The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-03-06

the close corporation by which few of the older
members of the American House of Lords hog
all the persimmOns' and run things to suit them
selves. Senator LaFollette finds that one-third OF
the 90 members control the senate, by appointing
themselves to the best and majority places on all
the committees.
James J. Hill says that the present food supply
is in danger. 1t may be in danger of attack from
men of his Glass; but at present prices there need
be no fear of total absorption by the laboring
William H. Taft was naugurated president of
the United States on Thursday, March 4, and it is
predicted that four months from that date there
will not be half dozen national banks open for
business in the entire country. (For further par
ticuars, look up the date of the 4th of July.)
To put it mildly, it is a loose method of business
when state departments exhaust appropriations
made by the legislature and create deficiencies. 1t
has been brought out at Olympia that the legisla-
ture will appropriate almost $4,000 to make up
deficiencies. The money has been expended with
out authority other than the judgment of heads of
departments. It is for the legislature to say how
much money shall be expended by department.
Careful estimates should be submitted while the
be foreseen may arise, but generally they are few
and provision could be made by which the governor
would meet such situations out of the contingent
or emergency fund.-
The danger is that heads of departments, when
they may with mpunity create deficiency, will
not use the discretion that men ordinarily use
when guarding their own business interests. It
appears to be customary when department ex-
hausts funds appropriated by the legislature, to
go right along as usual and look to the next ses-
sion of the legislature to cover the deficiency. A
federal law makes it penal offense for the head of
the national department to overdraw an appropria-
tion Senator Pauhamus proposes law in this
state somewhat less drastic. He would make the
creation of a deficiency cause for removal from
office.
1t is an abuse of public office to expend more
money than the lawful appropriating body decides
may be expended. What is the need of setting
limits in appropriation bills if the departments are
to go on authorizing expenditures when the funds
are exhausted? It would be good lesson to some
of the creators of deficiencies if they and their
bondsmen were compelled to make the deficits
good. -Walla Walla Statesman.
Five dollars, a kiss and an oyster supper were
all Kansas City girl received back from her
lover in return for $500 which she had lent him.
She took the case into court and the result is not
yet Don't see how she could expect any more for
the money
The Reverend Billy Sunday was horsewhipped
in Springfield last week by man in the audience
who did it, he said, in defense of women he de-
clared had been criticised by the evangelist.
Every woman who has bought new stovelid in
the last IL years, every farmer who has bought a
plow, every boy who has bought pocket knife
has made an unnecessary and forced contribution
by order of congress- to the steel trust, and like
wise to every other industrial trust in the United
States, for l use steel only by way of illustration
and because some of its best men agree with me-
The total wage cost to the steel corporations for
mining, transportation, and conversion into rolling
mill products is 25 per cent of the selling price;
the tariff is from II to 65 and 80 per cent of total
COST We may in large measure attribute the
foundation of locomotive trust to the Dingey
law, which gave locomotive builders 45 per cent
tariff, although locomotives are shipped abroad
freely and none can be imported There are but
few builders and they could not be expected to
continue as independent and competing manufact-
urers with the invitation of congress to combine
and add what they wished Of as per cent duty to
their selling prices. Likewise the Linseed Oil
trust, formerly competitive with only three per
cent total wages in cost of refining and SO per
cent tariff. The importations being practically
prohibited, they graciously accepted the invitation
of congress and added 30 to so per cent to their
selling prices.
Glucose made of corn, and of course more
cheaply here than elsewhere, bears a tariff of 55
per cent the total wage per cent domestic pro-