The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-04-16
SOME TIMELY NEWS
HAPPENINGS IN WASHINGTON
THAT WILL BE READ
With Interest by the General Reader
Who Wants to Keep Up With the

'OuAASA OsSASos
Congress has been tame affaii
since the complete routing of Speak
er Cannon and his privileged Rules
Committee, and it is generally pre-
dicted that much work will CO done
in the next six or eight weeks, and
that adjournment will be taken aoout
the first of June. The President has
outlined much legislation he would
like to see enacted, but owing to
conditions at the Capitol, he does not
expect it.
The Government printing ortice,
located in this city, is the largest Of
flee of the kind in the world. Prac-
tically all government publications.
including the. Congressional Record.
are printed there, and at presc 1T re-
quire a force of nearly 4,5O1 en-
ployees. This great shop is never
without its details of employers at
work. There are three Shifts, of S
hours each, from a. m. to p H.,
from to II night, and from - to
8, making the work continuous, in
fact much of the machinery never
stops, except for repairs. The force
is composed of men skilled in every
detail of the priters trade, aud they
come from all parts of tha Union.
Besides these employees of the nigh
est skill, the machinery is the best
known to the craft. Of all depart
ments of the Government this i'm
mense workshop is more up to date
than any other.
The annual fight is on in Cong, ess
respecting the distribution of free
seeds. Every year large appr :
priation is Isade for the purchase
and distribution of seeds, and as
there is much fraud practiced on the
Government in the purchase of
worthless seeds, there are many who
deem it the best policy to Liscon-
tue the work, and If the rural COM
mittees do not stand together
against the city, and the east gener-
ally, this will be done. The Agrl-
cultural Department is now raising
some Of its seeds, and tests those 1t
purchases and yet when the seeds
are ready for distribution it is found
that the bulk does not correspond
with the samples.
Under a recent decision Of the
Court of Claims, large fund is
now being distributed among fhe
Cherokee Indians and their descend
ants. This fund was created by IN
act of Congress to pay these people
for their land and other properly
taken from them by the Gove;n-
ment when it compelled them to give
up their lands and move to another
location. There are a large num-
ber of these claimants, scattered All
over the country, but the greater
number is in Tennessee, the Caro-
linas, Missouri and Arkansas. The
distribution is made upon sufficient
proof that the claimant is descend
ant of the Cherokees in certain
degree.
The National aHll OF Fame, as 1t Is
called, is the old House of Repre-
sentatives in the Capitol, and IS
spacious semi-circular room, win
marble columns supporting CALLER
les, and inlaid floors and highly dec
Grated ceilings. The use of this hall
for this purpose was declared by an
Act of Congress, and provided that
each State should be entitled to
place statues of two of it's citizens
therein, and many of the states nave
taken advantage of this law, and
marble or bronze statutes are fas'
filling the vacant spaces. But one
woman is honored by occupying a
prominent space, and that is Francis
E. Willard, the Temperance advo'
cate.