NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 19 
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National Capital 
‘| Events of Interest from the Seat of 
Government 
By J. E. Jones 
The Breeze Bureau 
Washington, May 26, 1914. 
Witt HarRNEss THE GRAND CANYON. 
Ralph H. Cameron, of Phoenix, 
Arizona, is in Washington, and he 
has unfolded the greatest plan ever 
proposed to reclaim any section of 
the country—for Cameron is going to 
do nothing less than harness the pow- 
er of the Grand Canyon of the Colo- 
rado; and he has a hydro-electric de- 
velopment project which in compari- 
son makes the Niagara Falls and 
Keokuk Dam developments look like 
children’s ships in a mud puddle. 
Mr. Cameron is the man who built 
the Bright Angel trail on the rim of 
the Grand Canyon, and people said 
it was “Cameron’s folly.” But that 
was years ago before the hundreds 
of thousands of tourists got their first 
real thrills In life entering Arizona 
by this only passage way from the 
north down what has become the most 
famous scenic route in the world. 
When the people of Arizona tired of 
promises of statehood, and wanted 
“the goods delivered,’ they sent 
Ralph Cameron to Congress. He 
stayed here three years, and at the 
end of that time he went back home 
—but not to the home that had been 
Men. letritery of Arizona,’ but to 
the “State of Arizona,” which he had 
promised he would secure “or never 
again ask for political office.” 
Thirty-two years ago Cameron 
quit clerking in Hovey’s store in Bos- 
ton, and went to Arizona; where he 
became one of the first of the sheriffs 
who have furnished the inspiration 
which present-day moving picture 
men thrive upon. ‘The difference be- 
tween the real and the play-house 
kind is that Ralph Cameron is one of 
the men who went out single-handed 
and alone and actually trailed one of 
the most desperate murderers ever 
known to the southwest for three 
weeks through the cactus and sage 
brush, into no-man’s land, captured 
and shackled the ‘Terror of Arizona” 
~ and brought him home for trial. 
' The Interior Department have been 
expecting Cameron to show up, and 
it is a good sign that this branch of 
our government has a welcome on the 
doormat for live wires who like Mr. 
Cameron are putting the best brain, 
brawn, intelligence and money in the 
country back of reclaiming the south- 
west for the people who want homes 
and are willing to work for them. 
The Crand Canyon hydro-electric 
development project has been Ralph 
Cameron’s dream for seventeen 
years. It means that nearly $50,000,- 
000 will be expended, and that 200,- 
ooo horse power will be secured. This 
wondrous power will be distributed 
over 2,500,000 acres of land, and will 
reclaim most of it, as it: has been 
established that there is an abundance 
of underlying water, and this will be 
pumped for irrigation purposes and 
for mining projects, whose difficul- 
ties have been the lack of power and 
water. The Roosevelt Dam reclaims 
250,000 acres—one tenth of the Grand 
Canyon project. The best engineers 
in the United States have O. K’d the 
new project, and it seems assured. 
Lost—A_ CONSTITUTION 
Wisconsin has just discovered the 
fact that it has lost its Constitution— 
that is to say, the original Constitu- 
tion was sent to Washington when it 
was adopted in 1848, and no one dis- 
covered until recently that it was mis- 
sing. ‘he Wisconsin and the Nation- 
al Capitols have been searched with 
the result that only a copy of! the docu- 
ment, which is at Madison, has been 
brought to light. Senator LaFollette 
has pursued the search through the 
State Department at Washington, the 
Congressional Library and the Sen- 
ate and Houses files, but has been 
unsuccessful; and it is now believed 
tnat the document found its way into 
the files of one of the Congressional 
Committees and probably was des- 
troyed more than half a century ago. 
Perhaps after all, the Constitution is 
not important among Badgers. 
DENTES WITHDRAWAL OF PATRONAGE. 
There are a few Democrats who 
jumped over the traces of Adminis- 
tration policies, and among these was 
Senator Ransdell of Louisiana, who 
left President Wilson on the tariff 
bill on account of free sugar. For 
many weeks a report has been going 
around that the President withheld 
patronage from the Louisiana Senator 
in consequence of his revolt. Rands- 
dell says there is not a word of truth 
in the yarn, and since Louisiana peo- 
ple are back at the hem of the Presi- 
dential garment, they no doubt find 
comfort while allaying the fears of 
Senators Walsh of Montana, O’Gor- 
man of New York, and other Demo- 
crats who declare that consistency 
makes it necessary for them to oppose 
the President’s position in reference 
to Panama tolls. 
THE Fiery SENATORS. 
It is not because they belong to 
different parties, but just simply be- 
cause they do not like one another, 
that Senators Ashurst of Arizona and 
Bristow of Kansas “come together” 
so frequently. Ashurst was making 
a plea for an appropriation for ex- 
terminating the prairie dogs a few 
days ago, when Bristow suggested 
that the Arizona solon was prompted 
by a desire to secure jobs for his con- 
stituents. . Thereupon Ashurst used 
such forcible language as to stretch 
the dignity of the Senate. Some 
months ago Senator Ashurst had oc- 
casion to criticise Bristow, and. the 
latter stirred up a tempestuous sea 
of trouble by calling attention to the 
large number of telegrams Ashurst 
had sent out at government expense. 
This caused an inquiry into the use 
of the telegraph service by Senators, 
and the disclosures were so astonish- 
ing that it was found necessary to 
put an outside limit on the amount 
any Senator might have charged to 
the government. 
Insist THat It Can Br Done. 
The Administration leaders have 
not weakened in their demand for ad- 
journment of Congress shortly after 
the first of July. The conviction in 
the United States Senate, that the 
only direct track to legislation is 
through long drawn out discussions 
before committees and the Senate 
itself, has been shocked, and some of 
the solons are rather resentful of a 
plan which boiled down simply means 
that the Senate must be rushed. The 
theory of the Administration men is 
that with the carrying out of the pro- 
posed legislative program the case of 
the Democratic party can be put up 
to the people of the country in mid- 
summer. According to the Wilson 
idea, the voters will be obliged to do 
justice to the Administration and 
therefore return a Democratic Con- 
gress. Of course the Republicans and 
Progressives figure it out altogether 
differently—but you must remember 
that they are the minority in Wash- 
ington, and have to be satisfied with 
the leavings. In many instances this 
comfort has been disturbed by the 
noise of the steam roller. 
Want Nick AND ALICE BACK. 
If Washington has anything at all 
to say about the selection of a Con- 
gressman for Hamilton County, 
Ohio, it might be conceded in view of 
the fact that the Honorable Nicholas 
Longsworth has received the Repub- 
lican nomination, that if father-in- 
law will only be reasonable and not 
insist that a strong Progressive enter 
the race, the Washington smart set 
will be obliged. There is as much 
difference of opinion as ever about 
the Colonel, but tango parties are 
lonely for Nick and Alice. 
