The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-07-11
DOWN AT WASHINGTON
Interesting Notes from the National
Capital by G. A. Wood, Special
Reporter Correspondent.
Washington, d. c., July 6, 1912.
That shaan milk cure for ba ldneSS


That sheep milk cure for badness
gets our goat.
They may have stolen Bryan's
sidewalk, but he hung on to the plat
form.
A new Jersey book agent has just
died at the age of 100. Wonder how
he escaped so long.
The national flag now contains As
stars, two additional emblems ap-
pearing July to denote the entrance
of Arizona and New Mexico to the
Union.
Since the army aviation school was
established year ago, the ohcers
attached to it have been 259 hours
in the air in a total of 1900 flights.
The famous Roosevelt physical
tests for army officers have gradually
dwindled from the strenuous 90
mile horseback ride to monthly
stroll of ten miles to be done in not
more than four nor less than three
hours.
Proposed new regulations, re-
stricting the dimensions OF pieces OF
baggage, were suspended by the In
terstate Commerce Commission from
July l to October 20. The carriers
proposed a further limit on the
amount of baggage transported free
and an increase of charges on excess
weights.
The senate has agreed to the joint
resolution appropriating Sl,35 $1,000
for the encampments and maneuVers
of the organized militia of the states.
The appropriation was originally in
the army bill vetoed by the presi-.
dent. These maneuvers will for the
first time be conducted on scale
similar to the annual demonstrations
of military by European govern
ments.
Congress on Monday hurriedly
passed a continuing resolution for
the purpose of supplying the necess-
airy funds for conducting the bust
ness of the government pending the
passage of the various supply bills.
The resolution provides that there
shall be appropriated for the month
of July one-twelfth of the appropri-
ations for the current fiscal year.
The house chemical tariff revision
bill, amended to place dyes used in
coloring cheaper cotton goods, on the
free list, has been defeated in the
senate by vote of 80 to 26. The
bill would have reduced the rate on
many articles in the present chem
ical schedule by about 20 per cent
and would have transferred others,
including pepper, cinnamon, cloves.
licorice, and balsa1n from the free list
to the dutiable.
The cloak of the civil service will
be thrown around ten thousand navy
prnCj60nf
signs an order now being prepared
by the navy department. Theoret-
ically, these men have been guarded
against the uncertainties incident to
political changes by a system or
regula tons governing the employ
ment boards at navy yards, but they
have been subject to dismissal or
change at the will of the person at
the head of the department.
That great political bunco, the
congressional seed distribution, is
in bad way, and representatives
from districts in New York and
other cities who in years passed
have supplied their urban constit-
uents with perfectly good garden
seed for soup making, see defeat
rubbering at them. All because con-
gress delayed SO long in passing the
agricultural appropriation Dill that
the department was prevented from
making advance contracts and will
probably not be able to secure any
where near the 900 tons of seed dis
tributed last year.
Because of the refusal of congress
to furnish money for the continuance
of it's work, the tariff board ceased
its existence with the end of it's fiscal
year. The members of the board as
sembled at the White House and ad-
vised President Taft concerning their
most recent work, consisting Of a J
cursory examination of the leather
industry, the cost of sugar growing
in Louisiana, and glossaries of the
leather and silk industries, and the
data were turned over
to the president for the use of con-
gressional committees or other tariff |
revision agencies. The board was
formed in October, 1909, and has
made Investigations of the difference
in cost at home and abroad OF wood
pulp and paper, wool and cotton, and
also compiled glossaries of nuner-
Gus schedules.
A row in the United States Treas
ury Department between Secretary
MacVeagh and Assistant Secretary
A. Plat Andrew eliminated in the
resignation of the latter official, &C
companied by scathing letter set
ting forth his reasons for such &C
ton. This was Immediately follow
ed by the introduction into the house
of resolution calling for complete
of the administration
of the department. Mr.. Andrews
letter, which was addressed to the
president, created profound sensa-
ton. In it he declared that ener-
getic young men in the treasury
have been "hampered and discour-
aged at every turn by secretary Mac
Veagh's idiosyncrasies, his astound-
ing capacity for representation, his
incapacity for decision, and the Pc
culiar moods of suspicion and aver
sion to which he is constantly SUBJ
ject.' In statement issued later
by Secretary MacVeagh he declared
that instead of Andrew resigning of
his own free will, he was several