The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-11-27
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Cen
eral Topics from
the Capital.
November 81. 1908

ductlan OF the parcels post on
the rural routes, aud also of its
universal extension. Another
resolution was adopted asking
for the establishment of Postal
Savings Banks ior the benefit of
the farmers. These are measures
that have been recommended by
Postmaster General Won Never
and by his predecessors for more
than twenty years. The parcels
post has long since been iu exist
ence III European aud even Ash
attic countries. LII the Uni ed
States were an etfete monarchy
or an oppressed despotism we
would have long since have had
the parcels post here. but being
free and independents govern
ment of Senatorial, Congressional
and other bosses III the pay of the
interests, and having Senator
from New York, representing the
Express Companies. of which he
IS the President, on the floor of
the Senate, and having a pow
erful Express Company lobby,
with it's pockets bulging out with
Ill gotten gains ever present at
the Capitol, we must be content
with our Wanted superiority III
name over the effete monarchies
and despotisms. The recent post
Office deficit was seventeen mil
lions. The postotfice establish
ment, spending nearly two han
dred millions, brings the country
in debt more than seventeen mil
lions every year. The establish
ment, well managed in business
like way, and doing the profit
able work that the Express Com
panies tilch from it, would bring
the government yearly enough
money to build half a dozen
DreadnOnghts. and at the same
time would furnish all of the
people of the United States with
a vastly superior service. With
thirty thousand rural routes,
nearly all of them equipped with
a horse and wagon, the small
amount of fifty five pounds would
soon wipe out the deficit. The
National Grange has passed a
resolution tO>-oppose Senators
who oppose the parcels post de
livery.
During the past week it has
been definitely settled that Sec
retary of State Root, will trans
fer his activities from the premier
ship Of President Roosevelt's Cab
met to we are about TO say, the
leadership of the Senate. But
Senatorial etiquette and tradi-
tions demands that new Senators,
however distinguished they may
be, shall be seen and not heard
sitting in modest silence. There
have been recently some conspic
u0us recalcitrants against this
iron rule. Senator Beveridge
made himself heard soon after he
entered the Senate. Senator
LaFollette also found it impossi-
BILE to keep still, and it is possible
that the passing away of the old
things and the introduction of
the new, may have begun, and is
ringing changes in the Senate.
Senator Aldrich, from the little
State of Rhode Island, has loug
been called by newspaper men
the "boss of no Senate,n aud he
well deserves the soubriquet,
although Senator Hale, of Maine.
is himself something of a boss.
A comparatively new Senator,
Crane, Of sachusetts, has
been very influential in the coun-
ellis of the majority OF that august
body, while his colleague. Lodge,
is looked upon as the mouth
piece of the President. 1t cannot
be otherwise than that the en-
trance of so conspicuous and so
intellectually potent a man as
Root will have it's influence on
the American House of Peers as
we'll as a salutary influence in the
affairs of the country. President
elect Taft, it 10 said, desired him
to remain ct the head of the Cab.
met, but he will he able to assist
the administration from the Sen.
ate floor. aud his counsel will
doubtless be indirectly felt in the
Cabinet Chamber.
1t is rumored at the present
writing that the old gang has
gotten together 10 New York
to defeat Root for the Senate,
but he is so conspicuously fit and
necessary that the gang will
probably not succeed better than
they did against Gov. Hughes.
1t is said that the President
has already begun his editorial
work on the magazine called
The Outlook, and that the coming
number will have an article from
his pea on the awakening in
China" Doubtless the President
has gotten much information on