The Labor Signal. (Oklahoma City, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 5, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 1906 Page: 3 of 8
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PASSES RATE BILL
THE SENATE DISPOSED OF THE
MEASURE DESIGNED TO END
THE REBATE SYSTEM
THE VOTE STOOD ALMOST UNANIMOUS
Bill Had Been Under Discussion for
Seventy Days—Amendments In-
clude Terminal Facilities, Freight
Depots, Sidetracks, Pipe Lines, Etc.
WASHINGTON: After seventy
days of almost continuous deliberation
the senate passed the railroad rate
bill by the practically unanimous vote
of 71 to 3. The three negative votes
were cast by Senators Foraker, repub-
lican, of Ohio, and Morgan and Pettus,
democrats of Alabama. There was
a sosjewhat larger attendance of sena-
tors than usual, but the attendance in
the galleries was by no means abnor-
mal, and there was no manifestation
of any kind when the result was an-
nounced. There was, however, an
almost general sigh of relief among
the senators.
The bill has received more atten-
tion frpm the senate and from the
country at large than any measure
that has been before congress since
the repeal of the purchasing clause
of the Sherman act in 1893. It was
reported to the senate on February
26 and was made the unfinished busi-
ness on March 12. From March 12 to
May 4 the bill was under general dis-
cussion without limitation on the
duration of speeches, fifty-eight of
which were delivered. Many of these
were prepared with great care and
two of them consumed more than a
day's time in delivery.
Senator LaFoilette, the junior sena-
tor from Wisconsin, spoke for three
days and Senator Daniel of Virginia
for two days. Senators Bailey, For-
aker, Lodge, Eainey, Dolliver and
others each spoke for one entire day.
For twelve days the bill has been
under consideration under a rule limit-
ing speeches to fifteen minutes each.
The senate has at all times been earn-
est and animated but for the most
part devoid of personality as between
senators. The past few days, have
however, called out some sarcastic
speeches on the president and of some
newspaper correspondents by Senator
^Bailey.
In addition to passing the bill the
proceedings of the day consisted in
concluding the consideration of the
amendments as such and the delivery
of a number of speeches on the bill.
The only amendment adopted was
the one offered by Senator Tel-
ler, eliminating the words "in its
judgment" from the power given to
the interstate commerce commission
to fix rates.
The principal purpose of the railroad
rate bill is to permit the interstate
commerce commission to fix rates.
The provisions conferring this author-
ity is found in the fourth section of
the bill, which amends section fifteen
of the interstate commerce law so as
to accomplish this result. This sec-
tion directs the commission to investi-
gate complaints of unjust and un-
reasonable charges on the part of the
common carriers in the transportation
of persons or property, or of regula-
tions or of practices affecting such
charges. It also authorizes an inquiry
as to whether the rates or practices
are "unjustly discriminatory or unduly
preferential or prejudicial or other-
wise in violation of the act," and in
case any of these conditions are found
to exist the commission is empowered
to determine and prescribe what will
be the just and reasonable maximum
rate and what regulation or practice
is just, reasonable and fair. Further,
authority is given the commission to
enforcce its orders, and they are to
go into effect within thirty days, and
continue in force for two years unless
suspended, modified or set aside by
the commission or by a court of com-
petent jurisdiction. Other powers
conferred by this section are to appor-
tion joint fares, establish through
rates and maximum joint rates and
prescribe their division, and to c'<-
termine the compensation to be paid
to shippers doing service for carriers.
for him and he was pulled under.
J. F. Elliott, charged with violating
the oleomargarine regulations who
escaped and was captured by federal
authorities in Galveston, Texas, pleads
guilty before United States Commis-
sioner Spitler at Oklahoma City. In
one case he was sentenced to six
months' imprisonment and fined $10
and in two other cases was fined $100
each.
The Epworth League of both terri-
tories held a two days' session in
Ardmore last week. Sulphur was
selected as the next meeting place.
TOWN WITH NO CEMETERY '
Commission Made No Provision for
Burying Ground at Broken Arrow
MUSKOGEE: The incorporated
town of Broken Arrow has filed a pe-
tition in the United States court here j
asking the court to approve a con- j
tract to alieniate forty acres of the j
allotment of Holland Bowles, a minor,
to be converted into a cemetery for
the town. The town council has
reached an agreement with Frank
Bowles, guardian of Holland Bowles,
by which it is to purchase the tract
for $100. Under the laws of Indian
Territory it is necessary, however, to
have an order from the court in order
to sell land of a minor.
PATENTS READY
JEEDS TO BE GIVEN TO MEM-
BERS OF FIVE TRIBES, BY OR-
DER OF MR. HITCHCOCK
GARFIELD'S REPORT FALSE
BIC TASK m DAWES C3MMISSI0N
Law Provides That Restrictions Shall
be Removed Five Years After Deliv-
ery of Patents—Many Indians Do
Not Want Deeds
MUSKOGEE: The secretary of the
A peculiar state of afTairs ex.st at |nterjor jjas ordered an immediate dls-
Broken Arrow. Although the town has tribution of a„ tents ,Q allotmenta
Q AtlA Ittlw.l.ili.iWn il Knn li'lil O
3,000 inhabitants, it has never had a
cemetery, no provision having been
made by the Dawes commission to j
segregate a cemetery when the land
was allotted. The town is entirely
Standard Oil Company Also Makes
Denial and Charges
NEW YORK: The Standard Oil
company issued to its shareholders
a statement In reply to the special
message recently sent to congress by
President Roosevelt and the report on
the country's oil industry by Commis-
sioner Garfield of the bureau of cor-
porations which accompanied it. The
statement is signed by C. M. Pratt,
secretary, and was Issued by the order
of the boird of directors. It denies
positively the charge that the Stand-
ard Oil company benefitted by secret
rates for the transportation of its pro-
ducts.
The statement declares that the
estimate that the company saves $750,-
000 a year through the operation of
certain freight rates could only have
in the five civilized tribes. These
patents will be delivered by the Dawes
commission, and the Indians will get been arrived at by theorizing.
their long looked for deeds. The com-l The statement In part says:
surrounded by allotments of minor | missioner will also deliver to the Rl- "If the claim of Commissioner Gar-
citizens, hence the incorporation is un- '°«ees the Patents that were delivered | field was true that the Standard Oil
able to secure sny land for cemetery
or townsite addition purposes without
bringing proceedure in the United
States courts. At present the town j
is compelled to bury its dead in a |
burying ground several miles from its
corporate limits.
to the chiefs of the tribes where the | company is favored by open rates, it
MICHIGAN FOREST FIRE
Seven Towns in Upper Peninsula Are
Entirely Destroyed
MILWAUKEE, WIS.: A special dis-
patch to the Milwaukee Sentinel from
Escanoba, Michigan, says one of the
most destructive forest fires, driven
by a high wind, 5#? sweeping the coun-
try around Escanaba and Gladstone,
in the upper peninsula. The follow-
ing cities and villages have been com-
pletely wiped out:
Quinnesec, population 2,000; Schaef-
fer, 600; Ralphs, 400; Salvoie, 200;
Cornell, 500; Woodlawn, 200, and Tal-
bot, 400. The village of Saunders, a
lumber town north of Florence, Wis-
consin, has also be£n swept by the
flames. No loss of life has been re-
ported yet.
patents have not all been already de-
livered.
There are now in the office of Chief
Porter of the Creeks 5,927 patents
that have not been delivered to allot-
tees.
These deeds were delivered to Chief
Porter more than two years ago, and
he has been unable to turn them over
to the proper owners. Why the al-
lottees do not come in for their pat-
ents or have them sent to them is
a problem that has never been solved.
The patents will be turned back to
the commissioner and another effort
made to distribute them to Indians
where they belong.
In the Cherokee nation 1,198 patents
have been turned over to Chief Rogers
would Involve not only collusion be-
tween the railroads and the Standard
Oil company, but collusion by the rail-
roads with each other. It would also
involve the consent of a railroad not
reaching Whiting, Ind., for example, to
the establishment of rates out of that
point, which would be injurious to
business out of another point at which
the consenting railroad was receiving
traffic. To bring about such an ar-
rangement would be impossible. It
may be said generally that there is
a competing refinery in almost every
section of the United States where the
Standard has a refinery except at
Whiting, Indiana.
"No rates can be made applicable to
the Standard which will not be equally
FUSS IN SENATE
Breech In Rate Bill Discussion is
Widening
WASHINGTON: The recent efforts
of the president and the democratic
senatorial leaders to reach an agree-
ment on the rate bill received further
notice in the senate from Senator
Bailey and Senator Tillman. The mat-
ter was referred to by the Texas sena-
tor in the course of a personal explan
ation, called out by ftn article in the
Chicago Tribune, charging Mr. Bailey
with failure to find common ground,
and by Mr. Tillman, in a speech in
support of Mr. Bailey, and in present-
ing a further statement from ex-Sena-
tor Chandler.
In his address Mr. Bailey denounced
the article in question as a "lie," and
the inspirers of it as "liars."
The consideration of the rate bill in
committee of the whole was concluded
and the measure was then reported to
the senate, where there will be oppor-
tunity to review and alter all the
amendments heretofore made.
Practically an entire day was de-
voted to consideration of the anti-pass
amendment, which was adopted after
making so many exceptions as to
arouse laughter in the senate every
time the provision was read.
THE HEN IS BEINO PROPOSED AS A BETTER
BLEM THAN THE EAQLE.
NATIONAL EM.
fBy McCutcheon, In Chicago Dally Tribuna l
to be delivered. They have practic-
ally all reached their proper destina-
tion. In addition, however, there are
13,856 Cherokees' patents in the office
of the commissioner ready to be de-
livered, and there are about 25,000
more yet to be executed. These the
The work of the senate was confined j commissioner will have to deliver.
to the partial consideration of the pipe
line provision, which was so amended
as to strike out the Morgan provision,
extending its operation to other coun-
tries where the United States has jur-
isdiction.
In the Choctaw and Chickasaw na-
tions there are 26,400 patents executed
and recorded ready for delivery.
All allottees who have deeds ready
for them will be notified that they can
get their patents by calling in person
or by ordering them sent by registered
mail. Later special parties will be
sent into remote towns in full blood
settlements to deliver patents to those
who will not come in or write for
them.
ALFALFA ASSOCIATION FORMED j The delivery of patents is going to
Farmers in Western Oklahoma Organ- be_°nfjl,he
ize for Their Own Protection
The county commissioners of Beav-
er county have decided to build a new
court house at Beaver City, the county
seat. The citizens of that city will
help to the extent of $1,000.
CHEYENNE: More than two hun-
dred enthusiastic alfalfa growers met
at the court house in Cheyenne recent-
ly and organized the Western Okla-
homa Alfalfa Growers' Association, but the experience in the Creek n -
with the headquarters to be located in tion proves that many full Woods do
A a. ! n0'; attach much value to their land
commission. A special department
with a large force of clerks will be es-
tablished at once.
Why the Indians are not eager for
the documents cannot be understood,
applicable to the Standard's con ..eti-
tors.
"Whatever measure of prosperity it
has enjoyed is not traceable to illegal
or reprehensible methods, but to its
economic and elaborate industrial or-
ganization, covering as it does every
detail of transportation and adminis-
tration."
Sulphur Wants to Vote Bonds
SULPHUR: At a recent meeting
of the city council it was resolved to
petition A. J. Dickerson, United States
judge, for the appointment of census
enumerators to ascertain if the popu-
lation of the city is sufficient to justify
the issuance of water works bonds to
the extent of fifty thousand dollars.
AS COOD AS EVER
Cheyenne, Roger Mills county
Miller was elected president; G. E.
Shufelt, vice president; Judge C. S.
Gilkerson, secretary; W. D. Kendall,
treasurer; W. Story Sherman, corre-
sponding secretary.
The purposes of the association are
to secure to its members proper meth-
ods of securing the crops of hay and
seed.
lish a scale of minimum prices for al-
falfa and all its by-products.
The membership has more than
000 acres of alfalfa, and will sow 2,0t'0
acres more this fall.
Western Oklahoma is the natural
home of this plant, and the seed ma-
ures to perfection here. The associ-
patents.
This order for Immediate delivery
of deeds is of great importance in
connection with the removal of restric-
tions. As the law provides that the
restrictions shall be removed five
years after date of delivery of patent.
Had not complications arisen and tied
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• also alfalfa meal and to estab-! up the delivery of p.itents man> the drop on the officer and compelled
. nf v>1nn<l hnvfi nan I
dians of mixed blood would have had
their restrictions removed in a few
months by limitation.
Halbor Brown, fourteen years old,
was drowned in the Arkansas river
near Tulsa last week. He was attend-
ing a picnic given by a local Catholic special engine was sent to Coalgate
ation expects to have 4,000 bushels of I scjj00i when he and some of his play- with a posse of officers. The country
seed to market this season, worth $10 j mate8 attempted to swim across the j about Coalgate Is being scoured for
per bushel. I stream. The current was too strong | the desperadoes.
CHANCES FOR STATEHOOD WILL
BE GOOD UNTIL CONGRESS
FINALLY ADJOURNS
BELIEF THAT CANNON WILL ACREE TO IT
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Speaker Denies That He Favors Delay
—Utterances of Senator Beveridge
have Tended to Produce Feeling of
Discontent
WASHINGTON: Some of the state-
hood boomers from Oklahoma nnd In-
dian Territory have been talking in a
despondent way for the past few
weeks though it has been difficult to
ascertain the reason for thejr down-
cast feelings. Wijh a resigned air
they say they have bidden goodby to
statehood legislation at this session o.
congress, and believe that the bill will
be buried in the conference committed
as it was last year.
A democratic member of the con-
gressional committee on territories
said that it lurd come to him that
Speaker Cannon had asked some
anxious members who had been mak-
ing inquiries of him about statehood
legislation what difference it wouuld
make if the statehood bill were left
over until next fall. This indicated
to him the program of the speaker.
An authoritative denial that the
speaker had ever made such a remark
has been given. The speaker has
never at any time Indicated that it is
his purpose or desire to postpone the
bill until the next session of congress,
but, in contradiction of that report,
also is an explicit promise, said to
have been given by the speaker to
members of the Missouri and Kansas
delegations in the house prior to the
time the bill was sent to conference
that it would not be buried in confer-
ence committee, but that there would
be statehood legislation.
Some of the Missouri and Kansas
members were balking on sending the
bill to conference, fearing it would be
killed there, and on the promise of
bpeaker Cannon for the motion to so
commit the bill when it came from
the senate. Senator Warner, of Mis-
souri, is also said to have had an un-
derstanding to the same effect.
The situation, therefore, does not
seem to justify the exhibition of for-
lornness being given by the statehood
contingent. The utterances of Sena-
tor Beveridge have as much as any-
thing, if not more, tended to <his feel-
ing of advance disappointment, but,
after all, careful inquiry develops the
fact that the chances of statehood at
least for Oklahoma and Indian Terri-
tory combined Into one Btate are as
good as they have been- at any time.
River Makes Free Land
GUTHRIE: By the change In the
course of the Cimarron river, a twenty
acre tract has been created just north
of Guthrie,which is subject to home-
stead entry. It was laid off last fall
by a government surveyor sent here
for that purpose, and shortly after-
ward an entry was made by a Guthrie
school teacher. Pending a decision
from the general land office on how to
dispose of the land, the entry was
held up. Recently another) party,
learning that the land was vacant,
erected a home on it for homestead
purposes and will contest the former
entry.
Sam Morrow, a negro was convicted
at Muskogee upon the charge of
criminal assault upon the person of a
thirteen-year old girl. The jury
recommended that Sentence be in-
flicted without capital punishment.
The crime is a capital offense accord-
ing to the United States law, but the
sentence in this case was fixed at lite
imprisonment.
MAN HUNT IS ON
Deputy Marshal at Coalgate Has a
Fight With Desperadoes
SOUTH MCALESTER: Deputy
United States Marshal W. W. Brad-
shaw, stationed at Coalgate, fought a
desperate duel with four desperadoes
near that place, receiving a wound in
his right side and several holes in his
clothes, while his team of horses was
killed and the buggy in which he was
riding splintered by the fusillade of
shots directed at him. One of the
desperadoes rode into Coalgate a few
nights ago and attempted to shoot up
the town. Bradshaw attempted to
arrest him, but the bad man secured
Newspaper Refuses Publication
KINGFISHER: In the matter of
the application of E. G. Cash for a
license to conduct a saloon in Hen-
nessey, Judge Burford Issued an alter-
native writ of mandamus on Ira D.
Mullinaux, editor of the Kingfisher
Times, compelling him either to pub-
lish the liquor notice or appear in
court and show good and sufficient
reason why, as Cash alleges, he re-
fuses to print the notice, and prevent-
ing the issuance of a license. The
Times is one of the two papers pub-
lished in Kingfisher county qualiflud
to print liquor notices.
him to lay down his weapon. After
this occurrence Bradshaw started m
pursuit, and after riding several miles
met the man, with three companions.
A pitched battle resulted. After
emptying his Winchester rifle, Brad-
shaw retreated to a settlement. A
Ok'ahoma Central Railway Extension
LEHIGH: Captain R. L. McWillie,
chief engineer of the Oklahoma Cen-
tral railway, left the general offices at
this place last week with a party of
twenty-five men to survey a route for
mat line in Texas. Captain McWillie
stated it would probably take eight
months to complete the survey. Presi-
dent Dorset Carter stated that work
would begin on this extension as soon
as the survey was completed.
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