The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1914-01-13


After twenty years Senator Perkins
is TO retire as senator from Califor
mia. A broken feeble old man he Is
now. though he was for many years
strong forceful figure In the senate.
His retirement has created a condition
on the Pacific coast which can be
termed scramble" All the ambi-
/ tious and hopeful men IN the three big
PARTIES Republican. Progressive and
Democrauc-are laying plans 20 get
the toga And those who may be shut
out of the senatorship are figuring on
the governorship. The indications are
that these high offices are very alluring
20 the people Of California.
Generous Government
One complaint OF western men about
the administration OF the national for
ests is that miners and settlers are
deprived OF the use of timber which
they need and which they cannot M
ford TO buy under the forest conditions
In statement recently issued the for
est service asserts TINT during the lasi
year the government gave away 10 set
tiers and miners living IN or near tn,
national forests l2OOOOOOO hoard fee
Of timber. While that may not satisf,
the western men who want the fores
areas reduced Il VIII go to show thar
people I'm need OF timber can Ohtiin q
from the government reserves.
Washington Jan lSpcciail-Ad
diHona financial legislation is expect
ed during the present congress. or why
the promise that the matter of guaran
teeing deposits of national banks or
the banks under the new currency bill
would have consideration? That was
the promise Of Chairman Owen of the
senate committee do not know upon
what bin this guaranty provision may
be placed. but 1 a sumo that it will
find place I'm the "farm credits" bin
which has also been assured consider
alton The farm credits measure was
given considerable attention in the an
nuaI message Of President Wilson, and
he expressed SO much interest in il
that it cannot be neglected. Just
what form it win take Is not now ap
parent, nor is It possible to say just
how it will 1T In with the new curren-
cy law However. that is another
problem for the present congress.
"short Sales" Also.
1t is quite well understood that there
will he an effort to tack on TO any
farm credits bin a provision stopping
"short sales" Of farm products AND
that again viii stir up quite an inter
esting contest. There are representa-
tives of farming states who say theii
. people do not want to interfere witt
g speculation in farm products because
, they believe that prices are kept high
er by reason Of the specializing. II
q cut off "short sales" will tend TO stol
p the speculative higher bidding and Fl
ia the end they fear a complete lowe
4 trend of prices I'm farm products. Per
haps a part Of the high cost OF livin
borne by the consumer is due to thi
specializing that producers think keep
mp prices.
8 Uncle Joe's Way.
b, When the Republicans complaine
+, so bitterly about the manner in whic
they were treated by being exclude
&c from the conference on the currenc
re bill Senator Williams told the senat
re some of his experiences when mino
T. ity leader Of the house. which he d
rs scribed as "place with much nam
e and little power, as many have leau
oil ed before me and since Joe Canno
be was then speaker" continued WI
ut liams. land Joe would say in the lai
n guage OF Tom Reed, sharp, the Repu
he Iican party. responsible for Legislation
So is about to perpetrate another outrag
an Put your hand on the Democrats an
IN bring them in, so you may know whit
- it is beforehand Sometimes the
a. would give us twenty minutes to tai
90 Once they did not give MS any tin
at ALL"
What Williams Learned.
-, AS minority leader Of the house W
". liams did more protesting than al
AZ other one man against the gag rules
We the brute force" the unseen
* haste" the "czar-like Methods Of q
ne Republicans. but he seemed to ha
-er learned something about the way q
lr- people looked at it, for he said:
i'd by the way, 1 found out, when
was minority leader that the count
his did not care much about how the m
it, jority reached a vote; the people we
es- interested in knowing what the maj'
nd ity did IN the matter Of legislation"
les Past Examples.
'au Going back a number Of years,
may he positively stated that no o
nd cared a rap about the Reed rul
Ing Crisp rules, Henderson rules, Cam
en- rules or any other mans rules or
i've methods Of the majority. 1t was WI
I'M the majority enacted that affected
people The people did not like
Mckinley tariff. and they turned
90 Republicans out. They did not i
~, the Wilson tariff and they turned
ne Democrats out. They did not like
M Payne-Aldrich tariff, and they turn
-, the Republicans out. II they do ]
a. like the Underwood tariff and the n
nm currency law they will turn the De
oap ocrats out again. 1t is what they
nv not how they do it, that affects
country.
hot Not Believed Here.
of The report that a cabaret dane
orv who was introduced as an entertai
will at dinner IN Ohio, toyed with Sena
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