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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-12

plOy of any manufacturer who has or
shall have any contracts with the
United States for any ordnance ma
terials."
Capt. Crozier held at that time the
following patents:
No. 555,426 with A. r. Buffing-
ton) issued February Is, 1896, for
disappearing gun carriage.
No. 613, 252, issued November 1,
1898, for a disappearing gun car
riage.
No. 617879, issued April 9, 1901,
for a wire wound gun.
He was therefore most clearly dis
qualified by the law from any such
position.
In spite of all this, his appoint
ment went in and was referred to
the senate committee on military
affairs.
The minutes of the committee
show that the nomination was con-
sidered on March q and other days
and on April 8 it came to a vote.
Then the committee voted to 2
to report the nomination adversely.
That is, advise the senate to reject it
In Washington at that time stories
were in circulation Of a great pres
sure that was alleged to be brought
to bear in behalf of this nomination.
1t was reported to extend to the pres
ident himself; also to the committee
to secure a reconsideration of the ad-
verse vote.
April "A, the matter was reopened
in committee and an investigation
was ordered of certain alleged
charges these being about that
gun carriage, for nothing was ever
asserted against Gen. Crozier's char
aCteT.
May 81 the committee agreed to
take no further action, but to leave
the matter to be disposed of by the
senate in executive session.
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derstanding that there was going to be a campaign. It was conducted quietly and by organization.
 It is not known what MT. Bucknam thought during the campaign would be the effect of the amendment. But soon after the amendment had been ratified he stated in an interview in the Republican and later, in an inter- view in the Bisbee Review, which at the same time printed an exhaustive legal opinion procured by him, that the amendment did not prohibit the introduction of intoxicating liquor for personal use. He added that such
 oi?viewdertakingat 12 123 123 131 a prohibition had not been contem- plated at the time the amendment was framed. We recall that local temper ance workers disagreed with MT. Bucknam. It is also stated that in the course of the arguments before the United States court at Los An geles on the constitutionality of the amendment, MT. Rinehart himself admitted that the law did not pro hibit the introduction of liquor for personal use.
 We believe that many of the tenn perance leaders were aware during the campaign IudI Iu0 dLuSuuHucHt could not have that effect but that they counted upon supplementary legislation by the legislature to de- fine and denounce other acts as violations of the law so as to make the Webb-Kenyon act applicable to the introduction of liquor for any purpose The Drachman bill would have produced practically such an ap- plication.
 That bill and even more rigid legis- lation was advocated by MT. Rine-
 hart but MT. Bucknam having gain ed all that the anti-saloon league was fighting for, evidently feared that if the regulations were made too rigid another campaign would be precipi- tated resulting in the repeal of the amendment. He was content, ap- parently, to hold what had been gain. ed, as all advantage in the fight for national prohibition to which the anti saloon league is looking. The cap
 ture of Arizona while regarded by
 temperance people generally as an
 unqualified and decisive victory over the rum power, was looked upon by
 the league only as the capture of a
 trench, as a bit of successful nib
 bling," to use a term grown out of
 the present war, giving it stronger
 position in the greater battle.
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sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is pending, that there would be no question about MT. Brandeis's quallh- cations for the Supreme Bench if his public services had not won him the hearty detesta- ton of certain powerful corporations and financial interests They hate him not mere ly because he is radical, but because he is en- ormouslv able and efficient To them it is indecent that lawyer with such extraordin- arv ability should wantonly and deliberately use his talents to promote the social welfare of the American people when he mig ght com mand princely fees in the services of privilege. They regard that sort of thing as against na-. ture. and the man who does 1t IS not to be trusted.
 Yet we do not think IS disquall- fled for the bench of the highest court of the land because he has passion for justice, be- cause he hates wrong and oppression, because he believes that the Republic is opportunity and that the poor have equal rights before the law with the rich and the powerful. And because man is ardently devoted to human rights 1t does not follow that he must be ruth lessly indifferent to property rights.
 All the old shellbacks of the United States Senate are in state of nerves over the Bran deis appointment, Wall Street is on the verge of Mysteries and reactionary elements every where are dumb with rage; but our own be- lief is that the appointment will be confirmed and that MT. Brandeis will prove himself to be just and upright Judge, whose service on the bench will still further strengthen pop ular confidence in the greatest judicial tr1bu- nal that the world has ever known.
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THE PERSONAL USE DECISION
(Phoenix Republican,

The decision of the supreme court, upholding the right of citizen to in | troduce intoxicating liquor into this state for his personal use was not unexpected. Without the Webb-Ken- lyon act the importation of liquor in- to any state, regardless of the legis- latioE in that state is allowable under interstate commerce regulations. Without that act one could introduce liquor for any purpose, to dispose of, to sell. He could of course, be pun ished under our prohibition amend ment for making such disposition of it but he could not be punished for the act of introducing it.
 But with the Webb-Kenyon act in force, one may be punished for intro ducing liquor into this state for other than personal use-that is for any use of it in violation of the law of the state. But as the mere holding of liquor in possession or the drink ing of it is not prohibited by the jaw such use of it would not be in vio- lation of the amendment, so that un- der the Webb-Kenyon act liquor might be introduced for that purpose. That matter had already been settled in the United States supreme court.
 It is now interesting to review the circumstances in which the prohibit tion amendment was adopted; to. sep arate the elements that supported the amendment and to consider their mo- Etives. This is something that we believe is not generally understood. There were three eelments which may or may not have understood the mo- tives of one another; the prohibition, the temperance and the anti-saloon elements. But they worked harmon iously, the two former doubtless be- lieving that the amendment would effect the complete exclusion of liquor from the state. We believe that that was the view then held by G. F. Rinehart the reputed head of the forces behind the amendment. He was supposed to represent the anti saloon league and he was certainly the leader of what we may broadly call the temperance forces.
 The direct representative of tho anti-saloon league was A. M. Buck nam of Chicago, who is still the repre- sentative of the league in this state. He probably accomplished more than any othr one man ill the prohibi- tion campaign. His work was be- gun before there was a general un-
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JUSTICE HUGHES AND THE
PRESIDENCY.

q hope that as Justice of the Supreme Court I am rendering public service and may continue to do so for some years, but the Su- preme Court must not be dragged into poll- tics, and no man is so essential to his coun try's well-being as Is the unstained intregrlty of the courts"
 ''It seems to me very clear that mem Der of the Supreme Court I have no right to be a candidate, either openly or tacity. cannot do my work here and hold an equ1vo- cal position before the country"
 The first of these statements was made to the Rev. Stephen s. Wise in June, 1912, few days before the meeting of the Republ- can National Convention. The second was addressed to ex-Governor Stokes of New Jer- sey on the 2oth of last May. It is hardly necessary to say that they proceeded from Justice Charles E. Hughes, who on many oth- CT occasions has avowed the same sentiments.
 Frank H. Hitchcock now organizing movement in favor of Justice Hughes ln the Southern States, is the enterprisng politician who took the delegates from that section away from MT. Roosevelt four years ago and gave them to Mr. Taft, thus insuring nomination which one-half of the Republican Party repu- dated In view of what he has said, does anybody suppose that Justice Hughes has Presidential ambitions, or that, having them, he would remain on the bench and permit Frank H. Hitchcock to blight his candidacy as he did MT. Taft's?
 If Justice Hughes were an aspirant for the Presidency we should have had due notice in his resignation from the United States Su- preme Court.
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SECRETARY GARRlSON'S
 RESIGNATION.

Secretary Garrison's resi- ignation is the more deplorable, at such critical time as this, because 1t IS without adequate cause.
 If Cabinet members are to resign when ever there is opposition in Congress to the measures that they advocate, CT whenever Congress is on the point of doing something of what they do not approve, government must soon collapse. ....
 Secretary Garrison was ardently in fa- vor of his Continental Army plan and ardent lv opposed to time limit for Philippine inde- pendence. There were no rreconcilable diff ferences between him and the President on these questions. as the correspondence shows. There were marked differences between him and Congress. Seemingly the Secretary be- eved that it was the Presidents duty to CO., cree Congress whether Congress would sub- hi. to coercion or not. The President be- liered it was his duty to try to~ convince Con- gress, and on this difference of opinion as to method the Secreary of War abruptly deserts the Administration and leaves the country in the urch.
 Secretary Garrison resigned before any cf the measures about which ne was much concerned had come to decisive vote. In deed. one of the bills had not yet been draft ed. In those circumstances his resignation was nasty, impulsive act impossible to jus ttfy and not easy to excuse.
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Editorial: Opinion.
VS. LAWLESS
 USE OF LIQUOR
(Bisbee Review)

(Bisbee Review)
 The highest tribunal in Arizona has affirmed that personal liberty is a mghtful possession of our citizens and in this affirmation implies it's be- lief that the men and women of our state are inherently good instead of inherently bad; that they will con- duct themselves voluntarily in man. ner helpful to their physical and spiritual well-being.
 Personal liberty is guaranteed to anyoLe-here as well as elsewhere only as long as a person is compe- tent to exercise it in compliance with recognized laws of humanity. Trans gressors against the laws are rightly deprived of personal liberty. So when the Supreme Court ruled that beverages containing alcohol may be shipped into Arizona for personal use exclusively, the door was by no means opened for transgression of the pro- hibition amendment, instead, it streng gthened that amendment tre- mendously by bringing to it's en- forcement every man and woman who is sincerely concerned in the integrity of Arizona and her laws. The prohibition amendment as in terpreted by Attorney General Wiley Jones prior to the Supreme Court S decision, invited defiance. Officers were powerless to enforce it when public sentiment was so strongly aligned against it's unprejudiced fals:ty The false has been elimin- ated. Only that which is true re- mains. And in the upholding of that which is true, Arizona will contribute her share in establishing the real virtues of temperance.
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THE PERSONAL USE DECISION

While the Supreme Court of the United States would undoubtedly ac- cept the personal use decision of the Arizona Supreme Court as an inter- preter of our own constitution by the highest court of our own state, the decision itself is not so much the in- Iterpretation of our constitution as of the Webb-Kenyon act and it's applica- tion to the prohibition amendment. While under the decision, the impor- tation of liquor for personal use will be permitted for time at least, it is not to be presumed that the drys will give ur the fight, for there are several ways in which they could continue it. One of these would be the initiation of an amendment prohibiting the re- ceiving of liquor by any person within the state from another state. Another would be the amendment of the Webb-Kenyon act itself by Con- gress to prohibit the shipping of liquor into any state for any purpose where the state forbids the introduction thereof.
 The Webb-Kenyon act is yet to be interpreted by the Supreme Court itself in a case going up from West Virginia, and this Interpretation might cause the Supreme Court of Arizona to reverse itself on a rehear- ing, as it's decision is based largely on the authority of the Supreme Court of the United States.
 There is the further possibility that the completion of the Supreme i Court itself may be changed in the next four years, and that the new | judges may take a different view of the constitution.
 It will thus be seen that the drys | have not exhausted all of their reme- dies, and that while temporarily beat en they may yet triumph, especially | if the majority in the state favor the prohibition of the importation of liquor for any purpose.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1916-02-18

Several months ago, Judge Walter G. Shute, Superior Judge of Gila county, rem dered decision to the effect that it was not a violation of the Arizona Prohibition Amend- nent to introduce liquors into the State for ones personal use. This decision was render ed by Judge Shute regardless of the wishes of the ultra prohibitionist, and in the face of the opinion of the Attorney General to the contrary, which was also supported by the decisions of two Superior Judges in the State. Judge Shute IS to be congratulated. The recent decision of the Supreme Court of the State upholding the decision as rendered by Judge Shute shows that the Gila county jurist gave the case before him careful and painstaking study, and based his decision up on the constitution and the law, as he found it, and in addition had the moral courage to announce his decision in accordance with his honest convictions. It is evident that Walter Shute IS made out ot the right kind of timber for fair and impartial judge
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1916-02-18

The large producing mining companies of Arizona have donated $Ioo,ooo for the erection of suitable building for the School of Mines at the State University. That was an awful jolt to those demagogues who in private and official life seek to discredit and impugn the motives of those men who are at the head of the industrial life of the state. The sensible people of Arizona are coming more and more to the realization that the howl against our big industrial corpora tions has been used for personal agrandize- ment of the professional politician and office seeker.
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A nationwide movement for higher

A nationwide movement for higher wages has been instituted by the four large or ganizations of railway employees The rail- ways called upon for the advance include all those in this country and some in Canada operating 28o,ooo miles of line. Three hun dred thousand men are invovled in the move r;ent, and the increase amounts to about 25 percent in present wages and 87 I-2 percent in overtime pay over that fixed by arbitration and would add one hundred million dollars year to railway. operating expense.
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c. L. Coffee has, in deference to the re- quests and wishes of great number of pa irons of the Clifton Public Schools, con- sented to serve the district for another term as School Trustee. Mr. Coffee was appoint ed by County School Superintendent Aker to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Trustee Grimes, and since assuming his du- ties as Trustee has shown a lively interest in all school matters and it is quite probable that MT. Coffee will be elected Trustee for full term without any opposition.
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j. In accordance with the understanding reached between the managers of the three large mining companies in the district, and their former employ ees that when conditions again became normal in he district, they would meet with a committee of enl- ployees for discussion of grievances and other questions, conference between the manag- CTS and committee of employees, was begun in the general offices of the A. C. Go. Ltd. on Thursday morning of this week. Infor- nation coming from the conference room is that the committee and managers are en- toying the most pleasant relations, with per feet frankness and good will manifested on both sides It is our firm belief that as result of this conference, and others which will follow, the labor clouds will be push ed back from the horizon of prosperity in this district for all time in the future A little personal contact now and then is good for both sides.
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New York Critics Way.

T want you to see my new play" said the author to the New York critic Tt has been spoken of very highly by peo- pie who have seen it. I want your expert judgment
 All right" growled the MY. crit ic. "I'l drop in on it some night, but I warn you in advance that I'm not going to like it."
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Too Much Past.

Peter-Why don't you marry and settle down in life? Now, what's tAe matter with Miss Richmonde?
 Harold-Her past, father.
 Pater-Sir, what's wrong with her past?
 Harold-Too much of it, sir.
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GeeI What a Jolt!

Geel What a Jolt! Miss Knox-Good morning, MT. Sap leigh. You are not looking well this morning.
 Sapleigh-Do. Tbe god an awful code i'd by head, and ab all broge ub. Miss Knox-Indeed! Strange thing about colds, isn't it?
 Sapleigh-Whad do you bean? Miss Knox-Why, they always seem to settle in the weakest place.
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What IS so discouraging to the jingoes is the way Washington seems to spend so much of its time giving Austria and Germany the benefit of the doubt
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Its Kind,

"The conductor is going to pack this car to sunfocation," said one su- burbanite as the car stopped to take another waiting crowd aboard.
 "Yes," replied another, with a rue full glance at his somewhat large pedal extremities, he is going to set plenty of trouble on foot"
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Her Idea of If.

'Now, Miss Fanny" said the Sum- day school teacher to a sixteen-year- old pupil, what are we to infer from the parable of the five wise and five foolish virgins?'
 "That we should always be on the lookout for the approach of the bride~ groom" answered Miss Fanny.
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Sounded Omlnous.

Did the dealer say he would send our coal around next week."
 Yes, he said he had our coal slated for Tuesday"
 Slated. eh? don't altogether like the sound of that"
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The DiHerence.

Do the Smith twins look very much alike?"
 Well, the one we deal with looks more like the other than the other looks like hin"
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Not What He Wanted.

''No, sir" exclaimed the irate father, my daughter can never be yours"
 q don't want her to be my daugh- ter," replied the young man, calmly. q want her to be my wife. See?"
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Family Bankino.

famiiy Bankin0. Bank Clerk-You wish to open Q joint account for yourself and wife? Mrs. Whittler-What does he mean by a joint account?
 Whittler-Well, I keep putting it in and you keep drawing 1t out.- Life.
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ExnArt'a Peril.

Did that alienist prove that you were crazy?"
 "No," replied the defendant; but he admitted that he was nearly so be- fore the lawyer got through with him."
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My Barber.

My barber many yarns narrates; His mouth he seldom shuts, And some of them he illustrates With unexpected cuts.
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OUR PUBLIC FORUM
VI.-F. c. Howe
On The Advantages of Free Ports

MT. F. c. Howe, Federal Comms sioner of Imu .sra tion who is of :he best American authorities or marine commerce tp discussing the relation of free ports to the development of trade said in part
 Ships will go hundreds of miles of their wa, to avoid ports surrounded by tariff wall. The only way therefore tor country with tariff to compete in the shipping world with free trade country establish free ports at srategcal points along it's line. Germany has done so, and in comparatively short period has built up carrying trade which before the seriously threatening Engand,s
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THE OPPOSITION TO BRANDEIS
 It is quite apparent, as the hearing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary, where the confirmation of Mr. Brandeis, for As
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Cultivation of good habits is also an ex- cellent way of getting rid of bad ones.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1916-02-18

My father persuaded me to take a course in domestic science"
 And how do you like the course?"
 Well, it looks like ordinary kitch. en work to me. If my suspicious are confirmed I shall drop the course and make father buy me a $50 hat"