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VOL. T.III.XO. 16,403. PORTLAND. OREGON. TflKsn v .iitap 71 ioiq I PARTY DISTRESSED BY M'NAB CHARGES Democrats in Congress Blame Cabinet Men. WILSON EMBARRASSED IS VIEW Immediate Trials in California Held Only Solution. CONGRESS ASKED TO PROBE Assistant to McReynolds Takes Blame in. Smith-Bruce Case, Clt ' ing Circumstances Not Brought Out by McXab's Charges. . WASHINGTON'. June 23. (Special.) That the Wilson Administration is In a serious predicament and. Attorney General McReynolds and Secretary of Labor Wilson thoroughly discredited by the McNab charges was the consen sus of opinion anions Senators and Representatives today. Even Democratic Congressmen did not hesitate bitterly to condemn the Cabinet officers for their attempt to obstruct justice in the Diggs-Caminettl and Western Fuel Company prosecu tions. These Congressmen declared the only action President Wilson can now take, if he wishes to clear his Administra tion of the odium cast on it by McNab's charges, .will be to order an immediate trial in the California cases. Congrraa Likely to Probe Deeply. If he does not, the Congressmen say, he will put himself In the same unde sirable position occupied by McReyn olds and Secretary Wilson, a position that is the object of fierce condemna tion In Congress. There is no doubt that the whole matter is to be probed to the bottom by Congress. Repre sentative Kahn's two resolutions to day were referred to the judiciary com mittee and members on that commit tee declared they favored a quick and favorable reply of the resolutions to the House with speedy passage through that body. Attorney-General McReynolds will make a full report to the President at the President's request on the. causes that moved him to direct postpone ments of the Diggs-Caminettl white slave cases and the trials of official of the Western Fuel Company, the basis of the resignation of United States District Attorney John L. Mc Nab. of San Francisco, and his sensa tional charges against the head of the Department of Justice. Under Official Makes Demands. One of the day's most remarkable de velopments in the unusual episode was the receipt by the President of a tele gram from Clayton-Herrington, spe cial agent of the Department of Jus tice In charge of the Federal bureau of investigation at San Francisco, de manding the removal from office of Attorney-General McReynolds, Herring ton's official superior. Officials de clared tonight that the question of summary action in Herrington's case probably would be taken up by the Attorney-General. The Department of Justice was ig norant of the special agent's protest unti' Us publication in the afternoon papers. It then was called to the at tention of the Attorney-General. Early in the day, before Herrington's action became known at the Department, of ficials were somewhat mystified and later amused by the receipt of a tele gram from another special agent ap plying for the "vacancy" at San Fran cisco. McNab's Successor Sought. While no action has yet been taken on the McNab resignation. White House officials let It be known that the President was looking for a suc cessor. They declared that the char acter of the new District Attorney would soon show whether there could be any manipulation of the cases of the Department of Justice through political influences as charged by Dis trict Attorney McNab. The President said his first intima- j tlon of the situation was gleaned from the newspapers and declared he would wait for the Attorney-General's report before determining his course. The episode found an echo in the halls of Congress, where Representatives Kahn, Republican, of California, and Hlne baugh. Progressive, of Illinois, Intro duced in the House of Representatives a resolution calling for official papers In the case and one for an investiga tion by. the judiciary committee. Rep resentative Mann issued a statement declaring that President Wilson should supplant Immigration Commissioner Caminettl on the ground he had "used both his political and official Influence to prevent his son from being brought to a speedy trial." Assistant Take Blame. - Interest here in the incident centered largely around the Caminetti-Diggs case for the postponement of which Secretary Wilson, of the Department of Labor, yesterday took responsibility. Assistant Attorney-General Harr as sumed tonight full responsibility of the order to Attorney McNab to postpone the trial or Robert Bruce and Sidney V. Smith, directors of the Western Fuel Company, on charges of customs coal frauds. This postponement mentioned In Mr. McNab's telegram of resignation to the President was ordered, declared iConcluded on Paga 4.) I WILSON SIGNS BILL THAT TAFT VETOED PRESSING NEED FOR FUNDS BRINGS RELUCTANT ACTION. President Kinds Same Objections to Sundry Civil Measure as Did His Predecessor. WASHINGTON, June 23. President Wilson signed today the sundry civil ap proprialon bill in a statement declaring that he would have vetoed, !f he could, the provision in it exempting , labor unions and farmers' organizations from prosecution under a certain $300,000 fund designated for the operation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The President characterized the ex emption as "unjustifiable In character and principle," but called attention to the fact that the Department of Jus tice possessed other funds with which to enforce the anti-trust law. The urg ent need of various Government depart ments for funds appropriated by the bill influenced the President to speedy action on the measure. The bill carried $116,000,000 in appropriations and was vetoed by Mr. Taft on March 4 because of the labor exemption clause. When the bill was reintroduced and passed by both houses in identical form by the present Congress, this provision was the subject of sharp debate. In his statement the President said: "If I could have separated from the rest of the bill the item which author ized the expenditure by the Depart ment of Justice of a special sum of $300,000 for the prosecution of viola tions of the anti-trust law, I would have vetoed that item, because it places on the expenditure a limitation which in my opinion is unjustifiable In charac ter and principle." HIGH POSITIONS REJECTED Wilson Has Trouble Killing Diplo matic Posts Abroad. WASHINGTON, June 13. Diplomatic appointments went begging today when Meredith Nicholson, a novelist of Indiana, declined the jiost of Minister to Portugal, and within a short space the White House received the declina tion of James D. Phelan, ex-Mayor of San Francisco, to accept the position of Ambassador to Austria-Hungary. The two declinations were a facer for the Administration, which is experi encing some difficulty in filling for eign posts. Mr. Nicholson, whose nomination was said to have been sent to the Sen ate without his knowledge, said that his domestic plans, already made, pre cluded any lengthy sojourn abroad. Phelan based .his declination on his de cision to ' run in the primaries next year for United States Senator. WILSON IGNORES TRADITION President, Bareheaded, Walks on White House Drive With Guest. WASHINGTON, June 23. President Wilson smashed another White House tradition today. Bareheaded, Mr. Wilson walked out the White House drive almost to the gate to say good-bye to A. Popham Lobb, Colonial Secretary for Bermuda, one of his callers. Earlier, Mr. Lobb. who first met the President in Bermuda, had been a guest of the Wilson family at the Capitol and at luncheon. When Mr. Loeb de parted his automobile had not arrived and the President walked out through the grounds, chatting with his guest until they met the motor car coming from Pennsylvania avenue. SWEET PEA DATE NOT SET Time of Exhibit Will Depend on Perfection of Blossoms. The sweet peas themselves will de termine the date of this year's show. At a meeting of the Oregon Sweet Pea So ciety, held last night at the Multnomah Hotel. Ralph R. Routledge was chosen manager of the coming exhibit, and the request was made that all growers of sweet peas keep him Informed of the progress of the blossoms, so that the most suitable date may be chosen. The show will be continued three days, if possible, in some well-lighted building in the down-town district, and will probably be during the first week in July. AIRMAN FALLS 1000 FEET Fairbalrns in 350-Horsepower Craft Drowns Off Shoeburyness. LONDON, June 23. An aviator, Fair- bairns, was drowned off Shoeburyness this evening. He had flown from Brooklands and was experimenting with a new type of machine with which he projected a trans-Atlantic flight in July. Fairbairns fell into the sea from a height of 1000 feet and sank before a friend who was cruising in the vicinity was able to rescue him. The machine, which was of S50 horse power, was completely inclosed and provided with a glass conning tower. ALASKA BILL IS BLOCKED Overman Refuses Unanimous Con sent on Railroad Measure. WASHINGTON, June 23. Senator Chamberlain sought unanimous consent by the Senate today to pass the bill for construction of a Government rail road in Alaska, but failed because Sen ator Overman objected, saying more time for study of the subject should be allowed. Senator Chamberlain told the Senate that President Wilson, while not com mitted to any bill, favored Government construction. WILSON INSISTS ON NEW BANKING LAW Currency Bill Message Read at Capitol. CONGRESS PREPARES TO ACT President Tells of Need to Es tablish Credit Reform. EARLY LEGISLATION URGED Representative Mann Says Message Is "Example of Classical English, but Nothing More"-Opposition by Minority Presaged. WASHINGTON. June 23.-A fixed de termination to have currency legisla tion passed at this session of Congress was accepted by the members of the House and Senate as President Wil- whn,'VtXt fr the c"ency message, hlch he personally presented today to Congress assembled in joint session in the House chamber. Both Democrats and Republicans saw in the carefully-worded appeal of the President an earnest conviction that the money situation must be dealt with before Congress t-. rations were made to begin committee l" Administration bill, which soon will be introduced in the House by Representative Carter Glass and in the Senate by Senator Owen. From the rostrum of the House chamber the President read th message. Need of Reform Cited. i "It plainly is clear." he said, "that it is our duty to supply the next banking and currency system the country needs and that it win immediately need it more than ever. "We must act now at whatever sacri fice to ourselves. It. Is a duty which the circumstances forbid us to post pone. I Should - he T-aro. . " . i. lu in y deepest convictions of public obliga- ...... uia x not impress it upon you with solemn and urgent insistence."" The. President defied the. custom of 100 years for the second time by de livering the message in person. A joint committee led by Majority Leader Underwood and Senator Kern met the President and escorted him to the clerk's desk on the rostrum. At both House and Senate ends of the Capitol and among both Democrats and Republicans the conviction was deeply fixed tonight that ;the Presi dent's "solemn and urgent Insistence" on currency legislation would result in immediate activity in the legislative branches. The bill will go Into both houses this week. Mann Crltielses President. The first authoritative statement on the President's message was critical and came from Republican Leader Mann, of the House. It said the mes- Concluded on Page 2.) HE'S r , 1 I ; INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY Maximum temperature, 66.5 degrees: minimum. 56.0 degrees. TODAY Showers; southwest to west winds. River Report. River gauge at 7 P. M. yesterday showed -3.? feet, a rise ot .1 since 8 A. M. Foreign. ' Mexican rebels move in force on Juarez. Page 1. National. Government ruling shows leniency to aet , tiers on irrigable land. Page- 3. Wilson slpns sundry civil bill. Page 1. Sugar aohedula causes clash In Iemocratic caucus. Page 1. Wilson urges Con gross to art at once on currency reform bill. Page 1. McNab's charges distress party and embar rass -Wilson, Is view at ; "Washington. Page l. Domestic. FalrbanHs makes plsa for harmony in branches ot .Republican party. Page 2. Sulier demands that Murphy furnish proofs. Page 2. . Ex-Postmlstrcss, under fraud charge, claims big legacy in win of poisoned man. Page 3. Boy- prisoner, starts in to alioot up Wash ington, D. C. court. Page 4. , ' rsn-ific Northwest. Stats telephone tariff probe probable. Page 11. . . " More of - Governor West's "honor men" break rules and regulations. Page 5. Big Bottom settlers protest to Agricul tural Department against losing tele phone line. Page 5. Ainaberry not held on assault -charges. Page 12. . Sports. Coast League result Portland 3, San Fran cisco 4. Page 6. Northwestern League results Portland game with Vancouver postponed account of rain; Victoria 2, Spokane 0; Tacoma 8, Seattle 0. Pag-e 7. Averages of Portland Coast League batters Improve. Page 6. Western Trl-State League to continue with four teams only. Page 6. Arthur ' Pelkej- found not guilty of man slaughter. Page 7. Fielder Jones to ride with Burman In record breaking attempt. Page 7. McLaughlin defeats Barrett in first round of Knirllsh tennis championship play. Page 7. Commercial and Marine. Oriental buyers ask for prices on new export flour. Page 17. Wheat lower at Chicago on record-breaking harvest returns. Page t7. Stocks rally easily from Saturday's bear raid. Page 17. Captain U. B. Scott dies at age of 88 years. Pago 10. Portland and. Vicinity. The Oregonian will be theater host to 1000 Portland students Monday. Page 1. Blehl goea to prison to serve two years' term. Page 10. Military and civic procession will speed veterans gotns to Gettysburg. Page 3. Mystery of gold dust robbery of Central Alaska mining company revealed. Page William Pinkerton coming with new charge against Von Klein. Page 11. Prominent Eastern delegates to Christian conference begin to arrive. Page 10. Judging of school children's gardens is now proceeding. Page 12. , Voting women are guests at bridge and "000" parties. Page 10. Largest Sunday school parade ever held In Northwest will be July 4. Page 4. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 13. Official count on Commissioners complete. Page 18. Episcopalian ministers consider rector's charges against Mrs. Marcella Clark. UNIONS AID PH0NE GIRLS Striking Operators Get $5 Each for Week's Picket Duty. ST. LOUIS, June 23. Several thou sand' dollars were received by the tele phone operators' union tonight from sympathizing labor unions in the city. Each of the striking operators will re ceive $3 and her expenses tomorrow for doing picket duty during the week. Eight-Year Term Given Attorney. SAN JOSE. Cal., June 2. Frank L. Dreischmeyer, the local attorney, who pleaded guilty last week to having em bezzled $3000 from a client and whose alleged embezzlements figure $130,000 or more, was sentenced today to serve eight years in the Penitentiary at San Quentin. He will be arraigned on an other forgery charge Friday. GOING BACK TO "LITTLE ROUND ' " i'kiul: five cents. CAUCUS UPSET BY SUGAR SCHEDULE Senators From South Prepare to Fight. 3 -YEAR CLAUSE MADE ISSUE Democratic Ranks Torn by Conflicting Interests. FOES OF NO-TARIFF MEET Members From Wool States Indicate Intent to Join in Opposition to Putting Sugar on Free List. All Bound by Caucus. WASHINGTON, June 23. Democratic Senators opposed to free sugar enliv ened the Senatorial caucus late today, beginlng their final effort to change the schedule before the tariff bill is reported to the Senate for general de bate. Western atid Louisiana Senators were primed to make a gigantic fight against .the provisions approved and urged by President Wilson, which pro vides that sugar shall be free of duty in 1916. Senators Shafroth, of Colorado, and Walsh, of Montana, took up the contest when the schedule was reached late in the afternoon. It had not been ex pected that the caucus would reach sugar before tomorrow, but before 5 o'clock the decks were cleared for the first and most determined internecine part- tariff struggle. This will be the acid test for free sugar. Senatora Pledged to Caucus, To the decision of the caucus the Democratic Senators will be pledged and the prospect is that only Senators Thornton and Ransdell, of Louisiana, will be realeased in the binding reso lution that is to be adopted. There is a possibility of one other Senator asking for release. Senator Ransdell, who is leading the fight on free sugar, hurried from the caucus room when it was apparent that .the sugar schedule would be reached and .- sent a messenger for ' Senator Newlands, of Nevada. He wanted all the Democrats who do not favor the Administration plan present. Senator Newlands soon arrived, and immediatly thereafter' the first paragraph of the schedule was read. Senator Shafroth, of Colorado, was the first speaker. He made a vigorous plea for elimination of the provision for free sugar in three years and submitted many briefs and statistics to support , the claim of the Colorado beet sugar manufacturers that free sugar would mean the crippling, if not the death. -of the industry. Walsh Joins Sugar Men. Senator Walsh, of Montana, who also will make a fight against free wool, is standing by the anti-free sugar Sen ators in the caucus fight. He followed Senator Shafroth and had not con- (Concluded on Pago 3- TOP. THE OREGONIAN TO BE THEATER HOST INVITATION EXTENDED TO 1000 PORTLAND STUDENTS. Lyman F. Howe's Travel Festival, Coming Next "Week, Declared to Be Highly Educational. The largest theater party of the year Jas been arranged by The Ore gonian for the entertainment of the young people who lately completed a term of study in the higher classes of Portland's educational institutions. When it became known that Lyman H. Howe's Travel Festival, an enter tainment particularly interesting to boys and girls who reach the High school grades, was booked to appear at the Heilig Theater. The Oregonian negotiated with the traveler for large blocks of seats for next Monday's ex hibitions. One thousand reserved scat tickets. 500 for the matinee and 500 for the nia-ht performance, were delivered at The Oregonian office yesterday. These will be distributed at the business of fice of The Oregonian next Monday o the first 1000 students who bring iden tification, of their attendance during the past terms in certain of the High classes of each school. Full details of these requirements will be printed lat er. City Superintendent Rigler of the public schools and Dr. J. R. Wilson of the Portland Academy have indorsed the plan of The Oregonian's party. BALM ASKEDOF YOUNG HOE Woman 'Sues, for $225,000, Alleging Breach of Promise. NEW YORK. June 23. (Special.) Arthur L. Hoe. one of the millionaire heirs to the $34,000,000 estate of the late printing press builder, had two suits for breach of promise to marry and a breach of contract filed against him today in the Supreme Court by Miss Mae A. Sullivan, of this city. According to the complaints. Hoe es tablished the young woman first at the Hotel Norwood, later at the Hotel Marseilles, and still later at Nos. 410 and 420 Riverside drive, respectively. Miss Sullivan charges that in Decem ber, 1910, Hoe promised to marry her one year later, only to confess at the last moment that he was a married man and had a family. Miss Sullivan sues for $150,000 for breach of promise to marry and asks for $75,000 in the second suit. STRIKE CAUSES ICE RAMINE Cincinnati Supply Sold,. Only, on Physicians' Certificates. : CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 23. Ice manufacturers of this' city were un able today to agree on any method of dealing with their striking engineers, liremen. drivers and helpers. This city and others on the Kentucky side of the River now are practically without ice. as the union plants supply only hotels and cafes, and the ice sent from other sources is inadequate for the demand and is being sold by the city only on physicians' certificates. Mayor Hunt received notice tonight that many carloads of ice have been shipped from lake points and are due to arrive tomdrrow. The ice will be sent to firehouses for . distribution. Union, teamsters served notice that they would refuse to handle ice from non union plants. FIVE SURGEONS ARRESTED Society Women Angry Because .Vivi section Hearing Is Secret. PHILADELPHIA, June 23. Five physicians of the University of Penn sylvania, who are charged with cruelty to dogs in vivisection work, entered $500 bail here today. Three of the physicians, including Dr. Allen J. Smith, former dean of the Medical school and brother of the provost, ap peared personally before a. magistrate and waived a hearing. The other two defendants were out of the city and appeared through counsel. The magistrate accepted bail in his private office and a score of prominent society women, eager to testify, waited at a station-house in the negro quarter for the trial to begin. The women were indignant when told that th case had been disposed of by the mag istrate in his office two blocks away. OVER SEA FLIGHT PLANNED Hobert J. Collier, Publisher, Would Cross Atlantic in Hydroplane. NEW YORK, June 23. (Special.) Reports received in this city today from Marblehead, Mass., say that Rob ert J. Collier, the publisher, may at tempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a hydroplane, which is in course of con struction and will lie ready for him in Autumn. The machine will be twice as large a the craft built for the United States Government and will be equipped, with a special 20-cylinder Anzani engine, with 200 horsepower, which has been imported at a cost , of $20,000.. It Is made almost entirely of aluminum and will carry a passenger in addition to an aviator. TREATY RENEWAL REFUSED VilMn 'fays Pact With Russia. De pends on Clause as to Jews. LONDON, June 24. A St. Petersburg dispatch to the Standard says that President Woodrow Wilson has declined Russia's request for a renewal of the treaty on commerce except on the abso lute condition that American Jews are allowed to enter Russia freely. REBELS IN FORCE E ON JUAREZ AmericanCarriesNews of Coming Attack. VILLA'S MEN HOLD RAILROAD Constitutionalists Execute 50 Federal Prisoners. 1800 IN ADVANCING ARMY Castro With 1000 Troops, Defends Objective of Rebel Jorcc Border Town Harbors Salazar. Wlio ' Tries to Gather His Men. EL PASO. Tex.. June 23. An Ameri can employe of the Madera Lumber Company who arrived here today from Western Chihuahua reported that Fan cho Villa, constitutionalist commander in that state, instructed him to inform the American Consul in Juarez and all others Interested that the constitution alists would reach Jaurez and begin an attack on that port next Thursday. Villa's forces have captured the en tire line of the Mexico Northwestern Railroad from Rustillos to Casus Gran des. according to the American, who. with four other men, occupied' four days In the trip to El Paso on a handcar. Villa told tho American that his forces would be strengthened by a detachment that had been destroying the Mexican National Railway between Moetezuma and Chihuahua City. The rebel commander estimated that the to tal number of troops that will appear to attack Juarez will be about 1S00. Captured Federal Executed. In a battle at Neuvas Casas Grande?. Chihuahua, last Saturday, Villa's forces captured that place, killing 47 federals, and captured 50 more. The prisoners were promptly executed by Villa's or ders. Juarez Is garrisoned by about ".000 Federal soldiers, commanded by Gen eral Francisco Castro. General Inez Salazar, ex-rebel, who came, to Jaurcz a week ago from Chihuahua, this after noon ordered out a small scouting party on a special train over the North western with the expressed object of picking up stragglers from his defeated command who are said to be retreat ing northward from Casas Grandes No activity is reported from the neighborhood of San Ignacio. Chihua hua, 40 miles south of .Inarc, -y. .. force of Constitutionalists is said to nave been camping for the past few weeks, awaiting orders for a concerted movement on Juarez. Rebel Look for Leader. Rebel sympathisers in El Paso have said that a leader will be found for the San Icrnaeio fnpcA J . u , ....,. . lit. aiia.K on the border town is fully planned. Reports that General Pedro Ojeda. the federal commander in Sonora. had surrendered to tho rebel leader. Obre gon, after a four days' battl a t rm-r and Santa Rosa, north of Guaymas. were denied today by the constitu tional junta at Douglas. According to official messages re ceived from Hermoslllo by the junta, the battle was resumed today after a rest yesterday. The junta members asserted, however, that Ojeda was sur rounded and cut off from his base of supplies. STEAMERS COLLIDE IN FOG Accident Outside Golden Gate Kends Ships, Letting In Water. SAN FRANCISCOT June 23. In a dense fog 10 miles outside the Golden Gate tonight the steamers Missourian and Daisy Mitchell collided bow-on. As a result the Daisy Mitchell, a small lumber carrier, bound here from Grays Harbor, made its way into the harbor with a large hole in its bow and a. quantity of water in its hold. The Missourian, of the - American Hawaiian line, a 10.000-ton steamrr. bound out for Seattle, is now endeav oring to make the harbor through the fog. It is not known what damage the Missourian lias suffered. EUGENE POSTOFFICE RISES Advance to First-Class Due July t With Other Changes. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. June 23. Because of the in crease in postal receipts the postoffice at Eugene will be advanced from second to first-class on July 1, as will the postoffice at Olympia, Wash. The Port Angeles office will advance from third to second-class, and Mill City, Or., where receipts have declined, will drop from third to fourth-class. The postoffice at Juneau, Alaska, ad vances from third to second-class, and Nome drops from second to third-class. APPEAL GRANTED JOHNSON Negro Pugilisfs Case to Be Reviewed in Higher Court. CHICAGO. Juno 23. An appenl from the verdict which sentenced him to a year in prison for violation of the Mann white slave act was granted Jack John son, the negro pugilist, by Judge Car penter in the United States District Court here today. QV