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VOL. Ml - "0. 16,2 2. rOKTLAXD, OEEGOX, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SENATE RIDES OVER SIX M ORE VETOES JOURNALIST HAS S DEADLOCK IN IDAHO SHOWS NO WAVER POINCARE CHOSEN FRENCH PRESIDENT COST OF PARCEL . POST 1 5 DAYS $34 OVER 13,000 PACKAGES DELIV ERED FOR LOW FIGURE. HIS DIFFICULTIES FOR NEW H ff FRENCH CANDIDATES INTER VIEWED BY PROXY. 000.00011 7 INCHES OF SNOW FALLS IN PORTLAND GHWAYS LEG I S LAT l""R E .SPLITS EVENLY ON AILSHIE AND BRADY. Coming of Borah Expected to Cause Governor's Men Lost in "Deficiency" Storm. HOUSE SUSTAINS WEST TWICE Second-Choice Primary Bill Fails Two-Thirds Vote. UPPER BODY FIGHT BITTER Overwhelmingly, Measures Creating Emergency Board and Forbidding Over - Spending, Pass With Four Others Over Executive. JIE-ASTKES PASf-EI OVER VETO OF GOVERNOU IN SENATE. Forbidding spending where there Is no available appropriation. Creating" emergency board in time of need when deficiency exists. Providing- livestock board; abolish ing sheep Inspector, state and coun ty veterinarians. Method for dividing counties. Providing fish hatchery at Spring Creek. Increasing District Attorney's sal ary In Fifth Judicial District. Vetoes Nwtalned in House. On measure providing for second cbofca In primary election. On measure modifying law with re gard to diverting funds from ordained use. STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Or., Jan. 17. (Special.) In the expected storm which broke this morning In the. Sen ate on the two vetoed bills of Senator Wood, of Washington County, this hand of the Governor was forced to the limit, and by an overwhelming; vote in both cases the Governor's vetoes were over ridden. Before the Senate adjourned four more measures were passed over the executive's veto, making a total of six for the day. in the House, the reverse was the case, the Governor being sustained in his veto of the second choice- primary bill by a vote of 26 to 21; and on the second bill, that modifying the law on the diversion of public funds from their proper use, he was sustained again by a, vote of 27 to 32. A two-tliirds vote would have been required to pass the bills over the Governor's head. In the Senate the fight was the blt lercst of the session. Lefeat of the rsovwnor and his handful of support ers was inevitable from the start, how ever. In the House, while less heated, :he debate became sharp. The Senate sustained the veto on the acquisition 9f tldclands by ports. McColloch Backs Governor. In the Senate the Governor was backed strongly by Senator McColloch, of Baker, his Democratic Eastern Ore gon spokesman. All morning war waged about these two bills. McColloch twice took the floor and endeavored to stem the tide which was sweeping In against the veto messages of the Governor. In one speech of about 30 minutes he made a strong at tack on the bills, tholr legality when construed together, their construction and their tendency. Later he made an other effort to push back, the defeat that then seemed Inevitable to the Gov ernor's eeto messages on these bills. His efforts proved futile, however, and by a decisive vote. In both cases, the vetoes were overridden. The bills provided. In trie first in stance, that no warrants should bo drawn on the State Treasurer when there was no appropriation therefor. In the second Instance ah emergency board is provided for in event it is necessary through some act of God, or the public enemy, or in times of emergency to create a deficiency. This board is to Include the Governor, Treas urer, Secretary of State, President of the Senate, Speaker of the House and chairman of the two ways and means committees. Both of the bills were introduced In Hie last session bv Senator Wood and carried. Xee4 for Uwi Explained.. With the Judiciary committee of the Senate, to which the bills were re ferred, split wide open, the bills were thrown into that body this morning without a recommendation. In an explanatory talk. Senator Wood, of Washington, their author, ex plained the reason for introduction of these bills: the habit in the past of creating large deficiencies; the abuse to which this habit had been subjected, and explained how, after a thorough investigation, he reached the conclu sion that the statutes of the state should restrict promiscuous raids on the state treasury. He pointed out how deficiencies have crept in during the last two years, regardless of efforts which have been made to curb them, and that it la impossible for any man or set of men to make a definite prom ise that there will be no deficiencies in tiiej cost of the state government and carry cut that promise. Following Wood's explanatory talk, the debate broke In all its fury. It was wide in its range, from attacks on ' heads of state- Institutions, references to the "honor" system of the Governor, and excoriations by Thompson of a system which allows a public t-fflclal to "shore his arm u to the elbow into ! the funds of the state treasury." McColloch took the Ilwr to ch&mplon Concluded c-o S.J Cook ot President-elect Dreads Life in. Palace M. Pams Has "Nothing to Sny." PARIS, Jan. 17. (Special:) Whoever heard of an American candidate for the Presidency refusing to talk, or of a re porter having to resort to cunning to get an interview with an office-seeker? Unable personally to corner M. Poin- care or M. Pams, the correspondent of The Oregonian in Paris lias enlisted a native Journalist, the cut of whose clothes was different. "It is not possible to interview candidate for President, it is not ethical for him to talk for publication." said the Journalise Upon being urged to make the attempt, he consented. Fol lowing was the result: "After waiting outside M. Poincare's home in the Rue Commandant Marchahd, I decided to enter the court yard and talk to the cook, whom I saw at the kitchen window. She said: "I hope. Man Dieu. that he will not be elected. It is nice and homelike here and I would be unhappy in the Elysee Palace. Yesterday we had beefsteak and French fried potatoes. Today we shall probably have calves brains." "Seeing M. Poincare entering an au tomobile I approached. He smiled and said, 'See you later," then whirled away, "I rang the bell of M. Pams' house in the Avenue Henri Martin. A pretty soubrette responded. 'Master is'break fastlns and not receiving," said the maid. 'I shall be so happy if Mon sieur is elected. Of course, he will be." She discreetly refused to talk any further. From a cafe in the neighbor hood 1 called up M. Pams by tele phone. "I have nothing to say" was his only response." ( LEG IS PUT BACK ON DOG Sliver and Dinmond Joints Affixed in Successful Operation,- SAX FRANCISCO. Jan. 17. Through an operation performed on a small dog, Dr. Milton Francis Clark, of this city, believes lie lias discovered a new meth od in surgery which will "make possible the substitution of silver and diamond geared Joints for damaged . human swivels, and restore the use of arms and legs to thousands of afflicted per sons. Dr. Clark fitted the dog with a ball ana socKet neei joint "i with pivots of diamonds, yesterday, leaving all the nerves and tendons in tact, and fastening the tendons in a way which he believes will give the dog the full use of his leg. The dog came out of a state of coma today and kicked vigorously with the re-made leg. Dr. Clark is the medical representa tive of thet King of Greece in San Francisco. INDIAN WAR VETERAN DEAD .udrcw Laws, Pioneer Stage-Driver, Passes Away at Orting.'. VANCOUVER. Wash., Jan. 17. (Spe cial.) Andrew J. Laws, the man who killed the first Indian in the Indian wars of 1S55-56 In this section of the Pacific Northwest, and who also drove the first stage from Vancouver, Wash., to Portland, Or., is dead, having passed away at the Soldiers' Homo at Orting, Wash., yesterday. The grizzled old vet eran would have been 80 years old had he lived until March 13. He , was a na tive of Illinois, but crossed the plains in 1S53 with ox teams. He located near Vancouver and had lived near this place since. The funeral will be held Sunday, from Ridgefield. and he will be buried by the side of his wife, who died in 1885. He is survived by three sons, Frank Laws, of Ridgefield; Jesse Laws, of Mayvlow. and Bert Laws, of Westport, Oi.. and four daughters, Mrs. W. W. Wandel, of Ilwaco, Or.; Mrs. George Page, of Vancouver, and Mrs. Alice Sawyer and Mrs. Elta MeDermott, of Portland. JAPAN GLAD OF SYMPATHY . Compliments Exchanged at Banquet to Ambassador Chinda. NEW YORK, Jan. o. International compliments were exchanged today at a luncheon by the Japan Society In honor of Viscount Chinda. Japanese Ambassador to the United States. Am bassador Chinda said that the many sincere expressions of sympathy re ceived by Japan from America fallow ing the recent death of the late Em peror, did much to cement the bonds of friendship between the two nations. Jacob H. Schiff paid a tribute to the dead Emperor and said that the en trance of Japan amon? the great na Hons of the world had been a great benefit to civilization. . , BANK CLEARINGS INCREASE Gain for Week Over Last Year Near ly Two Millions and Half. One of the biggest gains in bank clearings Is Indicated in the record for the week ending yesterday, with a total of 812.550,000 and an increase of 24 per cent over clearances for the corres ponding week of last year. The gain in clearings is 12.423.000. Seattle's clearings totaled 812.407,000. or 1152.000 less than Portland s totals. The percentage of gain at Seattle was 9.S. The clearings at Spokane were 84,62S,OO0, with a gain of 3.5 per cent. Tacoma's totals were 82.901,000, wifli a decrease of 1.2 per cent. Scheme Is to Gridiron Washington. STATE CONTROL IS PROPOSED Five Main Trunk Lines With Branches Desired. INSPECTION TRIP PROBABLE Legislature's Members May Go On Junket to Vancouver to Investi gate Scheme of. Bridge Over the Columbia River. r -; r , OLYMPIA. Wash., Jan. 17. (Special.) Road bills of great importance, af fecting nearly every part of the state, were Introduced in the Legislature here today and started on their regu lar course through committees. . In volved in the measures are new high ways which will cost - approximately 2.000,000 to build. Completion and Improvement of the Pacific Highway from .Blaine, Wash., to Vancouver, Wash., and the construc tion of long and'important trunk roads between Spokane and Tacoma, Tacoma and Elbe, Kenton and the Yakima Val Tey and a road circling the Olympic Peninsula are among the important im provements provided In the bills. j One measure introduced in the Sen ate by Senator Nichols, chairman of the Senate roads committee, provides lor the creation of roads of two classes, the first to comprise trunk or arterial highways, to be known as primary roads, and the other feed roads, to be known as secondary roads. Provision is made for state control and improve ment of these thoroughfares. " : 1 Five Roads Provided. . Five primary roads are provided for in the bill, but others can be .created by the Legislature if desired. The fore most one of these which the bill pro vides shall be established, completed and Improved will be known as the Pacific Highway. . It will begin at the international boundary line at Blaine, Wash., and extend south through Bel Iingham, Everett," Seattle, Renton, (Concluded on Page o.) MORE -." - 0 - ((( 'AM ( " Hs"r Go-r A lVVV Jl' I T W To - Change In Short-Term Senatorial ' Fight In Gem State. BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 17. (Special.) Unless there is a change of 11 votes during tonight and tomorrow morn ing, from James H. Brady to Judge James t. Ailshie. or vice versa, the apparent deadlock reached at noon to day between the two men in-the race for the short-term Senatorship will go over until Monday. , , Brady and Ailshie split even -on the vote taken in session by the 12th Idaho Legislature with SI votes apiece. Ex-Senator William E. Borah, who was re-elected this week for a second term, is en route to Boise and many of his political backers are advising a deadlock until ihe can arrive. .It is believed by many that Senator Borah will designate his -choice for the short term. " This report Is denied by many of his closest friends, who declare he will take no part . in the fight. His arrival is expected here tonight.. FIELDS ASKS FOR $20,000 Threatened Damage- Suit 'Against -'.. Warden Finley Is Filed. ' The threatened damage suit of Frank S. Fields. ex-County Clerk, against W. U Finley, State Game. Warden, was filed in Circuit Court yesterday. Mr. Fields demands' 20,"00 as-com pensation for injury to his reputation arising out of his arrest ,t the in stance of the T Game Warden on a charge of failing to pay to the state money .secured from the sale of fish ing and hunting licenses. It was shown that Mr. Fields had- overpaid the state, and,' the case was dismissed in Justice Court 1 Previous to his arrest both Mr. Fields and John F. -Logan, - his attorney, Warned Mr. Finley that a damage suit would be forthcoming if the warrants were served.. NEW MAIL MAN COLLAPSES Parcel Pps-t Adds Much to Burden of Rural Carrier. - WHITE "SALMON, Wash.. Jan. 17. (Special.) W. L. Olson, who was put on the new rural route one week ago, cdllapsed while on his way to Bristol postofflce Monday. " The work had proved too hard for him. Parcel post has made the carrying of the mails harder than expected and Olson has decided to abandon his Job. Starfroute mail is delivered by the stage company. SKETCHES FROM LEGISLATIVE (t Assembly Heeds Pop ular Will. SESSION MARKED BY TUMULT Candidate Sends Challenge. Explanation Follows. . ' VIEWS OPPOSE SOCIALISM Nevt- Executive Is One of "Immor tals," and Career as Lawyer Is Noteworthy for Fact That Clients Get No Bills. - ' VERSAILLES, France, Jan. 17. Ray mond Nicholas Landry Poincare, for the last 12 months Premier of the French Cabinet, was elected President of the Republic of France today by the National Assembly, composed of the members of -both chambers of Parlia ment, to succeed President Armand Fallieres, whose seven-year term ex pires February 18, tjrreai contusion, out ot wnicu hiubo two challenges to duels, marked the casting of the ballots. Premier Poincare's selection for the Presidency of France, although made by Parliament, as required by the con stitution, is regarded as representing as well the popular will of the nation. Jules Pams, Minister ot Agriculture, was Poincare's nearest competitor. The final ballot stood: Raymond Poincare, 483; Jules. Pams, 296; Marie Edouard Valliant, 69. Impartiality Is Promised. M. Poincare's first words on receiv- g notification of his election were "I shall try to show myself worthy of the confidence of the National A3 sembly. I shalUforget without effort the struggles of yesterday and even he injuries. Be convinced that I shall seek in everything and at all times to be an Impartial administrator." At the same time the result was an nounced to the deputies and Senators and the throng of spectators. Including persons of fashion and diplomats, who (Concluded on Page HALLS. Th tos4T& WAG Of 9 v , 9 " i Seattle Postoffice Handles 46,162 , Bundles in Fifteen Days, Cost ing Only $114.30. SEATTLE, Wash., JariV 17. (Spe cial.) At the remarkably low cost of $34:20 a total of 13,368 packages have been delivered In Seattle under the new parcel post during the 15 days of trial, January 1 to January 15, Inclusive, ac cording to the report made today to Postmaster-General Hitchcock by Post master Russell. Approximately ten times the ordi nary number of packages were mailed in Seattle since the parcel post was established. Their average weight was 22 ounces for local delivery and 38 ounces for outside delivery, show ing It was the reduction in cost rather than increase in weight limit that in duced the public to patronize the new system. Packages mailed for delivery inside Seattle totaled 2013. The postage on this amounted to 8124.48. Incoming parcels delivered amounted to 11,355 and the grand total of all parcels de livered in Seattle was 13,368. All this was handled at a cost of $34.20. - Outgoing packages aggregated 33. 101, averaging in weight 38 ounces. These were handled here at an in creased cost of but 8114.30 over or dinary expenditures, while the postage from these was 86731.04. The grand total of outgoing, Incom ing and local packages was 46,469, av eraging 3097- per day. The low cost here is due to regular carriers handling the packages In addi tion to their ordinary mails. The addi tional expense of 834.20 was caused by the use of substitute carriers to handle large bundles. - The chief recommendation made by Seattle office was abolition of distinc tive stamps. QUEST REWARDED TARDILY Veteran Finds His Commander Only After Death Takes Him. 'I have lived here in Portland sev eral years, within a few blocks of my old commander, and 1 did not know he was here until I saw the account of hi death in the newspaper." These were the words of James Wil son, of 129 Russell street, formerly in service in New Mexico under Major H. F. Kendall, In the Eighth United States Cavalry. He came to The Ore goniait office yesterday, gray-haired and evidently well advanced in years. but still of military bearing. He iden tified himself by unfolding and spread ing out his discharge papers, received in 1891. "I joined the army at Camp Prescott, Arizona, in 1869," he said. "For ten years I was with Major Kendall after I. joined him in 1886. I served in his campaign against Geroniino and was with him in the 'grand march' from the Rio Grande to the mouth of the Yel lowstone in 1887, and I left the service in 1891 after having served with him through the Sitting Bull uprising. "I wish that I might ; have known sooner." he added, "that the Major was here in the city and living right near me.' COMPANY DENIES DEBT Suit of W. M. Jackson Declared to Have Xo Basis. In regard to the suit brought against the Churchill-Matthews Company by W. M. Jackson for $50,000 damages, A. C. Churchill, president of the company, yesterday made the following' state ment: "While papers in such a caee have been nerved on us, there in absolutely no baa In for any such uit, an In no way, shajM? or manner have we torokeD any contract; neither rto we owe, nor did we ever owe tald Jackson any money. Jackpon made a verbal agreement on a particular transaction to do certain things, and on his word we consummated the deal which he afterwards repudiated, and In the discussion over tUltt affair he made himself very obnoxious and objectionable, which placed him in disrepute not only with the principals of this firm, Messrs. Churchill and Matthews, but ad of the office staff. While we place no value or Importance to any action that mlsht emanate from Jack son. we naturally desire to counteract the publication and wide circulation of a preju dicial statement. GRAIN BROKERS WARNED Magnate Urges Dealers to Heed Wilson Concerning Law. CHICAGO, Jan. 17. A note of warn ing to Board of Trade exchanges and brokers to confine their transactions to the strictest interpretation of the law was sounded today by J. C. Mer rill, president of the Council of Grain Exchanges, at its annual meeting here. "There is no use trying to get arounui the fact." he said, "that we are strict ly up against It, if we persist In trying to get over speculative grain deals that do not come up to tne letter ot tne law. 'Take the address of President-elect Wilson here last week. His ideas are modern and they will be enforced. To seek to excite the desires of the weak to imitate the strong and get some thing for nothing must stop." The council Is composed of 19 of the largest Boards of Trade and Grain Exchaes in the country. WOMEN LAWYERS BARBED Britain Refuses to Permit Fair Sex Attorneys to Practice. LONDOX. Jan. 17. Women .were ex cluded from practicing law at the Brit ish bar by an overwhelming vote of the Bar Association at its annual meeting held this afternoon. A motion to admit women to member ship was favored by some of the young er barristers, but the senior counsel Toted in a body against it. Sleighing Parties Lose No Time for Fun. CAR SERVICE IS IMPAIRED Phone and Telegraph Wires Suffer Some in Storm. TRAINS' DELAY IS SLIGHT Theaters Are Robbed of Patrons bjr Impeded Streetcars Entire West Feels Change of Weather. .1 Fear Felt for Today. WEATHER CONDITIONS IN PA CIFIC KOBT1IWEST. Albany--Flve Inches ot sngw falls, followed at night by rain. . Salem Close to. 10 Inches of snow falls. Astoria Snow storm beran early last night; barometer falls fast. Carlton, Or. Snow fails to depth of two inches. Vancouvet, Wash. Sleighing en Joyed; snow yet falling. . Portland Seven Inches of snow falls, rain following before midnight. For the first time in the present Winter season Portland heard the Joy ous tinkle of sleighbells last night. Seven Inches of thickly packed. slushy snow, which began falling at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and continued until nearly midnight, made sleighing possible, and many took opportunity oi the occasion to enjoy themselves. Bobsleds and cutters that had not done service since years agone soon were pressed into convenient use. The small boy was out with his sled and those streets that have natural humps or hills were the scenes of many Jolly coasting parties. No less enthusiastic was the mis chievous class of youths who found certain delight in packing the wet flakes into hard, round balls with which they pelted passing pedestrians with more or less accurate aim. SlelKblns Parties) Attacked. Sleighing parties were the particular targets of the snowball army. A com mon law among boys seems to be. that a man with money enough to own a sleigh or with the price to rent one is legitimate prey for good-natured at tack. Automobile owners who drove down town early in the day in their com fortable cars returned home in haste yesterday evening and made ready to substitute therefor improvised sleighs from whatever source they could ob tain them.- Garages yawned for the ever-ready machines. Faithful horses, that long ago have been displaced by the speedier- and more costly gasoline vehicles, were good enough for this once. And well might the joy-riders use haste in turning to the snow-covered streets for their pleasure, for at 10 o'clock last night the temperature mod ified and the white flakes began to turn into liquid again. Slush displaced snow on the streets. Later it began to raiu. WIrea Are Snapped. The heavy snow had its effect upon telephone, telegraph and electric wires, in some ot Ihe residence districts the drop wires between the poles and tho houses became so heavily coated that they snipped. Service was cut off. Transcontinental and interurban wire service out of Portland also suffered. Most damage was done south of Port land. Western Union and Postal wires between this city and up-valley points were down and service at the best was intermittent. Operators were able to connect with Chicago most of the night and Seattle was obtainable. Reports from out side points showed that the storm was quite general in the West, spreading itself over a territory extending as far east as the Rocky Mountain regions, with lowering temperatures In the higher altitudes. Wire service everywhere was crip pled, but absence of a high wind. helpedX to keep the trouble from be coming permanent. tar Service Suffer. Train service did not feel the effects of the storm so much last night as it probably will today. Most of tho trains had arrived by the tlrao the storm was actually under way. Rail road men are prepared for the worst this morning. If it resumes snowlnn they will be ready to combat the drifts and if it starts raining they will, ex pect some floods. Car service on every line in the city suffered last jilght. Officials of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Com pany worked until midnight assisting in keeping the lines open. Snowplows were used and heavy crews of men were kept at work. . The Broadway line was tied up for several hours because a car got off the track in rounding the curve at East Twenty-fourth and Fremont streets. The Beaumont line also was out of commission for a while. All other lines, including even the Portland Heights, were . open. Service, however, was slow ' on all divisions. The average rate of speed was about one mile per hour. Some men who smarted home for (Concluded vn Pace S.) If -I 1 V i! GU106.0