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THE MOItXIXG OREG ONI AX, WEDNESDAY. 3IATICII 5, 1919. S L FOR GBTH Republicans Call Meeting to Perfect Organization. FLOOR LEADER IN DOUBT IDemocrats Say Organization. Can Be Perfected Only With Appoint ment of Steering Commltee. WASHINGTON, March 4. With the adjournment of congress today, repub licans ani democrats in the house im mediately turned their attention to the organizations in the 66th congress in anticipation of the calling of a special Kessioi: early in the summer. The republican committee on commit tees chosen at the recent party con ference, will meeet tomorrow to begin its work which probably will require a week for completion. In the mean time oemocratic members have their colleagues to organize so as to present a solid front to the republican majority. uch an organization, their announce ment tonight said, can be perfected only with the appointment of a steering committee, the personnel of which "should be so distributed that every section of the country will have rep resentation thereon." They also proposed that the chair man of this committee have no- other committee assignments and that he be ejL-officio minority floor leader. While referring to undivided leader Ehip responsive to party sentiment, the statement made no declaration of pref erence as to the minority leader. Some democrats, however, proposed to regard the announcement as opposition to Champ Clark, speaker in the last house, becoming floor leader. Representative Xitchin has declared his intention of retaining his committee assignments with the expectation that Mr. Clark would automatically become the floor leader. Representative Sanders of Louisiana, is chairman of the organization com mittee. Selection of a floor leader by the re publican committee may prove an echo of the recent contest for the speaker ship. Representative Mann of Illinois, defeated in his contest against Speaker elect Gillett of Massachusetts, has an anounced his retirement as floor leader, and is expected to support Representa tive Moore of Pennsylvania. Representative Longworth of Ohio, lias the support of republicans who backed Gillett for speaker, but they a.re said to be outnumbered in voting strength on the committee by those who supported Mr. Mann. DOMESTIC COURT IS LURE MAXV NAMES MEXTIOSED IX COXi'ECTIOX WITH JUDGESHIP. Salary ot $1000 a Year to Be Paid. Applications Now Being Re- . solved at Courthouse.- - When a judge of the court of do mestic relations is appointed he will receive a salary of $4000 a year. Just at present this lure is causing no little conversation among the lawyers. Among the names already being men tioned att prospective candidates for the job are A. W. Orton, of Judge Tazwell's court, who recently completed his term as a state senator from this county; I'red lu Olson, former justice of the peace: Roscoe P. Hurst, a democratic candidate for circuit judge in the re tent general election; Thomas J. Clee lon, former district attorney for Co lumbia and Clatsop counties and for mer county judge of Multnomah county; John B. Ii.aster, naturalization clerk in the county clerk's office; W. M. Gregory, attorney; Isaac Swett, who has been active in civic reform movements; Ar thur I. Moulton, formerly an active member of the progressive party and candidate of that party for representa tive in congress for the third district; 3.ydia O'Bryan, R. Sleight, J. J. Johnson, District Judge Jones, former Municipal Judge John H. Stevenson, District Judge Arthur Dayton, Deputy District Attor ney. J. L. Hammersley, Clarence Gilbert and Dan Powers. It may be within the range of possi bility that Judge Stapleton will resign his $5000 job to take the $4000, as he is believed to like the sort of work the court of dofestic relations would deal with. AUTO-STAND QUESTION UP Council to Consider Assignment of For-Hire Cars Today. Assignments of stands to men owning for-hire automobiles in Portland will come before the city council today and a date' for the hearing of the various applications probably ' will be set. Fifty-six applications alreday have been filed with Mayor Baker. Sergeant Lewis, In charge of the traffic bureau of the police department, recommends that not more than four Hands in each block be authorized in order to avoid, congestion in the down town district. . . . - Seasoned slaswuoa ataa inside wood. green stamps, for cash. Holman Fuel Co.. Main 353. A 3363 Adv. SOLDIERS andSAILORS ATTENTION To the boys of UNCLE SAM desiring: employment The Ore gonian will, for a limited time, publish free for three daya the advertisement of any soldier or sailor in uniform or those show ing credentials that they have been honorably discharged from the service. ADVERTISEMENTS MUST BE PRESENTED TO THE BUSINESS OFFICE OF THE OREGONIAN. TELEPHONE OR MAIL ORDERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. PLANS I S HOW THE STATE OF OREGON CARES FOR ITS LATEST WARD, THE MOTHER OF WHICH WAS Carl Shoemaker, state same warden. who didn't want Ita bottle BEAR COB DEEPLY GRIEVED MOTHER KILLED, BABE CKIES COXTIXUOUSLY. Edward Bartlett, Estacada Attor ney, Makes Gift to Game and Fish. Commission. If you should wander into the offices of the state game and fisli commis sion, in the Oregon building, let not the sight of a filled nursing bottle, non chalantly displayed., disturb you in the least. For the commission has adopted a motherless baby a wee whimpering black bear cub, not more than a fort night old. It's tough luck to be thrust into the world at such an age, with never a mother to cuddle you, to lead you to the ripest blackberries in the patch, tot teach you, how to find the fattest grubs and to initiate you into grouse stalking. A high-power bullet cleft the mother bear's heart a few days ago, in the timber near Eatacada. where one only has to tramp a mile or so to find the aboriginal wilderness. Whether the baby Bear remembers the tragedy or not, the fact is patent that it Is deeply grieved, for it has cried continuously ever since Edward Bartlett, the Estacada attorney, toted it into the commission's front office and left it there as a foundling for the state to adopt. Carl Shoemaker, state game warden, and the rest of the office gang take turns at presenting the nursing bottle to the infant, with occasional success and at the hazard of drenching their own vests as they minister to it. "I don't know what we are going to do with it," puzzled Mr. Shoemaker, "but State Biologist Finley wanted a cub bear for something or other and here it is." ' TASK IS LEFT UNFINISHED fT'ontinud From First Page.) fore his return from France and criti cized "a group of men" for their ob struction. As a result of the fili buster, which held the senate in con tinuous session for 26 hours, the presi dent had little to do at the capitol ex cept sign the $1,000,000,000 wheat guarantee bill and exchange leav takings with members and friends. Members Leave Capital. Because of the president's decision on the extra session, members who crowded outgoing trains today felt as sured that congress would not again assemble much before June 1. Leaders predicted that then it would remain in continuous session until the 1920 po litical conventions. During the recess business will be virtually suspended. With the ending of congress ecores of statements on the results of legisla tion and the league of nations were is sued by members with democrats and republicans disputing responsibility for failure of important measures. Most republican members urged the calling of an early extra session. De spite the death of congress, contro versy over the league of nations con stitution promises to be agitated con tinually by advocates and opponents. League Critics to Speak. Prominent democratic and republican congressmen already have speech-mak- ng itineraries planned, with Senators Borah of Idaho, republican, and Reed Colorado, democrat, to speak soon at I New York, Boston and other cities in criticism of the league constitution. Chief interest at the finish centered in the senate filibuster and the league of nations controversy: The filibuster continued from 10 o'clock yesterday morning until 11:30 o'clock today, with Senators Sherman of Illinois. La Fol lette of Wisconsin and France of Mary land occupying most of the time of the long session. It even prevented the customary exchanges of courtssy at the finish. In the house, however, the usual riotous scenes marked the close of the session. The clock was stormed a few minutes before the final felici tations and for an hour after adjourn ment house members exchanged good byes with music, songs and impromptu speeches. Xnmeroas Measures Fail. The long list of measures that failed included all reconstruction legislation, including the general railroad legis lation and bills defining a shipping policy and dealing with unemployment, labor and illiteracy problems; the oil, gas and coal land leasing and water power development bills; the compro mise woman suffrage resolution; legis lation to enforce wartime prohibition; meat industry legislation: immigration exclusion and alien deportation bills; resolutions to terminate government control of telegraph, telephone and other wire utilities December 31; the sedition bill, aimed at unlawful acts and propaganda; the resolution to re peal the 10 per cent tax on semi-luxuries in the war revenue bill, and Sec retary .Lane's bill appropriating $100, 000,000 for reclamation of waste lands to be allotted to soldiers and sailors. The sundry civil bill carrying appro priations totaling about $850,000,000, -i-mm T ' A SLAIN NEAR ESTACADA. nnrsemald to the tiny lilack bear fill, when being photographed. including t650,00.000 for the merchant marine, also failed of passage. Wilson Issues Statement. The president's statement issued upon the adjournment of congress fol lows: "A group of men in the senate have deliberately chosen to embarrass the administration of the government, to imperil the financial interests of the railway systems of the country and to make arbitrary use of powers intended to be employed in the interests of the people. -It is plainly my present duty to at tend the peace confeienco in Paris. It is also my duty to be in close contact with the public business during a ses sion of the congress. I must make my choice between these two duties, and I confidently hope that the people of the country will think that I am making the right choice. "It is not in the interest of the right conduct of public affairs that I should call the congress in special session while it is impossible for me to be in Washington because of a more press ing duty elsewhere to co-operate witla the houses. "I take it for granted that the men who have obstructed and prevented the passage of necessary legislation have taken all of this into considera tion and are willing to assume the re sponsibility of the impaired efficiency of the government and the embarrassed finances of the country during the time of my enforced absence." I.odjce Refuses to Comment. Republican Leader Lodge declined to comment on the president's statement. He declared, however, that three fourths of the republicans sincerely de plored failure of the railroad appro priation. The few republicans who in sisted upon filibustering to defeat the bill, it was stated, were "beyond con trol," telling, their leaders that their action was personal and not a party affair. "We are willing to take the responsi bility," said Senator Sherman of Illi nois, republican, in a reply to the president's statement. "If the consti tution of the league of nations is the result of his attendance at the Paris conference and his administration of the railroads in the United States is the result of his constant attendance upon congress, both Paris and Wash ington will be better off without him. He is a superfluous luxury anyhow. "I do not believe," said Senator France, of Maryland, republican, "that the American people ever condemned men who have the courage to do their duty as they see it. I believe it is ap parent to the whole nation that the in terests of the country demand that con gress be in session in order to deal with the pressing reconstruction prob lems which are upon us and which have not as yet received that careful consideration which would have re sulted in constructive action. Under the theory of our government with its equal and independent co-ordinate branches, I believe that congress could be and should be solving these recon struction problems during the presi dent's absence." Republican Are Blamed. Senator Pittman of Nevada, demo crat, in a statement tonight discussing the Lodge resolution. accused the republicans of attempting to interfere with the president and with playing "petty politics" in their attitude toward the league of nations. "If the resolution means anything,' Senator Pittman said, "its purpose is to compel the president to force the sign ing of a treaty of peace with our tne mies without making any provision for a league with any of the nations. "The senate is a high and noblo body, but the conduct of its republican mem bers during the last session has not added to its already unpopular stand- ing with the masses of the plain people. A league of nations will be established and our citizens will convince the senate that it is their servant and not their master. The treaty will be ratified." 1700 NOMINATIONS HELD VP Congress Adjourns Leaving: Numer ous Appointments Unconfirmed. WASHINGTON. March 4. Seventeen hundred nominations, including those of A. Mitchell Palmer to be attorney general and John Skelton Williams to succeed himself as controller of the currency, remained unconfirmed today when congress adjourned. On the list were approximately 1000 postmasters, 500 army officers and 200 navy officers. The senate in failing to act upon Mr. Palmer's nomination established s precedent, according to oldest attaches. who said it was the custom to pass without delay upon appointments of members of the cabinet. Other impor tant nominations remaining uncon firmed were those of Major-Generals Robert E. Noble and Walter D. McGaw to be brigadier-generals in the regular army establishment. Mr. Palmer and Mr. Williams will be given recess appointments by the president, under which they will hold office until the new congress assem bles, but such appointments are not necessary in the cases of postmasters, as the incumbents hold over until their successors qualify. The army and navy officers tnay be given the tem porary rank to which they were nom inated and then renominated when con gress meets again. Upon confirmation, their new rank would date from the day of the original nominations. ' LEAGUE COVENIffl IS INDISPEWSABLEJAFT U. S. Held Inevitably Involved in Europe's Affairs. WILSON COURSE APPROVED Ex-Iresldent Touches Senators Upon Whom Would Bo Laid Blame "for Postponing Peace." XEW YORK, March 4. A league of nations covenant is indispensable to the treaty of peace, if the war "is to accomplish the declared purpose of this nation and the world," former Presi dent William Howard Taft told the audience at the Metropolitan opera house tonight in an exhaustive discus sion of the league principles, preceding the address of President Wilson. An adherence to the Washingtonian policy of avoiding foreign alliances could not be applied to the present in ternational status, Mr. Taft declared. 'because the interests of the United States are inevitably Involved in the preservation of European peace." For tho United Stales to withdraw from the project, he asserted, would make the league of nations merely "a return to the system of alliances and the 'balance of power,' with a speedy recurrence of war. in which this coun try would certainly be involved as it was in the present struggle." President's Duty Clear. Referring to criticism of the league plan In the senate, the former president stated his belief that it was the duty of the president, as the prime mover in the nation's treaty-making power, to report the eventual draft of the treaty with the former central powers with the league covenant as a part of the treaty itself, if in his judgment and that of the peace conference an agree ment formally terminating the war would be incomplete without it. If the president made such a recom mendation. Mr. Taft said, he ventured to doubt If there would be a majority of the members willing to assume the responsibility of decreeing that the treaty be amended by striking out the constitution of the league and commit ting the question to further discussion at Parish Mr. Taft stated his opinion that the problem would have "a some what different aspect" for senators upon whom would be laid the blame for "postponing peace." llobthevlam Ileal Menace. Though he relied upon America's training for hundreds of years in self government to counteract the "hard. cruel, murderous specter of bolshov- ism" in this country, Mr. Taft asserted that "if it spreads over and destroys the existing governments 'In France and England and Italy and includes the whole of Europe in its poisonous and contagious influence, we must not minimize its dangers to our own civili zation." HORACE E. COLEMAN COMING Tokio Sunday School Worker Due in Portland Friday. Word was received yesterday morn ing from San Francisco ann6uncing the expected arrival of Horace E. Cole man of Tokio. field secretary of the World's Sunday School association for Japan, in Portland Friday. Mr. Coleman is coming to America In the interest of the eighth world's Sunday School convention to be held in Japan next year. He carries letters from the mayor of Tokio and other Japanese officials inviting the con vention to their land. The association programme calls for world's conven tions every four years, the last three having been held respectively in Je rusalem, Washington, D. C. and Zu rich. The coming convention was originally planned for 1917 but was de ferred on account of the war. Mr. Coleman will deliver an address on conditions in Japan Friday at 8 1. M. in the Sunday school auditorium of the First Presbyterian church. Busi ness men will have an opportunity to meet him at luncheon Saturday. IRISH PATRIOT HONORED Memorial Services Held Last Even ing: at Hibernla Hall. Tribute to the memory of Robert Emmet, Irish patriot, was offered by the Ancient order of Hibernians in memorial services Monday evening at Hibernla hall. The memorial address was delivered by Hev. J. W. Printer, who sketched the history of Ireland from its earliest beginning down to the present time. Irish dances by little Miss Helen Far rell were greatly enjoyed. The talented little Miss responded to repeated en cores until exhausted. John D. Walsh delivered "Emmet's Speech from the Dock." Vocal solos were given by Michael Brcnnan, a re turned sailor, and Joseph Kelleher. a youth wich a pleasing soprano voice. Frank Mallon gae an Interpretative Irish dance. A resolution asking Congressman Mc Arthur to support a congressional res olution favoring self-determination for Ireland wis adopted by a unanimous rising vote. U. S. STILL HOLDS COPPER Arrangement for Sale of Surplus Not Yet Effected. WASHINGTON. March 4. No agree ment has been reached between copper producers and the war department as to the disposal of 140,000,000 pounds of copper acquired by the government during the war. It was said today that suggestions by producers were not regarded by the department as satl factors'. In restoring its great copper surplus to ordinary channels the government expects to have Industries absorb such part of it as would not seriously affect the market. It was Indicated at the war depart ment that officials were opposed to being placed in the position of sup porting the copper market by holding all its great surplus in storage. Navy-Yard Worker Arrested. VALLEJO, Cal.. March 4. On infor mation that the J160 check he was at tempting to cash was issued to another man of the same name by a life in surance company of Tacoma. A. li Peterson, an employe of the navy-yard here, was placed under arrest here to day. He will be taken to Tacoma for Vial. Marriage License Issued. TACOMA, Wash., March 4. (Special.) Nels John Hult, Aloha. Wash., and Hedwig Ingleborg Swenson, Aberdeen, obtained a marriage license in Tacoma today. Read The Oregonlan classified ads. Tbr DUTCH ACTION. DEFENDED CRITICISM OI' HOLLAND'S WAll attitidi: ii:PLom:i. Dr. J'Jin Loudon Comments on Atti tude of Holgtnn Press Itecard Ing Netherlands Neutrality. PAULS. March 4. (By tho Associated Press.) "It is highly regrettable that the Hclglan press has taken a hostile attitude toward Holland. 1 cannot be lieve this attitude intt-rprets the feel ings of a million llelaians who found refuge on Dutch soil in 1914." said D John Loudon today on being questioned as to possible friction between Belgium and Holland. Dr. Loudon, who was formerly Dutch minister at Washington and was for eign minister of Holland during the war. Is In Paris for a brief sojourn. He said that comment in the Belgian press as to Holland's neutrality during the struggle was misleading, pointing, out that the orange books published by the Dutch government would prove the real farts. Referring to the question raised when German troops were permitted to pass through the Dutch province of Limburg. Dr. Loudon said the Germans were disarmed by Dutch frontier guards before being permitted to cross the border and that they therefore reached German territory without arms, ammunition or equipment. 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