The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-22
limos Dispatch 15urenu,


Gaines will do what ho can to hnvc
the bill reported from committee, but
his chances tor success are not OF the
best.
OF course. there are no members who
devote anything like their entire time.
outside OF their service In Congress. to
the railway company which employs
introduced for the purpose OF correct
ing an evil which exists. otherwise It
would not have been offered. It Is
said that many members receive annual
salaries from corporations as attor-
neys. The Interstate Commerce Com
mission hns ruled that member OF
Congress. though he be attorney for q
railway company. cannot ride on a
pass. Mi. tinines's bill seeks to pre-
vent their being employed by cor
porntion at all.
It would go rather hard with some
OF the members to give up their
salaries as counsel In certain cases.
but the salary OF member, which Is
now $500, would appear to be suf-
ficlent to Justify him In devoting his
entire time to the duties OF his gov
hand would be sufficient on which to
count the members OF the House OF
Representatives. not capitalists. who
earn. have earned. or can earn. 1880
In private business, whether at the bar
OF elsewhere.
While Mr.. Gaines will hardly see his
bill even report,i this session. II would
be going far 30 say he would mover
see 1t enacted. Mr.. Gaines some years
ago began clamoring for an investl-
CATION OF the operations of the al
legged tobacco trust. Congress laughed
He wrote a letter to Attorney General
CHOW Senator) Knox, and the latter In
dfted a reply, ridiculing Mr.. Gaines
nut the tobacco trust is being prose-
cuted, and the man conducting the
case for the government, is James G.
| McReynolds. bitter political enemy
of Mr.. Gaines There would have been
no tobacco trust investigation but for
Mr. Gaines. Maybe the public will be
able to say some day that congressman
would still be counsel for corporations
but for Mr.. Gaines.
Mention Of railroad passes reminds
mo to say that railroad men are about
as sore on the antIpass provision OF
the rate law as ure some OF the mem
bers OF Congre 81 and other offi"io X,
who have been deprived of free rides
by the operation, Of the statute.
II had wedding at my home in Ala
L uaIio Tie OtuSl ndy. TleHl OH Tue IUe
OF our road" said S. II. Hardwlck
passenger traffic manager of the South
ern Railway. DO you know that !
|nctually paid out In railway fares for
some special friends invited upwards
OF $500 In good money? 1t was fierce
| Some months ago there was consid :
cradle talk OF attempts to amend the
rate law SO as to allow passes to be
Issued to certain classes. including
bona fide newspaper men. Nothing has
been heard Of the proposition OF late.
Washington newspaper correspondents
who formerly enjoyed the privilege OF
/ riding free on every railway In the
United States, are rather proud of the
fact that not one of them has protested
against the antipass provision of the
rate law, nor have others been able
to induce the correspondents corps
here to undertake. to aid in effecting
1 the repeal of the provision in question
Although at least two bills have
/ been introduced providing for prohi-
bition in the District Of Columbia there
10 hardly chance that either OF them
! Will become law. Nor is there a like
i lihood that the citizens OF the capital
will be allowed to vote on the question
OF liquor or no liquor, az is proposed
In bill introduced by Representative
Lamb. of Virginia. It Is believed to
Ihe assured now that the House Com
mittee on the District of Columbia. as
axed by Speaker Cannon. will see II
II that no prohibition bill ever leaves
its committee pigeon hole. Still, the
observer. who is not lighting the sa-
looms. nor for them. cannot fail to form
the opinion that the time is not many
/, years distant when the sale OF liquor
In the District OF Columbia will be
prohibited.
/ 1t is, believed that strong protes,
vii! go up from the temperance people
of the country against the sale of
liquor in the new Office building Of the
House OF Representatives. 1t Is pro-
posed that a saloon shall be run in
connection with the restaurant In this
building. The law of 1903 prohibits
the sale of liquor in the Capitol. There
is no statute against It's sale in the
office building, fifty or seventy five
yards away.
II never saw negro sit down in
street car said Colonel pete" Hen.
Il burn. OF Iowa. the veteran chairman
of the Committee on Interstate ana
Foreign Commerce. 1--WE have some ot
the most ilnpudent negroes in the
world right in my town. But my moth
er was born In Nashville. Tenn. and
she knew how to manage them. They
4 always treated her with more polite
Il ness than they showed anybody else
4 4 have sometimes thought there Is Il
peculiar quality in the womanhood OF
the South NOT possessed as q rule by
i other women"
i Colonel Hepburn. gallant Union sol
der that he was. and stern as he Is
in his patriotism, does not take the
view Of the war that Is pr0fessedly
that OF many Union veterans.
"Had been born In the South anc
. living there when the war broke OUT
4 / should most nssuredly have been 9
rebel, he said.
\ This does not accord Well with tbs
statement made here by Mr.. Justice
j Harlan, OF Kentucky, this week. thai
); the war was not between the Norrf
!. and South, but war between Unlof
! men and antt-union men. since th'
! Union was practically saved by sol
diers from the Southern States Q.
! Maryland. Kentucky and missouri.
5 Senator Daniel. OF Virginia. has De