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The Washington times., 1910-02-28
Taft's Work in White House

Tariff has been revised.
Corporation tax law passed.
Sugar trust directors indicted
Provisions made for customs court
Beef trust prosecutions have begun
Customs frauds unearthed in New York
Maximum and minimum tariff worked cut
Tobacco trust prosecutions pursued
Investigation into cost of living started.
Legal action against Standard Oil followed up
Law is passed limiting appropriations for Porto Rico.
Tariff board appointed to investigate cost Of production
The Washington times., 1910-02-28
Co.'s 10 PETERSBURG

PETERSBURG. Va. Feb. 2a-Rev.
Charles r StrblinsJ pastor OF the Pres
byterian church at waynesboro. Va.
has accepted the call extended him re-
Gently 10 the paStorate Of Tabb Street
Presbyterian Church, IN this city.
The Washington times., 1910-02-28

policies Of railroad control, corporation
control. conservation, and the like.
The rapidly increasing cost Of living
has added to the difficulties of the Ad-
ministration. giving rise to discomfort in
some quarters for which President Taft
could not possibly be responsible. but
which he cannot afford 70 ignore.
Some Achievements.
In the list of things done by the
President are these:
The tariff has been revised. and free
hides and certain other reductions
forced BY the President
The corporation tax law was passed,
the customs court provided for. the
maximum and minimum tariff worked
out.
A tariff board has been appointed. in
struCted TO look into cost of production
Vast customs frauds have been un-
earthed at New York.
Directors of Sugar trust have been
indicted
Prosecutions Of Tobacco trust and
Standard OIL Company, begun under
Roosevelt. have been pursued.
Prosecution Of Beef trust has been
begun
A law limiting appropriations in Porto
Rico passed
Justice Horace H. Lurton appointed
to the Supreme Court.
the circle covering much OF the coun-
try, and has broken the record of Presi-
Dental travel in a year.
Long list of Legislative measures adj
Vocated, including Federal incorpora-
ton, statehood, postal savings, addi-
tiCnal railroad legislation, Interstate
commerce court, conservation measures.
new form Of Alaskan government, eN-
pediting Of litigation in Federal courts.
anti-intunction legislation, and issue Of
reclamation certificates.
Clifford Pinchot has been let out as
chief forester and an investigation of
the BallinEer-Pinchot controversy rec
commended and undertaken by Congress.
Investigation into increased cost, Of
living undertaken. President Zelaya
has been forced out OF Nicaragua. Par
ticipation Of American capital in far
Eastern projects has been urged, with
partial success.
Some Features.
The President has obtained, in this
session, these features Of his legislative
program:
Statehood for Arizona and New Mex
iCO. possibly.
Postal savings legislation.
Two conservation measures out Of
many.
A 100000 issue Of reclamation cer-
tticates.
Additional railroad legislation.
Investigation Of the Ballinger-Pinch-
OF controversy.
Investigations into the cost OF living
The Washington times., 1910-02-28
DIR. SMITH IMPROVING.

TORONTO, Ontario. Feb. 2s.-Prof
Goldwic Smith passed fairly good day,
and IS reported resting quietly.
The Washington times., 1910-02-28

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-22
BIBLE WAS USED
AS BALLOT EMBLEM

FRANKFORT. KENTUCKY. Deem
Der because the "Drvs' of Pow
WOW County used the Bible as an en-
h1em on their ballots. in recent local
option election, and carried the county,
the state Court of Appeals yesterday
declared the election void. On each
ballot was the picture of an open book
with the words Holy Bible under it.
''The ''Wets' for an emblem. used
the picture of a whisky bottle and a
glass out Of which protruded the head
Of snake. At the first trial witnesses
testified that they were told that if
they wanted to go to heaven they
should make their mark under the Bible
One said he wanted TO vote ''wet,
but feared that if he did not heed the
sign Of the Bible the Almighty would
wreak vengeance upon him. In the
opinion handed down yesterday il Is
said a statute prohibits the use of the
Bible as an emblem on election ballots.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-22
A HARD BUMP FOR
ALL TIRE PRICES
Newerf Says Business Is Better
Than Ever Before-Rates
Are Lower.

Just when the automobile owners ex-
pected the price Of tires to jump higher
a cut IS announced by the Goodyear
Tire ana Rubber Company of Akron,
Ohio Rubber received severe check
in the early advances of the past
season. With the decline in the price of
that commodity the pneumatic tires, in
sympathy with the rubber market. drop
ped several notchfs In California
where almost $4,000 automobiles are in
use, this announcement means the
loosening of poeketbook strings.
The first reduction came when Good
year tires We're made the same price as
all standard makes. This was effective
in July last Beginning December 1
there is reduction in the selling price
Of all sizes and types Of tires aggregat-
ing close to twenty per cent.
". D. Newerf. manager for the
branch Of the Goodyear Tire and Rub
Der Company in Los Angeles. said re-
Gently: "This action has been an-ici-
pated for some time We only awaited
'He NoIh ptIug passed TO us mat the
new prices had taken effect The price
Of rubber has declined sufficiently to
warrant a new schedule for the tire
product
"When the public learned that such
reduction was about to be made. the
automobile owner who is up to snuff
waited, and as 4 result business is
rushing. Those who We're wise took
advantage of the reduction ana are
stocking up. The fluctuations of the
market are such that another jump IS
likely to the taken. The tires. though,
may go higher instead Of lower 1t is
not likely that any further reduction in
the prices Of tires viii occur
"No matter what the consumer de-
sires. now seems to be the opportune
time to purchase. The prices are right.
They are down to a reasonable basis.
Business is better than it has ever been
before. and the demand Is stronger.
The GOODYEAR company IS hustiing out
batch If orders larger than any ever
received before. =
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-22

morning and he rose very early TO make
his start He had gone but a little way
when he was overtaken by an auto
mobile, which was probably the first
that had passed along that way. The
driver picked up the old man and they
were at his destination in about twenty
minutes. ''Danks so much awfullv nit
De ride. If | had known myself TO be
here already two hours in front of de
clock Vet l vud be at home fast asleep
aireatly to start unless | knew YOU vud
not have picked me up since
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-22
SESSION OPENS UP AS A
POLITICAL FREE-FOR-ALL
War Makers Plunged Into the Fray Without
Any Preliminary ParIeying'.' Message
Pleased Very Few.
By Ernest G. Walker.

mail Special TO The Advertiser.)
WASHINGTON. December s.-Tbe
Dlacid congressional session Of the
prophets is rapidly developing into
nautical free-for-all. Now, while the
session IS only a few days old a mill,
tant factional spirit IS N the air.
There has been little maneuvering for
advantage. The warmakers, whose first
dutv is to he lawmakers, have plunged
4. once into the thick of the fray.
The President : plans, the Ballinger
report. and even the selection of Su-
preme Court justices had been dragged
into faetional Republican politics be
fore congress had been at work sew
enty-two hours. Perhaps the wrangling
has started of so furiouslv it Will wear
itself out before the holidays. Just
now there is bad blood on both sides
and a disposition TO break the other
fellow S head.
Half d dozen men-au insurgents
have brought about the undesirable
status. They have swung in SO vigor-
ously, that the regular Republican lead
ers have to take notice. The regulars
are in a large majority and preferred
to have a peaceabIe winter at closing
out the party's estate, as far as legis-
lation Is concerned.
Complicated Situation.
The situation is strangely complicat
ed. President Taft seems To have capt.
Mated 10 Cummins, LaFollette, Bris-
tow and Victor Murdoch, in some
measure There IS a strong suspicion
that he is quietly encouraging Senator
Gummins ambition to become the lead
er of the upper legislative branch. He
handed the names of men, whom he
was considering for supreme Court jus
tees. over to the Iowan that insurgent
senator's might sit IN council upon
them It looks TO an outsider, as
though Senator Cummins might have
been asked by the President TO submit
resolutions for a change in the senate
niles that would permit tariff revision
schedule by schedule procedure the
President has followed. 1t is claimed,
however. that Senator Cummins had
drawn the resolutions before he visited
the White House Offices.
Unsatisfactory Message.
The annual message contained much
that satisfied the regulars and mach
that they did not like. They tried their
very best to dissuade him from saying
that some criticisms Of the tariff were
just. By the same token the insurgents
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-22
PNEUMONIA PREVENTED.

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of the disease towards pneumonia. For
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-22

liked the message in part and disap-
proved of it in part. They resent his
" et-well enough alone policy for the
corporations under the Sherman anti
trust law. They think he is reaction
8rv in that regard.
All in all. the message seems not TO
have had very paciicatorv influence.
Except in a few instances. there will
be little effort 10 put its recommenda-
tions into effect. But, in any event.
there would be scant time for such
efforts.
The muddle over court nominations
threatens to be very descriptive. The
President Is coming in for a deal of
criticism. not 80 much on account Of
the character of men he seeks to Sc
lect as because OF his willingness TO
allow the Tnsurgent senators TO say
that this one would make a c0nserva-
tive Judge or a progressive Judge. The
proceeding has gone so far now that
the fractional determinations are bound
to be injected into the make UP of the
court.
Oldtime senators say the President
erred in not remaining home from Pan
ANA. Then he could have finished his
message long in advance Of the coming
of congress and decided upon the Su
preme Court nominations. Had he gone
ahead without consulting the wishes of
so many politicians and forwarded his
nominations to the senate. the country
would have had more respect for the
procedure.
A Tariff Fight.
There is sufficient material for
through-the-sessi fight in Senator
Cummins championship of new rules
for schedule by schedule revision of the
tariff The older men of the senate
are already raising the cry that its
adoption would be the first step towards
cloture, which is virtually the same
thing as the previous question in the
senate That is a century old con-
troversy in the senate. The outcome
Of every effort there at cleture has
been defeat
With the scheduled y-schedule revis-
ion assuming that aspect in the senate,
antagOnism increases alike toward Sen
atOr Cummins and President Taft. For
one reason or another the Democrats
and regular Republicans viii Join forces
on such an issue. The outcome prob
ably viii be that handful of Insur.
gents and few stragglers from the
two parties viii support the Cummins
resolutions if they ever reach a vote
If the senate ever gets keyed mp TO
one OF its oldfashioned debates on the
subject, the changes Will be rung on
executive interference and Senator
Cummins viii he pilloried as a legjs-
latlve upstart.
Something New Every Day.
The Insurgents are adding to the
turbulence by starting something new
every day. They propose to keep
hot fire under the pot. There IS a
pretty thoroughly organized propa-
ganda to that end Reports that pro
gressive members Of the interstate com
merce commission viii be promoted to
the commerce court so that conserva-
tive men can be appointed in their
,o.1r,a.l- Las-, I1- y,-r y
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-22

Of Insurgent origin. Of course. the
commerce court viii have three conser-
varlye members, against two progress
Slves. according 10 such chronicles.
that the railroads NAV also control that
tribunal Insurgent senators declaimed
loudly last session, when the provision
for commerce court was under con
sideration. that that was Just what
would happen.
Murdoch Stirs Things.
The head and front of the trouble
making propaganda in the house IS
Representative Victor Murdoch. of Kan
sas. He IS resourceful and because Of
his newspaper experience knows the
outlines Of a Fstorv' that will com
mand public attention. Representative
Norris, of Nebraska, Is his chief aid
The story Of night sessions to permit
Of immediate revision of the tariff
started with the Kansan. One diff
Guilty with the night session is ii has
been demonstrated again and again
that members viii not attend Only a
night session on some matter of very
pressing moment will hold anything
like a quorum al the Capitol.
The daring little band of Insurgents
are almost as willing 70 make trouble
for the Democrats as for the brethren
in the Regular camp. The tariff agi-
tation goes forward quite as much for
the purpose Of stealing the Democratic
thunder as for anything else. When
the opportunity is right, Insurgents
are willing 10 cooperate with Democrats
if it will help to an Insurgent victory.
But they have as little regard for the
Democrats as they have for the Presi-
dent. in spite of his efforts TO placate
them.
Incidentally the fury of the Repub-
lican quarrel is just now serving the
Democrats we'll Il IS the dominant
feature of Washington activities and
diverts public attention from Demo
cratic troubles.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-22
Unsatisfactory Message.

The annual message contained much
that satisfied the regulars and mich
that they did not like. They tried their
very best to dissuade him from saying
that some criticisms of the tariff were
just By the same token the insurgents
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-16
THE GRANITE STRIKE
Division Along Racial Lines Prevent
ed a Settlement

Montpelier, Feb. 1.-THE Barre
branch of the granite cutters union
held a mass meeting this afternoon
in the Barre opera house which was
crowded to the doors By the mar
row majority of 35 in a total vote of
nearly 900 the Italians again carried
the day and the proposition of settle
ment with the manufacturers as
agreed by the committees from the
manufacturers and cutters was voted
down. 1t is said this action was Ia
ken because the manufacturers re-
fused to grant a half holiday the year
around on Saturday which the ltal-
ians much desired.
1t was generally expected in both
cities that the trouble would be set
tied today and that the sheds would
be opened Wednesday The next
move will be for joint meeting of
the cutters, polishers and tool sharp
eners to vote on the question. Such
meeting will probably be held to-
morrow when it is hoped the Eng
fish speaking workmen in these div
isions of labor will be able to hold
the balance OF power and carry the
day for settlement.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-16

ton cynic, predict overwhelming de-
feat if there was any other party to
vote for.
This is the sort of emergency
which develops another party to vote
for. Long enjoyment of Office in all
self-goyerning countries leads TO
Over-confdence and party disintegra-
ton. We are no exception to the
rule. The whole tariff question bids
fair to become a live issue within a
few months of its last settlement
rhe administration has itself to
thank 1t is in the preposterous pos
ltion of prosecuting a monopoly in
he courts which it makes possible by
its own tariff schedules"
We need not discuss the question,
whether the Taft administration it.
self is directly or indirectly respon-
Sible for the threat that the tariff is
sue is to be raised again this year but
We may be very sure that the tariff
issue is a live one and that it will re-
luire all the tact and strategy and d.
plomacy and political clevernsss of
the national Republican organization
to keep 1t quiet right in their own
party in the coming campaign for the
| election of congressman.
| The Republican party has always
| boosted that il was the party of bus
mess and business men, the party
that knew how to breed prosperity
and to gather its golden eggs and in
the main history has justified its
pride. But the unfortunate tendency
of the very prosperous elements that
Republicanism has bred to wax fatter
and fatter on their own good fortune
and to grow greedier and greedier for
more and to insinuate themselves in,
to control of the party and its poll
cies is to the Messengers way OF
t.hnking, far more responsible for
present conditions than the admins
tration. The melancholy truth is that
the rank and file OF the people are
beginning to distrust the honesty Of
the party itself because il permits
these leaders to dominate its coun
ellis. The party has grown slothu
in its pride and has drifted into tn,
Inevitable state of mind that come.
| W Nht ONtl llNH Mutu lutA tdnnO
discriminate between a plenty anC
prosperity that are equalized. gener
ally speaking, among all classes ant
conditions Of deserving men, and
plenty and prosperity that are simpl.
the fat that few favored Interest,"
have fried out of a long patient pub
lie.
The Republican party stands for 81
much that is great and worthy tina
it is pity it should harbor and pro
tect within itself the very element
that make the attack from the out
side more likely to succeed simpl
because they are the cause of the al
tack and are cooperating with II
despite their protests that they an,
they alone are the Republican party
St Adams Messenger.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-16

The St Adams Messenger, which
is easily one of the most influential
papers editorially in the state mas
declared for Fleetwood for governor.
Other state papers of the first rank
in editorial influence including the
Burlington Free Press, Montpelier
Journal, Barre Times, Mortified
News, Randolph Herald and News,
ST. Johnsbury Caledonian. Enosburg
Standard and Bellows Falls Times all
seem opposed to Mead but have not
yet declared for Fleetwood Papers
which have declared for Mead are
the Brattleboro Phoenix, Springfield
Reporter, ST. Johnsbury Republican
Barton Monitor, Manchester Journal
Newport Express and Standard, FAN
Haven Era and Essex County Herald
In neither of these lists have we in
cluded the home papers of the can
didates which are influenced by loca
pride and natural friendliness fol-
home talent Probably half the pa
pers in the state have not yet taker
sides but the narrowing down of the
field to the two candidates will prob
ably bring them out shortly now.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-16
TAXES ISSUE WITH ISLAND
Bishop Grouston Denies Statements
Relative 10 Methodists at Rome


Relative TO Methodists at Rome
Washington, Feb. l1-In a vigor-
Gus interview here the Ri Rev. Earl
GrOuston. bishop of the Methodist
Episcopal church. takes issue with
the statements made by Archbishop
Ireland. growing out Of the refusal
OF the Pope to grant an audience TO
former Vice President Fairbanks. He
denies emphatically some of the arch
bishops statements with reference to
the work of the Methodist Episcopal
church in Rome
Il have read what Archbishop l,e-
land had 10 say OF the Fairbanks Incl
dent" said Bishop Grouston. and he
is doubtless the best man who could
have been put forward to save the
Pope's face in this country. In his
attempt to square the behavior of
the Pontin. with American ideas of re-
ligiOus tolerance, the archbishop has
had a hard task, but he ought to say
you're another and to start with
doubled fists is not a dignified way to
go about IT, Ii will not satisfy fair
minded Americans TO say Fairbanks
was to address a company of pernic-
ious heretics Sunday, and therefore
could not be received by the Pope on
Monday, for the archbishop's words
to the contrary Notwithstanding, we
have an. American congregation as
we'll as an Italian in Rome, and Fair
banks was to address a company OF
Americans in their own place of wor-
ship, both parties having a standing
which the Pope did not give and AN
not take away. Even had they been
disreputable lot to whom Fairbanks
spoke. the precedents of the Vatican
do not indicate that high moral tests
are invariably applied to persons
who are granted audiences at the
Vatican. Fairbanks both taught aud
exemplifed true Catholicity.
Nor will it do to say that for the
Pontiff to have received the disting-
uished American, under the circum
| stances. even as they are narrated b.
the archbishop, would have meant
an endorsement of the 'pernicious
propoganda of that Methodist Assoc
iation How many millions of Amer
leans there are who firmly believe
that the Roman hierarchy has used
not merely a pernicious' but crue
and pitiless way of ma king and hold
ing proselytes, but what American
ever dreamed that when a presiden
of the republic received an archhish
op, cardinal or even papal delegate
in audience that he was thereby sane
tioning the teaching of preaching o.
methods of Papal propaganda or civ
ing countenance, say to the claims o
the Papacy which conflicts with thu
kingdom of Italy, or to the Pope
contention with France?"
Discussing Archbishop Ireland
charge that the methods of the Meth
odists in carrying on the work il
Rome are "dishonorable' Bishol
Grouston said Il challenge him t.
give specific data We will show tina
Rome does not know the meaning o
the word the archbishop has so gill
ly used when PROSECUTING methods ar
fairly compared, the short of it all
that he Methodist Episcopal ohnrc
has dared to invade Papal countue
with Protestant ideas
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-16
FRANK E. HOWE. Editor and Pub

After a years delay the House and
Senate Journals Of the legislative ses
sion of 1908 have at last been issued
and sent TO those entitled to receive
them. The session OF 1908 is large
ly ancient history now and We are all
more interested in what may be ac-
complished at the coming session,
still these old documents have a his
toric value, containing as they do a
record of how each member voted on
most of the important questions be-
fore the legislature two years ago.
Some Of these gentlemen will he
looking for further preferment and
it is well to be able to find out how
they have voted in the past on some
of the questions that are still an is
sue.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-16
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