The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-09-23
WHY MAKE CHANGE?
Asks Ellis. and the Following From
Senator LaFollette's Magazine
Answers HIS Question.

How Oregon's congressman appear
to the insurgents of other states is
made plain in the issue of Senator
Robert NJ. La Follette's magazine of
September II. The story of the SER
Witty of Ellis and Hawley in following
Cannon and the special interests is
there we'll told.
Honest Bob La Follettle who comes
out in the open to fight the servants of
privilege. mirrors the records of Ellis
and Hawley on measures where they
bad chance to serve the people.
aud shows how they never failed to
rally to the defense of hig business.
They did "team work" throughout
their various terms. says the Wiscon-
sip senator. They supported high
tariff. they stood tehind Cannon. they
shouted for our, enoy legislation favor
ed by Wall street. they voted for ship
subsidy, they fought Roosevelt iu his
conservation policy. and voted to lay
Roosevelts message on the table when
he asked congress to restore the secret
service to his use in digging up frauds
in public land matters.
The special interests are shown to
have conferred mark of distinction
on Ellis when he returned to the sixty
first congress by promoting him to the
ways and means committee. the place
where tariff laws are framed and where
solicitous care for the exploiters of
the people had become prerequisite.
La Toilette points out this was done
because Ellis was remembered by the
leaders" for his previous service.
when he favored the giving of 800. 900
acres of the best timber lands in Ore
gon to the Northern Pacific in lieu of
barren or logged off lands held by that
company in the Mount Rainier forest
reserve.
He was also remem bered kindly by
these "leaders'' because he had voted
to validate millions of fraudulent
bonds for the benefit Of another Pacific
railroad in New Mexico, and supported
the settlement" and funding" Eills
designed to aid the Pacific railroads
in detrauding the government out of
$170, 900, 900 for money loaned to the
railroads as subsidy for the oonstruo-
tion of these roads.
La Toilette shows Ellis and Hawley
doing splendid team work in support
of postoffice appropriation bill amend
ments to the last session, providing
an increase of ocean mail subsidies pf
81. 100, 900 per year and an increase
of So, 700. 900 year in the pay of the
railroads for carrying the mails.
"Another specimen of system leg
islation." proceeds the La Toilette
story, twas the bill for the consolida-
tion of coal entries in the district of
Alaska. This bill authorized the con-
solidation in individual grants of coal
entries aggregating four square miles.
1850 acres in each grant. at $40 per
acre. 1t was bill in derogation of
the policy of conservation. 1t was
against the policy of preventing the
monopofizing of natural resources,
but it would facilitate the operations
of the Morgenheims. The system
wanted it, and Ellis and Hawley voted
for it.
"When. at the opening of the tariff
session, insurgency broke out in open
revolt in the house, Ellis and Hawley
took their accustomed places in the
system ranks. voting for Cannon for
speaker, for the Dalzell motion to put
the Cannon rules in force. against the
Clark resolution for revision of rules,
and finally for the subterfuge of the
Tammany- Cannon combine by which
revision of the rules was defeated.
"When the Payne tariff bill was re-
poi ted from the committee with it's
duties fixed for system interests. fixed
with the help of Ellis on the tariff
committee, Ellis and Hawley joined in
the support of the Dalzell resolution
to put the bill through and to deny
the house the right to change a duty
on any Of its thousand items, save
and except only five commodities nam