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THIS LIQUOR BILL
PROVES PUZZLE.
Proposed Kenyon Law Stirs Up
Washington.
PREDICTING DECISIONS.

Correspondents Know Men So We'll
They Usually Can Tell What Way
Vote Will Go Before the Roll Is Call
ed-Dawes Commission Still In Elk
tstence-How to Start Something.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington, Jan. 16. - [Special1 =
The Kenyon-Sanders liquor bill was
one which everybody was for, but
which nobody wanted, and that is
why such a muss was stirred up
when it accidentally or through an in
advertance or while "Watchdog" Smoot
was asleep at the switch received a
unanimous consent agreement for a
vote. If the bill passes the senate the
anti-liquor interests will make des-
perate attempt to force it through the
house.
The Kenyon liquor bill may be de-
scribed in the language of one mem
Der as lone of them things" 1t is a
bill that men will hesitate to vote
against, and yet they do not want it
to pass. For twenty years a measure
of the same import has been pending
under different names. There was the
Hepburn-Dolliver bill, which hung fire
for fifteen years. but never had been
allowed to come to vote. This bill
IS one which the liquor interests are
opposing with might and main, be-
cause it will effectively stop the ship
ment of liquor into prohibition states.
More than that. it opens the way for
stopping lot of other shipments.
1t Opens Wide Field.
Just as the supreme court sustained
the constitutionality of the anti-lottery
law, it will sustain the Kenyon bill
Then the court will have an opportu-
nifty in the future to allow congress to
regulate child labor made goods. pris-
on made goods and. in fact. to give
congress such authority over interstate
commerce shipments as to virtually
regulate all business. No wonder SEN
ators have been shying at and pre-
venting a record vote on this liquor
bill.
Always Starts Something.
If any member of congress wants to
start something let him reflect upon
state or community. State and COM
munity pride is always on tap for a
defense. Jim Mann starts a great
many things. In his capacity Of minor
ity leader he is in on almost every
thing. and, besides. he has a great deal
of wit and a mighty sharp flow of
language. And he likes a row simply
for the rows sake. During the consid-
GRAFTON of the Indian bill he was scor-
Ing the appropriation for Florida In
dams and, replying to a remark about
their wild condition. said: 1.-THE talk
about their being wild is all fudge
They have more sense than some of
the native Crackers of Florida
Did he get rise? Well. one should
have heard Frank Clark tear off a few
feams Of n1gnfauit1ng, eagle soaring
sentences about those Florida Crackers
and his state in general He had some
thing to say about the waving plumes
of Osceola." the Seminole who led
such a long Indian war. Then he turn
ed loose the floodgates Of oratory and
quotations from statesmen and heroes
to show what great people were inhabi-
tants Of the Land of Flowers. oh.
he was ''goin' some," that man Clark.
Press Gallery Decisions.
Long before a vote Is taken on any
big subject the press galleries reach
decisions. First they decide the case
as they think it should go. Then they
estimate the vote in the senate or house
or wherever the important question is
pending and reason out why one man
or another will vote this or that way.
And. what is quite true. they know
their men pretty well and give good
guess on results.
Goddess or Indian?
Congressman Clark Of Florida was
addressing the house on q question of
personal privilege-that is, he was de-
nouncing some reporter for putting
him in bad. In his talk he referred to
the bronze statue which surmounts the
dome Of the capitol as IAN Indian"
'There is another individual entitled
to arise to question of personal priv
ilege," interjected Cooper of Wiscon-
sin. THAT statue which you call an
Indian is the statue Of the Goddess of
Liberty
Il insist that it is an Indian" de-
clared Clark.
Here the discussion ended for the
time with no congressional determina-
ton, but the art critics will side with
Cooper.
A Lasting Commission.
1t has become q truism that COM
mission which once fastens itself upon
the government cannot be Jared loose
by anything less than an earthquake.
That is about the fact. Some twenty
years ago commission called the
Dawes commission was organized to
settle the affairs of the Five Civilized
Tribes and incidentally to give place
for Henry L. Dawes. who was retir-
ing from the senate. That commission
has held on ever since. There has
been a Dawes commission as long as
/ can remember" declared Jim Mann
in the house, land probably there will
be one after | am dead and gone"
His prediction is likely to come true.
for the commission gives places to
quite a number Of officeholders.
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