The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-05-31

or Senate whenever anything OF I'M
portance was going on. ! have been
Interested in seeing the people who
are making the laws and who are run
ming the government. However, con-
gress is not running the government
that is being done from the White
House.
did not go to the White House
except to go by and look thru the
great iron barred gates. AT the
gate stands two ladies' Carrying BAN
ners. They seem TO be waiting for
the President. One banner reads.
I'VE demand Democracy and self
government in our land;" the other
reads, Mr.. PreAidedt, How Long
Must Women Wait for Liberty"
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A lot of argument and talk goes on
in both houses that isn't very in
teresting to the visitor. And then
some of it is very interesting.
One morning Mr.. j. @. Tilson OF
the Military Affairs committee gave
an address on Arms and Their Manu-
facture. He had on exhibition sam
pies of practically all the guns. rifles.
pistols and machine guns used by the
European nations and by the U. s.
His talk was very illuminating and
he showed how far short this country
is in arms and how impossible it
would be to manufacture enough
rifles 10 equip our army for year
and a half 1t seems that our fac
tories can turn out the British type
of rifle much faster than the u. s.
army type, because they are all aquip-
ped for the British rifle. He painted
a rather dismal picture of our lack
of preparedness in arms. Some con-
gressman asked if such information
might not get to the enemy. "oh,
they know it," he replied. Everybody
knows it but u.s."
g.sg
The best thing this week in the
house was the debate on the Roose-
welt Amendment. There was some
pep and ginger. and fireworks TO that.
1t was not an array of statistics and
dull argument, but was a discussion
that gave opportunity for a display of
oratory. Each side had an hour and
the hour was divided up between
many speakers each having only
from one to FIVE minutes. And each
speaker tried to say all he could in
the short time allotted to him The
boys of the Canon City debating team
would have enjoyed that debate.
This proposition was voted down a
few weeks ago. but it was brought up
for reconsideration Saturday and car
ried. II provides merely that there
may be raised four divisions of volun-
teers of 10000 each and that the
President shall appoint the officers
its object is TO make place for Mr.
Roosevelt If the President will ap-
point him.
The army officers and the Admin
istration leaders have been against
the proposition. Politics was charg
ed by both sides and much praise and
harsh criticism for Mr.. Roosevelt was
handed out. But the Roosevelt parti.
and several Democrats spoke in his
favor.
James A. Gallivan. Democrat from
Boston, a base ball player in his Har.
ward days and a man who looks and
talks like Billy Sunday, made a hot
talk directed chiefly at his Demo
cratic side. He said he understood
the war lords of the cabinet do not
want the Colonel to go because they
say he will prove hopelessly incom-
petent. Have you, my fellow congress
men. ever tried to get any real infor-
nation from these officials of the War
Department since the war started? II
you have, have you yet found a really
/ think the most eloquent speech
of the day was made by Billy Mason
of Illinois. ] picked him out in the
House from his picture in the patent
medicine ads and have been wonder.
ing how in the world he ever got in.
TO the U. S. Senate or the House, but
after hearing his speech Saturday. ]
can easily see. AS speaker he is a
crackeriack.
Uncle Joe Cannon closed the argu-
ment for his side. He is perhaps not
as strong a speaker as he used to be-
but he made a fine talk. In his re-
marks he said. II am not a political
friend Of Theodore Roosevelt. l did
not vote for him in 1912 and l never
expect to vote for him for President