The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-10-07
MINNESOTA CONGRESSMAN is DIES
IGNATED AS GREAT HUSH" OF
SYSTEMS SERvIT0RS.
BLOCKS CHILD LABOR EXPOSE.
Acts of Representative Are Made the
Subject of a Five-Column Article
in Senator's Publication.
ouTDoEs VAN HISE OR COLLIER

MADISON, Wis, Oct. IL Special i
"In Tawney the System finds an IDEAL
seryitor. No weight of authority deters
him. No task is too big for him 10
tackle. No service is too slight to en-
gage his attention. He is always on
the Job His speciality is knocking III
the head appropriations for government
Investigations OF System wrongdolnS
This is a portion of the singing cAaI-
acterizatiou and hanging IN eihgy "hiCA
Senator La Toilette makes IN ms week
lymagazinC today Of Congressman Law ueI
Of Minoua, MINI Close on the heels Of
the article by President Charles H. van
Ilise SCORING Congressman laWut} III
Worlds Work, and in Golfers Tor ms
attitude on the conservation OIL Inc ma
tons resources comes more caustlc Hr-
liucatiou of TaWney as the euch! Oh
child labor III La IolietLe.s TINS
week. lie is depicted uS the great
hush-h-h," and as CauuUn's expert nj the
System 5" game Of keep IN the dark
In "a hve-cOiumu article the work oi
Congressman Iawuey in opposing iHVea.
LEGATION measures are spread 90 the sun
light and there Is reuuke after rebuNe
because the article claims IaWucy OPP
posed an investigation of child labor
which might disclose conditions worse
than the packing house scandals.
Quotes RooseveIts Attitude
The article shows how Tawney at
tempted to tnwart this and other probes
but beaten, turns in an onslaught on an
appropriation, which would finance the
work President Rooseyelts favorable
attitude on the measure together with
that of the bureau Of labor are quoted 10
substantiate La Follette's views
"At that time. too, the department of
the Interior under Secretary Hitchcock,
wac beginning to uncover wholesale land
thieviug in the western states says La
Tollette's Magazine. Men important
in the circles Of Big Business and Big
Politics were being implicated. The
clues were running into the department
at Washington. Six hundred indictments
had been found. A single conspiracy
was uncovered which had stolen 26J, 900
acres of public land in California. But
the work was handicapped for want Of "A
secret fund at the disposal Of the score
tary of the interior for its prosecution
A force of detectives was needed.
THE secretary had employed some Sc
cret service men, but his fund was ex-
hausted. He appealed to Tawucy aud
his committee to give him at least $40
900 with which to push this great work.
Grudgingly Iawney reported with an
appropriation Of $4,000. II was ride
ulously inadequate, II was attacked on
the floor Of the House by Democrats
and Republicans. Tuwucy was smoked
out To save his face, he accepted Il
compromise amendment proposed by
Williams. the Democratic leader allow
ing $4,000 10 enable the Republican adj
miulstratIon to fight land thieves. Again
Tawney was beaten, but also again he
wanted red tape
Pneumatic Tube Deaf
Another pet Of Tawnpy's was the
pneumatic tube appropriation The
pneumatic tube service is rented by the
government from q patent right munOp
oily. 1t is used 10 distribute mail TO
branch postonices in a few large cities.
The service costs this government a mil
lion dollars a year. The annual rental
Is $1,000 for each mile of service
$50 much criticism is encountered each
year upon this item in the pustoticc APP
preparation bill that Chairman Over
street Of the pOstOilicc committee in the
SiNueth Congress proposed an amend
ment directing the postmaster general
TO investigate and report 10 Congress
upon The feasibility and dcsirabiity Of
the government owning and operating
this pneumatic tube service.
Under me rules Of the House new
legislation Is not in order upon appro-
pIiation bills. The Ovcrstrect amend.
ment was new legislation or course. il
could be killed by anyone raising the
point OF orderT TaWncy raised the
point of order
The article contains q score of similar
illustrations discussing Tawney'a tactics
and IS virtually al expose of his meth