The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-01-14
HOT fight over
EXPOSITION SITE
Especial to the Silver State.)
(From +. j. DYER.l

! WASHINGTON, Jan. livery sell
dom in the history Of national legisla-
tion has there been such a strenuous
contest as that which is now being
waged between the friends of New Or
leans and San Francisco for the honor
of holding the exposition to celebrate
the opening of the Panama canal. Both
cities have sent to Washington large
delegations of their most wealthy and
influential citizens to maintain elabor-
ately fitted-up headquarters in the lead
ing hotels and to press on members Of
congress their claims to legislative ap-
prevail These delegations, backed by
the hearty support of their state repre-
sentatives in the senate and the house,
have been waging vigorous campaign,
social and legislative, and each side
is expressing confidence in its ultimate
success. The whole country has be-
come interested in the fight, and the
outcome is being watched with decided
interest.
After the Higher-ups.
1t became somewhat fashionable for
time to taunt the government with its
failure to put any Of the "maelfactors
of great wealth. in Jail. "What was
a fne," people said, "to trust OIL
cialsf'
Well, two of the officials have been
caught at it, convicted, and sentenced
to Jail. They were connected with the
turpentine trust, which was prosecut-
ed by the government, the case being
in charge of Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral Kenyon. This is the same Kenyon
who has been considered a dangerous
contender for the seat of the late U.
s. Senator Dolliver, of Iowa. While
his name was being considered in Iowa
for the senate, he went right on at
tending to his work in Washington
just as if he had higher ambition
than to do his duty as he found it. In
fact, he has never been very much Of
politician, but he has made good as An
officer of the department. Of justice.
After Mr.. Kenyon succeeded in win
ming the case against the turpentine
trust, the convicted officials appealed
to the fifth circuit court, which in No
vember last affirmed the decision of
the lower court, and later, on Decem-
ber 20, declined to grant the petition
of the defendants for rehearing.
The convictions in the turpentine trust
cases have naturally caused something
like CONSERVATION among the other
trusts against which the government is
proceeding or is preparing to proceed.
However, the government, relentless as
it may be in its present course, does
not take the position that all trust
officials are to be condemned as wick
ed men. One of the high officials Of
the government recently said in pri-
vate conversation that an injustice
amounting almost to great tragedy
had been done to Washington b.
- ha
in the prosecution of that institution
for weighing frauds. Mr.. Thomas, at
that time vice president, was apparent
ly implicated in the acts of an official
now deceased and other persons con-
nected with the corporation. 1t turned
out afterwards that he had nothing
whatever to do with the frauds and re-
gret was expressed by representatives
of the government that this man, whom
they characterized as perfectly honest
and upright, as far, of course, as their
investigations warranted them in
speaking, had been humiliated un-
justly
New life has been given to the
sugar trust prosecution by the recent
decision of the supreme court overrul-
| ing Judge Holt, of the southern dis
trict of New York, who had decided
that the complaint in the socalled Kis-
sci case was barred by the statute OF
| limitations. 1t was contended by the
government that Kissel, q New York
broker and surviving director of the
sugar turst, had acted for the turst in
closing up the Siegel refinery in Phila-
delphia, and so had violated the Sher-
man antitrust act. 1t now rests with
District Attorney Wise, of New YORK,
whether he will proceed with the prose-
cution under this decision of the SUI
preme court.
Longan and the "Silence."
Army officers everywhere always
take a deep interest in the joys and
the troubles of the cadets at Wesc
Point. When there was such row
last fall over the passive resistance and
''silence" by which the embryo OFF,
GERS indicated their disapproval Of the
system of discipline put into effect
by Captain Rufus E. Longan, the old
army men had a good deal OF secret
sympathy for the youngsters.
"We told Longan at the club, re-
marked one of the prominent ofhcers,
that he had better go slow In trying
| to reform a conservative institution
like West Point" We asked: "How
long was it, Longan, since you were at
the academyi" When he told us, we
suggested that things had probably
changed somewhat in the intervening
wears and we advised him strongly to
go easy until he got his bearings.
"Longan replied that he thought the
cadet corps lacked discipline and he
declared that he would change things.
"Don't do anything rash, Longan,
we advised him, but he seemed deter
mined to shake things up as soon as
he should get to West Point. And 1t
seems that he did. Anyway, judging
from what Longan had to say ON the
allegations of the cadets regarding has
attitude toward them We're just about