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TTTE JIORXiyG OREOOXIAX, FRmAT, DECEMBER 11, 1914. SEREI10 E. PAYNE which seeks to transport products over NTERNATIONAL SEA its lines in which it has any interest Won't This Solve the Christmas Gift Problem? Select Now. Pay Next Year The main thins is to select your piano or Plarer Piano or baby grand piano now while these low Emergency Sale prices are in effect by the Manufac turers" Representatives, who are con ducting this surplus sale. Make pay ments as best suits yoir convenience. Start next year if you like. If you have an old piano or an organ or a. phonograph and records, we will ac cept same in part payment for these elegant new pianos at these extraordi narily low sale prices low prices and easy terms of payment that will never come again when this sale closes. whatsoever. TV COLD snap, men! Makes you want heavier clothes makes you button up In asking for such legislation, the Attorney-General reterred to the dif DIES SUDDENLY ficulty the department has encountered in attempting- to break up what is POLICE IS FORECAST known as the "hard coal combination, controlling a large part- of the an thracite fields in Eastern Pennsyl vania. He told Congress that railroads in that field have met recent Supreme Court decisions, interpreting the com Authority on Tariff, Leader in House for Many Years, Alone at End. modities clause, by the organization of Exhaustion of Warring Nations Will Bring About Change, Says Secretary Daniels. your Balmacaan-or Overcoat snug and tight when you're out on the street or swinging down town to your ' office thro the biting morning air ! corporations whose stock is distributed ratably among stockholders of the rail road with its management dominated by the railroad. To such a corporation, he says, the railroad in question sells coal at the mines under a contract which puts the new corporation 'large ly, if not completely, within the power of the railroad." Other recommendations include: An amendment making it a "Federal CAREER IS NOTEWORTHY TWO-SHIP PLAN DEFENDED Statesman's Body Awaits Arrival of Coroner Without Friend or Kela- J tlve Attending Health Seem ingly Good Daring Day. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 Sereno E. Payne, Representative in Congress from yew York, died suddenly of heart fail ure at his apartment here at 11:15 O'clock tonight. Mr. Payne had retired to his room apparently in robust health. He tele phoned the apartment house clerk about 11 o'clock asking that a physi cian be sent for. When the clerk reached the room the Congressman was dying, and life was extinct before the doctor arrived. Mr. Payne, who was 71 years old, lived alone, and at midnight his body la,y waiting for the Coroner without friend or relative near. His wife died three years ago and no one could be found tonight who knew the address of his only son. Work Kept l'p to Lut Members of Congress who had seen Mr. Payne on the floor of the House today, cheerfully active as usual, knew nothing of his death for more than an hour. A member of every Congress since 18S3 except one, Mr. Payne was chair man of the ways and means committee and Republican floor leader in 1909-10 and directed the drafting of the Payne Aldrich tariff bill. He was born at Hamilton, N. Y June 26, 1843, and educated at Rochester and Colgate. He practiced law and was District Attorney of Cayuga County, and in 1883 was elected a member of Congress. He was a delegate to many Repub lican National conventions, and 1S98 was appointed a member of a joint high commission to negotiate a treaty with Canada. He had made bis home at Auburn, N. Y., for years, though most or ms time was spent in Washington. Fame Connected With Tariff. As one of the foremost tariff author ities in congress, Mr. tayne was a noteworthy figure among the Repub licans of the House long before he became chairman of the ways and means committee, and framed the Republican tariff bill, which stood un til repealed by the Underwood law. When the Democrats gained control of the House four years ago, Mr. Payne was succeeded as Republican leader by Representative Mann, of Illinois, who had been one of his lieutenants during the tariff fights. The New York Representative, how ever, did not give up his activities as a party chief. In the course of the Underwood tariff debate, he made one of the noteworthy speeches of the ses sion and he was heard -on the Panama toll exemption repeal bill and many of the important Issues in the present Con gress. His age was beginning to tell, however, and of late he had not in frequently dozed quietly in his chair for a few moments at a time during a day's session. Opponents RccoebUc Worth. Though always at odds politically with Speaker Clark and Democratic Leader Underwood, both of them had tor him a high personal regard. Mr. Payne leaves a son. Will Payne, who has been associated with him in the ways and means committee work from time to time for years. He was the ranking minority member of tbe ways and means committee and last met with that committee when it was called together by Chairman Under wood in October, to be photographed In moving pictures. The body will be taken to New York state, to the home city which at the last election returned him to Con gress with a comfortable majority after a vigorous campaign. The Coroner announced late tonight that Mr. Payne died from heart failure, superinduced by arterlo-sclerosis and a complication of organic troubles. r ................ t f - " v 1 x , i 1 I,, ' & .-v" - J Sereno IS- Paynf, One ef Lad-lns- Republic hm is Consrreaa, Who Died Suddenly Yesterday. crime" to kill an officer of the United States engaged in serving or executing process, and authority for the use of search warrants in advertising fraud cases which rely on the mails to at tract victims. Attorney - General Gregory recom mends that the power of Federal grand juries be enlarged so that they can in vestigate crimes committed in any di vision or a Federal district. He sug gests also that an amendment to exist ing law is needed whereby a Federal Judge in whose court an indictment is returned may consider testimony be fore the grand jury and enter an order making the warrant run to all parts of tne Federal territory. Amendments of a minor nature are suggested also to the food and drutrs act, tne insecticide act, tne zs-bour law. and the bankruptcy law. AID TO JEWS PERMITTED TURKEY WILLING TO PASS AHERI- CAJf RELIEF EXPEDITION. Ship Will Re Sent to Help 100.O0O Dis tressed Inhabitants of Palestine, If Other BostUes JINGOISM IS DEPLORED SERIOUS COXSEQUENCES IX JAPAN MATTERS ARE FEARED. Americans and Orientals Suspicions of Each Other, Say Churches of Christ, i Friendship to Be Fostered. RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 10. 'Psycho logical conditions in Japan and the United States are approaching a state in which some startling, but really trivial event might easily bring a se ries of deplorable consequences de clared a report presented today to the annual convention of the Federal coun cil of the Churches of Christ in America by its committee on relations with Japan. Professor Sballer Mathews, of the University of Chicago, and the Rev. Sidney L. Gulick, of New York, were authorized to visit the Pacific Coast to study anti-Japanese sentiment there and later to proceed to Japan "to foster cordial relations between the United States and Japan." "It Is Increasingly clear that we have entered upon this work none too soon," says the committee's report. "The pub. licatlon in June of official correspond ence between Secretary Bryan and Am bassador Viscount - Chlnda has by no means assured the Japanese people that we are meeting the issue. "Additional anti-Japanese legislation Is contemplated. So delicate has the situation become that Christian lead ers In California are in doubt S3 to what .should be done. "The sensational utterances of a jingo press are utilized by the equally jingo press of Japan to foment suspicion and t!l-will. Psychological conditions, both in Japan and America, are approaching a state in which some startling, but really trivial, event mViht actually bring a source of deplorable consequences." COAL TRUST LAW ASKED Shipping on Koad Interested Same Is Attacked. In WASHINGTON, Dec 10. Attorney General Gregory made his first report to Congress today as head of the De partment of Justice. His principal recommendation was for an amend-, ment to the commodities clause of the interstate commerce act designed to block tho wax of any common carrier WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. The Turk ish Government, through Ambassador Morgenthau, has signified to the State Department its willingness that an expedition be sent to the relief of the people of Jerusalem. The expedition is being organized by Hebrew philanthropic societies In New York, which plan to send a ship through the Mediterranean to Pales tine. Turkey fully guarantees it will fa cilitate the distribution of all supplies sent from the United States and assures Mr. Morgenthau that no requisitions will be made on any of the shipments by Ottoman authorities. At the same time the request for permission to send a ship to the Holy Land was made of the Ottoman au thorities, a note was addressed to Paris, London and Berlin asking whether these governments would object to the project. Inasmuch as the Turkish gov ernment . has, in granting the request of the American Jewsh relief com mittee, given assurance -that the Turkish authorities will not requisition any of the supplies, officials can see no ground for objection from any of the other powers sounded on the project. The distribution of the sun- plies will be under the direction of American diplomatic and consular officers. NEW YORK, Deo. 10. Louis Marshall, president of the American Jewish relief committee, which plans to send a ship loaded with supplies to the people of Jerusalem, said today. "There are approximately 100,000 Jews in Palestine t who are In dire necessity." Arlington Club to Elect. The Arlington Club Will hold its 33d annual meeting December 12, at 9 P. M. to elect officers for the ensuing year. GROWTH OF POSTAL RECEIPTS TANGIBLE EVIDENCE! OF PROGRESS. Portland's steady march for-, ward during recent years is re flected in the steady growth of net postal receipts at the Port land Postofflce, which are gen erally regarded as accurate crlterlons of the increments in population and trade. In 1900 the receipts were 9315, 978.47, in 1906 S473.0S3.8S and In 1913 31.183.63S.78. The fig ures for 1914 will not be known definitely until the close of the year, -but Postmaster Myers esti mates that the 1914 total will reach f 1.234.861.71, ,or $51,325.93 over the showing for last year. Since 1907 the percentages of In crease by years have been as fol lows: 8.33, 14.64, 18.78, 8.67. 10.3S, 6.77. None of the computations Include money-order fees. The receipts by calendar yeara since 1900 are as follows: 215,987.47 220.257.71 280.439.37 S29.436.73 879,622.70 473.083.38 640,805.47 628,475.19 680.813.96 778.8S3.73 925.1S4.52 a since i9vu are as xouow 1900 ;t J 1901 I 1902 .111114 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 , 1909 1910 1911 1, 004,423. 71 1912 .1.108,474.46 1913 1,183,536.78 1914 (estimated) 1.234.861.71 Conference of All Powers on Arma ment With Peace in Fhirope and - Revulsion Against Hostili- ties Are 'Predicted. WASHINGTON, Dec 10. Military preparedness of the Nation continued today as the dominant subject of Congressional attention. While Secre tary Daniels was before the House naval affairs committee advocating his two - battleships - a - year construction programme and declaring that the sen timent of the people of the United States against turning the country Into a great military power, a free-for-all National defense debate occupied the mouse itseii. Mr. Daniels, in the course of an all- aay discussion, said this countrv al ready had a powerful navy, and that while "with abundant revenues" he might favor the general board's four- battleship plan, he thought the Depart ment's building programme adequate under the circumstances. Pressed for an opinion as to the world military situation at tne close or the EuroDean war, the Secretary predicted an interna tional conference on armament. Revulsion Against War Predicted. "When the European war is over," he said, those countries will be so ex hausted in their resources and bur dened with debt that there Is going to be a great revulsion against war in all countries. 1 expect the revulsion will be so great that we will have an in ternational conference on armament more possible now than ever before and that we will get some action by wnicn tne navies of the world Dowers will be used only to carry into execu tion the agreeemnts the countries reacn." "Have we a powerful Navy now?" ha was asked.. "Yes, we have, but you never will keep anything powerful if you stand still." He added he would prefer 20 dreadnoughts to 40 pre-dreadnoughts. Secretary Daniels was asked what the settled military policy of the United States really was. He replied that there ought to be a powerful Navy which "ought to be strengthened all the time." There are now 40 battleships built, building and authorized, he said, add ing that with two ships to be author ized for each fiscal year ending June iu, in tne years 1916. 1916 and 1917. "we would be only two ships behind me original programme." "Have we all the 'mother shirm' rt.n ders) on hand or authorized necessary for the 69 submarines built, building or The Secretary said no. but tht enough could be improvised. Thirty submarines are completed. Air. Daniels said the bulldlntr of nub- marines was the most difficult thing in the world and that when thov built they seldom fulfilled promises made for them 'Now," he said, "we have bouerht material and are beginning to build a submarine ourselves at the Portsmouth, N. H.. Navy-Yard. I believe we have got to come to building them ourselves. Their engines and batteries are the problems. The lead batteries have a life not exceeding five years. Mr. Edi son is working on a battery which is being tested at the New York Navy- Yard." Battery Is Submarine Problem. Explaining that at first tbe depart ment took up the Holland submarines, which gave a good deal of trouble, and then the Lake type, which also failed to prove perfect, ulr. Daniels said: We have almost lost hope that the submarine builders will come up to the requirements, and if they do meet other conditions it's a question whether the battery will not give out." He said that the Navy was using the same submarine battery as Great Brit ain. France and Germany. Respond ing to questions, he said that at one time he had contemplated the purchase of submarines in viermany and France with a view to finding out their meth ods, and added that those methods could only be ascertained by buying the boats. The Navy is using the Lake pattern for the submarine now build ing at Portsmouth, paying the Lake Company $50,000 royalty. Referring to the disappointments in submarine efficiency, the Secretary suggested to the committee that Vout of 200 submarines that Germany and England together have, the world has heard of the achievements of only three." 'R life I WMskw . There t a farm snap for j?ou here every Suit and Overcoat in the store has gone donn along rtilh the thermometer Genuine reductions on the best made-ready clothes in the "world drop in and be covered with comfort. Men's $20 Overcoats : Men's $25 Overcoats . Men's $30 Overcoats . Men's $35 Overcoats . Men's $40 Overcoats . Suits..and.$14.85 Su".s. .and.$19.85 Suit.s.and $23.50 Su!ts.!nd$28.50 Suits and $32.50 Reductions also -include : All Young Men's Suits and Overcoats All Blues and Blacks BEN SELLING MORRISON AT FOURTH NEWS THIEF JUMPS BAIL TELEGRAPH OPERATOR FAILS TO APPEAR TO PLEAD. One of Men Implicated Is Still In Tombs In Default of VSOOO Bonds Two . Deny Their Goilt. NE3W YORK, Dec. 10. The bond of $1000 furnished by H. L. Under was declared forfeited today by the Court of General Sessions when Under failed to appear before Judge M alone to plead formally to an Indictment charging him with having violated section 652 of the penal law in revealing: the contents of a telegraphic message sent out by the Associated Press. Linder was a Postal Telegraph operator in the office of the New York Globe. After Under had testified before the grand jury. Indictments were found against James Rice, telegraph - man ager of tbe New York News Bureau, and William II. Fatton, who conducts a sporting news service, charging them with . wrongfully obtaining pos session of . and wrongfully revealing the contents of messages sent out by the Associated Press. Pattpn is still in the Tombs, having been unable to furnish the $5000 bond required. Rice is at liberty tinder $5000 bond. Both pleaded not guilty today. Secretary Putnam Opens Office. SALEM. Or.. Dec 10. (Special.) George Palmer Putnam, private secre tary to Governor-elect Withycombe, today opened - an office in the State house. He said he . would remain in Salem familiarizing himself with the duties of the office until the inaugur ation of the new executive. Mr. withy sombe will come here in a few days to transact business in connection with his preparations for becoming Governor. ATTORNEY DEMANDS JOB District "Official Brings Mandamua Proceedngs Against Marion.. SALEM, Or., Dec. 10. (Special.) Dis trict Attorney Ringo today instituted mandamus proceedings against the Marlon County Court to compel it to furnish him an office in the courthouse. Mr. Ringo was appointed by Governor West when the county attorney bilJ providing for a District Attorney is each county became effective. 'The County Court has persistently refused to provide me with either oi flee room, equipment or stationery." said the District Attorney. "The grand jury has recommended that I be given an office room in the courthouse, and it has been the custom of other County Courts to provide the District Attor neys with office and stationery." a long illness. Mr. Martin was born in Danville, 111., In 1840, but came to the Coast at an early age. locating at Vancouver. Ho had been a resident of Kelso for more than 35 years. R. A. Martin, of Kelso, Passes. KELSO, Wash.. Dec 10. (Special.) Harry A. Martin, a pioneer of the Northwest and a veteran of the Indian wars of 1856 and of the Civil War, passed away Tuesday night, following VAN BRAKLE CASE ARGUED Supreme Court to Pass on Kf fort to Onst Health Officer. SALEM. Or., Dec. 10. (Special.) The Supreme Court today heard argu ments in the case of the State Board of Health against Dr. J. A. Van Brakle, of Oregon City, whom the board is trying to oust as health officer of Clackamas County. Dr. Van Brakle is an osteopath. The Board charges that he Is incompetent to fill the office. Circuit Judge Campbell decided In favor of Dr. Van Brakle. The propo sition under consideration is whether he is competent to discharge the duties of the office. Germans Interned at Jamaica. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Dec. 10. A British cruiser landed today 120 Ger man prisoners who had been brought from the British island of St. Lucia and transferred them to the detention camp. There is no other syrup of such delicious flavor such real purity and genuine food value as Tea Garden Syrup A real home product, made from the choicest Java sugar. Try it with your hot cakes. Order of Your Grocer Pacific Coast Syrup Co. Portland, Or. 3 ESS IlplIIilllllfs h .' fmi J Short Cut to Home These sharp, cold days will soon drive your folks indoors and make them long for a bright, cheerful, attractive, well-built home, enabling them to keep their spirits up and adding greatly to the Winter's " pleasure. We do not believe that any old kind of a home is good enough for YOU. WHY shouldn't YOU have the very finest home in the city that your money can buyT YOU'LL flND this very home, among others, now under construction in our Bunga low Fairyland, and you are invited to co-operate with ns in suggest ing the most artistic effects to make it entirely beautiful and wholly satisfactory to you. WHY NOT profit by our facilities for erecting these beautiful homes at actual cost in LAURELHURST, the highest improved close in residence park in the city, and avail yourself of our guarantee that your home will be built RIGHT and free from liens? PROSPERITY'S HERE During the next five years we are going to enjoy a period of unprec edented prosperity in this country. DON'T YOU SEE that this is a wonderful opportunity for you to get a home at bedrock prices and pay for it during boom times making a dollar go double distance f DONT WAIT ANOTHER DAY as prices of labor and material are sure to jump shortly. COME IN TODAY at 270y2 Stark Street and look over the large assortment of DIFFERENT homes we are about to erect. We also have a tract office at E. 39th and Glisan Sts., open daily, Sundays included. PAUL C. MURPHY, 'Sales Agent for . Tha Addition of Beautiful Homes. YI $750 j "! Art Case T Wi $500 m$- The greatest distribution of planoa ever witnessed in Portland must com to a close now. This should be the final warning. The great wholesale establishment of Eilera Music House at Pettygrove, Fifteenth and Sixteenth, has been almost entirely sold out. Six enormous floors in the great building have become almost empty of pianos, bale now on at Eilers Building, Broad way. Alder. Never such values Heretofore; never such values again, tor conditions that made these low prices possible can never come again, isever such low terms of payments. Any home worthy of the name can now own a piano, player piano, or baby grand piano. Come in and talk it over. The prices are made by the manufac turers representatives now in charge or this great sale, under the agree ment that the Eilers Music House buys three pianos of the factories' surplus for every two pianos now sold. Prices are actually less now than the manufacturers would regularly sell the instruments to the stores to sell again, because the manufacturers now secure orders for three pianos every time two are sold at Eilers Musio House. It's not a question of profit: it is simply a matter of quickly dis posing of a great surplus. If you cannot come, write or tele phone us. We will send actual photo graph of any piano asked for. together with complete description. ThfilJN-a tISOO Chlclcerlns UfcJniUir'V; " 1'layer Piano. t""?i-ftA ""WW' MPglBl! Csed. of course, but Just like new. V1 150 Weber Plane In Piano Player Piano. rtrr. $488 W-J0m I 8475 Bailey Player Piano. Fit ft- "9" ' J-a(!49MBirt?rV hi 185 f.; . IN is the Nation's most highly honored make. By far the most preferable of all pianos, player pianos, or grand pianos. This, the Nation's oldest es tablished and best, can now be seen on our floor in a great variety of case designs; or. if one of the less renowned I makes is wanted, we have numerous Weber. Kami A Hamlin, Knabe. Steck, Everett and tenter Granda. Variants, nml Player Planoat alMo Schumann. Voite. Eiitey in short, virtually every American make of piano is included in this great sale. Broadway at Alder, Eilera Building. Open Evenings Uatil 9 a 'Clock i