Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-04-15
WOULD LIMIT
HOUSE MEMBERS
Speaker Champ Clark FayOrs Limita'
ton of Membership in House OF
Representatives to Three
Hundred.
TAFT AND TEDDY MAKE UP.
Henry Ford Talks on War.-Plenty
of Able Bodied Men for the
Farms.
TAFT AND TEDDY MAKE UP.
Washington Bureau OF
Freeman-Journal.
Bv J. E. JONES.

BY J. E. JONES.
Speaker Champ Clark, in an ad-
dress before the Colorado Society OF
Washington, D. c., advocated the
arbitrary limitation of the house OF
representatives to 300 members.
with fewer men we could do the
business in shorter time than at pres
ent. Formerly we had nine months
vacation every year. he said. "NoW
we are in session practically all the
time"
The house has grown, and grown,
until it has become unwieldy Fol-
lowing the census of 1910 there was
an increase of about seventy men,
bers, and the congress that put thru
the reapportionment of districts knew
very we'll that it was laying up trou-
BILE for all future times; but political
expediency came first. When another
census is taken the house will doubt
less be made still larger in size, not
withstanding the protests of states
men like Speaker Clark who recog-
nize the evil Of the situation, and
who know that congress would not
be with us all the time if the house
were smaller, and could therefore
work faster.
Reconciliation Of Ex.Presidents.
Little things like the personal DIFF
ference of men do not count for much
in these busy days. Yet in 1912 the
whole Republican party went to "bat'
and to defeat over the quarrel be-
tween Messrs. Taft and Roosevelt.
When the latter was seriously sick
in a New York hospital recently, Mr.
Taft went to see him, and the Ratchet
was buried good and deep.'' And
now they write to each other, and COR
rect each others speeches before
they are delivered.
did Leadership tumble!
There are interesting stories re-
garding the Wisconsin senatorial
campaign floating about Washington.
Mr.. Davies, the Democratic candidate,
made a remarkable showing, con-
sidering that he was running in a
rock ribbed Republican state. And
now it is claimed that Mr.. Davies was
defeated by leaders within his own
party. The letter of the president at
lacking the loyalty of Mr.. Lenroot by
inference and the speech of Vice
President Marshall, telling the people
of the Badger state that they were
suspected of "disloyalty," are held to
have defeated Davies. Senator j
Hamilton Lewis, the democratic sena-
| tor from Illinois, was sent to Wis.
cousin, to campaign for Mr.. Davies
but returned to Washington without
making any speeches. The Repuhli'
can campaign committee even Wen,
to the length of issuing and circu'
lating the Vice Presidents speech
and used it to show that the people
of the state were being unjustly con.
demned, and held up as pro-German
The returns indicate that Wisconsin
| resented having a few of the Demo
cratic leaders and the press point tc
it and its people with suspicion. The
national Democratic management that
operated its long-distance' guns from
| Washington to Wisconsin, is roundly
censured for it's poor methods ant
Mr.Davies defeat is regarded as large
ly due to poor tactics on the part o.
some of his friends, notably Mr.. Mar
shall, which his great popularity wa:
unable to overcome.
On the other hand the Republican:
are proud of their victory, and Mr.