The La Jara chronicle., 1911-09-01


Observation-Disclosures wool meas
ure as agreed upon, the Demo
cratic vote was solid in favor of
the measure and the following
Republicans cast their vote for
the compromise measure. Akin,
New York, independent Repub-
lican); Lindbergh, ,Nye, Volstead,
Davis, Anderson, Miller and
Steenerson, of Minnesota; Esch,
kopp, Lenroot, Morse, Davidson,
and Nelson, of Wisconsin; Hanna,
Helgeser>.of North Dakota; Hub
bard, Haugen, Woods, of Iowa !;
jackson. Rees, Murdock. Madison
and Young of Kansas; Kent
and Stephens, of California; Kin
kaid, Norris, Sloan, of Nebraska /;
and La Toilette and Warburton,
of Washington.
Now that the end of Congress
approaches, it has been suggested
that such stars in the Chatauqua
course as Senator LaFollette and
Speaker Clark, and lesser lights
like Mr.. Lenroot of Wisconsin,
will still have an opportunity to
recoup their political fortunes
before the ides of next December,
when the great law-making body
Of the nation gathers again at the
capitol.
1t may be that William Jenning
Bryan is dead one, but there
are not many people in Washing
ton who believe it. Following his
controversy with Chairman I'm
derwood of the Ways and Means
committee, Mr.. Bryan gave out Il
short statement in which he de
nounced the secret caucus, and
he wanted to know "why should
the Democratic members submit
to the secret caucus?" After
making a few apparently harm
less remarks, Mr.. Bryan conclud-
ed with these words, IF you are
opposed to it. write your member
Of Congress and urge him to pro
test against it.. And then the
deluge began to pour in by way
of correspondence to the desks
Of the self-samc members who
applaudcd so vigorously at the re-
cent outburst of Chairman tndc
wood.
IL has been suggested in view
Of the questions raised in the elec
ton o. Senator Stephenson OF
Wisconsin, that the question of
the election Of senators by direct
vote OF the people is being placed
on trial. The great expenditures
made by Senator Stephenson wer
not in securing his election by
the legislature but in making a
campaign for the votes cast at
the polls by the electors of the
state. While of course it appears
upon the face of the matter that
Senator Stephenson spent an
enormous sum of money in Sc
curing his election, yet most peo-
pie seem to lose sight of the fact
that this was not done in the ordi
nary sense of controlling "A lcgis-
lature but in making a statewide
campaign which was carried to
the hamlets and crossroads. The
aged Wisconsin senator has re-
fused to discuss the Investigation
The only comment that he has
made and that has come from
some of his friends, has been to
the effect that it cost him many
times more to elect Senator La
Toilette than himself.
The Alaskan delegate, Wicker,
sham, just before plunging into
the wilderness of his own coun-
try, sent a message from Seattle
where he stopped enroute, saying
that Colonel Roosevelt and Gif-
ford Pinchot are radically wrong
and so is the president, and in
consequence Alaska is being crush
ed. He then proceeded to dis
cuss the leasing bill proposed by
the chairman of the house com
mittee, to fix the price to be paid
for coal mines in Alaska. Mr.
Wickersham says he is going to
run again for the position of del