Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 14, 1924, Page 10

PAGE TEN Cbe Casper Daily Cribune | MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS / The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all,news credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ———————— The Casper Daily Tribune issued every evening and The Sunday Morning Tribune every Sunday, at Cas- per, Wyoming. Publicatfon offices: Tribune Building, opposite péstoftice. —_— Entered at Casper (Wyoming) postoffice as second class matter, November 22, 1916. Business Telephones ~-~--.----- — 15 and 16 Branch Telephone Exchange Connecting All Departments. ———— = ———————— By A J. BE. HANWAY and E. E, HANWAY ‘Advertising Representatives Prudéen, King & Prudden, 1720-23 Steger Bidg.. Chi. cago, Il., 286 Fifth Ave., New York City; Globe Bldg., Boston, Mass., Suite 404 Sharon Bldg., 55 New Mont- gomery St., San Francisco, Cal. Copies of the Daily Tribune are on file in the New York, Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco offices and visitors are welcome. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. ©) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrie ul Outside State A One Year, One Year, Six Months. Three Month E One Month, Daily and Sunda Per Copy -- One Year, Daily a: One Year. Sunday Only - Six Months, Dally and Sunday Three Months, Daily and Sunday 2 One Month, Dafly and Suncay 5 ‘All subscriptions must be paid in advance and the Daily Tribune will not insure delivery after subscrip- tion becomes one month fm arrears. KICK. IF YOU DON'T GET YOUR TRIBUNE. If you don’t find your Tribune after looking care- fully for {t, call 15 or 16 and it will be delivered to you by special’ messenger. Register complaints before 8 o'clock. Put Walsh on the Stand Senator -Thomas J. Walsh, Democrat, of Mon- tana, in his zeal to bend the oil lease investiga- tion to partisan advantige, has tripped over his own tongue. Befuddled by the bawling of Tom Heflin, the 7 juemada of the Democratic In- quisition, he has put himself in a position dif- ficult to justify. On February 27 the Democratic yellow sheets threw fits because Senators Lenroot and Smoot “held a secret conference with former secretary of the interior Fall last Christmas (1923) about which the committee has never been told.” This seare-head story was seized upon by Heflin, who accepts gossip as gospel. He asked the senate the following day: “How are you going to make much headway when the rman of the com- mittee himself (Mr. Lenroot) and a former chair- man of the committee (Mr. Smoot) are having secret conferences with the man involved, the man we are trying to indict and are not telling the committee about the conversations?” Replying to the Heflin alurs, Senators Smoot ang Lenroot on February 29 declared the pur- pose of their visit to Fall was to urge him to make «a clean breast of the Doheny matter, and their conversations with Fall were made known to three members of the committee. Mr. Lenroot asked Senator Walsh whether or not in his opin- ion there was any impropriety in the call upon Mr. Fall for the purpose indicated, and Walsh arose and replied: “I see no impropriety in it.” A few minutes later Walsh evidently conclud- ed to resort again to partisanship as the best policy, so he arose and added; “The bare fact, as stated by the senator, of his going to see Sec- retary Fall with’ his colleague carried to my mind no impropriety whatever. Neither of the senators named indulged the suspicion about this whole transactions with which I was im- pressed from the very beginning. At the time these transactions took place, in the spring of 1922, the secrecy which characterized them, etc., * * * gave to the circumstances, in my mind, from its inception, a rather sinister character. I inter- rogated Mr. Fall at length, he being the first witness when we began the investigation.” (In November) * * * “The futile justification he at tempted, from the standpoint of the law, for his action—what seemed to me the perfectly outrag eous usurpation of power in connection with the matter—all these things had left a deep impres- sion upon my mind * * * May I say that I can- not doubt for a moment that the suspicions of the senator from Wisconsin and the senator from Utah must have been aroused before they visited) ex-Senator Fall, although I know that mine ante dated theirs by a considerable period of t : Now, then, we find Senator Walsh suspici of the Fall Doheny transactions, apparently as far back as 1922. Fall’s first testimony left a deep impression on his mind. Walsh’s suspicions jantedated those of Senators*Smoot and Lenroot 2 considerable period of time prior to Christmas eve, when the “secret conference” was held with Mr. Fall. Apparently he was saturated with the idea that the oil lease transactions were putres- cent. Nevertheless, on December 14th Senator Walsh was trying to get Doheny to enter the Montana oil fields, and when Doheny replied by wire, De- cember 21, 1923, (the telegram which Walsh tried to surpress)-that he would be pleased to confer on the matter if Senator Walsh or his brother would take an interest in the proposi- tion, Senator Walsh, declining, because of his position as senator, rejoined: “I should appre- ciate very much indeed the opportunity to be associated with you in some business center- prise.” Thi@ was three days prior to the sena- torial conference with Fall, but Walsh says he was suspicious of the Fall-Doheny matter long before that. His being a senator was all that saved him from being a partner of Mr. Doheny. cae Outside the Law The extraordinary powers which have been ex- ercised, and are being exercised by the Teapot Dome committee, under the lash of Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Democrat, of Montana, would) be declared an encroachment upon the prerogs tives and powers of the executive as well as the judicial branch of the government and,would be| held, therefore, to be entirely unconstitutional, were a test case to be reviewed by the supreme court of the United States. It is true that the most of the senators arc} lawyers, and that some of them are very emi-! nent lawyers. It might be supposed, therefore, | that they should know what is and what is not constitutional. But such a supposition comes face to face with the fact that these senators} participate in the passage of a great deal of} unconstitutional legislation and that his legisla- tien is properly nullified when it passes in re- view. before the final judge—the supreme court. It is as the present Chief Justice, Mr. Taft, said a good many years before he became a mem ber of the supreme court. “* “.* we find that! while congress has many lawyers, they are not always great jurists, they are not always exact iu their knowledge of exisiting law * * *.” | The safety of constitutional government in the United States rests very heavily wy vance by each of our three by ment of its limitations as specifically laid down of govern- by the constitution and the performance by each of these branches of its. special func- tions as definitely outlined by the constitution. The greatest peril constitutional government may have to encounter is not the peril from with- out, not the peril of open attack. The greatest peril is that from within, the peril of subtle re- 1 Senator Montana, was re-elected to the United States senate in November, 8, Thomas J. Walsh of In the Sixty-sixth 5 congress | he introduced “Senate Bill No. 274." pudiation of the principles and fundamentals of | which provided “for be Wie peece across constitutional government branches of tnat government ‘Lf. se *, In the Nation's Capital If there is one place in the country where the- oretically the enforcement of prohibition should present the fewest difficulties that place is the capital of the nation. t unique city is gov- erned by congress. It not suffer from di- vision of authority and responsibility. There are no local elections and no local political issnes to be decided at the polls by accidental majorities. If congress were in earnest about prohibition enforcement the liquor situation at its door and within its sacred precincts would challenge its attention. But indifference of congress to that situation is notorious and shocking. Major Sullivan, superintendent of police in Washington, reports without comment that pro- hibition has brought into being a new type of criminal—the, bootlegger and smuggler who en- joys the support of respectable and fashionable people; that arrests for drunkenness in the na- tion’y capital numbered 8,368 in 1923, an increase of per cent over the number in 1910; that crime has been growing steadily instead of di- minishing, as the nfore optimistic drys asserted that it would as a result of the Volstead brand of prohibition, These facts carry a moral. It is for congress and for the executive to ascertain what that moral is and candidly give it to the nation Further, it is for congress to ascertain why the prohibition unit fails so lamentably to make a fair showing in the capital of the nation. Has the spoils system something to do with that failure and is congress enamored of spoils and content with lip service to Volsteadism? The militant progressives or the sincere drys in congress should put those queries and elicit answers to them, Distress in Northwest Farmers of the northwest are not the only in- terests that are in financial distress. The trouble of the farmers of the northwest have touched the banks. This effect has been not- ed and measures have been taken to extend re- lief where credit is most required. There are other interests in distress to which little notice has, been given and which are seriously in need of help. These are the ralroads. Instead of of- fering help to them the disposition of the cham- pions of the northwest farmers and banks has been to increase their troubles by a demand for lower freight rates, which would be disastrous. Already the Minneapolis and St. Louis rail- road is in receivership. The St. Paul is not earn- ing its fixed charges, The Chicago and North- western has ent its dividend rate im half. The Great Northern which once paid 7 per cent to its stockholders, and the Northern Pacific have lowered their dividends and both are using their reserves to make what distributions they are giving to their stockholders. There is gossip in Wall street that the last-mentioned may have to change its rate again. It is plain that these roads are affected in their earnings by the agricultural situation in the territory in which they operate, the same as are the banks and the commercial and trading interests of this section. If the railroads, upon which the farmers, merchants and manufactur- ers must depend for transportation of their com- modities, are not prospering a 25 per cent ent of freight rates certainly would make their sit- uation worse. There is not a railroad of the northwest that could servive a 25 per cent cut of its freight revenues. Bankruptcy of the rail- roads and crippling of transportation will not help the farmers of the section. What is required is a remedy that will put all interests of that section on their feet. Cowards and Traitors President William H. Barr, of the American Foundry association, hits the nail on the head, hits the bull’s eye, hits a lot of milk and water Republicans where they live, and does a few more things when he says of the, passage of the housg substitute for the Mellon bill. “It appears that 203 Democrats, seventeen Re- publicans, one Farmer Labor member and ane Independent yoted to destroy the Mellon plan and substitute the Garner plan. Four Democrats and eleven Republicans did not vote. As a mat- ter of fact the adoption of the Garner plan was almost inevitable because the Republicans in the committee on ways and means and in the house began to ooze compromise when the bill was pro- posed. We have had the most sorry exhibition of tepublican leadership ever seen. We saw the bill reported with the Mellon sur-taxes, with cer- tain Republicans serving notice that they would vote for a 30 per cent rate. Then we had the Re- publican leaders offering 35 per cent. Then of- fering 8744 per cent and waving the banner of compromise all over Capitol Hill. The Demo- crats led by Representative Garner acted in ex- actly the proper way. It is true that they had committed themselves to a partisan proposal but no man*with any courage would surrender to an enemy that was sticking its head out of the es with a white flag waving and a request for a compromise. Naturally the Garner outfit demanded and secured unconditional surrender. The Republican exhibition is pitiable. It is to be hoped that when the bill comes to President Coolidge, if it is in the form «approved by the mumittee of the whole house, that he .will veto it and deliver a message to the country which will send many persons into political oblivion where they belong. The Constitution “TI suppose that the American people are con- scious that we have a constitpoion of the Unit § and I know that they are attached to the defense and maintenance of that great institu- tion. They know that we have a government that is made up of three branches; the executive, whose duty it is to enforce and maintain the aws; the judiciary that interprets the law and administers justice between man and man, and the congress, or the legislative branch, which is supposed under the constitution to the engaged in legislation. I think the American people up- prove heartily of that. kind of constitutional goy- ernment and that they want it maintained in its fundamentals.—Calyin Coolidge, special by a branch orj|#nd maintenance of a the of Montana.” . Yellowstone river the state April 11, 1921, the firet day of the session of the Sixty-seventh congress, Senator Walsh introduced the same bill, but numbered “Senate Bill No. 275." the state of Montana to erect and maintain st by st beyond the bounds of the Yellow- st the flood waters draining into said “The right ts hereby granted to dam across the- Yellow- it a point to be selected not more than three miles ‘one river it, one, fot the purpose of conserving . for use in,the irrigation of nds in the valley of the said river ‘one National park; “The flow of the water through the said dam shall be regulated and controlled by the eald state of Montana; “The right to authorize the use, for the development of hydroelectric energy, of any of the waters con- served by means.of said dam is hereby feserved States, but any revenues derived fr di to the United ‘om such reserves shall accrue to the state of Montana for the benefit of the said state or the frrigation istrict or districts assuming the charge for the construction of the sald dam.” The National Parks association, May 23, 1921, in its bulletin, said: “Some millions of . American voters, by informing the Sixty-sixth congress of their unalterable pur- pese to preserve the national parks and monuments in their historic condition of complete conservation, we dfggressive _ commercialism last session. defeat of the Smith bill, asked authority to build an irriga- tu tl ‘on two important victories against in the One of these was the which ion dam in the Yellowstone Na- ional park. The other was the pas- sage of the Jones-Esch bill rescuing national parks and monuments from the application of the water power act. f “The tmportant duty now before this nation is thé defeat .of the Walsh bill, just Introduced in the 8 ixty-seventh congress, calling for the damming of Yellowstone lake, Yellowstone National park. “This constitutes the most in- sidious and dangerous blow ever aimed at American conservation, be- cause it-seems to ask for so little w hile really demanding the entire national parks system, for {® con- gress grants Senator Walsh his way swith Yellowstone it cannot refuse to grant others their way with other national parks." From the first, the promoters tn- yoked politics, and prospered. Poll- ticlans joined im the popular cry, and Montana was to blossom at last, at the expense of Yellowstone park, one of the cholce spots of A merica! The plan originated in "Livings- Montana, as a rival to an Idaho ton, sehems of several years previous, to dam Yellowstone lake and tunnel its water into Idaho. - Under cunning wording of the bill. the Livingston group was to build, operate and control the dam, and reap the financial returns, even from any water power which might develop in Yellowstone park. have gone Pp it the bill .would logi,aby to the Committee on ublic Lands, Senator Wasa had referred to the Committee on While Immigration, he being a member of that committee. In February, 1921, Senator Waish had what he had planned tu bo = secret ca moters on the ground. sii mecting of the committee with the Livingston pre- Alert to the the officers of the Na- alled, ifuation, tional’ Park association secure! the presence of Superintendent Horace M. Albright of Yellowstone National park, and George B. Goodwin, chief engineer of the national park ser- vice. ‘These hearings covered four days, and disclosed the nature of the scheme: Superintendent Albright stated the proposed dam/ would submerge’ a part of Yellowstone park and de- stroy much of Its beauty. Engineer Goodwin called it an impractical project. ‘The Walsh bill provided that na- tional park authorities shall have nothing to do with the amount of wi over the falls. tana was ater permitted to flow in the river The state of Mon- ‘cs control, and perhaps the Yellowstone Irrigation associa- tion of Livingston! testimony, Despite all the government expert in May, 1921, a. type- written circular signed by Thomas J. Walsh, was sent to every mem- ber of congress. expert ‘The government testimony was omitted. According to Bulletin No. 20 (June 8, ciation, 1921) of the National Parks asso- the ¢ireuiar signed by Senator Walsh contradicted the tes- Clean, convenient, healthful radiator heat without the expense or inconvenience of a central heating plant. Uses warm air instead of steam, and actually ‘VENTILATES as it heats. The cost is surprisingly low. Burns very little gas. A phone call will bring eur estimator. POWTER C. T. PLUCKHAHN, Inc 1341 South David Phone 1287W 4 _ Formerly Enterprise Construction Co, The Dangers and Demagogy of Tom Walsh timony of government experts. Walsh claimed it was not a er power scheme. The bill the said reserve use (for power) shal! accrue to the state of for the benefit of said state district or districts assum~- charge of the construction dam.” irrigation ing the of said Senator Walsh claimed the federal government would not spend a dollar. Government experts showed the government would be compelled to replace roads, build new bridges and a lake pler and parts of the fi¥Meries hatcheries. May 15, 1921, the Bozeman (Mont.) Dafly Chronicle said: “Whether or not the granting of the special privilege in thig particu- Singer—"“Don't you think I” hay a fine voice?” . lar case would result in detriment And too es to the beauties of the park, is not Ola to ink eretg thos you oe rtp een to our mind the tssue at stake, but Have any i te o* rather the fact that a granting of Fun. So he told her for the twenty- eighth time how he won the battle of Gettyburg. Not 2 Position. ary, so I'm told.” “How does she earn !t?” Oh, she doesn’t. Her husband earns it, and she commands it.” this particular request would form @ precedent, and the head of the camel would then be inside the tent and it would be time for the family to move out. The Chronicle is un- alterably opposed to the granting of any vested rights within the park to any state, corperation, or other combination of individuals whatever.” Senator Walsh, now posing as the special guardian of the public inter- ests to save the government oil lands from spoliation by private parties, in 1921 was willing to sacri- fice the beauties of Yellowstone park and deprive the government of valuable property, for the benefit Explained. oT. never hurry: and I never “What branch of the government do you work for?" Even a man of ateel will some times lose his temper. A Love Story. Love in the December of life is just as beautiful as it is in May. A whitehaired old man and a sweet Utt'e old lady used to meet in the park every day and sit together all Uncle Hook Says. afternoon. This friendship’ gradu-|. “If s couple would work half as ally developed into a deeper af-! hard to pleare each other after they “Pa, is a ton of coal very much?" “That depends, my son, on whether you are burning It or shov- eling it.” IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE c The Whole Tru About Coffee — R more than three years the Massachusetts Insti- ’ tute of Technology has been making an exhaustive investigation of Coffee. This investigation was made j at the invitation of the Coffee trade of the United States to determine by scientific research the whole truth about Coffee and Coffee making, and it was one of the most thorough investigations ever made of any food product. The result of this scientific research, as announced by Professor Samuel C. Prescott, Director of the Institute’s Department of Biology and Public Health, shows that Coffee is a wholesome, helpful, satisfying drink for the great majority of people. The report covers many hundreds of pages, for every ' aspect of Coffee and Coffee making was studied, but Pe aris in just one paragraph of ninety-two words Professor Prescott: has swept aside all the old prejudices and superstitions, and given Coffee the cleanest bill of health that could be wished. He says: : “It may be stated that, after weighing the evidence, ‘a dispassionate evaluation of the data so comprehensively surveyed has led to no alarming conclusions that coffee is an injurious beverage for the great mass of human beings, but on the contrary that the history of human experience, as well as the results of scientific experimen. - tation, point to the fact that coffee is a beverage which, properly prepared and rightly used, gives comfort and inspiration, augments mental and physical activity, and may be regarded as the servant rather than the destroyer of civilization.” - “ This statement, coming from such an unquestioned scientific authority, should be a source of satisfaction and relief to every true lover of Coffee and should establish, for all time, the fact that Coffee ig a whole- some drink for the great mass of human beings. Joint Coffee Trade Publicity*Committee, 64 Water Street, New York