Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-28
WOMEN IN THE CASE,
Political Ouarrels Started by
Members of Fair Sex.
MRS. L0NGWORTH'S REMARK.
How II May Create a Feud Between
Roosevelt and Elkins Families-Said
to Have Offended Reputed Fiancee Of
Italian puke-Smlar Instances.
BY CHARLES w. ARTHUR.

HSliHSlOli, May "a - lSpeNIhl'l -
What is commonly called billion dol
lar congress was unhcard of until the
late Thomas Il. Reed Of Maine became
speaker of the house. That was nine.
teen years ago. Since then the coun-
try has become so much more ex-
pensive that now it is getting to be
practically a two billion dollar con
gress, for it Is estimated that the ap-
preparations for this session alone will
shoot some millions above the billion
dollar mark. These are big figures in
deed; but. try ever so hard, the men
responsible for legislation have not
been able to reduce the expenditures
The previous high water mark of ap.
proprlations was last year, when they
footed up S943, 100000. Following arc
the bills which call for the larger
amounts to meet these gigantic eX.
penditures: Postoffce, So21. $50 600: pen
lions, 100000, 1000; navy, S122. $50. 600:
army, S05,ooo,ooo; sundry civil. $120,-
100000; legislative. executive and Judi.
Nal, S120. O00O 600: public buildings, SO
100000; fortifications. S11.TjO,0OO; agri-
rulture. S1l 100000; permanent annual
appropriations. Sl54 600 900.
Impossible 70 Cut Appropriations.
Chairman Tawney of the house ap-
preparations committee has tried all
this session to induce the lawmakers
to keep down the expenditures. The
best figuring he Is able to do indicates
that by the end of the coming fiscal
year there will he deficit proha bly,
Of nearly s15O,O0O,Oo0 unless there is
q general improvement in business
which Will increase the revenues Of
the government. Recently. in well
measured words, Senator AldriCh also
sounded a warning along the same
lines. He plainly informed his sena-
turial associates that It would be neces-
sarv to take steps to raise more money
by taxation unless the appropriations
were cut down.
No limo Like the Present.
a sweet morsel of gossip is being
rolled from tongue to tongue in the
capitals social circles Whether true OF
not, the story is travelling rapidly and
ly every part of the country and posi-
bly, find its way across the Atlantic,
owing to the prominence of the two
women said to be involved in a de-
Cidedly curt affair. This is the way
1t Is related here: Recently Mrs Mich
oas Longworth. daughter Of President
Roosevelt. met Miss katherine Elkins,
ho
West Virginia and reported to be en-
gagged to the Duke of the Abruzzi.
II suppose" Mrs. Longworth is re
ported to have remarked to Miss Ell
kins, that as soon as you contract
that morganatic marriage I shall have
to stop speaking to you"
"You can begin right now to quit
speaking to me-" Miss Elkins is declar.
ed TO have responded as she turned
her back and walked away.
Women Often Cause Political Feuds.
1t is a well known fact that dsa-
Greements among women in official life
have been the cause of some of the
Gercest political feuds that have ever
existed. In army and navy circles the
tiers of officers has led to some very
Intense hatreds, and the same thing
Is true IN politics. Women are ac.
Cused of having started the row which
caused Admiral Schley and most of
his fellow officers to be at variance
Years ago in Ohio some Of the Pendle.
ton women were accused of Offering
fOSultjnv Sot.ial 10 ,ho Nf.T 40 =,
women, and that is generally believed
to have preciptated political row
which eliminated in the utter ruin DO.
litically and financially of the late Sen.
htor George II. Pendleton by the Nc.
Lean men and their allies
Hesists Having Family Misrepresented.
While here recently William J. Bryan
took occasion to deny absolutely the
reports TO the effect that his eide,
daughter, Mrs. Ruth Leavtt. intended
TO take the stump in the western states
In which women have the right to vote
and whoOp things up for her distin.
guished father in the event he is placed
at the head of the national Democratic
ticket by the Denver convention. Mr.
bryan says (IlHt report is as silly and
unfounded as the previous one that his
daughter intended to secure an cleo.
ton as delegate TO the convention
from Colorado and second the nomlna
tion Of her father in a rafting speech
In talking with some of his close
friends here recently MI Bryan dem
Onstrated clearly that stuff written il
some newspapers about members OF
his family provokes him greatly. In.
deed. he does not seem to care n flo
about what is said of himself either
politically or personally, but he dis.
likes to have the women of his family
placed in such unenviahle light The
other morning at l O'Clock he wa,
awakened at his hotel here by the rep
resentative of one of the newspapers
known as yellow journals" who asked
him II he had heard Of a report that
his son William Jennings Bryan, Jr.
had been kidnapped and was being hello
for ransom. This worried the Nebraska
statesman considerably until frienc
reminded him that the boy was twenty
years OF age and so muscular that
was highly improbable that he haG
been spirited away. or course there
wasn't a word OF truth in the story.
COBALT, THE RICH SILVER DIS