Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 7, 1912, Page 15

BUSNESS OF COUNTRY NOW ON A SOLID BASIS NORWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1912 President Taft Says That Conditions Could Hardly be Better, in His Second Message to Congress Crying Need of Country is a Proper Banking and Currency System—Recommends Construction of Two Battleships a Year and Commends the Army Reorganization—Sen- sible Economies Have Saved Government Considerable Money in Past Three Years—Suggests Promotion of Col. | Goethals to Rank of Major-General in Recognition of His Work at Panama—Reform of Court Procedure Dis- cussed. Bending & second messuze to gress on fiscal. Judiial o insular affairs. President T that, as the message of Dec confined to forelgn re fall discussion of ail the tr of the go'erumeni requives ¢ than une sy of Feasalable ieng affords. 1 have therefore adopied | course of sendivg three or fonr me sages during the frst teu dass of i session wo ux 10 include reference mere important matters that sbouil be brongnt to the attention uf coh The president finds the country in u period of snccessful business, with, = year of bamper cropw For the las three years the government has saved mach by sensible ecovomy. He finds the crying uewl of the country is a proper banking nnd currency system and says that customs daties should be revised duwnward, He strougly urges congress o wake the necessary appropriation for strengthening our forelgn possessions at the earliest pos aible day. lu recognition of his werk on the Pamama canal President Taft recommends the promotion of Colonel Goethals to the raok of major general The presideut says reduced expendi- tures in the nary meun reduced mill- tary streagth and deems that the in- crease shonld be at least two battle- ships a year and lLattle cruisers. gun- boats and torpedo destroyers and sub- merfnes in proper propertion. He commends the calm, orderly way 1a which the trusts ure beiag proceed- od agaivst and xays a steady, consist- ent course. without any radical legis- lation changing the present govern- mental pelicies. is going to offer a se- lation te the problem. The comatry's business first engages the presideat's attention. Business Conditions. The condition of the cosmtry with reference to business could hardly be better. While the four years of the administration now drawing te a clese ve not developed great specuiative expansion or a wide fleld of mew in- westment. the recovery and pregress wade from the depressiag conditions following the pamic of 1907 bave been steady, and the improvement has been clear and easily traced ip the statis- tica. The business of the cewntry is now on a solid basis. Credits are ot usduly extended. and every phase ef the sitnation seems in a state of pre- paredness for a period of nnexampled prosperity, Manafacturing concerns ave rum- ning at their full capacity, and the demand for labor was never so cem- stant and growing, The foreign trade of the coustry for this yeur will ex- ceed $4.000.000.000, while the balance in our favur—that of the excess of ex- ports aver imports—will exeoed $508, 000.000. [t is & year of bumper erops. The total movey value of farm preducts will exceed $6.500.000.000. It is a year whea the bushel or nnit price of agri- euitural products has gradualy fallen, and yet thé towl value of the eatire wop is greater by over $1.000,000000 ban we have known in our histary. Condition of the Treasury. The coudition of the treasury is very satisfactors. The total interest bear- g debt is $uas, 0, of which $134,- BB1.980 constitutes the Panama canal 0an. The uwoninterest bearing debt is WIBB01.254 00, including $346.641.016 W greenicks We bave in the treas. ATy $1500.000 in gold coib A8 u re- Jerve wgdinst the eutstanding green: backs: and i addition we have a eash balance W fhe treasury as a gemesal Tund of $167.152475.90, or ap increase M 326075552 over the geeral tusd last year. Receipts and Expenditures. For three years the espenditures of the government have decreased under the influence of aa effort to economize, This year presents an appavent excep- tion. The estimate by the seeretary of the tremsury of the ordinary receipts, exclusive of postal reveaues, for the year ending Jume 30, 1914, indicates that they will amount to $710.000400, The sum of the estimates of the ex- penditures for that same year. exelu- sive of Panama casal dishursements and pestal dixhursements. payabile trom postal revecves, is $T32.000.000, indi- cating o dencit ar $22,000.00) Wor the vear cudfog June 39. 1913, stmbiaris oxiimaind recelpis were SEAT.- 008000, wgjle the totw) correspouding pstimaze of exnenditures for that year, pobmiited thruugy the secipiary of the treagary A; _;g‘"g 5 By, shews uy lacremge m@ i he extaiag for 1908 ewer the total eatimates of 1943 | forcements. or recruitment. Tlie oniy part er aur manetary wedi om that ha elagticity i the hankooi:| currency. The peculiar provision o the law requiring national banks t maintain reserves to meet the call of | the depositors aperates fo ucrease the | money stringency when it arises rather than to expand the supply of curréney | and relleve it. It vperatex upon each | bank and furnishes a iative for the withdrawa! of currency frow the chan- nels of trade by each bank to save it self and offers no inducement whatever for the use of the reserve fo expand the supply of currency to meet the es- ceptional demand. After the punic of 1907 congress real- fzed that the present system was nol adapted to the country’s needs and that under 1t pamics were pessible that | might properly be avoided by legisla- | tive provision. ~Accordingly a' mon etary commission was appointed which made a report fu February. 1912. The | aystem which they recomusend involy od & National Reserve association which was, in certain of its facuities and functions, a bank, and which was given through its governing antherities the power. by issuing circulating notes for approved commereial paper, by fix ing discounts, and by gther methods of transfer of currency. to expand the supply of the moetary medium where | it was most needed to prevent the ex- ! port or hearding ef gold and generally to exercise such supervision over the supply of money in every part of the country as te prevent a stringency and & panic. Certain it is, however, that the eb- Jections which were made in the past bistory of this country to a central bapk as furnishing a menepoly of financial power te private individuais, would mot apply te an associatien whose owmership amd coatrel is o widely distributed and is divided be- tween all the banks of the eomwatry, state and national, e the ene hand, and the chief executive through three department beads and his comptroiler of the currency on the other. There is o elass in the eommunity more interested im a safe and sane bamking and curremcy system, one which will prevent pemies and auto- matically furnish ia each trade center the currency needed in the carryiag en of the business at that center, tham the wage earner. There is no class in the community whose experience bet- ter qualifies them to make suggestions as to the sufficiency of a currency and banking systems thas the bamkers and business men. Ought we thetefore te ignore thelr recommendations and reject their finaneial. judgment as to the preper method of reforming our financial sys tem merely beeause of the saspicion which exists egainst them in the minds of many of our fellow eitizems? Is it not the duty of eongress (o take up the plan suggested. examing it from all standpoiats, give impartiai considera tion to the testimony of these whose expwfence oaght to Gt them to give the best advice ou the subjeet, and then to adopt some plan which will secure the beaefits desived? A Dbanking and cuvsesey system veems far away from the wage earner and the farmer, but the faet is that they are vitally interested in a safe system of currency which shall grad- uate its volume to the ameunt veeded and whieh shall preveat times of ar- tifielal stringeney that frighten capi- tal. stop employwment. preveat the meeting of the payrall, destrog loeal ‘warkets and produce pepury and waat The Tariff. 2 I have regarded it as my duty ia for- mer messages o the congress to urge the revision of the tariff ugon prinel- ples of protectign. It was my judg ment that the customs duties qught te be revised dowwsvard, bat that the re- duction ouglht not to he below a rate which would represent the difference in the cost of production between the article in question at heme apd aproad. and for this and other ressens 1 vetoed several bifls which were presenigd to me in the st session of this congress. Now that a wew cougress has been elected on a piatéeorm of a tanff for revenue guly rather than a ppetective tarift. and 1s to revise the tarjf on that basis, it is peedless for me fo occupy the time of this congress with argu menty or tecomnneudations in favor of a proiective 13Hl Army Reocganization. Our smail army Do sonsisty of 83 s wen. exciudivg fhe SO0 Ll pine scouts Lgm'q’ 9ut ot considera- o coal sons’ The forces remaining In the Unitea States are now scattered in nearly fifty posts, situated for a variety of historical 'reasons in twenty-four states. These posts contain only frac- tions of regiments, averaging less than 700 men each. In time of peace it has Dbeen our historical poliey to adminis- ter these units separately by a geo- draphical erganization, In other werds, our army in time of peace has mever been a united organization, but mere- 1y scattered groups of companies. bat- talions and regiments, and the first task in time of war has been to create out of these scattered units an army fit for effective team work and co-op- eration. A comprebénsive plan of army reor- ganization was prepared by the war college division of the geueral staff. Under the fnflvence of this study definite and, effective steps have been | taken toward army reorganization so far as such reorgunization les within the executive power. Hitherto there has been no difference of policy in the treatment of the organization of our foreign garrisobs from these of treops within the United States. The differ- ence of situation is vital, and the for- elgn garrison sheuld be prepared to defend itself at an instant's petice i a foe who may command the nlike the troops in the United States, it camnot eount upon re-em- It is am outpost upon which will fall the brunt of the first attack in case of war. The historical policy of the United | States of carrying its regiments dur | ing time of peace at half strength has uo application to our foreign garri- sons. During the past year this de- fect bas been remedied as to the Phil- ippines garrison. The former garrison of twelve reduced regiments has been replaced by a garrison of six regi- ments at full strength, giving fully the same number of riflemen at an estl mated economy In cost of malntenance of over $1,000.000 per year. This gar- rison is to be permanent. Its regi- mental units, instead of belng trans- ferred periodically. back and forth from the United States. will remain in the islands. The officers and men composing these wanits will, however, serve a regular trapical detail, as usual, thus -invelving ne greater bardship upon the personnel and gveatly in- ereasing the effectiveness of the garri- san. 0 The Home Army. Simultaneously with the foregeing steps the war department bas been proceeding with the reorganization of the army at home. The formerly dis- associated ugits are being united into a tactical organization of three divi- slons, each censisting of twe or three brigades of infantry and, so far as practicable; a proper proportion of di- visional eavalry and artillery. Of course the extest to which this reform can be carrled by the exeeutive is practieally limited te a paper organiza- tion. The scattered units cam be brought under a proper erganization, but they will remain physically seat- tered until congress supplies the mec- essary fumds for grouping them ia movre concentrated posts. Regufar Army Reserve. The mew law provides that the sol- dier, after serving four years with eel- eors, shail pass into a reserve for three years. At his optiom he may go inte the reserve at the ead of three years, remaining there for feur years. While in the reserve he cam be called and only in sueh ease will receive a stated ameunt of pay for all of the peried in which he bas beea a member of the Teserve. The legisiation is imperfect, in my opinien, in certain particulars, but it is a most important step in the right direction. and 1 earnestly hape that it wilt be ecarefuily studied and perfected by congresa. The National Guard. Under’ existing/ law the natienal guard constitntes, after the regular army, the first line of national defense, Its organization, diseipline, training and equipment under recent legisiation have been assimilated, as far as peesi- ‘ble, to those of the regular army, and its practieal efficiency under the effect of this training has very greatly in- creased. ,Our citizen soldiers under present conditions have reached a stage of developuent beyoud which they ean- not reasonabiy be asked to go witheut further divect assistance in the form of pay from the federal government. On the other hand, such pay frem the pational treasury would not ba juati- fled ualess it prednced a praper equive- lent in additional efficiency on the part of the national guavd. The organized militia today canmet be ordesed eutside of the limits of the United States and thus cannot lawful- Iy be used for genesal military pur- poses. The officers and mea are ambi- tious and eager to make themselves thus available and te become an effi- cient national reserve of citizen sol- diery. They are tha ealy forece of trained men ether than the regulay army upen Which we cap rely, The so called militia pay bill in the form agueed on between the autherities of the war departmeat and the veprasent- atives of fhe natiemal guawd, In wy opinien, adequately meets these eondi- tions and offers a preper retuva fov the pay whieh it is preposed to give io the nationgl guavd, 1 believe that its emactmeat intp law would he & long step towazd pro- viding this nal with § first }{me of citizen seidiery, wpen which wmain reliance must depend in case of any national emergency. Plans for the es- ganization of the national gward iate tactical divisions en the same lings as those adopted fov the vegwiar army ave being formulated by the war college division ef the general staff, Porto Rico, Porta Rigo continues to siew notabie beth commercially and in the of the Islung in 1901, Duming the year 160437 pupjls were ontotied In the ublig géi apaingt 148825 for B ELiThE st o us L with fizst peac of Ameri- san-te graat Awerl: ean-citizgustiaeantinves to be the valy " uf" dissatistaction. The bill the heuse of representatives and is now awaitfag the action of the senate, I am beartily in favor of the passage of this biil. | belleve that the demand for ecitizenship 1s just and that it is amply earned by sustained loyaity on the part of the Inhabitants of the is- Jand. But it should be remembered that the demand must! be, and in the minds of mest Perto Ricans Is, entire- 1y disassociated from;any thought of statehoed. The Philippines, A bill is pending in congress which revolutionizes the carefully worked out scheme of gavernment under which the Philippine Islands are now governed and which preposes to render them vir- tually, autonemous at once and abso- lutely independent in eight years: Such a proposal can omly be founded on the assumption that we have now discharg- | 2d our trusteeship to the Filipino peo- ple and our responsibility for them to the world and that they are now pre- | pared for selt government as well as national sovereignty. A thorough and unbiased knowledge of the faets clear- Iy shows that these assumptions are abselutely witheut justification. As to this 1 belleve that there is ne substantial difference of qpinion among any of those who have bad the respon- sibility of facing Philippine problems in-the administration of the islands, and 1 believe that no ene to/whom the future of this people is a responsible concern cam countenance a policy fraught with the direst consequences to those on whose behalf it is esten- sibly urged. Qur duty to the Filipinos is far from discharged. Over haif a miilien Fili- pino students are now in the Philip- pine schools helping to mold the men of the future into a homogeneous peo- ple, but there still remain more than a million Filipino ehildren of sehoo! age yet to be reached. Freed from American control the integrating forces of a common education and a common language will cease and the education- al system now well started will slip back Into inefeciency and dlsorder. An enormous increase in the eom- mercial development of the islands has been made since they were virtually | granted full access to our markets three years ago, with every prospect of increasing development and divers fled industries. Freed from American control such development is bound to decline. If the task we have undertaken is higher than that assumed by other na- tlons, Its accomplishment must de- mand even more patlence. We must not forget that we found the Filipinos wholly untrained in government. Up te our advent all other experience sought te repress rather than encour- age politieal power. It takes long time and much experience to ingrain po- litical habits of steadiness and effi- elency. Popular self government ultl mately must rest upon commeon habits of thought and upon a reasonably. de- veloped public opinion. A present declaration even of future independence would retard progress by the dissension and disorder it would arouss, On our part it weuld be a dis- ingenuous attempt, under the guise of conferring a benedt on them, to relieve ourselves from the heavy and diffieult burdea which thus far we have been bravely and cousistently sustaining. It weuld be a diaguised peliey of seut- tle. It would make the helpless Pill- pino the foothall of oriental pelitics, under the protection of a guaranty of their independence, which we would be powerless to enforce. Regutation of Water Power. Thege are pending before congress a large nmumbgr of bills proposing to grant privileges of erecting dams for the purpese of creating water power in our pavigable rivers. The pendens cy of these bills has brought out an important defect in the existing gen- eral dam act That act does not, in my opinion, grant sufficlent power to the federal government im dealing with the construction of such dams to exact protective conditions in the in- terest of navigation, It does mot per- mit the federal government, as a con- ditlon of its permit, to vequire that a part of the value thus ereated shall be applied to the further genera! im- provement and - pretection of the stream. I believe this to be one of the meet important matters of interng! im- prevement uow eonfrentiag the gov- ernment. . ot In my opinien constructive states- manship requires that legislation should be enacted which will permit the development of navigation in these great rivers ta go hand in band with the utitization of this byproduct of ‘water power, ereated in the course of the same Improvement, andwthat the general dam aet sheuld be so amend- ed a8 to make this pessible, 1 deem it highly Important that the nation should adept a cousistent and harmanious tveatment of these water power prejects, whish will preserve for this purpase their vaiue te the gov- | ernment, whese right it is te grant the permit. Any qther policy is equiva- lent to thtowing away a mest valua- ble national asset, - !:tlmucaul. ng the past yoar the wark ef eenstaygiion upen the eamal has pro- gressed” mest satistactorily, About 87 cent of the emeawation work has p completed, and mere than 83 per eon§ of the conevete for all the locks is In view ef the gveat Interest ha9 beea manifested as te seme slides in the Oulebea cut 1 am glad to 537 thai the tepert of Colenel Geethals lay any apprehgnsion on this ia gratifying to note that | the slides which eccurved dur- | this year weuld bave intevfered w the.ghips bad the in apesatien, and pheggupes Will have been and fhe grewth of veg- | minimize evesion in the eut the slide preblem will d salved and an ample sta- assured for the Culebra cut. Although the ofiigial date of the epen- ing. bus been set far Jan, 1, 1915, the !hm in the management or tne canai, i congress in the act of Aug. 24, 1913, | has made admirable provisions for ex- ecutive responsibility in the control of the camal and the government of the canal zone. The problem of most effi- | clent organization is recelving careful consideration, so that a scheme of or- ganization and control best adapted to the conditions of the canal may be forfaulated and put in operation ay ex- peditiously as possible. Acting undér the authority conferred on me by con- gress I have by executive proclamation | promulgated the following schedule of tolls for ships passing through the ca- nal, based upon the thorough report of | Emory R, Johnson, special commission- er on traffic and tolls: "r:x::. ~On merchant vessels carrying mgers or cargo, §1: | ten—each 100 wm.:;':x_:)‘ fiuflm | eapacity. Becond.—On vessels in ballast without | passengers or cargo, 4 per cent less than | | the rate of tolis for vessels with passen- | EOrs or cargo. | |, Third.~Upon naval vessels other than | transports, colllers, hospital ships and supply shis, @ cents per displacement on. Fourth.—Upon army and navy trans- to be measured by the same rules as are em- | Sherman anti-trust law bas gove on ‘without restraint or diminution. and decrees stmilar to those entered In the Standard Oil and the tobacco cases bave been entered in other sults, like the suits against the powder trust and the bathtub trust. | am very strongly convineed that a steady, codsistent course in this regard. with a contine- ing of supreme court decisious upon new phases of the trust question met already fnally decided, is golng to of- fer @ molution of this wuch dlscussed and troublesome isnue in a quiet, ealm and judicial way without any redical legislation changing the governmental policy In regard to combioations pow ld-uund by the Sherman aunti-trust aw. ; 1 bave already recommended a» an aid in this matter legisiation which would declare unlawful certain well knowa phases of unfair competition in interstate trade. and 1 have aiso advocated volnntary natiesal imeor poration for the larger tndustrial en- terpriges, with provision for a closer | tlong or a hoard uppointed for the pur- pose, 80 2B to miike more cortaln com- plisnce with the anti-trust law on the | NEW LONDONER PROPOSES CHANGES.. o £ % - Direct Route From Railroad Station to Pe- - ] quot Section Sought MYSTERY SURROUNDS MAN'S DEATH Life Might Have Been Saved Had Police Given Him Proper Attention—Sergeant Becbe as Roundsman—Goddard House Secured for Boys’ Jemes D. Lynch, ome of the most successful promoters of property in the Pequot section, and #ho has been a summer resident for a great many | supervision hy the bureau of eorpora- | years, and who had considerable to do with the general beautification ot that important part of New London, has for the past quarter of a centur been agitating, at intervals, a new ploved in determiming the net tonnage of | one hand 20d to give greater secunty | route to the Pequot section by way | merchant vessels Rules for the determination of the | tonnage upon which toll charges are | i based are now in course of prepara- | § { course of litigation in the courts #ud tax-paying citisens, jtion and will be promulgated in due | the regular prosecution of trusts charg- | original plan was to fill In a part ot | | season. Panama Canal Treaty. The proclamation which I have is- | sued in respect to the Panama capal | tolls is in accord with the Panama ca- | to the stockholders against possible of Pequot avenue, prosecutions on the otber. 1 believe, however, thut the orderiy ed with the violation of the antitrust| law is producing ameng business men a clegrer and clearer perception of the Hne of distinction between business| that is to be encouraged and business ' Now he brought the matter direct to the of common council for action, ba by a petition signed by repre r has entative Lynch's the inner cove and run a road parallel to Shaw street part of the way and then swerve off and connect with Division street, thence over private operty in Bank street, then owned y Walter Fitzmaurice and James J. Connor, through to Truman street, nal act passed by this congress AUg. | that is to be coudemned. and that 1D | thus relieving the congestion In Bank 24, 1912 We have heen advised that this quiet way the question of trusts| street and making a more acceptable | the British government has prepared | gan be mettled and competition retain, | driveway. The cost of that proposed | & protest against the act and its en- | forcement in so far as it relleves from | the payment of tolls American ships | | engaged in the -American coastwise | | trade on the ground that it violates | British rights under the Hay-Paunce | fote treaty concerning the Panama ea- {nal. When the protest is presented ft | | will be prombtly conaidered and an ef- | fort made to reach a satisfactory ad- | justment of any differences there may | be between the two governments. Promotion For Colone! Goothals, | As the completion of the canal grows | mearer and as the wonderful executive | work ef Colonel Goethals becomes | ! more conspicuous in the eyes of the | | country and of the world it seems to | me wise and proper te make provl- | sion by law fer snch reward to him as may be commensurate with the serv- ice that he has rendered to bis ceun- try. I suggest that this reward take the form of an appeintment of Colo- | nel Goethals as a major general in the | army of the United States and that the law authorizing such appointmens be accompanied with a provisien per- mitting his designation as ehlef of es- gineers upon the retirement of the present incumbent of that office. Navy Department. The navy of the United States is in a greater state of efficiency and is more powerful than it bas ever been before, but in the emulation whick ex- ists between different eountries in re- | speet to the increase of naval and mil- | itary armaments this condition i3 not | a permanent one. In view of the many | improvements and Increases by for- | elgn governments the slightest halt on | our part in respect to mew construc- tion throws us back and reduces us from a naval powef of the first rank | and places us among the nations of the second rank. In the past Gfteen years the navy has expanded rapldly and yet far less rapidly than our country, From now on reduced expenditures in the mavy mean reduced miliary strength. The worid's history has shown the impertance of sea power both for adequate defense and for the support of important and definite poll- cies. I had the pleasure of attending this autumn a mobilization of the Atlantie fleet and was glad to observe and nete the preparedness of the fleet for in- stant actlon. The review brought be- fore the president and the secretary of the navy a greater and more powerful collection of veasels than bad ever been gathered In American waters. The condition of the fleet and of the officers and enlisted men and of the equipment of the vessels eatitled these in authority to the greatest credit, 1 again commend to congress the giv- ing of legislative sanction te the ap- pointment of the naval aids to the sec- retary of the’navy, These alds u.d.x eouncil of alds appeinted by the tary of the navy to assist bim in the conduct of his department have proved 10 be of the highest utility. They have furaighed an executive committee of the mest skilled naval experts, whe have co-ordinated the action of the vari. | ous huseaus in the navy and by their| | advice hgve enabled the seeretary to | give an administration at the same | time economical and mest efiiclent. | Never before has the United Wtates had a navy that compared in efficiency | with its present one, but never hefore | have the requirements with respeet ta naval warfare beea higher and mere | exacting than mow, A year ago com- | gress refused o) apprepriate for more { than one battieship. In this | think a great mistake of polley was made, and 1 urgently recommend that this con. | gress make up for the mistake of the | Iast session by appropriations authoriz- | ing the construetien of three battle- | ships, n sddition te destroyers, fuel ships and the other anxiliary vessels | as shown in the building progeam of the gemeral baard, We ave confronted | | by a condtien in respect te the navieg of the worid which requires ws, if we | weuld maintain enr navy as an inswr: |anee of peace, to augment our aavel | favee by at least two hattieships a yeap and by battle evuisers, guabeats, tor- &wo destrayess and submarine boate A prager prapestion, We have me flegine for war. We wonld ge as far as auy natien in the wesld to aveld was, but we abe a Wosld power. { | of three years ago, that the sections of ed as an economic force to yecnre rea- sonablepess in prices und freedom and independence in trade, ‘l Reform of Court Pracedure. I am glad to bring to the attention of congress the fact that the supreme court has radically altered the equity rules governing the procedure on the equity sides of ail federal courts, and though, as these changes have not been et put in practice 5o as to enahle us to state from actusl results what the| veform will accomplish, they are of such a character that we ean reasen: | ably prephesy that they will greatiy reduce the time and cost of litigation in such ecourts. The court has adopted many of the aborter methods of the present Engiish procedure, and. while it may take a lttle while for (be pro- | feaslon to accustom itsell to these| methods, it is certain greatly to facill- | tate litigution. The action of the su- premeé court has Lieen so drastic and »;01 full of appreciation of the necessity for a great reform in court procedure thut 1 bave no hesitation in following up this action with a recommeadation which I foreshadowed in my message the statute governing the precedure in the federal courts on the common law side should be so amended as to give| | to the supreme ecourt the same right to| ; make rules of procedure in common law as they have since the beglaning of the court exercised in equity. T do not doubt that a full considera: tion of the subject will enable the court while giving effect to the sub- stantial differences {n right and reme- dy between the system of commen law and the system ‘of equity so to unite the two pracedures into the form of one clvil action and to shorten the procedure in sveh efvil action as to furnish & medel to ail the state courts exercising concurrent jurisdiction with the federal courts of first Instance. - TUnder the statute now in foree the common law procedure in each federal court i made to conform to the pro- cedure in the state In wbich the court s held In these days, when we should be making progress in court procedure, such a conformity statute makea the federal metbod tuo depend- ent gpon the action of state legisli- turea. 1 can hut think it a great vp- portunity for cengress to Intrust tv . the highest tribuual in- thix country, evidently lmbued with strong wpivit in favor of a reform of procedure, the power ta frame a model code of pro- eedure, which. whlle preserving all that is valuable and necessary of the rights and remedies at common law and in equity, shall lessen the hurden of the peor ltigant to a minimum ip the expedition and cheapuess With which bis cuuse can be fought or de- fended through federal ceurts to final Judgment. ' Workman's Compansgtion Act. 1 say again that.1 think no act can have a better effect divectly npon the relations hetwben the employer and employee tham this act applying rativoads and common carriers of 46 interstate character, and | am sure that the passage of thé act would greatly relfeve the conrty of the heay fest burden of litlaatlew that they have and would ennbiv them to dis pateh Sther husiness with a speed nev- er before attained in courts ot justive in this conntry The White House. Dee. € 1912 Loug ane beis redal Remember ta do your grumbling 1 a whisper. Save your megaphane 10: | prajses—it was invented te advertisc good things, anybew, ThreughtSorrow to Jay, | In laber Hes health of bady and mind: 1o suffering and dificulfy is the soul of gl virtue gnd all wisdam.— Carlyle. That Explatns. “Everybedy at this performanc: seems to be & deadbead." “Well, you #eq, this i3 what pen artiata eall the passing show.” - No Mere Weiry, “Pgsty that lost purse centatming imenty dellars meed werry ne longe; =it bas bees feund.” Bentrariwise, highway would have been only the cost of comstruction of the road in the cove and the removal of a house and the purchase of a bullding lot in Tru- man street. ng to Mr. Lynch, gives a from the rallway station to the Pequet, without vehicular con- gestion dangers as well as the avoh- ance of sharp angles and the attendant inconveniences and dangers. contemplates a change in Howard street at fta junction with Pequot avenue, which would widen the road- way several feet and lessen the danger at the rallroad cut; the widening of Howard street near Bank by lessening the width of the sidewalks, converting the triangular plot of land owned by the Brannigan and Ahearn estates In- rt plan s by far the best » to & small park, making an improved | approach to Reed street, opening this street direct into Washington street, and thence on the road would be com- plete to State street and thence to the rallway station. This is an old pro- jeet revived and the people generally are familiar with the conditions and there is a growing sentiment in favor of the improvement, as something must surely be done to relieve the con- stantly increasing congested -condition of Bank street, and it is practically im- possiblé to widen Bank street without the removal of & part of nearly all the buildings from Tilley to State street, and New London, progressive as it may be, has not yet attained that pin nacle of citydom where it can aff ter under considerntion a few years ago, Mr Lynch's plan is feasible and not very expensive, and no doubt the present court of common council will sive the project proper consideration. The death of a cell in the police station at New ondon, from Injuries previously re- esived, demonstrates that more atten- tton should he pald to injured persons that are hrought to the station. The medlcal examiner declares that had a| physiclan been called the life ‘of the man might have been saved. He had a fractured skull, apd if taken to an hospital the depreésion might have been reHeved, Instead he was placed in a cell and was given no particular attention until the station house keeper found him dead on the floor several hours after he was brought in, There! 18 no doubt but that in the future in- jured porgons will be carefully ex- amined before being taken to the cell reom, but it required the loss of a human life to bring about this inspec- jon, Though the medical exammer VA that the fracture of the skull was eauged by a blow delivered by some pergon, it is understood that the police insist that the injury was caused.by 8 fall. The county coroner after the autopsy ‘agreed with the medical ex- amingr that death was probably due| C: ta foul play, and at once started an investigation to ferret out the mur- derer, i murder it was, while the police remained Inaetive, to a very, marked degree at tha outset. The coroner called to his assistance \i\. sheriff and deputies, and then t lice force got busy and cooperated with the county officers, Every effort 18 now being made to ascertaln just how the Providence man received the fracture of the skull, just where he was aseaultsd and who blows that resulted in the death of the man, it sald, that inasmuch as the coroner had taken charge of the case that It was out of thelr jurisdiction, pending investigatior, and that the pollce at| all_times were In readiness to work | under the direct orders of the coroner. | — The sourt of common eounell at the | regular meuting this week accepted the recommendation of the pol; m- mittee and elected Patroln Beebe to the newly. gergeant of rnl in command to the lleutenant, The plan | Providence man In| struck the | Tn justice to the police, be| ice, and new he {s next his Club—Interest in Fire Matters, | the usual way of personal advessay of public matters. One asiad the council to take acth result in the change cut company's time tab) last car in all dir the State street {dnight, in: , %o that the should | d on the petition, but an Morgan. just the la neral repair of crosse it the city. This petie s referred to the commities od sidewalks. s The fire committos of the New Lons don Business Me the man who held the Grant administration, seeks 1o ‘“bigger” than the fire commities of the New London court of commoms ocouncil that is supposed to have all to do with fire department matters, There has been no clash betwesn the two commitiess, and there probably | will not be, unless attempt s made to usurp, the a the counetd committee. present time the outside of i committes has confined jts - pert on fire matters to come to the city and deliver a public lecture om fire and its prevention, and conwulte~ tion with the chief engineer and the bullding inspector in ord |tain the wark perfor officials in the fire pre This committes propos | careful study of the sk | and them present plans for improving | the general efficiency of the depa-t- | ment and to submit measures for the provention of fires that are Aue abe most wholly to carolessness. In order that theed plans may be mude effer- | tive the cimmittes will prepars ordin- ances and insist upon thelr adopucs | by the court of ecommon council. Piu- vided, of course. the plans are Mot | anticipated by the ecouncil, snd the results attained without the direst action of the committes of the New | London Business Men's sssocistion. iring There are a lot of peopls living in New London teday who can recall the first public lamp posts llluminated with gas, located In the Dusiness stresls of the city, with the addition of naph- tha lights in the nearby side strests and residential sections, and set ) wide apart that they were almost be- vond vision from ome post to the other. Now this has all changed and there Is a sure spreading of the ligh* and the dark spots are few and far between within the city limits In keeping with the progress of the ety 1t 18 being planned to bave New Lon- | don Tead not omly tn sidewnlks but in street lights as well. Thers has been great improvements along that ime during the past yemr, and the good work is golng on. street &t the present time is as well-lighted as most principal tharoughfares in even large cities, but in the mear futses half & dozen more flaming arc Mghis are to be added, and soon that strest will bo designated as New Londes's white way. While many of the resi- dents were not born long enough ago | to remember the introduetion of tFe old lamp posts, there are & gTeat meny who kaow that omce upom & ilme | even the electric lights were extin- guished at midnight and wers not #up- plied with (lluminating jules whes Daboll's almanac stated that the meen was due to shine. But these methods prevailed in old New Leondon when to advocate progress was predicted as meaning ruination and banksuptey. e How's This We ofter Ope Hundred Doltare Re- ward for any ecase of Catarrh. that cannot be cured by all's Catasn ure. . CHENEY & CO., Tolede, O, ris *novwn ¥, We, the undersigned, hive J. Cheney for the last 1§ believe him perfectly honorabie business transactions amd able to carry out any oblgatio UGN, = [ 3% i e % | NATIONAL BANK OF Cf "] Toisda Oy | Hall's ure Is taken O and ‘mucous surfaces of th | Testimonials sent fres. Price per_bo Sold by ail Dru .. Pilis fog | " Take Hall's Famil conatt- | pation —g | Foils a Foul Plet. A ‘When a shametul plot exists Satwien liver and bowels to cause distress refusing to act, take Dr. King's Life Pills, and end such abwes your system. They gently compel action of stomach, liver and and restore your health and all geed | feelings, 25c at The Les & Cugeed Winter Boots - of duties being malnly street work, the captain an yeeting officers at the police statlon, the former taking the day -and the| latter the night trick, and, when the| | plana of the committee are completed, | in dull black, patent and tan lestiied | matters will he arranged that the day | ¢ moderat: | and the night officers will be in cloger | yelationship than formally in regard to the police business, The s will be required to wear a w when en du leutenant being the di- FOR WOMEH We are offering vary attractive Seeld con. i to be in plain elethes and play the | SPeutn when acting In the capacity of | 52 Central Ave., Norwiat, Cl reundsman, The members af the force |« have been erdered to become familiar | with the book of rules that vielation of rules will with penalty of discipline, Tt i and gonnel, The James Goddard House at the| Giv: ass streets Boys' club, corner of Main an : heen secured for the aving been remodeled and especiall prepared for on R w, d} gecrotary, but ainee Mr, Mansfial assumed the guperintendeney of the en frw o ; d uf- Baey# club under ohares, afiflw\ to hia other dut 0 e han take joddard heuse ia for {ha o h“'h(‘% neeent J"“ of a:q h;ul::r«% -l!b“: on pighd rules gtrietly en- £ AL rd hwul:\ W 3o and warned e Visited | Ae pro- pesed to haye an improved police force | without any change in the per- T o' verl o ansitazy o' the Christian Assoelation Tndi ) Tather (han MARSHAK 125 West Main 8t. mar] a_call and get our aprisTuThi e | BROWN & ROGERS feh13TuThS 27 Chestaus PO YOU KNOW ve us one trinl, then you sure, Prices and work guarantesd A, VALLIX, “® b - Tel, 817 —_—r iy » - | M. 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