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VOL. 1,1 1 J NO. 16,307. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SPEEDY ACTION OH GURRENGY BILL DUE President Predicts Pas sage in November. CHANGES TO BE ACCEPTED Mann, However, Doubts Law's Realization Before February. RESERVE. BANKS BIG ISSUE Wilton Bases Assertion on Talks to Republicans, Some of 'Whom Say Executive Is Too Optimistic. House Recess Discussed. WASHINGTON. Oct. 20. "With Pres ident Wilson willing to accept sub stantial amendments to the Administra tion currency bill in the hope of ob taining speedy action on the measure in the Senate committee, supporters of the Administration grew optimistic to day over the chances for the passage of the measure before the end of the extra session of Congress. The President himself. In a letter to Majority Leader Underwood, announced his willingness to consider a proposal for a recess of the House, because, he said, conferences with members of the Senate committee led him to believe the bill would be reported to the Senate the first week in November and passed at the present session. Some Leo Optimistic. Republican members of the commit tee and Senator Hitchcock, of Ne braska, were inclined tn look upon this plan as too optimistic, but other mem bers of the committee said they hoped to be able to live up to the President's expectations. A reduction in the number of reserve banks, fixed by the Administration bill at 12, and the removal of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Controller of i i!:e Currency from the Federal Re serve Board, which would control the new currency system, were the amend ments which the President let it be Isiiott-n he would not oppose. Almost all the witnesses before the Senate committee have contended for these amendments, and a majority of the committee Is believed to favor them. Reserve Xnmbrr Unsettled. The proposed amendments would re tain the Federal Reserve Board as a strictly governmental Institution, but would provide that it be composed of seven members, six to be appointed by the President and to devote their entire time to the work of the Board, and the seventh to be the Secretary of the Treasury. The committee has not yet taken up the question of reducing the number of reserve banks, but sugges tions have been made putting the num ber all the way from three to ten. Sen ator Weeks. Republican, has a pro posal that the number be reduced to one, a single Federal bank to be con trolled absolutely .by the Government The proposal for a recess of the House was taken up today at White House and at t-ie Capitol, negotiations continued without the and any definite conclusion. Mann Withholds Decision. Air. Underwood sought Representa tive Mann, after receiving the Presi dent's message, and urged the minority leader to consent to the passage of a Joint resolution for a recess of the House until November 15. Mr. Mann postponed decision on the request until tomorrow. Then he went to the Senate and discussed with Republican and Democratc managers the President's assertion that the currency bill proba bly would be disposed of In November. "I found," Mr. Mann said later, "that the Senate was without a quorum, as was the House. I found that the Presi dent had not consulted with Repub lican Senators, nor received assurances from them that the currency bill speed ily would be disposed of. I found that the President must have been mistaken or else was very much misled. "I found, in all probablylty, the cur rency bill would not get Into the Sen ate until the next session of Congress and that the President would be lucky If it passes by February. The Presi dent says there Is an ambitious legis lative programme for next Winter. Un less Congress begins work on the pro gramme now, we .will be here until next September, and, unless there are concessions on the currency bill, there may not be much legislation enacted but currency at the next session." Republicans' Talk Baiia, President Wilson's confidence that Republican and Democratic Senators would reach an early agreement on the currency bill was based on talks with Senator Nelson and one or two other Republicans. Members of the Senate banking and currency committee ex pressed more confidence over an early outcome of the legislation than did Representative Main, but none of the Republican memoers would predict the passage of the bill within the time set by the President. As a quorum of the House is not yet in town, the Democratic leaders can not act on a House recess without the consent of the Republicans. Victor Morawetz. of New York, direc tor of the National Banjc of Commerce and a student of the currency probIen. defended the Administration bill be- SOCIAL OUTCAST TO RETURN TO LEPERS OSTRACIZED XC11SE, BENT OX SUICIDE, CHAXGES MIXD. Girl Declaring Herself Free From Dread Disease Cnable So to Convince Friends. CHICAGO, Oct. 20. Miss Maris Col Her. who disappeared Friday, leaving a Yi of ft savine that she had been ostra elzed bv society because she formerly was a nurse In a leper colony, returned today. She asserted that the unfounded re ports that she was suffering from lep rosy, causing her friends to forsake her, had so discouraged her that she had determined to shoot herself. She said that Miss A. Benjamin, of Milwau kee, an acquaintance, had persuaded her not to end her life. "I became so dispirited Friday that I decided there was no use living any longer," said Miss Collier. "I destroyed marks of Identification on my clothing and as I was tearing up old letters found one from Miss Benjamin. In it sh tolri me that if I ever intended to take my life to pay her a visit first I told her a long time ago-that I would kill myself. "Miss Benjamin brightened me up and I now Intend to go back to the lepers. I am an outcast to society. Doctors have made examinations and reported that I am free from leprosy, but friends refuse to believe it. ' If I go to any- gathering the crowd near me dwindles until I find myself standing alone. Miss Collier passed several months at a leper colony near xracaaie. iew Brunswick. She was forced to leave because the climate was breaking down her health. - LIVES SAVED BY ENGINEER Passengers Owe Escape to Prompt Action of Train Pilot. LA CROSSE, Wis., Oct. 20. Invest! gation of the Chicago, Burlington c Quincy wreck at Nelson. Wis., Satur day, In which one man was killed and 18 injured, shows that M. H. Doraey, engineer of train No. 54, saved the lives nf monv of his cassengers by his prompt action No. 54 was partly on a siding when the express train. No. 57, appeared close by; There was not time to pull into the siding and to remain where he was would have caused No. 6 t'j crash Into the passenger coaches cf No. 54. Dorsey quickly reversed his engine, backed on to the main track with the engine ana Baggage car,, which had been clear, and took on his licomotive . the- shock of th, collision with the express train running 60 miles an hour. OCEAN LINE SALE POSSIBLE Southern Pacific Slight Consider Pacific Mall Deal. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 20. The South ern Pacific Company might be willing to sell the Pacific Mail Steamship Com pany "for a reasonable figure," said Mr. Kruttechnitt, chairman of the board of directors here tonight Mr. Kruttschnitt had been asked if the Pacific Mail would suffer from a new kind of competition whem the Panama Canal Is put into operation. "Time will answer that," he said. "If anyone wants to buy the Pacific Mail and is willing to pay a reasonable price for it, I think the Southern ' Pacific would give full consideration to the of fer." The steamship company has until 1914 to change from a railroad owner ship if permitted the use of the canal. GIRL WARDS OFF PANIC Theater Fire Nearly Quenched Be fore Audience Learns. s SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20. A young girl pianist employed at a local mov ing picture theater prevented a panic among the spectators today, when without attracting the attention of the audience she notified the management of A fire In the picture operators' room. The blaze was extinguished almost before the audience realized there was a fire. The girl continued playing while the audience was asked quietly to leave the house. BRAZIL GREETS ROOSEVELT Government Prepares for Entertain ment of Colonel. RIO JANEIRO, Oct 20. The steamer Vandyck, with Colonel Roosevelt aboard, arrived off Rio Janeiro tonight, but owing to tempestuous weather, ac cording to a wireless dispatch, she will not enter port until midnight. Colonel Roosevelt and his party will come ashore at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. Elaborate preparations for the re ception of the ex-President have been completed. Apartments in the Guna bara Palace have been placed in readi ness for him as the guest of the Gov ernment. 10 YEARS FOR AUTO THIEF California Judge So to Treat Stealing Joyriders in Future. Ali LOS ANGELES, Cat, Oct. 20. The extreme penalty for grand larceny 10 years in the penitentiary was im posed today by Judge Willis, of the Criminal Court, on G. S. Graham, con victed of having stolen an automobile. The court severely arraigned Graham. "The joyriding thief is a menace to the public," he said. "He deserves no sympathy. " In the future all such thieves convicted in this court will be sentenced to 10 years in the Peni tentiary." ' PAY-HOUR DEBATES COVER WIDE SCOPE Conferences to Affect All Oregon Toilers. SERIES OF SESSIONS PLANNED Meetings Most. Important, Says Chairman. NIGHT WORK IS PROBLEM Young Men Unfit to Take Places of Girls at Switchboards, Declares Telephone Representa- tlve at Hearing. State-wide in Its scope is the confer ence called by the Industrial Welfare Commission, which held its first meet' lng last night at the Commission's headquarters In the Commercial block. It will be the business of the confer ence to inquire Into the wages, hours and conditions of laoor of women and minor workers throughout Oregon, to determine what constitutes reasonable hours, wages and conditions, and to make recommendations based on its findings to the Industrial Welfare Com mission. D. Solis Cohen is chairman of the conference, and Miss Catherine Gleason secretary. "Research Committee Named. While the members of the confer ence generally agreed to get all the in formation possible on the questions submitted, a research committee was appointed, consisting of Mr. Booth, Mrs. Gee and Mr. Roberts. ' "It seems to me," said Chairman. Co hen, "that this Is by all means the most important conference that has yet been called by the commission, inas much as our recommendations. If ac cepted, will be made the basis of rul ings affecting the entire state, whereas the other conferences have had to deal with industrial conditions only in the City -of Portland. - Difficulties-" net ap parent in the work of the other confer ences confront us." Portland Wage Suggested. After a discussion of the minimum wage, Mr. Roberts, who was a member of the mercantile conference, suggest ed that the minimum wage fixed by the commission for Portland be adopted as the minimum wage for the entire state. The question being raised as to whether the cost of living, on which the minimum wage must be based, is not lower in the smaller towns than in Portland, Mr. Cohen said that work- (Concluded on Pago 2.) " . . Vl"vo-0 INDEX CF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 57 degrees: minimum, 48 degree. TODAY'S Probably fair; variable wind. mostly westerly. Foreign. Kaiser's fourth volume of speeches Is Is sued. Page S. China strengthened by struggles. Page 5. National. President Wilson predicts passage of cur rency bill In November. Page l. England's Mexican move . arouses officials at Washington. Page S. lomestic. Sixth District Progressives nominate Sulzer to make race lor seat In Assembly, page l. Hearlna- Aa-alnst Thomas E. Watson. Presidential candidate. charged with mailing obscene matter. Is continued. Page 2. f Mm. Pankhurst is allowed to enter America. Page 2. i Friends of Eaton family take stand. Page 8. Wind.. snow and rain storm grips East and trails on edge of Middle West, page 1. Bible never more needed, says Secretary Bryan. Page I. Episcopal Church asked to champion worlcer. Page 3. Southern Pacific to fight for control of Central Pacific. Page 4. Nurse of lepers, ostracized by society, to re turn to afflicted. Page 1. Sports. Williams, of Sacramento, leads Coast League pitchers. Page 8. McCredie credited with building up Beavers. Page 6. Patsy Cardiff may be sent to asylum. Page 7. Harry Krause sets winning record for 1913. Page 6. Freddie Welsh knocked out on foul by Young Baylor. Page 7. Paclfio Northwest. Chief Justice McBrlde defines more fully what cases should be appealed. Page 2. Commercial and Marine. Tone of Northwestern wheat markets Is Im proved. Page IT. Wheat advances at Chicago on report of failure of Indian crop. Page IT. Advance In Wall street stock prices Is checked. Page 17. Threatened grain dock Injunction proceed ings delayed for time. Page 16. Portland and Vicinity. Canvass for funds for 1914 Kose Festival starts. Page 10. Portola visitors given grand farewell as stay of three days ends. Page 10. Mrs. Christina Haas dies from wounds in flicted by husband. Page 16. Permanent Improvements barred from bud get. . Page 11. Interstate bridge to be topic of address to day. Page 11. Portland man weds Dayton, Wash., miss. rage lo. Portland, Eugene ft Eastern to suspend building during Winter. Page 12. Wage conference statewide In scope. Page 1. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 1. Hill Military Academy hazing to be carried into court, rage 4. SULZER'S RELAJIVE TO WED Slster-in-Law of Deposed Governor Ohio Man's Bride-elect. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20. A license to marry was issued here today to Miss Ernestine V. Roedelheim, sister of the wife of William Sulzer, . deposed Gov ernor of New York, ar;d Walter M. Frei.de,nbr JJdjg&'jft Raad.?- C4ee- and, O. . - . r .. Miss Roedelheim declined to disclose the date set for the wedding, which. She said, was to be private and quiet. Miss Roedelheim is a public school teacher In this city. Licutennant Henning Transferred. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Oct. 20. Lieutenant Oswald F. Henning, medical reserve corps, has been transferred from Fort Columbia, Wash., tc Monterey, and will be suc ceeded by Lieutenant Charles R. Castlen, now at Fort Worden. EMMELINE IS NOW ASHORE. SULZER NOMINATED E E To Reclaim Governor's Chair Real Aim. PROGRESSIVES MAKE TENDER Deposed Official Will Begin Where He Did in 1889. SPEAKERSHIP NEXT GOAL In Accepting Sixth District Offer He Promises to Make 'Fur Fly' and GlTe Enemies Warm Time. Election Seems Sure. NEW YORK, Oct 20. William Sul zer, Impeached as Governor of the state, was nominated for the Assembly tonight by the Progressives of the Sixth Assembly District. Mr. Sulzer in 1889 began his public career as a mem ber of this branch of the Legislature. Mr. Sulzer has agreed to accept the nomination. Max Steindler, Progres sive leader in the Sixth Assembly Dis trict who placed the ex-Governor's name in nomination, said Mr. Sulzer reached him by telephone from Albany, inquiring if he had been designated Mr. Steindler replied In the affirmative. He said he asked Mr. Sulzer if he would accept and Mr. Sulzer replied he would gladly do so. Sulzer Issues Statement. A few minutes after the convention met Mr. Sulzer issued a statement tell inir whv he had "consented to come back to Albany." Throughout the evening he was in communication by telephone with Pro gressive "leaders in New York. There never was any doubt that he could have the nomination if he wanted It, he declared, nor does he doubt that the first of January would see him back where ho began his political ca reer 20 years ago. Return .to.,. Chair .Forecast. He and nis friends also are convinced that he will go from there to the Speakership and thence back to the Governor's chair. . Some time tomorrow Sulzer will go to New York. He will begin a cam paign for the Assembly seat immediat iy and speak day and night up to election time. After that he will ac cept some lecture engagement up to the first of January. If It is then necessary for him to come to Albany he will arrive here on the opening day of the Legislature to start his fight, which he hopes will put him (Concluded on Page 3.) HBLY RAG BIBLE NEVER MORE VITAL, SAYS BRYAN SECRETAUY PLEADS FOR LARG ER APPLICATION OF BOOK. Value of Mental Training Overesti mated and of Heart Development Underestimated, He Says. WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 20. "There never was a time when the peo ple needed the inspiration of the Bible more than they do at present," said Secretary Bryan tonight, Jn. addressing the delegates to the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in session here. "And" the Secretary added, "there is not a community which cannot be puri fied, redeemed and Improved by a bet ter knowledge and larger application of the Bible to the daily life. No money that is Invested pays so large a divi dend as money that is spent for the moral uplift of the community. "I am Inclined to believe that we have overestimated the value of mental training and underestimated the value of the heart's development. A good heart can use a very dull mind and make that mind serviceable to society, but a bad heart cannot make use of a mind, however brilliant." The speaker expressed hearty sym pathy with both foreign and home missionary work. At today's session the society elect ed Mrs. W. P. Thirkleld, wife of Bishop Thirkield of New Orleans, president. EXTORTION METHOD IS NEW Sender Inoculates Letter With Germs and Cure Is Secret. CHICAGO. Oct 20. A letter, the contents of which may reveal a new and deadly method of extortion or may prove only a hoax was Investigated to day by the Postal Inspectors and the police. The epistle was received by Frederick M. Steele, a millionaire manufacturer. The letter, the sender wrote was filled with deadly germs from which the handler could not avoid contract ing a deadly disease for which only the sender knew the cure. 'It is already too late for you to escape inoculation," the letter con tinued. Mr. Steele said the writer de manded that J1500 be placed at the foot of the Logan monument in Grant Park and that the cure would be mailed. A physician will make daily examination of Mr. Steele's condition. s CUPID ADDS TO PROBLEM Chicago Matron Appeals1 to Police tc Keep Maid From Slurrying. CHICAGO, Oct, 20. Mrs. Walter T. Dwight appealed to the Evanston po lice today to prevent her maid, Rose Bergenhammer, from leaving her to get married. A policeman found Albert Lee, the maid's fiance, trying to per suade Mrs. Dwight to permit her serv ant to go. 'Rose and I are engaged and Mrs. Dwight won't let her leave," Lee ex plained. "I gave hers notice three weeks ago." "Well," said Mrs. Dwight, "I've vis ited every employment agency in the city and can't get anyone to take he lace." Mrs. Dwight gave up in despair when the policeman refused to arrest Lee for attempted kidnaping. L0RIMER INVITED TO RUN Ex-Senator May Seek Toga of Successor in Senate. Ills CHICAGO, Oct. 20. A petition asking ex-United States Senator Lorimer to be a candidate for the Republican nom ination for United States Senator next Spring was circulated here today. The petition was mailed to Chicago by the Republican Club of Galesburg, 111. The place for wliicn Lorimer was asked to run Is the Senatorship to be vacated at the expiration of the term cf Senator Sherman, who was elected to fill the vacancy caused when the Senate held that Lorimer had not been properly elected. Lorimer refused to comment on the petition. BOY'S LONG NAP PUZZLES Jewish Lad's 12-Day Sleep Attribu ted to Abuse In Russia. ST. PAUL, Oct 20. Medical experts are puzzled over the case of Abraham Brachner, an 18-year-old Jewish boy. who for 12 days has been asleep in the city hospital. He is completely oblivious of all sensation and falls to respond by even the slight quiver of a muscle to a pin prick. It is said his condition is due to hysteria, caused by ill-treatment before the boy left Russia. The lad recently arrived here as the ward of the Independent Order of B'Nai B'Rith. 2500 VOTERS ARE ADDED Progressives Going Over Into Re publican Fold. ' i Approximately 2500 residents of Mult nomah County have leglstered since the June election, and more than one-third of newly-qualifled voters are women and young men who will cast their first vote at the referendum election next month. The heaviest registration from one section was from Uresham, where more than 400 registered. The falling off of the Progressive voters was notable, said one of the clerks last night. Most of those desert ing the new party registered as Republicans. DEATHS EP SOI Five Fatalities Known in Wisconsin. MARYLAND COAST STRICKEN Water Runs Two Feet Deep in Streets of Crisfield. FLOOD REPORTS COME IN Blinded by Driving Torrents Clcve land Woman Walks to Death Be fore Automobile Middle West Doesn't Escape. MILWAUKEE, Oct. 20. Five deaths due to the storm which is raging over Wisconsin are reported tonight Snow is falling even as far south as Mil waukee. The casualties are: Two Milwaukee hunters, George Mc Eachron and Thomas Stolz, drowned in Shawano Lake, at Shawano, AVIs., when their skiff was capsized by the gale as they were trying to reach shelter. Three men were drowned when their naptha launch capsized In Chequame gon Bay at Ashland, while trying to take provisions to a coal steamer lu the harbor. BALTIMORE. Oct" 20. One of the worst wind and rain storms ever ex perienced on the eastern shore of Maryland Is raging tonight The storm began early this afternoon and by nightfall lower Chesapeake Bay traffic was tied up. Crisfield reported that water was two feet deep in the principal streets and still rising -and that fishing boats in the harbor were being beaten to pieces. Other towns on tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay reported floods. Great damage to oyster and fish in dustries will result CALUMET, MicOct 20. A heavy snow and wind Btorm struck the cen tral Lake Superior region today, gath ering velocity- until, a small blizzard was blowing and Increasing in force. Marine reports say that but few boats were caught In the storm, most of tiie shipping being held In the harbor. LOUISVILLE, KyiToct 20. A light fall of snow was recorded this morn ing in Eastern and Southern Kentucky. The earliest Fall of snow previously re ported In this state was October- 27, nearly SO years ago. There was a rapid falling temperature tonight and. freez ing weather generally over this state is forecasted for tomorrow morning. CLEVELAND, O.. Oct 20. Blinded by the driving rain and a 36-mile wind, five persons walked In front of auto mobiles tonight and two of them re ceived serious injuries. Miss Mary Costello, 45, was thrown against the curb and her skull fractured. Shu died while the automobile, which ran over her was carrying her to a hospital. Police exonerated the driver. Shortly before midnight the rain changed to snow and then to sleet KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct 20. Freei lng temperatures, the first of the eel son, prevailed over Missouri, KansaJ and Northern Oklahoma early today and a light frost extended Into North ern Texas. ST. PAUL, Oct.20. Light snow fell here late today, the first of the present season. CHICAGO, Oct. 20. The tall of a wind storm that centered over the St. Lawrence Valley, according to the Weather Bureau, brought the first snow of the season to Liucago ana other Middle Western points tonight. Snow, or a traca of It, was reported at Davenport and Dubuque, la.; bt. Louis, Mo.: Terre Haute, Ind., and Houghton, Mich. Thermometers regis, tered 35 degrees here, the coldest of the season. The cold weather extended as far south as Tennessee and Oklahoma and west over Missouri and Kansas, accord ing to tho weather bureau. Cities In Missouri reported the thermometer at 27 degrees and at Concordia, Kan., it was 24 degrees. Ice formed over the ponds and streams. A light fall of snow was recorded at Birmingham una Atlanta and at several points in tho Kentucky mountains two inches of snow fell. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 20. A high wind storm that swept over the Con necticut shore tonight cost one life and did much damage to small craft Russell B. Young, aged 10, who was rowing with his father, was drowned when their boat was capsized. At New London the sea was said to be the highest in five years. An unidentified vessel Is displaying distress flags outside the harbor. WIRELESS NOVICE IS FINED Unlicensed Radio Operutor Dranr First Penalty Under New Law. NEW YORK. Oct 20. Elmer B. My ers, a BrooKiyn youtn wno sei up a wireless plant on the roof of his home without first obtaining a Federal li cense to do so, was fined J50 today by United States Judge Mayer for vlola- lon of the radio act passed last June by Congress, lie is said to be the l.rst defendant under this law. The law forbids unlicensed operators picking up messages sent ashore from hips or from one stato to another. (Concluded on Pags 2.) V