Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-02-16

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Panama-Pacific celebration at SaI
Francisco in 1915 has at last ended
it's tedious and tortuous course in the
congressional mill and now rests II
the white house, which is a haveI
of absolute safety.
William H. Taft will, as a good
and enthusiastic friend of the Pacific
coast, on Monday or Tuesday afix his
signature to the precious bit Of a
document, and then it will go into
the permanent keeping Of the secre-
tary of state.
At the same time the president
will send his formal notification to
the senate and the house of repre-
sentatives that he has approved the
measure and with that the final mes
sage can be sent to the exposition
city to "let 'er 60"
The need for immediate action by
congress toward fixing the rates that
shall be charged vessels using the
Panama canal was impressed upon
the house committee on interstate
commerce today by Colonel George
w. Goethals, chief engineer Of the
canal.
Colonel Goethals supported the
Mann bill, which presents the admin
istration ideals of what the tolls
should be. He said that the canal
would be completed by September,
1918; that it would practically put
the Tehuantepec railroad out of bust
ness and that the shipping interests
of the world must have at least 18
months to reconstruct their ocean
rates upon the basis of charges i'm
posed by the canal.
The officer said the canal would be
completed well within the limit of
cost of $375000, 0,000-probably $751;
100000 under this amount. This will
include the coal stations, machine
shops and supply stations and prob
ably the drydock.
He said the government, by operat-
ing overnment-controlled coal sta
tions, must prevent private interests
from monopolizing the coal supply at
the canal Under any other system,
said Colonel Goethals, the danger
would exist of the private coal in
terests directly controlling the opera
tion of the canal.
Washington, Feb. 1O.-Government
clerks who are paid from $500 to
$500 a year, on whom the burden
of the high cost of living falls most
heavily, are having hard shedding this
winter A few years ago the SEN
ators and representatives raised their
own salaries so per cent, and at the
same time refused to raise the sal
aries of the clerks. Since then many
of the higher officers, such as cab
met members, supreme court justices
and others at the top of the official
ladder have had substantial in
Recently it was attempted to raise
the salaries of the United States cir
cult judges from $1,000 to $4,000,
and of the secretary to the president
from $500 to $4,000 a year. The
in the judges salaries was
defeated in the house by a vote of /
l57 to 1870.
In the senate other increases which
had passed the house were accepted /
without protest, with one exception
he senate became nightly virtuous
and struck out clerkship of 5000 {
Der year. |
The increases go to employees in {
he higher ranks of the service, who /
already are drawing salaries from I
.wo to six times as high as the s
lverage wages paid to civil service |
The rank and file, as usual,
20 unrecognized
The chief of the bureau of trade {
citations in the state department is S
aised from $4,000 to $2500. The 9
.hief clerk in the treasury depart {
nent from $4,000 to $4,000. Five law =
Jerks in the customs division, treas +
Try department, are raised from =
2O0O to $25O0; assistant chief from
2O00 to $25OO; the law and bond Il
Jerk the same increase.
Washington, Feb. 9. = The cam a
aign of the Taft administration for il
he ratification of the reciprocity c
greement with Canada moved on n
pace today The house committee !,
n ways and means held it's final ''
caring and is expected in executive a
ession tomorrow to vote it favor o
bly,. y y
That the exposition in commemOra-
on of the completion of the Panama "
anal, if held at San Francisco, would IL
e the greatest ever known is the
pinion expressed by the senate COM L
littee on industrial expositions in a Jc
eport presented to the senate today. la
This view is based on the fact n,
nat $17,500,000 has been promised u
y California for the proposed ex ii
Osition. The report makes it plain P
lat the promise of the large sum II
ad much influence in taking the n,
Iposition to the Pacific coast. h,
A copy of the Daily Congressional ~
ecord for every home is contem- VI
lated in a bill introduced today by
enator Hepburn of Idaho. The bill W
rovides that the Record shall be pc
applied at the rate of 81 per year, &C
nd that all postmasters may take te
The democrats of the house, aided m
7 a few republicans who declined re
be bound by the party caucus, of
on their fight today for an in
'eased representation in the lower C,
'anch of congress under the cen as
is of 1910. n,
They voted down the republican ~
ucus bill to retain the house mem =.