The Oregon daily journal., December 21, 1908, Page 10, Image 10

THE', OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, " 1903.
IIDCLESAK
BILL MILL'S
GRIST
It Is the Han Who Gets
. Things Eather Than the
Han Who Does Things,
That Holds His Job in
; Congress A Bill's Travels
By FREDERIC 9. RASKIN. .
fCopyright. 1888. by Frederic 4 Haskln.
Washington, Dec. 11. When the gave,
fall at the conclusion of the, present
session It will be found that the slx
" Ueth congress has outdone every other
American congress in the number bf
bills Introduced, and that it has outdone
everv 5btheri legislative body In the
"world's. the snake outruns tne saau.
Kortv thousand bills will have been of
fpred. printed and filed away. Nine tenths
of them have called for the appropria
tion at montr. and seven eighths of
ttise call for ' the appropriation of
money for private purposes. The other
lnth represents more kinds of Ideas
about matters of government than the
best political economist could hope to
. no one has-' yet had the hardihood
to attempt to tell exactly how much
itionev is asked for In the flood of 40,
000 bills thet pour down upon the de
voted head of a modern congress. But
that -It Is sum beyond the grasp of
most people la appreciated by those ac
quainted with the terms of the average
bilL First In importance with respect
to numbers comes the pension list of
bills introduced. More than 10,000 peo
ple have come before the sixtieth con
gress asking for pensions and Increase
of pensions which they could not get
under the operations of the genera!
pension law. Every member of each
tiotiM has Ions; string; of pension bills,
and while the majority of these never
get further tthan a committee pigeon
hole, the aggregate amount of money
they ask goes away up into the mil
lions. -''. - '. .J :
tUs Sot "ellei.":-
The next largest class of bllla Intro
duced Is those "for the relief of this
person or that or of organisations and
corporations. There are thousands of
these. From the foundation of the gov
ernment down to the present there have
teen people who felt that the g6vern
rnent has done something or omitted to
do something which entitles them to
pet some money from its treasury on
moral. If not on legal grounds. These
people beset their representatives in
congress to try to get them the money
tliev seek. If all of these claims were
paid at face value. It; would take about
as much as the cost of the whole civil
war to meet them. The great majority i
of them originated in that war. Here1
MAYOR LANE BLAMES COUNCIL
FOR FILTHY GARBAGE DUMP
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Be view of Session to Date,
Writh Forecast of Ses
sion Yet to Come.
City Crematory, Showing Accumulation of Imperfectly Consumed Garbage tn Foreground.
"Portland ought to have a naw gar
bage crematory at once. It Is an out
rage to allow present conditions to exist
I have been trying for, two years to get
the council to appropriate money to put
up a new crematory, but they won't do
It. They will never do It so long as I
am mayor. I don't know why, but it Is
s, fact."
This statement' wm made yesterday
by Mayor riarry Lane, and explains why
the citizens of Portland continue to be
exposed to the danger of pestilence, and
why their nostrils are constantly as
sailed by the Indescribable stench that
emanates from the'dimp on the shores
of that eink of putrescence known as
Guild's lake, r t
Everybody, even the oouncllmen, know
that the present nlant Is ridiculously in
adequate to consume the grut mass of
garbage which -collects nach day tn a
city the size of Portland,' but because
some of the city fathers are not on
friendly terms with the fclty's chief ex
ecutive, Portland is allowed to be men
aced by the danger of an epidemic of
plague which might cost thousands of
lives and strike the city a blow from
which it could never recover..
- Plant Is Inadainate. .
"We have a plant that can take of
only about SO tons of garbage a day."
said the mayor, '"and what we seed is
one that can dispose of 200 tons. The
present plant was built for a city of
70,000 people, and mow we have over
226,000, ' V , -
"The conditions that exist at the dump
are not because the present crematory Is
not doing all it can do. I am aston
ished that that little plant does as well
as it does. It is old and worn out, and
liable to fall to pieces any day, but it
keeps working away. The whole floor
is liable to fall out some day and let the
men down into the furnaces.
"I have.'done everything I could to In.
duce the council to build a new plant,
but they won't do anything. They know
the condition of things out there, but
they won't provide or a new crematory
as long as I am in office.
And so the wind may bring over the
city or roruana me sicxentng ooor iiim
arises from the great mass of pollution
that surrounds the crematory. Tiles may
crawl over the rotting filth and then
Invade the homes of Portland, carrying
with them the germs of disease;, bees
may gather from the fermenting mass
of honey which goes upon the tables of
the cltyj huge, diseased,' ulcered rats,
the great disseminators of plague germs,
may scamper in armies of thousands
over the four acres and a half of filth
and rottenness; the crazy, worn out lit
tle crematory with its broken down fur
naces and wheesy boilers may struggle
bravely against the ever increasing and
overwhelming mass of garbage that
crowds upon It: the floors may fall and
let human beings down into the red hot
blast- all because a city council elected
to safeguard the interests of the people
Is at outs with the mavor and will not
have anything to do with the erection of
a new crematory while he is In office.
Is a church' and there a school house.
here is a lodgeroom of d secret order
ana mere an eleemosynary institution
which was destroyed or damaged by
federal troops. They all seek reparation
at the hands of the government Then
comes the private Individual. He or his
relatives before him were loval to the
union during the great struggle and now
they want nay for property taken, dam
aged, or destroyed by the federal troops.
TKo Kellef From Belief Bills. f ,
But so long as men want to' come to
Anty Drudge Smoothes Over a Domestic
f ; Difficulty. .
Wife--"John, you've just got to get wme one to care for
that auto. Tour clothes are full of grease, dirt,
cement and dear knowS what all. I've tried every
chemical cleanser! know, but I can't get them clean. "
Anty Drudge "kadi you've missed the only thinj? that
will make them clean. , Fels-Naptha will take out
every spot Try it! You'll see!"
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Men who drive automobiles arc learn
ing that Fels-Naptha isa necessary part of
a motoring outfit. It is the only soap that
will quickly take oil and grease from their
hands and faces in cool or lukewarm water.
, Most of the women who wash clothes
for men who drive or build automobiles
learned long ago that Fels-Naptha will take
out grease and grime better than any other
soap. And Fels-Naptha does it in cool or
lukewarm water without boiling the clothes
and without hard-rubbing. '
The Fels-Naptha way of washing is
just , as modern as the automobile. - The .
progressive woman has said goodbye to the
slow-coach, washboiler, hard-rubbing way.
of washing and has got aboard the time-; '
saving, labor-savino;, clot hes-saving '
Fels-Naptha way of washing.
If you don't know the Fels-Naptha -way
of washing, it will take only one trial
to convince you. : Follow easy directions -printed
onthe red and green wrapper.
congress ana tneir usefulness is meas
ured in the eyes of their constituents
Dy me numDer of bills carrying an ap
propriation mat iney get tnrough.
long will the average member try to
h-u mess duis passea. it is this
thaT"has led a thoughtful member of the
house to propose an amendment to the
ieuerai constitution, the purpose Of
which shall be to Drntect enna-rnsn frrvm
the insistent demands of its individual
members. He proposes a constitutional
inhibition against these private pensions
and private claim bills, providing that
congress cannot pass them where they
coyered by existing general law.
That his amendment will never become
a part of the constitution seems to go
wtiMuufc Buying.
PubUo Building1 8111a. '
After the private bills In number and
importance come those providing for
uie erecuon or public tmildines. The
representative who does not introduce
i rum one o a aozen or tnese bills Is a
rare one Indeed. It Is generally regarded
by the voters -of a congressional district
?5 ia Bn of renter statesmanship for
l.kt ir iitiocuiauvu to get a puoll
building appropriation than It Is t.
frame an impotrant and far-reaching
law. A nubile building appropriation
spells a return to congress where the
training or a. great law would not. A
instance of tins kind occurred at the
tneciion. .Representative Hep
burn was the author of the rate law,
'u iTOnuHwnis preierrea a man
nuu vyuuia pay less attention to law'
uianing ana more to getting appropria
Hons for his district With sundry In
stances of this kind as lighthouses It
ine oangerous seas of legislation the
average representative steers his bark
in the appropriation channel. He ask
;2r """dinar in every town. Last year
i F J"r puonc DUUdinrs whose
kubi wouia nave Deen 1125,000.000
congress took off the 1100,000,000 and
Rlvars and Harbors Demands.
.iaA app1',, t0 PuWIo building
aupiii-s wim equal lores to
ri.vr" and harbors. To the people of
ih.; a.l" tl " va"y more important
??ul.d,in,c 5Teek hould be deepened
than that the Panama canal should be
"" ii me money naa Deen pro
"v '. trl "wj waterways inat was
o lor dv individual members of
,? if seBBion, it would have
roiiuat oi ine rivers and bar
uuiB vuiibisbb seem UK a beggar ask
ing a man for a quarter.
una ttilng is certain. If every bill
calling for money that has been Intro
duced in the sixtieth congress should
be passed, the ways and means com ml t-
c" jioune would have to work
ujr una uigni ror many years to come.
io aevise surricient means of raising
AtlAIICrh l-A1.ni. . .
o. r . 5 .i. meet me expendl
.1. """" umiii. eorne years ago
there was a representative who boasted
tT2 IJf.F0. Areater PPropriatlons
. uiui uiaii hit on. ma in
v'bio. Jin upytmeni ror the nomina
tion rejoined that If every other repre
eentatiue was as - tinpatrlottcally de
vuien o nuoiic niunriAr tit.
could never meet the appropriations of
wua.oo. tui lug piea leu on deaf ears.
The Constitution Tinker.
vm.L Anf .
whom thinks he has some tnHai non-
ace for Ills that are. a. T.il .
troubles that are vet tn mm. t -
easy to see how all sorts of things are
proposed to . that. body. One of the
vrwpuBi wons is to amend
the constitution so as to nir. rJLJTiS.
masters to be elected by popular vote.
The proponent of this measure Is the
Honorable William Bailey Lamar of
Lamar, , W".'
iven so conservative . man T?a.
resentatlve DeArmond not lone-i ago
proposed ah amendment to the consti
tution, authorizing the UniterT States to
go into the Ufa insurance business, to
Insure the lives of its riHn. tXU
r "'.uis wants me organic
jw so amended as to make the eight
v ui iiib.1 instrument.
Be ronfnt la Both Armies. .
There Is now Twniinv i.rn..
gress a bill to pension a man who says
.... iji uuin ui. wonieaerate and
iw'i - aj ii lit aunnr in. t -I I v.- n
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snowing it. us is Judge
Tm' f ?uth ?aro". nd Senato?
Tillman la the patron of his bllL He
was In Texas at the time of Lee's sur
render.. In the Cnnf.dar
fine-era. He thought the surrender of
i i"Ly OI- ortnern, Virginia ended
all and he wanted to get back into the
Lnlon as quickly as possible. He w.
made s, . provoermarshal,. after taking
-..., wi. micKianco, ana took a lead
ing hand In nuttincr dnvn th
adoes who then infested'the Lone Star
state. During this time he recruited
his own force and paid each man a mule
a n umu. jie was wonnded In - this
service and now seeks a pension.
Out Of the 40-flOO hllla nff..- -..--
the life of a congress only a few thou
sand ver succeed in running the leg
islative gamut Many and devious are
the-paths which. bill mint nn.,.. h.
fore It can become lw. it tm rii
drawn - by the member who introduces
It. : Then he puts it Into bog at the
peiker's desk.'called the "hopper, or,
If it is in the senate, the unatn.- in.
troduclng.it rls,es during the morning
hour and presents it, whenlt is read
twlcs by Its riUeAna referred by. thei
vice president to the appropriate committee.
But to follow a house bill through the
legislative mill. After going into the
hopper it is carried to the file clerk'
room, nu moored, and appropriately re-
rerreo. Then It Is sent to .the govern
ment printing office, where a hundred
or so -copies are made. .If It happens
to be a bill that strikes the fancy of
ion committee to wnicn it is rererred,
it is discussed and reported to the house
with recommendations, perhaps with
amendments. It is then reprinted as
reported. If It gets through the laby
rinth at the speaker's room It next has
to steer Itself through the committee
of the whole house on the state of the
union, xnen it comes 4n for a final
reading and passage by the house. It
Is then carried to the senate and Its
passage by the bouse announced. The
presiding officer refers it to the ap- j
imjiiai. committee mere,
This committee considers It, perhaps
amends it, and then agrees to rebbrt
It to the senate. That body, after the
uiu uas Deen printed so as to show
what altercations the senate committee
nan mane, considers it. together with
"-J' rcpopi tnereon maue Dy the com-
miiiee ana passes it, perhaps, with
.win. inure Hrnannmcmm imam i . ......
to conference, after another reprint or
'-- mere ine tnree memoers of,
appointea ror the purpose,
'""i"' iu disagreements or the sen-1
ate and house, and report back to their
it-live ooaies. usually these con-
rerenee reports are accent
houses. The bill Is then signed by the
vice president and the secretary of the
senate and by the speaker and clerk of
Yet-: .i? r .r Bunary examinations.
After this It la aent tk. I., .
n. ? T" ; lnal the culmi
nating action that mil.. If
ofha1"? fhJ73u8'h tn" various stages
l.i Ieprll!ed PerhaP much as a
half dozen times. anH h.. v.. "
the watchful eye of a "0, official.
-il!-ftn.at an1 b0UM besides the
.nmbw tem".elv,-,a " u should hap
pen that It got held up on its way
eled again in the next congress. When
?.cnF.re" e.l ts last session all
Jiia k- !. i - mils do not
die by the lapse of time, but there Is
many a poor fellow rh? v.- r".J!
nnili vi liti " V.T ... " im
" ,".j iiib Li 1 1 1 nunna aha aah
gress and the house durlnj the next
-iiv occasion to understand that
the slate is enmnl.l.l. -,iJT.j "An?i
"X?.'!. "".ndhat the
h-.-.?a"r-5''i "'ii "rougn is for
. aaau iiuum m nana IT rtu..
on ciiTirr.K.., - "
(Halted Pre LaiiMt Clre.t
Washington Lkeo. . 21. Outgoing
trains (Saturday bore a large proportion
of senators and representatives home
ward bound for their Christmas vaca-
senate and house adjourned until Jdon
day, January 4. . ' '
The chief business of congress during
the past two weeks was to listen to
imessaces from the nresident. The sen
ate passed a few minor measures - of
local interest, such as bridge bills, ete..
ana conrirmea a. lot or people ior 01
flee. . ' S
The row over the colored soldiers of
the Twenty-fifth Infantry, who were
concerned In the Brownsville affair, had
some Incidental attention, chiefly be
cause of a presidential message on the
subject ana senator roraicers spinieu
reply. There were two or three speeches
on the postal savings banks bill and
the aanAtn recnrdnrl Its lndlirna.nL though
dignified, protest against the language of
me president in that part or ma annual
message relating to the employment of
secret service officers. . There was no
constructive legislation attempted. It
is apparent that it Is the leaders' In
tention not to do much snore than pass
the usual appropriation Dins at tnis.
tne last session 01 ine siztieia con
cress. : ,
on tne nrst aay arter ine nonaay
recess, it is expected that the senate
will receive a reply frora the secretary
or war in response to its renoiuiion
asking under what authority detectives
were applied to investigate the Browns
ville affair and what was the character
of the Investigation. , ' '' '
On January 6 the senate will take
up the so called omnibus claim bills.
The legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill, which carries the
money for most of the salaries In the
various government departments, will
also probably , be aoted on during that
W The house while H was In session
passed on only two measures of con
sequence, that providing for the taking
of the next census, and the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation bill.
Diversion was afforded. however, by
the report of the select committee ap
pointed to consider the president's
message, . The resolution as passed was
merely one of Inquiry. But It gives
the president a chance to "get back."
A vain raid on tho Beed rules of the
house, led by Representative Gardner,
Republican of Massachusetts, was the
incident of the pant week. The only
bills passed during the past week were
of minor Importance and related to the
District of Columbia and pension and
war claims- - The penal eode bill re
mains the unfinished measure and de
bate on It will . be resumed after the
holidays.
Shortest Day of the Year.
Washington, Dec. 21. Last night was
the longest of the year, and today is
the shortest day. This ' means - for ' the
northern hemisphere that winter began
shortly oerore 7 o cjocr mis morning,
the sun and earth at that time being
at the minimum point of separation.
Beginning tonight the nlgnta will be
come shorter.
A little cures 4he cough and
does it better than anything
else, because it builds up and
strengthens at the same time.
It's just as good for sore, tight
chests, Bronchitis and Catarrh.
Be sure to get Scotfs.
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AVHY BlTRTOIf AND .
. TAFT FELL OUT
nan i mrmn. i if. 31 tk.
" iDcui, uipaKiiwrnffni net -ma am a. i i
dent-elect Taft and Beprentatlve Bur
&JZZZ" A,e3f eM. t2?ar . b
'w.i uk.u aurauwaa J l. i us a ill in Kanunu.
can central committee. v
r?n said the split was caused pri
marily bv Taft's belief thct d-.-a t.. .
InJ"r?.r,e",en,te bu ttude on the Ohio
Brown danlnrt that ttia . . I
fro tnthe president-elect's -opposition to
Burton for persisting In the fight
against his brother, Charles P. Taft. Ije
said Taft became angry with Burton
after a conversation with the represen
tative In which he told Burton that be
was net politically embarrassed by the
candidacy of. Charles P. Taft and that
he thought his brother should .enter the
senatorial race. - -. -. ,..
The impression rained Strength that
Taft hBd expressed himself as being
under obligation to Burton. This Taft
resented and it Is said that he ex
pressed his dissatisfaction In no uncer-
ifpv 4
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Liniment is the best thing to use. Re
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nature get rid of the extra load without
grip or gripe and that awful upset sick .
eeling. - . , . 8
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of course, you must furnish security.
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