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GALVESTON TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1916.
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FAIRHANKS’ NOTIFICATION.
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BOMBS ON ROTTWEIL.
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cars,
it is an accomplish-
and 800 flat cars.
ceremonies at which Charles IV.
tion
will be told officially of his
Fairbanks
the Republican candi-
nomination as
Social-
The leaders of the Radical and
oil possibility of
Galveston Island.
Those who buy $10
shares in the
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Today
PRIVATION REPORTS
FOUND UNWARRANTED
Ground Floor American Nat’l Insurance
Building. Phone 595.
SHARPLY ARRAIGNS
WATERWAY MEASURE
We always admire a man who says
just what he thinks—about other peo-
ple.
There is a fair amount of warnings
if that was what people are looking
for. ' •
FLOUR SOARS UP.
NET-PROFIT TAX
MAY BE IMPOSED
DANES DISCUSS
SALE OF ISLANDS
Treatment of National Guards-
men As Campaign Issue
Proves Futile.
Measure Disposing of West
Indies Arouses Controversy
in Rigsdag.
Hughes Criticizes Democrats
For Alleged Inefficiency and
Extravagance.
You can never find your
shirt studs when you
have to dress in 20
minutes:
You never have any
small change when
they pass the contri-
bution plate:
Importance of Successes About
Gorizia Said to Be Grow-
ing Hourly'.
Consider Measure as Substi-
tute For Proposed Tax on
Munitions.
1st parties said their parties favored
the sale, but the Socialist leader advo-
cated the taking of a plebiscite of the
SOVEREIGN
CIGARETTES
per cent of
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Coupons also good for Valuable Presents,
had come as a coup d’etat in the
opinion of his party, and should not be
decided during the war or until after
the elections.
on the "Mott Place”
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per cent
date for vice president, will be held at
his residence at 2 o’clock on the after-
noon of Aug. 31, it was announced to-
day.
Entirely different
is the ripe, sweet,
mellow taste of
Virginia -North
Carolina Old Belt
leaf in every puff
of Sovereign Ciga-
rettes.
1,300 box tars, 2,000 stock cars
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Aug. 31.
By Associated Press.
Indianapolis, Aug. 11.—The notifica-
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Mr. J. H. Montandon Won
work on the well
Nominee Will Be Told of Event
Seek to Prevent Spread of Infantile
Paralysis in South Carolina.
By Associated Press.
Columbus, S. C., Aug. 11.—Under an
order of the state board of health made
public today children under 16 years
of age are prohibited from traveling on
railroads without a health certificate.
The measure was announced as a pre-
caution to prevent the spread of in-
fantile paralysis, of which there have
been a total of 35 cases and five deaths
i eported recently in South Carolina.
But you’re a model of
“preparedness” when,
it comes to ciga-
rettes :
You make sure of
SOVEREIGN! *
The Hoffman Co.
,—83!
We recently offered a prize of $25.00 to the person who submitted the best
article upon what the discovery of oil on Galveston island would mean to
Galveston. Out of the number of articles submitted the prize was awarded
to Mr. J. H. Montandon, 3624 Avenue R%, Galveston, Texas.
Sells at New York at an Advance oj
70 to SO Cents. M
By Associated Press. ■
New York, Aug. 11.—Flour sold °N
the New York markets today at $5 to
$9 a barrel, an advance of 70 to 80
cents a barrel, as a result of. an in-
creased price in wheat.
publican extravagance. I am just as
quick to condemn that which is wrong
in my own party as I am anywhere
else. I don’t stand for what I do not
believe to be right simply because it
is under the banner of a particular
party.
DURAND’S RESIGNATION.
Mr. Hughes read again the letter sent
him by E. Dana Durand, in which Mr.
Durand declared his resignation as di-
rector of the census “was distinctly
forced” in denial of Secretary Redfield s
claim that the resignation was volun-
tary The nominee also read again the
letter written by William J. Bryan as
secretary of state to the receiver gen-
eral of Santo Domingo. asking for a
list of offices that could be filled by
“deserving democrats.’
“Places for deserving Democrats, |
Mr. Hughes said, “has been the motto
of the administration in a nutshell.
“My friends, I stand for a business-
like administration of the government
of the United States, not for politics,
not to reward friends, not to build up
a personal machine, not to put myselt
in any particular position of favor, but
to administrate honestly the affairs of
the United States.”
Reverting to the rivers and harbors
appropriations of 1916, Mr. Hughes said.
“Take for example the Arkansas riv-
er. That is an illustration, as I un-
derstand it, of a case where there has
been expert report against the appro-
priation. That expert report was, as I
understand it, to the efefet that 835,000
should be the appropriation. Two hun-
dred thousand dollars and over was
appropriated right in the teeth of the
report on the examination of the proj-
ect.”
The Mexican situation was discussed
at length. The administration, Mr.
Hughes .said, by vacilating and wrong-
headedness, has brought us very close
to grave difficulties there. The only
clear course we had in Mexico was to
protect the rights of American citi-
zens.
Mr. Hughes repeated his views, as-
sailing the administration for the ap-
pointment of inexperienced men to the
diplomatic service.
In closing Mr. Hughes said:
“I do not profess to carry with me
any panacea. But I do profess to have
some ability in analyzing facts and in
understanding situations and to the
best of that ability I want to serve the
United States.”
Hughes is Scheduled 1o Deliver
dress at Rillings.
Caranza Regime t» Restore Sequestered
Holdings.
By Associated Press.
Paris. Aug. 11.-—Confirmation was
given today by Juan Azcona, financial
agent in Paris of the Carranza regime,
of a Mexico City dispatch in the Figaro
saying the Mexican government has de-
cided to return sequestered properties
taken from supporters of previous 8oV-
ernments, subject to any civil responsi-
bilities, which may have been incurred.
The dispatch says this will tend to
unite the various elements in Mexico
for the restoration of normal condi-
tions.
His article is as follows:—
The Oil industry very aptly has been called one of the
wonders of this generation. According to government sta-
tistics the United States today produces twice as much crude
petroleum as all the rest of the world.
Comparatively a small area has yet been prospected
for oil, but development is being pushed actively in various
sections and new fields are opening up daily. The next
decade undoubtedly has some agreeable surprises in store
for oil men.
Tear off
this cou-
pon a n d
send it today.
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BRITISH PASS 1,500 LAWS,
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Beaumont Enterprise.
In the last ten years the British par-
liament enacted 1,500 laws. In the last
five years American national and state
lawmaking bodies enacted 62,550 laws.
It has been the custom in America to
elect lawyers to the legislatures and to
congress. The ordinary, everyday citi-
zen is not suppoed to have the mental
equipment to comprehend fully the in-
tricacies of lawmaking. He has noth-
ing but common sense. Office-holding
is looked upon by lawyers, and partic-
ularly young lawyers, as an admirable
vehicle for advertising at the expense
of the public. There is nothing in
America that needs reforming so much
as the law. It would be a herculean
job to get order, system and sense out
of the conglomerate .mass of laws with
which we are afflicted. There is so
much law that justice is almost sub-
merged.
What has become of the old-fashione%
boy who put an up-turned pin on
teacher’s chair? |
National Association Contest Is Sched-
uled at Duluth.
By Associated Press.
Duluth, Minn., Aug. 11.—The sun was
shining brightly and a cool breeze rip-
pled the course today as the 168 oars-
men pick of the boat clubs of the east,
middle west and south, prepared for
the first event of the forty-fourth an-
nual regatta of the National Associa-
tion of Amateur Oarsmen .scheduled for
3:30 o’clock this afternoon. The largest
crowd that ever witnessed a rowing re-
gatta in the west is expected to be on
hand.
Until a few years ago before the advent of electricity,
petroleum was the universal source of artificial light. While
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toaxs s A- ■
roads narticularlv our Texas lines, have successfully sub-
stituted crude oil for coal on locomotives and stationary
engines. The latest models of warships, such as the Deutsch -
11d and others are equipped with crude oil-burning ma-
chined OU has all in its favor as a fuel; it is compact,
easily handled and there are no flying cinders to aggravate
a traveling public or set afire the farmers grain.
Petroleum now is found in various parts of the state,
but in particular, directly north and south of Galveston.
The oil stratum extends all the way from Kansas, through
Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas into Mexico.
Why. then, should not our island, in the midst of an
extensive and productive oil-belt, also be underlaid with the •
precious fluid?
To date, no thorough analysis of the island’s subsoil
has been made and every Galvestonian will feel intensely in-
terested in the result of the investigation now under way.
Singularly blessed by Nature, man has done much to-
ward making Galveston a most desirable place to live in.
Nature has provided continual sunshine, luxurious vegeta-
tion and an unexcelled bathing surf. Citizens have dredged
a deep water channel, built a mighty seawall, splendid
hotels, bathing establishments, boulevards and a substantial
causeway.
Galveston is the all-the-year-’round resort city par
excellence, besides being the second largest seaport. Sight-
seers coming in from all sides are delighted and Galveston s
exports and imports are tremendous. Closer investigation
shows, however, that the. exports consist essentially of raw
materials, while the imports are finished goods. It aoes
seem strange that a city so perfectly provided with both rail
and water transportation should have no industries of her
own. New York, for instance, similarly situated,, has de-
veloped into a manufacturing center.
The Galveston of today proves attractive to every one
except to the industrial who must have, ’cheap power. Ni-
agra has her “Falls” and Pittsburgh lies in the midst of
Inexhaustible coal fields.
Galveston can not depend on her tidal waves for cheap ,
or reliable power and coal must be freighted in from a dis-
tance and at great expense.
The discovery of oil on Galveston island naturally would
enrich the individuals directly interested. But most imr
portant is the benefit the community would derive from
such a find as it would provide Galveston with a new in-
dustry producing cheap power and thereby attract other
industries to our city. In other words, the discovery ol oil
would inaugurate an era of general prosperity for Galveston
and make it indeed the “Treasure Island of America.
/ J. H. MONTANDON.
3624 Avenue RM, Galveston, Texas.
There’s no limit i
to Sovereign en-J
joyment. Smoke (
all day long—your I
throat will always;'
feel cool—“Quality
Tells!”
the capital invested and not in excess
of 20 per cent; 2 per cent on net prof-
its in excess of 20 and not in excess
of 30 per cent; 3 per cent on net prof-
its in excess of 30 but not in excess of
40 per cent; 4 per cent on net profits
in excess of 40 but not in excess of 50
per cent; and .5 per cent on net profits
in excess of 50 per cent.”
The committee agreed to an amend-
ment which would authorize the presi-
dent to take retaliatory legislation
against nations which prohibit the im-
portation of any article “the product
of the soil or industry of the United
States and not injurious to health or
morals.” The president would be em-
powered to prohibit importation into
the United States of similar articles
from offending countries or other arti-
cles in case none of similar character
were imported.
Another amendment agreed to would
admit all dyestufs and coal tar, medi-
cinal derivatives, free of duty during
the European war and would postpone
operation of proposed tarif fon such
commodities until the close of the war
or such time as their general importa-
tion shall be renewed.
people of the islands if that were pos-
sible.
The Conservative leader strongly op-
posed the sale, declaring that a ma-
jority of his party was against it.
The finance minister emphasized the.
international considerations which had
precipitated the matter and declared
that dissolution of the rigsdag would
follow rejection of the measure.
Neither considerations of a domestic
nature in the island, nor economic gain
had been the deciding factor. Already,
in 1913, the government had received
an offer for the purchase of the
islands, but declined to sell as it had
no desire to lower the Danish colors
anywhere without cogent reasons.
Those who opposed the sale, he con-
tinued, had an easy task because the
government was unable to unveil its
chief arguments in favor of the sale.
What should be done, for instance, if
the United States took possession of
the islands? Should Denmark declare
war against the United States or ap-
peal to Europe? The government felt
bound to submit to the desire of a
great state; the government regretted
that the colors had to be lowered, but
when a hurricane was blowing one had
to run before it.
He concluded by warning the house
that responsibility for forcing elections
and the consequences that a postpone-
ment might involve would fall upon
the rigsdag.
It would be a serious matter. For-
eign Minister de Scavenius declared, if
the sale was postponed and he empha-
sized that with regard to foreign af-
fairs the rigsdag as at present consti-
tuted was fully competent to make a
decision.
By Associated Press.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 11.—A net
profit excise tax on all manufacturers
selling goods to foreign governments
as a substitute for the munitions tax
in the pending revenue bill is being
seriously considered by Democrats of
the senate finance committee.
The tax on munitions of war; in-
cluding copper products as proposed
in the house bill, has been giving Dem-
ocratic senate leaders considerable
trouble. They have been told by ex-
perts, however, that the substitute vir-
tually agreed on would not constitute
an export tax and would be constitu-
tional. Although directed against gen-
eral exports to foreign governments, it
is expected that the proposed plan
would apply particularly to manufac-
turers who have made large fortunes
out of the European war and would add
many milions to the revenue of the
government. The plan under consider-
ation is substantially as folows:
“That every person or corporation
engaged in the business of selling
goods, wares or merchandise of any
description to any foreign government
or to the agents or representatives of
such foreign governments shall pay for
each taxable year an excise tax of 1
n THE HOFFMAN
COMPANY,
2026 Market Street,
Galveston, Texas.
Without any obligation
on my part, please send
me details and map of the
Hoffman Goose Creek Com-
pany.
ment. More than 7,500 coaches and
freight cars were suddenly withdrawn
from ordinary commercial work, much
to the inconvenience of business men,
but no word of complaint was ever
heard from them or from the railway
people.
Representative Slayden dismisses
with a wave of the hand and a copy
of correspondence the complaints that
there were improper hospital facilities
for the troops moving south and ar-
about 12 miles down
the “8” road.
substitute mutton for beef at the speci-
fied pro rata, and the way in which
they shift the beans for rice and hom-
iny, etc., is wondrous to behold, and is
the outcome of years of hard practical
experience and scientific study. For
the army ration as shown here can be
so twisted that on Christmas Day there
will be turkey on the mess table and
it will be actually a part of the ration.
So it will be seen and suspected that
the American army officer knows what
a ration is, and that the war depart-
ment knows the importance of getting
these rations into the hands of the men
who are to eat them. In fact, the army
has a highly trained corps of officers
who know the ration game so much
better than most people know any-
thing at all, that the charge of “bad
food” is laughed at.
RAILWAY ACCOMMODATION COM-
PLA INT UNI MPORT ANT.
“There has been unimportant com-
plaint of the railway accommoda-
tions,” said Representative Slayden, in
discussing the situation. “One state
executive if correctly reported, was vo-
ciferous in his demand that Pullman
cars be supplied to the troops from his
state. I wish it could have been done,
but if Pullman berths were to be sup-
plied to all the men of the ever-in-
creasing armies in all their movements
we must open new mines of gold and
silver to meet the bills. It is a new
idea in campaigning. To pass two ar
three nights in an ordinary day coach
once or twice in a lifetime is an en-
durable hardship, and one that the
great majority of our people undergo
in their travels.
“It is an evidence of their fore-
thought that our quartermaster corps
long ago sought to provide for just
such an emergency as the transfer of
our army to the Mexican border. They
worked out the movement to Mexico
a year ago with railroad officials. The
co-operation of these railway officials
made the movement to Mexico a com-
plete success. The men were moved
for long distances, in some instances
thousands of miles, over single-track
roads. Yet it was quickly and safely
done. It took 300 trains of more than
3,000 ordinary passenger, tourist and
standard Pullman coaches, 400 baggage
La Salle Street Bank Depositors Have
Waited Two Y ears.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Aug. 11.—Depositors of the
defunct La Salle Street Trust and Sav-
ings bank, of which William Lorrimer
was president, who have waited two
years to recover any of their funds,
will get a 25-per-cent dividend next
Monday. Completion of arrangements
for the payment of the dividend was
announced today by the receiver, Wil-
liam C. Niblack. Checks totalling
$80,000 and running from a few cents
to many thousand dollars will be hand-
ed to the depositors who call for them.
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riving there. Col. H. P. Birmingham
of the medical corps, acting surgeon
general, received from W. G. Mahone of
Richmond a letter and an appeal for
funds issued by the American commit-'
tee for the maintenance of the border
hospital at Brownsville, Texas. The
appeal was signed by Mrs. Florence
Harriman.
“The sensational report,” said Col.
Birmingham, in an official note to the
secretary of war, “upon which is based
an appeal for money contribution for
hospitals for troops on the border was
evidently made by someone who had
no information concerning the actual
conditions, as it is in effect wholly
without foundation.”
Col. Birmingham is the authority lor
saying that every possible hospital
need has been provided for all along
the border, and that nearly 2,000 beds
are available now and that over 3,000
will be available shortly. The sick
rate, as officially reported, is away be-
low this quota of beds. It would seem,
then, that the howl about lack of hos-
pital facilities is without much founda-
tion.
“The truth is,” said Representative
Slayden, “that these men were proba-
bly never in as healthful a climate as
they are today.”
Reverting to the discussion of the
food in camp, Representative Slayden
said:
“The fact, that the regular army
man doesn’t consume all of his rations
in one day attests the adequacy of the
army ration, for the regular has a cele-
brated appetite. The national guards-
men have the same ration.
“The story of a starving soldier en
route to Texas is absurd. It has never
been my fortune to see anything of
war except in the late civil war days,
but when I realized the quantity and
quality of the food supplied to the sol-
diers today, and recall the parched corn
and raw turnip which on occasion was
the fare of the Confederates, I would
what Lee’s men would have accom-
plished had they been as well fed and
armed.
“How they would have laughed at
the complaint of the militiamen that
the government had not given the com-
pany a professional cook. It is a way
governments have, I’m afraid. The
soldiers battling at Verdun, perhaps
have not been supplied with Parisian
chefs.”
By Associated Press.
Fargo, N. D„ Aug. 11.-—Charles E.
Hughes, Republican nominee, for presi-
dent, left Fargo early today on a re-
vised schedule that will enable him to
deliver an evening address at Billings,
Mont, tonight. Mr. Hughes had not
intended to leave, here until 5:47, this,
morning, but found that he could ac-
commodate his schedule to the change,
and accordingly left at 1 o’clock a. m.
The strain of campaigning has se-
riously affected the nomenee’s voice,
which was so hoarse at times during
his speech here last night that he had
to stop frequently for a few seconds
at a time.
The general impression among
thinking persons has been that if the
food supply was short it was the fault
of the national guard officers; but
that the railroad equipment and move-
ment may have been faulty.
The aforesaid wily politicians, once
they got it into their heads that too
much criticism of the commissary
might redound to the discredit of their
own dear voting national guardsmen,
began to tread lightly on that end of
the proposition.
A study of the situation was under-
taken~by a Texas representative who
has been one of the Democrats who
criticised many of the phases of the
“Mexican situation” as handled by the
administration. He is James L. Slay-
den, who has made a study of the com-
plicated and intricate matter known as
the “army ration,” that he can dis-
course intelligently upon it—a thing
which few laymen can do.
SOLDIER’S RATION NOT A MEAL.
Most civilians think of a ration as a
meal—something handed out in a paper
bag, perhaps, or served in a hotel.
When rations are short, tire civilian
thinks the soldiers are going without a
regular meal. They don’t know what a
ration is.
However, a garrison ration is a cer-
tain amount of a specified list of foods.
The basic ration is as follows:
Salt beef, 20 ounces; flour, 18 ounces;
baking powder, .08 ounc; beans, 2.4
ounces; potatoes, 20 ounces; prunes,
1.28 ounces; coffee, 1.12 ounces; sugar,
3.2 ounces; milk, evaporated, unsweet-
ened, 5 ounces; vinegar 1 gill; salt, .64
ounce; pepper, .04 ounce; cinnamon,
.014 ounce; lard, .64 ounce; butter, .5
ounce; syrup, 1 gill; flavoring extract,
.014.
Now, on this the commissary offi-
cers of the army play an endless tune,
a variety of menus following which
would do the unscientific housekeeper
good. For the manner in which they
Germans Assert No Military Damage
Was Done.
Berlin, via London, Aug. 11.—“On the
night of Aug. 7 enemy airmen dropped
several bombs on Rottweil, Wurttem-
burg,” says an official statement today.
“A dwelling house was hit and several
persons were wounded. No military
damage was done.”
The official French statement of
Wednesday said a French aviator
dropped 330 pounds of explosives on
the powder factory at Rottweil, caus-
ing two extensive fires and several ex-
plosions.
participate in this
well and also in all
the wells on its 230-
acre holdings in the
Goose Creek field.
By Associated Press.
Rome, Aug. 10, via Paris, Aug. 11.—
The importance of the Italian successes
around Gorizia is becoming more evi-
dent hourly. The battle is continuing
behind the city over a front about
twelve miles long. The Austrians have
retreated along the railroad toward
Dornberg, eight miles southeast of Go-
rizia, and over the national highway
to Schon pass, six miles to the east,
and are now attempting to reform their
front on a line extending from Vipacco
to Tarnova.
Meanwhile the Austrians are attempt-
ing to take the offensive at Monte Nero
and various other points of the Italian
front, but have been unable to divert
the Italians from their operations be-
hind Gorizia.
Popular enthusiasm is at high pitch
throughout Italy. Congratulations are
pouring in from all parts of the world
to King Victor Emmanuel and General
Cadorna. The king and commander in
chief have been particularly pleased by
messages from Italians in New York
and other parts of the United States.
The third army under command of
the duke of Aosta, which is still bear-
ing the brunt of the fighting, has won
high praise as well as much sympathy
on account of its losses. The duke, be-
fore the battle began, called on his army
to fight and “win in the name of youl
mothers, your wives, your sisters and
your country.”
Special to The Tribune.
Washington, Aug. 11.—There is evi-
dence on every hand that the national
guardsmen now on the Mexican border
are being looked at longingly by the
wily po’itician who. is searching about
for a campaign issue. There is also
evidence a hand that the campaign
material some of the wily politicians
have been collecting is to be cut off
at its source of supply, as reports have
it that Gen. Funston is about to squelch
the activities of a lot of the mentally
active, but untruthful, young reporters
who have accompanied the state troops
to the border lines. Gen. Funston’s dis-
gust at reading stories Of “hardships”
at a’time when there are no hardships
in the sense used by military men is
not at all disguised.
CREATE INTEREST POLITICALLY.
True or false, the stories which have
come from the camps of the national
guardsmen on the border have created
great interest politically. Of course,
no one has made a howl about the way
the regulars have been treated, and
the probability is the regular army man
has been treated just as well as ever.
On the other hand, with elections ap-
proaching and a campaign slowly com-
ing along, the wily politician, as has
been said, now casts his glance upon
the horizon and welcomes every com-
plaint from the section drained by he
Rio Grande.
There have been complaints about
the food; there have been complaints
that there was no water, no sheets, no
sleepers, no elbow room. There have
been stories of men finding it neces-
sary to beg food on the way. There
are well-authenticated instances of
citizens of various towns contributing
food and comforts to national guards-
men en route. Whether the men would
have starved or not has not been de-
termined. The fact that people gave
them something to eat en route has
been bulletined forth with the most
ominous conclusions as to what would
have ’happened had this manna not
dropped from the skies.
By Associated Press.
Copenhagen, via London, Aug. 11.—:
The first reading of the bill providing,
for the sale of the Danish West Indies
to the United States was taken up in
the folkething, the lower house of
the rigsdag, yesterday and was con-
tinued today. It is believed that the
folkething will adopt the measure ow-
ing to the fact that the Radical and. ।
Socialistic parties which have a ma- j
jority favor the sale.
On the other hand, the landsthins or
upper house is thought to be opposed
to the measure, the left party having
joined the Conservatives, who desire to
postpone consideration of the matter.
During the discussion there was
much excitement in the house and some
women among the spectators shouted’
“We will not sell.”
Several of the ministers took part
in the debate and the statement was
made.in behalf of the government that
neither democratic nor economic con-
siderations, but the international situa-
tion had brought the question to a
head, and that if the sale was rejected
the government would dissolve the
rigsdag and appeal to the country.
The finance minister, Edward Bran-
des, intimated that the government had
no alternative but to accede to the de-
sire of the United States, The foreign
minister, Eric de Scavenius, in opening
the debate, recommended ratification
of the sale. He denied that the gov-
ernment had not favored the sale of
the islands because of the favorable1
purchase price, but because retention
of the islands might possibly involve
Denmark in international complica-
tions It was for the rigsdag now to
make a final decision.
j. C. Rhistensen, ex-premier and;
leader of the left party, was unable to
believe, as rumored, that. Denmark was
forced to sell or that there was any
international danger, as such a belief
would be an insult, to the United States.
The proposal to sell the islands, he de-
clared, was not only a surprise, but
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Fargo, N. D., Aug. 11.—Charles E
Hughes assailed the present adminis-
tration for alleged inefficiency, waste,
and extravagance, particularly with -
reference to the river and harbor bill
recently passed by congress.
“I think I may say without rash-
ness,” Mr. Hughes told his audience
here, “that the government of the Unit-
ed States is recklessly wasteful. shame-
fully incompetent and extravagant, a
reproach to the intelligence of the peo-
ple because of its inefficiency.”
“I would like to have the authority
to investigate this administration for
about six months,” the nominee con-
tinued. “The rivers and harbors bill, ■
known to the people as the pork barrel
bill,” Mr. Hughes said, "is largely
monies wasted, as there is no expert
examination to determine what ex-
penditures are needed.
“On the contrary, it very largely
depends on who are the influential
men representing particular districts
and what appropriations are obtained
in this district and ' that district for
this man and that man.
OPPOSES LOG-ROLLING.
“That is a matter of log-rolling. It
brings the blush of shame to the cheeks
of every American. It ought to h
stopped. If I am elected president, to
the best of my ability I propose to
stop it.”
Mr. Hughes declared the pork barrel
bill of 1914 was "talked to death by
Senator Burton, a fine Republican,” and
that the 1915 bill was reduced mate-
rially because of the opposition of Re-
publicans and conscientious Democrats.
“This year, just the-other day,” the
nominee continued, “congress passed a
rivers and harbors bill of some $42,-
000,000. I confess I don’t know why
’such a measure should receive approv-
al. We have heard a great deal lately
of the power of executive leadership.
It has been powerfully exerted. Why
can it not be exerted to save the pub-
lic purse from being looted in the in-
terest of these ridiculous appropria-
tions? .
“Now, I have no apologies for Re-
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