Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 14, 1911, Page 6

‘AGE FOUR {GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1911 ps AL ata ita ibdoals a east maths <9 crest Re ane tos Wat ec bake Hires saat Grand Rapids Weraia-"Review Published Every Wednesday By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids, Minnesota, as Second Class Matter. Official Paper of Itasca County. THREE-CENT FARES AND RAIL- ROAD TAXES. Yesterday The Herald published extracts from a statement by Sena- tor Julius A. Coller of Scott county, one of the oldest and ablest, members of the Minnesota senate, effectually destroying the claim that the two cent passenger rate is confiscatory, as the railroads claim and as the Federal courts have held, and urg- ing the speedy adoption at a special session of the legislature of an act increasing the gross earnings tax on railroads from 4 per cent to 5 per cent. Though the experiences of the last session are too racent to make the idea of an extra session wholly pal-} atable at first thought, there is a question of dollars and cents in- volved that will sugar coat the pill. The railroads are now paying a tax of 4 per cent on their gross earn- ings. If you will figure out the taxes oi your revenue-producing property you will find that you are paying much more than that—probably 8 to 12 per cent on your gross earnings| To change the rate of railroad taxes it is necessary for the legis- lature to propose a law to that ef- fect and to submit it to the people for their ratification. If the legisla- ture at its last session had done law could have been ratiiod people at the 1912 election. this the by the If legislative action is postponed un- til the 1913 regular session the in- crease cannot be ratified until the 1914 election. Two years’ additional revenue would be gained by a special session. It is worth while examining the sit- uation to determine if it would pay to follow Senator Coller’s suggestion. In 1909 the gross earnings of the railroads on which they paid taxes was $91,014,224. One per cent on that, the amount of the proposed in- rease, would be $910,142 a year, or 5 that would be saved by a special session 284 for the two years called for next winter to submit 2} law increasing the tax from 4 to 5 per cent. The extra session would cost some- thing, but it need not be long, nor expensive. Even if it cost $100,000, it would be offset by al gain of a million and three quarters | return to the people of the state, in for what the railroads unduly a measure, about to take from them by increas- ing the passenger rate from 2 cents a mile to 3 cents, There is no question that the rail- are undertaxed. No other | in the state pays so low | a tax as 4 per cent-on its gross earn- roads property ings. The tax commission has found that railroad, property is not taxed enough, and it has so declared. In that under-taxed, its 1911 report, after stating rialroad property is the commission says: “This commis- sion does not believe that®there is any good reason why railway prop- erty should not be taxed as high as other property, and if the revised estimate of the value of such prop- erty, now being made by the rail- road and warehouse commission shows, when completed, that railroad property is not being taxed as high as other property we recommend that the gross earnings tax be increased accordingly.” Any estimate of the value of rail- road property in this state will show that it is underfaxed, whether made by the railroads or by the railroad commission. In 1906 the railroads placed a reproduction value of $495,- 180,630.98 on their Minnesota proper- ty. The tax commission showed in its 1911 report that if this property assessed at the prevailing av- erage rates—43.48 per cent of actual value on real estate and 28 per cent on personal property—and taxed at the average rate of 25.91 mills, its were taxes would amount to 6.09 per cent on ‘the railroad gross earnings— and they are paying but 4 per cent. An investment of $100,000 in an extra session to submit to the people a law increasing, tke tax rate from 4 per cent #@ 5 per cent would gain $1,750,000 in taxes in the two years that must elapse before it can be done at a regular session. It would, too, be a proper answer to the in- crease in passenger rates from 2 to 3 cents a mile. Isn't it worth the investment, ev- en at the discomfort of bringing the! legislature together again? Isn’t it, indeed, an absolute necessity ?—Du- luth Herald. ALVWOOD School closed Friday, June 2, with a pleasing program appropriate for the day. Luncheon was served and a shadow and penuta contest was held. Marie Price and Lloyd White being the winners. The children made good progress for which much credit is due Miss Bardsley. The parents are disappointed in not be- ing able to secure Miss Bardsley’s services for next year. R. S. Whitinger and P. P. Johnson were business visitors in Northome on Tuesday. J. M. Price accompanied by his daughter, Miss Irene, who has been attending hgih school at Bemidji re- turned home Saturday from that place. Mr. Price has been laid up all week with a sore hand from the ef- fects of a mosquito bite. A. H. Delap went to Northome Menday with a load of produce. Mr. Delap reports the roads as being very bad. The heaviest rain of the fell on Wednesday night. Paul McGowan went to Cass Lake te prove up on his homestead. Mr. Bardsley, father of the teach- er, Miss Agnes Bardsley, attended the school picnic. H. L. Price has purchased from A. H. Delap. season a cow A Boost for Case. Opportunities, a Duluth trade _ pa- per, has the following concerning. D, VY. Case, the well known architect In this age of constant advance- ment in everything pertaining to bus’- ness and professional life, new things scon become old and old things new and especially does this apply to ar- chitectural designs, whether it be a bungalow, palatial residence or a sky scraper. What the man of affairs is looking for when he is building a business. block or a home is_ the architect that can give him a classy stiucture from the outside and one tbat has all of the modern conven- i uces, giving him the best of sani- tation for the interior. Duluth has many architects, but among the who group we doubt if there is a single firm in the profession that outranks hat of D. V. Case & Broomhall who have a suite of offices at 710 Alworth building, Duluth, Minn. D. V. Case came here January Ist, 1911, from siiewing Where he was located some cwo and a half years. Prior to this time he was with W. R. Parsens & . Who had offices.in Duluth, Des Moines, Iowa, Oklahoma City and Fort Smith, Kansas. The other member of the firm, E. F, Broomhall, was located in Kansas City, Lincoln, Nebraska and St. Joseph, Mo., but hearing of the great prospects in store for Duluth and the .Northland territory, he decided to threw his fortunes in this section and ‘add what. he could to make it one of ar- chitectural beauty and granduer and so joined D. V. Case. Since locating in Duluth the firm have been very busy, in fact, at this writing they have three draftsmen employed get- ting out plans and have contract work under way that amounts to more than a quarter of a million dollars. Iu range business they are having their share, having drawn the plans for the $20,000 Ryan Hotel, $10,000 Mesabe laundry, $20,000 Orpheum Theatre, $10,000 Ryder Block, $8,000 Sub-Station Fire Hall, and many oth- ers buildings all at Hibbing, and $35,000 -MeAlpine Block and $30,000 Hughes business block at Grand Rap- ids and many other plans scattered over the Northland., They are also | drawing plans) for the Mardin High school for the Women’s board of Missions of the Interior, home office at Boston, Mass. Madin is located in Asiatic Turkey, being a metropolis for a wide section of the country, making this High School an educa-} tional center. The plans as drawn by Case & Broomhall show a three story building of very attractive ap- pearance to be built of native lime- stone at a cost of some $60,000. It is seen from this, that their talent is also drawn upon from which stamps’ them im the forerank of their profession, as these plans were left in competition that really world wide. ~ | SENATOR STONE IS TAFT LEADER Missourian Likely. to Handle Reciprocity Measure. DEMOCRATS TO PUSH FIGHT. Situation Will Be Different From What It Was When the Last Tariff Bill Was Under Discussion—Williams of M ppi Is Expected to Take Part In the Coming Debate. By ARTHUR W. DUNN, Washington, June 1°. » (Special.J— It is likely to develop -hat the Taft leader in the senate is Wsiam J. Stone of Missouri. Althougs senator Pen- rose reported the Canadian reciprocity bill and will push it along as the sen- ator in charge, the defense of the meas- ure will devolve upon Democrats. It has been evident for a long time that Stone has been fitting himself for the position of leading the fight for the bill. He has been urging speedy ac- tion upon it and has taken a very ac- tive part in favor of the bill during the hearings. He also has had many and extended conferences with Presi- dent Taft on the subject. Stone and the president are very good friends. Stone is a “Tafter,” as members of the party are designated who made the trip with Taft to the Philippines a few years ago. Will Be a Contrast. The situation in the senate during the consideration of the Canadian bill will be in great contrast to that when the last tariff bill was under discus- sion. At that time Democratic sena- tors were severely criticised for allow- ing the burden of opposition to the Re- publican program to be carried by in- surgent Republicans. It was said that several Democratic senators lost an op- portunity to make reputations for themselves, Such will not be the case during the next few weeks, for not only Stone, but Williams of Mississippi and many other Democrats, will take a prominent part in the discussions. Senator Bai- ley, who would be the natural leader in tariff matters on the Democratic side, will be opposing the bill, but he will have only a small following. A Near Discovery. A witness before the senate finance committee was moving along in a monotonous sort of manner and re- marked that the flying machine was the latest device for handling sized timber. “Do you mean to say that you handle your timber with a flying machine?” asked Senator Gallinger, with amaze ment. The witness explained that it was a spar 120 feet high. with cables, which replaced the old donkey engine. Seeing Washington. The spring and summer months have brought thousands of sightseeing tour ists to Washington. There has seldom been such a rush of visitors to the capitol. When congress is in session the galleries are filled with strangers who for the first time observe the na- tional lawmakers at work. There is every prospect that visitors to Wash. ington will enjoy that privilege for several weeks, !f not months. Bailey's Choice. “When | leave the senate,” said Sen- ator Bailey, “I will become either an editor or a law professor. My inclina- tion is to become an editor, for I be eve L can do more good in that line of work.” This remark was injected into the hearings on the Canadian reciprocity bill, The Texas senator no doubt thinks he has a mission and that he would give the world great truths. be interesting to note a newspaper war between Bailey’s paper and that of a journal published at Lincoln, Neb. In the same discussion it was devel- oped that Senator Smoot was the own er of one newspaper and was interested in others. He said he did not. write for bis paper. “If I owned a paper,” said Bailey, “I certainly would write for it.” Almost Forgotten. In some manner the subject of de natured alcohol was injected into a senatorial discussion, and different sen- ators pointed out that the impression Seemed-to be that the bill was to bring fortunes to thotisands of people—yes. millions, especially, the farmers — throughout the land, and yet no one seemed to know of a single advantage that fiad been’ accomplished by it. At one time there was about to be as great a contest for the authorship of the law as there is for the credit .of originating rural free delivery.» Ev- erybody claims to fave been the pio neer in that innovation, but now no one seems to care who was responsible for the denatured alcoho! law. Back Numbers. Sitting side. by side on a senate sofa not long since were Tom Power and Fred Dubois. Power was one of the first senators from Montana, and Du- ' bois became a senator from Idaho two Europe | | 1893, when the silver men tried to de- | months after the state was admitted. Those were| new states not so very long ago, and yet that pair on the sen- ate sofa were back numbers. They were associated-in one of the greatest — filibusters the senate has known, in law. It would | SENATE LEARNS” ABOUT | PAPERS They Are Told 1d How Editors Do | That Work. QUESTION OF NEWS VALUES. General Manager of the Associated Press Tells Why Certain Facts Are Not Worth Printing—Public Antip- athy to Newspapers Is Developed by Inquiry Before Committee. By ARTHUR W. DUNN. Washington, June 13. — (Special.J— Members of the senate committee on finance fearned more than they ever knew before concerning the newspa- per business on the day when the hearings on the reciprocity bill closed. The senators discovered, among other things, that news associations are not permitted to color the news or make yartisan reports. They ulso found that they had been mistaken in a number of matters regarding the publishing business and the methods of gather- ing and distributing the news. One important fact that they learned upon inquiry was that a newspaper was not obliged to print every dispatch sent to it just as it was sent; that such a dispatch could be edited, cut down or thrown away; also that the news associations and the correspondents were not responsible for the headlines What Should Be Published. Although not pertinent to the hear- ing, there was a discussion as to what newspapers should publish. The gen- eral manager of the Associated Press explained to Senator Bailey that if a pastor of a church should preach fifty- of John Wesley there would not be news in the sermons, but if he should make an infidel plea it would be news. The Texas senator was of the opin- ion that it would be better if the pa- pers should print the good and leave out the bad, but other members of the committee recognized that papers were printing what the public demanded. Stood Out Prominently. What stood out prominently in the hearings was the general dislike of public men for the newspapers. How generally this is known there is some doubt, but no one can have read the hearings or the speeches or heard men talk about the Canadian reciprocity agreement without fully realizing that there is a general antipathy toward the newspapers, that they are tolerated as a necessary evil because they are protected by the constitution, but that upon the whole they are regarded as an agency of misrepresentation. That is especially the attitude of a large number of men who oppose the Canadian agreement and hold the newspapers responsible for pushing it forward. The same feeiing toward the so called muckraking magazines brought forward the proposition to in- crease the rates of postage on period- ieals. The debates on the reciprocity bill will develop still further the bitter feeling of senators toward newspapers. A Root Paradox. One day when the senate showed that there was still a deadlock on the election of a president pro tem. Sena- | tor Root remarked that it was a good thing to show the country that the Re- publicans did not control the senate. “While a majority of the senate are Republicans, there is not a Republican | majority,” he paradoxically said. In explanation he added that a majority | of the senate called themselves Repub- | licans and were Republicsms on many | questions, but on many others they were wide apart. As those questions upon which they divided were now up- | permost in the minds of the people and | subjects of legislation there was not a | Republican majority in the senate. | What He Said. | When Melville E. Stone of the As- | sociated Press was before the finance | committee Senator La Follette qnes- | tioned him as to why the reports of Colonel Roosevelt’s western tour were | 80 meager. After explaining an un- | foreseen circumstance that tended to | curtail the reports Stone added: “If you remember, senator, the colonel | said only two really important things | on that trip. At El Paso he said he | was against the recall, and a short time after at Los Angeles he said he was for the recall.” “Climatic _ changes.” sententiously remarked Senator Williams. Long Standing Pair. For a long time Senator Tillman has | been paired with a Vermont senator. | First it was with Proctor, and when he died Dillingham became the pair | of the South Carolina senator. Al-/ though much in evidence when he was in good health, Tillman was ab- sent more or less during his early ca- reer, as he was often on the lecture platform. Cullom’ a Wonder. j } Day after day we marvel at the vi- tality of Senator Cullom of Illinois. He is in his eighty-second year, and | yet he continues to attend to his sena- torial duties with fidelity. 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