Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1892-05-06
WASHINGTON LET laR.


WASHINGTON, y ay ?, 1924
A Democrat accusing the Deliberate ma
;oritv ofHe House Committee pm Foreign
Affairs Of parsimoniousness and meanness
was odd indeed but that is precisely what
Repres entstive Amos Cummings OF New
vork did. referring to that commii.ee's &C.
ton IA consolidating the mission e Den
marx with that to Switzerland. In q short
speech in favor ofan amendment offered oy
Representative Post, Of Illinois, M. Can
mines said Il want to rebuke this Hou3e-
for the spirit of parsimony exhibited inthe
eudeavor to consolidate the Danish and Swe'
dish missions. This bills far as it concerns
those nations, is an insult to 100000 ofour
scandinavian citizens The committee on
foreign Affairs has done injustice not only
10 the people of Denmark, which nation is
mouarchiai, but to our sister republics Of
sosth America. Again I want to rebuke
this parsimouy. II means really, virtually
leeislating in favor of the rich against the
Door. For, by reducing the salaries of min
listers and consals, the Offices are placed in
the hands Of plutocrats and taken from the
educated honest, laboring or professional
men. appeal to the House rot TO place
this government in position where it will
be regarded by all countries as the one ma
tiouai miser of the world" The House then
to the CONSERVATION of cheese -parer in chief
Holman, and his followers in the peanut ring
ef the Democratic party adopted Dir. Posts
amendment
Rne Misunderstanding concerning the Con
gressioual appropriation to aid the citizeui
of Washington TO entertain the members o
the G. A. R. at The coming national eucamp
ment is being cleared up. if the letters apol
ogizing for having opposed it without under
standing it which are coming to the commit
tee in charge, from all sections Of the coun-
try reflect public opinion.
No intelligent person who sees or reads
the proceedings of Congress will fail to agree
with ex-Speaker Reeds statement that the
present House is a laughing stock for god.
aud men.
Some people are hard to please. Frank
Hatton has discovered that in agreeing to the
arbitration of the Behring Sea question 1--WE
have been partly buliied, partly cajoled, and
altogether overreaehed." The discovery
comes little late, but it shows Mr., Hattou
to be, in his own eyes, a greater statesman
than the President or any member Of the
Cabinet which approved the arbitration
treaty without dissenting voice, OF any
member Of the Senate, which ratified tue
treaty by a unanimous vote. It s,of course,
possible that Mr.. Hatton may see deeper and
know more about this question than any Of
those who officially approved OF arbitration,
but it is more probable that his digestive
organs have been working badly and have
caused him to leok upon everything, life in
cluded, for the time being as a failure. He
has had similar attacks in the past.
Mrs. Harrison is well enough 20 sit up a
ported Of each day, but she has not yet been
able to leave her room.
The Democratic members Of the House
number just 81 more than quorum Of that
body, but so many of them are constantly
away from their seats that the cry Of mo
quorum" is becoming very common, and Of
late il is no exaggeration to say that far more
time has been wasted in ''calls of the House"
than has been consumed in transacting bus
mess. Aud the worst Of the matter is that
qtrfority Of the Democrats, when some Of
their more sensible colleagues have proposed
walls and means Of putting a stop to the alb
senteeism, seem to regard the whole matter
as a huge joke. Perhaps when they see the
returns of the next Congressional elections
they will fud that the people who sent them
here to attend the legislative duties have put
the jokeon them by electing Republican
majority to the next House.
Senators Henderson and Paddock ad-
dressed the Nebraska State Republican As
ISOLATION ofthis city this evening. Secretary
Elkins told a friend that he was perfectly
satisfied that the name ofonly one Presideu-
tial candidate would be presented to the
Minneapolis Convention, and that the nom
ination would be made by reclamation.
During the last Congress a united howl
went up from the entire Democratic press
because Speaker Reed ordered the doors to
be locked in order to keep quorum on the
ofthe House, and Kilgore, of Texas was
loudly applauded by the same press for kick
ing open one Of the dosrs Speaker Crisp
had to lock the doors Of the House for the
same purpose the other day. Enough said
The attempt Of the political Hiss Nancy's
to get Congressman Allen, Of Michigan,
in hot water by charging him with having
solicited contributions for the Republican
National Committee from Federal Office
holders was fat failure. The department
If Justice Investigated the charge and found
L entirely groundless.
ATammany Democrat is said to have made
wager here yesterday Of $1,000 that neither
sill nor Cleveland would get the Democratic
nomination.