Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-11
CONGRESSMAN MooRE'S
LETTER
Many Delegations Of PhiIadelphlans
Visit Observation-Disclosures Scott
Of the Army Is Now Major.
Congresses Come and Go,
but an Uncle joe Is
Always on the Job"
Washington, ID. c., June IL.


Washington, ID. C., June IL.
r BPuBLlCANS in Congress are trying to
~ make economy a watchword. They are
having a hard time to do it. The start on
the Indian appropriation bill and the agri-
cultural bill was not favorable, since each
bill carried slightly increased appropriations
over the bills prepared by the Democrats
which failed in the Senate. But there was
some excuse for these two bills because of
the Republicans desire to get them out of
tn" way to take up the larger appropriation
bills for the army and navy. The Democrats
insisted that the Republicans had accepted
these measures about as the Democrats
framed them, but the Republicans rctorted
that they had only until the Both of June to
get all appropriation bills through or be com
PEELED to resort to the Democratic method of
extending the preceding years appropria
tions into the new year. This. with the
army and navy bills. would carry war ap-
preparations into peace times. The Repub-
lcans insisted that if Mr.. Wilson had called
Congress into extra session on the 9th of
March, rather than hold up the session until
the 10Th of May, the situation would have
been different. Then there would have been
time to go into the bills more carefully.
Moreover. they insisted that the Democrats
had not made up their committees for
whole week after the Republicans had com
plcted theirs. thus delaying hearings and
otherwise forcing hasty consideration of the
routine bills above referred to. 1t is evident
that Il good deal of Democratic jockeying is
to be done before the November elections.
The Presidents attitude on the beer. wine
and whisky business is pointed to as indi
eating that Republicans will be forced to
play the game wisely if they expect to catch
up to the President before election.
DELEGATIONS from Philadelphia come
~ to Washington on variety Of errands.
Th" College of Pharmacy, intent on obtaining
suitable recognition by way of rank for
pharmacists in the navy. has been talking
the matter over with Congressman Darrow
and others. Prof. T.. Fullerton Cook was
carly on the ground, along with Prof. Charles
II. la Wall. president of the American
Pharmaceutical Association: President
George NJ. Beringer, of the National pharma-
ccutical Service Association. and Lieutenant
O. &. Rugc of the United States navy. Jacob
Singer, formerly register of wills, the same
neat and forceful speaker he was when
making the round of the wards as caudi-
date, has been here with former Council
man Jacob GinSburg. now president of the
Publishers Association of the American
Press in Foreign Languages, and s. Ettin-
ger, of Fifth and Pine streets. executive sec
retary of the peoples relief committee for
the Jewish war sufferers. all protesting
against the pogroms in Poland. Robert
DrippS, one time director under the Blank
cnburg administration occasionally comes
over to talk about the Purple Cross. the or
ganiaation started by Prof. II. S. Eckcs the
late General !. Lewis Good and ex State
Senator McNulty, to embalm and preserve
our soldier dead in order that their bodies
might be returned to the United States for
intermcnt-a movement that has not yet re-
ceivcd the sanction of the War Department.
TNl1AT good old devotee of healthy sport,
L John F. Hunckcr, who re alls the days
when Judge Howard a. Davis was clever
with the mtts. is gravtating between the
Art Club and his cabin at Browns Mills in
the Pines, according to Dr. Robert y. Keely.
an Arctic explorer, who includes Washing
ton occasionally in his pcregrinations. Hun
eker and Kcely and Upton II. White have n
real hunch for the Pines. They are all good
sports with an artistic temperament but
they do like the long walks and the open air
that sweeps over the Jersey barrens All of
them are more or less interested in their
travelling companions who run up against
the troublesome passport problem in war
times. Huneker, by the way, is related by
marriage to General Edward Barnard
FIankcy, of the British army, whose mother
in law Mrs. Catherine f. Dohan, resides at
Darlington, Pa.
THE chaplain job in the United States
army is very busy one. So it is in the
0avy. And owing to certain restrictions of
law it is difficult for a chaplain to rise very
high in rank. A chaplain is not supposed to
be very much of a fighting man from the very
nature of his calling, but he has to.be on the
firing line with the boys nevertheless. 1t
will be agreeable to his many friends in
Philadelphia to know that William Reese
Scott, captain, Seventeenth Infantry, camp
chaplain, Camp Meade, Maryland, a popular
worker among the boys, has attained the un :
usual distinction of a majors rank for the
duration of the war. Major Scott, like his
comrades of the cloth, has been pretty well
around the circle. AS it used to be in the
Methodist Church, the chaplains are itin
Grant. For a while Chaplain Scott was at
Fortress Monroe, then he was transferred to
Honolulu, having some interesting expert
ences in the Hawaiian Islands, then back to
the states for various assignments, and
finally to Camp Meade, where his last desg
nation awaited him.
GENERAL Republican Uncle Joes'' used
~ to hold the boards at Washington. Firs
and foremost was Uncle Joe" Cannon
then Uncle Joe" Sibley and then ''Uncl'
Joe" Fordney Congressman Sibley, who
represented the Franklin (Pa.) district wa,
one of the prominent men on the Republican
| side, and his name figured big in the recon
struction legislation following the Spanish
American war. But 'Uncle joe Sibley ha'
been confined to his bed in Franklin for sew
eral years. He keeps in close touch will
public affairs, however, in addition to direct
| ing River Ridge Farm Just now "Uncl
Joe's" voice is for economy. 'Nev
schemes" he says, ''are continually evolved
for making the world safe for socialism unde
the name of democracy. We hav
gone through the wild extravaganza of wa
| IL -. ,n,st raturn To sane nmrsIits q