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MORNING OREGONIAN. MOlxar JANUARY 24, 1910.
BRITISH ELECTION
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PRISONER MORSE
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Important as Premier, but Home
Rule AVI II Not Get Far
This Session.
LONDON, Jan. 23. Never in the recol
lection of the oldest politicians have the
British parties been In such a perplexing
position as they are today.
So evenly divided will be the member
ship of the next House of Commons and
so dose Is the popular vote, that the re
sult of the elections for all practical
purposes may be considered a tie.
No human mind can dlvino which of
the questions before the electors had the
most Influence at the polls, or whether
the results mean that the people demand
tariff reform, are loyal to the Lords,
anxious to reject Chancellor Lloyd
George's budget or whether all three of
these had an equal effect. Under thesa
circumstances, neither party wants the
responsibility of attempting to legislate,
and, since a division must be close, the
Unionists are better satisfied to be in
opposition to than to have won by a small
majority.
Balfour Glad to Be Out.
Mr. Balfour's speeches show plainly
that, with existing conditions, he is glad
not to have control of the government.
Premier Asqulth would be equally
pleased to establish the perils of piloting
the party through the troubled waters.
There are precedent for him to ask the
King to summon another leader to form
the Cabinet, but no one expects him to
haul dow his flag. All prophets predict
that the new Cabinet will find itself In
the minority within a year, and that the
country will plunge Into another general
lection.
The remarkable figures recorded at this
stage of the balloting foreshadow clearly
how nearly equal both a popular vote
and the membership of the House of
Commons will be divided between the two
great factions. The popular vote stands:
Unionists 2.5R5.627: Liberals 2.234.315;
Laborites 395.115. This gives the United
Liberal-Labor party a majority of 163,
803 against the total vote, 5,285.157.
Membership in. Commons 9mv Tie.
Today the membership of the House
of Commons Is a tie, the Unionists and
the combined IJberals and Labor party
each having elected 218 representatives.
One hundred and sixty-seven seats re
main to be filled of which 102 are Eng
lish. In the lait Parliament these were:
Unionists Sfi; Liberals 115; Nationalists
16.
Should the present trend of voting con
tinue, neither the Unionists nor the Lib
erals can muster a majority of more than
12 and the Irish Nationalists with 83
votes, will be masters of the situation.
The Peers and the Irish will be the
dominating forces of the next Parliament.
Premier Asquith has two battles to
fight to reform the Lords and to pass
the budget which failed and the budget
for the coming year. The prospect is
that both the Peers and the Nationalists
will vote for the budgets.
The House of Lords "can be reformed
only by a bill which the Lords must
swallow. They may deny that the coun
try has given a mandate for this. The
Unionists insist that' the elections have
not proved that the country desires a
change in the historic status of the Up
per House. They argue that a bare ma
jority Is not enough. No country with
a written constitution such as the United
States, they point out. can make such
changes by a mere majority.
Nationalists' Position Unique.
The position of the Nationalists is
unique. With them all questions, are
subservient to home rule. Tariff reform
ers claim that the Irish are all protec
tionists, if they could vote that issue
without complications. Nationalists in
the Parliament declared against the bud
get principally because they were opposed
to increased whisky taxes, but they would
probably help it through the next House
as a measure of political "strategy.
Home rule is not likely to get far next
session, according to versed politicians,
because the reform of the House of Lords,
which the Prime Minister has written at
the head of hia programme, promises a
great struggle.
John Redmond, leader of the National
ists, will be almost as Important as the
Premier, because Mr. Asquith can do
nothing without him.
The Conservatives believe the older
wing of the Liberal party, represented
by Premier Asquith, War Secretary Hal
dane and Foreign Secretary Sir Edward
Gray, now repent having permitted Radi
cals like David Lloyd-George and Win
ston Spencer Churchill to commit the
party to a budget that is so far on the
road to what their- opponents term .so
cialism. Liberals claim that their enemies are
trembling in their boots lest they find the
government on their hands, with the ne
cessity of raising revenues for old-age
pensions and a ku-ger navy, and at the
same time attempting to adopt protec
tion. .
Free Trade Vole Is Surprise.
The surprise of the campaign has been
that the manufacturing centers, with a
few exceptions, have gone for free trade,
while the squirearchies shifted to the pro
tection party. The Conservatives are
convinced that this campaign is the first
milestone In a bitter struggle in which
hiptory will repeat itself and in which
their party will return to power by
gradual steps as it has In the past when
ever disastrously overthrown a struggle
that will firmly establish imperialism and
protection.
That the struggle Is bitter, even now.
there Is no question. The one-time chiv
alrous atmot-phere of British politics has
been wonderfully changed. So much per
sonal feeling and so many charges of
lying and intimidation have been un
known since the reform bill days. The
Liberals make wholesale charges that
factory workmen, farm laborers and ten
ants have been dismissued and threat
ened with eviction- for supporting their
party.
Picturesque features of the campaign
have been garnlshe'd by carts going about
the streets loaded with "dumped" for
eign goods. Posters by the cartoonists on
the- walls caricature the Lords and pic
ture the misery caused by free rVade to
the poor man.
One element counted upon to furnish
spice failed to come up to expectations. The
suffragettes generally have been quiet.
Mrs. Pankhurst explains that the suffra
gettes know when to demonstrate and
when to keep' quiet. It is members of the
Cabinet they want to reach. They can
reach the voters and they expect to vote
. at the next election, she. said.
FRANCE SUFFERS
GREAT DISASTER
Hundreds Made Homeless by
Floods Oven Entire
Country.
RUIN CAN'T NBE ESTIMATED
River Seine on Rampage and Paris
Authorities Cry for Succor.
Situation Dire In . '
Extreme.
PARIS, Jan. 23. Floods tonight ex
ceeded all records and are fast assuming
the proportions of a National disaster.
In th enorth, , east and west, hundreds
are homeless and ruined. Although It is
impossible to estimate the damage. It will
be great. The rise in the waters con
tinued all day.
At Paris, the Seine, which registered
.648 meters yesterday, had reached 7.40
at noon today. The normal height of
the river at this season Is 2.48. The tor
Tent almost touched the arches of the
beautiful bridges,-threatening their de
struction. The Pont des Arts and the
Pont de L'Alma are in momentary dan
ger. Snow Adds to Disaster.
The sharp cold of yesterday led to the
hope of abatement of the floods, but this
morning a heavy snow set in, turning
In the afternoon to rain, which is still
falling. This aggravated the situation
and has caused gerat suffering. A dis
patch from Chalons sur Marne says that
a huge volume of water Is sweeping down
toward Paris.
M- Lepine. perfect of Paris, tooK th
gravest view of the situation. y
"The weather bureau," he said, "fore
casts a further raise of 30 centimeters to
night. I do not know what to do in the.
face of this situation."
One of the great engines that pump the
sewerage in the eastern section of Paris
broke down on account of the flood. AS
a result sewers- threaten to overflow
streets. Electric light and street railway
service is out of commission in some sec
tions. Officials of the prefecture are find
ing great difficulty in securing shelter
for the homeless. Many persons va
cated their quarters yesterday ' and 200
more vacated today. On the boulevard
of St. Germain Is a house tottering and
threatening to fall on the Chamber of
Deputies.
The situation in- the outskirts of Paris
is even worse than In the city proper.
At Alfort the dam burst, overwhelming
200 houses, the people being forced to
flee, leaving their belongings behind.
There are signs of improvement In the
situation in the Loire, the Rhone, the
Marne. the Yenne, the upper reaches of
the Seine and the Aube. On the other
hand, the Saone and Doubs Valley Is one
huge lake about 10 miles broad. Of six
villages the roofs alone are showing;
above the water. s
The whole Champagne region Is in a
critical position. Vitry-Le-Francois. in
the District of Marne, stands isolated.
All the country between Arrgyny and
Larzcourt is under water. At the latter
place several houses are .covered. The
damage is enormous.
WAR IS BEGUN ON. TRUST
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themselves of opportunity to explain
their side of the situation.
Contentions to Be .JFought Over.
Whether the price of meat is arti
ficially kept high is to be the conten
tion of the coming battle. Subpenas
have been prepared to bring before
the jury witnesses from all departments
of the packing-house companies, and
the packers are ready for combat.
"All I've got to say," said J. Ogden
Armour, "is that such co-operation as
may exist among packers is a benefit
to the public rather than the reverse."
Three lines of action have been out
lined. These are:
Criminal prosecution for alleged vio
lation of the anti-trust law.
Civil action for the dissolution of the
National Packing Company.
Contempt proceedings for alleged vio
lation of Judge Grosscup's .injunction
restraining packers from fixing prices
in restraint of trade.
Practically all the evidence gathered
by the Government in a previous In
vestigation, it Is said, has been aban
doned and entirely new data -will be
utilized.
WOMEN' AID IX HIGH PRICES
American Housewives Extravagant,
Says E. P. Ripley.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Jan. 23.
High prices of food are due as much
to the extravagance of American wo
men who have the spending - of the
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the avarice of the tariff-protected
trusts, according to E. P. Ripley, pres
ident of the Santa Fe Railway, who is
passing the Winter here.
"General increases of wages and the
rapid increase of money in circulation
are among the causes of high prices."
said Mr. Ripley, "but extravagance is
the paramount cause. Most house
wives, whose husbands earn good
wages, will pay three or four times
as much for foods done up in fancy
packages as .they will for the- same
foods without the frills. And they will
not go to the store or to the market
if they can have a telephone. The tele
phone adds to the cost for living for
thousands of families, and so does the
1 per cent which the grocer has to add
to his prices to cover the cost of de
' livery."
HOTELi ME. PLAX DEFENSE
Boycott Threatened Unless Prices
Are Reduced at Spokane.
SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 23. (Special.)
At a meeting of the Hotel & Restaurant
Keepers' Protective Association, to be
held In the assembly rooms of the Cham
ber of Commerce next . Thursday, meas
ures will be taken to help stay the rising
price of all meats, as well as certain
classes of other goods handled by grocers
in Spokane.
The proposed plans virtually amount
to a boycott on certain lines of meat
until the price has been lowered or a
satisfactory reason for the maintenance
of present prices has been given.
HIBERNIANS AFTER FUNDS
Entertainments Will Raise $16,000
Needed for Convention.
Tc raise funds for the National conven
tion of the Ancient Order of Hibernians,
which comes to Portland In July of this
year, a series of entertainments will be
given by the local division.
The birthday of Robert Emmett, March
4, has been selected as the date of the
first effort to raise a portion of the $16,000
considered necessary. It is. announced
the initial programme will be the most
elaborate ever attempted here and will
comprise both professional and amateur
talent. The chief speaker will be Chap
lain Francis Patrick Joyce, now sta
tioned at Vancouver Barracks. Chaplain
Joyce is a speaker of note, as well as a
historian. He is now engaged In the
preparation of an account of the early
days on the Vancouver Reservation, at
the special request of the Secretary of
War.
The committee in charge of the series
of entertainments consists of M. J. Doyle,
D. J. McLoughlin and D. W. Lane. Their
plans contemplate a most elaborate ob
servance of St. Patrick's Day, March 17.
VENDETTA SEEN IN MURDER
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the vicinity was taken to the station
and put through a severe examination.
Save for .Victor Leon, the Frenchman,
there was none who could throw even
the slightest ray of light on the shoot
ing. Three were held as witnesses. These
are Nick Minorini. Guiseppe Macri' and
ptiilllp Sarafino. The first two named
are roomers at the Leon horr, -
NOTE NOT PLEASING
Germany .Cannot vAgree to
Proffered Tariff Terms.
DISPATCH IS DECIPHERED
Disappointment Takes Place of
Favorable Impression as Succeed
ing Paragraphs Tell of De
mands Kaiser Will Not Meet.
BERLIN, Jan. 23. The American
note on the tariff is not satisfactory to
the German government. A dispatch
delivered to the Foreign Office last
night was deciphered today.
The first paragraphs of the note, fa
vorable to German contentions, gav
the impression that the controversy
was ended; but as the note proceeded
it was seen that various points have
to be considered, and that Washington
continues to hold a position to which
Germany is not prepared to yield.
The feeling at the Foreign Office 1
one of great disappointment.
MEAT INSPECTION IS ISSUE
Point Thought to Stand "Alone In
Way pf Settlement.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 23. The State
Department and the German Embassy
here have declined to make public de
tails of negotiations that have been in
progress for three months regarding the
maximum and minimum feature of the
Payne-Aldrlch act as it applies to Ger
man' products. It is known, however,
that they have proceeded to a point
where one issue remains that of the
removal of restrictions on American cat
tie and meat imported to Germany.
The German government in Its last note
Indicated its purpose to continue on the
favored tariff list all American procfucts
at present included In the arrangement,
tis to le In return for the concession
under the new tariff act of the minimum
rate to all German imports into Amer
ica. But Western Interests have In
sisted that the German regulations re
garding imports of American cattle and
meats into Germany are absolutely pro
hibitive and discriminatory.
A possible solution of the issue, it Is
suggested, may consist In the consent of
the American Government to waive fur
ther consideration of the cattle question
for the reason mat there Is now little or
no trade in that line because of the' high
price of beef In this country.
CoburgClub Elects.
EUGENE, Or., Jan. 23. (Special.)
The Coburg Development Club has re
organized by electing the following
officers; President, N. J. Nelson: vice
president. Charles P. Poole: secretary,
O. M. Washburn; treasurer, M. C. Bond.
Quashing of Indictment Against F.
Augustus Heinze Likely, to Mean
Chance for Convicted Bank-
er Now in Prison.
NEW TORK, Jan. 23. (Special.)
Friends of Charles W. Morse, the
banker and former Ice magnate, now
serving a 15-year sentence In the Fed
eral prison at Atlanta, believe be will
regain his freedom through the same
medium by wflich the indictment
against F. Augustus Heinze was yes
terday quashed by Judge Hough.
Heinze was indicted on October 12,
1909, for violation of the National
banking law. In quashing the indict
ment Judge Hough said:
"The common law is that a grand
jury while deliberating shall listen to
witnesses who give testimony and to
no one else except the authorized law
officers of the commonwealth. . '. ;
When this indictment was under con
sideration in the-grand Jury room. John
P. Fernsler took part in the proceed
ing to the extent of asking some tech
nical questions of other expert account
ants, and throughout suggested the
method of examining expert witnesses
thought to be allied with the defendant.
Mr. Fernsler Is an expert accountant,
not a lawyer, and was not retained by
the prosecution as counsel."
Attorney Littleton and other lawyers
agree that the same rule may apply
to Morse s case, and all the facts will
be looked up at once and prepared for
presentation. It is said that when the
grand Jury was investigating the case
an expert accountant was called1 In and
that he took part in the deliberations,
asking and answering questions and
assisting in framing the indictments.
If this fact can be clearly established
Morse will probably be released, as it
will be shown that the indictment upon
which he was convicted and sent to
prison was clearly invalid.
80DIES ARE RECOVERED
FOUR COACHES RAISED FROM
CANADIAN RIVER.
Tlilrty-one Known to Be Dead;
Score Still Under Water;
xMany Others Burned.
NAIRN, Ont., Jan. 23. The ice-bound
Spanish River today began to give up its
dead. The first-class coach, one of four
of the Canadian Pacific passenger train
that took the plunge down the embank
ment Friday afternoon, was raised above
the surface of the river this afternoon.
Workmen crept into the wreck interior
and brought out several bouies. The
forward part of the coach was demol
ished, and it is not improbable that some
bodies floated away.
Fourteen bodies were recovered today,
making a list of dead whose names are
known of 25, in addition to six unidenti
fied women and 'children whose bodies
were taken from the first-class coach to
day. Besides these 31, it Is supposed
that a score will be found In fhe tourist
car, and an unknown number were
burned to ashes with the second-class
car. In the revised list of dead appears
the name of T. H. Watt, of Renfrew,
Mont.
Four women, two of middle age, one
young and one elderly, and two boys are
among the unidentified dead. The fol
lowing names of dead, in addition to
that of Watt, are given out tonight:
Isaac E. KinafTan anj girl named Pees,
Bruce Mines, Ont.; R. A. Booth, Toronto;
Hiram Johnson, Montreal; Rev. Mr.
Childerhouse, North Bay. Ont.; E. G.
Bemmels, Lisbon, Ont.; Thomas Aussant,
Blind River, and W. J. Robertson, Audi
tor of the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
AUCTIONEER MADEMAYOR
SAMUEL LEWIS "SHANK IS IX.
DIAXAFOLIS WONDER.
Parsons Praise His Reform Aim.
Police Ordered to Enforce Iiaw.
Governor's Chair Sought.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 23. (Spe
cial.) Samuel Lawis Shank, the new
Mayor of this city, is a veritable wonder
to the people. Happy-go-lucky "Lew," van
auctioneer who got a poke out of every
thing, has suddenly- teen transformed
into a serious man of affairs.
He is today a much praised friend of
ministers', coadjutor of the Anti-Saloon
League and en open advocate of better
moral conditions. Negroes, with whom
he hobnobbed In, the campaign are his
friends no more, for he has declared that
he propojtes to clean out the dives of
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It is no secret that Shank wants to be
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Agency Kmployes Arrive.
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