The Sunday Oregonian., December 23, 1906, Image 1

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.PORTLAND,' OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1906.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ROOSEVELT READY
TO FIGHT SENATE
Risk Impeachment if
Not Sustained.
ON DISCHARGE OF SOLDIERS
Fighting Blood Up and Will Not
Yield an Inch.
ENEMIES' POLITICAL GAME
Orders New Inquiry to Meet Fora
ker's Attack Will Veto Reinstate
ment of Soldiers and Ignore
Congress If Veto Defeated.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 22. (Special.)
Tho administration Hs preparing to
fight to the lst ditch in maintenance
of its position with respect to the dis
charge of a battalion of the Twenty
llfth (colored) Infantry against any
action, no matter how extreme, that
Congress by any possibility may take.
President Roosevelt today sent Milton
D. Purdy, assistant to the Attorney
General, to Brownsville, Texas, to ob
tain affidavits of citizens regarding
tho riot on tho night of August 13
last, and these affidavits tho Presi
dent Intends to have ready to meet
the renewal of the attack against him
by Senator Foraker when Congress re
convenes after the holidays.
Persons who called at the White
House today declare that tho Presi
dent is aroused to his highest fight
ing pitch by the attempts being made
to discredit his action upon the
Brownsville affair and that he Is more
determined than ever not to take a
Ingle backward step nor make any
move tending to the construction that
he admits having misconceived either
ills powers in the premises or the tes
timony that guided hlra when he Is
sued his order of wholesale discharge.
Ready to Ri.sk Impeachment.
Tf Congress passes a bill restoring
the discharged soldiers to their former
positions in the army, or removing the
disability to re-enlist placed upon
them, the President will veto it. If
Congress- pass a measure by a two
third vote over his veto, he will dis
regard Its action, being willing to risk
Impeachment proceedings If his ene
mies want to carry the war that far
until the Supreme Court of the United
States has decided that the appointive
power no longer rests with the Chief
Executive of the Nation, but is vested
in the legislative branch ot the Gov
ernment. These statements are strong. They
are authentic, however, and those who
are close enough to the President to
understand his position thoroughly and
have talked with him during the last
24 hours entertain no doubt as to the
lengths he will go to sustain his right
as he sees it. Not a single soldier
among those of the three companies
discharged "without honor" will be re
Instated in the army by the President
of the United States unless he proves
his Innocence of the charges in gross
made against the battalion to the sat
isfaction of the President. That is the
ultimatum from the White House to
its critics at the Capitol.
. Political Game of Enemies.
That the most critical ordeal of the
Roosevelt administration lies Just be
yond the merry holiday session seems
probable at this writing. The Browns
ville affair seems destined to over
shadow all matters of legislative in
terest and make this contest between
the President and his enemies large
ly within his own party stand out
as the most prominent feature of the
present session of Congress.
The deep political game that to
some extent underlies the attack that
lias begun, which has received atten
tion In administration as well as Sen
atorial circles, will be certain to add
Something for the Ber. rougher.
zest to the conflict. It Is conceded
now that Mr. Foraker will carry his
point in demanding an investigation
by a Seriate committee of all facts
connected with the discharge of the
battalion and compelling the attend
ance of witnesses and the presentation
of papers. The Foraker resolution, as
it now stands, places the proposed in
vestigation In the hands of the com
mittee on military affairs. Senators of
all factions have expressed a desire to
hear both sides of the case, if there
be two sides, and that Insures the In
vestigation. BACKS I'P HIS CONTENTION
Roosevelt Cites Evidence in Support
of Summary Discharge.
WASHINGTON, .Dec. 22. Correspond
ence regarding the muster out of the
Sixtieth Ohio Infantry, concerning
which Senator Foraker in a speech in the
Seriate this week took issue with Presl-
Dr. Ctrpben 8. Wise, Who Startled
New York With Criticism of Rich
Men.
dent Roosevelt, was given out at the
White House today. Reference to the
muster out of the regiment was made by
the President in his answer to the Sen
ate resolution, asking for Information on
the discharge, "without honor" of a col
ored battalion for alleged participation in
the trouble at Brownsville, Tex.
The correspondence includes letters
passing between Brigadier-General Daniel
Taylor, commanding at Camp Douglas,
Chicago, and officials of the War Depart
ment and pension officers at Washing
ton. In a letter to Adjutant-General
Thomas at Washington dated Chicago,
October 22, 1862. General Tyler uses the
words: . ' ". . . !..'''.".
"This regiment (the Sixtieth Ohio
Volunteers) is' disorganized, mutinous
and worthless. The officers have riot the
least control over the men; the men are
mutinous and I am absolutely without the
power to enforce subordination." He
asked that the question of the discharge
of the regiment be brought before the
Secretary of War.
"It will," General - Tyler added, "rid
the Government-of a worthless regiment."
General Thomas telegraphed accord
ingly, directing the muster out of the
regiment both officers and men.
In his message to Congress, the Presi
dent said the Sixtieth Ohio was sum
marily discharged on the ground that
the regiment was "disorganized; mutin
ous and worthless.'1
To this Senator Foraker took exception
and said the men were honorably dis
charged, the order for it being summary
only In the sense that they were ordered
to be mustered out immediately ' Instead
of being kept in barracks.
DENOUNCE ROOSEVELT'S ACT
Constitutional League Discusses Dis
missal of Negro Troops.
PHILADELPHIA,. Dec. . 22. -William S.
Sinclair, president, and N. F. Mossell,
secretary; of the local branch of the Con
stitutional League, today sent a lengthy
message' to. President Roosevelt, , de
nouncing the action. taken, In dismissing
the members of the Twenty-fifth Infan
try. After protesting against his "super
heated denunciation of the colored troop
ers,1' the message takes up the reference
to shielding criminals and charges that
even up to the present day,' Vmurderous
organizations of white men in the South
are carrying on their war on the col
ored people." ' The protest continues:
"These secret clans hesitate not to as
sassinate United States Government offi
cials and band together to shield and pro
tect each other. They are supported by
the white people and have very recently
seized and lynched a prisoner who was
in the custody of the Supreme Court of
the United States and while the lynchers
were In Washington answering the charge
of contempt before the Supreme Court
ot the United States, the Nation was
shocked by the fact that the President
received and honored the lynchers at the
White House. As a matter of fact, no
people has shielded more criminals and
covered 'up more crimes than the white
people of the South. And In the South
the blood of more Innocent men and
(Concluded on Page 3.)
HARRY MURPHY SUGGESTS A FEW APPROPRIATE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS FOR SUNDRY NOTABLES
Sheriff Stevens' Christmas Would Be Merry
if He Could Feed the County rmwwn
era Some of That S-Cent Fare.
IS
TAKEN FROM PIT
Nearly 16 Days Under
60 Feet of Debris.
GREAT JOY AT THE RESCUE
Dramatic Scene When Hicks
Crawls Through Hole.
IS DIRTY BUT NOT HURT
Survivor of the Cave-In of the Edison
Shaft, Near Bakersfleld, De-
dares He Is Perfectly
Strong and Well.
BAKERS FIELD. Cal., Dec. 23. (Spe
cial.) L. B. Hicks was released at 11:25
last night. The last cut on the second
rail was made at 11:22 P. M.. and no
sooner was the section removed and the
way left open than Hicks began to scrape
away the rocks and dirt and crawl to
ward the opening.
With arms in front of his head he went
Into the miniature tunnel and began to
work his way slowly through to the
other side of the car. When he had
progressed about half way he stopped
and Superintendent Frank Miller, who
stood at the tube at the mouth of the
shaft. Immediately called and asked
what was the matter.
"Oh, nothing," Hicks called back. "I'm
Just going to stop. I'm out of wind. My
wind Is very short, you know."
Then the man of Iron moved a few
Inches further toward freedom, and his
arms were seized by Dr. Stinchfleld and
miner Gents. The two, exerting all their
strength, pulled the miner into the main
tunnel, where he was placed in a sitting
position. The blindfold had been re
moved,.aa the tunnel was lighted by can.
dies only, and the light was dim. And
there, a hundred feet from the face of
the mountain, and within a step of where
the miner had lain entombed for nearly
16 days, there occurred a pathetic scene.
Dr. Stinchfleld, with tears in his eyes
and his hands laid affectionately on Hicks'
shoulder, said, "Well, how are you, old
boy?'" And there were tears in the eyes
of Hicks as well; the only tears that have
shown themselves in all the days and
nights since he was entombed, as he re
plied: "I am feeling fine. I can never
thank you, Doctor, for what you have
done."
Then came Superintendent Cone, the
man who has stayed by the work night
and day, directing every Interest, personal
and of his company as well, to aid In the
rescue of the. miner. He came forward
and took Hicks by both his hands and
said:
"I am glad to see you again, old man.'.'
Hicks, with voice choked with emotion,
attempted to . thank him also for his ef
forts in his behalf. The superintendent
gazed steadfastly at Hicks for a moment
and -then,' unable to speak further, he
turned and walked out of the tunnel and
up the mountain side.
Overjoyed at Rescue.
To a representative of the Associated
Press he .said: "Of course. I am over
Joyed that Hicks Is out and I am over
Joyed that he Is well and strong. It was
a long, tedious effort and has been a se
vere strain upon all connected with the
work, but I would go through it all over
again to save that man."
The miner was assisted to the hospital
and although he begged to walk alone
to show his strength, his plea was denied
him and a score of willing hands bore
him along. ;
"Do 1 1 have to go to bed, Doc?" said
Hicks to Dr.' Stinchfleld, when he was
led to a well-heated room, where a bed,
resplendent in shining linen, awaited
him. "Yes, you do Hicks; besides. It's
late," replied the doctor.
"But you know, doctor, I'm used to ir
regular hours," persisted Hicks.
He was given nourishment and all who
crowded about were asked to leave him
unmolested for the present. On the way
to the hospital Hicks said he had never
An Aooeptable Present for
BURIED
MINER
despaired after he was In communica
tion with the men at the surface. He said
he never suffered greatly from hunger,
but suffered intensely from privation
from tobacco. '
"I'd have given my chances of rescue
almost for a chew of tobacco," he said.
Boulders Block the Way. '
At noon the message came over the
wires that boulders had again been en
countered and with an expression of
resignation Bakersfleld went back to
work. Two hours later the happy Intelli
gence was received that the end was
near. The momentary obstacle had been
successfully overcome and nothing lay
between the rescuers and their object
but a few inches ot loose dirt and the
steel rails on which the ore car rested.
The streets quickly thronged again, the
fireman went to his post at the town
bell, the old soldier to his guard at the
loaded anvil, the newspapermen to their
desks,' and all waited in suspense for the
next report. .... ....
"Hicks Is drinking coffee from the hand
of Dr. Stinchfleld. He had been blind
folded to protect his eyes from the light
which is pouring into the cavity," was
the next message, and it was thought
that the end was near, but one more in
the series of delays which have made the
Hicks rescue a remarkable one occurred,
and it was not until many hours after
dark that the release was at last made.
No great obstacle was encountered dur
ing the day, but rather than take any
chances the rescue part,y measured every
move.
Through 9 7 Feet or Granite.
The work of rescue has been a gigan
tice one. Ninety-seven feet of granite
without a pound of powder Is not the
work of a week. It is not the work of
two weeks, under ordinary circumstances,
and the fact must not be overlooked
that fingers, arms and hands alone have
solved the problem of lifting a man from
the very heart of a precipitous mountain
which takes an hour to ascend and seven
minutes to surmount in a steam tram
way. The sensational feature of the after-
f-Concluded on Page 4.)
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum . temperature, 60
degrees; minimum, 48.
TODAY'S Rain; southerly winds.
Foreign.
General Paredes starts out oh revolution
ary expedition against President Castro.
Page 1.
General Ignatleff. leader of Russian reac
tionaries, assassinated. Page 13.
War in Abyssinia probable after Menellk'a
death. Page 4.
National.
San Francisco peacemakers suggest arbitra
tion of Japanese row. Page 4.
Roosevelt ready to fight Senate to finish on
discharge of negro troops. Page 1.
Oregon pra visions la river and -harbor" bill.
Page 13.
Clever trick to oarry ship subsidy bill. Page
2.
Woman caused recall of Ambassador Du
rand. Page 1.
. Politics.
President of University of Virginia says
South is still for state rights. Page 5.
Senators who will have to fight for seats.
Page 2.
Pumestle. .
Interstate Commerce Commissioner Frank
lin K. Lane says coal situation has been
relieved. Page 4.
Bloodhounds fail to trail MackUn's assail
ant and mystery Is unexplained. Page S.
Dr. Wise condemns control of churches by
rich and tells his plans. Page 3.
Immense sums added to wages of labor.
Page 1
New York Jews object to celebration of
Christmas In public schools. Page 2.
Firemen order strike on Southern Pacific's
Sunset Route. Page 6.
Dereylan woman impersonator identified as
spy of Russian government. Page 13.
Cuban negroes demand recognition for serv
ice in recent revolution. Page 5.
Sports.
Large purse offered by Tex Rlckard may
tempt Jeffries to re-enter ring, says Will
G. MacRae. Page 36.
Paclflo Coast.
Miner Hicks to released after being buried
for nearly two weeks near Bakersfleld,
' Cal. Page 1.
Total pack of Oregon ond Washington
Coast canneries Is estimated at 169,000.
Page 14.
Rich find of gold quartz is made in Coos
County. Page 14.
Chester Thompson's teachers testify that
he was a bright boy in school. Page 14.
Seattle woman given a divorce from man
who had not bathed for three years.
Page 13.
Commercial and Marine. '
California produce will be high this sea
son. Page 39.
All grains weak at Chicago. Page 39.
Heavy selling In New York stock market.
Page 39.
Surplus of New York banks restored. Page
39.
Active trading In local stock market. Page
39.
Four converted barges will enter the lum
ber trade. Page 17.
C Benson, a longshoreman, drowned In the
Willamette. Page 17-
Portland and Vicinity.
Streetcar men declare they , will fight until
strike is won. Page 9.
State Forest Protective Association organized
In Portland. Page 9.
Troutdale stockyards of Union Meat Com
pany purchased by Eastern capitalists.
Page 16.
Heavy Increase shown over last season by
holiday postal business. Page 10.
Divorce granted to Mrs. Frank A. Spencer
on ground of desertion. Page 24.
Henry E. Ankeny, pioneer and statebullder,
passes away In Portland. Page 32.
Moy Bak Hin, Chinese Consul, returns from
two months' trip through East. Page 24.
the CorporarJa
In Jonathan's StoeMns.
E
BY:
Lady Townley's Pride
Causes Recall. '
MADE MISCHIEF ON ALL HANDS
Criticised Roosevelt, Taft and
Other Officials.
LADY DURAND GOT BLAME
Daughter of Earl Could Not Endure
Giving Precedence to Curate's
Daughter The Intrigues of
Friends Prove Effective.
WASHINGTON", Deo. 22. (Special.)
Lady Susan Townley is the latest
woman to cause a diplomatic upset in
the country which her husband serves.
If reports in the diplomatic corps in
Washington are true. It is largely be
cause of ' this English ' lady that Sir
Mortimer Durand has handed in his
letters of recall to the President and
is to be succeeded by the Right Hon
orable James Bryce. It reads like a
comedy and probably appears like a
comedy to all except the direct partici
pants. Lady Townley Is the wife of, Walter
Beaupre Townley, formerly counsellor
of the British embassy here and at
present minister for Great Britain to
Brazil. She is the daughter of the
seventh Earl of Albemarle, whose fam
ily name Is Keppell, and before her
marriage to Mr. Townley was Lady
Susan Mary Keppell. She comes from
one of the most prominent families In
England, and her father was a famous
admiral.
Her Lordly Prldo Hurt.
Mr. and Lady Townley came to the
United States in the Fall of 1905. be
having been appointed' to the post of
counsellor of the embassy here. . His
last previous post was counsellor of
the embassy at Constantinople, and be
fore then he had served in Paris,
Teheran, - Lisbon, Berlin and Pekln.
The counsellor of the embassy and his
wife took a modest house In Connecti
cut avenue, owned by Mr. Morgan Hill,
and lived as quietly as they could.
Lady Townley did not like Washing
ton and she was extremely unhappy in
her social relations with Lady Durand.
She Is Quoted on one occasion as be
ing dissatisfied with the fact that she
had to go to dinner behind the
"daughter of a country curate." Being
the daughter of the Earl of Albemarle,
she did not feel satisfied to take sec
ond place. That an ambassador's wife
must always rank before the wife of
a member of the. ambassador's staff
was a proposition that did not admit
of argument in places where )'flclal
precedent counts for everything and
birth for nothing, but this did not
appeal to the daughter of the house of
Keppell.
Scoffed at American Officials.
It is also said that Lady Susan freely
criticised American officials and their
ways, making comments on the President,
Secretary Taft and others of the official
set and having witticisms at hand in
speaking of tho official functions. Singu
larly enough, these remarks have been
credited recently to Lady Durand herself,
but It Is said that Lady Durand never
expressed any opinions one way or the
other of Washington official society. To
give Lady Susan all the honor possible,
many of her friends arranged dinner
parties with a solitary ' high official as
the principal guest, with the British
counsellor and his wife and the smartest
men and women of resident society to
make up the remainder of the company.
The Townleys managed to entertain the
smartest members of resident and diplo
matic circles while giving - as wide a
berth as possible to official functions.
The failure of Lady Durand .to do any
entertaining Is said to have been repeat
edly criticised by Lady Susan both here
For Ona
OUKAND
IN
WOMAN
and In London. Miss Josephine Durand's
famous remark to the daughter of a high
official who asked what day they were
"at home" was extensively repeated. She
said:
. "We ' never have any at home day.
Mother always gets neuralgia if we keep
a day,"
Caused Durand's Recall.
That the drawing-room, chatter of Lady
Susan's friends In London, particularly
her sister-in-law, Mrs. George Keppell.
who Is very near the throne, accomplished
more than a formal and dignified state
ment In Downing street is readily be
lieved here.
Lady Susan Townley was severely
shaken up In an automobile accident last
Spring and was confined to the ' house
for about a week. When she Improved
she and her husband went south and they
returned to London In May. It was said
at the State' Department today that the
retirement of the British Ambassador had
..................
It,
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Sir Mortimer Durand, British Am
bassador to the United States,
Who Owes Recall to Woman's
Intrigues.
been agreed upon in Downing street last
May. This decision would be coincident
with the return of Lady Susan and her
husband to London. So Sir Mortimer was
recalled and Lady Susan went to Brazil
with her husband.
MDRETRDUBLEFOHGASTRD
GENERAL PAREDES OX WAY TO
' RAISE INSURRECTION.
Projected Rebellion Moves Along
Rapidly and Details of Expedl
. tlon Have Been Worked Out.
NEW YORK, Dec. 22. The Tribune
tomorrow will say:
"General Antonio Paredes, who has
been preparing an insurrection against
President Castro of Venezuela, sailed
yesterday on the steamer Mareval for
Trinidad. It was only nine days ago
that General Paredes arrived here on
the same steamer from Port of Spain to
complete some details of his projected
rebellion. Besides the 15,000 Mauser
rifles and several million cartridges
he obtained in New York and abroad,
on a previous visit. General Paredes
has now a large steam yacht under
charter. This vessel was recently at
Liverpool', and has been renamed the
General El Elegatista. She is now be
ing made realy to carry an expedition
to Venezuela from one of the West
Indian Islands.
"General Paredes represents, it was
said last night, that all the details of
the expedition had been thoroughly
worked out."
MRS. BLAINE GETS DIVORCE
Dakota Courts Sever Knot in Hurry.
" Up Time.
YANKTON, S. D., Dec. 22. Mrs.
James G. Blaine, wife of the son of
the former Secretary of State, was
granted a divorce here tonight. ' The
grounds alleged in the complaint were
non-support and desertion. The case
was commenced before Judge E. G.
Smith at 7 o'clock and at 8 o'clock the
decree had been granted and the di
vorce party at once took the train for
the East-
Prepares to Fight Raisull.
TANGIER, Morocco, Dec. 22. The
troops sent from Fez under the command
of the War Minister, Sidi Mohammed
Gabbas, are preparing to camp on the
heights around this city. Emissaries
have been dispatched to Zeinat, where
Ralsuli, the bandit chief, has concentrat
ed his forces.
Fnergwelo Young Fellow-Citizen,
Geo. H. Williams.
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1 &iii2SiiK
'5
IS WELL FILLED
Wages Already In
creased $41,200,000
RAILROADS LEAD ALL OTHERS
Standard Oil and Mining Com
panies on List.
OTHERS SOON TO FOLLOW
High Cost of Living, General Pros
perity and Anti-Corporation Agi
tation Are Principal Causes
of Corporate Generosity.
LABOR'S CHRISTMAS GIFT.
Number Annual
Employes. Increase.
Pennsylvania Rail
road 185.000 112.000,000
Other Eastern
railroads 100,000 T.O00.000
Western railroads
(switchmen) .. 80.000 IS .000,000
Standard OH Co. 60.000 8,600.000
New England cot
ton mill owners . 178,000 8.000,000
U. S. Steel Corpo
ration 43,000 t.900,000
Amalgamated Cop
per Co 12,000 1.000.000
Mlnaowners, Ari
zona 6,000 600,000
American Express
Company ...... 10,000 800,000
National Express
Company 4,000 300,000
Calumet & Hecla
Mining Co 6.000 800,000
Total 630.000 $41,200,000
CHICAGO, Dec 22.-pcc!al.)Wortc--ingmen
in the United States will have
their stockings better filled this Christ
mas than ever before In the industrial
history of the country. Within the last
six weeks many of tho largest corpora
tions In the country have announced
wage advances amounting Into the tens
of millions of dollars and many more are
considering Increases with the beginning
of the New Year. The railroad systems
lead In the number of employes and In
the pay Increases.
The Pennsylvania system recently an
nounced a horizontal rise in wages of 10
per cent to all of Hs employes earning
less than $200 a month. No labor organi
zation has ever been formally recog
nized by that road, although many of Its
men are organized, and, when a wage
Increase Is announced. It applies equally
to all. Practically all of the other great
railroad systems .deal with the labor
organizations whlcn represent the dif
ferent classes of , workmen and in some
Instances they are now negotiating wage
demands. The roads which deal with the
unions, however, do not announce any
general Increase, but make schedules for
each class of workmen.
Advance Both East and West.
Some of the Eastern roads have con
ceded an increase recently to firemen
and engineers, others to conductors,
brakemen and switchmen, as the demands
of the men have been taken up and
adjusted, but advances amounting to
millions of dollars are still pending. Tho,
Western railroads granted an Increase
to their switchmen some weeks ago,
which in tho aggregate, amounted to
J3.000,000. A few days ago the brake-
men and conductors on freight trains
presented demands which amount to ap
proximately J8.000.000 a year. These are)
to be taken up early next month and It
is probable that most of them will bo
conceded.
The engineers and firemen and tho
brakemen and conductors on passenger
trains are now preparing new schedules,
so that it is expected before the question
Is finally settled, every one of the 1,300,000
employes of the roads will have been
given a pay boost. This advance la estl-
(Concluded on Page 8.)
LABOR
STOCKING
i
Governor Chamberlain Gets What Hs Asks
for, vis. i A Democratic Governor and a
Republican Legislature.