THE SUXDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. MAY IT, I90S. RIOTING FOLLOWS I'S STRIKE Struggle on Cleveland Streets Between the Police and Mobs EFFORTS AT ARBITRATION Dispute Growing Out of 3-Ccnt Fare Campaign Throws City Into Tur moil Strikers lieject Of fer of Arbitration. CLEVLAXD, O., May 16. In the midst of a day of incipient rioting, some blood shed, general disorder, inconvenience to the car-riding-public and a partial stop page of the street railway service inci dent to the strtke-of the conductors- and motormen of the Municipal Traction Com pany came a proposition tonight to stop further violence and submit the whole matter to arbitration! This was the sit-tiatton- late tonight created by Joseph Bishop, member of the State Board of Arbitration. President Dupont", of1 the Municipal Trac tion Company, said the company was willing to arbitrate, but that the proposi tion should come from the union. With the union unwilling to take the initiative, the matter of a peaceful settlement and tiie immediate termination of the disor der still is an open question. All night Ir. Bishop labored with the union and with the head of the traction company. Riots From Karly Morn. In the meantime, disorder continued. The night was made eventful as a result of the company's rescinding the order made during the day. It was at first pro posed to stop all cars at dark and make no further attempts to operate until to morrow. I-ater today the company de cided to maintain the service. From the moment the strike went into effect, early this morning, there was more or less rintirtg. At ttrst the men who re mained at work were appealed to by the strikers to leave the cars. When they refused to quit work, efforts were made by the union men and sympathizers to force thom to leave the cars. This re sult ctl in motormcn and conductors be ing forcibly taken from cars. Cars were flopped by the placing of obstructions upon the tracks. Trolley wires were cut, trackes ripped out and switch points broken. One of the earliest disturbances occur red at the Lakeview carbarns, when one rar attempted to leave. A mob sur rounded fne car. The police attempted to rescue the men. Stones and clubs were burled. The officers used their clubs, Chief of Police -Kohler was struck by a stone, but not seriously Injured. Origin of the Dispute. The strike had- Its- origin in -the R-cent fare campaign last Fall. When the consolidation of cnrlines under the Municipal Traction Company was ar ranged, after the election. t developed that the Cleveland Electric Railway Company bad contracted with the Cnion that if its franchise or its equivalent f ere continued, it would in crease the wages of motormen and con ductors 2 cents an hour and adjust minor grievances. The lines were leased to tjj Municipal TracAon Com pany, whli'i contended that the con tract ' was not binding upon it. It granted the men an advance of one cent an hour and free uniforms, begin ning April 28. when the 3 -cent fare took effect, but required employes to pay fare when not at work When the Cnion Insisted that Its contract was binding, the company proposed arbi tration, but the union leaders say that, while negotiations were under way, the company has systematically laid off the old union men, placed them on the extra list, supplanted them with men from the Forest City Company's lines, which are not directly involved In the dispute, and had given every indication that it was the purpose of the Munici pal Traction Company to force the union men out of the service and use arbitration only as. a cloak for delay. Defense of Company. In answer to this statement. Presi dent Dupont, of the Municipal Traction Company, said: "We have been ready from the be ginning of the trouble to arbitrate all differences between the employes and the company. "As to the men who have been dis charged, that was rendered inevitable by the merging of the two syrtems. "We laid off old Cleveland Electric and Forest Ci,ty men impartially. From the time the Municipal Traction Company took charge there was a spirit of dis loyalty and insubordination on the part of some of the old employes, making their services inefficient, and subjected patrons of the road to intolerable dis courtesy and inconvenience. "The Municipal not only raised the wages of: the men one cent an hour when it took over the system, but it gave them free uniforms. This made the maximum pay in Cleveland 25 cents an hour. There are only three or four street railway systems in America that pay as high as this." All Foolishness, Says Johnson. Touching upon the strike. Mayor Tom L. Johnson, who was chiefly instru mental in bringing about the general street railway situation as It now ex ists here, said: "Violence resulting in destruction of property and injury to persons having already occurred on the streets con sequent upon the street railway strike. I have instructed the Chief of Police to preserve order and protect property with all the force at his command." The Mayor later visited the offices of the Municipal Traction Company, of which he is treasurer. There he said: "I am here on the Job 24 hours in the day and intend to do everything I can to bring about a settlement of the troubles. The strike is all foolishness and a great waste, and I hope to bring It to a close soon." Mayor Issues Proclamation. At noon Mayor Johnson issued the fol lowing proclamation: Vioience resulting In destruction of prop erty And injury to persons having already occurred on the streets consequent upon the street railway strike, I haw Instructed the Chief of Police to preserve order and pro tect property with all the force at his com mand. I hereby notify the public that I will use the full power of the city to sup ply all neowsary assistance to the police authorities and I warn all persons that disturbances mill not be tolerated and dis order will be met by force adequate to sup-p- it. Mutorman Fatally Heaten. John Dubler, a motorman, was beaten into unconsciousness late to night and left lying on the street. He is thought to have been fatally in jured. Many others were roughly han CHI dled, but their wounds are not con sidered serious. While the general car service was seriously crippled during the early hours of the strike, the company made rapid headway In restoring schedules. Tonight fully 25 per cent of the normal service was maintained. Company Appeals' to Public. Late In the day the company posted the following notice in the cars: "Notice to the Public: These cars belong to you. You should protect "them." ' To give the men who worked all pos sible protection, heavy wire screens were placed in front of the cars to shield the motormen from stones and clubs. A policeman rode on each car. No call has been made for outside as sistance. The police profess to be able to handle the situation. There has been no talk of asking for military pro tection. The fungal and mall cars were not interfered with. The sub urban cars were allowed to run, except in cases where the trolley wire had been' cut to obstruct- city cars, which necessarily interfered with the big sub urban cars. PASCO A RAILROAD CENTER Extensive Plans in Progress by Hill s Railway Lines. PASCO. Wash.. May 16. (Special.) To make Pasco the largest railway distributing point in the West Is now evidently the plans of both the North ern Pacific and the Spokane, Seattle & Portland roads. For the past three weeks large crews of workmen have been employed cutting away the em bankment across from the Unlon'Depot, where the Northern Pacific Intends placing- miles of sidetrack. While MRS. BEXXA GUN'SESS, THE I.A PO nothing authentic can be gained at this time, it is known that plans have been drawn for a .large union depot to be erected near the site used by the old station. It is also common talk among the railroad officials of the Northern Pacific that the company will increase its yard trackage with 80 miles of steel. Work in this direction has al ready begun. VETO ON ANTI-TRUST BILL Oklahoma's Governor Says It Would Kill Honest Concerns. GUTHRIE, Okla., May 16. Governor Haskell today placed the executive veto on the anti-trust bill, which had pre viously passed both houses. The Gov ernor was in receipt of hundreds of telegrams from all parts of the coun try, asking that the bill be vetoed. The Senate sustained the veto. The Governor stated as his reason, that the bill was so stringent that it would drive honest concerns out ol business. FIRES ARE SMOLDERING (Continued Prom First Page.) the dissatisfaction. Unconsciously these and other petty considerations have oc casionally affected the commission's la bors. Deadlock on Spokane Case. Even now the commission is in a dead lock over one of the most important cases, if not the most important rate case, ever before the body the Spokane rate case, which has been under advise ment for more than a year, and does not bid fair to be decided soon. Bijr Power Veal In Montana. BILI-IN'GS. Mont., May 18. By a deal concluded here today between the Yegen Brothers and the representative of the Madison River Power Company, tiie electric power plant of the former changes hands. The Madison River Power Company has secured options on all the electrical power plants east of Billings, including those at Columbia Falls, Forsythe, Big Timber and Liv ingston, and will, if the negotiations are concluded, run a power system from the Dakota line to this point from one central station. 100 0 Yards of Dimes. PITTSBURG. May 16. The feature to day of the Women's General Missionary Society of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, in convention here, was the presence of 1000 children, mem bers of the Junior Missionary Society. Another interesting feature was the ex hibition of 1000 yards of colored ribbon on which were fastened dimes. The amount totalled $3000 and was collected by various societies over the country for work among the mountaineers in the South. . "Drys" Counting Gilliam. ARLINGTON, Or., May 16. (Special.) The coming struggle between the temperance people and the saloon forces promises to be the hardest battle yet fought in Gilliam County over the liquor question. Both sides are lining up their forces, and are making a liberal- use of literature concerning the question. Even the most conservative predict that the prohibition forces will win by a good majority. Watson Off AVays and Maens. WASHINGTON. May 16. Represen tative James B. Watson today resigned from membership on the committee on ways and means, and Speaker Cannon announced the appointment of Represen tative Crumpacker, of Indiana- as his i successor. IT THE M. E. Delivers Address to More Than 1000 Guests of Annu al Conference. TRIBUTE TO GOOD MOTHERS Urges Necessity of Fighting p-rir by Minimizing Results Meeting Ad dressed by Voted Speakers. Bi.slmp Cranston. Presides. i WASHINGTON, May 16. "Good pWi zenshlp" was the subject of an address by President Roosevelt today in which he paid a notable tribute to motherhood before a large " gathering of Methodists at the American University in course of construction just outside the city limits. The assemblage was composed principally of the delegates to- the general con ference of the M. E. Church now in ses sion in Baltimore. v . "What was to have been a "feature, ot PORTE MVKDRESS AND HER FAMILY. the day, a reception of the delegates by President and Mrs. Roosevelt in the Col lege of History, was abandoned, owing to an engagement .which the President previously had made. Perhaps no fea ture of the exercises occasioned the Presi dent more real delight than the singing by the German members of the general conference of "Ein Feste Burg 1st unser Gott," "A Mighty Fortress is Our God," a hymn sung by the adherents of Martin Luther during the period of the Refor mation. . "That's fine," exclaimed President Roosevelt, when the singing of the old hymn began. He allowed -that it was his favorite song. - The President then repeated a portion of the first verse of the song in German, to the evident de light of the assemblage. An incident which, perhaps, created the greatest enthusiasm, was the declaration of Bishop Earl Cranston, resident bishop of this city, that President Roosevelt was "a .born Methodist," but he added that "the President was ecclesiastically misplaced early in life." The President replied by saying, "1 do feel mighty kind to you." The Presi dent, before beginning his address, wished the authorities well in their purpose to "plant here an American university a university that shall fulfill the dream of the greatest and - first of American Presidents, George Washington." The address was listened to with keen attention and was as follows: It is a pleasure to be with you today and to bid you welcome on behalf of the Nation, hero in the capital of the Nation. Impor tant though the Methodist church is in many lands, there is none in which It has played so tfreat and peculiar a part as here In the United States. Its history Is lndls solubly Interwoven with the history of our country for the six score years since the Constitutional Convention made us really a nation. Methodism In America entered on its period of rajld growth Just about the time of Washington's first Presidency. Its essential democracy. -Its fiery and restless energy of spirit, and the wide play that it eave to Individual Initiative, all tended to make It peculiarly congenial to a hardy and virile folk, democratic to the core, prizing Individual independence above all earthly possessions, and engaged In the rough and stern work of conquering a con tinent. Methodism spread even among the old communities and the long-settled dis tricts of the Atlantic tidewater; but Its phe nomenal growth was from these regions westward. The whole country Is under a debt of gratitude to. the Methodist circuit riders. the Methodist pioneer, preachers, whose movement westward kept pace with the movement of the frontier, who shared all the hardships in the life of the frontiers man, while at the same time ministering to that frontiersman's spiritual needs, and see ing that his pressing material cares and the hard and grinding poverty of his life did not wholly extinguish the divine Are within his soul. Growing- Social Gulf. Such was your work in the past; and your work Jn the . present ia as great; for the need and opportunity fbr serv ice widen as the field of National Interest widens, tl Is not true in this country that the poor have grown poorer; but it is true that In many sections, and particularly In our large cities, the rich have grown so very much richer as to widen the gulf between the man of very large means and the man who makes each day's livelihood by that day's work; and those who with sincerity, and efficiency, and deep conviction, band together for mutual help; are those who cau do most to keep the gulf from becoming too wide. True religion, through church or ganizations, through philanthropic organi zations, in all the field of kindred endeavor, can manifest Itself as effectively in the crowded and complex life of today as in the pioneer yesterdays; and the souls of men need the light now. and strive blindly to ward it, as they needed It. and strove to ward it in the vanished past. It is your task to do the work of the Lord on the farm and in the mine, in the counting-room and the factory, in the car shops and beside the blasting furnaces. Just as it was the task of your spiritual forebears to wrestle for the souls of the men and women who dwelt on the stump-dotted clearings In the wilder ness. Look Hopefully to I-Hturc. No nation In the world has more right than ours to look with proud confidence to ward the future Nowhere else has the experiment of democratic government, of government by the people and for the people, of government based on the prin ciple of treating each man on hla innate worth as a man. been tried on so vast a scale as with us; and on the whole the ex periment has been more successful than anywhere else. Moreover, on the whole. PRESIDED cum , 4 I think It can be said that we have grown better and not worse; for If there is much evil, good also greatly abounds, and if wrong grows, so in even greater measure grows the stern sense of right before whleh wrong must eventually yield. It would be both unmanly and unwarranted to become faint-hearted or despairing about the Nation's future. Clear-eyed and far-sighted men who are both 'brave of heart and cool of head, while not for a moment refusing to see and acknowledge the many evils around us. must yet also feel a confident assurance that In the struggle we shall win and not lose, that the century that has Just opened will see great triumph for our people. Put Spiritual Above Mutual. But the surest way to achieve this triumph la. while never losing hope and belief In our progress, yet at the same time to refuse to blind ourselves to what Is evil in the complex play of the many forces, working througlu and with, and against one another. In the upbuilding of our social structure. There Is much that tends toward evil as well as much that tends toward good; and the true patriot is that man, who, without losing faith in the good, does his best to combat the evil, to stamp It out where that is possible, and at least to minimize its results. Prosperity such as ours, necessary though It be as the material basis of national greatness. Inevit ably tends to undue exaltation of the merely material side of the national character; and we must largely rely on the efforts of such men and women as those I am addressing to .build up the spiritual 4Ite without which the material life amounts to nothing. As generation succeeds generation the problems cnange In their external shape; old needs anlsn. and. new needs arise; but it remains as true as ever that In the last analysis na tional greatness, national napplness, nation al success, depend upon the character of the Individual man and Individual woman. We need good laws; we need to have these laws honestly nd fearlessly administered; we need wealth; we need science and art and all the kindred activities that spring from the clever brain and the deft hand. But most of all we need the essential qualities that in their sum make up the good man and the good woman ; most of ail we need that fine and healthy family life the lack of which makes any seeming material pros perity but a glittering sham? Average Man Is the Test. If the average man is brave and hard working and clean-living, if the average woman has the qualities which make a good wife and good mother, if each has self-respect, and If each realizes that the greatest thing In life Is the chance to do service why. then the future or the Nation - ?cure- We cannot stand up for what is good In manhood and womanhood without condemning what Is evil. We must condemn the man who Is either brutal and vicious, or weak and cowardly; the man who falls to do his duty by the public, who is a bad neighbor an idler, an inconsiderate and selfish husband, a neglectful father. So ISO we must condemn the ' woman who. whether from cowardice or coldness, from seinsh love of ease or from lack of all true womanly qualities, refuses to do'arlght her great and all-essential duties of wifehood and motherhood. We admire a good man; but we admire a good woman more We be lieve in her more. All honor is due the man who does hiB full duty In peace, who as a soldier does his full duty in war; but even more honor Is due the mother; for the birth pangs make all men the . debtors of all women. No human being has a greater title V,ireJpect than the mother who does her iuii duty who bears ana rears plenty of healthy children, so that there shall be National growth and not National de cadence, -so that In quality and In quantity our people shall Increase. The measure of our belief in and respect for the good man ana the good woman must be the measure of our condemnation of the man and the woman who, whether from vlclousness or selfishness or from vapid folly, falls to do each his or her duty In his or her special Cou,rae' unselfishness. common sense, devotion to high Ideals, a proper care for the things of the spirit, and yet also for the things of the body these are what we most need to see m our people: these are the qualities that make up thi right type of family life; ana these are the qualities that by precept and by example you here whom I am addressing, are bound to do all in your power to make the typical qualities of American citizenship. APPROPRIATIONS TO JOURNALS Methodists Support Organs Wish to Unite With Methodist Protestants. BALTIMORE, May 16. At the Method ist Episcopal General Conference here to day a report to the committed on book concerns, -making appropriations of 2000 a year each to the Southwestern Chris tian Advocate, of New Orleans, and the Advocate Journal of Chattanooga, was adopted. A resolution was adopted by unanimous vote petitioning Congress to pass the Foraker anti-opium bill to prohibit the importation of opium into Hawaii except by the Government for medical uses only. A resolution was offered by Rev. Dr. John F. Goucher and adopted "affec tionately Inviting the Methodist Protes tant Church to reunite in organic fellow ship and to appoint a commission to con fer with a like commission of the Meth odist Episcopal Church to consummate such results." Dr. J. M. Buckley ad vocated the adoption of the resolution. Baying: 1 "I believe all Methodists ehnulri iinlla The day's adjournment was had earlier man usual in order to permit the dele gates to go to Washington to visit the American University Trustees, of which institution the members of the party from this city were guests.- JOHNSON VISITS CONGRESS Cheered In House and Has ' Chat With Cannon. WASHINGT6N, May 16. Governor Johnson of Minnesota was a visitor to the Capitol today and spent some time on the floor of the House, where he was the recipient of much attention. Democrats and Republicans alike extended cordial greetings. He received generous applause when, escorted by Tawney, he ascended the rostrum and was introduced to Speaker Cannon. The Governor bowed his acknowledgments, and for several minutes engaged In conversation with the Speaker. The Governor also spent some time on the floor of the Senate and met many Senators on both the Republican and Democratic sides of the chamber. HJbARST DxC: LEGATES ELECTED Independent Convention In Califor nia Opposes Fusion. SAN FRANCISCO, May 16. With 100 delegates in attendance, representing 30 out of 58 counties in California, the state convention of the Independence League met today, adopted a platform declaring against fusion with any other political party and elected four delegates at large and four alternates to the National Con vention of the Independence League to be held in Chicago on July 27. The eight Congressional district dele gations also held their conventions and elected two delegates and two alternates from each district. Hugh Mclsaac, of Marin County; J. EL Henderson, of Alameda; Gessner Wil liams, of Los Angeles, and John L. Polito, of San Francisco, were elected by acclamation as delegates at large. Ninth' Texas for Taft. YOAKUM, Tex May IS. The Repub lican convention of the Ninth Congres sional District today indorsed the ad ministration of President Roosevelt, se lected two delegates to the National con vention "and Instructed for Secretary Taft. Eighth Texas for Taft.' ' MONROE. Tex.. May 16. The Repub licans of the Eighth Congressional Dis trict elected two delegates to the Na tional convention and instructed them to use every effort to secure the nomination of Secretary Taft as Presidential candi date. Metcalf Goes Through Chicago. CHICAGO, May 16. Secretary of thej I ' i ' ' schloss ros & ccr - Krvl NH 1 ' Fine Clothes Makers 'QnfZ&.i ei-jvsw I Baltimore and New Yorfc . Ijgl 4N'aBa Progressive Clothes The "Harvard" a snappy, classy cut that proclaims its own interpretation of college life. The oarsman, the footballer, the member of the "nine" you'll see them all wearing this sort of clothes whenever they're off duty. .Three-button style; long, wide lapels; semi-shaped coats, a little shorter than last season. 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