The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-07-18
DOWN At WASHINGTON
Interesting Notes from the National
Capital by 6. A. Wood, Special
Reporter Correspondent.
Washington, D. c., July 3, 1912.
A bull moose in the political china


closet!
We suspect that this new "heat
jag" business, said to be acquired
by absorbing the rays of the sun, is
but the same old souse in new dress.
The International Bible Students
Association, in session at Washing
ton, have decided that there Is no
"hell fire and birthstone in future
mensely.
1t hardly seems proper that bad
poetry should be allowed to miti-
gate the crime of white slavery, but
President Taft has pardoned a wo-
man so convicted who presented her
petition for clemency in poetlcal
form.
The time of the Senate during the
greater part of the week has been
monopolizd by the Lorimer case, the
defendant-senator himself occupying
two days in. presenting his defense
and in paying his respects to his
newspaper and political enemies.
The last Port of Missing Men
on the western hemisphere was
closed this week when the extradi-
ton treaty with Honduras was con-
summated by the State Department
Hereafter fugitives from justice who
would find safe refuge will have to
go farther atleld.
Wearied Of paying for wool and
receiving shoddy, Representative
Victor Murdoch, of Kansas, has in.
troduced in the House the first pure
fabric" bill, which would require the
labelling of all cloth and clothing in
tended for sale in interstate COM
merce, so that purchasers may know
whether they are buying real wool
or not.
The House committee on military
affairs has reported favorably Rep
resentative Peppers bill to increase
the efficiency of the national guard.
This bill would pay guardsmen 20
per cent of the amount paid regular
soldiers, their officers receiving to
5 per cent of the regular army sal
aries. This pay would be condi-
tional upon attendance at drills.
Publishers will be given the option
of sending second-class mail matter
through the regular mail at 2 cents
pound or of sending by fast freight
at / cent a pound, if provision in
Guided in a draft OF the post office
bill now before the Senate post Of
flee committee is adopted.
The army appropriation bill, re-
vamped to meet the objections Of
President Taft, has been ordered ia
vorably reported to the Senate by
the military affairs committee. AS
reconstructed the provision legislat-
ing Maj Gen. Wood out of office and
other features Objectionable to the
administration have been eliminated.
The King of Siam wants a good
farm hand. The Secretary of Agrj-
culture has received a letter from
his Majesty, saying that he needs an
agricultural adviser and asking that
fit man be recommended. The po-
sition, which is said to pay about
$4,000 a year, is now held by John
C. bennett, formerly of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, who wants to
come home.
With two weeks of July gone, the
Lorimer case still pending and the
big supply bill unpassed, members OF
Congress are beginning to see visions
of a hot August passed in Washing
ton. This is not a pleasing pros
pect to many members, especially
those whose fences are more or less
frazzled by recent events political,
or whose Chautauqua dates are al
ready badly shattered by the long
drawn out session.
A man giving his name as Anton
Horcher, of Washington, Iowa, who
insisted upon seeing the President
was taken into custody at the White
To
hospital for observation. The mans
demeanor drew the attention of an
officer, who placed him under arrest.
At the police station Horcher was
searched and 1915 was found in his
pockets.
BY requiring banks to pay for the
transportation of coin, the Treasury
Department expects to effect saw
ing of about 100000 annually, and
incidentally is creating demand for
paper money in places where here
tofore such currency was despised.
This is especially true of the South,
where there is great increase in
the demands for notes and CORE
spending decrease in the calls for
gold and silver coins.
Captain Stuart Fuller, an Iowan, a
trust agent of the State Department,
has, according to advices received at
the Department., arrived at 1quitos,
1000 miles up the Amazon, on his
way to the rubber country of Peru,
where he is to Investigate conditions
among the native rubber gatherers.
Reports received by the State De-
partment indicate that there may ex-
list conditions among the native en-
ployes parallel to the terrible out
RACES in the Congo country of
Africa, where natives were forced by
torture and mutilation to collect
rubber for the Belgian companies.
The judiciary committee of the
House has presented articles of i'm
parchment against Judge Robert W.
Archibald, of the Commerce Court,
who is therein characterized as lone
whose sense of moral responsibility
has become deadened." These pro-
ceedings grow out of certain deals
Judge Archibald is alleged to have
had with a railroad company in re-
gard to culm banks in Pennsylvania,
wherein he sought to obtain options