" 12 THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1910 CUMMINS' RAILWAY BILL AGAIN FLAYED Hope Held Out for Final Vote This Week, However. RETURN DELAY EXPECTED La Toilette and Dial Lead Renewed Attack Discussion Occu pies Xearly All Session. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. With the lev opportunity created by restora tion of the measure to the committee of the. whole, senate critics of the Cummins railroad bill today launched ft, new and heated attack on various provisions of the legislation designed to meet conditions incident to the lorthcomlng return of the railroad properties. Senators La Follette and Dial, flemocrat. South Carolina, led the re newed attack and their discussion occupied virtually the entire session. The result at adjournment was that tho measure was no nearer passage. Leaders, however, expressed hope to night that final vote would be reached before the end of the week. During the debate today republi can leaders of the senate and house conferred regarding holiday recess plans and leaders of the lower branch were assured that there is every prospect of having the railroad leg islation sent to conference before the holiday recess planned to begin De cember 20. Final enactment of the legislation is not probable, the lead ers agreed, until after congress re convenes next month. Legislation Expected First. Confidence was expressed by the conferees, however, that President Wilson would await enactment of the legislation in January before turning bark tbe properties. Director-General Hines has com pleted his report to President Wilson on hi recent conference with Chair men Cummins and Each of the house ard senate committees. In his attack on the bill. Senator La. Follette opposed return of the rail roads to private ownership as imprac ticable, urged a five-year extension of S-'ivernment control and charged that tho pending measure was virtually for the benefit of the railroads. The meas ure, he said, would not improve con ditions that have surrounded railroad operations in the past. If the roads are to be turned back, he contended, it would' be better to do it without any legislation than under the pro visions of the Cummins bill. Guarantee Clause Opposed. Senator Dial denounced especially the bill's provisions for a guaranteed return to the railroads of 5 Mi per cent on their face value and added that parts of the bill were "dreams and il lusions" as well as Impracticable. Senator McKellar, Tenn., joining In the same criticism, asserted that the rate guarantee could not be enforced in th pniirtn. Senators Curtis. Kan- f cas, and Pomerehe, Ohio, defended the rate provision. The senate tomorrow Is expected to report an amendment. Introduced late today by Senator Myers, democrat, eliminating provisions authorizing two employes and two representatives of the public to be members of the boards of directors of each railroad company. Budget I2atlmate Grow. Omissions in submitted estimates for the coming fiscal year bring the proposed expenditures of the govern ment up to $5,249,470,031 instead of 4.8S5.400.000. Representative Good, republican, Iowa, chairman of the ap propriations committee, told the house today. Items omitted from the esti Ynnten. Air Good fin Id. Included 178.- Iliou.OOO for road construction, already authorized; $150,300,000 for redemp tion of war savings certificates, re serve notes and miscellaneous public fri a h r u nt-Anicdl Vi xr SlttrifOlol'v (ilaay In his report; $30,760,000 to continue the $240 annual bonus to government workers: $40,000,000 for salary in creases of po-stoffice employes; $35, UOO. 000 for supplemental estimates and $50,000,000 for deficiencies. The deficit in July. 1921. Mr. Good continued, could be estimated at 3. 389. BOS, 674. to which $500,000,000 eliould be added as the working bal ance needed by the treasury. PARLOR BOLSHEVISTS HIT I 'Washington Official Says Profes sors Spread Radicalism. TACOMA, Wash.. Dec. 0. (Special.) r Clarke V. Savidge, state land com missioner, rapped teachers In higher institutions of learning who have become "parlor bolshevists," in an ad dress delivered before the Tacoma , public forum last night. Mr. Savidge declared that these intellectuals were the leaders in spreading I. W. W.'ism. Education is the sole antidote for the cocial ills of radicalism, Mr. Savidge believes. Mr. Savidge likewise rapped persons who criticised the judges who are to try the I. W. W. murder cases from llentralia. Rev. Frank Dyer in commenting on Mr. Savidge'a statements discounted the weight carried by university in siructors who are "parlor bolshevists.1 Hood Child Hurt Coasting. HOOD RIVER, Or., Dec. 9 (Spe cial.) Alice, 12-year-pld daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. 13. Matt, of the west side, sustained a broken leg In a coast ins: accident at the Franklin school terday. The bobsled was being driven between oak trees, when the little Kil l's leg was caught against a trunk. t-ba Is the third local child to sua tain a broken leg in coasting acci dents in the past week. JUST SEE HOW POSLAM HELPS SKIN OVERNIGHT Toslam eoothes. refreshes and heals pufferiug skin, with never a possi bility of harm. A brief experience with Foslam will prove its value. For instance: Apply a little on some af I'ooted part at night. In the morning. your own eyes find evidence of its healing work. If the trouble was light a pimple or inflamed spot the chances are that it has disap peared If a virulent erupUonal dis order, it should be subdued, eo much n that you will want Poslam to keep Sold everywhere. For free sample write to Emergency 1 .laboratories, 243 I'oalam oap Is a daily treat to ten dor k.iu. Contains Pooiaui. Adv, JEERS OF MOB" BRING HUN WHINE TO CARDINAL MERCIER "Very Urgent That Steps Be Taken .Bissing Complains, but Fails to CAHDl.VAL Copjrlsht, 1919, by Public Ledger Co. Copyright. Canada, 1 ill 9, by Public Ledger Co. International Copyrlsht, 1819, by Public Ledger Co. "I was within my rights." "I waive all claims." These two statements concerning a single subject in a single brief letter strikingly reveal the embarrassment of Oovernor-General von Bissing fol lowing an epistolary brush with the acute and patriotic cardinal. The German masters of Belgium had a mania for extracting pledges. In their vanity they doubtless prided themselves upon their extreme "sub tlety." Their aim, however, was almost childishly transparent. Treason was the broad count upon wheh the oc cupying power sought to register its cases against King Albert's people. The very essence of treason was the violation of plighted word, given to a government. Death, imprisonment, transporta tion were the outcomes of broken promises. The more oaths compelled by force from helpless victims, the more court sentences on the exult antly awaited days- of reckoning. Prom the outset the cardinal was under no delusions about the whole nefarious plan. When all other argu ments failed tie protested in terms of the most virile patriotism. Where, however, it was not possible to draw upon his armory of logic, erudition and statesmanship he adopted other methods and with conspicuous suc cess. An early victory and one brilliantly complete was won on the question of the payment by the German govern ment of the salaries to the clergy. Von Bissing plotted characteristically to render the disbursements of the funds dependent upon a declaration that the priests would not disturb public order. With prompt and specific reference to historical justification the cardinal explained that the members of the clergy were not public functionaries of the Belgian state. Their salaries were paid on the ground of indemnity as compensation for the confiscation of ecclesiastical property at the time the modern kingdom of Belgium was formed. He vigorously denied Von Bissing's right to alter the status of the priests by requiring oaths of good behavior with regard to the occupying power. The governor-general was utterly outmaneuvered. If he was, as he said, within his rights "in subordinat ing the payment of the salaries to the signing of the proposed declaration," hie position is almost ludicrously weakened by the waiver of the claim. Ills unconvincing excuse was that the cardinal had disclaimed "any inten tion of disturbing order." . What the cardinal actually wrote was that "the Belgian Dishops nave no designs against the public order." Von Bissing was thus forced to re gard this general statement as a defi nite pledge with which his eminence bound all the members of the clergy. It was, of course, a simple observa tion, not an oath. That the discom fited governor-general speciously construed it otherwise wa3 a plain confession of defeat. rtliDlNAL MERCIER'S STORY, Including his correspondence with the Gorman authorities In Belgium during the war, 1914 to 1918, edited by Professor Fernand Msyence of Louvain university nd translated by the Benedictine Monks of St. Augustine's, Ramsgate, England. Archbishop of Malines. February 9, 1915. To ITls Excellenry Baron von Bissing, Governor-General. Brussels. Sir. since I have tha opportunity. may I remind your Kxeellency of my letter of January 27 relatlvo to the salaries of the clergy? My colleagues in the episcopate. whose ideas as well as my own l gave expression to, are as anxious as myself to find a solution. When 1 say my colleagues. I must make a reservation in the case of the BishoD of Touruay. who finds it ma terlally impossible to communicate his "H, to us- Believe me. your Excellency. I feel sure It is superfluous for me to make this dec laration that the Belgian bishops have no designs against public order. If ever member of tho clergy forgot his duty on this point, or if the German authorities were to consider him as having done so, wa onlv make one request, vis., that the case be brought to the notice of the bishop of the diocese to which such a one may hanoen to belong. Receive, my dear Governor-General, the assurance of my very high esteem. ISifined) D. J. CARDINAL MERCIER, Archbishop of Mechlin. Xote His Eminence at the same time was writing to the Governor-General to Intercede on behalf of the cure of For- riares. (See below.) AValvea Claims to Declarations. Governor-General of Belgium's Office. Brussels, February 17. 1915. To His Eminence Cardinal Mercier, Mech lin: I hare the honor to acknowledge your Eminence's esteemed letters of January 28 and February 9. I cannot entertain the views which your Eminence puts lorwara in your first let ter. It is a measure arising out of the war. This measure In no wise affects the position of the clergy in regard to the state as laid down by the Belgian Con stitution and Legislature. Moreover. It tn no wise constitutes a precedent. On th conclusion of the war It loses all Us force. To prove that 1 was within my rights in subordinating the payment of salaries to the signing of the proposed declaration. I might adduce tne iact mat already number of the clergy, among them bishop with all his chapter, have pro fessed themselves in agreement with my wav of thinking. In your very esteemed letter ef the 9th Instant, your Eminence has declared that the Belgian hierarchy disclaims any In tention of disturbing public order. The maintenance of publio order constitutes my duty. Since in view of the noaiUon of mm rt?:foi to Protect Officer Prisoners," Von Give Details When Requested. Photo by R. T. Donner, Philadelphia. MERCIER ASD CARDINAL GIBBONS. the episcopate In the Catholic Church. I am enabled to look upon the declaration of your Eminence as binding the whole clergy, 1 have great pleasure In Informing you that I waive all claims to a personal declaration from each member of the clergy. I offer to your Eminence the expression of my highest esteem, and I have the honor to be your Eminence's most devoted servant. (Siened) PREIHERR VON BISSING, Governor-General. Cardinal Mercler's final note on the matter of payment of ecclesiastical salaries, which marked his first vic tory of logic over the German war lords, is given below. Von Bissing, in an answer a short time later an nounced that "the payment of ec clesiastical salaries is secure." Archbishop's House, Malinea. February 19. 1915. To His Excellency Baron von Bissing, Governor-General, Brussels: I have received the letter with which your Excellency honored me on February 17 In answer to my communications of January 28 and February 9. Yesterday I had the opportunity of meeting my revered colleagues of the Belgian hierarchy at Touruay. They have begged me to become their spokesman with your Excellency and to express to you our lively satisfaction and our heart felt gratitude. Kindly acceit the expression of riy very high esteem. (Signed) D. J. CARDINAL MERCIER, Archbishop of Malines. CHAPTER IV. Von Bissing complains to the car dinal about the manner In which the French, treat German officer prison ers. Office of the Governor-General of Belgium. Brussels. December 81. 1914. To His Eminence Cardinal Mercler, Arch- Disnop or Malines: It has often happened that German doc tors who have been made prisoners by the rench have reported on their return from captivity the ignominious treatment which had been inflicted on German officer prisoners. These reports have been com municated to all the Belgian and French officer prisoners In Germany in order that tliey may take up the matter with the proper authorities in their respective countries with a view to ameliorating the conditions of the German officers and thus to avoid eventual reprisals on the part of tbe German government. These reports nave been reaa at the same time to the Belgian ecclesiastics who are in the camp at ceiie. o measures of reprisals have bo lar been taken. The Governor-General. (Signed) VON BISSING. Cavalry General. "Inf a noun Treatment," Germans Cry, The following note accompanied the governor s letter: me neaa doctor, Ter Peek, who was a prisoner lor some time In the camp at rougeres and who. since his release n been doing duty as head doctor with the regiment of the Landwehr. No. 74, reports as follows about the installations in that camp and the manner in which German officer prisoners are treated there: curing ineir removel from th csmn they were exposed to the Insults of the moD, measures ror their protection were altogether inadequate. Their military equipment nas Been taken from them their caps, gaiters, etc. and instead of 1 ineee tney nave been given nightcaps and very shabby civilian clothes. Again, in the camp they were exnosed to the jeers of the mob; the commandant at the camp Is unable to protect them. The accommodation leaves much to be de sired. The rooms cannot be warmed and the officers have to clean them out them selves. For beds they have only sacks of straw to He on without any bedclothes. There are no sanitary arrangements. Their food is Insufficient and of inferior quality and yet the officers only receive 80 cen times of their pay on the plea that the rest Is kept for their maintenance. These reports show that it Is very urgent that steps should be taken to put a atop to this infamous treatment. In reply to this letter, the cardinal asked for details which were never forthcoming. TO BE CONTINUED. 10 INDICTED AS ROBBERS Members of Three Supposed Gangs Must Stand Tral. Three supposed gangs of young thugs and highwaymen were indicted by the Multnomah county grand jury yesterday, and must stand trial in the circuit court for recent hold-ups. Earl Snyder, Lawrence Murray and T. H. Sorenson, who are accused of holding up H. T. Cash on November 28, among other police charges, are indicted for assault with intent to roll the legal way of saying high way robbery. The same charge is made against Harold Walsh. Jack Fuller, Ed Drummond, Clement Drea sell and an unidentified man for the robbery of Lee Potter, from whom $12 was taken at the point of a gun on November 10. John Pike, Wilma McDonald and a man known as "Tex" are indicted for the assault and robbery of Alfred Oliver on November 21. Oliver was struck: over the head with a milk bottle. Ralph G. Haymes and George Ma chamer were indicted for the theft of an automobile. Silver Lake Bond Meeting Held. SALEM, Or., Dec. 9. (Special.) Directors of the Silver Lake Irriga tion district held a conference with the members of the state irrigation securities commission here today with regard to the certification of bonds In the sum of $300,000. Com plete data, showing the development of the district was placed before the commission anda decision will be given within the next few days. The district includes 000 acres of land and is located in Lake county. T. J. Labrie, O. Asmandson and Gus Schroeder represented the district at the conference. MYSTERY OF SOLDIER ED Statements of Night Clerk and Sergeant Conflict. JEALOUSY IS SUSPECTED Detail Asked to Return From Cor- vallis to Help Find Slayers of Mark A. Matthews. Conflicting statements made by C. S. Richardson, night clerk at the Hoyt hotel, and Sergeant Martin L. Parrlsh regarding the murder -of Mark A. Matthews, Camp Lewis sol dier, late Monday night, caused po lice detectives yesterday to request army officials at Vancouver Bar racks to order the return of Sergeant Parrish and other non-commissioned Eoldiers from Corvallis in an effort to help solve the mysterious murder which police admit has completely baffled them. Private Matthews, who was mur dered by an unidentified assassin at Kleventh and Main streets at 11:10 Monday night, arrived In Portland at 7 o'clock the same evening as a mem ber of a special detail under Major George Newlove, which had been or dered to Corvallis to conduct exam inations for an officers' training camp. Orders Declared Disobeyed. Because the murdered man and Sergeant Parrlsh occupied adjoining rooms at the Hoyt hotel, police detec tives made every effort to check up the sergeant's actions Monday night. According to Night Clerk Richard son, Matthews left the hotel early in the evening, while Sergeant Parrish left at about 10 o'clock. Richardson says he never saw Parrlsh again that night. In a long-distance telephone com munication with The Oregonlan last night. Major Newlove said that Ser geant Parrish had assured him that he had retired to his room at the hotel about 10 o'clock Monday night and did not leave the room until morning. "Sergeant Parrlsh tells me that be cause Private Matthews had dis obeyed orders and left the hotel with out the sergeant's permission, he had notified the night clerk, Richardson, to tell Matthews to report to hlB room as soon as he returned to the hotel." said Major Newlove. "I had put Ser geant Parrish in charge of Matthews and instructed him to watch out for him." No Messasje Left, Soys Clerk. "I am absolutely oertaln that Par rish did not tell me to have Matthews report to him when he returned to the hotel," was the emphatic assertion of Night Clerk Richardson last night. If he left any such messages It was after I went off shift at midnight." Although the police believe Sergeant couver barracks yesterday telegraphed to Major Newlove at Corvallis re questing him to send the men of his detail back to Portland to assist in clearing up the murder mystery, Major Newlove said last night that he would be unable to send his men here for at least a week. "When we finish our detail here I will have my men report to the chief of police," is the message which Major Newlove sent to army officials at Vancouver baracks last night. The major expressed astonishment that the police were in any way sus picious of the actions of Sergeant Par rish, and he further expressed the be lief that the sergeant knows nothing of the young private's murder. Major Trusts Sergeant Parrlsh. "He is an old-time army sergeant and appears to be a good soldier and one whose word cannot be doubted," was the testimony of Majr Newlove. Although the police belive Sergeant Parrish was not in any way connected with Private Matthews' murder, they held to a theory that some of the fel low soldtars of the murdered man might have some information which may aid in clearing up the mystery. 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Another theory held by the police, who insistently scout the holdup story, is that a woman might have been Involved in the shooting but they are at' a loss to work out any tangible clue of this sort. They point to the fact that Matthews had the names and addresses of two Portland girls in his possession and the fact that he had left the hotel without permission of his sergeant to show that the young soldier might have had some appointment. The fact that he was in an apartment house dis trict more than a half mile from his hotel and away from the business dis trict is also given to indicate that he had some special reason for being in the vicinity of Eleventh and Main streets at that late hour. Woman Only Eye-AVltness. Whether there were four men or three who were in the street at the time the shooting of the young sol dier occurred is something which the police 'have not determined to their own satisfaction. Mrs. C. M. Locke, 236 Kleventh street, appears to have been the only eye witness to the tragedy other than the men who probably were implicated. As she went to a front window to see if the snow was still falling she says she saw the soldier stand with his hands in the air, while two other men ap peared to be holding him. Just as she shouted to her husband that a holdup was taking place, she says she saw the fourth man shoot Matthews. Mr. Locke rushed to the front door, but by the time he reached the steps he could see but three men. "Two men were still standing with their arms in the air as though they were being held up, while the soldier staggered from the sidewalk and fell," he said. "1 did not see the fourth man." Men Hurry Away. Mr. Locke had the two companions of tbe murdered man help to lift the mortally wounded soldier'' into, his house after which they went with him to look" for the assassin. They ran in different directions after run ning a block from the scene of the killing and have not since been seen. They told him that they were in a Its natural for the tea. or coffee drinker to relish. t i li Special Prices Electric 1 XMAS I TREE 1 LIGHTING 1 OUTFITS hurry to find the murderer, he said. Lou Bager. who also lives at 235 Kleventh street, helped to care for the murdered soldier after he had been taken into the house. He says he procured a good description of both men and would be able to iden tify them instantly if he ever saw them again. One man, he said, was tall and slender and appeared to be about 30 years old. The other was slightly heavier and with a ruddy complexion. Both wore overcoats and one was wearing a cap. Investigation yesterday disclosed' that Corporal Rule, ".he other non commissioned member of Major New love's detail; spent Monday night at the home of his uncle, Richard Will lama, 1572 East Thirteenth street North. It was shown that he was not with either Private Matthews or Ser geant Parrish at any time after their arrival in Portland early ilnday evening. The body of the murdered soldier was taken to Vancouver barracks yes terday morning where it is being held pending arrangements for a military funeral. The young man was 23 years old and enlisted from California. He was born at Santa Crui and his near est relative is a grandmother, Mrs. Harriet Garnosset, Pratt Home, San Jor, Cal. He entered the service in August, 1917, and re-enlisted in Juiy of this year, having been assigned recently to the medical corps. He was said to have been an exemplary sol dier and to have had a good service record. The fact that the killing took place nt a street intersection where pass ersby might be expected at any time leads police to scout the holdup the ory. They also pqint to the fact that the dead soldier's money was still on him after he had been shot. Police Inspectors Pat Moloney, La Salle and Swennes worked on the case all day yesterday, while Inspec tor Leonard took up the threads of evidence again last night and was still following a clue at an early hour this morning. The detectives intimated last night that a new the ory on which they are working in volves jealousy, and that if the mys tery is solved it is expected that some Portland woman friend of the young soldier will be involved. Snow Xlne Inches at Forest Grove. FOREST GROVE, Or., Dec. 9. (Special.) The first snowfall of the season visited this locality last night. It was the heaviest in a number of years. Nine Inches fell In nine hours. All trains were delayed this morning. Bomb Found in Fountain. PARIS, Dec. 8. An unexploded bomb, dropped by a German Gotha airplane during the war. was found by workmen today in the basin of the fountain of the Medicis in the Luxembourg gardens. Is Your Heater Efficient This Cold Weather? If not, turn it in on a better one. 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