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TAFT NOMINATED r ON FIRST BALLOT Sherman Chosen by Republi cans for Second Place on Ticket. T. R. MEN DO NOT VOTE President, With 561 Votes, Has 2 More Than Required Majority. Nomina ting Speech Erokes Great Demonstration. HOW DELEGATES VOTED OX BALLOT rOR PRESIDENT. STATE Alabama Arizona Arkansas . . California, Colorado Connecticut Delaware Klnrida ;orta ioho liMnots Indiana Iowa Kansas . ....... Kntucky" Iouf slana ........ Main Maryland vMtar-huaetta .. . Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nw Hampshire . Nevada New Mexico New York New Jersey North Carolina . . North Dakota .. . . Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania . . . Rhode Island .... South Carolina . . South Dakota ... Tennessee Texas t'tnh Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia ... Wisconsin ....... Wyoming Alaska District Columbia. Philippines Porto Rico Hawaii 22 6... IT . 2 . i it 12 .. . 14'. . . ... 12 as'.. . i . . . 2' 53' sol a1 !... I 24! 21 li i 10 l 24 3 20 I 20... . I 201 . 'Si:::!: I: t3 V. 8'. if ... ...10 i v.. ... 81.. 9 2,.. IS!::::: . .1 5! S 23; i SJ!::: ::: 14!... a..: si::: 561 107 41117 Pennsylvania cast two votes (or Hughes. fContlnued From First Page.) In the confusion Just before adjourn ment a resolution was adopted giving the National committee power to de clare vacant the seat of any man on the committee refusing' to support the nom - Inees of the regular convention of 1912. Sherman's vote was 697. A conflict in the Oklahoma delegation over the selection of National commit teemen was referred, with power to act, to the new National committee. Warren G. Harding, of Ohio, took the platform at B:5S to nominate Taft. Handing I. Interrupted. Harding's insistence "that the people do rule" was followed hy cries of -Wherer His first mention of Taft's name brought the Taft men to their feet and a demonstration began. The Roosevelt men sat silent and un der the Taft cheers was an undertone of booing not easy to locate. Mrs. Gardner, of Philadelphia, was brought on the platform and the Taft banner was given her, which she waved before the crowd. She was mistaken for Mrs. John. A. Logan. The demonstration had been going on for five minutes when a big red ban ner, bearing Taft's picture, was brought In and a parade started. Behind the ban ner fell in New York, Mississippi. Texas, the Taft men In Indiana. Nevada, Colo rado. New Hampshire. Kentucky, Mon tana. Arkansas, Missouri and Georgia, until it seemed as if every Taft dele gate were marching. The red banner was brought on the platform and the yelling increased. Cries Drowned in I'proar. The Roosevelt men tried to start "We want Teddy." Rhode Island answered, "We've got Taft." . Neither made any impression on the deafening roar. After the demonstration had been going ten minutes. Chairman Root began pounding with the gavel. It did no good. Root and Harding both tried to stop the noise. After 15 minutes It began to diminish. After IS minutes order was restored and Hard ing resumed his speech. Harding's assertion that Taft was the greatest progressive of his time, not only evoked a storm of cheers and boos, but started a fight back among the delegates where Maine and Florida were sitting. The police suppressed it, but it was several minutes before quiet was restored. Strife Oftea Mentioned. ' Harding referred repeatedly to in ternecine strife that had almost con vulsed the convention. He declared that "only once before was the founda tion of the Nation attacked," making reference to the Civil War. "You have heard much lately about the peoples' rule," be said. "Mr. Chair man and sirs, the peoples' rule Is no new discovery to a sovereign Ameri can - people. Nor Is demagogic em ployment of the term new to the world's hearing. Nor is demagogic employment of the word new. Through such employment, centuries ago, republics tottered and republican liberties were lost in the sway of empires." Mr. Harding referred, to the progres sives. He had heard men arrogate to themselves that title, he said, "seem ingly forgetting that progression is the first essential to Republican fel lowship. Progression Not Palaver. "Progression." he continued, "is not proclamation, nor palaver. It is not made of personal pronouns nor peren nial pronouncements. It is not the per turbation of a people passion-wrought, nor a promise proposed. "Progression is everlastingly lifting the standards that marked the end of the world's march yesterday and plant ing them on new and advanced heights today. "Tested by such a standard. Presi dent Taft Is the greatest progressive of the age. ... Measuring his capa city by the exactions of experience; testing his patriotism by every demand of honesty: courage and Justice; know ing his devotion to bis country and its people, on behalf of Ohio and one hundred millions of advancing Ameri- It an MiSmmE9mS ill! ' WILLIAM HOW AR cans. I name for renominauon our great President, wnilam Howard Taft." PRESIDENT GETS BCLIiETINS Exciting Events Do Not Disturb Golf Game With Sons. WASHINGTON. June 22. President Tft' routine did not vary today, de spite the news from Chicago. He talked with an occasional caller, signed a lew letters and played golf this afternoon with his two sons, Robert and Charles. in nlta of news that the convention was at a point where a nomination was i. i . v. p,A,if)ant at.ved on the links until long after o'clock and then motored back to tne wnita House, xie had a quiet family dinner in the White ,nt l.t.r with Mrs. Taft rfat on the south portico and read the conven tion bulletins. The President was particularly Inter- .-. I. .Via that PnlOn.l RoOSe- HLCU 1 It 111,. velt was holding a separate convention. He had no comment to offer, however, and heard the result from the regular convention with the' same equanimity ONE GREAT PLEDGE IN TAFT PLATFORM IS CONTINUANCE ujnc ukua vc PROGRESS ON BROAD REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES HM-.riflr Tariff Sttidv Liberal Alaska Policy, a Judiciary Above Reproach, Merchant Marine, Parcels Post, Campaign Publicity, and Monopoly Restrained With Augmented and Timely Anti Trust iSsUtion Included in Resume of Ambitions of Party jaders-AdirJiiistrations of Roosevelt, as Well as Taft and Mcginley, Lauded-Rule by , the People Still Leading Issue. CHICAGO. June 22. Following is the National Republican platform: Th. R.mihllcan nartv. assembled by it. r.nr.aontatlves in National Con vention, declares Its unchanging faith In Government oi tne peuuie, uj people, for the people. We renew our .i, . n th. nrinolnles of the Re publican party and our devotion to the cause of Republican institutions estab lished by our fathere. It is appropriate that we should now recall with a sense of veneration and gratitude the name of our first great leader, who was nominated in this n j whn. lnftv nrinclples and superb devotion to his country, are an inspiration to cne party u. Abraham Lincoln. In the present state ku orf.ir. we -' should be in spired by his broad statesmanship an by h tolerant spirit tow.ro "-t". The Republican party looks back on ,i -a wi,v, nrfH. and satisfaction It. i cvj. v ...... r .. u... and forward to its new responsibilities 1th hope and confidence, its ments In government consinuio m most luminous pages In our msiory. Our greatest National aavance una been made during the years of its as cendency in public affairs. It has been genuinely and always a party of pro gress; it has never Deen eiuwi tlonary or reactionary. It has gone ifii!mnt of one great LtUIU Mi. ........ - . , pledge to the fulfillment of another in response to tne puout - popular will. We believe In our self-controlled representative democracy, which is a government of laws, not of men. and in which order is the prerequisite of progress. The principles oi couom. u.ni mment which make provision for or- . .iv.ntiv. .ynr.sslon of the popular will, for the protection of civil liberty ana tne rigm. v i.m . - i Ai th. l.w hv an untram- .-j -. ,H.n.nriiit ludlclary have proved themselves capable of sustain ing tne imciuf e " which after more than a century of .OThi-ana. 100.000.000 Of UCVC1"H1UC" i - - - . people, scattered over a wide and dl- verse territory, uui uuuuu , Mmmon ideals and common affection to the constitution of the United States, cnaer mi cuiuumuvn and the principles asserted and vital- . . . . A. tr.u.j c.t.a ha. e-nwn ixea ny it. me uuuu j - w. r-th. a-r.at civilized and civ ilizing powers of the earth. It offers a nome ana n wiipwuuu.w bitious and the Industrious from other lands. Resting upon the broad basis of a people's confidence and a people's support, and managed by the people themselves, the Government of the United States will meet the problems in the future as satisfactorily as it has solved those of the past. n.nnkHfon nartv la nnw. aa Is always, a party of advanced and con structive statesmanship. It la to go forward witn tno solution 01 muse now .. .1 w ...1.1 .onnnmln and political development have brought Into the I I U IC 1 1 Oil t OK 111. "ai'"" J iiinj.nv. will strive, not only in the Nation h in th. a.v.r.i .tatea to enact the but necessary legislation to safeguard the public health; to limit effectively the labor of women and cniiaren; 10 proieci W.Sj. c mci ..q.olu o cupations; to enact comprehensive and 1 ' - AKMHAn..t(nn law. ggmruus wui.tu.u . in place of the present wasteful and unjust system of employers' liability; and in ail possiDie ways 10 mli.i? demands of the people for the study Just W1U BUIU11VU U . .u. stantly changing problems of aoclal wena.ro. In dealing with the questions it is Important that the rights of every in- 'lauai to mo ireest poutui. rei- opment of his own powers and re sources and to the control of his own Jus Uy acquired property, co tar as wow are compauoio wuu tuv iai. j IIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, , POBTLAJfD. JUNE 23, 1918. ' . r 1 ..... . iiiittt " NOMINEES OF THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION TV I MSJnH D TAFT, OP OHIO. he has exhibited since the fight for his Domination began.. VICTORY GREAT, SAYS TAFT President Declares Party Has Been Saved From Real Menace. WASHINGTON, June 22. President Taft made the following statement to night: "A National convention of one of the great parties is ordinarily important only as a preliminary to a National campaign for the election of a Presi dent. The Chicago convention. Just ended, Is much more than this and is in itself the end of a pre-conventlon campaign, presenting a crisis more threatening and Issues more important than those of the election campaign which is to follow between the two great National parties. "The question here at stake was whether the Republican party was to change Its attitude 'as the chief con servator in the Nation of constitutional representative Government and was to weaken the constitutional guarantees of life, liberty and property and all others, shall not be Interfered with or destroyed. . . The social and political structure of the United States rests on the civil liberty of the individual; and for the protection of that liberty the people have wisely. In the National and state constitutions, put definite limitations on themselves, on their governmental officers and agencies. To enforce these limitations, to secure the orderly and coherent exercise of governmental pow er and to protect the rights of even the humblest and least-favored individual, are the function of independent courts of Justice. The Republican party reaffirms its Intention to uphold at all times the au thority and integrity of the courts, both state and Federal, and it will ever insist that their powers to enforce their process and to protect life, liberty and property shall be preserved Inviolate. An orderly method is provided under our system of government, by which the people may, when they choose, alter or amend the constitutional provisions which underlie that government. Un til these constitutional provisions are so altered or amended. In orderly fash ion. It is the duty of the courts to see VITAL POINTS OF NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PLATFORM Unchanging faith in government by the people declared. Authority and integrity of courts upheld; legislation against tedious and costly appeals and long delays urged. v Monopoly and special privileges opposed. Federal Trade Commission commended. Belief in protective tariff reaffirmed, with duties, high enough to protect American Industries. - . . Declares some import duties now too high and must go down. Democratic party condemned for not providing funds for continue anee of Tariff Board work. v Democratic tariff bills passed by C2d Congress condemned. Declares high cost of living not attributable to protective tariff. Scientific inquiry into high cost of living recommended. Revision of banking laws and currency system advised; also better ' facilities for farmers' credit urged. Investigation into agricultural credit societies recommended, . with state and Federal laws for future control. .- ' Civil service law approved; extension of competitive service favored. Equitable retirement of disabled and superannuated civil service members recommended. - Laws prohibiting corporation contributions to campaigns, directly or Indirectly, of President, Vice-President, Senators or Representatives ' la Congress. Campaign publicity approved. Established policy of Republican party on conservation of natural resources to be continued. More laws to aid bona fide homeseekers and settlers. Adequate parcels post favored. . . Protection of American citizens abroad regardless of religion, race or previous political allegiance. Condemns action of Democratic Honse refusing to provlde.for ad ditions to Navy. Merchant marine cited as one f country's most urgent needs. Federal Government urged to aid Mississippi flood district in pro viding permanent protection. Reclamation policy continuance recommended. Liberal system of improving rivers end harbors. - Liberal Alaska policy to insure development. - Favors opening of coal lands in Alaska on proper leasing basis; which will aid development and supply fuel ' for Navy and commerce of the Pacific Ocean; while retaining title in the United States to pre vent monopoly. Philippine policy should remain free from politics. Undesirable immigration should ' be bridled by appropriate laws; party pledged to enact such. More and better safeguards for life and property at sea.. Republican accomplishments set forth and approved include: Panama Canal. Bureau of Mines, postal savings bank; provision for aged and infirm sailors and for their widows; administration of pure -food laws. - Greater economy and Increased efficiency of .Government affairs commended. Extravagant appropriations and creation of unnecessary offices con demned as injustice and bad example to people. People called upon to quicken their- interest In public affairs; . lynching and other lawlessness condemned. Bringing of Arizona and New Mexico into Union approved. Challenges successful criticism of Republican - Administration of last 16 years under McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft, and indorses plat forms of each as carried out. Constructive accomplishments of President Taft set forth as "un-. exampled" and to which any Administration could point with confi dence. ... " ' ; '. iirjiiiiiiiii ' -1 i JAME9 SCHOOLCRAFT 8 other rights declared sacred in the bill of rights, by abandoning the principles of the absolute independence of the Jn dlclary essential to the maintenance of these rights. - The campaign carried on to seise the Republican party and make It the in strument of reckless ambition and the unsettling of fundamental principles of our Government was so sudden and un expected that tiem was not given clear ly to show to the people and the party the dangers which confronted them. It was sought to beak the wise and valu abre traditions against giving, more than two terms to any one man In the Presidency and the danger from its breach could not be measured. "The Importance of the great victory which has been achieved cannot be overestimated. - All over the country patriotic people tonight are breathing more freely that a most serious menace to our Republican institutions has been averted. "It Is not necessary tonight to speak of the result in November of the is sues which will -arise between the Re publican and Democratic parties in the Presidential campaign to follow. It will be time enough to do that after to It . that when challenged they are enforced. ' That the courts, both Federal and state, may bear the heavy burden laid upon them to the complete satisfaction of nubile opinion, we favor legislation to prevent long delays and the tedious and costly appeals wntcn have so oiten amounted to a denial of justice In civil cases and to a failure to protect the nubile at large In criminal cases. Since the responsibility of the judi ciary is so great, the standards of ju diclal action must be always and every, where above suspicion and reproach. While we regard the recall of judges as unnecessary and unwise, we favor such action as may be necessary to simplify, the process by which any Judge who is found to be derelict In his duty may be removed from office. Together with peaceful and orderly development at home, the Republican party earnestly favors all measures for the establishment and protection of the peace of the world and for the de velopment of closer relations between the various nations of the earth. It believes most earnestly in the peace ful settlement of international disputes and in the reference of all justiceable iiiiMiiiiii '.V; -,s iilipiStil;! f-lkMpKjp 0 r J:fgs ! : i "-SiS:ss:S;si H1, Photo Copyright by Bain News Service. HERMAN, OK NEW YORK. . the action of the Baltimore conven tion. - It is enough now to say that whatever may happen in November, a great victory or the Republican party and the United States has already been won." ' ... "The party remains as a great pow erful organization for carrying out its patriotic principles as an agency, of real progress in the development! of the Nation along the constitutional lines upon which it was constructed and has ever been maintained; and its future opportunity for usefulness Is as great as its achievements in the past." President Taft said tonight he was much in favor of having his secretary, Charles D. Hilles, for chairman of the Republican National CommittifS. He expressed high appreciation of Mr. Hilles' work in the pre-convention cam paign. When asked if he would take the stump this Fall the President re plied he considered it likely that he would. He was plainly elated at his victory. Collectors of etchings ar.d engravings must occasional! r pay high prices for their treas ure. A Rembrandt print. Jan 6ylv!u, signed by the artist and dated 1648, brought at auction recently Sit) 25. controversies between nations to an international court of justice. . Monopoly and Privilege. The Republican party Is opposed to special privilege and to monopoly. It placed upon the statute books the in terstate commerce act of 1837, and the Important amendments thereto, and the anti-trust act of 1890, and it has consistently and successfully enforced the provisions of these laws. It will take no backward step to permit the re-establlshment in any degree of con ditions which were intolerable. Experience makes It plain that the business of the country may be car ried on without fear or without dis turbance and at the same time with out resort to practices which are ab' horrent to the common sense of Jus tice. The Republican party favors the enactment of legislation supplemen tary to the existing anti-trust act which will define as criminal offenses those specific acts that uniformly mark attempts to restrain and to monopolize trade, to the end that those who hon estly intend to obey the. law may have a guide for their action and that those who aim to violate the law may tne more surely be punished. The same certainty should be given to the law prohibiting combinations and monopo lies that characterize other provisions of criminal laws, in order that no part of the field of business opportunity may be restricted by monopoly or com bination; that business success honor ably achieved may not be converted Into crime and that the right of every man to acquire commodities, and par ticularly the necessaries of life, in an open market, uninfluenced - by the manipulation of trust or combination, may be preserved. Federal Trade Commission. In the enforcement and administra tion of Federal laws governing inter state commerce and enterprises im pressed with a public use engaged therein, there la much that may be committed to the Federal Trade Com mission, thus placing in the hands of an administrative board many of the functions now necessarily exercised by the courts. This will promote promptness In the administration of the law and avoid delays and technicalities Incident to court procedure. The Tariff. We reaffirm our belief In - a pro tective tariff.' The Republican tariff policy has been of the greatest bene fit, to the country, developing our re sources, diversifying our industries and protecting our workmen against com petition with cheaper labor - abroad,, thus establishing for our wage earners the American standard of living. The protective tariff is so woven into the fabric of our industrialism and agri cultural life that to substitute for it a tariff for revenue only would destroy many industries and throw millions of our people out of employment. The products of the farm and' the mines should receive the ' same measure of protection as other products of Amer ican labor.. We hold that the import duties should be high enough, while yielding a suf ficient revenue, to protect adequately American industries and wages. Some of the existing import duties are too high and should be reduced. Readjustments should be made from time to time to conform to changed conditions and to , reduce excessive rates, but without injury to American Industry. ' To accomplish this, correct information Is indispensable. This in formation can best be obtained by an expert commission, as the large vol ume of useful facts contained in the recent reports of the Tariff Board has demonstrated, - The pronounced feature of modern Industrial life la Its enormous illversi- fication. To apply tariff rates Justly GQMMITTEE TORII OVER CREDENTIALS Taft Members Use . Epithet "Gutter Workers," Refer ring to Foes. . EPITHETS ' FREELY- USED Dertne Telia McCormick : He Must Answer to Charges St. Clair, of Idaho, and Taft leaders v - '. in : Controversy. '.. CHICAGO. June 22. Charges that the Roosevelt memoers of the credentials committee who signed the statement attacking the work of the committee were "willful liars" and "gutter work ers" were made by Chairman Devlne, Judge Robert E. Morrison and other Taft members of that committee, at the opening of today's session. The Roose velt statement was circulated last night by R. R. McCormick and signed by 15 men. It charges- there had been a coalition between National committee men and contested delegates, and that the reports from the committee were prepared in adance, in line with a definite understanding, '.'Any man who charges, that the Ari zona report was prepared in advance," declared Robert E. Morrison, of Ari zona, "is a willful liar. I wrote that re port myself affer the case had been de cided." - - ; Devlne Denounces McCormick. . "There was published this morning," said Chairman Devlne. "a statement aa dastardly a piece of falsification as was ever published or uttered. No man with any regard ror the trutn would sign or authorise such a statement. "It is more than an Insult to the ma jority of the members of this commit tee. Those who signed it lose sight of the fact that the majority members of. this committee are as good men, as honorable men end stand as high Jn the husiness and social affairs o their cities as the men who signed this. "The only ruffianly acts,, the only dastardly gutter work In this comuilt tee emanated from the other side, the minority membership- of the commit tee," continued Devlne. "This man McCormick, who prepared this statement, did not spend two hours in the work of this committee." Chairman Oevlne demanded of Mr. McCormick waere his proof was that reports had been prepared in advance. "Any time a man makes such a charge," he shouted. "I declare he is a willful, deliberate liar. I now demand of Mr. McCormick where his proof Is that these reports were prepared in advance." Word. Do Hoi Lead to Blows. "I did not come In here to have my acts put under question," said McCor mick, rising. "- "No. man can. make such chargea to these changing conditions requires closer study and more scientific meth ods than ever before. The Republican party has shown by its creation of the Tariff Board its recognition of this sit uation, and its determination -to be equal to it. We condemn the Demo crstic party' for its failure either to provide funds for the continuance of this Board, or to make Some other pro vision for securing the Information requisite for intelligent legislation. We protest against the Democratic method of legislating on these vitally impor tant subjects without careful Investi gation. - We condemn the Democratic tariff bills passed by the House of Represen- tatlves of the Sixty-second Congress as sectional, as Injurious to the public credit and as destroying business en terprises. Cost of Living. ., The steadily Increased cost of living has become a matter not only of Na tional but of world-wide concern. The fact that it is not due to the protective tariff system is evidenced by the ex istence of similar conditions in coun tries which have a tariff policy differ ent from our own, as well as by the fact that the cost of living has in creased while rates of duty . have re mained stationary or been reduced. The Republican party will support a prompt scientific - inquiry into the causes which are operative both in she United States and elsewhere to increase the cost of 'living. When the exact facts are known it will take the neces sary Bteps to remove any abuses that may be found to exist. In order that the cost ot food, clothing and shelter (Concluded on Page 11.) VOTE BY WHICH REPUBLICAN PIATFOBM WAS ADOPTED. Z o o 3 . ... o . state. : : 2. . ' . ...... .. . o - ''-, :' z : Alabama ............... 22.. 2.. Arizona 6 Arkansas .............. 17 1 Califorla 2 .. 24 .. Colorado 12....... Connecticut 14 Delaware 6 Florida 12 Georgia.... 28....... Idaho 8 Indiana 21 2 - 7 Iowa 1610 Illinois 48 . . 9 3 Kansas 2.. 18.. Kentucky 26 Louisiana 20 Maine 12 . . Maryland 8.. 6 2 Massachusetts 20.. 14 2 Michigan ....v.. ....... 22.. 8.. Minnesota 24 . . Mississippi 17.. 3.:. Missouri 36 Montana- 8 Nebraska 16.. Nevada - 6 New Hampshire 8 New Jersey . . 28.. New Mexico 8 New York . 85.. 5.. North Carolina..., 6.. 12 6 North Dakota 10 Ohio 14 . . 84 Oregon J 2 2 Oklahoma 4 1 15.. Pennsylvania 12.. 03 1 Rhode Island -. 10 South Carolina.... ... 15.. 3.. South Dakota.. -a--- 10 Tennessee 23 . 1 .. Texas 30 1 8 1 Utah 8 ..... .. Vermont .............. 6.. 2.. Virginia - 22 . . 1 1 Washington ............ 14 West Virginia 16.. Wisconsin- 26 Wyoming 6 Alaska 2 District of Columbia.. . 2 Hawaii 6 Philippines -2. Porto Rico............... 2 '. Totals. . 64j53 431S against me. declared Devlne, "with out having to answer to me lor it- don't care whether be is a foot high or ten feet high.". - Roosevelt members of the eommlttee demanded that Mr. Devine retire to the chair. - Instead he turned over the ga vel to LAnstrum. of Montana, and stepped down into the midst of the com mittee members. St. Clair. - of Idaho, declared he thought much of the statement was tree. . . "Do you believe that the reporj for the Arizona case was prepared In ad vancer1 demanded Judge Morrison, walking up to him. "Yes. I do," he said. "Then I say you are a liar," said Morrison. There was a rush of committeemen to the front, but neither St. Clair nor Judge Morrison showed any disposi tion toward physical encounter.- Reply to Chargea Demanded. Chairman Devlne demanded that a sub-oommlttee of the majority mem bers prepare a statement that would show the falsity of the charges made by ' the Roosevelt members. 1 tlTB.OF PRESIDENT TAFT, IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. Born at Cincinnati, Ohio. Septem ber 15, 1SS7. Graduated, B. A., from Yale Uni versity (salutatorlan), 1ST 9. L.L. B., Cincinnati Law School (dividing flrat prize). 1880. Reporter Cincinnati Times and Commercial, 18S0. . : Assistant prosecuting attorney. Hamilton County, Ohio. 18818. Collector Internal revenue. Flrat Elatrlct of Ohio. 18S2-8.- . Practiced law at Cincinnati, 1883-T. Married Helen Herron. of Cincin nati, June 19, 1SSC Assistant county solicitor, HamlJ- ton County,' 1885-T. ' Judge Superior Court of Cincin nati. 1887-90. ' . Solicitor-General of th United States, 1890-92. - United Statea Clrcolt Judge, Slzth ' Judicial District, 1892-1000. Dean - of law department. Univer sity of Cincinnati, 1898-1900. President United ' 8tatea Philip pines commission. March -13. 1900 July 4, 1901. First Clvn Governor Philippine Islands. July 4. 1901-Februarj 1. 1904. . '. Conducted negotlatlona for ' friar lands In Rome, 1902. . Declined appointment ai Associate Justice of United States Supreme Court, 1903. j Provisional Governor. ' of Cuba, . 190T. Secretary of War, February 1,' 1904. June 30, 190S. Nominated for President Juns 18, 1908. Elected President November 3, 1908. - Sworn In , aa President March 4, 1909. Renominated for- President June 22. 1912. - McCormick admitted he had written the report of the Roosevelt members. Be said that most of the Roosevelt men on the credentials committee . had . signed it. A proposal for a sub-committee of five Taft members to prepare an" at tack on behalf of the 35 members of the committee attacked was made. Representative Mondell, of Wyoming, declared that "not any member who signed this statement voted for any one but a Roosevelt man." I Some Roosevelt members replied they had voted for the' Taft delegates from Georgia. ' ' "A gentleman signed this who belted before the rules were passed," isaid Mondell; ' "and who doesn't know any of the evidence that was presented." "Who is it?" asked several members. "Heney, of . California," answered Mondell. "He hasn't been here? he doesn't know any of the evidence"that was presented." " "McCormick Is in the same position,1' Interrupted Chairman Devlne. . ' Wanton Insult, Says Mondell "This wanton, miserable, scurrilous Insult," added Mondell, "Is In keeping with the avalanche of abuse that, has been heaped upon the Republican party by men who claimed to belong to it. but who, when they first came ,lnto this room, declared the party had 'gone to hell anyhow.' Jesse A Tolerton, of Missouri, .said the McCormick report had been signed fn, htm hi- hi., nroxv. vesterdav.' but that he indorsed much of its contents, although he took exception to some of It. . ' - "None of us that signed the state ment is going back on It," said H. T. Halbert, of Minnesota, "but none of us iu Vi n aitrnfiri It hlLS anVthing but" thft highest respect for the other members of the committee. Th. xlerht Taft delea-ates-at-targs from Texas were placed on the perma n.nt roll of the convention by the. cre dentials oommlttee by 27 to 15. The 22 delegates irom contested Texas districts were seated in a single decision, without argument by the cre- l.ntial. nnmmlttM. No roll call WSJ taken. This completed the contests. FAST TRAINS ARE PROMISED Oregon Electric Will Open Service to Albany July I. Regular service between Portland and Albany over the new Oregon Elec- trlo will be Inaugurated Monday, July 1, according to announcement made yesterday by W. E. Coman, general passenger agent of the line. . Five trains will be operated daily between Portland and Albany. A new limited train will be put on. furnishing fast service between Albany, Salem and Portland, leaving Albany 7:30 A. M., Salem 8:30 A M., and ar riving In Portland at 10 A. -M. . Re turning, it will leave Portland 6 P. M, arriving in Salem at 6:30 P. M. and Albany 7:30 P. M. This train will be In addition 'to the present limited which leaves Portland 9 A M., arriving in Salem 10:80 A. M. and which will be extended through to Albany, arriving there at 11:30 A. M. In the opposite direction the present limited will leave Albany about 2:45 P. M., continuing the same schedule from Salem at 3:45 P. . M., arriving in Portland at 6:10 P...M.- The time at first will be about two and one-half hours between Port land and . Albany, but this will be shortened to two hours, and a quarter. Observation cafs will be operated on both the limited trains. The line Is rock-ballasted and will be In condition for fast service. Pass ing tracks 2000 feet long have been provided every four miles. Employes Are Insured. : LOS ANGELES. Cal., June 22. (Spe cial;) An Insurance pension system has been established for the many em ployes of the estate of Herman W. Hellman, who have been In service for ten years or more. This announcement was made today by Marco H. Hellman, son of the late financier. It is believed to be tne nrst In the country. Under the arrangement which has been made with the employes of the estate, an insurance policy is issued tor each and the premiums are paid by the estate. ... -.- - -i In case of death, tne amount of ir.o policy is paid to the widow or family. Each policy win be lor approximately 12000- . .