The Nevada County picayune., 1918-08-01

Women Asserting lheir h'sh's 'o
 Official Positions.
 By ARTHUR w. DUNN.
 uoshinqton.-War work is going ,.ore smoothly. IL has taken long
 lime to get the immense amount or military machinery in motion, but ap- ,orently everybody about the war de- nsrtment is now satisfied with the way fl is running There Is d hitch now and then. and some little criticism or unimportant matters, but the pig things are being done and the main fact is that there are over million soldiers in Europe and that every month sees many thousands more add- cd to the number. There Is some queS- lions as to whether the methods pur- sued are the best. but upon the whole the results speak for themselves and, what is more. the conduct of the Amer ican troops, their fighting qualities, the successes they have achieved, wipe out everything in the past in regard to mistakes and miSmanagement.
 Even though the weather has been all that could be asked, cool and com fortable, it did not prevent the rising of temperatures in congress, particu- larly in the senate There has been n considerable display of temper, one of the principal outbreaks being by Sen ator Penrose. The big Pennsylvania senator wanted Il recess; but he did not want the bill passed for govern ment control of telegraph and tele- phone lines; he was very much op- posed to the prohibition provision in the agricultural survey bill. Not hay ing his way. he expressed his opinion very forcibly, and when Penrose goes on the warpath he generally bags something. With a strong personality, impervious to criticism, master of him. self, with command of language either vindCtive or sarcastic, he can generally make the fur fly" when he decides to start something" in the senate. There was no more interesting occasion during the present session than when PenrOse went on the war path after the recess flasco. Several Of his opponents were winged during his onslaught.
 AS the woman suffrage program ad- sances there is every indication that women are going to assert their rights 10 official positions. A recent state ment from the National Woman's Trade Union league, announcing the appointment of woman uS the assist ant chief of the new woman's bureau ih the department of labor, pointed out that until traditions are broken, and men acquire the habit of putting wom- en m administrative and consultive po- auohs as readily and as frequently as meS put men in such places, the wom- ans bureau has big work cut out for !" The new appointee also insists upon equal pay for equal work by women and men. That has been the general rule in employment in the gov ernment departments.
 senator Borah of Idaho did not like ene way business was proceeding late Ill uie afternoon on the day the senate voted to take u recess. He said that 'aey did not get order he would take tue hoor and hold 1t until order was .es'ored Il do Dot propose to see
 cessation pass in this way" he said.
 we are holding caueuses, double eau NuseS and Joint caueuses here in the aiSe and considering the question of a 'eceSs while legislation of vital impor-
 "ee IS being pushed through in the iusioh. One of two things must aappeh' We will either legislate in or- Nei UT We will not legislate at all" anu theh Senator Overman of North
 '''iha' Chairman of the committee va rules, considered that it was good aue to shut up shop and moved an executive session.
 congressman Hersey of Maine made .v .V'ne observations in the house when s"s,s a's census hill was up, which were de- ~s',p'iSe Of the feelings of treasury ~a'shdog," Hersey was acting as one ue time and was barking at the ul upehui'ures provided for in the bill
 ne m remarked that President Wilson sns under an awful responsibility" ,h' 1 'nat today, in another room of m aS mpltol, sits the great committee
 s,nay @ayS and means to provide for the roae e'' revenue bill eyer enacted. The ., ,p'nsloiIity of the Democratic lead. rasna , MT hltchin. Is tremendous. but the vroa' rpo"S'ol'ity of the president or of n no.a Sosa. leader Is not so great and i'm. sen,a., .an' as that of the humblest repre- 1 th,s , Who honestly attempts at urv,a nt to De watchdog of the treas ona so that is how it feels to be