THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX, rOUTLAXD.. - MAY'- 1C, 1920
FEAR WILSON IDEA
Telegram of Executive May
Be Nemesis.'
13 UP FOR RE-ELECTION
All But One Scniitor Silent on .De
mand for Ratification Plank
In Platform.
BY CHAHLKS MICHELSON.
WASHINGTON, May 15. The out
standing feature of the reception ac
corded President Wilson's telegram
reiterating his hostility to the Lodge
reservations to the peace treaty was
the unanimity of those democrats
who voted to accept the reservations
in declining to talk about it.
This does not go for Senator Reed,
who joined the irreconcilables in the
beginning and. stuck to it.
Thomas Jh Exception.
Thn one exception to the silence
was Senator Thomas, who said: "It
would be most unfortunate if the
democratic convention should follow
the president's advice."
Mr. Thomas, however, has not yet
announced positively that he will run
for the senate again.
Thirteen of the democrats who
voted with Lodge are candidates for
re-election this year, and while the
president's friends deny that the tel
egram to the Oregon state chairman
was sent with any idea of embar
rassing them, they have their own
opinion, ajid their eloquent silence
on the great issu,e of the democratic
convention testifies to the strength
of that opinion.
It is hard for Senator Chamberlain,
for example, to believe that such a
telegram to his bitterest political en
emy in Oregon was simply an un
fortunate coincidence. Chamberlain
is among those who came up for re
election this year. He is al.so one of j
those who incurred the president's
displeasure during the war by a
critical speech he made in New York.
White House Called.
As soon as he heard of the message
to County Chairman Hamaker he !
called up the White House and told
Secretary Tumulty that Hamaker was
one. of the few democrats in Oregon !
who was trying to prevent his re
election. He was assured that this
was unknown when the president sent
the message. Chairman Chamberlain
proceeded to explain that while he
did not believe Hamaker could pre
vent his nomination in the Oregon
primaries, the telegram furnished him
something to exhibit and gave him
an opening to tell everybody that the
president was opposed to Chamberlain
and, inferentiilly, would like to see
him beaten.
In the same boat with Chamberlain
are Senators Beckman. Fletcher,
'iore. Henderson, Kir by, Nugent,
Overman, Smith of South Carolina,
Smith of (Georgia, Smith of Mary
land and Thomas.
Some of these are uneasy, for they
have not the certainty that Chamber
lain is supposed to have. These things
are contagious and nearly all of them
have in their districts county chair
men and such folks who may be
minded to attempt to draw the presi
dent with the same sort of message.
Republicans Seem Doleful
There are not lacking Job's com
forters in the senate to assure them j
that the worst is yet to come. The
republicans generally are sympathetic
and doleful in their expressions to
their embarrassed colleagues.
"The acceptance of .the president's
dictum will place practically every
democrat running for re-election in an
indefensible position," said Senator
Heed, and he added: "This puts the
ratification of the. treaty as demanded
by President W ilson not only beyond
the pale of probabilities, but also be
yond the pale of possibilities."
This is not strictly accurate. Un
derwood, who has been re-elected,
voted against the Lodge reservations
and Smith of Arizona was not present
when the treaty was rejected the sec
ond time.
Johnson and Borah, Intimating that
the president's telegram indicated he
wanted the treaty without reserva
tions made the issue of the campaign,
even expressed admiration at his con
sistency, and Senator Moses said,
"Once more the president has shown
himself to be our best friend."
The democratic view of this was
voiced by Senator Underwood, the
democratic leader "1 think that the
telegram removes the controversy
from the capitol. and carries the is
sue to the conventions at Chicago and
San Francisco."
In making this observation, Mr.
Underwood did not mean to indicate
that the president iitsists on abso
lute approval, without interpretative
reservations. He believes his posi
tion remains entirely consistent and
has not been changed. A large pro
portion of democrats in congress take
this view of the president's telegram.;
They do not think it affects the party
situation as it wi.ll be when the dem
ocratic convention assembles in San
Francisco.
Telegram Viewed a Warning
The general assumption is that the
president merely intended to forestall
any more declarations by state con
ventions concerning the peace treaty
issue as New York did. If incidental
ly some twinges should accrue to
those democrats who voted for the
Lodge reservations, he is not going to
feel any poignant distress, but it is
hardly likely that he will fire any
bombs in their districts unless they'
carry the thing along. In other words,
the Hamaker telegram is more a
warning than the opening of a bar
rage. The republican convention will
take cognizance of the telegram. The
foreshadowing of the convention is
assuming a Johnson tinge, not per
haps as to his nomination, but there
Is evidence that everything is going
to be done to placate him prior to
the destruction of hie ambition.
Borah looms as the permanent chair
- man. He is Johnson's first, second
and last choice. Beveridge. . who was
Borah's nominee for the job. did not
suit Johnson and so we hear no more
of tteveridge.
Chairman Hays has been at the
other end of the telephone to Chicago
at intervale all day. sounding prom
ment republican congressmen as to
their views on the chairmanship, and
Borah was generally indorsed, even
by those who opposed him at first.
The reason for the change is the same
desire for harmony, which means in
this cae Keeping Johnson ouiet-
Commenting on the president's tel
egram today. Senator Underwood, the
new democratic leader, said:
"It was clear and strong and nre
sents his case in his usual forceful
manner, ma viewpoint is not in r-on
flict with mine. I offered a motion
f or unconditional ratification when
me treaty or peace was pending
think that the letter removes the n-
troverey from the capitol and carries
the issue to the onventions at Chi
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SUIT PROCEEDS SLDWLTu
bXEVEN DAYS ALREADY TAKEX
IV-CIRCriT COURT.
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ready appeared, preferring to leave it I
administration supporters to see
hat -some good 100 per cent Wilson
democrats enter the field against
such senators as Nugent of Idaho and
I Phelan of California, who wandered
from the fold- on the last treaty vote.
Judge Refers to Case as "Fight Be
tween Alleged Promolors of-an
Imaginary Railroad."
Though 11 days have been consumed
already in a hearing 'which Circuit
Judge Morrow describes as "a fight
between alleged promoters of an
imaginary railroad" cross-examination
of the first -witness will open
Monday morning In the suit of H. S.
Huson against the Portland & South
eastern railroad.
Promoters refer to the railroad as
a $7,000,000 project but it still is on
paper. If it is constructed from Mount
Angel to Bend, as contemplated, the
value of present holdings is estimated
anywhere from $100,000 to SI. 000.000
Tt would tap a rich timber district.
Huson. plaintiff in the suit, was
employed as chief engineer and
promised an interest in the corpora
tion for his -services DyMicnaei L.y
nott. railroad contractor and - pro
moter. The Myler Construction com
pany was formed to furnish the
money and the scheme was capitalized
for $i. 000.000.
Others brought into, the suit as co-
defendants are: S. C. Spencer, J.
Frank Watson.' James T. Barron and
M. O. Munly.
S. C. Spencer and. H. S. Fortner
were appointed Joint receivers for the
property by Circuit Judge TucKer
some time ago. The suit :s to deter
mine first whether the company it
self is legal and second the propor
tion of stock owned by the parties
interested.
COLUMBIA ABOVE. NORMAL
River Rises Mine Feet Due to
Storms in Montana.
VANCOUVER. Wash., May 15.
(Special.) The Columbia river . sev
eral day.ago took a decided rise and
is now nine feet above normal. On
Wednesday it rose more than a foot
in 24 honrs. due. it Is thought, to se
vere storms in Montana and to warm
spring days this side of there.
The water- is filling- a number of
the sloughs on Hayden island and the
carp are there by the thousands. . .
RECEIVER GETS JUDGMtiMl
Argument Heard as to Liability of
Defendant for Interest.
VANCOUVER. "Wash., May 15.
fSpecial.) In the case of M. B. Kies,
receiver of the Commercial Bank, de
funct, against John Wilkinson, for
the collection of $3500, for which
judgment was given .yesterday, argu
ment an the question of the interest
from'' December lftv-1910, to date,
amounting to about $2000, was heard
today by Judge. H. W. B. Hewen of
Pacific county, sitting for Judge R. U.
Back. He took the matter under ad
visement. The judgment was against any
separate property owned by Wilkin
son, but cannot be collected from any
community property.
While no notice lias been given of
an appeal to the Bupreme -court, it is
thought that it will be taken there by
both pides.
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rumors that it was oDtainea unaer
duress.
The story is that Senator McNary
ave his very carefully worded letter
of indorsement after he had been re
minded that when he was a candidate
for the senate in Oregon two years
ago both Senator Johnson and Sen-J
ator Borah wrote strong: letters of in
dorsement in his behalf. Senator
Borah is said to have arranged the
conference at which the McNary in
dorsement was obtained.
Senator McNary. being busy with
official matters, has been Inclined to
take no hand in the republican presi
dential contest, holding that the re
publicans of Oregon should be free to
make their popular choice in the pri
mary. The Johnson indorsement,
however, saved Senator McNary from
the charge of being an ingrate, which
naturally he desired to escape. The
work of unseating other democrats In
the senate who voted. like Senator
Chamberlain, for treaty ratification
with the Lodge reservations, it is un
derstood, will be left to the volun
teers. That is, the administration will not
seek to bring candidates i
field where opposition ha
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