The Shawnee Daily News-Herald (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 223, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 10, 1912 Page: 3 of 8
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REPORT OF WATEAWAYS
COMMISSION MADE
By Associated Press.
Washington, D. C., April 10—Further
legislation to protect waterways
against railway competition; to es-
tablish amicable relations between
the two and promote federal co- op-
eration with local Interests in con-
struction of canals are urged in the
first report of the National Water-
ways Commission made public today.
The report declares that the fed-
eral government within the compar-
atively near future must inevitably
assume control of some features of
water power regulation.
The commission recommends that
army engineers be assigned to su-
pervise the proposed canal to con-
nect the Ohio river near Pittsburgh
with Lake Erie when $10,000,000 cash
and $5,000,000 in bonds are made
available by the communities inter-
ested. The secretary of war how-
ever may demand that these amounts
be increased. The commission rec-
ommends that when work on the
canal is begun that congress appro-
priate for an adequate harbor in In-
dian Creek on the Lake Erie end
and to imprpve the Ohio river in
the Pittsburgh district. These im-
provements are to be completed when
operation of the canal begins but the
government is not to be required to
buy any land and is not bound to
assume any financial responsibilities
whatever.
A survey for a canal from Lake
Erie to the Southern end of Lake
Michigan is recommended and the
commission concluded from its pres-
ent information that the most feasi-
ble route would be through the
Maumee river by way of Fort Wayne
and that fourteen feet would be a
practical depth.
It recommends increased power for
the Interstate Commerce Commission
to govern joint rates and through
routes between rail and water lines,
to compel physical connection between
them and to compel railways to
charge less than local rates to all
lake and river ports on through traf-
fic exchanged with domestic boat
lines.
Other recommendations are for leg-
lation to control public terminals; fed-
eral participation with localities in
flood control; prevention of defores-
tation on non-agricultural lands and
reforestation of denuded tracts;
amendments of laws controlling wa-
ter power on navigable streams and
within the public domain.
The commiss'on points to the traf-
fic possibilities of the Lake Erie and
Ohio canal and says substantial re-
ductions of railroad rates may be ex-
pected to follow operation. The
Lake Erie-Michigan canal would ob-
viate the detour around the Michigan
peninsula and give a more direct wa-
ter route from Chicago to New York
Legislation is necessary to prevent
the elimination of water competition
and to prevent the raising of water
rates under railway control, in the
opinion of the commission. It be-
lieves the interstate commerce laws
are now Insufficient to preserve wa-
ter transportation and foster its
growth. It urges that every water car-
rier in interstate commerce be un-
control of the Interstate Cor*
merce Commission to enable the
commission to establish through
routes, joint rates and through bills
of lading, without which, the com-
mission believes, the rehabilitation of
water traffic will not be complete.
The report arraigns the inadequacy
of water terminals and urges that
further river and harbor improve
ment8 be avoided without assurances
of proper terminals on completion.
Federal condemnation of private
property for public terminals is not
recommended except where a locality
establishes its inability to deal with
the terminal problem.
It is recommended that the federal
government investigate and report to
the next session of congress whether
reservoirs are needed to supply wa-
ter in the dry season to operate pres-
ent and proposed locks and dams in
the Alleghany, Monongahela and Ohio
rivers and the extent to which the
federal government should participate.
Each case of reservoir construction,
Read the Daily News-Herald.
Our Want Ads
Bring Results
No greater proof of this is needed than the
growth of this department. People are learning
that if they have a house to rent, chickens, eggs,
a sewing machine, piano, or anything else under
the sun to sell, that the way to let the people
know who may be wanting to buy these things.
is to
Put It In The Want Ad Columns
Or if it is the other way around and they want
to buy something, whatever it is, from a section
of land to a pair of pigeons, they tell the people
who have these things to sell. How? The
surest and quickest way of course, they
Tell It In The Want
Ad Columns
The people of Shawnee and vicinity are getting
the WANT AD HABIT, if you havn"t it, GET
IN LINE for it is safe, sane, cheap, result getting
by the commissions findings, should
be considered on its merits.
Qther recommendations are to sub-
ject mining entries to the paramount
right of water power uses; land en-
tries to the right of construction of
transmission lines or other works,
works, and that the states undertake
preservation of forests and reforesta-
tion of their own lnnds, not acquired
by the government.
The commission recommends that
question between operating water
power companies and consumers of
their products or service be left to
state control, except where local pow-
ei is inadequate to protect public
interest "with the understanding that
within the comparatively near future
this feature of its regulation must in-
evitably pass to the federal govern-
ment."
The report Is signed by Senator
Burton, the chairman; Senator Gal-
linger, Smith of Michigan, Simmons,
Lorimer, Clarke of Arkansas, and Rep-
resentative Stevens, Michigan, Spark-
man Florida, Moon Tennessee, former
Senator Piles of Washington and for-
mer Representative Alexander of
New York, and Wagner of Pennsyl-
vania.
SENATOR JONES
ASSAILT TEDDY
IN IDE SENATE
DECLARES HIM TO BE A COUNT-
ERPART OF PONTUIS
PILATE.
By Associated Press.
Washington, April 10.—Col. Roose-
velt was portrayed in the senate to-
day as the counterpart of Pontius
Pilate.
The picture was drawn by Senator
Jones of Washington, who sketched
as the ground-work the recent De
troit speech of the former president
condemning the votes of the majority
members of the Lorimer committee,
favorably to the Illinois senator, as
not being responsive to the sentiment
of their constituencies.
"This is the latest rule for judicial
action suggested by this self-proclaim-
ed leader of progress," said Senator
Jones. "Because we have not follow-
ed it we are not progressive but reac-
tionary. This was the rule action fol-
lowed by Pilate nearly nineteen hun-
dred years ago. This is the fir^t time
I venture to say, in our history or in
the history of any civilized people,
that Pilate's rule of judicial action has
met the approval of any man, save
those who would crucify Jesus, and
they despise him for following it.
"If former President Roosevelt had
been standing on one side when Pi-
late delvered Jesus to the Jews, aft-
er having examined into the charges
and found no fault in him, but at the
demand of the people, turned him
over to them for crucifixion, he
would have clapped his hands and
exclaimed 'Most Rihteous, Most Hon-
orable, Most Just Judge.' At least
he would have done this if he had
been as progressive then as he is
now. I am charitable enough to be-
lieve, however, that he would have
been a reactionary.
Senator Jones prefaced his speech
by saying that thehose who expected
to heat: the sensational would be dis-
appointed and that those expecting a
discussion of the presidential cam-
paign need not listen. He said he
could not discuss politics. He recited
rapidly conditions which made the
present time prosperous, but said
that with everything to make us hap-
py "we are engaged in a saturnalia of
political vituperation."
"Justice and fair dealing are thrown
to the winds," he added. "Appeals
to passion and prejudice displace rea-
son and logic. Vileness and corrup-
tion are sought for eagerly and we
rejoice if we are successful in our
search. Sinister motive prompt those
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OPPOSITE CITY 1IM.L.
PHONE 40.
who disagree with us and none is
good save ourselves.
"Under the banner of progression,
anarchy is preached in honeyed
phrase and fulsomo flattery. Our
sense of justice and fairness is dead-
ened by loud declamation and insidi-
ous suggestion. Until a short time
ago supposedly new ideas, as old as
governments among men, were advo-
cated with some show of reason and
prudence.
"A new Richmond, however, has
rushed upon the political field. The
real, consistent, faithful leader of radi-
cal political thought, whose courage,
consistency and faithfulness we all
admired, even If we did not accept
thedoctrines advocated, became ill
and exhausted. The banner ho was
faithfully and bravely carrying was
drooping.
"This new Richmond rushed upon
the political scene, threw his hat in-
to the ring, and shouted to the wav-
ering hosts to follow him in the high-
ways of progress and victory. Hoping
to reap where others had sown, he
sought to pluck the fruit of victory
to his own bosom. Having worked
and won with the despised standpat-
ters, not being practiced in the prin-
ciples of modern political progress,
he with the recklessness of ignorance
and the rashness of the new convert,
is appealing to all that is base, sel-
fish and unjust in the apparent hope
of gratifying an insatiable ambition.
"In his campaign for place and pow-
er he seems to have forgotten the
honors bestowed upon him by his
party and by the people of the coun-
try. Hs seems to be unmindful of the
dignity and deportment of one who
has filled the most exalted position in
the gift of man. We expect and tol-
erate the actions and utterances of
the ordinary politician, but it is n
shock to our people to see their idol
seeking place and power by appeal-
ing to passion, prejudices and hatreds
and whose most powerful argument
is denunciation of the motives and
honesty of those who oppose him. He
would substitute the biased, warped
and inflamed opinions of the multi-
tude for the Judgment of those acting
in a judicial capacity based on sworn
evidence, weighed and balanced by
those rules and principles which have
been brought forth from theannuals of
time to Insure justice to the poor
and the rich; the weak and the
strong."
Senator Jones said he did not pro-
pose to discuss the judicial recall, but
would notice only the latest sugges-
tion advanced for the guidance ol
those acting in a judicial capacity.
He then quoted at some length from
Col. Roosevelt's comment upon the
Lorimer case in his speech of March
30 at Detroit, wherein the former
president charged that Senators Dill-
ingham, Gamble and Jones were re-
actionaries because they recommend-
ed that Lorimer be permitted to re-
tain his seat. Senator Jones said:
"This argument may have caught
the fancy of those who listened with-1
out grasping the full significance of
the statements made; but no proposi-
tion has ever advanced by the wild-
est anarchist more subversive of the
the principles of human justice, or hu-
man rights and good government than
the principal suggestion contained in |
this statement."
Senator Jones argued at length that j
the costituents of the senators named
would want them to vote on he Lori-
mer case according o heir own con-
sciences. He said he did not believe
there could be found within his state
one who is such a reactionary as to
approve "the rule of judicial conduct
practiced by Pontius Pilate. If Mr.
Roosevelt made the suggestion seri-
ously, it is shocking. If he made It
ignorantly it is pitable. If he made
it to secure votes, It is despicable.
"You will note that this is not a
suggestion that the judges should de-
cide a case according to their judg-
ment of the law and the evidence and
then to allow the people to pass upon
it. It goes farther than that. It sug-
gests that the people shall make the
decision, that the judge shall disre-
gard the law and the evidence and
try to ascertain what he thinks the
people desire to be done in the case
and then act in accordance with what
he believes is their Judgment. This
proposition Is so extreme, so shocking,
so contrary to all principles of enllght-1
ened jurisprudence, so antagonistic to
the basic principles of Judicial action |
that have been brought forth In the
crucible of time for the protection of |
life, liberty and property that I cannot
conceive of the state of mind of the
purpose that prompted Its utteiance.
I leave this mystery for the people
themselves to solve.
I "If this rule is to bo followed then
judges must instruct juries that they
are not to decide cases upon the law
and the evidence submitted to them,
but they must endeavor to find out
what the public sentiment is with ref-
erence to the matter at issue and de-
cide it in accordance with that. Judges
instead of Instructing the jury as to
what the law is, should try to tell
There is Only One
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them what the public sentiment is."
Senator Jones said he had wondered
a few weeks ago why it was that at-
torneys would not allow Col. Roose-
velt to act as a juror. He added:
"I understand now."
It Looks Like A Crime
to separate a boy from a box of
Bucklen's Arnica Salve. His plmplei,
boils, scratches, knocks sprains and
bruises demand it, nnd its quick .'e
lief for burns, scalds, or cuts Is his
right. Keep it handy for boys, also
girls. Heals everything healable and
does it quick. Unequaled for piles
Only 25 cents at all Druggists.
Easter Lumber
LARD UNDER WEIGHT,
ARMOUR CO. IS FINED.
If Verdict Is Sustained Firm May
Cease to Sell This Product
in North Dakota.
Fargo, N. D., April 10.—The Armour
Packing Company was fined $100 here
for selling lard In pails under weight,
in violation of the state pure food
law, which requires actual weight to
bo printed on the containers.
An appeal will be taken and if the
fine is sustained, the Armour com-
pany will withdraw from the lard
trade in this state, it is said.
On one point Roosevelt does not
hesitate to declare that he was alto-
gether wrong—his eletcion of a suc-
cessor In the white house.
Now and then some one sends a
bomb to a New York judge as a re-
minder that moonshining mountain-
eers are not the only enemies of es-
tablished process of law.
Count von Mettornich, of Berlin, has
been convicted of swindling a waiter
out of $25. We must deplore his crime
but cannot control our admiration for
his genius.
is what we call it. Because it keeps
on "rising" in your estimation with
every board you use. If you intend
doing any building or repairing this
year now is the time and this is the
place to get you lumber. We won't
tell you how much you can save by
buying here. You'll find that out
wheu you call.
Taylor Lumber Co.
Cor. 9th and Okla. Phone 112.
"After fou: .. our family had died
of consumption ) was taken with
a frightful cough and lung trouble,
but my life was sav- d and I ga>r.ed
87 pounds through using
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Barrett, Charles F. The Shawnee Daily News-Herald (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 223, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 10, 1912, newspaper, April 10, 1912; Shawnee, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc91639/m1/3/?rotate=90: accessed May 8, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.