The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-06-18
STILL SUCCESSFUL
AT KILLING TIME
Congress May Possibly Adjourn
By September First.
President Taft Will Visit Vermont
Whether Congress Adjourns or Not
Treasury Department Touched for
$500 by Light Fingered Individual.
ON Our Special Correspondent.

$500 by Light Fingered Individual
From Our Special Correspondent.
Washington, ID. c., June l6, 1909.
Thus far, despite depressing humidit
from a week of rain, the senate show
very little inclination to predict the da
of adjournment. There was ray Of hop
for a higher altitude and for cooler en-
vironments, simply scowl and look de
pressed whenever the subject of adjourn
ment is brought up. Today New Eng
land senator said he had fixed upon Sep
tember lst as the day of adjournment
but, he facetiously added, eve may ge
away little before that date"
The President has called both Senator
Aldrich and Speaker Cannon to thu
| White House this week to explain to then
| his leaning to a tax on corporations. The
| treasury department reckons that a pei
cent tax on the net earnings of all corpora
| tions of an interstate character, woulc
bring in fifty or sixty millions, but the
| question is, will this sum be necessary tC
meet the needs of the government in ad
dition to customs and internal revenue
| collections?
The finance committee does not look
with favor upon corporation tax, but
the President does, and rather than run
the risk Of the income tax bill going
through the Senate, Senator Aldrich is in
clined to accept the Presidents views. An
amendment to the tariff bill has been in
troduced providing for the submission to
the several states of the question of amend
ing the constitution of the United States
so as to give Congress the right to levy
tax on income. The regular income tax
measure comes up for debate Friday, when
the Senate may record a close vote on this
measure, but, probably it will fail Of adop-
ton. A squabble is expected on the hide,
COAL lumber and iron schedules, but just
how long it will last is a question. Wheth-
err Congress adjourns before or after the
President purposes to attend the Cham
plain celebration July 7th but the war
balloons which the department hoped to
send to Burlington, may not appear, they
having been sent to the Middle West for
experimental purposes and where it may
be found impossible to spare them. An
avalanche of women is said to be on the
way from Chicago to Washington to pro-
test against the proposed glove and hosiery
tariff. They are representatives of the fed
erations of woman's clubs of half dozen
or more states. They are to see the Presi-
dent and then seek to impress the mem
bers of the finance committee.
The agricultural department is stirred to
quick action by the exposure Of Inspector
Harms, of conditions in the East st. Louis
meat packing establishments, and five Of
fcials have been sent there today to inves-
tigate. Coming on the heels of the Chicago
beef scandals, the department IS bound to
get at the actual conditions. The average
housewife would be glad to get at the
reason for the kiting of the prices of beef,
with an additional tax on the dinner table.
The treasury department is trying to
find out about the disappearance from the
bureau yesterday OF 5000 In
brand new bills of various denominations.
Pupils of Brattleboro schools will recall the
process of counting money IN the treasury
building and no doubt will wonder with
the secret service and district police, how
in the world these notes could be lost.
The department officials believe, or pro-
fess to at least. that it is an error in count
ing. The paper used for printing bills Is
counted first in the counting room and
again when given to the press feeders and
still again after leaving the presses. An
other count is taken by an official in still
another department of the bureau, and ii
lally, by the head of the department
process of keeping tabs on the money that |
5he 5000 disappeared. Very often, treas
lry officials say, shortages are found be- |
ore the final count, but never in the final |
count.
A Boston representative of the dirigible |
balloon enthusiasts, has been in Washing |
.on this week to tell of the Inauguration, |
n the near future, of an aerial transporta-
ion line between Boston and New York.
Plans are making, it seems, for the incor-
Doration of a company which intends to |
construct dirigibles, each with carrying |
capacity of twenty passengers. 1t is fig |
Ired out that passengers can be carried |
the two cities much quicker than !
by either rail or boat. The rates will be |
more than by rail. it is said, because it is |
believed that quicker and cleaner service,
tpart from the novelty will be preferred |
)y the public. The government will have
IN exhibition next week of the several
lirigibles which the Wright brothers and
others have constructed for the war de-
Oartment.
Ex-senator w. Z. Chandler of New |
gave touching eulogy in mem
,rv of the late Senate Chaplain DR.. Ed |
ward Everett Hale, at All Souls Unitarian |
,hurch sunday. President Taft and other
ldmrers of Dr. Hale were present. The |
,hurch sent beautiful floral tribute to |
De placed on the chaplain's coffin. DR.. |
Hale was warm friend of Nermont's |
,rand old man and Brattleboro's distin-
,uished citizen, Governor Holbrook, and |
,nly short time before leaving Wash
ngton he sent message to the venerable |
on the occasion of his birth |
lay.
In response to repeated requests from
New England oranges and other organ
zations Clifford Pinchot, chief of the |
orestry division of the agricultural de-
,artment, has promised to give Yer
nonters some practical illustrations this |
'ear of the work of the forestry service, /
which will be of great benefit to those in
crested in the movement to reclaim the
orestS of Vermont and New Hampshire.
The forestry department is engaged in
plendid work in various sections of the
ountry, not only in preserving the forests,
,ut in educating the farmers in their eff
orts to re-forest and preserve their wood
ands in a way to materially enhance their
-alue. In this connection it is proposed to
end to several central points an expert
orester who will assist the farmer in the
work of culling out undesirable timber,
rees and shrubs, in order to promote the
,rowth and worth of wooded tracts. The
experiments of the department have
brought most satisfactory results and
,roved the wisdom of intelligent and sys-
ematic cutting. The forester will lay out
tract of woodland in some easily acces-
lble locality, for the purpose of illustrat-
ng the system of the government forestry
bureau, and with the intention of instruct
ng the public in its methods of tree plant
ng and timber preservation. Mr.. Pinchot
Iimself will probably speak at several pub
ic meetings, beginning at Amherst, Mass,
ext week, later on accepting some of the
invitations to Vermont Two or three
Iermont oranges have already invited Mr..
'inchot to attend public meetings to be