V
iTGHT BEGINS ON REVISION
NEWS OF THE WEEK I
Sugar and Wool Men Threaten to
"Rule or Ruin.”
t e a l Resume of Important Events
Tfirougtiout the World.
J. P. Morgan’s funeral will be de­
void o f eulogy, as he requested.
Mexican armies have been warned
to stop shooting across the border.
Mohair and wool shearing begins
throughout Oregon and Washington.
Eastern Oregon has entered a strong
protest in congress against free wool.
An appeal will be made to President
Wilson for a system o f Federal loans
to farmers.
An American naval expert declares
this country is wholly unprepared for
a war at sea.
A snowfall of live to 15 inches is
reported from Western Iowa, Kansas
and Nebraska.
One of Dr. Friedmann's tuberculosis
patients has died, despite the use of
his new serum.
A woman of 92 years has registered
in Portland and expectes to vote at the
coming elections.
All measures to avert the threat­
ened strike of all Socialists in Bel­
gium have failed.
Japanese express fear that good re­
lations with America will end if Cal­
ifornia land bill becomes law.
Washington, D. C. — The fight for ^
Democratic tariff revision began in
congress Wednesday.
Conferences
and party plans, which have held the
stage for weeks past, gave way to the
first open steps for the passage of the
new tariff bill.
President Wilson’s
personally delivered message, calling
on his party associates in both houses
speedily to enact the party’s pledges
of tariff revision, was followed by a
caucus o f Democratic house members
which will continue for several days,
and in which Democrats will endeavor
to settle their differences and agree on
support of the Underwood bill.
Criticism of many features of the
law developed in Democratic circles
in the senate. In a short caucus of '
senate Democrats held to consider
other matters, criticism was voiced by
one or two Western senators against
the free wool provision and the sugar
schedule proposing free sugar in 1916.
The house Democrats settled none
of the general tariff questions.
The
three-hour session was devoted to an
unsuccessful fight to throw the doors
open to the public, a proposal defeated
by a vote o f 167 to 84. Details o f the
new tariff bill will be taken up imme­
diately.
Senate leaders are insistent that the
Underwood bill be subdivided so that
separate votes may be had, if desired,
on the sugar and wool schedules. One
plan that has been proposed to Presi­
dent Wilson is that schedules be
grouped in such a way that the tariff
will be comprised in four separate
measures. These proposals are based
on a growing belief that opponents of
the sugar and wool provisions .may
muster strength enough to threaten
defeat o f the bill.
Many progressive Republican sena­
tors expressed their opposition to the
Democratic bill because o f the sweep­
ing character o f proposed reductions.
An active traffic in babies at $2
apiece up is carried on in Boston, ac­
cording to a prominent social worker
o f that city.
The senate agrees to some o f the
proposed tariff reductions, but gives
notice that it reserves the right to FEDERAL FUNDS TO GIVE AID
amend others.
President Wilson pitched the first
ball of the season for the Washington
and New York teams, Washington
winning 2 to 1.
The Holland-American Steamship 1
company is figuring on extending its
service to the Pacific Coast upon the
completion of the Panama canal.
President Wilson’s message to con­
gress has had to be reprinted in the
congressional record, as he insists that
it be designated as an “ address.”
English suffragettes at an enthusi­
astic meeting in London received big
contributions to their “ war fund” and
adopted as their slogan “ Fight On.”
An electrically driven collier ship
has been put in commission for the U.
S. navy.
Chicago will build hotels and board­
ing houses for working girls who have
no homes.
A college professor at Berkeley,
Cal., lives comfortably on nine cents’
worth o f food per day.
The Iowa legislature struck out the
enacting clause from the woman suf­
frage bill, thus killing it.
Government Loans $2,000,000 to
Banks in Flood Districts.
Washington, D. C.— Secretary Mc-
Adoo, o f the treasury department, will
deposit $2,000,000 in the national
h o n l / o o f 1 1 o i r t A n
banks
of Dayton, 4 O., to relieve the
money shortage resulting from the
flood, accepting government, state,
city and county bonds as security.
This will be the first time since
1908 that the government has accepted
as security for deposits bonds other
than those o f the United States.
This action was decided upon as a
result o f the telegraphic advices from
National Bank Examiner Goodhart,
who has been investigating the con­
ditions and requirements o f the banks
in the flood district.
All the seven national banks of
Dayton will be designated as govern­
ment depositories, and the fundi will
be deposited with them as soon as
they offer security sufficient to satisfy
the secretary. He expects the amount
will afford effective relief to the finan­
cial stringency in Dayton.
In the last few days the government
has shipped from Washington and
Chicago a total o f $2,300,000 to the
subtreasury at Cincinnati to meet the
pressing demands for money.
An American suffragette imprisoned UNCLE SAM WILL NOT WAIT
for offenses in London sings "John
Brown’s Body” continually and is be­
Recognition for New China, Re­
lieved to be losing her mind.
gardless of Europe.
The Imperial Chancellor of Germany
Washington, D. C.—Great Britain
declares that nation is ready to stand and Japan will not recognize the new
by Austria in the event of war with Chinese republic at present. This be­
Russia over the Balkan situation.
came known positively Tuesday and
indications were that Russia, France
and Germany also withhold recogni­
PORTLAND MARKETS
tion for the present.
The United States alone o f the six-
Wheat—Track prices: Club, 86(3:
87c per bushel; bluestem, 98c; red power group, which participated in
the loan negotiation, has declared for
Russian, 85c; valley, 87c.
Oats—No. 1 white, $27@28 per ton; recognition of the new Chinese gov­
ernment
when the constituent assem­
valley, stained, $24(026.
Barley—Feed, $23 per ton; brew­ bly meets at Pekin.
Brazil and probably most o f the
ing, nominal; rolled, $25.50(326.50.
Corn— Whole, $27; cracked, $28 ton. South American republics will join
Millstuffs — Bran, $20.50(321 per the United States in recognizing
ton; shorts, $23(023.50; middlings, China, but thus far the American pro­
posal that all governments act in con­
$30.
Hay — Eastern Oregon timothy, cert has not met with favorable re­
choice, $15(317; mixed, $10(013.50; sponse from the larger nations who
oat and vetch, $12; alfalfa, $12(013; are disposed to await the adoption of
a constitution and the establishment of
clover, $9; straw, $7(3>8.
Vegetables — Artichokes, 90c(3$l electoral machinery.
per dozen; asparagus, 6(3'7c pound;
cabbage, l j c ; head lettuce, $2(02.50
Michigan Beats Suffrage.
crate; hothouse lettuce, 75c(3'$l per
Detroit— Woman suffrage in Michi
box; peppers, 35(340c pound; rhu­
gan generally was conceded hopelessly
barb, $1.75(02.25 box; spinach, 75c
per box; sprouts, 10c pound; garlic, defeated in Tuesday’s election, when
6(36c; turnips, 90c(O$l per sack; scattering returns received late Wed­
nesday from the rural districts of the
parsnips, 90c@ $l; carrots, 90c(3$l.
Potatoes — Burbanks. 45(350c per state did not tend materially to de­
hundred; new, 84(3T0c pound; sweet, crease the big majority rolled up
against the amendment.
Its oppo­
4c.
Green Fruit— Apples, 30c(3:$1.50 nents declared at last reports that the
per box, according to quality; straw­ amendment had failed by 25,000.
A summary o f late reports increased
berries, $3.26 per crate.
Poultry— Hens, 16c; broilers, 30c; the confidence o f the Republicans
turkeys, live,
18(320c;
dressed, that they would carry the complete
choice.
24(026c;
ducks, 17<319c; state ticket.
geese, 12(3T2Jc.
Charge« Not Pressed.
Eggs— Fresh Oregon ranch, 19@20c
per dozen.
Washington, D. C.—Vice President
Butter—Oregon creamery cubes, 37c Marshall Thursday afternoon declined
pound; prints, 38J(339c.
I to present to the senate a set o f alle­
gations charging a Western senator
Pork—Fancy, 12(312Je pound.
with improper conduct, and announced
Veal —Fancy, 134(014c pound.
Hops— 1912 prop, ll^ t 16c pound; that he had returned the written
charges to their author, Jim R.
1913 contracts, 15c.
Similar
Wool— Eastern Oregon, 10(3 14c per Jacobs, o f Oklahoma City.
pound; valley, 18(320c; mohair, 30(0 charges were presented to the United
States attorney here and he found
82c.
Cattle — Choice steers, $8(38.25; them insufficient to present to the
good, $7.75(08; medium, $7.50@7.76; grand jury.
choice cows, $6.25(07.75; good, $6.50
@ 6 .7 5 ; medium. $6(06.60; choice cal­ Suffrage Amendment in Congress.
ve«, $8(09; good heavy calves, $6.50
Washington, D. C. — Suffrage for
ty'7.60; bills, $5.50(06.25.
| women, by an amendment to the Fed-
Hogs— Light, $9(09.60; heavy, $8 i eral constitution, was proposed in a
(38.75.
I joint resolution introduced Wednesday
Sheep— Yearling wethers, $6.25(0 by Representative Raker, o f Cali-
forni».
7.2$; ewes, $4.75(06; lambs, $7(08.
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WOMEN PROMINENT AT POLLS WILL
LEARN
NEW
THINGS
Elections Are Largely Influenced Pedagogues Not Only Ones In­
structed in Summer Session.
By New Suffrage Vote.
Dallas — The election here Monday
resulted in a complete rout of the ad­
ministration forces by the so-called
j insurgents, when G. Van Orsdel, Dem-
| ocrat, was elected mayor by a major-
! ity o f 25 votes over R. L. Chapman,
Republican.
The amendments to the
city charter proposed by the present
city council were lost. It is said that
the new administration is in favor of
hard-surface pavement and other im­
portant civic improvements.
The vote was the largest ever cast
in a Dallas election, a total o f 789
ballots being turned in to the various
booths, 292 o f these being from the
fair sex.
Mrs. Fonso Manston was the first
woman to cast her vote.
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KING NICHOLAS
Montenegrin Ruler Who Now Stands Alone in His Defiance o f
European Powers.
St. Johns — Active part taken by
the women in the municipal election
in St. Johns constituted a feature of
unusual interest, and the newly-elect­
ed mayor, Charles Bregeson, declared
that he owed his election to the
women, since they held the balance
o f power.
The total vote was 1087, o f which
approximately 377 votes were cast by
women. It was a common sight while
the polls were open to see women with
their babies in their arms go to the
polling places and cast their votes, or
to see a grandmother and granddaugh­
ter enter the polls side by side and se­
cure their ballots.
The women ap­
peared to be well informed and their
work at the polls was exceedingly bus­
inesslike.
Cornelius — With women casting
half the vote in the recent election,
CURRENCY REFORM OFFERED the anti-saloon forces triumphed with
a majority of nine.
This is the first time the town has
Many Bills Before .Congress Lack­
gone into the dry column, though the
ing Official Endorsement.
margin has always been small. The
Washington, D. C. — New currency total vote cast was 267.
reform bills were introduced in the
Dufur— In the annual election for
house Friday
by
Representatives
municipal officers the successful candi­
Prouty, of Iowa; Nelson, o f Wiscon­ dates were: J. H. Fitzpatrick, may­
sin, and Palmer, o f Pennsylvania. or; T. E. Griffith, recorder; W. M.
Congress now has before it nearly a Pickering, and Owen Jones, council-
dozen bills, covering all branches o f men; P. W. Knowles, treasurer; T.
W. Glavey and H. C. Dodds, water
American Citizens Can’ t Own Land banking and currency reform, but commissioners. The votes was the
none
of
these
bear
the
indorsement
o
f
in Japan—California Prom­
largest in the history o f the city and
the official committees of the two nearly every woman who was eligible
ises to Use Care.
exercised her right o f suffrage.
houses or o f President Wilson.
Representative Glass, who probably
Washington, D. C.— President Wil will introduce the measure, about HOP STUDIES ARE PUBLISHED
son expressed Saturday the hope that which money reform debate will cen­
the pending legislation in California ter in the house, conferred with Secre­ Tartar and Pilkington of O. A. C.
tary McAdoo, o f the Treasury depart­
Issue Important Bulletin.
by which aliens ineligible to American
ment, who has been gathering infor­
citizenship would be prohibited from
Oregon
Agricultural College— Re­
mation from banks on certain phases
owning land would not prove objec­
sults o f two years o f experimental
of the financial situation.
tionable to Japan.
He realizes that
Mr. Glass said at the end o f tbe work with hops in the chemical labor­
Japan is inclined to view such legisla­
conference that there would be no atories of the Oregon Agricultural
tion as a contradiction o f the spirit of
difference o f opinion between himself College experiment station are now
her treaty with the United States, i .
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. and the secretary o f the treasury over appearing from the college press in
While officially unable to interfere in
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the bill that he would finally introduce bulletin No. 114. H. V. Tartar, as­
the situation, he expressed confidence
sisted by B. Pilkington, has carried
in the house.
that the California legislature, cogniz­
An effort will be made in the senate on the work along special lines which
ant o f possible international difficul­
to secure further hearings, particularly thorough study of local conditions and
ties, would enact a law that would
I on the subject o f the money stringency o f literature on the subject have shown
prove acceptable to Japan.
at crop moving times and the “ sec- to be o f most immediate use.
The President talked informally
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J \ Hitchcock, a member o f the banking
conference with the newspaper men, | and cur
committee o t the 3enate tilizer requirements o f the hop plant,
indicating the delicate points involved. 3aid he w*uld ask for h hearings
e a r in g 3
methods for the chemical analysis of
While the present treaty with Japan
which more detailed facts could be se­ the hop, the changes in composition of
stipulates that citizens o f each coun­
cured as to local demands for money the hop during the ripening period,
try, while traveling in the other, shall
and local problems that should be con­ the effect of kiln drying at 145 de­
have a right to own houses ard fac­
sidered while congress finally takes up grees on the composition of the hop,
tories and shops, and to lease land, it
the work of reforming currency meth­ a comparative study o f the composi­
says nothing about the right to own ods.
tion o f Oregon hops and those of
land.
Three general bills are now before other localities, and a comparison of
On the other hand, though the old
the senate. The Weeks bill embraces commercial and scientific methods of
laws o f Japan against foreign owner-
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the plan o f the monetary commission hop valuation.
ship of land have been abrogated, the for , nationa, re8erve ¿99ociation or
JAP ISSUE WORRIES
United States Government Cannot
Control State Legislation.
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force newly enacetd laws has not been
issued, so that American citizens
not own land in Japan.
While the administration does not
construe the treaty as giving Japanese
specifically the right to own land, it
feels that the agreement does guaran­
tee that Japan shall be treated on the
basis o f most favored nation citizens
under the same clause as is contained
in many American treaties with other
governments.
The President said that while these
points had been discussed, the diffi­
culties really proceeded from the do­
mestic constitutional arrangements in
the United States. He declared th»t
while nobody for a moment, could
challenge the constitutional right of
California to pass such land laws as
she pleased, insofar as the Federal
government had gone beyond its pow­
ers or domestic authority in making a
treaty, just so far was it liable to
damages, but it really was helpless in
the situation.
Reassuring word that the California
legislature would so frame its laws as
to save the Federal government from
any diplomatic embarrassments has
come indirectly to the national capital
and the administration does not be­
lieve it is likely to be confronted with
any serious situation.
would seeure their note curren
currency The
Hitchcock bill proposes 20 distinct re­
serve associations, each with the pow­
er to issue notes to its members and to
buy and sell commercial paper. The
Jones bill proposes 16 sub-treasury
districts, each sub-treasurer being em­
powered to issue currency to banks on
approved bonds.
Fight Made on Tammany.
Washington, D. C.— President W il­
son was formally requested by anti-
Tammany leaders of the New York
State Democracy not to recognize
Tammany in Federal appointments.
They explained that their organization
needed the moral support o f the ad­
ministration in its fight for progies-
sive principles. They went away with
the impression that the President
would go slow in the matter o f mak­
ing out his appiontment list, and that
it would be some time before his atti­
tude would be known.
Bryan Spurs Governors.
Washington, D. C.—Secretary Bry­
an dispatched identical letters Satur­
day to the governors of states which
have acted favorably on the constitu*
tional amendment providing for the
direct election o f senators and have
not yet reported the fact to the State
Blow to Christianity Seen.
department. The secretary suggested
Toklo — Baron Saburo Shimada and prompt notification in order that he
other prominent Japanese Christians ! may issue the usual formal notice o f
say they are convinced that the pas­ the adoption o f the 17th amendment.
sage o f the land bill by the California
Taft to Give Nine Lectures.
legislature will prove almost a death
New Haven, Con.—Announcement
blow to the Christian propaganda in
Japan. Count Okuma, former foreign was made recently that Professor Wil-1
minister and now president o f Waseda liam H. Taft will deliver a course o f j
University, urges the missionaries to nine lectures at Yale University this
voice a strong protest against the bill. spring on the general subject “ Ques-J
The j
Several newspapers here sarcastically tions o f Modern Government.”
declare the bill, which they say will lectures will be given Monday and Fri­
discriminate against and ruin Japan, day afternoons in May, beginning May j
was "fram ed by Christians.”
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BIG MILL SITE IS PURCHASED
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor­
vallis—The women o f the household
who have their hearts set on nome day_
owning a piece o f land, and the young
people just out o f school who are look­
ing for opportunities, will find as
much o f real interest to them in the
O. A. C. summer session, which opens
June 16 and lasts six weeks, as will
the school teachers who are anxious to
prepare themselves for advanced posi­
tions and bigger salaries.
The beautification and sanitation of
the home premises, the kitchen gar­
den, the economical and hygienic prep­
aration o f food, the solution of all
sorts o f home problems, these are in­
cluded in the plan o f instruction 'out­
lined by Prof. E. D. Ressler, director.
The teachers will also be given spe­
cial work besides the regular courses
for elementary and high schools, such
as the beginnings o f agricultural work
for those in districts where such in­
struction may be included in the schools
next year, domestic science and art,
manual training, business courses,
music and drawing, physical training,
school law, supervision and manage-
ment,
especially in the country
schools.
For the convenience o f those who
cannot remain the whole six weeks,
some o f the courses are arranged to
give a complete lecture schedule in
two weeks. This work includes also
two week courses in manual training
and domestic economy for boys and
girls o f the high school and upper
grades. The idea is to give them, at
the formative period o f their lives,
some comprehension o f the value and
true dignity q f the professions of
farming and home-making.
It is felt
that in the past the emphasis in the
public schools has been too much on
the professions more commercial, too
little on those o f the farm home, and
that this may be in -som e degree re­
sponsible for the present necessity for
the “ back to the farm” movement—
or, more properly, the “ stick to the
farm” movement.
GRANGE MAKES BIG SAVING
Members Get $250 Worth of Grocer­
ies on Co-operative Plan.
Portland—The hall o f Evening Star
grange, Secton Line road, might have
been taken for a grocery store Satur­
day, as the front rooms on the lower
floor were filled with articles which
had been purchased by Andrew Holm,
the manager of the new plan o f co-
operative buying for grange members.
It was delivery day for the past month.
About $250 worth o f articles, feed for
stock and groceries, covering every­
thing used in the family, were stored
in the hall, and later taken to the
homes o f the members. They saved
an average of 10 and 15 per cent under
this method o f co-operative buying.
On the amount delivered Saturday
the saving, under the co-operative
buying plan, was between $25 and $30.
Manager Holm explained that this was
just a starter, and that it is hoped to
develop an extensive plan o f co-oper­
ative buying throughout the county,
when it has been demonstrated that a
saving can be made.
The greatest saving on the goods
bought and delivered Saturday was on
feed for stock, which was 15 per cent
over the regular prices paid.
There is space in the grange ground,
at the corner o f East Eightieth and
Division streets, on which a general
delivery store may be built.
Rural Sidewalks Urged.
Orenco— At a special meeting o f the
North Star Lumber Co. to Have Orenco Civic Improvement league
Oregon Plant Ready Soon.
steps were taken to build sidewalks to
Minneapolis, Minn. — The North
Star Lumber company, o f Minneapolis,
which owns extensive timber lands on
the watershed o f the Umpqua river, in
Oregon, has purchased a mill site and
booming grounds at Reedsport, at the
mouth o f the Umpqua river, where a
sawmill and lumber manufacturing
plant o f 125,000 feet, ten-hour capa­
city, will be established.
The company expects to have the
plant in operatin by the time the Wil­
lamette Pacific railroad is completed
between Eugene and Reedsport. The
company owns a string o f between 70
and 80 retail yards in North and South j
Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota.
The
product from the Reedsport plant will
supply these various yards.
Entire Family Lost in Flood.
Hood River— Mrs. H. L. Dean, wife
o f a young horticultural expert who
arrived here last week to take charge
o f the clearing operations o f the Green
Point Orchard company, was prostrat­
ed on receiving news from Coumbus,
O., that her entire family had per­
ished in the flood that swept through
that city recently.
Mr. Dean had
made vain attempts to get in commu­
nication with relatives and has been
anxiously awaiting news, which, how­
ever, did not come until the water had
receded and the bodies were found.
Good Farm Brings $23,000.
Troutdale — William Hurssell has
sold his farm o f 15 acres, located south
o f this place, to Ralph Ackley. The
price was $23,000.
The tract is a
well-improved farm, one o f the best in
the neighborhood. Several sales have
been made in Troutdale recently and
realty conditions are improving right
along.
Quatama and towards Reedville and in
several other directions to connect the
outlying districts with the town. The
farmers living along these lines have
agreed to assist in the building.
Those living
near Quatama have
agreed, if the town buys the lumber,
to haul it from the mill, furnish the
cross pieces and build the walk. M.
McDonald, W. J. Head, Thomas Good­
in, Mr. Green and Mr. Dunsmoore
were appointed a committee to report
the best means o f raising the funds.
At the last meeting o f the city coun­
cil ordinances were passed fixing the
width o f sidewalks, prohibiting hogs
inside the fire limits, warning owners
to keep poultry on their own premises,
licensing moving-picture shows and
prohibiting them on Sunday.
State Funds Decreasing.
Salem—The quarterl; report o f his
office, just prepared by State Treas­
urer Kay, shows that the balance in
the general fund March 31 was $555,-
309, while the balance January 1 was
$1,072,613. With the large appropri­
ations made by the last legislature the
balance in the general fund will be
rapidly eaten up, according to the pre­
diction o f Mr. Kay. The report also
shows that practically all o f the $6,-
321,358 in the common school fund
principal is loaned out at 6 per cent
interest, there being ’ only $1479 left.
Lane Protests Siuslaw Policy.
'* Washington, D. C. — Senator Lsne
filed a written appeal with the board
o f engineers o f rivers and harbors,
protesting against the decision o f that
body against dredging the Siuslaw
from Florence to Acme and requested
an opportunity to make oral presenta­
tion in the Nedds case.