Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1910-03-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Rrom Our Regular Corrs.spoudsn

From Our Regular CoFreespoudenEl
Washington, D. c., March 10. 1910.
1t is now expected that one OF
the most important Of bills. that re
lating TO the postal savings band.
will become law during the pres
emit month. There has been con-
siderable opposition TO the bill.
mainly from Democratic and insurg-
ent sources. Many amendments
have been presented and some Of
them accepted. Senator Root Of
New York. in advocacy Of the bill.
has made the most forcible speech
Of his Senatorial career. Il is un-
derstood that he voices the views Of
the President. Il is expected that
the bill will add greatly to the
strength OF the financial situation In
this country, and the fact that IL has
long been in use in conservative
foreign countries will recommend
it to rejecting people In America.
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10 is though also that the bill fixing
the last Thursday In April for o new
inaugural day, will be adopted.
Changing the date for the inaugura-
ton VI Q president from the 4th Of
Amendment 70 tns Acbhssy0sHSa IN
the United States, and will there
fore have to receive q Iwo-thirds
vote OF Congress and q majority vote
OF three-fourths of the forty-six
states through their legislatures,
before IL can become Q law. The
change In date is OF the greatest i'm
portsnee, for the weather on March
4th is seldom pleasant. and occasion
ally. as on the day OF President
Grants second Inauguration and
last 4th OF March. it is bitterly cold
and tempestuous. The National
Capital is rapidly growing In i'm
provements ard Accommodations for
visitors and siso in accessibility 10
all parts OF the country, and the
travel to the city for the quad rsnni.
al inaugural event is steadily in
creasing in volume. It becomes Of
Importance. not so much TO the citi-
zsns OF Washington. most OF whom
nave at least bed and board, but
TO the two or three hundred thous-
and visitors who come here to wit
ness the imposing ceremonies and
parades attendant upon The inaug-
uration of the President-el elect.
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Thirty or forty years ago there
was serious consideration OF q pro-
Ject to remove ths national capital
farther west. or nearer the geogra-
phioal center. This project or
dream has long since been abandon.
cd. Nothing but disruption of the
country or revolutionary uphea val
can be able to tx the capital else
where, and in such an event there
would be more than one, and per-
haps more than half dozen capitals
in the Disunited States. Distance |
Is no longer q geographical ques-
ton. but q question OF time. and |
Washington is quite as accessible
by steam. electricity and Raso-
line. to say nothing Of the areoplane. |
as any other locality in the Union.
The capital is becoming more and
more firmly rooted by millions spen,
for marble and granite oeices In
which the stupendous work OF the
nation is transacted. A bill 10 now
under consideration in the Senate
Tor the appropriation OF twenty
million dollars to be raised by2
per cent. government bonds for the
erection OF needed government on
ces. At present the government is
paying from ten to seventeen DER
cent. annually on the value Of infer
or rented buildings necessary for
lesk and file rooms for the thousands
II government employees who make
heir homes here. That to pay ten
'r seventeen per cent. for q Door
when the government can
ret the better building for 2 per cent.
q not business lika- NAV ha damnn