Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-11-30
AFFAIRS IN
CONGRESS
Why Carrie Nation Wanted to
Interview President
Roosevelt.
'CANTEEN QUESTION
strong Feeling Among Arm!
Officers For Repeal Of
strong Feeling Among Army
Officers For Repeal Of
the Present Law.
WASHINGTON, b. c. Nov. 20

WASHlNGlON, ". y. NOV 6os
Many Of the people in the country
wonder how congress occupies the
time OF a long session. There is al.
ways a great amount Of business to
w attended to. Up to this day there
have been introduced in the house OF
representatives alone yer 500 bills.
When it is considered that they all
have to 20 to committees for action
and mary of them involve extended
denate, as well as careful examina-
ton by the members, it will readily
be understood how an immense
amount Of time al be consumed.
Then, too, the process OF introducing
bills goes on every day during the
session. Many measures are present.
ed bH members who have no idea
whatevF that they will become laws.
This is 1one to crafty constituents.
This bnorning / had a conference
with Set etary Wilson OF the bureau
Of agriclv ture. He Is very much
alarmed At the ravages Of the boil
weevil, aRhich is attacking the cot.
ton Of NE south. He says, SO Tar
no remedy has been discovered. which
will pretent these exceedingly lively
insects ssrcm doing great damage to
the crop of the south. He has Just
returned from a visit to Texas.
Interest in trade schools Is still
growing. We have several in Wash
ingtont The most prominent is the
Mckinley manual training school
whichI has a shop equipped with mod
ern II lis and methods, supervised b,
irst-sIass instructors. who fully un
dersthd the system they are inter
ested In teaching. The machiner,
neceSsary to equip n shop cost near
" $4,000. The assertion is mad'
] that 1 young men can get a bette
i knowledge Of a trade in a trade schoo
than actual work in a shop. Certain
! it Il that the inventive genius of man.
of Nae scholars is developed by thu
training THEY receive at thes'
schpoIs. In the n | visited. saw
q eIas engine and several other in
ventions made by the scholars.
is Indeed gratifying that the publ
schools are working along more prae
/, teal lines. The statement Is mad
, that the exercise taken in the cours
II manuel training will add great
10 the health of the pupils.
Better hygiene. more tnoroug
~ Isase Of s~elt.care, purer water
blore thorough drainage, less drinkin
!, H. liquor-all these things and man
: Ethers have combined to make tn
twentieth century man a finer phys
fcal product than existed a generi
ion ago. The American people ar
N becoming more temperate and MOI
Intelligent. 1t is no longer the "a
ffor our women and girls to be pun
y and delicate. Short skirts, wheeling
riding, golfirg, walking, swimminl
fencing, ever boxing, have contribu
ed to make the coming mothers {
! the race fl to bear strong sons an
i daughters. Physical culture is now
part Of the daily life Of most me
!, and women Of Europe and Americ
we are gradually beginning
live longer. We may do even bette
II we will
II Carrie Nation was here last wee
ard paid a visit to the white hous
where the cold shoulder was apple
Z to her. She then went to the capit'
but as she was not accorded a plat
4 on the floor. started 70 make an a
I dress from the gallery Of the Sc
ate. She found the methods she !
!. troduced In the wild and woody we
I very unsatisfactory. She was tak'
charge OF by the police and remoy'
. to headquarters. One Of our loo
!. newspapers sent up and interview
q her. She said she wanted to see q
e president about four things. 81
y wanted to know why he went throuI
y Kansas last spring In a special q
ID supplied with liquors Of all kind
I second, she wanted to know II
smoked cigarettes; third, she wal
led to know why his flag had q g
OF arms on 1t; and fourth, she wa
ed TO interview him on the genei
condition Of the country, She 81
ia. Senator Cockrell Of Missouri was
TO old friend Of hers. and that she "
going up to the capitol y see b