Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-06-05

Weekly Letter From Our Special
Correspondent.
NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL
Brief Items of Interest to Iowa Peo-
pie, Written by an Iowa
Man.


New York is asking congress for
an $S,000,000 post office site.
The recall certainly ought to be
pulled on that Chicago judge who
says that wife is a necessity, not
a luxury.
Let. Us hope that the foreigner
nobleman who wants to start ho-
tel for the use of suicides may be
the first patron of his hostelry.
1t cost Senator Gamble, of South
Dakota, s4,O17.SS to conduct his
campaign for Endorsement in the
ment of expenses filed with the sec
retary of the senate.
The senate has passed unanimous
|ly the bill appropriating $150,000
for the governments participation
in the peace jubilee at Gettysburg
in 1913 on the occasion of the tifti-
eth anniversary of the battle.
Senator Owen of Oklahoma has
introduced bill calling upon the
postmaster general for report on
the practicability and cost Of estab-
fishing telegraph and telephone sy-
stem as part of the postal service.
The senate has passed the annual
pension appropriation bill carrying
$165, 100000 or an increase of $13,-
100000 over the amount OF the
house bill. The eighteen pensions
agencies are retained and the pay
ment Of pensions by checks, instead
of vouchers, Is provided.
The pure food board of the de-
partment Of agriculture has issued
a railing that the amount of water
added to canned goods to increase
their bulk and weight must be re-
diced This ruling is explained as
being ,he first decision of carr
paign looking toward the establish
mcnt of standard for foods.
In some respects it would be very
pleasant to be an inhabitant Of the
Seal Islands, Alaska. Early this
month they will receive their first
mail since last October, having re.
NAMED so far in blissful ignorance
of the suffrage movement, congress,
and our political throes. But they
don't know the score!
Moving pictures will make their
debut. az lobbyists next week whSa
their aid will be invoked to influence
a favorable report by the house mer-
chant marine ami fisheries commit
tee on the bill Of Representative
Gardner of Massachusetts, to prevent
beam trawling," by which millions
of fish are caught in single net.
Agreement has been reached be-
tween the senate and house on the
agricultural appropriation bill. The
$3.50, 900 item for farm management
instruction work was reduced to $50
600 in conference, and 10 per cent
OF the money received from national
forests is hereafter to be devoted to
road construction and maintenance
within the states from which the
proceeds are derived.
The house has passed the naval
appropriation bill without provision
for the construction of new battle
ships. The vote in the committee on
the whole on the amendment provid-
ing for the construction of two new
battleships was 125 nays to 80 ayes.
Seven democrats voted for the new
vessels and fourteen republicans vo-
tied against the battleship program
Henry w. A. Page OF New York,
has been found guilty of criminally
libeling members of the house ju-
dietary committee and sentenced to
serve Ave years in the penitentiary
and pay fine of $1,000. After SEN
fencing Page the court placed him
on probation, with the admonition
that hereafter he conduct his own
business and not undertake to run
the world" as he had evidently tried.
A boundary dispute between the
states of West Virginia and Mary
land extending over a period of 200
years has been settled by decision
of the supreme court of the United
States approving the majority report
of the commissioners appointed to
run the disputed line. The territory
In controversy Is strip about Ia
miles wide by about SO miles long.
along the western border of Mary
land and containing about As square
miles.
The democrats and enough regu-