lg 4 THE MORNING OREGONIAN. WEDNESDAY- APRIL 9, 1913. . LOMBARD OPPOSES Yesj,la,am,Cottolene PROMINENT PORTLAND PIONEER WHO DIED TUESDAY. (MraBrown i A Sensible Woman) Cheaper Republican Candiate for Mayor r Titan Butter Points Out Defects as He Sees Them. f- V i "MAYOR WOULD BE CZAR" r..... , PROPOSED CHARTER 4 ff Commission Form Draft Docs Away With Direct Primary and Gives X Adequate Substitute, He Say Support Refused. WHY UAX LOMBARD WILL NOT - ft-l'FFOKT PROPOSED CHARTER. He wn tt clvra th Mayor des potic powrra. which ha himsrlt woaM not care to poetess, and whtrh he thinks no man In Portland Is blr enonjrh to use without abup. He declare the Mayor can abso ltireir control legislation hy manip ulating appointment and that he can force the com miss Inner a d Ms bidding or moke them mere c Jerks, a the proposed charter i:ive him authority to ajwign them i htr work. He mvs it also abolishes the di rer t primary without substituting anything as rood or better and he denounces the proposed pre fere n 1 1 a 1 rttlng syrem as fatally defective and designed to make it easy fur machine politicians to win. Mr. Lombard also says that, tn ef fect. It abolthea civil serrlre. mhfrh he conJldcra rery vital to good gor-eroment. D-iarina: that the proposed commis sion charter lias fatal defect and that tt la not jrolng to a:iv good (rovern menl. In that It do away with the dtrvi primary and substitute? there- ffr nothing; that will produce majority T representation and that it will make th Mayor a nar, day Lombard. Re publican candidate for Mavor. yester day announced that h cannot con "ctentlounly support It. While he ay there may be minor defects which. If not coupled with the two chief and what lie term fatal on en. would not be worth calling; at tention to, he bancs his refusal to rec ommend and support -the proposed commlwlon charter on the ground of Ita destruction of the direct primary law In city elections and mibatltution of the preferential voting; system and on the vast powers which he points out It rives to th Mayor. Mr. lomhard asserts that the only other charter which contains the vot ing; system proposed In the charter to be voted on here May 3 is tn Pueblo, Colo., and thnt the I'ueblo charter has been condemned by the best commis sion charter experts, who declare that Its preferential balloting; system Is fatal to majority rule and elects ma chine men every time. RftMU banned It. That he haa tested the preferential voting; system proposed in the commis sion charter that Is now before the voters of Portland and has found that, while a majority of the voters may want a certain candidate, that one whom they do not want la able to be fleeted. Is asserted. Summed up. Mr. Lombard's decision, reached yesterday, that he cannot conscientiously, support the proposed charter and that he will not recom mend It to the public. Is based on the two features vast powers granted to the Mayor and abolition of the direct primary and failure to substitute for it anything; that will rive majority rule. He declares that, under the pro visions of the proposed charter, the Mayor Is an absolute czar: that he Is granted authority not only to assign the four commissioners who are to erve with him, but to name their du ties, to transfer them. If he chooses, without Riving; any reason, and that he can, if he sees fit. make of any of the commissioners a mere figurehead. As an example of what the Mayor could do under the proposed charter, Mr. Lombard cites the case of the Com missioner of Public Safety, who nom inally would have chance of the police and fire departments. If that commis sioner should refuse to do the bidding of the Mayor, says Mr. Lombard, the Mayor, under the proposed charter, could so change the department's work that he could make the commissioner Ko out and take charge of the dog pound and do nothing else. While he says this Is showing the extreme use of the power to be vested In the May or, nevertheless, he declares. It Is pos sible and should not. In Ms opinion, be granted to any man. Alleged Defects) Pol a tew Oat. "After having spent three weeks studying the proposed charter," said Mr. Lombard yesterday. I must say to the public that I cannot conscien tiously support It. I cannot recommend It to the voters of this city as an In strument which they should adopt as their governing document. It has two fatal defects it vests tn the Mayor powers that make him the absolute dictator of the city and it abolishes the direct primary In city elections without giving any suitable substitute therefor. The plan of preferential vot ing, contained In the proposed charter. Is, so far as I can ascertain, an experi ment and Is In vogue only In Pueblo, I and one of the best experts In the country on commission government ys It Is fatally defective as to glv- Ing true representative majority rule. ' "Now. I favor commission govern- , merit. I stood for that form two years ago and I stand for it today, but 1 will nt go before the people of Port land, with whom I have always been fair, and te'.l them that I favor a char, ter which makes of the Mayor a posi tive cxar or dictator and which does ay with the direct primary and does not give anything In return for it. I will not recommend this proposed charter because tt is not going to give good government: X am a candidate for Ma) or, but 1 will not proceed to urge people to vote for such a charter as this. It may be that It will hurt my chances for becoming Mayor, but I pro pose to let the people know what this charter will do. If It Is adopted and of. fleers are elected under its provisions. Flam re head a Are Feared. "Autocratic an.! absolute powers are vested in the Mayor under the pro visions of this proposed charter. The commissioners to be elected supposed ly to work with the Mayor are ruing to be nothing more than figureheads. If the Mayor elected sea fit to maki them so, unless they do his bidding. Personally, if elected Mayor. I do not want such power as this and. as a clt lien and one Interested in the city's future, I will not vote for any one else l aving that power. The feature of the proposed charter to which I ape i ially object In connection with the powers of the. Mayor Is that he is granted authority not only to assigu the commissioners to the various de partments, but he is also vested with full and undeniable authority to JAMES change the nam of the departments at will; to distribute the. work to the de partment at his own discretion and l( h sees fit to. he can force all of the commissioners to do his bidding; or make them nonentities, by assigning to his own department all of their work, except some such thins as watrhlnz over the doc Dound. Posi tively, the charter gives him thifc power. 1 challenge anyone to aeny :i. will debate the question with anyone at any time. Mv position two years afro, as puD- lished at the time. und my position now Is that we should have commission aovernment. but I do not consider my self a bis; enough man to be czar or Portland, and I do not believe tnere Is a man in Portland who Is big enough to handle the vast powers grunted the Mayor In this proposed charter witn out bringing about abuses. I would not ask the people to give me such powers, and I certainly shall not ask them to vote for this charter for tnia reason and the further reason that it destroys the direct primary. Primary Feature Opposed. 'Why. the Mayor, under this proposed charter, could name every appointee City Attorney. Municipal Judge. Treas urer, simply by forcing his terms on the commissioners before assigning them to departments. In the same manner, he could dictate legislation. He could tell the commissioners thut he did or did not want a certain law passed. If they sought to gainsay him or to balk him, he could, without giv ing any reason, take all of their powers away from them and make of them the. merest of figureheads. It is but rea sonable to suppose that In this manner the Mayor could compel the commis sion to do as he should see tit. I say that a charter like that Is not a good charter und shall not recommend It. I also strongly oppose the abolition f the direct primary, without substi tuting therefor something that will be as good or better. This charter pro poses to Install what is termea a preferential balloting system, and it has been claimed for. It that It will result In giving the people majority rule. I have tested this plan and 1 can show where a man can be elected, despite the fact that the people do not want him. simply by voting for him and making no second choice vote at all. In this manner, a machine slate could be put through In spite of the wishes of the voters, and i snau noi recommend such, a system as this. It s experimental and radical ana nor necessary to the commission charter. It should never have been put in. Seco.d i'bolrea Hit. "The method of using second choices practically gives each voter two votes, while the result of the counting of this second vote may be to defeat the voter's first choice: so when the third choice votes are added to the first and second choices, the counting of a voter's htrd choice may help to defeat his nrst. f. recognizing this, the voters largely refrain from marking any but first choices, then the basis of the preferen- ial vote is gone. -Another thins about this charter is that It automatically abolishes all boards and commissions, save the civil service commission, at the end of six months after taking effect of the char ter. However. It gives the commission power to revive these commissions and to create more, if the commission deems wise. Now. in this manner. I see where a Mayor and commission could build up a machine here In Portland mat would simply dictate the policies of the whole city: It could perpetuate Itself and no one could overthrow It. The Mayor, who names the civil service commission, could even get control 01 that body by naming his friends on it. If he did not favor civil service, any one can see what he could do to civil service In this manner. Promlae la Kxteaded. "T believe that, under the provisions of this proposed charter, the Mayor is supreme and a dictator, ana it is un necessary -to spend 20.000 a year for the four commissioners, who become mere clerks without power, if the Mayor wishes to exercise hla full authority on an occasion. Furthermore. It Is not right that the people of this city snouia be compelled to vote upon a matter of such vital Importance and have scarcely four weeks In which to study trie pro posed draft. Thousands of people have not vet Tecelved their copy of the offi cial charter, although the election Is to take place May J. I will say to the people of Portland that I will. If elected Mavor. Immediately appoint a commis sion to draft a good commission char ter, not Oiled with Jokers and not an experimental one. and will give them the opportunity of voting upon It as toon as possible. I will not wait until 10 dava before my term expires to pro vide them a charter to vote on and then set out one like we now nave De fore It." Mr. Lombard, two years ago. pro posed a commission charter which had five departments, each departments work being specifically set forth, so that the Mayor could not change It. This Is the kind of a charter which he now favors. He declares It is fatal to any charter to leave so much power to the Mayor as this one proposes. Toledo to Have Creamery. rPEHALIS. Wash- April 8. (Spe- i i i.-.iw.t JunimiL a uloneer creamery man of Toledo, is to build a modern creamery at once. ne win make cheese as well as butter at his plant. He has had 30 years experi ence In the bustne : t i ,.fyJj-'-frtnl m-Afi STEEI JAMES STEEL DEAD Paralysis Takes Oregon Pio neer of Portland. BANKING EXPERIENCE WIDE Public Offices Held by Prominent Resident Only Those of State Bank Kxamlner and School I1 rector Fnneral 'Tomorrow. James Steel, an Oreson pioneer, aged 7S years, died yesterday afternoon at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. James F- Ewlng. 610 Spring street, af ter a severe Illness of one month, due directly to a stroke of paralysis which he suffered in 1911. The funeral prob ably will be held from the Flcst Con gregational Church tomorrow after noon. Mr. Steel was born at Woodsfleld. Ohio, and lived there 21 years, when be moved to Dubuque, Iowa, where he remained six years, coming - to Port land across the plains tn 1862, where he has resided continuously ever since. His first position was clerk in K. Plttock's grocery store. Two years later he straightened out the books of the Oregon City Woolen Mills and In 1866, when the First National Bank was or ganized, he was chosen cashier, which bank he was with for 16 years. He then was made president of the Willamette Savings Bank, which he helped organize, and two years later, when this bank consolidated with the Merchants' National Bank, he was chosen president, which position he re signed in 1890. He was a pioneer electric street rail way builder und built the line to Ore gon City. He was identified with various other business enterprises, in cluding the Oregon Pottery Company, organized in 1884, and the Klamath River Lumber & Improvement Com pany. Mr. Steel was appointed State Bank Examiner in 1907, which office he held for three years. His only other pub lic onice was that of School Director. In religious circles Mr. Steel was well known. He was a charter mem ber of the Young Men's Christian As sociation and was deacon emeritus of the First Coneregatlonal Church. He had been Sunday school superintendent. treasurer and trustee. He was married in 1866 to Miss Marv Ladd. who died in 1910. Four children, J. Marshall Steel, of Berkeley. Cal.; Mrs. 11. M. Walthew, of lianford. Wash.; Mrs. C. E. Warrens and Mrs. James F. Ewing, of Portland, survive. DUTY PAYMENTS HERE AIM Credit for Parcel Post Collections Asked of Department. The Portland Chamber of Commerce wants all duties on parcel post pack ages delivered in Portland paid In this city. At the present time mail of this character containing dutiable goods in tended for Oregon points Is opened In Seattle and duties assessed. The col lection Is then made In Portland and forwarded to Seattle. To obviate this condition and give Portland credit as a port of entry for dutiable goods, the Chamber of Com merce yesterday addressed a letter to Acting Postmaster Williamson calling attention to the present situation and requesting that a decision of the Treas ury Department made December 12 last be enforced here. This decision pro vides that "parcel post packages and unsealed packages In the postal union mails addressed for delivery in the va rious states, will hereafter be for warded from the exchange offices of receipt to the offices Indicated In the list for examination and assessment of duty by the customs officers at the ports indicated. In the list Portland is one of the ports mentioned. MAN BEGS F0R SENTENCE Nothing Less Than Rock pile 'Will Satisfy Man on Long Spree. After trying for nearly a month to become sober after a St. Patrick's day celebration spree, P. F. Seaman, 42 years old. walked to the police station last night and begged Patrolman Schlrmer to lock him up on a charge of drunkenness. To the policeman's statement that be might be locked up for the night to recover and be released In the morning. Seaman refused and said he wanted 90 days on the rockplle at least. Seaman said that he started out to celebrate St. Patrick's day In the good. old-fashioned manner, and had not been sober since. He will appear in Judge T&xwell'a court this morning. II I TRAVEL TIDE RISES Big Movement to West This Summer Is Predicted. FESTIVAL INFLUENCE FELT F. V. Graham, Industrial and Im migration Agent of Great -ortn-ern Kail-nay, Cites N'eed of Eastern Exhibit. F. W. Graham. Western industrial a i i.r.tin aeent for the Great Northern Railway Company, predicts an unusual movement of tourists no... the Atlantic Coast cities to the Pacific Northwest in the coming Summer. Mr. Graham has Just come from New York, where he attended the travel show." which was held there for the purpose of Interesting people in the See-American-First" movement. Ex hibits by all of the great railroad com panies were displayed, setting forth the advantages of the Western trip for tourists, and the attendance was more than 100,000. . , ... "They were people of the class that usually selects the Bermuda Islands or Europe as the place for their Sum mer trips." he said. "But nterest manifested in the scenic offerings of the Northwest was intense, and count less indications have been received that a great proportion of this former European travel will come Westward this year. "In the department of the company I represent we laid emphasis upon the work of the Pacific Coast Festivals Association and the great chain of Summer festivals that will be in the Northwest, and I believe that this will prove to be one of the im portant features that will attract them he"The greatness of the Pacific North west as a Summer tourist "sort ls only In its beginning. I believe that when the Panama Canal is opened one of the most popular tourist routes in the world will be from New York to the Pacific Northwest by way of the canal, with the many scenic attrac tions of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana as the tourists' principal ob Jcctlvc" Mr. Graham was in consultation with Some Sensible Advice On Womanly Beauty (From Martyn's Drug Journal.) Healthy balr adds much to womanly beauty. It is such an easy matter to have a glorious mass of lovely hair that the dull, "stringy" kind is inexcusable- A canthrox shampoo (which can be mixed at home and costs very little at any druggist's) removes every particle of dust, dandruff and excess oil and, after rinsing, the hair dries Quickly. It makes the head feel good and leaves the hair soft, fluffy and easv to do up. . . ... Keep the skin clear, velvety and at tractive and remove tan and freckles by dally applying a lotion easily pre pared at home by stirring two tea spoonfuls of glycerine into one-half pint witch hazel (or hot water), then adding four ounces spurmax. which costa little at any druggist's. This lotion which ls used instead of face powder seems part of the skin which It tones to a beautiful natural color while overcoming the oily, shiny ap pearance of the face, so often due to perspiration. Adv. , ordering kgz uuirer, iara or coiton-ou imitations of Cottolene included" Cottolene was the first successful cotton-oil shortening. It has "made good" for over 20 years, and is still the best. The source of Cottolene is pure; it is made in a cleanly, wholesome manner; it makes food that is rich but does not disturb the digestion. is packed in patent, air-tight, tin pails. It is always pure and sweet, and protected from dirt, dust and store oaors Cottolene is always uniform. Use it right and you will always have the same results the best Cottolene is far superior to lard, because lard is made from hog fat, and cannot compare with Cottolene in wholesomeness and purity. Lara is an animal product; Cottolene is vegetable. Cottolene is even better than butter for shortening and frying, and costs no more than lard. , Cottolene is richer than butter or lard; therefore, you should use one-third less. Made C. C. Chapman, of the promotion bu reau of the Commercial Club, yester day afternoon concerning the policy of 'the bureau with reference to Oregon exhibits in Eastern land shows. Mr. Graham recommended that Ore gon send a good exhibit to the Chicago Land Show and also to the shows which may be held in cities further East, un der the auspices of the Northwestern Development League, provided these shows are decided upon. He also rec ommended" that Oregon make an ex hibit at the Dry Farming Congress in Oklahoma this year, and said that the Northern Pacific Company will pledge $250 toward the expense of such an ex hibit. "Oregon wants to attract farming people," he said, "and the people of Oklahoma are of exactly the class that this state is seeking. "Land prices are hish in Oklahoma, and if they can be offered attractions that will bring them to Oregon, either to purchase farms or take up home steads, it will mean much toward fur thering the movement to settle the soil in this state." Union Has Hnmane Society. UNION, Or., April 8. (Special.) At a meeting of citizens Thursday a hu Spring MILLINERY Number This Bombr 9! earns Ilk a great shop window Ml in th kioart of Parish a window in wnick ack vkotabl desisjnar has placed his most suc cessful creations a window in which yon can m all that is newest, best and most correct. NOW O N.SALE I I 9 J f When you order Cottolene you are the best cooking fat only by THE N. K. FAIRBANK mane society was organized, with the following officers: President. E. W. Seavert; vice-president, Mrs. S. A. Pur sell: secretary. Mrs. E. G. Cameron: treasurer, W .B. Gassett. Constitution and by-laws were adopted and steps taken to maintain an active organiza tion. CHAMBER WIRES PROTEST Strenuous Campaign to Be Waged In Case or West Umatilla Project. Telegrams protesting against the at titude of Secretary of the Interior Lane regarding the West Umatilla ir rigation project were dispatched from the Portland Chamber of Commerce yesterday and a strenuous campaign will be begun to persuade him to abandon his position of regarding the project as a new issue and thus mak ing ineffective the work of the past four years, through which the project had been brought to a condition where its beginning was thought to be as sured. J. N. Teal, chairman of the State Conservation Commission, will also dispatch a letter to the Secretary of It takes five whiskies to Noble each itself. But it takes blend ing and re-ageing to bring out the best in each to "round-out' ' the flavor. Why punish yourself with rough, high-proof, strong whiskey when you can get Cyrus Noble everywhere? W. J. Van Schuyver & Co., General Agents, Portland. count of its peculiar resolvent and alterative properties it is the safest and best spring medicine for old or young. A short treat ment at home corrects a long list of ills that beset us in the spring, such as biliousness, sour stomach, constipation, sallow ness, and aggravating eruptions of the skin. At your druggists . DS. WK. PrTTf DEB CO, Fertlaad. OregoB on the mar- ' COMPANY the Interior, urging that the West Umatilla project be not abandoned, since it is regarded as the most prom ising of all the projects which are be ing developed in either Oregon or Washington. Governor West has' also been ad dressed by those in Oregon who have been most active in the efforts to se cure the carrying out of the Umatilla project, and he also will probably add his voice to the series of pleas which are to be launched upon the Secretary of the Interior from Individuals, offi cials and commercial organizations of Oregon in behalf of the project. Mount Pleasant Sends Spuds. MOUNT PLEASANT. Wash., April 8. (Special.) Residents of this locality have shipped a car of potatoes (410 sacks) to Columbus, O., to aid in re lieving the flood victims. The railroad furnished the car and the people donated the potatoes. This Is the first car to be loaded on the new spur which was completed last Thursday. There are 60 to 70 families tributary to this town and the farms are well kept and the soil productive. Potatoes and onions are yielding as high as 200 bushels an acre different aged make -Cyrus one good in If, during the transition from winter to spring, you experi ence a lack of energy, seem tired, despondent, have back ache or headache, with broken unrefreshing sleep, your sys tem needs renovating. The in activity of winter life and con sequent closing of the pores leaves an unwholesome accu mulation of impurities in the system. Your blood needs pur ifying. Try Dr. Wm. Pfunder's Oreeon Blood Purifier. On ac WW I