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THE lORXIXG OREGOXIAX, AVEDXESDAT, JANUARY 19, 1916. DENIAL OF EQUALITY 10 WEST RESENTED Vigorous Attack on Leasing Bills Made by Minority of v House Committee. BUREAUCRACY IS OPPOSED Jlcport Points Out Dangers of Ab- cntre landlordism Creation of Array of Federal Kill- . ployes One of Kesults. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Jan. 1. "It .Congress passes the water-Dower bill and the general leasing bill, history will repeat itself and these laws sooner or later will be indignantly repudiated and repealed. Hut it will be after hundreds of mil lions of dollars have been wrung from the pockets of the common people and consumed In undeserved salaries, neea less expenses, and useless waste of our uhatance. It will be after our re sources have been wantonly exploited onH the Federal Treasury ruthlessly looted for many years by an army of utterly unnecessary Government era nlovea." Thus concludes the minority report of the House public lands committee on the Ferris bill and on the general leas ing bill, which comprise the conserva tion programme of the Administration. The report is signed by Representative Kdward T. Taylor and unaries a. urn hrtake. of Colorado: Addison T. Smith. of Idaho, and James H. Slays, of Utah. Western View Ably Presented. It Is far. the ablest anjeument pre vented on either side of the conserva tion question during the present ses sion and fully presents to Congress the Western view ot conservation, especially insofar as these two meas ureit are concerned. "This leasing policy, if carried out. will ultimately brine: about tne crea tion of 25.000 new Federal positions and the receipts and much more win be dissipated In salaries and adminis tration." says the report It adds: "It is the most gigantic scheme for h increase of Federal employes ana enormously augmenting the power and Influence of these bureaus In Washing ton that this Nation has ever wit nessed. "The boldness of it is astounding, and the complacency with which it is received is an evil omen for our coun try. Kauai Footing I Denied. "To us these paternalistic and cen tralizing tendencies appear little short of National bureaucracy run mad. Con fcervation has become a mania. This policy looks like a bold trampling upon the principles which lie at the founda tion of our republican form of govern ment. It appears to us as a brazen denial of the 'equal footing" upon which the Western states entered the Union. "American citizens do not take kind ly to absentee landlordism. We do not like the idea of perpetual bureaucratic rule. We prefer to be governed by the law and by our own people. Instead of by rulea and regulations promulgated from the rlty of Washington, often times by people who have no personal knowledge of our local conditions. We believe these measures forever fasten upon the people of the West and the resources within our states the bureau cratic grasp of the Federal Govern ment. We know that bureaucracy growa on what it feeds upon. We want the laws intelligently framed in the light of the welfare of the governed as well as the governing bodies. Juat Share f Tax ot Borne. "Any system which prevents lands or resources from going into private own ership prevents their becoming subject to state and local taxation and relieves them from their Just proportion of the maintenance of the state government. "If this general leasing policy is In flicted upon the West we predict that the Western states will be compelled to impose an excise tax upon the out put of our coal mines and other Government-leased resources as a partial substitute for the loss of taxes on these properties. "The general counsel of the Reclam ation Service. Mr. King, has recently rendered an official opinion, which appears in the December number of the Reclamation Record, holding pos itively that neither the state nor coun ties have any right to tax Improve ments upon public land before final proof is offered: and he says he be lieves that no such rights exist before United States patent is issued by the Government to the entryman. If that be the law, then the state would never have any auhority to tax even im provement put upon these leased lands. While we can not believe that that opinion is sound or reasonable, at the same time, as eminent an attor ney as the chief counsel is. having ren dered that decision pertaining to all public lands under all the Government reclamation projects, it raises a se ries questioTt. which is of vital con cern to the entire West. Daal Government Baa Policy. "la it an equitable or sensible busi ness policy for the Government to withhold all of this enormous wealth ftfrever from private ownership and deprive the states of hundreds of mil lions of dollars of taxes which they would derive from it and give them back in lieu thereof a few thousand dollars in reclamation projects? "This dual form of government in the West, which the enactment of these bills will necessarily bring about, is a bad policy; and we prophesy that it will prove one of the most gigantic failures that the Government has ever undertaken. It will -be a tremendous auccess in producing Federal jobs, but no net receipts from these royalties will ever get into the Federal or state treasuries. History will repeat itself and our states will never receive a dollar from these sources. But the people will have to bear an enormous burden for the salaries and expenses. Iaaalt Aadea t Injnrr. "To our minds, these leasing bills add insult to injury. They not only deprive us of our constitutional rights and at the same time impose out rageous taxes and royalties upon us. but. in addition, they deny both our honesty and capacity for self-government. "If the bill is intended by anyone as a systematic attempt to exploit the West and convert into an enormous and permanent Federal revenue-producing proposition, practically all of the remaining natural resources upon the public domain in the Western states, then it is an outrageous dis crimination against those states and an infamous perversion of the taxing power, and at the same time depriving those states of their legal right of taxation of the property within their borders. "If there is any one thing that the West is and has always been bitterly opposed to it is the prevention of set tlements and permanent withdrawal and withholding of our lands and other resourcs from entry and sale and the capitalization of them into the production ot Federal jobs and Fed eral revenue and bureaucratic rule 2500 miles away. This system will be no permanent benefit to the National Government and it will very "seriously retard the development and De a per petual Injury to our Western states. West t'koiMOot Support East. "The West is new and poor, and It is absolutely wrong for Congress to force the West to help support the East at the same time depriving the West of many of its greatest sources of revenue by permanently withdraw ing them from entry and preventing them ever going Into private owner ship and becoming subject to taxation for state and local governments. But, harsh as it is. it Is not so much the disposition of the funds that we ob ject to as it is the permanent with drawal from entry of these ' enormous resources, and the perpetual bureau cratic domination that will be exer cised from Washington in their ad ministration and control. It is the vio lation of what we deem are the inher ent and equal rights of our Western states as sovereign states. "No matter how loudly and vigorous ly and repeatedly it may be proclaimed that these lands "belong to all the people," the fact remains that when those states were admitted to the Union the United States Government entered into a solemn compact with each of them that the lands within their borders should be expeditiously and in an orderly manner disposed of to the settlers and be allowed to go into private ownership to help main-, tain the state government; and .Con gress has no moral, legal or consti tutional right to repudiate or violate that agreement much less to wanton ly Impose excise duties upon our de velopment. Wise Regulation -Welcomed. 'There is a very general and wide spread desire throughout the West to raise in some way the present unjust and unnecessary governmental embar go on the development of our re sources located upon the public do main The people want in tome way to secure the exDeditious development and maintenance and operation of our resources u ider suitable control and regulations in the interest of the gen eral public. Every right-thinking per son is in favor of those objects. The question is how best to secure them. The West heartily welcomes any wise regulation, as well as the thorough prevention of any monopoly or waste. But fcr the accomplishment of that we emphatically deny that it is at all necessary or right or fair for the Gov ernment to permanently withhold our resources from private ownership and in addition tax us for the use of them. "Bureaucratic control never has been and never will be good for either the people or the property so controlled. We object to the West being exploited as a province or Insular possession of the United States, wilh a permanent system of t -nantry fattened upon us. We of the West do not relish carpet bag gcvernment sny mtre than you of the South did. Why are you from be low the Mason-Dixon line so soon for getful of those hardships and so ready to inflict them upen ns'" BULBARS PROJECT MEN CHANGE IX RURAL CREDITS MEAS URE IS REQUESTED. Mr. Slnnott Discovers Farmera under Gtvenmeat Irrigation Not Bene fited by Provisions OREGON! AN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Jan. 18. Representative Sin- nott. of Oregon, has made the discov ery that farmers on Government ir rigation nroiecta connot share in the benefits of the rural credits bill, now before Congress, because of the lien which the Government holds against their lands, on account of the building charge. On making this discovery, ne cauea the situation to the attention of Rep resentative Glass, chairman of the banking and currency committee, and suggested a modification of the bill before it is reported to the House. .Mr. Glass said the question raised by Mr. Sinnott had never before been pre sented, and promised to call it to the attention of his committee, which Is now at work on the bill. Inasmuch as most settlers on Gov ernment projects are having a hard time establishing themselves and meet ing their obligations. Mr. Sinnott be lieves they should not be barred from enjoying the benefits of the rural credits bill, and if the committee on banking ana currency does not re port an amendment to his liking, Mr. Sinnott will offer his own amend ment from the floor. STATE TO REJECT WARDS Authority Asserted to Halt Imposi tion by Counties. SALEM, Or., Jan. 18. (Special.) Be cause it appears tnat oiiiciais in a number of counties have endeavored to shift responsibility for the care of dependents by committing them to the state institutions, the State Board of Control today, by resoluion, authorized these institution heads to refuse ad mittance to persons who they deem should not be received. Complaints from superintendents of some of the institutions have indicated to the Board that in many cases the state is being imposed on by counties not wishing to assume the expense of caring for their dependents. It also develops that lax methods of examina tion by county officials has led to im proper commitments. Persons feeble minded have been adjudged insane and sent to the state hospitals, and vice versa. As a measure of protection to the state, the Board - determined to leave the question of the committed persons acceptaouity to the superin tendents. Action of the Board was precipitated when Superintendent Hale, of the State Training School, today informed the Board that he needed protection from the influx of boys being com mitted to his institution from the sev eral counties, as, with a capacity of 150. he now was caring for 161 youths. R. B. Goodwin, secretary of the Board, was instructed to notify the county courts to make no more commitments for the present. STOVE TEARS ROOF OFF Frosscr Woman Hurled by Explosion Is Only Bruised. rROSSER. Wash., Jan. 18. (Spe cial.) The range In the home of W. C. Sommers. manager of the Produce Company store, blew up yesterday morning as a result or ireezing. ano blew out all the windows. The ceiling was lifted bodily out. Mrs. Sommers. who was standing over the range, was hurled into the next room and was Only slightly bruised. No Stock Loss at Vale. VALE. Or.. Jan. 18. (Special.) All Malheur County Is covered with snow varvina- from one foot at Vale to three or more feet in the higher interior. The t-old has not been serious on stock to date. 1 Prevent the Grip. Ca'da riuM HrlD Laxatlva Brono Quinine removes tha ctoxa. Thart la only oo"PItOi!l QLiNlNK." B. W.Grove'a alnatura on tos.?3o Mail Orders Filled From This Advertisement By Our Expert Personal Service Shoppers Women Can Tailor Their Own Skirts Under the Instructions of Mr. Edmund Gurney, Custom Tailor FREE instructions will be given Tuesday and Thursday each week, from 10 to 12, 2 to ,6, to every woman purchasing her materials in the Dress Goods or Silk Departments. Every day in the week Mr. Gurney will cut and fit skirts FREE, when materials are purchased here. Eighth Floor. Mail and Telephone Orders Filled by Expert Shoppers cTMercUncliso of c Merit Onjy" Pacific Phone Marshall 5000 Home Phone A 6691 These Cold Days Many People Are Enjoying; Our Special 25c Hot Lunch Have You Tried It? Different menu every day, but quality always the same. Basement Fashionable Winter FURS HALF PRICE SCARFS MUFFS SETS Regular $5.00 Up Sale $2.50 Up Third floor. The Superior Materials and Smart Styles iviaKe 1 his Disposal of Dresses and Coats Doubly Interesting $9.75 for CoatS That Were Originally to $18.50 r . t r . ' t:i: J ...:l:... At I 1-r.r.fV.c ff Joats suitable tor most every occasion, lor street, tor auiomoouing mu uuh.y. -i, .cm cheviots, fancy Scotch mixed materials. Plain flaring styles as well as plaited and belted models, l rimmings of plush, velvet and" fur. In black, navy, brown and fancy mixed effects. $17.75 for DreSSeS That Sold Formerly to $45.00 Evening and dancing dresses of crepe de chine, chiffon, satin and taffeta silks, in striped, plaid and plain l . plain and Do YOU Wear a Large Size Shirt? Size 16V2, 17 or HVz? If So, Here's Your Chance to Buy Manhattan Shirts at Less Than Cost 95c Regularly $1.50 $1.15 Regularly $2.00 Men having trouble finding good shirts large enough in the neck, with long enough sleeves, and with large, ample bodies, should stock up in this sale, because an opportunity like this comes but seldom. Every man knows the Manhattan Shirt, and these particular shirts are the regular $1.50 and $2 grades, in new, snappy patterns, in stripes and lieht or dark patterns of madras and percale, made with plain or pleated bosoms. Only a limited num ber of these sizes, 16Vz, 17, 17 only. First Floor Aft-mnon and street dresses of fine French serges, taffeta silks , and charmeuse, in a variety of combination styles. . . . , It is al, assortment of over 100 dresses that reflect the latest midwinter modes in a splendid assortment ot colors, such as navy, brown, black and green, as well as light blue, maize, pinic, nesn, lMie. wnue ana iam.y light plaids. Third Floor WHITE APRONS Join the White Sale at Special Prices PARLOR MAIDS' APRONS, WAITRESSES' APRONS, TEA APRONS IN GREATEST VARIETY Reg. 35c to 50c Aprons 29c Reg. 75c Aprons Special 59c Made of fine lawns, plain and dotted Swiss, trimmed with hemstitching, laces, em broideries, imitation filet bands, insertions, dainty ribbons, in a variety too great to de scribe, but at these two prices you will find every kind and style of apron you could possibly wish for. Slightly Soiled Aprons HALF PRICE , Regular Prices 38c, 75c, $1.00 to $3.50 Special 19c, 38c, 50c, $1.49 These aprons need washing, which accounts for this radical reduction. Included are band, tea. parlor maids' and waitresses aprons of fine lawns, organdie and Swiss, trimmed with laces, embroidery, insertion, medallions, in plain and fancy effects, in immense variety. Fonrth Floor. THIRD DAY OF The Semi-Annual BLACK SILK SALE An Event Without Precedent Including every fashionable black silk, taffeta, messaline, peau de soie, satin taffeta. i 35-inch black taffeta 89c 35-inch black taffeta 98c' 35-in. black taffeta $1.19 40-in. black taffeta $1.29 35-in. black taffeta $1.39 35-in. black taffeta $1.69 50-in. Duchess satin $1.98 40-in. imported satin $1.49 35-in. grosgrain silk $1.89 35-inch messaline . . .95c 35-inch black satin $1.33 35-inch peau de soie 98c 35-inch peau de soie $1.19 35-in. Duchess satin $1.19 35-in. Duchess satin $1.49 Second Floor. Linens Unequaled in Quality and Economy $2.25 Linen Table Cloths $1.75 Natural color, pure linen, with floral designs. Size 63x63 inches, hemmed ends. Splendid quality. $1.35 Table Damask, Yard $1.00 , 70 inches wide, warranted Irish manufacture. Severabneat pat ' terns from which to choose. $2.25 Crochet Bedspreads $1.75 Extra heavy, full size, hemmed ends, new designs. " 45c Double Terry Bath Towels 35c Plain white, red or blue borders. Size 22x40. t j $3.00 Irish Linen Napkins $2.50 . Pure linen, 20x20 inches, variety of new designs. ' ' ' . 85c Pure Linen Lunch Cloths 69c 36x36 inches, hemstitched, medium-weight pure linen damask, in neat patterns. Second Floor. Such Pretty GOWNS Never Offered At Such Low Prices CREPE GOWNS 85c Gowns. .59c $1.00 Gowns 79c $1.25 Gowns 85c $1.35 Gowns 98c $1.65 Nightgowns $1.19 MUSLIN GOWNS 85c Gowns . ,59c $1.00 Gowns 79c $1.50 Gowns 98c $2 Gowns $1.69 $2.75 G'ns $1.98 $4.50 G'ns $3.39 These muslin and crepe gowns are made in a great variety of styles, slip-over, open fronts, round, high or V-shape necks. Trim mings of laces, embroideries, scalloped edges, ribbon drawn, some with rosebuds, and others smocked. The crepe gowns can be had in white, or pink stripes or floral patterns. are blue Fourth Floor Victor and Columbia Talking Machines pgr I L m I o mm n 1 1 M I Ul I Messanlne Floor FLOOD ROLLING ON Southern California Menaced by Accumulating Danger. ARIZONA, TOO, IN PERIL Wall of Water Inundates College Athletic Field Property Dam age, Already Enormous, Is likely to Increase. LOS ANGELES. Jan. 18. New dan cers from flood waters which have ac cumulated in the mountain regions to night threatened to Increase the prop erty damage, already enormous, as a result of the rain storm which has hold practically all of Southern Cali fornia in its grip for more than three days. Flood conditions also prevailed in sections of Arixona. The loss of life from drownings re mained at four tonight. The local Government weather fore caster announced that the backbone of the storm had been broken. Evidence of the new dangers from the flood reached here late today in advices from Pomona, west of here, to the effect that a wall of water rush ing down from the mountains had in undated the athletic field of Pomona College and undermined a portion of the foundation of the gymnasium. The body of Alfonso Rivere. who was drowned yesterday, was recovered to day. The body of Frank Smith, who was drowned last night, has not been recovered. John Higginson. a rancher, and Jose Rodriguez, a Mexican, were drowned today in the Santa Ana River near Anun helm. Orange County. FHOEN'IX. Aril.. Jan. 18. Flood con ditions in South Central Arizona In creased late today and great volumes of water are pouring down the Salt and Verde rivers. Late today water be gan pouring over the Roosevelt dam. for the second time since it was com pleted, notwithstanding the gates had been left open to relieve the flood. In dications are that the river at this point will reach the highest point In 25 years. With telephone and telegraph wires down and the Santa Fe Railway tracks washed out south of here as a result of the heavy rain storm, San Diego was without any means of communicating with the outside world except by wire less. The only mens of traveling to or from that city was on ocean vessels. VARSITY TO GET BUILDING (Continued From First Page.) and Princeton system, consisting of the scientific, mathematical and engi neering training needed by an officer under modern conditions, with a mini mum amount of drill. Th.e committee appointed was J, A. Churchill, A. C. Dixon and Mrs. George T. Gerlinger. Four new schools were created out of nresent departments of the institution and the present heads of three of the departments were elevated to deanships. The new organizations are school 01 architecture, Ellis F. Lawrence, dean; school of journalism. Eric W. Allen, dean; school of university extension. Dr. Joseph Schafcr, dean: school of medicine. Dr. K. A. J. Mackenzie, being already a dean. The question of founding a school of optometry at the university, laid on the table by the regents at their former meeting, was reopened upon a new pe tition from the state organization of optometrists. The board agreed to take the matter under consideration before the new catalogue is Issued. Dentists Would Affiliate. A committee was also appointed to consider the petition of the North Pa cific School of Dentistry of Portland, which desires affiliation with the uni versity. Reports on these petitions will be heard at the June meeting of the regents. .The seven-year combined course in general subjects and in medicine, lead ing to the degrees of bachelor of arts and bachelor of medicine, recently au thorized by the faculty of the medical school in Portland and the general fac ulty in Eugene, was approved by the regents and becomes law. This ar rangement Is declared by President Campbell to be in accord with the strictest practice of the universities of highest standing in the East. I'alverslty Show Grovrth. The university is entering on a period of rapid growth, the president told the regents. The record-breaking fresh man class of last year Is. to be sur passed right along. Graduations this year will show an increase of 28 per cent over last year, according to pres ent indications. Superintendent of Public Instruction J. A. Churchill, Mrs. George T. Ger linger, of Dallas; Frederick V. Holman, Milton A. Miller, Ray Goodrich, W. K. Newell, A. C. Dixon, Charles H. Fisher, Judge J. W. Hamilton, who presided in the absence of Judge R. 8. Bean, and secretary of the board, L. H. Johnson, were at today's meeting. CHEHALIS COAL MINES BUSY Properties Worked to Capacity to Supply Kush Orders. CHEHALIS. Wash.. Jan. IS. (Spe cial.) Chehalis coal mines are being worked to capacity just now, owing to the ru.ah -of hurry-up orders from out- of-towu and the local demand for fuel. Carloads of fuel are being shipped from Chehalis to Portland, an extensive market having been opened up in that city for the ocal product which is rap idly growing in favor as a cheap fuel. Owners who have dry wood for sale also are doing a rushing business. EAGLE CREEK NATIVE DIES Isaac foster Passes Away on Home stead at Age of 67. EAGLE CREEK. Or., Jan. 18. (Spe cial.) Isaac Foster, 67, a native son, died at the home of his brother, Eg bert N. Foster, January 13, after a lin gering illness. He was born February 9. 1849, the son of Philip and Mary C. Foster, pioneers of 1843. Surviving are two sons, Burt and Edward. and brothers, George of Portland and Egbert of Eagle Creek, and one sister, Mary A. Young, of Condon. - Isaac Foster had passed nearly his entire life on the original homestead taken up by his father in 1843. 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