anaheim-gazette 1919-02-13

MODIFICATION OF THE RULES OF CONGRESS REPUBLICANS OF BOTH HOUSE AND SENATE ARE PLANNING IMPROVED PROCEDURE CONTROL OF UPPER BODY IN THE HANDS OF A FEW WILL BE MADE IMPOSSIBLE Plans are being rapidly completed by Republican leaders in both the Senate and House for making the control of those bodies in the new Congress less centralized than under Democratic rule and more amenable to the influence of the general membership and of public opinion. In the conservative Senate, which from time immemorial has followed tradition, a mild revolution has just been brought about in a twinkling by the very youngest in point of service of the solons there and with the grudging approval of the older heads. In this the lead has been taken by Senators George Moses, of New Hampshire, and Fred Hale, of Maine, both reared in a school of politics which in the past has been termed almost reactionary, the former a protege of the late Jacob H. Gallinger and the latter a son of the late Eugene Hale. Senator Norris, of Nebraska, introduced a bill in the early part of the present session to do away with what he designated as the interlocking committees among the senators. Unthis the Republicans have named a Steering Committee, composed of Mann, of Illinois; Moore, of Pennsylvania; Anderson, of Minnesota; Gillett, of Massachusetts, and Mondell, of Wyoming. A similar committee will be continued during the next session, to confer with the speaker regularly and to see that the work of one committee does not overlap that of any other. It will be beyond the functions of the Committee on Committees, which selects the membership of all the committees, and of the Committee on Rules, which frames the order of business of the House, and do what its name indicates: steer bills on an even course through the hands of the members and the committees to enactment. It is likely that the new speaker, whoever he may be, will also have about him, in addition to the committees mentioned, personal advisers whom he will consult from time to time in regards to methods and procedure. He will therefore be even less of a czar than now. The great office once held by Clay, Blaine, Carlisle, Crisp, Reed and Cannon will be almost entirely a parliamentary one. It will be exceedingly difficult for the new speaker to either run his party in the House or in any way directly manipulate the making of laws. He will still be a decidedly important influence when his argument is heard on the floor, but that will be only because of the honor he has been chosen to fill. He will receive an emolument of $12,000, as compared to the $7,500 paid his colleagues. But both he and they, because of the new ease and celerity of procedure, without difficulty of gaining the recognition of the chair, will be thus easily subject to the demands of public opinion, it is declared. It is the expressed intention of the Republicans in both Senate and House in the new Congress by these methods Outside the Deutsche quiet snow-covered area Through the cafe where people could be seen wine. I went for disacus cafe in Leipzig was filled with formal workmen, intellectual groups were talking shouts resounded. After entered. Amid the crief, "Clear the maze seized me by the shout you?" he shouted. Out," he shouted. I past the Deutsche Dress distracted Gwynne returned to many's leading final pass almost unnoticed tacus cafe. APPROPRIATE $10 FOR Supervisors Make Careers of Several The county audited the supervisors to do $1000 in favor of A. county exhibit at the Show. The petition of G for a county road district was granted. The purchasing a lized to sell the fur women's war activitis. The application oi to lay a pipe line a was granted. The purchasing a lized to purchase law oner and public admin. The purchasing a lized to purchase a McCreary for use atory, the price not Senator Norris, of Nebraska, introduced a bill in the early part of the present session to do away with what he designated as the interlocking committees among the senators. Under this system members who have served for any years have been able to keep within their command the entire course of important legislation. One old and influential Democratic senator is chairman of one of the big committees and at the same time is second in rank on three others, so that he not only is the most potent force in shaping bills which pass through his own committee but is as well a conferee in others on bills which have passed both houses and are to be considered for the elimination of differences in conference. This strict application of the seniority principle has made it possible for a few men to run the Senate end of the Capitol. Moses therefore worked out the scheme and Hale presented it in the meeting of the Republican senators that each senator shall hereafter have membership on two of the major committees, of which there are ten. These are Agriculture, Appropriations, Commerce, Finance, Interstate Commerce, Foreign Relations, Judiciary, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, and Post Offices and Post Roads. In addition each senator is to have three other places, five in all. Each of the older senators will have a prominent committee chairmanship, but will not be allowed to serve as a conferee on any other committee. Lenroot, of Wisconsin; Smoot, of Utah; Norris, of Nebraska; Cummins, of Iowa; Harding, of Ohio; Knox, of Pennsylvania, and Hale, of Maine, have been named to put the plan into full effect before the beginning of the special session. As the result of this it is thought it will not be possible for it to be said that the Republican party in its return to power is to be held under the direction in the Senate of a few men, well on in years, who hail from any particular section of the country. It is asserted by Moses and Hale that one of the principal causes of the defeat of the Democrats at the last election was the oligarchic cornering by the Southern "hog combine" of committee chairmanships which enabled it to disqualify against wheat and in favor the floor, but that will be only because of the honor he has been chosen to fill. He will receive an emolument of $12,000, as compared to the $7,500 paid his colleagues. But both he and they, because of the new ease and celerity of procedure, without difficulty of gaining the recognition of the chair, will be thus easily subject to the demands of public opinion, it is declared. It is the expressed intention of the Republicans in both Senate and House in the new Congress by these methods of decentralization of control to do away with the bitternesses of factionalism and to make possible a united effort on all of the members to work for beneficial reconstruction legislation without regard to any class or section of the country, to make themselves popular with each other and nation, and to make it impossible for the Democrats to say in the future that the Republicans are less democratic in their legislative methods. BUSINESS CONDITIONS IN CAPITAL OF GERMANY Correspondent Tells of Present Situation in Berlin A shabbily distracted looking man entered the massive walnut room where the financial policies of Germany have more than once been decided. Three attendants in frayed trousers and coats and wooden-soled shoes bowed ceremoniously. The attendees withdrew. The man, Arthur von Gwynner, president of the Deutsche bank, sank into a large leather chair with a sigh. I began asking him question. Herr Gwynner sprang abruptly to his feet and laughed. "While we sit here and talk, Germany dies," he said. "German finance hangs by a thread. The war was frightful but this is worse. Every day 800 people die from starvation. The infant mortality rate since the armistice has reached 50 per cent. In Prussia our railroads are gone; we have only one train a day on each line. We cannot transport our coal. Bolshevism in Westphalia and Silesia has ruined our mines. We cannot get fish from Scandinavia. Germany is holding together day by day through courage and its faith in President Wilson. There is only one sleeping-car in all the country." "Reconstruction has not begun. Everything is paralyzed. Unless the blockade is lifted and the people are given a chance to work in the factories a reign of terror will grip Germany. Half of Germany will go mad." As the result of this it is thought it will not be possible for it to be said that the Republican party in its return to power is to be held under the direction in the Senate of a few men, well on in years, who hail from any particular section of the country. It is asserted by Moses and Hale that one of the principal causes of the defeat of the Democrats at the last election was the oligarchic cornering by the Southern "hog combine" of committee chairmanships which enabled it to discriminate against wheat and in favor of cotton and to deluge the South with appropriations for military cantonments and munition plants. In the House, too, the Republicans are preparing to do away with this domination of the South, and to make the speaker a lessened force in the making of laws. The great fight over the Reed rules in the insurgency days under "Uncle Joe" Cannon brought about the selection of a Committee on Committees which took from the speaker the controlling influence in naming the membership of all committees and therefore in largely determining the character of the bills to be suppressed by or reported favorably out of them. While "Uncle Joe" is now regarded as having made an excellent speaker, and while he was subject to removal at any time by a majority in the House, there is no tendency on the part of the Republicans to go back to the old way of doing things. Speaker Clark and the Democrats, with the South in control, have shaped legislation with a view to their own interests quite as much through the small number of men on the Committee on Committees to as great an extent and therefore, it is urged by the Republicans, as much to the detriment of the country, as they might have done had the speaker the full power he had in former times. To offset our mines. We cannot get fish from Scandinavia. Germany is holding together day by day through courage and its faith in President Wilson. There is only one sleeping-car in all the country. "Reconstruction has not begun. Everything is paralyzed. Unless the blockade is lifted and the people are given a chance to work in the factories a reign of terror will grip Germany. Half of Germany will go mad, and the other will be assassinated." The great financier wrung his hands, dashed into an adjoining room and returned with a pamphlet written by Bernard Shaw and attempting to prove that Englanl started the war. He began to argue about the blame for the world war and pointed out that Germany was always peace-loving. Pausing for breath he drew a hand across his eyes. "What's the use?" he said. "Germany has been the second greatest nation. It has been an orderly and social nation, but we have always been political fools, letting our country fall into the hands of incompetence. "Sustaining a glorious military clique was our sin. Now, in the midst of our death throes we are playing with another variety of dynamite—Socialism. I am a German Democrat. Socialism will reduce Germany to a pathetic puerile nation. We want sane democracy—no schoolboy experiments. We stand ready to make reparation to Belgium and to do all we can. Why this senseless torture of a people no longer at war?" We talked another hour. A frayed attendant appeared and bowed. The clatter of wooden soles was heard on the outside. "A business caller," laughed Herr Gwynner. "There is a joke for you. Business!" The clerk was audited that sealed bid for the sale of $125,000 for Bolsa school district be opened March 4, 1919, at 10:00 AM of the board of superintendent. The petition of Bolaa al., to vacate a fifth road district. Changes were made in aries of Fullerton, thorpe and Lowther tricts, as recommen­superintendent of schools. The petitions for Brea, Fullerton districts were denied. The clerk was asked for bids for pavilion said bids to be open at 10 A.M. at the offices of supervisors. It was ordered back in payment pro­vidence of San Francisco road be released. The hearing on Highway Transportation permit to operate freight transported Los Angeles and New York until February 18th. A burglar has been Ana disguised with wearing a flu mask be an object of s ANAHEIM GAZETTE Outside the Deutsche bank lay the quiet snow-covered streets of the city. Through the cafe windows in Linden people could be seen taking tea and wine. I went for dinner to the Spartacus cafe in Leipzig street. The room was filled with former soldiers, former workmen, intellectuals and idlers. The groups were talking quietly. Suddenly shouts resounded. A short, stocky man entered. Amid the shouting someone cried, "Clear the room." A waiter seized me by the shoulder. "Who are you?" he shouted. I told him. "Get out," he shouted. I did. As I walked past the Deutsche bank the shabbily-dressed distracted figure of Herr Gwynne returned to my mind. Germany's leading financier would have passed almost unnoticed in the Spartacus cafe. APPROPRIATE $1000.00 FOR ORANGE SHOW Supervisors Make Changes in Boundaries of Several School Districts The county auditor was directed by the supervisors to draw a warrant for $1000 in favor of A. S. Bradford for a county exhibit at the National Orange Show. The petition of G. W. Jones, et al., for a county road in the third road district was granted. The purchasing agent was authorized to sell the furniture used by the women's war activities committee. The application of Mrs. F. F. Smith to lay a pipe line across Katella road was granted. The purchasing agent was authorized to purchase law books for the coroner and public administrator. The purchasing agent was authorized to purchase a plano from Baxter McCreary for use at the county dormitory, the price not to exceed $100. The hearing on the application of IN THE OIL FIELD After three months repeated attempt to shut off deep bottom water at No. 5 on the Bastanchury ranch, the Union Oil Company is about to realize its hopes. After standing cemented for a couple of weeks this well is now on the pump. An exhaustive test shows that the water can be pumped down and that it stays down. The well is now pumping some oil and is beginning to look like a real oil well. The depth of the hole being 4735 feet, some difficulty is being encountered in keeping the rods from parting. No. 6 looks like a dry hole. At a depth of 4900 feet the formation shows only blue shale with not as much as a sign of oil or a smell of gas. This will be drilled on down to the limit and a thorough test of the locality made. The condition of the hole is good and the drilling is going good. The Union Oil Company wild cat well at Placentia, now considered the connecting link between the old Brea field and the new Kraemer field, stands cemented at a depth of 2941. In a few days it will be opened up and tested out and the drilling resumed. The experts are figuring strong on this project being a good well. Some very good showing were observed previous to the cementing. At 2410 feet the Standard Oil Company's Kraemer No. 2 shows over a 100 feet of best grade oil sand, and the well looks good for 300 barrels. However, the drilling will continue and the deep sands tested out. As stated before, the sands are dipping fast as we come westward in the Kraemer field. Lock No. 1 of the Standard is now drilling at 3000 feet, the formation being brown shale with no oil showings to amount to anything as yet. The LAWS BENEFIT AGRICULTURE "The last five years," says the annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture, "have been especially fruitful of legislation and of its practical application for the betterment of agriculture." "Special provision was made for the solution of problems in behalf of agriculture, embracing marketing and rural finance. The Bureau of Markets, unique of its kind and excelling in range of activities and in financial support any other similar existing organization, was created and is rendering effective service in a great number of directions. Stanards for staple agricultural products were provided for and have been announced and applied under the terms of the cotton futures and grain standards acts. Authority to license bonded warehouses which handle certain agricultural products was given to the department." The application of Mrs. F. F. Smith to lay a pipe line across Katella road was granted. The purchasing agent was authorized to purchase law books for the coroner and public administrator. The purchasing agent was authorized to purchase a piano from Baxter McCreary for use at the county dorytory, the price not to exceed $100. The hearing on the application of O. W. Bus Line for permit to operate a passenger bus line between Los Angeles and the Standard Oil leases, was continued to March 5, 1919, at 2 P. M. T. B. Talbert, supervisor, was given a leave of absence from the state for twenty days commencing February 4, 1919. The purchasing agent was authorized to purchase live stock, not exceeding six head, for the county farm, and N. T. Edwards and T. B. Talbert were appointed a committee to assist in the selection of said live stock. S. H. Finley was appointed delegate to attend meeting to be held at San Francisco on February 12, 1919, to consider submission of a bond issue to the people of California, for completion of the original state highway system. The purchasing agent was authorized to purchase an ice box at the county park, price not to exceed $100. The application of Paul Kogler and Arthur West to lay a cement pipe line across the county road in front of their property, was granted. The hearing on the petition of S. W. Price, et al., for county road in the second road district was continued to February 18, 1919, at 10 A. M. The application of Mina Fairbairn to lay a cement pipe line across the county road in front of her place, was granted. The application of P. G. Beissel to lay a pipe line across Romnega drive connecting their property with the pipe line of J. E. Talcott, was granted. The county clerk was directed to give notice for three weeks of the intention of the board of supervisors to purchase lots 10 and 12, block 7, of the town of Tustin, from R. J. Wiley for $1450, said purchase to be made March 4, 1919, at 10 A. M. at the office of the board of supervisors. The clerk was authorized to give notice that sealed bids will be received for the sale of $12,000 school bonds of the Bolsa school district, said bids to be opened March 5, 1919, at 11 A. M. at the office of the board of supervisors. Eugene Davis was appointed to take At 3410 feet the Standard Oil Company's Kraemer No. 2 shows over a 100 feet of best grade oil sand, and the well looks good for 300 barrels. However, the drilling will continue and the deep sands tested out. As stated before, the sands are dipping fast as we come westward in the Kraemer field. Lock No. 1 of the Standard is now drilling at 3000 feet, the formation being brown shale with no oil showings amount to anything as yet. The Anaheim Union well has passed 3100 feet and is in the brown shale with no oil showing of any consequence yet. In the Brea field the Amalgamated has ceased development work temporarily and is devoting attention to the building up of its production on the Anaheim Union lease and Hualde property. In connection with this work all casing that can be cut and removed from the producing wells is being taken out for use in further development work later. The Amalgamated Oil Company is now traveling at high speed on the Libbitson tract. This company's initial well is now drilling at 1250 feet, having made over 400 feet of hole in less than a week. The blue shale with occasional boulders at this depth is allowing good progress to be made. Murphy No. 48 completed at a depth of 4355 feet is now on the beam making 600 barrels daily. With this 600 barrels of oil one million feet of gas is coming from the well daily. The well is almost as valuable for gas as for oil. Murphy gas is rich in hydrocarbons and makes large quantities of casing head gasoline. Speaking of new wells on the famous Murphy property, it now seems that the day for the big gushers has passed. The last two wells brought in were 600 barrel wells, and these came in in former gusher territory. The Standard has 11 wells drilling on the property and work under way on four new wells. No. 43 is drilling in shale at 3630. No. 47 is close to 3590 feet deep and is showing considerable oil. No. 51 is making a water test at 3640. No. 52 is drilling at 3400. No. 53 shows 4495 feet of hole, the formation being brown sandy shale. At No. 54 pipe trouble has developed, necessitating a side-tracking job. No. 55 is drilling at 2600. No. 56 is standing cemented at 3350. No. 57 is 3300 feet deep with the drilling going good in the blue shale. No. 58 is 2100, and No. 59, the last new well started, shows a thousand feet of hole. At this point the Bureau of Markets unique of its kind and excelling in range of activities and in financial support any other similar existing organization, was created and is rendering effective service in a great number of directions. Stanards for staple agricultural products were provided for and have been announced and applied under the terms of the cotton futures and grain standards acts. Authority to license bonded warehouses which handle certain agricultural products was given to the department, and the indications are that, with the return of normal conditions, the operation of the act will result in the better storing of farm products, the stabilization of marketing processes, and the issuance of more easily negotiable warehouse receipts. "The agricultural extension machinery, the greatest educational system ever devised for men and women engaged in their daily tasks, had very large and striking development. The Federal aid road act, approved shortly before this country entered the war, resulted in legislation for more satisfactory central highway agencies in many states and the systematic planning of good-road systems throughout the Union. Today each state has a highway authority with the requisite power and with adequate funds to meet the requirements of the Federal measure." "The Federal reserve act, which has benefited every citizen through its influence on banking throughout the Union, included provisions especially designed to assist the farming population. It authorized national banks to lend money on farm mortgages, and recognized the peculiar needs of the farmer by giving his paper a maturity period of six months." "This was followed by the Federal farm loan act, which created a banking system reaching intimately into the rural districts and operating on terms suited to the farm owners' needs. This system began operations under the troubled conditions of the world war, and its activities were impeded by the vast changes incident to the entry of this country into the conflict. But, in spite of these difficulties, it has made remarkable headway, and there is little doubt that, after the return of peace, its development will be rapid and will more than fill the expectations of the people." tention of the board of supervisors to purchase lots 10 and 12, block 7, of the town of Tustin, from R. J. Wiley for $1450, said purchase to be made March 4, 1919, at 10 A. M. at the office of the board of supervisors. The clerk was authorized to give notice that sealed bids will be received for the sale of $12,000 school bonds of the Bolsa school district, said bids to be opened March 5, 1919, at 11 A. M. at the office of the board of supervisors. Eugene Davis was appointed to take a census of Huntington Beach Judicial township, his compensation was fixed at $4.00 per day, and said census to be completed within 15 days. The petition of James F. Smith, et al., to vacate a public street in the fifth road district, was granted. Changes were made in the boundaries of Fullerton, La Habra, Orange-thorpe and Lowell-Joint school districts, as recommended by the county superintendent of schools. The petitions for certain changes in Brea, Fullerton and Placentia school districts were denied. The clerk was directed to advertise for bids for paving Magnolia avenue said bids to be opened March 5, 1919, at 10 A. M. at the office of the board of supervisors. It was ordered that all moneys held back in payment of contract for improvement of San Juan Hot Springs road be released. The hearing on the application of Highway Transportation Company for permit to operate an express and freight transportation line between Los Angeles and Santa Ana was continued to February 18, 1919, at 2 P. M. A burglar has been working in Santa Ana disguised with a flu mask. A man wearing a flu mask in Anaheim would be an object of suspicion. making a water test at 3640. No. 52 is drilling at 3400. No. 53 shows 4495 feet of hole, the formation being brown sandy shale. At No. 54 pipe trouble has developed, necessitating a side-tracking job. No. 55 is drilling at 2600. No. 56 is standing cemented at 3350. No. 57 is 3300 feet deep with the drilling going good in the blue shale. No. 58 is 2100, and No. 59, the last new well started, shows a thousand feet of hole. CALIFORNIA LIVE STOCK 'The report of crop estimates issued by the Department of Agriculture January 31 contains some interesting figures regarding live stock conditions in California and the United States. It appears that the number of horses in the state has decreased 33,000, mules 3000, milch cows 36,000 and other cattle 51,000, while the number of sheep has increased 167,000 and swine 29,000. In the United States the number of swine has increased nearly five million during the past year and has increased every year but one since 1915; the number of horses shows a small falling off, and all the others show a slight increase. In California horses have decreased $7 a head in average value during the year, mules have increased $10, milch cows $6.50, other cattle $6.10, sheep 70 cents and swine 50 cents, says the Placentia Courler. With ten million more hogs in the United States than there were four years ago, and five million more than a year ago, and with bacon 65 cents a pound, it looks like that so-called law of supply and demand has slipped a coq. Or perhaps the packers' combine has repealed it. WAR SAVINGS SOCIETIES The War Savings Organization of the Treasury Department for California (South) is in receipt of a wire from Washington outlining the War Savings Society pledge for 1919. This new form combines both a membership and a financial savings pledge, so that the two will be fused during this year into one campaign effort. Advices from Washington to State Director G. A. Davidson gives the text of the new pledge-as follows: "To the Secretary of the United States Treasury: In order systematically to help the government and to increase my own savings by investing regularly in government securities; and in order to encourage thrift among my associates, I wish to join the (insert name of War Savings Society). I agree to invest in War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps (insert amount of pledge) per month." With this new War Savings membership pledge as a medium, the government expects to place War Savings Societies on the map of the nation to the end that thrift shall become a national habit. The receipt of several hundred thousand of these pledge cards is expected at the state department in Los Angeles, and an effort is to be made to enlist a membership of three hundred thousand or more in Southern California." BUCKEYE SINGLE ACTING PUMPS Capacity up to 250 Gals. a Minute—from Depths to 250 Feet Can also be furnished in center stroke type for use with double acting cylinders. SEND FOR CATALOG—of Pumps, Engines and Motors for Every Service Dealers in Unoccupied Territory Should Write Us for Liberal Proposition. MITH BOOTH USHER CO ESTABLISHED 1803 THE PUMP AND ENGINE HOUSE OF THE PACIFIC COAST LOS ANGELES WATCH FOR GRAND OPENING GRAND OPENING AT THE EXCHANGE GRILL START HIM RIGHT THRIFT WEST AGE by the Federal created a bank intimately into and operating on the farm owners' began operations conditions of the activities were immances incident to entry into the conthese difficulties, ble headway, and that, after the redevelopment will be than fill the exople." 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