V THE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1914. OPTIMISTS PREDICT !T EXPANSION Effect of ?Jew Currency Law Declared to Promise Limit on Speculation. LESS GOLD TO BE NEEDED Director or .Mint Says Additional Currency Can Be Issued Without Increasing- Reserves Sys tem "Mving Agency." CfUCAGO, March 13. Optimistic views ot the probable operation of the Federal reserve act were expressed to Jay by financial experts gathered here for the conference of the Western Eco nomic Society. Expansion of general commercial credits and limitation of stock specu lation were predicted and a general increase of confidence In the stability of bank reserves was expressed. The only fear was that a limited period of uncertainty might occur during the re adjustment of relations between the banks and their new reserve centers. "The United States has a policy al ready recognized and established clse where." George E. Koberts, director of the United States mint. said. "'The system will be of advantage to every banker in the country whether he is a member or not. Ureater Stability Promised. "It has provided a centralized, of ficial control of the banking reserves of the country, to be exercised through the discount rate, and supplemented by the power of note issue. It is apparent that the more completely all reserves are brought into the system the more complete and effective the control will be." ire declared that the system had been established for the common good and besides was if advantage to every banker, whether he joined it or not, through greater security and stability. "There is nothing in the plan that will release large amounts of gold for exportation or even give it early prob ability,' continued Mr. Roberts. "It is true that the system can be operated with less gold than is required for our costly gold certificate currency. The truth is that we are approaching ex travagance, not to say wastefulness, in our gold reserves. - Additional Currency Possible. "But the old system has worked un der fixed conditions without the direc tion or elasticity r adaption to chang ing conditions. The new system will be a living agency, with powers of initiative and self-help and will make it possible to issue additional cur rency without increasing the reserves." Jacob H. Hollander, of Johns Hop kins University, said it was probable banks would be obliged to curtail cer tain investment tendencies. "We must face the fact," he said. "that banks buy bonds not only for income but to profit by a prospective rise and to participate in modern cor porate financing. Insofar as the mo tive of such investment is speculative it is indefensible. This prevailin practice is likely to be checked rather than stopped. This eonsioeratf on in ieed justifies the contemplation of leg islation restrictive on the. freedom of banks to make bond purchases." NEW OPIUM JUJLE ISSUED IniHr(:i tion Prohibited, Importation Subject to ltcgulation. WASHINGTON'. Maj-ch IS. Regula tions to carry into effect the recent act of Congress prohibiting the iniporta tion of opium went forward from the Treasury Department today to col lector? of customs. The regulations supersede those of March 27, 1909. The law prohibits, except under cer tain restrictions. the importation of opium and cocaine and their prepara tions, but regulations governing their exportation have not yet been formu lated. Pending the promulgation of these regulations, collectors are warned not to permit the exportation of these drugs without express authority in each case. 'GOLDEN RULE' CHIEF RUNS Once Convicted Reform Policeman Seeks Sheriffs Office. CLEVELAND, March J. Fred Koh ler, ex-Chief of Police of Cleveland, known as the "Golden Rule" Chief, In an open letter announcing his candi dacy for Sheriff today said he had "paid in full" for his dismissal from office a year ago. Kohler was dismisssed after he bad been found guilty of private miscon duct. He previously had been named in connection, with a divorce suit. In his letter he1 said that he wished to rehabilitate himself In the opinion of his fellow citizens, that he "had paid in full" and that no further penalty ought to be exacted of him. On a visit here Colonel Roosevelt once referred to Kohler as the "best chief in America." T. R. REACHES FRONTIER Colonel Xoxt Traveling Toward Manaos, on Tipper Amazon. RIO DE JANEIRO,' Brazil, March 13. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and the other members of his expedition have arrived at Barao de Melgaco, on the frontier between the states ot Matto Grosso and Amazonas. This is the terminal point of the second stage of f.neir journey. Tit next stage of the expedition likes thera toward the rivers Com neracao Flortano and Gyparana, their lestination being Manaos, capital of the State of Amazonas, lying on the Rio Negro, 10 miles from its junction with the Amazon. EXPRESS COMPANY TO QUIT (Continued From Firat Page.) some of the leading railroads of the country. Earnings of the company for the five months of the fiscal year so far report ed showed steady decline, with a deficit of $33,000 for November. Holiday bus! ness was fairly large, but earnings con tinued to dwindle until some of the more Influential interests became out spoken 'for liquidation. Piatt Family Lou Dominant. The late Thomas C. Piatt - and his family were for years the dominant In terests in United States Express. In fact, their control was so complete that ous demands and protests on the part of minority interests and for many years practically nothing was known of the affairs of the company, no meet ing of the stockholders having been held In more than 50 years. There are outstanding 100 shares of United States Express stock and these are in comparatively few hands. The Harriman estate Is believed to Vinll mr.ro than one-fifth Of the whole which the late E. H. Harriman acquired from the American and Adams express companies before his death, at an out lay of about $2,250,000. The Interests of the Piatt family, two of whom con tinn tn ha miitA active in the man agement of the company, are said to be relatively small. . n- l -.. nAmnSnv ot t n a time had 1 lie CAyicoo hjiuj. ci i.j - - .. AVApin(r 3& nno miles with some of the leading railroad lines of the country.- in part tnese contracio have expired, but the remaining ones are said to be of potential value and it Is assumed that they will be trans ferred to one of the company's former . f . i-o npAhahlv Wells. Varea &. I V) 1 1 M.r'.- .1 . " ' - . ... ........ . .. . . . Co.. in which the Harriman interests have large Holdings. D." I. Roberts, president of the United c(,oa riYTirMi Cnmnanv. in a state ment tonight said the action of the di rectors was "not a threat or a bid for Crovernment sympathy." but simply tnat tne company couia nut cunnnuc in inctifA tr thn stockholders, more than half of whom are women. Farther Continuance Impossible. "The company was not confronted by any theory, but by a real condition," Mr. Roberts said. "If the Government had been satisfied with parcel pojt as it was first inaugurated and If we were not confronted by another condition by the action of the Interstate Commerce Commission in putting Into effect on February 1. this year, severe cuts In express rates, we could have gone along all right. "The action of the Interstate Com merce Commission was a severe blow to the company and when we were con fronted with a further threat on the part of the Government of further re ductions in parcel post rates and fur ther increase in weights of parcels they would carry. It got to the point where for us to continue in the express business was impossible." ROBBERY REALLY DREAM MKDKORD MAX'S IDOO FOIXD IN BOWL AFTKR LONG SEARCH. Former Medford Grocer Who Reports I.oks of Money Paid Him for Store Discovers It la Cupboard. MEDFORD. Or., March IS. (Spe cial.) After the police had searched all day for a mysterious robber, who, it was reported, took $1900 in gold from S. M. Nichols' bureau drawer at 4 o'clock this morning and after Mr. Nichols had offered a reward and sought financial aid from his relatives in Jacksonville, the cash was found tonight safe and sound reposing In a crockory bowl in the kitchen pan try of the Nichols residence on South Front street. Mr. Nichols sold his grocery store yesterday for $1900 and took the amount in $20 gold pieces to his home. About 4 o'clock in the morning he ran into the street in his pajamas, shouting he had been robbed. The police searched the house, found evi dences of a marauder and concluded some one familiar with the transac tion had broken in and taken the money.. Nichols finally decided that it all might have been a dream. Returning to his home with the police and sev eral others interested in the case, he found the money in the cupboard on which was reposing his own six shoojer. CUPID SHOWS 110 FEAR WISCONSIN KUGEN'ICS LAW HAS JMTTI.E EFFECT ON WEDDIGS. Numlicr of Licenses In December Last Year Exceeds That of 1012 by 500. January Decrease Slight. MADISON. Wis., March 13. The eugenics law passed at the last ses sion of the Legislature haB had prac tlcally no effect on the normal num ber of marriages in the state, it is contended by Dr. C. A. Harper, state health officer in a statement today. In December, 1912, there were 1521 mar riages, as compared with 2026 in De cember last year. 'In other words there was an in crease of 505 marriages in December last year over the same month the year before," said Dr. Harper. "Many people doubtless desired to marry be fore the law became effective in Jan uary and there has been a small fall ing off in the marriages of January this year as compared with a year be fore. But the difference of the two months of January compared is only 209, while the increase in marriages last December was 505. Male applicants for marriage licenses In Wisconsin, under the Eugenics law. must submit to a '. rigid physical ex amination which includes a blood test. MUTES RESERVE SEATS HELEV KELLER TO HAVE LARGE "AUDIENCE' OF AFFLICTED. Tickets for Lecture Going: Rapidly and Many From Distant Points Are Expected to Attend. A block of 30 seats has been re served for deaf and dumb people who are coming to Portland from different parts of Oregon and Washington March 27 and 28 to "hear" Helen Keller, who will appear at the Lincoln High School in lectures on those dates. V. R. Manning, secretary of the As sociated Charities, tinder the auspices of which the lectures are to be given, received the letter asking for the reservation of the seats for deaf people yesterday. J. F. Meagher, of Vancou ver, Wash., publisher of the Washing tonian, a bi-weekly paper for the deaf and dumb, sent in the order. He an nounced that he was intending to cli- culate the announcement of the coming of the famous blind girl widely throughout the state among his sub scribers and said that there would be a large attendance of the deaf and dumb at her lectures. The Oregon Association for the Deaf and Dumb also has written Mr. Man ning asking If arrangements can be made for a reception to be given MIbs Keller and her companion and teacher. Mrs. Macy, on one of the days of her engagement in Portland. The sale of tickets for the' lectures is going well and reserved seats are being taken up rapidly. General ad mission tickets are being sold at the Sherman -Clay & Co, store, the Owl Drug Company, St. Johns Pharmacy, Pellwood Pharmacy, Matthleu Drug Company and the office of the Associated Charities. Reservations are made at the office of the Associated Charities. GAR ROBBERS KILL MID ARE CAPTURED Engineer Shot Down as He Tries to Explain Danger ' of Obeying Command. TWO OF POSSE WOUNDED One or Ilcsperadops Dies as Kcsult of Wound Fifteen Members or Nenr-By Railroad Construc tion Crew Arrested. PEORIA, 111.. March 13. Two men were killed and two Deputy sheriffs and a woman wounded as the result of an attempted holdup of a Chicago & Northwestern freight train at Manllus, 111., 45 miles north of here, today. Arthur Fisher, of Pekin, 111., engineer of the freight train, was shot dead by one of the robbers and an unidentified robber was killed in a battle with the Sheriff's posse. The wounded are Jesse Byers, son of Jesse Byers, of Princeton, and Bert Skroglund, also of Princeton. Byers was shot in the leg and Skroglund through the jaw. Mrs. Wright, wife of the station agent at Langley, was struck by a stray bullet, but is be lieved not to be seriously wounded. The trainmen assert they found four men unloading merchandise from one of the cars when the train stopped at Manilus. One of the men -opened fire on the conductor while the others ran to the engine and ordered Engineer Fisher to proceed with the train. He started to explain there would be dan ger of a collision and one of the rob bers shot him dead. The three men then jumped from the engine and, rejoining the fourth, who had been holding off the crew. fled 1?i the direction of Langley. Sheriff Byers and his two deputies started in pursuit, finally finding the robbers in a bunk car near Langley. The men opened fire on the officers, wounding both deputies. They then fled to a cornfield, where they were later surrounded by Sheriff Byers and a posse of farmers. In an exchange of shots, one of the robbers fell, shot through the abdomen. Two then surrendered and the third escaped to Chillicothe, 111., where he was later arrested. The wounded rob ber was hurried to a hospital but died within a few hours. The robbers are believed to .have worked recently on railroad construc tion work near Langley. Fifteen mem bers of the construction gang . were arrested tonight. RICH WOMAN IS PICKET CHICAGO MATRON TELLS OF AIDING WAITRESSES OX STRIKE. Mrs. Raymond Robins, Noted Settlement Worker, Takes Stand lu Court and Relates Her Experiences. CHICAGO. March 13. Mrs. Raymond Robins, one of Chicago's wealthiest and most widely known settlement workers, took the witness stand In court today and told of her experi ences picketing with waitresses in the attempt to boycott a restaurant on Randolph Btreet. "I did pidcet duty on several occa sions," Mrs. Jtooins said, "ine gins walked up and down in front of the restaurant and spoke of the strike. They spoke in an ordinary tone and there were no arrests while I was thf-re." She told of a conference at Hull House, when, she said, the manager of the restaurant, admitted he was willing to pay witresses $8 a week for six days' work, but that the- or ganization of which he was a member would not permit it. . Mrs Robins said Mrs. Medill McCor- mick said at the meeting the waitresses would be satisfied with this wage if they were permitted to unionize. SELF SACRIFICE FOUND CANCER VICTIM SPARES FAMILY BY ISOLATING 'HIMSELF. Horace G. Clarke, Late Xephew of Ex- Governor of Iowa, Found to Have Lived Under Assumed Name. IOWA CITY, la., March 13. Horace G. Clarke, nephew of ex-Governor Kirk wood, whose body was rescued from a Milwaukee morgue by Mrs. Thomas ki. Carson, his sister, a wealthy resident of Davenport, sacrificed himself for his relatives, according to Mrs. Carson, who came here tonight. Mr. Clarke Is to be buried here. Mr. Clarke lived for some years in Milwaukee under the name of Harry Harrye, It was discov ered after his death. "He isolated himself when he learned that he had cancer," she said, "in order to save his relatives and friends the pain of witnessing his suffering." She denied her brother had died from noison. as at first reported. "A postmortem examination showed that death was due to cancer," she said "His neighbors told us a remarkable story of his giving away all his funds above his bare necessities; of spending his evenings reading to an aged blind man." METER REFERENDUM IS ON (Continued From First page.) 5000 signatures were obtained in the one day's work done." One man came in early in the morn ing with the first filled petitions. He had procured the blanks at the meet ing the previous night and had them filled before the office of the committee was opened,- i "I want 100 more blanks to take away with me right now," he said. "I will distribute them in every club and Improvement association on the Bast Side, and I can promise that the most of them will be back filled with names tomorrow or Monday." Another Pledges Aid. "I wasn't at the meeting," said an other, "but as soon as I found out what the citizens had started last night 1 came to offer my services as a volun teer circulator. I will do everything 1 can to help the referendum move ment forward." Condemnation of the plan to install the meters was hot of a personal na ture. Few of those who appeared to get petition blanks made any remarks directly attacking members of the Commission, but simply declared their belief that the plan to instal meters would mean needless waste of the tax payers' money. "It is an unnecessary extravagance said one owner of a large office build ing, who.called for petitions for cir culation among his tenants. Taxpayers Favor Movement." "Not only the small taxpayers to whom I have talked, but taxpayers In all degrees who have discussed the matter with me have expressed their sympathy with the referendum, move ment, and I believe that I could get enough names to "complete the neces sary number myself with little solici tation." "I believe it is not a question of whether we will get enough names to call the referendum," said another, "It is a question of how enormous the ma jority will be that will uphold the tax payers in the election and administer a plain and unmistakable rebuke agaipst foolish and needless expenditure of the public money." Telephone Calls Come In. Besides the visitors who.called at the headquartere of the referendum movement, at 412 Railway Exchange building, there was an unceasing series of telephone calls from men and women who desired to have blank petitions sent them for circulation at once and who said that they could get hundreds of names, if necessary. When'the list of names is completed it will represent probably the most in expensive campaign to procure signa tures in the history of referendums in Portland, for everyone of the 600 or more men and women in the field is a volunteer, and the only expense that has attached is the cost of printing the petition blanks. The first 1000 petitions were all sent out by night and the committee will have another 1000 printed and ready today. A special committee will place pe titions In every business building to day and circulators will take the pe titions systematically through each. Petitions will be sent to every, club and civic, commercial or fraternal or ganization and sawmill and other busi ness concern. Building Managers Help. ' Managers of several . of the larger office buildings visited the headquar ters in person and obtained enough pe titions to take care of their tenants. With the petitions that will be sent out and taken out today there will be about 2000 petitions in the field Mon day morning. 'Firmly as we were convinced from the outset that the majority of tho taxpayers of Portland wowuld be with us in this movement," said W. L. Boise, of the committee, "the response that was made at the mass meeting and at the headquarters was a revelation to us. I believe that there is not the slightest doubt that the referendum will result in a victory to those who are op posed to the wasteful extravagance of installing unneeded meters, and I think that the majority will be sufficiently large to settle the question of needless extravagance in such matters for some time to come." SULZER LOSES DECISION Court IJcfuses Writ for Salary In volving Impeachment Test. ALBANY, N. Y., March 13. Without passing on the merits or tne case, me Appellate Division, Third Department, today sustained Supreme Court Justice Chester in his denial of the applica tion of William Sulzer for a writ of mandamus to compel Controller Schmer to pay the salary of the ex-Governor from the time of Bis impeachment. Preparations were begun to have the case reviewed by the Court of Appeals. Mr. Sulzer hopes to have the United States Supreme Court pass on the va lidity of his impeachment. COAST FOLK MEET KING San Francisco Woman Among Those Presented to English Court. LONDON. March 13. At the court In Buckingham Palace tonight, the first of those functions at which the young Prince of Wales has been present, Mrs. Walter Hines Page, wife of the Ameri can Ambassador, presented Mrs.. John Parke, wife of Lieutenant John b. Parke, military attache to the Ameri can Legation in Belgium, and the Misses Genevieve and Pauline Parke, Mrs. Fletcher F. Ryer and Miss Doris Ryer, of San .Francisco; Miss Mary Nations, of Texas, and Miss Frances Leggett, of New York. Mrs. Newton Booth Ivnox, of ban Francisco, also was presented to the King and Queen." JACKSON PIONEER IS DEAD William Robinson, Early Miner, Passe9 Away at Ashland. ASHLAND, Or., March 13. (Special.) William Robinson, a pioneer of Jackson County, died yesterday. He was 8S years old and a native of Ten nessee. He came to Southern Oregon in 1852, engaging in mining and other pursuits. Several years ago he suf fered a paralytic stroke and since that time has been an invalid. Funeral services will be held in Jack sonville Sunday. He was a Mason and the funeral will be held under the aus pices of that fraternity. He leaves no known relatives in this state. Bay City Man Would Be Surveyor. BAY CITY, Or., March 13. (Special.) Leo Wilson, of this city, has an nounced his candidacy-for the position of County Surveyor of Tillamook County. At present he is City En gineer and has had considerable ex perience in railroad work as well as general surveying. His father was one of the first 'surveyors in the county and It was for him that the Wilson River was named. Asylum Inmate Ends Life. SALEM. Or.. March 13. (Special.) S. Kokima, a Japanese, committed from Portland two years ago, hanged him self at the State Insane Asylum today with a rope made of shoe laces. The man had attempted to take his life on several occasions. When the inmates were taken out for exercise this morn ing Kokima was missing. He was found by an attendant In a bathroom hanging to a water pipe. 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Each fraternity and club was repre sented in speeches and each man spoke In favor of a better college and a bet ter fraternity system. Closer associa tion was the keynote of the gathering. Just what plans are to be followed will not be definitely known until Sun day afternoon, when two men, a senior and junior, from each nouse will meet, confer and draw up plans for what is to be termed an "inter-fraternity con ference." "It was just a boosters' meeting," said Bezdek. "I never knew before that we had such a fine lot of boys in col lege until I got them all together." Late into the night, after the meet ing was over, the upper classmen pa raded the streets, marching from fra ternity house to fraternity house, sing ing college songs and giving college yells. The demonstration resembled a football rally. Its true significance is: "Better fellowship at Oregon." WHITE SLAVERY CHARGE DETECTIVES FROM FOUR CITIES TESTIFY AGAIJfST COLORED MAN. 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