THE MORNING ORECONIAN. TIIURSD AT, DECEMBER 7. 1922
STORMS HI
OVER SHIP BILL
DAUGHTER-IN-LAW READS DETROIT MAYOR'S TELEGRAM
OFFERING HIM SENATORSHIP.
ERIE'S INAUGURAL
US Hill HELD
Harding Fights Year-to-Year
Appropriations.
Ceremony Is Simple One and
Unmarred.
JILT IN SENATE LOOMS
OATH TAKEN BY HEALY
Chief Executive Fears Madden
Plan Will Jeopardize Subsi-
dy; Loan Feature Studied.
New Governor-General Sworn In,
as Is Professor Hayes for
Speaker of Dail.
"WASHINGTON', D. C. Dec. .
Storms awaiting the administration
shipping bill in the senate were
foreshadowed during initial con
sideration of the measure today by
tho senate commerce committee.
The storm center in the committee
was the Madden amendment at
tached by the house making the
shipping aid fund subject to annual
appropriations by congress. Ad
vocates of the bill, as proposed by
the administration, announced at
the outset they were determined to
eliminate the amendment and in
Bupport of their stand. Chairman
Jones- presented a letter from Presi
dent Harding in which the execu
tive declared he "would rather the
measure should fail entirely than
to have one enacted which will
bring to us extreme disappointment,
because we have entered upon a pro
gramme in a half-hearted and
rather Indifferent way."
McXary Fights Elimination.
Elimination of the amendment was
Immediately opposed by a group of
republican committee members com
posed of Senators McNary of Ore
gon, Lenroot of "Wisconsin and Wil
lis of Ohio, who announced their in
tention of fighting in the commit
tee and in the senate for some pro
vision giving congress a measure
of control over a fund from which
shipping companies may be extended
loans amounting annually to as
much as $30,000,000.
Discussion ranges about this ques
tion throughout two sessions held
by the committee and finally the
matter was put over until after the
committee had concluded its consid
eration of other sections of the bill.
aLe in the day the Mc-Nary-Len-root-Willis
group put forward a
compromise under which the ap
proval of congress would be re
quired only for an increase over the
amount of government aid fixed in
the or'ginal contract entered into
between the shipping board and the
private companies. This compromise
received scant favor from Chairman
Jones, who announced tonight that
he stood unqualifiedly with - the
president.
Loan Feature Considered.
Some consideration was given by
the committee today to the section
of the bill establishing a construc
tion loan fund amounting to riot
more than $125,000,000, from which
loans for construction purposes are
to be made to shipping companies
with interest at 4 per cent, but lit
tle progress was made. In fact,
progress upon the entire measure
was so slow today that committee
members would not venture a pre
diction when the bill would be pre
sented to the waiting senate. Sup
porters of the biil had expected that
only a day or two would be needed
for committee consideration, but to
night .it appeared probable the
li-ifialalinn ur n 1 1 1 rl t- rt roach th ann
ate before next week.
The president in his letter de
clared the Madden amendment
would "jeopardize the programme
by threat of conflict in securing an
appropriation from year to year,"
and added "the thing is worth doing
right and with every possible effort
for a definite policy for an ample
trial, else it is scarcely worth doing
at ail."
Ilnrding Against Plan.
The president said his letter
that he desired to urge "with all the
earnestness at my command" that
the Madden amendment be elimi
nated. "I understand that this amend
ment was added," he wrote, "with
out any thought of emasculating
the bill, mainly to harmonize it with
an accomplished practice of congress
in making appropriations in carry
ing out government commitments
relating to improvements, reclama
tion and other government projects.
"It is a very different proposition
bo far as the shipping bill is con
cerned. Our chief object is to es
tablish and promote the American
merchant marine. . .
"Shipping enterprise involves a
very considerable investment of cap
ital. Sometimes millions must be
invested in a single ship and no ship
ping concern with ample ships to op
erate definite lines in sustained
service could hope to begin without
enlisting several millions of capital.
Much of this capital will necessarily
he acquired through the process of
direct subscription, amended by
bonding, it is not believed that any
financial concern would support a
bonding enterprise with any uncer
tainty in the continuity of govern
ment aid.
Collnpse Meld Poamiblr.
"It would be quite possible for
shipping concerns already organ
ized and financed to avail them
selves of government aid without
any more guarantee than the bill
parsed by the house carries for
them. Of course it is a reasonable
assumption that congress once
pledged to a policy of government
aid would carry on from year to
year in accordance with its enacted
pledge. At the same time it must
bo recognized that a congress un
favorable to a policy of government
aid might for one reason or another
interrupt the appropriation and
bring about a collapse of the en
tire undertaking.
"The mere possibility of such a
fiasco would undoubtedly deter the
successful financing of shipping
projects and defeat the very object
which the merchant marine act
(sets out to accomplish."
The president declared that "the
outstand'ng objection to the amend
ments lies in the fact that it
impedes the organization and
financing of the new and smaller
.BhJpping concerns.
KELSO PRECINCTS SPLIT
1Oiig-Bell Townsite Divided Into
Five Votiiig Districts.
KELSO, ash.. Dec. 6. (Special.)
To care for the great increase in
population at Kelso and vicinity the
board of county commissioners has
subdivided Monticeilo precinct,
-where the Lone-Bell Lumber com
pany's new city of Longview will
rise, into five precincts, and has
made five precincts of north, south
ana east Jveiso. The new precincts
are as follows: North Kelso, north
of Allen and west of Fourth street:
east of Fourth street; South Kelso,
between Allen and Mill streets
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JAMES COUZEKS AND MRS. FRANK COTTZENS.
This photograph, taken November 29, shows Mrs. Frank Couzens,
daughter-in-law of Mayor James Couzens of Detroit, Mich., reading the
teleg-ram to the Detroit executive offering him the United States senator-
ship of Truman- H. Newberry, resigned. He accepted the appointment,
which was made by Governor Groesbeck of Michigan.
Wallace precinct, Wallace addi
tion and acreage: Lower Cowee
man precinct, Coweeman and Bray
nion mountain district; West Kelso,
unchanged; Longview, territory bor
dered by Fowler's lake, where the
business center of Longview will be
located, Monticeilo precinct, indus
trial town and) millsite; Rock pre
cinct, vicinity of Coffin Rock; La
Du precinct, south of Mount Solo;
Mount Solo precinct, north of Mount
Solo, .
YEAR. WET FOR OMAHA
Recent Kecords Broken In Arrests
for Drunkenness.
OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 6. Statistical
ly, 1922 has been Omaha's wettest
year since prohibition went into ef
fect, records compiled by the Omaha
department show, the arrests for
drunkenness in the 11 months of
1922, ending November 30, numbered
4502, more than ever before in the
city's recent history, according to
the police, whose records show that
the nearest approach was in- 1915,
when 4084 arrests for drunkenness
were made.
Notwithstanding the great In
crease for 1922 a comparison of po
lice records of five years before pro
hibition and the records for the five
years following prohibition show
that arrests for drunkenness have
decreased 12 per cent.
Police attribute the great number
of arrests for drunkenness to the
poor quality of liquor obtainable and
an increase of drinking' among the
younger generation. "It used to be
that a drunk could be directed home
with the expecta-tion that he would
go," said Sergeant John Holden, ad
dressing a small audience at police
headquarters yesterday. "Nowadays
a drunk is capped dynamite. Some
times it is necessary to hold a drunk
a couple of days to calm him down
enough to be sent before the
court."
INDIAN AUTOIST JAILED
Man Who Crawled From Wreck
Charged With Drunkenness.
HOQUIAM, Wash., Dec. . (Spe
cial.) Jonas Hyasman, Indian,
crawled from underneath his auto
mobile which had lost its rear
v. heels, crushed its top and broken
the windshield as it rolled over twice
after leaving the pavement at Lin
coln and Perry . streets, yesterday,
grinned broadly and started off up
the street, apparently not badly
hart.
Shortly afterward, the police car
carrying Detective Johnson and Pa
trolman Sharpley arrived " on the
scene, then gave chase, picked up
Hyasman and booked him at the
police station for driving a car while
intoxicated.
OIL WELL TO BE SHOT
Nitroglycerine to Be Exploded in
Astoria Project.
ASTORIA, Or., Dec. S. (Special.)
A. J. Bankson, manager of the Rock
Glycerine company of Basin, "Wyo.,
arrived yesterday to examine the
lower Columbia Oil & Gas cmpany's
well, and made arrangements with
the board of directors to shoot the
well at the bottom of the 277-foot
sand, or at the 3877 foot level. He
wiil use a charge of 160 quarts of
solidified nitro-gycerine, placed in
eight shells, each 5 feet 2 inches in
legnth, so the charge will extend
a distance of over 40 feet.
The explosive and equipment "will
leave Denver, Colo., by freight to
morrow, and Mr. Bankson, who left
today, will return to make the shot
as soon as the explosive arrives,
probably in two weeks.
Blizzard Expected in Baker.
BAKER, Or "Dec 6. (Special.)
Blizzardly conditions were expected
to hit Baker county and the rest of
eastern Oregon late tonight. Gov
ernment Observer Maxwell said.
Early in the night a drizzling rain
had changed to intermittent falls
of snow and the wind was blowing
at a terrific rate. A low temper
ature was forecast.
Normal at Bend Suggested.
BEND, Or., Dec. 6. (Special.)
The recently enacted law requiring
teachers to have two years' work
above the high school may mean the
establishment of a normal school in
Bend within the next few years, ac
cordnig to County Superintendent
Thompson, who spoke in the na
tional educational week programme
at the weekly commercial club
luncheon today.
S. & H. green stamps for cash.
Holman Fuel Co., coal and wood.
Broadway 6353, 6S0-2L Adv.
$60,000,000 ASKED FOR 12
FEDERAL LOA3V BANKS.
Administration Said to Approve
Plan for Department to Is
sue Short-Time Paper.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 6.-
Rural credits legislation, said to
have the approval of administration
officials and proposing to create a
farm credits department as a part
of the present farm loan system.
was introduced simultaneously in
the senate and house today by Sena
tor Lenroot, republican of Wiscon
sin, and Representative Anderson,
republican of Minnesota. .
The two bills, similar in most par
ticulars, would make available for
farm loans a total of $60,000,000, dis
tributed equally among the 12 federal
farm loan banks. The present govern
ment subscription to the 12 banks
totals only 512,000,000. The banks
would be authorized to rediscount
farm paper having a maturity of
from six months to three years.
The proposed legislation stipu
lates that farm paper could be re-
discounted for national and state
banks and trust companies, incorpc
rated livestock loan companies, farm
credit companies, co-operative credit
companies and other banking insti
tutions. Representative Anderson, in pre
senting his bill in the house, said it
had the approval of the treasury,
the secretary of agriculture and the
farm loan board. It was not indi
cated, however, to what extent the
administration as a whole was pre-
i pared to indorse the legislation.
credit department of the several
farm loan banks would have power
to issue short-term bonds or notes
secured by paper discounted by it
in substantially the same way as
farm loan bonds are now issued, and
to rediscount any paper held by it
with a federal reserve bank when
that paper has reached maturity
of less than six months.
FORMER ENVOY ACCUSED
Another Greek Indicted for Dis
aster in Asia Minor.
LONDON, Dec. 6. A revolution
ary court-martial has decided that
Stergtadis, former Greek commis
sioner in Asia Minor, was partly re
sponsible for the disaster in that
region and various charges have
been made against him, says a
Reuter dispatch from Athens.
If he does not reply to a sum
mons ordering him to stand trial in
Athens he will be tried "in absenta,"
the dispatch adds.
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DUBLIN', Dec. 6. (By the Associ
ated Press.) Inauguration of the
Irish free state as one of the ' do
minions of. the British empire took
place today. The ceremony was
simple and unmarred by., hostile
demonstrations from the republican
minority.
The oath was administered to
Timothy Healy as governor-general
by the lord chief justice at Mr.
Healy's residence, three miles west
of Dublin, and afterward the new
governor-general administered the
oth to Professor Michael Hayes as
speaker of the dail. n
Members Meet Promptly.
There were no crowds outside the
parliament house when the dail met
tonight. The members assembled
punctually at 5 o'clock. William T.
Cosgrave, president of the dail cabi
net, and Kevin O'HigginS, minister
of home affairs and nephew of the
new governor-general, were among
the first arrivals and occupied the
same seats as in the old dail. At
5:10 o'clock Speaker Hayes an
nounced he was authorized by the
governor-general to administer the
oath to the deputies.
Mr. Cosgrave was the first one to
he sworn and to sign the roll. The
form of the oath of allegiance was
primarily to the constitution of the
Irish free state and then to King
O-eorge as the. head of the peoples
forming the British commonwealth.
Others Also Take Oath.
Mr. O'Higgins and the other m'n
isters took -the oath in turn, fol
lowed by the members of the dail.
The oath was administered to each
man Individually.
When the ceremony was com
pleted Professor Hayes was re
elected speaker and Cosgrave pi evi
dent of the cabinet.
Only two of the five Irish sig
natories of the treaty, Eamon J.
Duggan and George Gavan Duffy,
took the oath. Of the others, Arthur
Griffith and Michael Collins are
dead and Robert C. Barton is in jail
as a rebel.-
All Laborites Present.
All the labor members were pres-
ent ana took the oath with the ex
ception of L. Gaffney, who was the
only member of the dail to vote
against the constitution. He is ex
pected to refuse the oath, thus leaving-
his constituency unrepresented.
Cathal O'Shannon, editor of the
Voice of Labor and noted for his
advanced views, was one of those
sworn in. Lord Mayor O'Neill was
absent because of illness. Another
absentee was Liam de Roisite
(William Roche), member for Cork
city. He has been a supporter of
the treaty and is counted upon as
certain to take the oath later on.
George McKeown Takes Oath.
George McKeown, who has been
conducting the free state military
operations in the provinces and has
not been m Dublin recently, ap
peared and took the oath.
The labor party authorized its
leaders to make a statement ex
plaining its acceptance of the oath.
The statement said the laborites
were merely following the tactics of
the political parties of the workers
in all other countries, whether
monarchial or republican. The oath
they looked upon as implying no
obligation other than the obligation
resting upon any person in accepting-
tho principles of citizenship.
The whole tenor of the president's
reference to Ulster was auiet and
conciliatory.
After his address Mr. Cosgrave
nominated the following six minis
ters as constituting, with himself,
an executive council:
Kevin O'Higgins, Richards Mul
cahy. Professor John MacNeill, Ern
est BIythe, Joseph McGrath and Des?
mond Fitzgerald. His nominations
were accepted.
CHURCH GUARD DECREED
Burning of Catholic Property Is
Ascribed to Firebugs.
MONTREAL, Dec. 6. Officials of
various Catholic orders today an
nounced elaborate plans for guard
ing the church property against in
cendiaries believed to have been
responsible for fires which have de
stroyed or damaged several Catholic
institutions in Canada within the
last few weeks.
Church officials said they be-
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ASHLAND, Or., Deo. 6. (Special.)
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jor G. F. McConnell for presentation
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Threat of Benton Court to Halt
Use of Roads Charged.
SALEM, Or., Dec. 6. (Special.)
Operators of a number of stage lines
operating on the Pacific high
vvay, between Salem and Eugene,
appeared at the offices of the pub
lic services commission today and
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