Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-09
CARY JON THE JOB. ]"
Wisconsin Representative Tells How Good Bills Are Killed.
EAGER TO AID CONSTITUENTS

| Circular Letter Mailed to Them, Which He Expects to Do Some Good-Ae-
 companied by Double Allotment of
 Seeds and Offer of Farm Bulletins. William J, Cary, who represents one of the Milwaukee districts in the house of representatives, is keeping his con- stituents thoroughly informed about affairs in Washington. Mir. Cary is serving his first term in congress. He had some legislative experience before coming to the capital, and accordingly in his three months life as a maker of the nations laws he has not been be- guiled by the leaders. t-.....
 As a rule, the new congressman changes his impressions of Washington when he has been here a month or two. Along this line story is told of western representative who came to Washington some years ago breathing hostility to every kind of corporate wealth, especially railroad corporations. Six weeks later he was a changed man and confided to one of his friends that the railroads 'are all right" He con fessed that observation and experience had convinced him of tho error of his position in believing Transportation companies enemies of the public. Why" he continued, "I'm for the rail- roads, and, for all care, they can make a roundhouse out of statuary hail."
 Representative Cary is not this kind of a congressman. He is lon the job" for the people and has informed tho folks back home that he has found deplorable condition of affairs In Wash ington, says a special correspondent of the New York Post. He has discovered also, he says, the way that good bills are killed.
 In order that the voters of the Fourth Wisconsin district may have an ac- curate account of his congressional stewardship MT. Cary has prepared a circular letter which he is sending out. In the upper right hand corner of the letter is half tone likeness of the Mil waukee representative and below it the label of the typographical union. Mir. Cary was telegraph operator before he entered public life and has intro duced several bills to regulate the. af- fairs of the telegraph companies.
 It appears from Mir Cary's letter that his committee work in Washington takes so much of his time that he can- not go into details in explaining what he has found since he became a nation al legislator. He is member of two committees, District of Columbia and ventilation and acoustics. The last named meets on alternate leap years.
 Every senator and representative gets an annual allotment of 1o,OOO packages of garden seed and an equal allotment of farmers bulletins. It was to accompany his seeds and bulletins that Mir. Cary prepared his circular let ter. Hear him: .
 T am writing nasty note to inclose with your seed and to explain that l could not get all the varieties you wanted, as the government seed ware house burned down and ruined all the seed originally gathered. However, I inclose a double allotment of every kind of seed in the seed department and hope you will find plenty to suit. If you need more, just write me. in- close list of farm bulletins. If you want any of these. just mark the num- bers and send the list to me. You can mark as many as you wish.
 ''I find affairs in Washington just about as described fin the campaigns. If some of the people knew what their representatives do here they would be astounded. It is a terrible menace to the welfare of our country to see men here doing all they can to prevent bills going through congress for the benefit of the people. sneaking iEto corners to whisper to corporation lawyers and at- tending dinners and receptions given by men who have special bills to pass instead of attending. their committee