Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-04
GOVERNMENT IS INTERESTED
IN MACHINES
MOTOR MATTERS CONSIDERED
ny LAWMAKERS
Federal SoIons Investigate and Defend
American Manufacturers and In
ventors-Senators Defend
Arts and Sciences

sentative slowness of Europe. We are
particularly fond of slapping ourselves
on the back and congratulating one an
other on our intelligence and on the
quickness with which we grasp the
possibilities of a scheme or invention
and carry 1t through to success.
Some of the most able opponents and
defenders of the American arts and
sciences are found among the ranks of
our United States senators and con-
gressmen, who take every opportunity,
both in congress and when at home on
the stump, to laud to the skies the
American manufacturer and inventor
and the march of progress. Among
those who leave no occasion unturned
for this style of oratory may be men,
toned Senator Bailey of Texas, Sena-
tor Bacon of Georgia and Representa-
tive Simms of Tennessee.
How much at variance with their
acts the utterances of these gentlemen
are can be seen from their remarks be-
fore the senate and house of congress
recently on the urgent deficiency bill.
The bill contained an item of $12,0 900 for
automobiles for the president of the
United States and a smaller item for
conveyances for the vice president.
secretary Of state and the speaker. The
senate frowned upon the items and
had them stricken from the bill.
What Bailey Thinks
quote from Senator Bailey's
speech: 1.-THE suggestion which 1 made
yesterday, and which seems pertinent
here and pertinent everywhere, is that
no man has a right to use vehicle
on a public highway that is calculated
to jeopardize the safety of other peo-
pie who have a right to use that high
way 1 think that there is not a sena-
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does not know that it is matter of
daily occurrence for horses to become
frightened and many serious accidents
to occur in consequence of using au-
tomobiles on public highways.
"I do not complain very much where
they are used in city, because horses
which are also used in our cities be-
come accustomed to them and seldom
take serious fright at them, and yet in
this city and in every other one 1t is an
occasional occurrence that serious
runaway is produced by some horses
taking fright at automobiles.
"The senator alluded yesterday to
some ranch possessions in which am
interested where I raise horses. l may
say to him that it has become neces-
sary In the ranch business to use au-
tomobiles for many purposes, including
that of hunting lost horses, because IT.
is a matter of speed and economy. At
the present quotation of prices of au-
tomobiles given us for the next season
they are relatively cheaper than horses,
cheaper to maintain, and it Is in the
interest of the government that so fast
as we may be able to use automobiles
to advantage in place Of horses we
should adopt them. AS to the part of
the remarks of the senator from Texas
regarding danger, there certainly would
be no more danger in the hands of the
speaker and vice president than there
is now from their use by men and
women who now own automobiles and
who are bound to continue using them.
Warren Advocates Autos
'T may say that when sheep get
scattered in a storm and we would
wear out and possibly kill horses in
finding them we drive in a day an
automobile $50 or 200 miles away be-
yond the capacity and strength of the
horse) and discover them, thus saving
them. where otherwise they would be-
come the prey of wolves or would per-
ish for lack of care.
II am not myself inclined to have the
government patronize any particular
line Of industry, but IL the argument
which the senator from Wyoming has
advanced here in opposition to the mo-
ton which have made is to prevail,
States must send all of it's horses to-
pasture to die of neglect and old age,
and must supply every need 1t has to-
come and go by the automobile. In
other words, the senator from Wy
oming serves notice on the American
farmer that this is to become horse
less age because If the government OIL
the United states finds it to it's interest
to employ the automobile instead of the
horse, then every citizen of the United
States must ultimately find 1t to his
interest and to his convenience"
Autos Guido Horses Strength
Senator Wraren of wyoming said:
with reference to the amendment, l
will say that yield to no one, not even
the senator from Texas, In my love or
the horse. 1 always drive a horse
where / can.
Senator Bailey has evidently entirely
what / said. There is
perhaps just as much necessity for
horses now as heretofore, and this fact
is best proved by the condition of the
horse market. AS against all the grow
ing use of automobiles, horses get high
er and higher in price every year. ]
would certainly take nothing from the
horse except that part of the business
that can be better and cheaper done
with an automobile. 1 would certainly
do nothing against the farmer, as am
one and always have been, and as for
his product, the horse, I have always
taken pride in furnishing what little
money 1 could get to propagate, and
raise the best. and oftimes to my loss
rather than profit.
Horse Market Benefited
$50 must not be misunderstood by
the senator from Texas as meaning
that we are infringing upon the use
of the horses. The business of the
country Is increasing every day, and
even if we are not employing horses to
do all kinds of transportation business,
the market is good for horses. The
more automobiles we have put into use
in recent years, the higher the market
for horses has gone"
Mr.. Bailey: THAT is a singular course
of reasoning"
Senator Warren: IT may say it was
the same when the general use of cleo
tricity commenced. We use many times
more gas now than we did before we
had electricity, because there is more
use accorded to the two. 1t is the same
with automobiles and horses. If the
senator has bought horses lately he
knows that they are higher today than
they were a. year ago, and that they
were higher a year ago than the year
before.
1--WE had horses on street cars until
a few years ago. Now 1t is all cleo
tricity, and yet horses have not gone
out of general use and are higher in
price than they were before they were
displaced as the motove power on street
Senator Bailey: 1.-THE senator from
Texas believes that next to the dog