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•ILL. S^'s^V^ Al* &>, '«MSS r^"? . _ ^w» A" Wffl PPPPi DISCUSS BETTER PRIMARY LAWS Election Commissioners to Urge Changes in Provisions of Present Statutes. 0U6H ON RENT PROFITEERS Indications Art That Strict Legislation Is to Be Enacted in Interest of People of All Citlee In Illinois. CWrmt»r£Ui»ng EPRESENTATIVE JOSEPH GURNEY CANNON, Republican, Eighteenth district of Illinois set a new American record the, other day for service In Congress, when he passed the mark set by Senator Justin S. Morrill of Vermont, who, as senator and representative, served 43 years, 9 months and 24 days. Counting his victory In the recent landslide, Mr. Cannon has been elected to congress 23 times. He Is now ending his forty-fourth year of service. He was first elected to the Forty-third congress (1873-5) and failed of re-election to the Fifty-third (1893*®) and Sixty-second (1911-13) congresses. He was speaker in the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first congresses (1903-1911). His district comprises the counties of Clark, Cumberland, Edgar, Iroquois, Kankakee and Vermilion, with a population of about 250,000. He lives in Danville and is a lawyer and banker. He was born In Guilford, N. C., and will be eighty-five years old May 7, 1921. "Uncle -Joe" Cannon's name Is exceedingly familiar to the United States at large; probably few public men are more widely known. So the foregoing facts about him are pretty generally known. While the veteran is Interesting as an individual and a legislator he is also Interesting as a landmark by which the progress of things may be measured. The jubilation held by the house when "Uncle Joe" set the new service mark was therefore a decidedly interesting affair. Times have changed and we have changed with them since he was elected to congress In 1872 and here are some of the utterances which hint at the changes of nearly half a century. Former Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri-- When Joseph G. Cannon was bopj on the battlefield of Guilford Court House, a victory for Lord Cornwallis, the fruits of which were repealed by General Greene, we did not have any railroads, any telegraphs, any telephones, any sewing machines, any repeating rifles, and a thousand and one things that we consider necessary to our modern civilization. When we celebrated "Uncle Joe's eightieth birthday I laid down the conditions on which a man could serve as long as he had. In the first place, the politics of his district must remain the same. In the second place, he must be a man of force and ability. In the third place, he must remain as faithful as the North Star. I said that "Uncle Joe" filled those conditions. I think yet that he does. William A. Rodenberg of Illinois--Joseph G. Cannon was first elected in 1872 as a representative in the Forty-third ,congress from the fourteenth district of Illinois, and he became a member of this body on March 4, 1873, the same day op which Ulysses S. Grant was inaugurated for the second time as President of the United States. How far we have traveled since that day may be understood when we recall that at the time of Mr. Cannon's first election the population of the United States was estimated at 40,596,000 as against 106,000,000 today ; there were 37 states then as against 48 today; the public wealth, which was estimated at something over $30,000,000,000 in 1872, is placed at more than $300,000,000,000 now; the bank deposits, which then amounted to $1,250,000,000 have grown to $32,700,000,000, and our railroad service has expanded from 66,000 miles of track In operation to more than 268,000 miles. That, in brief, summarizes the vast strides that we have made in material progress since he has been a member of this house. Some idea of how the post office department has expanded can also be had when we remember that In 1873 the receipts aggregated $23,000,000 and the disbursements $29,000,000, while last year the receipts were $437,000,000 and the disbursements $454,000,000. But it will not be because of his services upon the committee on post offices and post roads, valuable as they were, that his fame will rest. After nerving for six years upon that committee he was assigned by Samuel J. Randall, a Democratic speaker, to the committee on appropriations in the Forty-sixth congress, and It is because of his identity with the workings of that important committee down to the time of his elevation to the speakership that his fame will remain assured throughout the ages. It can be truthfully said that no man has proved a stronger bulwark of protection to the federal treasury at all times and under all circumstances. Irrespective of the temporary Interruptions ta his long and distinguished career, the event we commemorate today securely establishes Joseph G. Cannon in the place of "Father of all the American Congresses." When he took his seat at the beginning of the Forty-third congress, the great empire of the West was still the frontier of our civilization. That vast and powerful section, now so potent In the councils of the nation, was then without votes, excepting a narrow fringe of population on the shores of the Pacific ocean. The sovereign states of Arizona, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Washington and Wyoming were without votes and were represented here by delegates. What a wonderful galaxy of brilliant men were here when he came to congress! James G. Blaine, the "PJumed Knight" of American statesmen, was speaker of the house. James A. Garfield was a member of the Ohio delegation and was giving evidences of those talents of leadership which subsequently called'him to the presidency. Julius C. Burrows, of Michigan; James B. Beck, of Kentucky; William P. Frye and Eugene Hale, of Maine; Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut; George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts; Roger Q. Mills, of Texas; and Stephen B. Elkins, of the territory of New Mexico, were elected members of the same house and were subsequently called to the other end of the capitol. But there were, in that same congress, men who rounded out their congressional careers* in this body and whose names are equally familiar to the American people. Among them might be mentioned Benjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts; Richard P. Bland, of Missouri; "Sunset" Cox, of New York; William' S. Holman, of Indiana; John A. Kasson, of Iowa; William R. Morrison, of Illinois; Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania; Alexander &. Stephens, of Georgia. At the other end of the capitol might be mentioned Senators Allison, of Iowa; Bayard, of Delaware; Cameron, of Pennsylvania; Carpenter, of Wisconsin; Chandler, of Michigan; Rosooe Conk- Ucg. of New York; Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia ; Edmunds, of Vermont; Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey; Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine; John J. Ingalls, of Kansas; John A. Logan, of Illinois; Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont; Oliver P. Morton,, of Indiana; Carl Schurz, of Missouri; John Sherman and Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio; William Windom, of Minnesota. Of the 371 senators, representatives and delegates who were recorded in that notable gathering, all but two have passed from the stage of public life, but a merciful Providence has left us Speaker Cannon and General Sherwood in order that we might know that in those days there were giants upon the earth. It has been given to no other man in all our . history to be so intimately connected with so many historic characters. Mr. Cannon has served under 10 speakers of this house, in the following order; James G. Blaine, Michael C. Kerr. Samuel J. Itandall, J. Warren Keifer, John G. Carlisle, Thomas B. Reed, Charles L. Crisp, David B. Henderson, Champ Clark and Frederick H. GUIett, while he himself occupied that exalted position for a period of eight years. He has also served under 10 presidents, as follows: Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, McKlnley,. Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, and In a few weeks Harding will be added to the list. The Forty-third congress, in which Mr. Cannon began his service, will be memorable because of the passage of the act providing for the resumption of specie payments following the Civil war. The civil rights bill, the ampesty bill and much similar legislation of a reconstructive nature, made necessary by that unhappy event, need not be referred to. The great granger movement finally resulted, in 1887, in the enactment of the interstate commerce law. Tiw numerous legislative battles growing out of the treatment of iftiner and the maintenance of the country's monetary standard, not to mention such side issues as the greenback craze--contests that were only settled by the titanic struggle of 1896--were all fought out here during the term of his active service. He was an active participant in the long-extended efforts out of which was finally evolved the present civil service. He has participated In the enactment of all of the great tariff measures; In the legislation that has been passed for the protection and elevation of labor, Including the Chinese exclusion law; In the so-called Sherman anti-trust law for curbing corporate greed and monopoly; In the law that built the Panama canal, linking the oceans, and realizing the dream of centuries; in the legislation that was made nectary by two great wars. In the first of which \*e hro g r b tags of liberty to the struggUug patrlo^ of Cuba acquired Porto Rico and the Philippines and by the second brought to an end the greatest conflict that the world has ever known. (Since he has been here he has seen four of the eighteen amendments to the Constitution adopted as part of the organic law. He haa seen the expanding business of the nation call for the creation of three new executive department*--Agriculture, Commerce and Labor--and Innumerable subsidiary bureaus. He has seen political parties rise and disappear and the issues which produced them cease to exist. But, above all, he has lived to see the American republic, which he has loved and la bored for throughout all these years, and which la In no small part the result of his handiwork, proclaimed as the leading nation in all the world. Gen. Isaac R. Sherwood of Ohio (born 1835)--It t* true that I am the oldest man who ever served in this historic chamber, but I have always been told that there is no virtue in being old. If there were, I would be the most virtuous man here. We are here today with a living knockdown argument of the theory of Doctor Osier (laughter) in uncle Joe. who has honored this chamber with the long est service of any man who ever served In any parliamentary body in the world. After the 4th of March next I shall bid farewell to congress, and Uncle Joe will then be the oldest member of con gress Ind the oldest member of any parllamen tary body In the world, and I wish him a parting •HJod bless you" with ail my heart. Speaker Frederick H. GUIett of Massachusetts --The activities of the gentleman from Illinois in official capacity have probably affected directly (Uid Indirectly more millions of Americans than those of any Individual now dwelling upon the earth. Not only has he surpassed all the states men of America in length of service in conspicu ous place In which he has been conspicuous, but he has surpassed the service of all save a very few states-men In history, ancient and modern, and he stands today with a longer record of eminent post tion than any statesman now living in any nation Of the world. Majority Floor Leader Frank W. Mondell of Wy aiulng--We have not always agreed with Uncle iee on either side, but we have all honored him for Ills virile ability and, more than that, for his Stalwart, unwavering courage. Long may he remain here to remind those who come that a man can be courageous, that a man can stand for what lie believes is right, even though it may not for t$e moment be popular. "Uncle Joe" Cannon--A® I look Into your face* I am reminded that our honored speaker and his predecessor In that chair were approaching the polls to cast their first votes in 1872. Jim Mann, at the age of sixteen, was no doubt beginning his struggle with rival ambitions to continue a farmer or become a lawyer; today he is an ornament to both professions, a true, scientific farmer and the most Industrious and useful lawmaker I have ever known. My friends Ralney and Mondell, at the age of twelve, were beginning to figure life in percentages, while Rodenberg, at the age of seven was winning his way with "You would scarce ex pect one of my age," and the ambitions of Claude Kitchln and Nick Longworth, at the age of three, were centered about their first pants. As I look over the house I find more than 100 of my col leagues who had not then been born. . We have had great development in these years, glid I am glad to have been a small part of it and be able to continue with you in the work we here do for the peace and prosperity of the Ameri can people and the world, so far as we can, by example in fraternity and charity. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. (Prolonged applause, all the members rising.) Better Writer Than Farmer Jamee Fen i mo re Cooper Evidently Not Cut Out by Nature to Successfully Till the Soil. Along in the '40s James Fenimore Cooper lived at Otsego hall, Cooperstown. N. Y*- where were born some of the best tales, and where were obvloita some of his most marked deJ£cts as a farmer. Nothing daunted that the broad fields of his home would prove richly productive if cultivated. Cooper frequently went to New York city to buy vegetables and other table necessities. From an article published contemporaneous with Cooper in 1852 and later incorporated in book form under the title "Great American Writers in Their Homes.'* the following appears: "Cooper wall swinging along Broadway with his coat open and a great string of onions In his hand. We had nearly passed without recognizing him, when, seeing several people turn to look at him and then speak to one another as if there was some one worth observing, we turned, too, and behold it was Cooper. *' 'I have turned farmer,* said he, after the first greetings, and raising his bunch of onions, 'but am obliged Jo gome Jo town now and then, as you SUfe* * The Political Grind. "t have observed," said the friend, "that whenever the caller who just departed visits anybody he has an ax to grind." "Well," .replied Senator Sorghum "we ought to be willing to contribute, if possible, to the worthy enterprises of others. I don't object to a man who has an ax to grind, if he honestly means to go out and chop wood with it. What I do object to is the politi ciun who merely desires to whet tomahawk." Springfield.--The Election Commissioners' Association of Illinois, in annual session here a few days ago, outlined plans for the curing of existing $vlls in the primary election laws of the state. The association met at the. city hall and elected the fallowing officers for the blennlum: Basil Ogg, Springfield, president, succeeding George C. Clarke, Galesburg; J. C. Relman, East St. Louis, secretary-treasurer, succeeding John Ruckel, Springfield; and Charles Eagle, Bioomington, vice chairman. Mr. Ogg was delegated to appoint two committees--the executive and legislative--which will meet to select the next meeting place and lobby In the state legislature, respectively, for the association In the interest of election laws. The committees will consist of five members each, Mr. Ogg said. He added that the appointment of committee members will be made within the next week and that men from all parts of the state will be selected. All the ten cities having election commissions in Illinois were represented at the meeting. Recommendations to the legislature are expected to be made by the legislative committee that will seek to avoid certain primaries of minor importance, such as primaries for assistant super visors In townships where the town ship llfnlts are co-extensive with the city. It will also provide for the closing of polling places at all primaries and elections at four o'clock. At present (Milling places at primaries are held open until five o'clock, and later. It Is further proposed to seek amend ments to the absent voters' law and provide an act so that sick voters In hospitals can vote through a notary public. The purpose of the legislative com mlttee will be. It was pointed out, to attempt to simpltfy and make more consistent election laws of the state. Members of the general assembly with whom proposed legislation to curb rent profiteering ha* l»een discussed agree that there Is no doubt that the present session will see the enactment of laws under which the gougers may be reached. There Is to be no haste In the general assembly to put over the required bills. Illinois leaders want to profit by mistakes that were made in New York where measures quickly put through the legislature failed to stand the acid tests in the courts. Governor Small may send a special message to the legislature urging the passage of remedial measures. Many more than a majority of the riembers of both houses, of the general assembly come from the cities of the state. In this connection attention fias been called to the fact that renters In Peoria, Springfield, East St. Louis, bioomington, Joliet, Rockford, Aurora Rock island, Decatur and other cities have been hit in many cases as hard as those in Chicago. New state officials who are moving to Springfield are finding rents excessively high and many complaints hav been heard on this score. A government report recently Issued declared only one other city In the country had been slower than Springfield in reduc ing the cost of living. , With the people of these cities who are tenants howling because of high rentals and with every Chicago mem her depended upon to vote for relief. It Is not believed that it will be hard to put relief measures through the legislature. It is the purpose of the Democrats of both houses to demand that the Republicans who control the legislature make honest efforts to relieve the people who are victims of the rent gougers. Both Senator Hughes of Chicago and Representative Devine of IHxon, minority leaders, say there Is no doubt the I*eniocratsewlll vote solidly for any bills under which It Is agreed relief and restrictions can be obtained. Senator Kessinger of Aurora and Representative Lyon of Chicago, who Introduced the rental commission bills urged by the housing commission in Its rei>ort to Governor Small, were In Chicago last week seeking information to be used at opportune times. Both have received many letters and they will be amply prepared with data when it Is required. First Blue Law* Ready f»r Hopper. The tint blue law to be presented for the consideration of the 52nd general assembly is about to show Its azure complexion to the lawmakers. Laws of a deeper shade may come later, but Representative W. B. Phillips of Jefferson county will start to tinge the statutes when he introduces a bill to prohibit hunting with a gun on Sunday. The bill would also put an end to fishing with a net on Sunday. "l have nothing bluer to offer," Mr. Phillips said, "but game wardens in my district complain that Sunday sportsmen cause more trouble than persons who hunt the fields and streams on the other days of the week." Many farmers also want to bar the Sunday pastimes, Mr. Phillips said. Some of them think it is morally wrong to hunt and fish on Sunday." Others are only disturbed by the shooting of guns, while still others say they are afraid to take the whole family to church for fear some ambitious nlmrod will bag a few roosters, a calf or some of the barnyard pigeons during the services, Mr. Phillips said. There Is a tint of blue In all of the boxing bills which have been Introduced so far. These bar boxing on Sunday. Blue laws of various shades are expected to come before the legislature during this session. Few of them have been exposed to light. "Any law darker than pea-green Is likely to fade clear out," several legislators predicted in preparing for the blue legislation to be splashed on the assembly. MM. J. M. CftAlO, si Lee isles, CafiL, «ht say* as •aa feel aiore grateful Teniae has deae thaa i Deeleree she has gaiaei ptniwdf aad hsr health ie tar thaa ft Problem for Utilltiea Board. A perplexing problem was put to the new state public utilities commission on Its first day In office by three motor bus companies seeking permission to operate lines between Belleville and Mnscoutah. The first mall to the new commissioners brought applications from the Bellevllle-Mascoutah Motor Bus company, the Superior Motor Bus company and from u third party, who sought Information as to what steps he should take to establish a line between the two cities. It was the policy of the old public utilities commission to grant permission to only one company to operate a line between two cities. Ag. Association'* Budget la $464,000. A budget of $464,000 was appropriated for 1921 activities of the Illinois Agricultural association by its executive committee. Of this amount $154,- 000 was appropriated to the live stock, grain, dairy and fruit and vegetable marketing departments. $43,000 to the American fnrin bureau, the National association, and $50,000 for the start of a sinking fund. The publicity fund of the organization was set at $35,000. and $50,000 for organization work. The finance department was granted $18, 000 and the secretary's office, general office and executive committee a total of $72,000. Offers Laundry Bills. Chinese laundrymen will have to adopt a modern way of dampening clothes if a bill offered by Representative Guy Glnders of Rockford Is enacted Into a law. The bill, which will be considered by the judiciary committee, makes It unlawful for any person to dampen clothes "by blowing, spitting or expectorating from his or her mouth." It is made unlawful also to cook or sleep in a laundry. Glnders also has a bill to compel hotel keepers to post a statement of rates In each room, and only two changes In rats* are allowed annually. "Of all the people who have take^v, Tanlac, I don't believe there Is an*» one who feels any more grateful to it , than I do," was the statement mad* recently by Mrs. J. M. Craig of 674*4 East Fortieth street, Los Angeles. "Like so many other families duifc ing the influenza epidemic last yeaf" we all had it. and my own illness, tflf* gether with the worry over the reaftf of our family, brought on a case of. genuine nervous prostration. ' . "I was so weak I couldn't evefc? sweep the floor, and during the day £ would have to lie down four or llvij^ times. I tried to walk but found out half a block was all I could stand b# fore I gave out. Nervous spells cans# on me often. "Every medicine I tried failed to reach my case until finally my hutband urged me to try Tanlac, and S am indeed thankful that he did. It proved to be Just what I needed. ; "The first two bottles didn't seeBT . to help me. I guess that was becaudtt' I was so extremely bad off, but on thfc third bottle I could tell I was improving and that gave me more hopes thaa ever of getting well. ^ "My improvement from then on wap rapid and by the time I had takett five bottles of Tanlac I was better and stronger than I had been In year*. I was sleeping soundly at night and had gained twelve pounds in weight. "That was several months ago and from then until now I have been In as good health as I ever was In my lite and have been doing all the housework by myself. It is simply remarkable how Ta*> lac has built me up and I have tail everyone of my friends and relatives what a wonderful medicine It Is." Tanlac la sold by loading draegbii everywhere.--Adv. Weilf A twelve-year-old girl writes to bar newspaper to say that children rarely cause panics, that It Is the "nertoffc excitable women" who are at f*u*i» How about It?--Collier's Weekly. More Pay for Capitol Employees. At least $125 a month for all statehouse employees "regardless of sex. race or political views" is advocated by Representative Earl B. Searcy of Springfield, who announced that he expects to ask for a survey to find out how many employees are getting less than that amount and to ascertain how many have dependents. He Indicated that he will then Introduce a bill to classify employees and raise the minimum pay. Will Propose Lincoln Memorial. Senator Simon E. Lantz sf Woodford county Is preparing a bill for introduction providing for the state taking over the old Woodford county courthouse at Metamora, as a memorial to Abraham Llftcoln, whose birth anniversary was celebrated recently. This courtbouse was erected In 1844 and, according to Senator Lantz, is the only courthouse still remaining intact in which the great emancipator practiced law to any appreciable extent. A few years since voters of Woodford county removed the county seat to Eureka. One Measure Half a Law. This is the second mouth of Fifty-second general assembly, which first met and organized without delay on January 5. To date the net result of the efforts of Its 202 members Is the passage of one bill through one house. The little mouse in Illinois' legislature is an act to extend the time limit on the Chicago city coun- Open First Road Bids April 1& On April 18 the first bids to He opened for roads to be constructed under the $60,000,000 bond issue and bids for grading and erection of bridges will be given out to contractors at the state capitol. Bids will be asked on 133 miles of hard roads, the grading of 37 miles and the erection of ten bridges. 8tate Senator Passes Law Test. State Senator Epler C. Mills, of Virginia, Is among the list of those who have passed examination before the state board of law examiners and will receive from the Supreme court his credentials as an attorney at law. Senator Mills is a veteran of the World war. Want Fish Law Amended. Fishermen In Sterling and uearhy cltles are circulating petitions asking the legislature to amend the state fish laws so as to permit fishjpig with pole and line close to dams and locks. Under the present law fishing within 109 feet of a dam is prohibited. Would Retain Utuitiea Commission. That a majority of the members of the Chamber of Commerce are In favor of the retention of the present state public utilities commission as s regu!atory body of the public utilities cities of Illinois, is evidenced by the return of ballots on the question, sent out In a referendum by the chamber. Members of the chambei were asked to vote upon four propositions, pertinent to the subject of the regulation of public utilities. The vote was taken to determine sentlmenupon the question locally. Increase on Drainage Fees. Fees of drainage district coinaj.ssioners would be increased from $2 te $10 under provisions of a bill to b# introduced in the legislature by Senator Frank O. Hanson of Bioomington. "The present fee is ridiculously low," Senator Hanson said. "It will not pay for a commissioner's tueals. Men of oil's annual budget making from | ability are required for commissioners, March 31 to June 30. This measure j and their responsibilities are often passed the hopse without a dissenting 1 heavy. I want to see the fee raised vote, but it hasn't been '&!•v«et ] so a commissioner can get as much as «nvwbere In the senate. r ! some laborers do for a day'* work. * Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cnrai by local applications, as they flannel reach the diseased portion of .the ear. Catarrhal Deafness requires oonatltational treatment, HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE is a constitutional remedy. Catarrhal Peafnesa ia caused by an laflamed condition of the mucous lining ef the Eustachian Tube. When thla tube la inflafRM y&i# have a rumbling aound er imperfect heacipg, and when it ia entile* It closed, Deafness la the EfHlt. Paleae the inflammation can. Woneed, l«ll heartn* ittfir be destroyed forever. 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