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Show MOPS A BOMB IN I DEMOCRATK RANKS Republicans Let It Be Known That They Are i Not Responsible For Failure of Legislation To Pass In The Present Session. ,The Son Hi, lal Hen be . WASHINGTON, D. C, July 27. Senator Galllnger, the republican re-publican floor leader, dropped n bomb in the ranks of the democrats demo-crats In congress when he let It be known that the minority did not piojKise to be rcsiionsible for failure of legislation to pass in the present session. An attempt was mnde by administration senators nnd members to charge the republicans with filibustering ; Mid thus try to make them responsible for the failure to pass the : immigration bill, the child labor bill nnd the nmendmenl to the ' employers' liability act. The senator put the resiionslbility whore J I it belongs. He stated there would be no attempts at filibustering. The gossip of the cnpltol is thnt certain influential democratic ; i senators from the South do not wnnt the child Inbor bill passed ;)und thnt they will bitterly oppose it. It is generally understood ; that the president wants to sidestep the Immigration bill nnd was ; even opposed to its being taken up at this session. : Thousands of the Elks who attended the great convention in lialtlmore paid a visit to Washington and the cnpltol during their week's trip. The corridors, gnlleries and the restaurants of both the house nnd senate were tluonged with these visitors. Judging l.y their tnlk, the sentiment of most of the stntcs they represented is favorable to the candidncies of Hughes and Fairbanks. Hundreds Hun-dreds of them predicted republican success at the coming elections. elec-tions. It is stated that Representative Rainey, godfather to the administration ad-ministration revenue bill, was very grouchy over the course of that measure in the house. Not only was he greatly chagrined thnt several members of his party united with the republicans nnd mnde several amendments to the bill, but it is said that one of the things that aroused his ire was the failure of the members of his party to stay with him when he tried to get a yea and nay vote on one of these amendments. He demanded the ayes and noes, but not a sufficient number of democrats would rise to secure se-cure them, as required by the rules. Another example of "watchful waiting" and the slowness and unbusinesslike methods of the present administration has been exhibited in the paying of the soldiers who have been called into service from the militia of the various states. As one republican member said: "The failure of the administration to pny the soldiers sol-diers promptly is just another example of the slipshod way the administration does things. Many of these men, or rather most of them, left jobs with day's pay and they should hnve had their money promptly. If we got Into real difficulties just Imagine what would happen under the leadership of the crowd thnt is at present at the helm in this country. The wierdest birtl in American politics in the democratic spell binder. Representative Cox of Indiana Is n splendid type of such a bird. In the debate on the democratic omnibus revenue bill the other day Cox soared up through the capitol dome and into the blue empyrean chanting the following paean of praise for the Underwood tariff law: "Every man nnd woman in the United States who wants to labor has a job with the best wages ever paid, with full dinner palls, working shorter hours, in better sanitary sani-tary conditions than were ever known in the history of tho American Ameri-can government under the highest protective tariff ever passed by congress." Cox has not heard of the European war. About that time a passing aeroplane must have torn out Cox's tail feathers, anil, deprived of his stcaring gear, he sang the fol-lowing fol-lowing dirge: "I recently observed in the press of the passing away of a prominent lady in New York, leaving a fortune estimated esti-mated from $80,000,000 to $100,000,000, nnd at this very moment the dread disease of infantile paralysis is raging like a fire in New York City among the poor, underfed, underclotlied, underenredfor people." Small'wonder that the American people nre quite in-j in-j capable of keeping up with the vagarious mentalltlr" of democratic demo-cratic leaders. |
