Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-07-20


that the Cuban reciprocity measure
was not acted upon until the regular
session had come and was some weeks
on its way.
The senate had a row of its own
before the reciprocity bill, after com
ing from the house, was referred to a
committee for consideration When
In treaty form the measure necessar-
lily was booked for consideration by
the committee on foreign relations. OF
which Senator Shelby M. Cullom of
Illinois was and is the chairman. The
minute that the house made good its
contention that the measure was a
bill and not treaty, the finance com
mittee of the senate declared that It
was the proper body to consider the
measure, and a strong fight was made
to take the matter away from Senator
Cullom and give 1t into the hands of
Senator Aldrich. The Rhode Island
senator was a 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
ton.
The house OF representatives spends
a good deal Of time occasionally over
what seems to be trivial things. It
is only fair to the house to say, how
ever, that most of these seemingly
trivial matters are those which con
Germ the spending of money and with
the navy drawing over s1O0,00O,000 a
year and with the other departments
keeping pace with the navy's draft on
the treasury. economy in small things
is 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
pleasantries.
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 a
technical kind and of service to army
officers 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 5000. 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 Willde Collins
Lady In White, but they buy them
out Of their own pockets"
General Hulrs mistake in naming
the title of Willkie 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 Indi
anian qnickly, expecting from the use
of the word Ariel" a rapid JUMP
from The Woman in White" to THE
Tempest" but the lndianian disap
pointed them by talking about al
army flying machine which he sale
was intended to make "ariei" naviga
ton possible. but which fell kerfiop.
The sunny southern land which CAV.
the country Pod Dismuke and Dinl
Bolts contributed recently three more
candidates for name and fame. ans
when they were read out in the sen
ate the grave ones we're moved int
smiling. Among the nominations pre-
scented to the senate for confirmation
appeared these names of residents o
Dixie: Tilman Bunch. Lovick Pink
ston and Epaminondas Bigler