The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-06-27
DOWN AT WASHINGTON
interesting Notes from the National
Capital by 6. A. Wood, Special
Reporter Correspondent.

Washington, D. c., June %, 1912.
A Washington man has been given
ninety days for stealing a typewriter
machine.
Nobody less than Chicago judge
would attempt to say where a Wom-
ans hair ends and the rat begins.
The Germans have employed a
scheme for compulsory tipping. It's
Introduction into this country will be
entirely unnecessary.
Senator Hepburn has served notlce
that he will attempt to delay. votes
on any further tariff bills until ne IS
assured of their defeat.
Lumber and timber manufactures
rank third, in value OF products,
among the industries OF the United
States, according to census statistics
just published.
The Senate has passed bill which
previously passed the House, rem
dering it unlawful to ship through
interstate commerce moving pacture
films showing exhibitions of prize
fighting.
has issued a second bulletin on the
making and keeping of city lawns.
This bulletin gives full directions
for the preparation of the soil, plant
ing. maintenance of moisture, up
keep, and trimming.
A number of Colonel Roosevelt's
trophies of his African expenditlon
have been mounted and will soon
be exhibited at the Smithsonian In
stitute. In all the Colonel has sup
piled the Institution with more than
1000 skins. 1t is yet too. early 10
say whether another will be adoeo
to his list at Chicago.
The favored men who have the
privilege of handling paper money
will hereafter find their bills clean
and crisp as new, if the currency
washing machine installed at the
Treasury Department does its WORK
as expected. By laundering and re-
issuing the bills instead OF destroy
ing them, Secretary MacVeagh hopes
m make an annual saving OF $oOO,-
1000.
The Senate has passed a concur
rent resolution calling for the ap-
pointment of a committee OF three
senators and three representatives. 10
inquire into the possibility OF Detter
utilization of space in the seVeral
departments of the government III
the District of Columbia. The CON-
mittce will also inquire into the ques-
tion of rentals paid by the govern
ment in Washingto
A bill granting a charter IN tne
District of Columbia to the Natloh |,
al Institute of Arts and Letters auo
creaing a list of about l50 American
"immortals' has passed the House
Included in the list are artists au-
thors. musicians, and other contrl-
butors to the education OF the
American people. Theodore Roose-
Welt. Woodrow Wilson, and Senator
Lodge are named, but the House
struck from the list the name OF
Frances D. Millet, the artist, VINO
lost his life in the Titanic distaster
Congress is almost at standstlll
during the convention period. Inc
Senate is meeting every third day
in a perfunctory way, with ten-mln'
ute sessions and an attendance a''
eraging from ten to twenty. Az tne
other end of the building similar &C.
tivity is the order. The delay In the
enactment of a dozen annual appro
| priation bills which provide for the
operation of the various department:
of the government will make 1t nee
essary to pass a concurrent resolu
tion about July /, continuing the
present supply bills into the mex,
! fiscal year. This unusual state o.
affairs has not occurred since tne
Fifty-third Congress, about twenty
years ago. ~,
, President Taft has vetoed thu
army appropriation bill, and IN
message to the House scores the Con
gressmen for the practice OF attach
ing substantive legislation to appro
priation bills, which practice he re
CARDS as dangerous and reprehen
sible. AS stated in the message, thf
bill is vetoed because it's limitations
as to the eligibility of officers to bt
Chief of Staff would put premium
on mere routine service; because i
cripples the general staff; because /
would disintegrate the lmportan
bureaus of the War Department; be
cause it would relieve all but one o
the line officers, and probably OF I'M
Engineer Corps, now on duty at I'M
Panama Canal from that work; ant
because it lengthens the term OF en-
| listment from three to four years.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
recently stated that "The demand o
the United States for lawyers ant
physicians are more than met by tn
professional schools, while the de
mand for educated farmers is strik
ingly neglected." The fields ), ar
CRYING aloud for trained men, tn
Secretary says, while thousands o
young men are graduating from ou
law schools and there are Jobs wait
ing for only a small percentage o
them. Housekeepers are complain
ing of the cost of living. 1t woult
seem to be wise for our educators IL
their national meetings to conside
these problems. 1t might be wis
to consider about how many youn|
lawyers will be needed in the mex
wear to take the place of the olde
men who are dropping out. Tha
could be determined easily. Then
if the attention of this class OF stu
..11-J ~ demand n