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Newspaper Page TextRIBUNE ! EDFORD FORECAST Tonight n ill Satin-day l'nrtly Cloudy. WEATHER Maximum jivsU'wluy, HO; Minimum tMluyt 52. Forty-sixth Your. . Imily i:ioV',nth Year. MEDFORD OWKC.OX, FIJI DAY, KKl'TKMBKK 8, 191(5 NO. 145 M MAILT 3' 4 CONGRESS Becord-Breaking Session Ends Au liropriations Total $1,626,439,210 Chamberlain Asks Lobby Probe- Homestead Grazing Bill Passed 17,801 Bills Introduced and 252 Become Laws, in Addition to 33 Public Resolutions and 150 Bills. WASHINGTON', Sept. S. Congrass adjourned nine die this morning at 10 o'clock concluding a session rocord breaking in many respects, with ap propriations and authorizations for the future running well toward two billion dollars. Approprlatlons-iit the scsion closed today totalled exactly ? 1 ,0 20 ,4 39.a 1 0, which, with obligations and authori zations for the future makes the total $1,858,384,483. These figures, announced In speeches by Representatives Fitzger ald, New York, democrat, and Gillett, Massachusetts, republican, were de fended by the former and attacked by the latter as half a billion dollars greator than at any session of a re publican congress. Senator Owen announced in the scnato today that he would not fur ther, press his corrupt practices bill at this session but would let It re main tlio unfinished business before that body and call it up at next ses sion. Work ltecnpltiiliilcMl As, senators and representatives as sembled from brief rests following the arduous night sessions both hous es marked tlmo while awaiting the final formalities of the greatest ses sion of congress In many respects In history. in closing addresses while awaiting t lie arrival of President Wilson, ref erences to the long program of legis lative achievements were made, dom inated chiefly by national propared ness measures at a cost of more than $600,000,000. Democrats lauded the record of the session and commended It to the country while republicans sought to criticise, alleging waste and extrava gance In spite of the appropriations for defense. Two llillinn Dollar Country .Administration champions In Infor mal reviews of the congress answered republican taunts of a "two billion congress," with declarations that the "United States is a .two billion dollar .country." The senale began Its session at 8 a. m. upon passage of the emergency revenue bill. At the outset Senator James Hamilton Lewis sought to have passed the Spanish war widows pen sion bill. Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia announced that such a meas ure could not pass for several years. If he could prevent It. Senator Owen then addressed the senate on his corrupt practices bill. In withdrawing the bill Senator Owen said that the democratic party had broken its platform pledges relating to such an act, but charged that a re publican filibuster was responsible for the dilatory tactics which had pre vented a vote. "I profoundly regret that the lead ers of the republican side have taken a position against this bill, said he. "There 1b nothing about It that could not havo been adjusted and It ought to be notice to the moral clement of the country what It may expect in the coming election." (luniilMM'Inln Protest Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, (Continued on page three) WASHINGTON. Sep!. 8. Six'; seven of the large: -team railways earned a net revenue of s.'i-Ti per mile during last July, a nincrca-c of .f-i:t a mile over July, !).). A summary made, public today by I he interstate commerce .commission shows net rev ennes totalled .41.X.',fl21. compare,! with .lli,:i-,N,''8M in July. 1!M'. The large-t gains were made in til? oai-l NDS WORK ADJOURNS MOVES TO RELIEVE 4- l'OliTl.AND. Or.. Sent. H. Shippers were notified bv ol'fi- 4 .if tln Koothorn Pni'il'it railroad here today that, begin- niiiif next Monday snociul trains from California will begin bring- ing fit ty freight cars per day into Oregon. The cars will con tinue to conic into the state until tlie shortage is relieved. The Oregon public, service commis sion yesterday ordered an in vestigation of the shortage, which it is said has forced the closing down of u number of manufacturing plants. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 8'. The National Woman Suffrage asso ciation convention today defeated by an overwhelming vote u resolution that the association in the present national campaign support only those candidates for national offices who pledge .their support to the passage of the Susan B. Anthony amendment for a federal constitutional amend ment. The resolution was offered bv Ills. Raymond Uobins of Chicago and a number of other delegates. In enrryin - out the election the wo men are using voting machines and for the last two" days-delegates have been practicing on the machines in order to be able to vote without mak ing a mistake. Sirs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 'national president of the or ganization, tried one in New York, a week ago and voted a full ticket in seventeen seconds. With the exception of three offi cers who have announced they will retire, all the present officers expect to be re-elected. So Tar as can be learnqd, Mrs. Cult has no opposition for president. It is said Mrs. Walter McNab Miller of Columbia, Mo., will be elected first vice-president to suc ceed Mrs. Frank M. Koessing of Pittsburg. TO E CHICAGO. Sept. 8. Details of tin "spiritual" promptings which caused him to slay his young wile to "save her soul,'1 are contained in a confes sion said to have been obtained from J. Maurice Pettit. the former Cedar Rapids. la., bank cashier, in jail here today. The confession was made public by (lie state's attorney's office late I.-'- l night. In the confession Pettit is quoted as saying that when he was married in the early part of the year he ex pected to live with Ins wile on "spiritual plane," hut that hi mother in law objected to that plan. Al though his wife wils a "pure woman," the confession continued, he had at tacks of jealous fits in one of which he cut the throat of his wile with a razor and left her lying dead while he fled the house. According to the confession Pettit sought to kill himself on a farm near Detroit, where he was captured, and that he vet hoped to end his life so he could join his bride "-piritually.'' WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. Members of the conference committee on the revenue bill today pointed out an Im portant change in the Income tax sec tion as finally approved, extending the $4,000 exemption, Instead of the $3,000 one to "heads of families whether married or not, replacing the provision of the old law, wh'ch cave the larger exemption only to "married persons." BULBARS SEIZE DOBRIC FORTRESS SERIOUS LOSS IN LOSING ORSOVA Russians Join In Offensive in Balk ansSlavs Cross Dvina German Attacks Along Somme Futile Brit ish Raid Trenches Near Lille Fighting in Orogress on All Fronts. LONDON, Sept. 8 The beginning of a great battle in southeastern liu mania, where the Russians have taken the offensive against the llulgarians and Germans, is reported in a Home dispatch given out by the Wireless l'ress. LONDON, Sept. 8. An undated of ficial Bulgarian announcement re ceived here says the Bulgarian and German forces which nrc invading eastern ltuniailia have captured the fortress of Dobrie ( Ilasardjik) and the scaporls of Ilultjik, Kavarna and Kali Akra. The occupation ot Or sova by the liuniuninns is conceded in the Bulgarian statement. Orsova Is Seized. LONDON, Sept. 8. liunianinn troops have occupied Orsova, an im portant Hungarian town on the Dan ube, according to a dispatch to the Times from Bucharest today. Or sova is one of the principal ports on the lower Danube and has consider able commercial importance. The struggle is now under way over the whole front in Dobrudju between the Danube and the Black sea. Fight g is desperate near Bultjik, on the Black sea coast, about ten miles north of the Bulgarian frontier. fliis information, the wireless dis patch says, virs "received in Ifomo from Pctrogrud. (tcrniaiis ltoptilesd. PKTliOOUAD, Sept. 8. Russian troops winch have crossed the Dvinn .river, north of Dvinsk were atlackcd repeatedly by the' Germans yester day, the war office announces, but succeeded in holding the captured positions. PA HIS, Si'pt. 8 Violent artillery fighting is under way in the front in Greek Macedonia, t he war office an nounced today. The principal en agements are in progress on the Struma front, in the region of Mount Boles and in the vicinity of Lake Doi- rau. On Nomine Front. PAHIS, Sept. 8. Renewed and parliculurly violent ultacks were made bv the Germans on the Soniuic front Inst night in an effort to re ain ground won by the French. The war office announced today that the German assaults were futile, the French holding their ground every where. The German attacks were made in strong force on the front between Bernv and Chaulncs, south of Hie Somme. Fighting was especially between Vermundovillers and Chaul ncs. The Germans preceded their in fan try assaults with intense bombard incuts. The Germans al.-o made an effort to regain the ground won bv the French yesterday on he Verdun front between Yuux-Chupitrc wood anil Chenois, where ncarlv a mile of the German first line positions were car ricd. The official report say the German onslaughts were iinsucee-s fill. Jtalds by British. LONDON, Sept. 8. British troops southwest of Lille la-t night raided the German trendies southeast of (Continued on page lx) TWO BRITISH SHIPS LONDON. Sept. H. The Briti-h stcani-hip Strathlay and the Kller man line steamship Tagus have been sunk. The crew of the Strathtuy was saved. It is rcpor'ed the Brit ish stcam-hip llazelwood has been sunk. The Stralhtay, 4248 ton-, sailed from New York August 22 for Havre. The llazelwood was a IllOO-ton ves sel. The Tati was ol 957 tons. OR CAUSES NATION S CROPS Output of Corn Clipped 67,000,000 Bushels, Wheat 43,000,000 Bushels, Oats 43,000,000 Bushels, Potatoes 46,000,000 Bushels Tobacco Alone Shows Increase In Yields. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. Hot and dry weather during August caused a loss ot 67,000,000 bushel in the pros pective production of corn, 43,000,- 000 bushel in spring wheat crop, 43, 000,000 bushel In oats and 4G.000,- 000 bushel In potatoes. Tobacco pro duction prospects increased 27,000, 000 pounds. A stutement issued by tho depart ment commenting upon the report. says: "Nearly all crops doclined In condi tion during the past month, duo to the hot, dry weather in the northern and central wost portions of the Unit ed States. "Corn declined In prospect 07,000,- 000 bushels: spring wheat doclined 43,000,000 bushels, oats 44,000,000; barley, 11,000.000, potatoos 46,000,- 000 bushels and apples 3,900,000 barrels. 'On the other hand, tobacco pros pects Improved 27,000,000 . pounds and the hay estimate is 1,600,000 tons higher than the August 1 fore cast and flax and sugar beet pros pects Improved slightly. "Tho reduction of the spring wheat condition brings the forecast ot all wheat down to 611,000,000 buBhclB, which Is not more than the normal domestic requirement and compares with an estimated production of slightly over 1,009,00(000 bushels last year and 783,000,000 the yearly average of tho preceding five years. "The corn crop, forecast Is now slightly below the avorage prediction of recent years, the shortage bolng most severe in Kansas. In most states almost an average crop is fore cast. "The oat crop Is short only In com parison with early forecasts and ap ples are now estimated at 67,700,000 barrels." I OFF WASHINGTON, Scpl. 8. Presi dent Wilson left. Washington at 1 o'clock for a slav .which may exlend until lifter election in November. 11c expects to arrive at Allanlie City at 5:4,") o'clock this nflcnioon, nnd to night will speak before the National American Woman SnlTrngo associa tion. After spending Ihc night in At Inutio City he will motor to the sum mer while hou-c, Slmdow l.awn, at Long Brunch, N. J., for mi extended slay. The president was busy up to the lime of his departure with work in cident to the adjournment of eon gross. After spending an hour at the capitol signing bills, lie returned t tin' while house nnd attached his sig nature to ninny commissions and ex ecutive papers. FORD LOSES SUIT PORTLAND, Sopt. S. V. W. Wln- cliell and F. M. Hathaway of Kugcne, won their suit against the Ford Motor Company In federal court yesterday when Judge II. S. Bean directed tho Jury to return a verdict In favor of the plaintiffs. The verdict awards the plaintiffs a refund of $16,077.50 and $6,000 damages. On the theory that the Ford com pany had violated the anti-trust law by Its efforts to force the plaintiffs, who were agents of the company, to maintain certain selling prices on Ford automobiles, tho plaintiffs Im mediately filed a motion asking that the amount of the damages awarded bo trebled. The ant-trust law pro vides that victims of violations of the anti-trust law .e entitled to three times the ac'ual amount of damages suffered. Arguments on this motion will be heard next Monday. DEFENSE OF U.S. PR NGiPALWORK 64TH CONGRESS Reorganization and Re-equipment of Army and Navy Appropriations Break Records Much Important Legislation Enacted Many Con structive Measures Become Laws. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. The first session of the sixty-fourth congress which adjourned today was concern ed chiefly with national defense. When the gavel fell congress hud directed reorganization and re-equip ment of the army and navy for do tense ot the country at the unprece dented cost of $655,000,000 with au thorizations that will increase the to. tal in three years to nearly $800,000, 000. With all othor expenditures, appropriations were brought to the grand total ot $1,637,583,082, the greatest aggregate In the country's fiscal year by more than half a bil lion dollars. Expenditures, necessitated by pre paredness and tho calling Into action of military forces to meet the Moxl- can emergency demanded revenuo legislation in the closing days ot the session. Congress responded by doubling the normal tax on Incomes, creating an inheritance tax, muni tions tax and miscellaneous excise taxes to raiso $205,000,000 and by directing sale of $130,000,000 Pan ama Canal bonds. Work Is Slliiunallzcd Congress established a tariff com mission; a government shipping board to rehabilitate the American mer chant marine; a workmen's compen sation commission to administer i now "uniform- compensation lawt i farm loan bunking system; A child labor law; enlarging the Bystem of self-government In the Philippines and enacted many othor important laws which had been contemplated by the administration. The session was disturbed through out by frequently recurring threats of foreign complications from the Euro pean war and imminence at one time of a diplomatic break with Germany interference with American mails and commerce; invasion of American soil and killing of Americans by Mexican bandits, and danger of actual war with Mexico. Later In the session trouble arose over the nomination of Louis D. I Iran dels of Boston, to succeed tho lato Justice Lamar as a member of the su prenie court. Weeks of Investigation and deliberation by the Judiciary com mittee ended in confirmation of Mr llrandcls by a largo majority.'1 Averting tho Htriko , . In the week before, adjournment congress was occupied with legisla tion which porvented a threatened nation-wide railroad strike. Presi dent Wilson, after futilo negotiations with officials of the railroads and railroad brotherhoods, submitted the controversy to congress, recommend ing legislation to prevent the strike and to prevent such emergencies from arising In the future. After a week of consideration, during which the president visited the capitol daily, conferring with admln istratloa leaders, a bill was passed to establish an eight hour had as a basis of pay for railroad workers, the pres ent rate of pay for ten hours not to be reduced and the men to receive prorata pay for work In excess of eight hours pending an investigation by a special commission Into tho ef fect of the eight hour day on railroad revenues. Most Important legislative enact ments o fteh session, exclusive of law-s for national defense, Included the following: Mca-Mll-oN l-iulctcl Government Ship Law: Approprlat Ing $50,000,0110 to operate ships In (Continued on page 'hree) BF.KLIN, Sept. 8.- The Dutch gov "rnmeut has announced lo the Ger man foreign office flint il will run in tain iiiisoiuie neutrality in the war between tiie "friendly powers," Ru mania and Aiitria-lliim'ury, Ger many, Bulgaria and Turkey. 4 4- NFW LONDON, Conn., Sept. 8. At the resumption hero to day of the conference of Hie Mexican-American joint com 4- mission seeking n permnnent settlement of the international difficulties, it was regarded . 4- 4- probable that before this after noon's deliberations were com pleted the Mcxicnn delegates would make a formal request for Ihc withdrawal of Genera! Pershing's punitive expedition from Mexican territory. ES E LF.WIS'I'ON, Me., Scpl. 8 Chas. K. Hughes, speaking here today, con tinned his attack on the administra tion in connection with the ennctmcut of the Adumson law. Mr. Hughes ns- serled that the "whole country stood aghast" at the abandonment of ex ecutive prerogative and congressional duty. "Now, if anyone rises in this conn try to say Unit I am nol the friend of labor," the nominee ndded, "he knows he is not telling the truth." Mr. Hughes, reviewing his record in connection with labor legislation while governor of New York, X'ead an editorial from the legislative labor news of October, 11110, in which il wiih said he was the "greatest friend of labor laws Hint ever occupied the governors chair at Albany. "That is complimentary, hut it is tnui,'" itly.' Hughes said. "It was written 'iiC'ii time when I suppose! and thev supposed that I had I forever the political field. "What we need in this country is fnir-mindedness. When we have a grievance the thing to do is to ex amine the busis of fact. There is not a ipiestion in this country that can not be settled if yon get at it in the right wav. "The hill to which I refer carried on ils face the declaration of ils own defects, it proceeded to absolutely impose a wage scale nnd then to con sider il, lo find oul whellier it had any business doing il." STILL A MYSTERY IFADI'AUTF.IIS ITNITIVK F.X- PF.DITION, Mexico, Sept. H. Border reports concerning Villa's move through the Santa Clara canyon to ward Lngiina have not hecu confirm ed bv i nvestigation, General J. J. Pershing, commander of the Aineri- nu punitive expedition, announce today. General Pcr-hing returned to field headipiiirlers after completing in-pcetion ol Hie American camps in Mexico. "I am delighted with conditions my inspection trip disclosed," be said "The American hoops in Mexico are in the pink o condition and their equipment, morale, ordnance, trans portation and couimiiuicutiou leave nothing to be de-ired.'' FAILS TO REPORT PLOT TO DESTROY PES MOINES BOSTON. Scpl. 7. Commander Bbikclv of the crui-cr Dcs Moines now at Barcelona, Spain, in a rou tine report dated today and receiver nt the navy department late tin- at tciuoon made no mention of n plot to blow up the Dcs Moines, reported in cable di-patchcs to have been dis covered bv Barcelona authorities. SHARP DECLINE IN PARALYSIS EPIDEMIC NFW YOKIs, Sept. 8.-A sharp dc elinc ill infantile pnrnlvsi- cases wa shown today in the figures announce: bv Ihi' health authorities. The tola cases were IH. or 1.1 fewer than yes tcrduy, while the dent hs( were 1, ;ll -i a drop of 13. ASK INJUNCTION AGAINST BONDS VOTED RAILROAD Attorney Newman, Acting for Charles D. Colby, Asks Circuit Court for Restraining Order Against City of Metlford Issuing $300,000 Bonds, Alleging Conspiracy and Illegality. complaint bus been filed on be half of Charles D. Colby, a Medt'ord property owner, by F. J. Newman at Jacksonville nskiug a restraining or der to prevent the sale by the city of Med ford of any bonds for tho pro posed railroad to the Blue Ledge dis trict, alleging conspiracy, friiud nnd illegality. The grounds of the complaint ns set forth by Mr. Newman are sub stantially as follows: That the charter amendment pro pared by tho city council provided that before it should become u part of the city charier it should receive -a vole of the majority of the qnuli fied voters of the cilv of Medford. At the election i:t:i7 votes were cast, 1007 for the measure. It is estimated that there nre at lenst H0I10 qualified voters in the oily, and thereforo the election was not legully carried. Technical ObjwUons. In the ordinance submitted for the vote of the people it said the rail road should he constructed from tho 'Opp mine to the Blue Ledge mining district. In the contract, tho com plaint snys, no mention was made of tlie Blue Ledge district. Also another Iciinl objection is found in the fact that there is' legally no Blue Ledge mining district. Furthermore, tho contract binds Mr. Bitllis and the Southern Oregon Traction company lo build their line to no definite place. The complaint also states that tho wholu bond issue is an attempt on Ihc part of the city of Medford to loan its credit to the Southern Oro- iin I ruction company lor the pur pose of constructing n railroad line to become the property of the said I'ompany. This, the complaint cotes, is in direct violation of article 2, sec tion il. of the constitution of thu tale of Oregon. Assumed $:ir7,()00 Debt. The ordinance voted upon by the people provided that the city nssiimc an indebtedness of .flllU.OIld. In tho out met the city lakes over a mort gage of $.-7,0l)() held against tho trac tion company. Ibis makes the tolal indcblcilness ifiiriTJMIII. No provision nuidc in the .amendment for the payment of priucipu! or interest on the $.'17,01)1). No provision has been muile, the 'omplaiut continues, for n terminal in Iho city of Medford, which must be made to insure legality, and further, provision is muile for funds for the construction of a terminal. The contract slates that Mr. Bullis will receive $10,1)1)11 for each mile of road const ruclcd. It does not, how ever, hind linn lo construct any iiei- iuite mileage. He may, under the oul met, build only a portion instead of the complete line to the Blue Ledge as contemplated. llackiMl by Taxpayers. Tl omplaiut was filed. Mr. New man explained, in the interest of a number of Medford people who are heavy taxpayers. The papers have been put in the hands of the sherilt, (Continued on page tlx) ASK TEDDY TO HELP HUGHES NKW YORK, Sept. 8. Theodore Roosevelt, according to Information from the republican national head quarters today, has been asked to take a more active part In the Hughes campaign and hns consented to a con siderable addition to the number of speeches already arranged for him. The colonel's part In the campaign was discussed at a conference at Oyster Bay, New York yesterday and today when a number of republican leaders went to Mr. Roosevelt's home to figure with blin In a series of mov. Ing pictures. These pictures will show the colonel Bhaklng hands and con versing with several promluent re publicans and progressives, .