The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-06-05

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bany ...... ......'.... zoo'oV
Messengers fare, Albany to
Altamont and return ....... 2.O0
Porters, baggage, tips, and
taxfcab. 80" ........ 1880
Total 1900 :. ...,..... 81, 1854
Marshal Wright certified that the
amounts had been paid to the Penn
syItania railroad from the appropria-
tion for miscellaneous expenses, U.
s. Courts, 1910"
Caleb r. Layton, auditor of the
treasury ''for the state and other de-
partments, refused to o. X. the vouch-
er, citing the provision under which
Il was contended that the expendi-
lures were authorized, which is as
follows:
For payment of such miscellane-
GUS expenses as may be authorized
by the attorney general for the
United States courts and their Off
GERS. including the furnishing and
collecting of evidence where the
United States is or may be a party in
interest, and moving of records,
s575,00o"
Comptroller Tracewell, of the treas
ury department, was appealed to, and
he rendered an opinion in which he
held that the expenses of the JUS
tees should be allowed.
Mock Inquiry.
Senator VIM. ]. Stone, of Missouri,
believes that the inquiry now being
made by the senate committee into
the cost of living is mock investi-
CATION organized for the sole pur-
pose of acquitting the Payne-Aldrich
tariff of responsibility for higher
prices"
Senator Stone Is not the only mem
Der of congress who entertains such
a belief, because as a matter of fact
no one conversant with the tactics
of Aldrich entertains any other
thought than that the Investigating
committee" will white-wash the new
tariff law. The Missouri senator,
however, went further than anyone
else in exposing the scheme on the
floor of the senate. Senator Stone
was opposing the resolution of Sena-
tor Lodge providing for an appropria-
ton of $4,000 to broaden the scope
of the inquiry"
The personnel of the "investigat-
ing committee, together with the
circumstances attending the creating
of the body, indicate what the verdict
will be.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,,
high priest of protection, made a
speech in the senate completely vim
dicating the tariff of all blame for in
creased prices.
II was then decided a committee
should be appointed to investigate
the subject. Senator Lodge, one of
the chief trainers of the new tariff
law and admittedly preiudiced on the
subject, was selected to occupy the
role OF chairman OF the committee.
or, in other words, to be the chief
Judge.
ITO an ordinary man like me-" de-
clared Senator Stone, that looks like
stacking the cards"
Senator Stone then referred to a
statement by Senator Hale, made on
the floor of the senate recently while
the work of the investigating COM
mittee was under consideration.
81 think" Senator Hale had said,
1--WE may count on the committee fur
nishing us with valuable material
which we will, all of us, use in the
days between now and November"
What Senator Hale meant was that
the Lodge price investigating COM
mittee would no doubt find the tariff
law blameless, and that this verdict
could be used by the standpatters in
the approaching congressional cleo
fions to stave off defeat.
When the present investigation be-
gan it was generally understood that
Senator Lodge was placed in charge
OF Il to prevent the discovery of any
thing that might reflect upon the
tariff law. Lodge has worked dill
gently to carry out this purpose.
Some of the witnesses, however, have
been so unfeeling as to declare that
the tariff law has increased the cost
OF necessities, and have been so stub
born as to prove the truthfulness OF
their assertions, Notwithstanding the
remonstrances of Lodge and his posi-
tive refusal to believe them.
This has been embarrassing to the
bosses and particularly Initiating to