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VOJL XXIX- NO.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1910.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
PARTY PROMISES
KEPT, SAYS TUFT
Business Men Warned
to Keep Within Law.
NO FAVORITISM TO BE SHOWN
Tariff Really "Revised Down
ward;" Free List Grows.
TRUSTS ARE SHAKEN UP
Anti-Injunction Bill, Tliough Not
All Extremists Asked, . Is Fair. .
to All Conservation Pro
gramme Not to Falter.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12. "If the en
forcement of the law la not consistent
with the present method of carrying on
business, then It does not speak well
for the present methods of conducting
business and they must be changed to
conform to the law."
This was President Taft's answer to
Wall street and Its cry of "panic."
It was made to a cheering audience of
hundreds ; of prominent Republicans
gathered tonight at the annual Lin
coln day dinner of the Republican Club
of this elty, at the Waldorf-Astoria.
Mr. Taft adhered to bis purpose of
discussing platform pledges and how
they should be kept. It was at the con
clusion of a detailed argument as to
how th Republican party Is redeem
ing Its pledges tnat he came to a dis
cussion of the anti-trust law and Wall
street, on which his utterances had
been waited with greatest interest.
Stronger Law Pledged.
The President declared that the Ad
ministration "would not foolishly run
amuck In business and destroy values
and confidence just for the pleasure of
doing so." .a
"No one," he continued "has the
motive as strong as the Administration
in power to cultivate and strengthen
business confidence and prosperity. But
there was no promise on the part of
the Republican party to change the
anti-trust law except to strengthen it.
Of course, the Government at Wash
ington can be counted on to enforce the
law In the best way calculated to pre
vent a destruction of public confidence
in business, but that it must enforce the
law goes without saying."
President Taft did not hesitate to dis
cuss the attacks that have been made
upon the Administration and the party,
or danger to success fro-.n the insurgent
movement.
Republicans who feared defeat at the
polls In November, he declared, how
ever, should take courage from the de
moralized condition of their opponents,
the Democrats.
"It was Grant," saiS the President,
"who banished his own fear in battle
by thinking how much more afraid the
enemy was."
Mr. Taft again came to the de-ense
of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. He
did not hesitate, he said, to repeat that
it substantially complied with the party
pledge for tariff regulation and that,
through this bill, the party had "set
Itself strongly in the right direction,
toward lower tariffs."
Reviewing the party platform, the
President spoke of postal savings
banks, amendments to the Interstate
commerce law, the anti-injunction
plank, statehood for Arizona and New
Mexico, and the conservation of Na
tional resources, bills to carry all of
which promisee Into effect were pend
ing In Congress, and he believed would
lie passed.
Exchange Compliments.
The President in doting referred to
Governor Hughes as a man "whose name
Is such a power before the country that
to lose him as a candidate for Governor
v by his voluntary withdrawal is to lose
the strongest esse that the Republican
party has in the state to enable it to
win at the next election."
Governor Hughes responded In kind
when his turn to speak came.
"The- American people are fair enough,"
he said, "to recognize a great President.
(Concluded on Pag 2.)
"Get Away FTom My NanluttM."
MRS. SAGE DENIES
GIFTS IN SOUTH
r
REPORTS OF GEXEROSITY DO
XOT PLEASE HER.
Financier's Widow, on Arrival in
Ix9 Angeles, Calls Indiscriminate
Giving Worse Than f seless.
LOS ANGELES. Cal., Feb. 12. (Spe
cial.) "The reports of gifts to the
amount of $150,000, scattered through
out the South, are entirely erroneous."
said Mrs. Russell Sage, who arrived
here with Major and Mrs. Slocum to
day. Mrs. Sage was plainly nettled by the
reports of her largesse and although
she refused to say how much she had
given'- away on her trip across the
country, she was positive it did not
approximate that sum.
"Most of my donations to charity
are .made after investigations by my
agents," she continued, "and it would
be worse than improper for me to
have distributed in this way any such
amounts as have been reported. I am
sorry these reports have been sent out
over the country, for it is unjust to
those whorrr l have been reported to
have aided."
Major Srocum refused to a41ow his
aunt to talk for more than two min
utes to the host of reporters who met
the train, and it was at her request
that he allowed even that long an in
terview. He said that the party had
a pleasant trip across the country and
that they would remain here several
weeks.
AUTOS CRUSH MRS. BROWN
Mother of Famous Beauties Injured
at Chicago Show.
CHICAGO, Feb. 12. Special.) Mrs.
George Brown, of Baltimore, mother of
the three famous Brown beauties, Mrs.
Honore Palmer, Mrs. Stanley Field and
Mrs. Walter W. Keith, suffered injuries
this afternoon which may prove serious,
when Bhe and Mr. Keith were jammed
between two heavy cars at an automo
bile show. Ir. Joseph A. Capps attended
to their injuries and announced Mrs.
Brown may have suffered Internal in
juries. Mr. Keith and Mrs. Brown were exam
ining a machine when a small boy
reached Into an electric runabout stand
ing nearby and .threw back the lever,
starting It forward. A warning1 shout
went up from an attendant, but Mrs.
Brown, standing directly in the path of
the machine, was caught between it and
a touring car. Mr. Keith, Jumping to
the assistance of his mother-in-law, was
bruised about the knees.
A crowd of spectators, exhibitors and
attendants went to the assistance of the
two, but It was several minutes before
Mrs. Brown could be extricated from her
position between the two machines.
WIFE SAVED, ANGER MELTS
Blood Transfusion Operation Unites
Severed Couple.
TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 12. The In
tervenus transfusion operation per
formed here yesterday on Mrs. Lucy
Wood has resulted in reuniting Mrs.
Wood and her husban, who have been
separated nearly two- years.
As a last resort the young wife's
mother wrote to the husband in Van
couver and asked him to submit to the
operation, telling: him it was the only
way of saving; his wife's life. He hur
ried to Tacoma and eag-erly presented
himself at the hospital. The blood
from his arm was allowed to flow into
his wife's body for 30 minutes. Today
it is said she will recover.
A reconciliation betwen husband and
wife was effected when she regained
consciousness.
TWO POISONED, NEARLY DIE
Physician Administers Wrong Drug,
Then Samples It.
PENDLETON, Or., Feb. 12. (Special.)
Dr. John Griswold, of Helix, and Mrs.
John King, his patient, both lie at the
point of death as the result of accidental
poisoning. It seems that medicine pre
pared for Mrs. King made her deathly
sick and in an effort to ascertain the
cause Dr. Griswold sampled the medicine
and was immediately taken very ill.
Dr. C. " J. Smith was summoned from
Pendleton by automobile and It was found
that the two persons had taken aconite, t
deadly poison, by mistake.
Both are still alive at a late hour to
night and Dr. Smith holds out hope for
their recovery.
Llm. .
BHiE'TS HARD
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REPUBLICANS CALL
STAT ASSEMBLY
Counties Will Name
1 248 Delegates.
UNANIMOUS VOTE ADOPTS PLAN
Gathering Will Be Held in
. Portland July 21.
PROXIES ARE ELIMINATED
Central Committee Provides for Se
lection of . Representatives of
Each County by Body Chosen
at Precinct Meetings.
Without a single discordant note, the
members of the Republican state central
committee, at a meeting in this city yes
terday, authorized Judge M. C. George",
the newly-elected chairman, to call a
state assembly to be held in Portland,
Thursday, July 21.
This assembly will consist of 12- dele
gates, apportioned by the committee
among the 34 counties of the state on a
basis of one delegate to every 50 votes
or major fraction that were cast for
R. R, Butler for Presidential elector in
November, 1908. Twenty-seven counties
were represented at the meeting, the
proceedings of which were marked with
uninterrupted unanimity.
No Dissenting1 Vote Heard.
The large and representative state as
sembly was indorsed by the committee
without a dissenting voice on the recom
mendation of a sub-committee of five
members which had been appointed to
prepare and submit some method of pro
cedure for calling and holding such an
advisory gathering. The members of this
committee were:- R. E. Villiams, of
Polk; C T. Early, of Hood River; PI. T.
Botts, of Tillamook; C. S. Moore, of
Klamath, and C. E. Cochran, of Union.
In counties outside of Multnomah, it
was recommended that delegates to the
state assembly be selected by county as
semblies and that delegates to the county
gatherings be chosen by majority vote
only at mass meetings of the voters In
he ffferent precincts, these meetings to
be called by the county central com
mittee. Saturday, July 9, is the date rec
ommended for the precinct mass meet
ings, with the date for the county assem
blies fixed for the following Saturday,
July 16.
Multnomah County Excepted.
From this plan of organizing county
assemblies and electing delegates- to the
state assembly, Multnomah County was
excepted. In this county the committee
found that it would be impracticable, be
cause of the large number of voters, to
hold - precinct mass meetings. It was
voted to leave the matter to the county
central committee with the understanding
that it would exercise its judgment in
adopting some plan calculated to produce
the best results.
Dr. J. N. Smith, of Marion, and J. H.
"Worsley, of Wasco, asked that the same
discretion be left to the county central
committee of their counties with the re
sult that? following some discussion, the
original report of the committee was
amended to the extent that in other coun
ties where it was deemed advisable the
method of procedure in electing delegates
to the1 state assembly might be deter
mined by the county central committee.
Proxies will nor te allowed in the
state assembly If the recommendations
of the state committee are adhered to.
On this subject the committee took no
compromise position. It voted to elim
inate from the state gathering1 all
proxies. The committee did recommend,
however, that the vote of absent and
duly elected delegates in the state
gathering shall be cast according to
the majority opinion of those present
and acting from the same county. This
method, it was contended, will insure
the polling of the full vote of every
county in the assembly and at the
same time be expressive of the wishes
of the particular locality interested.
As to Congressional and district as-
(Concluded on Page 10.)
HARRY MURPHY MAKES HIS REGULAR WEEKLY RESUME
0ly tk Geaitlemaa Fran 14a
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTERDAT'S Maximum tmprature. 42.4
degrees; minimum, 39.2 decree.
TODAY'S Rain; southerly wind.
Foreign.
Redmond throws thunderbolt into "British
Liberal camp and attack on Lords will
not be delayed. Section 1. page 1.
French Antarctic expedition under Charcot-
exDlores land in TO degrees south latl-
tude Section 1. pace 5.
Only one American. Portland man. lost in
wrTk of General Chanzy. Section 1.
page 3.
Organ of Vatican defends action toward
Fairbanks ana denounces Methodist mis
sion. Section 1. nage 4.
British steamer ashors in Magellan Straits:
51 drown; 205 rescued. Section X. page 3.
Domestic.
Pax ton says Margaret Swope and Chris
man Sw&pe were also poisoned. Section
1, paga 6
Mrs. Russell Sage denies reported sifts in
South. Section 1. page. 1.
Ex-Secretary of Treasury Shaw says If Cen
tral Bank Is established Standard Oil
would control It. Section 1. page &.
Chicago's fight on safoons begins this week,
to be continued till April 5. Section 1.
page t.
Mangled telegraph operator crawls half mile,
saves 200 lives. Section I, page 1.
Navy begins search for tug Nina, crew S2
men, believed to be disabled between Nor
folk and Boston. Section 1, page 8.
Nattosal.
President Taft in Lincoln day address de
clares platform promises have been kept.
Section 1. page 1.
Politics.
W. M. Cake calls for unity in Oregon Repub
lican party. Section 1, page 11.
Bryan calls on Democracy to divorce ttself
from liquor interests. Section 1. page 4.
Presl dent con f exs with New York lea ders
about bribery scandal; favors searching
Inquiry. Section 1. page 2.
Republicans call state assembly to be held In
Portland July 21. Section 1, page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
General Maus snubbed by Spokane in I.
W. W. trouble? Colonai Abercromble sus
pended. Section 1. page 4.
Search of week for 'Mrs. Alice Katon by
Oddfellews brings no racc. Section 1,
page 1.
Annual Commonwealth Conference closes at
Eugene with discussion on resources and
conservation. Section 1, page 6.
Recall election in Ashland fails to develop
new candidates. Section 1. page 7.
At T'niverslty of- Washington CO forest rang
ers study free. Section 3. page 10.
George Russell. Tacoma horsebuyer. shot by
Jack Johnson stagedrlver. near Prine
ville. Section 1, page 4.
Sports.
Record sales made by auto dealers. Sec
tion 4. page 4.
Trial of Jack Johnson will not stop big
flsfht. Section 4, page 4.
Airship exhibit at pure food show attracts.
Section 4. page 4.
Professional engineer to help get good road
in Oregon. Section 4. page 5.
Flycasting- Club supports Master Fish
Warden. Section 4, page 5.
Jack Johnson uses taunts to help him. Sec
tion 9, page o.
Track men soon to begin training. Section
4, page 6.
College ban on Summer baseball hurts game.
Section 4,' pge 6.
Tackling believed cause of football injuries.
Section 4, page 6.
Many new faces will be seen in Coast
League. Section 4, page 7-
Preparations for Nelson-Wolgaet battle com
plete. Section 4. page 7-
McCredle's squad nearly complete. Section
4. page 7.
Oregon University will not join conference
In fi.ght against Washington for gate
receipts. Section 1, page 11.
Real Ksta4e and Building.
Realty market In state of ferment. Section
4. page 8.
A. W. Faw to build East Side department
store. Section 4. page 8.
Alameda Park notable for fine houses. Sec
tion 4. page &,
Prosperity wave strikes St. John. Section
4. page 9.
The Dalles Elks plan clubhouse. Section 4.
naze a. , -
Montavilla feels building rush. Section 4.
page 9.
Spring Kill dairy farm sold for 430.000. Sec
tion 4. page 9.
Corner Twenty-first and Taylor sells for
X1O.0O0. Section 4. page 9.
For S40O.O00 300 acres of Crystal Springs
farm is sold to realty company. Section
4. page 10. '
Amateur architect gets permit. Section 4,
Page 10.
Linnea Club plans hall. Section 4. page 10.
Reed Institute will help district in which
It Is located. Section 4, page 10.
Seven-story Swetland block to be torn down.
Section 4. page 12.
Another big plant rumored for Kenton. Sec
tion 4. page 12.
Apple men unite at Sheridan. Section 4,
page 12.
Several options taken on Burn side street.
Section 4. page 16.
Apartment-house planned for Flanders
street. Section 4. page lti.
Two new additions platted on Heights. Sec
tion 4. page 16.
Permits of week make record. Section 4,
' page 15.
Portland and Vicinity.
Regatta will be feattire of Rose Festival
week. Section 3. page 9.
Distributive rate case to be argued again
Monday. "Section 3. page 12.
Y. M. C. A. branch in Deschutes Canvon
helps railroad construction forces. Sec
tion 3, past: 12.
Hermann jury, out 12 hours. i ordered
locked up for the night; result expected
today. Section 1, page 1.
Three hundred delegates coming to Port
land to attend annual convention of
Western Retail Lumbermen's Association,
opening Monday. Section 4, page 14.
National Guard inspections to begin Mon
day. Section 4. page 14.
Oregon Trust depositors paid $46,325 on
first day at German-American Bank.
" Section 4, page 14.
M. O- Lownsdale points out Injustice of
Lafean bill. Section 4, page 15.
East Side merchants resent Counril's action
in dictating style of cluster lights. Sec-
tlon 4, page 14.
Hermann jury asks further instructions,. Is
locked up. Section 1, page 1.
More Portland women complain of high
streetcar steps. Section 1, page S.
Lincoln's memory honored at annual ban
quet of Union Republican Club. Section 1,
page 11.
Baldwin ranch, rrear Madras, sold to syndl
d lea to for S450.0O0. Section 1. page 4.
Governors Benson and Hay to hold con
ference here March 9 to discuss joint
legislative matters. Section 1, page S. .
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Waltlma;.
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LETTERS PUZZLE
HERMANN'S JURY
TalesmenOutl 2Hours,
Sleep Under Guard.
MORE INSTRUCTIONS ASKED
Mitchell Notes to Mays Hard
Nut to Deliberators.
DEFENDANT IS SANGUINE
Judge Wolverton Orders Investi
gators Locked l"p for Xiglit.
Sealed Verdict Is Barred.
Result Expected Today.
HERMANS WA3 IXIMCTED FIVE
YiSARS ACJO IOUAY-1CHRO-JfOLOGY
OF HIS CASE.
NA-mber 7. 1903 Attorney Heaey
arrived in Portland.
February 13. 1903 Hermann was
indicted for conspiracy, and an order
was entered flxinc his bond at $4000.
April 17. 1905 Hermann appeared
In the United States Court, pleaded
not euilty. and through his attorneys
filed a demurrer to the Indictment.
June 26. 1905 Hermann's demurrer
was overruled.
June 2S. 1906 Order was entered
granting ex-Congressman William
son and Blnger Hermann separate
trials. .
November 4. 1909 Hermann case
was set for trial.
January 10. 1910 Trial of Her
mann began.
January 11. 1910 President
granted full pardon to Henry
Taft
Mel-
drum, that he might testify at the
trial.
January 12. 1910 Jury secured and
first witness examined.
February IX 1910 Case was sent
to Jury. -
After deliberating eight hours yester
day the Hermann Jury asked additional
Instructions at 7:45 o'clock last evening
and retired.
Unable to agree upon a verdict as to
the guilt or innocence of Hermann, the
Jury was locked up at 11:30 o'clock last
night, and Judge Wolverton retired, leav
ing orders that he should not be dis
turbed throughout the night.
The court will be in readiness to re
ceive the verdict should it be reached at
any time during Sunday, and will not con
sent to discharge the Jury until thorough
ly satisfied or the futility of further en
deavor to harmonize the talesmen's dif
ferences of opinion.
So closely guarded are the deliberations
of the Jury that not an iota of informa
tion as to how the 12 men are divided
has been allowed to leak out. A rumor
sprang from nowhere that on the first
ballot the vote was six for each side, but
the gossip was not confirmed and only
resulted in doubling the guatd ' in the
hall leading to th Juryroom.
' Exhibits Kile High.
Exhibits in the case were heaped
upon the desk of the cleric of the
court when the jury first retired and
had not been asked for at any time.
They were turned over to the ..Jury
bailiffs when the court closed for the
night.
A sealed verdict will not be per
mitted in the Hermann case. Judge
Wolverton regards the result of such
importance that he wilf require all
parties to be present, as well' as a
careful poll of the Jury, should an
agreement be reached.
Indicted five years ago today, Binger
Hermann was as cheerful on the eve
of the anniversary as he has been at
any time since the news was flashed
to Washington that he would be com
pelled to return here for trial. Her
mann would not admit the possibility
of a failure to acquit m the charge
of conspiracy with Mays, Jones and
Sorenson in the formation of the Blue
Mountain Forest Reserve. He was en
couraged by the thought that the jury
returned a verdict of "not guilty" af
ter being out 21 hours in the trial at
Washington In 1907. Hermann be-
(Concluded on Page 7.)
OF VARIOUS INTERESTING EVENTS.
Tk rnal Result t
THOUGH MANGLED,
MAN SAVES 200
OPERA TOK CRAWXS " TO KEY
AXD SEXDS WARNING.
Tract Supposed to Be Clear for Pas
senger Trains; Error Discov
ered In Time.
MANKATO, Minn.. Feb. 12. (Special.)
With one foot cut off and both legs so
badly mangled that he could not walk.
Rudolph Elmquist. an lS-year-old teleg
rapher, crawled half a mile, bleeding and
faint, to his station and sounded a warri
ng to Mankato which saved the lives of
200 persons aboard the Great Western
train.
Then Elmqulst fainted from pain said
loss of blood. He had followed his cus
tom of boarding an evening freight train
caboose from Bennlng, his station, to
Mankato. This time he slipped, fell un
der the train and was fearfully mangled
from the knees down.
The track was supposed to be clear for
passenger trains. Elmquist knew that it
was not, and in his agony he realized
what would happen if the passenger crew
were not warned. He was more than
half an hour on the way back, but he
was in time.
FAMOUS SANITARIUM LOST
Battle Creek Institution Will Move
to Escape Taxes.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Feb. 12.
(Special.) The- Battle Creek Sani
tarium, famous the world over, is lost
to Battle Creek. Judge Parkinson this
morning: handed down a decision of un
conditional ouster for non-payment of
taxed.
Dr. Kellogg recently announced that
In case the court decided against him
he would close the institution and es
tablish a new one in the East. Plans
for two such institutions have been
practically completed. Both will be In
Xew Jersey, one at Lakewood and the
other at Atlantic City. In New Jersey
such places are not taxed.
The legal fight to establish the status
of the sanitarium as a charitable insti
tution and exempt It from taxation has
been In progress for 10 years.
AUSTRALIA J0 GET NEWS
Antipodes Xo lxnger to He iu Dark
as to Canadian Happenings,
-VANCOUVER. B. C, Feb. 12. .Spe
cial.) As a result of overtures made by
Thomas Temperley, when in London
representing the provincial press of
Australia at the recent imperial press
conference, there has sprung Into -existence
the Independent Press Cable
Association of Australia, witH head
quarters at Vancouver. W. E. Vincent
managing editor of the new service,
has arrived in this city by the Makura
to take up his duties.
The Provincial newspapers of the
commonwealth have been handicapped
in the past by a cable monopoly. Un
der new conditions this will be reme
died and news ' of Canada and British
Columbia will be sent to the Antipodes.
OUSTER ORDER ' LIMITED
Kansas Court Ketatns Supervision
of Harvester Trust.
TOPBKA, Kas., Feb. 12. The Supreme
Court today made a limited ouster order
against the International Harvester Com
pany, prohibiting it from making exclu
slve contracts with agents in Kansas.
The court also prohibits the company
from limiting territory, discriminating or
destroying competition or ODIng other
things which the Attorney-General held
were violations of the anti-trust law.
The court specifically . says that it re
serves the right to take up complaints
in the future and settle them as it de
termines, thus retaining control over the
business of the corporation in Kansas.
NAT GOODWIN OBEYS EDNA
X'ame of Oil Company Called After
Her to Be Changed.
LOS ANGELES. Cal., Feb. 12. (Spe
cial. ) Mrs. Edna Goodrich-Goodwin.
wife of Nat Goodwin, the actor, will
not allow her name attached to an oil
company, and a petition was filed today
asking for authority to change the
name of the Edna Goodrich Consolidat
ed Oil Company to the Coalinga Royal
Oil Company. The company has stock of
$1,000,000 and $400,000 Is paid up. It is
further recLted that Mrs. Goodrich
Goodwin, for whom the corporation was
named, requests and demands that the
name of said corporation should be
changed.
Cook, Psa SorBrle4r
RFDMDrJD ARBITER
OF ASQUITH'S FATE
Demands Lords Be Par
alyzed at Once.
CABINET HANGS IN BALANCE
Premier May Unite Irish and
Radicals Under Banner.
PASS BILL ANNULLING VETO
If Lords Resist, Kins Will Be Askenl
to -Create More Peers, Will Re
fuse and Another Election
Will Be Result Xext July.
BY T. P. O'COXNER, M. P.
(Copyright by the Tribune company, 1910.H
LONDON. Feb. 13. (Special.) Suddenly
the whole political sky is overcast and tha
fate of the Liberal ministry trembles in
the balance. Redmond's speech in Iublini
set forth clearly the policy of the Irishj
party. This policy demands that the pass
age of the budget be postponed until tha
House of Lords veto the bill, at least a,
introduced.
This attitude is imposed on Redmond by
the intense unpopularity of the budget
in Ireland, but still more by the abiding
suspicion in Ireland that the ministers
may try to palter with the question. The
Lords and Asquith's old association with
Rosebery and tlie former lukewarmnesa ,
on the home rule ls calculated to in-;
crease this feeling of uneasiness.
Redmond's Seecli Is Thunderclap. :
This speech of Redmond's came as a
thunderclap on Asquith and was discussed
at two Cabinet councils. It meant, ofi
course, that, if the ministers persisted ira
the tactics of bringing in the budget firsts-!
and the veto question afterwards, theyi
would be beaten by the transfer of the
Irish vote to the Unionist opposition. Ona-
solution suggested by the Unionists andi
some Liberals was that the budget in
that case should be passed by a combina-'
tion of Liberal and Unionist votes agalnetii
the Irish, but this policy already hasu
received a quietus from both Liberal audi
Unionist quarters.
Redmond's policy, curiously enough, rep-i
resents the policy advocated by a large,
body of the radical opinion and also bj).
the most powerful radical newspapers, j
the solution of a combination between:
the Liberals and the Unionists in supporfi''
of the budget being out of the way. i
Three other solutions are possible. EJtherl
Asqulth could immediately resign, and,
secondly, Asqulth could proceed with tha !
budget and invite defeat in the House ofiJ
Commons by a combination of Tories
'and Irish. The third solution would bar
the adoption of the policy recommend ed
by Redmond.
Irish and Radicals May Unite.
There are some difficulties from a finan
cial point of view in hanging up that
budget, including the loss 'of money
amounting to $75,000,000 for one year. Bub
these difficulitlee are not insurmountable'
if Asquith can come to terms with tha
radicals and with Redmond and proposa
a veto bill postponding the budget until
that measure is advanced well on the way
and until the whole world knows thaC.
Asqulth murt pursue the measure to tha
bitter end. Then the situation may ba
transformed again and the Liberal minis
try. Radicals and Irish can march to
gether in an effective campaign against '
the lords. Whether such an arrangement
is possible lies in the balance for the nexft
two days. It will probably be decided on
Monday or Tuesday next.
Another Election In July Likely.
If this working arrangiment is mada.
possible, the following will be the pro
gramme of the coming session:
The King's speech will be strictly lim
ited to the announcement of the Lords"
veto of the bill, after which some neces
sary money will be provided for immedi
ate expenses of the government. The'
House of Commons will separate for a
month. At the end of the month, Asquith; '.
will introduce the Lords' veto bill, com-'
plete In all its details. This bill will ba-'
pressed forward then as fast as possible, i
(Concluded on Page 5.) !
WHEN 'HE.
VOTED FOR THE
ROAD WAT
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WHEN HH ft S
will rrrQfyW-
Tfc Will pt the People."