Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-19

The police arrangements will be
what they always have been. Pennsyl-
vania avenue is a wide thoroughfare.
Every inch of it from curb to curb will
be given over to the paraders. Ropes
will be stretched for mile and half
along both sides of the right of way
and back of these ropes which will
run Just above the curbings on both
sides of the paradeway will stand the
multitudes of onlookers who have not
the price of window or of a seat on
a reviewing stand or who cannot buy
either because of preemption by the
early corners.
In front of the White House there
will be q reviewing stand for distin-
guished visitors. At the middle front
of the stand there will be erected a
glass enclosed structure much like
sentry box, only bigger, and in this
will stand the president and vice presi
dent of the United States, with their
wives and possibly one or two cabinet
officers.
The president and vice president,
after taking the oath of Office at the
capitol, will go directly to the review
ing stand in front of the White
House. There they must be on their
feet while the multitudes of paraders
march by. If the part of the stand
in which the chief officials take their
places were not inclosed and warmed
there probably would be job for some
of Washington's physicians on the next
day. Every time a flag of the United
States goes by, and there will be thou
sands of flags in the procession the
president and the vice president must
uncover, and this means having their
hats off large part Of the time.
Will He Veto 1t.
VIII President Wilson veto the inn
migration bill?
This is the question to which con-
gress is anxious for an answer. Mr..
Wilson's record in the case makes a
veto look probable. He forbade the
legislation once before and it failed
of passage over his veto by narrow
margin.
There has been more interest in con-
gress this year over immigration Leg
islation than almost anything else
which has come before the lawmakers.
The feeling as the members generally
express it is that after the war in Eu-
rope is over this country is likely to
! become the place toward which great
floods of immigrants will come. The
proponents of the bill say that now is
the time to pass it and get it on the
statute books.
The whole immigration restriction
trouble lies in trying to find some
means to keep out what the legislators
declare to be the undesirables. The
literacy clause has been put into the
present measure as it was put into 1t
on former occasions. No adult who
cannot read and write will be adj
mitted if the bill shall become law.
1t was this clause in the immigration
bill which made President Taft veto
the measure and which later caused
President Wilson to interpose his own
II forbid"
Majority of People Favor 1t.
The opponents of the literacy clause
say that it is un-American, and there
stands opposed to it a combination of
men and organizations of men in the
country not usually found together on
any specific piece of legislation. Many
Americans of long descent joined with
recently arrived immigrants from Eu-
rope in opposing the passage of the
BILL
1t would seem, however, from the
number of petitions pro and con which
have come into Washington that ma
jority Of the people of the country is
willing to have this legislation become
a law. Will President Wilson veto it?
| That is what congress wishes to know.
The house passed the measure last
April and as the senate has acted fav-.
orably, it will go to the president to
be put to the test.
Shall District Be Made Dry?
Another question which is not only
interesting congress, but sharply in
teresting the inhabitants of the City of
Washington, is SIS the District of CO.
lumbia to be made dry territory"
Congress now has before it a bill
which will prevent the manufacture
and the sale of any kind of alcoholic
liquors in the District. The measure
as first drawn was SO. drastic as to
prevent a private citizen taking
drink in his own home or offer drink
to a guest. Amendments have been Of
fered and accepted which will make
lighter some of the restrictions
1t is not known definitely yet Wheth-
er this measure will pass because it is
possible that the committee of the
house which has it in keeping may not
report it for vote at this session,
but the general feeling is that it will
be reported and voted upon. The SEN
ate is certain to take action one way
! or the other.
The national capital has had two
short experiences with prohibition. In