The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-01
OUR WASHINGTON
 NEWS LETTER
Interesting Gossip of the National Seat of Legislation Reported
 For The Farmer.
BILL" TAFT AS A GADABOUT
Tariff Protected Industries Keep upan Unceasing Warfare and
 Hence They Win.

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 CBy Washington Bureau. United Press) |! Washington. April 1.-"You see this
 broad, smooth. roadway guiltless of
 vehicles of any sort? Well that re-
 presents the Congressrnan's fear of his constitutents.''
 Representative McCredie. of Wash
 ington, plump. ruddy faced. and just
 at that moment perspiring freely.
 paused in his gaspy walk through the
 subway leading to the House office
 building from the Capitol, and leaned l against one of the iron posts for breath. The posts separate the side walk of the subway from the sixteen or eighteen foot roadway.
 ''OVer on the Senate side where there is, no fear of an economically inclin- ed constituency continued Judge Mo Credie as he resumed his walk, they have autoTnO piles to-take the Senators
 to and from their offices and the Cap | ito1. They make the trip in comfort,
 with speed, and in, a style beAtting the dignity of their office. But there
 are no autos for I suppose that
 one reason they think we do not need
 automobiles through our subway is that we are younger men, as rule, than the Senators, and being spryer, can walk. Oh. walking does us good, of course, but every time I make the
 trip either way I feel like getting up
 in the House and demanding an auto from the appropriations committee.
 We would have had the autos long ago if we were ont all. towards. But the House that would dare to vote for a bill providing automobiles for this Subway. Every member would be dead sure that the vote would bob up to plague him at the next campaign. It would be a fine slogan for the op- posing candidate to cry: tAh, ha, Com
 rn i off9c to IS the beo anito1 10 WaK dia tance of two blocks. Out home here he is not too good to walk, but as soon as he ~ets to Washington he begins to ride around in automobiles at the peoples expense
 That may sound ridiculous to the ordinary citizens but it is not at all lost his official head with less said against him..
 milk are growing smaller in the House restaurant at the Capitol. This dis couraging fact has been gradually dawning upon the Congressmen for some time and unless the shrinlza ge stops at once the lucky individual who is just now conducting the eat ing house will find himself facing an investigation.
 This piece of pumpkin pie, made of squash, is just one quarter smaller than the ten cent pieces used to buy here two years ago." remarked one of the western Representative as he surveyed the little three corner slab- "Considering the fact that the restaurant man gets his rent, his heat and light free, do not think that he ought to sting us quite so hard He charges twenty-five cents for five cents for a bowl of soup, fifty cents for a piece of fish no larger than the palm of your hand. and when you buy a, steak you are expected to mort gage vour home to pay for it.
 Senator McCurnber was over here the other day and had steak.
 When he received his bill he did little figuring on the menu card and announced that if the whole of an ordinary steer was sold at the rate that steak brought, the animal would net s4,oO0. Now I call that going sonae.''
 Over in the Senate restaurant, where the same scalo of prices prevail the Senators have compelled the res taurant manager to place a t'No tip ping line on all the menu cards. Con sequently the cards are very hard to get nova days, and if a guest insists upon having one before he orders, the waiter snatches it and buries it un- der the tablecloth before the next GUS earda cards does 1e no not F prevent the waters wa @ from grab ping all the tips they can get nor does it keep them from neg has forgotten to 'come across" on the previous visit.
 Sailors of the Navy will be deprived 
 souvenirs, if the wreck of the Maine is removed from Havana harbor. A bill to raise the wreck or to blow it up has passed the House and is pending in the Senate. A great mass of tang1- ed and battered steel. extending per haps 10 feet above the surface marks the resting place of the Maine. When American warships visit the harbor it is this monument to one of the great disasters of the Navy and the tomb of scores of their comrades whose bod ioS recovered that inter- ests them more than any of the sights ashore
 A favorite pastinae for the sailors is to visit the wreck in small boats and with hammer and chise1 get chips of steel to be carried away as menfen- tos. With a fleet in the harbor it is sturdy young men in white uniforms to get their souvenirs:
 Reasons given for removing the Maine are that the wreck is a menace to navigation and that it is the duty | of the United States to recover the | bodies Of the men who lost their lives 1 iards have contended ever since the I blowing up of the Maine that this government would never raise the wreck because they said. it would | an explosion from within As the charge that the vessel was blown up causes of the war; the Spaniards in sisst that the United States fears a dis closure that it did Spain an injustice n basing hostilities even partly on the destruction of the batt1eship. Inves- ,igation made by a board of Ameri- ,an experts, however, resulted in a decision that the Maine was blown up rom the outside. fl
 A Con gressnaan said today that the eason tariff protected industries man Lge to have duties kept up to a good igure is that they know exactly how O do the most effective work and they lever rest.
 'sIike nation that prepares far in Ldvance for war;" he said, f'they are constantly at work. to have their case s strong as possible when there is mother revision of the tariff. It may ,e two years or it may be 10 but when 1 yer it is the managers Of these in { erests will be in fighting trim.
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