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at-. 7 TTTT-ZTTTrr " Portland, oregox. Wednesday, aprix 9, 1913. price five cents. . I tUli. Xilll iu,ot ' PRECEDENT OF 112 YEARS SHATTERED Wilson Talks to Con gress "as Human." CENTURY OLD GAP IS BRIDGED President Cheered at End of "Man-to-Man" Speech. UNREAL BECOMES NATURAL Crowded Hall I Tense at Opening or Ceremony but Feeling Soon Van ishes and Tears Give Way to Expressions of ricasure. WASHINGTON. April . President Wilson bridged today tha cap that for over a century tiaa separated the execu tive and legislative branches of the Government. Not as a cor In a machine, not as an impersonal political entity, nor as a mere department of government but as the human President, he went, to Concrets to speak about a tariff. Standing before the Senate and House of Representatives In Joint ses sion as no other President had done for more than US years. President Wilson stated simply and tersely what he thought should be done for the wel fare of the country and asked his leg Ixlative colleagues, man to man. to aid in keeping the pledges of their party. Issaaiaary Bouadarr Falls. With a sweep of decision that shat tered precedent, the President brushed aside all imaginary boundaries between t'ongress and the executive office, and rescued himself, as he expressed It. from that Isolated Island of Jealous authority" which the Presidency had come to be regarded. Congress., somewhat atartled the other day when It heard that the Pres. idrnt had determined to deliver his message on the tariff by word of mouth, had prepared for a ceremony of unusual Importance, and such It was; yet when President -Wilson arrived in the midst of the great assemblage, rid ing through throngs of cheering people in the streets and later looking up Into galleries crowded with privileged ticket-holders, he seemed, after ail, what he said he was "a human being trying to co-operate with other human beings In a common service. Visit ta Capitol Is Brief. When the much-heralded Incident was over. Congress seemed pleased and the President waa delighted. He ex pressed himself to friends as Impressed with the dignity of the occasion, and some of his confidants later declared that he left the Capitol greatly relieved to think that, after all. his precedent smashing bad not been such a cataclys mic thing aa some older heads had pre dicted. The Presidents visit to the Capitol was brief. lasting about a quarter of an hour. Leaving a Cabinet meeting at the White House, he started on his mission at 12:45 o'clock. No one except a secret service man accompanied him. lie rode In a White House automobile and five minutes later waa driven titrough the crowds assembled about the House wing of the CapltoL At 11.it he reached Speaker Clark a room. Just off the House chamber, where a Joint committee of Senators and Rep resentatives welcomed him. They were Senators Kern. Bacon and Galllnger and Representatives Underwood. Palmer and Mann. The President spoke to each for a moment and was informed that the Senate and House awaited him. Keew latrrret la A a pa re at. At two minutes before 1 o'clock the President entered the chamber. Mem bers of the House and Senate rose as Speaker Clark brought down the gavuL Front the floor and galleries distin guished guests looked on at the scene. President Wilson, escorted by Senator Bacon, bowed acknowledgement to the applause and mounted the Speaker's stand to the Journal clerk's desk, di rectly In front of the Speaker. With a smile, as he began to speak, the Presi dent told his hearera why he had come. He said he was glad to verify for him self the Impression that the President of the United States was a person. He was speaking in an ordinary tone of voice. Just aa though he were talk ing to a Senator in his office. Every eye was fixed upon him as he spoke, and It was Instantly apparent that he had aroused the keenest interest. As the President proceeded with his pre liminary statement, averring that he was not a mere department of Govern ment, but human, and that be had come to speak naturally with his fellow men. the Interest waa tense. "After this pleasant experience." the President declared. "I shall feel quite normal in all our dealings with one another." Applaaae OeaeraL The House and Senate applauded. Then the gallery Joined In. Mrs. Wil son and the President's daughters and other relatives Joined from the Execu tive gallery. Where a few moments before the event had seemed unusual, almost unreal, it now appeared per fectly adjusted to conditions and not at all dramatic. Tfc applause subsiding the President began to read his brief message on the titriff. He spoke slowly and forcefully iConcluiicd od 2 GIRL WEARIES OF LIFE OF IDLENESS BIGELOWS GRANDDAUGHTER TAKES MAID AND FLITS. Hon. Lionel Guest Finds His Step daughter In London Seeking Way to Earn Own Living. LONDON. April 8. Lucy B. Dodge s-randdauahter Of the late John Bige low. at one time American Minister to Fri.P, .nil f h daughter of the Hon Mrs. Lionel Guest, was reunited to her family this evening. She communl rat.il -Ith her mother, ravins- that the publicity given to her disappearance had induced her to write to ner rcia, ttvas. Miss Dodge left her home In London vith a mairi An AdHI 8. She had be enme wearied of a life of Idleness and rieolreA to earn her own living. A re ward had been offered for Information concerning her whereabouts. The Hon. Lionel Guest, her stepfather, said tonight: "Tfcf entirse we are delighted to tell you that Miss Dodge haa been found and that now all our anxiety is at an -., TL-m harin't fh. remotest Idea where she went until late tonight when in response to a message 1 sent to a houaa not far from Marble Arch. In which she had secured lodgings. "I saw suss Doage ana it appears that aha noticed the renort In the papers of her disappearance and Im mediately communicated with us. Miss ru.ii-. la n..f.tlv well, hut haa not de cided on any particular business or professional career yet. She has not had time, as she was only away from home six days. "VI.. rioilfi srave me no sneclflc rea son why she had said nothing about staying away." ALLEGED "DUMMY" SUED Twenty - Five - Dollar Stenographer Holds Power Securities. NEW YORK. April . A J25-a-week stenographer who acted as a "dummy. ' It is alleged, for Anthony N. Brady and the late Alden M. Touns. in financing a $2,000,000 rehabilitation of the Day ton (Ohio) Power A Lighting Company, la defendant In a suit brought today by Brady and Thomas Wood, Jr., as as signee of Toung. to get possession of securities worth f 100,000 that remained after the deal waa ended. The stenographer. Joseph F. Kelly, figured that his employers stood to make $1,000,000 In the transaction and decided that his services were worth more taan $25 a week. Brady and Toung thought otherwise, and Kelly quit his Job, taking the securities with him. The plaintiffs allege that he al ready has hypothecated $23,000 and ask for an accounting and an injunction to tie up the remaining securities. Kelly declares that he was the actual contractor In the deal and that Brady and Toung have no documentary evi dence to prove be was a dummy. APPOINTMENTS SOON DUE Poftorficc and Land Office Jobs May Be Given Ont Today. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. April 8. If the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney-General ap ply to Oregon the general rule they have laid down regarding patronage coming under their respective depart ments they will be as deliberate in making appointments ss was Senator Lane In making recommendations, and It may be several weeks and possibly months before the slate presented by the Oregon Senators is acted on. There Is expected to be no particular delay In appointment of postmasters or local land officers, and several of these ap pointments In Oregon will be made In the near future, possibly tomorrow. Secretary McAdoo and Attorney-General McRcynolds are particularly care ful about the qualifications of men recommended to them and are disposed to make their own Investigations of men Indorsed by Democratic Senators. Secretary Lane. It Is understood, will follow the rule of the last Administra tion and appoint only lawyers as reg isters of local land offices. LIPTON LIFTS CONDITION New York Yacht Club Has Xo Option but to Accept Challenge. LONDON'. April 8. Sir Thomas Lip ton, the British yachtsman, sent today an unconditional challenge for a series of races for the Amerlca'a cup to the New York Tacht Club, and after 10 years undisturbed possession of the trophy American yachtsmen must again prepare to defend It. NEW YORK. April 8. A special meeting of the New York Yacht Club probably will be called to act upon Sir Thomas Upton's challenge. Announcement was made tonight that the challenge had been received. A meeting of the flag officers of the club will be held, it was said, to decide whether a special meeting should be called or whether the challenge should go over until the next regular meeting. Mar IS. FROZEN ORANGES SEIZED St. Paul Food Official Condemns Three Carloads of lYuit. ST. PAUL. April . Assistant Dairy and Food Commissioner McCabe today seized three cars of oranges. In all 1500 cases were found .to be rotten and frozen. . The oranges were consigned from California to St. Paul commission men. They will disposed of as refuse. SENATE DEVELOPS TARIFF CRITICISM Leaders Insist That Bill Be Subdivided. FOUR GROUPS ARE PROPOSED Sugar and Wool Men Threaten Defeat of Measure. HOUSE CAUCUS NOT PUBLIC Opponents of Method Suggest Prob ability of Secret Preliminary Conferences Minority to Present Report. WASHINGTON. April . The fight for Democratic tariff revision began In Congress today. Conferences and party plana, which have held the stage for weeks past, gave way to the first open steps for the passage of the new tariff bill. President Wilson's per sonally delivered message, calling on his party associates In both bouses speedily to enact the party's pledges of tariff revision, was followed by a caucus of Democratic House members which will continue for several days and in which Democrats will endeavor to settle their differences and agree on support of the Underwood bilL Criticism of many features of the law developed today in Democratic circles In the Seriate. In a short caucus of Senate Democrats held to consider other matters criticism was voiced by one or two Western Senators against the tree wool provision and the sugar schedule proposing free sugar In 1916. Public Mot to Enter.' The House Democrats settled none of the general tariff questions today. The three-hour session was devoted to an unsuccessful fight to throw the doors open to the public, a proposal defeated by a vote of 167 to 84. De tails of the new tariff bill will be taken un. tomorrow. Senate leaders still are insistent that the Underwood bill be subdivided so that separate votes may be had. if de sired, on the sugar anil wool schedules. One plan that has been proposed to President Wilson Is that schedules be grouped In sueh a way that the tariff will be comprised in four separate measures. These proposals are based on a growing belief that opponents cf the sugar and wool provisions may muster strength enough to threaten de feat of the bill. Many progressive Re publican Senators expressed their op position to the Democratic bill because of the sweeping character of its pro posed reductions. The Democrats are counting on little if any progressive Republican support In the Senate should1 (Concluded on Psse 2) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Tb Teterdy. YESTERDAY'S 'Maximum tmprature, B7 - djjre; minimum, 4-4 degrees. -TODAY'S Fair; westerly winds. Foreign. Granddad Kb tar of lata American Minister to France leaves London home, to earn own living. Paje 1. National. Administration to defer recognition of Chin until assembly or pan lies. Page 2. Wilson makes precedent-breaking speech be fore Congress, Pare 1. Opposition to tariff Mil crystallizes in Sen ate, Page 1. Connecticut furnishes necessary vote to rat ify direct elections amendment. Page President's message urges revision of tariff, barely mentions currency . legislation. Page 2. Pope's relapse causes real alarm. Page 1. Miss Emerson. American suffragette, is freed from .London prison. Page 8. Domestic. Boston telephone company Imports 600 girls to work In case of strike. Page 4. Professor Olson acquitted of murder. Page 3. Pacific Nortlaweat. Indian maiden leaves dusty trail for crim son path. Page -L " Searching party unable to reach wreck of Mini I. Page . Captain Westphal and C. S. Fisher con demn work of lifesavlng crew. Page 6. Supreme Court hands down decisions. Page 4. Sport. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 5. Oakland 0; Los Angeles 6, Sacramento 0; Venice 5 San Francisco -L Page 8. Booster Club adds more members to roster. Page 8. Twenty teams already entered In Columbia meet. Page S. Joe Rivers and Loach Cross fight 10 -round draw. Page 0. Commercial and Marine Effect of Balkan war on world's wheat markets, page 18. Favorable Government report sends wheat down at Chicago. Page 19. Stock advance due to crop and copper re ports. Page IS. High water delays construction of public landing. Page 18. Portland mad Vicinity. Allen women are advised on right of voting. Page 7. Lombard refuses to support commission c h..r.cr. Pago 12. Hiss Henrlette Rothchlld announces engage ment to Arthur Senders. Page 11. Crosstown line decision expected soon. Page 9. Big movement of tourists from East to West predicted for all year. Pago 12. Pretty woman of Newberg. Or., identifies H. M. Hudson aa robber. Pago 7. Weather report, data and forecast. Fa 14. ARSON SENTENCE IMPOSED Employer of "Iuy the Painter" Gets Term in Prison. NEW YORK, April 8. Another par ticipant in the profits of the arson trust was sentenced to prison today. Jacob Schiffer was sent to Sing Sing for from eight to 12 years. Schiffer, it Is alleged, employed Isador Stein, known as "lzzy the painter." to set fire to a building. He then collected Insurance arranged for before "lazy" touched the match. "lazy is a convict serving time for arson, whose disclosures when brought here as a witness resulted In a score of' fire adjusters being Indicted. Sev eral are now in prison. BOMB MAKES BARBER SLIP Hand Shakes and Razor Slashes Throat of Customer. NEW YORK, April S. When a bomb exploded in an East Side tenement to night, a razor In the hand of a barber slashed a man's throat and a nlne-foof mirror fell from the wall and landed on the head of another customer. The barber fell to the floor stunned. Twenty families fled from the bouse by way of fire escapes when the ront lower stairs waa demolished. Nearly 60 bombs have ben set off in New York streets since the first of the year. COCKS HIS OWN CANNON. RELAPSE OF POPE EOF All-Day's Rest Brings Some Improvement. STRA'N OH HEART IS FEARED Physicians Order that All Audiences Be Suspended. PONTIFF IS MELANCHOLY Denial of Privilege of Seeing Old I"riends Brings Remark: "I Am No More Use, Either to My self or Others." ROME, April , 1 A. M. "The physi cian ia attendance on the Pope through tbe Bight reported that at midnight tbe Pope's temperature showed a alight rise. Tbla. however, did not prevent tbe patient from getting a fair amount of Bleep. ROMP. ADril 8. Pope Pius X has suffered a relapse, and as is usual in relaoses. his condition Is considered graver than that occasioned by his ill ness of last month. The present at tack began with a fainting fit and Pro fessor Marchiafava. the papal physician, was summoned late last night. He viaiterf the nontiff again early this morning and several times today. The official statement given out at the Vatican simply says: The Pona Is suffering from a re lapse of the' influenza." Official Statement Issued. The Osservatore Romano, the Vatican organ, published the following official statement tonight: "Since yesterday evening the Holy Father has been indisposed with a re lapse of influenza. His condition is causing no anxiety, but he requires much rest." The truth Is that the Pope's relapse is causing great anxiety, because it was not expected, and 'for the further rea son that at his advanced age there is the ever-present danger of his being unable to withstand the drain on his strength. Nepbrltla Is Indicated. Today his temperature reached a lit tle over 100 Fahrenheit, which in Itself Is not at all alarming, but the heart showed weakness and there were evi dences of kidney trouble. The con dition known as albuminuria, which frequently accompanies influenza, is present, indicating nephritis, or inflam mation of the kidneys. - At a late hour tonight the Pope's condition was said to have improved materially, partly owing to the fact that he had remained in bed all day and, with the exception of Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal Secretary of (Concluded on Page 3.) C S ALARM WIGWAM NO MORE LURS INDIAN MAID EDUCATION', TUBE SKIRT AXD SUEDE SHOES SOW CHARM. Christine Victor Deserts Dusty Trails for Crimson Path of Ease and Luxury and Ends in Jail. SPOKANE. Wash.. April 8. (Spe cial. Christine Victor, a comely In dian maid of 22. has "Just lost her taste" for her home among her people. The big city looks like home to Chris tine nowadays. She has discarded her shawl for a coat of the latest cut, her old soiled skirt has been replaced wit a neat-fitting gown of the tuba variety and ' In place of her moccasins a pair of suede shoes are worn. Christine now occupies a cell In the City Jail and may be there for sev eral weeks. She was arrested Monday night in company with Bazll Peone, an Indian of the Coeur d'Alene tribe, and charges of vagrancy were preferred against both. The charge against Peone this morn ing was changed to adultery, the po lice having learned that he is married and has a family on the reservation. According to Indian police, Christine is the owner of 160 acres of land valued at 8100 an acre and has a bank de posit of 82500. "Christine is well educated." said an Indian policeman this morning. "She attended the mission school and later the Indian school near Portland. She has told her parents that she cannot come back to their home, that the white people will not let her. The father and mother are much worried." GUN VICTIM CARRIED FAR Seven-Mile Trip Is Made Over Dan gerous Mountain Trail. TACOMA, Wash., April 8. (Special.) Henry Prlngle, aged 30, Stadium High School football star and son oi tne vice-president of the Scandinavian American Bank, was accidentally shot Sunday morning by Clifford Moores. Tacoma automobile dealer, while on hunting trip in an isolated part of the Bald Hills, about 15 miles southeast of Yelm. The bullet, fired from a 32-cali ber revolver, entered the fleshy part of the left leg. Just above the knee. With the assistance of A. B. Judson E. Johnson and Ira Grant, three Mc Kenna fishermen, who happened to be In the vicinity, Pringle's companions carried him seven miles down a rugged and dangerous trail to a point where the McKenna fishing party had left a buckboard. The undergrowth was so heavy that the path for the bearers of the wounded youth had to be chopped out by several xtt the men, who went ahead, slashing the trail with axes. Over huge rocks and sliding down steep inclines, at times barely squeez ing through -the thick brush, the wounded young man was pushed and lifted on a stretcher Improvised of rough boughs, tied together by strips from blankets. Pringle left Tacoma Friday with Chauncev Howe, Fred Miller and Moores. They were shooting at a tin can when Moores" revolver was accl dentally discharged. BATTLE RAGES0N BORDER Three American Soldiers Wounded, One Probably Fatally. NACO, Ariz., April S. With little ad vantage to either side, state forces today alternately attacked Naco, Sonora, or were met midway by Ojeda'-s small Federal force defending thme Sonora-Arizona border town. The Federals are known to have lost seven killed and 40 wounded. The state troops' loss Is believed much greater. While on patrol duty, Frivate White, of the Ninth United States Cavalry, was wounded In the hand and leg. Trumpeter Flemmilng was shot through the shoulder, the ball piercing his body and falling into his blouse pocket C. J. Brown, negro trooper, was shot in the abdomen while in camp. He probably will die. MICHIGAN BEATS SUFFRAGE Amendment Loses by 25,000 and Republicans Claim Victory. DETROIT, April 8. Woman suffrage in Michigan generally was conceded hopelessly defeated in yesterday's elec lion, when scattering returns received late today from the rural districts of the state did not tend materialy to de crease the . big majority rouea up against the amendment. Its oppo nents declared tonight the amendment had failed by 25.000. This afternoon's reports Increased the confidence of the Republicans that they would carry the complete state ticket. DR. EVEREST IS SENTENCED Hillsboro Prisoner Makes Vain Plea lor Parole. HILLSBORO, Or, April 8. (Special.) Judge J. U. Campbell this morning sentenced Dr. Ernest Everest to an in determinate sentence of from three to 20 years in tbe Penitentiary. The aged physician presented a pitiable appear ance in court and made a personal plea for a parole. He was bitter in denun ciation of the Juvenile Court officer and said that he had been perseceuted. The Judge refused and administered a scathing lecture. Edward and George Henderson and Duke McCurdy, of Cornelius, all young men. were paroled after being given 3 to 20 years' sentences. Corvallis Man Gets Appointment. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE. Corvallis. Or., April 8. (Spe cial.) Harry L. Rees, assistant in plant pathology at the Oregon Agricultural College Experiment Station, has been notified by the authorities at Wash ington State College of his appointment as plant pathologist at the" Puyallup, Wash., experiment station. 10 GETS FARMER'S MS Conferees Seek Way to Aid Consumers. 30 STATES ARE REPRESENTED Where , Are Men Machines Eliminated? Speaker Asks. WIDE MARGINS ARE NOTED Cabbage and Potatoes Rot in Grow ers' Hands, While Housewives in Cities Pay High Prices Mid dleman Is Blamed. CHICAGO, April 8. Chicago house wives paid 2 cents a pound for fresh cabbage today and commission mer chants here paid from 81.50 to $2 a crate. Down In Rio Grande County, Texas, cabbage is rotting on the farms. The hunt to find -who gets the farm ers' profits occupied farmers, truck growers and agricultural experts from 30 states and Canada who are gathered here today for a three-day session of the National conference on marketing and farm credits. The conference came Into being be cause heads of granges, farm experts and growers saw their products going to waste while the cost of living went up and the consumers paid tbe bill. Middleman Hay Get Blamed. "The railroads are not getting the money," said Commissioner of Agricul ture Cone, of Texas. "At least, we think not. The farmer is not getting it. Where does the money go? If it's the middleman, we're after him." Peter Radford, president df the Texas Farmers' Union, said that farm ers have long been restive under pres ent marketing conditions. Warren Dunham- Foster, member of the Massachusetts Homestead Commis sion, said: "The potatoes raised on truck farms in Cummtngton, Mass., are rotting in the fields, while in worth Ington, a town practically adjoining Cummington. they sell for 81.60 a bushel." Onions Absorb 6SO Per Cent. "To illustrate the gross Injustice of our present marketing system." said President Mezoz. of Texas University, in a paper, "I may point out the fact that In Laredo, Tex., In our onion-growing district, one day a short time ago, onions were sold for 2 cents a pound; the next morning Laredo onions were sold in the open market at Austin, Tex., at 15 cents a pound. In this transac tion, as you wiU see, the commission man, the public carrier and the retail dealer divided among themselves 650 per cent of the price paid to the growers. "The glaring injustice of such a system is made more apparent by a comparison with the results of co operation in marketing farm products In Denmark. In that country, for example, the co-operation society handles, sorts according to size and packs eggs for 8 per cent; the ship ping and selling cost 4 per cent, leav ing the farmer 92 per cent of the final purchase price paid by the con sumer." What Has Become of Tent "Four men with improved ma chinery and the help of science now produce as much food as formerly was produced by 14 men. Where are the ten?" With this question Henry J. Waters, president of the Kansas Agri cultural College, began his address on "Educational Aids to Organization." One of the chief difficulties with the present system. President Waters said, is the fact that the ten men forced out of the Held of production by modern methods and machinery have not found employment that is profitable to so ciety, no matter how profitable it may . be to themselves. "While farmers have become through better methods or improved machinery much more efficient producers than in other years, something has interfered to deprive them of a large part of the advantage that this increased effi ciency naturally would be expected to bring," said the speaker. "bometmns also has deprived the consumer of whatever advantages were expected to accrue to him through these better systems." Organization President Waters be lieved to be the panacea that would make "things as they ought to be." BLOOD GIVEN FOR FELLOW Union 31an Undergoes Transfusion Operation to Save Other. SAN FRANCISCO, April 8. "Broth erly love" was the dynamic that caused M. T. Doyle, a member of the Riggers' Union, of San Francisco, to sacrifice 20 ounces of his blood to save William Seymour, a fellow union worker, who was in a dying condition from gas asphyxiation. Ordinary methods had failed to re vive Seymour and it was decided that transfusion was the only means of saving the man's life. It was ex plained at union headquarters, and Doyle, declaring the motto of the union was "brotherly love, onerea nis blood. He refused an anesthetic and y on the operating table two hours. watching the color creep slowly back Into Seymour's face. Doctors said the operation had probably saved Seymour's life. PROFITS' ASKED