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THE MORN IN Ci OREGON1AN, WEDNESDAY, NEFTE3IBEK 1, PARENT CONCERN'S PRORT IS SILL Harvester Trust Gets Sixth of One Per Cent, Its Presi dent Testifies. NO DIVIDEND EVER PAID Witness Says Concern Tries to Buy Cheaply From New Jersey Com pany Large Sums Spent for Advertising. CHICAGO.' Sept. 17. Although it sold $100,000,000 worth of farm implements, the International Harvester Company of America last year made only J150.000 in profits, or fifteen hundredths of 1 per cent, said R. C. Haskins, the president, who testified today before - a special examiner In the Govern ment's suit to dissolve the corporation. Questions were asked by the Govern ment attorney to show that the Inter national Harvester Company of Amer ica was merely the selling agent "of the International Harvester Company of New Jersey and that the latter company was to make all the money. Dividend Never Paid. "Is it not your object to buy from the New Jersey corporation at such a price as will enable you to sell so that vou will have neither lows nor profit?" asked Edwin P. Grosvenor. special Assistant Attorney-General "Our object is to buy as cheaply as we can and to make as much as pos sible. We try to buy from the New Jersey company at prices we would jtet from any other company," replied Hasklns. "But you never have paid a divi dend?" "No. we never have." Salea to Farmer Described. " Most of today's session was devoted to describing, technical features of farm Implements. Haskins related the methods" of sale to farmers in answer to the Government's charge that as a trust the Harvester company maintained prices "to the serious injury of the farmer." The witness said the company sold to agents with a 5 per cent discount for cash and the ajrent, by adding his profit, determined the price the farmer was to pay. One reason, ex plained Haskins, why -ttie sale com pany made only 1150.000 while. It sold 100.000.000 worth of implements, was that it was constantly expanding Its business and expending large sums for advertising. I'EKKIXS ANSWERS MARSHALL lie Says Democratic Candidate Knew lie Wasn't Harvester Trust Head. NEW YORK. Sept. 17. George W. Terklns. who was referred to by Gover nor Marshall in a speech at St Joseph, Mo., yesterday, as "presiding over" the International Harvester Company, made this reply today to Governor Marshall: "It is evident that Governor Marshall lias attacked me with less than half a truth. He says I preside over the In ternational Harvester Company. Is It possible that he is so uninformed as not to know that this Is not so? I do not preside over the International Harvester Company. In my opinion. Mr. Mar shall knows who does preside over the Harvester Company and for political advantage to his party purposely twists his statement so as not say who does preside over the Harvester Company and convey the impression that I do." CASHIER NEWLY ACCUSED Eleven Charges Filed Against Kan san, Who Admits Forgery. ABILENE, Kan., Sept. 17. Eleven new charges were filed today against John A. Klack, former cashier of the Abilene State Bank, recently arrested in New York charged in connection with snortage in the bank's bunds, amounting to about $70,000. The new charges are sworn to by the State Bank Examiner, and are similar. Each recites that Flack changed figures In the bank's books and in notes and certificates of de posit. I-"lack was to have pleaded guilty to. morrow to a charge of forgery, the only previous count against him. BOSTON "L" IS INDICTED Company Accused of Coercing Em ployes Into Being "Loyal." BOSTON, Sept. 17. As result of the recent streetcar strike in this city an indictment charging coercion was re turned today by the Suffolk County grand Jury against the Boston Elevated Railway Company. The indictment charged that certain employes were forced into an agree ment to become members of an organi sation of "loyal" employes, as a condi tion to their continuing in the employ of the corporation, and that otbers naa to agree not to join a labor union as a condition of getting employment. KIDNAPING CHARGE FAILS Evidence Against Panama Legation Secretary Not Obtained. NEW YORK. Sept. 17. Harry Nolan, a newlv appointed Secretary to the United States Legation at Panama, who was arrested recently on a charge or abducting a Scotch girl named Marlon McVIcker, the daughter or an inn keeper of Glasgow, was discharged to dav bv Magistrate Murphy on a mo tion of Prosecutor Reynolds, who said that he was unable to procure evi dence necessary for a conviction. A technical charge of vagrancy against Miss McVicker will be dis- missed. - CROP REPORTS ASSAILED Brewers Told Barley, for Example, Is Widely Misrepresented. CLEVELAND. Sept. 17. Charges that the reports of the Department or Agri culture on the season's crop were ficti tious and misleading were made today by Dr. C. Prinx. of Manitowoc. Wis, in addressing the National convention of Master Brewers. "The barley crop is poor and will not exceed 100,000.000 bushels," he said. "Yet the Government report says It will exceed 160.000.000 bushels. There never was and probablv never will be so large a !-' " NEW YORK'S MAYOR, AND ALDERMAN WHO HAS BROUGHT SUIT AGAINST HIM FOR i. s V 3 Alderman, Charging Libel, De mands $100,000 Balm. . LIEUTENANT MAKES CHARGE Affidavit Declaring Promotion Was Denied After Refusal to Pay $15,000 Made Public in Graft Inquiry. NEW YORK, Sept. 17. Mayor Gay nor was served today with a summons In a $100,000 libel suit brought against him by Alderman Curran, chairman of the Aldermanlc committee investigat ing graft in the police department. Curran alleges that the Mayor made remarks derogatory to his character in connection- with the investigation. A summary of what purports to be the "$15,000 affidavit" which Police Commissioner Waldo referred to the other day before the Aldermanlc com mittee was made public today. It as serts that John T. Keith, a police lieu tenant, swears he was Informed by an under-sheriff that the "people having the power" to promote him wanted $la,- UuU lor aoin it unci iii&i wneu lie re fused to pay It he was passed and not promoted. MODEL CIH PROMISED ROOSEVELT TELLS OF AIMS FOR NATION'S CAPITAL. Colonel, In Arizona Speech,. ' Lays Stress on "Human Welfare" Fea ture of Campaign. TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 17. If Colonel Roosevelt is elected President, he said in a speech here today, he will call a special session of Congress immediately after bis Inauguration to put Into ef fect, so far as can be done, by Con gress, the Roosevelt Progressive party s programme for social and Industrial legislation. Colonel Roosevelt reached Tucson after an ail-nignt run rrom ios Angeles, and opened bis one-day cam paign in Arizona here. "While there are many important planks in the platform of the Progres sive party," he said, "I am much inter ested in the plank dealing with human welfare. I believe that the Issues there raised are the great issues of this cam paign, which neither of the old parties is facing' squarely. The Progressive party, if It Is put into power, will carry out every promise which It has made Its platform. "I would have Congress take up three things first is the application of our programme to employes of the Government. Next is its application to the District of Columbia and Alaska. In the third place, we would apply it to interstate commerce as far as would be possible." Colonel Roosevelt said he would at tempt to put on the statute books as much legislation along these lines as could be applied to the railroads and the usual concerns doing an interstate business. In the District of Columbia, Colonel Roosevelt said, he proposed to put into effect laws which would make the City of Washington a model, not only for the United States, but for the na tions of the world. A great deal of money had been spent, he said, in building boulevards, and public adorn ments in the city and he thought that some of this money snpuld go to the improvement of the condition of the poor. He said he would urge laws to clear out the alley tenements and to build small parks for the workmen and would advocate the aaoption of the complete programme of the Progres sive party's "human welfare" plank In the District. WILSON BACKS UP WILEY (Continued From First Page.) therefore, he ought to have a board of chemists to determine it. And Mr. Roosevelt picked out some of the most eminent and honest chemists in this country, headed by a personal friend of mine, the president of Johns Hopkins University, and submitted to them this question: 'Is benzoate of so.da hurtful to the human stomach or to the human digestion when taken internally?' Ob serve that this was the only question submitted to them, and that was ex actly what the people who wanted to use benzoate of soda for wrong pur poses wanted to limit the Inquiry to. Main Question Not Asked. "These gentlemen had to say that benzoate of soda in Itself was not harmful to the human system, as I be lieve It Is not. But they were not asked this question: 'Can benzoate of soda be used to conceal putrefaction, or can It be used in things that have gone bad to conceal the fact that they have gone bad, and to induce people to put them in their stomachs after they have gone toad? They were not asked that question, because if they had been, they would MAYOR GAYNDR SUED ?100,OUO I V& laiatiu. 6 pff Above Mayor Gay nor, Sitting In "Graff Hearing, Below Alderman Curran. . have said, "Yes. it can be used in that way, and Dr. Wiley knew that it was used in that way." "I want to warn the people of this country to beware of commissions of experts. I have lived with experts all my life and I know that experts don't see anything except what is under their microscope under their eyes. "Suppose you wanted to settle the liquor question by asking a body of experts whether alcohol was poison or not. I believe they would have to tell you that it isn't poison. But does that settle the liquor question? There are a great many things that you can take into your stomach that are not poison that will make you crazy. Tariff Question Not Answered. "The tariff board knows what it knows. But it doesn't know what we want to know. It knows what it in quires into, but It doesn't answer this question: 'Are the present tariff duties in the United States suitable to the present business conditions in the Unit ed States?" And when the third party proposes a permanent body of experts it proposes a permanent postponement of tariff legislation." Turning to the question of trusts, the speaker distinguished between "big business" and the trusts. He referred to the suceess of Andrew Carnegie in the steel business and declared that when Mr. Carnegie's competitors found they could not undersell because he had more brains in running their business, they bought him out at four or five times the value of his property. "And," added Governor Wilson, "in what they charged afterward for the product they made us pay Interest on. the four or five times the amount of the value of the property which they had paid him. 'Bit Business" Alone Not Opposed. "There Is a difference between a big business and a trust. A trust is a big business that has an arrangement to get rid of competition, and a big busi ness survives competition by conquer ing the field of intelligence and econ omy. I am for big business and I am against the trusts. "Now there are things that have to be regulated, but they are not to be regulated through the trusts. They ace to be regulated by those processes now perfectly discoverable, by which mo nopoly can be prevented and broken up. These monopolies that are to be made permanent, if the third party pro gramme goes through, are the very things that are limiting the field of en terprise, limiting tne raarKsi lor ispor, determining the wages of labor, and determining the distribution of products through the country. "The tentacles of these things spread in every direction, ahd until we have broken their inside control the Gov ernment is helpless to assist the peo ple through righteous process of Judg ment and of law." MARSHALL JV0T SOCIALIST Governor Says, However, Heart Is With Many Bather Than Few. HANNIBAL, Mo., Sept 17. Governor Marshall, of Indiana, Democratic "Vice Presidential candidate, in a speech here tonight said the hope of ending the rule of the political bosses lies not with the Roosevelt Progressive or Re publican parties, but in the success of the Democratic National ticket. Governor Marshall reached Hannibal late In the day from La Grange, where he had been the guest of the little town at a homecoming. The Governor lived in La Grange before the Civil War. The Governor in his address here said the high protective, tariff was turning the country over to the Socialists, and added: "I am not a Socialist, but if the time ever should come when I should have to make a choice between the aristoc racy of the few and the socialism of the many, count me and my house with the great throbbing heart or tne many. Y 1 J it- ? 1 V Plan your expenses this month so that when you receive your salary you will be able to put part of it in bank. No matter if it is very little, the satisfaction of having some money to meet the unexpected expenses helps more than you realize.' Open an account in our Savings Department. Security Savings and Trust Company MORRISON AT FIFT& STREET Capital and Surplus, $1,400,000 G. 0. 0. TRAFFIC AIQUOR B Federal Law Held to Prohibit Carriers From Continuing Old Practice. SECRECY IS PROHIBITED Shipments Across State Lines Must Be Plainly labeled With Name of Consignee and Nature of Goods Involved. ' OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Sept. 17. Attorney-General Wickersham, in instructions to all United States attorneys, is urging prompt and vigorous prosecutions of any persons found violating sections 238, 238 and 240 of the' new criminal code. Which provide conditions under which intoxicating liquors may be shipped from' one state to another, or from a foreign country Into the United States. These statutes, however, do not apply to shipments entirely within a state, that being a matter over which the Federal Government has no Juris diction. The laws in question do not undertake to prevent the shipment of liquor into "dry" states or "dry" towns, it having been held by the courts that the Government cannot interfere with legitimate interstate commerce. The three sections named, however, are designed to be an aid to the au thorities of a "dry" state or town, in that they enable the state and local authorities to learn whenever liquor enters their Jurisdiction. After its de livery to the consignee, it comes under state or local authority, and Federal jurisdiction ceases. ' Shipment Must Be Labeled. The most sweeping provision of the criminal code, to which the Attorney- General calls attention, requires that every package containing intoxicating liquor of any sort, when shipped from one state into another state, shall be "so labeled on the -outside cover as to plainly show the nam&of the consignee, the nature of its contents and the quan tity contained therein," and any per son who ships liquor from one state to another in violation of this section that is, ships it in packages not marked as required shall, upon con viction, be subject to a fine of not more than J5000, and liquor so shipped shall be forfeited to the United States. Section 238 prohibits officers, agents or employes of railroad companies, ex press companies or other 'common car riers from delivering any package con taining intoxicating liquor to any per son other than the person to whom it has been consigned, except upon the written order in aach instance of the bona flde consignee, and also prohibits the delivery of such packages to any fictitious person or to any person under a fictitious name. "Violation of this sec tion subjects the guilty party to a 'fine not exceeding J5000 or imprisonment for not morethan two years, or both. This section also applies only to liquor shipped from one state into another. C. O. D. Shipments Barred. The third section. No. 239, provides that any railroad company, express company or other common carrier, or any other person who, in connection with the transportation of any in toxicating liquor from one state to another, shall collect the purchase price or any part thereof, before, on or after delivery, or shall In any man ner act as the agent of the buyer or seller of any such liquor, for the pur pose of buying or selling or complet ing the sale thereof, saving only in the actual transportation and delivery of the same, shall be fined not more than $5000. , While these three sections of the criminal code do not prohibit the ship ment of intoxicating liquor into "dry" states, they are intended to break up practices which were common in such states in times past. For Instance, it is no longer lawful to ship liquor into a dry state in a box labeled ''drygoods," "hardware" dr any other fictitious designation. The resident of a dry state who buys liquor in another state and has it shipped to him must do so with the full knowledge that when his liquor comes it will be so marked that everyone seeing the package will know what it contains, how much ' it con tains and to whom it. belongs. This labeling will enable the local authori ties to trace liquor that goes in large quantities to any one person, and be on guard for evasions of, the local law. "Blind'' Consignments Prohibited. It was a common practice in many "dry" states to import liquor in bulk addressed to fictitious persons, the ex press companies or railroad companies being advised as to proper delivery. Thus, a package of liquor might be consigned to John Doe, and the car rying company would unhesitatingly deliver it to John Smith or whoever claimed and Daid for it. Or a dozen packages might be consigned to as many persons in a given town, and all would be delivered to a single indivi dual claiming them. This practice is now prohibited. These new laws also take the car riers out of the liquor business. It onco.was common for railroad and ex press companies to act as collectors for liquor houses; tney can no it no wngur. Many times they themselves would deliberately ship liquor to fictitious persons Jn dry states, and deliver It to whoever might call for It, or send for it, if they were known to be "right," and had fhe price. Thus, they literally became liquor dealers. This practice is stopped. They may now collect only for the transportation and delivery, and no liquor can be snipped from one state to another C. O. D. All the provisions above recited apply tt shipments into wet as well as dry states: the law makes no distinction, but treats all states alike. The re strictions are confined entirely to ship. ments that go from one state into another. Alaskans Strike "Pay." SEWARD. Alaska. Sept. 7. (Special Correspondence.) William M. Brewer, UNDER superintendent of tne urewtr-Auui Syndicate, has-arrived here from the property on Lost Creek and announcer that in the immediate ruture ne w" begin to move the mill that arrived from the outside recently to the proper ty, and it will be in operation by Octo ber 1. The Brewer-Alaska Syndicate has been working On their Lost Creek property for the past year and has de veloped four good looking ledges, all of which carry pay in quantities suf ficient to nay to work them. The proD- lem that has been confronting the man agement is to decide where to place their mill. It has finally been decided to install xthe machinery on the Oddy No. 2 Claim, as at that point they will be able to tram ore from all of the ledges and, in addition to that, secure first-class water power. The latest find on the Brewer-Alaska Syndicate consists of a four-foot ledge of ore that will mill from 20 to Joo per ton, and it is on this ore body that the mill will be installed. On the Home Stake Claim, located Just up stream from the Oddy No. 2, the vein has been tapped and 138 feet of tunnel run on the vein all rn ore. A number of cross cuts have been driven into the ledge and the showing is generally conceded to be one of the best In this section. The Brewer-Alaska Syndicate is lo cated opposite Mile 7 on the Alaska Northern Railway and, owing to the fact that dt is on the salt water side of the divide1, it is thought it will'be able to run its mill during all the, Winter months as the temperature does not get as low there' as it does on the other side of the divide. COURT UPHOLDS ROLPH MAYOR NOT RESTRAINED FROM HOLDING TRIALS. Judge Seawell Dismisses Petitions of Police and Fire Commissioners In Few Words. c i i . , . . . i f i . s cn 1 7 fina. clal.) Mayor Rolph today won the first ... . . . I J ... V. n round oi nis anacs. upon me ju Police Commissioner Spiro and Fire Commissioner Donohoe. when Judge Seawell sustained his demurrer to tne ; n..iHnn fnr a. Perma nent writ of prohibition. The writ was sought to restrain tne mayur irum ing the Commissioners on charges of charter violations in the performance of their official functions. Spiro's trial is set for Thursday at Z f. M... Jjona hoe's for Friday, 10 A. M. t. . i ni 1 goU that it WAS against public policy for the time of the courts to be occupied by petitions qf this character. "The charter designates tne aunea vl . . n anil it fa TirP1imPll llO Will perform these duties in accordance with the law. There is no similarity, a i a -A v, ,harir,n last made leBBU. e tv . " " - . . against Commissioner Spiro, when this court issued a wru ul ii There ' is- nothing to show that the . in -. ,...( the AVklenHnnS IVinyUr Will Hut oumew,, .... --- of the two Commissioners when they are tried, -lr at tne inm mo goes beyond his jurisdiction the rem edy of the men charged will be a writ of review. Whether the charges show j i . t k-w rr, a n A A t At mine. KUUQ tUEt3 i HV. k- J v . - It is certain the charter gives the Mayor jurisdiction to determine evoiy mucowu concerned in the petition before me." J. B. SNEED IS INDICTED Banker Must Now Face Trials for Killing Father and Son. AMARILLO, Tex., Sept. 17 J. B. Sneed, the Amarillo banker, was in dicted this afternoon for the murder of Al G. Boyce here Saturday. When the writ was Tead to Sneed by Sheriff Burwell, the banker thanked the officer but made no other com ment. 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