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S THE 3IORXIXG OREGOMAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1909. : , i " ' . I r " 1 , MDRLEY PREDICTS TITANIC BUTTLE Tells Lords World Is Watching Them and Poses as Cham pion of Rich. TAXING POWER AT ISSUE Liberal leader Says Lni.tlowne' Motion Gives Iiords Taxing Power and Puts Oligarchy In Control of Affairs. I3KDON. fv'ov. "9. Lord Moray's nowerful speech was the absorbing event of the budget debate oday In the House of Lords. The Secretary of State for India dilated on the importance of the utrurK'e as viewed at home and abroad and he called attention to the fact that foreign nations were watching anxiously the outcome of the conflict to see wheth er there would be any change In Britain's fiscal policy. He quoted Burke to the effect that the House of Lords had no right In any sense to the disposition of the public purse, and contended that If there' -were one thing that could not wisely be "Submitted to a referendum. It was the budget with 11 Its complexities. In addition a refer endum would weaken what was most Important to maintain, a sense of re sponsibility In the House of Commons. Lords Cham pons of Klch. As to the Lords' contention that their action would arrest the wave of Social ism, he refused to believe that British artisans were predatorv or Socialistic, bat, even granting that the misery ex isting In some classes had produced a movement akm to Socialism. It was hard ly wise for the Lords to take up a posi tion exposing them to the charge or training the constitution as champions of the rich Against the poor. The more triumphant the majority for Lord Laosdowne's amendment," said Lord Morley. "the larger the disparity between the numbers of the government and the numbers of the opposition, the more flagrant will be the political scan dal." That amendment which the House of Lords proposed to pass, said Lord Mor ley, though it contained but a couple at lines, fcnrohred no fewer than five points, each constituting a more radical departure from constitutional usage and practical convenience. HaJce Oligarchy Supreme. In the first place the amendment gave to the House of Lords the taxing power. Next It assumed the power of enforcing a penal dissolution by refusing supplies. Then there must be a new Parliament whenever the sitting Parliament had the misfortune to displease their lordships of the second chamber. And again. If these propositions are approved, they are changing representative supremacy into an obligarchlc and non-repreaentaiive supremacy. Finally, said Lord Morley, they are throwing out of gear the whole finan cial ministry for the year. Taxes had been collected on the authority of the House of Commons by custom, and not by law. and all went on regularly un til an appropriation bill was passed, ' when the resolution became a law. Too Much of One Mind. ' the words of the late Lord Salis bury, said the speaker, the two cham bers could not have voice In the finances of the government, because 'the Lords belonged too much to one .class, and consequently In respect of a large number of persons, the Lords are too much or one raina. It had been said the House of Com mons might repeal the septennial act. but the repeal of that act was the ,, very operation that the Lords were about to perform. Lord Morley concluded his speech with an Impressive warning: that when tomorrow the curtain fell on an empty house, they would know that the note should be sounded for an angry, and. perhaps, a prolonged battle. When the Secretary resumed his seat the small minority of Liberal Peers broke Into enthusiastic cheers. Tory Opposes Lords' Policy. Lord Rothschild, Liberal Unionist, spoke briefly, dwelling on the difficulty of raising capital even for the best Kngllsh enterprises, while Russia and Japan found It comparatively easy to borrow money. Lord James of Hereford quoted Pitt, Palmerston and Lord John Russell against the Lords' claim of power to reject the budget. Lord 6wa.ytb.ing defended the budget. He oontended that British credit was still the best In the world, pointing out that Japan was able to borrow because It offered large Interest. Many other Peers spoke, nearly all In favor of Lansdowne's amendment. The debate was adjourned at midnight. Tories Show Signs) of Reason. Although the result of the division tomorrow is a foregone conclusion. It cannot be doubted that the House and the country have been greatly im pressed with the oratorical skill dis played in the upper house, and espe cially by the powerful arguments of Liberal Peers against the course the Ixrd3,are pursuing. Evidence of this Is beginning to show Itself In the Con servative press. The Daily Telegraph, which has been a firm advocate of the rejection of the budget, makes the significant admis sion that the moral of the brilliant de bate is not that the House of Lords should be abolished or be shorn of the power of veto, which Is essential to its existence, but that It should be re constituted, six that its more distin guished members should not be swamped In the lobbies by the Peers who have never given proof of political capacity. BRITISH PLANBIG SHIPS 7 0,000 Horsepower for Cruiser Lion With 2 7-Knot Speed. LONDON, Nov. 29. The keel plates of two monster warships, the Orion, the Im proved ' Dreadnought battleship, and the Lion, the cruiser battleship, were laid today, the former at Portsmouth and the latter at Devenport. The bulk of the material for both vessels Is ready and all arrangements have been made for their completion within two years. The construction of the Lion will mark FOUR Or NEW MEN WHO WILL RUN NAVY DEPARTMENT UNDER SECRETARY MEYER. i Rear-Admirnl Richard Waiawrlght. a notable stage of evolution of the cruis er battleship. Slie will have 70.000 horse power, while her immediate predecessor had ,000. She will displace 21,000 tons and her length will be 700 feet, making her the longest man-of-war ever laid down. What Is technically known as her "run of deck" indicates an Intention to equip the cruiser battleship with ten 12-inch guns, thus placing her armament on an equality with the latest battleships. She probably will have a nominal speed of 27 knots an hour. ROADS FIGHT OKLAHOMA Four Compuniea Want Restraining Orders Against Taxes. GUTHRIE. Okia., Nov. 29. Four rail road companies asked the United States Circuit Court here today to restrain the state authorities from Issuing tax war rants for the seizure and sale of their properties on account of their failure to pay the constitutional tax of one-half of 1 per cent on their total gross revenues. A large amount , Involved. The roads declare their rights, privi leges and franchises were acquired from Congress prior to statehood and that therefore the state Is not entitled to the revenue tax. The roads are the Santa Fe, Rock Island. Gulf. Colorado & Santa Fe and the Missouri. Kansas & Texas. ALLEGED SWINDLERS FIGHT Men Arrested In California Don't Want to Stand Trial. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 29. United States District Judge Dehaven issued an order sending R. B. Herrlman. F. "W. Brown and E. C. Moore, the three mem bers of .the Maybray gang of alleged racing and prize-fight swindlers, arrested a few weeks ago at San Jose, to the Omaha district of the United States Dis trict Court for trial. The court granted a three days' stay of execution In order that habeas corpus proceedings might be brought to deter mine whether the original complaint specified that the alleged offenses were committed in the Omaha district. SUGAR MEN ARE ON TRIAL Court Probing of Vnderwelghing Frauds Begun at New York. NEW YORK. Nov. 29. On criminal charges resulting rom the revelations of extensive underweighing frauds on the docks of the American Sugar Refining Company In Williamsburg seven former employes of that company were placed on trial In the 'United States Circuit Court here today. The men on trial are James P. Beender nagel, former manager of the company's "Williamsburg plant; Oliver Spitzer, for mer dock superintendent, and five check ers and weighers. GRAFT CASES POSTPONED San Francisco Court Acts " on Schmitz Disclosures. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29. An order was made today In the Superior Court postponing all of the cases growing out of the graft disclosures made during the administration of ex-Mayor E. E. Schmitz until January 10, 19?0. This means that the present District Attorney will not have anything more to do with the prosecution of the cases and that their continuance will be left to the decision of District Attorney-elect Charles M. Fickert Slight to Woman Reason for Duel. ALBUQUERQUE. N. M., Nov. 29. News of a Thanksgiving day duel, at Fairview, N. M.. In which both partici pants were Wiled, has Just reached here. James B. Taylor, a well-known cattle man and foreman of the United States Treasury mine in Sierra County, and Isaac Futch, a cattleman, had been ene mies ever, since the latter's wedding a year ago to which he had failed to In vite the wife of Taylor. The men had quarreled frequently over this slight, and on Thanksgiving day drew their revolvers upon meeting again and opened battle. Each was wounded twice and both died almost instantly. Fairview is 80 miles from railroad or other communication. Murder Jury Drawing Begins. AUBURN. Cal., Nov. 29. The selection of the Jury In the trial of Jefferson Lewis, charged ' with the murder of Benjamin Swezey, began, today before Judge Prewett. (Co Y . i - st2A imW mmmmm J Captain Aaroa Ward. Captai. Reginald f. Nicholson. A . . ...... ' Rear-Admiral W. F. Potter. REVISION IS PLAN Conference Held on Interstate Commerce Law. TAFT IS BENT ON ACTION Proposed Amendments Submitted by Attorney - General Wickersharn and Hearing Given to Views of Elkins and Cummins. WASHINGTON. Nov. 29. Following a lengthy conference at the White House today; it was announced tonight that the Administration would exert all its in fluence toward securing a comprehensive revision of the interstate commerce law by the incoming Congress. Proposed amendments to the Jaw were submitted by Attorney-General Wickersharn. The President also had as his advisers Commissioner Laqe. of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Senators Elkins and Cummins. Frank B. Kellogg, special "trust, buster" of the Department of Justice, and secretaries "Wilson and Dickerson also gave their views. While the President has not yet made his selection of the men in Congress who will be entrusted with the task of putting the legislation through, many are said to be anxious for the honor. Senator Cummins, of Iowa, who will Introduce a bill of his own next week and Senator Elkins, chairman of the Sen ate Committee on interstate and foreign commerce, participated in the conference with the President. Senator Elkins renewed his suggestions that the best way to encourage Ameri can shipping would !e to enact a law giving a reduction of S per cent In cus toms duties on all Imported goods brought into the United States In American bot tom. ' "This would not only build up Ameri can shinning but would be a reduction downward in duties," he said. SLEW SPOUSE, IS CHARGE Trial of Newark Woman Promises to Prove Sensational. NEW YORK. Nov. 29. What probably will be a remarkable murder trial began in Newark, N. J., today. Mrs. Mary J, Wilhelm Is charged with killing her hus band. Frank Wilhelm. In their home on High street, last February. Wilhelm was a building contractor, and because of his property hold ings was reputed to be wealthy. He was found in a small room In the basement of his home shot to death. His corpse was discovered by Mrs. Wilhelm on her return from a day spent with friends. After investigation, besides arrest ing Mrs. Wilhelm, the police ar rested Nicholas S. Sica, a real es tate dealer. This was largely owing to the fact that Wilhelm had been consld erlng a divorce. The police also learned that Sica was In the Wilhelm house with Wilhelm on the day he was found dead, and that so far as could be found out, he was the last man who saw W llhalm alive. He was indicted with Mrs. Wil helm and he will be tried on the con elusion of her trial. PHONE TRUST CASE BEGINS Special Examiner to Take Testimony Is Now Sought. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Nov. 29. Attorney-General Major began today the preparation of an application to the Su preme Court of the state for the appoint ment of a special examiner to take tes timony on the alleged merger of tele phone Interests. If the evidence warrants, a writ of ouster will be sued for. Manv school children suffer from con stipation, which is often the cause of seeming stupidity at lessons. Cham berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets are an ideal medicine to give a child, for thev are mild and gentle in their effect, and will cure even chronic con MEYER KICKS OFF :M BARNACLES Sweeping Change Will Come December 1 and Clip Bu reau Chiefs' Wings. ADMIRAL COWLES TO GO Two Bureaus Will Be Abolished if Congress Consents Fighting Men of N'avy to Have More Voice In Affairs. (Continued From First Page.) branch.' which deals directly with the military use of the fleet, will originate military features of new construction in consultation with the general board, of which the new aide for operations will be a member. Other officers also will be called In fof .advice and criticism, both before and after the sketch plans have been prepared by the technical bureaus. These officers will be selected because of pronounced success in ord nance, engineering or torpedo work, the bureaus will be called upon finally to prepare the actual plans and will be re sponsible for their correctness. Cowles Will Be Out of Job. With the crowth of the business of the department Mr. Meyer found that duties similar to those of the equipment bureau were performed by the bureaus of sup plies and accounts, construction ana re pair, and steam engineering. In this con nection It is to be noted that Rear-Admiral w. S. Cowles. brother-in-law of ex-President Roosevelt, is now the head of the bureau. At the Navy-Yards Mr. Meyer has de cided to divide the single manufacturing department established by Mr. Newberry into two divlsions-wne of machinery and the other of hulls according to the gen eral practice . in ship-building in this country and with the naval dockyards of England and Germany. Commandants and captains at the yards will be kept there long enough to insure continuity of policy and commandants will be the only representatives of the department at the yards. The Newberry plan gave the senior naval constructor at the yards power that Mr. Meyer lodges with the commandant.- Inspection to Be Independent. Inefficient work, or performance, or ir regularities under the different bureaus Mr. Meyer found had been Inspected usually by officers of those bureaus. No machinery has existed by which inde pendent inspections of ships, shore sta tions and technical matters could be had. Mr. Meyer will provide this by his new division of inspection. The existing bureau of yards and docks, the marine corps, and certain other branches of the; department not logi cally included In any one of the four divisions of duties will be placed under the Assistant Secretary. . SALVAGE MAY BE CLAIMED Ship in Peril at Dock Subject to Marine Law. WASHINGTON Nov. 29. That salvage may be claimed and collected on ac count of services rendered to a sea-going vessel when in' peril while in dock was held by the Supreme Court of the United States today in deciding in favor of Sim mons in the case of Simmons against the steamship Jefferson. The Jefferson is owned by the Old Dominion Steamship Company, and while lying in the drydock at Newport News. Va.. caught fire. Simmons, as master of a tug, went to the rescue of the ship. He afterward sued in the United States District Court to recover salvage for his services, but that court decided against him on the ground that the word "sal vage" contemplated services rendered In connection with perils at sea, which it held a fire in a shipyard not. to be. The Supreme Court reversed the lower court. The opinion - said that the fact that the vessel was undergoing repairs did not deprive it of Its charter .as an Instrument of commerce nor remove its obligations in case of relief from dan gers. - WILHELMINA SHOWS SPEED Exceeds Contract Requirements In Official Trials. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Nov. 29. In her official trials today the big freight j creamer Wllhelmina. built by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry- docking Company, developed a speed of W. M. LAUD, President. E. COOKINGHAM, Vice-President. r: "A friend in need is a fef iJ friend indeed." i 'Vr' - . WpM Let the Columbia bfel hi Life & Trust Com- Mlp V 'iS' pany be your wife's MS"M v friend. A ;v J P. L0CKW00D, VICE-PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER Home Office, Lumber Exchange Bids:., Portland, Or. la the contract speed. Coal oil was used as fuel. The ship will use this fuel during her run of 13,000 milea to San Francisco, and will be the first steam vessel to attempt such a voy age with oil fuel. The Wllhelmina was built for the Mat son Navigation Company and will ply between Honolulu and San Francisco; BRAVE GIRL SAVES CHILD Snatches Little One From Between Elevated Train Rails. , NEW YORK, Nov. 29. Remarkable luck and the bravery and presence of mind of Bertha Rosenthal saved the life of Ce cilia Snyder, a 3-year-old child, who fell from the window of a moving Second ave nue elevated train directly between the dreaded third rail and . an inner car rail just in front of the nor'h-bound platform. Miss Rosenthal, who was on the south bound platform, noticed the child lying on the track, and throwing aside her furs and jacket, she leaped upon the track and made her way across the rails to the baby.-. She found Cecilia tightly wedged between the rails, but by summoning all her strength she succeeded in tearing her loose ' just before a train came rushing Into the station. Cecilia was little hurt and was soon restored to her districted parents. AUTO HORN IN ORCHESTRA "Zeppelin's First Voyage," Bungerfs New Symphony, to Be Given. BERLIN. Nov. 29. August Bungerfs new symphony. "Zeppelin's First Voy age," will be produced under the direc tion of Professor .William Res. at Cob lenz Wednesday. The work is dedicated to Count Zeppelin and furnishes) another Indication of the modern spirit of music by introducing the automobile horn as an orchestral instrument. The motif is pre-paratlons for t.ie Count's ascent in his first dirlgiDie Dai loon. the smooth flight, the applause of the multitude, the mountains and valleys, the cities, the thunder storm, the landing and finally the destruction of the aero craft by fire. BODY FOUND; BIG MYSTERY Los Angeles Authorities Puzzled Over Find in Well. LOS ANGELES. Nov. 29. Mystery sur rounds the finding last night of a par tially decomposed body, believed to be that of a woman, at the bottom of an old well on the Crinklaw ranch just north nf town. The oresence of the body In the well was reported to the Sheriff's office by hunters who were attracted to the spot by the peculiar odor Issuing from the well-o A nartv sent out today to recover the hnrtv found it little more than a skele ton nH it Is doubtful whether the re- mnlns will ever be Identified. It is sug gested that the body may be that of an incana natlent who escaped from the county hospital two months ago. PARKER LABOR'S ATTORNEY Seeks Writ of Certiorari in Gompers Contempt Case. WASHINGTON", Nov. 29. The' petition for a writ of certiorari In the contempt nroceedinBS against Samuel Gompers. TOT,., vfimhell and Frank Morrison, of fleers of the American Federation of La bor, in connection with the Bucks Stove & Range Company litigation, which, if granted, would have the effect of bring ing up the whole case, was today pre sented to the Federal Supreme Court by Alton B. Parker, of New York. The court took the subject under advise ment. . ' Aero Club to Make Charts. BERLIN, Nov. 29. At a meeting of the Imperial Aero Club of Berlin, pre sided over by Count Zeppelin, and at tended by a number of officers of the general staffs of the army and navy today, the preparation of aeronautical maps was discussed. It was agreed that such charts as should show the marked variations of the landscape, as well as the location of electric wires and other aerial obstructions, would be useful. A committee, which included Count Zep pelin, was appointed to gather informa tion. Austria to Send Consul. NEW YORK, Nov. 29. The increasing immigration in the prairie provinces of Canada has resulted in a decision of the Austrian government to establish a new Consulate In Winnipeg for the Provinces of Manitoba. Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. The new Consulate will be opened the first of the year and Dr. H. Schwegel. the Austro-Hungarlan Consul at Montreal, has been selected for the new position. Ingersoll to Be Ilctired. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. Rear Ad miral R. R. 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"The letter from me read in the churches of Denver yesterday does not alter the status of Father Carrigan in any way." said Bishop Matz, "but It pub llciy informs the communicants of the Catholic churches that he is outside the pale. "They have been able to make the ex cuse that they had not been notified and that all they know they gleaned from the newspapers. But now they know it from me and it is a matter for their own con sciences." " In view of the fact that the difficulties between Bishop Metz and Father Carri gan now appear to be approaching a cli max, significance attaches to the mort gage which has been given Mrs. Ellon O'Neil on St. Patrick's Church property. Mrs. O'Neil Is the sister of Father Carri gan and from her he borrowed 24.600 at 6 per cent interest to pay off the indebted ness on the new church building. The transaction ties up the property, even if Bishop Metz secures judgment at Rome against the priest. Requisition Issued for Bowers. SACRAMENTO. Cal.. 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