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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1915)
T1TE STTXDAT OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY lp, 1915. SHIPPING BILL HELD KEY TO PROSPERITY McAdoo Says War Emphasizes Folly of Leaving Sea Trans portation to Rivals. PRIVATE CAPITAL ALOOF this sort? Are we to be deterred from doing, through the agencies of Gov ernment, what Is essential to the wel fare of our people, when private capi tal cannot.be secured? Objretara Told to Xaaae Remedy. "While- 1 believe that the Govern ment should not engage In business where private enterprise can be de pended on for the purpose. I am not afraid of the Government going Into business where private capital refuses, and where the business in which the Government is to engage Is for the benefit of all people of the country- I am afraid of the Government's going Into private business only when it is for the benefit of special Interests or to serve the selfish purposes of some nartlcular class. v "For 60 years we have waited for private capital to provide an American merchant marine. For 60 years our foreign trade has languished while we have waited. Shall we wait any longer LANE WILLING FOR CONGRESS TO HELP Appropriation for Oregon Not Opposed by Secretary -of Interior. Trade Languishes While Nation Wait!, Declare Secretary, Who Calls on Opponents of Meas ure to Offer Better Remedy. CHICAGO, Jan. t Secretary McAdoo declared tonight In a speech to "the Commercial Club of Chicago that the Administration ship purchase bill now pending In Congress offers the only solution of the problem of how to build op an adequate American merchant marine. It promises, he said, to over come many of the obstacles the En ropean war has thrust In the path of American trade expansion and to help prosperity. The creation of an American mer chant marine, he argued, is not a par tlsan question, but a policy which has received the Indorsement of both the Democratic and Republican parties for s& years. Failure of the .Republican Party to legislate to that end in 20 years of power, he said, showed It the more culpable. BTeed RsapbaxUed by War. "The nmnacritln nirtv " be added. "now has the power to legislate, and I t m it will be equally culpable if it fails to I cl 11 win oe even more cuipauio il it does nothing, since the emergency CORVALLIS t EASTERN SHOPS REOPEN, GIVING TANGIBLE EVIDENCE OF PROSPERITY. ALBANY, Or.. Jan. 9. (Spe cial.) After being shut down for almost a month, the Corvallis A Eastern Railroad shops In this city reopened this week with practically a full crew. About 60 men are being employed now. The shops closed down the first of Dtcimbtr to cut 'ex penses, and only a few necessary men were employed during that month. It was not known at the time how long this shutdown would continue, but Improving conditions made It possible to- re open the. entire plant. The carshopa at this city have been enlarged several times In the past few years. Ten years ago only eight men were em ployed in the shops and now, under normal conditions, 70 men are employed, the average pay Soli being more than ,5000 a month. n aoes noxning. since me .uo.BcUw fatuous hope and lean any created by the European war has em- upon ft oroken reed? pnasisea as noin.ns . "if the shipping bill is objected to done the supreme folly of subjecting our opponentS- wbat practical sug the foreign commerce of this great stlcm or remedy have they to offer? "'o" i """" i The American people will not oe con- portation under the nags or nations tent wlth acaxJemle objections. They now engaged in the most gigantic war d . want a practical plan dejected of all time. Regardless of these nax- unieM a better substitute is offered. Let ards. It is even greater tony iruiu u tho opponents of this bill present such a economical point or view m cuuuuuo substitute or let them hold tnetr peace. deliberately the policy or trying to PAST NEGLECT .ADMITTED build ud a (Treat foreign trade by leav ing to our rivals the control of the vitally Important instrumentalities of ocean transportation. "So long as our competitors own the ships, they make the rates, they con trol the service and they determine the routes. With this power it is easy to favor their own commerce and dis criminate against ours. Trade Sabjeet to Dana-era. "So long as England commands the sea. our commerce will not ne stopped. MONTENEGRINS HOLD LINES Operations Made Difficult oy Tor rential Rains. CETTIN'JE. via London. Jan. 9. The ini otri DsnBii BDinn jb uuSaiisiuoit lowing official statement tonight: "Torrential rains and continuous bad weather have made all military oper ations most difficult, but the Monte- But who can foretell the eventualities negrin troops have firmly held all their of a great warT It is concelvaDie mat i pusmuna, iuuinuii.s a daring German squadron might get artillery fire of the Austrlans . .h- Atl.ntln and Dlav havoc with "The King and Queen are visiting the our commerce In British bottoms. No troops at the front. one can tell how long the war win tAtoir.n BREAD IS NOW EATEN sltudes and dangers. Is It fair to our producers, our merchants ana our man (Continued From Flrst Pays.) ii f-Hirers to force such risk upon I 0r their knowledge of the world sltua hm? Are we justified in putting the I vnnur that there Is onlv one prosperity of our country in needless cauge or reasm for the pre5Cnt range jeopardy?" .... of prices." he said. This cause is based .T;?Jr.r- of the on the fact-that Norway. Sweden, Den I .team tonnage which be- mark, Holland, France, England and fore the war amounted to 46,400.000 1 Italy have been In competition as tons had operated to increase ocean i Buyers in tne united states marxets fnirhi rates in unprecedented fashion, during the last few months. The clos- Tbe lack of American bottoms and the in(r cf the Dardanelles and the elimina ted that neutral ships cannot be de- tlon of exports from Russia have sim pended on has practically destroyed the py concentrated the demand from all trade of tne unitea oiaies wmi importing countries on tne unueu of the belligerent nations in non-con- states. traband articles I Manipulation has nothing to do with) Rates More Thaa Trebled. I creating this situation, and in my Judg- , UaAjIaa Afrre4 tn tne Increase I ment the world's position on food- In rates and said that on all commodl- stuffs is based on the operation of the ties It had amounted to between 60 and laws 01 supply ana aemana. S00 per cent, whether cargoes were for xr , TV- mvrnrcs English. European or Mediterranean ,MADK IN CONGRESS porta. r I "These enormous increases, no ., aicmDcr M ants r igures nrarinj un heavy tax on tne Amer- 'Vnmrltut. lean producer. They are reflected In i..nrf nrlces which he has been compelled to take for his product. The Increased cost of carrying American produce and commodities to European ports since tne war orom u .m- millions. Price of Foodstuff. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. A resolution ce ror nis prouuci. n. caUlnK on the secretary of Agriculture of carrying American (Qr Jnformatlon as to the production. consumption and exportation of cereals. beef, pork and other food products, and for details as to the prices of wheat. -Thin srreat sum represents a heavy! i..Hri.4 initiv hv Renresenta- toll that has been exacted by foreign I tive Farr cf Pennsylvania. Mr. Farr steamship owners irora ooinmu explained that he wished to ascertain pers and producers. It is. In effect, a wnetneP there was any danger of a penalty they are paying for the fail- food 8hortage in the United States be ure of American politicians to c,r'T cause of the enormous increase in ex out their repeated promises to the portatlon since the outbreak of the Eu- Amerlcan people, i oreiicn oBti I ropean war. .Mae their rates overnight arbltra- I cm-iier loaves of bread, or an In rlly we have no power to prevent It I Creaae in the price, is one likely result end we must pay the price or etoplpf tne rlse i wheat, in the opinion of out shipments. Charles J. Brand, chief of the Federal . j .,n.iie. wilHic. I Bureau of Markets. "Opportunltv to trra.-p a large amount Moreover. Brand believes the Amerl- VlS? redou, KESVSJl S 'bu. ne.smen rTuT naVlsanc. of food pr.ee. and I good m..t. which ocean transportauon uder the Amerl- believes . maJor ,on 0j can flag '" S""D 'c 'ell. the 1914 wheat crop no longer is owned and regularity with European competi- farmers but has pueed to the -American trade in foreign markets." hnis of the elevator men and the grain tie said, "will follow transportation un- ( never did before. The markets of the JrT.Ol-R ADVANCED 20 CENTS world are before us tne uneni as n Legislature May Decide Whether to Provide for Additional Work or Take Chances on Separate Federal Allowance. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Jan. 9. Secretary Lane, in i letter today to Representative Sinnotti expressed his willingness that Con gress shall make an unconditional ap propriation of S4&0.000 for building a Government irrigation project In East ern Oregon, to be selected later by the Interior Department. The Secretary also agreed to withdraw his former recommendation that this appropria tion be made available only on condi tlon that the state appropriates a like amount for co-operation. Secretary Lane wrote a similar letter to Senator Chamberlain. In conversation with Representa- tive Sinnott, Secretary Lane said he would allow his conditional allotment of $450,000 for co-operative work to stand until July 1, so that every op portunity would be given the state to take up the co-operative offer. The Secretary explained that if the State Legislature at its coming session would appropriate 1450,000 for co-op eration, the money he already has allotted would be lumped with the state funds and be available until used. If the state fails to provide $450,000 before July 1, the Federal allotment will lapse under the law. Therefore, it is up to the Legisla ture to decide whether the state will Join the reclamation service in build ing a $900,000 project, or will take chances on Congress' appropriating half that amount for a purely Govern ment project. Investigation Vnder Way. In his letter to Representative Sin nott. Secretary Lane says: "The estimate of appropriations for the reclamation service for the fiscal year 1916 contains the following item: " 'For Oregon co-operative work (conditioned upon the appropriation of equal amount by the State of Oregon), $450,000.' - "This department and the state are making an investigation of the pos sibilities for irrigation in Central Ore gon, through the Joint board of engi neers, whose final report as to the Deschutes projects should be submitted by the end of this month, but will be delayed until March as to the John Day projects, and until June as to the Mal heur and Harney Valley projects "I realize that these, or more ex tended Investigations, may disclose a situatiftn that would warrant utilizing this apropriatlon for the development of a practicable project, at a reasona ble cost per acre, tnat wouia materi ally benefit the state, and am there fore willing that the language which limits the expenditure to co-operation dependent upon an equal appropriation by the Oregon Legislature oe stnesen out and the following substituted therefbr: " "For Oregon Projects to be desig nated by the Secretary of .the Inte rior. $450,000.' . "In this form the appropriation would, as I understand it, be available for carrying out any practicable proj ect In Oregon which could be built within such an appropriation or which could be built by. co-operation with the state for such an appropriation and the amount contributed by the state. "It Is a matter of great regret to me that the effort to secure co-operation with Oregon along the line of Governor West's proposal appears to nave railed. It promised the institution of a joint method of using state and Government funds in the development or tne west. for it would, I feel sure, have been. adopted by other states. . "I believe that while there is so heavy a demand upon the reclamation fund for the completion of projects already under way, It is wisest not to adventure upon new undertakings un less upon a dollar-for-dollar co-operative basis. - InJiiKtlce Bone Oregon. "Nevertheless, I shall raise no objec tlon to the allotment of this amount to Oregon, for I am well convinced that in the past too little consideration has been given to her needs and to nnrmrtunities for development in that state, which I attempted somewhat to remedy by the extension of the Uma tilla project and an effort to meet the suggestion as to co-operaLioa in me Deschutes Valley." With Secretary Lanes letter as a hasis. ReDresentative Sinnott will make an effort to secure a provision in tne forthcoming reclamation appropriation bill In conformity with the Secretary's amended recommendation . Rnntn America. jniirrpi riir are needed to secure them." Mr. McAdoo urged that efforts to build up a merchant marine through shlpsubsldv had failed, that rhanges In Price Now $6.60, being 25 Cents Higher Than Top In 1910. Flour prices were raised 20 cents a the navigation laws with reduced wages barrel yesterday by Portland millers, to American seamen would not be tol- 3 a consequence of the advance of 8 erated and that the policy of discrlm- to "10 cents a bushel in the price of lnatlnr tariff duties favoring imports i wheat d' ring the past week. n im.rlmn shins had been proved un-I The nresent wholesale Quotation on workable. Guarantee of principal and I patent flour is $6.60 a barrel, or 25 Interest of bonds Issued by private cor- I cents above the previous top price. porations engaged In snipping, ne saia, i wnich was reached in January. 1910. . nnt vnrthv of serious considers-1 r th. hai, .i f -vrheAt values, how. tlon. The alternative left to those who I everi f lour In the Portland market is wish to see the American nag still relatively cheap. Compared wltn In every port was in the bill now in tn6 former record price. Just five years Congress, with its private corporation, aKO today, flour Is only 6 cents a of which the Government shall own 50 sack hlgher while wheat is worth 21 H per cent of the stock. to 2SM cents more a bushel than It Gemwral la Shipping Business. was then. To get the markets on a The main objection to that plan, he parity, there is. therefore, room for a pointed out, has been that It puts the considerable advance yet. Millers are Government In the shipping business, not disposed to push things too fast That, he declared, had a familiar sound, in .view of the present slow state of jt was argued against the Federal re- the flour trade, both domestic and serve act. he said, that It would put foreign, but flour must keep reasonably the Government in the banking busi- close to wheat In price, ness, but the law "has proved of In- The slump of 2i cents in the Chl- estlraable valne to the business Inter- Ca(ro wheat market yesterday, due to ests of the country." In support of talk of an embargo probably being his contention that the argument was placed on exports from the United not tenable, the Secretary pointed out states, had the effect of quieting the that some of the leading business men wneat trade here, notwithstanding ..h hkers of the country urged the ,dvini- of 4 cents In the Liverpool passage of a war-risk Insurance bill. I marKet, where during the week prices which put the Government in the busi- I cnmbed cents a cental. 1 ness of carrying marine war risKs: ne sales on the Merchants' Exchange referred to the experience of the Gov- were ;5.000 bushels. May bluestem rrment with the Panama Railroad ,013 at 1.48 a half-cent advance, but Company, whose entire stock is in its cJub ana red wheat prices were one hands, and to the recent legislation to half to jtj cents lower. During the authorise the Government to construct . VHk tne total business on the a railroad in AlaaKa. ' Merchants- Exchange aggregated $504.- CThe objection that the Government I ... , values. Three hundred thou- nrast never go Into private business, . bllshels of wheat. 1 Df mill feed were sold. k...v..i. r wheat. 1800 tons of said Mr. McAdoo in conclusion, even oata 700 ton8 of barley and 200 tons tnougn pnii. i.piwn , . 1 u .-v .w -pafv in such business, when the In terests OI ... pep.e ""'-"""J "J" o-,-. o, -BROMO Ql'TXINK" mand It. IS always urprea Bnmi n, ,,,. oa a cold coralns on. think npnvrMI v Steo Of this CDSraCter. A re I . . . ..... t ....V. Rmmo Ouinm. we to be bound by a mere dogma of Look for slcnature E.' W. Grove on box. 2ic j A GOOD COMPLEXION IS A JOY FOREVER Everybody that wants a fine, glow ing, youthful skin should take old re liable Hood's Sarsaparllla, a physi cian's prescription, which gives a clear, healthy color. When sour blood is made pure, your whole system Is Improved. Pimples, bolls, hives, eczema surely .disappear. 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