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SENATORS WRANGLE
OVER CUMMINS BILL
Passage of Railroad Measure
This Week Doubtful.
LABOR CLAUSES. DEBATED
ingr on the proposed Grays Harbor
Olympla canal project here today.
The hearing was called by Lieutenant
Colonel J. A. Woodruff of Seattle, dis
trict engineer for the United States
war department, for the purpose of
discussing the project and to obtain
data on the feasibility of the plan.
Arguments for the construction ot
the canal were presented at the hear
ing by Colonel A. W. Thompson, presi
dent of the Associated Commercial
Clubs of Southwest Washington; Ern
est B. Hussey. chief of the engineer
ing board of Seattle; L. A. Nicholson,
Tacoma; J. C. Manley, city engineer
of Tacoma; J. C. Anderson. Blraa;
Phil Locke. Aberdeen, and George W.
Osgood of Tacoma. No indication was
made by Colonel Woodruff as to nls
recommendation on the project.
Difficulties Develop Over Question
of Prohibiting: Strikes Com-
- promise Efforts Started.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. The sen
ate held its fifth night session on the
railroad bill tonight with grave doubt
In the minds of the leaders that the
measure could be passed in time to
permit beginning of the holiday re
cess Saturday.
The labor clauses, including the
antf-strike provision of the Cummins
measure, were under discussion dur
ing the day, culminating in the re
jection by a vote of 25 to 46 of the
proposal of Senator Stanley, democrat.
Kentucky, to eliminate the whole sec
tion. Efforts toward a compromise
ensued.
During the debate an agreement
was reached by eenate and house ma
jority leaders not to permit a holi
day recess until the measure is
brought out of the eenate and sent
to conference. At their conference
Senator Lodge and Representative
Mondell agreed to suspend house bus
iness Saturday to permit members of
the house to go home for the holi
days, even If the senate Is held by
delay on the railroad bill.
Compromise la Sought.
Beginning Monday, house sessione
will be perfunctory under a "gentle
mens' agreement" to transact no
business until January 6, but to ad
journ from day to day under the
senate recesses. The anti-strike pro
visions were in turn attacked and de
fended today while conferences were
held looking to a. compromise by mod
ifying the clause imposing criminal
penalties for strikes or lockouts.
After defeat of the Stanley motion
to strike out the entire labor section.
Senator McCormick, republican, Illi
nois, offered a substitute plan, simi
lar to the Canadian , eystem, to pro
hibit strikes for 60 days after de
cisions of the adjustment board and
requiring decisions from the board'
within 90 days.
Strikes Held Intolerable.
Senator Thomas, democrat, Colora
do, supporting the Cummins labor
proposal, declared railroad strikes to
be intolerable in their effect upon the
general public.
Opposing the anti-strike section.
Senator Walsh, democrat, Massachus
etts, said that criminal penalties for
strikes would not accomplish their
purpose. The Cummins plan, he char
acterized as "repressive, unfair and
unjust."
'Strikes ambng certain classes
of employes are unjustifiable and
among these are railroad employes
declared Senator Walsh, "but we can
not chain them to their posts like
galley slaves."
Congress, he held, should remove
the incentive and causes of strikes
by enactment of arbitration legisla
tion without banning what he de
clared to be the inherent right to
strike.
THRIFT CONTEST STARTS
LEADING COUNTY OF STATE TO
RECEIVE PRIZE.
Campaign Is Outlined to Encour
age to Save Earnings Systemat
ically; Banks Will Assist.
SALEM, Or., Dec 18. (Special.)
J. W. Churchill, state superintendent
of public instruction, acting under
his appointment by the United States
treasury department as thrift director
for Oregon, has outlined a plan
whereby every pupil in the public
schools of Oregon will be encouraged
to save hia earnings systematically.
Teachers will be supplied with
thrift contest cards, which will show
the amounts Invested In thrift and
war savings stamps each week. These
amounts will be totaled each month,
and at the end of the year, or at
the next cession of the state teach
ers' association, a prize of a $50 thrift
library will be awarded to the county
having the highest ratio of thrift sav
ings to the school enrollment.
Agencies co-operating in this thrift
campaign in Oregon are the United
States department of agriculture, Ore
gon State Bankers' association, Ore
gon State Teachers' association, Ore
gon Agricultural college and the state
department of education. Letters have
been sent to all teachers, together
with a pamphlet giving a series of
lessons in thrift. These were prepared
under direction of the United States
treasury department.
JAPAN ISSUES BAN
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U. S. State Department Gets
Word of Decision.
ORDER IN EFFECT. SOON
SCIENCE LECTURER HERE
WILLIAM W. PORTER TO TALK
THIS NOOX AT HEILIG.
WATER PETITIONS FILED
State Engineer Receives Applica
tions for Irrigation Supply. '
SALEM, Or., Dec. 18. (Special.)
John H. Lewis of Portland has filed
application with the state engineer
here covering the storage of 10,000
acre-feet of water from Willow creek
in Malheur county, and the appropri
ation or 100 second-feet of water
from Willow creek for irrigation pur.
poses.
Other applications follow:
Alice w. Jordon or Farkdale, Or., cover
ing the appropriation of water from an
unnamed stream for the development of
power.
M. P. Gwynn of I,akev1ew covering the
appropriation of water from Juniper creek
for the irrigation of a small tract of land
In Lake county.
Prank A. Calderwood of Plush, Or., for
the appropriation of aJl the waters of Wil.
low creek In Lake county for the Irriga
tion of 150 acres of land.
M. B. Green of Grants Pass for the an.
propriation of 13 second-feet of water
from Kail creek for the Irrigation of five
acres or land In Joscphne county. Thl
project win cost 200. according to the
estimate accompanying the application,
"U" HALL T0J3E REBUILT
Architect to Draw Plans for Salem
Structure.
SALEM. Or., Dec. 18. (Special.)
At a meeting of the Salem members
of the board of trustees of Willam
ette university here today Fred A.
Legg. architect, was instructed to
prepare plans for rebuilding the in
terior of Waller hall, which was part
ly destroyed by fire early Wednesday.
These plans, together with an est!
mate of the cost of the proposed im
provement, will be submitted at i
meeting of the entire board in Sa
Jem next Monday.
Insurance in the sum of $19,500 was
carried on the building and Its con
tents, while each of the two univer
sity societies using the structure car
ried J 1000 insurance. President Do-
ticy of the university was Instructed
by the trustees to make whatever
plans lie though best to carry on the
work of the college until the burned
hall could be replaced.
Doctrines of Faith to Be "Explained
, by Man AVho Has Thor
ough Knowledge.
Christian Science Telongs to the
group of evangelical denominations,
according to William W. Porter,
C. S. B., memDer of the board of lec
tureship of the mother church, the
First Church of Christ Scientist, Bos
ton, who will lecture this noon at the
Heillg theater. Mr. Porter will be
Introduced by Lieutenant Richard J.
Davis of the United States navy. His
topic will be "Christian Science, the
Restorer."
The demonstration of Christian
Science in the healing of the sick and
the reconstruction of human thought
on lines of right activity is today an
accomplished and acknowledged fact,"
declares Mr. Porter. "It is evident
that If the existing systems of re-
igion and medicine had been ade-
uate to meet the needs and to satisfy
the desires of mankind, no other sys-
em would ever have been necessary
or even possible.
Existing systems of religion and
medicine represent and encourage the
belief that evil, disease, discord and
death are real, that they belong to
the natural order of things."
SOLDIER AID IDEAS ASKED
All Secretaries or State in U. S
Requested to Send Law Copies.
SALEM, Or., Dec. 18. (Special.)
All secretaries of state in the United
States have been requested by Sara
A. Koier, assistant secretary of state
here, to send to Salem all legislation
adopted in their respective , states
which in any way tends toward the
relief of ex-service men. -
These laws, when received, will be
summarized and placed In the sec
retary of state's office for the con
venience of legislators in attendance
at the special session of the legisla
ture here n January. In his lette
to ino various secretaries of state
Mr. Kozer Is inclosing copies of the
Oregon laws dealing with the ex
service men.
CANAL HEARING IS HELD
Olympia Project Discussed by
Washington Interests.
olympia. Wash.. Dec. 18. (Spe
ciai.i rirty representatives of com
merclal organizations of southwest
W aulilugton attended the public hear
Action, of Tokio Government Goes
Into Force in About Month, to
Avoid Needless Confusion.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 18. The
state department has been notified of
the intention of the Japanese govern
ment to stop Issuing passports to
"picture brides" when this can be
done without injustice to those Japa
nese who have progressed so far with
their arrangements to marry as to
warrant consideration.
It has - been planned to allow a
period of about two months before
the restriction is Imposed.
SAN FRANCISCO, pec. 18. "There
fore," said a statement issued by Mr.
Ohta, "if any Japanese in continental
United States wishes to send for his
wife, to whom he has been married by
the procedure commonly and some
what erroneously called 'picture mar
riage,' his application for Indorsement
must be in the hands of the Japanese
consulates at the end of January at
the latest. That means there Is only
an interval of a month or so in which
the Japanese consulates can accept
such applications.
Confaslon to Be Avoided.
"This Interval, brief as it is, is pro
vided witn a view to avoiding inevi
table embarrassment, which a sudden
prohibition of 'picture marriage
would cause to Japanese men and
women who have been making prep
aration for marriages. It would be
unjust to y?top the practice all of a
sudden and without warning.-
"This announcement on the part of
the Japanese government is another
proof that.it is earnestly solicitous of
maintaining and promoting friendly
relations with the United States, and
especially the people of California.
For the sake of amicable relations
between our two countries and peo
ples, Japan is always willing and
ready to meet America half way.
"For my own part I have all along
maintained that any and ail problems
pending or arising between Japan
and America can be, and ought to be,
settled by friendly exchange of views.
The settlement of the picture bride
question is ample proof that between
our two governments there is perfect
understanding and friendly feeling.
Agreement la Dlscnsaed,
"When the gentlemen's agreement
was concluded between Japan and the
United States, the state department
and the immigration authorities
agreed to regard as valid and legiti
mate what has since come to be
known by the vulgar term of 'picture
marriage.' At the same time our
foreign office has been employing
great caution in issuing passports to
picture brides and has endeavored to
restrict the number of such passports
as much as possible. On this matter,
therefore, there has been perfect
understanding between the two gov
ernments.
"But in view of the prevailing feel
ing of the American people, our for-
eic-n office has. of Its own accord
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a place where men themselves
like to buy.
House Coats. . .-. $8.50 to $16
Dressing Gowns ....... $6 to $40
Shirts ...$3 to $13.50
Fine Neckwear $1 to $5
Handkerchiefs 25c to $1.25
Gloves $3 to $20
Mufflers and Scarfs, $2.50 to $10
Hosiery . . . ' 50c to $2.25
Pajamas $2.50 to $13.50
Umbrellas $2 to $10
Suitcases, Traveling Bags, $10-50
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Shop in the Specialty Stores
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STARTING TOMORROW-
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taken the step to put an end to the
arrival of picture brides to conti
nental United States, and I trust that
this measure will be accepted in the
spirit of friendliness in which it has
been adopted."
ASSESSORS WANT CHANGE
High Court Ruling: Declared to
Limit Appraisements.
SALEM, Or.. Dec 18. (Special.)
Ben West, secretary of the Oregon
Association of County Assessors, is
receiving many letters from assessors
In all parts of the state urging that
new laws be passed at the special
session of the legislature which will
remedy the present statutes appli
cable to assessment and property
valuation work.
Under a recent ruling of the su
preme court, assessors and their
deputies are not authorized to ad
minister oaths in making personal
property assessments. This ruling,
the assessors contend, limits the value
of appraisement work, as the prop
erty owner could easily evade pay
ment of a part of his personal prop
erty tax.
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USEFUL ARTICLES BOUGHT
Salem Residents Buy Christmas
Presents for Daily Use.
SALEM, Or., Dec. 18. (Special.)
Pre-Christmas business is better this
year than ever before, according to
Salem merchants and with a continu
ance of the present rush' until next
Wednesday, many of their stocks will
be depleted. While the usual amount
of toys are being purchased for the
children the general tendency of buy
ers seems to lean toward those articles
which can be used in the dally
routine.
Prices for gifts most In demand by
Christmas purchasers run from 20 to
100 per cent higher than last year,
according to the merchants.
Dog: Law Believed Invalid.
SALEM, Or., Dec. 18. (Special.)
The recent legal opinion of Bert
Macy, city attorney of Salem, in
which he held that the state law pro
viding for licensing and impounding
dogs is invalid because of its conflict
with city ordinances, is shared by
President Kraemer of the Oregon
State Humane society, with headquar
ters at Portland, and former law
partner of Senator George E. Cham
berlain, according to a letter received
here today.
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had no symptoms of the dlseasn for
over two years. ' Frank Stacer. Num
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