Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1914 — NOTABLES IN THE LIMELIGHT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NOTABLES IN THE LIMELIGHT

W. M. Daniels, Member of Commerce Commission.

Professor Winthrop More Daniels of New Jersey, the newest member of the interstate commerce commission, has been a friend of President Wilson’s for many years. He was serving as professor of political economy at Princeton university in 1911, when President Wilson, then governor, appointed him to the board of public utility cominis sioners of New Jersey for a term of six years. The board, it is said, has not fulfilled the expectations of some Jerseyinen, who hoped that the commis sioners would tackle and solve many problems of long standing. One of its principal accomplishments has been the issuance of an order reducing the price of gas from .$1 per thousand cub ie feet to 90 cents. The’ new commissioner is a native of Ohio, forty-seven years old and is a graduate of Princeton, He also spent a year at the University of Leipzig and was appointed to the chair of political e< onouiy at Princeton, in 1592. lie is (lie author of several works On political economy and lias been a contributor to magazines and has ; served ad interim on the staff of the New York Evening Post. Among Dr. Daniels' more important works are "Continuation of Alexander Johnston's History of American Polities’’ and "Elements of: Public I’inaiiee.” . ?

Ca I Tells Controversy. When th» senate committee on iniefveanic can d - began its hearing on the canal tolls repeal measure there' were nine bills lo consider, including th t passed I>y the house, of represeii'a tiyes. The eight ethers: were propose.] by members of-the senate. The house bill would repeal the.words. "No tells shall be levied uj><>n the vessels engaged in the coast wise-trade of the Un: ed states." now ini section 5 of the law governing the operation of the canal. This is the point of" the .matter now being debated by the elder states Ulen. Aiinnig the Democratic mein'e-rs of th: <• meiiittee . generally counted against canal tolls repfitU are Senators O’Dayman of New York, the chairman, and Senator Walsli of Montana. Doth are serving their first terms. Senator Thomas J. Walsh is a native of Wisconsin, fifty-five years old. and a law-

yer by profession. Since 1890 he has made his home at Helena. Mont., and has become prominent in the political and business affairs of his adopted state. In 1900 he was a candidate for congress, but his opponent won. Four years later he ran for the United States senate against Thomas 11. Car ter. Through his efforts a Democratic legislature was elected, but a deadlock ensued, which resulted in tbe election of Henry L Myers. In 1912 Mr. Walsh was again a candidate, being unani mously nominated by the Democratic state convention, and in 'the ensuing state wide primary was indorsed bj the voters. The legislature of 1913 ratified the choice of the people, every member of both branches, irrespective of party, voting for him. ' Senator Walsh was secretary of the resolutions committee at the Baltimore convention.

THOMAS J. WALSH.