathon race with Hayes. Page 10. Pacific Northwest. Great Northern said to have made peace with Gordon In order to block grand 1ury probe. Page . Senator Ruth, president of Washington Sen ate, calls Hay "uaregenerata Pop u List.' Page 6. J ury secured in Powell case at Albany. Page 6. Commercial Club of Idaho forms league a Lewiston. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. First sale of 109 Oregon mohair. Page IT. Wheat is weak and lower at - Chicago. Page 17. Stock speculation at New York Is dull. Page 17. Inquiry into accident to Burnslde bridge be gins today. Page 17. Portland and Vicinity. Taxpayers pour in $1,000,000 on last day rebate is allowed. Page 11. Man accusing preacher of alienating wife's affections abjectly witdraws charge. Page 12. Insurance men of Portland organise bureau for rate adjustments, page 0- Howard Elliott coming to try to straighten out terminal station troubles. Page 10. Dr. A. Tilzer is sued for $7500 damages Page 11. Federal Court must decide ressponsibllity for river collision. Page 16. Italians ask Chief Grltzmacher for protec tion against "JB lav-khan d." page 12. V