The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-12-28
DOWN AT WASHINGTON
Interesting Notes from the National
Capital by G. A. Wood, Special
Reporter Correspondent.

Washington, D. c., Dec. 20, 1911
| Who says men won't 60 to church
They've had to invoke the injunc-
TONS aid to keep Pennsylvania
man out.
Members of congress are complain
ing of the usual contempOraneous-
ness of war scares and naval appro-
priation bills.
A man who never heard Of William
Jennings Bryan has been discovered.
But his name is Kallitschivitch.
Washington scientists are all
worked up over a blizzard on
Mars; but so long as it stays that
far away, we shan't worry.
On January Is Uncle Sam will
blow in 100000 for 26,00O,0O0
pounds of paper, one-third Of which
will be used for printing the Congress
sional Record and other public doc
uments.
Director Newell says that the
troubles of the Reclamation Service
only begin when the engineering
problems have been solved and con-
struction completed, and that the
real difficulties come in dealing with
the settlers, giving them sound ad-
vice and at the same time collecting
from them the cost of the work.
| Representative Prouty, of Iowa.,
has introduced bill providing that
the United States government shall
cooperate with tho various states in
the construction of public roads, and
providing for continuing appropri-
alton from the federal treasury to be
app0rtioned among the several
states.
Now that Arizona has decided to
send Marcus A. to the United States
! Senate, the ilustrious family Smith
will have five members in the upper
branch of congress. The others are
William Alden of Michigan, John
Walter of Maryland, Ellison D. of
: South Dakota, and Hoke of Georgia.
Within a short time trains will be
running over the first federal rail-
road. This is a 21-mile stretch from
Boise to Arrowrock, Idaho, built to
carry laborers and supplies for work
during the next few years on what is
to be the highest dam in the world,
the Arrowrock dam, which will tower
$50 feet into the air, and supply
water to 100000 acres of land.
That the movement to establish a
department of public health will not
succeed at the presnt session of Con-
gress is the prediction of Charles
Miller, former member of the Iowa
legislature, who has been active in
legislation, and the representative of
the National League for Medical
Freedom, and who has been in Wash
sy1r rf~
Hands across the Sea" will here
after not appeal strongly to Thomas
Warren, of Spartinsville, Texas.
While working at a cotton gin in
August, 1910, Warren's left hand
was cut off and in the excitement
following the accident the severed
member was lost, and has just been
recovered, considerably fattened,
but otherwise we'll preserved, from a
bale of cotton in a factory at Man.
chester, England.
Secretary Wilson is an advocate of
the "loss-off" system of egg buying,
the general adoption Of which he
thinks will result in an improvement
in the quality of eggs shipped to
market. Under this system all eggs
bought are subject to a process
which shows exactly their state of
preservation, while under the lease
count" system the market price is
paid for each dozen, whether good
or bad.
Rats, puffs, switches, wigs, and
other articles of feminine head
adornment, popularity believed to be
made from the hair of defunct China
men, will remain on the free list by
an order of the Assistant Treasurer.
This decision probably averts an in
crease in price of these articles by
overruling decision of the appraiser
at New York that crude human hair
when partially cleaned and worked
before importation should be dutia-
BILE at the rate of 20 per cent, ad
valorem.
by motives unknown, recently slash
painting of the Battle of Lake Erie,
the Senate end of the Capitol. Various
assigned for the act, but so far the
police have been unable to find a
clue to the miscreant. This paint
luS - pIOUdUly Luc UCoL hAO"A WI n
of art of it's kind in the country. It
has hung in the same place since /
1873, when it was purchased for
$4,000 from the artist, William H.
Powell. 1t depicts the victory of the
American fleet over that of Great
Britain on Lake Erie in 1913, in
which Commodore Perry, while un-
der ire from the enemy's guns trans
ferred his flag from the sinking ;
Lawrence to the Niagara. 1t was "
following this battle that Perry sent
his famous message, eve have met
the enemy and they are ours
Recommending a downward re-
vision of Schedule X. in accordance
with protective principles, but with :
out making any specific recommends /
lions as to the amount of reduction
President Taft has transmitted to
congress the report of the 4 Tariff
Board, accompanied by a message
approving it's findings. The report of
the hoard is really a SYNOPSIS Of ita