Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-25
CAPITAL CHAT.
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by crook have wriggled through.
During the last week or two there Is
less rigid scrutiny and also fewer
obstacles. For every man has some.
thing he wants to put a legislative
finish upon and fears he will not sue
coed if he Is too rantankerous IN OPP
posing his fellow legislators.
The prospects are that the end OF
the session will come rather peace
fully and with recurrence of better
feeling. That does not mean the In
surgents will lay down their arms or
that the Regulars will cease to give
battle or that the Democrats will alb
stain from fomenting strife. But
there are indications that there will
be comparatively little fuss and strain
and that the last days will be given
over to minor matters in which the
country will find little of more than,
passing interest.
The exodus will set in even before
the gavels of the presiding off1cers
fall, because of the prospect that the
big measures will be disposed of two
or three days before adjournment Is
agreed upon. The mighty end-of-the-
session fights generally come over ap-
preparation bills but these differences
have practically all been adjusted.
And then as Congress has had so
much fighting this session, there is
less Zest for more of it in the con-
Guiding hours
With all the activities that attend
a last week of the session, the Maine
men there have not been idle. Most OF
them have something important to
dispose of and are Strainlng every
muscle to get it done as quickly as
NAV he. Senator Hale always works
methodically and steadily. He has
more on his hands than any other man
under the dome, because of those bill
lion dollars in appropriations to be
completed. But he has become SO
used TO all the stress and strain OF
the end of the session that the hurry
burly does not disturb his calculations
and he goes right ahead knowing what
he wants to do and how to do it.
Senator Frye was through with all
the legislation in which he is immedi-
ately interested some days ago and
is standing by against any day
when the Vice President may not be
around to WELD the gavel. If there
is any trouble on that score the junior
Senator is ready to step up and show
the Senate what a model presiding Of
ficer can do.
Representative Burleigh, of the
Third District, is bearing hand at
the last appropriation bill to squeeze
through. That is the omnibus public
building bill which he has been at
tending on its various stages from the
point where his committee sat down
and put pen to paper to write the
measure which interests more mem.
bers of the House vitality than any
other which has been enacted at this
session. 1t is almost always the last
of the appropriation bills to be brought
in and then there is great hurrah to
rush it through with little delay The
Governor is one of the conferees on
that appropriation bill.
Representatives Guernsey. Swasey
and Allen are all actively on the job
looking after their constituents in the
closing hours. Mr.. Asher c. Kinds,
the House parliamentarian now
looked upon as sort of fifth MEM
Der from Maine since he became GER
tain of the nomination from the first
district, is not only keeping the House
straight this week on parliamentary
law but is busy getting together a
speech to be delivered before the NOM
mating convention on the very last
day Of June.