The Penn's Grove record., 1911-05-12

/ worth about 80 cents an acre' will be
worth $500 an acre. And am in
formed jby MT. Raipsyythat'most OF this
land is owned by the Southern PACING
| railroad, which alone can serve that
territory when 1t begins to be the
greatest citrus raising section OF the
continent.
The stake is a big one. The Rainey
resolution is intended merely to n
outzwhether the government or any Of
fetal is sitting IN the game. The reps
resentative himself does not profess.
to have any evidence, but like the maj
who tired out the circumlocution OF
fee in one Of Dickens novels, he just
wants to knoy, d~onltOyou NOV. \
Investigations Are Endorsed.
Some people assert that the soft
| pedal is to be put on the Democratic
| plan to investigate n after the other
Ethe-executixe departments Of GOV
ernment.-This is wholly without foun-
| dalton. The resolution for the inquiry
into the department of justice is al
ready. before the- .proper commlttee.
and probably at frequent intervals
resolutions affecting some coordinate
department will be presented.
Republican politicians of the lesser
sort resent these Investigations. But
such distinguished Republican publ
cists as DR.. Albert Shaw, editor of the
Review OF Reviews, welcome them.
and sralso to my certain knowledge
would many of the subordinate chiefs
OF departments. As DR.. Shaw puts IT:
after. sixteen years of uninterrupted
control Of the government, abuses In
executive departments are certain to
creep in. There is dead timber in eV-
cry department building. There are
| places to- be abolished and reforms to
be established. The Republicans
should welcome these Investigations
even though made by the opposing
party" AR =
at is to- be borne in mind, however,
that the Immediate effect of such-in-
vestigations will be little-more than to
advance a Democratic agitation. Six
teen years, most of them under the op-
Grafton of the civil service law. have
pretty securely e~ntrenched in office
the present employees in executive de-
partmentsU Nevertheless there islpoli-
tical capital to be made, if no political
patronage to, be won, out of muckrak-
ing the departments and the task Will
be undertaken with ayidityI by the
Democratic house. svi-5 7}ed
Probe for. Costly Commissions,
Late IN the last session Of con-
gressJl a. newspaper correspondent
went to Champ Clark, then only
the minority leader, 2 with this
question: s'How can 7 find out how
many commissions, boards or bureaus
are therebnow in existence created
either by legislative or executive &C.
tion, and how much. money are they
spending" "a te3 +a,fF e4s1C n
"You will have to organize yourself
into a congressional committee to get
that information said the present
speaker. 1--WE have been-trying to
find out for some time how many of
these commissions there were, With
out c l do not believe that any
mere unofficial Investigator. wen
though he represents a great news
paper, can secure the information"
That was several months ago. There
is now pendings before the rulesScom-
mittee Of the house of representatives
a resolution asking that there Shall
Ebe appointed by the speaker a com
mittee of i've members -to1looky into
this very question; to consider the
work and the, expense Of all these
commissions or boards, and particu-
larly to report to the house the names
Of the commissioners and Of their
various employees:
Made Up Of Beaten Men.
q It is of2coursezmatter OF common
notoriety that these commissions are
made upStoday of politicians who have
been d%iscredited BY their own con-
s~tituencies. l do not mean by that
that nationally they are d~iscredited.
For If you take ex-senator Aldrjch at
the head of the monetary commission
or Tom Garter, who heads a commits.
sion; >te determine the boundary line
between the United States and Can
-ada-thera-Milha-no to decry the
ability of either. But both have been
beaten. And If you take the long list
of ~me43serving on these various COM
missions you VIII find that whether
former Senators or9former represents;
tives. they. thaye been r~epudiated by
their own constituencies only to- IRE
ceive vastly more, profitable. appoint
ments at the hands of the administra-
ton. The most glafing instances ARE
those of former Senator Carter Of
Montana and former Representative
Tawhey,I appointed to the commission
/ TO Consider Canadian. border lines at
salaries Of $4,000 a year each. III
the senate and the house they got
$500. There iseabsolutely no reason
why the United States geological sur
vey should not draw. these lines with
,eut any aid from discredited states
men. t' az
l8qn .oMany Similar Instances. oairr;
Probably there are many such In
stances OF 1.-The way4hswhich the money
Of the country Is being spent In taking
care of politicians In their 'decrepit1de
on -commissions 9whioheare lunnenes-
sary2 or which are doing mo a work
whatsoever. For three years the So
called commission on immigration was
the, scandal of congress. 1t travelled
an over Europe, sffent money lavishiy
and not until one member, a minority
member at that-Burnett Of A1abama
-threatened to 3resign and expose its
methods. did 1t ever, make a. report
fThe monetary commission Is doing
practicaliH tho sameJthlng, saThere1fs
a commission on fisheries, on the
boundaries Of eAhaskass on postal rates
4hearing upon the Magazines, and there
will be one on the tariff without doubt
This multiplicity of commissions
means "a tmultipf4cfty Of clerks land
salaries and -heavy-experditares-fe