641 CONGRESS ADJOURNS
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ITE M S I s TREDCAR men get
Oregon OTHER UNIONS’ AID
Of General Interest
About
Record Shows Appropriations Exceeding
by More than Half Billion Past
Brief Resume of General News
Year's Expenditures.
from All Around the Earth.
Oregon Victims Alleged to Have
Ldbor Trouble in New York Extends (o
Lost $30,000 to Promoter
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHEU
SYMPATHETIC STRIKE ORDERED
Uve News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
Stage Hands, Longshoremen, Bar
tenders, Machinists, Moulders,
Printers and Brewers Aid.
75,000 Workers.
Eugene — Officers o f the United
States government sre investigating
the record o f F. G. Mathison, San
Francisco real estate dealer, arrested
Washington, D. C. — The first ses reduced during the investigation, nor
in Oakland, Cal., Monday, according tp
sion o f the Sixty-fourth congress, for 30 days thereafter, and work in
a statement made here by District A t
excess o f eight hours to be paid for at
which adjourned Friday, Sept 8, was
torney J. M. Devers. Attorney I>evers
a pro rata rate.
concerned chiefly with national de
T a riff— Creation o f a non-partisan
also stated that the authorities Iwlieve
fense.
tariff commission o f five members to
that Mathison, who is charged with
When the gavel fell congress had ' investigate and advise congress on
having obtained title to real eatate in
directed reorganization and re-equip tariff revision; repeal of the free sug
Lane and Linn counties worth from
ar provision o f exiting tariff law;
ment o f the army and navy for defense amendments increasing duties on dye
$30,000 to $40,000 in exchange for
o f the country at the unprecedented stuffs to encourage manufacturing dye
bogus abstracts o f title to Texas land,
cost o f $655,000,000, with authoriza stuffs in the United States; enactment
New York— A strike o f stage cm-
did not 0 |>erate alone and that other
Maine Republicans elect entire state
tions that w ill increase the total in of an anti-dumping provision to pre
arrests revealing a conspiracy to de- 1 ployes, longshoremen, brewery work-
and
national
ticket
Monday.
three years to nearly $800,000,000. vent dumping o f foreign-made goods
fraud on an extensive scale are prob-
i ers, machinists, bartenders, moulders
W ith all other expenditures, appropri at less thar foreign market prices;
Greece is expected to enter the war able.
j and printers in syni|>athy with the un
ations were brought to the grand total authorization for the President to re soon on the side of the allies.
District Attorney Devers prepared ionized carmen who quit their places
of $1,637,583,682, the greatest aggre taliate against foreign nations prohib
reqiustion papers for Mathison, to be ! four days ago, was decided upon at a
The Southern Pacific ia furnishing
gate in the country’s history, and ex iting importation o f goods from the
signed by the governor. In the event | meeting of the heads o f their unions
ceeding that for the last fiscal year by United States by laying an embargo 50 freigh t cars daily to relieve the car a Federal charge is perferred the state
| Sunday night, according to an an
shortage in Oregon.
more than half a billion dollars.
against imports from offending na
w ill likely turn the prisoner over to nouncement by Hugh Frayne, state or-
Expenditures, necessitated by pre tions.
Dealers in Klamath Falls, Or., ship the Federal authorities for trial, he
| ganizer o f the American Federation of
paredness and the calling into action
Cotton futures act— Providing a pro 88 fine horses to New York for the said.
| Labor.
o f m ilitary forces to meet the Mexican hibitive tax on cotton sold for future French government.
In one o f the letters in the posses-
A resolution was adopted calling on
emergency, demanded revenue legisla delivery in fictitious or wash sales.
sion o f the officers Mathison is said to
Surface
cars
in
many
sections
of
all unionized wage earners in Greater
tion in the closing days o f the session.
Philippines— Law to provide for a
have written that he had “ unloaded
Congress responded by doubling the more autonomous government o f the New York City, are stopped by the the Oregon stuff” and had done very New York. Yonkers, Moui.t Vernon,
strike
and
the
situation
has
become
White Plains and New Rochelle to
normal tax on incomes, creating an in islands,
enlarging self-government,
well. The “ Oregon stu ff" referred to
aanction a strike “ in support o f the
heritance tax, munitions tax and mis reorganizing election laws, establish serious.
is alleged to have been land to wihch [
cellaneous excise taxes to raise $305,- ing an elective senate and promising
Henry Ford, the millionaire auto he had obtained title in exchange for 1 contention of the street railway men
000,000, and by directing the sale of independence whenever, in the judg maufacturer, spent a few hours in alleged worthless abstracts o f title to of their right to organize. “
The resolution recommended that the
$130,000,000 Panama Canal bonds.
ment o f the United States, the Philip Portland Monday, where he inspected Texas land.
workers in the various trade* “ lay
Congress established a tariff com pine people demonstrate capability for the local plant.
Attorney Devers stated that In the down their tools until the employers
mission, a government shipping board it.
cases he had investigated, the ab
According
to
reports
from
Rudolph
are forced to recognize the carmen's
to rehabilitate the American merchant
Appropriations for all
purposes M. Anderson, member of the Stefansson stracts o f title which on their face
union.”
According to State Organ
marine; a workmen’s compensation were:
exploring party, the latter has discov were genuine and set up a clear chain izer Frayne, approximately
76,000
commission to administer a new uni Agriculture........................
have been made
24.948.862 ered new land bearing copper deposits. o f title pur|>orted to
men and women are enrolled in the
267.596.530
form compensation law; a farm loan A r r a y ......................................
by an abstract company which did not
and consular .
5.356.(19*
banking system; a child labor law; Diplomatic
Resolutions requesting that all Kan exist. The records in the county in unions that were represented st the
District of Columbia .......
12.M i.907
meeting Sunday night.
enlarged the system o f self-govem- I Fortifications.....................
25.74.* 060 sas City high schools girls be required
which the 1 exits land is located con
Indian affair*
10.967.544
Before a sympathetic strike ran be
ment in the Philippines and enacted Legislative
to
wear
uniforms
will
be
presented
to
and executive
37,925.690
tain no record o f such abstracts.
declared, however, it was explained by
many other important laws which had Military Academy
1.225.043 the board o f
education at its next
The land Mathison purported to con
a vy ..................................
313.300.096
the union leaders, it will be necessary
been contemplated by the administra N
Pensions .........................
158.065.0U0 meeting.
vey to the Lane county farmers alleged
for them to call mass meetings of
Postoffice................
322.937.679
tion.
to
have
been
swindled
of
their
farms,
Colorado’ s first snow o f the season
H ive r and harbor
40 .5 »*.136
their respective unions ami put the
Most important legislative enact Sundry
128.299.3*6 fell at Leadville Wednesday, according belongs to Mrs. H. M. King, reputed
civil.......................
proposition to a vote o f the members.
ments of the session, exclusive o f laws Permanent appropriations
131.074.673
The to be a multi-millionaire, o f Corpus The delegates at the meeting, it was
Shipping bill .....................
50.100.000 to reports to the weather bureau.
for national defense, included the fo l Deficiencies .....................
It is part o f her ranch,
72.500.000 snow began Tuesday night and amount Christi, Tex.
said, assured William B. Fitzgerald,
Rural credits.....................
6 .100.000
lowing:
which consists o f a Mexican grant that
Good roads .......................
6.000.000 ed to nearly one inch.
organizer o f the carmen’s union, that
Government ship law — Appropriat Floods................................
has never been subdivided. Her agent,
2 . 000.000
The Belgiache Dagblad announces Attorney Robert Kleberg, in a letter their members were " w illin g to fight
ing $50,000,000 to operate ships in
Grand to ta l.................................. S 1.637.583.682 that
the German authorities have to District Attorney J. M. Devers to a finish, morally, physically ami
foreign and coastwise trade when un
financially in the interest of trade un
In
addition to the total there were seized £30,000,000, which had been
able to lease them to individuals or
stated that Mathison was unknown to
ionism ."
authorizations for expeditures in fu placed in the coffers of the Belgian
private corporations.
him.
Officials o f the railway companies,
ture
years,
including
naval,
good
National
bank,
in
consequence
o
f
the
Child labor law— Denying interstate
From Andrew Bossen, who swore to
when informed o f the action of the
commerce to products of mines and roads, tariff commission and other ex suspension o f the moratorium.
the complaint against Mathison, title union leaders, asked whether the build
quarries employing children under 16 penditures to bring the total to approx
Mrs. Mary Brundage, 75 years old, to Lane county land worth $10,000 and ing trades were to be included in the
imately
$2,000,000,000,
but
these
years o f age and factories, mills, can
widow o f the late Superior Judge Ben $600 in personal property was obtained
neries and other establishments em amounts do not properly apply to the Brundage, a pioneer o f Kern county, in exchange for an abstract of title recommendation for a sympathetic
strike. They were told that no action
appropriations
for
the
fiscal
year.
ploying children under 14 years.
California, has registered as freshman calling for 320 acres o f the Texas land. with respect to these unions had been
In addition congress enacted an un
Rural credits law— Establishing a
in the Kern County High school and Bossen announced some time ago that taken.
farm loan board in control o f a system usually large amount of miscellaneous w ill study the Spanish language.
he had sold his farm and that he was
The meeting o f the union delegates
legislation, including reorganization of
of farm loan mortgage banks.
going to Texas to develop his newly
followed a meeting held earlier in the
the
patent
office;
provision
for
trial
of
The
number
o
f
cases
o
f
infantile
Workmen’s compensation law— Pro
acquired land.
evening at which Samuel Gom|>ers,
viding uniform sick and accident bene space system in place o f weight sys paralysis reported in the New York
From Pierce & Dehel, o f Pleasant President o f the American Federation
tem
for
payment
for
railroad
mail
department
of
health
Wednesday
was
fits for employes of the Federal gov
Hill, titile to a 320-acre tract o f Lane
ernment and benefits to dependents service and leaving to the Interstate smaller than on any previous day since county land was obtained by Mathison. o f Labor, and officials of the Central
Federated Unions in New York and
June
26.
The
deaths
were
only
nine,
Commerce
commission
determination
in case o f death.
Marvin Martin, o f Brownsville, Linn Brooklyn, aa well as the heads o f car
Emergency revenue law— Providing o f the method and rate of pay; crea which is the lowest since July 5.
county, gave a deed for 378 acres of men’s union, were present.
for doubling the normal income tax on tion of a National Park bureau in the
Men who have been on strike at Oregon land and a note for $2800 for
Undivided moral and financial sup
the lowest class; making an addition department of the Interior; establish Chisholm, Minn., fo r the past three an abstract o f title to 480 acres of
port of all trade unionists in Greater
al surtax ranging from 1 per cent on ing warehouse regulations for cotton months, returned to the mines Wed Texas land.
New York was pledged in a resolution
that portion o f incomes exceeding and grain and providing a new grain nesday. Mine officials are prepared to
S. J. Johns, o f Myrtle Creek, Doug adpoted at this conference by the
grading
law;
extension
for
a
year
of
$20,000 to 13 per cent on amount of
start full crews at all properties, and las county, was about to complete an
incomes in excess o f $2,000,000; levy the government War Risk Insurance all former strikers are quoted as de exchange of his property for Texas striking carmen.
ing a graduated tax o f 1 to 10 per cent bureau; uniform law making bills of claring the iron ore strike is over.
land offered by Mathison.
He took
on inheritances ranging from $50,000 lading negotiable.
Mathison’s abstract o f title to an at
Withdrawal o f about 140,564 acres
Proposed legislation which failed of
to $5,000,000; a 10 per cent net profit
torney. There was some question
tax on manufacturers o f munitions, 5 enactment and has gone over until of land from the Monterey National to Texas law and letters of inquiry
per cent net profit tax on manufac next winter includes the immigration Forest, California, to be opened for written to attorneys in Texas revealed
turers o f materials entering into muni bill; the corrupt practices act to lim it settlement, is announced by the Inter that the abstracts of title were not
New York — Despite the success of
tions; a license tax on actually invest campaign expenditures for election of ior department. The lands are in San genuine, it is stated
the Deutschland venture, Germany is
ed capital stock of corporations capi the President, Vice President and Benito, Monterey and Fresno counties
prepared to abandon, for the time E>e-
talized at more than $99,000; wine, members o f congress; a vocational ed and are said to be valuable chiefly for
ing at least, her merchant submarine
beer and liquor excise taxes and mis ucation bill passed by the senate; con grazing, though scattered tracts have
program because of failure o f the Bre
servation legislation, including the some agricultural value.
cellaneous stamp taxes.
Baker— Fire destroyed the sawmill men to reach an American port, ac
Good roads law— Providing fo r co public lands water power bill, the
E. P. Ripley, president of the Atch
operative Federal aid to the states for Shields navigable streams water power ison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, an o f the Oregon Lumber company at cording to reports that have been re
construction of highways and appro bill, which failed in conference; the nounces that he w ill bring suit to test South Baker Monday afternoon, caus ceived from abroad.
From an official source it has been
priating $75,000,000 to be spent in five oil leasing bill, including relief for the constitutionality o f the recently ing a loss of $40,000, with no insurance.
The blaze is believed to have started learned that the Bremen eluded the
California oil men; a flood control bill enacted eight-hour law.
years.
He was of
Postal savings law— Amendment in which passed the house and a bill to the opinion that other Western rail by Powder-like sawdust in the engine- British Channel patrol and should have
room, igniting from the fire under the
creasing the amount wnich individuals establish citizenship for natives o f roads would do likewise.
He termed boilers. In an instant the entire mill arrived in America 10 days ago. The
absence o f the vessel hHH convinced
may deposit from $500 to $1000 with Porto Rico.
the law confiscatory, called it class
Four treaties were ratified by the legislation and said it was in violation was ablaze and burned rapidly. For a maritime experts that the submarine
interest, and a additional $1000 with
while the entire $100,000 plant and has been lost at sea. It is probable
senate. The most important were the of freedom of contract.
out interest.
many
other buildings were threatened, that her fate never will be known.
long-pending
Nicaraguan
convention
Federal reserve— Amendments, in
Hop growers and handlers are urged but the Baker fire department and 150 The September seas are admittedly
cluding amendment to the Clayton providing for the acquisition o f a canal
anti-trust law permitting officers and route and naval stations rights in the by the United States department of men worked heroically and kept the hazardous and this fart may explain
Several cars the fate o f the Bremen.
There is
directors o f member banks to become Bay o f Fonseca for $3,000,000 and Agriculture to make certain that the flames from spreading.
o
f
lumber
were
pulled
to
safety just practically no chance for submarines
sulphur
they
use
in
curing
ia
abso
that
ratified
in
the
closing
hours
pro
officers and directors o f not more than
to make the undersea passage in the
two
other
non-competing
banks; viding for the purchase o f the Danish lutely free from any trace o f arsenic. in time.
winter.
amendments permitting national banks West Indies for $25,000,000. Another The accidental presence in occasional
Man 100 Years Old Dies.
One report which has gained favor
to establish foreign branches, liberal was the treaty with the Republic o f shipments of American hops o f minute
Salem — George W. Bennett, aged here is that Germany intended to send
izing regulations for discounting com Hayti providing for an American finan traces o f arsenic introduced through
mercial paper and permitting member cial protectorate. The much-disputed U9e ° f impure sulphur has led at times k > o years and 6 months, died Monday several submarines across the sea and
■ Colombia,
- - - -
-
to rejection of shipments, especially in at the
• - State - Insane ....................
.... had ■ the first one reaching here was to be
after
hospital. He
banks in towns of 5000 or less popula pending treaty with
The losses o f
tion to act as agents for insurance several years o f consideration, was cases o f exports to foreign countries l>een a patient o f the hospital since termed the Bremen.
1910 and previous to that time was an others, this rumor said, were to be
companies.
favorably reported from the foreign with rigid hop standards.
This is hardly possible,
Railroad legislation— Creation of a relations committee with an amend
French forces are clearing the way inmate o f the Soldier’s Home at Rose- concealed.
joint sub-committee of senate
and ment reducing from $25,000,000 to for a new offensive south o f the Somme. burg. Mr. Bennett was born in New however, as the British admiralty Is
York and served through the C ivil war. known to have been disappointed at
house interstate commerce committees $15,000,000 the proposed amount to be
Germany is preparing to enter most He had no known relativies and the the failure to capture the Bremen.
to investigate necessity for further j paid fo r the partition o f Panama.
energetically into the trade war which body is being held (tending instructions
legislation for railroads and the Inter
she expects will follow the present from Bennett’s guardian, Captain J.
Perils to Trade Cited.
state Commerce commission, question
French Plants Visited.
conflict.
*
A. Duchanan, o f Roseburg.
o f government ownership of public
New York— Danger to the foreign
Paris — Members o f the American
Utilities and comparative worth of Economic
trade o f the United Statea from eco
Mission,
now
visiting
What the police declare to have
government ownership as against gov France, were received Saturday by f)een a deliberate attempt to wreck a Heavy Rain Causes Loss to Growers. nomic alliances being formed by Eu
ernment regulation.
Sheridan— The showers o f Saturday ropean belligerents was pointed out by
David Mennet, of the National Associ- Santa Fe train carrying 200 passen-
Rai 1 roadj;ight-hour day law— Es*ab- ation o f Economic Expansion, and also gers from San Diego to Los Angeles is settled down into a steady drizzle, the National Foreign Trade council, of
lishing
eight
as *'
the -*■
standard
i
L* hours
1
J ’ for
'
conferred with representatives o f vari alleged to have been prevented by the threatening wholesale damage to grain which James A. Farrell, president of
reckoning the compensation of railroad ous industrial groups concerning ways discovery by a track-walker o f loose and hops.
Hoppicking commenced the United States Steel corftoration, ia
employes operating trains in interstate of developing the commercial relations rails on the San D iego river bridge. with the growers anxious to get the chariman, in a report made public
commerce after January 1, 1917, and o f the two countries. During the stay Railroad officials say that a train cross crops in. They estimate a 20 per cent here Monday. The council has been In
providing for a commission of three to in Paris the members will visit the ing even at a moderate speed would loss already— 100 bales of the 600 that vestigating recent European trade
investigate the effects o f the eight- principal industries ami the biggest es likely have been hurled to the bed of was estimated as the season output measures and considering the possible
hour standard, present wages not to be tablishments working for the army.
effects of retaliatory legislation.
from this section.
the river, 20 feet below.
Undersea Liner Commerce to Be
Abandoned by Germany
Baker Mill is Burned.