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5 PEACE STILL FUR INSURGENT LEADER REFUSES TO BE DRIVEN OUT OF PARTY Good Oe Methodist Conference Rejects Both Reports Regarding Pastor Euster. SERVICE LASTS ALL NIGHT THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, TTTESDAT, JUNE 14, 1910. r FROM CHURCH ROW Paaanios Superintendent Hollngshead Pleads In Vain for Forgiveness by Preachers and Building Com mittee of the Church. The quarterly conference of Sunny Blde Methodist Episcopal Church last bight rejected majority and minority reports of a special investigating com mittee on differences that existed be tween Rev. W. T. Euster, the pastor, and the members of the building com mittee. The majority report was signed by Charles E. Lenon. H. U. Welch and C. A. Gatzga. completely ex onerating the pastor and denouncing In no uncertain terms the members of the building committee. The minority report was signed by Q. W. Hungate, denounced the pastor and exonerated the building committee. J. R. Pearl, one of the members of the investiga tion board, has been ill for months and signed neither report. District Superintendent Hollingshead presided. He pleaded in a dramatic manner throughout the session, which began shortly after 8 o'clock last night end continued until this morning, for harmony and begged the members of the quarterly conference to forgive the pastor, if he has done anything wrong, and for the pastor to do likewise as to the building committee, and to build the new stone church that is about half finished. It appeared, however, that the breach between pastor and commit tee was too large to be haeled in such manner, and the meeting continued, at times in more or less confusion and up roar. The situation appeared very dark. The official board, of which the mem bers of the building committee are also a part, has voted to cut oft the pastor's salary tomorrow. This has been declared by District Superintend ent riolingshead and Resident Bishop Smith as illegal, but the treasurer has been instructed to stop the payments June IB. Members of the building committee unqualifiedly termed the majority re port submitted last night as false in many particulars, and charged Chair man Lenon with trickery and chicanery in its compilation, but he apparently did not care much what they charged. Scathing Rebuke Given. The report of the special investigating committee is a scathing rebuke of the attitude and actions of the building com mittee, of which Herbert Gordon is chair man, and which caused to be passed a resolution a few days ago, calling for a change of pastors, and is a complete exon eration of the present pastor. The official board of the church sanc tioned and authorized the appointment of the investigating committee. Dr. Euster chose two. Chairman Gordon, for th building committee, chose two, and tht four chose the fifth members The com mittee was appointed March 7, and im. mediately organized, with Charles Ei Lenon as chairman and Q. W. Hungats as secretary. The others are C. A. Gatz ka. J. R. Pearl and H. U. Welch. The report of the committee was signed by all of the members but Mr. Hungate. and of him the report says: "We regret the fact that one of the members of the committee. Brother Hungate, from the beginning of the investigation and before any evidence was taken, stated that he was with the building committee, 'first, last and all the time, - and that he did not care to receive any evidence, but would report solely upon statements made by the building committee." Immediately after organizing, the in vestigating committee requested the building committee and the pastor to sub mit in writing their grievances each against the other, making statements of the matters in dispute between them. Both sides of the controversy did so. After a careful study of these, the com mittee requested of the pastor and mem bers of the building committee that each case to discuss or act upon any differ ences existing between them, but to sub mit to the constituted authorities of the church all of these things for adjust ment. Both Sides "Agree." The pastor agreed, Vas did also the building committee, "in a qualified way.' The committee tried to arbitrate the dif ferences between pastor and building com mittee for the best interests of the church, and would have been able to do Bo had the building committee complied with their promise and brought such differences as they had to us, as they had agreed to do. and before the properly-constituted authorities of the church." One of the chief complaints of the building committee, the report states. was that Dr. Euster had caused to be published exaggerated statements in the newspapers of the proposed cost of the new stone church and of Its financial con-, dition. but the building committee did not lubmit these charges, merely stating them Verbally. The report states, however, that the Investigating committee is of the opinion that Dr. Euster did not Initiate these articles, or the most of them, and that he did not make any exaggerated statement of the situation and that he Sid not hinder the church building in uch manner. Personal objections to Dr. Euster, the report states, have been made by the In eivldual members of the building commit tee, some of whom have tentatively charged untruthfulness on the pastor's part, "and are of such a general character that this committee did not deem It neces ary to Inquire into them, especially In view of the fact that the said building committee has not kept its promise with this committee. Charges Are Placed. The investigating committee reports that Ihe building committee "has not complied with the contract of the Cooper Sandstone Company and has not employed an archi tect, with powers as required by said con tract, and that the committee promised this committee that It would comply with said contract and employ Mr. Black, who had drawn the plans and specifications, and who had acted in a general advisory capacity, to Inspect the building within a few days after March 27, 1910," but that six weeks have elapsed since this prom ise was made, and that the architect has never been asked by the building commit. tee to make the inspection. The Investigating committee finds that the building committee has departed from the original purpose oi Its appointment, of building a church in Sunnyslde. "and has gone into matters entirely beyond its lurisdictton and has Interfered with the relationship existing between the former pastor of the charge. Dr. T. B. Ford, and Dr. Euster; that they have taken a per sonal interest in this controversy between tha two pastors and have triad, to taka f-'-;- -r:r A Y- t irsp - SENATOR J. P. DOLLIVER, OF" IOWA. upon themselves duties which should only be exercised by the official board or the quarterly conference," and that, had the building committee not meddled "with these affairs, there would have been little dif ference between them and the pastor, and the. church structure would have been nearer completion than it now is." The investigating' committee finds that "the building: committee scattered rumors throughout the community against Dr. Euster and against district Superintend ent .Hollingshead," thereby destroying confidence in both to such an extent that It was impossible to secure funds from the general public for the building. Dr. Bus ter, the report reads, has made some mis takes, but principally in matters of judg ment, not Involving his honesty or in tegrity, and that said mistakes are only such, as men in active employment, with large enterprises on hand, are apt to make, but which the building committee should not liave taken seriously or which should not have interfered with the build ing of the church." Pastor Greatly Handicapped. The investigating committee finds that Dr. Euster has at all times been consci entious and consistent in his efforts to build at as little cost as possible the church in Sunnyside, "but that he has been seriously handicapped by interfer ence from outside sources and by state ments made by the building committee, not having reference to the building of said church." "We find," continued the report, "that the building committee has disregarded specific instructions from the authorities of the church and has rebelled against Instructions from District Superintendent Hollingshead and the pastor, and that it has gone so far as to ask the removal of Sunnyside charge from the jurisdiction of Dr. Hollingshead, and have taken upon themselves the task of conducting the af fairs of the Sunnyside Church, not per taining to the construction of the church, and that thereby they have wasted en ergy which should have been applied to the construction of the church." T1ADV1SESIHIGIK SPEECH OX DUTIES OF CITIZEN SHIP MADE OX STEAMER. Eof elgners Crowd Around -ex-President and Try to Kiss Him Ad dress Made to Catholics. . ON - BOARD KAISERIN ' AUGUSTB VICTORIA. June 12. (Via Wireless to Crookhaven, Ireland, June 13.) Theodore Roosevelt was the chief figure when he attended a gathering of Catholics on board. The emigrants surrounded an al tar draped with the American flag, chant ed a litany, and then Mr. Roosevelt spoke briefly, the priest interpreting. Mr. Roosevelt welcomed his hearers to America and gave them advice on the ne cessity of avoiding mixing with strangers on landing. He told them to be mindful of the duties of citizenship and to protect the rights of women. At the end of his remarks ' the emigrants crowded about him trying to kiss him. I-ater at a service in the second cabin at which a German priest officiated, Mr. Roosevelt spoke in similar vein to a gathering of Germans who cheered his remarks. The ex-President, accom panied by the steamer's captain. In spected the third cabin and compli mented the captain on its comfort and condition. He said It was to be hoped that the steerage might eventually be abolished and Its place - be taken by third-class cabins. This morning Mr. Roosevelt attended a Protestant service In the saloon. On Monday he will address the crew and stokers' and on Tuesday, with French, German and Polish priests and Protest ant clergymen, he will give a reception to the first and second cabin passengers. The weather has been perfect since the Kalserln Auguste Victoria left port. TELL ROOSEVELT, SUGGESTED Sir Henry Dalziel Aims Shaft at Foreign Secretray Grey. LONDON, June 13. Replying to an in terpellation by Sir Henry James Dalziel, Liberal, In the House of Commons today, Bir Edward Grey declared that Sir Eldon Gort, the British agent and Consul In Egypt, had the complete confidence of the government. Sir Henry thereupon requested the Foreign Secretary to send a copy of his reply to Mr. Roosevelt. Sir Edward answered that he could see no reason for doing anything of the kind. The exchange between the Foreign Sec retary and Mr. Dalziel came as a sequel to Mr. Roosevelt's speech at Guildhall in the course of which he criticised the administration in Egypt as being too lenient toward the Nationalists. 1912 Cadet Class Wins Field Meet. WEST POINT. June 13. Favorable weather prevailed today for the 17th an nual field day of the cadet corps. The class of 1912 won the meet with 145 points. Points won by other classes were: 1911, 122; 1913, 19WX H- Beer, do, quartslellvered to your boms. SsrloK Valiey Wlno Co. . DOLLIVER SOUNDS Insurgent Slogan Comes From lowan in Senate. REFUSES TO BE KICKED OUT Classes Tariff Law With. Cook's Dis covery of Pole as One of Great 190 9 Hoaxes Says Taft Has Foggy Ideas on Revision. (Continued From-First Page.) in less than a year I would be called on to defend myself and the little group of men with whom I stand against the charge of taking seriously the President's speeches and the plat form pledges." Will Stay In Republican Party. Dolliver said he proposed to tell not only what had gone on In Congress last year In connection with the tariff but what was going on now to pre vent members following their con sciences, and he said he thought, if the insurgents had made any mistakes. it was in remaining silent too long; "I notify all parties that I have no in tention of leaving the Republican party," he said. "It is not necessary for men to swallow every tariff bill .and It would be Impossible to get me out of the party on such charges. It cannot be done by ly ing about me or calling me names, such as 'free trader' or 'Democrat.' Least of all can It be done by taking from my neck the millstone of political - patron age. I share the universal disgust of making a great executive department the headquarters of the awkward squad of politics." Asserting It was his desire to learn the public mind, Dolliver suggested he would hold an Inquisition into the mo tives of those In both branches of Con gress, whose views the- President seemed to be following In the delusion that he is their leader. Duties Raised' hy Subterfuge. Dolliver said it was true the Republican platform did not promise to revise the tariff downward and, if that promise had been made it would have been easy to comply with it by reducing the. duties on articles protected by patents or con trolled by International trusts. Then it would have been defended by stump speakers, he said, v Dolliver referred to Major Lord, who assisted the Senate committee on finance In drafting Its bill, and then undertook to show that rates had been raised most of them, he said, by subterfuge. He said in this list were the Iron and steel, the sugar and the woolen schedules. Many of the estimates given out were Intended to deceive, he declared. Dolliver asserted It was a strategic mis take to circulate the President's Winona speech with his Lincoln day address, as they were contradictory in terms'. The President had given . entirely different reasons in the two speeches for consider ing the Payne law "the best ever enact ed." said the Iowa Senator. He declared the tariff was being bolstered up by bo gus figures. 1909 Had Two Great Hoaxes. "Last year witnessed two important hoaxes," continued Dolliver, "the discov ery' of the North Pole by Dr. Cook and the revision of the tariff downward by Senator Aldrlch." When the laughter that greeted his re mark had died out, he added that execu tive felicitations had been tendered upon both events. Speaking of the opposition the insur gents had aroused, by failing to vote for the Payne bill, Dolliver said their derelic tion was due to their belief that It failed to fulfill their party pledges. He said they had deliberately taken their stand, having full knowledge of the political ma chinery that would, be set in operation to bring about their defeat. Taft's Tariff Ideas Foggy. Contending the principle ot allowing interested men to revise the tariff was wrong. Dolliver asserted that, while the President understood the principle, his ideas of It were "foggy.' 'After quoting that part of tNs speech in which the Pres ident upheld Messrs. Aldrich and Payne, he said: "Those who stood for Individual and class interests were being sustained, while the little group of men who have stood for the rights of the public are to be kicked out." After stating that Aldrlch had made a plea for the protection of rubber in the interests of the rubber tire indus try, the Iowa Senator said It subse quently had been ascertained that these concerns were multiplying their wealth by rapid strides. He Instanced one con cern that In ten years had increased Its capital millions of dollars. 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You simply join whichever Club suits your convenience, make the initial Club pay ment of $5 or more, and Piano will be delivered at once. We state without fear of contradiction that prices and terms have never been as low any where 'East, West, North or South as obtain by joining one of the five big Eilers Piano Clubs. These are bold statements, but easily proven by a little investigation. Our reputation is back of every claim and statement in this announce ment. Please bear in mind, too, that our repu tation is too dear to us to make any mis-statements for the sake of selling a few pianos. But don't take our word or mere say-so. Ask your friends and neighbors, who have investi gated and already joined one of the Eilers money-saving, co-operative piano clubs. Already nearly three hundred memberships have been taken out. This, in itself, proves conclusively Copyright here and fight it. But I will do it as a Republican. I do not care for any political fame, I have worked for the public for 46 years and I do not pro pose my remaining years shall be given up to a dull consent to those con spiracies that would rob the people to multiply private wealth." Dolliver closed with an expression of confidence that the time was near when the public would demand more Justice In lawmaking and a higher standard on the part of legislators. After Clay's motion to strike out the provision had been defeated. Bacon moved an amendment to the provision to require that no more than two thirds of the experts employed under the paragraph should be of one political party. He charged that a partisan in quiry was contemplated. The amend ment was voted down and the bill then was passed. rHILIPPIXE OFFICIAL ACCUSED Prooe of. Acquisition of Friar Lands Starts in House. WASHINGTON, June 13. As a result of' Information sent to the House last Saturday by the War Department, dis closing the alleged fact that Frank W. Carpenter, executive secretary of the Philippine government, and E. C. Wor cester had bought and leased "Friar lands" In the Philippines, Representative Martin (Democrat, Colorado), today In troduced a resolution demanding an In vestigation and charging malfeasance in office. Mr. Worcester Is a nephew of the Phil ippine Secretary of the Interior (Dean) Prince Worcester. Information on which Mr. Martin bases his resolution was sent to the House in response to a previous resolution he had Introduced inquiring what persons had acquired these lands. The report said that one of the friar estates had been sold to Carpenter and 3000 acres of anoth er estate were leased to E. L. Worcester. The sale and lease were made by the XMreotor ot Public Xaaada la the Islands 353 Washington St., at Wholesale Dept Fifteenth and Pettygrove Streets 1910 by Eilers Music House, In accordance with and was approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Representative Martin's resolution de clares these transactions are so "crimi nally corrupt and immoral as to consti tute malfeasance In office on the part of officials Involved." COAIi LAND BILIi AGREED ON Agricultural Entries Allowed Imme diately on Withdrawal. WASHINGTON, June 13. The con ference report upon the bill permitting agricultural entries on coal lands was agreed to today by the Senate. The bill was amended In conference so as to allow entries on land Imme diately after they are withdrawn and without awaiting their classification, as required by the bill as It passed the Senate. SENATE TO CONCUR WITH HOTS Postal Savings Bank Bill Amend ments May Get O. K. WASHINGTON, June 13. The read ing of the House amendments to the postal savings bank bill was completed In the Senate today and the measure then went over until tomorrow, when It Is expected the Senate will concur in the amendments. BIBLE TEACHERS GRADUATE Need of Trained Instructors in Sun day Schools Is Urged. Graduating exercises of the Portland Union Teacher Training Class were held at Taylor-street Methodist Church last night, 63 Sunday school teachers receiving diplomas. For months the class has been progressing with courses in the Bible, psychology, pedagogy and tho makeup of the school, undsi th that the Eilers Clubs are a success a tre mendous success. - Summed up in a few words, the Club Plan means you buy as a dealer buys. You join with several hundred other piano buyers and prac tically make one big purchase in other words, it's the wholesale principle applied to the retail department. Ask any business man if it's cheaper to buy singly or in large quantities simple, isn't it? Remember, too, your purchase is protected in every way. We guarantee quality and we guar antee price. Pianos must prove exactly as repre sented, or money back. Club "A" members secure a $350 Piano for $237, upon payments of $5 down and $1 weekly. 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