THE 3IORMNO OltliGOMAN, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1911.
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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.
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$22.50 Suits, $16.50 $40.00 Suits, S29.SO
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$30.00 Suits, $23.50 $50.00 Suits, $39.SO
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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.)
The canal construction camp at Big
Eddy Is to be provided with a school
this Fall. About 40 pupils would be
accommodated by a school In that com
munity, which is part of Wasco County
school district No. 14, and the Board of
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Directors met with representatives
from Big Eddy to plan in regard to sup
plying the school privileges needed. The
building will be erected this Summer
and a teacher engaged by the directors
for the Fall term of school. 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
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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. Its wings measure 20 inches
from tip to tip.
liabor Day Celebration Planned.
MEDFORD. Or, July 12. (Special.)
Hundreds of representatives of labor
unions from various valley towns will
come to Medford the first Monday In
September to attend the Labor -day
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celebration to be held by the local
union on that day. There will be a
parade of all the organized laboring
men in the city, addresses by labor
leaders, a programme and a big picnic.
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