The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-05-01

President Sends Out the Word the
Session Can Come TO an End.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington, May ~1.-tSpecial lit is
curious TO hear men talk about com
pleting the business or this session be.
fore the national conventions. III there
is one thing more certain than n 9th
err Ii Is that congress will not only cX-
tend beyond the conventions, but that
two months after the conventions ad
Journ congress will still be pounding
away mt some Of the bills that the ad-
ministratlon desires passed.
OF course we are taking into consid-
Grafton the fact that "A lot OF this legis-
lation Is really going TO be enacted
before the president will consent to nm
adjournment. IL the president wanted
TO close up in a hurry and he should
simply pass the word along for con
gress to pass the appropriation bills
and quit, In that case the end might be
brought about rather quickly. as both
houses would speed up and rush
through bills which are nov taking "A
great deal of time.
The First Line of Defense
If the navy is in reality the first line
of defense-and everybody agrees that
it is-then It is more thar likely that
the naval bill will take more time than
the army bin. There Is going to be "A
hard fight over the bin. because the
real friends of preparedness are going
to try to make the measure carry out
the preparedness idea in "A much more
satisfactory manner than the army
bin can possibly do. No matter what
the house does i'm the matter of ships,
the senate Is likely TO increase the
number. and the naval Program will
excite a much more bitter and acri-
monious debate than did the army bill.
If the army bin had been confined
alone TO the army and did not provide
as well for the volunteers and the mill
tia II would not have had such an
easy passage through the congress-.
Tariff Bobs Up.
Congress tried hard to keep the tar
if out OF the discussion Of the agricul.
tural appropriation bill, but without
avail. During the talk upon the tariff
Representative Fordney chided Repre-
sentative Booher for going back 10 the
silver decentralization Of 1878 and for
quoting something that Colonel niger.
soll had said q few years later.
Colonel Ingersoll was supposed TO
be a sort OF preacher" said Mr.. Ford
ney, which was an entirely new view
of the celebrated agnostic. Fordney
did not take much stock In lngersolfs
judgment on religious matters. u
would like TO believe there is no hell,
but / cannot believe it, said the Mich
igan standpatter. But Fordney himself
went back quite Il ways, because be-
fore he got through he said. Your pres
ident, a Democratic president. Grover
Cleveland, a brave man. a grand man
and much more appreciated after hay.
Ing been president that he was before
or during his term of office, declined to
sign a Democratic tariff bill. and it
became a law without his signature"
John Dwight, Back Number.
John Dwight says that last winter
when the Republican state committee
of New York met the member from his
county furnished him n proxy, and he
attended the meeting. when | ar
rived there and looked over the crowd, .
said Dwight, III found that besides my
self and one or two old timers that
used {, run things, an entirely new set
OF fell I'D come in. | told George
Aldridg Z we were back numbers
and we better let the boys run
thing~ ter. / am out of politics.
but / am ali interested onlooker."
Clark on Forests.
During the discussion OF the forest
reserves in the house Speaker Clark
took up the subject for a short time,
when this war ends, il 1T ever ends
said Champ, II shall be in favor of
sending a commission to Germany to
study their forestry system and see IL
we cannot secure information which
will enable us to administer our forest
reserves so as to make something out
of them instead of paying out twice as
much as we receive for taking care of
them" In as gentle manner as could
be one various members Informed the
speaker that our forestry system had
beer taken from the German system,
but that 1t was unsuccessful because
conditions were not the same. II
would take too long to explain why ii
is that our system Is not on a paying
basis, but 1t will be many years before
1t can be so considered.
Under No Restraint.
While the senate was operating un
der certain restrictions as to debate
Senator Hardwick wanted TO know il
he could speak o the main proposition
rather than on the amendment then
nondinr To which Vice presidnnt Mar