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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-01

was no subsequent decrease in the
wage rate on railroads, as there was
in other industries, at the time of the
1907 panic
A statement by Martin A. Knapp
chairman of the interstate commerce
commission, in the Annals of the Am
erican Academy of Political and Social
Science, July, 1908, is quoted Mr.
Knapp said: Partly because of the
strength of railway labor organizations
which for the most part have been
prudently managed by astute and able
leaders, the general scale of wages in
railway service has been materially
higher than in corresponding private
pursuits. l congratulate our railway
friends and the country at large that
means have been devised for carrying
this great industry over this critical
period without attempting a reduction
in wages of railway employees
While freight rates have declined
year by. year, the price of everything
railroad buys has gone up. Thus the
railroads have not contributed to the
rise in prices but have suffered seri-
ously from it. Fuel is one example of
how expenses have increased. While
the freight traffic increased 14S per
cent between 1897 and 1907, on all the
railroads in the United States, and the
passenger traffic increased 1876 per
cent. the cost of fuel for locomotives
increased POI per cent. Rails. lumber,
pipe, cement, glass, all structural ma
terials show similar Increases
The price of labor mas moved up
ward along with all other prices, peri
odical advances in wages having been
made by the railroads. The average
yuarly earnings of railroad employees,
including laborers, according to the
latest report issued by the interstate
commerce commission, amount to $641.
The average yearly earnings of train
men, including enginemen. fireman
conductors, on the eastern railroads,
according to the same report. are $90S
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-01
Monopoly is to Be
Stopped if Possible

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S-Secretary of
War Dickinson today proposed that the
antitrust law be invoked to break up
the alleged monopoly by which the
Pacific Mail Steamship company and
the Hartman rans-continental lines
control business between Pacific coast
ports and the Isthmus of Panama.
When it was suggested today that
suit under the Sherman law might fail
because the steamship company, op-
Grated as an independent line, might
be considered a competitor Of the
Southern Pacific railroad, members of
the senate committee on interoceanic
canals discussed the advisability OF
recommending legislation that would
reach the merger.
The hearing today was held to give
the secretary of war opportunity to
answer the criticism of Senator Bris-
tow that the government was giving
aid to the transcontinental railroads by
not encouraging the establishment of
an Independent steamship line On the
Pacific coast, as proposed by B. N.
Baker of Baltimore.
Secretary Dickinson produced the
piOpooCu COlllIdCl W SIiOW Ills uAdCl
standing of the offer. 1t indicated that
the company was to have an exclusive
contract and many other favors that
Mr.. Dickinson said could not be grant
ed under authority vested in him or
any other member of the president
cabinet
The statement had been made by
Mr.. Dickinson that he had practically
been coerced by a serious situation
into consenting to the demand of the
Pacific Mail company for 70 per cent
of the joint rate. The Pacific Mail
had threatened to withdraw its ships
and if this had been done, ne said it
would have left the government line
without an outlet on the Pacific coast.
IF the ships on the Pacific side had
been withdrawn, L feel my position
would have been indefensible and
therefore I was forced to accept the
terms offered by the Pacific Mail" said
the secretary Il consulted with the
president, who knew more about the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-01
IN EXCITING CHASE
When Washington Officer Steals Away
Prisoner, Latter's Attorney Follows

Los ANGELES, Feb. ga. j. Cold
berg, of Spokane is at a hotel mere
guarded closely by his attorney, AFTER
a series of exciting adventures TO-DAY,
He was taken from the custody OF
"a Spokane sheriff at the point of re-
volver.
Goldberg was arrested in this CITY
a week ago Saturday on a warrant
from Spokane charging him with the
swindling of brewery company. To-
day his attorney secured his free-
dom on a writ of habeas corpus, put
when Goldberg left the court room ne
was rearreSted by Deputy SherlH u
E. Long of Spokane.
GOldberg'S attorney secured anOthei
writ but before he could secure the
person of Goldberg that individual hau
been taken in an automobile ava!
from the Jail. The attorney followed
in another automobile, first to Pasd-
dana, thence across country TO Bur
bank. At Burbank the attorney sc
cured the services of a deputy sherhl
of Los Angeles county and at the poIii'
of a revolver the Washington deputy
was forced to relinquish his prisoner
Goldberg asserts the requisition pa
pers held by Deputy Sheriff Long aIo
irregular.
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ZION CITY RECElVERSHIP
All Secured Claims Against Dowie
Estate Have Been Settled.

CHICAGO,> Feb. 2S.-Winding ~ up
the receivership of Zion City, the COM
munity near this city, founded by the
late Alexander Dowie, was forecasted
yesterday when Receiver G. d. Thorn
as issued a report which he stated
probably would be the last. Practically
all the secured claims against the es-
tate formerly controlled by DoWie have
been settled and there remains pro-
perty sufficient to pay the unsecured
directors about 2S per cent on the dol
lar
The estate, following the termination
of the receivership, is to be turned
over to a reorganization board by the
trustees who for the first year viii.
be appointed by the court.
The report covers the twelve months
ending January 81, last. The total as
sets are $1,477,614, against which there
are outstanding secured claims of
about $4,000.
Unsecured claims amount TO $4,900,-
600, towards whose payment there may
be applied a surplus of $1,406,120 over
the secured claims
Just before the death of DoWie about
four years ago the value of the prop
erty under his control was estimated
at $4,000 900.
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canal affairs than / did and we were
not willing to take the risk of calling
the Pacific Mail Steamship company's
bluff"
Was Probe Ever Made?
Did you ever make an investigation
to determine whether the Pacific Mail
is controlled by the Hartman lines?"
asked Chairman Flint.
Mr.. Dickinson replied that he had
seen President Scherwin of the Pacific
Mail only once and they had had an
unpleasant interview. Scherwin in
sisted, he said, that his line was in
dependent of the Southern Pacific and
upon that point they could not agree.
The secretary took the position that
an exclusive contract would reverse
the whole policy of the government
and that any government official who
would countenance it would be taking
an enormous responsibility. Several
senators pressed the secretary of war
for his opinion of the surest way to
break UP the Pacific Mail monopoly.
He said that the surest way would be
for the government to build ships and
operate them, but he would not say
that such course would be the wis
est He said that the question was a
legislative one and that he did not care
to endorse government ownership.
Would Not Know What to Do.
I'VE sent for you to tell us what to
do" said Chairman Flint. THAT 1
think, is what you would do if you
were SENATOR
Probably we have been trained in
different political schools" said the Sec
rotary, 'but I have never believed it
was the duty of the government to
furnish means Of transportation. /
have not believed it wise for the gov
eminent to engage in that business,
which can best be done by individu-
ais
No decision was reached on this
subject and Secretary Dickinson left
the stand after saving that he would
investigate the whole subject of mail
contracts. chartering steamships or
any other means of meeting the stu
alton
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endment to the constitution of the
United States.
Much as i respect the opinion of
the governor of the state, 1 cannot
agree with the view expressed in his
special message of January, and as
advocated in the senate the reso1u-
ton to submit the proposed amend
ment. it seems appropriate that
should state my view of it's effect.
the proposed amendment is in these
words: Article 166-The congress
shall have power to lay and collect
taxes on incomes, from whatever
source derived, without apportionment
among the several states and without
regard to any census or enumeration
THE objection is made to the am
endment that it will confer upon the
national government the power to tax
incomes derived from bonds issued by
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-01

1t has been a wilful defiance of the
law. His bond has been supplied by
an oleomargarine manufacturer, a pro-
ceeding which / regard as my duty to
say IS highly significant
Thomas Dudman, purchasing agent
for an Oleomargarine firm, told of
his connection with the case as bond
man for the convicted man.
when you went on the bonds OF
these men did you expect to be indem-
nified in case there were any losses ??
asked Judge Lands.
yes, SIR replied Dudman.
"Who was going to indemnify you?'
my employer William J. Monkey"
Then restaurant men are not going
to indemnify you?"
mo, SIR
Mr.. Moxley is representative in con-
gress from the sixth district of Him
OILS.
Federal inspectors told the court that
the defendants sold daily large quaint
ties of Illegally manufactured oleomar-
garine to restaurants in the loop dis
trict. The assistant district attorney
presented government reports showing
that Broadwell and another defendant
bought a total of 1878 pounds OF
white Oleomargarine in the six months
from July, 1909 to January 1910 and in
the same period purchased 5000
pounds of colored oleomargarine. The
government contention is that the de-
PENDANTS colored the white oleomargar-
inc before disposing of it, thus avoid
ing the tax of 10 cents a pound on the
coiored product.
Another contention of the govern
ment was that if the makers of white
oleomargarine knew the uses to which
it would be put after sale and supplied
coloring material to the purchaser
they might be deemed guilty of con-
spiracy in violation of the laws.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-01
MUST GIVE TO EVERY
BIDDER 4 FAIR CHANCE

| ing, held an administrative office.
If that were true, however, Justice
Wright declared, "the action of such
a member constituted nothing less
than the forfeit Ire of his seat, under
that provision of the constitution
which prohibited any administrative
officer of the government from being
a member of congress during his term
of office"
Mandamus Only Thing Possible.
The courts mandamus, Justice
Wright declared, was the only known
procedure of law to compel a neglect
ed public duty" Justice Wright con-
cluded:
THE court is established in it's con-
victions that it has been influenced
by no greater and no less considera-
ton for one of its justices than it is
accustomed to bestow on the affairs
of the most obscure amongst the peo-
pie when they attend it's bar; that
the preservation of it's rights and lib
critics of the people call upon and re-
quire it to vindicate it's retention and
its free exercise of the functions
been committed to it's charge: that
the maintenance of those functions re-
quires the formation of its opinion and
is the justification for it's expression.
THE court has come to meet a sit
uation where, for the first time in it's
affairs, it has been required to ex
anime the conduct of one of its jus
tees against a high and dangerous
charge of misuse of the processes of
law and on coming to an end of that
examination, the court embraces the
enduring hope that this, the first such
deprecable occasion, will be the last"
In ordering the attorney for the pa
per company to proceed, the court ex
pressed the hope, that if at any time
during the proceedings, there should
be an effort to infringe on the privi-
leges of members of congress, the
court would be the first to uncover
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the states or under the authority OF
the states and will place the borrow
ing capacity of the state and its gov
ernmental agencies at the mercy OF
the federal taxing power.
Il do not find in the amendment any
such meaning or effect. l did not con-
slider that the amendment will enlarge
the taxing power of the national gov
eminent or will have any effect ex-
cept to relieve the exercise of that
taxing power from the requirement
that the tax shall be apportioned
among the several states.
1.-The effect of the amendment will
be, in my view, the same as if it said
the United States may lay a tax on
incomes without apportioning the tax
and this shall be applicable, whatever
the source of the income subjected to
the tax leaving the question what
incomes are subject to national tax
alton? to be determined by the same
principles and rules which are now
applicable to the determination of that
question"
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hardly approaches the safety OF mod
ern structures. If those rapers sh,,
be DESTROYED Uncle Sans dipomao,.
would have no more symmetry tbou
aeroplane after butting into light,
ming express. Many of these diplomas.
questions drag along for generat;o
The Newfoundland fisheries Question
is older than the government and :.
has not yet been answered T, ho,-
up now and again and the secretaarv .,
state. before engaging in a nar,o,.
must read every word his predacos
sors have said on the subject. Diulo.
matically speaking, Uncle Sam with
his records burned would fare IN IN
deed
The department of Commerce and
labor is established principally j.
large block designed for business pur.
poses. 1t too, has valuable records in
Guiding the trust busting information
CLEANED In various Investigations Fur
all these reasons Senator Scott has
planned to place the three departments
in marble masterpiece of architecturo
to cost the millions aforesaid and 20
occupy five squares between Four-
teenth and Fifthteenth streets and
Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall Tho
site adjolns the parking south of the
treasury and has been acquired bv the
government
Everybody agrees with the senator
that the thing ought to be done but all
the members of congress will not vote
for it. A good many of them reckin
that $15.O00,0OO for this structure would
mean some millions less for buildings
in their own districts, and they figure
that the need for ornate federal struc-
lures in the cities of Sauterville Rad
Axe, Halfway and F'a:rview. are reas-
onably important.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-01
PRIMARY EDUCATION is
NEGLECTED SAYS TAFT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-Reform
in primary education in the United
States was declared to be necessary
by Pres Ident Taft in an address to-
night al a banquet of the University
club of Washington.
The attention of the president has
been called to the failures of the ap-
plicants for admission to West Point
and Annapolis by Representative
Champ Clark of Missouri, VINO in an
address to the club said that the ap-
plicants fail on rudimentary subjects.
Il agree with the gentleman from
Missouri" said President Taft, that
primary education in this country
should be more thorough, and on that
subject l must say that he is nearer
right than ne has been for a long
time.
Il believe that the ambition of
school superintendent throughout the
country, who have charge of primary
and secondary education, mas led us
into a lack of thoroughness.
The president spoke also upon the
value of university men in the affairs
of the government, and praised col
lege men who are serving the govern
ment at a financial sacrifice because
they believe there is something more
in life than money and luxury.
Il believe we are passing through a
period" the president said, in turn
ing to national affairs, where we need
sane and normal thinking, where the
sensitive condition of the public is
likely to lead it into hysteria. I do not
know of any class of men more fitted
to lead the public to sane thinking
than the university men.
TT is true that an occasional univer-
sity man is over educated and goes be-
yond the bounds of common sense, but
tie great body of university men, after
they have been out of college long
enough to learn the ways of the world,
may be counted on to reach safe and
sane conclusions"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-01

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s.-Justice
Wright in the district supreme court
today decided that the court acted
within its authority when it issued
the writ of mandamus ordering the
joint committee on printing Of con-
gress to show cause why it should
not consider the bid of the Valley
Paper company of Holyoke, Mass.
The jurisdiction of the court. JUS
tice Wright declared, was generally
recognized, commonly understood and
long exercised. and it's jurisdiction had
been conferred by various acts of con-
gress Referring to the absence of
senators who declined to appear in
court or be represented, the court
said:
THE progress of the affairs of jus
tice in such cases is neither to be
avoided nor INSTRUCTED by the abb
sence OF respondents, nor does any
part of its administration depend up
on their presence.
In differentiating between case
and a cause of action, the court said
that a case had certainly been estab-
lshed. and that a cause of action
yet remained to be found. The con-
stitution specified that the judicial
power shall extend to all cases in
law and equity arising under the laws
Of the United States" and upon this
the court based its jurisdiction.
Tie court then proceeded to de-
termne whether the joint printing
committee of congress was a part of
the legislative body and then dissect
its functions. All legislative duties
being conferred by tie constitution
upon congress, the court held that
none of them could be delegated by
congress to its members. No power
could be vested in a part of congress
by a law of congress itself, Justice
Wright maintained.
That there was room to believe that
the opening and inspection OF bids for
paper was an administrative duty, the
court admitted, but disclaimed any
Inference that any member, by so do
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-01
OleO Will Be
I'm Ter Calcium

CHICAGO, Feb. 2S.-Federal inquI-
ry into methods of disposition of ole
omargarine was ordered today by
Judge NJ K. Lands of the United
States district court after he had SEN
Fenced one of four offenders. indicted
for violating the oleomargarine regu "a
/ tions, to six years in the federal pri-
son at Fort Leavenworth and had fined
him $4,000.
The man who was sentenced to the
pen:tentiary was w. 4. Broadwell
The other three cases We're continued
until Thursday.
1T has been disclosed that proba-
bly, more than $4,000 has been lost
by the United States government as
a result of BroadwelFs activities said
Judge Lands, N sentencing the oleo-
margarine dealer. Whenever arres-
ted he has given bonds and then gone
out and violated the law the next day.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-01
Doctors are
Much too Manu-

CHICAGO, Feb. 2S-"The United
States supports too many physicians
While Europe maintains the proper
ton OF one physician to every 1900
people, the United States has a ply
stefan for every 56S. This over pro-
duction is due to our too numerous
low grade medical schools and to the
laxity of our laws governing them.
1t is time that the country adopt
means to relieve itself of this burden
Henry S. Ppitchett of New York.
president of the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of teaching, made
this assertion today in an address be-
fore the Council on Medical Educa-
ton of the American Medical associa-
ton.
"Our low grade medical schools" he
continued, sanctioned by our lax law,
are largely responsible. 1t is admit
ted that the training of doctors from
the low grade schools is poor, but it
is constantly asserted that these doc
tors are needed for the rural districts
The assumption is that graduates of
the medical schools connected with
the universities will not go into the
rural fields. This assumption is false.
Our Investigations show us that our
more extensively trained doctors go
into the country just as the poorly
trained doctors do. The Johns Hop
kins university graduates have gone
into 80 states and territories. This
shows they do not congregate in the
big cities.
Another argument advanced in be-
of do &c hot in,
favor of the poor boy. This argu-
ment is based not upon consideration
for the poor boy and still less upon
consideration for the public, but upon
the desire to run medical school.
THE truth is that the medical edu-
cation which the poor boy has to pay
for will cost him just as much as
would something better
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State
Their Stand

NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-Representa-
tives of the Eastern railroads issued
today a pamphlet which gives the rail-
roads side of the wage question. The
occasion for this is the recent action
of the trainmen and conductors in de-
handing higher pay and shorter hours.
The principal subjects discussed in the
pamphlet are the decrease in freight
and passenger rates, toe increase in
the cost of operation. and the wages
of railroad employees as compared with
the wages paid in other industries.
The position of the railroads is that,
in the face of steady decline in
rates and a steady advance in the cost
of operation. they are not able to grant
general wage increases in additions to
those already made. There were gen
eral increases in the latter part of 1906
and the early part of 1907, and there
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-01
PROBE TO BE
ON ONCE MORE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-Tne Bal
linger- Pinchot inquiry will be resum-
ed tomorrow morning with Clifford
P1nchot again on the stand. Mr.. Pin
chot had not progressed far with his
story Saturday when adjournment was
taken. When he stopped testifying
the committee was considering the
question of allowing witnesses, in
Guiding Mr.. Pinchot, to repeat their
version of conversations with Presi-
dent Taft.
Mr.. Vertrees attorney for Secretary
Ballinger protested against allowing
testimony of this kind, saying that it
placed the president in the embarras-
sing attitude of either remaining sill
ent or of appearing before the COM
I mittee as a witness. The latter, he
declared, would be both unprecedented
and undesirable.
George w. Pepper, counsel for Mr..
Pinchot, agreed with Mr.. Vertrees that
the calling of the president would be
undesirable but aided that he must
press for a decision by the commit
tee, as he cons dered the converse
ton between Nh Pinchot and Presi-
dent Taft a material foundation for
further testimony to be offered in
support of Ny PinchOt's charges
against the secretary of the interior.
1t is not seriously thought that
President Taft will appear as wit
ness, although the suggestion has been
thrown out as an interesting sidelight
of an interesting case Callers at the
White House VINO talked with the
president today declared that what
the president said to Mr.. Pinchot was
not relevant to any subject under in
Quiry by the committee.