Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-20
MICHIGAN SENATOR sEEklNo RE-
ELECTION MUST INvEsTl-
GATE LoRlMER.
WISHES HE WAS AT HEAD
OF SOME OTHER COMMITTEE
ciarer Among Constituents for Bur-
rows to Get Busy on His Undesr-
able Task-knox Caught Working
Under the Union Scale as Secretary
of State.
lspecial correspondence.l


Washington, June 20.-The Hon.
julius Caesar Burrows, senator from
Michigan. faces a peculiarly discourag-
ing variety of trouble in connection
with his aspirations to succeed himself
in our American house of peers. There
is plenty of testimony that a man can
acquire all the trouble he needs, out OF
being a Senator; but Senator Burrows
has taken on a brand new kind, and
lot of it.
Senator Burrows is chairman of
the committee on privileges and cleo
tons. It's business Is to determine the
qualification and general desirability OF
gentlemen who appear at the bar OF
the senaIe, with what purport to be
credentials of membership. Likewise.
If a senator is guilty Of treason or OF
taking bribe-more properly. If he IS
so unfortunate as to get caught In the
act of treason or in the act OF taking
a bribe-it becomes the business of this
committee to act as a sort of grand
jury, investigate, and report to the
senate whether the unlucky senator
who got caught has been SO coarse in
his work that he ought to be ex-
PEELED
Now it chances that prurient minded
people in Illinois have been making
scandalouS allegations concerning the
procedure by which Hon. William
Lorimer associated himself with the
senatorial seat which he is currently
occupying. Illinois is profoundly
wrought up over these charges, and
so IS almost everybody except the SEN
ate 1t so happens that nobody can do
anything in the premises except the
senate. SO long as the senate sits tight
and doesn't make any kick. MI Lor-
inner is just as good a senator rs any
body else.
But it falls out that among the pc
culiarly disaffected regions is the state
of Michigan. Up in Michigan folks are
demanding to known why the Hon.
julius Caesar Burrows doesn't ID
something. They are alleging that all
gall is divided into three parts ana
that Mr.. Lorimer seems to have all
three of them: wherefore they demand
to know why their own julius Caesar
doesn't invade There is uproarious
demand to know what's the use having
a senator named julius Caesar If he
can't get a move on him in such case.
Some professor in the university at
Ann Arbor has been reading up on the
original Caesar, and discovered that ne
had q famous battle with the Nervil,
and overcame them According to the
commentary, the Nerviii were nu-
merous lot, but II they were any
stronger than the nervii of the Hon.
Bill Lorirner Michigan will have 10 be
shown. SO they are giving 1t out coia
that Mr.. Burrows will have to start
an anti-Lorimer move mighty soon or
he can't be reelected
The which explains why Senator
Burrows wishes he was chairman OF
some other old committee.
Secretary Knox is the only man In
the government service who works tor
less than union wages.
Cant say whether the movement for
his nomination for governor OF Penn
sylvania represents any conspiracy 10
rat the state house at Harrisburg,
but it's q good gamble that If he runs
for the governorship, he'll have lot
of organized labor folk against him.
Why shouldn't he? He's been for al
most a year and half working for 30
Der cent under the scale, and the effect
on the union has been thoroughly de-
moralIZ!Eg.
It cc.rnes about thru the fact that
Mr.. Knox was senator before he be-
came secretary OF state. While serving
as senator, he voted for legislation to
Increase the scale on cabinet OFFICERS
from $4,000 to $4,000 a year. Now,
s-;D sn al n
institution that man elected to con-
gress shall not afterward be eligible for
any other office under the government,
the salary Of which shall have been in
creased during his term in office. The
poor old constitution doesn't get much
chance nowadays, but 1t asserted itself
vigorously when this point was raised.
In the first place, it developed, after
ship of state, that he was entirely in
eligible for that job under the con-
stitution This was widely esteemed
tration of lawyers, which had widely
advertised that it was carrying the
greatest aggregation Of legal talent and
ultraluninous intellect ever gathered
under one canvas. Congress succeeded
in fixing the thing up so that Mr.. Knox
could become secretary of state, but
there positively wasn't any way that
he could draw the increased salary for
the Job until after March 4. 1911.
AS a consequence, Mr.. Knox has
been engineering all our foreign rela-
lions. bossing Latin America, smooth
ing over the rough places in our for
eign commercial relations incident to
the enfOrcAment of the new tariff law
and setting up fine job for the pro-
motion Of universal peace-au for the
sum Of $4,000 year. Why, Uncle Jim
Wilson gets S12,5e0 per for turning out
an occasional philippe on the gypsy
moth or a denunciation Of the boil wee
vii. And think of Secretary Of War
Dickinson who is just starting on a trip
around the world, all expenses paid, no
work, no troubles, no worries, and
regular union wages Of 312,5oo per ac<
curing to him turnout the entiret our.
Secretary Knox's salary might posi-
bly, pay for Nposies for the state dinners
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