Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1911-03-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb. "a, 1911

in the final Saturday, and probably
move the hands of the clock backward
in order to secure few minutes more
time The President will be busy on
March 4th, afflxing his signature to the
delayed bills Congress is working
frantically in order to finish things be-
fore twelve O'Clock March 4th. Men,
legislators, statesmen, making laws for
the greatest nation of the world, tritter
the early DAYS of the session most
frivolously and then do hurry scurry
work in final fieeting minutes. So it
has been, so it is, so it will be.
Whether there will be an extra ses-
sion called Immediately after March
the 4th depends entirely upon the act
ion of Congress on the reciprocity
agreement which the President has
made with the Canadian government.
Much of the time of Congress has al
ready been taken up listening to the
selfish plants of isolated interests
terests that have so long been favored
that they imagine themselves the peo-
pie and the nation. They are active
and loud and like a scant brigade
marching around hill, by their activ-
ity and noise make an impression up
on a one-sided onlooker of the whole
army. They have their representa-
tives in both houses of Congress, too,
though some of them will not stay
much longer. Bellweather Aldrich is
at a southern resort having, as he
says, the time of his life, and Bell
weather Hale of Maine has just seven
days more, but he is playing his rule Of
obstructionist and will play it till the
curtain falls. There will be no encores
as far as he is concerned. After he is
out of the Senate his inability to learn
or forget will hinder progress no more.
Much precious time has been wasted
this session on the Lorimer case, and
that portion of the Senate gallery oc-
cupied the past week by impression
able ladies was a scene of fashion and
of tears when Senator Lorimer pleaded
his case for four hours and rehearsed
his career from boctblack to the Senate
and explained how his success in poll
tics and mis- election to the Senate was
to be ascribed to popularity won by
his kindness to Jew and Gentle alike.
incidentally he disclosed what kind of
statesman he is by saying that Sena-
tor Aldrich was his bellweather and
that he always voted the way he did.
1t has long been known by the wise
that in the Senate little Rhode Island
swung some of the larger states, but
confession direct from Illinois may be
edifying to stalwart doubters.
The Japanese war scare will not
down. Representative Hobson parades
it in the House and says there will be
war with that country in ten months
or long before the completion of the
Panama Canal. 1t seems that our
treaty with that country of 1894 is
about to expire and that the President
has submitted to the Senate the text of
a new treaty with Japan. Protests
from California against this treaty are
coming in. 1t appears that the exclu-
sion clause preventing the importation
of Japanese coolies or laborers is omit
ted from the new treaty. The situa-
tion is ugly, no matter what view point
one may have. San Francisco, the
nerve-center of the Pacific slope, is the
most intensely union-labor bestridden
city in the hemisphere, if not in the
world. Two years ago it came near
disrupting our peaceful relations with
Japan by the exclusion of Japanese
children from the schools. Now, after
securing from Congress its approval of
San Francisco for the International Ex-
position, it is foremost in alternating
Japan on whom in great part the sue
cess of the Exposition will depend.
The chief signal officer of the army,
General Allen, is disposed to make
prompt use of the twenty-five thousand
dollars appropriated in the army bill
for the purpose of flying machines.
This country has been behind Europ-
can countries IN the adoption of aero
planes for military purposes. France
is the leader in the art, and now has
fleet of more than thirty fiers man.
ned by thoroughly trained aviators.
1t has appropriated one hundred mil
lion francs for improvements in mill.
tary aviation. As many as seven types
of aeroplanes are used in the French
equipment. Besides there are hund-
reds of aeroplanes owned by private
individuals and should the time come
for military operations, the French
army would be strengthened by the
skilled owners of these private flying.
machines.
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