The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-31
FOR SOLDIERS HOMES.
In Line With Government De-
partments Where
Concerns Declared Unlawful by
Federal Courts.

Standard Oil company from the ban
of the government in the expenditure
of appropriations for the national SOL
diers' homes.
On Friday Representative Anthony of
Kansas offered an amendment to the
sundry civil bill which Provided, That
no moneys appropriated by this act
shall be used for purchases of supplies,
fuel or material for national soldiers
homes on behalf of the government
from any corporation which has been
declared by the federal courts to be a
party to an unlawful trust or mon
opoly, nor from any middleman or
agent of any such company or concern
where it is known that such middle
man or agent is acting for or selling the
products of such unlawful concern"
During the debate which followed Mr.
Anthony said:
Mr. Chairman, I do not think the
amendment is subject to a point of or
der, for the presidents are full of pre-
Vious occasions where limitations much
wider than the one I have offered have
been allowed to stand in regard to sol
diers' home appropriations. 1 call at
tention of the chair to paragraph 3942
of the precedents of the house of rep
resentatives.
% While it is not in order to legislate
as to qualifications of the recipients of
an appropriation. the house may
specify that no part of the appropria-
ton shall go to recipients lacking GER
tain qualifications
Now, in this amendment I do pro-
vide that no part of this appropriation
shall go to certain corporations which
90 lack certain qualifications; that is,
that lack the qualification Of being an
honest and legitimate business corpora
ton under the law In that same para
graph it was held in order by the
chair to insert a Limitation, as follows:
'' Provided, That no part of the ap-
preparation shall be available for the
Agricultural college of Utah until the
secretary of agriculture shall be salts
fed and shall so certify to the secre-
tary of the treasury. that no trustee.
officer, Instructor. or employe of said
college is engaged in the practice of
poIygamy or polygamous relations
Further on. while a bill was under
discussion making appropriations for
soldiers homes, limitation was offer
ed in an amendment which provided
that the appropriation should not be
used for any home where the canteen
existed, and so broad a limitation as
that was held in order by the chair,
although the gentleman from Illinois
CMr. Mann) debated the question with
the chair at that time and held the
contrary view. But 1 am quite sure
that, now being in the chair. the chair
man would be inclined to look at the
question in different light"
How Trust Is Favored
Nevertheless, the point of order was
sustained by the chair, whereupon Mr..
Anthony proceeded to show that the
board OF managers was favoring cor
porations which had previously been
declared unlawful by federal courts
and where other government depart
ments had prohibited purchases from
such unlawful trusts.
Anthony said on this subject:
Mr.. Chairman, it is exceedingly
surprising to me that the board of
managers of the soldiers homes, which
comprises in its membership the presi-
dent of the United States and the sec
rotary Of war, should not take official
notice of the rulings and regulations
OF the department of war. which gov
erns the department in its purchase of
supplies. All that I ask for in the lin
itation which 1 offered a moment ago
was none other than the recent order
OF the secretary of war in reference to
the purchase of supplies for the war
department. In that circular, which
was Issued by the war department,
signed by Secretary Dickinson on De-
cember II, 1903. it is said:
War Department
Washington, December II, 1909
The Standard Oil company of New .Jer-
Eey and the other companies named in
secnon of the decree of the United
States circuit court, eastern district of
Missouri. entered November 90 1909 hay
full trust, are hereby brought within the
scope of the directions heretofore given
that no purchase on behalf of the gov
poratton which has been adjudicated to be
q party to an unlawful trust and monop-
Oily ana TO be carrying on business in vio-
1ation of law. nor from any middieman or
agent OF any such company or concern
Where 1t is known that such middleman
or agent is acting for such unlawful con-
cern.
The other companies named in section
q NsDfA,
follows: Ang1o-American oil company
Qimited), Atlantic Refining company,
scrymser company. Chesebrough Manu- Manu-
featuring company (Consolidated). Cum
company. Continental Oil comnan nv
crescent Pipe Line company. Henry c.
Folger, jrs, and CALVIN n. Payne, a CO.
partnership doing business under the firm
name and style of Corsicana Refining
company. Eureka Pipe Line company, Ga
lena Signal OIL company, Indiana Pipe
National Transit company. New York
Transit company. Northern Pipe Line
and Gas company, Security oil company,
Solar Refining company. Southern Pipe
Line company, South Penn Oil company,
Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe Lines com
pany, Standard OIL company of California,
Standard Oil company of Indiana. Stand
company of Kansas. Standard Oil COM
pany of Kentucky, Standard Oil company
New York, Standard Oil company of Ohio
Swan & Finch company Union Tank Line
company Vacuum Oil company Wash
ington Oil company, Waters-Pierce Oil
company.
Ali officers or agents of the government
in or under the war department will
please be governed accordingly.
]. NJ DICKINSON.
Secretary OF War.
Wants Coal Used Instead of Oil
Il believe if a regulation of that kind
is wise for the guidance Of the grca
departments of the government it is ali
the more necessary that the board OF
managers of the soldiers homes should
follow such a precedent as that. Now,
the necessity for such a limitation for
the observance Of such regulations lies
in the fact that there has come in re-
cent years from some source. which I
do not know, an effort to put fuel oil