Show rM m M MA rt A NEW NEY CABINET OFFICER A 01 and Indus Will Go II Through Senator Nelson Nolson Has Hns Been I Active In Its Will Relieve Treasury Depart Telephone l h 1 u EPt lal Correspondence ence Feb bill for It a of commerce and industries iii ill to CO through the Senate It Il has hili for tor fors ta s sponsor coo no of the most tireless in the body Senator Nelson q has bill on all the persistence energy possessed by nn any person Uv IC ht Ue tie has interested himself In the t Sty tr t measure and reported a tor fr the original rl bill intro dated by Senator Fr e Having token taken II h he not loa leave 0 It ft alone nil it has haa passed JUnd lIe dId the same bill He Intra Q bill but the Senate judiciary judicial I e reported If It bad another measure r his hta substituted and then by f hard ork he dr e It through t tb lIe fought out a long con conI confer I elong the ure n of khoa hom wu lb the iJU speaker Mr Ir lie will push the tho department of commerce bill with the same ame ener lie He favors It becausE he believes a 0 cabinet at the hea head of oC s cb 0 a department educated on and trained for carrying on the work and with time lime to give gle to It III accomplish n 1 great deal In the wa way of oC Increasing our commerce and anil Industries Such a department will 11 relieve the secretary of the treasury ot of much heavy work There le Is no reason why there theN should b bIn he heIn In the treasury department the bureau or of statistics navIgation supervision of oC steam vessel marine murine hoe hos service and others otherl which have nothing to do with the revenues And finances of DC the government Almost Almot all RII of these theo pertain to commerce and with some lome others might be far Car better man managed aged It if under such a department THE TELE IIO fJ As n a part of the of life lite of Wash Washington Ington tho telephone cuts a mighty fig figUre mire Ure and anil I is continuallY being more and snore anore utilized During the Spanish War it seemed to 10 the pointer point of usefulness yet et the tho war nr do de department whIch depended upon UIn It so much has Increased the number of In over those used nt at that time Tho long Ions distance telephone was nil con oon In use during the war tear Colonel Bird who had charge of transport tion seemed to be en engaged aged nearly hall hallof of It the time talking with the tho quartermasters Quarter masters In Now New York ork Philadelphia and other points as nn with the pas pili passenger of th the bl big railroad lines lints of oC the country countr While n a war means constant and Increased use of the tole tele telegraph graph the telephone supplemented t tel telegraphy l and anal was even more rapId All the different offices f the war ar department de department were connected Ly by telephone Private telephone wires wire connected the tho executive mansIon and war depart mint ment na as well lell as nil all other departments Telephones were placed upon the desks of every and clerk whose sere lees Ices were constantly needed and direct communication WIlS arranged 11 by a aye II S Stem tern tem of exchanges In the department While the Ihl executive departments all make great use ule or of the telephone the capitol CApito Is II also Ilso well supplied Th There ro are exchanges In loth the Senate and House Houle the emcee and principal pal are nrc connected by wire sn an that business Is now transacted by b wire which only n a ur rear or two to ago aln was carried on b by the slower process of the tho messenger While most of the telephones telephone are promptly ant Inci kept In good order there l le yet et enough slackness shoat the private telephones to keep up the Aera average e amount of hs by among the women and profanity limon among the men for tor which the phone seems to 10 be especially fitted INCREASED SED me 1118 MAIL It does not requIre such uch a vel great relt effort to start the letter lette going Senator of oC South Dakota Is getting mOT more letters than lie he and his clerks can a answer Ills 1111 many and I clous cloua attacks upon the tho Philippine policy polley hat haa at least borne bornt fruit In one dIrection The ready letter writers have found a 11 man manto to whom the they can address the of their tens pen Many Man of the letters commend him for tor hili hi position and ond ask ak for tor copies caples ot of his hll speech In tact act near nar narI I 1 all are of oC this kind although there are the usual number of persons who strike at him nl at long range through the mall by anonymous communication tion Some of these a are threatening letters and others simply Imp JUDGES A AND D SQUIRES Ill to OU 81 1 Senator o in the coca Cockrell to a friend In the cor corridor rider who has passed ll d the stage of flesh gathering whIch entitles him to enter the tat mans clots clan Down In iii Missouri continued the tho senator when a man I gets et II as much of a front protuberance a as you we e call hIm judge or squire All our big 1111 he heavy men are so called which accounts for forgo so go many man judges In who have hlo never been on he judicial bench Ins JUS BUST US WINTER When do you ever eer find ant time to do anything asked Senator tor Depew of Senator lc of Michigan n Thy I am going froth tarl early morning until late nt at night looking after thIs thinK thing and that and I 1 have no time even een to reed read the Iho papers Senator Depew finds finde that n a man representing 1 a great s State like New York In the Senate has Plenty to do but there then Me are many other demands upon hi his time outside dt f om cm chat duty duly so 10 that thai he has at once be become como come one tit at the busiest men la In the tb Sta Sen Staat at Its |