Show OINGS OF F CONGRESS G S Secret of the Opposition to the Immigration I Bill STATEHOOD HOPES DWINDLE Legislation Deferred Until After Holidays Goes Through SOI Anecdotes of tho Late Thomna Bracket Reed That Are Told at tho Capital = f tCOhpF PO m NCE TRIBUNE Vashlngton Dec IS AihQ content J oe3 on over tho Inimlfrrallon bill It Is V Msy to aaccrlnlil Vhcro the opposition com < M from In fact It Booms to bo a ut ot Ui fight hct con capital nnd la irv The steamship companies do not JCnl Immigration rcntrlclud bocnur II l lll cut off a portion of thrlr rOvunuua fce railroads > ny plainly Ihiil they do not innt Immigration tuairlctcd because they tttd the i Lftns for laborers Tho frtnk wanner In which the rcpresentn IVCA of tlosc corporations declare thorn tves Is I refreshing and certainly credit U L due thorn for IL Ntnv ihfo labor unions erA thonc Internets In raising tho wages of f worldnRmrK uftnt a strict Immlgra In Inw uNil S ome no HO far as to urge acilWl prohibition of Immigration be iuo Hll Immigrants aro willing to work t > r low wages Tho farmcra have not itt declared themselves hut the who aploj farm liundR nt JllKll wages would w doubt favor Immigration If It meant loer wages for them Tho railroads jvtlch cr < M the border do not want Im jrratKni restricted 03 they get a great J til or paoscnijir traffic rom lncomlnpr r oreigners Railroads which carry Irnmf rranis to tho far West oppoafc restric t CCDS because they uleo J t large roe t s from thin Hounds Generally the em rtacrs of lxhttr UO hot want an educu Icnal tent npiUlad to Immigrants because II wotiia nan shutting out Italians Frtnch tllll other Latin races which now t Jly u lar ro part of the labor market Jfcnntor Elklna of Went Virginia a large Dplojor of labor hi I ono of the outspoken tnent of llif bill In tho Senate He jIOJ HUll rimi 13 nuvuiu la more immi t1ntf hHIltclJ of less for labor la scarce dIJ the unskilled labor which Is temary In railroad building tho mines Hid othar work American will not do his kind of work nor will tho Irish he alA and there arc only the Europeans that vc can depend upon The second Ktncratlon of Scandinavians and Gormnm l1 k othor employment and so we must havn Hie Italians md other Immigrants from southern Europe to supply the mar lift Why we were compelled to pay JlSO tlU to Italians I 115 common day laborers on rallroqd building and about LIla coko ocns In Vest Irijlnla Va could not set Americans or Irish to do similar work and yet tho prlco wo paid wus too much for Hint class 1 of work Higher wages for mfh Work Is no advantage to skilled la bor at all It Is it question whether this frankness r by the corporations and emplo erA will accomplish tho purpole and defeat the bill There are a Treat many men who vould hesitate to vote against a bill do rnsndod by organized labor nnd which Its fJlcnds say la designed to keep out an jJbdoslrnble population because employers fcAy they need the labor and iransporta t bn companies declare that such iLnlnla 1011 b Inimical to their Interests Tim OJispoken manner of the People Intcrcst tit In defeating the bill has been very much of j surprise about the Capitol l When a contested bill In tho Sonata VM ovtr until after tho holldayH It IB Rood betting odds that It will be defeated fMsc who hopo to see three new States MtlcJ to the union before this Congress aojournH might Just as well coppor any li wta they havu made to that effect A long l holiday adjournment cats Into time limited lime of tho I short session A few 7ids debate when the RPMjIon rcnrfjcm U8 and then the appropriation bills am tiowlind In and the bill which perhaps I a majority would vote for Is Hldotrhckcd In order that there may be no extra acsslon An extra JoI e fllon of a now Congress Is to l l avoided for no ono wants It if the appropriation bills arc through there iso is-o necessity for It All other legislation can wait and In moat Instances docs wait The holiday adjournment without an agreement to vote on the Statehood bill ounded Us dcathkncll unless the unex cjed happens Its advocates aro not oo tamest that they will risk nn extra Sea Ion of Congress to push It through It u recalled that two years ago a bill was Mfented by a long holiday recess Scno tar Allhon chairman of tho Approprla lonn committee reported the recejs rem liitlon and had It paescd Frank Pcttl trcv of South Dakota wan then a Bonn tor and l us ron as the Senate acted ho nlk ed over to the deal of the Iowa Sea Uur and aid K > Alllsoii you nro against tho subsidy IJI 1 have not said anything of tho kind replied Allison and truth to say he had toot nor had any ono guessed his posi tion tlonllut r But I know you aro ngalnst It con tinued Pettlgrcw f What makes you think so asked Al bon ftjBccau8C you would never have put through that holiday adjournment resolu tion unless ypu wanted to kill theaubsldy bill un wercd Pettlgrcw pPcttlgrLW you think you aro pretty rharp don t you said Allison with a te wink WlIut tIme subsidy bill was killed by being iWetrjcketl in the short session and AI llJon voted against It when It came up In Ike 1 following Congress 1cttlgiow not Galy thought he was sharp but ho was Pbnrp t Ho know tho Senate as well as yboifr lfrwo exSenatoro wero silting In a i Vahiagtog hotel lobby the other day I Cartur of Monuina and Thumon of Nc 5iaBko They w4rn lame decks two Xt1rt ago who caught on and have aWn J > 0 i annually us members of tho L jUtabxiu PurehsBo ExpoMtlor compnn I I lmIflUt Yo kit I gray hair and beard uked 11 with quick and active movement li j IJtook hariJK will both Carter nnd Thurs i ton and PI mo reference was made to nn fjrimont no was to mnXo JII tho Supreme urt There la I fi man said ThurstoYi Utllr Ih man had passed on hodc mtnlssioa 1 as Chief Justice of tho Su r vrn rt < art was made out and signed by resident Grant A hitch occurred and nr > hall n Walto of Ohio saa appoInt Who I hc7 uskcd some ono In the oup ISJohn r Dillon of Now = York was the J Hy i lie was conoldcred then and Ig i J one of the abkHt liwjcr In the land pa rAt icnow what prevented his selcc itt I hut II WItI onn of those Incidents I tEAt change the career of a man lie JiJt w over 70 IJarH old yiarfl now but la as tgrn ana bright ns over 4 rildpnt CJrant named l a man for As StLae Jctlco of the Supreme court who I I I mr r confirm nnd the reason has I G n11 malned something of u myntrry rlO ii villinma had ben < u Senator ffPJn ftfun bbc Niir arid was Attorney 5nr3l during Gmnf Kccond term JUllt tQf lh i clo t if his form Grant 6nt < l nUam narnc to the < Sena M nn As l1lf Just If It was haiti up for a time M IAr ihr n llllam tva o rejected No ox t > 5tlon io mad but It wu known nt nator EJmundo of Vermont chsilr an of time Judiciary committee had ruuht about the rrwtlon A very fox 1Je know why and It In not likely they ever tell ni long aa both Kdmiimlx j I llU A x 4 1 I j i nnd i Williams are alive The former stilt practices i law occasionally appearing be fore I the Supreme court here while the latter 1 Is Mayor of Portland Or I I Another etory Is told of how Senators become mixed up with Judicial appointments appoint-ments During Clevelands second term there i was a Vacancy In an Alabama Fod eral Judgeship and Edmund Pettus a wellknown lawyer of Selma was an aspirant as-pirant i for tho place The matter was brought to the attention of Senator Pugh of Alabama who belns a member of me Judiciary committee had something to say about uuuh appointments PUK > I said that i Pc lUG was too old to be appointed a Federal Judge When this Information wan conveyed to the Selma law office Pct IUB waa Irritated I Too old docs hq Kay ho remarked Well as he han control of the appoInt I mont thai may be true I may be too old for tho bench I but I am not too old I for tho Senate I Pottus became candidate for Ute Senate i Sen-ate and wan elected lie Is also mi re of i another election nnd at thc end of his I cocond term will be S7 yearn old Age may affect a Judge but t docs not Interfere I Inter-fere j with aSenator I For a time after tho death of Thomas B Reed there wore many of hip storIes and epigrammatic remarks repeated and a goodly number republished Th < 5 fact J8 that the beat of RceJs payings could not bo published because his friends who heard them realize that they would do theiravulioca great deal of harm II they Appeared In print and besides cause much suffering on the part of thoso at whom thtv were directed ReedsJwitIs enjoyable especially If I yoU do not happen to bo the person at whom Itwan directed Is a remark onco made y Vlllinm McKlnlcy when he was a member of Congress And those who have felt the sarcasm of Rued can fully appreciate the remark As moat of Rcqda epigrams were directed at B6mebodyk It la minor surprising that ho did not make moro enemies Having a profound cpn tempt for humbug of every description ho punished U with oatlre and epigram and like the gifted cartoonist he ncr ally touched on tho weak polntr i Vhon Pickier of South Dakota was rn iglng about the House shouting for tile old I soldier for the armor for womtip suf rage nnd for prohibition Reed onco remarked re-marked I never fully understood what was meant by tho wild aDS foul until I naw Pickier Ono limo a member pestered Reed for I recognition and sot It But Jno Cannon objected to the bill and killed It What do you know about tho bill asked tho member Cannon admitted that hiD knowledge was lImited Then why did you object was tho next demand Bccauio the Speaker asked me to said Cannon not caring to longer shoul der the blamo as ho had enough actual trouble of the kind tWhaL do you mean by granting mo rccoKnltlon and Rotting Qannon to kill my I bill demanded the member of tho Speaker Ikcd never showed the least bit of dis turbance but said In his usual tone To ret rid of you d U 4 Among thoso who spoke highly of Reed In Interviews was Senator John T Morgan Mor-gan of Alabama And yet It was only In the last Congress over which Howl prcrldcd that Morgan called Reed tho great white czar For thin denunciation denuncia-tion of the Surakcr at another time and criticism of tho House rules and methods under Rccd the venerable Alabama Senator Sena-tor wan called to order and compelled to lake his seat JI was Senate Galllngcr of Now Ilnmp V 1 who enforced this rule It was nil cause Rood was hold Ing up Morpan8 Nicaragua bill In tho Ilouoe A little before this tIme Reoij In reply to a question as to why he did not 50 to the Senate more frequently replied J dont go there very often and I dont remain long when r do go It Is not because I hOe nny avoralon to thn Senate or Us members It happens so often of-ten when I go there that I find Morgan talking I try not to listen but In splto of myself I find the word going Into my cars and before long find myself trying to make something out of what Is beinj sad Soon I rcaHzc that 1 am In a hope Icsn maze and I get up and go out A Some members of Congress are talking about having n provision Inserted In tho naval or army appropriation bill prohibit ing football In the future at these academics acad-emics where young men are educated for the navy and the army One of the moit outspoken mn upon this subject In Representative Rep-resentative Butte of Pennsylvania a member of the Committee on > nol Affairs Af-fairs It might to IIP stopped Bald Mr Uutlar lime Idea of SOOv American people peo-ple silting up and I encouraging > these voting men ta batter thcmoelvfa to pieces Is ono that Is altogether sickening and dHtimlrR I am against It and I hope to iee It Btoppcd l One of tho worst features feat-ures of the conical Is that It engenders Illfcellnff between the < < army and navy whore there should be perfect harmony This and much more and emphatic Inn uagl did Mr Hitler Use In his Denunciation Denun-ciation of the popular college sport Standing by was Representative Dovcnor of West A Irplnla who wa equally In hliJnl that football should cease osne infly West Point and Annapolis Vo ii n W iAC fO A L t L broke up hazing1 said tho West Virginia Vir-ginia man and wo will break up football foot-ball which Is l Just ns bad But they have not broken up hazing nt least at Annapolis for It was not so very long ago that a midshipman was compelled to stand on his head until ho hud convulsion convul-sion Others were compelled to do such witless things as cat soap while another wan made to cat seven bananas It ifl rather surprising that the liming of the upper classmen cannot provldo something better than these methods of torture But before leaving Mr Butler find football It might be well to recall the fact that only about a year ago he was discovered Journeying Jour-neying to Annapolis In order to procure football tickets for hlu constituents TIc represent a district near Philadelphia and time demand of hIs friends to see tho brutal exhibition was such as to compel him to Journey nil the way to Annapolis to 3co If he could get scats for them Co 0 To return to hazing One hears storIes of the manner In which the freshness Is taken out of the youthful l men at tho academics which cannot be disapproved For Instance when A boy has been se lected for appointment nnd pnxicu tho examination his home papers give him a send off They print his picture and for a column or more go on to say what he was how he run barefoot through tho woods and over tho pralrlo perhaps and how ho did this and that In adversity ending up with a prediction that ho Is destined de-stined to command the army or tho llfeu Thin ofttn fclvcn i the boy an exaggerated opinion of his Importance but as soon an he dono his uniform and begins to strut around It Is ten to one he Is sneaked Off somewhere compelled to mount nn Inverted bucket and read the ciTuslon of the country paper with appropriate gestures ges-tures That Kind of hazing docs the bono bo-no harm and probably docs him much good One cannot but smile when ho hears that the son of tho gallant Phil Shorldnn was compelled to bestride a broomstick and gallop about a circle of cadets shouting Face tho other way boys face the other way well whip them yet In Imitation of his llluntrlous sire In the Shenandoah valley Nor can you but laugh when you hear that young Mac Arthur Is compelled to deliver philosophical philosophi-cal remarks with prodigious words describing de-scribing conditions In the Philippines or that young Chaffcc Is forced to give a harrowing description of tho advance on Peking None of these young men aro tho worse for this treatment It Is really funny and no doubt they learn that great names and distinguished parentage docs not make thorn bettor than their fellow students But tobasco sauce soap and such articles of food together with personal per-sonal abuse which causes convulsion bahl Bettor let the football go and keep oitl the minor cruelties and stupid Indignities Indig-nities ARTHUR W DUNN |