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PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1911.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
STATE OFFICIAL IS
GRILLED INEPOHT
Dr. Steiner's Request
Ignored, Cut.
TOO EXTRAVAGANT IS CHARGE
Legislative Inquisitors Reduce
Recommendations.
KNIFE IS USED FREELY
Item of $111,730 Is
Other Appropriations
One Half Feeble
Killed and
Are Cat
. .Minded
School MlfUM-d Is Charge.
STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Or.. Jan. I.
(Special.) Recommending wholesale
paring of the appropriations asked by
Superintendent Stelner. of the Asylum;
declaring that the alms, uses and pur
poses of the State School for Feeole
Mlnded have been pervert-d and enter
ing Into further recommendations as to
the conduct of atate institutions In and
around Salem, the legislative commit
tee appointed by the last Legislature to
make Investigations as to conditions
and estimates, filed Its report In both
bouses this afternoon.
Dr. Steiner's recommendation that
112. 3TS be appropriated for the use
of the Asylum during the biennial pe
riod was put under the pruning knife
and the committee recommends appro
priations amounting to JS92.1S7.t Of
this 110,000 Is recommended for mala
tenance and the balance for Improve
ments and new buildings.
The request made by Ir. Stelner that
1141.750 be furnished for completion
of the new wing of the receiving ward
Is Ignored entirely both in the report
and the appropriations bills as prepared
by the committee.
Appropriation Is Halved.
Appropriations as recommended for
the Asylum farm are sliced from S,
1T7 to S24.234.S0.
The report states that there are de
ficiencies of J2S.C00 at the Feeble-Mind
ed School. After declaring that th
uses, alms and purposes of this Instl
tutlon have been perverted the report
goes on to state that more of th pa
tients now In the School for Feebie-
Mlnded should be In the Asylum and
that only such patients shoulj have
been admitted to the school aa are of
suitable age and capable of receiving
Instruction. It la recited that 12.1 pa
llents were transferred from tho Asy
lum during the biennial period.
Allegations of extravagance also are
made relative to working of the farm
Ing land In connection with the Insti
tution. Members of the committee de
clare that there are too many farm
Imployes used for a well-managed far.n
and that for the two yeara the test
sf the farm help. Including board.
IhouIJ not exceed j00i. This Is espe
slally apparent, states the report, when
It Is considered that many of tho in
mates do farm and garden work.
Deficiencies are shown of 1250 at the
Blind .School: 117.713.70 at the peniten
tiary, and 115.004 at the Asylum, this
Jrflclency having Increased 11000 since
the report was prepared. Very credit
able mention Is made of the conduct of
affair at the Mute School and Blind
School.
Coot Per ratlrnt Shown.
Among other interesting data fur
Itishrd Is a Statement shwing the cost
per patient at each of the Institutions,
this cost being as follows: Asylum.
$;JJ; Deaf School. I2I.3S; Blind
School. 2.75; Reform School. t2S.5;
Penitentiary, fit: Feeble-Mlnded School.
J4.7i
Accompanying the report are two
general appropriation bills which, will
Immediately be printed. It also was
decided In the Senate to furnish copies
of the report for the use of the mem
bers, this being done both !n tin House
and Senate.
The report follows:
In accordance wltb the provisions of
the Senate central concurrent resolu
tion No. 2S. your committee met and
selected as the three duly elected rep
resentatives. Hon. J. IX Abbott of Mult
nomah. Hon. L. T. Reynolds, of Marlon,
and Hon. J. T. Mahoney of Morrow and
Umatilla, to act with us and thereupon
adjourned to meet at Salem on the
second day of January. 1911. and take
np the active duties Imposed by tho
tald resolution. Two of these selected.
Hon. J. T. Mahoney and Hon. L. T.
I:enolds were unavoidably detained
from actual participation In our work.
On our visit to the State Penitentiary.
Peaf-Mute School. Oregon Reform
School, and State Institution for the
Blind we found that tTie superintend
ents of these several Institutions have
maintained the same on the several
sums appropriated by the last Legisla
tive Assembly, except a deficiency of
about 2S at the Blind School. At the
State Penitentiary, according to the
superintendent's report, there was a de
ficiency on Decerpber 30th of I178S.70.
and vouchers on file In the office of
the Secretary of State for the quarter
ending December 31st of about 1M.000,
making a total deficiency at the State
penitentiary of 117.73.70.
Our observations at the Mute School
lead us to believe that the relocation
of this Institution In Its new quarters
iConciuU.d a i'.ss Ci
PULLMAN PROFITS
SHRINK $1,500,000
V
KEDl'CTIOX OF BEKTII KATES
TO HAVE EjIYECT.
20 Per Cent of Hegular Prices for
Sleeping Accommodations on.
Trains to Be Stricken Off.
CHICAGO, Jan. 20. (Special.) Work
on reduced rate tariffs of the Pullman
Company that are to become effective
February 1, Is rspldty nearlng com
pletion and will, it Is expected, be
finished within the next few days. An
nouncement to that effect was made
today at the offices of the Pullman
Company. It was first announced the
change would be made today.
The new rate schedules will mean
reduction of 11.500.000 In tEe annual
revenues of the company and Is the re
suit of negotiations that have been
pending before the Interstate Com
roerce Commission for several months.
Early In December officials of the com
pany submitted to the Commission
rough, draft of a revised schedule that
meant a reduction of approximately
fl.500.000.
The reduction, which is country-wide,
ill mean a cut of 0 per cent for upper
berths and between 25 cents and II.
or -0 per cent of the total, on Its lower
berths.
The new rates will be based on a
charge of 3 for a 11-hour run. ex
cept on some of the fastest trains, but
the 30 per cent cut will apply to alt
upper berth rates.
The lines over which Pullman cars
are operated Include all the main lines
of the United States, excepting the New
Haven roads, and the Great Northern
and the Chicago, Milwaukee A St- Faul
systems.
JAIL FINISHES DOWNFALL
Harry Maxwell Brooks, Spokane
Lawyer, Clubman, Is Embezzler
SPOKANE. Wash.. Jan. 20. (Special.)
Harry Maxwell Brooks. lawyer, club
man. Harvard graduate and Deputy Attorney-General
of Washington until two
years ago. was sentenced this morning
to serve five months in the County Jail
for embezzlement
Brooks appeared In the court red-eyed,
repentant and promising to make restitu
tion of the money he confessed having
taken, about CM belonging to a school
teacher. Mrs. Nash. Sentence was passed
by Judge Prater, of Seattle, who eiat as
special Judge In the case.
Brooks In originally from Massachu
setts, where be married the daughter
of a wealthy man. In an elopement. After
coming West the parents of Mrs. Brooke
sent her S1000 every Chrlstm as-time, but
when her husband was arrested, Mrs.
Brooks returned to her home In the
EaK.
It is charged that Brooks lost the
money of his client, which 'was entrusted
to hlin to pay off a mortgage, by shak
ing dice In cigar stores. Brooks, at
the time of hla arrest had bright pros
pects. Proceedings are afoot to disbar him
from practice.
LIGHTING PLANT FLOODED
Toledo Becomes Bark When Big
Tide Meets Kiver at Flood Stage.
TOLEDO. Or.. Jan. 20. (.Special. HJ
water haa temporarily cut off the Loiter
Yaqulna Valley from the outside world.
Telephone and telegraph lines are out
of commission. Several' slides and a
bridge damaged at Eildyvllle on the Cor
vallls & Eastern Railroad have put a
atop to through traffic The company
is operating Its line In two divisions be
tween Corvallla and Taqulna, transferring
at the damaged bridge.
The ..ood coming down tlte Taqulna
River met an exceptionally big tide
blown' In from the ocean yesterday and
as a result the electric light plant at
Toledo was out of rommlsjion lust night
and this city was In darkness. Water i
said to be in the houses at Elk City at
the conjunction of the Big Elk and
laqulna rlvera.
ALL METHODISTS TO UNITE
Joint Committee Adopt Plan
to
Combine Threo Churches.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 10. After ormu
lating the plan that It believed would
lead to the unification of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, the Methodist Epls
copal Church South and the Methodist
Episcopal rrotestant Church, the sub
committee composed of three members
from each adjourned today. It will re
port to the general committee composed
of nine members from each of the de
nominations at Chattanooga, May 17.
Bishop Cranston, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, tonight said:
The subcommittee has succeeded In
forming a working plan that It believes
ill eventually result in the unification
of the three churches."
MRS. MANSFIELD WINS SUIT
Actor's Widow Awarded $8781
Royalty on "Bean Brummel.'
NEW TORK. Jan. 20. (Special.)
Judge Ward In trie United States Cir
cuit Court today directed that final
Judgment for IST81.SS be entered
against the American Play Company In
favor of Susan IL. widow of Richard
Mansfield unless the company within
ten days i nswers the complaint.
The widow alleges ahe agieed to turn
over the manuscript and dramatic
rights of "Beau Brummel" for two
years from October 1. 1D08. for royal
ties of at least 10.00o. she received
ouly 11115-Ji, she said.
GOODWIN
S WEALTH
IN HANDS OF EDNA
$1,700,000 in Trus
Before Wedding.
HALF INCOME GOES TO WIFE
Document Signed While Actor
Maxine Elliott's Husband.
HE HAS OTHER PROPERTY
Testimony Taken Before Referee
AMU Bring Out All Faets About
Lavish Gift or Hair Interest
In Lands, and Bonds.
NEW TORK. Jan. 30.-JustIce Goff In
the Supreme Court today named J
Campbell Thompson, a lawyer, referee to
take testimony In the suit for divorce
brought by Edna Goodrich Goodwin, the
actress, against Nat C. Goodwin.
The suit promises to be productive of
Interesting developments, not the least
among which will be the bringing out
of the story of the alleged $1,700,000 pre-
nuptlal trust deed by which Goodwin
turned a big share of bis wealth into
trust fund, the revenue from which', it
was provided, should be equally divided
between the pair during their lives and
the principal to go to the survivor on
the death of either.
Itcal Estate and Bonds Included.
Hermann L. Roth, counsel for Mrs.
Goodwin, said today that the property
embraced in the trust deed Included real
estate in California, a big amount of
Government bonds, many New Tork state
and city bondsi and a lot of equally
valuable staple and other securities.
The San Francisco real estate was the
$250,000 Lafayette apartment-house, - for
which the actor paid cash; other San
Francisco residences and business prop
erty and a number of orange groves.
Several choice pieces of Los Angeles
realty also figured in the list.
Gift, Pure and Simple. '
Mr. Roth declared that the agreement
by which all this was converted Into
he trust fund for the benefit of Miss
Goodrich was drawn up and signed while
Ooodwln was still the husband of his
hlrd wife, Maxine Elliott.
'It Is an Ironclad document.", .con
tinued Mr. Roth, "and It will be Impos
sible for Goodwin to break It. It Is not
a pre-nuptlal agreement, as such agree
ments are usually considered, for Mr.
Goodwin, being then the husband of Miss
Elliott, was not In a position to make a
pre-nuptlal agreement with Miss Good
rich. The transfer of the property was a
gift, pure and simple."
The lawyer Incidentally declared that
the actor had plenty of other resources
aside from the sum tied up In the trust
fund.
Mrs. Goodwin Is in New Tork awaiting
the trial, but her attorneys would not
disclose her address. v
Attentions to Others Grounds.
According to Mrs. Edna Goodrich
Goodwin's attorneys the grounds - for
her plea for divorce are the attentions
(Concluded "n Psae 2-
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 40
degrees; minimum. 5 .degrees. ,
TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds.
Legislature.
Legislative committer reports that Dr.
Stelner. asylum head, is extravagant.
Page 1.
Washington Legislature adopts memorial
.urging granting or legislative powers to
Alaska, page 7.
House: bill is Introduced to abolish Justices
of peace In Portland and establish Xis
. irict court, page e.
Foreign.
Three die from cold after ship burns at sea.
page 2.
roUtlcs.
Eheehan in vain asks Dlx to break deadlock
and Parker gets votes he does not want.
Page 3.
National.
Pullman rates will be cut and company's
proms snrtnK. page 1.
ldo Issue may defeat resolution in Senate
for direct elections. Page 5.
New Orlesns wins in committee In exposi
tion fight; Ban Francisco will carry
fight to House. Page 1.
Striking railwav mall clerks deride to re
turn to work pending consideration of
grievance. Page It.
Taft refuses to withdraw Colwell's nomlna
tlnn and Senate will probably reject
mm. page 3.
Government engineers report on Klamath
project is made known, page 15.
Secretary Norton will resign position. Page 4.
Domestic. -
Los Angeles matron gets 150.000 from
father she never knew until a few
months ago. Page 1.
Federation of Labor charters Miners Feder.
atlon when coal miners threaten to with
draw. Page 14.
Grand Jury In Vermilion County. 111., sum
mons loo witnesses on vote-buying.
Page 1.
Carnerle donates $10,000,000 to "Carnegie In
stitution or Washington. Page 2.
Express companies announce lower rates.
Page 3.
Goodwin divorce suit revests that actor
deeded hall or great Income to Edna
(ioodfich. Page J.
Election fraud outrages bared in New Jer
sey, page 4.
Paul Morton's fortune $1,300,000: Charles
D. Norton may succeed nlm. Page 3.
Sports.
Walter McCredle jubilant at reversal of
Judge Grahams Helling decision.
Page 8.
'Special opening" of new Idea auto show set
for tonight. Page 8-
Commerclal and Marine-
Hops bring good prices at auction. Page 19.
Closing down of mills breaks wheat at Chi
cago. Page 10.
Sharp fluctuations in stock market.
Page lu.
Pacific Northwest.
State Federation of Labor and employers
may discuss compensation act. Page o.
Torrent from bursting dam crushea house
In path; occupants, sleeping, escape
death. Page 7.
Portland and Vicinity.
Tillamook people renew efforts for harbor
Improvement, page 12.
Dr. Rosenberg acquitted by instructed ver
dict. Page 12.
Slletz settlers on 73 claims about to receive
$700,000 for timber. Page 12.
Employers and union men working together
for new liability law. Page 11.
Husband whose . wife shoots at him wins
divorce, page IS.
Automobile club holds annual banquet.
Page 8.
Jackson Club debater urges- single tax as
substitute for tariff. Page 14. .
HITTING SPEED TO DOUBLE
British Warship's Test May Revolu
tionize Naval Gunnery.
LONDON. Jan. 20. (Special.) The
Telegraph prints a report on the de
velopment of naval gunnery, which may
double the present rate of hitting of
the newest, large armored ships.
The new battleship Neptune will
leave Splthead Saturday to make a
erles of important gunnery trials in
the Mediterranean. Officials refuse all
nformation regarding the experiments.
which, according to the Telegraph, are
expected to lead to a revolution in
gunnery.
The nature of the reported develop
ment is not Indicated more clearly than
a suggestion that it is due to notable
changes In the construction compared
with original Dreadnoughts. ' princi
pally in reference to the disposition of
guns. On the result or the experi
ments depends the future construction
f battleships.
BINGO!
AGTION PROMPT ON
VERMILION FRAUD
Grand Jury Calls 100 to
Tell of Vote-Buying.
EXODUS OF HEELERS BEGINS
Fear Shown Lest Witnesses
Yield to Pressure. 1
SHERIFF DRIVEN TO STEAL
Hardy AVhltlock's Salary Eaten Up
by Buying Votes Lawyers Hold
taw Giving Immunity to Vote
Bayers Unconstitutional.
DANVILLE. 111., Jan. 20. (Special.)
One hundred subpenas for Vermilion
County politicians were issued by the
vote-fraud grand jury this afternoon dl
rectly after six of the wealthiest bank
ers of Danville had appeared. The sub
penas were placed in the hands of Dep
uty Sheriffs for service and were made
returnable next Monday afternoon.
According to reports about the Court
house, where the jury is sitting, politi
clans of botb parties and of both high
and low standing in the community are
named in the huge list. They will be
made to testify regarding the alleged
buying of thousands of votes in Speaker
CannoaVs home bailiwick. '
Exodus of Suspects Begins.
The action of Foreman Isaac Wood-
yard and the Jurymen came like .light
ning out of a clear sky. It had gener
ally been believed that the grand Jury.
would dispose of the 40-odd criminal
cases now pending on the docket before
taking up the inquiry ordered by Circuit
Judge Kimbrough. Fear that pressure
might be brought to bear on important
witnesses to' prevent their testifying is
said to have hastened the action.
Already a general exodus of ward-
heelers and the smaller fry of politicians
has begun. Numerous witnesses wanted
are on the missing list, while fully 100
alleged vote-sellers have applied to law
yers for advice.
E. X. Leseure, son-in-law of Cannon,
and the Speaker's local campaign man
ager, and five other bankers were be
fore the grand Jury today. These bank
ers, with Speaker Cannon and the late
Wiley Fowler," were bondsmen of Hardy
Whitlock, ex-Sheriff and County Treas
urer, now missing, who was found short
$37,600 in his accounts after his unsuc
cessful race for Sheriff last Fall.-These
bondsmen are said to have made good
the defalcation.
Vote-Buying Drives to Stealing.
Whitlock's embezzlement is laid, di
rectly to Vermilion County politics. His
political ' fights broke him. Vote-buying
and .heavy campaign expenses ate up
his salary.
It is rumored that the jury is consid
ering another person in the Whitlock
affair. George F. Rearick, a member
of the County -Board, was also a wit
ness. -Whitlock, according to the test!
mony before the grand Jury, began em-
(Concluded on Page 2.)
FATHER,WIFE NEVER
KNEW,GIVES RICHES
LOS AXCELES MATROX IS LEFT
$50,000 IX WILL.
Hearing Rich Rancher Vs Father
but Few Months Ago, Family of
Attorney Gets Surprise.
LOS ANGELES. Cal., Jan. 20. A for
tune of $50,000 has been bequeathed to
Mrs. Robert A.' Todd, wife of a promi
nent local attorney and ex-City Coun
cilman of Los Angeles, by Deitrich C.
Mensing, a rancher of Covina, whom
she did not know to be her father un
til a few months ago. The wife of
Mensing also was unaware that Mrs.
Todd was his daughter and that she
was to receive the greater share of the
$70,000 estate, consisting of orange
groves, other real estate and collateral.
The bequest is the outcome of a ro
mance of the old days in California,
when the sanction of law was not so
essential to the marriage contract. Men
sing, who was a simple German farmer,
met and lived with the mother of Mrs.
Todd for 10 years. One day they mu
tually agreed to separate, and the wo
man and her baby daughter departed
from the ranch".
Later, Mensing married again, and his
former wife became the wife of Ed
ward Rinehart. The wife of Mensing
never knew of his former attachment
and issue, but the old German farmer
never forgot, and remembered In his
will, not only the daughter, but also
Rinehart, who had become the husband
of the woman he had first loved.
PROJECT HELPS PORTLAND
Seattle Displeased With Apportion
ment of Irrigation Fund.
SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 20. (Special.)
Asserting that virtually all of the
$9,000,000 appropriated by Congress for
irrigation work in Washington and
Oregon will be expended in trade terri
tory that will benefit Portland and will
work to the detriment of Seattle, Otto
P. Schwarzschild, a contractor of this
city, and other property-owners In the
Kittitas Valley, have taken up with
Representative Huniphrey and will lay
before the commercial bodies of this
city a plan to effect an alteration in
the Government's scheme which will re
sult in the expenditure of some of the
money in behalf of Seattle's trade terri
tory.
The Government's plan was for five
irrigation projects in Washington all
excepting one of which, it is asserted.
Is "on or near the Columbia River,
reached by railroad lines that will pour
the wealth of the new districts Into
Portland. .
It Is charged that the present plan
was carried out through Harriman
nterests to benefit Portland, and not
until the full measure ot Its Import,
n diverting trade from Seattle's local
territory, was- comprehended, it is as
serted, was any action begun toward
saving a portion of the appropriation
for rich lands nearer this city.
BIGAMIST PLACATES WIFE
Bogus Divorce Papers Induce Her
to Withdraw Prosecution.
EVERETT, Wash., Jan. 20. (Special.)
Unable to get J1000 ball, James B. Dyson
who married in Oregon and again In Ta-
coma, was brought to the County Jail
last night to await the disposition of his
case. Rose Dyson, the Tacoma wife,
who married him in 1909, said today that
she would not take any part in the prose
cution of Dyson. Ho told her he was
divorced and showed her papers to that
effect, she asserted.
It has developed that Dyson has been
married three times and the Oregon
woman Is his second wife. The divorce
papers he showed her were for the first
matrimonial venture.
Mrs. Nellie Dyson, wife No. 2, has de
parted from Snohomish, with her two
children, and It Is considered possible she
may v relent and fall to push the case
against her faithless husband. Dyson in
sists that he understood his second wife
had secured a divorce as she had prom
ised.
LABORERS' BAN IS ON AX
Grants Pass Faces Fuel Famine;
Coal Is Ordered.
GRANTS PASS. Or., Jan. 20. (Spe
cial.) There Is a shortage of wood
here because of a lack of woodchop
pers. One local wood yard dealer has
ordered coal shipped from the mines in
Washington.
Adjacent to this city .are thousands
of acres of the finest kind of wood
timber but laborers won't chop wood.
The building of the Grants Pass and
Western between this city and Kerby
will open a vast field for contractors to
furnish wood to this city and Medford.
The towns up the valley have for years
relied upon Josephine County to fur
nish them wood. v
CURSING TAFT COSTS $10
Seattle Socialist First Sentenced to
15 Days in Jail for Disrespect.
SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 20. (Special.)
Joseph Billows, a Soffiallst, was sen
tenced by Judge Gordon today to serve
15 days in jail for cursing the name of
President Taft.
Billows was arrested last night by
Patrolmen Donlan and Barney Jones
when he was heard to curse Taft and
say, "Where I came' from they kill such
tyrants."
The sentence was later commuted to a
HO fine, which wag paid. .
FIGHT IS STARTED
FOR. EXPOSITION
Decisive Battle Will Be
Fought on Tuesday.
SAN FRANCISCO IS CONFIDENT
New Orleans Wins in Commit
tee, but West Is Solid.
STATES BACK CALIFORNIA
Through Aid of Chairman, .New Or
leans Gets Favorable Report in
Committee; Kahn Will i'ut
Entire House on Ttccortl j
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. "Fight to
the finish" is the slogan of the Cali
fornia delegation in the House, which
is engaged In a contest with New Or
leans for the location of the exposition
to be held in 1915 in celebration of the
completion of the Panama Canal. San
Francisco lost the first round today
by the adoption of a majority report
by the committee on industrial arts
and expositions in favor of New Or
leans, but the real battle will come in
the House next Tuesday, when the re
ports of the majority in favor of New
Orleans and the minority in favor of
San Francisco will come up for adop
tion. '
The Californlans were not dismayed
by the unfavorable action of today, for
the 'opposition of Rodenburg, chairman
of the committee, had prepared them
for it. On the -contrary, they were
nerved to continued effort by tele-,
grams from the Legislatures of Ore-'
gon, Washington, Utah, Montana in
fact every state west of the Rocky
Mountains. The Montana Legislature
went so far as to suspend the rules for
the adoption of a resolution endorsing
California.
The House committee decided by a
vote of 9 to 6 to report favorably the
Estoplnal bill recognizing New Orleans
as the scene of the exposition, and au
thorizing the appointment of a board of
governors and the making of a Govern
ment exhibit. The bill makes no direct
appropriation in aid of the exposition,
but will provide for an extensive Gov
ernment exhibit to cost about $1,000.
000. A subcommittee is preparing tin
bill and will report to the full commit
tee on Tuesday, when the report to
the House will be made.
Kahn of California, who is leading
the tight for San Francisco, will bring
the question to an issue by calling tor
action on his resolution, which was
favorably reported by the committee on
foreign affairs at the last seeajon, in
viting the participation of foreign
countries in the Panama-Pacific exposi
tion to be held at San Francisco in
1915. The committee sidestepped th
issue by also reporting the Estoplnal
resolution inviting participation in the
Panama exposition at New Orleans in
the same year. Both measures are on
the calendar awaiting action.
The members of the committee who
voted for New Orleans are Rodenburg,
Illinois; Langley, Kentucky; Murphy,
Missouri; Woods, Iowa; Khlnock, Ken
tucky; Heflin, Alabama; Collier, Mis
sissippi; Cullop, Indiana; Irvington,
Maryland.
The members who favored Sari Fran
cisco are: Gardner, Massachusetts;
South wick. New York; Steenerson, Min
nesota; Poindexter, Washington; May
nard, Virginia; Nelson, Wisconsin.
TMON'TAXA INDORSES BAY, CIT1'
Rules Suspended to Pass Vote State
exhibit Proposed.
HELENA, Mont.. Jan. 20. Montans
paid California a high compliment today.
The rules of the lower House of the Leg
islature were suspended while a resolu
tion, ' requesting Congress to recognize
San Francisco as the exposition city of
1915, was submitted to a vote and passed,
01 to 3.
The same measure had been previously
passed by the Senate, and during the day
there was introduced a second measure
providing for an appropriation of $200,000
to defray the expenses of Montana's par
ticipation in the Panama-Pacific Inter
national Exposition and empowering the
Governor to appoint a commission of
five to do the work involved in such par
ticipation. The memorial was signed by
the Governor before the day closed.
The interests of San Francisco were
represented by ex-Secretary of Stata
Charles Furdy, of California: ex-State
Senator J. A. McKee, of Sacramento, and
Robert B. Connelly, chief of the exposi
tion bureau of publicity.
SAN FRANCISCO. IS CONFIDENT.
Action of Committee Only Prelude to
Real Fight.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20. (Special.)
The Panama-Pacific Exposition com
mittee at a meeting called this after
noon issued the following statement
through Charles de Young to the peo
ple of San Francisco:
"We consider conditions at Washing
ton most encouraging. The action of th
committee was a foregone conclusion,
as Rodenburg. chairman of that com
mittee, was a strong New Orleans man
atul was thought to control the commit
tee. "The minority report of six shows the
good work done by the Washington dele
gation and encourages us to feel that,
when the matter ia brought before the
Hon. next week and tha real fight
m4. Ea Frincltca will win,"