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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20
TAFT'S SALARY RAISED
5=.T0 100000 PER YEAR
After Long Debate Senate Agrees That 1t is Worth the
lEMoney to Have Taft Succeed Roosevelt-Under Sec
retsry of State" Office Created with $4,000
Salary Attached-Joe Cannon Fails to get
SIS, 900 Increase for Horses and Carriage

will be supported by an under secre-
tary, and he will get 100000.
The proposition to raise the pre,i-
dents salary to 100000 all but
stopped at $4,000 One changed vote
that OF Sutherland of Utah, put $685.
900 a year in Judge Taft's pocket for,
the next four years. Clay offered the
$75 900 amendment. The youngster
Republican senators from the west.
who are insurging against the gray
heads, Joined with ihe Democrats to,
beat these increases. Gays, amend
ment failed by the vote of 33 to So
The same line up ON the final adop-
ton of 100000 as the presidents sal
airy resulted in victory for the in-.
crease by a vote OF 80 to 80. Bourne
of Oregon and Flint of California de-
serted the 'skid Republicans" Cum
Minis was absent and many OF the
Democratic senators were. missing,
while the old guard pol!ed close TO
It's full strength.
When the work was all but done
Burkett OF Nebraska called the old
guards attention to a serious slip.
The presidents salary is fixed by
statute and the legislation forbids
its being increased or diminished so
as to effect president In otfice.
The senate veterans, experienced as
they are, had undertaken to raise the
salary by simply appropriatlng $lOO'r
600 for the next year, without amend
ing the statute.
Burkett pointed out that the bill,
as It stood, would mean a 100000.
salary for Judge Taft during one
year and $4,000 during the rest OF
the time he might be In office. Hale
Hemenway, Lodge and other veterans
with rather red faces, hastily con-
ferred. The Democrats laughed.
The necessary amendment to the
statute, fixing the presidents salary
at 100000 was then added to the
paragraph increasing the amount for
the coming year. This increase, Incl
denal!y, cuts off the $4,000 now al
lowed the president for travelling ex-
penses.
Salary changes, made today were,
president. from $4,000 to slO0,OOO;
vice president and speaker OF the
house, from $4,000 10 $4,000; chief
justice, $4,000 TO $4,000; associate
justices, $l25OO to $145OO; under sec
retary OF state, added, 10000
The program Is TO rails circuit
judges from $1,000 to $4,000. The
question was pending whether TO let
them retain their present $40 per
diem allowance for expenses when
away from home. together with the
raise, when the senate adjourned.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20
PRACTICES WHAT he
HAS BEEN PREACHING

CITY Auditor Harry s. Elliott stuck
quite feather in his official cap
during the past year when he dem
onstrated that the office of the city
auditor could be run at a much less
expense than formerly His books
show that there was a saving of al
most $4,000 to the city during the
first year of his term in office. This
saving should be appreciated, espe-
c!ally because of the financial straits
in which Marion finds herself at
this time.
Not only has Mr.. Elliott demon
strated that his office can be run at
a saving to the city, but he has
proved a very efficient official. He
It is who has called the attention of
the council, mayor and boards of the
city to the condition of the treasury
and urged upon all the necessity for
the strictest economy. In addition to
this, after the city officials had given
up finding a way for t3ding over the
present depleted condition of the
treasury, Mr.. Elliott made the dis
covery WHICH will permit the city to
borrow money IN anticipation of the
collection of taxes.
1t has been clearly demonstrated
that the people made no mistake
when they elected Mr.. Elliott to the
office which he holds. He has made
a competent official, VINO should be
retained in the office.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20
Scissors and Paste

There seems to be a thing rarer
than a day in June, now. 1t Is the
day when the president doesn't send
in a message full OF brlstles. Press
Post.
-oOo--
The Oklahoma Legislator who had
adopted a resolution making the wat
er wagon a common carrier has no
further excuse for not riding in it,
Plttsburg Dispatch.
-oOo-
President Roosevelt sat in the sad
die for sevent eenhours on an endur-
ance ride. Still he was in training
for he has been riding over congress
for some time. .-Sandusky Star Jour
nal.
900
"A Pennsylvania butcher has manu-
factured sausage hfty-seyen feet
long. A regular dachsund of a sau-
sage Cleveland Leader.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20

read a resolution to that effect but
did no send it to the clerks desk .
Then the Cincinnati members spoiled
all chances for an agreement by an
nouncing unyieldpg opposition TO
any action fixing the date OF final
adjournment ats this time. Senator
Mahaffey (Dem } at once moved that
the senate recess, until this afternoon
and that the adjournment resolution
be referred TO the Judiciary commit
tee. This was done with the under
standing that the Judiciary committee
would meet and adjournment report.
The indications are that the COM
mittee will be unable to sgree.
The answer of the Republican menu
beers OF the assembly to the demand
of Gov. Harmon for legislative In
vestigations WILL he the introduction
OF two resolutions creating probing
committees. One will be the resOlu-
ton drawn by Senator Matthews Of
Cleveland providing for a third In
vestigating committee to muck rake
iHamilton county It will be urged
that this committee should begin its
work Immediately. The second reso-
lution WIN provide fer a joint COM
nittee to continue the statehodse In
vestiga.lonsh ATTEMPTED by the Howe
committee last winter The dispute
over the question of adjournment
prevented the introduction OF the res
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20

Washington, Jan. 20.-The senate
Tuesday resolved that it Will be
worth 100000 annually to the coun-
try to have William Howard Taft
succeed President Roosevelt. If It
would hasten the transition congress
would certainly double the money.
When It came TO Speaker Cannon,
the senate grew economical and re-
fused him s. 900 for horses and a
carriage. "Uncle joe must face the
hardship of street cars. He and the
vice PRECEDENT will draw $4,000
hereafter at that. The supreme court
was given a $4,000 increase all
around.
After raising salaries right and left
the senate devoted extended debate
to the proposition of whether the
title of "under secretary OF state
IS a monarch.al term, subversive TO
the liberties of the people and re-
publican form of government
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, who Is
shy sense of humor, dry as a legal
document and long winded as the
postmaster at a banquet, argued
seriously for long time that the
constitution of the fathers would be
all shot to pieces II such a dangerous
title as "under secretary OF state
We're fosted upon the pay roll.
Thts Is one of the improvements
wanted by Senator Knox for the state
department, If he l. to be its head,
and he is. The job is TO pay $4,000
a year, or within $1,000 of the secre-
tary of states salary, Senator Lodge
explained that salary and title were
designed TO different.ate this position
from the common or garden variety
of assistant secretaries of state, the
usual number of the latter being re-
tained at the usual salarles Accord
ing to Lodge the Funder secretary
of state" is to be a man perfectly
competent to do all the work While
the secretary is banqueting the dip
lomat,c corps.
Bacon didn't object seriously TO the
proposition, but he wanted this func-
tionary called vice secretary of
state" "Vice," explained Bacon,
solenly, while senators waiting for
dinner tore thdr hair fis an Amer
lean title, 'under secretary OF state
is borrowed from the English mon
achy."
ut may be unfotunate, but 1t is
said Senator Lodge,
dryly, that many OF the words we
use are also used by the English
Culberson tried to reduce the Of
fetal salary to $500, but failed. SEN
ator Knox, when secretary OF state
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20
The Republican Row

by refusing to take sides in tho
row of Republican senators over the
chairmanship of the senate finance
committee, the Democratic minority
In the senate did two things-it
minded its own business and by
so doing wideDed the breach be.
tween the two factions into which
the Republican majority is divided.
1t was hardly TO be expected that
the Republican senators wouh get
to quarreling among themselves so
soon after acting as unit 20
handicap Governor Harmons admin
istration by confirming the lap-over
appointments of the retiring Re-
publican governor, and also in Sc
lecting successor to Senator For
aker.
The responsibility for a Cox Re,
publican being placed at the head OF
the senate finance committee rests
only and eitirely on the Republican
majority in the senate The assign
ment was given to Senator Baker
by the Republican members of the
committee, who we're selected by
the caucus of Republican senators to
name the senate committees.
The three Democrats on that COM
mittee had nothing whatever to say
or do about the assignment given
any Republican senator. All they
were permitted to do was to assign
Democratic senators according TO the
allotment conceded 70 the minority
This they did after personally con-
sulting every Democratic senator.
and there their responsibility ended.
The chairmanship of the finance
committee was delivered TO Cox by
the Republican members Of the COM
mittee. If It was obnoxious to a
majority of the Republican senators
they have only their own members
Of the committee selected by them.
selves TO blame for it.
The motion to postpone and the
report were both factional
maneuvers BY standing pat" the
Democratic senator's ratified the
action OF their colleagues on the
committee and let the Republicans
fight It out among themselves.
If the Republican majority could
not set aside the action of its own
committee there was no reason why
the Democratic minority should do
so to pull one faction out of a hole
and put the other faction into a
hole.
BY "standing pat the Demo-
cratic minority gave the Republi-
can majority a dose of its own
meEcine. There was no leniency
shown the Democrats in ripping
up the senate rules so as to con-
firm the Harris appointments and
in confirming all the lap-over ap-
pointments Of the retiring governor,
SO let the Republican senators
fight it out among themselves. They
have only themselves TO blame for
permitting Cox TO get control or
the finance committee, and they can
not shift that responsibility upon
the Democratic minority.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20

olutlons today.
Senator Matthews and Mende,son
of Cleveland joined in a statement
that the Republicans should do their
own house cleaning. 1T Is up TO
the Republicans who are in control
of both branches of the assembly
TO push the Investigation of both
Hamilton county and the state Of
fees to a final conclusion they said.
The matter of lifting the debt limit
of municipalities as demanded by
Bo'G Cox Is now squarely before the
legislature. The expected bill TO
amend the Longworth law was in
troduced in the house by Iangdon or
Warren county. He presented 1t In
exactly the form M which 1t was
handed TO him by the Cincinnati del
egation. 1t provides for the exemp-
tion, under the limit as prescribed by
the Longworth act, of all bonds that
may be issued for the erection OF
hospitals and houses OF refuge for
park landG and for the elimination
Of grade crossings where the munich
pal.ty does not pay more than so
per cent. OF the cost. The present
temper OF the ASSEMBLY Is to defeat
the bill. The reply OF the Cox dele
CATION is that the measure win be
passed " the legislature has to re-
main in session until the middle OF
next summer.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20
LONG SESSION
Continued from Page One.

Continued from Page One.
the vote confirming the appointees oil
former GOV. Harris to lucrative
siaehuse positions
The counter proposition OF the Dem
ocrats was fatty rejected by the re
publ,cans. Through Senator Hun
man the Democrats then said they
would stand by their action In giving
Bos, Cox control OF the finance com
mittee. Senator Edward I. Crawford
of Carroll county spoiled the plans OF
the Republican insurgents 10 reopen
the fight against Cox despite the re-
fusal of Democratic assistance. Al
his own request Crawford was given
the motion TO reconsider. When the
time came to pnt It In he weakened.
His only explanation was that he did
not deem It best TO renew the "squab-
BILE. !"
The Cox senators prevented any
agreement on adjournment in the sem
ate. Tired of waiting on the senate
Speaker Mooney had two resolutions
introduced in the house covering the
question OF recess and adjournment.
One put in by Shankland OF Lake
county calls for a sine die adjourn
ment March g. The other presented
by Reed OF Wood county calls for a
recess from Jan. 2 to Feb i5 with
final adjournment March 8. 1T is
especially stipulated that standing
committees shall remain at work dur
ing the recess. Both resOlutiOns
went over until today under the rules.
The senate debated the question of
adjournment for am hour sitting as a
committee OF the whole. Senator
Patterson (Rep, of Ashland county,
urged that the puresen session be
made the regular business gathering
OF the assembly and that a technical
session only be held next year He
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20

TO committee for investigation and
report.
Mr. Hughes then offered the fol-
owing, which. after some debate,
was adopted without an opposing
vote:
Whereas, The speech Of Mr.. Will
EFT printed in the Congressional
Record of Jan 1S contains language
improper and in violation of the
privilege of debate; therefore be It
Resolved, That q committee OF
five members be appointed to con-
slider the remarks aforesaid and re-
port To the house within ten days"
The speaker appointed the fol-
lowing committee: Representatives
Mann, Illinois; Perkins, New York;
Foster, Vermont; Howard, Georgia
and Clayton, Alabama.
Representative Clark OF Missouri,
minority leaJler. objected to the reso-
hutton as adopted, because the words
of the speech objected to were not
specified He contended that the OBJ
jectionable part of the speech should
be incorporated or the action of the
house would, at some future time,
be taken as precedent to be used
by the majority as "an engine Of
oppression"
The pensions and urgent deficiency
bills were passed and when adjourn.
ment was taken the naval appropria-
tions bill was under consideration.
The urgent deficiency biD, which
carries appropriation, amounting to
81 ,O2G ,4O2. was passed after roll cal
and several votes had been called
for on an amendment offered by Rep
resentative Heflin of Alabama pro
vidiDg for an appropriation OF $780,
900 for further distribution OF seeds
by the department of agriculture.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20
CITY LIVING AHEAD
OF her INCOME

The world has little sympathy for
the man who lives better than his
means will warrant. Many a person
with a limited income spends every
cent he makes and more. Some peo-
pie who ,have large incomes find
them inadequate to meet the eX-
penses of the life which they live.
They covet every piece of hnery IN
clothes, they spend their vacations
which are sometimes perpetual, IN
sauandering money, they purchase
houses and lands until they find in
the end that they are bankrupt. Then
they look to the world for sympathy
and are astonlshed TO find that they
have been put in that large class.
which a noted humorist once called
"damphules. II Is merely an in
stance of a man living better than
his income will warrant and spending
every cent he can lay hold of with
out considering that he may not al
ways be SO prosperous and that there
may come a rabny day when some OF
the money he has scattered with
lavish hand may come good; when
the nickles will look as big as dol
lars.
AS It is with individuals, so it is
sometimes with corporations. And
this is just the condition which is
confronting Marion today. The city
has been living in the past ahead OF
her income and now that the income
has been cut OFF on some corners,
she is feeling the effects of her folly.
Too much money has been spent
mpon dress and too much land has
been bought. The treasury has be-
come depleted and following the
period when no undertaking was too
great, the city flnds itself cup
against" the real thing, when not
even the things wlIich are most es-
sential can be done because the
treasury is depleted. The city now
expects sympathy and it is receiving
the same jeers which greet the indi-
vidual who has squandered his sub
stance in rontous living and is now
feeding upon the husks with the
swine.
IN recent years many improve
ments have been made by the city |
Streets have been paved, sidewalks
have been laid, parks have been
bought and improved almost without
limit. Councils have gone ahead |
with this work under the mistaken |
impression that they we're not costing
the city very much, and that the ex-
pense was being borne by the tax
payers in special assessments They |
did not seem to figure that every
time sidewalk is laid, the city is
compelled to put in street crossing
walks at every street; that every time
a street Is paved, the city must pave
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20
WORKS IS YEARS
ON ONE SERMON

Bellefontaine, IAN. 2O-Rev. F. P.
Blakemore, pastor of the FIRST
Baptist church, says that after
working on sermon for the past
Is years, he will deliver 1t next
Sunday. He calls it "The Mystery
OF life" J IA !
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20
DEATH ANGEL CALLS
TWICE IN ONE FAMILY

Pioua, Jan. 2O-The death ange'
called twice at the nome of A. j..
Hershey yesterday and Miss Grace
Hershey and Warren Hershey died
one in the morning and the other at
noon. from pneumonia following
measles.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20
MAY EXPUNCE

Continued from Paige One
speech of Mr.. Willett be expunget
from the records. Representative
Payne of New York moved as a sub
stitUte that the matter be referred
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20

government, whose credit and bene>
fits your honorable body will share
with me, that you leave me free
to choose my associates in the ad-
mi1istration and my successors free
to choose theirs"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20

within the bounds of the income.
They are greatly handicapped be-
cause of the heavy loads they are
forced to carry from former years.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20
KING REFUSES TO ACCEPT
RESIGNATION OF ABBRUZLl

Paris. Jan. 2O-A special dispatch
from Turin to the Petit Parislen
saws that the Duke of the Aonuzz'
has decided to resign from the navy
and TO renounce all rank and honors
in order to marry MISS Katherine
Ell,ins. but that the king has re-
fused to accept the dukes resigna-
tion.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20
Jan. 20 In History.

1734- Robert Norris, fnancier and
''signer," born in Liverpool; died
1906
1S41-Hongkong Ceded to Great Brit
ain by preliminary treaty with
China and S6,OO0,OOO war indem-
nifty guaranteed. The emperor re-
pudlated the treaty, and hostili-
ties were resumed, ending in 1912
with the triumph OF the British.
1905-Strlkers In st. Petersburg re-
pulsed in an attempt to present
petition TO the czar.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20
HARMON AND STAFF
TOGO TO INAUGURATION

Columbus, Jan. 20.-Accompanieu
NV his full uniformed staff Governor
Harmon will attend the Inauguration
of President Taft, March 4, at Wash-
ington. Harmon has engaged quar-
ter at the willard Hotel and the
STAFF will be quariered at the army
and navy club.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20

Meat is high, fruit scarce, SO BUY
Mrs. Austn's famous pancake
-four. A good, hearty breakfast
fen a little money.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.

Sun sets 4:59, rises T:15; moon rises
TIL a. m.; s:31 p. M, moon in con
junction with Uranus. passing from
west to east Of the planet; moon low
est or fartheSt south.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-20

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Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
JANUARY "a, 1909.
WESTERN AUTo-sTockMEN

Robert V. Carr, known as the Cow
boy Poet, who has written a remark
able volume of Cowboy Lyrics" and
who is one of the field men for the
Union Stock Yards and Transit COM
pany of Chicago, has added his clever
contribution of praise to the automo-
bile as a Ome-to-stay vehicle for all
mankind in an amusing sketch. Mr.
carr, who is in Los Angeles, tells the
story in his own language. He says:
Time was when the festive bronco
attached to the bOne-torturing buck
board, was the only method of getting
over the western cattle country. Now
the stockman lives seventy or a hun
dred miles from his ranch, enjoying the
comforts and cOnveniences of the town.
and when he desires climbs into his
touring car after breakfast and takes
supper at the ranch.
when the first automobile anpeared
in the range country the bronco Gre
ated considerable disturbance for his
rider or driver. He had a habit of
standing up on his hind legs and then
whirling, with terror clinging to his
TANKS, beating all the known speed
records. All of the said Settlement
across the scenery was caused by the
innocent automobile
But now machines have become so
plentiful that the bronco merely sadly
WagS his ears and trots meekly past
mot long ago I was talking to a
plainly dressed little man in the office
of a Helena, Mont, hotel. We had just
had breakfast and drifted together as
men will when there is nothing to do
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
GELEs HERALD SUNDAY MAGAZINE

and materials-mostly wages-to Los
Angeles county workmen and contract
OrS.
About forty men will be given work
in the preliminary survey work. Sew
eral hundred will find employment as
soon as the ground is broken for put
ting down the macadam.
AS projected by the commissioners
in the plans approved by the supervis-
ors, the finished road will present a
wide, we'll formed roadway with a CEN
trail area of hard, unyielding macadam
pavement.
This central area will in most cases
be sixteen feet On either side this is
to be protected by gravel shoulder of
seven feet in width, making the entire
finished road thirty feet wide.
Over all will be placed a surface
the roadway impervious to rain and
will conserve the highways from the
wearing action of autos.
Bridges, culverts, protecting fences
and other incidentals will be built as
required for each piece of road
Included in the plan of Improvement
is every principal highway of the
county, so that the finished result will
be network of macadam roads con-
Meeting every town of the county.
Increased facilities for travel an un :
paralleled system of autOrOads for
pleasure driving, quicker communica-
ton by vehicle, reduced freight rates
between various towns and ready facil-
tiles for bringing in produce from out
side districts to Los Angeles will be
some of the advantages from the COM
pletion of the work.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24

but smoke an fter-breakfast cigar.
My friend of short acquaintance was
dressed in suit that cost perhaps $18
He had one of those 25-cent ties that
hook over the collar button.
We got to talking sheep. Said my
friend with the 25-cent tie:
I've got to cut down some on ac-
count of the range shortening up
How many sheep are you running
now?' / casually inquired.
Only about forty thousand head
he replied. I've had to cut down quite
a bit
Il gazed at the 25-cent tie for some
time, and then fOolishly repeated: only
about forty thousand headn
Just them young man came up
and the Sheepman excused himself
Excuse me, I've got a little ride of
seventy-five miles to make Going out
to the home ranch
He passed out, and / watched him
as he stepped into an automobile that
cost at least the price of a thousand
lambs.
"A 25-cent tie and $4,000 machine!
Well that's the vest