The Winslow mail., 1912-04-06
DOINGS
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twenty-year old law along certain lines,
will perhaps meet with encouragement.
Mr.. Wickersham hurt the dignity of
the Senate the other day in another
matter wherein certain information was
asked concerning the international
Harvester Company, whichthe Attorn-
ey General replied that he had been
directed by President to say that
in my. opinion it is not compatible with
the public interest 10 furnish the in
formation called for" This reply put
quite crimp in the dignity of some
of the stiff old Senators and might
have been strenuously resented but
for the fact that the Members are not
resting very easily OH their oars in.
these unsettled times when majorities
are tipped up-side-down and when SO
many trials of old Members are neces-
sarily pulled Of
Congress has taken official notice of
the fact that the American hen having
demonstrated her ability to produce
eggs at sixty cents a dozen, is entitled
to the highest marks OF respect. And
no less person than Representative
Mann has said: 1.-The American hen
has long been oppressed and afflicted by
the heart1ess corporations whose re-
gard-or lack of regard-for the rights Of
the travelling public has long since be-
come, a hy-word."' Mr.. Mann emphetic
Ally, declared that it had become the
duty of Congress to strike ont fearless
| ly for the hens rights and Judge ,Adan
son, the semi-wag ef--the House, went
to add to the measure of Mr.. Mann.
compelling railway companies to pro-
vide transportation facilities for hens,
a sort of Independent feature granting
suffrage to hens laying more than one
egg per day.
Senator LaFollette, who has been
| absent from the session for. many
weeks, turned up just in time to vote
gains, Sci a'cr Step n~on Of his
State A good many of Mr.. LaFollettes
warmest friendsexpress the belief that
II would. have quite becom NJ upoa his
part to have added one more day O his
absence in the upper chamber, and thus
tvoided casting his vote againstthe mali
who is quite generally supposed to
! iY7
Wisconsin in the days when the senior
Senator offered no objections to all the
help he could get.
State Sanitary Inspector Wallis OF
tdaao has Denounced as false the re
,ort of Chicago retail mail-ordeI
louse that the stores of Twin Falls.
Idaho, are filthy. The Payette, Idaho,
Independent, commenting says that
starvation wages paid by retail mail.
order houses lead to immortality and
egredation.
Learing that the Senate Postottce
Committee had practically discarded
all idea of Il fat-rate system for Par
cells Post, big retail mail-order houses
oegan to lombard the House Post
dice S Committee aud ret.r, S NATIVE;
IN some cases with kilograms aud lea
yers but more generally through rep
resentatives of organizations largely
supported by such houses.
|
Kansas Democrats instructed for
speaker Clark; Oklahoma Republicans
for Col Roosevelt.
m. R. hea.Fst quoted Gov Wilson al
.ength here and charged that the Gov
| rnor at heart is 81, deralist".
| Newspaper publishers Of many smal
Ter ciiies and towns have pro- ested un-
successfully against the Postottice
Depart menl furnishing printed env :
lopes. The Government paid of manu-
facture of printed and stamped enve
iopes for the fiscal year 1911 $1,488, ,491.-
II. If the Government enters into the
carriage Of merchandise upon the huge
-cie con- EN- plated Invasion of ONE
fields of private business may be ex-
pected An advocate of Parcels Post
demand: "Give us something with
teeth in it,! An opponent asks, Scan
the Constitution withstand the teeth
If Socialism,?
The Cedar Falls, Iowa, Commercial
Club recently burned many retail mail
order catalogs publicly. These were
contributed voluntarily by citizens
who responded to the appeal of the the
Commercial Club to support home
industries. Meanwhile, the House
Postotfice committee has reported a
billtO protest and subsidiZe distant
concerns at the expense of those of the
districts which they represent by pro-