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of The Capital Journal TI II)AV EVKVIXO, Mnrth 0, If 17. CHABIXS H. IlSHEa diior an Editorial Page PUBLISHED ETF.I5T EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, 8 ALE If. OBF.OOX. BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. & BABXE8, CIIAS. H. FISHER. PreaiJent. Vice-President. DOHA C. AXDRESEX, bee. and Treat. SCiiSCRliTlU.S 1CATK3 T'aily by earner, per year Daily by mail, per year ..t J.OO .. 3.00 Per month I'er mouth . ..45c 35e FULL LEASED WIRE TKLKORAPH REPORT EASTERN KEPKLBEXTATl VES Kew York, W. D. Ward, Tribune Uuildinj?. Chiengo, W. H. Ntnekwell, People a Gas Building. The Capital Journal rarrier boys are instructed to put tlie papers ou the porch. If tie carrier doei not do this, tnissos you, or neglect getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following in structions. Phone Main 81 before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be sent you ly special messenger if the carrier has niiimed you. A HELPLESS LEGISLATIVE BODY LANE MIS HE PRESENTS OREGON The president has served notice on the senate that he will not call an extra session of congress unless the senate now in session make new rules under which it can trans act the business of the country. The president is pre eminently right. Of. what use to call a lot of senators together so long as a handf ull of them can prevent any or nil legislation? Acting on the president's demand the democratic senators have arranged for a caucus today at 10::;0 to consider ways and means of amending the rules 0 as to limit debate. ' This attempt will meet with serious objection, as many of the senators are stubbornly opposed to any rule that will "interfere with their constitutional right" to discuss a bill or measure "fully." The suggestion was made yes terday looking to a limiting of ('ebate that shows how strenuous the senators are in providing methods of "how not to do it." The plan suggested is that sixteen senators at any time may by signing a petition have a vote taken the following day, "to close debate." An af firmative vote of two thirds would then result in "each senator being limited to one hour discussion of any bill or amendment." Those familiar with legislative proceedings will recog nize the absurdity of such an arrangement. The fili busters would have an hour each at the bill. Then they would propose an amendment and they would each have another hour. Their filibuster would only end when they got tired of offering amendments. It is right and proper that each senator should be heard, if he so desires, on any measure; but this right 'does not, or at least should not permit him to read Robinson Crusoe or Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress hour after hour when debating a question of national polity. What is needed just now is a series of messages from home for each of the senators who insulted and humiliated the nation by their filibustering tactics. At the same time a few messages to the other senators that they must either establish rules under which the country's business can be attended to, or prepare to step down and give place to younger men who are not wrapped up in senatorial precedent and endless red tape. Those senators wrho in sist on their "constitutional rights" to unlimited talk should get a hint that the people, too, have some constitu tional rights, one of which is to have their business at tended to without hindrance from a lot of selfseeking politicians who cater to influences not American. A BUNCH OF SILLY WOMEN The suffragettes are sore at the president because he refused to meet a delegation of them who have been picketing the white house for a month and say they will go home and "shout it from the house tops" how he kept a lot of American women standing out in the rain and refused to let them come in, or to see them. They forget that only a short time ago the president invited them to go inside, feeling sorry for them when he saw they were suffering from cold, and they refused. Since then he has politely let them stay outside, since it seemed to be their wish. However if they will go home and mount the house tops, they can "holler" until their neighbors declare an open season for suffragettes before the people generally mourn them and then they wont. By their utterly fool ish actions they have delayed the coming of national suf frage for twenty years, and if they continue to pursue the same tactics they will delay that day indefinitely. The Chinese tong war has broken out again, this time, in several places at once. Two were killed at San Fran cisco yesterday, two at Stockton, one at San Jose and one at Oakland, while at Seattle a dozen shots were fired but no one hurt. Sometime the Chinese will be made to obey American laws, instead of relying on gunmen ; and if they do not take the hunch and quit their murderous plan of settling their affairs the whole caboodle of them will be sent out of the country. If they only killed each other it might be more easily borne, but instead the gunmen turn loose when the opportunity comes regardless of whom they may hurt. Senator Hai ry Lane is almost universally condemned by the people of Oregon for his stand against the pres ident. The mildest criticism that may be made of his action is that he showed poor judgmentmany believe him to be unpatriotic and, therefore, unfit to occupy the high position of senator in congress. Taking the milder point of view it may bo said that wisdom would have prompted the senator to accede to the wishes of the pres ident, whose leadership must be accepted without ques tion in time of a great national crisis. To grant the powers he asked for did not necessarily mean war, but would be more likely than anything else to prevent it The president stands for peace and a solid nation behind him would so impress the foreign countries that they would be far more likely to refrain from eivine: cause for hostilities than if they are given the impression that the i. 1 ! 1 1 1 . . . nation is torn oy cuscora ana unanie to act as a unit. . In brief there is the greatest possible danger of the country actually drifting into war when a strong determ ined policy might be sufficient to avert the catastrophe. Anyway, we are so close upon the verge of war that the time for discussion as to right or wrong in the steps leading up to it is past; the president realizes this and asked the representatives of the people for a vote of confidence---not a declaration of war. Senator Lane and ten other members of the upper house of congress took such a stand that all over the worldin many parts of which the situation is not fully understoodthe news is flashed that the people of the United States are not be hind their president in a crisis which may prove the most momentous in its history. There is talk of recalling Senator Lane but this can not be done. Moreover, it is not necessary since he has eliminated himself and will quietly sink into oblivion along with Senator Works and others of his colleagues in the shameful proceedings of Saturday night and Sun day. The people of Oregon are making it known in every possible way that they are being misrepresented by Sen ator Lane and we believe the nation at large will under stand and sympathize with us rather than condemn the entire commonwealth for the action of a single politician The Japanese press, or part of it is making some pret ty bitter attacks on America, complaining of her treat ment of the Japanese in this country. If Japan is looking tor trouble with the United States she has selected a splendid time to be accommodated. Americans just at inis time are not in a mooa to taite cucxaiion irom any country. Besides they are getting almighty tired of hav ing a Japanese bugaboo shook at them every time they turn around. The Japanese are given the same rights as other ioreigners in practically all respects save that they cannot become citizens. That condition is going to con tinue for some time at least, and the Mikado should thank us for not taking his citizens away from him. The establishment of a naval base at the mouth of the Columbia it is claimed is held up by those who own the land needed, holding it at double the price it is worth This being the case the assessor should not overlook the price fixed by the owners when he makes his next of ficial call on the land owners. Surely they know what their lands are worth and should be given the benefit when tax time comes around and not have their property undervalued. OPEN FORUM 1 MR, BENSON'S STATEMENT That long lost inter-county bridge bill has at last be come a law. It was signed by the governor yesterday. Now it would seem the way is open for reaching some sort of arrangement by which the bridge across the Wil lamette here can be built. Of course there is a possibility a contest may arise as to the validity of the bill, but this seems hardly possible. County Judge Bushey will do well to again open negotiations with the Polk county author ities looking to a settlement of the dispute. If this can not be accomplished, it is up to the state engineer. LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 186S CAPITAL $300,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes .SAVINGS DEPARTMENT OPEN CONFESSION I think Bill Shakespeare dry as dust ; his books, untouched, stand on the shelf; and I could take my pen, I trust, and write much better junk myself. Long o'er his pages I perspired, and sickened 'neath the grievous strain; his noisy bombast makes me tired, his style obscure gives me a pain. But when I'm in the social swim, I do not dare to talk like this. The Avon bard! I worship hinl! To read him fills my soul with bliss ! I hate the dismal, horrid daubs Old Masters painted long ago; they look to me like mis fit jobs, the pigments spread with broom or hoe. At these old works I gaze and stare, and fail to find a pleasing thing fat cherubs loafing here and there, and cornfed i angels on the wing. I tell the truth here in my den, where no rebuke can make me smart; but when I'm with my fel low men, I whoop it up for ancient Art. I'd like to meet a man so bold that he would say just what he thinks, hand out the truth, severe and cold, about the haloed, wor shiped ginks. Alas, the man has not been born, who dares to hoot the goldbrick sage, who has the nerve to laugh to scorn the chromos of a bygone age. : At v jtwt. I' 3 Children Cry for Fletcher's r Lt J ' ' ' jJm a Portland, Ore , Marci S, 1917. Editor Salem Journal: In regard to your edi torial of February 2S criticising the appointment of Mr- 8. Benson will Kay that Mr. K Benson haa been in Cali fornia nearly all winter excepting for one week about 30 days ago when he was up here. It was not announced on the fluor of both houses during debate that Mr. Benson would not he a member of the highway board. -Mr. John B. Yeon wrote a letter to the roads com mittees in both bouses Mating he would not be n member of the state highway commission, and I did the same. I have all the road work in Multnomah coun ty in tho last four years that I care for ami I assure you it has been neither profitable nor a pleasure. Please do not get -Mr. S. Benson and myself confused in these different mut ters. I would thank you if you would men tion this in your paper. If von wish In verifi- wlint T lt;ive stated above you can undoubtedly do j so by calling on Hon. Sam Brown to whom the original letter was sent- I I ours verv tnilv, AM OS "hi. BENSON. ARREST SAILORS Raymond Anderson in Party Arresting Germans in Honolulu Raymond Anderson, formerly a mem ber of Company M, Third Regiment, Oregon National Guard, but now an eu listed man in the United .States navy, was one of the 30 sailors who took a hand in taking prisoners the 260 Ger man sailors on board the German ship in the harbor of Honolulu when the crew undertook to set it on fire and destroy it so it would not fall into the hands of the United Ptates should war between Germany and the United States bo declared. Young Anderson is stationed on the St. Louis, which was in the harbor at the time the exciting event took place. The Germans squirted oil between the stool and the wooden deck-covering and ' k m nmiB tat W MM I 1 1 III ( V Si i ..V The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been la use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of 7 and has been made under his per s.&Jfyi-fo, 801181 supervision since its infa-ncy. vzfy. -coOiMZZ Allow no one to deceive you in this. AH Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. r What is CASTOR I A Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its cge is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arfsing therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's PanaceaThe Mother's Friend. senuine CASTORIA always fBears the Signature Si h Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought TMg fiTWTAUW COM.AWV, MEW VOMK CITY, then set fire to it. "When the harbor officers tried to get on board to put out the fire the members of the erew fought them off, and the officers call been ruined by chiseling, etc. Young Anderson, who is a son of F. A. Anderson, of 5G5 South Sixteenth street, wa8 the second man on board tbo ed for heir, from the St. Louis. Thirty ;Uirman. S111P according to a letter ro- snilors were -sent to the scene and tookcpm'd by Mr. Anderson recently. the crew prisoners. It was found on examination that the fires under the boiler9 had been lighted with no water in them, that the elec tric dynamos had been damaged with acid, the bearings of the machinery had TRY JOURNAL WANT ADS IS s MSGS Jwie Phelps 4 H-VTV I TEl -V ANUANM ---V:i"- If!-'. 1 CHAPTER C1.XXI. It is not nn easy thhiif to null your self up by the roots, so to Hjieak, to yivo up a home of which you have been sole mistress, and in which every piece of furniture even has a plaee in your nlleetions. Wo woman ever de cides to do this without good reason, or wu.it sue considers good reason- That 13 110 KKAF, woman ever docs. I telt so firateful to dad for leaving me so well provided for that 1 had no need of Clifford's money. I do not think ever could havo brought myself to leave- him, and then accept money from him. For his child, yes. For myself, no. I should have cone to work first. Kate was at first unbelievinsr, then henrt-mroken. 'I can niver sttw on ma'am, with you none for good. ' ' ion will not have to. Jlr. Ham mond told me he should close the house for the present and live at the club. The house is in my name, nnd I may come bnck to it though it is doubtful." "If you do, will you take me back. 111a 'am? It will seem so strange to work away from Mainly and Hiss Edith," she wept. 'ies, Kate I promise. And I will give you such a good reference that von will be sure to get a good place." and when a little later I called Muriel up she said she would take her. I was de- ighted, and Kate was pleased. Au Interrupted Visit. As we had agreed Leonard came (Following is the chapter which should have been run yesterday) THE BREAK the afternoon before I was to start 1 for Reno. He had been there but a few moments, when Muriel fame in, then Lola Gaidner, who wasu!i at ati surprised when she heard, although she pretended to be. "I am so sorry not to have you at my wedding," she whispered, not even Muriel yet knew of her engage ment to Hal Lockwood. The talk was general all the after noon, and as it wn-s getting late Leonard left when Mrs. Gardner dtd. I felt that he wished to leave before Clifford came in, and I also should have preferred it. fco our final part ing for three months was simply a handicap before others, and a whispered 'dear' from him. He was cone some time, and T could hear them laughing and talking. When he came down she came also and running to me showed mo the pretty locket and chain dadio had given her. "Isn't he a good daddy?" she asked, "I wish he was going to Bono with us, don't you, mamma?" "Going to Reno," meant nothing to her five years of wisdom. Pimply going on the cars which she loved. T-1'.'y'T he's a vcry S001 daddy, Ldith," I answered. "I- hope you will always say that to her," Clifford said in an aside t me. "Of course I shall!" I exclaimed indignantly, "It is onlv the truth Ym, nave oeen Hindu Afiivinl :,,,i v Tii '""" "tu 10 uer ui- n'luiwrii iv uuim-r. x nao wavg. " l egged her to I rather dreaded that "A good father, but a bad husband " last dinner alone with Clifford. But he said ironically I needn't have worried. He did not I made no reply. We were leaving come home not until after I had gone at 10 o'clock. I did not L I might happen in tho fnrnm an,i t .Wm. d VOi'V mtintlv minnrl in no.. i .t' ... if there was anything he could lo to sil e s , r J' " .. 7" " - - - 1 . , - - i-Aicuwu my nanii ana saui : CHAPTER CLX1X. When I suggested to Leonard that perhaus if I had a divorce he wouldn't want me, I was simply talking. I didn 't really believe that anything would make him cease to desire me, even if Clifford had not married Mabel Hortou. All that long afternoon we talked together.. I tried to be sensible, tried to be sure I was looking at the matter in every way, Leonard was so sure of himself, so positive he could make me happy, that it naturally had its ef fect on me. When he left me it was with a prom ise that I would decide definitely and see him again the next afternoon.' "If you refuse me this time, Mil dred," he said as he held my hands at parting, "I shall go away immediately, and not return perhaps fur years." As I watched him go down the street I felt all suddenly that I eonld not go through the coming years without him. The lung lonely years in which to en dure Clifford's neglect until he grew old and perhaps querulous, while I still young would have wasted mv lite, Mildred Demands an Explanation. That night Clifford remained at home. After dinner I followed him into the library, and after waiting until he had to bed. At breakfast he asked help me. "I see your trunks are rendv, shall I send the man for them!" he' asked. The trunks were all strapped and ready to go. "Thank you, but Kate ordered the expressman last, night." I replied. When we rose from the table, Clif ford handed me an envelope. "For Edith," he said, then went up stairs to her room. his eveui: "Good-bye, Clifford. Somewnv I feel that neither of us have been so ranch to blame; that we were simply so unsuited to each other that this was bound to come." "Good-bye, Mildred. " I guess you are right," and he dashed from the house. (Tomorrow On the Train.) finished with ed: "Clifford, was there cause for nam ing you in Mabel Horton's divorce suit!" "Harping on that again, are vou? You women crM on ila i i " 1 i . . , o- ' ""u uur neaos, ! motlier. g paper I ask-J me. I'm sicU to death of your fool iivays and actions! " he stormed. What about Edith?" I aaked, "I must have undisputed possession of her. No matter what you say, how mueh you dislike, and make fun of me; not you even can mv i,t i 1 I' ,, "" mv A. UIU JtUl U 1MIUU auu n, b enouen to drive a mnn wilrt th. you awcu on it." you answer my question, Will please ?'; "Certainly there was cause! Now are you satisfied ? " I never have been able to understand how I dared question Clifford in the manner I did duriug this time; nor how be endured it as well as he did. It was foreign to us both. Sometimes I have felt that it was because he cared so lit tle that he did not mind WHAT I knew or found out; and that I had ceased to love him, so had more courage to risk his displeasure.1 "Is there still the same cause?" Clifford turned upon me theu. "Suppose there isl what are vou go ing to do about it ? ' It was only a tacit admission, but I grasped it. "What I have been thinking of for a long time, tiet a divorce. Perhaps this lime j win marry her." I repl anu strangely enough, without bitter uess, "Who wants to say it! If vou are m earnest about this divorce business, you shall have her if I have the priv ilege ot seeing her when I. choose; and it you g0 where you can get the divorce without making a scandal in Glcndale. Otherwise I'll fight every step." "That suits me. I will go away. I suppose you fear to soil Mabel Horton 's reputation if you were again mentioned as corespondent?" "We'll leave Mrs. II01 ton's name out ot the discussion. If y0 wish to i,ave mr,', settle an income on you, and" "No, Clifford, I do not want your money. I have enough of my wants that father left me. Settle as much as .vou will 011 Edith, provide for her edu eat.cm, etc. If you like, but I want noth ing." ' ' Save to be rid of me," he returned in a bit ter tone. "I'm not Poino- in minvvnl .:!. k.. & T . 1 1 ' J""' this, Clifford, but I have been very unhappy. 1 Tar t0 Tmnti rot were too old to" L 8"PPOse you'll marry some youni? You can't get it too soon to please j fellow, Leonard Brooke for instance." Perhaps I don't know."