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Yesterday's Circulation, 51,103 WASHINGTON, THTJBSDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1911.
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HOW THE GAGLAW WORKS
Speaker Clark Publicity Stated That He Is
Conferring With Government Employes
Contrary to Orders. ,
Speaker Clark is opposed to thei gag.
He doesn't think it a fitting emblem of the service of a great demo
cratic country.
As The Times has previously Indicated, there is merit in this view.
Government employes in other countries, which we think of as anything
but democratic, conduct their business with their employer.
But in our so-called democracy the right of petition is denied to
a half million citizens.
The gag order that forbldBtSKJovernment employes petitioning or
soliciting for any measure designed to improve their conditions, is the
most un-American that has ever (been sustained in this country.
There would be terriflc protest if the right of habeas corpuB were
suspended in time of peace as toa great class of people. Yet there Is
authority for suspension of thatwrlt in occasions of emergency.
There is no authority or precedent for suspension of the right of
petition; certainly no authority or justification for denying a great class
of people equal rights with other classes.
Speaker Clark observed that the gag order ought to be withdrawn,
and showed that he was himself '.party to Its violation, because ho con
stantly talked with Government employes about their conditions and
interests.
Now, every time a Government employe talks with Mr. Speaker
Clark about these things, that employe makes himself liable to dismissal.
Speaker Clark is interested in the employes; wants to know their
case; hopes to do something for them. He has no way to learn except
from them.
But if he talks to them, he subjects them to liability .for the extreme
penalty of dismissal!
The obvious result is that the order is respected by nobody, is con
stantly violated, and ought to be violated.
Nothing more demoralizing to discipline and service could be de
vised than a regulation of this sort.
Here are a half million Government employes; the people who, in
the aggregate, constitute the very working, executive machine of the
Government itself.
They are taught to despise the injustices and oppressions which that
very Government, of which they axe a part, imposes upon them.
It is destructive of the self-respect, the efficiency, and discipline of
the whole Government establishment
The gag order is simply unworkable and unenforceable. There is an
Irrepressible conflict between President and Congress because of it
Congress wants to know; it wants to hear things the employes have to
say.
It is the business, the duty, the daily routino of Congress to know
these things.
Yet the only people to whom Congress can apply for information, are
strictly enjoined not to give it!
, This 1b executive usurpation in the worst form; it is autocratic
tyranny in the most dangerous manifestation.
You might as well put the whole Government force in livery, cockades
on their hats, and the Presidential crest on their lapels, as to attempt
enforcement of such a regulation as this.
Its inevitable result is to breed contempt for authority, disregard of
duty, carelessness about obeying orders, and recklessness about con
tinuance in a service that demands Buch sacrifices of manhood and
womanhood.
Congress ought to pass legislation forbidding such executive ex
cesses. If Congress does not, then some Government employe ought to
indulge such flagrant violation of the order as to force its penalties to
be visited on him. Then he should take the matter into the courts, and
determine whether the Executive is above all law, all justice, and even
above the constitutional provision that the right of petition shall not bo
denied.
GROWN PICE HEAR
DEATH IN H10T0R CAB
Heir to German Throne Saves
Life By Leaping As Auto
mobile Overturns.
BERLIN, June 15. The automobile
speed mania of Crown Prince Frled
erlch Wilhelm brought him another
close shave from death today. Only the
crown prince's ability In leaping from
the overturning: car saved him from
the most serious Injury.
The automobile was being driven at
excessive 6peed, when It skidded In
turning a corner, struck the curb, and
overturned. The crown prince jumped
the moment the car struck. His chauf
feur was hurt.
WEATHER REPORT.
FORECAST FOR THE DISTRICT.
Generally fair tonight and Friday
Moderate temperature. "way.
TEMPERATURE.
U. S. BUREAU.
AFFLEfTfTH
0 &a All DO
9 eu m. 67
10 a. m 68
11 a. m 70
1 p. XT1. 1
2 p. m 71
8 a. rn 72
f m 75
10 a. m to
11 a. m $2
12 noon s
1 p. m...
2 p. m 77
TIDE TABLE.
Today High tide. 10:19 a. m. and 10:55
p. m.; low tide, 4:16 a. m. and 5:05 p. m.
Tomorrow High tide, 11:02 a. m. and
11:37 p. m.; low tide, 5:07 a. m. and 5:1S
p. m.
SUN TABLE.
(Bun rises...... 4:23 Sun sets....... 7:2S
TAFT TO TIE
HIS WEDDING KNOT
New Jersey Man Asks President to
Officiate at His Mar
riage. President Taft was asked today to
perform a marriage ceremony during
the celebration of his own silver wed
ding addlversary. The request came
from a couple In New Jersey, but the
White House would not give out the
names of the persons. Their letter,
however. Is as follows:
"It is my desire to be married by the
President of the good old U. S. A., and
seeing that your wedding anniversary Is
to be celebrated Monday thought it
would be .appropriate for the occasion
and at the same time make two souls
very happy."
There is no doubt that the President
would like to make "the two souls very
happy," but a wedding at this time and
at this place, with the Executive as
the officiating minister, or magistrate,
is not on the program and cannot be
Inserted at this late day.
As a result of this unfortunate situa
tion the President has been compelled
Jerseyite and his fianceaman and vrltei.
Spain's Royal Palace
Shaken by Bomb Blast
MADRID, June 15. A bomb explosion
today In the Plaza Orlente, adjoining
the royal palace, did great damage to
the entrance to the. cathedral. Build
ings In the neighborhood were shaken.
Responsibility for the explosion has not
been placed.
WANTS
Left to Right, the Investigators Are
T
IS WITHIN THE LAW,
Senator Says Combine Wilt
Be Amenable Only for
Interstate Trade.
Senator Kenyon of Iowa, while at
the White House today, said the alleged
bread trust. Just organized with a cap
italisation of X25.00O.O0iJ nM with a
branch Jin "Washington could not be
touched by law unless It sold Its pro
ducts In Interstate commerce.
The Senator said that whiic he was
assistant to the Attorney General ho
had occasion to look into the report
that such a combination was proposed,
and that he had found that these people
had no Idea of doing more than a local
business.
"It makes no difference what finan
cial arrangement may be entered into
to organize such a combination as re
ported, unless the combination sends
Its products across a Stato line the
Government cannot get at it. The con
cern must engage in Interstate com
merce if it la amenable to the anti-tniBt
law.
"As I understand it," said the Sen
ator, "these people plan to make bread
in the various cities and sell it right
where they make It. If they do that
I do not see how they can be got at
under the present law."
Earnshaw Absent.
The merger of twenty-one of the larg
est baking companies In the country
having been perfected In New York, R.
J. Earnshaw, of the Boston Baking
Company, the only Washington concern
affected, is expected to return to the
city tonight. This Information was
given at his office today, when It was
denied that the Boston Baking Com
pany had gone Into any $30,000,000 trust.
H. B. Leary. who, with llr. Earn
shaw, owns the Boston Baking Com
pany, is also out of the city, and has
been absent for several days. Employes
of the company were familiar with the
plans of tfye merger, and denied the
stories from Chicago to the effect that
the Schultz Baking Company had de
clined to enter the merger because It
might be construed as a trust. ,
Not a Trust.
According to the companies interest
ed In the merger, their organization can
not be considered a trust under the
Sherman anti-trust law. They claim
to have received this assurance from
one of the 'iromlnent attorneys con
nected with the Department of Justice.
When the meetings preliminary to the
organization were being held in New
York, he was in attendance at one
session when the purposes of the or
garilzalion wqfe explained. He stated
that the merger was plainly within the
bounds of the law.
The organization, which is to be
known as the National Bread Company,
denies that It expects to start a price
slashing campaign, with the Idea of
killing the small competitors. As proof
of this statement, attention Is called
to the fact that there is but one bakery
In every city, and such a crusade under
such conditions would be Impossible.
Give Purpose.
In the announcement made by the or
ganization, the purposes of the merger
are explained assollows:
"There is no purpose or thought of the
establishment of a monopoly in the
manufacture and sale of bread; such a
monopoly would be impossible, as in
most localities, with few exceptions,
only one baking company has been ac
quired, leaving competition open to hun
dreds of others.
"The real purpose of the company Js
progressive 4brough the advantage of
wise "buying, of materials, the employ
ment of economic, scientific, and up-to-date
methods of manufacturing, and by
Its extensive advertising system it pro
poses to educate the public to a higher
standard' of. quality in bread."- - , ,
NEW
BREAD TRUS
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KENYON
John . Raker, Colorado; F. J. Garrett, Tennessee; T. W. Hardwick, Georgia,
George R. Malby, New York; . H. Madison, Kansas.
HEAD OF MORMON
CHURCH ORDERED
BEFORE PROBERS
Senator Smoot's Plea for Prophet Smith
Fails to Move Sugar Investigators.
Heike's Memory Bad.
Joseph F. Smitii. president of the Mormon Church, was today or
dered by the Hardwick Sugar trust investigating committee of the House
to appear before it and testify particularly as to the organization of the
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company.
When the committee convened. Chairman Hardwick stated that Sena
tor Smoot had forwarded a request that Smith be excused because Thomas
R. Cutler, of Salt Lake City, could give all the testimony that the com
mittee could get from Smith. Hardwick announced that he was opposed
to excusing Smith because the Mormon leader was a big factor in the
organization of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company.
"I move that he be ordered to appear," said Representative Baker
of California, and the motion was adopted.
HEIKE FALLS BACK ON HIS "I DON'T KNOW."
A a result nt vpatiirrinv'fi imnrnfi table
examination of Helke and his evasive
attitude on the stand, the committee
today went after the secretary of the
Rmrar tnint with considerable vigor.
Helke's memory was bad again today
in spots.
He was utterly unablo to tell any
thing regarding the details of the or
ganization of the American Sugar Re
fining Company and declared he knew
nothing of the practical end of the
siiear hiiRlnpiss. Ha said his position
was purely "clerical" and he had no
opportunity to learn the practical part
of the manufacture of sugar. Helke's
nttltnrlp nxnsnerated the committee, but
the more the questioners pressed him
tne ouener ne ieu oac. uu m auw,u.u
answer, "I don't know."
Benefit to Consumers.
But Helke was perfectly willing to
declare that the American augar e
flnlng Company had been a great bene
fit to the consumers of sugar.
"It has made prices uniform and pre
vented an advance In prices, and it has
perfected a standard product," Helke
declared,
Helke also talked freely about the
tariff and the beet sugar industry.
Without a protective tariff, the beet
industry would- be unable to continue,
he said.
"I am in favor of free sugar," he de-
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reductln of 5 per cent a year, so that at
the end of twenty years we would have
free sugar. No industry that cannot
stand on its own feet should bo 'hot
housed to keep it alive."
..H,eJ&e..deSiared that during the panic
of 1S07 the Continental Beet Sugar Com
pany would have fone to the wall If
the American Sugar Refining Company
had not loaned it money to keep it
going.
Representative Fordney (Re., Mich.).
?e.f th,e Wgh Pri"ti of protection'
in the House, attacked Heike's free
2S2L dootriae. d they became in
volved in a technical tariff discussion.
Controlling Interest
Hardwick, after a good deal of hard
work, succeeded In having Helke admit
that the holdings of the American
Sugar Refining Company and the hold
ings of the Havemeyers Interests, "If
combined, would constitute a controlling
Interest in the Continental. Great West
ern, and Utah-Idaho Beet Sugar Com
panies. Fordney again took up the trail, and
h1.ftR? P16. had heated argument.
iKXhy' Jont you tnink that a P'o
nlbltlve duty on raw sugar is neces
sary to keep the sugar industry going?"
demanded Fordney.
--,- o.. uicm inemy years to
hadapt themselves to free trade," said
m1-' ?T!. exploded Fordney, "we'd
all be doad by that time," and he con
cluded his examination.
James M. Beck, counsel for the Amer
ican Sugar Refining Company, was evi
dently nervous over the tariff differ
ences, for he asked that the committee
consider Helke's testimony merely as
that of an individual and not as 'a rep
resentative or the Sugar trust.
Palmer Called.
Lowell M. Palmer, a former director
of the American Sugar Refining Com
pany, was called. Before his oral ex
amination began Representative Madi
son read Into the record an extract from
the minutes of tbe board -of directors
Of the Sugar trust The extract apt
forth the appointment of a committee
to "fix the price of sugar" and to se
cure control of independent companies.
This meeting was held September" 6,
Palmer admitted that the sugar inter
ests obtained rebates on freight rates
prior to 1S91.
Ha rierlArA1 that rahat.. .AA .
sary because of the flerse competition Jn
thnnA Aarm I'ttA -.a ....... ,,.,. .. .,
,the organization of the Sugar 'trust,
Paltrier rllHi.iiRKA &ta a m,a a
ments at great length, and finally told
iiuw .jx. j. xiavemeyer arove xneoaore
Havemeyer out of the firm of Harris &
Havemeyer,.in 1SS6.
Shortly after Palmer took the stand,
PhftrlPH K TTMlTA WO, An,.4 with n
subpoena to appear- before the House
Committee on Expenditures In the De
partment of Justice.
nttlpl flncrat tf-,,0 nMnlalti h. .
present grew nervous, fearing that they,
iuv, wuuiu uo uticu iu oiaKB we rounas
of the investigating committees now op
erating at the CapitoL, . w
Chairman; Asher Hinds, Maine;
POSTAL EMPLOYES
USED BY CHIEF TO
ITURE
They Tell Committee That
Government Lumber Was
Used on Job.
That a bureau chief of the Postoffice
Department recently used subordinate
employes of the department to- park, and
crate hi:, furnitme, and tha such em
ployes worked several days at their
packing Job, all the while at the expense
of the Government, was a development
today before the House committee that
Is Investigating the ostofflce Depart
ment. Four employes of the department tes
tified that when G. G. Thompson, for
mer chief of the Bureau of Supplies,
was sent to Texas about a year ago as
an inspector of the rural mall service,
they were required to crate his furni
ture, and that Thompson used Govern
ment lumber for the work.
W. F. Byrne, a department carpenter,
testified that he had been engaged for
five days in crating the Thompson fur
niture, and David Powell, V. H. Ham
ilton, and J. E. Graves, his assistants,
testified that tn had spent two and
three days in similar work. Graves said
that he had been required to make win
dow screens for Thompson.
All of the witnesses testified that they
were on the Government payroll during
that time.
Asked why they did this personal
work for Thompson, the reply was that
Mr. Thompson had oreded them to do
it, and that the understanding among
the subordinate employes was that Mr.
Thompson must be obeyed If their po
sitions weer to be held.
Mr. Thompson returned to Washing
ton last October to become superin
tendent of the rural free delivery ser
vice. The committee will have before it
this afternoon other employes of the
department to ascertain If any of the
Government's time has been consumed
in private work for officials.
Discharged to Save
Health Service Fund
The discharge of four laborers at the
smallpox and quarantine hospitals, and
the demotion of the matrons and help
ers two of each, at those institutions
to be laborers, is the wav the officials
of tho District Health Department are
trying to prolong their funds for con
tagious disease work.
Four watchmen, who have been on
duty watching the leper patient, also
have been discharged, and one Inspector
from the Health Department Is to tajte
their places that's the second part of
the jdan.
Two sanitary inspectors have been de
tailed from the regular force to follow
persons who have been exposed to
smallpox. The Inspectors will take the
places of physicians employed at a per
diem.
Marble and Healy Are
Chosen Lorimer Counsel
John H. Marble, of California, who
for some years has been an attorney
for the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion, and John J. Healy, of Illinois,
who was counsel for the State Senate
Committee, which investigated the
Lorimer case, have been retained as
counsel by the Lorimer Investigating
committee, uinciai announcement of
this was made this afternoon.
Both Mr. Marble and Mr. Healy
were in conference with the commit
tee this afternoon. They will begin
their duties at once.
E. L. Cornelius to Be Made
Assistant to Ransdell
E. Livingstone Cornelius, now secre
tary to' Col. Daniel Ransdell, sergeant-at-arms
of the Senate, will be made as
sistant sergeant-at-arms under a reso
lution Introduced today by Senator
Lodge, which was referred to the Com
mittee on Rules. Mr. Cornelius is from
Baltimore, but has been a. resident of
th District fox a number of year. ;
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PACK HIS FURN
HEADS IS URGED
BYJiERENE
Ohio Senator Advocates
Criminal Prosecution of
"Men Higher Up."
CAN THUS RESTORE
MAJESTY OF LAW
Imprisonment of Few OfficftJi
Would Mean Much, He
Asserts.
Declaring that one of the official
of the Standards-oil Company or the
J American Tpbacco Company behind;
the bars Would do more toward re-1
storlnghe majesty of the law than
anything that had been done by tha
Federal Government in a generation,
Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio In
bis maiden Senate speech, spoke out
strongly for criminal prosecutiona'
of the individual defendants in ths
oil and tobacco cases.
Senator Pomerene spoke witbJ
force and feeling. He declared it
was high time "that the American
people should understand whether
the Stars and Stripes are to be the
emblem of their power and author
ity or whether that emblem shall be
the oil barrel or the tobacco tag."
Must Press Fighting.
The speaker warned Congress that If
the Government were to cope with dan
gers of the kind that now confront it In
the trust situation, it must not depend
on an occasional thlrteen-lnch gun nor
upon a continuous popgun battery. Buch.
wars must be fought with energy ana
with the sinews commensurate with the
strength, determination and outlawry of
the opposition.
Prosecutions, he declared, should b
begun against these offenders, in every
district where they had violated tha
law."
"I say this," said he, "not out of a
spirit of revenge, but In order to teach,
them that they, too, must obey tho
law.'
Clashes With Kenyon.
A sharp exchange broke out between
Senators Kenyon and Pomerene about
the close of Senator Pomerene's
speech. Senator Nelson Joined in. Sen
ator Kenyon interrupted Mr. Pome
rene to ask if his resolution did not
Instruct the Attorney General to do
his plain duty.
Senator Pomerene said he was try
In to stiffen up the backbone of tbe
Department of Justice.
Senator Kenyon said he believed
criminal prosecutions could be cited.
He believed the only solution of the
trust problem was to put some of
these defendants behind the bars, but
he believed the Attorney General
would do his duty without instruc
tions from the Senate. He lauded At
torney General Wickersham's work: In
high terms.
"Where his name fas formerly greeted
with aclalm," he said, "it Is row met
with blasphemous silence."
Senator Kenyon also commended
President Taft. He said he bad given
vitality to the Sherman anti-trust law.
He pointed out that the only Jail sen
tences under this law had been In the
turpentine case.
Senator Nelson remarked that Presi
dent Taft had oppolnted a chief Justice
(Continued on Page Seventeen.)
IN CONGRESS TODAY.
SENATE.
Senator Heyburn objected to putting:
one of department buildings on the
Mall.
Senator Pomerene urged prosecution
of individual defendants of oil and
tobacco trusts.
Manufactures Committee heard Chi
cago packers.
Reciprocity discussion continued.
Commerce Committee reported fav
orably on nomination of Capt E. P.
Bertholf to head Revenue Cutter
Service.
HOUSE.
The House became involved In
wrangle Incident to Representattv
Clark's demands for an investigation
of the Government Insane Hospital.
The Hardwick committee continued 1V
Investigation of the 8ugar trust
Secretary Meyer appeared before the
Committee on Expenditures in the
Navy Department.
The Committee on Expenditures In the
Postoffice Department continued Its
investigation.
The Committee on Postofflees held hear
ing on bills to establish parcel posts.
White House Callers,
SENATORS.
Bailey, Tex. Foster, La,
Kenyon, Iowa. Brandegee, Conn.
Burton, Ohio. Gamble, 8. D,
Lodge. Mass. Smith, Md.
Chamberlain, Ore. Root, N. T.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Calloway, Tex. Burke, 8, D.
Thayer. Mass,
Talbott Md.
Pickett, Iowa.
Morrison, Ind.
Candler, Miss.
Llnthleum, Md,
Mann, III.
OTHER CALLERS,
Forraor Senator Burrows, Mich
Secretary NageL
Postmaster General Hitchcock J
Bishop Harding. .
Father Russell. ,
Thomas B. SWpp, .
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