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VOL. LIU NO. 16,312. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ADJUSTS HIMSELF TO TASK Almost First Act Is to Warn Place Seekers. PRESENCE IS NOT WELCOME Other Presidential Precedents Not Disturbed. SOME DELEGATIONS CALL Those Received Are There ty Ap pointment Extra Session Lies islation Discussed In Gen. era! Way With Kern. WASHINGTON, March 6. With the tinsel and the military pomp, the cheers of the multitude, and stirring music of bands and the heavy tread of marching" thousands, the fireworks and the lime light only a pleasant memory, Woodrow Wilson settled down in the chair of Presidents as quietly and with as little ceremony as almost any man who ever crossed the threshold of the White ' House to become its master. His Ions day was orowded with In cidents and filled with the flavor of power that is the President's. Almost his first act was to serve notice on office-seekers that they will not be welcome at the White House, unless they have been invited. Almost his last act tonight was to confer with John W. Kern, chosen today as leader of the Democrats in the Senate, and reputed representative of the Adminis tration in the upper house. Mont Precedents Still Uadfatturbed. Between he found time to shake hands with close to 2000 persons, con sult with, his new Cabinet and with a few friends in Congress, dictate letters and generally launch his own ship of administration. In spite of the report that Mr. Wilson might be expected to change many of the precedents that have grown op about the Presidency, he bothered today with none or importance except that which permitted the office-seeker to Invade the White House. He fitted In easily with the machinery of the ex ecutive offices, did mostly what trained officials told him be should do and took up the routine of government with ease. The statement of the President re lating to the exclusion of office Keekers was: "The President regrets that he deems ' It his duty to decline to see applicants for. office in person, except when he himself invites 'the interview. It is Ms purpose and desire to devote his At tention very earnestly and very con stantly to the business of the Govern ment and the large questions of policy affecting the whole Nation and he knows from his experience as Governor of New Jersey where it fell to him to make Innumerable appointments that the greater part both of his time and of his energy will be spent in personal Interviews with candidates unless he sets an invariable rule In the matter. It is his intention to deal with appoint ments through the heads of the several executive departments." Joseph P. Tumulty, Mr. Wilson's sec retary, was about as busy as his chief. He . talked a half doxeh times to the newspapermen stationed at the White House, dictated many letters, received the congratulations of scores of friends from New Jersey and talked with many prominent Democrats. Office Closed at 4 o'clock. The President spent the morning in hla office, the afternoon in the White House at luncheon and in the east room received delegations; at 4 o'clock shut up shop and went out with Mrs. Wil son for his automobile ride through Washington. All delegations received today came by appointment and the reported policy of the "open door" was explained to be an open door only to those who call upon public business. After luncheon Mr. Wilson learned one of the uses of the East Room. He stood for 40 minutes and shook hands with 1140 persons. Major Thomas L. Rhoades. personal aide for a year to ex-President Taft, shot tnem by as fast as he could get thslr names and the new President never flinched at the ordeal. With all the callers dis posed of, Mr. Wilson called for one of the White House automobiles used by Mr. Taft and started out for a spin around Washington. No aide in uni form, such as accompanied Mr. Taft, went with him, but the two motor cycle policemen assigned to guard the President on such trips kept close be hind on the ride. Secretary Garrlawa Earns Salary. After the President returned, Llnd ley M. Garrison, the Secretary of War, had a brief conference with him. "I told the President that I thought I earned my salary today," said Secre tary Garrison, with a laugh. "I'm learning the machinery of the Depart ment. You can't go from an equity court to a Government Department In a day and get accustomed to it at once." Mr. Bryan, the Secretary of State, railed after Secretary Garrison left. He brought with him Huntington Wil ton, former Assistant Secretary of Slate, and the heads of the various bureaus of the State Department, pre senting them to the President. Sec retary Bryan said there were some ICaacludcd a Pas 2. J PEACE FOOTING OF ARMIES INCREASED GEE5IAXY ADDS 168,000 AJffD FRANCE 21O.000. Germans Sow Have 806,000- and Their Rivals 70,00t Work on Frontier Barracks Ordered. COLOGNE, Germany. March 5. The new German military bill will add 84. 000 recruits to the annual contingent called up for service in the army, ac cording to the well-informed Volks Zeitung. The total strength of the peace footing of the army will thus be In creased by 168,000 men, bringing it up to 808,000, excluding officers.' The German war office today sent telegraphic orders for the commence ment of the new barracks along the frontiers, showing that the military authorities are certain of the passage of the bill through the Imperial Parlia ment. PARIS, March 5. The French cabi net today accepted the decision of the Supreme Council of War in favor of a three-year term of service in all branches of the army Instead of two years as hitherto. The bill will be submitted to the Chamber of Deputies tomorrow. The measure will add at least 210,000 men to the peace footing of the army, which at present stands at 680,000, ex cluding officers, making 790,000 in all. The vast military preparations being made by Germany are given as the compelling reason for this step of the French government. GOULD DECISION NOT FINAL Third Verdict Necessary as to An nuUment of First Marriage. ROME, March E. The decision by the Papal tribunal of Rota favorable to the annulment of the marriage of Count Bonl de Castellane and Miss Anna Gould Is not final. According to ecclesiastical law, two decisions are necessary for a definite verdict. In the Castellane Gould case the first decision was against annulment and the second In favor of it. The Duchess de Talleyrand has ap pealed against the latest verdict of the Rota tribunal, in order to protect her children, and the settlement of her ap peal will constitute the final verdict with respect to the annulment of the marriage; ' ' - COLONY SHARES DEFENSE New Foundland Would Participate In British Programme. ST. JOHNS, N. F., March S. With a view to participating In the naval de fense of the British Empire the New foundland government opened negotia tions with the Imperial Cabinet This announcement was made today by the new Governor, Walter Davidson, in his speech at the opening of the Colonial Legislature. Governor Davidson also gave notice of the government's Intention to re move the duty from tea, sugar and salted meats. This, it was declared, would represent the abrogation of 8400,000 In duty annually, the largest reduction In taxation at one time in the colony's history. ACTOR TO BEBURIED TODAY Funeral of Stanley Johns, of Baker Company, Set for 2 P. 31. Arrangements for the funeral of Stanley Johns, the member of the Baker Stock Company who died at the Calumet Hotel yesterday morning, fol lowing an illness of two weeks, were made by William Bernard, stage di rector of the company, who is an old friend. The funeral will take place tomorrow at Finley's chapel at 2 P. M. Mr. Johns has been cared for by the other members of the company since his Illness began. The body is at J. P. Finley's parlors. Mr. Johns' last appearance on the stage was as Taby Wana In "The Squaw Man." He Joined the company at the time they took possession of the Marquam Theater. He was well known along the Coast cities and acted in sev eral Eastern cities. AVIATORS DODGE ASSESSOR Aeroplanes Fly Away When Deputy Goes to Fix Values for Taxing. ALAMEDA. CaL, March 5. Modern Inventions complicate the life of a tax assessor, as Deputy City - Assessor Frank Quigley learned this morning when he went out to an aviation field on the outskirts of the city to set val ues for tax purposes on eight aero planes that are stored there. The owners saw him coming from afar, and by the time he reached the field his quarry had flown literally. He sat down to wait. They came back presently and found Quigley still there. He assessed the eight machines at from $500 to S1000 each. STRIKE IS SYMPATHETIC Cleveland Rubber Workers Quit to Aid Cause of Akron Employes. CLEVELAND, 0 March 5. A strike of rubber workers Initiated here by Industrial "Workers of the World, in sympathy with the strike of rubber workers at Akron. O., reached good- sized proportions today. Strike leaders said that 1000 men and srirls bad quit work at the plant of the Mechlcal Rubber Company. Company officials admitted that 600 had walked oat. The strikers conSenin a newly Instituted piece work scale GENERAL SALARY GRAB, WEST'S BILL Various County - Pay rolls Compared. LEGISLATURE SAVES MONEY Bills Passed Give Reasons for Increases. COUNTY EXPENSES SHOWN Under Gill E'll Salaries Fixed Ar bitrarily, but Solans Decide Other Way Is Better List by Counties Conclusive. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or.. March 6. (Special.) One veto of a county salary bill by the Governor because he declared that the Gill bill would pro vide for such salaries, gives a fair Indication of the operation of the Gill, or the Governor's bill. The vetoed bill in question provides for the salary of certain officers of Lake County. Under the vetoed bill as passed over the Governor's head, the County Judge will receive $700 a year. Under the Gill bill, which the Governor advocated, he would have received (1400 a year. The Governor's salary bill would give this official twice as much as the bill enacted by the Legislature, but at the same time the bill passed by the Legislature was vetoed because It Interfered with this doubling' of a county salary. As a still further comparison in the same county: Under the bill passed by the Legislature the Treasurer will re ceive $1000 annually, while under the Gill bill he would have received $1400, or $490 more. Lake Sheriff Gets Benefit. ' The bill passed by the Legislature provided for more adequate compensa tion for the Sheriff than did the Gill bill, but the Increased provision was made because of the immensity of the county and the necessity .for the Sheriff to pay his traveling expenses. In a county as vast as Lake County, it was pointed out, that to travel for 100 miles or so to serve one summons or subpena would cost the Sheriff a large sum of money which would come out of his salary and for which expenses no other provision has been made. The County Judge of Crook County under the Gill, or Governor's bill, would have received $1400 annually.- Under the bill passed be will receive $1000. The County Judge of Lincoln County under the Gill bill would have received $1200, while under the bill passed he will receive $1000. All the way through. In comparison, it Is shown that the Gill, or Governor's bill, would have offered a general salary grab. In some Instances, the (Concluded on Page 12.) y vvgsfs- INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The WeBtber, YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature 67 decrees: minimum, 46 decrees. TODAY'S Probably fair; north easterly winds. " LeftTiklaturea. Olympia Senate passes Vancouver bridge bill; measure new up to Governor Lister. Pace 1. Washington Senate approves trying; Initiative and referendum system. Pace & Eighteen big pieces of constructive legisla tion ground out by Legislature this ses sion. Page 8. tate Board of Control to have charge of state printing after January X, 1815. Page 8. Comparisons show GUI. or Governor's bill, which lost, provided general salary grab.' Page 1. foreign. Mrs, Pankhurst breaks down. Page 4. Dr. Maason tells of tragic deaths of mem bers of South Pole- party. Page 2. Germany and France Increase peace foot ing of armies. Page L filxty-elx men lose lives in sinking of Ger man, torpedo boat. Page 5. Sonera fitste Congress formally repudiates Huerta government. Page 4. National. President Wilson to bar all office-seekers who do not have appointments. Page L Oregon Senators delay action on appoint ments. Page L House Democrats at harmonious caucus re nominate Champ Clark as Speaker. Page 3. politic. Democratic National Committee lays plans to keep party in power. Page 2. Domestfo. Woman divorces "Rev. Frank Horn, preacher, of twin brother fame. Page 3. Women overcome in courtroom crush when D arrow speaks. Page 6. New York imposes conditions on Br. Fried man n. Page L Sport. Beavers to move camp to Stockton tbJs month. Page 6. Sir Thomas Lip ton challenges for America's cup. Page 0. Seven boxing events on cad for Portland affair. Page 7. . ' Paciffn U" defeats Y. It C. A. at Indoor athletic meet. Page 1, Pacific Northwest. Prison gates open to make free man who will be rearrested as he leaves peniten tiary. Page 4. Mayor Berger, of Eugene, will not re-enter Mayoralty race. Page 4. Agricultural College Instructors return from successful short course at Burns. Page la. . Commercial sad Marine. Large sales of low-priced apples on Front street. Page 19. Wheat down at Chicago because of heavy receipts. Page 19. Stock prices advance with aggressive buy ing. Page 19. Oregon affected by veto of sundry civil bill. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. Big apple sale opens today. Page IS. Governorship candidates to succeed West are being discussed, page 18. Oregon charity committee choices announced. Page 13. Case of Royal Chinook salmon wnt Presi dent wilaon by Oregon to celebrate "salmon day." Page 18. Weather report, forecast and data. Page 1. Gay Lombard speaks before Sunnyslde au dience, page 12. Humane Society asks operation of ordinance providing for sanding slippery streets. -Page 14-.--1-rw -f :j- Trio of opium smugglers, with $7500 worth of drug, arrested In Portland. Page 14. LEVI P. MORTON IS ILL Condition of ex-Vice-President, at 89, Admitted to Be Serlons. NEW YORK, March 5. Announce ment was made by the family today that Levi P. Morton, Vice-President in the Harrison Administration and ex Governor of New York, is seriously ill at his Fifth-avenue residence. He is 89 years old. There was no material change In Mr. Morton's condition to day, it was said at his home. "The cause of Mr. Morton's illness is arteriosclerosis," his physician. Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, said, "but, although his condition Is serious, it is not nec essarily criUcaL" - AVOIDING THE BUSH. FRIEDr.lAlllir.lUSI SUBMIT TQ TESTS New York Imposes Con. ditions on "Cure." MEDICAL LAW IS INVOKED Health Board to Try Serum on Animals First. v PHYSICIAN LEAVES HOTEL Concourse of Sufferers Embarrasses Management and Patrons Com plain Other Cities Offer Hospitable Reception. NEW TORK, March 5. The city health authorities gave Dr. F. F. Frled mann, of Berlin, permission today to test the treatment which, he asserts Is a cure for tuberculosis, if Dr. Frled mann decides to submit to a test which the Board of Health will allow to be undertaken in a city Institution. The Board of Health's sanction, hith erto withheld, was granted condition ally after the visiting Berlin physician submitted to the board a tube contain ing a culture of the bacilli. Dr. Ernst J. Lederle, commissioner of health, said his department would test the cul ture on animals. Permit May Follow Teats. The chief purpose of this official analysis Is to determine whether the serum is harmful. If it shall prove to be of no possible danger, the Board of Health will issue a permit to Dr. Frled mann. Dr. Frledmann tonight has not fully decided to accept the latest offer of the authorities and conduct his experi ments' on animals, but public pressure will probably induce him to go ahead and make the best showing possible under the prescribed restraints. Dr. Frledmann has been barred from making general use of his discovery because he holds no state license as a practicing physician. - '" " ' "The Health Department will not ob ject to his use of the treatment in the city provided he lives up to the legal regulations of the County Medical So ciety,' said Dr. Ernst J. Lederle, the Health Commissioner, in a statement on the action of the authorities regard ing Dr. Frledmann's treatment. "His treatment will not be demonstrated In city institutions, however." The New York County Medical So ciety, which protested against tests be cause Dr. Frledmann held no license, will not stand In the way if any hos pital appoints the Berlin doctor a resi dent physician. Under such appoint ment he will not need a state license. Hotel la Embarrassed. Dr. Frledmann left today the fash ionable hotel where he has made his (Concluded on Page 3.) OREGON VACANCIES HELD IN WAITING LANE SATS HE HAS 50 POCXDS OF APPLICATIONS. Senators Will Confer Before Sub mitting Ust Both Willing to Receive Suggestions. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. March 5. It will be several days before Senators Chamberlain and Lane atempt to fill vacancies In any Federal offices In Oregon. Senator Lane said today he had received up wards of 60 pounds of applications for various offices, which be has not yet had time to sort over and investigate, and he wishes to go through these papers before conferring with Sena tor Chamberlain. Much the same situation exists in Senator Chamberlain's office, for In the rush attending the close of the session he has not had time to con sider questions of patronage. Both Senators said today that they would not be able for several days to get together and corfer on appointments but both asserted that no recommen dations would be submitted to Presi dent Wilson until they could confer. Oregon Federal patronage, it is ex plained, is to be controlled by Senators Chamberlain and Lane, both Senators expressed their willingness to receive recommendations from National Com mltteeman King, the state chairman and others, though they reserve the right to accept or reject such rec commendatlons. " "'We want the best men available for each office," said Senator Lane, and Senator Chamberlain nodded his approval. Senator Chamberlain today, denied vigorously that he had in executive session, when opposing confirmation of Tom McCusker as postmaster, criticised the President for playing politics with Oregon appointments, and said his ob jection to McCusker was due solely to the fact that he was unwilling to dis criminate among various appointees, allowing one ' out of 20 or more to be confirmed and all others go uncon firmed. WOMAN JUDGE TRIES GIRLS Chicago Court Conducted Entirely Without Aid of Men. jru.ua.uu, March t. Fifteen cases were disposed of today in "Judge" Mary H. Bartelme's court. It was the first day of the court, the attaches of which are all women and Miss Bartelme ex pressed herself as highly pleased with the results. ' . Not a man Is admitted to the court room where the hearings are limited to the cases of either wayward girls or those who never had a chance." Miss Bartelme was appointed by Judge Pinckney, of the Juvenile Court, to hear this class of cases, holding that many girls could more easily tell their stories to a woman than a man. Wo man probation officers acted as bailiffs and there was a woman clerk of the court. "It is our hope to get justice for these girls and judging by the first day's work, I think we will be successful,1 said Miss Bartelme. ALDERMAN IMPRESSES HUB Oregon and Other Western Educa tors Tell Boston of New Methods. BOSTON, Mass., March E. (Special.) The Boston Daily - Advertiser today says: "Boston is deeply impressed with the vital educational message of Superin tendents Alderman, of Oregon; Francis, of Los Angeles, and Meek, of Boise. Mr. Alderman's masterly treatment of the fundamentals of education appeal strongly to Boston educators. Twice in one week the Twentieth Century Club has banqueted Mr. Alderman and his associates. For the first time the Bos ton schools were dismissed and all the teachers assembled to hear the men who have developed educational Ideals as applicable to Boston as to the Far West." COMBINATIONS UPHELD Cunard Line Manager Says Rate Agreements Are Necessary. NEW 'YORK, March 6. It would be unsafe for the trans-Atlantic steam ship companies to do business without a rate agreement, in the opinion of Hermann Winter, manager of the Cunard Line, who testified today in the Government's dissblution suit against the so-called steamship trust. "Every rate war," Mr. Winter said, "has tended to bring all the steamship companies closer together. The entire service has been improved greatly through the stable rate. Entirely un restricted competition among the trans Atlantlo lines would result in the ruin ation of the smaller and weaker com panies and discourage the formation of new companies." WARSHIP BADLY DAMAGED Repairs to Hull of Arkansas Esti mated to Cost $100,000. NEW TORK. March 5. Workmen ex amining the hull of the United States battleship Arkansas In drydock at the Brooklyn Navy-lard found an open ing today as they described as about 15 feet long and two Inches wide, re sulting from an opened seam on the port side forward. The Arkansas sev eral weeks ago struck a coral reef off Guantanamo. She was placed in dry dock Saturday after arriving here with two compartments flooded. Navy-Yard officials said unofficially that the repairs would cost about 1100, 000 and would take several month. SENATE AT OLYMPIA PASSES BRIDGE BILL Measure Now Goes to Governor Lister. APPROVAL GIVEN $500,000 Upper House by 29 to 6 Vote . 0. Ks Washington Plan. BOUNDARY QUESTION OUT Heated "Fight Centers Around This Problem, Forced Back Four Sep arate Times Another Bridge Bill Aids Counties. WASHINGTON LEGIST.ATI7KK A IM PROPRIATES S13.004.0O0 IN A DAY. OLYMPIA, Wain.. March B. Ap propriations totaling- S13.903,00O were passed by oae branch or the othr of the Washington Legislature today, the measures including S12.2SO.000 by the House and JG5,0O0 by the Sen ate. The House passed a bill pro viding for the spending of S4.2.'OiOOO by the counties for permanent roads: a measure appropriating S4.000.000 for the accident fund of the Indus trial Insurance Commission to usa in paying claims of .injured work men and a bill providing for the bonding of the atata Capitol land grant for S4.OO0.000 to complete the Capital buildings at Olympia. OLYMPIA, Wash., March 5. (Spe cial.) After foreleg the Oregon-Wash, ington boundary question out of the is sue four separate times, the Senate, of the Washington Legislature today passed. 29 to 6, the bill appropriating 500,000 for this state's share of the cost of constructing the proposed inter state bridge over the Columbia River between Portland and Vanvouver, Wash. "-' ' ' " With a vote equally overwhelming, a bill making it possible for this state or counties or cities of this state to Jon with other states, counties or cities in building bridges, was passed. Both measures having been previously passed by the Houbo of Representatives are law as far as the Legislature is concerned. They have yet to meet with the approval of Governor Lister, to whom they will be sent enrolled tomor row morning. The bills stirred up a heated fight centering around the boundary ques tion. Vehement arguments were made and personalities and veiled charges were flung during the entire morning session and until the bills were passed at the afternon session. Espy Starts Trouble. The trouble was started by Senator Espy, of Pacific County, who introduced a proposed amendment to the appropri ation bill providing that the amount appropriated by this state not become available until "Oregon waives all claim of right, title or jurisdiction to or over the beds and shores of the Co lumbia north of the center of the main ship channel from the mouth, of the river to a point where the 46th paral lel of north latitude intersects the mid dle channel of said river." The Senate resolved Itself into a com. ml t tee of the whole to consider the proposition and a bitter fight ensued with Espy on one side and French, of Vancouver, on the other. "I do not want to pose as an opponent of this bridge project," said Espy, "but I must insist upon this boundary ques tion being settled. If Oregon stands by its contention that it owns all territory south of the north ship channel of the Columbia, the Legislature of that state, whenever It so desires, can stop fishing in the Columbia in what is rightly Washington territory. I would call your attention to tho fact that there were two bills with that provision in the Oregon Legislature this last session. 150 Square Miles Claimed. "The territory which Oregon claims under a decision of the Unit?d States Supreme Court includes about 150 square miles. I am informed that the people of Portland have repeatedly ex pressed through the papers, and in other ways, their willingness to concede this disputed territory. Here we have a bill for J300.000, which is nothing more or less than a gift ofthat amount. to'Portland. I think we Should force the issue and get something in return. As a matter of fact there will be but one-twentieth of the bridge on Wash-, ington territory, according to the boun dary line as held by Oregon." Senator French, who was the leading champion of the bridge, attacked the stand of Espy, declaring that it was silly and an attempt at petty politics. He declared that even though the boundary was not in the center of tlio Columbia River, this state could assist in building the bridge to the extent of one-half the cost. "I am surprised at . Senator Espy bringing up such a thin-skinned propo sition." he declared. Portland lias Champloa. "He says we are giving Portland a present of this 1300,000. - As a matter, of fact, Portland is making us a pres ent in putting up most of the money for this bridge. Senator Espy would have us use these most childish tactic In forcing a settlement of something that has already been settled by the T (Concluded on Page a.)