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OOVIftt THE MORNINQ FISLD ON TW LOWEft OOLUMBMU1 UILISHIO rUkL AMOOIATID PRItt RIPORT 5 PRICE FIVE CENTS VOLUME LXI NO. 337 ASTOKIA, OREGON, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1906 PUBLIC OF rWUMD To be Taken Into Strikers ' Confidence. MASS MEETING PLANNED National Organizers Arriving to Aid Car-Men In Tbeir BljFlsht. MEN GREATLY ENCOURAGED Disorder Praotloally Dying Down Un der Stress of Pelle Prssur and Effort! of th ttrlk Leader At Well. PORTLAND, Dec SO. Upon th plan and suggestion that mar b presented by tha officer of tha Inter national body of th tret car man'a onion, who ara expected to arrlva In Portland tonight and tomorrow, will depend tba further conduct of tha lo cal street ear strlk. and tha outeom of tha unlon'a fight against tha rati way company. " ;": - . Tbaaa man hava bad wlda experience In tha conduct of strikes and tha mam- bar of tha union hara hava great hope that their praaanca In tha city and their aid In h flKbt now on will feav tha effect of rousing new Inter- est, Instilling now Ufa Into tha fight, bringing many mora man Into the ranks of the alrtkera, and enabling tba union to ultimately win It point Qeneral Organiser W. O. Burton la to arrive tonight at J:B5. and will meet with tha street car men and the exec utlve board of the Federated Trades Council at Prow Hall tonight. Rich ard Cornetlue, member of the executive board of tha International organlia- tlon. will arrlva tomorrow afternoon and both ha and Burton will address a public man meeting at Merrlll'a hnll Friday night. Thla meeting la to lay the atrlka altuntlon before the public, and all unlonmen, and to moke a bid for renewed empathy and aupport from both. Vice PreldentM. 3. Bui llvan. of the International Electrical Workers, baa been requested to come to the city, but no reply baa been re calved from blm aa yet. Notwithstanding the fact that . the railway company la operating car night and day almost on schedule time; that few, If any, men are being converted to the causa of the strlkors; that th electrical worker have o far deellnod to atrtke In sympathy, and the Federated Tradca Council haa not authorised any ; general sympathetic atrlkea, the carmen "till express the greatest confidence In their ability ul timately to win. Their faith In the power of the International offlcera to give a, turn to affairs that will force ' tha company to come to tlmo la un bounded. WHISKEY MANUFACTURERS HOT WASHINGTON, Dec, 20. An em phatla protest was made yesterday to Secretary W!!"n f th,. Agricultural Department by the manufacturer of whiskey known as neutral spirits, against a tentative ruling of the de partment respecting blended" whis ky. Under thla ruling the mixture of neutral spirits and bourbon and rye whiskey to which harmless coloring as flavoring Ingredients have been added, cannot ba branded "blended" whiskey, or Indeed, whiskey at all, . CLAIM8 MANY MILLIONS. NEW YORK, Deo. 20,-Louls P. Kooken, of Philadelphia, through counsel here, served notice yesterday upon Corporation Counsel Ellison and Comptroller Meta, laying claim to the, major portion of the property In up per Manhattan borough and the Bronx, the value of which runs up Into the hundreds of mlllons, Kooken claims to rep i many heirs of tha ortg lwl ,N dees, and grants mad , by Rio rF Nlcolla and Thomas Dongan, JT , governors. NRED ON CARS. PEN8ACOLA, ria,, Dec. to. Of ficers of tha Fort Barrancas army post notified tha attorneys of tha eleo trio car Una that thorough Investiga tion will b mad and If any artll lerymen fired on tba train they win ba eourtmartlaled. The soldier deny that they fired into a train, and af. tar a thorough examination today by offlcera of tha Penwaloca Kloctrlo com pany It was announced that no bullet holes were found In any of tba ears, AFTER "BLACK HAND" SOCIETIES NEW YORK. Pee, tO.-Wlth tba Idea of discouraging tha "Black Hand" and kindred organisations In thla city, the polio tonight arreted fourteen Italian on charges of carrying con cm! ad wpon a, A special fore of detective was detailed to tb Italian colony for the purpose of apprehend Ing ausplcloua persona. Police Commlsatoner Bingham stat ed tbat ba would enlarge tha fore of Italian detectives and make A deter' mined effort to rid tha city of the "black hand" das of criminal. RAILROAD DEFIES COMMISSION OMAHA, Dee. 10. George McNutt. of Kansas City, district paasenger agont of tha Missouri, Kansas Texaa, who Is tn thla city, announcea that bla company ba decided to make contracts for th coming year with newspapers for advertising to be paid for In transportation, notwlth standing th ruling tha Interstate Commerce Commission baa made. f eamale Mldlonary irom JTokio Takes Up Cud jets. HITS SAN FRANCISCO BOARD 8 tertiary ef Board of Education Writs Shsrp Critlotsm of Lady and Incidentally of Metoalf and th President f SAN FRANCISCO, Deo. 10. Mrs. Flora B. Harris, residing at tha Toklo mission, recently addressed a com munlcatlon to th San Francisco board of education, In which she deplored San Francisco's attitude toward the Japanese In the public schools, and criticised what she termed th "pro vincial spirit" of the local offlclal. She deprecated the attempt to classify the Japanese as "Orientals," and expressed surprise that the children of any for elgn residents could be "excluded from the public schools and sogrognted without their consent, solely on ac count of their nationality." The San Francisco Board of Educa tion, through Secretary Klmere C. Lef flngwell, has framed & reply to Mra Harris. The reply acsorts that the Japanose bav not been "excluded" from the schools, "despite the fact that. no less A personage than the President of th United States has employed a similar assertion In framing a mes saga to Congres, and notwithstanding the wholly unfair report made of tho entire school Incident , by tb Sea retaryi of Commerce and Labor, the Hon. Victor H. Metcalf," : - The "provincialism of California," the "piy states.. "Is oddly enough re flected In the hearts and minds of the people of : Oregon and Washington." Continuing,, the reply says: "The fact that the President of the. United States Is basing arguments upon er roneous asumptlons' and framing against a loyal people scathing crit icisms regarding a matter which Is purely one of local concern, doea not In the least deter the people of the Pacific Coast, who, after all, doubtless are the best Judges of their own im mediate needs. Neither do the mis leading deductions and recommenda tions of a politician high In authori ty, when voiced through a document which plainly sought the light of fa vor and not of truth, Impress the peo ple of this locality! with any sense of doubt as to their rights as free born (Continued on Fag 3.) CONGRESS ADJOURNS Over the Great Holiday Season of 1906 YESTERDAY'S BIG RUSH Isthmian Canal Report Is Received and Makes Deep Impression in Boih Houses. MONDELL FIGHTS FOR HIS BILL Big and Buay Day In th National Legislature Everything Rushed to Make Adjournment Easy Re convene Jsnusry 3. Th annual rport(of th Isthmian Canal Commission for tb year ending December 1 waa mad publlo today. The report la In part a follows: During tb year the first stag of canal work, tbat of preparation, has virtually been past, and the Commls slon finds Itself In a position to enter upon th second stag, that of actual construction of a lock canal af "an "el evation of IS feet, authorised by Con grass In June last. Of these two stages, the first waa at once the more difficult and the more Important, If Jnot done thoroughly and Intelligently, In every part, the actual work of construction would be handicapped from the start" It waa necessary to make the Isthmus, by thorough sanitation, a healthful place In which to work; to provide suitable quarter and food for employes; to construct proper terminal yards and railway tracks and Intermediate yards for the handling of the vast quantities of materlala and supplies; to Install a system of railway tracka through the cuts; to put the various levels In the cut In proper condition for the Install atlon and operation of the maximum number of steam shovels; to pur chase and assemble the plant for con structlng the canal; to work out all engineering problems; to perfect i government and create a system of ac counts, and to formulate a prellmln ary plan for carrying forward the work In each department. ' Emphntlo testimony to the thor oughness with which the preliminary work has been done was borne by the Senate committee on lnterooeanlo ca nals In Its majority report, made to the Senate on May 17, 1904, WASHINGTON, Deo. 20. President Roosovelt today Blgned the Urgent De flelency bill, ; Senator Foraker occupied the atten tion ot me senate in ns ibri session before the holiday recess In an ex tended criticism of the basis of Pres ident Roosevelt's action In discharg ing the negro troops of tha Twenty fifth Infantry, on account of the Brownsville raid. He was replied to, briefly, by Lodge, whiie 'acoti ; sus tained the demand of the Ohio sena tor for full Investigation of the matter by the Senate Military Committee. A resolution declaring such an Investi gation Is before the Senate for action at Its next meeting. The Senate ad journed until January 3, 1907. The recommendations for changes In the naturalization, expatriation and passport laws and regulations of the United States, was submitted to Con gress today by tha special committee designated by the State Department to Investigate the political laws, In ac cordance with the request from ? the House oommlttee on foreign affairs. The committee consisted of Dr. David Jayne Hill, United States minister to The Netherlands, James B. Scott, so licitor, and Galllard Hunt, chief of the Passport Bureau of the State Depart ment The status of American wo men marrying foreigners is sharply defined and the citizenship of minor children Is made clear and provision Is made for expatriation of American cltlsens who live abroad Indefinitely. Under" the present law, a man once an American cltlsen I always an American cltlsen. The result has beer! many perplexing International difficul ties, especially In Turkey, where many men who have American naturalisation papers demand the protection of th United States. If th recommenda tions of the committee b enacted Into law this country will be practically upon th basis as England Is now, nt will be able to terminate the Amer ican cltlxcnsblD ot persons who live outside this country. After being In session less than an hour, the House adjourned until Jan, S. 1907. " Empty desk greeted the Speaker when the House convened and the desire to get away for the Holidays was superior to all Inclinations for business. Representative Mondell of Wyoming succeeded In passing a bill extending the time In which entrymen may make final settlement on the Sho shone Indian Reservation. Tb House adjourned to meet again on January 1, 1 907. One hundred members wait ed to extend the season's greetings to Speaker Cannon. T While Mondell's bill was under eon' slderatlon, Representative Mann of ff llnols, objected to the practice of Con grass, or rather of the Interior De partment, In opening Indian reserva tions under the lottery system. He se riously doubted whether the entrymen on these binds contemplated their re tention, but believed that they hoped rather to make money out ot their holdings, while real settlers were placed at a disadvantage. T Forly-Sevtn Railways Make (his Wage Tribute. TO YARDMEN AND TRAINMEN Was a Universal Demand Throughout th Country Some Brotherhood Asked Five Cents Increase Per Day Four Accepted. PORTLAND, Dec 10, Switchmen In the employ of the O. R- A N., Southern Pacific Northern Pacific and Northern Tacino Terminal Company have been granted an Increase of 4 cents an nour In wages. This Is for ten-hour day, with not less than half an hour extra work to be con sidered overtime. ; The new scale gives day foremen In first-class yards 35 cents and night foremen 87 cents, with day helpers patd 33 cents and night helpers 34 cents. In second-class yards the scale Is 1 cent lower. The Increase was asked for In November, but was not granted until a few days ago, when It was agreed that the raise should date from November 1. The concert ed action of the four companies in recognising the request of the men is taken to Indicate other matters pre sonted by engineers and trainmen will be accorded the same recognition. All lines of railroad employes with the exception, of clerks, have ' either taken up the theme of an increase in wages, or will do so by January 1. The latest Intention has been declared by the Brotherhood of Railway Train men and Order of Railway Conduc tors, on all lines west of Chicago, who Wtl Remand an vigul-bour day and an Increase of 15 per cent for conductors and brakemen. About 47 roads wtll be affected and the Increase will benefit a total of 45,000 men, while to the companies It means an additional expenditure of 39,000,000 annually. EXCITING PURSUIT. BUFFALO, Dec. 20. The trunk con taining $15,000 worth of plate and Jew elry alleged to bav been stolen from Charles V. Stein of Chicago, was In Buffalo today and waa shipped by a man and woman to Montreal tonight, beating the pursuing detectives by ten minutes. ' A telegram has been sent along the Una to arrest the couple and the conductor of the train haa been instructed to bold the trunk, ADVICE NO EXTRA SESSION President Very Dubious of It's Necessity. CONGRESS AGAINST IT He Musi Have Affirmative Expres sion Before He Will Even i Consider It. NO VERY PRESSING REASONS Tariff Revleionist Are Hot For It- High Tariff Men ar Solidly 'For ninsf th Plan Will Be In vestigated. WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. Advocate of tariff revision have about aban doned hope that an extra session-of the 60th Congress wDl be called, fol lowing the adjournment of the pres ent session on March 4 next Presi dent Roosevelt, while avoiding any definite statement of bis Intentions has distinctly discouraged advocates of an extra session who bave called at the White House during the past few day ' - -v, fanv Western Congressmen and most of the member of tb Massa. chusetts delegation bav strongly urged the President to take up the matter ot tariff revision and force early action. They contend that the results of the recent election Indicate a strong demand for readjustment of the Dlngley schedules, and they in sist that Congress and the President should recognise that demand. Mr. Roosevelt's attitude In the mat ter haa not been arbitrary, but to his Insistent callers be haa declared that tariff revision should be given care tul consideration that none Is more de. alrous than be of getting such read' Juatment of the tariff schedules as will quiet the agitation on this subject, and come as near giving general satlsfac tlon aa possible; tbat he would glad ly call Congress tn extra session if he were sure it would revise the tariff to meet the demands from various quarters, but that he does not want to ca)l an extra session and then bave Congress balk and fall to do any' thing. ; . Assurances have been given by the President to callers that he proposes to go over the subject carefully with members of Congress, and thus en deavor to get light on the proper course for him to pursue. ., i mile it cannot be said the extra session plan is entirely abandoned, the Indications are it will be. So strong is the stand pat and high-tariff ele ment In Congress, that ' when the President goes over the' ground thor oughly he Is almost certain to con clude It would do little good to call an extra session. Theonly other way seriously considered tor getting at tariff revision Is to have . an inves tigation of schedules by the Ways and Means Committee of the House and Finance Committee Of the SenateV or a Joint committee made up of sub committees from these committees. rTK TTTk nwA Iff ann rAMMtHAA olona might make an investigation. This plan Is strongly favored by tha Pres ident and some of his Cabinet, but op posed strongly by Secretary Shaw, and the leading high tariff men in the Cabinet, and It Is doubtful If such a proposition even can get through Con gress. - . . PUBLIC AT FAULT. Shippers and Consignees Blamed for Car Shortage, WASHINGTON, Dec, 20. President A. B. Stlckney ot the Chicago Great Western haa submitted some Interest ing facta to the Interstate Commerce Commission, In which he says that the average distance traveled in 24 hours by a freight car Is 250 miles and that the average tlm consumed by ship pers and consignee in loading and un loading each car Is nine day, or Sit hours. Mr. Stlckney says that If ship pers could be compelled to load and unload each average car In four and one-half days. It would bav th equiv alent of doubling instantaneovaty the effectiveness of freight equipment of tb railroads, In effect adding to such equipment 1,780,000 car without cost to tb railway and without Increasing their capitalization, while to purchase that number of new car would cost the railway, and add to their capital ization, the enormous sum of fl,160, 000,009, which at four per cent would add to their annual charges 154,400, 000 to be collected from the people, ' THEMIS A TOTAL LOSS. w 1 VICTORIA, B. C, Dec. JO. Th steamer Salvor returned tonight from tb wreck of , the steamer Themis, which struck on the Cardigan Rocks, Balaclava, Island, last Friday, having found salvage impossible. Th steam er 1 almost covered by water. It la not believed any of her cargo can be saved. ': , VE8UVIUS-1N ERUPTION. NAPLES, Dec JO-Another portion ot the crater of Vesuvius fell In to day and caused an eruption of sand. The rain of ashes created some alarm but calm waa soon restored. t MELBA IN T RAVI ATA, NEW YORK, Dec i0. Mme. lfelba cabled Oscar Hammerstein yesterday that she would make ber first appear ance In the Manhattan Opera Hons January 1, aa Vlolette In Travlata." OLD M FEB Sivil Service Employes Not Be Retired on Part Pay. V WOULD BE VERY EXPENSIVE National Civil Service Reform League Reports Adversely to Giving Old Age Pensions to Member of Service, NEW YORK, Dec. 80. A blow at all schemes for old age pensions for Civil Service employes, whether in state or nation, was delivered today . by tb National Civil Service Reform League. The report aroused special interest be cause not only are there now several bills in Congress providing for pen sions for superannuated government clerks, but several legislatures are be sieged by Civil Service employes try ing to establish an elaborate pension system. The league finds that any pension scheme founded on the gov ernment Is bad. A civil pension list on the English basis would cost the nation $19,000,000 for the whole service whereas at the present the govern ment's loss from the inefficiency of its employes who are 65 years of age, expressed in salary, equals $1,200,000 , a year. . , . '' DIGGING FOR HICKS. BAKERSFIELD, Deo. 20. The res cuers who have been working so stead ily and manfully to release the Im prisoned miner Hicks are almost with in loucli of the entombed man. ,- The rescuers are now within talking dis tance and will take him from his prison tomorrow unless some unfor- seen accident prevents. Every pre-; caution is being taken and the last tew feet of earth are being carefully re moved to prevent any mishap. Hicks' wonderful courage is still manifest in the witty conversations which be keeps up with the rescuers, who ar really gaining courage from blm. 8EALER BEGINS CRUISE. VICTORIA, B. C, Dec, 20. The sealing schooner Victoria, first of the Victoria Sealing Company's schoon ers to leave this season, sailed today, outfitted for a nine months' crulse.off the California coaat, Copper Island and Bering Sea. .