Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-06-26
The NATIONAL CAPITAL
A
Events OF Interest from the Sent
OF Governments.
nv j. Il. JONES,
"GOld Hill. Consolidated"

There is a gold mine in North
Carolina in the same county in which
Senator Overman lives, and if it is
true, as the senator has declared, that
the records of the mine show that
100000 worth of ore was taken
out of the mine, the senator would
indeed have been a very poor citizen
had he not bought some stock in
Gold Hill Consolidated" Senator
Chiffon of West Virginia is also
another owner of the stock. All might
have gone well and the senators
might have shared their profits and
losses with the other stockholders,
had it not been for the fact that their
stationery was used-quite by acct
dent, they explain,-to put out some
praiseworthy comment concerning
this particular gold mine. Thereupon,
tips" are said to have been Whisper
ed about and the stock scared sky
high. Finally it was published that
there was little corner in gold min
ing stock among senator's and other
high public officials.
Then it was discovered that the
stationery upon which the mining
stock boom was exploited contained
the names of a number of other SEN
ators who entertained bitter preju-
dices against mining enterprises, and
two of these were Senators LaFollette
and Cummins. Senators Overman and
Chiffon are high in the esteem of the
country and the national capital, and
they have started an investigation in
the senate which they declare will
show they have done nothing i'm
proper. Senator Chiffon says that it
''all goes to show what will happen
to a Democrat when he gets to fool
ing with a gold standard. If he would
stick to the old sixteen to one he
would never have anyone question
his methods"
In further explanation it appears
that the wisdom of senators does not
exempt them from the common fate
that befalls many men. Senator
Chiffon adds: II want to say that
/ will yield second place to nobody in
having money invested in gold mines.
I have some in holes in Washington.
in California, in Colorado, in Georgia.
| in South Carolina, in Virginia, in
North Carolina, and probably in sew
leral other states. All my life have
fostered the idea that possibly
might get out of my habit of not hav-
ing enough to pay my bills by making
a strike in a gold mine. They have
always looked attractive to me, and
inasmuch as have so much money
in holes of that kind, want to go to
that kind of hole to get out the
money which have invested"
Income Tax in Trouble.
The secretary of the treasury in
sists that the new income tax has
teeth in it, and he has an army of
assistants who propose to close the
jaws Of the law upon the income tax
dodgers through the country. Some
body has been miscalculating very
badly or there are more poor people
in the United States than has been
generally supposed, as the income tax
will fail by $21,00O.0OO of providing
the revenue expected of it by the
trainers of the new tariff law. The
treasury department experts esti-
mated that the taxes ON individual
returns would be $24,OOO.00O more
than has been produced. The gov
eminent "dragnet" has therefore
thus far got little more than half
what it had expected. The Democrats,
while patting themselves on the back
because of their magnificent legisla-
tive achievements of the past year.
are worrying themselves sick because
Of the lack of necessary revenue.
Don't Forget the Quotations.
Senator Reed Smoot has been COM
PEELED to explain that he was not
guilty of plagiarism in his Memorial
day speech at Arlington cemetery.
The senator had the quotation marks
in all straight enough but they did
not sound when the newspaper re-
porters took down his speech and
therefore an open letter was printed
broadcast accusing the Mormon apos-
tie with having swiped the ideas of
one James T. Darling. The senator
made a satisfactory explanation and
calls attention to the fact that the
speech, as printed in the form of
public document, contains the proper
quotations marks, and before the
quotations, the words: "well has it
been said"
The Trade Commission.
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