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THE MORNING OKEGONIAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1014. V BILLS PILE UP AS CONGRESS REOPENS Both Houses Prepare to Take Up Antitrust Legislation x... as Big Problem. ALASKA MEASURE IS IN Senator Chamberlain Takes Up Ap propriations for Rivers and Har bors Work in Jforthwest. Lane Introduces Bill. WASHINGTON. Jan." 12. Congress Bottled down to work on Its long: regu lar session today, after being in recess since the passage of the currency reform bill Just before Christmas. The anti-trust legislation programme loomed up as the big business of the Winter, but with the prospect of wait ing until next week for the Presidents message, both houses devoted thenv- elves to other matters. On the House side of the Capitol, re turn to work was celebrated by prompt passage of the first of the annual sup , ply measures and the introduction of i the opening day batch of miscellaneous measures. Then began debate on the Alaskan Government railroad bill. , Expert Begin Activity. The anti-trust experts began a period of extraordinary activity, which will continue until the anti-trust programme Is written into law before the close of the session. Actual work on anti-trust bills In the House Judiciary committee and the Senate Interstate commerce committee will be delayed, pending President Wilson's address. A rough draft of the address will be brought to Washington by the President when lie returns tomorrow. Senator Newlands, of the Senate com merce committee, expects to call this committee together on Friday to -take tip the anti-trust programme. Senator Chamberlain today intro duced an amendment to the river and harbor bin placing the project. for con struction of the north Jetty at the mouth of the Columbia River on a con tinuing contract basis. The amende ment authorizes a cash appropriation of $1,000,000 and authorizes future ap propriations aggregating $4,100,000 ad ditional, these additional appropria tions to be made as needed. The amendment Includes provision for im proving the Columbia from Celilo and the mouth of the Snake River and thence to Pittsburg landing. A bill granting the state of Oregon lands on the margin of Sturgeon Lake, aggregating 906 acres,' also was intro duced by Chamberlain, and a resolution permitting the War Department to use Government dredges for improving the channels to give access to the military reservation, the cost to be reimbursed from the river and harbor appropria tions. Drydock Funds Wanted. Another bill Introduced by Chamber lain would appropriate $2,500,000 for constructing a drydock between Port land and the mouth of the Columbia. Senator Lane introduced a bill re pealing the Federal statutes requiring Incoming and outgoing vessels to stop at Astoria, unless for taking or unload, lug cargo. Investigation by the Interstate Com merce Commission of whether any rail roads have favored the United States Steel Corporation with illegal rebates was proposed today by Senator Lane. He aaked immediate passage of his resolution, but it was carried over until tomorrow. Bills to conserve radium on the pub lic lands of the United States, for the regulation of trusts, for various inqui ries and the usual grist of special meas ures poured through the hopper of the House when Speaker Clark brought down his gavel. In the Senate, a Congressional Inves tigation of tlie Michigan copper mine strike proposed In a resolution by Sen ator Ashurst was one of the features of the reassembling.' Four-' Subjects In Line. Four generatl subjects will embrace much of the work of Senate and House during the coming months. They are: Control of trusts and monopolies, in cluding legislation to prevent cold stor age manipulation, unfair price cutting and other abuses directly affecting the retail business. Rural credits and other legislation directly affecting farmers and land owners, such as good road improve ment and Federal aid to vocational and agricultural education. Strengthening of the National de fense. Passage of the annual appropriation bills, carrying more than $1,000,000,000 for support of the Government. Aside from those general subjects. Congress will take up early In the ses sion the settlement of labor problems of far-feacliingr Importance. . Government ownership of railroads, as proposed in the Alaska railway bills, will be forced upon the attention of members of both bodies. Woman's suffrage will also srive both branches of Congress a busy time. Diplomatic relations with Nicaragua und other Central American countries may give further trouble to the Senate. The first Nicaraguan treaty outlined by Secretary Bryan did not meet with the approval of the Senate committee on foreign relations, because of the protectorate it would have established over the southern republic. It is ex pected that a general policy toward Central American countries will be out lined by the Senate. President Wilson and Secretary Bryan. SEA TRAGEDY IS ECHOED COMPENSATION FOR. LOSS OF LIFE OUT TITANIC COURT ISSUE. On Outcome of Supreme Court Case Depends Whether Ill-fated Skip's I Owners Pay About S13.000.000 ' WASHINGTON. Jan. 12. Compensa tion for the stupendous loss of life and property with the sinking of the steam ship Titanic will be up for considera tion tomorrow by the Supreme Court On the outcome of the argument of some oi America a leading lawyers will depend whether the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, the owner of the Titanic, must face the payment of some $13,000,000 of claims or whether Its liballity is to be limited to some $90,000. Intricate questions of law, which have perplexed legal minds of the United States and Great Britain since the Tltanic's maiden voyage was ended with the iceberg's fatal blow and which have not been decided by the British courts, will be up for discussion. The navigation company seeks to have the American court hold the ad miralty laws and rules of the United States applicable to the case, . and thereby limit the liballity of the com pany to the salvage from the wreck, the passenger and freight money re ceived on the voyage, amounting to some $90,000 in all. Claimants seeking to recover for loss of lives- baggage and freight have dispatched about a score of lawyers to the Supreme Court with briefs In their behalf. Every inch of the ground upon which the navigation company is basing its claim to a limitation of liability is to be contested. In the first place, it . is contended that American law does not apply, be cause the disaster occurred on the high seas. Furthermore it is contended that the American law contemplates limlta tion of liability only when the disaster results from the collision of two ves sels and not when it occurs from strik ing an iceberg. Some of the lawyers also argue further that British law fixes the liabil ity of the owner because the Titanic carried the British flag and that the Supreme Court should so hold. Should the British law be appllc able, the American court would have to determine whether it shall proceed to take Jurisdiction of the claims and en force the British laws or whether the claimants must sue in England. In either case it is said a prolonged con test would result. Should it be found that the disaster occurred without the owners' fault or privity, the damage procurable by the claimants under British law, it is said, would be about $3,000,000. Should it be held the disaster occurred with the owners' fault or privity it would be liable for full damages, now claimed to be about $13,000,000. BAIL THAW'S NEXT PLAN MORE TIME TO PRJSPARB BRIEF ASKED BY LAWYER, Flndlnn: of New Hampshire Commission Will Stop Litigation, Says At torney for the Prisoner. CONCORD, N. H.,'Jan. 12. Harry K. Thaw, elated by the report of the Federal Court commission that his re lease on ball would not endanger pub lic safety, remained in his apartments at a local hotel today, receiving mes sages of congratulations and planning a series of visits within the state in event Federal Judge Aldrich allows him his freedom under bonds. An immediate hearing on the sub ject of releasing Thaw on bail was asked in a petition filed In the United States District Court today by Merrily Shurtleff, one of Thaw's counsel. The petition also asks for further time to prepare Thaw's brief to fight extradition. The brief of Attorney-General Car- mody, of New York, on the subject of Thaw s extradition also was filed to day. In it Mr. Carmody contends that the request of New York for Thaw's extradition- should have been granted and that Thaw's test of the constitu tionality of his rights should have come in an appeal from the decision of the court in New York in the event that he was found guilty there on & charge of conspiracy. William Travers Jerome, special at torney for New York State in its ef forts to bring Thaw back to Matteawan, said today that the action of the New Hampshire commission in - finding Thaw sane will not affect the main issue. EUGENICS PARENT IS DECLARED NEED State to Pay Cost of Bearing and Rearing Children Is Suggested for Uplift. OBJECTION MADE TO PRIZES HOFF DENIES MURDERS GERMAN SAYS HE DID NOT KILL WIFE, FATHER AND CHILDREN. Druggist-Fencing Master Admits He Gave Poison to Insured Former Wife as Beauty Potion. FRANKFORT-ON-MAIN, Jan. 12. The plea of "not guilty" was entered today by Carl Hopf, druggist and fenc ing master, when brought up for trial charged with killing his two children, his father and his first wife by admin istering poison and with attempting to commit similar crimes on his second and third wives and another person. The accused admitted today that he had given a poisonous drug to his three successive wives, ostensibly as a means of improving their looks. Td his third wife he had also given fever germs, but she escaped death owing to the vigilance of her doctor. The three women had been insured byJ the prisoner for $5000, $7500 and $20,000 respectively, and each of them fell seriously ill within a year after her marriage. Hopf gave explanations for the presence of tho poison in the bodies of his victims. His wives, he said, had taken it as an ingredient in a beauty compound and he had Injected tho drug into the bodies of his children In order to embalm them. Among the germs found In the pos session of the prisoner were those of typhoid, cholera, puerperal fever and tuberculosis. GOTIRKOR REFUSES CLEMENCY TO NOTED MONEY LENDER. Glynn Says Millionaires and Paupers Should Be Treated Alike, Turning Down Prisoner's Proposition. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 12 Governor Glynn finally today refused to pardon D. H. Tolman, the convicted New York money lender. District Attorney Whitman refused to say that he favored an absolute par don for Tolman. The Governor requires the indorsement of the trial Judge and the prosecutor in every case where he exercises clemency. The Governor said the amount of in debtedness which would be cancelled by the notes Tolman promised to de stroy if released and the number of people who would be benefited would be based on guess work Tolman's of fer of a bond as a guarantee of his sin cerity was worthless, added the "Gov ernor "The acceptance of such proposition would open the way for men of means to procure a pardon that is not open to poor men," he said. T know of no reason why a millionaire criminal should be treated any differently than a pauper criminal." TAX INCREASE IS UPHELD Colorado Commission's Status and Recommendations Are Legal. DENVER, Jan. 12. The legality of the State Tax Commission and its rec ommended increase of more than $300,. 000,000 in the assessed valuation of Col orado property was unheld today in a decision handed down by the State Su preme Court. Under the decision the declared full cash valuation of the state Is $1,306, 690,407, and the state taxes for all pur poses $1,698,447. Hollins Gillnian Declares That Un healthy Children Are Deserving of ' Greatest Attention . but Views of Others Differ. BATTLE CREEK, Mich.. Jan. 12. "The cause of the declining birth rate," and "segregation" were two of the subjects taken up today at the closing sessions of the first National conference on race betterment. Eugenic selection of healthy mothers and pro vision for the cost of bearing and rear. Ing children should be made if the. race is to survive, according to Dr. J. Mc Keen CattelL of Columbia University. The restriction of the propagation of feeble-minded persons is necessary if the production of defective delinquents Is to be avoided, declared Hastings H. Hart, of New York. The committee in the "better babies Contest" nwnrilaH mAHal u . . ' ....... iin.v.u, mi luo UCSI babies boy and girl, between the ages "l " milium ana a years to Alvin -'j . .71.. -j nun ul .vi i . and Mrs. Albert Klngsley,- and Virginia uu.it) ua.uK iter or air. and Mrs. S. R. Nay. Parents Total Abstainers. It was said that the winners of the awards were particularly perfect in physique and mentality. The parents of these children live in Battle Creek. The father of the boy is a taxicab driver and the father of the girl is engaged in the optical business.. Both fathers are abstainers, it was an nounced, from tobacco and alcohol. New methods in prize baby contests were urged by Rollins Gillman, head worker of the University Settlement Society of New York In addressing the conference Today. "The healthiest or prize winning babies," he said, "are of less Immediate Importance to the society of tomor row than the babies who are unable through lack of health to win prizes. The unhealthiest are the ones In which we should take most interest. "If the contest is to consist of finding a physically fit baby, to single out one and to give its parents the proud dis tinction of. bearing such a prodigy and incidentally arousing bad blood in the parents of the baby who came so near winning but didn't, then I say let us have few contests. As a social worker I am more interested in the possibility of imperfect babies growing up into fairly fit physical manhood and woman hood than in searching out a physi cally perfect baby who may not so grow up, but above all, I am interested in having a perfect or Imperfect baby grown up Into moral and spiritual fit ness for parenthood and citizenship. Many View Points Given. "To make a baby health contest of more than passing importance it should be followed by two distinct examina tions, one Into the environment and another into the possible inheritance that the baby is to fall heir to." The speaker took up the interna tional scope of race betterment also. Scientific, phases of eugenics furnished a large part of the discussion during the day. Dr. C. B. Davenport, director of the Carnegie station of experimental evolu tion at Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., urged that a broader official study be given the subject of producing better men and women. Instead of so much study for the protection and care of defective types. Dr. Maynard M. Metcalf, of Oberlin College, expressed the opinion that the only certain improvement of the race would eeme through proper breeding and culture. Walter Wilcox, of Cornell University, spoke on the subject of "differential fecundity." A paper on "The Import ance of Hygiene for Eugenics," by Irving Fisher, of Yale, was read at the meeting. te author being unable to attend the conference. TOSH NOT TRAIN ROBBER Mall Cleric Clears Suspect in South ern Pacific Holdup. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12. Alfred Tosh, arrested in connection with the rob bery of the mail car attached to a northbound Southern Pacific train at Tropico Saturday night, was released late today. A. G. Wendland, one of the mail clerks in the car, said Tosh was nofthe robber. Charles E. Webster, postofflce In spector, said that Estevada Viega, the Portuguese arrested at Beaumont yes terday, was not wanted in connection with the mail robbery. Viega is held at Riverside pending an inquiry as to his whereabouts December 2 2, when G. O. Alexander, City Marshal of Co rona, Riverside County, was killed. CHEAP ALIEN LABOR TARGET Bill Would Make lrelgner Earn In . Proportion or Be Deported. WASHINGTON. Jan. 12. Any alien laborer who within the year previous to his admission to the United States had not earned 30 per cent of the wages paid in this country for the same work would be excluded from the United States by a bill introduced today by Representative Gillett, of Massachusetts. It is designed to bar cheap foreign labor. BIG STEEL PLANT REOPENS 5 000 Workers, Idle for Months, Are Affected by Resumption. WHEELING, W. Va., Jan. 12. The Riverside plant of the United States Steel Corporation resumed operations in full today after an idleness of four months. Approximately 5000 men are affected. Kelics of Kevolutlon Found. PHILADELPHIA, Jan 12. A large number of relics of the Revolutionary War were discovered here yesterday in a secret vault on the site of the resi dence occupied by the provost marshal during the occupation of this city by the British under Lord Howe. Patriot' on Sickbed Weds Countess. BUDA PEST, Hungary, Jan. 12. Francis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, was married on his sickbed to day to the Countess Benyorsky, widow of Alexander Benyorsky, who was a close friend of Kossuth. Kossuth Is 65 years old. The Great Semi-Annual Art Needle Clearance The Event of the Year The Art Needlework Salon Is a Place of Enchantment and Economy Just Now With Prices Deeply Reduced .on All Articles. Everything New. Hund reds of Dainty Practical Things. Tuesday at Half Price and Less $2.45 to $6.50 Pillow Tops, Clearance, $1.95 Of linen crash in natural, black, gray all made up and embroidered in the cross stitch, lazy daisy stitch and in solid embroidery work, finished with fringe, braid and lace, in oblong shape. 35c Stamped Collars, Clearance, 15c Dainty little collars of fine pure linen, made and ready to be embroi dered : some with scalloped edges and others to be finished with lace if desired. Round in shape. Stamped Pillow Tops $1.25 Tops, 50c $1.00 Models, 79c 75c Models, 49c Of linen crash in tan, brown and buff, stamped in the conventional and floral designs Richelieu cut work and tapestry designs, cross stitch and poppies. Very handsome designs that make the most beau, tiful pillows when finished. ' $1.25 and $1.50 Stamped Tops and Covers, 50c Scarfs, center pieces and pillow tops with backs of novelty and plain rep in white, oyster white, tan, gray and green stamped in many hand some French rose designs and conventional patterns. 50c Elk Pillow Tops, 25c rOf linen crash, stamped in different Elk designs to be worked in colors. i .$1.50 Corset Bags, Clearance, 75c These bags are ideal for traveling they are all made up, having cord, and come in gray linen, stamped for embroidering. Sale of Drayton Sweetheart Series. Stamped $1.25 articles, 69c; 65c articles, 39c Laundry bags, center pieces and pillow tops of soft linen crash, stamped in colors to be embroidered in all the well-known designs of the "Sweetheart Series." $4.00 to $50.00 Finished Pieces, Half Price Table covers, scarfs, center pieces and pillows, all made up and embroidered in many handsome designs, raised patterns in pop pies, roses, violets and other designs in their natural colorings. Made of novelty burlaps, crash and heavy linens, finished with heavy silk cords, braids and Cluny laces. Made Up and Embroidered Lingerie, Half Price Selling Regularly at $1.25 to $12.00 Little articles for the baby, made up and embroidered, and all ready for use dresses of pique, chambray, poplin and linen dainty little linen bibs bonnets in dainty embroidered colors, quilt for the crib, baby pillows nursery towels worked in birds and little chickens. Also made up waists, beautifully embroidered, combined with lace Authentically Correct Very Accurate Pictorial Review Patterns Are Specially Featured in Our Store Needless to say that in the installation of Pic torial Review Patterns in our store we took into consideration their many excellent and supe rior features over all other patterns. Since the installation of these patterns we have broken all records in selling, each day the sales exceeding all expectations. Miss Elsie Matthews, from the New York headquarters of the Pictorial Review Com pany, is now demonstrating the Patented Cut ting and Construction Guide, and other advan tageous features of Pictorial Review Pattern at the pattern counter. Second Floor. You are cordially invited to attend. insets bath slippers of ratine embroidered night gowns, ribbon run and lace trimmed -pin cushions, dressing sacques and boudoir caps. All these things are made of the softest and finest white lingerie. Also some stamped and embroidered waist patterns of white marquisette jn bright colors. Made Up and Stamped Children's Dresses and Rompers, Clearance Now Half Price These dresses come in sizes from 2 to 1 0 years and are made of pique, poplins, Indianhead lawn, batiste, cotton crepe and ginghams in Buster and Russian styles, French and short waisted effects, belted models, plain and pleated, kimono and sewed-in sleeves, long and short sleeves, high and low necks, gathered and pleated skirts in white and colors, stamped for embroidering around the neck and sleeves. $2 Dresses, $1.00; $1.25 Dresses, 63c; $2.50 Dreses, $1.25 Sdk Pongee Dresses in one-piece kimono styles, with belt, ready to be embroidered, 2 to 4-year sizes. Regular $1.50, now 75c. Also silk pongee rompers, regular $2.50, now $1.25. 75c Muslin Rompers, made in one-piece style with belt attached, stamped ready to be embroidered in cross-stitch design. Now 38c. $1.50 Rompers, of linen and pique, in sizes from 2 to 4 years, stamped around the neck and sleeves. Clearance, 75c. -J 1-25 Middy Blouse Suit of Indian head, made up with pleated skirt, sizes 6 to 3 years. Clearance, 63c. $1.25 Dresses, in dark blue wash material, sizes from 4 to 6 years, long-waisted models, to be embroidered around the neck and sleeves. Clearance, 63c. Stamped Center Pieces, Scarfs and Pillow Tops I Selling regularly at 35c to $15, Clearance, 25c Cushion covers in oblong shapes, pillow tops, scarfs, center pieces of novelty materials, soft reps and burlap, linen crash and linens in tan. nat ural, oyster white, buff, rose, green and a few black. All stamped for embroidering in various designs, such as the cross stitch, tapestry em broidery, conventional and floral designs, many in various lodge emblem designs, some of the scarfs and centerpieces are finished with braid. Children's Made-Up Gowns, Clearance, 98c --Dainty little night gowns of white washable crepe, in empire style, with yoke joined with embroidery beading, kimono sleeves, stamped around the neck and sleeves with embroidery design and finished in nar 'row Valenciennes lace. Leather Table Scarfs and Pillow Covers Selling Regularly at $1.50 to $12.00, QUARTER OFF Handsome Arts and Crafts novelties of a combination of felt and leather in applique designs and shown in green, brown, tan and gray pillow covers, scarfs and center pieces for library and dining tables. Free Lessons in Knitting and Crocheting Last Week of the Fleisher Yarn Demonstration Miss S. E. Schaefer will be with us for one more week to teach you all you wish to know about knitting and crocheting. Ample provision has been made for your comfort and convenience and you are cordially invited to attend the classes as often as you wish. This is the most im portant event of its kind this season and is of interest to every woman. For in addition to the classes, there is a notable exhibition of garments made of THE FLEISHER YARNS Showing the very newest models in sweaters, shawls, at ghans, blankets, etc. See these novelties by all means. Join the classes if you wish. We can assure you a pleasant and profitable visit Second Floor iWofJe & (2a, man Merchandise of cJ Merit Only" FRENCH LECTURE Tuesday 11 to 12 A. M. "Bleus, Blancs, Rouges," by Lenoitre. ALASKA ROAD BILL UP CHAMBERLAIN WANTS GOVERN MENT TO BUILD LI-ES 1ST NORTH. Senator Borah Advocated Federal Con trol of Coal Mines Portions of Measure Meet Opposition. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. Debate on the Alaskan Government railroad bill began in the Senate today with the prospect of occupying many sessions before final action. Senator Chamber lain, or Oregon, in charge of the meas ure, spoke at length, reading from the reports of Government experts sent into the territory to study its possibilities and characterizing the purchase of Alas ka from Russia as the greatest business arrangement in which the United States had ever engaged. Reciting statistics on Alaska's miner, erals and fisheries to show the vast commerce lying isolated and virtually impossible of development nnSer pres ent conditions. Senator Chamberlain said the present railroads there did lit tle or -nothing to aid the territory as a whole because they were constructed to serve the ends of private Interests. Alaska, today, he declared, is a country for rich men only. The Senator read reports on climatic conditions of the territory and its ag ricultural possibilities. When he touched on the coal land leasing feature of the bill. Senator Borah of Idaho took exception to a statement that leasing would stimulate competition. He advo cated Government development and op eration of coal mines in Alaska. He Insisted that unless this was done the ultimate consumer will-not benefit. For, he maintained, the leasing system per mits monopoly as readily as does out right ownership of coal lands. Senators Cummins and Reed took part In the discussion, which indicated that this portion of the bill would meet with considerable opposition. Senator Cummins said that If the Government could not furnish coal In any other way at a better price than the consumer is now compelled to pay. It should mine the Alaska coal as well as haul it. EXPRESS OFFICE ROBBED Wells-Kargo Company Reports $9575 and One Clerk Missing. FORT SMITH. Arku, Jan. 12. A package of money containing S9575 was stolen from the office of the Wells Fargo Express Company- here early today, according to the company's re port to the police this afternoon. Company officials said one of the clerks in the office was missing. Daughters Object to Moving Bell. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 12. A coro- anJL "WINONA" 7RROW Tcn COLLAR 2 lor 25 cents Cluett, Pesbody & Co. Inc. Makers mittee representing the Philadelphia Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, called on Mayor Blanken burg today and presented a petition against the removal of the historic Liberty Bell from Independence Hall for exhibition purposes. The Panama-Pacific Exposition management wants the bell. Mayor Blankenburg told the com mittee tho cubject is one for the City Council to decide. The Law of Averages on which mortality tables and actuarial figures are based is opposed to success ful insurance operation in a' restricted field. As new business Is essential to safety, it is only a matter of common sense that The Company of Satisfied Policyholders'' the ONLY Oregon Life company with branches in other states, and operat ing under the supervision of their laws, offers ALL the protection that the dis criminating buyer of GOOD life in surance demands. 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