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Show congresa began." Thomas Burse ol North Carolina 133 years ago conducted conduct-ed a filibuster in congress. For a time he had one follower, Edward Lang-worthy Lang-worthy of Georgia, but only for a short time. "At about ten o'clock on the evening of April 10, 1778, the continental congress con-gress 'took into consideration the draft of a letter in answer to General Washington's Wash-ington's letter of the 4th, and some progress being made thereon, a motion mo-tion was made to adjourn, it being ten o'clock." " Censured For His Filibuster. As the story goeB on, it is discovered discov-ered that Mr. Burke, after voting foi adjournment, declared that the others might vote as they pleased, he would "upon his honor adjourn himself;" and thereupon he immediately withdrew, "by which means congress could not proceed to business." Mr. Lang-worthy, Lang-worthy, the delegate representing Georgia, also withdrew. Congress sent a messager to find the absent members and to request them to return to attend congress. When the messenger came back he reported that Mr. Langworthy had said that he would return presently, but that Mr. Burke had replied that tfce devil might take him if he would come, it was too late and too unreasonable. The upshot of the whole business was the adoption of the following resolution: reso-lution: . "Resolved, That the manner In which Mr. Burke withdrew on the evening of the said 10th instant was disorderly and contemptuous; and that the answer then returned by him was indecent. That the principle upon which he has attempted to Justify his withdrawing from the house is dangerous, dan-gerous, because it strikes at the very existence of the house, and, as in the present case actually happened, would enable a" single member to put an Instant In-stant stop to the most Important proceedings pro-ceedings of congress." In these colonial days Delegate Burke was a true state's righter. He declared to the house that while It might be criminal In members of congress con-gress to withhold their attendance when the public safety required it, "they are to be Judged and punished by the laws of the state they represent repre-sent and by no other power." The continental congress declared that Its resolution touching the case ot Mr. Burke should be transmitted to the assembly or North Carolina, and there so far 'as the present historian knows, the case ended. , 1 Conserving the Bison. In the agricultural appropriation bill reported recently from tha proper committee to the house there is an item of ' $17,000 which will be used to care for and protect pro-tect the bird refuges where wild birds may be unmolested, and which have been set aside by executive order, or-der, and the bison or, as most people say, the buffalo, reservation lu Montana. Mon-tana. There Is a good deal of Interest In congress attaching to the bison, and this means all through the country, because be-cause it has been appeals from the people which have stirred interest in the congressman. In a Montana reservation res-ervation a government herd of bison ranges in virtually a wild state. Congress Con-gress was led to take action to buy and preserve these wild animals by appeals from the American Bison association, as-sociation, of which William T. Iloi'na-day Iloi'na-day of the Bronx Zoological park Is the moving spirit. Senator Dixon of Montana introduced a bill to set aside-a tract of land containing 20 square miles. It is located on the old Flathead Indian reservation, and the land, while making a fine bison range, is almost totally unfit for agricultural purposes. In other words, it is practically prac-tically waste land. ' A PUthead Indian named Pablo living liv-ing In Montana had In his possession a few yearB ago a herd of 350 bison, or, to begin using the common name, although it is wrong, buffalo. Tha Canadian government learned of the existence of the herd and bought It from the Flathead, who was tempted by the offer because of its seeming generosity, C-nd probably because he did not know the full value of the animals ani-mals In this day of their scarcity The Canadians took about half the herd, divided the half Into two parts, and turned the animals loose on ranges on the other Bide of the border, where It is said today they are thriving. The understanding is that since then Canada Can-ada has taken the rest of Hb purchase. pur-chase. Pablo, the Flathead, however, retained In his possession about 60 of the anlmalB. To these he added others, oth-ers, and with the natural Increase he had quite a fine nerd for Uncle Sam. Wood Buffalo In Saskatchewan. Most people do not know that there Is still In existence a herd of actually actual-ly wild bison. Little Is known concerning con-cerning it, save the fact of its existence. exist-ence. How many animals there are and what their chances of continued existence, may be put down, at best, as a mere matter of guessing. Up somewhere in the northern part of the province or Saskatchewan there are a few left, poBsibly more than a few, animals known to the people as wood buffalo. The layman's belief la that the wood buffalo and the buffalo of the plains are different species, but they are not. They are identical, except for the fact that the wood buffalo are a little larger larg-er than their southern family members. mem-bers. How long a lease of life the wood buffalo may have no one knows, but It may be that the Canadian government gov-ernment will undertake, ultimately, their protection and presevatlon. MANY EDPENSION Hundreds of 0!d and Infirm Government Gov-ernment Employes. PLAN IS WARMLY OPPOSED Hard Fight Certain Before Any Retirement Re-tirement Law Is Passed by Congress Con-gress Filibuster of James Burke In 1778 Recalled. By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington. The 30,000 clerks in the Washington departments still are deeply interested in a movement to secure legislation from congress which will enable them when they have grown old In the service to retire on pensions. There is a good deal of opposition In congress to an Jcheme for civil pensions, but England has old age pensions and civil pensions of a kind which recently seems to have appealed to many of the American law-makers, and it is predicted freely in Washington that before many years the government employes will In the age retirement matter be put on a tooting with the army and navy. There are some hundreds o men, and women, too, in Washington who would be eligible for civil pensions 11 the law were to be enacted. In tbe dally procession to the departments at the hour for beginning work there are many men and women moving along laboriously on crutghes. Hundreds of others need canes to aid the halting steps and hundreds of others who need them get along without them, fearing that the use of tbem would be an open confession of weakness. Two Sides to the Question. There la a plan to retire every man and woman who has reached the age of seventy years. If this bill should become a law some of these men and women who have reached the Psalmist's Psalm-ist's allotted span of life will not have to take the trail that leads from Capitol Cap-itol Hill to the poor house. There are two sides to this civil pension question. There are men who say that there is no reason why the government employes should not have saved enough to provide against old age just as other men and women are compelled to take care against the future. The other side of it Is that the cost of living Is very high In Washington Wash-ington and that government pay Is none too generous. One thing is to be taken for granted, there will be & hard fight before any civil pension law is passed by congress. Roosevelt and the Murchle Baby. The United States marshal for the iistrict of Massachusetts Is Guy Murchle, a Harvard man, who was a sergeant In Roosevelt's regiment of Rough Riders. Marshal Murchle is well known In Washington and tne city heard not long ago with sorrow of the death of Mrs. Murchle, the marshal's wife. There are four children chil-dren in the Murchie family, all under six years of age. When Theodore Roosevelt was president pres-ident he paid a visit to Harvard university, uni-versity, where his son was to join a club to which his father had belonged before him and was to Join It with certain ceremonies in which the graduate grad-uate members were to take part. The president also was to make a speech to the Harvard students and the time allotted for his Boston and Cambridge visit was so brief that everything he was to do was timed and tabulated and there were to be no Interruptions to the program. The president reached Boston and just after the mayor and the governor had greeted him and the presidential thought was turning to the next affair on the program, Mr. Roosevelt received re-ceived a message. Instantly he entered en-tered a carriage and was whirled away to a Mount Vernon street residence. It was the home of Guy Murchle and in the parlor of the home were Mr. and Mrs. Murchle, a number of friends and relatives and Bishop Lawrence or the Episcopal church. There was also a baby, and the possible future Hough Rider was to be baptized. It was the news of the baptism that took President Roosevelt to the Murchle home and there, good Dutch Reformed churchman that he Is, he stood godfather and "did promise and vow three things" in the name of the babe at the font, a good Episcopalian babe and the grandchild of one of the greatest clergymen that the Episcopal church has held In Its communion. Dr. E. Winchester Donald, who died some time ago and who was chosen unanimously unani-mously as a successor to Philips Brooks by the people of Trinity church, Boston. Mrs. Murchle was a daughter of Dr. Donald. Filibuster of Long Ago. The other day In the house of representatives there was a filibuster on the passage of the steel tariff bill. The Republicans held that there was too much haBte In enacting the legislation and they tried by every ev-ery known parliamentary means, and by some which perhaps were not parliamentary, par-liamentary, to secure a prolonging of the debate. The Democrats during the attempted filibuster called attention to the fact that when the Republicans were in the majority In the house they would cut off debate by the power which numbers gave them, and that today they had no rightful cause to object to being done by as they had lone by others. A fellow correspondent who Is poa-leesed poa-leesed of some ancient recorda insists '.hat "the same things hannen rwo- and over again in congress." Then he has gone on to say: "The filibusters 5f today which are of frequent occurrence oc-currence have their counterparts In .he history of legislation ever since |