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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY' EVENING, MAY ' 31. I9U.'
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REGATTA FEATURE
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Crowds Line Banks to Witness
Rowing Races of Local
Scullers. .
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Hundred of nropls llnwl th hanks of
the Willamette yesterday and witnessed
the annual spring rriratta of the Port
land Howlng club, which provldrd enough
features to kwp the spectators Inter
ested throughout.
The mile rars fcc.twswn Olona, atroke.
and Waif. bow. iind Pfaender. stroke.
and fc'ewell. bow, In th doublea waa won
by the rormer by h -1b margin.
IfaeodAr boat Newell In the alnglea
hf Uire lengths, ovsr a mile court,
tuth men rowed hard, hut the wind waa
against them, which mada progress dlf-XKvlt-
Haveley beat Uainmie In tha
ajractlc aouli raoe, after an even con-
lest
fev Oared Baoe Thriller.
The four oared crew raoe, which waa
mrtlclpatatf In by nil crews, waa
tarlller. Tha flrat heat waa won by
Lelta, Llewellyn, lloafort and Helvlg,
from Corning, Stone, Jones and Tuck.
The second heat waa won by Shocking,
Duffy, Labbe and dickering, from Mo
Cabe, J aneroid, McDonald and Ilanssa.
-Myers, Prater, Gloss and Walt easily
von tha third heat from Allan, Da Marr,
Haeley and Cooper. Tha final haat
' waa won by Chlekerlng'e crew, Walt'a
' boat being swamped by tha awella from
a passing launch.
la tha canoe races. Helvlg won the
raan'a singles. Ilcnnett and De Marr
beat Dent 'and Cheney by juat a few
feet In the men's doubles. In thla race
several of tha boata b-ecama entangled,
and Shockley and Pfaender fell In for a
swim. After an obstructed race, Mlaa
Delllnger and Helwlg won the mixed
doubles.
Tha starters was President H. E.
Judge; referee was Rs4j)h Wilbur, and
Judge, Art Allen.
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
DISPUTED ISSUE FOR VOTERS
Conflict Arises Over Prefer
ence Between State and
City Legislation.
GRESHAM GIANTS BACK
FROM GOLD
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NDALE TRIP
The Gresham Giants arrived home this
morning from their three day trip to
Goldendala, where they loat a close
series. The flrat game was won by the
Olants by tha score of I to 0, Townsend
twirling grand ball . and holding tha
1 Ooldendale players to two hits and not
. walking a man. In the second game
tha horn team cam back strong and
pounded the Gresham twlrlers for It
blngles, including three home runs and
three two base swats, while Thompson,.
pitching for the Reds, held the visitors
safe at all times. The score was 9 to 0.
With a shutout credited to each team,
the game yesterday draw by far the
largest crowd of the season. A more
exciting contest waa never played In
bush league ball than the on that de-
elded the series. The game ended in
the Uth Inning, wharf Brie, catcher for
Ooldendale, poled one over the left field
fencing, winning the game for the home
team, 6 to 4. Parrott and MacMaater
had driven home runs over the fence
earlier in the gams. The score:
First game (Sunday) R. H. E.
Gresham ,. $ 6
Ooldendale .. 0 I 8
.. Batteries Townsend and Bauer; Lake
and Byle.
Becond gams (Monday) R. H. E.
Ores ham 0 4
Ooldendale , 9 13 1
Batteries Donaldson, Bleeg and Kelt;
Thompson and Byle.
Third gams (Tuesday) II Ins. R. H. E.
Gresham 4 15 6
Ooldendale S 8 8
Batteries Townsend and Kelt; Lake,
Thompson and Byle.
. ASTORIAN SPEEDIEST
SWIMMER AT COLLEGE
: Corvallls, Or., May Jl-K M. Kinney,
the Oregon Agricultural college. In
the final contest of the O. A. C. Swim
: - nlng club ha won all of the dashes, in
eluding the 10 yard, 20 yard, and 100
f ' yard. He also came out first in the
fancy diving contests, making him the
Star Of the evening. O. H. Hess of Cor
vallls was the second point winner, and
Among the special features of the varied
. and interesting program were plunging
; : by F. J. Coolidge of Frasler, Colo., and
. - Harold Piatt of "Winnipeg, Canada, a
"stunt" by Hess, and diving by Hess and
T. B. Freldig of Sutherlln. R. E. Dun
can of Portland acted as starter and
v time keeper, and James Arbuthnot of
. i . Ii, athUtln ,Anl1tf watt IhiIm
Centralia Beats Chehalls.
Chehalls, Wash., May 31. In the
State leagrue yesterday before a record
crowd thejocal fans saw the home team
. bite the dust, Centralia winning the ball
game by a score of 9 to 2. Hollls
fine pitching, barked with excellent sup
port, won the same from the locals.
Mollis struck out 14 men and allowed
but six scattered hits. Kirhtner made
a home run and Moore a three base hit,
"but neither counted for anything in the
finals. Coleman and WDlns were Che
balls' battery, and in the seventh Cole
man was battfd out of the box and
Flchtner put in next Inning. Pro re:
R. H. E.
Chehalis 2 r, 4
Centralia 9 12 S
College Beats Town Team.
- McMlnnviUe. Or, May 31. -McMlnn-,
Villa college baseball team defeated the
; C4,ty White Sorks yesterday afternoon
ten the college ground in the h-el played
game of the season by a dosr snore of
i I to -1. The college t-rored Its runs In
ths second innin-r by bunrhfng hits. The
White Socks failed to st-ore until the
ninth when they made their run. Black
Ctone for the college excelled In pitch
ing, striking out a dozen men. Battery
for White Socks. Hewitt and Parrott;
for college, Blaekstone and Lareen. Um
pires, Toney and Johnson.
Troops Quiet Moh.
(TJnltod Press awil Wlre.l
'"'ls Palmas. Canary Islands, May ti.
r-Troops were caljel out to restore
rder When a mob attempted to burn
the government buildings In protest
against delay In the Spanish parlia
ment over a bill for ths division of the
Islands.
One of the moat warmly disputed
questions upon whlrh the voters are to
pass their Judgment next Monday Is that
of establishing a municipal public srr
vice commission for the regulation of
all quasi-public corporations dealing In
public utilities, tha ohlef Interaata sf
ferted being the atreet railway, gas, tel
ephone and eleotrlo power companies.
The conflict of Ideas cornea over tha
preference to be given to atate or mu
nlrlpal legislation, and the peculiar tan
gle resulting from the adoption by the
legislature of the Malarkey bill for pub-
n- utility regulation by tha atate rall
rond commission. The state measure la
suspended under the referendum until It
ran be voted on by the people In Novem
ber. 1812.
If the bill creating tha local commle
alon la carried out. It will go Into im
mediate operation. It directs the gov
ernor of the atate to appoint three com
missioners within SO daye, euch com
missioners to hold offlos until the aaxt
city slection In 111.
Flan cmiolaed.
Thus at the outset Is encountered aa
example of the provisions which have
cauaed the local commission plan to be
aeverely criticised. It 1 oonUnded that
the city of Portland, by a local law. baa
neither the right nor authority to confer
upon the governor of ths state, who is
not a city officer, the appointment of
the first commissioners.
Terma of the commissioners are fixed
at six years, one to be elected every
two years, and the salary la placed at
15000 per year. Commissioners are re
quired to devote their entire time to the
office and they must not be Interested
In any publlo service corporation. Va
cancies are to be filled by appointment
of the mayor Ths offlcs of the com.
mission is required to be open from I
a, m. to midnight each day excDt Sun
day, and regular meetings must be held
dally. The city attorney la made the
legal adviser of ths commlaslon and
us representative in court when required.
Vnbllo Bearings.
The commission la authorised to em
ploy a secretary, and such clerks, ex
perts and attorneys as it may desire,
and the expenses it Incurs must be paid
by tho city, no limitation being placed
upon the amount that may be spent and
no check or veto power provided.
All hearings must be publicly eon
ducted, technical rules of evldencs are to
be disregarded, and no person may be
excused from testifying or producing
papers and records, but It is provided
no person shall be prosecuted as a re
sult of any disclosures made by his tes
timony, each witness being given "ths
immunity bath."
Subpenas may be issued by any com
missioner to compel ths attendance of
witnesses and It la provided that such
subpenas shall run to all parts of ths
state of Oregon, another clause said by
crltlos to be beyond the scope of power
of a local commission. Witneasea re
fusing to testify may be oertlfled to ths
circuit court for punishment another
attempted use of stats authority said to
ds Deyond tne power of the city.
Temporary Injunctions.
rates, cnarges ana service nrs-
sorlbed by the commission shall go into
effect when ordered and remain in force
unless upset by the courts. Any person
or corporation dissatisfied with aa order
may sue In ths circuit court, it is pro
vided, to vocate such an order as unlaw
ful or unreasonable. .The commission
must answer In 10 days and ths plain
tiff reply In flva days thereafter, ths
trial following upon 10 days' notice by
either party. All of these regulations
aa to procedure In ths courts. It may be
added, are admitted to be only advisory
to the courts, and ths courts may regard
or disregard them.
Subject to ths same limitations by
the courts, it Is provided that no tem
porary Injunction staying an order of
the commission shall Issue for longer
tnan 10 aays, and the corporation af
fected is required to file a bond to cover
all compensation In excess of sums re
quired to have been paid If the order of
the commission had not been sus
pended.
Common Carriers.
,., .Numerous -feKVPrnv,!?Ri. lJia.p
to the evidence that shall be received
In the circuit court and the proceedings
on appeal, all ol which are declared to
be worthless by critics of the measure,
but which are held by Its friends as at
least advisory to the court and likely to
be followed. ,
The commission Is authorized and
empowered to Investigate the general
condition of capitalization and man
agement of all common carriers, to ex
amine their books, to establish uniform
systems of accounting, to Investigate
and require reports of accidents, to
order repairs and improvements, to re
quire increases in service, to fix maxi
mum rates, to investigate complaints
and order causes removed, to give or
refuse approval of stock or bond issues
and to give or withhold consent to
mergers of existing companies.
It is provided that If any part of the
act Is found faulty and declared un
constitutional, such invalidity ahull not
be construed to impair the remainder
of the act.
Given Broad Powers.
The commission is given broad powers
of regulation, and In a general way the
MU confers upon the local commission
much ths same powers that would be
possessed by ffls railroad commlaslon
under the Malarkey bill, except that the
utter would apply to all the state and
there would be no question of Its appli
cation In rsgsrd to regulation of pro
cedure la the courts.
Advocates of the local commission
plsn sre generally favoring aa cor
relative acts the adoption of the pro
posed charter amendmenta Imposing a
i per cent gross earnings tax on gas,
electric light and power companies. This
would provide additional revenue to pay
the expenae of the local commission,
they say. The gross earnings tax
amendments were submitted by the pub
llo servloe central committee of Port.
lead, which also fathered the local com.
mlaalon bill, but the gross earnings
amendments are proposed Independently
of the commission plan, and may he en
acted with or without It.
elflabaess Alleged.
friends of the local commission plan
further point out that with the refer
endum an actual fact on the Malarkey
bill, the people of I'ortland cannot ob
tain any aort of relief In the near fu
ture except through the local plan.
Opponents of the bill, on the other
hand, show that the local commlaslon
advocatea are the onea responsible for
the referendum, derlsrrtht selfishness
behind the local Idea, since It would
furnish several high salaried jobs and
has no limit of expenditure, end say
that the local commission will have
been In operation only long enough to
pile up a large expanse when tt will be ,
superseded by. the state commission
plan. , . c .. j j ,
In the course of an argument favoring
ens local commlaslon. Ben ; RJealand,
head of ths publlo service central com
mittee, says:
Self' Ooveraxoeat Best
It a city turns ovsr Its streets to fh
uae of a publlo servloe corporation. It
would seam Indisputable that tha city
Itself should have the right to fix the
terms and .conditions of eson a prlvt
lege, rather than a state commissi on
which has no direct Interest The city,
furthermore, csn give the matter Its en
tire time and dose study and attention
until it is disposed of. The atate com
mission, on the other hand, would have
to deal constantly not with the rights
and Interests of a alngls city, but of
dosens of cities, and in sddltion It la
charged with the duty of regulating and
controlling railroads and other public
service corporations throughout the en
tire state.
"With tho best Intentions. la the
world, one commission of three men, no
matter how able and qualified, cannot
do everything; they are only three men,
hampered by the limitations of time and
space and human weaknesses and neces
sities. "Self government when all 1c said and
done Is ths best government, and local
aelf government Is at once the founda
tion, of Its pillars and the keystone of
the sreh.
"A slate commlaslon with Its head of
floe In Salem, far away from tbe center
of corporation activities, cannot give
needod relief. The present state rail
way oom mission Is now far In arrears
In Its own business, that of regulating
the cute railways. What would It do
If burdened, with the multitudinous du
ties encumbent upon a publlo service
commission for every city la the state?
No one cans, guess the result. There
would be no relief to the olttsea and no
regulation cf the corporation. That is
what the corporations want and the cltl-
sen does not want - . v ... .
. ' as Oowpaalea. .
Therefore, let the cltlsena of Port
land rally to the standard of efficient
servloe. Vote yea on Nos. Ill and 119,
tax'ng tbe electric light and power com
pany t par cent and tbe gas company
I per cent or their respective gross In
coma and vote yes on No. Ill, creating
a publlo service eornmlssion for tbe elty
or peruana. - ' '-;rv r-
Dan J. Malarkey, author of tha state
wide commission bill, makes the following-
argument bearing upon tha compara
tive merits of tha rival plans of regula
Conflict of Authority.
Tf Portland were entirely Isolated
there would be come grounds for a asp
erate commission. But the corporstlons
operate over the oountles of Multnomah,
Clackamas, Marlon and Washington.
This Intermingling and overlapping of
territory and business makes It Impoa
clble to define the commencement and
termination of authority, and It 1c al
most useless to atempt to arrive at Jua-
tlce In appraisal. We now have a striking-example
of. thla The railroad eorn
mlssion has supervision of ths Interur-
ban lines connecting Portland with cities
of other counties, but has no oontroi
over those in Portland. Frequently It
has difficulty In obtaining Information
and In exercising authority over theas
lines. Under a local commission the
trouble would be greatly Increased. Con
fusion of decision, regulation and rul
ings, and conflict of Jurisdiction and au
thority would prevail.
"The addsd duties would enhance
rather than diminish the efficiency of
the railroad commission, as they would
Justify the employment of expert tech
nical assistants, whose time would be'
devoted to tho entire work,
"If this measure carries a costly
blundsr will have been made, - By the
time the $11,000 a year commission Js
organised and' learns Its duties and
powers sufficiently to become at all
effective, the state bill will be before
the people and probably pass, as It
should, and the people - of Portland
will have spent . a couple of hundred
thousand dollars with practically ao
service obtained. "
Taxing gas, electric and power com
panies - Is provided by asperate - meas
ures and I am heartily in favor of
them."
SHOLIN STEERS TWO r
SAILORS TO VICTORY
was one mile around the moorings Bear
the Oaks and was for the boats owned
by the members of tha Oregon Dlnghey
club. The Pack, sailed by Nelson Dodge
waa 'third. Miss llodd's Nancy Lee
sailed by Preston Prldeaux was fourth,
aMBflBjsanBBBassBaaavaaaBBSnasnaj '
Washington Bo O. A. 0. Captain,
Corvallls. Or May tl. George ftleben
of Banks. Wash.." who has served on tbe
O. A. C pitching staff for the past
three years, has just been elected to
captain the nine next year, over five
other ellgiblee. Although Rlebeo f etc
his degree la agriculture this June,; he
le to return for graduate work In the
fail.- : .' , '
Tha annual Decoration day run of
the Oregon Taoht club wac won by Ar
thur Sholln, In his boat th Swallow,
over a course three miles la length,
from ths Oaks to the Hawthorne bridge
and return. ...
The conditions for ths race eould
not have been better. With plenty of
wind to carry them, they all mods
good speed. Seven boats startedand
all but the one owned by T. J. . Mln
denhall finished.
The fore'-n-Aft owned by Captain
H. F. Todd came In a close second;
ths Spendthrift, Captain Hal cams is
third; Comet, Will Racer, fourth and
Bynamox, Edwin Mulr, fifth. Tbe Buc
caneer, owned by the Oregon Dlnshv
club, steered by tt a Humphrey, was
the last to finish of ths larger boats.
Tha second race was won bv Arthur
Sholln In WU1 Racer's dlnghey Psggy
from Jamas Hssdett In ths Celt by
a few feet. Tbe coarse of this raeai
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today Is searching for a man said to
have been seen with Clifford Wilson
shortly before. It is alleged WiJson
killed - John and Matthew Wright,
brothertv .Wilson la la JalL
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All the new Summer Woolens are here bolts of the
finest fabrics are stacked ceiling high. Never before
has there been under one roof in the city of Portland
a stock of woolens to compare, either in quantity or
quality, with the one now on display here". This store
is doing more business than ever before, therefore we
imported more woolens just twice the amount of last
year, and in order to get these goods talked about we
are going to make you a special offer.
Thuaraday,
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Sateurday..
You May Choose Any Piece of
Woolens From This Large Importa
tion and We Will Cut Therefrom
Any $35 or $40 Suit for
Friday
No Restriction, No Reserve, Your Choice
From what is probably the largest stocjc of woolens ever iinder one roof on this
entire coast.,
This stock includes, aside from all the staples, the very latest in Bannockburn Tweeds,
Pencil and Hairline Stripes, West of England Serges and all the new combinations in .pray,
Blue, Purple and Brown in fact, everything that goes to, make up a line calculated to sat
isfy, no matter what the taste may be. KemembeV these goods will be made up in our
usual manner, just the same as though we were reteivingour usual price of 35 or $40.
Afl our work is-done in our own workshop by UNION TAILORS, and every garment is
thoroughly inspected before it leaves our shop. w -
Union Label in Every Garment
ONLY ALPACA AND SILK VENETIAN LININGS USED
Remember, this sale lasts but three days Thursauy, Friday and Saturday -and the price
will be, for any suiting in the store only $20.
Geiiitlemara
Mailors
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