The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-04-12
AFFAIRS AT
WASHINGTON
Matters Concerning the Law
Makers and Events Of Impor-
tance at the National Capital.

S Washington, ID. T., April IL.
---Duinrg the wool debate, Mr..
SCrago, of Pennsylvania, told OF
fthe rise and fall Of the wool in
hi dustry, incident to the protec-
NJ tion afforded by proper tariff
flaws. Speaking Of his own
u county of Greene, he said:
u "Prior to the passage of the
y Wilson tariff bill, the rich
"A hills and fertile valleys Of that
n section, so we'll adapted to this
n industry, were dotted everywhere
u with sheep. The sheep rails
81 ers were prosperous, and as d
u result the communities were also
prosperous. And then came the
n change, and in 1896 the floclSs
Il had disappeared from or hills.
4 The sheep were sold for fifty
d cents and one dollar per head,
q for mutton only was an ac-
Y complished fact.
n publican party to power and
( the passage Of the Dmgley law,
these same men, anxious to
again engage in this business,
sens to other parts OF the
country for sheep, but it was
ten years at least before the
industry was again firmly estab-
lished, and millions OF dol
lars had been lost to that sec
ton of the country. Do You
wonder, then. that our peo-
pie look with disfavor on this
attempt to repeat the conditions
of 1862"
There were two ''Gloomy
Gus IS" in the great steel in
vestfgating committee, the re-
suit being a quarrel between the
Honorable "Gus" Gardner and
the Honorable "Gus" Stanley,
and the two men-had it not
been for the interference OF
other members,-wouEd have
"mixed up" in real finish
fight. The trouble all grew out
of the insistence on the part OF
Mr.. Stanley to compel j. Pier
pont Morgan to appear before the
committee, and the further ques-
ton of "leaks'' from the eXecu-
tive sessions. 1t was intimatcd
that Chairman Stanley had been
supplying information about the
executive sessions to favor news,
papers.
There is no telling what lime
OF endeavor congressman will hit
upon to prove them usefulness to
the country-becaa1se for instance
Representative Mott Of New
York has set out to destroy the
tobacco combinations of the coun-
try by doing away with the tin
tags which are so familiar to the
users Of 'fplug'
A revision of classic verse was
introduced into the wool debate
by Representative Longsworth Of
Ohio, who commends the hum
BILE truth in the following verse /:
"You may live without poetry,
music or art; you may live with
out conscience, you may live with
out heart; you may live with
out kin cousins, uncles, or
aunts-but civilized man cannot
live without pants
That the all-devouring scythe
of time makes no distinction in
alike, has again matter fromthis
moving down the great and
weak alike, has again been
brought forcibly to mind by
the death OF united States SEN
ators and two representatives
within ten days. The three men
to be called to the great beyond
were Senator Taylor of Tennes-
see, General Bingham. of Penn
sylvania, and Mr.. Foster, of Yer
mont. All were very prominent
in the affairs of congress.
The "holier than thou" Sen
a+ors who talked themselves
boarse in reference to the Ste
phenson case will soon have one
more opportunity to use their
vocal organs in pommeling poor,
old, worn-out and dilapidated