Show SOME Tales About Mice and Other Nibbles of Washington Washing Washing- ton Gossip CANADA IS A PROBLEM What It Might Present in Case of War With Japan By GEORGE WILLIAMSON Washington May St St. TIme The nations nation's capital Is having a sort of lion and mouse with some variations varia varia- The Tho mice are as real as the tho hero or wo wa It a heroine of time tho fa fable fable fa- fa ble anti and If there Is any question of the fact that the United States senate sen ate can play the part of the tho lion Hon the tho questioner Is ii referred to an eminent faunal fauna naturalist recently arrived at In Africa In this present case caso there os no natural understanding between the tho lion and the tho mouse Far from it A little while ago It was the tho rats who were giving the tho senators trouble by swarming from time the Capitol over the now new office building The Tho rats It was scurried through the subway Now It is the tho mice that are aro making grief about the tho capitoL The great senate nonato document room 1 is not immune anti and the tho mimics mice get In there thoro and feast on documents that It may have cost tens of thousands of dollars dol do- lars to produce The Th committee on privileges anti and elections Is also overrun overrun over over- run with mice Traps have havo been bought and the war of extermination will soon loon begin If the tho democrats democrat should carry the next house of representatives as they expect to do Oscar W. W Underwood of Birmingham Ala would bo be chairman chairman chair chair- man of the tho committee on ways and means If he should be re heeled na vms ho he probably would bo be If It the democrats democrats dem dem- carry the tho house they will do It Iton on ott the tho Issue and there would thus bo be presented the tho Interesting spectacle spec spec- tacie of a ways and means committee pledged to the Immediate making of a democratic tariff measure headed by a man from Birmingham If It Birmingham stands for anything on either side Bide of tho continent It Is the tho supremacy of manufacturing Interests Mr Underwood In truth has confided to some somo of his friends that ho he might endanger en- en en endanger danger his political life by his stand for real tariff revision but ho would go through with It I Free roe traders In Congress regard him as a protection 1st and protectionists regard him a afree free trader In itt many cases Mr Underwood Under tinder wood himself In a recon recen speech de declared do- do dared that ho he was a democrat a be be- be hover liever In tariff for revenue with the duties so distributed that Incidentally they should encourage American In in- in This i Is rather a popular democratic demo demo- cratic attitude nowadays Underwood Is widely accounted th the handsomest man In congress He lie Is six forty years old born In Kentucky educated In Virginia a southerner and an aristocrat in every inch of him him and has bias boon been eight or nine times elected to the tho house from the tho Birmingham dis He lie Is looked upon as ono one of the most promising pieces of senatorial timber in the house Ho lie is on sin excellent excellent excel excel- lent speaker and debater a fine par par- a good lawyer and de despite tO- tO spite his local Interests at Birmingham Birmingham ham which makes t his pathway I. I aa as a so absolutely loyal to the theof ho of Champ Clark that he commands the tho batters complete completo confidence Private John Allan ot of Mississippi visited trio the scenes of bIN Ml triumphs triumph recently and Vanh Ia was constantly trio the cantor ot tv group Kroup of or friends for or there thoro have havo been few men In congress with a wider circle cir clr- cle do of friends than this from Tupelo o. Mr Alton Allen was vena asked J If It Itlie ho lie Wa law I L n a littie lit lit- lit tie tle said iId tho thio nor for I a little law lair mid farm more i have havo a big farm and 1 I enjoy ItAro itAro it- it Aro the tho Joys t farming titan than time tho Joys of congress They are much greater Discussing Canada future John MacDonald of Toronto who visited said that flint In the beet beat interests of Britain and the tho United States and of Canada an annexation an- an should never come to pass The Tho United States statesmen of today are face faca to face with problems that may tax their Ingenuity to solve continued Mr MacDonald Each nation furnished the other with models examples to bo be reproduced or avoided as the tho case caso may maybe maybo bo be each Is an Inspiration to the other whereas If nil all were ono one there thoro would bo be more mere growth of power gradually becoming centralized until In a few generations disruption would surely follow In the Interests of each annexation should bo be avoided Suppose for ex example ox- ox ample that a Japanese and Chinese Chines war with time tho United States now a niece more hypothesis should become a reality Would the tho United States be stronger or weaker with Canada annexed or separ separ- separated atod Annexed the scone might not Interest European nations to the tho extent ex cx- tent of interfering to save the situa situa- tion Meantime tho energetic Mongolian might in his own Inimitable manner obtain foothold on the tho Pacific slope de destroy do- do stroy the railway bridges tunnels and across the tho great tableland a awell as aswell passes well as the tho American fleet and remain In absolute possession free freo from possible pos sible sibbe attack by time the entire forces of the tho United States Thus the tho Pacific could and easily be made mado a Mongolian sea the boundary line lino the tho mountain posses passes But with Canada In full partnership with Great Britain and her colonies time tho British empire would not permit coast to become oriental her bier western Zealand would Australian and New nor shores bo be permitted to bo be so conquered Thus the tho United States would In the tho Britain Independent alliance with Great Infinitely more moru colonies bo be and her annexed powerful than wore Canada President Sherman occasionally Vice of officer officer of- of loaves leaves the chair of the presiding down In of the Senate and sits of the tho seats on the tho floor listening one discussions proceedings and to the tho wields the while whilo the tho president pro tern gavel for the Vice Is new departure This a Vice at least In recent years President Fairbanks never did It lie llo President either In his chair as presiding was there there- there and he was generally officer officer and retired from time tho Senate Bonato or else ho he has hai Mr Sherman however brought chamber the tho Senate the practice of th the Speaker Cannon often where House seat scat among leaves the chair and takes a the members John Representative district Is ono one of Michigan of the Fifth of the tho House of the few members Ho lie Is proud of it Mr descent Dutch It born In Holland but was Holland Michigan which is a settlement settlement set set- was time the Holland Dutch Ho was of Netherlands day at the tho the orator on Chicago exposition |