The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-02

ways and means - $1,000,
committee. but eyi eilsoN s'A"n : ="
IDENTITY the house leaders thought the
matter one OF such serious import
ance thai the bill should be kept
firmly in their grip.
Chairman Henry OF the rules com
mittee has compromised mith the
woman suffragists. He has Withdrawn
mis- refusal 10 hear their application
for a suffrage committee and VIII lis
ten 10 arguments on that subject
Aug. IA, when the National Council
OF women suffragists meets in Wash
ington.
Senator Nathan p Bryan. OF Flor
ida appears as successor TO old Tom
Platt as senatorial guardian of eX-
press companies Bryan has gone 10
the length even OF Offering a Dill 10
repeal the parcel post This would
be the practical effect OF his proposed
amendment Senator Bryan's OPPOSE
ton was reused by Postmaster-Gen-
eral Burlesson's order increasing the
efficiency or the parcel post, raising
the weight limit and lowering the
rates. The express companies ana
their allies the railroads saw IN this
move a subtraction from their ancient
special privilege OF gouging the pub
! lie, and their champions have been
very active They constitute both an
insidious and an open lobby, and
some OF the most fragrant lobby work
IS the kind done on the senate floor
by Senator Nathan p. Bryan. Ii is
this insid e-the-senate lobby represen'
tation which is much more dangerous
TO the welfare OF the people than the
work OF the Mulhalls and the Emerys.
Senators Fletcher and Gallinger in
dulged in a twohours discussion the
other day as TO whether or not map
could be printed in the congressional
record Their difficulty was finally
solved by the discovery that the map
was already printed IN the record.
Bearing on Senator Townsend's an.
nouncement that ne never knew En-
cry or Mulhan, the latter has offered
this letter as part OF the record in the
! Oyerman inquiry Under date of Oct
! 6, 1910, writing 10 Henry B. JOY, or
Detroit, Col. Mulhall said:
Il note what YOU say about the
( loss OF Senator Burrows, Rep Town.
send taking his place. feel this will
be a gain TO Us instead of loss, for
Senator Burrows had gotten so old
that he had been of very little SER
vice 10 us in the senate, and for the
past two years Mr.. Townsend. who
Will take his place. has been an ac-
tive friend OF ours.
"He was inclined to be an insur-
gent at the first session OF the sixty
first congress, but last winter he
changed completely over and We
found him a very useful friend, and |
feel positive that we will be perfectly
safe from any rabid class legislation
next winter. and even ii we do lose
the next house, we have large host
of Democratic friends who, | feel
positive, we can fall back upon"
When Senator Bacon of Georgia
gets real mad and INDUCES in snappy
assaults upon his learned and es-
teemed contemporaries In the senate,
the results are such as the following
taken from page 2913 OF the con-
gressional record:
Il am sorry that my very learned
and distinguished and honored col
league upon that committee, the sen.
ator from Massachusetts (Mr. Lodge),
would so far permit his present atti-
tude OF energy started 10 say 'belli-
cose' attitude, but ! am afraid the
senator might not relish that word
10 lead him astmy from what ] have
always heretofore understood him TO
be very carefully guarding; that is,
the propriety OF everything OF this
kind. before II is considered and
passed upon BY the senate, receiving
the careful attention OF the commit
tee on foreign relations, and that
matter OF this kind should not be
hurried to the consideration and ex-