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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 80 1905.
TRADE OF PORTO RICO.

AZ Tho remarkable growth In com
merce between the United States
and Porto Rico us Illustrated by
some figures prepared by the Bureau
of, Statistics of the Department OF
Commerce ana Labor, Is especially
interesting Mt the present moment
= In view of President Roosevcl's
Il recent message rearding Porto Rico.
The figures Just announced show
that the trade between the United
States and Porto Rico in the cal
3Soildar year 1906 vii exceed 40 mill
don dollars against less than 4
million in 1897. the year before
#annextation -,
tx The value OF merchandise sent
4-Irnm- Porto Rico to the United
States In the 10 months ending
with October, 1906. rs $t9,32O,137,
and OF merchandise sent from the
United States to Porto Rico in the
same period $16,509,9iG, making a
total for the 10 months of S35,S3O.-
i os3 and thus apparently justifying
+ the assertion that for the full IL
months ending with December the
total will exceed 10 million dollars
In the calendar year 1897, the year
Immediately proceeding annexation
1.-The total imports into the United
States from Porto Rico were $1,9i3,-
251, and the total exports to that
island, S2,023,751, making total
S3967 ,Oo2 or less than one-tcnth OF
the total promised for the year
(which ends with the present month.
i5g Not only has the trade of Porto
Rico with the United States incrcas
Sed enormously hut the general trade
y OF the island shows also large
increase during the period in ques.
III tion The total value OF merchpn-
aSdise passing in and out OF the
island in 1906 was practically twice
ii as great as that of any year prior
TO annexation. This remarkable
q growth In the general commerce of
4 the island, result OF the growth
Ssof production OF staple articles en-.
tering commerce and the CONSEQUENT
s growth In the consuming power O,
the people. is shown by figures com
piled by the Bureau of Statistics
which for the first time state the
values in gold Of the imports and
IN exports of the island in each wear
VI for "a long term of years and thus
b enable an accurate comparison OF
the commerce today with that OK
listing under Spanish control. The
4 figures thus compiled show that the
exports OF the island in the fiscal
year 1906 were % ia million dollars
& against ~ S-4 millions In the high.
4 est year prior to annexation-1S9.
and the imports were In 1906 prac
ST. tically % millions, against an an.
e nnal average Of about ~ 10 mill
ions under Spanish rule.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23

but II will afford an unlimitel field
FOR the special CORRESPONDENT and
the paragrapher. 1t is certain that
more than thousand different pic.
lures of cats all purpor.m.s to be
The only true and original Teddy
cats will appear in the papers i'm
the course Of the next fewdavs.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23

one who claims 10 know says
that Hearst is going 20 establish
one or more newspapers in every
Stale in the Union in otla. t &c,
even with his enemies Mr. Hearst
has lot o! MONEY but Ii is doubtf..l
II he has enough to 9, into such
n venture.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23

We are now in the midst of tho
very shortest days in the year
only hours and 1 minutes of
daylight. 1t seems unfortunate that
the shortest days should come Just
before Christmas, when the longest
"ay is soreiy needed by the tardy
Shopper.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23

lie will not be all over the state.
b"t Just the same all Virginia will
welcome the President TO. It's sol,
even If we do not agree with all
he says in the numerous messages
That he has sent to Congress the
past few days.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23

The attempted murder of Captain
Macklin by Il discharged soldier of
Twenty-ffth regiment is The best
proof YET That Presidcn. Roosevelt
mad no mistake Wien he fred
the whole sang out OF Inc army.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23

The decision of Secretary Strauss
IN the South Carolina immigration
matter Is Just what 1t should have
peen' 1t would indeed be a sorry
spectacle to see the federal govern
ment preventing commonwealth
from building up It's Industries ana
filling It's soil.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23
WITH THE PARAeRAPHERs

Secretary Taft has explained how
we got into Cuba The much
more difficult task remains ~ OK
planning how we are going to get
out.-Baltimore News.
National death will be brought
about much sooner by corrupt poll
ticians than by small ramilies-So.
Louis Post.
In time every concern in the land
that contributes TO the campaign
fund and votes right may be richly
subsided.-Dallas News
There is some reason to believe
that the Storer-Roosevclt correspond
ence has been much more generally
read through than the Presidents
message.-Boston Globe.
When Mr.. Roosevelt said he want
ted Il Cabinet that could defend his
Administration he must have felt
that he would need that kind before
he got through Post.
Secretary Taft reports that religious
differences i'll the Philippines are
mont. In this respect the Philip
mines are stey or two in advance
OF France. -Waahngton Star.
The White House hired girls seem
10 get along very smoothly and
satisfactorily. AT least, there are no
public statements issued giving de-
tails of differences with the fam
ily--ChicagO Tribune
Two galleries for the accommoda-
ton of visitors are being built at
the Chicago water works. Imagine
snch thing happening in a Ken
lucky city-Philadelphi Press.
Rockefeller announces that he is
not interested in the exploitation OF
The Congo Free State. There's money
cnucgh for him in exploiting New
York Free State-Ncw York Amer
lean.
It's a strange thing, but the min
ute capitalist gets concession
in the rubber district of the Congo,
it seems to make his conscience
more .elastic.-Phiadelph North
American.
The date for the adjournment of
Congress may have been fastened
ny the suspicion that the President
mas reserve force of message. OH
hanh.-New York Gloe.
There will be two styles of spelling
for correctness and one for principle
-philnHnlnhin |
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23

Newspaper readers are going to
have little rest for few days.
Congress holiday recess begins today.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23

President Roosevelt has taken two
cats left to him by an admirer
1t is a matter of small consequence
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23

Secretary Taft has explained how
we got into Cuba. The much
more difficult task remains u cx-
planning how we are going to get
out.-Baltimore News.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23

National death will be brought
about much sooner by corrupt poll
tcians than by sinai. ramiies.-So
Louis Post.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23

When Mr.. Roosevelt said he want
ted Cabinet that could defend his
Administration he must have felt
that he would need that kind before
he got Observation-Disclosures Post.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23

There is some reason to believe
that the Storer-Roosevclt correspond
ence has been much more generally
read through than the President s
meSsage.-Boston Globe.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23

In time every concern in the LAM
that contributes TO the caTpaig
fund and votes right may be rich.
ubsided.-Dallas News.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23

g. q. Thacker. Editor and Publisher.
Il ~. PuFh. -. Advertising Manager.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23

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authorized to contract any obligation In tho
.nhpo OF the company, or to make purchases In
tho name OF tho aamo except npon order aIgEed
by tho PUBGIsuRR OF THE DAILY PRESS,
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23

Secretary Taft reports that religious
differences i'll the Philippines are
approaching Il satisfactory settle
mont. In this respect the Philip
nInes are stey or two in advance
OF France.-Waahing Star
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23

The Toledo Club has resigned
Pitcher Cnech and Catcher Bill
Clarke, and has drafted Pitcher Har-
ry Lors from the New London (Conn.)
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-12-23

There Will be two styles of spelling
in vogue at the White House-one
for correctness and one for principle
Philadelphia Ledger
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-02

ing and dangerous monopolies that exist
today grow out Of this tap root Of per
verted transportation corporation power.
II is an encouraging sign when one
Of the great roads Of the eastern coal
region divests itself of the complication
involved in being shipper OF coal over
its own lines in competition with other
shippers who are at its mercy, but 1t is
only a beginning of one Of the greatest
and most needed reforms i'm the history
Of railroads. There remains that vast
field Of questionable use of transporta-
ton power by railroad officials for their
personal profit. wronging both the pub
lie and the railroad companies, the eff
fects of which are similar to those Of
mixed proprietary interests Of transpor-
tation and shipping companies. So
widely ramified are these kindred abuses
and so immense are the wrongful profits
from them that the struggle for sub
stantial reform will be long and arduous
even after the roads begin to yield to
public opinion and the power of the gov
eminent.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-02
INFLUENCE AMONG THE STATES.
President ROOseveIt's Recommended
lions Command Ardent support.

President ROOseveICs Recommended
lions Command Ardent support.
Boston Transcript (rep).
Whatever may be said OF President Roose-
velt's influence with congress, or lack OF
influence, 1t seems clear that his recon-
mendations have great weight with the
lawmakers in the state capitals, to whom
these are not addressed, but who often
md way, as they believe OF carrying out
Mr.. Roosevelt's ideas in spirit His recent
Ill advised utterances regarding a federal
Inheritance tax, IL may safely be said, will
have no effect upon congress, but these are
strengthening the arm Of the lawmakers
I'm various. states who have for years been
pushing for the adoption of this form OF
taxation. His attitude makes It harder
for republican members of these legisla-
lures to stand out against this class Of
measures.
1t is the same with the railroad rate
regulation campaign. in which the presi-
dent has not the slightest desire for further
action on the part OF the states. seeing, as
he must that this in most cases degenerates
into form of local protection OF the most
regrettable character. He asks for ma
tional regulation. Ind while the senate
hesitates. last winter and this, the state
legislatures move briskly in giving their
equivalent 10 what he wants. as they I'M
derstand Il. An important historical mo-
ograph might be written upon the relation
OF a president Of the United States to the
state lesislatures-a new subject AL
though he addresses TO them no message.
his influence with them. because they are
so much nearer the people and farther
from the Washington political atmosphere.
usually hostile 70 him. Is conspicuously
great.
And there IL q certain ainship between
state and national questions. and an even
closer relation between these issues on
which congress. BY the presidents recon-
mendation. legislates for the District OF
Columbia and the territories No account
OF ROOsevelt's ADMINISTRATION will be com
plete which deals only with his power over
congress-: there era forty-nve little con-
crosses: the total OF whose action proves
an extremely imrortant part in making
the history or our own times.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-02
CONGRESS TO DATE.

with Ave full months OF the session
Of congress gone and point already
reached within a few weeks OF the or
binary time Of adjournment, a fact not
heretofore much noted-namely. that
practically no legislation has yet been
flnishcd--is rising conspicuous in the
public mind.
Congress met with number of Ques-
tions Of great Importance before it to
he dealt with, in addition to the para
mount public demand for more efficient
and thorough control OF transportation
corporations. Among these were the
Panama canal a matter requiring inn
mediate action; the statehood question,
Philippine legislation. Chinese exclusion
and the Santo Domingo treaty. besides
not a few other subjects of great but
not so pressing concern. Not a single
measure among all Of them has been
affirmatively and finally acted upon, and
every large measureA like that for the
government Of the Philippines or that
for the admission of the four remaining
territories which has passed one or the
other of the two branches of congress,
has developed such wide antagonisms
between them as nj best TO require most
serious effort for reconciliation. Every
thing remains to be done, even where
agreement between the house and the
senate is possible.
That important ana vital part of the
work of congress which relates to APP
preparations still remains unfinished.
OF all the great appropriation bills only
one has as vet been finally acted on
and consideration of some of the rest
is yet TO be begun. If congress had the
rest of it's business out of the way it
would take weeks of continuous labor
to dispose of the appropriations alone.
II is certainly high time for congress
to move. True, the fault does not lie
so much with the house, which in good
time sent not a few measures to the
senate. where they have been held up,
but whoever deserves the blame the fact
remains that months have passed and
the business Of the session has not been
transacted. The republicans as the
party in control will be held respon-
sible by the country for any ultimate
default, and it is worth while to re-
member that campaign preliminaries
are already in progress in the congress
sional districts.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-02
CLOSE OF RATE GENERAL DEBA TIE.

CLOSE OF RATE GENERAL DEBATE.
The public will receive with a sense
of relief the announcement that the SEN
ate has agreed to begin Friday on
amendments to the rate bill, although
there was failure to agree on a date GER
tain for voting on the bill itself OBJ
lection to fixing a voting date on the lat
ter amounts simply to refusal to put an
absolute limit on debate on the amend
ments. The order of the senate, how
ever, establishes an important limit on
the debate, since it must proceed under
the f1fteen-minute rule. With that re-
striction on a speech, discussion of an
amendment cannot be very greatly pro-
tracted. Many of the pending amend
ments are not likely to be discussed at
all under the fifteen-minute rule, and
with the disposal of few of the prin-
cipal amendments it should not take
long in the natural course of things TO
reach final vote on the bill itself
There has been already too much de-
lay in disposing OF this paramount pub
lie business, and the responsibility is
absolutely fixed upon the represent
atives of corporation interest in the SEN
ate beyond their power to obscure or es-
cape from the fact. If they have not
been able during all the long delay to
make effective conspiracy for defeating
or seriously weakening the rate bill. no
further delay would avail for that pur.
pose. Agreement to close the general
debate may therefore be taken as con
elusive evidence that the lines in the
senate have been drawn and that in the
existing frame of the public mind final
action cannot now be STAYED of beyond
a comparatively few days.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-02
Personal NOTES.

A marked boom in summer engagements
is projected in Chicago. One thousand more
benches are to be placed in the parks.
The reputation OF Texas. the land Of dead
shots. is ruined. sheriff at Oakwoods
fired several times at a mob, but could not
hit a man.
Mayor johnson OF Cleveland thinks he has
invented a machine that will travel six
miles a minute. That's about his regular
gait when headed toward an office.
The divorce decision Of the federal su-
preme court has not checked the activity
Of Dakota courts. The stock on hand will
keep the mills busy for some time to come.
The Princess Ena and future queen Of
Spain is said to have received three bap-
tlsms into as many different faiths. 1t
remains to be seen whether the last o5e
will take.
When Herr Conried met his singers upon
their arrival at New York from San Fran
cisco. he was kissed by the whole bunch.
men and all. thus experiencing an addi-
tional horror.
John Temple Graves, in his new daily
paper. The Georgian. has announced his
withdrawal from the race against Senator
A. o. Bacon for the United States senate
from Georgia.
The sympathy of Portland, Ore, for San
Francisco is intense, It's housewives have
been asked to bake their own bread that
the public bakeries may devote all their
energies to providing for the stricken city.
The way that senators look at each 9TH
er's efforts at argument showed itself in a
remark T1llman made when he entered the
senate and saw Spooner speaking in reply
to Bailey. Anybody can talk up hill, "
said Tillman, but Spooner has got to talk
up precipice"
The new French president is deeply at
tached to his umbrella, which accom-
panies him on every occasion and is likely
from now on to become a favorite subject
for French political caricaturists, much
like the collar OF Mr.. Gladstone or the
monocle of Mr.. Chamberlain.
William C. Brown who has Just been
chosen first vice president Of the New York
Central lines. with a salary of s75.O0O the
best paid vice president OF a railroad in the
United States, was in the early 7Os a
telegraph operator and messenger boy in
Sioux City, Ia, receiving messages and
delivering them himself.
The late Prof Pierre Curie, dscoverer
OF radium, as boy seemed so stupid
at school that his parents withdrew him
and put him under a private tutor. All
through HIS years OF study, including the
final preparations for the arts degree, he
was hampered by the necessity of studying
uncongenial subjects. II was only when he
was free to follow his natural bent that his
powers were manifested
A naval officer had been tried for drunk
enness and the report OF the court martial
was before Secretary Bonaparte. Some
friends Of the of1cer, who is really a good
fellow and fine officer. but too popular for
his own we'll being, went before the secre-
tary 10 save him. You sec, Mr.. Secre-
tary," said one of them. in my opinion
| this sentence is unjust. Do you know what
his trouble is?'' Yes" said the secretary
| thirst"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-02
PANEGYRIsT OF THE HEN.
Luminous Tribute to the Bird that
Broke the Egg Combine.
poaton Tpranaoript

Luminous Tribute to the Bird that
Broke the Egg Combine.
Boston Transcript.
Mr.. Dawson OF Iowa may be as patriotic
a man as sits in congress. II is fair to
assume that he was carried by the glow
of economic enthusiasm rather farther
than he intended when he intimated that
the American hen is worthier OF pictorial
honor than the American eagle Said Mr..
Dawson:
I'VE hear a great deal on this floor
about the glory OF the American eagle.
and artists in the past have painted the
beauties Of the birds Of giumage, but, Mr..
Chairman, the American her is entitled TO
a modest tribute for her industry, her use
fulness and produotivity."( Applause.)
But Mr.. Dawson before charging artists
with undue discrimination" should reflect
on the different pictorial possibilities OF
these two noble birds. The eagle
Sailing with supreme dominion
Through the azure depth OF air
leaves the hen out of sight, and appeals TO
the artistics temperament TO rise to the oo-
casion. The American hen is a bird which
as Mr. Dawson told an enraptured house,
''can produce wealth equal to the capital
stock Of all the banks In the New York
clearing house In three months and have
week to spare" But here possibilities
in art have obvious limits.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-02
APPoMArTox COURT HOUSE.
Historic Surrender House = PlaytbinE
OF Spectators.


Washington Post.
The American people have not been neg
lectful in concentrating famous places
and distinguished men. Since the shaft on
Bunker Hin rose at Boston innumerable
other monuments Of varied form and pur-
pose have sprung up all over the land, and
congress in recent years has purchased and
set apart several of the great battlehelds
Of the civil war, where for generations to
come our descendants will gather to recall
American courage and manhood and to be
reminded what It cost to save the republic
alive.
II is not a little remarkable that the place
which by common consent would be agreed
upon as the most interesting and memoir
able of the entire conflict, Appomsttox
Courthouse, has been left to the mercy Of
Spectators. or the chances and mutations
of ordinary country property, Of no special
value or significance.
There is no occasion for the purchase OF
any large amount of land there Let the
government acquire for the country The
Mclean house, and few acres about IT,
and restore II as nearly as possible to its
condition when Grant and Lee met there:
not as a lasting memorial OF the surrender
of the south, but to commemorate the Gull
mination OF the great struggle on that very
spot and to recall the presence there OF the
two great actors in the mighty drama, who,
when the hour struck, took the center OF
the stage together and proclaimed peace az
the curtain fell upon the closing scene.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-02
DIVoRCINo RAILROAD AND COAL.


The sudden disposal by the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad of its majority holdings
OF the stock Of a coal company owning
and operating mines on its lines prob
ably foreshadows like action on the
part of many other roads. The public
is awakening to the fact that severance
of railroad proprietary interest in ship
ping corporations is absolutely essential
to legitimate common carrier service.
The investigation ordered by congress
has hardly been begun by the Inter
state Commerce commission before
abuses of the grossest and most widely
extended character were disclosed in the
relations between the railroads and the
coal companies. Many of these practices
are violations OF the antitrust and inter
state commerce laws, involving directly
or indirectly prohibited determinations
and conspiracies in restraint of trade,
and IT is undoubtedly the newly opened
prospect that such offenses will be pun
ished that has impelled the Baltimore &
Ohio to purge itself of direct proprietary
complications.
Public policy imperatively demands
that common carrier service be open to
all on equal terms. and under existing
conditions il is Incompatible with a
proprietary interest as shipper which
Inevitably tempts to discriminate against
other shippers. II is not merely the
rate-making power which enables the
officers of railroad company TO crush
one shipper and aggrahdize another,
but the same result can be reached by
manipulating car supply and trackage
connections and in innumerable other
ways. Aud beyond all these means rail
road companies have been able through
subsidiary coal companies to manipulate
prices I'm rhe coal market so as to Sc
cure the eject OF rebates and other In
tolerable abuses while Ostensibly con
forming 10 the law, practice which the
supreme court has recently condemned
as equally violation Of law and liable
] to injunction. Many Of the most grind