The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-11-23
WEEKS NEWS
AT WASHINGTON
MATTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE CAPITAL OF
THE NATION
President TAFT IS At HOME AGAIN
Presidents Flag Again Floats over the
White Horseshoe Manufacture
ers Do Big Export Business

(From Our Washington Correspondent
Uncle Joe" Cannon recently re-
marked that he always found diff
Guilty in spending his time between
midnight and bedtime, from which it
might be correctly inferred that the
former Speaker is considerable of a
night hawk. Just now Mr.. Cannon
is a member of a party visiting Pana-
ma on a tour of inspection of the
canal. There has hardly been a time
since Congress adjourned but that a
number of Representatives or SeIa-
tors have been down to the Isthmus,
and the result is that legislation and
appropriations needed from the COM
ing session will be directed by the
Members who ave a personal knowl-
edge of the needs of Americas great
est engineering project.
The American shoe manufacturer
is giving Johnnie Bull a foot" race
in the export trade, having exported
over seven million pairs of shoes to
the worlds market in 1910, and at
the present rate of speed 1t is estl-
mated that this country will send
over eight millions pairs of its shoes
abroad in 1911. The United Kingdom
exported thirteen million pairs OF
shoes in 1910, but the percentage of
gain is small as compared with the
United States. One wonders after a
trip through New England, and par
ticularly through Brockton, where the
Douglas and Walkover factories are
located, and to Lynn, where armies
of men and women are employed in
making women's shoes, how it is that
so many shoes can be used, but al
ready Milwaukee, st. Louis, Phila-
delphia and other sections are max
maintain their supremacy. Besides
the great domestic supply n Won
ders where all the exports go, and
the answer is: everywhere. Our most
productive markets are Japan, Korea,
Siam, the Dutch East midas, Egypt,
Portuguese Africa, Liberia, the Bel
gian Kongo, Asiatic Russia, Alden,
German Oceonica, British Guina,
ECUADOR, Salvador, Costa Rica, Rou-
mania, Turkey in Asia, China, British
South Africa, Paraguay, the Straits
Settlements, Spanish Africa, Bulgaria,
Honduras, Dutch West Indias, Haiti,
Santo Domingo, Servia, the Azores,
Madeira, to say nothing of the larger
importers Of our boots and shoes
Cuba, Mexico, England, Canada, Ger
many, and France.
The Presidents flag again floats
owe the White House-it never does
when the Executive is out of town;
and consequently the people of the
capital are taking notice that the big
trip of Mr.. Taft has come to a close.
The President is giving a good deal
of time to the preparation of his mes
sage, and returning Congressman on
Capital hill, who are receiving frag-
m~entary information as to what the
message will contain, are forecasting
their attitude upon the big questions
that are to come up, and the Demo
cratic leaders who have been assembl-
ing to take charge Of their endless
fields of Investigations, are proclaim
ing that they won't do it," applying
their threats to mostly any old sug-
gestion that comes from the White
House.
One Of the most popular Crops"
reported by the Census Bureau in
these days when politicians are kick
ing on every phase Of the great ma
tional scheme, is shown to be mules
the long-eared, four-legged kind that
Champ Clark promised to drive down
Washington's principal enu If he
ever became Speaker. Mr.. Clark
"welched" but the multiplication of
the crop is going on, and 1t learned
that the number of mature mules in
creased from 2,753,4S6 in 1900 to g.
764,342 in 1910, and the average val
ue per head increaced from $64.74 in
1900 to $131.54 in 1910.
In an attempt to solve the trust
problem the Senate Committee on
Interstate Commerce Is just now en-
gagged in conducting one of the most
momentous hearings that has &C.
currod aimee the civil war The DOint