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THE-: OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. " SUNDAY" MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1918.
NEED SOMETHING
IN PORTLAND TO
'. JAR 'MONEYBAGS'
W. D. B. Dodson Suggests "In
dustrial Financing Company"
. as Way to New Investment
ONE INSTANCE IS CITED
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE -.
TO THE RED CROSS
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Industry Will Go on With In-
creased Vigor After War and
! City Should Be Ready for It.
1 Ia an Industrial financing" company
th solution of Portland's" payroll
problem? i
4. W. D. B. Dodson, executive secretarj
of ths Portland Chamber of Commerce.
aua-ffeeted as much In an address be
fore the Portland Realty board Friday
afternoon at the Benson hotel.
He went farther. He announced
that such V company, headed by busl
ness men In whom the community las
confidence,? soon will make Its appear
ance. . 'K .
' Under present conditions. Be 1 de
clared. It Is a heart breaking job to
secure local support of new Industries
because . nearly everyone is more will
ins; to talk In general terms about the
- great advantages of Industry than to
. Invest.
;" He used as Illustration a concern that
even now la wavering between the choice
of -Portland or Seattle as a location for
Its future operations.
Payroll Is In Sight
The Industry has a payroll of 120
people. Ia the town where It Is now
located It cannot expand in accordance
with the growth of Its business. It's
product is a good, marketable com
modity. Its owner Is reported on fa
vorably in every respect.
"The man came to Portland and -met
some of our business people with in
different results. They all aald It was
undeniably a good thing yet, for some
reason or other, they could not invest
Just at this time. He needed capital
to provide for expansion. Almost with
in a year his business prospects justi
fied the expectation that he would have
a payroll of BOO people ' and perhaps
2000 by the end of five years.
"The man went to Seattle. H was
met with Instant cordiality and offers
of support.
"There is a group of about a dozen
big business men In Seattle. They meet
regularly. The group Is not affiliated
with any commercial organization.
Their frank purpose is to see that Se
attle loses no payrolls or chances to
. increase payrolls.
. "We know you," they said to tho
manufacturer. "We want you. You
can get all the financing you need.
All we want to do Is to check over
your statement,
'. - Seattle Takes Chance
1 "One individual said to him that he
would be personally responsible for
1200.000. This man said to him: 'Now,
don't go back to Portland. Stay here.
Portland Is conservative. They've made
their money slowly. They want a lead
pipe cinch.. They won t take -a chance.
Seattle is forging ahead because we do
take a chance.'
i "The man did return to Portland,
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Aspirants to "Shdriflkrm
In Senate Face Hard Luck
Should "Technicality Prevail Chosen Man Would Find Path Ao
Sefct Occupied by Mc Nary Beset With Series
of Obstacles.
Gustave Ador, president of the Inter
national Red Cross committee at
Geneva, Switzerland.
The Nobel peace prize' for 1917 has
been awarded to the International Red
Cross committee in Geneva. : The com
mlttee has, since the outbreak of the
war, through its president, Gustave
Ador, Iatey elected federal counselor and
chief of the political department of the
Swiss confederation, achieved remark
able and enviable success as the "Good
Samaritan." The most remarkable of
all the various humanitarian undertak
ings organized by this , committee is
the agency of prisoners of war at
Geneva- Sine the beginning of the war
until the end of October, 1917, 334,772,
081 letters and postals and 62,210.645
small parcels, have been taken over and
eforwarded to the prisoners of war of
both belligerent groups held In the vari
ous countries. There were also forward
ed 5,260,461 bread parcels, amounting to
a total of 9,421,340 kilograms, 10,362 tons
to the entente prisoners of war held in
Germany and Austria . and 8,266,164
money orders for a total of 118,219,908
francs were forwarded , to prisoners of
war in various lands.
however. Transportation, distribution,
proximity to his trade territory, make
Portland, not Seattle, the logical loca
tlon for him. He has been back two
or three weeks, and still nothing has
been .done.
"This Is but one of many Industries
that offer . and that an industrial
financing company, not affiliated with
the Chamber of Commerce or any other
body, could give attention to."
Mr. DodBon declared that Portland
has now the greatest lesson of Its his
tory In the value of payrolls. The
ship building payroll has been able
to bring the city from a state of busi
ness depression . to one - of great pros
perity. There will still be ships to- build
after the war Is over, he predicted,
and Portland should begin to plan now
to get the use of locally built ships
when the government's emergency need
of them is over.
Copenhagen maintains a permanent
exhibition of devices to protect work
ers from accidents.
Washington, Jan. 13. (WASHING
TON BUREAU OP THE JOURNAI)
When will the term of Senator McNary
end 7 in this city of constitutional law
yers there are about as many opinions
as there are in .Oregon, . and he ap
proach of the - primaries quickens the
discussion.. f , Z
: Had" the Oregon legislature performed
Its full duty In 1916 when It passed a
statute authorizing .appointment by the
governor to fill a vacancy there would
be no question now about Senator Mc
Nary s term. , It should have provided,
In accordance with the federal amend
ment, for the time of election to fill a
vacancy. Instead of so doing. It adopted
confusing s provision - authorizing the
governor tos fill by - appointment "until
such subsequent time as ald vacancy
shall be filled by a senator of the united.
States regularly elected, and qualified."
What does that mean? Nobody pre
tends to know.- After a round of guess
ing, the answer generally -returned is
that it does not mean anything, and an
swer to the .question as to 'when Sen
ator McNary's term ends has to be
sought elsewhere. ' -.
To eet a firm grip on the issue, let
the federal amendment' be stated :
"When vacancies happen in the rep
resentation of any state In the senate.
the executive authority ' of such state
(hall Issue writs of election to flu such
vacancies t provided.
"That the legislature of any state
may empower the executive thereof to
make temporary appointments until the
oeoole fill the vacancies by. election
the lerislaturemay direct." (Seventeenth
amendment 10 unicea eFaxes constitu
tion). - 1 4 '
; Legislative Action vague
From this it is clear that except for
the proviso the vacancy caused by tho
death of Senator Lane could not have
been filled except by an election. But
In order that no state, even temporarily,
might be deprived of representation, the
proviso ' gives the legislature power to
authorize the governor to make "tem
porary" appointment. But it does not
stop there. It says, "until the people
fill the vacancies by election as the leg
islature may dlrct."
- It vwas the duty of the legislature,
therefore, to '."direct" the filling of the
vacancy "by 'election," . which the leg
islature failed to do, unless some mean
ing can be breathed into the concluding
word or the Oregon law, which reads
as follows :
'That, If -by reason of death, resigns.-'
tlon, disqualification, removal or any
other cause, there shall be a vacancy
In the office of senator of the United
States for the state of Oregon, It shall
be the duty of the governor of the state
of Oregon, and he Is hereby authorised
and empowered, to fill any such vacancy
by appointment until such subsequent
time as said vacancy hall be filled by
a senator of the United States regularly
elected and qualified." (Laws of Ore
gon. 1915. Chap. 48. P. 69).
.One argument derived from the Ian
gauge of the federal amendment Is that
the ' provision for appointment "until
the people fill the vacancies by election
as the legislature may direct" is a limita
tion upon the- power o authorise an ap
pointment, and that if the legislature
failed "to observe the limitation, the
authority ftor appointment also -would
fall. This, however, is an extreme view,
and in its place a construction may be
argued that the legislative act should
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be given the widest. effect possible, in
order to promote the object of . having
very state represented in the senate.
Be it remembered, also, that the senate
has accepted the credentials of Charles
L. McNary, which say that he is ap
pointed to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Harry Lane, term to expire
March J, 1919. If his -credentials are
given ' full credence, ' bis term does not
end until the next regular six year term
begins, and no : short-term election : in
191$ la ln-orderr
Senate Is Final Jadge '
It "may. bo assumed, . howevef, ' that
! the mere fact x that his credentials are
drawn in this form '-will, not' preclude
discussion - of - the question or prevent
the termination of his term be for the
date named If it be found that a mis
take has been made, even though the
senate accepted his credentials without a
whisper being raised against them. The
senate is the final Judge of the qualifica
tions of its members, and in case of a
contest, the senate will decide.
In Oregon the question may be ap
proached from another angle by aspir
ing would-be senators. By offering them
selves as candidates for a "short term,
they win force the secretary of state
to decide whether or not there is any
such term to be filled, and If his de
cision ia against them, they can try
the mandamus route in an effort to
have their names placed on the ballot.
In that event, If candidates for a
ehort term are permitted, Senator Mc
Nary wou'.J no doubt become a candi
date for the short and the long term aa
well. . . He is - already a candidate for
the regular, term, and lie could not con
sistently consent to having his service
chopped up by some Outsider for a
three-month honor.
There would also be left to Senator
McNary the possibility of contesting the
claim of any other person who might ap
pear with credentials claiming his seat
Putting it another way, the other fel
low would necessarily be the contestant
and would have to show that McNary
is not entitled to fill out the term which
his credentials indicate he is entitled
to serve.
The senate would be the sole judge in
such a contest, and the element of time
would be strongly in favor of the sit
ting" senator. With only a few months
for a short term senator to serve, and
the well known slowness of senate com
mittees to act in deciding such matters.
the outlook would not be cheerful for
a contestant.
If Issae Be Forced
But If, In the face of all this, candi
dates do clamor for a chance at the
"short term," what authority would the
secretary of sate of Oregon have for
putting their names on the ballot?
Probably another section of the Oregon
law would then be drafted for the bat
tle, which reads:
"A general election shall be held in
the several election' precincts in this
state on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November. 1914, and biennial
ly thereafter, at . which there shall be
chosen so many of the following of
ficers as are by Jaw "to be elected in
such year, namely :" (United States sen
ator is among those included). (Lord's
Oregon Laws. Sec S801). -
'At tho election of 1918,' tt 5 is known.
a senator wilt be chosen for six years
from March , 1919, and candidates wlU
be .- placed on tho ballot for that Job.
It may also be argued that a short term
senator is to be elected "by law," the
law in this case being the federal amend
ment, and so the secretary of- state could
find authority for placing another set
of candidates on the ballot.
In further support of the Idea that a
short term senator should be chosen, it
is pointed out that the purpose of tho
federal amendment is to secure the .elec
tion of senators by the people, supersed
ing election by the legislature, under
the old system an appointed senator only
held until the leglsature met and elected
a successor, and if the legislature failed
to elect the seat became vacant. By
analogy, an appointed senator now may
hold only until the time of election. : The
difficulty is in deciding when authority
may be had under state law for holding
the election.
Representative Rucker of Missouri,
author of the federal amendment, lays
stress on the words "temporary ap
pointments." The intent always to be
held in -view, he says, is to secure sen
ators elected by the people. Tho excep
tion is that "temporary" appointment
may be made "until the people fill the
vacancies by election." irauure or ine
governor to call an election within rea
sonable time, he contenas, is contrary
to the spirit of the amendment.
Nearly two years of Senator Lane's
term remained when he died, suppose
the vacancy had occurred two years
earlier. Would the appointee of the
governor be entitled to hold to 1919,
ignoring also the fact that two general
elections would elapse, in 1916 and 1918?
To suDDOse this, runs the argument.
would be to say that a state may in ef
fect nullify the federal law.
Another Scarecrow Taatshei
An Oregon statute says no person
shall be a candidate for more than one
office at the same election. If the sit
uation is maneuvered to the point where
Senator McNary becomes a candidate
for the short and the long terms, will
he be a candidate for more than one
office, or only for two terms or the
same office? Probably the latter, say
the wiseacres, and another scarecrow
fades away.
It looks like a succession or pitraiis
for anyone aspiring to be "a short term
senator In McNary's place. First, he
must convince the secretary of state,
and Derhaps the courts, that there is a
short term vacancy ; then convince the
Republican voters that he is a better
man for the Job than tne present sen
ator: if he succeeds that far, he must
win at ""the general election; then he'
must show Governor Wlthycortibe that!
the eovemor was wrong in Bignlng cre
dentials which certify that McNary was
appointed to aerve to the end of Lane's
term; and finally, he must convince the
United States senate ltseu tnat ne is
reallv entitled to the seat. Ail tnis ror
throe months in the senate!
Other theories of the case can do
raised, pro and con, but here are enough
to "give us pause." now oia is Ann r
$2,000,000 Morels
Loaned to Serbia
Washington. Ian. 11. (L N. S.) The
treasury department this afternoon ad"
vancod $2,000,000 to Serbia, making a
total of 96,000,000 lent that country since
tho outbreak of the war. With this al
lotment the total loans to the allies has
reached 84.218.400,000.
Wisconsin Banker Is Dead '
San Diego, CaL, Jan. 12. (L N. 8.) I
Franklin P. Alnswortb, retired banker of I
Wisconsin, and former member of the
board of regents-for tho Wisconsin State
Normal school, is dead here today from
heart dlaoaee. He was 66 years of age. I
J. 6. Kerr Does Not Believe Such
Action Be Taken: Dr. Chapman
eminent control - la "an after-the-war
probability greatly to be desired.
What was Intended to bo a discussion
of present and future results of govern
ment control - developed into a debet
between the two before the Oregon Civic
league luncheon at the Multnomah hotel
Saturday afternoon, . . '-'
While Mr.' Kerr averred that trans
portation is a natural .monopoly, it waa
clear that he doubts It -government
ownership could bring to bear tho intel
ligence, knowledge, an , experience now
commanded by tho high salaries of pri
vate ownership, and control. .
unitary Keeenlty x
He said, however, that government
control to meet 'tho military . necessity.
Says Desired Probability.
unirying the railroad systems of the
nation a thing Impossible to the rail
roads themselves because of restrictive
legislation. .
"The theory of enforced competition is
more imaginary than real,", Mr. Kerr
declared, basing his assertion on the
equal rates of parallel linos, tho tariff
I Fcheduling required . by . tho interstate
James B- Kerr, counsel of tho S. P.
& S. railroad,' does not believe that gov
ernment ownership of the nation's rail
roads will 'grow out of the present gov
ernment control of transportation sys
tems. '.
Dr. C H. Chapman believe the gov
commerce commission, and ' adding,
"About tho' only competition possible
under existing conditions la .that of
service, honesty, affability and good
fellowship."
Dlfflraltle Held Imsglaary '
Mr. Kerr denied that freight rates can
be charged In accordance with distance
and deal Justly with Industries and de
velopment of resources. He believes that
legislation loss restrictive with thorough
government regulation will meet tho
transportation problem after the war
without recourse to publks ownership.
Dr. Chapman asserted that the diffi
culties against government ownership
as presented by Mr. Kerr were Imag
inary, poetical and exciting, but having,
nothing to do with tho case- Even be
fore tho warj government authority,
exercised through tho interstate com
merce commission, waa tho controlling
authority over the railroads. -
With government ownership, he pre
dicted, would come the overturning of
moss back ideas and fetiches and the
elimination of high salaried parasites
of the railroad organisations. Mr. Kerr
had said that government ownership in
aiy European, country .involve no rr -re
of -a' system; than that of either t;.
Northern Pacific. ; Great . Northern Wr
Union Pacific. Dr. Chapman aald th.nt
fundamental principle of administrates
would apply equally to large and am!)
systems of largo and small Kovenuner.t.
YTeald . CttlUs Waterway '. ,
Government ownership, t he adde 1,
would inevitably bring back Into uso ti e
waterways eX the country,; tbo trans
portation value of which has been
largely ' destroyed by what , he ca?id
"railroad sabotage" tho purchase - r f
boat lines or their handicapping by non
Economic competitive rata, or the con
trol of terminals.'. ' t
4 The speakers ware presented by A. C
NewiH. president of thv league. An
aggressive membership campaign " was
announced by F. J. Robinson, chairman
of the membership commit tee, and Dtan
Collins, chairman of tho program com
mittee, announced, that ' "Poverty in
Russia"' would bo' the subject of next
Saturday's 'meeting. - " ., - - j
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