The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930, December 13, 1908, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextJpltf II i'"f IIEPBII RULES JIT PRESENT SESSION , WJ, Ci-.i JL a ' worn otartea by Commi - ttee and Cannon EXPECT COMPROMISE A Number of Other Amendment Reforms Will be Con sidered HOUSE AGAIN IN OLD FORM Fint Wrangle Wm on tht Resolu tion Fixing tht Boundary Lint Be tween Bute of Colordo, Oklahoma and New Mexico. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 12. One of the first thing agreed upon by memberi of the Hepburn rule revision committee in the Home wii plan to make the fight for amend ment at the present session. Work was started by a conference between member of the committee and Can non and Representative William, former minority leader, as well ai between the committee and other in dividual among the element favor ing a revision of the rule. Word was tpread by a majority of the committee that the amendment will be conservative. A practical disapproval waa announced on inch change a the selection of a steer Ing committee of the Home to ap point committee and proposal to have the committee on rule elected by the House. It ii understood the committee will ask to be authorized to agree to compromises that the speaker might suggest if desifable. Member of the "Reformer of the Tulc are prc''c11y united on the Hepburn resolution which wouM practically compel the peaker to recogniee any person upon whom hi eye fell instead of allowing him to arrange at the beginning of the day, designating mcmbcri who shall be given privilege of the floor. A number of other reform amendments will be considered. The House was in old-time form. No patrlcular program had been mapped out but under the call of committees several measures in which the members are especially in terested and in some cases vitally concerned were considered. With a few exceptions they engendered the liveliest sort of debate and it was disclosed that the forces for or against them were fully lined up for the fray. Parliamentary tactics wee freely resorted to, with the result that fiv times, the roll was called. The grst wrangle was on the resolu tion fixing the boundary line between the States of Colorado, Oklahoma FLOYD McFARLAND TiotedlBicycle Rider of California Wins Sixtieth International Event at New York MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New York, Dec. .12. Floyd McFar land, veteran bicycle, racer of Cali fornia, won the sixteenth internation al six-day race for-the team of Mc Farland and Moran tonight set a new distance record. Butt of Rutt-Stol, second, and Demara (California), of the Demara-Hill combination run third. The final sprint of one mile PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED N0, 291 " " ! , ASTORIA, OREGON. SUNDAY. DECFMRPR 13 ie?ra " T" - ,.t- TO BE REVISED ! Nw Mexico, it was loptcd by ' ,ood mir"y Her two roll ,f" T,, then by decuive -.r... .i i . . i. iciuiica io lunner con hki cr ttie bill providing arbitrary settlement of disputes between employers and em ployes. A bill providing for the pro tection of aliens In the United States wai threshed out at length, The measure which had rough sail ing, wa passed by a thin majority after the rolls was called twice. FRANCE IS AfiGRY AT PRESIDENT CASTRO PROTESTS AGAINST HIS PRES ENCE AND DEMANDS AN APOLOGY. WANTS AN EXPLANATION Paris Paper Say it la Undignified to Allow a Man Who Had so Bitterly Flouted Franca to Remain With ' out an Apology. PARIS, Dec 12.Th Temps pro tests loudly against the quivocal po sition in which France has been placed by the presence of President Castro in the country and insist that the government explain the enigma forthwith. The papers say it is undignified to allow a man who so bitterly flouted France to remain here without an apology. "When M Taigny (who was the French min ister at Caracas), was expelled. Amer lea waa stupefied by our inaction; and today, Holland, with less of a case, is giving us a good lesson." DISCUSSED BIG FINE. CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-Judge Kern saw M. Landis' $29,000,000 fine against the Standard Oil Company was a subject of discussion at a banquet of the Lawyers' Club of Chicago last night. Among those who listened to the remarks was Judge Wm. H. Seaman of the United States circuit court, one of the three judgs wh,o reversed Judge Landis opinion. Attorney Chas. E. Cramer assailed the fine and Judge Landis in humor ous vein. "This fine was harder on the defendant than is the man who goes through the pockets , of corpse," remarked Mr. Cramer. "He who robs a corpse takes only such belongings as the victim may have in his' or its possession at that time 1 his fine, however, docs not stop here, it takes ajso that which, its victim has not. Also it contemplates depriving its victim of all its pres ent holdings and much that it may be able by future thrift and industry to gather together." was between representatives of these ;' three teams which- were on equal terms as to distance coveted, 2737 miles, one lap in 142 hours which is ( 3 miles 7 laps ahead of the record , of the Miller-Waller team in 1899. The prizes of the surviving teams ( are:" First, $1500; second, $100; third, $700; fourth, $500; fifth. $300: sixth. $250; seventh, $200. PRESS REPORT 1 --sewMMM I IMVki I !! W"-" The question of state riahts limn ed prominently in the debate in the House today, the bill providing pro tectlon of aliens in the United States in accordance with the treaties en- tered into with foreign powers. The bill designed to, relieve the United State from what was stated on th. floor by Shirley, of Kentucky, to be "The embarrassing and often hu- miliating position arisinir from its in- ability to make good the obligations oi its treaties for protetcion of for- eigners in this country." Onoonents ot the measure contended that the laws of several states are ample to meet the situation whenever it ore- scnted itself. The first vote was 100 to 99; recapitulation, 100 to 100. The vote of the Speaker in the affirmative passed the bill. The riuht of the speaker to vote after balloting- was closed was dispufed by DeArmond. Cannon in an elaborate decision de clared he had a right to vote and said the vote would stand. DeArmond appealed but in the meantime a vote to adjourn was passed. I MERELY A SUGGESTION. CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-MStoo the doctor's salary when the Datimt is sick and pay his salary when the pa tient is well as the Chinese do." was suggested as a means of a fair basis of condensation for rail wsv sur geons, and "pay the business agent when things move evenly and stop his pay when a strike occurs," as a means of solving the labor Question. at the closing session of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Sur geons at the Palmer House last night These assertions were made by Dr. A. I. Bouxeur of Chicago, chief, surgeon of the St. Paul in dis cussing the question of "legal com pensation." FLEET IS SIGHTED. . . COLOMBO, Ceylon, India. Dec. I3.--The United States Atlantic fleet, in command of Admiral Sperry, was sighted at 7 o'clock this (Sunday) morning. The fleet left Manila De cember 1. The 16 vessels will remain six days. This is tire first stop of the homeward voyage. HAS EMBEZZLER IN TOW. HOUSTON, DcT 12. -Detective Ehillip Findley, of Chicago, left for Chicago with W. Briggs Good rich, who is wanted in that city on a charge of embezzlement. It is charg ed that he annrooriated to his own use about $5000 belonging to the widow of Michael McDonald. Good rich is convinced that he will be able to straighten the matter after he reaches Chicago. DM 111 TO BE PLAINTIFF CLAIMS HEIRS PLIED DECEASED WITH WHISKY BEFORE DEATH MANY SENSATIONAL CHARGES Late Simon H. Dikeman of Oakland Who Left Estate Valued at Hun dred Thousand Dollars Probably Met With False Play. OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 12.-The contest of the will of the lat? Simon H. Dikeman who died at Berkeley. leaving an estate valued at a hundred thousand dollars, was filed today by his son, Waldo Dikeman. The com plaint makes sensational charges that those members of the family who are benefited by the will plied the de ceased with whisky when he was on the point of death. There are four children. Henry Dikeman was al lowed $10; Waldo given . nothing; tames and Matilda to inherit the es tate after the death of the mother. Waldo Dikeman lives at Gold Hill, Oregon, and is engaged in mining. M PUHS 10 III Wi Trip is Contemplated Be- fore . Inauguration WILL LEAVE JANUARY President Elect Makes Trip to Put Him In Personal Touch With Work WILL LEAVE IN JANUARY Announcement is Made as a Result of Conference With Roosevelt and Root Cabinet is Again Thorough ly Discussed. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 12.- President-elcct Taft contemplates visit to Panama before his inaugura tion. This visit is approved by Roose velt and Secretary Root Unless something unforseen occurs he will depart the last week in January and remain away about three weeks. Taft eel this practically his only opportunity to visit the Isthmus dur ing bis forthcoming term as presi dent. The visit will put him in di rect personal contact with' the situa tion. ihe only object is a possi bility of something happening t) Taft during his trip to prevent his inauguration for which there is no constitutional or legal provision News of the trip followed the confer ence last night with Roosevelt and later with Root. It is known that the selection of a cabinet was thor oughly discussed. A reserve supply depot for differ ent departments of the army to be established on Corregdor Island at the entrance of Manila Bay, will cost $250,000, and construciton on Manila reservation of store houses for the supply department of the army at i cost of $1,250,000, are among the im portant plans which the war depart ment has completed to facilitate the delivery of supplies to troops in the Philippines and providing a reserve for emergencies. The action to be taken by the Senate in asserting its displeasure because Roosevelt's message in re gard to the secret service has not been outlined with any definiteness. Senator Burrows has- been approach ed to offer a resolution on the sub ject, but he has not consented to act. It is likely that the resolution will be the same as that of the House providing the appointment of the select committee of five to consider the whole subject. It is evident the House committee will take no hasty action and the understanding now is that no report will be made until the latter part of the week. TRADITION DISTURBED. GUAM, Dec. 12.-There is a de cided undercurrent of dissatisfaction amonc the native Donulntion of this place over the arrival of the German friars who have come to take up the work of Catholic religion on the islands. The newcomers speak neith er Spanish, English or Chamorro. the native tongue, and are at a loss for a means of communication with the natives. The priest whose place is to be taken by the Germans has been in charge , of this work for 50 years past. He is a native of the islands and has very decided Ameri? can views. Old newspapers for sale at thi olhce. 5U cents oer hundred. COVERS THE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA NEED HORSE SENSE. Chicago Judge Thinks Public Efforts Are Misapplied. CHICAGO, Dec 12.-Judge Mc Kenzie Clelland addressing a meet ing at the Washingtonian Home lait night said instead of governor at tending a national conference for the conservation of natural resources, they would do better to conserve the 10,000,000 poverty-stricken people in the country by practical legislation. Judge Clcliand declared that the con ference at Washington is a waste :f time. "The governors are talking about saving natural gas," he said, When they might be at home doing something practical that will . save the underfed from dying of tubercu losis, which is brought about by pov- rty and poor sanitation. What we need more than a conference of gov ernors is the display of horse sense treat the difficulties that exist We should begin right with the head of the nation. We have a Secretary of the Interior., There is no longer any interior. We should have a United States department of chari ties and corrections with a secretary who will recommend remedial legis lation that will save the making of :nminals." SUFFRAGETTES ACTIVE. But Women Who Oppose Also Com tag to the Front NEW YORK, Dec 12.History is to repeat itself in New York on De cember 18, when meetings for and against woman suffrage will be held. Rival demonstrations of this char acter were held only last week and the cominsr clash, as it wer. U a direct result o? one of the former at which Dr. Lyman Abbott declar ed that college women did not want to vote. It seems that there are many college women in the city who differ decidedly with this, view and with the intention of emphasizing it in the public, a mass meeting will be held at the Berkeley Lyceum on the date named. There wll be a great array of college banners and pla cards bearing the cry of "votes for women." The meeting will be un der the auspices of the College Equal Suffrage League and it is said that Mrs. Clorence Mackay and Mrs. Rus sel bage will be present. The dem onstration will be held in the evening following a meeting in the afternoon of the so-called "antis" who oppose suffrage for women, and who are conducting their campaign under the name of the National League for the Civic Education of Women. TEN n KILLED BY A BIG EKPLOS GIANT BLAST DISCHARGES UNEXPECTEDLY IN CANAL WORK AT BAS OBISPO. MANY OTHERS ARE INJURED Last Hole Was Being Loaded When explosion Occurs, Discharging 22 Tons of Giant Powder by Concus sionReports Conflicting. COLON, Panama. Dec. 12. A giant blast prematurely exploded in tne canal work at Bas Obispo today. Ten men were killed and a number injured. It may be that others were killed and debris is piled in all di rections. The last hole was being loaded when the explosion occurred discharging 22 tons of giant powder by the concussion. Relief trains were sent to Scione. One brought back the report that 45 were injured and were sent to Ancon Hospital, al though the official report says but two are injured. Officials on the train say 11 of the dead are recover ing and that others in a gang of 120 men at the cut were missing. JUSTICE miTCHELL TflECE RAP AT PUSHED OFF CAR. CHICAGO, Dec 12.-Miss Alice Bankretz was pushed off the North western L platform last evening at Kinzie and Wells streets, falling to the street below. She received a scalp wound and was severely bruised. The accident was caused, it is said, by the pushing crowd endeav oring to get into the train before the guards closed the gates. PROF. JOiAfi WANTS FISH STOPPED RECOMMENDS PROHIBITION OF SALMON CATCHING DURING 1910 AND 1912. COLUMBIA RIVER IS INCLUDED Action is Advised bv Professor David Starr Jordan Who is a Mem ber of International Fisheries Com missionCanneries Will Oppose it BELLINGHAM, Wash, Dec 12, A special dispatch to Reviile from Vancouver, B. C, says that Prof David Starr Jordan, member of the international fisheries I commission will report to the federal government recommending prohibition of all salmon fishing in Puget Sound and British Columbia waters in the years 1910 and 1912. It is believed that the British and Columbia canners will oppose him. Bellingham can ners were interviewed and recom mendations reasonable will not be opposed. ' ' A LA ASTORIA. Chicago Drug Stores go Out of Busi Ness on Account of Health. CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-Chicago is amazingly healthy. At least that is what druggists say. Drug stores in many parts of the city are closing their doors on ac count of decreased trade. Seven have suspended business on the south side since Monday and a number on the west and north sides have closed in the last ten days. The state of the public health has contributed largely to the oresent condition of the drug trade, but the temporary cessation of the ice cream soda, which is a big item to drug stores, has played its share in the reduction of receipts. Some drug stores, it is declared. have installed a chop suey and chili con carne lunch to take the place of iced beverages. GRIDIRON NOTABLE DINNER Annual Fall Event is Attended by Distinguished Guests and the WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 12.- The annual fall dinner of the Grid iron club was held tonight and was made notable by the presence, of the distinguished company of guests. The extended program was made one long to be remembered. The president, vice-president, vice- president elect, president-elect, sena torial representatives without num n 'iianrv 5 11 u PfiESiDEflT SB A . . ne urmcizcs nttituca To' wards Judiciary BONAPARTE Oil TRUST Attorney-General Analyzes th5 so Called Anti Trust 'Law LAWS MIGHT EE lISPnOYED Bonaparte Declares That the Rich Stacked the Cards; the Dice Were ' Loaded Against the Humble Play era in the Race For Riches. NEW YORK. Dec, 12.-Indirect but pointed criticism to Roosevelt's attitude toward the ; judiciary was made by Chief Justice Mitchell, of the Pennsylvania Society of New York tonight at a banquet Chief Justice Mitchell did not mention the chief executive by name but left no doubt through quotations and allu sions to various matters oi public knowledge as to the object of his criticism. . Mitchell, among other things said: "The only just criticism of a judge's law must come from the court which knows the law and has jurisdiction to declare it. I dissent from his view based on individual Opinion of what the law ought to be, whether it comes from an executive or hoodlum, leads directly and by short steps to anarchy the assertion of an individual will against the set tlement of law." -Mitchell pointed out that if the law was not what the people want it should b,e changed, "But it will never be lost 'sight of that authority to change it is legislative, nor judicial, and still less executive." .. Replying to a toast "The bar "of the country and the cause of federal , justice," Attorney Bonaparte an alyzed the so-called anti-trust law and made suggestions for its better ment After declaring that Ameri cans were "The judge-ruled people", Bonaparte reviewed the condition making necessary anti-trust laws arid declared the rich and 'Stacked the cards: the dice loaded against humbler players; the smaller and weaker amonir the ra. ers-were crossed in their gallop and crowded off the track ; by the big ones," in the race for riches." The attorney-general believed th anti trust laws might be improved by entrusting administrative officer. with duties similar to those exercised by the secretary of war in matters (Continued on page 6) CLUB'S Country's Choicest ber, an English lord, diplomats of this and other countries, newspaper men whose names are known far and wide, captains of finance and indus try and men of affairs were guests of the club. Roosevelt, Taft, Sherman Harriman. Champ Clark, Fairbanks and Governor Johnson were amorg the distinguished speakers. A rule of the club prevents a rcnort ,h'l remarks.