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Senate Committee Acts on
League Covenant.
CHANGES MADE IN TREATY
Majority Report to Be Given
Next Week; Ratification to
Be Conditional.
3 POWERS MUST FIRST ACCEPT
Monroe Doctrine, Withdrawal,
Domestic Affairs, Article
10 Disputed Points.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. The sen
ate foreign relations committee late
today finished its work on the peace
treaty with . Germany, and, after
adopting four reservations to the
league of nations covenant, ordered
the treaty reported to the senate
with about two score amendments
previously incorporated.
The treaty now passes, so far as th
United States is concerned, into its
final stage that of open consider
tion by the senate for ratification or
Ejection. Committee action was de
rred on the special treaty to protect
France and on other treaties sub
mitted.
Chairman Lodge will return the
treaty to the senate with a formal
majority report. late next week.
minority report by the democrats op
posing both amendments and reserva
tions is to be filed within three days
thereafter and it is expected that
actual consideration of the treaty will
begin about September 15.
Long Debate Expected.
"Weeks of debate, before the final
Tote, are expected. The first contest
will be over the committee's amend
ments, with the final and decisive
struggle over the reservations, which
the resolution provides, must be spe
cifically accepted by three of the four
great powers France, Japan, Italy
and Great Britain.
"Conclusion of the committee's work,
which has taken nearly two months,
came somewhat unexpectedly today at
a special executive session of three
hours' stormy debate.
The four reservations which were
sponsored by Chairman Lodge and
written into a resolution providing
for conditional ratification of the
treaty, provide:
First, for "unconditional" with
drawal of the United States from the
league.
Second, refusal of this nation to as
sume any foreign territorial guaran
tees under article X of the league
covenant of mandates without action
by congress.
Third, exclusive action by the
United States on domestic affairs,
and
Fourth, interpretation, of the Mon
roe doctrine solely by this nation.
Tarty Lines Broken.
On all four reservations the party
lines of the committee were shat
tered. Senator McCumber voted with
the democrats in opposition to these
dealing with article X and the with
drawal provision but joined his col
leagues in supporting those provi
sions affecting the Monroe doctrine
nd domestic affairs. Senator Shields,
democrat, Tennessee, joined the re
publicans in supporting all of the res
ervations except that concerning terri
torial guarantees, on which he with
held his vote. The other six demo
crats of the committee voted solidly
against all reservations.
After the vote on the resolution of
ratification and the reservations, the
treaty as amended was adopted and
reported without a record vote.
Text of Resolution.
The resolution of ratification with
the reservations adopted follows:
"Resolved (two-thirds of the sena
tors present concurring therein) that
the senate advise and consent to the
ratification of a treaty of peace with
Germany, signed by the plenipotenti
aries of the United States and Ger
many and by the plenipotentiaries of
the 27 allied and associated powers at
Versailles on June 28, 1919, with the
following reservations and understand
ings to be made a part and a condition
f such ratification, which ratification
is not to take enect or Dina tne
Tokyo Sends Agent Upon TTnknow
Mission to Shantung, Sajs
Letter From Peking.
SACRAMENTO, Sept. 4. A letter to
the Sacramento Bee. dated Fekin
China. July 31. and published today,
says:
The boycott Instituted by the Chi
nese against the Japanese because of
the Shantung; controversy la groins;
as strong- aa ever, though three months
hare passed. The published returns of
exports from Japan to China show
decided decrease. In some lines th
reduction has been as much as 50 per
cent. Already the Japanese government
has sent Mr. Yoshizawa, formerly first
secretary at Pekln, on a mission to
Shantung and Pekln. What object lies
behind his mission no one knows yet.
The recent students' agitation
which began In May with the burning
of the house of Tsao Ju Lin and tne
beatinsr of Chan Chung Hsiang. late
minister in Japan, was a wonderful
thing perhaps the most remarkable
incident since the revolution of 1S11.
The two officials named are of the
five prominent officials of China who
are openly charged with being agents
of Japan.
'This agitation was responsible for
the discomfiture of the pro-Japanese,
the beginning and continuance of the
boycott, the establishment of number
less new Industries; the awakening of
the illiterate and mercantile classes.
nd the shaky positions of the mili
tarists.
Mr. James Potter, late United States
ambassador to Italy, spent some time
in Pekln and the .Yang- Tse valley this
year and has expressed his views In
the Japan Advertiser, where he warned
the Japanese of the mistrust which
they have raised against them among
all peoples."
LABOR WILL SEEK PARDONS
Seattle Cnion to Petition "Wilson
for "Political Prisoners." .
SEATTLE. Wash.. Sept. 4. (Special.)
Seattle's organized labor is planning
to ask President Wilson to order the
release of so-called "political prisoners"
sentenced during the war, when the
nation's chief executive visits this city
September IS, according to the pro
gramme outlined at the Wednesday
right meeting of the central labor
council.
The unions plan to distribute an open
letter to the president among- the
crowds and If possible to have a com
mittee see Mr. Wilson himself. The
attention of the president will be called
to the case of Hulet M. Wells, who is
serving; a sentence in the federal peni
tentiary for the Issuance of seditious
literature
SIDE ISSUE PAYS WELL
Duerst Brothers, Sheepmen, Take
Dash at Wheat," $22,000.
SHERIDAN, Or.. Sept. 4. (Special.)
The Duerst brothers. Bill and John.
well-known fancy sheepmen or the
Beilevue district, took a dash at grain
raising as a side issue this year. They
completed hauling their crop of wheat
and oats yesterday and received a check
for $12,000 from a local miller.
Their wheat averaged 47 bushels to
the acre and was graded 12.01. borne
patches of the acreage went more than
0 bushels oer acre. They also bad
3000 sacks of oats.
The results of the Duerst brothers'
effort is fairly indicative of all Beilevue
farmers. Grain" warehouses all through
this part of the Willamette valley are
full to overflowing.
"Put Up" Peace Plan o
"Shut Up" Is Challenge.
FIRST TWO SPEECHES MADE
Columbus and Indianapolis
Crowds Cheer-Wilson.
RATIFICATION IS PREDICTED
People Trged
Wars Declared
der - Paris
to Forget Party
"Improbable" Vn
Programme.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 4. "Put
up or shut up," was tke advice given
opponents of the league of nations by
President Wilson here tonight in the
second address of his 10-mile tour of
the United States. "If the critics of
the league have something better to
uggest," said the president, "I hope
they will hold their convention and
do It now." 1
He said the league opponents could
not hope to defeat the programme ex
cept by offering- something better.
The president told a crowd of several
thousand here tonight, in the second ad.
ress of his tour, that no one believed
the league of nations would make all
wars impossible, but that he believed
it would make war "improbable."
War to Be "On Outskirts."
ine economic and arbitration sec
tions of the covenant, he asserted.
would keep war on the outskirts and
make it only a last resort."
Opponents of the league of nations,
i said, had discussed only three out
26 articles of the covenant. The
articles which would make war im
probable had been overlooked.
Calling on opponents of the league
nations to present a "better pro-
ramme for peace," President Wilson
eclared It is a case of put up or shut
Opponents Held Icvorant
The president said his speaking tour
was partly to point out how "abso-
utely ignorant" of the covenant some
of those were who opposed the league.
"If they read the English language
at all," he said, "they do not under
stand it as I do."
The president said he wanted to for
get and wanted people to forget that
they were republicans or democrats.
I am an American," he declared.
and a champion of the -rights which
America believes in."
At this the crowd cheered and there
was another outburst of cheering when
declared he had "not the slightest
of
of
Warden Steiner Gives Credit to Lib
eral Policy of State Dealing
With ConTicts.
SALEM. Or.. Sept. 4. (Special.)
The liberal policy in vogue in Oregon,
elimination of saloons and the law
passed by the last legislature making-
it possible for convicts to get credit for
ten days each month for good behavior
are held responsible for the email pop
ulation of the state penitentiary. In
statement made by Warden Steiner at
the regular ' monthly meeting of the
board of control today.' The population
of the prison on three days last month
was 244, the lowest shown by the rec
ords of the Institution in more than
40 years.
By authorizing the employment of
two additional nurses at the state hos
pital, the board has made it possible
for all night -attendants to have one
night off duty eacn week. Under the
present system the nurses work every
night In the week. , -
Action on a letter presented by the
New York board of charities asking for
adoption of a resolution tending toward
the removal of O. R. Lovejoy, president
of the National Board of Charities, be'
cause he wrote a letter in defense of
Eugene V. Debs, was continued by the
board for investigation.
Warden Steiner's report shows that
the state will harvest about 400 tons of
flax from 403 acres. The product has
been pulled and is now being hauled
to the plant for drying.
$114,000,000 FOR BASE
San Francisco Xaval Development
Estimate Is Made.
VALLEJO, Cal., Sept. 4. Expenditure
of $114,000,000 for the development of
the San Francisco bay naval base was
proposed in plans submitted by Captain
L. Beach, commandant of Mare
sland navy-yard, to Secretary of the
Navy Daniels, who, with Admiral Hugh
Rodman, inspected the Mare Island
navy-yard near here today.
Development of the Mare Island yard
would cost $26,000,000, according to the
plans. The Alameda site, across the
bay from San Francisco, would cost
$42,000,000, and the Hunter's Point site
at the southern end of this city, $46,
000,000, it was estimated.
(Concluded on Paso 2, Column 1.)
IBERTY MOTOR SUCCEEDS
Caproni Triplane With American
Engine Conquers Alps.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4. News of a suc
cessful European flight of a Caproni
triplane equipped with Liberty motors,
was made public here today by D. G.
Conti, American representative of the
Caproni company. A telegram deceived
by Mr. Contln from Milan said:
"Caproni triplane fitted with Liberty
motors and 18-passenger cabin flew
from Milan across the Alps to Lyons,
Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, on its way
to London."
Cruiser and 6 Destroyers
Due at 4 o'clock.
Is
GIH PREPARES GAY WELCOME
Mayor and Governor in Motor
boat to Meet Squadron.
DANIELS TO COME MONDAY
1000 Officers and Men to Be Port
land's Guests at Dinners, Dances,
Theaters and on Highway.
TO THE PUBLIC.
' The United States government
fs sending to Portland a group of
warships comprising a part of the
great Pacific fleet. This will be
our opportunity to show our ap
preciation of the American navy,
and it is up to the citizens of the
city to co-operate to the limit.
It is essential that the Ameri
can flag and American naval
flags be in evidence everywhere,
and citizens are therefore re
quested to display these from res
idences, stores and buildings
throughout the city from Friday
morning until Tuesday night.
GEORGE L. BAKER, Mayor.
Escorted by six destroyers, the
cruiser Birmingham is scheduled to
steam into Portland harbor about 4
o'clock this afternoon. The big fight
ing machines of the ocean which did so
much to "put 'im across" during the
war will steam up the river in com
mand of Rear Admiral H. A. Wiley, to
find the Rose City in readiness for their
arrival. The destroyers Boggs, Palmer,
Crosby, Thatcher, Ward and Walker are
the vessels assigned to accompany the
ruiser on her northern trip and more
than 1000 officers and enlisted men will
be guests of the city until September 10.
Definite announcement was received
yesterday by Mayor Baker of the com
ing of the fleet and his committee has
perfected all- arrangements for enter
tainment of the men. Theater man
agers at a meeting yesterday outlined
plans for distribution of tickets among
the men and Frank J. McGettigan. man
ager of the Orpheum-theater, was ap
pointed to take charge of details of an
entertainment to be staged in the
Hellig theater, probably Saturday night.
During the time the "gobs" are in Port
land the committee will make an effort
Stumbling Block to Settlement
Request for Five-Year Pact
Barring Walkouts.
NEW YORK, Sept 4. (Special.)
Making it pass i bits that the actors'
strike may end at any moment, a
proposition Is now in the hands of the
Actors' Equity association and the
stagehands' and musicians' labor or
ganizations from the Producing Man
agers' association granting certain con
cessions and asking certain agreements
In return, it became known this after
noon. The managers are now awaiting
a reply to their offer, which has been
in the hands of the strikng unons ail
day.'
The managers agree, it is understood.
to recognize the Equity and the rights
of its members to be represented in
case of disputes, and concede most of
the other demands made by the actors.
They ask, however, that the Equity and
the other organizations agree not to
go out on strike for a period of five
years. This is the big stumbling block.
as it is figured that even should the
Equity incline toward such an agree
ment th.e stagehands' and musicians'
unions would never agree to such an
idea, nor would the American Federa
tion of Labor.
oome Deiieve that the managers
realize the five-year pledge is pretty
stiff, and that they asked for it in the
expectancy that the actors will make
a counter offer which will give eome
satisfactory pledge.
mere were new rumors (all uncon
firmed) during the day of a possible
strike by vaudeville performers.
POLICIES STOUTLY DEFENDED
GERMANS BID' FOR TRADE
Toy-Makers Offer to Sell at Prices
Under Those of 1914.
(Copyright by the Xew York World. Pub
lished by arrangement.)
LONDON, Sept. 4. (Special Cable.)
German manufacturers of games and
toys nave made definite advances to
distributors of those articles here to in
duce them to order from Germany at
prices even below those demanded in
1914. The journal of the toy shop and
fancy goods trade made inquiries of
dealers as to the effect of their unre
stricted importation into the country.
It would close us down, probably,"
was the gist of most of the answers.
One correspondent wrote:
"Japanese competition Is the most
vital-thing at. present, and if H- is not
controlled it may easily become more
damaging than German competition."
(Concluded on Pagw 14, Column 1.)
THE ELOPEMENT.
U. S. TROOPS' ZONE LARGER
Foch Gives Back Bridgehead a
Coblenx for Permanent Occupancy.
COBLENZ. Sept-" 4. (By the Asao
dated Press.) Marshal Foch. the allied
commander-in-chief, has decided upon
the extent of the territory in the Rhlne-
and to be' held permanently by Amer
lean forces. Its area will be twice as
larsre as that which has been under
American Jurisdiction since the last
combat division left for home.
By Marshal Foch's decision, which
was arrived at In Paris, the Americans
are again to take over all the Coblenx
bridgehead proper, or exactly the same
territory on the east bank of the-Rhine
as the Americana have occupied since
December last.
OAKLAND SHAKEN BY QUAKE
Shock Is Heaviest In Tears, bat So
Damage Is Reported.
OAKLAND. Cal.. Sept. 4. Oakland
and other cities In the east bay dis
trict were startled shortly after 1
o'clock today by the heaviest earth
quake ehock felt in several years. No
damage was reported. '
An earthquake of one 'second's dura
tion was registered on the seismograph
at the University of California at
Berkeley. The origin of the tembler
was near Berkeley.
HART NOT TO MEET WILSON
Governor. Uninvited, ' Has "So
Knowledge of Mission."
SPOKANE, Wash., Sept 4. Governor
L. F. Hart will not come to Spokane
next week to meet President Wilson,
a stated here today upon his arrival
from the good roads convention at
Yakima.
Not only have I not been invited to
meet the president." said the rovirnnr.
United States until the said follow- comlng. In ract l don.t know wnat tn.
(Concluded on Pace 6, Column 1.) 'president's mission is.
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SEIZURE OF PORK UPHELD
V. S. Supreme Court Declines to
Stop Sale of 75 Tons in Ohio.
CANTON, O., Sept. 4. Justice Will
iam R. Day of the United States su
preme court here today denied a writ
asking for a stay of execution in the
case of the state of Ohio against the
Columbus Packing company in which
75 tons of pork, said to have been held
In violation of the law, was seized by
the' prosecuting attorney of Franklin
county.
It is said the pork Will be placed on
the market and sold at once.
Milwaukee Influence Persist
ently Sought by Questioner.
CLASHES SPICE HEARING
General Testifies Siems-Carcy Con
cern First Proposed to Build
Road for Own Operations.
LABOR VOTE IS POSTPONED
Ballot or British Triple Alliance on
Direct Action to Wait.
LONDON, Sept. 4. The triple alli
ance of railway employes, transport
workers and miners at their meeting
here today decided to postpone consid
eration of the question of taking a
ballot again on direct action in support
of their demands.
The postponement will be until after
the Glasgow congress of trades unions
to te held September 8.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTERDArs Maximum temperature, 68
degrees; minimum, 56 degrees.
TODAY'S Probably rain; moderate souther
ly winds.
Foreign.
Germany falls to . observe peace terms.
Page 2.
Chinese hit Japan with trade boycott.
Page 1.
National
Senate foreign relations committee passes
four reservations to peace treaty. Page 1
Another American killed In Mexico. Page 2
Senator Underwood argues for government
board to regulate railroad rates and
wages. Page 3.
Senator Hiram W. Johnson Is urged by col
leagues to tour west in anti-league cam
paign. Page 3.
President In two speeches defies foes of
pact. Page 1.
Domestic
Federation of labor is asked to call special
conference to state labors situation.
Page 6.
Battleships start for Columbia river. Page 14.
Compromise offer made to striking actors.
Page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
State closes case against Judge Allen in
Seattle. Page 3.
Warden opposes use of convicts on out
side contracts. Page 4. '
Oregcn accident commission undertakes re
atructlon of injured men. Page 4.
Dry . law and parole policy cheat Oregon
prison. Page 1.
Sports.
W. M. Johnston wins national tennis hon
ors; Phil Neer and Vincent Richards de
feated in doubles. Page 16.
Pacific Coast league results: Portland 4,
Sacramento S; Salt Lake 5, Los Angeles
S; Vernon 7, San Francisco 2; Seattle
5-6. Oakland 3-3. Page 16.
Seattle rumor says Charley Mullen will not
boaa Kainlers in 1920. Page 16.
Commercial and Marine.
Grsjn movement to be controlled by indi
vidual permit system. Page 25.
Corn futures break nearly seven cents at
Chicago. Page 25.
Motors and oils strong features of irregular
stoak market. Page 25.
Harbor will close as fleet comes in. Page 24.
Shipyards grant rise and 44-hour week.
Page 19.
People of outside counties to have chance
to hear Wilson. Page 12.
Liquor returned; owner rearrested. Page 15.
All spruce policies O. K-, General Disque
testifies. Page 1.
Pacific fleet to anchor in Portland today, j
Vajtlt 1.
1
Through six hours of constant ques
tioning, largely directed toward the
status of the government's Olympic
peninsula spruce railroad, and the con
jecture that it may have been intrigued
for by the Milwaukee line. General
Brice P. Disque, former head of spruce
operations in the northwest, faced the
congressional committee of Inquiry in
this city yesterday.
Strongly defending his policies in the
spruce production programme. General
Disque did not hesitate to assume full
responsibility for all official actions,
and to condemn as falsehood and preju
dice the charges that have been made
against him and his administration.
The session was spiced with occasional
clashes between the witness and his
questioners.
"I'm Reaponalble, Says Dlaque.
"Don't understand that I am holding
you responsible," said Chairman James
A. Frear, at one juncture, when the
tremendous cost of the Olympic penin
sula line was under discussion.
I am responsible," returned General
Disque.
You think you are." commented the
chairman. "But it's away beyond. If
you are responsible, then a great deal
rests on your shoulders."
The crest of the afternoon examina
tion came when General Disque, in nar
rating the circumstance leading: to the
Siems-Carey-H. S. Kerbaugh spruce and
railroad contract, testified that the
first proposal of this company had been
to construct ita own road for its own
logging operations on the Olympla
peninsula.
Country Seen; Offer Rejected.
They ofered to put In a railroad at
their own expense," said Chairman
Frear in amazement; "they were will
ing to do that, and yet you finally
determined that the government should
build it?"
"The real truth Is that Siems-Carey
learned a good deal about the country
after they came out here," said General
Disque, "and would never have entered
into such a contract."
"Why relieve them of the cost of
building this road, and then build it
at the expense of the government, at a
cost of J4.000.000?" inquired Repre
sentative W. W. Magee.
General Disque flamed up. He de
clared that no one seriously expected
them to build the road after they had
looked over the situation. He had had
no conferences, however, in which this
original proposal came up for discus
sion. It was apparent that they could
not comply with their original tender.
"They came out here and wouldn't
do it!" he declared.
"Who said so?" snapped Chairman
Frear. "Did they say so?"
Influence Pcroiiitently Songrht.
"No," admitted General Disque, "but
it would be unreasonable to assume
that any business man "
Representative Magee cut across the
discourse with the comment that it
was equally unreasonable to presume
that any business man wouldn't have
snapped at the Siems-Carey offer to
build the road, at their own expense,
the moment it was tendered.
The influence of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul railroad in the
choice of the Lake Crescent route to
Olympic peninsula spruce, was per
sistently sought by Chairman Frear in
his line of questioning, who pointed
to the type of ultimate construction,
and the cost of 14,000,000 for 36 miles
of line, as evidence that the spruce
road was really intended for transcon
tiaental purposes.
Following this trend of interrogation
throughout the day, the inquiry de
veloped the testimony that officials of
the Milwaukee road, including Presi
dent Byram and Vice-President Earl-
ing, had conferred with General Disque
relative to the Lake Crescent route.
Dlaque Declines Defeise.
Stress was also laid, in additional
testimony, upon, the circumstance that
General Disque is now president of G.
Amsinck & Co., of New York, at a sal
ary of 30,000 a year, and that his ap
pointment came at the instance of
John D. Ryan, director of the Milwau
kee road and former director-general
of aircraft production.
It was definitely testified, by another
witness, that the American Interna
tional company, of which Mr. Ryan Is a
director, owns 50 per cent of the stock
of the Siems-Carey company, and is in
sole control of G. Amsinck & Co.
Don't it eem as a practical propo
sition that the Milwaukee did have a
deep interest in that road if it could
buy it back from the government prac
tically for a sons?" insisted Chairman
Frear.
It isn't my job to defend the Mil
waukee," returned General Disque. "I
had no negotiations save those I de-
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