Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-08-27

With Congress adjourned the CAPT
toll was deserted the next day and
only the echoes were heard Of the
long-drawn-out tariff debate. Already
most of the Senators and Representa-
tiyeS were on the way to their homes,
while in the morning the outgoing
trains had aboard many of those who
stayed behind only long enough to
close up their affairs. Both the Sen
ate and House chambers looked as If
a cyclone had struck them. Scattered
over the desks and OF the floor were
tariff schedules, statistics, bills. reso'
lutions, and what not, all useful a day
or two before, but now appropriate
matter for the waste heap. An army
of workmen was on hand early to re-
move the rubbish, take up the carpets,
overhaul the draperfies and desks and
to otherwise make ready for the regu-
lar session beginning next December.
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The extraordinary session of Con-
gress which completed a few days ago
its revision of the tariff law, cost the
American people, it has been estimat-
ed by some of the statistiNans around
the capitol, about $500, 900. Many diff
ferent items enter into this grand to-
tai, the chief of which is mileage. The
Houses expense on this accoun ag-
gregates 1854 900 and that of the
Senate SAT, 600. Extra pay allowed to
employees on both sides of the capitol
amounted, it is estimated, to about
$150,00O. Special employees engaged in
compiling information for Congress
and the committees, relative to the
tariff, were paid good salaries. The
government printing office has not yet
supplied a statement concerning the
cost of printing of the tariff bill, re-
ports and hearings, but it is known
that this item will be large.
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A tariff has been evolved from the
struggle between the White House and
the conference room which will, per
haps, be final. 1t embodies the ideas
of the President for free hides and
free oil, a S1.25 rate on rough lumber,
the Senate rates on gloves and the
Senate rates on lower grades of
hosiery, as we'll as reductions on
boots, shoes and other manufactures
of leather, and on certain classes OF
cotton goods.
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Night work has been begun on the
addition to the executive offices at the
White House. Three shifts are work
ing and there will be no rest before
the addition is completed. In the old
tennis court a workman found a ten
mis- ball buried in the clay at a depth
of four or five inches. He pocketed it
as a souvenir, saying as he did so:
"Iu bet Theodore himself drove that
one into the ground"
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The Utah Fuel Company, a subsid-
larry corporation of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad, agrees to pay the
Government $73, 900, reconveys 800
acres Of land under dispute and for
feits $4,000 paid to the Government
when the patents were issued on the
land. This settlement is the result Of
an equity suit brought by Attorney
General Wickersham. The suit will
be discontinued.
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The Bureau of Statistics reports i'm
provements over last years figures
along the line of lake shipments. The
domestic shipments of leading COM
modities for June, 1909, were 10,179,-
633 tons, net, as compared with 7,427,-
GIG net tons shipped during June,
1908.
John W.. Heron, of Cincinnati, ia
Their of Mrs. William Howard Taft,
sustained a stroke of paralysis recent
ly. His condition is now very much
improved.
Ship subsidy and amendments to the
immigration laws are two important
pieces of legislation that will be
brought before Congress at it's next