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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1912)
THK JIORMXG OKEGOMAA. T-UiSSUAlf. PiU V JSlKlSlt ITS. 1 IflJUIJCTIOIl IS PLAN TO HALT RATE BILL Railroads or Shippers- May Start Proceedings as Re sult of Election. NEW TARIFF WORK TEDIOUS Traffic Officials Say It Would Re quire Six Months to Publish Schedule In Conformance to Enactment. ' Injunction proceedings will be started within the next few weeks to prevent the Etate Railroad Commission from -enforcing the freight rate bill passed by the people at last Tuesday's elec tion. Whether this action will be Institut ed by the railroads or by the shippers has not been determined. One plan is for the railroads to apply to the courts for a restraining order. Another Is for the railroads to enforce the new law as nearly as It Is possible for them to do so and then let the shippers endeavor to enjoin the rail roads. Attorneys declare that the law be came effective Immediately after the election assured its adoption and that the railroads are subject to the pen alties it provides every time they charce the old or existing rates. Yet. traffic officials point out. It woukl take them six months to pub lish a new tariff In conformance with the new law. Because no one ex pected the measure- to pass no one Is prepared to meet Its demands. The bill was plainly written in that it did not carry a "Joker." yet few people understood Us object and Intent. The ostensible purpose of the bill was to make Medford a Jobbing cen ter. This might be accomplished if the bill were to be enforced, as It would allow Medford wholesalers to ship less than carload lots into that city and distribute them at lower rates than Portland jobbers could distribute their wares In carload lots. But traf flc men say that if Medford is to be come a distributing center with this bill as a foundation that It will satisfy Its ambition only at the expense of the grain, lumber, wool and other In dustries vital to the development of the atate. Members of the State Railroad Com mission fear that the bill woukl de prive them of all rate-making- powers excepting as they apply to first-class commodities. The bill specifies the rate that shall apply to all commodi ties below those taking the first-class rate, using the first-class rate as a basis. various kinds. The fair will be held this year in the Oregon National Guard Armory In this city. Committees in charge of the fair anticipate a big exhibit and the drill room of the armory will be used as the display room. Other rooms at the armory will be utilized for lectures during the fair. Prominent Instructors of the Oregon Agricultural College will furnish the principal portion of the programmes of this year's fair and will give addresses on Interesting horticultural and agri cultural topics. Professor Gardner will speak on "Berry Raising in the Wil lamette Valley." Professor Boquet will discuss "Market Gardening." "Pears in the Willamette Valley" will be the subject of an address by Professor C. L Lewis. Professor Jackson, of the botanical department of the Oregon Agricultural College, will have a dis play of diseased fruit trees and vege tables at the fair and will discuss tree SON OF FORMER PO RTT. AND JEWELER APPEARING HERE THIS WEEK. RAILROAD RATES ARE PUZZLE Oregon Confronted With Chaotic State Never Before Known. SALEM Or, Nov. 11. (Special.) In a state of chaos railroad rates as they will be In this state under the new minimum freight bill, when It Is pro claimed as a law by the Governor, defy the understanding of members of the State Railroad Commission and rail road experts as well. Probably never In the history of rail roading has any state been confronted by a muddle and tangle such as now confronts Oregon. Members of the Railroad Commission are open In their statements that the rate bill as passed November 6 is without precedent; that the system of framing rotes as pointed out by the bill is meaningless and gives to the railroads practically everything that they desire without any benefit mentlonable to be derived by the con sumer. The situation seems to be. as nearly ' as can be determined, like this: Obeylnc Law Amot Impossible. Under the Railroad Commission law under which the Commission has been operating, the railroads are required to file new tariffs within 10 days before they go into effect. The new law will become effective within 30 days from the vote of last Tuesday. It will be impossible for the railroad companies to abide by both laws. This is ob vious. . On top of this there is no basis upon which the railroad companies can make the rates prescribed in the bill. They are supposed to establish Immediately a new system of rates under the law. The law evidently allows them to make rates as high ja taccompanles desire lo mate sucn rates, witnout any ap parent Inhibition on the size of the rates, according to members of the Railroad Commission. There seems to be only one possible protection against the bill. That is for the Railroad Commission to attack any tariff which may be tiled under it as unjust and discriminatory, and it seems certain, with the leeway which rail roads are given under the bill, that the rates proposed will be "out of sight" and way above any rates now in effect. If the companies exercise such privileges as the bill extends to them. Jim Redress Is Seca. Under these conditions, by the time the new rates are taken through the Supreme Court of the United States, which undoubtedly they will be. Rail road Commissioner Campbell declares that it Is possible for the people of Oregon to be tapped for millions of dollars with no possible redress. The bill, he declares. Is so meaning less, so without foundation an any rate-making principles and so abso lutely in favor of the railroad com panies if they desire to take advantage of the opportunities the bill offers, that there Is no possible chance with all the machinery of the courts to stave off the railroad companies from making one of the biggest killings in their history If they desire to push the bill to the final opportunities which are offered. Experts unite In stating that the bill, now to become a law, is of such a variety that even the courts will be unable to determine Just what should be done under Its provisions, and Is so loose In construction as to open loop holes of great magnitude. None of the Commissioners Is ready to offer any solution to the bill. All say It has been offered to some of the best railroad experts in the country, and that they are equally at sea as to its meaning. 0g PRICE SALE M O aSs we will continue this sale at 20ggl I :?f3 PORTLAND'S EMPORIUM III 4 , - ., V i " :: Ileary bwibcnt, i PanmKva. "I'd rather make 'em laugh than have a million or be a doc tor," tersely remarked Henry Greenberg, a native of Portland, who arrived Monday, with lils wife, to play a week's engage ment at Pantages. In vaudeville Greenberg and his wife are known tin Green and Parker. In 1884 Greenberg was born' at the family residence that stood then at the southwest corner of Park and "Washington streets. His father was the Junior mem ber of the Jewelry firm of Hen drlcksen & Greenberg. and when lie died he left a comfortable for tune. Young Greenberg studied medicine with the avowed inten tion of practicing, but the routine wore on his nerves and he turned to dramatics. He scored his first success under the guidance of William A. Brady and then he played comic leads with Frank Daniels. Later he enlisted In the Al Woods forces, only to abandon them for vaudeville. Four years of vaudeville found him in Port land for the first time since he was 2 years old. Mr. Greenberg has many rela tives here, the Becks and the Frohmans being cousins and the Pantages stage was heaped liigh with floral offerings at the open ing matinee. Several Informal receptions and suppers are planned for Mr. and Mrs. Greenberg during their visit here. Just Received New Shipment of Shapes, All Go at This Great Sale. Come Early and Get First Choice. Reg. $4, $5 and $6, All Go at $1.19 PRICE White Beavers $4.39 $10,000 worth of FURS, highest class of goods, y2 PRICE Largest line of UMBRELLAS in Portland, all y2 PRICE All OSTRICH PLUMES, finest male-stock, Va PRICE Do yon want Paradise, best male stock? Kept only by Portland's leading millinery store. Prices cat deep. All go at LESS than Va PRICE Our entire stock of ELEGANT TRIMMED HATS, ac knowledged by all the leaders of all new creations all go this week at Va PRICE Yon don't have to bny shoddy-looking Hats, when you can get our high-class goods at V2 PRICE Babies' Bonnets, children's Hats, Misses' Hats, ladies' Hats, Matronly Hats-r-all included in this sale, V2 PRICE FOR HAND'S EMPO 124, 126, 128 SIXTH STREET RIUM PRICE White Beavers $4.39 Price Sale SEE OCR GREAT COAT SALE I Jjp SEE OUR GREAT COAT SALE CANVASS IS RUSHED Secretary Olcott Would Women to Vote. Aid COUNTY CLERK ADVISED and vegetable diseases of curing them. and methods ALBANY READY FOR FAIR Biy Display of Splendid Fruit Sixth Annual Apple Show. at ALBANY, Or, Nov. 10. (Special.) Arrangements are nearlng completion for Albany's sixth annual apple fair and everything indicates a big dis play of splendid fruit The scope of the fair has been enlarged this year and besides being: for apples and pears, as heretofore, prizes have been offered lor the best exhibits of vegetables of GRANTS PASS LAW PASSES New Oity Ordinance Fixes Sale of Intoxicating- Liquors. GRANTS PASS, Or., Nov. 11. (Spe claL) A new city ordinance regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors passed the Council Saturday night under the emergency clause for the purpose of regulating liquor traffic as directed by the recent election in which the town went wet by a majority of 87. The new regulation is different from the gen eral run of ordinances usually enacted to control the sale of liquors. The applicant must be a white male citizen of the United States and the place of business jnust front on a pub lie street with than 20 feet and not more than 60 feet deep, and with only one entrance or exit and that from the front. Tables, chairs, pictures and paintings and dice boxes must be eliminated. The room must be open, with a clear view from the streets at all times; singing, music and the like come under the ban of the law as well as the proprietor treating. or his employes. Soft drinks, and imitations are not permitted to be sold, and all intoxi cating liquors must be four years of age before being allowed to be com merclallzed over the bar. The hours are shrt In which a man may be privi leged to drink, being limited from 7 A, M. to. 10 P. L First violation carries fine of $200. Sending In of Complete Returns Is Important Matter So That All Errors May Be Avoided or Corrected Where Necessary. SALEM, Or., Nov. 11. (Special.) To insure the women of the state privilege to vote in what city elections may be held throughout the state be fore the first of the year Secretary Olcott Issued a statement today that every possible effort will be made to have the canvass of the vote com pleted early. He also calls upon the county clerks to be as rapid as possible in -sending in completed returns, as sometimes er rors are made in these findings which require correction. In commenting on this Mr. Olcott said today: "Inasmuch as a number of muni cipal elections will occur during the months of November and December of the present year, I "wish to announce that I will use my best endeavors to expedite the official canvass of the vote cast at the recent election, in order that the women who were grant ed the right of suffrage by the passage of the equal suffrage amend ment, may participate in the local elections in their home cities and towns. Request of Clerka Made. "In this connection I earnestly re quest the co-operation of the various county clerks of the state and would respectfully urge upon them the Im portance of carefully verifying all of tbftr abstracts of votes before for- warding them to the Secretary of State as provided by the law, and thus obviate the necessity of correcting possible errors in the returns, as I have been advised that at every pre vious election it has been found neces sary to return some of the abstracts for correction. "In fact, in the first official re turns of the recent election just re ceived in this office some few minor errors were found which must be duly corrected before the official canvass can proceed. "Section 3479 of Lord's Oregon Laws provides that it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, in the pres ence of the Governor, to proceed with in 30 days after the election, and soon er if the returns be all received, to canvass the votes given for each measure; and the Governor shall forth with Issue his 'proclamation giving the whole number of votes cast, in the state for and against eac hmeasure and question, and declaring such meas ures as are approved by a majority of those voting thereo nto be In full force and effect as the law of the state from the date of said proclama tion." Early Completion Expected. Secretary Olcott expressed himself as being able to complete the canvass of the vote within 20 days from the date of the election, in the event the returns are all received in perfect shape not later than November 20, as the totals of the votes cast for the several candidates for and against the several measures could be quickly ver ified by his office force and duly tab ulated in order that the official can vass can proceed and the Governor issue the required proclamations. "The task of canvassing the votes cast in the more thickly populated counties is of considerable magnitude," continued Mr. Olcott. "Especially is this true in Multnomah County, which contains nearly one-third of the voting population of the state, and I realize and appreciate, as do, I believe, all who are Interested, that considerable time is necessarily consumed in . com plying with all of the law's formali ties, and I therefore sincerely trust the feminine side of the human fam ily will bear with the male contingent a few days longer, until, through the apparent cumbersome machinery of the law. they may be duly declared the possessors and holders of that ina lienable right of which they have been so long unjustly denied." Major Kees Recovering. Yesterday was considered the turning' point in the case of Major H. L. Rces, who was injured by an automobile at thn corner of Morrison and Third streets on Thursday afternoon. It was known that his right shoulder had been broken as well as nearly all of the ribs on his left side and while these were not considered serious by his attending physician. Dr. Anthony, it was feared that he had received fatal internal in juries. As the Internal complications have not developed his recovery is now considered assured, but with a lonu delay in the healing of his broken bones. Magical Effect of New Face Peeler (Woman's National Journal.) To maintain a clear, rosy, youthful complexion, there's nothing so simple to use and yet so effective as ordinary mercolized wax, which you can get at any drug store. Just apply the wax at frontage of not less night as you would cold cream; In the morning wasn ii on witii warm water. If you ve never tried it you can t lm agine the magical effect of this harm less home treatment. The mercollde in the wax causes the worn-out scarf skin to come off in minute particles, a little at a time, and soon you have entirely shed the offensive cuticle. The fresh young underskln now in evidence is so healthy and girlish looking, so free from any appearance of artificiality, you wonder why you had not heard of this marvelous complexion - renewing secret long ago. To get rid of your wrinkles, here s a formula that Is wonderfully effective: 1 oz. powdered saxollte, dissolved in 1 witch hazel. Bathe the face in this and you will be simply astonished at the results, even after the first trial. Adv. VALLEY HAS MUCH FRUIT Grants Pass Country Growers Hold 15 Cars of Apples Yet. 'I SCCLD CROSS, MUTABLE Breath Feverish, Bowels Clogged, Give "Syrup of rigs." GRANT8 PASS. Or., Nov. II. (Spe clal.) It is estimated that this section of the valley has about 15 cars yet' to ship to the present market centers where apples are being sold. But little jf Tongue Is Coated, Stomach Sour, Ben Davis variety, which is a splendid keeper, and brings a good price when the other varieties have been sold out. Considerable fruit may be found in Grants Pass warehouses, holding fori Christmas trade. A box of pretty ap ples is considered among the best that! can be offered a iriena during the holi days. Residents of Rogue River Val ley delight in fixing up the best going for the Eastern trade and foreign countries, where the luscious fruit is looked upon with admiration. Two cars are being loaded tor ban Fran cisco. A large proportion of the Wine- saps and Newtowns will be sent to I European markets. SUIT AGAINST BANKS URGED Montana Committee Advises Action for Cashing Forged Checks. HELENA. Mont. Nov. 11. The legis lative committee appointed by Gov ernor Norrls to investigate the alleged embezzlement of state funds by Samuel Langhorne. Jr., a clerk in the office of the board of stock commissioners, which was made public today, recom mended that suit be brought against the banks which cashed checks for 119.- 540.36 bearing forged indorsements and against E. K. Prultt and VV . D. Ray- mond ex-secretaries of the board. The members of the board are sharply crit icised for negligence. The report states that another short- age.of $1513 has been discovered, which. it is declared, is traceable to J. H. Lan der, a stock inspector formerly sta tioned at Chicago. Mother! look at the tongue! see if it coated. If your child is listless. drooping, isn't sleeping well, is restless, doesn't eat heartily or la cross, irri table, out of sorts with everybody, stomach sour, feverish, breath bad; haa stomach-ache, diarrhoea, sore throat, or is full of cold, it means the little one's stomach, liver and 30 feet of bowels are filled with poisons and clogged up waste and need a gentle, thorough cleansing at once. Give a teaspoonful of Syrup of Figs, and in a few hours the foul, decaying constipated matter, undigested food and sour bile will gently move on and out of its little bowels without nausea, griping or weakness, and yotf will sure ly have a well and smiling child shortly. With Syrup of Figs you are not IrugginK your children, being com posed entirely of luscious figs, senna and aromatics it cannot be harmful. besides they dearly love Its delicious taste. Mothers should always keep Syrup of Figs handy. It is the only stomach, liver and bowel cleanser and regulator needed a little given today will save a sick child tomorrow. Full directions for children of all ages and for grown-up plainly print ed on the package. Ask your druggist for the full name. Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, prepared by the California Fig Syrup Co. This is the delicious tasting, genu ine old reliable. Refuse anything else tffered. j '01k. Ships like this from every port in the world will dock at BRIDGEPORT The INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT of the 20th Century Fifteen-minute ride from down town on the United Railways. RFeO IT 00& 13 T1 Within the 5-Cent Fare Limit, lOJJlli OfC 1 and on hard-surface road. iRIDGEFORT : BRIDGEFOR' The place f or y ou Will increase by "O F0 IT 013 RI DGEFORI RIDGEPO leaps s9 bounds Located on five rail roads now. In the direct path of Port land's great growth. Buy it now and in five years you will be independent. Pay only ten per cent in cash and two per cent per month till paid. Portland's Panama Canal Suburb A Quarter Acre for 2000 Is essentially a Factory Center. Has two-thirds of a mile of deep water. The best invest ment today.' Platted in 4 acres. RT FOR T RIDGEPORT SLAUSON-CRAIG CO., 304 Oak St. .1