Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1910 — Washington [ARTICLE]

Washington

Some of the Things That Are Going On at the National Law Making Shop on the Potomac. Congressman Crumpacker finds that there is a great amount of opposition from all over the country against the adoption of any basis for representation that will cut down the present number of congressmen from any state. Since some states have not increased at all in population during the past ten years while other states have made large gains, the effect would be that there would be a large general increase and that the number of congressmen would be increased to 450 or 58 more than there are at the present time. This might mean that Indiana would gain instead of lose a member. Champ Clark, the acknowledged democratic leader, is very insistent that Missouri shall not lose a membes, and what goes in Missouri goes all over the country. The house is unwieldy now, too many and the expense too great. The people would probably approve a reduction of the number by increasing the replesentation. But congressmen are not apt to pass a measure calculated to cut off their own political topknots. ** President JTaft will play Santa Claus as unsual this year in giving away Christmas turkeys to all the married employes about the White House and executive offices, including the policemen on duty in the White House grounds. It will require 102 of the holiday birds to fill all the baskets and the money outlay will be in the neighborhood of $350. It is a timehonored custom of Presidents to distribute turkeys at Christmas time. Poor old man "Walsh, the guilty, but unintentional and harmless violator of the national banking laws, and by whom no man lost a dollar, is still in prison. A petition for his release is again~ being considered by AttorneyGeneral Wickersham. A boom has been started in Washington for Crumpacker for governor of Indiana, and it is believed that he would be able to unite factions in his home state. He Is not a factionalism but a republican all of the time and the worst thing said about him by democrats during the election just past was that he refused to participate in the party contentions, and said, “As a republican I believe in republicans cleaning their own door-

step and not letting the democrats do it.” Congressman Crumpacker has much to recommend him for the -gubernatorial position,—Business ability, legal understanding, wide expert—ence, straight-out republicanism that is unquestioned, and a clean record. If Stokes 'Jackson gets the sergeant-at-arms plum at the tr. S. capital,"he will have at his disposal about 40 fat jobs and some ambitious Jasper county democrat who wants to spend a season in Washington, can stand a chance if he gets busy and gets properly endorsed. These jobs, of course, will not all go to Hoosiers, for if Stokes lands the job he will have to make some good promises for a division of the t spoils with congressmen from other states.