The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-12-02
Mr.. WHITE READS
THE CONG. RECORD,

De Gives the Public Chapter he
is Proud of-Proud of the
State
DELEGATION IN CONGRESS.
Some Things Of Which North Csrolinians
should be Proud of-Why Some state
Papers try to Hide the Truth-Tneir
Parsisan Littieness Outwsishs Their
Patriotism-Ths People will get .t the
Truth.
HUNTLEY, Nov. &c.
Editor CAUc ASIAN, Raleigh, n. C.
DEAR SIR:-Iwas in Clinton on the
day that Senator Butler spoke there
and heard his speech. / also heard
the speech of Congressman Fowler
introducing him, and was much
pleased with the magnificent tribute
which he paid to the young Senator,
and can endorse every word of the
same.
Congressman Fowler and Senator
Butler were both raised in this town
ship, and this writer was a school
mate Of bota of them at Salem High
School, and no one is prouder of
them both, not only for their real
worth but also for the fine record
which they are making IN Congress.
Mr.. Fowler in introducing Senator
Butler referred to some of the fine
work which he had done during
the brief time he has been in the
Senate, and also called attention to
the fact that the machine press and
the gold monopoly organs in theState
had refused to give him credit for
the same, or to even make e. note Of
it when they could avoid doing so.
But he said that there was one pub
lication which showed no discrimi-
nation and where the people could
find the official facts, and that was
the Congressional Record. This has
caused me to use some of my spare
time in examining this impartial
journal. I find many important
things in it that the public has not
learned of through the newspapers.
| ask for space in your columns to
| refer to some OF these.
Congressman Fowler referred to
how every few months Cleveland was
issuing batch of government bonds,
when this State sent Marion Butler
to Washington as the youngest Sen
ator in the United States Sen ate,
and how, in less than thirty days, he
introduced a bill to prohibit the
further issuance of bonds. and how
for three or four months he pressed
it and fought for it vigorously and
at last succeeded in passing the bill
through the Senate, while no other
Senator in either one Ct the old
parties had ever offered such a bill
or attempted to do anything to pre-
vent these bond issues.
| Attention was also called to his ef-
forts and bill to cut off the big mail
subsidies that are each year being
voted to railroads as free gift, also
to reduce the enormous price which
the government is paying these rail
roads for carrying the mails, and be
sides to stop the payment each yea
to the railroads for the rent O
postal cars twice as much as i
would cost to build the. cars. NJ
one else had ever called attention
to these big steals or attempted t.
stop them.
Attention was also called to Sena
tor Buffers amendment to reduc
the armor plate for our vessels from
$3.50 to $500 per ton, and also to hi
exposition of the fact that the armo
plate trust had been putting off in
ferior and defective armor plate upo,
the government at this enormou
price, and also to his further amend
ment providing for the building of I
! government plant factory if tn
armor plate trust did not agree t
furnish armor at that price. H
forced these amendments throug]
Congress, and at this very hour tn
. government is taking action !
lin accordance Herewith. Thi
g one amendment means q saving Q
= over one million dollars to the GOV
q ernment on the three battleshir
now under construction.
el In addition to these things
K which Congressman Fowler referred
}, l find that there is much more ths
It Senator Butler has done in the shol
q space of two years, and, in fact, M
- Fowler could not have rehearsed b
N proud and remarkable record in tn
d short time for an introducto,
le speech.
le wish to ask space at this time
y refer to some of the other measure
introduced by Senator Butler, al
% the work done by him as given
If the Congressional Record.
n find that he introduced an amen
Of ment to the Post Office Appropri
a. =, ton bill, making an appropriate
~ of fifty thousand dollars and direc
% ling the Postmaster-G General to u
r. it in making experiments in fr
Ilr mail delivery in the country as t
i'd city people now have it free. tt
!. was done in the first session of t
" Fifty-fourth Congress; the expe'
a. ment was made in several differe
We localities IN the United States, b
If the Postmaster-Gen inform
Iu0 last NOUSIoSo LAos sAo. Ao II
Is not been able to complete the exp'
ne iment sufficiently for him to make
a at recommendation to Congre
a. Whereupon Senator Butler secur
o. another appropriation of fifty tho
is sand dollars during the last sessi
ro of Congress to continue these
periments. In his speech support
this amendment he showed that
II. government to-day pays for
h livering the mails to every man
As- the cities free of charge at his do
to while the man in the country, ivi
mt from two to three or four miles,
rs not more, from the postof6ce,.
forced to stop his work and go
St his mail or allow it to lie at the of
IN until he can find time to 60.