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WILSON AVOIDS
FR|LLS OF OFFICE
Warns Up to Job as Seat
Becomes Firm.
PEST or WARNING NOW OVER
Endless Advice and Attempts by 9th
ers to "Put Something Over" Before
President Took Job Have Made Him
Watchful-He Declines All Obliga-
tions Offered Him In Showers.


President Took Job Have Made Him
WatchfuI-He Declines All Obliga-
tions Offered Him In Showers.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington. March 17.-lSpecial.1-
Is he gets more firmly seated In the
presidential chair. During the time
he was waiting for the Office many
persons visited him at his home In
New Jersey, and many told him things
about Washington. about the crowd
who run things or had been running
things, about the manner in which the
common people were treated, about
the many mistakes made by his pred
ecessors, and. in fact. he was given
SO much general warning that 1t Is
Just possible the president elect was
a little wary Of the environment he
was about to enter.
At the same time he had to encoun-
ter the everlasting throng who wani
something. He had to see and listen
to the fellow who wanted to put
something over" He had to listen to
those who had accumulated sixteen
years Of grievances. Consequently he
was naturally watchful, somewhat dis
trustful and very careful In bis first
movements. both socially and polid-
cally.
Without FriIIs.
The president wants his administra-
ton to be without frills. He wants
to be under no obligations to any one
for anything. social or otherwise. He
wants none Of the little courtesi0s and
favors which are showered upon him
because he Is president. In these mat
tiers he wants to be treated just as he
would have been u few years ago when
he was Professor Wilson Of Princeton.
$ Protection of Birds.
Despite the vigorous protest Of Con-
gresham Mondell Of Wyoming. there
was enacted In the agricultural appro-
priation bill the most stringent law
for the protection of migratory birds
that the friends Of game ever expect
ed. Mondell asserted that 1t was I'M
constitutional; that it invaded the po-
lice powers of the states; that child
trapping a bird might be. hauled up
and imprisoned by federal court
In fact. he pointed out any number OF
iniquities which would follow In the
train Of such legislation.
And then they unceremoniously
pushed the steam roller over him and
accepted the amendment which had
been inserted in the senate. The cred
It for the legislation is largely due to
Senator Mclean Of Connecticut, who
has devoted much time in the two
years he has been In the senate to this
legislation.
Long Ride For Treops.
! In the office Of General Wother-
spoon. assistant chief of stan, Il
map showing the location Of the
troops Of the United States. They are
noted by pins with large heads. At
Galveston there Is quite a bunch of
these pins. Those pins represent TO-
600 men-on paper" said the general.
"And some Of the men came quite
long distances. A battalion Of one
regiment was taken from up here in
Idaho and another from up here In
Michigan. They Travelled longer dis
lance than from st. Petersburg to Par
II or from London to Rome in order
to be assembled in a regiment" The
army officers are contending for sys-
TEN which will mean more concentra-
ton Of troops and many members OF
congress sustain that position as be-
ing in the interest of economy and
efficiency in the drilling of men and
training Of officers.
Storm Signals Unheeded.
In the congress just closed more men
hung out storm signals about the big
expenditures than ever before. but very
few persons paid any attention to them.
Among those who talked economy was
Martin Dies of Texas. He is always
interesting and made very good
speech. In the course of it he said,
III you do not do something to pare
these appropriation bills we will be
known as the party which made more
promises and more appropriations than
any party which ever had a chance at
the federal government.
II do not want to 60 into the road
making business II we should ever
get bill known as the public roads
bill the pension bill. the public build
ing bill and the river and harbor bill
would be but as one hog 1Owl compar
ID to the barrel of pork which We
would then have"
Sleep In DanviIIs.
II am going home to Danville for a
month and loaf and Sleep" was the
remark which Uncle Joe Cannon made
to his friends who called to bid him
goodby. AFTER that don't know just
what will do. but will find enough
to do to keep me interested"
Free Seeds Win.
Out of the ruck Of the closing days
Of the session it was found that the
house had retained the free seeds pro-
vision in the agricultural appropriate
hill. Many men have fought the free
seed proposition. none harder than
Senator Kenyon. from the agricultural
state Of lows. but they are defeated.
II WEATHER everywhere.
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