The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-05-04
A Disgraceful Record.

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Although Congress has been in
session since December 4 last, only
one bill of any Importance has
passed both houses and become a
Jaw. This one piece OF legislation is
the Child Welfare Bureau Bill, which
creates a bureau in the Department
of Commerce and Labor and carries
an appropriation of $4,000 for its
first years maintenance.
AS this Congress is regarded as a
Democratic body by a Of the
large working majority that party
controls in it, the record that it has
made is something to put all Dem
ocrats to blush. While the Demo-
Gratis have been buslly and intention
ally engaged in trying to manufac-
ture campaign material in the Con
gress, they have, by their default,
made up n Of the worst political
boomerangs that possibly could be
planned. They have played politics
to the utter disregard of the welfare
of their country and the wishes Of
their constituents. Even the single
law of Importance that was enacted
encountered strong Democratic OPP
position and would not have been
passed had not Republican friends
OF the measure voted IN favor OF 1t.
The opposition has been especially
impressed upon West virginians in
view of the adverse votes Of the
Democratic senator's from this state
upon the bill.
The Democrats have made them
selves ridiculous by framing bills
which they knew had no chance of
either passing the Senate or es-
Gaping the presidential veto. The
Democrats in the House of Repre-
~sentatives have completed their
c~razy-quilt tariff program and have
absolutely nothing to their credit.
They have passed up a guess work
steel schedule. which reduces the
tariff on metals approximately thirty
per cent. The chemical schedule
and the wooden schedule, providing
for haphazard reductions have also
been passed over to the Senate. AS
these bills were framed Tor the pur-
pose of mourning opposition in such
a manner as o make supposed cam
paign arguments, 1t is no wonder
they have been delayed.
The House passed the Sherwood
pension bin early in the session. Ac-
cording to- its sponsors this bill
would cost about twice that
900. 600 per annum in pensions to
old soldiers. It's enemies say it
would cost about twice twice that
that much. The Senate has taken
no action on the Sherwood bill, but
it has passed the McCumber BILL,
which carries about twenty-five per
cent Of the House bill, and the con-
ferees are hopelessly deadlocked.
Senate and House have passed
bills providing for the direct cleo
ton of United States senators. Con-
ferees met sixteen times without
coming to a compromise on the op-
Grafton OF this proposed measure.
Last week the Senate c~onferees re-
ported that it was impossible to
agree with the House ~conferees. The
House insisted that the election
should be controlled by the states,
while senators insisted that the fed
eral government should maintain
control. Chairman Rucker, of the
House committee, has announced
that his committee viii accede to
the demands of the Senate. But,
action has been deleyed in the
House because of the desire of
southern members, WHO are OPP
posed to the Senate plan. to voice
their opinion on the proposed bill,
and so it goes.
The big argument concerning
these delayed measures that is to be
put up by the Democrats is that they