Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-01
Washington Letter
Washington, D. c.. October q
THE WAYS OF-CoNGREssMEN

Der- lie re1erS TO the currency
legislation and adds that he is willing
tostake his legislative Judgment ''for
all time to come on the proposition
that the currency bill will not be re-
ported, as the President says, the
first week in November, and that it
will be passed in the Senate within
three weeks thereafter" The alb
sence of quorum in the House has
been disturbing Mr.. Mann more than
anything else, while in the Senate
there was a near-riot the other day
when Senators Borah, Cumnins, La
I gillette, Chamberlain, Hern and
Ashurst united in a demand that
every power of the Senate be used to
bring absentees back to Washington.
The Senate found it difficult. for sew
al days to conduct business because
nearly one-half of its membership
was out of the city. In the House of
Representatives there appears to
have been found. and its leaders have
been demonstrating vigorously.
LA FoLLETrE's GREAT SPEECH
Senator La Toilette having spent a
large part of his endeavor in the past
twenty years in regulating the rail-
roads of the country, has now turned
his attention to that other great
avenue of travel, the high seas, and
he made a splendid fight = the
Characteristic La Toilette kind, for
his substitute bill providing the
standard of efficiency for seamen, in
which they are to be designated as
liable seamen." The Senator defines
an able seaman as tone who is not
under nineteen years of age and who
has had three years experience on
He calls attention to the fact that
the bill reported to the Committee
required six men in crew to be
table seamen.'' ssIf legislation of
that character be enacted" he de-
clared,- ssit will not be creditable to
the Congress of the United States. !"
In answer to question by Senator
Cummins, Mr.. La Toilette stated;
Perhaps it will help to an under
standing of the question to re-
fer to the Titanic. The Titanic had
2, POI people on board. OF that num-
ber 885 were crew. She had fourteen
life boats. She had some life RATS
and some collapsible life boats. These
were not standard life boats. She
had only fourteen life boats, each
capable of carrying sixth-five people"
In his speech he maintained that the
ship owners and the steamship COM
panies have been defeating legislation
providing better safety at sea because
of the added expense that would be
entailed. and he insisted that the
time had come for action by the Con-
gress of the United States. His
speech was counted as one of the
greatest contributions to debate in
the present session of Congress.
MRS. PANKHURST
Mrs. Pankhurst found a good friend
in President Wilson, who dismissed
all legal technicallities and admitted
her to our shores. However, the fa-
nous militant has been having poor
luck in commercalizing her notoriety
as American audiences have not re-
sponded any too freely to invitations
to hear her talk.
MASSACHUSETTS AND NEW JERSEY
1t is announced that Secretary
Bryan and Senator Ollie James as
representatives of the national Ad-
ministration, will lead the spell bind
ers who will go into the New jersey
campaign. All the Democratic, Re-
publican and Progressive party COM
mittees are actively engaged in. the
New Jersey and Massachusetts fight
and have selected some of their best
orators to go into these states.
SUGGESTS ABoLIsHING THE MONROE
DOCTRINE
There is no editor in the United
States capable of stirring up more
than Colonel Henry
Waterson, the distinguished gentle
man who presides over the destinies
of the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Colonel Waterson warmly defended
Colonel Harvey of Harper's Weekly,
whose support was displeasing to Mr..
Wilson before the Baltimore Conven-
tion Mr. Waterson has discovered
that the time-honored Monroe Doc
trine is mo longer useful" sit
would seem to be a good time for
fishing the Monroe Doctrine out of
the closet of old clothes,n says Mr..
Waterson, taking long, last look