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K SectionOne Pages 1 to 24 IQO Pages Eight Sections VOL. XXXIX XO. 38 Entered at Portland (Oregon) Pos-tof f !re a 8econd-C!aw Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTE3IBER 19, 1920 PRICE TEX CENTS SENATE IS WORRY TO REPUBLICANS WHOLESALE PRICES FALL DURING AUGUST DANCING MASTER SHOT BY SHIMMY MANIAC PSYCHIC VISION OF TRAGEDY AFFIRMED INDIANA WOMEN DEFICIENCY FUNDS ARE AUTHORIZED State Emergency Board Appropriates $174,866. JAPANESE MASSACRED BY REDS IN REPRISAL ' 4-YEAR BOURBONS GOLD FEAST CITED Iowa Governor Sketches Saturnalia of Waste. FOOD PRODUCTS DROP 12 PER CENT, SAYS LABOR BUREAU. YOUTH ANGERED WHEN WILD SHAKE IS PROHIBITED. PREMOMTIOX OF BOMB D1SAS ' TER HELD POSSIBLE. GARRISON" TORTURES RUSSIAN ENVOYS SEEKING TRUCE. V Fears Expressed Demo crats Will Gain Control. PRESIDENCY . DEEMED SAFE Harding. Deeply Concerned ' About Upper House. LOSS OF SEATS POSSIBLE Smoot In Utah, Lenroot In Wiscon sin, Gooding In Idaho All Have Hard Fights on Hand. BY MARIf SULLIVAN, (fnpvrlght, 1H20. bv the New York Evening Po'wt. Inc. Published by Arrangement.) NEW YORK. Sept. 18. (Special.) The republicans have a good deal of concern about the senate, it the word "concern" can be used at all in con nection wlth'the atmosphere of both Marion and national headquarters In New York since the Maine election this week. The party managers have little fear about the presidency. About the lower house their chief fear is that they may get too large a majority. Their present lower house majority is 40. That is a comfortable work ing majority. The republicans fear, and fear with good reason, that If the lower house majority were much larger they might run Into splits, defections. Insurgency and every other variety of menace to party soli darity and party discipline. They don't want to Increase their lower hoiiH maloritv materially. Their management of the campaign for members' of congress is intelligent to the highest degree and thoroughly organized. They are discussing on making sure they keep their present majority, on giving concentrated sup port to certain Important members of congress, on winning back a few nor mally republican districts which are now held'by democrats and on mak ing a showing In about ten Isolated t southern dU.ricts. 9rnnt tMte tor- Auslty. About the senate end the repub licans are not comfortable. Their present majority is , two out of the 9fi. Indeed, it Is barely twd." ' 'The democrats have 47 senators, the re publicans 48. and one senator, Hiram Johnson of California, is listed as "republican" and "progressive." Even when you say that the present republican majority in the senate is two, that statement Is subject to some qualification. One of the two is New berry of Michigan. Mr. Newberry Is under sentence to the penitentiary for corruption in his election. Bo long as that continues to be the case, his vote is not available. Another ot the senators who Is counted on as a republican is La Follette. but La Fol lette, as everybody knows, is just as likely to vote against the republicans as with them. With Newberry elimi nated and La Follette voting with the democrats, the republicans are really in a minority of one; and there are other republican senators but little more dependable in their repub licanism than La Follette is. Harding: Particularly Interested. This Is the condition that the re publicans want to mend, and to mend surely. They want Just as large a majority in the senate as they can get. If they are to win at all this fall, they want to control all three branches of the government, so that they can make the changes they plan with smooth running machinery. Harding himself is especially con cerned about the senate. He is of the senate himself and he knows Its atmosphere. He knows well how the republican senate nas bedeviled Wil son . To be sure they nave done it be- (.Concluded on Fage 0. Column 1.) i $ VX(5So TYMS- WvvHYTHTL . (J OV. HALOING OF 0WA HA ." ' HOWING WHICH WAY . IWW I VAftNl GOAT CcUfSHD Zs (?-") V'lt 'V ' ' ''- ' ' ' Lower Kates Cut Down Shipments of Carload Lots of Frnit and Vegetables. WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. A pro nounced drop In the general level of wholesale prices during August was reported today by the department of labor; measured by changes in the index numbers of the bureau of labor statistics the decrease, was 4Vi Per cent. Foodstuffs showed the greatest price recessions, the decrease averag ing more than 12 per cent. Farm prod ucts - declined nearly 6- per cent and clothes and clothtng 54 per cent. Fuel and lighting materials con tinued their upward trend with an Increase of more than 6 per cent, while metals and house furnishing goods also showed an increase over July. Lower prices, have cut down the carlot shipments of fruits and vege tables about one-fifth, said an an nouncement today by the department of agriculture. "Price might be expected to react under the moderate carlot supplies," Bald the statement,- "but nearby pro duce has been so plentiful that quota tions have hung around low prices except on lines that are near the end of their active seasons." ' "The bad feature to the apple situa tion is the lack of active demand for cull apples," it continues. "Average wholesale prices In city markets for best grades leading falL varieties are around $5 per barrel, compared with $7 a year ago. "Shipments of potatoes in Septem ber are only about three-quarters of those of the corresponding month last 'year, although the crop Is much larger. In fact. It Is a record-breaking year. There is a heavy yield of sweet potatoes also, and the market has been falling rapidly, reaching $4 a barrel In some cities or lower than the general range of white potatoes." WILSON CONTRIBUTES $500 President Makes Donation to Bour bons as Private In Ranks. NEW YORK. Sept. 18. A $500 con tribution to the democratic campaign fund .was received here today from President Wilson, who wrote lie was offering the money "as a private in the ranks." The text of the president's note, as given out by W.- W..: Marsh, . -democratic national treasurer, follows: "May I not, as a private in the ranks, give myself the pleasure of contributing the enclosed to the ex penses of the democratic campaign? I feci very deeply that the very honor and destiny of the nation are in volved In this campaign, and that I and all citizens who love Us honor and covet for It a high Influence in the world, should contribute to the success aof the candidate who stands for the re-establishment of our posi tion among the nations." The con tribution was accepted. YEAR SCHOOL PROPOSED Rural Children Would Learn Farm and Home Courses In Summer. -ABERDEEN, Wash.. Sept. 18. (Spe cial.) Twelve months of school for rural communities in place of eight or nine, as now is the rule. Is advo cated by McKlnley Wilson, of the North River district. "The . plan proposed by Mr. . Wilson Includes the concentration during the spring and summer months upon farm topics for the boys and home econom ics for the girls ot school age. FIRE DAMAGES DEFENSES Reds Suspected of Activity at Fort ress Monroe.' FORTRESS MONROE, Va., Sept. 18. Gun casements and machinery at Fortress Monroe . ere damaged early today by a fire which the authorities said was of undetermined origin. Radicals are believed by some to have been responsible. GUN PORCOX BOSS New Voters Organize to Defeat Taggart. SENATE CANDIDATE IS WET Police Raid on French Lick Re sort Not Forgotten. WATSON, DRY, IS CHOICE Backers of Feminist Move Will Speak at Every Crossroads In State Before Election. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington, Sept. 18. America's new women voters are to show their In fluence In politics. The test Is to be made in Indiana In the present cam paign. ' Throughout the state the new vot ers are organizing to defeat for the United States senate Thomas Tag gart, one of the four bosses who ar ranged the Cox nomination at French Lick in advance of the San Francisco convention. The feminist movement against Taggart and in favor of his opponent. Senator James E. Watson, was begun during the week and is rapidly assuming enormous propor tions. The burden of Watson's fight is to be carried on by the women who are out to beat Boss Taggart for more than one reason. First. Taggart h arlways been labeled wet. Second, the women charge that sufficient time has not elapsed since the raid on Tag cart's place at French Lick for him to have lived down the scandal. Gambling Charged Years A so. What they refer to is the time, some years ago, when state authorities, on the orders of J. Frank Hanley, late governor, surrounded Taggart's French Lick hotel as a result of charges that the democratic boss had erected a Monte Carlo on the prem ises. The incident was considerable of a sensation at-Laa- tlma. . As near as possible, it is announced, women speakers will talk at every crossroads In the Hoosier state, ap pealing to their sex to turn out on November 2 and beat Taggart. but the appeal is not to be altogether negative. While the women are against Tag gart because of his alleged wet pro clivities, they are glad to support Watson because of his consistent dry record and because of his active and successful efforts in behalf of woman suffrage. 'Watson Suffrage Chief. Senator Watson Is chairman of the woman's suffrage committee of the senate, and led the fight In that body to have the Susan B. Anthony amend ment submitted to the legislatures of the states. The women will work hand in hand with the anti-saloon league to defeat Taggart and as a result ot their first activities this week there Is a vast change In the political' out look 'in the Hoosier state. Much of the opposition to "Watson which followed the republican na tional convention in Chicago, has sub sided and Albert J. Beverldge. former senator, Indiana's most eloquent and popular orator, is to take the stump for' the republican ticket. Watson Blunders Acknowledged. Watson's friends admit that he has made some serious blunders, as viewed from a politicians standpoint, but they deny that Watson sought to turn the state to Harding in the Chicago convention before the voters' preferences, as expressed In the state wide primary, had been given a fair fhance. As evidence that he kept faith they say that he, as a delegate. (Concluded on Page 20, Column 1.) CARTOONIST PERRY Five Bullets Are Fired at In structor In Pittsburg as He Is . Entering Home. PITTSBURG, Pa., Sept. 18. (Spe cial.) City detectives are bunting for a shimmy artist who attempted mur der because he was not allowed to In dulge bis penchant In an exclusive dancing academy. C. B. Sloan, dan cing master, victim of the shimmy crank's revolver. Is in a hospital with five bullets in his body. Thursday night the young man with the shimYny mania visited the dancing academy, and aroused Indignation among the other patrons by disre garding the rule aainst the shimmy. When ordered to leave he refused, and was ejected swear! Ag vengeance. After midnight yesterday Sloan, who had been the object of the man's threat, was ascending the steps of his home when a man appeared fJPn a snaaow ana Degan tiring. ivsfuui lets struck him, three entering the left side of the back, one the left leg and one the right hand. Sloan managed to attract the atten tion of a taxicab driver, who took him to the hospital. BIG MAJORITY FORESEEN Southern California Editors Pre dict Great Republican Victory. RIVERSIDE. Cal., Sept. 18. Decla ration that California "will give you the largest majority ever cast by this state for any candidate for any of fice" was contained ,n telegrams sent to Senator W. G. Harding and Gov ernor Calvin Coolidge, republican presidential and vice-presidential candidates, by B0 repablican editors of southern California, gathered here today in a campaign conference. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 69 degrees, minimum 52 degrees. TODAY'S Rain: southeast winds. Departments. Editorial. Section 3, page 8. Dramatic. Section 4, page 4. Motlon picture.. Section 4. .page 2. Real estate and building. Section 4 page 8. Music. . Section 4. page S. Churches. Section 5. page 6. Books. Section 5. page 7. : Garden chats.. Section . pages. I Automobile new.. Section . School.. Section 5, page 8. Women'. Features. Society. Section 3,' page 2. Women's activities. Section 4, page 10. Fashions. Section 0. page 2. Mln Tingle', column. Section S. page 6. Auction bridge. Section 3. page 2. Special Features. Hop growers' rainbow comes with prohibi tion. Magazine section, pm 1. Why husband, leave home. Magazine sec tion, page 2. A slnger'o triumphant love quel. Maga zine section, page 3. New. events Illustrated by camera. Maga zine section, page 4. Itttlmato sidelights on man who makes Un-ited State, money. Magazine aec tlon, page 5. Source of epilepsy is found. Magazine ec tlon, page 0. Character Index found In bookplates. Mag azine section, page 7. Life ske-tche. by Hill. ' Magazine section, page 8. Beivton county creek described by Addison Beanett. Section 4. page 9. Oetrich feather, again In favor. Section 5. page 5. Politics. Idaho democrat, heartened by Cox vl.lt. Section 1, page 6. Women In Indiana organize to defeat Tag gart. Section 1, page 1. Chamberlain almost .tarts fireworks when Cox visits Portland. Section 1, page 14. Thoma A. ' Hayes believe, he'll win race for senate .eat a. independent, section 1, page 14. Control of next senate source of greatest worry to republican., say. Mark Sul livan. Section 1. page 1. Wet organ hail. Cox a. new champion of liquor Interests, section l. page z. Senator Harding amplifies hi. league of ' nation, stand. Section 1, page 12. Governor Harding of Iowa assail, league in Hood River speech. Section 1, page 21. Harding league stand affirmed. Section 1, page 15. Hughes declare. Maine vote point, to re publican victory in November. Section 1, page 4. Cox score, profiteers In Oakland speech. Section 1. page 8. Socialists once ousted from New York legislature to return tomorrow. Section 1, page 18. COftlMENTS PICTORIALLY ON SOME RECENT 102.0v Expert Credits Assertion of 3Ian Who Warned Friends of Com ing Wall-Street Blow-Up. NEW . YORK, Sept. 18. Psychic knowledge of an impending disaster Is as feasible as If It were "picked up by a radio operator whose lnstru mentft chanced to be "tuned" or with in receiving range ot a wireless mes sage, according to Dr. Walter K. Prince, acting director of the Ameri can Institute for Scientific Research, founded by the late Professor James H. Hyslop, authority on psychology. Dr. Prince declared that . the as sertion of Edwin P. Fischer, detained at Hamilton, Ont., that his postcard warning to friends here of the Wall street explosion last Thursday were inspired by physic phenomena, was "highly within the realm of possi bility." Dr. Prince cited two strik ing cases of a train . wreck and a woman's suicide. premonition of which he said he had received in dreams and which were borne out In detail the following day. Dr. Prince said the mind of Fischer whose brpther-ln-law. Robert A. Pope, declared he had possessed psychic powers for a number of years, evident ly was "tuned" to those who plotted the explosion, receiving telepathic Impressions of the tragedy that later occurred. He said the expressions or thoughts of the conspirators thus could have been registered on the ab normal mind of Fischer. "It is reasonable to suppose that Fischer's mind, being 'tuned' In harm ony with the workings of the minds ot those who planned the disaster, re celved the Important fact that such an occurrence was to happen," he said, "but misread the signals as to the exact time, which accounted for the fact that his "written warnings fixed the time of the disaster about (Concluded on Faice 18. Column 5.) Politics. Governor Warding tells of four year, of democratic waste. Section 1, page 1. Harding warn, against hyphenated citizen ship. Section 1, page 4. . Foreign. League to settle dispute between Finland and Sweden over islands. Section 1. page 4. French political pot bolls on presidential choice. Section 1, page 5. Reds massacre Japanese garrison in re prisal. Section I, page . ' MarSwIney on 87th day of fast still lives. Section 1. page 1. National. -Wholesale price, fall during month of Au gust. Section 1. page 1. Damntrt. Expert credit, claim of psychic vision of Walt .treet explosion. Section 1, page 1. Comellua V'anderhllt, millionaire reporter, lauds Portland's advantages In article In New York papers. Section 1. page 17. Suspect taken in bomb hunt. Section 1, page 21. Pacific N'orthweot. Tourists spent 2!W.0OO.00n in west this year. Section 1, page 10. Oregon emergency board appropriate, de ficiency funds totaling 9147.8H6. Sec tion 1, page 1. Six accused shipyard men and corporation found not guilty. Section 1, page 8. Pendleton Roundup this week promises to be biggest ever held. Section 1, page 8. Crowd, to attend state salr September 28. Section 1. page 7. Delinquent Industrial accident funds paid state by employers. Section 1, page 10. Vancouver prune festival closes. Section 1, page 20. Sports. Chicago White 8ox solidly set in second place In American leasue pennant race. Section 2. page 1. At Portland 5-1: Sacramento 2-T. At Se attle S. Salt Lake 2. At Los Angeles 2, Vernon 8 At San Francisco. 0; Oak land 12. 'Section 2. page 1. McCarthy', wound cause, postponement of battle. Section 2. page 2. Ethelda Blelbtrey. American girl swimmer, achieve, high fame. Section 2, page 8. Rudy Wllhelm should be aid to Waverley team, section 1. page B. Commercial and Marine. Northwestern Jonathan apples begin to move. Section 1, page 2s. Chicago wheat average, lower with coarse grain weakne... Section 1, page 28. Ralls and marines lead In stock advance. Section 1, page 28. New steamer line to visit Portland. Section 1, page 28. Portland and Vicinity. Movie theater, attacked by u.lng nt' plane. Section 1, page 11. Accident. In day total 38; rive persons hurt, section 1, page is. Northwestern league to start educational campaign for reclamation. Section 1, page 11. Reed college' open, with enrollment of 275. Section 1, page IS. INCREASE IN COSTS IS CAUSE Operation of Hospital Exceeds $35,000 a Month. HIGHER SALARIES ASKED Provisions Made for Various Insti tutions and Departments Until Legislature Meets. SALEM. Or., Sept. 18. (Special.) The state emergency board at a meet ing held here today authorized de ficiency appropriations aggregating $147,866, with which to defray the ex penses of the various state Institu tions, state departments and organiza tions and societies receiving state aid until the next session of the legisla ture In January. A summary of the appropriations follows: uregon state hospital $ S3.5O0 ptsie uoarn 01 neaitn 14,81 Public service commission.. 4.2O0 1.Y00II 5.01") .VO)0 3.0(10 tt.-.0 7.800 State training school for boy..... State veterinarian Oregon social hygiene society Supreme court library Board of child labor In.pectora. . Secretary of state Salaries, care of capltol grounds and buildings Blind school B,2nn 4.OU0 Total 8147.886 Operatlag Costa Increase, a report suDmuted to the emer gency board by the state board of health showed that there was appro priated for the operation of that de partment for the years 1919 and 1920 the sum of $34,000. of which amount there had been expended up to Sep tember 4 of this year all but 92 cents. Dr. Andrew C. Smith, member of tho health board, and H. Mclnturff, attorney for the department, said they attributed the unfavorable financial condition at present facing the board to the general increase in the cost of operation, together with the payment of -a.pvroxrnte4y$4900 jo- the -crty-of Portland for the care of state patients at the Cedars. Another claim airnre gating J1700, alleged to be due the city of Portland from the state health board and overlooked at the time final settlement of accounts was made between the board of health and Port land officials a few months ago. will go before the legislature for final con- ' slderatlon, according to a report made to the emergency board. Deficiency Fond Created. Based on the report of the board of health, together with statements of Dr. Smith and others laudatory of the results that were being attained at the Cedars, there was created a de ficiency appropriation for this depart ment in the sum of $14,816, including $3202 lor bills previously rendered by the city of Portland for the treatment of state patients at the Cedars, $3000 which It was estimated would be nec essary to continue the treatment of these patients for the next three months, and $8614 for the state health office without accepting funds under the Chamberlain-Kahn fund from the government. Of the total deficiency appropria tion asked by Dr. R. Lee Stelner to care for the wants of the state hos pital until January 1, 1921, he said $75,000 would be necessary to meet the general operating expenses. In addition to this sum he estimated that $1500 would be .needed to cover the expense of transportation of Oregon patients sent to the hospital, $2000 for the transportation of patients sent to other states and countries, and $5000 to replenish the dairy herd at the in stitution. Basing the estimated costs of operating the hospital f-r the next quarter on the expenditures of $708,- (Concluded on Page 7. Column 1.) TOPICS IN THE NEWS Mining Engineer of Vancouver, B. C, Home From Siberia, Tells of Nikolalevsk Slaying. HONOLULU, T. IT., Sept. 18. That the massacre of Japanese at Niko laievsk, Siberia, last March when sev eral hundred persons were put to death by the bolshevik!, was in re prisal for acts of the Japanese mili tary forcese there was declared today by Edward H. Barker, a mining en gineer of Vancouver, B. C. who ar rived here today on his way home from Siberia. Mr. Barker, who had been stationed at Orsk. a town on the Ural river. 155 miles southeast of Orenburg, said he and Mrs. Barker had spent some time In Nikolalevsk and had been eyewit nesses of the events he recounted. According to Mr. Barker's account, the Japanese forces at Nikolalevsk at tacked the headquarters of the bol- sheviki. and when the bolshevlkl sent out envoys under a white flag to ar range a truce, killed or tortured them. It was In reprisal for this, he said, that the bolshevlkl attacked the Jap anese forces and residents in the town. Chinese marines, landed from gun boats, rescued the British and Ameri can residents of Nikolalevsk from the bolshevlkl, he declared. The second In command of the bol shevlkl. he said, was a woman who personally shot many prisoners In the Nikoiaievsk Jail for her own amuse ment. GAS FLOWING NEAR I0NE Product of Deep Well Sunk for Water Proves Inflammable. HEPPNER, Or., Sept. 18. (Spe cial.) A flow of natural gas was dis covered yesterday on the farm of A. M. Zink a few miles north of lone, which has creafed considerable Inter est. Mr. Zlnk drilled a well about a year ago to the depth of 900 feet to supply his ranch with water. At that depth a strata of rock was encountered so hard that the equipment in use could only penetrate It an Inch in a day's run. Later a strong "blow" was noticed coming through the soil outside the casing and yesterday Mr. Zink decided to Investigate. He removed the soil around the casing, planted a small pipe in the gravel and laid a bed of concrete around the opening. A flow of gas was at once detected and upon apply ing a match a steady .blaze leaped into the air a distance of several feet. ASHLAND VOTES BONDS $ 1 00.000 6 Per Cent 3 0-Year Issue Carries 582 to 122. ASHLAND, Or.. Sept. 18. (Special.) The special election here today to vote on an Issue of $100,000 6 per cent 30-year bonds to provide an auxiliary water supply by putting in a dam on Ashland creek near Mount Ashland carried by a vote of 582 to 122. The woman vote was large. An other $100,000 bond election providing for the purchase of Buck lake. 35 miles east of here, for an auxiliary water supply, called by the council on initiative petition, will be held here September 23. SLAV MARINES EXECUTED Refusal to Obey Mobilization Order Promptly Punished. LONDON, Sept. IS. A Helsingfors dispatch to the Central News says that Admiral Baskolnlkey has exe cuted 100 marines for refusing to obey a mobilization order. Admiral Baskolnlkey is commander tf the Russian Baltic fleet. WEEK TO BRING RAINS Occasional Showers Are Forecast With Normal Temperatures. WASHINGTON. Sept. 18. Weather predictions for the week beginning Monday are: Pacific states Generally fair in California and occasional rains in Washington and Oregon. Normal temperatures. y-J PNT OCifZ.T: H3(JJ V "lOU. , NATION'S DEBT 30 BILLIONS Elect Republicans and Save Bonds, Pleads Harding. HIS $1000 WORTH $842 Three Billions for Planes, but "No Planes; 180 Millions for Camp, 4 Billions for Guns Recalled. William Lloyd Harding, governor of Iowa, opened the republican na tional campaign in Portland last night when he addressed a large and en thusiastic audience at the audito rium. Governor Harding discussed the league of nations, the tariff, the wastefulness of the democratic ad ministration, urged the election of a republican to the United States sen ate and declared that If "you elect a republican president and congress, liberty bonds will go to par over night." Introduced by Robert N. Stanfleld. the republican nominee for senator, Governor Harding had his audience in a happy frame of mind within a min ute and thereafter he pitched tho tone of his speech along humorous lines, using homely slmilies and ex amples to illustrate his points. Gov ernor Harding was little known to Portland republicans yesterday, but when he finished his talk at the audi torium last night he had established himself In the good graces of the party and won thousands of admirers. Debt Totals S.10,000,000,000. Possibly tho most telling part of Governor Harding's speech was his attack on the waste of the administra tion in conducting the war. The gov ernor prefaced his remarks by say ing that the United States Is in debt $30,000,000,000 and as ho owns liberty bonds, he Is concerned over this debt because he wants tq know If tho in terest on his bonds will be paid. Ho declared that liberty bonds have declined so that when he needed $1000 a few days ago and went to dispose of $1000 of bonds he found hnnself $158 short of the required amount. Election of a republican president and congress will bring the liberty bonds to 100 per cent, par, over night, he said. There must have been a largo number of bondholders present from the way this prediction was cheered. Three Billions Spent for Planes. Some $4,000,000,000 was spent by the ordnance department, said the speaker, and while all of this money was spent in this country, no fire arms ever got across the sea. An other $3,000,000,000 was spent for air planes, but not an American plane got across the ocean before the war ended. Instead of using approved planes and engines, charged Governor Harding, Secretary of War Baker lost nearly a year in trying to find some thing better and as a result of this delay the Germane had the supremacy of the air. Of the billion and more dollars spent for building cantonments, 40 per cent, or $180,000,000, was wasted, asserted the speaker, this represent ing profits of contractors. There were 300,000 horses In the war, stated Gov ernor Garding, and for these animals 500,000 sets of double harness were bought. Enough nosebags were bought to provide five for each horse. Enough branding irons were bought to use one iron for every two animals. There were 32.000,000 pairs of shoes for 3,000,000 soldiers, but when the war was over, tho government. (Concluded on Page 18, Column 8.) 'ttt'''r -A
