The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-05-24

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Longworth Is q member Of the ways
and means committee and In that ca
pacity made a fight for free lumber.
Pinchot testified before the committee
that free lumber would benefit the con-
sumer but little. This cut the ground
from under the feet of Longworth and
others, and a compromise was effected
by reducing the lumber tariff to the
present figure. Now everybody won
ders If In this attack on PinchOt Long
worth represents his famous father-in-
law.
By the way, there is a renewal OF the
boom for Longworth for governor of
Ohio. When the suggestion OF Long
worth's candidacy was first made he
waved it aside by the statement that
he preferred to remain in congress
The renewal of the talk would indi-
cate that his consent has been gained.
The question that is just now agitat-
ing the capital is whether Mr.. Long
worth's nomination would mean that
his distinguished father-in-law would
take the stump In his behalf.
Still talking OF LongwOrth. he has
concluded that being son-in-law Is no
snap. IL he expresses his own opinion
his father-in-law is Immediately held
Responsible for II. and II he insists
that be himself put the thing over
without advices from Europe or Africa
people at once lose interest. One con-
stituent recently asked Longworth to
stop mailing him his speeches. and to
make the gentleman from Cincinnati
feel good the correspondent added:
Whenever you get off anything
worth saying. which is mighty seldom.
we all know it is inspired by your dis
tinguished father-in-law. and most OF
your constituents congratulate you on
the colonel's early return. When he
lands OIL American soil you may ex-
pect us to read your speeches. but IN
the meantime you might as well save
yourself the trouble Of mailing them"
The Railway Business association.
composed for the most part of manu-
facturers of railroad supplies. objects
to some of the amendments to the
railroad bill put In by the house COM
mittee In a pamphlet 1t asks con
gress, whats the hurry" That is
strange question to put to congress.
which appears never to be In hurry
There are various proposals about
short and long hauls. interchange of
cars. suspension of rate changes and
other things that also excite the Rail-
way Business association and cause it
to inquire of congress what these
things mean. Since the house put
teeth into the railroad bill the trans
portation interests are decidedly hos
tile. The old quiescent attitude Is
gone The sort of railroad bill that
suits both the transportation compa-
MES and the shippers is no longer in
existence-at least it is not In exist
eDce in the house The result Is that
there is a fight on. and those who are
making the fight would not hesitate to
wreck the whole bill rather than have
II pass as the house has amended 1t.
OF late there have been various pro-
tests coming from postmasters and pri-
eate individuals IN virginia. The pro-
tests have related to a food of public
documents of uncertain age and value,
but not of uncertain bulk. that have
been flowing into the state. These
pub. docs" have borne the franks of
members Of congress. The recipients
have not called for the pub docs"
and In fact have not wanted them.
The literature has related to every sub
ject under the sun except those sub
jects in which the recipients were In
terested. What has been the occasion
Of this inundation of ancient Congress
Dional Records? Why have the post
masters Of Virginia been suddenly
overburdened and the private citizens
Of the state made wrathful by tons of
franked matter that nobody even call
ed for and that nobody will ever read?
| The only answer seems to be that the
mails are being weighed In Virginia
The weighing of the railway mails oc-
ours In different states at different
times When completed 1t forms the
basis of pay for railway transportation
of mails for four years. What connec-
tion has the food Of public documents
with the weighing OF the mails? Why
should the two events come together: