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PRICE FIVE CENTS. MRS. HUTTON OUT FOR OLYMPIA SEAT PALACE IS PYRE OF GOVERNOR WOULD POLICE OFFICIAL ALL WASH COLONEL'S DEMAND VIOLATES LAW? WHIP MAN IN CROWD ' . . . nnnTT a -vr nnrnnv vnrn A V A TTfJTTST O. 1912 VOL. L.II "(). 16,134:. J w-rx-., ' . I l ill RAILROAD OWNED IS SEEKING TERMS STATE WHEN BLEASE PICKS IP GIRL STRAXGER COMMENTS. SPOKANE'S SCFFRAGE LEADER DEAL WTITH MEM1" ary ! f O L GRESS QI.F.)Lo.t:D L,ibr WILL TCRX DOWX PAY. 4fflfflHH PRESIDENT r Domingo Spies May Be UNCERTAIN SHIPS RESTRICTED Menace of Canadian Pa cific Is Feared. MAIL SUBSIDY SAFEGUARDE Senate Expects to Vote on Panama Canal Bill Today. FREE REGISTRY EXTENDED British Government Will Xot Be Formally Advised of Action Vn less It Makes Inquiry. Sue May Be Competitor. WASHINGTON. Aug. 8. The extent to which the Canadian Pacific Railroad might control traffic through the Pan ama Canal grave the Senate occasion for much debate when the anti-railroad section of the canal bill was reached late today. Little objection developed to the pro posed plan to prohibit railroad-owned ships from engaging in American coastwise trade through the canal. The plan adopted by the Senate com mittee, however, of attempting to re strict the operation of foreign-owned railroad ships causes wide difference of opinion. Final Vote Expected Today. Senator Simmons proposed to strike out all reference to foreign railroad ships. Senator Brlstow urged adequate control of American coastwise traffic, so that the transcontinental roads could not control rates in the canal, but he did not believe the Canadian Pacific ships would prove a menace. If they were permitted to engage In American coastwise trade they would be bound to American law, he said. The Senate practically finished all but the railroad ship section before the recess at the end of the afternoon ses sion. At the session tonight it was believed a final vote would be had on the bill tomorrow. The amendment to permit foreign built ships owned wholly by Americans to participate in coastwise privileges was offered by Senator Williams. It provoked an acrimonious passage in which Senator Martin was aocused by Williams of making a protectionist speech in favor of Virginia shipyards. Free KeglMrr Extended. The amendment was defeated by a vote of 38 to 10. Williams then offered another, to admit to American registry American-owned ships of foreign make which are engaged exclusively in for eign trade. The second Williams amendment was adopted. 34 to 24. Many Republicans voted for It, expressing their belief that It would enable many foreign built ships to fly the American flag without bringing the cheaper ship building of foreign nations into com petition with American plants. Lower tolls for ships passing through the canal "In ballast" were proposed by Senator Johnston, of Ala bama, and an amendment was adopted to authorize such reduction in rates. Another fight developed against the Senate committee's amendment to ex empt from tolls American vessels in foreign trade whose owners agreed to turn them over to the Government in 'time of war. Subsidy toBe Limited. Senator Smith, of Georgia, declared that under the Williams amendment just adopted Americans could buy ships anywhere, put them into the 'foreign trade and escape tolls at the canal. This latter amendment was adopted, however, 37 to 23. Senator Galllnger then reintroduced his anti-subsidy amendment and it was adopted without opposition. It pro vided that foreign-built ships admitted to American registry under the terms of the Williams amendment should not receive United States mail subsidies, unless they were suitable far conver sion into armored cruisers. The Senate struck out of the bin a provision to authorize immediate set tlement on the Isthmus of claims for damage to ships passing through the canal. Formal Notice Unnecessary. It will not be necessary for Secre tary Knox to advise the British gov ernment of the action taken by Con gress in exempting vessels from pay ing tolls on the Panama Canal unless Great Britain chooses to make specific inquiry on that point. It is scarcely expected that it will do so, satisfying itself by taking notice of the proceed ings in Congress, as was done at ear lier stages of the legislation. Although there has been no formal statement of the viewa of the Admin istration in regard to the question of tolls for American shipping since the pending canal bill was reported from the House committee. It may safely be inferred that there has been no change in their position since in public speeches President Taft and Secretary Stlmson both asserted the right of the United States to remit the tolls or grant rebates to American ships. Students of the situation point out that Great Britain could reduce the tolls of the Suez Canal to a point that would divert to the Suez a great share of the prospective business of the Pan ama Canal and cause considerable fi nancial loss to the canal. Woman, Delegate to National Con vention, Announces Candidacy for State Representative. SPOKANE. Aug, 8. Mrs. May Ark wrlght Hutton, suffragist leader and member of the Washington delegation to the Democratic National conven tion, announced today she would be a candidate for nomination for State Representative on the Democratic ticket. Mrs. Hutton. in making the an nouncement, declared that if elected she would refuse to accept pay for her services as a lawmaker, as It would cost her no more to live at the state capital than at home. She feels that she can well afford to give 60 days of her time for the honor of exercising the prerogative of an American citizen. Mrs. Hutton indicated a further pos sible saving by saying "it will not be ....r m n.nd and maintain an ex pensive lobby at Olympia to instruct me how to vote, ror, it eiecieu, x do the voting." SPOKANE BONDS REFUSED City Hall Contract Let for $300,000, Which Must Bo Raised. eoniriwr Wnh- A n sr. 8. (Special.) E. H. Rollins & Sons, brokers, of New York and Chicago, best bidders th. t!Kn nno citv Hall bonds, today noon telegraphed Auditor Smith that they would not accept tne issue, plac ing the city government in a predica ment. n. hnnH hiircru sav that their at'- nmoi- rairlwell. Massllch & Reed, of New York City, have rendered them an opinion holding the Issue illegal, nun m let and signed for the building of the new City Hall at Front avenue and Wall street, at a cost oi ovrr 1300.000 and with no money to pay for it, the Council faces the necessity of raising the money by an additional tax levy of 3 mills in tne 1913 Duaget. citv rnrnontlon Counsel Stephens says the bonds are legal and need only n K i-aHvrtised for sale. Rollins & Sons are said by city officials to be disgruntled because of a quarrel over expenses of izouu lor me oaie $1,000,000 of park bonds. GOVERNOR WEST FEARED Defense in Huntington Case Doesn't Want Executive to Testify. raker, nr.. Aua-. 8. (Special.) The threat that Governor West would come back and finish his cleanup of Hunting. ton by testifying in the proceeding brought by Rev. R. C. Lee, the Method ist minlstRr. of Huntington, and W. G. MacLaren, of the Pacific Coast Rescue Mission, to secure charge of the four small Rast children found in a bawdy house by the Governor in his" visit last Saturday, today resulted in a truce in the case. . Relatives of the children employed an attorney and started to fight the case, nklrr for 14 witnesses. The plamtms then announced that if the defense was allowed that number. Governor West wnM h. called to testify. The de fense then offered to compromise. Mac Laren will investigate the Home oi jurs. Rast's sister in Spokane and. if sult ahi. the children will be taken there. They have been placed in St. Francis Academy here until the investigation is completed. SAILING SHIPS IN DEMAND All Available' Tonnage Engaged and Freight Rates Soar. KAV FRANCISCO. Aug. 8. In ad vance of the opening of the Panama Canal sailing vessels were never in greater demand on the Pacific Coast than at the present moment. All avail able bottoms are engaged and freight rates are at high water , mark. Mayor Rolph's ship, the Golden Gate (Hind, Rolph & Company), which ar rived here this week from Newcastle, Eng.. will soon take out a cargo of barley at 45 shillings a ton, the highest rate quoted in 18 years. TAFT PARTYJDN T. R. TRAIN Wife of President Returns to Beverly From Cincinnati. CLEVELAND, O.. Aug. 8. The Lake Shore train for New York, with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt aboard, was held here 11 minutes tonight awaiting the arrival of Mrs. William H. Taft, from Cincinnati, where she had attended the funeral of her father, J. G. Herron. Mrs. Taft. her sister, Mrs. McLaugh lin, of Pittsburg, and Charley Taft, boarded the train by which Colonel Roosevelt was traveling and proceeded on their way to the President's Sum mer home at Beverly, MaBS. REBELS TAKE HAITIAN CITY Hajabon Captured in Fight in Which 200 Are Wounded. WASHINGTON. Aug. 8. Hajabon, Santo Domingo, has been captured by rebels from Haitian territory, accord ing to State Department advices from Port Au Prince. The fight which re sulted in the capture lasted 14 hours. The wounded numbered 200. The rebels, it is 'said, crossed from .Oun- amlnthe, Haiti. The Dominican Government asserts th, H.fAnt nf thA rebels, with srreat losses. Rights of foreigners and na tions are being respected and the customs-house is undisturbed. The United States gunboat Petrel is at Puerto Plata. Old-Time Prophets Are Dumb This Year. . POLITICS IS DEEP PUZZLE Women's Vote Is Factor Not Easy to Gauge. SOCIALIST GAINS MARKED Floating Vote Drifting' to Democratic Standard and Others Only Nom inally Republican Desert When Power Wavers. . BY M. M. MATT! SON. SEATTLE, Wash.. Aug. 8. (Special.) Every now and then an old-time poli tician, backed into a corner with a de mand for an opinion on Washington's immediate political future, peeves an expectant audience with a helpless re iteration of the declaration that he doesn't know. He doesn't and nobody ' else does, either, for that matter, but in these seething days of factional politics when nearly everybody Is hazarding a guess and most of the populace of voting age is telling what ought to be done, the frank admission that the chaotic condition of local politics might lead to almost any result does not find a sympathetic chord in a crowd hung rily searching for "inside dope." ' Nobody knows, to begin with, what the women's vote which will be cast In a state election for the first time this year, will amount to; nobody knows how the women as a voting factor feel about National and state politics and nobody knows whether there Is any likelihood of a last minute switch n the women's vote. It is more or less significant, or else it lacks signifi cance. Just as one wants to view it, that whereas the state was full of wom en's clubs and women leaders eagerly, campaigning two years ago, it is only here and there that women are taking a prominent part in this year's fight and it is difficult to estimate just how much attention other women are pay ing to them. Socialists Are Scoring. From recent test votes and from careful canvasses nearly every politi cian knows the Socialists have been making remarkable gains In the state and even threaten to make the fight for certain county and legislative of fices decidedly uncomfortable. Since nearly all the Washington vote has been Republican during recent years it is fair to infer that these gains are made from Republican sources and so it is usually figured that the Demo crats are to lose but little through So cialist gains. It is pretty generally understood that four classes of Republicans have been developed as the so-called progressive (Concluded on Page 5.) : r 1 exclusively en- ((mmW ; Issue Likely to Become Prominent if Electoral College Is Unable to Make Choice. WASHINGTON. Aug. 8. (Special.) Whether Theodore RoosSvelt and his associates in the Progressive party have violated the corrupt practices act by demanding the political allegiance of members of Congress to Mr. Roose velt and his party in return for sup port at the .November election is the question agitating members of Con gress. The act of August 19, 1911, reads: "No candidate for Representative In Congress or for Senator of the United States shall promise any office or po sition to any person or use his in fluence or give his support to any person for any office or position, for the purpose of securing the support of such person or of any person in nis candidacy." A fine not to exceed J1000, or im prisonment for not more than one year, or both, is the penalty for violation of the act. An influential member of Congress today said that the question of viola tion of this act would become a great issue in Congress in event that no Presidential candidate had a majority of the electoral college. RABIES IN FISH FEARED Man's Toe Swells and He Wonders if Pickerel Had Hydrophobia. NEWTON, N.'J., Aug. 8. Whether a fish can have hydrophobia is the ques tion that Fred Henry, of Brooklyn, would like to have settled, and for that reason he has sent to the Pasteur institute at Brooklyn the head of a pickerel that bit him at Swartswood Lake yesterday. Henry was fishing in a boat when he landed the pickerel. When the pickerel was thrown into the boat it fastened to one of Henry's big toes, where it hung until he pried the fiBh's jaws open with a landing net. The toe started to swell and Henry thinks It possible the pickerel may have had hydrophobia. LOBSTER HURT, CHEF HELD Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Aids Crustacean. PHILADELPHA, A ug. 8. Police Mag istrate Haggerty today held Jean Hau docaur, chef of a hotel, for J100 bail to answer a charge of cruelty to ani mals for placing a wooden peg in the first joint back of the claw of a lob ster to prevent it from snapping. Complaint was lodged against Hau docaur by a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, who saw the "pegged" lobster on ex hibition in a window of the hotel grill. Woman Gets Latin Chair. OREGON CITY, Or., Aug. 8. (Spe cial.) Miss Helen Bollinger, who Is passing the Summer at Camp Bolenla, on the Clackamas River, has received notice of her appointment to the chair of Latin in the HUlsboro High School. Miss Bollinger lived for many years in Oregon City, where her father. Rev. E. S. Bollinger, was pastor of the Firut Congregational Church. She is a grad uate of Pacific University and taught in the public schools of Skamokawa last year. Back of Explosion 400 KILLED; CITY IN TERROR General Tancrede Auguste Is New Head of Country. , NATION ON VERGE OF WAR Dominicans Threaten and Rebel Are Active Members of Leconte Family Escape Houses Near Razed Building Damaged. PORT AU PRINCE, Hay ti, Aug. 8. The national palace was blown up by a powder explosion and burned to the ground today and the President of the Republic of Haytl, General Cinclnnatus Leconte, perished. Many palace attend ants were killed and It is estimated the casualty list will reach 400 persons killed or injured. The cause of the ex plosion is unexplained. Members of the President's family, who were awakened by the terrific shock, found themselves almost sur rounded by flames, but managed to make their way to safety. Shells and Cannon Explode. The first explosion was followed by others when the fire reached the eel lars of the palace, where a great quan tity of ammunition 'was stored. So great was the force of the explosions that a number of small cannon, frag ments of iron and shells were thrown great distances in. all directions. Military authorities immediately took charge of the situation. The ex plosions occurred shortly after 3 o'clock in the morning, and within an hour, when the fire, which was con fined to the palace, was extinguished, the structure was a mass of ruins. from which it will be Impossible to recover the body of the president. Successor la Named. At a joint meeting of the Chamber 'and Senate this afternoon. General Tancrede Auguste, Senator and ea Mlnlster of Public Works, was named as president. The country Is on the verge of war with Santo Domingo. A revolution has been threatening for some time and the wildest rumors are currentStories of Dominican conspiracies and spies are being circulated. According to some of the rumors the plotters in tended to kill the president. Other rumors are to the effect that all that was desired was to blow up the mag azine. The city is in a state of the wildest excitement and outbreaks of street fighting are expected. Palace Built of Wood. Almost the entire population of the city jumped out of bed and rushed (Concluded on Page 3.) Executive Restrained From Attack ing Baiter by Policeman and Chairman of Meeting. GAFFNEY, S. C, Aug. 8. (Special.) Governor Blease picked up a little girl who presented him flowers at the conclusion of his campaign speech here today. Holding her In his arms, he said: "A little child shall lead me. Look at the love and confidence this baby has for me." From the back of the crowd came a deep voice, "because she doesn't know any better." Quickly the Governor answered: "If you come up town, you dirty liar I will give you the worst beating a coward ever got." "No need to go up town, ' was hurled back, "oome here and try it now." The chairman of the meeting and a policeman prevented the hostlitles from going any further. SCHOOL-MARMS "ROUGH" IT Four Oregon City Glrl9 Pass Eight Days on Horseback. OREGON CITY, Aug. 8. (Special.) Four girls, three of them schoolmarms. returned today from an eight days' trip on horseback into Eastern Ore gon. They are: Pearl, Gertrude, Inez and Blanch Bailey, the first three being well-known school teachers of this sec tion. Their home is near Sherwood. They traveled about 250 miles over the Cascade Range and Inspected their wheat farm at Tygh Valley. On their way over they stopped at Welches and on the return spent a short time at Government Camp at the base of Mount Hood. They climbed the mountain and enjoyed It thoroughly They relate many Interesting experi ences of their trip. The girls took their blankets and roughed it during the entire trip, sleeping out in the open and eating When hunger seized them. APPLES BEST BEAUTIFIERS Baltimorean Says if Women Knew Demand Would Increase. CHICAGO, Aug. 8. "If women knew that eating apples will do more to make their complexion beautiful than all the face remedies in the world they would eat the luscious fruit morning, noon and night," said U. Grant Porder, of Baltimore, today in addressing the International Apple Shippers' Associa tion. "Five years from now when the countless apple orchards that have come into existence in the last few years begin to bear full crops, the an nual apple production of this country will exceed 100,000,000 boxes. We must advertise the apples as the National fruit If we are to prevent its overpro duction." Other speakers said freight rates were responsible for the increase in the price of apples in recent years. INDIAN'S HONESTY WINS Judge Bean Grants 15-Day Reprieve to Klamath Redskin. Haymaking was late this year In the Klamath Indian Reservation and for that reason Judge Bean received a letter yesterday from Ab Captan, a Klamath Indian, who was recently sentenced to serve 60 days in the County Jail for introducing liquor Into the reservation, but for whose benefit sentence was sus pended until he could go back home and attend to his crops. He wrote that the season has been very backward there, and it would be fully two weeks before he could get in his hay. Then he would come to Portland and start serving his sentence. As the honesty of the Indian was evident. Judge Bean issued an order that the sentence would be extended for 15 days. VANCOUVER TAX LEVY HIGH Council Prepares for Surplus in Case City Is Voted "Dry." VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 8. (Spe cial.) The tax levy of Vancouver for the year of 1913 will tie exceptionally high, perhaps the highest In the history of the town, but If the voters put the municipality "wet" at the special elec tion in November, the levy for 1914 will be exceptionally low. The saloons and llquorhouses of the city pay a revenue of about $25,000, but if the city goes dry In November, this revenue will not be forthcoming in, 1913. The Council will be compelled to' prepare for this contingency, so the tax levy Is being increased. The Anti-Saloon League Is making an active campaign throughout the city. Vancouver went wet by a majority of 136 three years ago, but since that time women have acquired the right to vote. BIG MORTGAGE IS FILED Iron Mountain Railroad Secures Bond Issue of $200,000,000. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 8. A f200.000.000 mortgage, securing 40-year g-old bonds bearing not more than 6 per cent in terest, was filed with the Recorder of Deeds today by the St. Louts, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Com pany. The mortgage covers all of the rolling stock and other property of the road. At the same time a $25,000,000 mort gage, held by the Guarantee Trust Company of New York on an Issue of Improvement bonds was released. Becker's Lawyer Vis its Prosecutor. CONFESSION EXPECTED SOON Rockefeller, Jr., Aiding in Ex posure of Graft. AGENTS WORK SECRETLY Millionaire Said to Have Laid Evi dence of Xew York Police Cor ruption Before District Attorney Whitman. NEW YORK. Aug. 8. (Special.) Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, who Is in the Tombs charged with plotting the murder of Herman Rosenthal, Is believed to be breaking down and ready to make terms with the District At torney. Becker, the dogged, defiant, overbearing policeman, who while In power swept every obstacle away from him with a relentless hand, has come to a realization of his predicament. After a long conference today with his lawyer. John F. Mclntyre, he col lapsed utterly, falling over on the cot In his cell and weeping bitterly. From the Tombs Mr. Mclntyre went to the District Attorney's office and had a two-hour conference with Mr. Whit man. Now that Mr. Mclntyre has had time to master the details of the case fully and knows something of the evidence In possession of Mr. Whitman which has never been made public, he is con vinced that his client is in a tight hole. It Is said that both Becker and Mr. Mclntyre have come to the conclusion that it will be well to make terms if the District Attorney will yield what Becker demands. Full Confession Deiunndrd. The District Attorney, it Is said, will not make any terms until he knows just how much Becker proposes to tell. Any admissions that Becker makes must Include all that he knows of the charges of systematized police "graft," as well as all that he knows of the murder of Herman Rosenthal. Mr.' Whitman Is said to believe that the public will sustain any deal he makes with Becker If the price Becker pays Is the absolute uncovering of the "system." The fact also became known today that John'D. Rockefeller, Jr., has been Instrumental In obtaining evidence of police graft which he has turned oyr to District Attorney Whitman for use In connection with the Investigation of alleged corruption among high police officials that has grown out of the murder of Rosenthal, Rockefeller's Aid Admitted. While Starr J. Murphy, Mr. Rocke- follAr'ii ftttornev. denied todav the published report that the millionaire's son had rfeen conducting a disorderly house for the purpose of obtaining evidence of blackmail against the po lice, he let It be known tnat Jir. itocKe- fellor who a year ago was foreman of a grand jury that investigated the white slave traffic, had placed in the hands of the District Attorney Infor mation "bearing on the police situa tion." "Mr nnckpfoTler. having become in terested in 'white slave' matters while foreman o f the special grand Jury, has since been securing statistics with re gard to the social evil," says Mr. Mur nhv' statement. "Whatever informa- tlon is secured bearing on the police Ituation has been placed at tne oih- nn.iMnn of the District Attorney. The statement that Mr. Rockefeller or his representatives have been conducting a disorderly house Is entirely without foundation." Mass of Evidence Ready. The information, it. was learned to light? will be presented to the grand nrv Iti ronlunctlo'n with the mass of similar evidence which the District At- tnrnov Rnd his assistants have un earthed since "Bald Jack" Rose mado is first charges involving high ponce officials in gambling graft. Alnncr with the publication of the runort that Mr. Rockefeller had l;een conducting a disorderly house for the urpose of trapping the police, it was ennrtud that a detective agency had been operating a gambling house for the same purpose. If this Is so It is nows to Mr. Whitman, who has re ceived no reports on the results that may have been obtained. As far as Mr. Rockefeller is con erned, it was learned tonight that the oung millionaire Is prepared to fur ilsh all the funds necessary to enable the District Attorney to conduct a sweeping investigation designed to in. out tho alleged corrupt alliance between the police and disorderly ele ments. police Inspector Well Paid. Mr. Whitman said today he had been iformed that a police Inspector had .ooiiroH SfiOA a. month from a disor derly house. This house, it Is under stood, was one of those Investigated he Mr. Rockefeller's representative. Mr. Whitman said also that one of his assistants. James Reynolds, had been ' orkHng with the Rockefeller agents for the last few months. The District Attorney had before the grand jury today 18 witnesses, one of (Concluded on Page S )