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THE MOHXIXG OREGONIAX, WEDXESDAT, OCTOBER 13, 1920
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STATE M F
AUTHORITY DEBATED
Railroad Rate Problem Is
Tackled at Capital.
TWO POSITIONS REVIEWED
Question oT Inters-tate Commission
Jurisdiction In as Well as
Bcttwrn Stales Argued.
WASHINGTON. Oct. II. Conflict -lnK
opinions as to authority of the in
terstate commerce commission to pre
scribe railroad rates within a state
were presented to the commission to
day by representatives of the rail
roads and state commissions at the
hearings on application of the. roads
of New York and Illinois for an order
increasing intrastate fares to the level
of the -0 per cent advance granted
for interstate traffic.
Spokesmen for the railroads con
tended that the transportation act
made the whole rate structure of the
country a matter for the considera
tion of the interstate commerce com
mission and that the federal author
ity was no longer confined solely
to the regulation of interstate traffic.
Slate commissioners, however, arprued
that the commission was without
authority to make blanket increases
In the traffic charges within the
boundaries of a state and that con
jrresa did not broaden the power of
the commission over intrastate trans
portation. The transportation act represents
a national view of transportation
problems and the power of the com
mission is not confined to interstate
rates, Alfred P. Thorn, general counsel
for the association of railway execu
tives, declared in the closing: argu
ment for the roads.
New provisions are contained in
the law, he asserted, allowing the
carriers to complain to the commis
sion regarding state rates and to in
voke Its jurisdiction. The new law,
he said, permits the commission to
remove any discrimination against
the whole body of interstate com
merce. John E. Benton, general solicitor
of the association of railway and
utilities commissions, told the com
mission that the members of 40 states
opposed the railroads' claims "be
cause of the momentous issue" in
volved. Whether state commissions
are to continue to function under
state laws as they have in the past
is the question to be decided, he de
clared. The supreme court has clearly
established. Mr. Benton contended,
that prior to the passage of the trans
portation act, congress did not in
tend to interfere with state authority
nor to establish a unified authority
over intrastate rates.
DEJICRRAGE CHARGE FOUGHT
Proposed Increase Put Forward by
Roads Answered by Packers.
WASHINGTON, Oot. 12. Railroad
proposals to increase demurrage
charges on freight cars detained by
shippers were attacked today by the
Institute of American Meat Packers
in a brief filed with the interstate
commerce commission, where the
question is pending.
Packers asserted that much of the
delay in moving freight equipment
was due to the railways themselves;
that increase in demurrage charges
would not necessarily increase the ef
ficiency of operation and would pen
alize shippers unnecessarily.
nual convention. The day for the
most part was clear. The business
sessions opened this morning at 9, and
will conclude tomorrow. Today the
Knights" band visited North Bend, ac
companied by the uniformed march
ing company.
Tonight the big )oki class was
initiated, more than fifty participat
ing in the ceremonies. The Dokies
band and uniformed company paraded
the streets this evening after the sea
food dinner, which was served at 6:"0.
The Knights of Pythias elected the
following officers. W. .1. H. Clark.
Portland. Grand Chancellor: Lief Fin
set h, Iallas. grand vice-chancellor:
Victor Moses, grand master-at-arms;
Abe Jayloff. grand prelate; A. C. Wil
son. Lebanon, grand inner guard: K.
C. Roberts. Myrtle Point, grand out
side guard: Justin A. Hurley. Vale,
retirins grand chancellor, grand trustee.
COLOR QUESTION UP
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MURDER SUSPECT MEN
CANADIAN" POLICE DIXLAHK
V. S.' SOLDI KR CRIMINAL..
Search Since July 16, linds at Fort
Wright, N'ear Sjiokane.
Brother in Jail.
SPOKANE. Oct. 12. Andrew Garcia,
20. a soldier ciaoned at Kort George
Wright, near here, was arrested to
day charged with murder. Army offi
cers at Kort Wright and police said
Garcia had confessed a part in the al
leged murder of Taihl Singh, at
Waldo, B. C, last July 16.
His true name is fcaid to be Charles
Chounard.
A. W. Collins, an officer of the Brit
ish Columbia provincial police, who
made the arrest, has been on Garcia'a
trail since the murder, he declared.
He said he arrested Garcia's brother,
William, in Montana and he is in jail
at Vernie R. ( ' Tho hrnthpr i
clared by Collins also to have made a
confession.
According to Collins, Taihl Singh
was struck down with an ax and his
head and far-A mnttlateH T-T a ac
cused the Chounard brothers of at
tacking mm. He died soon after re
gaining consciousness. Robbery was
the motive for the killing ascribed
by the. officers. The brothers are
declared to have plaimpH thev were
actuated by a desire for revenge, de
claring rami bingn had wrongea
their mother, a Cree Indian.
WHEAT VENTURE SUCCESS
Canada Greater-Production Farms
Yield Millions Prorit.
REGIXA, Sask., Oct. 12. On a basis
of $2.50 a bushel, net, the cash value
of the wheat crop now being taken
off government greater production
farms in Saskatchewan and Alberta
is placed at 12.500.000 by W. H. Gra
ham, Indian commissioner here. Mr.
Graham would not venture an esti
mate of operating expenses, but ad
mitted that the profit on the venture
for the present year would be well
over a million dollars. The wheat
crop is placed at 500.000 bushels.
Approximately 20,000 acres were
sown to wheat this year. The yield
on the Alberta land is announced at
45 bushels to the acre, though the
value estimate is on the basis, of
40 bushels to the acre, Saskatche
wan's quota to the total will yield
only about 15 bushels to the acre.
GRUBS RDUT LOBSTERS
KXPFRTS THINK RETREAT IS
VIA PANAMA CAN" All.
1000 Crustaceans Brought From
East Believed to Have Begun
Long Crawl Homeward.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Oct. 12. (Spe
cial.) Puget sound crabs have estab
lished a reputation for rowdincss, be
cause it is believed that those inhab
itants of local shores have chased
home the 6000 eastern lobsters plant
ed here by the government in an
effort to Increase the productiveness
of northwest waters.
Hugh MeCormick Smith, commis
sioner of the United States bureau of
fisheries, tried the experiment sev
eral years ago, and this year it has
finally been decided that the experi
ment is a failure.
Since the time of the planting gov
ernment experts have watched with
Interest the growth of the lobster
industry in Washington. But it didn't
grow.
Now experts are looking about for
reasons.
Scientists are regretting the fact
that the planted lobsters were not
marked in some manner to determine
whether they took one look at the
fighting crabs in Duckabush and then
started on a long crawl, even by the
way of Panama. Kxports eay that
the trip is not impossible for a lob
ster. The fact remains that lobsters will
not associate with western crusta
ceans. Besides planting the eastern
lobsters at Duckabush, Commissioner
Smith placed some in Yaquina bay,
Oregon, and along tho California
coast.
BOMB BLOW-UP FORECAST
Purchasing Agents' Convention in
Chicago Uvts Warning.
CHICAGO. Oct. 12. Threats of a
btmb explosion were made in an
anonymous letter received today by
A. H. Reinhardt, chairman of the na
tional association of purchasing
agents' convention, in session here.
The letter reads:
"Let these gentlemen kid them
selves. They think they are sitting on
a safety valve. They will continue to
sit on a safety valve until the great
explosion and then they will pass
out."
It is believed that the letter was in
spired by a statement made by Mr.
Jieinhardt In an address in which he
said "We must buy nothing but essen
tials until tho general decline in
prices has been completed."
CANADA HAS, SALT LAKE
Saltiest Body or Water Believed
Found Northeast of Calgary.
CALGARY,. Alta.. Oct. 12. A salt
lake, believed the saltiest in the
world, has been discovered at Senlac,
Sask., 180 miles northeast of Calgary
just across the Alberta boundary. It
was discovered by a Calgary geolo
gist when a search for potash was
being made. The lake is 185 acres in
area.
The lake, which is only 18 inches
deep, is fed by living salt springs
and its level is maintained no matter
how much is taken out, which would
indicate the pressure from the source
of supply is heavy and that such
source must be of practically inex
haustible volume.
FARMERS TO SEE WILSON
Needs of Agriculture to Be Submit
ted to President.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 12. Appoint
ment of a committee to present to the
W lute House- a request for a confer
ence with President Wilson and his
cabinet for submission of the needs
of agriculturists was decided upon at
a meeting here today of represent!
tives of farm organizations in all
parts of the United States. The com
inittee chosen consists of a represent
ative from each organization.
Farmers' representatives also de
cided to ask for a conference with the
federal reserve board.
Line Breaks, 2 Men Kiled.
HOQU1AM, Wash.. Oct. 12. (Spe
cial.) Two men were killed Monday
by the breaking of a flying high line
at the logging camp of the Schafer
Bros. Logging company, four miles
north of Brady. The men were Fred
Ronquist, 35, a chaser, and Mr. Hard
ing, 27. Harding's first name could
not be learned. He was an ex-service
man and has a mother in the east and
a sister in California.
lil BORDER STATES
Republican Hopes Based yon
DEMOCRATS BADLY SPLIT
Old-Fasliiond States' Rights Voters
Deeply Inoculated by Party Lead
ers With Anti-League Virus.
f Continud Krom First Pac;.
the presidential election, they might
readily lose a senator there.
The estimate of 25,000 as the dis
tance between the presidential candi
date and the republican senator
comes from republican sources. It
illustrates again what is almost uni
versally true: nameiy, that in prac
tically all states where there is a
senatorial contest, republican candi
dates for senator will run behind
Hardinv.
To any one who goes into these
situations closely, the probability of
the republicans making gains in the
senate becomes the real question of
this campaign.
Kentucky an Eiceptlon.
Curiously enough, the one exception
to this rule is another of the border
states Kentucky. The republican
senatorial candidate, Richard Ernest,
s expected to run ahead of Harding,
or to put it another way, the demo
cratic candidate, who is the present
senator, J. Crepps Wickliffe Beck
ham, is expected to run behind Cox.
For Kentucky, Cox was probably
the strongest candidate for the presi
dency the democrats could have
named. A large part of eastern
Kentucky reads the Cincinnati papers.
For that reason, it to a certain extent
takes on the color of Ohio politics.
Moreover, Cox has frequently cam
paigned in Kentucky and is person
ally popular there. Finally, an able
and popular democratic congressman
in Kentucky, Campbell Cantrell, is a
friend of Cox and took a leading
part in giving him the nomination.
West Virginia for Harding.
For all these reasons. Cox has a
little better chance of winning
Kentucky than any other possible
democratic nominee would have had.
In West Virginia, for much the same
reasons and for the additional reason
that coal miners of the state are
strong for him. Cox will make a
good run, but it still remains true,
as I said two weeks ago, that West
Virginia is more likely to go repub
lican. In Maryland, when I was there
some weeks ago. the tendency was
toward republican success, both as
regards Harding and also as regards
the republican senatorial candi
date. During that time, however, the
democrats have been stirred up by
the spectacle of the large registra
tion of negro women.
As things stand today, it looks as
if Maryland would probably re-elect
its democratic senator and as between
Cox and Harding is doubtful.
visiting 1
with the e
order has undertaken for ex-service
men.
"Acceptance of the $5,000,000 re
cently offered the American legion
for the erection of a great memorial
at Washington. T. C. rests with the
executive committee of the lesion and
a decision is expected in 1921," said
Mr. McGinley. "The money will be
sufficient to erect a magnificent
structure and provide a fund for Its
maintenance."
Jn the free night schools estab
lished by the Knights of Columbus
throughout the nation for the benefit
of the veterans, Mr. McGinley said
trere is an enrollment of approxi
mately 43.000. Accompanying Mr.
McGinley is J. J. Cummings. executive
secretary of the educational work of
the order, and A. G. Bagley, who is
the representative on the Pacific
coast.
SEATTLE VOTERS 120,130
500
TO 1000 DUPLICATIONS
EXPECTED ON" BOORS.
Enrollment Heaviest on Record.
Increase in Census Held In
dicated by City Officials.
SEATTLK. Wash.. Oct. 12. (Spe
cial.) With 120.23U votes on the city
poll books, the greatest number on
record, the force oi clerks- in the reg
istration office today began checking
over the books, whicn closed last
night, to eliminate duplications.
The task will take several days, it
is estimated, and is expected to reveal
that between 500 and 1000 voters,
anxious to make sure of their quali
fications for the November election,
got their names on the books twice
in spite of the vigilance of the clerks.
The enrollment yesterday was the
heaviest of the month, totaling 2738.
The controller's office and lobby of
the city hall were crowded and it was
necessary to keep the office open
late.
City officials analyzing the regis
tration figures said today they indi
cated a much larger population than
showed in the census last January.
The books have been made up since
January 1, no names being carried
over from last year. Using the ac
cepted theory proportion of voters to
population of one to three, the figures
would Indicate a population of 360,000
within the city limits.
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MURDER SPOT IS SHOWN
Confessed Kidnaper Leads Police to
Where He Says Babe Was Killed.
HARRISBURG, Pa.. Oct. 12. August
Pasquale, confessed kidnaper of
Blakeley Coughlin, today took Cap
tain Samuel Gearhart of the state po
lice to a spot along the Schuylkill
river, below Morristown, where he
declared he had thrown the body of
the child, and a diver found a piece
of rail and some string which he al
leged he had tied to the child when
he hurled it into the stream, accord
ing to a statement made today by
Major L. G. Adams, superintendent of
the state police.
The search for the body is being
continued by the diver, the major
said. Major Adams also said Pas
quale had confessed to killing a wom
an about 60 years of age at 808 North
Eighth street, 'Philadelphia, last
spring and to stealing $300.
500 NEGROES HOMELESS
Fire Wipes Out Large Section of
Pine Blufr, Ark.
P1XE BLUFF, Ark., Oct. 12. More
than 100 houses, most of them occu
pied by negroes, were destroyed to
day in a blaze which started in the
negro section of the city. Nearly S00
people were made homeless. A fund
for their relief is being raised.
So far as could be learned there
were no casualties. The fire was de
clared to be under control at 4:30
P. M. Only a few scattered houses in
an area of more than eight blocks
were standing.
KNIGHTS' OFFICIAL HERE
Acceptance of $5,000,000 Gift De
clared Now lp to Legion.
William J. MeCilnley, supreme sc
retary of tho Knights of Columbus, is
HORSE RANCH SELLING OUT
Last of Historic Ranges in Montana
to Dispose oi Stock and Close.
GREAT FALLS. Mont., Oct. 12.
The Long X outfit, last of the large
horse ranches of Montana is selling
its horses. Fifteen hundred have gone
to Texas buyers and 500 more will
be auctioned at Malta, Mont., this
month. The breaking up of the Long
X horse droves will mark the pas
sing of the horse range in Montana.
The Long X brand has been known
to the horsemen of the west for half
a century. ThelTth annual dance
of the Long X outfit was held last
month and was attended by hundreds
of Montana men who had in their
joyous youth been wranglers on the
big ranch.
NEGRO'S CASE DROPPED
Alleged Leader of Riot Said to Have
Status of a Free Man.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan.. Oct, 12.-7-Proceedings
begun in the Kansas
federal court to bring about the re
turn to Arkansas of Robert Hill, ne
gro, accused of being a leader in the
series of race disorders in the vi
cinity of Helena, Ark., last fall, have
been dismissed at the instance of Attorney-General
Palmer, according to
a statement by Fred Robinson, United
States district attorney for Kansas,
late today.
Hill's status is that of a free man,
federal officials said today. Federal
troops were called out a', time of the
disorders in Helena. Ark., last fall.
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Nearly 50 years' phenomenal sales
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Hood's Pills help fine cathartic.
WEATHER FAVORS KNIGHTS
rythians and Sisters in Annual
Convention at .Marslifit'ld.
M.MWHKIEI.Ii, Or.. Oct. 12. (Spe
cial.) Better weather t oday - favored
the Knights of Pythias and the
Pythian Sisters, who are here in an-
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Had j'ou thought of any other method that
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Suppose you planned any national movement
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how could you proceed without the quota
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And as an individual, how can you gage your
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In mapping out an advertising campaign, a
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