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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17
EMPEROR STATES lie WILL
GRANT POLITICAL AMNESTY

cabinet chosen from conservative mem
bers of the lower house in the hope of
clTecting compromise. lie is not will
ing, however, to permit the majority to
select the premier, for but once such a
concession is made it is difficult to un-
derstand how the emperor can halt half
way and refuse full constitutional
monarchy, which government by parlia-
mentary majority involves. Practically
the parliament has already won great
victory.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17

WASHINGTON, May l6.-The recent
efforts of the President and Democratic
senatorial leaders to reach an agreement
on the rate bill received further notice
in the senate today iiUm Senators Bai-
ley and Tillman. The matter was re-
ferred to by the Texas senator in the
course of a personal examination called
out by an article in the Chicago Tribune
charging Bailey with failure to find
common ground and by Tillman in a
speech in support of Bailey in present
ing further a statement of formr Sena-
tor Chandler.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17

ST. PETERSBURG, May l6,--Despite
the fCNr that the reply to the speech
from the throne in the lower house of
parliament would precipitate an imme'
date conflict between the crown and
parliament, the Associated Press is in q
position to state that the emperor is
determined to avert breach II possible.
Not only will political amnesty be
granted but the emperor Is ready to
replace the Goremykin ministry with
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17

him to agree to the broad right Of re-
view. What that is. il not certain, but
the principal object Is TO beat him,
meaning the President to pass the re-
view clause with a minimum OF court
power and will not enter into any such
game. tSigned), William T.. Chandler"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17
Suspicion of Bailey.

The correspondent says he does not
mean to say Bailey deserved the suspic.
ion, but that In the democratic confer.
ences and caucuses in the senate, in the
conference between Tillman and Moody,
and through Chandler with the Prcsi-
dent, Bailey's acts gave rise to the sus.
picion that he was not true to the
principle of railroad rate legislation.
"NIr. Bailey may be innocent as an un.
born babe, and he says he Is, but sus-
picions did exist" the correspondent
says they have existed for weeks; they
have been talked of in the senate cloak.
rooms, on the streets, at the White
House and elsewhere and in the news
papers. The dispatch explains the re-
lNtionship between Tillman and Chand,
Ter, whose evidence twice has been cited
on the floor of the senate by Tillman
and at is Chandler who in effect has
given the lie direct to the President" !"
and then turns to his dispatch to the
Tribune which he says provoked Bailey
to declare II malicious lie and insinu.
ates it was directly inspired by the
President himself continuing:
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17
BRICKMAKERS STRIKE IN
COEYMANS MAKES TROUBLE

C0EYMANS, N. Y, May l6.--What
is practically martial law resigns to-
night in this little town. The strike of
brichmakers. in force all along the Hud-
son broke into a riot early this morning
and after pitched battle between five
hundred union men and strikers and
nearly as many negro non-union men
in which one was severely wounded, four
Albany companies of militia were or
dered to Coeymans, arriving tonight.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17
''HoIy Roller" Creffield Does Not
Arise Again From Dead.
WOMEN ABANDON LAST HOPE
Poor Deluded Women Watch in Vain
for Saint That Never Came
Five Fanatics Returning
to Corvallis.

CORVALLIS, Ore, May l6-Over at
Heceta Head, five women. one with a
babe in arbs. have been vainly awaiting
babe in arms, have been vainly awaiting
These five are the remnants of the
Holy Roller followers formerly camped
at the mouth of the Yahats. They are
Mrs. Frank Hurt and baby, Olive San
dell, of Seattle; Mrs. Burt Starr, of
Portland, and Mae Hurt and Attic Bray
of Corvallis.
When Creffield fled from Waldport in
fear of his life, Farmer Hosford, on
whose land the Holy Rollers had camped
ordered them off his premises. Frank
Hurt, who remained with them, moved
the camp several miles down the beach
near Heceta Head.
Leaving them to await the resurrec-
tion of Creflield, he went to Seattle,
Since the apostles death, relatives of
the women have been trying to persuade
them to return home. but for more than
week such efforts have been without
avail.
This morning, however, word has
reached here that they have broken
camp and are returning via Alsea to
Corvallis.
With Crefiield forever out of their
lives, it is believed by relatives that
Holy Rollerism will with them be a
thing of the past.
Boycotted by the residents of the
surrounding country, who would neither
sell nor gle them anything, the five
women who were awaiting the return
of Messiah" Creffield were in a fair
way to starve to death. Timber Cruiser
George Hodges, who found the women,
said today that Farmer Hosford almost
refused to give him shelter because
Hodges had given his provisions to the
women.
The dwellers along the beach feared
an outbreak of Holy Rollerism among
them more than the plague and would
rather have let the unfortunates stave
than do anything to encourage the male
Rollers to return to that part of the
country.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17

The negroes are imported annually in
the spring for the extra work and they
generally refuse to join the union for
the short time they are here. The main
demand of the strikers is the recognition
of the union by the employment Of
only its members. The strikers last
night served notice on the non.union
and carried out threat by an armed at
and carried out their by an armed at.
tack, which began soon after the men
went TO work.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17
Denounces Author of Article.

In his address Bailey denounced the
article in question as lie and the au-
thor and inspirator of it as Liars" when
Tillman concluded, Bailey again took
the floor and said his attention had been
called to another article printed in the
New York Tribune today. He said it
was of the same character as that print
ed in the Chicago Tribune and evidently
they had been timed so as to bring both
to Washington simultaneously. Pointing
to the press gallery Bailey said Il in
tend to put in the record, upon the
statement of more than one reputable
newspaper correspondent in that gallery
land as a rule they are as honorable as
the senators on this floor), on their au-
thority, that the two chief cuckoos Of
this administration are correspondents
of the New York Tribune and the Chi
cago Tribune, and therefore it seems to
me conclusive that this slander proceed
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17

fronting the colony in its relations with
the United States. Sir William is the
first governor of New Foundland to
visit Canada during his tenure of Office.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17
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} COLUMBIA TO GET
NEW LIGHTSHIP
Omnibus Appropriation Carries
sr3o,ooo For Signal Boat to
One That Went Ashore

WASHINGTON. May 10. The
omnibus lighthouse bin, to be re.
ported to the House. appropriates
Sl3O,o00 for a new lightship for
the mouth Of the Columbia River
to replace lightship No. so. which
went ashore last Fall and /. now
undergoing repairs on Puget
Sound.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17
APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED.

WASHINGTON, May l6.-The Senate
today confirmed George F. Pollock as
assistant commissioner general of the
land office, and William T. Vernon of
Kansas, register of the treasury.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17
Chandler Was Authority.

II stated those facts on the authority
Of Chandler himself II was he who con.
veyed TO the White House the intima-
tion that Bailey was Il traitor and II the
Texas senator has anyone TO blame 1t
must be Tillman's frend--William L.
Chandler.
AT the very outset Of the negotia.
ton. he was conducting, Chandler pre-.
pared. and left at the White House a
written memorandum for the benefit of
the President. have not the text of
that memorandum before me, but quot.
ing from memory IL says "the railroad
senators want the Bailey amendment,
but Tilman is for the Presidents court
Of review amendment and will block
their game.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17
Rate Bill Reported to Senate.

The consideration of the rate bill in
the committee of the whole was con-
cluded and the measure then reported to
the senate where there win be an op-
portunity to review and alter all the
amendments heretofore made. Practi-
cally the entire day was devoted to the
consideration of the anti-pass amend.
ment which was adopted after making
so many exceptions as to arouse laugh
ter in the senate every time provision
was read. The work of the senate was
confined to a partial consideration of
the pipe line provision which was so
amended as to strike out the proviso
extending its operation to other coun-
tries where the United States had juris-
diction.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17
Northwest League.

AT Aberdeen -Gray's Harbor 2, Spo-
kane /.
At Tacoma Tacoma |, Butte g.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17
DenOunceS Author of Newspaper Article, Charging
Him With Failure to Find Common Ground Be-
tween President and TilInan, as Liar.
BELIEVES ISLANDER CAME FROM WHITE HOUSE

TEXAS SENATOR BECOMES NGRY ARTICLES
THINKS WRITTEN PRESIDENTS KNOWLEDGE
CONSIDERATION OF RA TIE BILL I'm COMMITTEE
CONCLUDED.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17
Chicago and New York TribuneS Washington Cor
respondents Reply to Senator's Charges and
Show Him to Be Railroad Senator.
BAILEY'S ATTACK IN REALITY ON ROOSEVELT

CORRESPONDENTS PRODUCE DOCUMENTARY
WRITTEN MEMORANDUM wRI ITEM BY CHANDLER. ABSo-
LUTELY PROVING BALE WAS OBJECT OF sUs
pICI0N TO FRIEN DS OF RATE BILL
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17
President Ignorant Of Article.

The correspondent goes on to say
the dispatch he sent to the Tribune was
on his own authority and without the
knowledge or consent OF the President"
against whom Bailey trained his bat.
tcres today" The correspondent says
he knows he il correct in his statement
that during the negotiations Chandler
made an oral statement either to the
President or to some one representing
him, which was much more elaborate
During this talk in explaining the diff.
Guilty of uniting the democrats, Chand'
ler stated in so many words that he
and 1illman were suspicious of Bailey,
believing he was in an alliance with
Aldrich and associating with the Stand.
ard Oil and the railroad crowd in the
senate, but that Tillman was watching
his maneuvers and expected to be able
to prevent any evil effects, .....
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17

ed from the White House. ] hope for
the honor of my country that it does not
proceed from the President himself. But
if he be man of high sense of honor he
win see to it that senator's are not
slandered by his subordinates, and the
miserable wretch who communicated TO
these newspapers and who sought
through them to communicate to the
country, SANDER on me, which the people
might discuss rather than the issue that
has been raised; he is unfit for the high
office, and the man who perpetrated that
infamy will pay for it with his position
and if the man continues to hold his
office it is to be assumed that what he
has done has been with the approval Of
his chief"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-05-17
Text of Memorandum.

NEW YORK, May l6.--The Tribune's
Washington correspondent gives the
memorandum mentioned by the cores
pondcnt of the Chicago Tribune. The
text is rs follows: "To the President:
The game of the railroad senators is to
support Bailey's amendment and induce
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-22
Responsibilities of Great
- Riches. -
Grafton of Sigvert S. Dahl
hiQh School Commencement
Class of 'O6.
Class OF 'U6.

The responsibilities which the
possession of large fortune car
ries with it have caused the people
OF the world to desire change.
The present existing conditions
caused by the accumu1ations of
large fortunes in the hands OF a few
cannot exist forever. The misuse
or withdrawal of fortune such as
any one of our one hundred richest
men possess, from the field of COM
merce, would cause panic from
which the whole world would suffer.
The responsibilities and the risk of
placing these responsibilities in the
hands of few millionaires are too
great. It is problem which we in
evitably must solve in the near fu-
ture.
We all came into the world with
out anything. There are only three
ways by which we can get anything.
We can produce it by our industry;
we can receive il from our neigh
bors; or we can obtain it from the
common stock. In which manner
did you obta in what you possess?
If you obtained your wealth by any
but the first method you have no
right to object if your neighbor
wishes to have something to say as
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-22

be stopped. Then municipal own
ership is the greatest reform; it goes
to the root of the matter, and there
by we will get rid of the mainspring
of corruption. Grafters and corrupt
politicians could not exist if there
were no franchises or contracts to
be let ont. Let the cities keep their
franchises and operate municipality
the public utilities and the chief
source of corruption and the means
of temptation will disappear. The
voter will be able to enter at the
polls as a citizen of the United
States with but one thought, to do
justice to his country, and not as
before as stakeholder of some
large concern, to vote for persons
willing to give special privileges.
At present municipal ownership
of public utilities has only begun
to be tried in the United States, and
not enough time has rolled by to
show it as success or failure, while
on the other hand private owner
ship has existed for long time and
as yet no instance can be given of
successful regulation in a city. In
large cities like New York, Boston,
Chicago and Detroit, where regula-
ton has been tried and failed, there
is it that the sentiment for munich
pal ownership is strongest.
The advocates of municipal own
ership believe in a radical reform,
as we believe in democracy. We
want to make the government able
to operate large concerns as we'll as
small ones. Getting men in their
places to look out for small grafters
is something, but the real justice of
the nation would be to stop the
large leaks of millions as we'll as
the small ones amounting to thous-
ands.
To get rid of the boss successfully
we must cut off his supplies, his
campaign contributions. We must
take away the special privileges of
these large corporations, the men
behind the boss, and turn them from
natural enemies of the government
into ordinary, unprivileged citizens
and friends to progress.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-22
The Spirit of 40. .
Grafton OF Leslie Reid
h;Qh School Commencement
Class of 'O6.

Can you imagine magnificent
city, with beautiful steel construct
ed buildings, wide and clean streets,
grand parks, harbor well-formed
by nature and much improved by
the skill of men affording to this
city fortress for commerce enab-
ling her to carry on business with
the rest of the world, making every
body prosperous, happy and gay.
Suddenly when everybody is robed
in sleep the city is robbed of it's
beauty, gayety and business activ-
ity, leaving the city in a mass of
debris and ruins. The people are
tossed about in their beds, which
dance in wild delight in the build
ings that sway back and forth on
their foundations as so many toy
houses. The people dress hurriedly
and running to the street see there
great fssures in the pavement, and
sometimes it is completely folded
over. Electric wires are down, car
tracks are badly twisted and bent,
great poles, sign.boards, brick and
broken structures of the buildings
filling the streets, making them al
most impossible. Suddenly flames
in hundred different sections of
the city are seen springing up here
and there, adding new horror to the
disaster. The fire department rush
to the scene of the fires but their aid
is nearly useless, for all water mains
were broken by the earthquake.
Every man, woman and child, rush
hither and thither with dazed, hor.
ror.stricken faces, thinking the end
of the world had come. Almost the
entire city is left without food, wat
er, clothing, furniture, tools, or roofs
to shelter them. There is nothing
to buy, as all the shops have been
destroyed; no newspapers. tele-
phones or telegraph lines. The ex-
ternals of life are reduced to con,
dition of primitive savagery. Self
government springs anew from a.
root without resort to military law,
the ablest men come to the front,
the people welcoming leadership of
intelligence and integrity. The gov
ernment is placed in the hands of
the Citizens Committee, with the
mayor presiding. That was the
condition of San Francisco at 5:15
a. m. on April 18th last. ss'.=. r !. =. .
San Francisco before the dreadful
calamity was one of the busiest and
most interesting of our westernscit-
ies. Everyone seemed intent on
some important errand, either of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-22

wild agitators against the entire ex-
listing order, the men who act crook,
edly, whether because of sinister
design or from mere puzzle headed
ness, the men who preach destruc-
ton for what they intend to destroy
or who propose a substitute which
would be far worse than existing
evils-aH these men are the most
dangerous opponents of real reform.
IF they get their way, they will lead
the people into a deeper pit than
any into which they could fall un-
der the present system. If they fail
to get their way they will still do
incalculable harm by provoking
the kind of reaction which, in it's re-
volt against the senseless evil of
their teachings, would enthrone
more securely than ever the very
evils which their misguided fol-
lowers believe they are attacking.'
What we want is not law to take
the great fortunes away from the
possessors;- but laws which will in.
sure: to honest industry of brain
and muscle all that it can produce,
which will, I assure you, prevent
the adoption of present scheming
and shrewd methods by the shrewd,
scheming financiers. We should
follow more closely the advice
which is given in the fitting words
of Holmes'"Cham mbered N Nautilis:" +.
Build thee more stately mansions, -.
F o. my soul, as the swift seasons roll, i
Leave thy low vaulted past &, q .ssG3s u III Is
Let each new temple noblef than the last
. Shut thee from Heaven with dome more
y 4. vast ~ r = -t. . 41 1a5ttgE a !: &
TIL thou at length art free. 4 ! !. s,s~s b,
Leaving thine outgroWn shell 2st1.sz Z.
By lifes unresting sea. +: ,5,. .Z|* s,5s=
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-22

business or charity, so that the Wis
itor caught the spirit of enthusiasm
and alertness as he passed through
the streets.
Hardly had the earthquake ceased
than organization began, Red Cross
am balances and automobiles were
flying about caring for the wound
ed; carloads of food were on the
way soon, while every village, town
and city in the United States mourn
ed, sympathized and sent aid. Peo-
pie wandered about from park to
park searching for relatives and
friends who had been separated in
the great rush for safety.
When the news reached the Pre-
sidio, short distance from the city,
General Funston, later superseded
by General Greedy, again proved
himself the man of the hour by or
dering his troops to the scene of
disorder to patrol the streets and
also to aid the fremen in getting
the flames under control.
Mayor Schmitz rose to the high
position to which he had been elect
ed, and by his c1ear-mindedness and
ready action soon encouraged the
people to make San Francisco in
the future a city of which the Unit
ed States would be proud.
Still while the flames were raging
the people decided to rebuild the
city. The man who had a burned
store and his debts as the results of
life work showed the same spirit
as that of the whole people, the
spirit of the men who fought the
Indians and thirst along the over
land trail as they made their way
to the garden spot of America.
But man is more than things;
greater, far greater than his works.
San Francisco has lost most of her
things, but she has got her men
left. There remains the organiza-
tion of government and business,
families, regulations, credit and the
established relations with the rest
OF the world. How much greater
would have been her disaster had
she lost her men and the shell in
which she dwelt remained.
The one reason why San Francisco
will rise quickly from it's ashes and
ruins far greater and more beauti-
full than ever is that spirit which
still lives in the sons and grand
sons of the forty miners. These
brave and noble people hardly be-
fore the destructive flames were un-
der control set their faces forward
and upward and blest the oppor-
.tunity of proving themselves the
equals or more than the EQUALS of
their sires.
But for all the desolation and in
conceivable losses which over
whelmed San Francisco, hopeless
ness never for one moment con-
quered her people. Again it is that
indomitable spirit of 40. There was
never a moment from the first hour
OF the calamity in which courage
was lacking. ~. ~>=
That great spirit of 40 has long
been the boast in our land and it is
now evident that that same spirit is
dominant in San Francisco in her
struggle to meet the results of her
great disaster, and she has set forth
9 lesson to the world by that grand
spirit: 4 OF ' f'ortitude and determine.
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