Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-07-28

tee to demand an inyeStlga ton. The
affair has proved to be simply an insi
cident in the general round Of
events that have been sprung almost
daily in Washington since the special
session commenced.
immigrant Station Crowded.
Commissioner William Williams, in
charge Of Ellis Island, has made re-
port to congress in which he says that,
the conditions Of immigrants is great
" crowded. He has told congress
sional committee that $500, 900 is:
needed for the erection Of a new dor
niitory and OBTAINING room for cabin
passengers. Congress is inclined TO-
be somewhat stingy with the great
New York immigration station, and
it is difficult for the members to re
allze the Importance OF the condition
CT facilities, but Mr. Williams has
been attempting to make this clear by
pointing out how more than one mill
lion Immigrants We're handled on the
Island last year, and he says that the
number is constantly increasing. Ia.
former times Castle Garden served as
the station for this work, and when
Ellis Island was taken over, it was
thought that the necessity for all
times had been provided for, but al
ready the space has become too small
and crowded
! Reform in Procedure.
Senators are awakened to the fact
that proceedings of that body are not
making any great hit with the people.
A member has declared that from
Reading the Record one might sup
pose that it was report of let of
men gathered on street corners dis
cussing the news of the day. Senator
Bacon has proposed a new rule which
is designed to restore "Congression-
al debate" to it's former decorun,
Senator Root says that the present
method of indiscriminating debate is
destructive of deliberate consider
alton of legislation" and Senator
Lodge likewise declared that the SEN
ate must reform it's methods or be-
come the laughing stock of deliberate
assemblies.
There has been generous applause
from all parts of the country over the
trust busting methods of the Roose-
welt and Taft Administration. 1t de-
lyelops that this work has been rather
expensive, and the house committee
LOT expenditures in the department of
4 Justice has brough out the fact that
the item of special assistant prosecu-
tors for ten years, cost the govern.
ment $1,161, 483. Yet there is no one
who will say that the money has not
been well spent.
Much Work to be Done.
The adjournment program antici.
pates that the members of congress
will get out of Washington about the
middle of August, and before Canadi.
an reciprocity, the wool tariff revis.
ion, free list bill, congressional reap
portionment bill, and the statehood
measure will be disposed of. It is al
so possible that the campaign pub
licity measure and the direct cleo
tons questions will be disposed of.
i Washington and the country have
ceased to feel any thrills over news
Of Investigations and it has become g
settled conviction that partisan mo
tives have instigated nearly every one
of the numberless inquiries that hav!
started since last spring. Out of al
the committees that have been Al
work upon different measures, practi
cally nothing has been produced sub
Stimulating any sensational claim.
made by the Investigators.
| 1t is passing strange that the at
tack by Senator La Toilette upol
President Taft npon the aoor of tn,
senate scarcely excited any attention
In Washington. In these times O
standpatism" and insurgency" i
evidently takes more than a poIitica
speech made by United States Sen
ator and a probable candidate for thu
presidency to rifle the nation"