The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-03-12

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BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington, March 0.-[special j
Into the crowded days OF the last SEES.
sion OF congress-, so recently closed.
were injected many interesting incl
dents which have since appeared In be-
lated numbers Of the Congressional
Record. But IL In rather surprising
that at a time when the daily sessions
occupied from fourteen to eighteen
hours so much OF a trivial and incon-
~sequential nature was injected into the
debates.
In the senate much Of the talk was
designed for delay and was a flibus-
ter pure and simple. That always
happens at the close Of a short session.
Ii Is a part of the game where one
mar or a group OF men undertake to
force certain concessions or block leg
islation.
In the house. where flibustering Is
no longer successful, II seems absurd
that so much time is taken up with
trivial affairs.
Almost i~nfinltssimaI.
Along late one night a big appropri-
alton bill was held up while prominent
men In the house discussed the nan
agement of the house Office building
and employees, a matter wholly In
control OF a competent committee.
Those who complained heard one man
who was satisfied, Cyclone Davis of
Texas, who saw the end OF his day In
connection with the payroll. Said Cy-
clone:
1T may be that men who have such
luxurious surroundings at home, who
have such esthetic taste at home.
would find serious objection to the
situation In the house office building.
Not 80 with me. step on magnificent
carpets, | walk on marble, | battle In
basins with a choice as to waters and
dip the liquid soap about and have all
kinds of perfume, | have no objection
to f1nd about the situation"
Would Not Crltleiss.
Minority Leader Mann was the mem
Der who secured the increase for clerks.
III he had abandoned the fight at any
time 1t would have been lost. One day
when c~onferees OF the house showed
a disposition to surrender to the SEN
ate Mann said:
This Ia no compromise. 1t Is an ig-
nominious, disgraceful surrender, with
absolutely no excus for 1t. The house
took a vote yesterday, 2s2 to 81 In ia
o OF the house provision, and walk
ing out OF this chamber the conferees
on two bills, without discussing the
question, without attempting to get a
compromise, walked over to the senate
and abjectly surrendered"
The house applauded, and Mann, who
likes to remain on good terms with
members even when he roasts them,
added, II am not going to criticise the
action OF the conferees," which caused
general laughter.
Standing by the American Cow.
Opposing the Underwood oleomar-
gartne amendment Senator Kenyon Of
Iowa said there was every reason why
senators should stand by the American
cow. Senator Page OF Vermont" he
said, I'm giving his experience tells OF
rising at 4 o'clock In the morning, and
Senator Warren OF Wyoming goes him
one better by telling about getting up
at 3 O'Clock to do the milking. ! never
got up earlier than 8 o'clock"
Then Penrose Of Pennsylvania want
ed information and asked:
xviii not that pastoral condition
which the senator can look back to
with such pleasure be largely eliminat.
ed by the machinery which milks the
cows?"
Il viii say to my farmer friend from
Pennsylvania replied Kenyon. that
artificial milking has not beer a sue
cess. So the senator from Wyoming
may still have to rise In the early
morning hour"
Were In Evidence.
In the new congress Illinois will not
have three men who made themselves
somewhat conspicuous while they
were members. James Il. McDermott
Frank Buchanan and Clyde III. Taven
ner. McDermott came IN for much
rather unenviable notice In connection
with the Mulhall charges. Buchanan
as a labor leader and paciflst reached
a point where he came into collision
with the federal authorities In New
York. Tavenner as a prolific writer
congressional publisher and pronounc
ed p%acifst attained an extensive repu
tation throughout the country as wei
as In the house.
Lost an Educator.
BY redistricting the state and abol
ishing the member at large Alabams
has caused the loss Of an educator Ii
the house. John w. Abercrombi,
made a speciality of educational AFFAIR."
while a member OF congress. By add
Ing a new district, the Tenth, Aber
crombie has been let II The new
representative from the Tenth distric