| Show IOWNE BY BYTHE THE GO Of or Public Utilities is Now Re Receiving Receiving Receiving Much At Attention J Attention t V tenton WILL PURCHASE COAL LANDS In Iii the Iho Philippine anti amI Probably Work urk Them AI Necessitate Nc the tho Ae Ac of or Washington March 1 tIn In the opinion ion ton of ot many 11 public men n a 1 long stride him has hll been made In iii II tho the direction nt of government ownership of util utilities by ly the tho passage of ot a n bill providing for or the tho purchase of coal lands In the tho Island of or Philippine Islands blad It ItIs I ItIs Is 1 estimated that the tue government by b owning and Ild operating Its It I own oln coal lands londs will wi save sae a IL 1 year ear In it the annual cost of at coal conI used u ed In the Islands which IH is now mow JOI about a IL million dollars No doubt It 11 can 11 bo he shown that com coin comparatively a 1 relative saving caving would be made It If tho the government should own oln anti operate coal coni mines mined In the United States Stuls It I Is l a well wel known fact that thousands of itt n acres of iC coal mails lands In tho the United States are lying undeveloped und mind that thaI tIme tho government could buy them then at n it 1 reasonable figure aure and amid mine Its own oln coal much cheaper than at nt present MUST TRANSPORTATION TION rON It II Is in I known that the government must build n a railroad from flom roam the tho Batan mines to the tho harbor tn PO as to get et the coal out oat Olt It U has been In various Investigations here that there thure are aro IN very ver rich coal lands land undeveloped In the time United States State they tey have no railroad outlet It If the tho government following the lie llama example should put chase these the u coal coni lands It would no 10 doubt do us ns It i will wi do 0 In the Philip Philippines Philippines pines pine build bul an outlet If It none Is 18 fur furnished furnished and will wi not only own owl and op 01 crate mines but bul will wi own on and operate railroads A DUtY DUY Time Tho ho greatest part of n mm I congress titans mans duties dutes remarked tire lve Capron Capon of o Rhode Island U Is I to sit Ill down on things Ho 10 explained by ly calling attention lo to lothe time the many requests that are made lado upon members day after at r day for tor govern governmental mental favors which they know knol should not be granted It 11 I Is II difficult to turn turndown tur turndown down mon men who make those requests but hut nine times In Itt ten teim It Is necessary In n my ray mall mal this morning continued Capron I bad hlll 20 0 requests for In Increases Increases increases creases of oC pensions It I is utterly Im un Impossible In possible to tu secure these thele Increases nt ni though some ome of or time the claimants may mu ba bo entitled to them But Rut there ore many other othel things which a congressman taunt must do In the nature lature of oC preventing timings things which keep keel him him quite quie busy PAYS I could make a n year lecturing lecturIng ing lug said Ir Champ Clark of Missouri url If tC I should leave I my 0 work In Con Congress Congress gress gresa gress Lecturing Is divided ed Into two Iwo seasons elson and an there thero Is II no apparent nt rca rea ton son for tor tho the division One Is the Chan ChRI tUlua season beginning bl about aboul the mid the of oC June The Tho other Is II In the win winter wInter ter season As long Jong ns as I 1 devote my m time to my duty lul hero here I can an nil tl but few fel engagements In iii tho ho winter Rut nut I do tb not care to neglect my congressional work an as al It gets gels more inert and moro more Important h to me ins I MUST BE nF PREPARED II PHED It I has hns been hoci ofton demonstrated that thal a man knows what hn ho Is doing ho gets get get the tho worst of It when he butts butH In Iii 11 on n a speaker on a congressional debate Recently Representative Pow Powers ers era of Maine was making a 1 Republican speech and amil charging time the hard tm of at 1893 1803 to 1596 to time the success of o time the th Dem Democratic erratic party In U It I was ns because tIme the people feared what tho the Democrats would do and Imd of C what they threatened to lo do tIn declared Powers How hair long was It I asKed Representative of Kentucky before the election of Cleveland Ceveland that tho the statement about ruin rum Romanism and all was Wn made mado which defeated Blame Very try near lear tho the close of the tho cam can campaign campaign replied Powers hilt but what tel rel has that statement hero Time The he point Is ie went welt on Gilbert that you ou nil 11 expected to win until that time and nd It was WIS riot not time the expectation Of n tt t Democratic victory that lint brought br the tho panic That was eight l ht years yearn before hetor Inter jetted Hull Hul and Iou In iii II tho saute Eight year yean oal said Powers Powered slowly That U is no very er great groat mistake for tor forone torone forone one of o our omit ur Democratic D friends to Ilke ONI ONE n An AND AD CCO Senator lallinger has hiI Introduced Inho uc d and the District of o Columbia committee has h reported a hill bill bi which provides Imprisonment of o one year ear and On fine for tor torIn or any In man nin who abandons and wilfully neglects to support his imis hil wife Ie and their minor Children n ThI will wi amid add u it con number nUmer to tIme the criminals In Washington If it I It Is enforced crIminAl tot for In the peculiar lower o r strata of human life In n mm this city wife Wil desertion IH Is II quito quite o common NEW WORDS IN IX DEBATE Senator Money Ioney of o Mississippi said one of oC tho the old time Limo of at the Capitol h ii I a n hard nina man to report In debate debole e his hil enunciation Is 18 not very rY distinct But ut his language Is la pure English l and flows steadily anti and easily He tIe uses Lists uel many more words than the eul av ar average craze mon man as an tl his hil vocabulary Is lied In tho th course of oC a speech Money lone will wi u tICO me e nt at least two t 10 words that thata a tL stenographer r has In never before bet re writ ten and ond they timey ara nrc Mi found to lo be correct corr ot although In words worde unfamiliar to men who deal |
