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. PORTLAND. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTE3IBER 10, 1913. ; PRICE FIVE CENTS. vm.. L.HI. NO. 1G,42. - - T TARIFF BILL IS PASSED 44 TO 37 r LaFollette and Poin dexter Vote "Aye." FINAL ACTION IS HASTENED Conferees for Upper Body Are Named at Once. LAST SCENES DRAMATIC Gallery and Floor Applaud as Re publican and Progressive Mem bers Join Majority In Put ting Measure Through. WASHINGTON-.' Sept. 9. The Demo rratic tariff revision bill passed the Senate at 5:43. 46 to 37. The burst of applause that swept down from crowded galleries found Its echo on the crowded floor of the Senate. Its passage was attended with surprises in the final moments of the voting, when Senator La Follette. Republican, cast his vote with the Democrats, and was Joined a few moments later by Senator Polndexter. "Progressive.'- The Democrats had counted through out the long tariff fight on losing the votes of Senators Ransdell and Thorn ton, of Louisiana, Democrats, who voted against the bill today because it would put sugar on the free list. Prealdrat Mack Gratified. Until the names of Senators La Fol lette and Polndexter actually were called, however, no one knew definitely the stand they would take, and their votes were greeted with enthusiastic applause. President Wilson expressed tonight great gratification over the end of the long struggle In the Sen ate. Senator Simmon, chairman of . the finance committee, who had piloted the bill through the finance . committee, the Democratic caucus and the Senate, predicted that Its passage would bring immediate stimulus to the business of the countrv. As It pa&j. tL." Senate, the tariff bill represents an average reduction of more than 4 per cent of the rates of the original bill that passed the House and nearly 28 per cent from the rates of existing laws! In many im- . portant particulars the Senate has S changed the bill that passed the House, and a conference committee of the two houses will begin work Wednesday or Thursday to adjust these differences. Leaders of both houses predict that the conference will consume less than two weeks. Conferees Named at Once. The Senate endeavored today to hasten the bill on its progress to the White House by naming its members of the conference as soon as the bill passed. Vice-President Marshall ap pointed Senators Simmons, Stone. Wil liams and Johnson, Democrats, and Sen ators Penrose, Lodge and LaFollette, Republicans, as the Senate conferees. Senator Stone withdrew from the com mittee and Senator Shlvely was ap pointed In his place. The House con ferees. It was reported tonight, will be Representatives Underwood, Kltchin and Ralney, Democrats, and Payne and Kordney. Republicans. Each house will have an equal vote In the conference committee, even though each does not name the same number of conferees. The final struggle began at 4 o'clock, when, under, a previous agreement, ar bitrary votes began on pending amend ments. In the closing hours of debate Senator LaFollette had been the center of Interest, proposing final amendments in the cotton and agricultural schedule, and discussing some features of the bill which he deemed favorable. 1-aFollette la Applauded. It was nearly 5:30 o'clock when the Vice-President put the bill on its pass age. Senator Aihurst. first on the roll. ' shouted loudly 'aye." and the rollcall proceeded deliberately until the clerk called "LaFollette." The Wisconsin ' Senator, seated in the front row, hesi tated a moment. His head was bowed and resting on his hand. He leaned forward a trifle and vigorously an- a s we red "aye." y Instantly applause broke in the gal- leries and Senators on the Democratic side joined in enthusiastic handclap plng. nearly every Democrat on the floor participating in the brief but vig orous demonstration. When the name of Polndexter, the only ."Progressive" Senator, was reached, and he contrib uted his vote for the bill the applause was renewed. After the vote Senator tFollette said: -I realize what I did was a political acriflce. but Utat within me compelled aie to vote for the bill. The tariff act f 1909 was little short of a crime; the iill passed today Is not a Democratic ' fcieaaure. but Is a protective measure. Every change made by the finance com mittee was made by way of adjustment V a protective basis, except such as Vee wool and free sugar, which were determined upon the outside. Polndexter Explain Vote Senator Polndexter said of his vote: "I voted for the Senate tariff bill be cause it is as a whole a better bill than the Payno-AJdrich law, now in force. Furthermore, it contains an Income tax. iConcluded on Fax 2.) STREETCAR KILLS MATTHEW GEYURTZ FURNITURE DEALER WALKS IX FROXT OF VEHICLE. Son or 1. Gevurti Meets Untimely End on Way Home to Young Wile Who Knew Not or Death. Matthew Gevurtx, second-hand fur niture dealer at 108 First street, living at 1032 Pacific avenue, a son of L Gevurtx. was instantly killed at 8 P. M. yesterday by being struck by Monta vllla car No. 699, Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, run by Mo torman A. E. Worthington. at East Glisan street and Floral avenue. F. Thomas was the conductor on the car. Mr. Gevurtx had alighted from an eastbound car and stepped in front of car 599. westbound, which struck him with sucll force that the glass on the headlight was smashed into fragments. The car was not stopped until it had gone 220 feet from the spot, according to Patrolman Wendorf. and Mr. Ge w riracrired under It and crushed until It was almost unrecog nizable. C. S. Barton, of 135 Lauren avenue, declares the car was going 35 miles an hour, and Patrolman Wendorf asserts that this Is probably true, since Mo torman Worthington was unable to inn it until it had eone 220 feet be yond. The body was taken to Dunning & McEntee's, where Coroner siocum will hold an Inquest this afternoon. Mr. Gevurtx, who was a brother of rhii fiov-nrii the well-known furni ture dealer and hotel man. Is survived by his young widow. He was 28 years of age. HfhAiifrh vijur nf lha trafiredV spread rapidly. It did not reach Mrs. Gevurtx for an hour. Friends, seeking to offer sympathy, called her on the phone and learned by her replies that she did not Know ner nusoana naa been killed. "Matthew will be home In a few min utes," she told them. AUTO LAWJBASIS OF SUIT Alleged Failure to Declare License Transfer Is Cause. First prosecution under a little-regarded' section of the state automobile law has been brought against the Pearson-Page Company, commission merchants, at the instance of P. Coffin, special traffic officer. The charge Is falling to notify the Secre tary of State of the transfer of a li cense number. Mr. Coffin recently checked the speed of an automobile numbered 10.000 and found It violating the regulations. He procured a warrant, taking the name of the owner from the .registry list When the warrant "was served on the Pearson-Page Company they denied ownership of . the machine, without volunteering Information of the trans fer. A few days later Henry O. Mel veny was In court or an infraction by the same numbered car, and said he had bought It from the commission merchants. Then complaint was filed against them for the failure to report. TAX SALES THREATENED City Treasurer to Advertise Delin quent List Xeit Week. Announcement by City Treasurer Adams that he will advertise for sale next week several hundred pieces of property in the city, because of delin quency In payment of street and sewer assssments. has caused a rush of property-owners to pay off the overdue as sessments. The city took in more than I .'0.000 yesterday in delinquent pay ments. The greatest complaint, according to Treasurer Adams, is in the handling of the assessments where real estate com panies and speculators are the owners. In these cases the assessments are per. mltted to run along year after year, the assessment burden finally being shifted off on the purchaser. To bring these concerns to lime, much property In real estate additions will be included in the tracts offered for sale at public auctlort. WOMAN INJURED BY HORSE Mrs. II. F. Johnson, of Molalla, Brought to Portland. MOLALLA. Or., Sept 9. (Special.) During, her husband's absence from home. Mrs. B. F. Johnson went to the pasture to catch a team of horses. She caught one horse and was riding it when its mate. In a spirit of playful ness, kicked at the horse Mrs. John son was riding, hitting the rider on the leg, fracturing the bone below the knee. - The accident occurred at some dis tance from the house, and It was some time before the woman could make her cries for help heard. Help finally ar rived and In a short time she was put Into an auto and taken to Wrtland, where she Is In a hospital. Mrs. Johnson who has been married but a ' short (me, was Miss- Laura Soitttzman. MARINE AIRSHIP WRECKED Fifteen Gerniun Army Aviators Lose Lives in Hurricane. BERLIN. Sept. !. The German ma rine airship L-l was destroyed this evening In a hurricane 18 miles north of Helgoland. Torpedoboats were dispatched imme diately to the scene and rescued seven of the crew. Fifteen others are re ported missing, and it is almost cer tain they perished, as the airship re mained afloat for 'more than an hour. Among those who lost their lives were Captain Metzing. commander of the marine airship division; Captain Hanne. commander of the wrecked air ship, and Baron von Maltzahn. - ,1. THAW ENJOYS REAL LIFE OM-DOORS Prisoner Revels in Grass 2nd Weeds. OUTING IS FIRST IN 7 YEARS Justice Who Issued Jerome Warrant Not Satisfied. APPEAL IS THREATENED Sherbrooke Townsfolk Said to Be Raising Fund for Appeal, but Crown Prosecutor Says Po sltion Is Ridiculous. COATICOOK, Que., Sept 9. Harry K. Thaw stood on a hill overlooking Coati cook tonight and watched the setting sun. High grass brushed his knees, night birds fluttered in a patch of woods nearby. It was the first outing of its kind the slayer of Stanford White has had In nearly seven years. In the asylum at Matteawan, from which he escaped. Thaw had to take his exercises In the courtyard, but when he asked for an airing today his guards led him up the hill to the west of the village, and for nearly half an hour they stumbled through the tangled grass and weeds. 'Thaw's cheeks were glowing and he was laughing when at dusk he ascended the salrs to the im migration prisons over the railway sta tion. Trip May Be Advanced. Reports reached Coaticook tonight from Montreal that Thaw's lawyers might desire his presence there on Thursday, four days before he is to be taken before the King's Bench on the writ of habeas corpus. Thaw said he had received a telephone message from his mother. Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, and his sister, Mrs. George Lauder Carnegie, now in Montreal. They had told him, he said, that they pur posed giving out a statement there. James McKee, the Justice of the peace who signed the warrant for the arrest of William Travers Jerome, acquitted last night Off 'a." "charge of gambling, said today that he was not entirely satisfied that Magistrate Mulvane of Sherbrooke had acted legally In presid ing at the hearing and that he would consult counsel to determine whether the case could be re-opened. Justice May Call Case. - "I may call the case on Thursday, the time to which I adjourned It" said the justice. . "There is no case to call, it's all over; Mr. Jerome has been discharged, ' said A. C. Hanson, the joint crown prose cutor. "I understand some of the hot headed townspeople are raising a fund to appeal from the acquittal. This, (Concluded on Page !'..) WHO SAID INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 69 degrees; minimum. 50 degrees. TODAY'S Fair. followed by Increasing cloudiness; winds becoming southerly. Foreign. Thaw enjoys first real breath of outdoors he has had in nearly seven years. Page 1. National. Tariff bill as Senate passed It Is further re duction from House rates. Page 2. Envoy Lind advised to return part way to Mexican capital. Page 4. Wilson says fight for tree business is won. Page 2. Tariff bill is passed, 44 to 37. rage 1. "Progressives" in Congress quietly drifting back W Republican ranks. Page 2. . Domestic. Arctic explorers now known to have been speared to death by Eskimo guides. Page L. Taft expresses hope for endless peace at Perry, celebration; Page 4. Elliott pleads for permission to bond New Haven for $61,000,000. Page 4. Accidents mar automobile races at Corona speedway. Page Sport. Pacific Coast League results: San Francisco 6-3. Portland 11-2; Venice 3-. Los An geles 5-3; Sacramento 4-3, Oakland Page 9. Northwestern League results: Portland s. Vancouver 2 (11 Innings): Tacoma 2. Victoria 1 (14 Innings); Seattle 1, fapo- kane O (10 Innings). Page 9. McAllister and Petroskey for second time tight 20-round draw. Page 8. Beavers have good lead in final dash to pennant. Page 6. J. Lee Thompson is selected physical direc tor of Multnomah Club. Page 0. Pelkey confesses to fake match with Tommy Burns whom he repudiates as manager. Page 8. Pacific Northwest. Robert O. Graves cited by Supreme Court to answer disbarment charges. Page .. Albany Merchants give credit to man on strength of bank book. Page 7. Two exhausted men rescued" in rapids at Maryhill. Page 1. Governor West stirs- Ire of Coos Bay citi zens; Page 0. Jackson County votes $300,000 road bonds. 1 1 T Clarke County fair opens auspiciously. rage o. Mllwaukle Mayor and two Councilmen resign as Milwaukie Tavern license is revoked. Page 5. Seaside and West Seaside given legal right to consolidate. Page 5. rnMni.M.Ial mid Marine. Lower freights stimulate demand from Ori ent for wheat i-age j. Government report Bhows record wheat - i -i. . iom in rnm Yield. Page IV. Wheat lower at Chicago on better weather for Fall plowing, rage 0. Beaver sets new record for San Francisco to Portland run. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. Portland Y. M. C. A. ranks high. Page lz. Matthew Gevurtz killed by streetcar while on way home. Page 1. Portland and Astoria urged to supply cash for Jetty work. Page 18. MIbs Mildred Moulton is hostess at theater party today. Page 12. Clubwomen prepare for busy Winter sea son. Page 12. Milk show plans promise most important event. Page 11. Women's minimum wage fixed by Welfare Commission. Page 1. Segregation of high school students ad vocated. Page 14. Rose Festival Association rents quarters in Morgan building. Page S- v Lower Columbia River towns to contribute to highway survey lund. Page 5. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 6. DOG'?. MUST STAY MUZZLED City Council Refuses' to Come to Re lief of Portland's Canines. Portland dogs must endure their be muzzled state indefinitely. Despite the importunities of dog owners, no date has been set by the' City Council for rescinding the muzzling ordinance, made necessary by the outbreak of hydrophobia in Portland. The ordinance, which carried an emergency clause, was passed early in July. It will not be rescinded until the Commissioners are convinced that hydrophobia has been stamped out. THE OLD PACHYDERM COULDN'T MINIMUM WAGE IS FIXED FOR WOMEN Oregon Leads Nation in Caring for Toilers. FACTORY WORKERS AFFECTED Lowest Pay to Be $8.64 for 54-Hour Maximum Week. LUNCH TO BE 45 MINUTES Industrial Welfare Commission Adopts All Recommendations of Conference, Following Public Hearing In New Library. INDUSTRIAL. WELFARE COMMIS SION'S RlUXO ON WOMEN " FACTORY WORKERS. 1. It is prohibited to employ wo men in manufacturing establish ments in the City of Portland. Or., for more than nine hours in any day or 54 hours in any week. 2. The noon lunch period - for wo men employes in manufacturing es tablishments in Portland, Or., shall not be less than 45 minutes In length. S. It is prohibited to employ ex perienced adult women workers, en gaged by time rate of payment, in any manufacturing establishment in Portland. Or., at a weekly wage of less than $8.64 for a 64Thour week, any lesser amount being hereby de clared inadequate to supply the ne cessary cost of living to such "wo men factory workers and maintain them in health. E. V. O'HABA, Chairman. AMEDEE M. SMITH, BERTHA MOORES. The first ruling to be rendered under a compulsory minimum-wage law in the United States, for adult women workers, was made last night by the Oregon Industrial Welfare Com mission, following a public hearing at the new Public Library, on the recom mendations of the conference called to determine proper wages, hours and eon-, anions of lar-'T of , womfen factory workers In the City of Portland. The ruling is in exact accord with the recommendations of the conference on all its three points that the work ing day shall be limited to nine hours, with 54 hours as a maximum week's work; that the minimum weekly wage shall be $8.64, and that the noon-lunch period shall not be less than 45 minutes Wi length. It will be unlawful for any employer to disregard the Commission's ruling after 60 days from today, when the Commission will make Its formal an nouncement. The law under which the Commission was created and given its powers pro- ( Concluded on Page 5.) COME BACK?. 2 EXHAUSTED MEN RESCUED IN RAPIDS SWIMMERS, SWEPT OX ROCKS, CLING FOUR HOCUS. Oarsmen Battle Against Stiff Wind " and Swirt Current Before Reaching Chilled Pair. MART HILL. "Wash., Sept. 9. (Spe cial.) After clinging four hours to the rocks in the middle of the Columbia River rapids, oposlte Mary Hill, two exhausted men were rescued late today by M. Roblson and A. Taylor. Tay lor and Roblson. in a light skiff, bat tled for half an hour against a stiff wind and swift current before reach ing the pair. The rescued men are from Biggs, where they are employed by the O. W. R. & N. Company. They wore bath ing suits and were chilled to the bone, exhausted and almost ready to give up the struggle when the rescuers reached the rapids. They had gone into the Columbia near Biggs for a swim, ven tured too far out in the stream, were caught by the swift current and carried half a mile to the rapids. Here they lodged on the projecting rocks and shouted for help until they were seen from the shore. The rapids were too swift for the men to attempt to return to shore, and had they not lodged against the first ledge of protruding boulders they would have been hurled against the Jagged rocks below and then carried over the falls at Celllo. COIN SCATTERED BY BLAST Postoffice Robbers Carry Safe to Open, Then Lose Tart of Loot. SALEM, Or., Sept. 9. (Special.) Pratum was on the map in large letters today, for dollars were scattered all about its southern suburbs. A score of persons hunted for them and each one found at least one "simoleon." The postoffice was robbed last night, the thieves loading the safe on a truck and hauling it away. At the outskirts of the city they put a charge of dynamite into a hole they had drilled, and safe, money and every thing thereabout went aeroplaning. After the . money had volplaned, the robbers picked up about $40 of it and then fled. D. J. Steiner, postmaster, and. others found about $45 scattered about the ground. The postmaster said there had been about $100 in the safe. A further search will be made to morrow. There is no clew to the identity of the robbers. The postmaster did not hiss his safe until several hours after reaching the office. The safe weighed between 700 and 8D0 pounds. WEED CUTTING IS COSTLY Commissioner Dieek Shows Where $1366.75 Has Been Spent. Weed-cutting by the city has cost up to date a total of $1366.75, accord ing to a report filed yesterday with City Auditor Barbur by City Commis sioner Dieck. This amount includes the actual cost of cutting, not count ing the overhead expense of salaries of inspectors and other employes of the public works department who have given their time to the work. Counting all expenses. It is said the city will be out fully twice the amount given, which will have to. be paid out of the city's general iund or the street funds, inasmuch as the property owners who are supposed to be charged with the cost of cutting the weeds can be assessed only for the actual cost of cutting. LONDON TO BOOST COAST Robert B. Forter Collects Data for Special Edition of Times. Robert P. Porter, special-edition ed itor of the London Times, Is In Portland gathering data for an edition of the paper dealing with the Pacific Coast. He is particularly interested in the ef fect the opening of the Panama Canal will have on the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Porter, who is at the Multnomah Is a globe-trotter and in his work of preparing editions for the Times has visited nearly every civilized country. Although an Englishman, he has passed much time in the United States. He was on the staff of the Chicago Inter Ocean in 1872 and was director of the United States census of 1890. Later he worked in an editorial capacity on the New York Tribune and Philadelphia Press. LAFFERTY SEES IT COMING Return to Republican Party to Be Spread Around Gradually. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Sept. 9. After reading tho re turns from Maine this morning Repre sentative Lafferty wrote to several friends In Portland telling them he will register as a Republican at the next election and will seek the. Republican nomination for Congress. Lafferty in his letters informs his friends that he wants this information to be spread around his district grad uauy. GERARD DEFERS WORRYING Ambassador Noncommittal About Living on $17,000 Salary. kkw YORK. Seut. S. James W. Gerard sailed today on the Kron Prin zessin Cecilie to take up his duties as United States Ambassador to Germany. When asked if he thought the could live on his $17,000 salary, Ambassador Gerard, whose wife's father was Mar cus Daly, the copper king, replied: "That is something I should worry about later on.' EXPLORERS SLAIN BYE Arctic Tragedy Known After Two Years. SUDDEN QUARREL IS CAUSE Native Resents Kick With Thrust of Spear. TALE LONG KEPT SECRET Harry V. Radford and George Street Meet Fate on Perilous Journey Undertaken to Investigate Mineral Deposits. WINNIPEG, 'Man., Sept 9. Killed by Eskimo guides is tho fate reported to have befallen Harry V. Radford and George Street, two explorers who left here two years ago to essay the peril ous journey from Chesterfield Inlet, Hudson Bay, to Bathurst, on the Arctic Ocean. Their intention was to inves tigate the possible value of the terri tory already partially explored by other expeditions. It Is believed the territory contains valuable mineral de posits. Radford was an American and Street a resident of Ottawa. According to the account which reached Winnipeg by mall today the two explorers set out from Fort Churchill, on the west coast of Hudson Bay, in the Autumn of 1911, for Ches terfield, where is established the most northern post of tho Hudson Bay Com pany in that region. NatlveH Return Alone. As soon as Winter set in tho coast band of natives departed with their dog sleds and trading outfit for the in terior, and with them went tho two ex plorers. The Eskimos returned to Chesterfield before the Summer thaw. They reported that at Schultz Lake, Radford and Street had joined the in land tribe and" were preparing to ac company tiy m on a journey ceeper int? tt:e Nortnv'i'i". when tiiey came away. As this was in accordance with the plans of tho explorers, no suspiclan of mishap was entertained. As tho Summer passed and prepara tions were being made for the inland trading trip of the following year, rumnrs spread among the other coast bands that the story brought to Ches terfield in 1912 was untrue, and yiut the two white men never would be seen alive. Kick Resented With Spear. What the Eskimos are said to have told recently Is that the trip to Sehulta Lake was made in safety and the two white men there made a bargain with the interior natives to guide them back to their country. There had been no indication of ill-feeling or friction, they said, everything going smoothly until the day of departure. Then, as the sleds were being loaded, Radford got Into an altercation with one of the tribe about the proper adjustment of the binding thongs and, according to their story, in his anger kicked tho man. Instantly the Eskimo grasped his spear and before Radford could defend himself the weapon was driven Into his breast, Street, uccording to tho story, was harnessing up a dog team ut tho time and seeing his companion fall, picked up his rifle to go to Radford's assistance. The Eskimo with whom he was working, the story alleged, at tacked Street from behind. A spear was thrust into his back and Street, too, fell mortally wounded. Band Stricken With Terror. The murder of the white men threw the Chesterfield band into a state of terror. This, they said, explained their si lence as to tho occurrence on their re turn. They declared the slayers and their friends had threatened them with slaughter of their whole band if they told of the killing to the white men at the coast. From Chesterfield a report was sent on to the mounted police stationed at Churchill, many miles farther souiii. It reached there two months ago, and Sergeant Egerton and Corporal Conroy were dispatched inland to make a, thor ough investigation. Old explorers here believe that in the quest for information by the mounted police something may be learned of the fate of George Cald well, of Ottawa, who sot out from Chesterfield inlet eight years ago with a single Eskimo companion to reac.i the Upper Mln River, and who never has been heard from since. $1485 STAYS IN 'OLD COAT' Teamster Drives All Day With Gar ment in Which Is Small Fortune. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 6 After driving all day with a coat he found in the street on the wagon seat beside him a teamster saw the owner of the coat draw $1485 from its pockets. Tho teamster, from papers in the pockets, learned the coat belonged to Henry Sorga, proprietor of a saloon, and returned it td Its owner. "I sure did not know all that money was in there when I was driving around with it," said the teamster. A $5 note and a few gifts of liquor rewarded him. no GUIDES