FEBRUARY 11, 1910
The Commoner.
11
Washington News
An Associated Press dispatch says:
"The administration program' as re
vised today by leaders of the senate
and house and given the stamp of
White House approval comprises the
following legislation: Statehood for
Arizona and Kew Mexico in the form
of the senate bill, which provides
for ratification by congress of the
constitution of the new states after
approval by the president. Postal
savings bank with safeguards against
funds being transferred from sec
tions where originally deposited to
the money centers. Giving the presi
dent authority to withdraw from en
try public lands desired for conser
vation purposes or for classification,
withdrawals to remain in force until
revoked by him or by acts of con
gress. ' Federal incorporation open
to the voluntary application of con
cerns engaged in interstate business
and willing to subscribe to federal
regulation. Creating a court of com
merce and amending the interstate
commerce act as provided by the
Townsend-Elkins bills, preating a
legislative council -for "Alaska, the
members to be appointed by the pres
ident. Later in the session it may
be decided to make additions to the
administration program by adding
some measures, which are now
deemed of secondary importance. For
instance, President Taft has told his
advisers that ho is inclined to come
out strongly for ship subsidy in some
form, and it is possible also he may
urge the passage of the bill provid
ing for certificates of indebtedness
to the amount of .$30,000,000 to pro
vide money to carry on reclamation
work.
An Associated-Press dispatch says:
"Coricefc'sions by1 both the United
States and Germany have averted a
threatened tariff war. Negotiations
have been concluded between the two
countries which settle the -question
of minimum and maximum rates,
with the exception of cattle and
dressed meat issue, which was elim
inated from the present negotiations
and which will be pursued hereafter
In separate diplomatic representa
tion. The result of the negotiations
agreed to today is to exchange Amer
ican minimum rates for the entire
and unqualified minimum list of Ger
many. The result is considered just
and advantageous to both countries."
do and will not in any way conflict
with your duty as enumerator." Rep
resentative BaTtholdt, republican, of
Missouri said that Mr. Crow acted
on his own authority and did not
speak for any one but himself. Rep
resentative Boogher of Missouri said
he would offer an amendment to the
pending bill imposing a fine of $1,000
or imprisonment for one year upon
any census employe who should ask
any person any question relating to
his politics. Representative Harlin
of Missouri said that President Taft
had asked him to 'suggest some good
man for supervisor of the census in
place of a supervisor who had died
but the president had insisted that
he must bo a republican and so Mr.
Harlin told him that he had no advice
to give. Representative Hardy of
Texas said that partisanship Is the
keynote of federal appointments in
his state.
Judge A. C. Co)c has declined the
appointment of presiding justice of
the customs court.
A "Washington dispatch carried by
the Associated Press says: "Repre
sentative Champ Clark, democratic
leader of the house, has been in
formed that the 'First Champ Clark
for President' club has been organ
ized In Enid, Okla. An official notifi
cation to that effect has jubt reached
him. A telegram from Tulsa, Okla.,
has also been received by the mi
nority leader nominating him for
speaker of the next congress and
then for president. Mr. Clark is not
committing himself just now, as to
the candidacy for either office, he
says."
Senator Heyburn of Idaho spoke
against the postal savings bank bill.
He contended that inasmuch as the
fund under the bill would reach
fully $700,000,000, it would enable
the- board of trustees to dictate the
rateof interest throughout the coun
try 'Mn other words, the govern
ment's purpose to get into the loan
ing business," he said, "and intends
to fix the rate of interest at 2 per
cent." In view of this fact, he asked
what the effect would be on incomes
deprived from funds invested at 5
and 6 per cent. "Should we," he
then asked, "so forget our duty to
the widows and orphans whose funds
are thus invested as to disturb the
earning capacity of their invest
ments?" He declared that the bill
should.be denominated "an act to
constitute the government a collec
tion agency for the banks," and add
ed that under the bill it had the
power to convert the government in
to a general loaning agency.
Representative Payne of New York
has introduced a resolution providing
for an investigation by the house
committee on ways and. means into
the high cost of living in the United
States.
Representative Coudrey, republi
can, of Missouri, has introduced a
resolution to investigate the beef
trust.
with the fact that American flour and
bacon aro sold much cheaper in Can
ada than in the United States.
The Philadelphia North American
adduces figures to show that tho beef
trust's stock explanation of high
prices a diminishing supply, is not
true. It shows that from 1899 to
1909 beef cattle in this country in
creased, in round numbers, from 28
million to 49 millions, of. 79 per
cent; sheep increased from 39 mil
lion to 56 million, or 43 per cent;
swine increased from 38 million to
54 million, or 40 per cent. During
the same period population has in
creased not to exceed 20 per cent.
Meat products, therefore, have in
creased from two to three times as
much as population.
Senator Bristow of Kansas aids the
press in its researches as to fact by
coming forward withtho sapient sug
gestion that the price of meat ought
to be less than it was twenty-fivo
years ago if for no other reason than
that waste has been eliminated.
"When I was a boy," he says, "25
per cent of tho carcass went to
waste. Now nothing is wasted, not
even the blood."
All these facts notwithstanding,
the price keeps on rising; and tho
price of American products is great
er to Americans, at home, than it is
to Londoners across seas.
Yet it is nothing new or surpris
ing. The facts are stale. They have
been pointed out, over and over
again, by democratic newspapers and
campaigners, in any number of cam
paigns. The beef trust is getting enor
mously rich by robbing the American
people. Armours declare a 35 per
cent dividend for the last fiscal year.
And in ten years they have created
a surplus, out of earnings in addition
to dividends, of 70 millions of dol
lars on a1 20 million capitalization.
Other great packing concerns are do
ing about as well. Is it strange if
prices are high? Is it stranger they
are higher right here in Omaha than
in London? '
And aren't the steel trust and tho
oil trust and the sugar trust and the
harvester trust and the woolen trust
and all the rest of them doing just as
the beef trust is doing? Aren't they
all gouging the American people, and
haven't they been doing it these many
years past? And haven't these same
American people authorized them to
do so, and ratified their doing it, by
their votes a.t the polls every time
they had a chance? Omaha World-Herald.
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Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas at
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declaring that it is in the interest
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A livelv nolitical debate occurred
in the house when Representative
Robinson of Arkansas read a letter
written by Representative Crow of
Missouri in which Mr. Crow told one
of his constituents that if he re
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this letter Mr. Crow said that the
census enumerator would have to do
certain work "such as an enthu
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Fountain L.' Thompson, recently
appointed senator from North Dako
ta, has resigned - on account of ill
health. Hon. W. E. Purcell of Wae
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his successor.
In a newspaper Interview Com
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Roosevelt as leader of the proposed
South Polo expedition.
AUTHORIZED TO PLUNDER?
The diligent American press, turn
ing its attention to the meat boycott
and the situation that gives rise to
it, has unearthed some interesting
facts.
The New York Sun finds that the
retail price of American beef- is much
less in London than in New York.
Loins sell in London for 15 to 19
cents, in New York for 23 to 28
cents; round steak in London costs
16 to 20 cents, and in New York 20
to 24 cents; chuck brings 12 to 16
cents in London, and 14 to 18 cents
in New York.
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