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Imperial Valley press., 1913-09-24
through Congfiress as a separate act

through Congfiress as separate act
supplementary to the tariff law.
Senate amendments to the tariff
bill would authorize the President to
assess extra duties on coffee, tea, fish,
chinaware, silks, laces, jewelry, sugar
and many other items coming from
countries not treating the United
States as a favorable nation.
While the joint resolution could not
prevent other countries from impos-
ing higher tariffs against the United
States, it is expected that it will in
duce them to withhold action, tenn
porarily, at least.
Disputed points between the Senate
and House in the atriff bill narrowed
today to such chief features as the in
come tax, the tax on cotton futures
and the general administrative pro-
visions.
Democratic managers expected to
send the conference report to the
House by Thursday.
President Wilson told callers today
that his conference with leaders led
him to believe all differences would
he smoothed out and he would sign
the bill this week
I've got my pen sharpened," said
the President.
Democratic leaders from the South
are said TO be agreed on the cotton
futures tax compromise proposed by
Representative Lever and indorsed
by Postinaster-G General Bur,son and
Senator Hoke Smith.
Instead of the high Clark tax, it
proposes a smaller tax on cotton, for
which the government has fixed
standards. The cotton exchange men,
however, are protesting against it.
Chairman Simmons said he had not
discussed the cotton future tax with
the President, but indicated the SEN
ate managers would not yield to the
House on their amendment.
Chairman Alexander of the House
Merchant Marine Committee, with
Representative Jones of Virginia,
Small of North Carolina, and McGil-
lieuddy of Maine, asked the President
to favor an amendment to the tariff
bill giving 5 per cent discount in
duties to imports in vessels wholly
built in the United States, no matter
where owned. A House provision for
a per cent discount for goods in
American-owned ships was struck out
by the Senate on the protest of many
foreign governments that it was A
discrimination in violation of their
treaties. The President did not COM
NIT himself but indicated that if the
new amendment did not conflict with
treaty rights, he would favor it.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-09-24
Making Their Last Stands.

Kansas City Star: Sale of approx
imately 100000 acres of its NEW col
lege lands" by Oklahoma in the coun-
ties of Cimarron and Texas in Sep
tember and October will bring finally
to an end the big cattle outfits and the
big cattle ranches in that part of the
state. Since earliest days these coun-
ties have been part of the choicest
grazing region of the great plains.
For decades the vast herds of native
cattle moved, unrestrained by wire
fences, feeding upon the buffalo" or
Imperial Valley press., 1913-09-24
DiXieland a Lively Place
at Beginning of Season

The automobile travel through Dix
leland is increasing daily. The San
Diego to Ell Centre road has never
been in as good condition as it is this
fall.
The oiled boulevard through Dixie,
land has proven great success. The
practice of some automobile drivers
of going through the town at &C
miles per hour should be discontinued
Great numbers of people are NOV.
ing into the Imperial valley by way
Of the DiXieland road. Frequently
10 to 80 people are camped on the
public camping ground. That they are
coming to the valley to stay is evi-
denced by the fact that they have
their household goods, farming imple-
ments and livestock with them.
Grading and track laying on the
San Diego and Arizona R. R. is prog
ressing rapidly. About 450 men are
now at work on the road. When the
present contracts are done there will
remain but 60 miles more to build
The Westside Land company have
given Mr.. Dutton, superintendent of
construction, an order to place 45O
feet more of sidetrack to accommodate
the cotton growers IL the region of
Dixieland. 1t is estimated that there
will be 5000 bales of cotton in the
neighborhood.
Messrs. Hazleton, Allen and Hick-
son were looking at Dixieland acreage
Thursday with view to becoming
residents Of the town. Each expressed
himself pleased with what he saw.
Mr.. F. NJ Griffith recently pur-
chased tracts 73 and ~. Although
these tracts were seeded to alfalfa
late last spring Mr.. Griffith is cutting
considerable hay.
Mr.. A. c. Kramer of San Diego
has just purchased fine business lot
on Jacumba avenue.
The two hundred palms in the Dix
leland park are doing nicely. In few
years Dixieland will be one of the
"show places" of Imperial valley.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-07-04
HOW RAILWAYS EXPEND 1T.

According to achart recently is
sued by the Hartman Magazine, "A
II percent of the gross earrings OF
railroads is expended for labor. 49,. 43
percent for interest on funded debt
14.06 percent for materials, supplies
and miscellaneous expenses, 500 per-
cent for fuel and oil, asa for divi-
dends, All for rent for leased roads,
3.75 for betterments, 4.21 for taxes
and % percent for loss and DANA
ges.
Since almost half of the earnings
of the roads are again paid out for
labor, it is apparent that the subject
of railroad rates and prices paid for
labor are of vital concern to the
roads and to the public. A reduc-
ton in rates must soon affect the
wage scale, and an increase of the
wage scale calls for an increase of
rates.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-07-04

drawn from settlement, depreciating
the value of the areas that might
be filed on. Canada has given the
settler the widest possible opportun-
ity for selection and has assisted the
development of natural resources in
order that the selections might be
enhanced.
The United States has for nearly
year been on the verge of free
trade, especially respecting raw ma
terials, the backbone of any new
territory, and today the threat is
about to be carried into effect. What
ever Canada's policy with relation to
foreign trade, it has fixity that re-
moves from investment much of the
hazard noted on this side of the
line. And especitlly is the producer
of raw materials cared for up there.
Is it marvellous that the Canadian
magnet draws so powerfully upon
American enterprise?
We are burning the candle at both
ends-losing our own people to Can
ada and receiving European immi-
grants by shiploads And at the
same time we are undermining
American industry, palsying Amer
lean initiative and restraining Amer
lean expansion.
1t was bad enough when we had
ample offsets for European immigra-
ton; but the account is now against
us.
The land laws should be liberal
lied and the government treatment
of entrymen should be revolution
lied. The men and the women who
go out into a comparatively new Sec
tion to build up homes should not be
treated as thieves. If they wanted
to make living through rascality
they would not take up any of Uncle
Sans domain.
America has reached the limit oil
growth if she is to lose the Ameri,
can citizen andgain the unassimilat
ing native of southern Europe; il
she is to cripple her own and built
up foreign interests; II. she is te
trade her civic and industrial birth
right for a mess of political pottage
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-07-04
TO ENTERTAIN TEACHERS.

SALT LAKE CITY, June 30-Spe-
cial arrangements have been made by
the Utah Executive Committee of the
N. e. A. for an al fresco performance
of the CRATIC Creation" by the Uni
versity of Utah Musical society, un.
der the direction of Prof. Squire
Coop.
The University society has achiev-
ed more than local reputation for
its singing of Creation and "The
Messiah" The executive committee
was gratified, therefore, to be able
to announce performance of Gre
alton" on the beautiful University
campus the evening of July 10.
With Utah's leading singers in the
principal roles and other notable ar
lists in the chorus and with the ac-
compartment of special augmented
orchestra of trained musicians, the
Forthcoming production of "Crea-
ton" is looked forward to as a note
worthy event by the people of this
city and is expected to furnish a
treat to the thousands of N. e. A. con
vention visitors.
Ten thousand persons heard the
ora'orio sung on the greensward of
the mountain bench, where the Uni
versity is situated, last year and it is
expected that this rendition will be
heard by three times that number.
Salt Lake City is gaily decorated,
awaiting the coming of the N. e. A.
visitors. The convention opens July
S. D. W. Springer, general secre-
tcry, and e. T. Fcirchild, president
of the National EducationaI associa-
tion, are already here and have OPP
encd official headquarters at the Ho-
tel Utah. The registration office and
school exhibit in the Keith mercatile
building on South Main ctreet, near
Broadway, are in readiness. In con-
nection with the registration office,
an emergency hospital has been e.
tablished. Visitors taken suddenly
ill or feeling indisposed will be cared
for there.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-07-04
WE WRONG OURSELVES

The danger from fire in Black
foot has reached an acute stage just
now and unless residents of the town
exercise more good sense and honor
than they have been doing, it will
continue to be acute throughout the
summer.
The wrong lies in some of the
citizens misusing the sprinkling priv
ilege, leaving the water running all
night, and in that way depicting the
supply in the tank. If fire should
start in the early morning hours with
little or no water in the tank, dis
aster must follow, and the water com
pany would be blamed for something
due to willful violation of the rules
for sprinkling ard actual theft of
the water.
During the city campaign last
March, much was said about the nee
essity for better woter system, and
We wish to repeat some things which
this paper said at that time as tc
how the present water system should
be handled to make it meet the re.
quirements of the town.
Flushing the sewer with water from
irrigating bitches will relieve the
wells and pumping plant of that part
of the drain, and this is being done
wherever connections have beer
made.
Observing the rule of sprinkline
only between the hours of five anG
seven p. M, allowing the pump
ing machinery to get the tank filled
for the night before stopping the
pumps will insure fire pressure aud
adequate supply. A united public
spirit in this matter would remove
the fire menace at once and solve
the problem which it has been pro.
posed to solve by an investment oil
$2OO,00000 which we have no way
of making yet
The town is confronted at thi!
time by condition which cannot be
met by theory unless the theory IL
put into effect and it is up to the pro-
gressive and the conservative alike
to meet these conditions as they are
whether it suits them or not If they
would rather take the other horn of
the dilemma. let them address them
selves to the task of getting the i'm
proved water system before they de-
stroy the efficiency of the one we
have by misusing it
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-07-04
THE CANADIAN MAGNET.
(Statesman.)

Speaker Clark has put a finger on
a prime cause for the American far
mer movement into Canada, but he
only used one finger. He might
have employed at least another and
rung up an additional reason on the
register of American foolishness.
Millions of dollars have gone from
this country into Canada that should
have been employed in the develop
ment of the northwest, and that
would have been so invested but
for
1. Governmental repression and
harrassment.
2. Governmental policies detri-
mental to the farmer.
And the loss in sturdy citizenship
is more to be deplored than the loss
in money.
The land laws of the United States
have been misery in their terms
and iniquitous in their execution.
Canada has been liberal and has not
treated every entryman as an object
of suspicion.
Enormous tracts have been with
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-07-04

which is the reversal of 81 am Utah"
He is to be king of the carnival, and
the purpose of the celebration 10 Do
create a more friendly feeling and
spirit of general cooperation among
the business men of the city and
state.
Salt Lake has been rent by relig-
ious differences and other local strife
until the soberminded people are con-
vincd that whatever can be done to-
stop it should be done.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-07-04

And why should they not be? For
do they not see in this case rank
discrimination.
For, after all, in spite of all ex-
plantations, in spite of all excuses,
here is the point: Suppose Drew
Caminetti was not what he is-the
son of a powerful office holder un-
der the administration at Washing
ton; suppose him to be without in
fluence, would not his trial now be
going on?
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-07-04
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER

WASHINGTON, D. G. July1-Rep-
resentative French has been advised
by the interior department of the pub
lie notice issued to all settlers on
National irrigation projects by the
secretary of the interior that the
building charge for the last install
mcnt which became payable is re-
duced to one-third of the amount
due, but not to less than soc per acre
the payment of the balance to be de-
ferred and added to the last install
ment on the water right application.
For those who have already paid the
charges due q corresponding credit
Is to be given en- the next annual
installment or they may have the
credit applied to the operation and
maintenance charges now due.
No person is to receive the benefit
of this concession on Dec. 1st next
who have not paid all the amounts
due for operation and maintenance
ard who has cultivated less than one
half of the irrigable crea of his land
or not less than acres for each full
irrigation season since water was first
available for the land.
1t is provided further in the case
of those who are now delinquent and
subject to cancellation that if they
make payment of the operation and
maintenance charges for irrigating
their land, no steps will be taken to.
ward cancellation until December 1
1913.
Secretary Lane announces further
that he will urge upon congress the
passage of some act giving further
extention of time for the payment OF
the building charges under proper
/ Limitation and conditions.
Mr.. French has a bill pending on
| this head before the committee on
Irrigation of Arid lands providing
for the extention of the number OF
payments to thirty annual payments
instead of ten as at presery.
This idea was very earnestly OPP
posed by the late Secretary Fisher
although favored by his first assist
ant secretary, Mr.. Adams. Mr..
French is greatly pleased that the
department favors the proposition
embodied in his bill in a general way
and it is hopeful that his bill may
become a law.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-07-04

Upon the appeal of Senator Brady
last week, for relief of the settlers
of the Fort Hall Indian reservation,
who have been charged for arbitrary
reasons the excessive amount of one
dollar per acre for maintenance the
Commissioner of Indian affairs has
recommended to the secretary of the
interior that the rate for mainten-
ance on ceded lands on the reserva-
tion be fixed at fifty cents for the
year of 1918. @,.,..a., ,a -ts
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-07-04
WIZARD OF THE WASATCH

The businessmen of Salt Lake City
are preparing for a grand spectacular
celebration August %, 20 and 80 at
which time "The Wizard of the Wa
satch," will come down from the
mountains to greet the people. The
name of the wizard Is HAT Um-Ai,"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-07-04
SMALL BRIDGES SHOULD BE
a.u BUILT TO STAY.

There are thousands of little coun-
try road bridges, and to keep them
in repair costs about half of the to-
tai annual bridge fund. That is the
estimate made by A. N. Johnson, an
authority on the subject, for normal
! times; and there is no saying what
will be the cost this year, as injury
to bridges has been common in near
ly all states this spring. No one who
has not had experience in township
work can realize how much of the
funds each year goes for buying new
planks for bridge floors, replacing
rotten stringers, or tearing down and
rebuilding side walls that were laid
up without mortar or without pro-
lection from undermining Humid
reds of these little bridges have been
washed out by floods this year and
in many places the work of rebuild
ing has not yet begun. Never has
there been so great an opportunity to
turn injury into benefit and rebuild
these structures in permanent form.
If once properly built of reinforc-
ed concrete. as these small bridges
should be, there would be no expense
for repairs in this generation or next,
and probably not for two or three
hundred years. They would be as
permanent as the road itself, and in
stead of being eyesores, like lot of
the crumbling wooden structures or
skaky steel ones now common, they
might become vine-clad and beauti-
full While bridges are not built for
decorative purposes, they may as
well be artistic as homely. Further
more, the advent of the heavy trac-
tor and heavy trucks for hauling
make necessary bridge that will
carry much more than one of the old
styled ones.
The original plan mostly advocated
for the concrete bridge was to build
it in an arch, but Developments in
studying reinforcement have shown
that the slab form, properly trussed
with steel T beams or I beams, or
reinforced with steel rods, is simpler
to build, better adapted to times of
high water and takes less material
than the arch. Structures of this
slab form have been subjected to the
most rigid tests by the Illinois High
way commission and others, and they
are found to be absolutely reliable IL
proprly constructed with good mater
ial. OF course, in concrete bridge,
great deal depends on the mater
ial and they way 1t is handled. One
concrete bridge in Indiana that was
utterly torn to pieces in the floods
had been built of creek gravel and
sand, which evidently had contained
some mud, and which had not been
as heavily reinforced with steel as is
now advised.
Political bridges have a notorious
history wherever they are built
Their unfortunate habit of washing
out in high water or crushing down
into the creek with traction engines,
is one of the influences that has been
at work to readjust the methods of
building. Gradually it drifts into
our intelligence that. party gratitude
is not very substantial stuff with
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-07-04

they are becoming more and more
popular These pavements, however,
are not suitable for shaky steel brid-
ges of the old style, for their weight
is too great per square foot.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-07-04

President Wilson has again shown
that he is in absolute control of the
legislative branch of the government
In the caucus of the Democratic sen
ators a majority voted to support the
free sugar and free wool features of
the tariff bill, Notwithstanding the
protests and appeals of many of the
democratic senators. The President
he's made it impossible under the
penalty of party discipline to secure
any concession and the bill when re-
ported to the Senate will probably
be more drastic than when It left
the House.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-07-04

Congressman Smith has introduced
in the House of Representatives. a
resolution passed by the city council
of Boise City urging the enactment of
legislation providing that the Boise
barracks in the event it is permanent
ly abandoned as military post be
used as city park and for benevol-
ent purposes.
Senator Brady will also work in
behalf of this matter, should General
Wood, chief of staff, with this resolu-
ton, and the General stated that he
thought it was of sufficient import
ance to be laid before the secretary
Of war and that he would do so i'm
mediately, and later advise the Senat-
or what the attitude of the war de-
partment would be regarding the
abandonment of the Barracks.
The Senator, in response to tele-
grams and letters from prominent
citizens of Boise, also discussed with
General Wood the question of main
tanning a sufficient force of men to
care for the grounds of the barracks.
General Wood informed Senator
Brady that he has given specific or
ders that sufficient men be kept on
duty at the barracks to keep the trees
lawn and all the buildings in good
condition.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-07-04

The Eastern journals, regardless of
politics, are criticising very severity
the action of Attorney General Nc
Reynolds for directing postponement
of the trial in San Francisco involv-
ing an infraction of the White Slave
law, the Philadelphia Enquirer edi-
torially says.
The people of California are re-
ported to be considerably worked up
over the postponement of the trials Of
Drew Caminetti and Maury Diggs,
indicted by the Federal grand jury
for violation of the White Slave law,
and by the resignation of District
Attorney McNab as a protest. Nat
urally they would be. If, as Mr..
McNab declares, here is "hideous
crime which has shocked the moral
sense" of the community, it is easy
to imagine that Clifornia is at the
back of the district attorney and
greatly incensed because, it being
inconvenient for immigration Com
missioner Caminetti, father of one Of
the accused men, to attend the trial
at this time, the attorney general Of
he United States ordered delay
which in Califoria is considered a
menace to the cause of justice.
OF course there are partisan sneers
heard at Washington. McNab is
playing politics" and bidding for the
Governorship, and so on SO some of
the unthinking are saying. But, ev-
en- If he were, we do not see that that
fact alters the merits of the case in
any way. Why did the attorney gen.
eral of the United States give him
the opportunity to play politics?
Here was case against the young
err Caminetti and against his friend
Diggs set down for trial. District
Attorney McNab and former Judge
Harrington, special agent of the gov
eminent, had carefully collected their
evidence, had gone before the grand
jury with it and were ready to pro-
coed. But on the eve of trial comes
the command from the Attorney Cen
yn.l Of the United States to postpone.
WY? Because of Influence in high
Places" bee ause the father of one of
the defendants who happens to ne
tie commissioner of immigration,
couldn't get away from Washington
o. this tim, 10 become spectator a.
tie trial.
Was there any thought in the as
torney generals office that this post
ponement might interfere with just
ice? According to District Attorney
McNab, the Department of Justice
was warned that attempts were be-
ing made to secure delay, and that
delay might work a serious differ
ence with the result. However that
may be, postponement was ordered
and the people of California are ang-
cred because of 1t.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-07-04

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