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PORTLAND," OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 16, 1908.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TAFTSUREWINHEn.
SAYS WELL M A TJ
Probably Be Named on
First Ballot.
MAY BE ROOSEVELT ERUPTION
Political Weather Forecaster
Gives Figures. '
HOW STATES WILL VOTE
I'inds AIJ Kcpublican States Which
Have "o Favorite Sons Are for
Taft Roosevelt Sentiment Is
the Only Doubtful Element.
WASHINGTON', Feb. 13. (Special.)
Wiring: to the Record-Herald tonight,
W'Hlter Wellman says in part:
So great Is the probability of W. H.
Taft's nomination for President by fhe
Chicago convention that we are almost,
If not quite, justified in regarding it
as a foregone conclusion. There is a
great probability that the nomination
will be made on the first ballot. The
one element of serious doubt as to the
outcome. lies In the possibility of an
upheaval for President Roosevelt for
Bccond elective term.
If Not Taft, Then Roosevelt.
Fairly full and accurate Information
s to the political situation in all parts
of the country, secured during my re
cent Western tour and since returning
to Washington, strengthens the belief
formed two months ago hat Taft Is to
win; but that, if Taft for any reason
Is not nominated, the President will be.
That there is no opposition to Taft
and to the President we all know. I
have made diligent inquiries as
to the facts which led the opponents
of the leading candidate to believe he
can be beaten, and the result is not re
assuring from their standpoint. Their
claims do not stand scrutiny. Their
generalizations are strong, but their
details are weak.
For a clear understanding of -the sit
uation as it is seen today, let us look
at the country geographically. We have
certain well detined political areas.
First, New Knglund. six states with 82
votes in the Republican National Conven
tion. Second, The states with "favorite sons,"
hw in number. New York, Pennsylvania,
Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, with 255
votes in t he convention.
Third. Tin: Southern states, almost cer
tainly Democratic at the election, omitting
Maryland and Missouri, 12 in number,
Willi 2tt votes in the convention.
Knur, The remainder of the North, West
and Coast states and the territories, 23
stales ill all, including Maryland and Mis
souri, with 3SS votes in the convention.
Total number of states, 46; total num
ber of votes in the convention, 992; neces
sary to nominate, 497. ;
Sure Votes for Taft. '
Information of trustworthy character
as to the choice of the delegates from
the states in this great belt, sweeping
from ocean - to ocean, and beyond the
two oceans, sums up as follows:
Total Probably
fc Votes, for Taft.
w Jersey . .... 1'4 l'O
Delaware . 6
Maryland 1 10
We.t Virginia 14 14
Ohio 4 40
Michigan js i4
Minnesota '22 2rt
North lakota 8 8
Houth Dakota 8 S
Iowa 2fi 20
Nebraska ..... DO . IB
Missouri 3ft 30
Kansaa 20 20
Oklahoma 14 10
Colorado Hi JO
Wyoming o
I'tali i r.
Montana H i;
Nevada ! 't
California 20 It
OreKon 6 o
I nclc Sam Make Other Frirnds
Beside the Jap.
10
6
2ti
Total 3S8 304,
The well Informed friends of Judge
Taft believe he will get every vote
from the states and territories named
in the foregoing list, or 388 in all. But
wo shall surely be within reason if we
assume that on the first baljot this
great National belt of Republican,
or probably or possibly Republican
states, gives him 350 votes. He would
still need about 150 for the nomination.
AVhere TaTt Will Get the Rest.
Iris welT known that much more than
one-half of the South Is for Taft. In
fact, he is to have nearly all of it.
Florida, South Carolina, North Caro
lina, the greater part of Georgia and
Alabama, all of Tennessee and Virginia,
Mississippi, Texas and Arkansas are
for Taft. Kentucky is for Fairbanks.
There will be many contesting dele
gates from the South. .
Wre are therefore justified in assum-
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Thomas I.. Lewis, Sen President of
I'nited Mlneworkers of America.
ing that on the first roll-call fully 200
of the 266 oouthern delegates will vote
for Taft If only one-half of them do
so, a second ballot will not be needed.
With S75 votes from, the great cen
tral belt and New England combined,
Taft needs about 125 more to win. The
distinctively Southern states have 266.
The five states with favorite sons have
256. If Taft could get only one-half
of the South added to the foregoing
estimate, he would have enough with
out encroaching upon the favorite-son
states or, In other words, on the first
ballot.
Of the 34 votes from Connecticut he is
pretty sure of ten, and may have all. Of
the 32 from Massachusetts he may get 10
or 12 on the first ballot. Of the eight
from New Hampshire, he already has
five. Vermont usually lands "with, the
winner," and there are eight votes which
may come to Taft. Maine and Rhode
Island are now uncertain. At least the
friends of Taft count upon 25 to 35 of
the 88 votes from New England, and hope
for marty more.
Gets Some Favorite-Son Votes.
But suppose a second ballot should be
necessary arid always assuming that the
Roosevelt earthquake, of which men talk
so much, fails to erupt. In the natural
order of things, the columns of votes 26'
strong, held by the five favorite sons,
must dissolve sooner or later. The point
is, that, if the opportunity should arise,
all of these 256 favorite son votes cannot
be delivered to any one of them. ' The
moment the 256 votes In the favorite-son
column begin -to shift, the leader In the
race, almort a winner, inevitably gets
enough votes from one or other of the
states to push him over the line. There
Is small probability that it will come to
this. .
STEP TO JEWISH FREEDOM
Russia to Allow AVives to Emigrate
If Husbands AVrite I'etters.
ODESSA, Feb. 15. The . Governor
General has announced that in the fu
ture the wives of Hebrews who have
emigrated to America may obtain pans
ports upon presentation of an authentic
letter from their husbands Inviting
them to join them. This decision is
welcome to the Jewish women, who up
to the present time have not been per
mitted to emigrate without authoriza
tion from their husbands in person. .
HARRY MURPHY GIVES
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Hnghesi "I WUh Ther Wonld Stay
Away; Tbey Make Me IV c irons."
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Idaho
Territories 26
PUT SLEUTHS ON
BANKERS' TRAILS
Depositors Learn About
Their Habits.
HAVE CEASED TO BE TRUSTFUL
Detective Causes Account to
Be Transferred.
SHADY DIRECTOR EXPELLED
Exposure of Frenzied Banking Dur
ing the Panic Produces Caution.
Methods and Associates of the
Bankers Under Scrutiny.
NEW YORK, Feb. 13. (Special.)
Within a few weeks, in the wake of
recent financial developments, detectives
of New York City have found a new
branch of their busim?sp' developing in
learning the reputation, and, as far as
possible, the character of Wank officers
and directors. It is nothing new for a
bank to want to know something about
the men with whom it is doing business,
but now' the depositors are getting more
particular and are becoming deeply inter
ested In the men who handile their money
and want to know their associates, haVits
of life, and general business method?.
Learned Truth, Changed Bank.
"It wasabout a month ago that my at
tention was called to this," said a mem
ber of a Lower Broadway detective
agency. "A large depositor of one of the
banks in this section came to me with
a list of its officer? and asked me to learn
all I could of their habits, methods and
associates, both business and social.
"In two weeks I made my report. In
consequence of which he changed his ac
count to another bank, on which I like
wise reported."
It has been learned that this same sort
of thing Is going on In many directions
and that depositors in the banks of the
metropolis are more than ever Interested
in the personnel of the banks with which
they are transacting business.
Director Forced to Resign.
Another detective told of a group of
seven depositors, who had Joined and re
tained him to report on the directors of
the bank where they did business. About
a week after he bad reported that there
was one questionable man in the direc
tory, who was engaged in doubtful trans
actions, the man resigned and the bank
took particular pains 'to give the matter
the broadest publicity."
In another case a depositor who carries
an average balance of VXiO.OOO said:
Public Has Been Too Lai.
"Why shouldn't we be particular about
this matter? The fact is that the general
business' public has been entirely too lax
in this direction. We have been gov
erned entirely too much by bank state
ments, capital, surplus, dividends and all
that sort of stuff, when we didn't know
what the men inside were really doing or
what, from their characters, they were
likely to do."
ARREST MORSE OX ARRIVAL
Detectives Will Take Him From the
Steamer at Quarantine.
NEW YORK, , Feb. 15. Detectives at
tached to the District Attorney's office
were given a warrant tonight and in
structed to arrest Charles TV. Morse
when the steamer Etruria arrived.
The Etruria Is expected tomorrow
morning. Two officers will go down the
harbor on the United States revenue cut
ter and meet the steamship at Quaran
tine. Arrangements have been made to
take Morse from the Etruria's pier di
rectly to the home of Justice Dowling,
who will fix the ball. It is understood
A FEW PICTORIAL
snltsi of Turkey l "Stop That
Darned Racket!"
that counsel for Morse have arranged to
have a bondsman on hand when he is
arranged.
From the disclosures made as a result
of the writ of attachment on Charles W.
Morse's property which was served on
every bank and trust company in New
York, as well as upon many brokers and
other individuals, a : schedule wag pre
pared today. This makes public for the
first time a practically completed list of
Morse's securities pledged as collateral
and the amount of loans he has out
standing against them.
Loans to a total amount of $2,532,
500 are shown In the schedule and
against them are placed not only the
securities pledged with banks and In
dividuals but all the real estate stand
ing in Morse's name.
Included in the list, but not sepa
rately named, are loans obtained from
a large number of banks, trust com
panies and individuals outside of New
York aggregating $138,000.
LAWRENCE, Feb. 15. An attach-
( Concluded on Pnee 3.)
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTERDAY Maximum temperature, 54
. degrees; minimum, 43.
TODAY Rain; increasing southerly winds.
Foreign.
Britain alarmed at growth of German
navy. Section 3. page S.
Chinese Noah building ark for' flood he pre
dicts. Section 4, page 1.
Shamcfuf grafting on Italian earthquake
fund. Section 4. page 1.
Boycott causes reign or terror in Ireland.
Section 4, page 10.
National.
Government begins suit against Southern
Pacific for rebating. Section J. page 1.
House committee adopts new rates of pay
for Army. Section 1, page 4.
House refuses to Increase Surveyor-General's
pey. Section 1. page 5.
Torpedo flotilla at Talcahuano brings ac
count of fleet s trip through etraits.
Section 1, page 2..
Politic.
Wellman predicts Tart's nomination on first
ballot. Section 1, page 1.
Taft sure of nomination, but working to win
. on first ballot: Section 3, page .
Speech by Taft at Hartford. -Section 1,
page
Domestic.
Japanese clven franchise Jn Hawaii and
many central Islands. Section jace
Great floods in Pittsburg, Ohio Valley and
Buffalo. Section 1. cage 4.
Theodora Shonts man lea Due de Chaulnes.
Section 1. page '2.
New York- bank depositors employ detectives
to watch bankers. Section 1. cage 1.
Morse to be arrested on arrival In New
York. Section 1. page 1.
Letters of Elna Hamilton to Snell, Section
1, page X
Vanderbllts oJsgusted at publicity of at
tempted loan from Hetty ttreen. Section
1. page 2.
Seven perrons killed in railroad collison
at Toledo. Section 1. naee 3.
Sports.
Dugdale nearing end 'of rope in Northwest
ern league. Section 4. page S.
English bulldog growing in favor. Section
4. age 8.
Old New :iayen stars will help Forbes
cofch Oregon. Section .4, page 8.
Annual election benefit to Multnomah Club,
bectlon 4. page 7.
Henry Wemme says automobile Is life saver.
' Section- 4. pace 8.
Whitman conference will put college ath
letics on higher plane, says referee.
. Section 4, page 6.
Multnomah beats Oregon 32 to 9 at basket
ball. Section 1. page 10.
Paclnc Coast. . ;.
"Baby John" Martin makes full confession
of arson ilot. Section 1, page 6.
Mayor Taylor has flght with Supervisors
over vetoes. . Section 1. page 2.
Democratic Club Indorses Judge Dunne for
t condemning grafters. Section 1. page 4.
Governor Mead accused of playing politics
in suggesting special session of Legis
lature. Section 1. page 6. '
Oregon hopmen renew efforts to form union.
Section 1. page 0.
Railroad Commissioner West comments on
Forest Grove wreck. Section 1. page (i.
Washington editors scheme to get money
from political candidates. Section 1.
page 7.
California warned fleet will shun her ports
unless plague Is exterminated. Section 1,
page 7.
Commercial and Marine.
Liberal sales of onions prevent advance in
prices; Section 4, page 9. ' .
Better feeling In all American and foreign
wheat markets. Section 4, page 6.
Profit taking causes decline In stocks. Sea-
tion 4. pago 9.
Small changes shown by New York bank
statement. Section 4, page g.
Norwegian steamship now In port wax a
- blockade-runner during Russian-Japanese
war. Section 3, page t.
.Portland aad Vicinity.
Joe Anderson convicted of killing Harry
Logan In holdup. Section 1, page 1.
Harriman manager orders construction of
railroad to Swift packing-house plant.
Section 2. page 10.
Taxes coming In at Sheriff's office at record
rate. Section 1, page 8.
California arrested on charge of securing
woman's affections by fraud. Section 2,
page 10.
Committee declares war on quack medical
practitioners. Sct1on 1, page A.
6chool children will plant roses In the park
blocks. Section 1, paga 8.
Country Club will make Portland great
livestock center. Section 4, page 1X
IMPRESSIONS OF SOME
Heey "Do I Hear Anybody Dr
" manding a Trial t"
PROSECUTE THE
SOUTHERN
PACIFIC
Governmentto Take
Action for Rebates.
LANE PREPARES BIG REPORT
Takes Exhaustive Testimony
of "Special Inside Rates."
JUSTIFIED BY BUSINESS
Railroad Makes Claim That Prac
tice Was 'Necessary to Secure Ship
ments District Attorneys to
Begin Proceedings- Soon. ; .
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. Prosecutions,
are to be instituted by the Government
against the Southern Pacific Company
and against certain officials of that rail
way organization o.n allegations that they
paid rebates to shippers.
Information which is to be a basis for
.these prosecutions was obtained by
Franklin K. Lane, of the Interstate Com
merce Commission; last Autumn, in the
course of an . extensive- inquiry made by
him into- the affairs of the Southern Pa
cific Company. '
By direction of the Interstate Com
merce Commission Mr. Lane" visited the
Pacific Coast and for several weeks con
ducted his Inquiries into the alleged
charges of rebating which had reached
the Commission. Mr. Lane's report ol his
Investigation, including a transcript of
the testimony taken by him in a formal
hearing, as an Interstate Commerce Com
missioner, was made public today. The
report has been approved by the Commis
sion and a transcript of the report and
the evidence adduced at the hearing
has been transmitted to the De
partment of Justice for "such prose
cutions under the law as. may be war
raBted." ,
Collateral with the proposed action by
the Government, the Railroad Commis
sion of California has been furnished, at
its own request, with a transcript of the
report and evidence, and has indicated
to the Interstate Commerce Commission
lt purpose to prosecute alleged violations
of the California law that may be shown
by the report.
Voluminous Testimony Taken.
The testimony taken by Commissioner
Lane Was voluminous and in the courfo
of the report references to the verbatim
testimony are made as a basis for the
several paragraphs of the report.
. One of the particularly interesting feat
ures of the evidence was developed just
at the conclusion of the formal hearing,
when Mr. Lane refused to place on the
witness-stand W. G. Luce, general freight
agent of the Southern Pacific Company.
The request that Mr. Luce give sworn
testimony in the case was made by P.-F.
Dunne, counsel for the Southern Pacific
Company. Mr. Lane declined to adminis
ter the oath to Mr. Luce because he
frankly stated he did not wish to accord
Mr. .Luce, by administering an oath to
him and taking his testimony, Immunity
from prosecution for violations of the
law. He offered to receive a statement
from Mr. Luce respecting the rebate
practices of the Southern Pacific Com
pany and enter it as a part of the record
in' the case, but he made it clear that
this statement was not to be made under
oath.
In the course of his report Mr. Lane
says that his inquiry was conducted in
San Francisco, October 3, 1907, and that
from the evidence adduced he finds:
Findings ot tlie Report.
The existence of an extensive system
of preferential rates granted certain
shippers on Interstate business by the
Southern Pacific Company. The record
discloses a list of 106 firms, corporations
and individuals who enjoy what are
known as "special inside rates" less
than the rates published to the general
OF THE NEWS HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
The Joke!
public on the movement of certain des
ignated traffic between points within the
state of California.
That shippers paid the full rate pub
lished in the first instance and were al
lowed the refund on claims which went
through the auditing department under
instructions from the traffic department
that such special rates should apply
upon Interstate shipments without tariff
authority. -
That such refunds amounted in vari
ous months of the years liKMi and 1907 to
from $,0Otf to J.V.mK per month.
That such refunds given to one firm
amounted to the sum of $23,994 during the
period from April, W (the date of the
San Francisco fire, when all previous
records were destroyed!, to September
23, 1907. and such refunds to other ship
pers ranged in amount from $13,690 to
$22,251.
Rebates of Long Standing.-'
That such refunds, or discounts from
the regular rates have been continuing
for a long period and up to the date of
the hearing in October, ; 1907.
. That many of such state shippers to
whom such" refunds were allowed were
large interstate shippers.
That one of the shippers admitted at
the hearing that the granting of such in
side rate on the stated movement in
fluenced routing of nubsequent interstate
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Joe Anderson, Convicted of the
Murder of Harry Logan.
shipment of such traffic over the rails
of the Southern Pacific Company.
That in one instance the general
freight agent of the Southern Pacific
Company provWed by voucher, dated
July 1, 190t, for the payment to an in
terstate shipper of one-halt of the local
rate, which such shipper had paid to 'an
other railroad for the movement from
point of origin to a Southern Pacific
terminal where the traffic hegiin its
journey over the Southern Pacific lines.
That there existed for years an under
standing between the Southern Pacific
Company and the Santa Fe Company
and certain shippers of dried fruits that
the traffic which moved into points of
connection for transcontinental shipment
should be entitled at the end of the ship
ping season to a refund of one-half of
the local rate charged at the time of the
original movement.
Justified by Business Obtained.
That the voucher books containing the
so-called refunds on state shipments also
contained records of refunds given npon
the interstate shipments.
That some of the refunds upon inter
state, business were paid bv the special
written instructions of freight officials
after the claims had been denied by the
auditing department.
The justification offered by the of
ficials and representatives of the South
ern Pacific Company for tiiese practices
revealed was that in general they were
made necessary to secure traffic which
shippers would move otherwise were
such rebates not granted.
In view of the foregoing, it is decreed
that a copy of the transcript of the testimony-
in this matter be forwarded to
the District Attorney of the I'nited
States for tire several judicial districts
wherein offenses against the act to regu
late commerce, were committed as shown
by this record, and that such officials be
requested to Institute such prosecutions
under the law as may be warranted.
Cases Already Taken I'p.
It is known that by Instruction of Attorney-General
Bonaparte, the District
Attorneys already have taken up the
cases to be instituted for the .purpose of
beginning the formal proceedings as soon
as possible. Names of the officials
against whom the prosecutions will be
directed are not known, and probably
will not be, until indictments of the Fed
eral grand juries have been returned. It
is indicated as likely that the proceedings
of the Department of Justice will be di
rected not only against tf!e Southern Pa
cific Company and officials of that com
pany, but also against shippers who have
enjoyed, according to tho allegations
made, rebates from the railway company.
So Kun on State Bank.
BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 15. The State
Savings Bank, which closed its doors last
October, today resumed and a petition
for a receiver, long pending In the local
courts, was dismissed. F. A. Helnze has
retired from the board. There was no
run today and many new deposits were
made.
Traffic and Federal Court. Decisions
Follow Nature's .Highway.
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IDERSOil GUILTY
EN FIRST DEGREE
Convicted of theMurder
of Harry Logan.
JURY OUT ONLY HALF AN HOUR
Highwayman . Takes Verdict
With Utmost Coolness.
WILL DEMAND A NEW TRIAL1
Contention of Defense That Chain
of Circumstantial Evidence Was
Manufactured by Police, With
the Aid of "Stool Pigeons." -
Joseph Anderson, liighwayman, was
placed in the shadow of the gallows last
night when a State Circuit Court Jury
convicted him of tb,e murder of Harry
Logan, a locomotive engineer, who was
shot and killed whilo resisting a footpad
in South Portland last November. (
Guilty of murdeV In the first degree,
was the jury's verdict, returned in little,
more fhan half - an hour after retiring1
last night, Anderson, hardened criminal,
heard the verdict without the slightest
show of concern. There was a murmur
of suppressed excitement in the roomful
of spectators, but 'Anderson, the man
most concerned, appeared the least af
fected. Barring new and unexpected develop
ments which may secure him a new trial,:
Anderson can hardly bone for anything
short of death for his crime.
Killed in a. Hold-up.
The murder was committed wbiie An
derson was plying liis trade of thhg. He
t-hrust a revolver in Logan's face on tho
Fourth Street bridge and demanded'
money. The victim showed fight and:
Anderson killed htm.
After his arrest Anderson -confessed to
a cellmate having. killed. Xogan, .as well
as having been an accessory In the mur
der of Conductor Nervins, on tho Rose City
Park carline, prior to the Logan murder.
All yesterday 'was taken up with argu
ments In the case, and it was not until
after 9 o'clock at night tlvnt it went to ,
the jury. ,
Deputy District Attorney Adams
summed up the evidence for the Slate.
Admitting that the evidence was chiefly
circumstantial, be maintained tliat tho
circumstances w re so clean- as to leave no
room for doubt. Ho refened to the mur
derer's confeswirtii to Jacob Hilt, ami said
that tills confession siiow-i Anderson lit
the light of a menace to society such as
every decent citizen would have need to
fear should tho man be acquitted.
W. G. Hall asid 12. J. Jeffries, attorr
neys for Aniien.on, spoke in behalf of
their client, asserting that thi State had
failed to comieat the prison, rr with tho
murder. The' presented Anduusoii in the
guise of a friendless .unfortuiutio selected
by the police as a victim to tit the locau
charge. The plan was made and lairied
out by Detectives Tichenor and Jones,
with the assistance of "stool pigeons."
Jeft ris said.
Following Judge Bronaugh's charge to
the jury, the 12 anen who were to decido
Anderson's fata withdrew. Obviously
they had strong convictions as to Ander
son's guilt on lejaving the room, for the
verdict was promptly secured.
The courtroom was jammed when the
jury returned I?s verdict. As soon aa
Anderson was ' brought up by Sheriff
Stevens and Daputy Sheriff Bulger the
verdict was received and read by Deputy
Cpunty Clerk Lounsbury.
Anderson Is Vnconccrned.
Anderson stood easily and unconcern
edly until he heard guilt had been fixed
on him, then he tunned to talk to his law
yers, asking them to work for a new
trial.
Thirty days was allowed in which to,
present a formal motion for another
trial. . 1
In view of bis conviction. Anderson was
placed "in solitary confinement by Sheriff:
Stevens, and will be kept closely guarded,'
as ne is Known to ioe a dangerous man
Precautions are being taken to prevent
him from committing suicide, as he id
known to have said he would kill himself;
rather than be ihanged. (
Officers of the Rom Bank Say Tbey
Cannot Be Pnnlirhed for Misappro
priating; Public Money Because
They Are Not Public OfflcinU.