The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-06-24
news AND VIEWS
OF WASHINGTON
Interesting Letter From Our Special
Correspondent.
KENDALL M7"SPEAKER'S CHAIR
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Our Congressman Presided While
Porto Rican Bill Was Under Dis
cussion Pensions Secured
For Deserving Soldiers. s.
KENDALL Mo"SPEAKER's CHAIR
DIV CYRUS Foss stoddard.l

. the request Vi MI. OlluStcdu Vi Ichh'
sylvania, Chairman of the committee
of the whole in the House OF Repre-.
sentatives, Mr.. Kendall occupied the
Speakers chair during portion of
recent session of the House, while the
Porto Rico bill was under discussion.
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Increases In pensions have just
been granted to the following sol
diers: ..
John Burke, Ottumwa, Co. B, 136th
Ill. Unfit, SIS. -' .a.E
]. s. Horner, New Sharon. Co. D.
9th Ohio Unfit, SIS. -.~
A. NJ. Lafferty, Eddyville, Co. F, End
Mass. Cav, 500. E-. ...ss.i. ..s=,.a
q John Crider, Ollie, Co. H, 5sth N.
Y, Unfit, 500. @.ar' - ..' ... ~
M Original pensions have been grant
ed to the following widows OF SOL
diers: Lit. A.. -,-5,
Mrs. Emma o. Carr, Oskaloosa, $12
and 81 for each OF two children.
Mrs. Betty Lentz, Fremont, whose
husband served in the 1st Oregon
Mounted Volunteers against the In.
dians; $12.. s,...-.,,,...... j.
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Senator LaFollette, while he is
pounding away on the tariff in his
usual vigorous manner, is incidentally
storing up good deal of information
and facts concerning the methods of
the Senate in dealing with the pres
ent tariff bill, which he will commun-
icate 70 the people of the country
from the Chautauqua platform this
summer. Those who have heard his
great lecture on Representative Gov
eminent, in which he graphically de-
scribes his fight against the railroads
in Wisconsin, will know what to ex-
pect of the Senator if he undertakes
to explain the method by which our
tariff laws are formulated. And he
has declared to the Senate that the
country would be apprised of the
facts. LaFollette knows how to
make it interesting, and anyone who
desires to get some inside informa-
ton, after being bewildered by the
reports that have gone out in the
newspaper dispatches, would do well
to hear the Senator If the opportun-
ity offers.
Representative Kendall has intro
duced a bill for the relief of Mr. A.
N. Barnes of Ottumwa who served
in Co. B, Both Iowa Infantry; and
also bill granting an increase OF
pension to Mr.. w. A. Mallonee of OF
tumwa, who served in Co. l., 1st Iowa
Cavalry.
AS has already been mentioned in
dispatches from Washington, the Post
Office Department is soon to issue
new postal card. These cards are to
be of better quality material and an
improvement in the general design
will be made. They will probably be
ON sale about the first of the new
year.
DIR. A. j. Hunter, of Oskaloosa, has
just been recommended for appoint.
ment to the Pension Examining Board
OF that city, vice DR.. s. W. Clark, who
has resigned from that position.
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Miss Flora Wilson, daughter OF the
Secretary of Agriculture, departed last
Wednesday from New York for Eu-
rope, where she will spend the sum
mer months. ,
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About 10000 has been subscribed
towards a $4,000 granite obelisk to
be erected in Arlington National Gem
etery in honor of the Confederate
dead. The Arlington Confederate
Monument Association has the matter
in charge, and 1t is stated that money
is being received at the rate of $500
per day from organizations in the
Southern states interested in the pro-
ject.