Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-05-20
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON
Current News of Importance in Which Ida
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tendance upon the part OF Members
at the session, and while speeches
were continually going on, most OF
the M embers did not feel it neces.
sary to remain i'm their seats and
listen t othe dry discussion of the
proposed changes in the tariff While
the records show that the House
worked hard, as matter of fact,
the period taken up by the measure
happened to fall during delightful
Spring weather, which afforded an
opportunity to Members for short va
cations. The base ball games, aero
planes show and the horse show en-
joyed representative patronage.
Universal peace for the world is
quite the rage and the latest chap
ter in promoting it centened around
the presentation of gold medal to
Andrew Carnegie, who has been thus
officially recognized by a gathering
of representatives of the nations as
the benefacto1' of humanity and the
foremost apostle of peace" The
good old Scotchman is getting about
all the honors that ONE man deserves
There lis suggestion to name a
national park in Arizona after him.
The people of that Territory, while
not objecting to comforting further
honors upon MIR. Carnegie, are not
showing any great enthusiasm over
the park ideas which takes in a
quarter milliOn acres of valuable land.
If the bin recently passed by the
House is concurred in by the Sen
ate, the membership of the House
of Representatives will be increased
to 433 The present membership lis
391 and under the present seating
arrangements, there ts already
lack OF room i'm the Chamber. In
order to provide for the increased
membership, the 391 desks will be
removed and the Members in future
Congresses win be Obliged to occupy
benches, as i'm the case i'm the Brit
ish Parliament. While of course it
lis very convenient for the Members
to silt at handsome mahogany desks
still as a matter of fact their cleaYi-
cal work is all done i'm the spacious
office building erected few years
ago. During the last session, the
Senate failed to concur a similar
measure which was sent over from
the House. This failure upon the
part of the Senate was attributed to
the desire to conclude the affairs of
Congress on March 4th, and the
measure pertaining to re7apportion-
ment was left as unfinished business.
Captain Evelyn Briggs Baldwin. the
Arctic explorer, is i'm Washington
working out his plans for an expe-
dIltaon to cross the Arctic Ocean by
way of the North Pole. 1t lis the
purpose OF Captain Baldwin to en-
ter the pack-ice to the northwest of
Point Barrow, Alaska in 1918. and
to make fast to large ice floe
which he states will be carried along
just as a. car Is drawn by q cable.
In four years time the ship and the
expedition will have followed ne
financially i'm straight courses over
The northern curvature of the earth
the Pole. Captain Baldwin
has converted scientists to the be-
lief that his plan is feasible and cor
rect, and that through the use of a |
ship which cannot be crushed by ice
packs, that his plan cannot help but |
But one wonders how any
man can lay out program which |
'equires so much patience and hard |
work as that involved in this enter
wise.
Representative Henry, Chairman of |
he Committee ON Rules asserts that |
he has received sufficient assurance
rom leaders in both branches of |
congress to pass measure to
hange the date of the Presidential
from March 4th to the
asst Thursday i'm April. This legis-
alton has been attempted at differ.
mt times for hundred years. |