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Newspaper Page Textill VOL. I.III. C 16,391. PORTLAND, OREGON. SATURDAY. JUNE 7, 1913 PRICE FIVE CENTS. 23 TREATIES MAY NOT BE RATIFIED Senate Not Unit for Arbitration. STRONG OPPOSITION IS SEEN Body in Executive Session Fails to Take Action. CANAL ISSUE CONSIDERED Effort to Modify Convention En counters Contention That Excep tion Should Not Be Made for Single Nation. WASHINGTON. June 6. The princi ple of compulsory arbitration written into the code that has bound the tTnited States with 24 great and lesser nations of the world for the last Ave vears is in serious danger and unless there is a decided change In sentiment tn the Senate the renewal of 23 of the treaties which save concrete evidence of this Nation's belief in such a policy may he impossiDle. In executive sessslon tonight the Senate again failed to ratify renewals of the arbitration agreements with Great Britain, Italy and Spain, which recently expired. These conventions provide that questions relating to the interpretation of treaties, excepting those that cannot be settled through diplomatic channels or those of vital Interest, national honor or Indepen dence, shall he submitted to The Hague. A similar treaty with France has been renewed. The main argument tonight arose over the contention that if the treaty with Great Britain Is ratified the Panama Canal tolls question would have to be submitted to The Hague, but during the discussion the Japanese question and the general attitude of ttie Nation toward compulsory arbitra tion was orough.Vp a. id led to the ex pression of views utterly at variance with entrance into such binding agree ments In the future. Prolonged Debate Indicated. A motion to re-refer the three treaties to the foreign relations com mittee with Inst ructions that the one with Great Britain be modified so as to exempt specifically the Panama Canal tolls question, was abandoned, but pro longed debate was predicted for future sessions. Some Senators showed a disposition to criticise the making of compulsory arbitration agreements, even if they bound only In cases which do( not affect vital interest, national honor or Independence. One Senator went so far as to de clare: "There are many people in the United States and In the Senate who ought to live in England." Senators who did not speak but who discussed arbitration with their col leagues during the debate expressed decided opinions on the extent to which this Nation has bound itself to argue matters out before a. court. This atti tude was condemned as one -which was becoming misunderstood throughout the world and one which had appeared to the United States' disadvantage In the Mexican problem, in the dispute with Great Britain and in the more recent controversy with Japan. Trentlea Have Pew Defenders. Many Senators were convinced to night that few of the 23 agreements which come up for renewal in the next few months will be agreed to without a hard fight. Although the treaties probably have many supporters. Chair man Bacon, of the foreign relations committee, was about the only one who spoke In their behalf. In spite of his Indorsement of arbitration, Mr. Bacon held the view that under the British treaty the tolls question must be arbi trated, and expressed entire sympathy wlth the California land legislation to which Japan has taken exception Senator Chamberlain was ths only member to object to the British treaty ' yesterday when It first came up before the Senate with the approval of the foreign relations committee bill. In tonight's session there were nine Sena tors behind him who In one way or another expressed the same view. The Oregon Senator made the or-en-tlng argument beginning almost as soon a5 the doors were closed. He con tended that there could be little ques tion Ih&t under the proposed agree ment the tolls question must be arbi trated, lie pointed to utterances of Sir Edward Grey, the British Minister for Foreign Affairs, as a complete vin dication of his position. Modification Is Defeated. Senator Bristow offered a resolution modifying tho treaty so that the tolls question would be exempted specifically. Chairman Bacon asked the Senate to vote against such a proposal, declar ing that no distinction should be made between different nations by such a reservation against Great Britain. Senator Bacon pointed out that, aside from the tolls question, the United States might find itself la a controversy with Great Britain during the next five years which it would be glad to submit to The Hague Senator Borah took the stand that if the United States was wrong in Its attitude in the tolls matter it should take the 'manly" stand and openly admit Its mistake. Senator Newlands tCateiS5 on rase 4.) ' 4 IN BALLOON OFF FOR CRUISE IN AIR PORTIAXD PARTY HOPES TO FLY TO TACOM1A. Pilot Cnger, With Assistant and Pas sengers, Prepared to Pass Two Days Aloft. With four intrepid passengers on board, the balloon "California." which has been anchored on East Seventh street near Hawthorne avenue for the last few weeks, set sail yesterday af ternoon for the north and with pro visions enough to keep her afloat for two days, expecting to make a voyage of 24 hours. Instruments for taking altitudes and temperatures were aboard. The big bag was In charge of E. Un ger, who piloted the balloon which made a successful flight from Roseburg recently. W.lth him were Tom McLean, his assistant, and J. G. Kammerer and H. V. Kadderly, of Portland. Their intended destination was Ta- coma. Upon leaving the ground the balloon soared straight upward. After attaining an altitude of about 2000 feet it started to drift to the south and probably traveled a few miles In that direction. It continued its upward flight, however, and when about 6000 feet in the air likely encountered air currents from the south, for it turned sharply and sailed due north. It was traveling at a fair rate of speed when It disappeared from sight in the nortn ern mists. Unger is an experienced pilot and an ticipates no trouble In landing safely. Kammerer and Kadderly are amateurs and paid for the privilege of taking the novel trip. Late last night the balloon was re Dorted sailing at a high altitude far to the northwest of Vancouver. MORTGAGE BURNS TONIGHT Big Banquet to Follow Impressive Scottish Rite Programme. One of the most Important affairs in the history of the Scottish Rite bodies of Oregon will be the burning tonight nt ho 5R 000 mortgage which has been against the Scottish Rite cathe dral. on Fifteenth and Morrison streets, since the completion of the building in 1902. The affair will be followed by a banquet which will be attended by about 600 persons. The class of the present reunion met and organized last night with the elec tion of the following officers: Presi Hont Franklin T. Griffith. Portland; class orator, William B, Btlyeu. Al bany; secretary-historian. George W Tlolcomb, Portland. E. G. Jones wre elected as honorary member. The programme will mark the close of the 28th semi-annual reunion of the Scottish Rite. A class of 40 Master Masons has been ushered Into the or ganization during the reunion. The 32d degree will be carried, out this afternoon, beginning at 2 o'clock. The mortgage burning programme will be begun at 8 o'clock. "BUFFET SERVICE" PASSES Transcontinental Trains Sell More Liquor in Washington. No SPOKANE, Wash., Juno (Special.) Effective today all transcontinental railroad lines, operating in this state, will discontinue the sale of Intoxicat- I lng liquor on their trains. This win end the Duiiet service- on me w ental limited, of the Great Northern; I the Columbia and Olympian, of the Chi cago, Milwaukee and St. .Paul, ano. tne North Coast limited of the Northern Pacific. The reason for the new ruling is that local option In counties and towns has scattered so many "dry units" throughout the state that trainmen and railroad employes who handle the sale of liquors are confused easily as to the boundaries of wet and dry ter ritory and. the railroads refuse longer to take risks of being fined, for unin tentional violations. UNIONIST ARMS SIEZED Sensation Caused by Shipment to Irish Peer In lister. DUBUN, Ireland, .Tune 6. A sen sation was caused by the seizure by the customs authorities today of a con signment of BOO rifles and bayonets on board a steamer from Liverpool. The arms were addressed to Baron Farn ham, an Irish peer, at his country seat. Farnham. County Cavan. Baron Farnham, who is 83 years old and is the eleventh Baron of the line, formerly was an officer in the regular army. He served through the war in South Africa. He Is also one of the leading Unionists of Ulster and has taken a prominent part In the cam paign against home rule. The cases of rifles and bayonets came from a London firm, and It Is reported that the authorities have discovered an ; elaborate organization in London for j supplying the Unionist centers in Ulster i with arms. taft back in capital i Ex-President to Attend Meeting of Lincoln Memorial Commission. WASHINGTON, June 8. 'William H. Taft, Kent law professor at Tale, ar rived tonight to pay his first visit to the National capital since he retired from the Presidency last March. ,He is here to attend a meeting of the Lin coln Memorial Commission, of which he Is a member. Few were present tonight to welcome Mr. Taft, the private cltlaen. He was met by a few friends, including Miss Mabel Boardman, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Allen and several Se cret Service men and whisked In an au tomobile to the residence of William J. Boardman, whose guest he will be. WAGES OF MARRIED MEN INVESTIGATED Relation to Women's Temptation Sought. BANKERS AMONG WITNESSES Woman Educator Says She Prefers Men as Teachers. AMBITION IS MORE MARKED Ella Klagg Young Awes Lieutenant Governor Who Went to School to Her Women Do Xot Forget Marriage and Home, CHICAGO, June 6. Members of the Illinois Senatorial vice commission sweltered through two sessions here today seeking light on minimum wages paid married men and. the relation of this wage to immorality among women. Julius Rosenwald. head of a big mail order-house, caused, a stir when .he told the commission that he had lost faith In its motives. Other witnesses were J. J. Mitchell, president of the Il linois Trust & Savings Bank; George M. Reynolds, president of the Continen tal & Commercial National Bank: David R, Forgan. president of the Na tional City Bank; James B. Forgan, president of the First National Bank; Edward Hillman, E. J. Lehmann, James Simpson and. Joseph Basch, merchants; Ella Flagg Toung, superintendent of Chicago schools, and. Theodore W. Rob inson, vice-president of the Illinois Steel Company. Daughters Position Figured Into. Today's inquiry was directed toward showing that where the head of a fam ily earns a small wage his daughter or daughters were forced, to seek -employment where they are more open to evil advances than when cloistered- at home. The bankers, for the most part, said they did not employ married men earn ing less than jiuuu a year. James B. Forgan said that ordinary bank clerks received an average of $91 a month in his bank; bookkeepers $128 and as sistant bookkeepers $72 a month. None was prepared to say just what a fam ily could be supported on. "When I was learning the banking business in Scotland," said James B. Forgan, "T got in a year what young fellows nowadays get in a month and I thought I was lucky." Mr. Reynolds said boys working for the bank received $20 to $25 a month when they were" without experience. "Would it make any important dif- (Concluded on Page 3.) r7 ?ZZ INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TEPTERDATS Maximum temperature. SO degrees; minimum, 49. S degrees. TODAY'S Increasing cloudiness, probably followed by showers. Cooler. Winds ( shifting" to southery. Koreijrn- AmTlcanfl In peri! In Mexico demand to know whether Government will protect them. Page 1. Hector Macpherson describes reception of American agricultural delegates in Rome. Page 2. National. Senator Townsend says Wilson's own activi ties approach lobbying. Page 2. McReynolds' plan for curbing tobacco trust not Administration measure. Page 2. Arbitration treaties encounter opposition in Senate. Page 1. Senate fub-oommlttee Inclined to favor re taliatory duty against Canada on print paper. Page 5. Domestic. Court compounds theft of $1,400,000 to save hank. Page 1. Illinois Senate committee investigates wages paid to married men. Page 1. Pacific Northwest. Portland Railway, Light & Power rates are put under X-ray by State Railroad Commission. Page 3. Appointment of Republican to Woodburn postmastershlp ' stirs up trouble among Democrats. Page 6. Motion to dismiss "Dry's " injunction suit filed at Dallas, Or. Page 5. Newly-born babe plays important role In resumed telephone inquiry. Page 8. Sport. Pacific Coast League results: Portland 10. Oakland 3; Venice 6, San Francisco 4 (10 innings' ; Los Angelse 11, Sacra mento 3. Page 6. Northwestern League results: Portland 4T Victoria 2; Vancouver 9, Tacoma 8; Seat tle 3, Spokane O. Page 6. Americans beat Australians first day In In ternational tenis matches. Page 7. Mrs. W. D. Skinner, bolder of gold cham pionship, beaten in semi-finals. Page 7. Burt Anderson looms as probable opponent for Ritchie July 4. Page 7. Commercial and Marine. Favorable wheat crop reports from Inland Empire. Page IT. Advance in wheat at Chicago on Kansas damage talk. Page 17. Strong upward movement In wall Street stocks. Page 17. General trade volume better than year ago. Page i". W. R. Grace & Co., propose itfamer line from Portland to South America. Page 16. Portland and Vicinity. Junior City government campaign closes ton Igh t. page 3. Four men In balloon saJ from Portland for Tacoma. Page 1. Mayor Rushlight requests Dan Kllataers resignation as Dock Commissioner. Page Names of city Job-hunters are becoming known, page 12. Railroad men expect 80,000 -visitors to Rose Festival. Page 10. Willamette to remain at high stage for some time, says weather man. Page 18. Rose Festival plans near completion. Page 1. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 13. AD visiting organizations to take part In "Night in Rosaria." Page 10. Elimination contest appears likely to pick Eugenic baby show winners. Page 12. Cruiser St. Louis arrive Sunday for Rose Festival. Page 16. New Commission will take over government under financial handicap. Pase 12. Portland Art Association announces scholar ship wards. Page 9. "Von Klein robbed me of $12,000 in Jewels," asserts woman who says she is wife of ex-United States Senator. Page 12. Optimism reigns among merchants. Page 4. Labor leaders fear immigrants to be brought to west and Coast will not stay on farms. Page 4. Prescription Is Cabled. SAN" FRANCISCO, June 6. Stricken with convulsions at the lonely cable station on Fanning Island, Dr. Herbert Metcalfe, resident surgeon, died In three days. In spite of the cabled pre scriptions of the nearest physician, 2000 miles away, at Fiji, according to em ployes of the cable company, who re turned here today on the steamer Sierra. OPEN SEASON FOR LOBBYISTS AT WASHINGTON COURT COMPOUNDS THEFT OF $1,400,000 Bank Employe Dictates His Own Terms. JURY DIRECTED TO ACQUIT Institution Pleads It Otherwise Must Go Down. BONUS OF $5000 IS PAID Defalcation Tjong Kept Secret Re vealed "When Trusted Man Is Arraigned and Judge Be comes Party to Deal. PHILADELPHIA, June 6. (Special.) Walter F. Shouras, a trusted employe of the Merchants' Union Trust Com pany, who robbed that bank of $1,400. 000 in securities and $30,000 in cash, who has been hunted by the police and detectives, came into court here today, confessed his crime and made restitu- j tion. Judge Hall then ordered the lndict- ment submitted and a verdict of not I guilty was recorded. The case was dropped because officers of the institu- tion which was robbed pleaded that if they could not drop the case and get their stolen bonds back the bank would go to the wall. Shourds gave back all that he took and $5000 in addition as a sop for the injured feelings of the bank directors. News of Theft Suppressed. Shourds, who was superintendent of vaults of the bank, disappeared in Sep tember. 1911. The bank began the day's business with money from other institutions. Investigation showed that $30,000 In cash was gone, and a few days later it was discovered that bonds to the extent of $1,400,000, almost all of them negotiable, had been stolen. News of the theft was suppressed be cause a run on the bank was feared. About a year ago advert 'setnevs ap peared in Paris, New i ork and local papers which told Mrs. Shourds where her husband might be found, and nego tiations were then begun for the return of the securities, according to plans which Shourds indicated In his adver tisements. Shourds took up the matter with ex District Attorney Jerome, of New To"-1 who communicated with the Phllac? phia authorities. It was arranged, gag if Shourds should make restitutio. would not be prosecuted. Half of Pnxvfds "Salted.' Shourds was assured by Jerome ifhat (Concluded on Pag 3.) AMERICANS SOUND WARNING IN MEXICO WILSON ASKED WHETHEH HOME GOVERNMENT W ILL PROTECT. In Peril, SOO Demand to Know , 'Once and for All," if Aid Is to Be Expected Cannot Flee. TAMPICO, Mex., June 6. Three hun dred Ame. leans located in South Ta maulipas. representing 68 families, in a long message to President Wilson sent through Consul Miller, have de manded to know "once for all" wheth er they can expect protectic from their home Government, since they do not desire to take measures for their own safety which -rould embarrass their Government without giving due notice beforehand. The message of the Americans was transmitted by wireless through Con sul Miller to W. W. Canada, the Amer ican Consul at Vera Cruz, to be for warded to Washington. It says in part: "Having been left without any pro tection whatever on tho part of both sides of the pending controversy, there fore we can only loo! for protection from our own country. We must know, once for all, if we can expect the same. Having been subjected to slights and a great variety of indignities and gross abuse in the last few days, the situation calls for moe serious preparations for our personal safety and the defense of our families and our !nterests. There fore, we have assembled t - consider the best way. We con der protection necessary now, since after death It will be of no use." The message declares in addition that the petitioners have borne financial loss silently, but that many of them cannot entertain the advice to "get away if in danger," as their departure would mean the "abandonment of the accumulations of a lifetime. "We consider the iives of ourselves and our families in danger, and the sit uation has Justified this petition sev eral times in the last few days." FRUIT TRAFFIC PLANS LAID Railway Makes Estimates of Needs for Handling Northwest Crop. George R. Merrltt, of St. Paul, gen eral agunt for the refrigerator service of the Northern Pacific Railway, was in Portland yesterday to prepare for handling1 the fruit crop of the North west this year. Mr. Merritt has completed a tour of Montana and predicts the crop in thtt state will break all records. This is due, primarily, to the increased acre age that is coming Into bearing this year. He will go through the Willam ette Valley and other territory from which the Northern Pacific draws fruit traffic. He will make an inspection, also of conditions in the Yakima Val 2U& d other parts of Washington. Northern Pacific will place 1100 rj efrigeratcr cars into commission ? 'ear. These, with the 2600 new ' ullt last year, will give this line rly 7000 refrigerator cars. Vast year's apple output from Ore SjvP. Washington and Idaho exceeded 7,500.000 cars, he reports. The crop will be bigger this year. PREACHER IN SHORT BOUT Member of Woodburn Church Hits Pastor and Pays Pine. WOODBCRN, Or., June 6. (Special.) A fistic encounter between a minister of the gospel and one of his flock is a rare occurrence in Woodburn, but one has been staged here by Rev. H. L. Ford, pastor of the local Christian Church, and S. W. Maupin, a member of the church. A difference of opinion led Mr. Mau pin to forcibly place his fist against the pastor's body, but as Rev. Mr. Ford failed to respond In the same manner, the fight was of short duration. Mr. Maupin, who is a mailclerk on the Woodburn-Sprlngfleld branch of the Southern Pacific Company, appeared be. fore Justice of the Peace Hayes ajid voluntarily plead guilty to a charge of assault and battery, for which the Jus tice assessed, a fine of J5. ES0LA IS FOUND GUILTY San Francisco Detective Convicted in "Bunco Gang" Case. BAN FRANCISCOT June 6. Frank Esola. ex-police detective, was found guilty tonight of grand larceny In com plicity with the operations of the no torious "Forty Thieves" bunco gang, which operated here for many months. The jury was out four hours. Esola was indicted on the specific charge of having connived with Michael Gallo, now a convict, in rob bing Charles Foida. a Modesto farmer, of $900. With seven other policemen, the others of whom are awaiting trial on conspiracy charges, he was accused by four confessed bunco men of com plicity In swindling operations, said to have yielded the bunco ring more than $300,000 since the year 1905, from which time, they declared, they had worked under police protection. MILITANT I SENEAR DEATH Doctors Think Suffragette Who In terfered With Derby Will Die. EPSOM. England, June S. The con dition of Miss Emily Wilding- Davison, the militant suffragette, who was se verely injured while Interfering with the King's horse In the Derby on Wednesday, became much worse today. She passed a restless night and the doctors consider the symptoms grave. An operation probably will be neces sary. Miss Davison's relatives have been summoned to her bedside- The doctors think; her case is hopeless. FLAGS ARE FLYING FOR FESTIVE WEEK Decorators Putting On Final Touches. OUTSIDE VISITORS EN ROUTE Cruiser St. Louis, From Brem erton, Due Tomorrow. PARADE ROUTES PLANNED Streets, for Processions. Selected by Officials and Kailroad Men Where Interference or Deltty Is Xot Apt to Occur. With the decorators w orklng con tinuously today and tomorrow, putting the last touches on the street and build ing decorations for the Rose Festival, the vanguard of participants in the great event is already approaching and will begin to enter the city tomorrow morning. The cruiser St. Louis, coning from, the Bremerton Navy-Yard. Is ex pected to reach the harbor here at about 2 P. M. tomorrow. Many of the dele gations from the Northwest will begin to arrive tomorrow also, among which arc the parties of automobillsts from British Columbia, driving overland. These will participate in the automo bile parade. The Glacier Parle Indians, who are to be one of the big features of the week s entertainment, will reach Portland under the guidance of J. M. Shoemaker, of the Great Northern, tomorrow and will take up their residence for the week at the Multnomah. lloo.l Starts Monday. On Monday morning the flood of in coming visitors will be swelled by the three great specials from the South, bringing the California delegations, the first of which will arrive in Portland at 8 o'clock. Decoration .nd erection of grand stands for the Festival has progressed well and will be entirely completed by tomorrow night. The decoration of streets and buildings will be carried out with great elaboration on both the West and the East Side. The East Side Business Men's Club has started a movement to decorate Grand avenue from East Burnside to Hawthorne avenue and also East Mor rison street. East Burnside street and Hawthorne avenue. Parade Route Prepared. At a meeting of the grand marshals, chairmen of committees and officials of the street railway company, at Rose Festival headquarters, the detailed routes of all the principal parades of the week were made out yesterday. They were drafted after festival offi cials, police officers and representa tives of the street railway company had gone over the tentative routes by automobile to see that there were no obstructions that might interfere with or delay the progress of the different pageants. Efforts have been made to route the parades In such a way that all of the principal downtown streets will be In cluded ir one or more of them. The automobile parade, which ad mits of greater speed than the others, will not only take in a wide area of the West Side, but will run over the main business section across the river. 'Den" Starttns Point. The electrical parade of Tuesday night will have to be confined to streets where cars are operated and also on such thoroughfares as will admit of the proper detourlng at in tersections, so that the parade will not have to double back over the same route. With tllght changes the routes will be as follows: The electric parade Tuesday at 8:31 P. M. will start from the Rose Fes tival "den," in the Oriental building. Lewis and Clark Fairgrounds, and move to Sixteenth street, to Glisan. to Fifth, to Morrison, to Eleventh, to Hall, to Thirteenth, to Washington, to Fifth, to Morrison, to Nineteenth and thence return to the "den," via Glisan. Twenty-first, Northrup and Twenty sixth streets, Autos Start at West Park Street. The automobile parade Wednesday at 2 P. M. will start at West Park and Harrison street-s and go north on West Park to Columbia, west on Columbia to Twelfth, north on Twelfth to Tay lor, west on Taylor to Fourteenth, north on Fourteenth to Morrison, east on Morrison to Fifth, north on Fifth to Washington, west on Washington to Broadway, north on Broadway to Pine, east on Pine to Fourth, south on Fourth to Madison, east on Madison to Grand avenue, north on Grand avenue to East Burnside. west on Burnside to Third, south on Third to Pine, west on Pine to Fifth, south on Fifth to Morrison, west on Morrison to Broad way, south on Broadway and disband. "A Night in Rosaria," Wednesday at 8:30 P. M., will start at Fifteenth and Morrison streets and proceed down Morrison to Fourth. Fourth to Pine, Pine to Broadway, Broadway to Alder. Alder to Sixth, Sixth to Oak, Oak to Fifth, Fifth to Morrison, Morrison to Tenth, Tenth to National Guard Armory and disband. Motorcycles Parade First. The horse and vehicle parade Thurs day at 2 P. M. will start at Fifteenth street and proceed down Morrison to Fifth, to Yamhill, to Broadway, to iConcludcd on Pace 10.)