THE | 
National Capital 
Events of a ah from the Seat of 
overnment 
By J. E. Jones 
The Breeze Bureau 
Washington, Oct. 31, 1913. 
THe Ways oF CONGRESSMEN 
Republican Leader Mann declares: 
“Everybody except the President 
knows that this bill cannot go through 
the Senate during November.” He 
refers to the currency legislation, and 
adds that he is wiling to stake his 
legislative judgment “for all time to 
come on the proposition that the cur- 
rency bill will not be reported, as the 
President says, the first week in No- 
vember, and that it will be passed in 
the Senate within three weeks there- 
after.” ‘The absence of a quorum in 
the House has been disturbing Mr. 
Mann more than anything else, while 
in the Senate there was a near riot the 
other day when Senators Borah, Cum- 
mins, La Féllette, Chamberlain, Kern 
and Ashurst united in a demand that 
every power of the Senate be used to 
bring absentees back to Washington. 
The Senate found it difficult for sev- 
eral days to conduct business because 
nearly one half of its membership was 
out of tthe city. In the House of 
Representatives there appears to 
have been little need of attendance, 
but in the Senate a different condi- 
tion has been found, ‘and its leaders 
have been remonstrating vigorously. 
To CuRTAIL SENATORIAL ORATORY 
Senator Kern, ‘the Democratic lead- 
er of the Senate, makes the statement 
that ‘‘within six months a determined 
fight on the rules of the Senate, par- 
t'cularly that part that permits un- 
limited debate, will be staged in the 
Senate,” and the says it may be suc- 
cessful. It will be remembered that 
earlier in the session Senator Owen 
ef Oklahoma introduced a bill to ap- 
p'y the cloture to the wind-jammers 
who cannot be otherwise controlled. 
Just now it is found that in the 
currency legislation, which serves as a 
good illustration that the Senators 
ray defeat action upon the bill by 
talking it to death, during the closing 
hours of Congress. There is a grow- 
ing feeling that legislation should not 
be disposed of in this manner, and 
that whether good or bad it should 
command attention strictly upon its 
merit. 
Tur Watt or A CoNcRESSMAN 
Representative Johnson of Ken- 
tucky is very prominent among the 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
citizenship of the District by reason 
of the fact that he is chairman of the 
Committee of the District of Colum- 
bia. Johnson stirred things up con- 
siderably upon different occasions, 
and now hhe admits that he thas been 
very much abused, declaring that he 
has been villified by the newspapers 
of Washington, “without protest or 
without complaint.” However, Mr. 
Johnson seems to be getting away 
with a job equal in importance to that 
of president of a Common Council, 
and from his statement it would ap- 
pear that he has been taking well 
nieant criticism too much at heart. 
Mrs. PANKHURST 
Mrs. Pankhurst found a good 
friend in President Wilson, who dis- 
missed jall legal technicalities and ad- 
mitted her to our shores. However, 
the famous militant has been having 
poor luck in commercializing her no- 
toriety as American audiences have 
not responded any to freely to invita- 
tions to hear her talk. 
MASSACHUSETTS AND NEW JERSEY 
It is announced that Secretary 
Bryan and Senator Ollie James as rep- 
resentatives of the national adminis- 
tration, will lead the spell binders 
who will go into the New Jersey cam- 
paign. All the Democrats, Republi- 
can, and Progressive party committees 
are actively engaged in the New Jer- 
sey and Massachusetts fight and have 
selected some of their best orators to 
go into these states. 
SuGccEsts ABOLISHING THE MONROE 
DocTRINE 
There is no editor in the United 
States capable of stirring up more 
controversy than Colonel Henry Wa- 
terson, the distinguished gentleman 
who presides over the destinies of the 
Louisville Courier-Journal. Colonel 
Waterson warmly defended his fel- 
low-Coloniel Harvey, of  Harper’s 
Weekly whose support was displeas- 
ing to Mr. Wilson before the Balti- 
more Cinvention. Mr. Waterson has 
discovered that the time-honored 
Monroe Doctrine is “no longer use- 
ful.” “Tt would seem to be a good 
tine for fishing the Monroe Doctrine 
out of thle closet of old clothes,” says 
the Colonel, after which he would 
take a long last look at it, before 
transferring it to the back closet of 
things no longer useful. Great. Sen- 
ators of the United States have been 
brought to express their views upon 
this topic, and they all defend the sac- 
red old relic. Senator Shefroth of 
Colorado says: “I am unyielding in 
my determination to uphold the Mon- 
roe Doctrine at all hazards.” Sena- 
ing conviction in Washington t at 
tor Bristow of Kansas says he doe 
not believe in abolishing the Monroe 
Doctrine, or the principles upon which 
it was founded, and declares such ¢ 
thing would be the most unpopu 
thing that could be proposed in this 
country. “The man in public life who 
suggests this will live to regret it,” 
he says, to which Senator Burton of 
Ohio adds: “I am not one of those 
who believe that the Monroe Doctrine 
has reached {the stage of decadence 
and should be cast aside.” Senator 
Bacon, chairman of the Senate Com- 
mittee on Foreign Relations express- 
es his opinion as follows: “I do not 
agree with ithe suggestion that the — 
Monroe Doctrine is effete, and no 
longer of value to the United States. 
Its provisions are, in my opinion, now 
more useful ‘to the peace and safety 
of the United States than in the days 
of Canning and the Holy Alliance.” 
Senator Mantine of New Jersey fair- 
ly exploded at the mere suggestion: 
“Banish the Monroe Doctrine? 
Never! Instead of giving it up we 
should talk about enforcing it and 
giving it life and health and strength.” 
Quotinc WILson AND BRYAN 
The way Mr. Hobson and other in- 
fluential politicians have been quot- — 
ing President Wilson and Secretary 
Bryan jto prove their cases indicates 
that the writings and speeches. of 
these illustrious gentlemen are quite 
as elastic as Holy Writ, which is the 
true foundation for so many faiths 
and beliefs. It will be remembered 
that a year ago Mr. Bryan declared 
that Governor Harmon of Ohio and 
Mr, Underwood were reactionary 
candidates for the presidency. At 
about the same time he made equally 
uncomplimentary ‘allusions to Speaker 
Clark. In these latter days 
Bryan is keeping on good terms with 
all ithe Demrocratic leaders, and in 
view of his determination to be of the 
greatest possible value to the admin- 
istration it is as awkward to recall 
what the hias said, as it is to read ex- 
tracts from books written by Mr 
Wilson, which the President upon 
one or two occasions jokingly referred 
to as having been written at a time 
“When he knew nothing about 
subjects.” 
PANAMA CANnaL TOLLS 
Representative Adamson, chai 
of the House Committee on interstate 
and Foreign commerce, will make a 
fight to suspend the free tolls ‘te 
American ships until such time as be 
canal is self-sustaining and the 
pute with Great Britain has beer 
isfactorily settled, ‘There is a grow a 
