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TTTFI MOTINIXG OltfcGONIAN, 3IOXDAT, SEPTE3IBER 4, 1916.
WILSON SIGHS BILL
FOR EIGHT-HOUR DAY
Permanency of Peace Now Up
to Courts if Railroads De
cide to Test Law.
EVENT WITHOUT CEREMONY
Four Pens Are Used, One lor Eacli
Syllable ot Name Temporary
j Difficulties Slay 13e Met To
day in Remoter Sections.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. The Adam
son eight-hour-day bill, exacted from
Congress last week by the railroad
brotherhoods as the price of calling off
the-Nation-wide strike ordered for to
morrow, wan signed by President Wil
son today In his private car at the
Union Station, where he stopped on his
way from Shadow Lawn, N. J., to
Hodgenville, Ky.
That there may be no question of
the legality of the measure as a re
sut of its having been signed on Sun
day, the President will affix his sig
nature again on his return to Wash
ington next Tuesday.
Future Depends on Courts.
How long peace shall reign as a re
sult of the bill is dependent on develop
ments in the proposed test of the con
stitutionality of the act. Should the
railroads take no action, but await
the beginning of an investigation of
the workings of the eight-hour day
by the special commission for which
the measure provides, the brother
hoods will remain inactive.
The employes leaders declare, how
ever, that should the law be held un
constitutional and the railroads at
tempt to restore the 10-hour day on
their lines a strike will follow
promptly.
Pen fsed for Each Syllable.
None of the brotherhood leaders wit
nessed the signing of the bill. They
had expected, according to tentative
arrangements made by Secretary Wil
son last nisht. to be present, but the
President decided to attend to the bus!
ness at the railroad station. The four
pens used by the President in signing
the bill one for each syllable of his
name will be presented to the four
brotherhood heads, A. B. Garretson. W.
G. Lee, W. S. Carter and W. S. Stone,
after being used for re-signing the bill
on Tuesday.
No ceremony attended the signing
today. Rudolph Forester, assistant
secretary to the President, took the
bill to the train. Near the car a group
of trainmen in their overalls paused
in their work long enough to watch
the President write his name.
Engineer Celebrates With Whistle.
An engineer, passing on a yard en
gine, celebrated the occasion with sev
eral prolonged blasts of his whistle.
The President also signed several
commissions and executive papers and
sent Secretary Tumulty to Majority
Leader Kern, of the Senate, to urge
passage of the Webb bill, passed yes
terday by the House, designed to per
mit American firms to utilize common
selling agencies abroad without violat
ing the Sherman anti-trust law.
Later the private car ' was attached
to a special train bound for Hodgen
ville to participate in the exercises in
cident to the transfer of the log cabin
In which Abraham Lincoln was born
to the Federal Government tomorrow,
at which time the President will make
an address.
Strike First Set for August 20.
It developed today that the brother
hoods, before summoned to Washington
by President Wilson, had agreed to
call a strike effective August 20. The
orders then drafted were used when
the strike finally was set for Labor
day. The strike date, September 4,
was filled In with a rubber stamp, but
the original date of the call, August
14, was not changed.
Hundreds of telegrams came to the
brotherhood leaders today. Most of
them were congratulatory. One or two
were from locals who had received no
notice that the strike was off, so to
morrow in some few far-away sections
of "the country there may be temporary
difficulties. Efforts were being made
tonight to communicate with all of
these points.
A circular letter, drafted by W. G.
Lee and giving the complete details of
negotiations since August 1, as well as
a copy of the Adamson bill, was being
mailed to ail members of the brother
hood tonight. After completing this
work Mr. Lee left for his home in
Cleveland. The other three brother-1 has already been presented' to the In
hood heads will leave either tomorrow terior Department signed by hundreds
or Tuesday,
Protesting; Conductors Leave.
Railroad executives called here
the President left yesterday.
by
Among those who departed from
Washington early today was a delega
tion of the Order of Railway Conduc
tors from the Northwest who came
here yesterday to protest to Mr. Gar
retson against a strike. They arrived
about the time the Senate was in the
last stages of passing the bill which
will give them 10 hours' pay for eight
hours' work and called on Mr. Garret
son. He declined today to discuss the
conference.
CONGRESS TO AMEND LAW
(Continued From First Pare.)
tion that ultimately will be placed be
fore the President for approval.
Nor is the fact lost sight of that
President Wilson. If re-elected, will not
be as disposed to consider the labor
vote as he naturally was throughout
the strike negotiations, just concluded
through the action of Congress. There
fore organized labor must watch every
move which will be made during three
months of the coming session. If any
measures pass the House which it feels
are harmful to Its Interests, then it
must depend upon its friends in the
Senate to inaugurate and keep up a
filibuster In order to prevent a vote.
Underwood Amendment Has Chance,
It Is not at all Improbable that the
next session will witness the enact
ment of the Underwood amendment
empowering the Interstate Commerce
Commission to fix hours and wages. It
would have been adopted by the Senate
had not the brotherhood chairmen
erred notice that any change in the
Adamson bill would cause the strike to
begin. Because of this ultimatum the
Underwood plan was rejected, but after
the elections it will be again taken up
and It will have an excellent chance
of passage by the Senate and probably
by the House.
Congress feels also that conditions
will compel it to provide some relief
for the railroads. The eight-hour law
will have been in operation practically
a year before it is officially known
whether the Commission believes the
railroads are entitled to an Increase in
any rates to meet the additional cost
shown.
The railroads have estimated and
their estimate Is declared by them to
be aocurats in every respect that the
cost of the eight-hour day under the
law Just approved will be upward of
$40,000,000. If the railroads do what
their advisers are urging them to do
and establish an eight-hour day of
service, which 'Will mean a reorganiza
tion of schedules all over the country,
the cost will be at least $100,000,000. If
the eight-hour day should be extended
to all employes the added cost will be
In the neighborhood of 9270.000.000. It
is asserted that the result of even the
added burden of the limited eight-hour
day to the railroad finances will be
to drive some of them into the hands
of receivers and, in any case, to wipe
out the surpluses of several.
The appropriation of $25,000 to pay
the expenses of the commission is piti
fully small. The cost of the coinmi-
sion s investigation will be at leut !
$50,000, which means that Congress will
have to make an additional appropria
tion. Experts ta Analyze Payrolls.
The commission will organize a corps
of expert assistants and assign them
to certain roads of different types. The
roads will give the experts access to
their payrolls of the past and those
which apply to the eight-hour day.
Therefore no difficulty will be experi
enced in ascertaining the exact differ
ence in cost of operation under tho old
and new conditions.
Politicians here are watching closely
for results of the President's strike
policy. The Republicans feel they have
made an issue against Mr. Wilson by
the practically united action of Re
publican Senators tn voting against
the Adamson bill. They hold they have
appealed to the small investor, who
will be alarmed at the way Congress,
at the instance of the President, delib
erately increased wages and thereby
reduced the dividend-producing power
of railroads without immediately pro
viding for an increase in revenues. They
hope that there will b a revival of the
view held by the majority of the voters
in 1896, when William Jennings Bryan,
then Democratic candidate for the
Presidency, advocated issues which
alarmed those with savings.
The Republicans are not afraid that
labor will give united support to Wil
son. Mr. Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, took up
the cudgel against Mr. Taft in 1908 and
Mr. Taft was elected.
WAR RELIEF PROPOSED
WORK TO DB RESUMED MAKING
SUPPLIES FOR HOSPITALS.
Money ana. Workers Needed, So Appeal
Is Made by Committee for
Aid During Winter. -
The war relief committee will be
gin its Winter's work tomorrow morn
ing at 9 o'clock in the Spalding build
ing. New workers and more funds
are needed. The materials nsed are
donated and the whole cause is sup
ported by voluntary gifts from 10 cents
up. The committee has especially re
quested that old subscribers who helped
to start the organization assist during
this Winter's work.
The supplies, which consist chiefly
of gauze, cotton, flannel and wool, are
bought locally.
The society is an outgrowth of the
labors of a small body of enthusiastic
workers who gathered about Mrs. Scad-
ding, widow of the late Episcopal
bishop of Oregon, and were the first in
Portland to provide regular supplies
for the wounded of the allied armies.
The war relief officers for the year
re: President, Mrs. W. J. Burns; vice-
president, Mrs. t;. T. Stevens; secre
tary, Mrs. Frank E. Hart; treasurer,
Mrs. Harry Sherwood. Any of the above
committee will receive subscriptions.
All women who are Interested in help
ing the cause may meet with the com
mittee on Tuesday, Wednesday or
Thursday morning from 9 until 12
O'ClOCiC.
LAND PETITION SIGNED
OPENING OF CRANE PIlAmiB
ASKED OF GOVERNMENT.
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Contention Is That Land Is TJnsnltablo
for Reservoir, for Which It
Has Been Withdrawn.
BEND, Or., Sept. 3. (Special.) In an
effort to have Crane Prairie, at the
head waters of the Deschutes River,
thrown open to homestead ent.y. S. S.
Mohler, of Portland, spent several days
of last week here obtaining signatures
to a petition to be presented to the
Interior Department, Mr. Mohler ex
hibited petitions here already signed
by several hundred prominent men In
Portland and Oregon City.
Crane Prairie has been used as a
grazing ground for stockmen, under
permit from the Forest Service. It is
also included in withdrawals made on
recommendation of the Reclamation
Service as a possible reservoir site In
connection with irrigation development
in Crook and Jefferson counties.
According to Mr. Mohler. a petition
of names, setting forth that the prairie
is unsulted to reservoir purposes and
that its retention for that purpose is
merely a blind to preserve it for stock
grazing for the benefit of officers of
the Central Oregon Irrigation Com
pany and the Pilot Butte Ranch Com
pany. Secretary of State Olcott is in
terested in the Pilot Butte Ranch Com
pany. ALLIES TAKE VILLAGES
WHOLE OK Gl'ILLEMONT, PART OF
GINCHT, CAPTURED.
Three Thousand German Prisoners Re
ported a Result of Resumption
of Bla- Drive In West.
PARIS. Sept. 3. The villages of For
est and Clery-sur-Somme and all the
German positions between the two
points have been captured by the
French and British in a joint attack
after Intense artillery preparation.
More than 2000 prisoners, as well as 12
cannon and 60 machine guns, were
taken.
The official statement issued by the
War Office tonight, making this an
nouncement, also reported progress for
the French troops in the neighborhood
of Fleury, with the capture of 300
prisoners.
LONDON, Sept. 4. The British with
the co-operation of the French on their
right wing, succeeded Sunday in cap
turing part of the village of Ginchy and
the whole of Guillemont. according to
the official statement issued from gen
eral headquarters late last night. They
gained ground also east of the Moquet
farm and captured 700 prisoners.
Bank Board at Spokane.
SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 3. Commis
sioners George W. Norris, Herbert
Quick, Captain W. S. A. Smith and C. E.
Lobdell, members of the Federal Land
Bank Board, arrived here tonight from
Helena, Mont, and will conduct a, hear,
ing tomorrow in Spokane.
To newspaper men Commissioner
Norris said that in the 6000 miles the
board had traveled he had found that
the farmers in Ht least 13 states were
ready and even anxious to avail them
selves of the provisions of the land, loan,
act. ,
INDUSTRY IS AWAKE
Disposition Shown to Heed
Labor's Demand for Safety.
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tabor Federation Secretary Says
Acceptance of Position on
Immigration Restriction
Is Also Observable.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 2. Frank Mor
rison, secretary of the American Fed
eration of Labor, made public tonight
the following statement in review of
the labor situation:
"It is impossible to record funda
mental gains during the past year be
cause of organized labor's agitation or
to individualize probable gains during
the year to come. The best we can
do is to observe tendencies. Prominent
among these is the workers' seizure of
the cry for 'preparednes' to emphasize
a danger in industry more deadly than
battlefields.
"Government statistics show that 30,-
000 men are annually killed and 700.000
are annually injured for a period of
four weeks or over.
"It has been said that every year
there are more than 3.000,000 cases of
industrial illness, caused mainly by
long hours, low wages, dust, bad air.
fumes, smoke, poisonings and poor ven
tilation, and that through typhoid fever
and malaria alone $900,000,000 is an
nually lost to this nation enough to
equip the largest army and navy in the
world, and then have a balance suffi
cient to pay the tuition of every boy
now in college.
Waste Mast Be Prevented.
"A system of National preparedness
that does pot include recognition of this
frightful and preventable wastage is
the preparedness urged by big business.
A morality that ignores these facta, and
condemns war is based on meaningless
phrases.
"Another present-day tendency is the
acceptance of organized labor's position
on immigration restriction. During the
past year the acid test of experience has
verified the claim of trade unions that
American institutions can not assimi
late, norAmerican living standards re
sist, the flood tides of induced immi
gration that has been the policy of
captains of industry. Information and
reports received by officers of the
American Federation of Labor clearly
demonstrate the fact that a 'labor
famine" exists only where employers
still demand long hours at low wages,
and where they Ignore the living stand
ards set by the workers. Another ele
ment among employers opposes restric
tion of Immigration because restriction
will defeat their policy of having two
or more men for every job.
Opposition to Injunction Grows.
"Another tendency is the growing op
position to labor Injunctions which class
labor power as property. The Congress
of the United States has voiced this
opposition in 'amendments to the anti
trust laws. Judicial interpretations of
the term property in the 14th amend
ment to the Federal Constitution are
losing their force. What was originally
intended to end slavery has been used
to thwart the enactment of social legis
lation, bnt courts have failed to check
the swelling tide of democracy.
"The trade-union movement Is con
scious of the part it has. played in. the
tendencies above referred to. and this
consciousness will be an Inspiration to
greater effort during the coming year.
TREMOR IS THOUGHT QUAKE
Pprtland Heights Residents Report
Slight Shock.
A California visitor In the nature of
a slight earth tremor hove into Port
land Saturday afternoon at 3:20 o'clock,
according to well-frightened residents
of Portland Heights.
The tremor was felt by residents at
648 Montgomery drive and at 707 Homer
avenue, according to reports made yes
terday. "I lived in California when the quake
hit there," said an agitated telephone
voice yesterday, "and I am sure the dis
turbance Saturday afternoon was a
slight earth tremor. Dishes rattled in
our house and it shook for a short
time. Several of our neighbors "re
ported to us they felt the same tremor.
It was exactly at 3:20 o'clock."
So far as could be learned, the usual
source of earthquake in Portland
blasting could not be located yester
day. .
CASEMENT MASS IS HELD
Irish Sympathizers Weep at Memo
ries of Troubles in Erin.
Solemn high requiem mass was cele
brated at the Catholic Church of the
Blessed Sacrament yesterday morning
for the repose of the soul of Sir Roger
Casement. Rev. Father H. S. Galla
gher, state chaplain of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians, under whose aus
pices the mass was held, presided at
the service. There were in attendance
many Irish societies and Irish people
irom Portland and about.
Father Gallagher gave a brief review
of the life of Sir Roger Casement, who
was executed for complicity In the re
cent Irish rebellion. As he spoke ot
the struggle of the Irish patriots, many
men and women who had lived in Ire
land during times of trouble, wept at
the memory of the dangers and labors
of their kin folks. ,
JAPANESE HOME ROBBED
Kitchen Door Found Open in Morn
ing and Goods Scattered.
Mrs. S. I. Wasaki, of 113 Second
street, awoke yesterday morning to dis
cover that the kitchen door was open.
As she went to close It she found the
contents of bureaus and closets scat
tered about the floors. Thieves had
stolen the jewelry and cash of Mr. and
Mrs. Wasaki and their boarder, J.
OsumL
Among- the missing articles are three
watches, two watch chains, two lockets,
a diamond ring, inscribed with Japa
nese characters; a black leather money
sack of the Northwestern Bank, con
taining $14 In cash, and a Japanese
card case containing notes and per
sonajl papers.
STREETCAR CREW STONED
Angry Mob Attacks Motorman
After Child Is Killed.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 3. A crowd of more
than 100 persons hurled stones
through the windows and attempted
to injure the motorman of a street
car which ran over and killed two
year-old Benjamin Segan tonight.
- The police interfered and saved the
streetcar crew.
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SECRET EVIAPS FOUND
German Accused of Holding
Stolen Coast Guard Plans.
PRISONER NOBLE, HE SAYS
Federal Agents Recover Eight Maps
Which Contain Information About
Waters of Aleutian Islands.
Desertion Is Admitted.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3. Tho theft of
secret military maps of the United
States was said to have been dis
closed tonight when Federal agrents
who recovered them accused Herbert
Sauer, In Jail here, of stealing them
from coast guard officers. The maps
were recovered in a rooming-house
in Baltimore, where Sauer lived.
Sauer, who says he is the son of a
Westphalian nobleman, was arrested
here a few days ago In connection
with the mysterious death of Mrs.
Caroline Tiarks. 73 years of age. He
formerly was in the employ of Mrs.
Tiarks and told the police that the
aged woman died suddenly when she
thought he was about to rob her of
a watch.
Federal agents asserted that eight
maps containing military information
about the waters around the Aleutian
Islands were found In Baltimore.
Mystery surrounded their disappear,
ance though Sauer admitted he de
serted from the Coast Guard. A Coast
Guard code book, stolen at the time
the maps disappeared from the Cutter
Apacne, was aiso ioudq in i uuiijius
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FRANCISCO MADERO DEAD
Father of Assassinated President of
Mexico Passes In New York.
NEW YORK, Sept. S. Francisco Ma
dero, father of the late President Ma
dero of Mexico, was found dead in bed
here toda,y from heart disease. He
was 67 years old.
Mr. Madero fled to this oUy after the
assassination of his two sons, Fran
cisco, Jr., then president of Mexico,
and Gustavo, who bad been financial
agent for the revolutionists.
The family estates, said to have been
valued at $6,000,000, Including large
holdings of land in Northern Mexico',
were confiscated by the Huerta gov
ernment, but three weeks ago the Car
ranza government Informed Mr. Madero
that his property would be restored to
him. Julio Madero, a son, is in Mexico
arranging with the authorities there
tor the transfer of the estate.
DR. FIKES CL0SES WORK
Pastor Says Farewell at White Tem
ple for Awhile.
Dr. Maurice Penfield Kikes, who has
been filling the pulpit of the White
Temple for the past six Sundays, closed
his work here for a time with his ser
mon last night. "Twenty Thousand
Chariots." He will go East, but will
return November 1 and will then oc
cupy the pulpit of the White Temple
for six months.
In a message to the members of the
White Temple congregation yesterday
he said, in part:
"As the time draws near for me to
say farewell I feel the tugging of the
heartstrings. A stay of six Sundays
with suoh a host Is sufficient to make
a strong tie of ' mutual interest.
"I shall count the days until I re
turn, God ho with, you, on And all,"
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POLICY TO BE DECIOEO
DELEGATES ASSEMBLING FOR STJF
FRAGD CONVENTION.
Queatloa Whether Both State and Fed.
era! Campatsm Shall Be Supported
la Still Ofcbu
ATLANTIC CITT. N. J., Sept. S. The
question whether the National Woman's
Suffrage Association shall limit Itself
to working tor either National or state
legislation, or shall continue its pres
ent policy of supporting both state and
National campaigns is among the most
important of the subjects to be dis
cussed at the convention of the associa
tion which will open here Wednesday.
Many delegates and officers of the
organization are already here and
every state In the Union will be rep
resented by delegates and alternates
when the convention is called to order.
Other important work which will
come before the convention will be
the election of officers and plan for
pre-election work in the different
states. With the recent resignations
of Mrs. Frank M. Roessing from the
Congressional committee of the Na
tional association and of Miss Hannah
J. Patterson from the organization com
mittee in New York, the convention
will be under the necessity of nomi
nating officers for these positions.
CITY CANNOT GET SAND
Tillamook Charges Car Shortage
With Delay in Street Work.
SAU:M. Or.. Sept. S. (Special.)
That street Improvement work in the
city of Tillamook is being delayed by
the failure of the Southern Pacific to
transport sand la the suDStance of a
complaint received by the Oregon Puo
lic Service Commission. The Arenz
Construction Company needs 11 car
loads to complete its work, and it is
said the road will not ship this amount.
In reply to a request for information
from the Commission the Southern Pa
cific denle that It had refused to. M
tro
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vista
the sand, pointing out that a total of
13 carloads had been shipped the past
week.
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