Morning Oregonian., February 26, 1917, Page 4, Image 4

THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAJT,
3IOXDAY, FEBKUAKY 2G, 1017.
MR. WEST QUITS AS
GRANT LAND AGENT
Ex-Governor Declares Legis
lative Action to Get Tax
ation Is Foolish.
GOVERNMENT VIEWS GIVEN
Classification Said to Be Half Done,
but Complication and Possible
Loss to Settlers Is Predicted
' If Law Is K n acted -
Oswald West has resigned as agent
' for the Federal Government In the
adjudication 'of taxes on the Oregon &
California grant lands.
The ex-Governor says he was Just
about through with the work, anyway,
but that "the Legislative monkey
wrench." as he termed it, thrown into
the machinery In the shape of the Bean
bill, which authorizes the County As
sessors to restore the lands to the tax
rolls, makes it impossible for him to
continue In any event..
"This Bean bill. If It is approved by
the people at the special election in
June, merely will complicate matters
and make a lot more trouble," he said,
yesterday, in discussing his resigna
tion,, which he had Just forwarded by
mail to the public lands department in
Washington.
"We have Just about finished our
apportionment of the taxes for the
years 1913, 1914 and 1915 and every
thing was going along smoothly until
the Legislature took a hand. That
stirred things up again, and I have
too much other business to wait until
they get the situation straightened
out."
Mr. West was appointed to the post
last September. He has been on the
job ever since at a salary of about
$4500 a year.
Taxes for 1816 to Be Denied.
He was appointed under the terms of
the Chamberlain-Ferris bill, which ap
propriated money to pay the back taxes
on the property pending final settle
ment of the controversy between the
Federal Government and the Southern
Pacific over their ownership. When the
case first was decided in favor of the
Government, the Southern Pacific
stopped paying taxes. It has paid
nothing since 1912. The Chamberlain
Ferris bill authorized the Federal
agents to pay the taxes for the suc
ceeding three years to the individual
counties and to collect from the South
ern Pacific afterwards. Mr. West was
retained to determine how much money
was due each county and to requisition
the Government for Its payment. Since
1916. when the Government took over
the title to the property, no taxes are
to be allowed.
Meanwhile, the lands have been class
ified and made rady for entry. The
Government proposes to open them for
settlement and to pay the Southern Pa
cific at the rate of $2.50 an acre, which
is the price at which they were to be
sold under terms of the original grant.
"About half of the lands already have
been classified and will be open for
settlers this year," said Mr. West.
Complications Are Foreseen.
"Now along comes the Legislature
and tells the County Assessors to assess
them. Well, the Government has title
to the property and the Government
doesn't pay taxes, as everyone knows.
"Then what will happen? If the
Assessors assess the land and no one
pays the taxes, it will become delin
quent. "In the meantime some poor settler
will enter on it in good faith. At the
same time some speculator will come
along and buy the delinquent tax cer
tificate. The poor settler will be up
against it. He'll have to fight with the
holder of the tax certificate to hold
his property. The average settler is
in poor shape to do that."
So far as the Government is con
cerned, says the ex-Governor, it will
scorn any attempt of the state to col
lect taxes under the Bean bill or under
any other bill.
The Bean bill, which authorizes the
Assessors to place the lands on the tax
rolls, was referred to the people by the
Legislature which passed the bill and
will be voted upon at the special elec
tion, June 4.
Ex-Governor West Jocosely evaded
the issue when it was suggested that
his resignation was perhaps for the
purpose of clearing the decks for his
reported campaign for the Democratio
nomination for the United States Sen-atorship.
TOBACCO TO BE GROWN
Farmers In Woodburn District De
cide to Make Experiment.
WOODBURN. Or., Feb. 25. (Spe
cial.) E. A. Becker, who has been suc
cessful in growing tobacco on his farm
east of Woodburn for several years,
addressed a meeting nere today, hav
ing for its purpose the encouragement
of the tobacco-growing industry in
this section.
Some of those present expressed their
intention of planting small tracts this
year. Mr. Becker advised them to not
go over a quarter of an acre each until
they become thoroughly experienced in
raising and drying the product, for
wntcn mere is a gooa marRet.
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MARK A LEXAXDER, AN AMERICAN, WHO WAS WITHIN SHORT STRIDES
OF DEATH DURING A BATTLE AT THIS DARDANELLES.
Alexander was fighting In a trench with six other men, and was Just
ready to hurl a trench-bomb which he had fixed so as to be ready for
explosion when a bullet from the Turks hit his hand, causing the bomb to
explode. He lost both his hands and his left eye, and his clothes were
stripped from his body by the explosion.
He is 30 years old and left for England in 1915. He was in a hospital
11 months recovering from his wounds. Alexander has been decorated with
a medal of Honor by King George and has also been recommended for the
Victoria Cross.
BOARD HAS MUDDLE
Two School Directors to Go
Out Before Convention.
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members shall expire this year, two
next year, and one the year following
and so on indefinitely, unless some fu
ture Legislature takes the notion to
change the situation again.
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Election. Comes In June and Mr.
I'lummer Is Faced With Neces
sity of Campaigning Before
Educators Meet Here.
Complications not to say embarrass
ments threaten the members or tne
Portland School Board between now
and the convention of the National
Education Association next July.
The terms of two directors expire
before the convention and one other
director has resigned, leaving only two
members of the present board who are
sure to be in office at the time.
It is possible, however, that a way
may be found out of th difficulty, at
least so far as O. M. Plummer, one of
the directors, who faces an expiring
term, is concerned. The situation is
particularly interesting from his point
of view, inasmuch as he is president
of the directors' department of the Na
tional Education Association. It was
largely through his efforts that Port
land got the convention in the first
place.
But the recent Legislature, in Its
wisdom andv- prompted by a group of
busy little lobbyists, reduced the terms
of the directors from five years to
three years without reducing the
membership of the Board.
Lin Effective May 20. '
That law will be effective on May
20. A month later the annual school
election takes place. In the natural
course of events the five-year term of
J. V. Beach is due to expire. The new
law also throws Mr. Plummer out of
office.
Another vacancy .. already exists
through the recent resignation of S. B.
Lockwood. It is probable that Director
Plummer will want to succeed himself.
Mr. Beach doesn't stand committed on
the subject, but he has expressed some
intention. In the past, or retiring.
Some of Mr. Plummer's friends think
it would be embarrassing for him to
go through a campaign lor re-election
dust prior to the big convention in
which he is to take such a prominent
part.
Re-appolntment Is Susgested.
So the suggestion has gone forth that
he should resign his present term; then
the three remaining members of the
Board could appoint him to succeed Mr,
Lockwood, which would carry him over
another year and through the National
Education Association convention.
That would give the people a chance
to elect two new members, or Mr.
Beach and one new member, at the
regular June election.
Next year,- then, the terms of Mr.
Plummer should he be appointed to
fill the Lockwood . vacancy -and Dr.
Alan Welch Smith would expire. Dr.
J. F. Drake, the fifth member, will
PETR0GRAD RI0TS FEARED
Military Official Appeals to Patriot
ism of Workmen.
PETROGRAD. via London. Feb. 25.
In an open letter to the newspapers.
Professor Paul N. Milukolf protests
against the false use of his name by
an agitator who has been seeking to
Incite factory workmen to participate
in a demonstration before the Duma at
its opening next Tuesday. Such in-
citation. Professor Milukoff declares.
emanates from the "dark forces of the
enemies of Russia." "
In view of the rumors of the possi
bility of a demonstration, the com
mander of the Petrograd military dis
trict has caused Tiotlces to be posted
appealing to the patriotism of the
workmen and warning those failing to
need tne notice.
CONGRESS UNLIKELY
TO G0HPLE1FTASK
Agreement on Emergency Rev
enue Bill Only Partly Re
lieves Situation.
BUILDING BILL IS DEAD
Flood Control,- Railroad Labor Leg
islation, Corrupt Practices Act
and Conservation Have Al
most No Chance.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. With the
appropriation filibuster In the Senate
against revenue legislation broken late
last night, after one of the most tem
pestuous sessions of recent years, the
Sixty-fourth Congress' -tomorrow will
enter on the last week of its official
existence etill facing extraordinary
legislative congestion.
Republican leaders who had threat
ened to defeat the emergency revenue
bill by dilatory tactics agreed to a
final vote on the measure next
Wednesday night when confronted
with the Democratio determination to
hold the Senate in continuous session.
Danger of further efforts to force an
extra session has not disappeared, how
ever, for some of the minority insist
that the Preefdent should be forced
to summon the Sixty-fifth Congress to
be on hand for eventualities in the
European crisis.
SItuatloa Mar Be Cleared.
When the Republicans made peace
with the majority over the $400,000,000
revenue bond bill and agreed that ap
propriation measures might be con
sidered by unanimous consent between
now and Wednesday night, some min
ority leaders frankly confessed to the
Deiier tnat the action wouia avoia
necessity for an extra session. Among
Senators who held this view with Sena
tor Smoot, acting minority lead
er, Senators' Lodge and Borah and
others would not concede this, although
they admitted that circumstances
might develop In the course of the
week which would clear the situation
materially.
Administration leaders. notwith
standing the possibility of further ob
structive tactics, interfering with the
Army and Navy appropriation measures
and the sundry civil appropriation bill.
were Jubilant today over the breaking
of the revenue filibuster and expressed
conviction that all differences yet to
arise may be ironed out in the closing
hours of the session.
Wilson's Derision Not Known.
Whether President Wilson will go
before Congress before adjournment to
discuss the relations between the Unit
ed States and Germany the Democratio
leaders In both houses frankly admit
the do not know. Many of them ex
pect that he will, but do not profess
to know what he will ask.
That nearly all pending legislation
so long urged by the President must
fall at this session now is practically
conceded by everyone. If the revenue.
Army and Navy, sundry civil and minor
appropriation measures still pending
get through, that is all that the most
sanguine Democrats expect. Substitu
tion of a lump appropriation for the
rivers and harbors bill Is almost con
ceded.
The publio buildings bill is generally
admitted to be dead. The flood con
trol bill probably will be talked to
death tomorrow in the five-hours al
lot rd to it.
Railroad labor legislation, the cor
rupt practices and conservation bills
all have practically no chance even for
consideration.
Other Bills la Donfct.
There is doubt also that the bills
amending the Federal reserve law and
the shipping board act. extending the
powers of the shaping board for
emergency purposes, will be passed.
In view of the prooable failure of all
these Important measures, there are
Borne Democratic Senators who cling' to
a persistently expressed belief that the
65th Congress will be summoned In ex
traordinary session, no matter what de
velops witfl relation to Germany. But
with no word from the White House
on this, phase of the situation, discus
sion of future possibilities is entirely
speculative.
JAPANESE TO AID MEXICO
Cartridge Machinery Bought in Ori
ent and 2 00 Experts Arrive. ;
MEXICO CITT, Feb. 25 The cartridge-making
machinery bought from
JapXn has been unloaded at Manzanillo
from the steamer Kotchlro Maru and
will soon ba put in operation. Two
hundred Japanese experts accompanied
the shipments. It is hoped by the Gov
ernment that this machinery will make
Mexico independent of other countries
for ammunition.
It is understood the machinery was
boughtHhrough efforts of Major Carplo
of General Obregon's staff, who went
to Japan some months ago. It is b
lleved that the Government shortly
will purchase machinery for the manu
facture of artillery ammunition.
IDAHO SNOWSLIDE KILLS
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train, this arriving at the latter place
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dead were left at the mine temporarily.
The disaster is the worst in the his
tory of Wood River mining. Of the
men killed Fleming. Lauarge and Rus
sell leave families living at Hailey
Vaughn, Klstle, McKelvey, Schmidt and
Welch are Hailey men. Manglno was
timekeeper at the mine.
A fall of ty feet of snow during
the past three days, followed by rain,
has resulted in numerous slides in the
North Star district, many in places
where they never were known to oc
cur before. Two small slides have oc
curred on the property of the Silver
Ledge mine, adjoining the North Star,
but no serious damage resulted.
At th- time of the accident the Fed
eral Mining & Smelting Company had
60 men employed at the mine and 115
at work at the mill, two miles below,
The officials have announced that be
cause of dangerous conditions prevail
ing they will close the mine for the
remainder of the Winter.
The rooms of the Hailey Commercial
Club have been made into a temporary
hospital, but the more seriously in
jured men will protrably be brought
to Boise Monday
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PLANS ARE HELD UP
Rose Festival to Have
Board of Directors.
New
JULY DATE IS SUGGESTED
PEACE IS BELIEVED SURE
ELIMINATION OF" WAR FORECAST
BY DR. JORDAN.
Favored Idea Is to Hold Affair at
That Time, as National Educa
tion Convention Will Draw
Big Crowd ' Here.
The Rose Festival will be neld this
year as In previous years, but the de
tails of the plan for holding It remain
still to be settled, and "hey will not
be determined until after the new board
of directors has been named.
A meeting: of the clubs affiliated In
the Rose Festival Auxiliary will be
held Friday night at 8 o'clock at the
Chamber of Commerce to nominate
new board, and immediately aTter
the election of the board the method
of holding; the Festival v ill be settled
upon.
The plan that appears to be In high
est favor at the present time is to
hold it in connection with the National
Kducation Association convention, in
July, at which time tnere will be a
bigger number of people from all parts
of the country In Portland than could
be gathered for the Festival if it were
he'd at the usual time in June.
Although suggestions have been
made that funds might be borrowed
for the financipg of the Festival on
the strength of the levy that has been
assured for 1918 by the Rose Festival
bill recently passed by the Legislature,
the general sentiment seems to be
against infringing upon the funds that
will be normally available for the 1918
Festival.
It is almost certain that the enter
tainment this 'year will be given on
funds raised by subscription, so that
the fund that will be available Irom
taxation in the year following may not
be impairtd. '
PRESIDENT TO GET POWER
(Continued From First Page.)
Force of Anas Mnst Be Kept Far Froz
Relations Between Nations,
Declares Pacificist.
. "Germany learned through the 30
years' war the truth of Luther's decla
ration that the force of arms should
be kept ever far from the questions of
the gospel." said Dr. David Starr Jor
dan, in his address at the White Temple
last night.
"We must In time learn that the
same thing applies to the relations of
men, for it is part of the gospel for
men to live together in peace and for
bearance, and the force of arms must
be kept far from the relations of na
tion to nation.
"I do not know whether this Is the
last war. or whether we are to have a
still greater war on earth before the
idea becomes so distasteful that we put
it from us once and for all. But this
I know, that the elimination of war
from the earth is bound to come.
"There is that old argument that
human nature never changes, of course.
Trus enough, human nature does not
change, or it changes only slowly. But
the point of view of humanity changes.,
the angle of our vision changes, and it
is In this fact that we must look for
the movement of the world toward ul
timate peace."
Dr. Jordan will leave this morning
for Vancouver, where he is to give an
address before the teachers. lie will
return to Portland again in his present
tour.
EX-MAYOR WATERS DIES
Early Business Man of Goldendale
Succumbs to Long Illness.
GOLDENDALE. Wash.. Feb. 25.
'Special.) aamuel Waters. business
man and ex-Mayor of the town, died
at his residence here Friday night
after an illness of several months.
Mr. Waters was born In New York
City in 1859 and started a small gen
eral merchandise store at Goldendale
in 1892. He built up his business into
one of the leading mercantile firms
of Klickitat County, but failing health
caused him to retire from active work
several years ago.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rosa
Waters, and two sons, Mark and Henry
Waters, all residents of Goldendale. ,
s
t
tion. Moreover, the President has been
Informed of the facta relating to the
German Intimidation blockade. He
knows the way this blockade is oper
ating, how It is preventing the export
of American products and thereby re
acting on the life of the country, and
how the ports are being clogged by
cars which are needed for transporta
tion purposes.
The President also Is waiting to re
ceive news of the decision of Austria
Hungary. If that government an
nounces its purpose to support the Ger
man submarine policy, the President
will isue passports to the members
of the Austro-Hungartan embassy and
recall Ambassador Penfield. On re
ceipt of information from Vienna he
will be in a position to advise Con
gress of the action forced on him.
President Will Be Patleat.
The President has -never had any In
tention of going off half-cocked. He be
lieved it was his duty to be patient
to await a situation which the coun
try would recognize as Justifying ac
tion. He and hia advisors have re
gretted a great deal that has been said
in Congress and a great deal of com
ment which has appeared In news
papers, because of the tendency" to
show division In the councils or tne
nation. He believes that when action
is taken there should be demonstrated
absolute eolidarlty. In this way the
greatest effect can Te obtained. -
The Republicans In the Senate seem
to have abandoned tneir purpose, n
Indeed, they had any such purpose, to
filibuster in order to force an extra
session. Their agreement last night
to vote on the revenue bill on Wednes
day next Insures the enactment of the
measure which will provide funds for
the extraordinary appropriations con
gress has been asked to mane.
Republicans Want Assurances.
Some of the Republicans still insist
that thev must have by Wednesday a
definite statement of the . President's
purposes before they will consent to
pass the supply bills and thus avoid
an extra session. They will get. each
a statement in all prooabiiity direct-
lv. certainlv Indirectly.
The chances are lhat the President
will not havu CoDgress on his hands
after March 4. There will be an extra
on.inn of the Senate, ot wnicn tne
President will urge the ratification of
the treaty with Colombia. That treaty
will not be ratified. A great many
nominations will fall during tne pres
ent session as a result of the fight
faeine made on that or Dr. Uary IJ,
Grayson to be medical director with the
rank of rear-admiral, mat nomination
will be confirmed at the extra session
Exactly what the President will say
to Congress when he appears before
It only he himseir Knows, it is pure
ly speculation at this juncture to pre
diet the policy ha will pursue. It seems
certain he will not recommend war,
but he will want authority to use the
land and naval forces of the United
States to assure protection for Ameri
can life and Property. Whether there
will be formal war or not will de
pend on Germany.
The P.erlin government, for the ef
fect at home desires to make the people
believe that another nation has at
tacked them. The President equally
desires to have It apparent that the
United States is not the aggressor.
IiANSING'S RETURN IS AWAITED
No Early Move in Submarine Crisis
Is Expected. '
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. Pending
the return of Secretary Lansing from
his three-day stay at White Sulphur
Springs. W. Va., the generally accepted
belief here Is that no new move will
be made by the Government in the
German crisis. In diplomatic quarters
the opinion Is almost universal that
the Secretary Is devoting what has
been officially described as a short va
csIon to Important-work. Some think
he is framing a document for the use
of President Wilson In connection with
his address to Congress: others thin
he Is preparing for what Is regarded
as the Inevitable break with Austria
Hungary. Official Information about the re
lease of the American prisoners of the
Tarrowdale still is lacking. It has
been nearly two months since these 73
seamen were taken Into Germany.
Their release was announced in press
dispatches several days ago, but sev
eral inquiries to the Spanish Ambas
sador at Berlin have failed to bring of
ficial annonocement of It.
A dispatch from London today to the
State Department said two American
sailors, Edward Ellis and John Hand-
ley, were in the crew of the British
sailing ship Centurion, sunk by a sub
marine February 19 after being warned.
The crew took to the boats and was
rescued after 19 hours at sea. As the
ship was warned and nt lives were
lost no great Importance Is attached to
the Incident.
Despite the belief here that the sev
erance of diplomatic relations between
Germany and Holland has been brought
a step nearer by recent wholesale de
struction of Dutch shipping, it Is con
sidered virtually certain that for the
present, at least. The Netherlands gov
ernment will go no further than to
make a vigorous protest, possibly
warning the Berlin government and in
forming It that it will be held respon
sible for the monetary loss Involved.
Holland Is represented as feeling that
the recent losses, while being tremen
dous, cannot compare with the dam
ages that would be wrought should re
lations be severed or hostilities begun.
3 PLAYS PROPOSED
Plans Being Made for Produc
. tlons at the Little Theater.
CASTS ARE BEING CHOSEN
JAPANESE CRUISERS SAIL
Warships Which Brought $100,
000,000 in Gold to Canada Return.
SEATTLE. Wash., Feb. 25. The
Japanese cruisers Idzuma. Iwat and
Nishin, which recently brought a large
quantity of Russian gold, said to be
$100,000,000, to Vancouver.- sailed from
Esquimau for Japan yesterday.
The gold was conveyed to Ottawa by
special train on the Canadian Pacific
Railroad. Several similar shipments
had previously been, made In Japanese
cruisers.
"A Night at an Inn." "The Theater
of the Soul" and Lady Gregory's
Workhouse Wards" Engaging
Attention of Management.
A group of plays, decidedly unique,
is promised for production at the Lit
tle Theater about the middle of March
under the direction of Mrs. Eleanor
Sanford Large, and tha auspices of the
Portland Drama League, which recent
ly won laudatory comment In an article
on "Little Theaters" In one of the
larger monthly magazines.
The three plays chosen are Lord
Dunsany "A Night at an Inn"; N.
Evreinos' Russian psycho-drama, "The
Theater of the Soul." and Lady Greg
ory's "Workhouse Wards." a comedy.
Ford Tarplcy. who has recently re
turned from Los Angeles, where he
assisted In Odinskys production of
Everyman" and Carl Walters, a local
artist, will assist In compiling the set
tings for the plays. In the cast will
be a number of well-known Portland
men. Including Leland Smith. Kcank
Branch Riley, Ford Tarpley, J. Barry
and several Reed College students. The
women in the cast and several other
men have not been announced as yet.
Lord Dunsanys "A Night at an Inn"
was recently a sensation at the produc
tions of the Neighborhood House in
New York and In the cast are only men.
In the Russian psycho-drama. "The
Theater of the Soul." the Little Thea
ter Is attempting an ultra-modern pro
duction, the characters being visual
ised in the rational, the emotional and
subsconscious form, and acting ac
cordingly. The conflict or harmony
among the characters, chiefly involv
ing a wife and a dancer, is portrayed
as between the emotional man. tha
rational man and the subsconscious man
and the others in the play. The idea is
distinctly adaptable to dramatic ex
periments such as the Little Theater
Is undertaking throughout the coun
try. Lady Gregory's "Workhouse Wards"
Is a satirical comedy.
The Drama League expects to pro
duce the plays shortly after the visit
here of Granville Barker, Bernard
Shaw's sponsor, who will lecture on
"Why Worry With' Art?" at the
Eleventh-street playhouse. March 12.
Exchange tickets will be issued to
members of the league at once.
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ALBANY, Or, Feb. 25. (Special.)
Miss Marion Stanford will be Queen of
the May at Albany College this year.
She -wan elected by the student body
of the collec-e yesterdsy.
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