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JAMES P. KIMBALL «■ A.. P«*. U.
mining oeolo
KSI> LODOie, MONT.
the AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
I-THE NATIONAL MACHINERY
By Frederick J. Haskin
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This Is the first of thirty-one weekly
chapters of a serial which Is to tall
about the work of the federal govern
ment of the United States of America,
Ihe most active and powerful nation
in the world; what Is required of th*>
servants of its people from the Presi
dent down, and how these officers per
form that service.
It is not designed as a treatise on
the science of government, nor as an
exposition of the peculiar political
structure of the United States. It Is.
rather, an jeffort to tell in the ordinary
language of everyday life what the
government does and how it does It.
The United States is the largest
nation in the world, in population,
area ;ind wealth, whose people sp?ak
one language and enjoy the privilege
of sHf government. The American
people govern themselves by means of
a complicated machinery unlike of any
other nation. Things that are local in
their nature, or that were local at the
time the Constitution was adopted,
arc under the control of the semi-in
dependent governments of the several
states. These states, in turn, acknow
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ment to more restricted areas, such as
°>ties and towns, counties and school
districts.
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*his account is solely concerned, de-
J'ivos itg powers from the states and
! he l )e °I>le ( and is strictly limited In
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w o, e nation, or more than one state,
8s defined in the Constitution of 1787
its amendments of subsequent
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ndlturee of public money, the fed
"r:il K°vernment represents but little
!? ' r< tJmn a third of the business of
ls government in this country. Yet
j! R,),,G °* th!,J limitation the national
>vernme ntai machine is in many
_ poets the most powerful and most
act ‘ve in the world.
T he work of the government in this
* QC ! d and advancing age Is not
by ti» n# * t 0 the th,n * g usumlly denoted
1 ue word government.” No longer
w? °? Hectop of taxes and a wager
„ e . ar ’ the modern government must
4 a| d Ur people in the creation
KIMBALL & KIMBALL
MINING, MECHANICAL AND CIVIL ENGINEERS
Red Lodge. Mont
Cody. Wyo
Billinqs, Mont
of wealth and the progress of culture.
Our government Is a builder. It
undertakes to construct almost any
thing from a gun that will hurl two
thirds of a ton of steel a distance of
fifteen miles to a pair of scales sj
delicate that the balance will turn
sharply un«ler the weight of a mil
lionth part of a grain. Our govern
ment is an operator. It takes obser
vations of temperature with a ther
mometer so sensitive that it will men
sure the heat of a candle five mile:'
away, and it operates a gigantic test
ing machine that will register a strain
of 10,000,000 pounds.
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by the impoverished people of tho
Atlantic seaboard, numbering alto
gether not 3,000,000. They establish
ed the government more in hope than
in confidence, and not the wisest seer
nor the most optimistic dreamer
among them would have dared to pre
dict the things that this book tolls.
That baby government was so poor
that it was f*«iced to borrow inom.y
upon the personal credit of its officers,
or to beg the tittle better credit of one
of its constituent states. When the
Capitol was built at Washington irbe
central part jf the same building in
which the laws are now made) the
United States was forced to borrow
the money to pay the laborers from
the wealthier governments of Mary
land and Virginia. Now. the credit of
the United States la greater than that
of any other nation, and it borrows
money upon more advantageous terms
than can any of the great nations of
Europe that so lately sntUel indul
gently upon what they call id “the
American experiment.”
It is a great country, as well a:» a
government. Having only one
sixteenth of the world’s r>p t ation,
the United States has a fourth of its
wealth, owns a third of its railways,
distributes a third of its mail, wields
a third of its banking power and prints
more than half of its newspapers and
magazines.
Having only one-twentieth of the
landed area of the civilized world, the
United States produces one-fifth of its
wheat, one-third of its coal, one-fourth
of Its gold, one-third of its manufac
tured wares, nearly one-half of its
steel, more than half of its petroleum,
nearly two-thirds of its cotton and
four-fifths of its corn. It is the land
of plenty, for it is the only country on
earth, excepting some of the British
colonies, where an ordinary laboring
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Unlike all governments that had
preceded it in the history of politics,
the United States government is
established upon a principle of divid
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only are restrictions placed upon the
powers of the federal government by
the reservation to the states and the
people of all powers not enumerated
in the Constitution, but there is also
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legislative and the Judicial functions
of government into three branches of
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constitutional. monarchy like Great
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like France, the legislative branch of
the government is supreme. In a fed
eral empire like Germany or an auto
cratic empire like Russia, the execu
tive branch of the government 1b
supreme. In our country, In theory,
the three branches are co-ordinate and
equal, although sometimes one asserts
its power over the other two In a
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For instance, the Supreme Court
may nullify a law passed by Congress
on the theory that it is unconstitu
tional; and Congress may refsse to
vote money for the supply of the exe-
The Northern Wyoming Herald. Cody, Wyoming. October 20,1911.
FAHLEY KIMBALL
ABHINTANT INGINEEHSi
W. O. HRROY rCLLSSTON
BYRAM W. STSBLB
CITY ENGINEER KIMBALLS
PROPOSAL FOR A MODERN
WATER WORKS FOR CODY
The Herald today publishes propo
sitions from several engineers rela
tive to the city water works that is
now being discussed by the Council.
Below are those of Russell Kimball,
city engineer. The Herald desires
‘ hat our citizens read these very care
fully.
Another proposal, that of Burns &
McDonnell, will be found on another
page. Read that also.
On the editorial page the Herald
discusses all the proposals before the
council in detail. Senator Schwoob in
the council proceedings was alert, as
is also Councilman Hargraves, in
interests of the taxpayers of Cody,
here is no excuse for anyone not to
be well informed on the water works
proposition after reading the various
proposals published In today’s Herald.
Cody, Wyoming.
October 9, 1911.
PROPOSAL.
Proposal, by Russell Kimball, a
Mechanical Engineer, of Park County,
Wyoming, to the Town Council of the
Town of Cody, Wyoming, a municipal
corporation, for the performance of
professional services and engineering,
with respect to a Mechanical Filtra
tion Plant for the Town of Cody, in
connection with a municipally owned
power station and pumping plant,
cutlve departments. But these are ex
ceptional things.
The executive or law-enforcing func
tion of the government is vested in
the President. He appoints the cabi
net, officers who superintend the de
partments. and is, finally, responsible
"or all of the varied activities of the
executive branch of the goverment—a
responsibility that includes by far the
greater part of the work of the gov
ernment and is greater than that laid
upon the shoulders of any other mor
tal man.
The legislative or law-making func
tion of the government is vested In
Congress. Representatives, elected by
the people, compose the House of Rep
resentatives, or lower chamber, ami
in this body must originate all bills
having to do with taxing the people.
Senators chosen by the states, two
from each state, compose the Senate,
or upper chamber. The concurrenco
of the Senate is required in all leg
islative acts, and also in certain ex
ecutive deeds, including the appoint
ment of officers and the ratification
of treaties with foreign powers. The
President has a part in the legislative
function, also, since he may veto a bill
passed by Congress, and unless it is
passed a second time by a two-thirds
vote in both houses it cannot become
a law.
The judicial or law-interpreting
function of the government Is vested
in the Supreme Court of the United
States and other federal courts creat
ed by Congress. The Supreme Court
is the final arbiter of all disputes aris
ing under the laws of the federal gov
ernment, and as the Interpreter of the
Constitution it can set aside the acts*
of Congress or of the President on the
ground that the power delegated by
the states and the people in tho Con
stitution has been exceeded.
Leaving on one side the considera
tions of the statesman who is con
cerned with theories, and on the other
those of the politician who is concern
ed with expedients, this serial repre
sents an effort to tell of the work and
the workers of the federal govern
ment. %
It Is a plain account of how the
President, the Congress, the Supreme
Court and all of the other half-million
servants of the American people do
the work of the people for the people.
It 1b the story of the actual doings
of the men who, as officers of the gov
ernment, protect this nation against
foreign foes, administer Its laws to
preserve peace at home, safeguard
the public health and prosperity, con
serve the use of its national resources,
encourage its inventive genius, and do
all in their power to advance Its
moral and material interests.
It Is a story to make every Ameri
can breast swell with pride, a story
whose hard facts loom so large in the
record of the world’s accomplishments
that the knowledge of them cannot
but increase the love and honor all of
us hive for the land o* the free and
the home of the brave.
RUBSBLL KIMBALL, M. E.
U. s. MINKHAI. MCRVRYOR FOR WYO.
U. S. MINBKAI. SCRVIYOR FOR MONT,
CITY INGINEKR, CODY, WYO.
adaptable to the existing water maim*
and storage installed in the town.
The undersigned, Russel Kimball, a
Mechanical Engineer, hereby submits
to the Town Council, of Cody, Wyo
ming, the following schedule of pro
posal, to-wit:
I propose, for a fixed and specified
fee, hereinafter stated, to execute,
First: Preliminary surveys and maps.
Second: Preliminary plans and pre
liminary estimates of cost, consequent
to said preliminary surveys and plans.
Third: A preliminary report upon
available water supply systems for the
Town of Cody, and alternate systems,
said water supply systems and alter
nates to contemplate a mechanical
filtration plant; the mechanical filtra
tion plant to be designed in connec
tion with a municipally owned hydrau
lic power station and pumping plant.
Fourth: A preliminary report upon
the co6t of operation of such a plant,
inclusive of an estimate of mainten
ance and depreciation.
REPORT.
I further propose that;
The plant contemplated, under this
proposal shall consist of (1) a low
dam in the Shoshone River at a known
available site, for a dam, which is
situated approximately one mile from
the town, or such other dam site as
the result of surveys, investigations
and comparison of alternate prelimin
ary estimates of cost and efficiency
shall dictate. Said dam to be of per
manent construction and to furnish
hydrulic power for a municipally own
ed and operated power plant.
(2) A power station in connection
with said dam, w’hich station shall
develop power adequate to present
needs of a 2,000 population, but which
shall be susceptible of auspicious ex
tension of power development when
ever the service shall demand.
(3) A mechanical filtration plant
in connection with the municipal hy
drulic power plant, this mechanical
filtration system to be adequate for
2.000 population, and susceptible of
auspicious extension and enlargement
by the installation of additional filter
pairs or units, as the population may
from time to time require.
|(4). A ptjtfping plant in connection
with the power station and filtration
system, which shall be of such nature
as to allow of amplification where the
duty imposed shall require.
(5) An adaptation of the above
suggested plant, and Its various parts,
to the existing water supply system
of mains and storage, with a view to
the utilization of the present system,
and as much thereof as is adequate
for a 2.000 population.
(6) Such deviations from the gen
eral design, herein above described,
shall be made as the results of sur
veys, investigations, estimates and
cost data, and good engineering prac
tice shall require.
REPORT.
I further propose:
A report of preliminary estimate of
cost for constructing a circulating
system of mains from the present
dead end system, also as to certain
local repaint and gradient corrections
of the present water distributing sys
tem.
And lastly a report of all such mat
ter as may tend herunto, towards ar
riving a* a true and intelligent under
standing of the plant under considera
tion. together with a sumjjnary of such
current cost and maintenance data a*
can reasonably be obtained from ope
rators of actual plants analagous to
the one proposed.
I propose that all of the above des
cribed engineering work shall be the
property of the town, and shall be
completed as nearly within 30 days
from th<> date of acceptance of thfs
proposal and the commencement of
the herein above described work, as
accurate and complete engineering in
vestigation will permit.
I propose to execute the foregoing
schedule for the fixed and specific fee
of $300.00, said fee to be inclusive ot
all field and office expenses, assis
tants, equipment and engineering ma
terials.
RUSSELL KIMBALL, M. E.
To the Honorable Muyor and Towm
Council,
Cody. Wyoming, October 9, 1911.
Cody, Wyoming.
September 11, 1911.
The Honorable Mayor and Town Coun
cil.
Cody. Wyoming.
Persuant of duties us City Engineer
for the Town of C4tiy, the following
statements, for the consideration of
the Town 'Council, are respectfully
submitted with reference to renewed
interest in the water supply question
confronting the Town.
Detail surveys and reporto relative
to two specific investigations of water
supply, initiated by the Town Cuncil,
have been made under definite fee
contract and are in the possession of
the Council.
The first under date of February 16,
1910, relative to gravity supply from
South Fork River, consumed 46 days
of investigation and comprised 73.41
miles of survey. The second, under
date of March 31, 1910, consumed 29
days and comprised 22.4 miles of sur
vey.
The facts developed in these sur
veys are familiar only to a portion of
the present Council, new members
having since the date of the above sur
veys entered their official duties.
It is respectfully suggested that
these reports should be again review
ed by the present council, particularly
for the benefit of the new and unin
formed members, before entering intf
further consideration, and for the pur
pose of a complete understanding of
the information already in possession
of the Council.
Perusal of the published reported
proceedings of the Town Council of
Monday, September 4, 1911, prompt
the following suggestions from an en
gineering and business viewpoint.
Propositions have been submitted to
the Town Council which involve a ten
tative fee, that is the proposal for en
gineering work is dependent upon a
percentage of the amount of bond
issue, or ohterwise on a percentage of
the contract price of the construction,
or lastly on a per diem basis.
A tentative fee is particularly per
nicious, and by the most eminent engi
neers, is discountenanced as unprofes
sional.
On a percentage scale for his re
numeration for professional services,
what will prevent an engineer, who
has acquired the confidence and the
sanction of the Tewn Council, from
making his design for a wate,r system
more elaborately expensive than the
needs of the community or good and
economical engineering would dic
tate?
The greater the bond issue, or the
greater the construction contract cost,
the greater the percentage fee for the
engineer. Why pay an engineer a fee
4 per cent of a bond issue passed up
on a preliminary estimate, purposely
made large, when the construction
may be actually economically built at
a greatly less figure than the amount
of the bond issue?
A per diem fee is even more per
nicious than the percentage fee, and
is one that will be studiously avoided
by an engineer having a true business
acumen, and an honor for his profes
sion. Such a fee Is resorted to only
under extenuating circumstances.
A per diem fee may be accepted on
a problematical estimate of the time
to be consumed in surveys, etc., but
when put into practice may perhaps
be indefinitely extended at the trea
sure of the engineer, under the claim
of necessity real or otherwise, which
extension will be to the surprise and ;
disappointment of the commissioning
party.
A fixed or stated total fee basis of
remuneration for professional services
is employed by the scrupulous and
eminent engineers.
The Town Council will note that the
two mentioned gravity w*ater surveys,
in their possession, consumed an ag
gregate of 75 days, 10 6-7 weeks, in
cluding Sundays. The context is evi
dent; to reproduce these surveys, in
similar detail and carefulness by peo
ple unacquainted with the country,
and also to perform other surveys for
other forms of supply, withjn the sug
gested eight weeks or again in eight
days, or possibly two weeks, seems a
highly improbable estimate of time
necessary for careful study of condi
tions and preliminary estimate for
construction.
It will he further noted, that while
a preliminary survey is sufficient foi
the determination of expediency and
estimate of a requisite bond issue,
such a survey is not adequate for the
commencement of construction opera
tions. A definite location survey with
a view to minimization of construc
tion cost and for perfection of design
must he completed and accepted be
fore bids for construction can properly
be solicited.
First National Bank
Cody, Wyoming
Capital $50,000 - • , Surplus SIO,OOO
Page Three
Respectfully,
RUSSELL KIMBALL, M. E.
City Engineer.
Cody, Wyoming.
September 11, 1911.
The Honorable Mayor and Town Coun
cil,
Cody, Wyoming.
In view of recent foreign proposals
for enigneering work made to tho
Town Council, Cody, Wyoming, I, Rus
sell Kimball, hereby respectfully sub
mit the following for consideration.
Facts, relative to water supply from
South Fork River and the Shoshone
Canyon, are in the possession of tho
Town Council; the results of previous
surveys under specific contracts.
Certain other possible water sup
plies have from time to time been
mentioned before the Council, as for
example, the Beck Lake, Water Gal
leries, or Deep Wells with associate
pumping plants located in the Sho
shone River plans, Artesian Water,
and lastly, and probably the most feas
ible adoptable and economical under
population conditions and financial ob
ligations, not excepting the two grav
ity supplies surveyed which is a me
chanical filtration and pumping plant
in the vicinity of the present pumping
station.
The Town Council, however, has to
the present not of its free will initiat
ed any investigation by the City Engi
neer along these lines, nor asked for
estimate for such work. The City
Engineer, owing to the nature of his
office, and its present system of opera
tion, has not seen fit to unprofession
ally solicit employment in making
such investigations, although consider
able progress along the lines of these
considerations has been privately con
ducted by him.
Owing to the recent and antecedent
competative proposals for engineering,
by foreign engineering concerns the
City Engineer, in his private capacity
as a member of Kimball & Kimball,
Mining, Mechanical and Civil Engi
neers, feels free now to submit the
following proposal.
I propose, as heretofore in my engi
neering dealings with the Town Coun
cil, for a fixed fee hereinafter men
tioned, to perform the preliminary sur
veys. maps, drawings, estimate and
reports, upon the following investiga
tions of, namely:
(1) The Beck Lake Water Supply.
(2) Water Galleries in the Sho
shone River plane with pumping ac
cessories.
(3) Deep Wells in the Shoshono
River plane with pumping accessories.
(4) The disproving of the feasi
bility of available Artesian water sup
ply by showing the absence of geologi
cal artesian basin conditions, the same
to be substantiated, if desirable by
James P. Kimball, M. A., P. H. D., a
geologist familiar with this vicinity.
(5) A Mechanical Filtration plant
and associate power and pumping ac
cessories.
(6) A comparative summary and
report upon the five water supplies
hereinabove mentioned, and the same
to include the two gravity supplies,
formerly reported upon and In the
possession of the Council.
I propose to execute the above, in
clusive, as heretofore, of wages of all
field assistants, and field and office
facilities, for a specific fee of $500.00.
I respectively suggest, upon receiv
ing the above reports from an engi
neer who has grown up with the
Town, and in full familiarity with all
the conditions of the community and
the engineering conditions to be over
come, derived from twelve years of
personal observation, that the Town
Council then, with an understanding
of the water supply conditions, would
be in better position to understand the
elements of considerations presented
by consulting engineers, should the
Council then be desirous of their re
view and criticism and suggestion as
to the work herein above enumerated.
Respectfully,
KIMBALL & KIMBALL,
Mining, Mechanical and Civil Engi
neers.
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