Show HANDICAP UPON iUTA AND OREGON Both oth States Are Without Influence i iI i in Congress THEIR GROWTH RETARDED SMOOT CASE LIKELY TO DRAG DRA ALONG LONG I Special to Th Ph Herald Irald HaraIdA A I D C S sot pt t 21 WASHINGTON vv Oregon and Utah will b badly in the h congress by reason reison of ot the unsettled condition of ot their lr respective re con delegations r An eastern state tte can en 18 along aIon for tot a long time tUne without nta tives In congress congre anti and no great grea inconvenience Delaware for Instance lost nothing by being without for or several years Almost all of l the thi 1 needs eede of eastern ettern states which can be bi obtained from the l government have hawe long lon since been supplied Fed Federal Federal eral enil patronage in the way of ot appoint appointments appointments ments can on be he looked utter attar by tate state oem com committees mIlle It if there thele are no senators in I fact act the inertia of ot a century carries the state along nearly as well ell eU without congressional as aJi a W I it Different Out West But it is different with the torn states It Is necessary even ever everI I vital Ital that a western wo tern state have its congressional representation both in ir inthe inthe the senate and house of ot representatives enta tives iI i yen 09 filled and unimpaired every mo mt of ot the time Western estern states have malo needs which in the eastern states tatoi have long since been provided for and it requires the unremitting efforts of ofa a virile irUe active delegation to get them The growing cities of western states tate T flood federal buildings the great areas area I of arid land require the attention of ot the reclamation service forest lands are areto areto ar arto to be segregated and created into re le reserves serves erve Indian reserves aro to be opened to settlement the rivers and harbors harb S Sot of ot the Pacific coast states require ap appropriations for tOle improvement and all al alof of ot these needs and countless others are arc incident to great t growing strength tren th energy and effectiveness of the delegation delegAtion delegation tion which ro the state in con congress congre gress grese gre Oregon and Utah Handicapped Oregon and Utah as ail stated are in a abad abad abad bad way wa when their needs and the situ attu k atlon in reference to their theil delegations dele V are considered Oregon of course courte is ie in bad shape Her senior senator pending final action by the courts in his case caso will be debarred by an unwritten law of the senate enate from participating in its it deliberations deliberation and in tAct fact will ili be al completely useless u to his state in I connection with all government affairs II His Hi influence in the depa is I gone and M so far ta f as being a help to his state is j I concerned his hili unfortunate I sitton oti cu thy Uie makes mak him an fl injury to It The two members of ot the Ioupe oue from Oregon are almost almo t as un unfortunately unfortunatelY fortunately situated as the senior sen en senator senator ator atur Their influence and prestige is discounted and pending the legal leral pro uro t tn bt 1 their thel cases ca es necessarily nece a th r i iun t un can an be at of ot Ho flo 0 Service to their state Fulton a New ManTh Man ManThe ManThe The Th burden of representing Oregon Ore on therefore re rests ests upon the shoulders of oC Senator Charles W LV V Fulton Pulton the only member of the delegation dele against whom Jom no rio charges made or no indictments found fund Senator Fulton is 18 capable and b hardworking He Ha H has made an excel excellent excellent lent impression Impre filon in the senate and in other branches of the government serve servIce Ice ife e and under ordinary circumstances would accomplish much for his But now no he is hampered and handicapped by the blight which has been fastened upon the Oregon delaga delegation tion and the odds against him In in the congress will be It is feared too great for him to overcome w Explosion Came Too Late It is Ja fortunate for tor Oregon that the criminal rim InRI charges a ln three mem members members bers of its delegation delc were not made public until after the appropriation was secured for the Lewis and Clark fair That great project would not have hae been provided for If the Oregon delegation k had been beon crippled as al it now is when hen the bill was pending If Oregon ex ox expects expects to draw anything in the coming congressional game of the congress It must mu t either provide for un smirched representatives to take the place of ot those now no under tire or strengthen the hands of its Us one un unscathed unscathed Unscathed scathed member mem r Senator S Fulton Smoot Without Influence too will be in an unfortunate position in the congress congre The fhe light fight against Senator Smoot which has interfered with his lila power to help lu lp his bin state ever since the day he was waa sworn in as a senator will be renewed with Intensity when the next session begins b ln An early earl termination of the tM light Hunt is not expected ted There w U 11 be committee reports long debates longer delays delay dela and the case ca it is I believed will drag along at least lea t through the entire first session seaton of the eon con congress gross gress if not longer lon er During all aU of this time when Senator Smoot will III be under fire his Ids influence and power to help hi hl state and his hIB constituents eon will Hill be in ItI great degree neutralised and impaired imp by liv the uncertainty of his tenure of office Sutherland Shares the Odium In like Uke manner the efforts of ot his col eol colleague colleague league eague Senator Sutherland will wUl be handicapped by renon reeson of or the widely spread prend charge that he h owes owe his place IA t exactly the same influences that placed moot Smoot in the senate The rh Mormon lormon church hurch Is 18 on trial and perhaps wrong wrongfully fully Senator Sutherland shades hare ha h in 4 01 degree with Senator Smoot the tI odium of or the charge charte of it t being the choice bote of nt A Achurch hurch church which to speak mildly doi dh does s not nott commend ommond t itself in Its practices es to the uw American people The Utah member of the house Mr Ir Howell Howen cornea comes within the t e same category for tor he i is a n member r of the Mormon church although not connected with its government In the tho face of ot these the conditions the I question Is frequently asked in Wash Washington ington as ns to how long Oregon and Utah will m continue to stand tand by their dela I finns Hons weighted down as they are by court ourt trials and senate investigations I I |