The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-01-25
DOWN AT WASHINGTON
Interesting Notes from the National
Capital by G. A. Wood, Special
Reporter Correspondent.

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Washington, D. c., Jan. 20, 1912.
Fifteen members of the House of
Representatives hold labor union
cards.
Won't it be grand when we can
read in the Congressional Record
about the Senatress from Colorado?
Two billion yards, or about two
million miles, of jute Irvine is used
by the postoftice department an
nually. :.
A kentucky man dropped dead
! Just after breaking twenty-five
years silence toward his wife. Sery-
ed him right; he should have stuck
| it out.
A professional vermin exterminat-
or has been employed to rid the Cap
itol of the immense number Of pests
which have bothered the custodians
of the building for years.
The packers trial at Chicago has
given us hypothetical beef, and now
if some genius will favor us with
imaginary butter and suppositltlous
eggs we can begin to save money.
A Washington man has been
granted divorce on the ground that
he was compelled by his wife and
mother-in-law to wash dishes and do
other household stunts upon return
| ing home from his days work.
A general house cleaning has been
going on at the War Department, and
officers who have been practicing
swivel-chair tactics for more than
four years are being moved out to
active duty
Congress has been asked to appro-
pirate 100000 for government
exhibit at a celebration to commem-
crate the hundredth anniversary of
| the location of Ohio's capital at
Franklin, now Columbus, to be held
| in that city August 81 to September
of this year.
The senate committee on foreign
relations has decided to report adj
versely the Cummins amendment to
the arbitration treaties, which would
have inquired whether France and
Great Britain would arbitrate diff
ferences with other or smaller coun-
tries.
Jack Johnson will hereafter cross
the street when he sees Congress-
man Kendall in the distance. The
Iowa man got his name in the Wash
| ington papers last week by knocking
down a white man whom he caught
browbeating an aged colored woman
en- a downtown street. Mr.. Kendall,
who was on his way to the Capitol,
saw the man knock the old woman
down and spill her basket of clothes
in the dirt The congressman waited
not for explanations, but waded in
and put the fellow out of business
with one blow on the chin.
Postmaster General Hitchcock gave
congress a jolt last week by asking
that reduction of $4,000 be made
in the proposed appropriation for the
postal service for the coming year.
The reason assigned for the desired
reduction, as explained by the Post
| master General, was the fact that
since the original estimates were
submitted it has been found that the
transportation of magazines by
freight instead of in mail cars will
result in a saving Of at least $751;
900 year.
| The prompt establishment of par
cells post delivery along rural mail
routes is urged by the Fourth Post
master General in his annual report
Just submitted to the Postmaster
General. He contends that the only
way the rural service expenses can be
equalized by receipts is by the sup
Elemental service of parcels post de-
livery. Last year the expenditures
were $37,13O,000 and the receipts
$7,57O,OO0 for rural delivery. For
the present year $42,700,000 has
been appropriated.
Senator Lorimor, on the witness
stand in his own behalf, charged mat
there was a conspiracy on the part of
Gov Deneen and the Chicago Tri-
bune to deprive him of his seat in
the senate He further declared that
he believed that all the evidence
given by Charles A. White, his orig
inal accuser, and by the other wit
nesses who said they had been brib-
ed, had been bought by the Tribune.
Victor Berger, the Wisconsin So
cialist, has introduced in the house
of the constitution by adding to the
claring that the right to vote shall
not be denied on account of sex. In
the event of ratification of the
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enforce it's provisions by enacting
that if any state attempts to evade
it the basis of representation of that
state shall be reduced on the pro-
portion which the number of male
citizens shall bear to the whole num-
Der of male and female citizens there
in of more than twenty-one years of
age.
Forestry in Nature Study"
bulletin just issued by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, contains out
lines for courses of forestry in the
different grades, with number of
supplementary experiments, sugges-
tions for field trips, a forest calen-
dar, a forest museum, etc. The ap-
pendix contains lists of books for
supplementary reading and refer
ence and key to the common kinds
of trees.
GLOW to Prevent Typhoid Fever"
another bulletin recently issued by
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