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tion with the forces already at work; by offering some hope of protection and reward to the loyal research men in the United States Government service, who now by Department rule have to dedicate their inventions to the public, a course which results only in Germany transferring these inventions to her own laboratory system for development or exploitation.

It proposes to bring about a closer union of the University and the factory. It has taken over all German copyrights, and will thus free much scientific literature from the shackles of the German language. It proposes to place all possible information on our situation before Congress, and ask the passage of a law establishing a license system governing all chemical importations for a period of ten years. It is intended that this license system shall act at one and the same time as a guarantee to you and all other dependent industries of proper importations to enable you to meet the competition of other lands, and to protect and guard our growing chemical independence. In this we ask no more than England, France, Italy and Japan have already decided to grant on behalf of their own independence. This request we base upon the following grounds:

1. Fairness to the $450,000,000 invested in the chemical business by loyal Americans in the hour of our need.

2. Independence and freedom of the textile, leather, paper, paint and varnish, pharmaceutical three-bil

lion dollar essential American business.

3. The necessity of our national defence.

4. The destruction and prevention of the German system of propaganda and espionage in our land.

5. The advancement of pure science and research.

6. The advancement of medical science.

The granting of this license system is not a question of conflicting It is the queseconomic schools.

tion of our national independence, safety and education.

THE REWARD FOR FLAT

TERY.

Reference has been made to the President's proclivity to compensate those who fully appreciate his supreme personality. There are numerous instances.

Hon. J. C. Wilson, recently appointed a Federal Judge by the President, was one of those who did not believe in hiding either his own candle or the President's arc light under a bushel. Accordingly in the Congressional Record of March 15, page 5179, you can find an extension of the remarks of Hon. James C. Wilson of Texas in the House of Representatives, Monday, March 3, 1919, in which he said:

I was toastmaster and as such made two short talks as follows:

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we have in the United States a man, just a plain man, whom history will write down not only as America's but as the world's greatest son; not because of heart qualities, he is com

parable with the Father of his Country; not because his powers of constructive statesmanship are equal to those of Jefferson; not because, when he knows he is in the right, he possesses the courage and the indomitable spirit of Jackson; not because in the democratic simplicity of his life and statesmanship and devotion to ideals he is the peer of the universally loved Lincoln; but for that higher and nobler reason, through his interpretations of the spirit of our people and institutions, he is impressing mankind, as never before dreamed of, with his, and our, undying devotion to and with his elevation to the serious and favorable consideration of the world's best thought, the sacredness of the simple proposition of a human right everywhere the world over. In the name of Fort Worth and of Texas, I propose a toast to this matchless man, our President, Woodrow Wilson."

With that elongated, blandiloquent sentence alone, he earned his appointment without referring to his qualifications. One cannot help wondering whether he would have landed in the Cabinet or the Supreme Court, provided he had compared the President with Demosthenes and Shakespeare.

The other "short talk" of the toastmaster was a fulsome eulogy of William G. McAdoo, who was introduced by the lesser Wilson as "The greatest Secretary of the Treasury in the history of America." All this occurred on November 15, 1916. Judge Wilson also said in Congress:

"Since I am soon to resign from Congress to take up the work of the Federal bench in my State it was my desire to extend my remarks

but instead concluded to insert in the Record the views I entertained towards them prior to the beginning of their tasks in connection with running the war."

It calls to mind Canning's familiar quotation:

"But of all the plagues good Heaven, thy wrath can send,

Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend."

Possibly the American people wish to establish a new system of appointment; continue to regard “a public office as a public trust" to be given to the person who can make the best public interpretation of the supreme character of the person who makes the appointment. In which case it could be placed under the civil service rules, and a regular examination could be held, and the person who succeeded in making the most fulsome adulation of the President would be appointed.

E. J. D.

NEEDLES "MADE IN JAPAN."

The large importation of Japanese needles which threatens the American industry, lends point to the argument for a speedy return to the American protective policy. It is said that the Japanese development of the needle industry bids fair to place that country in the position formerly occupied by Germany, under the Democratic tariff law, as a competitor in the domestic market. in machine and hosiery needles. Under the Republican tariff law the duty on knitting-machine and sewing-machine needles was $1 per thousand and 25 per cent ad valorem. The present law cut the duty to a flat 20 per cent. Latch needles, which, under protection, paid $1.15 per thousand and 35 per cent, were cut to 20 per cent.

The sewing-machine needle business was started in this country in 1866 by the Excelsior Needle Company. At the time they commenced operations these needles were selling at $50 per thousand; at the time the present tariff law took effect, October 5, 1913, this company had reduced prices until they were selling a better grade of needle for $5 per thousand. In 1913 the New Home Sewing Machine Company paid wages 60 per cent greater than the wages paid by any foreign manufacturers, and they declared that 80 per cent of the cost of manufacture in this country was labor cost. They estimated that 75 per cent of the needles then imported into this country came from Germany, and asserted: "The market for our product is practically limited to the confines of the United States. We do very little export business, for the reason that we can not successfully compete with foreign manufacturers, even in Latin America." Here is a schedule for Congress to overhaul with a view to preventing Japan from capturing

the domestic trade.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS

The Sixty-Sixth Congress, pursuant to the President's call, assembled in Special Session at noon on May 19.

In the Senate 92 Senators were present, the four absentees being Democrats. The Republicans organized the body by the election of Senator Cummins, Iowa, president pro tem; George A. Sanderson, Illinois; secretary; sergeant-at

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arms, David S. Barry, Rhode Island; Carl A. Loeffler, Pennsylvania, assistant doorkeeper. Senators Lodge and Martin, representing the Senate cabled the President in Paris that Congress was pared to receive his message. journment was taken for the day out of respect to the memory of Representative Burnett, Alabama. Henry Ford, Michigan, filed a notice of contest against Senator Truman H. Newberry.

In the House 399 out of 435 were present and voting. Representative Gillett was elected Speaker by 227 votes to 172 for former Speaker Champ Clark. Other officers chosen were: clerk, William Tyler Page, Maryland; sergeantat-arms, Joseph G. Rodgers, Pennsylvania; doorkeeper, Bert W. Kennedy, Michigan; postmaster, Frank W. Collier, Wisconsin, chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Conden, Michigan. Victor Berger, the Wisconsin Socialist, convicted of violating the espionage law, was not sworn in as a member. A committee being appointed to investigate his case. Chairman Mann of the woman suffrage committee, introduced a resolution providing for submission of the woman suffrage constitutional amendment

several State legislatures.

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May 20-The Senate adjourned at 1.40 until Friday after adopting a resolution of regret upon the death of Representative Van Dyke, Minnesota. Democratic objection prevented consideration of resolutions calling for a copy of the full text of the peace treaty and a declaration of the administration's policy regarding Russia. Senators McNary, Oregon, and Gronna, North Dakota, were substituted by Majority Leader Lodge as progressive members of the committee on committees for Senators Borah and Johnson, who declined to serve.

The House adjourned for the day out of respect to the memory of Representative Van Dyke, Minnesota, who died yesterday morning. President Wilson's message was read by the clerk of the House. Resolution proposing woman suffrage by constitutional amendment was favorably reported from the suffrage committee. A resolution proposing investigation of the shipping board and Emergency Fleet Corporation was introduced by Representative Greene, Massachusetts. A resolution of Representative Gould, New York, calls upon President Wilson to explain the manner in which he spent the $150,000,000 secret fund.

The following were chosen as members of the Ways and Means Committee: Republicans: Fordney, chairman, Michigan; Moore, Pennsylvania; Greene, Iowa; Longworth, Ohio; Hawley, Oregon; Treadway, Massachusetts; Copley, Illinois; Mott, New York; Young, North Dakota; Frear, Wisconsin; Tilson, Connecticut; Bacharach, New Jersey; Hadley, Washington; Timberlake, Colorado; Bowers, West Virginia. Democrats: Kitchin, North Carolina; Rainey, Illinois; Hull, Tennessee; Garner, Texas; Collier, Mississippi; Dickinson, Missouri; Oldfield, Arkansas; Crisp, Georgia; Carew, New York; Martin, Louisiana.

Gallivan, Massachusetts; Byrnes, South Carolina.

May 21-The Senate was not in session.

The House adopted by 304 to 89 the Susan B. Anthony amendment resolution on woman suffrage, 200 102 Democrats Republicans and

voting for it and 19 Republicans and 70 Democrats against it. There were six pairs and 31 were absent and not voting, with 5 vacancies. It passed by a margin of 42 over the necessary two thirds vote.

Already the following deaths of members of the Sixty-Sixth Congress have been announced: Harvey Helm, Kentucky; Edward E. Robbins, Pennsylvania; Albert Estopinal, Louisiana; John L. Burnett, Alabama; Carl C. Van Dyke, Minnesota ; Charles A. Sulzer, delegate from Alaska. All were Democrats except Mr. Robbins.

May 22-The Senate was not in session.

The House today passed without a roll-call the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, carrying about $39,000,000 for the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, $3,000,000 to pay June pensions of civil war soldiers and nearly $3,000,000 for administration of the War Insurance Bureau.

Statement of the ownership, management, etc. of "The Protectionist," published monthly at Boston, Mass., required by the act of August 24, 1912: Editor and Managing Editor, Thomas O. Marvin, 77 Summer St., Boston; Treasurer and Business Manager, Frederick B. Hill, 77 Summer St., Boston; Owner and Publisher, Home Market Club, W. B. H. Dowse, President, Thomas O. Marvin, Secretary. Frederick B. Hill, Treas. There are no stockholders, bondholders, or other security holders.

On the Appropriations Committee are: Republicans: James W. Good, chairman, Iowa; Davis, Minnesota; Vare, Pennsylvania; Cannon, Illinois; Slemp, Virginia; Wood, Indiana; Cramton, Michigan; Wason, New Hampshire; Magee, New York; Tinkham, Massachusetts; French, Idaho; Shreve, Pennsylvania; Ogden, Kentucky. Democrats: Bryns, Tennessee; Sisson, Mississippi; McAndrews, Illinois; Evans, Montana; Eagan, New Jersey; Buchanan, Texas; Mass.

Sworn to and subscribed by Frederick B. Hill, before me this twenty-ninth day of March, 1917.

D. P. Everett, Notary Public, Boston,

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