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ATHENA, JANUARY 16, 1906
Two-thirds of the United States
senators will come up for re-election
withiu the next three years and of
this total 84 are republicans. This
fact is likely to have considerable in
fluence upon the ultimate stand taken
this winter by the senate on measures
advocated by the president and en
dorsed by the people. It does not
necessarily meiin that the senate will
fall in liue and follow the lead of the
president, but it points to such action,
aud the wise observers, after study
ing the situation, think they can see
the seuato supporting the president on
the large issue now up for considera
tion. Duriug the first week of the
session it looked very much as if the
Senate would take issue with the
president on many important quest
ions of legislation. There wore un
pleasant words regarding the Panama
canal; there were murmuriogs about
the president's course regarding Santa
Domingo ; aud behind it all consider
able private qommeut upon the presi
dent's railroad rate polioy as outlined
iu his message. Many senators have
reached the conclusion that the presi
dent is rooklessly usurping the
powers of oongress to some extent,
aud they have displayed evidenoe of
ugliness on that account. For a time
it looked ns though there would be
revolt. But will there be? Rather,
will not the sonnte fall iu liue and
follow tho lead of the president?
It is a serious thins for the party iu
power to break with its president, and
such a move is more apt to injure
those souators aud representatives of
the insurgent class than it is to injure
the president. What is more, the
party iu power must suffer from any
such revolt. These things are being
carefully weighed, and there are those
who now predict that there will be
no break between congress and the
presideut, uuless it be on the railroad
rate issue, aud even on that issue a
compromise is more likely than an
open rupture. There has never beou
any danger of u break between the
house and the presideut. Members
of the houso of representatives are
chosen for only two years at a time,
and they are accountable direotly to
tho people.
In answer to tho objection that un
der the direot primary nomination
law, dumooruti may ba soratchiug to
help to uoiuinate a weak republican,
nnd republicans soratchiug ttioir own
tiokot to aid in uomiuating a weak
democrat, the Oregoniau prints the
following from a correspondent :
The Greatest of all
Clearance Sales
The reductions iu nil departments this year is selfevident that we have
made this sale the banner salo and it has been taken by the publio in the
spirit in which we intended it The extraordinary cut in prices on our
stock has never bofore been equaled iu this part of the couutry and our
many customers are saving money by bnynig this mouth for future needs.
With very few exceptions everything iu our immense store has been re
duced from 10 to GO per cent. Ou all shipments amounting to f 10 we
prepay the freight. Write for prices and ieductious on any thiug you
might need. ,
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WALLA WALLA, :- WASH.
"The tally -sheets are separate. Sup
pose Mr. Blank is the weak republi
can and some democrats scratoh Gov
ernor Chamberlain and write Mr.
Blank on their ballots. Then suppose
Mr. Blank has 1030 vc'.is oa republi
can ballots and 100 are written for
him intsead of for Governor Cham
berlain on the democratic ballots.
The 100 votes for Mr. Blank on the
democratic) ballots will be counted
for him on the democratio tally-sheet
and can no more be added to his
1000 votes on the republicna tally
sheet than that 100 votes can be added
to bis 100 on the democratio tally
sheet. A republican can be nomi
nated only by votes marked for him
on republican ballots."
Baseball is the only one of the four
promineut American sports which is
played year after year without being
molested in any way or pronounced
either brutal or demoralizing by the
public. Football, horse racing and
boxing have received black eyes from
which it will take them long to re
cover. The present agitation for
changes in the rules of the gridiron
sport have hurt the game and caused
it to lose mttay admirers. Columbia
university, formerly one of the col
leges which made football the leading
sport, has dropped the game alto
gether. Several western colleges of
lesser note have taken the same action.
The Echo Register, one of the neat
est little papers in all the Inland Em
pire, is before us. Brown & Stratton,
the publishers, show. evidence of abil
ity as newspaper men, and by the
gunge they have set, apparently do not
intend to overreach themselves on
tbe start; but have in view the sound
and practical purpose of advancing
as Echo advances. The Register is
all right in every praticular and iu
every department, and forever more
may it record the progress of the
thriving community in which it is
published.
Senator DePew refuses to vacate
de pew in de senate. Phew 1 How
he is stuck on his joo. Such is poli
tics. Tho New York legislature will
ask him to resign.
Pasco is referred to as the city of
bursted booms. Better to have
boomed aud lost than not to have
boomed at all.
DISCOVKKKR OF CHEAT SALT LAKE
Uuting Magazine.
Jim Bridger stands forth as the most
couspiouons figure in the brief but
glorious region of the trapper and
trailmaker in the Far West. The
greatest fur hunter and the greatest
pathfluder of them all, and possessing
the most intimate knowledge of the
Indian nature ever vouchsafed a
white man, Bridger will grow in
stature as time goes ou and accurate
history is writteu.
No part of the great Rocky moun
tain country held a secret from Jim
Bridger. He was the first white man
after John Colter, to view the won
ders of Yellowstone park, and the first
to look ou Great Salt Lake. Seeming,
ly bearing a charmed life, he wander
ed through the lands of many Indian
tribes, some times fighting the red
men, but more often living their life
and finding the solace of true brother
hood at the log Ure. Every inonutaiu
Jim Bridger climbed, every stream he
crossed, and every game trail he fol
lowed, was writteu down iu the most
niatvelous memory ever granted a
plainsman. As a result, years later,
when the white men, bold but blun
dering, sought the easiest paths over
the mouutaius, Jim Bridger showed
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them the test trails for their wagons;
and, when the chief engineer of the
Union Pacific bad well nigh given up
hope of getting his rails across the
divide, it was Jim Bridger who show
ed an available pass which he had
travorsed years before in his trapping
days, and the existence of which no
other white man knew.
A few months ago, this chief en
gineer. General Grenville M. Dodge,
showed his gratitude by rescuing Jim
Bridzer's bodv from a neclncted cravn
1 and interring it at Kansas City, under
I an ATmrrmrintA nmnnmanf-ninlintilv
j rz x i'-
i the first act of gratitude ever per
formed lor tbe man who had put the
whole empire of the West iu his debt.
A MAGAZINE AND A STAN.
Walla Walla Union.
At last the Northwest has a maga
zine that is worthy. For several
years tbe Pacific Monthly has been
published at Portland. Its publisher
managed by the hardest work to issue
it every month and place it on the
market, but it was read by a very
limited clientele and in no sense pros
pered. It failed utterly to fulfil its
mission, and was creditable neither
to its owners, nor the section in
which it stood as the sole magazine
publication.
About six months ago a change in
its editorial department was made
and in the brief space of time which
has elapsed it has made a wonderful
advance and now stands as the lead
ing magazine of tbe Pacific Coast.
New blood is responsible for the re
generation of the Pacific Monthly; in
telligent, industrious blood.
Its new editor, the man who is mak
ing it one of the representative pub
lications, is Arno Dosch, a young
newspaper writer with no previous
magazine experience. He belongs to
oue of Portland's old families and
gained by inheritance the best gifts of
mind and character. A graduate of
Harvard, class of '04, he returned to
Portland and became a member of
tbe Oregonian staff. His work at
tracted attention and last summer he
was offered the by no means alluring
task of making a real magazine out
of the Pacific. He has already suc
ceeded to an amazing degree. His
work has just fairly begun. He is
smart enough to appreciate his op
portunity. He is able to accomplish
his task. Both Arno Dosch and his
magazine are worth watching.
They are growing like the proverbial
green bay tree.
SENATK TO CURB ROOSEVELT.
(Portland Journal. )
There has been no more important
political step in recent years in Wasb
ington'than that decided upon by lead
ing members of the senate, without
regard to party, with reference to the
propensity of Presideut Roosevelt to
act on his own responsibility without
reference to congress. It was definite
ly decided that Roosevelt will be curb
ed effectually. Whether this will be a
peaceful prooess will rest eutirley
with the president.
The senate is going to investigate
every act of the president that is con
sidered unconstitutional or as invad
ing its prerogatives, and as the first
step proposes to inquire at great
length and with much formality into
the action of Secretary Taft, under
instructions of the president, making
the now famous agreement to main
tain the parity of the silver coinage
of the republio of Panama with the
money of the United States.
The first sign of this rebellion of
the senate was shown when Senator
Kitteridge told President Roosevelt
three weeks ago that he had better
prepare for the fullest sort of investi
gation of his acts iu connection with
the Panama canal.
The next sign came when the sen
ate, without a dissenting vote, adopted
a resolution introduced by Senator
Bailey of Texas, directing tbe finance
committee to iuquire into the circum
stances of the agreement for tbe
maintenance of the parity of silver
money iu Panama. The senators
claim that the presideut has prac
tically made au illegal treaty.
FCNSTON'S FEATS DISCREDITED.
St- Louis Republican.
The revised Kansas School History
contains no reference to the daring
swimming feats popularly attributed
to General Frederick Funston while
in the Philippines.
The history, which was writteu by
the late Noble L. Prentis, bus been
revised quite reoently by Mrs. Prentis,
and she has eliminated from the
chapter on the Philippine war all
refereuoe to the statemeut as widely
printed iu the newspapers that Funs
ton was promoted for his bravery iu
swimming tbe Bagbag aud the Rio
Grande rivers.
This has been the subject of con
siderable discussion and dissension
ever since tbe war. Mrs. Prentis
accepted as final authority iu the
matter the records of the war depart
ment, which show that Funston and
his men were towed across the Rio
Grande by two privates, who alone
swam the river. Tbe reoords also
show that the Funston detachment
crossed the Bagbag ou a bridge.
A year ago, when D. O. McCray, a
member of the State Textbook Com
mission, declared that Funston's
swimming feats were the invention
of an euterprisiug press agent in the
Philippines. McCray was bitterly
denounced by thousands of Funston's
admirers iu Kansas. Lieutenaut-Col-ouel
Little, of the Tweutieth Kansas,
also aroused a storm of iudiguatiou by
declaring that Funston conld not
swim a stroke.
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