miE MOItNTXG OREGOMAN, TITURSIAY, MARCH 3. 1910. POSTAL BANK BILL IN ROUGH WEATHER FEE ARKANSAS SENATOR ADMITS MERCENARY INTEREST IN BILL PENDING BEFORE CONGRESS. FOR OFFICIAL ACT Compensation Absolute Well as Contingent, Sen ator Confesses. Vote, Set for Today, May Be , Delayed by Reference to. Committee. as AMENDMENT AGREED UPON SWAMP LANDS INVOLVED 2 ' . DAVIS ADMITS House Committee Declines to Alter Record of Statement at Arkan- saa Senator's RequestSelfish-Motive 1 9 Shown. I : . - TVArRrN"CVTOOC March Jeft TJavtn of Arkansas, failed today to have strick en from th records of the House oom : mlttee on publlo lands a statement he fmade before the committee several days I aero -when he appeared to advocate a bill ! introduced by Repre9ntative Oldfleld. of i Arkansas, quieting; title to about 100,000 acre of swamp lands In the eastern part 'of Arkansas, known as "sunk lands." Davis statement Indicated that he was to receive a fee for his services as at torney for ths Saint Francis Levee Board xf Arkansas in ' the litigation over the lands. It had been admitted by Davis that he was the attorney for the Saint Francis Levee Board. Goo (J Fee In Prospect. On his first appearance before the com mittee the record showed that Davis made the following: statement: "We could not prove our title. I con fess that there is Just that much of self ishness In It to me. because there is a trood fee If I can recover the price of that timber. I do not care to whom it jtoes, the State of Arkansas or the Saint Francis Levee Board, but I woild rather it should go to the Saint Francis Levee Board, because that Is Just my flerht." In correcting his testimony, Senator Davis struck out the words "because there Is a grood fee if I can recover the price of .that timber," substituting- for them the following;: "Be cause I am the attorney for the St. Francis levee board for the recovery of this timber." Davis said that he had not used the words attributed to him, but several members of the committee disagreed -with him. i Direct Answer Avoided. The committee held an executive ses sion and finally voted practically unani mously not to allow Davis to make the changre desired. At the time of Davis' appearance be fore the committee. Representative Robinson, of Arkansas, inquired: Is this a contingent fee?" "I have an absolute, as well as a contingent fee," replied the Senator. Representative Pickett: "Does the contingent fee involve favorable con sideration by Congress?" Senator Davis: "I can't say. If the title is conferred upon the state of Arkansas it gives the levee board a much better standing." Senator Davis tonight gave out a formal statement In which he de nounced as "absolutely false and with out foundation" the report that he was to get a fee in the event of the passage of the bill. He declared that the bill was Just and was Intended merely to quiet the title to certain lands bought by friends of his in Forest. City from the St. Francis board, the purchases having been made on the strength of opinions rendered by ex-Secretaries of the Interior Hoke Smith and Hitchcock. The statement concludes with the declaration: "This is a sensational story gotten up by Jealous political enemies, there is not a word of truth in it, and that Senator Davis stands ready -to de fend his action in regard to the bill. 40,000 ARE IN DEFAULT (Continued From Page One.) It is to tell what distillers or brewers have neglected to pay their taxes. The Government proposes to act on each case as presented, and, accord ing to the announced determination, a "leak" traced to any collector's office may result in the discharge of the whole force. A peculiar phase of the situation is the fact that a suit attacking the law I as unconstitutional is awaiting final decision before the United States Su preme Court. It is expected that the ruling will be banded down about the middle of this month. A large per centage of the protests declare it un fair on the part of the Government to compel corporations to 'make reports under a law which may be nullified. 4 84 5 FIRMS FILK REPORTS Colonel Dunne Says New Law Meets With XTnlvereal Disapproval. From behind the heaps of corporation certificates stacked around the inner of fice of the Collector of Customs, Colonel Dunne was able yesterday to begin an estimate or the returns from Oregon in compliance with the attempts of the Gov ernment to levy a 1 per cent tax on cor poratlons doing a business yielding more tnan iuo per annum net Income. The Collector announced that although observance of the law had met almost universal disapproval among business in terests. a complete tally, which will be finished about March 10, will show that ot more than 855 comDanles are tn h llaced in the "excuse" class for failure or refusal to comply with the publicity warure or tne new statute. Colonel Dunne announced the following ngures as an estimate of the first at tempt to regulate the little corporations: Total number of Oregon corporations . subject to the law, 7200; number of com panies filing reports (approximately) 4S45; number of companies which have gone out of business at various times in recent years, officers scattered and no tices returned because of the corporation telng unknown, 1500. Many Have Perished. In the latter class are many raining companies which have been organized at various times in the promotion of wildcat properties, stock Jobbing concerns, land companies and a number of fraternal in surance organizations which failed to survive long the morning of their birth. As rapidly as the lists can be made up and the corporations are classified as to business and arrangement alpTiabetically, they will forwarded to Washington and opposite the names of those listed as not reporting will be entered the data upon which the Commissioner of Internal Revenue at Washington will take such action as he may determine will fit the case of each. Approximately 855 legiti mate financial and bun In ens institutions I will be reported aa having failed to -com-ply -with. th law. These will bej-com- mif T i .mini wwwi .miimiisw mmmi m . y w n i i nsi"wffiiff "-o--r"' 7T : ' " J , - I ' i a ' i . A , " , ; t yrv I S-itiniiiiilli iiiiimnrMr mtininiftimiiMiMMMMIiiiiMi MnfiMii'MiliMMiiMaiiirtM'MaiMliMilTii-MTtf-1 11 .-j " SENATOR JEFF DAVIS. ................................................... pelled to come forward with a legal ex cuse for negligence, or fall under the provision of the statute relating to fines. The law is mandatory as to the Imposi tion of the penalties, but some discretion is reposed in the Commissioner as to the size of the fine. It may be J1000 or $10.- 000 in each case. Should the minimum amount be imposed it will require Ore-. gon concerns to contribute $855,000 to the National treasury. Should the maximum amount be levied against delinquents in this state the sum would be $8,550,000. ' Some Certificates Defective. Among the certificates which have been tendered at the office of the Collector are about 500 which are defective lh some manner, several being without proper signatures and others carrying informa tion which is not required toy the blank. The Collector will allow these to be with drawn for correction. It Is announced from the office of the Commissioner that an effort will be made to check the returns beginning March 25, and to notify all corporations o the amount of tax which they will be re quired to pay. The notices will be sent but from the Portland office as rapidly as they are received from . Washington. Taxes will be payable through the Port land collector on or before June 30. Delayed trains brought many additional certificates to the collector yesterday and Colonel Dunne announced last night that he would receive and enter as having arrived in time to escape the penalty any documents which appeared to have been in the mails prior to 12 o'clock Tues day night. Protests kept pace with certificates yes terday. "If any corporation has overlooked the opportunity to get In a protest against the law, I have not observed it." said Colonel Dunne last night. "Whatever the law was intended to accomplish, it Us plain that the people do not like it." REYEN'CE ESTIMATE EXCEEDED Commissioner Cabell's Estimate of Delinquencies-Is Low. WASHINGTON, March 2. From frag mentary advices which have come to Royal H. Cabell. Commissioner of Inter nal Revenue, from the Eastern and mid dle parts of the United States, he believes the percentage of delinquents in making returns under the law Imposing a tax of 1 per cent on the net incomes of corpor ations will not be more than 10. No definite information, however, from the United States as a whole will be available until the monthly reports of the collectors of internal revenue have reached the Treasury Department. Officials believe that the total revenue of the tax will possibly exceed the esti mate made by Secretary MacVeagh $25, 000.000 this year. COWLITZ BOOMS GO OUT SWIFT CURRENT CARRIES AWAY TIMBER PRjODtTCTS. Rich Farm Lands in Valley Are Re- .duced to Gravel Bars Crest of Flood Is Reached. KELSO, Wash., aiarch 2. (Special.) With a warm chinook and a heavy rain at the headwaters of the" Cowlitz River, the stream has risen from 11 feet 6 inches to lfl feet 11 inches in 24 hours. The cur rent is swift and destructive. The loss in logs, shingle bolts, piling, ties, poles and othehr timber products is estimated from $3000 . to $4000. The de struction caused to farm lands, owing to the current cutting new channels and washing away banks, cannot now be estimated. Some of the most valuable farm lands along the Cowlitz have been reduced to gravel bars. All the sheer, pocket and stiff booms from Castle Rock down to the mouth, of the Cowlitz, excepting those belonging to the Metcalf Shingle Company at Kelso, have been carried out. The sawmill be longing to J. S. Beck, at Lexington, is completely surrounded by water and is In great danger. The big county bridge spanning the Cowlitz at Kelso is In dan ger. The Columbia River boom at the mouth of the Cowlitz suffered heavy damage, the 6heer boom giving out early last night, causing the loss of all timber products coming out of the Cowlitz. The sheer boom at the mouth of the Cowlitz was. the only hope of saving the timber coming out of this river, and when this was Incapacitated the swift current car ried everything out into the Columbia River, and when once In the Columbia it means through to the sea. The river tonight is at standstill at 19 feet 11 inches, and unless the rains Btart in again it will begin falling to morrow morning. The wind is now chang ing to the north, which forecasts colder weather at the source of the river. fin(r electricity. rJwm,' Alaska, the moit fiorthortr town In ArnHct, im one of the best-lighted In the . IS China Friendly to Anglo-American Syndicate. TROOPS MAY GO TO FRONT Military Demonstration Will Be Made If China Persists in Present Policy In Manchnrla Corean Governors to Be Replaced. ST. PETERSBURG, March 2. M. Korotovic, the Russian minister to China, last evening submitted to the Chinese foreign board a formal propo sition for the extension of the Kagan Railroad by foreign capital as an al ternative for the Algun-Chinchow Rail road project. This proposal was confi dently communicated to the interna tional powers with the exception of China, last week but as yet no replies have been received. China may inimate her intention to build the rest of the road, like the first section, purely with Chinese capital, and decline to abandon the Chinchow line. The Russian foreign office believes that China will have difficulty in financing the second section of the Kalgan road. Dispatches reporting the intention of China to permit the Anglo-American syndicate to proceed with the construc tlontion of the Chinchow .Railroad without waiting for Russia's assent, have caused considerable disquietude here. , Russia has communicated to the vari ous powers the notes interchanged In which bear on the construction of railroads north of Pekln, for which Russia alleges it was agreed only Rus sian capital should be emoloved if the roads were not built by the Chi nese themselves. What Russia's further action will be is not known, but there Is talk of military demonstration" if China should persist in her present attitude in Manchuria. It is not believed, how ever, that the situation has reached this stage. Advices from Corea state that Japan will replace the Corean governors with Japanese. This is thought to be the basis of the recent annexation rumors. DARE RESULTS IN DEATH Girl Crushed While Trying to Oper ate Elevator. NEW TORK. March 2. (Special.) Dared by her girl companions to run an elevator to the upper stories In the temporary ab sence of the operator. Miss Riva Melvin, 16 years old, of N. 2492 Eighth avenue, started the car, and a few minutes later was crushed to death at the sixth floor of the Alhambra apartment building, ad Joining the Alhambra Theater at No. 200 West One- Hundred Twenty-elxth street, yesterday. The girl was alone in the elevator when she began her journey to death. The door was open as she passed out of sight of her four playmates, who fled shrieking to the street. William Manitz, the negro operator of the elevator, rushed to stop the car, but it had passed beyond his reach. He started up the stairway, but before he had ascended to the third floor the dying cry of the girl resounded through the building. How she came to be crushed Is un known, but it is surmised by the police that she sought to escape from the car when it began its descent at the sixth floor and was caught between the car and wall, from which position the body was removed with difficulty. Suspected Murderers Run Down. SPOKANE, Wash., March 2. After a chase of ten miles through the deep snow. Sheriff Graham, of Stevens Coun ty, has captured two Montenegrins at Meyers Falls, named Mosmovich and Mllutinorlch. They are believed to be the men who murdered Tom Roganvich near the O. R. & N. depot in this city Sunday night. Printers Retain Perry. as Head. CINCINNATI, March 2.r-George I Perry, of San Francisco, was re-elected president of the International Printing Prewmens and Assistants' Union, ac cording.to the vote announced here today. Oharles 33. Crowley, of Holyoke, Mass., was elected secretary -treasurer after a hot contest- with Patrick J. McMuilen. RUSSIA AROUSED Discussion of Effect In Time of Pan ic Develops, Varying Vlew of Hrjbnrn Substitute to Be Pressed by Author. WASHINGTON, March 2. The Admin istration postal savings bank bill may be referred back to the postofflce committee tomorrow, when the time comes for a vote on that measure in the Senate. . Heyburn of Idaho so intimated in a speech in the Senate today on his sub stitute for the pending bill. Whether he would offer the substitute, he said, would depend upon developments tomorrow. "I have heard many expressions of dis satisfaction with the legislation as it stands,' he said. "A number of Senators have Indicated a desire that the bill be re-committed, that it may have further consideration before we commit ourselves irrevocably to the policy of postal sav ings system." ... Heyburn Pleads for Time. He added that the Republican party was under no pledge to pass a postal savings bank law at the beginning of the Taft Administration. There still would be time : for consideration if the bill should go back to the committee. Heyburn's speech was followed by a sharp clash between himself and Carter, In charge of the bill. He had begun by suggesting a change of title and Carter charged him. with trying to change the constitutional character of the bill by altering the title. Heyburn replied somewhat vehemently that he had made no such effort, and Carter undertook to show that he had done so. While the Montana Senator was speaking Heyburn sought to interrupt. Carter declined to yield. Carter Ridicules Substitute. Cartejr declared the Heybum substitute ridiculous and said that Heyburn had offered it to present "something different. rather than to present something better. Heyburn's measure provides for a pos tal savings bank at the . capital city of each state and proceeds upon the theory that a Government savings system is constitutionally permissible only under the borrowing clause of the Constitution. Defending the constitutionality of the Carter bill. Bradley said that those who were attcklng it were of the same party that had contended for the right of re bellion. Panic- Effect Discussed. "If," he said, "they could have had their way the Union would have been in the condition of John Sloat, who was killed by a train In the West. His father wired 'Send his remains home'; the re sponse came ' promptly: "There ain't none." " Sutherland said a postal savings sys tem would aid to prevent panics. This statement brought out a series of ques tions from Hale, who said that the pro posed ' law would cause timid depositors in the ordinary savings banks to with draw their funds and deposit them with the Government in time of panic. With the conclusion of Sutherland's speech, Smoot presented the amendments to the bill previously agreed upon by the Republican managers. Further consider ation of the measure was postponed until tomorrow. GOVERNMENT TO BUY LAND Sites for Future Buildings Provided. Diplomats'Not to Get Homes. WASHINGTON. March 2. A bill pro viding for the purchase of $10,000,000 worth of real estate in Washington for the future use of the Government, was passed by the Senate today. The House voted down a proposition to provide residences in the foreign capitals for diplomats. FLOUR MARKS TELL GUILT New York. Tliieves Caught by Means of Telltale Spots. NEW YORK, March 2. (Special.) Mrs. Carrie Meyers, answering a knock at her door on the second floor of the apartment house at 202 East 110th street yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, heard two men say they were inspec tors and wanted to look at the gas fixtures. She recognized the voices as those of two tenants in the house, and refused to open the door. When they began to force it, she ran out on the fire escape and screamed for help. 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