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By J. E. Jones 
The Breeze Bureau 
Washington, Dec. 30, 1913 
Is Kentucky A DEBTOR? 
The United States 1.4, carried a 
claiin agaiast the state of Nentuciy 
~ tor $1,433,757.39 in 13°06. Kentucky 
citizens, gentlemen, and Colonels take 
pride in their ability to pay what- 
ever they owe, but the state absolute- 
ly ignores Uncle Sam in this claim. 
It appears that large sums were de- 
posited by the United States with 
various states in 1836, at a time when 
the United States Treausry had more 
money than it knew what to do with, 
and under the agreement the money 
was to be returned by the states when 
the United States Treasury needed it. 
The process is much the same as that 
of distributing deposits among banks, 
except that Kentucky and other 
states fail to understand how a debt 
so old should be counted, or paid. 
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ANOTHER CHAUTAUQUA VICTIM. 
Chautauqua “gets” the best of 
them, and now Vice President Mar- 
shall has followed the example of the 
illustrious William Jennings Bryan, 
Champ Clark, Captain Hobson and 
others, and has signed a contract to 
deliver from thirty to forty-five lec- 
tures in Missouri, lowa and Kansas 
next summer. A good deal of sym- 
pathy has been bestowed upon the 
Vice President because of the fact 
that he is compelled to live on his.sal- 
ary, and this restricts him to a pala- 
tial suite of rooms and board in one 
of the most aristocratic hotels in the 
United States, where the charges are 
so high that he undoubtedly has to 
‘take up the Chautauqua to “piece 
out” expenses, 
Postar, BANKs Nort A Success. 
It will be remembered that a few 
years ago the banking interests of the 
country were in feverish excite- 
ment over the proposed postal sav- 
ings banks. Now that this system is 
in operation, it is found that it has 
not been a success and has lost prac- 
tically one million dollars to the gov- 
ernment since it was installed. The 
principal reasons assigned are ascrib- 
ed to the limit of $500 which any in- 
dividual may deposit. 
Department is getting all the small 
change while the larger accounts still 
go to the private banking interests. 
The Postoffice | 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
STARTLING REVENUE Facts. 
One of the new inventions that 
came along just ahead of the auto- 
mobile and the moving picture and 
a few other common necessities of 
the time, was the cigarette. From 
government statistics it appears that 
over fourteen billion cigarettes were 
consumed in the United States dur- 
ing the last fiscal year. By the same 
figures it appears that the use of 
whiskey in the United States has 
doubled in the last fifteen years. The 
revenue tax on cigarettes is consid- 
erably over a million dollars a year. 
GOVERNMENT Contror oF HicHways, 
Representative Moss of West Vir- 
ginia, has a bill before Congress 
proposing that all highways through- 
out the United States that are 
now used in transporting rural 
mail be declared post roads, and 
placed under federal authority. His 
suggestion embraces a Bureau of 
Public Post Roads, to be maintained 
from Washington. 
PROHIBITING Convict Lasor. 
A step toward shutting out con- 
vict labor is contained in a bill by 
Representative Buchanan of Illinois, 
prohibiting the importation of goods 
in which foreign convict labor was 
employed... 
An INDIAN IN STATUARY HALL. 
The contribution of the State of 
Oklahoma to the Hall of Fame in 
the National Capitol will be a life 
size statue of Sequoiah, said to be 
the son of a Hessian soldier and his 
Cherokee wife, who served under 
General Braddock and rendered dis- 
tinguished service, afterward living 
in what is now the State of Okla- 
homa. Sequoiah was the inventor of 
the Indian alphabet which is used to 
this day in the west. His remains 
rest in a cave on the Pacific coast. 
Mrs. Vinnie Reanhoxie has received 
her commission to perform the task, 
There are a great many unusual stat- 
ues in Statuary Hall, among which is 
that of Susan B, Anthony which was 
placed there by the State of New 
York. Wisconsin contributed the 
statue of Father Pere Marquette who 
explored the Green Bay and Lake 
Superior regions in the sixteenth cen- 
tury. As a rule the states have se- 
lected their great statesmen for the 
two places alloted to each of. the 
states in the Hall of Fame. 
STATESMEN WuHo SHINE. 
The currency act, long sought by 
students of our financial problems, 
has finally become a law. Although 
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this measure has been one of the 
greatest of national questions in the 
consideration of legislation, few men 
in Congress have attained any dis- 
tinction. In the House who can one 
remember except Carter Glass, and 
that only because he was chairman 
of the committee. Then in the Sen- 
ate there are Owen, Hitchcock, 
Weeks and Root, practically the only 
persons whose identity appear coup- 
led with the measure. The explana- 
tion seems to be in the fact that “Ad- 
ministration measures” reflect most 
of their glory upoon the White 
House or the party in power, and 
that the halo is dulled by the time it 
illuminates minor figures of great- 
ness. 
Wire TALKERS IN RETREAT. 
The American Telephone and Tei- 
egraph Company has not been slow 
in making haste to get under cover, 
and shield itself from the prosecu- 
tion instituted by the Attorney Gen- 
eral of the United States. The ac- 
tion of this telephone monopoly is 
viewed in Washington as an at- 
tempt to forestall government owner- 
ship, but it is safe to say that the 
sentiment that has been created by 
Postmaster Generals and other public 
officials has been advanced by the re- 
treat of the wire people. 
Works Is STILL FIGHTING. 
Senator Works of California is 
among that class of statesmen who 
never know that it is too late to do 
anything, and to emphasize that fact 
he has introduced a measure in the 
Senate that would undo the great vic- 
tory of the champions of the Hetch 
Hetchy measure, who finally secured 
their legislation after years of strug- 
gle in Congress. 
. GOVERNMENT SEIZES SHIPMENTS. 
In emphasizing the determination 
of the federal government to enforce 
the food and drugs act, recent large 
shipments of tomato pulp from Bal- 
timore to Galveston, Texas, have 
been destroyed. It is charged that it 
is a common thing among shippers 
to can filthy, decomposed, and putrid 
vegetable matter. 
“TEACHER’S Pers” AT West Porn. 
We all remember the teacher’s pets 
in the public schools, and now it ap- 
pears that this feature of human na- 
ture has been asserting itself at West 
Point, resulting in a resolution by 
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, ask- 
ing for an investigatin. 
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