The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-03-21
DEMOCRATS PASS
EXCISE TAX BILL
Especial to the Silver State.)

600 or more year, passed the house
Tuesday, 275 to 40 The Democrats
voted solidly for the bill and carried
eight Republican votes with them
Forty regular Republicans voted
against the bill.
The bill goes to the senate, where it's
fate is a guess. Many senators said
today that if they found the house
measure would tax all classes of peo-
II pie alike, they would support it.
Democratic senators, with few ex-
ceptions, are expected to vote for it.
Democratic Leader Martin expressed
the hope that the Democratic senator's
and the insurgent Republicans might
put the bill through. Republican lead
ers are depending upon the president IS
veto to check revenue revision bills
from the house.
| The excise bill, though primarily
intended to produce anywhere from
twenty to sixty million dollars year
to make up for the losses on free
sugar, also is expected to be one of
the offsets to general pension legisla-
tiOn which seems sure to be enacted
Democratic Leader Underwood held
his majority intact through the pas
sage of the bill. Not one Democratic
vote was east against it and the meas
ure was passed exactly as framed.
With the free sugar bill and excise
tax bills out of the way Democratic
members of the ways and means CON-
mittee are free to tackle again the
wool schedule, which is considered the
knottiest problems they have to deal
with this session Of congress. The
committee will begin work with the
free raw wool sentiment strong.
Chairman Underwood is known to be
opposed to free wool bill because he
thinks the revenue from wool, approx
imately 21,000,000, could not be
raised by putting a duty on raw silk
and raw rubber.
Interesting Bulletin Issued.
The Smithsonian Institute has just
issued bulletin of more than ordi
nary interest ON new Indian exhibits
that have been placed in the national
museum in Washington.
With the aborigine rapidly becoming
part and parcel of the general popu-
lation and losing his identitv with his
old customs and surroundings, it is
becoming matter of more and more
interest to preserve and perpetuate
in permanent resting place all that
can be preserved concerning them.
"Of particular interest in connec-
tion with American ethnology,'' says
the bulletin, care two recently com
pleted groups depicting scenes from
the daily life of the aborignes. These
groups form a part of very complete
series of exhibits showing the general
iab 80 ho oe Al
world. One, known as the Quarry
group, represents a scene in the pres
ent District of Columbia before the
white man came, where group of six
Indians are quarrying rocks for uten-
sils and shaping them for future use"
Another group represents the snake
dance of the Hopi Indians. "This
life-like group represents Indians per-
forming the fantastic steps and gro
tesque antics of religious ceremony,
which, although appearing eccentric
and absurd to the modern observer,
was entered into with sober and de-
vout feelings by the Indians. -
! Then the bulletin gives rather
lengthy account of the dance. 1t is
such graphic scenes as these which will
be shown at the San Diego exposition,
to be held during the entire year 1915,
and on which active work is now pro-
crossing. Not only will there be life,
like presentations in picture and mod
cling of the Indians customs, but
there will be the real Indians. living
in their natural manner, following their
native customs. The snake dance as
shown in modelled groups is absorb
ingly interesting; performed by living
actors it would be fascinating beyond
description.
An Historic Mission,
Outside of California, few people
realize that the oldest mission on the
Pacific coast is in the city of Sar
Diego. Once far away on the out
skirts Of the city, in what was called
I"Old Town." the rapidly growing
metropolis of the southwest has en-
quilted and swallowed up the adobe
building and it's surroundings, even tt
its more than century-old olive gar
den where the padres walked and told
their beads while absorbed in piou!
meditation. Those gnarled olive trees
suggesting the trees of the Garden OF
Gethsemane, seem endowed with per
petual life. Today they blossom ant
yield fruit and seemingly they viii
continue to do so Tor many decades Il
come. AS for the mission itself, fat.
has been less kind to it, for its wall.
show the ravages of time. Still, it il
relic of exceeding interest. Travellers
pay homage to it, and many look OF
the quaint old shrine with deep re
ligious awe.
In the Path Of the Padres.
Swift and embracing as has beer
the sweep of migration and CONNER
cialism in Californa, the traces of tn,
Spanish occupation have not yet beer
obliterated. Indeed, in some ways
the remnants of the old days hav,
, been better preserved than if they ha,
been left to their fate. Strung alon,
Ell Canine Real from San Diego north
ward to San Rafael like beads along
rosary are the imposing building
erected by the pious labors of Padre
aud neophytes, Many of these won