Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-29
OLD METHODS YIELD q:
TO NEW IN THE HOUSE
Ancient and Honorable Office of Speaker Loses
! Potentially, Power Passes to- Steering
Committee-"TeamW Results.

ton the New YORK sun pTlHlSo oA
interview with the captain OF the
Brazilian liner Uberaba. in port June
"a, declaring Brazil had raised more
coffee than ever before and that cor
fee was choking the docks in Rlo. the
best grades to be bought retail at
10 cents pound
Congress is likely to call CT the
State Department for reports from
consular agents as to the coffee cor
ner" and upon the Federal Trade Com
mission to look into the speculative
end of the deal in New York How
ever. it is ntimated that most of the
coffee plungers have gone to RIO ana
are opera ting from tina. en- OF 'he
line. The spectators, * is said, ex-
pect to reach the millennium of pros
perity after the country has gone
thoroughly dry. and the people. seek
ing stimulant. increase the consump-
ton of the cup that cheers but does
not inebriate.
Which recalls the remarks of a
bibulous gentleman the other day.
who, making wry face over bottle
of near-beer, opined that it neither
cheered nor inebriated"
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Here are 5000 more clerks to find |
places, which will be good news to
those who may
PROPOSES PLACES be dropped out
FOR 5000 CLERKS. in, the reor-
ganization Of
q Yfv mo ante Vf,1u I he
put in the appropriation bill for the
War Department provision for 5000
clerks to go over the records of the
adjutant generals Office which in
bulk would fill building the size of
the State. War and Navy building
three times over" according to a
statement made by Gen Harris. In
the course of his testimony Gen. Har-
ris made the interesting statement
that there are 100000 men under in
dictment in the Department of JUS
tice, and the papers concerning these
men are in the files. He also said
there are 100000 men under indict-
ment by the military forces for
military offenses, a large number of
them in confinement and compelled
to remain there until the records are
opened and classified and the infor-
nation furnished them.
That there are 100000 men under
indictment for military ofrenses' and
100000 by the Department of Justice
surprised senators. 1t was esti-
mated by Gen. Harris that it will
take 1000 clerks one year to; classify |
and arrange the records and that
it will take 1000 clerks one year to
furnish adjutant generals Of states
with desired information contained
In the records.
Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania is
conducting a vigorous campaign for
reform in mu-
SENATOR PENRosE nicipal govern
OUT FOR REFORMS. ment ina his
"S state. beingsi in
a position by reason of his standing
in the republican Organization Of, the
state to WELD the balance of power in !
the accomplishment of reform. He is
sometimes called q boss" in politics.
His friends point out that he was boss |
ton through the legislature. despite |
the opposition raised by interested
elements.
In point of fact, Senator Penrose
has been student Of municipal gov J
eminent for thirty years, his friends
know.
zone general principle is clearly |
establishing itself" said Senator Pen
reform charter secured for the city
Of Philadelphia; that is that munic-
ipal government increases in efficiency
in exact ratio in which 1t Is divorced
from partisan politics. In this con-
neetion l might state !, that. in in IN, my
ity for general public service in
creases in the ratio in which it
disentangles itself from municipal
politics. No system of munich !
istrative efficiency can function prop |
erly or completely along party lines.
1t is an absurdity to mix pro-
lection or free trade with highway
paving or garbage disposal; to asso-
ciate the league Of nations or the
street cleaning"
Well, anyhow, the Senate gave
s125,00O more for the care of those
Id iers
WILL REQUIRE NERVE and sail
TO HALT AMENDMENT. or boys
over in
St. Elizabeths. whose condition has
excited general horror and indigna-
ton following the official recitals
Now let's see who will have the nerve
to oppose the amendment