River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-02-10
Incorporation ACT
WALL STREET NOT ENTHUSIAS-
TIC OVER THE PROPOSED
MEASURE.
TOOPEN BERTH0LD RESERVATION
Senator Hepburn Waves the Bloody
Shirt Again, But Gets No Support. :.
From His Republican
Colleagues.

! washing M6mOr1eS or the civil
war were revived in the senate when
! Senator Hepburn bitterly opposed a
loan of tents by the government for
use at the annual encampment of
! Confederate veterans, at Mobile, Ala,
| next April. Incidentally, the senator
strongly condemned the acceptance
| by congress of a statue of Robert
E. Lee as a contribution by the state
of Virginia for permanent preserva-
| ton in statuary hall in the capitol.
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Heyburn's
remarks Senator Bankhead of Alaba-
| ma called for a vote. Every Republi-
can present except Mr.. Hepburn voted
for the bill authorizing the loan OF
tents.
The senate also passed more than
a dozen bills for the establishment Of
fish hatchery stations in various parts
of the country.
Opportion to Corporation Bill.
The federal incorporation bill is not
to be pressed for passage at this ses-
sion. If the bill should be passed,
President Taft has stated his will
ingness to stand as it's sponsor and
to take the responsibility for having
recommended it.
Further than this, the president told
several callers that he would not make
the incorporation bill an administra-
ton measure. He declared he felt he
had no right to do SO, and that it did
not rank with the proposed amend
ments to the interstate commerce law,
the postal savings banks and the
measures designed for the conserva-
ton of natural resources. These lat
ter were promised in the party plat
form upon which the president was
elected.
Wall street interests, inclined at
first to look up the idea of a federal
charter with the utmost favor, were
rather rudely awakened when it was
learned that the president would in
sist that in any bill passed on this
subject there should be included the
provision that nothing in the act
should be considered as eXempting
corporations from the operation of the
antitrust act. A great many corpora
ward to a federal charter as an in
dication that past sins were forgiven,
provided there were no more trans
gressions in the future.
To Open Indian Lands.
A bill introduced by Representative
Hanna, of North Dakota, it is thought
will result in the opening for settle
0f
ton. The measure has the endorse
ment of, and was formulated after a
conference with the secretary of the
interior and covers that part of the
reservation east and north of the Mis-
souri, river
1t is estimated that about 100000
acres of the best farming land in the
northwest is included in the tract
The temperance clause of Mr.. Han
mas bill is entirely new. 1t provides
that the federal law, which now ap-
plies to the Indian reservation shall
remain in effect until congress other
wise directs. This, it is thought, will
make the land covered by the reserva-
ton forever sealed against the sale of
Intoxicating liquors and will, at the
same time avoid the unconstitutional
ity of a specific provision for prohibit
ton
Another new feature of Mr. Hanna's
bill is that which provides for the es-
Enlistment and maintenance of a
demonstration farm. The advocates
of this provision think that such an
institution will prove a great benefit
to the farmers of North Dakota
In allotting the land, 100 acres of
agricultural land and 800 of grazing
land will be set aside for each Indian.