Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 98, 14 February 1909 — Page 6

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THE 'RICHMOND PALLADIU3I AND SUX-TELEGRAM, SUXDAT, FEBRUAKr 14, 1909.

CENSOR IM SENATE IS PROPOSED BY

SEN. H. C. LODGE

Wants to Provide in Laws That Offensive Language Cannot Be Used Against

Branches of Government.

HE INTENDS TO FORCE GOOD MANNERS BY RULE

Lot of Indignation Has Been Expressed by Senators Over the Resoution Would Muzzle Sen. Tillman.

(By Sheldon S. Cline.) Washington, Feb. 13. After more than a century of absolutely free and unbridled speech, United States senators are to be gagged and their speeches censored, provided, that Henry Cabot Lodge, .the erudite senior senator from Massachusetts, has his way. He proposes to insert in the rules of the senate a provision that no senator in debate shall "refer offensively to either of the other corodinate branches of the government or to the other branch of the congress."

In other words, the senate's manners not being up to the Lodge standard, he proposes to enforce good manners by rule. Lot of Jndlgnatlon. A lot of indignation has been expressed by senators over the Lodge resolution and it does not appear to have the sympathy even of Mr. Lodge's fellow republican senators. It Is alleged the purpose of the resolution was to prevent Senator Tillman making his promised speech attacking President Roosevelt. While senators generally admit it would be desirable to prevent any abuse of the president by the South Carolina senator, they object to the idea that the senate as a whole rfeds a muzzle or that senators as a rule need to have written regulations for guiding them in proper conduct. If Senator Lodge presses his- resolution, therefore, it promises to have a thorny path before It. - . Senators Deny Charge.

l Older senators deny that there is less courtesy in senate debate today than formerly. They contend, as a matter of fact, that great senators of the past were much more inclined to indulge In unpleasant personalities than are senators of the present, and they insist that President Roosevelt has had to endure no more aggravated attacks than have some of his predecessors. The further point i$ made that Mr. Roosevelt will not suffer in any way from anything Senator. Tillman may say against him, and it Is argued that for the president's friends In the senate to attempt to gag Senator Tillman might be construed as indicating the president feared the exposures the South Carolinian has threatened to make. While these considerations have weight, the chief objection to the Lodge resolution is that -the senate does not feel called upon to gag itself through fear of what one of its members may say about President Roosevelt or about any one else. Even those most friendly to the president realize that while administrations may change senators always hope to stay on till death, and that the time might come when the gaggers would find the gag an unpleasant mouthfull. End of the Crum Case. There is ever reason to believe that March 4 will see the end of the "Crum case." One of the early acts of Mr. Roosevelt as president was to nominate Dr. Crum, a negro, for the office of collector of customs at Charleston, S. C. The South Carolina senators, supported by senators from other southern states, succeeded for nearly two years in preventing confirmation, but action finally was forced in January, 1905. His four-year term

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being about to expire, President

Roosevelt reappointed him and sent

the renomination to the senate for confirmation. The fight against him

is just as bitter as ever it was, and as there now remains less than a month of the session there is hardly a possibility of confirmation. Unless action is taken before March 4, Mr. Taft, upon becoming president, will find the collectorship at Charleston vacant. Southerners in congress are confident he will not renominate Dr. Crum, or any other negro. They reason that he would recognize it as a mighty poor way to begin his campaign for republicanizing the south. While more or lesB personal objection to Dr. Crum has been urged upon the senate as reason for not confirming him, it is candidly admitted that the chief objection to him is that he is a negro, and as Charleston is about the most aristocratic city of the entire south, it has been especially galling that a negro collector should have been appointed for that port. May Buy Battle Field. Bull Run battlefield, near Manassas, Va., where was fought the first battle in the war between the states, may be purchased by the federal government and converted into a national park. Senator Daniel of Virginia has introduced a bill appropriating $50,000 for purchase of the land and the matter is regarded as so important that the senate committee on military affairs is planning a trip to the battlefield. Bull Run is nearer to Washington than any other of the great battlefields of the civil war and its conversion into a national park doubtless would attract many thousands of visitors to Manassas. Already many monuments have been erected on the field to the memory of soldiers who fell there, but they stand on private ground. Prediction is made in Washington that one of the first men to be given a good job by President Taft will be Judge L. R. Wifley, formerly of the United States court at Shanghai, China. Wifley retired after charges had been made against him and he had been vindicated by congress. He was formerly attorney general of the Philippines and Mr. Taft is known to have a very high regard for him. It is expected a place will be found for him on the federal bench in this country.

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An Irish Kins of Portugal. An Irishman was once king of Portugal, or at least he once ruled in the king's stead over that country. In November, 1640, there was a revolution in Portugal, brought about by the tyrannical exactions of Miguel Vasconcellos, the secretary of state. The hated minister was shot and the vice queen, Margaret of Savoy, abdicated. The crown was offered to the Duke of Braganza, who was living at Villavicosia. Meanwhile, until the duke should accept the crown, the people of Lisbon elected a popular and influential Irish merchant, named John Darcy, who resided in the city, as their nominal king. Darcy accepted the honor conferred upon him and bore the title of "king of Portugal" from Dec. 1 to Dec. 6, 1640.

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Trans-continental Route of Canadian Northern Has Low Grades Advantage.

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ONLY ONE MOUNTAIN RANGE INSTEAD OF THREE AND ELEVATION ONLY 3,700 FEET INSTEAD OF 8,000 FEET.

Winnipeg, Feb. 13. The annoncement that the Canadian Northern Railway will extend its line to Vancouver, giving the United States as well as Canada a new route to the

Pacific, has been officially confirmed. Xegotations to secure the assistance of the provincial government of British Columbia, it may be assumed, have been successful and work will probably be begun by summer. The importance-to the United States of this latest move of the Canadian road builders lies in the fact that one of the terminals of the Canadian Northern is now in this country as a result of the purchase of the Duluth, Rainy Lake and Winnipeg Railway which was announced less than two months ago. This line put- Duluth for the first time on a direct short line between Chicago and Winnipeg, and insured to the United States a larger share in the shipments to and from the prairie provinces of Western Canada. The Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railroad was also affected by the change in control. Will Be the Seventh. The new line will be the seventh transcontinental railroad to be built across Western America, and will be unique in its engineering features. The route as planned runs from Edmonton, which is the present western terminus of the railroad through the Rocky Mountains at the Yellow Head Pass, down the North Thompson river in British Columbia to the intersection of the Fraser river, and from there through to New Westminister and Vancouver. By this route the road will cross but one range of mountains, and that at an elevation of only 3,700 feet. All the systems in this country have three ranges of mountains, the Rockies, the Sierras and the Coast Ranges. The Union Pacific crossed the highest point at an elevation of 8,000 feet. This means that the Canadian Northern Railway will have a very favorable grade both from Port Arthur and from Duluth to the sea. The present, lines of the Canadian Northern form a network of rails covering the richest sections of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and connecting the ports of Port Arthur and Fort William on Lake Superior with Edmonton in Alberta. Further extensions are planned to Calgary, in southern Alberta, and to. Toronto and Ottawa to the east. Has a Unique Record. The Canadian Northern has the unique record of "fiavlng extended its lines at the rate of a mile a day for eleven years. Obstacles which have checked railroad building in the United States have not had effect north of the boundary line and Canada now has more railroad mileage per capita than any other country on the globe. This is partly due to the enterprise of men in charge of the Canadian railways and partly to the tremendous growth of the Western Canadian provinces, particularly the wheat growing provinces, which have been coming up by leaps and by bounds. Much of this wfieat traffic is now handled by the Canadian Northern which has enormous docks and terminal facilities at Port Arthur, including the largest grain elevator in the world. The project of continuing the company's lines to the coast had been under consideration for several years, but the first time that it was an immediate possibility was contained in a speech made by D. D. Mann. Vicepresident of the road, in Victoria only a few days prior to the official announcement. In this speech he said: "It is our particular ambition to construct our line of railway from the shores of the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. I have called upon the premier of this province with the view of seeking such assistance from the provincial government as will enable us and at no distant date to build our transcontinental road right down through

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Living; Stones. The visitor to the Falkland isles sees scattered here and there singular shaped blocks of what appear to be weather beaten and moss covered bowlders in various sizes. Attempt to turn one of these bowlders over, and you will meet with a real surprise, because the stone is actually anchored by roots of great strength; In fact you will find that you are trifling with one of the native trees. No other country In the world has such a peculiar "forest growth.

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A party of sightseeing tourists stopped in front of the old flag vender's stand opposite Trinity church and made purchases as souvenirs. The inquisitive one of the party, who had bought an English flag, asked the old man whether he sold many of that kind. "Oh, yes," he said, "the newly landed always stop here on their first walk uptown and buy the flag of their country. It is en evidence of home-sickness, but they usually buy

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Editor and Contributor. Clearly the editor had been In a bad humor, for in returning tbe regular contributor's last consignment of jokes he had written at the bottom of the courteously worded rejection slip: "These are older than tbe English language. They antedate the mother-in-law and summer girl and with even less excuse for being. Tbe regular contributor wrote In reply: "Sorry to have afflicted yon with each chestnuts, but at least when they got back to me - they were roasted asstnuts." New York Tims.

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