THE 
National Capital 
Events of pie hal eee the Seat of 
By J. E. Jones 
The Breeze Bureau 
Washington, Dec. 23, 1918 
SUFFRAGISTS ARE Map 
According to Miss Alice Paul, 
chairman of the Congressional com- 
mittee of the National Women’s Suf- 
frage association in Washington the 
Democrats will lack the support of 
the women in favor of this movement 
throughout the country. Miss Paul 
says that President Wilson has 
alienated the equal suffragists of 
America by refusal to take up their 
cause, and she believes the women 
should “turn the millions of votes of 
women” and their influence with 
male votes against the Democratic 
party in the next election, unless that 
party changes its mind on the ques- 
tion of suffrage. Miss Paul states 
that the Progressives, Socialists and 
Prohibition panties are in favor of 
equal suffrage. 
MISBRANDED MERCHANDISE 
That the government will restrict 
manufactures in the same way that 
has been acomplished by the pure 
food laws, is indicated by the hear- 
ings held by committees of Congress 
on bills to bar from Interstate Com- 
merce misbranded adulterated arti- 
cles of every description. Represen- 
tative Campbell of Kansas, who is 
one of the most alert and skilled of 
the legislators in Washington, de- 
clares that “no manufacturer has the 
right to filch from the public on an 
article which is not what it purports 
to be.” He further declares that “a 
reputable manufacturer would not 
put his name on an adulterated pro- 
duct.” Mr. Campbell has produced 
for his colleagues in Congress a 
quantity of shoes which he says are 
not made of pure leather. Other ar- 
ticles of merchandise have likewise 
been brought forward showing the 
need for this legislation. 
OpposEs PENSION LEGISLATION 
It is real refreshing in these days 
when pension legislation passes the 
House of Representatives with only 
twenty-five or thirty  dissentirg 
votes, to note the nature of the oppo- 
sition. As an illustration the article 
of Representative Callaway of Texas, 
is in point. In a speech in ‘the 
House of Representatives he said: “I 
remember that when the river and 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
harbor bill was up and we were mak- 
ing a fight against that, claiming that 
it was a pork barrel bill, the gentle- 
man from Wyoming, who thinks that 
the House would never yield to a 
political pressure, assaulted the river 
and harbor bill, and said that it was 
a bill worked out to grease the bear- 
ings of the machinery in the respect- 
ive districts. Does the gentleman 
think that the House would yield to 
the influence of a pork barrel: on the 
river and harbor bill and would not 
be influenced by a pork-barrel bill for 
the pension distribution?” 
THE PRESIDENT’s WRATH 
The members of the president’s 
cabinet and many distinguished 
statesmen, claimed that they had the 
“time of their lives” at the Caraboa 
dinner, until President Wilson show- 
ed his anger over the fun poked at 
his Philippine policy. And when the 
head of the nation arose in splendid 
wrath the songs that had been sung 
for fourteen years lost their “punch.” 
President Wilson’s health prevented 
his attendance at the Gridiron — din- 
ner, when his administration was the 
subject of caricature and good-nat- 
ured jests on the part of the news- 
paper men of the capital. And now 
critics of the president are unkindly 
charging that he takes these affairs 
too seriously and that even as presi- 
dent it would not hurt him to “take 
a joke” along with the rest of his 
government chiefs. 
Ex-PRESIDENT’S CLUB OPPOSES 
HARMONY 
That the “get together” ambitions 
of some of the Republican leaders do 
not meet with the approval of former 
President Taft has been emphasized 
by his reference to the Progressive 
movement as the result of “hysteria” 
and ‘“self-intoxication.” With ex- 
President Roosevelt declaring from 
the mouth of South American jungles 
that “they must adopt our policies, if 
there js to be any getting-together,” it 
is clear that the two champions of last 
year’s campaigns are not doing any- 
thing wonderful in the way of pro- 
moting harmony. 
INCREASE IN PENSIONS 
It will be remembered that at the 
time of the passage of the Sherwood 
“dollar a day” pension bill that a 
great cry was made throughout the 
country, to the effect that the added 
cost would be seventy-five million dol- 
lars a year; and so well grounded was 
this belief that it was published in 
some of the leading magazines and 
periodicals of the day. Now General 
flow. 
Sherwood is taking occasion to re- 
mind the prophets that they »were 
wrong. He says that in advocating 
the passage of his bill that he stated 
on the floor of Congress that the in- 
crease of pensions would not be more ~ 
than $21,000,000 a year. The old — 
general is sometimes very ‘emphatic — 
in his remarks, and here is what he 
thinks of the discrepancy between the — 
prophets and the statistics compiled 
by the government itself. ‘“That $54,- 
000,000 dollar lie has traveled from 
Cape Cod to San Francisco Bay, and 
from Put-in-Bay, in Lake Erie, to 
Gulfport, on the great Gulf, for over — 
a year, and this is ‘the first oppor- — 
tunity I have had to contradict it and 
to show by the official record of the 
Pension Office that the bill has car- 
ried less than $21,000,000, verifying 
within about $185,000 the estimate — 
that the Committee on Pensions made 
at the time the bill was passed.” 
WanteD: Laws THat Arg Fair 
TO Aue 
That the trusts are having bad 
dreams is apparent. One of the big-— 
gest appropriations ever made for an — 
investigation of any kind will be 
asked in order that the Bureau of — 
Corporations, of which Joseph E. Da- — 
vies is the head, may solve the trust 
problem. The president has a way of 
dividing responsibility in big matters; — 
and while Mr. Davies will conduct — 
this exhaustive investigation, Repre- 
sentative Clayton of Alabama is keep- _ 
ing in close touch with the White © 
House and has already prepared sev- — 
eral bills which are to be considered 
as party measures. It is known that 
there is to be a thorough overhauling © 
of the anti-trust laws, yet it seems — 
probable that only two or three bills — 
will be passed this winter, and that — 
the rest of the program will be put 
over until the completion of the in- — 
vestigation by the Commissioner of — 
Corporations and other government — 
agents. It is semi-officially declared | 
“that the president is not opposed to 
big business, but that he wants to re-— 
move by law the restrictions now’ im- | 
posed by big business on little busi- 
ness in order that both may be in- — 
cluded in laws fair to all.” - 
More than 800,000 horsepower has — 
been developed from streams on na- — 
tional forests under government reg- 
ulation. This represents the out-put 
under conditions of lowest stream- 
Without the ideal, this inexhausti- 
ble source of all progress, what would — 
man be? and what would society be? 
