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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
GOOD TIME TO RETReNcH.

While the city administration is fig
uring on ways and means by which to
meet the financial emergency which
eonfronts it, why shouldn't it begin cut
ting down expenses in those depart
ments where extravaganza has been
the rule? Or would the administration
rather continue the extravaganza than
confess that it has been guilty of
waste?
And while the financial question is
nppermost why not investigate the
possibility for the decline in license
revenue? Excepting saloon licenses,
which show an increased number of
saloons, this department shows a de-
crease in revenue in spite of the fact
THAI. there are more concerns than ever
doing business subject to license tax.
Pol TAX. too. has shown decline, al
though There must be more men in the
city subject to this tax than at any
previous time in its history
Further. the receipts from fines and
forfeitTcs show a remarkable dssreRse.
Part If this is due to the suppression Of
gambling, but there is a suspicion that
the fines from other sources of crime,
which should go to TIE city. have beer
diverted unlawfuiIy for the berefit Of
mea who protect the criminals.
Again. the extraordinary decision by
Judge Diehl that gambling is not gam
bling when it is done through slot
machine has cut off another consider
able source of income. although the
business done on these machines is en-
ormous and most of it is a dead loss to
the community,
But to return to the original PROPOSE
ton. that the city ought 10 cut down
its expenses to mt its legitimate rev.
enue. No ether course is open unless
the administration is willing TO force
a financial deadlock on the city. The
lag is very plain which says the ex-
penses of any fund shall not exceed
the revenue of that fund for the same
year. In spite of the law the admins
tration has gone ahead spending money
and issuing warrants against funds
which have no existence. No one knows
exactly the amount of warrants issued
in 1906 in excess of the legal limit, but
ii must be somewhere in the neighbOr-
hood Of $4,000. The holders Of those
warrants must be paid. but under the
Law they cannot cash their warrants
unless this years operations show =
surplus at the end of the year sufficient
- 49, otIfoo ffonc
At the present rate of expenditure the
city will not have surplus at the end
of 1907: on the contrary. nothing can
save the treasury from a still larger
deficit unless extravaganza and waste
are stopped.
Mayor Thompson and the Amer
leans" in the council might as well face
the situation now as later. The facts
are out, there is no use deferring the
day of retrenehment longer
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
peveaIpee AND THE LAW.

When Senator Beveridge made his
plea for federal law to prohibit the in
terstate transportation of goods manu-
featured by child labor. a good deal
was said about the senator's eloquence
and learning, but very little was said
about the legal phases of his argu-
ment. Nor was the conclusion of the
judiciary committee of the house on the
subject circulated as widely as it should
have been.
After discussing Beveridges proposed
bill for some time the judiciary COM
mittee, which includes some of the
ablest lawyers in the house, made a
unanimous report against the bill. The
report was not only unanimous but ii
was caustic in its language. Among
other things. it said: 1T is not extreme
or ridiculous TO say that it would be
just as logical and correct to argue that
congress can regulate the age, color,
sex, manner of dress, height and size
Of employees and fix their hours, as
to contend that congress can exercise
J
and child labor"
In the opinion of the committee. the
power to regulate child labor certainly
falls under the police power of the
power of congress- Bearing on this
subject the committee says: THE ma
tiOral government is too weak to under
take the exercise of the police power of
the states. In a short time this great
nation would be worse than a ship in
mid-ocean in a great storm, without q
rudder or compass. The division of
power was wise and beneficial. Time,
study and experience approve it, and
we should not attempt in an unconsti-
tutional way the destruction of the
substructure of our government. If
then, these two great powers of police
and commerce are separate and indie
pendent, the power of the states SOW
eTeign, where is the authority for say
ing that congress can invade and i'm
pair that power entire and independent
in the states? The right and power OF
both the states and the nation must Be
respected and upheld"
III a period when the tendency of the
national government has been to deny
the rights Of states which have never
before been questioned. not even dur
ing the most violent discussions Of fed
eral and state limitations, it is good to
read an opinion based an the constitu-
ton rather than on the desires of an
executive supported by weak and
plant majority in congress. Neither In
the child labor law nor in the japanese
controversy has there been any sound
legal argument to support the conten-
ton of the administration that the po-
lice powers of a state could be SUBJ
verted by the federal authorities on any
pretext whatever
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
THE SALT LAKE HERALD. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY % 1907
SOCIETY

Mr.. and Mrs. George p. Holman viii
leave Thursday OF Friday for New
York, whence they sail some time dur-
ing the month of March for stay OF
some time abroad. They viii be joined
in New York by their daughter, Mrs
T. w. London.
The next musical evening to be given
by the music section of the Ladies Lit
erary club will be on Thursday, Feb.
I. Instead OF the local musicians who
We're announced for the event, there
will be an evening of song by Miss
Frieda Slender. who has just completed
a tour of Canada with the 'cellist Hex
king.
Mrs II. G. Mcmillan entertained a
few of her friends yesterday at a
luncheon for Mrs. Hal w. Brown. who
has been spending the past few weeks
in the city.
Mrs. Z. c. Horn. who has been visit
ing her daughter. Mrs c. r. Richards,
for some month";, viii leave today for
her home in Colorado Springs.
Miss Margaret Burrows, of Poea-
tello, and Miss Hattie Burrows. of Og-
den. are visiting Mrs. J. F. Marshall at
her home on X street.
Mrs. Russell L. Tracy and Mrs. Frank
b. Stephens will entertain today at a
buffet luncheon in honor of Mrs. Clar-
ence T. Brown, at the Tracy home in
Popperton.
Mrs. Ernest A. Greenwood will enter
tain at a luncheon today for Mrs.
Frank Hahn. who is the guest of Mrs.
". L. Green.
The Sewing club meets today with
Mrs. Alfred r. Egap, at her home on
East Second South street.
David Evans is in town for a short
stay from his home in Venice, Cal.
Mrs. James c. Dick has returned from
a visit with friends in ST. Louis.
Miss Rose Younserman, who has
spent the past two months in Los An
geles visiting friends, will return 10
the city today and will spend some
time with Mr.. and Mrs. H. l.. Young
erman at the Whitley apartments
Mrs Ray Brandon Is IN town from
Denver visiting her mother, Mrs. NJ.
A Afford
Mr.. and Mrs. John Dern have gone
to the coast for short stay.
=
The Utopia club meets today with
Mrs Isadore Mayer at % East First
North street.
Mrs. W. ). Loomis will present her
pupil Miss NIillie Howarth. i'm a piano
recital this evening at the Ladies Lit
erary club, at which she will be assist
ed by Mrs. Martha Royle King.
Mrs. A. E. Hutchinson has returned
from visit in Berkeley Cal, with
Mrs. T. o. Rhoades.
Mrs. Percy SadleI gave = matinee
party yesterday afternoon at the Or
pheum. following the event with q sup
per down town.
Mrs NJ H. Kervin is mp from Reno.
New. for a stay of a few days with
friends.
Major and Mrs. Allen NJ. Smith en-
tertamed q few friends of the garrison
at bridge last evening.
The General Relief society VIII give
a banquet tomorrow hight to Mrs. En-
incline B. Wells.
Mr. and Mrs. ". W. Ritter will en-
terrain tonight at a dinner.
number of women interested in
Canyon Crest ranch will hold a sale of
homemade cakes at Keith-O B-ian's
on Saturday. Mesdames Rice. Kim ~
Adams and Park will be in charge
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

j. Z. Jayne to +. w. Tatlock, lots
. and 26. block ?. Rice & Gelder's
addition 800
Kate l.. Cannon to Bennion Live
stock company, lots. and 5. block
s. East Park .......................... 1.Sg
Joseph Oreill, ST. TO William C
OrgiIl. land in section 1. township
south, range 1 west ..........--... 30
Sadie c. Benton to Frank Remmurt,
lots 10, etc, block l, Bunnells sub
DIVISION 49, ....-.,....- 49,.
V. Il. Cutler to Robert Marsh, part
of lot 5, block "a. plat A........... 1900
+. Z. Fletcher ct al. 10 The Pacific
Lumber company. part of lot I,
block -, plat b .---.-.-----------.----
A. c. Buffers to Celia Sooten land
in section 6, township south,
range 7 east ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
N NJ Jensen to Andrew Hansen.
land in section 81, township south,
range east - -. ~"
J. Duckworth to J. b. Weimer, part
of lot 9, block %. ten-acre plat A.
William d. Brown to William q.
Rompey. part of lot /. block 6S. plat
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT,
Yesterdays Record at the Local Of
flee of the Weather Bureau.

Maximum temperature, IS degrees; min
imum temDeTature. 81 degrees; mean
temperature. a degrees. which is { de-
grees above normal; accumulated excess
of temperature since the first of the
month. 304 degrees: accumulated excess
Of temperature since Jan. i. 400 degrees.
Relative humidity at 6 p. M. 81 Total
precipitation from s p. m TO s y. m, s.
inch: accumulated excess of precipitation
Stree the first of the month. 2.2o inches;
accumulated excess of precipitation since
Jan l. 2A inches.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
MARRIAGE LICENSES

5715-Charles o. Tea. Riverton.
Margaret Weenig, RivertOn.
William L. Tucker, Morgan.
NOoni V. Vincent, Morgan.
STA. Frank Rynders, Salt Lake.
Clara L. kervin, Salt Lake
37lS-Melvin r. Fisher, Murray.
F. Lillace Brown, Murray.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27

If Steve Adams is really guilty of all
the crimes mentioned in the confession
read at Wallace ii is hard to UNDER
stand how he escaped the fool killer so
long.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27

Having run against the auditors re-
port Of city finances, the American
machine has slipped a tire, put its
leak in the carburetter, bent an axle or
two and run out of gasoline II might
be in worse shape but not much.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27

1t win go hard with the man who
looted the Chicago treasury, pro-
vided, of course. he doesn't happen to
have political influence.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27

The west hasn't kept advised as TO
tie modified ship subsidy bill. but the
fact that Grosvenor of Ohio supports it
vociferously is enough to justify strong
suspicious Of the bills value to the peo-
pie.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27

The people viii agree to almost any
thing the Utah house says about the
senate or vice versa. provided it isn't
complimentary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27

II the interstate commerce commits
sion wants 10 make Mr.. Harriman's
story really interesting it might ask
him to tell what he thinks of Roosevelt.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27

To read some of these Utah newspa-
pers you'd think they didn't know the
vote had been taken in the Smoot case
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27

whose influence can be effective in the
places were influence is needed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27

The Utah legislature has passed for
y three lays-most of them foolishly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
ADJUSTMENTS FOR TODAY.

Salt Lake-Matinee and night, ''The
Sorceress."
Orpheum-Matinee and night, vaudeville.
Gfand-Matinee and night. Human
Hearts
Lyrie-Matinee and night. "A Gipsy's
Romance"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
WEATHER, FOR SALT LAKE.
Snow and colder.
The METALS

Silver, 6sisc per ounce.
Copper (casting), 241sc per pound.
Lead. So per 100 pounds.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-11
NO MORE KANSAS PASSES
Those Outstanding Will Be Honored
But None Issued.
With the Advent of Two-Cent Fares
the Deadhead List is
to be Reduced.

Topeka, Kan, Oct Sin accord.
ance with the announcement made
some time ago orders are being issued
by the Kansas railroads cutting off
all free transportation after Saturday
except that now outstanding. N. H.
Loomis of the Union Pacific received
the notice Friday that beginning Sat
urday his road would obey the Kansas
anti-pass law as ii it were in effect
now instead of January 1.
Passes will be Issued to employees
of the company ard of other COM
panies and to the families of the EN-
ployes, to persons hurt in accidents,
to physicians going 10 wrecks or ca
lamities and to the members of the
board of railroad commissioners. The
order says that all annual, time and
trip passes will be honored until the
expiration of the lass, as shown on
the pass itself. The attorneys and
officers are given strict instructions
not to issue other passes after Oc-
tober 5.
Since the roads decided to put the
two-cent fare into effect all passes is
sued since then have been dated to eX-
pire October D.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-11
BORAH NOT GUILTY.
The Idaho Senator Was Acquitted of
the Charge of Conspiracy
and Land Frauds.

Boise, Ida, Oct. 4.-United States
Senator William e. orah ' ednesday
night was acquitted of the charge of
conspiracy to defraud the government
out of valuable Idaho timber lands
The case was submitted without argu-
ment on the part of the defense and
the Jury was out just long enough to
take one ballot. Tffe verdict was
greeted by cheers and applause which
the court officers made no effort to re-
strain. This demonstration m the court
room served only as a beginning. AS
soon as the news reached the outside
bells were rung ard the city fire de-
partment made q spectacular run
through the principal streets, stopping
eventually at the Idaho hotel where
Senator Borah, surrounded by several
hundreds of his fellow citizens, was
escorted.
A brass band appeared as If by
magic and as the senator reached the
hotel steps, played hail to the chief"
The streets about the hotel were
blocked by the cheering throng, whose
shouts mingled with the screech of
the fire engine whistles and clang of
trolley car bells. Senator Borah
thanked his hearers for their demon.
stration and the confidence they had
reposed in him throughout the trial.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-11
CALLED MOFFETT'S BLUFF
Statement Made by President of
Standard Oil Investigated.
When Called Before Grand Jury He
Acknowledged He Knew No Facts
to Substantiate Assertions.

Chicago, Oct. 5.-The grand jury be-
fore which President James A. Moi
felt of the Standard Oil company of
Indiana, was recently called to af-
ford him an opportunity to substan-
tate certain statement made over his
name in a pamphlet which mas been
extensively circulated throughout the
country, returned its report to Judge
Lands of the United States district
court Friday.
The jury declared that President
Moffett had not only failed to uphold
the statements he had made, but that
he had no knowledge whatever lead
ing up to them, and that the statement
which purported to be made by him
was in fact made by Moritz Rosenthal
of this city, one of the attorneys for
the Standard Oil company in the re-
cent trial which resulted in it's con-
victioh and the levying against it by
Judge Lands of the fine of $29,240,-
900.
The particular statement in the
pdmpnlGC 10 WHICH the jury was III
structed to call the attention of Presi-
dent Moffett was as follows:
Thousands of tons of freight have
been shipped from these points whit
ing, Ind, Pullman, Hegewisch and
South Chicago, Ill., during the past
fifteen years under the same circum-
stances as the Standard shipments,
and if the Standard is guilty in this
case, so is practically every other
shipper in this great manufacturing
territory. Is there a purpose in Sc
lecting the Standard as victim?"
Judge Lands in his Instructions to
the jury declared that the pamphlet
containing these words had been ex-
tensively circulated, and he desired
that President Moffett be given every
opportunity to inform the jury regard
ing illegal shipments by other people
or corporations.
After receiving the report of the
jury, the judge dismissed its members
without comment or the report, other
than thanking the jury for the service
they had rendered.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-11

Laundry work at homo would be
much more satisfactory If the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces-
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty and fineness of the fabric is
hidden behind paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear
ing quality of the goods. This trou,
BILE can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because of it's great
er strength than other makes.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-11
That Nebraska Preacher Arrested.

Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 5.-Rev. Wilbut
P. Ferguson was arrested Thursday
on charge sworn out by Arthur E.
Cross, alleging criminal relations
with the wife of Mr. Cross. The ac-
cused asked immediate trial in JUS
tice court. The complaint follows
closely the church trial of Rev. Mr..
Ferguson at the recent Methodist
Episcopal conference, which brought
about his withdrawal from the minis
try and his $4,000 damages suit
against a number of ministers of the
church.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-11
The Detroits Are Winners.

washington, Oct. 4. Twice vic
torious over the Washington's Wednes-
day afternoon, coupled with the defeat
of the Philadelphians by the Cleve-
lands, the day closed with the Detroits
lacking only fraction of point from
being the undisputed champions of
1907. Already manager Jennings and
his mel are hailed as the victors, and
Wednesday were being overwhelmed
with congratulatory messages from all
points in the American league circuit
and elsewhere.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-11
To Consider Disease of Live Stock.

South Omaha, Neb., Oct 5.-Live
stock men and veterinaries of Ne
braska, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota,
Kansas and Wyoming were in session
in South Omaha Thursday to form
a society for the eradication of dis
ease in live stock in the western
states. DR.. Peters, of the Nebraska
agricultural experiment station, is
chairman of the meeting which was
called by j. L. Paxton, general man.
ager Union stock yards.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-11
Six Months With Neck Broken.

st. Louis, Mo-, Oct. 5.-William
Cain, employe at TIE Female hospital,
died Friday, six months after his neck
had been broken by shot fired by
William Haymaker, a gate attendant
at the hospital. Haymaker, who was
a confederate veteran, and formerly
lived at Fort Worth, Tex, went to
Kansas City after being released on
bond, and committed suicide at the
home of his son.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-11
Purchase Tickets in Kansas.

Topeka, Kan, Oct. &c. F. Grattan,
attorney to the railroad board Friday
issued an appeal to the travelling pub
lie to purchase tickets before boarding
trains. 1t also contained a yelled
threat that unless this is done the
board will authorize the roads to
charge more per mile when cash is
paid. The board fears the payment
Of cash fares on trains will tend to
lessen the roads receipts under the
two-cent fare and give them a chance
to claim 1t is unreasonable. The roads
Friday withdrew their request that
they be allowed to charge the three
cent fare whep tickets are not pur-
chased.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-11
Railroads viii Fix Penalties.

Topeka, Kan, Oct. 5.-The rail
roads have withdrawn the application
made Thursday to have the board of
railroad commissioners fix a penalty
which would compel people to buy
their railroad tickets before boarding
a train. The railroads are now at
work preparing a schedule of penalties
which they will put into effect on their
own motion.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-11
All ExpIaic ed.

There is little story going round
the house Of commons about certain
member who abstained from voting
on the deceased wifes sister bill.
Questioned by one of his friends as to
the reason for his abstention, he re-
piled: well, my dear fellow, it's just
like this-my wife has sister,
John Bull.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-11
no Araue standard on suIt.

jefferson City. Mo-, Oct. Sit was
announced late Friday that the STAN
dard oil company custer suit has
been set for hearing before the SUI
preme court en- bsnc on October %
The case is to be argued on the re
port Of the special commission.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-11
Mars. Perkins Wants pamaaec.

Lawrence, Kan, Oct. 5.-Because
the body of Lucius Hiram Perkins. the
Lawrence lawyer who died June l, was
exhumed and dismembered without
her consent and against her viii, Mrs
Clara Luella Morris Perkins, the
widow, has instructed her attorneys to
sue the Mutual Life Insurance com
pany of New York for $4,000 dam
ages.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-11
MARRYING for Love.

Happy marriages are surely possible
even in these unpoetic. hard-hearted
times. They are. if the people will
only follow the instinct of their better
natures and marry for love-the rever-
ent, impassionate love of the man for
the maiden, the pure, unsophisticated
affection of the maiden for the man
instead of bartering happiness for
rank or money.-Thorne.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-11
Monarch Is Expert Shot.

The king of Portugal is SO expert a
shot that he can pick off the fish as
they rise to the flies in the palace
lake.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-10-11
China a Constitutional Monarchy.

London, Oct. IA special dispatch
from Pekin says the dowager en-
press has issued a decree declaring
the government OF China to be con-
ssitutional monarchy.