The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-02-23
"A RUSH IN CONGRESS-
Several Impor ant Bills Must
be Railroaded Through or
Have Extra Session.
POSTAL BANKS A SUCCESS

Never Deposited Money In Banks
A Great Educator Accorded Tn
usual Honor by House Of Repre-
sentatives - Favors Free Text
Books-Senator Lorimer's Case
May Come to q Vote To-day.
Especial to The Caueasian.)
Washington. d. c., Feb. 81. 1911.
President Taft is still strongly urg-
ing the adoption OF his reciprocity
treaty with Canada. as we'll as the
law creating and Strengthening the
permanent tariff board. and threatens
to call an extra session of Congress
il these measures are not put
through.
Many Other Important Matters Pend
ing.
In addition to these measures,
there are now pending in Congress
ten great appropriation bills which
must be passed before the end of
this Congress. or an extra session
will be called to pass upon them; also
the proposed amendment to the Con-
stitution providing for the election
of Senators by the people; the vote
on the resolution determining wheth-
| er or not Senator Lorimer shall keep
/ or lose his seat in the Senate; the
bill providing for Congressional ap-
/ oIc hill
viding for the fortifcation of the
Panama Canal.
This presents most anomalous
situation in Congress within a few
days of the end Of the session. 1t
now gets clearer each day that un-
less some of these important meas
ures are railroaded through in rec
ord-breaking speed, or unless the
President yields, that an extra ses-
sion of Congress is inevitable, as pre-
! dicted by The Caucasian at least a
month ago.
The Lorimer Case.
It looks as If a vote might be TAX
en- on the resolution determining
, whether or not Senator Lorimer is
entitled to his seat, on tomorrow or
at some early date during the present
week. In the beginning it was not
thought that Senator Lorimer would
retain his seat, but the leading
Democrats who have come to his res
cue and supported him has been
somewhat of surprise, and it may
result in giving him clean bill of
health.
Postal Savings Banks 8 Success.
Postmaster-General Hitchcock has
made preliminary report, or rather
statement, as to the success of the
experiment of the system of postal
savings banks recently established
under authority Of Congress. He
points out the fact that the major
: ity OF the deposits are being made by
. people who have never before had an
, account in savings bank or any
other bank, and who have therefore
never Systematically saved the dimes
and pennies. He states that the op-
erations Of the system so far guaran-
tee that it will be a great success, and
? shows that it will teach a certain
class of our people who have practi-
cally lived from hand to mouth how
to save and become substantial citi-
zens with stake in the country, and
other arguments to a similar effect.
These statements made by Post
: master-General Hitchcock, as results
from practical experience, are some
of the very things which former Sen
atcr Butler of North Carolina prophe-
: sled would result from the establish
ment of such a system, and which
were included in the report made on
his postal savings bank bill, the irst
bill on which Congress ever m.de a
favorable report.
A Great Educator Honored.
Last week Count Apponyi, of Hun
gary, was accorded an unusual honor
by the United States House of Repre-
= sentatives. He was invited to ad-
: dress the House in session. This is,
we think, the third time that such an
honor has been conferred upon any
. man in the history OF the United
r States.
Count Apponyi has been not only
one OF the most distinguished public
officials in Hungary, being by birth
right member of the Hereditary or
: Upper House of the Congress of Hun
J. gary. but man, who also, like Glad
| stone Of England, preferred to serve
in the Lower House. and who was
elected and served as Speaker of the
Hungarian House of Representatives
He acquired his greatest distinc-
g tion, however, when later serving In
: the Cabinet as Minister of Educa-
ton. He is the author of the great
free school system OF Hungary, which
Q provides free schools In fact as well
Ell as In name. They are made so free