The Cordova Daily Times
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C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1915
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CONGRESS PLANNING TO TALK OF TALK
WHEN IT CONVENES IN DECEMBER
WHEN congress reconvenes next December there will
be the biggest talk on the subject of talk since talk
was invented.
The occasion for the talk-fost will arise over an effort to
shut off talk in the United States senate. Many senators,
rather than have their opportunities to talk curtailed, are wil
ling to talk until they are black in the face, and the coming
conversational match promises to be the last word in talk-fosts.
The 63rd congress has expired. The 64th congress is at
hand. A new congress means the adoption of new rules to
govern the Hinted States senate. Heretofore the senate at
each recurring biennial period has complacently proceeded to
re-adopt tin* old' rules, which put no limit on debate.
When it comes to the adoption of rules next December,
however, Senator Kern, the majority leader in the senate,
backed by a largo array of senators, is going to demand for
the first time since the republic was founded a cloture provis
ion be written into the rules of the senate. In trying to
bring about this reform Senator Kern has the sympathy, if
not the active backing of President Wilson.
Paving the way for this first, Senator Ollie James, of
Kentucky, who perhaps is closer to the White House than any
other senator, has been circulating among the senators of the
democratic side a pledge which binds them to support cloture
when it is proposed in December. This paper has been signed
by nearly all the democratic senators and, pursuant to a re
quest contained therein, a committee has been appointed by
Senator Kern which during the summer will work out some sort
of cloture proposition to submit to the democratic caucus.
If Senator Kern has his way this cloture provision will be
very mild. He does not want to stir up the animals too much
at the outset, believing it is the part of prudence to get tin*
principle of cloture established and then depend on the future
to strengthen it. It is going to be a Herculean task to get
even the mildest sort of a cloaure proposition written into the
rules, as many of the long-distance talkers in the senate will
talk against time rather than permit it, and there is a possibil
ity it will meet the same fate as the slapping bill, which was
urged strenuously for a time but which finally had' to be aban
doned to make way for the legislative program.
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“Don’t rock the boat.”
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Don’t overlook cleaning up that back yard' these fine days.
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The war in Mexico is only of interest when there’s noth
ing else to talk about.
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German aeroplanes drop in on Paris periodically merely to
remind the French that the calling season has not closed.
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Practically every man in the Copper River valley is em
ployed this summer, and there is still a scarcity of laborers
at some of the interior mines.
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A Kansas paper observes that at weddings the custom still
prevails for the bride to “enter on her father’s arm,” as if
dad’s biceps were a Ford or a flying machine.
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The members of the last legislature were very resourceful.
They thought of at least one hundred and fifty subjets upon
which to introduce bills, and eighty-five of them were enacted
into laws.
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With the passing of another day, Col. Roosevelt still stands
out, like an ash barrel on a roof, as the only American of large
calibre, who has oeen foolish enough to express a d'esire to
feed the cannons with American flesh and Mood.
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Positive dry, comparative dryer, superlative driest. In
the event of Skagway becoming positive, we can see where
some of her leading soaks will be superlative before her paint
stores have been closed a week.—Whitehorse Star.
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Americans have been murdered, maltreated and robbed in
Mexico. We have pursued a policy of telling them to get out
of there and let the dogs of war do their worst. The Lusitania
incident offers no complications of a more evil character than
those apparent in Mexico. If “watchful waiting” fits one
case it certainly fits the other.
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The Lusitania disaster presents many phases like that of
the Titanic. The confidence of crew and passengers that the
ships would' float; the bravery of an Astor on the Titanic and
a Vanderbilt on the Lusitania; the failure to get the boats off,
etc., etc. The unsinknble ship is yet to be built. Watertight
compartments are the playthings of icebergs and torpedoes.
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The great mass of Americans want peace, and they are wil
ling to stand a lot of English palaver, selfish urging and rid
icule, and a great deal of coarse affront from Germany before
they will be ready to enter a conflict out of which they would
emerge, not with the honorable emoluments of a cause sus
tained in behalf of humanity, but with new, vast cemeteries,
testifying to the foolish invasion of a quarrel in which our in
terests are distinctly minor.
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Dr. Gavett, of the University of Washington, has been cal
culating upon Col. Roosevelt’s statement on the witness stand
that he had written 150,000 letters in ten years as governor of
New York and president of the United' States, and has found
that Teddy wrote at the rate of one letter in each ten minutes,
counting eight hours as a working day, and omitting Sundays.
Posterity won’t have much trouble in finding autograph me
mentoes of the colonel. He has left the landscape dotted with
his bold signatures, and in the years to come auctioneers will
not be able to pull down fat prices for Roosevelt letters.
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In connection with all the pretty things that have been said
about women and the peace movement, and dying for one’s
I country, you will notice the story of that Philadelphia woman
who licked her husband and his brother, her son-in-law and
his chum—who butted in as a would-be peace maker—con
cluded by kicking the dog and a constable down two dark,
steep flights of stairs. The cause of the war seems to have
developed over whether or not the daughter of the house should
have a new hat, the father and husband' of her asserting that
the tax would be too great, while the mother, in her flank at
tack, said that il the men folks would spend less on booze and
tobacco the hat tax wouldn’t bother. We protest that this
method of attack is in violation of the London convention.
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Wednesdays and Saturdays
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Caleb Corser S. R. Hedges
Superintendent Cordova Agent « ’
DR W. H CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office In Adams Building
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hundred sacks of high grade ore
on the dump. This property ad
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exposed on the surface of this
ground.
Also four groups of copper
properties on Prir William
Sound, adjoining navi tie water.
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made producers w a small
amount of money and for a party
who can open same up or can se
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