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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-23
TAFT ADVISES CONGRESS.
President Urges Income Tax Amend
ment to Constitution.

WASHINGTON, June 16.-The mes
sage of President Taft to the senate
today, recommending the incorpora.
tion of provision in the tariff bill
for the taxation of the earnings of
corporations and the adoption of a
resolution looking to an amendment
of the constitution to permit the levy.
ing of an income tax without interfer-
ence from the courts, was regarded
by sen ators as of great Importance.
The mess age was received early in
the afternoon and referred to the com.
mittee on finance.
Senator Gore attempted to have the
committee instructed to report on the
inc ONE tax feature of the message by
next Friday, when, under general
agreement, the income tax question is
again to be taken up for considera-
tion. His motion was, however, voted
down and, for the first time in many
weeks, the division was strictly along
party lines.
During the informal discussion of
the reference of the message Senator
Bailey gave notice that he would de-
mand that provision be made for
gradua alton of any income tax propo.
sition that may be voted on, and in
tim ated that much time would be nee.
esssry to carry through a provision
which did not carry that qualification.
WASHINGTON, June 17.-That icon.
gress shall have the po wer to levy
and collect taxes upon incomes with.
out apportionmeut among the several
states according to population, is
the subject of an amendment to the
constitution proposed in resolution
submitted to the senate today by Sen.
ator Brown. The resolution pro.
vides for the submission OF the ques.
tion to the Legislatures of the several
states for their approval as suggested
by the president. 1t will be referred
to the committee on fin,.nce.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-23
TO TAX CORPORATE WEALTH
President Favors Law Affecting Net
Earnings Of Corporations.

WASHINGTON, June 15.-President
Taft will send to congress- a message
urging the passage Of an amendment
to the tariff bill imposing tax of 2
per cent on the undistributed net earn.
ings Of corporations and resolution
submitting to the several states an
amendment to the constitution giving
congress the power to impose q tax on
incomes.
This understanding was reached at
a session of the cabinet today and
approved by republican senate leaders
who conferred with the president. In
order that there shall be no question
that the two questions to be recon.
mended have the support Of the sd-
ministration Attorney General Wick
ersha lam will draft both the amendment
and the resolution.
In view of the emphatic stand taken
by President Taft, number of pro.
gressive republicans have signified
their intention Of following his recon-
mend ations, but some of the progress
sive republicans are not satisfied and
may protest.
Democr attic senators are also ex'
pected to denounce the tax on corpo'
rations as a substitute for direct
tax on incomes.
The president favors an amendment
providing for a tax on the net earn
ings of corporations, not only because
of the added revenue 1t would pro.
duce, but also because he believes il
would throw healthy ligth of pub
licity upon the aft airs of corporations
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-23
Primary Law Is Invalid.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, June l6.-The
supreme court today decided that the
prima election law was unconstitu'
tional. It is the third primary law
which has been declared invalid by
the higheet tribunal in the state. The
law was passed by the 45th general
assembly. In the workings OF the law
objection was made to the cumberous
machinery which it occasioned and to
the restrictions which were placed on
voters before they we're eligible to
participate in the primary.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-23
DISCUSS PAPER DUTY.
Several Members Of the Senate Favor
Free Imports.

several memOeTS OF the 0en0Ie 0vOT
Free Imports.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE fight
to place wood pulp and print paper
upon the free list was opened up in
the senate today under the leadership
OF Sena ator Brown Of Nebraska. Go.
ing over to the portion Of the chamber
in which Senators Aldrich, Hale,
Frye, Lodge, Gallinger, smoot and
other leaders have their seats, the
Nebraskan stood in the midst Of the
opposing force and with good nature
parried thrusts that came to him from
all Qusrters ss he delivered q telling
speech in behalf of the cause he had
espoused.
Showing familiarity with all avail
able inform alton on the wood pulp
and paper schedule, Mr.. Brown fire.
quently quoted from various authori-
ties to sustain his contention that
wood pulp and print paper are both
produced in the United States with
cheaper labor and cheaper material,
resulting in q cheaper product than
can be obtained in Canada.
Turning to his republican col.
leagues he asked them how, in view
of that fact, they could justify q duty
on these products for the "protection
of labor
Senator Aldrich and Senator Hale
fatty contr addicted these statements in
reference to wages and cost of pro.
duction. They insisted that the Mann
committee of the house of representa-
tatives from which Mr.. Brown quoted,
was lacking in accurate testimony and
contended that, even if so, the repor,
could not be maintained that the
United States had an advantage in
the production. This dispute ran
along for two hours.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-23
WANT DUTY ON HIDES.
Western Senators Demand Tariff On
Raw Material.

WASHINGTON, June 19.-During the
debate on hides today, while Senator
Lodge was making his plea for re.
moval OF duty, Senator Dixon, IN an
extended colloquy with him offered to
vote for free hides if Lodge would
agree to proposal to make shoes
and leather also free of duty. The
Massachusetts senator quickly side.
stepped, arguing that the two cases
were not at all similar. During the
debate Lodge was subjected to q sharp
fire of uncomfortable questions by the
western senator, in defense of tariff
on hides.
The finance committees amendment
to the hides paragraph levies a tariff
of Is per cent ad valorem on "hides
of cattle, raw or uncured, whether
dried, salted or pickled," with pro.
vision for drawback equal to the
duty when exported in the form of
leather. The effect of this amendment
is to take hides from the free list,
where the house left it.
Basing his opinion of duty on
hides upon the claim that it would
tend to perpetuate the beef trust,
Senator Clapp declared that his con.
stituents were patriotic enough to
give up any advantage they might
reap in the possible higher price of
hides in order to help destroy q trust.
"How about the leather trust?" in.
quired Senator Warren. Continuing
he said before the "beef trust'' came
into being hides were so cheap that
farmers could not make them pay.
Now he added they bring a higher
price and shoes are not higher in
price.
IF we can get two trusts by the
ears and knock their heads together l
think that is the better way" sug-
gested Mr.. Warren, who could see no
advantage in placing hides on the
free list to iujure one trust while the
other would thrive BY the action.
Mr.. Warren said the duty on hides
would add from l to 3 cents to the
cost of making Q pair of shoes and
would not be paid by the consumer.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-23
Chasing Montana Bad Man.

HUMBELT, Sask., June II. - The
Humbelt detachment of the Roy al
Northwest mounted police are having
hot chase after a Montana bad man,
who is working the country to the
north of here literally armed to the
teeth. The man is an ex.convict With
bad record, q crack shot and a
reckless horse rustler. He swears he
will not be taken alive.
A few days ago he rode into Wis.
count, Saskatchewan, and, posing as
sheriff, lifted six valuable horses,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-23
Shipped Carload Of Alligators.

NEW ORLEANS, June 15.-What is
said to be the largest consignment of
alligators ever shipped over railroad
left New Orleans last night for Los
Angeles. There was full carload Of
the reptiles, comfortably ensconced in
large vessels partially filled with
water. The rate on the shipment
proved tangled problem for the
railroad clerks. A diligent search
failed to find the word "alligator" in
any of the tariff books and it was
finally decided to apply the rate on
"animals not otherwise specified.
The freight charges amounted to $500.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-23
Montana Apples for Export.


SPOKANE, June 17-Samuel Haines,
buyer for several fruit importers in
England, writes from London to Ben
Il. Rice. secretary and manager Of the
National Apple show incorporated J,
that he will arrive in Spokanke early
in December to buy for export 100
cars of apples grown in eastern w ash
ington and Oregon, north and central
Idaho, western Montana and south
eastern British Columbia. This con.
signment will be made up OF $4,000
5O.pound boxes or 12,0c0, 900 apples of
uniform size and color, and will cost
s125 900. It will be moved to New
York and Boston in five special trains
for trans.shipment to London and
Liverpool.
Mr.. Haines bought six cars OF
Washington apples in Spokane last
winter, selling them i'm London at
from %. Is to S4.18 q box. Three cars
of the fruit were exhibited in Covent
garden, where, according to London
newspapers, at hand, the crowds were
90 large that the police had to form
the visitors into lines and move them
through the building. Orchardists in
the Inland Empire are also arranging
to send independent consignments to
the English markets the coming fall
and winter.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-23
Heinze Bunch Says Not Guilty.

NEW YORK, June 16.-Just what
books and papers of the United
Copper company needed in the prose-
cution of F. Augustus Heinze are
missing, was made public here today.
when Heinze, the president OF the
company. his brother, Arthur P.
Heinze, and Carlos Warfield, q for.
mer director, appeared before Judge
Ray in the United States circuit court
to plead to the indictment by the grand
jury, charging them with conspiracy
to obstruct the sdministr alton of jus.
tice.
The two Heinzes and Calvin o.
Geer, one of the Heinze associates j,
also named in the indictment, are
charged specifically with removing on
May 10, "A pages from ledger, Of l6
pages from q journal, and 1S pages
from cash book. Warfield is charged
with abstr acting the books and papers
of the company from the Offices of the
company, while Arthur Heinze indi'
vidually. is accused Of giving 800 to
Tracy Buckingham, q clerk, at the
time of his alleged flight to Canada,
when he was wanted as q witness by
the government.
The Reinze brothers and Warfeld
today pleaded not guilty and have
until Wednesday next to demur or to
take such action as their counsel may
see fit. They each gave $500 bonds.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-23
Need Money for Education.

KANSAS CITY, June 16.-Governor
Hadley today vetoed the bill provid.
ing for anexpenditure an of S2O,000 for a
Missouri exhibit at the Seattle fair.
The governor said the state needed
this money more for educating its
children and for the poor.
Governor Hadley signed q bill pro-
hibiting the marriage of Caucasians
with Chinese, Japanese and other
Asiatics.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-23

ness of the decision in the Pacific
coast lumber case. The men are
working under Dwight G. Morgan,
who recently completed valuation Of
the railroads of Minnesota for the
railroad commission of this state.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-23
Indian Commissioner Resigns.

WASHINGTON, June 16.-The resig-
nation of Francis E. Leupp, as com.
missioner of Indian affairs, which
has been pending since March 4, has
been accepted by President Taft and
Robt. G.. Valentine, assistant com.
missioner, was named to succeed him.
Mr.. Leupp has wanted to retire for
some time on account of i'll health.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-23
Kansas Has Big Wheat Crop.

Topeka, June 18.-The farmers of
Kansas will this year harvest 10000, .
600 bushels Of wheat. This is the av-
erage estimate placed on the probable
state yield by men who accompanied
the great wheat special through the
Kansas wheat belt. These estimates
are made up from reports Of farmers
and elev ator men in all sections. The
guesses on the total yield run from
60, ,ooo, 900 to 90, 900, 900 bushels, but it
is believed that 10000, 900 bushels is
the most conservative estim ate. This
means go, ,000, 900 for the wheat farm.
ers, as the crop is being contracted
for at 81 per bushel. The state will
need 1900 extra men to help harvest
the crop.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-23
MAY Appraise Railroads.

ST. PAUL, June l5.-A force OF
seven experts from the interstate COM
merce commission has begun work in
St. Paul looking into the construction
accounts of the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific railroads. This is
in connection with the valuation the
commission is making Of these roads
as basis for determining the fair.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-23
Killed BY Sunstroke.

KANSAS CITY, June 20.-Two died
here today from heat prostr ations.
Jacob B. Brayne, 81 years old, q
street car conductor, was overcome
while on his way home from work;
johnson, . musician, was
prostrated while playing in an amuse.
ment park.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-23

The WEEKLY RIVER PRESS is good
newspaper to send away to your friends
in the east. 1t will save you the trou.
BILE of writing lettac@
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-23

Water right blanks-only correct
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-20
Kennedy to Help keokuk Out.

NShHSdy " TISiP s>SSN0N 49,
keokuk Standard: The completion
of the water power and big dam ID
the Mississippi river here at keokl.k
is of more Importance to the people
of the entire First congressional dis
trict of Iowa than the house rules or
the election of speaker for the next
hundred years.
Congressman Kennedy, according to
Washington dispatches, has managed
to steer a sane and sensible course
through the troubled -aters of the
house during the last week which
helped to modify the rules, on the one
hand, and on the other hand retain
the friendship of the powers that be to
such an extent that he is to be on
the rivers and harbors committee of
the house. Four Iowa congressman
were so rampant and impractical that
they get wall flower committee ap-
| pointments.
| The rivers and harbors committee
/ is by far the most important to the
citizens of Congressman Kennedy's
( district, and in the near future it will
have still increased Importance. Thai
the candor, honesty, personality ant
nobility of Congressman Kennedy has
caused him to be placed on that com
mittee is matter for congratulatior
to the whole of his constituency O
, both parties
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-20
PRESIDENT wINcHELL's VIEWS.

Mr.. B. l.. Winchell, president of the
Rock Island railroad company, was
one of the speakers at the sixth annual
BANQUET of the Council Bluffs Com
mercial club on Thursday evening. His
subject was More Prosperity or More
Jynwise Laws-Which Shall 1t Be-
In describing the sea of trouble into
which the railroads have been plunged
President Winchell declared that one
of the questions which the nation
must soon solve is that of the respon-
sibility for railroad success or failure,
adding that under present col ditions
the responsibility has certainly been
taken away from the owners, they not
being in full control of either rates or
expenditures. He thus described the
situation:
with the many state legislatures
and state railroad commissions worS
ing independently to SO reduce rail
road revenues that too much money
shall not find its way into or remain
in the treasures of the railroads:
with the right of the Interstate Com
merce Commission to reduce inter
state rates, and with the right
of the national congress tc
increase the cost of operation
who will be responsible If the net re
suits are not such as to keep thing:
moving? Who will have been guilt,
iof having broken down our transpor
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-20
Are the Insane Abused Z

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Some Of the
members of the legislature profess 20
have discovered many cases of the
abuse of patients confined at the
Mount Pleasant and independence
hospitals for the insane. One of the
members of the h use, Representative
Fulliam of Muscatine, is especially
certain that the patients, in very many
instances, have been tortured. Mr..
Fulliam has gone so far as to say:
"A man had better be led out and shot
than committed to Mount Pleasant or
Independence
1t is to be hoped, for the good name
of the state, that the charges made by
Representative Fulliam and other
members OF the general assembly are
totally unfounded. Iowans have taken
considerable pride In the management
/ of their charitable institutions; they
| have taken pride in the freedom from
| scandal, and they have pointed to the
contrast between conditions in oul
own institutions and conditions in Hi
hoiS tiuu SoHiC othCi SlotcS. II VIII w
a great shock to the state If our PEG
/ pie learn for certainty that We are
not blameless In our treatment of the
unfortunates.
But no matter what may be our feel
\ ings, no matter how much our pride
may be hurt, there is but one thing
for the state to do, and that is to thor
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-20
If You please. Mr.. Rankin.

Marshalltown Times-Republican
Mr.. Rankin. author and manager of
the state marshals bill, from his eyrie
In the Slavery Hotel at Des Moines
sends out from time to time his OBJ
jections to such plans of law enforce
ment which appeal to the legislature
and to the majority of people who &C.
tually are anxious to have restrictive
laws and have them enforced. Natur-
ally, Mr.. Rankin sees disaster in all
but his own pet project for which he
has lobbied, 10 these many years.
without making any very serious i'm
preston on the legislature and which
has furnished him employment for
number of seasons of lecturing up and
down the state.
Mr.. Rankin has hobby. He is All
extremely pleasant elderly gentleman
with the gift of CAB. Perhaps it would
be more accurate to say that Mr.. Ran
kin is an orator for he is all of that.
His persuasive eloquence has filled
miles of petitions with the names of
signers WHO wrote under his spell and
of whom most forgot about it before
the ink vas dry. One may be per-
mitted to surmise that he has found
his work pleasant whether or not 1t
has been profitable There is nothing
unpleasant about a good room at d
good hotel and pleasant people ready
to accord courteous treatment to the
temperance worker. Then, too, Mr..
Rankin is happiest when he is assist
! ing onward great reform like that
contemplated by his marshals bill. He
says many good things, stirs many bet
/ ter impulses. He has helped to bring
about the sentiment that is making
1 gress. He ought to be satisfied with
7 that He ought not to assume that
/ he knows better than the legislature,
I the press and the people of Iowa what
] they want in legislation. And he
/ should have been convinced long ago
4 that they do not want his bill as a
law 1t is also time he learned that
they will not have it.
Perhaps it would not be out Of the
way to hint that Mr.. Rankin misap
4 prehends both his influence and the
need of the state. Not to insinuate
that he and his bill are back number:
possibly it would not be discourteous
to let him know that we can struggle
along in Iowa without his guiding
hand upon the helm. He is takini
himself and his petitions too serious
~. Nine out of every ten persons
with knowledge of the situation
among those who signed up with hin
will prefer the Byers plan. If MI
Rankin does not know this he is sci
deceived.
Now. If Mr.. Rankin will please g
somewhat farther back and sit dow
the state will proceed. He has bee
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-20
REPRESENTATIVE JONES.

Our esteemed contemporary, the
Keokuk Standard, has word in de
Tense" OF Representative Jones vote
in favor of resubmitting the prohibi
tory amendment. incidentally it calls
him misrepresentation Jones" and
says that
1T is absolutely certain that his
vote represented neither large frac-
ton of his own party, nor of the
voters of Lee county. Probably it
represented his own conscience, for
there certainly was no good politics
in it,
BY way OF justification OF his action,
if his vote was an expression of his
convictions, this is added:
Now, if Leroy Jones is one of those
partially informed men who believe
that a state constitution can stop or
start drunkenness, and one of those
philanthropists who recognize duty
to stop the drinking of liquor, then
the only mcnly thing for him to do
was to vote for the prohibition
amendment to the constitution. In
that case he voted not as represent
alive of his constituents, but as a
manly man not afraid to do what he
believes to be right-and such men
are rare enough to be applauded when
they prove themselves that courage
GUS
So far so good, but as the Standard
sees it, he did his fine thing for
nothing: ut was like rushing into
burning building to rescue the bed
bugs. The force of the comparison
is enhanced by the added statement
that "the liquor interests have been
helped more by statewide prohibition
in Iowa than by anything else.
Summing it all up, it seems that the
most that can be said in defense of
Representative Jones is that he was
more Jealous than wise. The great
mass of Lee county people would pre-
/ fer the exhibition of more extended
Z knowledge and better Judgment in
one commissioned to represent them
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-20

A Des MONIES dispatch says that
highway legislation at the present
session of the general assembly is like
" to be somewhat meager The sen
ate passed bill authorizing the bet
torment of roads by the use of the
drag, and also bill permitting town
ships to go back to the old system of
dozen road supervisors to town
ship with each farmer working out
his taxes as in the old time. There
is on the senate calendar bill favor
ably recommended to authorize the es-
tablishmnt of road districts somewhat
after the style of drainage districts,
upon petition of resident property own
eTs and a report of the county engin-
eer. In such districts it will be pos
sible to make roads and assess half
the cost 10 ahutting property The
0lan of having state bonus for high,
ways has not met with great favor and
the plan of having state engineer
and directing all road building from
ole central authority is not ripe.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-20

Stringent provisions against the
owners of buildings used for houses
of ill-repute are embodied in bill in
troduced in the legislature by Sena-
tor Crossen. The bill provides that
action may be brought against dis
orderly house in the name of the state
OF Iowa, by relation of the informant,
who may be either a private citizen
or a county official. Upon convic-
ton tax shall be levied against the
owner of he building, similar TO the
mulct tax which is levied upon drug
gists found guilty of selling liquor in
violation of the law. The tax is linn
tied to 5000 One important feature of
the bill is that attorneys fees are not
provided for, and this is expected to
do away with the practice by busy
body" attorneys of bringing alleged
trumped.up charges against the own
ers of buildings for the purpose of OBJ
tanning fees.