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PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, .1906.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
VOL. XXV-NO. 42.
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Full Recognition of the
Union Demanded.
WAGE INCREASE IS ABANDONED
Exporters in Turn Drop Fight
for the Open Shop.
BUT PROVIDE EXCEPTIONS
Insist That Gralnweighers, Samplers
and Machine Men Shall Xot
Join tnion Sole Hitch
to Ending Strike.
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PRESENT PTATTS OF WATER
IRONT STRIKE.
GRANTED BT EXPORTERS Full
recognition of union except a to
wfghers. samplers and machine
men; nine-'nour day at T.5 cents an
hour with overtime at 52H cents an
hour; half day minimum for over
time. GAINED BT GRAI.VHANDLERS
Increase of 2 4 cent an hour in
overtime and half day minimum for
overtime; virtual recognition of
union; reduction of working day
from ten hours to nine.
ABANDONED By gralnhandlers.
demand for wage Increase from 35
to 40 cents an hour; by exporters, the
open shop, except as to three classes
of employes as stated.
OBSTACLE TO FETTLEMBNT
Demand of strikers for full recog
nition of union.
If the) Grainhandlers' Union -will con
cede the right of the Exporters' Associa
tion to control the weighers, samplers
and machine men employed on the wheat
docks, the waterfront strike that has ab
solutely tied up all foreign shipping in
Portland harbor Is ended. Every other
question has been settled and only on
this one seemingly trifling point are the
strikers and their former employers still
at outs. Both, however, stand firm to
sain it. and the outcome is still in doubt.
At any rate, there will be no arbitration.-
tor nothing now remains to be ar
bitrated. There is no longer a wage ques
tion in controversy, and. except as just
stated, the open shop has been given up
by the employers. The men are willing
to return to work, virtually on the old
terms, and the exporters are perfectly
willlns to recognize the union as to the
actual dork laborers.
All these questions have been settled at
a 6eriet. of conferences between a com
mutes from the Exporters" Association
and a like committee from the Grain
handlers' Union. Both sides have made
concessions, and despite the fact that
the difference over the. one remaining
ro:nt is serious there is reason to hope
tnat it will not long stand in the way
of an amicable adjustment of the entire
controversy. Talk of a general sympa
thetic strike may be regarded as idle.
Granting that the exporters carry the
one point on which the negotiations are
now centered, the settlement of the strike
will not be barren of results to the strik
ers. While they will gam little in the
matter of actual wages, they will win
complete recognition for their union and
a shorter working day. besides minor con
cessions in betterment of their condition.
Employers. Gain Main Point.
On the other hand, the employers will
lose nothing of material value and will
gain the one point which they have in
sisted on from 'he start a wage scale
which they can afford to pay and still
compete with the wheat-shippers of Puget
found. Though the closed shop may have
Its draw-backs, it also has its advantages,
and as the grainhandlers are paid by the
hour the shorter day will not work to
their injury.
If the question of union recognition
can be settled in the matter of the
employment of weighers, samplers and
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machine men. who constitute not to
exceed ten per cent of the working
force on the grain docks, the grain
handlers will return to work under
what is known as the Port Costa scale,
viz.: 35 cents an hour for a nine-hour
day, 52 . cents an hour for overtime,
no broken day to consist of less than
a half day's work. Before the strike
the grainhandlers -were getting 35
cents an hour for a ten-hour day with
50 cents an hour for overtime, paid
for the overtime actually worked.
The half-day minimum constitutes
one of the most important concessions
made by the exporters and it is their
claim that it was voluntarily granted.
They add. however, that it had never
been refused, and that if it had been
requested before the strike it might
have been granted.
Employers Are Confident.
For the grain exporters it may be
said that they regard the strike as
W.-tually settled at the present mo
ment Their contention is that the a-
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W. J. Burns, Secret Service Stan.
Who Is Assisting in Ferreting Oat
San Francisco Grafters.
titude of the gralnhandlers on the
status of the weighers, samplers and
machine men is captious and must ulti
mately be abandoned at the dictates of
common sense. They insist that the
weighers, samplers and machine men
are not justly to be considered as
gralnhandlers and should be regarded
in the light of dock foremen and su
perintendents or clerks, much of their
work being of a clerical nature.
This is the stand taken by W. J.
Burns, publicity agent of the Export
ers' Association, who last night gave
The Oregonian the views held by that
organization.
'"We are disposed to yield nothing on the
one point now unsettled." said Mr. Burns.
"We. must, submit that we regard the de
mand that the weighers, samplers and ma
chine men shall be union men as unjust
and unfair to us as employers. We are
perfectly willing to recognize the union
as to the men actually employed in hand
ling grain, but the duties of the weighers
and samplers, especially, are such that
it Is positively necessary to the conduct
of our business that we have direct con
trol over them. We regard them as over
seers and superintendents of the actual
grainhandlers and believe that in order
to perform these duties well they must be
independent of the union and directly re
sponsible to their employers, whose
orders they must see carried out. Their
duties are to some extent clerical, and
personally I can see no merit in the con
tention of the union that they must be
come its members.
'I have strong hopes that we shall soon
arrive at a satisfactory settlement of the
strike and I cannot believe that trouble
over this one point will imperil the peace
negotiations."
Strikers Take Gloomy View.
Russell E. Sewell. attorney for the
grainhandlers. who has conducted the ne
gotiations with the exporters on their be
half, takes a far less optimistic view of
the situation. He admits that the obstacle
to a settlement is the one stated by Mr.
Burns, but denies that it is a small one.
In fact he thinks that it will result in
breaking off all negotiations looking to
ward a settlement.
Mr. Burns is authority for the state
ment that the matter of compelling the
weighers, samplers and machine men to
join the union was only recently injected
into the controversy. Prior to the strike,
he says, the union had never insisted that
the weighers., samplers and machine men
should be of its membership, and while
some of them were union men. the ques
tion of their- status was left open from
year to year, although the docks were
commonly regarded as unionized.
"Some of them." said Mr. Burns last
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iortlunt Cbinamen Lose Confi
dence iu tbe Joss.
HEflEY TO PROBE
GRAFT AT M GIT!
Detective Burns to Be
His Assistant.
SPRECKELS WILLCOLLEGT FUND
District Attorney Langdon
Makes Heney Deputy.
INVESTIGATION HAS BEGUN
Secret Service Man During the Past
Two Weeks Has Secured Enough
Evidence to Warrant a Vig
' orous Prosecution.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Oct. 2D. (Spe
cial.) Francis J. Heney, who obtained a
National reputation through his conduct
of the land fraud cases, is to undertake
the prosecution of the charge of graft
ing made against Abe Ruef. Mayor Sch
mitz and numerous public officials, and is
to be assisted by William J. Burns, one of
the best-known operators in the National
secret service.
Rudolph Spreckels has undertaken to
collect the necessary funds and the pros
ecution will be made before the new
grand jury through the office of the Dis
trict Attorney. For this puropse Dis
trict Attorney Langdon has made Heney
a deputy in his office and will turn over
to him every facility of his office and
the full conduct of the case. The an
nouncement of this comes through ' a
statement from District Attorney Lang
don which is in part as follows:
Crime on the Increase.
"In view of the conditions prevalent in
the City and County of San Francisco the
unusual increase in crime which threa
tens to grow worse as the Winter sets in
ana in view of the numerous charges of
official graft and malfeasance in office. I
have determined to seize the opportunity
presented by the impanelment of a- grand
jury which has been set for next Wed
nesday by Hon. Thomas F. Graham, the
presiding judge of the Superior Court in
the City and County of San Francisco, to
inaugurate a systematic and thorough
investigation into these conditions.
"It is my own duty to do so, and in pur
suance of that duty and in view of the
magnitude of the task, I have decided to
seek the best assistance obtainable. It
is my purpose to set at rest these charges
of official graft by either proving them
false or convicting those who are guilty.
If the charges be untrue their falsity
should be demonstrated to the world, so
as to remove the impressions which have
been circulated to the injury of the credit
and fair name of the city.
Investigation to Be Searching.
"This is to be an honest, fair, thorough
and searching investigation. We shall
protect no man. We shall persecute no
man, but we shall prosecute every man
who is guilty, regardless of position or
standing in the city. In order that we
may have the benefit of experienced ser
vice in this work I have requested Mr.
Francis J. Heney. who has won national
fame for his work In the prosecution of
the Oregon land-fraud cases, to become a
regular deputy in my office. Mr. Heney
has accepted.
"It is unfortunate that this work
should be commenced during a political
compaign, but the conditions in San
Francisco today require that radical ac
tion be taken at once and though I may
be charged with instituting this investiga
tion at this particular Juncture for politt.
cal advantage, I must ask the public to
judge me by the results attained, which
will be the best answer.
"I am not unmindful of the great
difficulties involved in this investiga
tion. It will be both laborious and
costly. The money available under the
appropriations made to the District
Attorney's office and the grand jury is,
of course, utterly inadequate. Often
previous investigations by other grand
Ambitious
A PICTORIAL REVIEW OF THE WEEK BY CARTOONIST MURPHY
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juries have been made abortive because
of this lack of funds to meet expenses.
Citizens to Supply Funds.
. "In the present instance we shall
not suffer this handicap. I am author
ized to announce that Mr. Rudolph
Spreckels has guaranteed that he will
personally undertake the collection,
from public-spirited citizens of San
Francisco, and to provide for the ex
penses necessary to make the investi
gation thorough, and surely good -results
must ensue.
"WILLIAM H. LANGDON.
"District Attorney."
The plans for this campaign against
graft and malfeasance in office have
een under way for some weeks.
Heney. at the solicitation of Spreckels.
agreed to take up the matter, but in
sisted that he should have the assist
ance of Burns, who secured the evi
dence in the land-fraud cases. Leave
of absence for Burns was obtained
from the Treasury Department, and he
came to the city and entered upon the
work of securing evidence in the graft
cases two weeks ago.
The preliminary work was done under
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CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
Th Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 5S
degrees; minimum, 36.
TODAY" S--Fa ir and warmer; northeast
winds.
Great Storms.
Many lives lost and much damage done at
Batabano, Cuba. Page 2.
Picking up alive and dead along ice coast
of Florida. Page 2.
Snowstorms block railroads in Dakota. Page
3.
Big steamer runs ashore near Cape Henry.
Page 2.
"National.
Pules adopted to enforce pure-food laws-Page-
3.
Politics.
Hearst's league incorporated and under his
' absolute control. Page 1.
Hughes makes vigorous attack on Hearst
in gas fight. Page 2.
Hearst answers Murphy's charges of graft
ing by leaguers. Page 2.
McNichol charges Emerson, fusion candidate
for Governor of Pennsylvania, with libel.
Page 2.
Domestic
Farmers forming combination to sell their
own product. Page 17.
Reported scheme to consolidate packing
firms under English company. Page 1.
Countess of Carlisle elected president of "W.
C. T. U. Page 13.
import.
College football games in the East. Page 4.
Hylas wins big stakes at Belmont Park.
Page 4.
Northwestern football scores University of
Oregon 10. Astoria 0; Columbia Univer
sity 0. Pacific University 0; Oregon Agri
cultural College 17. Alumni 0; University
of Washington 4, Seattle High School 0;
University of Idaho 23, Coeur d' Alene
High School 0. Page 4.
Fight of O'Brien and his old sparring part
ner, Cooley, was rank fake. Page 19.
Multnomah beats Albany at football, 34 to
0. page IS.
Portland Hunt Club holds first chase of sea
son. Page 18.
Review of play of Chicago championship
teams. Page 19.
Pacific Coast.
F. J. Heney and Detective- Burns employed
to run down graftrs io San Franctsco.
Page 1. -
Warden A. P. Kes at the Wall Walla peni
tentiary, is removed and M. F- Kincaid
app6inted. Page 6.
Over a score of divorces are granted at Ore
gon City. Page 7.
Mrs. D. F. Maynard. Seattle's oldest pioneer,
is dead at 81 years. Page 13.
Sheriff Lundson of Washington County,
Idaho, to be arrested for malfeasance in
office. Page &.
Five men killed by falling walls at Ban
Francisco. Page 3.
Portland and Vicinity.
Grainhandlers abandon demand for wage
increase, but will not accept partial rec
ognition of union; hitch over trivial
point. Page J.
Creditors seek whereabouts of Palmist Clar
ence H. Truth. Page 10.
Free Masons lay cornerstone of new temple
in Portland. Page 10.
Mrs. Carey M. Snyder declares she ha told
all she knows about murder of her hus
band and will leave for Kansas City to
day. Page 12.
Murderer Hose haunted by face of wdman,
he killed. Page 17.
Jefferson Myers, president of Oregon James
town commission, leaves for Virginia to
look for site for possible Oregon build
ing at fair. Page 2S.
Party of strikebreakers assaulted on Stark
street dock, and two men badly beaten.
Page 12.
Strong English demand develops for Ore
gon hops. Page 14.
Growing activity in Portland real estate
market. Page 20.
Features and Departments.
Editorial. Page S.
Church announcements. Page 40.
Classified advertisements. Pages 21-27.
Sinking a caisson for the new bridge across
the Willamette. Page 43.
Homer Davenport's invasion of the Arabian
Desert. Page 47.
Where Colonel E. D. Baker fell. Page 49.
Interview with General James F. Bell.
Page 49.
Judge Ben Lindsey, the bad boy and the
old un- Page 45.
World's two most enterprising seaports.
Page 44.
In the thick Af the New York theaters.
Page 46.
Letters from the people. Page 36.
Will Tart tepeat Roosevelt's success?
Page 43.
Chuckwagon Cal on Cuban politics. Page 43.
Book reviews. Page 37.
Social. Pages 30-&1.
Dramatic. Pages S2-33.
Musical. Page 34.
Household and fashions. Page 47.
Ham Burr. Page 50.
Youths department. Page 51.
Mr. Harriraan's Designs for tbe Future.
HEARST'S LEAGUE
IS CORPORATION
Yellow Light on So
Called Independents.
BOSSISM BECOMES FINE ART
Committee Alone Has Power
to Nominate Ticket.
HEARST RULES COMMITTEE
Original Methods of Running the
Party Make His Cohorts Furious.
Tammany Methods of Bossism
Crude by Comparison.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20. (Special.)
The ordinary or garden variety of In
dependence Leaguers is daily-descending
upon the Gilsey House with leaps
and bounds. They are indignant at
recent revelations. ut the situation is
so funny it ought to be made into a
comic opera. For the Independence
League, formed to war on the bosses,
is a trust itself.
Shortly after the city election last
year the league was organized, but no
body knew at that time that it had
been Incorporated. The league was
regularly registered with the Secretary
of State at Albany, just as are social
clubs, but with this Important differ
ence: All power to conduct business is
vested in the executive committee, the
names of whose members appeared in
the corporation papers, and who have
power to fill all vacancies. And a ma
jority of the committee are Mr.
Hearst's employes on his New York
papers, while the others are his closest
political friends.
In consequence it is shown that the
great "state convention" ar Carnegie
Hall was the dizziest kind of a .teat.
The delegates, who thought they were
running things, did not know it, but
tey were absolutely powerless. They
could nominate all the tickets they
wanted, but thev would never get them
on the official ballot, for the only per
sons who have authority to say who
the lucky men should be are the mem
bers of the executive committee.
County Committee Dazed.
This fact was brought to public no
tice when the New York county com
mittee decided to defy Hearst and run
things itself. The New York county
committee is made up of representa
tives from every Assembly district in
Manhattan and The Bronx, and, in
theory, is the governing body of the
party. The leaders of the committee
were highly indignant when the
Hearst-Murphy judicial slate was an
nounced, not becaus'e of the deal, but
because two of its members had been
turned down. These two were Thomas
Gilleran and John Palmier!, and they
engineered a bolt. A special meeting
was held, eery speeches made, and a
committee sent up the state, with the
following message to Mr. Hearst:
"Unless Tammany withdraws two of
its candidates and replaces them with
Gilleran and Palmieri. the county com
mittee will at once place a full judicial
ticket in the field."
County Chairman Timothy Driscoll
headed the committee on protest, which
swept in upon Mr. Hearst while his
car was quietly resting on a switch at
Corning. N. Y. In eloquent words the
committee presented its ultimatum, but
the candidate didn't seem a bit im
pressed. "So you mean to put up a judicial
ticket?" he said, inquiringly.
Mr. Driscoll replied that the voice of
the people and the welfare of the
downtrodden toilers demanded It, and
that there would be no compromise.
Mr. Hearst smiled. Then . he ex
plained that the Independence League
had been incorporated on February 13
last, and that all power was vested in
Tbe
the executive committee, whose mem
bership he enumerated.
What power have we got. then?"
asked . Mr. Driscoll, when he realized
the .situation.
Mr. Hearst smiled again, shook hands
all around, and .the dazed envoys were
hurrying back to New Torltf before they
knew it. -
They decided to make the best of an
unpleasant situation and formally adopted
resolutions of renewed confidence "in the
wisdom of our peerless leader. William
Randolph Hearst." but added that they
did so "in view of the importance of the
campaign."
Only Make Xoise Like Delegates.
But the news has leaked out and the
ordinary members are mad my. but they
are mad: All of them who can spare
car fare have been hiking to the Gilsey
house to make things miserable for the
unhappy Max Ihmsen and his aides.
"When I realize." said Henry Petersen,
of Montgomery County, "that I came
down here last month and made a noise
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W. H- Langdon, District Attorney
of San Francisco, Who Has Em
ployed F. J. Heney to Prosecute
Grafters.
like a delegate for two days, and was
simply a farmer, it makes me wild. I've
told Ihmsen what I thought about It,
but there are a few things I forgot,
and I think I'll go back and tell them
to him."
Practical politicians unite in saying that
the "Hearst idea" was the greatest thing
of its kind ever heard of.
"A Tammany leader is supposed to be
the finest example of a boss," said one
man today. "But if his constituents de
cide to do so they can turn him out of
office at any time. Hearst's plan is sim
ple but effective. Suppose the. Independ
ence League members all over the state
decided that John Jones was the man
they wanted for Governor. They could
hold primariee and conventions until they
were tried out, but the name of John
Jons would not go on the ballot unless
the executive committee wanted it to.
The voice of the people could go wailing
through the land, but the edict of the
executive committee would be the thing
that counted.
AH Tinder Hearst's Thumb.
"What Hearst says goes with the ex
ecutive committee. They are all employed
on the Hearst newspapers, except John
Ford and Samuel Seabiiry, who have re
ceived their reward by being named on
the Hearst Tammany ticket for Justices
of the Supreme Court. I have been told,
although I don't know absolutely whether
it is true or not. that all the Hearst
employe, committeemen have filed ceir
blank resignations with Hearst and that
he can simultaneously eject them from
business and politics at any time he sees
fit. It strikes me that this is probably
true, for Hearst has undoubtedly taken
the most careful precautions against
treachery. But doesn't Hearst beat an
ordinary boss as far as the Empire State
Express does a handcar?"
And in the meantime the screams of
the rank and file of the Independence
League are hourly increasing in volume.
It Is getting so bad that the workers
up at the Gilsey House are wearing ear
muffs. Great Gale- Hits- Charleston.
CHARLESTON, S. C Oct. 20 Spe
cial.) A 62-mile storm struck Charleston
this afternoon, with indications of a still
further increase of wind during th night.
The tide continues several feet above the
normal, but no material damage Is ex
pected from this source, unless the wind
hauls to the eastward from due north,
from which direction it has been blowing
all day. Charleston seems to be the cen
ter of the low-pressure area on the South
Carolina coast. Many marsh-hen hunters
are caught in the stprm, and loss of life
is feared.
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Ohio Judae Couldn't Save
Him.
PACKING
y
British Holding Com
pany Projected..
UPTON IS NEGOTIATING DEAL
Great Corporation With Capi
tal of $500,000,000.
BIG SIX TO BE SOLD OUT
Packers Hold Daily Conferences
With Lipton, Which Confirms
Belief That Scheme Is
Incubating.
CONCERNS EN PACKING MERGER.
ARMOUR CO.
Capital $20,000,000. represeatftd
by stock held almost wholly by
the Armour family. Tho company
i.sueft no statement of the volume
of business, but tt 1 estimated
to be between J200.000.000 and
$250,000,000 a year. J. Ogden Ar
mour Is president.
SWIFT i CO.
Capitalized at $50,000,000 and
has a bond Issue of $5,000,000. Ac
cording; to the statement for 1905
the cross sales amounted to $200,
000,000. , The company has paid T
per cent dividends on the stock
since 1S08. Louis F. 6wift Is pres
ident. SCHWARZSCHILD SULZBER
GER Capital stock $5,000,000 common
nd $5,000,000 preferred, of which
there has been Issued $4,372,400
of the common stock. There la
outstanding $3,000,000 three-year
5-per-cent gold bonds due In 190$.
The balance-sheet December 31,
1905, shows $4,792,039 surplus,
against $4,444,521 for the year be
fore. NATIONAL RACKING COMRANY
Capital stock authorized and Is
sued, $15,000,000, and ha assumed
$1,550,000 of the G. H. Hammond
& Co. bonds, $270,000 of Omaha
Packing Company bonds. Volume
of business not published.
NELSON MORRIS A CO.
Capital $30,000,000. .. No report
Is made of volume of business to
Stock Exchange.
CUDAHT CO.
Capital $10,000,000. but makes
no report to the Stock Exchange.
. of gross earnings.
CHICAGO. Oct. 20. (Special.) Rumors
that an English holding company is being
organized to take over all the packing in
terests of the United States flew thick
and fast in LaSalle street today. The
capital of the concern is said to be close
to $500,000,000, and J. Ogden Armour is
mentioned as the practical chief of the
corporation.
While nobody In a position to give the
facts concerning such a move would say
anything one way or the other on the sub
ject, certain things that have recently
transpired in the street are called signifi
cant by students of similar financial pro
ceedings. The tickers In brokerage houses
also brought the same rumor from Wall
street, and by putting two and two to
gether, local financiers seemed ready to
believe there must be something definite)
in the air.
Lipton Interested in Deal.
Attention on the Stock Exchange for
some time has been centered largely on
activity in Swift & Co. shares. In most
quarters it was sought to explain these
by declaring that the trading had ail the
earmarks of pure speculation. But in the
midst of these explanations the rumor
was rife that the Swift concern was to
turn over the Armour packing property.
This idea is said to have evolved from
frequent conferences, in which both Swift
and Armour interests predominated,, but
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