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100 LBS. FEMCE WIRE, $1.25
as wis price we oner oar routed
Wire Shorts. No. IS.
m Galvanised Wire Shorts, No. H
l.COperlOOlba.j'No.U Galvanised
Wire, continaoas lengths, MB. B."
100 lbs., e&Mt Fainted Barb Wire,
per 100 lbs., W Galvanised Barb
Wire, per 100 Iba., e.60; Galvanised
Poultry Nettlng.iOO squareft,40c.i
Galvanized Field Fence, finest
manufactured, per rod, from 15 to
,0O feet of Lawn Fencing, per foot, SStoOOat Steel
Fence Posts, Indestructible, latest patont, 43 inches
abovogrouna, complete per post, 86c. We can f umh
posts for any purpose and In any size.
WlfaHsll ?-Se Per 10 Lba,10,000Kefrs Mixed
TV1. l Wire Nails, each oontalninglOO to 110
'fr froL?lto "-Pennyweight, per keg, tl.Se. Wire
fplkea, leo lbs., 1.0. Mixed Iron BolS. 109 lbs., S.9.
Ask for free fcOO-page Catalog No. a 334 on Wire Fenc
tag. Roofing, Boagehold Goods, Tool and Merchandise
of every kind from Sheriff's and Receiver's Sales.
UKIM MWE WXECKIN SO,, Mis . Im Ik.. CMKMt
Posts For Permanent Fencing
The cement age has developed noth
ing of greater economical importance
than the STEELItEINFOROED, CON
CRETE FENOE POST.
The Janesvilte Cement Post Co,
has been manufacturing theso posts for tho
last four years and thoy havo beon general
ly distributed throughout tho country for
FA11M, RAILROAD AND LAWN FENCES,
and navo given universal satisfaction. Thoy
wIlLnot rot, burn or rust. Whon pneo sot
you navo a POST FOR ALL TIME.
.They Coat But Little. More Than Wood
Tho Season for fenco repairs and building Is
now at band.
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Janesvilie Cement Post Co.,
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The Commoner.
WASHINGTON CITY LETTER
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other .democratic senators. He said
his purpose slowly and carefully, and
in exact substance his statement was
this: That ho reached the conclu
sion that the best plan for railroad
rate legislation was to expressly grant
a court review, but to distinctly limit
it to two points; first, an inquiry
whether the interstate commerce com
mission had exceeded its authority,
and second, an inquiry whether tho
constitutional rights of the carrier
had been violated. Ho said' that he
had beon much troubled by tho ad
vocacy of any unlimited court review
by some of the lawyers of the senate
naming Senators Knox, Spoonor
and Foraker as trying to injure or
defeat the bill by ingenious constitu
tional arguments, but that he had
come to a complete disagreement
with them. He made this point em
phatic by repetition; said that he
would go thus far and no farther arid
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that his decision would bo unalterable.
Ho declared thnrn nnnifi im nni(n,i
action in tho senate among tho
friends of tho bill so that it could -bo
surely passed without injurious
amendments and he named various re
publican senators who lie thought
were true friends of tho bill, but said
that it would lake nearly all the dem
ocrats to carry the limitation and de
feat all obnoxious provisions.
"After tho president had made his
statement, I replied that I had reason
to believe that most of tho democrats
in the senate would sustain his limi
tation of the courts' powers, but that I
was sure that Mr. Bailey and Mr. Till
man would insist upon coupling with
the limitation some restriction upon
tho power of the courts to issue in
junctions against the orders of the
commission. Before I finished my
statement on this point tho president
interrupted me, saying that I need
not explain further because he was
warmly in favor of such restriction.
"That evening I saw Mr. Tillman
and told him what had occurred."
MR.ROOSEVELTS STATEMENT
On May 14 the presdent gave out
the following statement:
"The White House, Washington,
May 14, 1906. -My Dear Senator Alli
son: As Senator Tillman brought in
your name in connection with mine
in the statement he made concerning
our relations to the rate bill last Sat
urday, it is perhaps due to you that
I should write you on the latter, After
the rate bill was reported from the
committee and after, by vote of the
committee, Mr. Tillman had been put
in charge of it, many senators and
many outsiders came to see me with
reference to it. Among others I was
asked to see ex-Senator Chandler as
representing Mr. Tillman, who was in
charge of the bill. I stated in re
sponse that I was of course entirely
willing to see Mr. Tillman personally
or to- see Mr. Chandler or anyone else
who could speak for him, and I ac
cordingly directed my secretary to
make an appointment for Mr. Chand
ler to see me. My understanding was
that he was the representative of Mr.
Tillman. In this first interview he
stated to me the views of Mr. Tillman
with seeming authority. He called
on me several times. During the same
period I saw other gentlemen who
professed to give the views of other
senators.,., Jr addition I saw numerous
senators, both republicans and demo
crats, some of them once or twice,
some of them many times. I saw nu
merous outsiders, railroad men, ship
pers, newspaper men and students of
traffic regulation, including especially
the attorney general and members of
the interstate commerce commission
and on two occasions I saw groups
of newspaper men In a mass.
"To all of these, senators, repre
sentees Of senators and outsiders
alike, I made tho same statements,
those that I made to Mr. Chandler be
ing the same in substance that I
made to you apd to those of your
colleagues of both political parties
with whom I had any extended con
ferences on the subject. The letter
of the attor"hev ceneral. which I en
close, shows fully the facts as td the
conferences, which, at my instance,
were held with Senators Tillman and
Bailey. Those conferences were pre
cisely such as at my instance were
held with many other senators to de
termine the phraseology and discuss
the effect of amendments proposed by
them. To all whom I saw I stated
that the Hepburn bill was in Its es
sence entirely satisfactory to me. The
Hepburn bill as it passed the house
simply recognized the right of re
view by the courts that Is. the iur-
isdiction , of the courts, but did not
attempt to define it, thus leaving the
courts to prescribe the limits of their
own jurisdiction.
"This was in accordance with the
ideas of the attorney general, his be
lief being that thereby we avoided all
danger of the bill being declared un
constitutional because of an attempt
to confer too much or too little jur
isdiction on the courts.
"I also repeatedly stated that while
it was entirely satisfactory to me sim
ply to leave the Hepburn bill in sub
stance as it was; that is, with the
recognition of the jurisdiction of the
courts, but without any attempt to
define that jurisdiction, yet that, I
was entirely willing that there should
be a definition, provided that this
definition did not seek to grant a
broad review, but explicitly narrowed
it to the two subjects, which, as a
matter of fact, I believed that the
courts alone would consider in case
there was no attempt to define the
limits of their review; that it would
limit it to the question as to whether
tho commission had acted ultra vires,
and as to whether any man's right
had been impaired. I stated that If
the question of defining or limiting
the review was brought up at all I
personally felt that this was the way
in -which It should be limited or defined.
"At different times at least a score
of tentative amendments were either
prepared by the attorney general rat
the request of senators or submitted
to me by senators. As to many of
those amendments (including among
others the substance of the so called
Long, Overman, Bacon and Spooner
amendments) I stated that I should
be entirely satisfied to have them in
the bill; as to others I suggested
modifications which would make them
satisfactory.
"To none did I ever say, either to
Mr. Chandler or anyone else, that I
should insist upon having them In the
bill as a condition of my approving
it. On the contrary, I was always
most careful to state that I was not
trying to dictate any particular pro
gram of action. In no case, either
in the case of Mr. Chandler or In the
case of anyone else, was 1;here tho
slightest opportunity for any honest
misconception of my attitude or any
belief that I had pledged myself spe
cifically to one and only one amend
ment or set of amendments, or that
I would not be satisfied with any
amendment which preserved the es
sential feature of the Hepburn bill
as it came from the house. You will
doubtless recall that in the course of
the several visits that you personally
made me we discussed a number of
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Let this "1900" Gravity
Washing Machine do
your Washing Free,.
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An nnseonpower.Hcailed Gravity, helps run this
washing machine
By harnessing this power, wo make it work for
you.You start tho washor brjiand, thon Gravity
power takes hold and does tbehardest part
And It makes thin machine turn almost as easy aa
a bicycle wheel does. """
Gravity, you know, is what makes a stone roll
down hill.
.t?.ShJ,non.afel.8tl,onloventodal we call
lttho "1900" Gravity Washer. A
There aro slats on tho Inside bottom of tho tub.
These Bjats.-actaa paddles, to' awing the water in
the same direction you rovolvo tho tub.
m. You throw the soiled clothes Into the tub first.
Then rou throw enough water over the clothed to
lloat tuoin.
Noxtyon putthoboavy wooden cover on top ef the
clothes to anchor them, and to press them down.
This cover has slats on Itsloworsldo to tirlp
clothos and hold them from turning around when
the tub turns.
Now wo aro all roady for onlck and easy washing.
You grasp tho upright handlo'cn thoaTde of the
tub and. with It, you revolve tho tub one-third wuy
round, thon gruvlty pulls lttho other way round.
Tho machine must havo a littlo help from yon, at
every swing, but Gravity-power does practically aU
the hard work.
Yon cati sit in a rocking chan and do all that the
wnshor requires of yon. A child can run it easily
full of clothos. "
When you rovolvo tho tub tho clothea don t move.
But the water moves llko a mill race through the
clothos. - .
Thepaddlofl on tho tub bottom drlvo tho eoapy
water xmiuuuu and through tho clothes at every
swing of the tub. Hock and forth, In and outof overy
fold, and through every mosh In tho cloth, tho hot
spupy water runs like a torrent This Is how It carries
away all the dirt from the clothos, In from elx to ten
ralnntes by the clock. " '
M Jtdrtves the dirt out through tho meshes of the
&&' wifPAT, AN3, ttUiJBING.-without any
WEAR and TEAR from tho washboard.
It will wash tho flnestlnce fabric without breaking
a thread, or a button, and It will wash a heavy, dirty
carpet with equal ooho and rapidity, fifteen to
twonty garment, or hvo large bod-sl-eota, can be
washed at one time with tbislbOO "Gravity" Washer.
A child can do this In six to twenty minutes better
than any abln washorworaan could do tho same
clothes in TWIOK the tlrao, with throe time the
wear and tear from the washboard. ,te
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This Is what we SAY, now how do we PROVE It?
Wo sond any reliable person our 1000 "Gravity"
Washer free of charge, on a fell month's trial, and
we even pay the freight out of our own pockets.
No cash deposit la asked, no notes, no contract
no security.
You may uk the washer four weeks at onr ex
pense. If yonWd it won' t wash as many clothes In
FOUR hours as you can wash by band In KIGRT
hours, you send it bad; to the railway station,
that's alL
. But, if, from a month's actual use, yon are con
vinced it saves HALF the time In washing, does the
work better, and doee It twice aa canity as it could be
done by hand, you keep the machine.
Then you mall nsCOcents s week till It is paid for.
Bemembertbat50 cento la part of what the ma
chine Bare, you fvery week on your own, or on a
washer-woman's labor. We Intend that the 1969
"Gravity" Washer shall pay for Itself and thus cost
you nothing.
. You don't risk scent from first to lost, and yon
don' t boy It nntll yon havo had a full month's trial.
we have sold approaching half a million "iSOt"
Washers on u month's frcoJafKnnd the only trouble
we' vo had lias been to kftjsjTwlth our orders.
Could we afford to u eight on thousands of
these machines every month, if we did not positively
KNOW tbey would do all wo claim for them? Can
you afford to bo without a machine that will do your
washing In HALF THK TIME, with half the wear
and tear of the washboard, when yon can havo that
machine for a month's free trial, andletitPAYFOtt
ITSELF? This offer may be withdrawn at anytime
it overcrowas oar zactory.
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Write ns TODAY, whlln f hA offer In ntltl nnenrand
while you think of It ATho postage stamp Is all yon
risk. Write me personally on this offer, viz.:
It F. Bleber. General Manager of "1000" Washer
Company. 6038 Henry 8t, Blnghamton, 27. X
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