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. .
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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
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the kind that will interest you,
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150 patterns Imported Cretonnes
Tapestries, Damasks, Silks, Velours,.
Madras, Nets, Fillet Laces,,Portieres,
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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
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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
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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
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MEN'S BLUE SERGE SUITS
As an example of the great purchasing power of my combined
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goods, built for 1908 trade well made and trimmed, single
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These are the equal of
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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
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sizes, weaves, designs, colors and
prices
any $20 Suits in town
contain any exaggeration
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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.
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