THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON
MONDAY, FEBRUARY. 21, 1921.
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BITTER FIGHT ON
BUNDS TAXATION
L TO BE RESUMED
'State Houm, Salem, Feb. 21. -The
- bitter fight which has raged through
out the session over taxation of
.bonds of other states and foreign
'countries, is due to be revived
- through the Introduction of a reso
:: lutlon which will leave the question
to a vote of the people at the epe--ial
election next June.
The agitation for such a law origi
nated with, Yamhill county bankers
i'Snd fanners, its provisions being:
. included In a bill Introduced by
t Senators Vinton and Ryan. The bill
.received the unanimous indorsement
wol the committee "oh" assesment and
taxation, and no doubt would have
- passed both houses had It not been for
the early appearance of the biggest opr
. position lobby of the session, which
'has been constantly on the job. The
bill was twice referred to the com ml t-
t tee, and twice has been toefore the sen
ate for final passage, but each time it
, has failed to pass by one vote. Intense
feeling, has developed and charges that
t improper methods have been used to se
cure Its defeat are freely made.
Delegations of business men and farm
ers from up state counties declare that
t these securities are now taxable but
assessors fall to place them on the roll
.and bond houses falsely advertise them
jss free from taxation. They demand a
... penalty for those who seek to evade
-taxation on such property and argue
.that if It was taxed then land taxes
would be much lighter.
? They assert that millions of dollars
are leaving- the state monthly; through
-investment in this class of securities and
-that funds for farm loans and local de
velopment are vanishing. Country bank
ers who, are heavily Indebted to Port
land and San Francisco institutions in
"timate that they have been coerced Into
opposing the bill and are daily appear
ing at the state house to ask that some
. thing be done which will stop the drain
.on their savings deposits through 'the
, wholesale purchase of foreign bonds
bearing higher rates of Interest than
i they can afford to pay. Labor leaders
are throwing their Strength with farm
ers and country business men in an ef
fort to stop this drain on the financial
resources of the state and If the resolu
tion to submit these Questions to the
people is blocked by the bond house
lobby they promise to assist in initiating
such a measure.
Business Men of
Coos and Curry
Criticize Portland
Request of merchants and business
men of Coos and Curry counties to trade,
with "markets to the south (California)
until Buch -time as this section of the
state shall become linked to Portland
by a system of adequate highways," is
embodied in a series of resolutions
'adopted by the Gold Beach chamber of
commerce which further censures "mem-,
bers of the Portland press and the Ore
gonlan in particular," for their adverse
1 attitude on the Roosevelt highway. -The
attitude of .the Gold Beach cham
ber, as set forth In the-resolutions, is
-.that the southwest Section of the state
has been consistently neglected by the
state highway commission in the con
struction, of good roads with the result
'that that section is more or less isolat
ed from the rest of the state, .which
-'-condition . would be overcome by the
legislative appropriation for the Koose-f-velt
highway.
The resolutions further charge Port
land Interests with being fearful of loss
1 of prestige as far as tourist traffic is
;. concerned should any such tourist high
way be built In the state that does not
: begin and end in Portland.
" 0. A. C. Co-Eds Hold
Their Annual Ball
Oregon Agricultural College, Corval
lis, Keb. 21. Far from the prying eyes,
the coeds of the campus fro I Iced Satur
day afternoon in their annual costume
balL The coeds were divided into 'two
groups, one of which bad the privilege
of dressing up to represent male partners
for the younger freshman women. Cos
tumes were varied 'and original, repre
"senttng everything from trim sailor
"gobs" to blanketed Indians. Kdith Ba
llff, Portland, was chairman of the en
tertainment committee, and Ruth Rose
brapgh. Salem, served as chairman of
the social committee.
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Senator Edwards represents the counties of Lincoln, Tillamook, Wash
ington and Yamhill In the state senate.
TENURE PROTEST
ENTERS JOURNAL
State House, Salem, Feb, 21. In
spite of the objection of Senators
Banks and Moser, upheld by a sub
stantial majority of the upper house,
a protest against the legality of the
procedure by which house bill -349
the teachers' tenure bill was
passed by the legislature, was en
tered In the senate Journal this
morning: by Senators , Hume and
Thomas. ! t
The protest of Hume and Thomas al
leged that the bouse rules requiring
that bills be printed and on the desks
of the members for three days before
taking final action had not been com
plied with In the passage of the tenure
bill, and that the measure was there
fore Illegal. ' i ;
MEETS OPPOSITION ,
To this protest Senator Banks ob
jected on the ground that there was no
provision for spreading such a protest
on 'the records of the senate.
Replying to this point of order, Hume
read senate rule 34, referring to protests-and
the manner of entering the
same on the senate records.
This rule. Banks insisted, applied only
to protests entered in explanation of a
vote.
Senator Moser insisted that there was
no occasion for entering the protest, de
claring that the house record would
speak for itself, and that if the bill in
question was not legally passed tits' rec
ords would so show without cluttering
sp the records with protests.
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When President RItner ruled that con
sent of the senate would be necessary to
enter the protest on the Journal over the
objections raised Hume moved that the
senate give its consent thereto.
Only 11 members stood by Hume and
Thomas, while 18 were opposed. Using
the roll call as a pretext, both Hume and
Thomas took occasion to read into the
records' the protest in explanation of
their vote. ,
Representatives Lynn and Richards
Joined with Senators Hume and Thomas
in the protest, copies of which have been
sent to the governor for bis considera
tion. Telephone Company
Will Not Cat Its
Help Before March
Salem. Feb. 21.--Replylng to the re
quest of the public service commission
that no action be taken toward a re
duction of their working1 force before
March 1. by which time it is expected
that the new rate Order will have been
handed down, the Pacific Telephone
company. In a letter received by the
commission this 1 morning, gives assur
ance that the wishes of the commission
in this matter will be respected and
that no final disposition of its forces
.will be made until -before February 28.
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HOUSTON PASSES
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By J. Bart Campbell
Washington, Feb. 21. (I. N. S.)
Full responsibility for loans, credits
and advances made by the treasury
department to European govern
ments was placed on former Secre
tary of the Treasury William G. Mc
Adoo by Secretary of the Treasury
David F. Houston, today when he
reappeared before the senate judic
iary commitfcSe.
Houston declared McAdoo "must have
been laboring under a misapprehension"
when he stated recently he had opposed
the establishment of further foreign
loans or credits during his incumbency
of the office of secretary of the treasury.
SO LOAXS MADE
No loans had been made for" any new
purposes, ail advances having been for
war purposes as defined by the law, ac
cording to Houston.
Recent utterances by McAdoo, Hous
ton said, indicated the ex-secretary was
under the impression that the United
States had established new credits to the
allies. .
"This is not a reality," Houston said.
"We have only paid out money on cred
its already established."
Houston and Senator Reed clashed on
the question "when did the war end?"
Houston said the war did not end so
far as this country was concerned, until
the president had issued a peace procla
mation. He submitted a memorandum
from the state department, received last
Friday, declaring that the United States
was still in a state of war.
FRANCE GETS $S90,000,00
That France had asked and received
an additional credit of $300,000,000 from
J-ho treasury department in April, 1919,
was aisctosea Derore tne committee today
by Nicholas Kelley. assistant secretary
of the 'treasury, in charge of foreign
loans. France desired this sum, Kelley
said, to-cover outstanding commitments
to the United States and Great Britain.
Kelley said France wanted J68.000.000
to cover British claims against the
French government, but decided later
that only 118,000,000 was necessary. The
United States had advanced the $18,000,
000, leaving a credit of $50,000,000 from
which France is seeking to obtain $21,
000,000. WHT DID TJ. s. PATT
"Why did the United States pay
France's debts after the fighting had
ceased V Senator Reed questioned, open
ing a controversy with Kelley and de
claring Kelley'e testimony was unsatis
factory. Kelley also stated the United
States had financed return of Czecho
slovak troops from Siberia.
A million dollars had been set aside, he
said, to pay the shipping board for the
return df invalid Czech troops, but had
not been paid as the Czech government
and the shipping board had not been
able to agree on their accounts.
HOUSTON SAYS NO LOANS
TO FOREIGNERS PLANNED
Washington. Feb. 21. (I. N. S.)
David F. Houston, secretary of the
treasury, in his answer today to the
suit filed by William Randolph Hearst
to prevent further loans of r&oney by
the United States to foreign govern
ments, declares that there exists no rea
son for an injunction against establish
ment of further credits, as there has
been no Intention to grant them. Sec
retary Houston says he indicated that
purpose in his report submitted to con
gress last December. ,
No credits have been established since
April 1, 1920, Houston stated. Counsel
for Houston made this the basis of their
argument today before the district su
preme court against the granting of the
injunction asked.
William A. Deford, counsel for Wil
liam Randolph Hearst, asked that the
court exercise the same power it bad
exercised In granting an Injunction,
upon petition of Mr. Hearst, to prevent
the sale of ships by the shipping board
at a low value.
"There Is no difference whatsoever
In principle between that case and this,"
declared Deford, In referring to the sbiD-
ping injunction.
"There Is, however, one difference be
tween them, namely, that the disposition
of the public funds, which the secre
tary admits he is about to make 'and
which it- is asked that he be restrained
from making, is more clearly a usurpa
tion of authority than was the proposed
disposition of ships of the United States
which this court enjoined the shipping
board from making.
"I submit the issues of law in this
case for the decision of this court in
the full confidence that it will as fear
lessly and Justly exercise its equitable
powers in this case as it did in the
case of the shipping board, alike in
different to the prestige of officials and
the pressure of public opinion.'
Birthday mil Bo Subject f j -notary's
Sixteenth Birthday" will be
the subject of addresses before Rotari
ans Tuesday noon at the Benson hotel
by Nelson O. Pike, governor of the
Northwest Rotary district. Charles K.
Cochran and J. C English. W. Ar Ilobb
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OVERTURFF RAIL
BILL IS PASSED
BY LOWER HOUSE
State House, , Salem, Feb. 21.
Physical connection of existing and
competing lines : of railroads, their
construction, or the prevention of
their construction by the public
service commission dnder certifi
cates of publio necessity and con
venience, was indorsed by the house
this morning1 when it passed the
Overturff bill placing this subject
under the jurisdiction of that com
mission. The passage of the bill was opposed by
Korell, Richards and Davey, who con
tended that the bill placed unwarranted
and dangerous power in the hands of the
commission. " Korell Insisted that such a
law would defeat the purpose intended
for roads could not be forced to make
large Investments of capital when the
returns would not justify.
Speaker Bean asked Korell If it was
not a fact that had the law been in
force, the two lines up the Deschutes,
would never have been built but that
both lines could have been constructed
under order of the commission.
Overturff showed that during the past
year $1,300,000 freight on lumber had
been paid on shipments out of Bend
alone. He said that one line up the
Deschutes had cost SS.OOO.OOO, the other
$15,000,000, and that because of this
vast expenditure the companies, as soon
as they emerged from the Deschutes
canyon, had entered into common track
age agreements, and would not now
make needed extensions, while the en
tire Central Oregon country went with
out transportation. The house also
gigged back on its prior action, recon
sidered and passed Senator Vinton's
bill providing that insane patients, citi
zens of other states, committed to the
asylum, - could be trsnsported by the
asylum authorities to their home states
and turned over to the authorities
there. -
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PLAN IS AGREED ON
State House, Salem, Feb. 21. Leg
islative reapportionment in a form
which Senator Jay Upton character
izes as "the puny result of a mag
nificent plan." will probably go
through the houses withou much
squabbling, if the warring factions
come out of a noon conference to
day with tempers unruffled.
Balked in the senate by the refusal of
Senator Smith to stand pat on the origi
nal bill now on the calendar in the
house and facing certain defeat should
any attempt be made to change the
senate classification President RItner,
Representatives, Burdick. Gallagher and
Senators Eddy and Thomas and Repre
sentative Kay have Jeen shifting the
map about ever Sunday. Apparently
they have established a base for con-
ference of the senate and-touse leaders
to be held prior to 3 o'clock this after
noon, when the reapportionment bill will
be made a special order in the senate.
WILL SOOTHE SET? ATOB.S v
By this compromise there will be no
changes attempted in the present status
of the senatorial districts, which will
hold Smith in line and at the same time
assuage the anger of Senators Thomas.
Eddy, Lachmund and Lafollette.
It is planned to take one representa
tive from Marion, one from Linn and to
abolish the joint districts of Clackamas
and Multnomah and of Douglas and
Jackson. This will give four representa
tives for transplanting.
The Twenty-first district of Crook,
Deschutes, Grant, Jefferson, Klamath
and Lake, which now haatwo repre
sentatives, will be given SK additional
man, making its quota three.
Malheur county will be given a rep
resentative all Its own in addition, to
being a joint district with Harney and
Malheur.
Multnomah will be given the repre
sentative taken from the joint Clackamas
and Multnomah district.
Harney and Grant counties will be
put in .a joint district.
UPTOIf STANDS PAT
Senator Eddy says this morning that if
the elimination of the Douglas-Jackson
representative district will bring har
mony he will not fight the proposed plan.
While Senator Upton, who wanted his
senatorial district switched around so
that he would not have to go down into
Klamath county to wage war each elec
tion time, says thaU maybe "half a loaf
is better than none and he will stand
pat.
The reapportionment bill has been
made a special order in the senate for
3 o'clock. In the meantime the leaders
will get together and reach a definite
agreement if possible. If they can the
bill will go through. If they strike a
Bnag some place along the line there will
be no reapportionment.
Bill to Aid Traders
In China Called Up
Washington, Feb. 2L (WASHINGTON
BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL.) The
Dyer bill, to authorize incorporation, of
companies- in the China trade, was
called up In the house today. Its pur
pose is to place American firms upon
an equality with ethers operating in
China and relieve them from th , ex
cess profits tax. Passage by the house
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Judge BeSan to Hear
Argument on Suits -Againsthip
Board
Should Federal 'Judge R. S. Bean take
the same stand this morning as Fed
eral Judge' C. E. Wolverton did last
Monday, four suits against the Emerg
ency Fleet corporation will be lismissed.
One suit, is brought by the Pacific' Ma
rine Iron works and three by Supple-
Ballin Shipbuilding corporation. Last
Monday Judge Wolverton held that the
fleet corporation' was an arm ! of the
government, and therefore, could not be
sued for, more than $10,000 in the regu
lar courts. . Claims - exceeding $10,000
must be presented in the court of claims,
he said. Following Judge Wolverton's
decision effort was made to bring up one
of the- cases -before Judge Bean,- but
he would not hear it The attorney
later t procured special permission .from
Judge Bean to be heard Monday morning.
Mrs. Peete Asserts
She Will. Not Put
Up Insanity Claim
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Los Angeles, Feb. 21. (L N. S".) Mrs.
Louise Peete, sentenced to life impris
onment for the murder of Jacob C. Den
ton, maintained hef much-discussed stoi
cal poise In the courtroom during her
nerve-wracking trial because she was
Indignant at "gross Jles" told by prose
cution witnesses, according to her own
statement today. , I;
Mrs. Peete was quoted as asserting
she will not permit, an insanity plea to
be made la her behalf in event she is
given a new trial by the district court of
appeals. She said she Was against the
Insanity plea principally because It would
admit she killed Denton.
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PAYNETARIFF DILL
Washington, Feb. 21. (U. P.)
Virtual reenactment of the Payne
Aldrich law as an emergency tariff
early in the coming special session
of congress has been approved ten
tatively by President-elect Hardlngv
Chairman .Fordney of the house
waysand means committee said to
day on his return from-a conference
at- St. Augustine. , -
"President-elect Harding was in per
fect accord with the program I sug
gested, said Fordney.
Other points in the program which
Fordney said .Hardmg tentatively ap
proved are :
Revftlon of revenue laws following
enactment of the emergency tariff and
then framing of a permanent tariff.
The' plan is- to have the emergency
tariff on the statute bookby May 15. a
little more than a' month after the spe
cial session of congress is scheduled to
begin.
Agreement between the Republican
senate and bouse conferees on the Ford
ney bill, providing for acceptance of sen
ate : amendments by the house, was
reached today.
This means that the bill probably will
be expedited and sent t the president in
a few days.
The agreement will be submitted to
the full membership of the conference
committee, including the Democrats, late
today and ' Senator Penrose predicted
that it would be finally adopted.
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CENSORSHIP BILL
OIESJN SENATE
State House, Salem, Feb. 21.--Patrons
of movie, houses in Oregon
will continue to receive their enter
tainment straight without any dilu
tion administered by a board of cen
sors, j .
The senate this morning indefinitely
postponed house bill 172 by Childs and
Fletcher, which would have created a
board of movie censors, with only six
senators Kberhard. Gill, Hall, Jones,
Nickelsen and Upton protesting against
the summary execution of the measure.
The bill' came into the senate, on an
committee. Senator Eddy, chairman of the
adverse report by -the revision of laws
committee, explained that the bill as
drafted was not workable, although sev
eral members of the committee approved
of the general principles embodied In
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WASHINGTON WILL
BE PAID HONORS
Washington's birthday anniver
sary will be celebrated In Portland
Tuesday as a legal holiday, the banks
and government offices being closed
for; the day.
Schools will hold no regular class
work, but in accordance with tho state
law which provides that an hour and
one-half shall be devoted to some jiai"
rlotio observance of the. day, programs
will be held in all schools from 9 to
10:10 a m., dealing with the life of
George Washington. These programs
have been planned by the- respective
principals and consist of appropriate
songs, plays and recitations. At Boau
mont school.- walnuts will be planted
that have descended from the original
Mount Vernon walnut tree.
There will be no postal deliveries "ex
cept for perishable . parcel post matter.
One parcel post window in the central
and main postofficces will be open from
8 a. m. until noon. The regular holiday
collections will be made.
The library will be open for reading
only from' 2 to 9:30 p. m.
Portland council No. 678, Knights of
Columbus, will hold a Washington pro
gram In their assembly hall at 364 Tay
lor street, Tuesday night. Hall S. Lusk,
assistant United States attorney, will
be the principal speaker, and Charles J-.
Lair will preside.; The Knlghu of Co
lumbus band, the Ceceliait.' Women's
quartet. Miss Douglass O'Donneil, so
prano, and Edward' Moschofsky, bari
tone, .will furnish music. No admission
will be charged.
Legs operated by compressed air have
been designed to quickly lift airplanes
from the ground and enable them- to
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