Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-05-29
WASHINGTON LETTER
Weekly Letter From Our Special
Correspondent.
NEWS FROM TIL CAPITAL
Brief Items of Interest t, e va PeO-
pie, Written by an
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Washington, d. c., May

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visitors to the number of Ii N0I
paid S2S,25O for admission to M .ht
Vernon.
The Louisiana court that has it to
decide whether a lynching is an ac-
cident ought to secure the evidence
of a lynchee on the point.
Themistokleis Haralampos Papa
kyriakopoulos of Chicago can't agree
with the Shakesperian dictum that
there's nothing in a name
The Senate finance committee has
ordered an adverse report on the
House wool bill and will present a
substitute measure later.
After adopting an amendment pro-
viding that American-owned vessels
engaged in the coastwise trade shall
not be required to pay toll for the
use of the Panama Canal, the House
passed the Canal bill by vote of
Nat to 1876.
There's absolutely no use in the
u, nate consumer trying to sidestep.
Tit bureau of chemistry has just
discovered that an eastern olive oil
concern has been giving full measure
at home and removing from cans des-
tined for shipment enough oil to pay
the freight In some cases it was
found that IL per cent of the con-
tents were removed.
President Taft has declined to
make public the correspondence be-
tween this government and Columbia
relating to Panama, saying that it
would be incompatible with the pub
lie interest to do so. The Senate at
the instance of Senator Hitchcock of
Nebraska requested the correspond
ence.
bill to compel operators of sleep
ing cars to leave unmade the upper
has been introduced by Representa-
tive Lenroot of Wisconsin The bill
would impose a fine of $1,000 for
every such offense. Mr.. Lenroot be-
lieves that the upper berth should
not be prepared for occupancy simply
because the lower berth is to be oc-
cupied
AS result of the new pension law
and following circular letters mailed
by congressman to their soldier con-
stituents, the Pension Office is being
literally showed under and the entire
CLERICAL force is engaged in time
stamping and answering applications.
Something like 100000 applications
have already been received and if the
present rate is kept up there will
soon be few eligibles with claims
unified
Vice President Sherman figures it
out that Congress will be able to
finish up it's business and get away
by the first part of August. 1t is
probable that there will be no ad-
journment before the political con-
ventions and that there will be no re-
cesses for those occasions. The dec
laration of the democrats that they
will force the tariff bills to vote and
have to be decided before adjourn
ment will initiate against the early
adjournment looked for in some
quarters.
Further consideration by the judi
ciary committee of the Senate of the
Works resolution for an amendment
to the constitution increasing the
length of the presidential term to six
years and making the president in
eligible to reelection resulted in a
vote to report the measure favorably.
The resolution extends the term of
vice president also to six years, but
does not bar his reelection. Con-
siderable opposition to the resolution
has developed among the progressive
republicans, who see in it a blow at
Mr.. Roosevelt.
IL you are lone OF them bloated
bondholders' and so flush with
money that you have been slow to
deposit your interest checks, take
heed of the warning of the Secretary
OF the Treasury. who says that, be-
ginning with June 80. all bond in
terest checks which have been out
standing for three fiscal years will
be covered into the treasury as an
outstanding liability of the govern
ment, and the payees of such checks
will find it necessary to procure new
checks and establish their right to
the money This action Is taken
because for some reason unexplained
many holders of bonds fail to present
their checks for payment within a