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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-07-30
BUARD NF MNKKC PHYS
CWZR4GZNR 4 mEM1W
TIMOTHY RYAN COMPLETES A Jon or sraGEr Work TAN
wrrks AHEAD or TIME AND CLAIMS A BONUS or y A
pAY-HouriNE or sGsstoH

irttiHR % the proposed HHFfldr 81
broadway o. r. claimed by thu
rruteHIautH tHHf fhr us# grade HHI
leave HefrrHI af THE fire IafH boo the
section from - TO Do fHHt lu the
nir and diminish their value The
board decided 20 consult the cor
IoHtIHu counsel and carefully con
elder The matter before iHhuE HHf
action. The property a#ueia were
notified thht the city would not
damage che property af the uhHh=
itanta without properly gempsuaat=
Inc them.
Two protests were before The
board bur aHHInHt the stable Of
thr HIdEeuaH Riding HHHdsuN at
Thirteenth avenue aud columbia
street a question wac raised HH to
The night Uf the mrrs tor Co allow
Hueh place fa Do operated Boa the
uelFHHufhuud a protest WaH also
filed against building planning mill
On the tide flats These protests
viii b. considered ut the meeting
next Wednesday.
HidH Tor the repair of the nrebaat
fuaaualml- were 900 ordered reject
Cd r Ryan created "a sensation IN
The board b. claiming premium
fur completing q contract before the
time limit lt aas such a HurpfIHf
Co tha board e. have contract
completed DH TIME that the premium
waa speedily recommended paid
INHu.# contract expires October "a
aud the contract wuH Hmrlsted
rrsff#l dayH $50. he Is allowed
premium of 81 faF sfsff day saved
Tho iHFsatIEatiau 90 the stnFnhHI
pool 90 fIirt avenue Huatb. that has
been She source 90 HuHef to
several people Of that district NaH
fakea Uu by tie board end referred
ta The beard 81 health fer recon-
mFudatiuuH
Tie board opened blHs for con
crete sidewalks go Past Fine street
nnd Alder street end faF rasiua on
Bowen avenue Tho Haaeu avenue
SOB evidently 81 NOT lnak good 80
rnHfHaH tors be- only one bid HrF 81
frffH This H#H from tie HARDER
Asphalt IHEIHH company Tho b4HH
ou Lei Pine street and Alder street
we've a4Nfra4H end Showed .rHsId
cradle Interest on the pert a. TIE
bidders
The matter - regarding Third
avenue HaH presented ta the boaHa
or petition - property owners
along fhe street % o. proposed e.
make uniform grade f9am Union
stfesf 90 NrHIef way end Improve
thr street tE rcanlnF the sharp
Eradsa 20 the city hail II o. pro
posed q make gradual grade ffom
ms feet on linton street where BE- r.
nos - ca feet shove the city datum.
Ht YaHlsr vaY
Tie grade aH proposed VIII -
% ven easy eHe aHd claimed 60 -
much more Convenient - tsamIHH
The aHafrrsi grades VIII b between
spring end MARION streets. where
the street dfanH IS feet Ia the dis
tanre 81 two blocks No acticn Wa
taken
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-07-30

These ara the tWa little children
In the Russian embassy at Wash
tugtuu. the boy aud girl Of Com
maudcg uoukhtnff the naval az
tachc Their nance are OiEa and
Grrgury aud they are the delight of
the corps They can dance all the
Russian peasant liFa and 0iuFa and
san step through a stately court
miuugt With AN the grace of 20
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-07-30
LOST SATCHEL
AND THE M0NEY

Mrs. 4 Marshall. % itts Mino-
avenue. reported the ioss Of = sfaaIi
hand zatehsi Which hung ~ = chain
from her belt while ahoppiuK yes
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-07-30

The NsW York f. now in dry dock.
and yoa don't have to hire a launch
10 get on board.
Hoats leave Pier ? sunday hourly
after =. 90. "
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-07-30

The mother keeps them dreaed
In true Russian style and the boy iu
hia hiEh top boots OF ted leather and
his peaked velvet cap lends a touch
IT uittureHqHrugaH Ca the Washing
ton pnrkH ulEt Weara lone ffaeks
uith a laced bertha and ir as quaint
looking aH If Hhc stepped ont ~ an
old picture Both children are UNI
usually handsome
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-07-30
-
GOODS WILL
BE DONE"

ROME July 30 Code ell BE-
aous We did everything Ia our
power 10 avert a. exclaimed the
laEe when Informed that France
had broken diplomatic relations
Nth the vatican.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-07-30
HOLDUPS
EMPLOYERS WITH LARGE SUMS or MONEY ~ THEIR POSSES
Rosa1o IN BROAD oAYlloHr-osG FATALLY HURT

vac fatally wounded and the boy
vas badly hurt
CHICAGO July 50 With 5 600
Intended faf the weekly payment n
employees l. Bushnell vice pres.
dent Of the Vaughan Bushnell Man
ufaefufius COMPANY was aiHEked
and bold Hn at lU O'Clock thIa morn
ing. while BE- VAS On b. waE - the
factory 0u the West Side Two men
accomplished thr job and escaped
Bushnell ass badly uHed up
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-07-30

E4CuruIuu 20 Huoaualmls Pals
Funday iuly sisi Only excursion
e. she Fails this yoaf 80
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1904-03-14
gAuee in Den @useien.

@el9e 9bneemaiieu III oen 8Dgs=
len iteIenneife lieaet, oa8 ueranIhau.
lidt cine Sbilberuna, bic Der Ges
iiBer Sreppel bes am @eiBen See
gele9enen @aftboTes in Marltrh er.
iGeinenoeu GDeelenbpten entmirft.
Set Dem |. 9ebruar ihneite es Gag
uno Nad)t fait unaufb0rlih, 10 oaB
Der Shnee 3 Dieter uno iteQeue
weiie nod b0ber lieat. Das groge.
ihoB oes @altbofe8, bas cine 6Dbe
BON bier Metera bat, 1T p0atdnoia
ein9elhneit. I'm in oas 0aus se.
lan9en 81 fGnnen. muBte Elm S9nees
tunnel Dpn etua 80 Mtetern 2dnae an.
geleet meroen. Werfmiroia lift es,
oaB in urbeis, bas d ai[ometer
(4uftlinie) pom @eiBen Gee entfernt
lit, 10 piel mie teiu Shnee lieat.
Breppel fdbrt Dem U~riefboten aQtdg,
lib etua orei &ilometer auf Sdnee.
Ibuben entgegen, nm Die 8ostIahen
in @mpfang gu nebmen. Bon Den
meterboben Selien, Die ben See utl.
qeben uno Die umlieQenoe 8eioeHd9e
beoeden, lit nibts mebr gu leben;
oas @anSe biloet cine. ib6ue glatte
5lGde. Den See beoeft cine As gens
timeter oife gisfldhe, uorauf cine
20 Wieter tieie Shueemaiie slaaert,
Die Der Bino pom &amm oes 8eiB.
berges in ben aeliel beruntereetrieben
bat. Die dlteiten yeute Der oort oben
liesenoen 5armen erinnern it9 niht.
lie lolhe Shneemaiien eeiehen gu
baben. Bl0Blid] eintretenoeS Eau,
tpetter nitroe oieier Sbtloerung nad
9rpBe ueberlbuemmun9eu i'm @e.
folae baben. 0aB Die Seenaegeno
fir Die i'm GllaB al 8abl INNER su.
nebmenoen Observation-Disclosures sur3eit
elm auBerit l%obnenoes 5elo bietet, 1T
lelbGtoeritanoli1. Der @altbof 1T pon
Der Welt bod niht adnali9 abae'
I6nitten. oa ole beloen EernlpreA,
tinten out i'm Stanoe iino.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1904-03-14

Balberfee peroen iebt folpertiert.
Inter an0erm miro erSG6lt, er babe
in Den lebten Sa6reu mleoerbolt er.
tldrt, Elm GROCER Rrieg iei orin9eno
notmenoig i'm Sntereiie Der oeutIdeu
Armee, lDrOie GUT 6eilun9 oie(er I'M
nerer uebelitdube. Oa8 .Ber(iner
1ageblatt" teilt nit. a(s MilitdrsNt,
tad6 in Bart8, in uelder Steuunq
Waloeriee 9eraoe pDr Qusbruh oe8
oeutl6 = frau86iiiheu &rieQes tdtig
rpar, 6obe er Die preuBiihe Geqies
rung anf Die neberlegeubett Der Mi=
tralaeuies uno De8 gbaiiepot. 8eneb.
res aufmertIam aemadt, mas jeooh
lelten6 Der maBaebenoen @e&palten
unbeabtet geblieben lei. Nah Der
Sblaht Don 8rauelntte, am 1S. Nus
quit 1870, babe 46niQ @ilbe(m qez
laat: yGdl, 8atoeriee, bitten mir
bod oamals auf Sic eeh6rt!"
Sn 8e5ua auf Die GurgdnQe in
DeutI6:S uopeitafrita idlreibt man
aus Berlin: Eros Deg Offi8i1len 9e-
r1enti8 bGlt Die .gG9ti9e Runofhau"
ibre Nngabe aufrebt. baB Sberft
2entmein. Der @ouueCneur uDn
Deutlhs SuoueitaFrifa, betreffa Der
9eplanten SSrie0ens 8erbano(unQer
nit ben 8Dnoel3uart8 8uerIt beim
bleItaen 9olonialamt attgefrnot babe.
Nahoem er oann bic 3ufimmung
oaau erlanat babe, nit cen uieoerQes
morfenen Geballen gu pattieren, babe
er Die einleitenoeu SAritte su Dem
gnoe getan. Nuf ale 6Gle 1T Die
WliBltintmuna Der bieliQen maBge.
benoen &reiie iber Die iinaften gors
gauge in Deutih > Sioueitafrita
gruB, uno aIIaemein miro ertuartet,
oaB Sberit 9eutrnein oemn6hit lei.
mes oerantmortlid]en BoIten8 entbos
ben peroen piro. Sn Ud(oe Dirf.
ten AUDI tueitere grlaBmaunihaften
bon Wi(be(msbauen uno &iel nod
Swatopmunb obgeben. &rantbei.
ten aaer Nrt ihaHeu unter Der gdubs
truppe beoeitenoe 9iden, Die ebe=
items aus9efiqt mgroen miii1en,.
nenn nidt bic Gftionsf69iQfeit oe8
oDrflgen aontingents beoeatliA leie
ben Ion."
8om &rieasihauptas iii pabreno
Der Iesten 8ode nidt oiel 0eues gu
beridten gelueien. 8leoerbp(te Bonn.
barDementg auf 8ort Nrthur, ein
@efeht smilbea rul1tlden uno iapa.
nllben Eorpeoobooten, bel benz 8eioe>
Berlufte e~r(itten Die NbreiIe oes &c
neral 4urDpatfin uno Die 2anouaa
iapaniiher Truppen in gheanonpo,
oa8 uaren ungefd6r Die 6auptereta.
niiie. Die Situation i'm Qagemei.
men baben fie nidt oerGnoert. Sate=
reliant lit in Berbinouna biermit,
mas Elm Berliner Warine.5a1mann
iber oen &riea uno ben Idleppenoan
Sprtgang oesielben lagt. ST lhreibt:
Die &~rieafabruna foroert auf BET
ben Soften Die idarfite 3ritit her=
au8. Die bisber beobabtete ruiliIds
Defenliue. Die 3erlptlttetuna Der
SeeHreittrdfte, Der 8er3id]t auf Die
6errlbaft sur See uno oas uulad=
genaaBe Nusniiben Der 8erteioi9unag=
mittel neroen bier a[s ebRnio pnuer3
ltanoltb angeleben. ME Die Nidt=
ausnubune Der %errunaenen iapani-
ldlen @rfol9e, ba8 laaalame 8orees
ben gegeu Sort Irtbur u1o Die Be
feitiQungen 8Drt Nrtburs. 8i8ber
bat bic beioerieitige 8rieaflbrung
gerin9e Qebren fir Die internatioalen
Wiarinen 9eliefert, pabreno Die Sch.
zen oe8 ipaniidsameritaniihen &rie=
geS BON Sabre 1898 trob aerin9fiai.
aieer grei9niffe fir Seuertaftit,
SGifsbautehult, goolutionen BEL
5lottenbauten aruno(egeno uno babns
brebenb Iino."
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1904-03-14

ct. Souls, Die 8eltousIteQ.
unasitaot, bat iebt 81 Dotel8, un
Die pielen @dite, Die lie errpartet, fir
@elo uno CUTE Worte unterbriuaen.
su tonneu uuo iie idiGt fid) an,
nod me6r 0otels gu erribten.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1904-03-14

Gin ihledter Nppetit 1T elm
8eiden eints t%ranfen, ihuadleu
Otagens. Or. auauit 81nig's gam.
burger Tropfen itdrfen uno feQen
ben Nppetit pteoer Der.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-24
WILL THEY STILL
STAND PAT !?

viii the Roosevelt administration go
on as it has? Does the President mean
what he says?
a highly important branch of the
Federal executive service at Wash
ington small though it be in the num-
Der of persons employed, is the steam
boat inspection. The employment of
honest and competent inspectors who
will insist upon the Strictest compll-
ance with the law is all essential for
the preservation of many lives that are
risked on the crafts that ply our wat
ers.
The General Slocum horror is not to
be forgotten. InspectorGeneral Uh-
ler, who was first under Secretary
Shaw, of the Treasury Department,
and was thence transferred to the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor, of
which Chairman CortelyOu was the
head, complained of inetticiency of the
service it should be remembered. He
held that the trouble lay in the conniv-
ance of inspectors with rich steamboat
corporations.
Said the Brooklyn Eagle on the sub
ject:
LAS the logical and inevitable result
of corruption and negligence in subor-
dinates, due to the corrupt conditions
described by his own Supervising In
spector General, President Roosevelt's
administration became morally re-
sponsible for the loss of seventy times
as many lives as We're lost by his regi-
ment in the lauded performance at
Kettle Hill. While Secretaries Shaw
and CortelyOu were playing politics for
Roosevelt, their service, upon which
human lives depended, was sunken in
inefficiency and corruption. When the
inevitable catastrophe came, with its
burning and drowning of over 1000
women and children, Cortelyou sternly
ordered general reinspection. The
inspection officers sneeringly defied
him, and the weeks passed without in
spection. The steamboat owners, for
merly let off easy at the Treasury and
Commerce and Labor Departments,
may find it to their advantage to re-
member who is running Candidate
Roosevelt's campaign.
And the people should remember
that according TO the testimony of SUI
peryising InspectorGenerul Uhler, the
corruption and ineficiency of the
small-fry political inspectors, which
cost 1000 lives, was due to corrupt DO
litical favOritism higher up in Presi-
dent Roosevelt's administration To
punish the insignificant subordinates,
and leave unscathed and unrebuked
those who sit in the seats of the
mighty would be travesty of JUS
tee"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-24
SCANDAL OF A LEAK.

The scandal in the Agricultural De-
partment of the leak of the cotton crop
report is explained by Secretary Will
son as merely 81 coincidence OF figures.
and that any person being in possession
of the Government cotton figures ahead
of their publication lis absolutely
false" Yet the fact remains that the
Government report was known in New
York some time ahead of its publica-
ton, and the cotton spectators made
trades on the advance information. If
Secretary Wilson would pay as much
attention to overseeing this department
as he does to making stump speeches
he would easily discover the leak and
could stop it if he wanted to. The sim
pie business way TO test the matter
would be to suspend Mr.. Hyde. who
has for some time been in charge OF
the statistics, and try, new man and
new assistants. 1t. is quite probable
that for some time. or ut least until
the SPECTATORS could get at them.
these new brooms would sweep clean.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-24
THE YOUNG MAN In POLITICS.

The young man who will cast his
| first vote for President at the coming
election must regard himself as an
| important factor in the results. The
committees of all parties in his neigh
borhood are calling upon him to save
the country and urging him to join the
| local clubs, and if he shows signs of
| independence the workers Of the par
ties are paying special attention to his
case with tracts and speeches, to prove
that protection is the only political
salvation for the country. and he will
be sure to profit by it. The fact that
the protected trusts are furnishing the
| money to buy the ammunition that the
Protective Tariff League is firing, has
probably attracted the attention of first
voters and made them wary of cast
ing their political lot with the monOpo
lists. Under the present reign of the
trusts the young man has found his
opportunities hampered and the
chances for entering upon a business
career on his own account so few and
far between that it is not one in
thousand. The concentra ton of bust
ness in the hands of the few, with the
great majority working for them at
the prices the trusts and corporations
dictate, is an entirely different outlook
than presented itself to the father of
the present young man. But a few
years ago there was an opening for
any young man of honesty and ability.
Now anything more than a clerkship
hardly presents itself. Older and more
experienced men are competing for
the jobs that boys should be doing,
and the struggle for existence with
many is a severe one. This has all
come about since the reign of the
trusts commenced and the ingenious
young man will naturally be enquiring
into the cause of it, and when lie has
investigated and arrived at a decision.
will vote accordingly.
High prices for everything do not af-
feet him like the man with a family
to provide for, but every young man is
looking forward to the time, with hope
and courage, when he will shoulder
the added burden of at least one more
to provide for.
If the trust reign continues distance
will lend enchantment to the view of
a home and wife for the young man
an enchantment which will prove
bitter mockery.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-24
GAG LAW OBSERVER.

Speaking Of the Presidents now IA
nous ''muzzling" order to bureau
chiefs in Washington the correspond
ent at the National Capital of the New
York Herald writes his paper:
Every we'll disciplined bureau or di-
vision chief, in addition to keeping his
mouth closed about Government ex-
penditures, tests each piece of business
to see if it contains political dynamite.
If it does he softly pigeonholes it, or
II the demand for immediate action is
imperative, carries it to the head of the
department for conSulta ton.
"All indications are that the State
department will get extremely busy
with foreign policies Immediately after
election. None is being pressed now.
Although the American warships de-
!spatched to Smyrna were withdrawn
and the statement made that demands
for better treatment of American citi-
zens and institutions within the Otto
man empire would be complied with it
is known that the situation is not final
~ nor satisfactorily settled. The State
Department is making no radical eff
forts at this time"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-24
CAMPAIGN NOT HARMFUL TO BUSINESS

The Dry Goods Economist has made
n canvass of its subscribers in all parts
of the country for the purpose of learn
ing the exact situation in the dry goods
trade, ard the prospect for the imme-
date future. In summing up its con-
illusions based on reports from almost
every State il the Union. the EcOno-
mist SAYS frankly that while the sit
nation is by no means alarming, it is
not as good as it might be-is not now.
nor likely to be later on, up to that of
last wear. To the fact that Presiden-
tial campaign is pending, it attributes
LITTLE if any, of the present quietness
in trade and prospective falling off in
the volume thereof in the fall and win
fer. as compared with the correspond
ing seasons last year. Labor troubles,
# saws, play a prominent part in the
somewhat unfavorable outlook. and the
strikes in Illinois, Massachusetts and
elsewhere emphasize this fact. OF sew
eraI hundred merchants who replied
to the Econo nist's queries, only one
elected to class himself as a fool or a
knaye. He was a country trader in a
Western State, who said that he had
ordered about the usual quantity of
goods. Subject to revocation in case of
Parker's election" The ignorance or
mendacity of this fellow is in marked
contrast to The fair and businessike
reports fro al the Others.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-24
HONESTY IN ADMINISTRATORS
Everyday Business Principles ANN
Fully to Government f

The common sense and the Common
information of the people of the TInitoa
States will furnish no sort of raos so.o
able doubt that of necessity, with ~
natural growth of this great renrb
lie, there must be a natural incressa
of the expenditure of its maintenanoa
| No sensible man is going to Object ~
the magnitude of business that IN
| creases his chance of bread-winning
no matter how large the figures NAV
| be, but surely what would indeed con.
| Germ him would be whether he was
cheated in what he had to pay and
whether he was swindled in what he
| had to buy. He being an honest CHI.
| zen and business man, would want to
know whether he was getting a GOLD
brick when he bought or whether he
was fairly paid for what he sold. He
would want to see his books kent
straight, not merely in appearance and
| the regularity of attendance to business
of his bookkeeper, but that what was
set down in black and white repre
scented the facts in every case.
Is there anybody who has kept or
binary track of what has been going on
| for many years i'll the administration of
the Federal Government who will saw
in his faith that the books of the
Government have been kept in accord
ance with the facts and that the facts
themselves are justifable? Is there
any such who will say that the figures
of the recent Government bookkeep-
ing represented honesty and economy
in the administration of the Govern
T,
it not one which would Immediately
concern every man in the conduct OF
his own business who, i'll all common
sense, wished and worked for success,
and was jealous of his good name with
his neighbors? Is is not a time in the
affairs of the Government to have an
honest accounting to see whether the
common reports of carelessness, eX-
trayagance and corruption have any
foundation in fact? All the verbal
racket in the world about decency of
citizenship and civic Righteousness will
not avail to convince people that all
is we'll when they .now thai they have
been needlessly taxed and the taxation
thus wrongfully wrung from them is
applied to extravaganza, corrupt and
shameless uses both in the manner OF
their auditing and in the ways of their
disbursement.
These are some OF the ideas which
have been sought to be conveyed in
Democratic National platforms for
many years, which our friends the
enemy have secuted and scorned us
mere generalization. People do not
need to be told that it is mere general
ization to be advised that it is best to
be honest and prudent in business. 1t
is singular that when it comes to ap-
plying simple principles of honest BUSH
ness to Government affairs that GER
tain politicians will be on hand 10
laugh such assertions to scorn.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-24
WHICH SIDE OF THE FENCE?

rang true and struck home to the
hearts and minds of all who heard
him.
OF all the hundreds-there We're 65o
of them-who journeyed to Rosemount,
none came away but we'll pleased;
not one but felt the better and the
stronger in his devotion to his party
and it's candidate for having been
there.
Said one griZZled veteran, straight
from the firing line in Indiana, i
came 100 miles to look Judge Parker
in the face and l am going back to
my people with the message that we
have not had his equal as Presiden-
tial candidate since the days of Sam
Tilden. Ii my county does not give
the ticket 500 majority in place of the
400 it gave Mckinley in 1900, I'll get
off the tripod and try my hand at
something else"
And the spirit which animates this
Indiana editor will move every one
of his contemporaries who looked
Judge Parker in the eye, listened to his
stirring words and felt the friendly
grasp of his hand.
The editorial conference and a visit
of the editors to Rosemount mark an
epoch in the great contest now on be-
tween Democracy, as represented by
Alton B. Parker, and Republicanism,
as illustrated by Theodore Roosevelt.
This interchange of ideas and this per-
sonal contact with the Democratic
standard bearer means that the 800
Democratic and Independent journals
which are now supporting Parker and
Davis will henceforth work together
along identical lines for common pur-
pose and with redoubled energy. 1t
will go far toward assuring complete
and convincing presentation to the
country of the vital issues of the cam
paign and a triumphant victory for
Parker and Davis and the great, his
toric party whose leaders for the time
being they are. This, at least, is the
opinion voiced by prominent editors
who were at Rosemount and echoed
by all their fellows.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-24
GRAFT AND EXTRAVAGASCE

One of the scandals of this admins
ration is the continued payment of
REM for the old Custom House in New
f.rk. The book of estimates this veor
prepared by the Treasury Department
called Tor an appropriation of $3.50. GOO
Tor that purpose, and the subseryient
and extravagant Republican majority
voted to appropriate the money al
though the Democratic members oh
5ected. When it is remembered that
the National City Bank. controlled Inv
the Rockefellers bought the Custom
House some five years ago. agreeing TO
pay $3,2OO,000 for the property. Not 4
dollar was ever paid, the Republican
administration allowing the whole
amount to remain on deposit with tho
bank and charging no interest and Vet
This profligate Republican administers
lion pays the bank that enormous rent
Tor the building. To add further to
the crime against the taxpayers tho
title to the Custom House not having
passed from the United States the citT
OF New York cannot assess tayes
against it, being still, as far as the req.
ords are concerned Government nron-
erty. President Roosevelt signed tb.
bill appropriating the rent money al
though fully advised of the stea: in all
its enormity.