The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-05-03
Measure viii Have Difficulty
In Becoming Law.
FEAR BIG TREASURY DEFICIT
Members of Congress Do Not Want to
Vote Upon the Measure, as They
Realize How Their Constituents Feel
Toward lt-Would Espend $75,oo0,-
o0o-Some In Every State.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington. May 3.-[Special. 1.-The
senate gave a few days consideration
to the proposed good roads bill, but
laid 1t aside In order to give the rural
credits measure n chance. OF course
this method will not go far toward
passing legislation.
The senate cannot pass bills to which
there Is any great objection by simply
setting apart three days for their
consideration and passing on to some
thing else. The debate on the roads
bill while 1t was before the senate
was sufficient to show that 1t would
meet with a great deal Of opposition.
IL would not be surprising to see this
measure fail entirely, for, although
many senators will feel compelled to
vote for IL If II eve to a vote,
there are many who will do everything
In their power to prevent n vote being
taken.
The Matter of Revenue.
The fact is that many senators are
actually afraid of the roads bill. The
amount of money it will take out of
the treasury now, when there is n great
drain and grave danger of a large def
lett. cause them to fear about what
viii happen when still larger appropri-
ations are demanded. The senators
who favor the bill talk glibly about an
expenditure Of $75,OO0.OOO for the ru-
raj communities, but everybody real
ICES that much more will be needed
before the country has the good roads
which are necessary and which will
be demanded when the matter gets
under way.
Lodge Is Reminiscent.
Senator Vardaman Of Mississippi ex-
pressed the opinion that the good roads
bill might not pass. There is not the
slightest danger Of this bill failing to
pass" responded Senator Lodge Of
Massachusetts. ANY bill that takes
as much money out Of the treasury as
this proposes to do and distributes Ii to
local interests In different states never
fails. | remember when was a new
AAIllAbIl VI fOll%lGSS. NDltH WIS IlOIt
years ago than care to define. n river
and harbor bill was brought in. and l
asked Mr.. Hit of Illinois If Ii would
pass.
Pass! Why, that is one bill that
is certain to pass; it is made to pass
was the reply"
Cigarette Beetle Again.
During the consideration Of the ag-
ricultural appropriation bin when the
item was reached providing for money
to investigate the cigarette beetle Jim
Mann came forward with the query as
TO what IL meant, and Chairman Lever
had TO explain that this little bug did
not contine itself alone to cigarettes,
but bored little holes in cigars as well
We'll" remarked Mann, while | do
not smoke cigars. ] have no objection
to gentlemen going after bugs that
bore holes in them and bugs who
smoke them, for that matter"
Some of the Seed Suggestions.
Congressman Bennett, representing a
city district in New York. was an
earnest advocate OF seed this year and
spoke OF $3.50 worth of brightness
brought into the lives of the children
In every city congressional district"
Then Bennett went on to say how the
children planted seed in boxes. which
they placed on the window stills and on
the fire escapes in city districts.
This old, hoary headed graft of
free seed" was the manner In which
Gordon of Cleveland, o., spoke of the
proposition.
something new to the discussion by
reading a letter addressed to him as
Seed Distributor, Department of Ag-
riculture," I'm which the writer said:
II received the seed which you sent.
| will let you know how they grow. /
will vote for you on election day"
The debate ON the question did not
end without hearing from Zeke Can
der of Mississippi, who IS known to
fame for his defense of the Tombigbee
river and of seed distribution.
How Do You Pronounce Coyote7
The coyote has become a pest In
the west, especially where he has ac-
CURED rabies from dogs. and he is
making a lot of trouble. Discussing
In the house methods of DISCRIMINATING
him. there was quite a dispute as to
how the animals name is pronounc-
ed. Congressman Hernandez Of New
Mexico came forward to explain It,
saying. 1T is pronounced neither Xxi
ote' nor 'ki-o-te,' but coyote"
1t is pretty hard for the average
layman who did not hear the explana-
ton TO understand just how the pro-
nunciation is made after reading it in
the Record.
J. Hampton Moore, Poet.
Besides getting into the debate near
ly as often as Jim Mann, Congressman
Moore OF Philadelphia has broken into
poetry. He had a column Of it in the
Congressional Record the other day,