Show 1 1 CO CONGRESS GRESS The rh sixty first congress lma hrs has adjourned It passed p l much useful legislation it negle neglected to pass much more It did right in ordering more great i battleships It failed lamentably in not placing tl tl merchant marine marinc in a EL position to regain its old I. I honored place upon the time seas Vh it d did i not 1101 is unexplainable un- un 1 rc explainable that a U majority ty had Imad no compre- compre t j j. j of its importance and how necessary it is isUf Cr l begin to to retain retain American money in ill America a and ami r. i io ot send Bend it abroad as fast as as the generous co country h cs it It did did well to order the time Panama canal 1 As General Sumner says as a's AVo Y Vo 0 cannot i k H e w why y the tho canal ennui should 1 not ilot ot be fortified an any inore I f. f r I. or m Philadelphia should not le c. c K It struggled two years eals with the country's g s st. s- s hi h- h t. t n c of finance and amid an to its dishonor dis brought ht forth nothing lot for it seems to us ns the time dullest one n 4 ho the bunch should l co that t time the lC establishment of f rut all enlightened national financial S system is the very cry i need of the country The Vito fact that thal our om omIt It an and childish h legislation in the lie I past has hns f finally closed the ports of or the nations which cont con comm I t tam tain half tho lie worlds world's peoples was of too little conJ con con- J to attract t the tue w at attention t fJ of f. f elt either I IC t time the I IC A- A Adent dent or an ai any mi of either cither the lie senate or house t t oT r representatives of this uris COll congress t that hat has just W.- W. w into th the silence It is a H marvelous T that ever e a congress made anti and we have havea Hf h d dH H a r few w rather dull ones ues in lit toe lite past i. i 1 failed tO to a ti vote on the time reciprocity s c with Canada which was a transparent shirking of duly AVo Yc look upon the tho failure to create a i permanent tal tariff fr e commission as most nit nit- fortunate It was perhaps the most important legislation leg proposed and nul that it could COUIl not put pass is S most It promised luom wd to load lead no LID to i a final set- set im nt of ii Ii a it question which congress congress hits bus failed 1 to I settle Though it has been lI lIel over el in iii one form or another for four score years cars The failure to give New Mexico and find Arizona statehood was a shame They have all the qualifications of or statehood prescribed in the tho organic law tn Iii refuse them statehood was simply an exercise of if arbitrary power not only Ill in direct defiance of or orthe the time law hut but utterly antagonistic to time the spirit of If American can institutions Ye Ve still I h lupe pc iC that the time e extra tra session will wiH permit the stars of those states t to be bc I added to the great constellation on the time coming Fourth of July tC re arc glad that at last our foreign will have ha residences res becoming the republic they th I 4 will represent we Ve arc are not sorry that the thc new pension law was defeated AVe Ve favor pensions to all men who in ill the past have ha fought for their country but Jut the whole list should be revised for the charge that the tho present present pres pres- ent rat rolls 1011 are arc saturated with fraud and graft is not disputed in iii an any quarter In the congress to convene con soon in hil extra session ses ses- sion skin the Democrats will control the house and time the Republicans publicans will barel barely hold control of tho time senate Ye we anticipate that neither party will be very cry aggress aggressive ag ag- ag- ag gress c fr the time Democrats know that their gains last year ear were not through the countr country's Ys Y's love for them but through disgust over the impotent showing showing showing show show- ing made by br the Republicans And then the presidential election comes next year and the tho feeling feeling feel feel- ing lug on both sides will be AVe 10 must make mahe no mist mis mis- t takes A gifted Greek when the time Greeks believed the they were really the time worlds world's masters went to lo Rome and took a long look at the Roman senate He returned to I Gr Greece ece and speaking of that senate to his comm coun countrymen said that cc they thc looked like an assemblage of kings IJ If sonic some native nathe of Dahomey or Timbuctoo Tim- Tim or Zululand should come to t and 1111 look over o our r congress we have ha no idea what he ito would report on returning home but it seems itis it iti itis i is the time best we can caim do |