tii:; oiiLcori daily journal, Portland, Friday evening,. February ioio. jirar LIVING EXCITES CAPITAL DAMES ?ciety Women Take Up Fight One "; Roosevelt Policy Stands The Craftiness of Woman Shown by Milliners. r Hv Inhn V. IjthrOO. eahlngton. Feb. 11. You may doml- te any conversation nowadays If only U Introduce the coat f living. . In mtly all other themes are forgotten, matter , what social, business or po Ical function may be on. lUere In Washington the socl-uy worn- have taken hold, along-with, the usewlfe wh doesn't 'belong," and tween them they Are making the beef tat, the cold atorage trust, which con la etfgs, fruit and vegetable dlstribu n. and the Elgin butter trust,' count their losses from tumbling prices, the District of Columbia Federation Women's lubs, . Mrs. Charles M. pper. president, has officially entered i campaign for . more reasonable ices. Buch society leaders , as Mrs IS. Henderson, Mies Mabel Board man (1 Mrs. Da B. Randolph Kclm have led themselves with the movement One Booserelt PoUoy Stands. ,1 ' There Is one of tha Ro6sevclt policies itch -has nevar. been departed, from der the Taft regime. When Bwana nr.bo was at the head of the govern nt his daughter Alice was the most pular girl In Washington. . Her mar ge to 'Nick" JLongworth, a congress m from Ohio, hailing from . Clncin- tC'tc nowise diminished her popular- Vhen the .vies president and Mrs. rman gave their brilliant annual re yon last week, the president eame, also did Congressman Longworth and ' wife. I was standing where it was y to observe the progress of both ! them through the rooms, and it was ;ont that the daughter of .Roosevelt quite the center of Interest, and. a Ossful rival of the president as the losure of all eyes. ' - ( . . rost of the Paolflo northwest mem and their wives were there, It ,ig -one', of the . first publto social ctlons at which Mrs. Chamberlain, "9 of Senator Chamberlain has ap--red. - - ' - ' i j ' Craftiness of .Woman. ' rijere la consternation among many men In eastern' cities who are noted i, the richness of their gowns and. 4 and the elegance of their Rus ri toques. Listen, eommon folk! Uorekeepers whisper that they have ised to be done some detective work, H that they have discovered that ny women have systematically Been taring goods sent to their homes "on roval." These goods are, of course, lally delivered aome time after noon l the package Is left for Inspection, s 1 buyer to telephone the" dealer If wants the dress or furs or hat taken k'. ' ' ,,. ' " . . ' .. Jut a night Intervenes, and that night ! buyer astonishes her friends by tearing at some affair clad most gor jreously lu a new (town, wlih Bhe duts not wear any inoro. "Never eKuIn," the storekeepers and furriers and milliners are saying; and they have dftvlsed a lead seal ik those used to seal mallbngs. The only way to get off the tag Is to cut It. and the dealer .will not receive back these "sent on approval" goods if that tag has been out. It Is attached to a glaring red tag three Inches wide and four Inches long, and on It Is printed In large black lettera: ' "This article will not.be ao cepted as returned If this .tag is, de tached." . - Xioaa Sharks Oet the Jtlob. One of the astounding things which have been brought Into the light of day by the campaign here for no.usury by loan sharks la the amazing number of presumably rich people who patronise the pawnbrokers and other high inter est -takers. , , Of course, news . about rich folk is hard to get Into print unless said news be agreeable. Bo with this bit of social economic news. The fight on ihe loan harks went on savagely; the treatment accorded poor families who have gotten Into the rapacious maw of the loan hark was set forth in extenso. , The Investigators finally dug up an interesting lino of facts on society habitues In numbers being In the afore said maw. But there waa little said about It. ' " -i. ' t mm E DCONCRETE PUT: S BRICKS ON RUN . "Brickwork,- In a great many cases, will soon be displaced by cement and concrete. Reinforced concrete buildings have proved to be a great success. In future years concrete and cement will take the place of ' the greater part of brickwork." , ' - 1 -' Such are the statements of H. R. De Laplaln, one of the best known railroad and constructing engineers In the coun try. '.Mr. De Laplaln has handled ce ment for 80 years. He Is a guest at the Imperial hotel. ' ; , ' . ""Many years ago," said Mr.'De" Lap lain, "I, built the first coment arch In any tunnel In the United Btates. and per haps in the world. It was In the old Boseman tunnel In Montana. We could not get good brick; and after rejecting a number of carloads, I suggested that we build one arch out of concrete. The chief engineers of the Northern Pacific, for which road I was rebuilding the out, consented. ' I built one arh of concrete and the others of brick. Since that time the brickwork has been taken out and all the arches have been built of concrete.".' . . . v. "r. Mr. D Laplaln was the builder of the famous Cascade tunnel of the Great Northern, which , was considered one of the ' greatest engineering feats in the history of American railroad construc tion. , . . , . 'Must Accpunt for Ilia Stamps. , ' ; ftlnlted Press Imm Wtro.t San! Francisco, i Feb. II. Joseph Hi Regari, charged with vagrancy, is de tained by the police pending his exami nation by United States postoffice In spectors who will endeavor to learn how Regan gained possession of 4,377 post age stamps. Regan claims he found the s tamos In a box car while "beating If on freight cars from Sacramento to this cttv. He said he had no idea now the stamps came to be In the car. ' The po-Unedlate effect , through lice here have communicated wun south ern California cities and with Denver, where j postoffice robberies have oc curred. OMIMffl UP FOR ItllTIATIVE AD REFERENDUM Three Years' Trial Finds-Legislative Innovations Satis fattory and They Are Now Used by Former Opponents. ,' Guthrie. Okla., Feb. 11. -After three years of experience of the Initiative and referendum, one of the most novel of experiments In legislation put into ef fect by the Oklahoma constitution, the people of the new state are very well aatisfted with, the results, and there Is no, disposition on any band to suggest the repeal or even the material modifi cation of the system as It now. exist. - 'One of the strongest proof of Its success has been the fact that It has been sdopted by the very people who most strongly opposed it in the begin ning. The Republican leaders In , the constitutional convention were very gen erally oppoaed to It, and denounced It as socialistic snd Impracticable, yet the Republican state committee has made use of the referendum to obtain a popu lar vote upon the "ribbon ballot". gener al election law passed by the last leg islature, which gives the control of all of the election machinery of the state to the party In control of the state admin istration. ; Railroad attorneys and the representatives of capital and coneerva tlsm opposed, it as radical and revolu tionary, yet the railroads themselves have used the Initiative to present to the people the proposed repeal of certain sections of the constitution which they claim restrict railroad building In the sate. ..v ; . - JTot a Once la Sffeet. While provision was made by the con stitution Itself for the adoption of the Initiative ' and referendum. It was not put Into practical operation until after laws to put .it ihto effect had been adopted by the first state -legtslaure. The per cent of the total number of voters required for the different classes of petitions was fixed by the constitu tional convention, but1 none of the de tails of the scheme worked out It re quires ( per" cent of the legal voters, as shown by the vote cast at the last gen eral election, to Initiate a law, .15 per cfcnt to Initiate a constitutional amend ment, and 5 per cent to secure the re ferring to the people of an act already passed by the legislature. ' ' . , In order to secure to the people the right of a referendum onHmy law which did not meet their approval, the consti tution also provided that no laws stiould go into effect until 90 days after the ad journment of ' the ' legislature, except such as were necessary for the preser vation -.Of , the public, peace, health or safety, and a two thirds vote In each house was required In. order to declare such an emergency, which would put the law' Into , effect Immediately. " The "emergency clause" has undoubtedly been abused and many laws put in 1,0 iro ns ' agency. which had no emergency character, yet it Is hard to see -where any other plan could be devised, which would allow the immediate enforcement or reai emer gency measure and yet suspend the op eration of othvrs In order to allow a referendum vote if desired. , , , '' your propositions! , A law or part of a law may be re ferred by. the legislature Itself under the referendum, as well as on petition of the people, and the first state legis lature under this provision made use of the new Idea by referring four proposi tions to the. people. There were ' two proposed constitutional amendments, one for the adoption of the Torrens land system and the other to remove the re strictions, on the permanent location of the state capital before l!USi a prop, osltlon ' intended to get " an exprea glon of 1 sentiment " from ' the people on the Idea of selecting an Ideal site for the capital and building a new city there, and a proposition for the reten tion or rejection of te state dispensary plan of handling the liquor question. , All were voted on at the general elec tion -In 1808. The two constitutional amendments received a majority of the votea cast on these particular subjects, but not a majority of all the votes cast at the election, and were therefore de clared lost. , The ideal, capital or "New Jerusalem" ,. proposition . . was . deolared carried,1 and the dispensary proposition was voted "down by. an overwhelming vote, but the election on that proposi tion was later declared void by' the su preme court, on account of technical Ir regularities In the title of the proposi tion as submitted to the people. This Is the only case so far ; where the people have been unable . to carry . out their will through the initiative and refer endum and the' only case where the sys tem may be said to have failed. ? ' -, Early Tses of Initiative. ... ' The first initiated bill was also voted on at the same election. It waa one for the sale of all of the school lands of the state, and was defeated by a big majority. ' , . J- The second Initiated bill, and the sixth state question, was the bill by State Senator .Campbell Russell, carrying out the "New Jerusalem" idea embodied In his resolution. which was adopted at the first election, but ; on which no action was taken by the legislature. ' It was filed on December II. 10, with 22,881 signatures to the petition, but a pro test to the sufficiency of the petitions was filed five days later. , Secretary of State Cross 'decided In favor of. the pe titioners, but the matter is now tied up In court on an appeal from his decision. The same condition exists In regard to 'the woman's suffrage amendment to the constitution, the petition for which wss filed on January 6, 1910, with 11,543 names. v Plrst tlae of Referendum. ' The first measure orr which" the ref erendum was invoked by petition was the Tylr election law on which the Republicans filed referendum petitions, with 30,385 signatures. That is slso In court now on an appeal from the bal lot title prepared by the attorney gen eral for the proposed measure to be sub mitted, 'as required by law. The only initiative or referendum proposition which Is ready for a vote at the present time Is therefore the consti tutional,, amendment submitted by the federation of commercial clubs on behalf of the railroads, removing several con stitutional restrictions, which' seems to have, hampered railroad building, and also limiting materially the power of the corporation . commission to control publio service corporations.- It had been the Intention to call a special election, probably In April to submit a number of the pending propositions, but in view of the fact that the others are all in court, it is quite probable that all of them will go over until the primary election in August I . . Did you cut The Journal picture cou pon from Monday's- Journal? It ap peared on page. t. . . Monday, February I4tli Is OPENING DAY .' 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