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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-08
Opposed by Senator Gibson.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator
Gibson of Montana in company with
Guy Mitchell, secretary of the Nation
al Irrigation association, called at the
White House to discuss with the pres.
ident certain measures affecting Mon
tana and South Dakota.
Mr.. Gibson told the president that
he regarded the 640-acre homestead
policy as n of the most dangerous
and menacing pieces of Legislation
which had been suggested. He said:
"We are making wonderful progress
and why should we check this great
land producing development by bring
ing upon our western country the
curse of further great land holdings?'
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-08

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30.-President
Roosevelt was the guest of honor and
principal speaker tonight at the forty.
second anniversary banquet of the
Union League. The presidents re.
marks related mainly to the matter of
railroad legislation, and were in part
as follows:
''At the present moment the greatest
need is for an increase in the power of
the national government to keep the
great highways of commerce open
alike to all on reasonable and equita.
BILE terms. The details of legislation
must rest with the lawmakers of the
two houses OF congress-; but about the
principle there can be no doubt. Hasty
or vindictive action would merely
work damage: but in temperate reso-
Lutte fashion, there must be lodged in
some tribunal the power over rates,
and especially over rebates-whether
secured by means of private cars, OF
primary tracks, in the form of dam
ages, Or commissions, or in any other
manner-which will protect alike the
railroad and the shipper, and put the
big shipper and the little shipper ON
an equal footing"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-08
Alleges Railroad Discrimination.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3l.-E. NJ. Fer.
gusou OF Duluth, Mich, before the
senate interstate commerce committee
today spoke OF alleged discrimination
by railroads, in favor of operators Of
refrigerator car lines. He offered 4
number Of letters showing the impos-
sibility of getting from railroads
definite information as TO railroad
rates on perlshable goods, for the
reason that no fixed rate was given
for refrigeration.
He advocates the fixing by law Of
all charges in relation to refrigeration
aud the publication Of these rates the
same as freight schedules are pub.
lished. He favored the plan of max
ing it unlawful for Il railroad to carry
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-08
THE MARRN.OR-BCS I.EAGlE.

Believing that racc suicide is the
curse of any nation, and desiring to
lead timid bachelors into the hymen-
cal way. twelve young business men
OF Louisville have incorporated the
Marry.or.Bust league. The admis-
sion fee is 800, and if any member
fails to take Il helpmeet before Jauu.
airy |, 1906. tie is to be fined another
800 and expelled. The fines. If any,
and the admission fees, are to be used
to buy cradles, etc, for the homes of
those who fulfill their VOWS and wed.
Moreover, members failing to enter
matrimony within the prescribed per-
iod are to be ostracized. No excuse
is to be accepted, not even if the bach
elor files an affidavit, at the end of the
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-08
EaVors Irrigation Project.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3O.-The house
on arid lands today auth.
orizcd Il favorable report on the SEN
ate bill providing for the Klamath
lake irrigation project in Oregon and
California. The bill was amended so
rs to obviate the mandatory direc-
actually locate an irrigation project
under the reclamation act. 1t author
ICES him to lower the levels of klam.
a,h and Tule lakes provided he under.
takes the irrigation project. An
amendment also authorizes him to dis.
pose Of any lands that may come into
government ownership through lover
ing the levels Of the lakes.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-08
T ON LIVE STOCK.

The Chicago Live Stock Exchange
has won its fight against western rail
roads which entered into the so.called
"Stickney contract" which provided
for freight rates on live stock thai
compared with rates on the products
of live stock, were palpably prejudi'
cial to the interests of live stock ship
pers and the Chicago market as we'll.
says the Drovers' journal.
The interstate commerce commission
has held that this discrimination is
not justified in any way and that II
gives unreasonable preference to the
traffic in product. This is precisely
what the exchange and Attorney Tom.
linson commended in their fight against
President Stickney, who was the chief
witness in defense of the rate con
tract entered into by the western
roads.
1t was understood at the time that
the rates established in 1902 we're to
continue undisturbed for seven years.
Just what effect this ruling of the in
state commerce commission will now
have on this plan, which has four
more years to run, is q matter of
much public interest. If the commits.
sion were 10 in position to enforce
its ruling, there would be little delay
in the matter of removing this in]us.
tice to live stock shippers.
AS the matter now stands. it Is un
derstood that the interstate commerce
commission may, within twenty or
thirty days, or possibly sooner, issue
an order to the railroads to bring
their rates IN live stock and the prod
uct to an equitable basis. This order
the railroads may ignore, or seek
meal to evade, as they have numer.
Gus orders In the past.
There is reason to believe, just at
this stage of the proceedings in the
matter of securing extended power for
the interstate commerce commission,
that the railroads may give more re.
spectful heed to the order aud that a
read justment of rates will soon be
forthcoming that will be a benefit to
Chicago and live stock shippers in
general.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-08
WILL MORO THE LAW.
Members Of the Beef Trust Must Obey
Orders of the Courts.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Sit can be
said by authority that unless the cor.
porations comprising the alleged beef
trust shall heed the Injunction made
permanent yesterday by the decision
of the supreme court of the United
States, the government will institute
proceedings against the individual
members of the corporations to en-.
force the decision. The proceedings
will be under the criminal law, If such
car be instituted. The minds of the
president and members Of his cabinet
are made up fully. They have deter
mined that the "beef trust shall obey
the law, and now that the highest
court in the land has upheld the hands
of the administration, it will permit
no further "dilly dallying" with the
subject.
At today's cabinet meeting the pres
ident and Attorney General Moody
shared in the congratula atoms OF the
members Of the cabinet on the result Of
the beef trust cas- before the supreme
court. The president, who made NO
attempt to conceal his satisfaction at
the decision of the court, united with
the members Of the cabinet in congrat.
ulating the attorney general. The
subject was considered briefly at the
meeting. but no definite conclusion
"a reached as to VIII at action, ii any,
the government would take in the fu
ture, except the general determination
to enforce the law as it has been con-
strued by the courts. The president
and the members of the cabinet regard
the decision of the supreme court as a
signal triumph of law as they have
viewed it and are prepared to carry it
into effect absolutely.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-08
Anarchy In Russian CITY.

LONDON, Jan. 3O.-The Warsaw cor
respondent of the Daily Mail says:
wv arsaw is in u state of complete
anarchy. Many have been killed or
wounded in charges by troops and the
recklessness of swashbuckliug hus-
sars." Describing the pillaging of
stores the correspondent says:
''Many marked chalk crosses ON
their doors or lighted ikons in their
windows and thus secured their safety.
The rioters paused before the sacred
cmblems. The hoarse murmurs of the
mob drowned the church bells. In
several eases soldiers fired on footing
MODS. and in one case, in a working
class suburb. they fired a cannon
shot, hoping to dispense the crowd.
Intermittent firing vas proceeding
there all day. Hundreds of shops
were wreck,l and several stores were
burned.'
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-08
goods in any but its own al or In
the cars of other railroads.
More Land Fraud Indictments.

PORTLAND, Ore, an.3l.--A batch
of three indictments, containing In
dictments against ~ p~ersonsin all.
was returned today by the federal
grand jury in the land fraud cases.
Most of the indicted persons, iuclud-
ing Senator John H. Mitchell, and
Congressman Binger Hermann, the
only two named who are Of more than
local prominence, have been indicted
before on practically the same charges.
The indictment which mentions Messrs.
Mitchell and Hermann names 10 others.
1t charges conspiracy to defraud the
government Of public lands. Mr..
Mitchell is specifically charged with
having prepared %afidavits at Wash.
ington to be signed by S. A. D. Puter
and Mrs. Watson, also with having
abetted the conspiracy by introducing
Puter as a prominent citizen of Ore
gon, and lastly with having accepted
an alleged bride of g., 900 from Puter.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-08

house take cold? Whenever It halls,
blows or SHOWS he is sent home at
public expense behind a spanking liv-
cry team-if he have none himself.
An undertaken is usually favored with
this livery contract and I have nVte OF
a voucher for 1872 thus expended in
~ day.
On the house side 10 kept an mel.
gency surgical case, always conven-
lent for the treatment of stricken mem.
bers. But in spite of all such precau.
tions members persist, year after year,
in dying on the battle line of duty.
Then they are buried at public ex.
pense, and if their families prefer.
they may lie in state at the capitol.
For n congressional funeral not SO
many years back 500 was paid to
a local undertaken, yer $1,000 to the
railroads hauling the funeral train.
$40 to a quartz. choir, 1925 to a deco.
rator and 5000 for crepe, ribbons,
gloves and regalia. The grand total
for this free congressional funeral was
So, 2O5. 70 and $1,000 additional-a
years salary-was voted to the
widow, according to long standing
custom.
1t has been estimated that through
extreme their a member of either house
can realize from his Office anywhere
from $l2, $50 to $13,25O per congress,
without being worse than parsimo'
Nous.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-08

year, that no woman would have him.
But neither is any method of securing
q wife interdicted. Any member may
advertise, by sandwich man Or daily
paper: he may write poetry and be.
come a social lion, or he may abscond
and become the center of pity IN q fell.
on's cell. But he must wed.
Here is q field for speculation on the
part of any business man with enter
prise. The twelve young men might
all be hired as clerks in the stocking
department or notions department of a
big department store: that store would
be crowded with young ladies until
January l. They might be put upon
the stage: the matinee idols who only
maybe will marry will never fade
away. They could be used as an ad.
vertisement for a matrimonial agency:
for since they must wed they would be
likely to lake no chance Of getting
left, but rush into the arms of the first
fair correspondent. The fair girls of
the Kentucky metropolis are said to
shrug their white shoulders at men.
ton of the Marry-or-B Bust league.
They declare that %compulsion has not
commonly been employed in the Blue
Grass state and that bachelors have
been known to become ~benedicts with.
out the penalty OF fines hanging over
their devoted heads. The new league
members g~allantly reply that their in.
ability to decide upon the important
step is not due to lack of charming in
vitations, but to their inability to
choose where such wealth of beauty,
intelligence and soul is afforded. At
any rate, as the league is growing
rapidly, several scores of Kentucky
bellies may expect to become matrons
ere another New Years, and, what is
not always assured, even in the pros
porous border state, each lucky one
will have at least 800 to buy pots and
pans-and other things--for starting
Observation-Disclosures Mountain.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-08
Must Serve Their Terms.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3O.-The su.
premec court of the United States today
denied the application of Machen,
Lorenzo and Golf for Il writ of ser.
tiorari in the case against them chars-
ing conspiracy to dcfraud the govern
ment in connection with the postoflice
department irregularities. The effect
is to leave standing the decision of
the court Of appeals of the District of
Columbia finding them guilty as
charged. Macheu. Lorenzo and
Golf were sentenced to two years
imprisonment and to pay Il fine OF
500 600 each.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-08
Will Not Improve Salt River.
Louisville Courier.

LOUISVILLE COuEleT.
1t will create disappointment in pol.
itical circles to learn that Congress.
man d. X. Smith has been unable to
secure an appropriation from congress
to improve the navigation of Salt riv-
err. In the early days of the last cen.
fury, when Shepherdsville, the county
seat of Bullitt county, which lies OF
its banks, was a place of considerable
Importance from the manufacture of
salt from the wells near by, q magis-
trate upon %convicting persons of
drunkenness and other ~otfenses against
good order would. sentence them to be
''rowed up Salt river" From this
the term came to be applied to unsuc-
cessful candidate for political Office,
and was once current over the whole
country. This is the rue history of
the saying. The river was in early
days an important commercial stream,
the products of the counties through
which it runs, as whisky, corn, bacon.
salt etc., being sent down on tides, in
Aatboats, to the Ohio and thence to
New Orleans. Perhaps it may W
have the adj antage of slackwater nav
igation. 1t may not be locked, but in
a political sense it has been damned
for generations.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-08
". G. CONRAD, Pres.
JAMES T. STANFORD,
V.ce.Pres. and Manager.
p. KELLY, Cashier.

This bank solicits accounts, and
offers to depositors absolute security,
prompt and careful attention, and the
most liberal treatment consistent with
safe and profitable banking. Buys
and sells foreign exchange, drawing
direct on all principal American and
European cities, and issues Its own
Letters of Credit.
Interest paid on time deposits. The
highest cash price paid for approved
state, county, city and school bonds
and warrants.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-08
To Collect Back Taxes.

MADISON. Feb. 2.-Governor La
follette's back tax measure passed the
senate today, having already passed
the house. 1t gives the state power to
collect taxes from the railroads for
the last six years, instead of the
last two. 1t is expected to net the
state 81. 500, 900 from railroads opera.
ting in Wisconsin.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-08
THE PLATFORM PLEDGES.

The republican party stands pledged
to the people of Montana to enact Ger.
tain legislation affecting the public in.
terests, and a majority of the men,
bers of the ninth legislative assembly
were elected OF the understanding hat
such pledges would be fulfilled. Only
one of these promises-the en- actment
of a fellow ant law-has been kept,
with n half of the session expired.
With the exception of initiative and
referendum legislation, to which both
political parties are committed and
which requires affirmative action by a
two thirds vote in each house, the re.
publican members of the legislature
have it in their power to enact any
measure upon which they will concen.
trate their strength. BY seeking cleo
ton as the representatives OF their
party organization, they are bound to
the pledges made in the republican
state platform, which includes a rail.
road commission, a direct primary
law, and other matters of Importance
to the people. In view of the fact that
the time limit Of the session is not so
very far distant, it may not be out Of
order to suggest that the republican
members ''get busy" and carry into
effect the pledges they are under oh.
legation to redeem.
One of these republican platform
pledges, and one to which very little
attention appears to have been given,
is to this effect:
1--WE are opposed to the use of pub
lie moneys for private gain, which is
by our constitution and pub.
lie rights as we'll: and we pledge our
selves to for the people all
sums, which being obtained by pri.
vate individuals out of the unlawful
use of public funds, yet remain in fact
aud law the moneys of the state"
So far as known, there has been
nothing done by the republican ma.
jority of the Legislative assembly to.
ward redeeming this promise. Ii any
attempt has been made to o for
the people nll sums derived from the
unlawful use of public funds, no men,
ton of that action has appeared in
press reports of Legislative proceed
ings. What are the republican men,
bers going to do about it:
Attention is called to this matter by
u recent press dispatch from Boise,
Idaho, which says: The house today
without II dissenting vote passed the
senate measure known as the state de.
pository bin. 1t carries out IA recon
mend alton of Governor GOOding re-
specting the handling of state funds.
The treasurer is authorized to deposit
state funds in banks willing to pay
not less than > per cent. OF balances,
these to furnish bonds to be approved
by II board composed Of the governor,
attorney general and secretary OF
state. This board also fixes quarterly
tofOre the treasurcrs have handled the
funds as they wished, and 1t has been
charged thai large sums were collected
from the banks for their " use.
The state platform of Idaho republic
cans promised this legislation, and
the pledge has been fulfilled. The re
publican members Of the Montana leg
islature are not making as rapid pro
gress as the Idaho law makers, but it
is hoped they will get there just ths
same.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-08
WHAT A CONGRESSMAN GETS.

The Introduction of a bill by Sena.
tor Stewart, providing for an increase
in the salaries of the president, vice.
president and members of congress,
suggests an inquiry as to the emolu.
ments at present received by our nat.
ional lawmakers. A writer in the
Washington Star calls attention to the
fact that their salary of $4,000 a year
is increased by several rake.otfs that
aggregat tt a considerable sum, and
enumerates several of them in these
remarks:
A member, whether he be Il senator
or representative, profits, as a rule,
directly in proportion to the distance
from Washington at which he lives.
At the beginning and end of each SEES.
sion he draws S cents the mile on this
distance with which to pay his rail
road fare when he leaves it. OF course
he Uses a pass and this mileage drawn
from the public treasury is saved. If
he lives on the Pacific coast it amounts
to hundreds of dollars II year. If he
lives in Hawa ali and has free trans
portation it goes up into four figures
each session. Every member Is issued
an annual pass by the large railroad
companies. One very conscientious
representative refused such a gift du.
ring the last session and proclaimed
the fact from the h]ousetops. But hi.
colleagues held on to theirs and in.
wardly called him Il ''chump.'
Another perquisite in both houses i.
1928 a year allowed for ''stationery,'
which. since the earliest days, has in,
cluded cutlery, card cases, pocket
books and ever gloves, dispensed a
an official shop, with counters anl
statesmen, in either wing of the capitol
Articles are bought at Wholesale price,
Each spring 1925 worth of garden
seeds is given to each member. Thes,
are supposed to be distributed anon.
the poor farmer constituents, but un
scrupulous congressman have beer
known to sell them, pocketing the casl
realized. Some time ago Il membe
sold his entire seed quota for S75 t,
an agent having Il contract to suppl.
the department of agriculture.
Twelve hundred dollars Il year i
allowed each member for ''clerk hire.
1t is handed over to him PERSONAL
and he need not account for it.. II
can deposit it in the bank to his ow
credit and let his wife and daugh,e
do his clerical work for him, or h
may merely divide it with someoue
. hired as official secretary. One speak
err of the house appointed his daughte
clerk to the committee on rules. Sew
eral senators have openly accredite,
their wives as secretaries.
Senators need expend little for med
icines, for out of the contingent fund Q
the upper house has long been pur
chased wholesale quantities of drugs
In one session were purchased 400
q%uinine pills-l63 for each senator
Other heavy items arc usually thos
e~ffervescent salts which come in blu
bottles, head ache powders, lithia wa
ter, digestive tablets and cough drops
But why should the member Of eithe
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-08
Broken orr Short.

Some men are too lazy to really en-.
Joy a vacation.
If u man doesn't do right he is very
likely to get left.
When a girl is in love it takes only
one other person t. make a world for
her.
n married woman has usually more
time and opportunity to change her
mind than her dress.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1905-01-13

Jack Sheppard had n great hold upon
the Imagination of the people of hls
time The fact that 100000 people " 4,
messed his execution nc Tyburn on
Nov. n, 1921, upon the tree that bears
twelve times yeare" h some witness
Ia his grim popularity. But one of the
strangest tributes ever paid him was
the sermon preached upon him In a
London church.
"oh, that Sc were all like Jack Shep'
pard" began the preacher, 10 the stu
prfaclion OF his congregation. lie went
ON 10 draw q parallel between things
of the flesh and those OF the soul and
10 point out that the genius shown In
houschrcaklng might have been be-
slowed upon picking the locks OF the
heart with the nail OF repentance"
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1905-01-13
Axe aud Work.

Sir Walter Scott began 90 write his
celebrated novels at forty. Milton be-
gan Paradise Lost" at hfty. When
Fast Lynne appeared its author,
Mrs, Henry Wood, was forty five.
Cromwell was forly-one when he be,
gan his public career The year OF the
heglra was the hf,y third OF Moham,
med, ana Marlborough reached his in
dependent command at the same age.
In spiritual examples Abraham was
seventy Ave when called OF Charan.
and Moses was eighty when he stood
before Pharaoh as the champion of
Israel.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1905-01-13
Lodge installation.

Rebekah Lodge No. -. !. o. O.
I. installed the following officers
Tuesday evening for the ensuing
term:
Mrs. Harriet Singer, y. g.. Belle
Nash, V. g.: Emma &. Hemstock, {,
Sec. Ella Ackerman, War. Miss
Osic Beaumont, Con. Mrs. Hattie
Faux, X. $. Nc; Emma J Wal
kcr, l.. S. n. c.; Jear Livermofe,
K. 5. V. G.. ELLA Tate, l.. 5. V. c.;
Belle Smith, Chap i. G.. Tate, o.
G.,