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MARCH 2, 1909 The Commoner. 15 of Uncle Joe himself. He is a per fect mine of information, but elo quence is not in him. His presence is not impressive, for his stature is brief, he carries his head on one side, he's a trifle deaf, and his voice is as resonant and as musical as a file's. Of the triumvirate of barnacles which in the last analysis rule the house of representatives, Uncle Joe is the only one who has anything like a claim to popularity, and they like him for his picturesqueness quite as much as for any other quality. But the rule of the three is a rule of fear, not a reign of love. They hold the bridge by virtue of the keenness of their blades and the weight of their trusty bludgeons. When General Grosvenor was in con gress the rulers of the house were four. But the man whom Congress man Vandiver, of Missouri, once de scribed as "the gentleman from Ohio who looks likeSanta Claus and talks like Satan" was' retired to private life and his place asone of the big bosses has never really been, filled. News of the Week Lieutenant Semmes Reed, naval aide to President Taft, was seriously injured by being crushed under his horse. His physicians say he has a' chance of living, but that he will be paralyzed for life. "William Whitla, a small boy, was kidaapped at Sharon, Pa. His uncle, Frank H. Buhl, a wealthy iron and steel man, has offered to pay $10,000 for the boy's return. Three persons were killed and . a large number were seriously in jured by a flood that . resulted from the dynamiting " of " the cily water tanks mt Parkersburg, W. Va. Democrats of the house will issue an address to the American people telling about the fight on the rules. The jury in the Cooper and Sharp murder trial at Nashville, Tenn., re ported a verdict of acquittal for Sharp;but said they could not agree as to the- Coopers. The judge sent them to their jrooni for further con sideration. District Attorney Jerome asked the dismissal in New York courts of the indictments against George W. Perkins, Charles S. Fairchild and other insurance magnates. bill stripped the civil service com mission of such authority, and there was a provision allowing some of the printing to bo done by private Arms, because of which President Roosevelt vetoed it. A further amendment was made whereby ap pointments are to bo apportioned pro rata among the states. The Chicago Daily News prints this special from Vienna: "The now American ambassador to Austria will be Richard C. Kerens of St. Louis. The state department at Washington has cabled to the Austrian govern ment asking if he is a persona grata. A reply in the affirmative has been sent. Rear Admiral Edward Trask Strong, United States navy, retired, died suddenly at his home in An dover, Mass. George T. Angell, known as "the friend of dumb animals," and editor of the publication called "Our Dumb Animals," died at his home in Bos ton, age 86 years. Edward W. Durant was appointed to succeed Dr. Crum, the negro, as collector of customs at Charleston, South Carolina. The telegraph operators and. post men of JFrance are on a strike and three hundred thousand telegrams and jl large number of letters and otheri mail remains undelivered. On Marcrr five thousand mechanics employed by the government joined the 'strike. PASSING THROUGH A WILD ORGY Representative McCall, republican, to Harvard students: "We have been passing through a wild orgy of extravagance, In which very much has been consumed in fireworks and fustian, and great burdens of expense have been un necessarily fastened upon the coun try. 'Now, as a result of it all, we are to have taxation of a sort such as the country has usually known only as a result of war, and the peo ple will have an opportunity of pay ing the bills. "Our national expenditure has doubled in a decade, and the expense of government during that period has increased more than four times as fast as the population. We have been accustomed to point to the Wil son tariff act as standing for a great deficit in national finance, and yet the aggregate of deficits during the whole thirty-five months of the life of that act was $105,000,000, as compared with more than $140,000, 000 of deficiency during the last six teen months of the administration which has just ended." The Union depot at Louisville, Ky., wasdestroyed by fire. Loss $400,fa)0. t Referring to Missouri and the two cent rate law, Governor Hadley says: "If thV special dispensation is grant ed Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Okla homa and other neighboring states in the. matter of 2-cent fares, the state of Missouri will strike back at the railroads through various meth ods of litigation and legislation." The first bill passed by the house of representatives at the special ses sion was a bill providing for the thirteenth census. This bill was ve toed by President Roosevelt. In its present form the measure gives to the civil service commission juris d'etion over appointments and pro vides for the printing of the reports by the government printing office. As adopted at the last session the SEE THE OTHER FELLOW Patrick arrived home much the worse for wear. One eye was closed his nose was broken and his face looked as though it had been stung by bees. "Glory be!" exclaimed his wife. "Thot Dutchman Schwartzheimer 'twas him." explained Pat. "Shame on ye!" exploded his wife, without sympathy. "A big shpal peen the loikes of you to get 'bate up by a little omadhoun of a Dootch man the size of him! Why " "Whist, Nora," said Patrick "don't spake disrespectful of the dead!" Everybody's Magazine. EDUCATIONAL CLUBS A democratic educational club is being talked of here, along lines sug gested by W. J. Bryan in The Com moner. A wise plan, and if persist ed in will accomplish much good ere the next presidential election. In fact, its effect could be made potent in the congressional elections. Or ganize, educate, stay organized, then post-graduate in the cause. Cal houn (Mo.) Clarion. 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