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PORTLAND. OREGON,1 . SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY
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23.
LEGISLATURE
EfJDS WORK
Official Finish Cime at
Noon But Real Death
at Much Later Hour
This Afternoon- '
Governor Names Will R. R. King
of Ontario and Jarties H.
Slater of Salem as Supreme
' Court Commissioners Both
Houses Swamped.
Br Staff Cerreapooowt.) -" v
Salem. Feb. 33. The legislature f i
being held up by the alerk of the en
grossing end enrolling- committees, who
refuse to work unless paid overtime for
pert of the sesalon end for the extra
- work now waiting. The house sngrosa
1 tng committee haa 11 long bills, amend.
, ea in the senate waiting engrossment.
(Br e Staff Correspondest.)
Salem, Or., Feb. 21.- The twenty
. fourth biennial sesalon of the legisla
tors officially skidooed at one minute
past noon today on Feb. IS, though in
'reality the adjournment did not come
until much later In the afternoon. Just
as the i whistles 1 were blowing for the
noon hour the Janitor of the state house
eared In the- senate chamber with
a step ladder and stopped -the big clock
back of the president's chair, while the
' senate went on grinding without Inter
Tuptlon save a ripple of laughter.
The house had finished all conslder-
at ion of business and wii standing at
ease waiting for the finish of business
1 -vet unconsidered by the senate. When
' the Janitor and hie ladder appeared In
the hall of representative he wag greet-
' ed with cheers.
; J- ' Swamped Wm..
The house enrollment and engrossing
corncnlttees are swamped by bill sent
. to them as the result or senate amena-
. menta to house bills. Out of 11 the
house bills sent to the senate and
: passed by that body, there la hardly
-one which has- not come back to the
house amended. The house, in . most
caaea haa concurred, -necessitating en
groesment or enrollment, or both, before
the bill could be signed by the presid
ing officers. This fact la largely re-
I . nr-'"- for the ract that tne tegisia
Vure could not adjourn shortly; after
the noon hour. ..-
The senate took up a good deal of
..time at the morning session to consider
- the special appropriation bllL .It
amended the house bill by striking out
$2,600 gtren to Jefferson Myers and
putting back tl.SOu for ventilation of
house and senate chambers. The house,
to save the whole bill, was forced to
recede from Its position and concur.- -Xmportaa
legislation.
The sesalon haa been a notable one
In point of work and legislation. Many
- Important lawa have been considered
; and passed. ' The railroad commission,
the Ranking1-law, the asaessment code,
, the supreme court commissioners, have
been provided for. together with other
Important legislation.
On- the other hand, throughout the
session corporate Influences have been
, treated kindly. Land grant grafts,
; taxation reform a, directed against com
- panlea holding property, not reported
under the existing law, and such legls.
latlos has mat with unkind treatment
In the senate especially. It has been
(Continued .on Page Three. 1
FREE CAR RIDES,
JOIlfJSOfJ'S PLAN
Mayor of 4 Cleveland Says That
Streetcars' Should Be Free to
Everyone, the Same as High
ways and Bridges Are t .
t (Jooroal Special Bervtee.)
Cleveland, Ohio. Feb. "I am
pleased with the "virtual victory the I
cent fare has obtained," said Mayor
Johnson today, "merely because It is s
big step toward what I really want
that Is, free ntreet ears. Eventually
I hope to see tnetn as- free to passengers
as the air they breathe. r "
1 hare fought for - the J -cent fare
because it Is two cents nearer noth
ing than Is five rents. Street cars
'ought to be as free as elevators. Fares
used to b collected on bridges end
turnpikes, but such tolls have a me
dlavel sound now. Bo will street car
taxation of fares, eom time. -
-A -trotter system of taxation wonld
I 'jeVld sufficient fuml to operate street
ar lines without burdening the people.
with fre care, a workingman coma
-ThftmTnls' home Where he would. Con
gealed districts would disappear.
- -"I operated a free system once. - That
"as In Johnstown, Pennsylvania, alter
the flood. We had to run free, because
. one ' had any money. But people
didn't ride unless they needed to ride.
There wss no wonlerful rush, after
something for nothing." , , , f. i ,
COUNTESS
FLEES FROM
.mum
Prisoner's -Sister. Said
to Have Returned to
England to Avoid the
Notoriety of Trial ;
Feared That Jerome Will Change
Tactics Coming Week . and
Send Thaw to Insane Asylum
by Testimony of. Family Phy
sicians. ;.,J.''" I V-
. (Joarsat Special Berries.)
NewTork, Feb. J I. It Is reported to
day that the Counteea of Yarmouth' has
eliminated herself from the Thaw case.
She haa not visited the criminal court
since the day. the Judge told the1 women
to leave during unpleasant testimony,
As far as known, she has not visited her
brother at the Tombs. It -la reported
that shs haa returned to England Incog
nito, ashamed .at the disagreeable noto
riety which la said to have dtsguated
her. ; " . , , -.-.. . i .
Evelyn Nesblt Thaw visited her hus
band today. She was alone snd sfHmt
several hours with Harry Thaw. She
looka much better than she did yester
day and haa apparently recovered from
her nervousness. , Undoubtedly she will
ce able to, return to, tne stand Monday,
- --. f Xteolare Xasaaitj.:ii:4.:
District . Attorney Jerome has. In
formed members of his staff that Dr.
Deemer and pr, Btngaman, Thaw family
physicians, eairsuppry ell -the evidence
that is required te) prove tl Jaarrs-Cf
Thaw suffer from hereditary Insanity
and that his malady has progressed to
such a stage that his recovery Is im
possible. ' ..-
On the authority of one connected
with the office Of the district attorney
the statement la made that the proseou
lion stands ready 'at a moment s notice
to make a quick switch and ask that
Thaw be committed to the asylum for
the criminal Insane at -Mattes wan.
It has also become known thst the
real causa for much of the dissension
In the ranks of counsel for the defense
arises from the fact that the relatives
of. Thaw hold Delma responsible for
laying a foundation on which Jerome
may proceed to have the slayer of Stan
ford White declared Insane. It haa been
against the advice of some, of his asso
ciates that Delmaa has introduced much
testimony tending to snow mat Tnaw
was Insane when he shot White. The
feeling is held by at least two of his
associates, and as' well by relatives of
Thaw, that . Delmaa went entirely too
far along the line of insanity. :
.".:,.J1UlTo Hi-amiss arports. t
Pew will be surprised If Jerome early
next week demands the examination of
Dr. Deemer and Dr. Blngaman. an
nouncing his Intention of having aa In
quiry Into the sanity - of Thaw. Dr.
Deemer and rr. Btngaman are Thaw s
family physlclane. and the district at
torney knows they are ready to teatify
that Thaw was deficient In mental and
moral balance from his earliest child
hood, f - .
There are those whe counsel relatives
and friends of ths defendant to offer no
objection If the district attorney moves
to have a commission appointed to in.
quire Into the mental condition of Thaw.
They believe Jerome will succeed in so
discrediting Evejyn Nesblt Thsw as a
witness after he Introduces In rebuttal
reputable witneeses . to testify that at
ths time the young woman says aha was
made a vlotlra of Stanford White, the
latter was not In New Tors, that the
effect upon the jury will be dangerous
to the success of the defense.
Thaw's Sonet of Asy.ua. ' . ,
Thaw has so - great a horror- of. ths
tnaans asylum, however, ' that he will
demand that every chance be taken In
open court rather than submit himself
to a commission of alienists.
Jerome would neither admit nor deny
when asked whether he would move on
Monday - to have the trial ; adjourned
while Thaw's sanity was being deter
mined. It was only after consultation
with bis assistants that - It became
knowa finally that he had determined,
when the right opportunity presented
Itself, to take .advantage of testimony
already .Introduced by the defense and
endeavor to force Thaw .Into the se
clusion of an asyliwn for the criminal
Insane.
The opinion is expressed by lawyers
that Dalmas and his associate . have
succeeded far better than they Intended
In proving the insanity of Thaw. One
who has a reputation as a medico-legal
expert declared be was firm in the be
lief that Harry Thaw will be forced
Into an Insane asylum. " .
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, WILL THE DAY EVER COME.? 3 LOW
M"rir-22rl a7m rniliTAmr
"yfWmmB TAXATinrj
l-UJ Senate's Defeat of Bill
, I kStA h iJtlM T fAuv theX ' Ml Helps the Steetcars
WrlErJ A, BAHK INSPECTORS ? t ( l YNSURANCE .
', " ' ' Xfe LLJJ Avi X w MM A 5HAKV COMPANY?
' . WHEN A SfrAf
WHEN A BOIUtl iMSPfctTOfl. IS BLOWN
UP Bf A DCFECTiVE Boiler!
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JAPANESEAGAINST
PROPOSED IREAIK
y. : ; ;
Our Diplomatic Defeat, Is the
Way Organ oT Nipponese In
Portland Puts It Protest
Meeting to Be Held Tonighi
All the Japanese of the. city are urged
to attend a meeting te be held this even
ing t S o"clock at tee wuaanisi cnurcn,
4 North First street, to consider the
question of s protest against the sign
ing of the treaty between the Cnlted
States and Japan. "
The time set for tne signing ox me
traatv Is next month and It Is desired, to
make a strong stand agalnat it by unit
ing nil the Japanese associations of the
toast from Heatue to uom Angelas in
one body, snd telegraphing their protest
to the Japsnsse ambassador, Mr. Aokl,
in Washington, and to the Japanese
government. ,
. The Issue Is not4eken on the subject
of coolie labor, but on the diplomatic
defeat of the Japaneae government If
the present proposed treaty receives sig
nature.
, Bztre ef Japan see rape.
The Japaneae of this city feel that a
better treaty should be drawn, more
fully expressing - the wishes ' of their
government; It is their feeling that the
purpose of the exclusion bill is not ob
jectionable te . the - home government
which wishes to keep their laborers In
the eaat Particularly Is It desired to
Increase the settlement, of Jspanese In
Manchuria, but the wording of the
bill Is objectionable.
(Continued on Pag Three.)
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would keep pTtd. - The ens g sine - T
PRESIDENTSPEAKS ATHARVARDTO STUDENTS
i . -; : ., r " ' ; " ". ' . .
Oh, Happy Day !
ATHLETICS AND CITIZENS
SUBJECTS OF HIS TALK
President Pays First Visit to Son and Alma Mater Since His Ele
; vation to Presidency Advises Students to Abhor Cor
' ,1 . ruption and Inefficiency.
' (Jearaal goeelal s.rrlea.1 '
Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 21. Theodore
Roosevelt paid his first visit to his slms
mater today since becoming president of
the united States. The president maae
no effort to conceal his pleasure at the
opportunity to revisit the scene of his
college -days and to walk again across
the historic Harvard campus.. The stu
dents, too, were glad to see him and they
turned out en masse to do him honor.
It was as a Harvard man that he was
greeted, not aa president of the United
States, and the Informality of the occa
sion was especially . pleasing to Mr,
Bortsevelt
This afternoon- President Roosevelt
delivered an address In the living-room
of the Harvard union, under the joint
auspice of the union snd the Harvard
Political club. The address was simply
an Informal talk to the undergraduates
and Harvard men generally.
AtsletJos and Oltiseas.'
The president spoke on the subjects
Of athletics and the duties er oitisens.
He said he favored alt forms ' of
athletics but bs urged students not to
devote sf their time to play. He told
them to fit thelnselves for .serious
work In life snd not be faddists,
"Be cltutens," he said, "who "abhor
corruption and Inefficiency "end who
wish to see decent government prevail
at- home with genuine equality of op
portunity for all men. and who wish
so far as foreign matter are concerned
to see this nation treat all ether nations,
great and small, with respect, "and if
need be vttn generosity and at the
same tlnHt show herself able to protect
herself by her own might from any
wrong at the hands of any outside
power." ,
- Beoomee Oodf ether, s
.' The president and party arrived here
at 1:19 thla morning and went to the
home f "Dev-W. S. Blgeiew, Mr.
Rotosevelt and her daughter went to
the home of Mrs. George C. Lee. Alice's
grandmother. ' '
At 11 o clock the president stood
godfather for the son of Captain Guy
Marchte, a lawyer, and former Rough
Rider.
The president moved - rapidly from
WHEN N PLBVATtofi; INSPECTOR TAKES
A PROP IN A FALWN& CLSVATOo
pi oe. to plaoe. He went to the pub
lishing house, and took lunch with his
son and a few undergraduate at the
Bphynx club, Cambridge He addressed
the Harvard Union and attended the
initiation of his son Into ths Poroellan
club. He will take tea with Bishop
Lawrence of the Episcopal diocese of
Msssachusetts and go to Oroton tomor
row. v
FIFTEEN SAVED FROM
WRECK OF THE BERLIN
f Joarnat Special Stuke.)
Rotterdam, Feb. J J. Three more sur
vivors were rescued from the wreck of
the Berlin today. The total of the saved
la 15. Boats were unsbls to reach the
wreckage but a Dutch fisherman swam
out snd carried a Una, which he af
fixed to the aurvlvor snd his matea
draw them In. - The swimmer's effort is
unsurpassed. He lived, in and overcame
waters In which no small boat oould
have stayed afloat. ;.
Teacher Had a
That Went to
fSaeetsl Dtesateh to The JesrseLJi
Kalama, Wash- Feb. II. The seren
ity of the Kalama school was disturbed
last Wedneeday by a amall animal of
the genus Mephitis, commonly known
as a skunk, which, in search of a higher
education, took up his abode In one ef
the- tsacfc r ' deek a. The-animal was
not noticed until about school time,
when the teacher, hearing something
scratching in the desk,, opened It, and,
ahe being a student of sooiogy, quickly
identified the animal. The principal
was called, snd after a careful exam
ination of the' register found- thst
Mephitis was not enrolled aa ,a pupil i
FIGHT BILLBOARD
Oil -THE HEIGHTS
Residents Fear Advertisement of
Cigar Just Erected Facing the
Public School Is but the First
of Many Other Signs. .
Residents of Portland . Heights are
sharpening their Indignation tomahawks
preparatory to engaging In deadly war
fare against the unseemly advertising
billboard which yesterday made Its ini
tial appearance In the . very heart of
this exclusive district. -
A monstrous clgsr sign, has been
erected directly across from ths Aths-
worth school, at Twentieth - and Elm
streets, and th assertion was made this
morning thst unless ths commercial in
teres ts, wnlcn now- threaten a . gross
transgression on th clvlo beauty of
th heights, withdraw from that field,
there Is a strong possibility Tof the Are
department's being -called upon some
dark night.
- The department on the heights,
moreover, Is composed of volunteers.
and the latter will appear in force at
the indignation meeting of the Port
land Helghta Improvement aaeooiatlon,
which "will tske atep tonight to eject
(Continued on Page Three.)
Little1 Skunk
School One Day
of the school snd decided to expel him.
One of the pupils whose olfactory nerve
waa badly affected from asthma came
to the principal's assistance and killed
th animal. ,
For obvloua reasons th desk wss re
moved from th building and th pupils
were dismissed for the day. The ani
mal laid la state fine day. while th pu
pils that desired took a last look at
ths remains. Th Knol-y cUm refused
to accept the holy so It was hurle on
the school ground-, a fmine; monument
being erected to Ha n-rmorv, nuh ihe
following 1 n a. r I j t l'u i -rv.-l thorenn:
"Her 1U- th rmir. ot Tojnt-er
- 'I - . t , ,
rvaiuuau vummiswoner iu;nin
son Regards Defeated Meas-
ure as .Keystone . of Whole
Plan Formulated by Tax Com
mission. Of all th corporations which escape
their Just share of taxation la Oregon.
sptcuous and the most- flagrant offend
ers. One of the most Important meas
ures Introduced at. this session of th
legislature, and one which If enacted
I A 1 a... ,H ....k . a.
dodging, was defeated yeaterday by the
state senate, r
This measure, known as house bill
IT, was framed by the state tax eom-
ing study and Investigation, received
the endorsement of three-fourths of
the assessors, waa passed by the house,
was favorably reported -by th senate
eommlttee on assessment and taxation,
snd waa then, defeated on the floor of
the senate by a vote of IS to 10. With
the single exception of Senator Notting
ham, -every Multnomah member voted
agalnat the bllL Marlon county's two
senators also voted against the bill. .
C. B. Altchlson. who waa secretary of
the state tax commission snd Is now a
gards the defeated bill as the keystone
of the whole plan formulated by the
tag commission. "This bill was framed,'
he said today. Tor the purpose of com
pelling publio service corporations to
pay. their just share of taxes. It pro
vided for the creation of a state board
of tax commissioners who should have
power to assess the property of all rail
roads, street railroads, light, power and
other public servlc corporations. Th
report of th tax commission appointed
by th legislature of 1905 ahows that th
total value of railway property In Ore
gon, according to th last census waa
, 7 -. aft, AAA th. mmmlulM1. ..flm.t.
of the same property 'being t,401.1S9.
Tet the assessed value of this property.
as fixed by the various county assessors
for 1901, was only iio,ik,i.41. la
other words the assessed valu waa only
14.1 per cent of th valu fixed by th
federal census. County assessors made
their valuatlona, on th . average, at
about S4 per cent of the actual value,
so that about S14.000.000 of railroad
property ha been escaping taxation al
together. ....u :i ... .
"Although th report of th late com
mission has been widely circulated ever
meeting of th legislature, the accuracy
of these findings of fact has never been
publicly challenged to my knowledges
Street BaOxoad Bodges,
v "Street railways are conspicuous
among the corporations which have been
escaping taxation. . particularly the
street railways in Portland. - The tax
commission suggested a remedy, which
was that valuation of publio servlc
corporations inuum dv uin uj m
tax commission. The legislature ef HOC
had conceded Ite Inability to find a sat
isfactory solution of- th problem and
w tnereior proposed ini dwi, wnwn
takes ths assessment of all such publio
servlc properties from th local as-
(Contlnued en Fag Three.)
SCATTERS 81,000
TO SAVE IIIL1SELF
St. Louis Capitalist Forced to
' Throw Cold lirto Stream to
Prevent Drowning iri Floods
Search Proves Fruitless.
(Joarsat Special seree.) -Ln
Angeles. Cal.. b. 13. To sav
hla life George H. Dunham, a fit. 1 ,011 1
capitalist tossed f 1.009 In gold lnl the
Mojave river and all efforta tvrnoMur
It have- failed. He had been on the
desert with Paul HI. Idle, a Mat
Bernardino mining promoter examining
a group of claims. The ssmples of or -had
been so satisfactory ttutt he hud
promised to pay ll.00 If a pcraoni.1
Uiapectto warranted it, and he parried
th money along. It wa la sacks in
th Inside pockots of a heavy khaal
cost.
-While they were forcing the rivi-r .
their fon wss overturned sn.l lum
bers was swept d"wnlri-M tn. Ii t
a desperate struggle, hsn.l- -r- ! 1
the welprhl of tie si.-l 1 1
mil"! lt -It so or ilroii, 1 .
he threw swuy t!.e I . ' -mnaKl
to rra'-h
frm ex'ian.ti"?! I' '
al.o en.-rtrl
The i -m a '
rivr f i ' i
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