Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-03-20

resolution introduced by Representa-
tive Dupre, of louisiana, is passed
by the house. Mr.. Dupre holds the
oe$,. IN that applause is usually per-
fun>o * consisting of few men,
bers ~ ling their hands or pound
ing thel'H asks, and that whether
this applalV teaches the dignity of
loud" or ~ uged" rests largely
in the discretiC t the official re-
porter.
DR.. Harvey w. W.ley, guardian of
our health and exponent of pure food
has resigned his position as chief of
the bureau of chemistry, department
Of agriculture. This action, altho'
following persistent rumors that he
would soon resign, nevertheless came
as surprise. DR.. Wiley has not as
yet made definite statement of his
reason for retiring, except to say
that his action was not the result of
pressure. In order to find the best
man available to succeed DR.. Wiley,
President Taft has sent kilograms to
the leading chronological colleges
and universities asking for recon-
mendations.
At an informal conference of the
republican members of the senate
Finance committee held this week,
Senator Cummins urged the repub-
licans of the senate to enact legisla-
tion revising the wool, cotton, sugar,
and steel schedules. Senator Cum
Minis favored free iron ore and
reasonable reduction of the duties
on other schedules, and said that he
believed these reductions should be
made without waiting for the report
of the tariff board, giving notice that
he would act independently if his col
leagues insisted upon waiting for
such report.
A clause in the agricultural ap-
preparation bill for the next fiscal
yCoi iuSo lOI lle tSldDliSulutuL
of federal plant quarantine. This
action has long been urged by the
scientists of the department, with
view to aiding them in their efforts
70 prevent the importation of plants
infected with various diseases or
pests.
A radical departure in campaign
methods was introduced this week,
when Speaker Clark posed for a NOV
ing picture machine on the floor of
the house. All of the speakers
movements in calling the house to
order We're photographed, and the
pictures will include the official stem
ographers and other employees, with
scenes around the .copitol. In addi-
tion to the moving pictures, several
of Mr.. Clark's speeches were record
ed by phonograph. The speakers
duties preventing him from doing
much travelling, the idea of sending
out these moving pictures and phon-
ographic records is being put into
effect for the purpose Of bringing
him into closer contact with the peo-
pie and furthering his presidential
aspirations.
That the actual net loss due to
defective methods of distribution of
documents has been not less than
$25,000,O00, and that s5,00O,00O is
a conservative estimate of the loss
caused by the. accumulation of
100000 documents stored away
at the government printing Office,
and that great waste and extrayag-
ance exist in ;hte big printery. are
few OF the charges made on the floor
of the senate by Senator Smoot of
Utah. Senator Shoots charges we're
made during the presentation of a
speech in favor OF the bill for the
revision Of the printing laws, which
has been agreed upon by the joint
printing investigating committee of
the two houses. The senator assert
ed that the enactment of the bill
would effect a saving of $6OO,000 a
year and stop the sending of millions
of useless documents through the
mail. By way of illustrating the
waste of public documents under the
present plan of distribution, Senator
Smoot said that representative
from the Bowery receives as many
agricultural reports as does a repre-
sentative from Kansas, and being
more or less useless to the city men,
ber, many expensive docuemnts find
their way into the hands of junk
dealers. Under the new plan, the
Kansas representative would use
agricultural reports, while the con-
gressman from New York could sup
ply his people with consular reports,
immigration reports. etc., and an
estimated saving of 100000 would
be effected.