TITE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAX, 3IOXDAT, JANUARY 8, 1917. INQUIRY INTO LEAK LEADS IN INTEREST FAMOUS FINANCIER AS HE APPEARED IN WASHINGTON ON LEAK-PROBE MISSION. . Lawson, Lansing and Tumulty Expected to Appear Before Committee Today. CONGRESS' WORK CUT OUT gfSViEN. Hi. Muter-. Voice." It to oo XNX!! f fV? -fcTrf 1 ffi i frit a Sur 'Si iBi l3! wvery Victrola and every Victor S,S?'. C flT3e 1 1- jUfa .ZZ o Ar! SXjira'r, Record. It is the only way to tf1'! -ITAT.v? i lr.jnjBSJ' ' Identic iulne Victrola. aaa $ i iVrS- 1 -I'T-a'p ! ijocfS. - Vw Records. lry District of Columbia Bill to Be Disposed of by the Senate This Week; Revenue Problem May l'orce Extra Session. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 Congres sional Interest centers chiefly this week in the hearing: to be resumed tomor row by the House rules committee on the "Wood resolution for an Investiga tion Into the alleged "leak" to the stock market of advance information on President Wilson's peace note. Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston, who has been making: charges ever since the agitation of the subject began, ar rived in -Washington tonight in re sponse to a committee subpena to give testimony. Others who are to appear before the committee tomorrow are Secretary Lansing, Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to the President; Charles H. Sabin, president of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York; Bernard Baruch, Otto Kahn, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; Judge William M. K. Olcott, of New Tork, special counsel for Repre sentative Gardner, of Massachusetts, engaged to show the fluctuations of the stock market on the day before the note officially was made public, and Washington representatives qf the Wall Street Journal, Financial America and the Central N.ews Association. Dispatches Are Called For. Managers of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies' local branches also have been asked to pro duce dispatches filed by these news organizations bearing upon the subject of the peace note. While this inquiry attracts wide spread attention. Congressional leaders are not losing sight of the mass of legislative work that remains to be be done and the limited time In which to do it before March 4, if an extra session is to be avoided. Railroad leg islation earnestly desired by President Wilson Is in embryonic shape, hearings on the subject still being held by the Senate committee oij Interstate com merce and new bills having been sub mitted practically by Representative Adamson, chairman of the House In terstate and foreign commerce com mittee. The Senate Tuesday will dispose of the Sheppard bill to prohibit the man ufacture and sale of liquor In the Dis trict of Columbia. Drya Watching Measure. Prohibition organizations of the whole country are watching this measure with active interest and opposing an amendment by Senator Underwood, of Alabama, which would submit the ques tion to a referendum of the voters of the District of Columbia. The matter Is also to be passed upon by the House. Waiting Senate action also are the revised corrupt practices bill and con servatism legislation, particularly the mineral lands leasing bill. The Senate will vote Wednesday on the nomination of Winthrop M. Daniels to succeed himself on the Interstate Commerce Commission. Despite vigor ous opposition by Progressive-Republican Senators, Administration leaders believe that Daniels will be confirmed. Another interesting development of the week will be the conference agree ment on the immigration bill with the literacy test, which the President op poses, and the Asiatic exclusion section which has . given the Senate and State Department considerable concern. The conference committee expects to report Tuesday. Revenue Problem Vexations. The- Senate finance committee plans to give informal attention to the reve nue problem in the near future, while waiting for the ways and means com mittee and the House to take action. If any serious obstacles to revenue proposals are encountered, there are few members of Congress who believe a-special session can be avoided. Pending the return of Democratic Leader Kitchln from his home in North Carolina, where he was called by Ill ness, the House programme will remain indefinite. Consideration of the agrl cultural appropriation bill will be re sumed, and there are several other ap propriation measures, including one for fortifications, which may be taken up when It is finished. The Hughes voca tional education, bill, strongly urged by the President, also may be passed mis week. Spanish fishing fleets employ 80,000 men. f, : r : mff fl 7f?"' -mix R ' ' " ' - ' ' f i rl A - . -rj j fir "V X :H ill 4 f- - 'X X ! I ill - - " ; 4 - A f N i " ' I Mary 5 Pickford 5 in her latest success The Pride of the Clan" Columbia f Sixth at Washington a B n Photo Copyright by G. V. Buck. THOMAS W. LAWSON. Thomas W. Lawson. Boston financier and stock-market authority, was photographed in Washington, D. C. January 3, when he visited Chairman Henry, of the House rules committee, to tell what he knew about the "leaks" to Wall street of advance information concerning peace moves and other matters. This Is how he looked. ADAMSON FIGHT ON Drastic Railway Bill to Pushed to Conclusion. Be COURT CASE TO -BE-HEARD will express their opinion of the pro posed annexation of 13 square miles of territory in the Oswego district by Multnomah County at a mass meeting in the Commercial Club parlors tomor row night. The meeting was called by me Doara or governors or tne club and is in charge of O. D, Eby, C. Schuebet, B. T. McBain. W. P. Hawley. Sr.. and M". D. Latourette. Every interested property owner or voter in the county is Invited to at' tend. A remonstrance, protesting against me annexation scheme, will be circu lated and sent to the Legislature. G. F. Johnson is gathering figures from tne county records pertaining to the plan and a vigorous campaign Is be ing organized. HI ELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Onepacfcage proves it 25c at all druggists. Arguments on Constitutionality of Present Law to Be Begun To day Brotherhoods Not Rep resented Directly. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. Activity In the tangled controversy between the railroads and their employes will be resumed tomorrow In two different parts of the Capitol, where, six mont .i ago, the Adamson bill, designed to blaze the way to peace, was enacted into law. While attorneys In the Supreme Court are making their opening argu ments on the constitutionality of the Adamson act. Representative Adamson, father of the law, will begin a fight In the House for prompt passage of his new blanket railway bill, intended to cover every -phase of the situation, and win resume his efforts in behalf of continuing the life of the Newlands railway investigating committee. Bill Admitted to Be Drastic The new Adamson bin Introduced yesterday would provide an eight-hour day, make strikes illegal and permit the taking over of railway lines by the military on the orders of the President when public service demands such action. Drastic though the bill is admitted to be, Mr. Adamson expresses confi dence that it will be enacted into law. Save for the eight-hour-day provi sion, the measure is understood to have the approval of the President. "I ditfn't consult with either the em ployers or the employes regarding this bill," Representative Adamson said to day. "I took only the public interest into consideration. . "The railroads are trying to run up all the overtime they can to make the Adamson act look bad and the men are Insisting the measure was for the pur pose of fixing wages, which It was not. I think it Is time the public had & hand in the proceedings." Arguments In the Supreme Court will begin tomorrow afternoon, which will probably be concluded late Tuesday. The railroad brotherhoods will not be represented in the court proceed ings, but President Stone, of the en gineers' brotherhood, plans to be a spectator. The Department of Justice will defend the law. Solicitor-General Davis, according to present plans, will open the argument tomorrow. Counsel for the railroads contend in their brief that the Adamson act is un constitutional because it is essentially a wage-fixing measure and therefore violates the constitutional guarantee of freedom of contract. Class Legislation. Charged. The measure is declared to be "not a legislative expression of regulation necessary to promote commerce, but the creation of a. temporary experi mental status to determine whether regulation on such line will promote the public welfare or not; and this is at the expense of a particular class without provision for reimbursement and primarily for the benefit of the other class." The act also is attacked as void be- vause the section forbidding the reduc tion of employes wages below the pres ent standard pending the report of a commission, fails to specify the present wage standard, and because the penal ties are excessive. The brief says hours of employment actually will not be shortened until the law's operation. OSWEGO CHANGE OPPOSED Oregon City Plans Flgbt Against Annexation by Multnomah. OREGON CITY, cial.) Citisens of Or., Jan. 7. (Spe Clackamas. County 'IS LEFT PRETTIEST PHOXE GIRL ITT SAN FRA"CISCO SEEKS DIVORCE. Wealthy Manufacturer, as Wooer, Is Merely Salesman, and Ripped Her Clothes Off, Chai-Kes Wife. : SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 7 iSnm-laf.) When Miss Ethel C. Knapp, known as tne most Deautirui telephone girl in San Francisco." left her switchboard at the Stewart Hotel last February to marry Edward G Seignlous, she blush' ingly told her friends that she at last had found the "one man in a million." She filed suit for dlvorcS vesterdav. accusing Selgnious of cruelty, and say ing mat witnin lour months after their marriage he had. in a frenzy of Jealous anger, ripped all the clothes from her body. Mrs. Seignlous also asks the court to permit her to resume the name un der which she 'was known before her marriage. She asks no alimony. The filing of the divorce complaint Is not the first intimation her friend. have had of the shattering of the ro mance, ror, since last August, she has been back at the Stewart Hotel switch board. When she returned to work she denied that she was conttmnlstlm divorce. 7 Seignlous Is a salesman fer a Los Angeles manufacturing firm, but at the time of his marriage It was given out that he was a "wealthy manufacturer." "He Is far from wealthy," was her only comment when she returned to work. . . HISTORIANS WANT $24,280 Bndget Estimate) of State Society Is Ready for Legislature. 6ALEM. Or.. Jan. 7. (Special.) The Oregon Historical Society Is asking $24,280 from the next Legislature, as compared to an appropriation of J13.000 given two years ago. The total amount of expense for the society as estimated In the budget will be $26,800, but It is estimated $2500 will be received from receipts from interest on the Pope bequest and from membership fees and sales of publications. . Arrangements have been made for the removal of the valuable archives and records of the society, including the relics of Oregon pioneers, to the new City Auditorium now under con struction at Portland, the budget says. EXPENSE ESTIMATE IS CUT Exhibits of Oregon Products Ask Less Money, With 2 More Jobs. SALEM. Or.. Jan. 7. (Special.) Al though two more employes are asked for at the state exhibit of Oregon prod ucts, the estimate of cost for mafn tainlng the exhibit la . $1870 less than was appropriated two years ago. At that time $15,000 was received, and for the next two years $13,130 is asked. Under the estimate the exhibit agent will receive a salary of $3000, and he will have an assistant at $2500 with a Janitor at $950. The remainder of the money asked is for general main tenance and some betterments. City Hall Engineer in Wreck. An automobile driven by J. E. Pelton, of 781 Kelly street, an engineer at the CUT .Hall, struck, a truck parked at 18 Vlctot Cmmw SS . G alii-Cur ci the operatic sensation of the season on Victor Records only Rigoletto Caro nome (Dearest Name) Amelita. GalU-Curci Victor Red Seal Record 74499. Twelve-inch, $1.50 La Partida (The Departure) Amelita GaJli-Curci Victor Red Seal Record 74500. Twelve-inch, $1.50 The recent debut of Galli-Curci in Rigoletto with the Chicago Opera Company was the occasion of the most spon taneous outbursts of enthusiasm and applause which have been repeated with increasing fervor on her every appearance. Possessed of a wonderful voice of velvety softness and purity this new coloratura soprano established herself at once as a star of the first magnitude. It was to be expected that an artist with such accomplish ments would. choose to be identified with the illustrious com pany of famous artists who make records for the Victor exclusively. The two records now presented are so true to life that they are arousing the same unbounded enthusiasm among music-lovers everywhere as was accorded her actual performances on the operatic stage. You can have the pleasure of hearing these new Galli-Curci records at any Victor dealer's. He will gladly play any music you wish to hear and demonstrate the various styles of the Victor and Victrola $10 to $400. Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J. Important Notice. An Victor Talking Machine, are patented and are only HcmJ, and with rlcht of m with Victor Ucerda only. AU Victor Records are patented and are only UcmnmmJ, and with ricbt of oa oa Victor Talkinc Machines only, r Victor Record, and Victor Machines are scientifically coordinated and arnchronlMd by our special pro re.. of manufacture; and their uao, except with each other, U not only unauthorised, but damaging and unsatisfactory. . N.w Victor Record. denMaatratea' at all dealer oa the 2SU of sock taeaUi 574 Fourth street, last night. The car was badly damaged. The truck was owned by Henry Nudelman. Pelton said that it had no rear lights. GUARD COURT APPOINTED Roseburg Artillery Captain to En force Drill Attendance. ROSEBUKO. Or Jan, 7 (Special.) Resolved to maintain the standard of the Fourth Company. Coast Artillery, stationed here, in accordance with the provisions of the Federal law which went into effect January 1, Captain J. A. Buchanan today appointed a sum mary court by which members of the company who fail to conform to the regulations may subsequently be pun ished by fine or imprisonment. -' Lieutenant Russell Dunham has been appointed summary court officer by Captain Buchanan, and will hear ex cuses of the men for non-attendance at the weekly drills. Lieutenant Dun ham will Institute his court at once, FLAX CULTURE INTERESTS Russians In Saskatchewan took To ward Lane County. ETJGEHTS, Or, Jan. 7. (Special.) The flax experiment in Lane County has attracted the attention of Russians now residents of Saskatchewan, who formerly raised flax In Russia, accord ing to Mrs. W. F. Osburn. of the Osburn Hotel In Eugene. Several years ago a colony of these Russian immigrants located in Linn County. Alexis Blutoff and a number of others located near Eugene. Blutoff left a few days ago for Saskatchewan to discuss with other former members of the colony, plans for engaging In the flax-raising Industry in Lane County. House Built In 1855 to Go. EUGENE, Or., Jan. 1. (Special.) The old Larimer residence, one of the landmarks In Eugene, is to be torn down within the next few days. The house was built in 1855 by Rev. Xelson Clark, who organized the First Meth odist Church here. Rev. Mr. Clark died last week in California. OREGON ITEM IN BILL RIVERS AXD HARBORS MEASURE VIRTUALLY COMPLETED. Eighty Tboasand Dollar Allowed by House Committee to Carry em Work at Oregon City. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. The rivers and harbors appropriation bill, carry ing 129,000.000 for continuing projects already authorized and 110,000,000 as immediate appropriations for new projects whose total cost will approxi mate J50.000.000, virtually has been completed and will be reported to the House next week. ' The new projects approved in com mittee Include $500,000 for East River and Hell Gate, New York harbor, with authorization of an eventful expendi ture of 113,400. 000; and $600,000 as an immediate expenditure on a fl, 320,000 Improvement project designed tos re move the shoal In the Hudson in upper New Tork City, over which there now is only 22 feet of water, though the city is building there a series of piers to accommodate ocean liners. Several other New Tork Items may be added by the committee later. Other Items are: Richmond Harbor, California. $100, 000, total $428,000; Napa River, Califor nia. $20,000. total $43,000; Crescent City Harbor, California. $200,000. total $390. 000; falls of the Willamette at Oregon City. Or.. $80,000 complete. Egg Labels Favored. ABERDEEN, Wash., Jan. 7. (Spe. claL) Members of the Grays Harbor Poultry Association favor the passage of a law by the next Legislature which will require that all eggs placed In cold storage must be labeled C S." meaning cold storage. These letters would have to be in fairly large type. The Harbor pouitrymen also favor the creation of the office of poultry com missioner, the duties of which office would be to Inspect poultry and see that all poultry laws are enforced. ting the major portion to his brothers and sisters as follows: Mrs. Rachael Marshall, Sycamore. 111.: Whipple, Genoa. I1L: Mrs. Mary Wright. Woodward, la.; Mrs. Jennie Barlow, Woodward. Ta.; Tsaiah Siglln, Dunlap, la.; Michael Slglln, Woodward. Ia. A local bequest of $500 was assigned tT Mrs. EllafSlrs. I. Lando and $1000 was left for Loren Olmstead, of Genoa, 111., but Mr. Olmstead had died and his portion re verts to the brothers and sifters. llBtJ vis n mm i i i Warmth r or m itg'tfSP.t l.? $50,000 Estate Divided. MARSHFIELD. for.. Jan. 7. (Spe cial.) The will of the late Z. T. Siglln disposes of an estate of $50,000, allot- renection Oil neater Ready and glowing at the touch of a match giving a cheery, odorless warmth. Burns PEARL OIL, the clean, cheap fueL In blue or white enamel or plain black harmoniz ing with the finest surroundings. Dealers everywhere. ) Prices: $3.75 to $7.75 STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) r.