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VOL. UV. XO. l(j,G22. PORTLAND, OREGON,' THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 4 T LOSES COUNSELLOR John Bassett Moore Re signs After Friction. BRYAN'S FEELINGS ARE HURT Assistant's Sitting in Cabinet Is Wound to Pride. MEXICO IS ADDED CAUSE Expert on International Law Does Not Agree With Associates iu Administration on Situa tion Across Border. WASHINGTON, March 4. (Special.) John Bassett Moore, counsellor for the Department of State and one of the world's foremost authorities on inter national law, has retired from his posi tion under the "Wilson Administration. Correspondence between Mr. Moore find the President made public tonight Fliows that ho submitted his resigna tion February 2 to become effective on the first anniversary of the Wilson in auguratlon. The international law ex pert of the Administration retires to devote himself to duties with the Car negie endowment for international peace, in accordance with a contract entered into two .years ago. Ho will resume his professorship of International law and diplomacy at Columbia University next Fall, accord ing to announcement made at the State Department. Differences Cause Resignation. Fundamental differences of view be tween Mr. Moore and the highest offi cials of the Administration, especially in regard to Mexican and Latin-American policies, are understood to have been the real incentive to resignation, after some ten months of service un der the Democratic regime. Brought here as the man who was to act as confidential guide and the ex pert who would steer the Admlnistra tion over the rough places and be the adviser in connection with knotty for eign problems, Mr. Moore has not been consultedjn matters aside from those involving the technical precedents of an international character. His judg ment has not been asked regarding broad questions of policy. It is known that he has not been In accord with the policy adopted toward Mexico and he is not in sympathy with the general Latin-American programme and other features of foreign policy. Moore Action 3Vo Surprise. 1 ne resignation is no surprise to those who have been following closely the course of events Jn the State De partment. Regardless of what appears In his letter to the President and in the President's statement, it is believed that Mr. Moore would have shaped his private affairs so as to stay with the Administration had it been more to his liking. To modify this statement, it may be said that he probably would have stuck to his official post had he felt that his training and ability were sufficiently appreciated; in other words, had he been consulted about affairs as to which his wisdom and experience originally suggested advice. As it is. he not only has failed to have his views accepted, but he has been practically ignored. Mr. Moore's resignation, under exist ing conditions, is bound to arouse a spirited discussion of the "Wilson Ad ministration's whole foreign policy a policy that is held to be its vitally weak spot to date. In practical ways our diplomacy dur ing the' last year has been subjected to severe criticism from sincere experts at home and to what must be con fessed to be the ridicule of foreign chancellories. State Department Loser. Although his presence in the State Department was not availed of as it might have been, for reasons best known to President Wilson and Secre tary Bryan, the retirement of Mr. Moore leaves the Administration with out any experienced official adviser in international affairs. When appointed it was understood that Mr. Moore would be the expert who would be sec ond in command in the State Depart ment, supplanting the first assistant secretary in that respect, John E. Os borne. The assistant secretary, Alvey A. Adee. a fixture through many Ad ministrations, is an authority on red tnpe. but he is advanced In years, and is not reckoned with in the settlement of great policies. Until today, the third assistant secretaryship has been va cant for some months. Had Mr. Moore, versed as he is In international affairs, been consulted and his judgment followed even to a minor degree, many things might have been done differently from what has been the case. Technically Mr. Moore was acting Secretary of State in the absence of Secretary Bryan and soon after his appointment Mr. Moore sat in a Cabinet meeting. This is said to have been resented by Mr. Bryan and his activity as an adviser In Cabinet meetings was Aot repeated. The Mexican policy has been one with which Mr. Moore especially dis agreed. As a practical international law expert, the compiler of the digest which is the international authority so far as the relations of the United States STATE DEPARTMEN (Concluded on Fags S-i THIEVES EAT ALL FOOD IN SCHOOL SALEM DOMESTIC SCIENCE CLASSROOM LOOTED. Girl Members Will Turn Sleuths. Vandals Who Destroyed 500 Books Suspected. SALEM, Or., March 4. (Special.) Pastry of all kinds, bread, canned fruit, and in fact everything edible in the do mestic science department of the high school made a feast last night for marauders thought to be students of the school, who entered the building by opening a window. Their depredations being similar to those at the school one night last week when the books of 500 students were piled in the middle of the assembly room floor and ink poured over them, gives rise to the suspicion that the same lads were participants In both. The "theft of last night was discov ered when the girls of the domestic science class went into the classroom today. Everything was in a topsy-turvy condition, cabinets were wide open with their contents missing and bread crumbs were scattered over the floor. Every girl in the class declared that she would do everything in her power to find the guilty parties. Superintendent of Schools Kuntz and the high school teachers are trying to find the miscreants but so far have met with little success. WHO IS MR. R0CKFELL0W? Candidate's Petition for Governor Filed by- Man Unknown. SALEM, Or., March 4. (Special.) Considerable excitement prevailed In Secretary Olcott's office today when Sam Kozer, assistant secretary, an nounced that John Kockfellow had filed his declaration as a candidate for the Republican nomination N for Gov ernor. It was thougnt at first that Mr. Ko zer was guilty oT a little levity, but when he produced a petition properly made out it was evident that such was not the case. In fuct he was as much puzzled as the others in the office, an nouncing that the petition had been received through the mail along with several others. - There is no Gold Bond building in Portland nor any John Kockfellow. SALEM BANK HEAD WEDS J. L. Ahlers Murries Mrs. Elizabeth D. Bulrd, of Augusta, Ga. SALEM, . Or., March 4. (Special.) A romance which started in Portland more than a year ago had its culmina tion in that city today, when J. L. Ahlers, president of the Salem Bank & Trust Company, and Mrs. Elizabeth D. Baird, of Augusta, Ga., were married, Rev. W. G. Eliot, of the Unitarian Church, officiating. Mrs. Baird was visiting in Portland when she and Mr. Ahlers became ac quainted and later she was a guest of his relatives in this city. The couple came to Salem immediately after the wedding. WILSON HIRES RICH FRIEND William Phillips Will Be One of Secretary Bryan's Assistants. WASHINGTON, March 4. William Phillips, of Boston, was nominated to day by President Wilson to be Third Assistant Secretary of State. Phillips is said to be wealthy, and a story told about him in the Capitol is that when he was employed in the State Department he turned over his salary to co-workers. He was an inti mate friend of President Roosevelt and in the last few months had been doing confidential work for President Wil son conected with diplomatic affairs. SPRING FROSJNIPS MARS Lowell Observatory Reports Late Season on Neighbor Planet. FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., March 5. A late Spring frost occurred last night on Mars in the region north of the Pro pontis, and was visible at 2 o'clock of the Martian afternoon according to announcement today from the Lowell observatory. The frost Is parted from the North Pole by a blue border, which, accord- ng to the astronomers, is undoubtedly water that marks the melting cap. NEW YORK'S LID RELAXED Major Mitcliel Not to Enforce 1 o'clock Closing Stringently. NEW YORK, March .4. Devotees of the midnight tango left without a place to dance when the police closed sever al Broadway establishments last night, were rescued by Mayor Mitchel today. "I have no intention of carrying out the stringent measures taken by the late administration in regard to closing at 1 o'clock," said the Mayor, as he in timated that the raids were the result of a misunderstanding of orders. FILM TO BE SEtfN IN COURT Disputed Pictures Offered as Evl- dence in Managers' Trial. NEW YORK, March 4. Arrange ments have been made to produce a moving picture film on the white slave traffic In the Court of General Ses sions during the trial this week of Samuel H. London and Henry Bohm. who were indicted on a charge of giv ing an immoral exhibition. It will be the first time that moving pictures have ever been produced in a courtroom as part of the evidence iu criminal case. LINE IS ET Thousands Cheer As Wand Sets Sail. NEW TRADE EPOCH MARKED Portland Merchants Invade Rich Northern Territory. HEAVY BOOKlmL JTED Major and Others Heard in Optimis tic Addresses, While Agents Urge Shippers to See That Ample Cargoes Are - Ready. There may have been a greater throng gathered at New York to wit ness the arrival of the Hamburg American leviathan Imperator on her maiden voyage,- but there could not have been more enthusiasm or display of moral support than was shown yes terday at Oak-street dock, where the steamer Thomas L. "Wand lay after loading her initial cargo for Southeast ern Alaska. It has been many moons since the wharf held as .many persons as were gathered yesterday and from the time the steamer reached a berth there in the morning until she backed into the stream at 8 o'clock last night and swung around to pass through the Burnside-street bridge, thousands had inspected her. Wand Known In Portland. It was Alaska day In reality. Con- ldering that the steamer was not one or tnose selected lor passengers and only her cargo and officers were on exhibition, the occasion was one of th biggest drawing cards residents of th:s city nave witnessed'. The Wand is far from being a stranger in these waters, as she has many Portland voy ages to her credit, but probably not 2 per cent of yesterday's crowd ever gave her a passing glance until aha at tained prominence as Portland's -ship of hope, a vessel that has the distinc tion of leading the first permanent steamship line to the North that has been established here. Captain F. L. Herriman, her master. and Captain A. C. Jansen, her pilot. both men of long experience and the 1 latter a veteran of the Northern trade, were two of the most popular men on the waterfront during the day and. with preparations for departure, meet ing old friends and making new ones, (Concluded on Page 38.) ! ALASKAN DREAM COM UE or 7 A INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 62 degrees; minimum, 44 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; variable wind, mostly normeriy. Foreign. Militants bitterly attack British labor par ty. Fage 1. National. Tribute paid to Mrs. Duniway la course of suffrage argument in Senate. Fase Foes of canal exemption repeal organizing to oppose President. Page 2. State Department loses John Bassett Moore, International law expert, as result of friction with Administration. Page 1 Sudden rise of industrialism declared to threaten crisis. Page o. Secretary Bryan plans trip to South America, Page L Supporters of Diaz amazed with plea for aid to start new revolution. Page 1. Copper mineowners deny strikebreakers were deceived. Page 2, Sport. Loss of Berry does not cripple Beavers. Page 8. McCredie gives up hope of langing "Babe" Keama. Page 9. Organized baseball ready for finish fight with Federals, page $. Pacific KorthweftC Mailcarrlers out of Davenport, "Wash., lose wUh increase of parcel post. rage o. State Bank Supperlntendent Sargent notifies state banks how to come witnin eaerai reserve system, page ts. Yuka, Cal., municipal Kip awake once more, says David Swing Kicker. Page T. Spokane may aid Portland in fight for open Columbia River. Page i. Thieves feast on food In Salem High School. Paga 1. Commercial and Marine. Coffee prices not expected to go lower. Page 19. Weaker cables and fine crop outlook hold Chicago wheat in check, page iu. Steel stocks strong feature of Wall street market. Page 19. Public dock .No. 1 to be in use April 1. Page 14. Portland and Vicinity. Permanent steamship line to Alaska opened by departure of wana. rage J Weather report, data and forecast. Page 19. Oregon Daughters of American Revolution in state conference. Page o. . Mayor and Commissioners see first Ford car built In Portland in 40 minutes. Page 16. Franchise granted for Fast Side cross-town line. Page 3. , Chamber to Investigated easlblllty of uniting city and county government. Page 20. Suicide follows murder on street. Page 8. CITY OFFICIALS CRITICISED Olympia Indebtedness Declared Far Above Legal Limit. QLYMPIA. Wash., March 4. (Spe cial.) Olympia city officials are criti cised harshly by the State Bureau of Inspection, in a report just filed with the Attorney-General, for failing to make proper provision for the retire ment of indebtedness that greatly ex ceeds the constitutional debt limits. The assets of the city at the first of the year, the report shows, were $160, 925.59, while liabilities were $282, S90.75. The net liabilities show a. re duction of $14,000 from a year ago, but are exill far over the limit. A considerable portion of the In debtedness consists of warrants so old that the accrued interest represents 152 per cent of the face value of the warrants, the report alleges. Contrary to law, the bureau says, the city au thorities have been diverting licenses and fines, which should go into the indebtedness fund, and have made the lowest city levy in seven years in the face of the illegal debt. The bureau also points out that on account of the financial condition of the city it is obtaining no interest on its bank deposits. VHAT USE IS A PILOT, ANYWAY? DIAZ SUPPORTERS ASK OFFICIAL AID Senate Committee Is Amazed by Request. NEW REVOLUTION PROPOSED Suggestion Openly Made and Sharply Rejected. SPIRITED DEBATE COMING Congress to Take Notice of Mexican Situation Within Few Days and Change of Policy Is to Be Urged. WASHINGTON, March 4. Although Great Britain's reluctance to press the Benton case et this time has made the Mexican situation less acute, there are several aspects of It which, it Is now practically certain, will occasion spir ited debate in the Senate in a few days. It became known tonight that facts and data concerning the number of foreigners killed in Mexico since armed revolution began there are being gath ered by the State Department for Sena tor Shively, ranking member of the for eign relations committee, who is ex pected to present official records about conditions in the southern republic. It was reported that Senator Fall, of New Mexico, would open the debate with a speech pointing to conditions in Mex ico and urging a change of policy. Dla Forces Ask Support. Incidentally, the New Mexico Senator today presented to the foreign rela tions committee Pedro del Villar and Cecilio Ocon, representing the political interests of Felix Diaz. Members of the committee were frankly amazed when the Mexicans sought the moral support of the United States Government to bring about peace n Mexico by another revolution headed by Diaz. The committee had no Idea, it is said, of the exact purpose of their visit other than they -wished to present information about the situation in Mex ico. Members of the committee flatly said that the United States could not recognize any such movement. Both Sides AccuHed. Vilar and Ocon severely arraigned Huerta as corrupt and Carranza and Villa as bandits and argued that Felix Diaz had a host of loyal Mexican citi zens behind hiin who would rush to his support to establish a real government in Mexico. They wanted to get a prom- (Concluded on Page 2.) BRYAN PLANS VISIT TO SOUTH AMERICA SECRETARY TO ATTEND CON FERENCE IX CHILE. President Wilson Approves Plan for Trip, Precedent for 'Which Was Set by Root and Knox. WASHINGTON, March 4. Secretary Bryan today informed the Government board of the Pan-American Union, com posed of the representatives here of all the American republics, that he had ac cepted the invitation of Chile and would visit Santiago, Chile, next September at the time of the meeting there of the fifth Pan-American conference. Senor Suarez, Minister from Chile, extended the invitation to Secretary Bryan. President Wilson has approved the plan and the Secretary plans to leave about the middle of August He ex pects to proceed down the west coast of South America, stopping at Peru, and to return by the east coast, making visits in Argentina, Uruguay and Bra zil. Mr. Bryan's predecessors. Secretaries Root and Knox, paid friendly visits to several South and Central American countries when they were in office. Secretary Root made an extended trip around South America, In the course of which he delivered many- important speeches which diplomats said did much to increase the growing friendship be tween the United States and the other American republics. Secretary Bryan will be the first oc cupant of the office who has gone out of the country t attend one of the Pan-American conferences. THEFT LAID TO POLICEMAN Eugene Officer Held on Charge of Stealing Brandy. EUGENE, Or., March 4. (Special.) F. E. McCune, a member of the night force of the Eugene police, was ar rested today on a charge of stealing a quantity of prune brandy stored In the City Hall since a raid three weeks ago on a distillery near here. Quantities of the brandy found about the city led the officers to watch care fully the barrels they had confiscated. and a sample was submitted to Charles Knoop, who had made the liquor. He recognized it as his distilling, and that night the ofllcers drove the bung of the barrel In tight. The next morning it was loose, so a watch was set and McCune was caught, it is charged. In the act of drawing off a quantity of the liquor. He was turned over to the Sheriff's office. TAFT ADVOCATES REFORM Ex-President Would Extend Civil Service, Except to Few Places. AMHERST, Mass., March 4. "Civil service reform should be extended to include all appointive offices in the National Government except those in the Cabinet. the Judiciary and the higher position on which the political character of the Administration de pends." ex-President Taft said tonight in an address to students of Amherst College. Congress, he added, should not be required to confirm appoint ments. Mr. Taft said that the old idea that the President should not leave the country was a wrong one and that he purposed, if he had been re-elected, to visit the Philippines and the Hawaiian Islands. BEAUTY IN TALK ADVISED Women Embryo Stump 'Speakers Re ceive Lessons In Oratory. CHICAGO, March 4. "A political speech should be as beautiful as a painting; its sequence of Ideas should resemble the natural passage of chords in music," said Miss M. Katherine Ly ons today to a class of members of the Woman's party of Cook County. The teacher was an instructor in oratory and her pupils were prospec tive stump speakers, seeking liglrt on how best to capture elusive voters in the coming Spring election. WOLVES SURROUND ROME Hungry Animals, Driven From Hills by Snow, Ravish Italian Flocks. ROME, March 4. Hordes of starving wolves, driven from the Apennine Mountains by the heavy snows, de scended today Into the valleys of the Abruzzl provinces and in the vicinity of Rome and devoured hundreds of sheep. The wolves afterward took refuge in the caverns ot Mount Soracte, about 25 miles north of Rome. MEXICO CONCERNS POPE Pontiff Expresses Horror at Killing of Briton at Juarez. ROME, March 4. Pope Pius today re ceived in audience Monsignor Tomassi Boggiani, apostolic delegate to Mexico. His Holiness discussed the situation in Mexico and evinced horror at the killing of W. S. Benton in Juarez. He also inquired about the delay in permitting the United States Govern ment to investigate Benton's death. SALARY ADVANCE REFUSED Governor Walsh Says Election Is Contract With People. BOSTON, March 4. Governor Walsh sent to the Legislature a special mes sage today saying that he would re fuse to accept an Increase in his salary from $8000 to $12,000 a year. While conceding that the present sal ary Is Inadequate, the Governor said the verdict of the election constituted a binding contract with the people at a fixed sum. MILITANTS FIGHT AT LABOR MEETING Women Ushers Fail in Role of 'Bouncers'. HAIR IS PULLED IN STRUGGLE Party That Espoused Cause of Sex Bitterly Opposed. OLD HOSTILITY RENEWED Police Require Hour to Restore Or der, and Chairman, Resuming His Speech, Says Suffragettes Arc Women's Real Enemies. LONDON, March 4. Militant suf fragettes today gave further proof that their bitterest animosity is reserved for the Labor party, the only political party which has espoused their cause. As soon as J. Ramsay MacDonald, chairman of the Labor party, began speaking at a Labor party rally In Me morial Hall, suffragettes in all parts of the chamber, aided by male sup porters, started to howl him down. Women ushers had been engaged to deal with women interrupters of the meeting and men to attend to mascu line disturbers, but as "bouncers" for their own sex the women proved failures and the men had to take over their duties. For nearly an hour a fierce struggle raged In the hall. Women Pull Hair and Scratch. There were frequent free fights be tween men, while women grabbed one another by the hair, scratched faces and tore clothing. Windows were smashed and chairs broken. Eventually the police restored order and Mr. MacDonald got a chance to finish his speech. In concluding, he said that if the vote could be gained for women by turning out the govern ment, the Labor party would assist them. The worst enemies to the wo men's cause, he declared, were the militant suffragettes, of whose methods the people just had a striking illustra tion. HoxHIIty In Xot New. The hostility of the militant suf fragettes toward members of the Labor party is of long standing. In addition to J. Ramsey MacDonald, such well- known Labor members of Parliament as J. Kier Hardie. Will Crooks and Phillip Snow an are among the num erous professed staunch advocates of woman suffrage who have been heckeled at various times. The militants charge that the Laborites, although openly espousing their cause, are really traitors, inas much as they do not force the govern ment to give women the vote. The bar ring of suffragettes from the Labor party's convention in Manchester last March added to the hostility of the women towards the Laborites. l.aliorKrs Locked In Hall. While the convention was iu ses sion, militant suffragettes bolted, barred and chained the doors ot the hall. Unaware that they were locked in, the Laborites cheered speches of delegates favoring giving women the vote. The delegats found out only at lunch time that they were prisoners and workmen with files and chisels had to be summoned to cut the bars and chains and release them. Mrs. Enimaline Paukhurst, the mili tant leader, has reviled the Labor party leaders frequently in speeches. She said they had professed sympathy with the cause of women and received help "personal and pecuniary," but yet they had never done anything to for ward the movement to secure votes for women. Sylvia l'ankhurat Threatens. Sylvia Pankhurst, in addressing a meeting tonight outside the house in which she is Intrenched against the po lice, said. she intended to be present in Trafalgar Square Sunday, not to preach peace, but to advise the people to do as much damage as possible. Dr. Ethel Smyth, who was arrested last Friday night after a meeting ad dressed by Sylvia Pankhurst, tonight drilled the members of the "people's army," but on account of the good natured attitude of the police the as semblage was dispersed without dis order. IMPORTED BIRDS RELEASED Hungarian Partridges and Califor nia Quail Freed In Clatsop. ASTORIA, Or.. March 4. (Special.) Twelve pairs of Hungarian partridges and six pairs of California quail were received today by Charles V. Brown from the state game farm at Corvallls and were released on Clatsop Plains, near Glenwood station. The partridges are part of a ' con signment of 500 pairs that were re cently imported from Hungary. Exploiter of Bride Sentenced. STOCKTON, Cal., March 4. Charte3 F. Walden was sentenced to ten years' Imprisonment In San Quentln Peniten tiary today, following his conviction by a Jury on the charge of white slavery. Walden placed his bride of three days In a local tenderloin resort. Judge Plummer said he would have imposed a heavier, sentence but that the law would not permit it. lidnot