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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statutes repealed.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
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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
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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.
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