VOL. XLIX.-NQ. 15,071. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 190D. , -pft rf!K ftvb rp'Ta REVISED TARIFF IS TARGET OF ATTACK Cross-Fire From Both Sides of Issue. DEBATE TO BEGIN ON MONDAY Democrats Will Assail Provi sions in Detail. HALE UP IN ARMS ALREADY declares Hill Would Icstroy Pulp Industry oi Maine Battle Prob- able on House Itule to Restrict Debate. NEW TARIFF OX XORTHWEST PRODUCTS. Wood pulp Frw. Print Paper Worth not over 2 ent, 1-10 cent per pound; worth not over m cent. 3-10 cent per pound. Lumber Timber. cent per cubio foot; wwed board. BO cent per 1000; all other sawed lumber. 1; if further advanced and manufactured, the aame reduction from the present law; paving pot, railroad ties, telephone polei and o forth. 10 per centum ad valorem; clapboards. 11 per thousand; laths, 20 cents per looo pieces; fence posts, free list. , Wool Carpet, valued at not over 10 cents per pound, 8 cents per pound: more than 10 cents and not over 18 cents. 3 cents per pound and. i cent for each additional cent of value; worth more than 16 cents, 7 cents per pound. Hktos Free; band and sole leather, IV per cent ad valorem ;" upper leather, 15 per cent ad valorem; boots and hoes, 15 per cent ad valorem. Coal' Bltumlnow. fres from coun tries admitting free. TVASHINGTOX, March 17. Making slashing reductions In duties on many of tha.. principal product of American In dustry, the Payne tariff hill -was today Introduced (n the House. It has already become the target of a cross-Are from the manufacturers on whose rates of duty the assault Is made and their supporters In Congress on the one hand and from those Democrats who maintain that the knife did not strike deep enough on the other hand.' The champions of the Iron and steel and the paper Industry have already declared themselves and other in ' dustrles will doubtless soon be heard from. House to Begin Debute Monday. The full membership of the House committee on ways and means. Including Democrats, will meet at 10 o'clock tomor row morning formally to consider the Mil. The Senate committee on' finance will at the same time begin Informal conslderaUon. It is likely that the House committee will have only one sitting on the bill, that the measure will be re ported to the House Immediately after it convenes tomorrow and that its formal reading In committee of the whole will won begin. Oeneral debate will be postponed until Monday, if. Payne's present programme Is followed. After that the measure prob ably will be before the House from 10 day to two weeks. This plan is slightly different from that followed in considering other tariff bills of recent years. It had been expected that the Democratic members of the com mittee would be afforded more time than Is now contemplated for the considera tion of the bill In committee. It ia still possible that, if they insist upon dWay and succeed In presenting good rea sons, they may be accommodated. Clark to Attack in Detail. Clark said today that he would make very effort in the committee, as he would n the floor of the House, to have the hill amended, and for that reason would ask for longer time. He added, how ever, that he would not press for more time for preparing a minority report. that could be formulated as well after tli bill had been reported as before. Payne's Inclination is to get the bill Into the House at the earliest practicable moment and his plans are so complete that U is not believed he will yield for a mere plea to offer amendments. Ii Is probable that a compromise will ho reached and that the Democratic members will accept a proposition per mitting them to present their amend ments on the floor. Clark indicated thnt his principal plea would be for that provision. He said he did not con sider general debate as of nearly so much Importance as the discussion of the bill, paragraph by paragraph, with the opportunity to suggest changes In the various schedules. It is there fore probable that. If Payne and his fellow Republican members of the committee concede this privilege, the Democrats will ucoept it in lieu of a similar privilege In committee, and make no serious protest against the Immediate reporting of the bill. Length of Debate Doubtful. No announcement as to the length of debate has been made and Payne has been quite wary on this point.' The lHngley bill was discussed In the House for only 10 days and of that time four days were devoted to general debate. (Concluded on Page 2.) milAtro AO rAiior ?imn. . -...... . . . : QUAKES AS CAUSE OF MINE HORORS SCIENTIST MAS THEORY OF RE LATIOXSHIP. Ijos Angeles Man Says Earth Jars Open Fissures by Which Gases Reach Mines. LOS ANGELES Cal., March 17. (Spe cial.) "William A. Epaldlng. a local scientist, who ranks high as a writer on the subject of earthquakes and allied natural phenomena, has reached the con clusion that the records of quakes, vol canos and mine disasters furnish suf ficient evidence to prove a 6trong possibil ity of Intimate relationship. His theory is that earthquakes and vol canic eruptions disturb the earth's crust and open fissures through which explo sive gases are discharged into deep mines and great caves. Consequently during and Immediately after severe disturbances of the earth's crust the accumulations of gases in mines are greater than usual, and explosions more likely to occur. Mine operators all over the country are discussing the advisability of install ing instruments to detect earth shocks in mines as a measure for the safety of the men who are employed underground. SECURES ART TREASURES New Tariff W1H Cause Importation of Over $20,000,000 Worth. WASHINGTON', March 17. Under the new provision of the proposed tariff which permits the importation of paint ings and works of art more than 20 years old duty free, art treasures valued at be tween 2O,O0O,O0O and $30,000,000 soon will grace the private and public galleries in the United States. Discussion of the effect of the new tariff on works of art among artists and col lectors today brought out the fact that the art possessions abroad of J. P. Mor gan are worth nearly J6.000.000. It Is well known that Mr. Morgan Is one of the most enthusiastic of the trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and that the removal of the duty which has kept his art treasures in London, will now permit their transportation to New York. Among the canvasses owned by Mr. Morgan abroad are Raphael's "Madonna of St. Anthony of Padua," upon which a value of $500,000 is placed; Rubens "Por trait of the Grand Duke," worth $125,000; and the famous Gainsborough canvass, "Duchess of Devonshire," for which $150, 000 was paid. BILLS BAR SABBATH FUN Vtah Solons Enact Modern- Blue Laws, Even Stopping Traffic. SALT LAKE CITY, March 17. The House, having passed a bill making It a misdemeanor to buy a ticket to a base ball game, a theatrical performance, a moving picture show and a great va riety of other entertainments, when given on Sunday, as well as to conduct the entertainments on tha day, the Senate has approved the bill with certain amendments. These providefor the punishment of anyone maintaining a bathing or pleasure resort and of any roalroad selling tickets or transport ing passengers to such a resort on the first day of the week. "With these pro visions added, the measure has been re turned to the House for concurrence. WIFE TELLS PITIFUL TALE Says Millionaire Husband Falsely Accused of Bigamy. ' MINNEAPOLIS. March 17 Declaring that the change of bigamy sworn out in Missouri against Mitchell A. "W. Mc Donald, a millionaire lumber and mine operator, now In the county jail here, was a scheme to extort moro money in addition to thousands he has paid al ready, Mrs. Catherine McDonald, his wife, told Governor Johnson such a pitfful story today that the Governor held up the re quisition papers ho Had already signed. The warrant on which McDonald was arrested was Issued at Kansas City and alleges that Belle Hamilton, eald now to be in Kansas City, was married May 10. 190S. to McDonald. It alleges that at that time McDonald was married to Catherine McDonald. WIDOW SEEKS INSURANCE Mrs. Rustin Sues Five Companies for Polices Aggregating $40,000. LOUISVILLE. Ky.. March 17. Suit has been tiled In the Louisville courts against five accident assurance companies by the widow of Dr. Frederick Rustin, of Omaha, found dead on his doorstep in that city on September 2 under sensational cir cumstances. Dr. Rustin, who was a noted Yale athlete on the teams of 1883. Is tacitly accused by the companies which are withholding payment, of a conspiracy with an Omaha woman to have himself killed by her. He was found dying on the front porch of his home by his wife, who heard the shot which ended Dr. Rustin's life. The policies aggregate about $40,000. ARSENIC POISONS FAMILY Colored Cook Mistakes Drug for Pepper, and Three May Die. MABEN, Miss., March 17 Seven members of the family of Robert Cot ton, a wealthy planter, were poisoned today by eating friend eggs containing arsenic, which the colored cook used by mistake for pepper. Three small children are In a critical condition. 101 FIRM BUYS TIBER HOLDINGS Pays $700,000 for Two Cowlitz Tracts. CROSSETT COMPANY IS BUYER D. C. Pelton Sells 3000 Acres and Syndicate 5300. BUILD MILL IN PORTLAND Concern That Has Acquired Rich Acreage of Yellow Fir and Cedar Will Soon Establish Big Plant Here. The Crossett Timber Company, of Da venport. Ia.. has purchased the timber holdings of D. C. Pelton. of Portland, sit uated in Cowlitz County. Washington, for a consideration of $260;000, and is ne gotiating for the purchase of the holdings of E. N. Selling and Plnley Morrison. & Son. the latter of Portland, for a consid eration of $450,000. The sale by Selling and Morrison & Son has also been prac tically closed, it is -understood. The Pelton holdings consist of 3000 acres of fine standing yellow fir and cedar situated in Townships 8, 9 and 10, Ranges 1. 2 and 3 east. Cowlitz County, while the properties of Selling and Morrison adjoin them and include 5300 acres. Both of the tracts were bought up in single homestead and timber claims from original settlers. Is Competitor of Wejerhaeusers. The purchase is an indication of the competition between the Crossett people and the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company in the Pacific Northwest, as the holdings just obtained lie close to the vast tracts owned by the Weyerhaeuser Company. A. P. Sprague, of Elgin, Or., with of fices at 204 Commercial Club building, carried on the negotiations as the repre sentative of the Crossett Company. Under the supervision of Mr. Sprague the land has been thoroughly cruised and esti mated, since L. S. Franck, of Portland, Obtained an Independent option on the Property February 3. Mr. Franck conducted the sale of the Pelton property and Is Interested in the prospective sale of the Selling-Morrison holdings. The latter deal is being con ducted by Finley Morrison, Board of Trade Building, who represents his own firm and E. N. Selling, of Manistee, Mich. Ship Logs to Portland. The timber lies near Castle Rock and Silver Lake, occupying a large district between the two places. It is not in tended to commence immediate logging operations, but the Crossett Company (Concluded on ' Page 12.) THE B. S. TO THE S. R. i L UNBREAKABLE RAIL WILL SAVE LIVES BOOX TO RAILROADS HAS BEEN DISCOVERED. , Independent Company Perfects Jfew Kail That Stands All Tests but Costs Dearly. CHICAGO, March 17. (Special.) The railroads of the United States can have a steel rail which will be guaranteed not to break, provided they are willing to pay the price. This statement, is made by officials of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, an Independent manufacturer of steel rails. While the officials of the company are trying to Impress this upon the operat ing men of the country, nearly 400 en gineering and operating experts are gathered here trying to draft such spec ifications and compel such tests as will Insure rails which will not break and cause loss of life ' and property. Among the exhibits is one by this independent steel company, which has a new rail and which stands ready to guarantee that it has a life many times as great as the famous Bessemer rail. Should this statement prove true, the American railroads will nave an end of the vexed steel rail problem, which is costing them, they say, many lives be sides destroying millions of dollars' worth of property every year. SUFFRAGETTES SCENT PLOT Oklahoma' Women ' Declare Solons Have Conspired Against Them. GUTHRIE, ' Okla.. March 17. (Special) Many Oklahoma suffragettes refuse to vote. They claim there is a deep-laid plot against them by the election offi cials, because it is required of them in registering to fill out a, slip giving their age, color of hair and eyes, and their politics. D. S. Levy, of Oklahoma City, secretary of the County Election Board, says of these requirements: "But Very few women will register. The ladles declare the : new law is a deliber ate slap at woman suffrage, and there is much fear and trembling on the part of the Legislators. FOUR KILLED BY MOROS Members of Naval Expedition Shot in Filipino Battle. NEWARK, N. J., March 17. Mrs. Wil liam Cook, of this city, whose husband enlisted in the Navy and went to the Philippines last July, announced tonight that her husband had been killed by na tives. Mrs. Cook said she had been in formed today by the Navy Department that Cook and three others were shot during a fight two weeks ago. MODJESKA IS VERY ILL Physicians Constantly Attend Fa mous Retired Actress. LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 17. (Spe cial.) A brlef dispatch from Newport Beach says that Mme. Modjeska, the re tired actress, is dangerously ill with a complication of diseases. Two physicians are in constant attendance. "BULLY! I COULDN'T GET BETTER RESULTS MYSELF.' FRANCE GUT OFF FROM ALL NATIONS Telegraph Strike Has Covered Republic. ALL BUSINESS IS SUSPENDED Government Cannot' Continue Balkan Negotiations. CLEMENCEAU SHOWS FIGHT Confident... Government Will Win, Though Telegraph,. Telephone and Mall - Service Blocked and Strikers Stand Firm. " PARIS. March 17. France was virtually completely cut off for a time tonight from telegraphic and telephonio communica tion with the rest of the world, and Paris was Isolated. After a few hours, however, telephonic communication be tween this city and London and Berlin was. restored by volunteers from other branches of the public service. Premier Clemenceau officially refused to offer terms to the strikers. He told the Justices of Paris, who suggested a bill creating a superior council which would consider the employes' griev ances," that' the Government" would promise nothing while the employes re mained out. The Premier declared the strike was senseless, entailing the grav est consequences, not only to business but to the country from an interna tional point of view. Clemenceau Accepts Fight. "The employes want to fight," he said, "and we accept. I am confident that the government will win." The strike extended sapldly throughout the day and at 6 o'clock the operators at the Bourse marched out, severing the last strands, which included the French Cable Company's New York-Brest com munication. Simultaneously the failure of the night telephone operators to ap pear put the final means of quick com munication out of commission. Other Cities Join Strike. The situation in the provinces cannot be considered much better, the public service employes in most of the larger cities having followed the lead of their Paris comrades. The international and interurban mails are at a standstill, en tailing heavy business losses. Some of the larger commerical and financial firms have sent agents to London, Brussels, Antwerp, Strasburg and other places, where they are receiving messages and conducting operations. The bourses here, at Lyons, Marseilles, and other centers (Continued on Page 3.) J MAFIA THREATENS AMERICAN CONSUL WARXED TO STOP 6EARCH FOR CRIMINALS. W. H. Bishop, at Palermo, Receives Letter Telling Him to Drop Pe trocini Case at Peril of Death. PALERMO. March 17. American Con sul W. H. Bishop has received letters threatening: his life and declaring that the Mafia will punish him even Vorso than It did Lieutenant PetrAuini i i continues to persecute Sicilian criminals wno wish to find a refuge in New York. A similar fate for him Is threatened in case be does not stop Inciting the Italian police to seek: the arrest of per sons suspected of comnlioltv in" rit against Petrosini. Consul Bishop hand ed the letters to the police, who took Immediate steps to protect him and the American Consulate. ROME. March 17. The Italian gov ernment has sent a communication to the authorities of a large number of cities, requesting that vigorous search be made for the murderers of Lieuten ant Petrosino or their accomplices. Es pecial vigilance Is being observed in Con stantinople, Tunis, Marseilles, Malta and ports of Egypt, while detectives have been sent to the place where the Mafia is known to have many adherents. THREE DEADm EXPLOSION Terrific Blast in Coeur d'Alene Works Wrecks Plant. WALLACE, Idaho, March 17. (Spe cial.) Three employes of the Coeur d'Alene powder works lost their lives this afternoon in an explosion which leveled four frame buildings of the plant, wrecked the fifth and also the building used as a concentrator by the Coeur d'Alene oncentratingr Company. The victims are: R. J. Skalberg, foreman, who leaves a widow and three children In Wallace; Pete Pico, mar ried, who lived near the powder works; Alvln Nelson, unmarried, who recently came from Seattle. J. K. Ogilvy. engi neer, was severely bruised about the head and neck, injuries not serious. The cause of the explosion is believed by Ogilvy to be the result of friction on the copper screen in the mixing room, where powder was being made and In which nearly 1500 pounds of nltro-glycerin was used. The force of the explosion was aug mented by nearly five tons of manu factured product stored in the build ings. SEEKS ALIMONY. 7 YEARS Divorced Wife Finally Catches For mer Husband by Chance. DENVER. Colo., March 17. (Special) Charging that for seven years he dodged payment of alimony for the support of their son, now aged 14, Mrs. Nellie Mc Gregor caused her husband's arrest after chasing him from California, and this morning Judge Dixon ordered John H. McGregor to pay her $790 and costs. In December, 1S96, the husband obtained a divorce In San Francisco. The mother was given the custody of the child and the husband, after paying her $350, was ordered to- pay tlO a month for the boy's m aintenance. McGregor did this until May, 1902, when he left California. While Mrs. McGregor was on a visit to Denver recently she met him by accident, started legal pro ceedings, and he must pay or go to jail. NEVADA BARS GAMBLING Bill Will Be Signed by Governor. Bridge Under Ban. CARSON, Nev. March 17. By a vote of 41 to 5 the Nevada Assembly con curred today in the Senate amend ments to the anti-gambling bill. The Legislature will adjourn tomorrow and the Governor' has intimated that he will sign the bill. The new law is made effective Oc tober 1, 1910, immediately nreceding a state election, at which it may be voted on through referendum. Bridge whist, poker and all banking games are prohibited under penalty for misdemeanor, punishable in justice court by six months in jail or $500 fine. BIG TOWER FOR WIRELESS Government Will Erect 60 0-Foot Long-Distance Structure. WASHINGTON, March 17. The 600-foot tower which the Government purposes to erect for wireless telegraph purposes may be located at Annapolis, Md., according to an official announcement made today. It will be capable of sending messages S000 miles and of receiving them from a distance of 1000 miles. Its foundation will extend 80 feet into the earth and Its diameter at the base will be 50 feet, and at the top eight feet. Concrete will be used in construction. MISSOURI AFTER NEGROES State Senate Passes Qualification Bill to Disfranchise Blacks. JEFFERSON CITY. Mo., March 17. The Senate passed a bill today to pro vide an educational qualification for voters. Most of the Republicans voted no. " The theory of the Democrats was that the bill would disfranchise more negroes than it would ignorant white foreigners. HARRIMAN READY TO GIVE UP REINS Physicians Tell Him He Has Done Enough. GRADUALLY YIELD CONTROL Will Let Go as Fast as Can and Consider Health. COMMENT ON ROOSEVELT Not Altogether to Blame, but Went Too Far Favors Regulation, but Thinks Competition Wastes Capital. LOS ANGELES, March 17. "Physi sicians have warned me that X must step out; they say that I have done enough. I am 61 years of age and have led a very active life. Yesterday they told me that they had noticed a change for the worse in my condition." These words were used by E. H. Har riman today to newspaper men in an nouncing his determination to relin quish gradually the active supervision of his far-flung railroad holdings. Mr. Harriman did not say that he would give up his control at once, nor announce any time when he would be free from the activities which have characterized his career, but he said that he would let go Just as fast as he could with reason, and that he would consider his health now above all else. In the same talk Mr. Harriman spoke of Theodore Roosevelt and his use of the "big stick" on corporations. "The former President .was not alto gether to blame," said Mr. iHarriman, "al though he went too far. The panic would not have resulted if Mr. Roosevelt had not carried on his prosecution of the cases against the railroads w-ith such vigor." Mr. Harriman said he favored regula tion and fair treatment; that the trans portation lines never wanted to give re bates, but that existing conditions made it necessary. "Railroad rates were never in a more stable condition than they are now," he said. "Capital should be devoted to de- (Concluded on Pase 4.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 48.7 decrees ; minimum. 42.6. TODAY'S Clearing with light frost in the early morning; northwesterly winds. Foreign. Austria on verge of war with Servia and Montenegro. Page 4. French telegraph and telephone strike stops till communication, but government will not yield. Page 1. Runaway train kills and Jftjures 30 and wrecks Montreal depot. Page 3. Cuban Insurgents surrounded by 10ou troops. Page 4. ' Good hunting awaits Roosevelt in East Africa. Page 3. National. Tariff bill introduced in Housu making rad ical changes. Page 1. Attacks on tariff bill begin and will come from both sides. Page 4. Lumbermen and other Interests prepare for tariff campaign. Page 4. Knox sends note to Nicaraguan Minister on Central American affairs. Page a. Domestic. Rush promises exposure of Haskell's meth ods in lighting land-fraud prosecution. Pag 3. Cooper case in hands of jury and disa greement predicted. Page 3. Los Angeles anti-recall faction plans tc enjoin election; Oswald flees to Mexico. Page 1. Railroad men discover unbreakable rail Page 1. Mine explosions attributed to earthquakes. Page l. Imprisoned lion-tamer forced to saw bars of cell in order to disprove testimony Page a. Harriman announces impending retirement to preserve health. Page 1. American Consul at Palermo threatened by ii lack hand. Page 1. Perpetrators of Rio Grande train robbery near Denver captured. Page 4. Alderman at Leadville, Colo., confesses grafting. Page 4. Sport. McCredie's Dutch beat Irish by score of 4 to 1. Page 11. Corbett challenges Johnson. Page 1L Multnomah athletes meet wrestlers from Pullman in tournament heie tonight. Page 11. Pacific Northwest. Charles J. Powell acquitted of murder charge through unwritten law. Page . Normal schools have taken no steps yet to start initiative. Page 6. Aberdeen actress has .sister arrested for stealing brother's adoption papers Page U Mistaken in Washington legislation being discovered. Page .". Judge Gordon's defense moves for trial on embezzlement charge. Page G. Kxplosion in Coeur d Aleno powder worke kills three. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Twenty-three cents offered for mohair. Page 17. General selling breaks "wheat prices at Chi cago. Page 17. Wall street not pleased with tariff bill. Page 17. Balfour, Guthrie & Co. fix French bark General Faidherbe" for cement and gen eral cargo at Antwerp. Page 16. Portland and Vicinity. Iowa Company biys CowlitK County tim ber tracts for 70O.00O. Page 1. Postal station planned close to trains. w-her mall will be distributed, saving time ia deliveries. Page 9. Excise measure for regulation of salooni will be submitted to vote of people. Page 10. Ordinance will be Introduced to discon tinue City Park Zoo. Page 1. Mount Hood road delayed by high price askedfor rights-of-way. Page 16. Ex-Deputy Sheriff Metz commits suicide in Courthouse. Page t. St. Patrick's Day is observed at HelUg T heater. Page 1 J. Clews said to have been' found to editors of anonymous high srhool paper, devoted to roast on fraternities. Page la. 4