The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-20
HOUSE is FOR
BETTER ROADS
Appointing Committee to RandI0
Ali Bills.
FEDERAL AID IS POSSIBLE.

| Figures In the Movement - Senti-
ment For Improvement of Highways
Is Increasing In Congress Each Year.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
| Washington, May ET.-tSpecial.l-A
good roads movement which means
! business has been started in the house.
, Congressman Henry of Texas has re-
,, ported his resolution for a committee
on roads and has no doubt about its
adoption. The ways and means COM
. Elittee, which is making up the list of
house committees. is tentatively max
Ing a roads committee, which will have
charge of all measures relating to
)roads. 1t is expected that Dorsey w.
Shackleford of Missouri will be chair
man of the new committee.
1t was Shackleford who proposed the
amendment to the postofice bill in the
| first session of the last congress, which
| looked like real government aid for
roads. For this service he was called
Dirt Road Shack" by those who op-
posed the movement. But that did not
hurt him in his district.
What the Committee Means.
The creation of this new committee
will mean that the twenty-five or thir-
ty road and highway bills that have
been introduced and sent to the post
office committee the interstate COM
mittee, the agriculture committee and
several other committees will all be
referred to the roads committee with
a view of working out a bill which
will mean federal aid to roads in the
most practical manner. The road SEN
timent in congress is growing stronger
every year.
A knotty Problem.
For more than six months the su-
preme court has had before it the
BarnhartBourne law relating to news
papers and periodicals and at this
writing has not been able to solve the
problem. 1t must be a knotty ques-
ton that puzzles such eminent jurists
so long. The question is whether con-
gress can compel publishers to make
statements in reference to their owner
ship and be compelled to label reading
matter advertisements as such before
they are allowed second class mail
rights. The law was intended to get
at the ownership and control Of publ
cations and to prevent "veiled adver-
tising" under the guise of reading mat
ter.
Murdock's Difficulties.
II can't find places for all my fel-
lows" complained Minority Leader
Murdoch of the Progressive party. He
referred to committee places. There
are nineteen members of the third par
ty and only about a dozen committee
places of any account. Some Of them
must be left, and each one thinks he
is just as important as the other. And
that is the trouble which a minority
leader with committee places to dis
tribute always encounters.
Interested In Underwood.
When the Englishmen and Canadians
were in Washington on the peace mis-
sion they went to the capitol and met
Speaker Clark. 1t so happened that
Chairman Underwood was in the
room, and they really showed more In
terest in the man who made the tariff
bill than in the speaker. 81 hope your
bill becomes a law" remarked several
Of the foreigners to the Alabama man.
Judges and Their Time.
When the house was considering a
bill for an additional district judge In
| DanDSuluoDio ooncidopobIo onnocition
developed. "There are ninety-elght
district judges in the country" said
Hamlin of Missouri, "and fully half of
them do not work over half the time"
you could dispense with twenty
five of them," said Donayan Of Con-
necticut "and still have enough to per-
form all the duties"
But the bill for the additional judge
was passed just the same,
Experience of a Watchdog.
Congressman Flood was putting q
resolution relating to an international
conference and Watchdog Mann was
asking questions as to money from the
treasury.
There is absolutely no appropriation
provided for In this resolution" said
| Flood.
"Well," replied Mann, 81 have heard
things like that before and the gentle
man had his fingers crossed when he
answered. The trouble is that it's like
ly to come back from the senate with
an appropriation and the gentleman
will yield"
Both Flood and Fitzgerald, who have
charge of the appropriations, assured
Mann that he need have no fears this
time.
GouIden's Peanuts.
]. Hampton Moore Of Philadelphia
was tallkiRg tariff, particularly about