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THE 3IORNIXG OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1914. E TO REPUBLICANS HOPE TO WIN NEXT HOUSE HAVE BEEN VICTIM is Reports of Brutal Torture In flicted on W. M. McDonald & Carried by Refugee's. Leaders Feel It Is .Their Pa triotic Duty to Stop Demo- . cratic Blundering. "Sure! I'll be hom VERIFICATION IS LACKING ISSUES -ARE READY MADE ill 6 . . . 1 RIGAN SAID MAP OF VERA CRUZ, .OCCUPIED BY AMERICANS t i w " I r ? 7 -t In rr , y tjsj. gastjs i Berkeley Man Is Declared to Have Been Paraded by Federals After ; Feet Were Cut to Pieces and i . ,' Later Burned Slowly. EI, 'PASO, Tex., April 22. (SneciaL American refugees fleinsrfrom San J'edro" de las Colonies and Torreon brought the details of a terible tor ture that had been inflicted upon wuiiain M. McDonald, a Berkeley, Cai man, who was a major on General Kugenio Ag-uierre Benavide's staff of the revolutionary army at the first) battle of San Pedro. The Americans declared that McDon ald was captured after being- cut off wane operating a machine gun in an irigation ditch and was taken to the federal garlson. -where the most bar barous tortures of vfie ancient Aztecs were Inflicted upon him before he was put out of his misery. First his feet were cut until they were a mass of bleeding wounds on the bottom, the Americans from San Pedro say. Then the suffering man was marched through the main strets and jeered and struck by the federal soldiers. Later, he was taken to the Patio of the Quartel, tied to a post and a fire punt around mm. He was slowly burn- ins to death, when a humane com mander shot him throug-h the head to end his misery. The story could not be verified in Juarez or Chihuahua, and the telegraph is not yet working to San Pedro. The .Americans who brought the story to tne Doraer are reputable American mer chants in Mexico, and agree on the general facts of the American's torture. A man named McDonald was with the Zaragosa. bncade. of which Bena- vides was commander, and fought in the Gomez Palacio and Torreon en-1 gagements. Benavides and his men were then ordered to the relief of urtega and Hernandez at San Pedro. and McDonald is belie-ed to have ac-1 compamea tne command. lie was an expert machine-gun operator, andl joined villas army in Juarez. An in- inueauun nas nen started nere in order to learn the exact details for presentation to the State Department. Q0LDIERS' JOBS RESERVED Permission Is Given to Railroad Em ployes to Go to AVar. All male employes of the O.-W. R. & N. Company who want to go to war will find their jobs reserved for them when they come back. This advice was given out by J. D. Farrell, president of the company, as c-arly as March 23, but it did not as sume significance until the recent un pleasant incidents at Vera Cruz. A big mass meeting of Railroad men including employes - of other lines as well as those of the O.-W. R. & N. Com pany, was held at the Multnomah hotel last night under auspices of the Trans portation Club. Mr. Farrell's attitude of encouragement toward those . men who enlist was explained by several officers of the company, including C. G Sutherland, assistant to the generai manager; "A. C. Spencer, general attor ney, and C. E. Cochran, assistant gen eral attorney. Communications from Mr. Farrell also explained that employes of the company who are members of the Na tional Guard and who are entitled to vacations under pay will be allowed to apply the time given to annual en campments to their vacations. Those employes not entitled to vacations will be paid half time while on encamp ment. Persons employed by the com PaP.l fr a year or more, he says, are entitled, to vacations on full pay. FRANKING REFORM SOUGHT Correction of Abuse by Members or Congress Intent of Bills. WASHINGTON. April 22. Correction of the abuse of the franking privileges, long critiicsed in Congress, was pro posed In identical bills introduced in the Senate and House today by the chairmen of the committees on print ing. The legislation would make it unlawful for. any member of Congress or other persons entitled to the Gov ernment frank to turn franked envel opes or slips over to individuals or as sociations. It proposes changes, In the printing laws designed to save about $860,000 annually and the restriction of the Con gressional -Record to a transcript of speeches ade in Congress only. FORAKER FOR EXEMPTION Ex-Senator Never Supposed- United States Would Be Restricted. WASHINGTON, April 22. Ex-Senator Joseph B. Foraker, of Ohio, today tes tified before the Senate Interoeeanie canals committee that as a member of the foreign relations . committee that reported the Hay-Paunceiote treaty to the Senate it never occurred to him that the United Staes would not have unrestricted right to use the canal as it pleased for Its war and merchant vessels. ' . .He deBcrlbed conference he held vritfc Secretary Hay about the negotiations and put into - the record correspond ence betwen the two in regard to these negotiations to show that he was familiar with the making of the treaty. BARONESS SETTLES CLAIMS May De PalUndt and Ir. Appleby Agree Out of Court. LONDON. April 22. An amicable set tlement was reached today In the coun ter suits between Dr. Ernest Villlers Appleby, formerly of the University of Minnesota and Baroness May J Pal landt. an American woman. Doctor Appleby had claimed 20.000 for a pearl necklace which he bought for the baroness. - Linn ton Bank Approved. OKEGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. 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I - 1 ' ' r ' If 111 t ;..v r , f I LI I 1 J I I I ll lJ 1 1 i rsrj- I I SL"--. ' , I I I I I I I I I I I I I I A i 1 I - 1 I I I I I - - ( l T rilI.CIPAl. STREETS AAD BUILDIXGS SHOW BY DIAGRAM BLACK SQUARE MARKS CUSTOM. BOUSE, FIKST JOI'T XAKEX. HOUSE SHIRS TASK Mileage Cut Down, With Hope Senate Will Restore It. SENATORS FEAR MOVE Rate Badly Wanted but Both Houses Do Xot Like -Prospects of Later Explanation 'to People at . Home Over High Cost. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, April 22. When an overwhelm ing majority of the members of the House of Representatives voted to do away with 20-cent mileage and in favor of paying Senators and Representatives only actual traveling expenses, with a like allowance for dependent mem bers of their families. It was confi dently hoped and expected that the Senate would strike out the House pro vision and restore the old order of things. That Is exactly what the House thought about ten years ago when, during a W. C. T. U. convention in Washington. It voted to prohibit the sale of liquor in the Capitol and all other public buildfngs. The Senate fooled the House, and liquor has ever since been banished. ' The Senate may or may not vote to restore 20-cent mileage to the . legis lative appropriation bill. A great cry has gone up against what has become known as the "mileage graft," and as Senators are now elected directly by the people, quite a few Senators who would like 20-cent mileage will not have the nerve to vote to restore it after .the House has voted it down. There are two .sides to the mileage question, as was developed In the de bates in the House of Representatives, but on Its face It looks like a graft for Congress to vote an allowance of 20 cents a mile when travel can be made for one-third to one-half that amount. Including all incidental ex penses. The procedure now will be. according to the hopes of House members, to have the Senate put back into the bill the provision for 20-cent mileage, and then permltthe House, in a hurry some day, to concur in the Senate amendment without the embarrassment of a further rollcall. Representative Fitzgerald, of New York, chairman of the appropriations committee, is largely responsible for cutting off the 20-cent mileage, and he, more than any other member, brought about the change in the law. Being thoroughly alive to the parliamentary situation, Mr. Fitzgerald probably will force another rollcall in the House, If the Senate restores 20-cent mileage to the bill. As a matter of fact 20-cent mileage is not. In the case of the average Con gressman and Senator, a graft, for out of that mileage he also pays the rail road and Pullman fares- of not only himself, but of his wife and children, and there are not a few men in Con gress who actually do not recover the full cost of travel to and from Wash ington on the present basis. The bachelor members, however, are the ones who make money out of 20-cent mileage. LABOR WAR TAKES TOLL Continued trnm First Pi. colony to recover the 14 bodies, re ported to be in the ruins of the de molished shelters, was expected to' re turn during the evening. Trinidad was a scene of tense excite ment tonight. The saloons had been closed by order of the City Council X 4 V I and the Chief of Police, but throngs of men still congregated on the streets. Labor headquarters were jammed with strikers, mostly aliens, and the crowd overflowed to the sidewalk. . Mlnfworkrr Issues Statement. Many women and children from the Ludlow tent colony were in Trinidad, cared for by union sympathizers. Throughout the day steady streams of strikers passed in and out of the morgue where lay the bodies of sev eral victims of the Ludlow battle. John R. Lawson. executive member of the United Mineworkers of America, was in Trinidad today, after being: on the scene of much of the fighting in the Ludlow district. He issued a for mal statement in which he said: "Last Sunday the Greeks in the Lud low colony were celebrating their Easter. They had a ball game and five militiamen with guns appeared and in terfered in the game. There was no fighting, however, at that time. "On Monday morning Major Hamrock sent for Louis TIkas to demand the re lease of some men. Tlkas went to meet Hamrock and never returned. I am unable t to say of my own knowledge just how or when he met his death. The fighting then began. I cannot say positively, who fired the first shots, and I do not wish to tell anything of which I have not positive knowledge. Use of Explosive Bullets Charged. "It is my opinion that the first tents were fired by explosive bullets. I know that ammunition of that kind has been used by the militiamen, for I have heard many of the bullets explode. It is my belief that soldiers entered the colony and looted many of the tents before the destruction was complete. "I must decline to tell where the strikers secured the guns they used in the fight. I will say, however, that I am sorry they haven't ten thousand times as many guns as they have. In that case, I would tell them to use them to defend their homes. "Reports have come to me I am not stating this as a fact that some parties today are exploding dynamite in the holes under the ruins of the tents, in order to destroy evidence of the number of women and children who lost their lives'ln the fight. I am posi tive that more non-combatants perished than will ever be known." CHAMBERLAIN LOSES VOTE Oregon Senator Takes Xo Part In Mexican Debate in Senate. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. April 22. (Special.) The Con gressional Record, published' today, cov ering the proceedings of the Senate up to adjournment at - 2:30 o'clock this morning, discloses the fact that Sen ator Chamberlain, of Oregon, failed to answer his name on any one of five roll calls taken on the amendment to and final adoption of the Mexican resolution. Senator Chamberlain appeared in the Senate off and on during the evening and responded to a call for a quorum about 2 o'clock this morning. He then disappeared from the Senate chamber and did not return, and when the irnw portant votes were taken Senator Oli ver, of Pennsylvania, with whom Cham berlain had generally paired, withheld his vote, after calling attention to Chamberlain's absence. Senator Chamberlain did not partici pate in the debate on the Mexican question, and much of the time was not in his seat. RAILROAD CUTOFF STARTED Work on Kclio-Coyote Line . Being Done by Twohy Bros. ECHO. Or.. 1 April 22. (Special.) Actual work began today on the long proposed Echo-Coyote cutoff. Twohy Bros, have two carloads of plows, scrapers and other machinery, besides 20 head of horses, here. TRADE LEAGUE FORMED COMMITTEE ORGANIZED TO WORK OUT ALASKA PROGRAMME. Survey of C'ondltloma la Territory and Excursion May Soon be Feature of the Plana. Representatives from the leading clubs and commercial organizations of Portland yesterday organized the con solidated Alaska committee which will work out and carry through a compre hensive programme covering every possible means of fostering and ex tending reciprocal trade relations be tween Portland and Alaska. W. H. MacLean, of the Rotary Club, whloh launched and has headded the movement was elected chairman, J. Shallenger, vice-chairman, and J. B. Rainey, secretary. The meeting was held at the Commercial Club. When the organization is ready to launch into active conditions .of sales manship in Alaska, publicity for Port land in. Alaska, new industries and their fostering, transportation condi. tions, inducement of Alaska people to Winter in Portland and other condi tions that may enter Into the work. A trade excursion to Alaska in which leading business men shall participate will probable be organized also In the near future. Representatives of the various clubs of the city who were present at the meeting were: Progressive Business Men's" Club W. S. Aster, N. J. Sykes. B. F. Boyden. Realty Board J. G. Rainey, 1L W. Goddard. Ad Club M. N. Dana, C. H. Moore, Q. A. Benedict. Transportation Club J. T. Smith. Rotary Club II. W. MacLean. M. R. Cummings, C. L. Horn. w. F. Mc Kenney, W. J. Mitchell. Chamber of Commerce W. D. B Dodson, A. H. Devers. M. S. HIrsch and J. Shalllnger. VANCOUVER MAN PASSES Charles Hampton Davis Succumbs to Typhoid Fever at 46 Years. VANCOUVER. Wash.. April 82. (Special.) Charles Hampton Davis, agent and correspondent for the Ore gon Journal for Vancouver, died here today at his home on Daniels street, after an Illness of several weeks. He had been ill with rheumatism for months, and was better apparently, but typhoid fever developed and he was suffering with that some time before physicians were aware of It. Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made, but it is probable that services will be held in St. Luke's Episcopal Church Saturday morning, with Rev. E. B. Collier officiating. Mr. Davis was born 46 years ago near PlttBfleld, Pike County, Illinois. He came to Vancouver In the Autoutnn of 1907, working for a local daily paper for nine month before going to the Oregon Journal aa traveling represent ative. SENATOR'S DAY' ARRANGED Chance Given Candidates to SpeaJU at Washington State l'air. OLYMPIA, Waa7i" April 22. (Spe cial.) Nominees of all parties for Unit ed States Senator will be given an opportunity to address the crowds at the Washington State Fair at North Yakima this year. Governor Lister an nounced upon returning from the State Fair meeting. The plan is to adver tise one afternoon as "Senators' day" and give each candidate 15 minutes to discuss politics. The fair follows the primaries, so the number of candidates will be limited. Although the Pendleton Roundup will be held the same week as the State Fair. Governor Lister said this would assist, rather tfian hurt, the State, Fair. Many Believe Party Would Best Be v Served in End by Democratic Victory, but Will Make Con v test for Public Good. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, April 22. Notwithstanding the Democrats have a majority of 73 in the House of Representatives, the Re publican Congressional committee ia preparing to make a vigorous cam paign this Fall with the idea of cap turing control of the House at the November election. Some Republicans, however, take the view that their party eventually will be better oft if it does not carry thtf next Rouse and they reason this way: If the Democrats retain full control of the Government the next two years, and continue to fight among them selves and to make blunders on a par with those recorded during the first 14 months of the Wilson Administra tion, it will be relatively easy for the Republican- party to sweep the coun try in 1916 and elect not only a House but a Senate and President aa well. If the next House should be Republican, Democratic legislative responsibility would be at an end. Serious Effort to Be Made. Republican leaders. however. take the position that they should make a serious and thorough fight to capture control of the House, not so much for the political effect as to block further Democratic partisan legislation. These leaders feel that the country already has suffered heavily as the result of legislation shoved through a Demo cratic Congress by a Democratic Presi. dent and believe that further Injury will be done by legislation yet to be enacted. It is their hope that enough Democrats may be defeated next No vember to change the political com plexion of the House and thereby end the dictation of President Wilson. There are now in the . House 290 Democrats, 124 Republicans, Ave mem bers who list themselves as Progres sive Republicans, 15 straight-out Pro gressives and one independent. Elec tions held within the past four or five months lead to the conclusion that the number of Progressives 1n the next House will be reduced, wtlh fair pros pect that all now sitting may be de feated, and the same may be true with regard to the one independent member, Mr. Kent, of California. Those who have been styling- themselves "Progressive Republicans" are today practically back in the Republican fold. Republicans, to gain control of the next House. must not only defeat "72 Democrats. but must have 21 Republicans In the seats now occupied by men of a third party. Jlard Campaign Ahead. It is evident from this that the Re publicans have a hard campaign ahead If they are to realize the hopes of their most optimistic leaders. Only under most unusual conditions could such a change be wrought in the House at a single election. Yet Republican lead ers are elated over the Issues thus far made by the Democrats, and if the party in power will only continue ror tne next five or six months to blunder along aa it has blundered during the year, they profess to believe that the seemingly impossible may be accomplished. All the Issues on which the Con ores slonal campaign is to be fought are issues made by the Democrats since they took control of the Government. On those issues the Democrats are to be on the defensive, which means that they are at a disadvantage. Whether they are sufficiently handicapped to permit the Republicans to gain control of the next House-is yet to be deter- minted. The situation, politically, ha not yet taken Such definite shape as to permit or tne formation of a cor rect idea as to how the Congressional election win go; except tnat it now seems morally certain that the Demo cratic majority will dwindle largely. Governor Ordered in Court. Judge Wolverton yesterday issued an order for Governor West .Attorney General Crawford, Corporation Com missioner Watson and District Attor ney Evans to appear before him in the United States District Court at 10 o'clock Tuesday to show cause why a temporary injunction should not be Is sued against their attempting to en force the act known as "The Blue Sky Law." WHYNOTME A CLEAR SON CUTICURA SOAP Used exclusively and Cuticura Ointment occasionally will pro mote and maintain a clear skin, free from pimples, blackheads, redness, roughness and other unsightly eruptions. Samples Free by Mall Oitknra soap and Ointment old throughout the arid. Liberal MmpM ad each mailed traa. wit SS-a. . aadraa rCuacva." Dapv. iga. Bestem, "That is, I will if it won't make too much bother for you. Isn't this the maid's day out?" "Yes. But that doesn't matter. No trouble at alL To start with, I'll give you Campbell's Tomato Soup." "Fine!' Til make it as a bisque; or with noodles in it if you'd rather. I have them handy." "Great! Do I get two plates-fullT "All you want. Doesn't that'beat dining down town? "Has it skinned a mile! The very thought of that soup makes me hungry noio." 21 10c far l"5 1 J p'Sm -5.V S5 LOOK COD THC Dr PICK GREW TO PARADE GOOD ROADS EXCURSION AV1LI. START AT 715 SATURDAY. Forty CaadJdatea Rave Promised to Contribute Labor Movies Will Depict Farce at Work. At 7:15 Saturday morning will be the march of the "gallant 2000, the high way brigade." who are going from all of the clubs of the city up to Bridal Veil to put in a dav of real pick and shovel work on the Columbia high way, in celebration of Good Roads day. They will assemole at the Teon building and march at 7:15 with picks and shovels on their shoulders. Mov ing picture machines will catch them on the march, and will also catch them in the act of Improving the highway after they reach the seat of their day's operations. After the day's work is done, the ex cursion train will come back slowly so that all those In the party may enjoy the scenery along the way. Not only ciub men but any -Citizens who are interested in the good roads movement may Join the party. Tickets are on sale at Third and Washington streets. George W. Hazen. who Is handling the "candidates crew." announces that he has already 40 picks and shovels filed in token of good faith by candi dates who are to Join the party. Mr. Hazen intends to have 20 more picks labelled and displayed in the Teon building before Saturday, and Is lssu Inga call for all candidates who are sir V.r a' The U. S Govern ment is engaged in protecting the PTJBL HEALTH. It is erendin- th sands of dollars of your money annually in investigating the foodstuffs that find their way to your table. , The Federal courts employ chemists of the highest stand ing to carefully examine all foods that are marketed. Undo Sam has placed the stamp of Ma approval on Cali fornia nome israna uatsup. Ta-PMa.V'kA. f 1 -t xact, wuea and When You -Are Eating T knew it would fetch you. Ready at six, sharp. Good byel" ' kinds a can KIND5. AHPaniCq4 n.AKln it cr a or-i 5 to Join the work to come at once and get their picks. "No support for those that won't work on the road with us." is the slo gan ho is holding up before the Admen. "GOOD ROADSJJAY" NAMED Saturday Set Apart for AVork in Proclamation by Governor . SALEM. Or.. April 22. (Special.) Governor West today proclaimed April 25 "oGod Roads day." He requests all residents of the state to "devote their thought and time on that day to thn doing of any and all things which will encourage and advance the movement for better highways throughout the state and Nation." Superintendent of Public Instruction Churchill has arranged for exercises bearing on the improvement of roads in the rural schools on "Good Roads day." BURNING AIRSHIP DESCENDS Clirlstofferson Goes to Aid of Bord man In Plight. BAKERSF1ELD, Cal.. Apiil 22. Otto Rybitgky, in an aeroplane, arrived here at 3:30 today from Fresno. The aeroplane was tlyinar over the city when it caught fire and Rybilsky was forced to land somewhere within the city limits. Aviator Chrlstof ferson. of Portland. Or., went to tho aid of the unlucky airman. WILLJUILD To suit tenant on cor. lot 63x100. Grand ave. and Oak. a 926. Ores-onian. Adv. READ JUDGE BEAN'S DECISION 3 Find! tar" of fmet. ooncluMoa iw 1 That th to mato catsup con- rmtnmA In that flf .Bl a. at m javaal nf t A -SI-;V i'J n to c a t u p, -"t aixd under and I n a c c o rdanca , 4 - J lth tha prayer : I led In the ITOMATO CATSlPl -.Ton. ,'nsiii run or in SXrii., J t filthy. 5ecom 'rXoTfUlT J poped or putrid m-"3 si & n c ana Bttft? claimant (Pacific v I n n r and a4rVla. Wa-Wal la. 1 A ltl t I ta M. you Duy catsup judmtr la iu It! 5tY.j-to kat JrV tt aT li " !l ic 1 A 0. if-MItiW It. W9b. 1J- if