The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-27
Doubt as to Date Of Adjournment
Of Congress.
SITUATION is. MOST CURIOUS
TWO Houses May Get Into Deadlock
Over Tariff Le9islatlon- Congress
Asked to Mark Dade's Massa-
ore Battlefield.
Rx GEoRGE cLlNIoN.

say that the session Will last until
September. st rs.
The situation is q most curious one;
the house being Democratic by large
majority can put through such tariff
legislation as 1t desires, and put it
through quickly, but over In the SEN
ate there are two parties and two
factions in each. The Progressive Re
publicans in the senate want down
ward revision, but they do not want
such downward revision as the Demo
Gratis of the house have proposed, for
the Progressives think that it is too
extreme The regular Republicans in
the senate are willing to cut the
schedules a little, but not as much as
their Progressive brethren would like
them to be cut, nor anything like as
much as the Democratic majority Of
the house would like to have them
cut. - - l..
If the Progressive Republicans Of
the senate and the Democrats Of the
same body get together and put
through compromise tariff bill and
get the house to sanction it, it will go
to the president Then If Mr.. Taft
shall veto the bill as some people
seem to think he will because it was
not based on the tariff boards report,
the Democrats of the house may stop
further attempts at tariff legislation
and will be content to 60 before the
country saying whats the use?" In
this ccse adjournment will come early.
If, on the other hand, the senate
shall debate some tariff bill for six
weeks or two months, as it often has.
done before reaching any conclusion
in the matter, and then should pass
bill for which they could get the
sanction of the house, and the presi-
dent should make up his mind to sign
it, the Democratic house majority will
continue it's tariff legislation endeavor
and the session may last through the
hot season until the leaves begin to
turn in the fall There are few in
stances on record in which congress,
in a presidential year, sat through the
time of the national conventions and
we'll on toward the election. -. :
May Reorganize Army. =.
It is possible that as result of the
lesson taught by the last massing Of
troops in Texas on account of tho
Mexican troubles that congress. may
sanction reorganization bill for the
army. The general staff has prepared
complete plans for reorganization ac-
cording to tactical units" When the
troops were sent into Texas last
spring the forces were gathered from
different sections of the country. The
army officers will ask congress soon
to divide the army into divisions, not
geographical divisions as at present.
but to have divisions of troops with
a major general in command stationed
as units in certain defined geograph-
ical locations. Then II it is necessary
to send division anywhere 1t can be
taken from the point nearest at hand
to the destination and it can move
with all the necessary branches Of the
service which 60 to make up the d.
vision. It is urged that this will save
money and time and greatly will in
crease efficiency. It means virtually q
complete reorganization of the pres
ent army system.
Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the
president, has become greatly inter-
ested in sociology. She is about to
begin teaching course Of FIRST aid"
work to division Of the organization
known as the Campfire Girls OF Amer
4 90 u 10 mt fnH In
ture and 1t is expected that one of the
bents of her endeavor will be.to In
terest girls In the outdoor life.
To Mark Dade's Battlefield.
Representative Sparkman of Florida
has reintroduced in the house a bill
which he drew and introduced hvo
years ago, asking that the government
make provision for the marking and
protection of "Dade's Massacre" bat
tlef1eld in Sumpter county, Florida,
and for the erection of monument
thereon
Major Francis L. Dade with his sub
ordinate ohicers and enlisted men, in
the year 1885, met the fate at the
hands Of the Seminoles that Custer and
his men forty-one years afterWard met
at the hands of the Sioux. There are
few people apparently who ever heard
of Dade and what befell him and his
men.
At the beginning of what is known
as Filtration Walk at West Point
there rises plain white marble shaft,
: It has stood there for half q century,
and very likely longer. It bears an in
scription which tells the reader that
1T was erected IN memory Of Major
Francis i. Dade and the members Of
his command. 4. .s9 IS 8
The enlisted men who do duty as
policemen at West Point will tell you
that not one visitor in hundred
knows anything about Dade's mas
sacre., The oldest army officers to
day will tell you, however. that Dade's
massacre was as well known and az.
well remembered half century axo
AZ the Custer massacre 10 known and
remembered today.
MUSIC TREAT { FOR MINISTER
Reverend Gentleman Was ii Some,
thing of i Hurry, But Couldn't BE
Allowed 80 Miss This. 81
SO glad to see you." said Mrs.. Dul1
lard to Rev. a. Alexander Chopin.Fu.
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