The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-01-25
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boxed his ears. Mr.. Hitchcock's plan
has been taken up seriously on capi-
toll hill, but there appears to be a de-
termination to first dispose of the par
cells post before considering any
further radical innovation in the post
office department. Assistant Post
master General De Graw is vigorously
championing the department plan for
a parcel post delivery along rural mail
routes, urging that it would among
other things be a great revenue pro-
Queer for the government.
Old General Sherwood, of Ohio, in
dicates that he is becoming petulant
over the cries of economy raised
against his pension bill, and in an
interview this week he spoke his mind
mon some policies of the political
leaders. Gen. Sherwood asks: Did
we not recently run in debt to the
tune of $50, 1000 in Panama bonds,
and did any Of the journals OF pro-
Tossing economy issue a whimper or
enter a protest against this 50,000,-
600 additional debt? Has it come to
this. that we can run millions Of mon
CIV into debt on a doubtful experiment
in Panama without a whimper from
cold blooded commercialism, while
the same element is in nervous panic
and agony when it is proposed to de-
vote a few millions of our surplus
revenues to make comfortable in their
last days on earth the men who made
the Panama canal a possibility Gen
eral Sherwood says, that the pension
bill as it passed the House, will, if
enacted, cost the Treasury some $43,-
600, 900.
Jeffersonian simplicity is not ap-
piled to the practices of Speaker
Clark in one instance at least. 1t will
be remembered that Mr.. Clark re-
fused to ride in Uncle Joe Cannon's
limousine and made a grand stand
play that the street cars are good
enough" Mr.. Champ has stuck to the
declaration, but he has gone every
other former speaker one better in
permitting a private dining room to
be installed in the capital for his use,
thus demonstrating that he is not
made of common clay.
Is he? Amt he? Does he, intend
to be a candidate? Meaning Colonel
Roosevelt, of course. Nobody has
been able to extract a satisfactory
answer from the ex-President, al
though about all the "~emissaries'' and
newspaper men of the country have
tackled the job. The answer may be
a vital one as affecting the next cam
paign, and even though there may be
no direct declaration from Oyster Bay
on the subject there appears to be
a very we'll grounded suspicion that
"Barcus is Willing"
There are more job hunters in
Washington than any other city in
the country. Eleven hundred census
clerks, whose homes are in every part
of the country, were canned" in the
census department without cere.
mony, and with only three days no
tice. The injustice of the proceed.
ing is recognized, but that does not
help matters, and congressman have
been busy trying to locate their con
%stituents in other branches Of the
government service. Many of the un'
fortunate employees are leaving fc,
home.
The Supreme Court has upheld the
constitutionality of the employers Ii
ability law passed by congress in
1908. The Court also decided state
courts may enforce that act wher
local laws are appropriate.