THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. WORK OF CONdKKSS. Reciprocity Will Be ConsidereJ at Length ia Both Houses. lltvlnlon of the liirllT W 111 Also t omo p for DUcwmlon Henl l-'.stnlo Kcliemr In Mt'Klnlry Memorial. tarl.il Wnshlr.Kton Letter. EVliKV good eiii.cn of the republic is lnlerostc:i i;i his government. Now llmt the congress i in M-'s- changes men who tin' constitution sion the pcopie 1,1U "." ubotit Hi.- 1' t?l"!aiiw branch of their nvcrniiu nt; wii.n " ' uoihk " what it propos. to Uu. Out- ln lius opportunity to watch the statesmen for u considerable num ber of years bceom. interested in lli' which conic over nil' mum-- vi 111:1 ko history for us. lor example, ill lh'.W, Wi.liam .Mcivmuj, congressman from Ohio, chairman of the eoiiuniitie .,11 ways und moans, hi tiignnntlv resented the iiiterlereiioo o. 1 hi- seori-iary nT slate. James, (i. Blame, who insisted that tho subject of reci procity should In- taken up in u turitl bill. Who 11 the same man. MoKm'.tj. iH'onmo president and was oliaff.ro J with tin- powcrsund responsibilit 10s of that high ollico. ho ohampionod reci procity, mid his Inst public utterance was in favor of I ho ponding reciprocity treaties. One of the leading defenders of reci procity in the senate to-dn.v is Sonato, Allison, of lowu. And yol, the strong est nrguiuont t v. r prepared in oppo sition to that idea was prepared by Mr. Allison while lie was a member of the house of representatives in the Forty-second congress. Mr. Allison then claimed and ably demonstrated that the senate had 110 constitutional i.. ..iMiriiuitr revenue leois-lation. nKiii njf.fi 111. niiotcd ami commented upon ri'ii'ni statement of the that "all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representa tives." Sow that he is the loader of tie senate. Mr. Allison claims that the constitutional power lo"amend" house bills carries with it the right to "sub stitute" new revenue legislation in the senate. This matter will bring forth many hours of debate during the lirst session of this congress. President Roosevelt stanus mi orocitv us President MeKinley Thus, the president, with t.u ..niito nnruoses to make profit y treaties with some 14 or 13 countries, and thereby declare tariff , duties with those countries. 'J his the leaders in the house of repre sentatives will strenuously oppose. They claim that if it is once granted that the president and the senate shall have the power now sought to be exer- I cised, the representatives of the peo-I pie may have no f unctionsin the future other than to c;me together for the purpose of passing appropriation um and then adjourning l-.n, tiinv be oolio'.uded no safely predict ut this time. You mil v hoar a great deal about the Shipping subsidy bill during the com ing months, und w ill wonder whether or not there will be such legislation. Well, the Fifty-sixth congress began Ot noon on March 4, lSU'J, und during that entire session of congress the writer predicted that the bill would not become a law, stating that it had been killed on March 2, ISO'J. two days before the Fifty-sixth congress came into being. The reason was never given, but it may be given now. When Senator llanna succeeded in having William It. Merriam made director of the census, lie made personal enemies Ccsity, before favoring luxuries nf any sort" Other statesmen have lire 11 ut tering similar view; so that you onn easily draw the deduction that this also is an opt 11 question. While nil of our people aro intcn .t d In national lrgi-lation. broniiso upon it depend our cnnimt rcia! und industrial development, the people of the 1 n lion a I capital aro particularly interested in two ocsliimitti 1 h of the congress the senate commit tec and the hoiie comniiltee on the District of Colum bia, for upon those commit lees we depend for all ligislatioti looking to the development of this wonderful cap ital city. We (Upend principally upon Si- (111 t III McMillan, of Michigan, ntid Beiiresental ive I'.abooek, of Wisconsin the chairmen of those committees. 'Jhev take especial interest in the up- WEALTH OP UGANDA. Travelers Call It the Richest Coun try in the World. n Afrlenn mrmllne, toniron.u fircut llrllnln, Whine Hmuhw" Will He IJevelopoil nt So Dlntnnt Unte. 1 ft-. m v ftJft 4 y i -JIJ I I i f" j . I I JAMK8 A. TAWNKV. fLcadliiB Ounonert of IteeliirocUy In the did. aid of reci- How- this prob- one can 1 in 1! ; 1 'J4-''f friendj SENATOR ALLISON. ' (Uader of the lu-clproclty Forces in Con ' ..r 111:111V of th of Henry Casson, of Wisconsin, ' 'who was indorsed for that place by a large majority of the prom inent people of the laud. More over, Henry Casson himself became tcrgeant-at-arms of the house of rep resentatives In December, lS'J'J. Henry Casson has been elected sergtaut-ut-'urms of the house of representative again. Xow thut you have u glimpse of these few wheels within the bi wheels, you can do a little guessingfor yourself about the probable fate of the Haniiu shipping subsidy bill. You will read a great deal about pro posed changes in the existing tariff law kuown as the, war revenue measure. You know that the administration fa vors cutting down the tux on beer, , whisky and tobacco. Congressman $ Taw ney, of Minnesota, one of the latd. J 1 -T ing members of the committee on wa ; ;and means, who will have much to do ? -with revenue legislation, says; "I have no desire to favor the beer, w hisky or tobacco men; either the meu who manufacture or the men who coiiBumtj those articles. They are well able to pay the existing tastes, and I suouJd rather raduce duties on article ot uV ' building of the slowly growing city, which is the seat of government of our proud and prosperous people. I During the last congress these gen I tleineu secured the enactment of a bill MUlhorizing the building of a new bridge across the Potomac river, north of the old Long bridge, w hieh is to be ,!,.ir,.,..il liieniise it is a menace to navigHiioii, and often causes the river to back up and overflow a portion of the city. At the Virginia terminus of the new bridge a groat trunk line has houglu all the property which has bet 11 known as Jackson City ever since is:;:,. The railroad company is tear ing down what is left of the old town; and its demolition takes from the face of the earth the vilest gambling dens in this vicinity. The national capital is nurer and cleaner by this condition, which lias ben brought about by the enactment of legislation for the new bridge. One mile further up the rotomno, at the Virginia end of the Aqueduct, bridce. the town of Kosslyn exists, and when the Virginia authorities wipe out that tdnkholo of iniquity the criminals of the land will avoid Washington. When the day shall come that Vir ginia is free from both of its foul places, this capital will expand across the river, anil suburban homos will .spring up all river Arlington Heights. Now, speaking of this prospective development of our city, the story must be completed by telling of the ' work of the lobby. It will surprise you to learn that there is a lobby in 'terestcd in tho development of that bountiful tract of land. You will be more surprised to loarn that they are conjuring with the name of Wil liam MeKinley to aid them in their money-making schemes. As soon as MoKinley's death was announced yon will remember that Di-oininent Ohio people began thi! project of a memorial to be built at Can't on, a memorial in which nil of the people of Iho republic might be interested. That was well. Now. re call the fact that there immediately arose n cry from Washington for the building of ti MeKinley memorial memorial in the form of a magnificent bridge over the Potomac; n bridge to cost millions of dollars. Now, mark you; this is tho scheme, of the real ostale men who own or nr.; ngents for that benutiful proper ty on Arlington Heights. They want this costly nml magnificent bridge, not primarily for the perpetuation of the memory of MeKinley; not pri marily for the patriotic pride in this city which they proclaim, they want that brid.'o in order that, they may sell town lots. What do you think . nf Mint'.' If you have taken interest in the matter, you have seen it stated in the daily newspapers that Senator l'anna, 'who was MoKinley's closest fviend, objects to the proposed" memorial nt Washington city. He does not publicly give his reasons, but thev are understood here. Sena tor Allison, who, as chairman of the senate committee on appropriations, scrutinizes every dollar appropriated, snys that there is no need of a Me Kinley memorial bridge at this time. He also uiuierstamLs the scheme. Meantime, ti"' town lots must lie out doors under the sky for , soma years yet, before any bridge shall be built. These memorial bridge people are not the only self-seekers who per meate the swirl and leaven the legis lative lump by vigorous lobby work. There is uu element of selfishness in every measure under consideration. That wisdom will pervade the coun cils of the real lenders we may rea- alilV anticipate oceause 01 c.msi.- fncts. After all, the majority ot t.i......,u .... at lienrl. weektllf our legisiuii" " o the right, und they tisuully tln.l it. n brief, there is much more good than bad in every congress; muuy more men on the side of patriotism mid national honor than on the side ot weukuess and wickedness, Special Correepondoiicf.l CUHAPS no portion of the world, ;t it... nrtseut time, offers more nil met ions, or more ditlleuliios und dangers, to the explorer and finan cier than the territory lying within the borders of the Uganda 1 lotceto- i-iito in Africa, lis resources are al most incalculable and a d scription of Kmiiil tiortion of them m.ghl till vol umes. The topographical features of this woodland present such impressive effects in form and color as can no where be seen except on the dark continent. The mountain peaks of Kiiwcnori are said to be the loftiest In Africa, one of them reaching a height of ov. r 20,000 feet. It is not known that, unyone has over yet reached thi summit. The native guidon siicruinlb lo the cold oven more pukIIv than the white explorers. The ascent presents great difficulties which multiply Jifter the snow line is passeti. The oreoiliitation of moisture is so ..vnossiv. that after a height or h.ihiu fret ban been gained it is almost tin bearable, as the ground is covered by a drop moss bed in winch one s continuously to ankle and sometimes to the hils. This alternates with slip pery rooks or slimy fallen tree trunks ... . i,:ir,l tlmt contact with a broken branch often causes a severe wound l.iniironot. an extinct volcano, is said to be over 10,000 feet higb. Some of the Aberdau mount-tins loom 13,000 f,.n nbnve sen level, while from the great plateau, the Man, mountains rise to 11,000 feet. Klgon is an im mense tract of extinct craters which seems to form a continuation of Hie Man. Klgon is said lo cover an area of 3,000 miles- nquxre. Such figures give a faint idea of the rastness of the piled up masses. To the north stretch away lofty hills further than the eye can reach. All through the Uganda Protectorate are mountains, the proportions of which would seem great if not so near the awful heights of Kuwenzori. One rniifo forms a water-shed between the seen the birthplace of the Nile. As on progr.sses, towards what seems tho ..,,,i,f the Lnilf. a faint current is -ob served and a sharp line of hills bor ders 1 lie shore line. An abrupt turn of tho gulf around a barrier of sharp rooks, white with guano, reveals swift river and n veil of spray curia. n- ing beautiful palm-crowned islands. The densely wooded river bunks are about 200 feet high. Nearly a mile ins tant may be seen large ureas or line grass land, with occasional clumps of tree. Here tho river is, per naps. im feet wide and rushes over a decline of -m ,.n ei 1 10 ians. Hi M rill J 1 . 1 easy palh leads dow n I he hank bum wic upward view is most benutiful and I impressive. A tourist is not likely to be nlone in viewing the scene, for groups of natives resort here for llie purpose of spearing the fish which, in large number, are carried over the falls, llirds of prey are also seen on ........ tr-vimr thpir fortunes as I , T I , " , fishermen. The green forest, purpie in the distance, the richly colored date-palms-, the orange of their fruit con trasting with the green ot ineir win ing foliage, the brilliant blues and green of the river, touched with white foam and glimmering througn me spray, present a enariiung The country affords almost uniimino nast uru ire for the larce variety i t e-ra.inir animals which abound. fact, animals of almost every ilesci :p- t.nn thrive here. On the shores of the lakes, in the magnificent forests, in fact through the whole Ugnnda country, are to no found birds of every variety, shape and coloring; storks, pheasants, os triches, birds of most cumbersome shape anil those of daintiest anatomy fill the nir with their cries or songs. These have their counterpart in the trees and flowers to bo found on every hand. The beauty of (lie for ests is said to lie neyonu 1111 in-si-ri tion, but to oppress one through them until the impi living in a bygone age most unbearable. THE STARVING POOR. One Hundred Thousand New York ers Are Always Hungry. Free Dlstrllintlon if llron.l snves scores from lenth ly Mnr tlon 'I he l--ninus llrmid nnr Hreml I. Inc. Srs rlnl NfW York Lettrr.l J' MIDNKilU every nint ex- eepl Sunday a long line of men iiumbtring a hundred or more, nnd reaching down llroadway. moves slowly toward a bakery that nestles under the sheltering walls of draco .,i.,i,.,.li It is 11 l-ociment. clothed in 1 raveling ession -of becomes nl- Trecs with heavy black trunks, with lieauliiui wnno stems, with Hark, nimosi, ihim-ih-i i .1- . ble foliage, with graceful, lightly waving leaves, with vines of tvery grotesque or pleasing shape and va riety of color clambering over them, the whole intermixed with flowering trees of almost incredible brilliancy and enveloped in an atmosphere of over-development and rapid vegetable decay, in time induce a sensation of sueh intense awfulness thnt one finds , rairs and tatUrs. 1 he faces ot tne ' Mi L 1 ill t A J I J Till-: HUM AD BEKKKK3. men of which it is composed are 1 11 l t 11 1' h'u irn i pi U ft' J, ft. V. if. $ .m. 1 . , GIANT LOBELIAS, GROUNDSELS AND HEATIW IN UGANDA. systems of the Nile and the Congo. "The numerous lakes of this region are of vast size, Victoria Nyanssa cov ering ubout as large on area as the whole country of Scotland, or 29,000 square miles. The navigation of all the large lakes is extremely danger ous at times, owiug to the turbulence of the waves. In some directions Lake Victoria extends for 200 miles with nothing to break the water line, as yet no suitable craft have been placed 011 these waters and travelers have been compelled to risk their lives in canoes, small sailboats or frail launches. As t,his has rendered long journeys from the shore impossible, It is probable that large islands may yet be found near the center of the lakes. Some of the known islands are " "v 4 A' AN UGANDA LANDHCAl'lS. (Distant View of Ruwenzorfs Highest Peak.) sop 1 cut BMITH D. FnY. most attractive, offering great variety of landscape and on one, liuvuma, are mountains 2,000 feet above the surface of the lake, alluring sites for future t,tel or sanitarium builders. The inland waters are covered with beaut i .ntv lilies, either white or the blue lotus. Lakes Albert Kdward, Al bert and others to the west posses lmrsher features and little of the lux vi,iisness of vegetation found ut Vvmnza. This is probably due to t.he lnrrfh amount of salt found in their wa ters. Little lakes at the northeast of Lake Albert Edward seem to lie iu ut,,.11 craters. Some are nearly dry, a.t from manv larce quantities of Tiierchaiitable salt are obtained. At. the northern extremity of the -hoaiittfiil Nanoleon a-ulf. an arm of the great Victoria Nyanza, may it necessary to, as soon as possible, seek the open country and bright sunshine. Flowers on trees and ground are like living flames, others j as dainty as a snow-flake. Kvery , color and shade is represented. Some trees bear large bunches of flowers, each resembling a lnrge, bright scarlet teacup. Others, again, snow-white blossoms with nn appear ance of having been powdered with lilac. India-rubber trees have large, white flowers with yellow centers. Some trees do not bear leaves and flowers at the same time, but, when destitute of the former, are covered with a crimson or seurlet growth of the latter. Butterflies of a brilliant blue and other dazzling colors drift through the air. To a height of about 6,000 feet the forest is tropical, after which tree- ferns and tree-lilacs appear. At 7,000 feet may be seen yews and, higher still, junipers. At 8,000 feet are bam boos, the last traces of tropica! growth. Now appear tree lobelias and higher still lichens. Finally vegetation almost disappears. Nearly ,U fruits and crops will grow in this eliiriate so near the equator us to be tropical in the lowlands, and yet with the mountain altitudes furuish lug a temperature like that of the cool er zones. No fruit furnishes a more interesting study than the banana, which iu its wild state is a sort of lily and has no juicy, edible pulp. It is generully believed to have been intro duced into Africa from Asia where Its nearest relutive among wild plants is still found. It does not seem to have originated from the wild banana plants indigenous to African soil and which are found Jn great quantities from Abyssinia to Natal. These last have no sweet pulp, but u pith, and glossy black seeds, much prized by the natives as ornaments. I ney are very beautiful plauts because of the color ing and shape of their enormous leaves. The cultivated fruit forms the chief article of food for certain tribes. It contains no seeds, small, durk streaks indicating where they might have been. Besides the possibilities of min eral wealth, as yet ulmost undevel oped, the land abounds in game of 'al most every variety. Cattle and nil kinds of domestic uuimuls ure raised by the natives who, us a rule, prefer a meat diet. From these same natives laborers may be hired at small wages. While this vust and fertile country re mains to a great extent uninhabited there need be no fear of young men lacking opportunities for improving tuelr tortuutt. ICDWAHD JCL1AN. men of which it is iiinched and wun. Th from their eyes und poverty ha , its stamp upon them. I Stretching along to the south and north, winding like u great river be tween the sentinels of majestic build ings, Broadway is somber and silent. The sputtering electric lights gleam upon the asphalt puvcmenl. Now and then the hoofs of a cabman's horse clatter by. The shadows are lightened momentarily by the glare of the lamps in an automobile that stealthily steals along toward the life of the lip-town oafes. dim and towering the tall spire of the church reaches toward the sky like a specter. inch by inch the army of ragamuffins moves into the bakery. As each man enters he pauses for a moment, re ceives a loaf of bread or a do.en buns from a be-aproned baker within and makes his exit through the rear door to give way to the man behind him. That bakery under the euves of the church is the only hope he has for the . morrow. Tho loaf of bread he carries nit under his arm is the only thing i that stands between him und starva tion. Have you ever heard the cry for bread? It is a moan rather than a cry. it is not loud and defiant us one demanding a right. It is low and pit eous, and it comes from a soul despair ing, it is the cry of women ami chil dren that is echoed in tne voice 01 un man who has sought day by day for the pittance lhat means a beggar's feast. It is a cry that too often does not reach beyond the roofs of the miserable ten ement houses where each man's neigh bor may be starving like himself. The bakery is one of several similar places in New York where the unsold bread and rolls of the day are given away at night to the paupers of the city The bakery on Broadway is the largest of these shops, and, of course, attracts the largest who are too lay to work. I spoke to 0111: of these men, who looked as if he were ashamed to beg. He hung his head Hnd seemed half inclined to break ranks and make a run for it. "It is like Ibis, you see," snid be. "I have looked for work day after day for three months. 1 am a locksmith by trade, and have done nothing all summer. The little money I had saved was soon gone and the wife and chil dren would have gone to bed hungry many a hi-jlit hud it not been for these bakeries." Next to this man was one who bore all the marks of the typical tramp. He took his bread in a matter-of-fact way, as if it were his due, and there was no shame in his face. When he had emerged at the other end of the building he broke the loaf in two. eat ing part of it and thrusting the re- mainuerin me pocueis 01 mi. As a rule there are no women in the line, but on this night I saw one edg ing toward the counter inside, where she spoke a few words to the man in charge, When she came out sin- had two loaves of bread in her basket and, accompanied by a wretchedly clad little girl, flic hurried away. The men were oT all as''s and na tionalities. Some were young and siemed full of life, and one naturally wondered how it was that they should seek charity. We ask no questions ot any person who applies for bread," said the matt inside. "We 1al;c it for granied that any man who will come here and stand in "line is hungry. We hand out the bread as long as any remains." From this place and the other shops in the city about 400 loaves of bread arc given away six nights in tho week, and much sulTering is prevented by the generosity of the bakers. At many of the smaller shops the bread is sold to the cheap penny restaurants, but the larger places prefer to give it to the poor. It would be a di fficult mat ter to make an estimate, of the actual number of paupers in New York. The department of charities nnd correc tion has hundreds of applications for a;d every week, but these by no means include all who are in destitute cir cumstances. Bride keeps many per sons from applying publicly for aid. It was only the other niirht that a well-dressed man fell on Broadway in crowd of beg- fl 'l my? KLH'EIVINU HIS 1'OKTloN. hardly fair to be iruv ll is. however call all those who apply for tlu ir loaf of bread beggars. .Many a man nas been driven lo stand in lino and wait foV his portion by the hungry looks of his wife and children, who would die before they would ask him to yo out und beg for them. And when he has reeiived it he has hastened home and told those waiting for him that he bought it with the pennies he hud earned. 1 saw this processjon of hungry men the other night, and 1 learned from il u strange lesson of human nature. In the half hour 1 stood tlu re oil the walk 1 studied the faces und the characteristics of every member of this Ltarvution army as it passed me in review. It was the world in inini-u-ture, and ulmost every phase of life wus represented there. 1 saw honesty and trickery side by side. I suvvgm erosity and selfishness; manliness und cow ardice. There were uien w ho would have been weak in broudcloth und men whose bundle of rags could not con ceal their manhood. I saw grout, stal wart fellows waiting there w ithshuiiie upon their faces. They looked out of ' place "beside the beggara and tramp SAVED FROM STARVATION. the midst of a crowd of people who were coming out of a theater. He was taken to a hospital, where lie soon died, nnd the doctors said he bad starved to death. Kvery little while the newspa pers contain accounts of deaths from starvation. The tenement houses are full of men, women and children who seldom obtain a full meal and go hun gry from one day to another. At the least calculation there are 100,000 people in New York who are hungry all the time and 10,000 who are so close to the border of starvation that it is only the free distribution of bread such -as I witnessed the other night, or the tossing of a few pen nies by some benevolently inclined per son, that saves them from death. There is a striking object lesson in this procession of the broad seekers. There Is a problem that the proposi tion of the western man to establish the sale of bread at two and a half cents a bif in New York will not solve. With the great granaries of the west filled with wheat and corn, on the price of which the speculators on the exchanges are madly trading, it would seem as if there should be no room for hunger in America. But I can still see that long line of men with s-ad faces on Broadway. At the noontime the place before which they stood is filled with richly dressed shoppers. The great bells in the tall steeple of firaee church send forth chimes of ciadness. The street is full of life and light. But across the walls of the holy edifice there fails the shadow of 'that silent procession in rags and tatters. FREDERICK ROTD STEVENSON. rrepnrlnw the Impromptu. Great orators have generally refused to speak on the spur of the moment on important tlienus. Demosthenes, the king of orators, would never speak i a public meeting without previous thorough preparation. Daniel Web ster, when once pressed to speak on u subject of groat import auce, refused, saying that he was very busy, and had no time to master it. When a friend urged that a few words from him would do much to awaken public at tention to the subject, he replied : "If tu-re be so much wtight in my words it is because 1 do not allow myself to speak on any subject infill my mind is'imbued with it." On one occasion Webster made a remarkable speech -without notes before the 1'hi Beta Kappa society at Harvard university, when a book was pivsenu-d to him. After he had none a manus'.'r'.pt copy of his eloquent "improinplu" nddress, carefully written, was foin.d in t book, which he had forgotten to take., way. Philadelphia Suturduy Even ing Pott.
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