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Show j Democratic Congress I Outlines Work 3 Washington, D. C, April 9. (Spec- a lal). Tho engineer, who have been so- 9 .lected to run the Democratic machln- ery, during tho next two years In the 9 lowcr-houso of Congress, are already fi engaged In oiling up the parts, looking i over tho cylinders and drive wheels, 'M tightening up the belting nnd genor- Si ally getting ready for tho start next Tuesday, when tho Sixty-second Con- gress convenes In extraordinary scs- 1 sjkn. Hero and thoro now parts havo 9 been Inserted taking tho place of 2 rusty ones which havo shown since 8 tho Democratic machlno wns dlsplac-J dlsplac-J ed by tho republican machinery fit-M fit-M teen years ago. Tho majority members w of tho houso committees havo boon I selected; tho electlvo offices of tho S house have been chosen, tho defeated i candidates taking their loss as Phil's Phil-'s osophlcally as possible. Of course 5 thoro aro heart-burnings and consld-I consld-I erablo "kicking," particularly over sev-I sev-I eral committee chairmanships, but tho K rnnk and fllo aro satisfied nnd that I is tho main thing to bo reckoned with 6 when tho eyes of tho country aro up-1 up-1 on a party that suceeds to power at-I at-I ter a decade aud a half. J Tho program which tho Democrats will follow, Is still in tho making, tho ways and means commtttoo bolng somowhat at sea 'whether to loport tho Canadian reciprocity pact nt ouco or Introduce a revision of Schedule "K," commonly known as tho wool schedule holding tho agreement mado between tho Canadian nnd United States Commissioners until a later dato. It Is believed, lion over, that tho Canadian treaty will bo taken up Immediately and after a period of genoral debato will bo passed by tho Houso nnd sent on its way to the Senate whero It will run tho gnuntlet of determined opposition with the possibility pos-sibility of amendment before It is finally fi-nally pnsaed by tho upper branch of Congress. This year is regarded as a crucial cno iu tho history of waterway Improvement Im-provement and dovelopnent for It will bo sottlcd by the .Sixl Heron I C'lifiesB whether tho recommendations recommenda-tions mado by tho rlvor and harbor bills, shall become tho fixed policy of tbo government. For ten yenrs or mora tho National Rivers and Harbors oongress has been carrying on a campaign cam-paign of education to tho end that tho rivers of tho country should bo treated In tho same manner as tho aimy, tho navy, tho postofflco and other oth-er branches of tho government and that plcco-meal and spoiadlc appropriations appro-priations should bo wholly nbandoned not only In tho Interest of economy but looking to tho early completion of accepted projects along well-defined 1 nes. Should the Democrats, who aro now on trial for tho first tlmo In flf-1 tocn years decldo upon n policy of lo-trcitchinent lo-trcitchinent In appropriations iu view of their oft-repeated charge of extra-1 nganco against tho Republicans, It might result In an agreement to puss up tho river and harbor bill to tho Sixty-second Congicss. Herein llos tho danger to tho realization of a comprehensive policy of waterway betterments, "a danger," according to Mr. J. N. Teall of Oregon, a director In tho National Rivers and Harbow Congicss, "nt onco very roal and very vital to tho cause of river nnd Inibor improvements which the American Am-erican people ar edomandlng more itrenuously than ever boforo.qIt behooves be-hooves tho friends of our great uat-urol uat-urol highways of trado and comraorco to be very actives this year for it means much for tho future of this gient subject." Four gieat bronze tigers, larger, and heavier than tho most "chesty" Tammany Tigor ever reared, aro being be-ing placed today on the corner parapets para-pets of tho Sixteenth street brldgo across tho PIney branch, one of tho finest nnd most expensive brldgos within tho district of Columbia, havlug 00ft almost a million dollars. When tho workmen drlvo homo tho Inst splko which fastens each base of "plinth" Into tho Btructuro of tho brldgo tho city lll seo tho flnUh of a piece of work in which nil tho romance ro-mance of nu artist's hope of a mas-torpicco mas-torpicco Is bound. Theso tigers will cost thq district 110,000; they havo cost the artist who fashioned them tho work of eighteen raonthB. A phlllsler Proctor ot Now York, hos staked his reputation on tho four tigers which his hands and brntn crcntcd for tho Plnoy branch bridge. Tho tigers will sit upon pnrapcts, "with tholr tails Inside." This is nn expression of W. W. RoynohlB, tho assistant engineer of bridges, who is wntchlng carefully, tho work of lifting these 1.GG0 pound beasts from tho train to tho bridge. Tho bronze tigers nro very nearly alike, except that tho artist has caught tho waving motion ot tho tall and fastened fas-tened It In bronzo so that It points Inward toward tho roadway ot tho bridge. This Is a small point, but it lllustrntcs tho fact that mpst of tho detail has been workod out bo that It will show th6 moA from tho roadway, road-way, oer which tens of thousands of people pass eery time. Theso tlgors uro said to bo tho finest over modeled, model-ed, tho artist having spent months with Bhows and In tho N. Y. "?.oo" making a Btudy of tho great cats. |