Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-19
why do Houses and Furniture
Cost so Much in These
Days7
70 MAKE AN INVESTIGATION.
x.,y Protection for Pacific Coast Now
Under Discussion--New Spelling
Reform Doomed to Death.

c,fcial Correspondence.
washington. d. c., Dec. 1.-THE pro-
rosed investigation of the socalled
r,rober trust which is called for In
,ssolutions offered by Senator Kit
,rsdre of South Dakota and Repre-
tentative Miller of Kansas City Is per-
hans OF more general interest than any
similar movement which has been set
on foot since the present agitation
AGAINST great combinations Of capital
commenced. The only investigation
that approaches 1t In this respect was
that Of the alleged beef trust. A very
large percentage Of the people In the
United States do not use any Of the
products Of the Standard oil company,
FOR Instance, and so are not directly
Interested In the prices charged by
hat concern, but nearly everybody
eats meat and everybody is Interested
IN the cost of commodities said to be
controlled by the lumber trust. Every
body sits In a chair and eats from a
table or writes from desk or In some
ether way Is Concerned as TO whether
me cost of wool manufactures Is high
or low. Mr.. Kittredge and Mr.. Miller
appreciate this and are therefore OF
ne opinion that something should be
done a, ones. ecs aie uui'i.,e ~.
pnrpose OF the proposed investigation,
Il II is inaugurated. will be to disclose
whether or not the increase Is justified
by cohaltions, Mahy ihe,nuers VI .on-
gess are OF ,he opinion ina. some very
grave inJustices WIN ne uncovered IL
The matter IL gone INTO thorughly.
r,pANrcE SCARE pAssED
The so called Japanese scare seems
10 have passed over entirely. The leg
islators from California are not talk
lng about the presidents message,
which they so vigorously resented at
arst--that Is, the part of 1t relating to
The Japanese--and those prophets who
persisted In declaring that the presi-
dent was negotiating new treaty
Win japan despite denials from the
highest possible source have at last
oujted down. But there Is still an
undercurrent of opinion to the effect
that sooner or later we shall have trou-
bic with japan. When Representative
Kahn OF California introduced bill
spproprlating $4,000. 900 for the con-
siruction OF submarine torpedo boats
10 be stationed along the Pacific coast
he specifically disclaimed any thought
q hosui,ues WIN Japan ~ the near
the Japanese school question In San
Francisco and the general 'cockiness"
Of the Japanese In the far west, to
use term which Californians say best
describes the attitude of the Nipponese
out there were the factors which led
him TO introduce the Dill. DIPLOMAT
cally the situation Is quite serene
The Japanese have been much I'M
Fessed by President Roosevelts warm
IMPRESSIONS In his message. Tnat IL
Exactly the erect he wished TO produce
50 II there Is an UNDERSTANDING be-
tween MIN and the California congress
men conditions may be said 10 Dc
satisfactory all around. sun many
beneve II Is unwise N the extreme tc
Nave our long Pacinc coast line as
nearly unprotected as IL ts, ana tners
are numerous evidences that autnori'
ues generaly are IN fnvor or prepar'
VIZ ior possipie war ~ tnese pIplnt
ulnes OF peace. instead OF peing III th'
nature OF deiiance tney pelieve ina
,ne strehstnenlhg OF our west coas
aelenses WI go iurther toward avert
ns nostilltles IN the future than an!
mount Oh dipiomacy'
NEW SPELLING DOOMED.
:.
the new, or slmplihed. form OF spell
BrRatnanf R0nln,
yeIt last summer Is decidedly not bob,
var Ia Congress ana tnere Is lit,I'
aouot tnat wltnln me next rev Week
oo'n houses VIII act IN such way a.
eIcctuaiy preveh, the use OF th'
new form IN OIIlClul documents. EVel