| Show LAW IDEA OF law U 0 0 0 C K projected bill would reveal amounts of cotton and wool in cloth TAFTS PLAN TO SAVE PARTY president wants republicans republican to unite and legalize Legall je a genuine tariff Commis commission slon next years budget will do fully one billion by GEORGE CLINTON washington it Is said on seemingly good authority that president taft has hag given his sanction to a bill far reaching in its affect which will compel the allI xing to elotis aich outer enter interstate commerce of it a statement of the amount of cotton cation and of wool which they contain this incas ure lire la Is called here in washington a textile pure food bill the trainer framer of the measure mea sura victor murdock murdoch of kansas says that no reason exists why the consumer should not know how bow much wool and how much cotton he bo Is getting in his clothes just as ho be knows under tinder the pure pura food law how bow much adulteration he la Is getting an effort Is IB being made to get the two republican factions in congress to pass a measure of tills kind it Is expected that there will be ft a good deal al of opposition and it may be that the pure fabric law will have as long a journey to passage ns as that which velch the pure food law took before it arrived at its station on the statute books tafts tafta tariff commission plan As aa a fixed dally daily task Prest president dent taft la Is laboring to bring or r tile the republican factions in con gross in fit order that lie he may secure leclire legislation legalizing a genuine tariff commission ono one year ago mr taft might have worked nights as ae well as days along tha ilia same line of endeavor and at the end of 24 hours lie he would have haie been at the beginning for the regulars and insurgents were so BO hog has tile to one another that attempts to patch a pence peace would have boon been met dot only sulkily but I 1 tills this year mr tatt taft so BO the men close to him say has some real hope that taint he can induce mr Cumm lna mr air ln follette mr murdock murdoch and others to unk unit artal arnit with mr aldrich mr hale I 1 mr Ilou tello and others rind and to present it united effort on behalf of a tariff commission it remains yet to be seen aero uli whether ether the president pre aident will lio successful but the politicians say bay ho he thinks it a genuine tariff la Is sanctioned and Is allowed to go to work in a businesslike way to pass on proper and improper duties that the demo cerno rats crate next year when they are in control of at the house will not think it wise to upset the legislation all this la Is mere speculation but it casts a light on one of the chief ends of 0 the administrations winter en endeavor denvor and on the views of some of tho the republicans of df what they must do in order to save the presidential election to their party shall we fortify the canal the layman who Is neither a 0 legislator nor an army officer would tind find himself unquestionably confused hut but probably interested it he be were here in washington to listen to the arguments for and bild against the erection of fortifications by uncle sam to guard the tha panama canal A great many of the legislators are opposed to fortifying the waterway while virtually all the army officers omeera are in favor of it president taft has endorsed the forti fi cation plan strongly in his annual ries message sage in which he says bays it Is also well known that one of t the chief objects in the tha construction of the canal has been to increase the military effectiveness of our navy dy by convention we have indicated our de tre sire tor for and indeed undertaken its universal and equal use failure to fortify the canal would leave the attainments tain ments of both these alms alma in fit the position yosl llon of rights arid and obligations which we should be powerless to enforce and which could never in tiny other way bo be absolutely safeguarded against a desperate and irresponsible enemy the arguments which pass between the legislator and the army officer on the question of whether or not big guns ought to be placed on tho the lath mus imus run something like this the alie legislator says the canal shahid be neutralized end and all nations should be asked to bind themselves to preserve its neutrality in tills this way we will be saved the expense of forti fica tion and all danger of the canals destruction st in time of at war will ue be avert ed tue the army o ricer says an ounce of gun gull metal is worth a pound of neu utilization tt if a country at war with the united states finds it to its ad santago to blow up the canni canal the tanal canal will be blown up the promise to keep the peace would bo be whistled down the wind in a tul minute nute the only way to keep the enemy off Is to stand him off with a run the canal cost coat hundreds of millions under neutral it could be destroyed in a sight budget at least a billion at tills this stage of tho the session of congress some borne of the appropriation bills have bavo been little moro more than but it as perfectly apparent even even at this early date that the os of the government for the next fiscal year will be at least years ago represents tives of the party in opposition used to speak of the tha extravagances of their opponents and say that they were bent on giving the country a billion dollar congress Gone resi at the time this charge was conalis ell bied e d to be on one of the highest lights flights of f rhetorical rbt orical extravagance and it la Is doubtful if even those w who 0 made it thought that the day would come for scores of years when congress would bo be called upon to appropriate e in a single year tor for the expenses of the government natural growth Is responsible in a measure for the vast increase in the expense of running uncle sams household twenty years ago the navy cost coat us its each year about now it costs about the acquisition of the philippines n necessitated 0 an increase in the army and the army appropriation bill Is bigger than ever naturally all departments have grown at a pace in keeping e with tho the growth in population papule on and so today much sooner than was expected the billion jollar dollar congress Is sit an accomplished fact the presidents of the united states one after another always have urged economy it made no difference whither beuer w it was cleveland democrat or fl arrison or any other president ro can the plea pica for economy wont went from the white house to capitol hill bill each year in the past year perhaps the saving admonition has been more sharp and pointed than before for apparently patently ly the president with other american citizens has been somewhat staggered by the mere sight bight at 0 the figures in the governments expense account taft wants jut just debts debt paid no president however no matter to which party he has haa belonged ever has asked congress to refuse to authorize the payment of uncle sams just debts debt president tatt taft has urged economy constantly but like other presidents before him he this year has haa urged strongly that congress do justice to the persons who have valid claims against the government and who cannot got get their money uncle sam has a court of a f claims ilia judges are as hard worked as aa and perhaps harder worked than any ot of the other federal jurists they are obliged to pass judgment on the validity of claims made against the united by private individuals it the that the claims are just all it can do Is to say so and to inform congress that tho the united states owen henry nelson or phillip vesant such and such a sum of money then henry nelson and phillip stuyvesant go to congress and ask that the money which really belongs to them shall be paid and congress usually turns a deal deaf ear 0 of f course claims are paid from time to time but many a man with a bill which the tha courts have 0 rd kd waits many a long year before he gets his money and then he does not get all he deserves for or no interest la Is allowed in his message to congress con greos this year tape president 1 res d ent tatt taft urged the payment ol of the just indebtedness of uncle sam ile he says saya this pointedly the delay that occurs in the payment of at the money due under the claims injures the reputation of the government am ai nn an honest debtor and I 1 earnestly recommend that these claims which come to congress with the judgment and approval of the court of claims should be promptly paid two cavalry leaders die recently two officers of high rank on the retired list of the united states army have died one in this city and one in virginia just across the potomac river major generals wesley merritt and eugene A carr died on an the same bame day both were cavalry leaders and one of them morritt Merrl tt died within sight of at ft a battlefield on which he won fame and the stars stare of a major general when ho be was only twenty five years of age both merritt and carr were burled buried a tow few days ago in tho the cadet cemetery at west point on the hudson river where they lie close to another famous cavalry leader george A custer who was waa killed hilled in a fight with the sioux indians indiana on the little rosebud june 28 26 1976 custer like merritt Merrl tt was a major general of volunteers at thi age of twenty five years general merritt was wa one of the ta la alitar figures on pennsylvania Pennsylva avenue and on the streets about lafayette square despite his age his frame was we well 1 I knit and erect hla his eye was alert and his cheeks checks had the red hue of 0 early youth not long ago I 1 saw the general standing in a driving snow storm outside tho the little episcopal church of st johns where many presidents have worshiped the general was waiting his turn patiently until that part of the services were reached w when hen persons who are not pew holders are allowed to enter the sanctuary ile he paid no in more ore attention to the howling elements than it he were a aboy boy of twenty one and lie he looked as if be were good for a quarter of a century more of life and yet today he be la Is dead carr famous indian fighter eugene A carr like merritt was a west pointer ills hla rise was rapid and he was ono one ot of the few of tigers ol at the united states army who received commissions by acts ot of congress because of conspicuous personal gallantry in the field carr stayed la in the regular service at the close at 0 the civil war and was sent to the plains to begin tho the untried duty of fighting indians like general 11 miles illes carr developed a remarkable plains mens sense they won perhaps even more fame its as indian fighters than came to them as fighters against men mea of own color |
