New-York tribune., 1910-01-28
THE DAWN WASHINGTON

savings bank bill which will be reported
to the Senate probably tomorrow, is great
ly elated over the success which has at
tended his efforts. Mr. Carter has for some
time been consistent advocate of this
legislation, and it was due TO his indefatig-
able labors that such a bill was favorably
reported to the Senate IN the last Con-
gress. At that time Senator Aldrich ener-
getically opposed the plan and succeeded
in preventing its favorable consideration.
maintaining that no action should be taken
in that direction until the National None
tary Commission had completed it's scheme
OF fiscal reorganization. Mr.. Carter re-
fused to be discouraged. however. and it
was he who pointed out to Mr. Taft that
were the Republican national platform TO
contain a plank providing for postal saw
ings banks it would afford a satisfactory
offset to the Bryanistic scheme of guaran-
teeing bank deposits. This year Mr.. Carter
found in the President a stout champion
of postal savings legislation. and when
Mr.. Taft sent for Senator Aldrich and told
him he regarded such legislation es-
sential, the Senator from Rhode Island
waived his objections and passed the word
that postal banks should be created. Sen
ator Carter will be in charge of the de-
bate when the measure comes up on the
floor of the Senate.
Washington is to be n strict Sabbatarian
town, if a bill passed by the Senate to-
day becomes a law. This measure provides
that every man. woman and child shall
take one day of rest in each week, the
only exceptions being the employees of
hotels, newspapers and bootblack stands.
There is even a grave question If, under
the wording of the BILL clubs can require
their employees to remain on duty on Sun
day without incurring a fine. Senator Gal
hnger, of New Hampshire, is the father
of this legislation, and Senator Johnston,
of Alabama, also is backing it. There was
a large amount of latent opposition to the
bill in the Senate, but few Senators dared
incur the opposition of the religious ele-
ment by openly expressing their views or
voting against the measure. 1t is probably
a safe assertion that a majority of the
Senators are hoping the bill will fail in
the House. although their hopes in that
direction may be blasted, as the members
of the lower chamber are even more sus-
ceptible to influence than are the members
of the Senate. OF course, every form of
amusement is prohibited on Sunday. and
doubt is expressed as to whether it will be
safe to employ a driver or a chauffeur on
that day.
Fred bennett, Commissioner of the Gen
eral Land Office, made up his mind that
his cup of woe was full to overfowing
this evening when he was required by the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals TO show cause why he should not
be prosecuted for cruelty to aged and de-
fenceless mules. The Commissioner re-
called his recent experiences. the fact that
he had been accused of the looting Of
Alaska, of giving away the public domain
and of utilizing funds appropriated by
D. Congress for the construction of a chimney
for the renovation of an incubator. He felt
that he had refuted or was about TO refute
all of these charges, but he is at loss how
TO refute the new charges, for the reason
that the mules in question are not under
mis- control. They have been used by a
local dealer % deliver coal TO the General
Land Office which Mr.. bennett did not
even purchase, and he has no means of
protecting them from continued abuse, if
they suffer it. The only way Mr.. Eennett
can figure out how he comes to be implt-
Gated in this charge is that Secretary Gar
fields fathsr once drove mules on the tow
path, and that perhaps some one purposes
to show that in some occult manner there
is a spirit of insubordination to the former
Secretary involved in the cruelty to the
mules in question. G. q. H.