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60 Pages fj Pages 1 to 12 VOL. XXVI. 0. 15. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DISCORD REIGNS AMONG BOURBONS They Pull All Ways On Jefferson Day. BRYAN LEFT OUT IN THE COLD Rayner Proposes Platform to Secure Victory. HARVEY SLAPS AT BRYAN Hearts League Has Separate Ban quet and Hears Jta Chief Deliver Broadside at Cortelyou No Speaker Spares Roosevelt. NEW YORK. April 13. Democratic so cieties and clubs In all parts of Greater New York tonight celebrated Jefferson Day. The Democratic Club held its an nual banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria, the Woman's Democratic Club of the city met at the Hoffman House; the Independence League had ad Its guests William R. (Hearst and Attorney-General Jackson. There was some discussion at the Demo cratic Club dinner over the fact that Wil liam J. Bryan was not present, nor had he sent regrets, it Is aaid by several per sona that the dinner committee had de cided to invite Mr. Bryan, but had ap pointed a subcommittee to attend to the Invitations. This committee, it was said, tiad not forwarded an Invitation. There are two known parties in the club, one favoring Mr. Bryan and the second op posing him. Rayner for Pure Democracy. The principal speaker at the Democratic Clu-b's banquet was Senator Isidore Ray ner of Maryland. He responded to the toast, "What Should Be the Proper Pol icy of the Democratic Party and What la True Democracy r He said: I do not accede to the view that the par ties have coalesced. On the contrary, I believe that they are as widely apart as they have ever been. The President will not hava a permanent tenure of office. One prediction can be safely made, and that Is, when the Republican party has another candidate and It is bound to have one at some day or another It will gradually drift away, from a great many of his plana and purposes, and It will resume business at its old stand. Then It will be necessary for ne ronrn back to our old principle, unleea lv tri meantime we have so disfigured them that we will not be able to recognize them or to And them. 8tate Rights and Paternalism.. We are charged with advocating a doctrine of state's right that would tend to nullify the powers of the Federal Government. This Im an erroneous and unjust view. What we mean now by the rights of the'states Is that the Federal Government shall not legislate cn matters purely of local and domestio concern and by unlawful construction Inter polate such power Into the provisions of the Constitution. in the next place, we are opposed to Gov ernmental paternalism. 1 predict with great respect to others who may differ with mo that the day will never come .when the Government of the United States will own and operate the railroads of the country. We do not want to own them. We own enough now. We had better sell some things we have than enlarge ou- foldings. I have studied the question of r .tn mental ownership of railroads In c ,cV countries carefully and my conclusion Is that it Is a failure from a political or commercial standpoint wherever It exists. Hits Railroads and Roosevelt. There, Is o:ie proposition, however, that t he Democratic party must contend for in this connection, and that Is, It must demand a complete obedience to the existing stat utes. The railroad presidents and officers of our trunk lines must be made, once and forever, to realise that they are the- serv ants and not the masters of the people. Governmental ownership will never come to pass unless they force the Issue. They are the real agitators and I kindly warn them to further desist from pursuing the tricks and mysteries that have now been laid bare before the gase of the American people. There Is another proposition that the Dem ocrat lo party must maintain unless it has drifted away entirely from its anohorage, and that is that this is not an executive Government, that the Governmental diatrl butlon of powers provided for In the Consti , .,................. ...is.......... .................................' ..... HARRY MURPHY'S IDEA OF THE GREAT HERMANN FAMILY PROCESSION OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ON THEIR WAY TO PR AW PAY FROM THE U. S. TREASURY ' I liillf GRAND PR BROTHER-iN-LfW - . v ! i j ,f"SjfJ - s NEPHEW UNCLE - - ,on . j '' tution mix. t be preserved and that the Pres ident of the United States, to whatever party he may belong, must not exceed the functions of his office and encroach upon the remaining departments of the Govern ment. Rayner Kind of Platform Mr. Rayner then outlined his views on a Democratic platform, saying: I would make it brief and pertinent. 1 would give the country something a little new in the way of a Democratic decalogue. I would, of course, incorporate a plank for a low tariff and for commercial reciprocity with the trading nations of the world. I would then add a plank declaring that there is no such thing as an unwritten constitu tion of the United States; that. If It re quires change, it must be amended, not by Secretary Root but by the suffrage of the people, and that it is a treasonable act to insert into it, whether by Judicial construc tion or otherwise, any power or grant that Is not confined within the well defined au thority and limitations of the Instrument. In obedience to the constitution I would then unequivocally - declare for " the su premacy of the states and not yield the smallest portion of their sovereign rights. I would then announce that the party is not in favor of territorial expansion ; that our arms should be stacked and a halt should be called in our march of aggrandisement. If the Democratic party will take a stand for principles substantially like these, in my humble judgment, and rid Itself of the de lusion that It can attain success by sim ply becoming an annex of the Republican party, then I believe there Is a chance for victory; and if we are defeated again, then at least we will have the comfort' and the consolation of knowing that we went down fighting for a principle. Slaps Both Roosevelt and Bryan, George B. M. Harvey, in the course of an address, said. We are told that a President chosen by the people is immune from criticism and that he is a thing apart, not a mere execu tive officer but a tribune enveloped in an odor of sanctity which safeguarded the days of old. It is a new idea. Criticism of official conduct has been the prerogative of the people. Kot so now. The heavy hand of fear rests upon the land. The mighty organisation known as the Republican party has become a mere personal machine. Mr. Harvey then denounced those Demo crats "who eat the crumbs of patronage from the hand that smote them and lick the boot whose impact they have felt." He referred also to the peerless leader, who "hobbled like a cripple in the wake of his successful rival, gathering as gifts the few scraps that are left of his own fallacies." He continued: We of today are constantly, almost hour ly, enjoined to be doers and builders. But, pray, where are true examples to be found? Who are the doers and builders the Hills and the Morgans, who have opened the great West to civilization and won for our country the commercial supremacy of the world, or the Roosevelts and the Bryans, who from the beginning of their manhood have divided their time between office-holding and. office-seeking, and seem to -consider their sole commission In life to be the regulation of the affairs of others? Primarily, we are informed with much blare of trumpets that at last we have an honest President. But did we ever have a dishonest President? In a land where for more than 100 years no blot has stained the personal escutcheon of the chief magis trate, is there so great a reason for boast ing now f But the end, we are told, justifies ' the means any means, apparently. -. No matter what you do, if your heart is true -a well meaning man, Horatio. Excellent also were the Intentions -end quick the resentment of the restive cow in Chicago that kicked over a lamp filled with the oil of those engaged In predatory activities. Great was the fame won by that cow,' so why ask what hap pened to the city? .. The speaker . ridiculed Democrats and Republicans who denounce Mr. Roosevelt In private but are too cowardly, he said, to voice their opinions publicly. Hearst on Postal Robbery, The Independence League dinner drew 425 persons. John Temple Graves of At lanta, Ga., was one of the guests. Mr. Hears devoted most of his address to the . Independence League. He said in part: The motto of the Democratic party is "Anything to get in.' The motto of the Republican party Is "Anything to stay in." Take the two principles now conspicuously before the country, the principle of public control of public utilities and the princlpla of public ownership of public utilities. Both are good, both are practicable, but both are dependent on the honesty and efficiency of the Administration that operates them. It has been proved possible for corrupt or Incompetent men so to mismanage the post al service of this country as almost to dis credit the system of public ownership. The Postofflce Department has a deficit of $10, 000. 000, when it should produce a profit of at least yUat amount. Says Cortelyou Rewards Perkins. I say this condition of the postofflce finan ces is as much corruption as it is Incom petency. The fraudulent weighing of the malls Is thievery. The corrupt expenditure of the people's money in political campaigns Is robbery and the corrupt expenditure of the people's money Is bribery. George W. Perkins contributed money of widows and orphans to Mr. Cortelyou, chairman of the National Republican Committee. In 1906, Mr. Cortelyou, as Postmaster-General, paid back to Mr. Perkins the party debt with public funds. He awarded Mr. Perkins a contract for his steamship line, which pays him $500,000 a year more than other steam ship lines are paid for similar service. 4 So it seems that Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Harrlman are not the only practical men In this practical administration. Mr. Cortelyou and Mr. Perkins appear to be about as prac tlcal as men can be and remain at large. LIGHTHOUSE TOPPLE INTO SEA Dynamite Ship Pound ing on the Beach. FEAR CARGO WILL BLOW UP Barge Chinook at Mercy of ' Waves Off Coos Bay. CREW OF SIX ARE RESCUED Vessel Now Close to Rocks "So One Permitted Near Danger Signals' Displayed for Radius of Two Miles. MARSHFIELD. Or., April 13. (Spe cial.) With 4000 pounds of dynamite aboard, t'ae foundered schooner-rigged barge Cljlnook is at the mercy of the waves outside Coos Bay and pounding against the base of a 50-foot bluff, with the explosives liable to go off at any moment. Cape Arago lighthouse is near by, and the explosion may pre cipitate that structure into the sea. The life-saving crew has placed dan ger signals within a radius of two miles. The Chinook was wrecked Thurs day, while being towed over Coos Bay bar. The barge was brought up from Ban Francisco last week by the ' tug Wlaard. for Baodon, but as rthe bar was breaking there the Wizard brought the Chinook to Coos Bay and the tug Columbia agreed to return with It in order that the "Wizard might get back to' San Francisco. . ; ' , Thursday morning the Columbia towed the barge to Bandon, but as ttie tug there did not ' oome" out the tug returned to Coos Bay and it was then the wreck occurred. Just as the Co lumbia was preparing to make the bar she shipped a heavy sea, which snapped the hawser.' The waves then battered the Chinook at. will and drove her toward the reefs off Tunnels point.- In answer to dis tress whistles the Coos Bay life-saving crew came - to the rescue of the six men comprising, the crew of the Chinook, and after several hours' work in which.' the life-boat three different times was engulfed by the waves, 'the entire crew was saved. Friday night the rough ea prevented work and Saturday morning the barge was found to have been driven into a narrow cove under a 53-foot bluff, where it is impossible to reach it for the rocks. The explosion is expected at any moment, and no one la allowed near the pot. , The point of land on which Is the Cape Arago lighthouse has been un dermined by the action of the waves and the Government recently made ar rangements to have the faulty founda tion repaired. The lighthouse is now several inches off line and has also sunk a trifle. . YOUTH TRIES TO KILL TWO Shoots Down His Uncle and Beats Aunt Into Insensibility. BAEDWELL, Ky., April 13. Edward Stockton, 17 years old, son of Gilford Stockton, a farmer, yesterday shot and fatally wounded his uncle James Stock ton, beat his uncle's wife Into insensibil ity with the butt-end of the gun, satu rated her clothing with coal oil and at tempted to set her afire. Both are in a dying condition. Stockton was arrested. There . is in tense excitement and violence to the prisoner is threatened. It is believed by some, that the youth Is demented. Utah Miners on Strike. PARK .CITY, Utah, April IS. Two hundred and fifty men at the Daly West mines refused to go to work to day, and it is said that the men at the Silver- King Will follow suit Monday. The. men quit after a dispute Involv ing 15 minutes starting and quitting time. The company wanted the men to be at their places of work underground exactly at the start of the eight-hour working day. This would compel them to. report for duty at the mouth of the shaft at 6:05 every morning and stay until 3:15 P. M. The men wanted to enter and leave the shaft on the com pany's time. Ninety men at the On tario mine walked out for the same reason a few days ago. TWO MEN BLOWN TO PIECES Blast of Powder "Hung Fire"; Victims Were Investigating. GREAT FALLS, Mont.. April 12. Two men were Instantly killed and two others injured in an explosion which occurred at Arming-ton today in a cut on the Bill ings & Northern Construction. The men were at work blasting rock and one of the charges hung fire. A. F. Usee 'one of . the contractors, and Pat Frits, a foreman and two others went in to ascertain the trouble. The blast ex ploded while the men were in. Fritz and a laborer were blown to pieces, while Llzee and another laborer were badly in jured and may die. No New Trial of Rebate Case. MINNEAPOLIS. April 13. Judge Page Morris, of the Federal Court, to day denied the motion of Judge Wilson for a new trial In the rebate case against the Omaha road and H. M. Paris, now freight traffic manager. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. TESTER OATS Maximum temperature. 56 degree; minimum, 47 TODAY'S Fair and -warmer; westerly winds. Foreign. Pope makes important concession to foreign Catholics In America and to Catholic members of secret societies. Page 3. Russian Conservatives split from reactionary assassins. Paso 14. Peace conference arranged between Nica ragua and Salvador. Page 14. Gossip of European capitals. Page 85. National. ' Secretary Garfield explodes charges of graft against Reclamation Service In ' Idaho. Page 2. Government seeks way to prevent Japanese from sneaking. Page 2. Politics. New York Democrats celebrate Jefferson day, but don't invite Bryan. Page 1. Rayner suggests Democratic platform, Har vey denounces both Roosevelt and Bryan, Hearst attacks Cortelyou. Page 1. Bryan speaks at University of Virginia. PMO. Domestic. Counsel for Harry Thaw decides to ask for relea. on ball. Pas 14.. ' Howard Nesblt writes to Thaw regretting ' attack on h1m. Page 14. Haslcin oa progress ot woman. Page t. r ' Standard Oil Company convicted of recelv- - ing rebates In 1400 cases. Page 1. ; Gary says West must become Independent of Wall Street. Pace 1. rjaughters of Revolution lose money In Wall - Street.; Page 3. . Wholesale arrests of rich .lottery men In Bouth. Pase S. - . -Fsdfle Coast. Railway . men meet . with Washington Com- mission at Olympla. Page 4. Barge Chinook, loaded with dynamite, pounding to-pieces close-by Cape Arago lighthouse. Page 1. . Charivari party levies tribute on wedding party, then .breaks faith' and hurts rocks at bride. Page 5. San Francisco grand jury votes no true bill against news editor of Examiner. Page 3. Police Captain Mooney will explain to grand Jury how San Francisco rich men pro-, tect tenderloin dives. Page 2. Sport. University of Oregon wins Columbia track meet, with O. A. c. second. Page 10. Seals take Beavers into camp by score of . 3 to 1. Page 40. . Commercial and Marine. Opening canned salmon prices will be higher than last year's. Page 43. Bank statement unsettles stock market. Page 42. Frost damage reports cause - advance tn wheat. . Page 43. Heavy grain and lumber shipments from Portland. ' Page 81. Portland and Vicinity. v Southern Pacific land monopoly In Oregon will be attacked in court and in Con gress. Page 9. Republican city platform agreed on at meeting of - precinct .. committeemen. Page 8. Rainier man who eloped with 16-year-old - girl forced to wed her elder sister. - Page 80.. Pacific Telephone A Telegraph Company spending 81.COO.000 in Improvements in Portland. Page 30. Railroad traffic men gather for Spokane rate - case hearing. Page 11. . 8. P. Veatch, head of Oregon Railway Con ductors, tells' about Chicago conference. In which he participated. Page 8. FINDS STANDARD OIL TOOK REBATES Jury Convicts on 'All 1463 Counts. GOVERNMENT'S GREAT VICTORY Fines of $1,400,000 to $28, 000,000 May Result. IMMUNITY BATH REFUSED Great Monopoly Raises One Techni cal Point After Another, but All Are Swept Away Rumored Attempt to Fix the Jury. CHICAGO, April 13. (Special.) On the basis of a verdict returned by a Jury tonight in the Federal Court pre sided over by Judge Kenesaw M. Landls, the Standard OH Company may be fined anywhere from 11,400,000 to 828.000,000 for violations of the Elklns law. After a trial that has been long drawn out and bitterly contested by Government attorneys and counsel lor the. Standard Oil Company, the case went to the Jury late this afternoon and at 10 o'clock tonight a verdict was returned In which the defendant cor poration is found guilty on every one of the 1463 counts in the Indictment that had not been Quashed by Judge Landls. . -v. Great Victory for Government. - As the matter now stands, it is one of the most sweeping victories yet' scored by the Federal Government in its contest against corporations. This Is not the end, however. The defend ants filed a motion for a new trial and the arguments on this motion will be heard probably early next week. The charges in the indictment were that the Standard Oil Company accepted a lower rate for shipments of oil from Whiting, Ind., to East St Louis than is allowed in the published tariff for the haul. Can't Get Immunity Bath. Originally 'there were over 1800 counts In the Indictment, but nearly 400 of. these were ruled out by Judge Landis, and hearing of the case . proceeded on the others. , Counsel for the defense made every ef fort to have the whole indictment quashed on the ground that it was faulty. John S. Miller of "immunity bath" fame made an elaborate argument along this line, but was overruled by the court. It also was attempted to be shown that the de fendant corporation could not foe held guilty of violation of the law because It had not been proved that the Standard Oil Company knowingly and willfully ac cepted lower than the established rate and that it was not incumbent upon the defendant to go further than the office of the railroad involved in order to learn what the rate was. Last Resort of Standard. As a final resort, it was sought to compel the Government to choose some single count on which to hang its case, the theory being advanced that in any event there was but a single violation of the law, if any at all; in other words, if there was an offense, it was of a continuous character. It was urged that the corporation was ignorant of the lawful rate for the two years during which it shipped oil from Whiting to St. Louis at one- third the' lawful rate. By means of this rate, which had all the effect of a rebate, the Standard Oil Company Is charged with having collected about 3260,000 from the Chicago & Alton Road. As the case went to the Jury there were rumors of an attempt to tamper with the Jurors, but these were not taken seriously, although Government detectives, as they had done through out the case, kept close watch of all suspicious movements around the Fed eral building. . The indictments charged that in the shipment of 1903 cars of oil over the Chi cago Terminal Transfer and the Chicago & Alton railroads from Whiting, Ind., to East St. Louis, 111., by way of Chappell, 1U., the oil company accepted a rate of 6 cents for 100 pounds ' when the pub lished rate was 18 cents. The Jury was out less than three hours and reached the verdict on the first ballot. FROST NIPS FRUIT CROP Greatly Damaged in Southwest, De stroyed in Some Sections. ST. LOUIS, Mo., April IS. Nurserymen and fruit-raisers in the vicinity of St. Louis express the opinion that the apple crop in this section has been ruined by the cold weather. Dispatches from the fruit belt in the southern part of Missouri say peaches, early strawberries and gar den truck have been destroyed by the freeze. Despatches rrom Macon, the cen ter of the fruit-raising industry of North Central Missouri, state that the crops of peaches, plums .cherries and apples prac tically are destroyed. Kansas Frnit Crop Damaged. TOPBKA, Kan..' April 13. Reoorts re ceived from all sections of the state indi cate that the Kansas fruit crop was seri ously damaged and in some sections com pletely destroyed by the heavy frost this morning. LUNATIC SCATTERS MONEY Supposed orficer of TJ. S. Marines on Rampage In Cuba. SANTO DOMINGO, Cuba. April 13. An American claiming to be Ely Dorsey, a Captain of United States Marines, and apparently Insane, has been freely dis tributing currency in 310 and 320 bills here. The Chief of Police searched tha man today and took from him several hundred dollars. Later Dorsey was no ticed handing a $20 bill through a win dow in payment for a glass of wine, and on being searched for the second time nearly 34000 in United States bills was found in his underclothing. Dorsey, who apparently is about 65 years of age, says he is a native of New York, City. There is no officer of marines named Dorsey, and no such name in the New. York City directory. DROWNED IN RAGING FLOOD Several Met Death in Torrent of Storm-Fed Stream. GREAT FALLS, Mont, April 13 Milk River, a tributary of the Missouri- in the eastern part of the state, is a raging torrent Already two fatalities have been reported, there being John Peter son and his son, Max Peterson, both well known ranchers of Valley County, who were drowned while trying to reach safety in a wagon. The body of the latter has been recovered. . It Is known that others have met death, but no particulars are obtainable at this time. Glasgow, county seat of Valley County, is partly submerged and many families have beea forced to leave their homes. Railroad traffic on the Great Northern and branches is being seriously impeded. NEARLY FROZEN IN BERTH Pendleton Woman Sues Pullman Company for Injury to Health. DENVER, Colo., April 13.-(SpeciaI.)-Sonre say there Is no potency In the num ber 13, but Mrs. Elizabeth A. Latham, who' occupied lower 13 in a Pullman car during a trip from Pendleton to Denver last November, says in a complaint filed In the District Court that she was nearly frozen to death. She charges that the car was not properly heated and, when the train was enveloped In a blizzard, she suffered extremely. She is suing the Pullman Company for 3500, alleging that she has been perma nently injured by the exposure. CLOSE DEPOT WHOLE YEAR Drayman at Church Ferry, N. D., Used Station for Beer Storage. CHURCH FERRY. N. D., April 13. Judge Cowan, of Devil's Lake, directs that the station of the Great Northern Railroad here be closed for a year be cause a drayman used It for storing beer,, thus violating the state prohibi tory law. The drayman was fined $250 and sentenced to 90 days in Jail. The costs were taxed against the Great Northern. , INDEPENDENT OF STOCK GAMBLERS West Will Soon Domi nate Wall Street. HEAD OF STEEL TRUST SPEAKS Divorce From Speculators Best Thing for West. SEES PROSPERITY AHEAD Gary Says Panic Had Little Effect. Few. Steel Contracts Cancelled. Railroad Agitation Will . Do the Country Much Good, y asm CHICAGO, April 13. (Special.) "The West is bigger than Wall street and the rest of financial New fork," was the statement made today by R. H. Gary, chairman of the board of di rectors of the steel trust, who is in Chicago today. This la what he aays: "The West must out loose from Wall Street. It la gottlng too big for Wall street domination. In a short time this Western country will be wholly inde pendent of New York as a financial center. "I am a Western man," ha continued, "and the West has a deep Interest for . me. I note with gratification its won- derful business and Industrial develop-'. meht of recent years. I believe that in a few years conditions will be re versed and that the West will dominate Wall . street Instead of Wall street dominating the, West." Cannot Check Prosperity. Mr. Gary preached the gospel of financial- optimism. He pooh-poohed the "calamity howlers" and phophets who have been uttering dismal pre dictions of late. "Wall street gamblers by their flur ries and panics, cannot check the great tide of the country's business prosper ity," he declared. 'There is a corterle of financiers in Wall street which con trols wonderful financial resources, but the business interests of the coun try are becoming Independent of Wall street. ' It will be the best thing that ever happened for the country when the business interests entirely divorce Wall street, with its feverish specula tion and frenzied-finance. Sail Through Culm Seas. "I have heard with surprise recent predictions of leading financiers that the country was plunging Into an era of hard times. I can see no reason for such pessimism. These prophecies will prove fallacies. Despite the re cent Wall street panic, which had much less effect upon general business than many imagine, I feel confident the country Is entering upon a period of great prosperity. The reoent finan cial flurry can scarcely be dignified by the name of storm. It was just a squall and the Nation passed through It practically undisturbed and will sail on through calm seas in the future." BUSINESS CONDITION'S GOOD Gary Says Railroads Must Buy. Corporation Duty to Public. New. York World. "What Is your opinion of business conditions and their prospect?" was asked. Judge Gary's answer follows: "From the standpoint of the iron and steel industry, business conditions are good. For the month of March orders received by our companies were about 8000 tons a day in excess of March, 1906, notwithstanding we have on the boolB unfilled orders which will fully employ on the average our full ca pacity, for about nine months. ."As to the future one can guess as (Concluded on Page 3.)