Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1910-09-29
OUR WASHINGTON
LETTER
Interesting News From the National
Capital Of the Crestest Coun-
Try on Earth.

The Seventh annual convention
Of the National Rivers and Har-
bors Congress, which will be
held in Washington December z,
8 and 8. will undoubtedly be the
most important gathering the
organization has ever held. 1t
will find the executive and Con-
gress in harmonious relation up
on the great salient features of
waterway improvements. The
attendance is already assured of
the most prominent menin pub
lie life. including the President
of the United States and in all
probability the Ex-President,
Col. Theodore Roosevelt. 1t is
now high time that all CONNER
cial and trade bodies interested
in waterway. improvement,
should be making up their list OF
delegates to the National Rivers
and Harbors Congress. The
convention promises to have an
enormous attendance. and ac-
comodations for the visitors to
the national capital, will be in
great demand. especially as the
date of the convention will be in
the week of the reassembling of
the Federal Congress. Subjects
of vital Importance to this great
body of waterway enthusiasts
will be discussed, the intention
of the officers and directors of
the Congress being TO make the
coming convention more truly
representative Of the whole peo-
pie than ever before. il such a
thing be possible.
The election of Asher G.
Kinds, who was narrowly saved
from the Democratic tidal wave
in Maine. will be generally
pleasing TO old members Of the
House Of both parties. I'm
questionably a man of ability, in
the extremely responsible po-
sition of clerk at the Speakers
table, Mr.. Kinds while display
ing a rare and accurate knowl-
edge Of parliamentary law and
practice, showed he was a fair
spirited man and never led the
speaker or the presiding officer
for the time into error. Demo-
Gratis generally spoke of him as
a very decent fellow" That
he will be a useful representa-
tive both parties freely admit.
When Caleb Powers, nominat-
ed, fer Congress by the Republi-
cans of the eleventh Kentucky
district, takes his seat in the
House, his district being over
whelmingly Republican, he will
not be the only man in high pub
lie position in Washington who
has been in jail for alleged
crimes. Powers, as is well
known, was for years in prison
charged with completely in the
murder Of Governor Goebel, and
later pardoned by Governor Will
son. Justice Horace H. Lurton,
of Tennessee, was imprisoned at
Columbus, Ohio during the Civ
il war. He was one Of Gen.
job H. Morgan's raiders, with
whom he was captured on their
rash venture into Indiana and
Ohio. General George w. Cor
don, represented from the tenth
Tennessee district and comman-
der of the United Confederate
veterans Association. spent some
time in a northern prison after
his capture. at the battle of
Franklin, where, leading his
brigade in charge on the Union
breastworks, his horse carried
him far in advance of his men
and into the arms of a merciful
A<hemy, who might have slain
him, but spared him for a rest
from his impetuosity in a secure
northern prison. Congress
man Richardson, of the eighth
Alabama district, was in 1868, a
Confederate prisoner in a MUIR