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A MERRY CHRISTMAS A HAPPY' NEW. YEA Y MM XMAS EDITION t 1 PAGES ONE TO EIGHT 36 PAGES . I jm 5; mm THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR. 8ALEM, OREGON, SATTTBDAY, DECEMBEB 20, 1913. nnrz-r- rnrp nruTi! ON THAINS AND NWVS riyt wn 1 o stands, fivh cents. Mil ( '.Let Ays t UL 1 .1.J . AGREEMENT BR I Santa Claus and His Friends WTM (f WITH 1ST r -J inSirnSmr m DISCUSSED" fe I . ;S luUltlUtIM 111 Question Whether Steel Com 1 hination Will Get Tele phone's Chance. REPUBLICANS RAP PACT WITH TRUST Democrats Claim It Means Big Business Will Follow Terms of Law. UNITED PHBSS LEA8KD WISH. Washington, Doc. 20. Interest was still keen here today in the details of the agreement between the government and the American Telephone & Tele graph company, which will prevent lit igation to dissolve the corporation un der the Sherman anti-trtist law. Much discussion prevailed as to whether the compromise precedent would be extend ed to the steel trust. Democrats and Republicans were un able to agree aa to the wisdom of the compromise. It was characterized by the Democrats as the most striking in dication offored in a decade that "big business" has reached the conclusion that it is better to follow the terms of the Sherman law than fight it. Republicans Disapprove. Republican congressmen flatly dis approved of the compromise. They de clared the stateement of former Attorney-General Wickorsham to the inter state commerce commission last Janu ary showed law violations, discrimina tions and destruction of competition on the part of the "phone trust." They also insisted that its officials should be punished. ' Briefly, the agreement providees that the corporation shall dispose promptly of its holdings iu the Western Union Telegraph company, so that each con corn shall be entirely independeut. The company agrees to not herecaftcr ac quire control of other telephone com panies, and where control of telephone company agrees to not hereafter ac actual physical union effected, to sub mit to the intorBtate commerce commis sion and tho departmenet of justice the course it is to pursue. ... Better Than Court Tight. . Officials of the department of justice declared today that the plan gave the government more than it could have hoped to obtain in court. President Wilson was greatly pleased with the compromise and he wrote Attorney-Gen' oral MeRcynolds to this effect.. One In the president's letter, 1 read: 1 .' "I min the impression more and ., more from week to week that thebusi nous men of the country -are sincerely , desirous of conforming with the law, and it is very gratifying indeed to have occasion, aa In this instance, to deal with them in complete frankness and to be able to show them that all we desire is an opportunity to co-operate with them. 80 long aa we are dealt with In this spirit, we, can help to build up the ::. business of the country upon sound and permanent lines." Will Not Affect Coast Case. It was announced by officials of the department of justice that the agree ment will have no effoct upon the suit filed several months ago to dissolve the Doll company's connection with the Pa " cifio Telephone 4 Telegraph company, the Pacific coast branch. It was an noiinccd this suit would be pressed to determino just how far the. Sherman law applies to telephone companies, For Government Ownership. Washington, Dec. 20. Clovernmen ownership of telephone and telegraph Hue is sought In a bill Introduced lu the house today by Reproeotitativ Lewis, of Maryland. The postoffice dnpnitiiient, if the bill becomes a law, will take over those two public utilities January 1. 1015. The bill stipulates that the country '1 ,l,,nn ahull be continued under covernment owrstion after January 1 1913, and that the entire tefcpbooe and ONE WINDOW PRIED UP ' X' .t II V - V - Walking into the bedroom of Eev. S. Gill, pastor of the Episcopal church, while the clergyman, his wife and two children were asleep there, a bold rob ber, sometime early today, ransacked the place and carried away with him a gold watch, a diamond ring and oth er jewelry valued at over $300. This burglary was one of the most daring ever perpetrated in Salem, ac cording to the police. Eev. and Mrs. Gill and the children retired early last night, and all slept in the same room. The 'taief entered by prying up a win dow, and, while the occupants of the house were slumbering, calmly went through the pastor's pockets, the jewel case standing on the dresser, and even opened bureau drawers without waking the sleeping family. The members of the family were un conscious of the fact .that anyone had been in the house until this morning, when Eev. Gill looked for his watch. The police were notified immediate ly, but so far no clew has been found. It was estimated today that over 600 teachers will gather in Salem Monday to attend the thirteenth annual mooting of the Western Division of the Oregon State Teachers' Association. The sos sions will be held in the house chamber at the capitol and will close Wednesday. The officers of the association are: IT. Ackerman, president; J. Percy Wells, vice-presidoiit; II. II. llordman, Becond vice-president; E. F. Carleton, treasurer, and L. A. Wiloy, secretary, Among tho prominent educators who will doliver addresses at tho mooting are Superintendent Churchill, P. L. Campbell, president of the University of Oregon; W. J. Kerer, president of the Oregon Agricultural College; M. V, O'Shea, professor of education of the University of Wisconsin; William T. Foster, president of Reed Collego, and U. Ackerjnan, superintendent of Mon mouth Normal school., The program of Monday will be as follows: ' ' 1:15 to "2:00, presidents address; 2:00 to 2:45, address, "Looking Ahead" J. A. Churchill, 'superintendent of public nstruction; 3:00 to 3:45, address, "Ed ucational Life,"-P. U Campbell, presi dent University of Oregon; 8:00, recep tion given by Salem Commercial Club. ; ' 1 , WITH 'Or WARDEN AGAIN ' WITH EX-CONVICT , PARAMOUR . tc"iTiD run IJUSTD Will. San' Francisco, Dec. 20. Mrs. Eioma Allman Tompkins, who fled from her husband, Major John W. Tompkins, for mer warden of San Quontin, to join W. Gordon, a released convict, in Au gust, lUUit, ana wno miur ruvuruuu i her husband, wa with Gordon when he was arrested last night in a studio on California street, on a warrant issued in Seattle. Mrsi Tompkins' elopement with the ... 1.. a 1 i v;. convict was maue Known vurvugu mo arrest on August 18,-1909, 011 a charge of passing a fictitious chock. Mrs. Tompkins was living with him in an apartment. HOME CLASS TO AH OIN. IDKITKO Lio wise.) Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 20. Ah Gin, vegetable peddler, is so puffed with pride today that ho can't see his feet. He hawks his wares now from an auto bile, "Him cost 1900, bt 11I get 'em back quick," he explained. telegraph business be done over govern ment lines. Farmer' telephone systems however, are exempted. A. 7 , ' to LI r t r TO BELIEVE UNEMPLOYED. San Francisco, Dec. 20. With the mass meeting called for tomorrow, a a .starter, social workers and representa tives of various local civic societies said J 4 V ft m - today that they expected net week to launch sn extensive campaign for the relief of Hsn Francisco's unemployed. WILSON TO TAKE VACATION. Washington, Dec. 20. That President ':-rfI yA - i . ','(..', I 1 -'!V 1 i, ' ,s '! . ' 1 1 .w If V -1 ;, , . . :rT'i-l :;.r Wilson will leave Washington for a short vacation as soon n lis has sinned the currency hill, was announced defi nitely today. It will be spent at Fasti Christian, Miss. Head of American Telephone Government's Agreement With Trust Will Put Things Right Basis Also Asserts It Will Kill Movement for Gov ernment Ownership Gigantic Task to Arrange Telephone Concern to Comply With Agreement-Does Not Know What Will Be Done With W. U. Stock. DN1TID I'BBBS LSiSKD Willi. New York, Dec. 20. Immediate re storation of complote confidence in big businoss circles as a result of the gov onrmont's ogreomout with the Amori can Telephone and TologTaph company was predicted here today by Theodore Vail, president of the corporation, in an interview with the United Press. "It gives me assurance," said Vail, "that logimate business dosires and moans to end underground rumors of businoss dnpreslon and possible panic. "It will knock higher than a kite the movement for government ownership. I think it will end the movement for all time to coma. Details Not Arranged. r'I have no Idea yet of how our com pany will dispose or its 30,ouo,oou worth of Western Union stock. The details are yot to bo arranged. If we had any plan at this time for its dis posal, it would practically amount to a confession that we had 'framed up' somothinc on the government. "The matter of making contracts with 20,000 independent companies for the use of our interstate and long dis tance lines will entail a gigantic am ount of work. I fully realize that many complaints are bound to follow and will bo filod with the attoriioy-genoral, charging lis with giving the preference to our own subscribers In making long distance connections. Wo will meet this by instructing our own employes to give the preference to independent sub scribers, whenever the question arises," Bays Nover Was Merger. Vail then doclnred that the relations between tho American Tolnphone and Telegraph company and the Western Union were novor in the nature of a merger, as the two servicos wore not competitors. ; ' "The attorney-gouoriil," added Vail, "has boon .considerate of tho material ou,."e ve m ' "uu uttBU ' ,B " interests of the comraniees, as far as;"'". bought a few alteration ought . j to be made in if.. SOCIAL HYGIENE EXHIBIT AT OLD BOAED OP TBADE. , . .After being viowed by over 100, 000 ,roi(idonJs of, Oregon, a. social hygiene.cxhibit.is,,tolay in place lu tho oldjloard.ot frado , rooms, corner of State and. Commercial, where ovoryoiie l Invitud to-viow it for a wepk, .. The . ex.hiliit was brought here particdarty for for the teachers of, western Qre gon, who. will assemble hwo M,o;i day, but .evoryono intoreeted in the. great moral movement. .Row, . uiwler way , ox who wishoa to see the terrible, rofiuU of ignorance or, vice, should cull during .the woek. The exhibit Is in charge Fort- of Dr, Thomas Klliott, land. . . pf . . , The Weather The Dickey Dird rays: Oregon, fair tonight, Sunday Increasing cloudi ness, followed by rain or snow, s 0 11 1 h 0 a s t e rly winds. If OF f (MS IS and Telegraph Company Says was consistent the public." The agreement for dissolution of the merger of the Western Union and the American Telephone and Telograph's, caused a rise in both issues at the open ing of the stock market today. On the first few Bales the latter stock advanc ed to 124, a rise of 7 points. West ern Union also manifeuted strength, ris ing a full point. The entire list was strong, gains of from 1 to 3 points boieng registered by a large number of representative issues. " After a brief period of hesitation, prices reached higher level than before, except American Telephone, whica dropped 3. Mackay preferred rose 3 and American Sugar. 4. Toward theeni a slump of five points in Western Un ion and a setback in the telephone sharoe checked the upward movement, but there was little sympathetic reces sion and the close was near th top. Bonds were strong. The market closed string. , HOPE OF GETTING BILL TO PRESIDENT TODAY IS (onitiu rasas imisxd wins. Washington, Doc. 20. The currency bill came backto the house today. As passed by tho senate lust evening it was anything but the sume bill that the house sent to the upper chamber some time ago. The sonata had amended it considerably. 601110 congroHsmon were in favor of accepting bodily but not a majority. U ,.M il 1-.1 11.-1 it. ! 11.. Consequently it was sent to confer ence.' In the meantime, the senate had adjourned, precluding ratification of the measure, no matter how rapidly the couferoes might work, before Monday. It was .hoped however, -to have- it ia the president's .hands for wignature by Monday night, ' . . '. Jit iturning the bill ever t the oon- LUTCCa, VII0 11UUEW J1IJI14 UUUIU lk . wiitatlvus to accept the soaate previe- si months iapor and to five-year fm loons by .national banks. - -I A motion by Coiigressmau Mann, I5e pulilieaa . floor leader,--t accept tha ' Hitchcoi'k instead of the Owen hill, was voted down-211 to 01. . The house noniod only three confereon Congressmen Glass, Korbly and Hayes. Tho senate chose nine Sensy tor ()wen' Iioci1' 'Oo"nlu'i Poiiierwne, Hhafroth. llollls, Nelson; llristow and Crawford. ' ' " '' "NYEENA KLOSI1F. ILLAIIFiE." 41 The llttlo volume of poems pub- linked under tho above title, will be found at ration's Uook Store Monday afternoon or Tuesday. It was expected they would have biwn ripe some weeks sooner, but man priMscB and printers dispose of his idens aa beat suits them- selvi. The volume is small, which the author assorts is its chlof merit. J. It. CRADLEBAUQU. '