The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-18
ey w. w. Jermane.

Washington, Oct. 1s.-HtI believe the
constitution of the United States ought
to be amended SO as TO make members
Of the house OF representatives and
senate Ineligible for second term, 2,
said George NJ. Van Evera, Of Des
Moines, Iowa, today.sg 6sFa gs.
Mr.. Van Evera, who is one of the
substantial citizens Of the bounding
west, has been here for a few days tax
Ing look at the way things are run in
the national capital, and some things
shock. - -..- '..,..e... +, 81.
s'that every 'l senator il the chairman Of
a committee, and in that capacity has a
| committee room in which to do such
| business as he cannot or does not do in
1 the senate chamber, yet I fna@ men at
work. at the present moment erecting
marble palace, costing millions Of doll
lars, In which each senator Is to have a
private office, furnished and main.
tanned at the governments expense;
| "The house of representatives Is also
being provided for in" the same way,
and altho every member OF the J, house
does not have a committee room, 1t still
strikes me that these buildings are eli.
tirely unnecessary. Yet how can we
taxpayers prevent extravagances Of
this kind2 .,,..sx sS,r.-,s- =sr
| Become Washington Citizens.
"We elect representatives and send
them here year aftersyear, on the thee
ry that they can give us better service
it we keep them here long enough foT
them to learn the ropes, and the result
is that they fix themselves here practie'
ally as residents ard all but lose their
connection with, or interest in, the af
fairs of the districts or states that
send them.
81 am Informed that 1t is the most
common kind Of a thing for a member
Of congress to own real estate in Wash
ington, and that numbers Of them have
become immensely wealthy thru specu
lation in property in the District Of
Columbia, property whose value is
largely enhanced or deprecated by the
improvements which congress has thu
| power to vote or neglect to vote
, Others, am told, maintain law Of
) fees here or are engaged in. other bust
, ness in the district. All this I am con
) WINGED is not for the benefit or advan
; tage Of the electors who are suppose!
} to be represented here by these men,
> ~ believe our representatives ough
:. to come here for the sole purpose o
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and that the way to accomplish it is t
f send a fresh lot for each congress, S
4 that the interest Of our representative
s may not be weaned away from thos
e whom they come here to serve.
= Few Get in Control. Is:
|. "When men are kept in congress f
= long term Of years they acquire !.
8 position in national legislation: thu
: enables a few of them to control tt
It policy Of both houses, and congress
a thereby robbed of it's Representative
character. It no longer is represent
Etive, it seems to me, but becomes aut
l. CRATIC and extremely forgetful of tt
n People Sss2'2% - $3.50 = 80 -
n "Certainly congress sitting for OF
,r term only would never think Of pr
le viding itself with marble office bull
IT. iiags of such rnagnifcence; ass==ttoe =ove
j. Shadow the most voluptuous period
n the history Of the Roman empire
ia 1890 Stern sinpl city and unfaIteri1
N attention to duty are the HALLMARK
" Of living and progressive republi
ID THESE Injuries, procured by the e
of vast sums Of the people
III Treasure. are too suggestive of t:
it lnymphs of the bath and the decline
to1a great nation to please a plain eli
as.I zensWho knows from liberal experien