Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-30
Legislators Preparing to
Leave Washington,
Maine Seminars Gel Funds Tor
River and HaTbOr Projects.
Last Stages n Tariff Are at hand.'-
Rrasld lent at Beverly Six Weeks.

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relocated as matter of legislation.
The President, 80 Senators and ssl
REPRESENTATIVES, will be glad To forget
schedules and rates. OF course the
critics will still have a few days in
which to criticize, but the operation
of the new law viii be left to the super
vision of the Treasury Department and
to the next Congressional campaign.
Maine on the whole, has Jared
pretty we'll. The new law will not be
as satisfactory to the northeasternmost
state as was the Dingley law, but
enough is already known about II to
demonstrate that Maine industries will
not languish under its provisions. This
fact stands forth as proof of the in
tfuence of the Maine delegation in Sen
ate and House. Twelve years ago,
when the Dingley law was framed,
Maine was especially favored, because
the late Representative Dingley was
chairman of Ways and Means, the
committee that framed the bill. He
was in an unusually favorable strategic
position. and was able to have many
amendments inserted in the bill for
the benefit of Maine industries. Most
of these same Dingey amendments
will survive in the new tariff law and
will remain, till the tariff is again
revised, as monuments to the good SER
vice that Mr. Dingley performed for
his native commonwealth.
The President originally had it in
mind to dispose of considerable public
business while he tarried at Beverly
Because of the prolongation of the eX-
ira session, however, he is likely to
devote most OF his time at the summer
Capital to resting. AS his plans now
are he will be there about six weeks
before he starts on his long western
tQur. 1t will be more than three
months before he is back in Washing
ton again to take up his residence in
the White House. And in the mean
time Washington will be almost as
quiet as a country village. A cabinet
officer or two will be on guard mere
but all business of pressing Importance
will be forwarded to the President and
the news of his decisions will come
from some other place than Washing
ton.
Big packing boxes of plain boards,
half as large as trunk, are littering
the long corridors of the House Of
hce building. There are big black let
tiers on each of these products of the
House carpenter shop. Hon. John
Black, Whitefield, Missouri or some
other name like it is on every box
and in the Office room, where John
Black has desk and a swivel chair
and typeWriting machine and ia
nd a al To 1t,
thing is .topsy turvy. He is sorting
out his papers, throwing into the wire
wastebasket. which the generous gov
eminent provides him, what he does
rot want. If the wastebasket is not
sufficiently capacious, nc throws the
papers and the letters and the scraps
of correspondence upon the floor.
Above all things else John Black is
anxious to "git out of this town"
The orators are faring forth under
the big dome across the way. The,
last agonies Of tariff legislation are at
hand Almost any night now the hast
roll call may come, the red bordered
parchment sheets. thick as an ordinary.
book, may be rushed any moment into
the Speaker and the Vice President to
sign. They carry the engrossed copy
of the new tariff law, which has been
the outcome of almost five months of
steady application by the master Re-
publican minds of Congress SO John
Black is getting ready to close the
board lid down on his Congressional
packing boxes and to snan the lock
and put the key in his pocket There
will be 500 of these boxes starting cut
for all parts of the country soon, in
fact some Of them are already on the
way in anticipation of the railroad
Journeys which their owners are about
to take. This Outgo of House boxes
attends every Congressional adjourn
ment. Next December. just before the
session begins. the boxes will be COM
ing back from all points OF the COM
pass.
All the Maine people. of course. are
making ready to travel northward.
Apart from the delegation in Senate
and House are several prominent en-
ployes of both legislative branches
Everyone of them and their families
will be ,gladder to get away from
Washington than ever before for a
decade. A July experience IN Wash
AA6to'f' Will AoIiSsIcSS Ia ScSSloIi, uOCS
not come often
The Maine Senators have rounded up
quite bit of legislation. apart from
the tariff bill. during the extra session
of Congress. Senator Frye has taken
care Of some appropriations for River
and sHarbor projects. These were not
large in the aggregate but were re-
garded as important, in that the meas
ure which Senator Frye had enacted
prevented some thirty or forty sep
arate allotmerts of moneys from being
turned back into the Treasury A few
Of these allotments were for River and
sHarbor projects along the Maine
Coast
In the very closing days of the SEES
sion Senator Hale has made ready a
deficiency appropriation bill. AS soon
as he emerged from the conference on
the tariff bill, he set about getting the
deficiency bill passed by the Senate SO
that there might be no delay in the
adjournment of the session. This bill
carries the appropriation of $4,000 for
the Presidents travelling expenses and
makes it feasible for him to go on his
far Western trip in the autumn
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