Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-01

WEM##M&sMeI body. His seat in
\E$MJ Congress vas gain
~ ~ ed largely through
- winning an
49, important railroad
c. L. TOWNSEND. State tax suit for
the people in the federal court in 1901.
President Roosevelt invited him to the
White House for Il conference on rate
legislation. With Representative John
j. ESch. of Wisconsin. also a mcmbe
of the Interstate Commerce Commit
tee, he prepared the Esch-TOwnscnd
bill. 1t gives the Interstate Com
merce Commission power to make the
rates charged by railroads.. The bill
passed the House. but failed to pass
the Senate. y bill e%mbodying he
same features is to be rcsubmitted to
Congress at its coming session. He is
married and has a charming family.
Oftificia statements show that the
postottice Department deficit for the
last fiscal year amounts to the large
sum of SO ,OS7 900. This tallies prac-
tically with the treasury deficit for the
first quarter OF the present year, and
the sharply suggested deduction is that
il the mail service should be placed
on a paying basis the governments
finances would present a fairer face.
The width Of the gulf between the re-
ceipts and the expenditures of MIR.
Cortelyou's department has brought
to Washington Representative Jesse
Overstreet, chairman of the House
Committee on Postotfices and Tost
Roads. who is in consultation daily
with the official in the effort to devise
means to cut expenses or increase the
income
The annual distribution of vegetable
and flower seeds by the Department
of Agriculture will begin soon, and be-
fore planting time it is expected the
entire amount, ~agGregating ~3S,OOO,OO0
packages, will be in the hands of the
people in all sections of the country.
Congress for several years has appro-
priated $4,000 for this purpose, but
a portion of the amount is used for
- = "SAA1 " S>
packages are subject to the order of
Senators and Representatives for dis
tribution among their constituents, the
Secretary Of Agriculture reserving one
fifth of the entire amount to supply the
statistical crop correspondents, the
weather bureau and for other pur-
poses.
The words of the President, square
DEAL are being worked vigorously by
many persons who have old claims or
requests upon the government. Many
of the cases which are known in the
department as "old SlugS" because of
the many times they have been consid-
cred and rejected have again been pre-
scented with a demand for q square
deal" An officer Of the army to whom
all such cases in the War Department
are referred for report says that all
these claims, which have heretofore
beer passed upon and decided adverse
" to the claimant, set out that what
they ask now is a square DEAL" and
many of them insist that their re-
quests be presented to the President.
What will be the final number of
American States? And will there ever
be a completed list? At times it has
seemed as if no more States would be
possible after the admission Of all the
existing territories. Just at present
%bn ~,,ostjnn ic Shall f,0 fnJ1r. tnrrito- |
ries in the West become two States,
three or four? The division Of the old
States. although of extremely rare oc-
c%urrence, is always possible. Parts
of the American domain outside the
Continental Republic may also become
States, should a majority in both
Houses of Congress so decide. Many |
stars may yet be added to the flag.
There promises TO be the hottest kind
of a fight in Congress over the ques-
ton of the type of cana! TO be con-
structed across the isthmus of Pana-
ma. Whatever ma be the recommen-
dation of the President, based upon
views expressed by the board of con
engineers and the iSthmian ca
nal commission, advocates of a sea
level type and lock type will engage
in q battle royal, which is calculated
to please only those interests charged
by Secretary Taft and Chairman
Shonts with working to prevent the
building of the waterway.
4 historian has been appointed for |
the Panama Canal. He will hence |
forth keep track of every event in
connection with that world-famors |
project. How glad the %chroniclers Of
the past would have been to get on
the scenes destined to command the
worlds attention just before the ex-
citement began. Many photographs
have accidentally been taken at criti-
cal moments. A care-free tourist had
his camera pointed at the Campanile
in Venice just as it fell. ..
LAND OF THE CAUCASUS.
The chief cities are Tifis, the CAPT
tai, and Baku.