The Penn's Grove record., 1910-03-11
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drum portion of the session, and
while a considerable amount of work
is accomplished each day, there are
few pyrotechnics
Congress Reaches and very little that
Dull Season. interests the gal
leries. The debate
on the appropriation bill is usually
dry and tedious, and it is only
when "a Senator or Representa-
tive branches off from the subject un-
der discussion that the galleries fill.
There was ever a lack of interest in
the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation on
Saturday. The practice of some of
the spectators of coming early, bring
ing their luncheon and staying all
day has been stopped by the rule
that the committee room must be
cleared during the noon recess, a rule
which it has been found most difficult
to enforce because of the stout re-
sistance of some Of the women spec
tators. The change has worked Won
ders, however, in improving the air in
the committee room.
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1t has remained for a New Yorker
to suggest the latest scheme for ma
val warfare. Leroy Tobey, of Penn
Yam, N. Y, has submitted to the Sec
rotary of the Navy an
Wire and exhaustive brief advo-
Enaesthesia. eating the use of barbed
wire in naval battles of
the future. Tobey insists that it
would be a simple matter for a fast
ship to place a reel of barbed wire at
it's stern, throw al end overheard,
and then sail around an enemy's
ships, Keeling out the wire until all
the enemy's propellers were SO
snarled up that they could not turn,
when, he insists, all the feet armed
with wire need do is to sail away and
leave its enemy's men to starve and
it's ships to rust. The Tobey PROPOSE
ton has been filed with the elaborate
scheme submitted some years ago, in
which It's prepayment urged the adop-
ton of a gas filed projectile which
would explode on board an enemy's
ship, liberating a gas which would eff
fectually anaesthetize every man on
board for a sufficient time to permit
of the capture of the vessel without
resistance.
1t is generally expected that the
numerous floods which are causing so
much financial loss and suffering in
all parts of the country will lea to
renewed interest in the
Floods and proposition advanced by
Reservoirs. M. o. Leighton, of the
Geological Survey, for
the construction of reservoirs on all
the more important rivers for the pur-
pose of storing water in flood times
and feeding it out in periods of
drouth, thus preventing loss from
high water and maintaining the
means of water transportation
throughout the dry season. Mr..
Leighton has made a careful study OF
some rivers, notably the Ohio, and
has found the scheme would be en-
tirely practicable and would not in
volve an outlay disproportionate- to
the saving which would be effected in
a comparatively few years.
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The other day a group of members
of the New York Cotton Exchange,
headed by ex-President Samuel Hub
bard and Vice-President A. R. Marsh,
CdllOo I'LL opSohS3 ONN
Cannon Greets non. They were
Friends. warmly received. Mr..
Marsh tells the story.
Speaker Cannon anne out of his
private office to the big ante-room,"
said Mr.. Marsh. "He squared him
self, looked us owe and in a most
dramatic way said:
Gas mild and gentle hammered a
crew of pirates as ever scuttled a ship
or burned a city. Gentlemen. / am
glad to meet you. 1t is through your
vile Vaccinations that the poor Amer
lean farmer is being robbed OF his
hard-earned profits. 1t is through
your evil ways that the downtrodden
agriculturist is forced to TAX the
meagre pittance of sixteen cents a
pound for his cotton and Sl.26 a
bushel for his wheat. I am glad to
see you"
Senator Hale has consented to IA
Their legislation making proper pro-
vision for those men who become In
capacitated in the lifesaving service
and for their families
Civil PEN when they lose their
sions Next lives, and the Secretary
Reform. of the Treasury has oil
reeted that such a meas
ure promptly be prepared for intro
duction in the Senate. Secretary
MacVeagh, who is n of the most
earnest advocates of a civil pension
roll, to be maintained by assessment
on the employees of the Government,
is heartily in favor of the l~ifesaying
pension list, not only because OF IT
self it is demanded by every consid-
Grafton of justice, but because he be-
lieves it will prove the entering wedge
whereby the broader legislation Gre
ating a civil pension roll will be OBJ
tanned. The Secretary of the Treas
ury is one of the greatest sufferers
from the prevalence of superannuated
employees in his department, and he
frankly and positively refuses to re.
habilitate the service by ruthlessly
discharging those who have rendered
faithful service but who have become
incapacitated by advancing years. He
regards a civil pension roll, to be
maintained by the employees them
selves after it is once installed, as the
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