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' 1
PRESIDENT SAYS
OF
POLLS TO REMAIN
OPEN 12 HOURS IN
M CITY ELECTION
HEADS DELEGATION OF SUFFRAGISTS
IS
HUERTA FOR PEACE
finding Viv p
RAILROADS MUST
NOT SHIP LIQUOR
TO DRY TERRITORY
MM TO
DANGER
U
NO TO DEMAND OF
WOMEN CALLERS
WITH
INVASION
SEEN
BY COMMISSIONER
Declines to Send Special Suf
frage Message to Congress
or Make Recommendation
in One of Regular Messages
NEVER PRESENTS PRIVATE
VIEWS ON LEGISLATION
Policies Must First Have Ap
proval of Leaders of His
Party.
(United Pr Lwd Wire.)
Washington, Dec. 8. Facing a big
suffragist delegation. President Wilson
refused today to send a special mes
Mite to congress urging that women be
enfranchised, lie declined also to In
corporate such a recommendation In one
of his regular messages.
Until congress requests It, , he . added,
h'e could not recommend the creation of
special house committee to Investi
gate the suffrage question.
The suffragette conference was pic
turesque. The committee marclted to
the, White House In the face of an Icy
wind, determined to force the president
to speak.
Shakes Hands and Smile.
President WllHon stood in front of his
Mg desk and received the committee.
He appeared drawn and haggard as a
result of his recent illness, but lie shook
hands cordially with Dr. Anna Howard
Bhaw and Mrs. Medill McCormack and
smiled at the other women in the dele
gation. "We have made pilgrimages to the
capital every year," said Dr. Shaw, "and
we always have boen reocH'cd courte
ously. Yet all suffrage legislation has
been buried In committee."
Dr. Shaw reviewed the suffrage
movement and said the advocates of
equal suffrage realized the president's
"liberal positions on questions affect-
lnir tha rights of the people." She sug
geted threo.ways he could help by a
special message to congress; Dy
a
paragraph 1" his regular message,
by using his influence to have
or
the
house name a special suffrage
com-
mlttee. .
Up to tta Party Leader.
The president was most courteous.
He said he wanted to make his posi
tion perfectly plain.'' Then he explained
the care ho must use In the exercise
of Ms official actions as tho spokes
man for the Democratic party. The
president declared that when hn was
governor of New Jersey he established
a rule not to urge upon legislators
policies which had not been consid
ered by leaders of the party, and that
he was following that rule at the
White House. He had never presented
his own private views of legislation
on any subject, he said, and would
not do so now. A member of the
house rules committee had asked him
to favor the appointment of a special
suffrage committee, he explained, and
said he had replied that he thought
the creation of such a committee would
be proper.
President Wilson was so diplomatic
In his refusal that tho suffragettes
left the Whit House satisfied that
lie would aid their cause if he got the
epportunity.
MRS. PANKHURST GETS
L
Enthusiastic Procession in
Taxicabs Greets Leader at
London Depot,
(United Trem Lrnwcl Wire.)
London, Dec. 8. At liberty on seven
days' leave from prison, Mrs. Emmollne
Tankhurst arrived in London at noon,
was met by an enthusiastic throng of
suffragettes and went at once to suf
fragette headquarters, where a special
suite had been prepared for her wtiere
she will recuperate from her hunger
and thirst strike'.
Her rooms, it was announced by JlVfl.
Dacre-Fox, a leading militant, would be
barricaded to prevent tho police from
rearresting her at the expiration of her
leave.
A procession of 21 taxicabs, single
file, followed the militant leader from
Paddlngtpn railroad station to head
quarters. Each was packed with suf
fragettes, cheering,, the released pris
oner.
For the authorities the situation
promised to become an embarrassing
one. ji mey oo not attempt to rearrest,
. It was pointed out, their failure to act
will be a confession of their helpless
ness. If they do attempt one, it was
generally agreed that the militants have
reached a point where their resistance
can hardly escape being attended by
bloodshed.
in having Mrs. Pankhurst arrested
on her return to England from the
United States, it was the consensus of
opinion that Home Secretary McKenna
made a mistake which he will have
cause to regret deeply before the trou
ble he stirred up Is over.
PACKERS SAY PRICE OF
6EEF HAS BEEN CUT
SEVEN
A
LIBERTY
FROM HER PRISON CEL
Omaha, lice. - 8. General Manager
HOwe of Armour A Co., said the pack
era have reduced beef loin and rib prices
SS per cent since last year, and If, the
. public i not retting- the benefit or it
the retailors are- ; J-
' ' . ' .
Ur
(ff
,n - -i-- aai-aaa yj rn
Anna
NQJDKS KEPT BT
DEPARTMENT HEADS
y
Accounfaiit Ferguson Would
Have Audited Accounts. .Had
There Been Any to Audit,
(Bulein Bureni of Thp .Tofirnnl.)
Ralem, Or., Dec. $ Need of reor
ganizlng the methods of the state fish
and game departments and putting them
on a business basis was emphasized to
day when State Accountant J. W. Fergu
son reported to Governor WesA that the
departments had no books to aludit.
When the wrangle over the depart
ments arose, the governor requested
Mr. Ferguson to make a complete audit
of the books and accounts o the two de
partments. He went to Portland Fri
day for that purpose. Today he re
ported to the governor that he could
make no audit because there was noth
ing there to audit. He said neither de
partment kept any books, but Hcnended.
on vouchers to keep track of their fund.
(iovernor West said the new fjh and
game commission, three nictnbei's of
which he will appoint this afternoon to
fill the vacancies caused by the resig
nations of Frank Hughes, C. F. VStone
and B. K. Duncan, will meet hen) to
morrow, and one of tho first actions! will
be to take hold of the affairs of the
fish and game departments, open a. Bet
of books, and put them on a proper
business basis.
This morning the governor said 1 he
was not prepared to say who the thitee
new members of the commission-will he.
Two of them will be from eastern Ore
gon. George H. Kelly and M. J. Kiti
ney, the alleged trouble-maker, will re
main on the commission, as the gov
ernor has taken no action yet to remove'
Kinney.
WIRELESS SAVES LIVES
Nearly 200 Passengers Taken
Off Unnamed Vessel in
Southwest Gale,
(L'ntted Press Leased Wire.)
Baltimore, Md., Dee. g. Wireless dis
patches received here today stated the
Wtcamer Qucrnmore had rescued 197
phssengcrs from another steamer which
wVi burning at sea.
Vhe Quernmore sailed for Liverpool
Frllaj With other vessels it caught
wlnUess calls for assistance at 2
o'clock Sunday morning, and reached
the burning vessel two hours later. At
first it wm reported that the burning
steamer was the Mallory liner Itio
Orandq, but officials of the company
denle ; the report. They said the HIj
Urandte. did not carry-. any passengers
According to the wireless, the pas
senger were lowered in the lifeboats
and wtire transferred to the Quernmore
withoiil excitement of panto. The res
cue was made 600 miles from Dia
mond shoals and while a southwest gale
was blowing.
Rio Grande Not In Teril.
' Washington, Dee. 8. After being- or
dered to igo to the assistance of the
freight steamer Rio Grande, reported
by wireless last night ag. on f ira at aea,
the revenute cutter Seminole was re
called todays on receipt ot later wireless
advices that! the Rio Grande was not In
need of heir There was no Imcntlon In
the ' wirelesartnressagi of7Tassbrj!rer
aboard the JlAo' arajrvia, , ; ; ;
Dr.
STATE FISH AND GAIVIE
BURNING
STEAMER
Howard Shaw.
000
ARE MISSING
BRAZOS RIVER VALLEY
SINCE GREAT FLOOD
Commercial Club at Bryan
Can-Find. Only Half of For
mer Population,
Fort. Worth, Texas, Dec. 8. After
counting the survivors of the flood
swept Brazos river valley, the Commer
cial club at Bryan, Texas, telegraphed
here today that out of a population of
12.000, there were missing 6000.
Civic organizations of Texas are rais
ing funds and supplies today for flod
sufferers. Trains were rushed to
Hearne, Bryan and other towns where
refugees were reported starving and
without shelter or clothing.
Smallpox has broken out In some
places, and the receding waters have
left most of the flooded district in an
unsanitary condition.
More than 1000 persons were still
marooned today in the upper stories of
their homes around Wellborn. Six
white persons and four negroes were
rescued there this morning from tree
tops.
Kooserelt in Paraguny.
Asuncion, Paraguay, Dec. 8. Colonel
Roosevelt arrived from Buenos Ayro
yesterday and was warmly received.
PENALTY
Ml UP ArT TH NOKTH POLE WHY Sh7
r-VrvLa,:r
Webb-Kenyon Law Is Upheld
by Ruling of Judge Bean
v -This Morning in the Fed
eral Court.
UNCONSTITUTIONALITY
OF LAW NOT APPARENT
Suit Was to Compel O.-W. R.
& N. to Carry Liquor to
Town in Idaho.
In a decision rendered this morning.
United States District Judge It. S. Bean
upheld the Webb-Kenyon act, relating
to the interstate shipment of Intoxicat
ing liquor Into dry territory, as consti
tutional. The statute prohibits the ship
ment of liquor from another state Into
dry territory.
Inasmuch as Judge Bean is the first
federal Judge to make a direct ruling
on the legal status of this act, the de
cision, it Is pointed out, is of the ut
most Importance. Since lis passage In
1910 by congiess, the Wrbb-Kenyou act
has been a subject of nation wide dis
cussion as the first step taken by the
federal government in the regulation of
the liquor traffic.
Suit was filed by F. Zimmerman &
Co., against the O.-W. R. & N. and the
Oregon Short Line In federal court re
cently, in which a mandate was asked.
requiring the railroads to accept for
shipment, liquors consigned from Port
land to Heyburn, Idaho, dry territory.
Judge Bean, In his ruling, said he de
clined to compel the railroad companies
to violate the Webb act because he did
not believe the law Is clearly unconsti
tutional.
Ho Intrastate taw.
The petition of the plaintiffs contend
ed that state laws in Idaho do not pro
hibit intrastate shipments of liquor into
dry territory, and that If that state
should have such a statute, it would be
Invalid because it would be an unwar
ranted Interference with citizenship
rights. The contention was also made
(Concluded on I'igo Nine, ('nlumn Three)
L
by mm POLICE
Fear That Settlement Worker
May Be Victim of Whita
Slavers,
(T'nlted Preae Tmi.il Wire.)
New York, Dec. 8. Miss Bessie Mo
Cann, 23. who disappeared from her
home here last Friday, was sought to
day by the New York police. She is
the daughter of Robert G. McCann, a
wholesale grocer.
A young man acquaintance last saw.
the girl in Wall street. Sh scarcely
replied to his greeting. Miss McCann
is a Sunday school teacher in St. Mark's
Kplscopal church, KlatlniHh, and is much
Interested in settlement work.
Apprehension was felt concerning her
sefety ns a result of recent reports that
many men here are wielding needles
dipped In hyosclne, a powerful drug.
FOR EARLY
YOUNR WOMAN SOUGH
Diplomats in Mexico- City Re
ported to Believe Rumors
of Negotiations Between
Rebel and President.
VILLA HAS VIOLENT
QUARREL WITH ALLY
Victor at Juarez and Tierra
Blanca Wants to Assume
Leadership of Rebels.
(By United Press Staff Correspondent)
Mexico City, Doc. 8. That President
Huerta and Oeneral Carranza, rebel
leader, were? negotiating for peace was
reported today on good authority. Di
ploinats generally believed the rumors.
Carranza and General Villa, it was
understood, had quarreled violently.
Villa even threatening to attack Car
ranza's headquarters. Carranza's fol
lowers weru understood to fear Villa's
defection from the farranza orgnnlza
lion. An early crisis seemed inevitable
today. The tension was extreme.
Zapatistas Marching to Capital.
Zapatistas, the southern rebels, whose
ferocity lias aroused among Mexicans
an almost superstitious fear of them,
were said to be sneaking quietly anil
separately Into Mexico City in prepara
tion for a sudden combined uprising.
President Huerta issued an order to
military commanders in the federal
district to the effect that, in the event
of fighting foreigners must not be mo
lested. It was considered a most sig
nificant order.
Villa's Quarrel With Carranza.
The subject of the reported quarrel
between Carranza and Villa was not
definitely understood here, but the lm
preatrtoni prevailed that Villa, flushed
by his victories at Juarez and Tierra
blanca, wanted to take over the rebel
lcuderslilp from Carranza or at Hny rate
that ho refused to take orders from
the latter.
It was to the dispute between the two
commanders that Villa's delay In oc
cupying Chihuahua City was attributed.
The federal government announced
that General Castro, federal commander
at Cucrnnvaca, had sallied out and de
feated the Zapatistas at Trincherla and
lluitzHue; that a battle was raging at
last accounts at Ozumba, that the fed
erals at Ameea were expecting a rebel
attack, and that, in the north, federals
(Oowludnd nn I'ngn Tw, Column Two)
ROBBERS SMASH SHOW
WINDOW; GET DIAMONDS
Des Moines, Iowa, Dec. 8. Robbers
shattered a show window in the Burn
fctein jewelry store here today and
escaped with diamonds worth 12000.
MANY LOS ANGELANS
SEE INSIDE OF CHURCHES
Los Angeles, Dec. 8. Two hundred
thousand residents of Los Angeles went
to church yesterday as the result of a
"go to church Sunday" campaign.
Xewly-Wods SoHnjj lnlnn.
London, Dec. 8. Mr. and Mrs. Francis
B. Sayre were sight-seeing today in
London. 1'nited States Ambassador
Page's residence, where they were
guests, was their headquarters. They
were to attend a dinner at the Authors
club this evening.
SHOPPING
Warning Sounded by Anthony
Caminetti, Head of U. S
Immigration Bureau, Who
Arrives in City.
COOLIE UNDESIRABLE AS
ECONOMIC PROPOSITION
Canadian Authorities Hold the
Same View; WoulriGuard
Against Hookworm.
)
A warning that the CnlteStates Is
In danger of a Hindu immigration In
vasion, similar to that of the Japanese
and Chinese, unless the Hindus are mad,
nn excluded class, wa sounded by An
thony Cammelti, commissioner general
of Immigration of- the department of
labor, who reached Portland today. The
commissioner general Is on an official
tour of the west. Inspecting stations of
the department.
In addition to the Hindu question Mr.
Cnmineltl is making a personal Investi
gation of lh" lmnilgrntlnn phase of the
dreaded disease commonly called hook
worm. Hookworm, according to recent
Investigations made by the bureau of
immigration, is being brought into this
country through the ports of the Pa
clflc. Rigid medical examination and
uncompromising exclusion from these
shores of immigrants afflicted with tho
malady has been ordered by; the com
missioner.
Question Ii Serious One.
"The Hindu question Is most serious.
said Mr. Catnlnettl, this morning, "and
for economic reasons which are well
known to all the people of this section
of the country they nhould be kept out
The Hindu coolie class is making a
movement from India to other favorable
claims. The Pacific coast Is one Of
U'onrludd on Pap Four, Colnmn Onl
IS NOT HONORED BY
STATE TREASURER KAY
Watson Promises to Take Le
gal Steps to Force Pay
ment of Advisor.
(Saloni Bureau of The Jonmit.)
Salem, Or., Dec. 8. State Treasurer
Kay today refused to honor a state
warrant for $87.50, drawn in favor of
Claude Mct'olloth for services ren
dered the corporation department dur
ing a part of November. Corporation
Commissioner Watson said he would
bring a mandamus suit against Kay
lo compel him to pay tho warrant as
norm hm the papers can be prepared.
The claim Tor Senator McCol loch's
salary as legal assisliint In the cor
poration department wns audited and
approved lj the secretary of state's
officn this morning. As anon as it was
received by Commissioner Watson It
was transmitted to the state treasurer,
who turned it down.
Acting on the advice- of Attorney
General Crawford, State Treasurer
Kay refused to honor the warrant on
the ground that no state official or
department has authority to employ
special lepal counsel, for the reason
that tho nttorney general is supposed
to he their legal advisor.
Corporation Cn'lnmissioner Watson,
In a statement issued today, cites as;
an Illustration of the necessity for his
employment of McColloch, the case
against the National Mercantile com
pany, limited. He says on September!
18 lie askt'd the attorney general to In
vestigate the company, as he intended
to prosecute the company and Its
asrents if it did not comply , with the
law. lie quotes a reply from the at
torney gpuiriil. saying that he knew of
no way to reach the company.
"Then 1 hired McColloch," says Wat
son, "and " I hours after he went on
tho Joi. District Attorney Evans had
criminal Information filed and A. I)
linker In Jail, lie knew a way to reach
tliein."
Hy Joint arrangement between the
corporation commissioner and the in
dustrial ""ReTlrirnt' commissioner, Mc
Colloch has been employed ns legal as
sistant for both departments at a
salary of J3000 a year.
E
Year's Suspension Proposed
by England Approved by
Large Majoritv,
(United Trem Leased W!r.
Washington, Dec. 8. By an over
whelming malorUy -th, hoit of repre
sentatives today adopted the Hensley
resolution approving the suggestion,
made by First Lord of the Admiralty
Winston Chm-chitt-of England,, that th
world powers suspend naval construc
tion for one year. . ' - ' r -
The , resolution authorled ' President
Wilson ' to cooperate, in , the effort 'to
persuade other nations t join the agreement.-
i vlrv--;:1;-,;,..-?,..;:'.?,-':
M'COLLOCH
WARRANT
HOUSE VOTES TO
EA
DIN
WARSHIPS
Balloting Will Begin at 8 A.
M. Tomorrow and Continue
Till 8 P. M. on Proposed
Charter Amendments.
VOTE IS NOT EXPECTED
TO EXCEED 25,000 MARK
Full Count May Be Ascer
tained by Wednesday
Morning.
Voters at tomorrow's special city
election will bo given 12 hours In which
to register their decision on the IS
proposed charter amendments that wilt
be submitted to them. The polls will
be opened at 8 o'clock In the morning
and will be closed at 8 o'clock in tbe
evening.
It is anticipated that the election will
be quiet and Auditor Barbur estimates '
2i 000 t0tal POU W'U 1,01 exc'd
Arrangements are fully completed,
and owing to the cool weather no tents
will he used at the polling places,
quarters in offices, stores and garages
having been selected in their stead.
"Voters who are not registered under
tho old registration act of 1899 but who
registeied under the recently nullified
registration act of 1913, cannot vote
unless they are sworn in by six free
holders at tho voting booth," said
Auditor Rarbur today.
"lOach of the 169 precincts will be
provided with the proper blanks for
those unregistered ones who are en. '
titled to vote and come prepared to be
sworn in."
The election officials in the various
precincts win be given only the old reg- -istratlon
books, and their Instructions
are to pay no attention to the invalid
1913 registration."
The ballots and ballot boxes, along
with tally sheets, etc., will be delivered
at the precincts early tomorrow morn
ing by the police. One policeman for
each precinct has been detailed by Chief
of Police Clark to report at the auditor's
office at 6' o'clock tomorrow morning-.
l here each will be given the ballot
boxes, which will be turned over to the
election judges at the booths on or be
fore o'clock.
Should the poll run as ItgTit as antic- "
lpated it is believed the full count will
be in by Wednesday morning.
IT
A BAD T
Rev, Dr, Trimble Smites New
Diversion at Meeting of the
Ministers. , '
"There are women 40 years old la
this town who never danced a step in ,
their lives, but who are now taking.
dancing lessons and aH because we have , "
me tango wini us. A member or my '
church says she never sits down st tha v
piano that her daughter doesn't begin ,
tangoing' around the music room." '
Rev. Delmar H. Trimble, pastor of
Centcnnary M. K. church, made this.
statement this morning at the weekly
meeting of the Methodist Preachers' as
sociation, lie declared the tango to be
an insidious, seductive dance, full of
evil and far reaching in Its immoral
endencics.
"One hundred public school teachers, '
(Concluded on rage Two. Column Two)
Six Cows
10,000 Bottles
and a Typewriter
The world marvels at the im
mensity of the Pyramids, th
cost of learning the Tango, and
the construction of the Panama
Canal, but no praise or sympa- -thy
is given six worthy cows
here in Portland. These six
cows, judging from a Journal
Want Ad yesterday, have beerf'
successful in filling 10,000 bot
tles with rich, lactic fluid every
day. With the six cows and a'
piece of tin, an energetic man
could start a flourishing con
densed milk business.
Some other tmusual facts ap
peared in the Want Ads yester
day. A city man is tired tof
cosmopolitan life, board , bills
and indigestion; he seeks th
simple life of the farm. , As s
start, he offers to trade a type
writer for a cow. - .
v The saddest thing, though; U
Ed's invitafionNto spend thrnt
mas in a cabin in Mt. Scott and
the needs of an , affectionate
woman who ' lost her first bus
1janI by "death, J ; v
v 'Dry yo'ur tears, friends. It Is
all in the day's work and The
Journal Want Ads.
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PASTOR SCORES TANGO
DANCE
DECLARING
HAS
ENDENCY
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