Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 28, 1916, Page 5

WILSON EXPLAINS | TARIFF BODY FLOP President, in Letter to Kitchin, Says He Changed Mind Becanse Circumstances Did. | NTS NONPA_R;SAN EXPERTS WASHINGTO)N Jan. —Presi- | dent Wilson today sent a letter to| Chairman Kitchin of the house ways | and means committee, explaining why he had withdrawn his opposi- tion to a tariff commission and now was urging the creation of such body by congress. He wrote that he had changed his mind because “all the circumstances of the world had changed.” | Declaring that he had “‘no thought whatever of a change in attitude toward the o-called protection ques- | tion,” the president said the pro-l | posed commission would have noth- ng to do with theories of polic; »ut would be charged only with the luty of seeking facts to guide comn-| gress in legislation. Urges Nonpartisan Board. In another letter to Mr. Kitchin last) Monday he had set forth fully his ideas of what a tariff commission should be | and urged that the ways and means committee consider the matter immedi- | ately. He favored a nonpartisan expert| srganization. | ‘I have changed my mind,” sald to-| day's letter, “because all the circum- stances of the world have changed and | it seems to me in view of the extraor- | dinary and far-reaching changes which | the European war has brought about it is absolutely necessary that we should have a competent instrument of inquiry along the whole line of the many ques- tions which affect our foreign com- merce. “I have had in this change of mind, no thought whatever of a change of at- titude towards the so-called protection question. That is neither here nor there. | A commission such as I have suggested would have nothing to do with theories ot polloy. They would deal only with facts amd the {-cts which they would seek ought to Le the actual facts of| industry and of the conditions of econo- mic exchange 'prevalling in the worla 50 that legislation of every kind that touched these matters might be gulded by the circumstances disclosed in its Inquiries. Folly to Act Now. “I dare say you feel as I do, that it would be folly at this time, or until all the altered conditions clearly are understood, to attemot to deal with problems of forelgn commerce by legls- lation and yet having dealt directly and clearly with the whole question of un- falr competition within our own borders, it is clear that as soon as we know the facts we ought to deal with the unfalr methods of competition as be- tween our own nation and others; this| is only one of the many things we prob- | ably would wish to deal with. The other matters I have attempted to indi- cate In my previous letter to you. I am | glad to supplement that letter by this| explicit statement of the considerations | which have been most influential with me. “You will remember that in my I message to congress 1 foreshadowed just the conditions which were operating in my mind in this matter. The passage fo which 1 refer was this: ‘Many conditions about which we have repeatedly ex- changed are being altered from decade to decade, it i« evident under our very oyes, | and are likely to change even more rap- | idly and more radically in the days im- | mediately ahead of us, when peace has 1eturned to the world and the nations of Furope once more take up their tasks of commerce and industry with the energy of those who must bestir themsclves to | build anew. No Caleulable Element “‘Just what these changes will be no one can certainly foresee or confidently predict. There are no calculable because | no stable elements in the problem. The | most we can do is to make certain that we have the necessary instrumentalities | of information constantly at our service | #o0 that we may be sure that we know ex- | actly what we are dealing with when we | come to act, if it should be necessary to | act at all. We must first certainly know | what it Is that we are seeking to adapt ourselves to. I may ask the privilege of | addressing you more at length on this im- | portant matter a little later in the ses- slon.’ “I need hardly say that I appreciate very fully the motives by which you are yourselt actuated and it fs, therefore, with the greater confidence that I lay the whole matter thus fully before you. Congress has 5o much to do at the pres- ent time that it is clearly impossible that | it should be able to collect all the data which such a commission would gather, | and I feel that it would presently find | such a commission indispensable to it.” Without Blas, | Kitchin last Shoula Be In his letter sent to Mr. Moncay the president sald “1 am convinced, as 1 disinterested person suppose every be, that 1t would be a mistake to provide for such a board with the idea of serving any pa ticular theory of fiscal policy. What we would need would be above a'l things else a board as much as possible free from uny strong pre-possesgion in favor of any political policy and capable of looking at the whole economic situation of the coun- try with a dispassionate and disinterested scrutiny, 1 believe we 14 obtain such a board if the proper legislation were (nacted and it is quite clear to me what tie field of its inquiry and its activities ehould be He outlined In detail his plans for the work of such a board including the col- lection of tariff figures, investigation of the output of products at home and abroad, of the workings of commercial treaties and preferential agreements, of unfair methods of competition, of dump ing and of sclentific methods of creating “ew industries and building up old ones, CCLONEL ANDERSON RECOVERS FROM GRIPPE must | Colonel William Andersen, Hotel Tt me's chief elerk, has been seriously fli wits grippe for several days, but is now 1ecovering. However, Mrs. Anderson has contracted the malady and Colonel An- derson is remaining away from busin .,| @ few days longer in order to look after | lier comfort. A number of hotel men have | called st the Anderson home, 324 North | Twenty-fourth street, lo Inquire about their condition MEMORY OF BURNS Four Hundred of Them Hold Cele- BAGPIPES' yBurns is honored. HONORED BY SCOTS| bration and Hear J. L. Kennedy. i TONES SOUND LOUD| ‘When a heart-warming ocusioni like Robert Burns' birthday is to be| observed, what does a howling wind and a low temperature amount to? Nothing, according to the 400 Scotchmen who ignored the cold wave last night to celebrate the one | hundred and fifty-seventh anniver-| sary of the birth of the beloved bard of the. bonnie land of heath and| THE BEE: Omaha is such a typical booster city that “everybody's doing it." Prosperity and progress prevall, and there are no grounds for ‘‘knocking,” be found po not a single knocker can here. This fact was discovered by A. S. Borglum, J. M. Hogan and P. C. Heafey, a comittee of the Omaha Rotary club. It was appolnted a few days ago to ar- range a big publlc funeral for “Old Doc Knocker,” which is a gigaitic ham- mer with a handle ton feet long, that eastern Rotary clubs have held funeral processiong for, to symbolize the death and burfal of the knocking spirit “Old Doc Knocker” arrived by express from -Syracuse and Dayton a few days means to history and civilization. poet had his fallings, as all men have. but his teachings are true, and through them all his tongue was touched By the Divine Hand, and his was the greatness of God-given genius. “The nearer we approach Burns' teach- Ings in our lives the happler we will be and the closer we will come to the ideal heather. It was held in the form of a con-| cert and ball at the Swedish au- ditorium, under the auspices of Clan | Gordon No, 63, Order of Scottish | Clans, and in spite of the severe! weather it was one of the most suc-| cessful and best-attended affairs of | its kind ever held in Omaha. Tues-| day was the exact anniversary of Burns' birth, but Wednesday was chosen as the more suitable date for the celebration. There were kilts and bonnets aplenty, and bonnte lassies and Highland tunes. Young and old joined in approbation for every Burns quotation and 'mid the thrill of the bagpipe music and ‘the in- spiration - of “the- Highland. flthg and word dance, the love all hore for the land of Tam O'Shanter and ““The Cotter's Saturday Night' was plainly and merrily emphasized. Kennedy Leads Oft. John T. Kennedy, himself a native son of Burna' own county of Ayrskire, might well be heralded as the man who put the | burr in Burns. - He was the speaker of the evening and made a stirring address, generously interspersed with: lines from the poet, as only a true Scot could speak them. 5 Mr. Kennedy was born in Ayrshire, and for seventeen years lived near there Chiet Kenneth S. Finlayeon of Clan Gor- don, who presided, introduced the speaker as “a Scot of whom we are Justly proud."” Thirty years ago Mr. Kennedy was a speaker at Robert Burns' celebrations in Omaha, and this year he not only made a Burne' address in Omaha last night but delivered a similar one at Havelock the night before. Burns Loved by All “Wherever the English language is apoken,” he said, “the memory of Robert Whe poet has been dead about 120 years now. How many people are there In the world today who will be remembered and loved as Rurns fs when they have been dead as long as he has? “The Bible, John Knox and Robert Burns are the three great mfluences that made Scotland what it is. We thank Gol for the memory of Burns, and what It civilization.” Evening of Enjoyment, Chief Finlayson made the welcoming address in place of Judge A. C. Troup, a past chief of Clan Gordon, who was un- able to attend. Pipe Malor George W McDougall played the bagpipes in true Hieland" style, and Miss Jennie Hislop delighted the audience with her Highland fling and sword dance. These typical Scotch golos were sung: Mary of Argyle’ and “March of the | Cameron Men,” by Charl Olson; “'Blue | Bells of Scotland” and *Bonnle Sweet | Besste,” by Miss Hazel S.ver; “Batile lof Stirdng” and ‘“‘Blue Bonnets,” by Harry 8. Disbrow; “Afton Water” and | “My Ain Folk,” by Miss Gertrude Alken. Miss Clara Schneider played two pleas- ing violin solos. Fdward Dewar Challi- nor played the plano accompanimen:s, Corsby's orchestra furnished music for the dancing after the prograra, and the whole company jolned In singing “Auld Lang Syne" at the close of the evening Arrangements were in charge of Chlel Finlayson, W. R. Rennle, W. J. Hislop, | H. B. Fernandes, R. G. Watson, A. Fal- coner, R. Galt and H. Horne, The floor | committee consisted of H. Fernandes, A “P'nlroner, H. Horne, W. R. Gunn, D. Munro, C. Johnston, R. Malcolm and D. Durran. Will Try to Whip By Colombia Pact WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—The adminis- tration's determination to force action as a part of its Pan-American policy on the treaties with Colombla and Nicaragua, held up for more than two years, spurred democrats of the senate foreign relations committee today to fix next Wedneaday as the date for a vote on the Colombian treaty, regardless of the result. An cf |tort also will be made to get the Nica- raguan pact to a vote. Some senators today predicted that both treaties could be recommended for ratification, but both democrats and re publicans have doubts regarding thejr re- ception In the senate. Opposition to the Colombian treaty is based on the pronosal to pay Colombia $25,000000 for the separ: tion of Panama, and on an expression The Only Day To Use Coffee ( F The | OMAHA, FRIDAY, COULD FIND NO KNOCKERS HERE— 8o Old Doc Knocker will continue his journey to the Pacific ocean for burial Rotary club in charge of the obsequies. Rotarians who shipped ‘‘Doc’’ on were, left to right, John Mellen, Harry Weller, || 0. T. Eastman, John M. Hogan, R. T. Manley, Paul Wernher, Will Clarke, Dan Johnson, C. B. Brown, W. E, Taube, Harley | G. Moorhead, Tom 8. Kelly. ago. The aforesaid committee started to arrange to have the emblematic hammer lle in state at the court house, and then parade it through the streets, with eiti- zens following as at a runeral “But a funeral of Doc Knocker is not appropriate for Omaha,” declared Presi- dent Harry 8. Weller of the Rotary club. ‘How can we bury any knockers, when none have been here, dead or alive? 8o the directors of the club called off the local funeral of Old Doc, and instead they corpse’” west to the Denver Ro- They put an inscribed plate on the casket, saying that knockers are unknown to the Gate City. When the hammer reaches the Pacific coast, it will be thrown into the ocean. sent his tary club that | mar regret incorporated in the treaty | anything should have happened to the relations of the two countries. Rio Grande Seeking | | Gateway Settlement| (From a Staff Correspondent.) S WASHINGTON, Jan (Special Tel- egram.)—The Ogden gateway and its re- lation to passenger traffic was the sub- ject of a conference today between rep- resentatives of the Unlon Pacific and Denver & Rio Grando officlals and Com missioners Harlan and Hill of the Inter- state Commerce commission. Gerritt Fort, passenger traffic manager of the Union Pacific presented the Union Pa- cifie side, The commission suggested that the Unlon Pacific allow through tickets to be «old via the Denver & Rio Grande at the {sum of the local fares make a higher rate via the Denver & Rio Grande than the Union Pacifie. Thir was agreeable to the Union Pa- cific but unsatistactory to the Denver & Rlo Grande people and further time was | asked by the Colorado road. If no action is taken meantime the whole controversy will be settied on February 15, when the decision of the commission as to the Og- den gateway as It relates to passenger traffic goes into effect. Motor Car Reason For Unsold Lumber KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 2l.—At the convention of the Southwestern Lumber- JANUARY 28, which would | |morning. Stop the headache, billousness, 1916. 10 FLOUT AUSTRIA Letters and Telegrams to Crown Prince Advised Holding Out Against Vienna, THIS I8 W}IATB—;IRUN HEARS BERLIN (Via London), Jan, 27.— | =~The Budapest correspondent of | the Tageblatt says that, according to a Sofla dispatch, letters and tele- grams sigoed the Russian em- | peror found among the archives of | the Serblan crown prince, Alexan- by cirenmstances to yleld to the demand of Austro-Hungaty for the dlssolu- tion of the Narodni Ochrana, a ! Serbian political soctety. The docu- | ments were dated just before the outbreak of the war In a telegrem Emperor Nicholas is said to have instructed the Serbiang to reject the Austro-Hungarian ulti- | matum because Russia was ready Rk | 70 Socialist Presides Over Federal House WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—A wsoclalist i | presided over the house today for the check and this time the charge is belng |first time in Ita history. Representative a fugitive from justice London of New York was in the chair tor about two minutes, being called to act for Speaker Clark when the house rose trom sitting as a committes of the whole to recelve an exacutive roport Burke says he {s wanted in Des Moines in conneotion with contempt of court pro ceedings growing out of investigation of certain liquor law litigation. He declares he will fight extradition. Phone your Want-Ads to The Bee. ASCARETS” WHEN BILIOUS; CONSTIPATED Cascarets Gently Cleanse the Liver and Bowels, Stopping Headache, Nasty Breath, Sour Stomach or Bad Colds. Better Than Salts, Oil,.Calomel or Pills for Men, Women, Children—Never Gripe—20 Million Boxes Sold Last Year. Take one or two Cascarets tonlght and enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel gleasing you ever experienced. Wake up feeling grand, your head will be clear, your tongue clean, breath aweet, stomach regulated and your liver and thirty feet of bowels active. Get & box at any drug store now and get straightened up by ready for work or play. not gripe, the next day like salts, pills or calomel. They're fine! ish children because it oughly and cannot injure. | men's assoclation here today the motor | car was blamed for most of the curtail- | ment in the sele of lumber by J. R { Moorehead, secretary of the assoclation | “The motor car has done more to cur- tall the use of wood than all the sub- stitutes combined,” he sald. “Millions of dollars that should be gging Into im- provements on farms, new bulldings and homes are going into the purchase of mo- tor cars.” | BURKE WILL FIGHT EFFORT | TO TAKE HIM INTO IOWA Willlam Burke, claiming to be a former | newspaper reporter in Dea Molnes, Bur lington, Clinton, Sloux City and else where in Iowa, has been arrested by the Omaha police for the second time within a few months. The tirst time he waa hel | |'nr the alleged passing of a worthless Theres a Reason for EB.30" i POSTUM " Every Day! | | der, advised the prince under no; to support Serbia with force of arms. | e bad colds and bad days. Feel fit and Cagcarets do sicken or Inconvenience you Mothars should give a whole Cascaret any time to croms, sick, billous or fever- will act thor- Glass of Hot Water Before Breakfast a Splendid Habit Open slulces of the system esach morning and wash away the polsonous, stagnant matter, of us who are accustomed to Those | teel quil and heavy when we arise; spiit- ting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach, lame back, can, instead, both look and feel as fresh as a dalay always by washing the polsons and toxinh from the body with phosphated hot water each mornihg. | We should drink, before breakfast, a | glass of real hot water with a teaspoon- ful of I'mestone phosphate i it to flush | from the stomath, liver, kidneys and ten yards of bowels the previous day's indigestibla waste, sour bile and polson ous toxine: thus cleansing, sweetening |and purifylng the entire alimentary | tract before putting more food Into the stomach. The actlon of limestone phosphate ard hot water oh an empty stomach ls won- forfully Invigorating. It cleans out all | the sour fermentations, gases, waste and |mcldity and gives ome a aplendid appes |0 Tor bredRINSL Anid it i said o be {but & Nttle while until the roses . besin (6 appeéar In the cheeks. A quartér pound | of .limestone phosphate will cost very little at the drug store, but is sufficient 16 mwake aAvdyone who s bothéred with { bitfousness, constipation, stomach trouble |or rheumatism a real enthusiast on the |subject of internal sanitation. 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