Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-06-11

rules any woman member Of the family
Of a representative In congress or of
a senator Of the United States Is elis-
ible to membership. Women whose
husbands, fathers or brothers are In
congress or who were In congress at
the time OF their joining and who re-
main In Washington after the terms
OF their husbands expire, can retain
their membership
Free From Politics.
The club is absolutely non-political,
Tor of course Democratic. Republican
and Progressive women are eligible
to membership. The women have sue
ceeded In keeping politics entirely out
Of the organization. Since the Demo
Gratis have been in control of the adj
ministration of the government the
wife OF Republican member OF con-
gress was elected TO the presidency
Ia Mrs. Frank II. Briggs, q daughter
OF the late Senator Frye Of Maine.
Mrs. Briggs father was Republican
and her husband Is a Progressive and
yet the Democratic majority Of the
club elected her as first vice-president
The present home of the club is In
the residence once occupied by Sena-
tor Arthur Pue German of Maryland.
who died some years ago. Member
ship in the organization virtually In
socially necessary to every congress
sional woman. II enables her to meet
and to get intimately acquainted with
people whom she is expected TO meet
and 1t makes for good comradeship
among the women.
Committee for Canal Opening.
President Wilson has just issued
an executive order ito create a
committee to formally and offici.
ally open the Panama canal" This
order OF the president Is all that Is
necessary, In connection with a re-
cent appropriation by congress-. to
start the work of preparation for the
great celebration in January next of
the opening of the isthmiap waterway
to the commerce of the world.
Al NhC OSSuA =
this
THE committee shall be known and
referred to as the committee for the
formal and official opening OF the Pan.
anna canal. II shall have a chairpaa
| and vice-chsirman, who shall per.
| form its duties under the direction
OF the governor of the Panama canal.
The persons named below are hereby
| appointed members Of this committee:
Col. George w. Cocktails, United
States army; Hon. Richard l.. Met.
calfe. Gen. William C. Gorgas, United
States army; Col. Ii. F. Hodges,
United States army; Lieut.. Col. VIII
liam l.. Sibert, United States army;
| Civil Engineer II. H. Rousseau
United States navy. Col. George W.
Goethals, now governor of the canal
shall be chairman of this committee
and Hon. Richard l.. Metcalfe shall
be vice-chairman.
| 1t will be noted by glance at the
names of the members of the com
mittee that each man named was {
member of the isthmian canal commits
sion. 1t was intended when the com
mission was abolished by law on April
l to name the members at once as 4
committee of preparation for the eel
ebration, but there were obstacles In
the way. and 80 the plan has just
been put into effect.
Pay for the Members
The members of the committee are
to receive salaries at the rate Of $40,
900 year from April 1, 1914, tc
December 81, 1914. inclusive. and such
necessary travelling and living ex
penses when on duty connected with
the work as may be approved by the
secretary Of war.
AS a matter OF fact, only one mem
Der of the committee will draw full
salary, for there is special provi
sion in the law that the salaries al
fixed shall include any salaries which
members OF the committee may now
be drawing from the government
Colonies Goethals and Hodges ant
Civil Engineer Rousseau, who are still
connected with work in Panama, anS
| are uiuWiuS S1O,OVV JSdi cdCub WA
not get cent of pay for the worl
on the committee. General Gorgas
who is the surgeon general of tn,
United States army, will draw onl!
the difference between his presen
army pay and the amount fxed as hi
compensation as committeeman
Colonel Sibert is going to China TO
sve months to formulate a reclana
ton plan for the Chinese government
and as his army pay stops while h,
is on this trip, the Chinese govern
ment giving him his compensation
he Will get no salary at all except TO
month or. two after he returns from
his preliminary work in China. Rich
ard l.. Metcalfe, the only civilian mem
Der OF the committee, will draw full
pay. which ia pay for nine months a
the rate of $4,000 a year.
In few days the members of tn,