Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-11

8centers.
s5s Travel to the Pacific coast promises
to be more extensive this summer than
at any time since the general exodus
OF homegoers shortly after the close
of the panish American war. Many
lgovernm emp loyes and officers Of the
3insular army have let their annual
leave accrue for two or three years and
this has been done in order that their
home trip might be timed to visit the
Pacific coast at this season.
tss.sAll the trans Pacific lines have been
booking passage in advance for the
past two monts, and many have found
1t necessary to make the voyage via
5Suez in$orderto reach the Puget Sound
ports during midsummer. The steam
iers Of the Nippon Yusen kaisha touch
ing Manila, on the Japan Australia
route, and connecting with the Amer
lean line at Yokohoma, are carrying
full complement Of passengers and will
have to extend their service.
5H The average daily attendance at tho
Alaska-Y ukon-P Pacific exposition since
the opening day has been 80, 900. When.
the gates close on October 16, tbs #ex-G
'pected that the total attendance will
be over 4. 100000.
N Mr. Thavis said that q surprisingly
large number. of fasteners We're cross
Ing the continent and taking advantage
or the low railroad rates to see the
land beyond the great divide.
UNCLE SANS PRINT SHOP.
Ms t Senator ssnloot Of Utah, VINO has
been actively engaged for the past SIX
months on the framing Of the tariff
bill, IS entitled tosa few months Of sub
stantial rest but the chances are that he
will not have very much recreation this
\, y, lat f.ly,l for,
himself which Is not trifling in its pro-
portions. He is the chairman of the
Joint committee on printing and the
Investigations which he has made up to Z
the present time have convinced him
that a radical change should be made
in the management of the printing Of
flee, which will produce economical re-
suits followed by the saving Of nearly
a million OF dollars annually to the gov
eminent without reducing the efficiency
of the service in the slightest degree.
"a Some of the methods in the govern
iment printing office are complicated to
a marked degree. This 1t is said Is
especially true of the system of ac-
counting and 1t Is believed that Senator
9Smoot Will bring about some changes
In that particular branch Of the vast
printing establishment which will re-
suit in the saving of hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars annually.
s The joint committee on printing has
to all intents and purposes absolute
power over the conduct Of affairs in
the printing office so that whatever
may he agreed upon In the way of
changes, whether in the mechanical,
auditing, purchasing or administrative
departments of the office. when en-
fdorsed by the joint committee, will have
the effect of direct legislation. Con-,
fgress will not Of necessity be COM
PEELED to endorse the recommendation
of the committee because those recon-
Smendations will practically become law
without further congressional action.
TO CARVE UP THE OLD DOMINION.
President Taft, who will from this.
installed at the summer capital
Beverly, Mass, Will during that
time outline a portion of his mes
sage to Congress and will take up the
subject of recession in the District of
Columbia of that portion of the orig
inal territory which receded back to
Virginia In 1886.
All the old school Biographies show
I the District of Columbia to be a. square
bisected by the Potomac river con-
tanning 100 square miles, practically
( half OF which was taken from the ter
ritory of Maryland and the other half
from Virginia. The Virginia portions
of the District of Columbia are coded
back to the old dominion by act Of
Congress in 1876. President Taft is un-.
derstood to be of the opinion that the
recession was Illegal and unconstitu-
tional and therefore void. Already bills
have been introduced to restore the
original boundaries hf the District of.
Columbia but this will meet with very
emphatic objection on the part of the
people of Virginia, generally and of the
residents of the city of Alexandria and;
Alexandra county in particular. The
state lost a considerable portion of its
territory without its consent when
West Virginia was carved from its
western section during the Civil war;
and If President Taft undertakes u to
take another piece away from the old
state there is sure to be a very yigor-i
!! GUS protest and a very hot time in,
Congress. Opinion, is divided as to the
correctness of the presidents position
but it is deemed certain that the restor-
alton Will not be accomplished without
payment by the general government of.
a very large sum to the state of Vir-
ginia to compensate her for the loss Of
| taxes and territory. The people most
interested are opposed to the plan.
largely on account of the fact that If
they are restored to the jurisdiction
OF the District of Columbia they will
| at once lose the rightso franchise.