Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-01-31

Ne* a weekly letter of news items
[. from the national capital at
? is Washington, d. c. Mr.. Wood
~ is in position to get the facts
first hand, and during this most
important session of congress,
preceding national election,
~ his letters will be unusually in
teresting.-The Editor. 8
=
Washington, Jan. 20, 1912
, Just lot of people will agree with
[ the suggestion that Mr.. Roosevelt be
J made President-of the Chinese Re-
J public
Under the impression that it con-
y tanned butter, burglars removed a
II 1000 pound safe from a Washington
? ! store.
Boston university president says
[ that to be beautiful we must suffer
1 Some of us have never had much
= pain, evidently.
The construction of a memorial
~ ampitheater in Arlington national
{ cemetery at cost of S75O,0O0 is
! l proposed in bill introduced by Sem
{ I ator Sutherland OF Utah.
~ An estimate for 1O,00O,OOO addi-
Z tional sheets of currency paper, from
which $959,000,0 600 worth of money
) : is to be printed, has been submitted
! by Secretary MacVeagh to the house,
J to meet a shortage of small bills and
y sto meet the demand for 'clean
money
QIong Wing, Montana laundry
I m1n, fought $40 license case all
\ the way up from his local hall of
" justice to the supreme court of the
!, United States, on the ground that
r. the Montana license law was uncon-
stitutional, and the case has just
been decided against him.
Forty boys picked by the Austral-
i ian government to visit the United
4 II States to learn all they can about
81 this country, and sent for the ad-
ditional purpose of cultivating more
friendly relations between the two
n. countries, are expected to reach
"a Washington about the middle of
z February.
~ William Campbell Flenniken, a
= member of the Washington police
~ force with high Iowa connections,
,l died at his home here last week.
III Policeman Flenniken was first
IS cousin of Senator Cummins and Mrs.
X Flenniken is a cousin of Mrs.
~ Kenyon, wife of Senator Kenyon.
III President Taft has refused to ap-
~ point DR.. w. S. Deyine as postmaster
Ii at Marshalltown, on the request of
I Representative Good. Dr.. Devine is
II a Cummins progressive, and while
~ the senator is not directly involved
N in the matter, the refusal to make
OF the patronage fight
II the appointment looks like a renewal
According to report of the cen
sus bureau, there were more than
$4,000 violent deaths in the United
II States in 1910. OF these 45,146
{ Were due to accidents and 3,190 to
~ homicides Railroad accidents lead
I in the fatal list with 1877; drown
( ing removed, 4,S1S; burns, 4,1S2;
and mines and auarries. 2,4S4.
n The house committee which has
! been Investigating the Wiley-McCabe
controversy in the Department of
Agriculture, has made its report. BY
it DIR. Wiley is exonerated of charges
u of conspiracy" in the employment
of an expert at a salary not author
lied by law, the discontinuance of
NJ the Remsen board in its present sta
tus is recommended, and the domin-
alton OF Solicitor McCabe in pure
4 food matters is criticised and sug-
n gestions made for changes that will
make the pure food laws more ef-
y fective
y The increase in the price of butter
y and the prediction that it will go to
II 60 cents have caused a renewal of
- the campaign in congress for re-
'sy duction OF the oleomargarine tax.
I Chairman Lever of the sub-commit-
" tee on agriculture, which has been
considering oleomargarine bills, has
n introduced bill to lower the tax on
~ near-butter from 10 to less than 1
n cent pound. The bill provides a
} fine and Imprisonment for the sale
of oleomargarine as butter. 1t is
n believed that the passage Of this bill