Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-09-06
WOES OF
MINORITY LEADER
mann IN CONGRESS
Points Out Fallacies of Bark
ing" Statement Issued by
Republican Whip.
SHOWS BUDGET REDUCED.
Gives Anecdotes of Various Rep
resentatives- Opportunities
Want Young Men.
SHOWS BUDGET REDUCED


correspondent for the
Louisville C0urier-JOurnal, probably
the best known Democratic newspaper
in the United States. The STANDARD
thus becomes the only newspaper pub
Iisiel I'm Olympia and the only Demo-
cratic newspaper In the entire state
with it's own Washington correspond
ent and believes the articles will be Of
interest to its rapidly grow
ing circle Of readers.D
By Austin Cunningham.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. GA
full "a hours after the second session
of the 62d Congress had adjourned
without day, Representative James r.
Mann, minority leader of the house.
saw that the newspaper boys" con-
Eected with a little typewriter reci-
tation, marked from James r. Mann" l"
in which observations to the effect
that the late session of Congress had
been, among other things, "inef6cient,
unprogressive, inactive.
silly, stingy and extravagant" were
made.
There used to be setter dog on a
home place not far from the capitol
grounds that barked when it was an
CRY. barked when it was happy, barked
when 1t was apathetic, barked when 1t
was whipped, barked when it was fed.
and even barked when coiled up on the
front porch apparently asleep and
As the spokesman for q greatly d.
Republican representation in
the lower branch of Congress, Jim"
Mann has considered it his duty to
bark" on all occasions. Whatever
was done or accomplished by the house
would be identified as the work OF the
Democratic majority. and it has been
up to Mr.. Mann to find fault. He has
had to bark at every proposition pre-
sented by the Democrats. and at times
he has laughed while trying to appear
serious in his captiousness.
Speaker Clark said the other day he
would have been lonesome in the
speakers chair without the continu-
GUS carpings of Mr.. Mann. The mi
nority leader has to be that way. II he
wasn't, some one more troublesome for
the majority would have to be found
for the place. Cavil, cavil, cavil all
the day long. is the. job Of the minor
ity leader.
Mr.. Mann is deserving Of and has
the utmost respect of probably every
Democrat in the house, and the refer
ence to the setter with the uncontr0l-
liable bark in this connection must be
pardoned. There are people who have
watched Mr.. Mann perform from the
house galleries who have gone away
him q malapert, and to tell
the truth, this same Jim Mann, with
his ever ready adverse criticism for
the doings Of the Democrats. gets on
the nerves of those who know what he
is there for.
Therefore, when he cried through
the public prints in the same breath.
that 'the Democratic boasts of econ.
omy made at the beginning of the ses.
sion went by the boards" and that the
Democrats have been ''stingy," all
those who know the onerous task OF
Mr. Jeems smiled broadly.
1.-THE Panama canal bill was the
only important bill passed" says Mr.
Mann. "and helped frame that bill In
a previous Congress" And again
''The Democrats have been unprogres
sive." Mr.. Mann knows the Demo
Gratis wrote, revised, edited and con
structed in every way that important
measure; and in charging the want
of progressiveness in the acts of the
Democrats, Mr.. Standpatter Mann
adroitly avoided q reference to the per
sistent efforts of the majority to enact
laws materially revising downward
the most obnoxious and burdensome
schedules of the Payne-Aldrich tariff
He knows. furthermore, that this re
cent session would have greatly re
lieved the consumers throughout the
land, in an age of high prices for or
binary household supplies, but for the
dexterity with which q smiling but
confirmed high-protectionist president
welded the vste-axe. No mention. un
der the classification important
measures" is made by Mr.. Mann ol
the decidedly progressive steel and
metal tariff bill, or of the wool bill
measures that were forced by the
fighting Democrats along the road tG
enactment, through q mixed senate
to the desk of an obstructing presi
dent. These measures we're passed
through and in spite of q quasi-Repub
lican senate. And they were vetoed
because they did not afford protec
tion. after all that has been disclosed
about the steel trust, harvester trust
and the w0olen trust.
And as to economy, which Mr.. ManT
says was not practiced. let Chairman
Fitzgerald of the house appropriations
committee supply few figures. Says
Mr.. Fitzgerald:
1.-THE estimates Of appropriations fol
support of the government submitted
by the executive (Mr. Mann's presi
dent) to this session of Congress
amount in all to $1,040.64S.026. The
appropriations made at this session ol
Congress amount to $1,019,636,143. The
latter sum is a reduction Of $21, oil,
882 under the estimates and $7,046, ,73&
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