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<Thc $antiam Meirs Enlerwi at the puatofflrr at Sr io. Oregon. a» arvmwi-ciaaa mail matter. T. I«. ÍRIÜAY BY I > I ’ < i < i 1< H Knevua *"i> Ht'IIHi HiriKiN HAT»! One year in wlvancr .... ............... ........ One year, at etwl of year............. One year, at end of 2 years........................ One year, at end of S year» Six month« in advance............. .... Three months in advanre .. Single copy in wrapper . . it a I 1 r 2 10 76 M i)6 A 1> VK.MTIMt W Cani of thanks ......... . ......... ........... .............. Special obituary notices, per line.................................... Extended wedding commenta, |«-r line Display ada, to be . hanged weekly if <lesirrd. one column wide each insertion, per inch .. .... .......... Business locals per line first in«* rtion ......... Each subsequent insertion per line ......... Ixing time standing aria, contracts made on application. > o ih e i Politically Independent PUBI ISHEO tYEkY one tenth of the dictatorial power which was daily exercised •1 by Speaker Cannon, he wuuld almost have been mobbed. But from S|»eakcr Reed’a slight assumption of power, which was then generally justified, has grown the ctar meth««is just now annulled. Speaker Cannon, like Sampson of HitTi- cal fam •. ha» had hi» locks of power clipped ami the whole c.»untry rejoices. The quest,on now arise». Which element of the Rej»ubliean party now repre»« nta the people— the regulars or tne ir.sur gents? As th» insurgvnt» ami democrats now know ter power, it is not llkel. that any very tnis'hteviou» legislation will be enacted. A wconl unification will te ea»i«-r than the first. Had this combination of p»w- r been exerr s-d duri >g the tariff debates of the special session. It is doubtful if President Taf’’» "best ever” tariff, the (»resent law. wouki have l>e«-n enact««! in ita present form, at least. Undoubtedly the insurgent members come nearer repo sen ting a majority of republican thought than <io the regu lars In fact th«’ next republican national platform will rm- body much more of the thought of the insurgents than of the regular republicana. It might be w«ll fur Oregon r< pu‘ th- a is to remember, next fail, that emigres*men Hawley aid Ell ■ voted to sustain Cannon first, last and all the time. IKc U1TIE IN IHE HOOSE 1b I** '& LIHIT ff Will UIEWT KIMI Last week, in the «pint of falrnea«. the N'r.ws publi»be<1 the argument of the friend» of Monmouth Normal w I km I. urging the |.eople to consider the importance of maintain ing an efficient Normal school at that place. Of course thi same argument can be use I to sustain the Noimah at A»h- la id, brain. Weston, or any other town whi h may desire to have a Normal seined Mtabll»h«s| thereat The question ia, can the state affor I the expense which is likely to ire required. If she takes on the Normal school» again? The «•xjwnsre now required for the colleges al Eugene and Corvallis will average m»ro than I3U0.UW annually. If to this ia a<lded the »xperv»- which will probably I h - requirrtl, if the Normals are taken on again, our college expense will not lie less than 9600,000 per year. And even this large sum may tie incrca»e.|. f-r .! tfp ■ of our Polk county friends in this matter, to be just and fair, we must grant a like requ« st for any county wh < h may d' sirv it. fur one county has tlr same rights as another in th’s matter. It can readily ba aeen that should the alate te loads’.! up with a c< liege in each county and th -y ahuuld each be half so expensive as Eugene or Corvallis, »he would I c- eome bankrupt. Not ia there any mi die ground at which t< ship, unless we are w iling to .-stabiish a ”irt of »pc tai cla » among the counties The trouble with our state colleges is. they seem to thi .k there la no limit to th-- -late's c»|»aritv to appropriate money. Hut there ia and most people think we have reach« d that limit now. Ihe tax burdens of Oregon, fio n all sources, are now heavy and much heavier than in many of the older states We must not place too heavy a tax bunlt n upon the productive energies of the state. If we do, there is sure to tie a rebound in th«* way of depressed development. When a community pays a tax of three to four | ht - ent. upon a cash valuation of property, surely that is high «-noigh, and many cities sn»l towns of the state arr thus taxed Then- la not much encouragement for men of capital to invest in such towns. The News is very well aware that rmwt people consider Harney exprn ed for ■■durational ¡Hir|a>scs is writ »|«nt, ami returns a profit to th • state in the way of more intelli gent citixenry. Hut there is a limit to, even. gi»»l things. The time has surely come when we shouhl call a halt to th« increase of state expenditures If we reinstate the old Normals, other count:«'» will ask for like »chtHila. Hood Ktvcr la now agitating this question, ami may come with an initiative petition this fall Unlews taxpayers are prepared to o|a*n wide the door in Normal achi«>l matters, with the view that each county will, in the course of time, ask ami have a right to demand such a sebotd, they will act wisely upon all Normal ini’iativ«- m«*a»> ur> s if they vote "no." W e know that such action will seem harsh ami unjust to Monmouth. Weston ami Ashland, all of which have expensive slate I inklings and equipment, when, at th«' same time. Eugene and Corvallis are so munificently care«! for. Hut there is even a higher law ami nurpose than that of education which ia Self Preservation. We cannot afford to impoverish the |>c>ple. even for the meritorious |»ur («•»«• of etlucation. INSUR5ENCT Since the last special session of congress, we have heard much talk of ami read many articles in newspa|M’ia concern ing Insurgency. As used in a congressional sense, it means a revolt against the csar methode of Speaker Cannon of the national llouae of Kepn-sentativea, amt the dictatorial, though different mrtb«»l of Chairman Aklrich, of the national donate. Hpeaker Cannon has t een supported, in I is over bearing ami dictatorial rulings, by a large majority of his party, until quite recently, when a combination of the insur gent or revolting members of his party and the democratic mem Iters, deprived him of his power, though they did not de pose him from the »|>eaker'e chair. The term "Insurgent,” as applied to these re|>ublican m« tr- bers. is entirely right and proper. The word, as genet ally used in time of war. means people who arr endeavoring to overthrow the ruling power. And this is just what happened in congress. The power of S|>eaker Cannon to dominate and control legisla'ion is overthrown. The fact that he was not deprived of the speakership, «bows that the revolt was rot against him personally, but against his dictatorial, cxarlike methods, which have gradually grown up since the days of Speaker Tom Reed. Since Reed's day. the speaker’s power ha«l gradually grov n until he became absolute ruler sod dictator of the House a d almost of Congress. He has been the congress, for no m< a-- u -e could breome law without Speaker Cannon’s consen«. No mcmle-r couki atklrews the House nor introduce a bil', without Cannon’s permission. The wrsonnel of the vsrious c mmittees were such that he cxrald control the destiny i f a measure at will. He couki block legislation at any pxint ie desired Speaker Reed’s offending was only in counting me nbers present and not voting, to prevent a breaking of a quorum, so that legislation might not be retarded. Had he cxcrvbed i i ! Many pimple have wondered why such a climax couki eon e in the House of Beetesentatives as was witnessed there last Saturday. The reason is that there ia no other Just such holy as our House of Representatives in all the world; io o her body govern«-«! by such rules, no other I ody where the »|>eakrr ha» »uch power- The Senate is eumpos«d of two member* from rarh state. Rhode Island has as many senator» as Texas, though were Rhode Island pu!lc«l up by the roots and placed on the hr- ad back of Texas, it would not amount to "rising ground." I y the Acton of a theory the Senate represents the states where the smallest and (««.rest has «-qual voice with the greatest and most populous. Thus in the Senate, Delaware counts for a» m ch an New York. As Daniel Wrlister. in his most famous •(»«•<• h sa d: "This is a Senate, a enate of equal«, of men of ndividnal h« nor and j>er»onal character, an) f al J«’ ii <!<•(,. t d> We know no -maalc • w, ackn.>w)etge no dictators This is a hall for mutual consul tation and discussion, not an arena for the exhibition of champiot ».’* I. t IL, II ■ •< n a h- up ■>{ a I-.»' , of men that go there a» t ie direct ispreomtativea of the oeople; they are rleeti’d din-cfly I v th«' (a opi>. while the Senate is only on«’ remove asay in rn th«’‘| «•■ ; • ■ I tad «tat«- Icirislatun ». Hut the people re di i led into parties, and that ruling parties may have the power to enforce such legislation as it desires, extraordinary powers have to bo given to the man wh«» pre sides over the House, aisi at least a moral restriction is put «> upon members to. <>n all normal wcmio : i », act with their fel low ait »inn» In that way member! often vote for m« as ures which they do not entirely approve of, subjectin « their judgment to th«- consensu« of judgment of their party. Hut the Re, ubheans in the present Hou»«- w ere elect«’*! on a pli t form which prom «■ d the .res pie a new and low« r tari ’ the the IHngley tariff H hen the nresent tariff was subniittcsl to the H<ai»e, a careful analysis of the different schedules maile clear that, while many reduct Kins had l-«-en made, on many of the artichs which most nearly concern the consum ere of the c»>u tr>, «nd a t • I’-« wh.ch before were amply pro ti’Cte«!, pronounc'd incre;-» « hail been put on. Som< of th«- Rrjiu’ilican mrmlrri w> re not only bound by their (da form, hut by direct pledges to their own constituents, and, more over. their outrag’d »• nse of justire* cau»«d them to refuse to support th«- measure. They were at one«- |«it down aa in surgents When they trie! to tie heard the spca'tcr would riot see them, am! he, working with th«- majority of hi* party finally drove the matter throj.’h and it tiecam«’ a law But it left a work! nf heart burnings am) aw ikened bitter erimi nations. In ad nti »n. the sprat er displace»! them on commit tee*. So when th«’ House re convened in Dreeml’« r last this antagonism soon rev«-ale<! itself. The majority of th Refiublican* in the House, ably backed by the s ( h aker, in stead of trying to »Io away with the antagonism, and »«-eking to win back the recalcitrant membera, tried to crush them This naturally arou»«-d intonaifUd antagonism, the friction increased daily, until it culminate«! last Saturday in an open battle, which was a daisy, and resulted in passing an orxier that new rules for Ih«- government of the House should be ft: ’n«-d, arul that the speaker shoukl have no part in th framing Then a motion was nia»!e to oust (or accept th«- resignation of) the speaker. A | ait of the re»-» all«si in»ui- genta, having been all the time earnest Republicans, seeing that if that motion pr. vailed, the logicd »«■quence wouki Im to elect a Democrat -a memlier of the minority (»arty in the House speaker, voted against the motion, and thus saved the »(»eakcrahip to Mr. Cannon. Rut he was t<«> much en rage«! tn appreciate thia devotion to party principle» on the (»art of those mefil»ers, and taunted them with living defeat ed, which is an indication that he lacks the generosity and courage of a real hero and txslra more clashing in future. Hut the scrap somewhaf cleared the atmosphere of the House, arwi we will all hu|»e will lead to goes! results. In our judgment these are days when President Taft should !»e getting Imay.—-Goodwin's S. L. Weekly. Tne house of rr|»resrntatiV’*s has, on f.iur occasions, a(e proved of the i Ian to elret Unit«-d Stat»» senator* by popu lar vote, i ut the senate has rejected that plan. Democrat* arxi republican* alike favor that method, yet so far as the republican congress is concerned the popular will in thia re form go«’» un).e«d«'d. There is. however, a diapoaitkin in var- i<»us sections to put the reform into eff«ret in other ways. In Oregon they have th«> plan where the people declare their preference ami the candidate for the legislature may. prior to election day. tell the people whether he will, in casting his vote for senator, lie guided by the popular ch*»ice. In tlr-gun a republican legislature was chosen, but the demo cratic candMtate for arnalor received a majority of the votes cast at the general election and so we had the novel sight of a d»'mociatic senator being elrcte«! bv a republican It-gisla ture. Nebraska has aikipted that plan ami. unless threats of reuubl » an politicians to have the plan declared unconsti tutior.al prevail, that method will b«* used in Nebraaka thia year Where states do not have th«’ Oregon plan a camli »■ate for renator may rhoaen by the democratic state run- v e ition. I hat has be« n done on »• v« rai occasions in Nx’bras- ka and it w«»uld I«- well if in every state senators are ch«4en this year the camiidates for senator submit their claims to their parly to t* pas»««! u(«»n in state convention. One of the most inqortant tasks of the American citixen is to reform the Unit««! States senate. The senate will I* •farmed when it ha» been brought clos. r to the Mapla Democrats must work steadily in the effort to mske the («>t>- ular election of senstors part of <>ur fundamental law. In the meantime, they can put their tlwory into practice by re- ciuiimg their party to nominate the candidate for senator so that the people may know just what they have to expect in the way of a Unit»d Stat«* senator in the event of that party's success.—Drysn’s Commoner. Friday and Saturday April 8-9 Thoroughbreds, Standard Bred«, Gorman Coach, French Coach, Cloveland Bays. Clydes jalea. Percharon*, Hackneys. Morgans, Belgians, Shires, p in.es, tnul-"*, b 'St stallion. 1. 2, 3 years old or over; best mares 1. 2. 3 y 'ars old or over; best stallion and get; best mire and pro-luce; fo ir-in-hand teams, grade teams, farmers’draft teams, dr.tdv drafts, roadsters, and saddlers $1000 IN PREMIUMS DISTRIBUTED LADIES’ DRIVING AND RIDING CONTESTS In connection with this, the third annual Horse Show, a big sale wili Dike place on Saturday afternoon, April 9, 1910. Buyers will be here from all sections. Parties having stock for sale will pleas«» list the same with the secretary as soon as possible. These will be tabulated in order and copies mailed to prospective buyers. It is the intention to make this a prominent feature of our annual exnibition. Call or write the secretary for further information. C. L. DICK. President R. C. PAULUS. Secretary, care Salem Fruit Union. SEND FOR PREMIUM LIST > -<> <o>- <•> «Sh > COLONIST RATES TO Oregron And the GREAT NORTHWEST The inanngeinent of the Southern l*a« iti«- • »»., (Lines in Oregon) takes greut pleasure in announcing that the low rates from the th«» Eastern cities, whi< h have »lune so much in paat s«»asnns to stimulate travel to and settlement ill < Iregon. u ill pre vail again this spring I > \ I I.Y fr.»m Mart h 1 to April 15, inclusive PEOPLE OF OREGON Ihe railroads have done their part; now its up to you. Unionist rotes is th«’ gr«’Hi"st of all liiinie.Builders Do all you «'an to h t Eastern people Know about it, and encourage them to come here, where land i« cheap home-building easy and attractive. Fares Can be Prepaid it home if d«-sir- «•»I. Any agent of the road named is authoriged to receive tin* reipiirisi reposit ami telegraph ticket to any point in th«* East. Remember the Rates -From Chicago, $«».{; St. Louis $32; Omaha and Kansas < ity $J.i. I hi« re»Juetion is proportionate from all oth jr cities. wm . M c M urray General Passenger Agent tOPPER RIVETED OVERALLS Portland, Ore I I I I I i ì I I i o
