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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24
A BLOW TO LIQUOR SELLING.

A severe blow to one of the COM
monest methods of evading tie prohi-
bition Laws in small communities is
included in a decision just rendered
by the interstate commerce commits
sion. The commission holds that ex-
press companies may not be required
to accept C. O. d. shipments of liquor
and assume the burden of collecting
the selling price, plus the express
charges, as the do in the case OF
other commodities.
This will have the effect of putting a
stop to the custom of shipping intoxi-
cants into prohibition town address
ed to fictitious consignee and leaving
lit in the express company office until
called for by some one who is wise
to the scheme, or Until customer can
be found for it.
The express companies alleged that
the liquor tealers had taken advantage
of the c. O. D. plan to send large guam.
titles Of intoxicants into prohibition
communities without bona fde orders,
in many cases to fictitious addresses
On being notified that the shipment
had not been called for, they VIC uld OBJ
tain customers by various devices
sometimes employing travelling agents
Unoer this plan they claimed, the ex.
press offices often became liquor ware
houses, which had demoralizing eff
feet on the employees, involved add
tional risk of loss from fire or robbery
and frequently involved the companies
in litigation with local authorities.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24
signs Of Age.


SO am growing old, you say;
walk in a decrepit way;
My hair is absolutely gray
And growing thinner.
MY books are all the stupid kind
mat entertain a senile mind;
And somehow am dis.nclined
To dress for dinner ~
smoke pipe most of the time;
hate to walk too far, or climb;
In fact summed up completely, I'm
A true back number.
! read my morning paper twice,
I'm always offering advice;
easements serve but to entice
My wits to slumber.
| take drop or two at night:
rise almost before 'tia light;
l must confess am not quite
So young and sporty;
| cut my coupons twice a year
OF course you do not call that queer
OF course not!-Come to think, my
dear,
You, too, are forty.
New York Sun.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24
a Model Jury.

St. Paul Pioneer Press: In the jury
which is trying the Coopers for the MUIR
der of Senator Carmack, at Nashville.
are four men who cannot read or
write and several others who under
stand English onlv with difficulty. AS
this jury has been selected by the
combined wisdom of bench and bar,
1t may fairly be held up as a model
for all American courts. TO lessen
the difficulty of securing similar juries
would it not be well for legislatures
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

February seems disposed to make
a spectacular finish, with weather that
nobody likes. Nothing but rain. snow
and colder weather is in sight, accord
ing to tle official forecaster. But
there is the consoling thought tLat if
we get much of such weather now we
will likely have less of it later in the
season. Let's have it and be done
with it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

tiles which as every one knows are
often remiss from carelessness and
usually inclined to suppress all open
knowledge of an outbreak Of infectious
disease. 1t is common story now
smallpox is concealed in the fear that
1t will keep the farmers out OF town"
until its alarming increase forces &C.
ton. The state board gave relief to
the citizens who revolted and called
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

Washington advices report move
ment on foot there to have Mr.. Taft
restore the use of the phrase Eek
ecutive Mansion" instead of White
House" which has been the custom
during the past seven years of he
Roosevelt administration.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

for protection. When the state health
officer arrived something actual was
doing in quarantine circles.
We are asking for state interference
in the matter Of cattle affected with
tuberculosis. Why should the state be
barred in the matter of other infec.
tious diseases? An epidemic of small.
pox or Of typhoid is a state wide
question OF immediate Importance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

We should manifest and foster re-
spect for the Lords day. but statutory
inhibitions will not help in this. That
respect arises from moral sense
within and It may be developed and
sustained only by appeals to the moral
nature, and not with the command
ing bludgeon of law"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

The report is current at Washington
that Senator Dolliver will be put on
the finance committee of the senate
If so, he will have prominent part
in framing the tariff bill at the special
session. His knowledge of economic
subjects and his sound views on pro-
lection will make him valuable
member of the committee.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

The Baltimore American prints an
interesting interview with the repre-
sentative of large Cincinnati coffin
mandatory, II which that gentle
man is quoted as saying that manu-
facturers of collins, caskets and other
funeral goods have felt the hard times
fully as much as men in other lines
of business This he attributes to the
fact that when a financial slump
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

The ST Louis Globe-Democrat has
the right idea of what the next con-
grass should do. 1t says it should
turn it's attention to economy rather
than to new places to impose taxes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

70 provide that hereafter all juries
shall be drawn from the institutions
Tor the feebleminded? Or might not
some of the dullest pupils in our pri-
mary schools be SO segregated that
they might forget the little they have
learned; never see newspaper or
near an opinion on any subject; and
SO qualify themselves beyond all
Others for jury service?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

The hitch in Mr.. Br-an's logic is
becoming more and more apparent.
Without even the suggestion of an.
other crime of IS" the price of sill.
yer during the past year has declined
from 56A cents to 51A cents an
ounce.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

Those Rock Island newspaper own
ers who fired seven shots at each
other and inflicted only one slight
wound are a disgrace to the profess
sion. They should sell out and give
way to better marksmen.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

According to the Chicago Tribune,
"a quiet tip has been given out that
the smoking cars on the elevated roads
are going to go" They'd be of mighty
little use to the public if they didn't
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

be affirmed by either council or fin
ance commission, but are subject TO
the apl roval OF the civil service board.
Members of the finance commission
are to receive $4,000 each and the
chairman $4,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

And Ottumwa, where all these das-
tardly outrages are occurring, is so
good that it will not tolerate saloons
of any kind So, of course, doggeries
and dives cannot be held responsible
for such lawlessness. What is the e&'
PLANTATION?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

The amendment to the postofflce
appropriation bill providing for the
trial of a parcels post as an expert
ment in two count es was rejected in
the senate on point of order. The
whole matter will now go over for
another year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

comes people practice economy even
in the disposition of their loved ones,
and there is an immediate falling Off
in the demand for expensive burial
apparatus.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

Orville Wright has taken to writing
for the magazines and thus laid him
self open to the SUSPICION that he re-
CARDS the pen as mightier than the
scared.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

AS the Peoria Herald-Transcript
humorously states the case, Venezuela
has dared its beloved ex-president to
come back.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

Mr. Bryan predicts a Democratic
house In 1910 The truly admirable
thing about Mr.. Bryan's predictions is
that they never come true
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

"The most verbose and energetic
canal critics are those who know
nothing of canals, engineering or Pan
anna" says the Waterloo Courier.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

George Fitch confesses that humor
too often consists Of good memory
and poor conscience.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

The Waterloo Reporter says that
February's one redeeming feature is
the fact that it has only twenty-eight
days.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

Recent events at Washington show
that it is easier to dodge the constitu-
ton than an automobile.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

New dump cars ordered by the
United States steel corporation will
discharge a 50-ton load with the labor
of one man in less than two minutes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

Thought for the day: Man clings to
his frailties and woman clings to man.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

Why do we worry about the road,
With it's hill or deep ravine?
In a dismal path or heavy load
We are helped by hands unseen.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Mr.. Cleveland's portrait is on the
ten-dollar gold certificate.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24
keokuk, Iowa =. February "a, 1909.
WHY DO WE WoRRY7

Why do we worry about the nest?
We only stay in for day,
behest
In this habitat of clay.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

Sixteen years ago Mayor Cook of
Newton bought forty acres near the
town for $500 and now he has sold
that forty at the rate of s125 per acre.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

Sixteen years ago Mayor Cook OF
Newton bought forty acres near the
town for $500 and now he has sold
that forty at the rate of s125 per acre.
"The Bible in this city is closed
book says New Y rk minister The
Omaha Bee points out that the Bible
is the exception, then, in that wide
o. n town.
From what the Burlington Gazette
can learn of the Carmack jury it is
prepared to have it bring in a verdict
that he was killed by an automobile,
navigated by some undesirable citizen
from Wall street.
The Charter Oak Times says 1t sees
only one good argument against wom-
an suffrage, namely: Most of the
women will not vote if they have the
chance "All other arguments are
nothing our mind" adds the Times
] The Monticello Express says the
| bill which thrusts upon the govern
or the power and duty of removing
1 incompetent and recalcitrant officials
is full of thorns that will prick the
! gubernatorial hide if it becomes Law
without amendment.
The Odebolt Chronicle is bitterly op
posed to the Byers plan of law en-
forcement It's theory as simpIfied b,
the Marshalltown Times-Republican i.
that you may drive TIE state to wa
ter but there are lot of person!
whom you can't make drink it.
According to agricultural experts
ton of butter, which has a marke
value at the present time of about $50
only removes SOC worth of fertilizinl
; material from the SOIL while ton o
: wheat which has the market value o
fertility.
The Dubuque Telegraph Heral
says: "a law compelling men to g
to church on Sunday would be he'll
unconstitutional; Q law compelling a
: tendance at religious services similarl
i would be held unconstitutional; yet
law in its effect though not literall
/, compelling religious observance
2 would not be held unconstitutional
, though the inciple of all three law
: would be Identical. For law PR
J hibiting certain fe ms of amusemer
/ because they do not conform to Sal
I battarians' views of the respect whic
] should be shown the day, would in e
! feet be law requiring religious oil
e servance. There is no justice
0 sense or reason in such prohibition
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

Why do we worry about the years
4nat our feet have not yet trod?
who labors with courage and trust,
not fears,
Has fellowship with God
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

"The Bible in this city is a closed
book says New Y rk minister. The
Omaha Bee points out that the Bible
is the exception, then, in that wide.
o. n town.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

1t is ours to serve and wait:
And the wonderful future we soon
shall see,
For death is but the gate.
Sarah K. Bolton in the New York
Weekly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-24

From what the Burlington Gazette
can learn of the Carmack jury it is
prepared to have it bring in verdict
that he was killed by an automobile,
navigated by some undesirable citizen
from Wall street.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-03-18

end of his term and that it is not be-
You'd possibilities that he might resign.
Just where the responsibility for this
story lies has not yet been stated, but
it is pretty safe to say that it is not
true. Gov. Patterson has been made
the target for much illnatured abuse
and his enemies have not heSitated to
misrepresent his motives and falsify
the record he has made, but that is a
part of the political game to which he
is accustomed and which was to be eX-
pected in the very nature of the issues
that have agitaled the people during
the past two or three years. The gov
ernor has never exhibited any Of the
qualities of "tenderfoot " in politics
nor has he ever shown any of the
symptoms of a gutter, and it is not at
all likely that he is going to do so now.
SO far as his own personal comfort is
concerned, he doubtless feels now that
he would like to be out of the turmoil
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-03-18

ing that the joint meeting is something
separate and distinct from the two
houses and is sufficient unto itself 10
make its own rules regardless OF the
constitutional limitations OF each OF the
houses.
The two houses of the Legislature,
when they met in joint session, such as
is provided for by the constitution, do
not merge themselves into one indls-
eliminate conglomeration of members.
The Joint session is to be meeting OF
two constitutionally organized bodies,
which meet as senate and house OF
representatives and not as merely IN
diyidual members of the general assem-
bly. The senate cannot meet with the
house for the purpose of a joint session
without going as body, legally con-
stituted body which means that ii
must have quorum, which is neces'
sary to enable it to act as body. The
constitution says each house must
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-03-18

are the senate. If twenty members
can be the senate in joint session then
fifteen could be drawn when once the
legal quorum is ignored. 1t would
certainly be ridiculous in the extreme
to insist that five senators or even less
number could assume to be the senate
in a joint session and yet they would
have as much claim to that distinction
and privilege as twenty members.
The citation of the extraordinary act
of 1895, passed by partisan legislature
in the intensest of partisan spirit as
justification. An act OF the general
assembly cannot remove or alter the
plain mandate Of the constitution Of
the state, and the act of 1885 providing
that a majority of each house should
constitute a quorum in the joint SEES
sion which was called for the purpose
of overturning the result Of an election
for governor on the face of the returns
cannot be accepted as a precedent to be
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-03-18

twenty-five years ago, on March 10,
1884, The Comet began its metoric
Journey in the journalistic armament
and has survived to the present with
only the loss of its original Taylor
more properly speaking, its founders,
Robt. l.. Taylor, Robt. Burrow and
Nat G. Love. These men, early gave
up the struggle to acquirefame in other
directions that offered the least resist
ance, and the present owner took the
helm and has remained at the post for
twenty-four years. From April 1881
to June 1893 a daily edition was issued,
for awhile under such trying circum-
stances, with old Pete opposing, as to
make the conflict from 81 to '65 seem
like a Sunday school picnic, but thai
is all behind us and new condition
has arisen, and what the years to come
may have in store for Johnson City
and The Comet, we know not, but yol
can rely upon one thing and that il
that The Comet will always be on tn
firing line battling for the welfare
the city that gave it birth and has null
tured it-some times on half rations-
for quarter of century.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-03-18
A QUESTIONABLE
PROCEEDING.

The Tennessee Legislature is making
q remarkable record in the matter OF
questionable and sensational prece-
dents. The breaking of quorum III
the Senate by the withdrawal and
fight of a number of Democratic Sena-
tors was an altogether indefensible ac-
ton, and now to overcome the difficulty
occasioned by the absence of the alb
sconding Senators an alleged joint ses-
sion of the two houses of the General
Assembly has been held and has gone
through the form of electing state
treasurer, a state comptroller, MEM
beers of a state board of elections and
members of democratic primary cleo
ton board and q republican primary
election board.
1t is a very serious and doubtful
question whether these elections are
constitutional and legal
Speaker Kinney's ruling that it was
not necessary for the governor TO ap
prove the joint resolution calling for
Joint session and that therefore his veto
was Intellectual, does not comport witt
the plain and mandatory requirement
Of the state constitution which provides
that "Every joint resolution shall
likewise be presented to the goveno
for his signature, and before it shall
take effect shall receive his signature
and on being disapproved by him, shall
in like manner, be returned with hi
objections; and the same, before it shall
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-03-18

and the strife the next two years
promise, but unfortunately, if he
should feel that way about it, there
are Others to be considered now. He
owes his party much that must be
paid before he can retire. He is the
one man about whom the storm has
centered and while his enemies have
been bitter, vindictive and unscrupul-
ous--in many instances-his friends
have been staunch and faithful. His
party organization needs him now
more than ever and until scores now
charged up against the disorganizers
have been settled, he could not quit
even if he wanted to, and we do not
believe that he docs. He is stronger in
Tennessee today than he has ever been,
and The regular democrats, as we un-
derStand from all that has been said
and done recently, are looking 10 him
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-03-18
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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-03-18

have q quorum of at least two-thirds of
its members TO enable it to do any
business. The senate, without such Il
quorum, is unable to transact any
business except to adjourn from time
to time awaiting a quorum, and to
discharge the specified duty of taking
steps to bring absentees back TO make
it legal body.
The ruling of Speaker Kinney that
the senate without n quorum could
participate in the joint session can, we
think be brought to the reductio ad
absurdum with little examination.
The senate must have twenty-five
members present to have q quorum.
If less than quorum of twenty-five
members of the senate can legally par
ticipate in a joint legislative session.
then any number less than u quorum
could be allowed TO claim that they
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-03-18

take effect, shall be re-passed by a
majority Of all the members elected to
both houses, in the manner and accord
ing to the rules prescribed in case of a
bill.p There is no evading the unmis-
taxable meaning of this language, and
no citation of any case or rulings in
any other state can be taken as a
ground for disregarding and overthrow
ing the plain letter and spirit of the
constitution of Tennessee, The gov
ernor vetoed the joint resolution and
the senate has been unable to pass the
resolution over the veto because of a
quorum. And the constitution says it
cannot take effect until it receives the
governors signature or is re-passed
Notwithstanding his disapproval.
In his ruling on the question of a
quorum in the joint session Speaker
Kinney makes the mistake Of assum'
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-03-18
perpetuated.

ptTpVIUHIVU
All things considered the elections
held by the alleged joint session of the
general assembly yesterday are of very
doubtful validity and the doubt is sus-
tanned on grounds serious enough TO
give the state and the people much
concern. The state officers elected can
hold over legally until their successors
are constitutionally elected, but the
new Officers of the election boards are
in such equivocal standing their right
and tenure would have to he deter
mined by the courlS.-Nashville Ban
npr