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THE 3IORNING OKEGOXIAX, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1$, 1919. 5 SENATE INCLINED TO in RESENT WILSON CURB Request for Silence on Peace League May Be Ignored. SENATOR GORE IS BITTER Oklahonmn Says Apparently "Nation I to Go Into State or Catalepsy on Question for 10 Days." "WASHINGTON. Feb. 17. Debate an the cons titution of the league of na tions probably will begin in the senate within a day or two. despite President "Wilson's request that discussion be postponed until after he has conferred with members of the senate and house foreign relations committees at the "White House-February 26. Senator Pomdexter of V.'ashington, republican, who recently issued a state ment sharply criticising several fea tures of the league plan, intends to open the attack Wednesday. His address is expected to precipitate general debate. lut whether members of the foreign relations committee will participate ap pears doubtful, as most of them ftp purently are disposed to accede to the ITiilent's request. Senator Cummins of Iowa also ex sects to speak during the week. Othe senators reported to' be planning cntitciMii are Keed of Missouri and ;ore of Oklahoma, democrats.' Senator Koran of Idaho, a republican member of the foreign relations committee, also i raid to be desirous of expressing his views at an early date. Senator Gore of Oklahoma said: "Apparently the nation, except cab inet officers and ex-presldents. is to go into a state of ci-talepsy on the ques ticn. for at least 10 days." PARIS. Feb. 17. The peace confer ence portrait of President Wilson is to be nainted by Sir William Orpen, Brit ih painter. The president is under- tond to have promised to give him .;Hinir as soon as he returns. Colonel '.. M House also is to be painted by Sir William. TheTemps gives the date on whic President Wilson is expected to arrive in France after his visit to the LTilted States. It is March 13. the newspaper a s. ON HOARD L'. S. S. GEORGE WASH 1NGTON. Feb. IS. (By the Associated Press.) President Wilson spent his first Sunday at sea in attending church services, sleeping and resting. He con rulered no official business whatever ami received no official dispatches. The president read with great inter est a wireless digest of newspaper opinion and expressions in congression al circles regarding the constitution of the league of nations. It is quite out of the question that the senate will be called upon at present to act upon the league of nations treaty, as it will not be perfected before the presi dent's return to Paris, and it seems probable that the covenant draft as it las been published will be subjected to some changes before It is put into treaty form. The president's plans are still based en hi returning to Kilrope immediate ly after the adjournment of congress, with the possibility that he will re main abroad until summer. The chances seem o favor the calling of an extra session of the senate and posibly one ot congress alter me work of the peace conference is fin ished to pass upon treaties and take any necessary legislative action. 8. B. 34. br Eddy Relating to boundari of Irrigation systems and giving districts authority to aeaulre .private systems. SJ. B. la. by urley Providing for cer tification or irrigation and . drainage uis- tricl bonds. . S. B. 247. by Handley Enlarging powers ot aairy hrd inspectors. S. B. 23. by Pierce Regulating sale and Dlacinc lirenne tat on oleomargarine. 8. B. 227. by I. S. Smith Providing for ereation of loggd-oft land improvement dus tricts. 8. B. 10. by Multnomah delegation In rreasing salaries or Muitnoman county u triet iudrea from smmi to S3OO0 annually. 8. B. 13. by Handley To givo munelpal corporations rights of Initiative ar.-l. refer endum. . S. B. 225. by Porter Giving School super intennent of T. nn enuntv an assistant. 3. .17. by Orton Providing for pension Ing or Ned Keho. superintendent ol aiui noman countv court house. S. B. 242. by Pierce Validating marriages tllejraily contracted before nx monies ex piration of divoree rierreo. S. B. 243, by Banks Providing for elec- TILI.AWOOK fOUTV PIONEER M HO DIED, RECEVTLV. I ' .-x i - i ti : , -V . , i' v . i r V ' H : - i fa : " N- - ' i ' '? 4..- V i 4 ( .... . $ . : . .. if v -i U ' l 5 t-i , Christopher 'A. ChriHteBsen. Funeral services for Christo pher A. Christensen 72, who died January 29 at his home, 123 East Twenty-ninth street North, were held January 31 In Holman's chapel. Interment was near his old home In Tillamook county. Mr. Christensen was orn In Denmark April 11, 1846. He came to Oregon and settled in Tilla mook county more than 30 years ai?o. He moved from there to Shoal Water bay, in Washington, in 1870, and engased in the oys ter business. A year later he re turned to Tillamook county and began shipping oysters to Port land by pack train. He is survived by his widow, five sons and one daughter. lion of port commlwlonfru by vote of the S U. L'.3, by .Fierce Eliminating' auea Tvp!e. from revolving funds of cooperative asso t-iat ions. K. 73. by Fell Relating to the in SDectton of orchards. Hou bills passed in tne senate to- d:iy were: H. B. 33. by Pidler Fixing- salaries of Joph.ne county officials. H. B. fa, by Richards! Increasing Malt nomah county school levy to provide for Additional pay for teachers. H . It. "l.t. by Mr Karl a n d I ncreaBi n g iicenje fe of dentists. II. B. Jfi. by McFarland Exempting dentist from Jury duty. H. B.'JIM. by Bean Authorising highway commission to lay thr classes of pave ment for purposwrtf comparison. II. B. 3l. by Hare Providing for uni form commitment Dianas to state insmu tions. H. B. 170. by . Gallagher Authorizing counties to vote on question of jackrabbit oounues. G TO BE HIT 1 1 A A I : C. LIFORM X MRVFILLAXCE. 3i-iriit Attorney Ak That Hail in Merrill and Pattcr-on t a-cs . I.e lixetl nl The uovtTununt will h relentless in Its prosecutinn f California liquor ir.cn who are aiding importer of wet sriMnIa into urrson. according to John Beck man. arista tit t'nited States dis til. -t attorney, who has returned from .Sun Frani-isco. In fluent ial and wealthy tlea'erjr now are under investigation in connect ion Uh the illicit traffic, he a.. Kail of O. H. Merrill and Thomas G. TNtteron will be ot at J'JOOrt each if Fclcral Judce WoWerton heeds the re Oiie.nt of C'lstrit t Attorney Haney. who. In ma kin ir application for the higher amount, stated that the men are be lieved to be connected with one of the larger bootlegging ring? in the coun try. u. W. Morris, pool hal! proprietor of Powers. Or., convicted last month on v charge of operating a still, was fined J iin and sentenced to six months in jjiil yesterday by Judce Wolverton. f 'harles Zimnirma n and C. K. Morris, who were tric! with O. W. Morris, w efe acquitted. SENATE RUNNING IN -HIGH" 1'ear f II. i in? to Scrc Without Pay Sperds Programme. STATE CAPITOU Salem. Or., Feb. 17. - i Special) Kear that they might be compelled to put in a few extra days i.et nfck without ray caused mem bers of the s- rate today to discon tinue their lepcthy argument and .get conn to the business; of passing and fciiltn's bill. Hilts passed on third Teading follow: S. K. 71. bv Eb-rhitril Providing for Iil !ntr r itntiMtti - -hrtcrs with librarian of Supreme i"ur :bpir j . B -". br rttern Troht biting ju- k front runmtnc Ml trce in Polk county. y B. by Kitnt-r Mlnj; it a crime to j-rm it natrr f rom trn.ttiou ditricta to cvcrf'ow :ili country ro.i. S. B. ; by Shanky-Relating to fore c tour of crop lirn. S B. l it. by Hurley Providtng for mom an-AK-i, of metMl.H ued in manufac ture f crrucutd .-ulveri. S B - by Pierce and I. S. Smith Pro- viij-nc f:nam.al 4id to returned oIdIer and !-ilr rfttndmg hiphcr educational insti- HOCSE PASSES FISH MEASURE Liltle Opposition Pcvolop on Floor . During Brief Debate. STATE CAPITOL, Salem. Or.. Feb. 17. (Special.) The Rogue river fish bill passed the house this afternoon. Thirty nine of the representatives voted in favor of it. During the debate charges were made by Representative Sidler that the Macleay interests had "opened their sack" and expended large amounts of money to defeat the bill before the people, that they had subsidized the press of the state and otherwise waged a finaicial campaign to kill the bill, passed by the last legislature. "if the legislature defeats this bill, we will go before the people with a new one at the next session and will put somft teeth in it declared -Sidler. "The conditions at the mouth of the Rogue river are absolutely rotten," said Lewis. "It is a one-man power against the people." Due to the fact that the question had been largely threshed out on com mittee report, the debate on the bill was brief. GAME COPE GOES BACK COMMITTEE ASKED TO CHANGE AMENDMENTS. AfEED OFALLIED ARMY in ASSERTED Senators Told Reds Would Kill All if Permitted. YANKS BRAVERY PRAISED Roger E. Simmons Declares That the American Forces Stationed in Far North Are Well Supplied. WASHINGTON', Feb. 17. Roger E. Simmons, who recently returned from a mission to Russia for the bureau of commerce, today told the senate com mittee investigating lawless agitation in this' country that if the Americans and allied forces were withdrawn from northern Russia the bolshevik! would engage in one of the bloodiest massa cres the world had ever seen. The witness said he was surprised at the demands being made for the withdrawal of the American forces. and told the committee that 'every time the American and allied soldiers had found it necessary to give up ground in northern Russia, the bolshevik! had swept in and Inaugurated an orgy of murder of peaceful citizens. He said that before leaving Archangel last No vember 3 he had found that the Ameri can troops were well supplied and had performed great acts of heroism which yet remain to be told. All of the Rus sians in the northern district were sym pathetic with the ' allied forces, he asserted, and were, praying that they would not te removed. Evidence wtyich, he said, showed that Germany was re sponsible or the outbreak of Bol shevism In Russia was presented to the committee by Mr. Simmons. Hua Responsibility Shown. It Included a sworn statement of a Russian that Just before the czar's gov- i ernment was overthrown he was sent by the German imperial chancellor to Switzerland to determine which of the Russian socialist schools there was the most redical and to offer the leader 5.000,000 marks if he would send his men into Russia to spread their propa ganda. After visiting Switzerland, the Russian reported that the school headed by Lenine was the most radical, but be recommended that the services of Lenine be not engaged, as the result. f successful, would mean a terrible catastrophe for' Russia. This evidence. Mr. Simmons said, cou pled with the fact that Lenine -passed hrough Germany on his way from Switzerland to Russia; that members of he red guard were given iron crosses. and that German soldiers and officers were used to put down anti-bolshevik mutiny, proved beyond a doubt where he responsibility lay for the reign of terror in Russia. The witness read to the committee the text of a number of decrees through which the bolshevikl secured the na- tonali nation of women. "These need no comment," he said. This is the thing that is being fos tered and upheld by the propaganda ow being circulated, in the United tates in an effort to justify bol- hevism. The creed of the bolshevik! oes npt spect, an.d in-act, discour ses, and in some cases even prohibits women from being virtuous. It is the. same with religion. The bolshevik! i favor no religion of any sort." Reds Beliefs Condemned. Full publicity of the acts and be liefs of the bolsheviki, Mr. Simmons aid. would be sufficient to kill the idea the minds of any Americans who ight have become sympathetic. "What do you think of men like Al bert R. Williams who come over here nd uphold bolshevism?" asked a mem ber of the committee. T think." replied the witness, "that Williams left Russia before the terror- m began; Williams now is going upon, a theory and is not taking into consideration the practice of that theory." Men Who Motor do not agree with the old idea that an Overcoat for Spring is worn more for looks than for real need. Mathis Overcoats combine the ad vantage of comfort arid service, along- with good looks. Hundreds of fine materials, including- Scotch -Velours, Fancy Cheviots and Harris Tweeds. Good in all weathers ' all wool rainproof, $25 to $65 MENS WEAR Corbett Building-, Fifth kand Morrison IDAHO DEFEATS INCREASE MEMBERS OF LEGISLATURE RE FUSE TO DOUBLE SALARY. Bill to Establish Two Tuberculosis Hospitals in Stato Passed. Road Bill Up. Yakima Aliens Listed. YAKIMA. Wash.. Feb. 17. (Spe nt) Chairman W. P. Murphy of the akima draft board said yesterday the board was compiling a list of alien resi- ents of draft afie who pleaded their ien citizenship. He said he. believed total would reach 500 names. Pa, when you say you're laying for a rson it means you have a grudge against him. doesn't itr Generally, son. "Well, has tne hen a grudge gainst the farmer, pa?" Boston Tran script. BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 17. (Special.) The legislature today refused to double its salary, when the house of repre sentatives defeated a proposed amend ment to the constitution to increase it from S to $10 per day. A two-thirds vote is required, and while a majority voted in its favor, the vote of 33 to 25 was not sufficient to carry it, so the solons will have to con tinue to worry along with the high cost of living. In point of legislation intro- . duced, the proceedings of- the two houses we.re important, while there was passed among the outstanding measures a bill to establish two tuberculosis hos pitals in the state, one in the north and one in the south. A second bill ap proved appropriates $30,000 to investi gate the water resources of the state. The appropriations committee intro duced a bill to provide for the needs of six institutions divided as follows? Soldiers' home $145,230, penitentiary J167.090. Orofino asylum il31,5S0. Blackfoot asylum $155,040, feeble-minded institute $193,105, Children's homes $15,000 The big good roads bill sponsored by the state highway department was also introduced. It calls for a tax levy of 2 mills to raise. approximately $1,600,000 which is apportioned to the various state highways. FEDERAL AGENTS TO MEET Km DenYcr Conference to Discuss ployment Problems. Amos H. Dalrymple of the Portland office of the United States government employment service, left yesterday morning- for Denver, Colo., where a con ference of representatives from each state opens on Thursday for a three day session. ThefoIlowing- subjects, looking- to a practical peace time programme for the federal employment service through out the country -will be discussed: Grading: and examination of em ployes of the service; standardization of salaries; courses of instruction for employes of the service; publicity and methods, and other matters of interest in reference to the enlargement and expansion of the federal employment service. I NEW S S FOR SHOW 1 L THREE J TOMORROW 1 LAST TIMES TODAY "THE SPAWN OF HATE" idiM Strike at Denver Settled. DENVER, Feb. 17.The strike of stationary engineers which has tied up a number of the public schools for the last week has been settled. The strik ers and the school board today agreed to arbitrate their differences. F. D. Antrim Named Sealer. SALEM, Or., Feb. 17. (Special.) Deputy State Sealer of Weights and Measures Dalziel today announced State Treasurer Hoff. who is also state sealer, has appointed F. D. Antrim as district sealer for the northern district. HOUSE PASSES BOM BILL i McFARLAJfD MEASURE 3IEETS WITH LITTLE OPPOSITION. Signature of 100 Taxpayers Must Be Obtained on Petitions Ten Rounds Fixed as Limit. STATE CAPITOL, Salem, Or., Feb. 17. (Special.) rThe McFarland boxing bill passed the house today. By unani mous consent an amendment was put into the bill on third reading which prohibits boxing on Sundays, and an other was inserted requiring that pe titions for holding boxing matches must be signed by 100 taxpayers instead of 10 taxpayers, as provided in the orig inal bill. The limit is tixed at 10 rounds for professionals under the commission and six rounds for amateur bouts when held by organizations, such as the Elks or labor unions. Debate was shut off on the bill en tirely immediately after it had been read, when McFarland moved the pre vious question. The bill provides for allowing boxing exhibitions in those cities and towns consenting to the sport, with control by municipal coin missions and with the governor, secre tary of state and state treasurer acting as an advisory board. t Net receipts from Doxing contests are to go for some charitable purpose. The bill in no manner changes the present laws relative to prize fighting. Mrs. Thompson voted in fav0rof the bill, explaining her vote by saying the most mild-mannered man in the"house had told her he was in favor of boxing and that Roosevelt had developed it weak constitution as a pari icipant' in the sport. Thirty-eight affirmative votes were given on the "bill. Speaker Jones being among those voting against it. Hogs Bring Record Prices. MATTOON, 111.. Feb. 17. Hampshire hogs raised in Coles county brought world-record prices at a public sale h?re today. Blue Belle, winner at the international eIiow in Chicago Dei-ember 7, with a litter or nine, brought $4815; Budweifcer Lady May, weiclit 4T.0 pounds, sold for ?134u. and Jlaplewood Giant Second brought a record price of $1205 for a spring pig. Former Canadian Officer l)ic. REGIXA, Feb. 17. G. W. Brown, former lieutenant - governor of Sas katchewan, died here today. Objection Give Arises- Over Provision Plenary Powers Game Officers. to ! "HnshanHe at Rsvct Are Ppskv Hnift anil . .2 tuion f. S. Smith Chan. tip TakeftaUrouTKla Grape-.Nuts food contributes wonderfully to sturdinesahealth and -happiness STATE CAPITOL. Salem. Or., Feb. 17. (Special.) The fish and game code. on third reading in ine nouse loaay. was sent back to the game committee to straighten out some objections which arose on the floor of the house, there being a tangle as to the printed amendments. Objection arose against the bill on the cround that it gives to the commiss ion Dlenary powers to fix the salaries of its employes, but it became evident in the debate that a large following in the house will stand for letting the nmmiion handle its salaries. How ever, objection to the new plan has not been quelled. Representative Lewis protested against a section of the bill which makes it a fineable offense for any person to violate any of the rules or regulations laid down by the com mission. He declared that this would make an autocracy of the commission. Some of the other members asserted that this provision is feasible and logical. All of these points will be threshed voer in the same committee. ROMANCE RIPENS OVERSEAS Miss Fthcl Gulling of La Grande Rc turn as Lieutenant's Jlrldc. LA GRANDE. Or.. Feb. 17. (Spe cial.) Ethel Gulling, stenographer at tached to base hospital No. 46. which went to France from Oregon nearly a year aco is Miss Gulling no longer. Before she returned In January to New Tork. where she now is, she married Lieutenant Sears of Corr Pa whom 9he met In a hospital where he was re covering from shrapnel wounds. The romance ripened into a quiet marriage After his first recovery Lieutenant Sears returned . to the front and sus tained serious Injury again and Is now "Husbands at Best Are Pesky Brutes, and at Worst Unfit for Publication." NOW PLAYING TO CAPACITY THE VIFE.WHO LONG J TO BE L.OVED -4 t "i - ,,, - ' ' t J Til' i " JT-1 7 1 A picture with something to it. All Portland is seeing it. It has many a smile, some tears and a lesson as well for husbands who carelessly mislay their wives' affections. 1 la 0 ADVASCE IX Ol'RI ADMISSIONS i THE HOME OF MURTAGH MllJFZ AND THE FAMOUS $50,000 Giant Organ ,4 '3 & j l 1 convalescent in Bordeaux and will soon return to New Yvrk to join his wile, i