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BANKER MORRIS IN PEN. I Chief Wrecker ot Oregon Trust & Havings Bank Begins Time. Salem. Or.. May 27. After fighting for months against th«» Inevitable. W. Cooper Morris heurd the doonfof the statu penitentiary swing behind him anil has atart««l serving his sentence of six y«»ars for aiding in the wreck ing of the Oregon Trust & Savings bank of Portland. A two hour argument by Attorney S. T. Richardson faihxi to change the decision of Governor W«»st and no leniency would be extended to the ex banker. Shortly after 6 o’clock last night th«» governor announced hix decision and Private Secretary Watson ’ im- rnediatoly telephoned to Deputy Sher iff Archie L«x>nard, who wax awaiting the decision of the executive at the Hotel Marion. Morris wax also at the hotel with a number of friends. District Attorney John II. McNary, Georg«» M. Mcliowell, Alex Sweek and Archie L«Ninur<i accompanied Morris to the penitentiary in an automobile secured by the district attorney and at 6:30 o'clock Morris entered the prison. Buperintendent James refuse»! to state what number he would give to th«» ex banker and xtatetl that such would not be given out under any circumstances "Mr. Morris will be placed in line with the rest of the prisoners and he will b«» treated the same as the oth ers,” ataUsl the superintendent. "It is probable he will have no work to do for some time. There ure about 100 men at the institution who are not employed now an«l the new prisoners are not given work. For that reason he undoubt«-«lly will not be placed at labor, and not because we intend to discriminate in his case.” After four! Washington, May 23. The Ixirimer Washington, May 26. hours' caucus toilay, the Democratic CMe was again to the fore in the sen A resolution of inquiry senators voted, 24 to I, to support the ate today. resolutions offer«»d by Martin, of Vir offered by Martin, the Democratic ginia, on behalf of the Democratic leader, intended as a sbuatitute for steering committee, providing for a the LaFollette and Dillingham resolu re investigation of the bribery charges tion am! a continuation of the speech in connection with the election of Lor by LaFollette furnished the features. Failure of Diaz to Resign Brings Pro LaFollette wax still speaking when imer, of Illinois. last From People Heavy Rain The Martin resolution proposes sn the senate adjourned. He reviewed irnjuiry by the committee on privi the recent proceedings of the Illinois Scatters Crowd. legislature, and xai'l he was convinced leges and elections. A verbal encounter between Bailey there wax still more testimony to be an«l Martine, of New Jersey, originat adduced. Mexico City, May 25. For six “The people of the country,” said ed in Bailey's demand for general xup- hours last night this city was in the |s>rt of the Martin resolution. Bailey he, “rejected our former verdict as if hand» of a mob until ii rein storm said that any senator who refused to by one voice, Nothing ever is settled mor«» effective than |x>lice ami soldiers be lx>un«l by the caucus had no right- until it is settled right; it is God’s < aus«»«l th«» <lis|H»rxul of most of it. ful place in th«» party councils, This eternal justice pulling to make things At midnight, however, a remnant, aroused th«» senators who favor the La plumb.” keeping step to the beating of tin Martin’s resolution wax offerwl on Follette resolution providing for an pells, and paying no attention to the inquiry by a special committee of new behalf of th«» Democratic minority. downpour. continue»! th«» demonstra ' 1t 1« «■»»' ■ool.au specifically u>ua'*i flZ'ul IV /',«• Un ««WllltOV provides for an inquiry tion, eyed by th«» police and soldiers. Bailey contend««! that more than into the “jackpot” fund in the Illinois Twlc«» soldiers final on the mob, the two-thirds of the caucus favored the legislature and its connnection with first time at the Zocoto, the big M|uar«i /rck/jr / a omitísh / ch . ht .. went: i / ttclt Martin resolution an«l it wax thux the Lorimer. in front of the national palace, and The Martin resolution would leave rarrs caw ' was *vMrr£rt desire of all Democrats. again to disperse the moil which had Martine said he undersUxx! the with the committee on privileges and stoned the building occupied by El meeting wax a conference an«! not a elections the prosecution of the in N JUNE of this year the Imparciul, ami set it on fire. caucus an«i that he had no understand quiry. and delegates to it all the pow- hundredth anniversary of the Estimates of the number of dead The committee is ing that any binding action was to be era of a court, birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe run from 7 to IN, including three po authorized to hold its sessions at what- taken. will be widely celebrated A new licemen report«»«! beaten t«i «ieath by Saying he would not bandy words ever place it deems most convenient, life of the "little woman who the mob. El Imparcial, which contin regarding the character of his own made the great war." as Lincoln called ued to prepare for publication, esti Democracy ax compared with that of Washington, May 23. The joint her, Is about to come from the press, mates th«» dead ut 30, mostly at the another senator, Bailey insisted that resolution admitting Arizona and New written by her son. Charles Edward ZoCuto. all senators were in duty bound to Mexico to immediate statehood, but Btowe. and her grandson, Lyman Bee- The police at midnight <»stimat«s! abide by th«» two-thirds decision. withholding approval of the constitu zber Stowe the dead at f> or 6, ami the wounded at Martine replied ax pointedly, and tions of both until the people have Among the most Interesting of the between 40 nmi 45. the colloquy continue«! until Martine voted on proposed amendments, passed facts it brings out is that it never An unconfirmixl rumor has it that a withdrew from th«» caucus, reiterating the house of representatives this af occurred to the "little woman" that detachment of Figueroa's revolution that he would not be bound by it on ternoon by a viva voce vote. No roll there was anything about "Uncle ary force from Cuernavaca ia at Leich any except a political question. Tom’s Cabin in the least likely to call was demanded on the final vote. eria. atsiut 15 miles from th«» city. Almost every other Democratic sen The resolution requires Arizona to precipitate a war. She wrote the General DlaZ, who has reserve«! th«» ator present participated in the de vote on an amendment removing the book with the kindliest feelings to captain's quarters on a Hamburg- bate. recall provision as it applies to judges; ward the south, and her aim was to American liner due to sail from Vera It developed that the regulars had and requires New Mexico to vote on be not only just but generous. Cruz on tlx» last day of the month, Mexico City., May 27. I’orfirio HAM/TT BTCCWTi STOW J/f JS5T continues very ill, despit«» recent op- I Diaz, to whom for more than 30 years practically agreix] to aban«lon the Dil amendments making its constitution To begin with. Mrs Stowe was not timistic official reports. He is receiv all Mexico has paid deference, secret lingham resolution in favor of the more easily amendable. Neither state of the extreme abolitionist type, 1t attack on his own paper, and hfs sis Martine measure ax a matter of party is required to adopt the proposed was her firm belief that the better ing absolutely n<> visitors. A heavy ly left the palace at 2 o'clock this amendments by congress. Whether element In the south bated slavery, ter found him one day making bul guani was muintaimxl in front of the morning Only a few friends whom discipline. lets in the kitchen. She asked what Hitchcock suggested ax a compro they are approved or rejected by the presidential residence throughout the he trusted followed him to the station. and that this element was much larger be was making them for. mise that a sub-committee of the com proposed referendums, the constitu night. He went U> Vera Cruz and went on mittee on privileges and elections, to tions of the new states will stand than was commonly supposed. Then. , "To kill men with." he answered too. while she loathed the system with . grimly, and Mrs. Stowe, telling her board a steamer bound for Spain. be approved t»y the senate, he dexig- finally approved when the respective WORKERS LEAP FOR LIVES. all her heart she was willing to be son about It years later, said. “I In the distance he could hear the nateii to conduct the inquiry. He votes have been taken. lieve that ft took more often than not I never saw Henry look so terrible. I voices of enthusiastic celebrants, who said he might present such an amend the kindly patriarchal form. San Francisco Building Collapses in were acclaiming the new president. did not like ft. for I feared he was ment in the senate. This evokixi fa Washington, May 22.— Testifying She gave Uncle Tom three masters, growing bloodthirsty.’’ Wind and Builders Fly. Francisco de La Barra, and shouting vorable mention. before the house committee on ex and two of them were kind. She made Professor Stowe helped at times the It was expected that the Lorimer, penditures in the Treasury department San Francisco, May 25. Thrilling "Viva Madero.“ one of her plantation owners detest So carefully were the arrangements case would come up in the open ses slides for life. |>erilous lea|*s from today. J. B. Stuart, ex-collector of slavery and free his slaves. She want underground railroad. He It was who took the original of Eliza and "Little swaying walls an«! daring dashes that made for his departure that details sion today, but it was crowded out by | customs at Newport News, said Secre La Follette expects tary of the Treasury MacVeagh had ed to make the north understand that Harry" to the house of the old Quaker cheated death by a ’hairbreadth. feat- could not be confirmed until this after other matters. ured Hie collapse during th«» high wind noon, Secrecy wax due less to appre- to conclude hix speech tomorrow an«! told him the department reversed a the best southerners would co-operate when the master was pursuing the yesterday of a two-story flat building henxion of a |*ipular outburst here after one or two brief speeches in re-1 ruling for collection of a 20 per cent with them in a reasonable attempt fugitives, It was not long after this that she wrote she felt keenly the in course of construction at Fifteenth than to a desire that hix departure ply it is expected a vote will be ta duty on creosote because the rail to do away with the evil. Never was a little lady more sur need of an intermediate party which should not become known to maraud- ken. Th«» prospect now is that the roads could not afford to pay the duty. anti Ramona streets. ing bands, For some hours it was ¡Martin«» resolution will be adopted, Another witness testified that Mr. prised to find herself execrated. Her would oppose slavery without the vio A s|H»ctacular esca|>e was maile feeling had been when she first wrote lence of abolitionists. But, she said. generally supposed Jthat he had left without material amendment. William Kammerer, a youthful e MacVeagh's brother had interested the book that It would displease the If no such party was formed many over the M< xican National railroad, trician, who wax near a window himself in the matter. abolitionists and bring sympathetic re Washington. May 27. Instead of the seconii floor installing wires, when which has of late been untroubled by Mr. Stuart, who secured an investi sponse from the south—that is. If people would be forced to Join the abolitionists “in spite OÍ their ex- tla» liu 11<11rig began to tremble violent bandits. This road is equipped with 1100,000, allegisi to have been used to gation into creosote imports at New It rocked for a moment, then standard heavy rails and it WHS secure the election of William Ixiri- Orleans last fall, charging the govern anybody ever read It at all, which she cesses ’ ly- mer of Illinois to the United States ment was losing millions in revenue had doubted. It thought there was less danger. Clashed forwani anil collapsed, in 1850 the Stowes left Cincinnati There is another railroad to the senate, more than twice that sum will When the book appeared the world for Brunswick, Me. It was there that Kam- fell in an «»axterly direction. I because creosote, dutiable at 20 per merer ma«le a dying leap out of th«» coast, a narrow-gauge affair, owned be disclosed, Senator La Follette told cent, was being admitted as creosote turned topsy turvy for her. Garrison, her great resolve was taken that she Taking it for his colleagues today, if the senate re oil free of duty, was summoned before with whom she never quite agreed, would use her pen to fight slavery. window in the opposite direction. He by the government. granted that he would take the opens its investigation into Lorimer's the committee as the result of testi wrote her that she was no longer Already she was a successful author wax not hurt, James l.«x>nani, a plumber, was at more luxurious, the bandits did not right to hold his seat. mony given previously in exeuctive abused—she had drawn it all on her and deeply interested in the cause of La Follette declared that President session by Allan L. Benson. self People In the south who had the slave. Her brother wrote and put work on th«» roof when the wind exe molest the smaller line. Taft's name had been us«>d in Lori not read the book, or who had read it the proposition to her squarely: why cuted its di«k>. Hr didn’t have time Stuart related how he found that no to do anything exc«»pt cling to th«» WILL GIVE WEST BIG COLLEGE. mer’s behalf and reiterated that Lori- duty was being collected from foreign with their minds made up beforehand, did she not write about the subject mer had personal cognizance of the ships whose manifests showed their thought her some sort of a monster. nearest her heart and make people shingles and slid«» to th«» asphalt pave ment on Ramona street, where the Mrs. Harriman to Establish Great use of the money. cargoes to be creosote, the cargoes A cousin who lived In Georgia did understand? It was In the little parlor La Follette quoted from the testi being received as creosote oil. which not dare put the name of Mrs. Stowe of her Brunswick home. She read ns>f landed. University as Memorial. , on the envelope when she wrote to the letter aloud. As she finished the New York Mrs. E. H. Harriman, mony given by Edward Hines, a Chi is on the free list. i her. appeal she rose from her chair, crush TAFT DEMES PARDON. America’s richest woman, is to be the cago lumberman, before th«» Lorimer Mrs. Stowe found herself, in short, ing the letter in her hand and said: founder of a great university in the investigating committee of the Illinois Washington, May 22. — An immedi legislature regarding Mr. Hines' in put in a class of agitators with wjiom "God helping me. I will write.” Declares Walsh and Morse Both West as a glorious monument to the terviews with United States Senators ate investigation, of sweeping scope, she had never belonged, and the poor The material for '‘Uncle Tom’s memory of her husband. of the charges that Senator Lorimer, False to Trust. It became known Saturday I that Aldrich and Penrose, in which Hines of Illinois, is not entited to his seat is little dove of peace she had sent out Cabin" came from various sources, Washington, May 25,* President Mrs. Harriman, casting about for said Aldrich repeatedly had impressed came back with its feathers ruffled be but she verified them all. The Ken- Taft today denled th«» applications for some means of disbursing her great upon him th«» imjxirtance of Lorimer's provided for in two resolutions called yond recognition. tucky plantation she already knew, up by Dillingham and LaFollette in the panion of Charles W. Morse, of fortune in a way that would be of ben election and had told him that Mr. The question of slavery came into The slaves whom she had known in the senate today. New York, and John R. Waith, of efit to the |»«ople of the country, had Taft was especially concern«»«! in Lori La Follette called up his resolution her life at an early period. It Is not Cincinnati had talked freely, giving Chicago, the two moat prominent decidisi u|xin the establishment of an mer’s behalf. and made a speech arraigning the Illi ! true that she knew nothing of the the light as well as the tragedy of bankers ever convirUxi an«! s<»ntcnc«sl institution of learning as affording the Washington, May 27. The adminis nois senater, whom he charged with ' "peculiar institution" at first hand. their loL to Fisleral prisons under the national best medium for such disbursement. Uncle Tom seems to have been tration of the present system of gov personal knowledge of the spending of I She lived long in Cincinnati and met banking laws. I there ninnv sou'herners. and it was drawn from Joshua Hoosen, a black Iler plans are not fully developoi, but ernment in Alaska is deplorable, ac money in behalf of his election. Not only di«l th«» president refuse to in a tentative way she has decided to Both the Democratic steering com j on plantations where she visited that man of great sweetness and piety, who cording to Delegate Wickersham, of panion them, but h«» also declin«»«! to found a university that will be that district, who today before the mittee and the Republican members of j she got the color for the bock she told her appalling stories of life aa exercise any other executiv«» clem«»ncy to none in the country in the |x> ' he had seen it. house committee on territories urged the committee on privileges and elec i was to write many years after. in then < n-i s or to shorten the’sen curriculum and endowment. She was hardly more than a gin tions, discussed the charges, and Dil The book. then, was published, with a favorable report on his bill creating tences im|s«sed by th«» courts. Millions as needed will be su when she visited the Kentucky planta many misgivings, but none among The president took a firm stan«l that from the Harriman estate to make an elective legislature for the terri lingham. chairman of the election con\mittee, presented his resolution of tion which became afterward the home ! them was that the south would fail lb«» national banking laws or any other this the greatest educational enter- tory. "Alaska," he said, "under the pres inquiry as a substitute for the LaFol of Uncle Tom and Eliza, and about to understand the friendliness of her laws must be uphelii when th«»y nffi'ct prise in the world, The institution the same time she met Topsy. Topsy spirit. Then she found herself the th«» rich man «»ven more than when will be called the Edward H. Hai ent system of long distance adminis lette resolution. came to Cincinnati In the company of most famous and the most abused tration, has not been given a single they affect the poor. The reconl in riman University. Hollander Faces Charge. j a wealthy Louisiana family which had woman in the world legislative measure for five years. the Walsh case, the president saiil, Mrs. Stowe had that exaltation of There can be no question that an at Washington — Charges that Dr. liberated its slaves and It was in try- "shows moral turpitude of that inxid- Airships to Fight in Air. tempt to govern such a big territory Jacob H. Hollander, fiscal agent for Ing to teach her religion that the character which lifts a soul above uotis and dangerous kind, to punish Chicago President Taft has advised from the national capital thousands the United States in straightening out ¡famous conversation occurred: “Do praise or blame. In the midst of the which the national banking laws wen* the promoters of the aviation meet to of miles distant is a failure.” the tangled financial affairs of Santo y«5“ know who made you?" "Nobody tumult she wrote poetry and planned es|a»cially enact«»«!. be held here August 12-20 that he will Domingo, had accepted money from as I knows on; I ’spect I growed." a trip to England in the Interest of Washington. May 27. John Norris, both governments, although in the pay In 1836 Cincinnati became the hot the cause. It is typical of her in be in Chicago June 4, and will meet Japan Would Arbitrate. the committee in charge to agree on representing the American Newspaper of the United States, were aired be- bed of anti-slavery talk. Mr. Theodore genuousness that she was much sur Tokio Japan, it is said in official how extensively th«» army and navy Publishers’ association, was again be fore th«» house committee. Dr. Hol Weld of Lane Theological seminary led prised to find herself welcomed and circles, is preparisl to participate in will join in th«» military features of fore the senate finance committee in lander received $40,000 from this , the movement. He had spent much fete«l on the other side of the ocean. negotiations for a general treaty of the meet. It has been announced that advocacy of the Canadian reciprocity government for his services, and is j of hfs life In the midst of slavery and Where she had expected to rest and arbitration with the United States, the president will be given full oppor bill today. said to have accepted $100,000 from was dedicating the remainder of his see Nobody, she discovered she was and is willing to submit proposals for tunity to test out th«» aeroplane as a life to its overthrow. Hfs ablest as the talk of the country. Mr. Norris declared that the Root th«» Dominican government. such an agreement if invited. Gov war factor in any manner he wishes. amendment to the bill, providing that sistant, the editor of an abolitionist When the war broke out Mrs. ernment lenders are deeply interested Tin» managers of the meet hop«» to the paper clause of the measure should Many Move to Drop Islands. paper, was Dr. Birney, a slave owner Stowe's son was among the first to go. in the tentative draft of the arbi have the United States government not be in force until the president pro Washington, D. C.—Members " of ■ from Alabama, who had freed his She wrote afterward: "It was the will tration proposal which the government bring about the first battle in the air. claims that wood, wood pulp and pa the house are loading the committee ' slaves, and come away to fight the of God • • • that the slave mothers submitted to Great Britain and per are admitted from all parts of on foreign affairs with resolutions system. whose tears nobody regarded should France, and it is regarded as the most Steamer Sinks, Sixty Lost. Canada free of duty, would postpone providing for the neutrality and ulti- i It was natural that with these have with them a great company of able document on the subject of arbi Panama — The National Steamship indefinitely the date of application of mate independence of th«» Philippine friends Mrs. 3towe should have had weepers, north and south—Rachels tration ever produced. The proposal l.ine steamer Tabogo struck a rock off the treaty. islands. While no action by congress klndlly feelings toward the south, weeping for their children and refus meets with hearty approval here. is expected at this session, a deter should have thought that It was rapid ing to be comforted." Punta Mala Friday and sank a short Court-Martial May Fail. mined effort will be mail«» in the regu ly wakening to the horror of slavery, time afterwards. Of the 100 passen After the war Mrs. Stowe went “Congress City" Chosen. gers on board only 40 are known to Washington. May 27. Th«» War de lar session to sever the islands from and that the majority of Its citizens south and lived for a time In Florida. Kansas City The annual meeting of have been saved. were anxlbusly trying to put an end The scheme was to ratee cotton with The Tabogo had a partment announced today it had sus United States possession. the Trans-Mississippi Commercial con cargo of cattle and was on her regular pended th«» recent order directing to IL As far as the “cause’’ was con free labor, but It failed disastrously, Carnegie is to Testify. gress, set for September next, will be coastwise trip. The scene of the acci Lieutenant P. J. Hennessy, military cerned her associations were with In other ways the stay in the south held in Kansas City instead of Okla dent is about 100 miles from the near instructor at Washington Stat«» Col Washington, D. C.—Andrew Carne intl-elavery southerners ratber than was a success, and everywhere Mrs. homa City. This was practically set est telegraph station, which makes it legi» at Pullman, to join th«» Fifteenth gie has notified the house “steel the northern abolitionists. Stowe appears to have been treated tled when the executive committee of difficult to obtain details of the accè cavalry. Lieutenant Hennessy will b«> trust” investigating committee that Henry Ward Beecher edited In Cin with consideration. The era of abuse the congress met here to make ar dent. permitted to remain on duty at Pull- he is willing to appear before it, and cinnati a small dally paper, his sister, was over. rangements for the gathering. Okla After cotton they tried to raise man college until the close of th«» that no subpoena or legal document is now Mrs. Stowe, helping him. She homa City declined to raise the funds Hello Girls' Hours Reduced. school year, then will join th«» Fif necessary to insure his presence in records an incident of the agitation oranges, but a frost spoiled that plan, necessary, and the Kansas City Com Hennessy’s court Washington when desired. The com In Cincinnati that shows the fighting Mrs. Stowe lost 134,000 in this way. Olympia, Wash.—When the recent teenth cavalry. mercial club formally invited the con legislature passed the eight-hour law martial will probably be dropped. mittee has not yet fixed a date for the blood of the young man who was to and then she founded the Christian Union with her brother, Henry Ward gress to meet here. become the great preacher. hearing. for women, providing that it applied Senate to Vote June 12. Dr. Birney's abolitionist paper was Beecher, and lost moot of the rest of to all women and girls employed in Makes Offer to Germany. Deep Snows in Alberta. wrecked by a mob, and she writes: her money. She kept writing, not be Washington, May 27.—The senate mechanicia) establishments, the law Washington, D. C. — The German 'Many respectable citizens are In cause her fame tempted her, but be High River, Alberta More than a was so drawn that it included tele today selected June 12 as the date for foot of snow has fallen here during phone operators. So holds Stephen V. a vote on the joint resolution provid government has been made aware by dined to wink at the outrage In con- cause the money was needed. “Unci« the 36 hours ending Thursday night. Carey, assistant attorney-general, in a ing for the election of United States the United States that the same gen >(deration of Its moving In the line Tom's Cabin." which made so many Road traffic is tied up and the big cel formal opinion to the State Railroad senators by direct vote of the people. eral arbitral proposition submitted to >f their prejudices.” Henry Ward ' fortunes, never yielded her more than ebration planned for Victoria Day commission, and it will affect every The resolution also has passed the Great Britain and France is open to Beecher did not wink. He feared an a few hundred dollars. Germany if that country ia interested. telephone operator in the state. house. may be postponed. Noisy Mobs Fired on By Police and Troops. I