Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-02-14
WASHINGTON LETTER
Weekly Letter From Our Special
Correspondent.
NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL.
Brief Items of Interest to Iowa PeO-
pie, Written by an Iowa
Man.

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baby have their troubles mapped os
The Interstate Commerce Comns
sion was twenty-five years old f. /.
February 4th. e
Secretary Wilson has been cs :
PEELED, "for the four hundredth ii 8 :"
to deny that he contemplates res l.
ing the agricultural portfolio.
A treaty with France and : er
countries for the restriction OF ne
circulation of obscene literature as
been ordered favorably report, to
the senate by the foreign relations
committee.
The remains of Gen. Phil. Kear-
ney, which now rest in vault in old
Trinity church, New York City. are
to be transferred to Arlington Gene
terry on April II and reinterred with
the highest military honors.
OStensibly for show purposes, but
in reality for the purpose of main
tanning peace, the Secretary of the
Navy has tentatively decided to send
several warships to Baltimore during
convention week.
Representative Burnbull of Vir-
g1nGa has introduced a bill provid-
ing for the creation of a commission
to investigate the practicability of a
plan to establish in Washington a
permanent exposition of the resour-
ces of the various states of the
union.
representative Prouty has been
unanimously elected by the house a
member Of the committee on the
District of Columbia, to succeed Rep
resentative j. Hampton Moore of
PENNSYLVANIA, the senior republican
member of the committee, who re-
singed recently.
me new green one cent and red
TIVE cent postage stamps, bearing the
Houdon design of the profile of
Washington, and the stamps of other
denominations in the new issues are
printed and ready for distribution as
soon as the supply of old style
stamps is exhausted.
The senate has ratified and made
pubic the convention for interna-
tional protection of industrial prop
erty, signed at Washington last June
by Great Britain, France, Italy, Ger
many, Austria-Hungary, Spain, Port
ugai, Norway, Denmark, Sweden.
Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Belgium, the
Netherlands, Japan, Santa Domingo,
Servia, Switzerland and Tunis.
A bill for the incorporation of the
Rockefeller Foundation has been in
troduced in the house by Represen-
tative Peters of Massachusetts. 1t
was referred to the committee on the
judiciary. A bill along similar lines
was introduced in the senate in
1910, but publication of the terms
of the proposed charter aroused a
storm of criticism because of it's
scope.
The mainmast of the battleship
Maine is on the way to Washington,
where it will be placed over the
graves of the victims of the Havana
disaster in Arlington cemetery. The
vessel bringing the mast also carries
a large assortemnt OF relics OF the
wrecked battleship to be distributed
among municipalities, patriotic so
ciesies. and relatives OF the victims
of the disaster.
A fraud order has been issued by
the Post Office Department against
the Acme company of Kansas City
The concern is charged with defraud-
ing by means of circular advertis-
ing for women to earn 25 cents an
hour by sewing dress shields. II
the small sum of one dollar was sent
the women were sent supplies. Some
of the respondents never received
the samples, and those who did an(
made shields were told that the worl
was not artistic enough to merf
purchase.
Postmasters throughout the coun
try, as we'll as all free delivery car
riers, have been instructed to dis
courage so far as is in their powe
the practice on the part of patron
of rural delivery of leaving none
in letter boxes for the purchase o
money orders. 1t is pointed out tha
this practice will encourage thief
and if continued will eventual
cause the department no end o
trouble and expense in investigator
cases of robbery.
Enjoying the sights of the capita
and In other ways reaping the fruit
of their industry and skill, a part
consisting of Miss Lois Edmonds, /