Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-04-18
Wants to Stop Talk
on the Rate
Measure
Special Correspondence,

let's have a time set" This was the
fashion in which the senior senator
from South Carolina blazed out at his
colleagues on both sides of the senate
this week when he had vainly tried to
find II there was any more talking to
be done on the rate. There was no
more talk ready. however, and the bill
has had to go over while the stage
managers are lining up their forces
and getting ready for the real test of
strength.
A vote probably will be reached
about the first OF the month. But If
either side is convinced Of it's own
strength sooner than that, it will force
the issue. Further than that there Is
little to be said Of the Situation. The
president is standing pat on the sub
ject of bill and amendments even as
the speaker is standing pat ON tariff
revision. And no one will know the
outcome till the votes are counted.
Ship Subsidy Talk.
There is more ship subsidy talk than
usual and the committee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries has been holding
a number Of sessions this week at one
Of which Edwin Cramp Of the firm Of
the same name, testified. to the aston
ishment Of the most Of the people who
heard him. that the cost of steel in
America was no greater than OF
American steel abroad. This certainly
was at variance with the facts as I'M
derstood by the most Of Mr.. Cramps
audience, but he insisted that the
statement was correct and that the
whole trouble with American ship
building was the high wages that had
to be paid on this side.
BY all odds the funniest thing in con-
nection with the subsidy hearing was
the appearance of one witness whom
most of the papers gravely identified
as Mr.. Arthur Sewall a large ship
builder of Bath, Me-" Such is fame.
Probably no one will ever know just
how much It cost Mr.. Sewall to get de-
Bryan ticket And that was only few
years ago. Yet he Is alluded to before
house committee hearing as simply
"a large ship builder Of Bath, Me-" He
says that his yards are idle from the
slackness of trade and that not me-
chanic has been employed for three
years. The summing up of the whole
argument before the committee was,
GIVE us a subsidy or there will be
nothing doing in the merchant ma
rine line.'
Commission Short On Funds.
The Keep Commission which has told
In a large and extravagantly expensive
report OF the necessity for economy IN
public printing, has done its work. II
not too well at least well enough. In all
the scientific bureaus OF Washington.
Work is almost at standstill IN many
of the bureaus Of the department OF
agriculture as the result Of the econo-
INV crusade, The same is true OF the
bureau OF ethnology. the geographical
survey and some Of the other scienti-
Ar department. The secretaries have
shut down on printing to such an ex-
tent that 1t is almost impossible for
the workers who are trying to 90
things for the benefit OF the farmer IN
the department Of agriculture to get
the results of their work into type 80
that the people for whom 1t was done
can have the benefit OF It.
This IL resulting in slack work all
along the line. III we cannot get the
result Of our research printed. where
"a the use in doing It at all? The ex-
narimenters ask with some show OF
reason. Yet the edict for economy mas
gone forth and for while at least
there viii be next to no printing done
axcept the work on the Congressional
RECORD and on Q number Of the almost
u.e,ess documents published under .
mandatory law setting forth the ex-
penditures Of the government for tne
mast wear. Just how much use the lat
ter sort OF publication II may be m
.,.rced bv the volume entitled Eek
c.nditures Of the Department Of Agri-
culture
when Mr.. Littleneid's COMMITTEES
went through the agricultural depart
n.rt . fortnight ago and demanded to
rrow lust how much had been spent
s.cretary Wilson sprung this volume
- ,hem. II had cost $4,000 to get. up
last year and there had been t,ss'
comics printed IN accordance WIN ~
-. rittleneld and his colleagues looA-
II 4 and said that they could NOV
No. head nor tail Of It. a. indeed no
~ could except an expert o. sne ~
sc.,tural depsrtment. They promptly
ordered all the work done over =
typswrttins % that they coula uncsl'
= stand n The whole force q sne ~.
Ipartuaant except the sarqneis 10 ~
Iborers u now ensased Y - -
~ Vim b % engaged for two 49,
J ,.-.., Il probably win not result y
I 1870 - appropriation for TIE g.
1 v.,ts,snt : single dollar next year ~
is~e. s. Aennminated economy ~ tns