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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1907)
60 Pages Pages 1 to 12 VOL- XXVI. NO. 37. PORTLAND, OREGON,. SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS. X KNAPP CONDEMNS ANTI-TRUST LAW Says Competition Is Mere Savagery. AGE OF COMBINATION COME Declares Roosevelt Condemns Sherman Law. TRANSITION IN PROGRESS Chairman of Interstate Commission Expresses Startling Opinion to Railroadmen Interprets the President's Views on Trusts. C HICAGO, Sept. 14. (Special.) "To my mind, the most mischievous and mistaken legislation in the history of our country is the 6herman anti-trust law. because It recognl7.es. anil is based upon the ex ploded economical theory that competi tion is the life of trade." This statement was made today by Martin U Knapp, chairman of the Inter state Commerce Commission, in an ad dress before the annual convention of the American Association of Freight Traffic Officers. "Only one man, and ho the President Of the United Btates," he continued, "has dared to tell the people of the nefarious character of this legislation, to tell them that we have advanced beyond the point where unrestrained competition Is a bless ing; who has the courage to point out the blighting effects of this act and to call attention to the commercial and eco nomic necessity for the restraint of the Bavagery of competition." Mr. Knapp'a remarks were listened to by .prominent traffic men of every por tion of the country, representing fully three-fifths of the railway mileage of the-j United States. Coupled with his denun ciation of the act passed to prevent com bination and thereby Insure' competition 1 among carriers, were statements that this was an era of combination and. that ulti mately nil the great industries of the world would be In the hands of corpora tions. It was Mr. Knapp's new doctrine of so cial economy that combination and Its re sultant monopoly In some form followed the Increase of the transportation and distributing facilities in geometrical ra tio. Whether combination and so-called trusts would prove a good thing for the world, the speaker was unable to say, but he felt that the problem could bo safely left In the hands of the people, with the assurance that the present was a transition period to the certain com ing of a world-wide federation, a com mercial millennium. In which strife would give way to kindly assistance, and hatred to brotherly love. BOYCOTT DISHONEST ROADS Radical Measures Adopted by Mag nates to Stop Car Shortage. N"EW YORK, Sept: 14. (Special!) By the use of a rigid boycott on unscrupul ous lines and by the elimination of in sidious preferences to favored shippers, the latter declared to be worse than open rebntes, the railway magnates of the East propose to make a strenuous effort to re duce the Impending Fall car shortage, which admittedly Is threatening the in dustries of the entire country. In this important movement the men Who control nearly seven-tenths of all the railway mileage In the United States have determined to ask the Interstate Com merce Commission to assist by placing Its approval on some of the measures that will be adopted. With this end in view, several Important conferences are to be held, probably at Chicago, between Com missioner Franklin K. Lane and J. W. Mtdgley, who has been trying at the re fluent of the railway magnates to correct the evils of car division and detention or retention. In the coming meetings Mr. Mldgley will place before Mr. Lane a School Opens Tomorrow. detailed plan,' which has received the ap proval of Messrs. Hill. Harrlman, Morgan and others. The difficulty lies in carrying out the plan, and this accounts for the fact that the railroads deBire the approval and the moral support of the Commission. "Boy cott" Is an ugly term that people do not generally like, but In this case Mr. Midg ley insists that It is the only means of preventing unscrupulous roads from malt ing dishonest use of "foreign" cars, mean ing those that belong to another road. It therefore Is proposed to refuse to enter into Joint tariffs with the lines that mis use "foreign" cars and. to accomplish this, an organization o'f executive offi cials of all the big systems has been planned. Such a boycott would, as a matter of course, result In a prolonged howl from shippers, who hitherto have enjoyed the "reconslgnment" privilege", and who would declare that the withdrawal of participa tion In many existing through tariffs would greatly Injure existing commercial conditions. INDICTED FOR GIVING PASSES Mississippi Railroads Accuse Com mission of Asking Them. JACKSON. Miss., Sept. 14. The county grand Jury today returned In dictments against the Illinois Central and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Rail roads for Issuing passes to persons not entitled to them In accordance with a law that has been on the statute books of the state since 1S84. The State Railroad Commission was brought into the case by tho assertion that the passes were Issued at the request of members of that body. YEARN FOR STATEHOOD LEADERS IX NEW MEXICO MOVE ADMISSION. Republicans Ask Governor to Call Convention and He Promises Sup port if Roosevelt Approves. SANTA FE, N. M Sept. 14. (Special.) Delegate Andrews, . National Committee man, Lunar H. O. Bursum, Chairman of the Republican Central Committee, ex Unlted States Attorney Chllders, Judge A. L. Morrison, General John F. Victoria a Democrat, Postmaster Walters and other Citizens today called upon Governor Curry to urge him to call a constitutional con vention within two months so that a constitution may be drafted, submitted and adopted by the people before Con gress meets after- the holidays, with a plea for admission to statehood. It Is proposed to call together the delegates elected to draft the constitution under the Joint statehood plan a year ago, most of whom have expressed willingness . to serve without compensation. Governor Curry declared himself in hearty accord with this plan and promised to take action after his return from a consultation with President Roosevelt. Within the past few days nearly every newspaper in New Mexico has come out in favor of holding, a constitutional convention this Fall and sentiment for statehood Is practically unanimous. Democratic Chairman Opposes. LAS VEGAS. N. M.. Sept 14. (Special.) A Jones, chairman of the Democratic. Territorial Central Committee, announced today that he would oppose the calling of a convention to draw up a constitution for presentation to1 the next Congress as a basis for an application for separate statehood. L MASTER OP STANDARD OIL CANNOT BE WITNESS. Doctor Says lie Is Too III to Appear in Court Witnesses Called to Sustain Statement. BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 14. Several prominent business men of New Bedford have been summoned to appear before the Supreme Court here on Monday next to give testimony as to the physical con dition of Henry H. Rogers, of New York, who has been declared by a physician to be unable to appear in court. The persons summoned include Walter P. Winsor, president of the First Na tional Bank, and Rufus A. Soule, ex president of the Massachusetts Senate. The object is to determine whether Mr. Rogers is physically able to appear In connection with a $50,000,000 suit brought against him by C. M. Raymond, which was continued Indefinitely J upon the tes timony of a physician that Mr. Rogers was physically unable to be present and would not be able to attend , to business for at least three months. Something Is I.lkely to Happen to . the rlain l'eople rresenlly. . L FOR INDUSTRIES Straus' Plan for Nobel Prize Foundation. USE FOR ROOSEVELT'S GIFT Permanent Body to Reconcile Capital and Labor. MAY END PENDING STRIKES Trustees Will Soon Meet and Adopt Basis for Creating Counterpart of Hague TribunalAn nual Prize Suggested. WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept 14. (Special.) Oscar S. Straus, Secretary of Commerce' and Labor, will call a meeting: within the next two or three weeks of the trustees and committees under them who are to establish the foundation for the promotion of in dustrial peace. The Secretary regards tho work Involved of carrying to con summation the idea of President Roosevelt in creating at Washington a tribunal that will bear the same rela tion to international industrial peace that The Hague tribunal bears to In ternational peace, as among the most Important with which It Is his duty to deal. The public heretofore has been apprised only partially of the broad scope of the movement about to be launched. Details given by Mr. Straus, who has Just resumed his official duties at the capital, therefore are of timely Interest. Purpose of Roosevelt's Gift. When the Norwegian Parliament's committee last year awarded the Nobel peace prize under the last will and testament of Alfred Bernard Nobel, of Sweden, to Theodore Roose velt, the latter, in accepting-, sent the following message to the authorities at Chrlstiania: "After much thought, I have con cluded that .the best and most fitting way to apply the amount of the prize is by using it as a foundation to es tablish at Washington a permanent In dustrial peace committee. v "The object will be to strive for bet ter and more equable relations among my countrymen who are engaged, whether as xnpitallsts or as wage workers, in industrial and agricultural pursuits. This will carry out the pur pose of the founder of the prize, for in modern life It Is as important to work for the cause of just and right eous peace in the industrial world as in the world of nations." Permanent Industrial Court. Subsequently the United States Con gress, at Its last session, passed an act to establish the Foundation for the Promo tion of Industrial Peace with the Nobel award, In accordance with the President's desire. Mr. Straus expects a ready response to the request for a fund sufficient to pro vide an Income to carry forward the work In hand and, when the trustees and com mittee of nine assemble here for their first meeting in the near future, it is be lieved that important steps at once will be taken to prevent further clashes be tween capital and labor. The central Idea Is to have a permanent body composed of men representing all elements,' in which capital and labor and the general public will have absolute con fidence. When differences arise, they wtll be presented to this body, whose Judgment it is believed, will be final and binding on every Interest Involved in the controversy. Offer Prize Like Nobel's. It is not Improbable that the Nobel idea of giving an annual prize to the person who accomplishes most in the direction of promoting1 the fraternity of American citizens will be adopted as soon as the foundation fund warrants the award, just as under the terms of Dr. Nobel's will a prize be awarded to the person who shall have most or best promoted the fraternity of Nations, the abolition or diminution of PEACE TB BUNA HARRY MURPHY'S GLANCES AT PRESENT Can This Crowbar Do the TrlckT standing armies and the formation and Increase of peace congresses. There 1s a possibility that. If pending differences between capital and labor re remain unsettled when the trustees and committee of nine meet a few weeks hence, the questions involved will be sub mitted to them for solution. OPERATORS SHY AT HOODOO Leave Hall With Historic Memories. ' Railroad Operators Again Help. CHICAGO, Sept. 14. (Special.) The lost cause of "83'.' rose like a giant specter before the eyes of the striking telegra phers today, when they gathered In a hall af North Clark and Michigan streets, andrftaused such A feeling of foreboding that they abandoned the meeting place and selected another across the Btreet. It was the hall In which the operators who walked out In 18S3 and subsequently lost their strike, met to prepare their plans of battle and encourage each other to stand firm. When the oldtimers among the keymen recalled this fact, a sentiment was Immediately manifest in favor of finding new quarters, and all departed. The meeting was well attended and stirring speeches were made In favor of "fighting to the finish." It was announced .that the Chicago Teachers' Federation had extended Its moral support and sym pathy to strikers. All members of the union, especially the girls, were urged to attend union meetings, and ask for financial support of the union. G. Dal Jones, of the excutive board of the local union, reported that a second assessment is being collected from mem bers of the Order of Railroad Telegra phers. It Is hoped that J50.000 can be raised In this way in ten days. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER Tho Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 75 .degrees; minimum, 46 degrees. TODAY'S Showters and cooler; southerly winds, Foreign Why Portugal is ruled by a dictator. Sec tion 4. Page 8. Lull in French church controversy soon to end. Section 4. Page 1. Historic event In Presbyterian Church re called. Section 3, Page 10. Increase of railroad accidents In . Britain. Section 8. Page 9. King of Slam's practical joke on Kaiser. Section 1 Page 2. National. I Government irrigation tracts overrun with speculators. Section 1. Page 4. problem about coal suiily for battleships. Section 1, Page 2 Secretary Straus formulating plan for In dustrial Peace Commission. Section 1, Page 1. , Domestic. H. H. Rogers too ill to testify In court. Sec tion 1. Page 1. Three persons killed by collapse of Cincin nati building. Section 3, Page 10. Three families claim relation to woman and puzzle Chicago Judge. Section 1, Page 2- Decisive struggle for control of Zlon. Sec tion 1, Page 2. T'tlond one of few cities which show build ing gain in August.. Section 1, Page 1. Commissioner Knapp denounces Sherman law and competitive eystem. Section i. Pag J. Railroads plan boycott on dishonest lines as cure for car shortage. Section 1. Page 1. Boilermakers on Hill and other roads strike. Section 1, Page 1. "Wellman tells how well his airship worked. Section 1, Page 2. Pacific Toast. Social and political jealousies aroused to green heat by Taft's visit In Seattle. Section 2, Page 2. Japan wants pay for broken plate glass, but nothing for wounded dignity. Section 2, Page 2. Prominent Seattle men hurt In auto acci dent. Section 2, Page 2. Sports. Forrest Smlthson takes high hurdle event at New York. Section 2, Page 4. Designs for yachts for cup race already pre pared. Section 1, Page 4. Portland defeats Oakland In pitchers bat tle, 2-1. Section 4, Page 4. Coast League gossip; Buck Keith may be come McCredle's partner. Section 4, Page 5. , Comment on Britt-Gans fight in San Fran cisco. Section 4. Page 5. Dan Kelly will not return to Oregon. Sec tion 4, Page 4. Referee reviews Pacific Northwest football situation. Section 4, Page 4. Commercial and Marine. Oregon hops selling at 7 to 8 cents. Section 4, Page 0. New low record for steed stocks, election 4, Page 9. Wheat stronger because of frost In Canada. Section 4. Page 9. Submarine signals to be Installed on Pacific Coast. S -A' tion 4. Page 8. Portland and Vicinity. Louis N. Brantlach drinks carbolic acid and dies in wife's presence, "'beet ion 2. Page' 12. State Railroad Commission lias busy month planned. Section 1. Page 10. Minor cases to be tried before the land fraud trials are taken up. . Section . Page IO. Germany said to b real cause of transfer of fleet to Pacific Section 1, Page 8. No site for garbage crematory yet selected. Section 1, Page 10. Large sales show strength of demand for Portland real estate. Section 3, Page 8. Colonists' rates and advertising campaign attracts many settlers. Section 1, page 8. Not the Kind of English Hospitality You Bead About. (STRIKE ON ROADS HAMPERS TRAFFIC Boilermakers of All Northwest Out. COMPANIES RESIST DEMANDS Compromise on Wages Re jected by Union Men. FIVE ROADS ARE INVOLVED Managers Tell of Attempts at Peace able Adjustment Roads Will Fill Strikers Places Blockade of Traffic Aggravated. ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 14. A gen eral strike of bollermakers on the Chi cago & Great Western, Great Northern, Omaha, Northern Pacific and Soo Rail roads was called today, and It is ex pected that before night the shops of the entire systems of those roads will be tied up. The bollermakers are aided in their fight by their helpers, and in the case of the Great Western the ma chinists in the big shops at Oelweln went out In sympathy. The strike of bollermakers followed a refusal of the railroads to accede to a demand for 45 cents an hour east of the Missouri River and 47 cents west of that river. This the railroads consider to be the heaviest demand ever made by any of their shop em ployes. As a compromise, the railroads offered 41 cents an hour east and 43 cents west of the Mississippi, with the nine-hour day for both. This in crease will be equal to 1 cents dif ferential above the wages paid ma chinists. The Great Western situation Is com plicated by an alliance betweeji the machinists and the bollermakers, and the machinists in the big shops at Oel weln, la., struck in sympathy. On the lines only the bollermakers and their helpers went out. Of the entire number of men out the bollermakers represent about one-third while the rest are helpers, who had no glevanceo. Reports at headquarters of the roads here show that there are out on the Great Northern, 360; Great Western, 225; Omaha, 160; Northern Pacific, 338, and the Soo Una at Shore ham, 225. The railroad officials expect that the strike will spread rapidly and that they will be seriously handicapped at once. The strike will probably extend to the Northern Pacific shops at Tacoma and Ellensburg and the Great Northern shops at Spokane and Seattle on the Western division. SAY DEMAND UNREASONABLE Railroads Give Version of Dispute. Will Hire New Men. ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 14. (Special.) The following version of the boiler makers' strike was given out by the gen eral managers of the railroads affected: Although several of the adjustment com mittee gave assurances at the conference late yesterday that the terms of settle ment of the difficulties between the union bollermakers and the Soo Line, Omaha, Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Great Western railroads were satisfac tory to them, the bollermakers of all five railways struck this morning at 8 o'clock, in response to orders from the officials of district 25 of the union. The men de mand the full amount of tho wage in creases covered by their first representa tions, which were for an additional 19 per cent per hour, as compared with a year ago, and for 30 per cent per hour as compared with two years ago. Boiler makers' helpers, who largely outnum bered the bollermakers, struck In sym pathy, although except In the case of the Great Western, they had presented no demands for Increases. Operating officials believe tonight that the strike will spread to all parts AND FUTURE EVENTS Hnrriman Wll Snend tlOn.000.000 for Improvement and Central Oregon Can Continue to Walk. of the railways involved, affecting 1200 men. Following the strike order the bollermakers at the Omaha and Great Northern shops In St. Paul, Soo Line shops at Shoreham. Great Wst ern shops at Oelweln and at division repair shops throughout the North west laid down their tools and quit work. Reports from distant shop points Indicate that the strike is spreading. It is believed that by morn ing it will have extended to the Pa cific Coast, and to all the Important shops of the lines Involved. The railways, acting in unison, pro posed a settlement, on the basis of a nine-hour day and 41 cents, per hour, instead of 38 cents, east of the Mis souri River, and 43 cents per hour. Instead of 40 cents, west of the Mis souri River. The settlement compre hended the preservation of the 1 cent per hour differential between pay of machinists and boilermakers, and in favor of the boilermakers, which was re-established a year ago. The nine hour day is already in force on the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Soo lines, having been granted pre viously. The men refused the settlement, de manding 45 cents an hour east of the Mis souri and 47 cents west of the Missouri, increasing the differential as compared with machinists to 5 and 5 cents. The boilermakers also demanded the discon tinuance of use of certain labor-saving tools and made further demands that cer tain classes of related work be done here after by members of their union at an advance over the present cost of work of this character. Operating officials of the five railways refused these terms, pointing out that for eight years- past tho boilermakers have led all other classes of railway labor in the yearly percentage of increase in pay, receiving In 1907-8 42 cents, a total In crease of 7 cents per hour in two years. Reports from Montana points and from Council Bluffs Indicate a slight weaken ing In the strike ranks -already, some of the men having signified their willing ness to return to work. The railways In dicate through official channels that they will not grant the demands of the union and that the places of the strikers will be filled immediately. EL PORTLAND MERCHANT ARREST ED ON BRIDAL TOUR. Partner Was Rival for Girl and, Losing Her, Causes Saucr's Ar rest for Embezzlement. DENVER. Col., Bept. 14. (Special.) Victorious in love, but vanquished In war. Max Sauer. of Portland. Or., who was visiting at the Albany with hlB bride of a week, was suddenly placed In jail, charged with embezzling $1200. A mem ber of the firm of Sauer & Blanchard, wholesale and retail meat merchants of Portland, the young man had been suc cessful In winning the young woman who was the object of tne attention of both members of the firm. Then a spirit of Jealousy arose, and when Mr. Sauer told Mr. Blanchard that he would be married to the young woman a quarrel ensued. The result was that they had to dissolve partnership and Mr. Sauer alleges that when he drew up a check for the amount stated Mr. Blanch ard refused to accept It. and Mr. Sauer left for a trip East. Arriving In Denver, he found that Under-Sherlff Baker had the warrant for his arrest and that his old business partner had made the charges against him. Mrs. Sauer, pretty and vivacious, told of the Jealousy that the other member of the firm had displayed. Mr. Sauer will be held awaiting Instructions from Port land. The name of Max Sauer does not ap pear In either the. city or telephone direc tory, neither does the name of Sauer & Blanchard. The police know nothing of the matter, and no one of the Sheriff's office had any knowledge of the case. EXHUME BADY OF PERKINS Judge Orders Question of Suicide Decided by Autopsy. TOPEKA, Kans., Sept. 14. Judge Smith McPherson, sitting in the Federal Court here tonight, ordered the body of the late L. H. Perkins, of Lawrence, exhumed to settle the contention of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, of New York, that Perkins took poison and that it should not be compelled to pay $1,000,000 life insurance. His de cision was in effect as follows: "The Marshal of this court Is di rected to take charge of the matter of exhuming the body of the late L. H. Perkins.. The work shall be done and an autopsy performed under the direc tion of an eminent pathologist and an eminent chemist, to be selected by agreement by the attorneys for the plaintiff and for the defendant." Ho, for the state Fair! PORTLAND LEADS NORTH PflGIFI Increase in Buildings for August. LARGE CITIES SHOW DECREASE Oregon Metropolis Among the Marked Exceptions. MIDDLE WEST SHOWS GAIN Aggregate for 42 Cities Shows LosSv but Portland Continues to Grow. Only a Lull in the Other Large Cities. CHICAGO, Sept. 14. (Special.) Port land still leads the North Pacific Coast cities in the matter of building gains. Its Increase for the month of August being 24 per cent. Spokane has only 4 per cent ga'ln. while San Francisco suffers a loss of 49 per cent and Los Angeles shows a 9 per cent loss. The tide was all one way In the lnrger cities. The decrease in New York was 16 per cent,- Brooklyn 22. Philadelphia 6. Chicago 17, St. Louis 32 and Cleveland 8. Pittsburg was a notable exception. It shows a gain of 111 per cent. Decrease Will Not Continue. Building has been extremely active for many years, but it is not believed that with the prevailing high rentals it will suffer much of a decrease or that there will be any depression which will last for any length of time, from tho present as pect of affairs. Conditions In all the cit ies mentioned are upon a basis too satis factory to permit a long-continued period of Inactivity In bulldlrrg. In another class of cities, which have not been conspicuous as active building centers, there are material decreases, in cluding Salt Lake City, 69 per cent; Mo bile 66v Louisville S7, Pueblo 26. Denver 34. Washington 19. In the Northwest building Is very active. St. Paul had .an Increase of 69 per cent, Minneapolis 9 and Milwaukee 9. Summary of the Totals. Building In 42 of the principal cities for August shows an increase of 48 in the number of buildings and a decrease In cost of 11 per cent. According to official reports to the Construction News, per mits were taken out in August for the construction of 12,000 buildings. Involving a total estimated cost of $47,930,691 against 11.952 buildings, Involving $53,852,560 for the corresponding month a year ago, an In crease of 48 buildings and a decrease in cost of $5,921,869, or . 11 per cent. Of the 42 cities there were Increases in 22 up to as high as 344 per cent and losses In 20 up to as high in one Instance as 69 per cent. It will be observed that the losses are confined to the larger cities and also to localities in which building has been conspicuously active. BALLPLAYER KILLS II FRANCIS E. BENTLEY, OF PORT LAND, SHOOTS SALOONMAN. Asks for Drink and Gets It, Then Wants More and Is Refused. Tulls His Revolver. BATAVIA, N. Y.. Sept. 14. Edward Conlff, proprietor of the Byron Hotel near Batavia. was shot and killed this after noon by Francis E. Bentley, a profes sional baseball player, who Is under ar rest. Bentley claimed self-defense. At the hotel It was said Bentley, who had no money, demanded a drink, which was given him. He drew a revolver, after asking for more, and was refused. Conlff tried to take the revolver away, and was shot through the head. Bentley Is a mem ber of a Portland. Or., club. Discoverer Wellmnn Seems to Be the Heal "Great .Foetponer."