Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-10-03

Events of Interest from the seat
OF GOV crnIrcut.
by =. T.. JONES.
Responsibility with Wniority Party.

-..'........:-:..:..::...
Rcsr"usirjlit, With Wniority Party.
Declaring his belief in the need Of
financial and banking legislation which
viii meet the needs Of the country and
geeing that the responsibility for
such legislation should rest upon the
majority party" inasmuch as that par
~ had denied all amendments that
might perfect its measure. Representa-.
personal admiration for President Will
son made him content to clOthe him
with the responsibility of naming the
federal reserve board. Mr.. French,
who is Republican, said that while
he did not agree with many of the po-
/ litical convictions of the president, yet
he had full confidence lin his high
sense of public duty and patriotism.''
! Every Mans Theory Is Best.
/ In the course of his speech concern
ing the currency measure Representa-
tive Kahn of California expressed the
belief that the GlassOwen measure
would cause many of the national
banks to surrender their charters to
the federal government, and return to
! the state bank system. He declared
that the present national banking sys-
tenn was one of stability, and said he
believed that the pending measure
would drag down the existing system
without providing an adequate substi
tute. Mr.. Kahn, as usual, made an eff
! fective speech, remarking incidentally:
Every man who has a theory on the
subject believes that his theory is just
wee bit better than the theory of the
man with whom he is arguing the
question"
Women Needed I'm Politics.
According to Senator Jones of Wash.
ington, politics will elevate women and
women will elevate politics. For
woman to study the theories, problems
and necessities of government cannot
help but strengthen and broaden her"
says the Washington senator, who fur
Their declares that "for her to bring
her gentle and refining influence into
practical politics cannot help but make
political methods and practices more
open, clean, honest, reputable, and ben
eficial."
"Inertnexs" Charncterixes Senate.
Referring to the manner in which
some of the railroads have buncoed the
government, very much to the injury
of Arizona, Senator Ashurst in his
speech upbraided Congress for its fail
ure to take cognizance of the scanda-
lous condition that had long existed.
There can be no reason for not acting
except that the inertness that
characterizes body like this when it
does not desire to see radical change
made, and yet is afraid to approve it,
and therefore compromises by doing
nothing" is the way in which Mr.
Ashurst told the senate ito it's teeth"
what he thought about the chronic de-
lays in matters affecting railroad and
land affairs.
Strange Ways Along the Money Road.
In opening his remarks on the cur
rency question Representative Lafferty
of Oregon asked: "Is it not so that
every member who has talked on this
measure has apologized to the house
because he did not know anything
about it," The Oregon member de-
clared that the secret of this wholesale
confession of ignorance lies in the
fact that our monetary system is be-
ing conducted in strange and unnat-
ural manner and not because the sub
ject is too puzzlingly intricate.
LittleHeld and Jenkins.
Former Representative Littlefield of
Maine in his testimony at the house
lobby investigation admitted that he
had received aid from the Manufactur.
ers' association, but he denied in sub
stance most of the implications of Null
hall, the lobbyist, regarding the i'm
proper use of the associations money
in his campaign. Littlefield also rose
to the defense of former Congressman
jenkins of Wisconsin, who is dead
and cannot speak for himself"
1t will be remembered that the labor
unions opposed the nomination of Lit
tlefield and jenkins, who were promi-
nent members of Congress few years
ago. On account of the influence these
men exercised in protective tariff legis-
lation, the Manufacturers association
very consistently came to the aid of
their campaigns, and nothing improper
would ever have been charged had it
not been for the extravagant assertions
of the discredited Mulhall.
The Ministry and Politics.
,f