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 BBsawssBBsawaSBSBSsasBBSMSBMI 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 ........ 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