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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK. UTAH Can They Climb Mount Logan, 19,850 Feet? SITKA. The greatest adventure In 1023 will siege and assault of Mount Logan, which rises In Yukon Territory about twenty miles east of the Alaskan boundary. Its altitude of 10,830 feet Is only 450 less than Mount McKinleys. , A dispatch from McCarthy, Alaska, dated May 14, says thnt "the Mount Logan expedition Is off on Its long trek toward the Yukon border and Canadas great unconquered peak." In the party of nine there are five Americans. The leader Is Capt A. II. McCarthy, formerly of Summit, N. J., but how a British Columbian rancher. Two of the Americans hall from New York, Allen Carpe and Norman II. Brook; the other Americans are residents of Cambridge, Mass., Henry S. nail and Robert M. Morgan. The Alpine club of Canada Is patron and sponsor of the expedition. No guides accompany It. It success attends the enterprise, it will be a triumph of amateurs. Swiss guides who take up pifrtles In the Selkirks and Rockies could have been engaged, but tbe Canadians and Americans of the expedition have little, If anything, to learn from processionals. Their record of first ascents Is Impressive. Of the Canadians, Hamilton M. Leigh represents the geological survey of Canada and U. F. Lambert the geodetic survey, and both of them have done valuable field work; Col, W. W. Foster and Lennox Lindsay are alpinists of note. Two Alaskans go along as cook and packer. Tbe start from railhead In the middle of May should not be regarded as forecasting an early conquest of tbe mountain. A long siege among glaciers will have to be laid before the , climbing begins. Archdeacon Stuck'a party was 43 days above tbe snow line before a point 2,600 feet under the summit of Mount McKinley was gained. In tbe night before tbe final "dash" (June 6) thermometers stood at 21 degrees below zero. It may tun out that the subduing of Logan Is tougher Job than putting McKinley under one's feet. Archdeacon Stuck found the Northeast ridge the formidable barrier to achievement It Is known that Logan presents much the same problems of approach and transportation. It may prove that access to the summit Is more formidable than the steep cliffs of McKinley's Northeast ridge; Logan seems to be often shrouded In fogs, caused by contact of warm Pacific winds with the glacial peaks of the St. Ellas range. In a reconnolssance which Captain McCarthy made In June and July of last year 40 days were consumed In taking observations at from 8,000 to 10,000 feet It Is doubtful If he learned the least difficult line of access. -- . Indian Citizenship May Cause Changes The of the federal all Indians citizens of the United States has automatically made tbem citizens of the states In which they reside, and out of this situation bas arisen a veritable "uprising" of the states through their legislatures, which now demand either the reorganization of the federal Indian service or the transfer of the federal jurisdiction over Indian property to the trusteeship of the several states. This statement Is made by John Collier, executive secretary of the American Indian Defense association, after several weeks spent In the "Indian country." "Self-Intereof the several states In tho opportunity for unlimited debate which tbo bas brought them for the first time on rules of the senate now provide. the side of the Indians," he said, and Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, sen-a- t added that the results of this "upminority leader, said In g public addresi tbat rising" will be startlingly manifest In Tic President Dawea haa tbd remedy in hla own the next congress. bands: To reverts an old ruling of a previous "Tbe decisive political effect of the aenat presiding officer that a senator la ths sols Indian citizenship law appeared when Judg of whether hs Is speaking to ths question the Supreme court of California handduring debate. "Ail tbat Is necessary Is for Tic ed down. a decision that the Indians President Dawes to do Just what presiding officers as citizens are entitled to free schoolIn other parliamentary bodies do," be said. When ing at the expense of the state," Mr. s point of order Is raised tbat a senator la not Collier said. "It follows that they are speaking to the subject before tbe senate, If tbe entitled to all other state and county point of order shonld be sustained, a majority services to poor relief, sanitary and vote wonld be required to enablo tbo senate. to medical relief, and the services of the proceed." various state departments. Yet though Senator Walter F. George of Georgia, Democrat, haa suggested in print that abolition of the "lame dock" (short term) congress would bring abont tba result desired by General Dawea, thus agreeYORK. The Tanderbllt ing with Senator Moses. Astor mansions on Fifth Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi was asked have been bought by to state his attitude and mad this characteristic Winter, realty opBenjamin reply: erator, who came to this country penXt Is said that once fly lit upon the dome t niless from Poland 24 years ago. His lb Paul cathadral Crawling across on of the purchases mark n further step In the seamlike connections, he flew sway to tall the other s flies that ha had dlaoovared a terrible defeot la passing of this thoroughthis, the greatest work of Bir Chrtatophor Wren. fare from a residential avenue of the X commend this story to Gonoral Dawes. busisocially prominent to a high-clas- s ness section. Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, Winter acquired the ornate resiDemocrat, generally considered one of tie ablest dence of the late William. K. Tandermen In the senate, haa long been an advocate of reform In tba rules, and the day after Dawes' bllt at Fifth avenue and Fifty-secon- d demand reintroduced a resolution providing for street for $4,000,000. Previously he better cloture. Underwood saya flatly that no man bought the Tlncent Astor home at street for $3,000,000. can successfully deny tbat the present rulea Sixty-fift- h After the death of Mr. Tanderbllt are Ineffective for transacting business In an orderly manner. Ha says that tba larger part of In France In 1920, his widow sold the the time of tbe senate In the last congress was Fifth avenue home .and migrated to taken up by a filibuster against tba Muscle Shoals Sutton place, aloug the East river In region once bill and that bills allowed to go through bad only the upper fifty block, cursory examination or were passed by unanimous conspicuous for breweries and gas consent without any consideration at all And 'tanks, but which has now become a . . , social center. be saya: Adjoining Mr. Winter's latest acquiWo com bock to tho reel question as to whetner sition Is the home of Mrs. W. K. Vanwo should have a closure rule for the senate or derbilt II, wife of Mr, Tanderbllt's son not a rule to close debate auch aa la usually and owner of the famous race horse called In parliamentary law "the previous question." The Constitution of the United Btstea conSarazen, Nearby is the home of Gen. templates that a majority of tho United States Cornelius Tanderbllt and farther up senate shall tranaaot business. But when the rule of tho senate permit a email minority to occupy ao much time In tha debate on any quoatlon that Lakes-to-Se- a such a minority can force concessions from aa unwilling majority In order tbat legislation may ba achieved, the constitutional requirement that a ICniGAN CITY, IND.Twon' majority may tranaaot business undoubtedly la A nullified. speakers hammered JLVJL sway between ten oclock In "Hell Marta" Dawes crusade la, of course, the morning and ten o'clock good "copy." Lots of people dont seem to love In the evening In an effort to arouse the senate any more. Apparently they hops the public opinion, as represented hers at "Bogy Man" will get It and rather think be will the fourth annual meeting of the Great And lots of people, who are not wildly enthusiLakes-St-. Lawrence Tidewater assoastic over General Dawea. aay quite bluntly that ciation, to the necessity of pushing to he wants to be President and Is manufacturing completion the route from the lakes to an Issue all his own. Anyway, editorial writers, the sea. Fourteen of the nineteen humorists, cartoonists, reporters paragraphera, Midwestern states belonging to the asand correspondent! are busy over tie various sociations council of states had delephases of tbe affair. Public opinion, as reflected gates at the meeting. In the press, Is as wide apart as the poles. Every "The West wants the way to the (toy or so some senator la put on record, pro or sea, was the keynote slogan of the con. Political leaders In both parties seenr to conference which found Its way Into think that It will be forced on them In 1020 as the opening resolution which flnslty an Issue In the senatorial campaign. Altogether was passed at the conclusion of the situation reminds mnny of the story of the the meeting. "Tho West wants the man who prayed for eaalatanre In a flat fight upon to tlie sea because It Is econom-- , which be was about to engage, "but," le said, "If way Ically progressive and geographically you feel, O Lord, that you cant take slA In this Just, and the aeHhdi Interests of the I advise you. If yon have nothing pnrscrimmage tlcular to do, to stick around for a little while East shall not stand In the way, "'was Waaage dinned all day Into the and you will gee the prettiest scrap the sars of tho five or alx hundred per you ever laid eyes on." Oklahoma 1 city, okla. st By JOHN DICKIN80N SHERMAN alone, "chooses to conduct Its business under rules which do not provide properly effective cloture," those senators opposing him reply: "Let us keep the United States senate the one legislative body In the world where minority, even those representing unpopular causes, cannot complain of drastic limitation on their freedom to express their views." . General Dawes put Senator William M. Butler of Massachusetts on record la his "Lexington Alarm" address at Boston by calling upon him for a statement Senator Butler said he purposed to devote hla time In the senate to bringing about reform. Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio, Republican, who Is reported to have Presidential aspirations, appears to be advocating a compromise In his speecles: the cutting down of debate on unimportant measures ; reasonable debate on big Isabel. Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, Republican, unequivocally favors ths proposed change; he believes thoroughly In a majority cloture. Senator George H. Moeee of New Hampshire, Republican, who will preside over the senate In the vice president's absence, took direct Issue with General Dawea in a public address at Syracuse, ne denied the truth of a statement by Senator Albert B. Cummins. of Iowa that of the senators desired the proposed change In the rules; he thought there, never bad been a time when even 61 per cent were for It His own experience bad taught him that the present rules had saved the country and. Its treasury from embarrassment, and be took this fling at the vice AWES VS. SENATE to put It as briefly possible haa attracted nationwide attention ever since Inauguration day, when Vice President Charles 0. Dawes enraged the most august legislative body on earth" by demanding that It reform Its rules so that s minority could no longer block the . purpose of the majority to legislate. Since then General Dawes has taken his cause to the people. Before a gathering of approximately 600 representative editors and publishers at the annual meeting of the Associated Press, he stated his address. He urged position In a carefully-prepare- d reform of the senate rules as subversive to representative government and put bis case thus, In u part: At vies president, elected. not by ths senate, or by a state, but by the people ofX the United States conceive myself to preelde over the senate charged with the duty of calling attention to methods of senate parliamentary procedure. The Issue Is this: Shall the senate continue unmake changed Its existing rules, which admittedly possible, at times, the exeroise by n minority, or even one senator, of power to block the purpose of a majority of the senate to legislator With full confidence la the patriotism and Integthey confront a question rity of senators when the Interest of the nation, of plain duty affecting I have appealed to them for their rectification of -Rule II so as to protect the majority of the senate In Its constitutional right to legislate. And more than this, I now appeal to the cltlsens of the different states to Impress upon their Individual senators by correspondence, by resolution or petition, their attitude on this proposition. Ns argument Is sound to the effect that, to protect a majority of the senate and of the Amerloaa people themselves. It Is necessary to put them, at the end of a session, at the mercy of either n senate minority or of bay one United States senator. Now, this writer has no brief either for Dawes or for the senate, nis purpose la this article Is not argumentative but Informative. For example how can one enjoy the-- fireworks unless he knows what "Buie 22" Is and bow It works or doesn't work! Anyway, lere Is Rule 22, with a few parliamentary flourishes omitted : If at any time a motion, signed by alxteen senators, to bring to a close the debate upon any pending measure Is presented, , . . the presiding Une officer ehall at once state the motion. . . hour after the senate meets on the following calendar day but one, he shall lay the motion before the senate and direct that the secretary call the roll. . . , The presiding officer shall, without debate, submit to the senate by an aye and nay vote the of the senate that the question: Is It the sense If that debate shall be brought to a closer by a question shall be decided In the affirmative vote of those voting, then said measure ehall be the unfinished business to the exclueloa of all other business until disposed of. Thereafter no senator shall be entitled to speak In all more than one hour on the pending measend It shall be the duty of the presiding ure . . officer to keep the time of each senator who speaks. shall Except by unanimousNoconsent, no amendment dilatory motion, or dilatory be In order. amendment or amendment not germane sh.ll be In order. Points of order, Including questions of the decision of ths relsvancy, and appeals befrom decided without d- - liate. presiding officer, shall This rule means that any question con bo one-hospeeches brought to a vote after 00 s of the senate wants It done. Hut If s Is what Dawes wants changed to a that majority. This nils can work and did work In the last congress on the lale of Pines irenty. which had been before tie senate for more Hum twenty years. Senator Copeland of New Yoi k befilibuster. Thereupon 8enntor Cun Is of gun Kansas, majority leader, got busy and ths treaty was ratified within two days because nearly very senator was ashamed of the long neglect of the treaty. go, when Dawes stys that ths senate, almost world-famou- - bo observed thrt with few tho demand for a change In tbe rules of exceptions the sennto erlaee from thoeo whoao eontaot with tho aenato la either brief or nonextetent Many man baa eome Into tho senate with a determination to tamo It, and almost without exoeptlon these men themselves have bean tamed by the senate and have come to reelleo tho true value of tho eenato rulea . t ' part; two-thir- ... two-third- , N.W . president: It la to . Nevertheless, there le a remedy for everything complained of, and one which may be applied wholly outside of tho rules of the senate. Tbe senate Itself has twice shown a wllltngnese to adopt thla remedy. Senator Norris of Nebraaka has proposed, and the senate has agreed to submit, an amendment to tho Constitution which would enablo tbo new President and new congress to tako office In tbe January following thalr election In Under euoh an arrangement there November. short session of congress, would be no and In consequanee no OllbUetor could be Indulged In. I have not observed that any of thoie now so busily engaged la defaming tbe senate- - have shown any willingness to Indora 8enator Norris are aa Ignorant of It appeal ' It may bo that they as they aro of the actual affect of tbo rules of tbo . . eenato. It la, of course, axiomatic that the majority has tbe right to rule. But majorities differ from day to day, and tho majority In tho eenato I no longer partisan or even political In point of fact, except through artificial mesne, etrlot Party division le rerely to be had nowadays at either end of the question of federal capitol end the engroeelng legislation nowadays are those of economlo Import Interests of sectional group material the affecting at dates. . . . I a eerie of coalition The Inevitable result differing from day to dey and with the character of tho proposals which the various group eepouae. Indcr these circumstance majorities are bound to be a reckless ae they are ephemeral; and the safest and the strongest safeguard against tbe powers which the bloo system entails Is to be found . tax-exem- pt a federal bureaucracy. "What Is tho political result 1 Tbe states are to Inherit tbe Indians have Inherited the liability while the assets are withheld. They face a flood of pauperism and are obligated to provide -- . for it This, In his opinion, has caused the "uprising" that will have an echo ta congress. He said that California, Minnesota and Wisconsin now demand the reorganization of the Indian bureau, and the Indians now being citizens have a voice through tbe Instrumentality of the states, to which congress will heed. Mr. Collier outlined what these states have already done In this direction and continued: "Congress Is being memorialized by the Wisconsin legislature to c cease using Indian tribal moneys and fed-- , eral tax money for the maintenance of a large and unequipped force of Indian bureau employees on the Wisconsin reservations, and to substitute a method of joint action with the stat and combined, expenditures as already practiced In agricultural education, road building, and under the Shepard- Towner law for maternity service aud child health. -- , America: Land of Equal Opportunity a Senator Moses declared that limitation of debate already existed In tbe senate. It was generally applied, be aald, under unanimous consent time for vote and agreements agreeing to that, pending such vote, no Senator should speak more than once, nor more than g given time, upon a measure or a proposed amendment . He then explained Rule. 22 and Its Workings and said. In ... two-third- nlne-tenth- thus made by congress mandatory charges on the state, they live on reservations administered by Need of ll . ty-o- n the avenue Is the mansion of the Dowager Mrs. Tanderbllt These mansions have been a barrier to the northward march of trad and W. K. Tanderbllt purchased adjacent property to stave off tradesmen, but to no avalL Mr. Winter bought $20,000,000 worth of property within six weeks, lndud- lng the Astor and Tanderbllt homes. On the former site he will erect large apartment building, and on the latter a commercial structure. Benjamin Winter arrived In New Tork at nineteen, ne could speak no English and had no money. He made money as contractor and In 1914 put through his first real estate deal Thus, steadily and cautiously, but with a boldness and Increasing capital, he forged ahead and soon was among the largest operators In New York. It has been estimated that between 1919 and 1923 lie bought and sold nearly $500,000,000 worth of Manhattan residential property. He Is ona of the largest holders of Improved properties In the city. Among his holdings are many magnificent apart- meat houses on Park avenue, Broadway and elsewhere. i Deep Waterway sona who assembled In this city to bear. Former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illlnola sounded the claim of the farmer to his right to get hla products te foreign ports at the comparatively cheap rate which the St. Lawrence waterway would bring. Among the other speakers were Charles P. Craig, executive director of the, association ; F. N. Niles, representing Gov. Tic Dnnaghey of Ohio; A. II. Comstock, representing Gov. Theodore Christianson of Minnesota; James P, Goodrich, former governor of Indiana; George L. Finch of Massachusetts; Ledyard P. Hale of New York, Congressman A. J. Hickey of Indiana, J. F. Iteed, A. C. Sullivan, Joseph Home, Hurry D. Silver, W. II. Settle, E. K. Sowash, George II. Moe-serHenry J. Allen, former governor of Kansas; W. L. Harding, fanner governor of Iowa, and Frank It Keefer, parliamentary ucoretary for Internal affairs for the province of Ontario, , ' |