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STRATEGY OF WOOL
BILL FAVORS TAR
President's Position Is
Much Strengthened
INSURGENTS ARE IN QUANDARY
Insincerity of Democratic Po
sition Grows Plainer. .
BOARD'S ANALYSIS IGNORED
Reporting of Old Bill. Once Vetoed.
Evidence of Itral Desire to Re
tain Schedule K of Prc
ent Tariff Law.
HARRT J. BROWN.
OREGONIAN NEWS BL'RKAU, Wash
ington. April 4 President Taft and
his friend are entirely satisfied with
the political situation which comes
about through the sctlon of the Demo
cratic House In standing by its wool
bill of last session. The Tresldent felt
that the country sustained his veto of
the compromise wool bill last Su-nmer
and if he is correct In that analysis,
ths country will sustain him ajaln
In the event the Senate, by a combina
tion of Lxrnocrats and insurgents,
passes the House wool bill or any
measure approaching It in terms.
When the flrst Underwood wool bill
was p.vcd the- House had no report
from the tariff board on the wool
schedule. But for the past four
months a complete report of the tariff
board 1ms been In the bands of the,
ways and means committee and In
stead of making the slightest pretense
at studying that report, -.he ways and,
means committee reported, out Its old
"pop-Kun" bill, which it knew at the
time would not receive Presidential
approval.
S yaWttate Will Be Offered.
What will happen to the wool bMl In
the Senate Is not now known. A sub
stitute for the House blU will be of
fered, drawn npon lines that conform
to the findings of the tariff board.
Whether this bill mill pass or whether
there will be enough Insurgents willing
to Ignore the tariff board and support
the democratic bill. Is yet to be de
termined. The tariff board -a-aa created
largely by the votes of the Democrat
and Insurgents and If the Insurants
Ignore the report of that board they
will be repudiating their own votes.
When Mr. 1'nderwood reported his
wool bill for the second time he knew
full well that It would not become a
law. Kven If it passed the Senate, ha
knew that It would be vetoed by the
President. He has undertaken to ex
plain why he Ignored the report of the
board and his explanations will need
considerable further explaining before
being accepted.
Taft'a PoaltlM Mreaataeaed
There has been no chmire In condi
tions flVctlng the wool tariff since the
special session last Su-nmer. except
that the tariff board lias submitted Its
report. When the President last
August vetoed tha Democratic wool
bill, ha relied npon his own Judgment
that the 2 per cent duty on raw wool
wa unjustifiably low. Today he not
nlv has his o n Judgment, but the
report of the tariff board, whlcn shows
that this rate is too low to be pro
tective. So. as a matter of fact tha
Tresldent is stronger In his position
now than he was last Autum.
When the Democrats first Introduced
their wool bill at the special session,
there was some hope that it might be
signed by the President, even though
be did not approve it. It was not
known until the last thing that the bill
was to be vetoed. But when Mr. tn-derwoo-1
reintroduced the bill, he had
full warning In advance that hi bill
would be rejected by the President and
could not become a law.
The fact that the House ways and
means committee, backed by the Dem
ocratic House, has seen fit to reintro
duce the old wool bill, knowing that it
could not pass, places the Democrats In
a position where tt will be said that
they did not want a revision of the
wool tariff and are merely following a
policy which they know will resi.lt In
retaining schedule K of the present
tariff, on the statute books for another
yesr at least. If the Senate adopts the
pending Democratic bill.
II.OX FINDS ItlXXIXG LOW
New Jersey Kvernor Says Campaign
Is Bankrupt Again.
WASHINGTON. April I. Governor
Wilson came to Washington today on
his way West and spent several hours
In conference with political managers.
Senators and Representatives.
"Our campaign Is now depending
upon friends and their brains." said
Governor Wilson. "We have no money.
Our campaign has been bankrupt four
limes. Including the present. It Is to
confer with my friends in the two
Houses of Congress that I am here."
Wll-on Withdraws as Populist.
LINCOLN. Neb, April 4. Woodrow
Wilson has written Secretary of State
ait. requesting that his name ba
withdrawn from the Populist ballot, as
a candidate for the preferential vote at
i he primaries. Admirers of the New
Jersey Governor had filed him as boto
Wmocratlc and Populist candidate.
NOBLEMAN'S BILL
IS CUT BY COURT
JCPC.K DECIDES MOXTEXEGRAN
PHIXCK NEEDN'T PAY $542.
Defendant In Suit Is Member of
Royal House Who Slarrled Weal
thy San Francisco Woman.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 4. (Spe
cial.) Mllos M. Gopcevic. scion of the
reigning house of Montenero and
brother of Roxo Gopcevic. heir ap
parent to the throne of Bulgaria, who
ten years ago bcame the husband of
Mrs. Harriet Floyd, a wealthy society
matron when he was a grlpman in the
employ of the California Car Company,
will not have to pay Dr. Walter H.
Fearn 110 an hour for 14 hours of each
day for 19 days when attending his
sick brother. Redar.
In the Superior Court today Jurig
Seawell. In deciding the suit of Dr.
Fcarn to collect such S4 2.50. alleged
to be due the physician for the service,
gave Judgment against the nobleman
for 480. holding that this Is the vslue
of service) performed by Dr. Fearn. less
a few hundred admitted by the phy
sician to have been paid on account.
Gopcevic Is now engaged In the real
estate business.
"LOUD SOCK" DAY IS HERE
Lincoln High School Hoys to Appear
in Brilliant Hosiery.
Sisters having brothers attending Lin
coln High School will be found trying
to hide all their favorite pairs of hose,
for the annual 'loud sock" day has ar
rived at Lincoln High, and nothing
having any semblance to variety or
color other than ordinary will be safe
today.
Many of the students have been
making special brand of socks, taking
a long green or blue or red pair, the
longer the better, upon which they
have painted or sewed large patches of
some color in direct contrast to the
main body of the hose.
Some have been searching the de
partment stores for the cream of varie
gated socks, and have been fortunate
enough to find something startling, but
they refuse to divulge the exact nature
of their discoveries.
One admitted yesterday that he had
found something startllngly original.
In tha nature of shiny green stockings
with long red serpent-like streaks
down the full length.
GILL TO ASK RECOUNT SOON
Proceeding Over Seattle Mayoralty
Election to Be Filed.
SEATTLE, Wash, April 4. (Special.)
Awaiting only the finishing touches,
the complaint in the proceedings de
signed to bring about a recount of the
votes cast in the late municipal elec
tion for Mayor of Seattle will be filed
within a few days. George F. Van
Dever and Brightman & Tennant are
the attorneys representing II. C. Gill
and George F. Cotterlll. Mayor, will be
made the defendant.
The proceedings, says Mr. Tennant,
are the same as in any ordinary civil
case and an entire recount of ballots
is asked.
Some f the campaign workers for
Mayor Cotterlll profess to be uneasy
over the alleged unprotected condition
of the ballot boxes. One of the cam
paign managers said yesterday that
the boxes were ina room where a cat
might be thrown through the wall
without Injuring the cat.
MOTHERS' DAY SCHEDULED
Annual Proclamation Issued by Ok
lahoma tvcnior' Daughter.
OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla, April 4.
Tha most unusual proclamation that
ever appeared In Oklahoma la that
written by Miss Lorena Cruce, a daugh
ter of Governor Cruce. calling upon the
people of the state to observe "moth
ers" day," M-iy 11. It was written at
the suggestion of the Governor. ,
As Miss Cruce's mother Is dead. Miss
Cruce. although but 1 years of age.
Is "tha first lady of the land" In Okla
homa. The proclamation asks that
"each citixen, whether old or young,
rich or poor, happy or sorrowful, re
member her whose love passeth human
understanding, and. remembering, man
If est to the world love and gratitude
by wearing a white carnation In honor
of the dearest of all mothers, and
wearing It. think of her and love her."
WOMEN TO GUARD POLLS
Suffragists Will Be at Every Voting-
Place in Chicago Tuesday.
CHICAGO. April 4. Chicago's polls
will be "manned" by woman suffra
gists at the state primary election
next Tuesday. There will be a woman
watcher at each of the 1400 polling
places.
This was made possible today when
County Judge Owens directed the elec
tion commissioners to allow women to
watch the count of- the vote on the
suffrage proposition. April 9.
BANKS SET NEW RECORD
J Clearings for Day In Portland Total
$3,500,898.
Bank clearings in Portland yesterday
aggregated I3.H90.J98. th highest fig
ure on record. The previous record
was !3.:S9.4S4. on April 19. 1911.
This remarkable showing is due In
part to the transfer of funds from the
Sheriff to the, County Treasurer follow
ing tha close of tha tax collection per
iod, but the great bulk of the business
represented the-reirolar volume of trade,
which constantly la grow lea.
FLOODS GIVE NO
RELENTING
SIGHS
Raging Mississippi In
creases Its Force.
LEYEES STRAINED TO LIMIT
Disease Lurks in Polluted
Water Supply in Memphis
RELIEF REACHES HICKMAN
Total Death List Reaches Ten When
Young Woman and Negro Aro
Drowned Traffic on tit reams
Practically at Standstill.
ST I.OT-IS Anrll 4. No sign of abate-
ment of the flood that for days has
rfA.it nr threatened disaster all along
the banks of the Mississippi River from
St. Louis to Arkansas points was appar
ent inniiht Instead the water came
from the north In ever-Increasing vol
ume, along. with predictions that more
would follow.
Th rlvr hAa come within two-tenths
of a foot of what the Memphis weather
enrecssier has termed the deadline 44
feet. In his opinion the levees will go
when the pressure repressea oy mat
n,,h u t i- is reached. A stage of 45
feet, ten feet above the danger line. Is
predicted. Weak spots have developed
at Mound City, Ark- and at the Reel-
foot levee, west of Hickman, Ky.
efforts Are Redoubled,
xn ainnr the river shifts of men en
gaged In reinforcing the levees wera
urged to redoubled efforts, while behind
the llkes those who had not obeyed the
rninr and fled gathered ui) or se
cured their movable property and has
tened to the mils.
Vnmnrnui unconfirmed reports of
danger to Ohio levees not designed to
withstand an unheard-of flood in
creased.
Th Hnv hmttrht relief in the shape
of provisions and tents to the S500 refu
gees at Hickman, Ky. Governor Har
mon, of Ohio, yesterday offered more
tents for the Tennessee and Kentucky
sufferers. '
Water Supply Polluted.
At Menmhia. where no less than a
doxen first-class steamboats are tied up.
the flooding of the whole low-iying
north section, it is feared, has polluted
the water supply. The health authori
ties have warned the residents of the
closed-in section to boll their drinking
water as a preventive measure.
The death list has reached ten. At
Burksvllle. Ky.. .Miss Alexander was
drowned when a boat capslxed in the
overflowed section of Red River. A
negro was drowned at New Madrid. Mo.
One of the phases of the Hood Is the
tying up of practically all traffic, not
(Conc luded oo Ps S. )
t HELPING HIM OVER
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MAN, 75, HELD UP;
WIFE, 72, RESCUES
AGED WOMAN'S ACT SAVES
MOVEY IN STORE TILL.
Though Would-Be Robber Points
Revolver at Husband, Spouse
Rushes and Holdup i'leen.
Mrs. Thomas Howell, aged 72 years,
came to the aid of her 75-year-old hus
band last night, when two men held
him up in his store at 598 Hood street,
and by the vigor of her attack fright
ened both the holdup men away, saving
the contents of the till of the store.
One of the robbers carried a revolver.
One of the men stood outsldo the
door, while the smaller of the two, car
rying a revolver, entered. Howell, who
was In front of the store, is partially
blind and could npt at first understand
what waa wanted when the robber held
the gun In front of him and command
ed him to throw up his hands. He
screamed for help.
Mrs. Howell, who was sitting in the
room in the rear of the store, where
the old couple live, ran in at his shouts.
When she saw the robber with his
gun pointed at her husband, she ran
at the robber. He hastily put down
the gun and started for the door. There,
Joined by his companion and pursued
by the aged angry woman, ho made
his escape In the darkness.
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CLUB WOMEN ASK BALLOT
McMlnnviUe Civic Improvement Or
ganization Adopts Resolution.
McMINNVILLE. Or., April 4. (Spe
cial.) The following resolution was
passed unanimously by the Civic Im
provement Club of McMinnville at its
meeting this afternoon:
"Whereas. Justice demands that wo
men should be. raised from the politi
cal level of the Idiot, the lunatic, and
the felon, by granting the, right of the
ballot, and.
"Whereas, Experience has proved
that in countries and states where this
right. has been given to women they
have exercised it intelligently and for
the good of the commonwealth; there
fore bo It
"Resolved, That the Civic Improve
ment Club of McMinnville, Or., unites
with other organizations of women in
petitioning the men of Oregon to place
our state In line with the progressive
states of the West by granting to her
women the power of the ballot at the
next general election."
This club has a membership of 100
McMinnville women and by their own
efforts cleared 250 out of their so
ciety circus programme and supper.
This i :oney will all be applied for new
books for the Publle Library..
SPOKANE WILL AID POOR
Vacant Lots to Be Ploughed and
Rent Donated.
SPOKANE, Wash.. April 4. To en
able the poor to aid themselves in
securing a food supply, the Spokane
City Council has made arangements for
the free plowing of back yards and
vacant lots for those who wish to
raise vegetables and grain.
Several hundred vacant lots will be
donated by real estate dealers for the
gardens.
REBELS IN JOINT
ATTACK
PARRAL
Federals, Within Walls,
Defending Town.
FIERCE FIRE IS EXCHANGED
Insurrectos Commands Sur
rounding Maderistas.
0R0ZC0 PREDICTS VICTORY
Leader or Revolution Declares City
Will Be His Within 2 4 Hours.
Then Jlove Against Torreon
Will Be Inaugurated.
JIMENEZ. Mex.. April 4. The fed
eral defenders of Parral again, are
within Its adobe walls, sustaining the
fire of the reinforced rebels.
Throughout yesterday afternoon
there was fighting near Baca, 20
miles distant, between the rebel rear
guard, under Major Quevada, and the
federals who pursued Campa from
Parral Tuesday to that point.
During the night General, Salazar's
reinforcements arrived and the fed
erals retired to their base. General
Luis Fernandes, another rebel leader,
arrived today and preparations to take
the town' began in earnest, Salazar em
barking on a flanking movement, while
Major Quevada and General Fernandez
faced the enemy on the front.
Oroxco declared that within 24 hours
the city would be his. Until this has
been accomplished, however, it will be
Impossible to move against Torreon.
The region south of Escalon, which
marks the southern limit of rebel con
trol, la being watched closely by scouts.
General Orosco declares that the
movements of General Huerta, the field
marshal of the federal northern army,
are known, and that when he ap
proaches Escalon the rebels will at
tack. While he remains south of there
the rebels will direct their main efforts
to the capture of Parral.
REBELS' SURPRISE COMPLETE
Villa Almost Envelops Attackers,
and Routs Them.
WITH GENERAL CAMPA'S LIBERAL
ARMT. NEAR PARRAL. Mexico, April
2, (by courier to El Paso. Tex., April
4.) The defeat of General Campa In
his attack on Parral today was a rout.
The federal defenders of the city had
been reinforced, and all but surrounded
the rebel command, which did well to
escape destruction.
When Campa had planted his rapld
firers and his field mortars he called up
the Mayor of Parral by telephone and
demanded the surrender of the city.
The Mayor refused. The roofs of two
(Concluded on Paga 7.)
WOMEN MAY FILL
WIRELESS POSTS
MEX OPERATORS HELD TO BE
UNRELIABLE.
Two Pretty Stenographers Now Be
ing Trained for Service on
Puget Sound Boats.
SEATTLE. Wash., April 4. (Special.)
Young women, in neat tailored blue
uniforms, and wearing caps trimmed
In gold lace, will grace the vessels
of the North Pacific as wireless operat
ors, if the plans of R. H. Armstrong,
general manager of the United Wire
less TelegTaph Company and his chief
operator, C. B. Cooper, carry.
Men as wireless operators in many
cases are unsatisfactory, are not on
hand at sailing time, have to be repri
manded for misconduct at sea and
neglect to keep their apparatus in good
condition, in the opinion of Mr. Arm
strong, and he has hit on a plan to
eradicate the evil. Today he decided
to try an experiment and if it is suc
cessful men wireless operators, at least
on the vessels of Puget Sound, will be
succeeded by members of the gentler
sex.
For the experiment. Miss Mable Kelso
and Miss S. Trough, two comely young
women who are expert stenographers
and have some knowledge of telegra
phy, were placed in charge of Chief Op
erator Cooper, to be given a thorough
training.
After the two young women had be
gun the task of mastering wireless tel
egraphy, Mr. Cooper encountered his
first difficulty. All wireless operators
are required to wear uniforms. It was
a difficult problem, but Mr. Cooper soon
mastered it. He decided that the young
women shall wear a neat tailored uni
form and closely fitting jackets with
two rows of brass buttons. The ques
tion of a suitable cap was soon an
swered and Mr. Cooper decided to adopt
a blue cap with just enough gold lace
to make ( attractive.
SEARCH FOR CHILD ENDS
Canadian Finds Unbalanced Surso
and Tot She Kidnaped.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., April 4.
(Special.) After a chase covering a
period of 10 months, during which he
traveled his quarry through Marys
ville and other California cities, Ter
rence McGovern today found here Mrs.
Mary Sanders, and his child, which the
Sanders woman had kidnaped from the
McGovern home in Alberta, Canada.
Mrs. Sanders had been nurse for the
child from birth. She suddenly left,
nearly a year ago with the child and
arrived in Klamath Falls ' to months
ago, after visiting various places of
the country. Here she told a story of
having been deserted by her husband
and left in destitute condition and
she was given assistance by the charit
ably Inclined people.
McGovern took the child back to his
home today. Physicians say Mrs.
Sanders' mind is unbalanced, and she
will be sent to an asylum.
LINE RUSHED TO ALBANY
Track Laying Machine Will Lay Two
Miles Dally Prom Salem.
SALEM, Or., April 4. (Special.)
Monday a tracklaylng machine, accom
panied by 200 men, will start active
work at laying two miles of track
dally on the Oregon Electric extension
to Albany. For several days work of
laying track out of Salem has been
done by gangs of men slowly, the track
machine, being unable to handle the
work on the curves. The work of the
machine, however, will mean rapid
building of the line and an early com
pletion to Albany.
AIR LINE1 BEING SURVEYED
Great Northern to Shorten Route to
Coast by 75 Miles.
FARGO. N. D., April 4. Surveying
parties were started out today to lay
out the final route of the Great North
ern air line from New Richford to the
Montana State line. Construction work
is to begin at once, according to of
ficials. The new line will shrten the Coast
run about 75 miles and will be used
for through passenger and mail trains
exclusively.
WOMAN'S DECISION FOUGHT
Company Objects to line Imposed by
Fair Colorado Judge.
DENVER, April 4. The first decision of
a. wnmnn indze was brought before, the
State Supreme Court of Colorado today
for review. Mrs. L. B. uague. county
Judge of Eagle County, fined the Muller
Mercantile Company 1200 and costs for
selling liquor in dry territory.
The company appealed.
CARSHOP BATTLE FATAL
Two Slain, 3 Wounded, One Fatally,
When Negro Runs Amuck.
IIOISINGTON. Kas., April 4 Two
men were killed and three others
wounded, one fatally, at .the Missouri
Pacific Railroad shops here tonight
when "Bud" Smith, a discharged negro
employe, engaaged in a revolver bat
tle with shop employes.
Mortally wounded. Smith was res
cued by officers from a crow intent
upon lynching him.
WOMAN DEFENDS
BE
Court Hears Pleas of
Divorced Wife.
LIEUTENANT'S ACTS ARE TOLD
Couple Register as Married
but Man Is Cleared.
ROOMS SCARCE AT HOTEL
Orricer Signs as "C. B. Davis
and Wife,'' but Obtains Apart
ment Elsewhere for Himself.
"Another Woman" Figures.
SEATTLE, Wash., April 4. Mrs. Mar
garet McReynolds again took the stand
today in the courtmartlal at the Puget
Sound Navy-yard, telling of her. separ
ation from her husband, and explained
her conduct with Lieutenant Chandler
K. Jones, U. S. N.
Lieutenant Jones is on trial accused
of conduct unbecoming an officer and a
gentleman, and Lieutenant Charles S.
McReynolds, LT. S. M. C, whose home
Lieutenant Jones is alleged to have
broken up, is the complaining witness.
"I came to testify of my own freo
will to clear my name for the sake of
my boys," said Mrs. McReynolds under
cross-examination.
"Are there any other reasons why
you wished to come?"
"Because I am not guilty," was the
answer. -
Mrs. McReynolds said her husband
had agreed that if she would not con
test the divorce there would be noth
ing said to compromise her character.'
Woman Causes Separation.
She declared again that the direct
cause of the separation was her refusal
to sign the renewal of a note .for $500,
borrowed from an enlisted man to pay
the hospital bill of a woman in New
York named Polly Stewart.
She said her husband would not tell
her for whom he borrowed the money,
but she obtained the name when she
found some of her husband's letters, in
a trunk. She said Lieutenant Mc"
Reynolds admitted that ho borrowed
the money for the woman, but would
not tell her why.
She said that while she was visiting
in the East her husband wrote that the
woman had written a second time for
money, but that he had ignored the let
ter. The witness said that Captain Wise,
her husband's commanding officer in
Cuba, had questioned Lieutenant Mc
Reynolds' sanity In 19C8. and she doubt
ed it last Spring, when he locked her
in her apartment, made threats against
her and shook his fist in her face.
Only Able to- Secure One Room.
Of her relations with Lieutenant
Jones, Mrs. Mclteynolds said thai the
naval officer took her to a hotel in Se
attle and registered as "C. B. Davis and
wife."
She said Lieutenant Jones asked for
two rooms, but could obtain only one,
which he gave to her, and he stayed at
another hotel.
She said she saw him only at break
fast and dinner, and that they went to
the cafes and theaters at night. Lieu
tenant Jones would escort her to her
room and then return to his hotel.
She said he never entered her room
excepting for a few minutes in the day
time, and that their actions did not re
sult In any trespass of their agreement
to marry after her husband obtained a
divorce.
On cross-examination Mrs. McRey
nolds was asked if the engagement had
been entered upon since she became di
vorced. "We are now engaged." she replied.
LAW WILL PERMIT DANCE
Washington High School Pupils May
Use Gymnasium.
SALEM, Or., April 4. (Special.) The
pupils of Washington High School in
Portland con legally dance in the gym
nasium of that school, according to an
opinion by Assistant Attorney-General
Crawford today. Principal Herdman
asked if section 4052 of Lord's Oregon
Laws was sufficient to preclude stu
dents dancing in the gymnasium of
that school.
The Attorney-General office held that
this section only applied to dancing in
rooms that are used for class purposes
and consequently the Washington High
School pupils can go ahead with their
dance as far as the law is concerned.
THIBET IS NOW REPUBLIC
Officials Cut Off Queues and Don
Silk Hats and Frock Coals.
CALCUTTA, April 4. Dispatches
from Gyangze, Thibet, say the Chineso
have established a representative
council at L'hasa, the capital of Thibet
and proclaimed a republic.
The officials have cut off their
queues and some of them are wearing
silk hats and frock coats.
The Thibetans oppose the change
and are threatening to exterminate the
Chinese. Fighting has occurred near
ihigatse, 130 miles from L'hasa.
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