The Forrest City times., 1912-03-01
Hundreds of Old and Infirm G0v-
 ernment Employees.
PLAN IS WARMLY OPPOSED
Hard Fight Certain Before Any Re- tIrement La" Is Passed by Con- sress-Filieuster of James Burke
 In 1778 Recalled.
By GEORGE CLINTON.

will enable them when they have grown old in the service to retire oh pensions. There Is good deal ot opposition in congress to any scheme Tor civil pensions. but England has old age pensions and civil pensions ot kind which recently seems tO have appealed to many of the American lawmakers, and it is predicted freely In Washington that before many years he government employees viii ta the age retirement matter be put on footing with the army and navy.
 There are some hundreds of men. and women, too. in Washington who would be eligible for civil pensions II the law were 10 be enacted. In the daily procession to the departments at the hour for beginning work there are many men and women moving along .aboriously on crutehes. Hundreds of others need canes to aid the haitlng steps and hundreds of others who need them get along without them, fearing that the use of them would De an open confession of weakness.
 Wo Sides to the Question.
 There is plan to retire every man -ld woman who has reached the age of seventy years. II this bill shouiC become law some of these men and women who have reached the Psalm .stss allotted span Of life will not have to take the trail that leads from Cap ttol Hill to the poor house.
 There are two sides to this civil pension question. There are men who say that there is no reason why the government employees should not nave saved enough to provide against old age just as other men and women are compelled to take care against the future. The other side ot II Is that the cost of living is very high in Wash ington and that government pay Is none too generous. One thing $ to be taken for granted. there Will be hard fight before any eivil pension law Is passed by congress
 Roosevelt and the Murchie Baby.
 The United States marshal for the district of Massachusetts IS Guy Murchie, a Harvard man, who was sergeant in Roosevelt's regiment of Rough Riders. Marshal Murehie l. well known in Washington and the city heard not long ago with sorrow of the death of Mrs Murchie. the marshals wife. There are four chil. dren in the Murchie family. all under six years of age.
 When Theodore Roosevelt was pres fdent he paid a visit to Harvard uni Versity, where his son was to join a club to which his father had belonged before him and was to join il with certain ceremonies in which the grad. uate members were to take part. The president also was to make a speech to the Harvard students and the time allotted for his Boston and Cambridge visit was so brief that everything he was to do was timed and tabuIated and there were to be Ho interruptions to the program.
 The president reached Boston and Just after the mayor and the governor had greeted him and the presidential thought was turning to the next affair on the program. MT. Roosevelt re eeiyed a message. Instantly he en- tered carriage and was Whirled away to a Mount Vernon street residence. It was the home of Guy Murchie and in the parlor of the home were Mr. and Mrs. Murchie, number of friends and relatives and Bishop Lawrence of the Episcopal church. There was also a baby. and the possible future Rough Rider was to be baptized
 It was the news of the baptism that took President Roosevelt to the Murchie home and there, good Dutch Reformed churchman that he is. he stood godfather and did promise and vow three things" in the name of the babe at the font. a good Episcopalian babe and the grandchild of one of the greatest clergymen that the Episcopal church has held fin it's communion. Dr F Winchester Donald. who died some time ago and who was chosen unani. mously as a successor to Philips Brooks by the people Of Trinity church. Boston. Mrs Mu-chie was a daughter of pr Donald.
 FIIibuster Of Long keo.
 The other day in the honsa Of representatives there was a hihuster ou the passage of the steel tariff bill The Republicans hel1 that there sas too much haste in cnactine the legislation and they tried hy ev- efy bueVn parliamentary means and bY some which perhaps were not p,r. lameutarv. To secure a prolougipe of Che debate The HeuoCFata during Inc attemlfe ftb4sfe1 called attention ,o The faet that when the ReHablfes,s ~.re in the majority in fhe house ttoy would eut oG debate by ths Bo7,.r which HHm bsrs gave them and thaf today they lad uo riehUal cause to object to being done by as thev lad lone bf others
 A fellow correspondent uho Is los sesset of some ancient feeords insists that 'the same thines happens over