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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-10-14
SALARY GRAB.

Here and there, scattered perhaps for
concealment, if the records are search
ed will be found evidence of the raids
which proteges of the Machine or mem
bers of 1.-The tribe" have been making
upon the treasury of the State.
Sec. &C of the Constitution is as fol-
lows:
The Clerk of the House of Delegates
shall be Keeper of the Rolls of the State
but shall receive no compensation from
the State for his services as such.
At the first session of the General
Assembly after the proclaiming of the
new constitution, the salaries of the
Clerks of the House of Delegates and
Senate were fixed at $1,000 day for
ten days preceding meeting of General
Assembly, $1,000 day for each day the
General Assembly was in session and
$1,000 day for 60 days succeeding the
adjournment of the General Assembly.
This made the salary of the Clerk of
the House of Delegates 81, 300 for the
biennial session of the Legislature if it
adjourned promptly at the expiration of
the 60 days. In other words, provision
was made for giving the Clerk of the
House of Delegates 81, 800 for 100 days
coming within the period of two years,
which represents the existence of a
House of Delegates, with one biennial
session as provided by the Constitution.
OF these 100 days the Clerk of the House
of Delegates was really engaged in &C
tive work for the 60 days of the session.
1t looks like he was pretty well paid for
1he work he was doing and has to do.
At the last session of the General AS
sembly he had passed bill increasing
his pay as follows: $1,000 per day fol
80 days preceding the meeting of the
General Assembly; $40 90 per day dur
ing the session; $40. per day succeed
ing the session; and $500 per day fol
every day in which he does not gel
800 per day. This Act of the Gen
sral Assembly was adroitly drawn so as
to cover the entire two years which in.
clude the biennial session of sixty days
provided by the Constitution. And il
gives to the Clerk of the House of Dele.
gates five dollars per day for $50 days
within the two years when he is doing
nothing for the Commonwealth but
drawing his salary. Here is what the
Clerk of the House of Delegates is now
getting under the salary grab act:
For 80 days preceding session
"a $40. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ) 3UC
For 90 days during session "a
$40. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ON
For 60 days succeeding session
a $40. observation-disclosures. oOO
For 215 days bal. of first year
after session a $5.... 1,O7S
For $50 days End year a S.. 1925
Total. 4,40C
Old salary 1906
Increase in salary. ......... SO, loo
, Here Is 50, 100 of the public revenue
.,,rnAd over to the Clerk of the House
of Delegates each two years in plain
violation of Section 66 of the Constitu-
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How the Journal Was Punished.
Richmond Journal.

Richmond Journal.
The Tszewell Republican asks why
the contract for the publication of pro-
posed amendments to the Constitution
was awarded to the News Leader in
this city over The Journal, whose bid
was lower. Our afternoon contempor-
airy replies that the advertising refer
red to was awarded to it on a circula-
ton basis, adding: 1.-The State follow
ed the rule of the sagacious business
man who pays for publicity according to
what he gets. TWENTY thou
sand circulation is worth to the adver-
tiser just twice as much as 10000"
This is a subject upon which The
Journal expressed its opinion sometime
ago, and we had no idea of re-openinp
it. Justice to ourselves now requires.
however. that something more be said.
The News Leader bid 81, 120 on a cir
culation statement to Clerk John w.
Williams of 22,922 The Journal bid
ST. Sic on circulation of .I6, 4S9. The
bids were calculated by the clerk on a
basis per thousand for the time the ad
vertising was to run, with the following
result:
News Leader. .9204
The journal. $3.50
The award was made to the News
Leader.
Now, let US see how the State fur
Their followed the rule of the ssgacious
business man who pays for what he gets.
In Norfolk, the Landmark bid 1921 60
on circulation of 5000; the Ledger
Dispatch bid 1899 on a circultion of IT,
600, and the Virginian-P Pilot bid s99S. 40
on circulation of 1880. The award
was not made on a circulation basis.
The contract was given to the lowest
bidder, without reference to circulation.
On the basis of circulation the bid of the
other Norfolk papers was about one
half the price charged by the Landmark.
By ignoring the circulation basis, the
State saved $3.50. BY ignoring the
circulation basis in Richmond the State
would have saved $685.
In Danville, thd Register bid 1858. 90
on circulation of 1000, and the Bee
bid $404.48 on circulation of $500.
The contract was awarded to the Regis
ter. Had the circulation basis been
insisted upon, as it was in Richmond.
the contract would have gone to the
Bee.
The figures and circulation statements
quoted above are from Clerk Williams
Office.
OF the Norfolk papers the Landmark
was less active in opposition to the
Democratic organizations gubernatorial
candidate than the other two. Of the
Richmond papers The Journal was most
aggressive in its opposition to the
organization candidate. The rule
adopted and actuatally enforced in
Richmond by Clerk Williams would, if
enforced in Norfolk, have thrown the
contract to some other paper than the
Landmark.
The rule adopted and actually on.
forced in Norfolk would, it enforced In
Richmond, have given the contract to
The Journal at saving to the State of
more than $500.
Clerk Williams defense of the Rich
mond award is said to be based on other
grounds than those the News Leader
advances. 1t seems that he was sud.
denly confronted with the problem of
Manchester, where there Is no daily pa
per. Discovering that the News Leader
date line declared that the Office Of pub
LEGATION was in Richmond and Man
chester" he justifsd the award ON that
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Dorset Sheep.

have some very fine DORIS. Jams
Tor sale, better than ever Def. " and :
prices in reach of all.
SAMUEL 7. HENINGER.
aug 4S"o Burkes Garden, Va.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-10-14

ADVERTISING RATES furnished on ap-
pication. Correspondence solicited.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-10-14

Here Is 81, 100 of the public revenue
turned over to the Clerk of the House
of Delegates each two years in plain
violation of Section Sc of the Constitu-
zion. A pretty big sum for the tax
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REPUBLICAN

SUBSCRIPTIONS:
Republican, one year. in advance 81. 90
On Time. Observation-Disclosures. 1.50
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-10-14

The Constitution of Virginia provides
as follows for future changes in the
Constitution
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-09

paper which reprinted the same article
20 cut down the amount OF damages that
may bs secured. The bill IL still in the
hands Of the house judiciary COMMITTEES.
but Colonel Bates is making an effort to
have Il reported out shortly. Those who
have investigated the measure have told
Cclcrel Bates II is a fair and sauars
measure and should be passed.
Under the present libel laws should a
libelous article be published in one news
paper and then reprinted innocently in an
other the second newspaper cannot use the
fact that the first has already paid dam
ages as evidence to have the judgment
secured against the second cut down.
Loan sharks Are Fooled.
BY the passage in the house of Repre-
sentative Thomas bill to prohibit salary
loan agencies from plying their trade in
Nebraska the campaign to prevent this
class OF business in Nebraska has been
given another boost. The bill now goes
into the senate. where It is likely to have
harder shedding, but where nevertheless
there is a decided sentiment among many
members in it's favor. The bill Is intended
to shut off a number Of agencies who by
securing from borrowers a pledge of a
portion Of their unearned salaries on loans
have, in many INSTANCES. the details OF
which have been made public. caused an
endless amount Of trouble and in several
cases tragedies.
A strong lobby has been maintained
against this class Of bills. H. B. F1eharty
of South Omaha has been about the corri-
doris on numerous occasions working on
this proposition, and while the Thomas bill
was pending In the house Charles e. STRAIT
ton, formerly Of Ashland, Neb.. later Of
Omaha, and now one Of the loan shark
kings OF Denver. was in Lincoln doing his
best to defeat this and to blunt the senti-
ment In favor of kindred measures. Mr..
stratton has a branch agency in Lincoln,
He has won fame of a certain kline and
great wealth in Denver, where the news
papers OF that city have frequently used
his name in headlines of black letter.
The senate last week killed a bill intro
duced by Miller of Lancaster, copied after
the Michigan law. that would have per.
mitted the organization of companies OF
responsible men authorized to loan money
at about ~ per cent a year, and intended
to cope with the loan shark evil by the
enactment of a law permitting competition
along a basis of fair business, to the end
that the small borrower may be aided in
stead of being kept constantly In debt.
The Miller bill was declared unconstitu.
tional by the senate judiciary committee.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-09
sTOCKMEN ASK FOR INSPECTORS
Want state TO Supplement- Work of
Federal Government.
(From a. Staff Correspondent.

(rrom r. starr correspondent
LINCOLN, March ~S.-(Special )-Stock-
men of Nebraska from various sections,
both east and west. have been urged by
the Stock Shippers association of Ne
braska to come to Lincoln tomorrow to
present their claim to an appropriation
of $4,000 each year for two years to help
along the inspection Of cattle from shipping
stations. The appropriation is in further
ance of a bill, H. r. 1853, by Fogarty of
Greeley, to provide for a board to super
wise the work Of inspection and supplement
the work of the government inspectors.
During the latter half Of the last year
Of Governor sheldon's administration, the
governor and a number OF leading cattle
men went to Washington when the state
was placed under quarantine for scabies
and kindred diseases and secured from
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson a prom
Use that the government would place in
spectors in the state to pass upon cattle
sent to local markets and out of the
state, and with this order In force the
quarantine was lifted. There was pledge
made at the time that the next legislature
would be requested to make an appropria-
ton so that Nebraska might do its share
in helping along this work.
Az bONCi tiiS phN III Inspectors dnO
has expended about $4,000 in the state to
the great benefit of shippers and to the
facilitation of business. The purpose OF
the state appropriation is that inspectors
may be furnished at shipping stations SC
live stock shippers may be certain their
cattle may not have to be dipped before
leaving the state or before being admitted
to market points within the state. The de-
tention of cattle at a dipping station, be-
sides being an expense TO the shipper, leaves
an opening for shrewd brokers to make
purchases at reduced prices. hence the
general sentiment among cattlemen thai
the state should do its share to help the
government and insure the continuance
OF government inspectors In the state and
obviate the possibility OF a future quaran.
tine.
Experts who have examined the figures
covering shipments to South Omaha yards
say that the government inspection dur
ing the period from May, 1908. TO January
1909, reduced the number OF diseased animal,
received at those markets 70 per cent be.
low the number received during the SAME
period in 1907.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-09

IS to another. The one theory IL helpful
to the one side. and the other theory help
full to the other side; the one theory TO
the one side In freight, and the other
theory to the other side in passenger. But
an arbitrary splitting Of theories is Hog
lcel and unfair. and cannot be recognized.
The court has adopted the revenue theory
because a great number OF the best rail-
road experts Of the country, against a
very limited number TO the contrary, has
so testified. Every court that has ever
had this question before It insofar as I am
advised by the briefs Of counsel and my
own independent Investigation, has so held
In the cases OF the supreme court of the
United States; in the two cases by two
circuit judges OF this circuit: by three dis
trict judges Of this circuit. and by the SUI
preme court OF Florida.
EarniDEs of Various Roads.
THE passenger earnings under the 2-cent
fare law Of 1907. allowing nothing for
extra cost over Interstate business. give no
return whatever to the Rock Island, st.
Louis q Hannibal, Kansas City, Clinton 4
Springfield and the Great Western. The
other companies will have the following
The st. Louis a San Francisco, between 3
and 4 per cent; the Santa Fee, between 4
! and 5 per cent; the Kansas City Southern,
q small fraction over Q per cent; the Mis-
souri,. Kansas a Texas, between 2 and Q
per cent; the Burlington. between 8 and
4 per cent. But all this is arrived at by
allowing no extra cost Of service. But TO
add the extra cost for freight and pas
senger, there are no earnings over eK-
penses. This is confiscation under the con
stitution.
1T being a legislative act. and not q
judicial one, this court cannot fix rates
II it could, 2h-cent passenger rates would
be fixed for the stronger roads and 8 fol-
the others. But that is for the Legislature
acting itself with experts, such as the state
employed in these cases. or through a com.
mission with like assistance
Judge Mcpherson also says in the decis-
ion: when the statutes in question were
enacted 1t was believed by many that By
reducing the fare there would be much
more travel. For a month or so this
proved to be true. But with the novelty
gone, the testimony shows that the increas,
has been less than 8 per cent and more
nearly l per cent"
He says further, as to the abolition oil
passes, that the evidence shows the pas.
senger revenue Is increased by reason
thereof less than / per cent.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-09
OLD RATE REMAINS FOR WHILE
Railroads Not Yet Decided When
Change VIII BE Made.

ST. LOUIS, March S-Whether old rates
win be restored by railroads In Missouri
as a result of Judge McPherson's decision
in the United States district court at
Kansas City has not been definitely de-
cided, officials with headquarters in st.
Louis today said. Henry Miller, vice presi-
dent and general manage OF the Wabash,
said:
1T Is not likely that any new rate would
be adopted or the old ono restored until
after conferences In which the decision
was thoroughly considered"
Assistant General Passenger Agent Fen
wick of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas felt
sure hat the old rates would ultimately
be restored in the event Judge McPherson's
decision stands.
81 am sure the old rates will be restored, -
he said, but the state might appeal from
the decision by Judge MCPHERSON and thus
tie up the METER again indefinitely"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-09

They were to get 1t at the office OF Deputy
County Attorney Coad at 2 p. m, but at 8
the actual turning over Of the Jewels took
place. The pearls have been in the office
of Captain Mostyn. SAWS was permitted
to go at Uce on a personal bond of $50,
which It was understood he would forfeit.
Identity the Pearls.
On arriving in the city Monday morning
Mr.. and Mrs. HeinEe went Immediately to
the office Of Acting Chief Of Police Mostyn.
who showed them the necklace. First, how
ever, they were required to describe It,,
and this they did with precision.
Mrs. Heinze said she had three necklaces
of the sort, all made by the same jeweler,
and each with a certain odd and Intricate
catch. The catch entered largely into the
Identification and Captain Mostyn and
other police officials are Thoroughly salts
fled with the Identification.
Mrs. Heinze betrayed a fear on her ar
rival that this necklace was not the val
liable one she had lost and that the finder
might be playing q trick, but this fear was
readily dispeHed.
Mr.. Heinze is a brother of f. Augustus
Heinze, the copper king, whose connection
| with the Knickerbocker bank In New York
| caused its collapse in the fall of 1897, which
resulted in the panic OF that year. F.
Augustus Heinze was mixed up with Mar
Gus Daily in the copper mines of Montana
before the latter died a few years ago.
Mrs. Heinze and l, in company with my
brother and his wife, spent the evening OF
November 20, Thanksgiving, at the Knicker-
booker hotel" said Mr.. Heinze, after being
closeted for an hour with the officers Of
the police and detective departments
I'VE left there late at night, about II or II
o'clock, and when we got home Mrs
Heinze noticed the loss of the necklace,
We have been searching for it since, as
the newspapers all know.
feared n Fake.
II have never given up hope of finding
II, for 1t is rather hard to dispose OF a
piece of jewelry Of the size Of this neck
lace, and as the months dragged by my
hopes never waned. Mrs. Heinze was not
30 sure, and all the way out here she
kept wondering II after all we might not
be leading a wild goose chase and the
necklace be found to be a cheap imitation,
but as soon as she saw it she was glad we
took the trip, for II is the genuine and no
mistake.
"Oh, no, It is not worth that" replied
Mr.. Heinze, when asked II the value OF
the necklace was in the neighborhood OF
500, 900, but he would not place any value
on II. He said that It had no associated
value, that it was no family heirloom, but
was a gift to his wife from him at Christ
mas time a few years ago.
Mrs. Heinze is a pretty brunette, stylishly
dressed. Her husband is a banker and
broker in the easternmetropolis, They will
be in Omaha for several days, probably.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-09
MAY AFFECT KANSAS ACTION
senate Committee and Governor
Stubbs at Issue on Low Fare Bill.

Senate Committee and Governor
Stubbs at Issue on Low Fare Bill.
TOPEKA, Kan, March S.-The senate
committee on railroads today submitted an
adverse report on the 2-cent fare bill which
had already passed the house. This came
Immediately pom the receipt of the news
OF the decision Of Judge smith Mcpherson
holding the Missouri 2-cent fare law uncon-
stitutional.
Governor Stubs gave out an interview
in which he said:
my opinion that the legislature OF this
state should enact a 2-cent fare law is
not changed by the decision in the Mis-
souri, case. I do not believe the court of
Missouri had any evidence that the rate
In that state was not remunerative or con-
fiscatory excepting what evidence the rail
roads themselves furnished"
Kansas now has a 3-cent fare rate under
an agreement between the railroads and the
state pending the decision in the Missouri
case.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-09

a gas plant is in some respects different
from a railroad, hat a railroad property,
properly built and properly anaged
should over and above expenses make a
return of 6 per cent per annum And con-
sidering all the evidence, the evidence
FAIRLY shows that all of these roads were
properly and economically built and are
being properly and economically managed,
and that after paying the expenses for
maintenance and operation, that there is
less than 8 per cent OF return, and not
more than 3 per cent upon any OF them,
and as TO some OF them a deficit, taking
the property as above stated within the
state Of Missouri at its fair valuation.
And this is so without reference TO
bonds, because In no case do the bonds
bear s per cent interest. But taking the
bonds into consideration, there is stirl
not to exceed 3 per cent returns, and in
many cases a deficit after considering all
debts and credits Upon the true valuation
for the state business. There is no evil
denee that any of the existing bonds were
improperly issued either as TO the amounts
or rates OF interest.
1T IL absolutely necessary that many
trains. both passenger and freight. do both
a local and interstate business, Even the
fast trains stopping at but few stations in
the state carry state passengers between
such stations. And the same lie true as TO
freight trains carrying freight both In car
load and less than carload lots.
The valuation OF the roads has been
fixed by the court as shown by the find
ings OF fact. The entire state and inter
state earnings Of each OF the roads within
the state is known and fixed to q certainty.
The expenses are known and fixed. To
apportion these expenses must be done ac-
cording 10 one OF the two theories. and
the correct theory Is that according to
revenue. One theory or other must be ap-
piled to both freight and passenger ex-
penses, and the court should not adopt the
one theory as to part and the other theory
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-09

killed on third reading last Friday ana
Humphrey Of Lancaster moved today that
the action OF the house be reconsidered.
shoemaker opposed because If that proce-
dure we're TO- continue, he said. the house
would he doing nothing else the rest of the
session. Thomas OF Douglas opposed the
motion because, he said, such action would
be- contrary 10 the constitution. The con-
stItutlon, he argued, provided that bills
shall be read at large on three different
days and then It shall be voted upon. The
vote had been taken and the bill had been
killed and that settled 1t.
,Nettleton OF Clay argued that the bill
itself would not be reconsidered, but that
the house had a right to reconsider its
action. fHeaker Poq overruled the point
Of order raised by Thomas and upon a roll
cali the motion by Humphrey was defeated
by q vote OF A to SS.
Dead Bill Resurrected.
.Nettletoh Of Clay then got in with a mo-
ton to reconsider the vote on II. r. 369,
which was killed last riday. This bill APP
proprlated 5000 for improvements in the
sub fish hatchery in Cherry county. KEEL
ley OF Furnas moved to substitute his ag-
rfcultural AFFIRM bill instead of the fish
hatchery measure, but was ruled out Of
order. Kuhl, Heffernan, Harrington, Carr
and Chase spoke for the eNttleton motion
and Leidigh spoke against 1t. The motion
carried and the bill win be sent back to
the standing committee on fish and game
with instructions to substitute $1,000 in
place OF the 5000.
Bill Rona sotFike Settled.
The strike in the house. bill room is off.
The strikers have gone back to work--all
save one-Russell Vandenberg, the chief of
the bill room. The boys received their over
time and the bill files are on the members
desks, and so far as heard from every one
Is satisfied. some days ago the bill room
boys went on a strike rather than carry
the bill files to the desks of the members.
The speaker, and. chief clerk discharged
Vandenberg and- gave the others a chance
to get back on the payroll, and they did.
Oils Primary Bill Dead.
The house unceremoniously dumped into
the waste basket the Ollis-Ketchum pri-
mary amendment bill. which the senate
fixed up laboriously and hoped would be a
solution OF the primary law amendments
that are a portion OF the democratic plat
form pledges. The news was first i'm
parted TO the introducers OF the bill when
the house clerk dumped the rejected docu-
ment upon the senate clerks desk. The
senator's were not given an opportunity fol
a hearing by the house committee and had
no idea the bill was being considered and
were mad clear through.
The house has taken favorable action
upon a primary bill by Kuhl of Cedar
which is evidently the one the representa-.
tives expect to force the senate to accept
The. Kuhl bill provides for q platform con.
vention early In the summer. the date be.
ing fixed In July, when the declarations OF
the parties shah be fixed and following
which primary filings shall be made. Ii
many other respects the Kuhl bill agrees
with the Oils measure.
The senate will devote this afternoon u