Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10
CAPITAL CHAT.
Maine Members Active in- the
Anti Trust Fight.
The Prospects Of the Militia Bill Are
Very Good.
The Story of the President and the
Little Bear Calendar.

washington, -. u, Jan. 9-(SpeciaD
The trust topic has been in the air
very much during the first week of the
session. after the holidays. The pro-
nouncements of several men prominent
in public life have served to bring the
subject forcibly to the attention of
Congress.
Governor Burleigh was much inter-
ested in the speech of Senator Hoar on
trusts. as he and the Senator lived here
lat the same hotel for two or three
sessions of Congress and dined at the
same table. While sharing the ad-
miration of Senator Hoar, common to
! most people here, the Governor has a
cordial regard for the Senator's per-
sonality
Senator Hoar's speech, as we'll as
the efforts of Mr.. Littlefield in the
House" said Governor Burleigh to-
day, ARE doing much to bring the
trust question to the careful attention
| of Congress. have no pretentions to
being lawyer and, of course, am
aware that it requires men of legal
training to construct legislation of
that character and Importance. But
| all of us. who must vote on these
questions sooner or later, whether we
are lawyers or not, have to render
verdict on what the lawyers have
framed for us and we have our gen.
eral ideas about what sort of legisla-
ton there should be.
| 1.-The conscientious study which Re-
publicans are giving to trust questions
is very gratifying" added Governor
Burleigh, ''for the. time certainly. is at
hand when Congress must be taking
one more step ahead in restricting. or
regulating the great combinations of
trade. We must not curtail any legiti-
mate development of trade. These
great corporations have been a factor
| in our industrial development But
the keen concern of thinking people lest
| the trade combinations develop dan
gerous evils should be warning for us
! in Senate and House to put forward
conservative, equitable, but none the
less sure solution of the trust prob
| lem
Governor and Mrs. Burleigh and
their daughter, Miss Etheiyn, We're in
vited to Mrs Roosevelt's tea of last
Monday and received very cordial
welcome at the White House. Invita-
tons to those afternoon events at the
charming hospitality is dispensed.
They differ from the official recep-
tions, which began Thursday, in that
the White House is not so crowded, and
then the dining room is thrown open
and from the large family table sew
eral ladies. assisting Mrs. Roosevelt,
pour tea. OF course the President does
not attend. for he is too busy with his
,.,l Hoo
but Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Alice
Roosevelt receive the guests who are
generally presented by q Marine Corps
officer
| President Roosevelt has a delightful
family life Sitting in his office, he re-
| fers frequently in his conversations to
| my folks over at the house with a
nod of the head towards the great white
mansion. which is the nations home
! for its Presidents The children rule
their father in some things although
when he says the word in earnest all
obey him. Some days ago the Presi-
dent was the recipient of a beautiful
calendar. delicting bears in different
attitudes for the various months of the
year. 1t was an artistic production,
made specially for him, and he was de-
/ lighted with it, so much so that he took
it ''over to the house" for the folks to
see The children of the presidential
family were particularly delighted with
the funny pictures of the bears.
| II am going tC keep that calendar on
the desk in my Office" the President
remarked But the children dissented
then and there and accordingly the
calendar of the little bears stays "over
at the house."
| The members of the Maine delegation
| are all actively at work this week on
matters in which their constituents are
interested and on matters of general
Legislation. Governor Burleigh has
talked with Senator Proctor of Yer
|mont, the acting chairman of the Sem
| ate committee on military affairs,
about the prospects of the militia bill,
knowing the interest the Maine guards
linen have in that measure. Senator
Proctor tells Governor Burleigh that he
| is very hopeful of having the bill
speedily enacted into law, although he
has been delayed by the Southern
| Democratic senators. who want to de-
| bate some of it's features ad minimum
to be sure that no opportunity to de-
bate constitutional features is al
lowed to pass. Governor Burleigh is
quite confident that the bill will be
be pressed to a vote in the Senate be-
fore many days and that the differ
ences will be adjusted in conference
and the measure be signed by the
President. so that the state legislatures
can take cognizance of it's provisions
this winter.
The city has been filled with
Istrapgers for several days, indicative
of the general influx into Washington
whenever Congress starts up at full
| tilt. Thousands of tourists come here
in the winter to look down upon the
statesmen and then there are now so
many important measures pending
before the Senate and House that
thousands of people come here to
watch the outcome. A great many of