Saint Mary's beacon., 1911-07-20

Another Extraordinary feature Of
the case In thie. The invariable
rule has been 70 give 60 days notice
before any claimant could file on
this land. but. according TO Mr..
bennett Of the General Land Office,
when the Presidents order first
came 10 him the go day provision
was in 10, and when he Next saw the
order there was no time allowed
whatever for notice to she public
not even Q day.
That there was actually an under.
standing between the administration
and the men who were to profit
through the Presidents amazing
secret order is not q state OF affairs
10 remarkable to those who have
been closely following things in
Washington. There have been pre-
cedents exactly paralleling such q
performance. When the railroad
regulation bill was sent sent TO the
last Congress bv the President the
public was In absolute ignorance Of
its contents. But the fact develop
cd later that although the President
had not seen fit 10 take the public
into his confidence. he had allowed
the railroad interests not only TO
suggest the lines along which the
bill should be framed. and to load il
with jokers against the public in
terest, but TO actually pass upon
and o. X. the bill before the people
we're even permitted to know that it
preparation was contemplated.
Before the investigation into this
newest Alaska land iugglery is
finished il promises to develop q
condition OF affairs beside which the
attempted theft Of Alaska coal lands
Is inconsequential.
The probe is In charge OF Repre-
sentative James NJ. Graham OF Illi-
nois, one Of the really big men in
the Democratic house. whose career
from the very first day be entered
Congress has stamped him as q man
above partisanship and one espe-
cially qualified by service on the
Ballinger investigating committee
to make the inquiry he is now so
conscientiously engaged in.
AN IMPARTIAL" INVESTIGATOR.
G. W. Burton. special agent Of
the tariff board who is now travel
ing in Europe gathering exact i'm
formation" to be used as the basis
OF tariff revision by the Republicans,
is an Aldrich udpatter on the
tariff question, and was undoubte
ly selected because OF this qualifica-
tion. Burton, on the side, has been
writing letters back for publication
in the Los Angeles Times, q high
protectionist paper. This "impar-
tisl" Investigator, gathering exact
information" in a recent letter de-
clared that: Your tariff revision
demand fellow Americans. is a fad. :"
In another letter, excoriating the
whole tariff revision suggestion,
this impartial" investigator made
this judicial and carefully weighed
observation: The merchandise our
country who are so inadvisedly
shouting for lower duties in order
to get the cost OF living re eiuced,
should stop making so much noise
until they learn what they are talk
ing about" All OF which is inter.
esting in view OF the fact President
Taft insists Congress should not
touch the iniquitous Payne Aldrich
rates until this impartial" investi-
gator, G. W. Burton. has told it
what il ought to do.
CHICKENS COMING HOME To Roosr
For many years the government
paid handsome rental for the use
Of the Union building in Washirg-
ton. IL developes now that one of
the principal owners of the building
is daughter in-law of Senator Hale,
and that Senator Hale had inserted
in an appropriation bill an item which
compelled the government to lease
the building. Senator Hale also
caused millions Of dollars OF public
moneys to be expended on q naval
shore station of the coast OF Maine,
the bulk OF which expenditure was
sheer waste. The principal mission
this yard performed was to provide q
place for Senator Hale's political
henchmen. Nor was that ell: While
Senator Hale was in the exercise OF
almost unlimited power in the SEN
ate as chairman of the sppropria-
tions committee, his son, Frederick
Hale. secretly received o fee of $5,-
600 out Of tho secret service fund
for alleged diplomatic labors in help
ing to fix Canadian boundary line.
No one can find out what young
Hale actually did to earn this $5, 600.
These and other acts OF Mr.. Haie
while be was senator justify the