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f Jlurninii; Jill VOL. LI V. NO. 1G,635 PORTLAND. OREGON. FRIDAY, 31 ARCH 20, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS. I- SUFFRAGE LOSES ON SENATE VOTE 35 For to 34 Against Amendment . TWQ-THIROS NEEDED TO PASS Women Leaders Are Jubilant Over Majority. DEFEAT CALLED TRIUMPH All of Southern Members Oppose Measure, Giving Xcgro Question as Reason Fight Has Raged Since "Wilson Took Office. "WASHINGTON", March 19. Woman suffrage advocates today lost their fight In the United States Senate for a resolution proposing an amendment to the Federal Constitution giving women the ballot. The vote was 35 for the measure to 34 against it, a two-thirds affirmative vote being required for passage. Wtien it was all over, suffragist leaders jubilantly pointed to the ma jority of one as conclusive proof that their cause had scored a triumph in defeat and was immeasurably stronger than Its opponents had ever been will ing to concede. Vote EndM Lively Campaign. Today's action, following weeks of debate on the floor of the Senate, dur ing which many leaders in the suffrage movement pleaded for postponement of the final vote, marked the climax of a spirited campaign launched here the day before the inauguration of Presi dent Wilson. Immediately after the vote Senator Shafroth, of Colorado, sought to intro duce a new resolution for a constitu tional amendment requiring each state to vote on granting suffrage to wonien, on petition from 5 per cent of Its vot ers. The Senate went Into executive session before the Senator could get the floor, however, and the resolution will be offered later. Chamberlain FTi-st Champion. The resolution defeated today was the first introduced in the present Con gress. It was1 presented by Eenator Chamberlain, of Oregon, and the woman suffrage committe later au thorized Senator Ashurst to report it favorably. Although otherwise the vote virtu ally was non-partisan, Southern Sen ators, all Democrats, lined up almost solidly against tho amendment. They contended it would complicate the ne gro question in the South. Of the Southerners only Senators Ransdell, of liouisiana; Sheppard, of Texas, and Lea, of Tennessee, voted for the resolution. eroes Stand In Way. Senator Vardaman led a movement among friends of woman suffrage In tho South to repeal the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution, by which the states are prohibited from denying the right to negroes to vote. With the negro question removed, he said, he favored the granting of suf frage to women. His proposal was de feated by 48 to 19 and a proposition by Senator Williams to give the ballot to white women only was defeated by 44 to 21. The vote was preceded by a three hour . kaleidoscopic debate. Senator Martine, of New Jersey, was the only member who said he was opposed to woman suffrage on principle. He de clared the participation of women in polities had failed to purify the ballot and that it would be a sad and sorry ciay for both women and men when equal suffrage prevailed. Apostles' Case Is Cited. The speeches of suffrage Senators, he added, had excited in his mind the wonder if they found objection to the Savior for not choosing six of the apostles from among the women. Senator Gallinger asserted it would be a crime to repeal the fifteenth amendment, even if it were a blunder to have passed it. Senator Townsend insisted it was no blunder to have passed it and added - it was not necessary to do injustice to negroes In order to do justice to women. Senator Newlands said he was in fa vor of making this a-white man's coun try, so as to shut out the Japanese as well. as the negro, but questioned the propriety of doing this "by adopting woman suffrage. ' V emrn See Hope. Mrs. Med ill McCormick, chairman of the Congressional committee of the Na tional Woman Suffrage Association, is sued a statement that the majority -ote was a victory. "For the first time in 50 years," she aid, "the women of America demon strated their Impression upon the Unit ed States Senate. It is a sign of the times, and It portends that all woman hood in this country will be emancipat ed within this generation." A statement Issued by Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the Congressional Union for woman suffrage, regretted "that the Democratic leaders in charge of the suffrage amendment in the Sen ate allowed that measure to be wrecked for the time being by forcing it to a premature vote." Miss Paul added that the union hoped that in the two or three months remaining before the ses sion closes Congress would reconsider 'ts action. Senators voting for the suffrage (Concluded on Fage 3.) NATIONAL BALLOON RACE FOR PORTLAND CROSS-COUXTRY FLIGHT TO BE ROSE FESTIVAL FEATURE. Veteran Pilots of Racing Air-Craft Announce Intention to Become Contestants in Event. ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 19. (Spe cial.) Confident that a new world long-distance balloon record would be established in the race from Portland next June, Joseph M. Rleg, of that city, departed for home tonight with the sanction of the Aero Club of Amer ica for the race. He was a bidder for the National elimination race, offering 3000. but the contest was awarded to St. Louis. Sanction for the Portland meet, which will be a National one, but will not be of official significance, was obtained through the assistance of Albert Bond Lambert, of St. Louis,' member of board of governors of the National aero body. The- Portland race will be held, on June 11, during the Portland Rose Festival. Mr Kieg says that the prevailing winds are easterly from Portland at that season and that the entrants will have the entire North American con tinent as a vantage ground for dis tance record, if a new long-distance record is established there will be no difficulty in having it posted a3 an official new record, he believes. Captain H. 13. Poneywell, John Berry and William V. Assmann, of St. Louis, all veteran balloon pilots, have In formed Mr. Rieg they will enter in the Portland contest. Confirmation of the Aero Club's de cision to sanction the National balloon race for Portland was received here last night by C. C. Colt, president or the Festival Association. Arrangements have been made to fill the balloons with high-grade gas. It Is probable that an open plot near the central part of the city will be selected as the starting point. MESSENGER BOYS VICTORS Federal Judge Holds Street Attacks Are Police Court Affair. DETROIT, March 19. Grinning mes senger boys partially filled the Federal courtroom today when Judge Tuttle announced that the Western Union Telegraph Company had not made a proper showing for an injunction against its juvenile strikeis. The In junction was asked yesterday on the ground that the ' boys, by attacking strikebreakers had interfered with in terstate messages. . ' - - '. The court held that the fighting al leged to have taken place was a matter for the police courts. The boys seek an increase In pay for delivery of mes sages outside of the mile circle. "That court's got the right Idea," shouted one of the strike leaders, after the injunction had Deen denied. STATE MAY GET OREGON Governor Asks Xavy Department for Historic Battleship. SALEM, Or., March 19. (Special.) Governor West said today that while he was in Washington, D. C, he made a request of the Navy Department that after the battleship Oregon partici pates in the exercises at the Panama Canal it be turned over to this state for use as a training ship by the naval militia. The militia now has the cruiser Boston, but a strong effort is being made to have the historic battle ship substituted for it. Governor West said he was given as surance that the favor would be grant ed if it were found practicable to do so. RICH WOMAN IS SWINDLED "De Luxe" Books Bought for $87, 000 Are Worth Only $4070. BOSTON, March 19. After Mrs. L. Rogers, a wealthy resident of this city, had testified at the "de luxe" book trial in the Superior Court today that she paid Glen F. Farmer, Samuel Rosen iiekt and James P. Clark $87,000 for 17 volumes, Frederick M. Hopkins, of Yonkers, N. Y., who said he was an ex pert, declared that the market value of the books was ?4079. Mrs. Rogers said she bought the books not to read, but to hold for an increased price. RICH MAN DOES JURY. DUTY Son-in-Lav of Rockefeller Begins Service in Municipal Court. CHICAGO. ,Mareh 19. Harold F. Mc Cormick, son-in-law of John D. Rocke feller, trustee of the International Har vester Company, millionaire ond sports man, today began serving as a juror in the Municipal Court. ji While awaiting a call for service Mr. jj McCormick amused himself in the h jurors' room with the puller exerciser, dumbbells and Indian clubs. Gustavus F. Swift, Jr., millionair4 packer, was excused from servtce be cause of urgent business. j SNOW BLOCKS ALASKA LINE j Malls Delayed Xine Days and Trav- t . V clers Wait at Cordova. VALLn.zi, Alaska, March 19. j. The Copper River & Northwestern Railroad between Cordova and Chitina is blocked by snow and no mail has been received from or dispatched to the interior since March 10. Two trains are staU'ed and all open cuts are filled with snfew. Many travelers tiom the State's bound for points in the interior are 'waiting at Cordova for the raising of -the block R'S WORD DISPUTED TO FAGE Attorney-General Says Charge Is Untrue. LAND BOARD SESSION STORMY Deschutes Company's Time Extended Despite Executive. PERSECUTION IS CHARGED State Chiefs Accusation, Saying Mr. Crawford Is 'Lined. Up' With Man Developing Irrigation Project, Promptly Is Resented. SALEM, Or., March 19. (Special.) After a stormy session of the State Des ert Land Board today, at which Gover nor West and Attorney-General Craw ford engaged in an exciting oral combat over a proposed extension of the con tract of the Deschutes Land Company Governor West announced that if th extension were ordered by the Board he would resort to injunction proceed ings. Hopelessly overruled, he did, however, agree to an extension of 30 days, which was ordered, during which time State Engineer Lewis will make an investigation of the project. Governor West, angered because It looked as If the Board would give the company more time, accused the A,ttor-ney-General of "lining up" with Presi dent Morson, of the company, witn whom Mr. West several months ago all but had a personal encounter. Governor' Word Disputed. Mr. Crawford replied, his face red, that the statement was untrue. The Governor insisted that it was true and the Attorney-General was just as positive in his assertions that it waa not. Mr. West was so angry that he shook his fist at Mr. Crawford and Mr. Craw ford appeared so determined that it looked for a' time as if the men would have a physical . encounter. . . ., - The Governor started the trouble when he offered a communication, giv ing It as his opinion that the Govern ment would not extend the contract be tween it and the state involving the land of the Deschutes Company. Tho Governor said that the Commissioner of the General Land Office iad told him that, while the office wished to do everything possible to encourage legit imate progress in Carey act projects, he felt it was his duty to see that every safeguard was thrown around the in terests of the settlers. ' Contract la Questioned.. The Governor continued: "In the case of the Morson Company it would appear that the state contract (Concluded on Fage 2.) MIGHTY MW cC.rf f?UMTV play, ,ys a f' THFFArfS R'r If S72Z I (l jD 1 Mson OA- s jy uL y I ' TTn vy ? swat &at -jK T. r$ ; ; j v.jj I ............... .......r....T... tTTTTTT TTTfftTTlt.TT-T-TT-T-- INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERUAY'S Maximum' temperature, 71 degrees; minimum, 4S degrees. TODAY'S Fair; easterly winds. Foreign. Antics of United States Minister to Bulgaria stir Europe. Page 1. Defense of Mme. Caillaux not to assail edi tor alie killed. Page 2. . Crisis impending in Ulster. Page 1. National. President finds opposition to repeal of tolls exemption growing. Page 2. Suffrage amendment loses on vote in Senate. Page 1. Administration, welcomes overtures, fro: Huerta. Page 5. Domestic. Idle army defiantly camping in Los An geles ordered out. Page S. Chicago "best newspaper reporter" killed In fall down elevator thaft. Page 3. Suffrage Association asks President Wilson to proclaim "Woman's day." Page 3. Bryan "day celebrated without - Bryan. Page o. Balloon race for Portland sanctioned by Aero Club. Fago 1. Sport. Frambach to pitch full game against negro Giants. Page 8. Tigers beg for "class" and Sox deliver. Page 8. Four colleges send . wrestlers to Portland meet.. Page 9. Big noise to be feature of opening day auto parade, Fage 9. Pacific Northwest. Six great life insurance companies file re ports showing huge figures. Pago 7. Fish and Game Commission shows its sub servience to Governor. Page 7. Governor West's word disputed to face by Attorney-General. Pago .1. Daring plunge Into cold waters of millrace cost life of popular O. A. C. senior. Page 6. Man who gave information to Governor first ono indicted in. Copperfield case. Page 6. Commercial and Marine. No 'wheat available to meet Southern de mand. Page SJ1. Wheat advances in sympathy with corn bulge at Chicago. Page 21. Stock market firmly resists unfavorable de velopments. Pago -1. Steamers plying on river to w wireless. Pago 1. Portland and Vicinity. Gateway decision by Interstate Commerce Commission favors shippers. Page 20. Weather report, forecast and data. Page 1H. All-day session of temperance workers Is held. Page 20. Christian Science "resurrection and life," says lecturer. Page 13. B. F. Irvine answers W. D. Wheelwright's stand on Panama Canal tolls clause re peat Pago 16. School farm to be purchased by Portland Board. Page 14. All meter referendum petitions due tomor row night. Page 14. Portland woman confesses to poisoned candy ploi. Page 1. FINE GARDENS FEED SHEEP Baker's Fashionable Streets Deso lated by Herd From Country. BAKER, Or., March 19. (Special.) Twenty-five hundred sheep in a noisy, dusty flock were driven through the heart of the residence district this morning, where there- are beautiful lawns .and. newlyrlald flower .gardens? There are no beautiful lawns or gar dens now. The sheep cropped the tend er young grass close,; Cut up the sod and even invaded back yards, where they tore down clothes on lines and ruined fine linen. Complaints were made at the City Hall, but they were too late to be of use. llosebiirg to Have Novel Service. B.OSEBURG. Or., March 19. (Spe cial.) Roseburg is to have something novel in the way of transportation in the near future. Arthur. Mahoney to day announced that he had decided to order a motor bus, with a view of es tablishing regular service to all parts of the city. The bus will make regu lar trips to the Soldiers' Home and other outlying districts, while the fare charged will be nominal. FINE BASEBALL WEATHER THESE DAYS! . 1 r- . V i " 1 i E RICAN MINISTER AGITATES BALKANS Diplomats Staggered byCollea'oVAntics. QUEEN ELIZABETH COMMENTS Eleanora of Bulgaria Misses Chance for Phone Chat. DINNER SPEECH "CANDID" Emperor of Austria ' Openly Criti cised Envoy Is Confidential In Talk With King Ferdi nand of Bulgaria. LONDON, March 19. (Special.) In formation which comes from responsi ble sources Indicates that the attention of the 'Washington Government has been called to the sayings and doines of Charles J. Voplcka, of Chicago, United States Minister to the Balkan states. Instructions which Secretary of State Bryan sent to Voplcka to proceed di rect to his post after he had delivered a tactless speech at Prague, Austria, apparently have had little or no effect, for the behavior of the Minister since he has taken over his post has stag gered diplomatists of other nations. who are constantly wondering what Minister Vopicka is going to do next. Speech Reported by Consul-General. - Minister Vopicka attended a dinner at Prague, where he talked freely and candidly and made some criticisms of Emperor Francis Joseph of Austri The speech was such an extraordinary one that the American Consul-General at Prague sent a cable message to the State Department calling attention to it and intimating that it was calculated to offend a friendly foreign power. The story goes that Secretary Bryan immediately cabled Minister Vopicka to proceed to his post without further delay. At Bucharest, the capital of Rouma nian where- Minister Voplcka makes his headquarters, stories of his doings are reported to have caused Queen Eliza beth to remark to one of her intimates: "The American Minister, I am told, Is a very curious person." 912 .Shirt I'ors Treble Duty. At Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, Min ister Voplcka drove up to the palace in a state carriage, in all the formality with which the arrival of a new Min ister is accompanied. He said to an American acquaintance as he got out of tho carriage, pointing to a soft shirt he wore: "That shirt cost me $12. I wore it when I saw Kings Carlos and Peter and now I am wearing it to see Ferdinand.'? Minister Vopicka was then carrying (.Concluded on Page 8.) CRISIS IMPENDING IN IRISH AFFAIRS GOVKRX3IEXT SAID TO PL.AX OC CCPATIOX OF ULSTER. London Newspaper Predicts Blood "Will Be Spilt Sir Edward Carson on Mission of Kestralnt. LONDON, March 19. Grave events are impending in Ulster, according to the Unionist newspapers, and a rumor is current that the government is pre paring for the military occupation of the province. There are indications that a crisis nas been reached. A vote of censure on the British gov ernment, which was moved in the House of Commons today by Andrew Bonar Law, leader of the opposition, was rejected, 345 to 252. Arthur J. Balfour, summoned by Mr. Bonar Law, made a hurried return from the Riv iera and arrived iurLondon in time to participate in the division. There were reports also of the threat ened arrest of Sir Edward Carson and other leaders" of the Ulster Unionists, but it was officially declared there was no truth in the statement that war rants had been signed for such arrests. Sir Edward Carson, however, made a dramatic exit from the House before the debate was concluded to catch a train, for Belfast. Austen Chamberlain declared tonight that Sir Edward hdd been called away in response to sudden developments in Ireland. Other Union ists asserted that the Ulster men can no longer be restrained from 'an out break and that Sir Edward's mission is to endeavor to hold them in check. The Daily Telegraph says: "Unless all omens are false, blood .will be spilt in Ulster before the House of Commons sees Sir Edward Carson again." BELFAST,- Marchi9. An emergency force of picked men from the Ulster volunteers was hastily summoned to headquarters tonight. The motive for the sudden call has been kept secret, but rumors persist of military action on the part of the government and pro jected arrests. WELLESLEY IS HARD HIT Insurance Found to Be Only Fourth of Cost of Kebuilding. LOSTON, March 19. The immediate future of Wellesley College is in doubt as a result of the financial loss sus tained in the fire which destroyed the College Hall, the main building of the institution. The true situation, it was said, was not realized until the execu tive committee discovered that the es timated loss of $900,000 was based on the Assessor's valuation of greatly de preciated property and the insurance obtainable represented only about one fourth of the probable cost of restora tion. Bishop Lawrence, president of the ex ecutive committee, said that within a few days he would ca!l the trustees to gether to take some definite action, but at present he said the officers were at sea as to what steps to take. President Pendleton, of the college, said that all the students had been no tified to return in three weeks to re sume sessions. SOCIALIST SOLON CLEARED Charge Against British Colombian of Having Stolen Pistol Dropped. NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C, March 19. The charge against John Place, Socialist, member of the British Colum bia Legislature, of having in his pos session stolen property, wa.s dismissed today in the special assize called to hear the Nanaimo coal strike riot cases. The alleged stolen property was a pistol taken from a policeman during the strike. P'lace lias declared that he intended to take the pistol to Victoria and hand it to Attorney-Gen eral Bowser, with his compliments. Apparently the Attorney-General has agreed to this disposition of the weapon. Sentence will be passed Monday on a number of strikers who pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful assembly. The court will then adjourn. The strikers have returned to work at increased wages, but without recog nition of the United Mine Workers of America. WOMAN LEADING JURY DIES Mrs. Adelaide Clarke, Bailiff, at Bellingham, Stricken. BELLINGHAM, Wash., March 19. Mrs. Adelaide Clark, 50 years old, the first woman court bailiff to serve in the Whatcom County Courts and who has been in charge of the juries during the March term of court, died here to night at 7 o'clock of heart trouble, while conducting the jurors inea dam age case to their dinners at an up-town restaurant. She had walked with the Jurors from the Courthouse, about 10 blocks, when she complained of illness and sat down on the curb to rest A passing automo bile was pressed into service. The stricken women died within a block of the hospital. ICE MADE JN NEW WAY Cottage Grove Men Patent Machine for Mnking Transparent Product. COTTAGE GROVE. Or., March 19. (Special.) Ice-making machinery on a new basis has been 'invented by J. S. Sllby and Butte Mooney, of Cottage Grove, and is on exhibition at Mr. Sil- by's plant here. Working on the theory that running water makes clear ice. this machine draws the water from the center while it Is freezing and keeps a constant flow of water. The completed machine is said to be the result of years of study and blocks of ice 27 inched thick, looking like .glass, are being produced. WOMAN CONFESSES POISON CANDY PLOT Step-Mother of Tot-Recipients Is Sender. MRS. EDITH EDNA HAWLEY HELD "I Don't Like Them," Only Ex planation Given Officers. SUICIDE-INTENT ALSO TOLD City Chemist Narrowly Escapes Ef fect of Deadly Sweets, 'When He Merely Tastes In Analysis. Domestic Trouble ruiid. By the confession at police headquar ters last night of Mrs. Edith Edna Hawley, of 5326 Seventieth street South East, the mystery of six boxes of poisoned candy, sent through the mails, which came near poisoning a whole neighborhood in the Mount Scott district, was cleared up. Three of the boxes of candy had been sent to her two little step-cnlldren, Stanley Hawley, aged 11, who got two of the boxes, and Margaret Hawley, years old, who got one. Other Members Get Candy. Another came by mail to an older step-son, Hoy Baxter, of 601 Bidwell avenue. Still another arrived in yesterday morning's mail for Mrs. Alice Bewlay, of 7006 ifty-flfth avenue Southeast, at whose home Mrs. Hawley's husband, Uobert H. Hawley. and Stanley Haw ley, have lived since a quarrel three months ago which led to the separation of husband arid wife. The sixth box of deadly sweets wue found on a bureau in Mrs. Hawley's home yesterday afternoon, when De--tectives Swennes and Moloney went there to put her under arrest. It was adressed to little Stanley Haw ley, the step-son, who had already re ceived two of the poisoned packages. Woman la Nonchalant. To Detectives Swennes and Moloney last night Mrs. Hawley confessed that she had prepared the poisoned candy and sent it, in the hope of killing her stepchildren. "I don't like them," she said in a nonchalant sort of way, which no amount of questioning could break down. "I just haven't any use for the whole family. I saved enough of the poison for myself to take if it killed any of them." She told how she had taken bichlo ride of mercury tablets and crushed them. She went or. to relate that she had rer-ioved the bottoms from choco late creams, put in the powdered bi chlorldo of mercury, and then replaced the bottoms of the creams, after which she packed thi?m carefully i:i their boxes and mailed them out. Chemist Narrowly Escapes. She filled the candy so full of the poison that E. C. Galloway, city chem ist, who analyzed it for the detectives, had to take a quick antidote yesterday after having merely tasted one of the chocolates. He was nearly overcome. He said after his analysis that any one of the pieces of candy contained enough poison to have killed several persons. That there were no deaths from her wholesale distribution of the poisoned sweets was due to a combination of lucky circumstances. Boy Tauten Poison. The first package of the candy was received by Stanley Hawley on St. Valentine's day last, February 14. Wrapped in plain brown paper, the address was typewritten. On the box inside was printed crudely with lead pencil. "To My Valentine." All unsuspectingly the 11-year-old boy bit Into one of the chocolates. Almost instantly he spat it out and rushed to the kitchen for water to rinse his mouth. "Ugh, but it's bitteri" he cried. After that his father forbade him to eat any more of the candy, and Mr. and Mrs. Bewlay would not let t'neir own children eat it. All feared that it was poisoned, though none of them sus pected Mrs. Hawley. Two days later two more of the packages arrived. One was addressed to the boy, Stanley, in care of S. F. Ball, principal of the Arleta School. The principal delivered the box to the lad who opened it before a crowd of his schoolmates. Twelve luscious looking chocolates were Inside. The other boys immediately clam ored for a share. Mr. Ball himseU laughingly advised Stanley to "divide up" with them. The youngster, all his suspicions stirred by the fact that this box also had the penciled mes sage "To my Valentine," sturdily re fused. He wouldn't tell why, but he wrapped up the box and took It home. Chemist Calloway told the detec tives, Swennes and Moloney, yesterday that if the boy had divided the candy every youngster who ate It would have died. It was in tasting one of the 12 pieces of candy from this box that the chemist himself was poisoned. He said each piece apparently had three or four tablets of bichloride of mercury dis solved in It. That same day, February 16, the mailcarrler brought a box of the candy to 581 Tenino avenue, addressed to 6-year-old Margaret Hawley. The little girl is staying at this address. In cart (Concluded on Page 3.) t