The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-17
Bitter w ar Betw e en-
Camps Of Mrs. Scott
and Mrs. Story.
EOTH FACTIONS
CLAIM VICTORY
Campaign for President-G General
ship of D. A. R. Makes Fights
Of Mere Male Politicians
Pale Into Insignihcance.
Opening Session of Con-
gress Held To-Day.
Especial TO The Time1-plspatch. ]

Washington. April 16.-With both
houses OF Congress In full action. and
the lower branch Knocking President
Taft's tariff law into cooked hat;
With wild West show. performing in
least the annual meeting of the
Daughters Of the American Rcvolu
ton in fill! swing. there viii be little
td be wished for by man or woman IA
the national capital during the pres
cnt week. 5r
The national Lawmakers in the
House opened up on the Payne Aldrich
tariff law yesterday in such manner
as TO leave no doubt as TO the neces
sity OF calling in political under
taker before the smoke OF battle in
the extra session clears away. Be
ginning BY puncturing the cuticle of
the administration with hot shot from
the battery of Congressman Kitchin,
OF North Carolina. the Democrats pro-
pose to keep up the fight with
speeches from Representatives Clay
ton. of Alabama. Henry. OF Texas: I'm
dcrwood. OF Alabama; Fitzgerald. of y cw
York. and many of the other old men
in the House. together with n few re-
marks from some of the new mem
bcrs-Martin Littleton and others-as
~ lIlelr opinions OIL the present taTlII
Law and its makers. Little else prob
IDLY Will be considered In the House
this week, and III the Senate Senator
Martin will get his minority members
together for q united effort from the
Democratic batteries.
Heal Fighting Here.
But what does the work of the ma
tional Congress amount TO with the
Daughters of the American Revolution
session on? Whatever lighting may he
done on CAPITOL Hill will pale into
nothing beside the onslaught that Is
calculated TO figure down in the marble
hail OF the Daughters OF the Amer
lean Revolution. There all interest
will centre until the close of the week.
and there many of the nations law
makcrs-the FIRST women Of the coun-
try-will be found.
Each portion of the assembled
Daughters claims victory for Itself
and defeat for It's opponent The fol-
lowers of Mrs. Matthew Scott express
ed themselves today in an ohcial
announcement. in which they claim the
election of president general already
Won by an Overwhelming ma jority.
The friends of Mrs. Story rldlcule such
a statement. saying that Mrs. Scott
has been claiming everything in sight
and that her plans to capture the pres
idency are due for a rude Jolt when
the election comes on
Nothing in the Scott story" is the
way the story people put it, while
from the camp of the former the word
goes out that Mrs. Story and her
boosters simply don't know what they
are talking about
/ The Washington Times handles the
situation nicely this evening, when it
says:
The deliberations of the little CO.
terie OF lawsmiths on Capitol Hill have
faded into the minor Importance of a
moot court. * greater congress is
gathering in our midst. in which
neither reciprocity nor arbitration
nave any part-mores the pityl The
Sraver affairs OF state will have TO
worry along IS best they may until
the Scott-Story feud has seethed and
sursed and spent It's annual force.
Into the choosing of President OF
the United States there must 20 some
degree OF vigilance and anxiety. Into
Inc endurance test which results in
the election OF q president general Of
the Daughters of Eve and the Ameri
San Revolution there will go cajoiery
and heartache. pride OF birth and
ciondbursts of bitter tears III the
scott faction appears FIRST on tho sccp.
dressed in the dainty dimities ,f
spring. Il may he taken for granted
tina, the story partisans Will bear down
mutied IN furs and ear-tIppits
Up-to-Datc Methods.
ne contest was opened long ago
with campaign OF decentralization.
The volume of mail has already done
much toward placing the Post Office
1cpartment on a self-sustaining basis
but now ina the delegates have begun
f.,r
tering around the doveccte has he.
come as the sound Of rushing waters
devices unknown to the political 20
round are being brought Into play 1'ha
sPciloindeT. the cartoon and the trane
rarency are but childish things III.
Seott faction has captured a member
OF me supreme Court, In bodily Pres
ehee. ~ least Kentucky helie
nrousht up the light artillery with a
rec,tai OF negro dialect stories. The
Rnbenstcin choir was commandment
FOR some patriotic selections.
All this-the Story faction Witnessed
win a smile--a smile not so deem as
we'll nor so wide al a church door
out WHICH served to mask the Resources
10 be brought Into action later. Specu-
latlon Is already keen as TO what the
opposing faction Will bring forth from
us little bag of tricks. 1t mas been
WHISPERED that the Bill of Rights has
neen set 10 music and Will be sung as
an oratorio. The younger members
constituting the great body OF the
order. OF course-have spoken tenta-
lively of a barn dance on the East
Plaza OF the Capitol. The oficial Ian
reate Is rapt In an ecstacy to produce
coun terblast TO the war cry. scots
who have with Wallace bled.' 1t viii
be perfectly grand, I'LL
The stage Is set for this most NOV
Ing drama. On with the play"
The Daughters have como frnm al,
quarters OF the United States. and