| Show MORAL KAMM UP TO CONGRESS passage of eight legislative A acts a ts asked by international reform bureau interesting INQUIRY BEGUN commission trying to deviso devise law f for 0 r the compensation of injured employees employee many house employees soon to lose jobs by GEORGE CLINTON wash washington higton congress nas has been asked to pass pasa this winter eig eight ht legislative acts the advocates at 0 which call them moral measures the international reform bureau Is at work with a militant uplift 8 spirit pi rit which refuses to be cast down the bouse and senate are not always ready readi or willing to pass these moral measures but they are ara always very anxious not to app appear ear to be antagonistic to the bills except on the ground of unconstitutionality or for some other reason which cannot be considered as springing from a desire to stand ng cea enst morality former senator henry W blair Is the president ot of the reform bureau which has for its secretary and moving spirit dr wilbur F crafts the bureau has indorsed endorsed Indor sed and earn commended m e ded t to a churches and reform societies tor for support these legislative measures to remove the federal shield of interstate ter state commerce from the original packages imported into dry herrl territory to prohibit interest Inte restate ato transmission of race gambling odds adds and beta bats to prohibit Inte Interest restate ato transportation por tation of pictures and descriptions ot at prize fights to prohibit sunday sunda toll and traffic in in the district of columbia to prohibit saloons saloon 8 in hawaii to prohibit the united states district attorneys from engaging in private practice to forbid liquor selling in shops and buildings used by the united states government an to restrain the traffic in opium on so called moral measures congress never divides politically and tile the reason for this Is apparent there always Is a division however on measures which touch the liquor traffic in any way into this question for it is an interstate commerce one largely enter the questions tlona ot at states rl rights and pt of pe personal ronal liberty I 1 new england enjosa mosby moaby colonel john S mosby who in the civil war days was called a guerilla and who now to Is called a noted confederate cavalry leader has been lecturing in new england a section of the country which forty seven years ago was demanding that he be captured and treated like a pirate the years that have gone by have softened the animosities of war var time and now new england Is listening with a keen kind of pleasure it is said to the old yet veterans erans raiding stories of the civil war colonel mosby Is a noted figure in the capital ills is face Is that ot of the noyel novel and picture book soldier he Is hawk nosed sharp eyed and lithe figured it was only a year ago that the colonel was in the hospital u undergoing a severe the surgeon said the colonel would die the colonel said be would not die and he be did not has interesting task A commis commission alon composed ot of six members of congress and two nonofficial non official associates Is just now engaged in an investigating work which several of the members declare Is if the most interesting which ever took their after attention alou the commissions endeavor Is to find some means by which damage suits brought by injured employees against their employers may lle be adjusted without recourse to the courts and without the tremendous cost which even small daniago damage cases cages inflict upon the county the state or it may be the federal government in many countries in europe there a are r e laws which provide that the employer shall pay a fixed sum for injuries and the laws have been found to work well in the united states there Is a constitutional difficulty in the way ot of the passage ot of laws like those of europe and one of tho thi labors of the commission will bo be to find a way of getting around the obstacle of the constitution without injuring the integrity of the great document itself to take a case in point which will show the problem which the commis ton elon la Is trying to solve it may be said a that a workman in pennsylvania sued tor for damages because of an injury which he had received ile ho was awarded 1000 by the court of this amount he was compelled to pay to his da attorney and he had left only to support his family anti and to pay the bills which had accumulated while he was incapacitated the suit cost the taxpayers 2500 before it was completed in other words th the a w workman a rk in order to get caused an expense to the county of ivo five times the tha amount which ho he received there are thousands ot of such auch cases in the courts every year sear several ot of the states already have appointed commissions to consider the general subject of 0 effective laws which will over cover the matter and do away with expense and injustice to employer and employee mp loyee new york already hats has passed a law which helps a little in the solution of 0 the difficulty the ton gressional committee will report barly in the next session visitors to washington are won loring why th the frit grant bonu men jaent Is not net completed the pedestal for the statue tatt I 1 e of the general has been 1 in place fo for r a long time ind it Is guarded by tour four tinge huge bronze llona ilona for months visitors have looked on the pedestal and the llona lions but never have seen a sign of working about the monuments site meantime statues statue of other men much less well known to fame have bavo been completed erected and dedicated the grant statue when it Is 13 finally finished will stand in the grounds of tile the botanical gardens racing facing the capitol there was a IOD long 9 delay in selecting the site because ot of tremendous opposition to the place which tho the committee bad given its sanction the warfare of words waged for weeks but finally the botanical garden site was waa authorized oneff one of thereas the reasons onit whymana why many people Is do not want tho the statue placed where the committee decided it should stand stan d was that in order to make room for it tour four magnificent trees would have to bo be sacrificed the trees were historic an and d were known as the crittenden cruttenden elms the trees were not cut down but were removed to another place but on account of their oge age it Is a quest question lorl whether they will survive hundreds lose jobs secretaries clerks messengers and doorkeepers of the house of representatives senta tives have marked saturday march 4 1911 as a black letter day it may witness the blotting out from the pay roll of the names of hundreds hundred of employees most of whom have served the house of representatives through the long years of unbroken republican rule major alexander mcdowell McD dwell ot of pennsylvania veteran of the civil war var and veteran of the congressional service Is the clerk of the house of re representatives a job of prominence and ot of much legislative Im importance important ce major me dowell to Is one of the storytellers story tellers of 0 congress members say that he spins spin a better yarn than either joseph 0 cannon champ dark clark or chauncey 31 depow tho the men who usually are considered to be veritable mines ot of anecdote the tha clerk of the house Is good company and the democrats as well its aa the he republicans have so found him but the majors republicanism la is at 0 the kind in which no man of his party lean ican fled find a flaw and therefore ther etoie although he be Is popular and the best of raconteurs the democrats on coming into power will sever hla ble services with congress a bit reluctantly perhaps but none the less surely now that one comes to think ot of it it Is a mistake to say that march 4 1 will be a black letter day because as a matter of fact unless there shall be an extra session of congress most of at tho the employees of the present house hous e will continue to draw pay until th thal 0 next house convenes for except in tb the a event of calling an extra session the clerks and the door keepers and some other employees must continue in the service during the summer months to care tor for the capitol but most ot of the employees while still drawing thel salaries will have little to do until next december when shen in their cases the real black letter day will dawn pinchot versus taft it recently has been reported that theodore roosevelt and gifford pinchot pinc c have fallen out mr Pinc hots washington friends say that the rumor Is a joke or of the first rank and that if by any chance chanca there should be ba abagis a basis of truth in it the country has baa a caso case of severed friendship for the like of at which tho the history of comrado comrade ships con can furnish few parallels the country knew months ago that mr air pinchot and mr taft had fallen falle a oti out t the president has had the last ladt Is shot hot at the forester bat it ma may y be ba that mr will return tile tho shot la in kind last summer 76 poisons in the employed of tile the forest service were killed and neatly neaily were injured while fighting forest fires in the northwest when tho the cas casualty unity lists all in mr pinchot said publicly that the loss of at life and the injuries to tile tho men of the service were due to the fact that congress had been nig gardly in its appropriations mr pinchot was bold enough to I 1 lay a y tile tha blame on the shoulders of ind individual members of congress whom he called by name these members resented tho the implication that they were re for a policy of murderous furdero us economy mr taft got back nt at mr in ID this wise in his annual message without mentioning mr it Pinc hots name of course but perhaps aulbi making his reply more direct by the am omission assion he said that the loss of life 11 and n d th alin damage done was not due to t the be lac lack I 1 of appropriation by congress con giess to meet the emergency lie ile declared that tho the secretary of the interior had funds from which the law la w allowed him to tc draw in just such cases and that these funds were drawn on to the extent ot a 0 million dollars mr tatt taft be haves that congress was wag in no wise tot blame for the casualties in the northwest last summer mr Pin chotA friends arlenda believe that ho be will have some tiling thing further to say on this subject frye to be dean of senate senator william P frye of maine will be tho the dean of the senate when senator eugene hale of the s same state retires in march next septem ber bar senator frye will be 80 years ol oi age last summer the reloj report t came from maine that he be was seriously III and that his life was in danger the dental denial was quick and emphatic the tha senator la is back in washington gion and looks la better physical condition than h he e ba has a I 1 in n ye years a rs in tho the year 1880 senator frye was wag elected chairman of the republican state committee of maine to succeed james G blaine who had resigned tle the office just one year afterward mr air frye was elected to the united states senate to take th tin thi i seat of mr blaine who had resigned to becom secre secretary tarr of stats tat in cab inel |
