THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST :10, 1011.
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II If HE M SESSU: I
IIIJR III II II IS 1 1
I Enactment of Reciprocity
t With Canada the Chief
Accomplishment
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Dy JAMES A. EDGER.TON.
ANY ONE who lws ever ueou iu
Washington during August can
ML jL rcalIzo something of the trials
of the extra session of the Sixty-second
congress. If Dante could
have had that experience it would
have given him added descriptive ma
terial for the "Inferno." Washington
in August may not bo tlie hottest city
on earth, but those visiting a hotter
one seldom survive to tell the tale.
Any congress that would remain in,
the capital during the dog days must
either be doing penance or exhibiting
to the country a high devotion to pub
lic duty. It is literally subjecting its
political faith to the trial by fire.
Washington during August is so hot
that the asphalt in the streets is
muddy, the walls of the public build
ings give off heat waves like blast fur
naces, the statues in the park take on
a tense and agonized look, and the
Washington monument is surrounde'd
by tremulous and crinkling air like a
hot poker. Generals Humidity and
Torridity Join forces and open siege.
It is so hot that even graft languishes
and the lobbyists floe to the seashore.
To listen to a tariff discussion in such
an atmosphere must approach the limit
of human endurance. No wonder the
members call each other Hans. They
are more. They are torturers. They
condemn their victims to a fiery fur
nace and bombard them with hot air.
It must be that the southern mem
bers, being used to a warm climate
and hence immune, decided to give
their political opponents a foretaste
of the wrath to come, l'et, there is
one thing ngalnst the tlioory. Nobody
can bo immune to the heat of Wash
ington in August. I know, fur I once
went through it. That was fifteen
years ago, but I remember it as If It
were yesterday. I still perspire and
shrivel up at the mere thought. So
far as I know, there is not a single
southern city so hot as Washington in
August. If there is such a one, God
help its inhabitants! After going
through that sizzling experience I
thought of the hereafter and decided
to lead a better life, l'erlmps in the
present instance the southern Demo
crats were moved by a similar asso
ciation of ideas. Ono cannot go through
an August or even a July in Washing
ton without being reminded of the hot
place and often mentioning it by name.
Probably the southern Democrats
thought of where they wanted the
Republicans to go and decided to give
them a preliminary scorching as an
earnest of this desire.
Anyway, wo have a new crop of
martyrs. Ordinarily a Congressman is
the last man we would think of in the
martyr's role, but lie sure played the
part this time. AVashington weather
is often a matter of extremes, but
twice a year it outdoes itself. This is
on inauguration day and in August.
What Was Done.
A review of the extra session would
not be complete without this advance
talk on the weather. It Is needed to
give atmosphere to the picture. Heat,
both physical and mental, is an im
portant ingredient in the psychology of
congress.
The special session was called to
enact Canadian reciprocity. It did
this and more or, rather, tried to do
more, but the president would not let
it.
The chief subjects considered were
the reciprocity ngreement; the re
vision of Schedule K, otherwise the
wool bill; the free list bill, intended to
make up to the farmers some of the
inequalities in the reciprocity pact; the
reduction of the cotton schedule, which
finally had coupled to it revision of
the iron and steel schedules and some
others; the statehood bill, the reappor
tionment of the house of representa
tives, direct election of senators, pub
licity of campaign expenditures, the
Lorimer Investigation, the Inquiries
into the steel trust and the sugar trust,
the probe into the Wiley case and into
the administration of the pure food
law, the Controller bay Investigation
and the arbitration treaties with
France and England.
Of these the reciprocity agreement
has been passed and has gone to Con'
ada for approval; the tariff reduction
bills and statehood in its first form
have been vetoed by the president; di
rect election of senators, the investi
gations and the arbitration treaties
nave gone over to the next session,
and the reapportionment, amended
statehood and publicity bills have be
come lows.
That Is not a very large record of no
complishment, but Is a big record of
effort really monumental In view of
the hot weather. I presume that never
since the civil war did congress un
dertake bo much In the summer
months.
Steel Trust Probe.
The Investigations alone have been
numerous and laborious at least have
occasioned many labored explanations,
There Is the steel trust probe, in which
tbo late John w. Gates accused An
drew Carnegie of being a "bull In a
china shop" and of kicking over gen
tlemen's agreements. Colonel Theo
dora Ttnnnevelt' Oeorce W. Pcrklnt.
Steel Trust Probe Attracted
Wide Attention Con
gressmen as Martyrs I
Charles M. Schwab, Judge Gary, a
brother of Mark Ilaunii nnd other em
luent citizens also testified. During
the hearings the committee was af
forded some rather surprising glimpses
of how panics are started and stopped,
how trusts absorb their competitors,
how a levol of prices is maintained
without any general agreement tliero-
to and how a benevolent corporation
may "hold an umbrella" over the busi
ness of the country. One of the most
remarkable pieces of testimony was
that of Judge Gary of the steel trust,
who advocated that the government tlx
prices, thereby making Eugene Debs
and Victor Berger look like kinder
garten Socialists.
Then there was the sugar trust in
vestigation, in which Cluus Spreckels
told how somebody put dead rats into
his sugar barrels, broke his machinery,
onspired against him and scared off
his trade. There was the Wiley In
quiry, in which it came out that the
pure food crusader had been driven
Into a corner where he had about as
much. power as an office boy. There
was the latest chapter of the Lorimer
:ase, with dark hints of 5100,000 funds
and odd glimpses of politics as the
game is played both in Washington
and Springfield. There was the state
Photos of Underwood, La Follette and Stanley by American Press Association.
department probe, .wherein a certain
paper lost for years was found on the
floor, indicating either that there is a
trance medium in the department who
can materialize paper or that the tloor
Is not swept very often. And thero
was the Controller bay Investigation,
from which it transpired that the
"Dick to Dick letter" never happened,
or, if it did, that it never would hap
pen again.
Surely this extra session hungereth
and thlrsteth after knowledge. It is
of an inquiring turn of mind. It is
going to find out things even if it has
to uncover all the secret aud inside
history of the Republican party. Yes,
and I had almost forgotten the In
vestigation into the postofilec depart
ment and the parcels post. The papers
have had little to say about this, and
yet it lias gone forward none the less
earnestly. There were investigations
all the way from Alaska to Wall
street. Wo thought that quite a batch
of these inquiries materialized during
the last congress, but the way the
present oue Is taking up the scent the
chase promises to be hotter than ever.
Direct Election of Senators,
For the public at large one of the.
most regrettable features of the extra
session was tlie sidetracking of the
direct oloction of senators. .This con
stitutional amendment passed both
houses by the required two-thirds ma
jority, trat was amended In the senate
In a manner the bouse would not ac
cept. There is little question that the
two bodies win get together In the
regular session aud that the measuro
will finally succeed, but It may be de
layed too long for the state legisla
tures to act upon it next winter. The
amendment that caused the trouble
was the same one that created havoc
In the last congress. At that time it
was known as the Sutherland amend
ment, but this time was offered by
Senator Brlstow, It provides that the
federal government shall have charge
jf fconatorlal election". Southern Di'ni
0011110 senators swi.limv J t'.ioir re
pugnance to tlilp 1'iitme riiil vote i
fur the bill, but the Iwuki w uiul not
have it. At tin- elo.se of ur . n
session there were so many iuinlvi-.
of both houses absent that It w.i.
most Impossible to handle a sluiuc i
of this kind, hut In ttu regular . .ft
thoro Is little doubt that a coMpi' .!
will ho reached and the anienuui iu ,J
some form will pass and go to tlu
state legislatures for ratification.
The extra session broke party Ihw
Into small pieces. On reciprocity tin
Uepubllcau president and the Deuo
crats of both houses were found lit lit
ing shoulder to shoulder, with only c
minority of either the regular i- in
surgent Itepublleans supporting Ihein
But on the tariff and statehood mean
ures the lines switched and the Demo
crats and insurgents were togethel
against the president and the regulars
In scarcely any case during the entire
session was there n straight party
fight. The Democrats were united
much more closely tlian their oppo
nents. In nearly every instance, at
least on important measures, the Dem
ocratic vote was a unit, while that of
the Republicans was divided.
What the Meaning?
What this forebodes for the future it
Is as yet too early to determine. The
general view of the closest students ot
politics is that it means an Independ
ent or progressive candidate' for the
presidency In ease the Insurgents do
not succeed In capturing the next lte
publlcan national convention. Certain it
is that Senator La Follette maneuvered
himself Into a position of great power
in the extra session. Ills voice was
the voice of the senate in the tariff bill
conferences. Underwood of the house
and La Follette of the sennte were the
two men who decided the character of
the wool, cotton and free list bjlls.
That indicated a revolution in the up
lor house and caused the old timers to
scratch their beads. Only a few years
ago the "Wisconsin senator not only
stood alone, but was hazed whenevei
he tried to speak. In this session he
wielded the balance of power and thiif
controlled the senate. Here is food foi
reflection aud material for moral aud
political essays.
Session's Political Importance.
While party lines were broken, tht
extra session was full of presidential
politics. One heard on every side the
prediction that this move or that would
help or hurt the president or would
advance or retard Democratic or pro
gressive chances. Such comment was
especially free in relation to the vari
ous tariff bills, including reciprocity
If the tariff board reports next wlntei
In time for tariff revision on oue pi
two Important schedules before the
opening of the presidential campaigu
the effect of the extra session may be
modified. As matters now stand the
opinion in Washington Is that the
president will be renominated, but
the breach between him and a part of
tho progressives has grown so wide
that a walkout In tho convention will
result nnd a third ticket may enter the
field. The head of that third ticket
would, o! course, bo Robert Marlon
La Follette. Some of tho Wisconsin
senator's friends are even predicting
that he will carry the national conven
tlon.
Tlie passage, of the campaign pub
licity bin has given gratification to til!
friends of good government and clean
elections. It covers the campaigns of
representatives and senators nnd pro
vides for publicity not only after but
before elections nnd not only in the
final polls, but in primaries. At Jast
there is hope of jin end to the reign of
bribery that has so long disgraced the
republic.
As to the reapportionment of the
douse, this Is so adjusted that no state
loses a representative, but many gain
anywhere from one to six.
CANDIDATE for l'HOTHONOTAHY.
JOHN N. SI1A!U,STEEN.
To the Republicans ot Wayne Co.:
I take this means of announcing
myself as a candidate for the nomi
nation of Prothonotary at the pri
maries, Sept. 30, 1011.
To most of you I am known per
sonally. During my seventeen years
of service as a clerk in the Hones
dale postqfflce my efforts have been
to perform my duties faithfully and
courteously to the patrons of the of
fice and the public generally.
To the voters with whom I am not
personally acquainted I would say
that, since a severe injury sustain
ed by my father a few years before
his accidental death when I was six
teen years old I have tried to make
an honest living. My birthplace was
in Texas township, district No. 4,
Waype county. My school days
were limited to the district school
and the Honesdale High school. As
a boy of eleven years I spent my
summers slate picking on the Dela
ware & Hudson dock and attended
school during the winter. I also
spent several summers working on a
farm in Cherry Ridge.
After school I entered the office
of the Honesdale Iron Works, known
now as the Guerney Electric Elevator
Co., where I stayed a number of
years and later entered the Hones
dale postofllce serving two years un
der William F. Briggs. I then went
to tho Carbondale Lumber company
as a bookkeeper, remaining with
them until the anointment as post
master of Miss Mary E. Gerety, who
later became the wife of Hon. C. A.
McCarty. In June, 1S9G, I returned
to the Honesdale postofilce where I
have been employed ever since. In
coming bfore tho people and asking
their assistance and vote at the com
ing primaries, let me say that I am
no tool of any boss or bosses. I
simply desire in common with every
American citizen to better my condi
tion. Your support will be appre
ciated and if nominated and elected
I will devote all my time and atten
tion to the duties of the office to
which I aspire.
Most cordially yours,
J. N. Sharp-teen.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
NEVILLE HOLGATE.
I earnestly solicit your vote for the
prininry election Sept. 30.
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BAbTIMORC
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
For
COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
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Prlmmies Sept. 30.
I, Ferdinand Kroll, a Republican
of the borough of Honesdale, nnd a
supporter of the party, hereby give
notice to tho voters of Wayne coun
ty that I announce myself a candi
date for tho office of County Com
missioner. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
I hereby announce myself to tho
voters of Wajne county ab a candi
date on the Republican ticket for the
office of County Commissioner, sub
ject to the primaries to be held Sep
tember 30. To those citizens who
do not know me would say that I
was born in Wayne county, and
have spent my life so far within Its
borders, excepting two years of
volunteer service in the last of the
Civil war. My occupation is now
and has been chiefly that of farm
lng. This is my first request for
county office, and if nominated and
elected will discharge the incumb
ent duties In an honorable, and I
trust an efficient manner.
Respectfully yours,
A. M. HENSHAW.
Indian Orchard, Pa. GGt7eoi
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FIRST-CLASS BOARD.
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lakeville, Wayne Co., Pa.
Wo print postal cards,
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Total admitted assets , I 275,813.063.65
Total Insurance In force 1,080,239,708.00
Total number policy-holders S'nSl'xS
New Insurance Reported and paid for In 1010 118,783,033.00
Increase In Insurance In force over 1509 """X'i-iK
Total Income for 1910 H,M9.892.23
Total payment to policy-holders 32,869,899.00
Ratio of expense and taxes to Income 12.78 per cent.
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E. C. MUMFORD, President.
Roll of
HONOR
AtterMon is called to tne STRENGTH
of the
Wayne County
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The FINANCIER of New York
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and Trust Companies of Untyed
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Stands 38th in the United States
Stands IDth in Pennsylvania,
Stands FIRST in Wayne County.
Capital, Surplus, $527,342.88
Total ASSETS, $2,951,048.26
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