The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-09-11
MISS. congressman
WILL SPEAK ON
CURRENCY
HARRISON, wirHERsPooN, col.
LlER, QUINN AND sIssoN TO
DISCUSS BILL IN HOUSE.
SENATOR WILLIAMS GOOD WORK
If He Plays as important Part in Cur
rency Legislation as he did the Tariff
He viii Have Credit For Steering
Two Most important Measures.
SENATOR WILLIAMS GOOD WORK

Special Correspondence to The News.
Washington, Sept. 11.-At least ave
members of the Mississippi delegation
to the lower house of Congress will
speak on the Glass-Owen currency
bill.
The Mississippi representatives who
have announced they will address the
the house on the currency bill are
representatives Harrison, Wither-
spoon, Collier, Sisson and Quinn. Had
not the strain of the long summer ses-
sion worn on the nerves of Congress
man Chandler to such an extent that
he has been all but incapacitated for
the past three weeks, he too would
/ have addressed the house on this bill,
especially as regards its significance
| to agriculture. AS it is, Representa-
tive Witherspoon expects to make the
agricultural features of the bill the
center of his remarks.
The other four Mississippi congress
men who will speak will attempt a
general exclamation of the objects and
methods of the proposed Law and as
all of them played a somewhat impor-
tant part in the caucus proceedings,
their speeches are looked forward to
with considerable interest -
The Senate committee is now begin
ming long grind on the currency bilL
and while the lower house is expected
to finish its work within three or four
weeks, the Senate will probably be in
session almost if not quite until the
beginning of the regular session in
December. -
If John Sharp Williams plays as ina
portant part in the currency legisla-
ton as he did in the tariff, he may
=. take to himself the credit for steering
| through the upper house the two most
, important Democratic measures that
. have been passed in a number Of
decades. For while Senator Kern is
the nominal majority leader In the
Senate and Senator Simmons, as chair
man of the Finance committee, intro
duced the bill. the brunt of the tariH
1 fight has been borne by Senator Will
q liams. He has been at his post al
most every minute during the long
J.. sessions and has been on his feet in
q stantly challenging any misleading
! statement of a member OF the opposi-
tion. He has not made a set speech;
| he neved has made a set speech in
:. either house of Congress; but he has
!. never let an opportunity pass TO chal-
!. lenge the fallacy of a republican argu-
!. ment or to hasten the passage of the
/. bill. And, disguntingly slow as has
n >een the Senate's action. the bill
would still be several weeks from anal
consideration but for the untiring ef-
forts of Mississippi's Senior Senator.
Some of the members of the lower
a house believe that body viii ger
IT through with the currency bill within
al three weeks and will recess, three
" days at a time. allowing the members
e. an opportunity to go home, build III
s, their political fences and take long
III needed rest If all the delegations d.
la as much speech-making on the bill a
n the members Of the Mississippi delegs
.c- ton propose doing, 1t is difficult Z
he understand just how the bin can b
IA finished up in three weeks. Bct II
probable that the ffve-minute rule vi
be enforced and that many of th
= members viii content themselves wit
. having their remarks extended In h
. record
. Whatever effect Representative 81
. sons speech on the japanese questic
. may have had In Mississippi hi
\ . evidently pleased the CAlifornians I
= = siding in Washington, for Mr.. Siss'
s = is to be the chief orator at the speci
l. . meeting of the California State
s . ciety here to celebrate the sixty-thi
It = anniversary of the admission Of ca
It . fornia to the Union. Mr.. Sisson
1. . also booked to address the, United