THE MOItXING OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1G, 1910.
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PROFITEER SOUGHT
Complete Control of Prices
and Distribution Urged.
SENATE VIEWS PROBLEM
Equalization Board President De
clares. McXary Bill Does Not
Carry Adequate Authority.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 15. Complete
government control of prices and dis
tribution of sugar is necessary for
the protection of ramily consumer?
from profiteers, members of congress
declared today before the house agri
cultural committee. At the eame time
G. A. Zabriskie, president of the sugar
equalization board, advised the com
mittee that continuance of the board
would be useless unless it received
control over prices and distribution.
These powers, Zabriskie pointed out
in a telegram to the committee, are
not included In the pending- McNary
bill.
Opposition to the McNary bill,
passed last week by the senate, led
to an informal agreement among
committeemen and house leaders to
eliminate from the measure the provi
sion repealing the licensing powers
of the government as conferred by
the food control act.
Karly Action Is Proponed.
Chairman Haugen said formal ac
tion would bo taken tomorrow, under
a plan calling for early action by the
house. I,eadere, however, were doubt
ful whether the bill, if amended, could
lie finally disposed of by congress be
fore the holiday recess.
Simultaneously with the meeting of
the agriculture committee, the house
interstate ooimnerce committee to
morrow will meet to consider a bill
proposing an embargo on all sugar
rxports.
Sugar Kmbargo Proposed,
Advocates of broad government
control as well as the purchase of the
Cuban crop told the committee that
'sky high prices' were threatened
snl that the mere purchase of the
Cuban crop only would aid profiteers
by increasing the supply.
For the first ten months of this
year almost a billion and one-quarter
pounds of sujar have been exported
from this crfuntry, said Representative
Uallinger, citing the equalization
board as authority.
The only general opposition to the
bill was voiced by Representative
Jlartin, democrat, Louisiana, who de
clared it was "unnecessary" and
blamed the shortage on congressional
Kgitation for purchase of the Cuban
crop and the recent longshoremen's
strike which delayed deliveries.
'business buildings, the downtown area
is now practically cleared of snow
fall. From Broadway to the river
and from Taylor to Oajc streets the
business section was practically
cleared of snow last night but the
city's squadron of motor trucks with
their ex-service men operators and
street cleaners were etill attacking
the drifts farther out. '
One of the minor perplexities that
the etorm - tied traffic situation
brought to Portland homes was the
failure of the laundry to arrive. Like
the bread and fuel wagon drivers, the
laundrymen, who are used to com
peting with all sorts of weather, were
forced to give up the battle. As a
consequence, washtubs that had been
Idle for many months, tucked away
in the basements, wece drawn into
active service again.
When snow is slushy, as it was
yesterday, it is prolific of profanity
from the chap who essays to shovel
it away. For it sticks to the blade
most stubbornly and declines to take
the toss Into the street. There seems
to be no way to prevent the annoy
ance, unless one bangs tire shovel
strenuously on the pavement. But
one experimenter declares that he is
humanity's benefactor through the
novel preventive he has discovered.
"I've tried this dodge and it works."
he declared. "Coat the shovel blade
with a thin film of melted paraffine.
It's absolutely magic. The snow
won't stick and your labors will be
cut in half. Try it out for your
selves." numbers Flooded With Work.
Inasmuch as every plumber In Port
land has a long waiting list of homes.
where the cold wrought severe dam
age to water pipes, repairs in many
instances will not be possible for sev
eral days. Now that thawing temper
atures are at hand 'advice is timely on
avoiding further damage, due to leak
age when the broken IV Pes thaw and
the consequent ruining of walls.
If those whose homes hold frozen
plumbing will turn off the water at
once, and will open all taps, no
further damage need be anticipated,
it is said. Turning off the water will
insure that no flooding or leakage
will occur as the frozen pipes thaw,
while opening the taps will relieve
pressure and render explosions Im
possible, it is said.
FIRE BUILDERS INJURED
COLD SPELL IS WANING
(Cont limed From First PaRC)
STOVE EXPLOSION' HESULTS IX
DAMAGE TO HOMES.
danger, though rain may be ex
pected.
In my judgment the ordinary
winter rain or Oregon would not cre
ate flood conditions. It would re
duce the snow to half frozen slush,
and the slush itself would retard the
flow, of the water to tile streams,
aiding in the gradual disappearance
of the snow. Only a heavy, warm
downpour need be feared. A sudden
change to genial weather, while it
would send the snow off rapidly, need
cause no apprehension. The river
would rise rapidly, it is true, but not
eufficiently to bring about a flood.
"The weather will probably warm
up gradually, and the snow disappear
in similar fashion. As long as the
barometer stays up as high as it now
is, however, one cannot predict that
the cold snap is definitely broken, for
it may turn again. But I have reason
to believe that the worst is over
with."
Snow Falling in Bull Run.
"While insisting that local water
users should still continue to conserve
the supply, abstaining from the prac
tice of opening taps and faucets to
prevent freezing, and instead turning
off the home pipes in the basement at
iiiKht. the water bureau officials
found distinct encouragement yester
day in improved conditions at the
Bull Run intake.
Reports received from Bull Run
were that snow was falling, with the
temperature 30 degrees above zero, on
a descending barometer, and that it
was expected that yesterday after
noon's snow storm would soon trans
late itself to rain. With the rise in
temperature and the unlocking of the
ice-bound streams, the flow at the
intake increased, and danger of a
local water shortage lessened In cor
responding degree.
Fnel Deliveries Increase.
Fuel deliveries livened up yester
day with the reduction of the snow
drifts in residential districts, but it is
still far from normal and will remain
so until vehicle motor traffic in the
by-streets is practicable as it will be
only when the snow has passed prac
tically away. Dealers were continu
ing their policy of making deliveries
wherever possible, and "getting
through somehow' where hardship
was reported from lack of fuel.
Milk deliveries were also slightly
improved, Dut with no prospect of a
return to normal until the snowfall
melts away and country and city traf
fic Is as it was before the storm. The
stellar hard luck story of milk dealers
Is that of the Fernwood dairy. One
of its trucks, sent into the country
Sunday for the collection of a supply
from its snowbound farmer producers,
reached Montavilla that afternoon
with a cargo of two tons of milk. At
Kast Sixty-fourth and Glisan streets
misfortune overtook them when the
truck crashed with a Montavilla
street car, to the consequent loss of
the greater part of the load. The
truck itself was damaged to the ex
tent of $300.
Mills Loss Is Regretted.
"I wouldn't care about the truck,"
said the driver, as he surveyed the
. wreckage, where the snow was slushy
with the precious lacteal fluid, "but
It's tough to lose all this milk. If
you'd heard the little kiddies actually
crying for it, as I have, you'd feel
just the same."
Central heating plant, the cold
weather suspension of which brought
frigid home atmospheres to Westover
Terrace residences, is again running
normally, with a full supply of fuel
oil. Satisfactory service had been re
sumed yesterday to all patrons, with
the exception of those homes where
the residents had neglected to turn
off the water when the system was
closed down owing to the bursting of
mains. Failure of patrons to turn
off the water when the mains burst
and when their homes were invaded
by the frost is said to be entirely re
sponsible for the several heating dif
ficulties that now remain along the
system.
Downtown Area Cleared.
Except for the trackage slush and
the snow that is continually being
dumped from the roofs of office and
Farm House Totally Destroyed and
Owner Badly Burned Woman
Has Narrow Escape.
ABERDEEN. Wash., Dec. 15. (Spe
cial.) The farm house and outbuild
ings of Warren Mowbray, of the up
per Wynoche, were completely de
stroyed by fire yesterday. The fire,
which was of unknown origin, started
In a clothes closet. Mowbray was
badly burned in an endeavor to save
a part of his household goods.
An attempt to start a kitchen fire
with gasoline resulted in G. E. An
derson, a Cosmopolis mill worker, be
ing seriously burned about the legs
and hands Saturday night and also
started a fire that completely de
stroyed his two-room house and con
tents. The explosion which followed
the ignition of the gasoline blew
Anderson through a window. Neigh
bors who heard the explosion rushed
to ti3 rescue. The gasoline was used
by mistake, Anderson believing he
had a can containing kerosene. He
is expected to recover.
An explosion of the kitchen range
at the home of Charles Mitchell of
Monlesano, wrecked the kitchen. Mrs.
Mitchell narrowly escaped serious in
jury. She was coming out of the
pantry with a bowl of pancake dough
when a kettle flying by the door
knocked the bowl from her hands. She
was not hurt.
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RODS
OF
EXPECTED OF WILSON
Message Will Be Presented
to Congress Today.
CUMMINS PRESSES BILL
Disaster to Lines Predicted if Laws
Are Xot Enacted Before Ke
. turn to Private Owners.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington, Dec. 15. A rumor of
wide circulation in Washington to
night was that in a special message
to congress tomorrow President Wil
son would say the failure-of the re
publican majority in the senate to
ratify the peace treaty has left the
country technically at war, therefore
preventing his return of the railroads
to their owners on January 1.
It is further said that such a step
will be Justified in the message by
failure of congress to enact the nec
essary legislation for the rehabilita
tion of the roads.
An air or satisfaction around the
offices of the high men In the rail
road administration today is cited to
night as one of the best evidences
that the rumor is backed by some
body's knowledge of facts.
CUMMINS
URGES
ACTION
WHEAT ACREAGE SMALLER
Agricultural Department Estimates
11,719,000 Less Than 1918.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 15. A decided
decrease in the acreage planted for
winter wheat this fall is shown in
first estimates today by the depart
ment of agriculture. The total of
38.770.000 acres is 11.719,000 les3 than
the record acreage in 1918.
Condition of the crop on Decem
ber 1 was 85.2 per cent of normal or
four points lower than the ten-year
average.
Acreage planted to rye also showed
a marKeu cecrease, the area being
5.&30.UU0 acres.
Area and conditions of winter
wheat in Washirgton are 519.000
acres, 84 per cent of normal.
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Colds Cause Heaoactie and rains
Feverish Headaches and body pains caused
from a cold are soon relieved by taking
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Failures Predicted If Keturn Pre
cedes New Legislation.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. Congress
was warned today that if the rail
roads were turned back to their own
ers without enactment meanwhile of
legislation for protection of the prop
erties, two-thirds of the roads would
bo in hands of receivers within 30
days. Chairman Cummins of the sen
ate interstate commerce committee,
that drafted the pending railroad bill,
declared the senate could not afford
to set aside or delay its consideration
in view of the apparent determina
tion of President Wilson to end gov
ernment control the first day of the
new year.
Breaking Into the debate while sen
ators were pleading to postpone ac
tion on all railroad legislation until
after recess. Senator Cummins told
the senate its duty was plain.
Cummins Urges Action.
Senator Cummins insisted congress
should turn back the roads if satis
fied the people believed in that policy.
"They can go back on January 1 in
perfect safety," he said, "if the coun
try is assured of the bill's enactment
in one month's time."
In hope of expediting the measure the
senate remained in session tonight.
but as new fields of argument were
opened there developed little indica
tion of final action this week. Lead
ers insisted, however, that the bill
would be passed by a "narrow margin
before Saturday," when the holiday
rfcess is expected to begin.
During the all-day debate the prin
cipal attacks on the Cummins bill
were made by Senators Lenroot. re
publican, Wisconsin, and Stanley,
democrat, Kentucky, the former in
sisting that the roads should be re
tained by the government until
spring.
Anti-Strike Clause Fought.
Senator Stanley, speaking in sup
port of his amendment to eliminate
the anti-strike provision, assailed the
section as "the most drastic and ex
asperating" ever devised to afflict la
boring people.
The anti-strike provision. Senator
Stanley asserted, was put In the bill
over the protest of 2,000.000 railroad
men, who had declared they would
not wear the yoke.
It was so drastic, he added, that if
a man, ejnployed with his wife in a
waybill office, took a better job with
another road and the wife went with
him, both could be arrested and put
in jail for conspiracy.
General discussion of the anti
strike clause brought numerousr efer
ences to the coal strike and Senator
Stanley in arguing against anti
strike laws said that in the case of
the miners they were held back both
by an injunction and by solemn no
tice of the president of the United
States that their strike was unlaw
ful. "They would not have gone back to
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so when they refused after being
named in an injunction issued by a
man they knew. Federal Judge An
derson, as devoid of the touch of
human sympathy as a piarble col
umn," declared Senator Stanley.
Senator Cummins Interrupts.
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there had been a law under which
the miners' dispute could have been
submitted . to an impartial tribunal
there would have been no strike.
Even within sound of the growl of
the bolshevist. Senator Stanley ccn
tinued, attempts were being made to
try out new-fangled ideas, and he pre
dicted that It might not be long be
fore . "hygienic uplifters" tried to
form some sort of a commission to
select wives for men.
The Benate later went to work on
amendments. One by Senator Walsh,
democrat, Montana,- permitting the
roads to retain all earnings for new
construction work for ten years, was
adopted, as was an amendment by
Senator Jones, republican,. Washing
ton, limiting jurisdiction of the trans
portation board over water transpor
tation to inland waterways. An
amendment by Senator Curtis, Kan
sas, extending the bill's provision to
shortline railroads was passed over
temporarily.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. A bill
proposing public ownership and gov
ernment, operation of the railroads
was introduced today by Senator
Norris, Nebraska, and referred -to the
Interstate commerce committee. It
would create a federal railroad cor
poration, managed by five directors,
appointed by the president, and have
$10,000,000,000 of stock with addi
tional "employes' stock" subject to
subscription only by railroad em
ployes equal to one fourth of the
book value of the railroad property.
The public would be permitted to
subscribe to the general stock of the
company, which would be authorized
to take over existing railroad prop
erty by condemnation proceedings
and also ouua new lines.
The bill also provides for Issuance
of government bonds for financing
the corporation and would limit its
stock dividends to 6 per cent with
excess earnings reverting to the
government.
Astoria Reports Mild Day.
ASTORIA, Or., Dec. 15. (Special.)
The weather is much milder in As
toria. This , morning the thermom
eter registered 24 degrees above
zero, eignt degrees higher than on
Sunday. The snow has melted slowly
all day, while the wind is still blow
ing from the east. Although the
thermometer still is high, the indi
cations are the wind will shift to the
southeast and Dring rain or snow be
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