The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-02-27

ton to Speakership Of Next House.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington, Feb. %. -tSpecial. In
case OF actual hostilities there will be
a necessity for n lot of rushed military
legislation. Bills that have been hung
up FOR years and debated at great
length will be passed without much de.
lay and almost no discussion. Con-
gress will take the position that what
ever the national administration wants
In time of great national stress or peril
be granted ungrudgingly.
When u enemy was bankrupt Spain.
with an army Of no consequence and a
navy that was almost nothing, we start
ed with $50,O00,O00 as an emergency
appropriation placed at the disposal Of
President Mckinley. IL Is expected
that double that amount or even four
times as much would be voted In case
Of war with Germany.
A Very Small Item.
1t is an interesting fact that In the
movement of troops to Mexico and han
ding them on the border without any
actual warfare the war department
was without sufficient blanks to carry
ON what IL known as paper work"
that relating to moving troops. sup
plies and records.
The government printing office was
unable TO print these blanks In sufil
cient quantities to supply the army.
The war depa rtmen was not then aud
has not since been granted authority TO
go outside the government printing Of
fee for this printing.
Such are the strange ways OF con.
Quoting a government.
Authorities on international Law.
By ommon consent everybody In
the house of representatives comedies
that Congressman Fess of Ohio and
Congressman Temple of Pennsylvania
are the best authorities ON information
al law In that body. Whenever either
of these men discusses the subject OF
international complications and the
rights of belligerents and neutrals he
Is always listened to with attention,
and the comments made by other mem
bers indicate that they are well In
formed on all such complicated cues.
lions.
Numerous Authorities In the Senate.
In the senate there are numerous au.
thorities on international law. Not
only has the senate a great many con
stitutional lawyers, but 1t Is well sup
piled with lawyers who are versed I'm
international affairs aud who can gen.
orally speak by the card as TO what Is
constitutional law. Among them are
Lodge of Massachusetts, Stone of Mis-
souri,, McCumber of North Dakota.
Borah of Idaho, Sutherland OF Utah.
Lewis OF Illinois, Hitchcock of Nebras-
ka, as well as some others who have
given a great deal of attention to the
subject.
Mann and Gardner.
The rows or differences between MI.
nority Leader Mann and Congressman
Gardner of Massachusetts are actual
and not simply a little display for pur-
poses Of amusing members of the house
or such visitors as may be in the gal
lery. No one can listen to the debates
and the differences which are shown
between these distinguished men and
understand that they are in actual
disagreement and personally determin-
ed to oppose each other.
Thn n.ao4snr 80 Xho ~
house may depend upon the attitude OF
these w men toward each other. For
instance, Ii the Republican caucus
should nominate Mann for speaker It
may be found that Gardner has
strength enough to prevent his election.
1t may be that Gardeners opposition
will force the nomination of some 9TH
er man for speaker.
And SO Ii Is shown that the Repub-
Of the next house without an ac-
tual majority may be unable to get to-
themselves.
All Gone Overheard.
1t looks as If every vestige OF con
legislation had gone over
board. For several weeks Senator Ny
ers Of Montana did the best he could 10
get the water power bill before the
senate, but it was pushed aside from
time to time and finally abandoned. So
It seems with other conservation meas
ures. They are all going into the scrap
heap.
Marshalr's Announcement.
When the second class mail matter in
The ~p0stofice bill was finally disposed
Of Senator Kenyon OF Iowa asked II
he Jones amendment had been reach
ed. The Jones amendment was that
which provided that newspapers carry
Ing liquor advertisements could not cir
culate in prohibition states, to which
Senator Reed of Missouri had attached
provision prohibiting the importation
Df liquor into prohibition states. In re-
ply to Kenyon's query Vice President
said:
1T has. We change now from post
age to intoxicating liquor"