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THE MORNING OREGON'IAN. WEDNESDAY, NOVE3IBER 2G, 1919. TRANSACTIONS BARED BY e AMBASSADOR Soviet Envoy Tells of Cash Payments. Big EX -OFFICIAL IS INVOLVED Propaganda "Work Is Admitted. Iricnds Whose Names Are With licld, Declared Ready to Help. NEW YORK. Nov. 25. Ludwis C. A. K. Martens, who calls himself am bassador of the soviet government of Russia, admitted late today that ho paid Dudley -ITieia. Malone, former collector of the port of New York," $1000 on .September 12 for "help in a commercial transaction." Ho told the joint legislative committee investi gating radical activities that it was for advice in trying to arrange a S9, 6ftc,000 shipment of boots, meats and chemicals to be paid for on delivery In PetroRrad. The bolshevlfei do not intend to re pudiate $100,000,000 worth of bonds issued by the imperial and provisional governments of Russia, as reported, according to Martens. Martens as serted that although the soviet gov ernment had been authorized by the all-Russian congress of Soviets to re pudiate obligations contracted in pre ceding regimes, it did not intend to take advantage of this permission. Settlement Held Authorized. Instead, Martens testified, his gov ernment had sent him official author ization to arrange for a settlement on outstanding bonds, a large proportion of which were sold in this country. 21a did not explain on what basis a settlement could be effected. He .said he hoped to -arrange a set tlement not only in the case of bonds n which interest will come due next June, but also in the case of others on which interest has been defaulted. Refore" calling Martens before them, members of the committee held aa executive session, at which it was de cided to submit to the state depart ment a transcript of his testimony with a view to having him deported. During a discussion of communist principles, Martens said that Lenine and Trotsky had receded somewhat from their former attitude in calling upon the workers of the world to arise against the bourgeoise of all countries. He defined the government of the United States as. "a demo cratic" and later as a "capitalistic" one. Deal With CapMal Desired. Martens said the Russian soviet government was not trying to fight "capital" in the United States, but wished to "make a compromise with it." "Temporary?" he was asked. "Why should it be temporary?" he replied. vlartens testified that since coming to this country his "embassy" had re ceived $90,000 from the Russian soviet government. He added that this was his only source of funds and that he' had not received a cent in contribu tions here. His last consignment of cash, amounting to $15,000, arrived two months ago. He testified that the weekly-payroll of his "embassy," including his own salary, totaled $1200. He added that he employed 30 persons in five departments. Corporation Report Denied. Martens denied he knew that Ma lone had formed or was forming "a corporation to do business with soviet Russia" and declared that his "em bassy" was not specifically interested in such an organization. He did not know that Malone "had been speaking in behalf of the soviet government of Russia,' either before or after he paid him $1000, he said, and denied that he and Malone had spoken from the same platform in Madison Square Garden here last June. Malone was not regular counsel for the soviet. Martens said, but was em ployed eolely as a special agent plans to buy and ship to Russia $3.0U0,0U0 worth of boots and $4,500, ouo worth of other supplies. .Martens asserted in reply to ques tions volleyed at him by Attorney- General Newton that 25 per cent of his activities here are devoted to propaganda for recognition of the Russian soviet government by the lrn i ted States, or "publicity work to impress upon the American people that the Russian soviet form of gov ernment is desirable." Urn rich Office KMablinhed. Inquiries based on the committee's announced efforts to find out if Mar tens is or is not in reality chief of the communist radicals trying to spread revolution throughout the United States, brought no definite af firmative results today. M-irtens ad mitted having a branch cifice in De troit in charge of a Dr. Rovin. which has been established for the last four months with a small force of workers. The reason for this sub-bureau, Marions said, was because of plans looking toward the purchase of motor cars and tractors for the soviet, Hj had "negotiated" with the Ford Motor company, but had not actually bought anything there, he said. Ho admitted that he "knew all the time" that he could not ship anything in large amounts to Russia. Couriers brought as much as $20,000 at a time in secret and carried back correspondence the same way, he said. He flatly refused to tell how they came and went, who they -were, or where they could be found. He claimed the privilege accorded a rec ognized diplomatic representative in this and declined to produce official communications or divulge official instructions received between the soviet a Much Coin Held Available. Confronted by his check books seized in raids on his headquarters some time age, Martens admitted re ceipt of "Stockholm, Sweden, draft for $4000." which he deposited November 1. He refused to say from whom he received it or what it was for. He acknowledged a $1000 check to his order, deposited in a local bank, as a "loan from Dr. Mitleg of New York. He caid the doctor had advanced him $2500, of which he had paid back $1000. Martens aid he had many friends who would give him "tens of thou sands of dollars" if he wanted it Later he said he could not give their namss, as he meant friends of the cause of soviet Russia whom he had never approached for money and who had not specifically offered it. SCREEN IS EXPOSED ndrhfioft made Senator Jones Glad Treaty Is Made Political Issue. WILSON'S PART IS SHOWN Ratification Only Possible by Com promise Americanizing Pact, Washington Solon Says. MUSICAL ACT IS W1KNER OKPHEUM: STARS WILIj close ENGAGEMENT TODAY. Maud Lambert and Ernest It. Ball, Composer, Delight Audiences With N'ovcl Act. As the-Hcilig theater has been en gaged tonight for the Portland Sym phony orchestra the final performance of Orpheum vaudeville will be staged r. .... ... ...... . - I - V ;V y t -'- " ' v I V - f i V: A " 1 i Ernest R. Ball, composer who J clones Portland engagement I today. X 4 A m A this afternoon. The headllners of the Orpheum show, which is classed as one of the most popular of the sea son, are Maud Lambert, musical com edy favorite, and Ernest R. Ball, the famous composer. ,-' In the act of Miss Lambert and Mr. Ball songs composed by the noted balladist are featured. Mr. Ball is the author of "Mother Machree," "Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold, "Love Me and tne World Is Mine "A Little Bit of Heaven" and many oth ers which are Internationally popular. Mr. Ball plays a medley of his best sellers, singing strains from each, and invariably the audiences applaud at the beginning of every song in the musical melange. Mr. Ball injects comedy into the act by adding antics to his piano play ing while he accompanies for Miss Lambert and the entire act is such a favorite that the composer and song stress have "stopped" every show dur ing their Portland engagement. The extra added attraction of the Lambert-Ball show is "Indoor Sports a comeay Dasea on tne various ways or Drmging aoout popping of the question and the third b;g-type fea ture is Georgie Edwards, the juvenile made famous by tne great producer. Gus Edwards. This entire show will appear at the San Francisco Orpheum next Sunday arternoon. KANZLER'S GOUBT STANDS LEGALITY UNCHALLENGED BY ACT OP JUDGE GATEXS. Case In Question Ends With Dig- charge of Child Attorneys to Eile Another Suit. 3 Try Nakina Your Own 3 Cough Remedy pj Yon ru sve ebon! ' $2. and have Ln bcilrr irmedy than the md . mad kind. EtwU; don. 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Pinex is a most valuable concen trated compound of genu ine- Norway puie extract, and haa been used for generations to break up severe coughs. To avoid disappointment, ask your druggist for ounces of Pinex" with full directions, and don't accept anything else. Guaranteed to give ab h!uk' .-at isfactioii or nsoiify prompt 1 v refunded. The Pinex Co.. J?'t Wayne, Ind. Adv. Legality of the court of domestic relations stands unchallenged, as the result of an order signed by Presiding Judge Uatens yesterday dismissing haiieas corpus action in which the constitutionality of the new court was attacked. The dismissal order did not pass on the question of legal ity or the court. Judge ivunzier discharged 14-year-old Louise Beetine from custody of his court as soon as the petition for habeas corpus was filed, thus leaving nothing but a moot question before the court. Thus the primary object for which the petition was filed, the release of the girl, had been attained When Attorneys A. M. Crawford and TV. C. Campbell presented the dis missal order for signature, they an nounced that they had not surren dered the idea of finding out whether or not the court of domestic relations was legally in existence. "Another suit which will bring the question to issue in a way which can not be evaded or side-stepped will be filed within two weeks." announced Attorney Campbell. "We might have gone ahead with the case in hand, but to pursue a habeas corpus case when the child sought had been released from custody without any conditions being attached was considered a poor way to continue an attack on a court we believe to be invalid. The lawyer declined to say just what form hts new offensive would take. Virtually the only proceedings that could be brought, outside of an other habeas corpus action, would be quo warranto proceedings by the dis trict attorney, questioning the right of the court to continue operations, or a possible mandamus action against the county treasurer by a taxpayer, demanding that the salary of Judge Kanzter and officials of his court be not paid on the ground that the or ganization is not leg-ally constituted. OREGON'IAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, Nov. 25. W e 1 c o m In g the attempt of democratic senators to drag the peace treaty into poli tics. Senator Jones of Washington, tn a statement today exposed some of the inaccuracies of democrats. After voting against the treaty at the die tation of the president they now are trying to throw a smoke screen around the democratic record, and are seeking to place on republican shoulders full responsibility for the failure of the treaty to get the neces sary two-thirds vote of the senate last week. Not only does Senator Jones wel come the injection of the treaty issue into politics, but he backs up Re pub lican Leader Lodge, and serves notice that the treaty can only be ratified with reservations which Americanize it. Compromise is not beyond achieve ment, he says, but "senators desiring compromise must come forward with something else than their old demand for ratification without the dotting of an i or the crossing of a "t. Sincere offers of compromises. Sen ator Jones says, will be fairly con sidered, but they mast be specific and they must yield to what the sen ator regards as an overwhelming de mand for the Americanization of the treaty Democrats Talk Compromise. In hi s statement. Senator Jones says:- ' Democratic senators -who voted against ratification of the peace treaty are doing a lot of talking now about compromising. They are try ing to throw a smoke screen around their votes. They say 80 senators are for a league of nations. .Forty-one voted for it. What of the other 39? They voted no. Of the 41 voting aye, 34 were republicans and seven were democrats. The 39 who claim to be for the league of nations but who voted no are democrats. Why did they vote no? Because they were told to do so by the president. Everyone here knows that, ana the country will know it. "Every reservation adopted by the senate protects American interests and American rights. No senator ever charged any one of them with being injurious to the United States. To Americanize the league of nations for us. American interests were not pro tected in the treaty and have not been proteced in any way by our represen tatives at Paris. These reservations do with the 'treaty what our repre sen tatives should have done. These reservations -are themselves the result of compromise among those who are friendly to an Americanized treaty. The treaty cannot be ratified without them. Many voted for it with reservations with much misgiv ing and only because our representa fives in Paris had got us so tangled up in European affairs that it may be wiser to come out than stay in. Preamble Hay Be (hantrd. "We may agree to a change in the preamble, but all the other reserva tions will have to be agreed to sub stantially as they are if the treaty is to be ratified. Those senators who now talk com promise but who voted no, must sub mit something concrete. They mus come down to brass tacks. They hav been against compromise all the time With them it feas been the treaty without the dotting of an 'i or th crossing of a t They defeated the league covenant. They voted against purely American interests. When they come from behind their imok screen and say just what they are ready to do to protect the United States, then a compromise can be con sidered by those who are willing to accept an Americanized covenant, and not before. senator Jones r Washington, as chairman Of the commerce committee, has been placed in charge of th water power bill, and is planning to bring that bill before the senate early next session, and as soon as the rail- road bill has been disposed of. In its j present form. Senator Jones believes the bill will command the support of a majority of the senate, and he has been assured privately by capital that is awaiting an opportunity, to invest, that development will take place under the bill as it how stands. Bill la Compromise. The senator frankly admits the bill is a compromise, and is not such a bill as would have been written by the radical conservationists on the one hand, or by the water-power In terests on the other. However, he find both factions tired of the long controversy and willing to compro mise on the bill now on the .senate calendar. SenAtor Jones expects the main fiarht'will center on three important amendments adopted by the senate - '-'in mi lite in reporting liio uuuso ill. One robs the water-power com- i mission of the unlimited authority to x rates and charges, which was con- erred by the house bill. Under the ouse bill the commission could fix reasonable annual charges." There was no restraint whatever, so the senate committee wrote a new provl- ion laying down a guide which the commission shall follow in determin ing reasonable charges. For the privilege of using govern ment lands a fair charge, reckoned the actual value of the land oc upied, shall be fixed. In no case to xceed 25 cents per horsepower de eloped; reasonable charges, based on alue, shall be made for the use of government dams by power companies nd each project shall bear its pro portionate share of the total cost of dministering the water-power act. Beyond these limitations, the com mission may not go. Question of Terms Rises. The second amendment likely to rouse opposition stipulates that at the expiration of a lease, if the gov ernment does not take over the power plant or does not tender a new license reasonable terms, annual licenses hall be issued on the terms of the original license until a new arrange ment Is entered into. The insertion of the words "on reasonable terms" by the senate committee is intended to let the courts pass upon the rea sonableness of any new terms offered and to take this arbitrary power out of the hands of the commission. The third change stinulates that where power contracts extend be yond the 60-year lease, period state commissions alone shall pass upon the reasonableness of terras at which power shall be sold. The house bill provided for joint state and federal jurisdiction, a plan the-senate committee considered like ly to result - in conflicts and em barrassments, t Radical conservationists are ex pected to oppose the senate- amend ments, but unless these amendments are accepted in substance private cap ital insists there""wtll be little devel opment under the bill. Senator Jones is hopeful that the long deadlock on water-power legislation may be brok en by the pending compromise, espe cially In view of the striking lesson the senate and the country recently have had of the refusal of contend ing factions to compromise. NORTH DAKOTA BILL HITS SYNDICALISM Measure Carries Ten -Year Penalty for Violation. SOLONS FACE LONG FIGHT WHEAT SPECULATORS HIT ATTORXEY FISDS INDICATIONS OF MILL PROFITEERING. Washington Federation of Farm Organizations Informed of Findings of Grand Jury. SPOKANE. Wash.. Nov. 25. Evi dence that milling companies of Idaho and Washington have their own grain buying corporations, separate from their milling activities, has been dis closed by investigations of federal of ficials in connection with the grand jury's investigation into the hi i cost of living, it was declared by Charles H. Leavy, assistant United Btates dis trict attorney, before the Washington State Federation of Farm organiza tions here today. Profiteering in the milling business in this section by the use of premiums Indicated, he said. Premiums have been advancing, he declared, since October 1, and one miller recently pre dicted a price of 20 a barrel for flour within a short time. 'I do not believe the rarmers are responsible for the advance in wheat Drices during the last few weeks," Mr. Leavy declared. "I am convinced the farmer sold his wheat some time ago Speculators, by the payment of pre miums have been making the money. The Plumb plan of railroad control was opposed and return of the rail' roads to Drivate ownership was com mended In resolutions adopted this afternoon by the federation. The res olutions also indorsed the principle of collective bargaining for organiza tions of farmers and laborers, de manded the abolition of speculation in farni products and to that end asked that the government ascertain and publish from time to time the cost of producing them. Th need of a. united front of farm organizations was emphasized, but po litical alliances witn any organiza tion by the farmers were condemned. A greater voice in the government was demanded for the farmers, and it was stated that their interests must be considered in settlements between capital and labor. The stand of the American Legion against disloyal or ganizations and Individuals was In dorsed. In London ladies' maids who are also qualified to run milady auto mobile are paid an eictra high -wage. Governor's Appeal for Invcstiga- F tions Expected to Prolong Ses sion of Legislative Assembly. BISMAKCK. N. D.. Nov. 23. A bill defining criminal syndicalism, which would make it a felony in this state to advocate or teaeh "the duty, ne cessity or propriety of crime, sabot age, violence or other unlawful -methods of terrorism," will be Introduced, probably tomorrow, by Representa tive E. W. Herbert in the state leg islature, which began its extraordi nary session today. The bill would prohibit assemblages for teaching syndicalism and provides a penally of not less than 10 years' imprison ment or fine of not less than 15000 or aSth. After hearing addresses by Gover nor L. J. Frazier arid Associate Jus tice J. E. Robins of the state supreme court and referring to a committee a resolution to ratify the woman's suf frage amendment, both houses ad journed until tomorrow. The house affairs committee tonight decided to present the amendment for action tomorrow. In his address Governor Frazier urged appointment of a committee of five to "investigate any attempt made by individuals or corporations to destroy the credit of the state by misrepresentation of its laws or of its industrial programme; to investl gate election frauds, illegal and im proper expenditure of state funds and illegal acts of public officials." Some legislators believe this would mean a long special session. Offiriala Are Hit. Governor Krazier's recommenda tions were aimed at Secretary of State Thomas Hall, State Auditor Carl Kositzky and Attorney-General William Langer. These state offi cials were elected with the support of the Non-Partisan league, but for several months they have been lead ers of the faction opposed to the ma jority league faction which is beaded by President A. C. Townley. "A determined effort has been made by some few obstructionists to delay and prevent the putting into operation and the carrying out of the industrial programme enacted . by you at the last session," said Gov ernor Frazier in his message. The three state officials have vigorously opposed some of the Industrial laws which were enacted at the last ses sion. Tax Redaction TTra-ed. Fifty per. cent reduction of all tax levies in North Dakota was urged by Associate Justice J. E. Robinson of the state supreme court in a message and bills presented today at the opening of the state legislature. The message was said to be the first ever presented to the state lecllature by a jurisu A general law, with an emergency clause, was suggested by Justice Robinson as a means to accomplish the proposed decrease. "There is no possible justification or excuse for the assessment and the excessive tax levies of this year,' the judge declared in his message. 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Two Linn county cities have reported already to County Assessor Van Win kle the amounts on which their tax levies on the 1919 assessment roll of the county will be computed. Lebanon has adopted a budget of 118.400 and Scio one of $1400. There are six other Incorporated cities end towns in the county to report later. Reclamation Fund Proposed. SALEM. Or.. Nov. 35. (Special.) The citizen of Oregon will be asked to subscribe approximately 13000 to carry on a campaign to obtain a fed- A flllfl differ in quality just as other things do. We spe cialiie in highest qualities rugs that are symbolic of Oriental romance of most artistic design that grow in value with use and age. Our policy of merchandising puts them within your reach at no more than the ordi nary kind. Gift rugs will be held, if de sired, for Christmas delivery. WOMEN SOLD FOR 85c EACH .-- - - 101 J' W ) man Hit aSr' Mr girirJi IUI Now Showing II A mystery drama with an all-star cast Look 'em over. 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