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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY, .TULY 30, 1914 WATERWAYS BILL IE GRAV DANGER Belief Is Not Enough Senators Will Remain in Capital for Quorum. FILIBUSTER WILL PERSIST Members of House Also KxrKttcd to Desert Washington In Large X limbers as .Soon as Trust Bills Are Passed. OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, July 29. Notwithstanding the nemocratlc caucus of the Senate has declared the river and harbor bill must be passed Immediately, following: the disposition of the several trust bills. there is grave danger that the water ways bill may fall. There is a per sistent filibuster against the bill. Sec ondly, many Senators will not remain In Washington after the trust bills are out of the way. It Is likely It will De Impossible to muster a quorum to con- sul-r the river and harbor bill. Objections are all based on the fact that the measure is loaded down wltn "pork" items, utterly lacking in merit. Senators back of these provisions have refused to allow them to be eliminated by the committee on commerce, and as long as thnye Items remain In tne out a dozen or more determined Senators will see to It that the bill does not come to a vote. Trout Bills Prolong Session. It is the oDinion of Senators that a vote cannot be reached on the last of the trust bills before the end or Au gust, and some predict that the middle of September will not see them sub mitted to the President for signature. That means that the river and harbor bill cannot again be laid before the Senate Inside of a month or six weeks. Once the bill Is again made the unfin ished business of the Senate the fili buster will be resumed, and everyone Is ready to concede that those partici pating in the filibuster will be able to prolong their fight for six weeks or two months. If they are so disposed. In that event, the outlook for the pas sage of the river and harbor bill will be dark, and Inclination to adjourn will be Increased by the fact that even If the river and harbor bill should be passed the money appropriated could not, in most Instances, be used before the beginning of the next sea son, anyway. One-third of the Senators strongly desire to get away from Washington, and while most of the anxious ones are concerned over river and harbor appropriations, they are more con cerned over their own political wel fare. ;nr considerable exodus would break a quorum. Opponents of the river and harbor bill would then need to do nothing but Insist on a quorum and the Senate would be at a stand still. ' House Also Tired of Waiting. Moreover, when the trust bills are disposed of. most members of the House will go home. The House has passed the river and harbor bill and the members of that body have done all they can In the way of securing appropriations for waterways. Once the House membership left Washing ton it would be Impossible to get a quorum back to the National capital to pass on the Senate amendments to the river and harbor bill, for practically everv member of the House has a cam paign on his hands, and feel that they can neglect their polltl cal fences. . There is Just one way in which the passage of the river and harbor bill can be assured. That Is by el minat ing from the bill all items which are not justified. There is little prospect that this will be done. Responsibility for defeat will rest In the first Utance on the commit tees that framed the bill. and. second arily, on the Democratic leaders of the Senate who failed to push the bill to early consideration. Dennis Fenton.. who was to have en listed today, attacked him in a res .taurant on Sixth street. Cornelius suf fered a black-eye. a badly bruised neck and a scalp wound, in addition to other bruises, caused by his assailants kick ing him. Police Sergeant McCurdy answered the call and captured Hanlon at the point of a gun. Fenton escaped, but was turned over to civil authorities. Both are charged with assault in the second degree, the maximum penalty being from two to 14 years in prison. LEWISTON DAM POSSIBLE Practicability of Municipal Power j Project Being Investigated. I.EWISTOX. Idaho. July 29. (Spe cial.) The practicability of a dam orrnss the Clearwater River at this 165 PASSENGERS ON STAGE TRIP ROBBED Large Force of Soldiers Pur sue Yellowstone Park Des peradoes to Cover. FOKCKS BACK HARBOR BIMj Orccon Vitally Interested in Measure Now Pending in Congress. Wide interest Is shown in the mass meeting to be held at 8 o'clock tonight by the Chamber of Commerce to urge upon Congress the continuance of river and harbor work in this state. Eight local bodies will send delegations to the meeting and commercial organlza ... ,...,.-;a nf the citv. particularly those on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, have been asked to send repre sentatives. The Chamber of Commerce Is asking the Commercial Club, the Portland Ad Club the Rotary Club, the Transporta tion Club, the ProgreFslve Business Men's Club, the Manufacturers' Asso ciation, the Civic League and the East Bide Business Men s Club to have dele gations at tonight's meeting and it is considered certain that they will all respond, so general is the feeling that continued work on the river and har bor projects of the state is vital to Oregon's progress. Formal invitations from the Chamber of Commerce are not thought necessary to bring all these interests, which are actively at work for Oregon, rallying around the movement to keep the work of river and harbor improvement go ing. The Chamber realizes that the; state faces a crisis in its commercial development and every effort will be made to prevent stopping the present activity in deepening the river chan nels and Improving the harbors. V "About one-fourth of the amounts appropriated by the rivers and harbors bill, the fate of which now hangs in the balance, would be expended on Ore gon projects." said an official of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, "and if all this work is stopped, it will mean a great loss to this state. Particularly Is this realised when the early opening of the Panama Canal makes it impor tant to have improved facilities for commerce." If It seems hopeless to get the ap propriations through the rivers and harbors bill in the regular way. an ffort will be made to get a concurrent resolution through Congress to lift the Columbia River appropriations out of that bill and put them through inde pendently. Tonight's meeting will be held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms on the ground floor of the Commercial Club building'. SOLDIER BEATS POLICEMAN .Man About to Be Knlisted Also In Jail to Await Trial. VANCOUVER. Wash.. July 29. (Spe cial.) As a result of Frank Cornelius, a policeman, telling a boy to go to his home in Vancouver Barracks after mid night, a soldier, James Hanlon, and ESSAYS AND LABELS DUE Competitors In The Oregonlan'a home Industries contest for July muat have their essays and labels In Tha OreBonlin office by tomorrow night. Announcement of the winners and publication of the prize essays will be made In next Monday's Issue. Six cash prizes for labels from Ore gon product and five cash prizes for essays are distributed by The Ors goman ever" month. The essays are on the subject, "Why Oregon People Should Do All Their Buying From Oregon Manufacturers, Everything Else Being Equal." point is being investigated. The com mittee reports that the land jwners whose property would have to be used in the construction of the dam have offered the land to the city if it will grant the use to the property owners of 100 horse-power of electricity for a term of 50 years. Every effort will be made to get data In such shape that the Issuance of bonds for the construction of the dam here can be submitted to the voters at an early date. CONGRESS GETS CONTROL House, Against Protest of West, Amends Reclamation Bill. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, July 29. The House of Repre sentatives today practically completed consideration of the reclamation exten sion bill, and tomorrow will take a final vote. Over the protest of prac tically every Western member, the House today voted to adopt the amend ment taking from the Secretary of the Interior the power to apportion the funds for Government reclamation work, and providing that hereafter an nual appropriations from the reclama tion fund shall be authorized by Con gress. Representative Blnnott offered an amendment proposing in effect to re store section 9 of the original recla mation act to that law, thus requiring that a major portion of the money contributed by any state to the recla mation fund shall be expended within that state, this adjustment to be made once every 20 years. The Okianoma delegation was the only one to support the Sinnott amendment, which was defeated. PORTLAND PEOPLE SUFFER GUS M0SER AID TO CUPID Witness at Vancouver Unable to Write, but Mark Is Effective. VANCOUVER. Wash.. July 29. (Spe cial.) When Harry B. Hall and Mrs. Ella M. L-tngford, of Portland, reacnea the Clarke County Courthouse today. In quest of a marriage license, they had no acquaintances there, but when they were searching for Judge Back, they encountered Gus Moser, who willingly acted as a witness. J. W. Rowland, of Winchester, and Mrs. Laura E. Malaney, of Vancouver, desired to be married, Joe Gravel, the witness, not being able to write, made bis mark and the license was Issued. Others procuring licenses today to marry were: N. Yenckel and Ida Ma zingo, of North Plains, Or.; John H. Linville and Hattle Ridlnger, of St. Helens, Or., and C H. Green, of Van couver, and Mary L- Boyd, of Port land. BANK SUES EUGENE MAN Oklahoma Concern Alleges Warrant ..for $1345.75 Was Illegal. EUGENE, Or, July 29. (Special.) fhireea of forgery are included in a civil suit instituted here, in which the Logan County Bank of Okia noma seeks to recover il34o.7o rrom B. Renfero. a Eugene merchant. The complaint charges that a warrant for J1000 said to have been given Dy Okla homa for supplies furnished the State Hospital for the Insane, was not signed by the State Auditor, but that his sig nature was forged. The plaintiff declares the warrant wos sold to G. E. Berford, who in turn sued the bank and obtained Judgment for the face of tho warrant and costs. The sum for which the Oklahoma bank sues Renfero represents this judgment and costs. THREAT T0KILL CHARGED Insurance Solicitor Is Seized on Complaint of Wife. I T Varrlnfftnn 3805 FOrtV-SeCOnd street, an Insurance solicitor, was ar rested last night on complaint or nis wife, who alleged that he has pursued her for two weeks in an effort to kill her. Mrs. Parrington says the trouble started about two weeks ago, when hr himhnnd attemoted to strangle her and she escaped to a neighbor's. A week ago, sne asserts, ner nuouauu re turned, threw her down and threatened ... h.r ThA comolaint Mrs. Par rington made to Deputy District Attor ney Dieck yesterday alleges ui rlngton attacked her with an ax Sat urday and chased her several blocks. GIRL, HURT ON RIDE, DIES Bessie Duffield Third Victim of Ac cidents of Two Weeks. The third death resulting from auto mobile and motorcycle accidents within v... nat two waoUa occurred earlv last night, when Miss Bessie Duffield, the daughter or -Mr. and airs. r. uuiueiu, 875 East Thirty-seventh street, died at . v. a rirtr.fi fiamnritan Wnsiiital from in juries received in a motorcycle accident Tuesday nignu Miss Duffield was riding with E. L. Younger, a Southern Pacific machinist. At the east end of the Hawthorne bridge the wheel of the motorcycle dropped into the car tracks, throwing both the riders. Miss Duffield sus tained a fracture at the base of her skull and a broken collar-bone. City Phvsiclans Ziesfler and Rice attended her at the hospital. If it is the skin use Santlseptlc Lotion- Adv. Dr. and Mrs. Charles M. Barbee Among Victims or Daring Adven ture Four Companies' Stages Robbed by Two Men. GARDINER. Mont, July 29. Stage coaches of four of the largest trans portation companies operating In Yel lowstone Park were held up by two men today. The 165 passengers on the stages were robbed of their money and it 1b reported that the robbers secured a total of $3000. The hold - ups occurred at different times at Spring Creek Canyon, four miles from Old Faithful, a geyser, and 54 miles from Gardiner. Lieutenant-Colonel L M. Brett has a large 'force of men pursuing the rob bers who were reported to be headed toward the Jackson Hole country In Wyoming. Only one robber participated actively in the hold-ups, the second man remaining behind trees as a look out. The transportation companies offered rewards aggregating $500 for the cap ture of the robbers. Passengers on the stages said that the one man who did the actual work of relieving them of their money held up each stage as It passed the canyon by pointing a gun at the driver. The highwayman had the advantage because Government regulations prevent any person except those with permits from carrying arms In the park. Among the passengers robbed were Dr. and Mrs. Charles M. Barbee, of Portland, Or. Dr. and Mrs. Charles M. Barbee left Portland about two weeks ago for a pleasure visit to Montana. -nc luch residence, 695 Flanders street, it is not known whether they carried any articles of especial value when they left Portland. Dr. Barbee has an office in the Electric building. GIRLS' SCHOOL OPEN N0V.1 State's First Completely Femlninist Institution Hurried Along. m.TMPIA Wash.. July 29. (Special.) Washington will have its first com pletely feminist institution when the new State School for Girls at orand Mound, Thurston County, opens Its doors about November I. Reports to the board of control are the buildings, which are on the cottage system, are nearing completion and will be ready on time. The school is to be In charge of a woman superintendent and all subor dinate employes are to be women, ex cept that If a married woman is em ployed her husband may be given work at the Institution if the board of control so desires. Girls now in the State Training School at Chehalls are to be transferred to the new school, which is located 10 miles north of the training school. NEW CUSTOMS ZONE AIMED Southwestern Washington Wants Congress to Cut Seattle Tie. VANCOUVER, Wash., July 29. (Spe cial.) Letters have been received from Washington's Representatives in Congress relative to having a separate customs district established for South western Washington, instead of giving Seattle credit for shipping there. The messages Intimate that the Treasury Department opposes the plan. The Washington Representatives as sured the Vancouver Commercial Club they would do all in their power to have such a district created. Now the line drawn through the center of the channel of the Coluhmbia River divides the customs districts of Seattle and Portland. Seal Skins Seized. SEATTLE, July 29. The skins of 11 fur seal pups, shipped from Nome, Maska. by James A. Conner to A. H. Dunham, of New York City, were seized on their arrival here, and suit to condemn and destroy the skins was begun In the United States Court today. The killing of fur seals is forbidden by the treaty entered into by the United States, Russia. Great Britain and Japan. Prohls to Meet at Centralia. CENTRA LI A, Wash., July 29. (Spe cial.) A call was issued today by Lewis County Prohibitionists for a convention at Centralia August 4. Professor F. W. Lough and J. W. Huddleson, orators and organizers, will attend the session in the W. C. T. U. temple. It Is be lieved the Prohibitionists intend to put a county ticket in the field this Fall. Men's Furnishings Department, Main Floor Manhattan Shirt Sale Opens Today BEGIXNIJNG at 8 o'clock tins morning we change owners for all these crisp, new Manhattans; out they go today at sale prices. Every pattern new and to be desired. Crowd in today, men buy all you need: $1.50 Manhattan Shirts Now $1.15 $2.00 Manhattan Shirts Now $1.35 $2.50 Manhattan Shirts Now $1.85 $3.00 Manhattan Shirts Now $2.25 $3.50 Manhattan Shirts Now $2.65 $4.00 Manhattan Shirts Now $2.85 $5.00 Manhattan Shirts Now $3.55 The materials are percale, woven madras, silk and madras, silk and linen, silk and wool and pure silk. The best fabrics procurable. SELLING LEADING CLOTHIER MORRISON STREET, AT FOURTH. Store Opens 8 A. M. Closes 6 P. M. HARVEY ASKS PROBE Man Portland Paper Links With Murder Sees Lawyer. of time for operating' boats on the Co lumbia River between The Dalies and ' Portland comes on for hearing. Pasco is attempting to stop the granting or the extension, along with several other cities of the Columbia River Valley. STARVER'S PARDON SOUGHT New Zealand Advocates of l'aMinp: Would Free Mrs. Hazzard. FAMILY DEATHS RELATED believe in fasting as a cure for disease are signers of petitions for the pardon of Linda Burfleld Hazzard. the "star vation doctor," now serving a term of from two to 21) years in Walla Walla prison for causing the death of Claire Williamson, who was her patient at a sanitarium at Olalla. Mrs. Hazard's attorney, ex -Judge Wilson R. Gay, of Seattle, presented the application for the pardon to Governor Lister, declaring that Mrs. Hazards health is failing. I, a (.ranch- Has IV-t Kxliibit. LA GRANDE, Or., July . (Special.) Requests for Money y Detectives Reported by Citizen Who, After Conference With Attorney Browne!!, Courts Inquiry. OREGON CITY, Or.. July 29. (Spe cial.) Nathan B. Harvey, mentioned in connection with the sensational Hill murder case by a Portland paper, which has recently revived old reports, had a long conference with his attorney, George C. Brownell, this morning. At the close of the meeting Mr. Harvey issued the statement that if an inves tigation was not made of the charges against him he wo ulff start something himself. ' , "I demand an investigation of each and every charge made against me," he said after the conference. "The only way I can be cleared of this connec tion with the murder Is by a thorough and complete investigation. The au thorities may begin as far back in my life as they see fit, they may examine every witness they may desire and 1 will co-operate with them to the limit of my abilities. "A Portland paper has asked con cerning the death of my brother and of my mother. When my brother was drowned in the Willamette River I was in the East. They insinuate that my mother's death was due to me and that I killed her to obtain her property, when records in the Courthouse here will show that each of my brothers and sisters obtained an equal share with me, although I had an opportunity to take advantage of them. They say that Mr. Brownell obtained valuable land from me near Milwaukee. He owned that property long before the Hill murders were committed. When asked if any recent investiga tion had been made. Mr. Harvey re plied. "Detectives come to me often and say they have traces which will lead to the location of the real murderer, and sometimes they openly ask for money. I have refused every one of these mfen and have even denied each of them a private interview. I have no : fault to find In the actions of Sheriff Mass and District Attorney Hedges and I be lieve thev want to do their duty. Mr Harvey did not say what the na ture 'of hie demand for a complete in vestigation would be. but hinted that n.nh,hiv take the form of a It WUlilU - libel suit against a roruaccu yc"' Pasco to Send Representative. PASCO, Wash.. July 29. (Special.) ri ,--c..kQ. rtf r'nmmerce last night employed Charles W. Johnson as spe cial counsel in the case pending before the Inter-State Commerce Commission at Portland on August 7, at which time the matter of granting the Spo kane, Portland & Seattle an extension PEOPLESJHEATER A Magnificent Success IS BEING SCORED BY The Man a Box WITH Max Figman and Lolita Robertson IN THE LEADING ROLES ENORMOUS AUDIENCES HAVE SEEN IT THUS FAR ONE OP THE BEST PRODUCTIONS WE HAVE SHOWN FOR SOME TIME ONLY THREE DAYS MORE TODAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY lOrf-ONLY-lOtf OLYMPIA. Wash., July 29. (Spe-I clal.) 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