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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
Knocks Out Many jobs.

The judiciary local committee of TIE
house has made a favorable report on
the Cunningham bill abolishing the
travelling library, dairy commissioner,
chronological commission, secretary
of the horticulture society, academy of
science, secretary of the mining in
dustries, free employment bureau, for
estry commissioner and curator of
the state museum of natural history
The work of these departments is to
be handled by other departments of
the state or the state schools.
This is one of the most important
bills which has come before the Kan
sas legislature, and it's passage means
a great victory for the people, as well
as for the administration which prom
ised the people that the measure
would be passed. 1t is party
pledge as well as pledge by Cover
nor Stubs.
Very great Influence has been
BROUGHT to bear to have the bill killed
and that influence is being felt. It is
not too late, however, for the 1egisla-
ture to enact the legislation which the
people have demanded.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
It's Nohody,s Business.

babe life insurance agents to split up
their commissions with their custo-
mers. Senator Quincy thought that if
an insurance agent wanted to divide
profits with somebody that was his
affair and not the states. This is
purely bill to prevent an agent from
giving away his money! said Quincy.
land I don't think that life insurance
agents need that protection. I move
to strike out the enacting clause"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
Appropriation Bills In.

The appropriation bills for the state
university, state agricultural college
and other educational institutions
have been introduced in the senate
by the ways and means committee.
The appropriation bill for the state
university provides for 1910, $347 1893
for maintenance, S40,144 for. repairs
and improvements and $4,000 for the
first wing of new building. For the
year 1911, the appropriation for gen
eral maintenance is $368,97S, repairs
$40,144, new buildings $4,000. new
state hospital at Rosedale $4,000.
equipment electrical engineering S10,-
600. The total appropriation for 1910
is $438,137 and for 1911 $544.122. For
TIE state agricultural college the sum
of $334,OOO is appropriated for 1910
and 1905, 500 for 1911.
For the Western Kansas university
(negro) at Quindaro $4,000 is allow
ed for new girls dormitory and $4,000
for maintenance for each year.
For the Topeka industrial and edu-
cational institution, appropriations of
$1,000 is made for new building,
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
EmpIoxes, LlabiIitx RiII.

Under the provision of a bill rec
commended for passage in the house
the employees liability bill-an en-
ploye of railroad company, inter
urban railway company, street rail-
way company, mine, factory or work
shop can collect damages from his en-
ployer in case of injury, even though
he contributed to the accident through
his own carelessness. The only thing
he needs to prove is that he was less
careless than some one else connect
ed with the company who contributed
to his accident The bill also provides
hat he may collect in case his acct
dent was due to faulty machinery or
to carelessness on the part of some
other employee. The present law
makes some such provision for the
railroad man actually employed in the
operation of trains, but this bill takes
in all employees connected with the
operating Or mechanical part of the
works.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
Still Working on Bank Bill.

The senate has refused to concur
in the agreement reached by the
house and senate conferees on the
bank deposit guaranty bill. The mo-
ton of Senator Quincy to non-concur
was carried by a rising vote of 26
to 10.
Other conference committees were
then appointed.
The report provided that savings de-
posts subject to check should be
guaranteed up to 500 for each man.
The senate had refused to allow this
and the house required it. but the
conferees fixed up a compromise and
it was thought that the bill would go
through as the conferees fixed it. The
senate was opposed to allowing open
interest bearing accounts to come IN
der the guaranty plan and the major
ity was so. large that there was no
doub of it. Many of the senators
We're opposed to any guaranty, so they
took pleasure in voting with those
opposed to this feature of the bill in
the hope that the guaranty measure
would be killed.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
Provides Contingent Funds.

The ways and mess committee of
the house has brought in the execu-
tive and judicial bill. 1t carries ap-
for all the executive de-
partments of the state and the courts,
both supreme and district. The gov
ernor's contingent fund is given S1O,-
600. In the past it has been $4,000.
The secretary of state is given $1,000
to enforce the primary law. The
state treasurer has his salary lifted
to $500 in accordance with a law
passed two years ago.
Attorney General Jackson is given
$21 900 with which to fight the trusts
during the next two years. The sum
of $4,000 is set aside to pay war"
expenses in case the militia is called
out. The railroad commissioners are
given $4,000 for contingent expenses,
and the attorney for the board is Civ
en- $1,000 contingent fund to Fay for
additional lawyers to help him try
cases. Aside from these items the
bill carries the usual appropriations.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
DIRT MAKES SAILORS DESERT.
Fighting Bob" Discusses the Horrors
of the Dry Dock.

With the ships crowded into the
navy yards for repairs. the officers and
men found their surroundings most
uncomfortable. AS many as possible
were sent on leave, but the remaining
ones had hard time OF it, says Rear
Admiral Evans in Hampton's Broad
way Magazine. Above all things, an
American bluejacket likes a clean
place to eat, a clean place
to sleep and a chance to keep
himself clean and smart; in other
words, he loves a clean ship, and he
is unhappy if he cannot have it. That
these conditions should always prevail
on vessel of war goes without say
ing, but it is a fact, which none can
deay, that they do not exist on a yes
sci under repairs at a navy yard; the
conditions are such as to render clean
mess and comfort impossible
ship goes to the navy yard spick
and span-everything clean and neat,
and the men happy and contented;
then a gang of workmen in dirty over
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
Recommends Rate Standard.

The railroad committee of the
house has recommended for passage
the White bill in regard to establish
ing standard for the fixing of rates.
The bill provides that the railroad
commissioners in fixing distance tar
if rates shall take as a basis the ter
minal rates put in by the railroads
themselves, except such terminal
rates as are established through COM
petition.
Chairman Morgan of the committee
said that no consideration had yet
been given to his bill establishing
maximum rate on wheat, corn and
other grain and their products and
cattle, hogs and coal This bill scales
down present freight rates from 10
to % per cent on the commodities
mentioned. 1t was drawn by the rail-
road board, and is said to have the
backing Of the administration.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
Anti-cinarette Bill.

The anti-cfgarette bill is ready to
become a law. The bill has just been
passed by the senate and is now much
more stringent than it was when it
came from the house. The bill has
been so amended that it is not only
made a misdemeanor for the dealer
to sell cigarettes or the "makin's" to
a minor, but it is a misdemeanor for
him 20 sell tobacco in any form to
a minor. The amendments will prob
ably be agreed to by the house where
the bill originated.
It has been decided to permit drug
gists to sell alcohol for medical and
scientific purposes Druggists say
alcohol is absolutely necessary to pre-
serve the ingredients of certain pre-
scriptions.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
Sport for an Old WhaIer.

Whalemen still live in Province
town, Mass, though they are few in
number and lead life Of retirement
seldom stirred by events connected
with their aforetime avocation. A few
days ago, however, memories Of other
days were revived. The life-saving
station reported a whale floundering
in the fish weirs or the cove. Capt.
Joshua Stickney Nickerson loaded up
his bomb lance, and with his son
rowed a boat to the scene. The har-
Dor was lined with spectators who
shouted encouragement. Capt. Josh"
ranged up alongside and, getting the
whale as he rolled over on his side,
fired the lance with its harpoon head
into the vitals. The bomb exploded
inside and the whale rolled over dead.
1T took some time to cut the body free
from the wrecked weirs, but it was
finally cleared. 1t proved to be the
largest whale caught in this vicinity
for several years, and of the right
whale variety. He estimates the prod
ucts of his prize at 80 barrels of oil
and a couple Of hundred pounds Of
bone, which will bring him $500.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
Prominent Woman sunraqists.

Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett is
the only woman who has ever been
asked to address the University De
batting society at Oxford At the re
quest of the students she took woman
suffrage as her subject. AT the end
Of her speech a resolution in favor of
woman suffrage was put and lost by
a majority of 16 There is a rumor
that Mrs. Julia Ward Howe will in
the near future receive a similar invi-
tation from Harvard. Those who pre-
tend to- be informed assert that Har-
wards majority against woman suf-
frage would be many times greater
than Oxford's
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
One grammar school of Chicago hs

One grammar school of Chicago has
solved the vexed question of gradua-
nion gowns for the girls, or rather the
principal has solved it for them.
Glasses in the highest grade of the
grammar schools have formal gradua-
ton exercises because so many of the
pupils end their school days at that
time, and 1t has become the custom to
make quite a function of the proceed
ings. AS many of the children come
from families not able to provide elab-
crate costumes the question of dress
has become a vexed one. The princi-
pal mentioned cogitated on the matter,
therefore, and issued on order that
each girl must make her own gradual
ing gown out of a specified grade of
material, before she could have her
diploma. These girls will now make
their appearance in gowns costing
S1-S9 each and with no soreness or
hard feelings toward anyone 1t was
q happy thought
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
Hays CITY Free Press

impracticality of Practical Education.
1 am even so optimistic as to think
1t not impossible that even the general
public will revise its notions OF prac-
ticality. At any rate, my experience
as a teacher has seen one complete
change OF judgment in this matter,
writes Dean Birge in the Atlantic.
When / began to teach zoology my
teeth were continually set on edge by
the well-meaning friends who talked
wisely Of the practical nature OF the
study of science as contrasted with
language. For the past Is years, or
more, have heard nothing Of this. All
are now aware that the study Of sci
ence is no more practical, and no less
so, than the study of philosophy. To-
day that practically" which once
seemed to inhere in science is placed
In the study of history and of econo-
mics. In Is years more the world
may have learned that these new hui
manities are chiefly valuable, not as
furnishing practical guides to the af-
fairs of active life, but that they stand
with the old humanities, with the sci
ences. with philosophy, as furnishing a
way into the intellectual life. 1t may
be well that students will learn that
In coming to college they are seeking
the intellectual life, and that the way
In which they reach it matters little,
so that the result have in it abundant
vitality and many points of growth.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
Druggists to Sell Alcohol.

The propositions to allow the
wholesale druggists in the state to
sell alcohol under permits, has been
introduced in the form of a bill by
the judiciary committee of the senate,
and on motion of Chairman Price it
was advanced to second reading IN
der suspension of the rules.
The absolute prohibitory bill just
passed by the senate will not become
a law as soon as it is signed by the
governor, but it will be in effect as
soon as published in the statute books.
which will be issued next May or June.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06

Tolsdo cathedral, one Of the most
magnificent specimens of Gothic archi-
lecture in the world, is in serious dan
ger of collapsing. owing to the condi-
ton OF the central dome. Large cracks
have appeared and a recent slight
earthquake greatly increased the
buildings peril The ecclesiastical au-
thorities are greatly alarmed, and they
have ordered the priceless choir stalls
removed. A committee of architects
urges immediate extensive repairs.
The government has been asked to
grant $4,000 for this purpose.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
Duplicate Gas Pipe Line.

E. H. Johnson of Atchison secured a
favorable report on his bill in the
house requiring the Kansas Natural
Gas company to build duplicate pipe
line from the gas field to the various
towns which it supplied with gas. The
company is given until January Il,
1911, to complete the duplicate lines.
After that date if it fails to have du-
plicate lines in operation it is liable
to a fine of $1,000 per day.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
Prohibition Law Signed.

Governor Stubs has signed the
prohibition law 1t will not take eff
feet until published in the statutes.
The state generally issues the statutes
between May Is and June 1. This
will give druggists time to dispose OF
their stock of liquors.
1t is practically certain that the
legislature will pass supplemental
bill giving druggists the right to use
alcohol in preparing prescriptions or
to sell alcohol upon doctors prescrip-
tons.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
Anti-cfearette Bill Passed.

The senate has passed the anti
cigarette bill by vote of 20 to Z.
After its passage the measure was
reconsidered so as to fixe the title
and this gave Senator Robertson a
chance to move to strike out some of
the features from the bill which he
considered drastic enough to imperil
the legality of the measure. The sen
ate thought the original measure all
right and made no change.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
Lonu Sheets Bill Passes.

The Johnson bill providing for fire
escapes and extra-1ength sheets on
all beds for all hotels and public lodg-
ing houses was recommended for pas
sage in the senate. 1t has already
passed the house, so it is in fair
way to become a law.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06

There are some peculiar species of
humor which should pass with the in
creasingly high standard of modern
civilization. One of these is the
Joke" marriage, whose fun is very
short-lived and whose end is in the di-
vorce courts.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06

Mrs. Agnes Knox Black, wife Of
Prof. c. Charleton Black of Boston uni
versity, has been appointed to the fac
ulty of the College of Liberal Arts of
the university as Shaw professor of
elocution. Mrs. Black succeeds Prof
Malvina NJ. Bennett who recently re-
signed.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06

New diamond fields have been
found in Africa, this time in German
territory. It's going to take an inter
national trust to keep up the price or
engagement rings.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
Many RIcxclists in Japan.

Japan makes 10000 to $1,000 bicyc-
les yearly and also imports 10000, be-
sides separate parts enough to make
$4,000. The country now has 100000
in use, mostly for business purposes.
The demand for tires is 200 pairs
daily, two-thirds OF which are inn
ported.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06

Very hard times are expected in
Germany. From month to month the
working hours in the textile factories
are being further reduced, amounting
now to but four days employment in
the Silesian district, while in southern
Germany the working time of the tex
tile mills has been curtailed by IA per
cent.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06

The Oregon legislature has passed a
law limiting the length of women's hat
pins to ten inches. Trying to induce
footpads to move In? Don't reduce the
effectiveness Of woman's most deadly
weapon.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06

An Indiana piano player played for
% hours in a contest and then tainted.
Report fails to state how many of the
neighbors were similarly put out of
business.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06

the first opportunity. N&e wonder to
me is that more of them 10 not desert.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
Promises Extra Session.

A matter of most pressing impor-
lance is the revision of the tariff. In
accordance with the promises of the
platform upon which l was elected.
l shall call congress into extra session.
to meet on the fifteenth day of March.
in order that consideration may be at
once given to bill revising the Ding
ley act. This should secure an ade-
quate revenue and adjust the duties in
such manner as to afford to labor
and TO all industries in this country.
whether of the farm, mine or factory.
protection by tariff equal to the diff
ference between the cost of production
abroad and the cost of production
here, and have a provision which
shall put into force, upon executive
determination of certain facts. a high
er or maximum tariff against those
countries whose trade policy toward
us equftably requires such discrimi-
nation 1t is thought that there has
been such change in conditions since
the enactment of the Dingley act
drafted on similarly protective prin-
ciple, that the measure of the tariff
above stated will permit the reduction
OF rffes In certain schedules and will
require the advancement of few. if
any.
Money Needed for Big Projects.
The putting into force of laws which
shall secure the conservation of our
resources, so far as they NAV be with
in the jurisdiction of the federal gov
eminent, including the most impor-
tant work of saving and restoring our
forests, and the general improvement
of waterways, are all proper govern
ment functions which must involve
large expenditure if properly per-
formed. While some of them, like the
reclamation of arid lands, are made
TO pay for themselves, others are of
such an indirect benefit that this can
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06
PRESIDENT TAFTS
STRONG ADDRESS
INAUGURAL DELIVERED BY
NATIONS NEW CHIEF
EXECUTIVE.
EXTRA SESSION Is PROMISED

Congress viii Meet March is to Take
Up Tariff Observation-Disclosures Army
and Navy Urged-Panama Canal
Heartily ApproVed-Southern Race
Problem and Labor Legislation
Discussed,
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06

If you suffer from Fits, Falling Sickness Spasms or
have children, friends that do so, my New Dis
covery viii relieve them, and all you are asked to
do is to send for Free tile of
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1t has cured ousands where everything else
failed Sent free with directions. Express Prepaid
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National Food and Drugs Act, June Both, 1906 Guar
anty No. 1871. Please give AGE aud full address
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54S Pearl Street, New York City.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-03-06


Washington, Mar. 4 = President
Taft, having been sworn in as chief
executive of the nation, delivered an
inaugural address that was listened to
with great interest. In part il was as
follows:
My Fellow Citizens Any one who
takes the oath l have Just taken must
feel a heavy weight of responsibility
If not, he has no conception of the
powers and duties of the office upon
which he is about to enter, or he Is
lacking in a proper sense of the obi
cation which the oath imposes.
The office of an inaugural address
is to give a summary outline of the
main policies of the new administra-
ton, so far as they can be anticipated.
have had the honor to be one of the
advisers of my distinguished prede-
cessor, and as such, to hold up his
hands in the reforms he has initiated.
l should be untrue to myself, to my
promises and TO the declaration of
the party platform upon which l am
elected to Office, If l did not make the
maintenance and enforcement of those
reforms a most important feature of
my administration. They were Gi-
rected to the suppression of the law
lessness and abuses of power Of the
great combinations of capital invested
in railroads and in industrial enter
prises carrying on interstate COM
merce. The steps which my predec-
sor took and the legislation passed on
his recommendation have accom-
plished much, have caused a general
halt in the vicious policies which ere
ated popular alarm, and have brought
about in the business affected a much
higher regard for existing law
More Legislation Needed.
To render the reforms lasting, how
ever, and to secure at the same time
freedom from alarm on the part of
those pursuing proper and progress
sive business methods, further legisla-
tive and executive action are needed.
Relief of the railroads from certain re-
strictions of the antitrust law has
been urged by my predecessor and will
be urged by me. On the other hand
the administration is pledged to legis-
lation looking to a proper federal su-
pervision and restriction to prevent ex-
cessive issues of bonds and stocks by
companies owning and operating inter
state commerce railroads
l hope to be able to submit at the
first regular session of the incoming
! congress, in December next, definite
suggestions in respect to the needed
amendments to the antitrust and the
Interstate commerce laws, and the
changes required in the executive de-
partments concerned in their enforce
ment.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-02-19
GIRLS WILL PLAY
BALL TONIGHT.
PENDLETON HIGH AND
WALLA WALLA HIGH
Last Game of the Season for the LO-
cal Ball TOssers and Contest VIII
Settle Championship of Eastern Ore
gOn and Washington-Local Girls
Have Chance to Win.

AT the high school gymnasium this
evening the local high school girls
will play their last basketball game
of the season with an outside oppo-
nent The game will be with the
Walla Walla high school and Incl
dentally the contest viii decide the
championship of eastern Oregon and
eastern Washington. Already Pen
dleton has won from all other east
ern Oregon schools while Washington
has done the same by the schools of
that state.
Several weeks ago the Pendleton
girls team went to Walla Walla and
were defeated by score of nine to
five. But this evening they will be
playing upon their own floor and they
hope to redeem that defeat.
For the Pendleton team the line up
this evening will be as follows:
Forwards, Mona Jahnson and Eu
nice Vogel; Centers-Gertrude Jor-
dan and Daisy Mcpherson; Guards
Ruth Gibson ana Lucille RAIDER.
The Walla Walla team will be COM
posed as follows: FOrwards-Ma
garet Hunt and Irene Steele; Centers
Jesse and Jenie McRay; Guards
Veva McGrew and LuelIa Indy
Miss Armstrong, coach or the
Walla Walla team and Professor Pot
ter, Of the local high school. will be
the officials The game will be called
at 8 o'clock.