The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, December 21, 1913, Section One, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTHE -SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. DECEMBER 21, 1913. I RIFT ON BILL i CURRENCY IS SERIOUS I Glass Frankly Admits Early f . Agreement of Houses Is I L Not to Be Expected. I REPUBLICANS KEPT OUT Bank. Reserve Requirement Imposed i by Senate Attacked as Threaten t ing Calamity Differences Arc Developed Early. t ' IVAfrHIXGTOX, Dec. 30. Senate Deai- iM-ratf- member ol the conference i rmnltlfc decide at the night aemlon not to take thrlr Republican colIrnKnes lata the conference. Senator C rawford, one of the Repablieaa rtnm noon i learning; that he would not participate. J left Washington for hia home to spend the holiday. The novae conferees de aired to have their Repablieaa col. league, RcpreaeatatlTO HaTes, Join la the dellberatlona. i WASHINGTON. Dec 10. Tha task of settling the differences between the House of Representatives and the Sen- X ate In the Administration currency bill J was taken up in earnest tonight by the Jtemocrats of the conference commlt- T tee of the two houses, headed by Sena- tor Owen and Representative Glass, j The Republicans of the committee did 5 not attend. No one would predict when an agreement would be reached, and 1 Representative Glass flatly declared 5 that the differences were serious and no Immediate agreement was looked 1 tor. - Predictions had been made earlier In ; the day of a report to tha Senate on Monday. c Ifoaae Knvorn Loaa-Tlme Paper. ? The House conferees entered on the S work Instructed to accept two Senate i amendments calculated to aid atrrlcul tural communities. The Instructions were adopted by the House after an ef- -'i Tort to hare it concur In all of the rjenate amendments had failed. The amendments indorsed by the House i were those providing -that six months commercial papers shall be eligible for i rediscount at the Federal banks in rtead of three months paper only, as originally provided by the House bill, and giving- National banks the right to make loans on five-year farm mort gages up to one-third of their time deposits. The Senate amendment providing- for the establishment of -depositors' in surance fund was mentioned in the House debate, but It was not Included in tha instructions. The House con ferees. however, held a session before meeting- the Senate committee and de rided to make a fight against the pro vision. Strong- support for the amend ment on the floor of the Senate waa evidenced durinjr the consideration of the bill, and a further fight was pre dicted if the conference report elimi nated the provision. Reaerve Amendments Oppoaed. 3 The House conferees' were prepared I also to make a vigorous fight against several of the reserve requirements J changed by tha Senate.. On. this point 1 Representative Glass was particularly Z emphatic in the debate in the House. "The bank reserve requirement of 1 the Senate bill." he said, "would result I In calamity. Under the Senate amend 5 ments the totaj reserves of the banks in cash and in credit with the reserve l banks would be less than the banks at present hold in cash In their vaults i Within a few months, under these pro- t visions, we would have a saturnalia of t expansion of wild Inflation." The reading of the bill was begun 1 by the Democratic members, of the ( conference committee Immediately j after they met. Within an hour seri- 1 ous points of differences developed. The House members announced their Z , Intention of insisting that the Beere- tary of Agriculture and the Con i troller of the Currency be retained as 5 members of the committee to organize Z the new system and aa members of the .Federal reserve board. The Senate amendment removed them from both. Maximum of 12 Rejected. On the number of regional banks the House members agreed to accept the Senate provision that not fewer than eight be created, but Insisted that the provision be eliminated fixing the max Imura number at 12. They also an nounced that they would insist on the House provision that the capital stock of each regional bank be fixed at t per cent of the capital of the National bnnks in its district. Instead of at per cent of the capital and surplus of the banks, aa provided in the Senate bill. his story en the stand. Wallace sur prised his friends by making no defense whatever. His counsel merely moved to non-suit the case on the ground the aleged actions were committed more than three years ago. After the case was dismissed Flemming sail. "I made him hide behind the statute of limitations, which waa all I wanted. I don't care about the money." When the case waa called Flemming took the stand and swore that in Janu ary, IS 10, he sold a ranch at La Canada to Wallace, taking stock In the Seaside Water Company as part payment. W sl ice, it was alleged, told Flemming this stock was worth 1125 a share, but Flemming- said he later found, out It was worth only $55. BOY SLAIN BY ROBBERS Voa Angeles Messenger Is Beaten to Death With Pick Handle. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20. (Special.) A blood-stained pick-handle waa the only clew found today to the highway-, men who waylaid Harold Ziesche, a 15-year-old delivery boy for a Highland Park druggist, last night and killed him to gain possession of J20. "The pick handle evidently had been used to kill the boy. The boy waa answering a call to RIDICULE NOT LIKED Carabao Affair Shows Absence of Sense of Humorv SONG OFTEN SUNG BEFORE Contrast "With Taft's Appreciation of Jokes at His Kxpense Shown. Battleship Skit Fully En jojed by Burleson. fCorttntied Prom Piryt Page..) It should further be said that this song, so offensive to the Administration, is not at all offensive to the civilized people of the Philippine Islands, for ONE OF BURLESQUE WARSHIPS PARADED AT HISTORICAL DINNER OF SOCIETY OF CARABAO. BANKS ALREADY APPLTINO Efforts to Get Into System Begin Before Bill Is Signed. WASHINGTON. Dec 20. With the currency bill in its final stage in Con gress, informal applications from Na tional banks to get into the system that will be created under Its provis ions began to come today to Secretary of the Treasury McAdoux. early a score of such applications had been re ceived uu to closing time tonight and Mr. MeAdoo Is of the opinion that there will be a greater rush early next So far the applicants have been Na tional banks from all parts of the country. Practically every request came by telegraph. One was signed by 11 National banks la Baltimore; an- tlier came from Chii-ago. a third from Arkansas, one from Wisconsin, one from lo-a. one from Virginia and others from different states. No reply l.aj been made by Secretary McAd.H to the applications and no action will be taken by the Treasury Department until the bill is signed by the Presi dent. It is probable, however, that, other things being equal, the first applica tion will be the first honored, although no final determination has been reached on this question. AlreaUy Secretary MeAdoo is pre paring to bestn work at tha Treasury on the vast change In the Nation's financial system that the new law will entail. He practically barred his doors to callers today and had a long talk over the bill with Charles A. Conant, of New York, an expert on finance. : LIMITATIONS LAW PLEADED eult for $10,800 Against California Lieutenant-Governor Qoaslied. I LOS ANGELES, CaL Dec 20. (Ppe- rial.) Lieutenant-Governor A. J. Wal- J lace, energetic Bull Moose, and well- - known In religious circles, pleaded the t statute of limitations late Friday, when - bis counsel moved for a non-suit in the action brought by A. J. Flemming to - recover JIO.S'JO. which Flemming al- leged Wallace secured through misrep resentation. After Flemming had told I I j J TJ. 9. ft. "PIFFLE." I t.,,, ,,,, ... A Pedro, and Truman A. Dawn, of Elma. Wash, made a record start on their matrimonial career today. It was the quickest marriage ever performed in the county.' Dawn and his prospective bride entered the Court house in breathless haste. They ex plained that they had to catch the steamer, which left San Pedro at noon. The license was hurriedly filled out and Dawn grasped it, the ink still wet. In one hand and a suitcase in the other. The . . Broadway Christian Church across the street was the next objective point. No time was .wasted on the ceremony. An automobile was called while the pastor waa signing the mar riage certificate, and without stopping for congratulations the couple Jumped Into the machine and were off for San Pedro. Once out of the city streets a fast run was made over the boulevard to the harbor, and the machine did not stop until it drew up on the pier.- Down the channel drifted the smoke of the departing steamer. A launch was at hand and in this Mr. and Mrs. Dawn pursued the vessel- Captain E. 1 W. Mason espied the signals of the launch passengers and signaled the engine room to slow down. A "Jacobs ladder' was released over the side and the bride and bridegroom scrambled up to the deck, while passengers and a crowd on the wharf cheered. SHOTS FIRED SEATTLE DISORDERS - COITTIVCE VS STRIKE OF TEAMSTERS. deliver medicines and change for a 20 gold piece. The call evidently waa sent in by the highwaymen themselves, and .they attacked- the lad in a lonely spot at the foot of Mount Washington, tie was found unconscious in a ditch some time after the attack, and died in a hospital without being able to giva) a description of bis assailants. The only words he uttered were: f "Mother, two men beat me. TUNNEL PLANABANDONED Federal Kngineers Decide on Canal From Lake Keechelns. NORTH TAKIMA, Wash, Dec. 20. (Special.) After a meeting of engi neers of the United States Reclamation Bervice. it has been decided to change the outlet of the storage reservoir at Lake Keechelns from a tunnel to an open canal C. IL Swigart, supervising engineer of the service, haa returned from a conference at Lake Keechelus with D. C. Henny and other members of the service, at which the decision was reached. The change is for economy. Work on the tunnel, which was to have been seven-eighths of a mile long, has shown that constructing the bore in soft glacial deposit will be too expensive- Water, at a pressure oi nearly zo pounds to the square inch, has been encountered and compressed air, ex pensive to install and operate, would be necessary if the tunnel idea had been retained. The work has been dangerous, al though no fatal accidents have occurred. The change to an open outlet plan will necessitate raising the outlet works 20 feet. STAR REFUSED BY WOMAN Mrs. Roy Spurns Police Job TTnder Laws Made by Others. GART. Ind, Dec. 20. This city will not have a woman police head at pres ent, as Mrs. Kate Wood Roy today de clined to accept the appointment ten dered her several daya ago by Mayor Knotts, president of the Board or foo- lic Safety. Mrs. Roy. who at first planned to accept the office, which controls the fire and police departments, .said that she would not hold office under laws that she had no part In making. Wage Increase Granted to 38041. CAMDEN. N. J.. Dec 20. The Public Service Railway Company of New Jer sey today annnounced an increase in wages for its motormen and conductors to go into effect January 1. The maxi mum scale will be raised from 25 cents an hour to SO cents. The minimum will be 23 cents for beginners. The inter vening rates will be graded according to length of service, adoui sauv men will receive the increase. they are as anxious as are the officers of the Army and Navy to damn the In surrectos. Neither President Roosevelt nor President Tafi. ever found anything in the song to offend their sensibilities, and both- attended several oL-the an nual Carabao dinners during their re spective administrations. As a matter of fact, the song in question afforded the Administration far less excuse for being peeved than did the battleship Incident after Sec retary Daniels wilked out. It should be said parenthetically that Postmaster-General Burleson, who sat through the whole dinner, split his sides laugtr ing at the battleships, even though they were aimed at his absent colleague the Secretary of State. Naturally, the Army and Navy cannot be expected to entertain a high regard for Secretary Bryan's spineless diplomacy, to which the Administration is committed. They cannot be expected to take much stock in the "battleship friendship" and the "battleship fellowship." The Carabaos rigged up three minia ture battleships for their dinner one labeled "V. S. S. Friendship," another the "l. S. S. Fellowship" and the third and last "U. S. S. Piffle." These minia ture ships were carried around the ban quet hall, the first ship being stripped of its guns, but its deck covered with a miniature circus tent bearing tne legend: 'Chautauqua Lectures. The "Fellowship" had her full quota of guns, but their muzzles were stuffed with posies. The TT. S. S. Piffle" rep resented a little warship, from her portholes protruding what appeared to be guns, but which, in reality, were bottles of grape juice, soda water and pop. Her fighting mast. Instead of being mounted with machine guns, bore a lecture platform: on her deck a "moving-picture tent." and Uncle Sam, at the tiller, was megaphoning his message of 'Teace on Earth," while over his head and on the bowsprit were doves of peace. Xavy'a View Accurately Giveau There is no denying the fact that this one ship model conveyed accur ately the Navy view of the Adminis tration's diplomatic programme. The ridicule heaped on President Wilson and his Administration was no worse, and not so direct, as have been jokes at the expense of President Tatt at dinners which President Tart at tended. At tf ose dinners songs were sung making fun of the then. Presi dent, and no one enjoyed them more than he: his policies were ridiculed, and he took the ridicule in good part. The Wilson Administration is , sensi tive. It will tolerate no ridicule or criticism from men in the Government service. What it will get from other sources as a result of the Carabao in cident remains to be seen. MARRIAGE DONE IN HASTE Martimonial Craft of Couple at Los Angeles Has Flying Start. LOS ANGELES. CaJ, Dec 20 (Spe cial.) Miss Madeline Bach man, of San Thirty Extra PoHeemen Keep Crowds Moving Employers' Associa tioa Issues Statement. SEATTLE. Dec 20. More shots were fired today In the " teamsters strike trouble, G. C Simms, a non-anlon driver, firing into' a crowd of strikers at Utah and Holgate -streets without injuring anyone. Simms was arrested by a policeman who was nearby. He said he had been assaulted by - the strikers, but this charge was denied by the union men. The 30 extra policemen appointed by Mayor Cotterill yesterday kept the crowds moving In the freight district to. day and the shooting in the late after. noon and the stoning of Robert Lewis, a non-union driver, were the only seri ous ontbreaks. Lewis was knocked from his seat and spent the rest of the day in the city hospital. He was not seriously hurt. Benjamin Angel, a strikebreaker, who shot two strikers yesterday, was re leased from jail today on J1500 bail. T. H. Bolton, president of the Central Labor Council, replied today to the statement given out last night by the Employers' Association of the State of Washington According to Mr. Bolton, the arming of strikebreakers and the interference of the Employers' Associa tion in the business of the Draymen's Association is the cause of the present trouble. "The sole cause of yesterday's trou ble," said Mr. Bolton, "was the inter ference of the Employers' Association four weeks ago when the union team sters and the Draymen's Association had agreed on a settlement and had all but signed the agreement. 'Though we greatly regret yester day's occurrence, we disclaim any re sponsibility for it. It is not a case of open shop. It is a case of a non-union shop where any man who wants to bet ter his working conditions cannot work." i ;, 1MEH MAY BE TRICKED DEMOCRATIC ROUSE PLANS SUB TERFUGE TO DELAY SUFFRAGE. Xamlntr Committee Postponed bnt In formation Is It Will Be Selected and "Pnetced" Acalast Bill. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Dec 20. The House committee on rules has postponed until January la or later action on the demand of the Buffragists for the formation of a com mittee on woman suffrage ' Inside in formation, coming from Democratic sources, is to the effect that ultimately such a committee will be created, but that it will be "packed" against equal suffrage. In other words, the House leaders will meet the demand of the suffragists to the extent of creating a committee, 'but they will nx the com mlttee so that a majority of its mem- bers will be opposed to universal suf fragc, thus stifling legislation which proposes to grant to women the right to vote in National elections. The present leaders of the House dq not believe in woman suffrage, and do not propose, if they can avoid It, to give consideration to legislation which proposes either an amendment to the Constitution or direct enactment to per mit women to vote in Congressional and Senatorial elections. 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PHEGLEY & CAVENDER . ... Fourth Street at Alder SUCCESSORS TO SALEM WOOLEN MILLLS CLOTHING COMPANY so unlike in origin and bo profoundly unsympathetic one with the other. "There is no reason why President Poincare should not present himself in Washington." Bays the editor of the Midi, "with a kind of mandate of peace and harmony of imposing grandeur." FIRE SWEEPS DOCKYARD ALL WARSHIPS I.V PORTSMOUTH HELP SUBDUE BLAZE. New Battleship Cruiser Queen Hary la Danger From Burning; Brands Falling on Her Deck. PORTSMOUTH, Eng., Dee. 20. A fierce, fire which, though restricted to a limited area in the dockyard here, was still raging at a late hour tonight, taxed to the utmost all the available resources of the port to cope with it. The conflagration started in a sail-loft alongside the south railway jetty and then spread to a huge semaphore tower used for signalling warsmps and to adjacent 'buildings. The fire gained such headway mat all the warships in the harbor were summtfnedv to 'send fire crews to the dockyard and tha fire appliances of the marine and military barracks were requisitioned, as well as the entire flrefighting force of the port. For a time the new ftatuesnip cruiser Queen Mary, which was moored along side the jetty, was in jeopardy from burning brands falling on her deck, but she was towed out of the danger zone. When the fire was at Its helglit flames fed by the stores of lubricating oil shot 100 feet into the air, illumi nating the entire harbor. For Dry Feet people all say the use of the well known Webfoot Shoe Dressing is most satisfactory. This wonderful shoe grease prolongs the life of leather by Keeping it soft and pliable and makes shoes ab solutely waterproof. Can be found at most dealers. Adv. That hard coal. Edlefsen. 262 Stark. -Adv. SONG THAT AROUSED IRE OF PRESIDENT. CAUSED HTM TO QUIT THE CARABAOS AND ORDER SWEEPING INVESTIGATION. DAMN. DAMN. DAMN THE IXSURRECTOS. In that land of dopy dreams, happy, peaceful Philippines, Where the boioman la hiking night and day. Where Tagaloa steal and lie. where Americanos die. There you hear the soldiers sing this evening lay: CHORUS Damn, damn, damn the Insurrectos. cross-eyed kakiack ladrones. Underneath the starry flag, civilise 'em with a Krag. And return us to our own beloved homes. There's a land of dopy dreams, far from Filipino themes. Where the bolomen are busy night and day: Where they wield the gladsome ax. taking hnge and gory hacks. At a shining pate or lock of hoary hair. CHORUS. Damn, damn, damn the insurrectos. cross-eyed kakiack ladrones. Underneath the starry flag, civilise 'em with a Krag, Ere they return us to our own beloved homes. Old time customs there are few. a!l the members hack and hew At the standpat bunch in manner far from nice. They believe In making Hay, Warren for it day by day. When the pie is cut each wants the biggest slice. I've a largo and growing hunch that this insurrecto bunch Would have been the chaps to cop the fleece of gold; Poor old Jason in his hunt would have pulled a better stunt. Had he the crowd that left us In the cold. WOMAN PIONEER IS DEAD Mrs. Manda L. Schafer, 63 Tears in State, inspires- at Baker. BAKER, Or, Dec 20. (Special.) Mrs. Manda L. Schafer, a pioneer of 1850 in Oregon. ied here today after a brief Illness. She was 66 years old. She crossed the plains In an ox-team to Oregon when she was a child 3 years old. her parents locating in Salem. She came to Baker in 1860 and lived here since. Mr. Schafer, three daugh ters, a son and a brother, J. Taylor, of Salem, survive. A RULER'S DEATH CONFIRMED Official News as to Menelik With held to Insure Succession. ROME, Dec 20. That Emperor Men elik, of Abyssinia, died on December 13 Is confirmed in the latest dispatches received here from Addis Abeba, the Abyssinian capital. 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