The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-05-23
DOWN Ar WASHINGTON
Interesting Notes from the National
Capital by G. A. Wood, Special
Reporter Correspondent.

The new Arlington f1Olel III w dsll-
ington will cost $5,0OO,OOO.
The president has signed the Sher-
wood pension law, providing for in
creased pensions for 42O,965 vet
Grams.
Cooking eggs by wireless is almost
as good a stunt as frying them on
Washington's July pavements.
If long-distance wireless telephony
is perfected, how are we men to get
away from the range of her voice.
AS long as the present campaign
lasts there'l. be no occasion for going
to the ''opry" to hear the anvil Choir
us.
An agreement has been reached
between the majority and minority
members of the special committee
investigating the election of Senator
Lorimer to file their respective re-
ports in the senate on May 20.
American Consul General SnOd-
grass at Moscow reports that boy
colt of American agricultural i'm
plements is spreading through Rus
STA as a protest against the recent
abrogation by congress of the treaty
of 1925.
The right of some 5000 Cherokee
children born after September, 1902,
and living March 4, 1906, to share
on an equality with other Cherokees
in the governmental distribution Of
several million dollars of Cherokee
funds hes been upheld by the SUI
preme Court.
In the case of James H. Graham,
a West Virginia preacher serving
a life sentence for repeated horse
stealing, the Supreme Court of the
Unitd States has decided that the
infliction Of life Imprisonment on old
offenders is constitutional
A Washington physician has re-
sorted to the injunction to stop the
crying Of seventeen babies in char
liable institution near his Office. If
he is father he ought to know the
futility of such proceedings, and if
he is a bachelor he ought to move.
bacteria in Milk" and THE Prof
liable Management of the Small APP
pie Orchard on the General Farm"
are titles of Farmers Bulletins of the
Department. of Agriculture that
would probably prove of interest to
agricultural readers of the Reporter.
The agricultural appropriation
bill has passed the Senate Carrying
nearly 100000 for the work of
the Department during the next fis-
as it passed the house increase the
total by about 100000 and these
will be the subject of conference be-
tween the two houses.
At the request of Washington
aeroplane company, Postmaster Gen.
eral Hitchcock has authorized the
postmaster at New York to dispatch
mail to Washington on or about May
% by aeroplane. The aviator will
endeavor to carry at least 100 pounds
of mail and make the trip without
stops and with the greatest possible
speed.
House leaders have agreed upon a
tentative program for the remainder
of the session which will permit ad-
journment by June Is. In carrying
out this schedule, however, the Sen
ate will have to be reckoned with,
and from the present outlook it is
not probable that the upper house
will be in position to get away for
many weeks beyond the proposed
date.
Senator Gore has introduced a
resolution which contemplates MAX
ing easier the road of the would-be
admiral to the Naval Academy, by
lessening the severity of the mental
high per centage of failures in the
preliminary examinations and the
growing scarcity of officers demand
that some action be taken to in
crease the number of cadets at the
institution.
In order to test the value of a new
system of infantry organization, the
general staff of the army is about to
create an ideal regiment of full war
strength and send it on an extended
march through the western states
under regulation service conditions.
The regiment will be drawn from
Forts Crook, Smelling, and Sheridan.
The concentration will begin at
Dubuque June 4, the troops march
ing from there to Sparta, Wis.
A modification of section 566 of
the postal regulations provides that
the wilfull impression of any mail
matter of postmark bearing any
other date than that of which the
matter is dispatched, or of a back
stamp bearing date other than the
one on which the mail is received, or
the erasure of any date or postmark,
whether for the purpose of fraud
or deception or to conceal delay or
detention of such mail matter will
in all cases subject the offender to
dismissal from the service.
Before the house money trust"
investigating committee Herman
Sielcken, a large coffee importer,
stated that $10,OOO,OO0 of the $751;
100000 loan secured by Brazil for
the purpose of controlling the coffee
output was obtained in New York.
The witness denied that the with
holding from the market of the sur
plus coffee had any effect on the
price to American consumers, but
said that if the 100000 bags now
held ION consignment" by the valor-
ization committee were dumped on
the market it would make no differ
ence in the price.
What filter job for woman than to
the destruction of
money! Miss Louise Lester, of