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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (May 29, 1914)
THE MORNTN'G OEEGOXIAN, FRIDAY, MAT 29, 1914. 10 PUPILS Or PACIFIC UNIVERSITY MUSICAL DIRECTORS WILL GIVE CONCERT TONIGHT. COMMITTEE-ID MEET GRAND JURY FINDS MUCH TO CRITICISE Republican Workers Will Dis cuss Campaign Plans. Governor, Prosecutor, Bridge Commission and Engineers Denounced in Report. JUNE 9 CONFERENCE DATE ft JOBBERY CHARGE IS MADE Selection of Waddell & Harrington Instead: of Mr. Imelna to Super vise Interstate Span Is Ijald to Mr. West. In a special report given personally to preBS representatives by members of the grand Jury, but which has not yet been filed by Circuit Judge Davis, to whom It was submitted, the grand jury yesterday criticised Governor West, District Attorney Evans, the Interstate Bridge Commission. Waddell Sc. Har rington, designing and consulting en gineers of the proposed Interstate brdige, and the newspapers of PortUmd, and charged jobbery in the selection of the bridge engineers. Throughout the report the grand Jury, which probably will be discharged today, reviewed its action in investi gating the affairs connected with the selection of the Oregon approach to the bridge, attacked the fidelity of the selected engineers and the body that selected them, defended W. W. Lucius, unsuccssful applicant for selection as engineer, and ended with a special plea "to the people directly and to future grand Juries especially to re-establish the integrity of the grand Jury sys tem, an integrity that has been serious ly Impaired by the operation of dis trict attorneys, and in defense of which the whole people have risen." RlKbt Is Asserted. "We assert that the grand Jury has the Inalienable right to "call a spade a spade,' " the report concludes. All the Portland officials attacked In the report refused to comment on It, as did Judge Davis, to whom It was submitted. The presiding Judge said it was a document delivered to him by the grand Jury and until he had time to consider it he had no statement re garding it to make. He refused to state when, if at all, he would file the report or what disposition he would make of it. Soon after the report was submitted Judge Davis refused to allow District Attorney Evans or anyone to see it. Copies for publication were triven to press representatives by members of toe grand Jury. Bridge Affairs Taken TTp. After a general introduction in which Justification of the report Is offered the affairs of the interstate bridge are taken up and recommendations on bridge approach matter made by Wad dell & Harrington at Fort Smith, Ark, censured and the people are urged that "such a warning at this critical time deserves attention and the employment or otner metnoas than "watchful wait' lng.' " In comparing the local situation to the Fort Smith situation, the report says: "At this same time appeared a warn lng from Fort Smith, Ark., where Wad dell & Harrington built an interstate bridge and whose recommended ap proach had been adopted. Endless liti gation and complications followed the use of Waddoll & Harriugton's ap proacn, which gave one railroad a monopoly and absolutely excluded all all others, just as the selection of Union avenue bids fair to bottle up the Columbia Interstate bridge in the in terests of a local railway." Governor West Denounced. Failure of the Commission to select V. W. Lucius engineer for the bridge. who, they charge, was the first favored by the Commission, is ascribed to Gov ernor West, who, when he heard that Lucius "had been seen to imbibe spirituous liquor," "immediately began a mortal comDat witn a mentaily-tab ricated Demon Rum." "We find, from the evidence sub mitted. that there undoubtedly was Jobbery In the selection of Waddell A. Harrington," the report says. "We find evidence of this absence of precaution in the selection of Union avenue as an approach, by which, the report charges, that the use of the bridge. except by the Portland Railway, Light efc rower company, might be delayed lor years." The full text of the report signed by all seven members of the grand jury roiiows: To the Honorable Presiding- Judys of tht Circuit Court of Multnomah County, Ore- son: W, ths arand Jury mt the above entitled county, bes leave to xnaJte this special re ports with open opposition from the District Attorney's office and handicappped by covert dilatory tactlus which have seriously de layed the prosecution vf our Investigations ("Courts, indeed governments are powerless in the punishment of the guilty unless Juries fearlessly do their duty. A faithless and imperfect administration saps the founda tlons o society and excites the people to an&rcny and misrule ) ; Intimidations Are Alleged. With apparent intimidations in the Indis creet utterances of an erratic chief execu tive. "There is a maxim of the law that where the reason ceases the law Itself ceases. It is not only a maxim of common law, but squally of common sense."): With bombastic accusations and threats of discharge from interested attorneys and gross misrepresentation and distortion of facts la a purchased press: with nostri:e cloyed by the perfumed emanations from an editorial exotic whose ignorance of the law and the true function of a grand Jury la as oppressing as mlasmlc tt ume-ld Ity ; With all these deterrents and mere, ws still presume to issue this special report. Contrary to public announcements from ths District Attorney, the investigation the interstate bridge approach waa brought directly to the attention of the grand jury rty Air. bvana ntmseir, wno in person In' troduced J. Leroy ISmrth. representing the Taxpayers' Leacue. Mr. Smith had docu ments and other evidence collected by th Taxpayers' League which hs desired to sub mit to our attention. George Heusner did not appear la the case until a week later. Investigation Reasons Given. In dental of another statement of Mr. Evans that the grand Jury had not consult ed him. one of his deputies was almost in variably present and made shorthand notes when witnesses were being examined. These notes were transcribed by stenographers in Mr. Jvans employ, so no effort was made by ths grand Jury to conceal its transac tions. Ths facts furnished by the Taxpayers' League, conlirming evidence of transactions which came to the surface In our Investiga tion of the alleged bribing of Commissioner Hart in connection with the selection of supervising engineer for the construction of the Columbia River interstate bridge, made it almost mandatory for the grand jury to further investigate not only the selectlo of Waddell A Harrington as such engineers. but also to give as complete a probe possible Into the methods employed, the data uoliected by them and the arguments used jrs their final recommendation of Lnlon ave nue as the moat favorawle approach to the structure on the Oregon side. At this same time appeared a warntng from Fort Smith. Ark., here Waddell 4 Harrington had built an Interstate bridge and whose recommended approach had been adopted. Kndlees litigation and complica . lions followed the use of Waddell & Har rington's approach, . which gave one railroad a monopoly and absolutely excluded aR ethers. Just as the selection of Union ave t;u. bids fair to bottle up ths Columbia In terstate brlrtx-e In the Interests of a local railway. The case or the Fort Smith "s-i - in tT ... " 1 r - , - m I ' , try llfclillllllil i - 1 t' I" r' ' - 4 j 4 -i&r S&ss Z)o7s &aj?ey A musiemi programme will be Riven In Lincoln High School t -ditorium at 8 o'clock tonight by the pupils of Frank Thomas Chapman and Pauline Miller Chapman, directors of the conserva tory of music of Pacific University, Forest Grove. Only advanced and pro fessional pupils will participate.- No admission will be charged. The following1 will take part in the programme: Martha Reynolds, Doris Bagley, C H. Savage, Mary westaway, Margaret Lowell. Ruth Thomas. Aldlne Bart mess, Helen Anderson, Charles McNeill, Mary Anna Brobst, Mrs. C. H. Ilenny, Ada Taylor, (ioldlo Peterson and Harmon Marbold Chapman. bridge la set for hearing Toy tHe Supreme Court On June 4, 1014. Such a warning at this critical time de serves attention and the employment of other methods than "watchful waiting" Journal and Records Examined. During this investigation and the previous one all the members of the Bridge Commis sion a d Beared, the comtwiasion Journal and other records were furnished more or less freely, competent local and outside en gineers supplied testimony of a technical character and an. abundance of Information gathered for final sifting and appraisement. We found the Journal of the - Columbia River Interstate Bridge Commission suffi ciently complete In ret ere nee to the selec tlon of Waddell A Harrington, but decided ly meager In regard t-o the reasons for eliminating other candidates. In fact, no mention is made of questions of importance which arose and were made public at that time. The complete records of "Waddell ft Har rington were reluctantly placed In the hands of the grand Jury by Mr. Howaro, wno, ai ter a conference with Governor "West, re fused to furnish the desired data, giving the impression that Governor IV est had In structed him to refuse such information, but a duces tecum subpena finally Induced Mr. Howard to produce all records, maps, pro files, field notes, etc.. with m summary snow in Quantities. Drlces and computations used in arriving at their decision. Mr. Howard la person explained their details. LncloV Elimination Attacked. Taking up first the selection of a super vising engineer It appears that after sev eral meetings and considerable Jockeying W. "W. Lucius,, of the firm of Lucius ft Lucius, seemed to be the favorite candi date on account of his complete detailed nlams. which indicated engineering anility of a high order. At this time Mr. Lucius commanded four out of the seven vote and had not Someone announced that he had been seen to imbibe spirituous liquor he no doubt would have been chosen supervising engineer. But when this statement reached Gov ernor West he heeded the clarion call, and like Don Quixote bucking the windmills Immediately began a mortal combat with a mentally fabricated Demon Rum. By his own statement before the grand jury, on account of Mr. Lucius facial configuration. which showed to the Governor that Mr. Lucius Imbibed liquor freely, he even maneuvered to have him eliminated from the race. Wonderful and devious are the ways of acou trine knowledge. A man of previous good reputation by merit securest four votes In an engineering competition and suddenly realizes that he is a drunkard. Five votes would have made him a morphine fiend. ana six an eDlleotlc. It Is strange that the Commlaslocen after several months of frequent confer enoes with. Mr. Lucius Without discovering his perversion should suddenly wake up to their great mistake. They are too confid ing and unsuspecting for such exaotlng duties, and a commission should be ap pointed to their assistance. Jobbery In smlng Engineers Alleged We find from the evidence submitted that there was undoubtedly Jobbery In the selec tion of Waddell ft Harrington as super vl-Hn tr ens-ineers. and If there was SUCT1 Jobbery between Waddell ft Harrington and some of the members of the Bridge Com mission, la It reasonable to suppose there would be collusion in the construction of the b rid ire T Is It probable there would be connivance n the selection of the bridge approach or in the construction of said approach? There Is only one answer to these questions, and In all human probability proper precau tions would not be taken to safeguard the economical expenditure of the people's monev. We find evidence of this absence of pre caution in the eelectton of Union avenue the Oregon approach to the bridge. In the official files of the Interstate Bridge Com mission we find proposals from the Port land Rallwav. Light & .Power Company. In those proposals they have exhibited the same tender solicitude toward the Bridge Commission and the taxpayers that they have always manifested toward the city. The same solicitude that moves a man to step on the hind quarters of a worm; but there the parallel ceases, for up to date there la no evidence that the Bridge Com mission has even begun to squirm much less to turn. It develops that the Portland Railway. Light ft Power Company owns a 30-foot strip as a right of way on Union avenue between Bryant street and the city limits which is Just north of Columbia boulevard. They offer to dedicate this strip to the city as a part of Union avenue, reserving their rights to erect poles, string wires, etc., and agreeing to allow common user privileges to other railways from Plymouth Btreet to the olty limits. Competition is Prevented, Alleged. This leaves a strip of street about si: blocks long from Plymouth street to Bryant street without common user and seems to uncover a very "dark brunette in the fuel supply," as the physical conditions at Plymouth street are. such that it would be neoeseary for a competing railway to build viaduct or make a fill to reach other streets. This viaduct or fill would not be allowed by the abutting or adjacent prop erty. practically excluding any other rail way from using the Union avenue approach. From a statement or a representative of Waddell ft Harrington that the cost of the Union avenue approach within the city would be $60,000, a prolific crop of delays seem about to germinate and reach gigantic proportion!. This street has not yet b extended by the city and no Improvement oan be even petitioned until such extension has been actually accomplished. The benefit to the neighboring district seams Insufficient to reasonably expect that the property-owners would consent to assessment of S 60.000. and the time when such a sum could be levied la very remote. Delays could be purposely inaugurated by an Interested monopoly. Such Indirect meth ods are often employed and appear on the surface to be bona fide, but wrongfully de prive the people or their rights. "Use of Bridge Might Be Delayed." With such an uncertainty and the nrob ability of property holders opposing such prohibitive tax, the use of the bridge. except by the Portland Railway, Light ft Power Company, might be delayed for years. By roundabout methods and vexatious de. lays the people might be induced to allow this additional SdO.OOO to be used from the bridge approach fund, thus making the cost of the Union-avenue approach $ol4,000, in stead of $&4,00O as at present estimated. Union-avenue values are already estau llshed on account of its being a thorough fare for a large section, but the diversion of the through Vancouver traffic to any . of the other routes suggested would im-, mediately Increase taxable values, and in a reasonable time pay in increased taxes for the approach selected, and this pay ment would be made directly Into the county treasury, which, seems like good fi nanciering. It does not appear that such diversion of traffic would seriously af fect taxable values on Union avenue. Finally, we appeal to the people directly and to future grand juries especially to re ts tab Hah the Integrity of the grand Jury system, an integrity which has been seri ously impaired by the operations of Dis trict Attorneys and in defense of which whole peoples have risen. We assert that the grand jury has the inalienable right to "call a spade a spade. although with ornate handle and a gilded" blade a grand jury can "call a spade a spade." (Signed.) T. A. KETCHUM, Foreman, PETER PEARSON. FRED H. M'CLURE JOSEPH DUG AN. R. W. STRING. F. I. SMITH. C F. FULTON, Clerk, Opening of Rose Festival Selected as Added Inducement to Bring All Member of Organiza tion to the Gathering. Though formal' notices will not be sent out for a day or so, Charles B. ' Moores, chairman of the Republican state central committee, announced yesterday that the new committee will meet in Portland to organize on Mon day, June 9. Tho meeting will be held at 10 o'clock, in the morning, at the Imperial Hotel. This date was decided 'on at a con ference between Mr. Moores and Ed ward D. Baldwin, secretary of the com mittee. June 9 is the first day of the Hose Festival. This date was chosen purposely, so that the members, of the new committed may nave an added in ducement to attend the organization meeting. They will also be enabled to get special railroad rates. Mr. Moores is making special efforts this year to have a full attendance of the committee. Each of the 84 counties of the state is entitled to one member on the committee, the committeeman being chosen by the members of the county central committees. Harvey Wells has been re-elected state committeeman from Multnomah County. He is present treasurer of the state central committee. Some of the counties have not yet elected their state central committeeman, but with more than 10 days notice Mr. Moores believes that there will be practically full representation at the meeting. Klectlon of a new chairman and sec retary is one of the important matters to come before the committee. Though ! urged to do so, Mr. Moores has de clined to be a candidate for re-election He has said that he feels some younger man should take up the work. It is also likely that the committee will decide to issue a formal address to Republicans through the state, urg ing upon them the importance of reg istering and going to the polls at tne November election to bring the Repub lican party back in control. DRY ISSUE RIDICULED The Right Piano or Player Piano and the Right Store What assurance have you after you have purchased a piano on which a reduction of from fifty to one hundred and fifty dollars has been made that you have really bought at the bottom price? . How are you to know that the next buyer who happens in will not get an additional twenty-five or fifty dollars' reduction? Does it seem reasonable to you that an instrument built to sell at a certain price can be actually sold at HALF-PRICE, or at any of the other sensational reductions frequently advertised? Bear in mind this fact no merchant sells his goods at a loss, and the piano that is offered at a reduction of one-third to one-half off is a dangerous and unsafe investment at any price. It is built to deceive, sold by dealers whose policy is to charge all the traffic will bear and who do not hesitate to take advantage of the fact that the average buyer is unskilled in piano construction and the quality of materials. The right piano or player piano is the product of a factory which has established its reputation by the merit and quality of the instru ments it manufactures. THE RIGHT STORE OFFERS YOU A FAIR PRICE EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR Because we respect the intelligence of the buying public and be cause we know no other method than to deal fairly, squarely and out in the open, you may rest your case with us with the positive assurance that you will get the right piano or player piano in the best instrument possible at the price paid. Terms may be arranged to suit your convenience. 2 SOCIALIST EDITOR SAYS SIDES ARB WROTTG. BOTH We Sell Music Rolls of Highest Quality for All Player Pianos . MORRISON STREET AT BROADWAY OTHER STORES San Francisco, Oakland. Sacramento, San Jose, Fresno. Los Angeles, San Diego. Cal. ; Reno, Nev.; Phoenix, Ariz., and other Western cities. Abnormal Conditions Canse Ilqnor I Habit and Fight Over It Only Di vide People, Is Assertion. I. E. McName. who pro- "People never talk common sense when they discuss the liquor question. Durrer and said Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare, editor Bided. of the National Rip Saw. a Socialistic "The drys try to matte it a moral jues- CLACKAMAS MAN IS DEAD tion and the wets talk, about personal liberty. "Drunkenness isn't a moral question nor a question of personal liberty, continued Mrs. O'Hare. "No one has t right to do anything; that will injure anyone else, for an injury to one is injury to all. and if your getting- drunk injures me, then you have no right to get drunk." Mrs. O'Hare said that men do not sell or drink whisky because they are mor ally bad. She maintained that men drink because they lead abnormal lives. in industrial pursuits or elsewhere, and that they sell liquor because there is money to be made by selling- it. Mrs. O'Hare ascribed the present agi tation over the liquor question to a desire on the part of certain interests to get the working people of the coun try away from thinking of economic Questions. "Whenever there's any real likeli hood of the workers getting together. she said, "there is always some sort of a question brought up to divide the vote. The master class' Is perfectly willing to let you fight over wet and dry while you are not fighting for the full Droduct of your toil. Mrs. O'Hare declared that drunken ness and the drug habit would flourish as long as there were men and women working under abnormal or excessive conditions. Young Farmer and Dairyman 'Suc cumbs in Hospital In Portland. Alvin T. Schmale, a prosperous young farmer and dairyman, of Clackamas, Or., died at the Good Samaritan Hos pital May 22, after an illness of three months. He was 28 years old. He was born at Mllwaukle. Or., where he lived until he was 6 years old, when the family moved to their farm here. He attended the public school at Stone and afterwards high school at Oregon City, from which ho graduated with honors in June, 1904. Since then he had been steadily engaged in farming and dairying and in this line ranked among the most successful in the county. The funeral was held May 24 from Klnley's undertaking establishment, and interment was in the family lot in the cemetery in Damascus, where his father was laid to rest nine years before. His mother, his brother, Arthur Schmale. his sisters, Mrs. Olga Mosher, Misses Ruth, Myrtle and Lois Schmale, and Mrs. Bertha Boss, of Reynolds, Ind., survive. Branches to Close Sundays. The branch libraries at Albina St. Johns will be closed on Sundays for the Summer after June 1. Professor A. R. Sweetser will give his Illustrated lecture on "The Wild Flowers of Ore gon" on Monday afternoon, June 1, at 2 o'clock, in room A at the Central Li brary. This lecture is under the auspices of the Forestry Association and all interested are invited. Dog-Poisoner Busy at Ccntralia. CENTRALIA, Wash., May 28. (Spe cial.) The dog poisoner is active in Centralla again. Four cases of poison ing were reported to the police depart ment yesterday. In two cases the ca nines were valuable. The police have a clue as to one of the guilty parties. Supremely France has S.2OO.0O0 bieyrlgs In SPELLING CONTEST TIED Cathedral and Holy Redeemer Schools Head Catholic Competition. The championship- ' spelling contest I between 17 Catholic schools ended yes terday with the Cathedral and Holy Redeemer schools in a tie for flrst place. Each school had a perfect score. St. Mary's Academy and Madeline school were tied for second place, with one mistake each. The contest was held in the Christian Brothers College, Grand avenue and Clackamas street. Picked squads of three from the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades of each school participated in the contest. The contest covered 4000 words. One hundred and four mistakes I were made during the trial, which lasted two days. Nine mistakes were made by the fourth gTade, 13 by the fifth 23 by the sixth, 33 by the seventh and 26 by the eighth grade. Father John Dolphin, of Milwaukie, gave out the words. Among the ecclesiasts who were in terested in the contest were Archbishop Christie, and the Reverends B. V. Kelly, W. A Daly, Edward . Kelly. George I Thompson, G. Roble and Berchtold WATCH! THE ILLUMINATING ARCHES Ou Third street (Yamhill to Burnside) now being installed. ALL ERECTION OF ARCHES AND ELECTRICAL WORK DONE BY W. A. KRANER & CO. Engineers and Contractors, 532 Chamber of Commerce. iX Satisfying orc than wet thirst-quenching Jj More than wet thirst- Better than sweet delicious Crisper than crisp keen More than pure wholesome Demand the genuine by full name Nicknames encourage substitution. . , Whenever you see an -Arrow think of Coca-Cola. The Coca-Cola Company Atlanta, Ga. i 0