Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-09-04
OUR WASHINGTON
 CORRESPONDENCE
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in the Underwood Bill.
 Says Washington is a Summer Re-
 sort"
 The wife of Missouri Congressman, Mrs. Borland, declares that the Wash ington climate in summer is ideal, and that the Representative and Senators who have been working upon the sym pathies of the country because they have been kept here almost constantly, are bogus martyrs.
 Sailors Ought to be Able to Swim
 Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin B. Roosevelt is encouraging the men of the navy to become web foted sailors, not many of the 'jackies' have ever learned to swim.
 stuffing the Congressional Record
 Congressman Mondell of Wyoming recently raised a very interesting point in connection with the editing of the Congressional Record. Time and again there have been complaints be- cause of the insertion of proparenthet- ical notes such as laughter" laugh ter and applause" prolonged applau- se," etc. Mondell comes from a suf- rage state and his particular complaint is that Representative Hefflin's atti- tude in opposing woman's suffrage pro- voked Hong and continuous applause on the Democratic side," but when the Record was made up there was no ref erence to the demonstration in the House. Mr. Murdock, the Progressive leader, substantiated Mondell and said that there was general hilarity 0n the Democratic side" to which there was no reference in the Record. The point raised in the House is that it is no worse to manufacture Congressional enthusiasm than it is to suppress it. President Wilson and the Mexican
 Policy
 The new diplomacy of moral suasion is being put to most severe test in Mexico, and though it has apparently lacked in it's convincing power, yet it is urged that the reason is due to the present lack of organized constitutions al government in our neighbOTing re- public. In Washington, every member of the two Houses of Congress are pat upheld the position of the President with no suggestion of party division. However, since the failure of the Lind mission, the old time statesmen who believe in the old time plan of physical force have again on.er- ged from cover and are expressing themselves strongly. President Will son in his appearance before Congress produced more thrills than have been noticed since the days when Colonel Roosevelt pulled off his spectacular performances. While there is plenty of difference in opinion as to tlie val ue of the peace policy, still it's most severe critics hope for it's success.
 Lower House to Tackle Currency
 The House of Repres antatiyes has been marking time for several moaths, out with the currency measure HOW on the calendar, those Congressmen who nave long been suffering from enforced silence can work off their accumula- | ion of speeches, and thereby demon ;trate to the country and to their con, just what they know about | he financial problem. Democratic i which have been ir charge of | Leader Underwood for the past three | years, have always been able to set hings down to a fine point, and when my legislation like the currency bill | emerge from the secret chamber, only he formal ratification is left for the House of Representatives The tariff Jill is practically finished in the Sen -te, and it is expected that the House till hand over the currency bill in emarkably short time. The Under wood tariff bill was befora the House f Representative only one month in- luding in this the time it was consid- red in caucus.
 While the Mexican situation, the tar if, the currency problem, and other ,reat public questions have seemingly the attention of what Sen tor Lodge terms a "tlreG out Con- ,ress," it is not to be forgotten that Washington is the home of the famous Walter Johnson, the greatest baseball 'itcher in the country; and there are ,lenty of dull moments during which he President, Members of Congress md other safe guards of the nations welfare, root at the great American anne Washington is baseball mad
 Confabs and discussions about re- hitting the Republican party, have 'een revived, only to receive the em- ,hatic disapproval of Colonel Roose- cit and his fellow Progressives, who