The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-02-01

lteresting Notes from the National
Capital by 6. A. Wood, Special
Reporter Correspondent.

l.
Under the impression that it con-
l.ned butter, burglars removed q
900 pound safe from a Washing
IN store.
Just lot of people will agree with
he suggestion that Mr.. Roosevelt
: made president-of the Chinese
ppublc.
a Boston university president saws
lat to be beautiful we must suffer.
ONE OF US never had much pain, evil
entity.
The construction of a memorial
Gphltheatre in Arlington cemetery
Il cost Of $3.50, 900 is proposed in
bill Introduced by Senator Suther-
md, Of Utah.
M estimate for 100000 add
iOnal sheets Of currency paper, from
III, h $3.50 900, 900 worth of money
to be printed, has been submitted
~ Secretary MacN cagh to the House
0 meet 4 shortage Of small bills and
meet the demand for clean mon
~
CWong Wing, a Montana laundry
nan, fought a $40 license case ali
he way up from his local hall OF
Justice to the Supreme Court of the
United States, on the ground that
Ihr Montana license law was uncon-
stitutional, and the case has been
decided against him.
Forty boys, picked by the Austral-
ian government to visit the United
States to learn all they can about
this country, and sent for the addi-
tonal purpose Of cultivating friendly
relations between the two countries,
are expected to reach Washington
about the middle of February.
William Campbell Flenniken, a
member of the Washington police
force with high Iowa connections,
died at his home here last week.
Policeman Flenniken was first
cousin Of Senator Cummins and Mrs
Flenniken is a cousin Of Mrs. Ken
yon, wife Of Senator Kenyon.
President Taft has refused to ap-
point DR.. w. S. Devine as postmaster
at Marshalltown, on the request of
Representative Good. DR.. Devine
is a Cummins progressive, and while
in the matter, the refusal to make
the appointment looks like a renewal
of the patronage fight.
According to a report of the CEN
sus bureau, there were more than
$4,000 violent deaths in the United
States in 1910. Of these, JAG
were due to accidents and $3.50 to
homicides. Railroad accidents lead
in the fatal list with 1877; drown
ing removed ASS; burns 4,1S2;
and mine and quarry accidents 2,4S4.
The House committee which has
been Investigating the Wiley-McCabe
controversy in the Department of
Agriculture, has made it's report. BY
it DR.. Wiley is exonerated of charges
of conspiracy" in the employment
of an expert at a salary not author
lied by law, the discontinuance of
the Ramsen board in it's present
status is recommended, and the dom
ination of Solicitor McCabe in pure
food matters is criticized and sugges-
tions made for changes that will
make the pure food law more effect
i've.
The increase in the price of butter
and the prediction that it will go to
60 cents have caused a renewal of
the campaign in Congress for a re-
duction of the oleomargarine tax.
Chairman Lever of the sub-cOmmit-
tee on agriculture which has been
considering oleomargarine bills, has
introduced a bill to lower the tax
on near-butter from 10 cents to less
than 1 cent pound. The bill pro-
vides a fine and imprisonment for
the sale of oleomargarine as butter.
1t is believed that the passage of the
bill would have a material effect on
q or Of ivin
Notwithstanding pledges to the
contrary, it is said that hotel rates
at Baltimore during the week of the
democratic convention are being
raised to an unreasonable limit At
this early day bookings are being
made at the rate of SIS a day with
four in room. 1t might be we'll for
prospective visitors and delegates to
the convention to investigate the
possibilities of Washington as
"boarding house. before contracting
for accommodations in Baltimore.
Washington is but an hours run
from Baltimore and it is not likely
that the convention will have any eff
feet on hotel rates here.
With view to checking the emf
grafton of American farmers to Can
ada, the Senate committee on public
lands has reported favorably bill
introduced Ny Senator Borah which
makes more liberal the terms of the
homestead laws. The period of ell
forced residence is reduced from five
to three years and the settler is al
lowed to absent himself as long as
six months in any one year while
perfecting his claim.
The committee also ordered a re-
port on bill which will open to set
Element the surface of about S,00O,-
900 acres of oil lands in various
parts of the West and Southwest.
Continued interest in scientific ag-
riculture is indicated by the report
of the director of experimental sta
lions of the Department of Agricul-
ture, recently submitted to the Sec
rotary. Sixty-two railroad instruc-
ton trains operated during the past
year covered more than $4,000 miles
and the meetings were attended by
nearly a million people. Movable