Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-02-08
WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
FROM WASHINGTON
CONGRESS WASTING TIME DAVID
LING OVER SMALL MATTER.
No Appropriation Likely for conser-
walton Of Our National Resources.
The Wireless Attachment.

WASHINGTON. ID. C.. Feb. Con
gress, which has now but little over
three weeks for the passage of many
important measures before Inaugural
ton. continues TO dawdle and waste its
time. This week Il has spent many
hours arguing over twelve thousand
dollar appropriation for automobiles
for the White House. Representative
Sims Of Tennessee and twenty-seven
OF his friends are sternly opposed TO
the introduction Of automobiles for
the President. and he. with a number
OF his colleagues. have made speeches
against this. their pet aversion. Their
arguments have been futile in the low
er House. though. and all of their
CORY pictures OF the dead and wounded
who are left I'm the trail OF the gasO-
line machines succeeded I'm securing
only twenty-seven votes against the
appropriation, 20 1855 In les favor. Mr..
Taft will have a chauffeur and foot
man. and II the ordinary man is a
Judge OF such things he will get all
OF the punishment that Mr.. Sims and
his friends wish him. The horse Il
known and tried luxury. but the
automobile Is a ftful. unreliable thing
as yet. and no man can be the pos
SCISSOR OF one. much less two or three.
without having as much trouble as HIS
enviOus friends and enemies can wish
him. And II the automobile n a care
there are no mild terms for the de
scription Of the load Of trouble he
has undertaken In a chauffeur IL the
automobile "a still far from perfection
the average chauffeur has just emery
ed from the neither regions. Probably
Mr.. Taft win not be SO unhappy In
his automobile as the average man.
His chauffeur will be responsible TO
someone besides the President, who
viii not have 10 find out that his car
Is left % stand On oil 60 weaken the
tires; that tacks are recklessly
sprinkled In his garage for the same
purpose and that gasoline is soaked
into the inner tubes with the object
Of having them blow up. The chauf-
feur has q rake-of on all supplies and
repairs for his machine. and Il is up
20 him 20 see that the car which
would ordinarily behave like an angel
on wings does not pursue It's peaceful
career. Presumably there will be
someone 20 see that when the cars
are turned In az night the chaufueT
does not take his family and friends
out for moonlight drives, and Il Is %
be hoped that there will be some ade
quate inspection Of the car before Il
starts out on a long trip, so that Mr.
Taft may not find himself stranded
miles from a car line on lonely road
still. II all OF these safeguards are
provided there will doubtless be many
times when the President-elect and his
family will wish for horses, when Mr.
Sims and his twenty-seyen friends
may indulge In Il told you So
Il Is probable that the friends Of
the movement for the conservation OF
our national resources will see Con
gress adjournlng without having made
J provision for that purpose. So fal
that body has appeared content 10 lel
the movement drift. and IL Is not like
, ~ the enemies OF the movement vii
allow an appropriation 10 be- made foI
7 d Ia the last hurried month that re-
mains. The President has done hii
p best. aud there may be- ether mes
sages dispatched 90 Congress with an,
object OF proddiug Il ON 10 its dutl
IN the matter. The enemies Of con
seryation. led by the Speaker OF the
, House. are 30 numerous and powerful
! though. that Il Is not likely anything
B viii be- accomplished, aud the ma
} thousand dollars that the Presiden
1 has asked for the beginning OF th
D work will probably NOT be forthcon
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