The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-04-25
DOWN AT WASHINGTON
Interesting Notes from the National
Capital by G. A. Wood, Special
Reporter Correspondent.
Washington, April 20, 1912


erect a $350,0OO home.
The twenty-first annual wrangle of
the Daughters of the Republic is on
in Washington.
Woman ought to rise up and call
that man blessed who has invented
a pocket for a stocking.
Senator Bailey has the walking
typhoid fever; other members are
afflicted with the talking brand.
Twenty-Five cents is the sum total
of the campaign expenses of Moses
Stern, of the Third Philadelphia
congressional district.
Eastern papers make the interest
ing announcement that motorcycles
are being used by western rural mail
carriers in their daily mail distribu-
tons.
Some anonymous Chicago person,
after wrestling with the silent mon
itor" for forty-six years, has reim-
bursed the Treasury to the extent of
$4,000, which has been added to the
conscience Fund"
House Election Committee No. 3
has a big job on it's hands in the
counting of 10000 ballots cast in
the contested election case of Ray
mond j. Jodoin against Representa-
tive Edwin w. Higgins, of the Third
Connecticut district.
The Department Of Commerce
and Labor has appointed, for SER
vice in connection with the War and
Navy Departments, an expert junk
man., under whose system of junk
disposal it is expected an annual
saving of 81 100000 may be effect
ed
State Railroad Commissioner
Thorne of Iowa appeared before the
senate committee on interstate COM
merce and made strong argument
for the passage of the Kenyon bill
authorizing the Inter State Com
merce Commission to make uniform
classification of freight throughout
the country.
The money laundrying experiment
by the bureau of printing and en-
craving has proved successful and
steps are being taken to enlarge the
plant. By cleaning used bills it is
hoped to give the people of the coun-
try more sanitary money and also Ell
feet a great economy, as thousands
of old bills now destroyed can be
put through the washing machines
and reissued.
Representative Buckley, Of Ohio,
has introduced bill for the coinage
CT Scent pieces, which are said to be
needed in Cleveland, where the
street railway companies charge q
3-cent fare. The new piece would
he made Of copper and nickel, would
be slightly larger than the 1-cent
piece, and would be legal tender up
to 80 cents.
A comprehensive plan of demon
stration farming by experts of the
Department of Agriculture through
cut the United States is contem-
plated. Boys corn clubs will be orr
gained III some sections of the North
and west and other boy farming or
carnations will be established where
corn would not serve the commun-
tiles to the best advantage.
The public roads Lewiston OF the
Department of Agriculture is max
ing arrangements to experiment with
"blackstrap" cane molasses for sur
facing an experimental road. The
molasses will be mixed with lime
water and used as a surfacing wash.
1t is cheap and an effort is being
made to find practical commercial
use for the blackstrap molasses from
sugar beets, which is now waste
product.
The senate committee on public
health has ordered a favorable re-
port on Senator Owens bill to create
a national department of public
health, to take over the public
health and marine hospital service,
the bureau of chemistry of the De-
partment of Agriculture, and the
bureau of vital statistics of the GEN.
sus bureau, and including new div
isions to deal with other phases of
the public health problem.
President Taft has sent to Con-
gress a special message asking for
an appropriation of 100000 be-
yond the permanent appropriation
for the meat inspection service OF
the Department of Agriculture.
'This increase is necessary" says
the message, ito enable the depart
ment to inspect microscOpically the
flesh of hogs that are to be converted
into meat food products which Ordin-
arily are eaten without cooking.
Several deaths have resulted from
CaCluS SUCH pIOuuCLS WuASA SoAIe'AA
trichinae."
The senate civil service committee
will make favorable report on the
Cummins bill providing for the pen
sion and retirement of the clerks
and employees of the government in
the classification service. The bill
divides the employees into two
classes, one to retire at sixty-five
and the other at seventy years. AS
to employees entering the service
hereafter. the pensions are to be
based on the contributary plan, but
as to those already in the service
the government is to pension them
in part out of public funds.
Importations of foodstuffs into
the United. States, including even
potatoes, are steadily increasing,
according to the. bureau of statistics
of the Department of Commerce and
Labor. Imports of, fruits and nuts
are increasing at the rate of about
$3,OOO,OOO. year, while importa-
tions of raisins and oranges are fall