THE , 
National Capital 
Events of aes from the Seat of 
overnment 
By J. E. Jones 
The Breeze Bureau 
Washington, Nov. 18, 1913 
SENATORIAL FATHERS-IN-LAW 
There seems to be a great deal of 
entertainment furnished by Senator- 
ial fathers-in-laws, as illustrated in 
the earlier experiences of Augustus 
P. Gardner, of Massachusetts, who 
took many vigorous cracks at his dis- 
tinguished father-in-law, Senator 
Lodge. Gardner has for long years 
been running under his own political 
steam, and gradually the people of 
New England and Washington have 
grown accustomed to his political 
protechnics. Now the latest illustra- 
tion in this class of political indepen- 
deuce has been furnished by Dudley 
Field Malone of New York, who has 
recently been appointed collector of 
the port of New York, to succeed 
John Puroy Mitchell, who thas been 
elected mayor. Of course, Senator 
O’Gorman is in no way opposed to 
his son-in-law, although the latter 
does not usually agree in _ political 
matters with his wife’s “papa.” 
O’Gorman is a Tammany man, while 
Malone is a “progressive Democrat” 
and an “anti.” Immediately upon the 
appointment of Malone some of the 
newspaper men rushed over to Sena- 
tor O’Gorman to ask him what he 
had to say regarding the confirmation 
of the appointment. The distin- 
guished Senator observed, “You 
doubtless have heard of the Irish 
judge in Galway who sat as magis- 
trate in the trial of his own son and 
sentenced him to death; that was 
three hundred years ago. ‘The world 
has made some progress since then.” 
“SANDING DOWN” THE POULTRY 
Look out for sand-stuffed chickens; 
the latest discovery of the eagle-eyed 
sleuths of the government. It ap- 
pears to have become a _ practice 
among a great many of the shippers 
of poultry to keep them in fattening 
pens for a number of days before 
being killed, during which time they 
are given a large quantity of red pep- 
per. This creates an abnormal appe- 
tite. ‘Then the chickens are given a 
mixture of fine sand with meal, The 
government inspectors have  deter- 
mined that in this way the poultry 
dealers are selling sand to the con- 
sumer at the rate of from twenty to 
thirty cents a pound. Although the 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
process only leads each chicken with 
an ounce or more of sand, yet in the 
aggregate it is an enormous fraud up- 
on the public. The department of 
Agriculture has issued a warning to 
housewives telling them to examine 
the crops of chickens that are being 
dressed by the butcher. 
Tue MEXICAN CRIsIs 
President Wilson certainly heaped 
the icebags around General Huerta, 
in establishing a financial boycott that, 
extended around the world, and fur- 
nished evidence that his Mexican pol- 
icy was intended to do real things. 
It has taken a long time to bring to 
a head the charges, that have been 
freely discussed for more than two 
years, that oil interests have been fi- 
nancing most of the revolutions of 
Mexico. The disclosures seem to in- 
dicate that these operations have 
been conducted almost entirely by in- 
dependents and speculators, rather 
than by large concerns like the Stan- 
dard Oil. 
CuRRENCY LEGISLATION 
The administration seems to have 
reached a practical working agree- 
ment with the Democratic members, 
and if history made since March 4, 
1913 continues to repeat, the most 
perfect working steam-roller ever 
known is about to start rolling. The 
“bigwigs “in the Senate who have 
been opposing the president’s policy, 
notably Senators Reed and O’Gor- 
man, are said to be in line for prompt 
action in passing what is practically 
the House measure. The administra- 
tion still has hopes of making the bill 
a law during the next two weeks. 
THE GOVERNMENT AND STRIKES 
Congressman Keating of Colorado 
has been pressing aa resolution for 
an investigation of the coal strike in 
his state, and this has brought out the 
fact that a distressing condition like- 
wise exists among the miners in up- 
per Michigan. Representative Mac- 
Donald of the upper peninsular of 
Michigan is urging the Department 
of Labor to interest itself in the 
conditions in his district. It has been 
stated by Representative Avis that 
splendid results were obtained in his 
district in West Virginia through the 
investigation conducted by the Sen- 
ate Committee, where ithe usurpation 
of the rights of employees have been 
largely checkmated. The Depart- 
ment of Labor had made a perfunct- 
ory investigation of some of the la- 
hor difficulties, but strange as it may 
seem, this institution of the govern- 
ment, which has been lifted to a po- 
sition of a cabinet place, is still with- 
out sufficient funds to properly pro- 
ceed with its work. Leader Mann of 
the Republicans thas facetiously ob- 
served that the strikes among miners 
as well as the disturbances of labor 
in Indianapolis, are not at all strange 
in view of the fact “that there is a 
worse strike on in the House of Rep- 
resentatives.” Mr, Mann is entirely 
correct, in that only a handful of 
congressmen are in Washington on 
the government’s business. In view 
of the West Virgitiia investigation it 
is clear that there is great need for 
remedial legislation, and a number of 
congressmen have been emphasizing 
the fact that something must be done 
by Congress to regulate conditions 
among employers and employees in — 
the region where these strikes have 
been most determined. 
Eprror PINDELL oF ILLINots 
There has been nearly as much fuss 
made over the appointment of Editor 
Pindell of Peoria, Illinois, for the po- 
sition of ambassador to the court of 
St. Petersburg, as took place in refer- 
ence to Wiliam F. McCombs as Min- 
ister to France. Senator J. Ham 
Lewis declared that his name had 
been forged to a letter to Pindell. 
While Pindell was one of the “orig- 
inal Wilson men,” some of the arti- 
cles in his newspaper were at first 
quoted as clouding his partisanship. 
The alleged letter by Senator Lewis 
telling the Peoria editor that he 
could have the place for a year, but 
with the distinct understanding that 
he would not be a real ambassador, 
and that after warming hig ghind at 
the Russian fireside for a year, he 
would be expected to resign, creat2d 
areal sensation. Pindell came to 
Washington, told this troubles to 
President Wilson, and went away 
happy. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL, GROUNDS 
The most beautiful park in the 
country is destined to be that of the 
National Capitol grounds, when fi- 
nally extended to the new Union Sta- 
tion in Washington. The enlarge- 
ment of the grounds has been in pro- 
cess for a number of years, but not 
until in the last few weeks has work 
started in tearing down the old build- 
ings on the parkway. Representative 
Ben Johnson of Ken tucky, chairman 
of the committee of the District of 
Columbia has protested the awards 
necessary for the government to reim- 
burse the former owners. It is an open 
secret that fortunes have been made 
of this piece of land which was form- 
erly acquired by unscrupulous politi- 
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