Show NOW IN IMPORTANT PLACE NEBRASKAN THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS CRITIC OF WAR department he it Is not always in harmony with the claude kitchin ha has lecorre an expert in govern ment affair affairs by ara ARTHUR HUR W DUNN Vasli litton iii lo time little ot of war mar fie vie of the sentile committee on fortion relations Is a most imbor hint legislative position aai and when the head of lila tills gortat la Is work ing in tit close with mith the tile administration it becomes the second place nt f in fit the lie nation up to the time that president 1 itson find de clde that the united states must en ter the war the late senator atone stone chairman nf of the committee on foreign ans as in awe se harmony with lilt tho the ind as a consequence is power at the capitol it was bena bens tor stone who took the lie prominent part in lashing with a scorpion tongue the seven democratic senators ena tora who defeated the tile first bill nt at the close of the sixty third congreso cong con gresi sen ben ator stone continued hie his position of for nearly two biars alien hen he lie b icline a recalcitrant the new chairman of 0 the commit tee on oil fortion relations gilbert 11 of nebraska was wa one of the nun milt who helped defeat the tile shipping bill 1111 anti alio ho were so severely arraign oil d hy by senator atone three eara ears ngo ago ASO made ome some ant to want m kiy ty be called the junr party by and supporting UK in ensures murph designed to prevent the shipment of nt war mar materials to the bel bet Ilger o 0 nto utu before the united states antea entered the mar senator hitchcock was i supporter nu of tho the war resolution hoi evir anti had charge of it while title I 1 it t wa mas being considered in the senate sinn hut that time he lie has agnan come under the tile dIm displeasure of the ion flon be caaso of ills energetic support of senator Chum bertain and ns as a n mem tier of lie the military committee by joining in ili severe criticisms ims of tho tile war dopart department part ment Henitt senator or IlItch cock la Is the first news ainer to become chairman of a ver important committee in tho the een sen att A full ri iti woman who ho tine has spent roost most of her life ct rt Post dum dam where here the kal kals I era favorite la Is located was in while white tho the german drive on the ho mast front wai wat at its creet crest she chanced to see a 0 newspaper newe timis paper ro rc port that tho the total ca malters casu aUle on holh both rides ifould ovid probably amount to oh she SAW venomously ohl int tat knisell I 1 always alays euy say to roy my bus ban why da zey zer not kill tat kalsar finta there anro a m chote hole lot of people who think that the knour primitive slug put iiii into word nords hy by thia tills indy lady IR 1 atif biot t irlby probably per cent of our student airmen hive irive picked out tile emit spot on helmet here a fe feu pound pounds of d daml to do the tile most good hut but it Is u sure thine thing that tim the boost of berlin linter lie may take with other people peoples lives tokes takes none with hia his own and tile lie clances are arc to 1 that he will come out of the nor mar halo hale rud hearty claude kitchan ln lit the lender leader of the house line bas become an exert about government nf fuir W when aca he lie became elial of tho the ways and com cittee rolt tee as n he lie would mould lin bably nc ac knowl edil himself hini self he lie was as cot rot equipped in the way may of for the big task which aten confronted him film hut but he lie lias has learned a lot ant an keeps on studying ilo not lot only delves into the legislation and re ports that come conic to aitu in his tits capacity as chairman of a crent great committee but i he lie digs deep into the bureaus of the treasury where there are vast stores or 0 facts and figures about finance and the tile production of reven can ean now handle a very intricate b W I 1 and answer all the th quett questions ions that are firc 1 at him film iwas tarlok parts ortho of the house A great may many congressmen have sons eons or near in one or other of the tile fighting services one of these Is Congio Congre Till mari of arkansan Ark AnsAR hose toy boy la Is an airplane ob observer after a night flight with fill st french pilot not long ong ago the piano plane hit lilt ilia the ground tit too s g eat at nn an angle an annl I 1 uns nt wrecked but tho the r t and loung till man escaped lih A rcck baking up in it letter to hie his father he lie autu ments op ol ine in s of american si trinen an compared with ho the the american being td the game and deil desiring ring to brint bring in docile calp wholes nio take all sorts of chances ond unit inert meet rath many accidents one weapon against which all of tte allied powers hare have hesitated about la Is the threat of trade boycott when pence Is s finally declared ArtA naturally it III be very hard for germany after all the atrocities that have been committed since she eb entered the tho war to herself among the peoples that have been horror with her kultar at the same time iline many men who are in a business buil wilt will be b inclined to alu 0 sentiment to the winds wind q where profits are concerned and when ire ite war mar is I 1 j over the na nations eions that have been figat i ine ing germany will mill probably buy her goods unless there hould should be legal ob stables in tile he way j it has been suggested that one thing that would bring germany ler many to a realla aaion of what ehe the Is I 1 doing quicker than anything pise else would out be concerted action on the part of the he powers of the world now how filli filleting ting for 1 11 in declaring that they would mould admit no german goods within their border borders for a n period of 10 or IS 15 years after the war hut but it Is in not easy to get the power ers to jacif acif any seui agreement in tills country it could not be enacted ed unless it hail the active support of the administration and anti president alleon n Is I 1 not yet ready to talie take suc uch III a drastic if step it ane no quite n compliment to con grossman allson of connecticut that he be wan asked by the house to describe froni from n military point of few the tile battle battie situation at a torae when the country wn us roost most apprehensive that gei many nina about to break through con gie tilson lias tills exhibited a WOL darful knowledge of floros airi nis of nil all kinds and ch character ameter and has times glien the house a great deal tf of useful information IN hen he be was called upon to make his last states tient ho he exhibited a maji me broning th the battle line lines and indicted what might happen to the adan advantage tage of the abille ills statement was somewhat ing to member members of the house who were really quite gloomy over the ou butok tok postmaster general burleson Burle soo ie to quite frequently at the capitol in fact troia from the beginning of the administration he has ben been a ort sort of legislative agent for the tile administration and often tells senator senators and representatives what the president would like to ibave done in regard to some measure that may mal be pending burleson Hur leson was for a long tide a member of ho the house of rep but he Is not the only member of the presidents cabinet who has had find experience secretary red flold of the department of commerce was uno also a member of the house but Is not considered ns as much of n politician and burleson Bur leaon has that rep ut statton atton ellam hoot root former from new york left a good impression in the tile senate and ho tic often receives heh rom men mho were opposed to a him politically senator williams of f ail 1111 nas mas quoting root and referred to film ne as the tile beet best intellect flint line tills stood upon the republican elde side of this chamber since ny my service in title tills bob bull that lid did not en tarel satisfy him and he remarked that he would go a little bit further and ay tiny the best beat intellect that hee has stood upon either elther aide of the body during my service in it there are a great many men who nho entirely agree ditl williams the constant pounding pou of men op to riner and harbor bills or ronny many of 0 the provisions of 0 euch such bills tillin ha has had find the effect of materially reducing those measure measures compared to what they hao haie been in the past instead of bills carry carrying ipg app ro prIn Jons dons of from 10 to W iu million lillon dol gnirs bills nith only IS 18 or 20 1 0 million dollars are now reported report ui cd to the house ind pushed fj eoral times the oppa nent of theae these measures have caused a considerable r ri duct luu lon at 1 the tile present lent time a policy polley lias has been of finking imply simply for continuing project here lieret ro or tor for vork that ie 18 til med necessary in the prosecution of the nut trully that cute cuts down the lie big bills which lime hertt aten passed by congress it bould be almost isible to detail all the chunas cli that have token place in n washington since me started out to kultar in common mith fill the rest of the country washing ob serval meatless dab fuel less daja etc but many othir things lune line hipp happened ened to jog the onetime one time tims sleepy old town ton and overturn long ton gett established conditions guard the tile lute title house searchlights brighten the lie sky ky at night theater seata seats are nt sit n premium pr fittim the telephone and street car bervice services have fallen down badly anti are just beginning to recover uniforms are everywhere the squall boy liae tills topped stopped imitating clinell chaplin and now tries to took look as its much like a dough Luy y as also the cap itol dome formerly a flecca for sight seem Is closed it offers too tw many temptations ns as a standing point from melch boche bobbert could hurl hurt dna dnn domn through the glom glass roofs over the chambers of senate and house the mordi of do ancient political eat ditty describe the now new washington ell lie way get ove it but ho he 11 nc ne er look some one result of 0 the enormously in crea creno ed eil amount of government bustness vance war was declared has lapeen the of getting suitable in which fu u house the new bure bureaus atti and anti x egions of bu reatus of the ar or and other n rt ments the con bep acques C la Is I 1 that tit thee the are L scattered all over town ton in all orti sorts of behunc and in the wot wi likely to 1 entities the structures that hare have been mace froni from warehouses of musty brick tc tone apartment house with fill tiled floora floors anti nd carved ranI pani Inc tnt on the walla walls all are filled with clerks clerk the aerl cuKur department in ie to housed in 33 different buildings and the number occupied by war department division Is in far in excess vt of that number in love 1 trifles am the only thins Q ct of importance |