Show BONDS WilL NOT CADY This Session of Congress it Is Believed Will Not Vote the theS Asked ed S FUND FOR CIVIL S PENSIONS Superannuated Clerks and nUll In nt Departments to he be Given Consideration COIl If Jr Present Pin Special Correspondence Washington DC Dee Dec 10 The prop proposition proposition proposition of tho the national rIvers livers and liar har harbors bors congress that the government Issue worth of bonds for the tho cre creation creation atlon of or a fund to Inaugurate and carry to io completion a II great waterway policy S will hardly carry cairy at this session hut but the tho enthusiasm of ot the delegates to the convention and tho the evident enthusiasm for foi a 11 waterway policy in every section of ot the country is a straw which points to the tho direction of oJ tho the wind and It in indicates that in spite of the tho enormity of ot tho the amount which will ultimately be 1 0 required the sentiment in favor of ofa ofa a n complete completo system of interior water Iter waterways ways aye has taken talen such a II hold on the peo people people pie that it will Ill eventually be adopted This is IB however but a drop in ln the time bucket compared with the proposition which was Vas introduced in Congress somo years ago arro Someone was wa induced to present a bill backed by b petitions signed by b the Wage Wago Workers Political Alliance which had for Its object tho the digging of canals In all sec see sections of 0 tho tim country north and south and from east 10 to west In fact the Wage Vage rk rs Political P ico proposed a It gridiron of canals which would make the tho th inhabitants of or Mars exceedingly Jealous If j tho time plan should ever be car carried carrIed ried nod out Someone had the curiosity to look Into the Wage Alliance and see seo what it amounted to It was vas found to consist of or a clerk In one of at the depart departments department departments ments ment named James Selden Cowden He proved to bf bl the president the sac rotary treasurer general manager and andIn m tn fact tact the entire Wage Vage Workers Political cal alliance Of course nothing came cameo of or o the Ilie bill bm but one surprising thing about it was that he lie should have found any an member of ot Congress willing to stand sponsor for tor any an such absurd S S BUREAU OF OP ANIMAL INDUSTRY years ago ajO tho tim Bureau of or Animal Industry was wa first established with Dr Salmon as ns Its lIz chief chiefA chleA A careful examination of oC all the cattle In n and around tho the District of Colum Columbia bla bia Ia va wa made with the resultant dis discovery covery of hundreds of ot cases of oC pneumonia among the herds which sup supplied supplied plied pled the milk to the inhabitants of oJ Washington Those herds were slaughtered by bJ wholesale and apparently apparently enU this vicinity has hu been free of ot diseased cattle since But within the thc past few days la s the of the department of ot agriculture In connection tion ion with tIme the health authorities of ot the district have hao discovered that the milk supply 1 of ot Washington is tainted to a acry avery very ely large laige extent caused by tho tile pres presence once nce of or tuberculosis among the dairy cattle attle The census figures show that there here are arc in tho time District of o Columbia itself about 1500 dairy cows and It has las been boon demonstrated that at least one ono third of or these are afflicted with bo be bovine bovine vine tuberculosis to such an extent that they the are being slaughtered by whole wholesale wholesale sale ale Tho same ame condition Is said to exist on the tile farms of ot Maryland and Virginia from which the tho milk supply o of oC Washington Is largely drawn and in Inconsequence Inconsequence consequence there thore Is a scare among the tho householders Vigorous efforts are arc be beng beIng beIng Ing ng made mado to stamp out the disease and ando to o prevent the llie sale salo of milk from infect etl cd d cattle Tho The highest medical author ties lUes hold that bovine bovino tuberculosis can be 10 communicated to human beIngs through tho the consumption of ot o milk and ana dairy airy products and that 1 i Is especially true rue in the caso case of 01 infants and small children WHITE PLAGUE HOSPITAL There has been beau recently opened In Inthis Inthis this his district a well equipped hospital for or the tho sole solo treatment of o patients sat suf from the tho white plague and andt It t is natural therefore there Core that the efforts to o cure the disease should be supple supplemented supplemented by b rigorous preventative measures Tho The germ makes itself manifest In its early stage In n tho the udder of a cow and it Is la known cnown that tho the germ multiplies and spreads more rapidly in the richer por per portions ions of ot tho the milk particularly In the butter fats As butter Is made by a n simple mechanical process without the aid of heat naturally follows that butter made mado from tho the produce of an Infected cow Is even more deleterious to o health than the tho fresh flesh milk But butter may ma come como from any nn portion of the ho country In fact the largest sup supply supply ply ily used in all nil the eastern cities s comes from rom the great dairy dalr farms of ot tho west and It Is proposed to extend the he investigation which has Just be bo bogun begun begun gun In lii the District of or Columbia to all the he dairy sections of o the country and through legislation to prevent transportation of o dairy prod pred predicts products products through Interstate commerce from rom any an herd which shows signs o ot of disease The agricultural department has ms succeeded in stamping out the hoof loot and mouth disease which broko out In Pennsylvania and an Now Nosy York a aHUe HUe itle more moro than a year ago o and the department has just issued a bulletin raising the quarantine from a number of southern states formerly afflicted with the he rattle tick and the statement Is mado that since the be beginning beginning beginning ginning of or this work of extermination In n 1906 over oer square miles of terri tern territOry tOry ory have been freed treed from ticks and released from quarantine It Is the Intention therefore to attempt tho the much more difficult task of or exterminatIng Ing ng tuberculosis In cattle and to this end nd the tho necessary amendment to the tho commerce law will be bo urged with vigor during the present session There can cnn scarcely scarce bo be a subject of oC more moro vital ital Interest to the tho community at largo large than this OBJECT OF ORDER There was passed around to the vari earl varius various earlous ous us departments a short time ago an executive order prohibiting clerks chiefs of ot bureaus and divisions from giving jiving any Information concerning the he business s of oC various departments to members of o Congress or 01 others without direct authority from the head of ot the tho department Apartment This executive order ordel was the he outcome of a 0 great mass mails of mis misInformation misinformation Information w which was sent to Congress during the recent tariff debate On one occasion three different senators arose and mode made three different state statements statements statements ments concerning the same thing which were ere In direct variance with each oth other other other er and yet each senator declared ho hail obtained the Information from tho the treasury department departmentS S The Th order which Is now in effect will willo of o course ourse bo bl modified otherwise It will willbe be w Impossible for tor anyone an one to obtain any information whatever concerning cur current rent ent business in tho the executive depart departments departments ments meats without first consulting con the cabi cabinet cabinet cabinet net officer at the head of tho the depart department mont ment But this whole matter brings to o mind an order of or Mr Hills one ope of ot ho the the s of ot the treasury Soon n after ter ho he assumed a umed duties Mr HIlles sent a notification cation to e h of the bureaus that two carbon on copies epics of or every letter written in every branch of the tho department be hO sent to one ono for fot the tho assistant sac under whoso whose direct jurisdiction tho bureau Is and an the tho other to the sec eec secretary rotary himself lf a tv I week the sea soo se etory of ot treasury had 1151 piled In his liLs office ottice a mass massof ot or carbon copies copits of letters which exceeded three feet In height Ho was WM literally swamped and It lid did Id not take him long to countermand the order of ot his assistant Some years yearn ago Mr Mm was assistant secretary of ot the tile treasury Ho He Issued an order to the chiefs of o all th the 5 bureaus under hi hll Immediate Jurisdiction tion to the effect elect that every letter I that was sent out by those thos bureaus should bo be 1 0 signed by the assistant secretary Mr Probably the clerks got get busy bu the morning the time order was re received received calved perhaps they were wore a little more Industrious than usual but put that thal night when the tho order had been returned It was isas vas promptly revoked Mr tl however was wan game jame r He signed every everyone everyone one ono of that bunch of oC letters and It too took him three days s to tl t i do It Since Sinco that thal time heads of departments have boon been careful how they the Issue I uc III ill considered or orders dens ders which may result In piling enor enormous enormous enormous amounts of ot work upon them But Rut the present executive order Is a good goodone goodone goodone one In principle and will probably re result suIt sult In inthe the withholding of oC a great deal of from Congress C SUPERANNUATED D One of the tho hardest problems that con confront confront confront front the tile executive ex and um his hi assistants today Is IR what should be done with the superannuated clerks find and nut who have grown old In iii tho the service There are arc hundreds of cases In the depart departments departments ments meats of o Washington wherein worn out empl es are arc retained In their positions although their usefulness has long Ions Ion since passed paused Ono One of oC these Is that of an nn anold anold old lady laly now nearly 90 years of or ago age that has been cn employed ed for a third of oC ofa oCa ofa a century and who during nearly all of that time has devoted her salary to t the tho support and care of an Insane Inane daugh daughter h ter tee who should have been cared for Cor by bythe bythe the government g Itself In the asylum of oC tho Insane This Tills old lady was mark maik cd etl for tor dismissal until her case was brought to the thc attention of or her chief who promptly ordered that she bo be placed on the payroll for about two thirds of her former salary sala saying as RS ashe aslie he lie Issued instructions to lo the appoint appointment ment mont clerk that inasmuch as the gov government government has been relieved of the cost of the care of or the tue afflicted daughter for 30 20 years It was only right rl ht in his Judg Judgment judgment ment that the government should eon con on timid the thc support of 01 the tho mother as well as tho the daughter oven though the services ices ICeR rendered were of ot little or no value There are arc scores of or old fellows who were literally shot to pieces during the Civil war who hold positions In the th various arious departments the duties of which 1 are too loo much h for their t strength B n I J st el although 1 In the tho old days s they did ex cx excellent work vork There are arc again a others other i services seem to be b insignificant Insl but are aro in reality valuable and It Is bs ho b i cause of these that the tho president find nan his secretaries have urged upon Con Cm Congress Congress gress the tho advisability and desirability dc of creating a civil pension pen 51 on list which will prevent old servants of ot the government from becoming paupers In Inthe Inthe Inthe the last years of their lives |