THE WEATHER ...fc,....,;,;,-;. Rain tonight, and Thursday; winds. COAST TEMPERATURES . vi;;; .) A. Bl. Today. , . Boll , , . .... 31 Seattle i , 44 Spokane , 3 San rrnclo .,.,.,. ..,,,i Si Portland .a,..,, 44 RoMbnrfT 49 MarshXleld ...................4..., 46 7 VOL. X. NO. 295. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY. 14, : 1912 EIGHTEEN PAGES. 36 Labor Chiefs Held on Dynamite t ' t ' H. . - X ' .. ARIZONA TAKES IIP HER DUTIES OF Disagree Over Suffrage REM AT LAST BMNCl SAM WILL REACH OUT AFTER CROOKED DEALER ' '' "" , ' Arrest by Federal Authorities of Alleged Perpetrators of Fake Land Sales but Be ginning of Campaign. Gompers and Aides Fully Exonerated E RULE FICHT STATEHOOD DAY OM 35 1RONV0RKERS ' Women-Witnesses in Dynamiting Cases I t ARE MED IN 17 CIT1ESDFC0UNTRY Complicity fn Countrywide Dy : namiting Plots Is Charged Against : Structural Union Leaders and One Other. 4 High Official Ixoamtol 4 ' (United Prna Leaned Wire.? Washington. Feb. 14. Full ' and complete exoneration for ' 4 Samuel Gompers, president of d tbe American Federation of v 4 Labor, and for its other officials 4 on charges of having been con- 4 cerned in the alleged eountry- d -wide dynamite plots for which a ' score of Ironworkers' officials d were arrested today, was made 4 here today by the department, of d Justice. . 4 It was stated that the officials d of the American Federation had 4 not only not been Indicted but 4 that nothing had been adduced 4 at the Indianapolis investigation 4 to show that they had any 4 knowledge whatsoever of the al- 4 ' ' leged conspiracy. : . 4 4V , (United Prera Leated Wire. Indianapolis, Feb. 1 4.-1 ndltted by a federal grand Jury on accusations of .complicity in a countrywide dynamiting plot which culminated In the destruc tion of the Los Angeles Times by John J. and James B. McNamara, 38 labor leaders. 35 of them members of the International Association of Bridge & Structural Ironworkers, were arrested today In 17 eastern cities. Foremost in importance of those tak en Into custody by the federal officials were Frank M. Ryan, president; John I. Butler, vice president; Herbert 8. Hockln, vice president and acting secre tary, - and H. W.' Tegleitnor, a former member of the executive board of the Ironworkers. In every case where the union men were arraigned they at once pleaded not guilty to charges of con spiracy illegally to transport dynamite from state to state. They were all re' pleased on ball and will be arraigned be fore United States Judge Anderson In the federal court here March 12. Triumph Zl Scored, , Even In the midst of the arrests the cause of the union men scored a dls- : tlnct -triumph when accusations leveled ' at Samuel Gompers and the other off! , clats of the American Federation of Labor were officially declared by the government to have been baseless. Of flclals of the United States department of Justice In Washington gave full and free exoneration to Gompers and his associates of the federation, declaring; that not one scintilla of evidence had been produced to show that they had any knowledge whatever of the alleged conspiracy. bitlmatlon that the arrested Ironwork- era expect quick action In their cases was made by President Ryan, when he ' . was taken into custody. 'Of course, we won't be given as much time as some others," he said. "It took the government seven years to get the beef trust Into court Watch how quick ly they will railroad us." District Attorney Miller said: -Tina is only nDout nair the num ber of men indicted. Outsiders don't begin to understand the . ramifications Of thin conanlracv " Ha dneljirort It m probable that all the persons Indicted would be arrested . before tomorrow night ; President Ryan of the ironworkers and Vice Presidents Hockln and But ler have been unable to - secure the ball demanded as yet but expect to do so berore night. The list of those Indicted here in eludes John J. and James B. McNa mars, Olaf Tveltmoe, secretary of . the jsuiiaing Trades council of California; w. a. tjiancey or Han Franc! sco. mem ber of the executive board of the Iron- (Continued on Page Twelve.) VANCOUVER-OLYMPIA ELECTRIC LINE PLAN OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC Western Electric- Subsidiary Controls Power on Lewis River, Which Is ' to Kquip Washington-Oregon Line From Cowlita County to Chehalls. 1 . (Specll to The Journal.) Vancouver, Wash., Fob. 14. The statement in The - Journal last Satur day that the Washington-Oregon cor poration linos seemed llkeljf to be ex- - tended to.Puget sound was borne out yesterday, when Local Manager W, B. Foshay - returned from Chehalls and '.gave out that tha, company was now ; surveying a line from Chehalls and v Centralla- to Olympla. and that a line would be built from Chehalia to Cowllts county. Mr. Foshay ... will . hereafter spend his time between Vancouver and ChehaUs...:V:i;,v:--',-;i..:(Vv:yh;i;;, j):. H'A ; The Western Eleyrio company, a subsidiary Of the -Southern Pacific, , holds power rights on the Lewis river, and to this point Mr. Foshay gives out that the line will ba extended from Chehalia." Tha proposed line out of Vancouver , will connect -at- the power plant on the Lewis river and the line north from Centralla will give- k com--plete connection to Puget sound. ' v , .4 The proposed extension of these llnee ' will be. a boon to Vancouver and Clarke .' county. .. . . 1 , ; 1 ' " ' MADERO WILL HAVE www mamm, mlLjf RULES ASDICTATOR Above is Miss Nora FTaley, former secretary to John J. McNamara of the Structural Iron Workers. Below is Miss Kdso Slofaettf San Francisco,, who appeared before the Indianapolis grand Jury. ELLIS DECIDES TO MINUS Pendleton Standpatter to Get Solid Support of the Taft Crowd; Will Probably Have Five Competitors. Ex-Congressman W. R. Ellis of Pen dleton, who has been in Portland ior several days feeling out the political situation, has decided to make the race for the Republican nomination for con- gresa lh the Second district. While Mr. Ellis refused to admit today that he Js definitely In the race. It Is known that the question was settled at a confer ence last night at the Imperial hotel, and that the standpat Taft elomcnt In the party will line up practically solidly be hind the Umauua county ecaieamaii. The entrance of Ellis into the xieia makes five . candidates already an nounced in the Seoond district with a strong probability that anotner wui de clare within -the next few days. Aa at present lined up the Republican candidates are N. J. Slnnott of Wasco; J. P. Rusk, of La Grande; C. E. Roose velt of Pendleton, who filed today; George T. -Cochran, of La Grande and W, R. Ellis, of Pendleton. Friends of John "W. McCulIoch, of Ontario district attorney of Malheur oounty. expect that he will announce before the time for fillngr declarations expires. Binnott and Ruck- are both known as progressives, Rusk are both known as progressives, two and has declared nimseii aa an out and out anti-Taft Roosevelt ' Re- publican.' ' ' . ' C lu. Roosevelt is a renaieton mer chant It is not believed that he will develop ' much strength. ' Mcculloch is the only candidate from .the south end of the- district,5 and as the other can didates are al from the northern tier of counties, he bases his expectation! of success on his ability to unite the vote ot the southern counties. . .The standpatters "and ' reactionaries have been holding all sorts of eonfer encea and consultations in this eity for tha ast two weeks trying to fix upon someone of their faith to put Up In the econd district, v State Senator 1 J. N. Burgess of Pendleton, was looked upon with favor untu some one suggested that he was connected with the opposi tion to the West Umatilla irrigation project. Other prominent eastern Ore ton standpatters were taken up by the !...,l...lu hit ' aMiltrillahl'a . ference it was agreedrtbat Ellis had the best chance of winning- over the pro gressive field, -wnen seen today Kills admitted that he, is seriously consider ing making the iace", but preferred not to make a lormai annpunocmeni 01 Dls decision for a day or "bo, President Asserts He Will Sus pend Corfstijutipnar Guar- J antee i in 'AxicbVlf Neces sary, to Restore Order. (United Prest Leaaed Wire.) New Tork, Feb. 14. Positive declara tion that he will suspend the constitu tional guarantee in Mexico If necessary to restore order, and that already he has suspended these guarantees in sev eral states in Mexico, la made today by President Madcro In a telegram from Mexico City received here. President Madero's telegram was ad dressed to the United Press and reads as follows : "I still believe a democratio republic is possible in Mexico. But this does (Continued oa Page Two.) WHO GETS THE VALENTINE? j : r 1 ! 1 mmmkm m&?. jf BONO DEALERS MAY HAVE FLED TO CANADA Evidence Against Men Now Under Arrest Is Said to Be Conclusive. The government net is closing down over perpetrators of fake land sales in Canada, Washington,, D. C, and San Francisco today. The crusade inaugu rated by United States District Attor ney John McCouxt to put a stop to sales of worthless lands to unwary persons has suddenly assumed Inter national proportions. A. J. Blehl and H. H. Humphrey of the Columbia Orchards company, the Washington-Oregon Irrigation com pany and the Washington-Oregon Trust company, were caught yesterday, charged with sending fraudulent ad vertisements through the malls, these advertisements being of bonds which they claimed to have secured $125 or,. more for every J100, when, as a matter of fact, the complaint recites, tne bonds were worth less than 2 cents' on the dollar. Humphrey was able to give bond in the sum of $6000 last night and was bound over to tha federal grand Jury. Biehl Is scheduled for arraignment before United States Commissioner Cannon at 2 o'clock this afternoon. It was expected that Blehl would make arrangements to postpone his arraign ment. Kay Have Fled to Canada. Meanwhile the United States district attorney's office has received informa tion that W. E. DeLarm, understood to have a been the chief promoter of the fake (brchard land bond selling scheme, and his associate, G. C. Hodges, have fled to Canada. -It was Intimated this morning that the pair had taken with them large quantities of the worthless bonds, which they expected to dispose of In ordor to meet the expense of their flight It was also intimated that their whereabouts is known today and that they will be brought back to Portland (Continued on Page Twelve.) PICKS RADICAL CHIEF (TTnltpd Prem Iixt Wire Berlin, Feb. 14. Final triumph of the coalition of parties opposing the Socialists for the control of the relch stag was cemented today with the elec tion as its president of Herr Kaempf, a radical. Kaempf Is the man elected from the kaiser's own district who barely won out over the Socialist candidate there, greatly to the relief of the emperor. It is believed that the radicals by an alliance with the Catholic centrists, will now be fully able to prevent So cialist control of the relchstng. REICHSTAG COALTON AL i mi im mnri ri i r- 1 -1 11 1 m si n J, President Taft Signs Procla , mation in Washington and Governor-Elect Hunt Takes Oath of Office at Phoenix. GOLDEN RULE TO GUIDE NEW STATE EXECUTIVE Jeffersonian Simplicity Will Be Observed in Matters of Administration. (Cnited PrtM Iaied Win.) Washington, Feb. 1. President Taft today Blgned the proclamation granting statehood to Arlsona. The president used a gold pen, which he later gave to Postmaster General Hitchcock. Phoenix, Aria., Feb. 14. Ringing of bells, screeching of whistles and cheers of thousands of citizens today marked the closing hours of Arizona's half cen tury of territorial life. By 11 o'clock several thousand persona had gathered about the capltol steps to await the ap pearance of Governor-Elect George W. P. Hunt although the inaugural cere monies were not scheduled until noon. The governors walked to the capltol and simplicity marked all the ceremonies. At S o'clock tonight the world will drink to the health of the newest state. if the invitation of the Arizona commit tee is heeded. Every citizen of the United States has been requested to pledge prosperity to Arizona. . Exactly 50 years ago Jefferson Davis signed a proclamation admitting Ari zona to the confederacy, and today she became the forty-eighth member of tha American sisterhood of states. Gov ernor Hunt began his career In Arizona 30 years ago as a waiter in a Globe res taurant Golden Sole Hie Guide. Declaring for a Golden Rule ad ministration and for progressive policies and urging that the recall of judges be reincorporated in the Arizona state constitution, George W. P. Hunt today was formally Inaugurated as the first governor of the state of Arizona. In his Inaugural address, de livered at the capitol, Governor Hunt said: "Fellow citizens: In the name of the sovereign' people of Arizona who gave It, I accept the responsibility conferred upon me. There is neither thought nor desire in my mind to 'be known to pos terity as Arizona's best governor, but rather the wish that Arizona and her governors hereafter elected shall con tinue, tP be progressive, and" that my administration may encourage a con stantly awakening public conscience. "Arizona is progressive and demo cratic, and my administration, insofar as my conduct can assure it. shall ba democratic in the Jeffersonian sense that denotes equality, simplicity and un ostentation. Always Beady for Business. "The office of governor will be open every hour of every working day of the year, and many other hours." After outlining his plans to make his administration one of strictly business principles. Governor Hunt said: "In a subordinate sense I have tried to indicate that my administration will be a strictly business one, In which the people's money shall be wisely used, waste prohibited and graft, wherever It (Continued on Page Twelve.) 11, L,: Ha cr-u- ill w 1 v . 2. A L try Chancellor Lloyd-Oeorge t (above) openly and vehemently champion ing tho cause of "votes for - wo men," and Premier Asquith (be low) set 6tcrnly rgninst It. Proponents Contend "Union of Imperial Supremacy, Local Autonomy" Ideal Condition; Others Say Impracticable. (By United Press.) London, Feb. 14. With the great bat- hp ior una. niinim. noma ruio ior iro- ! land impending In parliament, leaders of the two factions gave expression to day to their vifWB. John Uedmond, Irlslv home rule 'advo cute, .gnvo this explanation of what is wanted by the proponents of the meas ure and what home rule would mean to i, Ireland: 1 j "What we moan 'by home rule is the ' continuous government of Ireland ac cording to the ideas carried out by Irish ministers, responsible to the Irish people servants of the crown, but not holding offico at the will of a parlia ment at Westminster. Ask Popular Assembly.. "We ask the laws .relating to Ireland alono shall be made by a popularly elected assembly slttinK in Ireland, hav lng leisure to uoal witli the necessities of the case and possessing first hand knowledge of tln-m; and that:' responsi bility for the administration of Ireland shall be confined to a ministry chosen by Ireland and going out of office when ! Irish public ' sentiment demands a change." These views were expressed by- tho dllrerent statesmen Interested: H. II. Asquith, premier of England In Ireliind, as 'elsewhere, it la in the union, of imperial supremacy with local autonomy that the secret and the safe' guard of our government are to be found. Views of Xiloyd-Goorge. David Lloyd-Oeorge, chancellor of the exchequer Home rule Is absolutely es sential for the efficiency of the imperial Dnrllament. We are now treading on 'each other's toes and we are not doing jany work because-the imperial parlia ment is attending to trivial mattera which would be berieath the attention of .1 county council. This is very bad business. :.''.,':" v .'.ivv Winston Spencor Churchill, first lord of the admiralty In. order to keep pace with 'the world movement, it la neces sary for England to learn how to com bine tha fullest expression of national and lociU aspirtton and activities with the strongest framework f Imperial unity. , Home rule for - Ireland.. la. the first milestone along the road to the eventual unity of the English speaking races.' , ,",.'.'''?:' V. '"'. ' ';';.". never Quiet "Without Home Bale. - Sir Edwar4 Grey, aecretary of foreign affairs Ireland will never be really ro- I I JT' . I fir W"f . 1 . t f J, .. . V- j; f PICKED By PEOPLE -0 iCuutinued on I'age Xwelve.) King Opens Session of Parlia ment at Which Self-Gov-; ernment Measure for Erin Probably Will Be Passed." OPPOSITION BY LORDS ; MEANS SHORT DELAY Combination of Factions Prac , tically Assures Popularly Elected Assembly. MUe Btoaea In rtfat. , 1870 Home Government asso- . , elation established In Dublin,. - 1874 A motion tn the com mons in favor of home rule da- feated. 1879 Movement for home rule took definite shape. 1880 Charles Stewart Parnell chosen parliamentary leader of the Home Rule party. 1882 Parnell entered Into ne- - gotlatlons with Gladstone. 1886 Gladstone Introduced his first home rule bill and delivered - a famous speech in support of -it The bill waa summarily re- Jected. 1889 Lord Salisbury In a spech ridiculed the agitation la favor of home rule in Ireland. , 1890 Parnell was reelected leader of the Irish party, 1891 Parnell died and John E. Redmond succeeded him aa par- llamentary leader. ' 1892 Resolution for giving home rule separately to England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales re- jected by the commons. . 1893 Gladstone Introduced his second home rule bill, which passed the house of commons, only to be killed by the house of lords. 1909 The Liberal government" in a desperate position, sought" an alliance with . the Irish Na- tionalists. The latter agreed to : support the budget and . other ' government measures with the understanding that a home ruts bill would be introduced and passed.. 3 910 A measure was passed limiting the veto power of the 4 house of lords,' which removed' the last great 'obstacle in the path of'the horns rule movement j . (Speclal to Tbe Journal) ' London, Feb. 14. King George today opened what will be the most Important session of parliament since his accession to the throne the "Home Rula aesslon." From all points of view tha aesslon promisee tor take notable place in Eng lish history. Unless all signs point wrong, It will see the enactment of a measure that will make home rule for Ireland an accomplished fact after more than 30 years of unceasing agita tion and fighting. -V .i ; End of Hffb in Slffbt. ' The end of the long fight Is undoubt edly. In sight The Irish Nationalist party holds the balance of power In the house of conimons and by throwing its strength with the liberals has helped keep that party in power, and has sua talned -the government In , the recent crisis. Now, in accordance with a defi nite understanding and agreement the liberal government la to return the fa vor by Introducing a home rule bill.! ' A long parliamentary struggle is antici pated before tha measure la gotten into satisfactory shape, but Its ultimate pas sage la nevertheless assured.. .".'::.-:.!'-.. The provisions of the horn rule bill to be Introduced by Mr. Asquith now (Continued on Page Two.) I PASSED BY COUNCIL OVER MAYOR'S VETO Only Three Members, Namely, Btir. gard, Wallace "and Monks, Vtted to Sustain Mayor; Must More the Tanks From East Water Street, ' Only three counellmen, Wallace, BuV gard and Monks, voted to sustain Murynr Rushlight's veto of the oil tank ordi nance thl morning and aa a ; eone quence the measure becomes ft law with out the mayor's; signature. :; Qounctlmen Jennings and Menefee were absent and the 10 remaining members cast their ballots against the mayor, Thia Is tha first time during tbe present adminis tration that a vetd has not been sue tained. '; The mayor extressed the belief, in Ms veto message, that tha ordinance will result In the oil companies being driven Into the residence district of -the east side. ; Contrary to published statement, tne meaaure does not prohibit the con struction of oil tanka and warehoua within the city llmlta. It does provide that no tank sites shall be located with in 8000 feet of the water front This provision will compel the Biandurd and TTnlon Oil jcomnaniea to remove their plants e n East Water street in the ben rt of the east side wholesale district. Art exception to the general JOOO fot rul permits the companies to retain thir plants at Portsmouth abutting on tiie The oil tank ordinance was pns-j t the strong demand of South I'oiu.i- l residents who objected, to the el:il.: 1- ment of a distributing sfwtlon by Union Oil compuny at Hooker ANK ORDINANCE Meado streets, : '!-..: .. - ?'' ' '"' .'" ''li a-