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PEP ’ FOR THE DULL SEASON
A spat between former Senator Jonathan Bourne, jr., and
ere ary of Commerce William C. Redfield is injecting ginger
<> a* dull season at Washington. Verbal brickbats are
it ling hack and forth and the end is not yet.
n ns capacity as president of the Republican Publicity
sociation Bourne wrote to the director of the census asking
he furnished a list of persons appointed after March 3, 1913,
take the census of manufactures and also of all other per
is appointed in the census bureau after that date outside of
classified civil service, with the state from which each was
minted.
I hat request, coming from the president of the Republican
> 11 cit> association, made the department of commerce ofii
s sit up and take notice. They suspected that the insidious
my was trying to put one across. The director of the
sus pulled himself together and handed Bourne <ho follow
linguistic punch:
\ou are informed that it is not the policy of the bureau
urnish such information, oven if it were practicable.’ ’
Ho also was advised that “it would involve more time and
>r on the part of our employes than would be. justifiable. ”
“Now will you be good!” thought the department officials
hoy dispatched this letter to Bourne. But Bourne refused
lively and defiantly to take the count, lie came right back
he director with this query:
“Why is it the policy of the bureau not to furnish such
rinaiton I ’ ’
The receipt by the director of this counter query from the
•ulous Bourne caused the director to pass the buck up to
•otary Redfield, who drew heavily on his well-stocked
biliary in framing his reply:
“There are two reasons for this policy. The first one is
requests from many private sources frequently reach the
irtment. for list of employes to be used for various personal
loses, such as advertising, solicitations of various kinds,
others that will be familiar to you. The department lias
ormly declined to give this data for such purposes, because
not deemed right to use the clerical force in aid of private
iries of this character. Secondly, the department knows of
»w authorizing the work required' to furnish such lists and
no appropriation for work of the kind. It is a pleasure,
iver, to supplement the information given by the director
ie census by a full statement of the facts concerning the
afacturers census now in operation.”
Then Secretary Redfield proceeds to set forth a mass of
stical information, complied in three tables, and a lot of
r data taken from the records of the bureau and gives his
horn a loud toot in the following language:
‘It will please you to learn that the work of the present
is, although involving more labor than any previous one
use of the growth of the country during the years which
elapsed since the last similar census, has been accom
cd at approximately the same cost and in shorter time,
field work is at present about two months ahead of the
ous record and a like result is expected to appear in
nting the results of the complete work to the public.
‘In taking the census of manufactures a special effort was
to co-operate with business and commercial bodies
ighout the country. To that end the director of the census
nally visited numerous cities in the eastern, central and
■ra parts of our country to confer with industrial and
lercial bodies. The result of this co-operation was that
ly after the collection of the reports commenced over
) schedules were voluntarily filled out and sent in by manu
rors, resulting in the collection of this mass of data with
ie employment of special agents in the field’. As a result
s work I had the pleasure of requesting the committee on
opriations of the senate to reduce by $40,000 the appropri
which had at that time passed the house of representa
and was pending before the senate, which reduction was
«r
Appreciating the privilege which vour communication
of making the admirable record of the bureau of the
s public in the fullest way, let me say that a copy of this
unication will be printed in full in Commerce Reports,
died daily by this department, in order that the facts may
own as widely as possible.”
'hose who were with Senator Bourne when he got Kecre
ied'field’s reply say that he did not give three cheers
he read Redfield’s description of the “admirable record”
by the census bureau and did not display any emotion
t a few signs of disgust.
pnator Bourne’s friends declare with vehemence that
st incurred in compiling the tables and other information
e Bourne, which he did not want, greatly exceeded the
mt would have been incurred in furnishing him informa
e did not want, to say nothing of the cost of publishing
Id’s letter and tables in the Commerce Reports, the same
r no relevancy to commerce whatever. Rdfield’s reply
’that there are just 1,610 names, with addresses, that
wants but which he does not seem likely to get so long
eminent side-whiskered gentleman remains at the head
department of commerce. The people who are backing
r Bourne say that a live office boy could copy those
amps in half ft day, or in less time if he were anxious to
ay to attend a ball game.
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editorial comment
e city council should pass that itinerant merchant ordi
tt its next meeting.
V i
e silence from Colonel Theodore these summer days is
■lightful and alarming.
-r three canneries will contribute a big pack of salmon
inner to the food market of the states.
Why not plan a celebration for Labor Day and invite the
residents of our neighboring towns to join us in having a big
time.
\\ by can’t we of the north get into the ammunition garnet
No reason at all except lack of ambition. At this moment we
should be shipping the large vegetables which the interior
towns are raising, to Europe, as cannon balls.
There is some consolation in the fact that the Alaska Road
Commission realizes the impassable condition of the Sourdough
Hill trail. Now if these officials will only get busy and repair
that highway, the interior miners will have much to be thank
ful for.
I lie ball Ians awoke last night and scored a home run by
deciding to immediately erect a grand stand and improve the
infield at the park. Arrangements are also being made to have
Seward to send over its tern and play a series of games during
Labor Day week.
A Pennsylvania man with $(>5,000,000 worth of coal land
has gone into the hands of a receiver, and tin* receivers will
show him how to pull golden dollars out of the circumambient
air. Whoever first called him “receiver” deserved a medal for
accurate nomenclature.
Cordova has been very fortunate in having a good supply
of water, both for domestic and fire purposes during this pro
longed dry spell. With a continuance of the drought, care
should be exercised to prevent the reckless and wasteful use of
water, in order that the supply may not become inadequate for
the needs of the community.
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