The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-18
1'FINERY' OF CONGRESS
ii Il. SHOCKS IOWA MAN
Erection Of Marble Palaces FOR Solons Decred BY MIR
:tasss Van Evera- Urges One Term Congress.
to Check Such Expenses

that economy is and always must re-
main the true source OF wealth and
ssThe iron hand Of strength, as ex-
emplifed by our magnificent navy,
gives me great satisfaction, Tor In OF
der to have peace you must nave ing
power to produce it; but these private
palaces for congressman do not leave
pleasing picture in the mind: II con-
gress has come to regard them as a
necessity, after doing without them for
more than one hundred years, why Will
it not come to need a hotel at govern
ment expense by and bys Or car.
riage for each members Or tallort
Or. indeed, fortune for each member
and senator out Of the public treasury
1t is no longer step from one OF these
things to the other than it is from
what congress actually needs to these
marble office buildings.
Delay on Food Bill. 81
! "They tell me that congress had the
pure-food bill before it for seventeen
years before it was allowed to come
to vote. Does anyone think that
would have been possible with a, COM
gress elected for one term and not
Ilonger7 It Is perfectly apparent to me
that 8 bill Of such high merit as that
/ one could only be killed from session
to session by men who have been here
long enough to get control of the ma
chinery Of legislation in such way
as to head off the new member: who
comes straight from the people with
4 nothing but his duty to his constituents
before him. ]
"They tell me it was many years
ago that The supreme court struck the
rate.controlllng power from the hands
Of the interstate commerce commission
and yet if it had not been for the
accident that gave US such president
as Mr.. Roosevelt they say no railroad
! rate. bill would have been passed even
at this time. How can you account for
such situation as that if it is not
done by the men who have been in
congress so long as to be able to
handle the body9 Surely an entire con-
gress, fresh from the people, with no
hope or expectation of remaining here
any longer, would have heard the de-
mands Of the people for relief without
having to be held up to it's work thru
the happy accident of an unusually
strong man in the White House.
Aldrich as Power.
+ "They say the free alcohol law, fol-
which the people have been asking fol-
many years, was forced thru by Mr..
1 Roosevelt in the same way, and that
D it was passed even then only by forcing
0 the hand of Senator Aldrich. That
8 Aldrich was opposed to it and had
e been for so long that no man can re-
member the time when he was not.
Now. how does it happen that q
senator from the little state of Rhode
r Island could hold up measure like
a that for so long time when the people
t all over the United States were asking
e for it9 Could he have done it if hi
IS had been sent here for one term only
e, Hardly But he has been here, by wha
l. means I do not know, for what is hal
j. a lifetime for many people and the con
e sequence has been that he. has come t.
have an inordinate and entirely dis
le proportionate share Of power.
j. *"And in the meantime other ant
l. more important states have stood b,
r. and sucked their@=thsln1bs.= Waiting TO
n the time when it would please the. gen
t1eman from. Rhode Island to give then
q that which it was their right to deman
Is and have. I repeat, I can see but on
c. solution, and that is to-, make it in
K possible for any man to serve$in elthe
g body for more than one term. The
lie these tremendous leases ofspower woul
IF hbe impossible, and it would become a
IL honor, indeed, for a man to he electe
cet a member Of International Legislature.