The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-07-25

to purify politics will at once demon
strato that Robin Hoods famous as
semblage of outlaws had nothing on
the gang that are now rallying around
Theodore Roosevelt"
Reductions in express rates aver
aging approximately Is per cent, the
elimination of roundabout hauls
which increase the cost OF shipment
the division of the entire country into
common rate blocks fifty miles square
and comprehensive changes in the
methods of operation, are among the
orders contained in report made
public by the Interstate Commerce
Commission following it's investiga-
ton of express companies. 70 the
average person the most important re-
ducton is that made on packages
weighing less than - pounds The
new rates are based on a minimum
charge of 21 cents for a one-pound
package, and this charge increases in
ratio to the increase of weight and
distance, at rates varying from $40
of a cent a pound to about IL cents
Ia pound. Packages weighing 2 pounds
may be shipped 1000 miles for "a
cents, 1000 miles for 81 cents; while
a package weighing 1 0 pounds may be
shipped 1000 miles for AZ cents and
1000 miles for II cents, the present
rates on the last named weight be-
Jig Is cents and 1925 for the respec-
tive distances. Also of great impor-
lance is the provision that all express
companies shall join in the establish
ment of through routes by the quick
est lines of communication ard giving
the shipper the privilege of naming
the route by which his property shall
be shipped. In the report Commits
sioner Lane, who conducted the in
vestigtion expresses the belief that
the ordered reduction of charges on
small packages will work material re-
lief from the high cost of living by
putting the producer and the con-
sumner in closer touch and eliminat-
ing the tendency of the express COM
panies to favor the middleman at the
expense of the man who buys.
All bars restricting the admission
to the United State of minor foreign
born children of naturalized citizens,
whether imbcciles, idiots, or other
forbidden classes, are swept away by
a far reaching Interpretation of the
ImlIlSTdLlOu ana INSTRUMENTATION
laws by Secretary Nagel of the depart
ment of Commerce and Labor. The
decision was rendered in the case of
an eleven-year-old Russian girl de-
tanned at Ellis Island and threa tened
with deportation on the certificate of
physicians that she is an imbecile. The
Secretary holds, granting she is an
imbecile, the immigration laws are
not applicable to her because her
father is naturalizod citizen and the
law is interpreted to mean that the
naturalization of a man cOnfers citi-
zenship upon all his minor children
as soon as they relinquish their res
idence abroad. This decision is a
complete reversal of the previous pol
icy of the government.
The impeachment charges adopted
by the House against Judge Robert
w. Archibald of the Commerce Court
were formally presented to the Sen
ate by the seven managers of the i'm
parchment trial on the part of the
House.
In anticipation of the coming
Christmas demand. 100000 Red
Cross seals are now being printed.
Last year 22,000,OO0 Of the Santa
Claus stamps were sold.
What's the use of the other fellows
going through the campaign, now
that the democrat women have taken
up Wilson's cause and are raising
money for him?