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J THE 3IORNIXG OREGONIAX, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1910. PROBE OF PINCHOT ROW IS RESOLVED japan to oppose ORGANIZED WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC DOES EXIST, FINDS YOUNG JOHN D.'S GRAND JURY. v SPERITY RECORD Knox' Manchurian Dictum in Much Disfavor. OF Senate Yields, Allowing House to Select Members of Investigating Committee. r REJECTION TO BE FRIENDLY FRO 1 JOINT RESOLUTION WINS New-lands' Amendment to Compel Persons Involved to Appear Be fore Committee,. Ijost Xo Dissenting Voice Heard. WASHINGTON. Jan. 10. Without . dissenting voice the Senate today adopted a joint resolution introduced toy Jones Irovidins for an Invest (ration of the Ball-InRer-Pinchot controversy. The Senate measure, -was passed as a substitute for ' the House measure dealing with the same subject passed last Friday. An amend ment was adopted providing . that the House members of the investigating com mittee shall be elected by the House which is In accordance with the Housa vote on the question. , Much to the surprise of many Sena tors. Mr. Nelson reported the House res olution without delay. The measure re ported by the Senate public lands com mittee, as amended today, was offered as a substitute. He obtained immediate consideration. 1 Newlands offered an amendment pro viding that "any official or ex-official," whose conduct might be involved in the Investigation should appear before the committee or any subcommittee either in person or by counsel. This amendment was promptly opposed by Nelson, who said such a course was unusual and was merely a reflection on the committee. Th amendment received only the vote of Newlands and his demand for a division was not seconded, by the requisite number. bJiXATE SITS OX POIXDEXTEll After He Gains Counsel Amendment In House It Is Dropped. ORKGONIAX NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Jan. 10. Representative Poin dexter, of Washington (insurgent), elated at his success in securing an amendment to the Humphrey resolution of Inquiry in the House, pursued his tight to the floor of- the Senate today and was ignominiously defeated. When the Humphrey resolution was before the House Friday Polndexter secured the adoption of an amendment provid ing that Plnchot and other witnesses appearing before the Investigating committee could be represented by counsel. When the resolution was called in the Senate today Poindexter was on hand. He found his amendment had been left out and asked Senator New lands to propose It on the floor. New lands did so, but was voted down-by a large majority. Polndexter's pres ence in the Senate was understood, and his interference was resented promptly. Nelson, who objected to the amend ment, explained that witnesses will not need counsel, as they will not be on trial, but merely be expected to tell what they know. He said that If an array of attorneys should be admitted the Investigation would be dragged out indefinitely and the work of the com mittee would be hindered seriously. This action of the Senate means that the Poindexter amendment Is out of the hill for good. V. : IB! 'X V Photo Copyright, 1910, by George Grantham Bain. JOHX D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. NEW A'ORK, Jan. 10. Syndicated white slavery is under Are here today. In the grand jury room, Assistant District Attorney Whitman asked the investigators of the traffic to find indictments against cer tain Individuals who, he is satisfied, are leaders of the business It is believed that the searching Investigation undertaken by John Rockefeller, Jr., as foreman of the special grand jurv, has already proceeded far enough to show not only that an organized white slave traffic really exists, but that there are close relations between traf fickers in women in the principal cities of the country. BEARS HUD COTTON Tremendous Slump Follows Census Crop -Report. BULLS GATHER PROFITS M'KIXS BACKS TAFT'S BILIi Wc.it Virginia Senator to Introduce Rate Law Amendment. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. Senator El kins, chairman of the committee on inter state commerce, will be the Instrument of the Administration in presenting to the Senate the Adm! liBtration bill for the amendment of the interstate commerce law. He has not decided Just when he will introduce the measure, but it will go In within the next day or two. The Senator is known for hlB conserva tism in the matter of railroad legislation, but he has indicated to President Tafi his willingness' to support this measure. l AMOVS HOBBEKV ECHO HEARD Assistant V. S. Treasurer Credited Willi $173,000, Lost Money. WASHINGTON. Jan. 10. An echo of the mysterious robbery of the sub-Treasury of Chicapo in 1907 was heard in the Senate today when a bill was passed providing for the crediting of J173.000 to the accounts of William Boldenweck, the Assistant United States Treasurer. Boldenweck long ago was absolved from blame for the loss of the 173 $1000 bills, but the shoi-tage was carried on Ms books. Message. Reread In Senate. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. Although the provisions of the special message of President Taft proposing further railroad and anti-trust legislation were known to all of the members of the Senate, it was read today as a special compliment to the Executive. COAST DEFENSE BILL UP Appropriation Committee Cuts Fund to $5,617,200 for 1910. VwVSHlNGTON. Jan. 10. Fortifications for the United States and Insular pos sessions for the year 1911 will cost $5,617, 300 $3,500,000 less than for 1910, If the House adopts the recommendations of the appropriations committee, submitted to day. The committee cut the department estimates for the coming year $1,109.54.543. The sum of $."00,000 is recommended for seacoast guns and carriages and for the purchase, manufacture and test of land turrets $4.S00. while $200,000 is recom mended for the construction of fire con trol stations and accessories. An appropriation of $440,000 is recom mended for ammunition and sub-caliber k'uns for seacoast artillery practice which Is practically the same amount appropri ated for the present year. The sum of $.".00,000 appear for searchlights for im portant harbors, and $300,000 for the con struction of fine control station, range tinders, etc. The estimate of $370,000 to be used for the alteration and maintenance jT sea coast artillery is allowed in the bill. Eugene Water - Works Pay. EUGENE. Or.. Jan. 10. (Special.) City Treasurer Frank Reisner has mala public hig report of receipts and ex penditures for the water system under the management of the city for the past 13 months. The report shows re ceipts from water rents amountlp" o 21.0S5.73. Seeinsr Prices Can't Be Maintained, They Join Selling Crowd and Cash In, IjettiniT Shorts Sell Them selves Into - a Bad Hole. NEW YORiC. Jan. 10. Under pressure of enormous liquidation. Involving the sale of approximately 1,500,000 bales, the New York Cotton Exchange was hit by a bear raid today with losses of as high as $4.80 a bale. William P. Brown and Frank B. Hayne, who are credited with being among the leaders of the bull cam paign, which of late has taken profits es timated at $13,000,000. were on the floor of the exchange, active figures In one of the most exciting sessions in its history. May cotton, which recently has been as high as 16.19, dropped as low as. 15.S2: March to 15.06 as Its lowest point, while July opened at 16.80, dropping to 15.32, and. closed a point higher. . May closed at 15.34 end March at 15.15. The bears fought bitterly and sold on an enormous scale, several brokers each selling " 25,000 bales. The bull element, seeing the drift of things, took profits on a large scale, probably with the idea of allowing the shorts1 to sell themselves Into a hole, and the slump of SI to 82 points resulted. appropriations: " Kellett's Bluff Light house. $30,000; Partridge Point ljght Ves sel, $60,000; aids to navigation, on Puget Sound, $6000; tender for the Alaska Lighthouse Service, $225,000. BIG MANEUVERS VOTED SOKTinVEST MILITIAMEN MAY GO TO AMERICAN LAKE, House Votes $1,350,000 for Pur pose, Largest Appropriation Ever Granted by Congress. ORHGONIAN NBW9 (BUREAU, Wash ington. Jan. 10. The House of Represen tatives today voted into the Army appro priation bill an item of $1,350,000 for joint maneuvers during the coming Summer. If this item is retained by the Senate, the ' maneuvers will be held at American 'Lake next August, to be participated In by the militia of Oregon. Washington, Idaho, Montana and perhaps other states, in connection with the regulars. This is the largest appropriation ever voted by a Congre&s for maneuvers. The appropriation in the Army bill for roads in Alaska was somewhat mutilated in the House today by reason of a point of order raised against it, but In the end an Item of $100,000 was retained for repairing and maintaining the roads here tofore built. Fifty thousand dollars for building a new road into the Ididerot Mining district was knocked out. Oregon Postmasters Confirmed. ORKGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Jan. 10. The Senate today con firmed the following Idaho postmasters: Nadine Napton, Jerome; Rupert O. Bell, Milner; William W. Stephens, Rexburg; Mollie E. Sargent, Glenns-Ferry; Joseph W. Fuld. Hailey; also Clyde B. Walker, of Coeur d'Alene, as Register of the Ju neau, Alaska, Land Office. The President nominated Christ H. Schenk as postmaster as Burley. LaConner Postmaster Named. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Jan. 10. The President today nominated John P. McGlinn for Postmas ter atwLaConner, Wash. GAMBLING CHARGE FALLS Error In Indictment Frees Two South Bend Men. OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 10. (Spe cial.) The Supreme Court today. Jus tice Dunbar dissenting, sustained the dismissal of the felony gambling charges against C. I. Hoffman and Fred Crater at South Bend. The information charged that they conducted a gambling resort on April 5, 1909, at different dates between Jan uary 1, 1909, and May 1, 1909. The lower court sustained a demurrer on the holding that the language charged a number of crimes instead of one. The state contended that it was necessary In order to make the place a resort' to name different dates. The Supreme Court holds against this latter conten tion and the defendants go free ' LANDSLIDE BURIES MAN Teamster on O. R. & N. Grade Killed by Eaxthfall. COLFAX, Wash.. Jan. 10. William Heard, aged 58. a railroad teamster, whose wife and six children live at Connell, Wash., was killed in a land slide on the O. R. & N. near . Canyon, In Western Whitman County, Saturday evening. Contractor Forest Gipson and crew were changing the channel of Canyon Creek. Heard and his team were buried four feet deep. Contractor Gipson and Henry Slattery escaped with the dirt and rocks striking at their heels as they ran. Jeff Wright and his sister, relatives of Heard, who were working at the camp, accom panied the body to Connell, after Cor oner Bruning's investigation. STEAMER" MEN ENTERTAIN Fifty St. Helens People Look on Klamath and Voice Approval. ST. HELENS. Or.. Jan. 10. (Special.) Charles McCormick & Company enter tained about 60 guests tonight' with music, a luncheon and inspection of the new steam schooner Klamath, which is here on her initial trip from San Fran cisco. The Klamath will ply regularly between San Francisco and St. Helens, and Mr. McCormick declared tonight that the steamer for his company would be built here. The Klamath is the finest and best equipped vessel of the steam schooner class plying on the Pacific Coast. HALLS CONTROL PHONES Stockholders Recommend Advance in Rates at Hood River. HOOD RIVER. Or.. Jan. 10. (Special.) At the annual meeting of the Home Telephone Company which took place today the control of the stock of the company was shown In the election of Charles Hall, J. E. Hall and E. O. Hall, brothers, as members of the board of directors. V The other directors elected were: At torney omitn ana c E. Copplo. A resolution was passed by the stock holders recommending a raiEe In the rates. Heyburn Introduces Bridge Bill. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Jan. 10. Senator Heyburn Intro duced a bill today authorizing the con struction of a bridge across the Kootenay River by th (Bonner's (Ferry it ridge Commission. Senator Piles Would Aid Shipping. OREGONIAN .NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Jan. Senator S. H. Piles in troduced, a. fcm authorising tha following Free Delivery for Klamath Falls. KLAMATH FALLS; Or., Jan. 10. (Spe cial.) (Klamath Falls will have free mail delivery this year, providing vthe postal receipts for the first quarter of 1910 ex ceed $2124. The total receipts for the nine months ending December 81 were $7975.12, and for the first quarter of 1309 exceeded the amount necessary for this quarter to gain th new service by Increasing volume of postal business. There is no doubt that the record will be Bm-passed this year In the opinion of Postmaster Emmitt. India bu T4 nempM aoi Q73. jri cflicaiiw i Nippon's Interest in Manchuria Is Obtained Through Blood and Treasure Will Not Willingly Be Given T7p, Says Hayashl. ToVlO. Jan. 10. No doubt may be en tertarned concerning Japan's attitude toward the American plan to neutralize the Manchurian Railways. Secretary Knox's proposition has not called forth a word of favor from any source, rn Japan. The diplomats here, while disin clined to express opinions, certainly do not support the project. The Kokumin, a semi-official organ, representing the view of Premier Kat sura, says the Japanese reply to the American note will be couched in friend ly terms because' the suggestion comes from a friendly power, but at the same time inquires whether Germany and France would be willing to neutralize hanfung and Yunnan Provinces. ( . Russian War Denied. The highest authority is given for the assurance that there is not the slightest foundation for current reports that Japan is menacing Russia. The relations and interests of the two governments are said to be closer than -ever before. News dispatches from the United States, published here, and reporting a feeling of uneasiness in Russia, have caused some perplexity In official cir cles, because recently the steadily im proving , returns between Japan and Russia have been strengthened, and more than ever since both govern ments are equally and steadfastly op posed to the proposition of Secretary Knox. To the foreign commercial ele ment the whole thing appears imprac ticable. Japan Wants Manchuria. Count Hayashl former Minister of Foreign Affairs, said: "It amounts to a confiscation, by the powers, of Japan's right in Man churia, gained as a reward of heavy expenditure of blood and treasure. The popular sentiment Is certainly violent ly opposed to the proposition." Count Hayashi compared the pres ent sltuationwlth that which followed the Japanese and Chinese war In 189K. when the powers outmaneuvered Japan una ooiainea ine rights ror which she had fought. He insisted that Japan was observing consistently the conven tion with the United States, preserving me integrity 01 umna and maintain ing the principle of the open door and equal opportunity. GERMANY'S REPLY FAVORABLE Knox' Manchurian Railway Policy Is Agreeable. BERLIN, Jan. 10. Germany will re ply favorably to the proposition of the United States with reference to the neutralization of the Manchurian rail roads, according to a semi-official com munication issued tonight. The communication says: Germany's answer to the American memorandum will be In the same sense aa England's, which expresses, funda mental agreement therewith, as the American proposition fully recognizes the principles of the open doer and equal rights for all, which have always been the foundations of German policy in Eastern Asia." Steamboat Men Were Barred. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan.. 10. With Robert Minor, the retiring president Fall upon distracted households' when Cuticura enters. All that the fondest of mothers desires for the alleviation of her skin tortured and disfigured infant is to be found in warm baths with CUTICURA SOAP And x gentle anointings with Cuticura -Ointment Cured. Only authorized Keeley In stitute in Oregon. Write for fllns- OF PORTLAND NEW BUSINESS WRITTEN DURING 1909: First quarter (January 1 to April 1) $ 226 000 Second quarter (April 1 to July 1) .-. 247 000 Third quarter (July 1 to October 1) " 333 000 Fourth quarter (October 1 to January 1) i . T." 541 000 Total : $1,347,000 Observe the increase by quarters. Observe the increase during the last quarter. October ' $129,600 November 157,400 December 254,000 We enter 1910 writing new insurance at the rate of over $3,000,000 a year. Further gains to be expected during 1910. iliP'i- v 0 T. B. WILCOX, Vice-Pres. COOKINGHAM. Vice-Pres. M. M. JOHNSON, Sec'y and Actuary S. P. LOCKWOOD, Vice-Pres. and Genl Manager HARRY RICHEY, Manager Portland Agents of a stevedoring company, clad in a silk hat and frock coat, superintending the discharging of her oargo, so that no steamboat man may touch it, the four-masted bark Manga Reva, Captain Townsend, the first sail packet to come from the Atlantic Coast to San Fran clsco In many years. Is now being un- loaded. She sailed from Philadelphia on September 3. Shipping men are Ju bilant over the sncoess with which the clipper braved the stormy Horn, her cargo arriving In excellent condition, and say that It will tend to inaugurate regular sailings from coast to coast. Captain Henry C. Townsend. a typical Yankee, brought the Manga Reva around the Horn. He declared that ho walked the poop in his pajamas most of the voyage. Fujiyama, the volcano that aprar In all Japanese pictures, is 12.34(5 feet high, and 1-0,000 pilgrims ascend It very year. 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