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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-29
Prosecution Of Beef Trust is
Now Impossible
Responsibility LIES WITH LAWMAKERS
PORT JUST WHAT WERE Or
DERED BY GOVERNMENT.

The administration absolves Mr..
rations from any responsibility so far
as the escape of the Chicago packers
is concerned, is a Washington report.
The responsibility for that escape is
fastened upon congress, and not on the
administration or any of it's men,
bers.
The department of justice began Sc
cretly to investigate the packing house
question several years ago, and had
pushed matters along far enough so
that it could see it's way clear to indict-
ments, when, one day, without previous
notice of it's intentions. congress pass
ed a joint resolution directing the ad
ministration, through the bureau of
corporations, to make public investi-
CATION of the same question, and pub
lish a full report thereof
Garfied's instructions.
This joint resolution was untimely.
The danger that the packers, called to
testify before the Garfield inquiring
board, might claim immunity, and so
defeat the plans of the administration
for successful indictments. was fully
considered by the president, the attor-
ney general and Mr.. Garfield, prior to
the latter's trip to Chicago and, as
the result of that consideration, it was
agreed that Mr.. Garfield, instead of
going to Chicago and directing the
packers, as he had the power to do, to
appear before his board and tell what
they knew, should simply announce to
the packers the purpose of his trip to
Chicago and then inform them that if
they or any of them, had any informal
ton which they felt like conveying.
he would be glad to have the benefit of
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-29
DISAGREE WITH DEWEY.
Would Not Try to Surpass the Famous
Dreadnaught.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March %
Admiral Capps, chief constructor and
other naval officials, disagree with
Dewey's recommendation of one big
battleship to surpass the Dreadnaught,
and favor instead, two sixteen thou
sand ton ship to supplement the pres
cnt craft.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-29
ELECTIONS IN PHILIPPINES.
Those Favoring Independence Gain
Important Victories.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 90
The details of the gubernatorial cleo
lions in the Philippines show that the
has made several gains and those
closely allied have elected several gov
ernOrs, while those who favor awaiting
the judgment of the United States
have won few victories.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-29

Rims put on for $1F each at II. O.
Peck's, corner Fourth and Alder.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-29
No Immunity Guarantee.

AS result of this invitation, a
number of packers appeared and told
their stories. Mr.. Garfield. knowing
what the plans of the administration
were as to indictments. did not ques-
ton the packers closely, or do anything
during the hearings which, in the opin-
ion of the administration. amounted to
a guarantee of immunity He was very
careful to steer as far away from such
a thing as was possible.
At the close of the voluntary hear
ing, he returned to Washington, and
shortly thereafter wrote his report to
the president, which was made public.
This report, based exclusively upon
what the packers had voluntarily told
him, amounted in reality to an indorse-
ment of all the packers had been do
ing and even went so far as to init
mate that the packers. instead of rob-
bling the public, and laying up fabulous
wealth, were in fact most of the time
doing business without profit, and at
times at loss.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-29
The Humphrey Decision.

permit the packers later on to claim
immunity.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-29
Congress Again to Blame.

Congress is to blame in another re-
spect. For the past fifteen years, or
even longer, the attorney general once
a year, in his regular report to the
president. and the president from time
to time during that same period, in his
messages to congress, have strongly
urged that legislation be enacted CIV
ing the government the right of appeal
in certain cases within which the
Humphrey decision falls. These re-
peated recommendations have been
studiously ignored, and no legislation
has been enacted.
The government, therefore, must ac-
cept the Humphrey opinion as the law
for the present moment, and probably
drop the proceedings against the pack
ers, worked UP with so much industry
and pains and also muct cost of time
and money.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-29

patches out III tlldt lelS Iluollioou w.
E. Crosson an attorney, appeared as
counsel for Mrs. Gallagher
Heaved Coal at the Preacher.
Rev Cellars was the first witness
for the state and related how Mrs.
Gallagher had rounded up couple of
his calves and corraled them and re-
fused to give them up until he had
paid the statutory charges. AS to the
coal throwing episode the reverend
gentleman said that he had gone over
to the Gallagher home and asked Mrs.
Gallagher to release his cattle, but that
his advances had been met with a re-
buff Mrs. Gallagher, he said, ordered
him off her premises and followed up
the demands by heaving a few chunks
of coal at him. He admitted that the
missiles did not hit him, as he lodged.
He declared that Mrs. Gallagher ap-
piled few epithets to him while doing
the baseball act
A. Dewitt, neighbor who witnessed
the trouble created a sensation by
saving that Mrs. Gallagher had told
the Rev. cellars that he was a d
old hypocrite and did not have sense
enough to go to hell. He said Mrs.
Gallagher threw something at the
minister, after which he had discreetly
withdrawn, leaving Mrs. Gallagher in
possession of the premises.
Mrs. Gallagher Was Posted.
Mrs. Gallagher when placed on the
stand said the Rev. cellars cattle had
annoyed her for several weeks by
straying on her premises, cutting up!
the lawn and eating the young trees.
She said that she had requested the
minister to keep up his stock, but that
the request went unheeded and in sheer
self defense she consulted the prose-
cutting attorney, who advised her how
to proceed The result was that Mon
day when a couple of the ministers
calves paid. her visit she promptly
corralled them with the aid of couple
of brickmasons, working at her place,
and told the Rev. Cellars that he could
have his stock by paying the charges
when he called at her home.
Said Preacher Appeared Angry.
Rev. cellars, she said, appeared very !
much annoyed and acted as if he in
tended to come on the premises and
take the cattle by force. 1t was then
that she ordered him off the place and
followed up by throwing couple of
chunks of coal at him.
P. B. Smith, the brickmason who
helped Mrs. Gallagher round up the
calves. said he was ready to nail the
minister if he stepped inside the yard
after being ordered off, Mr.. and Mrs
w. j. Estes, neighbors of the CAL
laghers, gave minor testimony. Meth
err of the attorneys presented any ar
guments. and after Judge Huffman had
defined assault and battery and d.
crossed little on the estray law he
dismissed the case against Mrs. CAL
lagher. Rev. Cellars yesterday evening
paid the charges on his cattle and took
them home
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-29
Howl Of Derision.

Readers of the Statesman will re-
call the howl of derision and scorn
which went up from the country be-
cause of the nature of this Garfield re-
port. 1t was charged that the investi-
CATION made by Garfield had not been
thorough. that he had permitted the
packers to drive him. and that his re-
port showed conclusively his inability
to serve the government as chief of the
bureau of corporations.
The people who We're making this
criticism did not know that the Gar
field report, made in the way which
aroused so much antagonism was di-
rected by the president and the attor-
ney general. who wanted to comply
with the joint resolution of congress
ordering the investigation, but in do
ing so did not want to interfere with
the more serious work of securing in
dictments, then under full swing
Took Packers Statements.
Garfield. in Chicago, in other words
merely accepted what the packers were
willing to tell him of their own accord
and based his report upon these state
ments. He purposely refrained from
asking any question which would bring
up the question of immunity, and dur
ing the entire investigation was guard
ed from day to day by Geographic in
structions. sometimes coming from the
attorney general and sometimes from
the president in person.
The administration had gone over
the question of immunity in the light
of all the statutes. and concluded as a
matter of law that the seeming COM
pliance made by Garfield with the joint
resolution of congress would not fur
nish a sufficient basis from which to
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-29

A few days ago came the decision of
Judge Humphrey, to the effct that the
Garfield inquiry, intended by the adj
miniStration to be a blind and at
the same time as an outward compli-
ance with the order of congress, had
had the effect of giving immunity to
all the individuals appearing before it
to testify.
Today the department of justice is
understood to have made up it's mind
that there is no appeal from that de-
cision to a higher court. So the pro-
ceedings against the packers. notwith-
standing the well-laid plans of the adj
imnistration, have all failed, for it is
not believed that the government will
consent to any proceedings against the
packing house corporations as such
Such a proceeding would be worse
than useless, for it would in no sense
accomplish the desired result
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-16

California had endorsed such policy.
incidentally, also. mention might be
made of two of the things that congress
did do. but to which the spellbinders
aforesaid never refer:
1t passed the Aldrich resolution for
the protection of the steel trust and
other trusts by requiring all material
and equipment for the Panama canal
to be bought from the trusts.
1t appropriated more money for the
army and navy than was ever before
appropriated in time of peace-the total
being almost S175,O00,0O0.
The truth is that congress stood by
Roosevelt only in such cases where it
was driven by the force of public opin-
ion to the reluctant adoption of demo
cratic policies. In all other cases.
where public opinion was not aroused,
and where the public was not vigilant
the last congress, like its republican
for several years past. was
the lax guardian of public interests and
the willing servant of favored interests
seeking TO gain or retain special priv
ilegeS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-16
Beer Is a Food
of High Quality
It Refreshes and Strengthens the Body
With Predigested Nourishment.

AS a strengthening, nutritious food.
physicians and scientists now agree
that there is nothing, perhaps. more
beneficial than pure beer. Rich in the
food eXtractives of malt and the tonic
properties of hops, pure beer nourishes
the whole body.
Many people unable to take solid
food have been built up by PabSt Blue
Ribbon Beer. And it is just as good
for the well as for the sick. Pabst
Blue Ribbon Beer with your meals
tones up the whole system. Taken in
moderation il cannot have other than
helpful, up-building, strengthening eff
feet, free from false stimulation.
for healthful beer, just as they are
essential for any other healthful food.
And purity and cleanness are watch
words in the great PabSt brewery at
Milwaukee Only the finest of malt
and hops are used. and the whole PabSt
progress, the result, of sixty years pur-
suit of all the best known methods in
the science of brewing. a most i'm
portant feature of the PabSt Brewing
process is the Pabst method of making
malt. 1t requires eight days and
doubles the expense of the old four-day
method, still used in many breweries.
but the eight-day Pabst process is the
only process by which perfect malt.
containing all the nutritious food quail
tiles OF barley in predigested form.
can be made.
Absolute cleanliness distinguishes
the entire Pabst process, and the Pabst
Blue Ribbon label is Il guarantee OF
purity. The name PabSt always stands
for purity, cleanliness and the best
beer brewed
If your food doesn't taste Just right
or if your digestion is a little off" or
your appetite is poor, drink Pabst Blue
Ribbon beer before or with your meals.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-16
The Motor Horn.

The suggestion made the other day
that the motOriSt. in the interest of the
public safety. should be deprived of
his horn. had something in ii of the
quality of paradox. but it is evident
that it also had in it something of the
quality of truth. says the Dundee Ad-
vertiser. In some places horn blowing
by motorists is nuisance. and speak
ing of it the secretary of the automo-
bile club recently said TO an interview
er: Let me tell you emphatically that
the less horn blowing there is the
more considerable and careful will be
the driving" He also says that there
is far too much blowing of motor
horns and declares himself ready TO
undertake a motor journey from the
east end of London TO the west end
and not blow the horn once. cot
course" he adds. II should have to
slow mp. but that really does not mat
ter" In simple fact. the part played
by the horn on many motor cars Is to
transfer all obligation TO take care
from the driver TO the other person.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-16
what Congress Did Not Do.

While the Stand by Roosevelt
spellbinders are busy directing atten-
ton to the excellent record made b.
the last congress in those cases where
ii enacted democratic policies into law,
it might be well to take look at the
other side of the ledger
Here, for example, are some of the
things congress did not do:
1t did not pass the Tillman bill to
forbid corporation contributions to cam
paign funds.
1t did not pass the Williams bill re-
ducing the tariff on all articles protect
ed by duties exceeding 100 per cent.
1t did not pass the Philippine tariff
bill.
1t did not pass the bill providing for
trial by jury in cases of indirect con-
tempt in federal court.
1t did not pass the bill relating to
hours of labor of railroad employees.
1t rejected the La Toilette amend
ment to the railroad rate bill, defining
the liability of employers for injuries
to employees while engaged in the per-
Torrance of duty.
1t did not pass the amendment to
the rate bill to provide for excluding
watered stock from the valuation put
upon the railroads by the interstate
commerce commission in determining
reasonable compensation for capital in
vested.
1t did not pass the bill TO prohibit
judges having a personal interest in
railroad cases from sitting in Judgment
in such cases.
II did not pass the bill removing the
tariff from building material for San
Francisco. though the republicans of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-16
A Reform in Speilinu.

We have been hearing good deal
lately in reference to Il reform in spell
ing. and some of our highest citizens
favor same. Men in educational cir
cles, however, state that its popularity
will be sboTt-lived. Whether you spell
the word cure" with &C. or "k" does
not affect its meaning when used in con-
nectiOn with the celebrated family med
icine, Hostetters Stomach Bitters. For
53 years it has been the most popular
remedy for curing such ailments as
poor appetite. belching, bloating, heart
burn, insomnia. dyspepsia, indigestion.
costiveness, biliousness. chills, colds,
female ills, general debility or malaria
Every home throughout this land should
adopt it as their family medicine be-
cause it is absolutely safe and reliable
Don't experiment with unknown RENE
dies any longer when you can just as
easily get Hostetter's from any drug
gist.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-16
The Light OF Other DAYS.

| Our grandfathers did not have gas
electricity nor even kerosene with
which to illuminate their houses. stores
and shops: but were dependent largely
for their artificial light upon the hum
BILE candle. The industry of candle
making was one of the most important
of that time. The father of Benjamin
Franklin was tallow chandler. and
the boyhood days of the great diplomat
statesman. philosopher and editor were
employed in assisting his father in dip.
ping the candles that furnished light TO
the inhabitants of the hub" and other
New England villages. The talIow can
die was a necessity and most cherish
ed institution in every household in
those good old days. and its use was
always accompanied by the homely
"snuffer" and tie Snuffer tray
Comparatively few of those living to-
day can recall the time when the can
die was an essential article of the home.
And yet it is a fact that among the in
duStrieS of those early days of our
country which have survived the con-
ditions of its times and adapted itself
to present day demands. different in
both kind and volume, is candle MAX
ing. So vastly greater in proportion
to the population was once the demand
for candles that in this day of gas
and electricity, it comes as a matter
of astonishment that the output is now
as large as it is. The fact is, how
ever, that the candle has never wholly
lost its place in the affections of the
domestic world. and its place especial
" in the household equipments of fash
ionable life seems both secure and in
creasingly popular In humber homes
the candle is more or less a necessity
yet while in rural life it is almost in
So that while better illuminants de-
manding less care have preempted and
practically monopolized the field today.
the candle-and even the ,-dip"-has
held place in the race which it seems
inclined to better With d domestic
trade in candles last year OF a value.
given by an exchange, of $3,2S2.2 62.
the United States managed to export
also some $701.000 worth. Great Bri-
tain at the same time exported s3,17S,-
900. and France SIPS. 900 worth. The
Temoter parts of the world get the bulk
of these five millions in exports. Por-
tugese east Africa, the Canary islands,
China, Cape of Good Hope, Morocco,
Natal, and New Zealand. were all large
buyers; while the West Indies, Mexico,
and Canada were generous factors in
the market The official figures, too,
represent only a portion of the candle
output for home made candles
in this country alone must amount to n
very considerable figure each year.
So, it will be observed, the light of
other days" is still shining and doing
very important work in shedding
abroad its rays in the dark places of
the earth
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-16
The Moon Of Goldenrod.


In the moon of goldenrod
All the land with langor fills,
Dreamily the cricket chir5,
DFoHsily the locust whirs.
Ceaselessly the katydid.
In the dusky branches hid.
All the night long shrills and shrills
In the moon of goldenrod.
In the moon of goldenrod
Every grass blade on the lawns
Bears its cobweb streamer fine.
Shimmering in the hazy shine;
Fairy ilammoclls. spider spun.
Lightly swaying in the sun.
Dewdrop jeweled. grace the dawns
In the moon of goldenrod.
In the moon of goldenrod
Orchard branches, laden all
Drooo to touch the orchard grass,
And the harvest winds that pass
Pluck the fruits that mellow there,
Purple plum and yellow pear.
Fling them to the lap of fall,
In the moon of goldenrod.
In the moon of goldenrod
Palely blue the asters blow:
Here and there amid the green
OF tho Sumac thicket seen.
Autumn's crimson banner tells
That the summers citadels
weaken to their overthrow,
In the moon of goldenrod.
All the moon of goldenrod,
Butterflies so drifting by
On their gorgeous painted wings,
Lovely, idle. aimless things
Careless they that summer goes,
Needless of impending SHOWS:
Lovers of today-as ],
In the moon of goldenrod.
Marian Warner WiIdman in Atlantic.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-16
A YOUNG Mother at 20.

young at 20. Twenty years of intense
suffering from dyspepsia had entirely
disabled her. until six months ago
when she began taking Electric Bit.
tiers. which have completely cured her
and restored the strength and activity
she had in the prime of life" writes
Mrs. w. l.. fitzpatrick. of Danforth,
Me. Greatest restorative medicine on
the globe. Sets stomach, liver and
Kidneys right. purifies the blood, and
cures malaria. biliousnescs and weak
nesses. Wonderful nerve tonic Price
SOC Guaranteed by Hartz q UIlemey-
er's drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-16
A HALL OF SHAME.
When You Take Too Much In Fond
du Lac They Photograph You.

du Lac They Photograph YOu.
Fond du Lac. Wis. is 10 have a Hall
OF Shame for jags. and if your soul
yearns for fame. if you banker 10 have
your face and history become as house
hold words. to be a man of mark and
renown, one of a progressive towns
little band of immOrtalS. come to Fond
du Lac-and get drunk Just get drunk
once. and the city authorities will do
the rest, says a Fond du Lac dispatch.
There was a time when man might
lean over every piece of mahogany In
town that crossed his path and tack
along rejoicing Now, after his third
or fourth inspection of glassware and
while he Is pursuing his research. per-
son who speaks softly and carries
club will accost and convey him to
the nearest photographer. Instantly
fame comes TO the jag hunter, for the
next day his picture will be on the
wall of every saloon in town and
full history of his life and habits in
scribed in the saloons record OF IA
nous men.
That is the manner in which the city
council of Fond du Lac, after careful
considerable has decided TO deal with
the man. native or stranger. who can't
take a drink and let it alone. The de
cision was arrived at by the adoption
of resolution by Alderman William
Bruett. who discovered that saloon
keepers in one part of the town could
not tell who were the steady patrons
of those in another.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-16
New York Globe: There isn't muc

New York Globe: There isn't much
question that most of us would get
along better if a little more attention
were given to mastication, if we ate
less meat-indeed. less of everything.
But there are so many otner offenses
against good physiology more serious
in their results and almost equally Prev
alent. that the layman may be excused
for skepticism as TO the necessity for
political economists, deserving their
own field TO push the cause of the
chewers. u man who consistently
chews each mouthful of custard AZ
times through life may nave a chance
of living to be 100 a fraction of a
point better than the man who bolts
butter cakes whole. but the latter dur
ing his shorter earthly sojOurn, having
his attention less closely fixed on his
stomach. may actually do more good in
the world than the human hashing ma
chine
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-16

When a horse is so OverwOrked il
lies down and in other ways declares
inability to go further, you would con.
slider it criminal to use force. Many
a man of humane impulses, who would
not willingly harm a kitten, is guilty
of cruelty where his own stomach is
concerned. Overdriven, overworked.
when what it needs is something that
will digest the food eaten and help the
stomach to recJperate. Something like
Kodol for Dyspepsia that is sold by all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-16

sPresident Fallieres of France has his
vineyards and his wine output, which
he sells with a rugged and honest re-
gard for others i'll the same business.
He has recently had a number of eX-
travagant offers for his wine provided
the bottle were labeled so that it might
be known that the wine was from the
estate of the French president, but he
has refused them all. saying: Il have
excellent wine, but it is for sale only
on it's merits