Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1921-12-22
Washington Correspondence.

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reading from the manuscript. This
had nevar been done since the days
of Jefferson until President Wilson
began 1t. However, the concensus
of opinion around the chamber, after
the reading, was that it had fallen
fiat-was heavy and uninteresting.
Senator Bob LaFollette's remark,
SIT sounds like he wrote it himself"
will not bring that insurgeat into bet
ter standing at the White House when
the President hears of it. or course
it caused laugh, for everyone in the
inner circles about the Capitol had
heard the gossip about how ex.Sena-
tor George Sutherland of Utah was
CONSIDERABLY relieving the President
of the somwhat onerous task of writ
ing his speeches. Color has been
lent to the story by the long sojourn
of the former Senator at Marion while
the campaign was on, together with
his trips with the nominee. Now the
Senator lie spending practically all his
time in Washington, where nice pieces
of patronage find their way into his
hands. For instance, he receives
$4,000 per year from the Shipping
Board to furnish opinions "when de-
sired" He was also placed on the
board to receive the various proper
ties of the packers recently dlsmem-
bered by law. The Senator is noted
for the grace with which he wields
the typewriter.
The Democrats thought they had it
firmly imbedded in the law that
preference in appointments in the
Governmental service should be given
to men who served in the World War,
not merely as an appreciation of their
patriotic service put to aid in COM
pensating business disadvantages suf-
fered through their absence from
their accustomed walk of life. Presi-
dent Wilson approved the law with
his signature and upheld 1t in practice,
as we'll as the civil service law provid-
ing for the selection of the person
making the highest rating in the ex-
animation. Almost as soon as Mr..
Harding became President he issued
an order rendering it unnecessary to
name the person making the highest
rating, and then proceeded, through
his subordinstes, to put the law as to
former service men in the discard.
Numerous cases have occurred where
the former service man was refused
the appointment though hehad shown
a higher rating in the examination
than the one receiving the appoint
ment. One of these cases occurred
in the Congressional bailiwick of Mr..
Flood of Virginia. At the town OF
Bremo Bluff vacancy was to be fill
ed in the rural carrier service and an
examination was held under the civil
service law, in which man named
Seay, who fought in France, made the
grade of 85.40, but man named
Glass, Republican who had devoted
his time to politics while Seay was in
France, making grade of 1880, got
the job. Mr.. Flood took up the
cudgels for the ex-soldier, but the
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
informed him that he had informa-
tion tending to show that Glass was
the better fitted for the work. OF
course this merely meant that the
Republican boss or 'refereen had
named Glass. Mr. Flood, thinking
that a man who could round up
German soldiers in the Argonne
could handle the rural route job,
wrote to the Fourth Assistant, con-
clnding with this paragraph:
81 want to say to you frankly that
the only conclusion / can reach is
that Glass was appointed because he
was Republican and Seay Demo-
crat. Under this Republican admin
stration we may have to submit to
the disregard of their rights, but we
do not intend to submit quietly"
Only year or SO ago the Repnb-
licans were talking of impeaching
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President Wilson for refusing to
abrogate thirty-odd commercial trea-
ties at the command of the Repub-
lican Congress in the Jones Bill
President Harding said in bis message
that 1t would cause highly chaotic
condition to abrogate them. Another
vindication of the Democratic Presi'
dent.
Congressman Wood of Indiana is {
tall, spare, clean shaven man of goot
ability one of the Republican leader
in the House. If he isn'ta an elder ii
the church, he at least looks like one
but he used very emphatic word ii
the House the other day, and whei
his remarks were handed him for re
vision he didn't change letter ii
them. Here it is: 81 am only speak