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Congress Disposed TO Restrict
Expenditures on Mammoth
Undertaking.
BUILDERS WANT A FREE HAND
Object Vigorously to Being Hampcrcd
by Red Tapc--Rcpublicans
Disappointed.
Special Correspondence

Speclu correspondence.
Washington, Dec. 2l.--Congress has
shown IA disposition to throw some re-
strictions around the expenditures for
construction OF the Panama canal.
such restrictions will be unsatisfactory
to the men who are doing the work.
They want TO have free hand and OPP
crate on a large scale. the same as IL
they were constructing railroad or
handling any other great enterprise.
They do not want to be hampered by
the usual amount Of red tape that oh
tains In other departments In the ex-
penditure Of money for government
work and supplies. The disposition to
have estimates before appropriations
are made and to take control of salaries
and prescribe what officers shall be APP
pointed Is not satisfactory. because |.
II Is claimed that a free hand to em-
ploy the men that are wanted and Gre
ate AN Office for them II necessary. TO
control or buy what may be at once
needed. to regulate the employment of
labor and manage II. Is necessary TO
the successful prosecution OF the canal
work. Congress, however, shows an
inclination to keep control of expendl-
lures and to insist upon knowing what
Is 10 be done with the money.
UNDER GOOD DISCIPLINE.
The Republicans showed good dlsci-
plne again by saying nothing about
the committee assignments. The men
who were not satisfied accepted the sit
uatlon without a word. 1t has always
been asserted that quarrels among
Democrats showed healthy condition
and all such divisions made for party
good as II showed that there was some
thing worth fighting for In the party.
There were some very bitter disap-
pointments among members of the Re-
publican party, but they keep quiet.
There are In the house today more than
a dozen men who are at the head OF
good committees who were relegated 10
Botany bay" assignments when they
FIRST came to Congress. | remember
that jim Tawney, now chairman OF APP
preparations. was one OF these: also
Jim Mann OF Illinois, Overstreet of In
diana Sherman of New York. Cooper
OF Wisconsin, Barthodt Of Missouri and
several others who have not only been
well placed on committees, but have
good chairmanships.
SEMI-oFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED.
Although the senate records and the
senate roll call do not recognize Rob-
crt Nj. La Toilette as q senator, the
congressional directory does, and semi
officially La Toilette is a senator. This
directory publishes his biography under
that OF John G. Spooner and also pub
fishes his name IN lists where the
m 81 ~ tAp In h..
biography we are told that La Toilette
was three times elected a member OF
the house of representatives and de-
feated in 1890. That was the year the
Republican party went to smash on
~ McH!..!c, Eli. :. III which La Fol-
Iette helped to make. The statement Is
also made that La Toilette was three
times elected governor Of Wisconsin.
HALE is SENIOR.
When men have been In the senate
since 1881 II seems rather absurd to
speak of them as junior. yet Senator
Frye IS the junior Of Senator Hale by
one day. Hale succeeded Hannibal
Hamlin on March 4, and FRYE succeed
ed James G. Blaine on March 5. 1881.
Although Hale began his career In con-
gress two years before Frye, the latter
has served CONTINUOUSLY from the tlfIle
he was first elected. There was no in
terruption between his services in the
house and senate. Two years elapsed
between the last term of Hale In the
house and his election TO the senate.
The same Is true OF Allison. so Frye Is
the senior OF every man In Congress In
length OF continuous service. a period
Of IS years. Allison was serving his
last term In the house when Hale en-
tered In 1869 Frye and Allison
did not serve together In the house.
FILIPINO POETS.
Mai. Aaron Cove Of Colorado before
the committee on ways and means
made a statement which contradlcted
one made by members OF the Taft par
ty that visited the Philippines last sum-
mer. II developed that both parties re-
ceived their information from the same
person, a Filipino.
How do you account for thatp" ask
ed a member Of the committee,
After hestating a moment Maj. Cove
replied: He was a poet. They are all
poets out there
Maj. Cove created some merrtment by
saying that one reason why he did not
go with the Taft party was because he
was seeking actual facts, and that
everything was prepared for the Off
Gals so as to make things look all one
way.