K PORTLAND OREGON,. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1020 PRICE IIVE CENTS VOL. 1AX.XO. 18,470 Entered at Portland ("Oregon) Pnrtnfflc as Second-Class Matter. REPUBLICANS ABE PALMER FOR MORE I IfT Mil n AMTI ocn I AMI ull I LINE-UP EXCHANGE COLLAPSE GET NOTE FARM LOANS . WAIT RULING ON VALIDITY HOMESTEADING RIGHT WORST IN HISTORY: LOOMS FOR VETERANS FIRST CHANCE AT LAND , GRANTS MAY BE GIVEN. IVIILU nil I ITVL.L LM M TRAINING BILL HOT WILSON PROPOSED LEGISLATION DE CLARED TOO DRASTIC. INTERNATIONAL CREDIT SIT UATION' IS OMINOUS. FURTHER APPLICATIONS W ILL ' BE REJECTED BY BOARD. IN CARFARES COM No BRITAIN MAY MAKING PLATFORM SEEMS NEV1ABLE Kahn Will Not Let House Dodge Issue, He Says. FOES OF DRAFT STILL BUSY Same Brand of Opponents Are Fighting Measure, View. MONDELL PROVOKES FIRE Chamberlain Also Takes Rap at Those Who AVould Increase Pay, Avoiding Duly of Service. OREGON IAX NEWS BUREAU. Washington, Feb. 4. Congress and the country are about to be precipi tated into a discussion of the ques tion 'of universal military training -. , , -.-. . i.. tnfa..oHv Hip heated controversy waging for several weeks Now that the issue has been in jected into the presidential contest In some of the middle western states by opponents of General Wood, chair man Kahn of the house military af fairs committee has decided that this is the time to have a showdown in congress. The house will not be per mitted to dodge the issue, campaign or no campaign. Representative Kahn declare! to day that it had been determinc:l to report the army bill with a universal military training provision, ami he in dicated that he was prepared to go to the mat with those republican lealera in the house, particularly leader llondell, who are so emphatically op posed to universal service. Opponent Bitterly Attarked. "Universal military training is op posed by the same sellouts who op posed the selective draft." said Chair man Kahn, "and if the rest of us had followed their lead at the outbreak of the war the republican party would now be a minority party in congress. The republican party won in spite of them by not permitting them to shape the party's policy. "An examination of the records of these who are most bitterly opposed to universal military training will disclose the exact truth of all 1 have said, together with other equally sig nificant facts." Senator Chamberlain reproached the enemies of universal military training yesterday In the senate. Senator Fletcher of Florida had followed other senators In a speech favoring greatly increased pay for the enlisted inn of the army which caused Sena tor Chamberlain to say: "I have always opposed these in creases. I opposed the increase when the national defense act of 1916 was lip for consideration. The proposal does not recognize that any duty at all devolves upon the young men of the country to serve the country's need without payment of a large com pensation therefor. Bunis" Not Wanted. "It will be found that the senators who are so strenuously insisting upon Increasing the enlisted men's salary will be denouncing anything that looks like universal military training because it costs so much and tends toward militarism and the Prussian izing of the American army." r Senator Chamberlains contention was that to increase the pay of en listed men to such a figure as was proposed would attract the ne'er-do-well into the army and create in this country a proiessionai soldiery. Demand Sterling Falls to $3.19, a Ieclinc of II Cents From Tuesday's Low Mark. NEW YORK, Feb. 4. The most dis astrous collapse in the history of the foreign exchange market in- New I York, a 25 per cent rate for demand i loans, time funds reduced to tne van ishing point and further withdrawal ' of government deposits, summarized today's serious disturbances on the stock exchange and tUe leading com modity markets. Demand sterling fell to $3.19, a de cline of 14 cents from yesterday's low and 31 cents under list week's final quotation. Translated into the American dollar, the pound sterling showed a loss of considerably more than 33 per cent rrom its normal or pre-war price of J4.SlH. French, Belgian and Italian lemlt tances at new low quotations of 15.1", 14.82 and 19.10, respectively, were at discounts extending from 6S to 77 per cent of their normal quotation of 5.18H to the dollar. Counter movements which reflected these local conditions included new high premiums for bar gold and sil ver in the London market and a higher quotation for New York ex change at Canadian points. Bankers and international finar. ciers as a whole declined to discuss the more ominous aspects of the in ternational credit situation, bu seemed hopeful that the s-everal gov emnmental investigations, now unde way abroad might be productive of early results. In the stock market the movemen was one of almost continuous decline. leaders sustaining extreme losses of 2 to 17 points with a few unimport ant rallies in the later dealings. The 25 per cent rate for call money represented the maximum quotation for that form of accommodation since November 12, when as much as 28 per cent was paid. Liberty bonds and victory notes suffered with the stock list, some of them falling to the lowest levels since their offering. International bonds, including Japanese issues, also weak ened. Chief Reported Enraged Over Grey Letter. PROPRIETIES HELD VIOLATED Requests on Hand to Be Granted and Transactions Under Way to Be Completed. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. Pending a decision by the supreme court of the United States on the constitutionality of the farm loan act, all future appli cations for loans from federal farm loan banks will be held in abeyance, Farm Loan Commissioner Norris an nounced tonight. The policy of the board to ' susoend teir.Dorarilv the Addressing Senate Over Pres- making of loans does not affect loans ident's Head Too Much. MR. WILSON INACCESSIBLE Much Made or Fact That It Is Dif lieu It Now for Anyone to Reach President. LIVERPOOL. Feb. 4. The deprecia. tion of exchange has brought cotton imports to a virtual standstill.. There is no Immediate prospect of a short age, there being about five months' supply of American cotton In England, but the trade is emphasizing tho ur gentfTTof relieving thef exchange diffi culty. I A very large section of the govern ment of the United States will be transferred in the next few days to the third congressional district of Missouri, and Washington may for the time being be of only temporary importance in the news of national doings. A contest to fill c. vacancy in congress from that district is the cause. The situation has been created largely by the speaking tour of Sena tor Hiram Johnson, who is said to have left one of the strongest of democratic strongholds In America shaking on its foundations. Johnson covered the district for a week with the most intensive siege of cam paigning that that corner of Missouri has ever known. Republicans See Good Chance. Prominent aemocrats took seats on the platform and applauded his pe riods with such zest and enthusiasm that it looks like this district, which has elected only one republican to congress in 60 years, may reverse its form. The one successful republican was elected in 1894 and he only re mained In congress one term. Breckenridge Long, third assistant secretary of state. Is already in the district campaigning, and it was de termined today to send the following formidable battery of national demo cratic leaders out, one after another, to stump for the democratic candi dates: Attorney-General Palmer; Joshua W. Alexander, secretary of commerce; ex-Governor Dockery, now third, as sistant postmaster-general; Champ Clark, a democratic floor leader of the house; Senator Owen of Oklahoma, S and Representative Heflin of Ala bama. Secretary of Commerce Alexander has represented the district for many iCuauiutUd on Pa 2, Colunu BRIDGE SITE FIGHT BEGUN The Dalles Business Men Want Structure Over Narrow Channel. THE DALLES, Or., Feb. 4. (Spe cial.) "Place the proposed mid-Co lumbia bridge where one span will reach across the river," Is the slogan adopted by The Dalles Chamber of Commerce in their fight to obtain the construction of an Interstate bridge over the Columbia river at the nar rows, near Senfert, where the Co lumbia passes through a chasm less than 200 feet wide. A, committee of nine members was chosen at last night's meeting of the chamber to carry an aggressive drive for the structure at the Senfert site. The committee consists of Frank Seu fert, chairman; L. Barnum, mayor P. J. Stadelman, Edward C. Peace, W. H. Wilson, E. O. McCoy, J. T, Rorick, L. A. Schanno and N. A. Bonn. TACOMA MAYOR AROUSED War on Street Railway Declared if Ten-Cent Fare Secured. . TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 4. (Special.) "If a 10-cent fare Is secured by the street railway company I will do everything I can to start every bus In the city running and make it as easy as I can for them to run," declared Mayor C. M. Riddell in an address be fore a public club here last night. "We have bow reached the maxi mum fare as far as I am concerned. Under the 7-cer.t fare we have force 1 many people to walk. The only rem edy I can see for the situation is for the company to cut operating ex penses to minimum, to quit paying tribute to highfaluting officers in Boston." KERENSKY OPPOSES REDS Former Premier Off for Prague to Stir Up Feeling. PRAGUE, Feb. 4. (Czecho-Slavok government, cable.) Former Russian Premier Kerensky and former War Minister Savinkov are on their way to Prague to inaugurate a new policy founded on an understanding between Czecho-Slovakia and Russia. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. The pur pose of Kerensky's visit to Prague Is to stir up the Czecho-Slovaks, Poles and Roumanians to take military steps against the bolshevik!, it was said today at the Czecho-Slovak of ficial information bureau here. Both Kerensky and Savinkov had been in London for some time. LABORER EARNS $5527 Illiterate Austrian Fined for Mak ing False Income Return. ST. CATHERINES. Ont. Feb. 4. An Illiterate Austrian earned $5527 In Canada during a single year of the war as a laborer at the Welland steel foundries. This was learned today when Mike Ennis was fined for making a false intern tax return. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. (Special.) Angered by publication of the letter of Viscount Grey, British ambassador to the United States, announcing the willingness of Great Britain to accept the Lodge reservations to the peace treaty, President Wilson, It was relia bly reported tonifiht, is considering informal representations of protest to the British foreign office. It Is asserted in quarters close to the president that he regards the pub lication of the Grev letter a gratui tous attempt on tho part of the Brit ish authorities , to inject themselves into the political situation in the sen ate growing out of the peace treaty fight. LanHlngr nemmlttl. Secretary of State Lansing when approached on the master today re fused to' affirm or deny that the inci dent had provoked the president or that the matter had been or will be taken up informally with the British government. If made, these representations, it is indicated, will leave the way open for Premier Lloyd George to announce uubliclv that the statements of Lord Grey were not authorized by the Brit ish government and cannot De con sidered in the light or an omciai statement of that government's posi tion. " Embarraunent Is Possible. Admittedly such a suggestion might . - . 1 Tl.Uliiti Drove embarrassing id i" premier if, as reported in senate cir cles, a personal cablegram from Lloyd George addressed to Senator Lodge and conveying virtually the same as surance as that contained In the pub lished letter of Lord Grey has been shown by Senator Lodge to colleagues of his in the senate committee on foreign relations. President Wilson is said to feel that Lord Grey committed a gross breach of the proprieties and that the silence of the British government in face of the publication of the Grey letter merely tends to confirm the In ference that the British authorities deliberately adopted this method of approaching the senate and the peo- for which applications already are in the hands of farm loan representa tives, however, Mr. Norris said, add ing that such transactions would be completed under the regulations in effect since the system was created. Officials explained the adoption of the new policy as having been due to a desire on the" part of the farm loan board not to defeat plans of individ ual borrowers if, In any event, loans cannot be made. Should the act be held unconstitutional, applications for loans necessarily could no longer be considered. In issuing the general instructions to both joint stock and farm loan banks to hold up actual closing of further loans, the board advised them that prospective bor rowers must be informed of the pos sibility which centered in the legal decision as a measure of protection to them. "DRY" LINERS DO NOT PAY Shipping Board Forced to Sell Ger man Passenger Craft. , WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. Sale of the former German passenger liners seized at te outbreak of the war was forced on the shippin..- board by the operation of the national prohibition law, Chairman Payne is understood to have told President Wilson. Mr. Payne was said to have written the president that the government could hot operate the liners on which Intoxicants were not sold in com petition with privately-owned ships on which wine and other liquors' were servid. HUNGRY CHILDREN AIDED Train Brings 250 0 From Vienna to Milan to Recuperate. VIENNA, Feb.! 4. An Italian train has Just arrived to take 2500 starv ing children of Vienna to Milan for tthe remainder of the winter. The train brought several carloads of badly needed American Red Crosr supplies. The departure of the children com pletes the tenth consignment sent to Italian towns to recuperate. Thou sands of children, too feeble to un dertake the long Journey, have been assembled in hospitals. Resolution Scheduled to Go Before Senate to Supplement For mer Legislation. ROSEBURG, Or., Feb. 4. (Special.) According to a telegram receive from Senator McNary last night by District Attorney Neuner, pref. erence right allowing soldiers to settle on Oregon & California and other land grants will be provided in a. resolution scheduled to go be fore the senate In the very near future. The Oregon & Caiiforni grant lands have been classified and are practically ready for settlement as soon as congress gives the order, but no provision was embodied in the original measure for soldier pref erence right to settlement. In an endeavor to give ex-service men the privilege. Attorney Neune took up the matter with Senator McNary and other members of the Oregon delegation at Washington suggesting that something be done. Fortunately, it is stated, press of other matters under consideration caused the grant land bill to be tabled so that opportunity might be given for getting the resolution sup plemented and a clause incorporated allowing soldiers priviiegs in filing. Senator McNary was asked by wire to give the issue personal considers tion, and in the reply received he stated that favorable action had been taken by the senate committee on public lands, and that the supplement to the original resolution would be preserved by Senator Chamberlain, and doubtless early action would be taken in the matter. Commenting upon the messag from Senator McNary, the district attorney expressed himself as well pleased with the action promised, and feels sure the soldiers' preference clause is an assured fact. (Concluded on Page 2. Column 8.) 4000 TROOPS WITHDRAWN Half of American Force In Siberia Now Out or Country. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. Half of the 8000 American soldiers In Siberia have been withdrawn. The war department announced to day that on January 27 there re mained 271 officers, 4910 enlisted men land 500 civilian welfare workers. FOOD' RELIEF LOAN URGED Republican Members of House , Rules Committee Favor Action. WASHINGTON. Feb. 4. Republican members of the house rules com mittee today decided to give early consideration to the bill authorizing new government loans of $50,000,000 to European countries for food relief. The secretary of the treasury Is asked, in a resolution adopted today for information regarding loans made by the United States to foreign gov ernments and what interest has been paid or is due. BIRD HEROES DISPLAYED Pisreons Which Won Decorations in .War Appear in Bird Show. PARIS. Feb. 4. (French wireless.) Several feathered heroes of the war are on view at the annual bird show organized by the Societe Centrale D' Aviculture de France at the Grand Palais. These tiny aviators are the carrier pigeons which have the honor of wearing decorations awarded in recognition of their valuable service not in the ordinary form of ribbons, but rings attached to their legs. Their special citations also are of ficially recorded. GOING DOWN. v " - i 'mSSkm'M I wlii',,, " 1 11 Ml Will. V q- T M , M ,'11 ' 7 I . Ill 1 III It. Chairman Hays Confers With Leaders. PARTY PLANS ARE OUTLINED Foreign Relations Passed Over for the Present. TREATY TREND AWAITED Business Rehabilitation, Tariff Changes, Readjustment of Com merce and Labor Included. WASHINGTON. Feb. 4. Plans for the. work of the committee of 171 which Is to formulate lecommenda tlons for this year's republican na tional, platform, got under way today with the return to Washington of Will H. Hays, the party's national chair man. after a two months' swing around the country. The committee's immediate task, as mapped out by the party chiefs, is the collection of opinions of more than 20 matters of domestic concern, with probable creation of a number of sub committee to deal separately with the various proposed planks. Foreign re lations will be passed over for the present as a possible factor In the campaign, the committee waiting on the trend of the peace treaty fight to develop what part of the platform Is to be devoted to that subject. Leaden Hold Conference. These plans have been put into con crete form in a memorandum to com mute? members and were outlined at a conference between Chairman Hays and more than a score of senators and representatives. At the same time, there was some discussion of the legislation situation. the party leaders in senate and house outlining what they hoped to accom plish by convention time. The meeting, which took place in the office of Senator Lodge, majority leader of the senate, was accompanied by a renewal of the opposition to the committee plan which developed In some quarters when it was announced several weeks ago. Two Senators Decline to Serve, It became known .that two senators, Moses of New Hampshire, and McCor mick of Illinois, had declined to serve on the committee, because they were out of sympathy with that method of preparing platform recommendations. As outlined, the work of the com mittee does notcontemplate that the full membership shall be assembled at any stage of the pre-convention work. Most of its deliberations will be car ried on by correspondence through its executive secretary and through the heads of separate groups if it Is decided to create them to deal with special subjects. It is emphasized that the most the committee or its groups will do is to recommend, and that the recommendations will not be binding on the committee. Platform Material Chosen. Among the subjects selected as possible platform material and on which opinions will be collected and tabulated, are business rehabilitation. tariff changes, readjustment of for- Ign and domestic commerce, postal reforms, better labor conditions and a review of the democratic administration. After the conference Chairman Hays said there had been no attempts far to reach definite conclusions and that the whole work of the com mittee still was in a formative stage. Five Purposes Outlined. In a statement regarding his trip to the Pacific coast, Mr. Hays de clared: "Everywhere I find the people, re gardless of past party affiliation, seeking republican success, moved with the conviction that by such suc cess they will make certain: "First An honest, efficient, eco nomical business administration of the country's affairs. "Second That there will be devel oped and executed a plan for the re duction" of taxes with the repeal of taxes which kill initiative and the spreading of the war debt over a large number of years, Attorney-General Believes, How ever, in Handling Agitators With Firm Hands. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. Additional anti-sedition legislation, simple In character and guarding the guaran tees of the bill of rights but covering the "hiatus In present statutory laws." was urged by Attorney-General Palmer today before the house Judi ciary committee. Upholding the right of free speech and constructive criticism, the attorney-general protested against pending measures, which he said were "too drastic and far-reaching and so searching that they overreach their purposes " More harm than good would come from repressive lcgisla tion, he added. "But there !s no existing statute adequate to moet the present eltua tion," Mr. Palmer told the committee. "There Is a condition of revolutionary intent In the country on, the part of both aliens and citizens which is suf ficiently widespread to merit serious consideration of congress. This revo lutionary Intent is manifested chiefly by threats both written and spoken by persons who would Injure, destroy or overthrow the government by physical force or violence." Citizons' rights should always be guarded. Mr. Palmer said, adding that he agreed with these who criticised the Graham-Sterling bill on this ground. "But I do not agree with those who object to the bill because they believe that acts of violence should be met with argument only and not by the firm hand of federal statute," he as serted. Other Way Out of Diffi culty Held Doubtful. STREET CARS ARE NECESSITY Motor Buses Shown to Be No Solution of Problem. BRYAN'S NAME PROPOSED North Dacota Democrats Suggest Commoner as Candidate. FARGO, N. D., Feb. 4. A resolution indorsing William J. Bryan for the presidential nomination on the demo cratic ticket was Introduced at the democratic state convention here to day. When returned to the convention from the resolutions committee, to which It was referred. It declared the pleasure of the democrats In 'the leadership of Woodrow Wilson and William J. Bryan." NEGRO ESCAPES LYNCHING Alleged Murderer Taken to Pen itentiary for Safekeeping. LEXINGTON, Ky Feb. 4. Will Lockett, negro, charged with the murder of 11-year-old Geneva Hard man, a school girl, was rushed to the state penitentiary tonight for safe keeping shortly after he had been placed in the county Jail. A mob of angry farmerj coming to this city, bent on the lynching of the negro, who has confessed his guilt, according to officers, arrived too late. MISSIONS BELIEVED SAFE Allied Envoys In Russia Thought to Have Escaped. LONDON. Feb. 4. Dispatches from Vladivostok dated January 31 report that after the peaceful occupation of the city by the revolutionists the al lied missions proceeded westward. It is believed they are sife. COST IS STUBBORN FACT Service Charge to Merl x-rn 1 1 it s Expenses and Yield Fair Iteliirn Seems Only Coure. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 61 degrees; minimum, 38 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; winds mostly southerly. Foreign. List of war criminal! goes direct to Ber lin after German delegate refunes to transmit It to hi! government. Page 1 Premier' Nlttl pleads for economic stability of world. Page . Three American relief workers murdered in Syria by brlgunris. Puge 2. National. Future farm loans to wait pending ruling on constitutionality or art. Page I. Senate cloture on treaty debate held un likely. Page 4. Substitute for antl-strlke clause In Cum mins railroad bill agreed upon. Puge 4. Republicans start platform building Page 1. President Wilson reported enraged over , publication of Grey letter. Page 1. Kahn declares he will force showdown oo army training bill soon. Page 0. "Bob" I.aKollette storm cc.iter tn Wiscon sin politics. Page 3. Ihmientlc. palmer urges milder anti-red law. Page 1 Newberry In grip of testimony net. Page S. Exchange collapse worst In history. Page 1. Pari Tic Northwest. Homesteading right looms for veteran. Page 1. L, , t . . ... . - . Illness of prisoner causes adjournment nf Third That there will be devel- j "m, w, W. trial at Monteaano. Page ft. k , ii . (II- 1. oped a better relation between labor and capital, with justice to both and with justice to the public, the third side of the triangle, which must not be forgotten.. "Fourth That there shall be an administration of law and order everywhere in the nation. "Fifth That the party will meas ure Its steps forward by the new needs of the nation, with its eyes al ways ahead, but with its feet always on solid ground." H. C. L GETS BODY BLOW Demoralization of Foreign Ex change Will Cut Down Expolrs. NEW YORK. Feb. 4. The demor alization of foreign exchange may deal a blow to the high cost of living in America In the opinion of Percy Johnson, president of- the Chemical National bank. "It will cut down our exports," said Mr. Johnson today, "thus throwing large quantiel of American goods on 4 the local markets. Blind school Mipertntennent oppoa new law. page 13. Sport t. Maxlne Demptey rppudlmea charge Jack was slacker. Page 12. Portland boxr prove popular In S-'ao Franclicoaecto I'aite 12. Parkway acalp la sought by Chemawa Indians. Page 12. (ommerrlal and Murine. Wheat prices slump with other cereals. Page 1. Sharp break In corn at Chicago with heavy elllng. Pag 10. Fall In Wall-street atock market continues. Page 1W. One hundred and sixteenth wood ship to be launched today. Page 13. Portland and Vlrlnlty. Increase In farea seems only way out of streetcar difficulty. Pago 1. Jfew automobile row favored by dealers associations, page 10. Zoning ordinance. C'ommlsloner Pier says, should go to voters. Page ". F. S. Myers announces that he will carry his fight to senate. Page 11. Lee Roy E. Keeley denied divorce by Judge McC'ourt. Page, 20. Medical society adopts resolution against employment of solicitors. Page 7, Boy scouts shrill welcome to chief. Page i. Misuse of dealer license tags charged by police In raids which catch a.v.ra.1 salesmen. Pag 4. There is nothing In .IkIiI at preent to replace street cars as public, con veyance, flinty motor buses are shown by actual figures to be rut of the question as a solution, lenre the problem of flnanrl'ig the I'ortland Railway. Light Tower company comes down to a proposition of how much the service costs and how much Is necessary per 'mts to meet operating expenses, and whether any thing may be done .to tulnlmlxe the present operating cost through one way traffic or other expedient. Such, In substance, Is the showing made by the testimony of J. P. Newell, consulting; engineer f"r ll.n city, before the state public service commission yesterday sfternon In the case of the rort!;ind street car com pany, which Is seeking n order I" increase Its revenue siiff kently to cover expenses and yield a rniirn of 7 per cent on Its Investment as fixed by the commission. Mnny f omnUinf lona Annrnr. Beyond a straljrht Increase In fares. which. It appears would necessarily be on an I -rent basis, with honks of 61 rides selling at 7 rents, thus jlcldiiip. on present business, sufficient for a return as stated, all manner of oni- plicatlons present themselves, t'harsret for transfers, a gone system, abol ishing certain lines "built for realty purposes, rhnnglng to onr-wny traf fic and shifting of loops with or with out the one-way plan, all have their drawbarks whether fatal or not is for the stale commission to decide. After an all-day sitting, with Mr. Newell on the stand all of the time, there seemed practically no way out except through a stralKlit fare In crease, especially if the situation faced by the company rvllef or bank ruptcy, as declared by Franklin T. Crlfflth, president Is to be rellovsd without undue dnlay. Trnfflc Flicurea l.hra. Fred O. Ituchtel, chairman, and Commissioner Corey, sitting without Commissioner Williams, who was called home because of the death nf a sister, manifested great Interest In nything having the slightest pos sible value as an alternative to higher fares, and both asked numerous ques tions of Mr. Newell and of others con cerned, but no comment was forth coming from either as to the impres sions made by replies. Mr. Newell gave fresh figures on street car traffic, gleaned for tho oc casion, but all figures used by hlin yesterday show that. If the company Is to be granted full operating ex penses plus a return of 7 per cent on the state commission's valuation of its property, the cost of service per passenger would be 7.677 cents. C'lly Attorney Ylullnnt. Stanley Myers, assistant city attor ney, was equally vigilant and Imme diately took notice whenever any thing was said that seemed to Indi cate any relief from higher faers, but always when explanations followed It was shown that this or that feuture had to be taken Into cotiFidcratlon and that there seemed to be no other way out. Mr. Newell, after presenting new figures, which, he testified, show .s economical an operation of the sys tem as In former years, submitted data as to motor bus lines and howed, by taking flKurcs of the most favorable kind, as he staled It. that these would be able to earn on In vestment and operation not to exceed 62 per rent of operating costs. There fore he ruled thee out as a means of overcoming the transpnrt.il Ion illffl- cullles that would be offered were the street rar company to cease operation. Considerable t line w as spent discuss ing charges for transfers, a'pnssiM xone system, etc., but tio ron-lMMns were reached. In fact, Mr. NeweM frankly said that. In his opinion. charges of this kind mlcht pmve t troublesome and expensive that tlu-v ould yield nothing In the way of so lution of the problem. Mr. Newell showed that I l.tV'i.'i" transfers per year now are laajed end entlmeUd that, with tharae f 1 cent for transfers, this mihi drop to 16,000.1100. thereby yields J16 . . per year; If X cents, tnen, or courte, the revenue from this fcource wmi'd be doubled. Mr. New ell expressed tSe enpliatl j belief that any lines "built for th purpose of promoting re-il estate' hould be assessed on caira-es auf- flclent to maintain them, or be aban doned.