Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 16, 1909, Page 13

e UPHOLDS A FEDERAL CITY |Jws s o e e President Taft's Mnu of Natiomal Rule in Washington, WISDOM OF FATHERS IS SHOWN A Notable Address in port of the Fresent Form of Government in the District of Colambia, A political movement designed to pro- mote ‘‘home rule” in the District ot Co- lumbia, secure the right of suffrage for the reeidents, and representation in the house of representatives and in the senate, culminated in a banquet in Washington on the evening of the 9th. Oply two addresses were delivered, one by Justice Wendell P. Stafford of the District supreme court, ad- vocating the political objects of the ban- quet; the second by President Taft. When the president finished his address, no other speaker desired to be heard. 8o com- pletoly aid the president demolish the argu- ments In favor of local instead of federal government in the district. President Taft's address follows: “Mr. Chairman and the solid men of ‘Washington (applause): I wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the courtesy that you have extended to me this evening in this magnificent banquet and in your coming here to take part in this occasion. I am proud of it, if it be the case, and T must believe it from the absurances given tonight that this is the first time that a president of the United tes has ever had the pleasure of meet- on such an occasion and under such jumstances, the business men of Wash- on. (Applause.) hope for close Intimacy; I hope that ' may come together and we may dis- these things, because certainly we it. (Applause) 1 take the utmost al pride fn the city of Washing- (Applause.) It thrills my heart day to look out of the back win- s of the White House—for the short I have been there—and whenever I the opportunity to sce this beautiful in which we are permitied to live— avenues and streets constructed on & ificent plan, looking forward for urles; these trees planted with great slght to make every part of Washing- a park; these yistas into which always sfeeps unbidden that beautiful shaft that ;:Iu the memory of the founder of this (Great applause.) “I have not been here very long in the oty of Washington as some men count it 10ng. 1 was here two years between 1890 and 1892, four years from 1804 to 1%08—but that is a little bit longer than Justice Staf- ford. (Continued applause) 1 have been a taxpayer; I have invested some money in | 1and in Washington and have not seen a dollar come out of it; I have sent my child- ren to the public schools; I have hung to straps in street cars, going both ways to the capitol; T have bathed in the Potomac mud—in & bathtub; I have lunched at Harvey's on those steamed uysters, and I have been a fan with my friend “Sunny Jitn'"* at the base ball park, and have had a love and cultivated it with him for tail- enders. And therefore 1 claim that I have been through experiences that ought to glve me some of the local atmosphere and some of the local feeling of Washington. Any yet, with all that, gentlemen, as I o0k about hefe iInto these smiling faces, these somewhat rotund forms that give evidence of prosperity (laughter), it is a little difficult for me to realize that it was about these caitifs and these slaves that Mr. Justice Stafford spoke. Declares Himself a “Nationalist.” “In spite of that experience with re- spect to Washington, I am a nationalist. (Applause). This city ls the home of the government of a nation, and when men who are just as much imbued with the principles of clvic liberty as any who have come .after Washington, at the head, put into the Constitution the provisions with reference to the government of the District of Columbla they knew what they were doing, and spoke for a coming possible elghty millions of people who should insist that the home of the @overnment of that eighty millions of people should be gov- erned by the representatives of that elghty millions of people (Applause), and that, if there were in that elghty milllons of people men who desired to come and share in the grandeur of that capital, and live In a clty of magnificent beauty as this was, and enjoy all the privileges, then they come with thelr eyes open as to the char- acter of the government that they were to and patent leather, ‘The strap over the instep keeps the heel snug and adds a graceful line not found in the ordinary pump. It is made over the Gotzian specially moulded lasts. and they must know that they must governing in popular government, but that they must trust in order to secure their ! liberty~to get their guarantees, they must trust to the representatives of elghty mil- lions of people, selected under that Con- stitution. (Applause). “Now I want to say, with reference to this discussion, that if this meeting or subsequent meetings are to be devoted to securing an amendment to the Constitution by which you are going to disturb the principle of two senators from every state, and you are going to abolish the provifon that was put In there ex-Industria by George Washington, you will not get ahead in the matter of better government In Washington by such meetings. I do not want to seém to be abrupt. but I belleve it is possible by such meetings as this to arouse the interest of Congress and the executive to the necessity of consulting the people of Washington, to let them act as Americans act when they don't have the right of suffrage—let them act by the right of petition. And are they not exercising that right all the time? (Applause). Isn't it possible to determine on the part of the committees of the House and the Senate what the attitude of the Washing- ton citigeris i8? Why the government that we have today in Washington everybody admits s a good government. Has it not been brought about through the ald of those very committees In the House and the Senate, who you say know nothing about Washington, and who make their knowledge, or lack of knowledge, ridiculous by showing it? We are all imprfect. We cannot expect perfect government, but what we ought to do is to pursue practical methods, and not, I submit with deference to Justice Stafford, make it seem as if the people of Washington were suffering some greal and tremendous load and sorrow, when as a matter of fact they are the envy of the citizens of other cities? What Washington Intended. ““Washington intendcd this to be a fed- eral city, and it is a federal city, and it tingles down to the feet of every man, whether he comes from Washington city or Los Angeles or Texas, when he comes and walks these city streets and starts to feel that this is my oity; I own a part of this capital (applause), and I envy for the time belng those who are able to spend their time here. I quite admflt that there are defects In the system of government by which Congress is bound to look after the government of the District of Co- lumbla. It could not be otherwise under such a system, but I submit to the judg- ment of history that the results vindical the foresight of the fathers. “Now, I am opposed to the franchise in the District. (Applause and cheers.) Iam opposed, and not because I yleld to any one in my support and bellef in the prin- olples of self-government, but principles are applicable generally, and then, unless you make exceptions to the application of those principles, you will find that théy will carry you to very fllogical and absurd results. This was taken out of the appll- cation of the principle of self-government in the very Constitution that was intended to put that in force in every other part of the country, and it was done because it was Intended to have the representatives of all the people in the country control this one city, and to prevent its being con- trolled by the parochlal spirit that would necessarlly govern men who did not look beyond the city to the grandeur of the nation, and this as the representative of that nation. (Applause.) “I have got over being frightened by beink told that I am forgetting the prin- ciples of the fathers. The principles of the fathers are maintained by those who maintain them with reason and according to the fitness of the thing, and not by those who are constantly shaking them before the mass of the voters for the pur- pose of misleading them. (Applause.) The Question at Ha: “Now, the question arises, What shall we do with the government of Washing- ton? Shall we have the present board of three; shall we have one or shall we have some other form? I confess I do not know. My predecessor has recommended a change of the present form so as to give the re- sponsibility to one, with the view of visit- ing that one with the responsibility. On the other hand it is said that three have worked well; that it gives more op- portunity, possibly, for counsel and that it takes away the bureaucratic character of the government. As I have said, I have reached no conclusion as to what recom- mendation I shall make to Congress on the subject. I fully concur with Justice Statford In thinking that it would be most unwise to ‘introduce into the District what I understood to be a bureaucratic form of government. (Applause.) That s right. A bureaucratic form of government is one which, as he very well described it, would make the War Department look after the streets; Dr. Wiley, possibly, look after the health (laughter)—the Agricul- tural Department through him—and the Treasury Department look after the fi- nances. And 80 as to each branch of the government you should go to the head of that particular department in the general government. I think that would be & very burdensome, a very awkward, a very clumsy system of government. 1 am strongly in favor of retaining the muni- cipal form (applause), so that everything which shall affect the city of Washington shall be done under the chief executive of that city, and by that chief executive. “In other words, I would give an entity to the city of Washington, or the District of Columbia, and take all of that entity out of the operation of the bureaus of the general government. That is what I un- derstand to be the government of today. is really whether one man should be put at the head of that government as a mayor, or whether you should have three. 1 agree that probably three men are better (applause), where you have real legislative functions to perform. I am inclined to think that where the legislative functions are reduced to a minlmum and consist in little more than mere executive regula- tion, that possibly the one-headed form fs Transit and Levels Repaired The Wurn Optical Co. have added to their lens grinding shop the services of & man who is an expert on repairing and adjusting all kinds of surveyors, engin- eers end field Instruments. We would trial at your repeir work. .fl H Iroll I'l ‘orper 16th and I‘lmun Sts. 'l‘.l Doug. 36 the better for executive purposes and to fix the responsibility; but I am only think- Ing out loud, and only because we are here talking right out in meeting 1 am telling you the reasons as they have been brought to me, “Now I want to talk about the future. And the future of Washington. What an enormous development is before us. Why, I am not an imaginative man, but 1 would like to come back here a hundred years hence and see the beauties of which this city is capable. (Applause) Right here, under our noses for a time, under our very eyes, are those beautiful Potomac flats that are going to make as fine parks and parkways as there are in the world. “These parks ought to be connected with the Rock Creek park by means of the mouth of Rock creek, or otherwise; and then through them all there ought to be carried & park clear around, including the with Rock creek at the other end. (Ap- plause.) Then, t6o, there is the develop- and the only question that has been mooted | Soldiers’ home, and completing tho circult | THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 16, 1909. can see clear down to the Potomac and see six and seven base ball matches going on with all the fervor of young America, and nobody to say them nay. (Applause and laughter.) And to think—to think that we had a genius a hundred years ago almost in his way, as matchless as Washington, to make the plan for a great capital, like the Frenchman whose remains were buried here the other day (applause) and whose plans were hardly changed in the new plan made by Burnham and his assoclates. “I know there has been discussion as to the plan. There has been a feeling that perhaps It wwas slipped onto us at one time and slipped In at another; but we all know, even my dear friend good old Uncle Joe, knows, that we are going to bulld up to that some day. (Laughter and applause.) “It is not coming at once, but we ought to thank God that we have got a plan like that to build to (applause), 8o that when we go on with the improvement every dollar that we put in goes to make Wash- ington beautiful a hundred years hence. Day of “Small Things." “Then, Justice Stafford In his very elo- quent remarks called attention to the fact that in 18461 am sorry to say it ought to be characterized, at least as far as that Is concerned, as a day of small things— when the Congress could have recited this ‘Whereas no more territory ought to be held under the exclusive legislation given to Congress over the District, which is the seat of the general government, than may be necessary and proper for the purposes of such a seat. Therefore we give back all that we got from WVirginla. (Laughter.) “While it Is true the early statue sald that no bufldings should be put on any- thing but the Maryland side of the river, and perhaps they felt that as we were not golng tu use that side for buildings, they did not need It at all. (Laughter) I have never been able to satisfy myself that that retrocession was within the power of Congress to make. (Applause) They did attempt to settle it once in the Supreme Court, but the Supreme Court has a facility in avolding the main question (laughter and applause) born of long practice. (Laughter.) And when a gentle- man who s paying taxes on this slde asks that they be extended to the other side, on the ground that that_retrocession did not carry Virginia, so that he might have his taxes reduced, the Supreme Court sald he could not do it In a collateral way sald that, as both parties to the trans- action seemed to be satisfied up to this time they did not Intend to investigate or seek any burdens that their salaries dld not reqdire them to meet. (Laughter and applause.) “We have never had that question tested. I believe we ought to look forward to a great city of Washington, and while the Anglo-Saxon—and especlally the Anglo- Saxon in Virginia—holds on to territory as long as he can (laughter). it might be pos- sible by agitating the question in a legal way to induce another settlement by which we should get the only part of that that we really would Itke to have, the part that we own now In fee, the 1,00 acres of the Arlington estate, and a great deal that is unoccupied, leaving Alexandria out (laughter) and Falls church (laughtet,) and taking in only that that is inhabited, so that we may have in this district, under our fostering control, where we can build roads and make the district still more beautiful—that bahk of the Potomac on the other side, as you go up toward Cabin John Bridge. We will need it; the city will continue to grow. Washington's Influence. “It may be, as Justice Stafford sald, that there will be Inaugurated a protest by the people living here that they have no political power: but I think that the Justice’ will find, when he comes to look- ing into the hearts of the American peo- ple, that they will not be convinced When they come to Washington that the Wash- Ingtonlans are suffering to that degree that requires a reversement of the policy adopted, with entlre clearness of mind, by the framers of the constitution. Wash- ington, who doubtless inserted that par- ticular provision in the constitution, through his influence, also had L'Enfant draw the plans,of Washington, and the plans of Washington were not adapted to a village like Alexandria and the village that was In the district at the time we came here—that was adapted to a clty of mag- nificent distances, and to a city of millions of inhabitants; and, therefore, the clause was adopted, knowing that just such a city we would have here, and just such a city would nave to get along, relying upon the training in self-government of the repre- sentatives of 80,000,000 of people to justice by it. “Now, my dear friends, I want to say to you that I have got Into a constitu- tlonal dlscussion here that I did not anticl- pate, but I hope it has not clouded my meaning, which I Intended to make as clear as possible, that I am deeply inter- ested In the welfare of the district, I am deeply Interested in securing good govern- ment to every man, woman and child iy this district, and to secure as far as s possible, with the original plan under the constitution, such volce as the people of the district may require in their local mat- ters. (Applaase.) “But when it comes to defining how that is to be given, I cannot be any more ex- plicit than to say it must rest ultimately on the right of representation and peti- tion. (Applause) I do not see how you can do anything else. I am sure that if you will constantly agitate, and if you will have as eloquent an orator as Justice Staf- ford talk to the committees of the house |and_senate every year, he will rouse them | {to such a desire to save you from the ‘slavery’ that he has pictured that you | will get the attention you deserve. (Ap- plause.) |SIZE OF COAL_ROADS' GRAB Manipulation of Rates by Carriers in the Corl Mining In- dustry. Numerous inquiries into the nature, ar- rangement, and profitableness of the busi- ness of rallways which both produce and | transport coal have been occasioned by the | decision of the United States Supreme Court on the “commodities clause.” One | of the strongest complaints against the | exercise by roal railroads of the dual fune- tion of producer and carvier has been summed up In the terse statement, heard occasionally in the trade, that “they get ) | o0 little for the coal and too much for | haulipg 1t.” The meaning of this is that the rallroads derive their profit not from the mining of coal, but from the transpor- | tation of it. The coal-producing business which they own or control may be con- rallroads recelve a high rate for moving the putput to market. The Independent coal producer must get his profit, if any, on the coal itself, and he is, therefore, at a disadvantage in competition with the coal companies, owned and controlled by the raflroads, who produce coal without | profit and pay the raliroads high rates for its transportation. The allegation is ‘worth ex--ining. Of the several coal rallroads named as de- ment In Anscosiia and siong the eastern branch. Then, the opportunities for play- grounds thet there are in Washington. It Just makes my mouth water for my poor ity of when I 00k out and fendants 1 the government's action to ¢a- force the commodities clause of the Hep- burn act, not more than three furnish sta- tistics sufficiently full to show the rela- tion of the rate on coal to that pn other ducted at a nominal profit, it any, and the agents for | Great I which we will discon each pattern is small We are exclusive the Victoria Suction Carpet Sweeper. Furniture Sale Tomorrow have gathered together hundreds of pleces of furniture of this spring’s styles Tomorrow will be Furniture Bargain Day at Our Store. We This stock consist3 of Odd Dressers, Mahogany, Martin Beds, Brass Beds, Parlor Tables, Sideboards, tables and chairs in all woods and their various finishes. of furniture are om‘red for tomorrow will be still more attractive. We herewith quote some of the furniture on sale and show the reduction in price ‘ v Birch C — 00 Extension Table, 54 in., S-ft., Early [il $75.00 Brass Bed, full size— $43.00 Curley Birch Chiffonier 'Sale PV, o G v da s ..850.00 BRIODHION, ¢ dis tns o sqsosvrvrais $27.00 English, sale price .............839.50 il $67.50 Brass Bed, full st $30.00 Tuna Mahogany Chiffonier— $40.00 Combination Buffet, Golden Oak— RS I TR cen . $49.00 Sale price ... Sale price ....... e .$28.00 | $45.00 Brass Bed, full size— $35.00 Golden Oak Chitfonie $31.00 Golden Oak Sideboard— i Sale price ... <00 $32.00 Sale price ... $25.00 sale price .......... .$21.00 $20.00 Brass Be: $37.76 Mahogany Chiffonier— $64.50 Sldeboard, Golden Onk— Bals DHCS . ... . 0 B A i $15.00 T N $26.00 o Y $£39.75 e 45.00 Gent's Mahogany Chitfonier— $43.75 Golden Oak Sideboard— B o B -$13.25 e BHIoS .. .D.g ............. 32.00 Sale price ce.. . $28.00 T I v ol s_“_"_ 13.50 | $110.00 Gents' Mahogany Chitfonler— $41.00 Golden Onk Buttet— I $16.50 White Iron Bed, full size— Sale price .....ociiviiiiinnann 70.00 ale price .. ” Bale DOIBB S i oo sus idnhvan $11.00 $72.00 Gent's Mahogany Chiffonjer— $42.00 Golden Oak Buffet— $15.00 White Iron Bed, full size— BRIS DHIEE 4 iv oW o S AV LR R 49.00 "S;l‘?op(l;l(‘;’:i R .C.h.".‘.!,(.".1‘.“.".9.‘;328'75 | Sale price ... -$10.50 $71.00 Gent's Mahogany Chiffonier— 'hnlo p"(;!‘ en i Sale price 47.00 | _Swleprice ...l $12.50 White Tron Bed, full size— ale pr $ : fl “Baleprice .........iiiiiiiiiiiis $8.50 $76.00 Gent's Mahogany Chiffonier— ;:8 22 ::::2;::; (‘3;“,“::‘(:':,';“‘!)"‘220 55 00 | $13.50 Vernis Martin Bed, full size— T B e A $55.00 B8 b DI s L' .00 Vet $9.50 $29.00 Bird's-eye Maple Dresser— $105.00 Leather Bed Davenport— 3 PRI e e Sale prios ..ol '$19.50 | ‘Sate price .. 70.00 Vi $25.50 Bird's-eye Maple Dresser— $50.00 Golden Oak Bod anm)orl ’;,2;120 ‘:l(;‘renl! Martin Bed, ‘runA 7{:?‘ b0, Ba1c ‘price . .$16.75 e e R e, Db oot Il $25.00 White Tron Hed, {hree-quarter size— | $46.00 Curley Birch Dresser- $63.00 Mahogany Bed Davenport— [ Sale price $17.00 Sale price .8$30.00 §ale price .. $42.00 i $20.00 White Iron Bed, three-quarter size— $32.50 Natural Mahogany Dresser— biioo 8§2.I20":-l::.den Oak Davenport— $33.00 \ 810 PPiO8 o \...oiuiiiieibioien 38.50 Bl BRI 8 d s KRR SN ¥ W X $12. aopwhne Tron Bed, single size— $70.00 Mahogany Dresser, sale price $45.00 ‘2‘:}:0,,?&:"““ Davenport 55 i Sale price ... .50 $32.50 Mahogany Dresser, sale price $22.50 Sa R TR KA - : o | Sl: (70 p\fl Vhite Iron Bed, !lnzle 5"9_38 $26.00 Mahogany Uresser, sale price §18.00 :.’.:.50 Mnnogan{ Dhnn.hs?lfl price $14.50 | Sale price .......ccocivvennnnn 11.50 $21.00 Quartered Golden Oak Dresser— :4‘...00 Mahogany Arm Chair— 1.00 }} $21.00 Natural ]\lflhflgflny Somnoe— R Y T i N A 15.00 Sale price ......ciciceennn 4 831. i Sale price ..........oiuiiinnn 15.00 $27.50 Quartered Golden Oak Dresser— $25.00 Arm L‘hner— sah; prg;.| .$18.00 | $16.50 \'atural Mahogany Somnoe— Sale price ............iiiiinn 18.75 $18.00 Mlal‘mgnnv eception Chair— 18.50 i BAIS DHOE | v vis vov e ¢ sgaobuihe ¥ 11.00 $40.00 Quartered Golden Oak Dresser— Sale price AR A 21 59 i $28.00 Washstand, nu urnl Mahognny— Sale price . ..827.00 $26.00 Mahogany Rockor. s Ie nrl (‘: 5. | Sale price .... ...-$19.50 $16.00 Golden Oak Dresser— $17.00 lmlr‘sgu;n;l Roc! \'N;its:; price $11.75 I $12.25 Mahoguny V\nuhsund— Sale price .$12.00 Qafl,on .;) ahogany Sta oo I Sale price ....$9.00 $11.25 Golden Oak Dresser— ale pri o B X m' ... $10. $33.50 Maple Cheval Mirror,— Sale Priee .. .oeoiiiiiniiint .$8.75 $42.00 Mahogany Library Tal o 00 ! Sale price ........ -$22.50 $56.00 Fumed Oak China Cabinet Sale price & .. 829, | $62.00 Natural Mnbogam (‘hmunlerf Sale price ...$38.00 $37. an ‘\‘l‘ahogxun Ta: 28,06 I Sale price .......cco000000000n 2.00 $78.00 Early English Buffet— .in e pr (“\: N $28. $44.00 Natural Mahogany Chiffonier— Sale price ‘:‘sii(m Mfla ogany Library Ta S47 00 Sale price 30.00 $80.00 Fymed Oak Buffet,— e Snpnml:o- R I DR A | $144.00 Mahogany Rocker, sale price $29.00 Sale prite . ‘ $ 5.00 Mahogany 0.0 [ $21.00 Mahogany Rocker, sale price §15.00 $56.00 Fumed Oak Buffel Sale price $10. Sale Price ........... | . " 2 $46.00 China Cabinet, sale price. . . 828.00 We are exclusive agents for the Bohn | G “'s..",:::'fi;nm:: ';ere‘.‘.“l::: $32.00 Early English, sale price...$22.00 Syphon Porcelain-lined Refrigerators—Dbest | o $31.50 Extension Table, 50 in., §-t. Fumed Patidgiviton HENGR 0TI Oak, sale price ....... 4 We are agents for the ALLWIN one.motion Folding Go-Cart Miller, Stewart & Beaton 413-15-17 South Sixtcenth Street tinue—do not wish to duplicate as the season for reordering is now late. They have been our l\fesl sellers, the quantity of __some of thege are odd pleces—others full sets, and many of which we have only two or three of a pattern. "ot 0 - - Curley Birch, Bird's-Eye Maple and Golden Oak. 0dd Divans, Arm Chairs, Iron Beds, Vernis Buffets in their different finishes, such as Early English, Golden Oak, Fumed Oak. Dining Indeed there is a most attractive assortment, and the prices at which these fine pleces | | Plan Your Summer Trip Now _.‘ Low Rates Via Union Pacific Effective June 1, 1909 Visit Colorado, Salt Lake City and Yellow- stone National Park en route to the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition. —_ Careful, Particular, Busy People Travel Via Union Pacific For : Safety--Service--Speed Electric Block Signal Protection. 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Also the Reading's average ton other freight freight. freight. | the average rate per ton mile on coal is |Mmile rate on general freight, compared D n e West. . T ent B cent. | lower than upon other freight, but it will | With the others, is remarkably high.—New Reading . 669 cent. 9639 cent. | be noticed, too, that its average ton mile | York Post. Thus, the average rate obtained for haul- ing ena ton of coal one mile is nearly 27 per cent. higher in the case of Lackawanna and nearly 87 per cent. higher in the case of Lehigh Valley than the average rate obtained per ton per mile on all other rate on coal alone is lower than In the case of elther the Lackawanna or the Le- high Valley. This is due in pait iv the fact that about 4 per cent. of the Read- ing's coal tonnage consists of bituminous coal, which bears a lower rate than an- Kemper, Hemphill & Buckingnam, All Kinds of Plating. 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