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1 VOL. LIII-NO. 16,320. PORTLAND, OREGON. SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TILLMAN LOSES HIS LONG, HARD FIGHT Coveted Chairmanship Goes to Martin. BATTLE WILL BE RENEWED Senator to Try to Overthrow ( Committee Decision. . RULES RADICALLY CHANGED Departures Prom Old-Time Practice Similar to Changes Made In House Chamberlain Public Lands Chairman. WASHINGTON, March 14. Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, lost today his long, hard fight for the chairman ship of the powerful Eenate committee on appropriations. The Democratic committee lists, completed tonight by the "steering" committee headed by Senator Kern, accords the appropria tions chairmanship to Senator Martin, of Virginia, and places Senator Tillman at the head of the committee on naval affairs. A Democratic caucus has been called for 10:30 o'clock tomorrow morning, when the committee lists will be pre sented to the full Democratic member - xhtp of the Senate. It is expected that Senator Tillman will lead a fight in the caucus to overthrow the commit tee's decision. Method's nadlcally Cnansjed. Radical changes in the method of controlling Senate legislation and com mittees which formed the basis of the o-called Progressive Democratic or ganization tight, begun last December, were approved "by the Democratic man agers and will be offered for adoption by the caucus tomorrow. These recom mendations are: J All committee" chairmen shall be elected by the Democratio members of the committee. The practice has been for the steering committee to appoint all chairmen; a majority of the Demo cratio members of any committee may call a meeting of that committee at any time. Members of "conference committees' shall be selected by the Democratic majority of the committee having charge of the legislation in question. ' Chairman Not to Appoint. Steering committee members shall be selected by a Democratic caucus In stead of by appointment by the caucus chairman. Appointments by the steering com mittee to fill vacancies on all Senate committees must be passed by the full caucus. The recommendations to be made to morrow constitute important depart ures from the practice that has pre vailed in the Senate and are similar in many ways to the changes that were mado in the House at the beginning of the last Congress. The complete personnel of the lead ing committees. Including Democrats and Republicans, has been agreed on as .ollows: Appropriations: Democrats Martin, Virginia, chairman; Tillman. South Carolina: Culberson. Texas; Overman, North Carolina; Owen, Oklahoma; Smith, Maryland; Chilton. West Vir ginia; Lea. Tennereee: Bryan, Flor ida; Shafroth. Colorado. Republicans arren. Wyoming; Perkins. California; tiallinger, New Hampshire; Smoot I'tah; Oliver, Pennsylvania; Dllllng l.am, Vermont; Jones, Washington. Bafon Heads Foreign Relations. Foreign relations: Democrats Bacon, Georgia, chairman; Stone, Missouri; Slilvply, Indiana; Clarke. Arkansas; Hitchcock, Nebraska; O'Qorman, New York; Williams, Mississippi; Swanson, Virginia; Pomerene. Ohio; Smith, New Mexico. Republicans Lodge, Massa chusetts; Smith, Michigan; Root, New York; McCumber. North Dakota; Sutherland, Utah; Borah. Idaho; Bur ton, Ohio. Judiciary: Democrats Culberson, Texas, chairman; Overman, North Carolina; Chilton. West Virginia; O'Gorman, New York; Fletcher, Flor ida; Reed, Missouri; Asbhurst. Ari zona; Shields. Tennessee; Walsh. Mon tana; Bacon, Georgia. Republicans Clark. Wyoming; Nelson, Minnesota; Dillingham. Vermont; Sutherland. Utah; Brandegee, Connecticut; Borah. Idaho; Cummins, Iowa; Root, New York. Banking and currency: Democrats Owen, Oklahoma, chairman; Hitchcock, Nebraska; O'Gorman, New York; Reed. Missouri; Shafroth, Colorado; Hollis, New Hampshire; Pomerene, Ohio. Re publicans Nelson. Minnesota; Brlstow, Kansas; Burton, Ohio; Jones. Wash ington; Weeks, Massachusetts. Chamberlain Ceta Public Lands. Senator Ctark of Arkansas has been slated for chairmanship of the commit tee on commerce, which bandies rivers and harbors improvement legislation; Senator Hoke Smith has been added to the finance committee and named as chairman of the committee on educa tion and labor; Senator Chamberlain has been selected for the chairmanship of the public lands committee and SAtor Lea is i sj alA 1 of the con: i slated for the chairman- ommlltee on library. NEW STREET NAME POPULARITY GROWS WOMAX IX- REGISTERING DIS CARDS USE OP "SEVEXTH." Fair Sex Give Freak Occupations in Signing Book One Is "Mary Jane's Mother" One "Boss." The first woman to substitute Broad way for Seventh street on the regis tration records at the Courthouse was Mona N. Hettinger, cafeteria manager at the Y. W. C. A., who registered yes terday as a Republican. She lives at 410 Broadway, a street which was known as Seventh till a few- days ago, when the City Council passed an or dinance changing its name. Many of the women who registered yesterday gave freak occupations. Mrs. Luella Berkley, 168 North Twenty third street, gave hers as "Mary Jane's mother." Mrs. Dorothy Coffin, 471 Jefferson street. Is "director of domes tic affairs." Mrs. Kathryn Helen Scott, 497 Harrison street, wrote "My hus band's boss." Rose Leiser, 775 Wileo. street, filled in the space with the single word, "Married." Evangeline D. Freeland, 1689 Sixth avenue, Fulton Park, wrote, "Husband's manager." Mrs. Nellie F. Cardiff, wife of Patsy Cardiff, a former pugilist on whom the mighty John L. Sullivan broke his fist. yesterday joined the ranks of women who have completed their eligibility to vote by signing the rolls. Yesterday's registration was the heaviest since the books opened on February 16. There were 74 men and 561 women, a total for the day of 636. To date 892 men and 7207 women have registered since the reopening of the books. Their party affiliations are as follows: Republicans, 4?14;. Democrats, 1987; Progressives, 732; Prohibitionists, 298; Socialists, 163; Independents, 205. Rlna B. James, general secretary of the Y. W. C. A., registered as a Re publican yesterday. She told D. J. Gregory, wbo waited on her, that she intends to have Supreme Court Justice Burnett and Gay Lombard deliver ad dresses to the girls cf her Institution on political questions. NUPTIAL 0. K. SPANS SEA Albany Lad Walts for Months for Consent From Germany. ALBANY, Or., March 14. (Special.) By virtue of a written consent for warded by his father - from Germany Paul Gerblg, 20 years old, residing near this city, secured a marriage license at the County Clerk's office here today to wed Miss Margaret Gerber. ' s. This document which Is perhaps one of the most unique marriage consents ever filed In the state was acknowl edged August 13, 1912, before tHe American Consul at Gera Reuss, Ger many, and several ' seals' attest Its validity. ' ' To wait several months for the neces sary papers to secure a marriage li cense is an unusual experience, but that Gerbig had to do. Not being 21 years of age he could not secure a license without his father's consent and to procure this he had to send all the way to Germany. Gerblg came to America from Germany about five years ago and has resided near Albany since that time. ALL-WOMAN JURY PICKED Civil Action Involving $1075 to Be Tried by Spokane Fair Sex. SPOKANE, WashT March 14. (Spe cial.) For the first time since women gained the suffrage in Washington. 12 women were selected to try a civil case In the Superior Court today. The 12 women In the case of R. T. Lawrence against W. B. Cowne being heard be fore Judge H. L. Kennan readily qual ified as jury women when questioned by counsel for the litigants. Neither side issued a challenge after the women had taken their seats in the Jury box. The case in which the women will act as judges of the facts of the case involves a dispute between Lawrence and Cowne over a contract for the sale of horses, Lawrence alleging that he has been damaged in the Bum of $1075 for the failure to transfer horses to him which he believes himself entitled to. Cowne has entered a counter claim to the demands of Lawrence. LEGISLATORS NOT ELIGIBLE Members Who Created County At torneyships Barred From Office. SALEM. Or., March 14. (Special.) That no member of the Legislature may accept a position as County Attorney under the bill passed by the last Legis lature, even though they should resign as members of the Legislature, was the gist of an opinion furnished by the Attorney-General today at the request of Governor West. He declares that the constitution pro hibits a member of the Legislative As sembly from accepting an appointment to a lucrative office which Is created during the term of the Legislature at which the person in question is a mem ber. TREATY EXTENDED 5 YEARS Bryan and Jusserand Complete Franco-American Pact. WASHINGTON, March 14. Secre tary Bryan and Ambassador Jusserand exchanged, today, ratifications of the convention approved by the Senate a month ago extending for a term of five years the Franco-American special ar bitration treaty of 1908. This treaty provides for limited arbi tration excepting questions of vital in terest, independence or honor. It is similar in terms of the Anglo-American treaty of 190S. which will expire June 4. next. Today STORM DEATH LIST ii Property Loss in Gulf States Millions. 29 ARE KILLED IN GEORGIA Cyclone Plays Havoc With Wire Communication. SCORES REPORTED MISSING Toll of Tornado in Tennessee Is 23, in Alabama 13, in Texas 1, in Louisiana 7 and in Mississippi 18 Towns Are Wrecked. CHICAGO, March 14. Indications from late reports are that more than 90 persons were killed, scores severely Injured, and great property loss sus tained In the disastrous electrical storm which swept parts of Georgia, Tennes see. Alabama. ' Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas Thursday afternoon and night. eighty odd deaths have been report ed and the total loss of life probably will be increased when wire communi cation is restored in remote sections devastated by the cyclone. The dam age to property cannot be estimated, but will have to be computed in mil lions. 29 Killed In Georgia. Twenty-nine persons are reported to have perished in Georgia and damage to property is roughly estimated at 91,000,000. Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia, and vicinity bore the brunt of the storm, and 11 persons are re ported to have been killed. The other fatalities in Georgia were nine at Tucker, four at Kaglesvllle, three at Clarkston and two at Columbus- Late reports from Tennessee have Increased the death toll in. that state to 23 persons. ' Alabama la Hit Hard. The loss of life in Alabama Is esti mated at 13, although several persons still aire reported missing. Five ne groes were killed near New Decatur, three persons perished at Calera and two each at Hoke and Bluff, Gaines ville and Duke. Only one death has been reported from Texas. Late reports from Northern Missis sippi raised the death list irom seven as first reported, to 13. These fatali ties occurred in seven counties. Wire communication with a number of towns (Concluded on Page 5.) Dw i ORE THAN 90 Ii HIH IIIIMIMI.MIlil. II.IIHI.MI "IH INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maxim cm temperature, 48 degrees; minimum, 33 degrees. TODAY'S Fair with rising temperatures; National. Senate page says doorkeeper took lost evi dence m Lorimer case. . rage z. La Foltette has conference with Wilson. rage J. Position of Assistant Secretary of War is onerea Joseph E. Davles. Page 3. Tillman loses fight for committee chair- mansmp. Page 1. Polities. - Senator Cummins pleads for early call of Kepuniican Rational convention. Page 4- DomesrJc. Death list from storm la Gulf States Is more than SO. Page 1. - Cousins of Mrs; VanderbUt and Mrs. Oelrlehs sue lor snare In Fair estate. Page 0. Morgan examined In suit to dissolve Steel Corporation. Page fi. California Railroad Commission doubts good faith of Union Pacific in plan to un- merger. page 2.. , Stock speculation leads assistant cashier in Crocker . bank to embezzle (200,000. rasa j. Mexican federal - commander fears superior xorce at Aaco, sonora. Page 4. Julian Hawthorne sentenced to . prison. page l. Sport. ' Anderson and Brown both fit for battle to day. Page 7. " Negro ball team again . defeats Beavers. Page 7. "Gunboat" Smith knocks out Bombardier Wells in second round. ' Page 7. Northwest fight fans favor Anderson over "K. O." Brown. Page 7. Pacific Northwest. Lister wades Into big batch of bills. Page 5. Distracted ' Pendleton mother fearful Mrs. Cummings victim of white slavery. Page 6. Trial for murder - of Newport man opens at Albany, page 6. Toll bridge plan may solve Columbia River span problem. Page 12. Dr. N. G. Blalock, of Walla Walla, dies. Page 6. Salem to have bridge celebration today. t-age as. , . Commercial and Marine. Apple season drawing, to close with sur plus on hand. Page 17. Wheat crop outlook is best In years. Page Stocks advance on reported ratification of Harriraan plan. Page 17. Industrial situation good in all sections. Pass It. Grain carriers engaged at advanced rate. rage is. Portland and Vicinity. Councilman Baker lo war on smoking in committee meetings, page lu. Weather report, data and forecast, page 12. Portland observes Salmon day, which will da made annual ceJeoratlon. page 1. Personal property tax causing protest. Page Statewide agricultural extension movement to start today at commercial Club, page 10. Woman In registering uses Broadway Instead ol beventn. page l. Miss Booth speaks on "My Father" at Lin- corn High School. Page 4. Recruits Join campaign for Rose Festival r una. - Page 12. Bull Moose ra to have complete ticket in city campaign, page 12. Portland and Seattle Y. M. C A. teams to compete in membership contest. Page v. ALIENS' WIVES AFFECTED Foil Naturalization and Five Tears Residence Necessary to Vote. SALEM. Or., March 14. (Special.) The Attorney-General today rendered an opinion to the effect that wives of aliens may not vote until they have taken their full naturalization papers and have been residents of this coun try for five years, although alien males are entitled to suffrage after taking out their first papers. A difference in the state and Fed eral Constitutions causes this variance to exist he says. ONE DEMOCRAT WHO IS NOT AFTER A GOVERNMENT JOB. HORNE FOUND GUILTY OF FRAUDS Sentence of Year and Day Imposed. TWO ASSOCIATES CONVICTED Judge Grants Ten-Day Stay to Permit Appeal. JOSIAH QUINCY IS FREE Son of Physician Wbo First Used Ether in Surgery Shares Penalty With Novelist Freeman's Sentence Five Tears. NEW YORK. March 14. The Haw thorne mining trial, which has dragged along nearly four months before a jury In the Federal Court here, came to a conclusion today with the conviction of three of the defendants Julian Haw thorne, Dr. 'William J. Morton and Al bert Freeman and the acquittal of Josiah Quincy, twice Mayor of Boston and Assistant Secretary of State in the Cleveland Administration. Hawthorne, Morton and Freeman were, found guilty of making fraudu lent use of the malls in selling stock in Canadian mining claims. Jury Is Out 27 Honrs. Quincy, exonerated by United States Judge Mayer on all counts of five In dlctments before the case reached the Jury, was held not guilty on the one remaining indictment of conspiracy in allowing his name to be used In pro motlng the stock. The jury was out 27 hours. Judge Mayer paroled Quincy until next October, when he is directed to appear in answer to two Indictments still pending against him. Freeman, a New York business man for 28 years, was sentenced to five pears-a -the- "yeBeral penitentiary at Atlanta. Hawthorne, son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the novelist, and himself an author, and Dr. William J. Morton, son of Dr. W. T. Q. Morton, the first user of ether In surgical operations. each were sentenced to one year and one day at Atlanta. Time for Appeal Allowed. Freeman's prison term Is to date from the first of the present year and the terms of Hawthorne and Morton from November 25, the date the trial was begun. Of 27 counts against the three men found guilty; Freeman was acquitted of four and Hawthorne and Morton of seven each. Judge Mayer granted a 10-day stay to allow an appeal. LAFOLLETTE MAKES WHITE HOUSE CALL SENATOR IS FORERtJXXER OF OTHER PROGRESSIVES. President Believed to Desire Views on Tariff, Currency and Valua tion of Railways. WASHINGTON, March 14 Senator La Follette made his first call tonight at the White House in more than three years. He was the invited guest of President Wilson and spent almost an hour with the President He would make no statement as to the purpose of his visit, but It has been an open secret for days .that he was Invited to discuss legislative questions with the President. It was generally understood that President Wilson wished especially to get the views of Senator La Follette as a true progressive upon tariff re vision, currency legislation, Alaska and the effect of physical valuation of rail roads, as provided for by Congress in the closing days of the last session. The conference tonight was merely pre. Hminary to others to be held later. Other progressive Senators will be asked to the White House from time to time, and the President hopes that many of them will find it consistent to line up with the Democrats in passing what he believes is progressive legisla. tion. Senator La Follette apparently was in high good humor when he left, for, al though he would not talk about his visit, he joked with the newspaper men who were waiting to see him. "This is my first visit In three years to the White House," be said In answer to an inquiry. "I came once after the special tariff session called by President Taft, but I wasn't received." "Well, how do you feel now?" he was asked. "Fine," said the Senator, as he stepped into his automobile. JUDGESHIP IS FOR KING Oregon Committeeman Believed Scheduled for Court ot Claims. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ingxon, March 14. There is an ap parently authentic rumor today that Will R. King, Democratic National Committeeman for Oregon, is to be nominated for Chief Justice of Court of Claims In this city, to fill the vacancy occurring through failure of last Senate to confirm the nomination made by President Taft. - . - ; The Chief Justice of this court re celves $6500 a year. King Is under stood to prefer this office to that of Commissioner of the General Land Office because of the larger salary and the character of work involved. Clay Tallman, defeated Democratic candidate for Congress in Nevada, rec ommended by Senator Newlands for ap pointment as Secretary of the Interior, is en route to Washington and will be appointed either as Assistant Secre tary of the Interior. In event that J. N, Teal declines, or as Commissioner of the General Land Office. MAILCARRIERS IN QUANDARY Changing of Seventh to Broadway Causes Difficulty. "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again," must be the motto of the mall carriers In handling matter addressed to numbers on Broadway until a new system of numbering is established or some other method is devised whereby they can tell whether a letter marked "Broadway" is meant for the old Broadway on the East Side, or the new Broadway on the West Side, which was formerly Seventh street. Acting Postmaster Shellenbarger sug gests two methods of getting around the present difficulty. One is to desig nate the old Broadway as "East Broad way" and the new portion, which was formerly Seventh street, as "Broad way." In this case a renumbering on the West Side will be necessary. As a better method, however, be suggested bginnlng at the south end of the new street called Broadway, where the street strikes the Heights, and number ing from there, across through the East Side and as far on as Broadway runs. MISS WILSON WILL COME President's Daughter to Visit Port land During Summer. Miss Eleanor Wilson, daughter of President Wilson, lias written Beed College asking to have reservations made for entertainment during the sec ond World's Christian Citizenship Con ference, to be held in Portland, June 29-July S, at which her father will be the principal speaker. Miss Wilson Is a settlement worker and deeply interested in all social prob lems. President 'Wilson was invited and ac cepted the Invitation to speak more than two years ago. Later, when he became a candidate for the Presidency, some doubt arose as to his willingness to fill the engagement, but he reiter ated his interest in the purposes of the conference and announced that his sub ject would be "The Moral Implications of the Right of Suffrage." SUFFRAGE WINS IN ALASKA House Adopts Resolution and Senate Will Concur in Action. JUNEAU, Alaska, March 14. The equal suffrage resolution enfranchising Alaska women was adopted by the House today. - The Senate will adopt the resolution, as there is no opposition to rotes for women in that body. PORTLAND LIVES ON SALMON "King Fish" to Be Hon ored Annually. FIRST CELEBRATION SUCCESS Big Banquet Marks Climax ot Oregon's Novel Holiday. IMPETUS. GIVEN INDUSTRY Festivities at Commercial Club at Night Largely Attended Prom inent Persons Tell of Business Growth. FSI7.ES AWARDED IN SALMON RECITE COJ.TE8T. First prize Mrs. Qrace Pierce. 119 East S2d street, one case Columbia River one-pound flat Chinook. , Second prise Mrs. June McMillan Ordway, 300 Crosby street, one case one-pound flat Oregon red salmon. Third prize Miss Garnet Watson, 603 Ladd avenue, one case half-pound flat chlnook salmon. Fourth prise Mrs. W. B. Bolton, one dozen Chinook tails salmon. Fifth prize Mrs. s. O. Webb. P. O. box 853, Seaside. Or., one dozen Ore gon red tall salmon. Sixth prize Florence B. Ewer. Reed College, one dozen halt-pound . Oregon red salmon. Charles Kieffer, chef Arlington Club, special mention and special award. .4 Salmon was king yesterday. Everyone ate it. The grocers sold it. And last night, at the Commercial Club a big party of men and women talked about It - It was the first Salmon day in history. As an Initial affair it went a long way toward booming the Pacific. Coast salmon industry. It resulted at once in filing the second Friday of each March es Salmon day. Next year the movement, which was centered prin cipally In the Pacific Coast cities this year, will be spread over the whole country. Salmon Can la Evidence. While some people ate salmon at their three regular meals it remained for the Commercial Club dinner to pro vide the finishing touches. This affair was engineered by an enterprising com mittee of the Transportation Club, the members of which conceived the Salmon day idea. J. E. Werlein, president of the club, presided. The most conspicuous feature of the dinner, next to the large number of pretty women, was the salmon can with bright red label at each place on the table. The label really proved to be the menu card and programme of toasts combined. Inside the can were three or four small buckshot. 'This provided the con vivial crowd with an instrument to ex press their approval of any witty re mark by the speakers or the mention of the name of some favored guest. Rattling the buckshot in the cans proved a pleasant substitute for hand clapping in the applause. Contest Winners Announced. Frank S. Grant, City Attorney, spoke for Mayor Rushlight in telling of the value of the salmon industry to Port land. Mrs. H. G. Calvin, dean of the do mestic science department of Oregon ' Agricultural College, told of the use of canned salmon In the home, and an nounced the prize winners- In the salmon recipe contest All the recipes submitted. in the contest will be printed in early issues of The Orego nlan. C C. Chapman, of the Commercial Club, complimented J. J. Reynolds, sec retary of the Packers' Association, on his originality in preparing the unique menu card and programme. He also praised the committee in charge of ar rangements. This committee was com - posed of W. C. McBrlde, chairman; V. Klstler, S. J. H. French, E. M. Burns and Russell Stanley. M. J. Kinney, member of the State Fish Commission, reviewed the indus try in the state and told of the co operation between the Commission and the salmon men. Salmon Industry Discussed. F. A. Seufert. president of the Pack ers Association, expressea tne urgent need for more legislation to protect the industry and declared that the sports men are seeking to govern the fishing laws so that the industry actually will suffer. He told of the Immense amount of money that the salmon packirings into the state annually. In 1912 the pack exceeded 482,000,000 pounds. B. F. Stone, manager for JSimore & Co., told of the part the packers play in the development of the salmon in dustry. He showed that salmon Is a more wholesome and a cheaper food than meat Frank W. Koblnson, assistant traffic manager of the O.-W. R. & N. Company, explained the functions of the carrier in placing the salmon on tbe market. It costs less than a cent and a half a pound to transport 'salmon across the continent Transportation, therefore he pointed out. Is not a factor In a ' stagnant market. A. G. Clark, ex-president of the Ad Club, was scheduled to Rpeak on the t .Concluded ob Page 12.) FO