The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-30
Past Week In Congress Was Marked
BY Time Taken up in Discuss
ing the Mali
Carriers.
THE TARIFF COMMISSION
Representative Dawson VIII Leave
Congress With coIors Flying to
Enter Bank
Office.
Special to The Gate CITY,

lSpGCidl tO L lie 1dle SlCs.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. S0.-The
postoffice appropriation bill has been
a bone of contention" before the
house during the past week, and it |
has given an opportunity to good
many congressman to air their views
in reference to the defects in the sys-
TENS Of the department. The postof-
flee committee of the house, the post
master general and Others includ-
ing by inference the president have
been roundly scored during the con-
sideration of the bill A substantial
victory was won for the rural mail
carriers by an increase in their pay
of 500 year. While the entire Iowa
delegation gave hearty support to the
proceedings in the interests of the rural
carriers and clerks of the railway
mail service, yet it remained for Two
of the delegation, Messrs. Good and
Kendall, to participate in the debate,
both gentlemen taking up the phase
of the question, relating to reduction
of the pay of railway mail clerks. Mr..
/ Good pointed out that the plan which
1 the department proposed to carry
/ out would reduce. in some cases, the
! pay of railway clerks from $1,500 to
/ s1,100 per year. and while 1t would
save 100000 per annum to the depart.
nlent, that it affected the hardest
worked and poorest paid service Of
the government, and he statsd LIS
} conviction as favoring better pay in
! stead of reduction. He pointed out
that the proposed change would cause
the sevice to suffer. Mr.. Kendall
took up the question along practically
the same lines, and also participated
in other debates affecting the case OF
cars used for the transportation of
mail, the rural route carriers, etc. n
The Ways and Means committee of
the house has sprung something of
surprise in reference to the subject
matter of the tariff commission.
The new name has been abandoned,
and the report is to the effect that a
permanent tariff board" be created
along the lines embodied in the Long
worth, Good and Lenroot measures.
The new bill will come before the
house as the ways and means commit
tee bill. and all the committee mem
bers of the house will support it. The
permanent board is to be made up OF
, five members, and it will be required
to investigate al, questions relating to
the tariff, both on it's own initiative
and at the direction of congress. The
measure is simply enlargement of the
present tariff board from three to five
> members, and it is probable that the
present board will be renamed in the
work already instituted by them
: They are to be given new and increas
ed powers and will serve for terms O
:, two, three, four, five and six years
. each.
"One man who will leave congress
:, with colors rlying is Representative
ber of congress the other day. He re
called that Mr.. Dawson first came tc
Washington as the private Secretary
of Congressman Curtis, who repre-
! sented the same district that Mr.
Dawson has served for six years
n Dawson was youngster in those
DAYS, and he thought it would be ;
fine thing to be a private secretary
Congressman Curtis, however, inform
i. ed the applicant that he wanted as hi:
n assistant man who possessed al
II the usual embellishments usually re
a auired for the position. Dawson set t.
,f work and by burning the midnigh
oil soon mastered the intricacies o
O. shorthand, and when his chief openet
e shop in the national capitol younl
ID Dawson was thoroughly equipped TO
ID his duties. Then followed period il
s. which he was private secretary t
1t Senator Allison, after which he cam
to congress, and after having serve
" three terms he did the most unusua
], thing of declining denomination. A
~ though Congressman Dawson ha
m never been actively identified in th
banking business, yet he has been st
lected for position of great impol
tance In the financial field and upo
his retirement he will boone pres
- dent of the First National Bank c
= Davenport The reason for the SUI
- cessful rise of Dawson is recognize
: to be due TO the fact that he possesse
=. strong personality.