The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-03-07
CAPITAL NEWS
OF THE WEEK
OF INTEREST FROM THE
CAPITOL BY THE REGISTER
CORRESPONDENT
TARIFF REVISION WELL UNDER WAY
Democrats Are Busy ~Tinkering With
Tariff, but Bills May Never Be
Enacted Into Laws

CTrom Our Washington Correspondent
A suggestion is before congress 10
send a commission made up of farmers
to Europe for the purpose OF studying
the Riafeisen system of rural coop
GRAFTON credit. 1t is pointed out that
while the monetary commission has
thoroughly covered Europe in its in
vestigation from the commercial stand
point, that no especial attention has
been given to the agricultural inter
ests. In view of the fact that in Ger
many more than two billion dollars
were loaned in 1909 under the system
mentioned above, thus avoiding the
necessity of farm mortgages and the
selling of crops as sOon as harvested,
the application of such a principal in
the financial scheme that will event
ually work out by the efforts of the
monetary commission, it is thought
will properly be supplemental of the
work that has already been done. A
large number of farmers organiza-
tons throughout the country have in
terested themselves in the plan and
are prepared to urge the matter upon
congress.
Edward Hines, the "villin in the
play" in the Lorimer setting, has
been expelled from the Union League
club of Chicago, and thus the frs
skull iii the celebrated se~natorshil
matter of that state has been hung or
the fence. 1t is pretty hard to tel
what the senate is going to do will
the Lorimer matter, but the genera
impression here is that if the election
was obtained in an undue manner
that Mr.. Hines was at the bottom OF
all the trouble.
And now Senator James A. Reed
of Missouri, is attempting to dis
qualify Senator Dupont Of Delaware,
and bring about an investigation. The
gentleman from Missouri may posi-
IDLY succeed in this, but he will over
throw the natural disposition and in
~clination of the senate if he succeeds;
as there is nothing in the world that
the membership of this great body is
more tired of than this class of in
vestigations.
A great many people have been
singing the praises of Congressman
Sulloway on New Hampshire, because
of his championship Of the old SOL
diers in congress, and undoubtedly
the demand for better legislation in
the way Of pensions is largely due to
his efforts. However, Mr.. Sulloway,
like any other statesman, occasionally
makes mistakes, and he now finds
himself very much in the limelight
in regard to the subject of rather
general attack from the dentists Of
Washington and throughout the coun-
try, by reason Of his assertions be-
fore the house committee Of congress,
to the effect that the use Of tooth
brushes, especially on the teeth of
children, was injurious and unneces-
sary. Although Mr.. Sulloway is one
Of the oldest men in congress, he has
never seen any necessity for brushing
the teeth and that this practice is
entirely in the interests Of dentistry.
The dentists retort that anyone hay
ing regard for cleanliness must at
tend to the teeth.
The democratic hippodrome of Capt.
tol Hill has a number of its tariff acts
well staged, and the sketch of tariff
revision is well under way. That the
majority do not expect any of their
tariff bills to become law is apparent.
Theirs is a work for campaign
purposes, otherwise the wollen sched-
ule upon which a report has been
made by the tariff board, and where
the approval of the President could
be counted upon, wClld be taken up.
The tariff board has about completed
its report on the cotton schedule, and
will then take up the metal schedule.
However, there is no deep interest in
the boards proceedings, because the
democrats have ignored it, and will
not appropriate any o money for
its continuance after June 30th. The
President has shown a little more in
terest OF late in unfolding the pro.
tective tariff. and It is generally ag-
reed here that he has helped him.
self in that way. 4,