The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-23

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Washington is determined that it
will keep abreast of New York. L has
established a day and night bank The
institution opened for business on
Fourteenth street, and il is said that
already a number of poker-Dlasing
Congressman have found it 2 great
convenience. 1t is situated not far
from several Of the clubs.
For the benefit of the national ston1-
ach $3.50, 600, might be the title o.
the urgent deficiency bill which HIS
just passed the Senate. This amount
is appropriated for the carrying into
effect of the pure food legislation pass.
ed at the last session. This law oe-
comes effective January LIST, and the
quarter of million dollars is Urgent
ly needed to continue the pre-
parations for making It immediate
ly effective. The measure already
had passed the House, SO that the mon.
ey is now available. The Administi.a-
ton is expecting great things from
this especial bit OF legislation, AID 1t
is said that already results are seen in
the better quality of certain standard
brands of food, especially the canned
variety. If the Administration can
curb the American appetite for pie, it
is not at all unlikely that citizeus of
the United States will cease to he re
garded by the world at large as a
race of dyspeptics. As theAdminis-
tration has evolved rules for almost
every form of human endeavor, the
pie problem should not prove an in
surmountable obstacle.
No matter how familiar with his
tory one may be, it is nevertheless
always pleasant and interesting TO
see the actual places where history
was made, and those who visit the
jamestown Ter-Contennial Exposi-
ton in 1907 and take advantage of
this opportunity of seeing points of
interest, will ever remember their
pleasant trip on the palatial steamers
of the Water Belt Line
Has the general activity of the coun-
try reached Washington? This is APP
parently the case, for never before mas
Congress tackled so many details OF
general administration at the begin.
ming of short session. 1t was freely
prophesied that but little would be
accomplished beyond passing the ap-
preparation bills this winter, and pro-
badly this will prove true, yet ques
lions are coming up. daily for sous
sion that will have momentous bear
ing on future policies. In fact, mem
bers of Congress are doing bust
ness, ms lead of splitting hairs as
usual. The influence of the big stick
is shown pretty conclusively, and the
concensus of opinion is that while
some matters have been brough. to
the floor that might have been re-
legated to future generations, YET i'll
the main the effect has been to regen-
crate the entire government service.
The ship subsidy deal is meeting
with hard Shedding, regardless of the
plans laid for the enrichment of the
steamship lines. Representatives
Fordney of Michigan, Birdsall, of Iowa,
Hinshaw of Nebraska, and Wilson of
Illinois, have declared that they will
not stand for the measure, and the
list of Inland insurgents is growing
daily. There appears to be an en-
preston that as the great majority
of the American people never saw the
ocean, and are not affected by ship
ping interests, there is no use il Ca
tering to special class of business
men who have everything to gain and
nothing to lose. 1t would sound grand
for the postal authorities to say that
they could send a letter to Brazil in
'steen hours less time than formerly,
but when cables are available, letters
are not the important factor they for
merly were.
1t is certain that movement for
a child-labor law will receive an .n1pe
tus this winter that will result in a
more or less effective federal reguia-
ton of the subject. The labor unions
of the country have for years been
hammering" on the matter, but as
usual the politicians are now taking
the subject under consideration ard
treating it as if a great discovery
had been made. Out in Nebraska, a
student at the Nebraska university
worked out the ground plan of our
present Interstate commerce law
he took the data to the
of the state legislature from
MS county. That gentleman brought
1t to Washington, as a discovery of |