Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-30
= Washington Life
The Inaugural Crowd, what Il
win Cost, Years Of Retired Presi-
dents, END . Budding Statesman.

during the closing hours Of the session an
appropriation to pay the 10000 awarded
Richard Parr for discovering the crooked
weighing devices OF the sugar trust The
secretary of the treasury has authority
to pay $25 600 of the award but the balance
must be provided by congress- and con
gress is scsndalously averse to paying such
claims. There is not y worse government
in world in this respect" OBSERVES the
Washington correspondent OF the Brooklyn
Eagle. The claims that are filed against
the government and that are declared to be
good by the court Of claims are yearly dis
regarded without conjunction by congress.
Usually there is annually a big claims
bill, which the house cuts to the bone and
afterward the senate pads and then the
bill dies in conference.
The result Is that many righteous claims
are never paid by the government. The
claimants even die and their heirs continue
the unequal contest. OF course, In a large
number OF instances the claims are now
held by claim attorneys who have speou-
lated in them, and this fact has not a,little
to do with the refusal of congress to act
on them, but, all in all, the government Is
a mlserably delinquent debtor, and while
there has been considerable complaint and
much Illumination, congress has never been
impelled to act.
Lonely figures haunt the corridors of the
capitol buttonholing Indifferent members
and urging them to pass claims that have
been pending in some cases fifty and
seventy-five years. 1t is to be hoped that
PARIS friends will see that action on his
claim is taken promptly and that he may
not be added to the long line of forlorn
walters
A man named Bowers, residing in Mem
phis, Tenn, bombarded congress with fran
tic appeals to pass Senate bill No. S5OS be-
fore adjournment. This is. bill drawn
in the interest OF the consumers with
view to reducing the cost of living. 1t Is
intended to break up what Is declared to
be boycott by wholesalers of retailers
who cut prices. Bowers has been spending
a lot of money on printed pamphlets relat-
ing experiences he says he has had with
various supply companies.
1t SENS that Bowers finds it difficult
to buy supplies now because he under"
sells the retail traue. he gives facsim-
lilies of letters written by big houses re-
fusing to furnish him with goous unless
he will agree to maintain STANDARD prices
An interesting order has come to light in
of the governor of Guam. Captain E. j..
Dorm, u. S. N, who ordered him
self to accompany the Supply to Dion
gapo for its annual docking and wnhe in
the Philippines TO carry out such business
for the island government as could not
well be delegated to others, including nego-
tiatlons for certain specimens of the flora
and fauna of these islands desirable for in
PRODUCTION into Guam; consultation with
the prison authorities relative to status of
prisoners from Guam, and exchange OF
island currency into American money.
The comptroller of the treasury has held
that Captain Dorn's order to himself can
have no effect other than authorized by
the secretary of the navy, who authorized
the Supply to Olongapo. The jurisdiction
of Captain Dorm is limited to the island
of Guam and any additional duties be-
yond that must be imposed by higher
authority.
An analysis of senatorial oratory
turned out during the session classes
Senator Clay of Georgia as the prize
shouter When ne makes a speech in the
senate his voice carries beyond the
| chamber and out through the various
corridors. AS the doors swing open
persons in the rotunda and near the SUI
preme court may hear punches of ora
/ tory from the direction of the senate.
often strangers hearing the noise are de-
ceived into linking somG .4IIng exciting
Is happening. They hurry in and find that
Clay is simply talking about the cotton
boil weevil. And the odd part is that
| the Georgia senator is not aware that he
talks louder than the average senator
/ anA nj hn and Of
speech Is physically exhausted. Yet he
must go on in a nigh pitch or not at all.
| Senator Tillman was another screamer.
He was always stensorian. No matter
what he said he threw his whole weight
into it, and his venemence Is thought by
many to have brought on his i'll health,
at last bursting a bloou vessel in the
brain His friends frequently remon-
strated with him and urged him to lower
his voice.
Lid 1 hoIlerT he would say. Il did
not know that -did suppose l can't
help it,"
Representative Coudrey of st. Louis
easily plucks the sessions record for
freak bills. Mr.. Caudrey's finishing
stroke was a bill prohibiting conductors
on street railway cars in the District of
Columbia fr IN expectorating on their
hands and fingers when issuing tickets
or transfers TO passengers" The bill
provided a penalty of So for the first Of
Tense and $40 for each and every offense
thereafter. Anot. er of his emanauons
decreed that any Individual, firm or
corporation owning and displaying on the
OUTSIDE of building, or on any street or
avenue within tAe district of Columbia,
a clock which shall no. be running at
all times of the day or night and not kept
within two minutes OF the correct east
ern standard time, snail be liable to a
fine of s25 for each and every Offense."
Along in the winter Mr.. Coudrey became
possessed OF the idea that Washington
! Iauudries had entered into an unholy
combination whereby they sought to ele-
yate and MAINTAIN prices, browbeat tneir