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Extravaqant-can Fitzgerald and
Mann Are Examples.
BY ARTHUR W. DUNN.
Washington, Feb. 2S.-[Special.1-As-
though economy in public expenditures
Is a frequent political battlecry. the
real economist is seldom popular.
Economy is a good thing to talk about,
It is a fine thing to preach, and 1t
makes a good weapon with which to
hit the other fellow for being extrava-
CANT, but as soon as man or set OF
men begin to practice economy they
incur the displeasure Of everybody.
I could give a number Of examples,
but do not want to be personal. l
will say that the men who have been
most industrious with points OF order
against increased salaries and other
appropriations have made themselves
unpopular in both senate and house.
The real economists, like Cannon, t1tz'
gerald. Mann and others, may not be
really unpopular, but they have thank,
less jobs.
Different Kinds Of Economy.
There are many different kinds OF
economy. I have seen men fight fol
hours over salary increases and vote
without a murmur for big river and
harbor bills and for extravagant pub
lie building bills. The same men will
ingly support appropriations for good
roads which would lead to expendi
lures far beyond anything we have
known in what is called pork barrel
legislation. But men who fight agatns,
"pork barrel appropriations lay them
selves open to criticism and are gen
orally unpopular.
Poetry For Sherman.
Poetry strews the pages Of the Con
gressional Record when eulogies are
delivered, but the late Vice President
Sherman received more tokens Of this
kind than almost any other man. Sun
ny Jim" was not a poetic character
but his friends were inspired to ex.
press their thoughts in melancholy
verse in paying their last tributes to
him.
Cost of National Health.
When Senator Works of California
introduced a resolution calling on the
treasury department for statement
as to what the national government
pays for maintaining physicians, med
ical corps. health bureaus, etc, 1t was
fhof hn nfod tho
Information for the purpose of fight
ing the Owen health department bill.
The result was all he anticipated.
for it furnished the senate with the
Information that we pay for national
health about $2O.OOO,OOO year. includ-
ing, of course. everything like army
and navy surgeons and supplies and
for many other departments which
maintain health bureaus, as we'll as
the general national health service.
Works does not intend to allow that
bill to pass if he can help 1t.
Taft's Future Title.
have heard ex-presidents addressed
as Mr.. President" and that is not
proper. We call ex-governors and ex.
senators governor" and senator
but that seems different. Our only
living ex-president at present is per
fectly satisfied with being called "colo
nell"
Mr.. Taft has no military title. Prob
ably he will become professor" al
though that does not seem to be al
exalted enough title for man who
has been president. Yet it seems to
be the only real title he will bear, I'm.
less it should be plain Mr." How
ever. l do not expect that the many
who have been subordinate to him for
the past two years can ever be brought
to the point of addressing him as "Mr
Taft"
A Distinct Advantage.
In removing the desks from the
house one distinct advantage will be
gained. No more will the desk of a
dead member be decked in grewsome
black. which has been the custom fol-
125 years. There was time when the
department buildings were draped in
mourning whenever a man died who
had been a cabinet officer. That has
been stopped. and it is good thing
for there is nothing quite so ludicrous
as the "trappings of unfelt VICE." and
It Is always grewsome.
His Polite Notice.
Senator O'Gorman of New York oc
cupies q seat near the main door OF
the senate. and it is the most natural
thing in the world for members of the
house upon entering the chamber to
drop into it. O'Gorman has recently
adopted the method of tipping the
chair forward. as walters do in dining
r,oms. as polite notice that the seat
b not to be appropriated.
Jim Mann's Inquiry.
"When are you going to have this
protection begin?" asked Jim Mann
when the house was considering the
provision for the protection of the pres
ident elect. rs it to take effect after
the November election. after the elect
oral college meets. after the canvass OF
the result or after the meeting of the
next Republican national convention? p
Which implied that Mann Is quite sure
Of the result four years hence.