The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-11-17

was guilty of conduct that would b,
described by such lurid terms. | wa.
: determined that when new state Ell
tered the Union it should start witt
a knowledge Of some things. l wa!
, convinced that it should start with g
proper appreciation of the independ
ence of the judiciary. The people OF
that state may not be convinced yet
but at least they know what | think
Congress has approved my action for
once, and has gone further. 1t has
passed a law directing-and this is
really more like an act of blacklist
tyranny-the people to take back
their ideas about the judiciary. When
the territory is state it may change
its constitution to conform with its
own ideas about the judiciary, but
when it obtains the results, its peo-
pie cant say that we didn't give them
warning and didn't jolt them. My
friends are trying to gain credit for
me for my act. They have said it
must have taken rare courage to veto
the statehood bill. I deprecate this
kind of talk. / am lawyer and a
judge, and If had acted differently
would have been unworthy of either
title. couldn't have done anything
but what did. wrote my veto out
Of my heart, and 1 am proud and glad
I wrote It,"
A congressional junket to Alaska is
promised by Senator William Alden
Smith, who says that the committee
on territories will make the trip to
our rich possessions next summer to
aid them in forming a new civil gov
eminent. Mr.. Smith says that con-
gress will formulate a new civil gov
eminent for Alaska. We will cidify
its laws and formulate plan for con-
servation of its resources. We can
formulate plan that will be entire
ly acceptable to the people of Alaska,
and that will be an efficient public
policy. We will settle the question
of government in Alaska right. And
there will be no selfish motives and
there will be no greed in it," Secre-
tary Fisher, of the department of the
interior, has recently returned from
Alaska, and is reported to have plan
ready for the administration that will |
solve the Alaska troubles. However,
to each suggestion wherewith the
mooted problems are to be straight.
tined out, Clifford Pinchot rises to en-
ter his disclaimer as to the proposed
methods.
Americas greatest naval show has
just been pulled off in New York har-
Dor, and even the great metropolis,
accustomed to the most wonderful ex-
hibitions of the age, has viewed the
oooohioiCu HCCIo, CoupOocu VI LlOIe
than 100 ships, with surprise and adj
Even the great naval per-
formances of two years ago, at the
time of the Hudson-Fulton celebra-
ton, have been far outclassed. Sec
rotary of war Meyer, in a statement
this week, says that the American
navy is 1900 per cent more efficient
than at the time of the Spanish-Amer-
lean war. The basis of the estimate
Is calculated on the increased rate of
firing, the increased range of target,
the effectiveness of new appliances,
the studied selection of the man for
the job, and the increased percentage
Of hits. Mr.. Meyer also declared that
the great assemblage of ships in New
York harbor fully demonstrated the
of the navy in time of
peace. ....
Senator Cummins on his return
from Panama, will at once come to
Washington to complete arrangements
for the beginning of the investigation
INTO control of corporations by the
senate interstate commerce commits
sion. This inquiry will begin Novem-
Der Is. Senator Cummins is head of
he subcommittee in charge of the
George w. Perkins,
he Wall street financIer. and lieuten-
INT of the Morgan interests, will try
o have at the hearing a strong list
If captains of industry who are in
'avor of his plan OF trust regulation.
This plan is to allow combination and
lave the government control, even to
he extent Of fixing prices. John D.
Rockefeller, ]. P. Morgan and others,
will appear on that side of the ques-
ion. Professor L. Laurance Laugh
in, of Chicago, former President Eli
vt of Harvard, and other we'll known
will appear on the other