The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-05-02

through the mails are brought to JUS
tice
The Idaho horticultural department
has conducted quiet investigation
and 1t is alleged that it was discov-
cred Rosenberg & Lieberman, Wis
consin firm, had flooded the mails
with literature branding the states
alfalfa seed as infected. 1t is also al
legged to have been discovered that
these people have bought up a large
amount of Idaho alfalfa seed and,
labelling it Montana Seed was dispos-
ing of it.
The Idaho congressional delegation
has received an invitation from Sec
rotary Lane to be present at the con-
ference to be held on May i, to which
a representative of each water users
association in the west has been in
vited as well as members of congress,
for the consideration of the admins
trative features of the department
touching reclamation service. MIR.
French has called upon the various
water users associations in Idaho to-
assist him with complete information
setting forth their views on the sub
ject, in order that he may have it to
present to the conference.
Secretary of the Interior Lane has
smashed a sixty-year-old precedent at
the request of Congressman Smith.
Mr.. Smith was appointed register of
land office at Boise by the president
in 1907 on the recommendation of
about a hundred of Idaho's leading
1S% al III
ton in congress. Their letters were
filed in the archives of the interior
department along with thousands of
similar endorsements of other federal
officials. Mr.. Smith desired to have
these papers returned to him that he
might preserve them for his children
as an heirloom and made formal APP
plication to Secretary Fisher about a
year for them. The secretary replied
that in 1853 an order had been issued
that no letters of endorsement on
which favorable action had been taken
could be returned and that he was I'M
able to comply with the request. Mr..
Smith made a personal call on Sec
rotary Lane referring to the musty
old order which the secretary imme-
diately proceeded to cancel stating
that there was no possible reason
why these papers should be retained
in the files. His action will probably
result in general clean up of the old
papers which it is believed now must
weigh several tons and which are
stored in the basement Of the interior
department.
The following are resolutions adopt
ed at the annual convention Of the
Columbia and Snake River Waterways
association at Pendleton, Ore, on
April Is, and wired to Senator Brady
by the association with an earnest re-
quest for his support:
eve deprecate the widespread pro-
paganda manifestly carried on by the
great railway interests seeking the
notification of the law providing for
free tolls for American shipping con-
troll of American enterprises built up
on American territory to be an en-
violate right which cannot in the very
nature of national sovereignty be jeo-
pardized by the simple treaty rights
entered into with any other nation
and therefore the claim that the
granting of free tolls to American
shipping is violation of the Hay,
Pauncefort treaty is self-evident So
phistry equal rights to all foreign ma
lions as such in the use of the Pan
anna Canal is all that in justice and
reason could be demanded of the
American nation.
'We believe the propaganda for
tolls for American shipping at the
Panama Canal involves the principle
of tolls at all national canals and gov
eminent built waterways and is pure
ly in the interest of the corporate
transportation enterprises of the ma
ton and subversive of the freedom of
waterways competition. Therefore,