Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, November 02, 1915, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextTIIE MORNING OREGONIAN. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1915. 7 11. BIGELOW ANGRY; ASSAILS 1. ALBEE Suspicion That Friend on Po lice Force Is Protected Denied Emphatically. PLAN TO DROP 10 CHANGED V. II. Wrlglit. 10th on List, and Vis it of Commissioner and Police man in Question, to Consult t Civil Service Koll, Related. Fire escapes 1.100 An impending row between Commis sioner Bijarelow and Mayor Albee over the question of the underlying" reason for the Council majority Bigrelow, Baker and Daly having- limited the cut of policemen in the 1916 police budget to nine men Instead of 10, as said to have been originally planned, was laughed away gracefully by - the rest of tne Council yesterday just as a fuss was warming up. The Mayor and Mr. Big"elow were loaded for each other, but the rest of the Council couldn't see It that way. They sent the two off to a corner to settle the quarrel quietly. The row was over an article in The Sunday Oregonian in which it was ex plained that the plan originally was to cut off 10 policemen next year, and that instead of this plan being- fol lowed the cut was limited to nine posi tions, of which two now are vacant. making- the total number of men to fro seven. This would take out all men in the order of juniority in service up to M. vv . W right, a close personal friend of Commissioner Bigelow. To have made the cut 10 men instead of nine would have lopped off Wright. Mayor Accepts Challenge. "The inference is," said Mr. Bigelow In opening up the subject at yester day's meeting, "that It was a frameup on the part of three members of the Council to protect my man. I have reason to believe that the information came from a member of the Council. "You've had the pleasure of laying it to me, said Mayor Albee "if that s any pleasure." "Fve done so, with good reason,' retorted Mr. Bigelow. "I get it pretty straight that it came from you. "Im satisfied to let it go that way if you are, said the Mayor. "I resent the inference," snapped Mr. Bigelow. "Ah, forget it! Forget it!" inter fered Commissioner IMeck. "Don'fi mind a little rap like that." "No." protested Mr. Bigelow," that's not the point. It is a reflection on j two members of the Council beside my FeJf. I wish to say that I don't be lieve Mr. Ialy or Mr. Bigelow knew I had a friend on the police force named Wright. I think it is fair that the thing be shown in its right light." "Now, listen, interposed Mr. Dieck, again laughingly. "Don't mind a rap like that. Look at me, I get it every day. Come up in my office and take a few of my jolts." 1 Mr. Bigelow Thought Sensitive. 'A 'man, in discussing the subject with me today, said: 'If Bigelow got it shot into him on everything as I do, I wonder what would become of him. " said Mayor Albee. "Why, some of the rest of us get rapped at every turn. Tou're just in the swint, that's all, Mr. Bigelow." "Ah, I move we adjourn,' said Com' missioner Dieck. "Forget it." I just wish, publicly to deny the al legation, that s all, said Mr. Bigelow. "You say you deny the alligator?" laughed Mr. Baker. "Come on, we've adjourned. said Mr. Dieck. And the rest of the Cottncil laughing ly slid the near fuss into the back ground and adjourned from the room. lt-aving the Mayor and Mr. Bigelow to talk the thing over. Mr. Bigeloy contended that at the time he voted for the cutting of nine men he actually thought Wright was one who would have to go. He said he had received information from the civil service bureau that Mr. Wright was the fifth on the list in order of juniority. However, Mr. Bigelow found upon closer investigation that there , are 227 men actually on the force now and two vacancies, which means that the cuttng off of nine jobs means the actual firing of seven po licemen, and Mr. Wright is the eighth up in the list in the order of juniority or in the order of last appointments. Protection Is Denle. Mayor Albee makes no statement about the case. Commissioner Baker denied emphatically yesterday that he had anything whatever to do with the proposition of trying to save Mr. Wright, but merely voted for the elim ination of nine jobs because that was the motion made by Mr. Daly. .Mr. 1-ialy denies that it was for the purpose of protecting Mr. Wright that the mo tion was made nine instead of 10. Commissioner Bigelow and Mr. Wright were in the civil service of lico looking up the standing of Mr. Wright on the list. Mr. Bigelow says this was after the cuts hda been made, nnd at that time was was thought Mr. Wright was fifth on the la&t. Mr. "Bigelow says. Civil Service Secretary MacLean says he does not remember when this visit was made to his of fice, but it of the impression it was cither Wednesday or Thursday morn ing. The police cuts wer e made Thursday morning. 2M Cnt Prom Budget. As the case actually stands now there are 227 men in the service and two vacancies existing. Nine jobs have been cut off which under present con ditions will eliminate on December 1 feven men or all of the men appointed since Wright. The seven on1 the tail end of the list are S. K. Staton. G. E. Richards. C. W. Clark. O. A. Powell, Karl L. Xelon. J. J. Forkan and T. J. ITealy. K. W. Wright is next and C. L. Barzee just above him. The Council yesterday continued its budget work with the net result of $200 being trimmed out. This was for horse feed at the incinerator. The Water Bureau, the incineration bureau bureau and part of the park bureau and Mr. Bigelow's department was gone over without any eliminations. The job of fire-escape inspector, which was held in the balance, will not be abolished. The question of doing away with It was left up to the board of fire chiefs and they decided the job Fhould be kept. A budget session starting at 8 o'clock this morning and lasting most of the day Is planned for today in hope of the budget work being completed. $546,000 STRICKEN OFF I Continued FVom Kirst Pae. Vacuum sweepers 35, OOO Remodeling .O rooms-.... 10. Window guards 1.000 - Enlargement water service lOO Cesspools 50O Assembly hall exits (30 at 10O 12,000 Metal lath and plastering: (boiler rooms) 9,000 Humidifiers in furnaces l.SOO Panic bolts 1,500 Cutting in new exits l.OOO Wiring 0OO Plumbing (five schools) e.OOO Signal bells 1.000 Contract balances 47.720 Manual training buildings. 3.0OO Sewing and cooking rooms 1,500 New Buildings said Additions. Nicholson 250,000 Hoftn;an 50.000 Tedwilliger 30,000 East 23.000 Franklin High 120.00O Benson Polytechnic 200.000 Portables 6.000 1 Kindergartens (37) 33.3O0 Cooking-rooms (5) 4..i00 Playsheds 10.000 Improvement to Grounds. Upgrading 3,850. i Concrete 3.000 Grading and seeding 12,290 Surfacing KK Trees and shrubs ...... E,2.5 Miscellaneous ............ ' 700 Brooklyn B.OOu Holman j ti.OOO Benson Polvtechnie .... 10,000 - Franklin High 15.000 Jefferson High 4.000 Purcbasm of Grounds. Brooklyn 6.000 Kliot 40.000 Holman ltj.000 Woodstock lO.OOO Highland o.oou Washington High . ". 20.000 Northeast H I el. ' 50.001) 1,100 cut 6.000 1,000 lOO OOO 12.000 8, OOO 1.50O ,o00 1.000 2.000 6. OOO cut 48,720 600 1.50O CUt cut 16.000 cut 120.000 20.000 ! 5,000 Cut Vacant Cut f 1.000 3.000 5,000 Cut Cut 750 Cut 3.OO0 10.000 7, OOO C-.lt cut 40,000 16.000 10.000 Cut Cut Cut Advisory Committee Chooses J. N. Teal Chairman. BRIDGE MEETING IS HELD SCORES OF BABES ENTER HUNDREDS EXPECTED TO COMPETE AT LASD SHOW. Each to Get Photograph I Woyii.m 33 Enters a. Yoangcst Grandmother; Grent Grandmother Listed, Too. Nearly 200 babies are already entered in the old-fashioned baby show which is to feature at the Manufacturers and Land Products Show. Thursday, under the auspices of the Lavender Club and the Daughters of the Confederacy. The committee predicts that there will be between 300 and 400 when the entries close and' the official photO' grapher for the Baby Show, threw up his hands and began to make distress signals yesterday when advised that string of 175 mothers and babies must be photographed before Thursday. Each baby entered is to receive a photograph of itself as a souvenir of the show, and on Thursday each baby who has not been photographed will get an order so that it can get its picture at leisure after the show. Every class is strongly represented. There are lots of grandmothers entered in the grandmother group and at least one great-grandmother entered with her two great-grandchildren. Yesterday there appeared a woman 33 years old to enter in the class of the goungest grandmother, and it ap pears that she will carry away the prize. Entries will be received today and tomorrow aat the following places: Chamber of Commerce, Broadway 440 Lipman & Wolfe Company, Meier & Frank Company, Mrs. F. Joplin, EEast 141; Mrs. S. A. Thrall, East 2864; and Mrs. K. S. McGuire, East 4343. BRAVE JUROR IS "COWARD" Foreman of Becker Jury Church "Wedding. Shuns NEW YORK, Oct. 27. The man who was not afraid to render the first verdict of gruilty against Charles Becker the murderer of Herman Rosenthal, admits that he did not care to face battery or eyes of loving- friends at church wedding. Harold B. Skinner, of 41 S Central Park West, manager of a branch of the New York Edison Company, wh was foreman of the first Becker jury and is a son of Charles R. Skinner, former state superintendent of public instruction, slipped over to the Iittl Church Around the Corner at-noon ; was married to Miss Hazel A. Evans, of 411 Hancock street, Brooklyn, abou two weeks in advance of the wedding date anounced in the invitations which had been issued. Mr. Skinner told a reporter before hi departure with Mrs. Skinner for the the Thousand Islands, that he and his bride just "hated before the fuss and flurry of a forma! wedding:." BUDGET AIDES ELECT Maintenance Cost of Interstate Span Is Estimated Roughly at $135,- 000 Tear County Estimates Are Xot All In Yet. . Joseph N. Teal was elected chairman and Henry T. Reed secretary of the county advisory budget committee at its preliminary meeting yesterday. All members were present except Frank Kiernan, who reported later. After or ganization, the committee-adjourned to meet sur&in at the call of the chair on such date as all . -members can con veniently be present. The members of the committee in ad dition to Mr. Teal and Mr. Reed are E. B. MacNaughton. Frank Kiernan. Sam- B. Martli . Amos Benson and A. W. Jones. Mr. Reed announces that the estimates from the various -departments of county government will be in this week and that the committee will tart work probably by Friday. Estimates from county departments so far submitted show the following estimates of 1916 expenditures: Supplies, Department. Salaries. Eauin. itc- WelKhts and Meas. ... 446.90 Board relief 1.200.00 s a.i BO County Auditor T. OHO. 00 D00.00 Constable 17.220.00 1.63O.O0 County Treasurer.... 4,600.00 Sheriff 10,000.00 Multnomah Farm 11.490.00 9,43(1.01 District Attorney 8.640.O0 . 1.125.00 Courthouse 16.497.50 24.S7S.OO Auto trucks at 3.980.00 7.305.3S Llnnton quarry ft.39g.00 1.163.50 Kelly Butte lS.692.oo 5.864.50 Helath 5. 320.00 1.690.00 Courthouse (Jan., tele phone, wtchmn, etc.). 20.352.50 29.66 Bridge and ferrios 108.901.22 115.723.96 Multnomah County's proportion of salary of State Sealer of Weights and Measures. Does not include amount expended on account indigent persons, but merely office supplies. Engineer's department, which includes heating, elevators, etc ""for pircnase or new auto trucks. MINERS AGAIN RESTLESS STRIKERS ORDER NEWSPAPER HAS TO LEAVE CLIFTOX. to Publication of Story Unfriendly Unions tn Arizona Copper Field Is Charged. CLIFTON, Ariz., Nov. 1. Unrest be came more apparent here today among several thousand copper miners' on strike since September 11. with the arrival of Guy Miller, member of the executive board of the Western Fed eration of Miners and the issuance of a notice to "Move" served on a repre- Suits Unequaled By the Most Exclusive Specialty Shops Daily, customer after customer ex claims at the beauty of our new Suits, . declaring- no house in the city is showing- styles of such surpassing beauty and elegance. Daily we please Portland women some making their first visit to our store after they have searched through the city in vain for an exclusive and totally different style. Save your self this trouble by visiting our store first we assure you that never before have we shown so complete and elegant assortment. Every style in vogue priced most reasonably. Our better suits, $27.50 FURS The richest the world affords, de signed in the smartest styles de creed for Fall pleasingly low priced. "RAISE HELL," URGES LAFFERTY Nothing Less "Will Secnre Enforce ment of Oregon & California . Land Grant, Is Gaim. Land-Hungry and Starving Citi zens Should Not Hesitate to Resort to Recall and Political Revolution to Obtain Results, Says ex-Congressman. Declares Present Is No Time for "Polite Conventionalities.' Privilege saM&'Qut fitting pjP' Privilege 405 Washington St., at Tenth. j ; - - '- -r - sentative of an El Paso newspaper which miners say printed an alleged unfriendly story recently. Miller was escorted from the rail road station by hundreds of miners. Other union officials, it was said, will return here soon. A further indication of impending trouble wasthe news that Adjutant Oeneral Harris of the Arizona National Guard would leave Phoenix tonight to take charge of the troops here. Paso newspaper, was ordered to leave town tomorrow when he attempted dis store was picketed yesterday because the manager refused to discontinue handling the newspaper. Chchalis Schools Show Gain. CHEHALl S. Wash.. Nov. 1. (Spe cial.) The Chehalis public schools re opened this morningr after a vacation of one week, occasioned by the ffact William Byrne, representing an El that the L.ewis County institute was held last week in this city. There was a slight grain in attendance for October this year as compared with the same month one year ago. There were but 12 cases of tardiness in all depart' ments.of the schools for the month. The percent of attendance in the High School was 99.04, Cascade 98.64. West Side 98.73.. The High School retains the attendance banner for another month. Read Tne Oregonian Classified ads. SKIN TROUBLE ON CHEST ARMS And Neck. Itched and Burned Badly. Could Not Sleep Nights. proofing- of walls and windows number of the school buildings. Following is the budget to date: Outlays Building Betterment. Proposed. Adopted. rt wnirr i.iiMt t:i?etrte clocks uh Automatic sprinklers 8.4n ytan-1pipea 2.60O Intercommunicating tele phone . . . 3K- X linking fountains ....... 1,K0 l.ioo cut 13.400 cut cut I HEALED BY CUTICURA SOAP AND OINTMENT "About ten years ago my husband had a breaking out on his arms and hand. It would Itch and burn so bad'y that he would scratch it and that would cause It to spread. . and it was not long before It had spread all over his chest and arms and neck. He could not sleep nights for the discomfort of it. "I found my daughter had the same trouble breaking out on the corner of her mouth. I saw Cuticura Soap and Ointment adver tised and I got some and in a week's time her face was well. My husband then tried the Cuticura Soap and Oint ment and they caused the skin to heal up." (Signed) Mrs. I. S. Dye, Forest Grore, Ore.. March 1. 1915. Sample Each Free by Mail With 32-p. Sldn Book on request. 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It is pleasant to keep this in mind as you hunt the 7th point of Sterling excellence. fsv. n 7 w 1 Crowded with, flavor 2 Velvety body NO GRIT 3 Crumble-proof 4 Sterling purity 5 From a daylight factory 6 Untouched by hands (a) idiu-i, mm Te Sterling Gum Co., Inc. Long Island. City, Greater New York, Tlie point nm PEPPERMINT - RED WRAPPER CINNAMON - BLUE WRAPPER Suitable rewards for thm discovery of the 7th point ' will be offered later. To the Citizens of Oregon: You may not know It. but I dare say you feel It that something is wrong with the Orepon & California land .. grant case. The time has come for action. Every citizen should kick. A united and sul phuric protest should go to Washing ton this Winter that will arouse Congress. In plain Enirlish. the neoDle of this ' state should "raise hell." Men and Women Start-Ins. j This is no time for polite convention- '' alities. Men. women and children are starving in Oregon. Twenty-three hun dred thousand acres of the most fertile, lands In the state are being kept from the poor and land-hungry contrary to a solemn act of Congress passed 40 years ago. After an eight years' ficht the Su preme Court has said that the terms of the original grant constitute an "en forceable covenant" for the benefit of settlers, who are to have the lands in tracts of from 40 to 160 acres, at ?2.50 per acre. The court gave Congress six months in which to prescribe the rules and reg ulations for the opening of the lands. In case Congress fails so to provide. the court ordered that Judge Wolver- ton, at Portland, shall fix the rules and proceed with the sale of the lands. Justice Uepartment Against Settler.. But we now find the Department of Justice at Washington, and every big newspaper in Oregon, arrayed against the enforcement of the settler clause of the law. Note these facts: Although the decision was handed down nearly six months ago. the decree has not yet been entered at Portland. The Department of Justice has de liberately pigeonholed the decree in or der to give opportunity for something to be pulled off to avoid enforcement of the settler clause of the law. The Uepartment of Justice now has in Oregon one S. W. Williamson, who claims to represent Attorney-General Gregory, and who says he is here to find out what our citizens "want done about the railroad lands." Williamson. Queer Finding", Williamson says he has been unable to find "two men in Oregon who agree on what should be done." That is not so. ' Ninety-nine men out of every hun dred In Oregon want the settler clause of the law enforced to the letter. Both Senators Chamberlain and Lane have recently been interviewed by the big papers and have outlined their views as to important legislation to come before Congress this Winter. Both omit all mention of the Oregon & Cali fornia Land Grant. Why? Because they wanted to say something the papers would print. They wanted fa vorable publicity. Therefore, they al lowed themselves to be led around by the nose by the newspapers. That is the unvarnished truth of the situation. Recall's Good Work at Salem. It was the . silent power of the recall that forced through the re cent Salem conference a resolution demanding the enforcement of the settler clause of the law. The confer ence was called for the opposite pur pose. Threats of the recall brought I victory to the people of Oregon. Politi cal revolution and liberal application of the recall is demanded now by the grave land-grant situation. The Sena tors and Representatives are not im mune. The recall applies to "evary elective officer of this state." The gen eral belief that the recall does not ap ply to Senators and Representatives is erroneous. Oregon Delegation Hi sponsible. Never In the history of Oregon was matter of more vital interest to the state before Congress. Yet. we find Chamberlain and Lane omitting all mention of the land grant in their in terviews of what they deem Important to come before Congress this Winter. McArthur. in an extended interview In The Sunday Oregonian recently, came out boldly and said he was opposed to selling "timbered railroad lands to the settlers." They are all timbered. No 'event now in sight or prospe-ct promises so much for the future pros perity of Oregon as the enforcement to the letter of the settler clause of the Oregon &' California land grant. The enforcement of the law has been or dered by the Supreme Court. Congress was merely given power to "prescribe the rules"; not power to repeal the law and enact a new one in- its place, as many seem to believe. Political Revolution Advocated. Every patriotic citizen should de mand of his Senators and Representa tive that the law be enforced, or he should demand the recall of those of ficers. "Political revolution." should be the slogan for all true Oregonians so long as the defeat of the land-grant law is imminent, as it certainly is at the present time. Very sincerely. A." W. LAFFEKTI. -733-35 I'ittock Block. .(Paid Adv.).