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Morris tribune., 1909-10-22
BANK ROBBERS GET Zoo
Blow Open Safe in Institution at
Avon, This State.

The Bank of Avon, at Avon, VIII
Cloud, was entered, the safe blown
open and $1,7O0 stolen. Entrance was
effected through side window and
the safe was blown open with dy-
Mantle.
Residents in that section Of the
town heard the explosion and say that
the safecrackers used three charges
of explosives before they opened the
safe The alarm was given, but be-
fore the thieves could be captured
they had stolen team and escaped.
Morris tribune., 1909-10-22
BOARDERS SAVED TRUNKS
But Let Little Baby Perish in the
Flames

They saved the trunks, but the baby
was left to perish when the boarding
house of Angelo Lauretta at the Hull
Rust mine, near Hibbing, was de-
stroyed by fire. Six boarders were
asleep in the house. Mrs. Lauretta
and her husband We're down town, and
their four months old baby was asleep
The men were awakened by the fire
and got their trunks out, but they did
not know about the baby until it was
too late,
Morris tribune., 1909-10-22
By Dr. FREDERICK A. COOK

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-07-06
Administrations Plans
For Economy Go Awry
By JOHN SNURE.

Congress. likewise the Administration,
is having as much trouble to save money
as a woman at a bargain counter or a
small boy on the Fourth OF July, with
out any Of this safe and sane business
in operation.
Ever since the special session of Con-
gress opened, economy has been preach
ed at the Capitol, and from the White
House. President Taft has been exert
ing his influence to get the estimates
cut down. and has done great deal in
this respect. Senator Aldrich told the
Senate what he thought could be &C
complished by rigid economy, told of
the saving OF millions that could IN
his Judgment. be effected, and had ap-
pointed the committee on public expen-
ditures TO probe into the enormous out
lay OF the various departments and IN
cover the extravagances for the pur-
pose OF putting an end to them.
Senator Aldrich ted the Senate that
$50, COO 600 could have been saved in the
budget Of the last regular session, and
ne made it clear that he expected large
economies through the invest cations
into the workings Of the various de-
partments and reports thereon.
Plenty of good people there were who,
when the Committee on Public Icxpendi-
lures was created. feared that, reacting
from extravaganza, Uncle Sam was go
ing TO get misery, niggardly and mean,
and might refuse to spend more than
billion dollars a year.
But recent developments have shown
that there is not much reason for any
one taking alarm lest there ne a reign
Of parsimony. Congress has lately
passed the bill appropriating 10000. 900 TO
take the next Census. OF course no one
disputes that there should be a liberal
appropriation for this purpose. Never
theless, an appropriation OF this size in
terferes with reduction Of expenditures.
In the tariff bill now before the Sen
nate. is a provision for a customs court
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-07-06
Hozv Cozuboy" Cushn1anBeat Jim Ham Lezvts

the trail Of Lewis. He followed Lewis
at a days distance. sfeaking just be-
hind him. He brought all his energy
and his ineNuaustible fund of wit and
humOr 10 his aid. when the election
was over, Lewis mad been defeated by
5000.
Cushman's place in the House was
assured from the time he made his first
speech. This was in December 1893.
II was ia support OF sound money
Cushman was recognized for twenty
minutes and when he stretched out ms
long, unsaiuly form. the House began
10 laugh.
It kept on laughing and applaudIng
until-he got through and when he sat
down and wound himself up again in
his seat, he had established his repu-
tation with the House members.
He started out by apOlogizius and al
ludiug TO the timidity with which he
addressed the House. He fired some
hot shot in the direction OF William j.
BRYAN.
He said he had lived i'm Nebraska him
self once. and that he knew Mr. Bryan
as well as If he'd been through him
Cushman's biggest hit in this speech
WAS his story about the Washington
man, learned In the arts and sciences,
who set out 10 take trip by boat
from Tacoma To san Francisco.
The captain the first day made his
observations and figured out the lau-
tudc and longitude of the ship. The
learned man from Washington was
deeply interested. beinS vcrsed much
ln the aigher mathematics.
The next day. he got permission to
make the reckonings himself ana in
humorous way. Cushman told how he
did 10. When he had finished the jon,
he turned proudly 10 the captain and
had the ship located 200 miles in the
middle Of the mountains of Idaho
Then Cushman turned to the Demo
Gratis and said.
And YOU. my friends. tHeJrized The
people of the United States inr0 a CON
dition Of opulence and plenty bus uuim-
peachable history has recorded the fact
20 be that YOU left them stranded on
the financial rocks md commercial
shoals 200 miles from the shore Of pros
peIity'
Had Cushman lived. ne would have
come 90 the Senate as the successor TO
senator Piles This fact was well un-
derstOOd by the politicians al tire State
of Washington That State has the
direct primary and il would not Rave
been possible 20 defeat him in a popular
contest As a stumper ne was highly
popular and it was conceded that ale
would defeat Piles. lie had an 5mbi-
tion for the Senate ana for th'a reason
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/ Those who have looked into this mat
ter say The customs court. will prove
an expensive institution.
It viii in all likelihood prove much
more costly to maintain than the Su-
preme Court Of the United States. II
! IS likely that several hundred thousand
dollars viii be required 10 run this
court, II wiz meet ia leading ports be-
tween New York and San Francisco,
| VIII have a large bill for travelling ex-
pensess and viii maintain headquarters,
! for court and court officials at the
places where the sessions are TO be.
This legislation for a customs court is
criticised by many as a strange move IN
/ the direction Of extravaganza at time
when economy Is the watchword Of Sen
stOr Aldrich
II Is expected that President Taft
| VIII be SLOWED $1,000 a year for trav-
| ellng expenses He now received So 200
! q year for travelling expenses He now
received 8iasDoO year as salary. While
II Is likel5 the proposition for allowance
OF his travelling expenses viii 60
/ through, many members of the House
are critcising this arrangement. They
1 that was given, travelling expenses
should noc be paid However, quite
aside from the question whether the
Presidents travelling expenses should be
paid. is the fact that Congress viii
probably decide TO pay them, and this
decision viii tend to increase the public
expenditures rather than lower them,
and the cause Of economy viii not be
aided so as TO be visible TO the naked
eye.
Then. there is the Committee on Pub
&c Expenditures itself. II has designs
:or setting a subcommittee. headed by
Senator Bourne, TO work on the ex
penditures Of the various departments
after the tariff struggle IS over. This
committee Is talking Of paying former
Senator HansbrOuSh 10 investigate de-
partment finances. If he Is retained. IL
viii be at about the pay OF a Senator,
s. 500 year. tt IS also talking Of hiring
other expensive experts. That IS TO say.
If the Committee on Public EXDendi-
lures wages successful war on ex-rava-
gance 1t will not be accomplished with
out the us~ Of a lot Of good money as
ammunition.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-07-06
THE CORPORATION TAX AND
ITS SIGNIFICANCE.

II the name of the corporation tax
was expected 80 far to popularize il
that the country would be satisfied
with its substitution for an income tax
it Is fair to say that the results have
not justified the expectation. There Is
now every reason to believe the cor
poration tax viii become part of the
revenue system, whether it will remain
there TO become the centerpiece of a
great system OF corporation regulation.
or whether, having served its purpose
confessed by Dir. Aldrieh-of killing the
income tax for the time being-it will
be wiped Oft the statute book again in
year or two, depends on the future
and on developments.
The one course which will Justify the
adoption Of this tax at this time. will
be a successful effort by the Admins
tration, next session, to establish work
ing regulative legislation through which
the Federal Government may put its
strong hand on the great sggregations
OF capital Thst is the legislative pro-
gram in which the country is vastly
more interested even than it is in the
tariff. It's disaffection with the tariff
revision will be largely neutralized if
the Government shall now be as efTec-
tive with corporation control as it has
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been ineffective in getting downward
revision. Failure at both these pro-
grams would mean disaster to the
party in power.
There viii be interesting develop
ments at the next session. President
Taft has committed his program thus
far to the loyalty and management of
the conservative leaders in both houses.
The President saved Cannon from de-
feat; he saved Aldrich from rout By
the income takers. VIII he turn over
to these leaders the great task of per
fecting a code for the control of cur
porations, trusts, and combinations? It
is hardly conceivable that Aidrich and
Cannon viii reverse al their records
and tendencies. in order to do for Presi-
dent Taft what they determinedly op-
posed doing for President Roosevelt
II they do, then indeed will it be dem
onstrated that Mr. Taft Is the great
effective leader for whom the party has
been seeking and whom the country
will gladly acclaim. A certain skepti-
cism about such result will be ex-
cusable, pending its accomplishment.
The men who stand for the idea of
corporate regulation and for more rig
orous control of the instrumentalities
of interstate transportation have large
ly been in opposition this session.
Without their help, probably without
their leadership, it viii be impossible to
pass a corporation program in which
the country will have confidence. To
trust that program TO the Cannons and
Aldriehs viii be to place it under sus-
picion at the outset, and to invite the
criticism of people most anxious for re
suits. Yet to throw over Cannon and
Aldrich after making them the Ad-
ministration's spokesman and chosen
partners in its tariff program, will be
an ungracious and very likely an i'm
possible thing to do. The strange
wrenehing of relationships during the
session will certainly
have sharp reflection in the work of
the long session next winter.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-07-06
NEARING THE END OF THE
SESSION.

The Senate celebrated independence
Day by getting in a remarkable davis
work on the tariff bill. At the close
OF the days sitting it seemed alto
gether likely that the measure might
get out of the upper chamber this
week; certainly that it would 90 back
10 the House early next week at the
latest.
The lighting is over. The record has
been made. The men who began with
determination to register their protests
against both particular things and gen
eral tendencies in the measure have
succeeded in making themselves heard.
and most respectfully heard, by the
country. They have enlightened the
subject of tariff making as it was never
Llumined before. It is not too much
to say that they have succeeded in
breaking down whatever of public con
Hdence yet remained, in the ability of
Congress TO revise a tariff in the old.
fashioned way
That mystery and obscuritv which
long chung about the business of sebed-
uie-making are dissipated, and forever.
1t IS now understood that "the tariff
IS largely a local issue" and the de
tails OF the log-rolling process by which
combination of far East and far
West makes a bin for the particular
benefit of a restricted few narrow in
terests Is known. II remains to be seen
how much political effect the revela-
ton will have. The larger credit of the
extraordinary session. it must be said
goes mainly to a small group of men
whose voice was heard almost always
N Intellectual protest. The Republican
organization made small pretense OF
defending its program or its policy.
II had the votes, and knowing pathet
ieally little about the actual business
IN hand, it hid behind the insistepce
that It needed no defense. but was
merely anxious to get the business
done with as little conversation and
IS slight delay as might be possible
TO the body OF the Democratic minor
ity no great credit attaches. II has
heen divided, vacilIating. IeaderIess. un-
disciplined, and sorrowfully ineffective.
The opportunity Of making party capi-
tai out of the situation has been sacri-
feed. II the Democrats come ont of
the affair any stronger than they en-
tered 1t, the fact viii be due, not to
their deserving, but to the determined
sentiment of protest against the Re
publican course.
There viii be no such measure of
reorganization in the bill hereafter "a
viii change it in purposes and general
effects The country knows pretty ac-
curately what sort of tariff it IS 90
ing To be; and between now and No
vember of 1910 the country viii have
plenty Of time TO think over the oues-
ton Of just how disguised it is. and
whether it can do anything worth while
by way Of voicing it, protest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-07-06
WASHINGTON'S SAFE AND
SANE EXPERIMENT.

There has been widespread mani
festation of interest in the safe, sane,
noiseless, and non-explosive Fourth of
July which Washington planned for
this year. Consequently the results of
the experiment are worthy of con
sideration.
Not the least significant incident of
the effort for sanity, is the fact that,
with fewer things to distract, there
were more people in attendance than
usual at those places where the sub
stantial and inspiring sentiments fit
ting to the occasion were dispensed.
The Fourth of July orators were
granted good hearings, and some ex-
cellent oratory was provided. There
may be justification for the impress
sion that less noise and more serious
consideration of the spirit and mean
ing OF the day indicate an improve
nent- Certainly the thoughtful and
oontemplative and serious minded OBJ
servance is more likely to be made pos
sible when there isn't distraction of
endless noise and the nerve-racking ef-
feet OF mOmentary fright lest one be
blown into kingdom come
On the day following the Fourth, it
viii be difficult TO find many people
who will not give their approval TO
the innovation. Nobody's home was
burned up, nobody succeeded in killing
himself or his neighbour; there are no
incipient cases of lockjaw under OBJ
seryation. The tendency to those other
forms Of disorder which grow out of
indulgence IN the cup that cheers-and
perhaps desfens-was less marked than
ever before. The police and the hos
pitfalls alike had an easy time of it.
Not a single accident worthy the
name, of the distinctive variety which
has made Independence Day an ocea-
sion of carnage and terror, took place
IN Washington. That Is a remarkable
record There are just as many good.
sound, working hands, thumbs and fin
gers per capita, as there were on the
day before the celebration. The sta
tistics on the percentage of one-eyed
citizens stand exactly where they did
before the great day dawned.
Safety and sanity, in short, vindi-
Gated themselves to perfection. Pro
miscuous noise was simply impossible
because of the strict prohibition of the
sale and use of fireworks and other
in the racket ma king
line. The sale Of headache powders fell
of almost 10 the vanishing point, and
the doctors were able to adopt ncy
program of celebration in lieu Of ampu-
tatioH. Altogether, it was a glorious
day, and it is sincerely TO be hoped
that it will come in similar fashion
once per annum, and in time lead peo-
pie to a cheerful ability honestly. TO
rejoice that their country did attain its
freedom
Papers in unsafe and insane com
munities please copy
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-07-06

For the first time since the taFlil olii
v,ant 10 the Senate. there VIII De piac-
.icauv a full attendance in the hOuS9
al the sitting on Thursday
N-o{tbar house Of Congress can take
.diournnnent Cor more than thfee
laws while Congress is in session, %
When the senate took possession Oi tlie
tie hin and started masticatIng' the
House adopted the rule Of meeting each
Agordav and Thursday for the purpose
mainly of formal compliance win 'i's
C-oDs+itution. Sometimes there mas Deeh
q quorum, and sometimes none
t5,,+ with the Senate on the verge OF
passing the bill, members are hurryliis
bacx from their homes. and hurrledly
costing up on the legislative SITUATION
'rba reunion of members who have oeen
i'm all parts of the country, some OF them
abroad. some to Panama, and so on, and
an of whom have been on the lookout
for opinions about the tariff, is proving
most interesting.
The Ureponderance of opinion is that
the country is disappointed over the
tariff bin ard oyer the corporation tax.
president Taft is being criticised for
his part in forcing the corporation tax
into the bill in lieu Of the income tax
Wait for Roosevelt.
Scores Of members, from widely sep
arated sections, report that people afe
beginning to wonder how soon Colonel
Roosevelt will come back from Africa
They seem 10 have a vague notion thae
thereu be something doing, politically
after ne comes home. From New Eng
land member came the information tnat
before going away Mr. Roosevelt con-
fidgd 10 friends that on his return ne
should .ake a swing about the country,
going clear TO the Pacific, and coming
hack by another route, crossing a maj
oritv of the States in the Union on the
grand tour
And somehow there is a feeling out in
the provinces. according to the incom-
ing representatives, that thaI Trip VIII
be highly important and significant.
There is. indeed, no end of talk about
Roosevelt among the people back from
the provinces. It is plain enough as
one talks in Washington with men who
are looked upon as Presidential posi-
biIities for some time IN the future. that
they consider that their chances are
rather unimpoTtant
"After Taft, Roosevelt"
The impression among them is that
after Taft. Roosevelt" They intimate
rather a discouraged feeling about try
ing 70 get into the Serious Presidential
class. It is locked upon as being fore
closed to everybody outside of TAFT and
Roosevelt, for an indefinite period.
There is calculation that If Mr. Taft
slran be President eight years. Mr..
Roosevelt will still be young man. and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-07-06
By The
Washington
ines Men

HE SENATE fashion Of calling a
quorum is one Of the absurdities
about the Capitol.
Anyone may arise at any time and
perceive the absence Of a quorum. In
that case, il IS imperative that the roll
De called and the presence OF. absence of
a quorum definitely ascertained. Even
II a Senator gets up when there are
plainly ninety-two Senators in sight.
the roll call would go on
But the way Senators respond to the
call for a quorum, especially through
the tariff debate and in the hot weather.
Is the oldest feature Of the matter. A
Senator may be over in the office build
ing when the call for a quorum comes
and two bells are sounded He hastens
over TO the Senate chamber to answer
his name. He goes inside the door just
long enough to answer to his name and
then beats a retreat to the place whence
he came.
This system of response to a quorum
call is practiced right along in the
Senate. Many a time It happens that
after assiduous work on the part OF the
attaches In rustling Senators together
the roll call disClOses the presence Of
a quorum or more than fOrty-six men,
bers, and the Vice President so an
nOunces when it is plain that there are
not over a dozen Senators in the cham
Der. The rest have FASTENED to respond
10 the roll call and then have "ducked. -
In the House, the Speaker simply
counts quorum and If he happens to
count wrong there is no going back on
the face of the returns. The only time
In recent years the Senate has restrict
ed the privilege of calling for a quorum
was in the fiibuster Of Senator La Fol-
lete against the Aldrich-Vreeland cur
rency bill. Then the rules were con-
strued closely against the Wisconsin
sienator who was making use OF the cali
for a quorum in order to gain time.
+
Everyone is noticing the fac. that
Billy" Lorimer looks lonesome in the
Senate. He has not ret got used to n
re likes the title Of Senator. but he
stu has hankering for the House. and
OFTEN wandsrs over 10 the House end 10
hobnob with his old colleagues among
the Representatives.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-07-06
MARKS THE FOURTH
IN OWN LITTLE WAY
Taylor Objects to Officer Interior
ring With His Roughhouse and
Wakes Up in Hospital

James Taylor. who resides on Turner
street northeast. had a day after" APP
pearance when he appeared in Police
Court to get fine s25 this morning.
His eyes were shut and his face wore
darker hue than usual. His side Was
also sore from the effects OF kicks and
blows OF the policeman's club, he de-
Clared.
Taylor came home very drunk, his
wife said. He started of the fireworks
at home by throwing a lighted lamp at
his wife's son Bottles and glasses
followed and the rough house" was so
bad that Policeman Smith entered 10
quell the disturbance.
Taylor resented the entrance Of the
officer and struck him il the eye with
his fist Taylor came to himself later
in the night at the hospital.