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VOL.. LVIII. NO. 18,459 Entered at Portland tOregon)
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PORTLAND OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1920
PRICE FIVE CENTS
VETO AX GUTS OFF
ALL SALARY RISES
Governor. Kills 41 Out of
Total of 97 Bills.
FOOD COSTS SET NEW
RECORD IN DECEMBER
WRECK OF FRENCH
CABINET IMPENDS
Vote of Confidence Held
Moral Defeat
FORT ROCK RANCHER,
GONE 18 DAYS, HOME
SAMUEL HILL SUFFERS LOXG
LAPSE OF MEMORY.
U.S. NATIONAL SEEKS
ELKS' TEMPLE SITE
BANK " OFFERS $400,000 FOR
QUARTER BLOCK.
MEXICAN DESIGNS
AGAINST U.S. AIRED
WIFE RIFLES POCKETS;
ANTI-RED" BILLS
HUBBY GETS DIVORCE
SEATTLE DECREE GRANTED
FOR 'PERSONAL IXDIGXITIES.
BITTERLY FOUGHT
iompers Leads in Attack
on Measure.
2 2 ARTICLES 89 PER CENT
HIGHER THAX 6 YEARS AGO.
V
OTHERS TO GO INTO EFFECT
$10,000,000 Road Bond Pro
posal Is Filed.
Commissioner of Statistics Declares
. Average Family Does Xot
Live as Well as in 1913.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 22.
Twenty-two articles of food reached
record prices in December, according:
to a report issued today by the bu
reau of labor statistics. The prices
were 2.6 per cent higher than in No
vember, 5 per cent higher than in the
preceding December and 89 per cent
higher than December, 1913.
Of the 44 articles of food for which
prices were obtained during the
month, November J 5 to December 15,
22 increased in nrice. 12 decreased and
tSSUE IS UP TO PEOPLE 10 remained stationary. Increases fol
low: Cabbage, 36' per cent; onions,
17; granulated sugar, 16; strictly
fresh eggs, 11; potatoes, 10; raisins.
5; flour, 4; butter and storage eggs,
3; fresh milk .and canned salmon, 2;
lambs, evaporated milk, olemargarine,
cheese, macaroni, rice, canned peas
and bananas, 1 per cent each.
NEWARK, N. J.. Jan. 22. Prices of
living commodities were higher in
December, 1913, than in any previous
months in history, but January,. 1920.
promises to set another record, Dr.
Royal Meeker, commissioner of statis
tics for the department of labor, de
clared in an address tonight. Food in
December cost almost twice as much
as it did in December, 1913, he said.
I he average increase in wages nas
not kept pace with the increased cost
of living, Dr. Meeker said, declaring
that "the average family today does
not live as well as it did 1n 1913."
Sale in Excess of $1,989,428 to
Hinge on Lining Limitation
on State Indebtedness.
300 DEPUTIES REMAIN MUM
Steeg Appointment Threatens
Complete Overthrow.
MINISTER HELD DISLOYAL
SALEM, Or., Jan. 22. (Special.)
General salary bills passed at the spe
cial session of the legislature, includ
ing those providing for increases in
pay for deputy state labor commis
sioners, district sealers of weights
and measures, state highway engineer
and authorizing county courts to fix
the compensation of county survey
ors and their deputies, fell under the
veto ax wielded by Governor Olcott
today.
Out of the total of 97 bills passed
during the session 56 were approved
by the executive, while the 41 re
maining proposed acts were vetoed 1 laLI C V V FAR "PI II" AQKpn
and relesrated to the legislative scrao- nlOrV I rUll TUU HOPvCU
heap. '
In his veto message regarding the
disapproval of house bill No. 19, in
troduced by Representative Home and
designed to fix the salaries of deputy
labor commissioners, the governor
aid:
Belief Is That Government as Xo
Constituted Cannot Last Long;
Millerand Is Warned.
PARIS, Jan. 22. Amid tumultuous
scenes in the chamber of deputies to
day, the recently formed cabinet of
Premier Alexandre Millerand received
a vote of confidence, 272 to 23. The
vote was considered a moral defeat
for the government, however, as more
than 300 deputies abstained from
voting. The reluctance of the depu
ties to vote on the question of con
fidence recalled a scene in the cham
ber in the nineties, when the. minis
try of Alexandre Ribot was over
thrown three hours after its forma
tion
The vote was taken on the demand
of Premier Millerand, following a
Man Is Herding Sheep on Wagon
Tire Mountain, 80 Miles From.
Home,' When He Recovers.
BEND, Or., Jan. 22. (Special.)
Eighteen days after his mysterious
disappearance from his ranch home
near Fort Rock, Sam Hill returned
yesterday, apparently somewhat dazed
and claiming that he had suffered a
lapse of memory from the time he left
home on the morning of January 3
to Monday morning, when he found
himself herding sheep on Wagon Tiro
mountain.
.Word of Hill's reappearance was
telephoned here today by Roy Mitch
ell, forest ranger in the Fort Rock
section. Since Hill vanished early in
the month, search parties had scoured
the surrounding country, sheriffs of
adjoining counties were notified, and
relatives in Georgia were communi
cated with in an effort to obtain a
clew to his whereabouts, but the first
information of any kind was obtained
Tuesday night, when he telephoned
to his home from Conley, 16 miles
away, saying he. had just come In and
mat ne was coming home In the
morning.
Hill has no recollection of anv "hap
penings from the time he started on
horseback for Silver Lake, a distance
of 35 miles, until he came to himself
on wagon Tire mountain, over 80
miles in a straie-ht Hn r- ttv .
Rock. He had still the horse which
he had ridden from home, and found
n one or nis pockets a check for 120
signed by A. A. Tiston. Where this
came from he has not the slightest
ir, ne says, out presumes that It
must have been given to him in pay
ment for his services as a. hn
aci ucr.
Property Purchased by Lodge in
1900 for 926,500 and Building
Costing $85,000 Erected.
Investigation IteNnlt Awaited.
"This is a bill providing for an in
crease in the salary of deputy labor
commissioners. The' special session
of the legislature, in a joint resolu
tion and a companion bill, made pro
vision for a committee to investigate
the matter of the salaries of state and
county officials and appropriated the
sum of $1000 for the purpose of carry
ing out this investigation. I believe
that the matter of the increase in
falarieg should be delayed until such
time as the legislative committee
makes its report and the regular ses
sion acts thereon."
The governor, in disapproving house
Ninety-Day Suspension of Dry Law savage attack by Deputy Leon Dau-
det. editor or L Action r rancaiac.
Jules Steeg, minister of the interior.
M. Doudet demanded the right to
interpellate the government on M.
Steeg's appointment. He aeciarea
Steeg was an accomplice of Louis J.
Malvy, former minister of the in
terior, who was banished after, nis
conviction on charges of communi
cial permits and reports from drug- 1 eating with the enemy, and of Joseph
Urged oil Congress.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. Represen
tative Sabath, democrat, Illinois, to
day introduced a resolution declaring
that whisky is needed as a "cure for
influenza," and proposing suspension
for 90 days of provisions of the na
tional prohibition law requiring spe-
gists, doctors and others as to the
use of liquor for medicinal purposes.
Six thousand cases of influenza
have been reported in Havana, Cuba,
the public health service was advised
today. The service announced that
all possible precautions were being
taken to prevent an influx of the
disease into the United States.--,
Ninety-thrtfe new cases were today
listed in Kansas and 2430 in 16 coun
ties of Northern Illinois.
Caillaux, former premier, wno is
soon to be brought to trial on the
charge of attempting to promote a
oremature and dishonorable peace
with Germany.
Action Declared Warning.
The significance of the vote gen
erally. was interpreted in the lobbies
to mean that the Millerand cabinet
cannot last as now constituted and
that the premier will have to replace
M. Steeg at the ministry oi xne in-
orinr or the cabinet will be over-
Kurdick, increasing expenses allowed CHIEF SUSPENDS . SLAYER thrown on the question involving the
l,trlr- snnlora nt u-it.t. r,H c I I interior tlOl 1C.V Ul a QUeSllOIl Ol JV,ll
Absence Without Leave.
urea from $850 to 1150 a year and Seattle Policeman Gets 30 Days fori filence
salary irom xiuu to fizb a month,
said: "This is a bill for an increase
in the amount to be paid to district
scalers of weights and measures. This
disapproval is based on the reasons
stated in my message in returning
house bill No. 19 with ray veto."
Highway Kngrineer Salary 50OO.
In refusing to concur In the action
of the legislature in passing house
bill No. 3$, introduced by Represen
tative Smith of Multnomah county.
regulating the salary of the state
highway engineer, the governor had
the following to say: "This is a bill
which w;ould permit the state high
way commission to authorize an in
crease in the salary of the state high
way engineer. This disapproval is
based on the reasons stated in my
message returning house bill No. 19
with my veto."
The etate highway engineer now
receives a salary of $5000 a year, and
under the law passed by the legisla-
' ture and vetoed by the governor, the
limit of compensation for this offi
cial would have been removed and
left entirely in the hands of the etate
highway commissioners.
In vetoing senate bill No. 13, intro
duced by Senator Nickelson and pro
viding for compensation of county
surveyors and their deputies the gov
ernor reiterated his reasons as set
out in his message regarding his veto
on house bill No. 19.
All Pay Rises Disapproved.
SEATTLE,, Wash., Jan. 22. (Spe
cial.) Patrolman C. E. Roselius, slay
er of Sergeant Guy L. Carleton, after
being reinstated on the police force
by an order of the city civil service
commission, worked just 45 minutes
today when he was again ousted by
Police Chief Joel F. Warren. Warren
posted an order suspending Roselius
for 30 days without pay for being
absent from duty without leave on
the night of November 2.
It was on this night that Roselius
followed Carloton and Mrs. Roselius
who were riding in the former's mo
torcar and shot the sergeant. He was
charged with murder, dismissed from
the police force, later acquitted and
ordered reinstated.
WOOL MEN COMPROMISE
Government Income Tax Paid and
Suit to Be Dropped.
BOSTON. Mass., Jan. 22. William
A. English and John H. O'Brien, who
as membersof the wool firm of Eng
lish & O Brien of this city, were
sentenced last July to 18 months' im
prisonment for conspiracy to defraud
the government in connection with
the payment of income taxes, have
paid the government $1,600,000 in set
tlement, it was announced tonight.
United States District Attorney
A check of all bills passed during Boynton added that a civil suit which
the special session of the legislature I was brought against them for $3,000,-
and the subsequent action of the gov-1 000 in connection with their dclin-
crnor, shows that he disapproved ev-lquency soon after they were sent to
cry salary measure referred to him I p0son, was to be withdrawn.
lor consideration.
The $10,000,000 road bonding bill,
introduced by the committee on roads
ind highways and passed during the
recent special session of the legisla
ture, was filed with the secretary of
state today by the governor. This
means that the act will become oper
ative five days after its receipt by
the executive without his formal sig
nature.
Issuance and sale of the bulk of the
bonds authorized under this law are
contingent, however, upon the sue
cess of the measure to be referred to
the voters at the special election to
be held In May providing for increas
ing the highway construction indebt
edness limitation from 2 to 4 per cent.
Should the latter measure fail to
meet the approval of the voters at the
polls only $1,989,428.89 of the bonds
Many of the deputies wno a.o-
stained from voting told the Assoclat
ed Press correspondent that they had
given the premier fair warning that
the next time they would vote against
him. should M. Steeg remain.
M. Steeg was at the senate while
M. Daudct was speaking. tummone
in haste by telephone, he replied that
he had always served France with all
his heart and intelligence.
Alliance Held Salvation.
Maintenance of "the alliances that
have saved the world, will be one
of the chief aims of the new cabinet
in France, Premier jnuierana an
nnunred in his ministerial declara
tion of policy today.
The declaration began with
graceful reference to Georges Clemen
ccau, the retiring premier. M. Mille
rand pointed out that he had been
called to "the formidable honor of
succeeding a ministry presided ove
(Concluded on Fags 2. Column 4.)
Evidence Damaging to
Carranza Unearthed.
RUSSIAN MISSION COMING
Party From South Seeks to Open
Relations With America.
NOVOROSSIYSK, Saturday, Jan. 10.
tKussian TelegraDh Annrv i
special mission rrom southern Rus
sia, headed by the Under-Secretary of
the Interior, P. P. Gionsky, soon will
leave for America. The SDeclal tusk
of the mission will be to establish
political relations with the United
States.
The mission also will take ud tha
work of re-establishing economic re
lations between southern Russia and
America in respect to. unort h
import;
M'ARTHUR TO GIVE TOAST
Oregon Representative Accetits
Pennsylvania Invitation.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU
Washington, Jan. 22. Representative
McArthur returned to his office today
after three days of illness caused by
bronchitis.
He accepted today an Invitation to
respond to the toast "Abraham Lin
coln," at the Lincoln day bananet
the Williamsport Republican club.
w uiiamspori. Pa. .
The United States National Bank
has made an offer of $400,000 for the
quarter block owned by t-ortiana
Lodge of Elks No. 142, at the norta
east corner of Broadway and Stark
street. The offer has been under
consideration by the fraternity for
some time and "probably will be de
cided. next Thursday night. Itis un
derstood to be desired oy tne Dana
for the purpose of expansion due to
the growth of business and need for
more ground floor room.
This property was purchased by the
Elks In 1900 for $26,500 and the build
ing erected in 1905 and finally dedi
cated February 1, 1906. The building
cost approximately $83,000. The cor
ner was known as the Nathan Cohen
property, lost to his estate through
foreclosure of a- mortgage. After
liquidation the estate received about
$6000 from the sale of the property.
Two sons of Nathan Cohen, who were
minors when the foreclosure ' was
made, brought suit on the ground that
they were entitled to an apportion
ment In the property. The title of
the Elks' lodge to the property was
sustained by the courts.
The Elks temple is four stories, the
first occupied by the Broadway bank.
Remington Typewriter agency, Oyster
Loaf cafe and other tenants. T.ne
second floor is occupied by the Port
land Press club and office tenants, I
and the two upper floors are used
by the fraternity for lodge and club
rooms. Early last year tentative plans were
discussed by members of the lodge
for a new and larger building to meet
the growing needs of the order, but
the projected plans contemplated
erecting a skyscraper on the site oc
cupied by the present building. The
lodge owns a quarter block at the
northeast corner of Twelfth and Alder
streets, held as an investment, but
which is now being improved with a
garage. It is understood that no defi
nite plans have been acted upon re
garding a site for another temple. In
case the offer of the financial house
is accepted. However, a number of
sites have been offered to the com
mittee of ten named to receive offers
from property owners of desirable
sites for the purpose, should the mem
bership decide to sell and select a new
location. .
The Elks temple adjoins the modern
huilding of tb.o United States National
bank, which occupies the quarter
block at the northwest corner of Sixth
and Stark streets', and which on the
Sixth-street .side adjoins the Wells
Fargo building.
With the ownership of the property
occupied by the Elks temple the bank
would have the entire half block
fronting on Stark street between
Sixth and Broadway.
The Broadway bank occupies the
corner room in the Elks' temple under
the lease taken over from the Ameri
can Express company after" the con
solidation of the various express con
cerns in the American Railway Ex
press company, and other occupants
of the building are said to have leases
on their quarters.
RAIDS DECLARED APPROVED
Bands to Harry Border Held
Openly Organized.
SAN DIEGO PLAN BIG ONE
Project Said to Have Contemplated
Separation of Six American
States From Union.
DEPORTATION STEP TAKEN
Eleven Communing Turned Over
by Chicago Authorities.
CHICAGO, Jan. 22. Eleven com
munists, arestcd three weeks ago by
State's Attorney Hoyne, in a round
up of reds, were surrendered to the
United States for deportation when
arraigned in criminal court today.
Luba and Vera Dokrow, sisters,
battled the federal officers Bent to
arrest them.
TWO VOTE $300,000 BONDS
Few Voters Bravo Deep Snows to
Pass on Proposal.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 22, Two
lone voters in the Shaker Heights
village school district passed a $300,
000' bond issue for building new
schools at-a special election Monday,
it was said today.
No other voters braved the deep
snows.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Jan. 22. Car"
ranza and a few of his principal lieu
tenants instigated and directed the
long series of raids on American
properties that began along the Rio
Grande early in 1915, according to
documentary evidence today placed
before the senate sub-committee in
vestigating the Mexican situation.
This was gupported by testimony by
John A. Walls, the district attorney
at Brownsville, Tex.; L. R. Barnes, in
charge of the United States army in
telligence work along the border dur
ing the war, and other witnesses.
The committee obtained from them
and from documentary evidence In
formation tending to show that not
only were the highest Mexican offi
cials cognizant of the programme of
the raiding parties which was car
ried out under the provisions of the
"plan of San Diego," but that as late
as June. 1915. they were still giving
encouragement to and aiding those
who participated in those raids In
plans inimical to the United States.
German Apt I-., l)Iolo-d.
Further information was obtained
as to the success encountered by Ger
mans in bidding for the sympathy and
support of Mexico during the war and
tne reported present drift toward bol
shevism. T. B. Altendorf, a Pol, who
was in the intelligence service of the
Amwiean army during the war. and
who was largely responsible for the
arrest of the German spy Witske. now
a prisoner at Fort Sam Houston, Tex.,
was placed on the witness stand long
enough to identify Mario Mendez, the
director of telegraphs in Mexico, as
one of those whom Minister von Eck
hardt kept on his payroll during the
war.
Altendorf said Mendez' job was to
see that copies of ail messages from
tne united States bearing on military
affairs were delivered to the German
legation. A new uote on the bolshevik-
movement in Mexico came from a
copy of a letter written by Linn Gale
to L. C. A. K. Martens, the bolshevik
representative at New York.
Bolalaeviki Aid ifollrltrd.
"Knowing you are the financial
agent of the Russian soviet in New
Tork." Gale wrote. "I take the liberty
of asking you If you can give me
f financial aid In my pronacand In
Mexico." He added the explanation
that he, was the editor of a magazine
devoted to the furtherance of radical
ism. He explained that" ho went to
Mexico to evade the army draft, "and t
since then," he added, "I have es- J
tablished very close relations with J
the Mexican government, which I
Dentist Tells of Writing Himself
Fictitions Letter to Be Found.
Decision Causes Hysterics.
SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 21. (Spe
cial.) Dr. William J. McMillan, a den
tist, appearing before Judge Everett
Smith Thursday as plaintiff In a di
vorce suit, testified that on one occa
sion he wrote himself a fictitious let
ter, purporting to have come from a
feminine admirer and left the letter
carelessly in his pocket, where his
wife found it. I
"She was always going through my
pockets," he explained, "looking for
incriminating letters. I thought I
would let her find something. How
ever, afterwards, when I explained
she was not inclined to believe it was
a joke."
Dr. Mci iillan declared that when he
opened offices in Portland his wife
wao a constant visitor during business
hours and interferred with the treat
ment of patients.
Mrs. McMillan contested the case,
but filed no cross-complaint. She
sought to have the suit dismissed and
did not want a divorce. She testified
that her husband had used his office
for wild parties.
Judge Smith granted Dr. McMillan
a divorce on the ground of personal
indignities.
wnen tne court s ruling was an
nounced Mrs. McMillan became hys
terical and required medical aid.
HOTEL ROBBERS ESCAPE
Marauders nourish Pistol In Dash
From Caples Hogtelry.
Two men, failing in -what is be
lieved to have been an attempt to rob
Moses Burk, propietor of a coffee
house at 37 Third etreet, ran down
stairs and through the Hotel Caple
early last night and made a get-away
in the stceet. One of the men dis
couraged pursuit by brandishing
pistol as he ran through the lobby.
They took no valuables with them.
wnen .Mr. Burn reached his room
in the hotel last night he found that
the lights would not work and tele
phoned to the clerk. He was advised
to secure a globe from the adjoinln
bathroom, but when he opened th
door he found the two men there.
fierce fight ensued, Mr. Burke finally
'driving his assailants away.
HOLLAND GUARDS KAISER
i
Extradition Without Request of
Germany Is Denied.
LONDON. Jan. 22. The Standard
reports that Holland's reply with re
gard to surrender of the German ex
emperor, says it is impossible to gran
extradition at the call of a third
country, if his own country does not
demand extradition.
STRIKE HELD LABOR'S RIGHT
resent Anti-Sedition Laws
Declared Sufficient.
ALMER FAILS TO APPEAR
GENEVA. Switzerland. Jan. 2
Swiss newspapers, following the lead
of the Geneva Tribune, favor the ex
tradition of ex-Emperor William fro
Holland. The concensus of editorial
opinion is that owing to the excep
tional crimes of an international
character charged against him, Hol
land would not be guilty of abusing
the traditions of neutral countries.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
(Concluded on Page 2, Column 1)
0. D. AT TRIAL AUTHORIZED
Wearing of Uniforms During
I. W. W, Murder Case Allowed.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, Jan. 22. Soldiers attend
ing the trial of the I. W. W. accused
of the armistice day murders at Cen
tralia. Wash., are free to wear their
uniforms, though out of the service,
the war department advised Repre-1 J
sentative jonnson toaay. mis inior-1
mation was asked by members of the
American Legion at Centralia.
It is advised, however, that such I
veterans should have on their uni-1 ?
forms the mark denoting discharge I
which is the red chevron. I
X
uthorized under the $10,000,000 act STfiLFN fiFMS P.fiMF RAHK !
paSSFTU U V tin- n. j, i.lioiui D lai, L WeCK
could be issued and the money de
rived therefrom expended on the
roads. Issuance and sale of these
bonds In excess of that amount would
violate the 2 per cent limitation on
Jewels Taken From Home Mystc-1
1 .
x-iousiy neiurnea.
SALEM, Or., Jan. 22. (Special.)
Ten days ago considerable valuable
road indebtedness now in force in this jewelry was taken from the residence
etate.
Based on the assessed valuation of
the state the 2 per cent road bond
limitation is $19,808,709.44, against
which bonds already have been an-1
thorized In the sum of $17,818,280.55.
Of the bonds making up the latter
(Concluded on Face 2, Column 3.)
of Charles W. Neimeyer, 2005 Ferry
street, and a thorough search of the
premises failed to produce the miss
ing articles.
Today the jewels returned in some
mysterious manner and were found
by the owner In the very place
whence they were taken.
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The Weather.
TKSTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
40 degrees; minimum, .10 degrees.
TODATS Fair; northeasterly winds.
Korniirn.
Oenikine holds and bolshevik! slow op.
Page 2.
Complete overthrow of new French gov
ernment is inrcatenea. 1'age 1.
JftDanPM nremlpp outlines nnHjin'M nnli.u.
In Kuana. ana Lhina to tllet. Page 6.
1 Armenian ambitions dashed. Pago 2.
National.
Gompra bftforo house committee, de
nounces antl-nedition bills, rage 1.
Treaty compromiso brought nearer,
page 3. .
Pan-American ship service sought. Page 5.
Domestic.
Orientals riot at Oahu plantations. Page 4.
Socialists threaten walkout at New York
assembly committee hearing. Page 3.
Food costs set new record for December.
Page 1.
Mytrtery of heiress aviatrix. detained al
Atlanta, deepens. Page tl.
Passengers taken from disabled Powhatan.
Page .
Chairman Cummlngs undisturbed by crlt
icism of Mr. Bryan. Page -I.
Mexican borrter disorders declared to have
had approval of President Carranza.
Page 1.
Parific Northwest.
Wife rifles pockets; hubhy gets divorce.
Page 1.
McDonald trio arquitted of murder and
rearrested. Page i.
Governor Olcott vetoen every bill carrying
increases In salaries. Page 1.
Fam Hill, Fort Rock rancher, suffers 18-
day lapse of memory, ruse 1.
Mother and aunt wage battle of love for
custody of child. Page S.
Pershing klssoe children at Kugene. Page 9.
Sport.
Dempsey's ex-wife raps his war record.
. Pago 14.
Beavers will train at Ontario. Gal. Page
14.
Portland boxers open campaign in Bay
city rea-lon. Page lti.
Washington tosaers defeat Columbia. Page
14.
Commercial and Marine. "
Lighter inquiry for potatoes for shipment.
Page 21.
Chicago corn weakened by railroad embar
go. Page 21.
Wall street stocks steady and more active.
Pago 31.
Bunkers of 20.0OO-ton capacity wa'nted at
St. Johns. Page 16.
Portland and Vicinity.
Young wife says past is flung up. Page 7.
Gulllford estate ad-mlnistrator accused of
blaa against - heiress. Page 16.
Oregon democrats are advocates of Her
bert Hoover for president. Page 22.
Rigid influenza quarantine ordered. Page
12.
Two victories won by Pittock estate. Page
12.
Oregon's forest area advanced as argu
ment, for highway appropriation. Page 8.
English novelist predicts quick Ruian
collapse. Page 6.
U. National hank offers J40V.0O0 far
bik' temple ailc Paso 1.
Attorney-General, Instead of De
fending Sterling-Graham Pro-
posals, Offers Substitute.
WASHINGTON', Jan. 22. Opponents
of anti-sedition measures, led by
Samuel Gompers, today urged the
house rules committee to block the
passage of the measures because of ,
their drastic provisions and because
sufficient laws exist to prosecute
dangerous radicals and communists.
Attorney-General Palmer, who pre
viously had announced his support of
both the Sterling bill, which passed
the senate, and the Graham measure,
held up In the house because of the
drastic death penalty provision, failed
to appear in defense of the measures.
The attorney-general, however, sent
a letter to Chairman Campbell of the
rules committee, saying he was im
pelled to say that neither of the bills
accords with my views as to what the
legislation ought to be," and recom
mended as a substitute a bill which
he drafted and which was introduced
several weeks ago by Representative
Davey, democrat, of Ohio.
The Davey bill provides fines not
exceeding $10,000 and Imprisonment
for not more than 20 years for per
sons convicted of an attempt to over
throw the government, or of acts of
violence against the government.
, Measure Comprehensive One.
- The measure also would prohibit
writings or teachings which consti
tute sedition.
The department of justice is ready,
Mr. Palmer Informed the committee,
to enforce whatever legis-latiou con
gress should see fit to pass.
Mr. Gompers, appearing as spokes
man for the American Kcderation of
Labor, denounced the pending bills in
unqualified terms. Mass meetings,
with the orderly purpose to strike to
improve living conditions would be
suppressed under the bills, asserted
Mr. Gompers, adding that strikes and
cessations of labor are nothing more
or less than Inspirations of working
people to improve their conditions.
Gompera Voices Profrst.
I do not believe this species of
legislation would stifle the things it
is supposed to do," Gompers said, "but
rather would provoke the opposite. It
would tie men to their jtjbs."
E. W. Kvans, president of the yearly
meeting Society of Kriends of Phila
delphia, said it was impossible to sep
arate freedom of speech and the free
dom of religion. He advocated an appeal-,
to the public-spirited .people in
an effort to put down those who
would overthrow the government
rather than utilization of drastic laws,
"There Is no disposition to punish
anyone except for physical force,"
said Chairman Volstead of the judi- -ciary
committee. "There is nothing
to prohibit moral force; no disposition
to take away rights to organize or
derly or to advocate change of gov
ernment." l awmakers Also Kapned.
"I oppose all activities of the so
called Teds.'," Mr. Gompcis said, "and
there Is no one who is more opposed
to these people.
"Standpatters, reactionaries and
fools in congress may hate me, but
none hate me or vilify me as these
people whose activities have been
branded as Ted." "
"What do you mean by fools in con
gress?" Chairman Campbell asked.
"I am afraid I would be guilty of
lee majeste if I mentioned any
names," Gompers replied.
"The life of the people of the United
States should not be irksome and sup
pressed." said Mr. Gompers. "What
right has tho postmaster-general to
pry Into private mail and determine
what iB seditrous and what may
pass?"
rnapapera Alno Protest.
Labor opposes force by machine
guns or even the bow and arrow, he
said, but it does not want the right
"to exert moral force for changes in
the government destroyed."
Telegrams from 30 newspaper pub
lishers protesting against the sections
of the bill which they said would limit
the freedom of the press were read
into the record by Chairman Camp
bell. James Weldon Johnson, former
consul to Nicaragua, protested against
the bill In behalf of the National As
sociation for Advancement of Colored
People.
Howard A. Davis of Boston pre
sented a petition from -the Harvard
Liberal club of that city, which said
that passage of the measures "would
be a calamity forever discrediting
those who pass it."
Objection to the provision which
would permit the postmaster-general
to bar from the mails newspapers
publishing objectionable stories or
cartoons was made by S. P. .Weston
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