The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-06-20

amounts thai there may De no mistake /
and tho above can Dee easily verified Boy /
The records There are many others now +
pending on which Mr.. Sims will work /
constantly for favorable action.
No man la Congress has made n better
record as an antagonist of extrayagant
private pension legislation, and abusee IN
the way of increases of pensions in this
way. Mr.. Sims and Mr.. TalbeFt of North
Carolina have made the fight almost alone
and have succeeded I'm exposing TO the
public gaze en0rmities of these abuses TO
such am extent that many of the most in-
huential papers in the United States have
taken up tie Fight and are ably supple
mentng the work Of these gentlemen.
Mr.. r0lbert is going ont Of Congress TO be
Governoroi his State, and recently stated
publicly that the work Of opposition TO
bad pension legislation would be left TO
Mr. Sims.
The bill 10 pay the Confederate soldiers
of the armies of Lee and Johnston for
then horses, side arms and baggage taken
from them contrary to the terms of sur
render, had been pending in Congress for
many years, but never became law un-
Oil during the present session, when the
bill was reported by Mr. Sims, who took
charge of it on the floor and managed it
so we'll as to obtain parliamentary adj
vantage over the opposition of such an
able parliamentarian as Mr.. Hepburn of
Iowa succeeded in taking the bill from
the union calendar known as the grave
yard Of the House) and forcing it to a con-
| sideration and passage.
MIR Sims hos bnnn awpnndiuulv active
in securing rural free delivery mail ser
vice throughout the district; one entire
county being ordered under the service
and several routes in each OF the other
counties have been approved and a spe-
cial agent of the department is at work
in the district at this time AS a result
of which we will soon ha he mail de-
/ liYered daily to a great majority OF the
farmers and an annual payment by the
government of at least 100000 TO our
own people for carrier service and as the
people contribute their share of federal
taxes, it will be a great benefit to them to
receive this much back, thus equalizing
burdens and benefits.
! The Joint resolution recently introduced
/ by Mr.. Sims to repeal the tariff on beef,
mutton, veal and pork has received much
favorable notice and comment by leading
Democratic papers, the New York Journ-
al especially commencing the work of Mr..
Sims. Could this resolution pass Re-
| publican Congress it would solve the beef
| trust problem in a fortnight; but the Re-
publican administration prefers to resort
to law suit that can be long drawn out
and continued indefinitely, while the
poor people pay the exorbitant prices or
do without.
Mr.. Sims has just won two signal vic
tories in the House. One of the most inn
-portant political questions of the hour is
that of trusts, and the sole basis OF the
trust evil is over capitalization, resulting
in combinations and unjust prices of pro-
ducts IN order to pay dividends on excess
sive issues of capital stock. The Wash
ington and Georgetown Gas Companies
have capital of 50, 720, 900. owned by the
wealthiest and most influential men OF
Washington. Claiming that their prop
erty was worth more than the outstand-
ing capital, they had introduced a bill to
reCapitaize the stock of the combined
companies on basis to be fixed by board
of trade sales of stock, to take place after
the bill was passed. by which they pro-
posed to increase the capital to $l3, $780,
000 without adding one dollar to the as
sets of the company,
To pay reasonable dividends on this
watered stock would require unreasona-
BILE prices for gas to the consumers, the
government being patron of the compa-
ny to the extent of one-fourth of its entire
output, aside from paying one-half OF the
taxes of the city which is large consum-
err. The district committee, of which Mr..
Sims is member, promptly reported the
bill favorable by majority of both Re-
publiCans and Democrats; however, Mr..
Sims carried the fight to the floor OF the
House, where he, with the assistance of
Mr.. Cowherd and Mr.. Stewart of the COM
mittee, won the fight by vote of two
and. half to one. This is the first victory
gained over trust in the last three Con
crosses, and by itmany millions of unjust
dividends on watered stock have been
saved the people of the District of Column
bia and the government as well.
The second of these successes was over
the Senate amendment to the omnibus
claims bill The House passed bill to
pay Sl98OO0 of Southern claims, all being
court Of claims judgments. In the Senate
was added by way of amendment over
$4,000, 900 Of neutrality-suspicious., includ-
ing many unjust claims of forty years
standing, notably the Selfridge board
claims.
It looked as if the bad claims must be
included or the bill would fail Being one
/, of the conference committee, Mr.. Sims
stood alone against all the other confer
) ees of both Senate and House, to reject
, these bad claims and in carrying his fight
! to the House, on motion to instruct the
} conferees, he won in three separate con
s tests. and nv his action the Senate had IN