Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-05-24
washington LETTER
WAsHINeroN D. G. May bel, 1855.


elses, has been incol porated The fateful
words, in its Judgement have been
stricken out and the Interstate Commerce
Commission is left without specific instruct-
ions TO do something it will have to do any
how. No, the bill has not passed. There
are still some speeches to be made by
gentlemen who want TO getinto the Congre-
gressional Record. But the Senate is as
good as done with the bill. Now comes the
question how far the House will agree to
the amended bill, and there is prospect Of
long and perhaps stormy conference over
the measure No one yet knows whether
it it constitutional or not and the bill at
the courts FATHERS than in the Interstate
Commerce commission. This Of course may
not be great loss. The courts presumably
are as honest as the Interstate Commerce
Commission, bus the mere idea of a broad
court review seems to be useless sort OF
governments circumlocusion vesting the rate
making power with the courts where it had
as we'll be put in the first place if the courts
are to have the ultimate settling of it.
Only the embeIs of the Bailey Tiliman,
Chandler White House feud remain. SEN
Bailey said his say and the correspondents
Of the papers he pitched into seemed to have
no objection to being denounced as 'deliber-
and malicious liars. So the active erupt-
ion in that direction is over. Ii it had
been a northern Senator SO describing a
southern correspondent there might have
been sequel, but as the case stands, prob
ably nothing more will be heard of it.
One OF the local papers has come out this
week with what is alleged to be an author
tive launching Of the Cannon boom for the
Presidency. 1t claims that the Presidential
bee has Lit at last and that there is being
prepared by some unnamed Representative a
speech which will be delivered in the
House some time during the coming week,
naming Uncle Joen as the real thing in
presidential timber and putting the thing
in such shape that the old war horse of
the Republicans can but coyly say Eyes
This is piece ofgossip that isgiYen for what
it may be worth. There is no authentic
record of men yet refusing the nomination
when it was definitely rendered him.
Speaker Cannon says he has had enough
trouble running the House and is not parti-
cularly after the nomination. But il is pos
sible he might be induced TO do violence to
his feelings il he were violently approached.
There is just one thing against the suggest
ion, and that is that it is little early for
the real boom to be launched. Presidential
candidates are not usually named SO for in
advance Of she convention and it is just
possible if the Cannon boom is launched at
this time that it may wither with some
other booms already launched that probab-
~ never will get into the convention hall.
One of the most important conventions
that has been held in Washington for long
time is now in session. 1t is the joint
meeting of the Association OF American
Physicians and the National Association
for the Study and Prevention Of Tuber-
culosis 1t will be recollected that this
Association was the outgrowth Of the COM
mission appointed by the President to study
the subject. 1t has had the effect Of bring
ing some of the best minds in the medical
profession to the study of consumption and
has resulted in the first organized fight that
has ever been made against the Great White
Plague. It was pointed out by one Of the
speakers this week that the ravages of tub
berculosis in the United States in single
year wipe out more people and cause
greater amount of loss and suffering, save
perhaps the actual money loss, than the
Galveston flood, the San Francisco earth
quake and the Baltimore and Chicago fires
combined
DIR. Billings, in addressing the convention
said frankly that the medical profession had
come to the conclusion that there was no
specific drug for the cure Of tuberculosis.
Lie utulCd1 pl OlccciOu Las pCSu oWCheJ IL O
years in arriving at that conclusion, and the
average layman was now 25 years behind
the medical profession and still chung to the
idea that there was some specific against
the disease. Dr. Billing said, and the con-
vention agreed with him that the only hope
for the work lay in a broadcast campaign Of
education among the people. The masses
must be shown the real facts namely that
tuberculosis was neither hereditary nor con-
tagIous though it was communicable from
consumptive to well person if the most
sanitary life was not led and the greatest
care taken against spreading the media Of
contagion, namely the sputum from the
consumptive patient. If this were done,
and it could easily be done, there was no
danger to be apprehended and the plague
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