The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
NEW RECORD MADE
Is.eos BILLS INTRODUCED IN LOW
 FIR HOUSE.
In the Senate syl4S Have Bees Intro- dueed and so far Onty About
 1,S00 Have Been
nr AIfreSa ,. Ssefer.


 By AIfred ,. ssofer.
 Washington. April 2.-(SpeciaD- About 1s,ee0 bills have been introduced this season in the, House. and 5.447 have been introduced In the Senate. This beats the record So far only about: 1.s00 of these measures have passed both branches of Congress. and four-fifths of those that have become laws relate to pensions-mostly in crease of pension. These pension bills are being gotten out of the way with a rapidity that is remarkable Presi- dent Roosevelt has not vetoed a pen sion bill this season. He seems to think that after the merits of the cases have been examined by the congress sional committees that is sufficient and he quickly attaches his signature.
 Several thousands of the measures that have been offered in this Con gress their authors know will never have a chance of getting through. By this t is not meant to convey the meaning any considerable proportion of senators and representatives intro- duce the bills purely for bunccmbe and to lead constituents to believe that the Hon. MT. So and So is trying to accomplish wonders. In some in stances where a congressman is hay ing a hard time to secure re-nomina- tion if may be he will draw up meas ures that he knows have no chance whatever thinking that possibly the voters in his dis.rIct will conclude that he Is a live. up to date member striv- ing to do his utmost to send money into his district for the benefit of the far mer. the store-keeper. the mechanic and the laborer.
 At one of the leading Washington hotels not many days ago a remarka- ply we'll preser- d. elderly man. with snow white hair and beard. and reas- onably quick of step. registered his willard Warner. Chattanooga Not a clerk in the establishment had ever heard of him, for they are young men. and they did not know that in the re- construction period the Ely guest served one. term from Alabama as a United States Senator. Had they been aware of the fact tt is certain that some of the local ret tiers who write the news of the hotels would have had a talk with this interesting man. who. if he lives until April g. will have rounded out so years Republicans who were sent to Congress from the South just after the civil war were known as ''carpet-bsggers,' for the reason that most of them had gone from the North to pick up the offices and whatever else was lying around loose in that section.
 General Willard Warner-for he had that title. having served on the stan of General William T. sherman, and before the close of the war rising tc the rank of brovet Major General is among the few left of the old ear pet-baggers" regime in the South. Ala bamians as a rule who are acquainted with him say that he was a good citizen while he lived in their state. He was sent to the Senate in 1888.
 nnlv A In Cnn UTPSS who were here when General Warner took his seat in the Senate. They are Senator Allison of Iowa. who became a member of the House during the Civil War, and General Ketcham. Represen- tativa from one of the interior districts of New York. who entered the House in 1865. but has had breaks in his ser vice Sehator Warner was here long before General Bingham of Philadel- phia. known as the Father of the House" came into public life at Wash ington, or Speaker Cannon. who made his first appearance In the House in 1873.
 About the only man ex-Senator War ner met during his visit to the Capital City whom he had known in the long ago was one of the more elderly em- ployes of the hotel. and he did not meet him until late the night before his de- parture on the next mornings train. The ex-Senator is still vigorous. is engaged in the iron and banking business in Tennessee and bids fair to live many years yet. Just after the war he es- tablished an iron concern in Alabama and named it Tecumseh. in honor of his old comrade in arms. General sherman.
 Ex-Senatcr William Fitt Kellogg of Louisiana Is one of the former carpet basEe-s' who holds his own well so far as age Is concerned. For many years he has made Washington his home. be- ing possessed of ample means made in fortunate real estate speculations here and elsewhere.
 Representative Littleheld of Maine. chairman of the House Committee on Expenditures in the Department Q: Az riculture. states that his committee is not making the kind Of investigation of the department that most people think Is to be undertaken. There is a House Committee on Expenditures for all of the departments. but 1t has never done any investigating worth speaking of and not until this session has 1t occurred to the chairman of a single one to even find out how the money that Congress votes each year is being spent.
 Mir. IAttleield says that he and the members of his committee have not
 
 of unearthing corruption or glaring ir- reguIarities, because under the admin istration of Secretary Wilson he be- lives things have been run pretty we'll in general, with the exception of the scandals in the bureau having in charge the collection of crop statistics The men guilty of giving out informa- tion fin advance of the regular reports and charged with profting thereby. nave been discharged. and criminal nrosecution commenced in one instance al least. II is Mir ,LittlefieId's intention in looking into the affairs of the de- partment to confine the investigation strictly to the expenditures It may happen that in pursuing this Inquiry the committee will discover not only ex- trayagance and irregularities. but pos sibly frauds The Maine Congressman has thought for some time that if his committee is charged with certain du- ,ies it should perform those duties.
 senator Gallinger. of New Hamp- shire. is taking a great interest in the exposition 10 be held at Milan, Italy. The foreign section of the exposition does not open until June IS next al