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News Worth Remembering Adisastrous flood swept across northern Mexico on the 28th which left in its wake death and destruction. In Monterey, one of the most progressive cities of the country, the...
...S. J. Crumbine, Topeka, Kans., Dr...
...He gives Cannon's record on financial legislation since 1874 and characterizes it as "the rottenest in history...
...Relief is being rushed to the stricken people, and it is reported that an appeal for aid has been sent to the authorities in Washington by the American consul...
...Secondly, every city in Wisconsin which has not now a strong, well supported Park and Tree Commission,—and few have—needs to establish one and set it at work acquiring the lands that the people will demand for playgrounds and parks...
...Further negotiations are scheduled for the present week...
...Heidelberg nearly 7,000 acres...
...In nothing is a city so permanently benefited as in the selection of sites and the construction of an adequate system of playgrounds and pleasure parks...
...Yes, you can insurge and plot against the Republican platform and against the President himself, of which I shall now adduce stronger circumstantial evidence than that upon which many a man has gone to the gallows...
...What stands in the way of its immediate acceptance...
...Ample wealth is here already, and ample skill...
...If you agree to the standard accepted elsewhere, no city in Wisconsin has a park system...
...The opportunity is great and unmistakable...
...It was passed...
...I can close my eyes and see that condition over on the continent of Europe, with barefooted women in rags, with a few Newfoundland dogs, or some other kind of dogs, hitched sup with a string harness to the cart, and a few vegetables, that they are pulling around.' "There is no reason to doubt that the gentleman saw on Pennsylvania Avenue the prosperous cart he described...
...J. Q. Emery, dairy and food commissioner of Wisconsin, led the debate against the use of this artificial preservative, while Secretary of Agriculture Wilson and the members of the board of referees appointed by President Roosevelt to settle the disputed point in the pure food law, defended its use, claiming that it was not injurious to the human body...
...The companies will represent $3,-200,000 of capital, much of which is in the hands of eastern men...
...the towns make the villages...
...There is no doubt he might have found on the continent of Europe his "barefooted woman in rags...
...Sumner in the Chicago Record-Herald stated on the 29th that President Taft is getting tired of hearing the Roosevelt policies traduced in this manner and will probably take occasion in the near future to express his displeasure...
...Fordney, of Michigan, when Mr...
...On the 26th a despatch from Pottsville, Pa., states that in the convention of the Pennsylvania Retail Merchants' Association a resolution was adopted condemning the action of Cannon in not reappointing Congressman Fowler as chairman of the committee on banking and currency...
...The country don't care what happens to those d— speculators...
...You literally hooted the idea of a panic, and inquired, 'What in h— does this howling in Wall street amount to...
...First, there needs to be formed in every Wisconsin municipality a City Plan Commission, so that the grave and complex problems of city development may be conscientiously considered and consistently provided for in time...
...Florence Kelly of New York read a paper written for the convention by Miss Alice Lakey of the National Consumers' League of Cranford, N. J. It was called "The need of state laws to protect the consumers meat supply...
...Why should we have chemicals in our foods if by processes of sterilization and refrigeration they can be done without...
...The opinion was written by Judge Grosscup, Judge Kohlsaat concurring and Judge Baker dissenting...
...Payne and the President stood like honest and brave men for the redemption of the pledges of the Republican party...
...Because the exhaustive examination made by the comptroller of the currency showed that all forms of current credit, combined, issued during the panic, without authority of law, clearing house certificates, cashier's checks, and the checks of business houses and used as currency, amounted to something less than $250,000,000...
...In that city alone it is estimated that 1,000 persons lost their lives in the rushing waters...
...When I became chairman of the banking and currency committee of the Sixtieth congress I advertised broadly that the banking and currency committee would hear any one who wanted to be heard...
...Determine what you wish it to be, then strive to bring that to pass...
...Then, I don't take any stock in your d—d asset currency.' As usual, your ignorance and prejudice were all sufficient then...
...Strikers Leave Schoenville In the vicinity of the Pressed Steel Car Company's shops, near Schoenville, Pa., where a clash between strikers and state troops occurred two weeks ago, many homes are pervaded with gloom...
...The creation of an adequate park system is one of the most difficult and responsible duties that ever comes to a city government, and is not likely to be well performed unless placed in the hands of an independent, intelligent and permanent park commission, assisted by expert advisers...
...The city itself, whether it be Duesseldorf, Ulm, Prank-fort, Cologne or Munich, would be divided into zones, so that the various needs and rights of railroads, industries and residences would each be respectively met...
...It is clear where they are to be, clear that they are to grow, but their form has not yet crystalized...
...Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor has sent an appeal to Secretary Nagel of the department of commerce and labor to investigate the conditions of labor in the strike zone...
...He shows up the trickery employed to thwart President Taft's wishes in passing the tariff bill, and declares that the Republicans will win the next congressional elections only over the grave of Cannonism...
...Mr...
...But to make such a grouping of public buildings most telling, they should usually be arranged upon an open space...
...But if he had crossed over to the Washington market, he would have found on its outskirts numbers of men and women, some of them white haired, who have brought in that morning from great distances out of Washington, on their backs or behind tottering mules, pitiful handfuls of field flowers, wild roots and perhaps a bunch or two of garden products—quite as pathetic a spectacle as the pathetic one with which he was trying to befuddle the Ways and Means Committee...
...W. M. Allen, Raleigh, N. C, Treasurer, James Fourst, Harrisburg, Pa., Executive Committee, Dr...
...It is familiarly known as the Missouri river and Denver rate cases...
...I challenge you to cite in all our political history a more dishonorable and disreputable piece of business unless, perchance, you cite something in your own career of which the people are not yet advised...
...Aldrich assented to a larger representation on the part of the house than the senate if he was fighting for the senate bill and you were fighting for the house bill...
...Conferences have been frequent during the past week between representatives of the unions and the railway managers, with Walter L. Fisher, special traction counsel for the city, acting as mediator...
...It will be true economy to act promptly...
...second, to confine the commission's, jurisdiction over rates solely to the questions of discrimination and of reasonableness, leaving policies as to rate making wholly within the control of the railroads, but circumscribed by the provisions of the commerce act...
...Lucius P. Brown, Nashville, Tenn., Second Vice President, Dr...
...Fowler, in his letter, charges that there is a conspiracy between Cannon and Aldrich to control national legislation and to defeat any attempts at tariff or currency reform...
...Fowler takes up in detail the record Speaker Cannon left behind him and continues: "Now, I desire to recur to the bill to which I have already alluded as having been prepared by the fifteen bankers, who were appointed by my urgent request, and by myself, in the fall of 1906...
...Strike Talk in Chicago Not Ended The dispute between the car men and the street railways of Chicago is still unsettled...
...Do you suppose that I was not aware of your ignorance, prejudice, inordinate conceit, favoritism, putrid preferences, and that like all such characters possessing absolute power, malice is the mainspring of your every action under such circumstances...
...and in other directions these have been successfully overcome...
...we should find the needs of traffic and of pleasure driving provided for to a degree that would make our poor provision, where it exists at all, seem crude and altogether inadequate...
...I believe only prejudice, ignorance and selfishness...
...Orderly, well-situated, appropriately beautiful public buildings, churches, etc., would appear just where we should expect to find them...
...Of what use to expend large suns of money to cure tuberculosis when by the use of tuberculous meat the disease is being carried to consumers...
...In the first place, locking at the city plans, we should find nearly always a thoughtful and picturesque irregularity in place of the childish and almost unbearable tediousness of our rectangular streets...
...Not only would we discover reasonable protection for residences from the encroachments of industries, but different residence sections would have different regulations, according to their location and character, and special attention would be manifested toward the proper housing of working men and their families...
...Is it possible that you, the Republican Speaker of the house of representatives, and Senator Aldrich, chairman of the finance committee of the senate, entered into a conspiracy to secure the adoption of the senate bill in general and the highest rates in both bills throughout for the purpose of discrediting the President by repudiating his pledges and the platform of the Republican party...
...On the last day's session of the congress a resolution was passed, patterned after the one adopted in Spokane, to the effect that the federal government ought to limit grants and water power rights to a reasonable and definite time, and fix an annual tax upon them...
...Needham, of California, would very properly have represented the whole Pacific coast which was not represented on the part of the senate...
...Having closed these special hearings, our committee proceeded to prepare legislation upon all the best information we could get and reported to the house what is now commonly known as the 'Fowler bill.' "I appealed to you as was necessary for the privilege of bringing the bill up before the house for discussion, only to receive your contemptuous refusal, with the added information, 'You will get the Aldrich bill or nothing.' "Not a single hearing was held at the senate end of the capitol for the purpose of securing information, although conditions were most acute in the financial world, and yet a bill was brought forth there or somewhere else, or through the secret and illegitimate cohabitation of the finance committee of the senate and other influences, which was to be forced through both houses without any support whatever, except the political will of two political bosses...
...Wisconsin can yet, as more densely settled states cannot, change the character of her cities almost at will...
...Ten years from now—yes, in some cities five years from now—the same lands will cost double...
...They assert that they have been misused and forced to work whether they wished to or not...
...No one nowadays doubts the necessity of city parks, although many cities, even here in the Badger State, have failed to secure them...
...Freiburg has over 8,000 acres...
...Senate bill, mark you...
...Railroads Win Rate Case That the Interstate Commerce Commission has not the power to enforce principles or theories of rate-making is the opinion of the United States Circuit Court for the northern district of Illinois in the most important case affecting federal control of railways since the passage of the Hepburn amendment to the interstate commerce act...
...Pinchot...
...How did it happen that Mr...
...Now, it seems from all that can be learned with reference to the conference upon the Payne bill, that you, with every member's political head in your basket of favors, shuttle-cocked through the 'halls' of congress, trying to secure the passage, generally speaking, of the Aldrich bill...
...Do you not think,' he asked, 'that if the tariff is laid in the name of labor, labor ought to get the tariff?' Here is the answer he received: "'If you will pardon me for expressing one little thought, I will say that I walked down this morning from the Willard and saw a pair of horses, a beautiful cart all equipped with fruit, vegetables, and one thing and another...
...suppose we should give attention to Germany and attempt to find out what the cities there have done in the last two decades on the points: heretofore referred to...
...How do we know this...
...Since the company is enabled by the protective system to charge much higher prices for its products than it otherwise would receive, he points out, the government is under obligation to make inquiry for the protection of the laborers...
...I challenge you to find a single living man with so rotten a one...
...Suppose, further, that we should take a representative set of German city maps, city ordinances and city reports...
...Did you not enter into a conspiracy with Mr...
...The application of this principle is not confined to large cities...
...I have gone into these details to lay bare your miserable, contemptible false pretense and to expose your duplicity, treachery and perfidy to that legislative body over which you preside, whose bill you were bound to defend and not destroy...
...In Germany they are numerous, accessible to all, and give evidence of skillful design and skillful up-keep...
...This new development in the situation has given rise to the prediction among the strikers that the plant will be forced to suspend...
...He must have then thought that your scheme was going to work...
...For the City is strategic...
...City Making in Wisconsin (Continued from page 9.) itself perhaps insignificant in size and character, may be so grouped together as to secure an effect of which every citizen might be justly proud...
...Government Official Raps Roosevtlt Policies With the attention of the country centered for the moment upon the question of conserving the nation's resources, especially the water power resources, exceptional interest was aroused by an attack of Assistant Secretary Ormsby McHarg, of the department of commerce and labor upon the policies of conservation and upon the forest bureau in particular...
...Then the people of the entire State should unite heartily in making Madison a model Capital and a model City, just as the people of the entire country have united in the splendid improvement of Washington...
...Boutell, of Illinois, when Mr...
...Pinchot-Ballinger Controversy Quieter The prediction that the controversy between Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot and Secretary of the Interior Ballinger, over the disposition of government lands containing water power sites, would be renewed at the national conservation congress at Seattle last week was not fulfilled...
...Then in open spaces and public buildings what a contrast we should witness...
...and, disfiguring, so far as you could, the Payne bill, with the exception of a few schedules...
...The city of Baden owns 10,000 acres of woodland and derives an annual net income therefrom of $62,500...
...These charges against the forest service were denied by Assistant Forester Price, who said there was no foundation for truth in McHarg's assertions...
...This is looked upon as a distinct victory for Mr...
...They do not feel that they are too poor to ameliorate in such ways as they can the harsh conditions of city living by introducing some of the wholesome joys peculiar to the open country...
...The flood was caused by continued rainfall for ninety-six hours...
...Were not the first five members of the finance committee taken as the conferees on the part of the senate...
...He says that the laborers are not paid the wages to which they are entitled under the protective tariff system...
...Just at this juncture it is most pertinent to inquire whether you have already entered into another conspiracy involving our financial and currency legislation...
...A. N. Cook, Vermillion, S. D. Contrary to the view expressed the previous day by the Remsen referee board, manufacturers expressed themselves as being opposed to the use of chemicals to preserve foods...
...and, upon closing these general hearings I caused to be sent out special invitations to many of the leading banking economists, bankers and prominent merchants of the country to come before us and give their views...
...Cullom already represented that state...
...or better still, go directly to a half dozen German cities and walk their streets, stand in their open spaces, in front of their public buildings, follow the children to their playgrounds, or drive through their boulevards and parks,—what should we find...
...This request has aroused unusual interest since it raises the question whether the argument that protection is given to American industries in the interest of the workmen is not a specious one...
...The recent investigation in Madison is a final and convincing piece of evidence that parks pay as a municipal investment, pay directly in dollars and cents...
...Aldrich to pack the conferees on the part of the house for the express purpose of adopting the senate bill so far as possible instead of the house bill with few exceptions, when you were honor bound to do everything in your power to secure the adoption of the house bill...
...Though this scheme failed, it exhibits 'Cannonism' in its highest and most perfect development...
...The country don't need any legislation...
...And to be adequate such a system should not only meet the demands of all classes of citizens in all parts of the city today, but should reasonably anticipate the needs of the future...
...The large city is apt to have some noble business structures and many fine residences...
...And yet, sir, you assume to dictate the financial and currency legislation of a civilized country...
...The Interstate Commerce Commission has decided to appeal this case to the Supreme court...
...You, yourself, can properly insurge and plot against the ways and means committee, against the house itself from which you derive all your power and over which you preside...
...Penrose already represented that state...
...Burrows already represented that state, and Mr...
...Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, when Mr...
...After giving his own record on financial legislation, Mr...
...No such wasteful clutter as our cities present would be found...
...Such a position not only adds immeasurably to the impressive-ness of the buildings, but the buildings, in fair return, decorate the open space and contribute to its beauty...
...Moreover, we now have sufficient returns to justify their acquisition and construction, not only by the health and happiness that they give to the people but also because they add wealth...
...Do we need to question why," wrote Miss Lakey, "the great white plague has made such rapid increase...
...The strikers who lost their lives at the hands of the state constabulary were buried by their fellow strikers, and a temporary truce was called...
...What Wisconsin Should do WISCONSIN is no ordinary State, and there is reason to believe that her cities will not be ordinary...
...Now, sir, mark this—the bill prepared by these representative bankers, which met only with your sneers and contempt, and known as the 'bankers' bill,' provided for about $250,000,000 of credit currency, called in that bill 'national bank guaranteed credit notes.' "If that bill had been upon the statute books when the pressure came, there would have been no general suspension of banks throughout the country, no general breaking down of the exchanges, as all the banks could have more than met the demand for currency...
...If the Republican party wins the next congressional election, it will only be upon the grave of 'Cannonism.'" As an echo of this courageous broadside against the Speaker, came a report on the 25th that the friends of Cannon in Washington fear that he is now serving his last term as Speaker of the House, and that when he returns to Washington for the last session he will be found even more strongly opposed to the President than he was during the special session...
...President W. D. Mahon, of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees, has taken charge of the negotiations on behalf of the men...
...Charles D. Woods, Orono, Me., Dr...
...Paul, Minn., Secretary, Dr...
...This is your record upon our financial and currency legislation...
...Meat from diseased animals will produce disease...
...Pinchot himself applauded a declaration thpt the disprte should net be given a place in the proceedings of the meeting...
...The same men who have given distinction to the State will find a way to impart distinction to their cities...
...What is true of the city plan itself, of the homes of the people, of the public buildings, would be equally true of the playgrounds and pleasure parks...
...It is a record of ignorance or political cowardice or a disgraceful hybrid of the two...
...Pinchot was the principal speaker of the session of the 27th and said in part: "Conservation has three primary objects: First, to develop our natural resources struction of these resources, so that future generations may likewise have their just part in the material foundations of prosperity...
...It makes the towns...
...A Lesson from Germany GOMPARING ourselves with ourselves we learn little...
...Is it not a fact that before you passed Mr...
...Yes, and against the vehement protest of every banking economist in the United States, against practically unanimous protest on the part of the bankers of the country, and against the persistent and universal opposition of commercial bodies throughout the length and breadth of the land...
...It is pointed out that the decision, in case it is sustained by the higher ourts, will have the following effect: "First, to prevent the commission from doing anything which partakes of initiative in the field of rate making...
...Such a little village as Aufen, with a population of but 220, owns 163 acres of timber land which gives to each citizen 2,000 board feet of fire wood free annually, and the amount sold nets a sum sufficient for all the expenses of this little community without levying any tax at all...
...Did not you and Mr...
...and that he said that if he went on the conference committee he would go unpledged except that he would feel honor bound to stand by the house bill and that thereupon you forthwith repudiated and rejected him also as unfit for your purpose...
...The head of what is called the 'file trust' was on the stand...
...Fowler Exposes Cannon National politics was stirred during the week by the publication of an open letter to Speaker Cannon by Congressman Charles N. Fowler of New Jersey...
...The final point in city making that I wish to refer to is the creation of a Park System...
...Our study of German city building should be paralleled with an examination of German city financej for these cities are not only the most convenient for business, better adapted for pleasure, better provided with schools, more regardful of health and life, but also lower in tax rate...
...If any one questions this conclusion, let him read the report of the Committee appointed by the Madison City Council, and all doubt will disappear...
...Indeed, it has special reference to smaller places...
...Now, everybody knows who knows anything, that if the remedy has been forthcoming when first needed it would not have required nearly as much as $250,000,000...
...The public seems to be arriving at the same conclusion...
...Was it not an utterly false pretense on your part when you gave as your reason for not appointing the first five members on the committee that the geographical conditions would not permit...
...third, to see to it that the great natural resources so developed and protected shall be used permanently for the welfare of the many instead of for the profit of the few...
...Of interest in this connection is the news that a gigantic corporation has been formed in Michigan to control all the water power streams of the state...
...With such a program, thus but briefly outlined, each city in Wisconsin would tend to develop its own peculiar excellencies, reflecting the natural advantages of its site and the special character of its citizens, and the achievement in city making of Wisconsin people as a whole might even surpass their achievements, notable as they have been, in other directions...
...Have you already perfected your plans by which you are to make American banking and commerce the football of our politics, precisely as our productive industries are today by the establishment of a central bank...
...Further trouble was feared from the fact that workmen have been deserting the steel plant in crowds of from 2 to 200, to join the strikers...
...Needham by, you had him interviewed as to how he stood on the senate bill...
...Do not forget that I chose my course in plain sight of your political guillotine and the political carcasses of those you had decapitated, but that it had no terrors for me...
...Henry Drummond...
...The State University at Madison, the very best of its kind, is literally the scientific arm of the commonwealth...
...the villages make the country...
...The Republican party is today a party of conscience, intelligence, patriotism and freedom of mind of the American citizen, as it was in the beginning the party of the freedom of the body of the American slave...
...Mrs...
...Do you not gravely believe that while every member who insurges against you or the rules commits treason in your sight and must be unceremoniously shot...
...For a park system should be comprehensive, including city squares, equipped and supervised playgrounds, small or urban parks, large or suburban parks, and scenic reservations, all connected, one with the other, by parkways or boulevards...
...Why did you, in the face of such an excuse, appoint Mr...
...Finally, then, what program of action is to be recommended...
...After all, though men make Cities, it is Cities which make men...
...Aldrich together select the six conferees on the part of the house, no one being appointed until after Mr...
...Troops were kept constantly on guard, however, through fear of another demonstration, and the town presented the appearance of a fort...
...Evidently the people of these cities find time for outdoor pleasures and reserve a place in their lives for what is beautiful...
...Damage to property is placed between $5,000,000 and $12,000,000...
...All over Europe he will find as prosperous vegetable carts as those he saw in Washington—all over the United States he can find, if he will look, women in rags...
...But the panic came, as every man who had any intelligence upon this subject knew it would...
...also belief in skill...
...Very often in Wisconsin public buildings are placed in the centre of an open space, which has obvious merits, but seldom has the even better and more economical plan been followed of grouping them around a central open area...
...Fowler, it will be remembered, was chairman of the House committee on banking and currency, until he was replaced by Congressman Vreeland a few weeks ago...
...Coupled with this information came the news on the 29th that skilled workmen were deserting Schoenville to secure employment in the repair shops of the Pennsylvania railroad...
...Why did you not appoint him...
...able ways...
...Said one speaker: "In fact the manufacturers are coming to the belief that no preservatives at all need be used...
...Fisher presented a plan which embodied some compromise features and, with modifications to be agreed upon by both sides, it is predicted by the local papers that the controversy will be ended...
...It had been shown that the gentleman was selling files abroad much cheaper than at home, that he had a practically prohibitive duty, one which had reduced imports to about one per cent...
...In Monterey, one of the most progressive cities of the country, the loss was especially heavy...
...I announced myself as a candidate for Speaker at the beginning of the Sixty-first congress, but with only one thought, and that was to accentuate the platform upon which I stood—that all political power should be taken away from the Speaker and that he be only a presiding officer, just as the Speaker of the House of Commons is...
...He who makes the City makes the world...
...The primary need is an imagination that will permit itself to be filled with this new conception of city life...
...the topography would be recognized and respected in innumerTO make Cities—that is what we are here for...
...Whether our national life is great or mean, whether our social virtues are mature or stunted, whether our sons are moral or vicious, whether religion is possible or impossible, depends upon the City...
...Aldrich had the effrontery to declare in the Senate that the Republican platform did not pledge us a downward revision...
...But suppose we had the good sense and open-mindedness to turn directly to the country that is making the most notable progress in city planning...
...On the 27th the following officers were elected: President, George L. Flanders, Albany, N. Y., First Vice President, Dr...
...D. Harvey Dillon, New Orleans, La., Third Vice President, Andrew French, St...
...Aldrich had O. K.'d or approved him...
...Did you not disregard all precedents of the house when you did not take the first five members on the ways and means committee as the Republican conferees on the part of the house...
...but the little town depends fer its impression primarily on what the people do collectively...
...and it will not brook nor condone your contemptible trickery and traitorous treachery, your disgusting favoritism and vengeful malice, your brutal despotism and daring desperate methods...
...Homes were carried down the Santa Catarina River and thousands of families rendered destitute...
...After that bill had been reported by the banking and currency committee to the house, I went to you, as was necessary, disgraceful as the necessity may seem, under the circumstances, to ask whether I could call up the bill for consideration, telling you we were then facing a financial crisis, and that something should be done to meet it, and that this bill had been drawn for that specific purpose...
...Nowhere else in this country could so many examples be found of a people drawing steadily upon trained men for expert services...
...Mr...
...McHarg said there had been too much "dreaming" in dealing with the government irrigation projects and forest conservation policies in the West...
...The cities should not be allowed to drift, the future should not be taken at haphazard...
...of the file consumption in the United States, and it was certain from his testimony that his laborers could not be getting a very large share of the duty...
...and in connection with them innumerable picturesque open spaces, which are indispensable to a city which pretends to be attractive...
...The storm followed a severe hurricane reported from Galveston, Tex., on the 27th, which struck the coast near the mouth of the Rio Grande River and left a path of destruction far inland...
...It is well known from experience that an adequate provision for parks can scarcely be made unless action is taken in advance of positive needs...
...On the 26th, after a protracted debate, the associatun, by a vote of 57 to 42, endorsed the finding of the referee board that benzoate of soda was not harmful...
...Another peculiar advantage of Wisconsin is that, with the exception of Milwaukee, its cities are all small, all in the formative stage...
...The ownership of municipal forests in Germany and its results would be worth investigating, as well as parks in the more ordinary sense...
...Did you not go outside of all precedents when you appointed more Republican members on the part of the house than the senate had appointed, the senate having five and you appointing six...
...The value of a model city as the State Capital to the improvement of the other cities of the State would be incalculable...
...Clark was after him at once...
...in fact, the administration in many of them is so efficient and, of course, honest, that there are no local taxes, the rental for the city lands in some cases being so great that on New Year's Day every citizen is paid a bonus of from twenty-five to a hundred dollars as his share of the surplus...
...The Head of the File Trust has His Views on the Tariff Question THE following account of an incident, which recently occurred before the Committee of Ways and Means investigating the existing tariff rates on files, appears a the September American Magazine, under the department, "In the Interpreter's House...
...Is it possible that Senator Aldrich said to the President, 'Now just let me get this bill into conference and then we can get the lowest rates of the two houses and thereby fulfill your pledges?' Is it possible that in almost the same breath he then said to the high protection senators, 'Now let me get this bill into conference, boys, and I will get Speaker Cannon to pack the conference committee so that we will get the senate rates, and the report being agreed to by the conferees on the part of the senate and the house, the President will be compelled to sign the bill?' "The scheme failed because Mr...
...He scoffed at the forest bureau's estimate that the lumber supply of the country would be practically exhausted if the present rate of cutting is not curtailed, and declared that there was enough standing timber in the state of Washington alone to "supply this country for fifty years...
...Benzoate of Soda on the Grill While Speaker Cannon and his arbitrary methods were thus being publicly belabored, benzoate of soda, the chemical used to preserve certain food products, also came in for a severe grilling at the convention of the Association of State and National Food and Dairy Departments which was held in Denver last week...
...As a result of that movement, we now have a calendar day when all self-respecting members may call up bills in their own right, and will not hereafter be compelled to crawl upon their bellies, like cringing lizards, to crave the indulgence of a recognition of the Speaker, which being granted, calls for gratitude, and carries with it an obligation, an appreciation of which must be shown, of course, at the proper time, or the recipient is written down as an ingrate...
...Everything is all right out west' and around Danville...
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