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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-02

ing price of the Revised Laws at So
a volume, passed unanimously, as did
also House Bill 81, changing the
boundaries of certain judicial districts.
Second Readings.
The following bills passed on second
reading and were referred to the com
mittees named:
House Bill 81, Nakaleka, to author
ize certain public officials to designate
persons to act in their absence and
to define the powers of persons so des-
ignated. Miscellaneous Committee.
House Bill "A, Rice, the current ex-
pense appropriation bill. Committee of
the whole, to be taken up on Monday
next.
House Bill II, Furtado, to reserve
to the people the right of initiative
and referendum, and providing the
manner in which such right may be
used as to legislation in the Territory,
county, municipality, district or pre-
cinct. Miscellaneous Committee.
House Bill 20, Moanauli, to amend
Section 90 of Act 80, Session Laws of
1905, an act to give the counties the
right to establish and maintain water
and sewer works; to collect rates for
water supplied and sewers used.
Summary of Work.
Speaker Holstein announced the
status of the work of the House, up
to Saturday at noon, to be:
Eighty-five bills introduced, of which
II are in the hands of the Printing
Committee, 25 in the Judiciary Com
mittee, 6 in the Committee on Public
Health. / in Public Lands Committee,
10 in Finance Committee, in Educa-
ton Committee, 2 in Promotion Com
mittee and in Miscellaneous Commit
tee, while were up for third read
ing, IL had gone to the Senate, were
up to the Governor and had become
law.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
It was ten minutes to four before
the House came to order for the af-
ternoon session, the first business be-
ing the presentation by the clerk of
the amended government by commits
sion' resolution from the Senate. The
announcement of the House was
toned down and the clause ordering
copies to be sent to Washington was
cut out.
Sheldon objected to the amendments
and Douthitt moved their adoption.
stating that to send away copies would
only draw attention to the agitation
and give it an undue prominence. The
idea given at Washington would be that
there was very strong advocacy of
the idea here.
On motion of Correa, the matter
went over until today.
Senate Bill SO was introduced and
read a first time. This bin provided
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A petition from number of promi-
nent citizens of Puma asked for the
cutting off of that district from Hilo
for judicial purposes and for $4,000 for
courthouse at Olaa, made necessary
by the aforesaid cutting off. On the
map the redistribution seems sensible,
but from matter of economy and con-
venience the present location of the
district lines appears the best. Chang
ing the lines necessitates the increase
of the district magistrate S salary.
makes necessary a courthouse and Jail
at Olaa as well as at Keaau in the same
district and means much roundabout
travelling.
For the new public buildings needed,
Alfonso presented request for $4,000
to be included in the appropriation bill.
South Hi1o's Wants.
The Public Lands Committee reported
favorably on Kealawaa s resolution to
appropriate $4,000 for a homestead
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for the naming of substitute justices.
of the Supreme Court.
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Coelho Is Noisy.

Coelho Is Noisy.
When Senate Bill No. 35 came up
for second reading, accompanied by the
favorable report of the Judiciary Com
mittee, Coelho launched forth in vio-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-02

ing price of the Revised Laws at So
volume, passed unanimously, as did
also House Bill 81, changing the
boundaries of certain judicial districts.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-02
IN THE HOUSE.

With pleasure, according to the letter
which was read as the first business of
the morning, Secretary Mott-Smith in.
formed the House that Governor Frear
had signed House Joint Resolution No.
Z, regarding the appointment of COM
mission to investigate truck farming.
which has now become Joint Resolution
No
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1909-07-29
WHAT HADLEY IS DOING.

No man can do an impossible thing.
Some people expect the impossible of
governor especially a Republican
governor Governor Hadley is a man
of purpose, action and achievement,
with SO much to his credit that many
of the Republicans of the state seem to
think he is slow in turning Missouri
upside down. They forgot that the
authority of the chief executive has
Its limitations; that he can not make
laws and cannot change them; can
not turn Democrats out and put Re-
publicans in who want to get in; cannot
appoint all of his friends to good posi-
tons; cannot approve every man en-
dorsed by the party leaders, and can
not afford to allow any man or set of
men to make appointments for him.
Nc, the governor cannot pass the
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1909-07-29
We Cannot Understand 1t.

From Mail and Breeze, Topeka Kansas.
When we begin at times to talk
about the problem of transportation we
are gravely told that the ordinary citi-
zen knows nothing about rates, that
he can know nothing about them un-
less he just gives up his other busi-
ness and devotes his life to the study
of rates and even then unless he has a
special aptitude in that direction he
will get all muddled up so that he
can't give a reason why rates should
be so and So Only the real rate ex-
perts can give reasons for rates as they
now exist.
We are coming more and more to
one certain conclusion and that is,
that it takes an expert and dandy at
tha: to give a reason for rates as they
exist today.
A number of states undertook to re-
duce passenger rates to 3 cents per
mile. Immediately the railroads went
into the federal courts for redress. It
may be noted in passing that the great
corporations always fly to the federal
courts for protection and they gener-
ally get it.
But taking up the case of the 3 cent
fare laws. The experts figured for
weeks. They covered large sheets
with figures and deductions from
figures. They went before the United
States judge and proved to his satis-
faction that Q cent local rates simply
meant ruin to them and that it was
really impossible to carry passengers
even for long distances at less than 8
cents per mile. So the United States
Judge gravely held that a Q cent rate
in Missouri was confscatory and ordered
it set aside.
The other day we were figuring on
the cost of a pleasure trip. One of the
luxuries we have been enjoying for
several years has been figuring every
summer on the cost of a pleasure trip.
1t doesn't cost anything to figure on
these trips. The railroad men we
have found are very kind and obliging
and really seem to take pleasure in
helping US figure out the best way to
go and the cost of the journey. Try
the plan sometime and you will find
that the preliminary calculations as to
routes and cost and the thing that you
VIII be able to see when you go will
afford nearly as much pleasure as if you
actually took the journey.
In making these pleasant calcula-
tions we have found that the railroads
sell joint tickets; that is, any road will
sell you ticket over as many other
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1909-07-29
His Word Was Good, Though.
souians.

Representative John S. Williams
tells of a case tried in southern court
where counsel for the defendant en-
deavored TO impugn the testimony OF
a negro witness. The latter regarded
the lawyer with mixed expression Of
astonishment and resentment. Then
turning to the judge, he said
''Yo' honah, I'se a pore but re-
spectacle man. Use alwsys behaved
mahseI. I ain't never been lynched
an the only mule ever stole knocked
me down an broke enc Of my laigs. :
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1909-07-29
Sees Mother Grow Young.

1t would be hard to overstate the
wonderful change in my mother since
she began to use Electric Bitters. writes
Mrs. w L. Gilpatrick of fDanforth, Me.
Although past 20 she seems really to
be growing young again. She suffered
untold misery from dyspepsia for 20
years. AT last she could neither eat,
drink nor sleep. Doctors gave her up
and all remedies failed till Electric
Bitters worked such wonders for hel
health" They invigorate all vital organs
cure liver and kidney troubles, induce
sleep, impart strength and appetite.
Only SOC at City Drug Store.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1909-07-29

roads besides its own as you may want
to travel over and then they divide
the pot between 'em. We find that
out of one of these joint tickets the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road only
gets S11 for hauling a passenger clear
from Kansas City to Denver and back
again, distance of 1906 miles. That
is trifile less than four-fifths of cent
per mile or less than one half of what
the rate experts said was the least
money that an interstate passenger
could be hauled over the country for.
And the passengers who travel on
these joint tickets are generally peo-
pie who ride in Pullman palace cars.
It costs more to haul passenger in a
Pullman palace car than in an ordinary
smoking car; a man doesn't need to
be an expert rate man to know that.
Are the railroads losing money on these
joint tickets7 If so, why go on sell
ing them?
Are they losing money by this joint
arrangement and trying to make the
local passenger pay the difference be-
tween the actual cost and the price
charged? If so it isn't a fair deal be-
cause the fellow who takes the long
pleasure trip presumably is better able
to pay what it costs the railroad com
pany to haul him around than the To-
cal passenger who has to ride in the
smoker and then only when he can't
help himself. That looks like giving
to the man who has and taking away
from the one who has not even what
little he has.
We freely confess that we are un-
able to understand that sort of rates.
There is evidently lie out somewhere
or else the railroads are mighty badly
managed. When the railroad experts
testified before the Unised States comt
that it cost nearly cents per mile to
carry a passenger a long distance
through several states did they lie
about it? If they didn't lie about it
why in the name of common sense are
the railroad agents soliciting people to
ride on their roads at rate consider
ably less than cent per mile.
The more we think about the more
we conclude that the experts who
testified before the United States judge
were hired TO bamboozle the court and
also the general public if they could.
We think they deliberately lied when
they said that it costs railroad nearly
. cents per mile TO cany the average
interstate passenger. We think also
that they lied when they said that in
rich populous state ike Missouri the
average local passenger can't be hauled
for much If any less than 8 cents per
mile. -
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1909-07-29
MISSOURI POINTERS.
Timely Comment on the Course of tate Affairs.

Special Cores por dence.
The first elections in St. Louis and
Kansas City under control OF ap-
pointees of Governor Hadley have
demonstrate that honest voters can
be protected and dishonest voters in
timidated and restrained. At the
April election in St. Louis perfect Or
der was maintained; the voting was
done peacefully and the thugs, thieves
and repeaters who had for many years
defed the law and corrupted elections
were practically eliminated. The po-
lice had orders to be active in arrest
ing such characters and to attend to
their business as policemen instead of
taking Lart as partisans IN the voting.
1t was a clean and a satisfactory cleo
ton. The recent charter election In
Kansas City was one of the most Or
derly and satisfactory contests expert
enced in that city in many years. AL
though the issues involved were such
as would ordinarily enlist the activity
of the vicious element and draw to the
polls the men who are usually mar
shalled to sustain special interests by
getting as many votes as possible into
the ballot boxes, the election was
clean and fair, and resulted in a rout
for the men who hoped to control it
for their own purposes. This result
was due to the instructions issued by
the Republican police and election
commissioners, who told the police
and election officers to arrest any man
known to be an election crook on his
appearance at the polls and to see
to it that no man whose name was not
on the purged registration lists got in
to a voting booth. The policemen
obeyed orders because they feared to
do otherwise Honest voters were not
molested. The other kind were afraid
to approach the polls.
4 new era has dawned in Missouri
cities. The people who have the legal
and moral right to select public Off
cials and to decide public issues at
the polls are not to be thwarted by
scoundrels who have heretofore regis
tered false names and cast fraudulent
ballots. The present governor has Sc
lected as election and police commits
sioners citizens who will try to redeem
the promise Of Republicans to guaran-
tee honest elections in the cities.
As go the large cities so goes the
state. While the thugs and thieves
and rift-raff of the cities had their
filthy hands on the ballot boxes hon
est voters were powerless. With a
large number of election crooks in the
penitennary and more on the way,
with determined men in charge OF the
registration books and the precinct
polls, and with policemen under direct
instruction from the governor to be
actively aggressive in thwarting dis
honest voters and protecting honest
citizens and election officials, the day
of ghosts and Indians" has passed
and city elections are to reflect the
wishes of citizens for whom the bal
lot is intended, instead of the schemes
and frauds OF petty politicians and
powerful interests.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1909-07-29
C.. c. BLANSIT,
Real Estate
WALNUT SHADE, MO.

7 am a farmer and stOck-raiser, and
have personal knowledge OF the lands
handle. Whether you want to go into
fruit or stock-raising, or intend to con-
fine your attention to plain farming, L
can suit you. place my own teams al
the disposal of homeseekers, and snow
farms, without livery charges, TO pur-
chasers. Correspondence solicited.
&C. BlanSit, WalDutShade. TaneyCO. Mo.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1909-07-29

Pain can be easily and quickly stop
ped. Pink Pain Tablets-Dr. Shoop' s
stop headache, wornanly pains, any
pam anywhere, in 20 minutes sure.
formula on the 25c. box. Ask your
druggist o. doctor about the formula
the. Sold by City Drug Store.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1909-07-29

he drop one in every open Republican
mouth; nor can he safely select for the
public service men who are not adapted
to the service to be rendered the state.
j It is now time to remind some good
Republican party men of these facts.
The appointments lately made fol
judicial positions indicate how careful
the governor is in selecting men who
are to administer justide. He ap-
pointed Homer to fill vacancy on the
bench of the ST. Louis circuit court.
Homer is a staunch Republican, a
patriotic. clean and devoted citizen, a
pure Christian gentleman, and law
yer of distinction at the bar. He was
the Republican nominee for circuit
Judge when the Democrats carried St.
Louis with a high hand and was hon
ored with more votes than any other
candidate on his ticket. No mistake
was made in that appointment; no in
justice was done TO any other man who
sought the place. In the appointment
of Judge Cox, Judge Gray and Judge
Nixon to the new Springfield court of
appeals he exercised rare good judg-
ment and also took account of condi-
tions which ought to have been con-
sidered in constituting such a court.
There were other very worthy appli-
cants but only three could be ap-
pointed. He named three good and
acceptable men. If men ambitious to
be members of that court are disap-
pointed it should be remembered that
the men appointed are the peers, in
every sense, of the men who were not
appointed.
This IS not mere laudation of Gov
erncr Eadley. L is jus, comment on
the exercise oi la;z oIcis, authority and
duty. White he IS not doing every
thing expected OF him, time will re-
veal the fact that he is doing right;
that he is acting wisely; that his ap-
pointments, his official course, his pol
icy as governor and as the head OF
his party are all prompted by sincere
desire to redeem the promises made to
the voters who elected him and to
make his administration useful and
successful.
After all, a governor under our con-
stitution cannot do much in changing
conditions even when supported by a
friendly legislature. He can recon-
mend what he believes to be good leg
islation but he cannot enact it. He
cannot levy taxes, reduce taxes or col
lect taxes. He cannot prevent inroads
on the treasury by people who secure
appropriations over which he has prac-
tically no control He can manage
the finances Of the state only within
the limitations OF the law. He can
appoint good men 20 Office and require
them to render good service. He can
advance ideas and encourage public
sentiment in behalf of good govern
ment. He can encourage officials to
be actively aggressive instead OF be-
ing merely passively good. He can
correct abuses IN the public service
and clean up" where official rubbish
has accumulated. He can lead but
he cannot drive. All of these things
Governor Hadley is doing, though not
posing as a great reforlner. And those
whose eyes are open already see good
results from his work and are war
ranted in predicting that he will be-
come a mighty leader among Mis-
sourians.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1909-07-29
Washington Letter.

4
rich and Representative Payne spent
the evening at the White House go
ing over with the president the agree
ment which the tariff conferees had
reached dnring the day. It is under
stood they went to get the president S
| 0. K. TO some of the rates which the
conferees are expected to formally ac-
cept tomorrow. Secrecy enveloped
all their movements, but there is rea-
son for believing that the executive 5
approval was given to the schedules
as represented.
The conferees practically completed
their work later in the afternoon, but
when they adjourned until 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning they announced
that no final decision had been reached.
Then Senator Aldrich and Representa-
tive Payne carried the schedules to the
White House to allow the great pacifi-
Gator, as he was known during the
Roosevelt administration, to pass finally
upon them.
The last issues that were settled in
conference were lumber and gloves
and hosiery. The duty on rough lum-
Der was increased to $1.50 a thousand,
after a very earnest discussion in the
Conference Committee. The Dingley
law rate is 50 and the House bill car
ried duty of only 81. The Senate
bill made the rate $50. President
Taft had indicated that he wanted the
rate 81, but in response to strong rep
reservations made by the lumber in
terests in North Carolina he said he
would be willing to accept a duty of
S1.25 a thousand. The increase to
$50 thousand was explained this
afternoon as in the nature of sop
to certain senators in the West and the
Northwest who were disappointed by
the decision of the Conference Com
mittee to put hides on the free list.
Unless there is change in the rates
before the Conference Committee
finally reports to the House, the final
duties on gloves will be in the main IS
they were fixed by the House. The
conferees, it is said, agreed to accept
the House rates on all gloves not ex-
ceeding Il inches in length. The
The Senate reductions on the creaper
grades known as "schmaschen" were
maintained.
With the adjustment of the duty on
lumber and gloves and hosiery the
work of the conference was practically
completed. While it is not expected
that the conference report will be
agreed to promptly by both houses,
Senator Aldrich and his colleagues do
believe they have the necessary votes
to pass the conference report in both
houses.
After session Of forty-nine minutes
the House today adjourned until Thurs
day, at which time it is expected the
much-tajked-of resolution authorizing
the tariff conferees to reduce the rates
on leather goods below those of the
Payne bill will be brought in and acted
upon.
When the proposition to adjourn
over was submitted by Mr.. Payne
some laughter was created by Mr..
Clark, the minority leader, remarking
that he was being :deviled TO death
for information as to when the Demo
cratic conferees were to be called in.
IF you can tell ne, I'll tell you,
was the only information he got from
tee Ways and Means chairman.
Sees Mother Grow Young.
t. = L.~I AJ,o
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1909-07-29
81 a Year In Advance.
THE OLD HOME PAPER.

From
When the evenn' shade is fsln the endn day,
An feler from labor, smoking his pipe clay,
There's nothin him good, fortune up or
down,
AS the little country paper from his
or
Home
But it sraghtens temper when feller's feelin'
mean,
It takes the wrinkles off his face an brushes off the
That little country paper from his
or
Home
1t tells of all the parties an the balls Punkn Row.
Bout who spent Sunday with who's girl cropn
grow,
An how keeps posted bout up who
down,
That little country paper from his
or
Home
Town.
Now, like read the daie an the story papers,
An times the yalar novels an other rash-don't
you?
But when I readn that III brush away a
that little paper from my
or
Home
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1909-07-29
COUNTY COURT.

Presiding Judge. e..............J. J. G. Lewis
Associate Judge, West Dist. w. A. Branson
- East Dist. j. NJ. Clark
Court meets lst Monday in February, May,
August and November.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1909-07-29

The law firm of Groom X McConkey has dis
solvas and am continuing in the business alone
Am now prepared to devote all my time ano
ana,ov IN the Law and Collection business
Notary Public in Office and special attention
will he given to drawing and taking ackno"leds-
,,onts ~ Deeds. Mortgages and Contracts.
ory,cK--Socth Side Public Square between
Postofiice and Bank.
ID. +. MCCoNKEY.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1909-07-29
COURT OF PROBATE.

Court meets End Monday in February, May,
August and November
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1909-07-29
COUNTY.
CIRCUIT COURT.

Court meets 4th Monday in April and Octo-
Der.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-08
GOV. HASKELL LOSES.
His Demurrer in Muskogec Lot Case
Is OverruIed.

Muskogee, Ok, May S.-Federal Judge
Campbell here today overruled the de-
murrerys of the defendants in the So
called Mott civil Creek Indian land
suits, brought by the government
against Governor Charles N Haskell
and other prominent Oklahomans.
The decision involving as it does the
legality of millions of dollars worth of
lots, created great CONSERVATION. Not
only is Governor Haskell and associ-
ates involved in the charge OF fraud
but about 1900 subsequent purchasers
of lots are vitally interested. Judge
Campbell announced however, that all
innocent purchasers would be protect
ed.
These suits were brought by the
United States government for the
Creek Indian nation to recover for the
tribe Muskogee town lots. aggregating
5000 acres of land. and alleged to have
been obtained by Governor Haskell and
the other defendants by the fraudulent
scheduling of dummies
Judge Campbell overruled the demur-
rers of the defendants to the petition
of the government, practically deciding
the cases on their merits against the
defendants on the allegation that they
obtained the lots by fraud. Out Of
these civil suits grew the crorninal
prosecution against the governor and
six others for which they were once
indicted. These indictments were
quasbed at Tulsa recently. but a sec
ond grand jury has been called to meet
in that city next Monday to relnvesti-
gate the charges.