VOL. XLIX XO. 15,139 PUNS TO KILL INCOM r tiiv ilL I HA Autocrat Ready for Any Means to Win. WOULD RETIRE WITH VICTORY Hopes to Lure Timid Senators to Pigeonhole It. WILL MAKE VEILED THREAT Tell Protected Interests Income Tax Would Require Slashing of Du ties Bluff to Be Tried by Income Taiers. OTSEOONTAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ngton. June 4. Although Aldrich has Indicated the tactics he intends to pur sue to kill the income tax amendment to the tariff bill in the .Senate, and al though he has demonstrated his ability to get votes enough to accomplish his purpose, those Senators who sincerely believe in income tax legislation and who have had the courage to stand by their convictions still hope against hope that at the critical time they will muster enough strength to secure the adoption of their pet measure. This is optimism in the extreme degree. The income tax amendment, in the Judgment of experienced men. is dead. To defeat this one amendment Aldrich would go to any. length. His reputa tion is really at stake. If the income tax amendment should be adopted by She Senate, it would be accepted by the House and would become the law of the land. Aldrich has decreed that this amendment shall not be adopted by the Senate. In face of that declaration, its adoption would be the severest defeat he has ever sustained, and he Is not willing, at this late day in his career, to accept defeat such as this. He ex pects soon to retire from the Senate, and he wants to retire with victory, ..nat- dffeat, written across his standard. Pigeonhole or Postpone. Aldrich will defeat the income tax amendment either by having it referred t a committee which he knows will not report it or by a motion to post pone its consideration until Congress is more fully advised as to the neces sity for such legislation. The former course is the more likely to be followed. Such a motion as that will get the sup port of all Senators who are opposed to an Income tax and it will also get the votes of perhaps half a dozen Senators who do not like the Income tax. but who would ba scared into votii.g for it if the question were put squarely before the Senate for adoption or rejection. The only way the income tax amend ment can be adopted is by voting down Aldrlch's motion to refer it to a com mittee. This probably cannot be done, though the friends of the amendment seem to believe it will be possible. They will strain every effort to defeat this motion, and if, by any chance, they should be successful, they could at once secure the adoption of the amendment. Try to Bluff Timid Ones. To this end the income tax Sena tors propose, when next the subject is discussed, to announce publicly on the floor of the Senate that Senators who vote to refer the amendment to a com mittee will knowingly vote to defeat it. and they will proclaim to the coun try that all Senators who so vote are at heart opposed to income tax legis lation. In other words, they will en deavor to bluff the timid ones into vot ing with them. But such a bluff is not likely to be successful. Aldrich and those who stand with him insist that the new tar iff bill will produce ample revenue: if it does not. it will be ample time to take up the income tax next session. Moreover, they contend that, if the in come tax were adopted, some of the protective schedules of the tariff bill would have to be cut beyond the pro tective figure, else there would be too much revenue, and they maintain that such a move would not be wise. The timid Senators will take refuge behind the declarations of Aldrich and will vote to refer, taking a chance on going back to their constituents with the de fense that their action was entirely consistent and proper. The Senate is so evenly divided on the Income tax that half a dozen doubtful Senators swinging to Aldrich will defeat the amendment in spite of the efforts of the enthusiasts to hold them in line. ANGRY WOKDS ABOUT COTTON La Follctte Digs at Penrose, Aldrich Answers His Arguments. WASHINGTON. June 4. Through fore noon, afternoon ana evening sessions the Senate today labored on the cotton sched ule. La Follctte completed his long speech, attacking changes In the Dingley rates recommended by the Senate finance committee, and replied to Penrose's charge last night that he was shamming sickness as an excuse for his absence from the night session. He said he was not ill. but very tired and was resting to be in better shape to continue his speech today. He declared Penrose might per form a greater service for the country and his state If he would account for his own time when not in the Senate. At the night session Chairman Aldrich (.Concluded on Page a ALDRIGH FIRE DEPARTMENT FIGHTS FUZZYBUGS VICTORIA'S DEVOURING ELE MENT IS CATERPILLARS. Millions of Pests Gather on Trees in Canadian City and Must Be ( Exterminated. VICTORIA. B. C, June 4. (Special.) A plague of caterpillars has developed such serious proportions that the Victoria Fire Department is engaged with chem ical engines in the work of extermina tion, sulphuric acid not being counted In the list of health foods for caterpillars. So popular is Victoria as a caterpillar Summer resort that every year the fiat goes forth to destroy them while in the larvae, and legislation exists calling upon all householders and property-owners to attend to thir destruction. The city, too, must do its share, and in this particular case, in which Fire Chief Davis commands as chief exterminator, the devouring element is occupying a strategic position in the trees on the boulevards. Millions of the caterpillars are in evidence, remaining along the branches and leaves. MARRIAGES TO- BE COSTLY After June 12 Lovelorn Swains oi Washington Must Pay $13 to $53. VANCOirVER, Wash., June 4. (Spe cial.) On and after June 12 it will be exceedingly costly to get married in this coxinty, hence during the next eight days the County Auditor expects .a run on, the marriage license market. Such licenses aro good 30 days after :hey are Issued. On June 12 the new marriage law goes into effect, which provides no marriage license shall be Issued save to those who have a physician's certifi cate declaring they are free of certain diseases, are not feeble-minded, insane, etc. The members of the Clark County Medical Association have decided that they will charge from J5 to $25 for such examination and certificate. In addition to this charge, there is the license fee of $3. Hence the mere legal fees will amount t between $13 and JS3, besides the fee to the one who performs the ceremony. WASHTUB PUTS OUT 3 LAZE Blazing Auto Quenched by Tub Full of Family Wash. ABERDEEN, Wash., June 4. (Spe cial.) Finding the ear end of his au tomobile on fire while on the road be tween Hoqulam and Aberdeen and no water within a mile, Charles Arm strong, observing a woman washing at her home near the roadside, ran to her side, grabbed up the tub, clothes and all, and with the contents put out the blaze. The woman ran shrieking, thinking it was a hold-up, but Arm strong explained the situation after the fire was out and pacified the woman by settling the damage. MILLIONAIRE FACES JAIL Miller & Lux Directors All Declared In Contempt. SAN FRANCISCO, June 4. Henry Miller. 65 years of age and many times' a millionaire, and four other directors of the Miller & Lux Corporation, were adjudged guilty of contempt of court today by Superior Judge Sewall for re fusal to pay Mrs. M. Potter and her son $90,000 dividends on stock in the corporation. Miller, who is president of the cor poration, and his fellow-directors, were given 48 hours in which "fo pay the dividends or go to jail. The controver sy between Mrs. Potter and the corpor ation arose over the transfer of shares. TAFT NOT TO VISIT WEST President Does Not Want to Leave Wife During Illness. GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., June 4. President Taft will not attend the exer cises incident to the opening of the Gunnison irrigation tunnel early in August, and probably will not make his contemplated trip to the West this Summer, according to a telegram re ceived today. This Information was re ceived by the committee in charge of arrangements for the Gunnison cele bration, and stated that President Taft probably would not make the trip on account of Mrs. Taft's health. DOMINION COPPER CO, SOLD New York Syndicate Buys Defunct Concern for 52 61,50 0. VANCOUVER. B. C, June 4. (Special.) A syndicate of New York capitalists to day bought the insolvent Dominion Cop per Company at an auction sale of -the property held here by order of the Chief Justice. The price paid was $261,500. Charles Hayden, a New York banker, is at the head of the new company, which will commence operations immediately. RAILROADS PLEAD GUILTY Fine of $15,000 Assessed by Court as Penalty for Rebating. WASHINGTON. June 4. The Depart ment of Justice was advised today that the Missouri Pacific and the St. Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Com panies had entered a ,plea of guilty be fore Judge Trieber at Little Rock, Ark., for making illegal rebates, and were fined $15,000. PORTLAND, COLUMBIA RISES EVERY HOUR High Water Conditions Prevail on River. BEACH FLOODED AT THE DALLES Northern Pacific Dock Covered Three Inches at Vancouver. CANADA IS IN DISTRESS Interior British Columbia Streams Swollen to Dangerous Volumes and Traffic on Parts of Cana dian Pacific Demoralized , CONDITIONS IN THE DISTRICTS FLOODED. The Dalles Columbia River rises seven feet In 30 hours. Whole beach flooded. Lewlston Water highest known in 15 years. Kootenai District Railroad traffic demoralized, tracks and bridges washed out. Woodland Farmers move away from river bottom, expecting- flood. Prince Rupert Skeena. River high est ever known. Kamloops Thompson River rsjing inch an hour. Settlers flee to hills. THE DALLES, Or., June 4. (Special.) The Columbia River rose more than seven feet at this point during the past 80 hours and continues gradually to rise. The beach is flooded up to the Umatilla Housf and the Chinese truck gardens are under water. The Open River and Regu lator lines -wharf boats have been moVed on account of the high water and the ferryboat now lands at the foot of Wash ington street, two blocks from its regu lar landing. VANCOUVER DOCKS FLOODED River Reaches 1 6 Feet . 6 Inches Above Low Water. VANCOUVER, Wash., June 4. (Spe-cial.)-r-The Columbia River is 16 feet 6 inches tonight above low water. It has risen three inches since noon, .and dur ing the six hours previous to that time it rose just about an inch an hour. The Northern Pacific dock is covered with three lnchesh of water, and the upper deck of the dock, only used dur ing high water, is now being used. The current is swift, but as yet there is little driftwood. . RECORD MADE AT LEWISTON Snake River Reaches 18. Feet, the Highest In Fifteen Years. LEWISTON, Idaho, June 4. (Special.) The Snake River recorded a rise of nearly a foot today, tne mark at S o'clock this evening Delng 18.9 feet. The Clearwater came up about one and one-half feet. Both streams are falling tonight, but wind is prevailing and a further rise is expected tomorrow. Last night the gauge stood at 17.8 feet, the highest known for 15 years. Tonight that mark is passed. The railroad dykes (Concluded on Page 8.) INCH - T 1 .... - T .... 1 ........ . ... L. . . . , l OREGON, SATURDAY. JUNE 5, 1909. WEDDING BELLS TO RING FOR FAMILY MOTHER, DAUGHTER AND TWO SONS WILL MARRY. San Diego Family Keeps License Clerk Busy; and All Four Will ' AVed Simultaneously. SAN DIEG-O, Cal., June 4. (Special.) The Mendelson family, of this city, claims the record for June weddings. Within the next 24 hours mother, daugh ter and two sons will each have em barked upon the sea of matrimony. ' This afternoon Mrs. Carmen La Madrid Mendelson took out a license to become the bride of James Wallace. The cere mony will be performed Sunday. Later In the day Mrs. Mendelson appeared at the Courthouse and signed the permit giving her 16-year-old daughter. Mlra, the right to wed John K. Daughtery, the man of her choice. Mrs. Mendelson had License Clerk Bert McLees trembling In every limb by this time, and he nearly collapsed when she announced further that tomorrow her sons, Thomas and Marcus, would be around for their marriage licenses. She stated that the four nuptial knots would probably be tied simultaneously under the parental roof. PORK PRICE GOES SOARING 3 Almost Highest Price Since Civil War Is Recorded in Chicago. OHICAGO, June 4. Special.) Pork for September delivery sold today at J20.07. With the exception of a brief period in 1906, when cash pork sold for one day at $20 per barrel, this figure has not been seen in this market since the Cudahy corner in 1893, when it eold at $23. It sold during the Armour corner, in 1887, at $24; and the highest price on record In this market was during the Civil War, when it sold at $43 per barrel. With the exception of the manipulated markets of 1S93 and 1887. therefore, the price reached today was practically the highest since the Civil War. No manip ulation of the provision markets la now charged, but the tilgh prices are due to the disappointing receipts of hogs during the month of May, and thus far during the present month. NEW WHEAT BRINGS $1.35 Texan Farmers Also Get Advance Clause in Contracts. FORT WORTH, Tex, June 4. Report from Denton, Korthern Texas, show that the first of this season's wheat in the United States is being contracted for at tl.35 and upwards. In some instances farmers are securing contracts that they will receive any advance that may occur in the market ak the time the wheat is threshed. JUNE WEDDING FOR SINGER Geraldine Farrar and . Scotti to Marry in Paris. PARIS, June 4. In a dispatch from Berlin the correspondent of the Temps says he has been informed that Geraldine Fferrar, American opera singer, will be married in June in Paris to Antonio Scotti, the baritone. JURY FINDS GLICK GUILTY Fined $80 0 for Soliciting Campaign Funds From Federal Workers. WILMINGTON, Del., June 4. The Jury in the case of A. G. Gliek, tried for en tering upon Government property and soliciting contributions from Federal em ployes for campaign purposes, returned a verdict of guilty today. Glick was fined $800. "COME ON, NOW; LET'S FIX THINGS CONCESSIONS END STREETCAR STRKIE Philadelphia Car Men Gain Many Points. POLITICIANS AS MEDIATORS Mayor Suggests Agreement, Both Sides Accept. VIOLENCE EARLY IN DAY Streetcar Employes to Be Paid 2 2 Cents an Hour, Get Ten-Hour Da, and Privilege of Buying Uniforms. PHILADELPHIA. June 4.-"The strike has been settled. The men will receive 23 cents an hour beginning tomorrow morning, and 10 hours will constitute a day's work." This etatei,ient tonight from C. O. Pratt, chairman of the executive commit tee of the Amalgamated Association of street Railway Employee, followed by the deportation of the 450 non-union workmen, marked the end of the strike of employes of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. - The trouble began last . Saturday. The settlement was brought about pri marily by State Senator James P Mc Nichol. Republican - leader of this city at conference yesterday with the trac tion officials and labor representatives. These conferences were followed by oth ers today. Company Makes Concessions. After being in session nearly all day the men agreed to accept 22 cents an hour. The old "swing system" has been abolished, 10 hours will constitute a day's work, all employes will be permitted to purchase their uniform in the open mar ket, all future difficulties are to be ad justed between the company and a griev ance committee chosen by the employes. -A-tter a conference in City Hall which lasted until early today. Mayor Rey burn made public a letter addressed to John B. Parsons, president of the tran sit company, in which he offered the terms for a settlement of the strike. He suggested among other things, the fol lowing: "All former employes will be restored to their former positions. "Tour employes to form a representa tive body which shall from time to time be accorded full opportunity to take up with the proper officers of the com pany any and all questions affecting the rights of employes. "The rate of wages beginning July 1, 1909, to be 22 cents an hour. " "These conditions to continue for one, two or three years, as may be agreed upon." Compromise Is Accepted. President Parsons made an immediate reply accepting the suggestions. Some dissatisfaction is expressed by the strikers, who do not regard the rate of wages named' as a concession. How ever, the agreement gives them shorter hours and concedes them the right to purchase uniforms from whom they please. If after an Investigation by the city controller of the books of the company it (Concluded on Page 4.) UP I ----- ...... BRITISH PRIDE IS SAVED BY YANKEE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH RESCUES FIXE PAINTING. Anonymously Gives $200,000 and Prevents Sale of Holbein Master piece, According to Report. LONDON, June 4. (Special.) It Is re ported in the London colony of artists this afternoon that the woman who gave 40.000 300.000 to save Holbein's "Duchess of Milan" for the British na tion was the Duchess of Marlborough, formerly Consuelo Vanderbllt. The motive of the Duchess is said to have been to fortify her social position In England, though the act may have been in part due to her real personal love of art. Since gossip of the troubles between the Duke and Duchess, the atmosphere of high society In London is said to have been less favorable than formerly, and Her Grace has been anxious to establish a position for herself quite Independent of that of her" husband. ' The name of the donor of the 40,000 Is still withheld, but it is expected that in the course of time the fact will be come generally known that the Duchess of Marlborough was the one who inter vened at the critical moment and saved Holbein's masterpiece for the National Gallery. , SAYS GOLF BEATS FINANCE Rockefeller Enthusiastic About His Favorite Game. NEW YORK, June 4---Declarlng the financial situation Is not half as inter esting as golf. John D. Rockefeller re turned today from Hot Springs. Va., where he took Mrs. Rockefeller Ave months ago for her health. "We have had a splendid time," he said, "and Mrs. Rockefeller is much better." Mr. Rockefeller was asked if he cared to say anything regarding the financial situation. "What do I know about the financial situation?" he replied. "Why, finance cannot be compared to golf. I hope some day to be able to play good golf. I have played a good deal of it in my life." He spoke feelingly of the recent death of H. H. Rogers, saying: "It is sad, very sad." SEEDS UP IN FOUR DAYS Planted on Monday and Show Above Ground Friday In Albany. ALBANY. Or.. June 4. (Special.) County Clerk J. W. Miller planted some radish and lettuce seeds in the garden at his residence in this city last Monday and the plants are above ground today. This breaks all known records for quick growth. The warm weather the past few days, following the heavy rains, of last Saturday and Sunday, have made conditions ideal and ' all crops are growing rapidly throughout the Central Willamette Val ley. This is particularly true of gardens, and plants have been growing an Inch a. day in some local gardens the last few days. DEAD MAN FOR SHIPMATE California Fisherman Ends Hideou Voyage With Corpse. SAN DIEGO. Cal... June 4.-(SpeclaI.) Faithfully carrying out the request of his dying partner. Albert Graff in the fishing sloop Fying Dutchman arrived in port this morning with the body of Martin Edwards, who died six days ago while the little vessel was at sea on an ex cursion to the fishing banks off the coast of Lower California. Exhausted and almost a nervous wreck from the ordeal of staying awake almost contin uously since his comrade's death, with a fast decomposing corpse as his sole com panion, Graff clambered ashore today nearer dead than alive. FISH TOO MUCH FOR HER Woman Falls In Twice Making Record Catch. SPOKANE, Wash., June 4. (Special.) Mrs. C. E. Clements has proved herself the champion fisherwoman of the season among the anglers of Wallace. At Lake Medimont, near HarriBon, Idaho, she pulled in 22 black bass, none of which weighed less than three pounds, the whole catch totaling 76 pounds. Twice Mrs. Clements became so excited while trying to land a big one that she fell into the lake. THAW TO STAY IN ASYLUM Appeal Seeking Release on Habeas Corpus Denied by Court. NEW YORK, June 4. Harry Kendall Thaw must remain in the State Asylum for the Criminal Insane at Matteawan. by a decision rendered today by the Ap pellate division of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn. Thaw's application for a writ of habeas corpus releasing him from the asylum was denied by a Justice of the Supreme Court several months ago. He then appealed to the Appellate division. ABANDON Evangelical MISSION WORK Lutheran Church to Drop Efforts in South America. RICHMOND. Ind.. June 4. The general synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the United States today took a stand against further missionary ef fort in South America. No formal action was taken, but the matter went back to the committee on missions. PRICK FIVE CENTS. E STOCK IS STARTED Sales in Wall Street of . Great Volume. STEEL COMMON IS UNLOADED Declines in Face of Advance in Railroad Stocks. MONEY POURS FROM WEST Leaders of Movement Start to Bull Other Stocks in Order to Get Rid of Load of Steel They Are Carrying. NEW YORK. June 4. rsel1 . stock maruet greater in size than that of yesterday, one in which nearly 1, 700.000 cimngeo nanas. Atchison advanced points. Baltimore & Ohio 3 points,, .crooKiyn tapld Transit 274 points. St. Paul common 3 points and St. Paul pre ferred 4 points. New York Central 1 points, Texas Pacific point and Re public Iron & Steel preferred 4 points. Other advances of a point or more were many. United States Steel preferred were the reactionaries. Unloading Stocks Wholesale. It was one of the phases of a "bull movement" conducted under the auspice of daring and wealthy capitalists. The load of securities carried on borrowed money by the instigators of the present Stock Exchange commotion had un doubtedly grown to enormous proportion before today's market opened and it must naturally have been "Steel common" which made up the greater part of such accumulations. At some moment in a situation of the sort a familiar expedient is adopted; ,it is to stir up wild excite ment in some stock not hitherto equally conspicuous, while fairly shaking the bag which holds the other acquisitions. Steel Flung on Market. This was why Northern Pacific. Kew York Central. St. Paul aid Atchison were bid up furiously, while Steel common' was flung on the market at the declining prices in rapidly succeeding blocks of 2000 and 3000 shares apiece. At the open ing no less an amount than 30,000 shares of that stock changed hands simultane ously. From the opening figure of 69. the (Concluded on Page 3.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. lMitKUAY-b Maximum temperature 73 degrees; minimum temperature 51 de- grees. TODAY'S Fair and wind. warmer; northwest BOOM Foreign. Duchess of Marlborough pays $2O0.000 to save Holbein picture to England. Page 1. Roosevelt makes speech to American mis sionaries in Africa. Page 3.' National. . Arrangements for opening Northwestern res ervations to settlement. Page 2. La Follette answers attacks of Penrose and Aldrich. Page 1. Plans of Aldrich to defeat income tax. Page 1. Domestic. Mrs. Reed changes mind about divorce, but her woman lawyer prevents dismissal of suit. Page 4. Tragic interview between Dr. clemlnson and one of his woman friends. Page 3. Witnesses testify Calhoun's men tried fo fake evidence. Page 5. rmmense boom starts in stock market. Page 1. National health conference discusses disease and its causes. Page 3. Four weddings In one family to be held Monday. Page 1. Pacific Coast Vnlted Workmen may Join Ne braska secessionists. Page 3. Patrick's objection to commutation of death sentence overruled. Page 3. Margaret Illlngton to sue for divorce In Nevada. Page 4. Northwestern Shrlners given glorious wel come on way to Louisville, page 4. Great capture of lottery men In New York. Page 3. Sports Coast League scores: Portland 4. Vernon 0 Los Angeles 2. San Francisco 1; Sacra mento o, Oakland 4. Papa 7. Heinze foils attempt to seize United Cop per Company's books but Robinson sub mits to court. Page 3. National League makes no move to remove President Pulliam. Page 7. Pacific Northwest. Columbia River rapidly rising: flood con ditions in British Columbia bad. Page 1. Warner-Young will contest occupies court at Pendleton. Page 6. Aberdeen cannot even get wood because of strike at mills. Page G. Farmer gets damages from railroad because cars were not furnished to move ap ples. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Upward tendency of the hop market. Page 17. Wheat options weak at Chicago. Page 17. All stocks strong except steel. Page 17. Record business in May in iron and steel products. Page 17. Big fleet of steamships due in Pacific waters with coal for the Government. Page 10. Portland and Vicinity. Factional fight between East and West marks third day of grocers' convention Page 11. Spirited contest is on for presidency of grocers. with Chicago now leading Page 11. Brooklyn residents protest against delay of big sewer. Page 10. Rose Festival parades will surpass those of former years. Page 10. Judge Bean takes Federal bench and mur der trial is begun. Page Pennsylvania Railroad official expects to see through Coast-to-Coast cars soon. Page 16. . Miss Lillian Theodocla Conrad, dentist and belle, of Ithaca. N. Y., abandons profes sion to wed Civil Engineer Theodore A Gar row, of Portland. Page 5. Mayor Lane declines paying S30OO an acre for Hazleton tract site for playground. Page 18. Osborne Edwards is sentenced to 8 years in the penitentiary for killing T. J. Mc- Gallard. Page lo. Portland to greet Admiral IJlchi and staff tomorrow. Page 12. Dr. Alan welch Smith scores ' excise law. Pag 8. I 4