The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-11-22
MlSSISSlPPIANS ARE
DRIFTING BACK
TO CAPITAL Il.
HARRISON AND STEPHENS NOW
ON JOB WITH QUIN-oTHERs
EXPECTED SOON.
REP. HARRISON WILL Push BILL
Determined to See That Justice Is
Done Choctaws-John Sharp Is Still
. Hammerng Republican Senators
When Ever They Bob Up.
REP. HARRISON WILL Push BILL
(By Frank d. Lander, Jr.)

washington, NOV. 2Z.-Tne MlSSlS-
sippi delegation is returning to Wash
ington, one by one. Representative
Percy Quin, who held up the Missis-
sipp wing of Congress all by himself
for more than a week, now has the as
sistance of Representatives Harrison
and Stephens, and Humphreys and
Gambler are expected to arrive within
the next day or two.
Representative Sisson, who scored
his colleagues for leaving their posts
and then himself left within four days
after his speech, is still at home and
no notice of his intended return has
been received here.
Not only Mississippians but members
from many other states have been
pouring in during the past few days
Most of them came because they want
ed to adjourn and by adjourning get
the forty cents a mile mileage that is
due them between sessions. For Mis-
sissippians this would amount to some
thing like $400 or $500.
But President Wilson has expressed
a disinclination to adjourn the present
session of Congress, and it now looks
like all the Congressman will, because
of President Wilson's objection, be de-
" MED this extra tip from Uncle Sam
and the country will have saved some
quarter OF a million dollars.
A number of Mssissippians have
important measures in which they are
particularly interested and which they
will press for early action on the regu
lar session. Representative Harrison
will insist that his bill for paying the
Just dues to the Choctaw Indians who
did not remove to Indian territory be
considered as soon as possible. Repre-
sentative Collier hopes for early action
on his bill to provide for permanent
National exhibition in Washington, ant
to do away with governmental extrav
agance in appropriating for worlds
fairs in various cities which are merely
temporary; Representative Quin is es
pecially interested in the bill he intro
duced last week to provide for a bu
reau of markets which will attempt tt
eliminate the middle man from Ameri
can commercials far as is practicable
Last, but most important of all, Rep
resentative Humphreys will undertake
to push the RansdellHumphrey bill
providing for a great appropriation
for lower Mississippi levees. Although
this is one of the largest appropriation
bills which will be put before Congress
this year, it is believed its chances o
passage are excellent 1t is assured o
good committee report in both Hous
+ and Senate, and the justice and com
mon sense of the proposition will az
peal to members on the Republican
side of the chambers.
The regular session will be devote
largely to the passage of Wilson ant
trust and Wilson conservation meas
ure. But while these measures wi
be the chief ones to come before col
y gress, the Mississippi members hav
y before the national law-making bod
measures that are sure to receive pro-
er consideration, and the chances al
that their bills will be among the moi
interesting to be discussed next to tn
official administration measures.
Senator Williams is still hammerin
the Republicans whenever they try
'embarrass the Democratic administr
ton with regard to the cost Of livin
Because the Democratic platfor
promised a reduction In the cost Of II
ing, and because there has been pre-
tically no change in the cost of hviI
and eggs in the East have gone up,
number of Republican senators, disI
garding the fact that the tariff bill h
not been enacted long enough to ha
any effect, have been trying to MAJ
political, capital out of the prese
price of commodities.
Last Thursday Senators Smoot
Utah and Gallinger of New Hampshi
tried some of this political by-play al