The Washington times., 1918-03-26
By W. v. BYARS.

. - ANO.
trenches, rather than boys-''not yet
even allowed to vote" With the dis
cussion still in progress, point OF
order closed 1t for the day.
| AS the writer OF this column has
had his childhood's recollections OF
the Confederacy during the civil war
confirmed by subsequent observation
and research, he can state that the
Confederate armies did consist
mostly of boys. And those gallant
boys on both sides were sent to death
In that hell OF slaughter by the
mouths OF men mostly over forty
f! all old enough to know their right
4 hands from their left" These fire
eating" mouth-hghters were some
times taken from the Halls Of Con-
gress" and other Halls" and COM
missioned as soldiers from colonel to
general. A few OF them fought
Among these few are one or two i'm
mortal names, but most Of them
came back with the rheumatism or.
something which disabled them dur
ing the rest of their lives from all
forms Of activity except running for
office" in which they remained fore
most This Is for information only.
1t may never be pertinent TO any
thing practical, unless the 'Ossler
theory" is applied to men over forty
for the benefit Of boys under twenty
one.
After passing the bill authorizing
the President to commander timber
IL Az khn CAnofn
took up the Indian appropriation bill,
and Senator Myers of Montana made
a strong plea for national good faith
, in continuing works Of domestic i'm
provements, "non-essential" in their
relations to war. He showed that If
irrigation projects, begun on great
Indian reservations in the West, are
allowed to lapse, many will be ruined
through their confidence in the Gov
eminent, while all who have settled
around such irrigation districts must
suffer.
The House spent the day on the
postal salary increase bill, and adj
3ourned without passing it. It re-
tanned its amendments making in
creases permanent. Joseph G. Can
non warned all concerned that we
must come back to a strictly bust
ness basis after the war, when $3.50
wheat would bring a good price at
70 cents, and all other war prices
promoted by imitation would reach
their corresponding level. Having
been through this sort of thing after
the civil war, "Uncle Joe" asked to
be permitted to warn the House in
plain language that 'h-ll was to
pay"-as, for example, when corn
reached its lowest level. He was
permitted, but the wisdom of exper-
fence with hill made no difference.
In reporting the Crosser bill, au-
thorizing Government ownership of
District of Columbia street railroads,
the District Of Columbia Committee
gave the House much useful infor-
nation. II included the range Of
prices for privately owned aldermen,
as paid by street railroad magnates.
1t ranged as low as $1,000 in De-
troit. The highest New York price
cited was $4,000, but $4,000 was
offered for mayor in Detroit.
The Senate Committee on Judici-
airy reported favorably the Admin
istration bill to include women in
the law Of 1898 for confirming or de-
porting obnoxious aliens. Under a
Senate amendment, the act is not 10
apply to loyal American women mar
ried to aliens, but residing in the
United States. There is no informa-
ton available for estimating how
many American countesses and
other noblewomen this may exempt.
Senator Smith of Georgia called I'D
the subject of educating illiterate
drafted men. Mr.. Gallinger dexter
ously reminded him that the South
ern States had defeated the "Blair
bill" for Graduating illiteracy at the
South at national expense. The sub
ject went over without recording the
fact that the "solid South" objected
to the Blair bill as intended to apply
chiefly to the education of colored
Republicans when it was said they
were too illiterate to vote.
Under the Wingo bill, favorablv
reported to the House by the Com.
mittee on Banking and Currency. a
means Of "stabilizing'n national hanks"
is provided in localities which have
been overstocked during boom pe-
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