«•< « TILLAMOOK HBÀDLÌGHT MARCII 13 EXTRAVAGANCE OF THE GOVERNMENT Administration Waste Denounced in Senate by Senator Penrose. Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, in a speech on government extrava­ gance and waste, said in the Senate: While we are engaged in proposi­ tions calculated to squander the mon­ ey of the taxpayers, we are at the same time making very substantial inroads upon the taxable values and incomes from which we must get revenue. I, for one. think it time to call a halt, and if these wasteful ap­ propriations cannot be stopepd be­ fore the 4th of March, at least the at­ tention of the American people can be called to them and perhaps some relief afforded in the new Congress and under another party after March 4. Mr. President, no system of taxa­ tion could be devised by the ingenu­ ity of man, and no country however rich it might be, could bear the taxes that would be commensurate with these wild, extravagant and wasteful expenditures • • • After reading a list of bills pend­ ing in Congress, appropriating sun­ dry sums for many and varied ob­ jects. he continued: The items I have read Mr. Presi­ dent, many of which are pending be­ fore committees or are sanctioned by the departments, or have been re­ ported favorably, aggregate »2.880,- 480,000, or nearly *3,000,000,000— half of the amount proposed to be raised by the pending tax measure. There are a number of other Items confronting us and to be reckoned with. I will not say that the items I am going to read are all unneces- sary, but they will convey to the tax­ payer some general idea of the bill he has got to foot as the result of incompetence and waste or, in some cases, as the result of the war. Amongst what I might term inev­ itable objects in the construction of hospitals, which it is estimated will require »30,000,000, Whether that estimate is well based or not, I do not know. '1 hen we have the Interest account on the national debt of »1,000,000,- 000 annually at the very least. We have the propositions tn con­ nection with the merchant marine, which are to some extent Imaginary, but they call for an expeiditure of *650,000,000. Then we have the loss of *800,- 000,000 on the operation of the rail­ roads, a loss which I attribute to the account of blundering and inefficien­ cy. We have the very general estimat­ ed expense of demobollzation of *500 ed expense of demobolixation of *500,000,000, which, of course. Is in­ evitable. We have the proposition for air­ craft mallservice, amounting to *50,- 000,000 a service that 1 think could very well wait until the stress of ex- penditure la over. Anyhowt it is a good deal of a luxury and more or less of an experiment. Yet, appar- ently, there 1 h a disposition to spend money for it, at least until the 4th of March shall have strived. Then there are government con­ tracts put down at *1,500,000,000— a wild guess as to the amount that will be required. 1 have already referred to the Eu­ ropean food bill. The war risk insur­ ance requires *150,000,000; the em­ ployment bureau wants *14,000,000; and the bonus to soldiers, which we all indorse, requires *225,000,000, making an additional amount tor some unnecessary purposes, but some unnecessary or ill-advised, of *5,- 049,ouo,000. This and the miscellan­ eous, visionary, and needless items already mentioned, aggregate *7,- 937,480,000 or nearly *8,000,000,- 000. which added to the amounts lloating around here In the senate, tv which 1 have already referred, mokes *10,000.000.000 actually nsk- eB tor by senators and representa- lives with solemn countenance and «■at nest demeanor, frequently eup- jutted by a department. 1 have yet to see one of these measure« fail of sage when its consideration could reached. Jr. President, the air is full of ngb1 st tons for enormous expenditur­ es. Here is *10.000,000,000 picked up ill the most casual way by looking t it rough the calenders of the House and the Senate. Every departmental i eport contemplates squandering money somewhere. 296,S59. I venture the assertion, and I say it deliberately, and 1 have been corroborated in it by conversation with members of these volunteer here—dollar-a-year boards down men. so called—that perhaps one half of these offices were needless, and the result of inefficiency and im­ providence. The air is full of propositions for expenditures, most disheartening. Here we pick up the morning paper and observe that the Secretary of War is going to send a commission over to France to take care of the liquidation of— war from "the »30.000,000,000 which we are slowly emerging. ► » The adjustment of all claims, both for and against us, which doubtless will aggregate many millions of dol­ lars, will be considered immediately and will not be permitted to drag along for years or perhaps genera­ tions." That opens up a prospect ot ex­ penditure. Then 1 note that the Department of Commerce is talking about spending some »200,000 in connection with trade with Spain, Italy and the Bal­ kans; that it is to be energetically pushed to promote the work of ob- taining new fields in which to sell American goods. Is that comparativ- ely large expenditure, Mr. President, authorized by Congress? Has it been sanctioned by a favorable report from a committee, after a full hear­ ing on the subject? No. Then I think the sooner congress passes a law rendering the secret archives of this enormous fund avail­ able to the committees of Congress and to the American people, the bet­ ter it will be for this government and for this administration. 1 do not intend to sit idly by and permit »150.000,00o of the people’s money to be expended between here and Paris, and for every kind of uñau­ thorized project such as promoting trade in Bulgaria, to which 1 have just referred or to make good amounts which congress has deliber­ ately refused to appropriate, without at some time or other having intor­ mation as to bo w every penny has been spent; and I do. not entirely agree with the senator from Utah. I know he is in the minority on the committee, but 1 do not see why this enormous fund, without restriction or restraint, should any longer be placed at the disposal of the Presi­ dent. He is simply a branch of the American government, the head of the executive part of our government. The war, for all practical purposes, is over, and how any ligitimate pur­ pose can be subserved or conserved by un ability to squander or spend *40,000,000 or »50,000,000 ls be- yond my comprehension of the aver­ age American citizen when te wakes up and rubs his eyes and realizes what is going on. spoken a Mr. President. I have greater length than I had intended. There is no use in my criticizing ex­ penditures made under the stress and inspirations of war. They were some­ times improvident: but I intend on some other day, as opportunity of­ fers and 1 find time to investigate the different phases of the subject, to show the American people, on the floor of the Senate, the character of the ill-advised economic methods un­ der which the war was fought, and the wastefulness and extravagance of many of the apropriatlons. Coyotes and Squirrels, I only want to refer now to the bill to stimulate agriculture, carry- Ing *11.000.000. largely devoted to the depression of coyotes and squir- rels. When the war' was at our door and the most heroic efforts were re­ quired to float the liberty loans, the Senate found time, in th. midst of the stress and strain and agony of the war to devote a whole day to the extermination of coyotes and squir­ rels, at an expense of some »ll.UOOr 000 under the guidance of the ma- jority party. The enormous appropriation of *162.500,000 to the food and fuel production and distribution of waler over the dam. 1 shall not refer to it further except as a wasteful appro- pi latloii. largely for bad economic methods, which th« historian of the futur« will employ to exhibit a high standard of folly on the part of Extra Office« Created. 1 now refer to extra offices whieh civilized people. There Is no us« In pty referring t« lipve been created. I suppose they Were necessary, during the war..any­ I the *150,000,000 given to the Presi- how ; but we have only to go through ' dent for which no accounting has and ulong the sides of these great been made, because that has at ready tsmpviary buildings scattered throu- been commended upon. r. limit Washington, or through the The enormous sum spent by the cepat tments. to see the large num­ Shipping Board. *4.806.000.000, is ber of employes crowding th* corri­ largely waste. The policy ot the gov­ dors and cumbering up the room«, ernment should have been to requir« and, tn many cases, actually hunting the building of these ships in exist­ something to do. That demoralised ing yard» and to have held contract­ situation has been alluded to fre- ors rigidly responsible for results in­ i .entty on the floor, and 1 do not stead of constructing enormous intend to enlarge upon it now. I plants like th« Hog Island ¡Shipyard, simply want as a part of my remarks under a wasteful cost-plus contract, t refer to the fact that In the Slxty- and demoralizing the labor market I tli Congress, first session, 82.719 by hiring clerks and mechanics at t.e.v oftiees were created, requiring soaring and fanciful wages in com- Ji? 371.231 to pay the salaries; and {petition with normally paid labor th* second session 191,307 new of- engaged in similar occupations right •>s were created, requiring *110,- [ulong the Delaware river. The whole 5,428 to defray expenses, making , proposition was ill-advised and un­ graud total for the present Con­ justifiable from an economic and fs ot J 70,026 new offices created. business point of view, and entailed, . ring an expenditure of *158,- i . in my rfpinion, the wasteful expendi- ture of a large part of that nearly *2.000.000.000 appropriation. I do not know how much has been appropriated for housing, due to al­ leged war needs. I noticed one item of »100,000.000. It is a proposition that never had any merit, except in connection with certain restricted lo­ calities, and yet we have squandered several hundred millions of dollars in this connection unnecessarily and wastefully. and the houses are now a dead loss to the government in most cases. Clerks, perchance, could not be crowded for a few months, even it soldiers were content to sleep in the trenches and dugouts in France. Notioe of Hearing of Petition to form Drainage District. In the County Court of the State of Oregon, for The County of Tillamook. poeed operations of such district, vni. The formation of a drainage din- trict under the provisions of Chap­ ter 340 of the General Laws of Ore­ gon for the year 1915, as amended by Chapter 414 of the General Laws of Oregon for the year 1917, under the provisions ot which this organ­ ization is proposed, f is a proper and advantageous method I of accomplish- ing the reclamation and protection of the lands included in said propos- ed drainage district. IX. The proposed plan for reclamation and protection of the property in the propesed drainage district is, that a dike or embankment shall be * constructed around the outer bound­ ary of said district, of sufficient height to protect said lands from over-flow from the waters ot the ad­ joining rivers and sloughs, with tide­ gates therein at such places as may be found necessary for the purpose of affording the necessary drainage of water from the lands in such dis­ trict. The lands included in the dis­ trict are all subject to over-flow, and are cut up to a considerable extent | by tidal sloughs, and it is proposed to drain said lands and provide for keeping the waters dained off of tije land so that instead of the land re­ maining cold and wet as they do un­ der present conditions, the water will ! be drained oft and the land will dry off more quickly, and be thereby ren­ dered more fit for cultivation and more productive. In carrying out the plan of recla­ mation it is proposed to make use of some diking work already done by some of the owners, and also to act in connection with Tillamook County in raising the road bed of the coun- ty road which runs along a portion of the boundary of the district. X. The signers of this petition agree that they will pay any and all ex­ penses incurred, and any tax or taxes that may be levied against their respective lands for the pur­ pose of paying the expense of organ­ izing, or attempting to organize the proposed district, the expense to be taxed against the land of the sign­ ers in proportion to the number of acres owned by them and affected by the proposed project. XI. Wherefore your petitioners pray that the lands described herein, or such of them as may be found by the court to be properly included in the proposed district, either permanent­ ly or until further investigation and survey may permit elimination, shall be declared organized into a drainage district under the provis­ ions of the Laws of Oregon relating to such districts and hereinbefore re­ ferred to. Dated February 10, 1919. Emil Benscheidt M. V. Stillwell Ida E. Reynolds by E. W. Stanley, her guardian. F. and Gottf. Josi. W. J. Stillwell Ulrich Wyss Fred C. Baker. P. W. Todd. State of Oregon, County of Tilla­ mook, ss: I, Emil Benscheidt, being first du­ ly sworn, say that I am one of the signers of the foregoing petition; that I have read the said petition and that I believe the allegations thereof are true. Emil Benscheidt. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of February, 1919. (Notary Seal) H. T. Botts. Notary Public for Oregon. My Commission expires Dec 21, 1919 Notice is hereby given that hear­ ing on the following petition will be held at the Court House in the City of Tillamook. Tillamook County, State of Oregon, on the 5th day of May, 1319. for the purpose of de­ termining whether the prayer of said petition shall be granted. All persons owning land or claim­ ing an interest in lands described in said petition are hereby notified to appear at said place on said date and show cause, if any there be, why the prayer in said petition should not be granted. Erwin Harrison, . County Clerk. To the Honorable County Court of Tillamook County, Oregon: The undersigned, being the owners of more than J50 per cent of the acreage of the contiguous body of swamp, wet and over-flow land in Tillamook County, Oregon, herein- after described, do hereby petltlon your Honorable Body to cause to be organized a drainage district for the purpose of having such land re­ claimed and protected from the el- fects of water for sanitary and ag- ricultural purposes, and for the cov- enients and welfare of the public, and for the public utility and bene­ fit, and for the purpose of this peti­ tion we state the following matters as required by Chapter 340 of the General Laws of Oregon for the year 1915, as amended by Chapter 414, of the general Laws of Oregon for 1917. I. The name proposed for such district is Stillwell Drainage District. II. The boundary lines of the proposed district are as follows; Beginning at the point where the quarter section line running East and West through the center of Section 26, Township 1 South, Range 10 West. W. M., intersects the East side of Tillamook river, and running thence East along said line to where said line intersects the right bank of Trask River near the center of said Section 26; thence following the right bank of Trask river up stream Southerly. Easterly and Northerly to the Northerly bank of a slough connecting said Trask River with what is known as Trask River cut-off at a point near the Northwest cor­ ner of the Southeast quarter of the Southwest quarter of Section 25, in Township 1 South of Range 10 west, W. M.; thence following the bank of said slough northeasterly to the left bank of what is known as Trask River cut-off; thence following said left bank of the Trask River cut-off Northerly to its intersection witn the South or left bank of Hoquarton Slough; thence down said Hoquarton Slough, following the left 1 bank thereof, to the intersection i of said Hoquarton Slough with the Tilla- ’ Notice of Final Account. ntook River; thence following ; the ------o----- . right bank of Tillamook River, ■P All persons concerned are hereby stream to the place of beginning. notified that Jessie McGinnis, Ad­ And all of the lands included with­ ministratrix of the Estate of James in said boundaries constitute a con- Jefferson McGinnis, deceased, has tiguous body or swamp, wet and filed her final account in such estate over-flow lands. tn the County Court of Tillamook 111. County. Oregon, and that said Court The total acreage included in said has appointed Monday. March 24th, proposed district is 432% acres. 1919. at the County Court room in IV. the Court House in Tillamook City, The names of the owners of land Oregon, at the hour of 10 o’clock a. in said proposed district as shown i’u. as the time and place for hearing the records of 'Tillamook County, .tlons to said final account and Oregon, and the acreage owned by h ettlenient thereof. each of such owners is as follows: Du.ed February 20th, 1919. Owner No. Acres. Jessie McGinnis, Ad­ Fred and Get (fried Josi ... 64. ministratrix. P. W. Todd...................... ... 6^ H. T. Botts, Attorney. Wilbur Stillwell ............ ... 87 Ulrich Wyss................... ... 42 Notice of Administratrix Sale. Mlnny V. Stillwell .... ... 37.50 ------o L. L. Stillwell ................. ... 47. Notice is hereby given that the un­ D. Tomlinson................. . ... 36 dersigned administratrix will sell at Rachel Stanley ............... ... 15 private sale from and after the 15th Ida E. Reynolds............ ... 25 day of February. 1919. the following E. Benscheidt................. ... 8.75 described real property, situate in FratLC. Ba^r ,. ... ... 2.50 Tillamook County. Oregon,- to-wlt: Eric#-Erickson ... 2.50 Lots 3 and 4 of Block 8 in Jane TIRantook County, tract cov­ Fuller’s Addition to the town of Bay ered by county road. City, in Tillamook County. Oregon, V. according to the recorded plat there­ The proposed reclamation and pro- of. tection of said lands is for sanitary Said sale will be made for cash and agrleultural purposes, and such and will be subject to confirmation proponed reclamation and protection by the County Court of Tillamook will be oonducttve to the public County. Oregon, and bids will be re­ health and welfare, and of public ceived either at the residence of the utR4ty, »nd benefit. undersigned or at the office of H. T. VI. Botts, attorney at law. both in Tilla­ All of the lands included in said mook City. Oregon. This sale is made proposed district are properly in­ in pursuance of the order of the cluded therein, and will be benefical- County Court in Tillamook County, ly affected by the operations of the Oregon. proposed district. Dated this 1th day of January. 1919. VII. Catherine A. Long The benefits of such proposed re­ Administratrix de bonis clamation and protection will exceed of the Estate of Mina J. the damage to be done, and the best Campbell, deceased. Interests of the land Included and ot the owners of such land as a whole, I There seems to be a lot of secrets and of the public at large, will be [connected with pitiless publicity and promoted by the formation and pro- open covenants openly arrived at. 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