The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-03-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.

and Congress win 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 President
will be busy on March 4th, afixing his
signature to the delayed bills. Congress
is working frantically in order to finish
things before twelve O'Clock March 4th.
Men. legislators. Statesmen. making laws
for the greatest nation of the world,
fritter the early days Of the session most
irivolonsly and then do hurry-scurry work
in final fleeting minutes So ii has l,sen,
so it is, so it will be-
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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 Cana
dian government. Much of the time Of
Congress has already been taken up
listening to the selfish plaintsxof isolated
interests that have so long been favored
that they imagine themselves the people
and the nation. They are active and
loud and like scant brigade marching
around hill, by their activity and noise
make an impression upon one.sided
onlooker of the whole army. They have
their representatives in both house of
Congress. too. though some of them will
not stay, much longer. Bellweather Aid
rich is at southern resort having. as he
says, the time Of his life, and Bellweather
Hale-o of Maine has just seven days more.
but be is playing his role of obstructionist
and will play it till the curtain falls
There will be no encores as far as be is
concerned. After he is out Of The Senate
bis 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 occu-
pied the past week by impressionsble
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 and ex-
planned how his success in politics and
his election 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 Senatar Aldrich was his
belIweather and that he always voted the
way he did It 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 edifying TO stalwart doubters.
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The Japanese war scare will not down.
Representative Hobson parades it in the
House and says there will be war with
that country in ten months or long be-
tore the completion of the Panama Canal.
II seems that our treaty with that
country Of 1894 is about to expire and
that the President has submitted to the
Senate the text Of q new treaty with
Japan. Protests from California against
this treaty are coming in. 1t appears
that the exclusion clause preventing the
importation of Japanese 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-i labor bestridden
city in the hemisphere. if not in the
world. Two years ago it came near dis
rupting our peaceful relations 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
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The c ief signal officer of the army,
General All n, 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
10 the art, and now has feet of more
than thirty fiiers manned by thorougly
trained aviators It has appropriated one
hundred million francs for improvements
Ia military aviation. As many as seven
types of aeroplanes are used in the French
equipment. Besides there are hundred.
Of aeroplanes owned by private individ.
uals and should the time come fol
military operations, the Preach army
would be strengthened by the skilled
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