THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, TORTLAND, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1010.
FIVE.IffOMT
HE'S FOR LABOR
GEiliBB
KIIGATK
NOV III PROGRESS
Little Results Obtained from
Congressional ' Inquiries
; First ; Investigation .Was
Made in 1792.
C -"- BJ Kredcric J. Itoskln, .
, Washington. Vb. 7, Ths pn-snt in-
vestlgatlon . of ihe Balllnger-Plnohot
, controversy is liut one of hundreds f
. Inquiries ,. of groat and mall Import
that have btn made by tha govern-
merit through lta legislative and axecu
' iv branches In the past hundred
' ears. Millions of pagea of testimony
have been accumulated and 'embalmed
in tha records of the congress, the
executive departments and the courts,
' and millions of dollars have been spent
' In the 'asking - of .questions and the
gathering of facta. Usually It is con-
. gress itself that provides , for invest!
gatlons but often tha departments do
Jt on their own Initiative. ,
Tlve XnTssUrationa la progress.
.At tb, present time there are at
least five important investigations be
Ing conducted by the government.. The
HaJUnger-Plnchot controversy Is being
threshed out, tha Monetary commission
has not finished its work, the Browns
' villa court of Inquiry Is, stilt asking
questions, and the meat' trust n un
der fire. In addition to these the im
migration commission still has work
to do. . As a rule all governmental In
vestigations come high, but none are
so expensive aa tha commissions cre
ated by congress. . The immigration
commission already jiaa spent more than
600,000 in looking Into tha immlgra
tion questien, and it wants still mora
money. Tha monetary commission also
is spending money by tha hundreds of
thousands of dollars, and the Indus
trial commission was no more careful
' -of Uncle Bam s bocketbook when It made
lta investigations Into industrial con
ditlons.
Usually these commlsslona are little
more than pleasure Junkets. The mem
, here travel abroad in regal style, and
nearly all of them are on the rolls
st the capitoL These commlsslona plan
to go abroad Just about vacation time,
and tha senator or representative who
is a member managca to find a place
for his aecretary, who Is thus enabled
to draw two salaries from Uncle Sam.
and have his expenses paid .while mak
ing a trip to Europe. Whether these
commissions really aro worth what they
cost is a question about which there
nas been, much discussion. -
BrowasvUle Inquiry "fruitless.
The senate Brownsville inquiry rep
resents about the most fruitless effort
to get at the truth that has ever re
sulted from a governmental investiga
tion. It cost several hundred thousand
dollars to Conduct the hearings, and
little mora wai known of the matter
when the senate got through than be
fore it began. Tha testimony fills
books which would occupy a whole
shelf in a sectional bookcase, witnesses
liavlng been brought . from tha four
cttrnera of the country,
i -The Standard Oil
1I department of commerce and labor,
jid the beef trust(lnvestigation by the
aame department are .about ; the most
important investigations ever. made un
der a cabinet officer. It will be re
called that In the beef trust investiga
tion Commissioner Garfield asserted
that the packers jiiadeta profit of only
j, cents eacn on me cattle; they butch
fl'fd. Few investigations have been re
ceived with more incredulity. Jfobody
believed that Garfield had reached the
bottom of his subject. The Standard
Oil investigation was the one that re
sulted in thft Kenesaw Mountain I.andis
Verdict of $:9.000.000 against the Rocke
feller combination.
;j; Tha Postoffica Inquiry.
; The houso and the senate have aome
tlmcs been hoist by their own, petard
when asking for information from the
departments. Many readers will recall
the time when the house asked for In
formation about the relations of mem
bers of congress with the postofftce
department. There was never a more
indignant set of men than the mem
bers Of the house, when nearlv all
them were embraced in this report. It
i a .I,.,, limit- . . .
..... iiuani Aiaen smith,
made his sensational speech nominating
Uncle Joe Cannon for nrpniHont ti,..
house that now quarrels with Mr. Can
nun appiauaea.itseir hoarse that day.
Arms Investigations. .
. Few inquiries . have attracted such
Wide Interest as' , the Schley "court of
HOUSE PLANS TO
DP
aOP MEXICO
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rMerryWidow'V Waltz Played
.'at Senator Chauncey De , ,
.i y: ; pew's House. : I ' '
Vast TransDortation and Devei-I
nnlnfi Srhpmi tn R Inaiinii
Wfpatvj VVIIVIIIW few WU , i . .
. .. J Washington. : Keb.' . 7. The Taft ad-
rated Renresentative Here m,"1'tr,lon ta dancing one!
. , ..,.,.. TnI ,war p,
FIRST SHOWING
to Develop Plans.,
New York. F.h 1 Tha r,il hank.
Ing house of Bleichrocder of Berlin, one the Cfownlnshltld dinner dance in hon
potently illustrated again
tonight when President Taft and Speak.
er Cannon danced to the strains of tha
Merry Widow" walts at Senator De-
pows nouse, Postmaster General Hitch
cock was one of the start partners at I
SPRING STYLES
President C. W. Brown of the New
York Central .& Hudson, River
'railroad, woo baa become a rerjr
promlnent personage ' lately' for
various reneom. Mrj Brown, In
several addresses, bas pointed out
that since living Is higher, wages
should be higher. . This, coming
from such a large employer of la
bor, where an Increase In wage
would mean so much, has stamped
President Brown as a man who Is
fearless, even If no other compli
ment be bestowed. His road will
be one of the principal lines con
cerned . in the general demand
about to be made for an Increase
In wages.
After
La Grippe
:y,"l had suffered several weeks
iwith LaGrippe. Had pains in
my head and eyes. . It ,felt as
though there was a heavy weight
on the top of" my head, until it
seemed that my brain would
burst. I was so nervous that
I could not rest or sleep. When
I dozed off I would awake with
a sudden jerking of my ."whole
body. Dr. Miles' Nervine,' Heart
Remedy and 'KTerve. and Liver
Pills cured me.' ' A" number of
friends have since, realized the
same benefits."
MRS. ALVIN H. LOCKS, '
, ' - , Seabrook, N, H.
The- after -effects of LaGrippe
are, often more serious than the
. disease, as it , leaves the system.
in ; a weakened condition that:
invites mote serious troubles,
stich'as pneumonia,- etc "
'.Restorative' Nervine . .
houldbe taken for some time
crrpnrrtn . f . ...
'., r-Q : - ' . '-,. -V ' .;
. Dr. MIleiNervIno Is cold by all drug
K fltsts.' , If tha flrst bottiedees net benefit, .
yaur- druggist -will return your money. . :
. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, lnt '
Inquiry, in which it was .attempted to
settle the controversy growing out of
the battle with the Spanish fleet at
Santiago. . It is not too much to say
that Admiral Schley was the popular
hero, whatever , may have have been
the technicalities of the case. - Senator
Rayner of Maryland waa his principal
counsel.' The embalmed beef Inquiry,
after the close of the Spanish war.
was one of the most Important army
investigations the service has seen
In passing, one might mention the
wora or tne industrial commission.
which Is remembered more for, the ssy-
ng of Henry o. Havemeyer of tne
sugar truat. that the protective tariff
Is the mother of trusts, than for all
the other millions of words of .testi
mony it printed. The report of ths
commission was at one time the most
widely quoted authority on Industrisl
conditions In the country, but Its vast
volumes seldom sre referred to now.
Investigation la 1877.
An Important Investigation waa that
of the New York custom" house in 177.1
Chester A. Arthur was then collector. I val.
He was Identified, with Roscoe Conk
1 In, end President Hayea wanted to re
move him. Conklln fought It tooth and
nail, but Arthur was forced out. Hayes
tnen sent to the senate for confirma
tion as collector the name of a man
who has since become a great factor In
American politics Theodore , Roosevel t.
Although no charges were filed against
him. he f ailed" of confirmation. Tha
failm-e was not because' of the lack of
fitness of the appointee, but because of
the pique of Roscoe Conklln. . It is per
haps the only time in the history of the
country that one future presldpnt of the '
united States was removed from a col
lectorshlp and another failed of confir
mation as his successor. 'This over
hauling of the customs office was al
most as thorough as the one Collector
Loeb has been making.
Many Investigations 1b 70 's.
There were perhaps more Investiga
tions of scandals in the seventies' than
in any other decade of American his
tory. The disputes of the rival govern
ments In some of the states, as in
Louisiana, led to prolonged Inquiries.
The troubles in Virginia and Missis
sippi were made the subject of congres
sional Investigations: The greatest of
all the scandals of this period was the
credit moblller, in which many Well
known statesmen were Involved. James
G. Blaine and the famous Mulligan let-"
ters figured in this affair. Mulligan I
had been a clerk to a gentleman with
whom Blaine had correspondence. He
secured , Blaine's letters, brought them
to Washlngtort and exhibited them.
Blaine made an appointment with him
to examine the letters. Thinking the
Maine statesman was acting In good
faith, Mulligan showed them to him.
Blaine prompUy put them in his pocket
and announced that no power under
heaven could force him t6 give them up.
He afterward did offer to make them
public, but Mulligan always declared
that Blaine kept tack the really In
criminating ones., ; A prolonged exami
nation or the credit moblller affair was
made in congress, but only two of its
members were' recommended for expul
sion.; . -,; ;
Other Tamous Inquiries.
Other famous investigations of this
period were those dealing with the
whiskey frauds,; the quartermaster's
claims, , the ship . subsidy scandal, the
Tilden cipher messssres. the star route
cases, ths public land frauds and the
railroad lobbies. It was In ona of these
cases that Senator Hoar, then almost a
new member, declared that everv ston
of the .building of the Union Pacific
railroad, from Its Inception to Its com
pletion, had been steeped in fraud.
The house of representatives proudly
styles itself; jihe grand inquest of the
nation, and very early in its life began
to assert its right to make inauiries of
whomsoever it pleased. The first In
stance was when charges were brought
against General St. Clair in 1792, while
Washington was yet president. The
house at first asserted its right to In
vestigate an army officer, but after
ward decided that as a matter of cour
tesy to, the president it would waive its
light and v lei him make the lnvestlaa-
tlon.
in 1826 John C. Calhoun was under
the charge of having profited by a cor
rupt deal with a contractor while he
was secretary of war. . He asked the
house to make an Inquiry into the mat
ter, and ho was1 exonerated. Henrv
Clay also fell under the ban of the
scandal .monger at one time, and asked
copgress to investigate him. Ma too,
was. cleared of tha insinuations against
his character, .
la 1 37 the house wanted to Investi
gate Andrew Jackson, but It was not
mug in unaing out tnai it had caught a
Tartar In OJd Hickory.. " Tha ; hero of
New Orleans thought that the executive
bad an authority equal to that of con
gress, and he did net prop- to have
the legislative end of thet. establishment
Investigate the executive unless It, was
for purposes of Impeachment. He re-
of tha chief financial Institutions of. ths or ' Kihl Roosevelt and Seere.
World, haa sent a representative to thd tory LUckinson. Secretary ' MacVeagh
tTnltnd HtatM m innm-urnta & vast I and Secretary nalltnger were all dahu-
scheme of transportation and industrial '"g sirains or uriemai muaic at I
development In Mexico. . .. the Turkish Charge'a ball. '' . t
The Baron Hans von Blelchroeder ar-I umy two weeks ago Secretary or tha
rlved in New York from Berlin several I Navy Meyer gave an-exhlbltlon bf waits.
daya ago to take actlvs direction of tha Ing on akates, while General Bell, Chief
hugs enterprise. For about six months I ox Starr or the army, remains "th very
na will have an office .In ths banking oest waitser in Washington."
house of Kissel 1. Klnnlcut Co. in Wall I So tha password haa become foan'you
street, to work our the details or. tha I waits; .
schema and to study tha railroad sltua- " Seises Each Opportunity.
tlon In the United States, with a view I Since the Southern Relief ball, when
of establishing closer relations between I the President danced with Mrs. Pierce
some system in this country and the I Home, he has been danclnr at ever I
jrairm pis nouse proposes to ouua in I opportunity, r
Mexico. ; I Ho fsr ths nrenldont ham uteered clenr
.The enterprise also' contemplates the I of twoatena. but waahinrtnn waita:wtth
wsotisnmeni or a new line or steam- i breathless Interest the impending news
Ships between New York and German fthat ha haa anrcumhaA tn th. rnlllrlr.
pons, to oe operated in connection witn I ng melodies of "rag time," and danced
y yKrmA iiiiuugii raw ruuia k i uiu i tW0St6p " )
w xnm nari w .CiiLU.. i Alradv r!vr muilrfini. am writ.
Mamm IaaItU. ai iIO l VBIUUII I. inn 11B, WU1VII
",7 -:. I nrn(I 'or president, but also belnk
with B: f. vM;; .h; a,ncrt y nlm
exaendlng from St. Louis to the Mexi
can poraer at Brownsville, Texas.
Karon von Blelchroeder. who is only
25 years old, waa seen at the Waldorf-
Astoria today. He does not speak Bug
Ush, and he requested that any Inter
View be conducted through one of his
secretaries. .
The baron." said Secretary Llctcn
fels. "haa stopped here 6n his wav to
Mexico to atudy banking methods, rail
road valuea and methoda and e-eneral I New York. Feb. 7. Before leavinr
iinancing nere and in Mexico. After here for the south John D. Rockefeller,
he acquaints himself sufficiently he In conversation with a friend, declared
We place on display this week a full line of
Young Men's College Clothes
for spring. ; ' "
SOUTHERN WOMEN
THRrTY
mini i
SAYS JA1
will proceed to Mexico and there beain I that to some extent he waa heartily
acuve wora on tne enterprise his bank- in accord with Archbishop Ireland.
n nouae pmns tnere. whoss personal investigation of the
"We shall build our own II nil. Juki I fanan rtf lilirH nrlia f h. h.ll.f
wnai rouiea win pe cnosen we do not that housewives are largely responsible,
yet know. The railroads In Melco ere "But I have noticed a difference In
owned or controlled bv the a-overnmon I Hirr.r.t k. i....i. t
fh Jl'i'iL n0 . ope t0 buy th"m- But Mr- Rockefeller. "I spend my winter
w.c aicm incia in V riuai V UntnurnfWI 1 rasa1sne. at Aisrtaila fla mwA T -1 ..... ...
ST- w r ir suture mak It a point to Jook Into aouthern
WI liBJLli;U. I -rtn.llilAn- A A Amf.ae k ...lew
.uhuu iiu vv myrni v vucui null
northern conditions. -
These have none of the freakish ideas of past seasons
but are DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT from those V
that will be shown elsewhere. They are made with
BROAD,, ATHLETIC SHOULDERS and long roll
lapel two and three button effects with full
peg top trousers You are invited to inspect same.
MEN'S MANHATTAN SHIRTS ARE HERE.
THE NEW SPRING BLOCKS IN BREWER HATS.
AUTOMOBILE CONTEST closes February 10th.
VOTES with every purchase Help your little friend
Secure one of these cars It costs you nothing.
BEN SELLING
Leading Clothier
would permit that "Bv the eternal tht.nl "I believe that the southern house-
could go to thunder with their nrohea " wife is more gifted in the science of
The story of the Inquiries that have domestic economy than the northern
been made by the government mlrht h I housewife. This may be because she
continued indefinitely. There have been n&" nad trlct home training or it may
dozens or investigations thst were asaruM rrom lne 'act mat money is not
full of Importance and significance in Plentiful, but It Is certainly a bene-
tneir time as the Balllnger-Plnchot I rlclal :r't-
investigation is today.
Tomorrow The New Orleans Cam!-'
CONDITIONS 0
F PEOPLE4
OF RUSSIA ARE BAD
St. Petersburg. Feb. 7. Within th
past 18 months Investigations have been
made In various parts of Ruania hv in
dependent serial bodies, town councils
and Semtvos. as to the condition of ths
working population. In St Petersburg
iu jjpr torn 01 tne woraers do not have
separate lodgings and can afford only
to rent beds In corners of rooms, where
sometimes they live with 'women and
children. In the prosperous province
of Saratoff, on the Volga, the workers
in a rew trades get wages of $180 to
$160 a year, while in other trades
war, nin 1 im. aa toe ........
According to an inquiry In Moscow All Rose City Park Cars run
SnlTf on.d!tl0 in the ,nd.U8trLal through Laurelhurst. Take car
center of Russia the wages of the . mu- j j tr l'h 01
working people have declined 25 per Unifd and Yamhill StS. baleS-
oent in the last three years. men' on the ETound. Office 522
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