Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-20
CONGRESS- HELD
Indefinitely BY
EUROPEAN WAR
Revenue Cut Off and
Now the People of
America Must
Pay Again
The Shipping Bill and Coastwise
Interests, and Change of Sem
timent on Canal Tolls-Dem-
ocrats Now Ought to See the
Light-Suffragists Quiet but
May Become Active Later in
Campaign

LIgHl-SuHrdglS quiet Dut
May Become Active Later in
Campaign
Washington, d. c., Aug. 10 (SpeciaD
Maine folks at Washington, who
have been hoping for an early release
from duties here, are becoming resign
ed. Congress is not likely to adjourn
soon. While the anti trust legislative
undertakings remain only partially
completed-one of the three anti trust
bills only having been disposed of in
the Senate-a new program incident
to the European war is forming. There
is not enough revenue with which to
run the United States Government, If
Europe is to continue at war and thus
cease sending goods to America. Con-
sequently more revenue must be raised
some other way. Republicans of SEN
ate and House are periodically willing
to help meet the emergency and will
probably vote to increase certain in
trnal revenues, if these increases are
at all wisely imposed by the Demo-
cratic majority. But it will all require
tiiiS' manly usiyS fitN6 dlFedUy DSen
occupied by the Senate and House In
other legislation caused by the big
war. which means that 1t will take
the Senate all the longer to do what
was lad out for it to do before Euro
pean War was declared. So it is that
the session of Congress wiki easily last,
from present appearances, till the first
of October and perhaps longer
This will be till after the political
campaign in Maine is over Probably
legislative activities here will inter-
fere with plans for sending n lot of
notable speakers into Maine. Some of
those Democratic big guns. who have
been advertised, will likely enough find
at the last moment they have pressing
work at Washington. They may not
be altogether sorry it so eyentuates.
1t is understood here that Democrats
in Maine have a hard situation from
which they can not expect to extricate
themselves.
Rev. A. F. Faulkner, pastor of the
Park Street Methodist Church at Lew
iston and Mrs. Faulkner have been
visiting in Washington on the way
home from Tennessee and were callers
at Senator Burleighs Offices. Claude
Boyle of Newark, \. j., a graduate of
the University of Maine and a native
of Dover. was likewise a recent vtsi-
tor at Senator Burleigh's offices.
People along the Maine coast have
been showing much interest in affairs
at Washington. The shipping bill.
CITY rol. ~
coas.wise interests, was responsible
fer this in some part. There is still
considerable shipbuilding along the
Maine coast and hopes had been rising
high that the opening of the Panama
canal would bring large opportunities
both for constructing and operating
vessels between ports. Many letters
and kilograms were received from here
in that connection. President Frank
NJ. Low of the Portland Board of
Trade. telegraphed here that the board
of mana gers believed any legislation
which contemplates comforting the
rights and privileges of the American
flag upon foreign vessels would be
hostile and inimical to the highest in
terests of the American shipping in
dustry." This telegram was printed
with many others of like tenor in the
Congressional Record.
Senator Burleigh has recently taken
up the matter of an immigration sub
station at Portland. Data forwarded
here showed that large volume of i'm
migration business is transacted there
and that many immigrants land at
nd ic
for a building at Portland, ample for
the accommodation of this traffic. Sen
ator Burleigh has written to the COM
missioner general of immigration, Mr.
Caminetti, about it. The objection
will probably be that there is not suf-
ficient funds available for the building
and That Congress must first act Bos-
ton, of which Portland would be a
substation, is to have a new building
under provisions of law enacted by the
present Congress.
The Washington suffragettes, who
proposed to wage war in Maine during
the State campaign, have not been
heard from recently. They called at
the offices of the several Maine repre-
sentatives in Congress and wanted to
know what the attitude of each was
with reference to suffrage. The pur-
pose of the suffragettes, however, mas
been to work in the interest of Repub-
hcan candidates for Congress in the
Pine Tree State. European War ac-
tivities have sidetracked many polti-
cal plans at Washington and these
may have also diverted the suffra-
gettes FOR "a season
The wisdom of Maine Republicans in
Congress voting against the bill for
repeating free Panama Canal tolls is
recently being indicated. Others in
Congress from New England rushed to
the support Of the administration in
that regard. Now there are senator's
and representatives who have been
eager to get back" at New England
by smashing the coastwise shipping.
Indeed the emergency shipping bill,
incident to the war in Europe, is to
be passed but prominent men haya