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56 Pages fyj J-Jjl Pages 1 to 12 VOL,. XXVI. XO. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SENATE APPROVES IE DEAL ImmigrationBill Passes After Storm. TILLMAN FIRES PARTING SHOT Accuses Roosevelt of Dicker ing With Unions. SAYS SOUTH IS SACRIFICED Simmons Breaks Away From Party and Supports Bill Schmitz Prom ises to Tell Agreement Which Was Made With Roosevelt. SCHMITZ HINTS AT BIG THINGS. SAN FRANCISCO, Fob. lft. (Spe cial.) The Exclusion L-af?ue tonight received thf following tele-gram from Mayor Schmitz: . "Amendment to immigration bill only forerunner of -what is to follow. Can not make public full details until later. Have not relinquished any of our rlffhtit. Agitation at this time may complicate satisfactory settlement." J WASHINGTON. Feb. 16. The Admin istration plan to Bottle the California Japanese situation was approved in the Senate today b' the adoption of the Sen ate committee report on the Immigration bill. This report continues a provision which authorizes the President to ex clude Japanese laborers from the I'nited States at his discretion. The report will now go to the House for its approval, which is assured. The entire day was devoted to debate on the report. The opposition presented as an alternative plan a resolution in structing the conferees to bring in a pro vision positively prohibiting the entrance of Japanese laborers. It was declared not in order, and on motion of Lodge an appeal from this ruling was defeated, 45 to 24, being practically a party vote. The conference report was then adopted with out a rollcall. Xo Injury to South. The discussion was opened by Simmons of North Carolina, who said: "I shall vote for the report, because I believe the South will not suffer under its provisions." Simmons placed a higher importance upon the maintaining of amity and good feeling, wnicli, he said, had always ex isted between the South and the Pacific Coast on labor and other questions, than on any disadvantage to his own section , which might result from the changes in the immigration laws. Nevertheless, he regarded the change in the contract la bor provisions as not properly in the re port, and expressed the opinion that the conferees exceeded their authority. Dubois Opposes New Provision. Dubois opposed the passport provision In the bill. "I do not think." he said, "that the President of the United States ought to be allowed to legislate directly, as he has done In the case of this pro vision." If the clause meant the expulsion of Japanese laborers, he said, It would not be satisfactory to Japan. If It did not mean this. It would not be satisfactory to the Pacific Coast. He favored the resolution offered by Culberson yesterday instructing the conferees to bring in a measure specifically 'excluding Japanese laborers. The provision In the bill was a makeshift and he predicted that within a week after its adoption the people of the Pacific Coast would be clamoring for Jap anese exclusion. Dubois said he had no prejudice against the Japanese. Bacon Scents Sectional Jealousy. A denial was made by Bacon of re ports that the opposition of himself and Tillman to the conference report had been withdrawn under pressure from Al drlcti to save or secure appropriations In tho river and harbor bill. Referring to mm What If The All Became the labor situation In the South, Bacon said: "The fact cannot be concealed that there is a serious and growing Jealousy on the part of the manufacturing Industries In Massachusetts against the Increasing manufacturing Interests "of the 8outh. There is a disposition to Interfere with the further development of those indus tries of the South, and no more sure method could be adopted than that pro posed in this bill." Tillman Talks of Threats. Tillman interrupted Bacon to "get some light." "I see in the morning papers," he began, "reference to the big stick making threats of an extra session unless this report is adopted, and the big stick In New York (Aldrich) telephoning to Senator Crane orders about the river and harbor bill to leave out the South Caro lina and Georgia items. Well, South Caro lina has not much in that bill. Geor gia may have a whole half of the beef. I notice also that the Cabinet met some time yesterday and that it reached the conclusion that the changes made in the Immigration law did not affect the de cision of Secretary Straus upon the South Carolina case." 1IAYK CONCEDED NO RIGHTS Schmitz Speaks for Callfornlans. Full Agreement Kept Secret. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. "The California-committee which came here to confer with the President on the Jap anese question has not conceded any of its rights. State sovereignty was ab solutely insisted upon," declared May or Schmitz, of San Francisco, today. Yet he said a complete agreement had been reached on all points of differ ence, the only thing remaining to be done being the incorporation by Con gress of the exclusion amendment in the immigration bill. As matters now stand, all parties will be satisfied. Mr. Schmitz said, however, that there were some features of the case which had not been touched upon by the President, but these could not be dis closed until it was an established fact that the exclusion amendment had passed. He declared that the discus sion with the President took the form of an endeavor to arrive at a middle ground, and this" had been done. "State rights were strongly adhered to," he said. In this connection he reiterated his declaration made yester day that there never had been con sidered any proposition looking to the establishment of separate Japanese schools. There was no Intention, he said, to abolish the Oriental school, which Asiatics and Mongolians had been In the habit of attending for the, past 20 years. He nald that the con ferences of the school board nnd b'm sclf with the President and Secretary Root had no relation whatever to any thing this Government might do In the way of negotiating a treaty with Japan. The present treaty would not expire for five years, but nevertheless he and the Board of Education had come here In a friendly spirit in the expectation of adjusting matters sat isfactorily to all concerned and yet without surrendering any of Califor nia's rights, and this, he declared, had been accomplished. The agreement be tween the California committee and the President had been drawn up for sig nature. The Mayor, tonight announced that he would make no statement about the agreement until the House had passed on the exclusion amendment to the immigration bill. This probably will occur Monday. The Mayor and the San Francisco Board of Education ex pressed satisfaction that the Senate adopted the amendment. While admit ting that the Oriental school will not be abolished and that there will be no separate school, the Mayor would only say: "The whole question has been amicably adjusted." Late this afternoon the entire Cal ifornia delegation In Congress, with the exception of Representative Mc Lachlln, who is absent from the city on account of 'his wife's death, con ferred with Mr. Schmitz and the board. They were made acquainted with the result of the conferences with the Pres ident and Mr. Root, and Mr. Schmitz announced that the delegation unani mously indorsed the action of the San Francisco committee. AGREEMENT WITH JAPAN NEXT Follow Passage of Immigration Bill. California's Case Weak. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. The State De partment Is awaiting the disposition by Congress of the pending immigration bill before proceeding further with the consid eration of the Japanese exclusion ques tion. If the bill Is enacted, an imme- (Concluded on Page 2.) Lawif ''''' '''''' DEATH VICTOR IN THRILLING RAGE Mother and Child Are Fatally Burned. FATHER IMPRESSES AUTO GAR Speeds to Hospital Carrying Victims of Lamp Explosion. DAUGHTER EXPIRES ON WAY Frank Machette Makes Wild Ride to His Home, Fourteen Miles From City, and Then Back With Suffering Loved Ones. CHILD DEAD, MOTHER DYING. Little 2-year-old Catherine Ma chette, daughter of Frank Machette, manager of the Investors' Broker age Company, of Portland, was fa tally burned by the overturning of an oil lamp at the Machette home, 14 miles from Portland, on the Esta cada carline. yesterday morning, and died while being taken to the hos pital. The mother, Mrs. Josie Machette, was also fatally burned trying to tear the blazing garments from her child's body, and is believed to be dying. The father was In his office In Portland at the time of the acci dent. Impressing a 60-horsepower automobile into service, picking up a physician. Dr. C. S. Seamann, on the way, he ran the wildest race to his home and back again to St. Vin cent's Hospital ever run in this part of the country. In spite of this, the child died on the way and the motKT may not live through the niEiic. though she frightful Journey. survived the A frenzied father, bent on saving the lives of his wife and child, ran a wild and thrilling but sadly futile race with Death yesterday. The man was Frank Machette, who has an office in Portland, but lives 14 miles east of the city on the Kslacada carline. The course of the unequal race was from his office In town to his home in the country and back again to St. Vincent's Hospital, a distance of 28 miles. It was run in one of the swift est and most powerful motor cars in Portland, which shot like a bullet from town to Machette's home to fetch a doc tor to the bedside of his, frightfully burned wife and child, victims of the acci dental overturning of a kerosene lamp. In the back-stretch the huge automobile, hastily converted Into an Improvised am bulance bearing the precious human bur den to a place where the battle for life could be more skillfully waged, hurled Itself through the air like a bolt from a catapult, but it was a losing game which this desperate man was playing, for be fore the flight to town had been little more than half completed, his little daughter, Catherine, only two years of age, his only child, lay cold In death in the swaying tonneau of the car. The mother survived the bitter Journey, but she lies hovering on the brink of the grave at St. Vincent's Hospital, her life utterly despaired of. Father Almost Overcome. The story .of the grim tragedy and the terrible race reads like a page from crassest fiction, but every word of it la the truth, how bitterly true only the be reft father Is able to realize, and he only vaguely, for, strong man that he is, the shock has well-nigh overcome him. It was about 10 o'clock yesterday morn ing when little Catherine toddled Into the bedroom and tried to reach a lighted lamp which stood on the bureau. Her little arms were scarcely long enough. and fumbling to secure a firmer grip, she toppled the lamp over; the oil gushed forth, igniting as it did so, saturated the child, who was In a moment enveloped in hungry tongues of the flaming fluid. Screaming with agony, tearing frantic HARRY MURPHY REVIEWS SOME He Wasn't Handed a Lemon; Only a Brick. ally at her blazing clothes, she staggered to the door where her mother met her. With bare hands the frenzied mother lay hold of the burning garments of the little one and tried to rip them from the baby's body, but in so doing her own clothing caught fire. Neighbors Arrive Too Late. Both mother and child, maddened with the pain, sought to free themselves from the deadly clutch of the flames, but their garments were literally burned from their bodies, and when the neighbors arrived, attracted by the agonizing screams for help, they found the victims writhing' on (Concluded on Page 2.) CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 47 degrees; minimum, 35. TODAY'S Cloudy and threatening with possibly showers; southerly winds. Foreign. French Cabinet crisis on church question. Pnge 3. Gossip of European capitals. Page 38. National. President will have charges against Judge Ailshle Investigated. page 2. Senate passes immigration bill and Schmltx says settlement of Japanese question will satisfy California. Page 1. Overs treet defies railroads on mail subsidy. Page 3. Politics. Proof that Bailey was paid fees by Waters Pierce Company. Page 2. Chicago grand jury may indict Mayor Dunne and Chief Collins for not enforcing law. Page 13. Women suffragists enlist f pretty girl stu dents. Page 1. v Domestic Has kin on TTncle Sam, the greatest fisher man. Page 30. Twenty persons killed in wreck of electric train In New York. Page 1. Thaw trial to be resumed Monday. Page 13. Chicago fraternity men to be expelled from university for holding drunken orgies. Page 3. Pacific Coast. Saloons at Tacoma and Seattle will be closed tight today. Page 5. Portland man injured in wreck near Helena. Page 2. Because Judge McCredie has time for base ball. Legislature will not lighten his duties as Superior Judge. Page 5. Steve Adams laughs before jury that is to try him for murder. Paga 5. Oregon legislature. Payroll for .lower house prepared and ap proved. Page 5- Compulsory reserve fund bill for life in surance companies passed by house.' Page 5. :- Brix bill dealing with logging streams has hard sledding. Page 4. Representative Freeman explains his land bill amendment. Page 4. Sport. Manager McCredie has likely list of players from which to choose 10f7 team. Pge Portland Rowing Club to rect home. Page 30. San Francisco ball park may not he com pleted by opening of season. Page 36. Expert says it costs less to keep an auto than a horse and buggy. Page 37. Commercial and Marine. Oniongrowers association satisfied with out look. Page 39. Sharp break in wheat prices at Chicago. Page 38. New York stocks show gains at the close. Page 39. Surplus of New York banks further In creased. Page 39. Shortage of sailors may delay sailing of vessels, raue to. Portland and Vicinity. Father in wild automobile ride foiled in at tempt to save his child's life. Page 1. Job printers will strike next Wednesday un . less demand for increase of wages is granted. Page 8. Willis Van Horn denies that "he eloped with Edward Philpotts' wife. Page 10. Bird lovers oppose amendment of existing law for protection of songbirds. Page 11 President of strikers and nonunion carman in fist fight. Page 24. Real Estate and Building. Sale of J. E. Haseltlne building closes busy week In inside realty. Page 14. Block bounded by Front. First, Pine and Ash streets may be improved. Page 14- Activity In business property on the East Side. Page 14. Prospectus issued for East Side theater. Page 14. Unusually heavy movement in farm lands near Portland. Page 14. Features and Deoaxt men te . Classified advertisements. Pages 15 to 23. Editorial. Page 6. Church announcements. Page 40. The making of a successful wife. Page 51. Book reviews. Page 51. Social. Pages 26. 27, 20. Dramatic. Page 34, 35. Musical. Page 28. Household and fashions. Page 47. George Ade's revised story. Page 45. The truth about the Congo. Page 50. Current topics. Page 49. Roosevelt bears. Page 56. Comic section. Pages 53 to 56. Fairbanks, the man from Indiana- Page 42. Frank G. Carpenter's letter. Page 43. " ' The strange case of George Edaljl. Page 44. Little stories of happy life. Page 48. How mediums manufacture ghosts. Page 46. Vast fortunes which have disappeared. Page 52. SALIENT LEGISLATIVE HAPPENINGS OF Just tn Time to Say Goodbye. ELECTRIC TRAIN DASHED TO PIECES Twenty Persons Killed in New York City. CROWDED CARS JUMP TRAGK Densely Peopled Suburb Re sounds With Shrieks. THREE SCORE ARE INJURED Sew York Central Suburban Train at Terriric Speed Leaves Ralls and Strews Mangled Pas sengers on Way. NEW YORK, Feb. 16. Sixteen pas sengers were killed outright, four others had died of their Injuries up to midnight, and at least 50 more were more or less seriously injured In the wreck of the White Plains and Brewster Express on the Harlem divi sion of the New York Central & Hud son River Railroad, near Woodlawn road in the Bronx Borough of Greater New York today. The train left 'the Grand Central sta tion at 6:13 o'clock, drawn by two heavy electric motors and loaded with a matinee crowd and commuters on their way home from business In the city. It consisted of a combination baggage and smoking car and five coaches. After stopping at One Hun dred and Twenty-fifth street, the train was scheduled to run express to White Plains. At Woodlawn road the four tracks pass through a rough, rocky cut and take a sharp curve. When the train reached the curve it was running at a speed estimated at 60 miles an hour. Both motors and the smoking car swung safely around the curve, but the other cars left the rails and plunged over the sides with a ter rific crash, tearing up the tracks for a hundred yards before they col lapsed. Mostly Women Are Killed. Of those Instantly killed, by far the greater number were women. Many were mangled beyond recognition. Those most seriously Injured were hur ried to hospitals, while coroners took charge of the dead as fast as bodies were recovered. Fire started In the overturned cars, but the flames were quickly extinguished and firemen lent their aid to the Injured. Special trains carried many of the injured to White Plains and Mount Vernon, while others were brought to hospitals in this city. The rear car, containing more women than the others, suffered greatest, as it overturned and, breaking off the coup ling, was released from the cars ahead, and It was literally torn to pieces and scattered for a hundred feet across Woodlawn avenue. Many passengers, practically uninjured, tumbled from the cars and hurried to telephones, sum moning aid. The Identified Dead. The dead: MYRON E. EVANS. White Plains, civil engineer. ROBERT J. ROSBOROUGH, White Plains, employe. F. JOHNSTON. ROSBOROUGH, White Plains, employe. E. F. JOHNSTON. Briar Cliff. N. Y. C. N. PAGE, Williamsburg. N. Y. MRS. MARY KINCH, Chappaqua, N. Y. MISS OR MRS. E. P. WARREN. S. . SLOAN E. J. SLOANE. ANNIE MOREHEAD, aged 17 JESS1E A. JABIN. The cause of the wreck was not offi cially determined tonight. At Grand Central station there was Inclination to blame the accident to spreading rails, but later it was said that It was believed that the axle of the first passenger coach broke. Going at Terrific Speed. Leonard B. Greene, of White Plains, who occupied a seat In the smoker di rectly behind the second motor, told the story of the train's approach to the Elective Railroad Commission Woodlawn Road curve. It was traveling at a terrific speed, according to Mr. Greene, though railroad men estimated by the distance the overturned cars were carried that the train was making be tween 40 and 45 miles an hour. "I remarked on the epeed," said Mr. Greene, "when we hit the curve, and we instinctively stopped playing cards and looked back. Suddenly the car lurched to one side. In a moment we broke loose from the rest of the train, and we could see the rear cars turning over." Stories by other survivors were simi lar. Dismembered bodies were strung along for a distance of 100 yards. One woman was Impaled on huge splinters from a railroad tie. Although the scene of the wreck was in the heart of a thickly populated section, It was some time be fore residents reached the scene. For a time only one physician could be se cured. Later aid came without stint. Many (iround to Pieces. A sheet of electric flame that originated from the disaster enveloped the rear car and for a moment threatened to roast the victims pinioned in the debris. The flames did not, however, spread and the horror of a holocaust was averted. As the cars fell, they smashed the third rail, and caused much danger. In the crash, however, there was death for many, while practically every one in the four coaches received Injuries of some sort. Many were ground to pieces and for hours identification was almost hope less. As the cars went over, many of the passengers were thrown Into or through the windows and cut and maimed. Myron E. Evans, one of the killed, was president of the Cape Breton Railway, Ltd., and one of the best-known con sulting engineers in the country. He was considered the greatest expert upon Canadian railway property In the country. Broken Hail tlie Cause. Shortly after midnight Coroner Schwan necker made a statement in which he said : 'I have taken possession of one of the rails and shall hold it for a technical examination. In my preliminary investi gation I found a defect in this rail which indicated, in my opinion, the place where a big wheel, probably one of the drive wheels of the electric engine, hit the rail at a point almost directly under the Woodlawn bridge. This rail has a clearly defined indentation which shows where some heavy object dropped on it. The theory Is that the dropping of this heavy object on the rail caused it to spread. One witness said that, while passing at a point almost under the bridge, he felt the train rise up off the tracks and it seemed to fly through the air." The Coroner ordered the arrest of Engineer Williams and his assistant. Stansficld. The engineer was held without ball and his assistant was pa roled. Speculation as to tho speed of the train when it struck the curve was gen eral among survivors of the wreck to night, but there waa little on which to base their estimate. According to rail road men who have watched the train pass this point, the express .usually reaches the curve ten minutes after draw ing out of the station at One Hundred and Twenty-tlfth street. The distance between the two points is about six miles. LIVE IN FEAR OF CANNIBALS Missionaries on Solomon Islands In Dread of Savages. VICTORIA. B. a, Feb. 16. The steamer Miowera, which arrived here yester day from Australia, brought news that constant troubles were occurring in the Solomon Islands as a result of the repatriation of Kanakas, expelled from Queensland following the enactment of "White Australia" laws. H. M. S. Pro metheus, a British warship, placed in the vicinity of the group to protect the re turning blacks, shelled the village of Suiwa on Malaita. which so badly fright ened the natives that- they took to the brush and have not returned. The mis sionaries fear a massacre by the villagers. who resent the return of the blacks. From Papua news was brought of punitive expedition following a raid by cannibals on a Cape Cupola village, two children being killed and eaten at a can nibal feast. Shortly before the Miowera left Bris bane advices were receleved that a hurri cane had completely wiped out Cooktown, in North Australia. No lives were lost. The monetary loss will amount to $2,000, 000. IMutte River Blocks Five Roads. OMAHA, Neb.. Feb. 16. Five trans continental railroads through Nebraska are today using the line of the Burling ton Railroad to the West, due to the flood conditions of the Platte River. The Union Pacific la tied up for 200 miles west of Omaha and the Missouri Pacific, Rock Island, Northwestern, Union Pacific and Burlington are using the Burlington tracks between Omaha and Lincoln. No freight trains are moving. Princess Clementine, of Saxe-Coburg VIENNA, Feb. 16. The Princess Clem entine, of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, mother of Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, died this morning. THE WEEK BUI Panned. Jravmlle Court Bill . 88 it If- PRETTY GIRLS FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE Leaders of Movement Gain Recruits. CHICAGO STUDENTS ORGANIZE Campus Beauties Remove Re proach of Opposition. ARE READIEST TO JOIN Anna Shnw's Suggestion Taken U With Kntliuslasm at University and Beauty Will Seek to Conquer Bullot. CHICAGO. Feb. 16. (Special.) A. campaign to get pretty women, es pecially the prettiest of the feminine students at colleges and universities, Into the societies that are working for woman suffrage was started today at the University of Chicago. If the plan succeeds, the traditional taunt hurled at suffragists that no pretty woman favors the movement will be refuted for all timei and the propaganda doubt less will go forward triumphantly toward the goal of victory. It was a speech by Miss Anna How ard Shaw, president of the National American Woman Suffrage convention, which hus been In session in this city since Thursday, that roused the eo-eds and the "egs" to Inaugurate the move ment for the enlistment of "pretty student suffragists." Nucleus Is Organized. In anticipation of the visit of Miss Shaw and her co-workers, several of tlie women students formed tho nucleus of a branch of the National Associa tion at the univeralty some weeks ago. More than a score of students joined this body, but it was noticed that those termed pretty were the quickest to Join. Under Miss Edith Rieder, president of the University Suffrage Club; Miss Elizabeth Ware, vice-president; Miss Eleanor Graves, treasurer, and Miss Frances Dean, librarian, the organiz ing work was "vigorously pushed, with the result that practically all the "campus beauties" have applied for membership, and were prominent in the audience that greeted Miss Shaw, and applauded her speech In Mandel Hall. Pretty Students Have Joined. "It must not be understood that the girls who are not ao pretty will be barred," said Miss Elizabeth J. Hauser, a member of National Treasurer Har riet Upton's executive staff, "but it is unquestionable that during the organ ization work all tho pretty students, and there are hundreds of them, have either joined the suffrage club already or signified their Intention of joining. The old reproach or argument, or whatever it may be called, that the pretty women and girls do not wish for conqtiests of the ballot and are perfectly satisfied with the conquests that their beauty brings them Is re-, futed by the university girls." Pays Dearly for Maiming Kleist. NEW YORK. Feb. 16. One of the largest settlements ever made by a railroad company in a suit for personal injury was closed yesterday when the action of Edwanl Kleist, of New Ro chelle, for IL'00,000 damages against the New York Central Railroad Com pany was settled for $50,000. Mr. Kleist was riding in a New Haven car when a Harlem train crashed Into It. Mr. Kleist suffered a broken hip, became paralyzed and lost the power of speech. Reward for Walker, Bankwrecker. NEW YORK. Feb. 16. A reward of J'jOoo for the capture alive of William F. Walker, the missing bank treasurer of New Britain, was announced today. The reward was made $1000 if Walker should be dead when found. 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