The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-02-22
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York, has introduced bill providing
for the repeal of the publicity feature
of the corporation tax law Mr..
Southwick is convinced
Repeal of that his measure will re-
Publicity. ceive a large measure OF
Feature. popular approval and that
it stands an excellent
chance of adoption. 1t is probable,
however, that Mr.. Southwick has not
taken into consideration the opposi-
ton which his measure would encoun.
ter in the White House. 1t is regard.
ed as safe prediction that any at.
tempt wholly to repeal the publicity
feature could become a law only over
the veto of the Executive Some
modification of the publicity feature
might, however, succeed in both
houses and receive the approval OF
the President.
Senator Bankhead has introduced
an amendment to the agricultural ap.
preparation bill providing 100000
for the improvement of roads on
which rural free delivery
A Good has been or may be estab.
Roads lished, provided that the
Senator. State or county in which a
road is to be improved
shall devote like amount to the pur.
pose. Senator Bankhead is an en-.
thusiast in the good roads movement
but nothing has occurred to remove
the fear entertained by many mem
bers of both houses of Congress that
were the policy of making appropria-
lions for good roads once instituted
it would soon grow into q log-rolling
affair similar to the river and harbor
appropriations, that members of Con-
gress would be compelled by pressure
from their States to work for appro-
priations out of all proportion to the
necessities of the situation and with
out regard to the economic status of
the Treasury, and that ultimately the
ability of member to obtain gener-
Gus appropriations for road building
in his district would come to be the
test of his claims to reelection.
X X X
Speaking of Democrats and insur.
gents in the Senate, Senator Money
has finally designated Senator Pur-
cell, the newly appointed Democrat
from North Dakota,
Gossip About to the vacancy on
North Dakota's the Ballinger-Pinchot
Senatorship. committee which re-
suited from the res
ignation of Senator Paynter. Apart
from the fact that Senator Purcell is
"a Democrat of intense partisan stripe,
the designation is the occasion of no
little concern because of political gos-
sip which has reached here to the ef-
1f no
kota contemplates making another
change in the representation of that
State in the upper House in the not
distant future. The death of Senator
Johnson, it will be recalled, gave Gov
ernor Burke, a Democrat, the unex-
pected opportunity to appoint mem.
Der of his party to the House. He APP
pointed Fountain L. Thompson, per-
mitted him to serve forty days and
then, according to report, asked him
to resign that he might appoint Mr..
Purcell Representatives from North
Dakota are to the effect, moreover,
that Governor Burke seeks election
to the Supreme Court of the State,
and that in orderjto gain the support
of all the factions of his party he
purposes to divide the period ensuing
before the Legislature will have an
opportunity to elect Republican be-
tween the four most prominent Demo-
Gratis in the State, and that, in pursu-
ance of this plan, Senator Purcell will
be permitted to serve only short
time before he will have to yield his
place to the third Democrat on the
Governors list.
cat the present rate of progress in
the House of Representatives Con-
gress will be in session until October
1. Were this the short session ii
would be impossible to
Congress pass even the necessary
is Far annual appropriation
Behind. measures by March 4, and
an extra session would
be necessary"
This statement of existing condi-
lions in the House was made by
member of the big five that practical
ly run the body.
1.-THE whole trouble" he added.
"lies with the amended rules of the
House, which permit the most of the
timeJof that body to be taken up by
all sorts of private legislation, leaving
an average of only two days week
for the money bills. But don't think
Congress will be in session much
longer than usual. When the time
comes we will simply kick the amend
ed rules out of the way and go on
doing business as we have in other
sessions, insurgents or no insurgents
to the contrary Notwithstanding.
If the present rate of progress is
maintained, Congress will not pass
the last of the appropriation bills, let
alone tackle any of the legislation ad-
vocated and desired by the Admin
istration, for nearly four and a half
months. OF course this is absurd.
Members of Congress are not any too
fond of staying in Washington in off
years, and this doesn't happen to be
one. So 1t is a question of sitting up
nights and laboring by the feeble
glimmer of the midnight candle, or
taking the amended rules by the
scruff of the neck and throwing them
out of the window. According to the
House leader quoted above, the latter
will be accepted.
''Hazing BiIr' Passes
Senates No Debate.
Washington, D. C.-With not more
than q dnunn GauofNrc in fhotr cootG