The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-24

Il States tor tes p III; iasesO ~ mi
on a strthgeney in Tie MONEY marke
~ tiiiss country. generally known q
a money panic. Punishment IS pro
tIded 81 tine OF .p90$for each Of
Efense, and Imprisonment for not les
than ten years. :. OF course, this. coult
have nothing but a moral or Albright
ening erect on a Republican con
/ gresham, for he can say what h
pleases on the floor and the law cam
touch him; but it Isl not expected
that It will have either and "olt
Jim" Mann will be found doing bust
ness at tie old staad Just so long az
The feels like it. AndShe, IS liable tt
feel like It for some length OF time to
come. There is no job he likes bet
ter than STIRRING up the animals
and. keeping them stlrredup. He has
shown the country that.
80 Roads COMMIT tee Busy.
The new4reads committee OF the
house has enterSd Fintos tho third
week Of the public hearings IL has
been conducting, preliminary to
sponsoring the most important goou
roads legislation ever enacted in this
country. The committee has'not less
than a hundred bills before it, one by
Representative Moss, OF West vir-
ginia. or this committee Congress
man Sutherland$is' d member. and q
very, important one, as is well. known,
because for years this subject has
been one Of his sRecialties, and he
has. studied It hardS delivered innum-
cradle speeches on3tt before various
business and good roads orgapiza-
lions. and, as }a$ stat easenatoT. gave
West Virginia. .itsEfirst system Of
modern road laws.s Though mot of
Chairman shack1eford's party Mr..
Sutherland is, nevertheless, the. chair,
man right hand man in this bust,
ness, and mass of hard work has
been slouldered off onto lin; bes'
cause the chairman has confidence in
him AND, q respect for his knowledge,
.bfithe business in hand.
while It Is 8. certainty that in the
long run national government par,
ticipation shall concern itself only
with the most important roads OF a
state, and in connection Herewith
cbligate tie state to expend a pro-
portionate amount Of the money thus
saved on the market roads, present
So .'"ant seems to indicate that o
positive plan along these lines is no
.--.4v.e .. Ills lime.
1t is furthermore apparent that
the needs Of the several states are not
always the same, some looking for
agricultural development Willie 9TH
ers seek attention to roads which viii!
serve to amplify, their scenic and
> -~''a -~'vihg assets. Whatever plan
IS worked out will undoubtedly TAX
t...se lacts into consideration,
s The character of the bills, and
their large num"er, attest to the
countrywide interest in the subject,
and the early participation in some
form by the national government, in
the highways progress of the country.
Coal Analysis,
Representative Avis has filed a pro-
lest with thcscommittee Of the house
which has before it bill by Kir-
Icy, Mass, which calls fori coal an
alysis, and has asked the committee
to be granted permission to appear
before it in person to state his obiec-
lions to the proposed measure. The
passage OF this bill would work a seri
GUS hardship on all sofesthea coaF ope-
rators in West Virginia, but not. only
in that state,'but In every other state
that produces coal. 1t is, an imprac"
ticablc and altogether unnecessary
proposal, as those familiar with the
coal mining and marketing business
know, a subject which the author OF.
tho bill himself confesses he. knows
little about. The coal-hauling rail-
Dads would be as perniciously inter
csrcd> with by a law such as this bill
proposes as the mine operators. There
;sr S9G coal mines iii West Virginia,
and the protests against this bill
..n.cl, navV come to theSoffice q Reps.
rescntatiye Avis represent very ,nearS.
lysthat 5entirenumber. MIR. Avis feels,
confident tof defeating the bill IN,
committee Sa
/, Setting Aside Civil Service. "A
Presidential exemptions in the
matter ofthe, civil service have be-
come SO frequent as to attract scant
notice. While protesting loyal sup
port of the civil service, President
Wilson'S almost daily orders, setting
aside the rules in first one case and
thon another, is a practice which
hardly conforms to his prGachments
on this subject. The refusal OF the
dominant party in the senate to put
1.-The new employees which will COM
into the service by reason of the ere
alton of the new regional banks
when urged by the Republican side
to; do so, means nothing more or less
,tlian the application oetle partisan
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