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VOL. XXVII. NO. 14.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1908.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
IKE PLEAS FOR
NEW TRUST LI
Champions of Labor
and Capital Heard.
GOMPERS SPEAKS FOR UNIONS
Wants Law to Recognize the
Right to Combine.
AND DEFENDS BOYCOTT
Srth l,ov Says Traffic Agreements In
I'uMie Interest and Present Law
Is Against .Modern Bus
iness Tendencies.
AV AS?I MNGTON. April 4. The proposed
amendments to the Slu-rman anil-trust
bill, as framed by the National Civic Fed
eration and Introduced In the House re
cently by Mr. Hepburn, of Iowa, were
ftlvurated today hofore a subcommittee
ff the Mouse judiciary committee by Snth
Low, of New York, president of the Civic
Federation; Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor; A. F.
Gorretson. of Cedar Rapids, president of
the Railway Conductors, and Theodore
Marburg, of Baltimore. That there Is
strong opposition to the proposed meas
ure was intimated by a number of tele
grams made public by Chairman JLlttle
hvtd. of the subcommittee, from manu
facturing and other business concerns
throughout the country.
HlRht or Labor lo V it lie.
Samuel Gompers was the principal
speaker at the afternoon session and he
sounded a warning- that the workingmen
ef the country would not wait much
longer for the passage of remedial legis
lation. Mr. Gompers related that when
the laboring people were considering the
ntl-trust law, they asked to have It
amended to provide that the act shall
ntt be construed to apply to any arrange
ments, agreements or combinations be
tween laborers made with a view of less
ening the number of hours of labor or
the increasing of their wages, nor ar
rangements, agreements or combinations
among persons engaged in horticulture
or agriculture, with a vlnv of enhancing
the price of agricultural of horticultural
products.
This section, said Mr. Gompers, was at
oin time agreed to, but was not In the
bill when it passed Congress. tn 1901,
he said, a hearing was given by the Mouse
judiciary committee dn this amendment.
"I believe Mr. Llttletleld will remember
that hearing," continued Mr. Gompers.
Tilt With LUtleflehl.
"I remember It quite well," replied Mr.
Llttletleld. "I was one of those who voted
against it."
"Nine voted against It, rejoined Mr.
Gompers, "and some of them are not now
in Congress." He continued:
The so-called Sherman anti-trust law
Is nut an anti-trust law; it is an antl
loinhlnatlon law. It is ;i law against
associated effort: It is a law .something
like a law which obtained about two
thousand years njro in Koine, that made
every form of association or organiza
tion which was not approved by the
emperor unlawful. We favor the enact
ment of laws which shall restrict the
Jurisdiction of courts of equity to
property or properly rights, and shall
so define property rights that neither
directly nor indirectly shall there be
held to be any property or property
rights in the labor of any person.
May Drive I'tilnns I'ndcrgxound.
Mr. Gompers reviewed the recent court
decisions adverse to organized labor, hut
Bald that these organizations would not
be driven out of the country, lie pro
ceeded: You may . drive the men and women
out of labor organizations Into secret
organizations. You may drive them
In tii the dark, but they are golnj? to
organize and remain organized. It' not
in the way you will permit by law. they
will organize In secret, and neither
f ukase nor injunctions are going1 to
I drive them out of this countrv. Sun-
pose you force them to do in secret the
Perfectly legitimate human activities
tiny have always performed in the
open. need not say to you, gentle
men, that In the open, where men can
ex press their view s thoroughly, where
they can promulgate to the world their
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thoughts, their business will always be
more intelligent and circuijispect than
If they were considering the same
question In secret, where they are freed
from the criticism of the general pub
lic. What hope has the working man to
protect his rights and his Interests if
he. in modern industry, must be an in
dividual? I am afraid to give my mind
ra ngc to the possibilities of such a
condition of affairs. I contend for our
organizations of labor that they are the
greatest conservators of the public
peace.
Opposes Registering Unions.
Mr. Gompers said that since the decision
of the Supreme Court in the Dan bury
(Conn.) ca?e, 73 hatters in New Orleans
have been convicted on the charge of vio
lation of the anti-Sherman trust act in
ordering a strike. He said he would give
the fullest support to the purpose of the
proposed legislation, although his organ
ization was adverse to the registration
of labor organizations clause of the bill.
He did not think these organizations
should b? required to register in order to
get immunity under the act, but thought
they should be placed In the same posi-
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Soth l.ovr, Champion of New
AnlE-Triiftt Iltll Before JJonae
Committer.
tlon they 'occupied before the Sherman
anti-trust law was enacted. He suggested
an amendment to the bill under discussion
similar in terms to the one the labor or
ganizations tried to have incorporated in
the Sherman act when it originally passed
Congress. Ho continued:
The worklngmen of the country feel
that they have been outraged; that
their interests 'have been invaded. In
the interests of the working-man I
make this appeal to you. We cannot
wait this long . for you. The temper
of the American work ma n will permit
nothing but a strict account of this
urgent appeal.
Fnvors the Boycott.
In reply to a question by Mr. Little
field, Mr Gompers admitted that the
amendment he had proposed would re
lieve organized labor from the opera
tion of the decision of the Supreme
Court In the hatter's case.
"ho you. as a representative of the
Hatters' Union, favor the boycott?"
asked Littlefleld.
"I do, sir," replied Gompers.
"And your organization contends for
that, does it not?-'
"H does, sir."
Gompers concluded his argument
with the statement that the men and
women of organized labor purpose . to
fight for their rights, and that he pur
posed to fight with them.
During the course of his argument
Mr. Marburg; gave as the principal
causes of the recent : financial panic
"the crazy policy of the attack upon
railroads, both by Federal and state
I egt station and the unnecessary and
revengeful tine imposed upon the
Standard Oil Company."
Let Itallroacta Combine.
Seth Low. in speaking of the ob
jects of the National Civic Federa
tion in preparing an amended bill,
said:
Common carriers should be permitted
to combine and to make traffic agree
ments in some cases, subject to Gov
ernmental supervision, for combina
tion and traffic agreements often mean
more effective service to the public.
"What Is wanted If effective pub
supervision and not absolute
prohibition of the very thing that may
set urc the best public service. It is
sin gu lar that a people who have con
stituted the greatest republic in his
tory by the combination of many states
should ever for a moment deny to Its
own commercial agencies the. oppor
tunity of giving better service by pro
ceeding along the same lines. Regula
tion, not probitlon, should be our
watchword In all such matters.
There is scarcely a line of commer
cial business, if there be even one. In
w hich combination in restraint of trade
is not sometimes desirable in these
days In the public interest, no less
than in the interest of trade for mod
ern business Is very complex and its
problems are often trade problems as
distinguished from investment prob
lems. Law Is Universal.
No law can set aside the universal
law which leads men In these days, to
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SOME
Thl May Atrakra Him Perhaps.
HOPELESS SPLIT
OH SPOKANE CASE
Interstate Commission
Cannot Agree.
THREE OPINIONS ARE HELD
Advocates of No One Are in
Clear Majority.
CONFERENCE WITHOUT END
Whole Structure of Freight Rates
Depends on Decision AVhlcli Com
mission Cannot lSeacli Port
land Is Vitally Interested.
WASHINGTON, April 4. (Special.)
After having the Spokane rate case
under consideration for more than one
year the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion is apparently hopelessly divided
regarding the decision which should
be rendered. The .case is the most
important upon the dockets of the Com
mission and upon it hinges the entire
rate fabric of the United States.
If the Commission should decide with
the shippers of Spokane the theory
upon which the railroads have mad
rates from the earliest days will be
upset and past decisions on the short
and long haul clause of the commerce
act will be more or less nullned. On
the other hand, if the Commission re
fuses to disturb the present adjust
ment, a long step toward establishing
the justice of the ratemaking methods
of the railroads will have been taken.
Recognizing the import of the case
the Commission went Into a most care
ful and elaborate investigation and
hearing of all the facts and listened
to arguments from a large number of
the business, railroad and commercial
lawyers in the West.
Since the arguments were heard the
Commission has had numerous confer
ences regarding a decision, and it de
velops that there are at least three
different views which thus far have
proved irreconcilable. ' The Commis
sion has struggled in vain to get a
majority report and apparently is in
a deadlock.
The case la one which had been
bothering the railroads in the North
west for years prior to the Commis
sion's being given greator powers.
Owing to water competition, according
to the railroads, the rates to Spokane
from the Eastern seaboard are the
rates to the Pacific Coast, plus the
local rates from the Pacific Coast back
to Spokane. The lattes city Insists
that this is unfair, and that it should
be given the advantage of Its location
and thereby secure the benefit of lower
rates than the Pacific Coast cities. It
is also maintained that water compe
tition' is largely a theory. If not a
myth. ' '
SOON DKCIDE LIMBER HATES
Then Commission Will Act on
Opening Portland Gateway.
OREGON'IAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, April 4. The Portland gateway
case, which was argued last Fall and
which Involves the shipment of lumber
eastward from Puget Sound via Port
land, will not be decided until the
Interstate Commerce Commission has
rendered an opinion on the lumber
rate cases which were recently argued
here. The Commission will next week
hold its first conference on the lumber
rate case and its decision In that case
may not be forthcoming for many weeks,
though there is a disposition to settle
this question with as much expedition
as possible, as it involves the lumber
industry of the entire Northwest.
Will Refinance the Erie.
NEW YORK, April 4. A tentative plan
for refinancing the Erie Railway Com
pany, which was made necessary through
the approach to maturity of an issue of
OF THE EVENTS OF THE WEEK STRIKE HARRY MURPHY'S FUNNY
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J5.500.000 notes, was agreed to at a meet
ing held at the office of J. P. Morgan uc
Co., this afternoon. The plan calls for a
new issue of three-year 6 per cent notes
to the amount of $15,000,000. secured by
J12.000.000 in bonds in the treasury, worth
J9.000.000. Holders of the $5,500,000. which
falls due next Wednesday, will be asked
to take their proportionate share of $10,
500,0(0 of the new Issue, and if they
assent, J. P. Morgan & Co. and the di
rectors of the road will buy J5.OOO.O0O
worth for cash at par. the other J4.5IXI.0O0
of new notes to remain In the treasury.
RIPL.ET DENIES THE RVMOU
Will Not Retire From the Presidency
of the Santa Fe.
SANTA BARBARA. Cal., April 4.
When E. P. Ripley, president of the
Santa Fe Railroad Company, was
asked regarding the report from New
York that he is about to resign and
that Paul Morton te to succeed him as
president of the Santa Fe system, he
made the following staement:
"It is all rot. 1 have not the slight
est intention of retiring from the pres
idency of tre Santa Fe. Mr. Morton is
now out of the railroad business, and
I know it is not Us intention to return
to it.
"This same report was published in
Chicago about ten days ago and I de
nied it at that time. I do not know
how the report could have been given
new life."
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
Th Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 62
degrees; 'minimum. 3ti degree.
TODAY'S Showers; southerly wtndn.
Foreign.
Duke or Portland wants to celebrate victory
over Drucc. Section 3. naffe -4.
Japan to abHsh sti-ma o-f caste on lower
flashes. . Section 11. paT 7
Brltaln alarmed at xruwth of Socialism.
Section 4. pas'? 1.
German Diet forbids use of anv language
but German. Section 1. pane S.
Japan makes extraordinary war preparations
to continue expansion policy. Section 4,
page 1.
National.
Republican HoiiFe lendrrs crush filibuster
with new rules. Section 1. nage 4.
Russia inclines to vleld to United States on
control of Manchuria. Section 1!. pac 2.
Houre committer hears vigorous appeals
from labor and capital on new trust bill.
Section 1. paKe 1.
Chtf of Crow Indian defends Agent Reynold-.
Section 1. rajre '2.
Serine committee vote 'to Increase Midlers'
jm"y. Section 1, papre 7.
Itinerary of flet-t; on voyape up Coast. Sec
tion 2. page 2.
10 II Mrs.
Old Fifth-avenue Hot4 In New' York closes,
and politicians are homeless. Section 1,
page S.
Senator Plntt makes speech at closing of
Fifth-avenue Hotel. Section 1. pue n.
tighes declines to select men for delegate.
' t: Section 1. page 2.
flitter prohibition campaign in Illinois near
end. Section I. page 1.
Iferrln machine adonts "desperate means
to dreat League In California. Section
1. page 2.
Taft speaks at Chicago on Philippine tariff
and starved diplomats. Section 1. Page 1.
Iomettc.
Hopeless division In lnteratate Commission
on Spokane rate case, .-fee Lion 1. pag 1.
State, of Ctah fights for $ HMi.nnQ.OOU sail
mine. Section 1. page 3.
Sport.
Portland Automobil Club plans auto road
from Mount Hood to the Pacific. Section
4, page 6.
Trl-City Ieajme season will open next Sat
urday. Section 4, page (J.
Many entries for Indoor track meet at
Columbia University next Saturday. Sec
tion 4, page 6.
Baseball battle now on in earnest. Section 4,
page 7.
Multnomah Club defeats West Portland
Trl-City League nine. Section 2. page 12.
Cambridge wins English university boat
race. Section 4, page 7.
New York horsemen admit defeat on anti
betting bill. Section 4, page 7.
Coast League games: San Francisco 2.
Portland 0; Los Angeles 4, Oakland 2.
Section 1, page 11.
l-aclflc Coat.
Women of California demand removal of
forester who cut redwoods. Section I.
page S.
Colorado mining millionaire elopes with
chambermaid. Section 1. page 1.
Senator Fulton sued for $."Ooo damages for
slunder. Section 1, page 7.
Salem horse- show tremendous success. Sec
tion 1, page 0.
Ex-Catholic priest marries and lives happily.
Section 2. page 3.-
Washington Supreme Court renders decision
affecting Minnesota. Section 1, page 7.
Commercial and Marine.
Grain men will make rules to govern Board
of Trade operations. Section 4. page 9.
Prediction of rain weakens Eastern wheat
markets. Section 4, page 9.
Stock speculators await settlement of Erie's
financial trouble. Section 4, page 9.
Vessels for new crop loading are not In de
mand; flour business looks up. Section 4,
page 8. '
Portland and Vicinity.
Position of legislative candidates on Statei
ment No. 1. Section 1, page 1.
Holdrup men rob J. C. Mann's grocery store
of ?2K. Section 2, page 12.
Change of venue granted to indicted bank
ers. Section 4, page lO.
March shows improvement in building op
erations over normal. Section 3, page 8.
Hast Side building sites in god demand.
Section 3. page 9.
O. R. & N. will run anqther farm demon
stration train. Section 3, page lO.
School electrician replies to Fire Marshal
Roberts. Section 3, page 8.
Taxes will be delinquent after tomorrow.
Section 3, page 12.
Tribute of Oregon bar to Judge Hailey'.
Section 3, page 4-
Flve ordinances vetoed by Mayor Lane. Sec
tion 3. page 12.
Henry Hahn discusses effect of railway rate
reduction. Section 1, page 9.
I acle iot'm Sew Role as a Roller.
BITTER BUTTLE
AGAINST SALOON
linois Will Decide Is
sue. Tuesday.
HOTTEST FIGHT IN FIFTY YEARS
Divides Families and Causes
Violent Deeds.
BLOODSHED IS EXPECTED
White-Gowned Children Will Pa
rade and Women Work at Polls.
Whole State Writhes In
Anguish of Conflict.
CHICAGO. April A. (Special. )-Illinois
has just passed through the most slash
ing, terrific and no-quarter campaign the
state has experienced since the days of
the Civil War. The sole Issue has been
the licensed saloon. The verdict will be
rendered at the polls Tuesday, when at
the township elections the fate of 3000
salocns will be determined.
For bitterness, spectacular elements,
wealth of argument and unrestrained
feeling, old-time politicians aver that the
fight just terminating holds all Illinois
records. Brothers have been arrayed
against brothers; charges and counter
charges of dynamiting, house-wrecking,
personal attacks all of these have been
reported as well-dpfined features of the
desperate battle which has been fought
between the Anti-Saloon league on the
one hand and the combined forces of the
brewers and distillers, the retail liquor
men, the manufacturers of and dealers in
supplier which are affiliated with the
liquor business, and the men who stand
for personal liberty on the other.
Both Sides Claim Victory.
On the eve of the election, with the
most Hery appeal not yet made, with
the proposed parades of white-gowned
school children, with the women working
nt the polls and with every resource of
the practical politician about to be
brought into play on election day. neither
side knows its precise prospect. The
Anti-Saloon League declares itself con
fident of carrying at least 900 of the 1200
townships which will vote. Th!s, it says,
will be a decisive victory. The liquor
Interests, the men who hav been making
the fight for the saloons, are positive that
practically all the larger cities In the
state will be held in the liquor column.
This election affects 84 of the 102 coun
ties of the state. Prom Galena to Cairo
and from the Indiana line to the Mis
sissippi River the most Intense interest
and excitement have marked the closing
days of the struggle.
Loins Girded for Battle.
The anti-saloonists had their first taste
of victory last "November; when 16 coun
ties,, jiot under township organization,
tested the -local option law under which
the Tuesday election will be held, and
succeeded in establishing six entirely dry
counties and abolishing 205 saloons. Then
the real fight began almost as soon as
the November results had been an
nounced. The opponents of the saloon
girded up their loins and the friends of
the saloon saw trouble ahead. Since that
moment, when each element clearly
realized the situation, Illinois has writhed
and struggled between contending bat
talions of speakers, acres of billboards
covered with pro and con arguments,
tons of liters ture and pages of news
paper space, striving to make votes for
or against the saloon. Political lines have
been effaced before the very definite, cold
blooded, clean-cut question which goes on
the ballot:
Bloodshed Is Predicted.
An affirmative vote in the entire poli
tical township means that within 30 days
every saloon must quit business, no
further licenses can be issued by any
power or municipality unless after
another petition, campaign and election
the township shall have voted to recreate
Something DoIbk Soon Probably.
itself Into saloon territory. And no elec
tion can be held for two years after anti
license territory is created.
Alonzo EL Wilson, chairman of the Pro
hibition State Committee, openly predicts
bloodshed in the state Tuesday.
In other states than Illinois, the saloon
question will be a direct issue with the
voters Monday and Tuesday. In Ne
braska, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas and
Missouri, in one form or another, the
liquor issue is the vital feature of the
municipal elections.
MORMONS FOR PROHIBITION
President Smith Says They Must Aid
In Movement.
SALT LAKE CITY, April 4. By the
utterances of its leaders the Mormon
Church was today enlisted in a cam
paign for local option and ultimate
prohibition. President Joseph Smith in
opening the seventy-eighth semt-annual
conference used these words:
There is a movement throughout the land
for local option and I hold that every
Representative John Dnlaell, Who
urWd FilUmNtererst in the
Hoiinc
Latter Day Saint will co-operate with the
movement, that we may curtail this monster
Intemperance. We think and feet that the
people 'should be permitted to say if they
will have drunkenness", riot, murder and
kindred crimes, which too often come from
the use of strpng drink.
Other church authorities spoke in
the same vein. Politicians of all parties
admit that the policy of the church
will lead to the early enactment of a
local option law, something this state
has never had. Idaho, Wyoming and
other states in which the percentage
of Mormon vote l large may see the
effect of Mr. Smith's pronouncement.
Coming at such a time and place his
utterance will be received by the
church as an inspired command. .
The conference will last for, three
days. Fifteen thousand persons are in
attendance and of these 8000 were in
the tabernacle today.
LOVES THE CHAMBERMAID
MILLIONAIRE MINING : MAN
SPIRITS HER' AWAY. "
Her Charms Make 'Moylan Forget
Business Obligations to Partner.
Treats Her Like a Princess.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 4. (Special.)
W. B. 'Moylan, f San Francisco, million
aire mining man and contractor, was ap
prehended tonight, in Texas, speeding to
New Orleans as fast as steam could carry
him, and with him is May Taylor, a
pretty chambermaid, formerly employed
at the Grand Hotel.
Before departing mysteriously yesterday
afternoon, Moylan is accused by his busi
ness partner, John A. ' Madden, a well
known hotel man, of drawing out $38,000
of their joint account from the Western
National Bank. Madden attempted to
secure a warrant for Moylan's arrest,
but was unable to do so, for the reason
that they were business partners.
Moylan met the .fair chambermaid only
a few days ago and immediately became
smitten with her charms. He neglected
his business interests and forsook his
friends for the charmer. Three days
ago he persuaded her to leave her po
sition. Hp bought her diamonds and
fine dresses and wined and dined her like
a princess.
That Moylan carefully planned the
elopement Is shown by the manner In
which he left his apartments at the Hotel
Van Dorn, In Turk street. Thursday
afternoon he stole quietly up to his
room, packed all his effects and shipped
them to the ferry depot. A few hours
later he purchased tickets for New Or
leans for John Moylan and wife.
BONE
"The Money's Yours If YouH Jaat
Put Me l There With the Other.."
STATE LINE-UP ON
STATEMENT NO. 1
Majority of Aspirants
Declines Pledge. '
OF 158 CANDIDATES 66 SIGN
Spirited Legislative Contests
in Many Counties.
DEMOCRATS LYING LOW
Kepnblioans Enter Complete Ticket,
With 5 Favoring Party Choice
for - Senator and 3 6 Mak
ing No Announcement.
Statement No. 1 has the indorsement of
less than a majority of the Republicans
who are candidates for nomination to the
i?tate Legislature In the primary election
to be held on Aoril 17. Of the 158 Re
publican candidates for the Legislature
throughout the state, only 6tf have sub-
scribed to Statement No. 1. The other
HOW fAXDIDATES FOR SENATOR
STA.MJ.
2 3?5
DISTRICT
5 Douglas
"'Josephine
SiCoos and Curry
11 Washington
13!Multnoinuh
16 Wasco
IT, Crook. Klamath, lake
lSjOltliam, Sherman and
I Wheeler ;
21 1 1'nion and Wallowa...
22iGrant, Harney and
I Malheur
24iWashlngton. . Yamhill,
TlllamooK, Lincoln
Total 15! 13 15! 10
92 declined to sign the statement. Fifty,
six have agreed. If nominated Jind elected,
to support for Senator the choice of the
Republican voters of the state as ex
pressed at the primary election this
irion th. The other 3t are unpledged. At
POSITION OK CANDIDATES FOR
THE IIOISK.
5
si
DISTRICT
Marion
Unn
Iane
Douglas
Coos
Coos and Curry
i ....
i'....
Josephine
Jackson
Douglas and Jackson..
Benton
Polk
Polk and Lincoln
Yamhill
Tillamook, Yamhill ...
Washington
i:.
3
31
Clackamas
Clackamas and Mult
nomah
1
Multnomah
12
Clatsop
Columbia
Crook, Grant, Klam
ath and Iake 1
Morrow and Umatilla.!
rmatUla
Cnion and Wallowa...
Raker
I'nion
Harney and Malheur..
Gilltam. Sherman and
Wheeler !
Wasco
I
Total
00
41
the June election 15 State Senators and
60 Representatives are to be elected and
It is for these positions that the Republi
cans of the state will select candidates
this month from the list of laS aspirants.
For the 15 Senatorial nominations, there
are 38 candidates, of whom 13 are pledged '
to Statement No. 1, IT will support the
Republican voters choice and 10 are un-
(Concluded on Pa fee 4.)
Here We Are Again! I