Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-15

into the individual room. there are no
more accommodatfsnsS for the surplus
now than there were in the day OF the
extra crowding. Newly elected repre-
sentatives and senator's are searching
for houses and apartments. They are
having their troubles, although per-
haps they can get what they want
if they are willing to pay for it and
paying for it in this day means some
thing.
Apartments Used as Offices.
The government took over in the
press of war times considerable
number of apartment buildings, turn
ing them temporarily into office struc-
| lures. Many of them still are so oc-
cupied. This seizure, If that Is the
proper word to use, meant that good
many families were compelled to seek
| new quarters and found themselves
! jostling with newcomers to Washing
ton in the race to find places to live.
To make the conditions worse. the
| old-time winter residents of the Capt.
| tai City insisted on coming back. They
| belong to the leisure classes and there
was no more reason why they should
| live in Washington in winter than In
New York, or in Chicago, or in st.
Louis. or in Atlanta, Ca, but back
they would come.
In a well-known hotel in Washing
7 ton during the winter seasons there
always are living persons of means
who come here simply TO pass the win
| gress. to visit the art galleries and
the museums and TO do other things
| pleasant to themselves but of no serv-
| ice to the community.
This hotel, at a time when every
room in Washington was needed for
the war workers, was pretty well filled
with winter visitors who had come
| either to rest or to see the sights. Two
men who had come here to engage in
war work entered the hotel lobby.
They asked for rooms and were told
it would be impossible to accommO-
date them because the hotel was filled
to overlooking.
Party Rows IN Lower House.
There are troubles in the ranks of
both great political parties in the low
er house of congress. Nicholas Long
worth, Republican, of Ohio, says that
James Mann, Republican, of Illinois is
"reactionary," and "Jim," retorting.
says "Nick" is society bud"
Some of the Democrats in the house
say that Champ Clark ought not to be
their floor leader in the coming con-
gress because he SIS not in entire &C
cord with the administrations poll
cies." Mr.. Clark's friends intimate
that these gentlemen do not know
what they are talking about.
The little ruction' between Mr.. Long
worth and Mr.. Mann is due to the fact
that the Republican caucus, while it
named Frederick H. Gillett as its can
didate for the speakership, seemingly
left the house organization well under
the control of Mr.. Mann. Mr.. Long
worth thinks things should have been
done differently in the way of prepar-
ing for the dispensing of house patron
mitteemen. Hence these two Repub-
leans, the Ohioan and the nliHoisan,
have been saying tart things to each
other.
The Democrats will be in the minor
| ity in the house in the next congress,
and therefore, as is entirely natural,
| their toubles will not call for as much
public attention as will the troubles
of the Republicans provided the latter
do not smooth things out and enter
on course of amiability, concord and
| brotherly love prior to the time of the
converting of congress in extra session.
Clark and the Presidency.
The Democratic situation is made
interesting, however, by the fact that
most people think Champ Clark will
be a candidate for the nomination of
his party for the presidency of the
United States at the next national con-
vention. So it is some persons are
saying that the opposition to Mr.
Clark, as it is evidencing itself in a
perhaps small way among the Demo
Gratis in the house, is based not so
much on the desire to keep him from
the floor leadership as to prevent his
taking the presidential nomination
plum out of the hand of some other
Democrat whom the Clark opposition
in the house may wish to support.
The controversy between Jim"
Mann and mick Longworth has
aroused not only interest in Washing
ton but a good deal of amusement.
LOngworth naturally resents being
| called a society bud. The truth about
Nick is that while he goes good deal
into society in Washington, as do
other men, he does not seem to like
it Overmuch. He is much more likely
| TO be found standing alongside the
wall in the drawing room of society,
looking very much bored, than he Is
to be found mingling with the merry
makers and shaking his foot in the
| latest dance.
There is considerable fun, in the sit
uatiOn because in the gravity of war
| times one can find fun in anything
short of d funeral, provided the tick
ling thing has nothing to do with the
/ ensanguined field.
The LongwOrth following among the
Republicans in the house in the pres
ent situation consists, it is claimed, Of
about sixty men, but this seems to be
an overstatement. The Jim Mann
forces have possession of the machine
gun nests, but the heavy artillery
seems to be about equally divided be-
| tween the two forces. Soon there is
to be meeting in the field with the
arms left behind, but whether it will
result in a compromise suggestive of
| surrender ON both sides or in the