The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-01-05
AFFAIRS AT
WASHINGTON

Waters Concerning the Law
Makers and Events of Import
Gnos at the National Capital.
Washington, D. c., January 4.
Adolf Wischan, of the census
bureau, has an accumulation Of
knowledge about printing and
publishing that puts the people
who handle the directories and
run the big publishing houses in
class "Z". If Mr.. Wischan
could tel half he knows there
would be an army of circulation
liars leaving city officers tempor-
arily to lead what Mrs. Upton
Sinclair and the pie-faced poet OF
Kansas call the "spirltual exls-
tence," way off where other peo-
]. pie don't wander The report bv
Mr.. Wischan, in charge of com
pillng these statistics at the
census bureau, has just appeared
and shows that printing and pub
fishing is no mean industry.
There were 81, AS printing estai
Gshments OF all kinds in the
United States in 1909, and major
ials valued at $2O1,775.000 W.
used; 35S,042 persons were engaP
ed in the industry during that
year
Now that Senator LaFollette IS
afield promoting his candidacy
for the presidency, republican
supporters of the administration
are vociferously declaring that
President Taft will have walk
away at the Chicago convention,
This may, or may not be a fact,
and most interested persons be-
ing periudiced one way or other,
are apt to figure the ultimate re
suit to suit the exigencies OF
their own minds. 1t is however,
very apparent that aside from the
presidential trip of the country
and the results that may have
been obtained that the republican
activity has been in the progress
sive. camp thus far. The national
organizations evidently are de-
pending upon the different states
to fight out their own destiny
and the first results of this po-
licv of inaction have Just been
counted in Arizona, whore there
has been a democratic landslide.
The democratic house Of repr
sentatives in not going to sta
tariff legislation with schedule K
as was expected, and Mr.. Und"
wood, chairman of the ways and
means committee, announced an
entire different schedule that put
wool along after revision OF
the iron and steel schedule, and
chemicals and sugar. The demo
Gratis in taking up these measures
so hurriedly, are no doubt try
ing to forestall the tariff board.
and enact some of their laws that
will "put the president in a
hole "a popular diversion in.
stituted last summer when MIR.
Taft climbed out of the holes
and plugged them up with veto"s
Mr.. Underwood is the real power
Of the house, and it will be 10
membered talked back to Will
ham Jennings Bryan Fix a dutch
uncle few months ago. His
plan is to try and riddle the re-
port on tariff board on wool. be,
fore the revision is attempted an'
to show by comparison. if DOS
slbIe, that the house bill of the
special session was really more
scientific than one that can be
prepared by aid of the tariff
board data. 1t is a part Of the
attempt to make democratic cam
paign material, and TO di~c:'ed''
administration efforts, and tn,
tariff board is to be made the
goat if possible notwithstand;n'
their splendid work fnr 81 nti i
tariff revision. Oh. hut therc :.
campaign coming.
Colonel Roosevelt comp::
that people are afraid to r
promised in matters of y litics'
see him. for fear of ''baing com