The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-03-03
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Gem
eral Topics from
the Capital.
(From Our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington, February q, 1911.

Washington, February q, 1911.
Less than week of the session remains
and Congress will doubtless crowd as
much legislation as possible in the final
Saturday, and probably move the hands
of the clock backward in order to secure
a few minutes more time. The Presi-
dent will be busy on March 4th, affixing
his signature to the DELAYED bills. Con
gress is working frantcally in order to
finish things before twelve O'Clock March
4th. Men, legislators, statesmen, max
ing laws tor the greatest nation of the
world, iritter the early days of the session
most irivolousy and then do hurry-scurry
! work In tlnal fleeting minutes So it has
been, so it is, so it will be-
Whether there will be an extra session
called immediately after March the 4th
| depends entirely upon the action of Con-
| greSS on the reciprocity agreement which
the President has made with the Canad-
| ian government. Much of the time of
Congress has already been taken up
i listening to the selfish plants of isolated
intereSts-lntereStS that have so long been
! favored that they imagine themselves the
! people and the nation. They are active
| and loud and like a scant brigade march
| ing around hill, by their activity and
noise make an impression upon a one
| sided onlooker of the whole army. They
have their representatives in both houses
OF Congress, too, though some of them
will not stay much longer. Bellweather
| Aldrch is at a Southern resort having, as
! he says, the time of his life; and Bell
weather Hale, of Maine, has Just seven
days more, but he is playing his role of
obstructionst and will play ii till the cur
tain falls. There will be no encores as
far as he is concerned. After he is out of
the Senate his inability to learn or forget
Will hinder progress no more
| Much precious time has been wasted
! this session on the Lorimer case, and that
| portion of the Senate gallery occupied
| the past week by impressionable ladies'
was scene of fashion and of tears when
| Senator Lorimer pleaded his case for four
! hours and rehearsed his career from
bootblack to the Senate was to be as
cribed to popularity won by his kindness
to Jew and Gentle alike. incidentally
he disclosed what kind of statesman he
is by saying that Senator Aldrich was, his
bellweather and that he always voted the
way he did. 1t has long been known by
the wise that in the Senate little Rhode
Island swung some of the larger States,
but confession direct from Illinois may
be ediiying to stalwart doubters
The Japanese war scare will not down.
Representative Hobson parades it in the
House and says there will be war with
that countryln ten months or long before
the completion OF the Panama Canal. 1t
seems that our treaty with that country
1894 is about to expire and that the Presi-
dent has submitted to the Senate the
text of new treaty with Japan. Protests
from California against this treaty are
coming in. 1t appears that the exclusion
clause preventing the importation of Jap
anese coolies or laborers is omitted from
the new treaty The situation is ugly, no
matter what viewpoint one may have.
San Francisco. the nerve center of the
Pacific slope, is the most intensely union
labor beridden city in the hemisphere,
if not in the world. Two years ago it
came near disrupting our peaceful rela-
tions with Japan by the exclusion Of
! Japanese children from the schools. Now,
after securing from Congress its approval
of San Francisco for the International
Exposition, it is foremost in alternating
Japan on whom in great part the success
of the Exposition will depend.
The chief signal officer Of the army,
General Allen, is disposed to make
prompt use of the twenty-five thousand
dollars appropriated in the army bill for
the purchase of flying machines. This
country has been behind European coun-
tries in the adoption of aeroplanes for
military purposes. France is the leader
in the art, and now has fleet of more
than thirty tliers manned by thoroughly
trained aviators 1t has appropriated one
hundred million francs for improvements
in military aviation. AS many as seven
types of aeroplanes are used in the
French equipment Besides there are
hundreds Of aeroplanes owned by private
individuals and should the time come for
military operations, the French army
would be strengthened by the skilled
owners of these private flying machines.