Show SUFFRAGE TO FORE NEXT TO MEXICO AND TRUSTS IT IS SUBJECT THAT MOST IN CONGRESS WOMEN MAKING HEADWAY plan for invasion of south where the opposition Is strongest farm are said to be comers coming ing 18 over strong by GEORGE CLINTON next to mexico and the trusts suffrage is the chief sub bub jact ot of enlivening interest to congress ani and tho the populace in the city ot of washington today senator ashurst ot of arizona has charge of the resolution proposing a constitutional suffrage amendment and every time he brings it within sight eight ot of hla his brethren ut of tile the senate there Is a clashing ot of arms and a sounding bounding ot of trumpets it seems that some boma of the senators think it Is best to wait yet awhile tor for political reasons before voting on jhb constitutional amendment proposition they have an idea that suffrage will prevail in two thirds ot of the states before long as the result ot of state enacted laws and that then every senator can vote for the amendment without any fear ear of trouble at home because ho he can say to ills his opposing constituents that two thirds of the states of tho tha union are in favor of it an and therefore it Is useless to kick against tho pricks it Is apparent lu in washington that even the strongest opponents of the woman suffrage movement seem to believe that eventually it will prevail all over the united states those who so think base their belief simply on the progress which suffrage has made within the last few years virtually an uninterrupted progress some men who are opposed to it say eay they are just as much opposed to it as ever but that it ii Is to come into its ita own and nie before long they must get themselves into a mood to accept the inevitable these same sam e men say that if it does come it w alil 1 I prove itself to be a failure because they have an idea that woman will get tired of voting and that in time to come while the privilege will be hers she will not take advantage of it hardest fight in south the women of the country who are devoted to the suffrage cause have realized tor for a great many years that their hardest fight is to be made in the south most of the southern members in congress coa coi gresa gress are opposed to woman suffrage at the suffrage headquarters in this city a plan has been made mada to invade the south in behalf of the cause of suffrage A committee composed of noted women good speakers all of them and representing every element in the suffrage cause soon will make a trip through the south in a private car and will speak inmany of the larger cities and probably in scores of the smaller places which lie ike between dr anna howard shaw president of the national suffrage association heads the list ot of the invaders with her will go mrs airs stanley mccormick mrs susan fitzgerald and mrs reese neese of boston abston mrs an toinnette funk a sister in law of the progressive bartys candidate for governor of illinois mrs desha drecki brecki i enridge a member of the famous breckenridge family faintly of kentucky and mrs airs medill mccormick daughter of the late senator mark hanna of ohio farmers being converted tho the farmers of the country showed in the last campaign that they were not as strong for the suffrage movement as the women expected now it Is declared at the headquarters of the suffragists in washington that the farmers are a re coming over strong they say taking ohio as an example that from all over that state there Is a demand tor for suffrage speakers speak era and for suffrage organization and that the movement is so BO general that women are confident that at tho next election their cause will be sanctioned A woman suffrage amendment to the ohio constitution Is to be submitted at the next general election in that state congress Is tremendously stirred up over this woman suffrage question and it has been so stirred up all winter there are a good many representatives especially from the northern states who while at heart opposed to woman suffrage are afraid that worn 1 ans ails opposition may hurt them at the polls the women are taking advantage of this situation and are now preparing to wage campaigns against all anti suffrage candidates for congress in the campaign of next fall freight case undecided the months are rip rapidly idly passing and yet the interstate commerce commission is still at its work trying to determine definitely and properly whether or not the great railroad corporations of the western country are entitled to tack live five per cent additional on the charges tor for car 1 crying freight it was thought recently i that no decision in the case could be reached until next september president wilson became worried over the delay and while lie ha could not interpose personally for fear of having le it charged that lie ho was trying to prejudice the case it was announced quickly that a decision probably would be reached before june the 0 tile the commission have in their employment louis W brandeis as special counsel it Is ho he who Is presenting the commissions side of the case which in a way mea means no the shippers and acid the consumers tilde side brandeis Uran clela has made a study ot of I 1 railroad conditions and while a good ninny many people think he Is somewhat prejudiced his knowledge of conditions and his ability as a lawyer are said eald to be of groat great service to tho the com cam mission in finding out tho the truth ns as between tile the conflicting statements ot of witnesses to tile tho two sides aides of the prep pre 1 bellied caso case the country probably has had no realizing 9 sense of the immense quantity of material which must bo be gone through before a decision can be reached in this advanced rate case the chargo charge la Is that some of the railroads aro are either paying on oil watered stock or trying so to do and that it they had issued no stock without ampa foundation tor for it they would all be now flow in a prosperous condition atiq and would not need to ask an advance in freight ratos rates there Is one tie big railroad which Is paying ft a five per cent divicie dividend nd and which some men declare would be paying 40 per cent if tho the securities which it had issued had a basis more stable than water innocent investors plea now ot of couri cour 3 Minu sanda of innocent people have bought this watered stock and they ara expecting their dividends and they maintain that it an ail advance rate la Is necessary emary to enable them to realize on their money the increase should be because they made their purchases in ill good faith raid and should not be made to suffer buffer tor for tl tha th a sins ot of railroad officials and great bankers who have helped to manipulate things so as to benefit Pe pecuniary cunial ay the fow few to the injury of the many it is little to be ivon wondered dered that there hat has been slow progress ogress pi in reaching a decision in this case the shippers who do not want to pay advance freight rates have been sending in their protests with their reasons for opposing the increase which if granted or of course they will have to pay the stockholders are sending in their pleas plea tor for an increase the railroads are endeavoring deavo ring to show how they are obliged to conduct Jiu business siness at it a loss under the present return on freight shipments the operations ot of the oads in the past are being laid bare I 1 in n the roonie of the interstate I 1 commerce commission the matter la Is a deep one and the hope is that one way or the other the members mex ibers of the commission will be unanimous in its final decision civil pensions up acain there has been baen introduced into congress a bill to create a commission to consider the matter of pensions for aged government employed emp loyes there la Is reason to believe that the bill la Is likely to pass the commission it if appointed will be expected to submit a plan for whit what must be called even it so calling it is unpalatable a scheme to create a civil pension list ever since the foundation of the government there has been objection to pensions for civilians it has been hard work even eved to secure the passage of 0 legislation giving the widows of army officers of high service pensions sufficient for their support of course army officers widows have a pension which la is fixed by law but whenever it has been attempted to increase the pension largely strong opposition has been shown by tile the lawmakers there are few civil pensioners of the government today and virtually none outside of those who have had some connection direct or indirect with the armed services of tile the country for years attempts have been made to get congress to consider the civil veterans Al members alembert of congress have had the necessities lit in tile the case before their eyes in their daily walks when one passes the treasury building for instance at the hour when work Is about to begin or just after it has ended he sees men and women of advanced years going in or coming out of the big structure some of them on crutches and others almost being carried to their desks congressmen have looked on these scenes tor for years and it has haa been the looking on them which has moved scores of representatives to introduce bills for tile the pensioning of the aged and decrepit the introduction of the bills heretofore always has been just so BO much wasted effort in continental europe and in england they have set the example of pensioning aged government workers and the pillars of state of the countries which have shown generosity have not been front from their foundations by the government act official washington Is beginning to look with different eyes upon this situation always there has been sym pathy for the aged who had bad to stay at their work in order to live but always the thought that a civil pen slon sion system was utterly wrong has moved the majority ot of the lawmakers law makers to withhold tile the vote necessary to remedy a condition which certainly seems to appeal for remedy I 1 talk of old age pensions not only are congressmen looking more kindly on proposals to pensions for government employed emp loyes but they are aio occasionally talking of pensioning all worthy men and women who have served the state by leading decent lives and who in their old age must face either penury in the cities or towns or the poor house with its self respect killing conditions it may be that the bill which mr kellly of connecticut has just introduced into the house will not pass and that no commission to study the pension question will be appointed but it if such auch a bill shall fall fail this year it will pass next year or the year fear after the time of old age pensions for government clerks is coming and coming coining quickly just beyond the day or of its coming coining there probably is the other day of pensions for aged americans who have done their duty by the republic in whatever walk of life |