River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-01-14
WASHINGTON LETTER
From James A. FFear, Member of Congress
10th District.

O1e Of the most stirring and elo-
q1ent speeches ever made in the
House on the negro qne> ton &C.
Cured last week when representa-
tiv. from Texas spoke on an amend
nent 10 the immigration bill which
VS. designed to exclude all negro
immigrants from this country. The
amendment Wae placed in the bill
B the Senate where several rncom-
promising DIRECTORS TO any r, CO mi
tim Of the negro are &C ntinuany on
guard W1en tbe bill reached the
House few Southern mel bers, in
a az the Texas preventative,
We voice to their opposition to
negro domination and to dangers
from negro inmigr alton Chairman
Burnett put = damper on the un
boz led Tex ! oratory when he an.
swered that only ten thousand me-
Proes came from other countries
last year OF these, about 5000
stayed in New York city, and not a
solitary one went to Texas So that
the threatened invasion had not oc
Cured in fact under existing law
The Senate amendment was dis
agreed to by the House
From twenty to fifty letters are
being received daily urging h g
adoption of a resolution prohibiting
the expectation of arms and mum |
tions of war by this country. When
an organization starts systematic
campaign to deluge members with
letters, it is impossible to give each |
individual letter the attention to
which it would ordina rily be entitled |
Subject to some unexpected inter
probation Of the effect Of the resolu
ton, which appears innocent in it.
self, there can be little controversy
over the necessity of keeping out of
foreign entanglemepts, apart from
the humane purpose of refusing to
directly or indirectly aid in the
destruction of life by supplying war
material to combatants
X
1t developed ir the Indian appro-
priation bill, which was before the
House last week, that e S
throughout t h e country possess
nearly hundred Ford runabouts,
and that several hundred vehicles
and horses belonging to q preceding
generation are being rapidly dis
placed by motor cars. Even Indians
are getting accustomed to this in.
novation, and. according o h e
committee ports, the change
brings about an actual saving of
money to the government.
A $34 900 900 river and harbor
bill has been reported to the House
and the writer has pointed out in
the discussion scores of wasteful
projects involving many millions
that ought 10 be stricken from the
bill. One water power proposition
on the Tennessee river to be financed
by the government will require SIS,
700, 900, although the bill offers on
ly $3.50, 900 on that item, as an inno-
cent looking entering wedge. Flori |
da has 80 of the 240 projects, and
the lower Mississippi and Ohio have
about a dozen millions between
them. Duluth handles several times
the total freight shipped on both
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
every year, and yet Duluth did not
receive dollar in the last bill nor
is it considered in the new bill. My
prediction that the last bill would
lie defeated received slight attention
on tie floor of the House during the
debate last year. The new bill is
doomed to the same fate, according
to present indications.
Senator Burton began an aggres-
sive fight last week against the bill
authorizing the purchase of mer-
chant marine by this government.
President Wilson desires the pas
sage of the bill and already indica-
tions are that the Senate and the
President will lock horns on the
proposition. Recently the Senate
has rejected several appointments
made by the President. with tue IA