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SPRINGFIELD. THURSDAY. JULY 25. 1912.
SIXTEEN PAGES
A New Fashion in Polities.
The new political party has no persua
sion to waste on republicans who do not
bow the knee to its dictates—but the threat
is quite in the good old highwayman style:
“Your support, or your political life!
Let us think a moment about what this
means in the case of Gov Deneen of Illi
nois, among others.
Having been nominated by the popular
vote at the direct primary as a republic
an—that supreme court of the progressives
—it is natural for this governor to de
termine that his allegiance is owed to that
party, and for him to feel that his title to
the support of ail republicans is as clear
as anything could be.
Up to this extraordinary year, when Mr
Roosevelt's ambition dominates many per
sons to the utter confounding of their
logic, if not of their morals, such a posi
tion as Gov Deneen has taken would be I
accepted as beyond challenge. But here is I
confusion worse confounded, and only the
“big stick” is deemed fit for the backs of
any and all who will not leave all associa
tions and obligations to follow the leader
ship that demands a third term through
broken promises, sundered friendships, the
wreck of the republican party and the de
nunciation of all who dissent.
There could he no more amazing spec
tacle than we are now beholding. It seems I
to be the intention of the Rooseveltians
to seek the defeat of every republican
nominee who cannot be driven into in
dorsing their movement in all its extreme
phases and to denounce all who refuse to
be whipped in as unworthy of the pro
gressive high calling and support. The
spear is to know no brother, to tolerate
only subservient slaves, and to be wielded
right and left. Character and -fitness for
official position are of no moment. Was
ever in all political history the ego writ
larger, or the intolerance involved greater?
It will be the marvel of marvels if a
spirit like this does not awaken resent
ment deep, lasting and widespread, for it
contravenes the self-respect and rational
independence of men—the inalienable right
of every one to carry his sovereignty under
his own hat. Is it, forsooth, full proof
of villainy that any one should soberly
elect to remain a republican and not be
come a bolter? So it is set down in the
gospel of those who swear by Theodore,
right or wrong. If this be not obsession,
it is at least not tolerance of a differing
viewpoint.
To imagine that the American people
are to be bullied into any action that is
not bom of their intelligent thought; to
believe that one man’s ambition and pas
sion is to replace judgment in political
conduct this year: and that the country is
to have no sound second thought when it
comes to voting-time in November—this
is presumption of the extremest sort and
most uncomplimentary to those who are
responsible for the success or failure of
our democratic experiment.
To come down to a particular instance.
It is something new for any faction in
this state to have its political action ab
solutely dictated by one man, and he not
a resident of this good old commonwealth.
Four representatives of the so-called pro
gressive party have visited Col Roosevelt
in Oyster Bay. and they announce on their
return that there will be a full third party
ticket in the field here this fall, headed
by a candidate for governor who believes
in and stands by the third party idea. No
candidate who is for Taft can be consid
ered, no matter what his fitness for any
office may be—this is the ultimatum issued
in Oyster Bay. The argument from this,
of course, is that however progressive Jo
seph Walker may have been—and there
is no one among all the followers of
Roosevelt in this state who can compare
with him in this respect—he cannot be in
dorsed or voted for under the Oyster Bay
ruling.
The question is bound to arise in the
mind of the average man: Is a progressive
to be a mere puppet, to be moved at the
will of his master, deprived of the right to
exercise his individual judgment with re
gard to men or measures? It is one thing
to ordain such a status for freemen, and
it is quite another thing to persuade intel
ligent voters to bind themselves to such a
relationship.
Never was such a one-man party even
dreamed of before in the public affairs of
this country—unless, indeed, as it may
have had lodgment in the mind of the
late Gen Benjamin F. Butler. In all the
story of bossism was there ever a situa
tion comparable unto this one?
Getting; Ont of n Party.
I herewith tender my resignation as
chairman of the republican executive com
mittee of West Orange.
1 resign because I am no longer in sym
pathy with the republican party, its poli
cies. its leadership or its methods, ami bc
<ause 1 feel that, as an organization, it has
failed to represent the wishes of the rank
and file of its membership.
Feeling this as I do, 1 no longer have a
right to remain one of the parly leaders or
participate in the primaries, when I know
I shall oppose the party ticket at the polls.
This is a statement that must com
mand respect. It is signed by Everett
Colby of New Jersey. He cannot stay
in the party, so he gets out —entirely out.
It is the way to act.
Mr Colby is particularly satisfactory
when he says: "I no longer have a right
‘to participate in the irepublican) pri
'maries.” His course, if followed by the
Roosevelt men in Kansas. California, and
other states where primaries or conven
tions are still to be held, would settle at
once the question of presidential electors.
In Kansas it is argued that if the repub
lican voters in the coming primaries in
struct the electors they choose to vote for
Roosevelt, then those electors must vote
for Roosevelt. But the voters themselves
will have no moral right to go into the
republican primaries for the purpose of us
ing republican machinery to help make
president of the United States a man who
has taken himself out of the republican
party and who proposes to do his utmost to
defeat it at the polls. That is Mr Colby’s
position and it is a correct one.
Senator Works of California is another
republican progressive who sees the same
point clearly. He has incurred the wrath
of his old friends at home, some of whom
now demand his resignation, because lie
has denounced as immoral and dishonor
able any attempt by progressives who
intend to support Roosevelt to retain con
trol of the republican party's machinery.
It is a very simple point, yet the colonel
is getting more and more tangled up ia
it every day. Sharp differences are dis
cernible in Illinois and Pennsylvania.
Roosevelt followers nowhere seem har
monious on the subject. Even Mr Flinn
is not wholly satisfied.
Everett Colby’s way is to bo com
mended to Mr Roosevelt and his support
ers East and West. It is no disgrace to
get out of a party: the disgrace comes
in trying to stay in and to get out at
the same time—for some mean advantage
in machine polities.
The Latest Word From Cuba.
It looks as if, through the defeat and
killing of Gen Ivonet, partner of Estenoz,
also dead, the revolt of a portion of the
colored population of Cuba against the
Gomez government had come to its desired
end. That which was to “set the island
'ablaze from one end to the other" has
been practically subdued. There would
seem to be little left of this latest revolu
tionary movement, whose threat induced
Uncle Sam to dispatch a naval force to
Hanava as well as to our station at Guan
tanamo, The trouble has been virtually
suppressed, and the Morua law, which for
bids the organization of a political party
along purely racial lines, remains bn the
statute books of the Cuban government—
an enactment whose necessity the out
break now disposed of has demonstrated.
There was plenty of menace for Cuba in
this negro demonstration, and no one can
doubt that under the Platt amendment to
the Cuban constitution we are exercising
a virtual protectorate—that is, guarantee
ing a stable government. This is vastly
better for us than it would lie to have
Cuba directly under our control, as it
should be more agreeable to all concerned
there.
This is not to say that Cuba is as well
and honestly governed as she was under
the administration of President Palma,
who was undoubtedly a patriot and honest,
and left $19,000,000 in the treasury upon
his retirement from office. Far less con
fidence is expressed in tire present admin
istration. under which some officials are
said to have grown rich. Suspicion is ex
pressed regarding the concession which has
l*en granted to the Harbor improvement
company of Havana for a period of 40
years—and it has been held up by the
United States. The disposition of the ed
ucated and moneyed class in Cuba to look
to a direct union with this country as their
best protection for life and property, is a
constant threat to Cuba's independence—
and this sentiment finds open expression
when, as now, the administration is little
respected and the country appears to be
facing serious financial troubles.
Indeed observers there call Cuba bank
rupt, and say it is doubtful if the govern
ment can pay its fixed charges for more
than a few weeks, since its request for a
loan of $13,000,000 in the United States
has been refused. The situation is thus
expounded by a correspondent of the New
York American:—
About 82 per cent of the revenues of
Cuba are obtained from imports, but the
imports have lately fallen away by about
60 per cent, the merchants of Havana
having refused to advance further credit to
interior towns, selling goods only for cash.
About 5 per cent of the government reve
nues are obtained by the sale of lottery
tickets, but this revenue has a iso been
cut in two, as at the last drawing one
third of the tickets issued remained un
sold. and had the grand prize been won
by other than the government, there were
no funds with which to make payment.
The fart that it was won by the govern
ment has been the cause of much dissat
isfaction among the people, as they believe
that the drawings are dishonest.
The very fact of this government lottery
shows how alien are the methods of that
Latin-American country to those of the
people of the United States. It is little
to be wondered at that Americans having
business interests in Cnba long to see us
absolutely control her destinies—where
eels-interest points them is clear enough—
but equally clear is it that this country
should tolerate no closer relationship than
now exists. Our national troubles are
manifold, and not lessening, and amply
sufficient is onr existing responsibility for
Cuba's present and future.
THE COLONEL'S CONTRACTS.
[From the Hartford Courant.l
Col Roosevelt's latest notion is that the
platform of the moose bull party shall be
"a contract with the people," just as
a business man signs a contract for the
fulfilment of certain obligations. But, to
use the jargon of the venerable Dr Ab
bott. how about that third cup of coffee?
It is true that Col Roosevelt signed no
contract "with the people" not to accept
a third term of the presidency, but he un
questionably gave a solemn promise to the
people to that effect; and where is that
promise now? The proposed party of the
second part lias good reason to think that
Col Roosevelt's contractual qualily is not
what it once was.
THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1912.
IN THE HALLS OF CONGRESS
TARIFF BOARD GAINING FAVOR.
I SENATE APATHY OVER PUJO BILL.
• Western Alarm Over Recurrence of
• Reciprocity Sentiment in Canada—
| Little Interest in Steel Report—
Gardner and Parcels Post.
From Our Special Correspondent.
Washington, D. C., Tuesday. July 23.
The tariff board idea had its defendant
in the Senate this afternoon on the demo
cratic side, when Senator Newlands of
Nevada, who is one of the progressive
democrats, praised it and wanted it con
tinued. The debate was animated, and at
times grew somewhat bitter on account of
the frank language used by Senator Over
man, author of last year's chemical bill,
which President Taft vetoed in a stinging
way. and Mr Overman came back to-day
with expressions in turn and in justifica
tion. and he made out quite a case. Sen
ator Bristow also presented himself a de
fender of the tariff board.
Apparently the Senate finance commit
tee does not purpose being embarrassed by
being called upon through a vote in the
Senate to report out the Pujo joint resolu
tion bestowing upon the House banking
and currency coinmittee inquisitorial pow
ers upon banks in relation to its quest for
information regarding the existence of a
nionev trust. Having heard of the report
that 'was to be discharged from further
consideration of the resolution by a move
ment of the democrats, the committee has
informally taken action to report the reso
lution out at its meeting to-morrow. and
presumably adversely. Whether the Sen
ate will pass the resolution is uncertain.
There is some progressive republican sup
port for it.
Senator Lodge said to-day that up to
n late hour the Senate finance committed
had received no letter from the president
inviting congressional legislation to re
peal the Canadian reciprocity act. Re
port lias it that such a letter was sent
and now it is said the letter will be sent.
The proper method would be through a
message to Congress. It is known that
strong representations are being made to
President Taft to take this course. In
quiry shows that the farming people con
tinue very cold in parts of the country
toward the president over his reciprocity
stand and that they are in renewed alarm
over the recurrence in Canada of agita
tion for reciprocity in trade between the
Dominion and the United States. The
elections show a reaction from the senti
ment as voted last year, and the farmers
are said to have noticed this. The re
puldicans believe something must be done
to appease the farming vote, and the thing
to do is to repeal the reciprocity act; in
no wise else will the farmers be won
over, it is believed.
The Stanley steel bills are not being
taken seriously in Congress and especially
bills emanating from the brain of Repre
sentative Stanley himself, who is not re
garded in the House as one of its heavy
members. The representative likes to
play to the galleries. His committee any
way is not expected to do anything more
than report the result of its investigations
and make recommendations. It is for oth
er committees, such as the judiciary and
the interstate commerce, to follow up these
recommendations with proper bills. At all
events it was said here to-day that Con
gress would pay no attention to the Stan
ley bills as made public, and that they
would not be pushed through the House
and much less the Senate either at this
session or the next. At best they are re
garded simply as an offering for possible
use by the democrats in the political cam
paign of the year.
Senator Gardner of Maine was very
cruel to-day to the Bourne parcel post
measure, the senator characterizing it as
a mockery. The senator said that the cost
of living would be much diminished by a
competent express package service man
aged by the government. He spoke for
the farmer, of which he is one. The speech
was the senator's maiden one and was not
relished by the post-office committee of the
Senate, and especially by Senator Martine,
who characterized it as “ungenerous.”
A small Senate listened to an interesting
speech yesterday hy Senator Fall of
New Mexico, based on claims by Ameri
cans against the Mexican government, but
extending into a review of our relations
with Mexico in recent years. Senator
Ledge was a very close listener. It was
declared that the speech was a severe
“showing up” of our state department.
TOLLS AGAIN DISCUSSED.
Bacon Says That Oar Treatment of
Colombia is a Disgrace.
Senator Smith of South Carolina, speak
ing on the canal toll bill. Friday con
tended that the purchase by this govern
ment of the Panama zone changed the re
lations of the United States with Great
Britain and superseded the Hay-Paunce
fote treaty of 5901. He expressed the be
lief that the United States now has a right
to use the water of the Panama canal
in any way it pleases, as though they were
interior water of the United States. Wheth
er we shall submit to arbitration a ques
tion which pertains only to the internal
domestic affairs of the United States, or
whether by a strict interpretation of the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty, a precedent shall
be established that may hereafter be em
barrassing, were declared by Mr Smith to
be the real questions before the Senate.
The Panama bill was formally before
the Senate, the speech being made dur
ing consideration of the sundry civil
bill. Senator Lodge declared that while
he believed the United States had the
right under the Hay-Pauncefote treaty to
give concessions to American ships, yet
he believed it would be impossible to se
cure an international court unbiased
enough to rule in favor of this country.
The interest of all other nations, he said,
would weigh a« -claims of the
United States. The opinion that the
canal strip was American territory and
that the canal was therefore American
water, was advanced by Senator Smith
and concurred in by Senator Lodge. The
latter declared that when the Hay-
Pauncefote treaty was made no one ex
pected that the United States would
acquire he canal zone. Senator Smith
said the United States had never sub
mitted to arbitration the claims of Colom
bia for redress for the loss of Panama.
“The fact that it has not been arbitrated
does not relieve the United States from
its responsibiliy.” said Senator Bacon. "It
is still a burning question and it is to
our eternal disgrace that we should have
treated a weaker nation as we have
Colombia.”
Railroad control of the Panama canal,
the rights of American ships to free tolls
and the form of government under which
the canal management is to be placed were
subjects of directly opposing arguments
Thursday from Senators Brandegee of Con
necticut and Townsend of Michigan during
consideration of the canal bill m the Sen
ate. Senator Brandegee urged the admis
sion of all ships to the canal at a definite
toll charge, with no favors to American
vessels. If railroad-owned ships abused the
privileges thus given them, he said, Con
gress should then place the offending lines
under the jurisdiction of the interstate com-
mere, commission, with power to deal with
the situation.
Senator Fownsend urged legislation to
prevent railroads from getting any grip on
the canal. “Astute railroad managers know
that the canal will do more to reduce rail
road rates from coast to coast than -ill the
orders of commissions combined," declared
the Michigan senator.
The Pinanu canal administration bill
held the floor of the Semite Tues
day just long enough for Senator
Percy of Mississippi to rnnke a speech
against the remission of canal tolls to
American shipping. The measure then
gave way again to the sundry civil appro
priation bill. Senator Brandegee expressed
little confidence late Tuesday in early ac
tion on the canal bill.
CHAIRMAN STANLEY ANGRY.
Relieves That False News of Steel
Committee’s Finding Was Intended
to Bear Market-—Littleton Airs His
Views.
Chairman Stanley of the House steel
trust investigating committee Saturday at
Washington authorized a denial of reports
that the’committee would recommend the
dissolution of the United States steel cor
poration. Mr Stanley Saturday declared
he believed that reports given out to that
effect had been calculated to affect the
New York stock market. Stirred by re
cent publication of what purported to be
substantial portions of the committee's
report or its recommendations, Chairman
Stanley Saturday declared he would no
longer be silent and would from time to
time give to the public the conclusions of
his colleagues on the committee.
Mr Stanley is said to feel that leakage
from the sessions of the steel committee
has aided the efforts of certain persons
who hoped to gain circulation of the re
port that the committee would recommend
the dissolution of the steel corporation.
The committee, he says, agreed that no
recommendation for dissolution would be
included in the report w hen the govern
ment suit against the steel corporation
was filed. Some of the tilings the demo
cratic members of the committee really
have agreed upon follow: That hereafter
the records of the office of the commission
er of corporations shall he open to Con
gress: they will propose to amend the act
creating the department of commerce and
labor to make the investigations of the
bureau available to Congress as well as
the president. This determination is said
to have been influenced by the refusal of
Herbert Knox Smith, former commissioner
of corporations, to give to the Stanley
committee the facts he had gleaned from
the steel trade.
The important cost sheets of the “steel
trust" given to Commissioner Smith on
the stipulation that they were not to be
copied, are said to have been destroyed be
fore the committee wanted them. The
committee has decided to recommend leg
islation to make the federal commissioner
of corporations accountable to Congress.
The democrats have agreed to a hill to
prevent any stockholder or official of any
locomotive, car, coal, ore or steel company
from serving as a director ou any inter
state commerce carrier. Members of the
committee practically admit that such a
statute will not prevent interlocking own
ership, although it may stop interlocking
directorates of the big industrial and rail
road companies.
The majority of the committee also has
agreed to a proposed amendment of section
4 of the Sherman act giving any injured
party the right to sue ou an equality with
the government to enjoin a conspiracy in
restraint of trade. As the Ihw stands,' the
injured party may sue for triple damages.
Under the proposed amendment one would
have equal right with the government to
seek a preventive d^ree as well as the
right to collect damages.
Representative Martin W. Littleton of
New York, member of the democratic
majority of the House steel trust investi
gating committee, at Washington Tues
day formally presented his views to the
committee dissenting from the legislative
recommendations of Chairma,n Stanley.
He agreed to sign the Stanley report with
many reservations. That left Mr Stanley
with hut two other members of the com
mittee of nine in complete accord with
mm. They are Representatives Beall of
Texas, and McGillicuddy of Maine.
Mr Littleton's views, to which much
publicity has been given, favor principal
ly a joint body of the Senate and House to
study the trust question and the exclu
sion from interstate commerce of cor
porations in restraint of trade. He de
clines to support a proposed bill to put
upon a corporation the burden of proving
it is a “reasonable restraint of trade.
Such a bill. Mr Littleton says, would
"preserve the chief fault of the Sher
man law. which is the policy of a belated
attack after a concern has grown up in
stead of providing any means of preven
tion.”
ARRAIGNMENT OF ARCHBALD.
Must File Answer on 20th— To End
Pleadings Next Month.
Judge Robert W. Archbald of the United
States commerce court, charged with mis
conduct by the. House of Representatives,
appeared before the impeachment court of
the Senate at Washington Friday, and
was given until the 29th to answer the
impeachment charges made against him.
In the 35 minutes that he sat in the Sen
ate while the preliminary arrangements for
his trial were being made, Judge Archbald
took no personal part in the proceedings.
His attorney, A. S. Worthington of Wash
ington. conducted affairs for him. aided by
his son and associate attorney, Robert W.
Archbald, Jr., of Philadelphia. The man
agers on the part of the House are re
quired to file their reply" to Judge Arch
bald’s answer by August 1, and all plead
ings in the case must be completed by
August 3.
The time for the opening of the impeach
ment trial itself remains a subject of wide
division in the Senate. Senator Bailey, in
the proceedings of the impeachment court
yesterday, asserted his determination to
urge an immediate trial. “The reasons why
the ease should he speedily disposed of are
obvious," said Senator Bailey Friday night.
“Judge Archbald is sitting on the bench
and he ought to be relieved at once of the
charges against him or of the duties of bis
judicial office. The Senate should 6et
promptly on the charges made b.v the House
and I am going to insist on action before
adjournment.”
Notwithstanding this attitude, which is
shared by Senators Reed, Simmons and
some other democrats, the majority of the
Senate, including many democrats, favor
the continuance of the case until November.
DEBATE ON PHILIPPINE BILL.
Senate Considers Appropriation for
. Mindanao Hailroad — Bubonic
Plague Appropriation.
A provision in the sundry civil ap
propriation bill authorizing the construc
tion of 20 miles of military railroad in the
island of Mindanao, Philippines, gave the
Senate Thursday the basis for its annual
discussion of whether or not the Upited
States ought to retain the Philippine
group. The measure was passed b.v the
narrow vote of 28 to 25. Senators Over
man. Bacon, Culberson. Hitchcock and
other democrats attacked it as inconsis
tent with the “ultimate purpose of the
United States of surrendering the Philip
pines."
Senator Bacon declared the Philippine
islands had already cost the United States
J1,0T0,000,000. The short railroad, which
would run from the seacoast to an inland
fort, was defended by Senators Warren
and Lodge as a military necessity. The
cost of transporting supplies over this
route now costs the war department $160,-
OOT annually.
Danger of bubonic plague caused the
Senate Thursday to stand by its deter
mination to increase from SIOO,OOO to
$300,000 au item in the sundry civil bill
to enable the public health service to use
every precaution to meet an invasion of
the scourge from Cuba or Porto Rico.
FOR CONNECTICUT RIVER.
Congressman Gillett Speaks on $25,-
000 Appropriation.
From Our Special Correspondent.
Washington, D. C„ Friday, July 19.
When the rivers and harbors bill came
up In the House to-day on the conference
report Representative Gillett asked Chair
man Sparkman if the appropriation of
$25,000 for the improvement of the Con
necticut river above Hartford was in the
bill, and Mr Sparkman was glad to say
that it had been retained in the bill.
Thereupon Representative Gillett ad
dressed the House at gome length on this
item, which, while small relatively, he
declared has a history intrinsically inter
esting and suggestive, and at the risk of
being tedious ne narrated it in summary,
adding that an additional reason which
prompted him to recite it was "because
there is a widespread belief throughout
the country that appropriations for rivers
and harbors depend more on influence and
pull than on their merits, and that the
members of the committee can secure for
their districts any moderate appropriation
which has reasonable argument Behind it.”
"Here,” added Mr Gillett, “is a propo
sition which has been earnestly pushed by
a member of this, committee (Mr Law
rence) now the senior republican member
for 16 years and yet by an extraordinary
complication of delays and mishaps this ap
propriation, which is only a drop in the
bucket compared with what we need and
ought to have, is the first we have obtained
in all these years. It is the first money that
has been appropriated in all these years
really for the improvement of the river.
Unless the engineeers of the army expected
that the larger plan of a power dam in
conjunction with which they have recom
mended that the United States should spend,
over $1,000,000 for navigation was immi
nent and likely soon to be developed, they
would hardly have been allowed this money
simply to restore old conditions. This
$25,000 is to be so expended that it will
be part of the anticipated navigation. To
bring that about we are no longer depend
ent on the decision of an engineer board,
for they have already favorably reported
on it. It awaits now the action of the
men who avow that they are ready to be
gin the enterprise. They say the money is
at hand. They have their private selfish
interests to stimulate them and the only
obstacle which is delaying us is that the
scheme looks so attractive that the. two
rival companies are stretching for it and
fighting each other and until this legal
contest is ended or , compromised neither
can begin. I am hoping that this new hin
drance will he soon disposed of and that
the project which has cost so much effort
With so little result for so many years is
about to be consummated in a more endur
ing and satisfactory form than any of the
first plans.
REPORT ON POST-OFFICE BILL.
Senate Committee Offers Several
Amendments to House Bill—-Gard
ner Attacks Bourne Parcels Post
Feature.
The post-office appropriation bill, shorn
of the good roads. provision proposed by
the House,and embracing a revised parcels
post system, with charges based on zones
of distance, was reported to the Senate at
Washington Tuesday by the post-office
committee. The total appropriations pro
posed by the bill are above those of the
House measure, which carried approxi
mately $60,000,000. One of the principal in
creases is in the pay of railroads for trans
porting mails, the Senate committee add
ing more than $2,500,000.
In striking out the Shackelford good
roads feature of the House bill, which pro
vided for federal improvement of high
ways, the Senate committee recommends
an investigation by a special commission of
three House members and three senators
and provides for no highway improvements
until this commission has reported. The
Barnhart amendment in the House bill for
the regular publication of the names of
stockholders of newspapers and periodicals
is changed to provide for publication once
a year, when lists of the stockholders are
required to be filed with local postmasters.
The parcels post section is radically dif
ferent from that incorporated in the House
bill, which provided a flat rate of postage
for all distances. The Senate provision is
that of the Bourne bill, slightly modified.
Senator Bourne recommended that third
and fourth class mail matter be combined
for the parcels post service, but the bill
makes the parcels post apply only to fourth
class matter.
The Senate committee struck out of the
House bill the provision giving to postal
employes the right to combine in labor
unions and the fight to petition Congress
for redress of their grievances. It also
provided for the abolishment of the pres
ent system of carrying second-class mail
by fast freight, under what is known as
the “blue tag" system. Under the Sen
ate bill all second-class would be put back
into regular mail ears after August 31.
FALL ARRAIGNS MADERO.
New Mexico Senator Says United
States Has Failed to Get Redress
for Injury to American Citizens and
Property.
In a strong arraignment of the United
States government for its failure to secure
redress for injuries to American citizens
and property resulting from the Mexican
insurrections and revolution, Senator Al
bert B. Fall of New Mexico declared in
the Senate Monday that this country
would not regain its prestige in Mexico in
50 years. He declared that China, Ger
many and other countries had forced Mex
ico to make restitution for the damages
inflicted on their citizens. Thus far, he
said, the United States had done nothing.
He added that because of the course of
the state department the people of Mex
ico believe that this country is behind the
Madero government and that it was re
sponsible for the overthrow of President
Diaz in the interest of Madero. "If the
people of the United States knew all of
the facts,” declared Senator Fall, “not al]
the soldiers in the country would he able
to prevent the crossing of the border, be
cause of the indignation that would be
aroused. And yet nothing has been done
to relieve the most intolerable condition
that American citizens were ever compelled
to undergo.”
Senator Fall urged the adoption of the
resolution instructing the war department
to ascertain the extent of the damage
caused by Mexican bullets fired across the
American line during the engagements last
year at Douglas, Artz., and El Paso, Tex.
He declared the resolution did not "go far
enough.” He said there had been no word
of protest from the American government,
althougji its citizens had been killed, wom
en outraged, and over $500,000,000 worth
of property destroyed by Mexicans.
The New Mexican senator further de
clared that intervention on the part of the
United States was not needed and that this
country could control the situation by “a
firm stand." He admitted that be had not
taken the matter up with (he state depart
ment. but asserted that both the president
and secretary of state had been informed
of the condition by others. The senator
gave many instances of the injuries mil
the loss inflicted on American citizens.
JUDGE HANFORD RESIGNS.
Gives 111-Health ns Cause—lmpeach
ment Now Uupeeessnry —- Berger
Not to Press Cnse.
Chairman Henry D. Clayton of the
House judiciary committee Monday an
nounced at Washington that he considered
unnecessary further impeachment proceed
ings against Federal Judge Cornelius N.
Hanford of Washington, who Monday re
signed. In a long statement, Chairman
Clayton declared that while Congress has
the power to try a federal official for im
peachment even after he has resigned, he
did not believe that course necessary in this
case. Chairman Clayton instructed the sub
committee.now in Seattle taking testimony
in the Hanford ease, to discontinue its
work.
Judge Hanford telegraphed his resigna
tion Monday to President Taft, giving ill
health as the reason.
Representative Berger, the socialist
member from Wisconsin, who introduced
the resolution that began the impeach
ment of Judge Hanford's conduct, an
nounced he would drop the matter. “It
closes the case so far as I am concerned,”
he said. “I take Judge Hanford’s resig
nation as an admission of guilt. It can
not be construed otherwise. I was fight
ing corruption on the bench generally—not
Hanford personally. I never knew the
man.”
In the spring of this year, during the
industrial workers of the world demonstra
tion in western Washington, Judge Han
ford condemned the carrying of the red
flag through the streets. On May 10
Judge Hanford revoked the citizenship
papers of Leonard Olsson of Tacoma, a
member of the socialist labor party and of
the industrial workers of the world, be
cause Olsson in appearing as a witness
for another man seeking citizenship had
said in answer to a question that he “was
not devotedly attached” to the constitu
tion.
The convention of the socialist party at
Indianapolis took notice of Hanford's de
cision and nsked Congressman Victor Ber
ger to bring impeachment proceedings
against Hanford. Berger introduced the
charges on June 16, aceusing Hanford of
rendering corrupt decisions and of being
an habitual drunkard.
HOUSE PASSES SMITH BILL.
Provision for Wireless Service on
Ships Carrying Over 50 raiaengers
—Kinkend’s Measure Against Beef
Trust.
The conference report on the new wire
less law framed from the lessons of the
Titanic disaster and requiring wireless
operators on duty constantly aboard ships
was adopted hy the House last week and
now requires only the president’s signature
to make it a law. The conference report
was on Senator William Alden Smith's
bill introduced soon after the ocean
tragedy. The measure requires that all
vessels carrying 50 or more passengers
have at least two wireless operators and
that they be on duty continuously.
It is further required that the wireless
apparatus be powerful enough to receive
and transmit messages at least 100 miles
and that each vessel have an auxiliary
power supply, independent of the ship’s
main electric plant to maintain efimmuni
cation. The bill was framed largely on
the evidence in the Senate investigation
of the Titanic disaster, which showed the
failure of nearby ships to hear or answer
the big liner's calls of distress. One
feature of the measure places the opera
tors under the direct orders of the master
of the vessel and provides a fine of SIOO
upon the operator for every violation. The
law would apply to all vessels entering or
leaving American ports and to cargo
carrying steamers on the ocean and the
great lakes.
PUBLIC BUILDING CRITICISM.
Extravagance and Waste and I,ack of
Standards Pointed Out—Activity of
Congressmen Censured.
Severe criticism of the government meth
ods of erecting public buildings is con
tained in the report of the House commit
tee on expenditures in public building,
which Chairman Cyrus Cline of Indiana
submitted to the House at Washington
Friday. The committee points out ex
travagance and waste and the possibilities
of fraud in public expenditures, after mak
ing it clear that, its investigations were
made with no desire to discover any scan
dal in the public service.
The committee recommends that govern
ment buildings be standardized, and points
out the folly of maintaining a big force of
draftsmen and architects to make plans
for every building constructed b.v the gov
ernment. The report finds that since 1902
721 buildings have been erected, and that
there are now pending bills for 750 build
ings to cost an aggregate of $70,000,000.
WOULD ABOLISH TAYLOR SYSTEM.
Favorable Report In Senate on Poin
dexter’s Bill—Other Senate Matters.
Senator Poindexter's bill to abolish all
scientific shop management systems in
government establishments has been favor
ably reported by the Senate committee on
education and labor. It has the support of
organized labor and would abolish the stop
watch and all other devices for “speeding
up” work.
The Senate last week confirmed the ap
pointment of Sherman P. Allen of Ver
mont as assistant secretary of the treas
ury to fill the vacancy caused by the res
ignation of A. Piatt Andrew.
The rivers and harbors appropriation
bill, carrying about $33,000,090, includ
ing $6,200,000 for Mississippi river im
provement. was finally passed by the Sen
ate last week when the conference report
was adopted.
FIrM Pictures Debarred.
Prize-fight moving pictures Friday be
came a thing of the past in the United
States when the House passed a Senate
bill prohibiting the transportation of such
moving picture films between the various
states and territories or from foreign coun
tries. Heavy fines for violation of the
proposed law are fixed by the bill. The
president, said to be in complete sym
pathy with the legislation, Is expected to
affix his signature to the measure. South
ern members of Congress were especially
interested in the proposed law because of
the race feeling stirred up by the exhi
bition of the Jeffries-Johnson moving pic
tures in their section of the country. Sen
ator Simmons of North Carolina and Rep
resentative Sims of Tennessee pressed the
bill in the Senate and House.
Senate Favors Tariff Board.
President Taft’s tariff board secured the
promise of one more year of life from the
Senate Tuesday. After a short fight that
body, b.v u vote of 34 to 20. authorized
in the sundrv civil appropriation bill an
expenditure of $225,000 for another year’s
work on investigation by the tariff experts.
Whether the appropriation is finally made
will depend upon the strength with which
the House resists the Senate’s demands.
The House refused to provide for the tar
iff board when It framed the sundry civil
bill, and its conferees are expected to fight
the provision when the big supply meaa-
uro is sent into Vonfcrence between the
two houses.
Senate Mny Pass Excise Tax.
Enough support has been secured in the
Senate for the bill extending the corpora
tion tax to individual and copartnership en
terprises, it is believed, to make its passage
probable when it conies to a vote Friday.
Leaders in the Senate Monday made the
prediction that the democratic wool tariff
bill would be defeated Thursday; that the
excise tax bill has more than au even
chance of being passed, and that out of the
fight on the democratic sugar tariff bill
Saturday, a substitute may be evolved
which will receive enough republican votes
to pass it.
New Department of Labor.
The House last week passed the hill to
create a department of labor, the secre
tary of which shall have a place in the
cabinet. The measure long has been
pressed by organized labor and now goes
to the Senate, The new department will
relieve the department of commerce and
labor of much of its authority. All bu
reaus dealing with qu^stic^s affecting la
bor or capital would be transferred to the
new department, as would the bureau of
immigration. The measure was hard
fought in the House.
Catlin Denounces Opponents.
Representative Theron E. Catlin of Mis
souri in a statement at Washington Fri
day characterized as a “monumental
fraud" the action of the House committee
on elections Friday in voting to recom
mend that he be deprived of his seat in
the House. The committee decided, by a
vote of 6 to 3. to report that Sir Catlin
had not. been properly elected, because it
was disclosed that his relatives had spent
approximately $13,000 in his campaign,
contrary to the state law.
Victory for Antisaloon Interests.
Antisaloon interests won a victory be
fore the Senate judiciary committee at
Washington Monday, when Senator Cum
mins was authorized t» report favorably
a bill giving to dry states power to inter
cept sninments of liquor from “wet”'ter
ritory. The bill to be reported is a com
bination of the Kenyon bill, much amend
ed, and Senator Sanders’s bill.
PERKINS'S 1904 CONTRIBUTION.
Ex-Senator Scott Tells Committee
That Money Was Given Because of
Personal Friendship for Roose
velt.
Former Senator Nathan B. Scott of
West Virginia last week at Washington
told the Senate committee investigating
campaign funds of 1904 and 1908 that
no contributions were made to Col Roose
velt's campaign by corporations, by Hen
ry Havermeyer, the sugar king, or any
representatives of the International har
vester company, so far as he could re
call. Mr Scott testified thqt the largest
contribution of which he had knowledge,
made to the national committee in that
campaign, was his own, amounting to
$30,000 or $40,000. George W. Ferkins,
lie said, had given $15,000. but not to the
national committee. Both contributions
were used in the West Virginia state cam
paign.
* “In October, 1904,’’ Mr Scott said, “Mr
Perkins nsked me the situation in West
Virginia and I told him we had a very
hard fight on for governor and that it was
doubtful whether we could elect Dawson.
Mr Perkins said, as a friend of Presi
dent Roosevelt, he would be very sorry to
see the state go democratic, and made
the contribution." Mr Scott said none of
the “Harvester people" had contributed
to the 1904 campaign.
“How about the Perkins contribution?”
asked Senator Clapp.
“Well. I understood that Mr Perkins’s
contribution was a personal matter of his
own,” said Mr Scott, “because of the per
sonal relations that existed between him
and President Roosevelt."
“Was Mr Perkins at that time a mem
ber of J. P. Morgan & Co?” asked Sen
ator Jones. Mr Scott did not know.
“Do you know whether Mr Perkins in
terceded with the president as to the tak
ing over of the Tennessee coal and iron
company?" asked Senator Paynter.
“I don’t know anything about that mat
ter,” said the witness.
HITCHCOCK TELLS OF FUNDS.
Republican Campaign Manager Saya
Party Accepted No Corporation Sup
port.
President Taft's campaign fund of 1908
was the subject of inquiry Wednesday,
last week, by the Senate committee.
Postmaster-General Hitchcock, chairman
of the republican national committee in
1908, told the senators no contribution was
accepted from any corporation and that
the committee had declined $20,000 from
T, Coleman DuPont of Delaware because
the government was then attacking the
powder trust and besides Congress had
forbidden corporation contributions.
The total of the republican fund was
$1,655,518.27, Mr Hitchcock said, and he
reminded the senators that those figures
were disclosed in the report filed at Al
bany, in conformity with the laws of New
York. The first "friends” he mentioned
in that connection were Charles P. Taft,
brother of President Taft, who contrib
uted $50,000; William Nelson Cromwell,
$25,000; Mi - and Mrs Larse Anderson,
$25,000; Andrew Carnegie. $20,000; Will
iam Smith Cochran, $la,000; Frank Mun
sey, $10,000; Whitelaw Reid, $10,000;
M. C. Borden. SIO,OOO, and Gen Corbin,
for a number of persons, SIO,OOO.
Neither the tobacco trust nor any of its
stockholders, to Mr Hitchcock’s knowl
edge. contributed. Some stockholders of
the steel corporation and some of the In
ternational harvester company, including
George W. Perkins, gave to the fund.
Chairman Clapp announced that he might
want to consult the books of the commit
tee and question Mr Hitchcock again about
the connection of contributors with cor
porations. __________
DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN FUND.
Sheehan Tells Senate Committee That
About UH,000,000 Wat Spent for
Judge Parker.
The democratic campaign fund con
tained about $1,000,000 when Alton B.
Parker ran for president in 1904. accord
ing to W. F. Sheehan of New York, who
testified Thursday before the Senate com
mittee. Mr Sheehan was then chair
man of the democratic national executive
committee. Money was sent by the com
mittee, he testified, to Maine, Colorado
and Nebraska, particularly.
Mr Sheehan said that when he estimated
the democratic funds in 1904 at $1,000,-
000 he was not contradicting August Bel
mont, who "guessed” on tne stand that
the amount was $600,000 or $700,000.
"It is all a matter of memory ” insisted
Mr Sheehan. "I think the national com
mittee used directly about SBOO,OOO. !■
think there came through the committee
some contributions for specific use in New.
York state. I have an impression that
it amounted to about $600,000.”
The witness declared the committee
made a rule at the beginning of the cam
paign to accept no money from any trust,
lie believed no such contributions were
made directly or indirectly. “There was
SIO,OOO contributed,” began Mr Sheehan,
"by the American sugar refining company,
—not by Mr Havemeyer— to the state com
mittee. Before the check was cashed
we heard about it and it was returned.”