Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-12-07

schools. and fhs resolution for con
stitutional amendment limiting q
President 70 single term Of six
years. These measures have all been
debated before both houses. and have
reached the point where action of
some kind upon them is expected.
Another Billion Dollars
The annual estimates for the APP
preparations were sent to the House
at noon today The estimates as
made up by the Secretary OF the
Treasury win make this another bill
lion dollar congress.
Through the Treasury the various
government establishments ask $s2S,-
415.45514 for the conduct of Uncle
Sans business during 1914. This
estimate is exclusive OF the approp-
ration for the Postal service which
will amount to s275,o0e.000 addition
al but which is practically earned by
the revenues Of the Post Office de-
partment.
a sub committee of the House ap.
preparations committee has complet-
ed the first Appropriation bin and it
was passed upon by the full commit
tee today. This measure carries APP
preparations for salaries in the leg
islative, executive and judicial bran
ches of the government Commit
tees have also been at work on other
measures, and a string of appropri-
alton bills viii be poured into the
House during the next few weeks.
sever Nsw inquiries
Activity in the Senate usually is
limited until the House has complet-
ed some of the appropriation meas
ures, but this year the impeachment
trial of Judge Archibald will engross
the Senate from the beginning of the
session.
Several new inquiries are in pros
pect in the House for the short SEES
sion. The Judiciary committee viii
begin an inquiry into antitrust prob
lens about Christmas time, with the
hope that some amendments to the
antitrust law can be recommended
before Congress adjourns. Either
the judiciary committee or the mon
ely trust" committee will also be ask
ed, it is believed, to investigate the
New England railroad situation, to
determine what relations, If any, exist
between the Grand Trunk and the
wi ~ fpt
railroads.
The money trust" investigation is
to continue this month, and an effort
will be made to obtain at least a par
tial report before the session ends.
Many other Investigations, inciikiing
that into the so-called shipping
trust" and into the awarding of CON
tracts for army and navy shoes must
be concluded before March 4.
Senators would not venture opin-
ions as to the outcome of the strug-
gle in that body over the selection
of a presiding officer. Since the
death of Senator Frye, President pro
tempore, the Senate has been unable
to elect a successor. The Progress
siyes refused to vote either for the
Republican candidate, Senator Gillin-
ger, or for the Democratic candidate,
Senator Bacon, and these two men
have acted alternately by unanimous
consent.
Passing of "oId Guard"
The end of the siXty-second Con-
gress means the passing of many of
the "Old Guards" who for years have
shaped National Legislature at the
capital of the United States.
This is especially true OF the House,
where political changes are more fire.
quent and where a man to hold on is
required to placate a constituency
every two years.
The Democratic landslide of No
vember removed practically the last
vestige of the old timers In the lower
body of Congress. Heading the list
of those whose faces will be missed
when the gavel calls TO order the ex-
ira session Of the Sixty-third Congress
is Uncle Joe" Cannon, OF Illinois,
former Speaker. former GEAR" and
veteran of more than a third OF a
century's service in the national
House Of Representative
Uncle joe" who is now in ills
seventy-seyenth year. died game" il
such term may be applied to polit-
ical misfortune Until the ballots
were counted against him the Sage
of Danville asked no quarter and
gave none. Neither does he ask
sympathy now in the hour of defeat
but there is a note of pathos running
through the undoing Of this powerful
warrior of other days.
Uncle Joe" asked merely the priv
elegt OF dying in harness. As a mem
Der of a hopeless minority he could
have done no harm TO TIE "prosres
siveism" OF later days y return 20
Congress probably would have round
cd out life largely spent in the pub
lie serviee-but the voters of the
Eighteenth Illinois Congressional
district willed otherwise and he quits