Show f I MORAL MEASURES UP TO CONGRESS Passage of Eight Legislative Acts Asked by International Reform Bureau INTERESTING INQUIRY BEGUN Commission Trying to Devise Law for the Compensation of Injured Employees Many House Employees Em-ployees Soon to Lose Jobs By GEORGE CLINTON Washington Congicss lias been asked to pass this winter eight legislative legis-lative acts tho advocates of which call them moral moaBuros Tho International Ueform bureau Is at work with a militant uplift spirit which refuses to bo cast down Tho house und scnato are not always ready or willing to puss these moral measures but they are always very anxious not to appear to bo nntngo ntutlc to tho bills uxcopt on the ground of uncoiiBtltutlonallty or for some other oth-er reason which cannot bo considered as springing from a deslro to stand against morality Former Senator Henry W Blair Is tho president of tho Heform bureau which has for Its secretary and moving mov-ing spirit Dr Wilbur F Crafts Tho bureau has Indorsed and commended to church and reform sdclottes for support these legislative measures To remove tho federal shield of Interstate In-terstate commerce from tho original packages Imported Into dry territory terri-tory To prohibit Intercalate transmission trans-mission of race gambling odds and beta To prohibit interestato transportation trans-portation of pictures and descriptions of prlzo fights To prohibit Sunday toll and traffic in in tho District of Columbia Co-lumbia To prohibit saloons In Ha valiV To prohibit tho United States District attorneys from engaging In private practice To forbid liquor Belling In shops and buildings used by the United States government an To restrain the Braille In opium On soculled moral measures congress con-gress never divides politically and tho reason for this Is apparent There always al-ways Is a division however on measures meas-ures which touch tho liquor traffic In any way Into this question for it is an Interstate commerce ono largely enter tho questions of states rights and of personal liberty New England Enjoys Mosby Colonel John 8 Mosby who In tho civil war days was called a guerilla and who now Is called a noted confederate con-federate cavalry loader has been lecturing lec-turing In Now England a section of tho country which fortyseven years ago was demanding that ho be captured cap-tured and treated like a pirate The years that have gone by have softened the animosities of war time and now Now England is listening with a keen kind of pleasure it Is said to tho old veterans raiding stories of tho civil warColonel Colonel Mosby la a noted figure In the capital His face Is that of tho novel and picture book soldier He is hawk nosed sharp eyed and lithe figured It was only a year ago that tho colonel was In tho hospital undergoIng under-going a severe opcintlon Tiie surgeon sur-geon said tho colonel would die Tho colonel said ho would not dlo and ho did not Has Interesting Task A commission composed of six members mem-bers of congress und two nonolllclal associates Is Just now engaged In an investigating work which several of tho members declare Is tho most Interesting Inter-esting which ever took their attention Tho commissions endeavor Is to find Eonio means by which damage salts brought by Injured employees ngalnst their employers may bo adjusted without with-out recourse to tho courts and without tho tremendous cost which even small damage cases inflict upon tho county tho state or it may bo tho federal government In many countries In Europo there are laws which provldo that the employer em-ployer shall pay n fixed sum for injuries in-juries and tho laws have been found to work well In tho United States thero is n constitutional difficulty in tho way of the passage of laws llko those of Europe and one of tho labors of tho commission will bo to find away a-way of getting around tho obstacle of the constitution without Injuring tho Integrity of the Great Document Itself To take a case in point which will show tho problem which tho commission commis-sion Is trying to solvo It may bo said that a workman In Pennsylvania sued for damages becauBO of an Injury which ho had received Ho was awarded award-ed 1000 by tho court Of this amount ho was compelled to pay 500 to his attorney and ho had left only SHOO to support his family and to pay tho bills which had accumulated while ho was Incapacitated Tho suit cost the taxpayers 2500 before It was completed In other words tho workman work-man In order to gut 500 caused an expense to the county of five times tho amount which ho received Thoro are thousands of such cases In the courts every year Several of the states already havo appointed commissions to consider the genera tubject of effective laws which will over the matter and do away with ex penso and Injustice to employer and employee New York already has passed n law which helps a little In tlio solution of tho difficulty Tho jongroBslonnl committee will report tarly In the next session YJstors to Washington are won lerjnir why Ujo groat Grant monu II mcnt Is not completed Tho pedestal for tho statue of tho general has been in pltico for a long time and It Is guarded by four hugo bronzo HOUR For months visitors have looked on tho pedestal and the lions but never have seen a sign of working about tho monuments site Meantime statues of other men much less woll known to fame have been completed erected and dedicated Tho Grant statuo when It Is finally flnlphctl will stand In the grounds of the Botanical gardens facing fac-ing the capitol Thero was n long do lay In selecting tho site because of tremendous opposition to tho place which tho committee had given Its sanction Tho warfare of wordfl waged for weeks but finally tho Botanical garden site waa authorized Ono of the reasons why many people do not want tho statuo placed where the committee decided It should stand was that In order to make room for It four magnificent trees would have to bo sacrificed Tho trees wore historic nnd wore known OB tho Crittcnden elniB The trees wore not cut down but were removed to another place but on account of their ago It Is a question whether they will HUrvlvo Hundreds Lose John Secretaries clerks inosieiiKern and doorkeepers of tho house of representatives repre-sentatives hnvo marked Saturday March I lOll MS a black letter day It may witness the blotting out from the pny roll of tho names of hundreds of employees most of whom havo served tho houso of representatives through the long years of unbroken Republican rulo Major Alexander McDnvoll of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania veteran of the Civil war and veteran of tho congressional service Is tho clerk of tho houso of roprcsonta Ives a job of prominence and of much cglslatlvo Importance Major McDowell Mc-Dowell Is ono of tho iitorytollers of congress Members say that ho spine a better yarn than either Joseph Q Caution Champ Clark or Chauncoy M Depow tho men who usually nro considered con-sidered to bo veritable mines of anecdote anec-dote Tho clerk of the houso Is good company com-pany nnd tho Democrats an well as ho Republicans have so found him hut the majors Republicanism Is of tho kind In which no man of his party can find n flaw and therefore although al-though ho Is popular and tho best of raconteurs the Democrats on coming into power will sever his services with congress a bit reluctantly perhaps per-haps but none tho less suioly Now that ono comes to think of It It Is n 1 mistake to say that March 4 will bo a black letter day because asa as-a matter of fact unless tlioro shall bean be-an extra session of congress most of the employees of the present liouna will continue tb draw pay until the next houso convenes for except In the event of calling an extra session tho clerks and tho door keepers and some other employees must continue In tho service during tho summer months to care for tho capitol but most of the employees while still drawing their salaries will have little to do until next December when in their cases tho real bltck letter day wll dawn Plnchot Versus Taft It recently has been reported that Theodore Roosevelt nnd Gilford Pin chot havo fallen out Mr Plnchots Washington friends say that the rumor Is a Joke of the first rank and that If by any chanco there should be a basis of truth In It tho country has a case of severed friendship for the llko of which tho history of comrade ships can furnish few parallels Tho country knew mouths ago that Mr Plnchot and Mr Tuft had fallen out Tho president has had the last shot at tho forcstci but it may be that Mr Plnchot will return tho shot in kind Last summer 70 poisons In the employe of tho forest service were killed and ncaily 200 wore Injurec while fighting forest fires in the northwest When tho casualty lists wero nil In Mr Plnchot said publicly that the loss of 11 Co and tho Injuries to tho men of tho service wore duo to the fact that congress had been nig gnrdly in Its appropriations Mr Plnchot was bold enough to lay tho blame on tho shoulders of Individual members of congress whom ho called < by name Thos members resented tho Implication that they wero re sponslble for a policy of murderous economy Mr Taft got back at Mr Plnchot In this wise In his annual message without mentioning Mr Pinchotf namo of course but perhaps making his reply moro direct by the omission ho said that the loss of life and the damage done was not duo to tho lack of appropriation by congiess to nice tho emergency Ho declared that the secretary of the Interior had fund from which tho law allowed him to draw in just such cases and that these funds wero drawn on to tho extent of a million dollars Mr Taft bo lloves that congress was In no wise lot blame for tho casualties In the Northwest last summer Mr Plnchot friends believe that ho will have something some-thing further to say on this subject Frye to Be Dean of Senate Senator William P Fryo of Main will be tho dean of tho scnato when Senator Eugeno Halo of tho same state retires in March Next Septom her Senator Fro will be SO years 01 age Last summer the report cam from Maine that ho was seriously 111 and that his life was In danger Th denial was quick and emphatic The senator Is back In Washington and looks In bettor physical condition than ho has in years In tho year 1SSO Senator FrO wa elected chairman of the Republican state committee of Maine to ouccoe < James G Blaine who had resigned the office Just ono yoar afterward Mr Fro was eloctcd to tho United States senate to tnko tho scat of Mr Blalno who had resigned to become secretary of state in Garflelds cabInet cab-Inet |