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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-22
mssses the City Beautiful.

UDAes the confESSSSiOn adminlStra-
- IN the csy os Des Moinfs the
0psA ~ 8. street gradin" fob was com
nues1 with, n saving Of II 10 20 cents
n ysra on the Old contract. The pay
- ~ eay laborers for the cit! has
Asuo rofsefa ft.Gsn ~ 10 81 % and thai
;sug aesme fsoa $3.50 to 81 and then
n 3AS0 aads he elderly. less active
-. the o.ds pensioners. instead OF
aseine scattered. each - a gang where
- eyald> bold back the younger men.
Asse been organized into flying
4srnn6so1 for grading work. In the
lxsssrr Of public Improvement new
esy saD f. actually under way. The
Snsnness center CT the city has been
Rgsly epeved and there has been
-1npnDeananA 1t the river 'front.'
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-22
EXPERIENCE OF KANSAS CITY
Transmission. System Wipes Out City
Debt In Nine Months.

Debt In Nine Months.
Tia e'ase OF 1910 saw Kansas City.
Aka. established on cash paying
sgsas TsaaS a surplus in every one of
ITS tnnSaS except the lighting fund, its
HSaaMs: Aesta almost wiped out and
nu1ss a2 the, revenue for 1911 used for
The sKpS1SeS OF 1910.
Tint. UaB the condition financially
Ut rue ct0se OF the first nine months
NJ sssessnInene by commission as an
nacus<sa by Charles W. Green. com,
.ssEstzzatAer OF finance and revenue. 1t
Was zhe result. he says. of strict adj
.hsrrnre. to. the provision OF the COM
aNslszasn law that requires a municipal
cuEpura1i0n to live within its means"
n y pointed out that when the com.
znAsahsaesx took charge In April, 1910,
1he tSasda for tEa entire year practi
x12t rad been used in advance. and
4hene vas an Indebtedness against
AsKty every fund.
Mnsem eAN OF the, city under the new
avae ~as seventeen square miles. while
~ Esees tNA 1850 under the council
1us1nd6etS0a was ten square miles. The
anDesseA valuation Of the eniaHged
Eny mAde In 1910 on which to collect
taxes a0t 1871 expenses Is $5S.S0O,OOG
aEnlnge IN assessed valuation of SILL.
1ooooo made in 1909 for 1910 eX-
RsasosA ot the city before the extern
ixsnn at It's tmitss and. the rate of tax
sxrsnu IN the iarger city for all pur-
,yaxes II the same under the 1910 levy
- nnuAS thar OF 1909
when commission government be
gan The acquisition OF new territory
lad seriously depeted the treasury
HE EEeen said There was an indebt
soss1 against every fund. This has
Aess Paid. except u small amount in
~ AeAtins fund. and the commits
atnnsss have managed TO get along
y1kAHss drawing In advance on antic'
AaasA CevensseS. as was the custom
~ xsars under the old council rule"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-22
Kindly Fruits.

The expression In the prayer book
Kindly fruits of the earth" has for
most persons no definite meaning on
account Of the difference in signifi.
canoe now alta ned to the word kind
ly from that used when the expression
was first written, The word kindly in
that connection meant as nearly as
possible "of its kind" and the express
sion kindly fruits OF the earth
meant the fruits Of the earth each
after Its kind"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-22
DkS)oN GOVERNMENT
u MolEMIXySEYEN. STATES,
~ ARaT Gre. haias nfliiion Psup,s . In,
ID cssise undea New IS ystem.,

~ NsSs9e Unde2 'NeW.,Syatem.
NeE cities are adopting the Calves
-ssn 81 Dee Meinss plan of government
Sss75 aey. All this writing 1873 have
3 b foFces These cities are located
u twrnky>eeven states and aggregate
IT aessa 2,59e.0Ge population They
ARE ID soaaovvs:
Ainsssyasr- 8symthgha ham. Montgomery
casHzsz,ssa- Berkeley. Modesto, Monte
Ugy. ssMklHnd, San Diego Santa Cruz, San
1xae gssaspo, Vallejo
Cssx.sea-Colorado Springs. Grand juno
aDDx
hlsAn- lewiston
Hzszsxs-- Carbonate, Clinton. Decatur
Dsxsa. Ilsin, E1illsboro, Jacksonville, lie
FfHs1 h&ostne Ottowa, Pekin, Rochelle
AOcA INLAND. Springfield. Spring Valley
Nassosaa
Iraas-- harrington Cedar Rapids. Daven-
DN1 0ec Moiaes, Fort Dodge, Keokuk
AazseaAten n, Slea1 City.
ksasen~ aathony. Abilene. Coneyvil,e.
IhkRyrxia Caldwell Council Grove,
Osax7 Gity. Ernporia. Eureka. Girard,
Mvs2 fE>asss. Independence. lola, Leaven-
wWte aansss city. Marion, Newton,
Nss0Ssna. parsons. Pittsburg. Topeka,
WieaixA. Wellington.
EeAsc Sy- Newport
L0rtysana- Shreveport
&1sgi&nA-Cumberland
Ma5ssrsaaette Gloucester Haverhill,
Lynn l.aDeecsa
Ascs.Sasz- aarbor Beach. Port Huron
Y0HtRa Wya n4ptte
AsssGssspps- Giarlsaaale. Hatt!esburg.
0inAAsesa-- Sans3a1,t Mankato
Ne1 Mexic0- Roswell
"a Jit,h lpt
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-22
A Coy Mald~0.

A gin played postoface q . pAse
and yelled and shrieked and AOWled
and ran behind the door and scratched
the young mans face In seven places
upset lamp, kicked over the piano
stool, and when he finally kissed hen
On the tip OF the ear she tainted dead
away and said she could never look
anybody In the face again. They leo
the bashful, modest. gentle. sobbins
creature home, and the next day she
ran away with married lightning roe
peddler.-AltOona (Kan.) Tribun~
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-22
Why Waste His Breath?

Teacher-Now, Tommy. suppose you
had two apples and you gave another
boy his choice Of the n You would tel
you? Tommy-No. num- Teacher
Why? Tommy-Cos 'tworldn't be ne
essary. Suburban Life,
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-22
Fairly Warned.

He-My dear, | can't afford TO hu,
you that hat. She still, you'd say.
money II you did. He-How so: ST,
Because I'll Just be I'll If l don't hay,
1t. and you know what doctors BIZ
are
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-22

ASK your physician to phone VI
your prescriptin. This Is the quickest
way to place in the hands of the phar-
macist, and our prompt delivery is
the quickest way to get It back to
you-Mann- Tankersley Drug Compa-
ny. Phone 80. tt
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-22
Hit Both WaYa.

1T amt no fun bein' KID" observ
ed boy bitterly You always halter
so to bed when you amt sleepy an
git up when you are" Toledo Blade
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-22

1t is worth thousand pounds a
year 80 have the habit of looking at
The bright side Of things.--Johnson.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05

However the Picture Is Not All Sad, for the Democratic
Hosts, as They Beamingy Arrange Their Chattels
in Choicer Quarters, Will Be All a-Smile.

Democrats will probably make their tar.
iff in secret. as did the Republicans. and
invite their Republican brethren In when
they have completed the bill
Representative Fitzgerald. Of Brooklyn.
or Representative Albert S. Burleson. Of
Texas, will be the new chairman OF the
Appropriations Committee This is one
committee OF Congress where there will
be few changes in the force OF clerks.
for It has become the established prac-
tice to keep the clerks OF the Appropria-
tions Committee under a sort OF Civil
Service tenure. James s. Courts, the
present clerk OF the committee. has been
recognized by the House as the appro-
priations expert OF that body. and IL
given a salary OF $4,000 year so long
as he remains at the post. There will be
no change in that clerkship, and Prob
ably not in the assistant clerkship.
The new chairman, however, will take
possession OF a suite Of three offices
overlooking the broad valley OF the Po-
tomac and the whole sweep OF the beau
tiful mall. at the end OF which looms tho
Washington monument. He will sit un-
der a great cut glass chandelier that
once hung in the East Room OF tho
White House and under which Nellie
Grant was married. He VIII have a
willing messenger at the outer door.
plentiful supply Of all the good things
that go with committee Craftsmanship.
and a post Of especial advantage In the
manipuations Of the legislative ma
chinery of the House.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05

these well appointed committee rooms
into small single offices fitted with a
desk, an easy chair, a mahogany table
and filing cases, and a typewriter desk.
Good furnishings, it is true, but far be-
low the standard to which they have
become accustomed.
The change will probably be felt most
keenly by Speaker Cannon and Chair
man Payne Of the Ways and Means
Committee. Down on the ground floor
Of the Capitol building, across the hall
from the House restaurant and adjoin-
ing a public stcnographer's stand, is
small office of modest appearance, with a
little cubbyhole of an office off one end
of it. This has been given, by courtesy.
to the Democratic floor leader of the
House
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05

Congressional Committee; John Dalzell,
who presided over the Rules Commit
tee; Chairman Foss of the Naval Affairs
Committee, and numerous other House
leaders in the Republican ranks.
These are the men who are now to be
picked up, bag and baggage, and set
down outside the Capitol building, with
the injunction that they must find quar-
ters i'm the House office building across
the street or live under their hats in
the House corridors and lobbies, as
many Of the Democrats have been doing
for years.
The change goes farther than simply
into the offices of the Capitol building.
In the marble office building. which cost
over $1,000,000, there are big committee
rooms almost as well appointed as those
in the Capitol, and second to them only
in the matter of convenience and minor
accessories. These, too must be turned
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05

building. with immense windows hung
with expensive draperies, and Is ntteo
throughout in style entirely in keeping
with the dignity of the building.
Adjoining this assembly room Is tne
committee conference room, plainly FUR
nished, perhaps. but the mahogany table
around which the members gather cost
a trife of s1,7S5, and has few equals as
a piece Of office furniture. Next TO THIS
room Is the clerks office. and adjoining
that. at the end of the suite the private
office Of the chairman of the committee.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05
WANT LEADERS AT HAND.

These offices are placed with primary
idea to convenience and proximity to the
House chamber. When the call of duty
sounds it is advantageous to the party
in power to have all of it's chief men
clustered about the chamber, where they
can be speedily reached.
The Speakers rooms, extremely COM
modious and comfortable. adjoin the
lobby back Of the House; the office Of
Representative John Dwight, OF New
York, Republican whip" was in that
lobby Just few steps from the House
chamber. At the opposite end of the
lobby is the big Appropriations Commit
tee room. where Representative James
a. Tawney held sway for four years.
Beyond the Speakers rooms, on the
cast side Of the chamber, is an office
long given over to Chairman Serene T..
Payne Of the Ways and Means Commit
tee. Mr.. Payne controlled the big suite
Of Offices Of his committee in the new
House Office building, but the smaller
Office just off the House floor was an
added concession 70 his power in the
House organization and to his need for
consultation and working room close
AT hand.
In other committee rooms close by
were located Chairman Henry C. Lou
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05

over TO the Democrats. who will head
every one OF the sixty or more commit
tees. large and small IN the House or
ganization.
In the years they have been In power
the Republicans have fitted up the COM
mittee rooms of Congress with lavish
iand. The money has not been wasted,
for the furnishings OF the rooms are no
more than in keeping with the solidity
and architectural massiveness of the
Capitol and it's surrounding buildings.
But il has not been possible TO carry
this lavishness OF decoration into the
four hundred private offices provided for
the members of the House in the adj
toining office building The retiring Re
publican chairman, therefore, step from
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05
LOTS LIKE HER.

Fire Chief Croker. Of New York was
talking about the need for laws whereby
the Fire Department could compel prop
erty owners to protect their property
against the perils Of Are.
"As things stand to-day" he said. "We
can't force these men to do our bidding.
We can only request them TO. They
then promise they will obey us. but in
the issue they are like old Mrs. Hopkin-
son.
ITO Mrs. Hopkinson. very quarrel-
some old lady, her pastor said
"You must never cherish an enmity.
madam. against your neighbor IL your
neighbor Injuries you, forget it,
$50 i do forget it. doctor said Mrs.
Hopkinson. piously. but the trouble is.
I've got a powerful bad memory, and
keep forgetting I've forgotten.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05
VIII Yield Spacious and Splendid Quarters Which Have
Been Theirs for Years and Sadly Settle Down in
Single Offices Remote from Hall of Assembly

densiager Of the Pensions Committee
ana secretary to the Republican Ma
tional Congressional Committee. Chair
man James r. Mann Of the Committee
on interstate and Foreign Commerce and
the Republican parliamentary leader of
the House, Chairman Weeks of the POST
once Committee and Chairman Foster
OF the Foreign Affairs Committee. while
not far distant are the committee quar-
ters occupied by William b. Mckinley.
or Illinois, chairman Of the National
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05
ONE LAvsALv ROOMS

larger and the clerk has an assistant.
mittee suites that pass into control OF
the Democrats is that OF the Ways and
Means committee. in the new building.
The assembly room, where the commit
tee members sit like a court behind n
semi circular mahogany bench is one
OF the show places of the capital. 1t
rises TO the height Of two stories Of the
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05

This is the establishment over which
Serene f. Payne has presided, and which
he is now forced 10 turn over to the
fortunate Mr.. Underwood, Of Alabama.
whom the Democrats have selected as
floor leader and chairman OF the Ways
and Means Committee. IL is safe to say
that for many weeks after the new Con-
gress convenes Mr.. Payne will hardly
see the inside Of these rooms. for the
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05

make the chairman comfortable. as well
as to take over the more onerous duties
OF running the Office.
There is always clerk to the commit
tee. as well as a secretary to the chair
man. as a member OF Congress. Often
this lob is combined, the lucky appointee
getting $1,000 as secretary and $4,000 as
clerk to the committee on the larger
committees this salary OF the clerk is
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05
REGARD IT AS SPOuS.


II is not easy for the Republicans to
give all this up just because the rate
Of political strife sent few more DEM
ocrats than Republicans TO the Sixty
second Congress. 1t is not difficult, on
the other hand, for the victorious DEM
ocrats to look upon 1t all as the hitting
spoils OF a long and constant fight to
send those extra Democrats to Wash
| ington.
| With the committee clerkships and
| comforts go also a whole string OF lu-
crative political appointments for which
Democratic workers have waited and
worked. The clerk Of the house, who is
usually an ex-member Of Congress,
draws $1,000 a year; the postmaster.
1000; the chief clerk, journal clerk.
two reading clerks. the sergant- -at-arms
and the doorkeeper the same amount
each.
There are two tally clerks at $1,000:
file clerk and disbursing clerk at the
same figure. The clerk of the Ways and
Means Committee draws $1,000; and the
clerks Of other committees receive
$1,000. in several instances. Then there
are assistants, deputies, messengers.
| pages and employees Of all kinds. The
Democrats gaze with something like
complacency at the S75O,000 that is to
be diverted away from Republicans
and poured annually into the pockets
Of Democratic appointees.
1t is a rose-bordered path into which
the Democrats are turning. Those who
are not fortunate enough to draw the
big committee rooms will feel pro-
prietary interest in them. nevertheless.
They will feel that they have the right
they have never been able TO fully ex-
ercise under Republican incumbency
to invade the committee rooms OF their
colleagues on any occasion, accept the
ministrations OF the Democratic ap-
pointees and use the matches, shoe
blacking, ice water and embossed sta
tonery and easy chairs of the commit
tees with the nonchalence that comes
OF knowledge Of power and control for
q time.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05
INTO THE PROMISED LAND.

The Democrats come into possession
of a veritabe promised land, overflow
ing with milk and honey. and uphol-
stored with every aid to comfort and the
ouick dispatch of business that a gen.
erous' country can give them. They
move from the four room flat -with-one
servant land into the domain of lofty
ceilings. magnificent chandeliers, i'm
mense mahogany tables, and many en-
Moves and clerks. They may not have
the opportunity to furnish their house
anew: but the possessions that the Re-
publicans have been accommodating
through many years will do very well as
the surroundings for a Democratic Con-
gress
To the average American the informa-
ton that the Democrats have captured
control of the House is undoubtedly more
firmly associated with the idea Of pict-
uresque statesmen running affairs on the
floor Of the chamber than with the sor-
did things Of clerkships, committee
rooms and comfortable quarters. To
the statesman in Washington. however,
Il becomes a matter of grave moment
TO be compelled to turn over to the
enemy the appointment Of nearly 500
clerks and officials of the House. and to
be compelled to evacuate completely the
entire House end Of the Capitol build
ing, and move into the small offices in
the marble office building, standing out
side the Capitol grounds.
To understand the dire plight Of the
Republicans. one needs some knowledge
Of the actual construction of the Capt.
tol building and the surroundings Of the
House In the south end Of the build
ing is the House chamber. occupying the
second floor, and surrounded on all sides.
and on the floors above and below. with
the large committee rooms, and the COM
modious quarters Of the Speaker. the
whip" of the House. the clerk Of the
House. the sergeant-at-arms and like
dignitarieS
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05

uF davs of the long sojourn OF the
,rihes Of Democracy in the bad
i lands" Of Congress are at an end
for time at least. The hosts 'rlum,
ohant after long years of suffering VIII
row rally behind their leader. Champ
roarr of Missouri, and march into the
,-ritfnl vineyard Of their hopes; the land
:, rlaasant dreams, easy chairs. leather
,.v,yes large committee rooms, much
noUer and numerous servants.
The Republicans who have occupied
.,e comfortable offices that flank the
oharber of the national House OF Rep
.osontatives have reached an end, tenn
.ororilv let us hope, Of their long lease
&c landed proprietors in the United
ststes Capitol. Even though Payne,
cannon. Dalzell. Dwight Mann, OF III
ro;s. Foster. of Vermont; Weeks, or
massachusetts,, and other Republican
leaders have been reelected to the next
congress. the fortunes of political war
have robbed them of most of their phy-
sical possessions about the Capitol ex-
rent the privilege of occupying a single
-oon7 in the House Office building"
The Republicans have had all of these
,erouisites. comforts and luXuries so
Iore that they perhaps hardly appre-
o,sted what they had to give up to their
nernocratic colleagues with the adjourn
ment Of the Sixty-first Congress on
March 4. IT has been sixteen years since
q Democrat successfully held anything
NJ value around the House end Of the
great building; and it was only as the
last days Of the session passed that Re
nublican leaders and near-leaders real
lied that they were gazing their last for
q long time upon the comfortable sur
roundngs that had been theirs through
out the years Of the Democratic mi
nority.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05

from the House restaurant and adjoin-
ing a public stcnographer's stand, is a
small office of modest appearance, with
little cubbyhole of an office off one end
of it, This has been given, by courtesy.
to the Democratic floor leader of the
House.
WILL SEEM TINY TO HIM.
This is the office which Champ Clark
is now to evacuate, and it IS the Office
which Speaker Cannon will probably
take when he comes back to Congress.
The cubbyhole Office at the end Of the
room is big enough for two men at once,
if the chairs are moved into the corners. ,
II is none too large, however, for
Spcaker-to-be Clar, and one good sized
visitor. John sharp Williams used to
direct Democratic affairs from this
icom. ana Champ Clark moved into it
when williams left the House after his
election TO the senate.
1t is the Cao vantage point given 10
The minority party in the Capitol build
i.z. and it viii probably 80 to Uncle
Joe" Cannon as minority leader, when
the Democrats parcel out the perqui-
sites nrN, fail Ana as Speaher Cannon
and lbs faithful secretary. H. White
Hu,b,y. are carrying few books and
documents and discarded gayeis down
fine stairway 10 this basement Office.
SLcaker-eioct Clark and Secretary wal /,
lace H. BassfoId %lll bc mounting 10
realms long dreamed OF and az last At
tainod.
Therc ere two big offices in the SpeaN- y
,r's suite. overlooking the Capitol I
Grounds. the Congressional Library and
the dienihed facade Of the House Office
building across the grounds. The outer
office is large enough to take care of
the bic delegations that call to pay their
r,srccts to the presiding officer of the
House but that usually overlook the less
prominent leader Of the opposition party.
Rig Grcplaces throw a cheerful warmth |
out into the room, dignified colored |
man keeps guard at the outer door and /
1erds added impressiveness to the occa- |
ejon. end the Speakers secretary has an !
assistant, and the assistant has another
assistant
The good things that fall TO the Speak
er are not more than fall to other party |
leaders who draw the big committees
There is always messenger sometimes
two. TO run errands, black boots with |
backing and brushes furnished by IA
governmenD. to take the |
chairnan's hat and coat, adjust the ven
tilators, pull the shades and otherwise J
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05
FOR THE ARTISTIC EYE.

MANY Of the decorations in the conl-
mittee rooms which fall to the lot OF the
Democrats are works Of art excelled by
few of the treasures OF the Capitol. inc
famous artists who came to do the IN
terror decorating OF the Capitol over
half century ago lavished upon them
wealth OF artistic skill not excelled IN
any of their work in the building. Inc
Senate committee rooms are especially
conspicuous for these beautiful mural
decorations, but many OF the committee
rooms OF the House were treated py tho
artist in conformity with scheme sell
dom eoualled in the decoration OF mod-
.rn buildings. And 1t is not poor mate
rial that has gone into the furnishing OF
them. ,,,
rho nr,vate offices OF the individual
members In the house office ouiioihs'
on the other hand, are severely pialn'
Their furniture Is mahogany, ana the
rues ara excellent; but compared with
the committee rooms In the Capitoi'
they are mere barren cells. wilton car
nets at 81 40 a yard; mahogany chairs
and easy chairs costing as high as SS'
and 500: mahogany tables that cost
from s115 to $445 each; and file cases
and desks that cost proportionately.
have gone into the furnishing OF the
committee rooms.
Chairman Underwood's new domain
the Ways and Means committee foom'
as stated before, represents the acme
of artistic effort about the capitol Inc
semi-circular desk, with its steps ana
, railings. behind which the members
hear the pleas of the ultimate consumer
and the protected manufactures when
tariff bill is being made, cost some
thing like S4.5OO. The window draper
les. which hang fully 40 feet in beau
tiful sweep to the floor, cost Sl.3SO; ana
such utiliterian things as file cases and
book cases represent values OF $40 ana
S525 respectively.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05

There is only one crop that harvests
itself. namely. wild oats.