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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1911)
THE 3IORMNO OltliGOMAN, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1911. 2 CONTROLLER BUY SCANDAL FIZZLES Dick-to-Dick" Letter Now Regarded in Washington as Pure Forgery. GRAHAM PLAYING POLITICS Ixemorratlc Chairman Magnifies Cn- ImpnrtaiK Ietatla In Hope of i MaLln Party Capital and Muck. rater Help Out. ORrTCONTAN NEWS BUREAU. Wuh Ina-ton. July II. (Special.) It u made evident today, while Secretary vt the Interior Klsher was before the committee on expenditure In the In terior Department. that Chairman t;raham Is playlns; poiltlca wita tne a Jcsed Controller Bay scandal, and pro pose, to bring; cut and magnify as mu-h Inconsequential testimony as poa ibie before turning- to the real Issues Involved. Graham, who first came Into the Hmellirht as a member of toe Pln-thut-Balllnirer committee, la personally ronductlns virtually the entire lnveatl- cation thus far. floodlns; the record .nti irrelevant facts and acting fr. qu'ctlyon the prompting of Mise Abbott and several muckrakers. who instigated this whole affair. .:reliiTr Fisher eamustly pleaded with tne committee today to ro direct to the saltent features of the case, and put on the stand those winesses whose trsliraoay was most Important, but tiraham declined to do this, and Intll tfl hi purpose to string out the In quiry, lie has observed that the cnnck tik'n who are following the Inquiry r no distortlnc unimportant testi mony as to make it sensational and from Ms viewpoint, be belna; a Ikiho i rat. that is a icooj political move. Sensational Facta Denied. rrson most conversant with tha fa.ts declare, as has Secretary Fisher, that there is nothlna- sensational about II. notiiins; scandalous and nothlna; Im proper. And it begins to look as tiiouicb the whole thins; would fall f at unlf Chairman Graham Is able to close the Invest! cation of the Day portrait affair in the State Depart ment. There are stronc Indications that tha now famous "Dick to Dick" -letter was) pure forgery, perpetrated by enemies of President Tafu This alleged let IT. it is now learned, first appeared In to afternoon Portland paper, and the paper containing the purported r'y of that document was In Wash ington it hours before Miss Abbott article appeared In the Philadelphia paper. Although Secretary Fisher was) not supenaed today, he waa permitted to make a statement, lie declared that ht Investigation had Indicated to him fut Richard d. Ryan had obtained ry rlgits whatever In Controller Bay tnat placed the rights of anyone else In Jeopardy. lie a-ked the committee to hasten the Inquiry Into the "Dick to Dick letter." which cannot be found. Ilrpon.ilblllty Must He Fixed. ! am much concerned. said Seere tarv Fisher, "about the publication of a letter which Miss m. F. Abbott says she saw In the file of the Interior tepartment and that 1 not there now. If there is anyone in the department who would be a party to the abstrac tion or destruction of public docu ments, we went to know It. Hen who bad beear In charge of the files In tha Interior Department have left the ser vice, and other are about to leave, and I urge Inquiry into that aa soon as possible, so that we may take steps to place responsibility for the removal of the letter. If it ever existed. I neVer aw such a document as described a letter from Hr. Ryan to Mr. Balllnger and never heard of It nntll I read of It in the newspapers the other day." terretary Kisser said that all Infor mation obtainable relating to Con troller Fay was being compiled for the "nate in response to the Polndexter resolution of June IT. This data, he r'iccested. would be available to the House committee. Secretary Fisher said hi attention was first called to Controller Bay by Senator La Follette. who sought spe cific Information as to the claims, the l-itrtltv of claimants, etc. After a thor t.u1 examination. Mr. Fisher said ha wss unable to see how the public In Itmi had been placed In Jeopardy. - marfe up ray mind." he added, that If anything was wrong we want el to know It. I checked up the case particularly to see If 1 could find any jnmg irregular. I confess that I was rot so much concerned whether the metho.l of openlnr the lands was one war or another." The real thing I am looking for Is to get constructive re sults. Ryan's Entries Incomplete. f "I found In my Investigation that Ki.tiard S. Ryan, after the relea-ie of the shore line lands, bad made three entries, none of which' had been com ri'ted. tie made an entry as a ter ivinal for a railroad. That has not been leierrdned. and hla rights will be de Med according to law and subject to mr review. I found considerable other frontage, available for railroad entry. The Im portant thing Is to ascertain what shore Ir.e rtjMs lead to deep water. If there I only room for one railroad, the ques tion to be determined Is whether It seal! he Ryan'a or some other rall-rj-i ." It O. Graves, nautical evpert In the I'nlted Ftates Geodetic Survey, test! f e. Controller Bay had only on out let to deep water. CHECK PASSER IDENTIFIED Man Held at Roechnrj Said to Have I tad Iterord In Idaho. RoSKBURO. Or.. July li Spe?!X Tlat B. R. Stewart, recently arrested St Jacksonville and returned here for trial on a charge of passing a worthless chev-k. has passed much spurious paper In Idaho. 1 the declaration of W. H Davidson, a banker of Boise. Idaho, who is passing hi vacation In Roseburg. After seeing a photograph of Stewart. Mr. Davidson said he was one of the shrewdest men the Idaho officers have liad to contend with In year. Stewart Is said to be a registered pharmacist and well educated. LANE PREPARES FOR FAIR Counlr Society Will Erect Booths filing Stall to Concessionaire. f:n;EXK. Or- July 11. Speclal.) tCnlarsement ct tha pavilion oa tha grounds of the Lane County Agricul tural Society for the better accommo dation of the Lane County fair this Fall was authorised st the meeting of the board of director last night, and tha painting of all tha buildings on the grounds was also directed. This year tha board. Instead of renting ground for concession will erect a number of nnlform booths on the grounds, and rent the stalls to the concessionaires. More attention will be given this year than last to the stock exhibit, and a committee has been appointed for the purpose of Interesting every owner of registered stock In Lane County to bring this stock to the county fair. The different granges of tha county have taken the matter up and already are preparing collective exhibits. The County Court ha signified Us Intention of repeating It donation of last year to the fair, the money to be used ex clusively in premiums. Difficulty over the location of the district fair for Lana. Douglas and Coos counties arose several years ago. and since then Lane County haa been holding a fair of Its own. each year somewhat better than the previous one, until now good grounds and track have been secured, and very creditable exhibit made. The fair this year will be held September 20-24. T DEMANDS PROOF wooDBrnx manager dexies SCHCLTZ ASSERTIOXS. Head of Albany Tailor League Ag gTe Ration Called Upon , to Prove Statements. SALEM. Or, July . (Special.) Accompanying his declaration with a check of i0. payable on tha Bank of Wood burn, to be turned over to some charitable purpose, if his statements are not true. President John Hunt, of the Willamette Valley League, tonight forwarded to the Salem correspondent of The Oregonlan from Woodburn a signed statement relative to hks con nection with Manager Schultz. of Uie Albany team, as well as a receipt from C. M. Crittenden, secretary of the league, .showing that the Woodburn club had made a deposit of ITS aa a forfeit. Manager Hunt defies Man ager Schults. of the Albany team, to prove any single assertion In refer ence to Hunt, made In the statement by Schults in The Oregonlan of July lL In his alsned statement. Hunt says: The aseertlona of Mr. Schults regard ing the league and myself are so far at variance from the real truth that to those who are acquainted with the situation. Schults Is regarded as the greatest double-thinker of modern times. "If Mr. Schults can produce any let ter, telephone or telegraph message, or show that I consented or that I authorized anybody else by that means, that he was to play Corvallls last Sun day, ha la privileged to name the char itable Institution getting tha $50. "Manager Schults has received tha fairest kind of treatment In the way game were scheduled. Albany La played two games away from home; Salem, three: Hubbard, five, and Wood- burn, six away from home. Doe this look as If Albany was getting tha worst of It? I realise, as well aa Mr. Schults, that Albany Is a good base ball town and have let hla team stay at home and put my own (Woodburn) on the road. "That members of tha league putting up forfeit money are not protected by the treasurer giving bonds Is another falsehood that Mr. Schults will have to masticate, for the bonds of the treasurer have been In tha hands of tha secretary since tha starting of the league That Hubbard and Salem have put up their forfeit Is vouched for by the 5o on deposit In your hands, say ing Mr. Schults cannot prove the con trary. Inclosed receipt from the treas urer of the Willamette Valley League will show conclusively that Woodburn has put up her forfeit money. As to the peanut part of the league. I will admit that Schults form such aa appendix." PLAITS GHOST RAISED MOTIVK OP BIIX TO SHIP COI.V IS SUSPECTED. Fear of Misapplication of Funds Leads Senate to Refuse Aid to Northwest Banks. OR EGO XI AN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington July IV- The refusal of tha United States Senate to agree to the Jonea amendment, appropriating 1120,- 000 for the transportation of silver coin, means that the banks of the Northwest will hsve to bear tha ex pense of transporting from the East such money as will be needed this year for th movement of crops. The Washington Senator made an earnest plea for the adoption of hi amendment, pointing out that similar appropriations had been made many time by Congress, but Senator Warren, chairman of the committee on appro priations, raised a point of order acalnt the amendment, which was sus tained by the Vice-President, and the amendment was not allowed to go into the deficiency appropriation bllL As there will no more appropriation bill passed at the special session. It will not be possible to secure an appropria tion for thl purpose. For a great many years Congress regularly appropriated 110.000 for the transportation f silver coin, but It turns out that this appropriation wss regarded In Congress ss a sop to tha express companies. made largely through the Influence of the late Senator Piatt, of New Tork. who was president of the United States Express Company, and after Piatt's retirement it was re ported around Congress that this appro. priatlon was being frequently misap plied merely to make business lor the express companies.' It waa because of these report that the appropriation was omitted from tha last two regular appropriation bills. and as the Treasury Department did not recommend Its renewal, no effort has since been made to secure a like ap propriation, until senator jones made tha attempt a few days ago. Then the old argument waa revived, and on It the Jones amendment was knocked out. PARCELS POST. RESISTED Brtallers Associations Argue Mail order Houses Would Profit. WASHINGTON. July . Opposition to the passage -of a parcel, post bill was made today before the House com mittee on postofftces and postroada by representatives of various retail mer chants' associations. The argument waa advanced that the Government should regulate, but not compete with, or try to own. private concern engaged In Interstate com merce. It also was asserted that a parcels post would be a losing enter prise and would favor the mail-order houses aa against the small dealers. DIPLOMATS ARE .FREE FROM GUILE Kahn Declares United States ' Ambassadors Are Not Un duly Obsequious. GOOD OLD DAYS COMPARED Benjamin Franklin's Pay Greater In Proportion Than' Ministers of Today Henry Says Ham mond "Nudged" King. WASHINGTON". July 12. Represent stive Kahn of California warmly de fended American diplomacy In the House today. His speech was In reply to that of Representative Henry of Texas a week ago. Incidentally, Mr. Kahn suggested a heavy tax on the dowries of American brides, as a means of discouraging titled fortune hunters. Declaring that at no time "In the history of the Republic, " have the Am bassadors or Ministers to foreign courts been less obsequious, dressed in simpler clothes, or resorted to less finesse and chicane." than now. Mr. Kahn paid tributes to the late John Hay. to Ellhu Root and to Philander C. Knox. He dwelt upon "the brilliant, successful ef forts" of Secretary Knox to extend American trade, "and his Intense and world-wide vigilant promotion of the Interests of the American people." Ben Franklin Better Paid. Reading extracts from many musty documents In an effort to prove tnat "In the good old day," referred to by Mr. Henry, there was less of Democratlo simplicity in the conduct of American diplomats abroad than now. the speaker Insisted that Benjamin Franklin and other Minister of hi time were paid proportionately higher salaries than the present day diplomats. Aa to the criticism of John Hays Hammond, special Ambassador to the coronation of King George. Kahn said he believed Mr. Henry, after calmer" consideration, would admit to himself that they were "unjustified and en tirely "gratuitous.' Henry, of Texas, replied to Kahn. He said It was the "vulgar extrava gance," In diplomatic affairs and not the "polite formality." of which he complained. He declared that Ambas sador Reld's "vice regal estate In Lon don waa not typical of the American Government. Henry Wants More Bayards. The party, he said, would go before the American people at the next elec tion, "to see whether they want our big foreign diplomatic posts to go to multimillionaires or to Thomas Fran cis Bayard's and men of that sort." "I would rather." be added, "that this country never would send an other representative to Berlin than that this country should take orders from tha German government as to what Is to be tha sine qua non of a diplo mat there." Henry said that In his opinion the reason why Dr. David J. Hill was to leave Berlin was that John Hays Ham mond might com home and get his credentials and go to Berlin. Henry referred sarcastically to re port that John Hay Hammond had "nudged the King" and had asked the King If he was not pleased that the coronation ceremonies bad gone off so welL "If we send him abroad to another coronation," said Henry, "I suppose ha would nudge the Queen." "Do yon know why Dr. Hill Is to leave Berlin?'' asked Henry. "It's to make way for John Hays Hammond, because Mr. Hill Is a poor man snd cannot live In great splendor." JOINT OUTING PLANS MADE Ad Club and Realty Board to Visit Garfield Saturday. Megaphones with able talkers behind them, placards with Joke printed on them to be posted on the walls of cars, and original songs to be sung are among the more recent preparations for the outing of the Realty" Board and the' Portland Ad Club Saturday near tacada. The cars will leave First and Stark streets at 11 o'clock and proceed to Estacada where the Commercial Club, aided by women of the countdy visited, will take the junketers to Gartleld. three miles through the mountains and serve lunch to all In the Orange hall. D. O- Lively, vice-president of the Peninsula Industrial Company; W. B. Coman. general passenger agent of the North Rank: F. D. Hunt, trafflo man ager of the O. W. P.: President Mosse sohn. of the Portland Ad "Club: Presi dent Chapln, of the Realty Board, and Postmaster Merrick, are among the speakers to be heard. The joint com mittee on arrangements representing the two club is composed of H. W. Fries. FTed Larson, A. R. Morgan andd Frank McCreddls. One hundred members of the club have subscribed for tickets already and It Is expected that fully 300 will go. PUTNAM TO SCALE PEAK Brooklyn Jurist and Mountain Climber Reaches Tacoma. T A COM A, Wash.. July 12. (Special.) Judge Harrington Putnam. of Brook lyn. N. president of the Alpine Club, who succeeded William J. Gaynor aa a justice of the Supdeme Court of that state when Gaynor was elected Mayor of New Tork. Is In Tacoma. and tomor row will start on a trip to the summit of Mount Ranles. expecting to be ab sent 10 days. Althhougb prominent as slawyer and public man. Judge Putnam Is also well known as a mountaineer, and has scaled many of the great peaks of America and Europe. Including Shasta and Whitney '.and besides Muont Ranier. be has designs on Mount Hood snd Monnt St, Helens. He la a member of the American Alpine Club and of the Appalachaln Club. Eagle Point Patronizes New Bank. EAGLE POINT. Or.. July 12. (Spe cial.) The First State Bank opened its doors In Eagle Point, the first of the week and at the close of the first day 18000 had been deposited. Eagle Point Is a town of 400 people and the First Stata Is th only bank In It- A new fwo-story brick building, costing $4000, was constructed for its occupation and the example caused two similar build ings to go up In a previously "brick less" town. The site of Kugle Point has been changed and the town Is being lowly moved to the new site near the railroad. h. : 1 Qies $20.00 Suits, $15.00 $35.00 Suits, $26.50 $22.50 Suits, $16.50 $40.00 Suits, S29.SO $25.00 Suits, $19.00 $45.00 Suits, $34.SO $30.00 Suits, $23.50 $50.00 Suits, $39.SO 25fc Reduction on Fancy Vests IT GUILTY' PLEAS Court Declines to Quash In dictments of McNamaras. BROTHERS DEFINE STAND Both Assert Innocence) of Complicity in Dynamiting; of loa Angeles Times Plant McManil Near Collapse, Report. tjm3 AvriF.r.EK. July 12. John J. and James B. McNamara. accused of plotting th. Los Angeles Tlnjes dyna miting, answered "not guilty" to the multitudinous oharges of murder against them, when, after 10 weeks .. t a Annlci county Jail, the time for them to plead at last arrived T.,,t Trlrr Bordwell had i - . A i--r nf the nolnta ad- OVBriUIVU " " " vanced by the defense for the quash ing or tne inaicimenis -cused brothers and there remained no technicality which permitted of fur ther delay in the pleading, John D. Fredericks. District Attorney, took charge of the proceedings. When the first charge was read. John J. McNamara was th. first to be asked how he wished to plead. H. firmly answered, "not guilty." Brother Response Same. 1 1 i v & minntit later James B. McNamara made the same positive re sponse to me same cn.r. vhn tha la murder accusations had been answered. James B. McNamara was permitted to sit down wmie jonn J. McNamara stood alone and answered "not guilty," to the' charge of com plicity in the explosion at the I.lwrllvn Iron Works In this city early last Chrlstmaa morning. , When the pleading was over, tne nn.atlnn nf Mtflnr 11A tilTIA Of tllal came up. Tfie defense asked that the data be not fixed until Josepn ecott. one of the McNamara attorneys, could .- San T-l-M neiti'tl The T1TOS- ecutlon objected, but Judge Bordwell finally ordered a continuance until Friday morning, when the trial date win De semea. ' McManlgal Near Collapse. Mrs. Ortie McManlgal and her un cle. George Behm. of Portage, Wis, both of whom are aligned with the defense, shared the Interest with the McNamara brothers today. Mrs. Mc Manlgal and her uncle came to the court directly from the Jail, where she and Behm had made another effort, it Is asserted, to Induce Ortie McManlgal. the alleged confessed co-conspirator of the McNamaras, to repudiate his confession. Torn between conflicting desires to do as his wife wished and also to keep his alleged pledge to become a state witness. McManlgal Is said to be on the verge of collapse. Bi? Eddy Camp Gets School. THE DALi.ES. Or., July 12. (Special.) 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The con struction force at the Big Eddy camp was materially decreased during the high water of the Columbia, but it Is now being increased again. Work at the other camps on the right of way was pushed while the men were laid off at the lower end of th. canal. Salmon Catch Grows Better. ASTORIA, Or, July II. (Special.) About th. only changes In the fishing situation today are that th. salmon ara gradually going up the river and fairly good catches are being made in the vicinity of Westport and Cath lameL The fish caught In the lower river last night averaged much larger than those taken during the previous few days. This morning one launch, arriving from below, brought 70 boxes of large or cold storage salmon that had been caught by the glllnetters. Hoke Smith Elected Senator. ATLANTA. Ga., July 12. Hoke Smith, the present Governor, was elected United State Senator from Georgia on the first legislative Joint ballot at noon today. He succeeds Joseph M. Terrell, who was appointed by Govern or Brown to fill the unexpired term of the lata Senator A. S. Clay. . New Vork Favors Income Tax. ALBANY. N. T July 12. New Tork State went on record today in favor of a Faderal Income tax when the Assem bly, by a vote of 91 to 4i'. passed the resolution . ratifying the proposed TAKE A KODAK WITH YOU Let TJs Do Your Developing and Printing. - . . . i 148 SIXTH STREET Columbian Uptical Between Alder & Blacks and Blues Strictly Cash RAY amendment to the Federal Constitu tion authorising such a tax. The meas ure passed the Senate April 19. Rancher Catches Baby Eagles. PA8CO. Wash, July 12. (SpecIaL) Councilman Cox, of Pasco, is the pos sessor of an eagle, S weeks old, which was cantured In the hills in the north end of the county by a rancher named Ford. Ford caught two small eagles, but had to kill one to free his hand from Its sharp claws. Councilman Cox will keep the bird on his ranch this Summer. 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