THE 
National Capital 
Events of Annee from the Seat of 
overnment 
By J. E. Jones 
The Breeze Bureau 
Washington, Oct. 10, 1913. 
FoorisH QurESTION BY ROGERS 
A Massachusetts Congressman, 
John J. Rogers of Lowell, asked per- 
mission of the Postmaster General to 
meet his constituents in thirty-two 
towns of the District at the local 
postoffices. ‘This is about the first in- 
stance on record of a Congressman 
suggesting that the postoffices be made 
his political headquarters, and Post- 
master General Burleson refused the 
request. In most instances the Con- 
gressmen go ahead and do the same 
thing and that is all there is to it. 
CANNON AND TAFT 
“Uncle Joe” Cannon got most of 
the headlines of the first page, while 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Professor Taft of Yale occupied the 
inside columns of the daily newspa- 
pers at the time of the visit of the 
two celebrities to the National Capi- 
tal to attend the meeting of the Lin- 
coln Memorial Commission. ‘The ex- 
Speaker’s fund of witty sayings still 
holds for him his place with the copy 
gatherers, while the ex-President 
failed to attract a great deal of at- 
tention owing to his refusal to dis- 
cuss politics. But such is fame at 
Uncle Sam’s headquarters, 
EVERYBODY 1s Happy 
The third and last statement of the 
Congressional Campaign Committee 
Chairman has been made, and in it 
Congressman Hinebaugh, who heads 
the Progressive Committee, voices 
the same joy and enthusiasm that 
comes from the Republican and Dem- 
ocratic chairman in commenting upon 
the results of the recent election in 
Maine. ‘the reading of the different 
statements is edifying to voters of all 
parties as all the Generals find plenty 
of comfort in results. And now West 
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Virginia has a congressman to elect, 
and all the headline political stump 
speakers are to be sent into that state 
to point out the duty. Pe those who 
wield the ballot. 
“Witt Break Down oF Its Own 
WEIGHT” 7 
According to the declaration of 
Representative Guernsey’ of Maine, 
the new currency measure, unless it 
is rearranged in the Senate “will 
break down of its own weight.” ‘The 
gentleman from Maine explains that 
the bill does not offer sufficient in- 
ducement for the 7000 national banks — 
of the country to join the proposition, 
and that many of them will step out. 
Tue AMBASSADOR To MrEsico 
Henry Lane Wilson will remain 
Ambassador to Mexico until October 
14, which is the date of expiration of 
his “leave of absence.” Lane recently 
came on to Washington from his — 
home in Indianapolis, but although he — 
called at the State Department, it — 
was announced that the visit was en- 
tirely in regard to personal matters. — 
Perhaps the fact that the Secretary 
of the Department has retired from 
the Chautauqua platform for a time, 
gave rise to the rumor that Lane was 
seeking pointers on how to weg a 
lecture tour. 
LooKING FoR IRON WASHERS 
Just because someone slipped in a 
few washers to take the place of sil- 
ver dollars at the San Francisco mint, 
the bags of money containing $61,- 
000,000 must be counted. The origi- 
nal discovery of these washers were 
seven in number, replacing that many 
dollars, in sacks supposed to contain — 
$4,000. . 
ORGANIZATION IN THE House — 
Two or three days after Champ — 
‘Clark was elected'speaker three years 
ago the correspondent of this paper 
dropped into that gentleman’s office, 
where I found a few faithful Demo- 
crats discussing the rout of their par- 
ty in the House upon a number of 
minor matters. At about that time 
the leaders assembled, and turned the 
naming of the committees over to the 
Ways and Means Committee—Oscar 
Underwood for short, and by virtue — 
of that act the gentleman from Ala-— 
bama  sticceeded to the place of — 
“Czar,” an expression they seem to 
like about Congress. He had profited 
by the downfall of “Cannonism,” and 
to make his position secure he imme- — 
diately inaugurated the caucus system, 
and from that day to this has invok-— 
ed it upon every important occasion. 
The House patronage was distributed 
