l'HE MORXING OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY, APRIL. 12, 1910.
RAILROAD BILL IS
ENGAGING SENATE
Elkins' Amendments Allowing
Appeal and Five Days' No
ice Are Adopted.
NELSON'S SPEECH BITTER
Passage. He Says, Will Permit Con
trol of Lines by Few Men Re
peal of Sherman law 'Op
posed Discussion long.
WASHINGTON. April 11. The Sen
ate today entered the voting stage of
Its consideration of the Administration
railroad bill. In accordance with the
previous agreement. Senator Elkins
was prompt In moving the considera
tion of the bill soon after the Senate
met, and it received continuous atten
tion until the close of the session.
While the opposition will not concede
the Elkins amendments to be the
amendments of the majority of the
committee on interstate commerce,
they consented to allow them to be
treated as such, thus consenting to
their completion in advance of the pre
sentation of other amendments. Sen
ator Cummins In turn succeeded in pro
curing the concession that his and
Senator Clapp's amendments should be
next taken up.
The only amendments acted upon
during the day were those regulating
the jurisdiction of the proposed Court
of Commerce, granting appeals from
interlocutory orders of the Court of
Commerce and permitting five days' .
notice of hearing in injunction pro
ceedings. Elkins' Amendments Win. i
The last two amendments were ac- I
cepted without opposition, but there
was sharp debate on the first series
and several votes were taken on sub
stitutes offered by opponents of tha
bill. The substitutes were voted down.
The Elkins" abendments granting ap
peals to the Supreme Court 'from the
temporary injunctions and requiring
five days' notice In Injunction proceed
ings, were adopted without division. He
was not bo fortunate with his amend
ment allowing complainants to be rep
resented by counsel before the com
merce court. i
Fending the decision on ths various
amendments suggested by Mr. Elkins.
(Senator Nelson, of Minnesota, declared
his position toward the bill as a whole.
He especially opposed the. repeal of the
Bherman Anti-Trust law, as applicable to
railroads.
Sherman Law Unheld.
"I regard that law, next to the Con
stitution, ao the most Important law on
our statute books." he said. "To my
mind It is the only protection we have
aralnst the Inroads of the trusts."
- Asserting that from the first the Sher
man law was applicable to the railroads,
he said the roads " had resisted the
statute from the beginning.
"I am talking about the bill as It came
here," he said, "and I am impelled to
talk in view of a speech made out West
the other day."
He referred to the speech made in Chi
cago Saturday night by Attorney-General
WU-kersharu and later he said it did not
"lie in that official's mouth to go out to
Chicago and make a speech criticising
mfinlirs of Congress after framing such
a bill."
Charming," Says Nelson.
He sarcastically characterized section
13. relating to railroad combinations, as
"ihp must charming provision of the
bll." He was especially severe on the
provision allowing the Court of Commerce
to approve railroad mergers in advance
of consummation, declaring that this
"blessing once obtained, the combination
afterward would do anything It might
desire to do."
He said he could not vote for the bill
so long as it proposed to repeal the anti
trust law. He asserted that the bill was
almost wholly In the Interest of the rail
roads and predicted that If It should be
come a law all the roads of the country
would soon be controlled by two or three
men.
MURDER MYSTERY SHIFTS
t Continued From Flrnt Page.
aid Clyde yesterday when asked about
the matter.' and he came. This was on
April 2, and hired out to us to work
on a special JVe Festival edition we
are preparing. 1 gave him his outfit and
assigned him to work In the stockyard
district.
"Monday morning he telephoned our
stenographer, Miss Orace Vandemarr,
concerning his work, inferring that he
was feeling discouraged. She asked
him to report to the office in person
and he replied that he would do so.
The next day one of our clerks told
rhe. In the afternoon that a man an
ewering the description of Wezler had
been In the office anu wanted to see
me. and when he found I was not in
rte said he would return again, out lie
has failed to come."
"Witness Is Confident.
Miss Vandemarr stated yesterday
that she was sure it was V ezler who
had called her up on Monday morn
ing. April 4. the day of the murder in
Tacoma. she said it was between S:30
and 9:30 o'clock in the morning, about
an hour after a man supposed to have
been Wezler hired a boy to take the
note to Mrs, Schulz.
Among the other incidents that tend
to show that "Wezler was in Portland
on the day of the murder is a letter
in the hands of the police which was
returned from the postoffice to the
Kamm building. It was mailed in tne
Portland postoffice on April A and re
turned for want of sufficient postage.
This letter was open, and contains a
card addressed to Wezler hy the post
office authorities in San FVancisco, in
forming him that a letter had been
mailed there addressed to him. but that
It did not bear the necessary postage.
The strong feature of this, and which
Is in Wexler's favor, Is Portland post
office mark on the card showing it had
been received in Portland on April 4,
and if Wezler himself addressed the en
velope to send it back to San FVancisco
with the necessary postage of the delin
quent letter, he did it on the day of the
murder, for his envelope as well as the
receiving stamp on the card were for
that date.
Landlady Talks to HUn.
Added to this is the declaration of Mrs,
B. B. Ray. who has charge of the rooms
In the Kamm building. She is -certain
that it was either Monday night, April
4, or the next day, that Wezler came to
hfr door and knocked, and although, she
did not go out and see him, nhe con
versed with, him, she says, through the
. cloeed door, and, h& next morning she.
found that he had slept in his bed that
night.
G. H. Seaton, the Postoffice night
watchman, (with whom Wezler had be
come quite friendly, also stated last night
that Wezler was at the Portland Post
office either Monday night, April 4, or
the following night, inquiring if a certain
other man had been seen there.
According to Seaton, Wezler introduced
himself to the watchman some time ago
when he was in the postoffice lobby one
evening. WTezler had been writing a let
ter at a stand, and turning to the watch
man, he asked Seaton if he had ever
been married, and of so if he had been
divorced. Wezler seemed at the time
to be worring over his domestic troubles,
and without getting much encouragement
from Seaton. he related how his wife had
become infatuated with a saloon man
and had left him.
"He came in here another night. ex
plained Seaton last night, "and while an
other man was standing near he retold
his domestic troubles. Then he said he
believed he should kill her. and the
stranger told him he would do right if
he did it.
Wealer Talked of Crime.
"I told the stranger that he should not
have told the man to comit a crime,
but he did not seem much effected by
my advice.
. "Wezler kept coming in here after that
and talking to me. Some times he would
read letters that I believe he had writ
ten himself, and pretended they had been
i,s - . i:
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Charles J. Wnler, Sought for
Alleged Murder of 31 other-tn-l,nw
Through Decoy Letter.
INSURGENTS JOIN
TO SNUB GANNON
Automobile for Vice-President
and Speaker Voted Down,
"Uncle Joe" Defies.
G. 0. P. VICTORY PREDICTED
written by others to him blaming his
wife for her leaving him:
"One night he said he thought he
would kill his wife. He said:
'You know, I could slip up there to
Tacoma and kill her and get away and
they would never catch me."
"Tried to explain to him that he
would certainly get caught and killed
if he tried it, but he said that a cer
tain man in the East had killed his
wife and had not been captured for
two years afterward. He said the man
was a friend of his, and he thought
he culd do as well.
"I told him that the other man was
caught in the end, and he woujd cer
tainly toe caught, too. If he tried to
kill anyone.
" 'They'll never catch me, though,
Wezler said, 'for I'll commit suicide
first. No, they'll never take me alive.
Trip to Tacoma Planned.
"It was a little more than two weeks
ago that Wezler came in here om
night and said he was going- to Ta
coma on a trip, and he showed his
purse, containing considerable money.
The purse is one of a kind he was
distributing in his work, and he told
me that when he should come back
from Tacoma he would make me a
present of one of them.
"Well, he went up there and when
he came hack he came here in the
evening and told me about his trip.
That was perhaps 10 days ago, and
explained that he had lost his purse
while away and could not recover it.
He said he was broke.
"He showed me an item in a Tacoma
paper, in which it was stated that Dr.
and Mrs. Charles J .Wesley were vis
iting i nthe city. I wanted to know
why he had done that, and he said it
was to make his former wife jealous,
as she would think he was going
around with another woman. He had
given the paper the item.
"What impressed me the most about
him was his action just before he made
that trip to Tacoma. He was in here
and he said that he wanted me to look
in the papers for news of htm. He said
that something would be published about
him, and he gave me his card that I
might know wha I was reading about
"It was about Monday or Tuesday even
ing, of last week, I don't remember
which it was, that Wesley came in here
the last time. I was standing in there
talking to one o f the clerks, when I
looked up and there I saw Wesley motion
ing to me. The clerk asked me what the
man wanted, and I said I would go to
see. I told the clerk that the man was
a pest.
Visit Made to Postoffice.
"Well, I went out in the lobby, and
Wesley asked me if a. man had. been in
there answering to a certain description.
I told him that he had and that he had
just left. Then he said good-bye, and
turning around walked out, and I have
not seen him since."
KanasCity Girl Writes.
The Kansas City woman who is fig
uring in the case is Florence Carmen,
who conducts the Arcade Manicure
Parlors in Kansas City. Im letters
found by the police from her she says
she is coming to Wezler as soon as
soon as she can sell her manicuring
parlors, and she asks him for infor
mation regarding the railway route
she should take to get to Portland,
In one of her letters this woman was
planning to get to Portland by Easter
time, and later she explains that this
had been impossible. A letter ad
dressed to Wezler at the Kamm build
ing. in her handwriting, has arrived
since he has been missing, and thus
it is not believed . that she has gone
to meet him by appointment at another
place.
On the dresser In Wezler's room in
the Kamm building- is a picture of his
little girl, who died when two years
old, in Vancouver, B. C. The picture
was taken after death and It is be
lieved that Wezler's mind must have
been of a morbid nature to cause him
to keep the picture displayed as it is.
Wool Crop to Break. Record.
ASOTTX, Wash.. April 11. The sheep
men say this year's wool crop will he
the largest known, and that in general
the sheep were never in better con
d It ion.
Patriarch, Lawmaker Says Republi
. cans Will Win Coming Election,
Dares Colleagues Wlio "Op
pose His Personality.'
WASHINGTON. April 11. Almost the
entire "insurgent" strength of the House
was joined with the Democrats today in
what was- generally acknowledged to be
an additional rebuke to Speaker Cannon.
A conference report on the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation bill
contained an agreement to appropriate
for the expenses of automobiles previous
ly provided for Speaker Cannon and
Vice-President Sherman. The House
reiterated ita disapproval of these ex
penditures and by a vote of 111 to 132
refused to agree to the resolution, send
ing it back to conference for further con
sideration.
After this action had been taken.
Mr. Cannon, leaving the chair, went to
the Republican side of the House and
there delivered a speech that contained
much of sarcasm and invective. He
again defied the "insurgents" and in
timated they lacked courage to join
with the solid' minority to depose him.
Encouraging his Republican col
leagues and admonishing the Demo
crats, he declared he believed a Re
publican majority would be returned in
the coming elections.
Minority Leader Champ Clark made
a spech in which he insisted if given
an opportunity the Democrats would
endeavor to realize the suggestion of
Senator Aldrich that the expenses of
the Government might be curtailed
$300,000,000 annually.
With intense Interest the call of the
roll was listened to In order to deter
mine how the insurgents were voting,
as it was realized their attitude on that
subject would determine the result. It
was not long before the result was
foreseen, and its announcement pro
voked a scene on the Democratic side.
Then Mann sarcastically declared this
was mere child s play.
If this is Democratic leadership,"
added Mr. Mann, "I hope to be deliv
ered from it in the future."
"You will," came from a score of
Democratic members. Replying to Mr.
Mann's remarks. Minority Leader
Champ Clark gave the House a state
ment of his purpose to work for econ
omy, whether that was denominated
child's play," or anything else. He
was in favor of taking away all auto
mobiles from officials in Washington,
he said.
With the eye of every member upon
him. Speaker Cannon asked Mr.
Mann to take the chair. He descended
to the floor and made his way to- the
midst of the Republican side.
"Mr. Speaker," he began, "this whole
controversy touching the automobile in
connection with the offices of Speaker
of the House and Vice-President of the
United States, has not been inspired
from beginning to end or encouraged or
approved of by the present occupant of
the Speaker's chair."
Mr. Cannon explained that the propo
sition for automobiles had originated in
the Senate. Then the Speaker recalled
to the attention of the members the dif
ference that has always existed in the
salary of the Speaker and other mem
bers. "It Is true," he added, looking
straight into the eyes of Champ Clark,
who occupied a seat just across the
aisle, "that a desire to preside over
this House when a different party
may be In the majority" (applause and
Democratic shouts interrupted) "look
ing into the eyes of the gentleman
from Missouri," said Uncle Joe, when
he was allowed to continue, "I know
that if he becomes Speaker he will be
the same Mr. Champ Clark he is now."
Cannon reminded the minority leader
of the situation that would -face him
and, again turning to the subject of
automobiles, he said he believed the
Speakership should be accorded the
same dignity as the office of Vice
President. Then, declaring he would be
glad to abide by the action of the
House, he added:
"I am content, but I want to notify
you that unless the Republicans on
this side who do not approve of the
personality of their Speaker have the
courage to Join a solid majority in
deposing him, I remain Speaker until
March 4."
For the first time smiling upon his
colleagues, Mr. Cannon said while he
had not asked for the automobile, he
would use the appropriation for its
maintenance if voted to him.
Mr. Cannon then entered into a de
fense of the new tariff law, declaring,
to the apparent delight of the Republi
cans, that the Government had enjoyed
greatly increased revenue since th
passage of the Uayne-Aldrieh law.
TOWNSITE FIGHT SETTLED
Nonpayment of Xote Loses Property
Wortli $100,000.
NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., April 11.
(Special. The litigation Involving prac
tically all of the townsite of Outlook in
the lower valley was settled by a deci
sion of the Superior Court today.
William F. Stewart owned all this
property a few years ago. Failing to pay
a note to O. A. Fechter, of thfc city, the
latter secured a judgment and settled the
property at execution. The lots have
been since sold to many different people.
Stewart tried to recover the lots on the
assertion that he was Insane at the time
the note was given, the Judgment secured
and sale made. The trial of the case
took up more time than any other case
In the history of the county, over sixty
witnesses being examined.
Almost every title in Outlook was ques
tioned. The court today held that Ste
wart was sufficiently sane to transact
ordinary business, that the original judg
ment was valid and that Stewart had no
standing in court. The value of the
property now is over $100,000.
Congregational Society to Meet.
FOREST GROVE, Or., April 11.
(Special.) The 14th annual meeting of
the West Willamette Association of
Congregational Churches will meet in
Hillsboro. April 12 and 13. The asso
ciatlonal sermon Tuesday evening will
be delivered by Rev. T. T. Thomas, of
this city. Wednesday the topic "A For
ward Movement," will be discussed un
der a number of subdivisions. W. N.
Ferrin, president of Pacific University,
will speak on "The Place of the Amer-
lean Board in the Progress of the Cen-
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$18.00 Silk Floss Mattress $11.75
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$7.50 Steel S prings $4 . 75
$3.00 Stand Springs $2.25'
$1.75 Bathroom Rugs $1.23
$2.50 Bathroom Rugs $1.95
$4.00 Bathroom Rugs .'..$2.85
$1.25 Cotton Blankets 95
$2.50 Cotton Blankets $1.79
$4.50 Wool Blankets $3.19
$6.50 Wool Blankets $4.75
$12.00 Wool Blankets.... $8.45
$3.00 Comforters $2.25
$2.00 Feather Pillows ..$1.39
$3.00 Feather Pillows. $2.19
$4.00 Feather Pillows $2.95
$5.00 Feather Pillows $3.75
$6.00 Feather Pillows $4.50
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$4.50 Lace Curtains $2.85
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$1.75 Lace Curtains.. 98
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$4.00 Lace Curtains $2.95
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$25.00 Brass Beds $13.75
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$75.00 Brass Beds $46.85
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18c Curtain Swiss 12 (c
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25c Figured Scrims
75c Madrases ..47
$1.25 Curtain Nets.. -79
75c Monks' Cloth 59
$4.00 Utility Boxes . . 2.65
$2.56 Couch Covers 1 ....$1.95
$4.00 Couch Covers , $2.95
$5.00 Couch Covers $3.95
$6.50 Couch Covers H $4.95
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$10.00 Couch Covers , $7.45
$6.50 Portieres ; $4.95
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$1.50 Bolster Rollers 98
50c Window Shades ..28
5c Extension Rods. . , 3
10c Extension Rods ' 7
15c Extension Rods 9
20c Extension Rods 12iC
25c Extension Rods 19
40c Extension Rods 29
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Curtain Stretchers
$1.25 Stretchers , 79
$1.50 Stretchers , 98
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tury," Wednesday afternoon. Rev. C.
F. Clapp. of Washougal, Wash.; Rev.
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Rev. J. M. Barber, of Forest Grove,
are among the speakers.
WRECK VICTIMS ARRIVE LATE
Injured and Uninjured on Train
That Makes Snail's Pace.
Injured and uninjured persons who
wer on the North Bank train, wrecked
near Spokane, Saturday nlijrht, arrived
in Portland on delayed train No. 3,
running as No. 1, at 4 A. M. yester
day. Other Portlanders In the wreck
were L. A- Shaw, express messen
ger, of 680 East Xkavis street. and
H. C. Webster, news agent. 644 Gllsan
street. Neither was seriously injured,
Shaw being- the victim of a severe
shaking up, while Webster's legs were
badly bruised. Both were treated at
Sacred Heart Hospital. Spokane.
The passengers of the westbound
train criticised the railroad company
for the treatment given them after the
wreck. It was said over an hour and
a half was occupied removing the in
jured and that the train lay in Spokane
ready to depart, but with no one to
give the information when the line
would be clear. Those who had pur
chased transportation were warned not
to leave the train, as It might start at
any time.
W. A. Thompson, of Eugene, Or., who
with his wife and eight children was a
passenger on the train, said there were
over a dozen babies on the train need
ing milk and, as the mothers were un
able to purchase any, the tots -were In
a starving condition. I'nless passen
gers were able to obtain food in the
dining car by purchase, he said, they
had to be satisfied with the lunch bas
kets one or two in the train had not
thoroughly depleted.
R. Henrichsen, of Portland, and Alan
Arbor, also of Portland, corroborate
Mr. Thompson. All the passengers
said they had repeatedly asked the
trainmen when the train would leave
Spokane, following the wreck, but no
information was available.
That the engine pulling the delayed
No. 3 in was a "lame du'k" was also
asserted. First Teported as due at Van
couver at S P. M.. the train lost time
steadily until midnight. 1:40 A. M. was
scheduled. At every telegraph station
following a still later report emanated.
until finally the train drew Into Van
couver after 3 o'clock.
Passengers declared the engine was
unable to reverse, and that despite the
clear track many miles were traversed
at a walking pace. The train was the
usual one. The locomotive was changed
at Vancouver.
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