The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-14
DONOVAN IS
 CHAIRMAN OF
 PARTY CAUCUS
Congressman From This District Presides Over Currency Bill Deliberations
Cummings Visit to Washington Starts More Judgeship Rumors. Whats Doing in the Capitol
By Our Special correspondent.)

l (By Our Spec1al CorreSpondent) l Washington, Aug Congressman
 Jeremiah Donovan was the chairman
 of the Democratic caucus on the cur
 rency bilI the greater part of the af- l ternoon. It was a signal honor for the man from Fairfield county, Con-
 necticut, and when he was called to l the chair by Caucus Chairman Palmer
 he was applauded heartily by his col l leagues. MT. Donovan wielded the gavel like an old hand and showed
 himself to be adept parlimentar- 1 ian.
 l When he was called upon to take the chair the Connecticut member was undoubtedly the most surprised man l in the chamber. The designation was an expression of the high regard in ] which he is held by his Democratic colleagues. Representative Palmer, 1 the chairman who surrendered the chair and MT Donovan opposed each other few weeks ago in the debate | upon the question Of creating an addi- l ttonal judgeship in the state of Penn sylvania.
 Vice Chairman Homer Cummings of the National Democratic committee has been in the city Tor a few days, to discusssthe special election in Maine to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Goodwin. His pres ence here has been connected with the matter. of securing the nonaina- ton of a judge of the United States district judge in Connecticut, and the rumor artists have it that the can didacy of Judge Noone of Rockville is to be abandoned. But 1t is learn ed on good authority that the four members of the delegation, Represen- tatives Reilly, Donovan. Mahan and Lonergan are still supporting Judge Noone.
 Did you ever read newspaper item like this? A fire was discovered in the White souse yesterday. and it was reported that the entire structure was reduced to ashes. Upon investj- gation it was learned that the report was not true. and that there had been no fire. A few days ago a washing ton corresp printed an article to the effect that Hon Jeremiah Dono- lector in his own district, .fbut an in quiry proved that the report was only rumor, and was not true.''
 Senator Brandegee has, introduced a bill to place General B. w. Whitaker on the retired list of the army with l the pay of a retired lieutenant colonel. General Whitaker comes from Hart ford and has held number of posi- tions in the District of Columbia since the war; He was lieutenant colonel of the First Connecticut e~r-a1ry, serv- ing through the entire Civil War and
 
 eraI for uniform good conduct during the war.
 Representative Jeremiah Donovan of Connecticut said yesterday, T hope the manufacturers of Connecticut have not gone to sleep concerning the tar fir. If they have not it would seem that they would write to the Connec- ticut senators and ask them to sup port the tariff bill in the form that it left the finance committee of the Sem ate. This committee should be given full credit for the manner in which it has treated our state. I fear that if our Connecticut senators do not support the bill that it will not leave the conference bet%een the Senate and House conferes as favorable to Conn necticut as it is now. If our senators would suppor. the bill as 1t is now it would put them in the posi- tion of being able to insist that the conference maintain our state in its present good position in the adjust ment of rates.
 Senator Cummins, a Republican, and a protectionist, in very able presentation of his views upon the bill finds fault with the bill on the ground that 1t gives Connecticut a distinct advantage over other states, and with one exception is the best cared for state in the Union. Senator Cumninsr Iaments the fact that Con- necticut is protected in the present bill to the extent that 87 per cent. of it's products are protected while in his own state of Iowa only A per cent of the products are protected.
 While there are few protests from Connecticut manufacturers, fully, 90 per cent. of them have been fairly treated by the Senate fnanc ecomnit- tee.
 'aThe bill is purely business propo- sition. and as such Connecticut has done well. Why should not it's repre- sentatives and senators gdo their ut most to see that 1t is carried tuo? Be cause of sectional interest it is prac- tica1ly, impossible to secure a tariff bill to which everyone can subscribe. But it would, seem that we should realize in Connecticut the advantage that we have, and so advise our sena- tors, in order that we might hold that advantage. The same condition af- fects the eastern states as whole and a perusal of the bill as it left the finance committee, and com parison with tn crates affecting the products of other states, will show that there has been 9 strong tendency on the part of the senators to give the eastern manufacturers distinct ad- vantage, despite the fact that the pro- gram of revising the duties downward ha EI1id4's