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VOL. L.IV. NO. 16,603. PORTLAND. OREGON. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. V PARTY TO CAUCUS OH CANAL TOLLS Democrats to Discuss Repeal of Clause. PLATFORM NOT HELD ISSUE Conditions Have Changed Since Baltimore Meet, Is View. WILSON FAVORS REVERSAL Senator Stone, of Missouri, Derides Talk of Plank as "Joker" and Says 3iany Good Democrats Think It Was "Mistake." WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. Repeal of the provision of the Panama Canal act exempting American coastwise ships from tolls favored by President Wil eon. Is to be made a subject of con sideration and action by a Democratic caucus of the Senate. That this would be a wise and necessary course In the interest of party harmony and the Na tion's foreign policy is the conclusion of Administration Senators who have discussed the subject with the Presi dent How soon the caucus will be called has not been determined, but several Senators today asserted the Democrats would get together to welsh the sit uation as presented by the President and settle for themselves the whole controversy. The fact the Democratic party . Indorsed the toll-exemption pol icy at the Baltimore convention, these Senators and President Wilson hold, should not be a subject of open con troversy at this time, because condi tions involved In the tolls question have changed since that time. Wilson Makes Self Clear. The point to be settled is if the pol icy of tolls adopted by the Nation through the action of Congress should be reversed, regardless of the declara tion in the Baltimore platform. President Wilson has made it clear to. the Senate and House ad. Hat he is not attempting to force Congress to reverse itself. He has outlined to them the country's situation with re spect to foreign relations and his be lief that a rtvuibil of the policy 'on the tolls iuestion would be the best thing. One Senator said today that there is a general understanding: in Congress that the shaping of the country's for eign policy should be directed by the President and that Congress must give ear to him whenever legislation af fects that policy. For this reason the feeling is that the tolls question ehould ba discussed in a party caucus. Senator Stone Intervenes. As a forerunner of this step Senator Stone, of Missouri, who is confined to his home by illness, addressed some poignant comments on the controversy in a letter , to Senator Kern as chair man of the Senate Democratic caucus. Referring to the discussion of the Ques tion with reference to the toll plank of the platform as a "joker." Senator Stone called such a suggestion "utterly puerile," though admitting that only a small percentage of the members of the convention had more than an "im perfect knowledge of the subject." "It does not seem to me." the Mis souri Senator continued, "that there is the least occasion for starting a ruckus' about this platform declara tion. The declaration is in the plat form as the deliberate act of the Na tional convention. That proposition might as well be taken as settled and therefore it is not a "joker." The trouble is that the time has come when many good men and good Democrats think that the policy outlined in the platform was a mistake and that the Nation cannot in honor or good faith adhere to it." "Dogged Adherence" Decried. Manifestly the honor and good faith of the American people are of greater importance than a mere dogged ad herence to a declaration in a party platform on a question of purely party policy. If those who drafted the plat form or those who adopt it should be convinced that the Nation cannot hon orably and in good faith carry out the policy proclaimed in the platform, then those so believing could not well do otherwise than to give a frank decla ration of their purpose to follow a contrary course. "I voted for the platform and voted for the bill exempting our coastwise vessels from tolls; but if there is any good reason, and I now think there is, why we should reverse the policy so far followed, at least temporarily, and until the whole subject should be again reviewed. I am ready to vote to take that course. I would rather do this out In the open like a man than to go dodging around to hunt some flimsy excuse doing It." COWLITZ SMELT GO EAST Sixty Thousand Pounds of Fish Are Shipped From Kelso. CENTRALIA, Wash.. Feb. 9 (Spe cial.) The third carload of Cowlitz River smelt to be shipped East left Kelso Saturday, being consigned to C. E. Putnam, a representative of the fishermen now in the East. Saturday's shipment makes a total of 60,000 pounds of fish that have gone Eaat, REMEDIAL LENDERS RUSHED FIRST DAY MANY GET CASH AT RATE OF 2 PER CENT A MOXTH. Indications Are Capital Will Uaet Only About Ten Days Some "Loan Sharks" Cut Charges. Portland's Remedial Loan Office was opened yesterday at 304Vi Oak street and nearly two score needy persons obtained loans. Miss Carrie - Myers, manager of the office, was on duty from early In the morning until late in the afternoon. She will have office hours every week day from 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. Up until 1 o'clock she made 26 loans, varying from $50 to $150. All are se cured, either with chattels or with notes bearing acceptable indorsements. The Remedial Loan Association has started with an available capital of $20,000; but at the present rate at which the money is going out. this sum will be exhausted within 10 days. It is probable that additional funds can be borrowed from the banks and used in turn to accommodate patrons. The rate of interest is 2 per cent a onth. The rate heretofore charged by the "loan sharks" has been as high as 10 per cent in some cases. It is understood that some of this class cut their rates to 2 per cent In the course of the day. The association's subscribers will limit their profits to 6 per cent per year. Everything earned in excess of that will be used to reduce the rate on loans. BITING TO BE "TREATED" Professional Horse Trainer Takes Charge of rat's Education. Dr. D. B. Boyd, a professional horse trainer, is to undertake the task of breaking Pat, the big fire horse, of the habit of biting persons. The animal was taken by Dr. Boyd yesterday to the old Oriental building at the Lewis & Clark Fairgrounds, where he will be put through a course of anti-biting education. Dr. Boyd promised Fire Chief Dowell that he would return Pat to his place in the Are station at the west ap proach of the Harrlman bridge at the end of the week a different natured animal. Just how he proposes to bring about the change, which firemen have not been able to do, is not explained by Dr. Boyd. LABOR ORDER-TEST SOUGHT Paper Box. Manufacturer Denies Le gality Industrial Kuling. SALEM. Or., Feb. 9. (Special.) The Supreme Court today took under ad visement the case of Frank C. Stettler against the Industrial Welfare Com mission, in which the plaintiff, who manufactures paper boxes, seeks to have a ruling that women shall work not more than nine hours dally set aside. The plaintiff alleges that the act Is unconstitutional, that in fixing the function of the Legislature. WIRELESS SUPPLIES LIGHT Bulb Made Bright at Distance of Six Miles by Marconi. LONDON, Feb. 10. William Marconi has succeeded In lighting an electric bulb at a distance of six miles by a wireless current supplied from a 100- horsepower engine, according to the Dally Mall. He is hopeful that the experiment will prove the forerunner, though not perhaps in the present generation, of wireless power for the lighting and heating of houses. $5000 IN BILLS MISSING Treasury Department Mystery Is First of Kind In 40 Years. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. More than $1200 in National bank notes which dis appeared from the Treasury Depart ment wtihln the last week have not been found and officials are much wor ried over what promises to be the first loss of that kind in 10 years. Four thousand dollars in $10 gold notes, which, disappeared during the process of manufacture in January also still are unaccounted for. SITE TO BE PICKED TODAY Auditorium Committee Will Hold Executive Session In City Hall. At the final meeting of the public auditorium committee this afternoon in the office of City Commissioner Brewster at the City Hall, arrange ments will be made for submission to the City Council tomorrow of a report and recommendations as to the site and class of building to be used for Port land's paw $600,000 auditorium. The meeting will be executive. CAPITAL MORALLY PRIMPS "Clean-Up" Campaign Begins as "Red Iilght" Bill Is Signed. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. Cleaning up the National Capital, as one of the con sequences of President Wilson's signing of the Kenyon "red light" bill, began in earnest today, with a campaign for police supervision of moving - picture shows, restaurants and' low amusement resorts. Managers of higher-class cafes and amusement resorts are co-operating with, the Authorities. - . . CAMPBELL TO DIRECT HALF LIE Southern Pacific Cut in Twa Districts. PORTLAND IS OFFICE OF ONE Reorganization Is Caused by Mr. Calvin Resigning. OTHER. CHANGES ARE MADE T. W. younger Becomes Superin tendent of Motive Power or New . Section, Which Comprises t Five Divisions of System. D. W. Campbell, general superintend, ent of the Southern Pacific in Portland, has been appointed assistant general manager of the same road in charge of all territory between Portland, Ogden, Utah, and Oakland Pier, Cal., and will retain his headquarters In Portland. This change in title and jurisdiction was made at San Francisco yesterday by W. R. Scott. vice-president and general manager, and Is a direct re sult of the . reorganization necessary following the recent resignation of E. E. Calvin, vice-president, to become general manager of the Oregon Short Line. T. W. Younger, superintendent of mptive power in Portland, .has been made superintendent of motive power of Mr. Campbell's district and will have headquarters in Sacramento. The entire operating department of the Southern Pacific has been reor ganized. Two separate divisions, the northern and the southern, have been created. Mr. Campbell will have charge of the northern district- H. V. Piatt will have charge of the southern dis trict, with headquarters at Los An geles. Mr. Campbell's new position gives him a decided promotion and Is in line with predictions made in The Orego nian two weeks ago. , . As po appointments of division su perintendents have been made by Mr. Scott, it is to be presumed that Mr. Campbell will be allowed to build up his own organization. Five divisions comprise his district. They are the Portland, Shasta, Sacramento, West and Salt Lake districts. Mr. Campbell now is in San Francisco. Advice of these changes was received by his office here. . Commenting on the appointments, Mr. Scott telegraphed as follows: "The promotion of D. W. Campbell and H. V. Piatt to the posts of assistant (Concluded on Patfe 2.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 43 degrees; minimum, 32 degrees. TODAY'S Rain; southeasterly winds. National. Democrats to caucus on canal toll Issue. Page 1. Colonel Goethals ousts head of Canal com missary department. Page 2. Federal Investigation into strike situation In Colorado Is stormy. Page 1. Rlvers and harbors bill now carries pro vision for more than $2,000,000 as Ore gon's share. Page 2. Domestic. Rifle carried Into mine by Outlaw Lopes Is found under trestle. Page 2. Dlggs and GUUgan are held on $10,000 bonds to answer charge of Ida Pearrlng. Page 8. Silas Chrlstofferson sets new American dis tance record for aviation. Page 3. Frame-up by defense in Texan's murder trial Is charged. Page 8. Sports. Federal-Major union and outlaw Invasion of New York are rumors. Page 10. Spokane team may take Portland Colts' pro posed training tour. Page 10. Organized baseball heads .say no compro mise with Federals ia possible. Page lO. . Faclfic Northwest. Copperfield saloonmen sue Governor and militiamen for damages. Page 5. Farmers eagerly hear of dairying from hog and dairy special. Page 5. Seattle hotel employes to share profits. Page 1. Marie Lloyd weeps when Vancouver, B. C, Mayor bars act. page. 2. Commercial and Marine. California wheat buyers operating -a South ern Idaho. Page 15. All-around advance at North Portland Stock yards. Page 15. Shutting down of export demand checks wheat advance at Chicago. Page 15. Philadelphia sails after imprisoned skipper and crew relieved. Page 14. Portland labor required in construction of second unit of public dock. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Remedial loan agency has rush of appli cants on opening day.. Page 1. Frank Rickett sentenced for misuse of mails. Page 11. Express company men and Railroad Com missioners take up rate-making plan. Page 9. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 13. Proebstel company loses all title to Albina property. Page . D. W. Campbell becomes assistant general manager in charge of half of Southern Pacific Page 1. Bulkhead breaks.' torrent sweeps West Side Mil. Page 1. Ex-husband of murdered woman Is held Page 18. Stockholders of United States Cashier Com pany indorse sale of plant. Page 4. WIDOWS TO LOSE PENSIONS One Has Property, Another Cash, Third Divorced Husband. Eight widows'' pensions were discon tinued yesterday by order of the case committee in regular session at the Juvenile Court quarters at the Court house, three applications denied and one increased pension allowed. One application was denied because it was found by the committee that the ap plicant had .ilSf'O In -a bank. A second was denied because thd widow owns $2500 worth of property, has one son 26 years old and the only dependent child a boy. 13 years old. A third was denied because the applicant has a divorced husband. Mrs. Elizabeth E. Brown, l who for several months has been receiving $10, was allowed a full pension for two children, $17.50. One widow withdrew her application for a pension, advising the committee that she had rather continue her present employment, for which she receives $40 a month, than to give it up to receive only '$32.50 as a pension. HARD PRESSED. BAYONET GOADING IS LAID TO MILITIA Federal Inquiry In Col orado Is Stormy. COUNTER CHARGES ARE HURLED State Official Says Prosecu tions in Region Impossible. STRIKERS ALLEGE CRUELTY Witness for Workmen Swears One of - Suspects Was Kept Awake Fin Days and Nights District In Anarchy Often, Is Assertion. DENVER, Feb. 9. Charges of peon age, illegal Imprisonment, were met by counter charges of violence, anarchy and insurrection at a stormy session today of the Federal strike investiga tion committee. State officials and labor leaders were the witnesses, the testimony of the operators being re served for the night meeting. It was announced that sessions would be held here tomorrow, all intention of going to Trinidad tonight having been given up. Ell Gross, superintendent of the Col orado Free Employment Bureau, who previously had testified he believed peonage was practiced in the coal fields, continued his testimony with an attack upon the militia and the mili tary methods of ' handling the strike situation in Southern Colorado. He said that Mario Zeni, arrested as a suspect, was kept awake five days and nights. Bayonet Goadlag Charged. "They posted soldiers in front of his cell." he declared, "and those soldiers threw water on him and stuck him with their bayonets when he tried to gTk to sleep." Zeni was afterward re leased. Cross-examined by .Fred Herrlngton, of counsel for the .operators, he said he knew that the District Court of Las Animas County had upheld the arrests made by the militia. The House committee next called to the stand Adolph Germer, international organizer of the United Mine Work ers of America. He testified he was arrested at Walsenburg, held nine days, then released. "What was the charge made against you?" he was asked. "None, that I know of," was the re ply. He Bald some of his mall was never delivered and that all the letters he received while he was in Jail had (Concluded on Page 2.) HOTEL EMPLOYES TO SHARE PROFITS SAVOY, AT SEATTLE, IXAUGU RATES INNOVATION. More Than 100 Attaches From As sistant Manager to "Bell Hops' Are to Benefit. SEATTLE. Wash., Feb. 9. (Special.) The Savoy, one of Seattle's finest and largest hotels, will in the future share revenues with its employes, according to a statement given out by E. F. Sweeny, president of th.e Savoy Hotel Company. Letters announcing the new revenue sharing plan were received by each employe of the Savoy today. The new plan will operate from February 1 and distribution will occur on the first day of every month, begin ning March 1. The Savoy represents an investment of more than $800,000 and has 107 persons on its payroll. Every employe, from assistant man ager to bellhops, porters and scrub women, will share in the monthly divi dend. No changes will be made in the present rate of wages. The sum to be divided will be made up of the business In excess of the corresponding month of 1913. As outlined by Mr. Sweeny the plans mean the dividing of the hotel into four departments, namely, the room ing, cafe, buffet and cigar and news. All money taken in either department In excess of the same month in 1913 will be divided at the beginning of the next month, Mr. Sweeny sharing equal ly with the men of each department and each employe receiving his pro rata share, according to his wages for the month. Three months' continued employment is the only requirement necessary to a share in the monthly purses. BOY WATCHMAN IS TIED UP Uncle Goes to Church, Safe Is Blown, 18 Pennies secured. OLYMPIA. Wash.. Feb. 9. fSneelal 1 Twelve-year-old Hoy Simpson sub stituted as Northern Pacific night watchman for his uncle last night while his uncle celebrated, by attending evening church services. About 9:3u o'clock four men Rpiznrf Roy, bound and gagged him and de posited him witnin the depot while they leisurely set to work on the safe. Six shots of nitroglycerine were fir wrecking the sate and also the office. At 11:30 the yegg-men departed in three stolen railroad speeders wtlh their booty, consisting of 18 Tienni The robbers, believed to be amateurs Had failed to penetrate the strong-box containing Saturday and Sunday col leetiomr and were frightened away by youths who heard the last explosion and started to investigate. HUSBAND SPEEDS HIS RIVAL Illinois Man Obtains Divorce to Ac commodate Wife and Friend. STERLING. 111.. Feb. 9. Charlon Ar,- plegreen today voluntarily freed his wire so mat she might marry another, forgave the rival who had won her from him and started for San Fran cisco to forget the past while cruising with the Navy. Recently Applegreen learned that his wife's affections' had been transferred to, another. He talked the situation over with her and today filed a suit for divorce, obtained it, bade bood-bye to his former wife and her new love, and boarded a train for California. BRIDGE BILLIS SIGNED President WUson Puts O. K. on Portland-Vancouver Span. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash lngton, Feb. 9 President Wilson to day signed the bill authorizing con struction of the Portland-Vancouver bridge across the Columbia River. In signing he used two pens, which were presented to Representative John son, of Washington. One will be sent to the Portland Commercial Club and the other to the Vancouver Commercial Club. JOB HELD SINCE 1896 LOST California United States Marshal Re signs by Telegraph on Kequest. , LOS ANGELES, "Feb. 9. "To the vic tor belongs the spoils," said Leo Youngworth, United States Marshal, here today as ho telegraphed his res ignation to Washington. Youngworth, who is a Republican and has held office since 1896, received a request last Sat urday for his Immediate resignation. Thomas Walton, of Fresno, was men tioned today in connection with the Democratic appointment. $1500 NUGGET REPORTED Find Said to Have Been Made by Sumpter Dredge Company. BAKER. Or., Feb. 9. (Special.) A report comefi from Sumpter that a nug get worth $1500 was found in the Sumpter Dredge Company's workings recently. This Is said to be the largest nug get ever found in this section, the former high record being one valued at $1200, found at Susanville. CO-EDS PUT LID ON TANGO One 'Step and Hesitation Also Are on Blacklist at California "U." SAN FRANCISCoT" Feb. 9 (Special.) Tango, maxixe, one-step and the hes itation waltz are not to be stepped at the "FreBhie Glee." or any other func tion, at the University of California. Senior co-eds, by unanimous vote, have ruled against all these dances. WATER, ID ROCK SLIDE FROm HILLS Bulkheads Break on Top King's Heights. CARS ARE BLOCKED FOR TIME Debris on Pavements Down to Seventeenth Street. PARKINGS ARE WASHED OUT Automobile Washed Half a Block Down Incline; Women Returning From Theater Overtaken and Drenched to Their Knees. A torrent of water and mud, carry ing on its crest quantities of planking-,, stones, posts and other debris, swept down the east side of King's Heights Into the paved street district 600 feet below at 11:30 o'clock last night, when two large bulkheads, impounding water for sluicing the terraces, broke and released thousands of gallons of water. Three streets In the fashionable res idence district below Kearney, Love joy and Marshall were flooded with murky water, of the consistency of mush, and carrying debris for a dis tance of 15 blocks. Women Overtaken, Drenched. Women, returning to their homea from the theaters, were overtaken by the flood, which at some points was knee deep, and their gowns were ruined. An automobile, containing a party making Its way westward up the in cline at the foot of Lovejoy street, was swept half a block down the street, finally lodging against the curbing. No one was injured. Late pedestrians rushed to the high terraces in their flight from the mud. Parkings between the sidewalks and curbing were covered with mud, rose bushes were washed out by the roots and other plants destroyed. Sllmc ReacheM the Street. Streets were covered with the slimy coating and debris as far east as Sev enteenth street, about 15 blocks from the foot of the hill, which is more than 600 feet from the point where the bulkheads went out. Mud was ehoetop deep for several bjocks, and sewers in the vicinity wen choked with stones and wreckage. At Twenty-fifth and Lovejoy streets the wreckage was piled several feet h'gh, and behind this dam a miniature lake of muddy water formed unyi workmen from the city water depart ment arrived and removed the obstruc tion. DebriM Stops Streetcars. Debris and mud covered the car tracks on both Twenty-third and Twenty-first streets, delaying service for half an hour. Telephone hawsers were washed out and other minor damage resulted. The bulkheads had been constructed across King's Canyon, one being 100 feet above the other. Each impounded water 10 feet deep In reservoirs of 1500 square yards' capacity. Both of these were drained, the wreckage that washed into the street being the ma terial from which the bulkheads were constructed. The reservoirs were constructed by the Lewis-Wiley Hydraulic Company for uso in sluicing down the terraces. Tho reservoirs were in the vicinity of Summit avenue, Cornell road and Me linda avenue, near the crest of King's Heights, just above the points where Lovejoy, Kearney and Marshall streets abut on the steep hill. At 1:30 this morning a third small bulkhead went out, releasing but a small volume of water. SHORTAGE IS NOW MILLION President of Memphis Bank Goes to Jail Refusing Friends' Aid. MEMPHIS. Tenn.. Feb. 9. With tho discovery tonight that of $527,867 listed as actual cash on hand when the bank closed its doors, $410,000 was repre sented by personal checks of the presi dent, C. Hunter Kaine, now imprisoned, charged with embezzlement, the amount of the apparent discrepancy in the accounts of the Mercantile Bank advanced to more than $1,000,000. The exact amount will not be known until the audit is completed. Ralne maintains silence. He entered a formal plea of guilty today and, elected to go to Jail, declining tho proffer of friends to arrange $250,000 ball. CARLISLE NEEDS REFORMS "Unsatisfactory Conditions" Found at Indian School in East. WASHINGTON", Feb. 9. Conditions that are "unsatisfacory and require cor rection" exist at the Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle. Pa, according to the joint commission appointed to investi gate Indian affairs, which has just re turned from an inspection of the insti tution. "The commission does not desire at this time to discuss the subject, but we have no hesitancy in saying, however," that the conditions at Carlisle are in many respects unsatisfactory ard re quire correction," said Chairman Kobin son today. ft