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1 ONLY THREE VOTES BO . AGAINST LANE Legislature Names Successor to Bourne. BEN SELLING COMPLIMENTED Bean and Calkins and Meek Vote in Minority. BALLOTING IS EXPLAINED Senator Hoskins Believes Wishes of People Should Bo Accorded Kc spect Senator Miller domi nates La no iu Senate. STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Or Jan. 21. (Special.) Scarcely a ripple of ex citement was attendant upon the elec tion by the State Legislature of Dr. Harry Lane, of rortlaiid, today, aa the junior United States Senator from Oregon. Standpatters, Bull Moosers. Progressive. Democrats and anti Statement No. 1 Senators practically united on the Democratic candidate with the exception of three members. Scarcely more than the usual crowd was In the visitors" seats behind the rails. Two in the Senate and one in the II. .use declared their opposition to I-ane. and Ben Selling, of Portland, was accorded three complimentary votes. Senators Bean and Calkins, both of whom did not take Statement No. 1. voted for Ben Selling, as did Represen tative Meek, who also did not take Statement No. 1. Representative Bel land, who did not take the statement, explained his vote and cast it for Harry Lane. Pruple'a Wishes Respected. In the Senate Hoskins, who also did not take the statement, and Lester, who did not subscribe, both voted for Lane, explaining that they believed the wishes of the people should be ac corded respect. Lester stated that, while he was elected as an anti statement member, ha believes the sentiment In his county has changed and that the people there would wish him to vote for the people's choice. Lane was nominated in the Senate by Senator Sillier, his nominating speech being seconded by Senator lie Collorh. Representative Reames nom inated Lane In the House and Repre sentative Hagood seconded the nom ination. In making the nomination of Harry Lane in the Senate. Senator Miller lauded the people of Oregon in their choice and spoke of the strong senti ment In favor of direct election of Senators. More is expected of officials than any time in the history of this coun try, and the- people themselves take more Interest in public affairs, and watch more carefully the acts of pub lic servants," said the Senator. "The history of the election, of Senators In Oregon caused the people themselves to take the law in their own hands and declared It that they would control the election of Senators. "If I be permitted to review briefly, I would call your attention, sir, to the elections of 1S6S. 1873, ISM. 1894 (McBride). 17 (SlmonT. 1903 (Ful ton). Chamberlain, and Bourne. Dur ing these Senatorial contests, all legis lative matters revolved around the election of Senator. Politicians high and low. or near and far. came to the State Capital an contested day and night as to who was to be elected to the Senate. Why People (hanged Things. Tlaces were traded for votes for Senators, so the people resolved that they would take the matter of election of Senator in their own hands, and now. Mr. President, and fellow-Senators, by the authority of the people or the State of Oregon. I desire to namo for the oflice of L'nlted States Senator. Honorable Harry Lane, of Portland. Oregon." "Mr. Lane is well and favorably known to you all. The name of Lane is closely connected with the history uf Oregon, and on the wall, on my right, hangs a picture of Honorable Joseph Lane, grandfather of Harry Lane. Joseph Lane was Territorial Governor. United States Senator and Mexican war veteran and Indian tighter of renown. McCoilurh Seconds Uir. McColloch. in his seconding speech, declared briefly that the occasion represented the highest achievement of the Oregon system and popular government and came all the more strongly to hlra inasmuch as he had on his desk the copy of a resolution providing for the ratification of a con stitutional amendment providing for the direct election of United States Senators. In casting their votes for Ben Sell - ing. Senators Bean and Calkins, of Lane County, each explained their vote in identical wording, sending their explanation to the desk to be entered In the Journal. Their explana tion follows: "I cast my vote for Mr. Ben Selling for United States Senator, he being tha Republican nominee for that of fice. In explanation of my vote I de sire to state that I have no personal objection to Mr. Lane, but desire to protest against the present system of nomination which has replaced the old iContludid oa J.. SCIENTIST INVENTS NEW "COLD LIGHT" KAYS DKVOID OF HEAT ARE CHEAP AND SAFE. Electric System May Be Revolution ized Tiny Battery Will Kun . Ordinary Lamp. PARIS. Jan. il. M. Dussaud, a French scientist who has discovered a means for the production of what he terms "cold light." made public today some details of his discovery, which it Is thought may revolutionise electric lighting. He has constructed an elec tric lamp in which the light is con centrated on a single point and thence is projected through a lens, magnifying a thousand fold. Thus he has. succeed ed in concentrating a 2000 candlepower light on one point, and in passing S3 volts into an eight-volt lamp, which with the ordinary light would burst. Experiments with this lamp have established that the new. light abso lutely is without danger, as no heat Is given off and It required 100 times less current than the ordinary lamp. It can be worked bj' a tiny battery or sufficient motive power can bo ob tained from a Jet of water from an ordinary faucet or even a squirrel turning a cage. The light has been tried with great success in the Biarritz lighthouse, and M. Dussaud la' working on its application-to searchlights for the ministry of war. CHICKEN TRAVELS TOO FAR Nebraska Fowl Sent Here by rarcel Tost Spoils. ' A chicken that had spoiled in transit arrived In Portland yesterday by parcel post from an Interior town In Nebras ka. Tho fowl was directed to a resi dent of Albina. Tho package was properly wrapped, directed and had 34 cents in stamps attached, but the four or more days' travel in steam-heated postal cars had spoiled the pullet for eating purposes and It was delivered to the city garbage crematory In post haste. Of such disposition of parcel post matter no record Is kept, as the sender transmits tho package at his own risk and the postoffice authorities are ex pected to use only the Bame care as is given other classes of mall matter. TRACT TO BE DEVELOPED Portland Syndicate Plans to Spend - Million In Improvements. j Acquisition of a tract comprising about 350 acres, lying directly east of the city limits between the Sandy and Barr Roads, and development of tlie property Into high class suburban homesites is the object of a syndicate of Portland investors now being or ganized. While details of the project have not been announced, it is' understood that the intention is to install all modern street Jmprovements, Including a fine boulevard system. It is estimated that the project will Involve a total expenditure of about 51,000.000. ORDER ABANDONS RATES Modern Woodmen to Postpone Action on Increase Tntll 1914. ROCK ISLAND. 111., Jan. 21. The ex ecutive council of the Modern Wood men of America decided today not to put Into force the new schedule of rates authorised In a head camp meet ing held in Chicago, but will let the next head camp, which meets in 191 i, pass upon the matter. Tho council's decision will be effec tive, regardless of what disposition the courts may make of the Injunction which now restrains the society from enforcing tho increase and which is on its way to a hearing before the Illi nois Supreme Court. TAFT KEEPSJDLD CUSTOM Wilson Xot to Bo Forced to Ride Alone to White House. WASHINGTON. Jan. SI. White House officials announced tonight that President Taft expects to observe one of the ancient customs of inauguration, abandoned by his predecessor, and will ride back up Pennsylvania avenue from the Capitol to the White House with his successor. This custom was broken by Colonel Roosevelt four years ago when he hur ried from the Capitol to the Union railroad station to catch a-train for Oyster Bay. leaving Mr. Taft to make the Journey back up the avenue with Mrs. Taft at his side. TEN BALLOTS MORE FAIL Idaho Senatorial Deadlock Fails, Yet Brada Sees Ugh. BOISE. Idaho, Jan. 21. Ten ballots taken today In the Joint session of the Idaho Legislature for United States Senator failed to bring about an elec tion. The result, however, gave supporters of former Governor James H. Brady cause to hope that a break in the dead lock was near. Brady received the highest vote yet polled. 3S, while his principal opponent. Chief Justice All shic, dropped to 28 votes. Montana fcnate Favors Suffrage. IinLKNA. Mont, Jan. 21. With but two voles in the negative, the Montana Senato today passed the bill submit ting to the voters at the next general election an amendment giving women the ballot. The bill must go to the Uouse lor action. FREE MEAT PARI OF TARIFF PLAN Reductions on Food stuffs Discussed. BERMUDA MAKES ITS PLEA Cantaloupes, Onions, Herrings, Rice Have Hearing. VOICE IS RAISED FOR HAY Kc Yorker Kates Swiss and Koniau Cheese Among Iite Necessities and Vrges Putting Lem ons on Free List. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. "Free meat," proposed by the House Demo crats at the 'last session of Congress but blocked by a Presidential veto, was Indicated as part of the extra session of Congress tariff revision pro gramme at the hearing today before the House committee on ways and means. Members of the committee empha sized the majority sentiment in favor of free meats and a strong trend toward free cattle in accord with the general policy of Democrats last year to transfer the necessities of life. In cluding sugar and lumber, to the free list. Protest against putting cattle and meats on the free list was made by S. H. Cowan, of Fort Worth, Tex., as spokesman for the cattle Industry west of the Mississippi Rlvu?. Mr. cowan said that such a plan, if adopted, would mean a flood of cheaper meats from the South American ranges, and pictured a ruin of the Industry in Texas. "Didn't all the Texas Democrats in the House vote for free meats last ses sion?" asked Representative James, of Kentucky. 'Yes," said Cowan. "And all of them were re-elected?" "Tes." . "Then you are going counter to the vote of a state?"" "No," replied Mr. Cowan, "the Demo crats in Texas always vote the Demo cratic ticket regardless of such mat ters. Their allegiance to the party is too strong to do otherwise." Bermuda and the Bahama Islands registered a protest against the present tariff rates. Lorenz L George Brice. representing the Bahama Islands, urged a reduction of the duty on sponges. pineapples. grapefruit and other things. T. H. H. Utterbrldge and 8. S. Purling, representing Bermuda officially, wanted the tariff reduced to help their people, whose trade, he said, depended on the United States. "Why, you had 11,000.000 worth of advertising from President-elect Wil son's going to Bermuda," smilingly suggested Representative Palmer, of Pennsylvania. ' "Tes." replied Mr "purling, "and we are proud of bis vis.t." John L. Elattery, of Chicago, warned the committee not to put a duty on canteloupes. B. Y. "Webster, of Well ington, Fla., said that reduction or THREE VIEWS OF DR. HARRY removal of the duty on onions would strike a blow at Florida. w xi- McFaddin. of Beaumont. , . - - Tex., advocated retention of the pres ent rates on rice ana oressea mu J. B. Samson, of Leroy, N. T.. asked to have .the present duty on salt re tained. A delegation of Massachusetts fisher folk, headed by Representative Gardner, urged retention of the tariff on cod. herring, haddock and other flsh. "Give us free hay." asked John T. Donovan, of New Tor. Antonio Zucca, of Sw Tork. wanted reduction on Swiss and Roman cheese, wfilch, be said, were life necessities to the poor. He urged putting lemons on the free HsV j I -N - , " - iSs!to6Aw- t 1 - I 1 - - "Vvy -;! n-f 1 V ' xv ,.. j iv ' "i OLD CAT CLUB IS AFTER NEW LIFE COIRT ASKED TO EXJOIX XEVV CLVB AND SHOW. Maloney Faction Accuses Incorpor ated Feline lvcr9 of Being "Wolves in Sheep's Dress."' The troubles of the Oregon Cat Club, said to have been caused primarily by cat fanciers taking sides in tho domes tic troubles of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Howard, which are soon to. be settled in divorce cSjurt, have reached the Cir cuit Court. On behalf of the clique which was outwitted when Mr. Howard and his friends slipped quietly away to Salem and secured articles of incorpora tion of the Oregon Cat Club, thereby cutting the rival faction out of the name, Paul J. Maloney has filed suit. Maloney insists that the crowd now constituting the membership of the Oregon Cat Club is perpetrating a fraud upon the public, inasmuch as the majority of those formerly included in a voluntary association which em ployed the same name have been barred from membership. He wants tho in corporators of the Oregon Cat Club enjoined from using the name and fur ther wants the court to restrain them from putting on the annual cat show, scheduled to open Thursday at the Meier & Frank store. He sets forth that the members of the incorporated club are wolves in sheep's clothing. The defendants are John E. Howard, Claud Simpson, Mrs. Claud Simpson and D. P. Trullinger. Mr. Maloney declares that they conspired together to steal the name of the old club. 'COPS' TO STUDY MEDICINE Legal Training Also to Be Part of Course for Policemen. LOWELL, Mass., Jan. 21. Lowoll po licemen are to be schooled in the pri mary knowledge of physicians and lawyers. Members of those two pro fessions are to give the -police daily lectures so that they may be able at all times to give first aid to the in jured and decide without consultation such matters as "When does a man's home constitute his castle, and when does it not?" This is the order of Mayor O'Don nell, who adds that he is going to have moving pictures taken of the police In their work-a-day . duties, and of the firemen as they answer their calls. These pictures will be shown in the local theaters for the purpose of mak ing the public familiar with the ardu ous work of the men in uniform and of creating a popular sentiment" Jty t.'ietr favor. DAIRIES MAY FORM TRUST Spokane Men Have $1,000,000 to Control Milk Business. SPQKANK. Wash., Jan. 21. (Spe cial.) Spokane will soon have its first dairy trust. - A Spokane company, capitalized at approximately $1,000,000. is being formed and options have been taken on about 80 per cent or more of the dairies of the city already, looking to wards an outright purchase of the Haselwood, Pine Creek. Broadview and other large dispensers of dairy products. , A 80-day option has been taken on these organizations, it is stated, and if taken up by the people represented by C. L. Delameter. who Is handling the negotiations. It will mean the outright purchase of almost every company do ing an extensive dairy business in the city. LANE, PORTLAND DEMOCRAT, YE GUNS LOADED FIGHT AT Reapportionment for Congress Big Issue. "COW" COUNTIES HOLD WHIP Senate Scorns Proposed Trip to State Institutions. OREGON -SYSTEM IN FAVOR House Unanimously Indorses Direct Election of United States Scna ' tors and Upper Body Is Ex pected to Do Likewise. OLYMriA, Wash., Jan. 21. (Special.) Attempts to make a reapportionment of state and Congressional districts of Washington to conform to the 1910 census will be the cause of about a week's lively light in both branches of tho Legislature here, according to present prospects. Factions in both houses are loading their guns prepara tory to the fuss which is expected to begin before the end of the week. Smaller counties are all combined against a reapportionment which has been proposed by the three larger counties. King, pierce and Spokane. They will fight to the bitter end any reapportionment which will give these counties any great increase in rep resentation unless it gives the smallor counties a comparative increase.. "CoW Counties Hold Whip. The "cow" counties have the whip hand this year, as in 1911. and are ex pecting to win some favorable legis lation for their districts before they loosen up with votes to carry a reap portionment through. It is expected that party lines will be forgotten and everyone will fight for his district rather than for his party. Preliminary to the impending issue, various delegates are holding caucuses, 'ilng county Representatives today decided to favor a reapportionment scheme proposed by Representative McArdle. of Jefferson County, in a bill introduced in the House. It provides for placing Seattle in a Congressional district by itself and would combine with pierce County Snohomish and all of King outside of the municipal lim its of Seattle. . This bill does not meet with the approval of the Pierce County Representatives, who prefer to be In the same district with the Southwestern counties. Each of "Big Three" Plan. A Spokane Representative will draw up a bill which will meet the favor of the Spokane delegation, and it is understood that a Pierce County Rep resentative will do the same In behalf of the Pierce Representatives. A bill introduced today by Repre sentative Moren, chairman of the Con gressional reapportionment committee, divides King County between two dis tricts and makes Seattle hobnob with other counties. To this scheme King County Representatives object. It was I Concluded On Page a) 01 STERDAY ELECTED UNITED STATES SENATOR TR0M OREGON. BOYCOTT IS ENDED ON OREGON LUMBER XOKTHWESTEItX PLANTS RICH ER BY ?2,O0O,000, IS REPORT. Valuable Orders for Material for 1915 Exposition Will Come North ' as Embargo Is .Raised. . SEATTLE. Wash., Jan. 21. (Special.) As the result of the efforts of the Northwestern Lumber Associations and of the Xew Chamber of Commerce, the embargo on Northwestern lumber in the San Francisco market has been lifted, and Northwestern plants will re ceive approximately $2,000,000 worth of orders for material for the exposition of 1915.. ' . . Authoritative information to this ef fect was received by the New Cham ber . of Commerce today by telegraph from Charles C. Moore, president of the exposition. Prominent lumbermen regard the telegram as practically ending the boy cott on Oregon, and Washington lum ber, which has been maintained by San Francisco unions for nearly eight years. President Moore's telegram in part says: "You are assured that material from all quarters is eligible for use for ex position work and that exhibitors will be protected from all harrassing an noyances experienced In some previous American expositions. You can say further to tho producers of. raw ma terial in your state that in all work here the. material of the states of Ore gon and Washington stands on the same basis as the material of all other sections of tho country. The exposition has not made and will not make any agreements Involving restrictive con dltlous for labor or material." CHINESE LOANS FALTERING French Bankers InMined to View Money Situation Gloomily. NEW YORK. Jan. 21. America members of the Chinese six-power loan v-nrIli-atB were unable today to . con firm Pekin cables saying negotiations with the Chinese government nae been abandoned because of tho Euro pean money stringency. Private ad vices from various continental sources however, were generally to that effect It was said in reliable quarters mat the French bankers in the syndicate were among the first to . withdraw, basing ' their action on the uncertain financial conditions arising from the Balkan situation. 1' f . - MARRIAGE PAPER IN SOCK Clarence B. Hunter, Arrested, Ex poses Certificate. VANCOUVER, Wash.,-Jan. 21. (Spe cial.) The queerest place on record for a man to carry his marriage cer-tm.-ut-o was found today, when Clar ence B. Hunter, arrested last night for being drunk, pulled the certuicate rnm his sock. The certificate was signed by Judge Cleeton, of Portland, and the marriage is said to have taken place yesterday. It is supposed by the police that Hunter was celebrating his m;i rrlaere. In the Police Court he was fined ?10 for being drunk. Bleasc Opposed to Football. COLUMBUS. S. C. Jan. 21. Cole L. Blease was Inaugurated for the second time as Governor 01 eoum umu day. In his inaugural address the Gov- ....... aHrtlltinn of foot- enior ituvuLa " ball at the state university. ROOT SAYS GAME IS NOT WORTH CANDLE Free Tolls Provision Warmly Attacked. PLEDGE TO WORLD VIOLATED Senator Pleads for Arbitration, or Repeal of Act. ISTHMUS HELD IN TRUST Coastwise Shipping Declared to Be "Moht Highly and Absolutely Protected Special Industry in United States." WASHINGTON'. Jan. 21. "Shall wt inform the world that the United States is false to- its SKreements, fulsa to its pledged word? Shall wc have it made known the world over that you must look out for the United States or it will get the advantage of jou? That the United States is astute, cunninv. slippery?" With this vigorous denunciation of the attitude of this country In tho Pan ama Canal controversy with Great Britain, Senator Root closed a two hour speech in the Senate today wltll au appeal for the submission of tho Panama question to arbitration, or the repeal of that section of the canal law that would give free passage to Amer ican coastwise ships. Governinrnt AKMnde Attarked. Speaking from the experience of a member of President Roosevelt's Cabi net, when the Panama Canal Zoe was purchased, and when more than 25 ar bitration treaties were made with for eign nations. Senator Root delivered a vigorous attack on the present atti tude of the United States. It became known, following the Sen ator's address, that Senator Crandegoc. chairman" of the interoceanic canals committee, would call a meeting with in a few days to take tip Senator Root's amendment for the repeal of tho free toll provision. A determined effort by those who opposed the original passage of this provision will be made at this session of Congress to change the law before It goes Into effect at the canal, so the cause of dispute with Great Britain will be removed. National Honor Involved. Senator Root . declared the United States would violae all its pledges and promises to the world; would be guilty of "false pretenses," in its advocacy of general arbitration and would pro claim itself indifferent to National honor and integrity, it It refused to submit to arbitration, or to retreat from the unjust position it had taken. He declared freo coastwise tolls to American ships were illegal unless equal concessions were made to foreign ships. The contentions that the United States had domestic rights over the canal, because it owned the Canal Zone, constituted a violation of the ex press guarantee of the United States to Great Britain, he said. "It is not our territory except in trust," he said. "Treaty or no treaty, we have long asserted that the nations of Central America had no right to do bar the world from its right of passage across the Isthmus. Upon that we based the justice of our entire action which resulted in our having the Canal Zone." "Are We Pharisees f Is Asked. The United States had preached arr bitration for years. Senator Root de clared, and had besought the ' nations of the world, "in season and out of season," to enter into arbitration agreements for the settlement of all disputes." . "Are we Pharisees?" he cried. "Have we been Insincere and false? Have wo been pretending in all these long years of declaration? Are we ready now to admit that our country, through its . Presidents and Congresses, has been guilty of false pretenses, of humbug, of talking to the galleries, of uttering fine words to secure applause? "The instant that an interest is at stake, we propose to falsify every dec laration, every promise by the arro gant insistence that we alone can de termine the Interpretation of this treaty; that we will refuse to abide by the treaty. "Is the game worth the candle? Is it worth our while to remain in a po sition, to maintain which we may be driven to repudiate our principles, our professions and our agreements, for the purpose of conferring a money benefit at the expense of the Treasury of the United States on the most high ly and absolutely protected special in dustry In the United States our coast wise shipping?" Treaty Looks to Future. "A decent regard for the opinions of mankind was one of tbe motives set by the people of these colonies in the great declaration of their indepen dence," said Senator Root. Me out lined the relations between the United States and Great Britain which had led up to the making of the Hay- Pauncefote treaty of 1901. under wnicn the canal was constructed. "The United States gave up nothing it then had." said the Senator. "Its obligations in that treaty were entire ly looking to the future. But Great Britain gave up its right to the pro tectorate over the Mosquito coast. Concluded on Fate 2.)