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71 DAILY EDITION. 1 wee::ly 1:1:211::.'. ;i.oo per Annum, in Advance. J J , ;. "nuwqn 'Wr? 'Annum, In Advance IJL0,; J. J. ... 8 Months, In Advance. 50 for 3 Months, In Advance. OLD SERIES VOL iXXIlI K0 4.105 FAYETTEVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 1909. HEW SERIES VOL. XXVMO. 3,336. i'lueules fur the Kidneys are little idon globules which act dijeotly on a kidneys. A trial will convince ii of quick results for Backache, leumatism, Lumbago, and tired, .rnout feeling. SO days' trial $1.00. iey purify the blood. 8old by Mac then & Co. ... ,v ; . ' 8lmplt Remedy for LsQrlppe. ' lacking la grippe coughs that may velop Into -pneumonia over night quickly cured by Foley's Honey i Tar. The sore and inflamed lungs healed and strengthened, and a igerouB condition la quickly avert Take only Foley's Honey and In the yellow package. McDnffie 3 Store, (0. 0. Souders, Mgr.) .,.-. ilds contracted at this season of year are quickly relieved with Bees Jive Cough Syrup,- Its laxative ity rids the system of the cold, sent to take. Beet for children coughs, colds, croup and whooping h. Sold by MacKethan & Co. ... . ...... v oods Liver" Medicine m liquid a regulates the liver, relieves sick dathe, constipation, stomach, kid t disorders and acts as a gentle atlve. For chills, fever, and malar- Its tonic effects on the tystem ; with the first dose, : "The $1.00 bot contalns 1-2 tl'ios as much . as 1 50c. size. Bold by MacKtthan k k great mapy people have kidney d bladder . trouble, mainly due to gleet of the occassional pains In the ck, slight rheumatic pains, urinary sorders, etc. Delay In such cases dangerous. Take DeWltt's Kidney d Bladder Fills. They are for weak ok, backache, rheumatic pains and kidney and bladder trouble, Booth g and antiseptic, and act promptly, .n't fall to get DeWltt's Kidney and adder Pills. Aocept no substitute, egular size 50c. Sold by Armfleld rug Stores ,- r . , J :-?,- " : ." -vhA t -'-" A Cure for Misery. "I bare found a cure for the misery nlarla poison produces,"' says H. M. tmes, of Louellen, S. C. "It's called leotrle Bitters, and comes In 60 cent ntleB. - It breakes up a case ot chills $ a bilious- attack in no time; and It its yellow Jaundice clean out of com isslon." This great tonic medicine ad blood puriflfier gives quick re ef in all stomach, liver and kidney omplalnts and the misery of lame nek. 'Sold under guarantee at B. E. adberrys' Sons drug store. W ,W. BAKER, , ' ' CIVIL ENGINEER, -.and ; Surveying and Municipal En Ineerlng, over .Shuford .4 Rogers' ttorja,, Fayettevllle, N. C. viik: ' ' I q. k: nimocks, v Uorney and CouBelIor-at-Law. I Kooms 1 and 8 K. of P. Building. ; ' if A VKTTXVtLIiX, X. ' O. J - , Thone 229 i H. McD. EoblnBon. John U. 6 haw. ,.s . (Notary Public) . - - . ROBINSON & SHAW, I ArtnrnvH.flt.Lflw. ""' t Offices on second floor National Bank ' f syetteville. . . H. S. AYERITT,. Attorney-at-Law, Notary Public. Office Thornton " ullding Hay Street, Fayettevllle, N. C. V. C. BULLARD, Utorney ' and Counsellor at Law, - Notary Public, Surveyor, " Office K. of r. Building, FAYETTEVILLE, N.O.' DR. WM..S. JORDAN, Physician and Surgeon. v Office in Palace Pharmacy: , - Hours: 8 to 12 and S to 5.' , Dr. E. L, HUNTER, Dentist, . , . ii. n i r i . n ...... . aurm-ram iuruer flaarwH oiwio, I , -v.... Fayettevllle, N, C. Dr. A. S. CROM ARTIE, . -" .' DENTIST,. loftf McKethaa Bldg.; Person St ' 'Phone 338. ". - 1 J. M. LILLY, M. D. I Practice limited to diseases ot the tye,' ear, roee and throat - Office In Ilghsmlth building. 115 Green street lours $ to 1 and to (- Phoq No. . 8. Patterson, D. D. 8. ' :. f ; - V J. H. Judd, D.B. 8. 1 Drs. Patterson & Judd, Hces 21U Hay Street over Duan Cos Store, Thone 86. i.J.S SCOFIELD.M.D., Hers hla professional services to the Ulzens of Fayettevllle and surround ie country. Office with Dr. J. H. Tarsh. . 249 Hsv Street 'Phone 77; csldence, St. Luke's Hospital, 'Phone 24. - - - ' 'acKETH AN lSVTRUST CO. ',.7 t. T Markal Squr. " . .: - I, - . FATinSVItLS.S.O, -." ! E1 botitht snd told, loam neitattd and guuutoM Reals and Interest oolleoled. Tlfl Ax.mfnfld. fnnTeTftD(WI made. Muraaicc premium Uku snd losned here - .B. . WmKSTHIH, Att'T. ' Real Estate For 8ale: Three small suburban farms: 20 acres 1 mile North of City, . : 44 acres 1 mile East of City. 34 acres 6 miles South ot City. 1 cotage corner lot center of City. Other bargains In City, Suburban nd Country property. uditing of Partnership, Corpora, t and Public Accounts n ntwinltv. ould ltave city for a few dnys at UC, v', fers to County Authorities, D. II. , , ivaq., and Dr. II. W. Lilly. W.N.IUUNGIIAST.SR., 1'tcmbcr I-Uoneasa, "THE STATES AND THE FEDERAL j . 'GOVERNMENT." .That was a very Interesting discus-, slon of the relation ot State to Fed eral authority which we reproduced yesterday from President Woodrow Wilson's article on the . subject. It Is also a correot statement, with two Important exceptions. . ;ProsIdent Wilson says: , r , . "The old -measures of the Constitu tion are every day to be filled with new grain as the varying crop of cir cumstances comes to maturity. It Is clear enough that the general com' merclal, financial, economic Interests, ot the country were ' meant to be brought under the regulation ot the Federal Government, which acts for all; and it la equally, dear, that 'What are the general commercial,; financial, economic interests ot the country is a question of fact, to be determined by circumstances which change under our very eyes, and that case by case, we are Inevitably drawn on. to Include under the established definition of the . law matters,; new . and un forseen which -v seem . : la , their magnitude to give to the powers of Congress a sweep and vigor certainly never conceived possible by earlier generations of statesmen sometimes almost revolutionary even in our own eyes. .The subject-matter. of this troublesome definition Is the living body of affairs." - ' '--.'J',! ',"'.';. We have underscored the word "fin ancial"' In the above quotation. The Federal Government Is given by the Constitution no control over the fin ancial Interests of the country 'beyond the power lo "coin money." it was given no ' power to determine ' what money was. That was settled already by facts existing at thejlme ot the adoption of the Constitution, and these facts' were embodied In the. limitations placed upon the powers of the States, which, were forbidden to make, money of anything but "gold and silver?' Our . Homer seems . to have, nodded here, allowing the very partisan bias which he warns us against to" influ ence his able, lucid and generally cor rect statements. .We believe It Is a tact that he took sides with Mf , Cleve land in advocating that violation of the. Constitution which was embodied In the establishment of th gold stand ard instead of -the silver 'and'' gold standard prescribed by It ! : v Again: President Wilson says:, . "The opponents of the tariff of 1824 objected to., the 'tariff system which Congress was so rapidly building up that It went much beyond the simple and legitimate object of providing the Federal Government with revenues in such a way as to stimulate without too much disturbing the natural de velopment of the country and wa un. mlstakably intended to guide and de termine: the whole trend, ot the na tion's economic evolution, preferring the Industries of one section of the country to those of another in its be stowal of 'protection jand encourage ment and s6 depriving the States as self-governing comunltles of all tree economic choice in the ' development or tneir jesources. " ' We have underscored, In the above quotation, the words. "stimulate with out too much disturbing" (the natural development of the country). If Pres ident Wilson approves, as he apparent ly does, the position ascribed by him to the opponents of the' tariff of 1824, he has gone too-far; for:' the 'Con. stltutlon confers upon the Federal gov ernment nothing more, in the matter of the tariff, than the power 'to rahe revenue.". It has no right to ."stlmu late" or to ''disturb" "too much" (or too little)'.' "the natural development of the .country.".' To "stimulate" or to "disturb'1 such development cou sclously. Is a power which, if granted (and if" was not), would Involve tho powejf to... levy . a. "protective" ' tariff. Again, our Homer nods, for we Infer that he is an anti-proteotlonist . for Constitutional (if for no other) rea sons. :::;, ; v : :-r' With the exceptions -noted, .the nr-. tlcle now Criticised by us Is worthy of the author ,ot "Congressional Gov- eminent," the book .which first gave fame to the then young professor rt Johns Hopkins-...,; - -- s: ROOSEVELT'S ATTEMPT TO RE VIVE TH REPEALED "ALIEN AND 8EDITI0N" LAWS. , ' Senator Rayner, ever true, has tak en the proper steps to bring up Roose velt and his .small-brained attorney general with a sharp turn in their law less ' career. Yesterday's dispatches contained the following - one from Washington: . ;v ' ".'X' '. A resolution was Introduced In- the Senate to-day by Senator Raynor.-of Maryland, calling on the Attorney-Gen' era! ' for. Information concerning the bringing of a suit tor libel against cer tain, newspapers. Mr. Raynor asked for Immediate consideration, saying the only purpose was to get informa tion, whether the suit had been order ed, whether it was brought at the in stance of the President, under what statute It has been ordered -and by what authority the courts are being used to forward this suit The suit which President Roosevelt Is believed to have ordered brought against the . Press Publishing Com pany, ' of New York, on account of charges In the New York World that certain weu Known persuua, iuuiuu ing Douglas Robinson, the. brother- in-law of the President, and C. P. Tatt. the brother of the President- elect. -were interested in the purchase of the Panama property, inspired tne Raynor resolution ,- ' Addressing the Senate in support oi the resolution. Mr. Raynor said there was no law whloh warrants a sun for libel of the government This." declared Mr. Raynor. "is an attempted revival ot the sedition laws that have hlppny gone out oi existence long ago. There were halt a dozen parties convicted under the old sedition laws when a member ot r.nn trans was fined and Imprisoned. But that law Is out of existence, and thpre Is ho sedition law upon the atBh.to books of the. United States Quoting from the Atttorney-General to the effect that the oyster "does a int. nf thinking and no talking," Mr. Raynor added that the oyster "does as much, thinking as. Boma other pooplO. . ' .... .' The resolution went over until to- morrow under Senate rules, objection to Immediate adoption having been made by Senator Lodge. .,, . OUR OPPORTUNIST ., COURT. SUPREME The Supreme .Court, of the United I States has evidently taken-note Of the unmistakable trend ot popular p opin ion as ' exhibited in the recent cam paign, In favor of restraining the shift of power from the States to the Fed eral government which bat been tak ing place tor some years. . We have the right to- ascribe this unjudicial attitude to our highest tribunal, be cause it was the Supreme Court which declared the legal tender laws uncon stitutional, and then,' under pressure, reversed itself on this -very subject ' Yesterday's Jelegrams contained the following from Washington. .. The Supreme Court, ot the' United States to-day ' affirmed the decree ot the 8tate courts of Texas imposing a fine ot f 1,625,000 on the Waters-Pierce Oil Co, of St Louis, and ousting it from the State on the charge ofvlolat- ing the Texas anti-trust laws. - - Tne court also sustained tne action of the Texas State courts In the ap pointment of Robert J. Eckhardt as receiver, ' and- thus again decided against the company which sought to have sustained the action of the Fed eral court ' in appointing' C. B. Dor chester at the Instance ot the com pany, y ';'' The decision In . tne cases were Unanimous; ,.-- - Tr' - r One ot the receivership cases came to' the court on a writ of error from the Supreme Judicial District Court of Texas and the other from the United States Circuit Court ot Appeals for the fifth circuit in ' both ot - which courts the decisions were favorable to the State. . Robert J. Eckhardt was apointed receiver by the Travis coun ty Butie court on we uieory mtu, eucu appointment was necessary to preserve the property of the company until the penalty imposed could be collected. justice Day, in tne decision, dis cussed the contention that the fines Imposed were excessive,' saying that the business done In Texas by tne company was Very extensive and high ly profitable, the property amounting to more than $40,000,000 and its div idends as high as 700 per cent per annum. Assuming," he said, "that the de fendant was guilty of a violation of laws; over a period of years and In transacting business upon so large a scale we are not prepared to say that there was want of due processes of law In the penalties imposed.1 TheTlctlon was begun In the State courts - under the State antitrust laws. '.The bill charged that the com. pany had violated the State's laws every day, through a conspiracy with the Standard' Oil Company of New Jersey to control the oil business in Texas, but' the. company denied tne charge, and in addition contended that even if It had violated the law it was not amenable, because the business transacted' was of an interstate char acter, and therefore, subject only to control by the United States author!' ties. The penalty was- at the rate of $50 per day from that time on. PRESIDENT WOODROW . WIL80N ON THE EXAMPLE OF LEE. Before a brilliant audience- at the University, on Lee's Birthday, Doctor Woodrow Wilson, President of Prince ton University, Bpoke in substance as follows Many, gratifying Changes have taken place since the great struggle between the Sates, In .which General Lee play ed so cuusplcuous and distinguished a part; aud one , ot the happiest thoughts of a celebration like this is that General Lee long ago ceased .to be regarded as a sectional-character, that he has been accepted the coun try through as a great American, de voted in the lme of bis chief dis tinction to a particular cause. It is interesting to note that the Century Cyclopaedia of Names- describes him very- briefly and simply as "a cele brated American general In the Con federate service,'' .and. that is now the view of all men who study-and 'ap preciate bis genius. The South does not grudge, him to the nation as one of its great figures. but It cherishes as-a section a par- ticular and ardent . affection -for- tho . ! .1 L 1 1 I . gracious gentleman who led its armlet In the great contest which was fought regarding some of the essential ques tions of our constitutional lire, it loves to. remember all the qualities of greatness that were in him, how gentle and magnanimous . a spirit dwelt in the great soldier, 'and how great a soldier It was who led her armies; a man trained in the school ot soldiers, bred from the first to arms, continuing into a new century the traditions of service . handed on to him by his gallant father and yet not spoiled, by training," still exhibiting a free and native genfus for command, and commanding not only by reason ot his special knowledge and prepa ration, but also by reason of his ex traordinary qualities of character, his power . to command at once by au thority and by affection, to conceive a soldier and yet also as a gen tleman, Les Needs No Eulogy. It would be a delightful thing to dwell merely , upon the spotless per sonal history of the man and upon all the thlngB that commend him to our admiration, and lift him to a unique place In our memory as a model of what we should wish the men ot our race and nation' to be.' But It is not now necessary to speak his eulogy or to commend him to the admiration of the world, . We do not come to gether upon his birthday to praise him or to seek to augment his fame. It is not now necessary to assess and value him. . It Is rather our privilege and duty, to Bpeak of what he means to us in a new generation, to assess his value as an example of the princl by which we should ' wish ' to govern our own lives and ot the models which we should wish men of our own generation to observe and copy. We rehearse his traits and the leading- characteristics of his career rather as a reminder to ourselves ana a stimulation to the duties -ot - our own day!' not to stir the imagination and memory ot soldiers and lovers of great action, but to quicken our own consciences and guide ourselves In times of stress and difficulty. The war between the States was quick rwith forces which It 1b- difficult tor us to handle even now without exoltement. That , war V represented such convictions as are of the color and ardor of blood. The stage of that great drama Is flooded with a Idrid light. It Is hard to. hold calm judgments regarding It And yet perhaps the most dramatic circum stance of the whole tragedy is that at the centre of that crimson field stood the quiet figure of this - man whom we regard as above all gentle, removed from passion and- ot the very flavor of quiet sincerity. There was no touch of the histrionic about General Lee. - His modest demeanor upon every field of action seems al most an attempt to withdraw himself from sight and to move the forces of the day without thought of , the general and with thought ' only . for the business in hand. And yet he Is all the more noticeable on that ac count He was, in fact like every man of . supreme force, compact of fire, as Washington was, though the fire that burned in Washington was less, concealed upon ' the surface of the man than that which moved Lee to his dally achievements.' Every one who approached General Washington j was aware that he was in the pres ence of a man of powerful passions, though only one or two men could ever say that they had seen him yield to the . impulsive forces that slumber ed in, him. He had himself - perfectly In hand. In General- Lee, on " the other hand, the fire came to the sur face and declared Itself to the ob servation of those who stood about him only at some crisis of the action on the battlefield, when with a sort Of Imperious energy he roused him self to stir those whom he command ed to the thing that was to be done, and to check any attempts to question or alter , his - directions. And so "he stands for us as a consumate illustration- of the- real man of - power. Fire under control is the very em blem of force; uncontroled it Is the emblem of destruction, and this man's perfectly, schooled ; and - disciplined power is the model of what men who command should be.- : ..-. The Force In the Man. But fire under control Is a perfect emblem of force only when H Is not only controlled, but directed to the accomplishment . ot definite ends. And the force that was in General Lee was expressive, not ot self-will, not of mere aggressive, commanding power, however disciplined and re strained, but of something which can be described only as a principle alive and In action: He used his force,, as a, man does who IS serving, not hlm- Beif, bnt some idea wnicn rules ana Inspires him. His quietness and modesty when out of action were as true, ah Indication of the real charac ter of the man as the fire and energy that flamed in him when battles were afoot. For-it was not himself he was gratifying; it was a duty he was serving and a definite conception and purpose he- was pursuing. He was self-subordinated to principle alike in choice and in action, looking not to hla Interest or-his' own glory, but to his duty. It is this which makes him a : supreme example for men who seek to serve. With force enough, Initiative enough, v organizing and commanding power enough to gain any object he chose for himself, -he thought "never of himself but only of the thing he was set to do, and this self-subordination to principle and- to duty, .shining so conspicuously m him, as did in Washington, is what puts Mm alongside or wasningion among tne , great - cnaracters oi our country, for it Is a singular and sig nificant thing that men's characters grow In proportion as they become indifferent to themselves and7 to thetr own' interests. They are . lifted, not by ; schemes of self-aggrandizement but by wishing only to guide the tide of purpose arising la a nation, and they ., are themselves no nigner man the tide by which they are lifted and which - they know how to govern. There is a sense in which It may be said that it is not character merely that does this, for the quality of this kind of accomplishment ' does not seem wholly personal. It is rather the expression, the embodiment Jn a person's choice of a force - greater than the Individual, the force of purity and progress that is in a iree people and without - which no people can be either free or great. And so the life of General Lee means tor us, first that a vision of per sonal force, expressed not In terms ot self-interest, but in terms oi service; and, second, service rendered la tne spirit of the soldier not only, but in the spirit of the soldier who Is also a thoughtful citizen, a statesman in the field, mtndtal of his neighbors and of an interest vastly greater than his own and nnmindful ot himself, full of a sort of passion of accomplish. ment whose object is to. represent a I general purpose and not his own. I . - , Present-Day Motives Unlike Lee's. The service of such an example to us at the present time cannot be overestimated.- It must be admitted- with a deep contrition . that . the motives and forces of our time do not seem to Illustrate-the spirit of such men as Lee, but a very different spirit Indeed. -We' are trying to lorm a national policy , concerning many dif ficult matters - amidst elaborate cal culations of interest and seem to con ceive a compounding ot interests to be the only feasible way to an agree ment .and an ultimate achievement Each political party seems to - ask what nrogrammes - will ' De most ac ceptable, when the only question worth asking is what will De Dest ior the country, whether acceptable to it now or only such matter as It can be convinced of by many years of de voted advocacy and patient leader ship,' with a view that stretches be-' vond the next election to the slow processes which involve many elec tions and the unfolding of the affairs ot a great and complex nation. v It la a hard nuestionr for rpartles to ask which are eager for Immediate suc cess, but it is the only kind ot ques tion -which . makes , great, parties or permanent parties . and whloh can Dreserve nrogrammes ' from the ' in- calcuable accidents of sudden shifts and whims of onlnlon. ' , Some things are sufficiently plain. It is plain that principle- Is best for the country rather than mere ex pediency; that the mere' makeshift of the moment -or the measure which has no principle at Its foundation will not In the long run either com mand votes or cement parties. We know the principles of righteous gov ernment; we know the principles which have made us a tree country and which have stimulated-us to the great develooment we have already had. The difficulty is not to nnoi penaiism in isuui urlncmles. but to express them m measures to give them a modern ren dering. to abandon the futility ot trying to return to the antiquated pro grammes and to measures" which were suitable only tor past generations, and go forward to the efficiency which lies in new renderings and new applications and new visions ot means ofprogressi;-, Principle of Individual Opportunity. At the same time It Is Important to recall the principles and ; to assure lOurBelves that we still love and mean to follow them. Unless I am greatly mistaken, the only permanent prin ciple of political ' liberty, the only permanent means of stimulation which - will quicken nations to their best achievements is the principle cf individual responsibility and of . indi vidual opportunity. The whole face of our national life has changed. In the economic field the old order of work and enterprise has passed utter ly away. ' We must make use of com binations ana ot organisation upon a great scale such as a past generation had not dreamed of, and because the , new organization is vast, and compli cated we can neither express it nor control it by means of the Isolated Individual endeavor which used to be sufficient for carrying our material enterprises forward, - There must be governmental, control, but that con trol must not go the length of actual management pt our Industrial affairs through governmental agencies, must not go the length of. absorption by governmental commissions of the functions-of command and adjust, ment which can be --fruitfully exer cised only fry resourceful men whose own fortunes and -reputations are at stake, . It. must take the form, rather, of a clearing, ordering and policing of the field of Industry, whose object shall be the restoration ' of equality ot opportunity, the . removal, so far as possible, ot the opportunity for monopoly, and above all a return to the principle of strict Individual re sponsibility, so that when - we apply our penalties we shall not apply them to organizations, whicn are not pun ishable and iii punishing which we leave the offending individual free to repeat his offense, but shall apply them to those individuals - who ac tually direct and control. This is ho slight or easy matter, but it is to this that we should direct all our thought and adapt all our measures. It will be possible, so soon as we - have .' thoroughly studied the situation, to put law again upon its ancient and only valid basis, tne basis of individual respoaslblllty In person and fortune. An organization has no conscience, and its conscience cannot be quickened. If your law does nofreacn the directing will, it falls futile and Ineffective, disorgan izing industry and not permanently correcting abuses. ' If we : heed - the exam Die of such men as General Lee, we shall sub ordinate our wills to a definite prin clple, serve not a- purpose ot destruc tion, not purpose of vengeance, not a purpose of reprisal, bub a purpose of conservation, shall serve principles and seek to translate them into ac tion, shall put private interest on one side and seek without rancor or Dreiudlce- to push forward and lift to supremacy the interest of tne com munity and the country at large. Only by the conscious pursuit ot such ideals and the conscious compulsion of such standards shall we restore an age of liberty, self-respect and hope. IMPERIALISM. The Democratic Issue in 1900 was ''TmnAvlollimt " . ThA ftllHfltfllKAll . IMTaBR And speaker a made great fun of that. declaring that no one would know the goblin If he should meet it in the road. . The Democrats, contended that the violation in the Philippines ot the fundamental doctrine upon which our liberties rest viz: the consent of the governed was bound to re-act upon ourselves disastrously. Possession of those distant islands entailed our becoming ; "a world power." As a world oower we should require a vastly larger army and navy. With vastly larger army and navy, the power or tne executive neaa line president) '; would be commensurato- I j increased; for the president Is corn- Fmander - ln - chief of the army ana navy. Above all,- the danger Indeed, the certainty was that -we should be come so accustomed to the contemp lation ot subject peoples, held by our selves, that we should lose that fine sense ot Individual Independence which characterised Americans. It. is all here. Go to Washington, and see those who once rejoiced in the pround title ot American citizens, cringe before the power of the execu tive. See a great newspaper, the Washington Post (to say nothing -t its Imitators In the "provinces"), lend ing Itself to the vile purpose of mak ing a denial Cwhlch the president dared not to sign) that the president had violently run down and almost unhorsed a bevy of schoolgirls, be cause they had passed him on the road I See the abject Congress, which has not dared to avail Itself of the hundred reasons which the president has flung Into Its face tor .impeach' ing him!- See the swelling millions upon millions voted for our doubled army and huge navy, the passage rt the bin to douDle tne presidents sai - ary, and such wasteful extravagance, that the Treasury is bankrupt - and there is not a cent for the, improve ment of our waterways though the whole nation Is demanding that indis pensable work! , See the triumph of rottenness everywhere see- the speak er ot the House re-electedr In hla Illi nois district by a far greater relative majority than that which defeated Bryan in the nation that Speaker of the House who Is commonly describ ed as a "foul-mouthed old blackguard," and against whose re-election one of our greatest Christian denominations Is said to have prayed! See hundreds of thousands ot votes controlled, in the late election, by a distant power in return tor acts done in the Philip pines by our Imperialist president and president-elect! ' Does any one now question the liter al correctness of the prediction ot Bryan and the Democrats who sup ported him on the platform of Im- We are reminded of these things hv the recent Incident in connection with the call of the Senate upon the President tor Information concerning aots of ' the President's cabinet. It seems to have been forgotten, that the cabinet officers are not what are known aa Constitutional officers, that Is. officers specifically named In the Constitution. They are. mere creator es of Congress, who can be absolute ly controlled by Congress, at any time, by the simple device of withholding their pay for the President has not yet been endowed with the power to raise and appropriate money. Something over a week ago on the ISth Instant the appended report came in the dispatches from, Washington. The -resolution of Senator Bacon, of Georgia, referred to therein "was laid aside for the day." Let. the people watch the outcome when It is taken up again. We venture the pre diction that the Senate will "lay down" before the "Imperial head," dar ing not to stand upon Its never-before questioned rights in this respect. Said the dispatches of January 13th: Senator Bacon, of Georgia, to-day Introduced a resolution declaring that "any and every public document pa per, or record, or copy thereof, on the files of any department of the govern. ment relating to any subject whatever over which Congress has any grant .if power, jurisdiction or control under the constitution and any Information relative thereto within the possession of the officers of the department, is subject to the call or inspection of the Senate for its use In the exercise of Its constitutional powers and jurisdic tion," -, Mr. Bacon said It was of especial importance because ot the recent mes sage of the President In which he stated' he had directed the Attorney General not to give Information as to what he had done in the bringing of a suit against the United States Steel Corporation for Its absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. ' . ' " Complaining that the language of the President Jn his steel corporation message had. not been "distinguished by its extreme courtesy," Mr. Bacon proceeded: "This Is the first time tnat the denial of the right of the Senate has ever been made in such unlimit ed and emphatic language as that now employed by the President. Has the Right to Demand Papers. Senator Hale expressed the opinion that the President had not taken a square ground upon the right of Con gress to direct the transmission ot papers by the heads of departments. Mr. Bacon said the president ma not stop at questioning the Senate's reasons for its Inquiries but that he had said the heads of the executive departments were subject to the con stitution, to the laws' passed by COn gress and to the direction of the President of the United States "and to no other direction whatever. "That." said Mr. Bacon, "Is as broad as human language can make it." Senator Hopkins challenged Mr. Bacon's contention on the ground that not Congress but the Senate alone recently asked for the information regarding the action of the Attorney General, and Mr. Lodge asked wheth er Congress ,in the judgment of the Senator from Georgia, had a right to demand papers from the State Department "As an absolute right Mr. Bacon renlled, "ves. But, of course, while Congress has the right It exercises its discretion In such matters." Mr. Bacon said the President had but one royal power and that was the power of pardon. All other powers, he said, he exercised in con- Junction with Congress. Tabled for Discussion. Senator Fulton declared that while Congress has the right to command heads of departments, it has no Dower to enforce its commands. He said, "we should provide a way to en force our power to command. Mr. Bacon did not agree with the Senator from Oregon that there was no way to enforce this power. He suggested that the power of Congress to withhold salaries was one way to accomplish this end, but said because the power to enforce may be difficult it does not affect tne power. Senator Teller asked that Mr. Ba con s resolution De aiiowea 10 ue on the table so that It might be discussed later. He referred to a statement by Mr. Hale that Cabinet officers are not mere clerks and said that depends upon who is at the head of the gov ernment It also depends upon the kind of men the President has under him, said Senator Tillman. I do not think any self-respecting Secretary would take orders from the President." said Mr. Teller. The resolution was laid aside for the day. The current newspaper summary nf the above, at the time, was as fol lows: Tho authority of Congress to di rect heads of executive departments to send to the Senate or House infor mation In their possession was the subject of an extended speech in the Senate vesterday by senator Bacon of Georgia. Mr. Bacon took the broad view that Congress has absolute pow er to demand from heads of depart- MAiitfl inv Infnrmiirlnn within tneir I po8BOB8i0n and even to require them to 1 live orders lor tneir action or non action on any matter coming before them. Senator Lodge questioned the power of Congress to demand papers on file in dlnlomatl!nnatteTSand Insisted nnon the right oi tne tresiuem to exercise discretion In such matters. Senator Hale -declared that he did not believe that the President Intended to state in his message to Congress that he would not furnish documents and information but merely that he declin ed to permit a Cabinet officer to fur- nlsh reasons for tne action ne naa taken. He stated that "he would re gret seeing Congress and the Presi dent lock horns on the question ot the nower of Congress to procure infor mation In possession of the Executive DeDartments, Senators Fulton. Teller. Clapp, Mon ey find others, joined in the debate, all of them upholding tne power oi me Senate In the matter under considera tion. WILL THE PRE8IDENT EVER EX PLAIN ITT Baltimore. Sun. - ' ; The Snrlngfleld Republican is a newsnaner that even "Mr. Roosevelt cannot charge with having the slight- ant svmnathv with "malefactors" of anv strlne. It Is utterly untainted with f plutocratlo Influences; it stood stoutly fir ftJffiS in the rallroad-rate matter, and other struggles In which he encountered the hostility of great nnanoiat interests. Moreover, it did not In the slightest decree turn against him when the pan ic came, and It gave no aid or com fort to the "reactionaries" at any stage J c-f the events proceeding the Repub- lican Presidential nomination of last year . Furthermore, the Springfield Republican deservedly enjoys a repn- j tation for thoroughness in the study and fairness in the handling ot ques tions like that involved by the Secret Service quarrel unsurpassed by that of any newspaper In the country. When, therefore, that paper pronour ces an emphatic and unhesitating judg ment on the merits of the case, that judgment is sure to carry great weight with the public generally, and further more, for the reasons mentioned, !s subject to no discount whatever at the hands ot the President himself or his most ardent toUowers. "It Is our Judg ment" says the- Republican, "formed after studying the recent debates in the House In connection with the Ex ecutive messages, that Congress has been grossly slandered." This con clusion is not the result of a mere Im pression, still less of a prepossession In favor ot Congress or hostile to Mr. Roosevelt It Is based upon the facts of the ease facts of such a charact er as almost to prove too much, for they leave it a mystery how the Presi dent ever came to make an assault apparently so utterly devoid ot sub stantial backing. Let ns see what some ot these facts are. The main point about the facts a point has, of course, been brought out In the dispatches at one time and an other, but which has probably not been sufficiently Impressed on the public mind is that the Secret Service of the Treasury Department, which is the only one that the President based his sensational charges upon, Is only one of a large number of similar services at the disposal of the various depart ments, and that the money appropriat ed for this Secret Service is only an insignificant fraction of the total a- mount made available to the Adminis tration tor the hunting down of crim inals. The aggregate of the appro priations made at the last session of Congress for the present fiscal year, to be used In whole or in part to pre vent frauds In and depredations upon the several branches of the public ser vice, to protect public lands, from fraudulent entry and to apprehend and punish other violators qf the law," was 123,588,170 a sum not only en ormous in Itself, but greater by $2,831, 660 nan the appropriation made tor the same purposes In the preceding fiscal year and of this vast total yi,zn,b)s was expressly for secret service and similar services, being an increase ot $792,755 over the preceding year. At the same time the appropriation for what is generally known as the Se cret Service i. e., the Secret Service division of the Treasury Department was cut down from $125,000 to $115, 000, in accordance with that limitation of the activities of this service on by Congress which was the cause of Mr. Roosevelt's wrath and ot his insult to Congress; but it is evident that this trifling reduction cannot, unless lor peculiar reasons which the President may hold locked in his "breast, but which have certainly not made their way to public knowledge, have crippl ed the Government in hunting down violators of law, so long as appropria tionB for that purpose have been made in the lavish scale which the forego ing figures show. Chairman Tawney, of the House Ap propriations Committee, in his speech last Friday went into details tnat con- firm the conclusion which would nat urally be drawn from these general facts. The figures above given are taken from that speech, and In his survey of the various departments, Mr. Tawney indicates that the increas. es were made all along the line, and especially In "those departments el the Government which have occasion to use and which have used detectives or Secret Service employes more than any other department. But perhaps the most interesting specific state ment made In Tawney's speech was that relating to the use of the Treas ury Secret Service men in land fraud cases, one xtf the subjects nearest the President's heart. The appropriation for the detection and punishment of these frauds, made directly to the In terior Department, was doubled by Congress at its last session, and Mr. Tawney gives the following facts as to the attitude of the Secretary of the Interior himself on the subject: At the same time Mr. Garfield made a further statement concerning un employment of Secret Service men in the investigation of land matters, al though that statement does not ap pear in the record of the hearings, tor the reason that when the bead of a department before a committee of the House, has anything to say concern Ing another department he invariably asks that the statement be not taken down. The substance of Mr. Garfield i further statement was that he had entirely abandoned the use of the Se cret Service men in the investigation of land frauds, for the reason that their want of knowledge concerning land matters, land laws and land titles was such as to render their investi gations and reports practically worth less, and cited the dismissal ot some thirty odd cases a short time before which were brought. In tne united States Court in Colorado for the rea son that upon investigation it was found that there was not sufficient testimony to justify their prosecution. Has the President any reply make to such a case as these facts and figures make out against him? he nreoared to explain the "true Is in wardness of his amazing talk to con gress about the Secret Service? In his annual message he devoted but brief passagefo ttrthsmeaning-of which, however, seemed plain enough and when Congress took him to have meant what he said and asked for proofs he declared that he had been misunderstood, but gave neither an ex planation that explained nor an ap-! ology that apologized. Did he really use the insulting language of his mes sage without having in mind either any clear purpose to be attained in the future or any substantial founda tion for his allegations as to the past? Was his irrelevant attack upon Sena tor Tillman really the only recourse at his disposal? Is he utterly without means of meeting the Issue, so that nothing remains but to divert atten tion by any device, however undigni fied and .however unjusunaDie. is there no one who has the President's ear with enough Influence over him to make him understand that the time has come when a plain, straightfor ward tale, without epithets or innuen do, is the only thing that can possibly get him out ot the slough Into which ho has brought himself ? , , : ly: It Does the Business. ' Mr. E. E. Chamberlain, of Clinton, Maine, says of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, "it does tne ousiness i nave uBea it for piles and It cured them. Used It tor chapped hands and it cured mem, ADDlled it to an old sore and K heal ed It without leaving a scar behind." 26c, at B. E, Sedberry's Sons drug latere, ,. ' i -V ' f V lotice of Removal I have moved my marble and granite works In the Ledbetter Block, No, 111 Maxwell streetSvpposlte the F. I. 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Fayetteville Observer [Weekly, 1880-1919] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
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