The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-04-05
dead, at an expense estimated
excess of a million dolalrs.

The estimable Mr.. Wickersham,
attorney general of the United
States, does not attempt to hide
his disappointment, over his fail
ure to convict the Chicago beef
packers under the criminal sec
tion of the Sherman Antitrust
law. The administration asserts
that Mr. Wickersham has done
bis level best in the matter and
the results of the trial indicate
that the attempt on the part of
some OF the senator's to amend this
twenty -year-old law along GER
tain lines will perhaps. meet with
encouragement. Mr.. Wiclersham
hurt the dignity of the senate
the other day in another matter
wherein certain information was
asked concerning the lnterna-
tlonal Harvester Company to
which the attorney general re-
piled that he had been "directed
by the president to say that in
my opinion it is not compatible
with the public interest to fur
nish the information called for. .
This reply put quite crimp in
the dignity of some of the stiff
old senators, and might have
been strenuously resented but for
the fact that the members are not
resting very easily on their oars in
these unsettled times, when ma
jorities are tipped up-side-down
Iland so many trials of old mem-
bers are necessarily pulled off.
Congress has taken official no.
tice Of the fact that the Ameri-
can hen, having demonstrated her
ability to produce eggs at sixty
cents a dozen, is entitled to the
highest mark Of respect. And no
less a person than Representa-
tive Mann has said: 1.-The Ameri-
can hen has long been oppressed
and afflicted by the heartless cor
porations whose regard-or lack
OF regard for the rights of the
travelling public has long since
become by-word. =" Mr.. Mann
emphatically declared that it had
become the duty of congress to
strike out fearlessly for the hen S
rights, and Judge Adamson. the
seml-wag of the house, wants to
add to measure of Mr.. Mann.
compelling railway companies to
provide transportation facilities
Tor hens, a sort Of Independent
Feature granting suffrage to hens
laying more than one egg per
day.
Senator LaFollette, who has
been absent from the sessions for
many weeks, turned up just in
time to vote against Senator
Stephenson of his state. A good
many of Mr.. LaFollette s warm
est friends expressed the belief
that it would have been quite be-
coming on his part to have add
cd one more day to his absence
in the upper chamber, and thus
avoided casting his vote against
hte man who is generally supposed
to have financed political cam
paigns in Wisconsin in the days
when the senior senator offered
no objections to all the help he
could get.
! Mr.. Underwood is Aho auhtor of
an d tack lanon the tariff board
lie criticizes the board and itsway
OF doing things, and seeks to
Justify ;he democratic wool bill
which was found so unfit in the
special session Of congress that it
drew a veto from President Taft.
The general opinion in Washing
ton is that Mr.. Underwood s par-'
/ ty, alarmed lest the wool bill
should be passed and secure the
executive approval, is attempting
to stir up a tariff row at this
time and thus make it appear
tha'. tariff legislation is really be-
ing attempted, whereas the con-
tingencies of 'he democratic po-
sitions are absolutely opposed to
the making Of any tariff meas
ures that will meet with executive
approval. In other words the dem
ocratic game is o create tariff
agitation and taboo anything III
the shape of tariff laws