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2 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1922 r NEARLY JUL TAXES , VOTED fflf PIERCE Vacillating Democrat Now Criticises Record. RECORD IS REVIEWED About 95 Per Cent of Expendi ture Measures Supported i by High-Tax Critic. PENDLETON, Or., Oct. 19. (Spe cial.) "If you sent a man to the Oregon legislature and that man proved by his record to have been extravagant and to have voted for probably more appropriation bills than any other person in the as sembly, would you consider it con sistent for that man to go on the stump while making a campaign for the highest office in the state and attack everybody who votes taxes?" This was the question asked by Thomas B. Kay, ex-state treasurer, during a public address here to night, in which he reviewed the legislative record of Walter M. Pierce, democratic nominee for gov ernor at the November election. Governor Olcott also spoke briefly. The crowd was one of the largest that has greeted the speakers on their eastern Oregon tour. Pierce's Attitude Recalled. x "I served in the Oregon senate with Mr. Pierce in 1907 and 1909," said Mr. Kay. "and I don't remem ber that he ever turned his hand or went out of his way to reduce the appropriations that were au thorized at those sessions of the legislature. Mr, Pierce was re turned to the legislature in 1917. when taxes were much lower than at the present time. "What was the record of Mr Pierce in the 1917 and 1919 sessions of the legislature? By his record you should know him, and by his record you should judge him when he is a candidate fpr a higher office. Mont Appropriations Voted. "The records show that during the 1917 session Mr. Pierce voted for more than 95 per cent of the appropriation bills offered for con sideration. He voted against 2 per cent of the appropriation bills and was absent when the remaining 3 per cent of the appropriation meas ures were up for final consideration. I do not believe there was a taian in the 1917 legislature who voted for a larger percentage of appropriation bills than did Mr. Pierce. He like wise voted for practically all the appropriation bills offered during the 1919 legislative session. "One of the appropriation bills opposed by Mr. Pierce authorized $78,000 for the state training school for boys. If the other members of the legislature had not passed this bill over the protest of Mr. Pierce the reform school would have been abolished for lack of funds. Bonding; Purposes Explained. "Mr. Pierce has made the state ment that the state of Oregon has more obligations than practically any other state In the union in pro portion to its population and wealth. Although Mr. Pierce, by his votes, helped to. create this obligation, he has said repeatedly that the in debtedness is too great. "I want the voters of Oregon to known that the state is bonded for only two purposes. These bonds are confined to highways and the bonus, exclusive of $400,000 for rural credits and $700,000 to pay in terest on irrigation securities. . "While we have bonded the state to the amount of $33,000,000 for building highways, this was an act of the people arid cannot be charged to the governor or legislature. There has not been a single dollar of thr tax levied on your property to pay for these state roads. The gasoline and automobile taxes will pay :he Interest on these bonds and retire them without property obligation. Market Roads Bill Fathered. "The records show that Mr. PHrcs fathered the market roads b'll, which raises a direct tax of $1,000. 000 annually, another tax in the counties aggregating $1,000,000, to match the market road funds, and the soldiers' and sailors' educational aid bill, carrying an appropriation of $416,000. Mr. Pierce claims credit for the bonus bill, which raises another $1,000,000, but he was not a member of the committee that sub mitted this bill. He never at any time opposed the road legislation. Therefore Mr. Tierce, one man out of 90 in the legislature, was re sponsible for $1,500,000 of tax that was levied on your property this year. That was going some for one man, especially in view of tho fact that he seeks your BUf frage and sup port in this campaign on the ground of economy and tax reduction. No Real Solution Offered. "Mr. Pierce hasn't told the people of Oregon of a single instance wherein he will reduce taxes. He has said, however, that he will do it in some way. He has offered the suggestion that a gross income tax upon public service corporations and railroads might solve the tax problem. Let me show you how lit tle study Mr. Pierce has given this subject. He has said that this in come tax would lighten our burden. Specific study has proved that such a tax in Oregon would return to the state of Oregon $700,000 less an nually than received at the present time." Mr. Kay then went on to show that, of the total of $40,600,000 raised In Oregon for all purposes' in 1922, approximately 40 1-3 per cent was for education, 18.8 per cent for roads, 17 per cent for cities and towns, 9.8 per cent for county ad ministration, 2.63 per cent for ir rigation and drainage and 3 per cent for ports. Marked Difference Cited. For strictly state purposes there was raised only 5.35 per cent. There is a marked difference between the tax actually raised for state pur poses and the claim made by Mr Pierce that $15,000,000 annually is spent under strict classification. - "Mr. Pierce has made -reckless statements," Mr. Kay concluded, and his claims are not supported by facts." Governor Olcott, in his address, re iterated his statement made pre viously that if elected governor he would use his best efforts to reduce taxes, consistent with good govern ment. To bring about a reduction of taxes Governor Olcott long ago appointed a tax investigating com mission which Is now conducting its probe. This commission will report within the next few weeks and prob ably will ' offer a concrete pro gramme for the reduction of tax burdens in Oregon. Governor Olcott and Mr. Kay will speak in The .Dalles tomorrow. THE DALLES MEETING TODAY Governor Olcott and Mr. Kay Are to Address Voters. THE DALLES, Or., Oct. 19. (Spe cial.) Governor Olcott and Thomas B. Kay will speak to the voters of Wasco county at the civic audito rium tomorrow nlht. Walter L. Tooze, chairman of the republican state central committee, arrived in The Dalles today and added a great deal of pep to the local republican activities. He an nounced tnat Senator McNary would speak to. the voters of the county next Thursday night. Mr. Tooze came to The Dalles to meet Senator McNary, who came through on train No. 17. and will accompany him to Portland. Senator McNary will re turn ne;t week for the meeting with the voters. Governor Olcott and his party are expected to arrive tomor row about noon. A public reception will be held and later in the after noon he will be escorted about the city. GLEE CLUB MEN PICKED 30 Try for Positions at Univer sity of Oregon. UNIVERSITY OP OREGON, Eu gene, Oct. 19. (Special.) John Stark Evans, director of the Men's Glee club, announced Tuesday night the results of the tryouts for the men's organization. More than 30 men tried out for positions. The new members are Dick Adam, Ontario, and Rodney Johnson, Port land, first tenors; Robert McKnight;' Eugene, and John Palmer, Baker, second tenors; Walter Bunker, Oak land, Cal., baritone; Jack Sullivan, Portland, and Alfred Myers, Salem, basses. ' Old members who will serve again are Wallace Cannon, Roseburg, Cur tis Phillips, Portland, Ralph Poston, La Grande, first tenors; Roy Bryson and Bill Kays, Eugene, Wayne Ak ers, Wasco, second tenors; Ronald Keid, Shedd, Glen Morrow, Eugene, John Gavin, The Dalles, George Stearns, Eugene, Charles Dawson, Marshfield, baritones; Maurice Eben, Joseph, Aubrey Furry, Ashland, Cy Valentyne, Portland, basses. HOTEL TO BE REMODELED St. Francis of Albany Intended to ,., Be Elegant Hostelry. ALBANY, Or., Oct. 19 (Special.) Plans for remodeling the St. Francis hotel into a palatial and commodious hostelry preparatory to the assumption of management by the Oregon Central Stage & Term! nal company, November 1, were con sidered here yesterday. Changes will take place to afford place for cafe, barber sjiop, shining parlors, beauty parlor and magazine and cigarstand concessions. G. Wildermuth of Portland, man- anger of a string of restaurants In eastern Oregon which were recently disposed of, was here looking over the dining-room facilities. Herbert Babb, local contractor, is at present working on estimates for the altera tions. v IT ACCUSED ER OF MURDER CALM Husband Testifies at Pre liminary Hearing. TWINS ARE SEEN ALIVE Girl Nurse Saw Children Kicking in Bed, She Declares on Witness Stand. chair, -Her cheeks, with a chalky pallor, became even more blanched. But she regained control of herself and applied restoratives to her nos trils. - Three of the Jurors chosen were married men. One, Peter Bruno, is the father of eight children. Mrs. Rosier was satisfied with the five jurors who have been selected. She believes they sympathize with her. She expressed satisfaction to her mother, Mrs. Sue Reid, and other relatives, who visited her In the sheriffs cell room at city. hall, after court adjourned today. According to Mrs. Reid, she said: "They all look like good men and I trust them." For the second successive day the defendant was permited to fondle her year-old son. Richard, who was brought to her in the sheriff's cell room.'. Mrs. G. B. Mathewson, Mrs. Ros- ler's,grand aunt, from Factoryville, Pa., is to be a witness. She is 80, and the mother of Christy Mathewson, the "big six" of the baseball diamond until a few years ago. MURDERS IN WHICH WOMEN FIGURE AS PRINCIPALS. Mrs. Frank McNally, Ham mond, Ind., accused of killing twin babies. Mrs. Catharine Rosier, Phil adelphia, accused of killing husband and stenographer. Meda Hodell, 20, White . Cloud, Mich., accused of poi soning her father-ln-law. Mrs. Clara Phillips, ex chorus girl, Los Angeles, goes on trial today on charge of murdering Mrs. Alberta Mead HAMMOND, Ind., Oct 19. Frank McNally, middle-aged factory worker, who accused his wife of murdering twin babies he say were born to her last December, asserted at the preliminary hearing today that Mrs. McNally took the- children to a hospital in Chicago last January and returned with two dolls which she substituted for the babies. ' Mrs. McNally, who declared that the twins never were borm and that she hoodwinked her husband and neighbors by using dolls in order to satisfy her husband's ambition to bo known as a father, was unper turbed by her husband's testimony. McNally testified the twins were born December 8 last, asserted that he had seen them and that they were alive. Miss Catherine Griffiths, 17-year-old daughter of the nurse who at tended Mrs. McNally, was an im portant 6tate witness today. She said she learned Mrs. McNally was to become a mother when she ac companied her to a bathing beach in the summer of 1921. She asserted that after the time McNally says the twins were born she had seen the babies in bed, alive, and kicking, and also saw one of the babies nursing. . Merrit Metz, an acquaintance of the McNallys, said he had seen Mrs. McNally early last December and that she was approaching motherhood. Mrs. Anna Hartman, a neighbor of Mrs. McNally, also testified she had seen Mrs. McNally in December and that she was soon to become a mother. It was expected that when Mc Nally concludes his testimony to morrow the midwife who, McNally says, attended his wife when the twins were born, will be put on the stand, possibly as the last witness for the state, Mrs. McNally, who appears to consider the affair lightly, was expected to be among the first witnesses for the defense. WOMAX IS NEAR COLLAPSE Five Jurors Selected in Double Murder Case. (By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 19. -With five jurors selected, Mrs. Catherine Rosier appeared on the verge of collapse tonight at the end of the second day of her trial for the murder of her husband, Oscar Rosier, and his stenographer, Mil dred Geraldine Beckitt. Suffering from indigestion, which seized her yesterday, Mrs. Rosier, by sheer will power, staved off complete collapse today. She winced in her DEFENSE QUIZZES CHEMIST State Scores Heavily In Poison ' Case in Michigan. (By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.) WHITE CLOUD, Mich., Oct. 19. Attorney Penny, counsel for Meda Hodell, 20. years old, being tried for the alleged poisoning of her father-in-law, David,' Hodell, today endeav ored to prove on the cross-examination of Charles Bliss, state chem ist, that if a spoonful of strychnine was placed in the,coffee of the al leged victim, as alleged, ft would have been so bitter it would not have been swallowed The chemist contended it was likely two or more swallows would have ; been taken before tie bitter . taste would be detected. The attorney, who is Also" a stu dent of chemistry, and the state official matched wits during moat of the day's session. Not only did the chemist testify he found strych nine in the vital organs but that Meda Hodell told him she had put a teaspoonful of white powder that "looked like pulverized sugar In the old man's coffee to sweeten it." Members of the Hodell family pre viously testified the aged man did not use sugar in his tea or coffee. PHILLIPS TRIAL TO BEGIN Ex-Chorus Girl Accused of Kill ing Rival in Love. LOS ANGELES. Cal., Oct. 19. Mrs. Clara Phillips, ex-chorus girl, will go to trial tomorrow In the Los Angeles superior court for the mur der of Mrs. Alberta Meadows, her fancied rival for the affections of her husband, Armour L. Phillips, on July 12 last. Mrs. Meadows, who was a widow of 19, was slain with a hammer on a hillside in the north ern outskirts of the city. The principal witness for the prosecution will be Mrs. Peggie Caf fee who testified at the coroner's inquest that she saw Mrs. Phillips attack Mrs. Meadows with the ham mer. Mrs. Phillips'' attorney has announced that preparations have been made for a defense of insanity. ture. After the effects of expan sion followed by deflation which carried agriculture to . the lowest depths, congress devoted much of Its time to legislation for the relief of farmers. The first piece of legislation was the emergency tariff, followed by remedial legis lation to relieve the financial situa tion: This came in the form of the agricultural relief bill, under which the federal government loaned $300. 000,000 to the farmers. Then there was provision for co-operative marketing and congress Is now considering passage of rural credit bills and some financial arrange ment similar to the war finance corporation, with some organization permanent along that line. '"The general tariff bill was the greatest piece of legislation for all industries of the country. This bill was drafted with the object of pro tecting the American standard of living from the "products of cheap labor abroad. This measure was before congress for 18 months, dur ing which time 4000 schedules were considered and hearings held while determining a rate not in excess but one adequate to protect the different cost of production between here and abroad. The greatest cost of producing a commodity is labor, which is about 80 per cent, and almost the sole object of the tariff is to protect American labor. The bill doea not represent selfish 'in terests and it Is the first time that a tariff bill has. given agriculture equal protection with industry; And in this connection It may be said that the first duty collected under the new tariff bill was on. a ship ment of fruit from Italy. Oregon Is Well Treated. "Oregon has been well treated by congress, was the verdict of the senators. ' Congress recommended arid is preparing appropriations for this state, second only to one other, for rivers : and harbors. For this work the recommendation is for $5,000,000 and under the federal aid to highways and aid from thA forests, Oregon receives $7,000,000 to add to its road programme. Farmers . and livestock men of Oregon have received more than $6,000,000 from the war finance corporation. " "Expenditure of these vast sums," added Senator Stanfieldiv "will give Oregon the greatest prosperity that it has known. And with the in crease of prosperity there will come added demand for the products of the farmers until the maximum has been reached. Following the pas sage of the tariff bill many fac tories in the east which were closed were reopened. A year ago a sur vey shows there were between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 unemployed in the United States. Today this army has vanished to the point where Industry has difficulty In securing help for replacements within the ranks. Democratic Muddling Cited. "With prosperity at hand and confidence shown in the republican administration it would be little less than a disaster if a great state like Oregon should desert the republican party by electing a. democrat to office to build up a democratic machine to oppose the dominant party. This Is a matter which the electorate of Oregon will consider carefully. It will also consider that the permanency and efficiency of the government is dependent on party organization. It Is not thinkable that Oregon would want to send democrats to congress to oppose President Hard ing and the republican administra tion. The issue is so serious and conditions of the country are so dangerously imperiled by reason of the mistakes of the recent demo cratic administration that it is un believable that any large part of the American people are going to forget so soon the awful experiences of the past mistakes of the demo cratic party when it was in control." S. & H. green stamps for cash. Holman Fuel Co., coal and wood. Broadway 6353. 660-21. Adv. Peacock Rock Springs coal. Dia mond Coal Co., Bdwy. 3037. Adv. TWO GUILTY OF ARSON Elmira 'Men Convicted on First Ballot by Jury. EUGENE, Or., Oct. 19. (Special.) E. C. Rudolph and Delbert Ru dolph, his son, were found guilty of arson by a jury in circuit court here today. The jury was out only 10 nrtautes, a verdict having been reached on the first ballot. Judge Skip worth set time for sentence for Saturday, but their attorney after ward asked to be allowed to file a motion for a new trial and the judge allowed him until next Monday. The Rudolphs were accused of set ting fire to a house and barn at El mira to obtain $6000 insurance which they carried on the buildings and contents. Testimony was intro duced by the state to show that the property was not worth more than $2000. James Wilson, Indicted jointly with Rudolph and his son, will be tried later, it was announced. Accused Doctor Discharged. Dr. John Lake, who was arrested last Wednesday upon complaint of city health officials that he had failed to report a case of measles, was arraigned in municipal court yesterday afternoon. After hearing the case Judge Ekwall discharged Dr. Lake. SENATORS IN CAMPAIGN (Oontinued From First Page.) tor. "The national debt has been reduced $1,000,000,000 and by means of the budget system the cost of government has been reduced $1,700,000,000. "The bonus bill will come up again in some other form and will be passed. President Harding isn't opposed to a bonus, but he was not satisfied with the form of the bill which was put up to him. This so lution will be worked out later. Be fore leaving Washington I visited with the president for an hour and he informed me that next spring he Intends to take his long -planned visit to Alaska and that when he does he will come to Portland." Continuing the resume of con gressional activities when his col leaguei had .departed for Salem, Senator Stanfield said that for almost a year and a half congress had beer, confronted with some of the most complex problems ever faced by any congress in time of peace. "The most trying industrial situa tion confronting congress," Senator Stanfield observed, "was agricul- 8096 Register at Astoria. ASTORIA, Or., Oct. 19. (Special.) The records in the county clerk's office show the total number of registrations for the coming gen eral election are 8096. Of that num ber 4983 are in the city precincts and 3113 ' in the outside districts. 4s and 8s AT REDUCED PRICES INVESTIGATE Broadway at Couch B some sandwich!1 hi Pimento Cheese WIltSIMIgfII SHETLAND'S WEEK-END CANDY SPECIAL Delicious Apricot and Rasp berry Fruit Nougat, special per pound 39c SPECIAL DINNER every evening 5:30 to 7:30 Fountain Lunches for a quick lunch at noon or any time, try our quick service at the fountain. . TWO STORES .. Broadway and Morrison and 269-271 Morrison llwJiinwi ufc.ii i ji ' mm Vommf mm jtm ' -.1 wimuMtwiwjw iwi. Baked Beans and Brown Bread Rnrirhrd and flavored nllh an nil nicSst' baking In our brick Dutch oven Quarts, 40c ..r ., (15c refund on return of pot.) v- Our own make Per Loaf, 15c Ready for you Saturday at 9 A. 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