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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1906.
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ernor or the President of the Senate
but Brownell's stupendous intellect
so impressed him that he remembered
him out of the entire . multitude that
he met. ,
We think that the President had
heard of Brownell before he met him
and easily recignized him without an
introduction. In any event, the Pres
ident has not forgotten him and later
on sent him a special message which
is on file in the Federal court.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1906.
A FLIMSY DEFENSE.
Brownell will not tell the t ruth
when it answered better than mis
representattion. He believes that the
only way to succeed . is to fool the
people. He never went farther along
this line than at his Milwaukie meet
ting in discussing his indictment. He
believes that by reading from the
Senate Journal he can show that he
did not commit perjury or suborna
tion of perjury on the date of his in
dictment as the Journal will show
that he was at Salem on that day tak
ing part in the session of the Legisla
ture. There were three trains a day on
which he could have come to Oregon
City and return to Salem so that he
may have been in Oregon City in the
morning of the day that the Senate
Journal shows that he was in Salem.
This is the flimsiest kind of an ex
cuse, but the real objection to his
alibi is the well known fact that if
he is charged with perjury on the
10th day of January, 1905, it is - not
necessary to prove that the crime was
committed on that particular date. So
that if it should be proven under this
indictment that he committed the per
jury on the 8th or 9th of January in
stead of the 10th or any other day in
the immediate future, the conviction
would stand under the indictment.
In other words the exact day charg
ed in the indictment is immaterial and
nobody knows it better than Mr.
Brownell. But he can't be honest and
straightforward but thinks that he
can fool the people and by reading
from the Senate Journal prove an ali
bi. This all goes to show the desperate
straits that he is in and the length to
which he will go to bolster up his fall
ing political fortunes.
Prom what our Stafford correspond
ent iad to say last week, It seems
that our remarks relative to the gath
ering of news by our country repor
ters has been misunderstood.
We certainly did not say, neither did
we mean to insinuate that the work of
gathering the important happenings
throughout the county, is being done
other than satisfactorily by the half-
hundred correspondents who weekly
assist in editing the columns of the
Enterprise. It is the aim of the En
terprise to publish all the news of the
county. This paper is strictly a coun
ty paper. We make no pretense of
giving our readers a telegraphic serv
ice, other than to briefly publish oc
casionally some of the most Impor
tant happenings of great interest.
Consequently, each week's issue is
given to printing the news of the coun
ty, as it is largely reported to us
through our correspondents. Items
of personal and local interest in ev
ery community are always readable
and add to the value of the paper In
giving all the news of the county. And
in doing this, we think our correspond
ents cannot be surpassed for accur
acy and thoroughness. Their work is
indeed only to be commended, cer
tainly not to be criticized.
What the editor did mean in his re
marks of a few weeks since was to
suggest and urge farmers to send in
articles relating to the farm, stock
and poultry. Such communications are
always readable and are of great help
in acquainting the new settler with
local conditions and possibilities in
the line of agricultural pursuits. But
to do this, we would not diminish the
space that is allotted for the weekly
letters of our country correspondents.
There is abundant room for both the
regular correspondents and any let
ters of the kind suggested that our
readers may find time to prepare and
forward. Our correspondents may
rest assured that their weekly letters
will, continue to be published and we
will also gladly insert other communi
cations from the same source as well.
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FREE TRADE WITH THE PHILIP-
Now comes the crucial moment. It
is said that the President has anger
ed most of the Republican members
of the Senate Committee to the point
that they were willing to allow a Dem
ocrat and an avowed opponent of the
White House to report the Hepburn
Bill entire. Whether or not this was
good politics remains to be seen. The
fact remains that Senator Tillman has
introduced the Hepburn Bill and it
has reached the stage where it will
have a chance to get all the amend
ment that is coming to it at the hands
of the Senate. There will be a lot of
speeches made and doubtless 'there
will be a lot of amendments- offered
and possibly some adopted seriously
touching the principles enunciated in
the bill. The Republican members
of the Senate have already gone as
far as they dared, , and while there
probably will be a hot or at least a
wordy fight on the floor, it is ques
tionable if there will be much actu
ally done to the bill before it goes
back to the House for consideration.
If any of the amendments adopted
touch the vital principles of the bill,
the Senate may be sure that it will
be vetoed at the White .House as
readily as though- it were: some pri
vate bill against which charges were
well proven. But the fight is on now
in the Senate and it will be interest- j
ing to see whether the Senate has al-i
lowed the " Executive program to go
through thus far in the hope of killing
it at the last ditch or whether the
principles of the Hepburn Bill, even
admitting that they are not
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strong enough, are going to prevail
and the country is going to be treated
to the spectacle of a Senate surren
dering In the first place to the Pres
ident and - then meekly accepting a
measure prepared for it by the House.
Such a course on the part of the Sen
ate would argue either unexpectea
resignation or else remarkable oppo
sition to the present-personnel of the
railroad directorate.
For the more important river and
harbor work of the state Senator Ful
ton has introduced in the Senate two
quite amendments to the Sundry Civil bill,
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PINES.
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WAS ALWAYS FOR THE PEOPLE!
Mr. Brownell says no one can show
one law in the interest of the corpora
tions that he has supported.
Usually Mr. Brownell has been foxy
enough to dodge the issue. Most of
the measures that the corporations
did not want, Brownell succeeded in
getting referred to the railroad com
mittee of which he was chairman most
of the time. These measures were
then smothered in this committee. If
by any chance one got out of the com
mittee and came to a vote, he would
dodge the issue and vote neither way
as he did on the Killingsworth bili.
It was only on rare occasions and then
under peculiar stress that he has vot
ed for any measure that the corpora
tions did not want.
If this is not true why do the rail
roads constantly back and support
him? The railroads have run the leg
islature of Oregon in the past just as
they have in many of -the Eastern
states and just as they have Congress
until Roosevelt took the stand against
them and Brownell has been their
man to maniuplate things in Oregon.
It is too well known to admit of dis
cussion. O
DEFEAT OF CONGRESSMAN GROS-VENOR.
The congressional convention for the
eleventh district of Ohio has failed to
renominate General C. H. Grosvenor
as a candidate for Congress. He was
defeated on the first ballot by a vote
of seventy-eight to twenty. Even his
home county, Athens, did not cast a
vote in his favor. Among the causes
to which the defeat of Grosvenor is at
tributed are his opposition to tariff
revision, his opposition to railway-rate
regulation, and1 his advocacy of ship
subsidy legislation. His political re
lations are said to be intimately con
nected with the interests of Clement
A. Griscom, president of the American
Steamship line. He has been in Con
gress for twenty years, and has been
generally regarded as one of the best
orators on the Republican side. The
Argonaut.
This is but another instance of the
"handwriting on the wall" and should
serve as a warning to legislators
throughout the country whose rela
tions with corporations are such as to
unfit them for representatives of the
people in matters of legislation. The
time has arrived when the people are
going to assert themselves and the
services of such men as Grosvenor
are going to be dispensed with. This
same sentiment prevails right here in
Clackamas county and the indications
are that the feeling is sufficiently
strong to retire men in public life
who have proven faithless servants of
the people. The issue Is clean cut
the people or the corporations and
candidates for the legislature must
terminate the dual relations they have
been maintaining or suffer the conse
quences. o
ROOSEVELT REMEMBERED
ALL RIGHT!
HIM,
la his opening speech at Milwaukie,
Brownell could not refrain from touch
ing upon what a great man he is. in
fact vanity is the chief ingredient in
his make-up. He says that out of all
the men the President met in Oregon,
be is the only one that Roosevelt re
membered to call by name.
The Chronicle, which has always
been a high protection paper, has lat
terly been advocating free trade with
the Philippines. It has had a pretty
hard time in reconciling these two po
sitions, and now is attempting to
square itself with its readers by adopt
ing the old expedient of the lawyer
with the bad case "abuse the oppos
ing attorney." The Chronicle is vio
lently abusing those protectionists
who oppose Philippine free trade by
calling them "Creatures of the Sugar
Trust," We do not know whether all
those opposed to Philippine free trade
are allied with the Sugar trust, but
we very much doubt it. The Argon
aut agrees with the Chronicle in think
ing that it is hard on the Filipinos to
shut them out with a high tariff when
they theoretically form an integral
part of this country. On the other
hand, we also agree with Senator
Newlands in thinking that if we drift
into free trade with the Filipinos, we
may never get rid of the Philippines.
If they really become an integral
part of this country, with the same
rights as the rest of us, the resulting
evils to us would be greater than any
! that could happen to them. Charity
begins at home. We believe in look
ing out for white America first
yellow, brown and black if we have
time. Therefore we hope that the
tariff against the Philippines may not
be lowered,, even if keeping it up may
interfere with San Francisco's trade.
Incidentally we may say that the'
opposition to lowering the Philippine
tariff, is very vigorous in the East.
Secretary Taft assures us that the
exports of sugar and tobacco from the
Philippines to this country will al
ways be insignoficant. This is de
nied by the sugar men, who assert
that if the tffariff is lowered, the Phil
ippine sugar industry within ten years
will become a formidable competitor
of the Western beet sugar and South
ern cane sugar. So say the tobacco
growers. They assert that seven and
a half billions of cigars are now man
ufactured annually in the United
States; every cigar brought into the
country under the -lowered tariff, they !
maintain, would mean throwing out
a cigar made by American labor. The
sugar and tobacco men admit that it
is possible we owe a duty to the Fili
pinos, but they add that it is dead cer
tain sure we owe a duty to our Ameri
can fellow-citizens. Therefore, they
ask, are not the sugar and tobacco
raisers in this country better entitled
to protection than the sugar and to
bacco raisers in the Philippines?
We are inclined to think that the
American sugar and tobacco men have
got the Republican leaders into a
rather tight place. President Roose
velt, before this snarl is settled, will
wish that the McKinley administra
tion had not turned over so many anti
protectionist, anti-exclusionist, and anti-Republican
problems to its succes
sor. Judge William R. Day, of the Su
preme Court, was high in the coun
cils of the last administration; he had
much to do with the making of the
treaty of peace with Spain, and the
purchase of the Philippines for twenty
millions. In this juncture he might
give our perplexed President some val
uable advice. The Argonaut.
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Brownell at his Milwaukie meeting
has reached the stage of the game
where he is calling names. This is
the last resort of a beaten man.
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Next to the last stage in. the rail
road rate drama has been reached.
The Senate is about to vote on the as
yet unamended Hepburn bill. Events
have moved so rapidly that it is hard
now to realize that railroad rate leg
islation shortly before the session be
gan was declared an impossibility. It
was said in these letters then that
it would be a queer spectacle if the
Executive dominated the coming con
gress to the point of forcing rate con
sideration. That happened. Then
came the rumors of a compromise and
it was said that first this and then
that provision for the benefit of the
railroads had met with the approval
of the White House. As the case
stands up to date, the President has
not expressed his approval of a sin
gle bin that has been introduced, and
the Hepbprn Bill has come to be re
garded as an administration measure
simply because it has been allowed to
go tnus far without opposition from
the Executive Mansion.
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which is to be up for discussion soon,
He asks for $400,000 for continuing
the jetty work at the mouth of the
Columbia river and $100,000 for the
coast dredge. He was completely ris
couraged over the prospect for con
tinuing work at the Celilo The Dalles
canal, and felt that it would be worth
less to try further as the appropria
tions committee members stated that
they would not consider such an item
this year. If the endorsement of the
committee on Commerce is secured
by the Senator, the appropriations are
reasonably assured.
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That western enthusiast who shot
a vaudeville artist on the stage is
now pleading justifiable homicide
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them. Each month of neglect increases the
amount of repair work twenty -five per cent,
besides, poor teeth mean poor health. You
cannot afford to neglect your health. By the
latest methods used by us we can fill your teeth
without pain, and do it well. IT An expert
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New Clubbing Rates
SOWING ALFALFA.
Willamette Farmers Like It. Seeding
Big Fields of It.
The struggle to include Washington,
Oregon, and California in the list of
states enjoying the privilege of cut
ting timber on public domain mineral
land is assured an early issue, as the
Senate committee on public lands in
dicates a purpose of reporting the Ful
ton measure this session. Concession
has been made to the objection of the
Interior Department, which pointed
out many wastes in the states now
having this privilege, the nature of
the concession being an effort to make
provision for repeating the waste on
mineral timbered land embraced in the
territory over which the law is to be
extended. Senators from the three
states are willing all possible waste be
prevented, but insist that there be
fair uniformity of such laws. The In
terior Department' holds , that as min
ers have the right of cutting timber
in reasonable quantity on non-mineral
public domain, that should be suffi
cient for the operators in the coast
states. -
Why did not Brownell at Milwaukie
discuss his stand on the Killingsworth
railroad bill? This is a meausre that
is of great importance to the people
of the state, but Brownell failed to
The other men that the President , show what he did to help put it on
There is little present prospect of
the Senate passing any law repealing
the Timber and Stone act, without
leaving some provision for timbered
domain to be acquired by private in
terests. This seemed probable for a
period, but the Committee on public
lands has learned that Western oppo
sition to what was termed the admin
istration program, is stronger than it
thought when Senator Fulton first
opened the opposition. If the com
mittee reports the administration bill,
it ispractically sure of defeat in the
Senate, and the House Committee has
already voted the same measure down
in that branch of Congress. How
ever, there is hope among the West
ern men that some more practical so
lution of the timber waste problem
may be available, and they express
their resire to co-operate in any such
effort.
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Senatw Carter says he saved more
when he was a country school teach
er on $40 a month than he did when
he was a Commissioner of the Land
Office. Binger Hermann would say
that the Senator has wasted his op--portunities.
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A contemporary says that there is
"something pathetic in the spectacle
of Gen. Grosvenor's defeat for the
Senate." Soporific would have been
nearer the mark.
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The Emperor of China will soon
wish that dynamiter had rendered ex
Minister Wu Ting Fang dumb instead
of merely making him deaf.
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Sherman Bell has so much confi
dence in his new melodrama that he
is going to produce it in New York
without police protection.
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It is odds on that Secretary Root
could not secure the smallest elector
al office in Germany, Canada or the
United Kingdom.
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- Willamette farmers are going more
and more to grow alfalfa. W. F. Ham
lin, who resides a short distance over
the Willamette from Corvallis recently
received 1,200 pounds for use in seed
ing a big field to alfalfa. It will be
sufficient to sow 60 acres, which will
give Mr. Hamlin a total acreage of 75
acres. The seeding of the larger
fields is the result of experiment with
a smaller one, containing 12 or 15
acres. That one has been running two
or three years. From it, Mr. Hamlin
has learned that he can cut two fine
crops of hay, and then have fine past
ure in August, September and other
months when green feed is otherwise
unavailable.
The experience of Mr. Hamlin is the
same a3 that of Richard Kiger. Mr.
Kiger of course, has been longer a
grower of alfalfa. He is one of the
pioneers in the alfalfa business in the
vicinity. He has 100 acres of it now,
75 of which was put in for the same
reason that Mr. Hamlin is now adding
to his acreage, because experience
demonstrated the- value of the crop,
Seventy-five acres of Mr. Kiger's
alfalfa yielded its first crop last sea
son. The older field of 25 acres turned
off a three-ton crop yield at the first
cutting, a ton at the second cutting
and afforded great pasturage after
that.
The experience of other i farmers
especially those along the river bot
toms has been similar. They render
of interest experiments the Southern
Pacific are preparing for this time.
That road is planning by the assis
tance of farmers to experiment with
20 acre tracts all along the lines of
their railroad, under the arrangements
to be : made Paul Shoop, Worcester
Building, Portland. W. W. Cotton has
prepared a phamplet on the subject
of alfalfa production, based on his
own experience on his farm near
Portland, which pamphlet can be
secured of Mr. Shoup at the above ad
dress. There was recently a display
in a real estate office in Corvallis
roots from alfalfa no less than eight
feet in length and the estimate is that
there are roots 12 feet in length in the
field from which the sample was
taken. They came from the field of
Robin Radir living across the Willam
ette. The incident shows how the
roots go down to water and maintain
green and growing conditions in mid
summer, when otherwise everything
is dry, making of alfalfa an especially
valuable crop in the Willamette
Valley, where lack of late summer feed
is a subject of complaint in the stock
raising and dairy industries. Corval
lis Times. I
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" Says I to myself, says I, .
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OREGON CITY MARKET REPORT,
SPECIAL RATES FROM THE EAST.
met, he only remembered as the Gov- the statute books.
zon at Aigecairas.
continues optomistic.
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Colonist's tickets will be sold from
the East to points on the Oregon lines
of the Southern Pacific Co. via Port
land, commencing February 15 and
continuing daily to and including April silver 4c
Dried Apples Sun Dried, quartered,
4e lb; sliced, 6c; fancy bleached,
! 7c. ,
(Corrected Weekly.)
Wheat No. 1. 67 73c per bu.
Flour Valley, $4.25 per bbL Hard
wheat $4.90, Portland, $1.10 per sack.
Howard's Best, $1.25 per sack.
Oats In sacks, $1.15 per cental.
Hay Timothy, baled $11$12 per
ton; clover $9; oat, $9; mixed hay $9,
cheat, $8.50.
Millstuffs Bran $19.50 per toil;
shorts, $20.50 per ton; chop $18.00 per
ton; barley rolled $25.50 per ton.
Potatoes 4550 per hundred.
Eggs Oregon 1517 per doa.
Butter Ranch 5560; separator
60c; creamery, 6570c.1
Rutabegas, Carrots, Turnips, Par
snips and Beets 60c per sack.
Good Apples Choice $1.00.
Honey ll12c per lb.
Prunes (dried) Petite, 3c per lb;
Italian, large, 5c per Tb; medium, 3c;
7 and from September 15 until October j
31. The rates from some of the princi-
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I Omaha, $25; Kansas City, $25; Coun
cil Bluffs, $25; St Joseph, $25; Sioux
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We Carry Fine Bath Tttbs
Dressed Chickens 12c lb.
Live Stock and Dressed Meats
Beef, live $3.25 $3.75 per hundred.
Hogs,, live, 5c; dressedr-7c; sheep,
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