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THE SUNDAY OREGOXI AX, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 9, I90S. JENKINS REBUFFS ANTI-LIQUOR MEN national rivers and certain boundary questions. Many months spent in patient work by experts employed by the State Depart ment here and by the British govern ment have resulted in an agreement be tween the governments of Grat Britain and America that only requires tho ap proval of the Canadian government to ta'ke form at once in a treaty. EAT A DISMAL FAILURE HOPMEN'S UNION SALE! Tells Them Proposed Prohibi tion Laws Are Unconstitutional.. COLD WATER LAWS EVADED Chairman of Committee Saw Men With Prayer-Book In One Hand, Knife , In Other Mrs. ' Stevens Talks to the Senators. TVASHIXGTOX. Feb. -8. The feature of the hoaring of the anti-saloon representa tives todav before the House judiciary committee was the remarks of Judge John J. Jenkins, chairman of the com mittee, to Rev. S.. Q Nicholson, who spoke for the American Anti-Saloon League. Mr. Nichoison had urged the adoption of the Littlefleld or some simi lar bill, prohibiting the shipping of li quor into prohibition territory. Mr. Jenkins said that 90 per cent of the" bills of the kind under discussion brought before his .committee were aimed at the very throat of the Government. Men full of sentiment would appear there and urge the committee to report a bill and fk Congress to pass a law to be tested before the Supreme Court. Will Not noport Invalid Bills. "Your. argument." ald Mr. Jenkins, "is to put it up to the Supreme Court. Wo are not here to report bills that appear to ti to be unconstitutional. It is our duty to prevent, if possible, the passage of laws that are unconstitutional. I do not think that we should listen to you sentimental gentlemen when you try to ovcr-persiiadu us. We are trying to save this Government, and don't want to le continually reporting bills for the sake of Christianity or anything else that will be '! have been in prohibition, territory nd seen how the laws were evaded. There I saw the men with a prayer-book In ono hand and a knife for an enemy In the other." Mr. Nicholson explained that it was not his intention to ask the committee to do anything wrong. Voice From California. Representative Julius Kahn, of Cali fornia, appeared in behalf of the grape Rrowere and wlnemakers of his state and skeil the committee not to close the hearings on the bill before his people, representing more than $100,000,000 in prop erty, could be heard. Ho said that the IJtllnneld bill would prohibit the shipping of wine from California to any other state, but could not prevent the landing of wine from France or any other for eign country into American ports. "I do not believe," continued Mr. Kahn, "that the. American people are weaker than the Europeans. I think that we are just about as able to take care of our selves as are the inhabitants of any coun try. The home is the place to teach tem perance. The Germans are the most progressive people in the world, and they drink beer from the cradle. It is tho abuse, and not the use, of the drink that hurts." Mrs. Stevens Makes Plea. A subcommittee of tho Senate commit ter on judiciary gave a hearing on the Tillman bill providing that upon the ar rival of liquors within a state and before delivery to a consignee they shall be sub ject to the operation of the laws of the state, in the same mniiner as though .such liii.rs had been produced in the state.. Mrs. U. M. N. Stevens. National presi dent of tho VV. C. T. U said that in Maine bogus express companies operate surreptitiously through keepers of blind t'eers. etc. In that way, she said. It is never posslblo to trace liquor to tho con signee. She wanted the law amended so that the liquor might be seized aX the point of destination without regaftl to the consignee. Opponents of the- bill appeared in the persons of George W. Yost, president of the National Vial & Bottle Manufactur ers' Association, and William baunier, secretary of the National Glassblowers' Association, who said the proposed leg islation threatened their business, which, they said, employe 40,000 people. GIBBONS AGAINST PKOHIBITION Favors High license in Cities, Lo cal Option in Country. NEW.OR1.KANS. Feb. 8. Cardinal Gib bons, who is visiting this city, in an in tervifcw on "Prohibition" published to day, said: "I am persuaded that it is practically Impossible to put prohibition into effect In a large community, and the best means, therefore, to promote, temperance, is to limit the number of saloons- by high licenses. "In the country places I would sug gest local option as a means for the re pression of intemperance, if in the judg ment of the majority of the voters the' sale of liquor should be entirely elim inated. "Laws like prohibition that are certain to be violated, had best not be made, for incessant violation draws down upon them disrespect." HAS LIQCOIl LOBBY A SACK? West' Virginia Legislature, Hears of Boodle in Prohibition Fight. CIIARI-KSTON, W. Va., Feb. 8. A re port to the effort that the liquor lobby, seeking to defeat the pending Prohibi tion amendment, had raised $150,000 with which to capture the necessary votes in the Senate to prevent the requisite two thirds' majority, was responsible, late yesterday, for the appointment of a com mittee of three Senators to make a rigid Investigation and report the facts to the Senate. CANADA TO ACT ON TREATY Iir'yce to Seek Approval of Agree . ment Willi America. WASHINGTON. Feb. S.-Mr. Bryce, the British ambassador, has settled upon February 16 as the date of his departure for Ottawa, where he will confer with Sir Wilfrid Laurler. the Canadian premier, "and other Dominion officiate respecting !ho consummation of a treaty between 3rent Britain and America for the settle ment of various issues between the United S-'tates and Canada. The ambassador's purpose is to-secure Canadian approval of the project he has framert for the settlement of questions connected with the use of- the waters of the Niagara River, fishery rlxhts in the treat lakes, navigation rights In Inter BRIAN TAKES PRINTING OFFICE Itossiter Employs Six Experts to Carry on Investigation. WASHINGTON. Feb. 8. Acting Public Printer Brian today died with the Treas ury Department his bond for $100,000, and it was approved. For tho first time in many months the Government printing of fice assumed Its usual quiet aspect. Mr. Rosslter was today given the assist ance of six experts in carrying on his in vestigation. An order issued by Mr. Ros slter today continues th$ operation o? the audit system without the actual presence of professional officers. The statement was made today by an official of the big prlntery that already the purchasing and supply system had been found to have defects. Mr. Stlllings, the suspended printer, was at the office today and it was stated that he was gathering data for a communica tion to the President, regarding the com parative cost of printing by the Govern ment and private concerns about which so much has been said. DAY RAVES AT ROOSEVELT CALLS HIM DEMAGOGUE AND PREDICTS BLOODSHED. Champion of 'Crooked Financiers Has Attack of Frenzy at" Bankers' Meeting. ALBANY, N. T Feb. S. Chancellor James R. Day, of Syracuse University, was the guegt of honor at the annual meeting and banquet of group V of the New York SJtate Bankers' Association at the Ten Kyck Hotel here tonight, and in a speech denounced those who would create class hatred and prejudice and cause distrust and suspicion of business men, "whose genius and money turn the wheels which give employment to mil lions of laboring men and women." Rep resentatives Charles N. Fowler, chair man of tho House committee on banking and currency, aiso delivered an address. Chancellor Day said: Silence Demagogues' Ravings. What of our future? If you will stop fha ravines of the demagogues; if you will serve vigorous notice on the men who are defam ing our business men and discrediting our trade by representing that ouiy products ar tho sum of all villainy in fraud and adul teration; if you call to account the men who ar. depreciating our bonds and stocks -in foreign markets by comparing our great center of brokerage and exchange with a den of thieves; if you will Insist that our great railways shall have fair play In their efforts to. make 'new adjustments and to meet the demand of a iabulously develop ing country; if the whole people will rise up out of suspicion, distrust and ignorance concerning economic conditions and Insist that no man shall have their votes or their following who defames his country, ao days will put an end to these hard times and they will never return while we maintain our self-respect and Insist that the rich ad poor shall live and work together In harmony under the guiding providence of that God who mad. them all. Or Blood Will Flow. But if you acquiesce and by silence con sent to the infamous work of the scandal mongers and permit the widening of the chasm between our thrifty men and tho restless anarchistic socialists: if you in differently iook on. and uttes no word of protest agclnat an agitation that Invites the anarchist to sharpen his dagger and that appeals to the poor to take the prop erty of the rich wKh violence because it has been stolen from'' them; if you admit the Justice and righteousness of the as saults upon the mighty forms of our finance, manufacture and trade and the estate of the successful in the development of our industries, I prophesy, as I did the panic more than a year ago from the same, causes, that before a half- decade blood will flow In our - streets and the night rider's torch will light the heavens with appalling glare. Guarantee Bank Deposits. Mr. Fowler said: The bill Introduced by me provides for a guaranty fund of $700,000,000 in the United States Treasury to protect the de positors in National Banks. Such a guar anty fund in the United States Treasury would avert panics. It would prevent that tear which leads to hoarding. Unless the relief I advocate is afforded, suoner or later we shall have a postal savings bank in this country, and then the Government will have to become a large buyer of bonds to invest the accumulations of the people. More than this, the states are already at tempting to meet this demand. Such legislation Is a form of socialism, and 1 am utterly opposed to It. Would Enhance Square Dealing. - It is occasionally stated that the guar anty of depositors would tend to'unsonud banking. oes life insurance or fire in surance make a man neglectful of life or home? Will not bank directors realize that their losses must come out of their profits, out of their reserves, out of their capital, cut of their roput&tlon? Boards of directors will be just as solicitous, anxious, honest and wise after they have guaranteed de posits as they were before; and banks, like other business Institutions, will gain not by mere age and respectability, or by mere bulk of capital, but rather by ability to meet the requirements of their customers. Square dealing and capacity will tell for Just as much after deposits are guaranteed as before. ' PRESIDENT FIRM IN" FIGH1 Declares He Will Destroy Anarchy Wherever Found. NEW YORK. Feb. 8. Rev. Dr. J. Wes ley Ilirl, pastor of the Metropolitan Methodist Temple, in a speech eulogizing President Roosevelt, tonight, at a ban quet of the Delaware Valley Society at the Manhattan Hotel, related the inci dents of a personal visit to the President In Washington yesterday, which occa sioned much applause from the banquet ers. Dr. Hill said the President told' him: "I was never more alive than at the present moment, and never more deter mined to destroy anarchy at the top and at the bottom of society. There has been lots of howling on all sides -down there, but as long as the howling keeps up and the atmosphere is filled with curses and maledictions of men who are hurt, the country is safe." PLAN PROHIBITION MEETING FiHeen Hundred Delegates to Hold Convention at Cleveland. COLUMBUS. O., Feb. 8.-Fifteen hundred and twelve delegates .and as many alternates are provided for in the official call for the National Prohibition convention, which will meet in Columbus July 15 and which, it is expected, will be attended by fully 6000 persons. The con vention Is called primarily to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President. The Kimberloy diamond fields have been devclooins only since lb71. Conrad Krebs, the Mainstay, Throws Up Organization in Disgust, FIGURES IT CAREFULLY Computes Acreage and Yield for the Next Year and Says It Is a Case of Every Grower Paddle His Own Canoe. . i SALEM. Or., Feb, . (Special.) That the Pacific Coast Hopgrowers' Union is a failure and that every grower hereafter will have to "paddle his own canoe," so far as an Oregon association is concerned; Is the opinion of Conrad - Krebs, of this city, one of the strongest supporters of this movement in Oregon. lie says the association has tabulated 28,152 acres, among 1424 growers, an aver age of lS's acres to a grower. Eight hun dred are not tabulated. The acreage owned by the signers of the by-laws is 9112, or 34 4-5 per cent, not counting those not tabulated. He attributes . the failure to growers waiting for others to Join, raise the pric and then non-members would reap the benefit. The memoers refuse to ba worked and consequently the organiza tion will be abandoned. Mr. Krebs says the present acreage is double what it oupht to be and that the surplus now is 160,000 bales, 10.000 of which are W06 hops. If Oregon produces normal crops of six bales to the acre., there aro ieft,000 oales. Adding the probable yield of 100,000 bales from California, 50.000 from Washington. 50.000 from New York, and there is a total of 360,000 for 1908. With the surplus of 1906 and 1907. the visible supply Is 520.000 bales, while the requirement Is only 240, 000. If growers export 80,000 and import 40.000 bales in 1P08. there will bea surplus of 240.0iX. which is all the brewers could use for 1909. He also discusses the wave of prohibi tion sweeping tho country. Joseph Baum gartner. of Salem, admits the situation to be shaky, but thinks if money can be raised, the organization can yet be saved. The directors probably i will meet next week. Chchalis for Association. CHEHAL.IS, Wash.. Feb. 8. (Special.) At the meeting of Lewis County hopgrow ers, held here today. It developed that 73 percent of the acreage in the Chehalls district has -been pldged to the Pacific Coast Hopgrowers' Association. J. C. Bush, of this oity, was elected director of the Association for the Chehalls dis trict. Debaters to Meet Oregon. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. Seattle, Wash.. Feb. 8. (Special.) Debat ing teams were chosen at the University of Washington today to meet Oregon and Idaho on March 26. The debate with the University of Oregon will taSe place In Seattle, the following men representing Washington: Thomas Latimer, leader, Leo Jones and A. M. Harris. Tho team to meet Idaho In Moscow is composed of Wylls Hemphill, Rex Raudebusb and Kenneth- Durham. The question to b argued is "Resolved that the Chinese ex clusion law should be extended so as to Include the Japanese." Pacific Coast Shipping. . SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. S. Arrived Krhoonr Salvatnr from Tacoma; steamer Atlas from Astoria. Sailed Schooner Albion - from Suislaw; schooner Gotonfa from Nahalem River; steamer Rose City. Ex-U. S. Steamer Uw lon" from Portland; steamer Roanoke from Portland; steamer Watson from Seattle; steamer Cananea from Astoria. San Francisco. Feb. 8. Sailed Steamer Alameda for. Honolulu. A'lctorla. Feb. S. Sailed; Steamer Bank field, British, for United Klncdom. A'iscount Suspected Assassin. MADRID, Feb. 8. The newspapers pub lish a statement that "Viscount Coelhooa Amarel, a former Deputy of the Portu guese Chamber, has been arrested at the request of the Portuguese police af ter crossing the frontier. He is alleged to be an accomplice of the assassins of King Carlos and the Crown Prince. A Trainload of Furniture the kind that will interest you, is en route for oar new store. lEMOVA LACE CURTAINS, DRAPERIES 250 patterns Lace Curtains 150 patterns Imported Cretonnes Tapestries, Damasks, Silks, Velours,. Madras, Nets, Fillet Laces,,Portieres, Couch Covers and Table Covers (EXTRA HEAVY INLAID UNOLEUMS, $1.25 PER YARD LAID) We are particularly anxious to sell immediately, all remnants, short lengths and dropped patterns. Bring room sizes. Mail Orders carefully and promptly attended to. f V - it:. 1 , i I " . ; fr - X " ' 1 : I f I V J ; I I vA 1 1 J hv- - it - -' 1 ' - '' ' Ik I ' If S S J ' Uv , W. C. BOTH BUILD TO PACIFIC Another Line Across Canada . Is Proposed. PJORTH OF GRAND TRUNK Hudson Bay Pacific Railway Is Also Projected and Members of Con- '. grcss Are to Supply Fnnds for Its Construction. OTTAWA, Ont., Feb. 8. (Special.) There is a strong probability- that, at some time before the completion of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, a fourth great railway gyatem across Canada will 86 - Ur0 IVl In a few weeks our fine building on Fifth Street, at Stark, will be ready. We shall stock it with new furniture, reliable, correct in design, reasonable in price. We want every carpet, every rug, every curtain to be new. Therefore we shall clean out our present stock. We begin tomorrow with a Which will interest every housewife, every hotel - keeper, every one now building or about to build. Our entire stock, complete and carefully selected, is included. My be under construction. No other than Sir Wilfrid Iaurier is authority for this statement. It la understood that the new line from ocean to ocean will be (hat of the propposed trans-Canada Railway. This rottd was organized In Quebec City a few years ago, but a snort time aftur its charter had been obtained from the Dominion Parliament, tho government's policy In regard tp the Grand Trunk Pa cific system was announced, and It was then supposed that the trans-Canada project had received Its quietus. Such, however, is not the case, for 3. U. Bcott, manager of the Iake St. John division of the Canadian Northern, who is also one of the promoters of the trans-Canada line, has just announced that his com pany is now asking Parliament to extend the time stipulated for the expenditure of 15 per cent of the capital. If the Canadian Parliament grants the desired extension, as undoubtedly it will, the trans-Canada road will be built; and as the route selected is trom 100 to 300 miles to the north of the Grand Trunk Pacific, It will consequently be the short est one between the Paciflo Ocean and the Quebec terminus. As a matter of fact, the wheat scene in the Canadian West extends 400 miles to the north of the proposed line, which passes to the north of Lake Winnipeg. There is still another great Western railway project, practically transconti nental in character, now being actively promoted. This is the proposed1 line from Hudson Bay to the Pacific, called the ack 88 T HI RD STREET JLwi - CARPETS Wiltons-, 3 grades; Velvets, 3 grades; Axminsters, 5 grades; Brussels, 10 grades; Ingrams, Terries, Hodge's Fiber Carpets, etc. German, English, Scotch and American Linoleums MEN'S BLUE SERGE SUITS As an example of the great purchasing power of my combined FOUR Clothing Stores in this city, I will Continue the SALE OF MEN'S BLACK and BLUE SUITS all new, desirable goods, built for 1908 trade well made and trimmed, single and double-breasted, at low price of . These are the equal of BALANCE OF STOCK UVML1UATS AINU KAlLNLiUATo . Values up to $20.00, SPECIAL advertisements never Hufcon Bay-Pacific Railway, and which 1 being largely financed by American capitalists. Among the incorporators of this new road are David May, of Washington, and a number of wealthy United States Sen ators and Congressmen. It is, moreover, expected that this line will.be built within five years after commencement of opera tion.. The members of the provisional syn dicate aro not only fully satisfied re garding the practicability of the navi gation of Hudson Bay to steamships during the greater part of the year, but aro also satisfied with the country from Kort Churchill west to the Pacific Coast, which the new line will serve. It is a country capable of supporting an. Immense population, there beinsr large areas of great fertility and not subject to climatic changes lying throughout its extent. Capital to the extent of $100,000,000 lias already been promised, and a bill is now before the Canadian Parliament to incorporate the Hudson Bay-Pacific Railway, which will run from Fort Churchill, on Hudson Bay. to Port Simpson, on tho Pacific, Just on tho boundary between British Columbia and Alaska. Electric Trains for Gould Road. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8. The state ment was made today upon the author ity of Guy C. Rarle, vice-president of .LING RUGS Oriental Rugs Many weaves and sizes. Imported European seamless Rugs. 1000 Domestic Rugs of all sizes, weaves, designs, colors and prices any $20 Suits in town contain any exaggeration M M . . . th Great Western Power Company at Big Bend, on the Feather River, that the Western Pacific Railway, now be ing; built from the Kast to this city, will have electricity for motive power. The Western Pacific Is now perfecting its plans for the , electrification of its system and has been holdinif back only because it will be the pioneer in Uie movement and has no precedent to be guided by. . PUTS SCRHWS OV RAILKOAD Kentucky Kaihcs. Southern Pacific Assessment to $10,000,000. I.OU1SVILL.K. Ky.. Feb. . The ' Jef ferson County Board of Tax Supervisors toduy raised the assessment of the South ern Pacific Company to J10,0i)0.0(i0. The Southern Pacific Company, which is incorporated In Kentucky, 1ms an office at Beechmont, a suburb of Louisville. Summons Served on IVick. PITTSBURG, Feb. 8. Summons in the equity suit begun by the Government at Salt Lake City against the Harriman merger was served today at the residence of H. C. Kricki n-qniring an swer to the Government's allegations by March 2. Mr. Frick could not be found, but the papers were left with a woman at his home. For many years one of the few exclusive carpet stores in the United States; soon to he an ex clusive furniture, carpet and drapery house.
