The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-07-06

dsiiberattvS at times, and 80 It vas
that the Cuban reciprocity measure
vas not acted upon until the regular
session had come and was some weeks
% its way.
The senate had Q row of its own
before the reciprocity bill, after com.
Ing from the house, vas rsfsrred to q
COMMITTEES for eo0siAoration. When
II treaty form tAs measure necessar.
ily vas booked for eoasidsration by
tns COMMITTEES O. foreign relations, of
which Senator Shelby n. Cullom Of
Illinois was aad 10 the chairman. The
minute that the house made good its
contention that the measure was
bill and not . treaty. the finance com.
mittse Of the senate declared that II
was the proper body to consider the
measure. and . strong nght was made
to take the matter away from Senator
Culiom and give 1t into the hands OF
Senator Aidrich. The Rhode Island
senator was . power. but the Illinois
senator was also . power. and In this
particular instance Illinois came out
ahead Of Rhode Island. The commit
tee on foreign relations took the
reciprocity bill under consideration
and later reported upon 1t. and after
debate It received the senate's sane.
tioa.
The house Of representatives spends
. good deal Of time occasionally over
what seems to be trivial things. II
10 only fair to the house to say, how.
ever, that most Of these seemingly
trivial matters are those which con-
cern the spending of money and with
the navy drawing over 500, ,0o0. 900 q
year and with the other departments
keeping pace with the navy's draft on
the treasury. economy in small things
10 necessary. The house succeeds in
getting some fun out Of the disputes
over small expenditures, and the time
and the task are lightened by the
paeasantries.
In an army appropriation bill a
small sum Of money was included to
provide for the purchase OF books,
magazines and newspapers for the
use Of the general stan OF course.
the supposition was that all the read
ing matter purchased was to be of q
technical kind and of service to army
of1cers in their profession. In fact,
money previously voted had been used
for service magazines and for mill
tary books only.
An Indiana member, however, want.
ed the appropriation cut to $500, and
said 1t should be specifically stated
that nothing was to be bought ex.
cept printed matter bearing on the
profession of arms.
General Hull Of Iowa. who was chair.
man Of the house committee on military
affairs. jumped to the defense of the
assaulted army. He said that there
wasn't a yellow-backed book on the
shelves Of the war department. He
declared that army officers may like
to read books like Wilkie Collins
Lady in White but they buy them
out Of their own pockets"
General Hulrs mistake in naming
the title Of Wilkie Collins Woman in
White" was the subject of a good
natured gibe or two. but attention was
quickly turned away from the slip by
a Democrat from the Hoosier state
who jumped to his feet and said that
In connection with this army bill
there was an Ariel" thing that he
wished to speak about.
The members turned to the 1ndi-
anian qnickly, expecting from the use
of the word Ariel" a rapid jump
from THE Woman In White" to THE
Tempest" but the Indianian disap-
pointed them by talking about an
army flying machine which he said
was intended to make "ariel' naviga-
ton possible, but which fell kerhop."
The sunny southern land which gave
the country Pod Dismuke and Dink
Bolts contributed recently three more
candidates for name and fame. and
when they were read out in the SEN
ate the grave ones were moved into
smiling. Among the nominations pre-
sented to the senate for confirmation
appeared these names Of residents of
Dixie: Tilman Bunch, Lovick Pink.
ston and Epaminondas Bigler