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S1M0WI THE WEATHER: The States ssaa receive tb Ined wire report cr the Associated, Press, lb greatest and taoit re liable press association la Ihe world. Oregon: Friday.- rain; freUi to strong Foutherly gale. SEVENTIETH TEAR r SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY- MORNING, DECEMBER 24. 1920 PRICK: FIVK CENTS Will U.S. FACES DEPI CT O F f .YO BILLION Secretary Houston An nounces Gross Deficit of $2,100,000,000 For Current Fiscal Year NEW TREASURY DRAIN WOULD BE DANGEROUS Flotation of i Government ; Loan Would be Necessi tated by Bonus Bill WASHINGTON Dec. 2a. De claring that the government faces a gross deficit of $2,100,000,000 for the current fiscal year. Secre tary Houston today warned the senate finance committee that congress should avoid putting a heavier burden on the treasury department. The estimate came as a surprise to the committee as It was nearly $1,000,000,000 greater than that recently esti mated by Senator McCuraber, North Dakota, one of its mem-; hers, ' lteveiine Sources Arc Needed For the fiscal year ending June Z0. 1922. the treasury head esti mated the deficit would be ap proximately $1,500,000,000 and he added that It could bo seen that new sources of revenue must be sought to meet even current THiuirementa. '') Mr. Houston was called before the committee to discuss the sol oler'sbonus. which according to estimates would require an out lay of $1,500,000,000 and he indi cated that the treasury would op pose any action by congress that '. would tend to open a new drain 'on the treasury. I v - The secretary also reiterated his objections to the revival of the war finance corporation! It would mean, he ald, that the secretary would be compelled to lajmch a new program of borrowing. Houston Oppose Ilonus Rill The committee aslredSlr. Hous ton to return for further testimony- Monday. j Market prices of liberty! bonds and other government securities wr said In a statement today by 'Secretary Houston to he suffer ing as a result of the continued dlscus&ion of . tbe soldiers' bonus and the various legislative meas ures for the relief of farmers, such as the revival of the war H ' nance corporation Enactment Into law of either of these propositions, the treasury secretary declared, would neces sitate flotation by the govern ment of a loan which would add to the mount of government se- , rnritles now outstanding! anu cause consequent reaction in the market for government bonds. Hond Issue Necessitated Necessity of a bond Issue to fi nance a soldiers' bonus. Mr. Hous ton said, is readily understood, but It would be equally necessary for the government to borrow in ' order to enable the war finance 'corporation to function. The cor poration, he said, has about $370. 000,000 in book credits against tbe treasury, but to resume Us activities it would either have to issue bonds of its orn to obtain funds or call upon the .treasury for Its balance, in which case the treasury would be forced to issue certificates of indebtedness mur der to raise the money. The secretary also said he was opposed to the various; proposals for extending credit to foreign na tions on the basis of government funds, the ad ministration having , decided there should be an end to foreign loans. Discussing a sales tax to pro vide government revenues, a sub ject now under consideration by 'he house ways and means eom " mittee. the secretary declared himself opposed to a general "lea tax on the ground that it as contrary to the theory of pro gressive taxation. If added, however that he favored a select nd sales lax applicable to certain classes of articles not necessar.ies of IKe which he said, wonld keep the burden of the tax from those enable to pay. TFRKKY SHOULD LIVT PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23. Isaiah Bowman, president of the -American Geographical society, lisctsMng Constantinople and the Balkan states at the third session n the Public Ledger Forum on U peace conference, here, to nl?ht defended the settlement re rding Turkey. He said the "op erations performed by the sur ' geons of Versailles upon the sick Wan of Europe" were of greater benefit to the world than the 'death of the patient" would been. Mr. Bowman, who was chief territorial advisor of the Ameri ca peace commission, declared that-although the Turk was not jctuiliy expelled from Europe. " is really no longer there so Jr as any power or influence is toncerned" . "The present feeble military l0res of. the Turk in . - Europe totild be extinguished at a mo- vg notice." v BEAR OBJECTS TO THEATRICAL JOB Turn; iiiiivkr iiak advk. TIKE OH CHEMAWA ItOAD Ilruin Causes ltimcr's Man" 1o Overturn iq Ditch and Shaggy Passenger Uetum Home Coercive methods don't work well with a bear. If-you want Bruin to co-operate in a function oi any gina It s a good idea to get the bear's consent. Ask Frank Bllgh. Frank, it; sterns., had bargained with some one at Chemawa for the use of one of the Chemawa ueaFs ai a L,ioerty theater per-? iormanee last night. The bear wasn't consulted. He was hoisted bodily into a crate and the crate was derricked onto one of the Larmer trucks. The truck started for Salem and the bear was so grouchy as to be real disagreeable. At a point where the Chemawa road joins the Pacific highway Bruin started a demonstration. He took a few swipes at the boards that hedged him In and made so much noise that the truck, driver who has carefully covered his name rlooked around. Now that it's all over, seems as if It must have been bear cunning, and that Bruin knew just what would happen. Anyway the driv er lost control of the 'wheel. The truck turned turtle in a ditch. The bear erats was broken asun der. The bear bit his Indian' t tendant as he left the wreck. The last seen of him he was gAin back to Chemawa with the Ind in pursuit. KRUVOSKYIS FOUND GUILTY Three Other Alleged Gang sters Await Trial as Ac complices in Attack siv FRWflSCO. Dec. 23. Edward Kruvosky, San Francisco j pugilist and the second of five men to be tried for -criminal at tacks on young women, was found guilty in the superior court here tonight. Like his co-oeienaani, i Edmond Murphy, who was con-1 "Any entente attempt to incor victed last Monday of the same j porate-Bolshevism in the Europe-cr-aVges, . Kruvosky faces an In-1 an concert would be wrong. Any determinate prison sentence pi j trade relations with Russia would from one to 50 years. j ivruvosKy s trial began Tues day. December 21, and the char acter of the testimony paralleled that developed in the Murphy case. . Miss Jessie Montgomery, Rena, Nev., and her companion. Miss Jeari Stanley, formerly of -Portland, Or., who were named in the Kruvosky indictment .as the mis treated girls, and the physicians who attended the young women, were ' the principal witnesses against Kruvosky, as against Murphy. Three other alleged gangsters are awaiting trial as accomplices in the same attack,, which was committed early in the morning of -Thanksgiving day. . Tbe arousing of public senti ment against the men resulted in elaborate police protection from possible mob violence for the men on trial here. " It wn In rnnner.tion with the rounding up of other men sus pected of criminally assaulting young women in San Francisco that Sheriff James Petray of So noma county and Detectives Miles M. Jackson and Lester H. Dorman of this city were shot and killed at Santa Rosa, Cal.. Sunday, De cember ". Five nights later George Boyd, an ex-convict who j previously had confessed to the i killing of the peace officers and his two companions, Terrence Fitts and Charles Valento, wer taken from the Santa Rosa county Jail by a mob and hanged In a cemetery. JAILBIRDS WHIR SMILE. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23. Inmates of the county pail hero wore smiles of anticipation today despite the prospect of spending Christmas day behind stone walH and iron bars. For Frank Leroy "was in again." Ills presence, Jail offic lals said, assured prisoners a Christmas dinner unsurpassed 'on the outside." ' Annually at the holiday season Leroy. nomadic cook, conies, to fan Francisco from the, lumber camps or mines?, "goes broke." and requests that he be jailed, lest he do "something desperate," officers said. His apperance to day allayed- apprehensions that tis custom was to be broil. He requested CO days. It was grant ed. He left the courtroom, arm in arm with the Jail keeper, with thanks for the Judge and "now. lieutenant, about them potatoes. About 40 pounds ol spuds, l guess ." Los Angeles Times Will Give Employes $100,000 LOS ANGELES. Dec. 23. The Los Anelea Times announced to night that, in accordance to its custom, it would distribute $100. 000 a additional compensation among 600 employes at the close of the year. ; BOLSHEVISM IS PROBLEM FOR WORLD General Hoffman, Declares Armed Intervention by :( Great Powers is Only So lution of Red Peril WHOLE REGIME MUST BE SHOWN OBLIVION Foreign Occupation Is Only Hope for Devastated and Torn Russia BERLIN. Dec. 23. Ceneral Wilhelm Hoffman, who played an important part in the Brest-Lit-ovsk negotiations, declared in an interview in the Berlin Russian Daily Rul that Bolshevism Is a world problem now which can be solved only by armed intervention :!!lcert. An international army under or F.och should occupy Petrograd. General Hoffman said, then march on Moscow, which, he asserted, is bound to fall before any well equipped and properly officered force. Whole Regime Must Be Unhorsed With the occupation of Moscow, Trotsky and Lenine would be un horsed and the members of the whole regime. General Hoffman predicts, would ask "safe conduct to pass the shortest way to ob livion." He felt certain that the Russian workmen Would be glad j to desert their present leaders at I the first indication of their over- ih' Moscow must be spoken to in the language of Brest-Litovsk, not In tbe language of Lloyd-George in London," the general 6aid. The general continues: "To remodel bolshevism is im- n0aibie only furnish a cioaK lor red prop- aganda Trotsky f ses Scourge. "Trotsky has studied the his tory of the French revolution and knows the jae of the scourge. Un der his system no man can rise to power from the army; the appear ance of a new Napoleon in Russia is out of the question. "The crash of the soviet regime would inevitably be followed by a reign of unparalleled anarchy. The only thing that remains is armed Intervention by the great powers: As; chief of staff of the German east army during the war I directed the propaganda against the Russian army. The general staff naturally made use of every possible means to break through the Russian front. One of these means was poison gas; another was Lenine. "The imperial regime despat ched Lenine to Russia from the Swiss frontier in a sealed car for a definite purpose. With our con sent Lenine and his friends disor ganized the Russian army. Von Kuehlraann (former German sec retary of foreign affairs). Count Czernln (Austro-Hungarian for eign minister), and I then closed the Brest-Litovsk treaty so that we could throw our army against the west front. While in Brest we were convinced that the Boluhe viki could not hold power more than three weeks. Power Was Xot Foreseen. 4'Ia spite of the valuable serv ice Trotsky and Lenine rendered. wo neither knew nor forsaw the danger to humanity from the con sequences of this Journey of Bol shevists to Russia. At that time we weighed the matter with as little consideration as the entente does now. "Would the allies a,nd especially Lloyd-George carry on negotia tions and make concessions if they fully reckoned the frightful dan ger which Bolshevism repre sents?" General von Horfmann raid that the army command later re alized the danger and a plan was laid before the supreme command of the eastern army for the over throw of Bolshevism but events developed so .rapidly, following nnon the assassination of Count von Mirbach. German ambassador to Russia, in Moscow, and the sit uation on the west front had be come so critical that it was im possible to force the issue." Two Firemen Killed When St Johns Theater Barns ST JOHN'S, X. F.. Dec. 23. Two firemen were killed and four injured iii a fire which destroyed the Star theater today. One of the walls collapsed burying the fix men. Tbe loss was placed at 150,000. STORM; IS WARNED PORTLAND. Or. Dec. 23. Warnings of an approaching southwest storm were displayed along the Oregon coast today by order of the weather bureau. 1? - . I Itm . w un ! REAL SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS IS SHOWNBYPEOPLE OF SALEM IN REPLY TO APPEAL FOR POOR Salem folk have caught the spirit and the real meaning of Christmas and are converting it into ac tion, in making this giving instead of a receiving Christmas. In consequence of this, the poor of Sa lem will be aided jn a sjplendid, tangible way and if there are any so forlorn become so deplorable tq newed belief must sure osity of local people at Contributions in response to The Statesman's I appeal kept coming in all were many things registered that are to be collect ed today. A number of business men have offered the use of their cars for both collecting and delivery, and with the Boy Scouts out of school and report ing for service, everything should be distributed by Christmas day. - And not only gifts were received Thursday, but names of those in need were likewise added to the list which The Statesman already had made up from those received from the Red Cross and from individ uals, and in some instances the needy themselves ap plied by letter. TVho so calloused as to resist the following ap peal? We would be thankful for a little Christmas cheer if you have any to spare. It seems like we have had sick ness or a broken bone ever since last March till now we are in pretty close quarters. My husband got his foot broke the 13th of August and walked on crutches for nearly three months, and our oldest girl had to be treat ed for spinal trouble and I have been sick. My little boy has just got his arm out of the sling with two fingers cut off. We need clothing about as bad as food. Wtf have six children and my husband is working, but it seems that limes are so hard that it is hard to make all ends meet,when there Jj. lots of sickness. Wish you a merry Christmas and happy New Year." Money too, was received, and wherever names were given these will be published later, but folic who have been generous with their means prove in a great many instances parsimonious with their names, and so a .-great many things will have to be listed as merely "from a friend" Offerings will be received today and tomorrow. Phone 106. LAST LINK IS NOW COMPLETE Canyon Creek Arch Fin ished, Highway Engineer Nunn Announces The Canyon creek arch, Ihe la&t unfinished link, in the Pacific highway, was completed Tuesday of this week. Herbert Nunn, state highway engineer, said yesterday. "To the traveling public," naidjattle and Great Mr. Nunn. "this stretch of road has always; been ifnown as Cow Creek canyon, and up until this time has been an Impassable bar rier on tbe Pacific highway through the winter months and a dangerous road through the sum mer mouths. , "This arch, which Is of rein forced consrete construction. Is one of tbe largest bridges of Its type in the state and was built in co-operation" with the forest ser vice under the supervision of the bureau of public roads. "The completion of this bridge eliminates all of the detour on the Pacific highway with one ex - rention Tht la in-ieri In Jo - sephine county on tVxton moun tain. The state highway depart- q"M relative io in ment. however. is maintaining controversy at Oakland. this detour in a passabl. condl- tion and the Pacific highway will i cont in u-open t. through rafflc! nil winter." Sisters Bring Sait Against . . - if UOCtOrS I0r insane .narge NEW YORK, Dec. 23. Suits for $1,000,000 compensation for ten veara detention in the avlum for ihe insane at Kings Park. Lonir Island, were instituted today by Miss.Phebe M. Brush and Lerjing furnace sister Ada D. Brush, against Doc tors William B. Gibson and Wal Iter Lindsay ot Huntington, who. they charge, were responsible for their confinement. Each sister demands $250,000 from each physician. and whose condition has lose faith in humanity, a re y be inspired by the geher this time. day yesterday, and there UNION OUSTER IS PREVENTED Oregon Service Commission Draws First Blood in Port land Controversy The petition of the Oregon public service commission to tbe interstate commerce commission asking that the proposed opting of the Spokane, Portland and Se- Northern rail roads from the Portland nnhri terminal he held up until nn in vestigation has been made by the I. C C. has been granted. The pnblie service commission wax so informed late yesterday af ternoon in a telegram from John E. Benton, solicitor for the Na tional Association of Railroad and I'tility commissioners. The telegram stated thai Chair man Clark of Hie inters ut com merce com ii. ls. ion has reiitel the carriers to. continue existing conditions at the Portland term inal pending consideration of th situation by the Interstate com- merce commission. ' The message said that Cbair- - jman Clark has made a similar re terminal Calif . . t drtltfllV 01 YoiCCnO Asama Caases Alarm i tokio. Dec. 23. The contm- ned activity ot the volcano Asama 1 causing alarm. Violent etplo- f-ions occurred in the crater Wed nesday evening 'and the country j for many miles aroind was strewn with ashes. Later a thick column of flame and smoke shot skyward i and the entire crater was a blaz- Towns around the volcano suf fered from heavy earthquake shocks. The forests and several villages wem net on fire. It was Impossi ble to gain access to the fire zones owing to the lava streams, 11AL1AN5 SURROUND FIUME CITY Civilians Begin to Evacuate Town Fearful of Facing Seige of Powerful Gov ernment Patrols PL0CKADE ENFORCED BY FLEET OF P0LA Throughout Last Night City Appeared in Darkness Train Service Cut Off TR1EST. D-y. 22. Finme surrounded by government forces. The approach are iM-avfly guarded on the I north, east and west by powerful patrols of cara bineers and Alpini. Nothing is being allowed to go Into ihe town. ui -ah i nrrniiunj in inuw wiiiii wish to withdraw rather than to! I face a tf-ir. By sea the fl-H-t of j Fola is not permitting the pas-1 MSB oi any eraii. lUorkado Ut In- Kafnrml Throughout Ust lilfht Finme appeared to b a city of ilarknex. Trains ar not permitted to pa Abfctzia. whii? all aMnrcrx destined for Fiume must get out. Mayor Girante of Flame has been notified by General Cavinlia of the steps the government intends io take In enforcing the Mot-kade. . There has been no decision an nounced as to the attitude the commander of Flume will take toward withdrawal of the resi dents there. Thre was no marked change In the number of departure from the city today. All leaving will have to do so on -foot. K ramation !a Isun 1 -ON' DON". Dv. 21. The evacu ation of Finme by civilians has begun, according to a dipatch from Milan to th London Times. Already 100 refugees have ar rived at Candrida. The food sit uation In Flume Is considered al most desperate. . ; The population numbers 52.a"rt and the food supply- will not last more than a fortnight. The sit uation in the islands of Arbe and Vexlia Is considered even wors. A majority of the population of Flume, says the correspondent, disavows any encounter involving bloodshed. Even some members of tbe regency disagree with D'Annunslo. His finance minis ter. Professor Fantaleoni has re signed and left Flume. Fifteen men have descried from his ar my. Dcputle Suil and Dcam bris have left Flume for Rome to submit a proposal that Italy rec ognize the regencT with Barro. Arbe and Veglia while the regency renounce the Immediate annexa tion of Fiume to Italv and far ther action in Dalmatia. The greater Dart of D'Annnn- ilo's legionaries who landed at I Castelvenler have ben captured 1 by the Italian regulars, says a Triest dispatrh to the London Times. D'Annunzio's forces consist of SO oo troops at Fiume: 200 at San Marcos; 200 on the iIand ef Arbe and 600 on Veglia. Tbe pote s iiiti inriuue iitw uesirojers. two torpedo boats, eight tugs and f ive steamships. Cabinet Is Called by FWt. Tbe poet called a meeting of his cabinet ot "rectors" in a council of war yesterday, and It was de eded to remain firm and oppoe Italy's enforcement of the Rapallo treaty at the expiration of the time set by General -Caviglia. The Italian commander In chief ordered that the blockade should be effective beginning at ft p. m. I Worn her 21, by land and sea. to the territory of the slate of Fiume and to territories outride ot Fi nme occupte.t iy ihe r tuman troops, and lo the islands t Veg lia and Aibe. The troops sere ordered to proceed according to international las and the treaties in force by whatever means, aialiitl anyone sbo j.hould at tempt to violate the blockade or der. The order of Ceneral Caviglia gjve ship belonging lo the state Of Kinnie4V hours aft.r the time of ihe blockade to withdraw from the zone of the hln kade and an eual time limit was ret for the departure of foreign subjects, cit Irens or legionaries. The order added that aftrr the expiration of this time limit, ships or persons endeavoiing to force the line of blockade by land or ea would be compelled lo face Ihe con iiuence pre.crlled by internation al law anil the treaties in force. Alaska Invited to Take Part in 1925 Exposition PORTLAND. Or.. 22. W. 11. Dovnint. tireident of the local A13V ftoc'efv has written to Governor Griag of Jnneau asking that Ihe territory take part in the Attantic-Parlfie Hirhsavs and Electrical Etpoliion In Portland in l2S. The Alaska society ror- mlly endorsed tbe exposition project SANTA MUST ABANDON HIS FLEET REINDEER HVOW1.KHS mUlSTMAS ! WKATIIIIIl ItlKW'AST VnrifU- Vammt Slated for lUla ' smI (ml rattled Weath er fr Merry Day , WASHINGTON. Dec. 22 San U Clans on his visits to the borne of American children tomorrow night will be compelled to resort almost completely to an airplane or Mme similar aew-f angled con veyance for the weather bureau loniicbt forecasted a snowless Christinas for a!mot the entire I'nited States. "Fair and cold" was tbe weath er furecaier s general prediction. Tbe only snow of sufficient dertn fur the sleigh of the ChrUlmas iaiMl.' the iur-H said. woaUl be l;i Wi.matin. northern Michigan, northern New Yorfc and northern New England, where snow fell early In the'week.and has not melted. Tb re may be aaow la the northern Rocky mountain re fciou. it was itaid. but elsewhere the fall will !. confined to flur rie.. The Par I fie roast was excepted la'frrra the forecast for lair weath er, the r harts and maps of tke weather reaii showing that rain and generally unrellhd weather micht le expected west of the llocky mountains. WESTCOASTTO SHARE TRADE W. D. Vanderlip Declares Pacific Will Get Large Part of Russian Orders LOS ANGELES. Dee. 25 Steps to cbtala for the Pacific coast as large as possible a por tion of the $2.QQ.OAO.oa trade orders obtained fr.m the Rnssian rovernment by Washington. D, Vanderlip. I as Angeles engineer, were taken today here by mem bers of the syndicate of Ios An cees capitalist, who financed his recent trip to Russia, where he also obtained a leae on iQO 000 square mil in Siberia. According to a story the Los Angeles Times will print tomor row, iron and machinery prod ucts, meat, silk and steamshiac are among tbe largest items In the order. Thi larger part of the order. Mr. Vaaderlip said.- would be filled In the eastern part of the felted States, bat "the Pacific coast will have as maeh of the business as It can care for. "One hundred steamship of tO.no tons or more constitute one of the Items. the story con tinues. "Only a part of tbes- ships will be constructed here, but the order will be large en ough to keep the Pacifie coast yards at fall sp-ed for a long period. Tractors, gas engines, well drilllnr machinery, agrlenl tural Implements and other sup plies will be Included in the or ders placed on this coast. Mr. Vanderlip said fulfillment of the order was contingent oa a proper establishment of trade relations between this govern ment and soviet Russia, lie said the recent announcement of tbe state department that there were no restriction on traae was "merely camouflage. Will Christmas Uther in Peace for Ireland! 1.0N1YJ. IHv. 2. Tbe inter mediators wha have been trying ! to briar together the Imperial LL . V ...V" "JIT .I " lives for tbe eventual arranging Hy hriag about aalty and frteE of a truce la Ireland are nr,t shi4 between all ths peoples of tzj reasinr tbdr endeavors. It was i kingdom." hoped Christmas would mark in cassation of the long continued reirn or terror. Arcbbikhop Clone of IVrth. wetem Australia, whose) activi ties iu Ireland and Indon are be lieved to have an Important bear ing on preliminary negotiations, has returned here. I Ai ' LEST WE FORGET America must make sroocl in this drive for the Euro pean nufferer., or 17.O00 American relief stations will have to close after January 1. The wistful, hunjrry eyes of 3iflO.GOO innocent uf ferers are turnetl to America, the last and only hope of a distracted people. Surely, we cannot fail them in this, tkeir hour of irrcatest need. There are ro committees lo visit you. You must nend in your subscription. unsolicited. Send it to your bank in the name of the American Relief council. I it now. You will be the happier for it. EUROPEAN RELIEF COUNCIL Make check payable to F. C. DecLebach, Chairman Marion County Committee, Salem, Oregon Please find enclosed my contribution a part cf America's Christmas Gift to the Starving Children of Europe. Name. Address. KING PLEADS FOR PEACE IN KINGDOM At. Proroguing of Pzrlu- ment George V Expresses Desire for Continued Friendliness With Powers CROWN IS GRIEVED AT VIOLENCES OF IRISH Hope Is. Given That Home Rule BiU Will Bring Ahcut Unity and F rien dihlp ' ? LONDON. Dee, 25e Tha king speech oo tbe occasion of tb pro roxulBg of parliament at midnight tonight after refereoee to the con tinued friendly relations with for--eign powers, alluded to the Greek difficulty and declared that the government wo aid. ta eon J suction with the allies, endeavor to reach a sol at ion compatible with their Joint responsibilities. Hope) ripitMtd for Ramia The jdtaatloa with rWpert to Russia was described as still an settled and obscure sad the king eiprAd the hope that trade with Russia would soon be resumed and lead to an era of peace, great ly needed by the suffering people of eastern Europe. "It Is of tbe highest Impor tance. the speech continued, "that Poland and her neighbors should compose their political d'f- if Guides and devote their undivid ed energies to producing internal stability and ths task of eeonemlc reeonstmr tion . The distribution of the man dates and other work jof the as sembly of the league of ssUoct were taker up and the assembly was declared to have "shown its sctse of the importance of Indnd Ins a'l nations In its mcmbertMp by admitting two lata enemies." "It is my earnest hope." ad5ed the king, "that the spirit ot fcar meay anC rtxvd will mao!fr:-1 t the assembly t aa augury of the Ya? of Iks lesraa aa a force, making for conciliation and peace throughout the world. Irish Affairs Orrv Khss Ths promise was given that th government would make every ef fort to reduce expenditure. Dealing with the subject ot Ireland the kiag said: . "The state of affairs la Ireland grieves res profoundly. I deplor tbe campaign of violence and oat rage whereby a small section cf my subject seek to sever Ireland from the empire and I sym path lis with tha loyal servant of Its crown who ar endearoriBC to re store peace and maintain order seder conditions or unexampled difficulty and dasgar. "It Is my most earnest hop that all sections ef the people of Ireland will Insist tpon a ret am to constitution methods whUh alone ran pst an end to the oveata which threaten rula to that reaa try and make possible reconcili ation and a lasting peace. Then annouaciag In brief, the borne rule bill, .tb king contin ued: "I tmcerely hope that thla art. tha fruit ot mora than 20 years of ceaseless controversy, will fia- CANADIAN rtATKH "TT. VANCOUVER. D- C Des. 23. The Canadlaa Pacific railway to day announced a redaction of 19 per erst in all railway fares be tween points In Caaada.