The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-02-27
Next Administrator Gets Had
PObIsfns.
MEAsuREsARE PASsEDOVER
Public Building Bill and Various Liquor
Bills Are Being Bsausathsd to Sue.
essdins Legislators - Prohibition
Amendment For District Of colum'
bia Fsared-Veterans In Congress.
By ARTHUR W. DUNN.

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forth something about the gentle art
Of passing the buck" applying it to a
condition that confronted people in 4
new country. Just now We may set
an effort on the part Of members OF
congress to pass the buck"
This applies to Republicans rather
than Democrats. AS far as the Re-
pubIicans are able they are passing
everything over to the new admins
tration. Every once in awhile we hear
OF some bitterly contested measure
and It is followed by the suggestion
that 1t would be well to pass it over
until after March 4.
Measures Full Of Trouble.
"Why don't they let that immigration
bill go over until Wilson is president
and the Democrats are in control?
asked wise Republican. III ! had
my way ] would put over every meas
ure with dynamite in It until the next
administration. and that includes the
immigration bill. do not know Of a
more dangerous measure"
Then there Is the public building bill,
which the president has been advised
to veto on account Of its extravaganza.
And yet that is a bill which passed the
house without a yea and nay vote he
cause one.fifth Of the membership did
not want q record vote.
The various liquor bills are among
those which Republicans think should
be held up and left to the Democrats.
The Works.Jones bill has been kept In
the house committee for nearly a year
because the committee fears that II It
is brought out a prohibition amend
mcnt for the District Of Columbia will
be attached TO It. "This house will
vote for any prohibition measure pro
posed" remarked a man who knows.
Old SOLDIERS Active.
Several years ago, about the time
\ General Gordon of Mississippi, the pic
uresuue old gentleman who was the
delight Of everybody who knew him.
came to the senate. wrote a little
story about the passing OF the old sol
der said that General Gordon was
the last man Of civil war service who
/ would be sent to the senate, but did
\ not know.
Since then they have sent Thornton
\ Of Louisiana, Works of California
Webb Of Tennessee and Catron Of New
Mexico, and perhaps some other old
\ soldier may he honored with a seat In
the senate If opportunity comes. Those
men Of the civil war seem mighty
strong and well preserved. And some
Of the best of us may go wrong In our
predictions where the personal equa'
ton cuts a big figure.
Religion and Politics.
II there is anything that members OF
congress do not like it is the injection
Of religious questions into politics. So
it was quite natural that n committee
Of the house should throw out of court
the demand of man in Pennsylvania
| that Thomas S. Butler of that state
should be removed from the house he
cause religious issues were injected
into the campaign.
The man asserted he had been dc
featcd because Butler had been pro
claimed us Quaker while he (the op'
nonenO had been proclaimed n Cath
Ollie. This was getting into deep watel
I on the religious question. and the house
promptly decided to lay the petition on
the table and stop all further action.
Butler is one Of the most popular
members OF the house. He may be OF
! Quaker ancestry, but he long ago pass
ed the "pence" stage Of Quaker train
ing. as member Of the naval COM
mfttee he Is for plenty Of big ships.
An old Friend.
An old familiar friend appeared
among the bills introduced recently. IT
was to prevent the desecration OF the
American flag, which means that the
! flag shall not be used for advertising
purposes or anything else except as an
emblem. The oldest old timers about
congress cannot remember when bill
| VI that kind has not been pending, hui
i never gets anywhere. Senator WebE
/ OF Tennessee is the author Of the latest
effort in the direction of flag preserva
ton.
Three InseparabIss.
Three men seen more frequently to-
gether than any others are Senators
Martin and Swanson and Congressman
Carlin Of Virginia. Carlln goes 10 the
senate and Is in consultation with the
senator's In the senate, in the cloak
rooms, In the marble and committee
rooms. Besides being fast friends they
have a great many political questions
to discuss.
He Could Name the Cabinet.
"Can you name the cablnet:" was n
question put 10 a man who had been
ut Trenton.
"oh, yes" he replied, 81 can name
the cabinet, but can't guarantee that
It will correspond with the one which