The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-02-04
Washington, ID. G.
February ], 1903.

February ], 1903.
senarate statehood for Arizona ana
New Mexico at once,-that Is the
surprising feature of this weeks de-
velopments at Washington Repre-
santative Hamilton OF Michigan
Chairman of the Committee on Terri
tories. introduced bill to bring aoou'
the above result on Saturday Inc
Democrats have long been in taVor
NJ such action, and now that 'ne
Renublicans have come into line with
their platform pledge 1t seems pro
liable that President Roosevelt VIII
have the pleasure OF signing the en-
abling acts OF the last two states
which will perhaps ever be admitted
to the Union from the American con-
tinent.
The attention OF every one In Wash
ington has been chiefly directed TO
the reorganization Of the Navy De
partment recently. II is a plan cf
the new Secretary, Mr.. Newberry'
and has been confirmed by the board
OF naval experts, including Admiral
Dewey, and others, as well as by Mr..
Roosevelt. The seven Bureaus which
frequently made trouble for each
other are consolidated into two, ex-
cept that the Bureau of Supplies and
Accounts, is put directly under the
Secretary. There is no doubt that
this will grow into a very real re-
form inside OF few months. II OPP
crates especially at the various Navy
Yards, located all over the country.
The Army is in much better con-
dition, in some ways. Gen. William
Crozier, Chief OF Ordinance, has just
reported that there are 100000 rifles
available for aiming United States
troops, should war arise; so that a
repetition OF the unprepared constern-
alton which the sudden coming Of
the Spanish War caused is now Inn
possible. Congress this week voted
$500, 600 for experimenting with and
constructing war balloons of all sorts
Previously we have been far outdone
I'm the matter OF procuring airships
for army use. IL has been recalled
this week that in the war between
France and Germany a balloon prov
ed the means of prolonging the fight
for some time.
REMEMBER THE MAINE.
The President sent a curt mes
sage to Congress this week requesting
that the latter take steps TO have
the battleship Maine. which was sunk
in the Harbor OF Havana at the outset
OF the Spanish War, raised from the
harbor bottom where she still lies,
containing the bodies of fifty Ameri-
can sailors. The Spaniards. and many
of the Cubans. so Ex-Governor Ma
COON says, believe that the Maine was
sunk by her own men and not by
Spanish mine explosions. They say
that we are afraid to ascertain the
truth OF these suspicious by raising
the Maine.
On last Tuesday and Wednesday the
members OF the National Child Labor
Commission, as we'll as a number q
would-be child benefactors. assembled
in Washington at the call Of Mr..
Roosevelt, and were welcomed by
the latter. The President and the
delegates agreed that too many home
less children who are reared in asy-
lums are not properly taught and
cared for. The plea was made that
orphan and destitute children be
placed in private families to be cared
for. and that where asylums are need-
ed they be built on the cottage
PLAN" under which the surroundings
are more homelike. Led by Judge B..
Lindsay, the delegates appeared
before the Committee on Interior
Affairs and advocated the establish
ment OF Federal Children's Bureau.
The famous Beveridge Child Labor
Law, which seeks TO prevent the
transportation of the products of chi!t
labor across a state line, under the
interstate commerce clause OF the
Constitution, has been killed for the
present by being postponed indefin-
itely by the Committee on Education,
of the Senate under Dolliver.
HITS AT PRESIDENT.
Senator Knute Nelson of the
Judiciary Committee struck an un.
expected blow at the proposal OF
the President to let the Bureau OF
Corporations decide whether or not
a trust is sufficiently harmful SO that