C0VCR3THE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA
: PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT
33rd YEAR. NO. 104
ASTORIA, OREGON. THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1003
PRICE FIVE CENTS
WANTS DUTY
REMOVED
On Wood Pulp and Print
Paper
A MINORITY PETITION
Williams Wanted Republican Aid
to Join the Democrats to -Pass
the Bill
SUGGESTS PROMPT ACTION
If You do Not Like my Petition
Because my Nam is on it, Get
up One of Your Own, I Pray
You." ,
WASHINGTON, April 29,-The
sundry civil bill was under considera
tion in the house today and the great
er part of the time was consumed in
general debate and discussion re
garding the five-minute rule which
will be resumed tomorrow, Fowler
denounced the Aldrich currency bill
and pleaded for the passage of his
bill to create a currency commission.
Williams presented a petition feign
ed by 164 of the 166 democrats com
posing the minority, asking the
speaker to recognize fume member
of the houc to move for the dis
charge of the ways aud means com
mittee from, a further hearing of the
Stcvc bill for the removal of the
duty on wood pulp and print paper
and to pass that bill or a similar one.
Williams said the only reason he
didn't have all the democrats on the
petition was that two of them were
out of town but he promised to round
them up as soon as they returned, lie
said that only 30 Republicans were
necessary to make the requisite
number to pass the bill and declared
it should be easy enough to get them
because .almost 30 Republicans have
introduced free paper bills, "And," he
said, "I know every one of you who
introduced a bill meant what you
said."
Quoting lines from an old hymn,
"While the lamp holds out, to burn,
The" vilest sinner may return."
Williams proceeded, "If you have
in any manner been bulldozed, why,
think for a second, think of wbat i
short life we" have here and how im
porruit it is that we should be doing
things while we live in this brief day
of our time. 1 express the hope that
30 of you may sign the petition. H
you do not like my petition because
my name is on it and the names of
Clump Clark, Dearmond.'Underwoo
ana Gaines and all these vile publi
cans and sinners on this side, get up
one of your own, I pray you. We
can add the two. together. If 30 of
you sign, the speaker cannot refuse
you. Together we will then consti
tute a majority of the house of rep-
rcse: tatives. Early m the session
when the rules were being adopted,
the speaker was asked if a majority
of the house made a request to the
speaker whether the request be heed
ed, his reply as I remember it was:
'The majority of the house will al
ways be heeded by the speaker.'
"So if you put 30 names' to our 166
and constitute 196, the majority of
the house I know the eminently good
tj'atured man who presides over this
house, so tolerant of opposition, so
patient whenever there is a stumbling
block to thwart his pathway, will bow
in his most elegant manner with the
gesticulation peculiar to him and say:
'Gentlemen, a majority of the repre
sentatives tf fhe American people
have a right to have their say and 1
will recognize somebody'."
Dalzcll offered an amendment to
the sundry civil j bill appropriating
$60,000 for, the establishment of a
uaK'iiiil art gallery in the Smithion
inn Institution.-.' The amendment was
rclcctcd on ft toint of order, The'l
house disagreed to the icnate amend
ment! to the naval appropriation bill
and the bill wan tent to a conference,
JAY COULD.
Coea to England to Defend Tennis
Title.
NEW YORK", April 29,-Jay Could
the American and English court
tennis champion, "sailed for London
yesterday wheie he will defend hia
English title ti the tournamtn". to
be planned May 16.
Gould Is in the best of form thii
year at wai shown by hi defeat of
Milca, the former English champion
who came to New York to take part
in the American championship tour
nament It ii considered more than
likely that Could and Milea will meet
again for the English championship.
BASEBALL SCORES.
At San Francisco Portland 4, San
Francisco 2.
At Tacoma Tacoma 6, Spokane 2.
At Vancouver Vancouver 8, Butte
0.
At Seattle Seattle 6, Aberdeen 4.
At Los Angeles Lo Angeles 3,
Oakland H.
PRINT PAPER PRICE
Important Testimony Before the
Special House Committee
PRESENTED MANY LETTERS
The Committee Was 'Particularly
Impressed With the Annual State
ment of the International Paper Co.
For Year Ending June 30, 1907.
WASHINGTON, ' April 29.-
Coitsidcrable more evidence to show
there is a combination of paper manu
facturers to fix the price of print
naucr was adduced today before a
special committee of the house. Mr.
Norris, the representative of the
newspaper publishers' association
presented numerous letters and docu
ments to bear, out this contention.
Apparency the committee was par
ticularly impressed with the annual
statement of the International Paper
Company for the year ending June
30, )9t)7, showing an increased cost of
the production of 60 cents a ton as
against the raise in the price of
paper to $12 per ton, ' ,
Chairman Mann, appreciating the
importance of this testimony, an
noupcer! he would go to the' bottom
tp ascertain the cause of so large an
mcrease in the price of paper.
PORTLAND REPUBLICANS.
Republican Central Committeen En
t , dorses Candidacy of Tafu
PORTLAND, April 29. The Re
publican state central committee
which met here tdday endorsed the
candidacy of Secretary Taft for the
Presidential nomination and recom
mended that the state convention
when it meets here on May 14 send
a delegation to the national conven
tion instructed to support him. The
state committee glso . endorsed the
acts of United States Senator Fulton
and deprecated in scathing terms the
means used to encompass his defeat
before the primaries. The committed
also endorses the candidacy of H. M.
Cake for the senatorial nomination.
W. M, Cake, a brother of the re
publican candidate for the senatorial
nomination, was elected the chairman
of the; committee. Otis Patterson was
elected setretary. Both the ballots
were unanimous. ...Twenty of the 33
comities of, the state were represented
at today's meeting.
nwmi
Cottage City Strikcsa Pin
nacle of Rock
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IN SEYMOUR NARROWS
The Accident Happened on Her
Last Trip to the Frozen
North
SLID OFF INTO DEEP WATER
The News Reached Vancouver To
day That the Staunch Steamer Had
Bumped Onto a Rock in the Nar
rows a Week Ago Sunday.
VANCOUVER, B. C, April 29.
News reached here today that the
steamer Cottage City, a week ago last
Sunday on her last trip north, struck
on a pinnacle ot rock in Seymour
Narrows. i
The passengers were panic-stricken
and rushed for the life preservers.
When the deckswere assuming a
dangerous pitch the vessel slid off
into deep water again.
CANNON'S NOTIFICATIONS.
Glass Blowers and Funeral Directors
Raise Objections.
WASHINGTON, April 29.-The
glassblowcrs of Danville, III., have
notified Speaker Cannon that . they
are opposed to the Tillman bill,
which provides practically for the
confiscation of liquor shipped into
prohibition states. If this measure
goes through it will result in the re-
duced production of alcoholic liquors.
Diminished production will have its
effect on to demand for bottles.
The National Furieral Directors'
Association, through its secretary,
II, M. Kiipatrick, of Elm wood, 111.,
has applied to the speaker to assist in
bringing about some legislation
whereby the "inhuman practice" of
burial at sea will be discontinued.
KILLED BY AUTO.
Stepped in Front of a
Machine.
Slow Going
CHICAGO, April , 29.-A Louns
bury, vice president of a manufactur
ing Co. ran down and accidentally
while taking his first lesson in oper
while takeing his first lesson in oper
ating an automobile. He had just
"bought a car, and, pending the arrival
of his automobile from the factory,
was practicing with a car owned by
the .company. .
The car is said to have been run
ning slowly when the victim stepped
in front of it and wa9 run over.
From papers found in the man's
clothing he was indentified as Po
vinclli Daniello, 47 years old.
He recently had returned from aj
visit to his wife and three children in
Italy and was making preparations
to brine? them here. -
V NATURAL FIREWORKS.
MESSINA, April 29-Mount Aetna
is now in active eruption.
DR. MORGAN DIX DEAD.
NEW YORK, April 29.-Dr. Mor
gan Dix, rector of Trinity Episcopal
Church, died today from heart failure,
aged 81 years, v
RACE TRACK SOLD.
Old St. Louis Fair Grounds to be Cut
Up Into Building Lots:
ST. LOUIS, April 29,-The old St,
Louis fair grounds at Grand Avenue
at National Bridge, which have been
practically abandoned since the aboli
tion of race track gambling in Mis
souri, will be divided into building
ots as the result of a real estate deal
yesterday. The fair ground compris
ing 17 acres were traded by a syndi
cate composed of Louis A. Cclla, the
horseman, and others, as part pay
ment for the IS story Missouri-
Lincoln Trust Building at Seventh
and Oliver streets, M
The price of building was $1,650,-
000 and the fair grounds represented
$1,000,000 in the deal. .
MURDER IN SECOND DEGREE.
BOULDER, Colo., April 29. The
second trial of E. F. Riser for mur
der growing out of the destruction of
the Colorado and Southern station
here by fire and dynamite during th'e
switchmen's strike, in, which several
people were killed, ended yesterday
when the jury returned a verdict, of
murder in the second degree. The
minimum penality is ten years in the
penitentiary. Fifteen days were al
lowed for appeal before sentence is
imposed. The .first trial resulted in
a disagreement of the jury. Kiser is
the second person to be convicted on
this charge.
DANCE OF FLOWERS
Concludes the Celebration for
the Battleship Fleet
NO ENTERTAINMENT FOR MEN
Some of the Residents - of Santa
Barbara Coming to a Realization of
Unintentional Slight Endeavored
to Arrange a Barbecue.
SANTA BARBARA, April 29,
The celebration of the battleship fleet
concluded tonight with the "Dance of
Flowers" and tomorrow the fleet will
sail away to Monterey. The visit has
been replete with social functions in
honor of officers, but the stay of the
tlilisted men has not been an entirely
happy one. No special entertainment
was arranged for them and they were
allowed to go their own way without
any official attention of any sort.
Some of the, residents of Santa Bar
bara coming to a realization 'of their
unintentional slight endeavored today
to arrange a barbecue, fof the men,
but the intervening time was too
short.
TAKEN TO ASYLUM.
Fortune Tellers Victim Tries to Com
mit Suicide.
CHICAGO, April 29,-Nels Chris
tensen, who expected to die in the
county jail at Kenosha, Wis., in ful
fillment of a prophecy made by a
Danish fortune teller, was taken to an
S asylum yesterday. That the man vras
made insane by the suggestions of the
fortune teller is the belief of the
physicians. All Monday night he sat
in his cell singing hyms and prepar
ing for death that did not come,
Later he tried to kill himself but was
prevented by attendants.
CONFERENCE POSTPONED.
NEW YORK, April 29.-There were
no further developments yesterday in
the efforts pf the Savannah repre
sentatives to corral the Vanderbilt
cup races Jefferson Demont Thomp
son had intended to meet Harvey
Granger and discuss the subject with
him but found it impossible to do so.
The conference was put off until to
day, when Mr. Granger is expected
to make his plea.
ADMISSIONS
BY JEROME
At tbc Hearing of Charges
Against Him
BEF0REAC0AMISS10NER
No Evidence as to Campaign Con-
tributions Had Ever Been Laid
Before Grand Jury
ASKED FOR THE MINUTES
Pierce Wanted to See the Proceed
ings of the Grand Juries But Jerome
Refused Unless Ordered by a Su
preme Court Judge, i
NEW YORK, April 29. District
Attorney Jerome at a hearing of the
charges against him before Commis
sioner Hand admitted today that dur
ing a colloquy with Franklin Pierce,
counsel for the petitioners for
Jerome's removal that no evidence as
to campaign contributions was ever
laid before any grand jury while he
had been district attorney except such
as came out incidentally in other
cases. The admission ,was made after
Pierce had asked for the minutes of
the grand juries which considered the
insurant rases and after Terome had
refused to produce the minutes unless
ordered to do so by a judge of the
Supreme Court
FORTY HORSES BURNED.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 29.- A
fire which" broke out at Tenth and
Howard streets late last night des
troyed the stables of the firm doing
the hauling for Pope and Talbot
Lumbermen. Forty horses were
burned to death. The loss is estimat
ed at $25,000.
CRUISER SUNK.
Japanese Training Cruiser Sunk by
an Explosion.
TOKIO, April 30 The training
. . , . - a
cruiser fiiatsusnima was suhk on
Pescadores Islands this morning by
the explosion of a projecile. Cruisers
Itsukushima and Hashidate rescued
30 of the crew. It is feared that over
200, including the captain of the Mat
sushima are lost.
- IMMIGRATION REPORT".
Increased Protection for Imigrant
Women Provided.
CHICAGO, April 29 Increased
protection for imigrant women is
urged in a final report made yesteday
by the immigration committee of the
Women's Trade Union League of
Chicago.
The making of the report marked
the closing of the Immigration De
partment of the League, the work
Ming taken over by a committee of
Chicago women interested in the im
migration problem.
Although special care is taken that
the immigrants be given the best pro
tection possible at Ellis Island, the
report says "The guardianship of the
government ends when the women
are turned over to the various rail
roads. Sufficient protection is not
given to this large class of travel and
the accomodations for them in the
stations are most inadequate. The
railroads do not assume sufficient re
sponsibility in providing for the safe
ty of the immigrant girl and woman
'to her final destination.
CITY SKY-SCRAPER.
f
Designed to Centralize Departments
Except Police Fire andd dHealth.
NEW YORK,"Ap"ril 29.-A design
for city's new sky' scraper de Linxe
which is to be built on the 'triangle
north of the Park Row entrance to
the Brooklyn Bridge to house the
the city offices, was selected yester
day by the jury of awards from
among the dozen plans submitted in
the competition by the leading archit
ects of the city.';. v-v
The building is to occupy the block
bounded by Park Row, Centre street,
Trion Row and Duane street, and is
to cost" $7,000,000. It is the plan to
have the city departments except the
police, fire and the health housed here
This will centralize departments now
scattered and will at the same time
save the city more than $500,000 a
year in rent '
DRINK WATER?
W. C. T. U.
Protests to
Metcalf.
Secretary
WASHINGTON, April 29,-The
W C T.'U. of California has written
to Secretary of the Navy Metcalf,
transmitting resolutions adopted by.
the organization protesting against
the serving of intoxicants at dinners
or other entertainments to be given
to the officers and men of the Atlan
tic fleet ' The protest is signed by
Sarah J. Dorr, president, and Anna
E. Chase, corresponding secretary.
DAVIS STIRRED UP
Asks for Information Regarding
Tribal Roll of Indians
RESOLUTION WAS PASSED
Advancing Toward Foraker, he
Asked if the Ohio Senator Loved
"Niggers" so Well Why Didn't he
Come Forward aid Defend Them.
WASHINGTON, April 29-Sena-tor
Davis o Arkansas created -a mild
sensation today in discussing his res
olution on the Secretary of the In
terior s to information as to the
tribal rolls of the Choctow and the
Chickasaw Indians, when he declared
10,000 men were being kept off the
rouVby the secretary and instanced
one case in which he said nine mem
bers of a family were rated as ne
groes and only one as an indian. .Ad
vancing toward Foraker, his voice
thundered throughout the chamber
and adjacent halls as he asked if the
Ohio senator loved "Niggers" so well
why didn't he come forward now and
defend these members of that race.
Only laughter greeted that sally and
Foraker responded in a mild tone
that the Senator should speak louder.
The Davis resolution was passed. All
pension bills on the Calender and
other measures of minor importance
were passed during the day. Warner
being ill with a cold, an agreement
was reached to permit other senators
to read for him the remainder of his
Brownsville speech.
ON HIS TRACK.
Wallace G. Hopkins Located in New
York State.
CHICAGO, April 29.-The Inter
Ocean today says:
Wallace G. Hopkins, the fugitive La
Salle street broker, who recently fled
from Chicago, leaving an indebted
ness of more than $200,000, has been
located in a town in New York, Chi
cago authorities expect his arrest
within 24 hours.
"I have wired east ordering Hop
kins' arrest,", said States Attorney
Bailey last night. "I cannot yet tell
in what town he has been located, but
the information seems authentic, and,
I expect his apprehension within a
short time." ,