Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1917)
THE' MORNING OREGONIAN, - THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1917. SENATE TAKES UP LA FOLLETTE CASE Petitions Urging Senator's Ex pulsion Are Numerous and Esoeive Attention. TALK CALLED TREASONABLE Wl.soonMn Republican State Central Committee Almost Unanimous in Deaujieiation . of "Se ditious Utterances." WASHINGTON'. Oct. 3. Preliminary consideration of numerous petitions seeking expulsion from the Senate of Senator La Follette and several other Senators for their attitude toward the war -was begun today by the Senate privileges and' elections committee, but no action was talten and another meet ing will be-held tomorrow. ... Sentiment was said to have developed at today's meeting for action of some kind and against merely tabling the petitions. ' The question of proper pro cedure was discussed without agree ment. Senator La Follette is said to be considering an address before Congress adjourns in answer to his critics. WAUSAUV "Wis.. Oct. 3. Senator La Follette's expulsion from the Senate for "treasonable and seditious utter ances and disloyalty to our Govern ment," - is asked in an appeal to the United States Senate in telegrams sent lost night by W. B. Hennemann. chair Wisconsin t Republican : State Central committee.' to the President of the United States Senate and to Senator Pomerene, chairman, .of the committee on privileges and elections. 'The 'telegrams state .that all the members of the committee 'concur ex empt two. who have enlisted, and are in the service of their country, their present addresses being unknown. SANTA FE. X. M., " Oct. 3. Charles Springer, chairman 'of the' executive committee of the New Mexico State Council of Defense, today telegraphed Unitd States Senator A. B. Fall, of this state, urging the expulsion of Senator aL Follette "for utterances too nearly seditious to be spoken' by a Senator of the United States." JNDIANAPOLIsT'bct. 3. A resolu tion directed at . Senator Robert M. La Follette denouncing "all acts and utterances of a disloyal nature" was adopted by the Indiana State Council of Defense today. COAL HEARING . REOPENED Seized Records of St. Louis Coal Com pan y to Be Used. ST. LOUIS, Oct.. 3. Acting on tele graphic, orders from Attorney-General -McAllister, A. L. McCawley. special agent for the Attorney-General, today seized the records of the St. Louis Coal Club, which will be used as evidence when the: coal hearing Is resumed here tomorrow. . . " . The reopenjrfg .:of lhe coal inquiry was a surprise to the coal men, as it was thought that the hearings had been completed when Attorney-General McAllister took to Washington the evi dence obtained at the farmer hearings and turned it over to Coal Administra tor Garfield. He protested against the prices fixed for coal at the mines at this district. Twelve coal men have been sum moned to appear here tomorrow for the resunp'ion of t'.e hearing. Loan campaign is open (Continued From First Pag-y. in and out of business hours. It is planned to quiz merchants while shop ping as to what they are doing to help the liberty loan. Three meetings of Farmers' wives and other women are already planned during the next three weeks at which ..speakers will talk to women on the de sirability of buying bonds. They will be held at Prineville, Eugene and Al bany. The executive committee of the women's committee met yesterday aft ernoon in the Piatt building. It con sists of the following members: Mrs. Sarah H. Evans, Mrs. T. C. Burke, Mrs. Elliot Corbett, Mrs. Folger Johnson. Mrs. H. B. Torrey, Mrs. Donald Spenc er and Miss Laura E. Cavers. Chairmen of local committees throughout the state have been named as follows: Albany. Mrs. .T. K. Wcatherford. Amity. Mm. Killa Thoma. Ashland, Mrs. E. V. Carter. . Astoria. Dr. Nellie Vernon. Athena, Mr. Lizzie Miller. Aurora. Mrs. Helen Saddler. Bandon. Mrs. Pearl Walker. Banks. Mrs. Cora Wilcox. Beaverton, Mrs. Jane Gray. Bend. Mrs. George Putnam. Canby. Mrs. Isabelle McArthur. Carlton. Mrs. Charles L.add. Cascade. Locks. Mrs. Val Hopkins. Central Point, Mrs. J. W. Elden. Coqullle, Mrs. H. A. Longston. Detroit, Mrs. W. A. Hoover. . Dallas. Mrs. Metzger. Drain. Miss Athena Edwards. Dundee. Mrs. A. J. Palmer. Estacada. Mrs. Mabel Lovelace. Eugene. Mrs. W. W. Calkins. Fossil. Mrs. Clarence Walls. Forest Grove. Mrs. Dorothy Seymour. Florence. Mrs. Jennie Arnhart. Gardiner. Mrs. W. H. Hess. Grants Pass. Mrs. Gertrude Blanchard. . Gresham. Mrs. James Blklngton. Harrlsburg. Mrs. W. H. Daje. Hood River. Mrs. Truman Butler. Hermlston, Mrs. E. P. Dodd. Hlllsboro. Mrs. A. Shute. Independence. Mrs. J. S. Cooper. Jefferson. Mrs. David Looney. Joseph. Mrs. W. F. Pittinger. Junction City. Mrs. G. H. Oberteuffer. Lafayette. Mrs. Edith Denny. La Grande. Mrs.. O. E. Silverthorn. Lake view. Mrs. O. G. Godfrey. Lebanon, Mrs. Flora C. Brown. . Medford. Mrs. E. E. Gore. Stilton. Mrs. E. E. Wilcox. Moro. Mrs. W. C. Bryant. Monmouth. Mrs. J. H. Arkerman. Mosier. Mrs. Robert Shinn. Newberg. Mrs. Ella Kelty. North Bend. Mrs. L. H. Evans. Oak Grove. Mrs. B. G. Skulason. Oakland, Mrs. B. F. Devore. Ontario, Mrs. C C Dodge. Oregon City. Mrs. I.lnw ood Jones. Pendleton, . Mrs. Roy Bishop. Prineville. Mrs. H. P. Belknap. Bainier. Mrs. Grace A. Reed. ' Roseburg. Miss Josephine Parrot. St. Helens. Mrs. Louise Baker. Salem. Mrs. A. Bush. Sr. Kcappoose. Mrs. Rose E. Watts. . Seaside. Miss Virginia Drake. Sherwood. Mrs. Vlrgle McRay. Sheridan. Mrs. C. H. Knickerbocker. Springfield. Mrs. A. B. Van Valsah. Stanfield. Mrs. Robert Stanfleld. The Dalles. Mrs. Alexander Thompson. Tillamook. Mrs. C. J. Edwards. Troutdale. Mrs. Laura Harlow." Tualatin. Mrs. L. Harding. Wasco. Mrs. C. I. Dunlop. Weston. Mrs. F. D. Watts. Wood burn. Mrs. F. W. Settlemeier. At the request of Chairman E. G. Trawford. of the publicity committee! Ira- F. Powers has taken the chair manship of a special committee to se :ure the co-operation of merchants :hroughout state and city to make window displays of the liberty loan osters. "There is no more important work than to get these inspiring color posters into every display window in Ore gon.' said Mr. Crawford. "Use of these posters must not be confined to banks and downtown stores. The stores in the outlying districts of the city and in the remote rural settlements should not be denied the privilege of dis playing these pictures. 'To outline a plan - to secure this co-operation and then supervise its execution will be quite a task and the publicity com mittee feels much gratified that so energetic and experienced a merchant as Mr. Powers has taken the com mittee chairmanship. Names of other members of this important committee will be organized later." There will be a meeting of the com mittee on speakers, of which Edgar B. Piper is chairman and C. C. Chapman vice-chairman, this afternoon at 3 o'clock at liberty: loan headquarters. Fifth and Stark streets. . A full at tendance of the committee is urged as matters of importance in -arranging meetings and supplying speakers are to be decided. for Liberty Loan Named. Committees are being completed throughout the state to handle pub licity and solicit for the liberty bonds in every city, as fast as possible. ' Three new committees were announced yes terday, in addition to a large number already appointed, as follows: La Grande, Fred J. Holmes, chair man: A. T. Hill, J. G. Snodgrass, G. L. Larison. William Miller. Dr. A. L. Richardson-and E. E. Bragg. Prineville, T. 31. Baldwin, chairman; D. F. Stewart, Jay H. Upton, X. G. Wal lace. A. M. Byrd. - Burns, C. F. McKInney, chairman; Clarence W. Drinkwater, William Farre, J. L. Gault and Leon 31. Brown.- CHICAGO RAISES $9,000,000 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Dou bles Bond Holdings. CHICAGO, Oct. 3. The third day of the liberty loan campaign in Chicago netted approximately $9,000,000. the greater portion of which was in two major subscriptions, S5.000.000 by the Chicago. Burlington &. Quincy Railroad and $3,000,000 , by Sears. Roebuck & Co. The Chicago Board of Trade made Its initial subscription of $100,000, and J. B. Foreran purchased $80,000. The subscription of the Burling ton railroad makes their total purchase $10,000,000, the road having Invested $5,000,000 In the first issue. Phone your want ads to The Orego nian. Main 7070, A 6095. BILLIONS ARE VOTED Senate Spends Three Minutes on Deficiency Bill. ORDNANCE HEAVIEST ITEM . . . . .- Provision ' Made in Casli or Con tracts for Almost Eight Bil lion Dollars, Principally for Purposes of War. ESSAYS ARE INVITED HIGH AND GRAMMAR. SCHOOL STU DENTS TO COMPETE. Prises Offered for Three Best Sub mitted to Committee oa "Our Debt to France.' Students of high schools and of the two upper grades in- grammar schools of the state may compete for prizes offered by the Oregon chapter. Sons of the American Revolution, for the best essays on the topic "Our Debt to France for Aid Rendered to the American Colonies in the Revolutionary War." This topic has been chosen because it is felt to be peculiarly appropriate at this time, -when the United States Is meeting an obligation to the French republic by sending troops to France to help defeat the enemies of that country. A. A. Linsley, chairman of the com mittee of the Sons of the American Revolution in charge of the annual contest, announces the topic and says three cash prizes will be awarded, $25, $15 and $10. Essays may not exceed 3000 words in length, and must be sub mitted in the handwriting of the con testant. They must be written on one side of the paper only, and each essay must be accompanied by the certificate of the student's teacher to the effect that the essay is the unaided work of the pupil submitting it. , i Each essay must be signed with the name and address, including county, of the student submitting same, and contestants may send their contribu tions to Mr. Llndsley at 400 Henry building, Portland, not later than April 1, 1918. Awards will be based ' upon origi nality, accuracy of statements, manner of treatment, orthography, syntax and punctuation and neatness and legibil ity. Libraries of the state are indicated as excellent - sources of material for these essays. SPY PAID BY BERNSTORFF (Continued From First Page.) stedt has since severed bis connection with the company, it was said. Photographic copies of the checks in volved in the transactions show that on 3Iarch 3, 1916, O. Amsinick & Co. received from the Guaranty Trust Com pany $500,000: on March 17. $200,000; March 26. $200,000, and April 1. $200,000. and from the National Park. Bank on March 21, $300,000,. and on April 1, $283,500. The money was transferred to the Royal Bank of Canada from Amstnck tz Co., beginning March 14 with $500, 000. and on -March 17, $200,000: March 21. $300,000; March 25, $200,000, and April 3, $483,500. Money Is Apportioned. Bolo Pasha's letter to the Royal Bank of Canada, ..dated New York, 31arch 14. 191S, follows: "You will receive from Messrs. G. Amsinck Sc Co. deposits for the credit to my account with you. which deposits will reach the aggregate amount of about $1,700,000. which I wish you to utilize in the following manner: "First: Immediately on receipt of the first amount of this sum pay to Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co., New . York City, the sum of $170,068.03, to be placed to the credit of the account with them of Senator Charles Humbert, Paris. "Second: Establish on your books a credit, of $5000. good until May 31, in favor of Mr. Jules Bois. Biltmore Hotel. This amount to be .utilized by him at the debit of my. account, for his needs, and the unused balance to. be returned to me. "Third: Transfer to credit of my wife, Madame Bolo. with Agency T.. of Comptolr National d'Escompte de Paris, a sum of $524,000. to be debited to my account as. such transfers are made by you at best rate and by small amounts. "Fourth Tou will hold subject to my instructions, when all payments are complete, a balance of not less than $1,000,000." A translation of a letter from Sen ator Humbert to J. P. Morgan & Co., notifying the firm that Bolo Pasha would deposit 1.000.000 francs to Hum bert's account was also made public by-the -Attorney-General. . .Dated Paris, February 10, 1916, It readr "Mr.- Paul Bolo Pasha will deposit to my account with your bank in New Tork the sum of 1,000,000 francs, con verted into dollars (average rate of ex change as of January 31 last)." Details of Count von Bemstorff's part in the disposition of the money were not made public by the Attorney General, but it was stated witnesses had testified under oath regarding the former Ambassador's activities and this evidence, it was said, left no doubt of his complicity in the Intrigue. Further . disclosures of the use of German funds to carry on anti-war propaganda in this country may be ex pected, it was Intimated, as a result of the Investigation of Bolo Pasha's bank accounts here. BOLO PASHA IS MADE TO EAT Suspected Spy Able to Be Ques tioned by Judge. PARIS. Oct. 3. The authorities have apparently carried out their decision to feed forcibly . Bolo Pasha, who since he was taken to prison recently on the charge of having relations with the enemy, has refused all nourishment. It was believed he was undertaking a hunger strike but a-bulletin issued this morning respecting his condition says he has improved, that his gen eral condition is good and also that he had taken sufficient milk and vichy to allow the prosecuting judge to in terrogate him. State Printers Get. Rise. . SALEM. Or.. Oct. 3. (Special.) The State Printing Board today granted a 10 per cent increase in pay to the em ployes of the State Printing Office. This includes all employes with the exception of the State Printer and the secretary of the. board. The salaries range from $5 to $3. per day under the present scale. BANKERS HEAR M'ADOO CABINET OFFICER TELLS HOW l'-BOATS HURT AMERICA. Madison Men Told Export Stoppage Would Mean Suffering: and Want Throughout Nation. MADISON, Wis.. Oct. 3. Speaking before the bankers of Madison todav. Secretary McAdoo reviewed the effect of Germany's submarine campaign and how it has hampered American indus try. "On the material side, the disaster which would have followed submission to the war zone order of Germany is most striking." declared Secretary Mc Adoo. "The Kaiser's order forbade our ships from carrying our people and our Cfimmerce to Great Britain, France and Italy. Our prosperity and our welfare as a people are inseparably connected with our right of free and unmolested inter course with those nations. In the fiscal year 1917 our total exports to Great Britain. France. Belgium and Italy were $3,457,000,000 in round numbers. These exports represent the surplus, products of our farms, of our mines, of our factories. If we are denied a market for these products our produc tion would be greatly reduced and labor would be thrown out of employ ment. Stagnation of industry would result and suffering and want would stalk throughout the land. Our pro duction has always exceeded the home demand, and if we are denied foreign markets the result would be demoral ized prices with returns far below cost of production and consequent injury to every man, woman and' child in Amer ica. "Certain imports are essential to our life and existence. We must have them and we cannot submit to any tyrant who forbids us to sail on the high seas in the peaceful pursuit of our legiti mate interests and in the unmolested enjoyment of the rights we won by the blood and courage of our ancestors." Flags and banners bearing such in scriptions as "La Follette is one of only a few Wisconsin slackers" featured the parade in honor of Secretary McAdoo today. Other inscriptions read: "Copperheads bite in the heel; look out." "The United States Is at war. Bob is against his own boy." '"President Wilson, Wisconsin is with you." Page's Nomination Confirmed. WASHINGTON. Oct. 3. The nomina tion of Charles R. Page, of California, as a member of the Shipping Board was confirmed today by the Senate. ROSEBURG OFFERS SITE Bid Made for Army Convalescent Hospital to Be Built in Oregon. ROSEBURG. Or., Oct. 3. (Special.) A determined effort will be made by the citizens of Roseburg: to get the Government : to locate the proposed Army Reconstruction Hospital near hire. Leading citizens and commercial bodies have telegraphed the Oregon Congressional delegation offering a site and other inducements. ... Senator Chamberlain advised Mayor Rice today that the matter had been taken up with the Surgeon-General of the Army with reference to this city's offer. The Government proposes to erect a, convalescent hospital large enough to accommodate 7000 wounded soldiers en the Pacific Coast. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Oct. 3. Senator McNary and Representative Hawley today called te the attention of the Surgeon-General of the Army the' offer of Roseburg to do nate to the Government a site for an Army convalescent hospital. The Sur-seon-General said it was Intended to establish two such hospitals on the Pacific Coast, one in Oregon, and the Roseburg offer will be immediately in I -estisrated. Choosing ior Economy Make every Food Value count. Use food, when possible, that is part whole wheat and part some other grain and have it so prepared as to be as nearly 100 per cent available for body nourish ment as it can be made. Grsipe The Ideal Wheat and Barley Food Fulfills These Requirements Exactly Grape-Nuts is made of our own whole wheat flour mixed with our own whole malted barley flour. It is ready for quick digestion from two bakings totaling 20 hours, and nearly 99 per cent is avail able for food. ' . Grape-Nuts Is an Economical Food and Every Atomni Worlks Postum Cereal Company, Battle Creek, Michigan hfi f T rt' s'-KV-vv i'vs"! Ill- i . &-&"v iwss ill: w-5 If (v Vi is n-s.V sus'l frt'v lJ' ?r -v ? fi I &y LA i .xvv II Hi IfelHVV'v i tfe; f ! Ir i E' 1 I I lItsV"- 1 is-" it I F-ifO. v s h I I i o ! I 1 3 Jr v I Copyright Hart SchaRoer Sc Marx Every inch a man's coat The Hart Schaffner & Marx Chesterfield You see it on the older man; a rare com bination of style and dignity; in good taste anywhere. All-wool fabrics and rich quality. You'd pay a tailor S8o or more for such a coat. You pay our dealer less than half that price. Ask to sec the different models; our label is in them; it guarantees a fit and your complete satisfaction. Hart Schaffner &: Marx Good Clothes Makers This store, is keeping up the highest standards of quality in merchandise; in service and in reliability; selling Hart, Schaffner & Marx clothes. SAM'L ROSENBLATT & CO. Southeast Corner Fifth and Alder Sts. - EInrly Subscriptions Vriced. Bankers and bond dealers of the city are sending; out information by circular and other means to clients and the general public regarding the liberty bonds and urgrlnK early subscriptions. Morris Bros., bond dealers, have been busy, in this direction, as, indeed, have numerous others. The Lumbermens Trust Company yes terday perfected a plan whereby clients, as well as employes, may fret, full interest from funds Invested in . bond subscriptions. ' The following; state ment' was issued by the firm: ." "We will be grlad to extend the same privilege to your employes that we are granting; our own clients in the matter of full payment by those who wish to have their funds working immediately and partial payments as early as con venient by those desiring to anticipate the regular partial payment dates pro vided by the Government, thus having their funds earning full interest Im mediately they are paid In. "As subscribers desiring to make immediate payment for liberty bonds are limited to amount of J1000, .in terest not beginning until November 15, we have decided to issue to' our clients our customary interim certificates with Interest of 4 per cent beginning im mediately their funds are placed with us. thus permitting their earning the full' bond rate of interest at once and at the same' time assuring investment in liberty bonds of money that would possibly drift into other channels if funds were required- to be held- idle until accepted by the Government." Subscriptions started coming in yes terday at a favorable rate and today the management' of the campaign will undertake "a more detailed report of subscriptions ' and a listing of sub scribers. A mammoth dial to be set up in the "business district will report graphically the progress made each day In reaching toward the $16,600,000 total that Oregon is called upon to subscribe as its part of the second liberty loan installment. BO.D CAMPAIGN' IS ARRANGED Committees to Solicit Subscriptions WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. Within less than three minutes the Senate adopted the conference report on the war ur gent deficiency appropriation ' bill, carrying J 7,757,434,410 in cash and au thorized contracts. Tomorrow the House is expected to adopt it and send It to President "Wilson. The measure is said to be the great est of the kind In the history of any government. It emerged this afternoon from conference in which items involv ing over X780.000.00O had been in dis pute and went through the Senate In record-breaking time without the for mality of a rollcalL The bill carries $3,353,976,018.98 of direct appropriations and authorizes the Government to enter Into contracts for $3,401,458,393.50 more, almost en tirely for war purposes, including the Navy's great destroyer programme. In conference, subsistence of the Army, for which the House had voted $175,000,000 and the Senate $321,000,000, was provided for in a compromise of $250,000,000. For Army transportation, for which the. House had voted $350, 000,000 and the Senate $413,000,000. the conferees substituted $375,000,000. For regular quartermaster supplies $125.- .000,000 was agreed to after the House had voted for $100,000,000 and the Sen ate $183,000,000. Probably the' largest appropriation in the bill is for the ordnance department of the Army, which gets $695,100,000 for purchase, manufacture and test of mountain, siege and field cannon and $225,000,000 more of contract obliga tions authorized, together with $663, 000.000 of cash and $777,000,000 of con tract obligations authorized for ammu nition. When Chairman Martin, of the ap propriations committee, called up the conference report late today. Senator Robinson asked what had been done with the proposed $500,000 appropria tion for an employment bureau in the Department of Labor. Senator Martin replied that the conferees regretfully had felt compelled to cut it to $250,000. Then the report was adopted.
