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iff Pages 1 to 12 "VOL. XXIX. 0. 10 PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 6, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. I BLACK HAND FAILS REPUBLICANS PASS POSTAL BANK BILL GRIZZLED VETERAN WINS WITH TAFT STRIKE MARKED BY ROSTRUM IS NOT FOR CANDIDATES HAMILTON THRILLS CROWD BY FLIGHTS TO DAUNT CARUSO (HAFT'S REGIME ITALIAN OFFICERS - TESTIFY " SINGER IS UNDISMAYED. POLITICIANS BARRED FROM LECTURE COURSES. INDIAN FIGHTER GET COM RADES OX PENSION ROLL. '78 Pages HARMONY KEYNOTE DIC RIOTING President Ends Breach With Congress. OUTLOOK FOR PROGRESS GOOD Diplomacy and Tact Succeed Where "Big Stick" Failed. ALDRICH TAUGHT LESSON Review of First Year of Present Ad ministration Shows Chief Execu tive Is Laying Foundation for Much Future "Work. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, March 6. The close of the first year of the Taft administra tion finds the President and the Re publican organization in Congress working in harmony, as they have not done since Theodore Roosevelt, early In .his Presidential career, brought about an estrangement that lasted to the very. close of his term. Today a strong spirit of co-operation prevails, and the majority In Congress, instead of working at cross purposes with the administration, as It did so frequently In the days of Roosevelt, is earnestly struggling to carry out ihe wishes of the President and the platform pledges of the party. TaTt Deserves Credit. . If the - Taft administration, during ts first twelve months, had accom plished nothing else, it would be en titled to well-earned commendation for restoring harmony, a condition that is tbsolutely essential if the administra tion's legislative programme Is to be sarried through. The benefits from this changed con dition will not be fully realized until Congress shall have completed its part of the first year's programme, but the progress thus far made, and the understanding that has been reached between the President and the party leaders In Senate and House, gives as surance that much that is favored by the Executive will - be written into law, particularly that to which the party is committed by Its platform. It is not fair to Judge the new ad ministration by what has actually been iccomplished In the first year, for the most important fruits of the work thus Tar done will not be in evidence until the present session of Congress ad journs. Much Is now under way that will be completed before adjournment, nd most of It will be the result of the jo-operatlon that exists between the President and the Republicans in Con gress. Methods Entirely Changed. ' When President Taft entered the White House March 4. 1909. he knew that he was not temperamentally equipped to deal with Congress as his predecessor had done, nor was he so inclined. President Roosevelt himself realized that he had reached a point where he could get little more from Congress, and that was one of the fmpelling reasons why he declined to accept another nomination. He- felt that some other man, of different disposi tion, could accomplish more than he, and he picked Taft us the one most likely lo succeed. . Roosevelt, whenever he wanted legisla tion, made known his1 desires in. a mes sage to Congress, and if the majority of either body was not disposed to grant his demands, out came the "big stick." By that means he frequently drove Con gress into submission. But as his Ad ministration progressed, and the "big stick" came more and more into evidence Oongrese became more and more obsti nate, and the weapon, once most produc tive of results, failed to intimidate the "men on the hill," and many an im portant measure urged by Roosevelt went by the board. President T-aft, from the very first, resorted to diplomacy in his dealings tilth Congress, and the success of his (Concluded on fage President Fintnaea Klnrt Yeas. rrir CL 2sl novr N0'E ovv rfi i - o. -7no3oW i . -7Tl NPv Ml I New York Police Have In Custody Two Men Suspected of Plot to Extort $15,000. NEW YORK, March 5. (Specials- Caruso is undismayed. He wasn't scared even when the Black Hand letters first arrived, according to detectives of the Italian squad, yet not since the days of the San Francisco earthquake has he had such cause to shake and shiver , as be has Just now under the. dire threats of that puissant confederation of his fel- low-countrymenr who are accustomed to levy tribute as they will. 'Caruso Is a very generous man as everyone knows." said Detective Frank Mundo, of the Central Office, this morn ing, "but he would not give up a' cent under such circumstances, if it were the only thing in the world that would save his life." Two suspects were captured, in Brooklyn last night, at a place where the Metro politan Opera-Houee singer was Instructed to send $15,000, and are locked up at police headquarters under J1500 bonds, awaiting trial on March 9. PUPIL MAKES SACRIFICE Promotion Is Refused to Permit Brother to Catch Vp. ALBANY. Or., March 5. Special.) An unusual act of self-denial has come to light In the Albany public schools, where a bright, ambitious boy voluntarily re mained In the same Class another term In order that his older brother might catch up with- him and thus escape the Jibes of other boys. Lawrence Downing, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Downing, made this sacrifice. For the past term he has been in the A class of the fourth grade. His brother, Floyd Downing, 13 years old. Was In the B class of the same grade. The other boys in the room sometimes taunted Floyd with the fact that his younger brother was ahead of him and, though he made no complaint to Law rence, the little fellow decided to wait and let his brother catch up with him. He had good grades in his studies dur ing the term, but when It came time to take the final examinations last month, Lawrence voluntarily absented himself from school and did not take the tests. The teacher accordingly refused to ad vance, him and his purpose was accom plished. Floyd Downing passed from the fourth B into the fourth A and the two boys are now in the same class. SETTLER OF 1855 PASSES Captain A. D. Helman, Aged 8 8, - Dies at Ashland. ASHLAND. Or.. March 5. (Special.) Captain A. D. Helman, who died here today, aged 86, was one of Ashland's very first settlers, and a large part of the city. Is built on portions of his original donation land claim, located upon In 155. He was also Instrumental in naming the town after his native county of Ashland, Ohio. ' Captain Helman was Ashland's first postmaster and served In that capacity for 27 years, from 1855 to 1882. He was prominent In state, county and local Oddfellow circles and filled the highest position from 1890 to 1892, being grand master of Oregon for a term and grand patriarch of the Grand Encampment, also representative to the soverign lodge. He was a member of the Methodist Church and the funeral Tuesday will be under the'' auspices of the church and the Oddfellows. A wife and seven children survive him. RUSSIAN'S TRIAL. SECRET Prefect Declares Emergency In Case of Socialist. ST. PETERSBURG March 5. The prefect of police today ordered that the trial of Nicholas Tschalkovski, the Socialist, charged with revolutionary activity, be held behind closed doors. The prefect's order was issued by virtue of the regulations covering the state of extraordinary security prevail ing in St. Petersburg and under, which the administration is empowered to overrule the court and close its doors when such a course Is deemed neces sary. The principal new feature of a state ment issued by the defendant is the allegation that the English police fur nished information concerning his al leged visit to Russia in the latter part of 1906, and upon which the gravest ac cusations were predicated. HARRY MURPHY. COMES Party Stands as Unit for Measure. MONEY TO BE HELD LOCALLY Only in Emergency Can Presi dent Withdraw Funds. INTEREST RATE 2 PER CENT System. If Sanctioned by House, Is Expected to Draw From Hiding $500,000,000 to One Billion. Sraoot "Amendment Passed. WASHINGTON, March 5. Dividing practically 'upon party lines, the Sen ate, at the close of the third session of the legislative day of March 3, today passed the administration postal sav ings bank bill. Of the 72 votes cast. 50 were in favor of the bill and 22 against it. The neg ative votes were cast by Democrats, even McEnerny, who had voted with tlie Republicans throughout the con sideration of the bill, desetrting to his own party. Chamberlain of Oregon was the only Democrat who stood with the Republicans in favor of the bill. Local Banks Depositories. As it goes to the House the bill au thorizes the various money order de partments in the' postoffice to accept sums of one dollar or more from de positors and to deposit these sums in the local banks, where the money Is to remain, unless withdrawn by the President in case of war or other exi gencies. - In case of this withdrawal the funds are to be invested in Government se curities, but with the proviso that such securities will not draw less than 24 per cent interest. The control of the funds is vested in a board of trus tees composed of the Postmaster-General, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney-General. The aggregate balance allowed to any depositor' is J500 and no person is permitted to de posit more than ,$100 in: any one month. Must Draw 2 1-4 Per Cent. The Government is required to pay 2 per cent inerest and must exact not less than 2V4 per cent from the banks, the extra one-quarter of one per cent being required for the, payment of ex penses and losses. It is calculated that such a law would bring much money out of hid ing and result In a fund ranging all the way from $500,000,000 to $1,000, 000,000. Beginning at 11:45 o'clock today the Senate's session continued until 4. '50 P.-M., and practically all this lime was devoted to the consideration of amend ments. Cummins' Amendment Lost. Almost immediately after the ses sion began the first vote was taken. This was on the Cummins amendment to the Sraoot amendment Upon which yesterday's- debate waged so fiercely. The Smoot amendment looked to the au thorization of the withdrawal from the local banks of the postal funds In case of war or other exigency, and Cummins sought to modify it by making it ap ply to' war as the only exigency justi fying withdrawals. The Cummins provision went down to defeat, the affirmative vote being cast by the so-called "insurgent'' Re publicans and a half dozen Democrats, with the single exception of Senator McCumber, a stalwart Republican ' Borah Gains Point. Later in the day, and after consid erable debate, the Smoot amendment was adopted, after it had been modi fied by the insertion of an amendment. Introduced by Senator Borah, directing that the funds withdrawn should should not be Invested in Government securi ties carrying less than per cent In- (Concluded on Page R. ) THROUGH ONCE MORE CHAP Only a Case nf Roman' Nature. Garfield's Order Is Rescinded and Men Who Fought Indians Will Be Repaid. WASHINGTON, March 5. (Spe cial.) President Taft knocked off work for half an hour today and listened eagerly to early California reminls censes from William P. Pratt, a Port WaTden of San Francisco. Mr. Pratt got to telling of the. Indian fighting in the Humboldt country In the 'EOs and early '60s, and ,as he could de cribe the mlxups with the vividness of a participant, he soon bad the Presi dent going. Secretary Carpenter's pro gramme for callers went to smash, for Taft wouldn't be hustled out of hear the tales of the thrilling frontier life. Pratt has succeeded in his mission to get the pensions of those Indian fight ers, known as the First Battalion of California Volunteers, restored to the rolls from which they were dropped more than a year ago by ex-Secretary Garfield. Ballinger approved of res toration, but he sent Pratt to the Pres ident before upsetting the Garfield de cision.' Not only are the 70 or so survivors and relicts to receive an average of $15 a month again, but each will get a windfall of $200, and more, of back pay for the time they have been off the roll. The beneficiaries are all in de pendent circumstances. 3 MAIL CLERKS INJURED Cars Consumed by FireAfter Derail ment In Kansas. SMITH CENTER, Kan.. March 5. The Chicago-Denver train, west-bound on the Chicago,' Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, was derailed today, two miles east of Smith Center. Three mail clerks were hurt, one perhaps fatally. None of the passengers was severely injured. Five cans caught fire and were destroyed. A broken rail Is supposed to have caused the accident. The six derailed cars took fire and were destroyed with their contents. BOY, GUN, DEAD BROTHER Lad Plays With Weapon, Doesn't Know It Is Loaded. WALLA WALLA, March 5. Playing with a shotgun in the cabin of N. L. Jones, a trapper near Touchet, this morn ing, Ray Marcey, aged 12, shot and In stantly killed his brother Charles, aged 14. The boy's head was blown off. The younger lad did not know the gun was loaded. . GERMANS EXPLORE SOUTH Antarctic Expedition Announced by Geographical Society. BERLIN. March 5. The German Geo-, graphical Society has decided to send out a South Polar discovery expedition and so contest with the United States and Great (Britain in the race to the Antarc tic. The German plans 'were made public today at a meeting of the society at which Dr. Nordenskjold, the Antarctic explorer, was present. DIAZ RECEIVES WILSON United States Ambassador Presents Credentials Formally. MEXICO CITY. March 5. President Diaz received Henry Lane Wilson, who succeeds David Thompson as United States Ambassador to Mexico, at the National Palace today. The new ambassador was escorted by a squad of cavalry, to the palace, at the doors of which the party passed between a double file of officers In full dress uniform. MORE DIE IN TREADWELL Total Mortality Now 3 7 Nine In jured Men Will Recover. JUNEAU, Alaska, March 5. Four more bodies were taken- today from the Mexican shaft of the Treadwell mine, In which a powder magazine ex ploded Wednesday night, and the total number of dead Is now 37. , Nine injured miners are in the "hos pital, but will recover. WITH AN INTERESTING John D. (ilvlng Away His Fortune. Huge Walkout Begins in Ugly Fashion. PHILADELPHIA IN TURMOIL Thousands More Are to Stop Work on Monday. POLICE HANDLE CROWDS Immense Demonstration Is Held In Independence Square Officers Roughly Handled In Washing- ton Square Cars Stoned. PHILADELPHIA. March 5. Disorder In many parts of the city, occurred today from Philadelphia's great sympathetic walkout of organized labor to back up the fight of the trolleymen ugalnst the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. Nearly every section of the city had Its tale- to tell of cars attacked, of men assaulted by strikers or . their sympa thizers or clashes with the police. Meeting- In Independence Square. The scene of the most general disturb ance shifted from the heretofore turbulent Kensington district to the heart of the city. The greatest trouble was experi enced by the police- at Independence Square, where a crowd of 25,000 persons gathered to participate in or watch the .demonstration of organized labor. Policemen, both mounted and afoot, were' there by the score with strict orders to. keep the crowds moving. It Is thought due to the patience, carefulness and steadiness of the police that no serious outbreak occurred here. - A great crowd of strikers paraded through the square unmolested. Serious Rioting Occurs. The worst outbreak occurred down town, where the police mobilized in force. No previous disturbance compared with this in magnitude or Intensity. Men and women felled In the onslaught of" the police, lay all about the streets and side walks and scores were cut and bruised. After a Walnut-street disturbance there was another in Washington Square, in which the crowd turned on a small force of policemen, knocking one of them down and breaking, the club of another. In the mlxup that followed the men in the throng seized eggs?, produce, canned goods and everything they could get their hands on from nearby stores and pelted the policemen. A 'mounted squad dispersed the mob. Extent of Strike Unknown. There was a wide difference of opinion today as to the extent of the strike. Sat urday being a half holiday. It was impos sible to get more than rough estimates of the number of men out. The Com mittee of Ten of the Central Labor Union, .which is conducting the strike, in a statement tonight through Charles A, Hope, secretary of the Central La bor Union and a member of the com mittee, said that 70,000 union men are, out and that the walkout has affected 30,000 other workers. Public Not to Be Inconvenienced. Secretary Hope declared that bakers. milk-wagon drivers and grocery clerks were not called out, and would not be It was not the desire of organized labor, he said, to inconvenience the public to the extent of handicapping the delivery of the necessaries of life. The committee of ten in a statement issued late tonight says: "The situation at the close of this, the first day of the general strike. Is highly gratifying to us. While we have not been able to get reports in from the 300 unions within the city, we have received reports from 160 unions and their sympathizing friends. These show that 125,000 men and women have heard the call and Joined the strike." Other labor leaders said that 55,000 men had struck and that the number would be greatly Increased by Monday. (Concluded on Pare 2 PICTORIAL SYMPOSIUM OF CURRENT EVENTS. The One Bet(t Trouble Maker. University of Nebraska Bans Even "the Peerless One" Platform Not for Advertising. LINCOLN, Neb., March 5. (Special.) Politicians, particularly those who are candidates for office or likely to become candidates, are henceforth to be barred as lecturers in the interest of the University of Nebraska exten sion work. That is the edict that has gone forth from the Chancellor, Sam uel Avery, and In bis declaration he has the.suport of the regents of the state school. The new order will of necessity hit such public men as W. J. Bryan, United States Senators Burkett and Brown, three of Nebraska's six Representa tives In Congress; Governor Stallen berger and others who are already on the list as extension lecturers. The chancellor desires to have lectures for the. benefit of those who listen, and not for exploitation of those who talk. Extension work was made a part of the university about a year ago, and J. L. McBrlen, who had Just concluded four years' service as State Superin tendent of Public Instruction, was placed in charge of the department. VETERAN WOULD DIE, TOO His Family Killed In Avalanche at Mace, Man Attempts Suicide. SOLDIERS' HOME, Cal., March 5. (Special.) The appalling disaster which burled beneath an avalanche of snow and rock the mining town of Mace, Idaho, has caused veteran Alfred D. Leard much pitiful suffering, and as a result he made a futile attempt today, to join his loved ones in death. He is almost crazed with grief at the sudden deprivation of a wife, a son and a daughter. . He no longer storms and rails at the calamity, he only deplores the fate that did not Include himself In the going. "If I only had been there to die with them," he moaned, "why, oh, why, am I left?" ' Though an inmate here since 190S, Leard had been in the habit of spend ing the greater part of his time with his - family in Mace, remaining here only throughout the colder season. He is 71 years old and, bowed with sorrow, hopes only for any early reunion with his loved ones who are gone. DELAYED TRAINS HALTED Freight Wreck Near Chico' Blocks Southern Pacific Traffic. CHICO, Cal.. March 5. (Special.) Freight train No. 227 was derailed at Vina, north Of here, at 9 o'clock this morning, about 100 yards from Deer Creek bridge. All traffic over the line was delayed and the Overland Limited for Ogden and Chicago, northbound over the Shasta . Route because of washouts in Nevada, was held up at Vina several bours waiting for the track to be cleared. A car wheel broke as the train was crossing the bridge and 100 feet further on the train was ditched, one car turn ing turtle and several others piling up across the tracks. No one was Injured. A wrecking crew was immediately put at work clearing the track and the wreckage was removed this afternoon so that traffic could be resumed. Traffic was diverted over the west-side route until the wreck was cleared and the track repaired. ARTISANS SHOW GROWTH Order Celebrates Membership Cam paign With Banquet. Members of the order to the number of 600 from several Western Oregon cities last night attended the annual banquet of the United Artisans, which was given In the Meier & Frank store restaurant. The event celebrated the cloBe of a cam paign for new members, by which many of the assemblies experienced a substan tial growth. Every Artisan who secured a new member and the recently Initiated candidates were entitled to seats at the banquet table. Following the dinner, I. E. Staples, as toastmaster, presented speakers who dis cussed phases of the lodge organization, Its membership and its finances. Among the speakers were H. S. Hudson, of this eHty, supreme master of the order; Cir cuit Judge Morrow. F. S. Alkin, Dr. W. O. Manion and Adjutant-General Finzer. Governor Benson had been asked to make an address, but sent his regrets. The after-dinner talks were Interspersed with selections by the Meier & Frank ladles' orchestra. Call mm Investigation: First Day of Aviatiort Meet Success. ONLY ONE ACCIDENT TO MAR Walter Donnelly, Amateur, Runs Amuck With Plane. FOUR PERSONS ARE HURT? Practicing Close to Ground, C'rrvt Surges Too Near and Frame of Machine Bowls Over Men and ; Horse Craft Easily Fixed. BY GEORGE 1,. KELLER. Showing complete mastery of hiai earoplane and making half a dozen flights, all characterized by daring and, spectacular performances, Charles K. Hamilton, with the Curtiss biplane, yesterday afternoon gave an exhibition; that was a series of thrills on a gradu- atlng scale upward. The occasion was) the-inltlal day of the aviation meet.. The first day's flights of the famous aviator were merely to exhibit th, capabilities of an aeroplane In hi. hands. No attempts were made tf$ break any records. The highest altiJ tude reached was 500 feet. The longest time In the air was only five minutes. This was accomplished during a racsv with a Buick automobile, driven by FV G. Plummer, in which he beat the auta by one lap. The course over which the! race was run is estimated about five-, eighths of a mile ling. Although it isj impossible to give the time positively it Is believed he broke his previous! record of a mile in 1:11 minutes. i Donnelly's Plane Runs Amuck. The only untoward incident of thaj' day occurred after the exhibition flights bad been concluded. Waltsr Ej Donnelly, a local enthusiast and roe -I chanic. was practicing with the Curtls biplane owned by E. Henry WemmeJ His work consisted of running alonfj the ground, occasionally rising two off three feet In the air. The crowd hadj' grown confident of its ability to guard) itself and surged In too close. The ma -d chine came down the track, going east; at a tremendous speed. In swerving taj the right to avoid a portion of ther crowd, the plane veered a few feet and! struck one man down. Then thl aviator lost his control. A mounted po-i liceman was next in line and botla horse and officer were knocked to ton ground. Several, people were knocked down . before the engine could b stopped. Just before shutting off thqj engine Donnelly, was thrown from his seat headlong to the ground. i Four Are Injured. I The injured are: j Victor Cercis, of 551 Stark streets fractured ankle and sprained back; re-3 moved to Good Samaritan Hospital, ; W. M. Owen, 10 East Sixty-fourth street, lip badly cut; removed to Good, Samaritan Hospital. t f. Scott, of Astoria, cut about the face injuries slight. Dave Feldman, a 15-year-old schoolboy) injuries slight. Donnelly was uninjured. The machine was turned over on its eide, sustaining few unimportant breaks, which will bei repaired this morning. Both the severely Injured men were re moved to the hospital In automobiles by, the management of the meet and were) given surgical attention. According to statements made by bystanders the acci dent did not result from fault on the part of the aviator. The police wer eat the time urging the crowd to stand back, giving repeated warnings. Taking It for all In all. it was a great day. The weather was perfect and the unexpectedly large attendance should con gratulate itself on having seized the opor- tunity. The first flight was to those who wit-, nessed it the greatest. A throng of 10.000 spectators was watch (Concluded on Page ft. ) Rowdy! 4.