VOL,. XLIX. XO. 15,331. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1910. PRICK FIVE CENTS. TUFT LAND BILLS ENCOUNTER SNAG Mondell Refuses to Be Their Sponsor. "REQUEST" TAG IS HANDICAP President Seeks Another Mem ber to Represent His Views. MESSAGE IS APPLAUDED Wyoming Member Declares His Own Opinions Differ So Radically He Cannot Appear to Indorse Administration's Ilan. OREGONIAN NEWS Bl-REALT. Wash ington. Jan. 14. Republicans, end some Democrats, applauded the views of Presl rlent Taft when hip message was read to day in the .House, but immediately there after it was discovered that the Presi dent's bills., designed to carry into effect his views upon questions affecting the public ler.ds, had struck a snag. Representative Mondell. of Wyoming, who Is chairman of the House committee on public lands, naturally -stood first in the eye of the President as the logical Introducer of the bills. Mondell declined to act as such upon his own responsi bility. He declared that his views dif fered radically from those of the Presi dent. He was willing, he said, to per form the physical act of introducing the bills, as an accommodation to the Presi dent and to get them before the House, but he would append to them the tag 'introduced by request. ' , Moiidell's Offer Declined. This did not suit the President at all. Mr. Taft knows that bills tagged "by request-' have a way of getting lost. Mostly they die in committees. No one cares much for them after they have been introduced. read once and referred, and it has come to pass that the label is a handicap at the outset. it is tantamount to disapproval from the very beginning. The President knows all this and he de clined to permit Mr. Mondell to act in the rapacity of unwilling parent. He is said - to have decided to seek another sponsor, probably in the person of another member of the -committee on public lands. Views Differ Widely. The bills In question deal with the sub jects of temporary withdrawal,- leasing of water power and the disposal of oil. gas and phosphate properties now part of the public domain. On all of these sub jects Mr. Mondell said he differed widely with the Administration. It has not been decided who shall in troduce the bills. Mondell today introduced bills of his own, as follows: Permitting the assignment of homestead entries, on Government reclamation proj ects, after five years of residence. Authorizing the survey of all railroad land grants, so lands can be taxed. Appropriating JIOO.OOO for surveys of ag ricultural and grazing lands' in Alaska. INAIGIIUTIOX CHANGE KAILS Attempted Filibuster in House Is Stopped by Motion to Adjourn. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. An unex pected early adjournment of the House today probably saved from defeat the Henry resolution proposing an amend ment to the Constitution changing the date of Presidential inaugurations. Led by Perkins of New York, op ponents of the measure showed unsus pected strength. Fearful lest he could not muster enough votes to obtain the required two-thirds majority for the adoption of the resolution in the ab sence of several members who were committed to support it, Henry of Texas was determined to prevent a vote. ' At 4 o'clock, after he bad spoken for 40 minutes, 'lie asked unanimous con sent to continue for one hour. Shirley of Kentucky objected. Gaines of Vir ginia then moved the previous ques tion, and on a division, the motion prevailed by the close vote of 62 to 61. To prevent 'a vote Mr. Henry made the point of no quorum, but before the Speaker could order the doors closed and absentees brought in. Parker saved the day -with a motion to. adjourn, which was carried without opposition. Declaring that the inauguration of the President, once a "quiet and de corous event." had grown into an "enormous assemblage and show," Per kins opposed the proposed amendment. He said all in favor of the change had tome from the City of Washington, lie said satirically that be was , just as anxious to .amend the Constitution so as to have a pleasant dav for in auguration as he was to insure a nice day for a three-ring circus. The first hour of the day's ses sion was devoted to the reading of the President's conservation message, which was enthusiastically received by Republicans and by some Democrats. Arraigning the express companies for making, enormous profits on an In fringement of the Government's right lo monopoly of transporting mail, and ;-riticlring the Postofflce Department Tor- surrendering that right. Represen tative Murdoek. of Kansas, today in troduced a long resolution calling on the Postmaster-General for informa tion. The resolution says that while the Postofflce Department last year had a deficit of J17.000.000. the Wells-Fargo Hxprcss Company distributed nearly J25.OOO.0OO In dividends, and that the Government's failure to exercise mo- (Concluded on Fsa 2f- ALARM , GOES OFF AT WRONG TIME CI.AXCIOK IX MAX'S POCKET AWAKENS DETECTIVES. Following Fred Iavls and Clatter Emanating From Clothes, Tliey Find Six Clock;?. AYhen Fred jDavle "was picked up on the street by Detectives Tiehenor and Howell last night, six alarm clocks were found ticking- away in his pockets. It is probable he would still be enjoy ing his freedom had not one of the pesky alarms "let go'' just as he was passing the detectives at Third and Washington streets. Detectives are skeptical by na ture and they gave ear to the muffled clamoring of the rampant gong. Davis all at once concluded his busi ness demanded, a facter pace, so he hur ried along, the plain-clothes men close behind. The clatter of the alarm deep in his pocket agitated Davis, for It would not stop. Coming to a saloon, he turned In. possibly to stop the ringing of the gong. Then the policemen edged up and casually inquired the yme of day. Davis was flustered. The detectives started to find out for themselves and difcg up six clocks, ail busily ticking away, from Davis' pockets. Various ex planations of their presence then were glibly forthcoming, : but eomehow none of them suited and Davis and his clocks were escorted to the City Jail. An effort will be made to connect Davis with the robbery of a street case of Gevurtz & Sons last week, when two dozen clocks were stolen. PORT ARTHUR TO BE OPEN Japanese AVI II Abandon Town as Great Seacoast Fortress. WASHINGTON. Jan. 14. -Notice of the intention of the Japanese government to open Port Arthur to world-wide com merce is indicated in Tokio dispatches to the Japanese Embassy about two months ago. but it was said the issuing of the order would be withheld until the government was able to fix the exact date for the opening. The purpose is not to make Port Arthur a free port in the sense of Hamburg, where goods may enter free of duty and be placed in bond, but simply to put it on the footing of New York or any other commercial city. The significant point of this is the fact that it marks the determination of the Japanese government to abandon Port Arthur as a great seacoast fortress. WALSH SIGNS AGREEMENT Disgraced Banker Turns Over Se . caritles to Creditors. ' CHICAGO, Jan. 14.-Iohn R. Walsh to day attached his signature to the agree ment of settlement of his financial troubles and sent it to the First Trust and Savings Bank, to be held until the guarantors of the note sign their part of the agreement. The signature gives to the Associated Banks of Chicago, which backed the ad justment of Walsh's financial affairs af ter his banks were suspended in 1905, the $14,039,000 in securities he put up to cover a note for J7,121,SS7 in return for the canceled note. , In addition, the banks will get $600,000 from the guarantors signing the note, who are then to be given the $949,000 in se curities they" put up as surety. THIEF WORKS ON OCEAN Centralla's Passengers . Submit to Search of Clothing and Baggage. ABERDEEN, Wash., Jan. 14. (.Spe cial.) Twenty-one passengers on the steamer Centralla, from San Francisco to Aberdeen, were lined up along the rail and submitted to thorough search of their clothing, shoes and hat yester day Just before the vessel tied up at the dock here, as the result of the theft of several watches and a suit of cloth ing while the vessel was enroute to this port. Twenty-one trunks were forced open and ransacked from top to bottom and valises and other hand baggage were examined.-As sweeping a search of the steamer Itself was made, but all proved fruitless. The crew was searched, too, without result. POLICE SEARCH FOR CHILD Negro Woman, With White Baby, Is Thought Kidnaper. WINCHESTER. Va.. Jan. 14. Rail road detectives are at work on a mys tery which seems to surround a negro wliinan who left here yesterday for Chicago with a white . child about 3 months old. The woman boarded a train at Winchester. and at a station five miles from Winchester was hand ed the baby by a negro man. Later she boarded a Western train at Har per's Ferry with the child. She de clared that her destination was 350 North Sheldon street, Chicago, and that she had been furnished tickets by some unknown, person in Chicago. The railroad police believe it is a kidnap ing case. PREACHER NOW IS, SORRY Deserts Wife and Children for Af finity, but Is Arrested. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 14. Arthur B. Stanley, formerly a preacher in Detroit, who is accused of having left his wife and children to come to this city with Miss Edith Markham, was committed to Jail here today to await requisition on the charpe of desertion. Stanley is X years old and the woman is one year hl Junior. Both admitted they had "made a mistake. PROTESTS WILL BE CONNECTED LATER EviclenceTemporary in Hermann Trial. TARPLEY'S TESTIMONY ARGUED What Shall Be Left Out Not Settled by Attorneys. NO DAMAGE THOUGHT DONE Little Develops During Day to Hurt Care of Defendant PaVdons for Jones and Mays Are Expected. Ornisby Says Report Honest. Efforts of Francis J. Heney to connect Binger Hermann with the Blue Mount tain Forest Reserve conspiracy will not be confined to the introduction of testi mony showing the relations between Her mann and the convicted conspirators prior to February, 1903, when Hermann retired as Commissioner of the General Iand Office to qualify as Representative from the . First Congressional District. This developed yesterday when Heney secured the temporary admission'as evi dence of protests by Grant County peo ple against the creation of the proposed reserve, which were received by the In terior Department at Washington after Hermann had ceased to be connected of ficially with the General Land Office. These protests were admitted by Ju3ge Wolverton over the objection of Mr. Worthington, for the defendant, with the understanding that the Government will be required to connect the protests with Hermann and show that he had a knowl edge of them. Mr. Worthington objected to the admission of these protests, which were not forwarded to the department at Washington until April, 1903, or a month after Hermann had lesigned as Commissioner of the General Land Of fice. For that reason, counsel contended, the documents were not competent as evidence against Hermann, since their transmission to Washington was a tran saction subsequent to the time he was connected with the Land Orfice. Protects to Be Used Later. "We propose to make the necessary connection between these protests and Mr. Hermann and clearly to establish their competency as evidence in this case," said Mr. Heney in answering the objection. "The Government will .show that, although Mr. . Hermann was no longer .Commissioner of the General Land Office when these protests from Grant County reached Washington, he was a representative in Congress from Oregon and as such was representing the entire state. We expect to show that these pro tests were brought to the attention of the defendant before the reserve was finally created. Unless we do, of course, they will not be competent evidence against him." The protests in question had been iden tified by Orin L. Patterson, of Canyon City, Grant County, who circulated one of the documents and secured many sig- (Concluded on Page 13. KING "WINTER ' ' HERE ' S A NEW ONE ON THE OLDEST INHABITANT. INDEX DF TODAY'S NEWS , The Weather. YESTERDAY' Maximum temperature, .45 degrees; minimum, 32. degrees. TODAY'S Rain or snow; easterly winds. Foreign. Situation in Spain threatens downfall "of present Cabinet, Page 2.. National. President's message urges reform of land laws, conserx-ation of timber, preserva tion of t forests and improvement of wa terways. Page .". President declines to permit Representative Mondell to Introduce land bills tagged by requf st;" seeks another sponsor. Page 1. . Truce arranged between Republican regu lars and insurgents fn House., Page 1. Domestic Howard "Chanler Christy hugged and kissed , female models, says witness in wife's trial for child. Page 1. Long- Beach diver wtns. desperate battle on sea. bottom with devil fish. Page 1. Mississippi ice gorges break, leaving wreck age high on levees, but river rises again. Page 2. Hamilton postpones trial for height record held by Paul ban; latter flies across coun try. Page 1. Sport. Mc Far I and resigns as president of Aberdeen Club, and fate of team is In doubt. Page 7. Vancouver buys star players, and will make strong bid for pennant, page 7. San Tranci.sco tallows Jeff -Johnson fight, per mit being assured Promoter Gleason. I'age i. 1 'a rifle Northweat. Mrs. John Miles, of Cbehalis, wants more than husband's will bequeaths. Page 6- State I.aboj: Federation completes session at Hoquium. Page 0. Dumas declines re-election, and W. T. Clark is chosen president of Washington Hor ticultural Society. Page G. Because his daughter is whipped at school, irate father thrashes school teacher. Page 1. Tacoma officials may resign to make them selves eligible for office under new char ter. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. Hop buyers turn to lower grades. Page 17. tiram prices slump sharply at Chicago. Page 17. Heavy unloading of stocks breaks Xew York market. Page 17. Seasonable lull in general trade. Page 7. Harbormaster Is given control of water front. Page 16. 4 Portland and Vicinity. Wife whose husband threw beer bottle at her for awakening him to go to work gets divorce; nine - decrees granted. Page U. Admission of Grant County protests in Her mann trial as evidence only temporary. Page l. Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church to celebrate first anniversary and comple tion o parsonage, tomorrow. Page 12. Scottish Rite Mason class numbers 50, now receiving degrees. Page 16. Major Mclndoe says Port of Portland can not regulate opening of draws. Page JO. Alarm clock in man's pocket goes off as he passes detectives ; six timepieces found. Page 1.. SHIPS DRIVEN INTO HARBOR Storm Along Coast Has Been Severe One to Shipping. SAN FRAN-CISCO. Jan. 14. The storm which, has been prevailing along the Coast for several iluys has caused a number o the coasting steamers to take refuge in this harbor. The steamer National City and Daisy Freeman, which arrived here today, re ported that portions of their deckloads had been swept away by a terrific storm which they encountered. The Daisy Free, man was bound for San Pedro from Willapa harbor, but she put into this har bor on account of a shortage of coal caused by her being driven out of her course by the gale. The gale has moderated. REID MISSES FUNERAL Storm Keeps Ambassador From Father-in-Law's Burial Services. NEW YORK, Jan. 1. Tempests at see. end an off-shore snow storm so delayed the liner St. Louis that Whltelaw Reid. the Ambassador to Great Britain, reached here too late to attend the funeral of his father-in-law. D. O. Mills, held in this city today. The services were conducted by Ernest M. Stoires, rector of the church where Mr. Mills had for many years been a vestryman. Among the honorary pallbearers was J. Pierpont Morgan. PUN'S HEIGHT MARK UNTOUCHED Hamilton Goes 500 Feet, Then Descends. TRIAL IS MERELY POSTPONED Frenchman Makes 15-Mile Flight to San Pedro. ARMY TRIES EXPERIMENT Bag of Ammunition Dropped From Plane in Effort to Hit Mark. Bleriot Machine Appears First TimeCurtiss Makes Speed. AVIATION FIELD, Los Angeles. Jan. 14- A gray sky this time and a hawk eyed young American climbing up and up to snatch from France the laurels for the "highest in the world" in a bi plane. This was what was above the cluster of 40,000 upturned faces at Aviation Field late this afternoon when C. K. Hamilton started out to wrest the altitude record from Paulhan, who won it Wednesday with a height of 4165 feet. That Hamilton did not win it, per haps, is because he was brave enough to turn back from the night world above to those tormented faces again, and come down from a height of 500 feet, saying: "My engine -was not quite right; I will try it again." Paulhan Fails inSpeed Trial. Paulhan careened wildly around the course while this was going on. He was trying to make a speed record of the course for one lap. but failed in more ways than one. Not only did he fall below Glenn H. Curtiss' time, but in trying to descend in too brief a circle his machine tilted and struck, the ground, breaking one of the lower plane tips. Earlier in the afternoon, Paulhan, Ig noring the judges, sailed clear of the grandstand and went on a 15-mile cross-country journey to the harbor of San Pedro. Before he retired for the day Paulhan took. Cortland Field Bishop, president of the Aero Club of America, as a passenger for a two-mile journey around the course. Army Experiment Tried. One of the most Important events of the day was the attempt of Lieu tenant Paul Beck, U. S. A., Signal Corps, to drop a bag of ammunition into a measured space from 250 feet height in a Curtiss biplane. This experiment was made at the request of Captain Samuel Bottoms. ,of the Coast Artillery. The idea was to find out whether, in time of war, it would be possible for an airship to drop bombs into the gun pits of the coast, destroying men and guns. Curtiss took- Beck up to make this test, but the effort was a partial failure because of engine trouble, and will be made again. It is one of a series of Army experiments on the programme. Curtiss during the day continued to allow Paulhan to do the sensational (Concluded on Page 2. TEACHER IS BEATEN BY ANGRY PARENT PEDAGOGUE, WITH BATTERED FACE, GOES FOll WARRANT. Parent Objects to Use of Switch on Daughter, and Bruises Country , Schoolmaster. EUGENE. Or., Jan. i4. (Special.) Constable Plank went to the country In the vicinity of Divide this afternoon to arrest George Harrison on a war rant charging him with assault and battery. ; The complaint Is made by G. A. Gardner, a country schoolteacher in the Divide district. The arrest grows out of the chastise ment of a daughter of Harrison by Gardner, in which he used a Bwitch. A few days later Harrison, on meet ing Gardner, gave the latter a severe beating for thus punishing his daughter. Gardner, when he appeared in the city yesterday, wore two badly discol ored eyes, a terribly bruised nose, and his face was battered up generally. Constable Plank is expected here with Harrison in the morning. DIVER BEATS DEVILFISH Deep-Sea Artist AVins Desperate Fight on Ocean Bottom. LONG BEACH, Cal., Jan. 14. (Spe-cial.)--Cut off from assistance from above, A. D. Christy, a professional deep-sea diver, spent the worst 15 min utes of hla life today in a desperate battle on the sea bottom with a large devilfish. Christy had gone down to inspect the caissons and piers of the outer wharf for the city. In wandering around he tangled his lifeline up so that when he felt the octopus seize his leg he was unable t give the signal for ascending. . Perceiving that the line was fast he turned to the octopus, which by that time had four tentacles wrapped around his left leg. Five times he slashed at the monster with his big scraping knife and each time severed a tenta cle. At last, the octopus moved away and Christy hastened to straighten out the lifeline and gave the signal to be hauled up. He. has been in a state bordering on nervous collapse ever since, but his condition is not seri ous. EDITOR IS HERO OF FLOOD Caliente Man Takes "Paul Revere" Ride, Spreading News. RENO, Nev.. Jan. 14. (Special.) Robert Graham, editor of the Caliente Prospector, figured as a hero In the recent flood. He secured a horse when the rush of waters was threatening to wipe the town out of existence, and after desperate efforts succeeded in crossing tfie river, the horse losing its life in the swirling torrent. ; Graham then made his way on foot to Panaca, 16 miles distant, from which point the news of the condition of Cali ente was taken to Modena by B. Wads worth. Graham reports that the water stood four feet -jjeep In the round-house at Caliente, that the depot was under mined and several buildings swept away. A deposit of mud and silt a foot deep was left in every home by the receding waters, and much distress ensued. One life is reported lost. At Round Valley on the Caliente and Pi oche road water stood two feet deep over the track and In places ice covered the track four feet deep. CAB LEADS NEW ENGINES Monster Lolcomotlves for Southern Pacific Have Novel Feature. - V SACRAMENTO. Cal., Jan. 14. (Spe cial.) One of the new Baldwin Mallett articulated oil-burning locomotives of the improved "4000" class "has arrived In the Southern Pacific yards in this city. Three more are on their vay over the mountains. Two have been in service some time. They are different, however, as the new ones have the cab and tender at the front end. The engineer is stationed, directly over the pilot, with smokestack at the rear end. This remedies a serious defect, for in the first two built it was found that In making curves the engineer could not see the track ahead of his monster engine. Sixteen engines of this type will be used on the Southern Pacific lines in California to pull trains over the mountain grades. Each engine has 3000 horsepower, or twice, that of the largest engines In use heretofore. LIGHT KILLS CONVICTION Peculiar Decision Based on Crime's Time; Verdict Set Aside. OLTMPIA, Wash., Jan. 14. (Special.) Taking judicial knowledge of the fact that in this latitude in August it is day 1; it more than two hours before 7:30 A. M., the Supreme Court sets aside the convic tion of Charles Gunderson, tried in Jef ferson County for burglary, and orders the prosecution dismissed and the de fendant liberated. The Information charged that in the night time Gunderson and his pal had stolen articles from the ship Robert R. Hunt. Judge Crow, who writes the decision, says the only proof at the trial as to -the time of the crime was that of the master that when he arose at 7:30 A. M. he dis covered the articles were missing. As there were two hours of daylight during which the crime might have oc curred. Judge Crow holds the state failed to prove its case. TRUCE AHRANGEU WITH INSURGENTS Regulars InduceThem to Join Caucus. TAFT PLAYING PEACEMAKER Hayes and Dwight Speak foi Rival Factions. SQUARE DEAL IS ASSURED Selection of Ballingcr Inquiry Com miltee Sole Question I" p Both Factions Pledged to Support Policies Taft Urges. WASHINGTON", Jan. 14.-The dove ol peace succeeded in getting reasonably near a perch today on the field occupied by the warring Republican factions of the House. When Representative- Hayes of California, mediator for the insurgents, returned to the House after one of his frequent calls upon President Taft, the news circulated rapidly that -a truce had been arranged and a more or less per manent peace in the Republican ranks was about .to be announced. This was considered confirmed when a statement was issued from the White House and another from the Republican whip. Representative Dwight. announcing details of the armistice. This pronuncla mento proved premature, however, for Mr. Hayes, between numerous confer ences with his associates, announced that no agreement had been reached and that the matter would go over until tomorrow. At this Juncture the Insurgents, gathered In the room of Representative Gardiner of Massachusetts, Issued another state ment saying that "an understanding had been reached." Insurgents Will Enter Caucus. The statement" which was given out by Mr. Hayes follows: "It Is true that an understanding hs been reached .that we shall attend the caucus about to be held for the choice of the Republican members of the investi gating committee. The question of fu ture conferences, however, is one on which there has been no agreement. In fact, I had no authority from my asso ciates to enter into that. Of course, this agreement in no way affects the issue as to the present system of control of the House of Representatives." Mr. Hayes was asked if the word "we" used In his statement meant all the insurgents in the House. He re plied that it did and that all insur gents concurred In the statement. Democrats of the House announced today that they would hold a caucus Saturday night to nominate minority members of the committee to investi gate the Balllnger-Pinchot affair. Rep resentatives OIlie James, of Kentucky; Slayden, of Texas, and Palmer, of Penn sylvania, were mentioned as possible nominees. The Democrats insist upon their right to name minority members of the committee and, if the majority declines to allow it, there is a pros pect of a Democratic-Republican alli ance upon the question. Insurgents say they are contending merely for a fair committee and care not who are its members. Taft Announces Agreement. The President gave out the foIlowiBg statement of the understanding: i "It has been agreed between the reg ular Republicans and the so-called in surgents represented by Mr. Dwight on the one hand and Mr. Hayes on the other, after conference with the Presl dent, that a caucus should be held to pass upon the question of the commit tee in the Interior Department investi gation with the assurance that the in surgents, if they came into the caucus, would be treated fairly and that a com mittee of acknowledged impartiality would be appointed. "A further agreement was foreshad owed that caucuses would be held from time to time to which all elected as Republicans should be invited to take up the various measures recommended by the Administration as performance of party pedges, the subject of each caucus to be announced In advance." Dwight Gives His Version. The statement of Mr. Dwight con cerning the understanding between the regulars and insurgents follows: "The questions 6f the past have been forgotten. The tariff bill is no longer a matter for discussion. The Speaker ship tight is ended. The question of the rules is not now an Issue. We are confronted with the problem of redeem ing the pledges of the Republican party to the people. : "Last Friday there was a vote in this House which caused a Republican di vision." ' Mr. Dwight here referred to the vole on the Norris amendment, taking the appointment of the Ballinger-Plnchot in vestigation committee out of the hands of Speaker Cannon and placing it with the House itself. ' Both for Taffs Policies. "That was a matter of no consequence and a small subject in which the people could have but little interest," continued Mr. Dwight. "It showed a division in the party. The next day I saw Mr. Taft and laid the matter before him. "I told the President that the so-called insurgents were represented as ' being friends and supporters of the Adminis tration and ready to help enact his rec ommendations into law. I assured the President that the regular Republicans of the House were ready to do likewise. We were prepared also to go into caucus (Concluded oa Pue 2.)