The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-03-13
BILLS THAT FAILED
TO PASS CONGRESS
(SDecieI to the Silver State.)

uratlons than she Inauguration of
Wilson and Marshall, but it is doubt
full. The day was gray and overcast.
but not raw. The absence of bright
sunlight was grateful to marchers and
reviewers alike. OF course there was
great sameness to the marching of
the troops and then more troops, and
the blaring of the bands almost every
one of which insisted on playing a
medley of southern airs in which Dix
lie, Maryland and Suwanee River were
mixed up. But the crowd patient
ly looked on hour after hour, or
until they finally grew too weary and
hungry to stand it any longer and so
melted away. Still it was a great oc-
easion, and the tramping soldiers and
drum majors, and the smiling presi-
dent, and the crowds and the manly
little boy scouts will live forever in
the memory of those who saw that
great show that we stage in Washing
ton every four years.
Bills That Failed.
There was inevitably some mourning
over the bills that failed to become
laws. There was the shipping bill.
which the president did not think had
consideration enough, and the bill to
protect Niagara Falls, which Senator
Burton, of Ohio, was so anxious to
see go through, and which he will at
once take up again at the next ses-
sion; and the sundry civil bill which
would have carried joy to many had it
gone through, and good many others
which there is not space to name. The
sundry civil carried an appropriation
for the San Francisco exposition,
whitfield down its's true from $2,0O0,-
900 to 100000 and stripped of the
good jobs for lame ducks, but the ex-
position will not even get that now,
at least until congress can take it up
at the extra session. There was moth
ing in the bill for San Diego's great
exposition, to be held in 1915, from
January | to December 81 The city
and the state are putting up for the
San Diego exposition, which will also
have some of the most interesting
government exhibits that ever went
out of Washington. 1t is not general
ly known that the great National
is a veritable storehouse of
with so much that has not
been placed in the eases for exhibition
than another museum like that one
the public sees could be outftted and
then leave a great deal of material
still unpacked President D. G.. Col
lier of the exposition is assured that
from this vast storehouse there will
be sent to San Diego some splendid
exhibits, and the cost will be com
paratively small
Thir+v NiIlions
Some one has figured that there will
be patronage for President Wilson to
distribute which will amount to $780,
100000 in salaries. IT. easy to name
grand totals like this; few will try to
figure them out to see if the sum is
correct. But the fact remains that
President Wilson has a very fine lot
of patronage at his disposal and he
will have to spend good deal of his
time determining who is entitled to be
put on Uncle Sam s salary list. He
began with his cabinet, which seems
to be pretty satisfactory to the public,
and he will keep right on through the
long list of places to FILL The sooner
he finishes with it the more merciful
be will be to those who are not
chosen.
Mr.. Bryan of course is more than
to the mass of Demo
cratic voters. Next to him in wide
spread popularity is Franklin X. Lane,
whose conscientious and very able
work on the Interstate Commerce COM
mission has stamped him as a friend
and champion of the people. His rise
has been rapid but deserved.
Rest for Congress.
Congress is taking breathing
spell, and yet it is not all rest
time. Senators and representatives
who got but three or four hours sleep
for several DAYS before the session
ended are worn out and are taking
some rest, but there is a great deal of
work to be done before the new ses-
sion begins. The biggest task, of
course, falls on Representative Oscar
and his colleagues on the
ways and means committee, who are
framing tariff bills. 1t is understood
that the income tax amendment to the
will result in a large
amount of revenue, perhaps one hun
dred million dollars annually, being
raised from the income tax, and it is
predicted that there will not be so
great necessity for raising money
from the tariff. This would hit Flor
ida and California on the citrus fruit
tariff, which would hurt pretty badly;
In fact. Florida has given notice that
if its citrus product is not protected
it will bolt the Democratic column 1t
would also make it possible to cut the
sugar tariff, and the wool tariff, and
the steel schedule, and the cotton tar
iff and the-but why go down the
list9 Perhaps the alarm is not war
ranted after all. If the pension list
increases at the rate it has been grow
ing, and if the country embarks on a
system of aiding in the construction
Of roads, and we get l cent letter pos
tage and few more monument men
get elected to congress and succeed in
getting monuments erected by the ma
tion for all the heroes who ever serv-
ed the country, the revenues from the
income tax will not be enough to meet
the extra expense.