Evening journal., 1905-06-21
ID0LLIVER WILL
Be REFLECTED
Governor Cummins Decides
Not to Oppose the Iowa
Senator
REFORMS IN PUBLIC PRINTING
By William Wolf Smith.

well BELTS him. Recently Mr.. Dolliver
has had a period of unrest and worri-
ment and all because Governor Cum
minis could not make up his mind whe-
ther to make fight for the seat of the
Junior Senator or await the time when
he should assume the Senatorial toga
when Uncle Billy Allison" casts II
Off According to the dispatches from
| lDes Moines, the Governor win be con-
tent to wait. Hence a return to tat
optimistic frame of mind that usually
lcharacterizes the junior Iowa Senator.
IL was a serious cloud that hung for
a time about the political horizon and
there were statesmen both in Wash
ington and Iowa who declared it mem
laced the eclipse of Mr.. Dolliver Just at
time when he was approaching his
most useful period for his State in the
United States Senate
Mr.. Dolliyer early made himself a
factor in the affairs of the House when
he established a reputation as force
ful and brilliant speaker. He entered
public life i'm the 51st Congress and
got his early Congressional training
In the days when the late Speaker
Reed, brushing aside traditions and
customs, created quorums and made
parliamentary history. IL was quite
natural then that, ten years later when
Senator Geer died, Mr.. Dolliver should
be chosen to succeed him, first by ap-
pointment to fiji the vacancy and then
by election in his own right. His
present term expires i'm March, 1907.
He viii be elected to succeed himself
as the only obstacle was the possible
declaration of Governor Cummns to
contest the election with him.
Senator Dolliver is to be congratu-
lated and so is the country and the
state of Iowa. Mr.. Dolliver has been
in the Senate now long enough to
have served his apprenticeship. He
holds membership on some of the inn
portant committees and the sooner
other States learn that they increase
their influence in the Federal body by
keeping a good man there continually,
the sooner will they possess the Sc
lcret that makes Maine. Massachusetts,.
Pennsylvania, Alabama, Rhode Island
and a few other States such powers
i'm Congress.
Iowa is also an exponent of this idea
Of continuous service SO long as it is
properly rendered. Through Allison
the Western State wields an influence
second to none in the Senate He Isl
chairman of the all-powerful Commit
tee on Appropriations. which controls
the national purse strings. When AL
| llison and Aldrich and one or two
others say thing shall be done, 1t is
done; when they veto proposed legisla-
ltion, Senators may inveigh against
them the House may stubbornly cling
to its 'prerogatives" and even the
White House thunders may roar, but
that legislation cannot go through.
Thus, by keeping Allison at his post.
Iowa is today one of the most powerful
States at the National Capital
Certainly. coupled with the author
ity found in the person Of the Speaker
of the House. these two western and
neighborly States. Iowa and Illinois
dominate the legislation Of Congress.
After serving four terms i'm Congress
Mr.. Allison took his seat in the SEN
ate March 4, 1873. when his colleague
twas but fifteen years of age. His
present term will expire in 1909. No
man in public has left his impress upon
the legislation of this country more
than William Boyd Allison.
! Congressman Charles b. lands. OF
Indiana, who has in charge the work
OF the committee authorized by Con-
gress to ascertain where and how re-
forms can be inaugurated in the mat
ter of the public printing. was in
Washington this week to lay out the
work. The reconsideration by the
President of his determination to call
an extra session has changed the
plans of this committee somewhat, and
INSTEAD Of sitting during the summer
months. the somewhat disagreeable
task will be deferred until autumn.
While he believes In proper economy
lin public expenditures, Mr.. Landis does
mot countenance official perniciousness
He believes there are many ways in
(which. under the law, there is waste
ful extravaganza, and as chairman of
the House Committee on Printing, he
has discovered where much money can
be saved; money that has been thrown
away simply because Congress used
no discretion I'm its mandatory instruc-
tions TO the Public Printer.
Mr.. Lands came prominently before
the public eye during the last Con-
lgress when the bill appropriating
money for the various executive de-
lpartments was under consideration.
He detected and called attention to the
number OF horses and carriages used
/ by bureau chiefs and other favorite
subordinate officials, but supported and
maintained at public expense under
the guise of horses and wagons" As
a result of that expose, many Of these
were cut off. Cabinet officers alone be-
ling provided with a horse and car
] rio 90 Novr ff Mrs Ruraau Chfaf Cnae
shopping in an official wagonette the
name Of the department to which il
belongs may be found printed upon il
somewhere in more or less conspicu-
Gus spot
I'VE are not to prove any printing
lofice scandal" said Mr.. Lands. dis
cussing the work Of his committee. so
far as we are aware, there is no print
ling scandal I'm the sense of somebody
having been grating or misappropri-
lating money That there are abuses
in public printing all must admit, Doc
luments that have limited value are
published in wholesale lots, and this
means that large quantities Of printed
matter are stored away in musty
vaults and sold ultimately as waste
paper. 1t is our purpose TO investi-
gate this and other abuses. and, II pos
sible. to save the people some of their
money, but we are not sleuths sent out
TO hound some evil doer into the peni-
lteutiary"
Notwithstanding his remoteness
from Washington. Hon. Albert Sidney
Burleson, representative in Congress
from the Austin; Texas. district. is a