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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1914. WiLSO DRENCHED IN THUNDER STORM Woman Pays Tribute to Presi dent's Mobile Declaration at Arlington. MONUMENT IS ACCEPTED Erent Declared Impossible Except In JeiiioCTacy Nation Urged to Snow Paths of Freedom to All World. WASHINGTON, June 4. A terriflo thunder storm broke oyer Arllng-ton National Cemetery today while Presi dent Wilson was addressing a great crowd gathered for the unveiling: of the monument erected there to the Confed erate dead. Torrents of wind -driven rain drenched the blue and array Teterans, women and children before they could Beck shel ter, and then there was a wild dash for automobiles and trolley cars. Party Thoroughly Drenched. The President, who had cut short his speech as the rising: wind and darken ing skies announced the storm's com ing, hurried to his car with his two daughters. Mrs. McAdoo and Mrs. Sayre. The machine's top afforded poor pro tection and the party was thoroughly drenched on the seven-mile drive back to Washington. The ceremonies were held at the base of the magnificent monument In the Confederate section of the cemetpry. Only a slight canopy afforded protec tion to the speakers, and the crowd was without shelter. Wonu Commends Mobile Speech. Mrs. Daisy McLauren Stevens, president-general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, made the address presenting the monument to the Presi dent in behalf of the Women of the Confederacy. Tumultuous applause greeted her when she said: "Tours, Mr. President, was Jefferson's spirit when at Mobile you said the United States had no Interest in Mexico or any other foreign lands, except to see that the citizens enjoyed the right to the pursuit of happiness under a constitutional and Just government." The President acknowledged the trib ute with smiling approval. General Washington Gardner, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic and General Bennett Young, Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans, were not able figures among the speakers, and both were cheered with equal enthu siasm by veterans in gray and those In blue. General Lee's Grandson Speaks. Colonel Robert E. Lee, grandson of General Lee, also spoke, while the sculptor, Moses Ezeklel, a Confederate veteran, who designed the monument, was presented. All speakers commented on the ap propriateness of delivering the me morial to the Government through a Southern-born President, and when Mr. Wilson was introduced an enthusiastic reception was accorded him. He said: "I assure you that I am profoundly aware of the solemn significance of the thing that has now taken place. The Daughters of the Confederacy have presented a memorial of their dead to the Government of the United States. I hope that you have noted the history of the conception of this idea. It was proposed by & President of the United States, who had himself been a distinguished officer in the Union Army. It was authorized by an act of Congress of the United States. The cornerstone of the monument was laid by a President of the United States, elevated to his position by the votes of the party which had chiefly prided Itself upon sustaining war for the Union. And now it has fallen to my lot to accept In the name of the great Government which I am privi leged for the time to represent this emblem of a reunited people. Event Significant ' of Democracy. "I am not so much happy as proud to participate In this capacity on such an occasion; proud that I should rep resent such a people. Am I mistaken, ladles and gentlemen, in supposing that nothing of this sort could have occurred In anything but a democracy? The people of a democracy are not re lated to their rulers as subjects are related to a government. They are themselves the sovereign authority and as they are neighbors of each other, quickened by the same passions and moved by the same motives, they can understand each other. They are shot through with some of the deepest and profoundest instincts of human sym pathy. They choose their govern ments. They consult their rulers. They live their own life and they will not have that life disturbed and dis colored by fraternal misunderstand ings. "This chapter In the history of the United States is now closed and I can bid you turn with me your faces to the future, quickened by the memories of the past, but with nothing to do with the contests of the past, knowing that we have shed our blood upon op posite sides, we now face and admire one another. Mankind's Burden to Be Lifted. "The generosity of our judgment was made up soon after this great struggle was over, when men came and sat together again in the Congress and united in all the efforts of peace and of government; and our solemn duty is to. see that each one of us is in his own consciousness and in his own con duct a replica of this great reunited people. It is our duty and our privi lege to be like the country we repre sent, and speaking no word of malice, no word of criticism even, standing shoulder to shoulder to lift the bur dens of mankind in the future - and Bhow the paths of freedom to all the world." The dominant figure of the monument unveiled today is a woman of heroic size, typifying the South In peace, sur mounting a relief upon which there are 32 figures depicting the heroism of the South In war. It was dedicated to all heroes of the Confederacy. Flags of the Confederacy and the Stars and stripes were draped together over the monument and decorated the speakers' stand. The Fifth Cavalry band played "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Dixie." MELLEN'S STORY IS DENIED (Continued From First Papre.) amended In accordance with my sug gestion." Mr. Ledyard said several important things happened that year while he was in Europe. Blllard Deal Angers Morgan. "In the first place," he testified. "the suit brought by the Government an a result of the acquisition by the New Haven of the Boston & Maine was discontinued. This was on June 24, 1909, and the Government's action con firmed the opinion of Mr. OIney and myself that the acquisition of the Bos ton & Maine was not a violation of the Sherman anti-trust act. "The bill to authorize the incorpora tion of the Boston Railroad Holding Company was approved by the Gover nor of Massachusetts about that time and the Billard contract was executed and on July 9 approved by the direc tors of both the New Haven and the New England Navigation Company. "By the time I returned home Mr. Blllard had sold back to the naviga tion company the Boston & Maine stock. I went to a meeting of the ex ecutive committee of the New Haven board on October 2. I was outspoken in expressing my opinion regarding the Billard transaction and the big profit that had gone to Mr. Billard. Mr. Morgan was present and he also was angry about the matter. The dis satisfaction shown, I believe, resulted in Mr. Mellen's afterward saying that the profit could be cut down, but no resolution was adopted at the commit tee meeting. Alteration of Record Suggested. "A year later, in July, 1910, on my return from another trip abroad, I saw Mr. Mellen in New York and he told me he had learned an erroneous record in the Billard case had been made in the minutes of the New Haven meeting. He said it was misleading and might make trouble. He said to be: 'You know we never owned that stock or made the profits. That rec ord indicates that Billard's profit be longs really to the New Hoven.' Mr. Mellen wanted to change the record, but I reminded him the laws of New York strictly forbade anything of that sort." Discussing the Pullman contract. Mr. Ledyard said he and Mr. Mellen were principally responsible for it. He 'said he told Mellen that he felt the only way to get steel cars at once would be by making euch a contract and that he favored it. - "I had no interests whatever in the Pullman company," the witness said. but on account of accidents that had happened I was anxious for the steel cars." Mr. Ledyard said in September. 1912. he saw Mr. Morgan, who asked him to postpone his trip abroad and at tend the next New Haven meeting, at which, Mr. Morgan said, Mellen was going to lay before the directors some thing In relation to the Grank Trunk. Morgan Says He Does Not Know. "I wanted to know what it was." said Mr. Ledyard, "and Mr. Morgan said he did not know. I told Mr. Morgan If tnat matter came up he ought not to do anything until he had gotten the advice of Independent counsel, some able attorney. He asked me to sug best someone and I proposed Richard Olney, of Boston. "I went to Europe and returned In December to find a conflagration all around the New Haven and Mr. Mel len in process of being indicted. I saw Mr. Mellen and his story at that time was just about the same . as he has told here. He told me about hav ing negotiated with Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Smithers, of the Grand Trunk, in regara to some trarnc agreement. He said he had not discussed the ac quisition of the Northern. & New England Railroad. He added: 'The pa pers are full of it My office boy and my porter have been subpenaed by the grand Jury." "Mr. Mellen said: 'While I was talk ing with Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Smithers. Mr. Morgan strolled in and jocularly asked what we had been talking about. We told him and he casually remarked there never would be peace until we eot the Northern & New England road. He went out and there was no discussion after ward as to the Northern & New Eng land.' , "I told Mr. Mellen I did not think he could be indicted. Mr. Robbins came in and Mr. Melen said he would dictate a letter to the United States District Attorney at New York. He called in a stenographer and did so. Ihe stenographer. I think; brought the letter back and I think Dossiblv Mr. Mellen made a few corrections. I want to say in most unqualified terms that Mr. Mellen did not offer himself as a vicarious sacrifice for Mr. Morgan. It was a letter, not of a man accepting responsibility; it was a letter or a man claiming' innocence, for it was a letter to the District At torney saying that as he was the only one who conducted whatever neerotla.- tlons were made, as he was the only one wno Knew wnat had been done; there fore, he desired to go before the grand Jury and tell his story of what those negotiations were." Mr. Ledyard denied that the letter was written at the suggestion of him self and Mr. Robbins. The suggestion, he said, came from Mr. Mellen himself. Mr. Ledyard then naa acquiesced. REPORTER MADE VICTIM RICH MAN ANGBRED WltBIT DAUGH TER'S PRANK IS PUBLISHED. Newspaper Man Boud nnd Ant Is Wrecked Girl Had Been Q. sated As Disparaging Chicago Hen. CHICAGO. June 4. Mark Morton, his Ire aroused by the publicity given a prankish trip of his daughter. Helen, to Virgina, was accused today of at tacking a newspaper reporter, binding his hands and then wrecking an auto mobile containing his prisoner against a fencepost. The reporter asserted he would sue the millionaire for damages and also lodge a charge of assault against him. The attack is said to have been caused by an attempt to gain an Interview in which Mr. Morton charged the re porter with trespassing. After her trip to Virgina Miss Helen Morton was quoted as saying that Chi cago men were "nit wits" and that she fled, not to be married, but to asso ciate for a time with real men and en Joy herself in her favorite pastime the training and riding of horses. She returned to Chicago this week "under an armistice," she said ROSE FESTIVAL OREGONIANS Six Issues, Including Post' age, 20 Cents. Mail to your friends in the East, The Oregonian during Rose Fe&tival Week, beginning Tuesday, June 9, and ending with the GREAT SUNDAY EDITION, June 14. Complete and exhaustive re ports with numerous high-class half-tone illustrations will be featured daily. The Portland Annual Rose Festival has been widely adver tised throughout the United States, and no more attractive testimonial to your friends could be given than a subscription to Oregon's Great Daily during the event. Orders given now in the busi ness office, or sent in by mail to The Oregonian, will receive prompt and careful attention. Subscription price for the six issues, including postage, ' is 20 cents. GARRANZA DELAYS ANSWER FOR TOUR General Plans to Inspect Sal tillo, and Meanwhile Medi ators Are Waiting. BRYAN STILL IS HOPEFUL Subject of Ammunition Bound to Rebel Forces "Uppermost in Wash ington Badger Is Told to Watch Federal Boats. "WASHINGTON, June 4. Waiting on Carranza was the attitude of the Wash ington Government today insofar as progress in Mexican mediation was concerned. It was apparent that the constitutionalist leader was" expected to make the next move in the diplo matic negotiations toward composition of Mexican affairs, but no word had come tonight as to what that move would be. Rafael Zubaran, General Carranza's chief representative in Washington, said: "I transmitted the note to Genera Carranza last night. He, I am sure, will give it all the necessary attention and consideration before sending an answer to the mediators, so that it probably will be two or three days be fore the response is dispatched. Trip of Inspection Berao, "General Carranza Is about to leave for Saltillo on a tour of inspection, which also will operate to delay his decision, but this matter, of course, will be considered in preference to any other subject." Asked about the chance for consti tutionalist representation at Niagara Kails, Mr. Zubaran said: "Affairs are getting better, or, to quote Mr. -Bryan's phrase, 'the situa tion is encouraging. " Apparently there was no attempt to disguise the attitude of the Washing ton Administration, although officials would not discuss the situation for publication. John Lind, who' repre sented the State Department in deal ing with the constitutionalists, urged them to use their influence to have their chieftain make favorable reply to the proposals of the South Amer ican mediators. Luis Cabrera, who has been men tioned as a probable delegate to the peace conference should Carranza agree to participate under the terms proposed, was in conference with Mr. Lind for several hours. Huerta'a Gunboats to Be Watched. While mediation waited on Carranza the subject of ammunition bound froqp the United States for General Carran za's forces was uppermost in the dis cussion in official quarters and it be came known that Admiral Badger had been directed by cable to keep watch on the Mexican federal gunboats In the vicinity of Puerto Mexico, in view of reports from Mexico City that Huerta proposed to prevent, if possible, the landing at Tamplco of the munitions en route to Carranza on the steamer Antilla. Admiral Badger was Instructed to keep the vessels under surveillance. In consequence the Paducah is watch ing the gunboat off Alvarado and the Tacoma and Sacramento are keeping in sight two vessels in the. harbor at Puerto Mexico. Naval officials expressed doubt as to whether the Mexican boats could maintain a successful blockade of Tampico with their base of supplies so far removed from Tampico, even if no attempt were made by the American ships to prevent a blockade. American Attitude Uncertain. It was generally regarded here as likely that the ammunition shipped from Galveston, Monterey and New York Tuesday for the constitutional ists would reach their destination un molested. Conflicting statements as to the probable attitude of the United States regarding shipment of arms to the Mexican contending factions were dif ficult to reconcile. -'In some quarters the view was expressed that the Amer ican Government would endeavor to prevent the delivery of arms to Gen eral Carranza's forces in order to In fluence him if possible to incline a favorable ear toward peace proposals at Niagara Falls. It Is pointed out that it would be easy for Admiral Badger to stop any of these consignments from entering Mexican ports if he were ordered to do so. "While officials have asserted the right to stop such shipments at American ports, they have not yet made up their minds to extend their authority to the high seas so as to pre vent the delivery of the goods. ABDUCTION STORY TOLD REV. SPUBGEON SAVS 10 SPIRITED HIM OUT OF CITY IJt AUTO. Several Hundred Said to Have Been In Hotel Lobby, but Police Cat Figures to 30 or 40. DENVER, June 4. Rev. Otis I Spurgeon, of Des Moines, was the principal witness today at the trial of ten men charged with abducting and robbing the minister following the de livery of a lecture in which he at tacked the Roman Catholic clergy. Rev. Mr. Spurgeon told the Jury that he was forcibly taken from his hotel on the night of April 5, placed In an automobile, spirited out of the city, beaten and robbed of $10. He said a crowd of 300 or 400 were In the lobby and about the building when the de fendants entered his room and carried him away. George R. Merritt, a police sergeant who had been sent to the hotel to pro tect the lecturer, and O. P. De Ford, the proprietor of the place, also testified. De Ford said he believed there were not more than SO or 40 in and about the hotel at the time Rev. Mr. Spur geon was taken away. Taft Man Hurt by Horse's Fall. NEWPORT, Or., June 4. (Special.) W. A. McClintock, of Taft, was seri ously Injured at Otter Rocks this morning when a horse which he was riding fell on him, the saddle horn dig ging Into his stomach, causing an in ternal hemorrhage. McClintock . was brought to Newport. He was coming to investigate the loss yesterday of a $700 boiler consigned to his father on the Nenamosha. W. M. Dodson, of Taft, one of the owners of the Nena mosha, accompanied him. If It Is the skin use Santlseptic Lotion. Adv. Many shown with bows at back, and at the quarter. Exclusive agency for Dunlap Straw Hats, $5.00 Brewer Straw Hats, $3.00 Men's and Women's Panamas, $5 to $10 A June Showing of Clothes Smartest models that Stein-Bloch and Atter bury System have brought out in many a sea son natty patch pocket styles ; Norfolks, semi English and conservative effects. Line stripes and small, unobtrusive patterns continue to "have the calL" Boys' Wash NEW WASH SUITS "Oliver Twist," "Tom Boy" and Russian Suits, in linens, cham brays, madrases, etc. Every color. Every suit new this season. $1.00 Wash Snits now at 75 $1.50 Wash Suits now at SI. 15 $2.00 Wash Suits now at S1.50 $2.50 Wash Suits now at S1.95 v$3.00 Wash Suits now at $2.35 $5.00 Wash Suits now -at $3.95 Leading TEXTBDOKS'AHTIQUATED' BRTH MAWR PRESIDENT PLEADS FOR BETTER SYSTEM. Ifeed for Development t Reuaalac Pwrr la Students Declared Essen tial to Future Success. PHILADELPHIA. June 4 Miss M. Carey Thomas, president of Eryn Mawr College, in an address to the graduating- class, today asserted that If Institu tions of higher education In the United States expected to meet effectively and successfully the new demands that are being made on them for advanced and scientific teaching' methods, they must set themselves to the task of making the teaching profession more lucrative and more attractive. By this means, she said, men and women capable of becoming brilliant teachers would not be diverted from the educational field by the rewards - of fered by business, commerce and In dustry. Dr. Thomas said the students of to day were demanding- new methods, more definite teaching and other improve R ousing at the Emporium, Friday and Saturday 1 Portland is preparing for her annual gala week. There'll be many social functions. The Emporium offers timely savings on smartest new Suits, Coats, lovely Summer Dresses, and Separate Skirts. Every article in our Garment Section reduced. Take advantage today. $19.50 and $24.75 Serge Suits $12.95 Three models, in Suits of splendid mannish . Navy Serge. Semi-tailored and dressy, with kimono and raglan sleeves; new tier skirts. Also Suits in plain tans, blues, browns, greens and novelty weaves. Our $19.50 to $24.75 Suits, Pre Camival special, , $12 9 LOT 2 $27.50 to $32.50 Suits . Uvli Middy Blouses, all .Newest Sty1es,Priced .MOT Special at $1.35 High Crown "Straws' c ome first with men who want styles right up to the minute. New shapes, in rough braids, sennets, pearls, Milans. and Knicker We have made these extraordinary, bona fide reductions on every new "Wash Suit and Knick erbocker Suit. We cannot remember when any store offered such savings at this time of year. One Lot $5.00 to $7.50 Double Breasted Suits, $2.50 BEN SELLING Clothier. ments la the educational systems that made it imperative for the schools to stir themselves In an effort to get the services of brilliant, up-to-date in structors. Dr. Thomas said the textbook and lecture systems in the schools are no longer effective, and these antiquated methods must be supplanted by more modern teaching systems that will de velop the reasoning power in students. "If educators do not realize this." she said, "colleges will become places for the dead, not for the living." HOOD RIVER CHERRIES SOLD Entire Crop of Itoyal Annn Taken . for 5 Cents by The Dalles. HOOD RIVER, Or., June 4. (Spe claL) A. W. Stone, manager of the Apple Growers' Association, announces that the entire crop of Royal Anne cherries of the valley had been sold for 5 cents a pound f. o. b.. Hood River. The fruit will be preserved and canned at The Dalles. The cherries will be hauled by the growers to the associa tion warehouses in apple boxes. No sales have been made of the Sings and other black varieties, but a pood market is expected for them. They 'Portland's Foremost Garment and Millinery Store P re-Carniva. New Silk Coats at Deep Reductions! 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