The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-06-02
hot Wave llas No Effect
Upon IntcrneCine
Warfare.
By Ernest q. walker.
(A[ail speelal 10 Tho AdvertIse

(Mail Special TO The Advertiser.)
WASHINGTON, May 1o.-Tbe hot
and sulphurous days at Washington
succeed one another, but there is no
ground-gaining at the Capitol. The
senate is stalled with its legislative
load, almost before starting up the hill
The house, to be sure, with splendid
team work, is nearing the top Of the
eminence, all Of which is gratifying to
the lovers of progress upward, but IL
does not make for adjournment day
1t came about weeks ago that the
ground-gaining which counts must be
at the north end of the Capitol, for
the house started off with a rush and
virtually completed the heft Of its
work before the senate had begun.
If it was not too hot to think, there
would be laughter and hilarity over
that funny senate deadlock. Some
seven insurgent Republicans insist upon
voting for Senator "Mose" Clapp of
Minnesota as president Of the senate
pro tempore. They won't bulge and
consequently every day when the sen.
ate is in session it takes two ballots
for president pro tempore. Bacon,
Democrat, usually leads with thirty odd
votes; Doctor Gallinger, Republican
trails generally with a wee less than
thirty odd, then comes "Mose" Clapp,
the Minnesotan, and Senators Tillman,
Lodge and Bristow, inevitably have
one each.
Bourbons Are Happy.
OF course it is very discOuraging to
the lovers of progress to see slch
muss. No one seems to care bit.
Democrats are the only happy people.
AS far as the senate is concerned it is
not their responsibility. Why should
they worry and fussf The Republicans
are all split mp, have no organization
as a party that is worth the name
Everybody wants to get a palm leaf
fan and HE out under the shady trees
oh, there have been a few bursts of
talk in the senate. There has been an
effort at daily sessions. Senator Borah
is trying to get his resolution for the
popular election of senators under way
little, but it is hard task. Senators
want to speak. They will not agree to
vote till they have a chance speak,
but the weather is so hot that they do
not want to put forth the effort to pre-.
pare the speech. A few of the old talk
ers have speeches in their systems and
have been talking said speeches out.
But that drives everybody away from
the snate, which has certainly become
dreary place.
Tough, but Why Worry?
You say It's pretty tough to have to
live in a town where there is such a
farce comedy in connection with the
government of free people right be-
fore your eyes. Well, it is. But what Is
the use to worry or fuss about it, be-
fore next winter when there is snow
enough on Pennsylvania avenue to
take the girls out for sleigh ride and
when you can be comfortable and en-
Joy life7 And there is some compen-
sation. Why not let 'em sweat and
grunt up there in congress7 Probably
you know that their salaries are cost
ing the country nothing extra. You
and I and the rest of the people have
to pay them $500 year with all the
perquisites the salary grabbers can
squeeze in on us. The extra expense
on account of the Republican dawdling
in the senate is confined largely to the
consumption of apollinaris water which
the government has to pay for out of
the senate's contingent expenses. The
Democratic house does not drink appol-
inaris.
No one can tell when or where or
how the senate is going to unlock itself.
The regulars have their hands firmly
clinched upon the throats Of the in
surgents and the insurgents have their
hands lovingly entwined around the
necl1s of the regulars, and both sides
are holding on with grim determination
that spells political death. OF course,
the Democrats are not willing to step
in and take sides on this domestic
quarrel. That would not be good poll
tics and it might serve as bad precs-
dent when the Democrats get control
of the senate themselves one of these
days, as the Republicans seem bound
they shall.
Al the same, the game has lost pop
ular interest. There is very little con-
Germ about it now, concern of the sort
that makes front page pieces in the
newspapers. Bat while the inefficient
senate is cutting up such uninteresting
didoes the great hot waves inundate us.
Thus submerged, Washington wonders
what in Cain the fathers put the fed
eral capitol down in this climate for
anyway. The breakers were rolling
then, as now, at Atlantic City and
there were hundreds of beautiful gov.
ernmental sites within sound of the
Atlantic. And then, with all their wis.
dom, why did not the constitution
makers authorize prods for senatorial
dawdlers and muzzles for loquacious
toga wearers. Why3 Whyi Whyf
Records Lost and Held.
1t is very unreasonable to talk about
any FIRE and especially about the Al
bany fire because it happened several
weeks ago. But the fact that lot
of very valuable historic records were
burned at Albany is just dawning upon
some officials of Washington. The de-
partments simply bulge with ancient
and musty records, many of which are
moro or less valuable for the informa.
tion of future generations. Some one