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VOL. LXI iO. 19,tio3 te.r. t rrllK (Ornri Pos'of'Ice as Sec Tf1-e'Bg M:t. PORTLAND, OREGOX, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1923 PRICE FIVE CENTS 6 ABE ARRESTED OSER TO BE AT PIER iDfrn flDprfiRQ TH PDCCT MATUII nc'IILLU ill I Lttlld TWO FATALLY INJURED UNDER BURNING AUTO FUND AGAIN PLEDGED x FOR LOOP HIGHWAY EYES OF LANOIS OUSTED FIREHORSE COMMITS SUICIDE VETERAN RESENTS JOB OF HAULING GARBAGE. TARIFF BECOMING IV UllLLI liin I I I ILL 1 i ON KLAN CHARGES! TO BE VICTOR E S FOR ALL SS MKOKMICK TO ItE.UH COMPANION TRYING UKSCIE IGNITES GASOLINE. SI 70,000 IS AUTHORIZED BY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. CHERBOIHG TODAY. mm M A R E E INCUBU Prominent Men Accused by Jackson Jury. DEFENDANTS OUT ON BAIL 16 John Doe Indictments Also Are Returned. TRUE BILLS ON 3 COUNTS Grand Jurors Hold AUemt Night Riders on (round?! of It lot. Assault and Extortion. MEDFORD. Or.. Aug. 1 (Special.) Ix well known Jackson county; men. all said to be members of,th Ku Klux Klan. and 1 "John Doe's" wars Indicted today by the special grand Jury which made Its report to Circuit Judge Calkins In the Jack sonville courthouse. The indict ments charged participation in "hangings" staged by nlghtriders last spring. Those Indicted were: Jesse F. Hittson. Medford automobile dealer and former chief of police of Med ford. ' rr. Jouett P. Bray. Medford chiro practor jaad former pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, nowara a. mil. manager ana pan owner of the Hill Hill orchards. near the southern city limits of Medford. Bert L. Moses, janitor at the Jack son county courthouse, and formerly jailer at the Jackson county Jail. J. Alexander Norris. Janitor at the Jacksonville public school. Thomas E. Goodie. Jacksonville garage owner. All Six Arreatrd. The indictments were returned at I 39 o'clock this afternoon and be rnre S:30 o'clock Sheriff Terrl'.l had r'aced all of the men. except Dr. Bray, under arrest. Dr. Bray was expected to be la custody soon. Honda of I200O each were posted to insure the appearance of the de fendants. Ail of the men will be arraigned before Circuit Judge Calkins la Jack sonville at 10 o'clock this morning. In a report submitted to Judge Calkins, tae Jury explained that the investigation which resulted in the indictments was only partial, and that members of the Juryhave rea ton to believe that further evidence justifying additional Indictments will be forthcoming. For this reason the Jurors stated that they planned to resume the probe of the nightrlders' activities in Jackson county when the Jury convenes In regular session October It. or sooner If Judge Calkins Issues a call. aevesi Tree Bills Retarard. Seven true bills were returned by the Jury. three in the Hale case, three in the Burr case and one In the Henry Johnson case. Howard A. Hill la Involved In six of the Indictments covering all of the charges made in the Hale and Burr cases. Bert Moses charged with participation In the Burr case, cov ered by three Indictments. Dr. Bray is involved In the Hale esse, covered by three Indjctments. , as Is J. F. Hittson. who also , charged with participation In the Hale "hanging." J. Alexander Norrls and Thomas, E. Goodie have but one count against them, this in the Henry Johnson esse. The indictments brought In the Hale and Burr cases are on three counts, assault with a dangerous weapon, riot and extortion. The riot statute la considered to be the most serious, for It carries a penalty ringing from threa to IS years In the penitentiary on conviction. But one count, that of riot, was found in the indictments returned In the Johnson case. Repet Made at 3iSe r. M. Judge Calkins waa notified shortly sfter lunch that the Jury was ready to make Ita report. At 1 o'clock he took his bench and sent word to the jury that he was ready to re ceive any report that they desired tn make. About lO minutes later the Jurors filed out and Mrs. Marie Benedict submitted aeven Indictments, to gether with a report. Judge Calkins read the indictments, withholding the names. 'explaining that as soon1 aa the defendants had been arrested the names would be released to the public. Evidence subm'tted to the grand Jury tn ita Investigation, according ta ita report, tended to Implicate some or all of the crimes charged m the Indictments that were re turned. "This matter may be the subject pf further Investigation In the fu ture." the report read, "if It I, ; found advisable, as additional In formation Is undoubtedly obtain able." Judge Calktns In dismissing the Jury stated that they were free ta make further Investigation, snd that rhnuld It be deemed expedient to rail soother special session, he would notify the members of the Jury. Otherwise the lory w'll sot (Coociuded es Fat 3. Co.uma (.) Presumption 1 Couple Will B Married In Kranoe and Honeymoon In America. (Copyright, by New York Times. Pub:. shed b Ar-nftntDL) 4 By Cblcaso Tribune Leased Wire.) PARIS, Aug. . Three days ago Max Oser obtained in Switzerland i a vise for France and the United I State. He Is luppoowd to be in Paris and it is expected he will be at the pier tomorrow morning- to meet Mathilda McCormlck. his fian- Lcee. who arrivea on the Majestic Oser could not be located in Paris today, but it was reported he mo tored to Cherbourg tonight with i Harold F. McCormick, father of Mathllde. The circumstance that Oser has obtained a vise to so to America j leads to the presumption that he intends to marry Miss McCormick In Francs and go to America for the honeymoon. Nothing; could be learned from Mr. McCormick as to his daughter's plans, although It was said he re mained In favor of her marrying; the Swiss riding master who Is old rnouab to be her father. Mr. McCormick was recently di vorced from Mrs. McCormick. who waa Miss Edith Rockefeller. He was said to have expressed to soma friends the other day the following senti ment upon the engagement of his daughter: "If Mathllde loves Oser and wants to marry him. I am In favor of it. I am in favor of anything which promises to bring any happiness Into this family." Dudley Field Malone. attorney for Ganna Walska. recently granted divorce from Alexander Smith Coch- refused today to deny or to af- j firm the report that Mr. McCormick soon would marry the opera singer PLANES SPOT 78 FIRES 1 5-Day Patrol Over Oregon For ests Covers 6 7 00 Miles. SALEM. Qr Aug. S. (Special.) Since federal airplanes were sent to Oregon July 15 for forest fire serv Ice 41 patrols have been flown, 7! flrea have been discovered and the planes have covered a distance of more than CTOO miles, according to a report prepared today by Frank Elliott, state forester. Results obtained during the last Is das. Mr. Elliott said, have con vinced the officials and timber .own era that the planes are of gre-t value In protecting the forest against fire. Six planes which are subject to the call of the state and federal protective forcea are sta tioned at Eugene, with landing fields at Medford. Roseburg. Salem and Portland. A wireless station bas been established at Eugene, and all planea are equipped with wire less equipment. Lowell H. Smith Is In command. GOTHAM PITCHES SHOES Barnyard Golf Greatest Comeback Wnre "t'nele Tom' Cabin." . NEW TORK. Aug. J.i-The farm has borrowed many' things from Broadway. Including Jan. but Broadway has borrowed many Items from the farm. Including barnyard goir. The fad has spread so rapidly that theatrical potentates today pro nounced it the greatest comeback since 'T'nele Tom's Cabin." And while Broadway pitched a mean horseshoe and even rontem- p,.t ent,rlng the grand national tournament at Des Moines next month ltls having difficulty in finding enough horses In this motor-mad town to supply ammuni tion. . I LIVE WIRE KILLS WORKER Albany loung Man Falls to Floor of Power Station. ALBANT. Or., Aug. I. XSpeelal? Sigert Myers. It. lineman for the Mountain States Power company, was electrocuted here this afternoon while working In"" the auxiliary ,ower plant. Myers touched a wire tarrying 1100 volts. Myers fell to a rubber mat on the power ststlon floor. He crawled a ftw feet and collapsed. Help waa summoned Immediately and a pul rootor obtained from the fire depart ment. Myers hss lived here for two year and had been In the employ of the Mountain States Power company. He I j survived by his widow and 1-year-old son. BODY OF CHEMIST GIFT Famous Japanese- Makes Bequest to Doctor for Research. PATERSON. X. J.. Aug. I A re quest that tils body bs offered to Dr. Mslcom Harris of Chicago, "for research and examination, particu larly with regard to my river, which was operated on Is years ago." Is embraced In the will of Dr. Joklch! Takamlne. famous Japanese chemist. who died recently In New Tork. Should the body not be wanted by Dr. Harris or tf Mrs. Takamlne ob jects to the disposition , suggested, the document requested that It be cremated, part ef the ashes to be burled In Woodlawn cemetery, Xew Tork elty, and the remainder In Japan. Missouri Senator 6879 Ahead in Primary. VOTE 189,321 TO 182 Light Ballot Expected in bt2 Missing Precincts. 3626 DISTRICTS COUNTED Plurality Declared Too Great 'or Opponent to Overcome. In Present Conditions. ST. LOUIS. Aug. J. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Every factor that political experta base their opinions on Indicated tonight that Senator Reed had been nominated by the democrats of Missouri to 'be .their standard bearer ' In November to succeed himself. With 822 precincts missing out of ths a!4S tn the state. Senator Reed waa leading Breckenridge Long of St. Louis, third) assistant secretary of state In the Wilson administration, by" 67 votes. The vote In 3(26 precincts stood: Reed 18.21, Long 112.442. In order to overcome this plurality In the remaining precincta It will be necessary for Mr. Long to lead Senator Reed by almost tl votes in each precinct. In the last 100 pre cincts reported from the less densely populated parts of the state, the total number of votera to the pre cinct haa not equaled 21. ftaseei Are Peer. Sixty of the 222 missing precincts are In St. Louis county, outside of St. Louis city. In the 1 precincts that already have reported from St. Louis county Long had an average lead over Reed of only three to the precinct. In the re maining precincts in the rural dis tricts reports show that the demo cratic vote was light and Mr. Long's only hope to muster enough votes to wtpa out the senator's lead would be in a heavy vote from the remain ing country districts. From early morning until lata afternoon the precincts that re ported sWved to reduce the sen ators lead little by little, until at one time It waa cut to slightly more than 6300. In the last SO precincts to report, however, the senator's column took a brace. De spite Reed's lead, Breckinridge Long tonight told the Associated Press that he was atill confident of vic tory and- that he believed (he of ficial count, which begins tomorrow, will be favorable to him. : Attention was directed to the fact that several thousand national guardsmen are on strike duty away I (Continued on 2. Column 1.) NUL SOON TlWKe SOtAE- Match Lighted for Look at Dam- -? JIachlne Catches Fumes c -? .From Leaking Tank. " . f EWPORT, Or., Aug. 3. (Spe- I.) Two 'men were injured fa- o illy last night as a result of a ompanion'o li&htins a match to O iOok at a wrecked automobile, under which they were pinned, two miles J west of Eddyville. The match ig- jiited gasoline, which bad leaked rrom the tank, with the result that both died within a few hours. The dead are: John Schaffer of Independence, and Wallace La Branch of Valsets, Or. The man who lLchted the match was Marvin Elkins, also of Val sets. who was ritMng in the ma chine when it upset and caught his companions. The men were on the way from Independence to Toledo. Elkins testified .at the coroner'a inquest this afternoon that Schaffer was driving, and that he considered him reckless. He said that 1e had left the car when -It stopped a short time before the wreck, but that his companions had overtaken him and had persuaded him to ride again. Elkins said he was in the back seat, while both his friends were In -front. The car went over an embankment at a narrow place in the road.' Elkins aald that he extri cated himself from the wreck and lighted a match ta see what could be done 40 help the other men. The fire evidently caught the gasoline fumes and the whole car burst Into flames. La Branch was pulled free of the car, with hia clothing In flamea. Meanwhile Schaffer had freed him self. Elkins, after putting out the fire on La Branch's clothes, saw Schaf fer, a human torch, running for the river. Schaffer died before he reached the water. WIFE DIVORCES SHOOTER All Property of Couple Goes to Woman Along With Decree. PENDLETON', Or.. Aug. 3. (Spe cial.) Circuit Judge G. W. Phelps today granted a divorce to Elsie Ellen Hall from Floyd Hall and gave her her maiden name of Mar lln and all the property owned by the couple. The divorce comes out of a dis pute between . the couple . which ended In a shooting affair, when the angered husband was alleged to have fired five shots at his' wife while she waa serving htm in a local restaurant. She had her lower Jaw shot away, but a metal Jaw re places it. GASOLINE DOWN 2 CENTS Standard Oil Company of New Jersey Maken Reduction. XEW TORK. Aug. t. A reduct'on of 2 cents a gallon In the price of gasoline wss announced today. The announcement was made by the Standard Oil company of New Jersey. GOING DOWN IS WHERE. THE FUN COMES IN. ' M;iif!v; Hoyt Only One to Vote Against Proposal; Early Work oil Road Is Forecast. Once more the Multnomah county commissioners have adopted a res olution pledging to place 1170,000 in the budget and take the sum from the motor vehicle license fund of 1923 to pay this county's share toward the grading and surfacing of the Mount Hood loop. Action to this effect was taken late yester day afternoon at a conference -at tended by the county commission, D. V. Walker and J. H. Rankin, commissioners-elect; Highway Com missioner Toon; District Attorney Myers and J. M. Deavers, assistant attorney-general. The original resolution, as' pre pared bv Mr. Deavers for the high way commission, and which was supported by Rufus C. Holman and opposed by C. S. Rudeen and R. W. Hoyt, was amended yesterday so that it met with the approval of Rudeen. .The resolution was adopted by the votes of Holman and Rudeen, Hoyt voting against the resolu tion. The budget item has still to be approved by the tax conservation commission when the budget 'Is considered in December, but at torneys at the conference yester day were ef the opinion that the way the reaolution Is worded It meets the objections raised .by the tax conservation commission when the loop item was stricken from the budget last December. John B. Yeon accepted the reso lution with a reservation. He will confer with R. A. Booth and W. B. Barratt. his colleagues, before tak lng action. If the highway com mission is assured that the reso lution of the county, commission will res wit in the state being re imbursed, the contract will be let within a few days for rock surfac lng the loop section In Clackamas county. PRICES OF HMA GO DOWN Packer Says Consumers Have Not Taken Advantage of Decline. CHICAGO, Aug. 3. Wholesale prices of ham have gone down 15 to 20 per cent in the last 30 days, and hams are relatively cheap com pared with other foods, according to- Edwtrd Morris, president of Morris Sc. Co. He said today that consumers so far have failed to take advantage of the decrease in cost. BRIDE'S BROTHER SUED Kin of Marilynn Miller Made De fendant in Divorce Case. MINNEAPOLIS. Aug. S Edwin D. Reynolds, 27. brother of Marilynn Miller, who was married to Jack Pickford, moving picture star, Sun eajr.has been made defendant in a suit for divorce by his wife, it be came known here today. The divorce papers, which charged desertion and non-support, were filed yesterday. Appointment to Manage Beavers Probed. INSIDE "TIP-OFF" IS HINTED Commissioner Believed to Be Urged On by Informer. SPITE WORK INDICATED Name of McCarthy,' President of Coast League, Is Linked 1 With- New Trouble. By L. H. GREGORY- SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3 (Spe cial.) Judge Kenesaw M. Landls, baseball commissioner is taking an extraordinary Interest In the recent appointment of Al Demaree as man ager of the Portland baseball club. It became known In connection with the meeting of the Coast league directors in San Francisco yesterday that the Judge has telegraphed both the ;Denver baseball club and Dem aree himself for Information as to his sale to Portland and subsequent appointment as manager of the Beavers. The Judge directed Denver to for ward him at once copies of all tele graphic correspondence with Port land relative to the sale of Demaree and Demaree himself, shortly after taking over the Beavers, received a message from the judge directing him forthwith to send the commis sioner copies of all telegrams be tween himself and Portland, and also to explain why he had not re ported to Denver this spring, and Demaree promptly complied. He ex plained that he did report to Den ver in the spring following his sale to that club by Seattle, but that his arm went bad and he was permitted to leave the. club with the 'under standing that he would return if his arm got better when called on to do so. . . . .. - Orders Never Received. His arm did get better when hot weather came along and Demaree pitched several games with various independent, clubs. Denver never In structed him to report, however, and as his leaving that club was by mu tual understanding and with the full consent of ' Denver, he was never suspended nor placed on the inelig ible list. Consequently, when sold to Portland, there were no obstacles in the way. It develops further that Judge Landts also required Demaree to j give him the names of every inde pendent club with which he had played after leaving Denver? Ap parently the object of that request was to enable the judge's office to check on the different teams to see whether any ineligible players might have been in the lineup. The supposition, of course, is that if the Judge did find, that an in eligible player had somehow slipped into one of the lineups, he would declare Demaree himself ineligible on the technical ground of having played against blacklisted players. On that score, Demaree has no fears, for he was particular to investigate before he joined an independent club to make sure that it harbored no ineligibles. Motive Can Only Be Guessed. Just what is the "motive behind this activity by Judge Landis can only be guessed at, of course, but it looks like an attempt to be per nickety and to hurt the Portland club by ruling out its new manager, if thare is any possible way to do it. v It is not at all customary for Judge Landis to hold an investiga tion of this kind whenever a base ball club signs up a new manager. That -he is doing so in this in : stance gives his action the appear ance of spite work. But there is another angle to it, which came out at the coast league meeting. This' angle is that Judge Landis is not conducting this lnvea tigation. entirely on his own inltia tive. - There is every indication that he has been "tipped off" or "put up to it" from some source within the coast league itself. While the positive statement can not be made- that President McCar thy of the Paclflc coast league ii that source, it looks yery much like it end at the coast league meeting Mr. McCarthy and his allies, the San Francisco owners, evidenced a remarkable interest in the Demaree appointment. - Decision Held Violated.. At one " time Mr. McCarthy re marked that "Al Demaree, the Port land manager, was violating the Landis decision every time he talked to Klepper," and that every body knew he did talk to him and received his orders from him, indir ectly if not directly. , And again he said that "Klepper violated the Landis decision when he signed Demaree as manager." . "Klepper did not sign Demaree," disputed Gus Moser, attorney for Portland," "Fred Rivers signed him. Klepper did not even conduct the negotiations with Denver for the purchase of Demaree. Rivers did all that as business manager." "Well, that is pure camouflage," (Concluded on Pa IS, Column 3.) Jack Gallup Takes Bit In Teeth and Runs Into Old Quarters, . Ramming Head on Wall. WASHINGTON, D. C, . Aug. 3. Ten years' honorable service ' as a fire horse, rewarded with a job hauling a garbage wagon, broke- the heart of old Jack Gallup. He1 com mitted suicide today in front of a fire house and his. firemen friends! say he did it deliberately. Old Jack, for years was one of threa .plump, sleek bays who whirled a steamer to,very big fire in Wash ington, and many little ones, too. But the motor finally got old Jack and his pals, and they went the way of thousands of others in an &B of progress. A week ago there .were some sobs j choked down and some tears brushed away among the firemen in Congress Heights when Jack and his mates were led away. Today Jack turned up with one of them on an ill smelling, filthy garbage wagon in old Georgetown. The day was hot and the Job was nasty, and the dis grace was worst of all. Nobody knows what Jack might have said in horse language to his mate, but, anyway, he took the bit In his teeth and bolted, dragging his team mate with him andhead Ing for the nearest engine house. Jack knew right where it was, too, although he never had worked in thatepart of the city before. He galloped full fit right . into the brick wall head-on, and crumpled down in a heap. The shocked and grieved firemen, recognizing the old hero by the brand marks on his hoofs, gave him the coupe de grace to end his struggles. Nobody could convince them that Jack Gallup didn't deliberately take his life rather than end it hauling a garbage wagon. TWO ACCIDENTS VEILED Portland Women and Salesman Hurt But Details Lacking. LA GRANDE, Or., Aug. 3. (Spe cial.) Roy Griffith of Portland, a salesman, was slightly injured in an automobile wreck near here last night. His car was considerably damaged when it left the highway. There Is no proof that the car in which Griffith was riding carried two women who reported at a hos pital to have minor injuries dressed, said . to have ' been inflicted . in a wreck in La Grande. They said they vere Billy Burke and Hazel Mauzey of Portland. A piece of rag. thought pcsslbly to have been from a wont Fit's dress, and failure to have either the Griffith accident or the other alleged accident reported to the au thorities, resulted in rumors con tiecttng the women with the acci dent. ' BRITAIN ADDS PLANES 500 at Cost of a, 000, 000 Pounds to Provide Home Defense. LONDON. Aug. 3. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Premier Lloyd George announced In the house of commons this evening that tfce government had decided to adopt a-recommen dation of the air ministry to provide 500 airplanes for home defense. The cost will be 2,000,000. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Hlirhest temperature, 82 degrees; lowet, 68; clear. TODAYS Fair; nortwesterly winds. Foreign. Oser to be at pier today to greet Ma- thilde McCormick. Page 1. . National. Seizing of railroads debated in Wasn inirton, D. C. Page 2. Interstate commerce commission to Issue priority orders lor coai transporta tion. Pasre 2. Debate on tariff bill in congress prom ises to .end shortl Paae 1. v Ousted fire horse commits, suicide. Page 1. America to insist on .debt payment. Page 2. Domestic. Murder suspect kills two in trap. Page 8. "Henry and Me" go to bat pn strike. Page 3. - Reed appears to have won In Missouri. Page 1. Pacific Northwest. Chicago to have 19 convention of home economists., Page 5. Lumbermen hear author of tariff. Page 5. Six are arrested in Jackson county klan cases. Page 1. Two men fatally injured under burning auto. Page 1. Fight to be made on four measures. Page 16. . Sports. Landis how probing appointment of De maree as Beaver manager. Page 1. Pacific Coast league results: At Portland 3 Oakland 6: at I. as Angeles 3. Salt iiak 1; at San Francisco 8. Sacra mento 0; at Seattle 1, Vernon 2. Page 14. - Giants blank Chicago. 5-0. Page 14. Hammer and Leonard wind up . training. Paae 15. Fullerton dopes race for pennant. Page 14. Commercial and Marine. ; AH grades ot flour reduced. 40 cents a barrel. Page 22. Wheat averages lower at Chicago. Page Stronger demana lor runway ponas. Page S3. l'ortland and Vicinity. Indications point to Southern Pacific as purchaser or east biuo pperiy. r-ase IS. Tillamook tire conditions grave. Page 7. Soloman Miller, north end druggist, ac- oused of natenmg anu inrowing pioi. Page 11. Imperial ' Potentate . McCandless tella Portland to ev Biicr nanxiiso iraae. Page 6. Sixty Mazamas -to go on annual outing. Page 13. Money again pledged to Mount Hood loop. . rage l. Recount of Multnomah precincta in Hall- Oleott contest to begin today. Page 16. Union Pacific president makes no prom ises. Page is. Mrs. Patricia Reid accused of trying to blackmail Portland business man. Page 6. Long Debate Expected Jo End Shortly. DEMOCRATS READY TO QUIT Foes Hold Present Is Good Time to Rest Their Case. ' (REPUBLICANS BIT UNEASY Not Much Enthusiasm for Meas ure Ntfrted Anywhere and Some Would Scrap TChole Thing. BY MARK SULLIVAN. (Copyright by the New York Evening Post. Published by Arrangement.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 3. (Special.) The sudden and, to the republicans, disconcerting decision of the democrats to try to end the senate tariff debate early represents a decision arrived at by the demo cratic leaders shortly after the sem sation in the wool schedule debate last week that, from their point of view, they have now made a very good case against the tariff bill and it is the best policy to leave their case where it is. They think the expressions of dis satisfaction voiced by themselves and by others, both In the senate and throughout tn country, which came to a climax with charges of improper interest In wool on the part of republican senators, consti tutes, from the democratic point of view, a perfect case against the tar iff. It is with an orator's or & de bater's sense 'of stopping at the moment when he has his audience with him that the democrats have decided it would be a mistake to continue the debate any longer. The republican leaders don't like this. They think it is not very "sporty" on the part of the demo cratic leaders. In the past moves to terminate debates like this have always taken the form of private conversations and understandings between the democratic and repub lican leaders. This time'however, the democrats decided to get the ad vantage before the public of making their move in the shape of a formal speech in the senate. Little Knthuslaam Noted. The republicans will now go ahead and wind up the, debate. Very few of them have any enthusiasm for the tariff,- or for the situation In which they find themselves. But the consensus among them is that there is nothing much to be gained by further delay. Here in Washington, in a newspaper in which we are ac customed frequently to recognize in spired statements from the repub lican point of view, there have been very direct intimations that the re publicans would mark time on the tariff and hold it up later in the conference between the two houses, so as to defer the passing of it until after election. Your corre spondent cannot find, however, that this intention is held by any formid able number of republican senators. From the point of view of the re publican interest in the November (lections it does not matter much whether the tariff becomes a law in September or in November. The public reaction to it at the time of ihe election will be much the same as the public feeling is right now. The mere fact of the tariff being in actual operation for six weeks would not make much difference. Leaders Are Concerned. There are plenty of republicans who have a strong distaste for the tariff. - Probably there are not 15 or 20 republicans in the senate who have any real enthusiasm for the iariff bill, any such feeling as re publican leaders used to have for tariffs of their own making, for any such feeling as Fordney. f" example, has in a solitary way f the present tariff bill. Also, fact that in very important ! publican quarters in Washington there Is real concern over the re sponse that has come in from the country about the tariff. A few republican senators have argued with their fiellow repub licans that it would be better to scrap the whole tariff and begin all over again some time in the fu ture. 1 Their theory is that the present emergency tariff, which has been re-enacted from time to time, can continue to be kept in force in that way and that so far as business is concerned the country, and espe cially the farming districts, are as well protected by the emergency tariff as they would be with a new bill. But while this is true from a business point of view, the political point of view is quite different. The majority of the republican leaders are unwilling to make such a con cession of futility as would be in volved in throwing overboard a tariff bill upon which they have worked for nearly two years. Early Action Probable. The net of all this is that the re publicans will ultimately respond to the democratic gesture and cut the tariff debate shorty The result will be a material shortening of the time (Continued cn Page 2, Column 1.) 0
