The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1906-04-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.

and they were well expressed ana
to the point as it is usual with his
speeches, What he advised was for
the House to "stand pat" on the
rate bill and allow no amendment
from the Senate. He said that in
common with a good many other
members, he had gone over the Hep
burn bill, hoping to strengthen it by
amendment, but he found that in
every case he had been anticipated
by the trainers of the bill and he
thought that the best thing to do
was to pass the bill as it stood and
not allow the Senate to saddle it
with amendments. In the matter
of a court review provision, Mr..
Cochran took the very common
sense view that if any railroads were
not satisfied with the ruling of the
commission, all it had to do to
secure a court review was to fail
to enforce the order This would at
once throw the matter into the
courts and get the ruling that all
the court review amends purported
to seek. 1t was quite a simple,
homely speech and as notice had
been given that it was to occur, the
galleries were crowded. Of course
so long as the bill is under consider
alton in the Senate, the talk on the
House end is rather beside the mark,
but it is an indication to the Senate
the House for once intends to stand
on its rights and that if the billcomes
back from the Senate in any consid-
erably amended shape, it is likely to
have a hard time before it gets to
conference and afterward
Almost as old as the proposal to
change the date of the Presidential
Inauguration is the proposal to elect
Senators by popular vote. But
the measure has been introduced
again by Mr. Norris of Nebraska
and in spite of the fact that the bill
has four times passed the House
and has been killed by the Senate,
there is renewed talk of its passing.
There is incorporated with the bill a
proposal to make the term of men,
bers of the House four years instead
of two. The object of this, the re-
port says, is to give more impor-
lance to the primaries and prevent
the professional boodler from living
over from term to term on the pro-
ceeds of his unholy work at one
election. "The people are tired, the
report says, "oi this continuous
drama, and as result are in
clined to give little attention to the
primaries and the conventions
which are the very foundation ofour
political system, and are the times
at which the country's interests can
be best protected"
The change in the order of cleo
tions would have to be accomplish
ed by a constitutional amendment,
but the framer of the bill is con-
WINGED that it lisa good one and it
has had at least had a favorable
report to the House.
1t will not be long before the Pure
Food Bill will come to a vote.
Matters are in such a shape that it
can at any time be made the I'M
finished business and a vote on it
may be arranged at any day. 1t is
possible that the measure may pass
at this session and it is almost a
certainty that if it does not it will
pass and be signed by the President
at the next session. DR.. Wiley of
the Department of Agriculture is OF
course the father of the bill and he
has lot of arguments in the
shape of adulterated foods of one
sort and another spread out on two
big trays at the Department which
he intends to send up to the Capitol
to back his declaration that pure
food - :, an absolute necessity.
The custom house inspectors in
New York played into his hands this
week too and furnished him with
what he has told number of friends
is another good argument. rus to
the effect that the market of the
eastern states is being flooded with
spurious pure olive oil" This oil is
of two sorts. One of them is i'm
ported right enough, but it is i'm
ported free and costs 40 cents a
gallon. 1t comes in free under the
declaration that it is pnrely for
mechanical uses. And that is all it is