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
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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.
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- 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.