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National Capital 
Events of + sabe ik the Seat of 
By J. E. Jones 
The Breeze Bureau 
Washington, April 14, 1914 
Reversing Heroes. 
Osear W. Underwood is the hero 
of 1914, while Captain Richmond P. 
Hobson must be content for his lau- 
rels in the recollection of the vic- 
tory of the Merrimac, and the os- 
eulatory tour of the country just 
after the Spanish-American war. 
There is not a man on the floor of 
the House of Representatives who 
has as many warm personal friends 
as Mr. Underwood. His score for 
affability, courtesy, and poise, is 
around one hundred per cent. His 
leadership of the majority party in 
Congress has made him famous 
throughout the country, but it is 
his splendid personality that counts 
in Washington where he moves 
daily among his colleagues. Few 
men have entered the Senate with 
greater prestige, and it is predicted 
that he will quickly take a position 
of leadership in that distinguished 
position. Incidentally it might be 
said that the Alabaman is the white 
hope of the South—and that section 
of the country, which has not had 
more than a perspective view of the 
White House since the Civil War, 
has become real certain as the re- 
sult of the Underwood victory that 
he is a man of destiny, and_ will 
eventually become president of the 
United States. 
Keeping Up With the President. 
Tariff legislation and currency 
reform found their way along the 
Congressional track, and chalked 
up punctually on time. There has 
been unusual speed thus far in the 
proposed repeal of Panama tolls. 
The House of Representatives made 
its usual record in disposing of the 
Administration measure p. d. q. The 
Senate has refused to yield its pre- 
rogative of extended committee 
hearings, and sessions will last for 
at least fifteen days. They will be 
open to the public. It is expected 
that the big lights of diplomacy, in- 
eluding possibly ex-President Taft, 
yill shed their rays to help en- 
lighten the Senators. However, the 
most significant feature of the sit- 
uation is the poll of the Senate by a 
Washington newspaper, resulting in 
the disclosure that more than a ma- 
jority of that body has openly de- 
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clared itself in favor of the propo- 
sition taken by the President. There- 
fore, should the opposition convert 
the dozen or more members in the 
‘‘doubtful’’ class, the President can 
still win his big fight with about 
half a dozen votes to spare. 
Southern Delegates. 
In the earlier days of the McKin- 
ley administration Henry C. Payne 
of Wisconsin, acting chairman of 
the Republican National Committee, 
made a vigorous fight against the 
excessive representation of the 
south in Republican national con- 
ventions. Payne was effectually 
muzzled by party leaders. Since 
that day attention has been direct- 
ed to the control of conventions by 
delegates from these southern states, 
whose allegiance to the party is gen- 
erally supposed to have been reg- 
ulated at the federal pie counter. 
Since the National Convention in 
1912, this issue has been a live one, 
and now Chairman Hilles has asked 
the states to ratify the action of the 
National Committee in reducing 
southern representation by eighty- 
nine votes. It is declared that the 
new basis proposed for the election 
of delegates assures the states hav- 
ing the greatest number of Republi- 
ean voters a larger proportion of 
voting strength in the supreme 
council of the party, thus resulting 
in the election of delegates who will 
truly voice the sentiments of the 
majority. Mr. Hilles has put the 
problem squarely up to his party, 
and it remains to be seen what will 
be done. 
Coxey Boosts Himself. 
‘‘General’’ Jacob 8. Coxey, who 
led the host of jobless ones to the 
greensward of the Capitol twenty 
years ago, is fairly reveling in pub- 
licity. He has been chasing in and 
out of Washington for ‘several 
months, and has succeeded in ad- 
vertising his proposed cross-coun- 
try march of 500,000 men most ef- 
fectively. Coxey is suspected of 
having subsided the ‘‘movies,’’ as 
a part of his program to prevent 
the public from forgetting him. 
McDermott, Last of the Goats. 
Less than a year ago the coun- 
try eagerly followed the processes 
of the Lobby investigation at Wash- 
ington. At that time Congressman 
MeDermott of Chicago was on the 
‘‘orid,’? and there were startling 
revelations concerning the relations 
between this alleged ‘‘labor leader’’ 
and Colonel Mulhall, who represent- 
ed the National Association of Man- 
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ufactures. All the goats escaped 
one by one, and now the Committee 
of the House has rejected propos- 
als to expell the Illinois member; 
and has decided that the House is 
without authority to censure officers 
and agents of the Association for 
acts alleged to have been committed 
against the privileges of a former 
Congress. McDermott will be cen- 
sured. This prectically spells the 
finis of the ‘‘insiduous  lobby,’’ 
which was investigated with brass 
band accompaniment a few months 
ago. 
Talk About the Dam. 
Representative Rainey of Illi- 
nois is insistently demanding an in- 
vestigation of the Mississippi River 
Power company, which constructed 
the great dam and bridge across the 
river at Keokuk, lowa. There have 
been murmurs of -discontent and 
dissatisfaction for a long time, and 
since this is on the area of prosper- 
ity for official investigations, it is 
not surprising that Rainey conclud- 
es that an outrage has been per- 
petrated upon the government, be- 
cause of the manner of construc- 
tion, and operation of the bridge. 
He charges that it is not only a 
menace to navigation, but he adds 
fuel to the flame of discontent that 
has come from those who secure 
power from Keokuk. 
No Argentine Beef Trust. 
That the American people are in- 
clined to be overly suspicious of the 
beef trust is indicated by the re- 
sults of an investigation by the De- 
partment of Justice at Washington 
into the widely published charges 
that the packers have secured con- 
trol of the supply of beef imported 
into the United States from the Ar- 
gentine Republic. The Attorney 
General’s agents give a clean bill 
to the American packers, and this 
ought to be a source of satisfaction 
to the trusts, since it so seldom se- 
cures a vindication from. official in- 
vestigations. 
Victories for Everybody. 
There is joy in the Republican 
Congressional camp at Washington 
beeause of the victory of the G. O. 
P. nominee in the seventh New Jer- 
sey district. In Washington exhu- 
berant Republican managers are 
boasting as to how they ‘‘done up 
Wilson,’’ evidently having forgot- 
ten what happened to them only a 
few days ago in reference to Pana- 
ma Canal tolls. 
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