TITE MORXIXG OltEGOXIAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 19.11.
DIRECTIONS ALL
REPUBLICAN LEASEES PROMINENT IN PRE-CONVENTION SKIR
MISHES BEFORE NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
FEDERAL
CALLED
Sun Seems to Rise From Pa
cific Ocean When Viewed
From Panama:
Railway Investigators of Opin
ion Issue of Authority Is
Too Unsettled.
GATUN DAM BIG FEATURE
TAFT APPROVtS FINDINGS
CONTROL ri - ijss3iiiiii!si
UNTIMELY Wimx r , 1
SWT PATEK PHI"PPE
ASKEW Ofl ISTHMUS
Si 2iiLSllv V Vl 1 The world's best watch, made
XNtA-lb '' "-''' )f-' m Qeneva Switzerlapd. ad
y-'.-.-',:'f -.y''' J passed npon twice at the
J j"" ' I?'; - ' ' " . L ' observatory of time before
1 1I . ' . rr-' 'iC'"' mmm ' leavjng the factory. We are IU
':' agents for Oregon. E
Xot "How Did We Do It?" bat "How
Did We Do It So Well?" Feel
lac " With Which Visitor
If Flret Impressed.
BT OEOROB PALMER PUTNAM.
A NCOS'. Canal Zone. Panama. Sor. II
(Special Correspondence.) It can be
: raid of the lathmua of Panama, aa of
few place about which much baa been
written, that It grows more Interesting
the more one pee of It.
Tou are Introduced to the Isthmns,
Its great work and Ita conglomerate
people, at Colon, onre named Aepl.twall
In honor of one of the head of th
first trans-Isthmian railroad ora-aniia-
tlnn. Colon and It American-made Ai
dltlon. Chrlstobal. form the gateway
through which northern visitors to the
renal land, are received from the At
lanitc eMe. Though the Atlantic end
of the canal. It I the western end aa
we;:, this curious state of affair be
In; brought about because the Isthmu
at thl point extend In an elmost east,
anl-wrst direction, with the Pacific
outlet of the canal at Fa! boa. silently
rin of the Atlantic entrance at Chris
tnbal. An adled phenomenon la the
ftct that at F'anama City the sun la
sn to rise from the Pacific, a custom
credited to It at no other placo In our
hemisphere.
;eoarapby All Askew.
With everything geographical re
versed and tke compass seemingly
hopelessly aakrw. the uninitiated visit
or I likely to throw up hi hands In
hopeless confusion, quite uncertain
whether or not he I "coming- or going."
The first portion of the 60-mlle Jour
ney across the Isthmus to Panama City
tilf the story of the tropical difficul
ties wonderfully well. The right-of-way
lie.o through the heart of the darkest
ard most hopelessly Impenetratabla
swamp Imaginable. When one la able
to say thl today, think what the bot
tomless boar must have resembled far
back In the early to, when the first
heroic railroad builders pushed their
way Into the mlsniatie fan.. laying
the rail In answer to the fabulous traf
fic demands of the California (Old seek
er. The economic history of .the Httl
railroad Is unique. During- th first four
rear of Its existence before Its com
pletion 12.121.333 was taken In from
transportation of passenger and
freight. The cost of th road was
S7.uuo.oeo. or almost $160,000 a mile.
Before It completion It bad paid nearly
on-thlrd of It cost.
The argonaut of the 'SO paid high
for their few mlle of transportation.
The original tariffs show that th sea-to-sea
rate for ftrst-clasa passengers
was l-i. or SO rents a mile. Luxurious
traveling equipment waa not encour
age J by the rate of S rents a pound on
personal baggage, while th express
rhr waa 11.40 a cubic foot.
By 1S5J the road had paid for Itself
and cleared more than f 1.000.000. The
palmy days lasted until 1S0. In that
j.'rioj dividends of 24 per cent were
declared. Then extortionate rate drove
profitable business to th water route,
and corrupt management sapped th
strength of the golden flttle road. In
t.i 'Js the French took over th rail
road at a figure profitable to Its stock,
holder, and finally. In 194. the United
States assumed control. Today th
gross annual earning of the road ar
In exresa of 17.000.000. and In addition
to It commercial business It Is an Im
portant factor in the canal conatruction
work. Indeed, were It not for tha Im
mense amount of traffic It baa to han
dle for the Government, aa well as tha
rrowds of passengers carried free, a far
more substantial showing would be
made.
l.ocka Are Prlsa Farter.
At Gatun, eight miles from the At
lantic, the traveler gets hta first
glimpse of the canal work. There are
seen huge pile of masonry, capped with
thr smoke of steam shovels, which
mark the site of the Gatun locka.
through which In three steps vessels
passing from the Atlantte to the Paclflo
III be lifted 5 feet Into th great lake
formed by the Gatun dam.
Tnese locka and th dam, together
with t'ulebra Cut. are th factor of
fundamental Importance to be grasped
In an understanding of the ranaL
The Gatun dam simply Impounds th
waters of the chagrea and other amalL
rr streams, ultimately backing up be
hind It a huge lake, through which th
snips will stram toward the Pacific for
il miles, to Pedro XligueL The farther,
or Pacific, portion of this distance,
ahout nine miles, is not made up of th
Gatun Lake, but of tha Culebra Cut.
where beyond the water of th lake a
passage for the canal I being cut
through the backbone of th divide. At i
iro Aiigtici there is a lock, through
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ABOVE, mRLES D. HILLEe, IECK ETART TO PRESIDENT TAFT ASD
ACTIVB MA.XAGKK OP MIS CAMPAHiJf BEIOW, I.KKT, ARTHUR I.
VORHVS, TitTt MAAIGER H OHIV VICTOR ROSEWA1EH, UK K-BRA8KA.
TAFT IS Ifl FAVOR
Opponents Talk Roosevelt, Not
La FoIIette.
COMMITTEE MEETS TODAY
Methods Adopted by States in Clioos-
Ing Delestea Will Xot Be. In
terfered With Williams
"od Snb-Cknmmlttee.
fContlnaed prom Plrst Psf.
as chairman of the National committee
waa tendered in good faith on the day
that I was confirmed as Postmaster
General and from that time to this, I
have refrained from narticlnatlon In
the affair, of th committee. I have ' enterprlsea. would reverse present Fed-
all that I can do at present to look
dentlal primary and Presidential pref
erence law will, therefore, be allowed
to select delegate In accord with such
law.
National Committeeman Williams
called on President Taft and Secretary
Hilles this morning. He. with Commit
teemen Borah of Idaho, Perkins of
Washington . and alf other committee
men in th city, dined tonight with th
President at the Whlta Honae. Mr.
Williams will remain in Washington a
week or mora after the National com
mute adjourns.
BUSINESS MEN AROUSED
Representative of Capital Prepare
to Enter Political.
CHICAGO. rjec 11.' (Special.)
Business men of America entered Na
tional politics today openly by the
front door and firmly resolved to re
tire to private life scores of members
of Congress who. It Is declared, have
proved renegades to their campaign
promises.
In the congress of representatives
of hundreds of millions of capital to
day, a broad constructive platform waa
wrought Into shape which would com
pletely change legal requirements sur
rounding the conduct of large business
which th i'acif Ic-bound vessel Is low
ered 30 feet, and again, a mile and a
half further on. Is lowered about 5 feet
more, by means of the two' al Ira Fiona
locks, to the mean sea level of the Pa
lflr. whence eight mllea of progress
bring the ship to the epen sea. -
In seeing a new land and new sights,
customary convention demands that one
have clearly defined "first Impres
sions"" tangible enough to be present
able In words.
a Ar Ma ml (old.
That Is a trifle hard with Panama,
, Here the Intereats ar so manifold and
from a physical standpoint the alghta so
gigantic I mean th man-made things.
rested by our englneera and our ample
treasury. First there la th Jot little
city of Colon: then th swamps of the
trans-Isthmian trip, succeeded by hilly
l.ind and freshened by the glimpses and
the hints of the great work In progress
Just beyond clear sight through tha
Jungle; there Is tLe native and pictur
esque tropical aid of things, th his
toric, th political.
And from all this, perhaps, th feeling
at first I on of great admiration. Not
so much "How have we done It?" as
How did w do it ao well?"
The order, the ceaaelesa activity, ar
In startling contrast to the enervating
environment. Above all. the car and
cleanliness. Even the swamps are clean
now. and the towna and habltatlona of
the men oath Job ara marvel of apot
' lessneea. From aa unhealthy waat
laad we hav made a desirable abiding
place. 6uch la th strongest "first im
pression" of th traveler who observe.
Teachers' Examination .Next Week.
ALBAXT. Or.. Dec. 1 1. (Special.)
The semi-annual tearhera' examination
In Linn County will be held In this
rlty next wek. beginning Wednesday
end concluding Saturday. Teats will
he condnried In sll branches for state,
county and primary certificate
after the business of my department
and do not wish to be drawn Into any
controversy respecting National poli
tics." Friends of President Taft entered
upon tha work of tha day thoroughly
confident that there would be no oppo
sition to Mr. New. It was not until
afternoon that they learned the pro
gramme arranged on Sunday was giving
dissatisfaction. Strangely enough th
opposition cam from members of tha
Southern State, the aectlon over which
the Administration was supposed to be
In undisputed control.
N Ve la Takes.
Southern member of the committee)
met ostensibly to take measures of
self-protection against any attempt In
the next convention to reduce their
representation, no vote' waa taken in
th Southern conference, but soon af
ter adjournment It wa whispered
about that Colonel New would be op
posed by a large number of commit
teemen who had hitherto been counted
for any man favored at th Whit
House.
Feveral members openly advocated
th retention by VIce-Chalrman John
S. Hill, of Maine, who will be elected
tomorrow a successor of ex-Chairman
Hitchcock, of the honor of directing
the convention arrangements.
It was reported that Mr. Hitchcock
was a party to this plan. On every
Ide Mr. Hitchcock' nam was cou
pled with the anti-New movement and
it waa probably because of that fact
that the Poatmaster-General issued his
statement.
Considerable feeling was manifest
late In th afternoon and the executive closed for the day contained three
committee of the National committee farmers, three merchants, a telephone
met to consider the nt'.uatlon.
era! policies toward business in im
portant matters, and, men responsible
declared, would give ability and effi
ciency to the country's business ma
chinery that would result In an era of
sound prosperity never before ap
proached. A denunciation of Lincoln Steffens
as a "tinkering Journalist and an as
sertion that business men must
enter politics If 'for nothing els than
to oppose the labor agitator, were mad
by Henry M. Wallls. of Wisconsin,
chairman of the state legislation com
mittee of th National Implement and
Vehicle Association.
Clvio and commercial organisations
from every part of th-United States
were represented at th congress.
PACKERS' JURY BOX FULL
Government Expected to Challenge
Several Men Today.
CHICAGO, Dec 11. Selection of a
Jury to try tha cases of 10 Chicago
meat packers charged with violating
th Sherman anti-trust law criminal
provision draggod' today. Although
th 11 veniremen In the Jury box at the
end of today's session apparently were
satisfactory to the packers. It seemed
probable that attorneys for the Gov
ernment would retire aeveral men on
peremptory challenges.
second venire of 60 was ordered to
report tomorrow. Only seven of the
original venire of 81 have not been
questioned. Tha, Jury box when court
Keaolatlom la Adopted
After much parleying th executive
committee adopted a resolution, nam
ing Mr. Hill, Charlea F. Brooker, of
Connecticut, and ex-Representative
Louden, of, Illinois, a a special com
mittee to go to -the White House to
ascertain the wishes of Prealdent Taft.
brooker and Louden were known -to
be la favor of New and some ot th
latter's opponents went so far aa to
aay that the committee had been
"stacked" against him. They said that
If Brooker and Louden urged th Pres
ident openly to espouse th cause of
New, no alternative wculd be left Mr.
Hill but to acquiesce.
Ralph Williams, who ha been con
ferring all day with committeemen
from other slate, declared tonight
that the National committee would In
terfere In no way with th Oregon plan
of selecting and instructing delegatea
to th National convention, but on th
other hand would raoognlxe the rights
of each state to select its delegates as
Its Legislature may prescribe.
ta tea Left te Csjoese.
The committee will hold that It has
no authority to dictate to th state In
thl matter. Neither will It undertake
to prescribe a Presidential primary In
all states, for It would hav no more
authority to do this than It would to
deny Oregon the right to select Its del
egate, in accordance with the state
law. These states having th Presl-
Inspector, a baker, a real estate agent.
an engineer, a cjerk and a tailor.
A aearch for prejudice against the
meat wholesalers disposed of many
prospective Juror.
FIRE VISITS LUNA PARK
Hard Fight Confine Properly Ioss
to $150,000.
NT7W YORK, Dec. 11. Fire which
for a tlm threatened to burn out the
heart of Luna Park, tha great show
place of Coney Island, raged for an
hour and a half late this afternoon,
but was confined to the Luna Park
restaurant and an amusement resort
adjoining.
Both these structures were practi
cally destroyed at a loss of $160,000.
Rank Recommended for Office.
OREQONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. Dec. 11 Senator Polndexter
today recommended the appointment of
Olenn M. Rank a receiver of the
Vancouver Land Office.
Upright planoa rented, 11 to It! per
month Chlckerlng, Kimball, Stelnway,
Kohler, and many other popular makes.
All rent paid can apply on purchase
price If desired. Kohler & Chase. 175
Washington St. Open day and night.
Congrea Advised to Prepare for
Future, and Meanwhile Pub
licity Is Urged to Check EvlU
of Security Issues.
WA8HINQTON, Dec 11. Tha report
of the Railroad Securities Commission
Is distinctly adverse to the bill con
sidered at the reoent session of Con
gress and designed to place issues of
railroad securities under Federal con
trol, and Prealdent Taft, in his letter
transmitting th report to Congress
today, said that b conourrad heartily
in its recommendations.
The commission's principal conclu
sions ar:
That any attempt by Congress to
adopt tha policy of Federal regulation
jo th exclusion of state regulation
would be premature. '
That for tha present, state authori
ties should make a concerted effort to
harmonise existing requirements.
That Congress should prepare for
the future by giving consideration to
a Federal incorporation act wnicn
ould permit Interstate railroads to
exchange their state chartera for Na
tional ones.
Conflicts Should Be "Lessened.
The commission takes the ground
that constitutional questions Involving
the scope and extent of Federal au
thorlty are unsettled and will remain
so for some time, and that while such
condition exists, to superimpose Fed
eral regulation upon state regulation
would add to the conflicts and com
plexities, which. In the public Interest,
should rather be diminished than In
creased. It says:
'Unless the constitutional power of
Congress to regulate securities of in
terstate railroads is definitely estab
Ushed as being exclusive of state con
trol, either the Federal Government
and the states will come to a general
understanding as to the principles to
be adopted In the control of security
Issues, or the railroad systems will be
given tha opportunity to exchange
their state charters for Federal ones.
'Until such exclusive jurisdiction can
be established, the creation of a sepa
rate administrative body subjecting the
railroads to a new system of concur
rent supervision. In addition to th
many old ones which now exist, does
not seem Just, expedient or economical."
Complete Publicity Is Remedy.
For the preeent, the Commission rec
ommends that complete publicity be re
quired to surround all Issues of securi
ties, and that any Interstate railroad
Issuing stocks and bonds be required
to furnish to the Interstate Com me roe
Commission a full statement of the de
tails of the issue, the purposes for
which the proceeds are to be used, and
an accounting for tho expenditures of
such proceeds. The reports adds:
If full publicity is given we shall
also lessen the fraudulent creation of
debt. It Is the degree of publicity
rather than the stringency of the law
which gives to the people any real pro
tection. A stringent law Inadequately
enforced and secretly evaded Is the
worst thing that can be possibly of
fered to the public, because It gtvs
color to claims which have no founda
tion in fact."
In determining the physical value of
railroads in relation to their securities
now outstanding the commission puts
aside as entirely out of the question
any attempt to ecale down, outs tan ding
securities on the ground that consti
tutional difficulties, public expediency,
and confidence in American railroad in
vestments would forbid it.
The commission feels that railroad
development has gone so far, and such
a volume of securities has already been
issued, that the only questions of real
Importance are whether it is desirable
for the Federal Government to regu
late the Issue of future securities, and.
If so, to what extent and In what man
ner. The complex relations between
securities already outstanding has
made it impossible to treat the question
of future regulation as it might have
been treated If those securities were
not already In existence.
Baa aa New Isaacs Not Advised.
In cases where it Is found that the
Issued securities exceed the physical
valuation, the commission is not in fa
vor of forbidding further Issue until
the deficiency is made 41 p. because the
principle, if generally applied, might
prevent railroads from securing capital
necessary for the service of a commu
nity. The commission believes that th
amount and face value of outstanding
securities have only an Indirect effect
upon the actual making of rates, and
that they should have little If any
weignt in tnelr regulation.
The commission does not approve of
any unqualified proposition to prohibit
ownership of stock of one road by an
other. To do ao, the report says, would
Involve too much disturbance of existing
relations, whatever may be the evils at
tendant upon such holdings. It Is rec
ommended, however, that wherever a
group of men or companies has bought
a majority of stock In a road, they may
be properly required to buy the minor
ity at the same price.
The distinguished group of investl
gatora named by the President was
composed of President Hadley, of Tale;
Fredrick N. Judeon, of St. Louis;
Frederick Strauss, of New York; Wal
ter I Fisher. Secretary of the Interior,
and Balthaser H. Meyer, a member of
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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And from our superb stock there are splendid opportunities, in that
the quality is always at its best, style and character of workmanship, of
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HIGH-CLASS LEATHER NOVELTIES
INSPECT OUR IVORY TOILETWARE
SHEFFIELD TRAYS IN THE LATEST DESIGNS
CHELSEA CLOCKS KEEP TIME ALL THE TIMfi
NEW BRONZE WRITING SETS JUST RECEIVED
NEW DESIGNS IN SILVER FLATWARE
ROOKWOODAMERICA'S FOREMOST POTTERY
TIFFANY FAVRILE GLASS Sole Agents for Oregon
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Diamond Importers, Manufacturing Jewelers, Opticians.
283-285 Washington St. Bet. 5th and 6th
Out-of-town Orders Solicited
Store Open Evenings Commencing Monday
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LACK OF FRESENT COMMERCE
BLOCKS IMPROVEMENT.
eral candidates for Counctlmen, but
otherwise there is no opposite of the
ticket named several weeks ago. The
Mayor Is not elected this year, L. J.
Simpson's term as Mayor not expiring
until next year.
Little Hope Entertained That Engl
neers' Board Will Reverse
Report Already Made.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
lngton. Dec IL Chamberlain declared
tonight that he had little hope that the
Board of Army Engineers wouia re
verse the local engineer on me pro
nosed imDrovements of the Columbia
River from Wenatchee to the moutn
of the Snake River.
The fact that commerce does not now
exist which would Justify, the heavy
exnanditure. he fears, will operate to.
the detriment of the project. Those
who BDoke before the Board today
pointed out that this stretch of river
furnishes the only available outlet for
a large territory In Eastern waaningr
ton not now accessible to railroads,
and that If the river were opened to
continuous navigation, commerce would
rapidly develop which would soon jus
tify anv exoendlture the Government
mlirht make.
Representative Humphrey, who urged
the Board to report favorably, said
that while the Priest Rapids project
was a seven million-dollar undertak
inr 15 000.000 of that would be ap
plied to the development of power and
thi tn time would repay In full the
cost of construction.
DEATH STRIKES A. H. ROWE
Aberdeen Resident. Victim of Apo
plexy 111 Many Tears.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Deo. 11- (Spe
.eici iinhui H. Rowe. asred 7J years,
died in the bathroom of his home. 109
East Market street, today. Mr. Rowe
was a resident of Aberdeen for ten
years. He had been an invalid for the
r,m mt 14 TMri.
Anoolexv was the Immediate cause
of death.
Bankers Would Be Treasurer.
"fAT?BTFTFTEL,D. Or.. Dec 11. (Spe
C!an Representatives of the two
banks Jn North Bend are candidates
for the office of City Treasurer. There
Is no salary attached to the office but
considerable deposits are controlled. C.
o Ti'i.., nrvaident of the Bank of
Oregon, who Is now Treasurer, Is a
..naMii ror re-erectlon and J. H.
rcvo. r-Mhier- of the First National
Bank Is onnoslng him. There are sev
Fm After a Good Tailor
OT a tailor -whose prices are away up in the
air. But one who makes a crackajacK dusi
ness suit for $30.00, or (55.00, or $60.00.
Who is he T Is he doing as much business ,
as he cares to do 1 If he is he doesn't want
to talk to me. I want to talk to that kind
of a tailor, but he must be prepared to
handle more business.
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