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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1914. " LAWS FOR MIGHT ISLANDS IAN 1 Republicans See Chance for America to Become Involved Over Philippines. BATTLE ZONE TOO CLOSE Minority House Report Says Topic of Independence Too Dangerous at Crisis, as Japan, Angered, May Take German Samoans. WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. "The na tions involved in the Far Eastern struggle have many interests and ter ritorial possessions In close proximity to the Philippines, and to discuss the disposition of the Philippines at this time would be impolite and extremely unwise," declared a minority report of the House insular affairs committee today on the pending Philippine inde pendence bill. The report, signed by the Republicans of the committee, declares Japan might seize all of Germany's Pacific posses sions. Islands Held Part of Japan. "A distinguished Japanese," said the report, "once observed that the Phil ippine Archipelago is but a continua tion of their own. Territorially we are in closest relations with Japan, one of the nations now at war. "Still closer are our territorial rela tions with Germany. The Samoan Is lands in the Southern Pacific are di vided between Great Britain. Germany and the United States. "Hawaii, with 191.000 total popula tion, has 80,000 Japanese and only about 10.000 Americans. This group of islands in the center of the Pacific Ocean probaDly is tne most aesireaDie strategic point in the world. Germany May Lose Samoans. It Is true that Japan has stated her offensive operations would be confined to Kiau-Chau, but why should they, from Japan's point of view? If angered by stubborn resistance, severe losses and pressed by an already aroused war spirit among her own people, Japan should seize all of Germany's Pacific possessions; no one would be surprised. "To enter on debate in which ail our relations and interests in the Pacific would be discussed and our rights in the Philippines, , Hawaii. Samoa and Guam challenged, would be to encour age disregard to our.interests and lead nations with opposing Interests to De lieve that the United States would not irn far in defense of possessions so lightly regarded by those n control of this Government. To make the na tions of the world believe we are anxious to get rid of the Philippines, do not desire to keep them, ana nave lit tle or no interest in their retention is to invite aggression which would mean war." Independence Idea Weakens. The report was signed by Repre sentatives Towner. Iowa; Miller. Min nesota: Foss, Ohlp; Young, North, Da kota; Peters, Maine, and Frear, of Wis consin", who advocated immediate legis lation to meet commercial emergency needs in the Philippines. The report declares that the minority do not ob ject to the conservative features of the Jones bill, which provides for recog nition of Philippine independence when the Filipinos are able to set up a sta ple government, but adds: "It is significant that the bill is so much less radical than the Philippine Independence bill of two years ago. and so much further from a declara tion of independence and gives the Filipinos so much less extension of autonomous government. "Two years ago the Democrats were clamoring for immediate or quick In dependence. Now they do not even suggest an early Independence. It Is 1 unfortunate that the consideration of the bill is forced into partisan politics. Emergency Laws Seeded. "The minority would be glad to con sider at any time any bill for the ben efit of the Filipino people and to ex tend to them from time td time a larger measure of self-government. "It is unwise to consider at this time a complete change in the govern ment of the Philippines. There is a great need just now of emergency leg islation to which there would be lit tle or no objection. A bill to increase the limit of indebtedness from $5,000. n to J10.OD0.000 or any other emer gency TneasUre could be reported out at once and pass without opposition As to the other branch of Congress (the Senate), an emergency measure will receive Immediate consideration, but this bill will not even be con sidered in committee there during the present session, or possibly not at all In the Senate at the short session." - Representative Towner Introduced a bill today increasing the limit of in debtedness of the Philippine govern ment to $15,000,000 at any one time- collapsed amid puffs of brown smoke. The sky was smeared in a dozen places with the smoke of burning dwellings. Uhlans Bnrst Forth. Suddenly a soldier crouching beside me cried, "Les Allemands." From a screen of woods along the embank ment burst a long line of gray figures i hoarsely cheering. At the same moment I heard a splutter of shots in the vil lage below me and my chauffeur screamed, "Hurry for your life, Mon sieur, the Uhlans are upon us." I think I broke the world's record for speed in getting to my car. As we shot down the road which leads to Antwerp, at 50 miles an hour, the Uh lans cantered into the village, the sun striking on their lance tips. The railway embankment from which I viewed the battle was fairly car peted with corpses of German infantry men killed the day before. I saw peas ants throw them into one grave. The retreat from Mallnes was a never-to-be-forgotten sight. For 20 miles every road was jammed with clattering cavalry, plodding infantry and rumbling guns, their caissons cov ered with green boughs to mask their position. Gendarmes with giant bear skins. chasseurs in green coats, carbineers in leather hats, machine guns drawn by dogs, ambulances with red cross flags, and cars, cars, cars all the dear old familiar makes among them contrib uted to form a mighty human river flowing Antwerpward. Flight Becomes General. Malines has a population of 50,000 and 45,000 fled when they heard the Germans were returning. Sights alonj the road were pathetic beyond descrip tion. Children and aged, rich and poor, lame and blind, with their few poor belongings on their backs or piled in pushcarts, clogged roads and impeded the soldiery. These people were' abandoning all they held dear to pillage and destruc tion. They were completely terrorized by the Germans. But the Belgian army is not terrorized. It is a retreating army, but it is victorious in retreat. The army is cool, confident, courage ous, and if the German giant leaves himself unguarded a single instant little Belgium will drive home a solar plexus blow. MINERS THREATEN TO SET BUTTE AFIRE "Troops Will Find Ashes, for We Have Dynamite and Oil," Says Leader. 50 ARMED GUARDS READY 100,000 CLASH IN FIGHT (Continued From First Page.) The battle began at dawn with an ar tillery duel across the embankment. By noon the cannonade was terrific. The Germans sot the range and a rain of shrapnel burst about the Belgian bat teries, wHlch limbered up and retired at a trot in perfect order. I could see dark blue mifeses of Bel gian infantry falling back, cool as on a Winter's morning. Through a mistake two battalions of carbiniers did not re ceive the order to retire and were in imminent danger of destruction. To reach them a messenger would have had to traverse a mile of open road swept by shrieking shrapnel. A Colonel summoned a gendarme and give the orders and he set spurs to his horse and tore down the- road, an archaic figure in towering bearskin. Corjscs Dot Landiicape. It was a ride into the jaws of death. He saved his troops, but as they fell back the German gunneM got the range and dropped shell upoWshell into the running column. RoadShd fields were dotted with corpses in Belgian blue. Several times the Germans attempted to carry the embankment with bayo nets, but the Belgians met them with blasts of lead which shriveled the gray columns like autumn leaves. At noon the Belgians and Germans were in place only 50 yards apart, and the rattle of musketry sounded like a boy drawing a stick along the palings of a picket fence. During the height of the battle a Zeppelin slowly circled over the field like a great vulture awaiting a feast. By 4 o'clock all the Belgian troops were withdrawn except a thin screen to cover the retreat. I was anxious to wit ness the German advance and remained on the railway embankment on the out skirts of Sempst after all the Belgians had withdrawn except a picket of 10 men. 1 had my car waiting with the motor running. The Germans prefaced their advance with a terrible fire. The air was filled with whining shrapnel; farmhouses PROCEDURE DEEMED LEGAX Seizure Proper Within Three-Mile Limit. Is Washington Opinion. WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. State De partment officials did not regard as unusual the reported removal of German and Austrian reserv ists from American ships off Hong kong, provided the incident occurred within the three-mile limit of the British port. Inasmuch as Hongkong is under British jurisdiction, her war ships could arrest the nationals of any belligerent within territorial waters. What might be the opinion of the American Government if the reserv ists were taken from American ves sels on the high seas is undetermined. State Department officials sai tonight no complaint of that kind had been placed before them. The right of search for contraband cargoes on the high seas Is accorded by all nations to belligerent ships, but the right to take a passenger from, a neutral ship on the high seas has long been in dispute and no official of the department was willing to express any opinion. BELGIANS QENY CRUELTY INDIGNANT PROTEST SAYS MANS TRY TO DECEIVE. International Investigation Demi of Minister Who Lays Charges nt Door of Kaiser; Indignant protestations against the allegations of Germany that Belgians had been using unfair methods of war fare have been filed with the Belgian Legation at Washington, together with an assertion that Belgium will demand an international investigation of re ported cruelties of Germans in Belgian territory, according to word teceived by C. Henri Labbe, Belgian Vice-Consul in Portland. The copy of the Belgian protest sent by Minister of Foreign Affairs Davig non follows: The Belgian government protests energet ically against the veracity, of the allegations put forth by Germany. The United States Consul-General at Antwerp denies that wo men and children have sustained bodily In juries and assures that with the exception of a few bars sacked, no German property has open destroyed. "Germany, after having, without any prov ocation, attacked a neutral and feeble coun try which she had by treaty agreed to de fend, has permitted many of her soldiers to slaughter the peaceable population, to burn down townleta and villages, to threaten the civil population with the greatest horrors. The list of atrocities ascertained by an in vestigation committee already is long. Belgium makes it a polat of honor to ob serve the regulations of the laws and cus toms of war. The German allegations are made in order to deceive the public opin ion. Belgium also will ask for International investigation of the cruelties committed. Kindly communicate this telegram to the Government and to the press. PRIZE COURT WANTED BRITISH OFFICIALS URGE PROMPT FORMATION OF WAR TRIBUNAL. Newspapers Purposely Withhold Announcement of Soldiers Com ing, but Helena Editor Gives Out Xews Meeting Called. BUTTE, Mont, Aug. 31. Miners openly threatened tonight to lay the town In ashes If either state or Federal troops attempted to enter Butte. One of the leaders of the miners declared that they do not intend to fight, but would wreak vengeance upon the busi ness men for having been instrumental in bringing soldiers to Butte. "We have quantities of dynamite and oil," said one leader, "and the troops will find ashes." ' Soldiers Coming Startles. Until today the majority of the miners did not credit the reports that the militia was being mobilized, as the Butte newspapers withheld the news on request of business men, who feared that the news would excite the miners. A Helena newspaper editor, however. this morning brought an auto load of newspapers to Butte for sale, and the newsboys soon began crying the news of the mobilization of the militia. Calls immediately went forth from President "Muckie" McDonald and the other leaders for a meeting of the miners, which was held in secret to discuss the coming of the soldiers. Later a committee of miners was hur riedly sent to the railroad depots to determine whether the troops had ar rived. . Plants Under Guard. The miners have called a meeting tonight. The electric light plant and all the larger stores are guarded by many armed men, as are the mines. On the attic floor of the Courthous there are 50 guards armed with rifles. County Attorney MacCaffery issued a warrant for the arrest of the Helena editor on a charge of inciting a dis turbance, but the - editor was said to have left the city' early and the offi cers could not find him. All ammunition in the hardware stores has been removed, and firing- pins have been taken from the rifles. TROOPS XOW ARE 310BH.IZIXG Time Not Set for Action at Butte, Says Governor. HELENA, Mont., Aug. 31. No time has been specified for the sending of the National Guard to Butte, said Gov ernor Stewart tday. The Second Regiment, 600 strong, will be mobilized here by night. Four com panies, one each from Miles City, Boze man, Billings and Roundup, detrained this morning, and the remaining six companies, one each from Llbby, Shelby, Choteau, Valier and two from Kalispell, will arrive on a special train this after noon. Camp has been pitched at the State Armory. The troops are equipped for field service. 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Sears, connected with the reclamation project work in Churchill County. "CAN TRUST" ACTS TOLD OWNER OF ABSORBED PLANT WITNESS AT CHICAGO. Sitting Desired to Expedite Decisions Am to Rights of Neutrals In Captures at Sea. WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. British 'Embassy officials are in constant com munication with the State Department, with a view of expediting: the organiza tion of Engrlish prize courts and simpli fying: the machinery for their opera tion. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British Ambassador, called at the State De partment today in this connection, it is understood. The Government is anxious to have the court begin sittings, that neutral peoples, who may own parts of cargoes, may havta them restored promptly and the American Government favors sim plicity and expedition. In case of capture at sea. according to international law. It becomes the first duty of the captor to convey the prize to a port of its own or one of its allies for adjudication by special tribunals which may sit in the ports or territory of a belligerent, or in those of an ally, but not in neutral ports. The function of these court's is solely to determine whether the captur was legally made and in arriving at decis ions the stipulations of treaties are ob ligatory upon the nations which have agreed to them and prize courts are bound to respect these treaties settling controversies between the subjects or citizens of signatory powers. The second Hague peace conference provides for a tribune of appeal in prize cases. Dominican Leader Rebels. WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. Desiderio Arias, leader of a powerful Dominican rebel faction, does not approve of the provisional presidency of Professor Don Ramon Baez, according to a report received today at the State Depart ment. Otherwise the factions are in complete agreement that Professor Baez shall direct the new provisional elections. Wireless muKci it possible to signal in t trains. Business Offered for 9300,000 Rises to More than Million, in Stock, and Brings $150,000. CHICAGO, Aug. 31. Operations of the financiers who organized the Amer ican Can Company, were told here to day by witnesses 'called by the Gov ernment in the so-called can trust case. J. I Beard, of Chicago, at one time millionaire, said he was sole owne; of Crosby & Co. when, in 18U8, he gave an option on his business to the Amer ican Can Company, which was then being organized, for $300,000. Three years later he agreed to accept $1,100,- 000 of common and preferred stock in the company for his business. Beard told of a visit to New York when he received a check from the directors of the new company at a meeting. Just after lunch the directors :ed him to return the check, he saw, and after three years delay he re ceived $150,000 in the stock .of the company. The reason given for the reduction he said, was because of a contract he made to furnish The salmon fisheries on the West Coast with this machinery. , AFFAIRS CALL MR. BAKER Xewly Elected Member of Rose Fes tival Board May Resign. George L. Baker, one of te newly elected members of the Portland Rose Festival Board, probably will design from his position on account of busi ness affairs and his resignation prob ably will be presented tonight at the meeting of the board at the Commer cial Club to orgaifctze for the coming year's work. Mr. Baker declared yesterday that he was still eager to do. all in his power to help along the Rose Festival, but that he believes that a member of the board of governors should be able to give more time to the affairs of the Festival than he expects to be in a position to give this year. In the election of officers for the new board tonight. Henry L. Corbet t has been prominently mentioned for the position of president and J. Fred Lar son for the office of secretary. JURY EXONERATES SOLDIER R. R. Miller N'ot Blamed for Death of Ernest White in Vancouver. , VANCOUVER, Wash. ,Aur. 31. (Spe cial.) Robert Ft. Miller, of the Quar termaster's Corps of the Twenty-first Infantry, held for the killing of Private Ernest S. White, of E Company, in a saloon Saturday night by striking him on the chin with an open .hand, was exonerated from all blame by a Cor oner's jury today in the police station. Several eyewitnesses agreed that White picked tha quarrel and struck the first blow. Miller swung his right hand, catching White on the left Jaw. He was picked up by soldiers and Dr. R. H. Hagood was called. White died without gaining con sciousness. He leaves a young wife and baby. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31. Drink !s the agent which most frequently brings the American laborer to the stage where he must accept casual employ ment, F. S. Edlnger, a local contractor, whs deals with large bodies of un skilled workers, testified today before the Federal Industrial Relations Com mission. His assertion came in con nectlon with a statement that he pre ferred not to employ unskilled Ameri can, workmen. "We do not employ many native-born Americans when we can do otherwise." he said. "The reason for this is that an efficient American workman usually can get a steady position. The class of "Americans who have to take our work generally is the kind we do not want. The cause ot this lnemciency most often is drink." The Mexican laborer, added the wit ness, is the best man with whom to trust a team in such lines as grading work. Minimum Expenses Asked. What is the minimum amount re quired for actual living expenses was a question that caused much discussion by different witnesses today. Mr. Ed mger said his firm found' it impossible to meet expenses in boarding employes at $6.25 a week. F. M. Andreanl. a. member of the local Italian Consulate, testified that crood board and room could be obtained here for H a week. W. S. Wollner, of the Northwestern Pa cific Railway, said that many seasonal workers wintered here on 40 cents a day, paying 10 cents for lodging and 30 cents for food. Both Mr. Andreani and A. L. Wilde, general business representative of the Steam Shovel Men's Union, criticised the lack of "first aid" facilities in con struction camps. They cited cases in tended to prove that injured workmei". often were not given proper medical attention for many hours after they had been hurt. Sanitary Regulations Opposed. Sanitary regulations for construction camps work unnecessary hardships on railroads, Mr. Wollner asserted. "The State Housing Commission should have started with the education of the laborer instead of the em ployer," he said. "We have tried lor years to induce the worker to better his sanitary condition, but generally he refuses to do so. "The men who try to keep clean are outnumbered 10 to one. It is impos sible to make many of them use baths. Sixty per cent of them are afflicted with diseases which would be - spread if toilet facilities were provided. "The provision that there shall be 500 cubic feet of air space per man in the sleeping quarters Is unreasonable and unjust. It makes it possible to accommodate only four men to a box car. Air Not Wanted. He Says. "Such men do not want air at night. The first thing they do on entering a car is to nail up all the windows and stuff up the cracks. They get all the air they Want in the day time. It is unfair to put them in a class with in door workers." Mr. Edinger different on tne vaiue f certain sanitary regulations the State .-Immistation commission is iry Ing to put into effect- Ir. Edinger thought the class of workers anxious to keep clean was in the majority 'and should not be made to suffer tor the indifference of the few. NEVADA PRIMARIES ARE ON Three Candidates Get Xo Opposition for Party Nominations. RENO, Nev.. Aug. 31. Nevada voters will select party nominees tomorrow for the general elec tion In November. Approximately 18,000 .voters registered for the primary election. The Democratic registration exceeds the Republican by 1000. Ttte Socialist registration is third and the Progressive last. There is no opposition to Tasker L. OdJi-, candidate for re-election on. the Republican ticket. Francis G. New lands, senior Senator for Nevada, is unopposed in his own party, and Sam Piatt. ex-United States District Attor ney for Nevada, has no opposition as the Republican Senatorial candidate. For Representative in Congress E. E.' Roberts, incumbent, is opposed on the Republican ticket by Cole L. Harwood. an ex-District Judge. Democratic can didates for Representative in Congress CASTAWAYS NOT REACHED Cutter "Bear" Again Fails to Reach Marooned "Karluek" Explorers. NOME. Alaska, Aug. 31. The revenue cutter Bear, which left Nome July 24 for Wrangell Island, via Point Barrow, to rescue the 18 white men, three Es kimo men and one Eskimo woman who found shelter on the island after the Stefansson Canadian exploring ship Karluk had been wrecked last January. Is returning to Nome without the cast aways. The Bear sent word ahead that she ran short of coal and that after coaling at NonSe she will again set out for Wrangell Island. It is not known how near the Bear approached to Wrangell Island. It is believed the Bear does not know 'that the Russian Ice.-breaking steamer Tal-nyr is seeking to rescue the Karluk's refugees. She is better adapted for the work than the Bear is. Captain Robert H. Bartlett, late master of the Karluk, remains on the Bear. BERMUDA GETS CANADIANS British Regulars Ordered to Front Replaced hy Volunteers. HALIFAX. N. S.. Aug. 31 Eight hundred British regulars will be with drawn from service in Bermuda and replaced by an equal number of Cana dlar volunteers. Later the Canadians also may be sent to -the front In Europe. The Duke of Connaught, Governor GefTeral of Canada, announced this plan today in reviewing the Royal Canadian Regiment, which has been selected for service in Bermuda. Why drink water when you can get SALEM BEER (he most popular beverage on the Pacific Coast? 0 SALEM BEER is brewed in one of the most modern plants on the Facififl Coast. It is aged in steel glass-lined tanks. It is conveyed by modern pipe line system direct to the bottle house, bottled under pressure and therefore never comes in contract with the air from the time it leaves the fermenting tank until the bottle is opened by the consumer. The consumer is absolutely assured a beer of ideal effervescence, simp and purity. 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