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TIIE 3IORXIXG OKEGOXIAX, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1910.
LABQH IS AGAINST
EMERGENCY TAX
Federation Aims to Curb Leg
islature's Power; Employers'
Liability Law Wanted.
7TH . ANNUAL MEET- IS ON
Measures to Be Submitted to People
at General Klection State
Grange AYouId Co-operate
' VTlth Vnion Body.
Trotection of the people from eraer
Knncy taxation laws that may be passed
by the Legislature Is the object of a
proposed constitutional amendment being
considered by the Oregon Federation of
ILabor, which began Its- seventh annual
convention yesterday morning.
Another important subject was put be
fore the convention by President Daly, in
ttiis annual address. He advocates an ap
5eal to the people by the initiative for the
.passage or an employers' liability law.
The constitutional amendment submitted
ito the convention yesterday is Intended
to be placed .before the people by initia
tive at the next general election. In addi
ction to the two proposed amendments on
taxation approved by the last Legislature.
The proposed amendment, which may be
"voted upon by the convention today, was
prepared by the local labor leaders. It
(reads as follows:
Taxation liaw Wanted.
No Mil regulating taxation or exemption
pthrouBhout the state shall become a law
intll approved by the people of the state
it a resular (reneral election; none of the
a-estrlctfoFis of the constitution shall apply to
taiieasurrs approwd by the people, declaring
what shall be subject to taxation or exemp
tion, and how It shall be taxed and ex
empted, whether proposed by the legisla
tive assembly or by Initiative petition: but
the people of the several counties are hereby
empowered and authorized to rciilntn fa-ra
tion and exemptions within their several
counties, subject to any general law which
ffnay be hereafter enacted.
The preamble of the resolution lnlnrt.
tng the amendment, as read to the con
tention yesterday, recites that the present
system of permitting the Legislature to
enact emergency taxation laws is dan
fjerouak and 13 a means by which profes
sional tax-dodgers avoid moral public
obligations.
Concerning the adoption of a law to
make employers liable for injury to their
employes. President Daly recited the
failure of an effort made to get a law
ito that effect passed toy the last Legis
lature, and explained how numerous in
terests combined to defeat the bill. He
said in part:
Hope in People.
As the atmosphere becomes clearer after a
ctorm. so the scales began to drop from the
eyes of organizer! labor, and the defeat of
the employers' liability low by the State
aegislature will be turned into sure victory.
Tor we realize" that the working people of
the state oannot expect any laws from the
general assembly that will better the condi
tions of the masses, and it becomes necessary
for us to submit this measure to the refer
endum, secure in the belief that the people
will administer a rebuke to the politicians
who profess friendship for the working peo
ple and desert them at the first attack of
the agents of capital.
Another resolution presented to the con
vention yesterday and which will probably
be adopted by the convention today was
to the effect that all election days should
be made legal holidays, that the working
people may have ample time to vote.
Strong affiliation between labor unions
land the Oregon State Grange, was urged
1n a talk before the convention yester
day afternoon by J. J. Johnson, state lec
turer for the State Orange.
Air. Johnson said the tirango is work
ing for the adoption of laws for the com
mon good of all people, and suggested
that in such work the labor organizations
should take an active part. His talk
was received with applause.
Sovoral Address Assembly.
TTJugene Palmer and 33. O. Leedy, frater
nal delegates to the convention from the
Oregon State Grango had each addressed
ithe convention earlier in the day along
similar linos. Among others who ad
dressed the convention were: J. A. Mad--on.
president of the Portland Labor
Council; State Ijibor Commissioner HotT
ind O. H. Oram, former president of the
ftate Federation of Labor.
Today, it is cxix-ctoti. will he the busl
Tft day of the convention, which will end
tomorrow night or Thursday night. The
day will be largely devoted to resolutions,
of which it is expected there will be a
Jarge number.
OfTicers of the Oregon Federation of
Labor are: President, AVilU Daly first
vice-president. Charles Grassman: second
vice-president. It. D. Havner; third vice
president, A. yy. Dennis; fourth vice
president, William Nofke; tlfth vice-president,
MIms Lucy White; secretary-treas-tirer,
J. Oassiriy.
ALLEGED SHOP THIEF HELD
2nn Can plit With Jlandbar Must
Face Grand Jurv.
ratified, and it is expected that the
transfer to the new ownership will
take place this week.
The Portland Gas & Coke Company la
a new corporation organized by the
purchasers, heretofore known as the
Electric Bond & Share Company, of
New York. The purchase price is at
the rate of J130 per share for 19,750 out
standing shares in addition to assum
ing J750.000 in bonds and $500,000 in
notes at the same rate, thus making
the total transaction involve about
J4,000,000.
F. G. Sykes, financial representative
of the purchasers and . Will A
Weathers, attorney, are in the city
from New York for the purpose of
closing the purchase.
"There is no truth in the statement
that the purchasers of the gas com
pany are heavily in the Portland Rail
way, Light & Power Company," said
Herman M. Pabst, general manager of
the Portland Gas Company yesterday.
"It would be an unfortunate thing
for both companies if this were true,
for competition increases the business
of both. So far as I know the Gas
Company will continue its fight for
lighting business. I cannot - speak
authoritatively as to any changes in
management but the word has gone
out that there will be none and I have
.passed that word among the employes
of the company."
BURGLARS KEEP ACTIVE
MANY ROBBERIES AND OXE
HOLD-TIP REPORTED.
W. J. Clemens Loses Valuable Ring
and Thieves Go Through Sev
eral Residences.
Several burglaries and one holdup were
reported to the police yesterday. The
holdup occurred at 5:30 o'clock Sunday
morning at Second and Salmon streets.
B. Shloltl, of 407 Sixth street, was stopped
on his way home by three thugs, who
took $5 in money. Shiolti saw only one
of the men distinctly, for two of them
stood behind him, while the third faced
him with a revolver pressed close to his
face. The man with the gun is described
as about 5 feet 9 inches tall, weight about
1C0 pounds, medium complexion, with . a
black soft hat and a black overcoat.
W. J. Clemens, whose office is in room
2 in the Commercial Club building, was
robbed of a lady's solitaire diamond ring
valued at J275 that weighed 1 1-32 karats.
Theodore Johnson, living at Sixteenth
and Savier streets, was robbed in his
room while he slept. The thief rifled his
trousers pockets, securing $18 in cash.
The home of A. O. Stafford. 64 North
Twelfth street was burglarized Sunday
night. Although a gold watch and other
valuable jewelry was in plain sight, the
robbers sought only money. They found
a small savings bank containing $3.01,
the contents of which they carried off.
Mr. Stafford says they must have been
frightened away before completing their
search for they left behind a steel jimmy.
The instrument had been punched with
the name A. Noble.
John Aloe, of 51 Third street, was robbed
of his gold watch in Blazier's saloon,
corner of Third and Burnside streets,
Saturday night. Morton, Cole, of 248 Kif-,
teenth street, North, was being robbed
in Fritz' saloon yesterday afternoon
when the police rushed in and caught
Jose Lanchez In the act of going through
Moe's pockets. Lanchez was taken to the
City Jail. . Reports from the Stanley
apartments. King and Washington
streets, say that sneak thieves have
broken into the building through the
lower windows three times during the
past two months- : Each time they have
been scared away without getting any
loot. A strange man was found in the
house of J. Oelsner, 736 Union avenue,
North, yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Oels
ner returned to find the fellow In the
front hallway sitting on a trunk. Believ
ing that he was a burglar she notified
her husband, who is a storekeeper with
a place nearby. Oelsner came at once,
accompanied by Charles R. Calhoun, a
resident of the neighborhood, and the
two men caught the intruder and held
him until the arrival of Patrolman Stone.
An investigation made by the police
shows the man was probably .intoxicated
and entered the house while in that con
dition. He gave the name of J. Emmett
THUG, FOILED, SENTENCED
Man Caught Felling Old Ijanorer
Must Serve 3 0 Days.
Caugrht in the act of trying- to rob
Georpe Buhler, who the police is a pro
fessional robber of intoxicated men,
was sentenced yesterday to serve 30
days on the rockpile. Two men over
heard Buhler plotting to rob an old
man "in a saloon. He proposed the
robbery to a companion, whom he of
fered a share of the loot. The Inform
ers followed Buhler's Intended victim
out of the saloon and after they had
pone a short distance Buhler ran up
behind and struck the old man on the
head knocking- him to the ground.
Claud Scott and Frank Kanastory, who
witnessed the assault, endeavored to
capture Buhler, but he escaped them.
Patrolmen Wanless and Shafer who
were attracted by the chase, followed,
and after a long run overtook and ar
rested Buhler. The near-viotim dis
appeared. Morgan & Robb. 250 Stark street, will
write your fire insurance for you.
GLAVIS GOES EAST
Pinchot's Friend Leaves for
Washington Today.
EX-OFFICIAL WON'T TALK
Should Investigation of Interior De
partment Necessitate Witnesses
for ex-Forester, Glavis De
cides to Be on Hand."
Louis R. Glavis will start for Wash
ington, L. C, this morning. The man
whose charges against the official in
tegrity of Secretary R. A. Ballinger of
TWO OFFICERS IN STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR, NOW IN
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William Daley, President.
the Taft Cabinet, and which ultimately
resulted in the official decapitation of
Gifford Pinchot, goes to the National
capital as a voluntary witness.
When Congress gets ready to appoint
the committees which will look into the
records of the Department of the In
terior and Forest Service, they will find
the chief opponent of Mr. Ballinger with
in easy reach.
Mr. Glavis came to the Pacific Coast
as chief of the field division of the Gen
eral Land Office, and among other duties
was charged with an investigation of the
Cunningham coal claims in Alaska. Cun
ningham was a resident of Seattle and
Glavis charged that he organized a band
of dummy entrymen who were used in
filing upon a tract . of coal land embrac
ing an immense area, and that Secre
tary Ballinger was unduly active in the
promotion of the issuance of patents.
The charges were placed before the
President, and the latter exonerated Ball
inger. The Secretary of the Interior
then discharged Mr. Glavis. .
How Trouble Started.
The Forestry Service became involved
in the matter when Overton W. Price.
Deputy Forester, and A. C. Shaw, law of
ficer, went to Chicago and assisted Mr.
Glavis in the preparation of the charges
against Mr. Ballinger.
This led to a rupture between Mr.
Pinchot, Forester, and Mr. Baillngir,
Secretary, resulting in a demand for Con
gressional Investigation. On the day
Congress entertained a resolution for the
appointment of the committee, Forester
Pinchot sent a lettter to Senator Dolliver
in which he upheld the action of Glavis
and the charges which the latter had
made against Secretary Ballinger.
Mr. Pinchot was summarily dismissed
from office by direction of the President.
When the latter action was taken. Mr.
Glavts, who has been making his home
at White Salmon, Wash., and the Port
land Hotel, when In this city, had gone
out in company with his brother for a
vacation. He returned to Portland yes
terday. When his attention was called to the
statement that he had received informa
tion of what was to happen to his friend
Gifford Pinchot at Washington, Mr.
Glavis entered a positive denial.
"We own a 23-acre fruit farm at White
Salmon, and I have spent my time be
tween the Portland Hotel and that place.
I . wanted to get away on a vacation. I
had no Information about the matter, and
really know nothing yet.
Glavis to Be Gone a Month.
"I am- starting for Washington in the
morning and will arrive there the last of
this week. I expect to be away from
Portland a month at least."
Beyond that statement, Mr. Glavts re
fused to go. He would not say whom he
expected to see when he arrived at
Washington, where he would stop or the
purpose of his visit.
I have not been summoned before the
committee of Congress, but expect, of
course, to testify when they want me.
I have decided that I will not discuss
the case in any particular, and have held
to that policy consistently. I have noth
ing to say concerning Mr. Pinchot. Mr.
Ballinger or anybody else." concluded
the ex -official of the Government.
THIEVES CAUGHT IN ACT
Copper Wire Being Sold; When Offi
cers Make Grab.
Mark Crickmore. alias O'Brien, and
Hans Risher, alias Young, were arrested
by Special Agent Lillis and Deputy
Sheriff Hunter yesterday morning
while In the act of selling 1000 pounds
of copper wire at a second-hand store
on Front street.
The wire was assembled in lead
tubes for laying as an underground
cable, and was stolen from the O. W.
P. freight yards of the Portland Rail
way, Light & Power Company, at the
foot of Grant street, Saturday night.
The thieves cached it in Sullivan's
Gulch until yesterday morning, when
they hired an expressman to take the
wire to the pawnshop.
The pair will be arraigned today.
When asked why they stole the wire.
they said they were ""broke"" and
needed money.
Only last Wednesday two other wire
thieves were caught by Special Agent
Lillis, Louis Bent being sentenced to
Kelly Butte for 25 days, and E. D.
Sperl being sentenced and paroled.
Bent took 50 pounds of brass from, the
railway company's steam shovel, and
Sperl took. 100 pounds of wire from the
electric building at Seventh and Alder
streets.
EXPERT CRACKSMAN FAILS
Attempt Made to Blow Tea Store
Safe Xoise Scares Burglar.
An unsuccessful effort by an expert
safe blower to rob the safe of the Grand
Union Tea Company at 448 Washington
street, was made Sunday night. Discov
ery of the attempted crime was made
yesterday morning by R. D. Sprinks,
manager of the tea store, who found that
the combination dial had been knocked
off and the hinges partially removed.
The safe contained the proceeds of last
week's business.
Entrance was effected by the burglar
by forcing the rear window. In break
ing through a wire screen, which covered
the window, the robber evidently cut his
hand badly, as spots of blood smeared
the window sill and nearby boxes. Candle
grease and burnt matches were found on
the floor before the safe.
An expert sent from the office of the
safe company to open the damaged
strong box believes an expert attempted
the robbery. After planning to blow the
safe, the burglar, evidently, changed his
mind and tried to work the tumblers,
which had all dropped but the last one.
It is believed that noise frightened iiim
into abandoning the attempt. This is
the first attempt at safe-cracking re
ported to the police for several months.
GOVERNOR'S STAFF RESIGN
Law of Last Legislature Bars Six
From Service.
Because they had not been for six
years previous to their appointments
commissioned officers in either the state
militia or the regular Army, six officers
on the staff of Governor Benson handed
in their resignations yesterday in com
pliance with the provisions of a law
passed by the last Legislature.
They are: Colonel Cecil Bauer, Judge
Advocate-General; Colonel John A. Wad
dle, Commissary-General; Colonel Charles
T. Chamberlain, Surgeon-General; Lieutenant-Colonel
George A. Hartmann. aid-de-camp;
Lieutenant-Colonel David L.
Houston, aid-de-cam.p.
J. F. Caaaldy, Secretary.
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ME FIGURES TRUE?
Seattle Deposits Are Padded,
Bankers Charge.
COIN IS COUNTED TWICE
Funds of One Institution Placed
With Anothen Banking House Are
Entered in Deposit Total of
. Both Firms, 'Tis Said.
Banking -statistics for Oregon, Wash
ington and Idaho for the year 1909 are
given In detail in Royer's Financial
Record, a Seattle publication, issued
last Saturday, and show a total sum
on deposit in the banks of the three
states of more than $328,000,000.
The State of Washington, with ap
proximately twice the population of
Oregon, is credited with bank deposits
aggregating $187,194,679, as against a
total in Oregon of $104,112,498. The
figures are for the close of. business
November. 16, 1909.
While the bank records give Seattle's
26 banks total deposits in excess of
$77,000,000, or about $17,000,000 more
than Portland's 23 banks, bankers of
this city question whether the actual
deposits in Seattle exceed . those in
Portland.
Figures Padded Is Charge.
Seattle's deposits, like Seattle bank
clearances, are padded, not perhaps for
the deliberate purpose of padding, but
at any rate are deceptive, so other
bankers, say.
The custom prevails in Seattle, ac
cording to Portland bankers, for one
bank to deposit large sums with an
other. For instance, if the Scandinavian-American
Bank, of Seattle, depos
its $500,000 with the Puget Sound Na
tional, that $500,000 will be entered in
the deposits of both Institutions and
appear in the total as $1,000,000. Nearly
every trust company and smaller bank
in Seattle, it is asserted, carries de
posits with the larger Institutions. The
Scandinavian-American, one of Seat
tle's largest banks, is credited with de
posits totaling $10,018,600, while the
Puget Sound National has $7,670,929.
What sum is represented by deposits
by the one bank with .the other is best
known to. the two institutions them
selves. As explained by a Portland banker, if
one bank has cash on hand in excess of
its necessary reserve, by depositing
with another National bank in the same
city it can secure 2 per cent interest
thereon. The trust companies are not
so tied down by reserve requirements,
and deposit greater proportions' of
their own deposits, drawing down 2
per cent interest. This custom, it is
asserted, is followed in Portland to an
extent that does not materially alter
thj total sums on deposit In Portland
banks.
Portland's bank clearances also are
In actual gold or clearing-house cer
tificates, each certificate representing
its equivalent in gold on deposit with
the clearing-house. Seattle banks
have a custom of buying clearing-house
certificates from each other, giving
cashier's checks in payment. For in
stance, a cashier's check for $100,000
given for clearing-house certificates
also goes through the clearing-house
and helps swell the total bank clear
ances. BINDERS RETURN TO WORK
One Firm That Refused to Advance
Wages Secures Nonnnion Girls.
"With one exception, that of the Ir-wln-Hodaon
Company, bookbinding
houses in Portland took back their old
employes, who went on a strike one
week ago yesterday, at the increased
wage scale reached by a compromise.
The Irwin-Hodson Company, however,
held out and yesterday morning non
union girls were put to work in the
shop. Others are being advertised for
at the old scale of wages.
Whether or not this will affect the
entire establishment remains to be
seen. In the composing-room of tna
plant the printers are members of the
Typographical Union, and it Is not
known whether they wij.1 continue to
work while one department is operated
by nonunion labor.
Officers of the ' union when ques
tioned yesterday refused to make any
kind of a statement with reference to
the situation in the Irwin-Hodson
plant.
If the printers want to continue
working as at present, all right' said
C. A. Whitemore, manager of the house,
last nighlv "We do notpropose to ac
cede to the compromise wage scale."
CLOSING OUT SUITS.
Clearing out the suits and coats at any
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the year. Closing out furs, silk waists,
petticoats and raincoats at wholesale
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KENNETH REFFLING RUN DOWN,
BROTHER KILLED LAST JUNE.'
Taxlcab Strikes Young Boy at Play
Near Ladd School, but Chauf
feur Is Unknown.
Automobile accidents seem to pursue
the family of A. Reftling, a tailor, at
23X Washington street. Testerday at
noon during the lunch hour, Kenneth
Reffllngr, his 11-year-old son was pain
fully Injured and Is now in his home
under the care of Dr. Molt "Wilson.
On June 28 his brother Walter was
killed by ' an auto at Twentieth and
Flanders streets.
The accident yesterday occurred in
the street in front of the Ladd Schol,
where the young- victim was a student.
Accompanied by Louis Oellerman.
whose father is employed at a moving
picture show at Sixth near Alder
streets, the Refiling boy was out in
the street snowballing. The automo
bile came up behind, knoeking young
R-efCllng down. One of the wheels ran
over his arm near the wrist and struck
him on the head, causing unconscious
ness. When he regained his senses he
was driven to his home in Cedar Hill,
adjoining the City Park. He will re
cover, although the injury to his head
is considered serious and he was only
partially conscious all the afternoon.
The doctor's report shows that no
bones were broken. The police are
trying to ascertain the identity of the
chauffeur who ran Kenneth down.
AID BY CHURCHES URGED
Rev. W. F. Jordan Would Hold Con
gregation on Insurance Lines.
Rev. William P. Jordan, pastor of Cen
tral Baptist Church, at the Baptist min
isters' meeting yesterday morning, said
that the church has come to a. point
where it needs something to hold its
membeVs. (He advocated the establish
ment of a mutual aid society to be con
ducted along insurance company lines by
the church, saying the - First German
Baptist Church has been conducting" the
German Mutual Aid Society along those
lines for 25 years with good results.
"The Brotherhood Movement" was the
subject of the paper read by Rev. K. C.
Parker. He said the brotherhood move
ment? will bring more men into the
church and compared the churches to
lodges. Rev. A.1 B. Minaker took excep
tion to tfie comparison.
The ministers also discussed the ques
tion whether a Baptist minister should,
immerse a. convert who wished to Join a
church of another denomination.
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