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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-07
A COAL PROPOSITION

present, pending the probing by the
treasury department and the depart
ment of justice, as proposed, might by
giving immunity and otherwise prove
an embarrassment in securing convic-
ton of the guilty parties.
New Tariff Act.
1.-TWO features of the new tariff act
call for special reference. BY virtue of
the clause known as the maximum
and minimum clause, it is the duty of
the executive to consider the laws and
practices of other countries with ref
erence to the importation into those
countries of the products and mer-
chandise of the United States and if
the executive finds such laws and
practices not to be unduly discrimin-
atory against the United Sttaes, the
minimum duties provided in the bill
are to go into force. Unless the presi-
dent makes such a finding than the
MAXIMUM duties pTOFlueU III TIE UlII,
that is, an increase of 25 per cent ad
valorem over the minimum duties, are
to be enforced Fear has been ex-
pressed that this power conferred and
duty imposed on the executive, is like
ly to lead to tariff war. beg to ex-
press the hope and belief that no such
result need be anticipated.
1.-THE new tariff law enables me to
appoint a tariff board to assist me in
connection with the department or
state, in the administration of the min
imum and maximum clause of the act
and also to assist officers of the gov
eminent in the administration of the
entire law. An examination of the law
and an understanding Of the nature of
the facts which should be considered
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-07

in discharging the functions imposed
upon the executive show that | have
the power to direct the tariff board to
make a comparative glossary and en-
cyclopedia of the terms used and arti-
cles embraced in the tariff and secure
information as to the cost of produc-
ton of such goods in this country and
the cost of their production in foreign
countries. I have therefore, appointed
a tariff board consisting of three mem
bers and have directed them to per-
form all the duties above described.
Cut in War Department.
I'm the interest of economy and be-
cause of the prospect of deficit
have required a reduction in the esti-
mates of the war department for the
coming fiscal year, which brings the
total estimates down to an amount
forty-five millions less than the CORE
spending estimates for last year This
could only be accomplished by cutting
off new projects and suspendlng for
the period of one year all progress IN
military matters. For the same reason
I have directed that the army shall not
be recruited up to its present autno-
rized strength. These measures can
hardly be more than temporary-to
last until our revenues are In better
condition and until the whole question
of the expediency of adopting dennls
military policy can be submitted
congress, for 1 am sure that the inter-
ests of the military establishment are
seriously in need of careful considers
ton by congress.
"The military and naval joint ooaru
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-07

Every year is a banner year in agri-
culture. and every year prices indi-
cate famine. A queer and discom-
forting situation for those who have
to pay the price.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-07

The car does not want any airships
flying within ten miles of ST. Peters
burg. If this report be true, it is
a sad but sufficient commentary on
what the ear stands for.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-07

Those of us who have had a share
in Arctic work." says Walter Wellman
while commenting upon Dr. Cook. Let's
see! Wellman, Wellman. Where have
we heard that name?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-07

The lords are ..joIiy well tired OF all.
this rot about the nobility paying taxes,
dontcherknow," and the aristocratic
motto is: Perish me, but I'll not be
budged by this budget"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-07

1t seems that the Thaw family are
a little slow in paying Evelyn's
monthly allowance. A very natural
outcome in cases of this kind.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-07

1t is now in order for Zelaya to COM
municate with Castro as to the best
exile resorts in Gay Paree" and other
European capitals.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-07
Cannon and Groce.

Il need not rehearse here the patient
efforts of this government to promote
peace and welfare among the repub-
lies, efforts which are fully apprecia-
ted by the majority of them who are
loyal to their true interests. 1t would
be less unnecessary to rehearse here
the, sad tale of unspeakable barbara
ties and expressions alleged to have
been committed by the Zelayan gov
were put to death by order of Presi-
dent Zelaya himself They were the
organized force of a revolution which
had continued many weeks and was in
control of about half of the republic.
and as such, according to the modern
enlightened practice of civilized ma
tions, they were entitled to be dealt
with as prisoners of war
AT the date when this message is
printed this government has terminal
ed diplomatic relations with the Ze-
laya government, for reasons made
public in a communication to the for
mer Nicaraguan charge d'affairs, and
is intending to take such steps as will
be found most consistent with its dig
nifty, its duty to American interests
and its moral obligations to Central
America and to civilization. 1t later
may be necessary for me to bring
this subject to the attention of con-
gress in special message
United States in Far East.
On the relations of the United States
with the Orient the president says
In the Far East this government
preserves its policy of supporting the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-07

Rameses of Egypt is on his way to
this country with suit case and cere-
ments. NUNS the word.
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am strongly convinced that no other
practical solution of the difficulty pre-
sented by the approximation of cfvn
servants can be found than that of
system of civil pensions
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-07

principle of equality of opportunity and
scrupulous respect for the integrity of
the Chinese empire, to which policy
are pledged the interested powers of
both east and west. When it appear
ed that Chinese revenues were to be
hypothecated to foreign bankers in
connection with a great railway pro-
ject, it was obvious that the govern
ments whose nations had this loan
would haye a certain object in the car
,rying out by China of the reforms in
question. Because this railroad loan
represented a practical and real applf-
cation of the open door policy through
cooperation with reforms referred to
above, the administration deemed
American participation to be of great
national interest.
after months of negotiations the
equal participation of Americans seems
at last assured 1t is gratifying that
Americans will thus take their share
in the extension of these great high
ways of trade and to believe that such
activity will give a real impetus to our
commerce and will prove a practical
corollary to our historic policy in the
Far East.
"In one of the Chinese-Japan con-
ventions of September 4. of this year
there was a provision which caused
considerable public apprehension in
that upon it's face it was believed TN
some quarters to seek to establish a
monopoly of mining privileges along
the south Manchurian and Antung
Mukden railroads and thus to exclude
prise, to take part in which they were
by treaty with China entitled. After
a thorough examination of the CEN
ventions and of the several contextual
documents, the secretary of state
reached the conclusion that no such
monopoly was intended or accomplish
ed. However, in view of the wide
spread resolution of this question to
confirm. the view it had reached, the
government made inquiry Of the i'm
perial' Chinese and Japanese govern
ments and received from each assur-
ance that the provision had no purpose
inconsistent with the policy of equality
in common with the United States are
pledged.
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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
Continued From Page One)

ton of the government and enlisted
the sympathy of our best citizens is
still open but in more hopeful stage.
The announced programs of reforms
while striking at many of the evils
known to exist, are augury of better
things The attitude of the United
States is one of benevolent encourage
ment, coupled with a hopeful trust that
the good work, responsibility under
taken and zealously perfected to the
accomplishment of the results so ar
IDENTIFY desired, will soon justify the
wisdom that inspires them and will
satisfy the demands of humane senti-
,,ment throughout the world
Central America.
Taking up the Central American sit
I'uation the president says:
"The Pan-American policy of this
country has long been fixed in it's prin-
ciples and remains unchanged.
the United States and of the republics
to the south of us, most of which have
great natural resources, stable gov
eminent and progressive ideals, the
apprehension which gave rise to the
Monroe doctrine may be said to have
nearly disappeared and neither the
doctrine, as it exists, nor any other
doctrine of American policy should be
permitted to perpetuate irresponsible
governments, the escape of just obli-
/ cations or the insidious allegation of
domination of ambitions on the part Of
Fthe United States
I Besides the fundamental doctrine OF
our Pan American policy there have
grown up a relation of political in
iiterests community of institutions and
ideals and a flourishing commerce All
those bonds will be greatly strength
'ened as time goes on and increased
facilities such as the great banks soon
to be established in Latin America,
supply the means of building up the
colossal inter- continental commerce of
the future
/ Since the Washington convention
fof 1907 were communicated to the
government of the United States as
a consulting and advising party this
government has been almost continu-
ously called upon by one or another
and in turn by all of the five central
American republics to exert itself for
the maintenance of the conventions
Nearly every complaint has been
against the Zelaya government of
Nicaragua which has kept Central
America in constant tension or rur-
moil. The responses made to the rep
RESERVATIONS of Central American re-
publics as due from the United States
on account of it's relation to the
Washington conventions, have been at
/ all times conservative and have avoid
ed. so far as possible any semblance of
interference, although it is very ap-
parent that the considerations of geo.
graphic proximity to the canal one
and to the very substantial American
interests in Central America give to
the United States special position in
/ the zone of these republics and the
Caribbean sea-
Cannon and Gr,ee
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Criminal Prosecutions.

Criminal prosecutions are now pro-
ceeding against a number of the gov
eminent officers. The treasury depart
ment and the department of justice are
exerting every effort to discover all the
wrongdoers, including the officers and
employees of the companies who have
been privy to the frauds. 1t would
seem to me that an investigation or
the frauds by the congress at the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-07
Japan a Good Friend.

Our traditional relations with the
Japanese empire continue cordial as
usual. The arrangement for a coop
erative control of the immigration of
laborers to the United States has pro-
we'd to work satisfactorily. The mat
ter of a treaty between the United
States and Japan which is terminable
in 1912 is already being studied by
both countries
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-07
Departmental Estimates.

I'm order to avoid a deficit for the
heads of departments in the prepare
ton of their estimates to make them
as low as possible consistent with i'm
perative governmental necessity.
In the present estimate the needs
of the departments and of the govern
ment have been cut to the quick, so to.
speak, and any assumption on the part
of tn congress, so often made in times
past, that the estimates have been pre-
pared with the expectation that they
may be educed, will result in seriously
hampering proper administration.
y Most of the great industrial organi-
cations and many of the well conduct
ed railways of this country are coming
pensions for old employees, and the
substitution therefor a younger and
more enegertic servants, promotes
both economy and efficiency of admin
iStration.
Il am aware that there is strong
feeling in both houses of congress and
possibly in the country against the es-
tablishment of civil pensions and that
this has naturally grown out of the
heavy burden of military pensions,
which it has always been the policy
of our government to assume; but I
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-07
Panama Bond Issue.

I The report of the secretary of the
treasury shows that the ordinary ex-
'penditures for the current year end
ing June 80, 1910, will exceed the esti-
mated eceipts by $34,075,620. If to this
deficit is added the sum to be dis
bursel at the Panama Canal zone,
amounting to $38,0O0,000, and $1,000,
900 to be paid on the public debt, the
deficit of ordinary receipts and ex-
penditures will be increased to a total
deficit of $73,O75,62O. This deficit, the
secretary proposes to meet by the pro-
ceeds of bonds issued to pay the cost
of constructing the Panama canal. I
approve this proposal.
The actual cost to date of the canal
which is now half done and which will
be completed January 1, 1915, shows
that the cost of engineering and con-
struction will be 1927, 10000 instead
The increase is due to a substantial
enlargement of the plan of construc
ton by widening the canal 100 feet in
the CuIebra Cut and by increasing the
dimensions of the locks, to the under
estimate of the quantity of the work
to be done under the original plan, and
to an under estimate of the cost of Ia
Dor and materials, both OF which have
greatly enhanced in price since the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-07
Frauds In Custom House.

Il regret to refer to the fact of the
discovery of extensive frauds in the
collection of the customs revenue at
New York City, in which a number of
the subordinate employees in the weigh
ing department were directly concern
ed, and in which the beneficiaries were
the American Sugar Refining company
and others.
The frauds consisted in the pay
ments of duty on underweights of su-
gar. The government has recovered
from the American Sugar Refining
company all that it is shown to nave
been defrauded of. The sum was re-
covered by civil suit against the bene-
fciary of the fraud, but there was an
express reservation in the contract of
settlement by which the settlement
should not interfere with or prevent
the criminal prosecution of every one
who was found to be subject to the
same.
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address all communications to:
EVENING STATESMAN,
WaTa WaEa Washington.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-02-05
FEMININE NEWS NOTES.

Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy gave
$500 to the Newton MASS Hospital.
The Moody Bible Institute, Chi
cago, plans to erect building en-
tirely for women students.
Mrs. Eleanor Relyea, a clerk in the
signal Office of the War Department,
will be the next social secretary of
the White House.
Mary, daughter of Mrs. Lewis Ed
wards, of New York, was married
in st. Peters Church, London, to
Major Douglas MacEwan.
A jury awarded Mrs. Alfred r.
Goslin, of New York City, $4,000
damages in her alienation suit against
her husbands stenographer.
There was one woman delegate to
the American Mining Congress which
met in Pittsburg. She was Mrs.
Nellie c. Upham, mine owner.
Mrs. Philip Snowden, wife Of the
British member of Parliament, has
made a reputation for eloquence in
the interest of the suffrage propa-
ganda.
Gladys Unger, who left California
in 1895 to study art in Paris, and who
has succeeded notably as painter, is
now giving her attention to play
writing.
A woman, Mrs. Sarah r. Clifford,
served on a jury in Denver recently.
She stood for the acquittal of the
prisoner, a milkman, accused of strik-
ing a woman.
Nine. Apollonie Maretzek, who had
a vogue in this country as an opera
singer prior to the American appear
ance of Jennie Lind, died at Hugue-
not, S. l., at the age of ninety years.
The recent municipal elections in
Paris were remarkable not only for
the candidature OF Mile. Laloe, who
was soundly beaten, but for the first
recorded candidature of a domestic
servant
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-02-05
RapaCious Eaters.

The Chinese are rapacious eaters
at the feasts which are given in
honor of their ancestors. At these
feasts the tables groan with all the
good things which the most efficient
cooks can provide-pork, snow white
rice, picked cucumbers, chickens
ducks and birds-nes soup. For
some minutes before the feast the
500 or 700 men sit at the tables in
silence. Then at a given signal begin
the clinking of chopsticks and the
noise of indrawn breaths by which
the Chinese cool the hot mouthfuls
OF rice which they shovel down their
throats. Presently, when the hot
samshu begins to work and the faces
become flushed. babel of voices fills
the temple.-New York Tribune.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-02-05
Small FLYING Machine.

NJ. Santos Dumont's new flying ma
chine is so small that 1t travels COM
fortably on the back Of his motor
car. 1t is a monoplane. with a twen-
ty-four horsepower Antoinette motor,
weighing fifty-eight kilos, and max
ing 400 revolutions a minute. The
total weight is about $50 kilos. The
seroplane was expected TO fy at
eighty Kilometres an hour. and to
rise from the ground as soon as it at
tanned a speed on its three wheels
OF fifty kilometres an hour. On the
fourth trial Dumont flew, but was
unfortunate enough to damage one Of
the new machines wheels.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-02-05

Steamers arriving here during the
past few days from abroad have
brought in thousands of bags OF beans
which were rushed to this market TO
avert a threatened bean famine.
When the produce dealers learned
that a short crop here was likely TO
result in a scarcity in beans they sent
hurry orders TO the French market TO
buy all the harioots in sight and rush
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-02-05
Rockefeller Gives Chicago Univer-
sity Securities Yielding so, 900

Chicago.-In a telegram to the
Board of Trustees John ID. Rockefel-
Ter. Jr., announced that his father
had set aside on behalf of Chicago
University securities that will yield
an annual income of $4,000. On
this basis the securities are worth
s1.000,000.
The endowment fund of the uni
versity ia now 100000 from all
sources, Mr.. Rockefeller's total con-
tributions TO the university aggre-
gate s24,S0O,000 for endowment.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-02-05

The mineral production OF the uni
ted States has more than doubled in
value during the last ten years. Dur
ing the same period the value of our
farm products has increased only six
ty-five per cent. The principal min
eral products of the country during
the year OF 1907 represented total
valuation of over s2,00o.0o0.oQ0.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-02-05
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AROUND&E HUB
:s,',,';;s'Sis ESssssssss sssssss
Especial Correspondence.)

Replying to the question, What is
.he matter with Boston, would say
that a large number Of her citizens
seem TO be affected with indigestion,
which makes them see darkly, as
through a cloud.
Secondly, she has within her con
fines too many theorists, a result prob
abil OF too much of the higher educa-
tion," said ex-Mayor Edwin U. Curtis,
now United States SubTreasurer in
Boston, at a recent banquet of the Mas
sachusetts Bankers Association.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-02-05

The discoverer OF new kind OF
lea has grossly misdirected his en-
ergies. observes the Baltimore Sun.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-02-05

them TO Boston. The thought OF Bos-
ton being without beans nearly caused
a panic among the dealers
The consignees OF these beans have
been rushing them from the piers in
order TO nil urgent orders. One of the
commission men said: The alleged
shortage in the bean crop here was a
scheme on the part of certain handlers
in New York state TO corner the mar
ket. But they have not succeeded, for
while the foreign markets are open TO
us the Boston people will not be de-
prived cf their beans"
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-02-05

The automobile want the right OK
way and wants IL right away, notes
the Philadelphia Record.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-02-05
ECZEMA and PILE CURE FREE.

Knowing what II was to suffer. / will
give FREE OF CHARGE, to any afflicted,
a positive cure for Eczema. Salt Rheum.
Brysipelas. Piles and skin Diseases. In
stant relief. DON'T suffer longer. Write
f. w. WILLIAMS, 400 Manhattan Ave
nue., New York. Enclose Stamp.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-02-05
J. WILL CARPENTER & SON
Furnishing Undertaken and Elutral DireeteI

Office and Warerooms, S5 Plainfield st.
Olneyville, X. i. Residence, 81 Plain
field st. Calls attended day and night. i.
Coffins and Csskets liz ed and trimmed in
the best manner and everJ thing furnishes
at short notice. Telephone SO West.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-02-10
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