The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-07-01
People viii Fight II Out Among
Themselves.
OvERMAN IN THE BIG TENT.
Old Timers Of Washington Territory
to Hold a Reunion--How Senator
Jones Maintained a One Man Fill
buster and Finally Lost His Grip on
the Situation.
1y ARTHUR w. DUNN.

Ry ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington. June 3O.-ISpecial.1-
People along the border OF Mexico no
longer expect Intervention by the
United States, For long time Tex
ans generally believed that 1t was only
question Of time before troops
would be sent across the Rio Grande
with view Of pacifying Mexico. OF
course everybody understood that such
qualification would take score Of
years OF guerrilla warfare, and no one
In this country wanted to see 1t hap
pen.
1.-THE people OF Mexico will simply
60 on until they wear themselves out
and exhaust their resources" said
Congressman John Garner OF Texas.
who represents district along the
Rio Grande. 'They have become in
volved in civil war and must fight
until they are through. Americans
who are in danger will remove, and
there will be no cause to intervene on
their behalf. When the Mexicans are
exhausted stable government may
be established"
1.-THE Big Tent"
Senator Overman. with his four as
sociates' on the lobbying committee. is
really occupying the big tent in con
gressional affairs these days or
course the tariff is supposed to be the
real question, and discussion In caucus
and senate may bring about more i'm
portant results than the investigation
Of the lobby.
But there Is something about the
word lobbyist" that smacks OF evil.
It Is so sinister; seems to mean sliding
about and handing out money. and all
the crooked and devious ways OF legts-
lation revolve. around the lobby to
such an extent that the mere fact that
a lobby investigation Is In progress
attracts more attention than the legis
lation which the lobby is supposed to
influence detrimentally as concerns
the people.
May 9e Called slot Stuff"
The debate which has been going on
from time to time between members
OF the Washington state delegation In
the house may properly be termed 'hot
stuff" There are two sides arrayed
against each other. One side Is repre-
sented by Congressman Humphrey and
johnson, who are against the old meth
DDS, or perhaps the Pinchot methods.
OF conservation and Withholding Of
lands from development, and the other
Is represented by Congressman Bryan
the Progressive, who earnestly supports
everything Pinchot has done
Now. there Is a lot to say on both
sides. In fact. the Record contains
page after page Of what these men say
about each other and the Interests
each side represents.
"We From the North.'
Secretary Tumulty's Irish crops out
now and again when he is disposing of
his White House duties An office
seeker was talking with him earnestly
and with some apparent fear OF results
about doing some particular thing.
why don't you chance it?'' said Tu-
multy. We from the north have al
ways had to take a chance"
Territorial Old Timers.
There Is talk Of q reunion IN Wash
ington Of the territorial old timers.
men who pioneered and lived in the far
western territories and helped to make
them states. There are still great
many Of them, but they have begun to
drop out Of sight as new men come on
who went to these new states since
they were admitted Some Of the most
picturesque figures are now getting old.
Quite q number of them foregathered
In Washington not long ago and talked
over old times
Whore 4 Filibusts- Fails.
The one man f1libuster fails where
the man making 1t has only personal
grievance. Senator jones started ont
to prevent everything requiring unani-
NOUS consent from going through the
senate. He simply found he couldn't
keep Il up. He was n.sking enemies
every day. He had to stand the most
scathing denunciatons on the floor.
and personal expressions Of opinion
III private conversation.
Finally he had to relent little and
the moment he did so his whole
scheme failed. When he ''let thing;
slide" for one purpose his flibuster
broke down. The Washington senator
created q great deal OF annoyance and
caused some little amusement while
be kept up his fight for additional
clerks.
Reservation Some eixs.
Immensity OF the west IL illustrated
BIZ comparison. Hence IN discussing
an Indian proposition Senator Fall re-
marked that the Navajo reservation In
Colorado. Arizona. New Mexico and
Utah Is larger than the combined area
Ut Massachusetts, and Connecticut. He
did not add. however. that the arabic
land Ii this reservation would not equal
some Of the counties 81 the states
named 1he west = hlg, bit II many
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