The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07
Notes FROM WASHINGTON
Presidents Travelling Expe enses.-
Especial Correspondence.)

tions has talked with the President
about the latter's plans for an exten.
sive tour through west late this sum
mer, and at the conclusion of the in
| terview he said that he would place
bill before the house appropriating
| $25 900 for the Presidents travelling
expenses during the coming fiscal
year.
Horse On Pension list.-The pen.
| sion roll has again been extended. The
| superintendent of the fish hatchery at
| Green lake, Me, wrote to Fish Com.
missioner Bowers that the horse at.
tached 10 the station was worn out
as a result of "a years arduous ser.
vice. The superintendent asked au.
thority 10 condemn and dispose Of
the animal in the best manner and
suggested shooting. Commissioner
Bowers approved the suggestion
When the matter was brought To the
attention of Asst. Sec. of Commerce
and Labor McHarg his humane i'm.
pulses rebelled He wrote TO Mr.
Bowers saying that humanity required
that the horse be permitted TO have
the rest of his days in peace at the
governments expense. He ordered
that the animal should be pastured
at government expense in the warm
weather and comfortably stabbed next
winter and given full rations for the
rest of mis- life. The department found
a precedent for this course in the
case of a mule that had been at.
tached to the lighthouse service in
Florida from 1873 TO 1906. The ami
mai being worn out three years ago, II
was proposed to kill it, but the de.
paftment decided TO retire the mule
on full rations. Ii died last year.
Will Propose Tax on Autos.-Sen.
atOr Bailey of Texas, who has one OF
the most famous stock farms in the
country, where he raises blooded
horses, doesn't like automobiles. He
has frequently in the senate suggest.
ed they ought to be regulated off the
face of the earth. Now he is going
TO see if the supreme court Of the
United States cannot help him to put
crimp in the automobile In the
course of his income tax speech last
week he revealed his plan. Il come.
now,' he said, Ito the consideration Of
the carriage tax decision of 1894. Con.
gress had passed a law imposing
tax on carriages. The decision in that
case was by united court, and was
in line with all the decisions on this
line of subjects Gncome taxi down 10
the time of the last income tax deci
sion, when all the precedents We're
overturned" Senator Bailey proceed
ed TO explain that the carriage tax de
cision sustained the right of congress
to impose a special tax on carriages
and then he added: "Parenthetically,
| may mention that | shall introduce
here bill drawn precisely as was the
carriage tax measure of 1894. but pro
viding for a levy on automobiles. We
Will learn something, if possible,
about the law as it stands today, and
also something about whether any
thing can be done to curb these de-
vices by the use of which the rich
flaunt in the faces of the common peo
pie the wealth which fills them with
so much contempt of the mere pedes
trian." A federal law making every
owner of an automobile pay a tax in
TO the treasury will not tend to make
Senator Bailey the most popular man
in the United States, but that's what
he intends to do. If the supreme
court should uphold the automobile
tax as constitutional it would clear
the ground for the imposition of an in.
come tax, so that Senator Bailey
would be able to take a double bar
relied shot at the "plutocrats"
Government Lawyers Busy.-The
department of justice is pursuing with
vigor its policy of urging to a final
determination all cases, civil and
criminal, involving alleged violations
of the Sherman antitrust law, the in.
terstate commerce act and the act pro
hibiting the granting and receiving
of rebates. On Oct l last SS cases
under these several acts were pending
in the courts, but this number has
been reduced by at least 20 or %,
removing some OF great importance
from the list. The American naval
stores case is now on trial in Savan.
nah. The Maine mercantile case. an
alleged trust among the sardine pack.
ers, is in process of settlement. Dur
ing the last few weeks the govern.
ment has interviewed in two employ.
ers' liability cases on the ground that
the private suits involve the constitu.
tionality OF the act. One of these
cases was brought in Connecticut and
the other in Illinois. The "commodi.
ties clause" case. involving, the con.
stitutionality of the law, which in ef.
feet prohibits railroads from owning
and operating coal mines, has passed
TO the supreme court whence "A deci.