The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-03-07
WASHINGTON NEWS
EXCHANGE Letter

Washington D. c. Mar. 6, 1913.
THE Wilson administration will
disregard the killing Of President
Madero, and take no further steps
toward intervention in Wexico. Mr..
Wilson does not consider it the duty
of the United States to become in
volved so long as Americans are
protected; but he has announcedhis
intent to act promptly if Americans
are killed. 1t is generally agreed
that one Of the very first problems
to confront Mr.. Wilson will be the
necessity of doing something to
bring about the cessation Of trouble
in that country, and in this he will
probably have the advice and counsel
Of the Taft cabinet. In Official
circles there is feeling Of grave
anxiety. More than ten thousand
of our troops are being massed along
the Mexican border so that, if the
new administration should decide
upon drastic measures, they will be
ready for immediate service.
Another antitrust suit has been
brought by the Attorney General.
This time, at Chicago, against the
labor trust" The Government !
asks that two unions Of electrical
workers be restrained from obstruet-
ing interstate and government tele-
grams by destroying telegraph lines
and intimidating employees.
A pretty row has been stirred up
by merchants, hotel keepers and
liverymen by their attempt oincrease
prices here during Inauguration week.
So bad has the situation become
the House has passed a bill
those raising prices. Mr.
Johnson, Of Kentucky, cites Lead
ing hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue
where the parade passes, which
has increased its rates from three
dollars to fifty A day for rooms
facing the Avenue. Congressman
Humphrey, Of Washington, says
that at the last Inauguration his
friends were compelled to pay from
to one hundred dollars a
day for adequate accommodations,
1t is stated that, despite its
pledges of ec)n)ny, this Cong
ress appropriated 500, ,ooo,o 900
more than any previous one. The
pension bill alone carries $500, 900,
OOO., the rivers and harbors bill
carries thirty or forty millions more
than ever before, and the public
buildings bili overloaded with ap-
for vast number OF
unnecessary public buildings scatter
ed over the country. Nearly every |
one seems to be in the grab game
for all he can get for his state and
district. 1t seems understood that
no one shall object so long as his
own pet measure is allowed to 60
through except in case OF the
National Capital where economy Is
painfully concentrated.
Democratic Senators and Members
are swamped with applications for
office. One prominent Senator
thinks every man, woman and child
in the country is looking for govern-
ment job.
Senator Elihu Root has broken
Into the lime light as opposing equal
suffrage. Mrs. Owen Kildare,
social worker and author of note, de-
clares Mr.. Root wrong in assuming
that women want to take mems
work. "There is place in the
councils of government" she says
where woman's voice is especially
necessary, and there are functions
of government for which woman's
nature is especially adapted. This
place and these functions woman
will find, upon receiving her right
of suffrage, and to them she will
devote herself, leaving to man those
things which in their nature are
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