The National tribune., 1903-02-12
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CONGRESS.

Representative Flood, of Virginia,
thinks that it would Ae good policy always
to have the Presidents Of the United
States serve in Congress for term OF
two. He refers to mi fact that nearly
all the Presidents after the first two. al
edge of men and affairs by service in one
or the other Houses.
Speaking of Cleyela1fd, he says:
Grover Cleveland was one of our Presi
dents who lacked experience in Congress
and what he did to tnei Democratic party
has not yet been quite forgotten"
Mr.. Flood asserts that 'Inan who has
himself served in Congress- knows how to
deal with Congress- to avoid friction. That
was the secret Of McKinley's success, and
lit is at the, base of the failure which
Roosevelt is making. Had Mr.. Mckinley
lived, he would have 50 strengthened the
Republican party that there would have
been small chance Of Democratic victory
next year. With Roosevelt in the White
House, however, the situation is different,
and if the Democrats name the right man
| they can elect him. l am convinced that
the welfare of the party would be best
served by selecting man who has been
in Congress"
|
President Roosevelt might avoid the
dire disaster threatened by this son of the
South by visiting Congress every day, and
! from the Executive gallery of the House
and Senate take notes SO as to fit him
self for an Office in which three years Of
good solid experience have not availed
him. according to Mr., Flood. The Demo-
cratic party hasn't found any Moses yet,
either. If a man in Congress is all that
| is necessary, then why not Mr.. Flood?
Senator Quarles, of Wisconsin, proposes
an amendment to the Army bill which is
as follows: THAT the sum of 100000 or
so much thereof as to the AttOrney-Gen-
moneys, arrears of pay, and bounty which
are due the estate Of deceased colored sol
diers who served in the late civil war, and
which were in the hands of the Commits
sioner of the Freedmen's Bureau and have
been repaid into the Treasury, and for
which no claim or claims have been or
shall hereafter be made, flied, or presented
prior to the LIST day Of January, 1904, on
and after which date all such claims not
so filed and presented shall be effectually,
absolutely, and forever barred, be, and is
hereby, appropriated, out of any such
money in the Treasury of the United
States not otherwise appropriated, for the
purpose of erecting q. Memorial National
Home for aged and infrm colored people
and to aid in maintaining the inmates Of
the same, the building or buildings for
said home to be erected in the District of
Columbia upon the lands owned or to be
owned by the association known as the
Home for Aged and Infrm Colored Per
sons, corporation duly incorporated under
and by virtue Of the incorporation laws Of
the District of Columbia"
The President has approved the bill
granting that the distinctive badges
adopted by military societies of men who
served in the armieshfind navies of the
United States during the Chinese relief ex-
petition of 1900, map be worn upon all
occasions of ceremony2bys officers and men
of the army and navy Df,the United States
who are members of said organization in
their Own right. :om s,,l'. ~. a az ..
A good deal of tibet time of Congress is
taken up by little oldi bcidge bills. There
have been Mt least 2OO:before the present
Congress, 30. of whicfa aemain on the cal
endar. These bridges nresto be built across
small streams, in most instances, and the
cost of construction w6Qlt seldom be above
5000, and before thsireally inoffensive
things get through Conkbess they have cost
twice that In printing, 0Shmittee reference,
utovupStOts liueSs i1LiAMytSf-lOOk% 10
though Congress :miyht'hh relieved of these
or''ge DIS
Mr. DalzeH Pa.) has introduced bill
increasing the efficiency and safety of the
mercantile marine of the United States
by creating a commission to revise the
laws relating to construction, installation,
and inspection of marine boilers, in, the
United States and Insular possessions, and
for other purposes" -a.>.
Senator Wellington Gfd.), who las eff
fectually kicked himself out of all parties
and who will retire by the invitation of
his constituency on March 4, as a last ex-
piring throb Of brilliancy mas taken n
whack Mt fortunes" and proposed to limit
them to $1O,OO0,0O0, and when they rise
condemned, whether or not as public
nuisance. public folly, or public peril,
and be accordingly forfeited into the
United State Treasury. And the State,
and SO forth, shall, each and oil, enforce
this amendment by necessary or penal
legislation, failing which, in any instance,
Congress shall so enforce it"
This coruscation of Senator Wellngton's
brilliant mental effort is to become an
amendment to the Constitution. The
preamble recites that:
Whereas, the private fortunes into
which the National wealth is being con-
gested, gigantic though they be, are as yet
only in their infancy; and, being transmit
ted practically incorporate and intact,
these fortunes are in process of redoubling,
by compound interest and compound divi-
dends, from the present hundreds of mill
lions of dollars each into eventually thou
sands of millions of dollars each, already
an offense against public policy, simple
justice, vital religion, and common sense;
and
whereas, the trainers of the Constitu-
ton would undoubtedly have provided
some such limiting article could they have
foreseen the need; and
whereas, there is no reason why covet- |
BUSINESS be the one privileged license and |
peril, with no legislative barrier nor ban:
Therefore be it, etc"
Senator Nelson had birthday ami |
versary last week. He was GO years old, |
and he can never be President be- |
cause he was born in the wrong country. |
He is a native of Norway. He entertained |
about 20 of his friends at a regular feast, |
and it was jolly one There is no more
popular man in the United States House |
OF Lords than Senator Nelson.
Senator Hale, of Maine, is the Beau
Brummel of Senatorial courtesy. and the
way he makes it count sometimes is like |
the sting of wire laslhg He was talking
in the Senate the othsScday when Senator
Hoar and some other, Senator insisted in |
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