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THE SUNDAY OltEGONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 26, 1922 m I is INSUBS1DYDEBATE Both Sides Use Artillery ; During House Wrangle. CLOSE VOTE IS FORECAST there are four women to each man. The islajid has but 23 taxpayers that Is, men between the ages of 21 and 60. The rest are young bovs and old men. All of the work except fiBhing is done by the women, woo are comely and sturdy, exceedingly tall and muscular. With regard to the widely published story that in Rapa the men were so lazy that the women fed them. Stokes says the woman who wrote the article in all probability arrived at Rapa. on a festive occasion and that what she believed to be a custom whereby the women put the food In the men's mouths was in reaHty something that was being done merely "In fun." All the agricultural work and the preparation for food Is done by Opponent!) t Measure Preparing to Hake Measure Tomorrow 'With Many Amendments. WASHINGTON". D. C. Nov. 15. The bis guns on both sides were turned loose in the house battle to day over the administration ship ping bill. When general debate, which had run for three full days, ended to night opponents of the measure were ready for the attempt to be made Monday to rake it fore and aft with amendments, while those who have urged its passage expressed belief that their forces could be held to gether to put it through substan tially as framed. Meanwhile absent members were urged to return. The assurance given ' the president last night by Repre sentative Mondell, republican leader, that there were votes enougn to pass It put the opposition at work with renewed vigor. Opponents Predict Failure. Both factions figured closely on the probable vote to be cast Wednes day for and against the bill, op ponents asserting that unless the administration was able to line up and count all Us absentees it might be beaten. Telegrams came today from many absentees, seeking pairs. The first real test of strength will be - developed Monday when the house is called upon to vote on amendments, some of which seek to Btrlke out vital provisions of the bill. As ranking democrat of the mer chant marine committee, by which the bill was drafted, Representative Hardy of Texas made the principal assault on it today in a. two-hour talk. Republican Joins Enemies. He was joined by Representative Frear, republican, Wisconsin; Rep resentative Garrett, Tennessee, the democratic leader, and others, while Representative Mondell, the repub lican leader and Chairman Madden of the appropriations committee, went to the front with many repub licans in its defense. An assertion by Mr. Hardy that "there is not a paragraph' in the bill that was not framed by the steamship owners," was denied by Representative Edmond-s, Pennsyl vania, ranking republican of the merchant marine committee, who declared he personally had written many of the provisions and that they were not put there at the be hest of outaide influences. Wrangle Marks Proceedings. Breaking into the wrangle. Rep resentative Nelson, republican, Wis consin, said he had received infor mation that virtually every "de mand" of the shipping interests had been incorporated. Mr. Hardy charged that under the legislation proposed by the com mittee, the Standard OH company "will receive money from the gov ernment for transporting its own products in its own tankers, so it can sell oil costing 50 cents a bar rel in Texas for $7 In Shanghai." The end, of the debate, Mr. Mon dial declared, "found the opponents of the bill floundering and without a single definite constructive sug gestion made or offered." Foreign Interests Aided. The position of those opponents of the measure, he added, must be somewhat embarrassing in view of the tact that "their attitude is ex actly that which best pleases our foreign shipping rivals. Mr. Garrett today took sharp is sue with the republican argument that a proposal to compensate the merchant marine was in any way parallel to the government activi ties in road building, irrigating western lands, or making grants to railroads. "If when I voted cheerfully for western irrigation projects, I was voting for a subsidy, the western gentleman certainly put something over on me," he said, turning to Mr. Mondell. "Those projects were for tho benefit of all, not for a few. Cargoes Both Ways Needed. Mr. Garrett declared to have a merchant marine, ships must have cargo both ways, and added that the last act of that congress be fore the recent recess was to pre vent ships having a return cargo from abroad by imposition of the 1 tariff." The benefit to the whole people Tinder the shipping bill would be .. greater than Mississippi valley ap propriations granted by congress "and there was no subsidy there," said Kepresentative misted, repub lican. New York. Pleading for ocean transportation. Representative Free, republican, camornia, aeciarea California .prod ucts had lost from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 this season because of aacK or transportation on land and sea. WHAT CONGRESS DID AS . ITS DAY'S WORK. Senate not in session. ' House. Concluded general debate on ship subsidy. Representative Frear of Wisconsin charged that Stand ard Oil and United States Steel will be the first to bene fit from President Harding's subsidy plan. Hearings urged by Repre sentative Hill, republican. Maryland, on bill to transfer prohibition enforcement from treasury to justice depart ment. Ku Klux Klan again con d'emned by Representative Rainey, democrat, Illinois. CIO MINISTRY IS LIKED LARGEST VOTK OF APPROVAL YET GIVEN EXPECTED. women. The men do the fishing, and no man, Stoks says, has more than one official wife. As to the number of unofficial wives, Stokes does not say, but merely grins. Everyone lives the simple lite. Boys from 12 vears upward are taught to row the fishing boats in the open sea, which is frequently very rough. The women of Rapa are not any too willing to marry men of their own race, for the marriage custom vir tually makes a woman her hus band's slave. Hence there is only ono official wife for every man. The natives are exceedingly hos pitable and as a result of a recently published article half a dozen white "beachcombers" have settled on the island. TRUE BILL IS DENOUNCED KTXG COUNTY PROSECUTOR ASK SFOR DISMISSAL. Legal Plied Between Griffiths and Douglas, at Seattle, En ters Another Phase. PDGET SOUND BUREAU, Seattle, Wash.. Nov. 25. (Special.) Declar ing it would be "an outrage on jus tice" to bring the defendants to trial on such a-i indictment, Prosecuting Attorney Douglas today moved for the dismissal o fthe last of the In dictments returned by tho spring grand jury against the three com missioners of King county. The motion was presented to Presiding Judge Griffiths, who was accom panied by another judge, on account of the alleged prejudice of Judge Griffths. The latter took the matter under advisement. Mr. Douglas called . Judge Grif fith's attention to the recent de cision of the state supreme court, sustaining tho right of the prosecu tor to have his cases transferred to other judges, but was curtly re buked by the court. Asked when he might be expected to give a decision. Judge Griffiths replied: "When I get ready." Other indictments against the county commissioners, ' all arising from the lease of the county ferry system, were dismissed several weeks ago on a similar motion by the prosecuting attorney for lack of evidence. The course of the prosecutor was criticised sharply by Judge Griffiths from the bench. Since then the prosecutor, by means of affidavits of prejudice, had re fused to permit Judge Griffiths to rule on any matter in which his of fice was concerned. S ISLE OF EASE TRAVELER AFFIRMS TALE OF SOUTH SEA INDOLENCE. Civilization Gradually Effaces At mosphere of Romance and j Adventure of Other Days. HONOLULU, T. H., Nov. 14 (Special.) Glamor, romance and ad venture of the South Seas have gone and in their place have sprung up modern methods of industry, edu cation and living, says J. F. , Stokes, ethnologist with tb ISishop museum, .who is back in Honolulu after two years In the South Seas. Unless, he adds, one cares to go to the island of Kapa, the little is land which came into world-wide prominence some time ago as a plae where the men are fed &y the women and loll about on a stretch . of coral sand or in the shade o palm trees, knowing nothing and caring less of the doing of the out side world. Civilization, creeping steadily southward, has shorn the South Seas of that atmosphere of romance and adventure that existed in bygone days, Stones says, except in Rapa. Rapa is a land of laziness and ease, he says, although it is already beginning to bear the earmarks of civilization. The island is six miles long and three and a half miles wide. There are -35 inhabitants and United Socialists as Well as Na tionalists Will Indorse New Government's Platform. BERLIN, Nov. 25. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Despite its -avowed-ly non-partisan complexion and the admitted absence of a dose work ing affiliation with any party, the new ministry of Wilhelra Cuno will in all probability be given the largest vote of approval ever ac corded any German cabinet. Un usual parliamentary procedure is an outcome of,, voluntary concur rence by all the parties, except the communists, in the new govern ment's far flung programme, as un folded in the chancellor's Inaugural speech before the reichstag. Outlining the government's policy, Herr Cuno declared it would adhere fully to the memorandum sent by the late cabinet to the reparations commission. The united socialists as well as the nationalists, will indorse the government's platform in a man ner which will not exactly consti tute an outspoken vote of confi dence, as the motion to be intro duced by the democrats will be so framed as to express the relchstags approval," whereby the nationalists and socialists with due reservation, propose to Indicate their tacit con set to giving the ministry reason able opportunity to put its pro gramme into operation. As for the three middle parties, whose good will was - vouchsafed Herr Cuno in advance, they will vote as a bloc, . leaving the com munists the only pronounced dis senters at the outset of the new government's career. The assurance of a large majority of approval of the new cabinet is accounted for by the fact that the government's programme as out lined is so variegated and compre hensive with respect to its attitude toward the reparations problem and internal reforms that neither the nationalists nor the socialists could consistently oppose it in advance. At the conclusion of the partisan debate and voting on the motion of approval, the reichstag will adjourn for a week to enable the new gov ernment to perfect ita organization. HUSBAND, 20, ARRESTED Non-Support Charged by Youth ful Bfother. VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 25. (Special.) Clarence Van Dale, 20 years of age, was arrested today for non-support of his girl wife whom he married a little more than a year ago. The couple have a baby only a few months old. When deputies went to the house to serve the warrant, they found the youthful couple together. Van Dale read the warrant and then asked who made the complaint. "I did," his wife told him. 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