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TT1E SrORMXG OEEGONIAX, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1915. PACT OVER WINS AT FISHING OLYMPU Oregon - Washington Agree . ment Adopted and Bills Pledged for Passage. CONGRESS ASKED TO SEAL JIousc Condemns Tariff as Injury to .Industries of Male and Pleads for Kopeal McArdle Bills to Bear Clause. OL.TMP1A, Wash.. Feb. 9. (Special.) Both bouses of the Washington Leg islature today adopted the report of the Joint Washington-Oregon legislative committee on Columbia River fishing, virtually pledging the legislature thereby to adopt the uniform bills de cided upon by the Joint commission and to memorialize Congress to accept this Joint action as exercise of the treaty rights of the two sovereign states. This will have the effect of making the reg ulations and license fees decided upon hind in a: for all time, unless Legisla tures of both states should, agree upon amendments. Members of the comrnitee explained that legislation pending in Congress would, if enacted, take control of fish ing in all interstate and international vaters from the states and vest it in the Federal Government and that for ttei& reason prompt action was desira ble, un the final rollrall only four votes were cast against the resolution. oae In House Oppose. In the House the resolution was adopter! without a dissenting vote. In-Irodiu-tion of the uniform bill decided upon and of the memorial to Congress, to make the joint action a treaty be tween the two states, will follow im mediately. It is the intention of leaders In the 3iiIatnre to make the licenses and f--cs provided for by the joint atate committee for Columbia River fishing applicable- in all parts of the state. This will, it is believed, forestall any future attempt to increase the fees by initiative action. For years the fisheries quiestion has ticenj subject of legislative discussion end a leading political issue in West ern Washington, operators have de feated all previous attempts to increase licenses and on this account the itate Federation of Labor, tatc li range and rarnnrs" L'nion last year attempted to Initiate a bill increasing licences, radi cally repealing the .secrecy clause, com pelling tiap locations to be fished every year and imposing numerous Other restrictions. Increase to Be 45 Per Cent. All the power of the fish interests arrayed against this measure and its proponents finally dropped their fight after carrying it through the Superior Court. The fish men agreed, before tho present Legislature convened, to back a measure to increase license fees at leat to the extent of making the 8t ate Fish Department self-supporting. By adopting the terms of the joint state's agreement. Representative .cim?, of Jefferson County, one of the largest operators, declares the reve nues of the department will be in creased io per cent, so that money will le turned over to the general fund in addition to meeting all expenses of the Fish Department. By vote of 74 to 20. the House, after a lively partisan debate, today adopted a memorial to Congress, offered by Representative Grass, condemning the Underwood tariff and urging its repeal. The memorial, going at length Into statistics dealing with compara tive imports under the protective tariff i. nd the Cnderwood bill, declares cheap foreign competition has injured pro ducers in this state, without lowering the rrices paid by consumers. Some DlMlIke Move. On the rollrali 71 Republicans and three Progressives voted for the me morial. Opposed were 11 Democrats. 6 Republicans and Ci progressives. Two Democrats and one Republican were als-ent. The Republicans who voted against the memorial did so explaia ir. they considered the Legislature ould spend its time better coneider - ing statt legislation than by giving undrsired advice to Congress. senate Republicans in caucus decided to oring out the name of Leslie II. Dar win. State Kish Commissioner, for con firmation t morrow. Mr. Darwin will be t'ie last of Governor Lister's appointees to lo confirmed. Senate IetifrsA have made arrange-rtu-nis to a ttah emercenry clauses to il three McArdle bills taking control of iitale ommissions from the Governor pt as tooiestall possible referendums against any of tlie measures. The three bilis already passed by the House are I le to come up in the Senate tomorrow for passage. given as follows: Kelso to Ilwaco via Columbia River. $612,000; Kelso to Bear River bridge, 1581,200, and Kelso to National Park Highway down the Jsasei River. $499,400. "The local population served by this road is about 6000," the report says, Mat least 5000 of whom have access at the present time to only a few miles of second-rate roads in the valley, in which they live." WIVES TAKEX OFF PAYROLLS Washington Official Holds Engineers Must Meet I Tome Expenses. OLTMPIA. Wash.. Feb. 9. (Special.) Wives of engineers of the Washing ton Public Service Commission cannot get on the state payroll by putting in bttls for furnishing board and rooms to their husbands, declares Attorney General W. V. Tanner in an opinion rendered the Commission. " Some months ago practically the en tire engineering force of the Public Service Commission was moved to Seattle to take charge of valuation cases. The engineers moved their wives with them, and the wives deem ed that since state employes generally, when away from headquarters, are al lowed expenses of rooms and meals, the money in this case should go into the family coffers. FLEEING BOY IS SHOT DEPCTV SHERIFF HALTS TRAI.MXC SCHOOL. FUGITIVE. Revolver DUchargred Accidentally When Baser Hit Rat. Say. Shooter. Lad. Caught Kear Toledo. TOLEDO, Wash., Feb. 9. (Special.) Phil Hawkins and Daniel Bowles, two of the four boys who escaped from the State Training School at Chehalls. were captured near here yesterday. Hawkins, 15 years old, was shot in the back Dy Deputy Sheriff Felix Herriford, of Va der. as he started to run. The bullet struck the left shoulder blade and elanced toward the right. Bowles haltefl at sight of the armed deputy. The two boys flea ironi inc scnooi Saturday night. They were trying to reach Portland and thence proceed to the ranch of Hawkins' stepfather ' in Oregon. c;uard Chase, of the- training school, and Deputy Sheriff Herriford, trailed the boys yesterday afternoon and were In a buggy when they signcca me laas. Herriford pulled his pistol, intending, he said, to shoot over the boys heads. but the buggy struck a rut and acci dental discharge of the revolver fol lowed. Hawkins ran about 20 yards after being shot. Both lads were re turned to Chehallis. Dr. P. J. Hackney, who attended the wounded boy, says Hawkins' injury is not serious. W. W. Blankenshlp, who saw the shooting, contradicts the report made by the Deputy Sheriff and guard. Mr. F.lankenship says that when the shot was tired the horse which the officers were driving was not going faster than a walk, and questions the statement that, as the shot was fired, the buggy wheel struck a rut. Hawkins' mother lives in Seattle. FRANCHISE VALUE CRUX COMMISSION S.US CRASTS WILL XOT BE CONSIDERED. r.l.A.M K AM) 1'HAIS.li JUXTIOD A aIiinpiun luvcMigators' JJcport on Allium Is Indicated. OLYMl'IA. Wash.. Kcb. 9. I Special.) That condemnation of tho State llord pf t'ontrol for locating the asiiingtou InsHiiutipn fur tho Feeble !:ndod on Uir now pile a mite and a ituarter from the oM location at Med ical Lake is to be tircrcd by the special legislative committee is indicated by members of that body. On the other hand, tho committee may report that the state lias received excellent value in its Luildinss at the Institution for Feeble-Mihdod and at the Chenev Normal School. Testimony to this effect was given by the archi tect designated by the committee to make a pecial investigation of both i-ets of buildings. Chairman Jones, of the State Board of Control, is said to have admitted that the Board ex ceeded its authority- in selecting the new location, but other members say the choice was left to the discretion of the Beard. Senator Hutchinson, of Spokane, tes titied before the committee that Dr. J. M. S'-mr'e, former superintendent of the Eastern Hospital for Insane, also located at Medical Lake, was respon sible primarily for the decision to move tho lnstiiiu:"!i for tho Feeble-Minded. JIIGHWAV IMT IS CONSIDERED F.CMilts Koported in Investigation of State Koad to Open District. OL.YMPIA, Wash. Feb. 9. (Special.) The state highway commission today submitted to both houses of the Legis lature results of an investigation pros ecuted during the last biennium on the feasibility of a state hichway to serve the population along the north bank of the Lower Columbia River from Kelso to Bear River in Pacific County. The cost of construction from Kelso to the Coast, a distance of 92 miles, by way of Nasel, Knappton and Fort Co lumbia Is estimated at J5S9.000, accord ing to Engineer Singer. Fifteen bridges will be necessary, with spans of from 40 to 160 feet. Figures for alternate routes axe Portland Trolley Official 3Iaintnlns Right of Return on Privilege. Legislative Act Threatened. STATE CAPITOL. Salera. Or.. Feb. . (Special.) Although the State Kail road Commission ha3 given notice that no franchise valuation will be allowed in fixing values for rate-making pur poses, attorneys for the Portland Rail way, Light & Power Company today insisted on introducing testimony as to what its franchises are worth, in dicating that it hopes ultimately to be allowed a return upon its franchise privileges. Commissioner Atchison said that if the company intends seriously to con tend for a franchise value, the com mission will consider going to the Legislature and asking it to enact liiws that will make certain the ex clusion of franchise value in rate in vestigations. The franchise question came up un expectedly in the examination of C. X. Muggins, of the Portland Railway, Lisht & Power Company, who was a witness before the commission in the general investigation of the rates of the company, the third week of testi mony being now under way. Mr. Huggins estimated the value of the company s light and power franchises at $1,500,000. This estimate, he explained, was based on the fact that the Northwest ern Electric franchise contains a pro vision for payment of 3 per cent of the gross earnings to Portland. Three per cent of the gross earnings of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company last year, he explained, would have been 573,300, and he capitalized this as representing the value of the franchise. DENTISTS DISllSS ME.YSIKES Ethical and rainless Parker Differ Ovur Anti-Cocaine Bill. STATU CAPITOL, Salem. Or., Feb. 9. -(Special.) Whether dentists should be prohibited from administering co caine or other anaesthetics in perform ing operations is a. question over which a group of ethical dentists on one side and "Painless Parker," the advertising dentist, on the other, clashed before the House committee on medicine, dentistry and pharmacy to night. Pr. Parker appeared in support of the two bills introduced in the House by Representative Paisley, one requiring a registered nurse to be present at all dental operations and another prohibit ing the use of anaesthetics. The ethieals were represented by Dr. J. C. Jones and Dr. F. H. Walhamot, of Portland, and lr. Jeanc Cline, a mem ber of the tftate Board of Dentistry examiners. Representative Piowden Stott. chairman of the committee, con ducted the hearing. Dr. Farker attacked the practices of ethical dentists in using arsenic and cocaine on their patients particularly and declared that dentists themselves sometimes become victms of the drug. "I have seen their eyes sticking out so far that you ould knock them off with a billiard cue." he said, "and I have seen cocaine victims roll up like a hoop with their heels touching the back of their head." Pr. Cline and the others said they have no particular objection to the proposed laws, except that the precau tions that they are Intended to pro vide are unnecessary. Pentists now seldom use Arsenic, they said, and that the danger in cocaine is largely imaginary. FIERY FIGHT WAGED OVER GIRLS L House Orders Immediate Prep aration of Bill Giving In stitution $49,200. MISS T0WNE BRINGS CALM Two Smothered In Wine Vat. IJO& ANGELES, Feb. 9. Overcome by vapors, Robert Zassoti and Daniel Maffi, employes of a winery, died today in a 3000-gallon wine vat which they were trying to clean. The two men entered a small manhole. After several hours fellow workmen went In after them and found both dead. Dr. Andrew C. Smith Accuses 3Irs. Baldwin of Kcligious Bigotry in Lobbying Louise Home Mentioned in Attack. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Feb. 9. (Special.) Members of the House this afternoon decisively overruled the action of the joint House and Senate ways and means committee to abolish the State Industrial School for Girls and, after a sensational debate. ' in structed the committee to prepare a bill providing an appropriation for the school and introduce it in the House at the earliest possible moment. A tierce and hery argument preceded this action and it was the persuasive eloquence of Miss Towne that brought the stormy situation to calm. The House had under consideration the regular appropriation bill carrying $C5,27j for the State Training School for boys, and went .into committee of the whole, Representative Porter pre siding. Instantly Representative Hus ton, of Portland, offered an amendment to include in the bill appropriations ag gregating J49.200 for the girls' school. This move aroused the opposition of Dr. Andrew C. Smith, of Portland, a member of the ways and means com mittee. Dr. Smith Flghis Fund. "I am opposed to appropriating' any of the state's money for tills school in response to the character of lobbying that has been going on here," exclaimed Dr. Smith. He accused Mrs. Lola G. Baldwin, of Portland, one of the governors of the school, of injecting "sectarianism and religious bigotry into the effort to retain the appropriation. "1 asked Mr. Huston, said Dr. Smith. "if it was right to get this religious feeling stirred up by the kind of gum shoeing that this woman had been do ing, and Mr. Huston told me that she had as much right here as a certain Catholic priest. It has been whispered around here that if we abolish the school the girls who now are there will be farmed out to various Catholic institutions and that the members of that church are active in that direction. "As a member of the ways and means committee, 1 want to say that that question never was considered. There are 14 members of the committee, and I believe there was only one vote against the motion to abolish the school. Surely all those men cou'd not have been influenced by the desire to help the Catholic Institutions. Per Capita Cost Cited. He then turned his attention to the merits of the proposed training school appropriation. He said it cost nearly S1000 per capita to keep the girls there in the last two years. "And what do we see?" asked Dr. Smith. "We see a lot of women with broken-down pasts mixed up there with young girls from 12 to 14 years of age." Reading from a printed circular itemizing the appropriations that had been made for aid to various charitable institutions, Dr. Smith called attention to .the fact that the Louise Home in Portland 'had been specified as a non sectarian institution and the fur ther fact that only (123.08 was ap propriated for that home in the last two years was emphasized. "The reason the state gave no further aid to the Louise Home," declared Dr. Smith, "is because the State Board of Health reported it as an unfit shack of a place. "Compare that sort of an institution with one like the Home of the Good Shepherd," he exclaimed, turning around and facing Representative Huston. "Why are you addressing your re marks to me?' asked Representative Huston. "Because you brought this amend ment in here," was the reply. Offensive Lobby Alleged. Dr. Smith reiterated that Mrs. Baldwin had been conducting an of fensive campaign of lobbying in favor of the home and characterized the management of the girls' home as ex travagant. This line of discussion was brought to a close by Representative Smith, of Klamath, who suggested that the Huston amendment was out of order for the reason that the House rules prohibited two unrelated subjects from being considered in the same appropriation bill, Representative Schuebel quoted the law on the ques tion and tho chairman ruled that the amendment was in order. Speaker Selling, speaking from the floor of the House, defended the work and the reputation of Mrs. Baldwin, and declared that she has performed much valuable service for the City of Portland and for the state. He advised the members not to carry the sec tarian question farther into the discus sion. It was at this point that Miss Towne assumed the role of the little pacifi cator. "I believe the state should treat its dependent girls as well as it treats its boys," she said. "I am here lighting for this girl's school because I know what a good thing it is for the girls. What will you do with your girls if you abandon this school? The religious institutions do a good work, but they don't take in girls over 18 years of age. There is no place for them, then, but an institution like this or the streets." Bliss Towne Applauded. Miss Towne was applauded vocifer ously, and immediately after she had finished Representative Forbes offered the motion that the ways and means committee "be and is hereby instructed" to twins: in a bill carrying the follow ing appropriations for the girls' school: Salaries and maintenance for two years, $30,000: dairy and poultry de partment, $700; building of cold stor age room, $300; new screens and paint, $2000; industrial work equipment. $500; farm implements, $200; new cottages, $15,000; total. $49,200. These items are identical with those in the Huston amendment, which was then withdrawn. GERMAN SACRIFICES HEAVY President of Prussian Diet Says De termination Is Growing. BERLIX, via London, Feb. 9. Speak ing at the opening of the Prussian Diet today, the President of the Chamber said the German troops had supported with unqualified bravery the Winter campaign, protected the country against hostile encroachments and made prog ress. The sacrifices, he added, were becom ing heavier, and Germany still was a long way from securing her aims, but the greater the sacrifices the more fixed would be her determination to persevere until victory was secure. Extra heavy blue serge suits for men at $17. It's a special low price on some finely tai lored serges of excep tional quality. Handsome, dark navy fabrics in the model that best becomes your figure. Drop in and see them on the main floor. BEN SELLING Morrison at Fourth SENATE COMJI1TTEE TO REPORT ON BILL IN DAY OR TWO. Schuebel and Bingham Measures Are Discussed Letters Extol Michi gan Law as Great Success. STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Or., Feb. 9. (Special.) After hearing arguments for and against the Bingham work men's compensation bill, which is similar to the Michigan law, and -the Schuebel bill, passed by the House, the Senate committee on insurance an nounced tonight that it would make a report Friday or Saturday. The Schuebel bill amends the pres ent compensation law by providing more classifications for insurance with ters read by Mr. Kingsiy, about 28.000 cases had been settiea in io aim out;-; half years and there had been only . 37 appeals to me couns. B. T. McBain, manager of the Wil lamette Pulp & Paper Company at Ore gon City, said compensation should not alone provide payment for an injury, but should be so arranged as to prevent the accident in the first place. Under present conditions there was little In ducement' for the employers to arrange the' plans to prevent accidents, he said. "The present law," said James B. Kerr, "should be continued until given a fair trial. If the Bingham bill be came operative, the school districts for the teachers would have to pay casualty companies on an annual payroll of $3,798,000. Mr. Kerr declared the Bingham bill was carelessly drawn and that certain features were unconstitutional. the object of "payment according to de gree of hazard. Tho Bingham bill provides for compensation by the state, casualty companies, mutual companies or the employers themselves. A. J. Kingsiy, president of the Ore gon Chair Company, said the basic principles of the Michigan act had been entirely successful in the states where tbev are in operation and that he believed the present Oregon act was not in its basic features like those of the majority of states hav ing a compensation law. Letters and telegrams from employers and em ployes of Michigan approving the law were read. More than 500,000 em ployes were under the provisions of the law in Michigan, according to let- DANISH LINER DETAINED British Censor Refuses to Believe Xo Copper Is on Board. NEW YORK. Feb. 9. The Danish steamship Hellig Olav, arriving here to day from Copenhagen and Christiania. reports that on the outward voyage from this port, which she left December 3, the ship was boarded at Kirkwall. Scotland, by armed marines and de tained for eight days pending investi gation as to the character of her cargo. Captain L. Hoist, master of the Hellig Olav, a Scandinavian-American line steamer, said the reason of the deten tion was ultimately traced to a slip' of the British censor handling" cable dis patches. A cable explaining that the ship carried no copper had not been believed. ' ' ' ' ' Why "No Coffee" For Children? Many parents who drink coffee would not allow their children to touch it. The 2 V" grains of the drug, caffeine, in the average cup of coffee, is far more injurious to the susceptible nature of a child than to an adult, but, just as constant dripping will wear away stone, so will the repeated doses of caffeine undermine the strongest constitution. Parents who would protect their own health as they do that of their children, will see the reason for quitting coffee and using POSTUM This pure food-drink contains nothing that is hamvf ul or injurious, but is, on the contrary, healthful and invigor ating. Postum is easy to make; has a delightful snappy flavour, very much like Old Gov't Javas; and is good for both children and adults. Postum is sold in two forms Regular .Postum, which requires boiling, 15c and 25c packages; Instant Postum, which is soluble in hot water made instantly in the cup, 30c and 50c tins. Both kinds are equally delicious, and the cost per cup about the same. "There's a Reason" for POSTUM sold by Grocers everywhere. 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