The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-01-22
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

large share OF the president program
must go overheard unless there is an
extra session OF congress. Nearly all
the leaders assert that 1t Is impossi
BILE to pass the railroad legislation
which the president has asked for In
the short time remaining, and the prob
abilities are that 1t will go over until
next winter. Along with 1t are "a mum
Der of measures which the president
has considered important, but which
will have to give way to the considera.
ton of the appropriation bills.
So far as can be learned, the presi-
dent will do everything he can to pre-
vent an extra session, and In view of
ahead Of him he will consider hat he
has got ample time In which to take
care Of the legislation that he wants
enacted before the end of his term.
Loss Of 1927, 100000.
With prohibition for the District Of
Columbia almost sure, the members of
congress know that 1t Is only a short
time until there Is nation wide prohi-
bition. 1t Is fully understood that
when congress approves prohibition for
the District of Columbia 1t has at least
taken n step toward national prohibit
ton. 1t has been pointed out that this
means II loss of revenue to the gov
eminent of 1927, O0O, 1000 annually. and
his amount must be made up from
other sources. A suggestion made In
this connection Is an increase on see
ond class mail matter to meet this and
other deficits. By the time we have
nation wide prohibition 1t Is asserted
that an Increase of all kinds of taxa
ton must be made.
Preserving Game.
For the past forty years more and
more rigid game laws have been en-
acted In the states, and now the ma
ton has taken 1t up In earnest In an
effort to provide game preserves and
also to protect migratory birds.
1t seems rather curious that the more
legislation there has been for the pro
lection of birds, especially game birds,
the greater the scarcity and danger of
determination have become. This IL
because the laws are altogether too lib
eral and afford the pot hunters an OPP
portunity to rival the "killers"-those
who kill for the Joy of seeing blood
with the result that bird life is being
extermlnated In America.
Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire
has proposed a bill for the protection
OF birds which will mean something.
Ii has teeth I'm Ii.
Has Not Helped.
Ii they did but know the impression
they have created the women who
have adopted semimilitant methods and
have been %"patrolling" in front of the
White House for the purpose of Undue.
ing President Wilson to take an active
part In their campaign for a national
suffrage amendment would abandon
any such plan. Up to the present Amer
len has not shown any sympathy with
militant methods, and the people have
yet a great respect for the office of the
president Of the United States, 40 mat
ter who may be holding Ii and what
his views may be. Many friends Of
the suffrage movement are sorry that
the women have taken this course
Putting II Mildly.
1t has been impossible for Senator
MARITIME Of New Jersey and Senator
Vardaman Of Mississippi to hit 1t of
very well, and as MARITIME uses y
contest Is somewhat unequal. After
one OF their redhot exchanges over the
question of prohibition In the District
of Columbia Vardaman, when MARITIME
sought TO say something, remarked, Il
decline to be interrupted by my anna
BILE and kind hearted and always in
teresting friend from New jersey
Has the City Man Down.
In one of his discursiye speeches on
the subject Of farmers having things
Hampton Moore of Philadelphia went
after Congressman Green of Iowa.
"He has made a violent attack upon
the great cities" said Moore, land ]
must defend them. He seems TO think
that there Is reason for congratulation
upon the part of the farmer that he
has got the city man down at the
present time and has made
profits out of the products of the farm.
The gentleman from Iowa chuckles
over the position in which the city
dweller finds himself and Is glad he
Is n representative of a truly prosper
Gus people"
He Did Not Like IL.
There was a rule which was brought
into the house the other day which
seems to have displeased Minority
Leader Mann, for this Is the way he
poke of 1t, 1t is a foolish, useless,
unnecessary and almost criminal prop
osition.'
He could not have said much more to
J show his dislike of the report which
was then being considered.