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.
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AMENDMENT AGREED UPON
SWAMP LANDS INVOLVED
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DAVIS
ADMITS
House Committee Declines to Alter
Record of Statement at Arkan-
saa Senator's RequestSelfish-Motive
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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
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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-
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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 .
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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.
The two men broke through and stole
a clock, the only valuable and portable
thing in sight, and then rushed Into the
kitchen. One of them happened to
break open a. sack of flour and a lot of
it got on their coats. Then they heard
Mrs. Meyers on the fire escape and
fled. .
Policeman Cox. of the East 104th
street station, attracted by the house,
wife's cries, saw the two men racing
upstairs toward the roof. Both had
brushed the flour off their shoulders,
but Cox noticed flour spots on their
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roof.
Two hours later, while standing at
Third Avenue and 109th street. Cox saw
two men walking down the avenue with
the tell-tale flour spots on the backs of
their coats. They had a bag with them,
which held a clock. He locked them
both -up on the charge of -burglary, they
protesting against what they termed
an "outrage."
Mrs. Meyers went up to the station
later and identified her clock and the
voices of the two prisoners.
Firemen Vote Against Strike.
LARAMIE, Wyo.. March 2. Firemen on
the Wyoming division of the Union Pa
cific Railroad west of Cheyenne have
voted against the proposed strike.
A grape basket more than 16 feet long
was made for exhibition In a recent pa
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