I r VOL.. jL. XO. 15,423. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY; 3IAY 5, 1010. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TAFT STRIKES AT HUGHES' CRITICS 'Cant of Demagogue' Is Fling at Bryan. WELCOME IN ST. LOUIS HEARTY Motor Car Frequently Halted to Receive Flowers. TWO BALL GAMES ARE SEEN While Guest or Trarric Club Presi dent Discusses Kail road legis lation, but Refuses to Go Into Details About It. ST. LOUIS. 'May 4. President Tafts lve-day trip to the Middle West ended here today, and he left late tonight for Washington, where he Is scheduled to arrive early Friday morning. It remained for St. Louis to give Mr. Taft the heartiest demonstration of his present Journey. The city was gaily decorated and there were cheering throngs wherever the Pres ident went. Several times his motor car was stopped to receive bouquets. These Mr. Taft later sent to St. Luke's Hospital and to the Home for Incur ables. Fling Taken at Bryan. The apparent warmth of the reception here seemed to affect the President, and when at the luncheon of the Business Men's League late In the afternoon. President Walker Hill praised him for appointing Messrs. Lurton and Hughes to the Supreme Court, Mr. Taft launched into a vigorous speech, paying his re spects to Bryan for his reported criticism of Governor Hughes. He decried the 'Cant of the demagogue" and the "Dis position of public journals'" to matte Unjust charges against men In public life. The President tonight, as guest of the Traffic Club of St. Louis, referred In a general way to the railroad legislation pending at Washington, but said he was not sufficiently Informed of the situation to discuss it in detail. Days of Receivers Recalled. Mr. Taft said while ho was Federal Judge of the Sixth Circuit, from 1S93 to IWO, it fell to his lot to appoint receivers for nearly all the railroads in the clrvuit. He found at that time what he said a Great many people eem blissfully ignor ant of. that it takes "a whole lot of money to run a railroad." Earlier In the day the President spoke on the Panama Canal at a breakfast at the Commercial Club, and addressed the Farmers' Union on conservation. Two Ball Games Are Seen. Aftr the Business Men's League lunch eon, the President visited both of the Mg league baseball games. He went first to the National League Park, where he saw the St. Louis team start out in the very first inning with a lead of five runs over Cincinnati. He next was whirled to the American League Park, where lie paw several close innings played by St. Louis and Cleveland. At both places the President got a rousing greeting from the "fans." Pome of the labor unions in the city protested against the visit of the Presi dent -to the American League game as the grandstand in Cleveland was built b- nonunion men. As the President strongly opposes boycotts, he paid no heed to tlve protest. Regulation Beneficial to Roads. Discussing railroad legislation before the Traffic Club, and referring to the davs of receiverships in 1S9S, Mr. Taft ald: "But I understand all the railroads are on a good basis now. and" I hope they will continue so. Railroads are very much like other business. If the re ceipts do not come up to expenditures. the red balance grows larger and larger until there Is nothing before you but receivership. I sincerely trust we will never experience again with respect to railroads or other business what we had to go through from 1S93 to 1900. "In those days the railroads were not run entirely according to the law and a judge had difficulty even in keeping his receivers out of rebates. But rail roads and shippers can now look each other in the face with the knowledge they are not engaged In a violation of the law. Rate-Making Most Difficult. "The problem, gentlemen, of fixing railroad rates is a most difficult one, and the man who says he knows how to do it is the only one in the com munity who thinks. so. "There is now pending at Washing ton an Interstate commerce bill. I cannot comment on It because of con ditions I do not know. But I do know that as the bill was presented to Con gress: It was drawn to conform to the promises of the Republican platform and bring the railroads more under the control of the Interstate Commerce Commission on the one hand and to give the railroads a little more free dom of action under the supervision of the Interstate Commerce Commission on the other. "There has been introduced into the House a modification of the long and short haul clause. Just what It Is I don't know. Some people, however. Concluded ea Pace i.X WOMAN RIDICULES MARRIAGE LAWS SAYS "STERILIZE CRIMINALS TO PREVENT CRIME." Statutes Against Wedding of Male factor and Insane Are De clared Ineffective. ROCK FORD, III, May 4. (Special.) The only effectual method of preventing- crime is to remove the possibility of propagation by sterilizing criminals. was the declaration of Mrs. Alfred Bayliss of Macomb in the opening ses sion of the 11th annual meeting of the Illinois Congress of Mothers today. Mrs. Bayliss also ridiculed the pres ent laws against the marriage of the criminal and the insane to prevent their propagation. She said these are Ineffective and that more children of this kind are born out of -wedlock than, in It. She asked If Congress would shrink from advocating the only effective means to this end it it Is brought up for approval in the future? Mrs. Bayliss also urged that news papers be urged to print less sensa tional accounts of crimes. These ex aggerated stories, she declared, are the cause of criminal ideas, and cited in stances where crimes were committed merely because the criminal wanted his picture In. the paper. The villains of the newspapers, she said, are the heroes of the underworld. WOMAN LURES CLUBMAN Harry B. Elliott Deserts Wife to Go With Affinity to Orient. SAN FRANCISCO. May 4. (Special.) It leaked out today that Harry B. Elliott, ex-asslstant secretary of the Olympic Club and a well-known cricket and soccer football player, sailed on the Manchuria for Hongkong, April 26, with a notorious woman, Bessie Birch- field, under the names' of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Russell. Elliott left a wife and two children at his wife's mother's home near Los Angeles. Elliott be- came Infatuated with the woman si: months ago. Recently he resigned from the Olym pic Club, saying he was going Into the automobile business. Charles William son, an English capitalist, furnished $5000 to set up the . business. This money Elliott took, out Williamson can't prosecute him, as they had no agreement. Elliott's books at the Olympic Club are being experted, but It Is not believed he left any deficit. The Blrchfield woman Is well known on Oriental liners ana in .Hongkong, where she formerly lived. RAINIER'S TOLL COUNTED Probate Court Accepts Proof. That T. Y. Callaghan Is ' Dead. LOS ANGELES. May 4. That T. T. Ca.llagb.an, globe-trotter and mountain climber, perished in a storm on Mount Rainier on August IS, 1909, was proved in the Probate Court today. The only exhibits offered in evidence were Callaghan's alpenstock and gloves. which were found on the trail where he was last seen alive. Callaghan left a smal estate, including funds in Los Angeles banks, and proof of his death was requlstte to the granting of letters of administration, in order that this might be distributed to his brother, Owen Callaghan. of Corvallis. Or., and his sister, Mrs. A. R. Riordan, of Clon- tarf, Minn. SALOONS SHOW RESPECT Seattle Liquor Stores Close During Funeral of Brewer. SEATTLE, Wash., May 4. (Special.) Every saloon in Seattle closed this after noon from 3 to 4 o'clock as a mark of respect to Andrew Hemrich, the deceased president of the Seattle Brewing & Malt ing Company. The Royal Arch, the or ganization of the saloon owners, yester day issued a request that the saloons re main closed during the hour of the fu neral. The breweries in Seattle remained closed today. All the employes attended the funeral, which occurred at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Seven lodges of which Mr. Hemrich was a member were represented by delegations. STEEL EMPLOYES SLAVES Labor Report and Shows Long Low Pay. Hours WASHINK3TOX. May 4. The report of the Bureau of Labor upon the con ditions at the Bethlehem Steel Works, of South Bethlehem, Pa., which was submitted to the Senate today, says that 2322 men worked 12 hours a day for seven days a week, a large per centage of these laborers earning- only 12 cents an hour. MAN DIES T0SAVE $100 Member of Dyeing Firm Perishes in Fire Recovering Coat. NEW YORK, May 4. Edward Heide, senior member of the dyeing firm of Edward Heide & Co., was burned to death today because he rushed back to save $100 In his coat, left behind In the dye shop from which he had been dragged after an explosion had set the place on fire. Carmen Want Flat Wage Rate. CLEVELAND. May 4. The employes of the Cleveland Railway Company to day presented demands for a flat wage rate of 32 cents an hour Instead of sliding scale depending upon length of service. MARY HARR1MAN HAS FOUND MATE Betrothal to C. C.Rum- sey, Sculptor. MOTHER REFUSES TO DENY IT Man Who Made Statue of Her Father Is Chosen One. SHE IS FAVORITE DAUGHTER Railroad King's Heart Won by Sim ilarity of Tastes and Business Ability She Manages Great Arden Farm With Success. NEW "FORK, May 4. Mrs. Mary Averill Harriman, widow of tfie late vE. H. Harriman, declined tonight to dis cuss a report that her daughter, Mary, will marry Charles Cary Rumsey, of Buffalo. When Mrs. Harriman was in formed today, that news of such an engagement was current, she sent back word: "I will neither confirm nor deny the report." The entire bulk of the Harriman millions was left without condition to Mrs. Harriirnan. and it is inferred the children in the course f time will share the estate among themselves. There are five children llv.ing Cor nelia, the eldest daughter, who mar ried Robert Livingstone Gerry; Mary, now reported engaged to Mr. Rumsey; Carol, who was presented to society a year ago; William Averill, now in Tale, and Roland, a lad of 13. Miss Mary Harriman was said to be her father's favorite daughter. She shared his love of horses and cattle, his plan-spoken ways and capacity for affairs. Mr. Rumsey is a sculptor. His model was accepted by a committee chosen to build a memorial to Harriman at Goshen, the county seat of Orange County, In which Arden farms are sit uated. Mrs. Harriman and her daughter spent the Winter at their town house in Fifth avenue. Mrs. Rumsey also was much In New York this Winter. Manager of Great Estate. Mis- Mary, who was made an ex ecutor of the immense estate left by her father, showed that she had in herited a good deal of his business capabilities when, in the month follow ing his death, she and her mother de cided that the girl herself ha ' better take personal charge of the operation of the vast estate at Arden. iahe had always been Interested In sports and In the natural life of outdoor excite ment and pleasure' which, the American girl, -when she has opportunity to do so, usually leads. But now she showed that she pos sessed a talent of no mean order for executive work on a large scale. On October 28 she formally took charge of the Arden farm3 dairy and took over the management of the 46,000 acres of the Harriman Orange County farms, and since that time she actually has been running them herself. Mrs. iHarriman and her daughters have naturally kept in the quietest kind of (Concluded on Page 3.) INDEX OF TOWS NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 62 degrees; minimum, 48 degree!. TODAY'S Showers, followed by fair and warmer; westerly winds. National. Regular Senators form coalition to suppress insurgency and force Administration pro gramme. ' Page 1. Congress passes bill for sale of Sllets admin istration lands. Page 'J. President, at St. Louis, replies to critics of Hughes. Page 1. Domestic. Anti-corporation faction captures Xfcnver meeting, at which daughter of J. P. Mor gan Is scheduled to speak. Page 1. Illinois woman ridicules present-day mar riage laws. Page 1.- Hydee unscathed by Mrs. Swope, last wit ness for state In famous cas. Page 3 United States Supreme Court grants writ of error to J. Thorburn Ross, convicted Portland banker. Page 2. fciports. Rain again Interferes with Vernon-Portland game. Page 8. Pacific Coast League results: (Fan Francisco . 2, Uos Angeles 0; Oakland 2, Sacramento 1. Page 8. Fight promoters and negro wrangle over referee with no decision reached. Page 8. Commercial and Marine. Tocal berry market is demoralized. Page lfl. Wheat weak and lower at Chicago. Page 19. Large sales of bonus for foreign account. Page 18. Steamship company and longshoremen set tle difficulties. Page 18. Facino North v est. Seattle census admitted not to exceed 215.000 Page 5. Jury completed in Gohl murder trial. Page 6. Kew fruit pest alarms Salem orchardists. Pago & Portland and Vicinity. Portland Railway tracklaying does not mean franchise fight with United Hallways. Page 9. City Engineer reports Madison-street bridge is progressing well, considering difficul ties. Page 11. Morris trial on; Jury won't be locked up. Page 18. Puter testifies Smith, waa not party to land fraud conspiracy. Page 1 Comprrhensive tour of Oregon arranged for Louis W. Hill. Page 9. COAST SHIP LINE URGED w. A. Hears Fears Railroads Will 'Throttle" Panama Canal. WASHINGTON, May 4. W. A. Mears, representing commercial interests of Seattle and TacOma, urged favorable action of the Flint-McLaughlin bill to establish a Government steamship line on the Pacific Coast at a hearing of the House committee on Interstate Com merce today. He said that it was the popular be lief that the transcontinental railroads would throttle the Panama Canal as far as shipping was concerned unless there were Government lines on both the At lantic and Pacific to regulate the rates. Chairman Mann replied that there was no such danger if Congress adopted the long and short haul clause inserted in the railroad bill by the committee. Mr. Mears argued that Government steamships would do more to maintain reasonable rates on transcontinental railroads than anything the Interstate Commerce Commission could do. UNIFORM DIVORCE OBJECT Xew York Passes Bill Recognizing Other States' Laws. ALBANY, N. T.,' May 4. The Assem bly today passed without dissent the "uniform divorce bilL" It provides for a broader recognition of divorces granted by. other states and for sub stitute service In divorce actions. INCOME TAX IS DEFEATED Massachusetts House Rejects Reso- lution by Close Vote. BOSTON, May 4. The Income tax resolution was killed in the lower branch of the Legislature today to 126. 120 Fires Raging in Ontario. SATJLT STE. MARIE, Mich., May 4. Forest fires are again raging in this section. Near Garden River, Ont., and on Sugar Island the flames are spread ing rapidly. MEANS AN ERA OF GOOD FORTUNE. STORIES GF GRAFT STARTLE CHICAGO Henry Terrill Adds to BriberyScandal. 'UBLIC IS LEFT TO JUDGE Representative Griffin Denies Colleague's Charges. ADMITS FAVORS PROMISED Report Is That Slate's Attorney Wayman Is Applying Thumb screws to Get Information on Election of Lorimcr. CHICAGO, May 4. (Special.)--From Monmouth today cf.me a fresh contribu tion to the legislative bribery scandal in the form of a statement from Repre sentative Henry Terrill, of Colchester, that throws new light upon the stores that bribes of $1000 were offered for votes for Senator at Springfield. In an interview Mr. Terrill says that Just before breaking the deadlock, it was suggested to him it would be "to his pecuniary advantage to "climb into the band wagon, and to vote, for William Lorimer. The suggestion, he asserts, camie from Representative John Griffin. of the First district in Chicago. Political Favors Promised. Mr. Terrill makes no specific charges that a bribe was offered him directly or indirectly, but says that the public may draw its own Inferences. When seen tinight. Representative Griffin denied the accusations of Ter rill. He declared that he had not men tioned money to the down-state legisla tor, but had told Terrill that political favors would follow a vote for Lorimer. Both men will be subnenaed before the special grand Jury. Three down-state legislators appeared before . the special grand Jury today when that body-took up the task of searching for evidence' cor roborative of the legislative bribery charges made by Representative Charles A. White, of O'Fallon, the 46th Senatorial district, occupying the most prominent place under the spotlight. Courtroom Air Is Charged. The return of State's Attorney Way- man, from St. Louis, heralde by the announcement that he personally had in terviewed a legislator in a city near the Missouri metropolis, and a second man In St. Louis, and that both would ap pear before the grand Jury, filled the air of the Criminal Court building with ex pectancy when the Jurors met. As the day wore on and the witnesses appeared and departed. Insistent re ports appeared that the public prosecu tor was applying the thumbscrews to certain members of the Assembly, Identity for the present unknown, who are supposed to possess information corroborating White's accusations of and corruption at Springfield. Bank Accounts Examined. Mr. Wayman himself refused to make known whether bis personal inter views were a success, although in St. Louts Detective Murnane, of the tSate's Concluded on Page 3.) - A TRUST FOES ROUT MISS ANNE MORGAN DACGHTK.lt OF FINANCIER GETS TASTE OF POLITICS. Voung Woman Scheduled to Speak in Denver Changes Mind When Father's Enemies Get Control. DENVER, May 4. An Illustration of practical politics, with herself as storm center, was given today to Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of J. P. Morgan, who came to Denver to study woman suffrage on its own stamping grounds. Miss Morgan had agreed to address a mass meeting of the Woman's Public Serve League, to ratify the candidacy of a woman for election commissioner, tonight. It was understood the meeting was to be non-partisan. ' Correctly anticipating that this would draw a tremendous crowd, the municipal ownership faction of the league captured the meeting. Miss Morgan, not relishing the idea of being the drawing card at a meeting, the principal object of which was to flay corporations of which her father Is the generally accepted personification, de clined to be Introduced, but compromised by occupying a box in the audience from which she heard a number of speakers voice bitter protests against corporation methods. Miss Morgan spent the morning in the J uvenlle Court, and in the afternoon made an inspection of the State Reform School the Girls' Industrial and the Detention Home, where prisoners of the Juvenil Court are kept. In the evening she ad dressed a meeting of newsboys In the Juvenile courtroom. Miss Morgan and ner mother left for the East tonight- TROUT NOT CANCER CAUSE Doctor Argues Disease May Be Caused by Overnutrition, WASHINGTON. May 4. The Con gress of American Physicians and Surgeons' In its session here today be gan a discussion of medical, surgical and therapeutic Questions. More than thousand delegates are attending Uie conference. In a paper presented to the Ameri can Climatological As-sociatlon Dr. R. G. Curtin, of Philadelphia, took issue with those who have contended re cently that cancer was caused by eat ing fish, particularly trout. He argued that statistics showed that cancer was more common in cen ters of population where not one per son in 50 ate trout. The. country lad who lived on trout, he continued, was seldom afflicted. His position was that cancer prob ably was caused by over-nutrition. Dr. Curtain maintained in his paper that cancer is increasing and that it seems to be hereditary. SHIP MAY DON WAR PAINT Estrada Faction Wants Federal Ves sels to Watch Venus. WASHINGTON. May 4. It was said today that the steamer Venus, which cleared from New Orleans on Satur day night, supposedly laden with muni tions of war for . the Madriz army in Nicaragua, sailed under sealed orders to put In at Port- Belize, British Hon duras, where there is no cable, and change ier peaceful dress of a mer chantman for the war paint of a fight ing ship. Backed with what they believe is evidence of such a plan, the represent atives of the Estrada faction In Wash ington are preparing to ask the United States to have warships off the Nlc- araguan coast watch the vessel. PENSION FUND IS FOUNDED Steel Corporation Sets Aside $8,- 000,000 for Its Men. NEW YORK, May 4.The United States Steel . Corporation today an nounced that it had established a fund of $8,000,000 for pension purposes and would consolidate this fund with th 4,000,000 fund heretofore created by Andrew Carnegie. This Joint fund will be administered for the benefit of employes by a board selected Jointly by the corporation and Mr. Carnegie. SALE OF ALCOHOL DECRIED American Pharmaceutical Associa tion Would Eliminate Its Sale. RICHMOND, Va.. May 4. The Amer ican Pharmaceutical Association today placed itself on record as advocating the abolition of alcohol as a commodity of sale In all American drug stores and earnestly urged the elimination of all traffic in what are termed "habit-form ing drugs." RANCHER GORED TO DEATH Neighbors Powerless to Save Man From Attack by Bull. SEATTLE, May 4. George Jones, a 70-year-old rancher of Edmonds, 15 miles north of Seattle, was gored to death by an angry bull today. Jones was leading the beast, which sud denly charged and tossed him into the air several times. A number of neighbors witnessed the tragedy but were helpless. Xew Building Announced. EUGENE, Or.. May 4. (Special.) F. L. Chambers announced this afternoon that he would build a two-story brick 4o by SO on his lot south of the one on which I ! mcnt store. The Chambers building is I leased and will be completed by Fall. SENATE REGULARS E 6rganization Meant to Block Insurgents. CONFERENCE IS BELLIGERENT Intention Is to Force Action on President's Bills. IDEA INDORSED BY TAFT Aldrich, Who AVill Lead Movement, Points Out Party Danger From Permitting Defeat of Admin istration's Programme, WASHINGTON, May 4. Through tie formation today of an organization which Its leaders assert represents a clear ma jority of the entire Senate and Is to be made up wholly of regular Republicans, a movement was started, to settle whether the Senate eball remain conservative, be come radical, or be thrown into political chaos as far as concerns any coherent policy on the Administration: programme. Senator Aldrich called the regular Re publicans together and confronted them with a grim description of the possible political effect of their apparent defeat at the hands of the Insurgent Republi cans and Democrats in the fight over the traffic agreement section of the Adminis tration railroad bill. He asked his as sociates whether they were ready to submit to domination by such a com bination. Any such, surrender, he warned them, meant failure of the Taft policies and the downfall of conservative control not only in Congress but in the Republi can party generally. Coalition Declared Imperative. Someone reminded Senator Aldrich that the Senators then eathereil tnth,. were not in agreement on all points, whereupon he replied they must get to gether and agree to stand together and let the details be secondary. Otherwise, ne said. Congress would adjourn without accomplishing a single item of the Taft programme. The entire tone of this conference was belligerent toward the Insurgents. This was the dominant note: "Let us get together and stand v as a unit against every Insurgent proposition. If the insurgents propose anything good, we'll take It over bodily and 'put It through as our own; if they propose anjining baa, we ll stamp It out." Taft Pledged to Plan. It was said that President Taft had been kept fully advised of the situa tion and was entirely In sympathy with. the plan and virtually pledjd to it. It was said in behalf of the conferees that while the measures resorted to were heroic, they were necessary in defense of the Administration and the integrity of the Republican party and as a means to any effective legislation whatever. To Senator Aldrich was given the leadership of the new movement. He left late today for Rhode Island and will not return before Tuesday. The plan meanwhile is to "mark time" and hold the fort." There will be many conferences at the White House and elsewhere to perfect the militant plan. The intention Is to avoid test votes on any subject of Importance until next week. Conservative Majority Gone. Every hour brings additional evi dence of the widening breach between the regulars and the Insurgents in both Houses. Conservative Republican leaders with hardly an exception con fess that in neither House is there a coherent majority. Even those unfa miliar as yet with the plans of the new Senate organization seem to be awaiting the return of President Taft to see what. If anything, he can do to get at least some remnants of his pro gramme through Congress. As mat ters stand tonight the prospect from the Republican point of view is any thing but alluring. The situation has developed almost without halt from the beginning ot the last session, when the warfare be gan in jthe House over the Speakership and the adoption of the rules. Split Dates Far Back. Some locate the beginning of the split as far back as the 59th Congress and trace It down to the suddenly widening break of last year's tariff session, since when there bas been lit. tie semblance of harmony on the ma jority side, especially in the House. The Inability of the two factions of the Republican party to get together Is the Immediate cause of danger to the legis lative programme. Each side blames the other. The insurgents say the fault lies in the arrogance and intolerance of the long-time leaders of the majority toward the progressive policies represented by most of the Republicans of the Middle West. The regulars charge the Insurgents are simply trying to destroy the Re publican party by attempting to discredit Its time-honored leadership and principles and to ride over the ruins to power. Both Sides Sincere. The striking thing about the whole situation, to the Impartial observer, is the evidently sincere conviction by each party that it is, Itself, loyal to Republicanism iConcluded oa Face &.. NOWPUMGOMBN