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VOL. LI-NO. 15,C8g. DIRECT ELECTION Only Four Votes of Two Thirds Lacking. ALMOST CARRIED f BORAH WILL CONTINUE FI3HT Champion of Measure Confi dent of Final Victory. ONLY FOUR ARE ABSENT la con Makes Laet Effort to Amend Resolution to Salt Southern Ir reconcilable, but Falls. Democrat Are Divided. "WAJtHINOTON. Feb. !. For the firat time la history tha question of direct election of Senators earn to an open vote la ths Senate and the reso lution submitting to the atatea a con stitutional amendment to that end only lacked four votes of the two thirds majority necessary to It adop tion. It received l. with S3 oppos ing It. Borah, who hss pushed tha fight, waa slated at ths closo approach to rtctory. saying this made It certain that ths real fight waa orsr. Us aJded: Ths resolution will be again Intro duced at the first session of Congress, regular or extraordinary, and urged nrmlttlngty. Ths frlen.ls of ths msasurs may rest assured that ths matter wi:i not be permitted to be forgotten. Tha next Congrees. In my Judgment, will pasa farorably on the resolution. Result Known In Advance. Immediately after ths reartlng of The Journal, ths popular eleftlon resolu tion waa taksn up. So Ions; bad ths resolution bsea before ths Senate and so carefully had ths membership been canvassed that It was recognised from ths moment ths question waa brought up that It would go down to defeat. Though It had been understood that dsbate was shut off on tha measure when called BP. Bacon, who had op posed, ths resoluxon as altered under tha Sutherland amendment, placing the control of the elections In the hands of Congress, hoped to haTS an amend ment adopted that might render the measure acceptable to some of ths Southern Sens'nre, Ths Georgia Senator's effort was to prorlils that Federal supervision of ths slsctloos should apply only In thoss states wherein ths Legislatures had V. method of holding ths elections. I Vice-President Sherman ruled the It aeon amendment out of order and the Villcall waa begun. When Galllngers Vims was reached, his answer waa are. Looks of surprise were ex A.anced by Senators, for the long de bates on ths question bad developed no more Inveterate enemy to t. e resolu I tloa than waa ths New Hampshire Senator. I The clerk bad received several more responses nerors ik occarrra 10 oauin gsr that something was wrong. He arose In some hasts and had his name htftsd to ths "nays. How Each Senator Voted. Ths roltrall was: Teas Bailey. Beveridge. Borah. Bourne. Bradley. Brlgra. Brlstow. Brown. Burkett. Burton. Carter. Cham berlain, Clapp. Clark of Wyoming. Clarke of Arkansas. Culberson. Cullom. Cummins, Curtis. Davis. Dixon. Dupont. Frye, Gambia Gore. Gronna. Guggen heim. Jones, la Follette. McCumber, Martin. Nelson. New land. Nixon. Over man. Owen. Faynter. Perkins. Files. Karner. Pf.lvely. Simmons. Smith of Maryland. Smith of Michigan. Smith of South Carolina. Stephenson. ' Stone. Sutherland. 6wnson. Taylor. Thorn ton. Warren, Watson. Toung (4. Nays Bacon. Bankhead. Brandegee. Bulkley. Burnham. Burrow. Crane. De pew. Dick. Dillingham. Fletcher. Flint. Foster. Galllnger. Hale. Heyburn. Johnston. Ksan. Lodge. Lorlmer. Money. Oliver. Page. Penrose. Percy. Richard son. Root. Scott. Smoot. Taliaferro, Till man. Warren. Wetmore 13. There were four absentees Aldrlch. Frailer. Crawford and Terrell. Had they been preaent Terrell, it waa an. lounced. would have voted agalnat the vldrlch no announcement was made, ater Crawford appeared on the floor knJ explained that hla vote would havs n "aye. EARL PERCY WALKS TIES Csher at Declea Wedding Tramps From Montreal to Ottawa. . OTTAWA. Ont, Feb. IS. The Earl f Fercy. aide-de-camp to Earl Grey. Governor-General of Canada, and for tear a member of the British Parlia. nent. walked tha ties Into Ottawa last night from Montreal, thus completing tto last stage of a Journey from New Terk. where be was an csher at the wedding of Lord Decles to Miss Gould. The long walk was ths result of a wager mads In Montreal. Earl Fercy started from that city Saturday morn ing and covered the 111V miles to Ot tawa la three days, at the rate of more aaa 17 miles a day. - - TABOO PROPOSED FORSTAGECURSING NEW TORE AtDEKMEX rLACE BAX OX PROFAXITY. One of Tbeai Questions Whether Damn' and "HeH Come With in Forbidden Category. KEW TORK. Feb. II. Prohibition of profanity and vulgarity on the stags by a city ordinance Is being urged upon the New York Aldermen by representatives of a hundred churches and religious societies. As an Instance of loose language In the theater. A. S. Colburn. president of the Antl-Profanlty League, told the Aldermen's committee at Its first hearing of a current play In which profane words occurred 15 times. An Alderman, who opposed the ordi nance, asked Mr. Colburn If he thought "damn" and "heir were profane words. Mr. Colburn thought they were. t ttiink not. aald the Alderman. "1 have looked them up In my diction ary and find no warrant for such a bellef.- Mr. Colburn added that he had counted "damn" 1S1 tlmea and "hell ISO times In Shakespeare's plays. "But thoss were ancient times." observed the author of the proposed ordinance. BATHERS MUSTBE MODEST Snlts Should Fall Below Knees at Vont Beach, Say Folic. LONG BEACH. CaU Feb. IS. (Spe cial.) A morality crusade launched by Chief of Police Moyer has- brought about an Interesting situation here. While the managers of various places of amusement are wrapping sacks and sheets about table legs and stage set tings, to the delight of patrons, the police edict that all unseemly conduct on or off ths stage must ceass Is prov ing serious to many business concerns such as bathhouses, postcard dealers, owners of nickelodeons and othera The Chief has advised the bathhouae people that bathing suits for men and women alike must be extended below the knees and must cover the wearers to the neck. This will mean ths expen diture of many hundreds of dollars. Parading along the beach or on the streets In these costumes Is strictly prohibited. Bathers must go directly to the water, stay as long aa they de el re and then don their regular cloth ing. The bathing-suit question has dis turbed church people and others for many seasons, and Moyer says he will try to satisfy the complainants. His crusade Is also d.rected against public dances. IF MAN WEDS, HE IS RICH Glenna Ferry Resident in Illinois to Comply With Uncle's Wish. WAUKEOAN. Ill, Feb. H. (Special.) C. S. Manning, sged 3, and balling from Glenn's Ferry. Idaho, is the center of attraction at Waukegan and North Chi cago Just sow. Manning, who la hand some, asserts that hla uncle, who died aeveral months ago. has left him 12.000, 000 In lumber Interests near Glenna Fer ry provided he marries within a year. He Is visiting John Landers, of North Chicago, and asserts that he may locate permanently In Illinois when be comes Into his post-matrimonial fortune. He takes the unique terms of his un cle's will half humorously, but admits that he la locking for a bride within the time specified. He says that his uncle's will carries the unique provision Be cause he was anxious to see him settle down and cease being a "rolling atone," He is said to have visited every part of the world. OLD MEN INHERIT MILLION Salt I-ake Brother Leaves Fortune to Poverty-stricken Pensioners. LEICESTER. Eng.. Feb. it. It Is reported that two men living at Blaby. a short distance from here, who were drawing government old age pensions of five shillings weekly on account of extreme poverty, have Inherited 11. 000.000. The money, so the story goes, was bequeathed them by a brother. Henry Bowns. who died recently at Salt Lake. Utah. This Information Is said to have been contained In a letter from the testator's son. POSSE HEMS IN ROBBERS Hundreds of Armed Men Surround Looters of Walnnt, III., Bank. DIXON. IIU Feb. IS. Hundreds of armed men under the leadership of Sheriff Reld." of Lee County, are sur rounding a SOO-acre tract tonight In which four men who robbed the Bank of Walnut. 111., early today and em. raped with ISO0 are believed to be hiding. Members of the posse are armed with rifles and shotguns and have been or dered to kill the robbers If they at tempt to escape. MAN, WIFE FIGHT POSSE One Killed and One Hurt Before Be fender's Injury Ends Battle. WAVERLT. Tenn, Feb. IS. Barri caded In a houseboat. Dan Warren and his wlfs held off a posse In a desperate gun tight late yesterday until Warren Buffered a wound that rendered him helpless. In the fighting. W. S. Rust, a Chicago salesman, was killed and another mem ber of the posse was seriously wounded. The battle occurred near Clydcstown, on the Tennessee Rlvec pnpTi ixn nit Enn! WEDNESDAY. 3IAKCII 1. 1911." PRICE FIVE CEXT8. . IT LAST, RUEF IS TO Rehearing Order Va cated by Court EX-BOSS IS TAKEN TO JAIL California Supreme Court Re scinds Previous Action. WEBB'S POINT ACTED UPON Action Makes San Francisco Politi cian's Conveyance to San Qnentln Virtually Matter of Course. Graft Scandal Recalled. SAX FRANCISCO. Feb. IS. After be ing at liberty for IS months on a ball bond aggregating $600,000. Abraham Ruef was taken Into custody at midnight to night, following the vacation of the Su preme Court'e order remanding the caae for rehearing. Early In the evening. Ruef held a con sultation with his attorneys and. after bidding friends about town good-bye, went home. A deputy was waiting at his residence with a bench warrant la sued by Judge Lawlor. Ruef quietly sur rendered himself and the pair started for the County Jail. 'An appeal to the United States Su preme Court on some constitutional ground is his only recourse now. It such action Is not taken, Ruef probably will start for San Quentln In a day or two to begin serving a lt-year term on a charge of bribery. Justice Absent From State. The order wss made on the motion of Attorney-General Webb, which was ar gued at length before the court sitting en banc last week. At the end of sev eral days' argument, the motion waa taken under advisement with today's de cision concurred In by the entire court as the result. The order of vacation was made on the ground that the absence of Justice F. W. Henshaw from the state at the time the order granting the rehearing became effective made the action a nullity. One Point Considered. In arriving at the decision to vacate ths order this was the only point con sidered by the court, which contended In the decision accompanying the order that no other contention of the Attorney-General was worthy of considera tion. In the decision granting the motion to vacate the order of rehearing, the court explained that the point on which It had been granted bad never before been brought to the attention of the Supreme tribunal of this state. The court de clared that the raising of this point by Attorney-General Webb had raised the gravest doubt as to the correctness of the court's procedure and the subsequent consideration of the question by the court had entirely satisfied it that the point was well made by the chief attor ney of the state. Legality Not Questioned. The contention of Attorney-General Webb that the court must alt In actual (Concluded on pass S.) GOING PRISON INDEX OF TODAFS NEWS The Wea4b.ee. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, T decrees; minimum. 83. TODAY'S Fair; easterly winds. Foreign. Senator Monte chosen to lead new French cabinet. Pace 8. Ooroes says peace envoys without proper credentials will be held spies. Pace S. Politics. HarrUon renominated .for Mayor of Chi caso or Democrats; Merrlam chosen by Republican. Pase 4. National. Upton raises err of alarm about annexa tion In opposing reciprocity In Canadian Parliament, pass - Direct election falls four votea short of two thirds majority in Senate. Page L Senate screes to vote on Lorlmer today and set on tariff board next. Pace 2- Committee on Senator Gore's charcee ex onerates McMurray. but holda Hamon offered bribe. Pace 8. Domestic. Chicago papers publish abbreviated editions because of difference with Typographical Union. Pace 1. Bqraw says renegade 6hoshonea killed nine men In year. Pace 4. Ruef must serve penitentiary term; last chance of eacapa rone. Pace 1. "Four-quartered" skirt makes famous Ha rem earnient look tame. Pace 1. New York Aldermen, asked to forbid stage profanity, discuss what It Is. Page 1. Orshsrn Glass. Jr., Portland student at Harvard, elopes. Page 6. Mrs. Turnbull denounced as adventuress by lawyer for Baldwin estate. Pace 2. Two masked men hold up express whlls train goes through Bt. Louis. Page 1 Sports. Spartana defeat Hawthorne, and win clear title to cltr basketball championship. Pace I. Rain Interferes with Beavers' training. Page 8. Factflo Northwest, Ex-Governor Ooodlng, of Idaho, and accuser almost come to blows In midnight ses sion. Pace . Legislative committee reports Washington National Guard Is rent by factlona. Pace . Attorney-Oeneral preparea titles of alx amendments for ballot- Pace T. Commerrlal and Marine. Heavy shipments of flour to Oriental porta Pace 10. Liberal advances In prices of stocks. Page 10. Wool dealere not Interested In new clip. Pase 10. Port of Portland Commission Is yet Incom plete. Pace 18. Portland and Vicinity. "Colonist Day" to be observed generally to day in Oregon. Pace 1L Court rules City Engineer In error tn In creasing coat of Hall-street Improve ment. Pace 8. February business statistics reflect pros perity of Portland. Pace 1. Portland Lodge of Elks gets elaborate head quarters at Atlantic City. Pace . Lent begin today. Pace T. Oregon A Washington Lumber plant burned; loss 875.000. Pase 12. Mayor cautions East Side push clubs that their attacks on "higher upe" by In nuendo may , harm Broadway bridge. Page 13. Oregon Trunk to run first trains Into Cen tral Oregon today. Page 8. MAIL THIEVESGET $25,000 Uaska Sblpment on Steamer Bea trice Mysteriously Disappears. VANCOUVER. B. C. Feb. 28. The disappearance of a large sum of money and gold from the registered mail on board the steamer Princess Beatrice was reported today upon the arrival of that vessel from Alaska. The Princess Beatrice left Skagway, Alaska, last Thursday night and dur ing the time intervening between then and the arrival of the boat at Van couver the registered mall was plun. dered and the contents stolen. It was only when the mall was received at the postofflce In Vancouver that the theft was revealed. Postmaster MacPherson said that until the registered mall had been checked It la Impossible to state the amount of the loot. Large amounts of bullion from the Klondike gold field in the Yukon Ter ritory are frequently sent by mall from Dawson to Vancouver and Seattle. Al though no figures are available on the amount of gold sent down by the Prin cess Beatrice, It is believed that the loss will be in excess of $25,000. PIE! 2 MEN LOOT CAR ON FAST EXPRESS Daring Holdup JsWithin St. Louis' Limits. . ROBBERS ESCAPE WITH LOOT Masked Men Bind and Gag Messenger, Begin Work. SPOILS SAID TO BE BIG Desperadoes Board Cars at One Sub urban Station and Before Xext Is Reached Leap to Ground and Are Seen Xo More. 1 ST. LOUIS. Feb. 28. Two masked and heavily armed robbers held up the express car on an Iron Mountain train within the city limits tonight, escap ing with several packages and the money box. which they removed from the safe after binding and gagging the messenger, M. M. McRoberts. That the train robbers obtained a large amount of money Is believed, though no approximation of the sum has been obtained. The men boarded the train at Ivory Station, in the south eastern part of the city, and leaped off when the train slowed down at Tower Grove station. AH available patrolmen and detec tives have been hurried to the Tower Grove district In hopes of surround ing and capturing the pair of despera does. Ivory and Tower Grove stations are two stops made by the Iron Mountain trains before arriving at the Union Station. The train had Just left Ivory Station when the messenger, feeling an Inrush of cold air in hla car, went to the rear of It and found the door open. Closing It, he turned and found him self gaxlng into the muzzles of two re volvers held by one of the masked In truders. "Hands up. and be sure you keep them there!" the robber commanded. McRoberta elevated, his arms, and In a twinkling the eecond masked man walked behind him. "Now you can lower your hands and put them behind you," the first man remarked. McRoberts obeyed, and an instant later the eecond robbers tied his feet at the ankles, and while he was prone on the floor they stuffed a handker chief Into his mouth. McRoberts, in the position he was lying, could see their every movement the pair worked swiftly, as if familiar with their task, and In a few minutes bad opened the safe, an iron strongbox, and selected therefrom sev eral packages and the money box. Other packages they left scattered about the floor wherever they fell as they were tossed from the safe, and when the train began to slow down at Tower Grove, one of the pair gathered the parcels selected Into his arms, while his companion kept McRoberts covered with his revolver. Backing out of the end door, the robbers leaped off the train, several hundred yardej west of the station. In a maze of tracks, and disappeared. FOUR-QUARTERED' SKIRT IS LATEST WOilAX IX RADICAL "HAREM" IS SEXSATIOX OX LINER. Wife of Wealthy Importer Dons Gar ment Slit Ways, Black Knick erbockers Showing Beneath. NEW YORK. Feb. 28. (Special.) Passengers on the North German Lloyd steamer- Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, which arrived from Bremen, have been discussing: one burning topic of conver sation the sensation caused by Mrs. Alfred Marchal, who, with her hus band, a wealthy Importer of Mexico City, was returning from an extended European tour. On the second day out, Mrs. Marchal created a furore by appearing in a Harem skirt of most radical cut. But the Harem skirt was a mild creation compared with the one in which Mrs. Marchal appeared on the afternoon of the following day. It was called a "Four-Quartered Skirt" and it put the Harem garment in the "also ran" class when it came to bizzarre effects. The "Four-Quarter Skirt" is slit in the back and front and on the sides. Beneath it, Mrs. Marchal wore, a pair of black silk knickerbockers, fastened at the knees with silk ribbons, with diamond clasps. Mrs. Marchal today was clothed in conventional style and refused to dis cuss either the "four-quartered" or the Harem gowns. HAINES SALOON MAN SLAIN Two Masked Robbers Shoot Edward M'CoIlough When He Resists. BAKER, Or., Feb. 28. Edward Mo- Collough, proprietor of the Stockman's Exchange saloon at Haines, 10 miles from this city, waa murdered tonight at 11 o'clock by one of two holdup men who entered the saloon and de manded that McCollough turn over the contents of the cash drawer. He re fused and on making a motion of re sistance, was shot dead. The robbers made their escape be fore the occupants could prevent them. Sheriff Rand was Immediately notified and with a posse left the city In automobiles. Up to a late hour no trace of the murderers had been found. McCollough was the son of Harvey McCollough, a prominent resident of the county. Sheriff Frank Chtlders, of Union County, arrived from Haines at mid night with two bloodhounds and took up the men's trail which led south on the O.-W. R. & N. tracks toward this cty and then turned cross country. Early capture seems probable. "FRIEND" TAKES WIFE, $400 Ex-Seattle Man Blames Loss of Fam ily and Cash to Lodger. LOS ANGELES, CaL, Feb. 28. (Spe cial.) "My friend, he stole from me $400 in cash, my wife and my little boy," was the plaint of Domlnlck Galda, a small merchant, formerly of Seattle, to Detective Sergeant Chap man at headquarters today. Then Galda said softly: "He's a musician, my friend." The friend was Dominick Soff, who, Galda said, lived at 689 Moulton ave nue. Galda said he had taken Soff into his home at Seattle and treated him like a brother, feeding and lodging him gratis. Soff followed the family to Los Angeles, January 10. Mrs. Julia Galda and her 6-year-old son, Samuel, levanted with the 4O0 and the musical Domlnlck Soff. "WETS" WIN BACK CITIES JIany "Dry" Indiana Communities Decide to Switch. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 28. The "wets" gained several of the larger cities of Indiana that previously had been on the "dry" side in local option elections in 14 counties of the state to day. The "drj's" held the county town ships and some cities, but the people decided for the return of saloons In the cities of Marlon, Wabash, Vevay, Rush- .vllle, Huntington, Connellsville, De catur and Koko'mo. Cities that voted to remain dry were Delphi, Tipton, Petersburg, Green Castle, Gas City and Noblesville. j ' FLOOR BREAKS AT FUNERAL Forty Pitched Into Basement to Tune of "Xearer, My God, to Thee." ERIE, Pa., Feb. 28. Forty persons attending the funeral services of Henry Gussman at his home here late this afternoon were precipitated to the basement when the floor collapsed. All were more or lsss bruised or suffered from shock. The body was in another room. The accident occurred as the choir was singing "Nearer, My God, to Thee." The services were continued in the home of a neighbor. PRESIDENT HONORS NEGRO Colored Lawyer Appointed Assistant Attorney-General. WASHINGTON, ' Feb. 28. President Taft today nominated William E. Lewis, of Boston, a negro, to be an assistant attorney-general of the Department of Justice. This is the first time a negro has been named for such a prominent posi tion In the Departm-' STRIKE SHRINKS GRIGAGO PAPERS Publishersand Printers Disagree. TODAY'S ISSUES FOUR PAGES Employers Declare Men Have Broken Agreement. LYNCH AGREES WITH THEM Newspapers' Statement Reviews Dif ferences and Quotes Head of In ternational t'nion as Denounc ing Action of Workers. CHICAGO. Feb. S'8. Because of dif ferences with the local typographical union, Chicago morning papers pub. llshed tomorrow will consist only of four pages each. The differences be gan in the offices of the Hearst news papers, the Examiner and American, where the printers wanted pay on the basis of 13 ems for 13-ems columns. The printers in those offices went on a strike at 8 o'clock this afternoon. The Chicago Publishers' Association maintains the strike was a violation of the arbitration agreement and In a statement quotes James M. Lynch, president of the International Typo graphical Union, as saying that the strike is unauthorized, illegal and without warrant. In connection with the controversy, the Chicago Newspaper Publishers' As sociation made the following state ment for the morning papers of March 1: "On February 6, 1911, James M. Lynch, president; J. W. Hayes, secre tary, and Hugo Miller, second vice president of the International Typo graphical Union, toegther with H. N. Kellogg, labor commissioner of the Newspaper Publishers' Association; Herman Rldder, president of the Amer ican Newspaper Publishers' Associa tion, and oeorge C. Hitt. publisher of the Ind'anapolls Star, the six constitut ing the International board of arbitra tion to adjust the scale of wages for printers employed In the offices of the dally newspapers In Chicago, met here and made an award, establishing a scale of wages for members of the Chicago Typographical Union, No. 16, employed on the dally newspapers of Chicago. Printers Raise Question. "The award went into effect at once in all the offices. After It became ef- j fectlve, a question was raised by printers empiuyea iu me univce the Chicago American and the Chi cago Examiner, the printers claiming that they were entitled to be paid on the baslst of 13 ems per line, whereas the actual type set measured less than 13 ems per line. The columns of the Chicago Examiner and the Chicago American are slightly narrower than the columns of all the other Chicago newspapers. Therefore, in demanding compensation for type set on a basis of wider columns, the president of the union Insisted that the printers should be paid for work which they did not do. "The management of these two news papers, in compliance with the con tract with the printers' union, agreed to submit the disputed question for settlement to the joint standing com mittee, a body authorized under the contract between the Typographical Union and the newspapers to settle all differences of opinion. Offer of Settlement' Made. "The offer of settlement was made in the communication by Victor E. Lawson. president of the Chicago local of the American Newspaper Pub Ushers' Association, in a letter dated February 18. It was renewed in a let ter dated February 28. "In spite of these requests ana aiso in spite of an offer made by the man agement of the Chicago American and the Chicago Examiner to deposit the small differences in wages with the president of the Chicago Typographical Union No. 16, to be held by him until the final award was made, a strike was called at 3 P. M. today, In the offices of the- two newspapers mentioned. This strike was ordered in violation of the most binding contract and agree ment to refer any and all matters in dispute to the standing committee for settlement. In taking that action, the union violated its own by-laws as well as its contract and arbitration. Four Pages Will Be Printed. "In consequence of the unwarranted strike of the Typographical Union, all of the Chicago morning papers will print only four pages tomorrow." The statement recites that when the "bonus scale" was Inaugurated In ac cordance with the award, the president of the local union ordered the separa tion of the Examiner and American of fices, -which had hitherto worked as one office, and their operation as two establishments. While believing this was a matter for arbitration, the pub lishers agreed to the request under protest, to avoid a strike. During the confusion the foreman resigned. Later the president of the union demanded the foreman's reinstatement. Again the publishers yielded to avoid a strike. The third demand was the "13 ems" (Concluded on Page Z.) I rz' i n o I