64 CONGRESS ADJOURNS
Record Shows Appropriations Exceeding
by More than Half Billion Past
Year's Expenditures.
Washington, D. C. The first ses
sion of the Sixty-fourth congress,
which adjourned Friday, Sept 8, was
concerned chiefly with national de
fense. When the gavel fell congress had
directed reorganization and re-equip
ment of the army and navy for defense
of the country at the unprecedented
cost of $655,000,000, with authoriza
tions that will increase the total in
three years to nearly $800,000,000.
With all other expenditures, appropri
ations were brought to the grand total
of $1,637,583,682, the greatest aggre
gate in the country's history, and ex
ceeding that for the last fiscal year by
more than half a billion dollars.
Expenditures, necessitated by pre
paredness and the calling into action
of military forces to meet the Mexican
emergency, demanded revenue legisla
tion in the closing days of the session.
Congress responded by doubling the
normal tax on incomes, creating an in
heritance tax, munitions tax and mis
cellaneous excise taxes to raise $305,
000,000, and by directing the sale of
$130,000,000 Panama Canal bonds.
Congress established a tariff com
mission, a government shipping board
to rehabilitate the American merchant
marine; a workmen's compensation
commission to administer a new uni
form compensation law; a farm loan
banking system; a child labor law;
enlarged the system of self-government
in the Philippines and enacted
many other important laws which had
been contemplated by the administra
tion. Most important legislative enact
ments of the session, exclusive of laws
for national defense, included the fol
lowing; Government ship law Appropriat
ing $50,000,000 to operate ships in
foreign and coastwise trade when un
able to lease them to Individuals or
private corporations.
Child labor law Denying interstate
commerce to products of mines and
quarries employing children under 16
years of age and factories, mills, can
neries and other establishments em
ploying children under 14 years.
Rural credits law Establishing a
farm loan board in control of a system
of farm loan mortgage banks.
Workmen's compensation law Pro
viding uniform sick and accident bene
fits for employes of the Federal gov
ernment and benefits to dependents
in case of death.
Emergency revenue law Providing
for doubling the normal income tax on
the lowest class; making an addition
al surtax ranging from 1 per cent on
that portion of incomes exceeding
$20,000 to 13 per cent on amount of
incomes in excess of $2,000,000; levy
ing a graduated tax of 1 to, 10 per cent
on inheritances ranging from $50,000
to $5,000,000; a 10 per cent net profit
tax on manufacturers of munitions, 5
per cent net profit tax on manufac
turers of materials entering into muni
tions; a license tax on actually invest
ed capital stock of corporations capi
talized at more than $99,000; wine,
beer and liquor excise taxes and mis
cellaneous Btamp taxes.
Good roads law Providing for co
operative Federal aid to the Btates for
construction of highways and appro
priating $75,000,000 to be spent in five
years.
, Postal savings law Amendment in
creasing the amount which individuals
may deposit from $500 to $1000 with
interest, and a additional $1000 with
out interest.
Federal reserve Amendments, in
cluding amendment to the Clayton
anti-trust law permitting officers and
directors of member banks to become
officers and directors of not more than
two other non-competing banks;
amendments permitting national banks
to establish foreign branches, liberal
izing regulations for discounting com
mercial paper and permitting member
banks in towns of 5000 or leas popula
tion to act as agents for insurance
companies.
Railroad legislation Creation of a
joint sub-committee of senate and
house interstate commerce committees
to investigate necessity for further
legislation for railroads and the Inter
state Commerce commission, question
of government ownership of public
utilities and comparative worth of
government ownership as against gov
ernment regulation.
Railroad eight-hour day law Estab
lishing eight hours as the standard for
reckoning the compensation of railroad
employes operating trains in interstate
commerce after January 1, 1917, and
providing for a commission of three to
investigate the effects of the eight
hour standard, present wages not to be
Brltisn Raider Is Lost.
London A British aeroplane was
lost in a raid Saturday over St. Denis,
In Belgium, 30 miles southeast of
Brussels.
"Saturday afternoon naval aero
planes attacked the enemy aerodrome
at St. Denis," says an official state
ment issued here. "A large number of
bombs were dropped with good effect
One of our machines failed to return.
" During the same afternoon a naval
aeroplane successfully attacked and
brought down In flames a hostile kite
balloon near Ostend,"
reduced during the investigation, nor
for 30 days thereafter, and work in
excess of eight hours to be paid for at
a pro rata rate.
Tariff Creation of a non-partisan
tariff commission of five members to
investigate and advise congress on
tariff revision; repeal of the free sug
ar provision of exiting tariff law;
amendments increasing duties on dye
stuffs to encourage manufacturing dye
stuffs in the United States; enactment
of an anti-dumping provision to pre
vent dumping of foreign-made goods
at less than foreign market prices;
authorization for the President to re
taliate against foreign nations prohib
iting importation of goods from the
United States by laying an embargo
against Imports from offending na
tions. Cotton futures act Providing a pro
hibitive tax on cotton sold for future
delivery in fictitious or wash sales.
Philippines Law to provide for a
more autonomous government of the
islands, enlarging self-government,
reorganizing election laws, establish
ing an elective Benate and promising
independence whenever, in the judg
ment of the United States, the Philip
pine people demonstrate capability for
it.
Appropriations for all purposes
were:
Agriculture 24,948,852
Army 21)7,596,630
Diplomatic and consular 5,H66,()96
District of Columbia 12,841,907
Fortifications 25,748,050
Indian affairs 10.9H7.H44
Legislative and executive..., .. 37,925,(i90
Military Academy 1,225,043
Navy 818,800,096
Pensions 15K.0ti6.00O
Postollice 322,937,679
River and harbor 40,598,136
Sundry civil 128.299,286
Permanent appropriations 131,074,673
Shipping: bill 60.100,000
Deficiencies 72.600,000
Rural credits 6,100,01X1
Ciood roads 6,000,000
Floods 2,000,000
Grand total I 1,637.583,682
In addition to the total there were
authorizations for expeditures in fu
ture years, including naval, good
roads, tariff commission and other ex
penditures to bring the total to approx
imately $2,000,000,000, but these
amounts do not properly apply to the
appropriations for the fiscal year.
In addition congress enacted an un
usually large amount of miscellaneous
legislation, including reorganization of
the patent office ; provision for trial of
space Bystem in place of weight sys
tem for payment for railroad mail
service and leaving to the Interstate
Commerce commission determination
of the method and rate of pay; crea
tion of a National Park bureau in the
department of the Interior; establish
ing warehouse regulations for cotton
and grain and providing a new grain
grading law; extension for a year of
the government War Risk Insurance
bureau; uniform law making bills of
lading negotiable.
Proposed legislation which failed of
enactment and has gone over until
next winter includes the immigration
bill; the corrupt practices act to limit
campaign expenditures for election of
the President, Vice President and
memberB of congress; a vocational ed
ucation bill passed by the senate; con
servation legislation, including the
public lands water power bill, the
Shields navigable streams water power
bill, which failed in conference; the
oil leasing bill, including relief for
California oil men; a flood control bill
which passed the house and a bill to
establish citizenship for natives of
Porto Rico.
Four treaties were ratified by the
senate. The most important were the
long-pending Nicaraguan convention
providing for the acquisition of a canal
route and naval stations rights in the
Bay of Fonseca for $3,000,000 and
that ratified in the closing hours pro
viding for the purchase of the Danish
West Indies for $25,000,000. Another
was the treaty with the Republic of
Hayti providing for an American finan
cial protectorate. The much-disputed
pending treaty with Colombia, after
several years of consideration, was
favorably reported from the foreign
relations committee with an amend
ment reducing from $25,000,000 to
$15,000,000 the proposed amount to be
paid for the partition of Panama.
Imported Monkeys Dying.
San Francisco Out of 100 monkeys
which arrived here Friday from the
Orient for government laboratories, 40
have died and many of the survivors
are reported dying. The monkeys were
to have been used for experiments with
infantile paralysis serum. The mon
keys, according to the officials in
charge of them, were in good health
until they reached the temperate zone,
where the cool breezes proved too
much for their sensitive lungs.
Death in nearly every case was the
result of pulmonary trouble.
French Plants Visited.
Paris Members of the American
Economic Mission, now visiting
France, were received Saturday by
David Mennet, of the National Associ
ation of Economic Expansion, and also
conferred with representatives of vari
ous industrial groups concerning ways
of developing the commercial relations
of the two countries. During the stay
in Paris the members will visit the
principal industries and the biggest es
tablishments working for the army.
JAPAN SAYS SOVEREIGNTY Of CHINA
' NOT INFRINGED BY NEW DEMANDS
Washington, D. C. Ambassador
Guthrie, at Tokio, cabled the State de
partment Wednesday that the Japanese
foreign minister had informed him
there was nothing in Japan's demands
upon China In connection with the
Cheng Chiatun Incident that infringed
the sovereignty of China or impaired
the Root-Takahira agreement.
In making public the report, the de
partment revealed the fact that the
ambassador had been instructed to ad
vise the foreign office that the report
of the demands published in this coun
try "had greatly disturbed the Amer
ican government, which trusted that
it was not true."
It is not the mere terms of the Jap
anese demands, however, which have
been well established throughout, so
much as their real purpose, that has
caused anxiety here. If the recrudes
cence of Mongolian banditry in connec
tion with a monarchist revolution has,
as claimed, produced a condition of
outlawry, where Japanese lives are en
dangered, officials are said to be will
ing to admit that Japan is as much
justified in having troops in those sec
tions as the United States is in having
troops in Mexico.
If, on the other hand, it develops
that Japan is magnifying a small local
disturbance into an international com
plication to exact political concessions,
the United States is expected to ob
ject, holding that the integrity of
China is being invaded.
Allies Take Two Miles of Frenches
from Bulgars; Serbs Drive foe Back
London General Sarrail extended
his attack on the Macedonian front
Wednesday. While the British forces
continued the battle for the East bank
of the Struma, the French assailed the
Teuton line along the Vardar valley,
where the main allied thrust is
planned.
North of Majadag, in the Lake Doir
an region, the allied forces engaged
the Bulgars in a 36-hour battle and
finally gained the upper . hand.
Trenches on a front of two miles and
extending to a depth of 800 yards- were
wrested from Czar Ferdinand's troops.
The British, meanwhile, pushing
further eastward into Macedonia, won
a stornger hold on the East bank of
the Struma and captured two more vil
lages. In this attack the French
troops co-operated and the Struma line
now is firmly in the hands of the allied
foces.
One of the first results of this push
eastward has . been a menace to the
Bulgars, who drove toward the Aegean
coast. The positions the invader holds
must be abandoned without delay if
the British progress continues.
All the forts at the Greek port of
Kavala already have been evacuated.
This retreat was due in part to the
British threat to the Bulgar flank and
in part to the heavy battle of the al
lied warships.
Although their fighting on the ex
treme west end of the line is attract
ing little attention, the Serbian troops
merit careful watching. The rejuve
nated army is fighting with all the
skill and valor which won them ap
plause in the early days of the war.
They are driving back the Bulgars
steadily, while the Italians are giving
them valuable support.
Ex-Premier Says Spain Must
favor One Side in War
Paris Spain mustde.cide in favor of
one or the other of the groups of bel
ligerents, in the opinion of Antonio
Maura, ex-premier and leader of the
Conservative party, according to news
in dispatches from Madrid quoting an
addreBB delivered by Senor Maura.
The address was delivered at Beran
ga, near Bilboa, at a meeting attended
by 6000 Mauraistas. The ex-premier
declared, according to dispatches, that
Spain could not abandon her neutrality
but, that the conditions of the war
made her isolation henceforth impos
sible. He is quoted as saying that it
was, moreover, essential that France
and England should not be hostile
towards Spain.
The Madrid dispatches predict that
Senor Maura's speech will cause a
strong impression throughout the
country, as his prestige was never so
high as at present. The majority of
his followers are supposed to be pro
German in their sympathies.
22 Mexicans Die in Wreck.
El Paso, Tex. Twenty-two persons
were killed when a north bound pas
senger train on the National railway
of Mexico struck a spreading rail near
Ortiz, Chihuahua, about 75 miles south
of Chihuahua City, last Sunday, ac
cording to reports received in Juarez.
The train was crowded with soldiers
and civilians when it struck the de
fective track. Several cars were
turned on their sides. The meager
reports at the border said that about
one-half of those killed were Carranza
Blodiers, bound from Torreon.
Button Famine is Feared.
New York Alarmed over the scar
city of fresh water clamshells, the
Button Manufacturers association of
America held a special meeting here
Wednesday, and decreed that "the
fresh-water clam, the mussel, must be
preserved." Members of the associa
tion said the clam had not been abun
dant this year because of the wet sum
mer, which caused the streams to wash
the mussel from its bed. Prices, they
said, were up 50 to 200 per cent
STREETCAR MEN GET
OTHER UNIONS' AID
Labor Trouble in New York Extends to
75,000 Workers.
SYMPATHETIC STRIKE ORDERED
Stage Hands, Longshoremen, Bar
tenders, Machinists, Moulders,'
Printers and Brewers Aid.
New York A strike of stage em
ployes, longshoremen, brewery work
ers, machinists, bartenders, moulders
and printers in sympathy with the un
ionized carmen who quit their places
four days ago, was decided upon at a
meeting of the heads of their unions
Sunday night, according to an an
nouncement by Hugh Frayne, state or
ganizer of the American Federation of
Labor.
A resolution was adopted calling on
all unionized wage earners in Greater
New York, ' Yonkers, Mount Vernon,
White Plains and New Rochelle to
sanction a strike "in support of the
contention of the street railway men
of their right to organize."
The resolution recommended that the
workers in the various trades "lay
down their tools until the employers
are forced to recognize the carmen's
union." According to State Organ
izer Frayne, approximately 75,000
men and women are enrolled in the
unions that were represented at the
meeting Sunday night.
Before a sympathetic strike can be
declared, however, it was explained by
the union leaders, it will be necessary
for them to call mass meetings of
their respective unions and put the
proposition to a vote of the members.
The delegates at the meeting, it was
said, assured William B. Fitzgerald,
organizer of the carmen's union, that
their members were "willing to fight
to a finish, morally, physically and
financially in the interest of trade un
ionism." Officials of the railway companies,
when informed of the action of the
union leaders, asked whether the build
ing trades were to be included in the
recommendation for a sympathetic
strike. They were told that no action
with respect to these unions had been
taken.
The meeting of the union delegates
followed a meeting held earlier in the
evening at which Samuel Gompers,
President of the American Federation
of Labor, and officials of the Central
Federated Unions in New York and
Brooklyn, as well as the heads of car
men's union, were present.
Undivided moral and financial sup
port of all trade unionists in Greater
New York was pledged in a resolution
adpoted at this conference by the
striking carmen.
Undersea Liner Commerce to Be
Abandoned by Germany
New York Despite the success of
the Deutschland venture, Germany is
prepared to abandon, for the time be
ing at least, her merchant submarine
program because of failure of the Bre
men to reach an American port, ac
cording to reports that have been re
ceived from abroad.
From an official Bource it has been
learned that the Bremen eluded the
British Channel patrol and should have
arrived in America 10 days ago. The
absence of the vessel has convinced
maritime experts that the submarine
has been lost at sea. It is probable
that her fate never will be known.
The September seas are admittedly
hazardous and this fact may explain
the fate of the Bremen. There is
practically no chance for submarines
to make the undersea passage in the
winter.
One report which has gained favor
here is that Germany intended to send
several submarines across the sea and
the first one reaching here was to be
termed the Bremen. The losses of
others, this rumor said, were to be
concealed. This is hardly possible,
however, as the British admiralty is
known to have been disappointed at
the failure to capture the Bremen.
Americans Good Bombers.
Port Royal, S. C. Americans are
latently the best bomb and grenade
throwers in the world and are capable
of waging wonderful trench warfare,
say officers in charge of recruit train
ing at this place. "The average Amer
ican youth learns to throw a baseball
with speed and accuracy and it is be
cause of that, we. as a nation, are es
pecially fitted to wage the modern war
of the trenches. Baseball is encour
aged at all our stations and the skill
displayed by marines in the bomb and
grenade practice is really remarkable."
Perils to Trade Cited.
New York Danger to the foreign
trade of the United States from eco
nomic alliances being formed by Eu
ropean belligerents was pointed out by
the National Foreign Trade council, of
which James A. Farrell, president of
the United States Steel corporation, if
chariman, in a report made public
here Monday. The council has been in
vestigating recent European trade
measures and considering the possible
effects of retaliatory legislation.
REPUBLICANS CARRY MAINE, WITH
4 REPRESENTATIVES, 2 SENATORS
Portland, Me. Maine Republicans,
reinforced by returning Progressives,
won a signal victory at the election
Monday.
They elected a governor, an auditor,
two United States senators and four
representatives in congress and, wrest
ing control of the state house of repre
senatives from the Democrats, will be
able on joint vote of the legislature to
elect the other state officers not chosen
by popular vote.
Carl E. Milliken led his ticket, de
feating Governor Oakley C. Curtis,
who sought re-election, by a plurality
of approximately 13,000.
The Republican drift extended to
county officers, the greater number of
counties choosing Republican county
attorneys and sheriffs. These offices
are important locally because the hold
ers are charged with enforcing the
prohibition law.
The vote was heavy, as had been ex
pected, for the campaign had been
waged with a determination not Been
in recent years. The country waB
searched out for speakers of national
prominence and the greater number of
these battled on national issues. The
fight was particularly hot for the two
United States senatorships and the
four places held by Maine in the lower
house at Washington. National de
fense, the tariff and the eight-hour law
for railroad men loomed large in the
speeches.
American Warning to Stay Out
of Mexico May Be Revoked
New London, Conn. With the bor
der situation set aside temporarily, the
American-Mexican joint commission
devoted itself Tuesday to determining
the extent of thSfcontrol exercised in
Mexico by the de facto government,
the information being supplied by the
Mexican commissioners at the request
of their American conferees.
It was stated informally that upon
the showing made by the Carranza
government rested the possibility that
the Washington government would re
voke its warning to Americans to stay
out of Mexico, and would encourage
their return to their properties there.
It was explained that the question
of transportation was vital to any re
sumption of industry in Mexico, and to
show present conditions the Mexican
commissoners presented figures from
which the following conclusion was
drawn in a formal statement issued by
secretary Lane.
"The data presented by the Mexican
commissioners indicated that the gov
ernment roads now are being operated
with a large degree of regularity, and
that the roads owned by private com
panies are being turned over to these
companies, the only exceptions at the
present time being a line in the feder
al distrcit, one in the state of Hidalgo,
and the United Railways of Yucatan."
Balkan Policy is Planned by
Kaiser and Bulgarian King
Berlin, via London The visit of
King Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, to the
German emperor at eastern headquar
ters is being made the occasion of an
important conference on the near-eastern
situation, particularly that jn the
Balkans.
King Ferdinand is accompanied by
the chief of his cabinet, while the Im
perial German Chancellor, Dr. von
Bethmann-Hollweg, is in attendance
on the German emperor as his respon
sible political adviser. The other Teu
tonic allied governments also are rep
resented at the conference, which, it
is understood, will not be without
effect upon the future grouping in the
Balkans.
While apparently there is no inclin
ation to divide the lion's skin before
the animal is killed, it is considered
advisable and timely, in view of Rou
mania's entry into the war, and the
Greek attitude, to discuss certain ques
tions of general policy and the aims of
the Teutonic allies in the near-east.
Concrete proposals, however, are not
under review. The conference rather
is devoted to a general survey of the
situation, and study of the general
lines of the Balkans policy.
Weed Good for Medicine.
Marshfield, Or. N. Schoemaker, a
German scientist, has been making his
home at Sunmer for the past several
months, and in that time has been
manufacturing digitalin from fox
glove, which is abundant in that neigh
borhood. All the boys in the neighbor
hood are making circfls money by gath
ering the poisonous weed for the Ger
man, who has enlarged his operations
and asserts he is extracting valuable
medicinal properties from the weed,
which heretofore was not considered to
have any commercial value.
Holy War Aiding Turks.
Washington, D. C. A holy war,
decreed by the unni Mohammedans,
and a war of pillage and robbery by
the various tribes of Turkestan, have
proved of material aid to the Turks in
their advance into Persia, according to
dispatches reaching here Tuesday.
Russian reinforcements, however, has
dispelled large bands of the nomad
auxiliaries of the Turks. The Turkish
regular forces in Persia are estimated
at only about 20,000 men.
WORLD'S DOINGS
Of CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume of General News
from All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHEU
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
Maine Republicans elect entire state
and national ticket Monday.
Greece is expected to enter the war
soon on the side of the allies.
The Southern Pacific is furnishing
50 freight cars daily to relieve the car
shortage in Oregon.
Dealers in Klamath Falls, Or., ship
88 fine horses to New York for the
French government.
Surface cars in many sections of
New York City, are stopped by the
strike and the situation has become
serious.
Henry Ford, the millionaire auto
maufacturer, spent a few hours in
Portland Monday, where he inspected
the local plant.
According to reports from Rudolph
M. Anderson, member of the StefansBon
exploring party, the latter has discov
ered new land bearing copper deposits.
Resolutions requesting that all Kan
sas City high schools girls be required
to wear uniforms will be presented to
the board of education at its next
meeting.
Colorado's first snow of the Beason
fell at Leadville Wednesday, according
to reports to the weather bureau. The
snow began Tuesday night and amount
ed to nearly one inch.
The Belgische Dagblad announces
that the German authorities have
seized 30,000,000, which had been
placed in the coffers of the Belgian
National bank, in consequence of the
suspension of the moratorium.
Mrs. Mary Brundage, 75 years old,
widow of the late Superior Judge Ben
Brundage, a pioneer of Kern county,
California, has registered as freshman
in the Kern County High school and.
will study the Spanish language.
The number of cases of infantile
paralysis reported in the New York
department of health Wednesday was
smaller than on any previous day since
June 26. The deaths were only nine,
which is the lowest since July 5.
Men who have been on strike at
Chisholm, Minn., for the past three
months, returned to the mines Wed
nesday. Mine officials are prepared to
start full crews at all properties, and
all former strikers are quoted as de
claring the iron ore strike is over.
Withdrawal of about 140,564 acres
of land from the Monterey National
Forest, California, to be opened for
settlement, is announced by the Inter
ior department. The lands are in San
Benito, Monterey and Fresno counties
and are said to be valuable chiefly for
grazing, though scattered tracts have
some agricultural value.
E. P. Ripley, president of the Atch
ison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, an
nounces that he will bring suit to test
the constitutionality of the recently
enacted eight-hour law. He was of
the opinion that other Western rail
roads would do likewise. He termed
the law confiscatory, called it class,
legislation and said it was in violation
of freedom of contract.
Hop growers and handlers are urged
by the United States department of
Agriculture to make certain that the
sulphur they use in curing is abso
lutely free from any trace of arsenic.
The accidental presence in occasional
shipments of American hops of minute
traces of arsenic introduced through
use of impure sulphur has led at times
to rejection of shipments, especially in
cases of exports to foreign countries
with rigid hop standards.
French forces are clearing the way
for a new offensive south of the Somme.
Germany is preparing to enter most
energetically into the trade war which
she expects will follow the present
conflict.
What the police declare to have
been a deliberate attempt to wreck a
Santa Ee train carrying 200 passen
gers from San Diego to Los Angeles is
alleged to have been prevented by the
discovery by a track-walker of loose
rails on the San Diego river bridge.
Railroad officials say that a train cross
ing even at a moderate speed would
likely have been hurled to the bed of
the river, 20 feet below.
The German emperor has sent a con
gratulatory telegram to the King of
Bulgaria on the brilliant success of his
troops against the Roumanians.
President Wilson signs the Federal
workmen's compensation act passed re
cently by congress. The law provides
relief for government employes injured
at their work.
The ports of Kilwa Kivinje and Kil
wa Kisiwani. in German East Africa
respectively 150 and 175
of Dar-Es-Salaam, have surrendered to
tne Bntisn under threat of bombardment