TTTR MORXTIS'O OTTEGONTAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1913.
AODIEHCE MOVED BY
APPEAL OF HANLEY
First Emotion Shown in Con
servation Congress Stirred
by Oregon Man.
HARDSHIPS ARE DEPICTED
Pathetic Side of Homesteader's Ufe
Under Existing Law Moves Dele
gates to Tears Chapman
Works to Good Effect.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington. Nov. 20. "Government by con
sent of the governed," was the theme
of an address before the Conservation
Congress today by William Hanley, of
Oregon. In simple. but appealing,
style Mr. Hanley portrayed the hard
ships that the prevailing conservation
policy Imposes on homeseekers in the
West and pictured vividly the ob
stacles that confront any man who
In this day attempts to establish hia
home on the public domain. He told
of his own experience on the range of
Eastern Oregon, told of the experiences
of others whom he had known, and
throughout his recital held the atten
tion of the congress as no other speak
er had done.
His homely story commanded atten
tion, and when he dealt with the pa
thetic side of the homesteader's life,
'women in the audience wiped tears
from their eyes. This was the only
time the Conservation Congress had
showed any such emotion. Hanley's
address was received with tremendous
applause, notwithstanding his appea.1
was for a change In the policies which
the conservationists have heretofore
been urging.
Chapman Wins Committee Over.
C. C. Chapman, of Portland, who was
a member of the committee that drafted
resolutions regarding the public land
policy, is largely responsible for the
broad view taken in those resolutions,
which declared for greater liberality to
the settler and more leniency in land
administration. When this commltteo
organized Its Eastern members were in
favor of reiterating the past declara
tion of the Conservation Congress, but
Mr. Chapman devoted the better part
of yesterday to pointing out to them
the hardships that are wrought by ex
isting laws and past methods of admin
istration, with the result that the com
mittee brought in a report refusing to
Indorse past recommendations of this
congress on the public land question
and outlining a policy that is satlsafc
tory to the West. Insofar as the public
lands are concerned.
Waterpower Monopoly Denounced.
Monopolistic control of waterpower
in private hands was denounced, with a
declaration that no waterpower rights
owned by the public ever should be
removed from public ownership. The
climax of the waterpower fight which
had agitated the congress for several
days came after the committee on reso
lutions, to which had been referred di
vergent reports from the waterways
committee, submitted that the subject
bad been taken from its hands by ac
tion of the convention yesterday in
adopting general principles, on which
the waterways committee agreed.
When the report had been read Gif
ford Plnchot moved as an amendment
a declaration of principles on waterway
control, similar to the ideas in the
minority report signed by himself, ex
Secretary of War Stlmson and Joseph
N. Teal, of Oregon. This amendment
was adopted by a vote of 317 to 96.
State's Rights Klement Revolts.
The congress elected Charles Lathrop
Pack, of Lakewood, N. J., as president
to succeed himself; Mrs. Emmons
Crocker, FMtcbburg, Mass., vice-president;
N. C. McCloud, Washington, D. C,
recording secretary; Dr. Henry 8.
"Drinker, South Bethlehem, Pa., treas
urer, and Thomas F. Shipp, Indian
apolis, corresponding secretary.
Efforts of the Arkansas delegation.
headed by Walter Powell, of Little
Rock, which bolted the . congress yes
terday, to spread the revolt, failed to
day, but another effort to have state
rights delegates meet with the Arkan
sas faction will be made tomorrow. If
there Is any response to the Arkansas
appeal, plans for another Conservation
Congress will be made. The majority
of the delegates, however, left Wash
ington tonight. .
tinues to increase and the classes daily
are becoming more popular as their ap
peal to the practical education of the
people is realized.
Classes in engineering and mathe
matics In the University of Oregon ex
tension courses will meet at the new
Failing School at 7:30. Five members
of the university faculty will be on
hand to take charge of the classes.
Dean McAllister, of the engineering de
partment, will be present for consulta
tion. Mrs. E. S. Parson will meet as usual
the organized class scheduled for to
night at the Central Library.
At 6 o'clock tonight Mrs. Parson
will meet all those interested in the
formation of a class for general prac
tice in English composition in room F
of the Central Library.
Experience has shown that engineer
ing and other technical students ordi
narily profit most from classes In Eng
lish which take into consideration the
vocabulary and general style of speech
which men in these walks of life actu
ally employ, along with the subject
matters with which they are most
familiar and most interested in. With
these facts in view, the extension de
partment of the university is offering
a new course especially intended for
engineering and technical students. All
those Interested in the formation of
such a course may meet Miss Mary Per
kins of the university faculty at 7:80
tonight in room G of the Central Library.
LABOR IN
UPHOLD
INDUSTRIAL UNIONS
Convention Gives Brewery
Workers Control Over
Wagon-Drivers.
OTHER DISPUTES SETTLED
TRUST CALLED GODSEND
WITNESS SAYS STEEL CORPORA
TION HELPS COUNTRY.
Days Recalled When Tomahawka Were
Ont Everywhere and Even Carne
gie Notes Were Questioned.
NEW YORK. Nov. 20. Before the
United States Steel Corporation was
formed it was "war" In the steel trade,
according to B. F. Miles, president of
the Browning Engineering Company,
of Cleveland, who testified today for
the defense in the Government's suit
to dissolve the corporation. "The coun
try at large has been benefited by the
corporation, which has been a godsend
to the small manufacturing consumer."
Mr. Miles declared.
"Has there been within your recol
lection, anywhere in this country, any
force at any time that has tended to
promote the steel Industry to a greater
extent than the United States Steel
Corporation has promoted It?" the wit
ness was asked by counsel for the defense.
'I would say that, generally speak
ing, I know of no conditions like those
that have prevailed since the formation
of the corporation," was the reply. "Of
course, my Information is general, but
before that It was a state of war;
every fellow tomahawked the other. I
can well remember some large batches
or notes in the 90s . being offered
through the banks in the valleys by
Mr. Carnegie, and I am Informed "
Here counsel for the Government ob
jected, declaring the witness was not
competent to give such evidence, which
counsel said was hearsay. Mr. Miles
was allowed to continue:
'I have seen some large batches of
notes offered through the banks In the
valleys by the Carnegie Company with
the understanding that if they , were
discounted things would be made
easier for some of the interests that
were allied there."
"Even the notes of the Carnegie
Company were questioned In those
days, were they not?"
Yes; I have heard them Questioned,"
Bald the witness.
COURT WILL S00N CONVENE
Interesting; Damage Suit Likely in
Benton County Session.
COORVALLIS, Or., Nov. 20. (Spe
cial.) The November term of the Clr
cult Court for Benton County con
vened here today, with Judge Harris
presiding and County Attorney Arthur
Clarke representing the state. The
docket is an unusually large one.
A case of more than passing lm
portance which is likely to come up
for hearing Is that or the Uarron Urn
ber Company vs. the Portland, Eugene
& Eastern Railway Co., in which fiO.
000 damages is asked for gravel re
moved from the Willamette River in
front of the Garron mill property. This
is a case involving fine legal dlstino
ttons and differs from others of a
Blmilar nature In that the Portland,
Eugene & Eastern operated on a strip
of ground between the mill and the
water front claimed by the city as a
street extension but never opened, and
to which the city granted the road
temporlly, such rights as the city
may have.
FALCONER EYES SENATE
WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIVE IS
UNDECIDED ABOUT CANDIDACY.
Longshoremen's and Sailors' Ron
Concerning Alleged Overloading
ot Pacific Vessels Is End
ed by Agreement.
SEATTLE, Nov. 20. The American
Federation -of Labor spent practically
the whole day in considering Jurisdic
tional disputes between the trades and
disposed of all the controversies,
either by definite decisions, indorsement
of agreements that had been reached
or sending the matters to conference,
the conferees to have power to settle
the differences. The most interesting
of the trade disputes was that between
brewery workers and teamsters, which
was held by the advocates of industrial
unionism to involve that issue, although
John Mitchell, who is reputed to be an
Industrial unionist, said that It did not.
In a decisive vote on the question the
alleged Industrial unionism forces won
by a rollcall vote of 14,086 to 4085.
The report of the committee on ad
justment recommended that the brew
ery workers be given entire Jurisdic
tion over the brewery teamsters and
that the union teamsters join the
brewery workers; further. that the
brewery workers surrender jurisdic
tion over the soft drink and mineral
water deliverymen to the teamsters.
The report was unsatisfactory to both
the brewery workers and teamsters.
Auto Factory Campaign Voted.
The blacksmiths, sheet metal work
ers, metal polishers, painters, pattern
makers, machinists, carpenters, electri
cal workers and upholsterers obtained
passage of a resolution notifying the
Carriage, Wagon and Automobile
Workers' Union not to infringe on the
Jurisdiction of these unions. Before the
resolution was passed It was explained
that the first-named unions had agreed
upon a plan for the organization of the
automobile factories of the United
States, which were now in a deplorable
condition of nonunlonism. the Carriage,
Wagon and Automobile Workers Union
having failed In its effort to organize
the factories.
The Federation also decided to or
ganize the furniture factories and the
laundries of the United States and Can
ada. Other trade disputes settled were:
Lithographers' complaint against
pressmen's union's trade school at
Kogersvllle, Tenn. ; conference to be
held In Washington, D. C, February 1,
1911.
Stationary firemen against steam en
gineers; joint conference boards ar
ranged for.
Metal Polishers' and Brass Workers'
Union against members of American
Federation of Musicians, relative to
union label on brass instruments; mu
sicians promised to stand, by brass
workers
Sailors' Dlspte Ends.
Longshoremen against Sailors' Union
of the Pacific; overloading of vessels by
sailors; full agreement reached.
Bookbinders' Union against Typo
graphical Union;j Federation decided
that all binding and wrapping done in
binderies should be performed by mem
bers of the Bookbinders' Union. This Is
the celebrated "single wrapping" con
troversy. Bookbinders against Typographical
Union; Typographical Union instructed
to dissolve immediately the dual Bind
ery Women's Union in New York City,
known as Women's Auxiliary of Mail
ers' Union No. 6, and Instructed to re
frain from aiding or abetting any fur
ther dual movement among men or
women workers who of right belong
under the Jurisdiction of the book
binders. Plumbers and steamfltters against
machinists; Involving pipe fitting in
navy-yards, railroad shops, etc; con
ference continued.
Jurisdiction over the Marine Pile
drivers' Union was refused to the long
shoremen. The dispute of the machlntsta ana
flint glass workers over the glass mold
makers was compromised.
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STEEL WAR BEGINNING
FOREIGN PRODUCERS CONTEST FOR
COAST MARKET.
Steel Corporation Now Selling: Far
Below Plttsbnre Price With Ad
dition of Freight.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 20. (Special.)
There Is beginning In San Francisco
what, promises to be a fierce contest
between the United States Steel Cor
poration and the representatives of
foreign steel producers for control of
the market. The United States Steel
Corporation for the present has the aa
vantage In time of transit and in terms
of sale, but even this advantage Is ex
pected to be a thing of the past when
the Panama Canal is opened.
Under present conditions the United
States Steel has been forced through
its distributing agency here to sell
steel for considerably less than the
Pittsburg price, plus the cost of freight
from Pittsburg to San Francisco. It is
toaay quoting steel Dars ai i.oo a
hundredweight. The Pittsburg price
is $1.40 and the freight is 60 cents. The
company is thus actually selling steel
here on a basis of about $1.05 a hun
dredweight in Pittsburg.
European steel makers are groin.r
away under this. They are offering
bars at J1.48 and It is only the longer
time in delivery and the difference In
terms that brings any business to the
United States Steel Corporation.
Bars and sructural steel are the
N afternoon tea at
The Portland
means an hour of
delight not alone
by reason of the
serving: ' of the
daintiest of
menus, but as
well by reason of
the opportunity
to o b s e rve the
most modish
Winter gowns
that are worn in
the City of Roses.
Throngs come and go
from the brilliant shops,
from the matinee or from
the afternoon promenade.
Tea hours are from 3:30
to 6, during which time
the hotel orchestra dis
courses sweetest music.
The Portland will serve a
good, old-fashioned
Thanksgiving dinner next
Thursday from 5 :30 to 8.
Tables may be reserved -now
at the office, either
in person or by telephone.
Dinner and music in both
the dining-room and the
grilL
We
Portland
Hotel
Owned and Operated by
The Portland Hotel Co,
G. J. Kaufmann, Manager
N. K. Clarke
Assistant Manager
.AC
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principal steel products sold in this
market. The price of structural steel
in both Instances is about 5 cents a
hundredweight higher, the United
States holding structural at about $1.70
and the foreign steel makers quoting
It at $1.53. The general run of buyers
are not Investing heavily, preferring
to wait and see what developments
will be. .
Thirty-one women are employed as rail'
way brakemen and ten as baggage men In
the United State.
OVERSTOCKED! OVERSTOCKED!
Unseasonable Weather Compels Tremendous PRICE REDUCTIONS
Superb Double-Service All-Weather Coats for Men and Women
bA t 60c on th
e Dollar"
Race Blither for Lower or Upper House
ot Congress Will Be Made Pro
gressives Declared Gaining.
TACOMA, 'Wash.. Nov. 20. (Special.)
"About three candidates for the
United States Senate from the Progres
sive party will announce themselves
within three or four days," said J. A.
"alconer. Representative in Congress,
who was in Tacoma today. "As to
whether I will be a candidate or not,
I will make public my position within
the next few weeks. I will be a candi
date, however, either for the House or
the Senate. The Progressives will have
good men in the field but I do not
know just who they will be."
A rumor arose in Seattle today that
Mr. Falconer had announced his in
tention of making the race for the
Senate. .
"There will be no amalgamation of
the Progressive party with the old
"stand-pat" Republican machine. There
is no foundation for such talk. The
Progressive party Is stronger in this
state at this time than ever before and
should make a clean sweep at the elec
tion next year, carrying the Senatorial
fight.
"Party names do not count. Politi
cians and organizers have nothing to
do with it. It is the people like Jane
Addams who really are doing things.
What they say has more of interest to
the public than what is given out by
senators and politicians.
FUND MIES BIG GAINS
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS COLLECT
93,849,303 IX NEW YORK.
ARREST ECHO OF ELECTION
Drys at Newport Make Many Charges
of Illegal Voting.
NEWPORT, Or., Nov. 20. (Special.)
The arrest of Herman Webber on
charge of Illegal voting, which resulted
In his being bound over to the grand
Jury, Is regarded here as an aftermath
of the local option election held here
on November 4.
District Attorney Stewart began the
prosecution, it Is believed, at the insti
gation of Governor West. At the hear
ing before Justice Parrlsh at Toledo
it was charged that Webber was not
a citizen here at the time he voted,
but Instead resided at Beaver Creek,
eight miles south of this place. It is
rumored that others who voted are to
be arrested on similar charges.
The wet forces of Newport won the
election by a majority of 35 votes and
the drys have made numerous charges
of illegal voting.
EXTENSION WORK PLANNED
Five Members of TJnlverslty Faculty
to Take Classes Tonight.
Interest in the extension work being
carried on by the State University con-
Day's- Work Nets $93,500 Millionaires
Liberal Contributors to Those in
Campaign for 94,000,000.
NEW TORK, Nov. 20. Women col
lectors for the Young Men's and Young
Women's Christian Association fund of
$4,000,000 gathered in ?93.5S0 today as
their share of the (100,000 necessary
to secure two additional contributions
of $25,000 each. The men's committee
oollected the remainder of the required
amount and some $38,000 more. The
two conditional gifts came from George
W. Perkins, chairman of the executive
committee in charge of the campaign,
and Cleveland H. Dodge. With this gift
Mr. Perkins' total contributions toward
the fund were Increased to $75,000.
The total subscriptions to the fund
reached $2,849,303 today.
Among the large contributors today
were Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
$25,000; John D. Archbold, $25,000, and
Mrs. John D. Archbold, $5000.
The committee hopes to raise $150,
000 by tomorrow noon. . The following
three days and perhaps parts of next
Tuesday, the day set for the campaign
to end, will be devoted to a whirlwind
campaign for $1,000,000.
Roseburg Levies 10-Mill Tax.
ROSEBURG, Or.. Nov. 20. (Special.)
The City Council has levied a 10-miH
levy on all assessable property in
Roseburg for the year 1914. Based on
the valuations for the year 1912 the
levy will raise something over $25,000.
In addition to this sum the city will
realize about $6000 in occupation
licenses as well as several hundred
dollars In fines.
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RAINCOAT STORE
Wonderful Window Displays.
Friday-Saturday Last Days
Your New Fall and Cfr
WINTER COATS f n
Are HERE at PRICE REDUCTIONS of OH DoUaT
Snperb Double-Service All-Weather Combination
RAINCOATS
ENGLISH SLIPONS
ENGLISH GABARDINES
FOR MEN, WOMEN
At Price Redactions of 60c on Dollar
Ask to see the Genuine
Balmacans. Regular $45
and $50 Coats priced at
$22.50 - $27.50
Ladies' and
Misses' Coats
Sizes 14 to 46.
lift Ladles' EitUsh
Slip-onn and Double
Service Poplfn
Coats, $12.50 to $15
garments, Ql"l
priced at. wOiU
260 Ladles' A 1 1-
Wealher English
Slip-ons and Superb
. Mohair Coats, lo.uu
and $18.00 gar
ments. aQ flft
priced at. Oi.OU
360 Ladltl' S20.00
and 8S2.no S o v e r b
All-Weather Doable-
Service Coats and
E n K 1 1 It Slip-ons
priced $H.90
450 of these Ladle
and Misses' X23.00
to S3U.OO Superb
1 o u l 1 e-S e r v I c e
Coats: the new Ec
lisli Gabardines and
donble-textnre Knit
lish Slip-ons, priced
and".9.0. S 14.60
Men's and
Youths' Coats
Combinathn Rainproof
Overcoats and Raincoats
for Men and Young Men
PRICE
REDUCTIONS
AT
60c on Dollar
BUY A i
14.00 Over
coats at. . . .
S16.SO Over
coats at....
818.00 Over
coats at. . . .
820.0O Over
coats at. . . .
S22.no Over
coats at ... .
823.0O Over
coats at. . . .
$8.90
$9.90
$10.90
$11.90
$12.90
$15.90
$9.80
Sizes 16 to 4S.
24ft Men's and Youths'
All - Weather Coals
ana I'.nKHKn Slip
on. iz.3U ana
coats ee r r
priced at. wVJ.JU
375 Men's All-Weather
English Slip-uus
and Cravenette
Overcoats, $15 and
$18 values, priced
now
at . . .
510 Men's-Snperb All-Double-Service
Coat
and EnRlish Slip
ons, Snperb Combi
nation H a I n r o at
and Overcoats, $18
to $22 values, priced
w.... $11.90
530 of these Men's
and Youths' to
830 Snperb Double
Service Coats, the
new Ena-lish Gabar
dines and Doubie
Texture Slip-onn,
and1!.90. $14.60
Jill' f 1
at.
lip- XV
$15 "'X
$5.25
A $10 00 Coat Bar-
cam Extraordinary priced now
ABOUT S50 OF THE BEST COATS ever produce. Wr pay your tailor S5O.0O
or 8(10.00? See the acme of perfection In quality and make of this season's
new Encllsh Oabardinea and Slip-Ons, iucludins superb combination - Rain
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redactions, 821.40, 810.80 O IVJ.CVJ
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In addition to our usual offerings in boys' suits, overcoats
and raincoats, we feature these three remarkable spe
cials for x
TODAY AND SATURDAY
400 K. & E. Fifty-Cent Blouse Waists
29c
Not more than three to one customer
These are the waists advertised from coast to coast at
50c splendid, new patterns in madras, percale, cheviot
and other desirable weaves. Your choice today and to
morrow for only 20c.
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Opposite Llpman, Wolfe & Co.
From
Maker to
Wearer at
First
Cost
Buy-Now
See wonderful
window display.
No f 1 e 1 1 1 lous
values. Every
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' Boys' $2 and $2.25 Rain Capes
Extra Special $1.50
Boys' Corduroy Knicker Trousers
$1.00 grade all sizes
Extra Special 75c
FREE with all Boys' Knicker Suits and Overcoats
Footballs, Football Trousers, Go-Cycles
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- Morrison Street at Fourth
Here's Billy 'Possum
Done Into a Scarf
And he makes a mighty fine looking
scarf too.
Nice and soft and gray just as he
was when he hung upside down on
his favorite "simmon tree.
Costs $ 14.00 at
the stores that sell
Gordon Furs
Muffs to eo
with opossum scarfs, $7.50 to $ 16.50,
all guaranteed under the
GORDON
Pure Fur Law
which makes us tell the truth about
Furs Write Gordon at St. Paul for
his Fur Book.
And as nearly every city has a
store that sells Gordon Furs go in
and see them for yourself.
Gordon & Ferguson
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Makers of Gordon Pure Fur Law Furs since 1871
Sold by MEIER & FRANK CO.
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the memory of a good meal. ' Use
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all cooking utensils clean and sweet.
Use it for cleaning everything.
5c and larger packages.
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"Lmt thtt GOLD BUST TWINS do youp vrort?'.