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JCCUSEO OF
BAD FAITH
KillsBirighamBillAtter
Agreeing to Confer-ence-
Senate Fight
ing for Its Measure
Effort to Be Mads This After
noon to Arftend Chapin Bill to
Make It -Similar, to Bingham
Measure and Give House the
Choice of It or None.
(Sr sun CHTWKwhitl
- - 'Salem, Or., Feb. If. The senate, and
house arc in a deadlock over railroad
commission legislation. In the aenate
a majority are atill battling for the ap
pointment of commisaloners by the gov
ernor alone; In the houee a majority,
led by - Speaker Davey. la - obstinately
. Insisting that the appointive power must
be In the etate boarfl or els there will
e4o -commission.
1avey'a course this morning has led
to open charge of bad fait hi .An agree
ment waa reached to appoint a - con
ference committee of three front each
house with a view to ending; the dead
lock. - This wae done In -the aenate,
Haines appointing Miller of Linn -and
Marion, Bowerman and Hedges. '
Davey Blocks Measarav'
But the Davey faction was -determined
to give no opportunity for a con
"ference. In spite of spirited opposition
they forced Indefinite postponement
of the Bingham bill, killing It. for the
session and leaving the Chapin bill as
amended the only measure before the
house. Davey then went through the
farce of appointing a conference com-
' tnlttee composed wholly of hla follow
ers. The committee be named consists
of Rod (tern, Jackson and Campbell,
It la plain that the schema wss pre
arranged in the Davey camp to force
the senate to their terms. -The an
nouncement off the " houee 'committee
greeted with leering and laughter.
Did you -expect anything different?"
asked Davey defiantly..
"Oh. , it'a quite according to the
speaker's previous course," ssld a mem
bar sarcastically.
- "It's according to program,".- replied
the speaker. - --'?? ?.fi
. Crrost Sraaek of faith. ' '
When the newa reached the senate,
Bingham's Indignation broke all bounds.
II dec tared that Davey ad agreed
both with Haines and- himself to ap
point a conferenoe committee, and that
It was groae bad faith to kill the Bing
ham bill first. So much bitterness was
srouaed that adherents of the Bingham
bill are now canvassing the proposition
for a fight to tha finish. The plan Is to
amend tha Chapin bill, which la a spe
cial order at t:80 o'clock thla afternoon
to make It Identical with the Bingham
bill. It jrould then be sent back to the
house foe a concurrence, ' where ,- the
battle wBl be waged once more.- Ap
parently Bingham haa votes enough to
do thla '
. The Issue then-will ba squarely- pra-
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SPEAKER
WR EG KED VESS EL HIGH ON
ICEB ERG-NEAR CAPE H O RN
ONE O FOC EAN'S M YSTER I ES
fGalline's Captain : Describes Phenomenon.
I ' Ship Was Lifted From the Sea as
; Thoygh by a Giant of the Deep
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When near the Falkland Islands on
her way to thla port from London, the
French bark i Kmllla- Galllne, -Captain
" Amandtlson. ran Into' a field of Ice-
bergs of Immense extent, and in group
Ing her way Into open water brought
up against one of the deepest niye
; terles ever produced by Oi sea.
Well up on -the side of a monster
berg Captain Amsdtlion saw wedged In
the ice a large Iron hark, about the
else of the Emllle Galllne. dismasted
but otherwise apparently Intact. How
she had been lifted upon the crest- Of
the gigantic crystalline, formation la a
Ur pUXSie ri-ipo imy iy mjvbciij
surrounding the fate of the crew.
TnS r.miue wiuuw .iiifou w". j..
terday afternoon, bringing a cargo of
renirnt and china clay from London,
glie left tho Thames 160 days ago and
ran Into storms and calms In the At
- Unttrrwttrt-atrlktng - regnlartty.-On
week Ibn. winds would . Insli the
ocean into waves Jhat swept the dl-k
from one end K "another, tin calenlng
to carry everything' movable overboard,
and the following. wcl .the vessel
vthiM he drlftinii shnut lastly on a mlr
or-Uko short of water.
TO SETTLE
JAPANESE
Agreement Reached
Bars Coolies Not Pro
vided With Proper
orts
President Sends Special ,Mes
. sage Urging Legislation to Re
serve Government-- Control
Over Fuel Lands Asks Funds
to Prosecute Land Grafters.
(Joe rail Special tervtee.)
- Washington, D, C- Feb. II. Tha con
ferees on the immigration bill today
reached an agreement' which It Is believed-
will settle -the Japanese queatlon
to tha satisfaction of both the Callforv
niana and the Japanese. It proposes to
refuse admission to this country to Jap
anese coming from their own country
unprovided with passports, and author
iseg the exclusion of Japanese coolies
from American insular possessions. '
The president today , sent a ' special
message to congress calling attention
to tha urgent need of legislation, to. se
cure 'continued control by the govern
ment over public lands, particularly
fuel lands. J He nays it the government
sells these lands .they will psss for
ever from the control of congress. If
it leases them future congresses will
be able to exercise Jurisdiction. , -
The president asks an appropriation
of $500,000 to clear up the arreara of
business In the general land office as
regards the detection and prevention of
land frauds.- . v
DOCTRINAL SERf.'ONS CAUSE
OF PAST03'S DISCHARGE
Younger Element s Want More
: Gospel and Oust Old Time
. and Faithful Preacher. ;
(Journal Special gerrtea .) " ' t
-Los Angeles, Feb. U. Dr. F.-P. Berry,
a" well-known Presbyterian divine, .and
pastor of Highland and Park church,
has been deposed by bla congregation on
the ground that ha preached too much
doctrine and not enough gospel. Dr.
Berry has been a very successful pastor
and has built up a' large church, but the
younger element, while holding htm In
the highest regard, turned against him
because his views are" strong and -he
would not yield hla conviction a .
Hundreds of Occidental oollege stu
dents and a dosen retired millionaires
attend the church, and the pastor found
himself in a difficult position. The
older, folks stood by him firmly, but
the presbytery was memorallsed by a
vote of two to one to oust him.
During the latter part of November,
In latitude t south longitude to west,
hot fsr from Cape Horn, tha tempera
ture became auddenly very low and It
waa soon discovered that tha bark had
become hemmed In by a veritable cir
cle of tremendous icebergs. Soma -of
the bergs towered 109 feet above tha
level of tha ocean, which is taken to
mean that their total height must have
been In the neighborhood of '1,000 feet.
In sesrchlng for an open channel
the lookout made tha startling discovery
that high upon the side of one of the
big bergs derelict vessel haa been
fastened as securely as though 4he had
been placed there by a giant hand. He
Immediately reported to the officers,
with tha result thst ths cement-carrier's
course waa aet as close to the berg as
conditions would permit . .
Berellet Bigs, em Berg.
Captain Amandtlaon says that he ran
to wltlibf seven miles of the aurfacs of
the bertt. snd by the use of powerful
marine glasses could plainly mske out
that the vessel wss a three-masted iron
bsrk. It was Impossible to make out
CAPTAIUS
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COWARDICE :
UglyXharges Made by
Survivors of Shifjs
That Sunk Against
Two Commanders
Captain of Larchmont Reserved
Easiest Handled and. Lightest
Laden Boat for Himself Cap
tain of Knowlton Made No Ef
fort to Rescue People. ;
(Joarnal Special Scrrlce.)
- Providence, R.. I.t Feb. II. Distracted
survivors of the steamer Larchmont
wreck end relatives of ths dead vic
tims are making ugly charges of bru
tality and cowardice, on the part of the
crews of the Larchmont and Knowlton.
... Captain Haley of the Knowlton ia ao
cused of trying to save bis vessel in
stead of trying to save the people on
board the Larchmont. -
Captain McVey of the Larchmont, sea
soned mariners significantly assert,
took ths last boat, but reserved his own,
which was the easiest to handle In a
storm, and placed In K a comparatively
email number,, the others being, over
crowded, r - .'
Today's estimates show 30 known sur
vivors. It is probable the ''dead will
number 111.
t Mrs. Harris Feldman of New Tork
and Mlsa . Sadie Galup of Boston are
the only women survivors of the disas
ter. '
-- The stesmer Kentucky left Block
Island this morning with SI dead and
II survivors of the steamer Larchmont.
Tha Kentucky will take the survivors to
hospitals at Providence.
' Oaasa STot Eiplaiaed.
The cause of the accident has - not
been satisfactorily explained. It oc
curred Just 'Off-Watch - Hiltabout "11
o'cloekwhen the three-masted schooner
Harry Knowlton ' bound from - South
Am boy for Boston with a cargo of Coal,
crashed Into tha steamer's port amid
ships. Captain McVey of the Larch
mont declares that the Knowlton sud
denly swerved from her course, luffed
op Into the wind and crashed Into his
vessel. Captain Haley of the Knowlton
asserts that - tha steamer did not give
bis vessel sufficient sea room.
The steamer, with, a huge bole torn
In her aide, waa so seriously damaged
that no attempt waa made to run for
shore, and she sank to the bottom In
leaa than half an hour. Tha Knowlton,
after ahe had backed-away-from the
wreck, began to All rapidly, but her
crew manned tha pumps and kept her
afloat until aha reached a . point off
Quonochontaug, where they put out in
the lifeboat and rowed ashore. There
were no fatalities on tha schooner. ,
Bodies Breturfct to Shore. . .
The little fishing schooner Elsie put
In laat night, having on board two sur
vivors of the wreck and one body. Both
men were -picked up from a piece of
wreckage off ahore. The body was that
of a woman, but has not been Identified.
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the name, since large blocks of tea hang
over herbow and -stem. The -lower
rigging waa standing, and from Its char
acter It could be told "with certainty that
the vessel had been bark-ribbed.
8o far as could be seen there was no
living soul on board, although the boats
atlll appeared to be In the davits It
Is thought that It any one had been
aboard and alive, distress signals of
soma kind would have been displayed,
as It is believed that the Emilia Galllne
could have been seen. from th derelict.
..Sew Aaother Wreck.
It Is possible that the crew may have
put off In one of the ehlp's boats and
subsequently picked up by a pssslng
vessel or they might have landed on ths
bleak Islands sprinkled in ths ocean
about the extreme portion of the South
American promontory.
Another wreck wss sighted from ths
Emllle Oolllne. but It has si ready been
reported." This was the French ship
Duchesse da Berry which foundered off
Staten Island on Octobor 1. In run
nlng close to the Island Captain Amand
tlson discovered the hull of the Duch
esse do Berry on the rocky, shore of
the Island slowly grinding to pieces.
The loss of the Duchesse de Berry wss
reported ahortly after it occurred. She
whs bound front-Shields to San Fran
cisco. . The Emllle Oalllne Is anchored In the
stream lolay, but will shift to Mersey
do. k as soon ss the bark t'onll Hart gets
out of the way. .After discharging her
cement cargo ths Oalllne will load wheat
for Europe, ' .
Mrs. lLvelyn Nesbit Thaw
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Western Union Grants' Increase to Its Operators
TELEGRAPHERS ARE VICTORIOUS
HILL HAY BUILD
HEW COAST LI
If Efforts Fail to Increase Cap
italization so as to Double
Track- CreafNorthefhTTvlag
nate Will Organize Company.
Oeeroal SpeeUI Servtta,) -Chicago,
Feb. II. Should J. J. Hill
fail in his efforts to Increase the
capitalisation. of. -tha OreaU Northern
sufficiently to enable him to make It a
double track system throughout its en
tire length it is said he will get around
the difficulty by organising a new com
pany and building another transconti
nental Una. ji-
This wonld do considerably more ex
pensive than merely double tracking the
existing road, but, where necessary,
money expenditures do not count for
much with Hill , In carrying out his
purpose.
The flrat step In the construction of
such a new road probably- would be
the building of a line from St. Paul
to the western end of North Dakota
and this would serve to relieve the con
gestion of the Great Northern where it
is most severely felt.
ILLINOIS PLANNING TO
CURB SWOLLEN FORTUNES
(Jonraal Bneetal Serrlc. I '
. Springfield, III., Feb. 13. Hwollen for
tunes will be prevented partially If the
bill Introduced In the house this morn
ing passes. It provides that (fortunes
shall be divided within tl years from
the death of the testator.
GRANDE RONDE LINE
READY NEXT SUMMER
T '
' - (Vpeetat Dfepatefe te The innrnal.l
t'nlon. Or., Feb. !. Chief Engineer
Arthur B. Brown of the Central rail
way, which Is building an eloctrlo line
through the Grand Rondn valley, states
the line wUl be completed according to
original plana next .summer,. The work
of laying tle and steel on the grade
as far as It la completed will begin anon
and further grading will be done as soon
as ths .weather will permit, , . , . .
EMPLOYES IN LARGEST
CITIES' INCLIiDInu COAST
RECEIVE HIGHER WAGES
Ten Per Cent Raise - Dis-
chargeoLEmployes to Be Re-
instated by Company.
(Journal Ipeetal gerrlce.)
Chicago, Feb. !. The Weatern Union
Telegraph company haa. avoided what
doubtless . would tiave been tha most
serious strike ever -Inaugurated br Jh
telegraph operators In this country by
granting a 10-per-oent Increase In pay
to the ssveral thousand employes of the
Chicago office of that company and the
dosens of .branch offices in this city. -
Later it became known that the in
crease granted to Chicago employes
also waa granted to employee In alt
principal cities. Including the Pacific
coast. The Increase la immediately ef
fective. ...... j .- -
The demand for an Increase In salaries
was made by the operators several
weeks ago, and It was not until the
operators backed up their, demands with
threata to atrlke that the company aur
rendered. -The men have held aeversl
meetings during tha past few days, and
the proposition of voting on the proposi
tion of whether to strike, or not waa to
be finally pased upon next Sunday.
. It Is also understood that a number
of Western Union employes who were
dismissed because Of their allegiance to
the Commercial Telegraphers" Union of
America will be reinstated by the com
pany . 2 ..
B. J. Small, president of the telegraph
ers' organisation, who wag larguly In
strumental In bringing about a peaceful
settlement, - formerly worked In Port
land, where he is well known.
BILL GUGGENHEIMS
OPPOSE IS REPORTED
rtTh1ntoa Itnrean ef The JbwirnaM - '
Washington. D. C. Feb. 13. H-nstor
riles lias reported favorably the bill of
ex-Governor Mi'Graw of Washington for
a charter for the Alaska railway com
pany. This la the bill againit which
the copper truit la fcld to have Issued
au ultimatum, .
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EXECUTORS LOOT
STRATTOn ESTATE
Legislative Investigation . Shows
Nearly Half a Million Paid Out
"In Attorneys Fees and Large
; Sums to Prosecute Moyer. ,
, . (Journal Special terries.)
Denver, Feb. IS. Nearly 1500.009 has
been paid out by the executors of the
Stratton estate- la attorneys' fees alone
since the death of WlnOcld 8. Stratton,
less thsn three years ago. Thla start
ling disclosure has been made through
tha investigation now being made by
the Joint committee appointed by ths
state legislature to probe, tha affairs
of ths estate. Since the Investigation
began a week ago the executors have
hurried payment of nearly $1,000,000 In
bequests. Why these legacies had not
been paid before Is matter for conjec
ture on the part of the members of the
committee.
81nce last Monday morning tha court
records of El Paao county ahow nearly
$1,000,000 has been paid out by the
executors In legacies. Nearly all of
them are' individual bequeata.
It has been developed that the execu
tors donated thousands of dollars to
the Cltlaena' alliance of Colorado
Springs and to the fund used to fight
the Western Federation Of Mine"! at
Cripple Creek.
Hundreds of Colorado Springs people
ride on the street railway , system, one
of the Strstton oorporatlona. on passes.
Underneath the surface, startling dis
regard of the Interests of the state, to
which the great bulk of the Stratton
millions was left, la manifest on the
part of the executors.
METCALF THREE YEARS
FOR STEALING SHEEP
(Special Disrates to The Jsarnal )
Canyon t'My(-Oi, Feb. ja. In- tha air.
cult court of Grant county In the ea.s
of the state against Bud Metcalf.
rliarged with the. larceny of 174 hea.l
Of sheep, the defendant entered a pine
of guilty and was sentenced to three
years In the penitentiary. Court con
tinues In session this week. ,
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DelayinThawCase Due
to.llfness of Wife of
Juror Hearing Is
Resumed Atter Noon
Weakness of Defense Due to Un-
familiarity With State Laws
Regarding the Admissibility of
Evidence Jerome's Badger
Ing May Cause Reaction.
- (Jooraal gaaelal Servtes.t " - -
New York. Feb. ll.The possibility.
of a mistrial In the case of Harry W.
Tit B atfftTVae. aaas. aKa tHAawlnaf eaiku X a
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wife of one of the Jurors wan- atricken
with pneumonia laat night.' Thla juror
and two other members of the pant
left- the court bunding In a carriage.
accompanied by two court officers,-ta
go to his wife's bedside. ..The Juror
whose wife Is ill Is Joseph B. Bolton.
Former Attorney-General Carson of
Pennsylvania and General Warren
Klefer, former apeaker of he National
house, came to attend " the trial this
morning. Announcement " of adjourn
ment was taken as anon as District At
torney Jerome announced the lllnena of
Mrs. Bolton.
Upon adjournment Evelyn Thaw and
May McKenxle hastened to the Tombs
to visit Thaw. It Is understood that
Mrs. Bolton is In a precarious condi
tion, suffering from double pneumonia.
Ignorance of Defease.
It Is generally admitted that the case
presented by the defense is anything
but the legal masterpiece expected from
the-high-priced legal talent engaged.
The weakness la mainly due to the at
torney's unfamlllarlty with New Tork
state's rules of evidence and Inability;
to get testimony before the jury. Thla
technical difficulty may be overcome
later. , " " ' '
Juror Bolton returned prior to the
time for reopening. He found his w!fe
very HI. and tha doctor told him that ha
could do no good, and that there was)
no occasion for hla stsylng awsy front
the sessions. He returned to tha Jury
room without his lunch and atated thaC
the atata had aent two physlclana and
two nurses to the bedside of Mrs. Bol
ton, No expense will be spared to give)
the woman every cars and comfort.
Jerome CSm Too Tar.
ine opinion ia growing ioh mr new
perate efforts of Jerome to aend Thaw
to the death chair will ba an Important
factor In saving his life. Throughout
the entire day yesterday the "learned
district attorney" fought every step of
the way to prevent the Introduction of
testimony to show Thaw insane. In
fact, he went so far that Delmaa finally
remarked that the district attorney,
the-
Many of tha hundreda of objection
with which Jerome sought to block tha
Introduction of evidence In favor of th
defense seemed captioua and aimed to
prevent the presentation of. material
facta and opinion on purely technical
grounds. It waa as though ho waa de
termined to drive Thaw to the fatal
chamber within the grim walls of Btnsj
Sing by means of the technical tricks)
Of the lawyer'a trade. . -
It la likely that hla action will defeat
Its purpose. In spite of the desperate
efforts, to handicap him .and bar out
evidence Delmaa succeeded before tha
day ended in getting from Dr. Evans)
practically all ha desired and secured a
clear and complete statement from that
expert ahowlng that in his opinion
Thaw waa Insane and tha subject
of delusions when he shot Stanford!
White to death In Madison Square gar
den. . . ' :
Wants Blm la Aaylom. ;
Harry Thaw beard the Insanity expert
testify that he had "brain storm" snd,
mental exhaustions, that bo waa para
no lao and a victim of the "exaggerated
ego" and that there were "mad moan
in ga" In his head.; Technical deacrlp
tlons of his mental state and even fre
quent ' tllta" between bla legal adviser,
Delmaa, and District Attorney Jerome
did not keep Thaw Interested, and af fi
trying to kill time by talking with hie
attorneys snd writing notes hs gav
way to a fit of yawning.'
Jerome wants to have Thaw pro
nounced Inaane and committed to en
asylum If hs Is convicted, while the
prisoner's counsel are bent on ahnwlnir
that while he waa mentally trrnsponpl
ble when he ahot White hla brain kept
clearing gradually afterward, and that
now he haa become sufficiently sine t
be discharged as a free man If the ver
dict on the criminal charge should be Iri
his favor.
Jerome managed to put a fear flnta In
Delmaa' long hypothetical nulm, but
through all the debate which ths tw
hnd. the lawyer from Cullfornia pre
served his composure ami renlln.
retort, which ki-pt for hirn IIim n In ! -tlm
of tho crowd in ti 1 1 n,lu -.
Xvslya'a letters Prove C.
A dlep-iti-h from IMt t .i(f m " 1 . -nounreitient
. marie thi t .r
illsa Manila XVe);hter of A'i ,
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