The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-06-08
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

by An W. DONN.
Washington, June s. - Especial. l.
President Wilson keeps informed Ia re
gard to what is going ON In congress
and is perfectly aware of the opposi
ton that exists against him rs well as
to the support he ear count on when
he Is much i'm earnest. President VIII
son Is going through that period of re
lationship to congress which falls to
every president who Is forceful and
has a mind and viii of his own. Pres
ident Wilson knows that there are
many men In congress who oppose him,
but he also knows that they cannot
show their hostility save at times when
1t viii not be subject to severe criti-
cism In the country
Vote Under Pressure.
No one knows better than the presi
dent that many voted for the war reso-
luton under PRESSURE; also that still
more voted for the CONSUMPTION bill
under greater pressure and with minds
unconvinced that 1t was best.
Knowing these men and knowing
much of what they have said In pri-
vate In regard to the manne In which
they have been forced against their
will to vote on these important meas
ures, IL is not strange that the presi-
dent feels that ~antagonisms have been
arnatA6 Raf hn alSn LnnNNG thnf hA
has the whip hand. As long as the
president has the country behind him
he need not care much about antago-
nisms In congress.
Universal Military Training.
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, who
introduced the first bill providing for
universal military training, intends to
push the measure when the actual war
legislation Is out of the way. lie says
that If we had had universal military
training there would have been no diff.
hculties over the selective draft of men
to organize an army.
CaIder's Daylight Bill.
Senator Calder of New York Is max.
Ing progress with his Saving daylight
Bill. He has II reported from the com
mittee on Interstate commerce and
some day he viii slip 1t through the
senate, unless the innovation IL pro
vides should arouse opposition. The
bill as II stands proposes to set the
clock ahead an hour on the last Sunday
In April each year and set 1t back M
hour ON the last Sunday In Septem
Der. Thus In the summer months ev
erybody will commence business and
work an hour earlier each day, witt
the supposition hat they will quit an
hour earlier I'm the afternoon each day
Uncle Joe and His Ways.
Former Speaker Cannon Is not keep
ing to any fixed routine this session o.
congress. As he expected IA short ses
sion he did not take a house this year
He is living easily. With "A comfor
able room at a hotel. he drifts arount
to the Press club for his breakfast
reads the papers, talks with the mel
he meets there and then goes to tn
capitol. He generally takes lunch a
what is called the newspaper table,
because most OF the correspondents OF
duty at the house wing take luncheon
at n particular table. Uncle Joe
a diner out. He In invited to variou
houses, clubs and hotels. for, althoug'
an ~octogenarian, he Is good compan.
at a dinner table.
Come Back to Hitchcock.
Senator Gore of Oklahoma ha'
charge of the agricultural bills for wa
purposes. Senator Hitchcock of Ne
braska, 1t will be remembered. pilote
the war resolution through the senat
because Senator Stone of Missouri wa
against 1t and Hitchcock was the mex
~anking member of the foreign rels
lions committee. Hitchcock criticise
the agricultural bill on account of tn
large number of Offices 1t created an
the large expenditures, and this is th
way Gore came back at him:
THE senator from Nebraska seem
to have forgotten an important Inc
dent in history. lie chaperoned a joir
resolution through this body involvin
this country In the worst war in hi
man history"
Gore then went on TO say that Hitcl
cock ought not to object to measur
to carry on the war
Is Cottage Cheese Humorous7
Congressman Haugen, discussing co
servation of food, mentioned cottas
cheese, and there was an outbreak
laughter. A little later he again me
iioned cottage cheese, and there WI
more laughter. Now the questit
arises. What Is there humorous abol
cottage cheese? 1t is known ON eve
farm and properly made is mighty go,
eating. But it is hard to see where
1t Is funny.
Since then the agricultural depal
ment has issued a press stateme
showing how nutritive is cottaI
cheese and the various ways In WIFI
it can be used In combination wi
other foods.