Show SUFFRAGE ie TO lotode FORE NEXT TO MEXICO AND TRUSTS IT IS 18 SUBJECT THAT MOST IN CONGRESS WOMEN MAKING HEADWAY plan for invasion of south where the opposition Is strongest farm era ers are said to be corn com ing over strona strong by GEORGE CLINTON ashington ashing tou next to mexico and the trust suffrage la to the chief aub sub jact of enlivening interest to congress con gresa and tho the populace in to the city ot of faeh N ash lugton ington today senator ashurst of arizona ha as charge of the resolution proposing a constitutional rage amendment and every time he bring bringa J it within sight of hia his brethren of the cenate t nate there la Is a clashing of arms and nd a founding sounding of trumpets it seems that acme of the senators natora se think ft it la Is beat best to wait waft yet awhile lor political reasons before tiff on the constitutional amendment proposition they have an idea that suffrage buff rage III prevail in to two thirds of the states before long aa as the result of state enacted lara term and that then avery senator can vote tor for the amendment without any fear of trouble at home because ho he can aay say to his op posing constituents that two thirds of the states of the be union are in favor 0 it and therefore it la to useless to kick against th tha pricks it la in apparent la in washington that even the strongest opponents opponent a of the woman oman suffrage movement seem to beleva that eventually it will prevail all over the united states those who BO so think base their belief simply on the progress aa which suffrage baa has made within the last few yeara years virtually an ut uninterrupted u progress aa home some men who ae opposed to it U aay say they are just aa as much opposed to it us as eer eter but that it la Is to come into its la own and therefore before long ions the must get themselves into a mood to accept the inevitable these same men lien aay any that if it it doea come it W wil WI I prove itself 0 to o be a failure because they have an idea that woman will get tet tired of voting and that lu in time to come while the privilege will be hera hers he be will not take advantage of it IL hardest fight tf South the wilmen women of the country who are devoted r to the suffrage cause have V u realized reul lied for a great many year years that their hardest ight la to to be made la in be south moat most of the southern In embere in coi congress gress are opposed to woman rage at the suffrage auf frage head 0 quarters in thia this city a a plan baa has been made to invade the south in to behalf of the cause of suffrage A commit tee lee of noted women good speakers pea kera all of them and representing very every element in tho the suffrage cause soon wu imke ninke a trip through fa the south in n a private car and will speak in many of the larger cities and probably in scores of the mailer smaller which he its between dr anna annit howard shaw president deat of the national suffrage association heads the be hat list of the invaders Inva dera with her will til go mra stanley mccormick McCorm lck 0 susan fitzgerald Fiti gerald and mr mrs hauls reee of boston mn MM an punk funk a sister inlaw in la law of the regressive candidate tor for gov anor cr of 1111 mra mrs deaha brock a member of the famous family ov of kentucky and ura mrs bodill mccormick McCorm lck daug daughter lifer of the late senator mark hanna of u ohio farmers being converted the farmers of the country showed ain the t campaign that they were not as s iong for the suffrage auf frage move inept ab a he women expected now it la lit decilot d at the headquarters headquarter a of the in washington that the farmers fro an coming over strong they say ohio aa an an example PIG that from all over that aate sate there to I 1 a demand for suffrage auf speakers ape akere and for suffrage auf frage and that the movement la Is so 0 o general that women ar are c 0 fent that at the next election th their r cause will be bo sanctioned A oman suffrage amendment to the ohto ohio constitution la is tote to submit t fed atthe abst at electea elec tsa in a that state Cons Congre ress aa la tremendously stirred up over ever this woman suffrage question jue atlon and it baa has been DO so burred up all winter there are a good many representatives pc lally from the northern estates batea who while at ill heart opposed to ly woman afraid that worn wom ana ans opposition may hurt them at the polls the women are taking advantage of this situation md and are now preparing to wage campaigns against all 1 rinta suffrage candidates for or congress in the campaign cam palin of boxt n at fati fall freight case undecided Und elded the months are rapidly passing and anti yet the interstate commerce commission la is still at its work trying to determine definitely and properly hether bother or not the great railroad corporations of the western lintn are entitled to tack tact lite per cent additional on the charges for car crying freight it waa was thought recently that no dellon in the th case could be reached until next september larest dent den wilson became wonted worried over the delay and white while be he could not inter poe pore personally for fear of having it I 1 1 charged that he waa was trying to prejudice the case it war way announced luik lib that a decision dec probably would be reached before jun june the members of 0 the com have tave in their employment louie louis W 11 ats pedal special counsel its ho he who is presenting the tb y tide side of the case which n a way wa meane SM shippers ihl and the consumers cona amera lf ta 1 aide side In Hr andels hai has maue a study of railroad condition conditions and while a food good many people think he is somewhat prejudiced his knowledge of condl eions and hie his ability aa as a lawyer are eald said to be of great service to the corn com mission in finding out the truth as between the conflicting statements of witnesses to the two sides of the presented case cue the country probably has no bealls ing sense of the immense quantity of material which must be gone through before a decision de clelon can be reached in this advanced rate case the charge la Is that some of the railroads are either paying on watered stock or trying so to do and that it if they had leaned issued no stock stork without amela foundation for it they would all be now in a prosperous condition and would not hot need to as f an advance in freight rates there Is one big railroad which is paying P five per rent cent dividend and which some men declare would be paying 40 per cent 1 if the securities which it had issued had a basis more stable than water innocent investors plea now of course shou thousands sands of I 1 innocent nuo people have ham bought this watered stock and they ere lre expecting their dividends and they maintain that it an advance rate is necessary necee eary to en able them to on their money the increase should be be cause they made their purchases in good faith and should not be made to suffer tor for tl sins ot of railroad officials and great hanker bankers who have helped to manipulate thing things so soto as to N benent ineat pecuniary the few to the injury of the many it Is in little to be wondered that there hae has been slow progress in reaching a decision in this case the shippers who do not want to pay advance freight rate rates have been sending la in their protests with their reasons tor for opposing the increase which it granted ot of course they will have to pay the stockholders are sending in their plea pleas for an increase the railroads are endeavoring deavo ring to show chow how they are arm obliged t to conduct business atness bu at a loss mt under tie present return on freight shipments the financial operations of the roads la in the past are being laid wit bare in the room rooms of the interstate Intent ate commerce commission the matter Is a deep one cue and the hop hope la Is that oae one way or the other the mex members abers of the commission will be unanimous la in its it final dec decision talon civil Pens pension ionis up acain there has ha been introduced into con gress gross a big 1 to create a commission to consider the matter ot of pensions for aged government employed emp loyes there la Is reason to believe that the bill Is I 1 likely to pass PUL the commission commis ilon it appointed will be expected to submit a alah for what must be called even it so to callous it Is unpalatable a scheme to create a civil pension list bat ever since the foundation ot of the government govern meat there baa has been obJect objection lou to pensions pin lons tor for civilians it ha has been hard work ork even evert to secure the passage ot of legislation giving the widows of army officers of high service pen lone sufficient for their support aup port ot of course arm officers widow widows hare have ha re ve a pension which Is fixed by law but whenever it hu ban been attempted to increase the pension largely trong strong opposition ha ban been shown br by the lawmaker 4 there are few civil pensioners of the government today and virtually none nonal outside of those who hare bays had some connection direct or indirect with the amr arah 11 services of thi this country for year years attempts attempt a have been made to get got congress congre aa to consider the civil TOte OWL members of congress con gresa have had the neep attles la in the came before their eye eyes la li their dally daily walks when one pace the treasury building for instance at the hour when work la Is about to begin or at juat just after it bar ended he be sees men and women of ill advanced years going la to or coming out of the big structure some of them on crutches and other others almost being carried to their desks CO congressmen bare have looked on theae these scenes for years nod omd it haa has been the looking on them which haa has moved isrea of re presen natives to introduce billit for the pen atoning stoning of the aged and decrepit the introduction of the bills heretofore baa has been juat just ao so much waited wasted rf tort s in continental europe and in england they have bays set the example of 0 pensioning aged government workers r cu j the pill cf of state stata cf of the cour tries which have shown genero senero alt slL have not been shaken from their faun oun nations by the government acl official washington la Is beginning to look took with different eye eyes upon this situation always there has been cynt pathy for the axed aged ho bo bad to stay at their work in order to live but always alays the thata thata civil pen don eystein waa was utterly wrong hs moved the malo majority rity of the law makem makers to withhold the vote necessary necea sary to rem edy a condition which certainly seems to appeal for or remedy taik of 0 aldage pensions Pena tona 0 only are looking more kindla kindl on to pensions pe niton ft U I 1 government emp employee loyes but they is a 0 occasionally talking of pensioning all worthy men and women who have served the state by lending leading decent lives and who bo in their old age maat must face either penury y in the cities or towns or the poor house with ita its self respect killing conditions it may bo be that the bill which mr of 0 connecticut baa bas jaet just introduced into the house will not pasa pass and that no commission comm leelon to atud stud tha pension question que atlon will be ap appointed pAnted but it auch such a bill fall this year it III ill paa pass next year or the far after the time of old age pensions pe nilon for government clerks la Is coming and coining coming quickly just beyond the day ot of its coming there probably Is I 1 the other day of pensions pen alona for aged americans abo bv fenre their duty by the republic lu in whatever walk of life f S 1 |