The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1911-08-24

sofa; Esch, kopp, Lenroot, Morse,
Dawson and Nelson, of Wiscon-
sin: Hanna, lIelgesen, of North
Dakota; Hubbard, Rees, Murdock,
Madison and Young, of Kansas;
Kent and Stephens, of California;
kinkaid, Norris, Sloan, of Ne
braska: and LaFollette and War
burton, of Washington.
The Penrose resolution to fix the
time of adjournment did not prove
entirely pleasing to some OF the
progressive senator's like Mr.. Bris-
tow of Kansas, who said that he
would oppose an adjournment be-
fore any of the legislation now
pending before congress had been
acted upon. Senator Cummins in
dicated that some of us'' are op
posed to adjournment, and in re-
ply to an inquiry by the leader
from Pennsylvania, as to who was
meant by some of u.s. the Iowan
said that he would leave it to the
fertile imagination of the senator
from Pennsylvania" to decide who
was meant. However. it did not
require very "fertile' brain to
distinguish that group of pro-
gressives of the Senate were the
ones referred to by the senator
from Iowa.
1t may be that William Jennings
Bryan is dead one," but there
are not many people in Washing
ton who believe it. Following his
controversy with Chairman Under
wood of the Ways and Means COM
mittee, Mr.. Bryan gave out short
statement in which he denounced
the secret caucus" and he wanted
to know "why should the demo-
cratic members submit to the Sc
cret caucus?" After making a few
apparently harmless remarks, Mr..
Bryan concluded with these words,
IF you are opposed to it, write
your member of congress and urge
him to protest against it," And
then the deluge began to pour in
by way of correspondence to the
desks of the self-same members
who applauded so vigorously at
the recent outburst of Chairman
Underwood.
1t has been suggested in view of
the questions raised in the election
of Senator Stephenson of Wiscon-
sin, that the question of the elec-
ton of senators by direct vote of
the people is being placed on trial.
The great expenditures made by
Senator Stephenson were not in
securing his election by the legis-
lature but in making a campaign
for the votes cast at the polls by
the electors of the state. While
of course it appears upon the face
of the matter that Senator Steph-
enson spent an enormous sum OF
money in securing his election,
vet most people seem to lose sight
of the fact that this was not done
in the ordinary sense of control
ling legislature but in making a
state e-wide campaign which was
carried to the hamlets and cross
: roads. The aged Wisconsin sen.
ator has refused to discuss the in.
} vestigation. The only comment
= that be has made and that has
e come from some of his friends
, has been to the effect that it cos
: him many times more to elect Sen
a ator LaFollette than himself.
e The Alaskan delegate, Wicker
S sham, just before plunging int
e the wilderness of his own country
e sent message from Seattle wher
d he stopped enroute, saying tina
IS Colonel Roosevelt and Giffor'
is Pinchot are radically wrong an
e so is the president, and in conse
is quence Alaska is being crushed
t. He then proceeded to discuss th
l. leasing bill proposed by the chair
re man of the House committee, t
ic find the price to be paid for COZ
A. mines in Alaska. Mr.. Wicker