The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1910-12-23
Projected Bill Would Reveal
Amounts Of Cotton and
Wool in Cloth.
TAFT'S PLAN TO SAVE PARTY
President Wants Republicans to
Unite and Lepalize a Genuine
Tariff commission-NestY Years
Budget VIII De Fully
One Billion.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.


Washington 1t Ia said on seem
ingly good authority that President
Taft has given his sanction to bill
far reaching In It's effect which Will
compel the afiixing to cloths which
enter Interstate commerce Of state.
mcnt Of the amount Of cotton and OF
wool which they contain. This meas.
urc il called here In Washington
textile pure food bill" The Trainer
Of the measure. Victor Murdoch Of
kansaa. says that no reason exists
why the consumer should not know
how much wool and how much cotton
he Ia getting In his clothes Just as he
knows under the pure food law how
much adultcration he Ia getting
An efort il being made TO get the
two Republican factions In congress
TO pass a measure OF this kind II Is
expected that there will be a good
deal OF opposition and II may be that
the pure fabric law" will have M
long Journey TO passage no that
which the pure food law took before
II arrived at it's station on the statute
books.
TaitS Tariff Commission Plan.
As fixed daily task President
Taft Ia laboring to bring togcth.
or the Republican factions In con.
gross In order that he may secure
legislation lcgallzing a genuine tarini
commission. one year ago Mr.. Taft
might have worked nights as well ns
days along the same line OF ondcayor
and NJ the end Of "a hours he would
have been at the beginning, for the
regulars and insurgents were no hos.
tile to one another that attempts to
/ patch pence would have been met
not only sulklly. but donanty.
This year Mr. Taft. 30 the men close
/ 10 him, say. has some real hope that
he can induce Mr. Cummlns. Mr. La
Toilette. MIR Murdoch and others Ia
link arms with Mr.. Aldrich. Mr.. Hale
MIR. Boutelle and others and TO present
united effort on behalf OF tarifI
commission II romans yet TO bo seeI
whether the president will be success
full. but tho politicians say no thinks
n n genuine tarin commission Is sane
toned and Ii allowed to go to work In
a buslnessllko way to pass on proper
and improper duties" that the Demo
Gratis next year when they are In con
troll Of the house will not think II wise
to upset the legislation. All this n
mere speculation, but II casts q light
on one Of the chief ends Of the ad
minlstrhtion's winter endc'yor and on
tho views Of some OF tho Republicans
OF what they must do In order TO save
the presidential election to their
party.
Shall We F9rtlfy the canal7
The layman who is neither legis.
lntor nor an army ofiicer would md
/ himself unquestionably confused. but
/ probably interested. n he were here
/ IN Washington 20 listen 90 the argu
monts for and against the erection Of
| fortifcatlons by Uncle Sam 10 guard
| the Panama Canal. A great many Of
| the legislators are opposed TO forti.
| flying the waterway, while virtually all
the army officers are In favor OF Il.
President Taft has endorsed the forti.
fcatlon plan strongly In his annual
message. In which he says
1T In also we'll known that one Of
the chief objects In tho construction
| ~ the canal has been to Increase the
military effectiveness Of our navy. by
convention we have indicated our de.
sire for. and indeed undertaken, It's
universal and equal use. Failure to
iortify the canal would ,leaye the at.
tainments Of both these aims In the
| position Of rights and obligations
which we should be powcrless to on.
force and which could never In any
other way be absolutely safegunrded
against desperate and irresponsible
enemy"
The arguments which pass between
the legislator and the army ofiicer on
/ the question Of whether or not big
guns ought to be placed on the 18th.
mus run something like this
The legislator says: THE canal
should be ncutralized, and all nations
should be- asked to bind themselves to
preserve It's neutrality In this way we
win be saved the expense OF fortlnca
ton and an danger Of the canals de
struction In time Of war will be avert
cd"
The army omcer says: AN ounce OF
gun metal Is worth a pound OF neu.
trallzation, II country at war with
the United States finds II TO It's ad.
vantage TO blow up the canal the
canal will be blown up. The promise
to keep the pence would be whlstled
down the wind In minute. The only
way to keep the enemy on is to stand
him on with gun. The canal cost
hundreds Of millions Under neutral
ization It could be destroyed In a
night"
Budget at Least a Billion.
Al this stage Of the session Of con.
gress some Of the appropriation
bills have been little more than
skeletonlzod, but It is perfectly
apparent even at this early date