Milford chronicle., 1916-03-31
HEARD At The NATIONAL CAPITOL
Especial Correspondence.)


Il want to see the Republican Ma
tiOnal Convention put a plank in thu
platform squarely in favor of tht
eurther development of rural free de
5iVery and protesting against the pol
fcy of the present administration IL
crippling and curtailing this great
branch OF the public service" said an
Iowa Republican Congressman in the
cloak room of the House. "In many
states in the Union there has been a
great shakeup in the rural delivery
service, which has curtailed and Grip
pied the mail facilities of the farm
ers. The excuse for this has been
that 1t was done in the interests Of
economy. ! do not want to economic
at the expense of the farmers or at
Ihe expense of the Postal service.
do not think the people Of this country
want to make the Post Office Depart
ment a paying proposition at the sac
rifice of efficiency. What they want Is
service and that is what they are go
ing to demand. Rural delivery was
a Republican institution. 1t has put
the farmer on the map. 1t was estab-
Eished. developed and improved under
Republican Congresses and Repubi-
ian administrations. The present ad-
ministration is the only one that ever
attempted to put 1t out Of commission
Or to curtail the service"
Every Congress produces some po-
iitical freak and we always seem to
get them" said a prominent Demo-
ssrat member In the cloak room. Nov
IN this present Congress the coming
of Cyclone" Davis of Texas, was her
aided far and wide. He was expected
20 tear things loose in the House.
Cyclone" had one real explosion. but
Ike the skyrocket, he sputtered and
.sizzled and made little noise for the
moment, but after 1t was all over.
there was nothing left His extrava-
CANT statements, his radical views and
MS Populistic utterances, relics Of
sgeneration past. fell upon dull unap-
lareciative ears. He gave our side of
The chamber the shivers, and furnish
I'd amusement and ammunition for the
Republicans. But he is a fallen idol
and 1t has got so that even his amen"
produces a discOrd in the halls of leg
siation--so much so that even some
members have publicly called atten-
lion of the Speaker of the House to
che same. The roaring, rampant, "Cy-
rulone" from Texas has fattened out.
ssad he cannot stir up as much dust
u the House as a June zephyr.
1t is being whispered about the
capitol that President Wilson has
practically settled on a man to head !
ais proposed tariff commission" said |
3 well known Republican Representa-
gfve 1.-The man is said to be presi- |
dent in one of the New England col |
2eges, whose writings and discussions |
an free trade have given him wide |
seputatiOn. This is naturally the !
xind of men the President would Sc
sect for membership of this Board, If /
The matter we're placed in his hands. /
He would deal with this great indus /
rial question, so important to the in
sustrial interests of our country, as |
ne has dealt with other public matters, /
rom the theoretical instead Of the .
practical side of the question. |
s1now of no greater calamity that !
could happen to business and no |
greater brake that could be put on
and prosperity than the ap /
7Ointment of a tariff commission
made up Of lot of theorists, who get
heir knowledge Of political economy
rom books and not from practical
business experience.