The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-14
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Gen,
eral Topics from
the Capital.
Washington. Febuary II, 1912.

will not force a financial StrngeuCv upor
the Wilson administration one invesG
cation and perhaps two will be made
] by ConsIesS TO clear up the stu ton.
Senators Gore and Poindextcr arc
looking into the facts on the part o
those in the Senate who are concerned
over the charges made bv Rudolph
! Spreckels and Representative Carter
Glass, of Virginia, the next Chairman o
the House Banking and Currency Com
mittee, who is making IN inquiry on the
House side.
II either branch OF Congress finds
J reason To believe that a deliberate plan has
/ been brought out to embarrass the new
administration or even il an ill-conSid.
cred order from the Treasury
should produce that effect, Congress
sional inquiry will be ordered aud the
MacNeagh circular withdrawn.
The Congressional leaders want to
determine now whether or not the pol
icy OF turning the vast revenues of the
government which are derived from Gus
toms collection over to National Banks,
instead of handling it through the sub
treasures, is the proper thing at this
time.
Mr. Spreckels has declared after an
inquiry of his own that this will serve 10
greatly initiate the credit of the National
Banks and to dehate il in the same
proportion at any time that it becomes
necessary to withdraw such funds from
these institutions The effect Of such
dehation, Mr. Spreckes declares, would
| inevitably be to tighten the money stu
alton aud thus pave the wav for panic.
Those who now agree with Mr.
| SpreCkels here do not believe that to re-
! sCind the MacNeugh order would neces-
sarily force a panic in itself, but they
| hold to the opinion that it would so con
tract the money market that the slightest
move would cause serious situation
and might precipita.e the country into
such financial condition as did the fail
ure of the Knickerbocker Company in
1907.
Mr. Spreckels, who. though a Repub.
| licau, supported Governor Wilson from
the time of his nomination, has sent word
that he will arrive in Washington early
next week to aid in any investigation that
Congress may conclude TO make.
Eight men caught in the governments
snt-bucket shop crusade in the year 1910,
pleaded gnjlty Of nolle contendre IN the
District Supreme Court Of Washington
and paid fines aggregating $50, 900.
Louis Celia, of Saint Louis, Mo, An.
| gela Celia and Samuel W. Adler, of
New York, pleaded guilty and were
! fined $1,000 each. Oscar |. Rappel Of
| Jersey City. pleaded guilty, and was
fined $1,000; William +. Fox. OF Balti-
more; Charles l.. Alley, Of Washington
pleaded nolle coutendre and were fined
| 50, 500 each, while G. A. Tile. Saint
| Louis, was fined $40 600.
President Taft said his farewell to the
| Washington College men a few nights
ago at the annual dinner Of the Uni
versity Club, of which he is a member
In recognition of his services as the
first President of the University Club
President TAFT received a golden KEY to
I admit him at all times to the newly
opened club house
Just before Mr.. Taft arose to accept
the gift he heard himself characterized
! by Colonel George Harvey. of New
York, as the worst licked, the least
sore, and the best liked of all our Presi-
dents"
With the transmission to Congress a
few DAYS ago by President Taft OF a
| special State Department report on the
| Anglo-SaXon exploitation OF South Amer
ican indians in the Putuyamo rubber dis
trict OF Peru, confirming the stories OF
the heartlesS cruelties visited upon these
abougnes by the rubber factors. with
death and mutllaton common. conclu-
sons on the same subject by Frederico
Alfonso Pe2et, Peruvian Minister to the
United States. were made public by the
State Department
The latter statement shows that the
Peruvian government has been aware OF
every step taken by the American Con-
sui, Mr.. Stuart I. Fuller, and Minister
Pezet gives assurances that already steps
were taken hy his government. for the i'm.
provement OF the Indians in the Puuuy-
mayo territory. Although it was at FIRST
feared that Consul Fuller's efforts had
been rendered valueless in MANY re.
speCtS by the espionage of the agents oI
a British rubber company State De.
partment officials now are hopeful that
the crying abuses, of which the native
Indians have been long suffering vic
TINS, eventually will be terminated.
In bringing the Putumayo district un
der the protection Of Peruvian Law. anc
the administration of justice the Peru
" Wan Minister saws that his government
will rely largely upon the cooperation
of the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
Senator.elect Ollie lanes. of Ken
lucky, weighs almost 500 pounds and he
IS very proud OF il. at least, he is row
telling his colleagues in Congress tha
his massive frame did him a good tur,
once al least
II was campaigning once through
Kentucky in my contest for the Unieo
States Senate. said he, "and / inquire,
OF the conductor ifhe bad lower berth
He replied that unfortunately ever
lower berth had been engaged thei
Inoticed a particularly diminuiVe man
weighing probably no pounds, sitting
in the same section with me, aud was in
formed by the conductor that he held tn
ticket to the lower half Of our section.
"'Well, ! suppose that | viii have L
: take the upper told the conductor
The last time that | slept in an uppe
berth fell through and almost smotf
cred the occupant Of the lower BERTH
cost me over $500 in doctors bills.
was my fault. however. and did nc
blame the company"
! Mr.. James related how he went int
: 1.-The smoking compartment, and when h
! returned, the man Of teuder frame, IL
. holder OF thelower berth, was sleepin
verv soundly in the upper
Dawn Mist, the daughter Of Chi
Three Bears, of the Glacier Nation
Park Indians will command troop
+ mounted Indian maidens in The cavall
a division Of The woman S suffrage pagean
c which will be held ii Washington, Z
Monday, March ard.