THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 6. 1914.
BUDGET SYSTEM If
I STATE SUGGESTED
have made us partly responsible for
such outrages.
Dreadful Tortures Inflicted.
I have been given and shown letters
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from refugees In Galveston. In Corpus
Christl, In San Antonio and Havana.
These refugees include seven arch
bishops, six bishops, some hundreds of
priests, and at least three hundred
nuns. Most of these bishops and priests
had been put in jail or in the peniten
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treated. Two-thirds of the institutions
of learning in Mexico have been con
fiscated and more or less completely
destroyed and a large part of the edu
cational institutions have been treated
in similar fashion.
Many of the affidavits before me re
cite tortures so dreadful that I am
unwilling to put them in print. It would
be tedious to recite all the facts set
forth in these affidavits. For instance,
there Is one, -by Daniel R. Loweree, a
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"Unemployment Reorganization of
l Elate Administration and Hydro
j Electric Districts 'Subjects.
I for Eugene Deliberations.
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1 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene.
. TDec. 5. (Special.) The proposed re
iZ organization of the various bureaus,
;j commissions, boards and departments
II 'that make up the state administration
jj -of Oregon is to have as a complement
S A budget system, according to the pro-
igramme for the first special session of
5: the Commonwealth Conference at the
IT 'University of Oregon, December . 10 to
2 '12. The details of one budget plan
ii Iwlll be presented by S. A. Kozer, Dep-
Tuty Secretary of State, in a paper en-
- ititled '"Essentials in the Preparation
j of a Comprehensive Budget of State
5? Expenses."
,: i The conference programme was
(v completed yesterday, and is as fol
f' ; lows:
(- 1 Thursday.
- v, r First legislative problem, efficiency
V '.and economy in the state government
' vof .Oregon, 9:30 A. M.
? Opening address, by Dr. James
-', ("VVithycombe, Governor-elect, presiding
'? officer; "A General Scheme for the
3 Reorganization of . State Administra
; - tion," Dr. James D. Barnett, professor
Yl -ot political science. University of Ore
'son; "Essentials in the Preparation of
' , 'a. Comprehensive Budget of State Ex
'i Jpenses," Sam A. Kozer, Deputy Secre
jtary of State; "The Application of thi
.i ! Principles of Reorganization to Ore-
vjgon's Establishment of Administration
j Agencies, discussion by two expert
-1 jenced legislators, members of the pres
. lent legisiative assembly.
!2 t Discussion of outlined plans for or-
"3'Jganizing into eight departments the
i present array or. bulib departments.
boards, offices and commissions will
i .'then be held by members of the Leg-
jlslature, state officials and others. The
li t heads suggested are, 1, Agriculture;
Cm 2, Charitable and Correctional Admin
il? "istration; 3, Control of Public Service
23 i Corporations; 4. Educational; 6,
iFlnance Administration; .6, Labor; 7,
?ji Public Health and Safety; 8, Public
i I Friday.
I Second legislative problem, unem
v jployment and the conservation of la-
; bor, 9:30 A. M.
J". '. "Tendencies in and Plans for TJnem
i ployment Legislation. State and Na
t" J tional," by Joseph. Hayper, general
- I secretary and counsel on distribution
legislative committee. North American
tvf f'lvin Ih2ha for immicranta: "Rm-
j j ployment Legislation for Washing
s' ton," by A. H. Grout, Labor Commis
;sioner City of Seattle; "Proposed Un
j employment Legislation for Oregon,"
i; A. H. Harris, formerly editor Portland
".-.Labor Press.
" . Afternoon Session "Outlook as to
immigration and the Policies It Should
.- Call Forth." Joseph Hayper: round
- - table conference on public labor ex
change legislation,
i Friday Night "The Problem of Un
' employment." address by Charles
t James, Berkeley, Cal., social service
; worker.
j; Saturday,
' Third legislative problem: How
may the earliest, largest and best use
of Oregon s water powers be realized,
,' 9:30 A. M.
'Opening remarks by H. B. Miller,
1 chairman Oregon Hydro-Electric Com-
mission; outline of measures proposed
by the Oregon Hydro-Electric Com
5 mission for organization of hydro
; electria districts, by John McCort, ex
' United States District Attorney for
Oregon; "Aspects of the Hydro-Elec-
' ".i trie Problem in Oregon," by Charles
E. Warner, consulting civil engineer;
"The Ontario Hydro-Electric Commis
sion and Data on Costs of Power to
Consumer of Electrical Energy Gath
1 ', ered From a World Survey Made try
'"'the Oregon Hydro-Electric Commls
1 sion of Oregon," by TV. H. Crawford,
Portland superintendent of Charles C.
-Moore & Co., engineers; "Electricity in
" "Rural Districts," by J. I White, man
' 2 ager of the Oregon Power Company
r at Albany, Or.; "Need of a District
Hydro-Electric Law," by a represent
ative from Hood River; "Rural Needs
for an improved Hydro-Electric Dis
trlct Law," by Porter J. Neff, repre
sentative from Rogue River Valley;
discussion by W. B. D. Dodson, of the
Portland" Chamber of Commerce, and
others; discussion of different aspects
of general problems of larger use of
water powers, by representatives of
power companies in this region; "Na
tional Regulation of Hydro-Electric
Power, L. B. Huston; general discus
sion,
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things from the church. The revolu
tionlsts seized him and accused him of
robbing the state. He was shot by a
file of soldiers on August 22 last and
his dead body was left all day long in
the court In which Father Fournier and
the other priests and the two novices
who spoke to me and their associates
were confined. They were kept in pris
on IS days and then allowed to go with
nothing but what they had on.
I have seen the original of and have
in my possession a translation of a let
ter written on October 24 by a young
prlrl of Toluca to her pastor who had
been exiled. She described how the
bishop had been heavily fined and ex
iled. She describes how tha clubs of
boys and girls for whom she had been
working had been broken up, but how
some of the boys to whom they used
to give breakfast on Sunday mornings
still occasionally come to see them: and
she asks advice how to keep these clubs
ft the poor together. But the dreadful
and pathetic part of the letter is con
tained in the following sentence: "Now
I will ask you a question. Suppose some
one falls Into the power of the Zapa
tistas. Would it be better for her to
take her own life rather than allow
them to do their will and what they
are accustotnea to 007 As I never
thought such a thing could happen. I
aia not asK you oerore about it, but
now I see it quite possible. If we had
not our good God in whom we trust, I
think we would give way to desDair.
In other words, this girl who had
been engaged In charitable work in
connection with the church asks her
pastor whether she Is permitted to com
mit suicide in order to avoid the out
rages to which so many hundreds of
Mexican women, so many scores of
nuns, have been exposed in the last
few months. I cannot Imagine any
Iran or whatever creed or of no creed
reading this letter without his blood
tingling with horror and anger: and
we Americans should bear in mind the
fact that the actions of Messrs. Wilson
and Bryan in supporting tha Villalstas
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Tyra W. II. Smith.
CORVALLIS, Or., Dec 5.
(Special.) Tyra W. B. Smith, a
resident of Benton County for
more than a half century, died
yesterday, a victim of cancer.
Born in Indiana in 1S40, Mr.
Smith, with his father, came to
Oregon in 1852 via New York
and the Isthmus of Panama, .and
settled in Benton County, his
father taking up a donation land
claim in the northern part of the
county. In 1865 he purchased a
farm eight miles south of Corval
lis, and made that place his
home until his death. He leaves
a widow, and is survived by four
sons and two daughters. The
children are Elmer, Edward, Jud
son and Walter Smith, Mrs. J. E.
Smith, of Corvallis, and Mrs.
Chester Avery, of Klamath Fails.
priest ' of the diocese of Guadalajara,
the son of an American father, and
librarian of the Seminary and profes
sor of chemistry. He describes what
took place in Guadalajara. On July 21
about 100 priests from the city and
country round about were put in the
jail, while the cathedral was used as a
barracks. In the affidavit of Canon
Jose Maria Vela, of the Cathedral of
Zacatecas, he sets forth how the con
stitutionalists shot a priest named Ve
larde, how 23 priests were gathered to
gether and under the orders of General
Villa required to produce 1,000,000 pesos
within 24 hours, under penalty of being
shot. A committee of the priests went
out through the city begging from
house to house and accepting even pen
nies from the children. A girl was for
cibly violated by one of the soldiers
in tSe room adjoining that in which
these priests were kept. Finally, the
citizens raised a couple of hundred
thousand pesos and the priests were
released and allowed to flee without
any of their belongings. Seventeen of
the fleeing priests are now in El Paso
and their names are given in the docu
ment and those of some of them signed
to an accompanying document..
Cruelties Used to Obtain Honey.
In an affidavit by the Reverend Mi
chael Kubicza. of the Society of Jesus,
whose father was a Hungarian physi
cian, he describes how he was tor
tured tn order to make him give up
money. A soldier nicknamed Baca, in
the presence of Colonel Fierro, put a
horsehair rope around his neck and
choked him until he became uncon
scious. When he came to, Baca fired
a revolver near his head and com
manded him to give up and tell him
where the Jesuit treasures were bur
ied. On answering that there were
none, - he was again choked until he
was unconscious,' and this was repeated
a third time. The affidavit describes
at length some of the sufferings of the
priests in fleeing.
All kinds of other affidavits have
been submitted to me, dealing with tor
ture and murder, as, for, example, the
killing of Father Alba, the parish priest
of Cabra, the killing of the parish
priest and vicar at Tula, the killing of
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Harry H. Belt.
MMINNVILLE, Or.. Dec. 5.
'Special.) Circuit Judge - elect
Harry H. Belt, of the Twelfth
Judicial District, comprising
Polk. Tillamook and Yamhill
counties. Is perhaps the youngest
Circuit Judge in the State of
Oregon. He was born In Salem
21 years ago this month, and will
take his office -as Circuit Judge
the first Monday in January. Mr.
Bolt has been a Republican all
his life, but his parents and his
mother's people are Democrats.
Mr. Belt is a graduate of the
Monmouth State Normal of the
year 1902. He was appointed
County School Superintendent of
Yamhill County to succeed L. R.
Alderman, which office he re
signed after three years to take
up the practice of law at Dallas,
Or., where he has been engaged
actively in that profession since
June. 1911, when he was admitted
to the bar. His first term of
court will be In McMinnvllle, his
former home.
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the chaplain and rector and vice-president
of the Christian Brothers' College,
etc.
The one feature in the events nar
rated to me and set forth in the affi
davits to me which canvgive any Amer
ican the least satisfaction is the state
ment of the kindness with which the
unfortunate refugees had been treated
in Vera Cruz by the officers and men
of the Army and Nafr, particular men
tion being made of General Funston.
What f have above stated is but a
small part of the immense mass of
facts available to the President and
Mr. Bryan, had they cared to examine
them. They relate to outrages on Cath
olics. This is merely because the enor
mous majority of the religious people
of Mexico are Catholics. I should set
them forth Just as minutely if they had
been inflicted by Catholics on Free
thinkers or Protestants or Masons I
am myself both a Protestant and a Ma
son. Even if we had no responsibility
for them, I nevertheless fail to see how
any American could read the account
of them 'without a feeling of -burning
indignation. As things actually are,
shame must be mingled with our Indig
nation; for the action of the President
and Mr. Bryan has been such as to
make this country partly responsible
for the frightful wrongs that have
been committed.
LEGISLATORS ARE INVITED
Washington Irrigation Institute
Names Dec. 17 Governor's Day.
NORTH YAKIMA? Wash.. Dec. 5.
(Special.) Officials In charge of the
programme of the annual meeting of
the Washington Irrigation Institute ex
pect to send to every member-elect of
the Washington State Legislature an
invitation to attend the institute ses
sions on December 17, Governor's day.
This session will be devoted to needed
and proposed irrigation legislation.
Governor Lister, E. A. Bryan, presi
dent of Washington State College, and
H. L. Holgate, assistant to Will R.
King, of the Reclamation Service, will
ba the speakers.
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Music Co., 151 Fourth street. Adv.
Keduced Christmas Terms.
As also reduced prices Player
Pianos instead of cash or $50 or more
cash, now $25 cash and $10 or more
monthly before Christmas at Graves
Music Co., 151 Fourth street. Adv.
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I wish to extend my thanks and ap
preciation to my many friends for
their kindness and sympathy in my
recent sad bereavement.
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the pictures of actual fighting. Edwin F.
' Weigle, staff photographer of the Tribune,
took these pictures right on the battlefield
Four Reels of Actual Fighting
These Pictures Show
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These Pictures Will Be Shown at
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Beginning
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after Friday noon, December 11th.
On account of the Heilig Theater having been previously engaged, the Pictures
will not be shown Monday or Tuesday or Friday night. Note, however, that
they will be shown Friday afternoon.
The Chicago Tribune se
cured .the exclusive privi
lege to make these motion
pictures on condition that
50 of its profits be given
to the Belgian Red Cross.
This arrangement between
the Belgian Government
and the Chicago Tribune
and The Oregonian posi
tively assures the public
the only authentic motion
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Contract
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cinematographic views of the theater of war in Belgium. In recognition of this con
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