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MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. TUESDAY, 'AUGUST 29, 1916
WILSON VETOES
FOREST LAND
GRAB MEASURE
Effort to Destroy Natlanal Forests
.: Frustrated President Firm for
Conservation Summary Achieve
ment of Present Congress Brlstow
Begins Pioneer Movement.
BY OILSON GARDNER
"WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. Primf
dent Wilson's voto of the bill which
proposed to allow cities and town
ships to buy public lands, including
forost lands In their vicinity, lor
parks, cemetorles and sowerage pur
poses, dofeatB a subtlo effort by the
anti-conservation forces In congress
to begin the destruction of the nation
al forests' by piecemeal methods.
The voto mosBago makes It clear
that the prosldent is standing firmly
behind the principle of conservation.
In returning the bill to congress he
nald that he did not believe the na
tional forests should be utilized In
any such way. The most sorlous ob
jection, the mossage emphasizes, Is
that the bill ."subjects the national
forests to disposition Under a general
grant." The fact Is, of course, that
any city may co-oporato with the for
est' service now to secure neccsxary
privileges on the national for
ests for water supply. . sewer
age, park or other purposes, but
the federal government retains the
Tight to decide whether sucb proposed
ubo Is detrimental to the primary uso
of the national forest as such. The
federal control would be abaolutoly
removed, had this bill become a law.
" For some years now, ever since the
Balllnger regime and the failure, at
that time to destroy the conservation
policy, efforts have been quietly go
ing on' In congress to slip through
harmless appearing legislation,- with
the Idea of destroying the national
forests by piecemeal. The bill slipped
through without attracting any public
attention in the press of prepared
ness, revenue, shipping and other Im.
jiortiint legislation.
The president's action In this cast
forecasts his attitude on such big
steals as the proposed Shields water -pow
:,- grab and the Pbelan oil land
grab. Those plecos of legislation
have been postponed until next De
cember, and the Interests back of
them fear now that they will novor
become law with the prosldent lined
up against them.
The present congress has a record
of achievement to Its credit of which
the following items are the principal
ones: Tho child labor law, workmen's
compensation for federal employees,
fedoral aid for good roads, federal aid
for state agricultural extonslon work,
the farm loan act, government armor
plate plant, government nitrato plant,
prohibition of the use cf tho Taylor
stop-watch system In government
work, revision of tho Income tax
schedules putting a heavier percent
age of taxes on big Incomes, federal
inheritance tax, the naval act pro
viding the largest additions to the
Itavy ever authorized, the army bill
Increasing the regular army and pro
viding more adoquato defense.
. While theso constructive measures
were being passed, at tho sumo time
a lurge amount of pork legislation
slipped over. Including tho river and
lrnrbnr bill, the militia pay sections
of the Hay bill, and the UBiial pen
sions and claim legislation. Notwith
standing this, it may be said with
justice tha this session of congress
stands out for its record of achieve
ments in tho public interest.
"Go west, young man!" has been
revised by economic conditions to
read, "Go south, young pioneer!"
' Heeding which advice, that young
stalwart from Kansas, the long, gang
ling former assistant postmaster gen
eral and thon United Statos senator,
Joe llrlstow. has gnno pioneering In
tho south. Finding land in Kansas
and the middle west selling at S 100
and upward an acre, and discovering
that laud in Virginia, covered with
heavy forost. could bo had for 7 or
S an acre, llrlstow shrewdly bought
a square mile of cheap timber-covered
Virginia land and has introduc
ed to the southerner that thing woll
known to the western pioneer, but
apparently not known In the south
the stump pullor. BrlBtow. clad
in overalls and boots now Is super
vising tho clearing and stumping of
land which when In crops will be just
as fine as the best 1100 an acre land
In Kansas. And he will have his
timber to the good.
Norwegian Setamer Sunk
, CllttlSTIAMA, Norway, AuK. 211.
The Norwegian Ktcmnsliip Isdiilcn
E
(Continued from Fage One.)
stances to lie what they have turned
out to bo."
IlroUicrhood In Gallery.
The t our brotherhood hen (Ik Were
quests of Speaker Clark in his ga
lery; other, leaders of the men were in
other KullcricH, and the railroad man
agers were scattered ubout.
Mrs. Wilson, accompanied liv the
ambassador to Great Ilritiiin, Walter
I lints .1'iirp, anil the aiubassadnr to
''ranee, Wilinm O. Kh'urn, were in tho
president's reserved space. Several
members of tho cabinet and some jus
tices of the supreme court also were
present. The president was (fleeted
with uproarious cheers us he entered.
Ho began speaking at 2 :.'3 o'clock.
Speuking slowly und distinctly, he
outlined the situation confronting the
country from the failure of the ne
gotiations. There was tense Hiloncc
in the chamber its lie began.
Applause greeted the president's
declaration that lie regarded it as a
"practical certainly" that the rail
roads would bo "ultimately obliged to
uceept the eight-hour day by the con
certed action of organized labor,
backed by the fuvorublo judgiucnt of
society."
IProsldont Wllaon Bpoko )n part: ,
"Gcntkinen of the congress: I
have come to you to Boek your as
sistance In dealing with a very grave
situation which has arisen out of the
demand of the employes of tho rail
ways engaged In freight' train ser
vice, that they be granted an eight
hour -working day, safeguarded by
payment for an hour and a half ser
vice for evory hour boyond tho eight.
"Just as soon as It became evi
dent that mediation under the ex
isting law had failed and that arbi
tration had been rendered Impossible
by tho attitude of the men, I con
sidered It my duty to confer with
tho representatives of both railways
and the brotherhoods, and myself
offer mediation, not as an arbitrator.
but moroly as spokesman for the na
tion, In the Interest of justice, In
deed, and as a friend of both parties,
but not sb a Judge, only as the repre
sentative of tho 100,000,000 of men
women and children, who would pay
the price the incalculable price of
loss and suffering should these few
men Insist upon approaching and
concluding the matters in contro
versy botweon them, moroly sb ojij
ployerB and omployes, rather than as
patriotic citizens of the United States
looking lieforo and after accepting
the larger responsibility which the
public put upon them.
"It seemed to me, In considering
the subject matter of the contro
versy, that tho whole spirit of tho
time and tho preponderant evidence
of recent oconomlc exporloncn spoke
for the telght hour day. It has been
adjudged by the thought and experi
ence of rocont years a thing upon
which society is Justified In insisting
upon as In the interest of health,
efficiency, contentment and a gen
oral iucreaso of economic vigor. The
whole presumption of modern experi
ence would. It seemed to me, bo In
Its favor, whothor thero was arbitra
tion or not, and tho debatable points
to ho settled wcro tlio.so which aroso
out of the acceptance of the eight
hour day, rathor than thoso which
affected Ita establishment. J there
fore proposed that tho eight-hour
day bo adopted by tho railway
managements and put into practice
for tho present an a substitute for
the existing 10-hour basis of pay and
sorvlco; that 1 should appoint, with
the permission of congress, a small
commission to observe the rosults of
the change, carefully studying not
only tho figures of tho altered
operating costs, but also tho condl
tlons of labor under which the men
worked and tho operation of their
existing agreements with tho rail
roads, with instructions to report the
facts as they found them to con
gross at the earliest possible day, but
without rocoinmendatlon; and Hint
after tho farts had been thus tils
dosed an adjustment should In some
orderly manner be sought of nil the
matters now left unadjusted bo
twoon tho railroad managers and the
men.
"Theso proposals ware exactly In
line, It Is Interesting to nolo, with
the position taken by the supreme
court of the I'nlted States when in
pealed to, to protect certain lltlcants
from the financial losses which they
confidently oxpectcd it they should
submit to the regulation of tln-lr
charges and of their method of ser
vice by public legislation. 1 ho court
has held that It would not under
take to form a Judgment v,on fore
cast, but could base Its action only
uon actual experience; that It must
be supplied with facts, not with cal
dilations and opinions, however
10
friendly services of tho administra
tion to the raitwav iuaniiL'ers to see
to it that justice was done the rail
roads in the outcome. I felt warrant
ed, ill assuring them no obstacle of law
would lie suffered to stand in the wav
of their increasing their revenues to
meet the expenses resulting.' from the
change so far us the development of
their business and of their adminis
trative efficiency did not prove udc
cpiiitc to meet them. The public and
the representatives of the public, I
lelt justified in assuring Ihem, were
disposed to nothing but justice", in
such cases, and were willing to serve
thoso-who served them.
"The representatives of the lirolli-
erhooils.'nccopted the plan; but the
representatives of the railroads de
clined, tii accept it. In the lace of
what I cannot but regard as the prac
tical certainty that limy will be ulti
mately obliged to -accept lliu eight
hour 'day by -tile eoncerled action of
organized labor, backed bv the favor-
abde judgment of society, the repre
sentatives of the railroad manage
ments have felt justified in seckiii!" a
peaceful settlement which would in
sure all Hie forces of justice on their,
side to take care of the event. They
fear the hostile influence of shippers
who would be omsised to an increase
of freight rates (for which, however,
of course, the public itself would
Day); they amiarenlly feel no confi
dence Hint the interstate commerce
commission could withstand the ob
jections that would be made. They do
not care to relvmimn the friendly us-
suraiices of Clieio'iiffress ir the pres
ident,, injcy. nnvc.-tnniwnt it. best that
they shiflild be I'ori'ed li) yield, if they
must yield, notlbx 'Counsel, but hvtlic
suffering ririuiVVniilili v.- Wliile Juv
conferences lyittj-.tlran -.were ill proR-
ress, ftiid when to-all oiHward appcar
unce those conferences had conic to a
standstill, the rriiresentatjvcs 'of the
brotherhoods suddenly acted and set
the strike for the Ith of September.
''The ruilwiiv inanairers bused llicir
decision to reject my counsel in this
nialter upon their conviction that they
must at any cost to themselves or to
the country .stand firm for the prin-
inlc of arbitration which the men hud
rejected. I based my counsel upon
the indisputable fact that there' was
no means ol nhlnimnir nrhitralion.
The law supplied' none; earnest ef-
fwljs at mediation had failed lo in
fluence the men in the least. To stand
rill, lor tile principle of arbitration
anil yet not get arbitration seemed to
uie futile, and something mora than
futile, because it involved incalcul
able distress to the country mid eou
seipienees in some respecls worse
than those of war, and that ill the
midst of peace.
"I yield to no man In firm ndlier-
cjicc, alike of conviction and of pur
pose'; to the principle of arbitration
ju, :(iiUir)l ria I disputes; but matters
liaye come to a sudden crisis in this
particular dispute and the country
lias been cuuglil unprovided with any
practicable means of 'enforcing that
conviction in practice (by whose
fault we will not now stop to inquire).
A situation hud to be met whose ele
ments and fixed conditions were in
disputable. The practical and patri
otic course to pursue, as it seemed to
me, was to secure immediate peace by
conceding the one thing in tho de
mands of the men which society it
self and any arbitrators who repre
sented public sentiment were most
likely to approve, and immediately luy
the foundations for securing arbitra
tion in regard to everything else in
volved. The event has continued thut
judgment. I wax seeking to compose
the present in order to safeguard the
future, for 1 wished an atmosphere of
pence and friendly co-operation in
which to take counsel with the repre
sentatives of the nation with regard
to the best jneuns for providing, so
fur us it might prove possible to pror
vide, against the recurrence of such
unhappy situations in the future the
best and most practicable means of
securing calm and fair arbitration of
all industrial disputos in the days to
conn. This is assuredly the best way
of vindicating a principle, namely,
httvihg jailed to muko certain of its
observance 1n Hie present, to make
eertuin of ijs observance in the fu
ture' JJut.ijj .could only proMsc. I
could not govern the will of others,
Vila, took an entirely different view
of the circumstances of the case, who
even refused to admit the circum
stances to be what they have turned
out to be.. . . ., i , ,T , ... ... .
"Having foiled ,o bring the parties
to' tliis critical controversy to a cOiw,
elusion, therefore, I turn to you,,
deeming it clearly our duty as public
servunts to leave nothing undone thnt
wo can do to safeguard the life and.
interests of the niition."
''In the event of such a purpose I
earnestly commend the following leg
islntion: "Kirst Immediate provision for
the enlargement and administrative
reorganization of the interstate com
merce commission along the lines em
bodied in the bill recently passed by
the house of representatives and now
awaiting action by the senate ill or
der that the commission may be en
abled to ileal with the liianv grcut and
various duties now devolving upon it
with a promptness alio" thoroughness
which are with its, present constitu
tion and menus of. .action practically
impossible.
"Second The establishment of nn
eight-hour day ns the legal basis
alike of work, und wattes ill the cm
plovnient of all railway employes who
are actually engaged ii I lie work of
oneriiting trains in interstate trans
portation, .' ' . . . . ;
"Third The authorization of the
appointment by the president ol a
small body of men to observe the ac
tual results in experience of . the
adoption of the eiglit-liour day in
rhUway transportation alike for the
men and- foivtlie receivers; its ef
fects ift the matter of operating costs,
in the application of the existing
practices und agreements to the new
conditions and in all other practical
uspects, with the provision that the
investigators shall report their con
clusions to the congress at the curli
est possible dale, but without recom
mendation as to legislative action in
order that the public may learn from
an unprejudiced source just what ne
tual developments huve ensued.
"Fourth Explicit approval by the
congress of the consideration by the
interstate eoinmerce' commission of an
increase of freight rates to meet such
additional expenditures by the rail
roads us may hiivc'Jboen rendered no-cessur-
by the adoption of the eight
hour day, and which have not been
offset by administrative readjust
ments and . economies,,-'- sh'oiuVL ;tli:
facts disclosed justify tfie increase. '
"Fifth An amendment to the ex
isting federal statute which provides
for the mediation, conciliation und
arbitration of such controversies as
the present by udding to it u provis
ion that in case the methods of arbi
tration now provided for should fail,
a full public investigation of the mer
its of every such dispute shall be in
stituted nnd completed before a
strike or lockout may lawfully be at
tempted. X
"Sixth The lodgment in the hands
f the executive of the power, in cuse
of military necessity, to take control
of such portions and such rolling
stock of the railroads of the country
as iiiuy l!ic'"retjuired for military use
and to ojierate them for military pur
poses, with authority to draft into the
military service of the United States
such train crews and administrative j
officials as the circumstances require
for their safe und efficient use.
"This last suggestion I make be
cause we cannot in any circumstance
suffer the nation to be hampered in
the essential mutter of national de
fense. At tho present moment cir
cumstances render this duty particu
larly obvious. Almost the entire
military force of the nation is sta
tioned upon the Mexican border to
guard our territory against hostile
raids. It must be supplied, and stead
ily supplied, with whatever it needs
for ils maintenance nnd efficiency. If
it should be necessary for purposes
of national defense to transfer any
portion of it upon short notice to
some other part of the country, for
reasons now unforeseen, ample means
of transportation must be available,
and available without delay. The
power conferred in this matter should
be carefully and explicitly limited to
cases (if military necessity, but in all
such cases it should be clear and am
pic. '
"TIhto is oik other thing we should
dn if we nre true rhiintiioiis of nrhi-!
trillion we should make nil ni1)itritl
nwiirds, juilgineuts by record of tt
ENTENTE CLAIMS
ENEMYREDUCED
10 DEFENSIVE
German Attacks Repulsed Before
Verdun French Dominate Somme
' Front Russians Reported Repuls
ed '.in Carpathians Willi Large
V Losses Heavy' Fighting in Cia.
'PAntS. Aug. 29. On the Verdun
trout Inst night French troops made
progress near Thlaumont work, the
war office announced today. Ger
man attacks in the vicinity of Fluery
and Vaux fort were repulsed.
"PARIS. Aug. 29. "On the Somme
as at Verdun, we are leading In the
offensive and dominating tho adver
sary," says an official note review
ing, last week's operations on the
French front. "There Is not a point
In tho general theater of operations
whoro the enemy is not actually re
duced to the defensive," continues
tho note.
"Actions which we have under
taken continue, despite tho resis
tance or-reactlon of tho enemy."
BERLIN', Au. 29. (fly Wireless
tjO'.'Sayvlllc) The repulse of Rus
sian attacks In the Carpathians and
further north In the region of
Marlampol, with lb"jre losses. Is re
ported In the official Austrian an
nouncement of yesterday.
BERLIN', Aug. 29. (My Wireless
to Suyville) Heavy fighting con
tinues near Monte Curiol, in the Cia
ve Hoy. The repulse of Italian troops
which succeeded In penetrating tem
porarily tho Austrian, positions Is
reported in the official Austrian an
nouncement of August 28.
courl'of1 law, in order that their in -tcrpretation
and enforcement may lie.
not with one of 'the parties to the ar
bitration, but with an impartial and
authoritative tribunal.
"These things I urge upon you, not
in haste or merely as a means of
meeting a present emergency, but as
permanent n rid necessary additions to
the law of tile land, suggested, indeed,
by circumstances we have hoped
never to see, but imperative as well
us'.j'iisf, if such emergencies are to
he prov'elite'd in the future. I feel that
mi' extended argument is needed to
commend Ihem to your favorable
consideration. Tliev demonstrate
themselves. The time und the occas
ion only give emphasis to their im
portance. We need them now and
we shall continue to need them."
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