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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02
RULING DENIES GAS A TAX
Attorney Generals Office Says Levy
Would Go to General Fund.

st. Paul-The legislature may tax
gasoline, but it has no authority to.
direct that the proceeds be turned into
the state highway improvement fund,
according to an informal opinion given
at the attorney generals office.
Legislative action proposed to light
en- the burde.- of the automobile regis
tration tax by levying tax of 1 per
cent gallon on gasoline, the proceeds
to augment the highway fund, received
setback from the attorney generals
ruling.
Bills calling for the gasoline tax had
been prepared and were about to be
introduced into the legislature, when
question as to their constitutionality
arose. The attorney generals office.
was asked for an opinion.
While the legislature would have full
right to levy tax on gasoline, the
proceeds would have to go into the
states general revenue fund, accord
ing to the attorney general, and it
would be beyond the power of the leg
islatur to divert the money into any
particular fund
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02
TURKEY PREPARES FOR WAR
Greeks of 1923 Class Ordered to Pre-
pare for Call to Colors.

London-Interest in the near east
situation, revived by the delicate state
of affairs at Lausanne, was intensified
here by a Times dispatch from Con-
stantinople, reporting the departure Of
Mustapha Renal Pasha from Smyrna
for Angora amid such demonstrations
as usually take place before the out
break of war.
The Turkish nationalist leader is re-
ported to have visited the grave Of his
mother where he swore that he would
rather join her in death than allow the
sovereignty of the Turkish people to
be imperiled.
The Greek minister at Berne,
through the newspapers, has notified
Greeks of the class of 1923 to hold
themselves in readiness for call to
the colors. He said there would be no
exemptions.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02
B0RAH ASKS WORLD FARLEY
Senator Introduces Resolution Asking
Harding to Summon Conference.

Washington-In the face of certain
administration opposition, Senator w.
E. Borah introduced a resolution urg
ing President Harding to invite all the
nations concerned to an economic con-
ference to attempt settlement of the
reparations and kindred problems.
Borah's resolution was identical,
with the exception of one word, with
the one he presented as an amendment
to the naval appropriation bill
He withdrew the former resolution
when administration spokesman in the
senate at that time assured him that
foreign policy was being outlined
which the resolution might embarrass.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02
MILLER FOR BUREAU HEAD
Resignation of Col. Forbes Expected
General Shakeup Looked For.

Colonel Charles r. Forbes, as director
of the Veterans bureau, expected
shortly, will be a signal for a general
shakeup of that department of the gov
eminent, officials close to President
Harding declared
Within the next few days Colonel
Miller will confer with President
Harding. Administration leaders are
known to favor the appointment of
Colonel Miller since it would go long
way towards healing the breach with
the American legion, caused by the
veto of the bonus bill
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02
Motion Made to OueIi Excitement Over
Crime Wave.

Crime Wave.
st. Paul-The battle in the legisla-
ture over the proposed restoration of
capital punishment in Minnesota was
brought to an issue in the house crime
prevention committee when Represen-
tative S. A. Stockwell OF Hennepin
county made motion that all of the
bills proposing capital punishment be
recommended by the committee for in
definite postponement.
The members have under considera-
ton a bill by Representative Hompe
of Otter Tail county which would re-
peal the law of 1911 establishing the
state parole board and setting up in
ieterminate sentences.
superintendent of penal institu-
lions, criminologists, members of the
state parole board, criminal lawyers
and representatives of women's organ
izations appeared before the crime
prevention committee to urge defeat
of the Hompe bill.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02
FIGHT ON "PORK" IN SENATE
Item Of $4,000, 900 for Rivers Accept
ed in Defiance of Recommendations

Washington-The pork barrel was
rolled another leap forward when the
senate appropriations committee made
favorable report on the army approp-
ration bill, including the $56,000,000
rivers and harbors item adopted by
the house in defiance of the budget
recommendations.
Senator Smoot, an oldtime foe of the
pork barrel, will carry the fight to the
floor and prospects are that the senate
will witness one of the stubborn old
fashioned pork battles such as it used
to stage before the war.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02
st. Louis, Mo.-Monsignor Ernesto

st. Louis, Mo.-MonSignoI ErneSto
Filippi, apostolic delegate to Mexico,
who was expelled from that country by
President Obregon for alleged excess
sive church activities, passed through
st. Louis en- route to Washington, d.
c., where he will await orders from
Rome.
San Francisco-Neither the federal
prohibition law, nor the Harrison mar
cotic act can be given fair test inside
of 10 years, r. A. Haynes, federal pro-
hibition commissioner, asserted here
on his arrival to make an intimate
study of conditions on the Pacific
coast. Both laws, he said, are proving
effective.
Oklahoma City, Ok1a.-A S255, 900
fire Of unknown origin completely de-
stroyed one downtown building here
and for two hours threatened to sweep
over fireproof walls and wipe out an
entire block. Three fire alarms called
out practically all the fire fighting ap-
paratus of the downtown district A
large safe dropped three floors but re-
manned intact.
Denver-While police were seeking
Louis Cavellitti, former solder and vo-
cational training student of Fort Col
Inns, Col, for the Staying Of two and
the wounding Of three others, one
probably MORALLY, he entered a down.
town motion picture theater, took a
front seat in the balcony and shot him.
self to death. The audience in the
theater was thrown into an uproar by
the dramatic act. Police identified the
body.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02
PROPOSED LEGISLATION

Inaction by the state in support of
the mothers pension law would be
ended by passage OF a bill introduced
| by Sumner T. Mcknight and others
in the house. 1t appropriates S275.000
year to pay the states share of the
pensions.
An active campaign of opposition to
! the proposed guaranty of bank de-
posits law, now before the state legis.
lature, has been inaugurated by the
| Minnesota Bankers association. In
resolutions proposed by the legisla.
| tive committee of the association and
adopted, the bankers declare the pro-
| posed plan to be fundamentally I'M
| just, unethical and unsound." But re.
CARELESS of it's deficiencies, they say,
the present is a peculiarly inopportune
time to put such law on the statute
books. Under it, they contend, state
banks would be forced to liquidate
their paper assets, thus forcing the
farmer to meet payments when he is
not in a position to do So
Among the bills introduced in the
House was proposed amendment to
the present law governing the duty
of automobile drivers who strike pc.
destrians or figure in an accident. The
pres 3nt law requires the driver return
to the person he has struck and give
his name and license number. Failure
to do so constitutes gross misdemean
or A bill by Representative J. G.
Pratt and G. R. Davij would make it a
felony for violation, with sentence not
to exceed five yearG in prison. On a
year in the county Jail, or fine of not
more than $4,000, or both fine and sen.
tence The bill also increases the
drivers duty to his victim, making il
compulsory for the driver to give such
injured person emergency assistance
and to transport the victim to a hospt
tai or home. Heretofore only the
names of male occupants of car
figuring in an accident were needed.
but the proposed revised law would
also call for furnishing women's names.
A bill backed by the Minnesota Stats
Farm Bureau federation will be intro
duced soon. The bureau bill would
take out of the hands Of county com.
missioners any discretion in the mat.
ter of making appropriations to main
tain county farm extension agents. and
make the appropriation mandatory ID
the local farm bureau approved it.
County commissioners also could not
appoint the county agent, which func-
ton would be performed for them by
the extension department of the Uni.
versity of Minnesota in connection
with the local farm bureau.
The house committee on public
buildings reported favorably the MIN.
ocks-Dilley bill providing s750,oOO for
an office building to house state de.
partments on the old capitol site. The
bill then went to the appropriations
committee.
Supporters of the bill to repeal the
Brooks-Coleman street railway act
were not ready to take it up wien the
house committee on public utilities
met and the matter was laid over for
a week.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02
ASK DEPARTMENTS CUT
Committee Procedure Announced il
Effort to Consolidate Groups.

st. Paula committee to i'm
vestigate the practicability of cutting
down the number of state boards and
committees as an economy measure
has been appointed. The committee,
VIII consider report submitted to
the Legislature in 1915 by volunteer
committee of 80 citizens who made an.
investigation at that time.
One suggestion for cutting down
the overhead is that inspections con-
Quoted by the state be grouped For
instance, the state now has oil inspec-
tors, food inspectors, hotel inspectors,
weights and measures inspectors, and
building inspectors all travelling about
from town to town. 1t has been sug-,
gested that one man inspect oil, food,
hotels, ETC., in each town.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02
BRITISH DIVIDE OVER TERMS

Baldwin Urges Acceptance Upon Cab
inet-Premier Law Uncertain.
London-The British cabinet met to
consider the Anglo-American debt is
sue and listened to an appeal from
Chancellor of the Exchequer Stanley
Baldwin that the debt commission
providing for 3 per cent interest
rate) be accepted. Baldwin said that
the government could rest assured no
better terms could be obtained.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02

Supporters of the bill to repeal the
Brooks-Coleman street railway act
were not ready to take it up wien the
house committee on public utilities
met and the matter was laid over for
week.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02

The house committee on public
buildings reported favorably the MIN.
ocks-Dilley bill providing $750,000 for
an office building to house state de.
partments on the old capitol site. The
bill then went to the appropriations
committee.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02

Representative ]. N. Jacobson Is
sponsor of a bill requiring all fire in
surance adusters to take out licenses
from the state insurance commission
or, paying $40 year.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02

House members may be treated to a
debate on the League of Nations. Rep
resentatives L. A Barnes, H. R. Berg
and Albert Lagerstedt introduced a
resolution asking congress to provide
referendum vote in future before
war is declared and urging considera-
ton of the League of Nations cove
nant and the reservations.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02

Bills creating two new trunk high
ways have made their appearance.
Senator Chris Rosenmeier of Little
Falls, has one creating No. II, to run
from Little Falls to point on Trunk
Highway No. 81 between Milaca and
Onamia The other is by w. T. Noon
on of Baudette, providing for No. 70
from Bemidji to Baudette.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02

Closing of the state fair on Sunday
would be required by law in bill in
troduced by Representatives Torkel-
son, Trovaten and Nelson
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02

Inaction by the state in support of
the mothers pension law would be
ended by passage OF bill introduced
by Sumner T. Mcknight and others
in the house. 1t appropriates s275.000
year to pay the states share of the
pensions.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02

The Sullivan-Grandstand bill, regu-
1ating public dance halls, was recon-
mended to pass by The house commit
tee on public welfare. 1t requires dance
halls to close at 1 a. m. and at mid
night Saturday, with no Sunday dane
es, and to have peace officer in at
tendance at each dance. Town and
village authorities are given super
vision.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-02-02

Senator c. Rosenmeier's bill making
it unlawful for any person "wilfully,
knowingly and maliciously' to furnish
false information to a newspaper about
any person or corporation, for publica-
ton, was reported for passage by the
house committee on crime prevention.
The companion bill in the house, by
Hitchcock, was indefinitely postponed.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-06
REALIZES need Of
PROTECTIVE TARIFF

81. T. Adams in National Republican,
The protests of the agricultural in
terests against any reduction of tariff
on vegetable oils reflects the senti-
ment of all agricultural interests to-
ward the protective tariff system.
Agriculture is no longer a hit ana
miss occupation. 1t is an industry
dependent, quite as much as the man.
ufacturing industry, for success and
profit upon application of business
methods, scientific principles and eco
nomic laws.
1t finds itself competing with other
industries for workers. Cheap labor
which farmers enjoyed a generation
ago is no longer obtainahle. The
American farmer today pays more
for labor than is paid for like help
anywhere else in the world. In Eng
land today the prevailing wage is
$25 to $50 a month, without either
board or lodging.
Our frontier has Disappeared, and
with it the era of cheap land. This
brings the American farmer and live
stock man in competition with pro-
ducts of cheap land in other coun-
tries-the fields and ranges of South
America, Australia, New Zealand and
Russia.
For example, without the present
protective tariff on cattle, our mar
kets today would be swamped with
importations of livestock from South
America, where cattle of all classes
are selling at less than half the
prices paid in this country.
Russia has recovered enough to re-
sumo production of wheat for export,
raised on cheap land by peasants and
paid for in the debased Russian ruble.
This wheat can be shipped by water
from Black Sea ports and laid down
? In our country for the merest frac-
ton of what it costs the American
farmer to raise the wheat.
So examples might be multiplied
showing how the American agricul-
tural interests are being forced into
increasing competition with produc-
ers of other countries favored with
cheap labor, cheap land and cheap
: currency.
n AS this competition grows in for
: eign markets, the American producer
n viii find it increasingly difficult, il
not absolutely impossible, to sci
S abroad, even in the quantity he die
: prior to the world war. His HON.
d market is his salvation and he mus
maintain q tariff system that vii
protect II from foreign exploitation.
D., When American workingmen axs
= steadily employed they live hakAe
1than the working people Of any okhe
eoantxy. This afforas the aexicul
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-06
HUGHES Completely
INDICATED

WASHINGTON, June 5.-The SUI
perior character of American states
manship o in control Of American
diplomacy is emphasized by the re-
cent experience of Great Britain in
dealing with soviet Russia. 1t will
be remembered that some two years
ago Greet Britain entered INTO Ger
tain agreements with KuLsia designed
to promote trade relations. There
were many Americans who urged that
the United States take similar action
insisting that we would lose import
ant advantages il we failed to do SO.
1t WAS insisted by some that Graat
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-06

Britain was putting something over
on US" by more skillful diplomacy.
But recent events have shown that
not to be true.
About the same time that Great
Britain was entering into agreements
with the bolshevists, overtures were
made to our own department Of state
for the recognition of the soviet re-
gime. Secretary of State Hughes
answered those overtures by making
a public statement here in the United
States which was transmitted to the
Russian spokesman. In that state
ment Mr.. Hughes said that the gov
eminent of the United States views
with deep sympathy and grave con-
Germ the plight of the people of Rus
STA and desires to aid by every ap-
propriate means in promoting proper
opportunities through which COM
merce can be established upon a sound
basis" He could see no assurance
of development of trade because of
lack Of production in Russia. "Pro-
duction is conditioned upon the safe
ty of life, the recognition by. firm
guarantees of private property, the
sanctity of contract, and the right Of
free labor" he declared. off fun
damental changes are contemplated
involving due regard of persons and
property and the establishment of
conditions essential to the mainten-
ance of commerce, this government
will be glad to have convincing evil
dence of the contamination of such
changes, and until evidence is sup
piled, this government is unable to
perceive there is any proper basis for
considering trade relations"
Recent discussion in London shows
that not at any time nor IN any re-
spect has the soviet government of
Russia dealt ~honorably with Great
Britain under the agreements they
entered into. AS a consequence
Great Britain recently issued what
was practically an ultimatum to the
soviets calling attention to the lack
of good faith. 1t was British diplo-
macy rather than American diplo-
macy that was short-sighted. Recent
executions in Russia which have been
protested not only by the United
States but by Great Britain, are but
illustrations of that condition against
which Mr.. Hughes protested two
years ago when he made an appeal
for "the safety Of life"
The American people have reason
to be proud that their country was
not Inundated by being made the
dupe of the c~onscienceless bolshev.
lists. who have so long made sport OF
the British statesmen. Our own de.
partment of state is still ready to dea
with Russia whenever, as Mr.. Hughe:
indicated, Fundamental changes are
contemplated and convincing evidence
is presented of the consummation Of
such changes.
In the meantime, those half-hearteC
Americans who are always magnify
ing the ability of foreigners and min
imizing the abilities of our owl
statesmen are not so v~ociferous a.
formerly in expressing their opinions
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-06
F F

Recently in New York the socialist
party of America met in national con-
vention. Some eighty delegates were
present. In 1919 it had no more than
$4,000 members. At the time of its
recent convention it had only a few
more than 12,400. Something has
happened to doctrinaire American So
cialism.
The thinned and vanished ranks tell
the story of the disillusion that has
come to communist, socialist and
other more or less radical movements
in America in the last four years.
The steam has gone out of them.
Their morale has disappeared. They
are back where they used to be before
the war. As political parties they
are reduced and shattered and no
longer count. There is little left of
them on the surface of American po-
litical life. The most dangerous and
fanatical elements in these organiza-
tions have gone underground"
With such hope as they may sum-
mon, the socialists are about to
ganize, or attempt to reorganize,
their party. For new propaganda"
they will try to raise $4,000. This
time they will try turning themselves
into wOrking-class party. That Is
enough to damn it utterly with any
fTee-born American citizen.
1t hardly seems worth while for
the red-card brethren to try it. Their
inspiration is gone. When the red
dawn began fading from the skies of
the east a while back their ~opportu-
nifty and inspiration faded with it.
Karl Marx is the patron saint of So
cialists everywhere and the demigod
Of the s~oviets. The Soviets tried to
follow his writings as a true believer
follows holy writ. That CHASTITY thing
known as soviet Russia of today was
the result.
Abraham Cohen, editor of the Jew
ish Daily Forward, has it right. He
told his socialist comrades their party
was a failure. He advised them to
quit flirting with the s~oviets. The
trouble is that they can't. He de.
nOunced the soviet regime as an adj
mitted failure led by Lenine, who has
suffered a moral, mental and physica
breakdown, and by that great big
bombastic windbag, Trotzky." Mourn
fully he deplored the fact that tn
American considers himself as goot
as his neXt-door neighbor" and al
ways he has hopes of making $4,000,
600 or becoming governor. AS a class
conscious prospect, Editor Cohen see
little in the American.
> The socialists have not formally ad
mitted it, of course; but the plai
fact is that the soviet government ha
cost them their chance for power i
! the world, and beyond question it.na
; done so in America. The averag
,, American looks at the colossal rut
4 Dish heap that used to be Russia an
turns his back upon it and its blood
foundations. The fine and Split-ha.
: distinction between communism an
> socialism do not interest him.
What the socialist party of Anne.
lea needs is a coffin and a spade.
{ is walking around to save funeral e,
Q epnses and is cheating the unde
/" takeI--Philadelphia Public Ledger
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-06

farmer toSreduce the costs
of his production, considering the
value Of his land and the wages of
his labor, as it is for the American
manufacturer to reduce the costs Of
his production by installing a Euro
pean system.
The vitality of q protective tariff
system is based upon the principle
that it must, through protective rates,
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-06

'tural interests not only q quantity.
market, but a quality market. 1t is a
market which is the object of envy
and desire by the agricultural inter
ests of every other nation in the
world. It is a market which they
will be able to seize if it is net Sc
cured to the American agriculturist
by a protective tariff. 1t is as COM
pletely out of the question for the
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-06

make up the difference between the
costs of production at home and
abroad. This is the protection which
is now needed by the American farm
er, and which will continue to be need
ed so long as farm wages and the
value of farming land in other a
tions are below the level of such
wages ard land values in this eoun-
try.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-06

of the wealthy. The invocation of
the injunction as legal weapon to
protect the breakfast table of the
working man and bring the wealthy
speculator to book conclusively shows
the falsity of such propaganda.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-01-11
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST

Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Gregg and sons,
of Weston, West Va, were here on
last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Haines returned
to their home in Oakland Sunday
after visit to relatives and friends
in Keyser.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Naylor left
Oakland this morning for st. Peters
burg, Florida, where they expect to
spend the remainder of the winter.
Mr.. L. A. Rudisill, editor of The
Mountain Democrat, left Oakland this
morning for Baltimore where he will
remain several days visiting his son
and daughter.
The next meeting of the Board of
County Commissioners will be held
Monday, February 18th, at which
time appeals from assessments and
transfers will be heard
Mr.. and Mrs Walter Janoski, who
have both been i'll with attacks of
pneumonia, are now recuperating, the
former beoing out for the first time
yesterday since he was stricken.
Mrs. Tina Taylor, of Pittsburgh
and Mrs. Farley DeBerry, of Clay
West Va, after spending several days
here with their sister, Miss Ellen Con-
nail, left for their respective homes
or. Tuesday.