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ST? - I jf if icy' jmTmmmm wi iiSifiW F i '.Y I t UBA has reciprocity In trade with the United States. The bill giving the Island the benefits of the trade ' agreement was considered at an extra session of congress called by President Roosevelt. There was a good deal of sentiment in the Cu ban matter,, more than there has been in connection with the Cana dian reciprocity measure. The bill went through the house and was sanctioned by the senate taking all told only three weeks in its passage. The members of congress debated and talked twenty percentum reductions, sugar trusts and the like for four days and then the tense hour approached when the vote was to be taken. The time was tense notwithstanding the fact that it was known that the bill was to carry by a great majority. The galleries were packed with people 'and in the halls without were hundreds unable to ,n tV.:W XL v? .- jiiitlittl ill '-wbH JJ 'C ' s J m . w . A V gain admission, yet standing still and listening for the result of the ballot that was to show we knew how "to help a weak sister republic to her financial feet." rfi The house clock hands were at the exact hour Of -4. The vote of the representatives of a great and sovereign people had been taken. The repub lic .was true to its trust. The solemnity of the teeling of duty well done still hung upon the great chamber. Each of the thousands were busy with his thoughts. T The, voice cf a member from Ohio broke the ifeiMets. "I have a resolution of privilege to of fer.V it, said. """"'It must be a question of high privilege, sir, to receive,, ..consideration at such an hour," said Speaker 'Cannon in solemnly subdued tones. "Let the Vepblu'tion be read." 'ResblVe'd. That this house of representatives ofth'e "United States of America authorize the hir ing of another rubber for the capitcl Turkish-bath roBrns." ""1 .hen the.: "Appalachian Mountain Forest Re Bervo till , wa34 under consideration a member of fbngress who was in favor of saving e trees fed'a's'trfk'instory about the saving of a great tree in far off Australia. It was a long way to go for a treTlt pertcjs the moral was worth the journey. . i;iin''lS68 John;.BoyIe O'Reilly, t!ie Irish poet, was a political conyjct in Australia, sentenced to hard later .'fcr.lifeV' ."Vi'th a gang of fellow convicts un der the Cjharge .of a British officer and a squad of ibJdiers.ha'wa's .breakiLg a road through a tropi cal .'forest. ' Ttey came te a tree and the men were abcut, to lay tee ax at its roots when O'Roil !y'icad'o them " stop'. , "dropping his own as the while. The British Officer ordered the men to work. . p'Reilly" put Jiis , hand to his cap, saluted ecd said, "t should like' to cpeak to you." " The ofSeer, was amazed at this convict's impu daiAie," but perhaps" It wa3 the rory boldness of the' thing" that wrought tl e 'purport? intended, f "This tree is' too teautiful t:, fell; please let it sttnd, saiff the 'convict; "The British' soldier Idoked dunifcunded. "Como over her'e,' said O'lleilJy, "and look at it from thi3 point cf View : : ' The convict was tow the ''cemraar.din.'; ofHccr. The Englishmen followed the Irishman for a hun dred yards; and then, turning his 1 crs, looked up dtf the tree; arid his eye kindled. He looked down apon OT,ii!y asd caid: "The orders are for the road to run straight, but we'll send it around the tree." If the Australian tree is still standing, it stands as a monument to an Irishman who had a soul. Once Representative William Alden Smith, now a United States senator, tried his level best in the house debate on Panama to make Congress man Dinsmore of Arkansas supply a stock of good Republican campaign material, just as Blaine baited Ben Hill in the old days. Dinsmore was talking about the hasty recognition of the inde pendence of Panama by the United States and drew a comparison between that action and the attempts of this government to keep foreign na tions from recognizing.the confederacy in 1861. The Arkansas member got warmed up and be gan to talk about the power of the confederacy. He made the statement that its soldiers had thrashed the Union army in the first six battles of the war. He got still wrarmer- as he went on, and suddenly Smith of Michigan sprung the ques tion, "Are you defending the rights of the states to secede?" Dinsmore came to himself like a flash. "Ah, Brother Smith," he said, "how you would love to lead me into the pit! I have an abiding affec tion for you, but neither my feet nor my tongue shall go astray for the benefit of the Republican party." Everybody knows what a stickler the senate is for courtesy. Courtesy has a seat at every desk. When one senator refers to another, whether he be a political foe or a politp.l friend, it is always fcs the "distinguished gentleman from Maryland," or from Maine or another state, as the case may be. Senator Tillman said a fairly good thing one day. It was a side remark, but it reached the gallery and was enjoyed by the auditors, who had become a bit weary of resisting the impulse to salaam every time a senator rose and handed a few verbal flowers to a colleague. Senator Bailey had just referred to the "dis tinguished senator from Maine. "Quit it," said Tillman, "yju'll distinguish them all till they're so stuck up that no ona sl can distinguish them one from the other." When James. Wilson came to .Washington as secretary of agriculture he understood a bit of self-description by saying to a caller: "I am what they call a hayseed." ; It should be noted that Mr. Wilson did not say that he was a aayseed. He has the Scotch Presbyterian habit of sticking to the truth even in his humor. It waa rumored once that in orde to evade the laws of this country certain great eoripanies were planning to take out corporation papers abroad. The matter was call ed to the attention cf the agricultural member of Mr. Roosevelt's cabinet. His comment was this: "We fcave laws: we have petit juries;' we have grand juries; we have a department of justice; we have courts, and we have penitentiaries." Then Mr. Wilson smiled just a little grimly and refused to discuss the subject further. He couldnt have said anything that would have added one lota to his meaning, and he knew it. There Is no waste of words in the conversation of Jame3 Wilson. Secretary Wil-on unqre?tionably would be a puccess a? a managing editor of a great newspa per, lie knows news. When the Beveridge pack-ing-houfe investigation measure had passed con gress and Secretary Wilson was in the west on a tour cf inspection, he was asked by a newspaper man-at the close ef one of the secretary's busiest days in Chier.ro what the news was. Mr. W'lon tpM: "S't down and I'll give you the nev.-s and nothing elf?, These thinu have been clone within the tcet few days and not cue of theia has been touched on in f l:e newspapers. The rett of the stuff is ancient kktory." 1 :;pfW- W OMt AfO JtJL CVS YOU T Then the secretary, with all the discrimination of a trained city editor, gave his facts, and they were all new facts and worth the publishing. When a newspaper man goes to see the secretary in Washington he knows that if he gets one word beyond the ordinary interchange of "pleasant day" courtesies he Is going to get something worth publishing. Mr. Wilson having been in of fice for several years and being a keen student, has discovered that certain things are published and certain things are not published. He hat learned how to save himself time and words. In the parlance of the press, Mr. Wilson is "good copy," ' Congress appropriated some money to erect a new building for the department of agriculture. Every congress wishes to make a record for economy. So it was. that the amount appropriated was not sufficient to put up a structure that would meet the future demands of a rapidly grow ing branch of the government. The secretary of agriculture knew it, and so. with a certain shrewd ness that was all for the good of the country and the service, he saw to it that the money was put into two comparatively small structures. The two taken together will be big enough for present uses, but in order that they shall form a coitplete and artistic whole it will be necessary one day to join them, and the connecting link will be a big building in itself. The argument for more room is apparent and convincing. The agricultural de partment will get more building money from con gress, and get it scon, and the anger that was aroused at first by the secretary's shrewdness will be turned to laughter and to something much like admiration. The Iowa farmer's successors in office will have to thank him for removing a mountain of trouble from their paths. As government departments rank, the one de voted to the promotion of agriculture stands next to the foot of the list. This is on paper only. Its importance to the country is so great that men say its proper place is near the head of things governmental. The passage of the packing-house inspection and the pure food laws have increased the working duties of Mr. Wilson's department immensely. Secretary Wilson sheds trouble. He is a good deal of an optimist, and when difficulties arose over cotton crop matters, and there seemed immi nent danger that a scandal would result, there was no signs of worry on the secretary's part. President Roosevelt felt implicit confidence in th cabinet official who had come to him as a heri tage from the McKinley administration, and there is no doubt whatever that he expressed his con fidence personally. In one respect the secretary of agriculture holds himself to be particularly fortunate. Pos sibly he doesn't consider It to be really a matter of good fortune except at such times as he sees the trouble of hi3 fellow cabinet officials who are more than suspected of having presidential ambi tions. Presidential politics personally do not worry James Wilson. The constitution of the United States keeps such worry from him. for the secretary was horn on the slopes of the Ayshire Hilla in Bonnie Scotland, and on man from over the water can sit in the chief chair of th nation. Officers Named for Imaginary Araiy kicht fours -POR'ARO Right So WASHINGTON. An army that does not exist is being officered by the war department in obedience to tbo mandate of congress. Fifty and more men versed in the profession of arni3 aro already on the eligible list for com missions in this army. Three new boards of army officers, composed of seasoned colonels, experienced majors, captains and first and second lieuten ants, were recently named to pass upon the qualifications of other candidates ambitious to direct imaginary military forces. Artemus Ward's shoulder strap com pany of warriors, assembled to take part in the big family feud of 1S61-5, had at least one private the humor ist himself, who .was in command; but the army of the UnHed States volun teers is to have none. Don-Quixote armed with a big stick, his head pro tected by a "Malbrino helmet," mount ed on his charger, "Rosinante," and followed by the faithful Sancho Panza was a more real,' .more tangible and more formidable force than the ghost ly army of United States volunteers. , It's a joker in the Dick militia bill, en acted into law by congress cn May 27, 1908. ' The Dick bill originally provided for an actual army cf United States volun teers similar to the volunteers who en listed for the Spanish-American war after state organizations were found to be troublesome. The bill also provided for a separate section for an eligible list from which officers were to be commissioned when the army of United States volunteers, subject only to the will of the commander-in-chief of the armies of tho United States, might be called into be ing in a condition of war. The section providing for tho vol unteer army was stricken from the bill in the course of a legislative wrangle over the privilege of the states to or- . ganize volunteers. The authority cre ating the army was thus destroyed, but the contingent section bringing into ex istence the list of eligibles for tho army's commissioned cfafficers was not disturbed. The bill thus passed con gress, disembodying the army but pro viding officers for it. . That is why the war department is now qualifying men as ellgibles. tai-'itierKs ask ragm m urganize EMPLOYEES of the postal service, particularly the men employed it the railway mail branch, are making a. determined fight for legislation under which they may organize and affiliate with the American Federation of La bor. Samuel Gompers, . president of the federation, is supporting the move ment. Many men formerly In the postal service, but who were let out because they were active in encouraging em ployees of the service to organize, have told the committee of the wrongs which they assert are done the em ployees. In a general way, the griev ance of the employees is that men are frequently dismissed for purely polit ical reasons, men let out of the serv ice have no recourse. It is pointed out that the postoffice department now forbids the individual employee from laying any complaint ho may have before his senator or member of congress. The civil service commission has come in for much i POLITICAL REASONS AHD I 1-9-UJf criticism because it has not taken more interest in cases of dismissed em ployees. Witnesses have pointed out to the committee that the 'commission will not act in the case of a dismissed employee unless it has prima facie evi dence that the dismissal was because of politics. It is next to impossible, say the dismissed employees who have testified, to prove that men were re moved from the service through polit ical influence. Some of the new members of tha house who have become much Interest ed in the grievances of the postal em ployees believe a remedy of some sort will be found in the committee on civil service. Would Label the Unspoken "Speeches fJt!L ' that was yFrV pfia, ) PRETTY COOD J 5zd I SPEECH YOU y 'C 0,DH T MkH f SO""-) THS RECOROj , ' J eoHke ss- I iPRESENTATIVES VICTOR MUR DOCK, insurgent Republican, of Kansas; S wager Sherley of Kentucky and Frank Clark of Florida, both Dem ocrats, have been fighting to have every unspoken "speech" printed in the Congresrjonal Record labeled something like this: "Not delivered in the house of representatives." These men believe that the Record, as It now leaves the press, perpetrates a fraud on the reader every time it de clares that Congressman de livered the following speech on such a date, when all Congressman did was to get permission to insert in its columns a carefully prepared man uscript intended for the consumption of his constituents, at the expense of the United States government. "It is the only honest way," de clared Murdock to the correspondent, "The Record, under the present sys tem, is not a true report of the pro ceedings of the house. It may well be that an article of value, prepared by a member of congress, should be printed in the Record, but it should ba so designated. "The first result of labeling things in the record by their right names would be the abandoning of the pres ent abuse by individual representa tives. When a man's constituents be gin to ask him, 'Did you really deliver this speech, or did you just have it printed?' he will quit the practice. "Congress could not possibly afford the time that would be necessary for the delivery of all the speeches that appear in the Record. Therefore, speeches will have to be shortened, and they ought to be. Auto-Suggestion Way of Keeping Cool WILTED representative, John J. Fitzeerald of Brooklyn, N. Y.. chairman of the house appropriations committee, is the . first distinguished convert to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley's theory with respect to the effect, of auto-suggestion on the temperature of the body. Mr. Fitzgerald sat at his desk all through a sizzling, swelter ing day, wearing a smile of perfect peace. His coat was buttoned tight ly, the collar of it turned up around his neck, and every now and then he shivered with unseasonable delight. Right In front of Mr. Fitzgerald. a large person with bushy black whis kers lay on his stomach on a snow bank squinting through a transit or some other funny looking instrument of that sort. To his right another large person, clad in furs, sat on a cake of ice and scribbled busily in a notebook. In the middle distance three Eskimo dogs fought over a dead fish. In tho background dozens of stalely Ice barges floated round casu ally. "I'm certainly happy that I found Whistle to Dodge Bergs. These are the days when Icebergs worry the transatlantic steamship 6kippers. It isn't pleasant to run along through a fog on a murky night and smash into one of those floating moun tains of ice. The iiner captains have a way of finding ice that at first strikes the landsman as curious. When it is suspected there are bergs fn the neigh borhood the whistle in kept going. If there is an echo the navigator slows down and keeps a sharp eye out,' for echoea don't grow in the open ocean, hrTSI li i m m mm THIS IS A CREAT OEA - I BEUEve ) WILL COPYRIGHT IT this fainting of the 'Farthest North of the Greely expedition," said Mr., Fitzgerald, referring to the enormous canvas in front of him, which, mas sively framed, covered most of the west wall of the big appropriations committee's room. "Dr. Wiley is right when he says this worrying about the heat is largely the result of one's mental attitude. I've been sitting her looking at this picture for an hour and I am thinking of resuming my winter flannels. I wish I could carry it around with me." "This auto-suggesting business is fine," Mr. Ftizgerald remarked to a visiter. "I'm going to Install a pic ture of the burning of Rome in my home next winter and see how much I can save on coal bills." Considerable Halibut. A halibut caught recently m Thurso bay measured seven and one-naif teet long and over three feet broad, and weighed over two hundred and fifty pounds. It was far the biggest Hsi caught off the north of Scotlaud tor many years, and was sold for over AI. Emotions In the Sexes. The old notion that women are moro emotional than men has been discred ited by a celebrated authority of Ei
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