The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-02-22
DOWN At WASHINGTON
Interesting Notes from the National
Capital by G. A. Wood, Special
Reporter Correspondent.

| beer is gong up.
Spring is coming! The base ball
schedule is out.
Raising the price of ice just now
looks like joke on some one.
Knox for Big Navy, reads a
newspaper headline. Yes, and more
knocks from the people who pay the
bills.
The proclamation admitting Ari-
IONA to Statehood was signed by
President Taft on st. Valentines
Day.
The Potomac river is frozen from
sho' to sho', and Washington has no
oysters.
A bureau has. been opened in
Washington for the very laudable
purpose of telling the people what
to do with our ex-presdent.
| A German scientist has discovered
way to make corpse transparent.
He ought to be given one of our poll
ticians for experimentation.
| Democrats of the House in caucus
have ratified the new chemical tariff
schedule, which is calculated too in
crease the revenue from chemical
imports more than 100000 a
year.
Representative Foss, of Illinois,
has introduced bill providing for
the erection in Washington of a mon
ument to John Ericsson, designer of
the first turreted amorclad warship.
Major General F. c. Ainsworth,
adjutant general of the army, has
been relieved from duty in the War
Department and now 'faces court
martial for INSTRUMENTATION in con-
nection with insulting letters written
to Secretary of War Stimson.
| A Texas woman has increased the
government conscience Fund.- to
the extent of one dollar by sending
to President Taft bill for that
amount with the explanation that a
few years ago she used a dollar's
| worth of cancelled postage stamps.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission has under consideration a
plan to obviate the possible double
payment of express charges by the
sender and receiver. The scheme
contemplates a system of stamps
stating plainly the amount of the
charges and whether prepayment
has been made.
The Department of Justice is to
undertake an inquiry into the Nation
al Horseshoe Manufacturing Asso-
citation, which is charged by Repre-
sentative Barnhart, of Indiana, with
refusing further supplies to those re-
tailers who decline to recognize sale
prices fixed by the association.
The Indian races Of the United
| States are gradually reviving, ac-
cording to a report Of the census
bureau. In 1910 there was a total
Indian population of 265,6S3, as
compared with a total population OF
237,19 in 1900. Seventy-three per
cent of all the Indians in the United
States are now taxpayers.
The Department Of Justice is in
vestigating the American Press AS
socation of New York and the West
ern Newspaper Union of Omaha, to
determine whether there is any vio-
lation of the Sherman law in con-
nection with the use of .electrotype
plates and matrices supplied to
newspapers throughout the country.
| A constitutional pr o h i b i n
against third presidential term is
provided for in an amendment intro
duced by Senator Reed of Missouri.
| The amendment does not change the
length of the presidential term, but
makes any one ineligible who has
served. two terms, full term and
part of another, or who has served
portion of two terms.
The old saying ''If hads were
shads, we'd have fish plenty loses
some of it's significance when we
read in the report of the Bureau OF
Fisheries that during the fiscal year
1911 more than half million eggs
and more than a million fry were
distributed to State commissioners
and more than six, million fry to for
eign countries.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has ordered the railroads not to
put into effect the proposed increas-
ed freight rates on butter and eggs
from St. Paul, Minneapolis and Du-
luth to Buffalo and Pittsburg. The
Commission also held up proposed
increases in freight rates on apples
from the apple districts of the west
to points in the east.
The special committee of the Sem
ate investigating the election of Sem
ator Lorimer has agreed to take up
March 25th the consideration of a
report to the Senate and vote upon it
at that time. Attorney Hanecy, rep
resenting Senator Lorimer, was given
to March LIST in which to file brief
of argument on the point that the
Senator's eligibility to the seat hay
ing been passed upon once by the
committee, it could not be consider
ed a second time.
The democratic majority of the
House committee on interstate and
foreign commerce is considering a
favorable report on bill to fix the
maximum rates which express COM
panies may charge. The proposed
bill would cut the rates almost in
half. The charges for package
weighing not more than eleven
pounds would be as follows: For
distances greater than 1000 miles,
1925; from 1900 to 1000 miles, IS
cents; from 700 to 1900 miles, SO
cents; from 500 to 700 miles, Is
cents; less than 500 miles, rs cents.
According to the Crop Reporter