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TWO
Council Added :
Pilcher’s Salary
Per Year From
Spirited Fight in Council Last
Pilcher's Salary Was Increa
and Mattison’s Reduced F
After a spirited diwiimrion nlty coun
cil IftKt night raised the salary of Mr.
MOscs Fibber, second assistant to the,
director of streets and highways, to
sl.*oo from $1,200, end reduced the
salary of Mr. \V. A. Mattlson, first
assistant to the director of streets
and highways, from $1,400 to $1,306.
As the matter turned out It was a
stand* off so far as expenditure of
thjs clty'a money 1h concerned, the sal
ary of one official lielng redueed the
some amount as the salary of another
was Increased.
The motion to so amend the salary
ordinance as to IncrraM Mr. Pilcher's
mlary and reduce Mr. Mattlson’s was
made hy Mr. Boyce, of tho third ward,
and was carried by a vote of twelve
to six.
Thoae voting yea,were Messrs. Jones,
Castleberry, Boyle, Boyce, Pilcher,
Kent, Barnes, Harrison, Hmllh, Wood*
ward., Moore, and Vaughan—l 2.
Nays: Messrs. Allen Irvin, Cuth
bert, Marlin, Rawortn and Mayor
Itayne- 6.
After the motion was carried Mr.
Boveo moved that the office of first
assistant to the director of streets an I
highways be abolished and the duties
Involving upon him be performed hv
the director, Mr. TV. H. Wise. This
motion was declared out or order and
In Joint Session, Congress Hears
Pres *t. On Trust Legislation
(Contluned from Page One.)
sponsible for unlawful business prac
tices.
6—Prohibition of holding companies
end a suggestion that tho voting pow
er of Individual* holding shares In
numeroue corporations might ho re
stricted.
7 Giving to private Individuals the
right to found suits for redrss on farts
and Judgment* proven In government
milts nntj providing that tho statue
of llmttallone should run only from
the dale of conclusion of the govern?
merit's action.
ON THE STATE OF THE
UNION.
The President spoke as follows:
'‘Gentlemen of the Congress:
"In m.v reia»rl 'On the State of the
tinlon,' which I had the privilege of
rtadlng to you on the second of Decem
ber last. { ventured to reserve for dls-.
rueston at a later date the suhjert of
additional legislation regarding the
very difficult and Intricate matter of
IVriistH and monopolies. The time now
seems opportune to turn to Unit great
question; .not only because tho cur
rency legislation Is now disposed of,
but also because opinion seems to be
clearing shout us with singular rapid
ity in this other great field of action.
In respect of the monopolies it seems
to he coming to a clear and all hut uni
versal agreement in anticipation of
our action, making the way easier to
see and easier to set out upon with
confidence and without confusion of
counsel
"Ilegislation lias Its atmosphere like
everything else and the present at nips*
Jihere of accommodation and mutual
understanding is matter of sincere
congratulation- It ought to make our
task very much less difficult and cm
Feel Out of Sorts?
It’s a good idea to
look for the cause!
Oik* common, but often unsuspected cause is coffoe drinking. Yet some
persons seem able to pet along with cofft*e —at least for a time. But when
headachy, bilious days conic; breakfast or some other meal doesn’t taste
good; and the day’s work goes wrong. (Ever feel that way?)—then it’s
time to find out for sure if coffee is causing the trouble in your case.
There’s a subtle, poisonous drug, “caffeine,” in coffee that interferes
with the normal functions of body, brain and nerves, and has a lot to do
with one’s comfort and progress.
Suppose for a test you try the simple expedient of quitting coffee and
using well-made
POSTUM
—a pure food-drink made of choice wheat. Tt has a delightful, Java-likc fla
vour hut is absolutely free from caffeine or any other drug.
After ten days or two weeks you will be able to decide whether to go back
to coffee troubles, or stick to Postum and peace and comfort.
Postum comes in two forms.
Regular Postum—must be well boiled.
Instant Postum—doesn't require boiling, but is prepared instantly by
stirring a level teaspoon fill in an ordinary cup of hot water and adding
cream and sugar to taste.
Grocers everywhere sell both kinds.
“There’s a Reason” for-POSTUM
i
£IOO Per Year to
; Took Off SIOO
Mattison’s Pay
Night. By a Vote of 12 to 6
esd From $1,200 to $1,300
rom $1,400 to $1,300,
the city attorney ruled that since the
.office wos created by an ordinance
It would have to be abolished by an
ordinance.'
There was a hard fight on the mat
ter of the Mattlson and Pilcher sala
ries. Mr. Jones, of the first, moved
at the outset that the two officials
receive the same amount, that Is, Mr.
Pilcher’s salary ho raised to $1,400,
which Is the same as Mr. Mattlson
has been rceivlng. Mayor Hayne and
Mr. Allen, of the second, opposed the
raising of Mr. Pilcher's salary, tho
latter stating that the finance com
mit lee In making up the salary ordi
nance deemed It Impracticable to moke
any changes. Mayor Hayne statei
that he thought Mr. Pilcher was re
ceiving ample compensation.
The matter of Increasing the salary
of Mr. Pilcher to oqnnl that of Mr.
Mattlson was put to a vote and lost
on a tie. Here Is how the vote stood:
Yeas: Messrs. Jones, Haworth
Boyce, Pilcher, Kent. Barnes, Harri
son, Smith, Vaughan—9.
Kays Messrs. Irvin, Gastleborry, Al
len, Hoyle, Woodward, Cuthbert, Mar
tin, Moore and Mayor Hayne—9.
Then came the plan of Mr. Boyce, to
reduce Matllson's salary.to equal that
of Pilcher's, which was carried through
rapidly hy a vote of 12 to 9.
barnisslng. Constructive legislation,
when successful, Is always the em
bodiment of convincing experience,
legislation Is a business of interpre
tation. not of origination, and It Is now
plain what tho opinion Is to which we
must Rive effort In this matter. It is
not recent or hasty njinlon. It springs
out of the experience of a whole gen
eral ion. It has clarified Itself hy long
content anil thoae who for a long time
battled with It and sought to change
it are now frankly and honorably
yielding to It and seeking to conform
their actions to it.
THE SCALE YIELDS.
"The great business men who or
ganized and financed monopoly and
those who ndmired it in actual every
day transactions have year after year,
until now. either denied Its existence or
Justified It an noressary for the ef
fective maintenance and .development
of the \aet business processes in the
country in the modern circumstances
of trade and manufacture's finance;
but all the while opinion has mnde
head against them. At last the mas
ters of business on the great scalo have
begun to yield their preference and
purpose, perhaps their judgment also,
In honorable surrender.
"What we are proposing to do.
therefore, is not to interfere with busi
ness as enlightened business men pre
fer to do it, or in any sense to put it
under the ban. The antagonism between
business and government is over. We
arc now about to give expression to the
best business judgment of America, to
what we know to bo the business con
science and honor of the land. Tho
government tuul business men are
, ready to meet each other half-way In
I a common effort to square business
j methods with both public opinion and
1 the law That is the strength of our
position and the sure prophecy of what
will ensue when our reasonable work
is done.
"When serious contest ends, when
men united In opinion and purpose,
those who are to change their ways
of business, Joining With those who
ask for the change, it Is possible
to effefct it in the way In which
prudent and thoughtful and patriotic
men would wish to see it brought
about, with as few, as slight,, a» easy
and simple business readjustments as
possible, nothing essential disturbed,
nothing torn up by the roots, no parts
rent asunder which can be left In
wholesome combination. Fortunately,
no measures of sweeping or novel
change are necessary. It will be un
derstood that our object Is not to un
settle business or anywhere seriously
to break Its established courses
athwart. On the contrary, we desire
the laws we are now about to pass to
be the bulwarks and safeguards of In
dustry against the forces that have
disturbed it. What we have to do
can be done in a new spirit, in
thoughtful moderation, without revolu
tion of any untoward kind.
INDEFENSIBLE.
"We are all agreed that 'private mo
nopoly Is Indefensible and Intolerable,’
and our program Is founded upon that
conviction. It will be a comprehen
sive, but not a radical program and
these are its items, the changes which
opinion deliberately sanctions and for
which business waits:
"It waists with acqulsence for laws
which Will effectually prohibit and
prevent such Interlockings of the
PERSONNEL of the directorates of
great corporations—banks and rail
roads, Industrial, commercial and pub
lic service bodies—as In effect result
In making those who borrow and those
who lend practic ally one and the samg;
those who sell and those who buy but
the same persons trading with one an
other under different names and in
different combinations, and those who
affect to compete In fact partners and
masters of some whole field of busi
ness. Suflclent time should be allow
ed in whic h to effect these changes of
organization without Inconvenience of
confusion.
"Such a prohibition will work much
more than a mere negative good by
correcting the serious evils which
have arisen, because the men who
leave been the directing spirits of tha
great Investment banks have usurped
the place which belongs to Independent
industrial management working 111 its
own behalf.
"In the second place business men
as well as those who direct public af
fairs now recognize with painful clear -
’nrsß the groat harm and injustice
which lias been done to many, If not
all, of the great railroad systems of
the country by the way in which they
have been financed and their own dis
tinctive Interests subordinated to the
Interest erf the men who financed
them and of other business enterprises
whic h those men wish to promote. The
country Is ready to accept with relief
and approval, a law whiqgi will confer
upon the Interstate commerce commis
sion the power to superintend and
regulate the financial operations hy
which the railroads are henceforth to
he supplied wth the money they need
for their proper development to meet
the rapidly growing requirements of
the country for Increased and Im
proved transportation facilities. Upon
this question those who are chiefly re
sponsible for the actual management
and operation of the railroads have
spoken plainly and earnestly, with a
' pnrposr we ought to be quick to ac
cept It will be one step, and a very
Important one. toward the necessary
separation of the business of produc
tion from the business of transporta
tion
BUSINESS WAITS.
"The business of the country awaits
and has suffered because It could not
obtain, further and more expltrlt leg
islative definition of the policy and
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Lucky Day Almanac for 1914.
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meaning of the existing anti-trust law. !
Surely we are sufficiently familiar
with the actual processes and methods |
of monopoly and the many hurtful '
restraints of trade to make dlfintion
possible, at any rate up to the limits '
of what experience has disclosed.
These practices can be expllctly for- !
bidden by statute in such terms as !
will practically eliminate uncertainty, |
the law itself and the penalty being \
made equally plain.
"Business men of the country desire ]
something more than that the menace |
of legal process in these matters be ]
made explicit and intelligible. They \
desire the advice, the definite guid- i
ance and Information which can be
supplied by an administrative body, an
Interstate trade commission.
"The opinion of the country would I
Instantly approve of such a commis
sion. It would not wish to see It era- I
powered to make terms with monopoly
or in any sort to assume control of I
business, as if the government made !
Itself responsible. It demands such a !
commission only as an lndispenslble
instrument of Information and public
ity, as a clearing house for the facts
by which both the public mind and tht
'managers of great business under
takings should be guided, as an
instrumentality for doing Justice to
business where the processes of the
courts or the natural forces of correc- j
tion outside the courts are inadequate j
to adjust the remedy to the wrong in
a way that will meet all the equities
and circumstances of the case.
HALF WAY.
"Inasmuch as our object Is to met
business half-way in its processes of
self-correction and disturb its legiti
mate course as little as possible, we
ought to see'to it that penalties and
punishments should fall, not upon bus- i
lness itself but upon the individuals
who use the instrumentalities of busi
ness to do things which public policy
and sound business practice condemn.
These should he held individually re
-1 sponsihlf' and the punishment should
fell upon them, not upon the
j business organization of which they
i make illegal use. It should be
one of tl|e main objects of our leg
islation to divest such persons of their
corporate cloak and deal with them as
with those who do not represent thMr
corporations, but merely by deliberate
intentions break tho law.
“Other questions remain which will
need very thoughtful and practical
treatment. Enterprises, in these mod
ern days of great individual fortunes,
arc oftentimes Interlocked, by the fact
that the greater part of their corporate
stock is owned by a single person or
group of persons who are in some way
intimately related in interest. We are
! agreed, I take It, that holding com-
I panics should be prohibited, but what
of the controlling private ownership of
Individuals or actually co-operative
i groups of Individuals? Shall the pri
vate owners of capital stock be suf
fered to be themselves in effect hold
| ing companies? Shall we require the
I owners of stock, when their voting
I power in several companies which
| ought to be independent of one another
: would constitute actut control, to make
I election in which of them they will
; exercise their right to vote? This
question I venture for your considera
tion.
INDIVIDUALS.
“There is another matter in which
i Imperative considerations of Justice
nnd fair play suggest thoughtful
j remedial action. Not only do many of
I the combinations affected or sought to
|be effected In the industrial world
' work sn injustice upon the public in
| general; they also directly and serl-
I ously Injure the Individuals who are
I put out of business tn one unfair way
i or another by the many dislodging and
exterminating forces of combination. I
hope that we shall agree in giving pri
! vate Individuals who claim to have
been Injured by these processes the
right to found their suits for redress
upon the facts and Judgments proved
nnd entered in suits by the government
where the government has upon Its
i own initiative sued the combinations
complained of and won its suit, nnd
’ that the statute of limitations shall be
suffered to run against such litigants
, only from the date of the conclusion
j of the government'* action.
PLAIN OBLIGATIONS.
" have laid the case before you, no
' doubt as it lies tn your ow - n mind, as
It lies in the thought of the country.
What must every candid man say of
I the suggestions 1 have laid before you,
of the plain obligations of which I
ha'e reminded you? That these are
new things for which the country' Is
not prepared? No; hut that they are
i old things, now familiar, and must be
t undertaken If we are to square our
1 laws with the thought and desire of
| the country. Until these things are
, dune, conscientious business men the
country over will be unsatisfied. They
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ONLY ONE PRESIDENT
WEDDED IN WHITE HOUSE
Something About Marriages in
Historic Mansion at the
National Capital.
Grover Cleveland is claimed to be
the only man to marry in the White
House. It is supposed it was meant
the only president. Lucy Payne Wash
ington was the first White House
bride. She married Judge Todd, of
Kentucky, and Dolly Madison was
married to Representative John H.
Jackson, of Virginia. Maria Hester
Monroe, daughter of President Mon-*
roe, married Samuel Lawrence, gov
ernor of New York. At that period
Washington was a town of only 8,000
population. The marriage of John
Adams, son of John Quincy Adams,
and his cousin. Helen Jackson, the
fourth White House wedding, took
place in 1826. During Andrew Jack
son’s administration three weddings
were celebrated, the fifth, sixth and
seventh. The participants were Del
la Lewis, whose father was the presi
dent's friend, and M. Alphonse de
Pagot, secretary of the French lega
tion; Mary Easton, the president's
niece, and Lucien B. Polk, and Emily
and Lewis Randolph. Following this
group comes Letltia Tyler’s marriage
to William Waller, the eighth in the
White House. (
Nearly 40 years later the ninth wed
ding took place, and Nelli© Grant was
married to Mr. Algernon Sartoris, of
England. The tenth bride, Emily
Platt, niece of President Hayes, was
married to Gen. Russell Hastings. Ten
years later, amidst a wealth of flow
ers, Frances Folsom, the eleventh
bride, married Grover Cleveland. In
February, 1906, the twelfth marriage
took place, when Alice Roosevelt mar
ried Representative Nicholas Long
worth. The historic list is brought
down to date hy the marriage of Jessie
Woodrow Wilson to Frances Bowes
Sayre. She Is the thirteenth White
House bride; who will be the four
teenth the future is to disclose.
Mrs. Elizabeth Chandler, 72 years
old, widow of the late James H.
Chandler, of Anderson. Indiana, claims
she was married in the White House,
and that Jessie Wilson is the 14th
bride./ She relates in 1862 she lived
in Augusta county, Va., and eloped
with Mr. Chandler to Washington to
be married. On arriving in Washing-
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President Lincoln sent for a Baptist
minister, who married them and, she
claims, the proof is on file at the pen
sion department. While she was mar
ried in the White House it can be
seen she was not a daughter or rela
tive to any President and not a na
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In conformity with the order of the
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Between g lbs. 10 lbs. 20 lbs.
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New Old New Old New Old
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