Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-18
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| compared with as late as five years
ago, show an increase of 80 per cent
| for coal carrying and 80 and so per
| cent in cerels and other goods.
Official Cotton Grades.
Uncle Tama Jim Wilson says that
! the official cotton grades, as promul-
gated by the Department of Agricul-
| ture in accordance with Congression-
al action, and first placed on sale in
September, 1910, in accordance with
the la thereon, have been favorably
received in every cotton producing
, and manufacturing section of the
! country. "The consensus of opinion
, is" he said, that the committee rep
resenting every branch of the cotton
| industry, which fixed upon and pre-
pared samples of the nine official cot
ton grades of white American cotton
has done it's work we'll.
these grades have been formally
tons by the cotton exchanges at the
| adopted as the basis of their opera
following places: New Orleans, La:
Memphis, Tenn; St. Louis, NO.;
! Charleston, s. c.; Natchez, Miss:
Little Rock, Ark; Galveston, Tex;
Macon, Ca, and Mobile, Ala.
1T is probable that other exchanges
| will adopt these standards. The New
England Cotton Buyers Association
| and the Arkwright Club have both
agreed to maze these grades the basis
| of their purchases, and the Southern
Cotton Buyers Association has agreed
to make them the basis of their quo
tations to these manufacturing asso-
Citations.
"The oficila cotton grades are OF
interest to the following classes, all
of which are represented in the list
of purchasers:
Cotton warehouses, growers, mills,
; dealers exchanges, ginners, banks,
textile schools, agricultural colleges,
commercial museums, chambers Of
commerce and foreign exchanges"
Some Campaign Expenses.
Senator La Follette's manly show
ing of his campaign expenses is char
acteristic Of that little Wisconsin
fighter, as is, too, his peremptory
demand on Mr. Roosevelt to similar
ly disclose his recent campaign dis
bursements. To those who know the
methods Of the Silent and Unobtru-
sive Clam of Oyster Bay the request
of the Wisconsin solOn is regarded
as being exceedingly unlikely of pro-
ducing reliable results. 1t is believed
to be quite within the possibilities,
however, that some of the Roosevelt
ian boosters may be put forward to
answer the challenge: ard but few,
if any, are o. the opinion that any
thing like a truthful admission will
be made of all of the contrib utions,
names of the contributors, and of
the purpose for which those cuntri:
buttons were spent. -. They recall to
mind Alton B. Parker's assertion,
when running against Roosevelt for
the Presidency. that Hartman, ct al,
had supplied a big part of the sinews
t Of war; and thew % not forget the
Rousevcltion's ugly deni.l r'.e word
''liar" Is just as ready to the lips of
the Silent and Unobtrusive Cam to-
day as it was then--and every bit as
jnapplicable. However, Senator La
Toilette is not man who will permit
that sort of an answer to swerve him
from his high minded and public
spirited determination to have the
limelight of publicity thrown on the
questionable expenditures of the re-
cent Roosevelt anti-convention cam
paign. TO those VINO supported
Roosevelt, as to those who stood by
La Toilette, is DUE prompt reply
giving all of the facts without con.
cealment or subterfuge. If that re-
ply does not materialize within rea-
sonable time, the statesman from
the Badger State will have something
to say that may unmask several am:
bilious national politicians, who have
of late been proclaiming from the
housetops 'Thou shalt not steap, etc.
At the same time. it will also be
in order for Mr.. Taft and Mr.. viii.
son to hand over their lists Of con-
tributors, etc. Both of them may
have interesting details to disclose,
possibly rot quite so full of thrills
as those Of the Medill-M Cormick-Per
kins-Fl!nn Presidential candidate
but whatever they are, the people
want to know all about them. just
as does Senator LaFOllette. Maybe,
the Silent Clam is withholding his
little list until after the convention
of the "tb:d party" in Chicago on
August 5. when he ought to have not
few other items to add to it's big
total.
Rush at Pension Office.
1t is safe to say that never since
its establi shment, has the Pension
Office had such a rush of business as
it has experienced ever since the
enactment of the sc-cal'ed dollar-a-
day pension act of May II, 1912. Ov-
er 100000 applications have been
handed in, either by mail, or through
the members of Congress, and humid
| reds of them are arriving daily. In
additional letters, relating to- intend
ed applications and to the operations
Of the new pension law are pouring
in at the rate of thousands day,
| with the result that Commissioner
Davenport Is absolutely unable to an
swer any of them as promptly as he
would desire. Many of those letters
cannOt ha answered at this time az