The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-01-16
KILLING BILLS WILL
fURNITH WORK LATER
ThankleSS Task That is Left
to Committees Who Get
TmaIi Thanks
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speclal to Daily Leader
Washington. Jan. l6.-B But. Of
cosrse. now that congress- has It's
committees all named and has got
into good working order. now that
Davis and Tillman have roafed in the
senate and Williams and De Almond
fought in the house and John Wesley
Gaines relieved his Methodist mind
By denOuncing newspaper man as
a real, sure-enough liar and his state
as false as false can be-now that
these things, for which all business
and legislation seem always to wait.
have been happily or otherwise dis
posed Of affairs on the hill will sim
ply hum and bills be turned out or
turned down with lightninglike RAJ
pidity
Yes they will-not
ii you have any hope OF any great
record for this first session of this
Sixthieth Congress, prepare TO ahan-
don It now.
There is going to be a big record.
an extensive record, a yolumnous re-
cord. but not any great record Il
is going to be a record of speeches
and talk talk and speeches and coun-
tercharges, ard maybe another on
counter or two before the day of adj
jo9rnment arrives.
There IS going 60 be q lot OF work
done; don't make any mistake about
that They have TO work and work
hard II they want to prevent any
thing really important being accom-
plished. II takes work to Kill a bill
II takes work to suppress the restless
men who are really interested in GER
tain legislation more than they are ia
politics. Il takes work To handle in
even the most perfunetory manner
the flood Of measures that is already
menacing the storage capacity of the
/ Capitoi Why the mere list OF bins
/ published in one issue OF the record
j would occupy anywhere from three
( TO five fun pages OF any ordinary
seyenculumn newspaper, set in soiid
nonparieL Appropriation bills. cur
rency bills, tariff bills, land bills wa
I ter bills are running into tho senate
and house so fast they head upon
one anOthers heels And these really
81 no figure in the great mass OF
vould-be laws. Column after column
/ pf the record g. taken up with the list
Of pension and private bills Every
4 body seems "a want pension and
I eyeybody's brother or sister. an in
] crease in the pension already enjoyed
II they are net after a pension they
are seeking a relief for their estate
or relief for somebody's heirs
All this means work. hard. thank.
less work and the man that had IN.
less drudgery This is the real work
OF the committees This il the sort
f@ork that Kills the conscientious
u congressman or sends him home at
the completion of his term almost q
mental and physical wreck But il
Is work you don't read OF Il Is w9rl
that is never heard OF in the cam
paighs Its results never effect cleo
, tions Il IS not politics. and there
/ fore 1t Is work that can be done and
viii be done.
! But the real work in congress
, going to be politics. as I said in m!
previous letter There are big appro
priation bills 10 pass and they will b,
5 fought over every inch OF the way
/ There Is a currency bill 10 be passed
J and fur and feathers will fly when !
: ~ 'al AA tiAutA uouNCs 4 utit viii ut
. bin 10 appropriate eight OF ten mil
: lions additional for the isthmial
{ canal and you can't say canal" il
I, either house without having a row ol
4 your hands. Morgan Is not with ui
1 but there are others equally pugna
= ciocs on that Subject
What VIII be done no one can tel
: No one IS attempting to propbesy a
6 this time, There are too many AN
; certain elements in each houss
e Speaker Cannon. the kindly appearin
! cid gentleman with the iron heel ma
] want certain things done or left an
done. which he IS not going TO revos
10 anyone Other presidential car
? didates. Senators Foraker, Knox an
2 IA Toilette may have certain privat
plans OF their own aud they are a.
io'cellD influential ami resourcci
Z rcatisr1,y fI fIttii
7 tesidea all This and these there
7. a gentleman la the opposite end &
the city Mo has a will ana o way {
: his own, which no man can find on
You have 10 wait to be told and the
, you better be careful about repeatin
|. What you are told. or you viii I'm
Z OF that you were mistaken and didn
!. rlshty understand the meaning oi a
4 woIds