VOL. LVe-!VO. 17.176. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1915. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BIG MOVABLE GUNS II WAR WILL IMPROVE FIRE ONE TROUBLE SIX ESCAPE BOMB FIRED UNDER HOME RIGHTS FOR COAST LIKELY ABOARD MINNESOTA AT BREAKING POINT DEBATED IN SENATE AMKRICM PBOniBLT WILL fOL- REPORT OP CONTROL- OP BLAZE ITALIANS, FEARING 'BLACK UANTV DELAY POLICE CALL. LOW t,r.KMA ei.vmfle. REVEALS DANGER. DRYLAWUPHELD Ifi WASHINGTON CRISIS WITH VIENNA AMERICAN WORLD WILSON Supreme Court Is Unan imous in Hi OPINIO!) IS LONBEST FILED UoaaMag. of Gigantic KXpou m ytoo Tracks or Railway (an Contemplated. Wilson Forecasts Tri umph of Justice. Effect Adjudicates for AH Time Validity of Direct Legis lation Amendment. OTHER MEASURES UPHELD Woman Suffrage and Recall Likewise Affected Court Analyzes Objections. OLYJtriA. Wash, Dec. 1L (Spe cial.) Washington"! prohibition la . upheld nnafiiraoasljr by the So- prerae Court todjy end will become effective January L TY.i diion. the longest ever filed fat the hUtory cf th court. containing lijixt woru', rot orjy validate the Initiative prohibition measures, bat aUo specifically upholds the initiative and rifrrendam amendment to the constitution against th latest and moat weighty cf the objection brought against it. The affect cf th decision is to ad jii.ij.at for all time the validity of the direct legislation amendment. Suffrage a ad Recall t'phetd Also. Sine the tarn objection urged against the Initiative and referendum tmemiaeat. that of insufficient pob Ixation. eocld be urged etroal'y gainst the t(iua suffrage rd re ran amendment.. the real effrt cf to day's decision alto fee to nphotd these add.'ier.a to ttiat constitution. The majority opinion wu written by Jadge Emmett N. Farter, with Chief Justice Cecrre E. Jlorru and Jie a G. tl.i.. O. R. HotconS. John F. yi-ta and WaHac Mount coo-curhnx- There arc no dissenting pinion... but J mix S. J. Chadwks. rotes, tn a separate opinion, that he d.ies not follow the reasoning of th eujority. bat y iJ.i hi J.idgmer.t and cpi-un in the result "not because J? M the. law as I hod understood it. but fcerao.se: tt ha been so declared by a competent tribunal." Jadge M. A. FuTterton notes that fee does not follow the majority rea iir.ifj. bot mn-uf In the result and will file a separate opinion later rath er than postpone further the fiiirf of the decision. Irregularity Not Noticed. Briefly, the Supremo Court decide that it cannot, and will not, notice ad mitted IrreguUrties in connection with the publication both of th Initiative and referendum amendment and the prohibition law. which, though stipu lated by counsel ra the rate, do not appear a part of tho official state records and are cot matters of com mon notoriety. This disposes cf the mam objection. Tee court tnen drU that any luestion cf interference with ir.tr slate commerce it settled by tho WSb Kenyan act cf Ctngress cf 1513, divesting intoxicating liquor of its interstate character, and that the prWiVges in regard to sate and pre emption cf liquor rar.tcd to pharma and physician do not constitute j-h discrimination a. to invalidate the act. The one crumb of comfort left fw th " e" is that the court did not pa.s on any constitutional question raUcd from th cmumers' standpoint, the cocrt statmr specifically that since this was an injunction action to prevent enforcement of the act OTiIy questions invoivir.r property rights ciKiM be considered. Mont of the premUe U extracted from this factor by the following statement upholding the "savinf clause. which provide that the act. aj a whole, shall remain effective thoagh any single peoruion be invalidated. Three Contention Senssarijed. In the decision the three contentions in opposition tn the prohibition law re suremsrtied fcy the Supreme Court as follows: "First The sventh amendment to enr state constitution, providing for tne ini'iative and referendum, was not saZy submitted to and adopted by the , people and b. therefore, not valid! W ASJItNGTOX. TW. It Glcsottc monniH oa motor iroras or ran- r cars prcbably will be added to the eeaairy'a romat defease syetem as a re eett ef eser!mats aow sets mad Amy ordaaace eiaerta. It was leara.d today that a acftemo t eta wrkd eat coot.meUilog the estas- t(kseai ef Bo:!e bactertee t pre lect stretcke of coast llaa not eom- ssasded tr tke ptrni4i.nl forUricatloaa. T6o Careseaa war fcaa demoastxaled Ik i blca-so-wer sraaa caa kst ssd as neklle weapeas. soca vaae aa tk Oar. avaa -eeaUmetr bewtuar barlnc rev- etattealaed laod warfare by tke oasr redtctloa of forts beltevsd lmprenbta. tt preooeed to adapt tbts leeeoa to Am.rlraa coast defease by ireklec OP fvrvtanent works wllb well-ballasted I Timidity Kiug roads or railways parallelicsT tbe ro. i use. so tkat tbe beavy (una could be rosked to any tkrealeaed potst not protected by tbe arsseat barber da- teaeee. Tke pfrtmests la prerresa aro be In c stade t deternalae kow bis; a n caa be traasportod errectlvaiy aae traasferred from Its carrtaca to a cos rrete fosiadatloa. Conslderattoa Is la ctvea to IS. 14 evea lareer weapoaa. SPIRITUAL OPPORTUNITY SEEN Menace from I Tames Unlikely to Have Been Great. la View f Company OfftclaL HAN FRANCISCO. Deo. Through tho announcement that fire la tho Minnesota's bankers bad been brought OBder control It wss learned hero to day for tho first time that a threat' eaed conflagration was among tke troubles, real and surmised, with which Business Men Uraed to Carry oanie-. of the oraat North I s Vi- . ... i i m a I ww b e3b,asTi inimp enipsaB oig nwiv- wgn laeajs Aoroao. MONOPOLY IS ATTACKED Charged Against Tboae Who "Kua to Washington for Help Mexico to Work Out Its Problems by Itself. COl.VWm. Ou Dee. It. FYeeldent Wilson axsreased tke opinion tooay and l-larh sad I that there would be no -patchsd-up" peace following tho European war. la aa addrese before the Columbus Cham- FWRIWPPR IllPinP h' of Commerce he urged American or. bae bad to contend since kls ship left Seattle, November 14 for London with a ll.soo-ton cargo of foodstuffs. C W. WUey. marine superintendent for tho Oreat Northern Steamship Company, who Is hero awaiting the Minnesota's arrival, said tonight that he bad received word from Captain Carllck that the fire was under con troL Tie said that fire In the coal bunkers was not a new experience for tho Minnesota, and that he did not balleve the vessel bad been In any real danger from this cause. He said fur ther that be had no reason to believe that the fire originated from other than natural causes. It was said hero today that eight of the Minnesota's boilers were la use. but that after supplying tke steam for tht opsratlon of dynamos, refrigerat ing machinery, steering gear and other Internal mechanism there was little left for propulsion. ARMY I business men to mobilise tbelr ro- Llentraanl-Colonel Rromwell Koand sources so the United States might be QfJ UlfH MAULS STUDENTS lbo la Head at lloaolala. p rep a red to play a more Important part tn tke world's affairs and to bring itovntJ-u- T tt. rw is Lientea. about Joetlce after tbe present wsr. aat-Ceionel Charles . Uromwi'.L bead too rresioeni spun i. ... ' " of the Army Engloeer Corps here, wasllumbua, during which bo was active tnnnA with a bullet hale thfauik the I evarv minute. in addition to tne h.. i.f. tul.v. A i mrrr.v reealver I Chamber ef Commerce speech, be de lay by hi side, later. ' Arkansas College President Deals Ont Black Eyes. RCS5ELVILLE. Axle. Dec. 10. Fol lowing the second strike within 10 He died two konrsl livered an address tonight before thelfnonths of tke students of the Second Mrs. Bromwetl and their daughter are la tke Catted Mates, where tba latter la attending school. Tbe Colonel was alone la bla rseiUence wbea tbe shoot lag occurred. OCEAN RECORD IS BROKEN (irv-al Northern) Makes Kan Franrta- ro-llonalala Ran Voder d Days. KAN FRANCISCO. Deo. 1 Tke Ureal Northern Pact fie Steamship Coi posy's terkise User Oreat Northern iallhd a aew record between Hoa etutu aad San Francisco when she ar rived bre toatcht la days. US fcours f rum the taad port. This lowered her own record, made oa the eotwatd passage, ef 4 days. 10 bers aad i mlautea. POPE RECOMMENDS PEACE Mrwaege Krai to Kaleer Through Grrnu CardlaaL ROVC fc. t relayed la traasmls- sioo, ardisal lel!s von llartmaan. .Xrrhblahop ef Cologne, left Home to--Cit after aglin seeing I'opa Benedict. Thm rerdiasl ld lsl he ass the t-r-r ef a papal me.eage for tmpervr W illiam ad aleo recomiiMBslaltoas for peace. It Is understood that Cardinal voa llATtasana probably will e I'rlace i llu.toe. -rmaa Anbaaeador lu Italy. In ltsr!eat. Commission on "Country and Churcn Llfa of tho Federal Council ef the Churches of Christ of America." shook bands with more than 7000 persons at a reception la tho rotunda of the state capital, spoke briefly to a large crowd from the steps of tho capltol. aad took a lone walk about tho a treats of Co- lombua. Me i Ira a raltry Defended, la tho Cheoiber of Commerce ad drees tbe President defended his Mexl caa policy aad said so long aa he was President nobody should "butt la" to alter tbe Mealcaaa government for them: urged business men to psy more attention to forefgn commerce aad to be mere self-rellsnt: demanded tba restoration of the American merchant marine, praised tho aew banking and currency law. and touched on the attl lode ef tbe Vol ted Statee toward the European war. "Vrhen the present great conflict la Europe Is over, the world Is going to wear a different aspect.- Mr. Wilson declared "I don't believe there Is go ing to be any patrhed-up peace. I be lieve that thoughtful men of every country and of every sort will Insist that, wbaa we get peace again, wa eha:t have guarantees that H wt;l remain. Mediation Faree Predicted. f believe that tbe spirit -h!cb has r'md bltr.erto in the hearts of Amer icans, and la like people everywhere la the world, will assert Itself once and for all In Intemallonsl affairs, and that If Amerlra preserve her pots. District State Agricultural College, the strikers waylaid President Scott to night, and attempted to chastise him with a rasor strap. President Kcott said ha wss over powered by overwhelming numbers, but that be administered vastly more pun lshment than be received. Ho Is of powerful physique, and the black eyes and bruised and swollen features of some of the students corroborated the president's assertion.'' CITIZENSHIP IS IN DOUBT Henry Streblg to Give Fp Seat In Council, Won at Election. OREGON C1TT. Or.. Dae. 10. (Spe cial.) Henry Btreblg. who was elected a Gladstone Councilman last Monday, today declared bis Intention of resign ing because of bis Inability to establish his eltlsenablp. Mr. Streblg Is uosble to establish be yond a reasonable doubt that bis fsther took out second papers before the boy was of age. F. T. Barlow, retiring Councilman. declares bo wl!l not bold over. The Council probably will elect a successor. Diplomatic Relations May Be Severed. aaaa aas- REPLY TO NOTE IS AWAITED Holes Are Torn In Araato Home and Glass Doors Shattered by Force of Charge Set. The two-Btory home of Frank Amato, I a wealthy vegetable dealer who lives at 668 Division street, was damaged at 11 P. M. Thursday night by tho explo sion of a bomb which had been placed under the front porch. The fragments of the bomb tore several holes in the Submarine's Seizure of Pro- floor or porch' and Bhattere,i iB . . "Ja In the front door of tho building. visions Makes New Issue. Mrs. Amato was the only member of the family who beard the explosion. She thought the sound was caused by an automobile, and tho bomb was not WASHINGTON IS ANXIOUS "covered unUl yesterday morning. The Amatos feared that the explosion was a "Blacit Hand" act, and did not report it to the police until late yesterday. Detectives Leonard and La Salle were assigned to tho cane. The officers col lected several metal pellets under the porch. The fragments led the police to believe that tbe bomb consisted of a lead pipe filled with small chunks of steel. dix memoers or the family were sleeping In tho house. They were Mr. and Mrs. Amato, their three sons and Storm Breaks When Subject Is Broached. SWEEPING INQUIRY DEMANDED Practice of Holding Cp Neutral I Vessels for Supplies Held to Extend Radius of IT-Boats Without Own Bases. Lodge Would Investigate. Se curity of Life at Sea. PROPERTY IS SECONDARY Hoke Smith Precipitates Conflict With Resolution Covering Only Trade Interference, Ignoring Submarine Incidents. WASHINGTON. Doc. 10. Diplomatic relations with Austria aro in gTave a : 6-year-old d auirhter. danger of being broken off over the The police say that tho small damage sinking of the Italian liner Ancona was due to the fact that the bomb was with tho loss of American lives. All not properly constructed officials here continue to preserve si l.nc. over the negotiation, with Au.- SUC,DES ssjaj EPIDEMIC trta. but through the veil which has been drawn about the situation. Is seen German officers Said to Have End- crlsls Just as grave as that which attended the submarine negotiations with Germany. The question of continuing diplo matic relations may be said to depend on a satisfactory reply to Secretary Lansing's note, which now probably la before the Vienna Foreign Office, de ed Lives on Russian Front. PETROGRAD. via London, Dec. 10. Another epidemic of suicides Is re ported among the German forces In tne vicinity of Dvlnsk by prisoners cap tured in that region. Nine officers, in ure said to have ended their lives within 13 days. Cold and hardships of the campaign are said to be the cause. Polish and Serbian landsturms, cap tured from the Austro-German force along the southern front, report that new alignment of Austro-Germans has been removed to forage food and stores from the captured territory at points near the frontier. mending a disavowal of tbe sinking of I eluding the commander of a battalion the Ancona. reparation for the lives lost and assurances that passenger hips shall not bo attacked without warning- or any opportunity for non- combatants to take placea of safety. Reply Awaited With Aaxlety. The situation tonight is tense and fraught with possibilities. It Is com pared to the last days of the Arabic egotiatlons with Germany, when probably no one but President 'Wilson himself knew how close the country was to a severance of diplomatic rela tions with Berlin. Officials of the State Department will not discuss the American note even so lar as to say ii mejr oo whether It baa reached Vienna or when they expect to permit publication of it thla country. It is taken for granted in official circles generally BRITISH VOTE HITS LIQUOR Opponent of Drink Restriction Defeated for Parliament. Is War Plant Is Damaged. SUCTII IIKTMI.EHEM. Pa. Dec. 1. An explosion today In the fore plant of the Bethlehem St.el Company at Redlngton. six miles fn-ro here, killed one workmen and Injured It others. exeral of them serlounly. LONDON. Dec. 10. A rebuke to the liquor interests was seen in tbe re election today to the House of Com mons of Postmaster-General Herbert however, that the communication ca- SamUeI over Henry Knight, a printer bled last Tuesday must nave oeen ue- of Leeds. livered before this and a reply Is anx iously awaited. Kelsere ef Provisions Reported. A further complication developed to dav when. It was disclosed thst In a bye-election in the Cleveland division of North Riding, Yorkshire, he polled 7312 votes as againut Knight's 1133. Mr. Knight opposed recent enact Austrian submarine which shelled the ments restricting liquor sales, declar American Standard Oil tank ship Pe- trolite in the Mediterranean last week sent a boarding psrfjr and took part of the ship's provision!. This news came In a consulsr dispatch from Algiers and wss the first official word of the safety of tho Pr-n-. which wag not greatly dsmsged by the shelling and Ing he represented the concensus of opinion among the laboring classes. 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Mrs. Warren arrived here November 1J. after a -six weeks' visit to Franca In the Interests of the Secours Na- tionsle. . ITALIANS IN TRIPOLI LOSE Tribesmen Kill 6000, Says Constan tinople Report. BKRL1N. Iec. 10. (By wireless to Sayvllle, N. T.) Reports from Con stantinople say that well organized Senuesi tribesmen and Trlpolltanians have occupied the wnole vilayet of Tripoli. The Senussl forces also entered ICasa- syrt. where they are reported to have routed the Italians. The Italians are Fald to have lost 6000 men killed and to have abandoned a large quantity of .rni! and ammunition. CARD GAMES UNDER BAN Major Proposes Ordinance Directed at Poolrooms. Anent the card games in pool rooms Mayor Albee yesterday presented an ordinance to the Council making It unlawful to have card tables or to per mit card playing In pool halls. The measure also provides specifically that an ante room in a pool hall shall be I considered part of the hall. It is asserted by Mayor Albee that there has been gambling: in card games I and gives that as his reason for want ing the card table banished. BOMB STORY SCARES CREW I Jul mm -ne Sailors Mutiny on Muni tion Ship at Seattle. SEATTLE, Waslu Dec 10. (Special.) I A mutiny took place on the Japanese freighter Shlntsu Maru here today, when 13 members of the crew notified I Captain Uto they would not go to sea. Three men deserted. The ship Is load ing war munitions for Vladivostok, in WASHINGTON. Dec 10. Ths long expected storm in Congress over the Administration's conduct of the de fense of American rights on the seas broke today when Senator Hoke Smith, Democrat, demanded an investigation of Great Britain's interferences with neutral trade and Senator Lodge, Re publican, replied with a demand that any Investigation include the loss of American lives. "Tho body of an innocent child, float ing dead on the water, the victim of destruction of an unarmed vessel, is to me a more poignant and more tragic spectacle than an unsold bale of cot ton," declared the Massachusetts Sen ator. Subject Precipitates Debate. To Senator Smith's resolution for an investigation of trade Interferences, Senator Lodge, who is tlie ranking mi nority member of the foreign relations committee, offered an amendment for Investigation of the laws and tho tacts In the submarine attacks on the Lusl tania, Falaba, Hesperian, Arabic, Gulf light and Ancona and of the plots and conspiracies against the neutrality of the United States to which President Wilson referred in his address to Con gress Tuesday. Both resolutions were referred to the foreign relations committee, on which further action will depend. Their in troduction, however, had served to bring out tho first debate of the ses sion of a subject to which all minds had turned. Protection of Life Demanded. Senators on both sides of tbe cham ber were drawn into the discussion, which was precipitated by a vigorous speech by Senator Smith in support of his resolution. I wish to extend the scope of ths resolution by my amendment," said Senator Lodge, as tho Georgia Senator concluded, "because if we are to ta& up this question of the violation of our rights. I want to put it, not on the lowest ground alone, but on the highest ground as well. I think it Is of great importance that we should vindicate our rights as a neutral in trade if those rights have been vio lated, but I think it Is far more im portant that we should extend protec tion and assure security to American citizens wherever they rightfully are. for I do not believe that any govern ment can long retain the respect of its ow n people if it does not givo them the protection to which they are en titled. Life Put Above Dollar. I think Americans should be pro tected in their lives and in their lib erty everywhere. I do not think they ought to bo murdered by retail and in obscurity in Mexico or openly by wholesale on the high seas. 'Although 1 am as anxious any any one can be to care for our rights iu rade if they are violated, to me Amer ican lives are more important than American dollars. If this investigation is to go on, and especially If Congress is to take action, I want it to take in II the violations of our rights that may have occurred. Tho most impor tant is 'the violation which has af fected American lives or the security i Concluded on Page 'J, Column 1.) PROSPERITY OF OREGON FARMERS TO BE TOLD. Resumes of progress in. every county in Oregon during 1915 will form a feature of the state section of the New Year's edition of The Oregonian. These reports, compiled by persons competent to discuss conditions in the re spective counties, will show the most important development that took place during the year in each county. They will be of great value also in supplying in formation to persons seeking lo cations in Oregon. A gratifying feature is that, almost without exception, these reviews are decidedly encourag ing in tone and show that Ore gon, as a whole, is in a prosper ous condition. Farm production was extensive and growers re ceived generally high prices for their products. Better farming methods are being followed and marked progress in intensive agriculture is noted. In no bet ter way can these facts be brought to the attention of the outside world than through the forthcoming Annual Edition of The Oregonian. iCttUJ4 efM Is. lea L cluding E00 tons of explosives, ,