| Show OUR ISLAND COMMERCE Evident Their Products Wi Will Not Be Admitted Free I I II OF CONGRESS Equal With Slates tu to Lotion of Garden Seed Special Correspondence Wahington Washington Feb else Congress may finally do with the tho Isi is ands to the tho United States Stotel n none as one of 01 the tho results of oC the war wih with Spain there seems to bo be a general tion that they shall not bo be considered as entitled to the same commercial pr a as States and TerritorIes It Itis Is not propose propoSed by our legislators to grant them the tree free admission ot of thet theft products to the United States There are many able lawyers lawen who hold that In taking t tae e Islands this government did not Incur the tho obligation of giVing them hem equal privileges with lh the tho States and that constitutional general leges and laws of this country cannot extend to them I It Is the doctrine of at supremacy ot of Congress over oer all ter and t that t Congress shall lne have havethe the right to legislate for the islands which legislation shall co corer er them and wi will not b be applicable In any way to the people ot of the tho Unie United States So far ns as I cn can learn there Is f no desIre I among congressmen to extend to these new possessions the benefit ot of the tar UI itt la laws s There Is also a further reason for tor keeping them under the tho control ot of Congress ot of the ot of undesirable Immigration coming to thIs country from the Islands GARDEN SEEDS A grup group of from dif dlf terent ferent States Stales were discussing what hn has become known IS as the garden sed seed side of public life The olen SI sos of opinion wai wa tat that the amount ap should be doubled or there should bo be no further appropriation This Is in the view I w taken by member members from agricultural As AI long as al the government distributes garden s seeds dl free treo farmers want them garen garens and those who do not get them have cause ot of complaint As the matter no now stands who vho vant to mt meet all demands send end out not onlY heir own al ni purchase others Men from city districts have no UI use for tor garden seeds and the allotments pack nes to each member are turned over Oer to th the clerks who ot of them sometimes realIzing as moth ns as 0 or muc j 75 for tor an allotment Te The garden seeds obtained from the government go through the mals mails free I It Is said that the they ne are quite Il a feature In politics and that some members are I I I time after time simply upon their gay gar gayden den see seed record which Includes also supplying documents on al all conceivable subJects to the ot of theIr districts A WO WOMANS WOR Pot For several years past the only lady lody correspondent admitted ted to the press galleries lot of the tho Senate and house Hause was Mrs nI who represented represented the Topeka II Capital This year another lady appears Mrs P n Bowman who Is corres correspondent for tor th the New Orl ans Te The rules of the tho press gallery are very Irr strict lIone hut authorized corr correspondents tiling die patches to daily beIng given cn the tho privilege Thee restrictions are n necessary es 13 sary on account of the Increasing nur nuin ber of lI men at the r capital and the necessity presetting space and conveniences for actual workers Thi action of 01 Mr I Matthews Is ap applauded by al all represents the pa paver la laper per ver for tor which Ier her husband has hns long been the correspondent le lie I is no now too I Iii to attend to the work ork so 1 In tnt fact that ho he cannot remain In Washington ani and Mrs Natthew has bravely taken up the work arid and Is striving to c carry r i it iton on She is II receiving words ot of and ant everY assistance possible from Crom her fellow In SENATORIAL EXCHANGES The S Senate nate committee on commerce wn was having n a hearing on the shipping subsidy bill bil Senator Elkins began to Queston question of the men who ho had just spoken upon the efficacy ot of In lag duty In favor tavor of American ships shil discrIminating is II a hobby with Senator Senator F Fro o broke In with Uh n a most vigorous remark saying There 1 Is no member of the an and t I presume there I Is no member of the Senate who ho blees believes In Ing duties except Senator ElkIns so I Isee see no necessity of goIng Into the sub Jet or occupying out time wih with It This only caused Senator ElkIns to Imle smile as h he responded Well I Just wanted to find out a Ile little somethIng about It Well you ou cant responded Senator Benator lre Frye Ivery Every one knows It Is and there Is nothIng to learn about ft t tSe Se Senator tor Elkins laughed with the th oth others ers era anti Mo good nature l remarked Oh OhI I fe see I have got to vote voto for thIs ll bill Sentor Senator Hanna says sas I must and that sette settles I it A GOOD MEMORY tE M George I II Walker assistant at torn torney e general itt In the department of justice though now I a full attorI attorney ney at 10 law was 1 a newspaper man for tor mm many yeats eals beginning t the business n as asa 1 a years ago ngo Ie lie traIned his memory In al all the tho years that he hI has b been en a reporter editor and Washington correspondent le He heard a man talking on th the street a short time age and WILI aJ sure he had heard the tho voice olce before Going UP un to him he recognized the theman man as 08 General Starkweather whose voice olce he had lat last heard givIng orders to hl his troops a as the they marched through Milwaukee away back In 1861 |
