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ttttt jrnwvrvc ottt"oovtax. wwtpay. DECEMBER 22. 1913. I TARIFF IS BLAMED FOR CLOSED MILLS J SO) The Angelus I . Humphrey Wants President to Investigate Conditions in Lumber Industry.' ' SHINGLE MAKERS ARE IDLE "Washington Representative Offers Figures to Show Northwest Has Army , of Men Out of Work, Be- salt of Democratic Law. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. With. Ington, Dec. 21. It is up to President Wilson and his Administration to make crood on their promise to investigate and give to the country the facts be hind the closing down of 0 per cent of the shingle mills in the State of Wash ington, and of S3 lumber mills In the aame state. For while the tariff bill waa pending in the House. Representa tive Underwood, professing to speak for the Administration, said that if any Industry closed down or reduced wages after the new tariff law went Into effect, the Administration would in vestigate and expose the facts to tbe country. Mr. Underwood anticipated that the adoption of tbe new tariff law would he followed by the closing of mills and the reduction of wages, and charged that such action on the part of millownera would be taken simply and solely to embarrass the Democratic Ad ministration, and proceeding on that premise, he threatened to expose such jnlllowners. and lay bare their craft. Wilson Ala Threaten. President Wilson, at the time, in dorsed this sentiment, and promised to hang such operators on a "gallows as high as Hainan's." Cabinet officers have made similar threats. Representative Humphrey, of Wash ington, rose In the House several days ago and furnished not only figures but the names of 149 shingle mills and S3 lumber mills that have closed down in his state since the new tariff became operative, and he has In vited tbe Administration to make its promised Investigation and to give publicity to Its findings. In other words, he has "called the Administra tion's bluff." In his speech Represen tative Humphrey called attention to the promise made in the Democratic platform and by Democrats in Congress that the party in power would not enact legislation that would Injure any legitimate Industry. Continuing, Mr. Humphrey said: "A little more than a year ago the lumber and shingle Industry of my state was in the most prosperous con dition it had ever been. There were more men employed In those mills than ever before. They were receiving higher wages than ever before. There was a greater dmand for labor than ever before. There was more capital Invested in that Industry than ever be fore. The output was . greater than ever before. Mills Closef N Idle. "I hold in my hand a list of 194 shingle mills in the State of Wash ington that have closed more than to per cent of all the mills in the state and SO per cent of all the mills in the United States that were closed on De cember 1 last. The men that were em ployed In these mills are thrown out of employment and are today looking Xor work. "I bold in my hand a Hat of 3S of the great lumber mills of the State of Washington that have closed since this free trade Wilson tariff law. passed by a Democratic Congress or, to speak more accurately, that was passed by a Democratic President went upon the statute booka Those S3 mills repre sent a dally output of 3,100.000 feet They employ S500 men. These men ..are out of work today and looking for employment. "For the Brst time aince the laat Democratic Administration the wage earner has become a tramp and the mtllworker a beggar. Thousands of these men. hungry and out of work, are being supported by the grudging hand of charity. We again have the picture thrust upon us of thousands of men and women hungry, out of work, asking for the opportunity to earn their bread. "The Democratic pary, through the President, through the leader of the House, and through the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Labor, and through other men here on the floor of the House have promised that If sny mills closed. If any Industry shut down or reduced wages, they would see to it that these millownera were Investigated and the facts given to the country. "If 1t be true that theae Industries have closed down their mills and thrown their men out of employment and lost their ewn money simply to embarrass this Administration, let us know the fact, and let them be hanged on 'a gallows as high as Hainan's.' as the President promised." - E. D. BALDWIN IS HONORED Oregon Young Man Elected Member of Monday Evening Club. WASHINGTON". Dec. 21. (Special.) Edward D. Baldwin, private secretary to Representative Slnnott. of Oregon, and formerly an attorney at Portland, waa elected to membership In the Monday Evening Club, of this city, at Its last meeting. The object of this organisation Is to Investigate the social, correctional and philanthropic problems of the District of Columbia In an Intensive manner. Among the 300 members are social service workers of every sort of politics and religious belief. Among those elected at the last meeting to membership was Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor. Mr. Baldwin received special prep aration for the work of the club by taking a course in municipal govern ment at Harvard University, and re ceived the degree of Master of Arts for work done In sociology in the Col lege of Political Sciences, of this city. WartVr Thiers Conviction Stands. KALAMAZOO. Mich- Dec. 21 The State Supreme Court today upheld the conviction of John Erlessen. ex-super-Intendent of the Standard Paper Com pany of this city, who was charged with stealing 20.000.000 gallons of water from the city by means of a by pass at the mills. Erlessen has been cited to appear before the court for sentence. 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"Four billion dollars that have been spent in pensions since the Civil "Wrr says the Navy League of the United States, "might have been saved if the Nation had had a Navy of sufficient size to smother the war of secession. The largest single appropriation of the Government, year after year is for pensions. If the Nation is sufficiently far-sighted it can save future billions for unnecessary military pensions. A Navy sufficient to prevent any enemy of the future from landing on on shore would accomplish this desired result." . ... ... ... The Nation has spent i..i4.vvu.w more for pensions since the Revolu tion than it has spent for Its Navy. . I..-... Tf annndlnz- 20 to 50 millions more each year for pensions Had the American isavy own ii""""" Had the American Navy been sufficient, war with ance in 1798 would never have occurred; Tripoli would never have darea to nam war in 101; the British would never have . . n inH trooria and burn the capital in the war of 181S had not Con gress practically aDOiisneo. me i-j. the war of the Confederacy would have . . i. 4n it months with her PCea Buw;.;. ports so blocked that she could not get ammunition, it is xneae .r ....: caused the payment of $4,383,000,000 In pensions and that are now calling for the paytn out of amounts rang ing from 15.000.000 to 1180,000.000 each year. Indians May Get Half -Water Free. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Dec. 11, Too Joint Senate and House committee which Investigated lr- .1.1 . . V-lrlMn Dm. rigation conomons oa mu A o.ki..i - ervatiou maw f ! . - --- to Congress the appropraition of 8500,- 000 tor ine ctjmirutuuu rigate the allotted Indian lands, linder th nlan arjDroved half of each 80-acre allotment will receive water free of cost to the Indian owners ana iim re mainder of their allotments must pay for water the same aa the. lands of white owners. WIFE NO. 10 BRINGS ARREST Stockman Indicted After Marrylnj Daughter of Planter. FREDERICK, Okla., Dec 21. (Spe cial.) That Lutie T. Arnold, a live stock man. now under Federal indict ment following a pretended wedding to the daughter of a wealthy planter, has 10 wives, Is the charge made by ex-Sheriff Carter, of this city, who has been working on tne case. These women live in Illinois, Arkansas. Oklahoma and Missouri, the Illinois wife being Miss Bertha Bee be, of Ke wanee. Carter Is employed by W. D. Buffine. a big landowner near here, who charges that Arnold's marriage to his daughter, Grace, at the Oklahoma State Fair last October, waa a mock cere mony. Arnold went from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth. Tea, with Miss But fine, and was indicted under the Mann act a few days ago. Meantime. Arnold had been living high on money ad vanced him by Buffine. who he enter tained on automobile trips. Colonel C. A. H. McCavnley Dead. CHICAGO. Dec 21. Charles Adams Hoke McCauley. V. 6. A, retired, died last night at hia home in Highland Park. He saw active service against the Indians and served as Lieutenant Colonel during the war In the Philip pines. Colonel McCauley Improved the system of signalling with mirrors and waa the author of several books on scientlnd subjects. He was born, in M,iddletown, Conn., In 1847, 83,000111 TRIP ENDS NON-MAGXETIC YACHT DISCOVERS ERRORS IN CHARTS. Vessel Without Magnetic Metala la Construction Except Small Aux iliary Engine. NEW YORK, Dec 21. After a tnree-and-a-half-year cruise about the world, during which she sailed 93,000 miles, the non-magnetic yacht Carne gie, of the Carnegie Institution at Washington, dropped anchor today in Erie basin. South Brooklyn. Every day. of her trip through frigid and torrid cones, scientists aboard the 155-foot auxiliary yacht took magnetic observations, and they brought back with them records of Important er rors, particularly in the charts show ing the compass variations over the Indian Ocean. The correction of these errors will prove of great importance to navigators, William J. Pters, of the Department of Terrestial , Magnet Ism, of the Institution, who command ed the vessel, said tonight. The vessel, its sails weather-stained and frayed, and its hull bearing evi dence of the adventurous cruise it has had. will be thoroughly overhauled this Winter in preparation for another long voyage. Mr. Peters will Immediately prepare his report of the magnetic observa tions for the institution. The more important variations which have been found have been sent by wireless or cable to the various governments of the world for the use of navigatora Land observations were made through the courtesy of the different govern ments, and Mr. Peters said the ex pedition met with the greatest courtesy at every point it touched. The Carnegie has practically no mag netic metals in her makeup save the small auxiliary engine used to supple ment the 12,900 square feet of call she carries. The yacht is 155 feet over all. with displacement or dps ions. YOUTHS HELD FOR MURDER Two Lads Believed to Have Lured Drag aiessenger to His Death. LOS ANGELES. Dec 21. Two youths were taken into custody here last night on suspicion of having guilty knowledge of the murder in a lonely part of Los Angeles last night of Harold Ziesche, a 15-year-old drug store messenger. They are Raymond Guy and Frank Curliss. each about 20 years of age, and without employment. The detectives say they have found the telephone whence the message to the drugstore asking for medicine and change for J20 was sent. It is believed the original intention of the murderers was merely to rob, but that they killed when they were recognized. T0LMAN NOT TO HAVE JOB Francis Garrecht Approved by Hugh Wallace and Polndexter. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Dec 21. The Attorney-General has approved the recommendation of Francis Garrecht at Walla Walla, to be District Attorney for Eastern Wash ington. Gerrecht Is recommended by Hugh Wallace, of Tacoma, and by Sena tor Polndexter, and his nomination may be made this week. W. W. Tolman will not be appointed. German Scientists Massacred. BRISBANE. Australia, Dec 2L Cannibals in Neumecklenburg, an island lp the Bismarck archipelago, have massacred Dr. Dejniger and an other German scientist, together with 14 natives who accompanied them. She will like Thomsen's Chocolates because they are different Six kinds to select from. Ask any dealer. Adv. Christmas and New Year's Excursions VIA Great Northern Railway TACOMA and return -$ 5.80 - SEATTLE and return $750 EVERETT and return $ 8.80 BELLINGHAM and return $1140 VANCOUVER, B. C., and return.... $13.75 Other points in proportion. SALE DATES Dec. 18th to 24th inclusive. Return Limit January 5th TEAINS LEAVE NORTH BANK STATION 10 A. It. 5 P. It. 12:30 MIDNIGHT. Tickets, sleeping and parlor car res ervations at City Ticket Office, 348 Washington Street, Morgan Building, and at" Depot. H. DICKSON, City Passenger and Ticket Agent, Telephones, Marshall 3071, A-2286. OElijirTAL LIMITED FOB ALL POINTS EAST DALLY. AT 7:00 P. M.