The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-05-25
CONGRESS IS
TO TAKE IT UP
The Idea of Establishing d
Department of Commerce
Still Grows.

Washington, May 24-It is now
certain that the bill for the crention
Of new department will come up
during this seBssion. 1t is moving
slowly in the house Since it passed
the senate it he's been reposing in the
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce, and as yet no movement
has been made in the direction of re-
! porting it. OF course the house has
been quite busy with other matters,
and there has been no reason why it
should be crowded, vet the time is slip
| ping away. Chairman Hepburn has set
March 25 for beginning hearings on the
bill and the committee will listen to
those who are in favor of it. He SAYS
he wants men to appear who can say
why they want the bill and show rea-
sons why various bureaus should be
| transferred to such department
Senator Nelson of Minnesota, the au-
thor of the bill has already put ia
print a number of reasons why such
department should be created, and
these views will be the basis Of the
arguments by those who favor it, The
establishment of a new department.
may be opposed Oh economic grounds,
because it will no doubt require n new
government building in the near FL
ture, and, as the house is the home of
economy. the bill may meet with seri-
Gus opposition even after it is reported
from committee.
Rights of congressman.
For the next forty days there will
be moot" discussions as to whether
the senate or the house can or cannot
deprive members of the right to vote.
All manner of supposititious cases are
set up to prove various contentious,
! while there has been a search for
precedents which has shaken the dust
| from old volumes of the library. Argu-
ments as to expulsion, SUSPENSION ar
rest, etc, have been made without
| limit, and those men who are supposed
to know the history of parliamentary
law have been called upon to contrib
ute their share to the symposium. III.
| 3 Mcdonald, journal clerk of the sem
ate, and Asher c. Kinds, the parlia-
mentary clerk who sits at the right
hand of the speaker or whoever is
presiding III the house and furnishes
advice and precedents, have both been
called upon to Gull from their MEM
ories any facts bearing on the ques-
ton. Mr. Kinds has found that differ
ent speakers have had different opin-
| ions as to the voting right of members
under arrest Some held that they
could not be deprived of that right,
| and others that arrested members pres
ent in custody of the sergeant at arms
could not vote. Mr.. McDonald's parlia-
mentary judgment was that senators
present in the chamber could not be
prevented from voting
Anent the Daniels Appointment.
Senators have had good deal of
quiet fun first and last at the expense
of the president over the appointment
of Ben Daniels to be marshal of Ari-
zona. 1t was at a dinner where jokes
were being cast around that Senator
Hanna said, "Mr President, Scott
[West Virginia senatorI has found
your standard" "Hows thatY' asked
the president "Why," responded Han
ma, 'Scott says every time he went to
see you about an appointment you told
him you would appoint any one he
would recommend, but the man must
be up to your standard Now, he says
he has found it." Everybody was all
attention, and Hanna continued, "Sc0tt
Ia, Ixv
laughed and none more heartily than
{ the president. Senator Scott never
takes any one to the White House now
that the president does not tell the
standard" story. 1t is also told that
Senator Hoar, who investigated the
case Of Daniels when his nomination
was before the senate iOund that the
charge that Daniels had run a faro
bank was not true and shortly after
Daniels appeared before the committee
and acknowledged that ne had been
faro dealer Members of the committee
tell this on Mr.. Hoar.
Capitol Notes.
Occasionally the absence of a sena-
tor is noted, and If it is for any length
of time while there are matters of in
terest going forward in the senate 1t
may be guessed that "home fences"
are in need of repair