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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 13. 1914. 7 MODIFIED HARBOR DILL IS AGREED ON Mouth of Columbia Gets $1, 000,000 Cash; Contract for $1,500,000 Additional. "PORK" IMPERILS MEASURE Opponents Will Continue Fight on Ground TJnworthy Projects Have Not Been Eliminated' Bur ton Issues Statement. OREGON! AN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. Sept. 12. The modified river and harbor bill, as agreed on today by the Senate commerce committee, car ries a cash appropriation of $1,000,000 for the mouth of the Columbia River and a continuing contract authoriza tion of Jl.500,000 additional. This is a reduction of J2.600.000 in the con tinuing contract provision. All the ether Northwestern items remain as they were in the bill when It was first reported to the Senate June 18. If the bill can be passed in its pres ent torm. there will be ample funds for work on the north jetty until the end of the fiscal year, and it is ex pected that the river and harbor bill to be presented next session will in crease the continuing contract author ization to the full amount necessary to complete the project. CommittM Retains "Pork." There is still serious question about the passage of the modified bill, how ever, since practically all the cuts made were in continuing contract authoriza tions. Such authorizations are not in the nature of appropriations, for the amounts so authorized in the pending bill will not be appropriated until the sundry civil bill Is framed and passed next Winter. Of cash appropriations carried by the pending bill, only $300,000 lias been eliminated from the original river and harbor bill, and that Is the extent of the actual economy effected by the change, though apparently there has been a saving of 19.000,0o0. Moreover, the committee in redraft ing the bill retailed every pork-barrel Item to which objection has been raised, and in some instances these Items were not even reduced. Burton to Continue Fight. Senator Burton, therefore, will con tinue his fight on the bill, and those who have stool with him thus far will continue their fight as long as possi ble. Opponents of the measure assert they will be able to defeat the mod ified bill and that they will do so unit-the graft items are taken out en tirely. This the commerce committee has flatly declined to do. "The reductions made," said Senator Burton in a formal statement today, do not diminish by more than a few hundreds of thousands the ultimate expense of pending river and harbor improvement. What the opponents of the bill object to is such vicious Items as the Cumberland River above Nash ville, the ultimate expense of which would be f4.500.00O. A proposed system of locks in the Tennessee, indefinite in the final expenditure, still remain in the bill. Again, the Sacramento and Feather rivers, a reclamation propject which does not belong in a river and harbor bill, is not changed. On this subject the bill contemplates the ex penditure of o, 860,000. As an illustra tion of the action of the committee, a project in Boston harbor Intended to make it easy and safe for deep-draft boats to enter, and an authorization of $1,000,000 for Philadelphia are omitted, while the Brazos, the Trinity, the Red and the Ouachita rivers, though provision is reduced, still remain. A large number of inconsequential creeks and streams on the Atlantic Coast and elsewhere still occupy a prominent place. Under these circumstances the opponents of the bill feel compelled to continue their opposition, with a view to obtaining the elimination of glaringly objectionable Items." DOLLAR STRONG FOR JETTY Shipowner Telegraphs and Writes to Down Report He Is Opponent, Robert Dollar, president of the Rob ert Dollar Steamship Company, who was reported by Senator Burton, of Ohio, to have said jetty work at the mouth of the Columbia River was secondary to dredging, has telegraphed to Sena tor Burton correcting the impression and asking the Ohio solon to lend his support to the rivers and harbors bill section, providing for Columbia River jetty improvements on a continuing contract basis. The telegram was sent from San Francisco, and Mr. Dollar em phatically advised Senator Burton he was a strong supporter of Jetties as an "absolute necessity." Mr. Dollar has written A. B. Hammond, of the Ham mond Lumber Company. San Francisco, to the same effect. Copies of the com munications have been sent to Q. B. McLeod. of Portland, and others will be sent to all shipowners and allied inter ests concerned in the Columbia Im provements. The communications fol low: SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10. 1914. Hon. T. W. Burton, United states Senate. TCa&hington. -D. c.: Copy of your letter to Wlllard has been sent me. Cannot understand how I have been wrongly reported to you. Am strongly In favor of Jetties at all bar harbors. Dredg ing is an auxiliary and an assistance but Jetties are absolutely necessary, considering great Importance of Columbia River 1 be apeak for it your hearty support. Thanking you in advance and with kind regards. ROBERT DOLLAR. September 1U 1914. Mr. G. B. McLeod, lit'u Yeon Building, Portland, Or. Dear Sir: I enclose letter received from Captain Dollar this morning, also copy of telegram that he has sent to Senator Burton. I have written all the other shipowners Interested, and will have telegrams sent for ward on the same lines, and send you copies tomorrow or next day. Sincerely yours, A. B. HAMMOND. San Francisco. Sept. 10. 1914. Mr A. B. Hammond. Hammond Lumber Co -Mil) California St.. City. Dear Sir: I am Just In receipt of your letter of September 9th In which you en close copy of letter from Senator Burton. In which he said I had aaid that dredging was the important part of the Improvements at the mouth of the Columbia River, and not Jetties. I have always been of the opinion that all bar harbors should first have Jetties, and dredging afterwards. In fact, without Jet ties, dredging Is only a temporary relief. l' cannot understand how Senator Burton could have gotten the Idea that I was not tn favor of Jetties. He is a gentleman for whom I have the highest regard, and his integrity is beyond question. Therefore I must come to the conclusion he has been misinformed. However. I trust the inclosed telegram which I sent him today will straighten the matter up. Furthermore, In anything that I can do o 'assist in the deepening of the ColembU Rtvsr bar, consider me at your rervlce. Yours very truly, ROBERT DOLLAR. Cnlverslty Students Plan Dance. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Sept. 12. (Special.) President Penney of the 1917 class has begun preparations for the first formal dance of the sea son by announcing his committees. Mr. Penney is registered from Colville, Wash. Among other northern students on the committees is Dorothy Epping of Hood River, Or. FREIGHT TAX IS TO WAIT House Democrats Demand Wilson's Open ApprovaL .WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. House Democrats want President Wilson to approve openly the proposed 3 per cent tax on freight bills before a war reve nue bill carrying that provision is in troduced. That the force of his ap proval is necessary was agreed on to day by Administration leaders. Chairman Underwood, of the House committee preparing the measure, de cided today to hold up the bill until the President's return from New Hamp shire next week, after he and other Democrats had conferred with Secre tary McAdoo and Postmaster-General Burleson. The Postmaster-General, it was said, assured Mr. Underwood the President would openly indorse the plan when he returned to Washington. Insistence of Democratic leaders on an official expression from the White House was based, it was said, on a de sire not to assume all responsibility for the freight tax in face of lively op position from many Democrats in Con gress, which gained so much strength today that a petition for party cay- PROMINENT PASTOR TO LEC TURE AT Y. M. C. A. Revs Klwin I.. House, Formerly Pastor of the First Consrresra tlonal Church. Rev. Elwin L. House, formerly pastor of the First Congrega tional Church, will lecture at 3:15 o'clock today in the audito rium at the Y. M. C. A., on "The Power of the Mind." Mr. House resigned his pastorate several years ago to go on the lecture platform. Since that time he has lectured in some of the largest churches In the West. He has just arrived in Portland from California. J cuses was circulated. Some Southern and Western members still insist that the subject is one for a caucus, even if the bill is introduced bearing the Pres ident's approval. Those who oppose the freight tax in sist the party should -tax luxuries and not directly or indirectly affect the price of necessities, particularly food products. They will urge increase of 50 cents a barrel on beer, 10 cents a gallon on spiritous liquors. 20 cents a gallon on wines and an undecided tax on cigarettes. In addition it is pro posed to renew the effort to raise the income tax one-half of 1 per cent with out altering the exemption .figures. The previous proposal, which was disapproved by President Wilson, would have reduced the figure ror taxable in comes from $3000 to $2000. An auto mobile tax also will be urged and an inheritance tax of 5 per cent. From these sources, it is estimated, an an nual increase in revenue of $105,000,000 will be forthcoming. 8 STEFANSSON MEN DIE ONLY EIGHT BELIEVED TO HAVE REACHED Vt'RANGELL ISLAND. Report of Deaths Is Said to Come From Revenue Cntter Bear Now on Rescue Trip. SEATTLE. Wash., Sept. 13. The Post-Intelligencer publishes a report today that eight members of the Ste fansson Polar expedition perished In the Arctic after the wreck of the steamer Karluk and that only eight survivors reached Wrangell Island. A number of vessels ire now endeav oring to rescue survivors of the wreck and It has been believed there are 22 men on Wrangell Island. The report published today, it is said, was sent to Nome, Alaska, by wireless from the United States revenue cutter Bear, one of the boats engaged in attempting the rescue of the men on Wrangell Is land. JOURNAL CUPOLA AFIRE Blaze 200 Feet From Street Fought From Extension Ladders. Fire was discovered at 2:15 this morning in the dome of the Journal building at Broadway and Taylor street. The blaze evidently had been burning some time before it was dis covered. The fire department responded to a call and ladders were shot up to the cupalo, nearly 200 feet above the street. Firemen wer- sent up the lad der with hose, and others climbed from the elevator shaft through the dome. The blaze was extinguished, and the damage, it was said, is slight. Civil Service Examination Set. The United States Civil Service Com mission announces that a forest and field clerk examination will be held in Seattle. October 17, 1914. Persons 18 years old or over who desire to enter the examination should apply to the local secretary of the Board of Civil Service Examiners, atthe Postofflce In this city, or to the secretary of the Eleventh Civil Service District, 20J Postofflce building, Seattle. Wash., for an application blank (form 1371), a copy of the announcement (No. 184), and "Information for applicants." Austrians Reported in Panic. ROME (via Paris). Sept. 12. News from the Austrian frontier says that the Austrian army In Galicia is demor alised and that the efforts of the of ficers to restore confidence are in vain. It Is added that the Austrian soldiers are in a panic and are fleeing for safety. : GARRANZA DENIES ALARMING REPORTS First Chief Says Peace and Harmony Prevail Through out Republic. VERA CRUZ NOT CLOSED Affairs in Capital Declared to Have Been Mere Brawl Between Po- g - - Ucemen aitkl Soldiers Ma rauders Cnder Control. WASHINGTON, Sept 12. Rafael Zu baranz of the Mexican constitutionalist agency here announced tonight the re ceipt of the following message on con ditions in Mexico from Venustiano Carranza, first chief of the constitu tionalist forces. "The alarming reports that you have brought to my attention as circulating In the United States as Mexican news have no foundation in fact. For in stance, the report that several police men were Bhct in Mexico City is abso lutely untrue. What actually occurred was a street brawl between the police and a number of Constitutionalist troops, who were carousing. The af fair was handled without difficulty and no further consequence has ever at tended It. No Federal Officers Shot. "Not a single federal officer has been shot On the contrary, the greater majority of them are now enjoying the fullest liberty consonant with ex isting conditions. "The decree revoking the order pro mulgated by the Governor of the fed eral district and its military command, ant In regard to the occupation of private property and the formalities requisite for arrest does not mean that we intend to wrest from the people their personal property rights. The action was taken simply as a tem porary measure to prevent cliques of troublemakers and revolution brewers from using the immunities for their own personal ends and the detriment of the government. "It is not true that the port of Vera Cruz has been closed. "Peace and the best of harmony now prevail throughout the zone controlled by the constitutionalists, which virtu ally covers the entire republic Little friction has attended the mustering out of the federal army. The last step in this plan occurred recently in the Isth mus of Tehauntepec and the States of Tobasco, Chiapas and Campeche, with the result that now the entire federal army has been peacefully disperses. Marauders Almost Exterminated. "The exaggerated reports relative to the Zapatista activities are unfounded. Small marauding bands acting merely on their own initiative in the States of Puebla and Mexico have been routed and all but exterminated. "The constitutionalists are working amicably together and with the single purpose of establishing permanent peace and a stable government. All reports as to divisions In our ranks are false. "General Villa Is working in perfect harmony and genuine subordination. By reason of his laudable and patriotic at titude and in view of his high merit I have Just promoted him to the rank of division general. "A large constitutionalist force was dispatched to the Isthmus of Tehaun tepec. I have recalled 8000 of the troops because conditions were so peaceful and friendly there as not to necessitate their presence. The State of Oaxaca, after recognizing the sov ereignty of the new government has organized a volunteer army that is co-operating with the national troops to maintain order and to disperse the small bands of insurrectos hovering in that district under the leadership of Argumedo'anfl Aguilar. Government Has Army of 130,000. "The stability of the new govern ment is fully guaranteed by the sup port of an army of 120.000 men, splen didly equipped and animated with an unselfish spirit of patriotism." A trade boom in Monterey, Mexico, was reported at the State Department today by the Consul-General as due to the re-opening ot the railroads. Ex portation are being rapidly moved from the district and large consign ments of American goods are arriving daily. Consular reports from Tamplco pre sent the contrary conditions, however. Previous warnings to Americans look ing for employment not to go to Tam plco have been repeated. Many are un employed and destitute in this district, reports say. EMPLOYES T0FIGHT CUT City Workers Will Oppose Proposed Vacation Ordinance. The proposed ordinance to cut the vacation periods of city employes and to force them either to work on certain of the country-wide legal holidays or lose their pay for that day, promises to be the cause of a lively fuss before the City Commission at its regular meet ing Wednesday. The measure has been presented by Commissioner Brewster, and is being bitterly opposed by em ployes all through the city service. y The measure provides that city em ployes shall be paid their full day's salary for Memorial day, the Fourth of July, Labor day. Thanksgiving and Christmas, but not for other holidays unless they work. The provisioin will govern men on a salary basis as well as those working by the day. The measure provides also that the regular annual vacation periods shall be two weeks, counting Sundays and holidays. At present the vacations are 14 working days. By taking advantage of Sundays and holidays employes under present conditions receive no fewer than 15 days, and often as many as 18 days' vacation. Injury Blamed on Railroads. Struck by a shower of sticks from a passing freight car filled with slab wood while waiting for a passenger train at Goodin station, Clackamas County, and injured, is the allegation set up by Peter B. Bartell in his suit for $2500 damages against the South ern Pacific Company. It is charged that the passing freight was maintaining a speed, of 25 miles an hour as it passed, and the motion of the car threw off pieces of wood that bruised and hurt the plaintiff. Ingersoll Is Lecture Topic. "Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. His Life and Philosophy," is the subject of an address which will be delivered tonight at Scandinavian Hall, Fourth and Yam hill streets, by Charles T. Spradlng, of Los Angeles, secretary of the National Rationalist Association. The address will be the last of a series delivered in Portland by Mr. Spradlng. and will be free. Women and children are espe cially requested to come. You'll Make the Best Shot You Ever Did, a Long, straight drive, when you step into our store and put up to us the question of giving you the best clothes -value you ever had for the money. We've got it; it's here now; we'll show you smart style, perfect tailoring, the choicest fabrics both foreign and do mestic; the new tartan weaves and chalkline and pencil stripes. They're all here in Hart Schaffner & Marx fine clothes; special models for young men; special patterns and colorings. Young men should use the new Model 54; you see the back of it in the illustration above. For older men Model 18. Come and see these clothes; see what $25 gets you in clothes-value. And others at $18 and $20 and up to $40. Sam'l Rosenblatt & Co. The Men's Shop for Quality and Service. MILLIONS IN NEED Whole Villages Blotted Out by Floods in China. SUFFERING IS APPALLING People Who Have Lost Their All, Helpless While Water Stands Over Fields Too Long to Make Second Planting Possible. WVSHINGTON, Sept. 12. Twelve months' famine, which only outside aid can avert, faces the Kangr-Tung and Kang-Sl Provinces of China, which were devastated by flood In July, with a loss of 3000 lives and more 'than 100, 000 homes. Consul-General Cheshire re ported today from Canton that more than 8.000,000 people suffered losses and, many millions would need food un til the next harvest. "In many places whole vlllacei have been blotted out, inhabitants and all," says the report. "The loss of life may never be known, but the suffering caused is appalling. The West River still, at t! end of July, -s exceedingly h'sh the fields and lands are under several feet of water. Banks require rebuilding-, icuses re-erect, .g. fields to be pumped dry for planting. Taxes are remitted ai other government aid is given, but even thus, the people have lost all and stand helpless. "At first we hoped the water might recede more rapidly and the fields be available for the second planting. This now appears not to be possible. In such event the people face a 10 or -months' famine. m., "This is only the beginn.ig. vhat the near future has in si, re only God knows. Help is needed now. Delaj cannot be long If theae people are to be saved." WARDEN DYNAMITES DAM Refusal to Provide Fish Ladder, Of ficials' Reason for Action. EUGENE. Or.. Sept. 12. Spec.) E. C. Hills, deputy game warden, today .,.. ... ,AnDr Ham across the dynamnea mo -- . ,,, Willamette River at the end of the mill race which UPP " torles wun waioi - - Uon of the dam was destroyed and the oower supply nas noi u po ".,,on said the owner of the mill race, the Chambers Power Company, ignoring a notice given a year ago, has refused to provide a fish ladder to allow the passage of fish into the river, r. u -runway for fish was built as required by law. Alien Booksellers Reported. SALEM. Or.. Sept. 12. (Special.) Corporation Commissioner Watson has aked District Attorney Evans, of Multnomah County, to take action against foreign companies dealing in text books, who are doing business in Oregon without compliance with the corporation laws. Mr. Watson said 12 Stomach Troubles Due to Acidity SO SAYS EMINENT SPECIALIST. So-called stomach troubles, such as indigestion, wind and stomach-ache, are in probably nine cases out of ten fimply evidence that fermentation is taking place in the food contents of the stomach, causing the formation of gas and acids. Wind distends the stomach and causes that full oppres sive feeling sometimes known as heart burn which the acid irritates and in flames the delicate lining of the stom ach The trouble lies entirely In the fermenting food. Such fermentation is unnatural, and acid formation is not only unnatural, but may involve moat serious consequences if not corrected. To stop or prevent fermentation of the. food contents of the stomach and to neutralize the acid and render it bland and harmless, a teaspoontul of bisu' ated magnesia, probably the best an J most effective corrector of acid stom ach known, should be taken In a quar ter of a glass of hot or cold water im mediately after eating, or whenever wind or acidity is felt. This stops tht fermentation and neutralizes the acid itv in a few moments. Fermentation, wind and acidity are dangerous anti unnecessary. Stop or prevent them by tha use of a proper anti-acid, such as bisurated magnesia which can be ob tained from any druggist and thus enable the stomach to do its work properly without being hindered by poisonous gas and dangerous acids. M. F. P. Adv. NORTHWEST CORNER THIRD AND MORRISON foreign companies were doing business here and only live of them had com plied with the law. ENGINE CRUSHES WORKMAN Thumb, Caught in Drum, jffaws Fireman, In Camp, to His Death. EUGENE, Or., Sept. 12. (Special.) John Rosjman, a tireman on a yarder donkey engine in a Wootb-Kelly lumber camp near Wendling, caught his thumb under a cable which he was guiding onto a rapidly-revolving drum. In an instant his arm, held by the thumb, drew him Into the machinery- He was crushed to death between two drums. The workmen who witnessed the acci dent unwound his mangled form from the machinery a moment later. The accident occurred at about 6 P. M. In Joe Jackson's camp, nine miles above Wendling. A logging engine carried the body to Wendling, and It was brought to Eugene late last night. Ashland Minister Resigns. ASHLAND, Or., Sept 12. (Special.) Rev. W. A. Schwlmley, pastor of the Congregational Church in this city, has resigned, and has asked to be relieved from the pastorate here on or before EVOLUTION OF THE LOCOMOTIVE Ewbank Self (COPY) Roseburg, Oregon, August, 20, 1914. Mr. S. M. Mears, President, Portland, Oregon. Dear Sir: Completed our fourth round trip today. Total mileage 518.8. v Used 150 Gal. Distillate at 6c $9.00 10 H Lub. Oil 32o 3.20 5 Gasoline 15a .75 for 518.8 miles or 2 l-2c per car mile about lo per car mile less than former run. Car is running fine and making time every day. Yours truly, H. B. Ewbank, Jr. A LIMITED AMOUNT OP THE TREASURY STOCK WILL BE SOLD DR. H. B. EWBANK Exclusive Sales Agent Ewbank Electric Transmission Company 724 Northwestern Bank Building Portland, Or.g-on Cogyrif kt Hart Schsf flier k Mux See the new Hats we're showing this Fall. Every new shape and color. "Stetson," "Trimble" and Multnomah." October 1. He will locate in Central California, having received a call to the First Congregational Church of Lodi, south of Sacramento. Mr. Schwlm ley came to Ashland four years ago from Northwestern lows, where he was in charge of a church at Sibley. ROBBERS DRUG VICTIMS Four Cases Reported Near Marsh field Without Any Arrests. MARSH FIELD, Or.. Sept. 12. (Spe cial.) Although four robberies have occurred In this vicinity on consecu tive nights, none of the robbers has been apprehended. Last night the Severson cash register at Lakeside was smashed and 80 stolen, while a logger who had been out with some strangers awoke half way between this city and North Bend, minus J60. One man at Lakeside, after playing In a poker game regained consciousness the next morning in a woodshed and had been stripped of $900. There is evidence that a gang of men who administer drugs is working In this county, for the greater portion of the losses follow drinking whisky from bottles offered by strangers. One man was discovered putting powder -Contained Electric Car, Total into a whisky flask, but made his es cape. BIG NAMES ON PRISONERS Grover Cleveland Bilyeu Indicted at Albany as Garfield. ALB ANT, Or.. Sept. 12. (Special.) Bearing the name of one president of the United States and Indicted under the name of another. O. C. Bilyeu. of Albany, stood before the bar of Jus tice In the State Circuit Court here this morning charged with violating the local option Law. His real name Is Qrover Cleveland Bilyeu. but he has been called "Gar" for so many years that he wae In dicted as OarHeld Bilyeu. It being sup posed that his given name was Garfield. Ills xrfle name was substituted In the Indictment when he wae arraigned this morning before Judge Kelly. Bilyeu pleaded not guilty. He wee Indicted by the grand Jury for selling a bottle of beer to G. F. Newland. a Shedd farmer, whose recent vielt te Albany resulted In wholesale Indict ments by the grand Jury for llllelt liquor sales in this city. Bilyeu was unable to furnish bonds of 1750 and Is held In Ihe count) J!I With Coaches $12.95