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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-30
CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS

The last important investigation by
a committee of congress was held in
the spring of 1908, and was supposed
to be an inquiry into charges made by
the late George L. Li!Iey, then a MEM
Der of the house from Connecticut, to
the effect that the government had
paid the Electric Boat company over
81 ,000, 900 in excessive profits for sub
marine boats, and that undue infiu
ence" had been used by the boat COM
pany to secure desired legislation.
The investigation committee was
named by Speaker Cannon, and the
investigation smelled TO heaven"
Throughout the proceedings Lilley
was Inundated in every way possible.
1t would appear from the transcript
of the hearings that Lilley, instead { f
the Electric Boat company, was being
investigated.
OF course the Electric Boat company
was given a thorough embarrassing.
Lilley was made the goat" for having
pany lobbyists We're anything but
saints
Although the Investigating commit
tee found only censure for Lilley, The
printed! testimony shows the Connecti-
eut man proved ~ The figures of gov
"fnsnent officials thai between 1899 ard
1908 the Electric noat companv re.
C.-Ved S1,519.-S n excessive profss
II pm the governments for 10 submarine
taats
he people. of 90. necticut evidentl,
had more confidence in Lilley than in
the committee of congress, because not
long after his Reputation by the com.
mittee he was elected governor of his
state. He died soon after taking office
An investigation of the Ballinger.
Pinchot controversy now seems as.
sured. If the investigation is honest
and straightforward. it viii be a sourcs
of strength to the administration o.
Mr.. Taft.
But if the investigating committee il
packed with men friendly to the admin.
istration and hostile to Pinchot, as wa.
the Electric, Boat investigating com.
mittee packed against Liliey-it will
place the Taft administration far, fal
beyond redemption.
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WILL TAKE BACK TiLBURNE
Minister Arrested at Pasadena to Face
Indiana Charge.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29.-Officers
from Indiana are expected here to-
morrow to take back to Linton, in
that state, Rev. Edward 0. Tilburne,
who is charged with abscOnding with
$500 of the funds of the Christian
church of Linton, of which he was
once pastor. Tilburne, who is held
in the county Jail. has made no at
tempt to resist the extradition papers
which were signed by the governor
today 1t is supposed that Miss Mary
Smith, former member of his choir,
who is held in Pasadena, where Til
burne was arrested week ago, will
return with him. He claims that he
was divorced from his former wife
and that he married Miss Smith ip
Chicago two days after they left Lin
ton.
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Weather Conditions.

A return to normal inter conditions
is now taking place IN the Pacific
northwest. The high area which has
overlaid this section for the past two
weeks has aretreated to the southeast
and storm area is off the British CO.
lumbia coast. Rain and warmer wealth
er has already set in west of the Cas-
cades, the rain area extending south
ward over northern California. High
winds are prevailing at north Pacific
coast stations. An area of high pres
sure that moved from the plains to Gulf
states since yesterday is causing clear
and cold weather over most of the:
eastern half of the country, and tenn
peratures much below the freezing
point are occurring as far south as
Jacksonville The indications are for
rain and warmer weather in this vi
entity tonight and Friday
JOHN GROVER, Observer
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NOT so VERY CHEAP.
How = Practical Merchant Got
the Best Of the Mail
Order Plan.

+ A rather amusing story is
+ told of a man who went into
+ a hardware store recently, and
4. wished to purchase an AK.
= Being shown the article and
+ informed that the price was
i s1.15, he said, why, can get
! that same kind of an AK from a
+ mail order house for 80 cents"
I. VERY WELL" said the hardware
1. man; II will give it to you for
]. the same price provided you
!. will do the same with me as
+ you will do with it." "All
+ right" replied the customer as
/. he handed over a dollar bill,
r. the merchant giving him back
!. 10 cents in change. NOW"
1. said the hardware man, Il
= want % cents more to pay ex-
+ press charges" which the pur-
j chaser gave him. How much
+ did your AK cost you?" "One
+ dollar and fifteen cents" the
+ man answered. VERY good.
+ Now give me cents more for
+ money order fees and postage"
j which the purchaser had to
+ hand over. Now, how much
+ did your AK cost your" Zone
J. dollar and twenty cents" said
+ the customer. Not so cheap,
+ after ALL" said the merchant,
! whereupon he picked up the ak.
= tossed it back on the shelf and
+ told the customer to call for it
+ in ten days, as that would be
+ as soon as he could get it if
+ he had ordered it from the
+ mail order house.
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credit his administration. His assump-
ton that a Conspiracy exists is based
on the theory that the repeated attacks
on Ballinger and the latter's conduct
of the general land office are in reality
but canards invented to injure the
present administration.
This, then, is the third conspiracy"
that has been Matched against the
president since he assumed office.
The discovery of the first plot oc-
Cured about the time the president
prevented the unseating of Speaker
Cannon and the improvement of the
house rules Some of the party lead
ers, particularly Aldrich and Cannon,
apparently expected that the president
was to be roasted for rescuing Can
non and the old rules from defeat. So
a story was started to the effect that
information from authentic sources
showed 1.-The big undertaking maya
zines to be in a conspiracy to discredit
the Taft administration" However,
most of the magazines named in the
Conspiracy did not publish single
article relative to the Taft-Aldrich-
Cannon triumvirate, and those maya
zines which did handle the subject very
generously left the president out of
the discussion altogether.
Now as to the second plot: 1t
was discovered and laid bare by a big
New York newspaper just after Taft
Aldrich- Smoot tariff bill was the best
legislation of the kind ever enacted.
declared to be Senator LaFollette of
Wisconsin, Ex- Secretary of the Inter
ior James r. Garfield and others. The
object of the plot was to ''discredit
the Taft administration"
Oh, fiddlesticks!
Had the president cooperated with
the insurgents when they were endeav-
oring to dethrone Cannon, plot" No.
would never have been Matched.
Had the president stated in his Wi
mona speech that the new tariff law
was the most Infamous ever created,
and that it would be likely to have the
effect of further advancing the cost Of
living, there would have been no neces-
sity for the second conspiracy"
And if the president was now sup
porting Pinchot instead of Ballinger
there would be no necessity for the
latest plot nor even an investiga-
ton of the general land office.
Who are Mr.. Taft's advisers and
counsellors that permit him to be eter-
nally taking a position on public ques-
lions that is offensive to nine tenths of
the people of the United States?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-30
QUARREL BETWEEN

S~ScSSS"S~~>e>>S~>>S<~>
most unpopular with the new admins
tration. Only recently an attempt was
made to play clever trick on Pfnchot.
Those who would like to see him e
of the government service succeeded
in having him offered professor ship
at Ann Arbor, but he refused to nibb,e
at the bait with was dangled before
him.
Friends of Pinchot are particularly
anxious to know the personnel of the
committee that is to do with the in =.
vestigating. Senator Gore offered =
resolution to the senate which provid-
ed for an Investigation of the conduct
of the general land Office and burea /;
of forestry with respect to stone and
timber lands, coal lands and other min
eral lands, water power sites, railway
rights of way, and the public domain
generally in the states and territories
of the United States, including Alaska.
of eight members of each house, and
named the following senators: Nelson,
Dolliver. Lodge, Bristow, Root, Tillman,
Stone and Owen.
Il object said Senator Aldrich
promptly upon the reading of the Gore
resolution. He added that when it
came up again he would move that it
be referred to the committee on public
lands. The Gore resolution may be
considered dead.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-30
BREAKING UP LANDLORDiSM

The fiscal policy of any foreign ma
ton is no concern of this country unless
it either affects our trade relations
or is of such universal moment that
it is of fundamental significance. The
British budget which is now the par
amount issue" in a monumental and
historic political contest in England.
belongs to the latter class.
The critical nature of - the British
budget, from the standpoint of the
house of lords, which rejected it by
vote OF about five to one, is very
clearly revealed by the sidelight
thrown on the situation in the publ.
lords. In this country. man who
owns a block of brown stone fronts,
skyscrapers or shops is considered a
worthy magnate, while the man who
owns $4,000 acres of farming land is
regarded as so nearly a menace to the
public welfare that in some states
laws limit the number of acres an
alien may own and anything APP
preaching ''landlordism' is looked at
askance.
But in England the 594 members of
the house of lords hold one fifth of
the territory in the United Kingdom.
To be sure, this aggregate area is only
16,411 1856 acres-less than one-third
the area of Kansas; but these figures
are only specifically disproportionate,
for these lords own many thousands of
acres of town. village and city prop
erty besides. The holdings of the
twenty-five dukes in the house OF
lords average 1854 acres Each or
the twenty-three marquises owns AZ
500 acres. while of the $40 peers who
comprise the rest of the hereditary
house, the earls average 30,217 acres,
/. the viscounts 1924 and the barons
! 14.152
1t was the votes of these hereditary
1 Olu Men Oh the sea tndt, Tor the T1fSI
| time in all the history of England
since the barons wrested the Magma
1 Charta from King John at Runny-
mede. rejected the financial constitu-
tional initiative of the commons: and
the reason for this revolutionary acv
may be seen when it is recalled that
the budget viii result in the disinteg-
ration of the great ancestral landed
estates.
! OF the two archbishops and twenty
four bishops who are members of the
house of peers, only one had the grace
to raise his voice in defense of the
/ people whom landlordism has despoil-
ed and exploited for so many centu-
ries. Some of the more rabid ag1ta-
sors in this country profess to see too
much special privilege monopoly
and entailed aristocracy here. If con-
ditions in America aproximated the
intolerable immunity of landlordism
from the burden of maintaining the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-30
BIG Chinese Smuggling Plot.

DENVER, Dec. 29.-Federal officers
in Denver dragged two Chinese out OF
their berths in Pullman sleepers today
and will send them to San Francisco
for deportation. They allege the or
ientals are members of the band OF
Chinese who swan the Rio Grande
river several nights ago. six of them
being captured at Dallas. Federal Of
ficials here assert that hundreds OF
Chinese are being struggled into the
United States across the Mexican bor-
der.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-30

government, there would be real cause
for complaint. We have many apostles
of the unearned increment here But
the real victims are the people OF
England, whise struggle with 1mme-
mortal privilege is being watched with
wirld- wide interest.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-30
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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-30
WEATHER FORECAST

Local forecast for WalIa Walla and
vicinity: Rain this afternoon, tonight
and Friday; warmer tonight
Washington: Rain west portion, rain
or snow east portion tonight and Fri
day: warmer east portion tonight. High
SOutherly winds.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-30
olscovERED-A "PLor..

President Taft. according to WASH
ington dispatches. has just discovered
The existence Of another plot to dis.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-30

who come after US as much as the
present incomplete aeroplane and di-
we have to do now is to set to work
ourselves.
1--WE have not done much in Eng
land in the matter of aerial machines
We have been rather waiting to bene-
fit by the experience of other people,
but we cannot afford to be behindhand
they may be of the greatest value in
the next war.
I'VE must make ourselves machine
have our own trials, and, above all,
we must have a staff of men trained
ready to adapt themselves to aerial
machines as they are introduced
II am anxious that the country
should wake up to the necessity of
doing the utmost to perfect these
aerial machines. We are still strange
ly apathetic upon everything
Il have just read a book called THE
Valour of ignorance 1t is the valor
of ignorance which pervades the
whole country. People are brave and
confident because they know nothing
about what is going on"
Princess Victoria Louise of Ger
many, the only daughter of the kaiser,
has just come OUT and it is said the
announcement of her engagement to
popular English prince will shortly
follow. High dignitaries both in Great
Britain and Germany are confidently
of the opinion that such union will
assist largely in removing many of the
petty differences and jealousies which
so often show themselves in the rela-
tiOns of the two countries. Want Of
means on the part of the prospective
young bridegroom threatened at one
time to cause the matter to be drop
ped, but these difficulties are believed
to have been satisfactorily overcome.
Curious reports of possible clue II
the death of Andre and his compan-
ions, who sought to reach the North
Pole by balloon in 1897, are published
in the ''Tageblatt" 1t is stated that
a Catholic missionary working among
of Canada reported to his bishop that
he found tribe whose members told
him that some years ago they saw
white house in the sky" which came
to earth near them.
The Eskimos said that they found
in the white house" two half starved
white men, whom they fed and nursed'
In spite of their care the men died.
The Eskimos also stated, according
to the missionary that they used part
of the white house, presumably the
car of the supposed ballooD to store
ropes in. The missionary intends 10
make further Investigations.
A Russian cavalry officer has ac-
a remarkable ride of l,Zo'
miles from Riepin, in the government
Of Plotzk, to st. Petersburg.
He covered an average Of nearly
forty four miles daily, and in the last
two days rode eighty and nfty-sN
miles respectively. His horse was
about twenty years old. The omce'
lost six pounds in weight. and 'h.
horse forty-f1ve pounds.
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CHINOOK STRIKES
Continued From Page One)


degrees, and the highest poIns
reached since the 14th wa: 80 degrees
on last Sunday.
The stagnation of the atmosphere is
shown by the record of , tn thermon-
e:er and barometer, the indicai )rs
having drawn almost parallel lines o.,
thG sheets in the instruments fr.:n!
December IA to this morning at A
O'clock. when the barometer suddenly
dropped, indicating oh nge in CO..
ditiOns. During the Is cas- of win
ter weather the wind has moved but
lille, the average velocity for tina.
p Rod being three miles an hour
Another season of foc set in las,
njeht and continued UNI, this morn
i.g when rising terirarat,.tt d;:'.,..il' d
IT,. gloom, and offered hor., nr i,ane
late realization of N.Y. Gr)v =; f. ra-
cast Walks and pavemer'e through
or the city have bees. covered win a
:. ;.ting of ice for two weeks PAST,
and the thaw this mornii:., WAS q d.
t'ed relief to those ,rh) have been
,vt'ng skates.
The recent spell of weather is un-
usual in that it has held on for so
long a period, with so little variation
in conditions.
Rise of 80 Degrees.
Since 5 o'clock this morning the
mercury has risen 80 degrees, some
thing unusual at this season. of the
year. The liquid just touched the g
degree mark this morning, while this
afternoon it had climbed to the SO de-
gree mark, and all evidences of snow
and sleet had given away before the
warm wind to mud on unpaved streets
and almost dust in the business dis
trict.
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address all communications to:
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LEGAL AFFAIRS.

The committee on Legal Affairs will
give public hearing In its room at the
State House in Augusta.
TUESDAY, MARCH 16. at 2 p. NJ.
No 1872. An Act relating to apotheca-
ries and the sale of poison.
No. 1913. An Act to facilitate the identi
fication of criminals.
No. 1874. An Act to authorize the APP
pointment of deputy sealers of weights
and measures.
No 1876. An Act to provide for the ap-
pointment of a State sealer OF weights
and measures, and to define his duties.
No. 1856 An Act to amend Sec. 81 Of
Oh. 40 Of the Revised Statutes of Maine,
relating to insurance companies.
No; 1877. An Act to amend Sec. 12s Of Gu.
40 Of the Revised Statutes, relating to
casualty or accident insurance companies
doing business on the assessment plan.
No. 1873. An Act to amend Sec. Is of Oh.
"a of the Revised Statutes, in relation to
the inspection of steamboats,.
No. 1879. An Act to repeal Sec. 3 of Oh.
143 OF the Revised Statutes. as amended
by Sec. Of CHI. 120 of the Public Laws of
1907, relating to the State School for
Boys.
No. 200. An Act to amend Sec. IL Of
CHI 126 of the Revised Statutes, as amend
ed by Oh. 105 of the Public Laws of 1905,
relating to gambling devices.
of Sec. of Oh. 1O9 of the Revised Stat
utes, relative to dispositions.
No. POP. An Act to amend Sec. Y Of Oh.
VI lhc AsCSioCo sotoIutcS, ACidlANo "
towns.
An Act in relation to the records Of the
supreme judicial court.
No. 204. An Act to amend Chapter 1873
of the Private and Special Laws of 1907,
relating to records of real estate in the
county of Waldo
No. 2O5. An Act relating to town, VIII
lage and city bylaws and ordinances.
No. 206 An Act to protect persons who
labor and furnish materials on roads and
bridges built by written contract
No. 207. An Act to prevent the desc
Grafton of the 30th day of May, commonly
known as Memorial day, and to provide
penalty for violation.
No. eos. An Act to prevent the dumping
of waste material within the limits of
any public way.
No. 2O9. An Act to provide for the at
torney general and assistant attorney
general, to take charge of the legal pros
ecutions, upon failure of the county at
torney to perform his duty, and for the
prosecution of such county attorney.
No. 210. An Act to prohibit certain per-
sons from advertising as State detectives.
No. 21l. An Act to authorize the city
of Lewiston to take ice from the Andros-
ccggin river.
No PIP. An Act in favor Of the law stu
dent who is also laboring man.
No. pa. An Act to provide for the
transfer of patients in insane hospitals to
the Maine School for Feeble Minded
No. 2l3. An Act to amend Chapter 49,
Section IS, of the Revised Statutes, relat-
ing to liens for pressing hay.
No. 215. An Act to incorporate Gregory
Saritorium.
ELISHA W. PIKE, Secretary.
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FOR AGED PEOPLE
Old Folks Should Be Careful in Their
Selection Of ReguIative Medicine.

With advanced age comes inactive
bowel movement and sluggish liver.
Nature is unable to perform her prop
er functions and requires assistance.
Otherwise, there is constant suffering
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sic that is harsh and irritating.
We have a safe, dependable and al
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to substantiate our claims. This rem
edy is called ReXall Orderlies.
Rexall Ordcrlies have soothing,
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cular coat of the bowel. They produce
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They also remove all irritation, dry
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Augusta.
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EDUCATION.

The committee on education will give a
hearing at the State House, Room A,
TUESDAY, MARCH 16, at p NJ.
No g. An Act to amend Section Sc of
Chapter Is of the Revised Statutes, relat-
ing to the conveyance of pupils in sec
ondary schools.
No. Ga. An Act to amend Section AZ Of
Chapter 1O1, relating to payment Of super
intendents of towns comprising school
unions
No. Co. An Act additional to Chapter
IS of the Revised Statutes. relating to
future State aid to educational institu-
lions.
No. &C. An Act to amend Section 80 of
Chapter Is of the Revised Statutes, relat-
ing to the payment of superintendents OF
schools.
OTIS F. TRAFTON, Secretary.
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SEA AND SHORE FISHERIES.

The committee on sea and shore fisher
les will give public hearing in its room
at the State House in Augusta,
TUESDAY, MARCH 16, at P. NJ.
No. So. On an Act to amend Section A
of Chapter Al of the Revised Statutes, re-
lating to the taking of smelts.
No. Sc. On the petition of George Mi
mott and % others asking for an amend
ment to Chapter 1S1 to the Public Laws
of 1907, relating to the taking of white
perch in tide waters
No. 81. On an Act to amend the Private
and Special Laws of 1901, Chapter 401
Section 2, relating to the taking of smelts
in Pleasant river, in Washington county
No. IS. On an Act for the protection of
smelts in Benjamin's river in Hancock
county.
JOHN P. KELLEY, Secretary.