Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-05
CONGRESSMAN MOORES
LETTER
Republican Leaders Under Pres.
sure to Achieve Harmony in
NctO Consress-Army
Maii Delays
Washington. d. C., Feb. 6.

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DEMOCRATS have been making many
mistakes. and IL the news ever gets
beyond the Congressional Record the Ad-
ministration will have a good many things
to account for when the Republicans re-
turn to the control OF Congress-. But the
Republicans, while they realize that there
will be party advantage after March
next, and especially IL the President calls
an extra session. are showing many OF the
symptoms OF disorga niyation which they
are generally prone to attribute to their
opponents The fight over the speakership
OF the House and the control OF the Senate
Finance Committee are not conducive to
that "cohesiveness" which Is advocated by
men like David II. Lane, Of Philadelphia,
and which is generally recognized as help
full to party success. 1t is evident that
Pinchot, OF Milford, who recently punched
Penrose In an open letter, has given the
country beyond Pennsylvania an oppor-
tunity to make trouble for the Pennsyl-
vania leader II It desires to do 20. Penrose
treats the matter slightingly and will prob
ably win out In the end, although he Is un-
questionably topic OF political discussion.
The national chairman, VIII II. Hays, has
figured in much Of the speakership and
Senate finance committeeship talk. Whether
he is wise to interfere is an open question,
but his visits to Washington have been
frequent and It is said he has given en-
couragement to the fight on the House
leadership Of Representative Mann. II is
also apparent that men like Longworth
and Fess of Ohio, are more inclined to go
into the Gillett camp than to support
Mann. The fights In the Senate and House
are becoming interviewer to such an extent
as to lead to the belief that some very
clever diplomacy will be necessary and a
good many ambitious booms will have to
be suppressed If united action in the next
Congress is to be secured.
THERE was a touch of old Diamond
- street to Washington the other night
when Harry Somers, Jr., and James Bar.
clay Young, of the consular service, struck
out for the X street residence of James
Rankin Young. 1t Is not SO very many
years ago that Jim Young represented the
Fourth District in Congress and Harry
Somers, Sr. was recognized by Mayor War.
wick as the leader Of the Thirty second
Ward. They both lived on Diamond street,
where the young folk were thrown to.
gether. somers. Jr.. has developed into a
rafting good business man and Barclay
Young has attained fine record for for.
eign service.
AN ACCOUNT Of a daring "hold.up" Of
Ath Long Beach and Manahawkin train
way back when "The Bungalow" Of Colo.
mel William Henry Sayen, Of st. Davids,
was young. has Just reached Washington
through the medium Of Brother James
Mercer Davis's Burlington Gazette, founded
in 1885 And the story has greatly inter-
ested Edgar c. Snyder, the Washington
correspondent of the Omaha Bee, who was
on the train at the, time the Barnegat
Pirates entered 1t and went through the
owner Of the Bungalow and several of his
guests, including the late Admiral Mel
vile, who was tipped off in time to submit
tamely. Snyder says he always did suspect
that the train was stopped by the late
Frank Fenimore the manager of the road
disguised as Bargulus. the pirate chief
j.
the old-time minstrel, were in the plot
Eddie further observes that Brother Davis
could probably get to the bottom of this
mysterious but almost forgotten incident
in the history of Harvey Cedars by call
ing up Edward ID. Stokes, of Mount Holly
and the Peahala Club.
TIME relations existing between the late
L Congressman Robbins, of Greensburg,
and Congressman Ware. Of Philadelphia,
were not especially close. Robbins was a
lawyer with a military record, who had
taken a deep interest-almost a students
interest--in the House proceedings He was
Of very serious turn of mind. Strange
enough, however. one OF his last acts on the
floor was to ask permission to extend his re-
marks in order to insert a speech made in
Philadelphia by Congressman Ware. 1t
was an accommodation-one of those cour-
tesies which one member sometimes ex.
tends to another to save the embarrass.
ment of asking to have something done
for oneself. A great deal of notoriety fol-
lowed the publication of the speech. but
Robbins. being taken suddenly Ill, probably
never knew OF 1t. When Joe Rodgers, one
of the Republican clerks OF the House. was
lining up the members to attend the Rob-
bins funeral Ware stepped forward to be
included. He said 1t was due to the men,
ory of his colleague that he should put in
an appearance at the obsequies
u CLINTON RHoADs. a member of the
~. Philadelphia bar who often figures In
public movements. had a son-in.law, Fred.
eric b. Prichett who became a lieutenant
of the losth Field Artillery. was wounded
In action In France and died Of his wounds
September 6. 1918 His story is one that
hundreds, even thousands. of good Ameri.
can citizens are now telling with regard to
their own experience. 1t 10 one Of inability
to get satisfaction from the War Risk
Bureau concerning the obligations of the
government to the soldier. 1t is not alto
gether an idle suggestion. but the irrita-
ton which American families are suffering