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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-03-24
WASHINGTON NEWS.

(From Northwest Press Association
From the constant stream of letters
that have been pouring into Senator
Hepburn office since the passage of
the Pure Food bill congratulating him
on the splendid fight he has made in be-
half of the purity Of foods and drugs
it would seem that the whole country
is in hearty accord with the provisions
of the bill. Labor unions. temperance
societies, consumers leagues, state and
national declarations of women's clubs,
chambers of commerce, boards of trade,
medical associations and individuals
seem to vie with each other in show
ing to Senator Hepburn their apprecia-
ton for so ably championing the meas
ure. The following is an extract from
letter to Senator Hepburn by the
chairman of the American Medical AS
sociation,' an association comprising
practically all the physicians in the
United States, and is fair sample of
the letters being received by him: con
behalf of the American Medical Asso-
citation desire to extend to you their
hearty appreciation, not only of your
noble championship of the Pure Food
and Drug bill which recently passed
the senate, but for your splendid init
alive in fostering a measure of such in
estimable value to the health and well
fare of the American people.
. ''Your attitude upon this question has
won for you the respect of the entire
medical profession of the country"
On those measures of vital import
ance to the country the senate is per-
forming this work that should have
been done by the house. If the house
of representatives actually performed
it's constitutional dutios and functions
by carefully considering, and indepen-
IDENTIFY passing bills in response to gen.
uine popular demand, the senate would
not have the disagreeable work of tear
ing to pieces the important bills that
come to it from the house and in SO do.
ing apparently deliberately administe,
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-03-24
FOREST RESERVE FIGHT.

Senator Heyburn's bill to. restore to
congress the power Of creating any
further forest reserves has bee reported
unfavorably be the forest reservations
committee. The senator, however,
has secured a. re-hearing. So the
matter will again be gone over before
this committee. Should the report of
this committee again be adverse and be
thus formally reported to the senate, it
is stated in the dispatches that Senator
Hepburn will introduce another bill and
ask that it be referred 70 the committee
on public lands.
The forest reserve theory sounds so
plausible, and it is al right within
reasonable limitations. But the extent
to which it has been carried in Idaho
under the workings of bureau mater
tally checks the growth of the state.
1t is a subject difficult for eastern
senators to understand. Even some of
the people of the west are slow to grasp
the situation till the closed territory is
brought to their very doors.
Senator Hepburn is making an admir-
able fight for his state, and he is gain
ing ground too. Nobody has ever ac-
cused him Of. being a gutter in a
righteous cause. Idaho Press.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-03-29
STILL UNSETTLED.
No Decision Is Reached by Joint Scale
Committee of Miners and Operators.

Indianapolis, Ind.-The joint scale
committees of the joint confer.
ence of coal operators and miners OF
the central competitive and of the
southwest districts were in session al
most all of Wednesday, but no agree
ment was reached.
The committees of the central com
petitive field, composed of Illinois, In
diana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania,
devoted its session to a discussion Of
the Illinois "shot firers'" law, which
the operators of that state asserted
unjustly Disseminated against them,
as it adds an expense of from to 10
cents on each ton of mined coal. The
miners representatives on the com
mittee refused to make any declara-
tiOn on the subject and asked for a re-
cess until Thursday morning that they
might caucus.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-03-29
REDUCTION OF WAGES.
Revision Of the Tariff Would Fall
Most Heavily Upon the
Working Masses.

President Roosevelt's reputation of
their ridiculous claims has dealt death
blow to the hopes of the tariff re-
visionists. 1t has left them without
what they had intended to use as their
principal argument, though it is to be
doubted if even the frown of the presi-
dent would be sufficient to change the
Dingley tariff law, supported, as it is,
by the almost unanimous voice of the
American people, to whom it has
brought an era of unexampled prosper
ity in direct contrast to the hard times
suffered under the last d. nocratiG
regime.
Tariff revision as urged to-day, says
the Portsmouth IN. H.) Chronicle, is
tariff reduction. The inevitable result
of tariff reduction is price reduction.
This, indeed, is it's principal aim. Price
reduction is followed by home wage re-
duction. What, then, is tariff revision
but wage reduction?
Luckily, not even inferential agree
ment is accorded the tariff rippers by
the president. Instead of this, they get
an actual rebuff, which not even tho
thickest-skinned. of them all can fail to
understand. They vince, and it is we'll
for the country's interests that they are
made to do so.
The Massachusetts Republicans"
have been crediting the president with
holding tariff revision ideas, but we
think they will shut up now, if they have
~; Il 90, = 1,o
This is President Roosevelt's view,
expressed in his own words: There
is more need of stability than of an
attempt to attain ideal perfection in
the methods of raising revenue"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-03-29
SOME POLITICAL POINTERS.

EEThe Democrats have made striking
gains in Maine, but the Republicans al
ways jolly them along like that just be-
fore congressional and presidential exec
tions.-Washington Post.
ETGreat prosperity in the foreign
trade, enormous activity in the domes-
tic trade, and all without smashing the
tariff! How can it be? Are the fates
conspiring against Democratic free
traders and Republican revisionists?
It would seem so.-American Econo-
mist.
EFGov. Folks free trade speeches are
not received with enthusiasm by the
farmers of the west, who remember
that during the last Democratic admin
istration sheep were sold for % cents
each, and horses were turned adrift in
the northwest because they had no
marketable value.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
E-5The president is deeply anxious
for a law which will afford a remedy
for the evils of railroad discrimination
and abuses. In this he reflects great
and earnest public sentiment, of which
he has made himself the vigorous
champion. But what he wants is the
result, and he is not bound up with
any particular measure. .-Pittsburg
Press.
q On all hands the country sees the
old-time evidences of Republican pros.
perity-St Louis Globe-Democrat.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-03-29
MEAT PACKERS HAPPY.
They Are Granted Immunity from
Criminal Prosecution as Individu-
ais, but Indictments Against Cor
porations Are to Stand.

Chicago, III. - All the meat
packers who were indicted by a fed
eral grand jury last summer or
charges of conspiracy in restraint o.
interstate trade and commerce Wed.
nesday were granted immunity from
criminal prosecution under the indict
ment. While the individuals are to &c
free, the indictments found against
the corporations, of which some o.
the indicted packers are members an6
others are employees, are to stand.
decision to this effect was handed
down Wednesday afternoon by Judge
Humphrey in the United States dis.
trict court.
The corporations which must stand
trial are: Armour Packing Co, Cud.
ahy Packing Co., Fairbanks Canning
Co. and Swift & Co.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-03-29
Social Standards.

The Newport set and similar sets in
other cities of the United States, are
advertised so much that the public
forgets about other. more sedate and
respectable if less wealthy and bizarre
sets of families, infinitely better bred,
better educated and better entitled to
the status of gentility than the set
which passes for society" There are
many groups of families in different
cities and sections of this country.
rightly remarks the San Francisco
Bulletin, who hold themselves quite
above the generality of those exploit
ed in Town Topics, and who would
not invite to their homes some of the
men and women that are leading fig
ures at Newport and in Town Topics
Good will come of the scandal if the
present laughable plight of the "ex-
clusives," who have made MONKEYS
and clowns of themselves before the
public for so many years, will render
motley questionable and drive so
ciety' to simplicity and decency. One
does not nurse a lively hope of this
good result, however, for it is still
difficult to convert a sow's ear into a
silk purse.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-03-29
Anto-A oricultnre.

Automobile dealers report heavy
sales in the west, particularly among
farmers One eastern firm claims to
have sold one thousand machines in
single week. Other manufacturers
make similar statements, giving small
er figures but agreeing that the auto
mobile is rapidly being adopted, not
only for pleasure but for business, by
the tillers of the soil. The automo-
bile is said to be particularly popular
in rural sections of Illinois, where
great number of machines are being
used for commercial purposes. Illi-
nois farmers have learned by expert
ence that one auto will haul a dozen
wagons stretched out behind it, with
a twO-fold result: horses are left ia
work in the field and produce is trans
ported to town quicker and cheaper.
An even more far-reaChing result is
the demand for better roads. So long
as the automobile was the plaything
of the city leisure class it was re-
<9ulbCu SuhplClOuSly ny the ldl mel
who refused to become enthused over
the city mans demands for good
country roads on which to go scorch-
ing. But now that the automobile
has been adopted by the farmer he is
as anxious for passable highways as
the city man, and the two are working
together to bring the road millennium
to pass. Auto plows, rakes and har-
Hesters have been introduced into the
northwest and found practicable, but
the adoption of the motor car by the
farmer as a vehicle of transportation
for himself and his produce is more
recent.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-03-29
In d West Virginia Mine
Explosion.
IS BODIES FOUND
twenty-five Injured and From Is
TO Is Missing and Believed
to Be Dead.

Fairmont, w. Va.-An explosion
of gas in the mine of the Cen
tury Coal Co. at Century, a small
mining town 80 miles south of here on
the Philippi and Buckhannon branch
of the Baltimore & Ohio at 4 o'clock
Thursday afternoon entombed at least
$50 miners, many of whom are believ-
ed to be dead.
At 6 o'clock Is men were taken from
the mine, five Of whom were dead and
the rest terribly injured.
a relief gang, headed by Superin-
tendent John Ward, entered the mine
at $50, but since that time nothing
can be heard from the accident, as the
telephone wires have been put out by
storms and no other means of com
municatiOn are available.
The mine is owned by Shaw Broth
ers, of Baltimore, and is one of the
largest in northern West Virginia
Two hundred and fifty men are en-
ployed, but many of these came out
before the explosion took place.
Following the explosion relief trains
were run from Buckhannon and Phil
ippi, taking physicians to the scene
These have not returned, and until
they do little in detail will be learned
of the accident.
A telephone message from Century
at 10 o'clock stated that six dead and
ten injured men had been taken from
the mine at that time. Superintend-
ent Ward at that hour stated he did
not believe there were over 20 more
men dead in the mine. One hundred
and fifty of the $50 men employed
have been found on the outside,
having quit work before the explosion
occurred.
The main heading has been cleared,
but there are II sub-headings yet to
be explored. 1t is feared that none
of the men still in the mine are alive,
having been killed in the sub-head-
ings. The mine is not seriously dam
aged by the explosion, except that the
brattices have been blown out. The
cause of the explosion is not known
at this time.
At II o'clock q men had beer
taken out of the Century mine. NinC
are dead and the others horribly in
jured. One of the officials at that
hour stated that he believed ther
were IL men in the mine still and al
dead.
A telephone message from Philippi
early Friday morning says that the
last report from Century places the
number of dead at IS, 25 injured and
from % to IS missing and believed to
be dead
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-03-29
NO CONTROL
Over Insurance or Other
State Corporations
BY GOVERNMENT.
lhiS Is The Conclusion Reached b,
the Judiciary Committee of
the House.

Washington. ID. C-That there is
no constitutional authority for fed
eral control of insurance or other state
corporations other than railroads, is
to be the conclusion reported to the
house by the judiciary committee.
The report has been drafted by Chair
man jenkins, of the committee, and
is now in the hands OF members of the
committee for their perusal. An un-
official poll of the members OF the
committee indicates that with practic-
ally no exceptions they concur in the
correctness of this conclusion. The
report of Mr.. Jenkins may therefore
be taken as the basis of the answer
the committee is to make to the house
in compliance with the instructions
of that body.
The report collates all of the i'm
portant court decisions on the ques-
tions involved, treats each eXhaus-
lively and reduces the whole prob
lem to these two principles. The su-
preme court of the United States has
declared, and has never been
shaken or weakened in maintaining,
first, that insurance is not commerce,
anu, StCOIu, lHdJ SItSS CdllllpI III
pair the police powers of the states"
The advocates of the federal regu-
lation concede, according to the re-
port, that insurance is not commerce.
The supreme court" the report says.
"has had great difficulty in marking
the boundary line in each case as il
has arisen between the power of the
state and the commerce clause of the
federal constitution.
"ln each case, jealousy protecting
each power as they came in conflict
and not until now, in a moment of ex.
citement and intense interest, has il
ever been suggested that congress can
impair the police power of the states.
The report sets forth section 8 OF
article l of the constitution as confer.
ring the only power possessed by con-
gress to regulate commerce. "The
question as to whether or not insur,
ance is commerce has passed beyond
the realm of argument, because the
supreme court of the United States
has said many times for a great mum.
Der of years that insurance is not
commerce"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-03-29
PEOPLE WITH PRESIDENT.
Sure TO Win in the Battle Against
Oppressive Distinctions in
Commerce.

The railroad rate regulation bill,
which passed the house of representa-
tives with only seven dissenting votes,
will also pass the senate The irrcsist-
ible momentum of this bill, says the
Troy Times, comes from the fact that
the people want it, and in forwarding it
the president has again shown himself
to be the popular leader.
The rate regulation bill was made
nOn-partisan measure in the house of
representatives, both the Republican
and Democratic parties giving substan-
TALLY their entire strength to its sup
port. The nOn-partisan feature has not
been lost in the senate. The fact that
under the guidance of a Democrat it
comes out of a committee whose major
ity is Republican, does not mean 50
much division in one party as union OF
both in support of a measure which has
the earnest advocacy of the president
and the appreciation of the people. The
discussion on the floor of the senate
may elicit some amendments that will
improve the form of the bill, but in its
substance it will pass by an invincible
majority.
The railroad companies themselves
are beginning to see that it is not wise
to oppose a bill which some of the rail-
road presidents personally have de-
clared to be just and in the public in
terest. 1t will not be a bad thing for
the corporations themselves to be pro-
tected against discriminating practices
which muddle the whole business of
transportation and are often unpleas-
ant bOomerangs.
1t is undeniable that the people are
with President Roosevelt in this battle
against oppressive distinctions in COM
mercial intercourse, and that the same
responsiveness to the popular will that
greeted the Hepburn bill in the house
will eventually adopt that measure in
the senate. President Roosevelt's way
of doing things is still victorious, be-
cause his purpose is to do only those
things that are right.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-03-29
BLUFFS ON THE TARIFF.
American Stand Patters" Ready to
"Show Their Hands at
Any Time.

"The new German tariff, which will
become effective March /, it seems, Is
threatened TO place the 'standpatters'
under the disagreeable necessity of
showing their hands" says the Chi
cago Daily News.
Yet the "stand-patters" are the only
ones who have laid their hands down
on the table, face up. The other fell
lows are the mysterious, close-mouthed
men with poker faces who refuse to
divulge their wants or to explain what
they hold in their hands, replies the
Milwaukee Sentinel Also, there are
few of them that will agree with their
fellows as to the programme to be fol-
lowed.
For instance the Daily News and
others of its kind would revise pro-
lection out Of the tariff schedules alto
gether, but they all insist that they
would not do the job in a manner to
injure American industries They
have a scheme hidden away somewhere
by which they can do all this.
Then there are the Republican re.
visers that have determined to revise
the tariff in such a manner that all
the objections urged to protectionism
by the Democrats will be removed
without in any way endangering the
protection accorded to American la
Dor and capital. These people do not
even pretend to know how it is to be
done-they merely want to do it.
Again. there are the Selling cheap
er abroad than at home" hysterical pa
tients. They have read the Demo
cratic stories concerning this alleged
evil and have believed them. To the
end that the reported nefarious prac-
tice may be stopped instantly they
would reduce or remove the import
duties from all articles manufactured
by firms or corporations that dump"
their surplus products in foreign mar
kets. But they are not prepared to
prove their case, having accepted hear
say evidence as conclusive and de-
manded verdict without further in
veStigatiOn.
Finally, there are the Republicans
who are afraid that if the tariff law is
not revised the Republican party will
be defeated in some coming campaign
They wag their heads wisely and pre-
tend that their sharp prophetic vision
which apprehends defeat is a warrant
for the party that has always stood
for protectionism to change its princi-
plies and scuttle the ship that has
borne them safely through many a
storm.
Amid all this confusion the stand.
patters' are standing pat They are
the men who know where they are
at and why they are there All the
world, too, knows what the stand
patters' stand for. In the circum-
stances it would appear to be in bad
taste for the Daily News to talk
about making the "stand-patters" show
their hands.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-03-29
Latter-D Day Nerves. F."

What a fine thing it would have
been for the human race had physi-
clans never discovered anything about
the nervous system or invented such
terms as nervous prostration" or
nervous dyspepsia" 1t makes one
green with envy to think of those for
mer times when people knew little or
nothing about anatomy and when they
they called things by their right
names. When they were ill tempered
or jealous or melancholy they said
they We're, instead of putting every
thing on the poor nerves, as we do
now. When physicians are called in
and find themselves at loss to know
just what is the matter with the pa
tient-and even the very cleverest of
them sometimes do find themselves in
that humiliating position-they can
always fall back upon nerves" with
the certainty that the patient will
quite agree with them and also that
be will Immediately justify the dag.
nosis by having a nervous attack Of
some sort
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-03-29
CondreS SsionaI.

Washington.-The railroad rate bill
occupied nearly all the time of the
senate on the 23d, Mr.. Lodge and Mr.,
Spooner speaking on the bill. Mr.,
Lodge spoke in advocacy of his
amendment looking to the enlarge
ment of the interstate commerce
commission, and Mr.. Spooner on the
constitutional powers of the inferior
courts, contending that those courts
could not be destroyed nor their pow
ers taken from them In the house
the statehood bill was taken from the
speakers table, placed in the hands
of three selected conferees and a re-
quest made of the senate for a con-
frence on the disagreeing votes of the
two houses.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-03-29
pennsylvania
RAILROAD.
PHILADELPHIA AND ERIE RAIL ROAD
DIVISION.

,PHLLApELPHIA AND ERIE RAIL ROAD
In effect May 2s. 1905.
TRAINS LEAVE EMPORIUM EASTWARD
q 10 A.. Nj Sundays only for Remove ana
Week days for sunbury, wikesbarre, scran-
on, Hazleton, Pottsville, Harrisburg end
intermediate stations, arriving at Philadelp liza
6.23 +. NJ, New York $50 =. NJ, Baltimore
600 p. NJ, washinpton 7.15 p. NJ Pullman
Parlor car from Wilnamsport TO Philaf slphia
ana passenger coaches from KSne to.
Philadeiphia and Wlliamsport 10 Balti-
1925 p. NJ. Emporium Junction. daily for sun
bury, Harrisburg aud principal Intermediate
stations, arriving at Phlladelp phia, 7.32 p. nv
New York, lO2i D. M Baltimore 7:30 p. M;
Washington, S:3j, D. Vestibuled Parlor
cars and passenger coaches, Buffalo to Phia-
20 Z. M.-daily for Harrisburg and
intermediate stat ons, arriving at Pbiladel-
phia, 423 A. M New York 7.l3 A. M
Pullman sleeping cars from Harrisburgto Phil.
adelphia and New York. Philadelphia pas
sengerscan remainir sleeper undisturbed IN"
10 30 p. M.-Daily for Sunbury, Harris
burg and intermediate stations arriving ct
Philadelphia III A. NJ, New York 9.33 A. NJ,
weekdays, 40 50 A. NJ. Sunday;) Baltimore us
A NJ, Washington $50 A. NJ. Pullman sleep
ing cars from Erie, Buffalo and Williamsport tca
IP.hiladelghia and Buffalo, WilamsPort tc.
Washington. Passenger cars from Erie tc-
Philadelphia and Williamsport TO Baltimore
1928 A. NJ. Emporium Junction daily for Sun"
bury, Harrisburg and principal intermediate.
stations, arriving at Philadelphia, 1882 a. M;
New York, 9:33 a. M. week days; (lO3s sun
days; Baltimore, 1925 q. M: Washington. S:tGs
g. m. Vestibuled Buffet Sleeping Cars and
Passenger coaches, Buffalo to Philadep phia-
and Washington.
WESTWARD.
o:l0 A. M.-Emporium Junction daily
for Erie, Ridgway, and week days for Du--
Bois, Clermont and intermediate stations.
10 30 A. NJ. Daily for Erie and week days
for Dubois andintermediate stations.
23 p. M.-Daily for Erie and intermediate
stations.
RIDGWAY AND CLEARFIELD r. r. CON.
NECTIONS.
Week days.)
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-03-29
In Favor of interference by State.

Chicago, In.-A committee ap.
pointed in Chicago last February at
conference of governors, attorney
generals and insurance commissioners
with instructions to prepare for adop-
tion by the states forms of laws for
the better regulation of life insurance
companies, concluded deliberations
Thursday and adjourned after declar-
ing itself in favor of interference by
the state in the internal affairs of the
Insurance company and in favor of a
standard policy.