Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-04
WASHINGTON LETTER
Weekly Letter From Our Special
Correspondent.
NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL.
Brief Items Of Interest to Iowa Peo-
pie, Written by an Iowa
Man.,

Washington, D. c., Sept. 2, 1912.
That Columbus woman isn't the
only person after the president with
''sacred" cutlery.
Judging from past form, Uncle Joe
Cannon ought to win that kicking
match feet up.
1t is highly professional for the
navy to starve a COW to death; it
ought to have run her down with a
battleship.
washington prices have become so
high that the poor government clerk
can hardly live, and now the under
takers are raising their prices SO
high that he can't afford to die.
A New York woman saved a mans
life by tearing up her petticoats to
make bandage. But she was one of
the old-fashioned kind who wear
something more than double-legged
trousers.
Witch the passage of the legislative
appropriation bill, salaries for off,
GERS of the new Children's Bureau
became available and the work of
establishing that new branch of the
government will be taken up at once.
A Louisian man is suing the navy
department for the value of a COW
which he alleges was starved to death
during the recent Mississippi floods.
He states that the warrant Office of
the Algiers naval station, opposite
New Orleans, refused shelter to his
COW, although stock of other refu-
gees was being cared for within the
station.
After having been in session for
mine months, introducing twenty
thousand bills, discharging into the
unoffending atmosphere thirteen
thousand record pages of hot air, and
appropriating total of $1,019,6S6,-
143.6I. congress left town hurriedly
Monday evening with its grip full of
nails and implements for general
fence repairing.
The department of agriculture esti-
mates that an annual loss of forty
i've million dollars is occasioned by
improper handling of eggs. This great
loss is due to small eggs. cracked
and broken eggs, and dirty, stale,
and rotten eggs. As a cure for these
conditions it is suggested that the
production of large eggs be encour-
aged and that infertile eggs be prop
erly disposed of to prevent contami-
nation of good ones.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
has left for his Iowa home. and after
a short rest will make tour. of some
of the national forests for the pur-
pose of making a general study of
the problems of agricultural lands
within the boundaries of the forest
reserves. The agricultural appropri-
alton bill provides that the secretary
shall make report segregating the
lands that might be valuable for
farming alone from those that would
be more valuable for other purposes.
The new two cent stamp in COM
memcration of the Panama-Pacific
Exposition at San Francisco in 1915
has been approved by the postmaster
general. The new stamp Is about an
inch wide and an inch and a quarter
long. 1t bears an engraving repre-
senting the Gatun locks of the Pan
ma Canal, showing a steamship
emerging from the northern lock and
another vessel being raised in the
suthern lock. Across the two are the
words ~. s. Postage and directly
below these lines. "San Francisco,
1915.' The color of the new issue
has not yet been selected. The de.
signs OF the one-cent, five-cent, and
ten-cent exposition stamps have also
been approved. The one-cent stamp
will bear a portrait Of Balboa, the
discoverer of the Pacific, the five-cent
stamp will bear a picture of the
Golden Gate, and the ten-cent stamI
viii illustrate the discovery OF Sar
Francisco Bay.
A clause In the post Office appropri
alton bill provides that Hereafter
ppst Offices of the first and second
classes shall not be open on Sundays
for the purpose of delivering mail tt
the public but this provision shall no'
prevent the prompt delivery of spe
cial delivery mall" Under this pro
vision thousands of persons who have
heretofore secured their mail and
Sunday papers through thedr loca'
post Offices will be barred from thu
privilege. A couple OF years ago TN
postmaster general made q rilinf
that any Office might be closed OF
Sundays. II the patrons thereof wer'
in favor OF such action -.