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K VOL. L.IV. NO. 16,610. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1914. ; PRICE FIVE CENTS. V BILL FOR ALASKA RAILROAD PISSED House Acts and Presi dent Will Sign. BOND PROVISION GUT OUT Measure Provides for Building From Current Funds. FINAL VOTE IS 230 TO 87 Effort of Opponents to Postpone Decision Falls President Autlior 1 thorlzed to 'Spend $35,000, 1 000 for 1000 Miles. WASHINGTON, , Feb. 18. The Ad ministration Alaska bill, authorizing the President to construct a J35, 000,000 railroad from Alaska's coast to Its great coal fields, was passed by the House late today by a vote of 230 to 87. A similar measure already has passed the. Senate, and the bills will be taken up at once in conference between the two houses, with a view to sending tlie measure to the President, who has signified his Intention of signing It. Bond Issue Stricken Out. At the eleventh hour, after a sharp parliamentary skirmish, the House eliminated from the bill, as reported by the territories committee, a provision authorizing- a bond issue of 135,000,000 to finance the railroad and to be paid off by the proceeds of Government land sales In Alaska. The Senate bill provided for a 140,000,000 bond issue. Representative Fitzgerald, of New York, led a fight which resulted In striking out the bond provision. Under the amended measure the project would be financed out of the current funds in the treasury, the President being limited to $35,000,000. and 11,000,000 being- appropriated for Immediate expenses. Congress would appropriate each year the amount esti mated to be necessary for the construc tion of the road. Iload Limited to 100U M 1 1 rs. The bill provides for the reconstruc tion of a road "not to exceed 1000 miles, to be so located as to connect one or more of the open Pacific Ocean har bors on the southern coast of Alaska Tilth the navigable waters in tho in terior of Alaska, and with a coal field or fields yielding coal sufficient in quality and quantity for naval use, so as best to aid In the development of the agricultural and mineral or other resources of Alaska." An effort was made by the oppo nents of the bill to postpone the final vote on the measure until next Wednes day. ew Uuestlons Involved. The project is of more interest than even the expenditure of the $35,000, 000 proposed would ordinarily create. Coming so soon after the rnmninUnn nt the Panama Canal, it is attracting at tention as another great engineering project under the direction of the American liovernment. Moreover, the project is to be the first test in this country of Government ownrrahln nf a public utility; It is expected to open to the commerce of the world great and rich resources that until now have been lor the most part lyinc- idle. The bill directs the President to ac quire by purchase or construction a line or lines of railroads from tidewater into the interior of Alaska and to naviannn on the Yukon, Tanana or Kuskokwim rivers. In choosing the route he is to use his judgment as to what will best promote the settlement of Alaska, de velop its resources and provide ade quate transportation for coal for the Army and Navy, for troops and for munitions of war and for the malls. President to Nime Men. In conducting and operating the Alaskan Railroad the President is authorized to employ any. number of men lie may think necessary, rhnn.in them as he pleases, only those chosen fro.- civil life shall be under the super vision, in the work of construction, of the engineers taken from the Army The appointment of any engineer from civil life whose salary exceeds $3000 a year must be confirmed by the Senate. The President is authorized to util ise in Alaska all the mart Incrv on equipment used in the construction of the Panama Canal as rapidly as it is not needed in Panama as can be used in Alaska. The opening of mines In Alaska, to gether with the building of a railroad and the opening of the Panama Canal. It Is estimated will save the Govern ment from $3 to $5 on its coal burned on the Pacilic Coast. Alaska Itself now buys coal from British Cqlumbia. One statistician figures that Alaska has as much coal as Pennsylvania and West Virginia together and that it is as good in quality. CIRCE'S BATH COSTS $950 Jury Gives Damages to Servant Hurt by Statue's Fall. BRIDGEPORT. Conn., Feb. 18. A bath given to Circe In the home of Mrs. Florence Matthews, of Norwalk, by Mrs. Ellen llhony, a domestic, in No vember proves to have been an expen sive luxury, for a Jury assessed dam ages of id SO In favor of Mrs. llhony. She was Injured when. Circe fell on FARMERS PROOF AGAINST THRILLS STATE FAtR MANAGERS SAX CITY FOLK ARE EASIER. Aeroplane Falls to Attract, Balloon Cannot Get Engagement, Bears Must Know Late Dances. CHICAGO, Feb. 18. Farmers who at tend state fairs have become too blaso for the old-fashioned thrillers that have been entertaining them for years - at the big expositions, according to com plaints registered today before the American Association of State Fairs and Expositions. Even an aeroplane exhibition no longer attracts attention and a balloon can scarcely get an en gagement at the larger fairs, it was asserted. Moving ' pictures have Invaded the farming towns and made the country folks thrill-proof, according to the ex pert opinion of many of the fair man agers. "When you attempt to amuse the country folks fair week you have to go to much greater lengths than would keep city folks on the alert," said Charles Downing, of the Indiana State Fair Association. "Aerial novelties that would cause city folks to shudder won't get a gasp of Interest from the country folks." An animal trainer complained that he could no longer get engagements until his bears learned the modern dances. COAL PROSECUTION LOST Jury Returns Verdict of Not Guilty in Seattle Case. SEATTLE, Feb. 18. The jury In the case of Charles F. Munday and Archie W. Shiels, charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States of the Stracey group of Alaska coal lands, by the use of dummy entrymen, brought in a verdict of not guilty late tonight after being out six hours. Tonight's verdict does not have any effect on the proceedings now under way to forfeit Alaska claims, but is said to be likely to end the criminal prosecution of claimants. Persons In dicted at Detroit, Spokane and Tacoma have not yet been trred. SUFFRAGE BILLS DEFEATED Maryland and Africa Refuse to Ex tend Franchise to Women. ANNAPOLIS, Md., Feb. 18. The wom an suffrage bill was killed in the House of Delegates today by a vote of 60 to 34. The measure provided for .the -sub mission of a constitutional amendment to give women a right to vote. It was unfavorably reported. CAPETOWN, Union of South Africa, Feb. 18. A bill for the enfranchise ment of women in the Union of South Africa, which was introduced into the House of Assembly today, was defeated on the first reading by 43 to 42. BISHOP WELLS TO REWED Prominent 'Spokane Clergyman to Marry Sew York Widow. SPOKANE. Wash., Feb. 18. The Right Rev. Lemuel H. Wells, for more than 20 years bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Spokane, has announced here his engagement to Mrs. Andrew H. Smith, of New York City. The wedding la to take place in May in New York. The bride-to-be is a widow, is a member of a wealthy New York fam ily. Bishop Wells, whose first wife djed 10 years ago, is 71 years old. POLICE FILMS CENSORED Movie Showing Brntal Methods Held to Undermine Influence. CHICAGO. Feb. 18. M. L. C. Funk hauser, deputy superintendent of police in charge of the morals division, toda; put a limit on the way moving pic tures may portray policemen. "I do not object to films wherein th police play a strictly comedy part," 1 said. "I will not. however. Dermit ni he tures which show the police takin bribes or using brutal methods. Such pictures undermine the police influ ence." ELK ARE ADDED TO ZOO Six Animals From Wlld-s or Montana at Washington Park. Six elk direct from the wilds of the Yellowstone National Park arrived in the city yesterday by express and are now a part of the elk herd in the zoo at Washington Park. The animals sura shipped Monday by H. Anderson, a professional animal catcher of Gardi ner, jviont. MILL FEED IN PARCEL POST Portland Concern Sends Quantity of Product Through Mail. The parcel post is now being made use of to distribute mill feed. Yester day the Portland Flouring Mills Com pany received an order from one of the Oregon Coast ports for a quantity otf middlings and It was specified that the shipment should be made by par cel post. The feed was put up In 10-pound sacks, each of' which repaired 54 cents postage. Miss Wilson's Engagement Denied. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. Publication of an official denial of a report that Miss Margaret Wilson, the President's eldest daughter, was engaged to be married to Boyd Fisher, of Kansas City, Mo., was requested today by the White House. .... WILSON DEFIED OH CANAL TOLL POLICY Inconsistency Pointed Out by Senators. SUFFRAGE DEBATE DIVERTED Fight Within Party Is Begun , by Chamberlain. PARTY LINES FORGOTTEN Kansan Says Audacious Claims of Great Britain Had More -Weight With President Than Appeal of Nation's Womanhood. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. Accusing President Wilson of Inconsistency in his views on the binding effect of the Democratic platform and charging that greed of the railroads and the au dacious claims of Great Britain seem far more, potent with our President than the appeal of the womanhood of the Nation," Senator Brlstow, Repub lican, of Kansas, turned discussion of woman suffrage in the Senate today into a vigorous debate on the proposed repeal of the free tolls provision of the Panama Canal act. Senator Bristow's attack brought to the defense of the President several Republican as well as Democratic Sen ators. It served also as the signal for opening the fight within the Demo cratic party against repeal of the tolls exemption provision. Chamberlain Make Declaration. Senator Chamberlain. of Oregon, (Dem.), dramatically declared he would not "stultify" himself by telling his conatltutents that he had not kept his platform pledge on the tolls question "because the President of the United States does not agree with me." While Senators were thus engaged in the first open discussion on the ap proaching battle In. Congress over the Chief Executive's desire for reversal of the Panama policy, the President was himself engaged with leaders of the House of Representatives who are opposed to repudiating tha declaration of the party platform. He discussed the situation with Majority Leader Un derwood and Representative Kitchin, of North Carolina, but' so far as could be learned did not convert them to his view that the provision granting free tolls to American vessels violates the Hay-Pauncefote treaty and embarrasses (Concluded on page 3.) CROSS MARKS SPOTj WHERE HIRAMi .. WAS Tr?oiviwl PROM THE BALCONV lVi V Wm MAYORALTY INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 4S degrees; minimum, 38 degrees. TODAT'S Rain; southeasterly winds. .. . Foreign.. American held incommunicado as spy in Mexico.- Page 2. National.' j Alaska railroad bill passes house.' Page 1- Defiance of Wilson's canal 'tolls policy breathed In Senate. Page 1. Bankers . declare business conditions are sound. Page 2. -Senator Gore exonerated by Jury! verdict. Page 1. Domestic. Scientist upsets theories of radium treat ment of cancer. Page 1. Temperance workers will try to swing West Into "dry" column next Fall. Page X Three defendants face prosecution for in come tax frauds. Page 7. Farmers too sophisticated to be thrilled by State Fair stunts. Page 1. , Mutual divorce granted In France to Mr. and Mrs. Mackay. Page 3. Sport. San Francisco fans condemn Ewing for Seals' weakness at hat. Page 12. Amateur boxers who break faith will be suspended. Page 12. Young pitcher drafted by McCredle three years ago still la holdout. Page 12. Interscholaatlc League athletic dates fixed. , Page 12. Paclfio Northwest. Superintendent Churchill announces new school rules eliminating apparently need lens examinations. Page &. Indians from 35 tribes to pow wow at Tacoma. Page 6. HI Gill's cost of vote-getting Is low. Page 6. Delegates gather for Development League convention in Eugene today. Page & Commercial and Marine. Oregon wool is wanted, but growers are slow to Bell on contract. Page 17. Export demand for wheat ceases and prices react at Chicago., Page 17. Stock market confused by rumors regard ing freight rate case. Page 17. Liner Glenroy duo Monday. Page 7. New city dock to open Monday. Page 7. Portland and Vicinity. Admen Indorse market site for Auditorium. Page . 16. North Pacific Coast Passenger Association agrees on tourist and excursion rates. Page 11. Frank J. Miller seeks re-election to Kail road Commission on Republican nomina - tion. Page 16. Auditorium site issue simmers to Market block or Bast Side. Page 1. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. Telephones may be used to dispatch O.-W. R. & N. trains it strike Is called. Page 11. Southern Pacific ' may use Northwestern . tracks if unmerged. Page 18. Deputy Sheriff Indicted on extortion charge. Page 1U. Convention called to tackle unemployed proDiem una panacea not at nana. - Page 4. Marie Lloyd saya she will marry Bernard union in Portland Friday. Page 4. MILITANT ANARCHIST--TAFT Yale Professor Tells How Women Could Establish Case. AMHERST. Mass., Feb. 18. Profes sor Taf t, of Tale, speaking at Amherst College tonight, touched on the woman suffrage, saying: ' li ouiiien 1-iS'Bliow that a govern ment in which they partook would bring about , greater happiness or that the electorate would be bettered they would establish their case. The argu ment of the militant suffragettes is that of an anarchist." Cholera Bill uocs to Wilson. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. House amend- ments to the bill for a 9500,000 Federal campaign, to fight hog cholera and dourine, a horse disease,, were accepted today by the Senate. The bill now goes to President Wilson for signature. IS HIRAM HER ROMEO L2 MARKET BLOCK OR EAST SIDE LIKELY West Side Location De pends on Legality. . THREE OF COUNCIL FAVORABLE Ordinance Now in Effect; Ref erendum May Be Evaded. DOLPH PLACE WITHDRAWN One of Heirs Objects to Sale of Property to City at Price Set. Toeat Ion Offered Free Se lection Due Tomorrow. With the Dolph block withdrawn by the Dolph heirs as a possible site for Portland's proposed 1500,000 auditorium building, the question of site yesterday simmered down to two locations, the Market block, on the West Side, and two blocks In Hoiladay Addition, on the Fast 8ile, offered to the city by the Anglo-Paciflc Realty Company for 165.- 000. With these two sites In mind and with an opinion from City Attorney La Roche settling the question of the right of the city to use the Market block for auditorium purposes, the City Commis sion at its regular meeting tomorrow will definitely settle the site question, A letter was sent Commissioner Brewtser yesterday by Chester Dolph one of the Dolph heirs, saying that be cause one of the heirs had objected to the sale of the Dolph block at the price quoted the city recently, the sale could not be made. Mr. Dolph announced that he ex pects the sale of part of the block to be made within a few days. Deetston Dae Tomorrow. Upon receipt of this information Com missioner Brewster held a conference with Mayor Albee and It was decided that the entire site question be brought up" for final consideration tomorrow at 10 o'clock at the regular Council meet lng. If the opinion of City Attorney LaRoche is to the effect that the Mar ket block can be used, there is no doubt about that site being selected. Commis sioner Brewster will bring it to a head by recommending that the offer of the Anglo-Pacliic Company be placed on file, which will mean that it will be killed. Mr. Brewtser will then make a motion that the Market block be se lected. . If tho Market block is available as a site it will have the support of (Concluded on Page 16.) RADIUM THEORIES DECLARED WRONG SCIENTIST SAYS BETA RAYS ARE OXES FOR CANCER. Heretofore These Have Been Kept From Patient; Now It Is Said Their Effect Is Healing. NEW YORK, Feb. IS. Radical changes in the methods of applying ra dium in the treatment of cancer as the result of experiments by Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller Institute, will eoon he adopted by all surgeons, ac cording to Dr. Robert Abbe, a pioneer Investigator of the curative powers of the mineral. In an address today before the Ra dium Institute of America, Dr Abbe declared Dr. Carrel's experiments had convinced him that the central theory of radium's action, under which he had proceeded up to this time, was wrong. Dr. Carrel's investigation. the speaker said, demonstrated that the beta rays of radium, which have here tofore been considered dangerous and have been kept away from contact with the patient as much as possible, have an effect on cancer that is more heal ing, even than the gamma rays, now so generally relied upon by surgeons. SLEEP FOUND ONLY AT SEA Invalid Mariner Becomes Jdfe Pas senger After Injury in Wreck. NEW YORK, Feb. 18. The steamer Byron, of the Lamport & Holt line, now in port, has on board a life voy ager, it became known today. Ho is Ernest Victor Hugo, a relative of the famous French writer, who. as first of ficer of the Lamport & Holt liner Ver onez, suffered paralysis from the waist down as the result of exposure and hardship when his ship was wrecked on the -Portuguese coast. Later he de veloped insomnia and cannot sleep un less soothed by the rocking of a ship. He wears a medal bestowed by the Royal Humane Society for the rescue of 32 lives at the time of the Veronez disaster. HOMESTEAD CREDIT ASKED Settler Says Shj lock Bankers' Fleece Those Who Take Up Land. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. Money troubles of homesteaders In the West were pictured to the joint committee on rural credits today by George W Fisher, of Redfield, S. D., who asked that Congress make provision for loans to entrants on homestead lands. ..m. present, ne declared, the poor homesteader who endeavored to make a start in a new country without suf ticient capital was "victimized by Shy lock bankers, who strip each advanc ing wave of homesteaders and lie in wait for the next crop." RATE INCREASE FAVORED President Believes Railroads Jnstl fled in Advancing Tariffs. WASHINGTON. Feb. 18. Presider, Wilson sent for Chairman Clark, of the interstate Commerce Commission, to day and they had a half hour's confer ence, the exact nature of which was not revealed. It was learned at the Whltn Himu mat tlie president had exDressed him self as believing an Increase of some kiud In rates would be Justified. Mr. Clark learned, however, whll. ot the White House, according to official that the President hoped for an earlv decision of the rate problem. STATE WILL NOT PAY TIPS Secretary of State Puts Gratuities in Extradition Under Ban. SALEM. Or., Feh. 18 (Special.) Secretary of State Olcott, in issuing a set of rules relating to the auditing of expenses Incurred In the pursuit, arrest and return to the state of fugi tives from Justice, announced today that tips or any expenses of a per sonal nature would not be audited. The Secretary of State has repeated ly refused to reimburse officials or state employes for gratuity expenses. No expense items will be audited un less requisitions are Issued by the Gov ernor. WILSON TO JOIN ALUMNI March With Class of '79 to Be Fea ture of Princeton Reunion. PRINCETON. N. J.. Feb, 18. Presi dent Wilson will be present at the 35th annual reunion of his class. 1879, which will be held on June 13. on of th hie- fdays of the commencement season at Princeton, it was announced tonight. Tho President is expected to march with his class in the alumni parade preceding the Yaile-Princeton baseball game. At the request of the President no special arrangements are being made for the commencement. RUNAWAY HORSE MOUNTED Patrolman Slakes Spectacular Res cue of Woman and Babe. Jumping to the back of one of a team of runaway horses and throwing the animal, was the spectacular way W. R. McDonald, special patrolman, saved the lives of Mrs. Thomas Smith and infant, who were in the buggy drawn by the frightened horses when they started to run at the corner of East Twenty-third and East Taylor streets yesterday. Mr. Smith, who was .in Portland at the time of the accident, liberally re- warded the officer for his bravery. GORE EXONERATED BY JURY'S VERDICT Woman Fails to Obtain Any Damages. CONCLUSION SOON REACHED Special Declaration in Sena tor's Favor Is Made. PROOF DECLARED LACKING If Defendant Had Rested Case With out Offering Evidence, Sujs Jury, No Difference Would Have Been Made in Result. OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla., Feb. IS. United States Senator Gore was ex onerated today of charges of Improper conduct by a verdict in his favor re turned in District Court in the suit for $50,000 damages instituted by Mrs. Minnie E. Bond, of Oklahoma City. The verdict was returned 10 min utes after tlie. case was given to the Jury. Only one ballot was taken. "We find," the Jury said in its ver dict, "the evidence submitted by the plaintiff entirely insufficient on which to base a suit; that said evidence wholly exonerates the defendant and had the defendant, at the conclusion of the plaintiff's evidence, announced that he desired to introduce no evi dence and rested his case, our verdict would have been the same In that event as now returned by us, in favor of the defendant," Crowd Breaks Into Cheers. Despite, the efforts of bailiffs to maintain order when the verdict was reached, the crowd that filled the court room turned into a cheering throng. Senator Gore heard the Jury's deci sion without a change of countenance. Mrs. Gore was the first to grasp his hand. When she turned and shook hands with Henry Carpenter, the fore man, tears were on tho cheeks of both. "The verdict confirms my faith that truth will triumph," Senator Gore said. "I never for a moment doubted the outcome." From the time the Jury left the room to prepare its verdict until the demon stration was under way Mrs. Bond sat In silence, leaning on a table and scrib bling on a piece of paper. She seemed in no haste to leave the room until she was approached by her attorney, when she arose and walked away with him and her husband. Woman's Counsel to Appeal. E. J. Giddings. chief counsel for Mrs. Bond, tonight said an appeal to the Supreme Court would be taken on the grounds that applause and demonstra tions In the courtroom during the trial had influenced the Jury. The case went to the Jury at 5:43 o'clock, after Morton Rutherford, at torney for Mrs. Bond, made the closing argument. Four minutes later a dep uty was summoned to the Jury-room. "We have a verdict," the foreman told him. A hush fell over the courtroom. "The Jury Is coming in." whispered Mrs. Gore, wife of the defendant, as she leaned over and touched the Sen ator's arm. She was weeping. "Good," Senator Gore responded, his face sober, as it had been all through the trial. "We, the Jury, find for the defend ant," read the foreman. Then the courtroom burst Into cheers. J ailKe Smiles at Outburst. No one tried to stem the demonstra tion. Judge Clark smiled. After the demonstration had lasted ten minutes the Judge left the bench. Court never was adjourned. The Judge forgot it. So did the Sheriff. Senator Gore alone remained calm. The crowd surged toward him. His wife had her arms about him. She was weeping almost hysterically. Hun dreds crowded to get the Senator's hands to congratulate him. The dem onstration lasted 30 minutes. Mrs. Bond and her husband left the courtroom while the demonstration was at its height- Mrs. Gore declared she was "too happy for words." "I am thinking now of my babies and I want to get home to them." she said. President Wilson was one of the first to send his congratulations to Senator Gore after the verdict was returned. An hour later, this telegram came from the White House, signed by the Presi dent's private secretary: "Heartiest congratulations." Senator Make Counter Ckirge. The trial began last Wednesday. In her declaration Mrtj. Bond alleged that the Senator attacked her while they were conferring at a hotel In Washing ton last March In connection with the possible appointment of her husband, Jullen Bond, as internal revenue col lector at Oklahoma City. Gore seized her, she alleged, and she freed herself only after several men appeared in the doorway of the room. ' In the scuffle, Mrs. Bond asserted, her face was scratched and hand lacerated by fragments of her broken eyeglasses. Senator Gore denied the charges and as a counter charge alleged that the suit was instigated by political oppon ents who had failed in their efforts to obtain Federal patronage. The Jury comprised nine farmers, a grocer, a banker and a broker. Mrs. (Concluded on Page 2.) i