THE SUNDAY OREGOXTAX, PORTLAND, MAT 1, 1910.
LORDS, HUMBLED,
SWALLOW BUDGET
British Tories in Despair at
Prospect of Supremacy
of Democracy. .
SEE HOME RULE IS AT HAND
Xmng Struggle Ends Suddenly in
Acceptance of Redmond's Plan
of Action and Tumultnous
Scene When Asquith Speaks.
BY 1. P. O'CONNOR.
I. Spec J I cable to the Ch1c3Ko Trltoun..
copyrighted. l)10. by the Tribune.)
lOXDON", April 30. (Special.) The
contrast between the unthusiastic,
chattering and chaffing House of Lords
which met to reject the budget last
November and the sullen, silent assem
bly which passed It last Thursday at
breakneck speed symbolizes the
vliangcs in the temper of both parties.
Since, to add to the confusion of
the Tories In the House of Lords, the
Lord Chancellor, one of the stoutest
of the Radicals In the Ministry, reas
serted In emphatic language the deter
mination ol tiie Liberals either to re
Ign office or break down the veto
power of the House or Lords, the Tories
exhibit the same confuston and de
spair in the House of Commons. They
cannot hope for any great change In
the situation before another election.
Their most sanguine prophets do not
claim a change of more than 25 or 30
seats, which would leave the Liberals
stjll a handsome majority sufficient to
casrry the anti-veto legislation.
Home Rule Coming In 3 Years.
This prospect seems a scarcely suf
ficient return for the Immense expendi
ture o money which another election
would call for from the Tories, with
their funds depleted by the enormous
ost of the last election and with the
big brewers and publicans so hard hit
by the budget as not to be able to sub
scribe largely to tin election.
Barring soma unexpected accident,
t see no reason to doubt that the road
to Liberal success and to home rule
within three years Is now clear and
open.
At the present, the lull before the
storm may continue for weeks. The
country is strangely quiet to all ap
pearances, but much volcanic stuff is
bubbling underneath. The Liberals are
organizing huge meetings, hundreds al
ready are taking place every
week. and when Summer is
more advanced giant gatherings
will take place In all the great centers.
-Half a million Will gather in Hyde Park,
where the Cabinet Ministers will take the
unusual course of appearing on open-air
iPlatt'orms. Gathering on the same gigan
tic scale are preparing in Manchester.
ETn-11cl, , . .1 1 I . 1 . , . K -
The Knglish and Irish masses are act
ing cordially together in this campaign.
Two hundred thousand London Irishmen
will swell the Hyde Park gathering with
the bands and bunncrs of every Irish
organization. The same will happen in
Manchester, where there is a large Irish
.population.
A great personal triumph and also an
indication of the same cordial 'union of
Liberal and Irish forces this week was
Joseph Devlin's feat In the House of
Commons. During the third reading of
the budget, William O'Brien made a
brief, feeble attack on the budget and the
Liberals and above ail on the Irish
parties for not destroying the budget.
.Devlin, without notice or preparation, de
livered a speech. His power of eloquence
and passion electrltied the House of Com
mons and when the speech closed cheers
Xor several minutes came from the Lib
eral and Irish benches. Premier Asqudth
complimented Devlin in his speech closing
the budget debate. Winston Churchill
wrote him a letter of thanks.
Even the Tory attacks on the Liberal
-Ministry tend to augment the prestige of
the Irish party. Their whole cry is now
that Asquith attacks the King by de
manding the guarantees on the dictation
of Redmond. There attacks doubtless
will rally large masses of the ignorant
anti-Irish Tories, but will help, on the
other hand, to increase the respect and
gratitude of the real Irish Democrats to
Redmond and his colleagues for forcing
the Issue.
Tories Hoist Distress Klag.
Tho talk of a compromise in the Tory
journals is not worth consideration ex
cept as flags of distress. A referendum
is vaguely haunting certuin minds in the
hope of avoiding the expense and trouble
of a. new election, but a referendum is
impossible without the assent of the
Tories and the House of Lorde. Such
assent Is unlikely. A large section of
tho Liberals and Irish are equally hostile,
no a general election in the middle of
June with a Liberal triumph still seems
inevitable.
It came with a ru?h in the end. For
weeks running into months the struggle
over tne iorm in wntcn me. guarantees
are to be asked from the King at once
divided the Irish from the Liberals aijd
even the rank and tile of the Llbei V
lrom tho Cabinet. On this point !
guarantees either of two courses in
deed, of more than two was open to the
Ministers. Hither they could ask for im
mediate or for contingent guarantees.
Immediate guarantees mean that the
King should be asked to give new
peers tc override the present majority
In tho Houso of Lords in the present
Parliament and without another general
election. Conditional guarantees meant
that the King should be asked to enable
the Ministers to announce to the country
during another general election that, if
the voters' vordict was the same, the
IClnir had rjromisoil the srnara nt,.oc .-
cany their will into law that is to say,
to create a eufficient number of new
jeers to swamp tho House of Lords.
Cabinet Suddenly Yields.
On these points the struggle raged
for weeks,. The rank and file of the Lib
eral party were grumbling and despond
ent, threatening open mutiny one day
and brought back to discipine by strong
party allegiance the next.
The final decision came with a rush.
The whole Cabinet, face to face with the
Inscrutable attitude of Redmond, with
the revolt In its own ranks, with the
pecter of Lloyd-George and Winston
Churchill leading a great radical and
Irish revolt against it, took the plunge
fit last. All hesitations were swept awav
and in an hour the Cabinet unanimously
dgreed to Asquith's tremendous state
ment. This was on "Wednesday after
noon. The statement was scheduled to
have been made Thursday about 7
o'clock.
Scene In House Thrills.
I gave you last week the account ot
this historic scene, but it fs so import
ant that I must add a few details this
week. A combination of fellritmu .n-
ir--ldences brought the statement out
into tragic relief. First the statement
was preceded by a debate raising the
whole home rule question. Then Asquith
was helped enormously by a mean little
trick of Balfour. Balfour raised a point
of order against Asquith's right to make
an announcement at that moment, which
the chair sustained.
This mean device excited fury in an
already passionate, high-strung House.
Liberals. Laborites and Irish all howled
at Balfour and insulting epithets flew like
hail in a storm. Asquith then retorted
he would make his statement later on
during the evening, and when finally he
passed up the floor of the house with the
veto bill in his hand, the' Liberals burst
Into a wild cheer and scores rose to their
feet and waved their hats, an unusual
thing in the House of Commons.
Cheers and Insults Mingle.
The moment the first words announcing
application would be made to the King
in the first instance for immediate guar
antees fell from Asquith's lips, pande
monium reigned. Cheers came from the
Liberal benches, the Irish added their
louder cheers, while Redmond clapped his
hands. The Tories, cowed and enraged,
meantime burst into every conceivable
form of Interruption and yelled insults,
especially at the Irish benches.
For some moments Asquith could not
proceed. When he resumed and went
on to the next sentence, announcing a dis
solution, but the King compelled to give
the guarantees beforehand, the storm
grew louder than ever. Insults again
were exchanged, until at last it seemed
certain there would be a renewal of the
fistic encounters of the old home rule
days. Some young Tories called Ironi
cally for cheers for Redmond and one
angrily called the Irish members dyna
mitards. If It had not been for John
Burns and other stalwart peacemakers,
many fights would have taken place.
This is a revolution, one may say, after
Asquith's announcement, as Mirabeau
6aid after the downfall of the Bastile.
LORIMER DENIES BRIBERY
Continued From Flryt Page.)
White, however. Is going to tell his story
to the special grand jury next week. The
Tribune tomorrow will say that in re
lating his charge White gave the names
of four other Democratic members of the
general assembly who met with him and
Robert E. Wilson, of Chicago, in tho
Southern Hotel at St. Louis when a por
tion of the alleged bribe was paid.
Four Others Mentioned.
The names mentioned by White are Jo
seph S. Clark, of Vandalia, 111.; Michael
8. Link, of Mitchell, 111.; Henry S. Shep
herd, of Jerseyvllle, and Charles S. Luke,
of Nashville. 111. Luke Is now dead.
The Tribune declares that in order to
ascertain .what these men know it sent
an experienced investigator to each of
them twice and sent two of its staff to
each of them on another occasion.
It was first discovered, according to
the Tribune, that the register of the
Southern Hotel showed that Robert B.
Wilson was there on July Id. 1909, the
date on which White declared that Wil
son paid him $900 as a reward for vot
ing for Lorlmer. This money. White
said, was paid him by Wilson when in
a bathroom adjoining the room occu
pied by Wilson in the hotel.
Michael S. Link, who was a represen
tative in the Legislature that elected
Lorlmer. admitted at his first inter
view with the Tribune investigator, ac
cording to the Tribune, that he had
been at the Southern Hotel with Wil
son and that he had talked with Wil
son alone in the bathroom. When
a.iked if he had received any money
from Wilson, he replied:
"It is nobody's business if I received
money or did not."
Sleeting Not Remembered.
In a subsequent interview. Link said
ho desired to withdraw that statement,
as receiving money under such cir
cumstances would be accepting a bribe.
In all interviews had with Repre
sentative Clark, he declared that he
was unable to remember the St. Louis
meeting with Wilson. He could not
recall .receiving a telegram from Wil
son requesting him to attend the meet
ing. Representative Shephard declared
that he had been in St. Louis on the
occasion referred to and met Wilson,
Link and Clara; there as White had
previously stated, but declared that he
received no money there, and further
more that he got no money at any
time for voting for Lorlmer.
Shephard explained his vote for Lar
imer by saying that he -obtained a
promise that neither of two of his local
political enemies would be appointed
postmaster at Jerseyvillo.
Widow's Story Damaging.
Mrs. Charles L. Luke, widow of ene
of the men said to have been with Wil
son the date on which Write asesrts he
received the bribe money, was found
at the home of her brother. J. C. Add
erly, 4149 Cleveland avenue. St. Louis.
Mrs. Luke was asked, according to The
Tribune, if she knew of her husband
meeting Mr. Wilson in St. Louis on
July 15. 1909. she replied:
"Yes, he did. I don't remember the
exact date, but Mr. Wilson notified him
to meet him at the Southern Hotel, in
St. Louis some day last Summer and
my husband went there and met him
and when he returned home he told
me that he got some money from Mr.
Wilson, but he did not say how much."
At ,this point in Mrs. Luke's state
ment, Mr. Adderly interfered, saying
that he did not object to his sister's
telling all she knew to any investigat
ing committee or to a court, hut that
he did not think it advisable for her
to talk further at that time.
Attorney-General Stead, of Illinois,
visited States Attorney Wayman at St.
Paul, but was unable to find him.
Later Mr. Sread said the state of Illi
nois would- do all in its power to clear
up the charges made in connection
with the election of Senator Lorlmer.
He declared, however, that it would
not be possible for him to do anything
until indictments had been returned.
BOYS FILE BELLS OFF COWS
Vancouver Youths Want Sounding
Instruments for Fire Department.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. April 30. (Spe
cial.) Duane Sykes, 10 years old, and
Rene Vermid, IB years old, were brought
before E. M. Scanloh, Justice of the
Peace, this week, for stealing five cow
bells from dairy herds near Ellsworth.
The boys said they found the cows in
the woods and took off tho bells and
halters. Two of the bells were fastened
around the cows' necks with chains,
and these they filed off.
When asked what they were going
to do with the bells, Duane said they
were going to have a firedepartment.
The bells were returned and the fathers
of the lads paid the costs of the case.
$7.70, and the boys were released.
GOLD IS FOUND IN ROAD
Auriferous Quartz Discovered in
Blasting Xear Hood River.
HOOD RIVER, Or., April 30. (Special.)
Excitement was caused here today by
the discovery of gold-bearing quartz in
a ledge of cement gravel that is beirg
blasted out for the widening of the East
Side road.
The quartz is said by mining men to
show traces of gold that would pay well
to work if the deposit is large enough.
31111 Employe Injured.
Oscar Johnson, an employe of the
North Pacific Lumber Company, is in
St. Vincent's Hospital with three bro
ken ribs as the result of an accident
at the mill yesterday morning. John
son slipped and fell from a wagon
while loading lumber and fractured
the ribs on a huge piece of timber. He
lives at 422 North Twenty-second
street.
One million dollar Removal Sale at
the Olds, Wortman & King store.
The Meier (Mb Frank Store
Fth-Flo or Tea Room
Will Serve Tomorrow
The First Anniversary
pecial Luncheon
This will be the first of a series of delicious, appetizing
Luncheons served in onr popular Tea Room at a popu
lar price M. & F. Co's Ladies Orchestra in attendance
Excellent Menu 50c
Anniversary Tea From 2
to 5 P. M. Price 25 Cents
INVITATION!
The Alameda Land Com
pany requests your pres
ence at Alameda Park to
day. See the proofs of its
superior location, improve
ments and values. See the
carline; see the new homes;
seetheviewlots;learnabout
the money in it for you.
Take any Broadway car.
New Idea
Patterns
10c
All Styles and Sizes
The Most in Value, The Best in Quality
New Idea
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10 c
For a Single Copy
Great May Sale
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SEE OUR MORRISON-STREET WINDOW DISPLAY
y Unsurpassed Showing of
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DRAWERS made of fine quality cambric or nainsook and trimmed -with,
pretty embroideries, laces and hemstitched tucks; all made in French
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embroideries; made of excellent quality material and neatly finished.
GOWNS made of good quality cambric or nainsook in the high-neck, bishop style, with long sleeves,
or the low-neck slipover style, with short sleeves; all well made and .neatly trimmed with em
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CHEMISE of good quality nainsook, cambric or Masonville muslin, shown in long or short stvlo
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Your choice of any of these pretty garments Drawers, short Skirts, Gowns and r f
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Dainty Muslinwear, Best 35c, 40c and 45c Values,
Specially Priced for This Sale at 25c
An extraordinary showing of women s muslm Underwear, consisting of corset covers, drawers, short skirts and short chemise, made of very good
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Muslin Skirts, $2-82.25 Values $1.59
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Muslin Skirts, Real $1.50 Value 98c
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embroidery flounce; other styles have rows of fine Val. or Torchon
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made good full width and finished with cambric dust ruffle f Q
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Corset Covers, Good 75c Value at 50o
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Muslin Gowns, Best $1.50 Val. $1.18
An extra fine assortment of muslin Gowns, made of fine quality nain
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red Suits
Looking at these superbly tailored garments from the standpoint of quality and
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from 30 to 36 inches, and are fitted or semi-fitted; they have the notched
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showing of fabrics, including plain or striped serges, diagonals and mix
tures ; black, navy, tan, gray rose, and iothcr colors of genteel shades. Spe
cially priced for Monday and Tuesday $10.00, $15.00, $25.00
Dress Skirts at $5.50
Stylish Dress Skirts of black voile and panama in black, navy, brown and gray;
the very newest pleated effects, and others plain gored. Special values for
thls sale .-...$5.50
Five-Dollar Silk Petticoats
Good quality silk taffeta Petticoats in black, navy, brown and many lighter
and changeable colors; deep and wide circular flounces in several styles; one
alternately corded and finished with straps and stitched ruffle,' underlay and
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Dressing: Sacques at 4L8e
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both have long sleeves and collar, one with peplum waistband and the other
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Monday and Tuesday's sale price 8125
Buster Brown Suits, 1.00 to $1.75
Children's Buster Brown Suits in two pretty styles, sailor effects, with
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terials, including poplin, gingham, chambray and real linen in natural
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pmm
to 4-inch Embroideries, regular 25c kinds, specially
priced for Monday and Tuesday at
3 to 10-inch Embroideries, regular 25c kind, special
for this sale at
V2Price EmTbroid'y Sale
Over- 100,000 Yards in 3000 Beautiful
Patterns to Choose Prom
A great special purchase of hundreds and hundreds of yards of
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5c
10c
18-inch Embroideries, 65c to 85c kinds, Monday
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18-inch Embroideries, regular $1.00 grade, special
for this sale ......................
27-inch Embroideries, regular $1.50 kind, specially
priced for Monday and Tuesday at
27-inch Embroideries, $2.00 to $2.50 kinds, special
for this sale at .... . ......
29c
48c
63 c
95c
J to r.m broideries, reg. 3oe to 40c kind, spe- f
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500 pieces narrow Torchon Laces, G yards to a piece, regular 25c values, specially priced for Monday and Tuesday's sale at -i nl
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Woolen Dress Goods at Reduced Prices. Half a Dozen Much Sought 191 0
Fabrics in $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50 Qualities, Priced at 69c
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69 c
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