Show brief and breezy representative littlefield dared to oppose the presidents railway rate bill but frye and mr hale may manage to keep the state of maine from being wip ped off the map it is tacitly understood at washington that there will be no river and harbor bill this season the loose change in the treasury will all be needed in digging the panama canal thieves visited the residence of common councilman ardis of phila phila on sunday morning and got away with cash and jewelry valued at councilman ardis voted for the phila gas steal now he knows how it feels to have the boot on the other leg if the coal mines are going to strike for heavens sake let them wait until the ground comes out of his hole again in maryland they propose to make the smoking of cigar retes an offense punishable by law what is the use of involving the law to inflict punishment when the cigarettes can ie be relied on to attend to it if given time 0 in order to keep heep honors even president roosevelt should once more tell us what a gre great i t man jacob riis is then it would be jakes turn again and now representative cambell has goue gone after af ter the sta standard n dard oil company many have gone after the standard but so far all have returned empty A number of the senators tors ors are so ill as to be unable to allend to their duties the number will increase as the date of voting on the railroad rate bill approaches russia proposes to connect the baltic anet and black seas by a huge canal she would make a careful study of the panama canal plans and progress and then do it differently |