The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-12-11
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL

On the first real working day In the
house of representatives since before
the rising Of the Harvest moon, and
before the President of the United
States had hardly returned to the
White House, the question Of the
worlds peace was taken up and ably
defended. The members of the house
expressed unmistakable sympathy
with the suggestion for a naval holt
day" The white emblematic dove
had almost concluded to make its
roost in the congressional nest, when
Lieutenant Hobson arose to warn the
country t o watch out for Germany"
Apparently Mr.. Hobson little suspect.
ed that at that very moment a meas
ure had started on it's way through
the house providing for two hundred
and forty thousand volunteers, to be
utilized in addition to the regulars and
militia in the event of hostilities. This
Measure was scheduled to pass the
house within three days, and Republi-
can Leader Mann pointed out that it
was Identical with the action by con-
gross at the beginning of the Spanish
American war, and he construed it as
the signal for trouble with Mexico.
Representative Moore of the Key
stone state threw on the calcium light
and pointed out that while it was all
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day." it would not be advantageous for
congress to commit itself in any way
that would prevent it from building
two new b~attleships.
There seems to be a difference in
opinion as to the method in which the
currency bill has been treated in the
York, declares that the criticism of
the delay in the senate is absolutely
unwarranted, and he backs up his
argument by saying that of the two
measures o before the senate, repre-
senting the views of majority and mi
nority members of the committee, that
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house measure is found in either re-
port submitted. He therefore con-
cludes that the country owes much to
the committee which insisted upon Sin
telligent elaboration" Senator Golf
of West Virginia, protests against the
charge that the republican party has
in any way been responsible for the
delay in course of legislation, and he
~denounces the action of the democrats
in forcing matters with their own
members when the country expected a
non-partisan measure.
Just because a District Of Columbia
football team met that of Virginia in
the National Capital recently, some
of the members of congress, among
whom is Representative Ben Johnson
of Kentuck, have become excited over
the highly u%proarious events of the
evening following the game" Strange
as it may SEEM, the F F.. of VS. show
ed quite as much human enthusiasm
over their encounter with the George
town team as might have taken place
down in the blue grass region or on
broad western prairies. Since congress
is investigating everything nowadays,
there is little occasion for the mem
beers to get excited over little things
like football.
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have a friend in Senator Weeks of
Massachusetts,, who has introduced a
resolution giving vessels of the United
States the monopoly in carrying gov
eminent supplies to the Panama Canal
Zone. One going from Boston to
Panama would perhaps not see any
American vessels except those engag-
ed in this very business of carrying
government supplies, or deadheading
congressman and other government
officials between New York and the
Canal.
If Rip Van Wrinkle should come to
Washington and acquaint himself with
political conditions of the present day
he would doubtless be struck by the
absence Of personal feeling between
political combatants as compared with
other days. When Senator LaFollette
cam to Washington with his Wiscon-
sin ideas, he was treated as an out
cast by the members Of the great body
to which he had been elected. In the
hous Of representatives, Representa-
tive Norris OF Nebraska, and other Gin
~surgents'' were getting the same kind
of a dose. How different it is today,
when men Like Senator Hitchcock, who
is entirely at outs with his party on
the currency question Is treated, "just
as though nothing had happened" by
his fellow democrats, whereas less
than ten years ago all fingers would
have pointed him out az a traitor. The
same was true in regard to the Louis
lana members who took up the opposi-
ton against the democratic party in
making the tariff bill. Only a few
old-fashioned politicians characterized
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