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Show ' president hut sends message TIME to congress TABLE Policy of the Administration 8:04 am going north., Made Clear to the .10: IS am going north. 3: 28 am going north.. Country. FROM SALT LAKE No. 63 going south.. .....10:15 am No. 61 going south....... 6:21 pm 12.18 am No. 65 going south FAVORS SHIP SUBSIDY BILL Pallatlal trains ure now running dolly between Salt. Lake and the Pa. cific Coast. UTAH CX)UNTY 1 In direct touch with two great cities. Best local Chief Executive Gives Reasons for De train service. siring the Passage of 8uch a Meas-- : J. H. Burtner District Passenger ure Postal Savings Banks Plea Agent. for Conservation of National ReN. Peterson, Depot Ticket Agent. sources. t;o. CC j.'o. 62 No. 64 ..... ...... masx lOGBAUDLWtaj' Arrival and departure of ,tralni from Depot: y No. 409 For Sprlngvillo, Provo- ,i nat anil west anit all 8:10 a. m. No. 431 For Sprlngvllle. Provo, Salt Lake and all points east 3:27 p. m. and west '. No. 410 For Eureka, Mammoth 7:03 p. m. and Silver City No. 432 For Eureka Mammoth 6:15 a. m. and Stiver City Connections made in Ogdon Union depot with all trains on Southern Paclflo and Oregon Short Line. ' OFFERS CHOICE OF THROUGH TRAINS DAILY- -4 4-FAST THREE AND SCENIC DISTINCT ROUTES Pullman Palace and ordinary Sleeping cars to Denver, Omaha. Kansas Uty, St Louis and Chicago without change. Free Reclining Chair Cars; Person? ally conducted Excursions; a perfect Dining Car Service. For rates, folder, etc., inquire of H. T. MATTHEWS, Ticket Agent, or WTiie i. A. annivrt,. O. A. P. D.. Salt Lake City. What's the matter r IDAHO with Thousands of acres of land hare beeu reclaimed to cultivation oy ! dnrinffn ItliKHWVu ... that. Stat ,w n.at in Hra. Thousande roore win oe reeiaiuieu wimiu the next 10 years, ibis means an ODenluir for many thousands of homes. . , Bats Too Imvestioited IDAHO? , It has been truthfully termed a Land of Opportunities A Land of Homes The Oregon Short Line Railroad Co. to senaaescripuve mac Cut be pleasedIdaho's resources. Write regarding to D. E. Biiriey, O. P. A, or D. 8. Spen. eer, A. U. r. A., Salt laks uty, uiao. PRINTING FIRST CtASS QUALITT IS OURHOBBX Of GIVE US A TRIAL ORDER B. H. BROWN. AND Livery Food Stable Hack Meets All Trains 'PHONE NO. 12 Spanish Fori . . . . . Utah Washington. The president transmitted the following message to congress: To the Senate and House of Repre. sentatives: The rrlatlona of the United States with all foreign government have continued upon the normal hauls of amity and good understanding, and are very generally satisfactory. emblt-tcrmen- - Spanish. Fork Co-Operat- ive Institution,- Dealers la General Merchandise! ' O t , and Ifaanfaoturers Flour, Grain Produce. of Harness, ; Boots ad 1 . O Shoes. JOHN JONES, Supt SPANISH FORK, UTAH Latin America. One of the happiest events tn recent diplomacy was the pacific. Independent settlement by the govern ments of Bolivia and Peru of a boundary difference between them, which for some weeks threatened to cause war and even to entrain embltterments affecting other .republics less directly concerned. From various quarters, Ulisfly or Indirectly concerned, the Intermediation of the Uni ted States was sought to assist In a so lution of the controversy. Desiring at alt times to abstain from any undue mingling In the affairs of sister republics and bavin faith In the ability of the govern ments of Peru and Bolivia themselves to settle their differences in a manner satisfactory to themselves which, viewed with t, magnanimity, would assuage all this government steadily abconstained from being drawn Into the troversy and was much gratified to find Its confidence Justified by events. On the ninth of July next there will open at Buenoa Aires the fourth Pan' American conference. This conference will have a special meaning to the hearts of all Americana, because around Its date are clustered the anniversaries of the In dependence of to many American republics. It Is not necessary for me to remind the congresa of the political, social and commercial importance of these gather ings. You are asked to make liberal ap propriation for our participation. If this be granted. It Is my purpose to appoint a distinguished and representative dele gation, qualified fittingly to represent this country and to deal with the problems of Intercontinental latereat which will there be discussed. The Argentine Republic wilt also hold from Hay to November, 1910, at Buenos Aires, a great International agricultural exhibition In which the United States has been Invited to participate. Considering the rapid growth of the trade of the United States with the Argentine Republlo and the cordial relations existing between the two nations, together with the fact that It provides an opportunity to show deference to a sister republic on the occasion of the celebration of Its national Independence, the proper departments of this government are taking steps to apprise the Interests concerned of the opportunity afforded by thla exhibition. In which appropriate participation by this country Is so desirable. The designation of an official representative la also receiv ' ' Ing consideration. The policy of thla gov ernment has long been fixed In Its prin ciples and remains unchanged. With the of the United changed circumstances States and of the republics to the south of us, most of which have great natural resources, stable government and progressive Ideals, the apprehension which gave rise to the Monroe doctrine may be said to have nearly disappeared and neither doctrine aa It exists nor any other doctrine of American policy should be permitted to operate for the perpetuation of Irresponsible government, the escape of Just obligations or the insidious allegation of dominating ambltiona on the part of the United States. Beside the fundamental doctrines of our policy there have grown up a realisation of political Interests community of Institutions and Ideals and a flourishing commerce. All these bonds will be greatly strengthened aa time goes on and Increased facilities, such aa the great bank aeon to be established In Lat aupply the means for build' Ing up the colossal Intercontinental com' merce of the future. My meeting with President Dial and the greeting exchanged on both Ameri can and Mexlc soli served, I hope, to signalise the close and cordial relations which so well bind together this republic and the great republlo Immediately to the aouth, between which there Is so vast a network of material Interests. I am happy to kay that all but one of the rases which for so long vexed our relations with Venexuela have bee settled within the past few months and that, under the enlightened regime now directing the government of Venexuela, provl- slon has been made for arbitration of the remaining case before The Hague tri bunal. Since the Washington conventions of 1907 were communicated to the govern ment of the United States aa a consult Ing and advisory party, this government lias been almost continuously called upon by one or another, and In turn by all of the five Central American republics, to exert Itseir for the maintenance of the conventions. Nearly every complaint has been against the Zelaya government of Nicaragua, which has kept Central Amer ice In constant tension and turmoil. The responses made to the representations of Central American republics, aa due from the United States on account of Ita rela tlon to the Washington conventions, have been at all tlmea conservative and have avoided, so far as possible, any semblance of Interference, although It la very apparent that the considerations of geographic proximity to the canal aone and of the very substantial American Interesta In Central America give to the United States a special position In the sone of these republics and the Caribbean sea. I need not rehearse here the patient efforts of this government to promote pence and welfare among these republics, efforts which are fully appreciated by the majority of them, who are loyal to their true Interesta. It would be no lesa unnecessary to rehearse here the sad tale of unspeakable barbarities and oppression alleged to have been committed by the Zvlaya government. Recently two, Americans were put to death by order of President Zelaya himself. They were officers In the organlied forces of a revolution which was In control of about half of the republic, and aa such, to the modern enlightened according practice of civilised nations, they were entitled to be dealt with as prisoners of war. At the date when thla message la printed thla government haa terminated diplomatic relations with the Zelaya government, for reasons made public In a communication to the former Nicaragua charge d'affaires, and la Intending to take such future steps as may be found most consistent with Its dignity, its duty to American Interests and Its moral ohliga-tlon- s to Central America and to Department of Stats. I earnestly recommend to the favor able consideration of the congresa the es timates submitted by the department of state and most especially the legisla tion suggested In the secrtary of state's letter of this date, whereby It will be possible to develop and make permanent the reorganisation of the department upon modern- lines In a manner to make It a thoroughly efficient instrument in the furtherance of our foreign trade and of American Interests abroad. The plan n to have divisions of and affairs and to Institute a certain specialization In business with Europe and the near east will at once commend Itself. These divisions and the detail . from the diplomatic or consular service to the department of a number of men who bring to the study of complicated problems In different parts of the world practical knowledge recently gained on the spot, clearly Is of the greatest advantage to the secretary of state In foreseeing conditions likely to arise and In conducting the great variety of correspondence and negotiation. It should be remembered that such facilities exist In the foreign offices of all the leading commercial nations and that to deny them to the secretary of state would be to place this government at a great disadvantage In the rivalry of commercial competition. The consular service has been Improved under the law of April S, 1906, and the executive order of June IT. 19(4 and I commend to your consideration the question of embodying in a statute the principles of the present executive order upon which the efficiency of our consular service Is wholly dependent Latin-America- Far-Easte- politico-geographic- Expenditures and Revenues. Perhaps the most Important question presented to this administration Is that of economy In expenditures and sutti clency of revenue. The deficit of the last fiscal year, and the certain deficit of the current year, prompted congress to throw a greater responsibility on the executive and the aecretary of the treasury than had heretofore been de clared by statute. This declaration Imposes upon the aecretary of the treasury the duty of assembling all the estimates of the executive departments, bureaus and offices of the expenditures "necessary in the ensuing fiscal yeart ana or making an estimate or tne revenues of the government for the aame period; and If a probable deficit la thua shown. It la made the duty of the presi dent to recommend the method by which such deficit can be met. The report ol the aecretary ahowa that the ordinary expenditures for the current fiscal year ending June 30. 1910, will exceed the estimated receipts by 134.076.(20. If to this deficit la added the aum to be disbursed for the Pan ama Canal, amounting to $38,000,000, and $1,000,000 to be paid on the publie debt, the deficit of ordinary receipts and expendlturea will be Increased to a total deficit of S7t.075.620. Thla def icit the aecretary proposes to meet by the proceeds of bonds Issued to pay the cost of constructing the Panama Canal. I approve thla proposal. In order to avoid a deficit for the ensuing fiscal years I directed the heada of departments In the preparetlon of their estimates to make them aa low aa possible consistent with im perative governmental necessity. V Civil Pensions. I am aware that there la a strong feeling In both houses of congress, and possibly In the country, against the establishment of civil pensions, and that thla has naturally grown out of the heavy burden of military pensions. which It haa always been the policy to assume; but I of am strongly convinced that no other practical aolution , of the difficulties presented by the superannuation of civil servants can be found than that of a system of civil pensions. Frauds In the Collection of Customs. I regret to refer to the fact of the discovery of extensive frauds In. the collection of the customs revenue at New Tork city, In which a number of the aubordinate employes In the weigh ing and other departments were dl rectly concerned, and in which the beneficiaries were the American Sugar Refining Com..ny and others. The frauds consisted In the payment of duty on underwelghta of sugar. The government has recovered from the American Sugar Refining Company all that It Is shown to have been defraud ed of. The aum was received In full of the amount due, which might have been recovered by civil suit agninst the beneficiary of the fraud, but there was an express reservation In the con tract of aettlement by which the settle ment should not Interfere with, or prevent the criminal prosecution of every one who waa found to be subject to the aame. Criminal prosecutions are now proceeding against a number of the gov ernment offlcers. The treasury and the department of Jus tice are exerting every effort to discover all the wrongdoers. Including the omcera ana emnmyes or the com panles who may have been privy to the rraud. it would seem to me that an Investigation of the frauds by con gress at present, pending the probing by the treasury department and the department of Justice, aa proposed. might by giving Immunity and other wise prove an embarrassment In eecur Ing conviction of the guilty parties. The Tariff Act Two features of the new tariff act call for epeclal reference. By virtue of the clause known aa the "maximum and minimum" clause, it Is the duty of the executive to consider the laws and practices of other countries with reference to the Importation Into those countrlea of the producta and mer chandlse of the United States, aad If the executive finds such laws and prao tlces not to be unduly discriminatory against the United States, the minimum duties provided In the bill are to Unless the president go Into force. makes such a finding, then the maximum dutiea provided In the bill, that Is. an Increase of 25 per cent, ad valo rem over the minimum dutiea are to be In force. Fear has been expressed that thla power conferred and duty Imposed on the executive Is likely to lead to a tariff war. I beg to express the hope and belief that no such result need be anticipated, The discretion granted to the executive by the terms "unduly discrimthe inatory" Is wide. In order-tha- t maximum duty shall be charged against the Imports from a country, it la neces eary that he shall find on the part of that country not only discriminations In Its laws or the practice under them against the trade of the United States, but that the discriminations found shall be undue; that Is, without good and fair reason. I conceive that thla power waa reposed In the president with the hope that the maximum du ties might never be applied In any case, but that the power to apply them would enable the president and the atate de- partment through friendly negotiation to secure the elimination from the laws nd the practice under them of any foreign country of that which la un duly discriminatory. No one la seekIng a tariff war or a condition In which the spirit of retaliation shall be aroused. Needs of the Nsvy. The return of the battleship fleet from Its voyage around the world. In more efficient condition than when it atarted, was a noteworthy event of Interest alike to our cllttens and the naval authorities of the world. Besides the beneficial and effect on our personal and relations In the countries diplomatic which the fleet visited, the marked suc cess of the ships in steaming around the world In all weathera In schedule lime haa Increased respect for our nuvy and haa added to our national prrsHge. Injunctions Without Notice. The platform of the successful party In Uie last election contained the following: 'The Republican party will uphold at all times the authority and Integrity of the courts, state and federal, and will ev;r insist that their powers to enforce their process and protect life, liberty and property shall be preserved Inviolate. We believe, however, that the rules of procedure In the federal courts with respect to the Issuance of the writ of Injunction should be more accurately de fined by statute and that no Injunction or temporary restraining order should be Issued without notice, except where Ir reparable injury would result from delay, in which case a speedy Jiearlng thereafter should be granted." I recommend that in compliance with the promise thus made appropriate legislation be adopted. The ends of Justice will best be mot and the chief cause of Injunc complaint against tions without notice will be removed by the enactment of a atatute forbidding hereafter the Issuing of any Injunction or restraining order, whether temporary or permanent, by any federal court, without previous notice and a reasonable opportunity to be heard on behalf of the parties to be enjoined; unless it shall ap pear to the satisfaction of the court that the delay necessary to give such notice and hearing would result In Irreparable Injury to the complainant and unless also the court shall from the evidence make a written finding, which shall be spread upon the court minutes, that Immediate and Irreparable Injury Is likely to ensue to the complainant, and shall define the Injury, state why It la Irreparable and snail also Indorse on the order Issued the date and the hour of the Issuance of the order. Moreover, every such Injunction or restraining order Issued without previous notice and opportunity by the defendant to be heard ahould by force of the statute to expire and be of no effect after seven daya from the issuance thereof or within any rime less than that period which the court may fix, unless within the Injunction or order Is extended or renewed after prevloua notice and opportunity to be heard. Second-Clas-s Mall Matter. The deficit every year In the post- office department Is largely caused by the low rate of postage of one cent a pound mail matter, charged on second-clas- s which includes not only newspapers but magaxlnea and miscellaneous periodicals. The actual loss growing out of the trans mission of this second-clas- s mall matter at one cent a pound amounts to about SC3.000.000 a year. The average cost of the transportation of this matter la more than BETZVIHE TALES Grandma Pillbeck and the Tin Clock By Ellis Parker Buiiefk EM3 Atdhor ofTids is Pl$s Eic II1AJSTRATED By PETER. NEWELL IP V ; She 8et the Hands at Six o'clock, and Stared at Them for Ten Minutes. In the death of Grandma Susan which took place unexpectriilbeck, It appears that the average distance over which newspapers are delivered to edly last Thursday, Betzville lost onefemale cititheir customers Is 291 miles, while the of her most average haul of magasinea la 1.049, and sens, and by order of the city council of miscellaneous periodicals 1,128 miles. a crape streamer was tied to the Pill- Thus, the average haul of the magazine beck box in the Betzville post office. Is three and tlmea and that of the miscellaneous periodical nearly four As there has been very little doing in tlmea the haul of the dally newspaper, yet black goods in Betzville lately the all of them pay the same postage rate of cent a pound. The statistics of 1907 Bankrupt Store next the post office The s show that mall matter con supplied the crape at nine centa a pound. sober-minde- d one-ha- lf half-pric- second-clas- stituted 63.91 per cent, of the weight of all the mall, and yielded only (.19 per cent. or tne revenue. . The figures given are startling, and show the payment by the government of an enormous subsidy to the newspapers. magasinea and periodicals, and congress may well consider whether radical steps should not be taken to reduce the deficit In the postoffice department caused by this' discrepancy between the actual cost of transportation and the compensation exacted therefor. A great saving might be made, amount Ing to much more than half of the loss by Imposing upon magazines and perl odicals a higher rate of postage. They are much heavier than newspapers and contain a much higher proportion of ad' vertising to reading matter, and the average distance of their transportation is three and a half times as great. Postal Savings Banks. The second subject worthy of mention In the postoffice department la the real necessity and entire practicability of postal savings banks. The successful party at the last election declared In favor of postal savings banks, and al though the proposition finds opponents In many parts of the country. I am con vinced that the people desire such banks, and am sure that when the banks are fur nished they will be productive of the ut most good. Favors Ship Subsidy. Following the course of my distin guished predecessor, I earnestly recom mend to congresa the consideration and passage of a ship subsidy bill, looking to the establishment of lines between our Atlantic seaboard and the eastern roast of South America, aa well aa lines from the west coast of the United Statee to South America. China, Japan and the Philippines. The profits on foreign malls are perhaps a sufficient measure of the expenditures which might first be tentatively applied to thla method of Inducing American capital to undertake the establishment of American lines of steamships In those directions In which we now feel It most Important that we should have means of transportation controlled In the Interest of the eaMnslon of our trade. A bill o'f this character haa once passed the house and more than once passed the senate, and I hope that at thla session a bill framed on the same lines and with the same purposes may become a law. Conserving National Resources. In aeveral departments there Is present ed the necessity for legislation looking to the further conservation of our national resources, and the subject Is one of such Importance aa to require a more detailed and extended discussion than cart be en tered upon In this communication For that reason I ahull take an early oppor tunity to send a special message to con gress on the subject of the Improvement of our waterways, upon the reclamation and irrigation of arid, aeml-arland swsmp lands; upon the preservation of our forests and the reforesting of suit able arena; upon the reclassification of the public domain with a view of separating from agricultural aettlement min eral, coal, and phosphate lands and sites belonging to the government bordering on streams suitable for the utilization of water power. Political Contribution. I urgently recommend to congress that a law be passed requiring that candl dates In elections of members of the house of .representatives and committees In charge of their candidacy and cam pstgn die In a proper ofllce of the United States government a statement of the contributions received and of the exrwn dlturea incurred In the campaign for such elections and that similar legislation be enacted in respect to all other elections which are constitutionally within the con trol or congress. Bankrupt Store is one of Betzvllle's oldest and most enterprising mercantile concerns, and Is conducting a mourning sale all this week, in mem ory of Grandma Pillbeck, who used to trade there. Anyone expecting to mourn in the near future should take advantage of this sale. When interviewed as to the cause of Grandma Pillbeck's sudden demise, Orlando Pillbeck, her son. Informed our reporter that she was simply worn to a frazzle. As he remarks In the graceful obituary poem, published on another page, right under Uncle Ash-doClute's hog and cattle sale adver d tisement: "Grandma Pillbeck has gone and went Where the angels brightly dazzle. Getting to bed her strength it spent Ana worea ner to a irazxie. In this connection we wish t'j remark that Ephron Quat, proprietor of the Betzville Furniture Emporium, says that If Orlando bad opened up a little and bad bought grandma one of the patent spring beds he is now showing, she would have lasted much longer, these beds being bouncy, and more resilient than the Blat bed on which Grandma Pillbeck frazzled away to eternity. It seems that some years ago Grandma Pillbeck read In a paper that oversleeping In the morning could be easily avoided, and as she was a regular oversleepcr, she took the article to heart. It said that it was only necessary to get a clock, and before retiring, set the hands to point to the desired rising time. Cdd stare at them long and well, and when the hands reached that position in the morning Uie sleeper would unfailingly awake,n. So Grandma Pillbeck got a tin clock for 84 cents and tried it She set the hands at six o'clock, and stared at them for ten minutes, and then set the clock at the proper time and went to bed, and, sure enough, at exactly six o'clock the next morning she She was delighted, and awakened. did it again the next night, and the next morning she atiain awakened at six o'clock precisely. Aftcf that she kept it up regularly, and It never For about three years she failed. gazed" at six o'clock every night, and awakened at six o clock every morn ing, and by that time she had ac quired the habit of rising whenever the hands of the clock pointed to six She found that she had looked at'the clock so often that It was no longer necessary to look at It before going to bed whenever the hands pointed to six she had to Jump out of bed. About Ave weeks ago, while Grand ma Pillbeck was sleeping peacefully In the middle of the night, she sud denly lumped out of bed as If Ira polled by an Irrefutable Impulse, or, as she expressed It, "as If some one bad kicked me out," and when she lighted her lamp she saw that the clock was pointing to six o'clock. Something had gone wrong with the ' works of the tin clock, as things are apt to go wrong with the Inwards of those clocks, and the clock waa running too fast, but as long as she was up she thought she might aa well stay up, so she did. But In three hours the hands of the clock had run around to six again, and Grandma Pillbeck felt herself trresistably impelled to get Into bed again, or, as she expressed It, "aa if some one had kicked me Into bed." As she lay there, thinking what would be the best thing to do, she fell into a doze, and she must have slept three hours, for, the first thing she knew she was Irreslstably Impelled out of bed again. The hands of the clock were pointing to slx! That afternoon Orlando - Pillbeck, her son, took the tin clock and a screwdriver and set to work to correct the clock, and Grsmdma Pillbeck had a long rest out of bed, for Orlando found he could not get all the parts back into the tin clock that ha had taken out of It, but about sundown he gave it up, and put all the parts he could back Into the clock. He had to' leave out the little Jigger that keeps the clock from running away with Itself. But by leaving the clock unwound, and setting the bands personally when she wanted to go to bed, and having Orlando set them at six when it was time for her to get up, she did very well, until Orlando happened to go away for a week of fishing. That week grandma slept a whole week, and when Orlando returned and stt the clock she waa bo week from lack of food that she wobbled. So Orlando decided to get a new tin clock, and when the peddler came around he traded in the old one and 75 cents for a new one. All would have been well, but it seems that Grandma Pillbeck had become attuned to the old clock as you might say and did not respond to the new one, and the peddler must have given the old clock to bis children to play with when he got home. His children must have spent their days winding the old tin clock and allowing it to run down at the rate of 24 hours a minute. They were probably early risers, those children, and went to bed late, and played with the old tin clock Industriously, for from six a. m. until nine p. m. Grandma Pillbeck responded to the hands of the clock. Every few seconds she was irreslstably Impelled Into bed, and every few seconds she was Irreslstably Impelled out again, as the hands of the clock marked six. It was pitiful to see the sober-faceold lady bouncing into bed and out of it She would stand with a scared expression, and suddenly she would twitch, and Into bed she would go, and immediately she would twitch, and out she would come. She wore off a great deal of flesh on the slats of tho bed. but the clock made faster and faster time, and at last she only hod time to hit the floor before she went bark and hit the slats. Orlando tried to And where the peddler lived, so he could take the clock away from him, "but no one knew, and Grandma Pillbeck bounced beyond the troubles of this world at eight o'clock last Thursday morning. d (Copyright, 1K9, by V. O. Chapman.) |