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T7TE MORXING OKEGONIAX. TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1912. ' PEOPLE STARTLED AT PHONE MERGER San Francisco at Loss to Un derstand Situation and to Know What to Do. ELECTION MADE USELESS llvtn Company Hi $240,000 Unnd With City to Hind CUu That It Should Not Sell Without Consent Suit .May L'nmr. 5AX fTSAr-:ro. Ca!.. March 1. t Special. Action of Bom ort Is pelted to b taken by the Board of Fuperrlr at Its regular meeting to day with -r.curd to the sale by the Flam Telephone Company of Its plant to th Pacific Telephone Company for $'.17.-.fl'''. the transaction having been ror-pietco! on lat Saturday. New of te Fale. corn In at a limn when a proposition to merit" the two companies liaI been before the Suprrlors for month, and when a special election had been railed for March to ub m!r the merger to the people, caused a enat!on. An yet the lecal member of the Foard of Supervisors are not certain Vim where the city " at" by the coup of the corporation. Tlie barkers of the, special election assert that they are solng ahead, although there. Is a aren eml belief t isl the election will be a useless expenditure of some t0.000. t'.leet tea t'aat Me Mfk4 1'resldent Carter, of the Klertion Commission, says there Is no way now liv which the election can be stopped. The municipal telephone antl-nieraer leacue declares that "t will ahead for the election of March which will t e the expression of the people on tie municipal ownership, if nothing -W"e hare not struck our colors." said Kdward ". Ford. one of the lvalues leaders. "We are irolna: ahead with a determination to win." One feature of the sale will be the elimination of the automatic Jiliona and the establishment of a uniform service In an Francisco and through out the northern part af the state. I'ndrr the terms of Ita franchise the Home Company put up a bond of U.O.. 00 for the faithful performance of the term of the franchise, one of which was that the company should not sell without permission of the city. t lly Mmr k Herrrr. Action Is likely by the city to re cover the :0.000. although the Home phono offlcla'.e declare that they will ficht to the Supreme Court of the Vni tcd States. If necessary. Alexander Vosrelsane. chairman of the public utilities committee of the Supervisor, said In discussing: the sale: If that Is all there Is left for us. and we have p-ood ground for so doing, t.icn we shall proceed with great cheer f ilness to bring ult for the surrender f thut 1:50.000. "I snail Introduce a resolution for an opinion from City Attorney Ixng on fie legal statue of the situation. We .an do nothing until that comes Into o-ir hands. With It before us we'll proceed to the solution of this problem. "So 1 r as I 'am concernrd I think t.i elimination of the eutra telephone scrvb-e is not a bad thing. I am not In f.ivor of the city owning a com peting company at this time. At this Mage no city should own tta own tele phone service, because the telephone In a city Is only a part of a great system which eitenda Into other states. "The telephones should not bo owned until the day comes when they can be taken over by the Federal Government. 1 am a thorough believer In the Fed eral ownership of both the telephone anj telegraph." TAFT SPEAKS IN BOSTON (Continued Krom First Pe. Inees of the respective parties. I have not bad opportunity critically to exam ine the new law. but I am sure It makes proper provision to meet the obvious requirements. es la Oae. "I am glad you have done this. This iiirstion of how delegates are to be selected to any political convention or how nominee are to be solected by a party originally was a matter merely of voluntary and party adjustment, but so Important to the public at large did the character of the candidates to be selected by each party become that the stato properly has Interfered, so as to throw safeguards around the exer cise by all those who belong to a party of their privilege to have a voice In the choice of their party candidates. "I am not going to discuss In detail the question of direct primary elections their uses and abuses. I think every on will admit, however. In order that ti er may accomplish the good they are Intended to accomplish that they should be safeguarded by effective provisions as to the party eligibility of voters who participate In them, and by penal provisions socurlng conformity to rules of such eligibility and the honoot cast ing and counting of the ballot. "I do not hesitate to say that In my Judgment a voluntary primary outside the law. known by Its Informal char acter as a soap box' primary. Is wore than none, for It gives full opportunity to the Ineligible electors of the other party to cast unfair vole, and without tl.e sanction and safeguard of penal provisions In respect to casting and counting the ballots It la an open ave nuo for fraud and violence. Pwaalar C'oatrol eceaaary. "It Is eminently appropriate that In every ejection, and In the discussion of all Issueei that affect the republic, we should discuss and hoar much of the Pp; ax r will and of the rights of the people. This Is a government baaed on popular control. Wo all concede that the operations of elections and the operations of gov ernment are not perfect, and some times are subject to a corrupt Influ ence and control, and that It Is the part of patriotism to remove, as far as possible, the obstacles which prevent honest primaries, honest elections and the honest administration of the Gov ernment In the Interest of tha people. "But the continued Iteration and re iteration of the proposition. Iet the people role.' If it has any significance at ail and Is Intended otherwise than to flatter the people. Is Intended to be a reflection on the Government that wa have had down to the present time. "Now, in spite of all the corruption. In spite of all the machine politics. In spite of every defect In the operation of our Government tliat ran be pointed out. I do not hesitate to say thnt the history of the last 13 years shows that the propionate ruled. aprevesarat ( He Made. "They may have been defeated at times, by corrupt and corrupting In fluences; Congresses and Legislature may have been halted by subterranean methods In carrying out what the peo ple desire, but In the end. under our present Constitution and our present laws, we have had a really popular government. I don't mean to say that we can not make It better: I don't mean to say that we may not remove some obstacles by which corruption or machine meth ods may be mlnlmlxed. but what I do say Is that the cry that the people do not rule and are not In control, or as intimation to that effect, does not do justice to the American people or their history. Certainly there Is nothing In the growth of this country, from the adoption of the Constitution until now or within the last 10 or 30 years, that Justifies any attack upon our structure of government or sapping of the foundations that have stood so firmly and upon which our whole popular civ ilization has been reared. "The occasion for these remarks la the attack on our Judiciary and the proposal by Judicial recall, or recall of Judicial decisions, to destroy Its Inde pendence, and thus to take away from the arch of government the keystone. "f deny that there Is In tho decisions or the character of toe Judges or the result of litigation that which Justi fies such a radical Innovation. I am not unmindful of the necessity for Ju dlcial reform, but that depends not upon changing the character of the Judges, but upon the change of pro cedure, the expedition of Judgments and the reduction of tho expense of litigation. Modera rolltsrs W (. "One easily can discover a tendency In modern politics to exalt above the written law and aoove tho written con stitution what Is called "popular wllL' as If that were a higher law to which we must all aamlt allegiance by obey ing It and Ignore or transgress statu tory and constitutional limitations. This heresy la not exactly In the form of an assertion that Judges and others are to Ignore statutes and con stitutions because of a conflicting pop- ural will, but It la the mure Insidious proposition that plain construction of the atatute or constitution Is to bo de feated and a strained and otherwise Impossible construction put on the l.iiiKuage of the statute or constitution. In deference to what is supposed to be the popular wilt" The President here quoted a Western Governor, whom he did nut name, who had declared "whatever Is right Is con stitutional." and who had tnken Lin coln's "The life of this Nation Is great er than any constitution," to sustain bis view. "It Is Impossible to escape the mean ing of such a view." said the President, "and that la that the plain construction of the Constitution is to be perverted because It Is thought the people at present would prefer not to be subject to the limitation contained in the Con stitution lawfully adopted. The quoted words of Lincoln have here no applica tion. It Is not true that 'whatever la right la Constitutional.' unless the dec laration of right Is contained In the Constitution, or la forbidden by It." J .ate In the afternoon the 'resident received the Harvard Taft Club at his hotel, where ho was Joined by his son. a student at Harvard. SPEECH IS I.UTS ANSWER ItrpmkontaUtc McKlnloy Discusses Preldonl"s. Boston I'ttcratu.'cs. WASHINGTON, March 18. Represen tatlce McKlnley. director of President Taft'a campaign for re-nomlnatlon, suld tonight that President Taft's, pro nouncement upon Presidential pri maries, mode in Boston today, con stituted the answer of the Taft forces to the "challenge" of Senator I'lxon. manager of the Roosevelt campaign. Jle said that Inadequate state laws would open the door of the Republican primaries to Democrats and "nullify the will of the Republican masses." PACKERS ASK DISCHARGE CHICAGO MEAT DEALERS PIT . NO WITNESSES ON STAND. Attorneys) for Government Declare Judge Carpenter Will Give Ade quate Sentence. CHICAGO. March 18. "Declare the ten Chicago meatpackers guilty: we are satisfied Judge Carpenter will give them an adequate acntence." This in brief was the answer today of the Government attorneys who prosecuted the packers under the crim inal provisions of the Sherman antN trust law. to the meat wholesalers' long arguments for a discharge of tho de fendant. without submitting the case to a Jury. Special Counsel Kheean thus con cluded the Government's opening ad dress to the Jury. The packers called no witnesses to the stand. George T. Buckingham, an attorney representing the Swift group of de fendants, will open the packers' ap peal to the Jury tomorrow. DIEHM MUCH-WANTED MAN Oakland Prisoner Sought by Police All Over Continent. OAKLAND. Cal.. March IS. It was learned here todsy that Herman Dlehm. alias Archie Clark, captured last night after a battle with the police, is wanted In New Westminster. U. C. for sup posed complicity In the robbery of the Bank of Montreal last September, and In New York, on a charge of having aided In the robbery of the Postoffice at Richmond. Ya. of $3o.000. Dlehm was aj-rested on Information from Chi cago, charging him with having mur dered Ray Corbett on January I. According to the police and the de tectives who trailed IMehm to Oakland, be Is the third of the trio which robbed the New Westminster bank, James Mc Narrmra. a San Kranrlso saloonnian, previously having been arrested in New York. The charge ef complicity In the Richmond robbery In brought by police inspectors at New York. Dlehm waa caught after a chase of several blocks, when he waa overtaken by a policeman and clubbei Into submission. I lower Hotel. Special table d'hote (after the theater) suppers are an innovation that will please theater patrons. Served In cafe, main floor. 10 P. M. to 1 A. M. Music by ladiea' orchestra. 2 FEDERAL FORCES SURRENDER ARMS Outnumbered, Madero Soldiers Give Themseles Up to Insurrectos. SANCHEZ TO BE ATTACKED RoJa Will Head Rebel Army of 500 That Will Attempt to AVrest Im portant Town of Ojlnaga IVom Government Men. CTTIHCAHCA. Mex.. March 1 S. Rath er than sacrifice more live in tho un equal contest. Major Adolfo Ramirez, commanding tho detachmrnt of feder als near Baca, which twice ha. fought the rebel forces tinder Colonel toque Gomex. surrendered today. The prisoners Include Captains Jose Granados, Juan .Monroy, Alfonso Car rlllo Gallndo. and Jose R. Rangel, I.ldefnnso Seldana. and Margarlto Blan co. Lieutenant Francisco Yelei and Antonio Sanchex and 137 men. It Ik expected the rebel army will push on to Parral tonight or tomorrow. OUnacs, Is the next port of entry for which the rebel army will fight. To General Antonio RoJat. lately relieved from command at Juarez by Colonel Tascuel Oroxco. father of the general In command, will bo given tho responsi bility of attempting to wrest the town from Colonel Jose de la Crux Sanchex. RoJas will head at least 500 men. This morning the remnant of the federal force that evacuated Sunta Rosalia and Jlmtnez upon the advance of General Inez Salazar's column, sur rendered. General Salasar was ordered to send the raptured officers and men to Chi huahua. Orozro said that they would be given an opportunity to Join the rebel army, but that no attempt would be made to coerco them. WAR SHIPMENTS HELD IP President Tnfl's Proclamation Be ginning to Have Effect. WASHINGTON. March 18. President Taft's proclamation prohibiting ex portation of arms to Mexico has begun to show effect. Tho War Department's dispatches today told of many shipments of guns and ammunition held by customs officers. SUPREME COURT BLAMED Vndrrnoiid Says Decision on Income Tax Caused CnrcM. WASHINGTON. March IS. Oscar W. Underwood. Democratic floor leader, supporting the proponed excise, tax bill in the House today, charged that the Supreme Court, by its annulment of the Income tax In 1893. waa responsible for the growth of socialism In the Uni ted States. The pending measure, which probably wlll pass the House tomorrow. Is ex pected to raise between $50,000,000 and 8tiO.ono.000 a year for the Government. "When the Government hod the right to tax wealth." sa'd Mr. Underwood, "we did ' not hear tho socialistic cry of those less able to bear the burden of taxation. The spirit of unrest came when the Supreme Court abandoned Its policy of 100 years and. five Jus tices to four, said In effect to Con gress tliat great wealth was to be exempted from taxation." UTAH ROAD INCORPORATES Oregon Short Line Officials at Head of New Organization. SALT LAKE CITY. March 18. With Salt Lake City ea its headquarters and Oregon Short Line officials as Its of ficers, the San Francisco & Portland Steamship Company was Incorporated In Utah today. It has held its charter from California and the articles filed here provide that meetings may be held in San Francisco, "if deemed ex pedient." The capital stock of 5000 1100 shares remains the same. W. H. Bancroft, vice-president and general manager of the Oregon Short Line, appears as president of the steamship company; George H. Smith, as vice-president; K. H. Knickerbocker, secretary; C. If. Lenklnson, . treasurer, and C. J. McKnltt. auditor. The Union Pacific and Short Line railroads are Incorporated In this state and tne transfer of the steamship allegiance Is regarded as a move to unify the charters and administration of the llarrlman transportation system. SEVEN PASSENGERS PERISH Death Overtake Company as They Are About to Be Rescued. LONDON. March. IS. Seven passen gers and three Europeans of the crew of the Peninsular L. Oriental steamship Oceana were drowned while their res cue was being attempted after the col lision in the English Channel of that vessel on Saturday with the German bark Plsagua. which was afterward taken Into Dover In a sinking condi tion. The Peninsular & Oriental Company today said that several Lascars belong ing to the crew also were drowned. . STATE CHARGE DISMISSED Government to Pros Complaint or Looting Bank of $149,000. POMONA. Cal., March 18. The state's complaint against Earl Standard, the bookkeeper charged with having looted the American National Bank of this city of 1149.000, waa dismissed today when hts case was called before a Jus tice of the Peace. That action Indicated that the Fed eral officials at Los Angelew would proceed alone In the prosecution of the defendant. ELK FIGHTS GAME WARDEN Bljr Stick I Cued to Drive "Teddy" Into Cnge. JOSEPH. Or.. March 1 $. Special.) Only after two hours work on the part of Game Warden Flnley and his assistants was it possible to load "Teddy Roosevelt." the big bull" Klk. into a crate. "Teddy" acts as leader of the herd now being transferred from the Jackxon Hole country in Wyoming to the Oregon state reserve. When the 16 elk arrived here it was necessary to load them into crates before hauling the animals on wagons anil sleds to the reserve 50 miles north, and "Teddy" absolutely refused to be loaded until extreme measures wore employed. Tho big animal became as vicious as a lion at bay, and the fight between him and half a dozen men with long sharp sticks lasted two hours before he was finally forced Into his crate, where he snorted and bellowed like a wounded buffalo. This big fellow has shown an ugly disposition ever since leaving his native haunts in the Rocky Mountains, and no doubt he will furnish some high-class entertainment for the other three bulls when they are turned loose In the reserve, as a means of "getting even." They are a magnificent bunch of ani mals and every citizen of the state has reason -to feci proud that these monarchs of the forest have been se cured for the state reserve. In honor of the event, the Joseph Rod and Gun Club gave a magnificent banquet at the Mitchell Hotel. Covers were laid for 1.6. ..After the banquet a number of in torestlng,. speeches were made on the subject of game and flsli their propa gation and the best means to protect them. Tho principal speech of the evening was made by Mr. Unley. Mr. Flnley promises to furnish all tb . voung trout, bass and other young ffsli that are wanted to restock our lake. and rivers, and will see that a proper tish ladder Is placed in the dam at Mlnnam. Among the prominent outsldo visitors present were: Fish Commissioner Craig, of Portland: K. F. Averill, of Tendleton. head of the state game de partment; M. K. Boatman, of Portland; Jack TcHre and Jack Gulling, promi nent Klks of I .a Grande. Messrs. Flnley. Craic and Deputy Game Warden Leffcl are accompany ing the elks to the reserve. CRUISERS SAIL FOR EAST TARGET PRACTICE TO BE HELD IN PHILIPPINE WATERS. Naval Anthorlties Say Ships Arc Needed Near Seat of Trouble 'if Anything Should Happen." WASHINGTON. March 18. The armored rrulsers California, South Dakota and Colorado, under Rear-Admiral Suther land, sailed today from Honolulu for the Philippines. They should arrive at Olongapo April 1, unless diverted to some point on the China coast. Notwithstanding tho international sig nificance that Is attached to this sud den and considerable reinforcement of the American Asiatic fleet, the naval officials say the purpose of the cruise la to enable the vessels to dock at the navel station in Olongapo and to hold their Spring target practice In Philip pine waters. It Is admitted that the practice might be held off the Southern Cali fornia coast, but under those circum stances tlie cruisers would be a long way off from the seat of trouble "If anything should happen in the Far East." CANADIAN LADS TO DRILL -10,000 Schoolboys Will Be Trained as Espcrt Riflemen. OTTAWA, Ontario. March 18. In a memorandum announcing that 40.000 Canadian cadets will start training this year. Colonel Sam Hughes. Minister of Militia, expresses the, hope that in a few years every boy in Canada will be proficient In drill and calisthenics and be a perfect rifle shot Under the plan of organization re cently outlined school Inspectors and teachers will receive returns from every scctlon of Canada from boys from 12 to 16 years of age who desire to attend camp and be trained for one week in July or August. The schools of a town ship or similar unit will constitute a company. Companies from each county will make up a regiment or brigade tinder the name of the homo county. THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE U. S. 155 BROADWAY, NEW YORK ' The 52nd Annual Report of the Equitable Society, embodying its Financial Statement, and full details regarding its progress during the year 1911, will be sent to any address on application. This Statement shows that the interest rate is higher and the expense rate lower than for the previous year. Increases are shown in Premium Income, Total Income and other important items including the following: ASSETS, DECEMBER 31, 111 $ 'B06,4t 6,8 1 4 POLICY FUND (OR RESERVE) 4 1,1 66,531 AND OTHER LIABILITIES 8,492,30 419,658,825 SURPLU8 (INCLUDING DEFERRED-DIVIDEND FUND) 86,757,989 NEW INSURANCE, 1911 125,053,698 OUTSTANDING INSURANCE DECEMBER SI, 1011. 1,375,441,460 PAID TO POLICYHOLDERS IN 1011 64,921,301 REFI ND8 (OR DIVIDENDS) TO POLICYHOLDERS 111 12,367,227 Increases $1 1,700,891 10,038,361 1 ,662.530 13,672,673 28,282,768 3,055,786 '! 1 ,792,070 Of the Society's domestic Death Claims paid during the year nearly 99 were paid within 24 hours after receipt of complete "proofs of death." Its policies are simple, direct, and liberal, and are issued in great variety, for the protection of individuals, families, partners, corporations, and the employes of business organizations. Par ticulars will be sent on request. EDGAR W. SMITH, Agency Manager, sf u-r-Ks"--? Oregonian Bid, Portland, Oregon. PRESIDENT. L0R1MER FILES BRIEF CIIKDIBILITY OP WITNESSES IX CASE ATTACKED. Defense Tells Special Senate Com mittee Senator Is Object of Conspiracy. WASHINGTON. March 18. Attacks unon the credibility of witnesses, as sertions that no proof of any corrup tion fund in connection with Senator Lorlmer's election had been shown at the Senate investigation and charges of conspiracy on the part of the Chi cago Tribune to force Senator Lorimcr out of public life, fill a brief in Sena tor Lorimer s defense rued toaay wun tho special Senate committee which has his case. The brief, supplementing one on the legal points filed recently, contends that the basis of the charges against Lorimer, "though intangible and irre sponsibly made," is that votes were cast for him as the result of bribery of members of the Illinois Legislature. Four votes were attacked, those of Charles White, who sold the Chicago Tribune a story that he had been bribed for $1000 to vote for Lorimer; H. J. C. Beckemeyer, indicted by the Cook County grand jury on other mat ters than the Lorimer case; Michael Link and Daniel V. Holstlaw. The brief says Beckemeyer, Link and Holtslaw were given immunity from punishment for offenses other than in the Lorimer case as a reward for as serting they had received money for voMns for Lorimer, though all three swore at other times that their votes were, not procured by bribery. As to White, counsel argued, no one vouchod for his credibility. NATION'S LEARNING GROWS Illiteracy in United States De creases in Ten Years. WASHINGTON, March 18. A prelim inary census statement issued by Di rector Durand shows that In 1910 there were 3.517,606 Illiterates, unable to read or write, among the 71.580,270 per. sons 10 years of age or over in the T'nited States. This was a reduction of from 10.7 per cent to 7.7 per cent since 1900. The native born whites, constituting 75 per cent of the entire' population, had only 3 per cent of illiterates; foreign born had 12-8 per cent and colored per sons 00.5 per cent. Tho percentage of illiterates among native born whites 10 years ago was 4.6. the colored per centage 44.5 and that the foreign born whites 12.9, or a slight increase over the percentage In 1900. WINNIPEG RAILWAY SOLD Choatc and .Morgan Interests Tako Electric Iiinc for $30,000,000. WINNIPEG, Man., March IS. Joseph. Choate, Jr., of New York, and J. 1 Morgan's representative arrived in Winnipeg this afternoon to take over the Winnipeg Electric Railway and Its interests at a cost of $30,000,000. Girl Gets $25,000 for Jilt. CHICAGO. March 18. Miss Mary Lonergan, an artist of Kankakee, I1L, obtained a verdict of $25,000 today against Dr. Daniel B. 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