Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, September 20, 1912, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textr. PORTLAND, OREGOX, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 20, 1912.. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. I.I I- 0. 16,169. CHILD PLEADS FOR DEMAND FOR CARS PRESIDENT WILL PLAN TO RICH BRIDE BEGINS TO EARN HER LIVING WOMAH ARRESTED; TAFT MEN IN MASS REJECT KELLAHER LIFE OF OROZCO GRAXDDAI7GHTER OF PRISONER SHOWS BIG CROP FORTS F iT MRS. WASHBURXE FULFILLING PRE-XCPTIAL CONTRACT. RAILROADS BREAK RECORDS IX HAXDL1XG GRAIX. ' WRITES TO TAFT. IS REOCGUPY DOCUMENT OU D ISIS BUDGET Revenue to Be Consid ered With Expense. CONGRESS IS TAKEN TO TASK Need of. "Taking Stock' Advance Asserted. in PEOPLE LEFT TO JUDGE President Says Congress Has Been Doing "Surplus Financing" and! Putting Burden on Executive ' in Event .of Delcit. BEVERLY. Mass.. Sept 19. President Taft tonight made public a letter' to Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh, taking open issue with Congress on the question of a Federal budget and dl rectlng all heads of Government depart ments or independent officers of the Government to make their estimates of revenue and expenditures for the fiscal year in conformity with the budget plan. The President's letter to Mr. Mac Veagh said the clause in one of the big' supply bills passed by Congress in the closing hours of the last. Bession. practically forbidding the use of a bud get system, was unconstitutional. Powers Will Be Exercised. "If the President is to assume re. sponslblllty for either the manner in which business of the Government is transacted or results obtained," the President" writes to Secretary Mac Veagh. "it is evident that he cannot be limited by Congress to such lnfor mation aa that branch may think suffJ clent for his purposes. In my opinion it is entirely competent for the Presl dent to submit to Congress and to the country a statement of resources, obli gations, revenues, expenditures and es tlraates In the form he deems advisa ble. And this power I propose to ex ercise. . . i . The TTnlted State Is the only great country that does not have a budget. Each year the Congress has been mak ing increasingly large appropriations based on estimates which are submitted by officers acting In the' capacity of ministerial agents to Congress, under a law which makes no provisions what ever for executive review and revision. This I have sought in a measure to correct by asking the heads of depart ments to send estimates to me before they are printed, but the conditions attached by Congress have been such as to make executive review Impossi ble. Rereaae Most Be Considered. "The present legal directions as to estimates are based on the theory that there Is no need to take stock before passing ot appropriations; that It is not iecessary to consider revenues or treasury resources. Congress has di rected each executive officer to submit an estimate 'through the Secretary of the Treasury, who is made to serve in the capacity of an official messenger without any discretion whatever unless a department head may fall to prepare request for appropriations in the form prescribed by Congress, In which event the Secretary of the Treasury has Imposed upon him the duty to submit an estimate for Iilm. Congress has created certain com mittees on appropriations that alone have power to review and revise re quests of the department heads.- Even In Its own organisation, however. Con gress has failed to make provision for considering expenditures and estimates for appropriations In relation to revenues. "Surplus Financing Deprecated. j Authority Is granted for the expen diture of a thousand million dollars each year without any thought as to where the money Is coming from. This done on the theory that there will be no deficit Congress has been doing what has been called "surplus financ ing.' While fhn . Cnnntltutinn male. Congress responsible for money raising! as well as for appropriations, respon sibility for borrowing has been-shifted J to the President by empowering him procure loans to meet deficits In case a deficit may result. 'The great question of National ex pediency which Is raised by the action of Congress above referred to Is: Shall we or shall we not have a National budget? I don't question the constitu tional right of Congress to prescribe he manner In which reports of ex penditures and estimates shall be sum mttted to It by department officers. I do question the practical wisdom of continuing to operate the Government under 10 different statutes, passed at 90 different times, which prescribe 200 dif ferent forms of preparing and submit ting financial data to Congress and the public data which, when prepared, have no element of uniformity or standard nd cannot be used to present to offi cers or the people an accurate picture f activities pertaining to any one sub ject for the Government as a whole. Bulaessllk Proposal Made. I have gone thus at length In stat- ng my position In order that you may nderstand the reasons for urging that ou co-operate with the commission on conomy and efficiency In the prepara- lon of, such financial .tatements and ummaries as will enable me to place tefor Cong-res and the country for Girl of 7 Says Madero Would Shoot Rebel Colonel and "That Would , Just Kill Poor Grandma." , LOS ANGELES. Sept. 19. Fearing that her grandfather would fall into the hands of President Madero of Mex ico, which according to her 'mode of reasoning would mean his death, little Elena Orozco, the 7-year-old daughter of Pascual Orozco, Jr., leader of the revolutionists In Northern Mexico and granddaughter of Pascual Orozco, Sr., now under arrest at Presldeo. -Texas, has written a plea to President Taft to save her grandpa's life. Her-letter sent today follows: "Dear Mr. President Taft My papa Is not a murderer. He is a brave sol dier fighting for his country. Please don't let the Americano soldiers give my grandpa to Mr. Madero, for Mr. Madero would shoot him and that would just kill poor grandma. Your little friend, Elena Orozco." Mrs. Orozco, mother of General Orozco, lies seriously 111 from nervous breakdown at the Orozco home here. SPOKANE' CLAIMS VICTORY Rate Compromise Made in Seattle Approved In Inland Empire. SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 19. (Spe cial.) By an agreement between Spo kane and coast shippers local jobbers have secured changes in Eastbound freight rates that will be extremely advantageous to local jobbers, Percy C. pSwell, chairman of the joint rate committees of the Spokane Merchants' Association and Chamber of Commerce announced today. The agreement was entered Into Wednesday afternoon at Seattle at the conclusion of the hearing of the State Pubic Service commission on the com-j plaint of Spokane jobSers, asking low er carload rates from the coast. The local rates committees will be called together, either Saturday or early next week to pass upon the agreement and are expected to confirm It. 'Word I have received from J. B. Campbell, who negotiated the . agree' ment on our behalf, convinces me that Spokane jobbers have won a distinct victory," said Mr. Powell. 'By the agreement the carload rates on a number of important commodities which we ship from the coast will be reduced materially. It Is not true, as reported, that the less than carload rates have been reduced correspond ingly. They remain the same. Governor Fails to Set tie Utah Strike. TONS OF DYNAMITE STOLEN Sheriff Has Promise of Large Force of Deputies. MILITIA - LAST RESORT Conditions of Oi-vil Warfare Reported From .Bingham, but Mediation AVII1 Be Tried Before Ex treme Measures! HAY'S ' RACE COST" $13,100 Governor of Washington Files Ei penses in Recent Primary. OLYMPIA. Wash., Sept. ' 19. (Spe clal.) -The expenditures of Governor Hay, in connection with his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Gov ernor in the . recent primary campaign totaled $13,100.99, according to a sworn and Itemized statement filed today with Secretary of State Howell. Of the total expended, $2534.96 went for postage, H667.S8 for printing, en graving and office stationery, while traveling expenses aggregated $458.90, and the balance, $5439.85, was for rent. lertcal help and other headquarter ex penses. The statement covers the period from February 14 to Septem ber 10. Glvernor Hay's campaign was financed throughout from his own personal funds. - BIG CAT KILLS BULLDOG Angora, Driven to Edge of Water, Gives Battle and Whips Canine. LOS ANGELES. Sept. 19. "Tiger." an Immense Angora cat, owned by Mrs. Harry Llndley of Venice, attacked and killed a full-blooded English bulldog. owned by J. C. Fromeyer, at Venice to day. Mrs. Llndley was strolling along the ocean front walk when the dog sprang t the cat. Tiger" ran toward the surf and reaching the water's edge with no safety in sight, turned and gave battle. Within two minutes the bulldog, bleed ing and helpless, fell upon the sand. The cat then leaped upon the dog's head and with claws and teeth sev ered Its jugular vein. JUDGES OPPOSE RECALL National Association - Members Chaos if System Rules. See CHICAGO. Sept. 19. Opposition to the recall of Judges and of judicial decisions was expressed at the annual convention of the National Associa tion of Probate Judges today. "Enforce that principle and we will have made the Constitution useless," said Josiah C. Tallmadge, of CatskiU, N. T. "Our courts would be tn chaos, for no satisfactory substitute for the present system has been offered by those who advocate the recall." SALT LAKE CITT. Sept. 19. The strike of the 4500 miners at Bingham Utah, Is no nearer settlement tonight than when the men walked out yes terday morning. The visit of Governor Spry to the camp this afternoon, when he addressed the strikers, had a quieting effect and the disturbances of last night have not been repeated. The Greek miners abandoned their fortifications to listen to the Governor's speech, and so far have not reinhabited them. It is said tonight, however, that they will again take up their position be hind the breastworks tomorrow morn ing. It is the plan of the force of dep uty sheriffs now on duty to prevent this. A large force of deputies is pa trolling the streets of the town. Great Store of Dynamite Stolen. The appearance of Governor Spry and the State Board of Labor Conciliation and Arbitration .as factors in the situa tion was the most encouraging feature of the day. Developments- indicative of trouble were the' theft of more than 5000 pounds' of high-power dynamite from the Utah Construction Company's stores at Bingham, the inability of the conservative leaders to control a cer tain element of the strikers and The proposed service of warrants on strik ers responsible for shooting and intimi dation at the Cooper camp. The Greek miners, entrenched on the mountain commanding the , works of the Utah Copper Company, left their fortress shortly before the arrival of the Governor and his peace party this afternoon and joined the audience J which listened to an address by the executive and others, but an Interpreter was quoted as declaring that the de sertion was only temporary and the fortress would be reoccupled as soon as the Governor had gone. Mediation, to Be Tried. Governor Spry's trip to Bingham was the sequence of - a long conference be- Young" Wife Who Wedded Under Agreement for Personal Liberty Takes Job as Illustrator.. LOS . ANGELES. Sept; 19. Mrs. Ch&rleton Washburn, formerly Jdiss Heluiz Chandler of Philadelphia, whose prenuptial contract signed Just before her marriage last Sunday .contained a clause, inserted at her demand, that she should earn her own living, began today the' fulfillment of that agree ment. . . r Mrs. Washburn, although well-to-do accepted 'a position with a Los Angeles building firm, as . illustrator: tor the company, magazine.. Her husband also Is employed by the same company. ' The marriage contract, designed to secure -the - greatest -.'measure- of, per sonal . liberty. , prescribes that each party shall be entirely Independent of the other and free,- even' to matters of the heart. - ' j -', ' FEARS FELT FOR. LAUNCH Seagull Falls to ArriTe and She May : Be Blown to Sea. SEATTLE, Wash.. Sept. 19. (Spe cial.) Officers of the United States lifesavlng tug Snohomish and masters of vessels plying In the coastwise and trans-Pacific trade today were re quested to aid in- the search for the gasoline fishing launch Seagull,, which is believed to have been blown to sea. The Seagull ' left Astoria Friday, September 13, bound for this port with a crew, of four men, including Albert Hauge, Conrad Olson, M. Abrahamsen and an engineer. She was last seen crossing out of the Columbia River. The vessel recently "was completed at the yards of Wilson Bros., Astoria. She Is 33 feet long and equipped with ten-horsepower engine. Lars Han sen, her owner, who. came to Seattle by train,- said today that the vessel should have reached this port last Sunday. He has grave fears for the safety of her crew. The Seagull was to leave this port last Monday in command of her owner for Petersburg, Alaska. (Concluded on Page 2.) CLOTHES CAUSE OF CLASH Girl Graduates Wrangle Over What Style of Dress to Wear. SPOKANE. Wash., Sept. 19. (Spe cial.) On the question whether cream serge sailor suits or tailored gowns of the same material shall bedeck the girl graduates of the North Central High School next January, the feminine con tingent of the senior A class clashed today. The girls met in the room of Miss Kaye, a member of the faculty. The curtains were drawn and the doors bolted. . The meeting was called to order by Miss Elizabeth Corcoran, vice-president of the class. The general sentiment of the class seemed to favor having the dresses made of cream colored serge. Immediately following the discussion two sides were formed, one favoring sailor suits and the other suits froci serge, made in any manner the wearer wished. '. Roosevelt Indian Inves tigator Accused. GROW LANDS ARE INVOLVED Mrs Helen Pierce Gray Says Value Is. $100,000,000. SENATOR STANDS SPONSOR Departments Mysterious Over Affair. : Woman Says She Transferred : Records to Prevent Threat ' ened Destruction. WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. Mrs. Helen Pierce Gray, of St. Paul, who, as an Investigator of Crow Indian affairs for the Graham committee of the House, was the center of stormy scenes' at the last session of Congress, was arrested here today upon complaint of the Indian Office and charged with con cealing a public record. She was re leased upon her own recognizance on assuranco from Senator Clapp, of Min nesota, that she would appear before a United States commissioner - next Tuesday. Later in the day representatives of the Indian Bureau went through the files at the Department of Justice, to which Mrs. Gray said she had given the pa per, and discovered the missing docu ment. It was returned to the bureau. Concealment Of Paper Charged. Mrs. Gray was charged with con cealing the allotment roll of the Crow tribe, covering Indian lands in Mon tana. Upon her arraignment today she declared she had taken the roll from the Indian Office with the con sent of Commissioner Valentine and Judge M. C. Burch, attorney of the At torney-General's office, and turned it over to the Department of Justice, that it might be saved from destruction and used as evidence in a proposed Inves tigation before the Senate committee on Indian affairs. , . Such an investigation was provided at the last session in a resolution by Senator Townsend, of Michigan. Mrs. Gray said her action had the approval of Attorney-General Wlckersham and that her arrest had been brought about by her enemies, in the Attorney-General's absence from the city. Destruc tion of the Crow records, she said, in volved lands valued at probably S100, 000,000. - Departmets Little Informed. At the Department of Justice today little was known of the affair. At the Interior Department it was said Mrs. Gray's arrest had been asked by Assist- (Concluded on Page 6.) OH, YOU BULL MOOSE! " Majority pt Lines -Report Enormous Call for Cars to Move Bounti ful Western Harvest. CHICAGO. Sept.. 19. (Special.) Re sults of the bountiful crop to be moved this year by the railroads are beginning to show themselves in the statistics of car movement. This is brought out strikingly In the case of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, which is breaking all previous records in .this respect. The Northwestern on September 13 moved on the lines of its system 23,000 freight cars and on the folowtng. day almost duplicated the figures with a total of 27,034 cars. This, it la said by the management of the road, exceeds greatly any record heretofore established for a single day's business and the performance Is made possible by extensive terminal improvements which, have been in stalled in the last two years, enabling a more expeditious movement of cars. Other roads are also meeting with a constant increase in the demand for cars and all indications point to one of the largest traffic years in the historv of the ralfroads. One reports no sur plus cars whatever at the present time, while another lays stress on the fact that the demand for cars west of the Missouri River is becoming strong and grain shipments have increased per ceptibly in the last week, bringing business as a whole above last year by a considerable margin. WHITE ESKIMO CREDIBLE ScientistsBelieve Explorer Stcfenson Will Prove Claims. WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. fSneeial.1 The lost tribe of Europeans, the white Eskimos, whom Vllhjalmor Stefanson round in the Arctic Circle, are old friends of the scientists of the National Museum. t 'Dr. Walter Hough, of the ethnologi cal department of the museum, one of the greatest authorities on American aborigines, said he believed the ex plorer would be able to substantiate his statements. "There are three Important features ' oiemnson s announcement," says Dr. Hough. "He speaks of finding many ctKimos witn blue eyes, reddish hal and light complexions. If these, white Eskimos are descendants of the lost colonists of Greenland, It is Interesting 10 anow mat this type of white men nas retained Scandinavian characteris tics so long.' The second lmDortan phase that Stefanson found the facial maex was the same as that of Eskimo. Scandinavian half-bloods of Greenland and not typically Eskimo." The third, important thing is the fact that Stefanson has found a tribe that hid practically no contact with civili zation for centuries. a On All Nominations He Is Repudiated METSCHAN CHOSEN ELECTOR C. W. Nottingham Named to Make State Senate Race. RESIGNATION IS IGNORED DUMBA NEWAMBASSAD0R Wealthy and Popular Austrian to Succeed Baron Hengelmuller. VIENNA. Sept. 19. Konstantin The odor Dumb, at present Minipter to Sm-eden. was nominated today to suc ceed Baron Hengelmuller von Henger- var as Ambassador or Austria-Hungary at Washington. . Herr Dumba la a wealthy and popular diplomat. He Inherited the property of his uncle, a Vienna banker and phil anthropist, who was a great art patron. Baron Hengelmuller has represented Austria-Hungary at Washington for IS years and was dean of the diplomatic AIRSHIPS IN WAR FAVORED Friends of Peace Declare Aeroplanes Are Influence ior Arbitration. GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 19. The conference of the Interparliamentary Union, which began its sessslons here yesterday, adopted a resolution today in favor of compulsory international arbitration. . Auguste Beernaert, the Belgian Min ister of State, proposed a resolution in terdicting the use of the flying ma chines in war. The resolution was vigorously opposed by Baron d'Estour nelles de Constant, preslden of the French Interparliamentary group, who said that aeroplanes were a powerful lnnuence in the world's peace. SUICIDE MANIA IS CHILLED River Brings Back Love of JAte for Man Who Feared Aged Wife. SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 19 Because he was afraid his wife. 37 years older than he, would accuse him of Infi delity, George W. Kelly, nged 26, Jumped into the Spokane rlv-jr above the falls today and attempted to end his life. e When he struck the water, the de sire for life returned, and he clung to a log during a wild ride through the rapids, finally checking his course at the power dam, where he was rescued by the' police. Kelly married Mrs. L. E. Lundeen, aged 63, last May. WINE SHINGLE MILLS CLOSE Demand of Weavers for More Pay ' Throws 4M Out of Work. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept 18. Nine shingle mills In the Ballard manufac turing district were closed today by the walkout of 150 shingle-weavers, who demanded an Increase in pay of one cent a., thousand shingles. The clos ing of the mills threw 400 men out of work. The striking shingle-weavers, who have been receiving S cents a thousand, declared Inconvenient facilities in the mills affected entitled them to higher pay. ALL IN COURT SEARCHED Judge Bays No Arsenal Will Be Ad mitted at Sneed Hearing. AMARtLLO. Tex, Sept. . 19. Judge Browning here today in granting a hearing, of the habeas corpus petition In the case of John B. Sneed, charged with killing Al G. Boyce, ordered that every person entering the courtroom Monday next be searched for arms. 'There will be no admission of as arsenal," said the court. Republicans Fill Gaps In Ticket and Prepare for Immediate Activity. John L. Rand Picked to Suc ceed William Han ley. , Ignoring a letter from Dan Kellaher announcing his withdrawal as a candi date for Presidential elector on both the Republican and the Rooseyelt Pro gressive tickets, a mass meeting of 150 Republicans last night declared a va cancy on the party's electoral ticket and unanimously nominated Phil Mets chan, Jr., to succeed Mr. Kellaher. Not satisfied with this action and for the purpose of further repudiating Mr. Kellaher, the same mass meeting nomi nated C. W. Nottingham, ex-State Sen ator, as an independent candidate to oppose the East Side man for State Senator, B. S. Pague had no sooner than called the mass meeting to order at Repub lican headquarters in the Imperial Hotel than a pronounced antl-Kellaher feeling appeared. C. W. Fulton, ex- Unlted States Senator, was elected chairman, and In taking charge of the meeting said he believed he was assum ing the chairmanship of "an initial meeting that would cumlnate in the election of President Taft." He an nounced that the purpose of the gath ering was to provide for vacancies on the electoral ticket, and asked Charles B. Moores, chairman of the state com mittee, to make a more specific state Mr. Moores Explains Situation. "We are here to nil one vacancy on the electoral ticket, created by the dec lination of William llanley, of Harney County, to accept' the nomination re ceived in the primary election," ex plained Mr. Moores. "We will also fill another vacancy that we will create to night by vacating the nomination os tensibly held by Dan Kellaher on the same electoral ticket. We will displace Kellaher and select in his place a Re publican we can depend upon to sup port Taft and Sherman. It is up to us t to select somebody in place of Mr. Kel laher, whom the Bull Moose party lias sought desperately to retain on the ticket." . ' John L. Rand, a prominent Eastern Oregon lawyer, of Baker, was nomi nated by Mr. Pague to succeed Mr. Hanley, and when attention was called to the fact that Eastern Oregon was en titled to representation on the ticket. Mr. Hanley coming from that section of the state, the nomlnalon of Mr. Rand was made by acclamation. Without further discussion, Phil Metschan, Jr., of Multnomah, was unanimously nomi nated to succeed Mr. Kellaher. Robert C. Wright, chairman of the county central committee, proposed the nomination of C. W. Nottingham as an Independent candidate forState Senator to oppose Mr. Kellaher. There being no other nominations, the selection of ex-Senator Nottingham was declared unanimous. Acceptances to Be Filed. The certificates of nomination arid formal acceptances of Mr. Rand and Mr. Metschan for Presidential electors and of Mr. Nottingham for State Sena tor will be filed with the Secretary of State at Salem today. This is the last day on which nominations made by a convention or assembly of electors, to gether with the acceptance of such nominations, can be filed in the Secre tary of State's office. The certificates will ask that the words "Taft and, Sherman" be placed after the names of Mr. Rand and Mr. Metschan. Mr. Nottingham had not decided last night what slogan he would request printed on the ballot following his name. As completed the Republican elec toral ticket is as folows: M. J. Mac- Mahon, of Multnomah; McKlnley Mitch ell, of Multnomah; E. V. Carter, of Jackson; John L. Rand, of Baker, and Phil Metschan, of Multnomah. The following counties were repre sented at the mass meeting: Multno mah, Hood River, Marlon, Polk, Kla math, Douglas, Lane, Benton, Yamhill and Washington. Early yesterday afternoon S. A. Kozer, chief clerk In the Secretary of State's office, after calling at Repub lican, Democratic and Bull Moose headquarters, visited Mr. Kellaher and notified him that Secretary Olcott had decided that under the law he could certify to the nomination of Mr. Kella her to only one office, that of State Senator. Secretary Olcott further ad vised Mr. Keddaher through his chief deputy tnat he would refuse to certify to the nomination of Mr. Kellaher as a candidate for Presidential elector on either the Republican or Progressive tioket Mr. Kellaher Immediately dictated a etter . to the Secretary of State In which he notified that official of his deollnatlon and withdrawal as a can didate for Presidential elector on two tickets. At the same time he wrote etters carrying the same Information to Charles B. Moores, chairman Re publican state central committee, and (Concluded on Tags 18. corps there- r I I Concluded ea Pact 3.)