The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-04-29
yet reached the point where they will
arbitrarily make selections.

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One of the conditions that works a
great hardship upon representatives
in congress from the western states
Is the meager allowance made to the
members for clerical assistance and
even for office furniture and accom-
modations.
A senator may have two, three or
four and sometimes more clerks, and
as many rooms for the handling of his
work. The house member has but one
room and meager allowance for cler-
ical assistance, including a typewrit-
err desk and typewriter
| Several of the members from the
western states are SO flooded with
work that they have been compelled
to put in their rooms additional type
writer's and furniture, and employ adj
ditional clerical help at their own ex
! pense.
One of the new members who had
passed the office of Representative
French several times, noticed that
| there were two typewriters in his Of
flee and he Immediately endeavored
to obtain an extra one for his own
use Not succeeding he met Mr..
French on the floor of the house and
drawing him aside asked in most con-
fidential manner how he obtained his
extra typewriter.
Mr.. French increased the mystery
by drawing the new member still fur
Their away and then whispered into his
ear, II bought It,"
Congressman Smith is endeavoring
to have the federal buildings which
have been authorized in Idaho at Twin
Falls, Pocatello, Idaho Falls, and
Occur d'Alene and those which will
hereafter be authorized constructed of
Idaho stone. He has explained to the
treasury department officials that
there is located near Boise Idaho, an
inexhaustible supply of the finest
marble and granite.
The assistant secretary of the treas
ury, Mr.. Allen, has advised Mr.. Smith
that the department is always glad to
use local materials whenever possible
but that the specifications call for
proposals of sandstone and limestone
and that no particular quarry or sec
ton of the country can be designated. |
Mr.. Smith was assured however,
that he would be supplied with lists
of the general contractors on public |
buildings throughout the western
country to whom plans and specifica-
tons are being sent and to whom the |
local stone dealers In the state can
supply their samples and prices. Mr.
Smith has arranged to have placed on
exhibition at the treasury department |
any samples of building stone which
may be supplied by Idaho dealers.
A careful investigation made by the
correspondents Of the Philadelphia
Press, an independent paper, through
out Pennsylvania and published in
series of six articles, shows conclu-
sively according to their words, "that
Progressiveism as an independent or
ganization is waning, that Rosevelts
is steadily diminishing and |
that the general tendency of the po
litical trend is toward the Republic
can fence.
'The light of Mr. Roosevelt's per-
sonality has dimmed simultaneously |
with the flame of his cause, and polit-
ical leaders say that the coming cleo
ton will find progressiveism in the
coal mining regions but memory.
"The life of the new party is ebbing
while it's leaders are assuming an air
Of indifference. The general opinion
is that the cause has now burned too
low to be revived. Former converts
from the Republican forces, realizing
this, are steadily retreating to their
original camps, and the hope of the
is dark"