Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-07-31
WASHINGTON LETTER
Weekly Letter From Our Special
Correspondent.
NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL
Brief Items of Interest to Iowa Peo.
pie, Written by an Iowa
Man.

That was a punk Or6e" of the
treasury department prohibiting the
entrance duty free OF Chinese smudge
STICKS.
Now that the local ball club has
left town, leaders in congress hope
to be able to maintain quorum.
That proposed law for Iowa maxi
ing jurors elective would create one
Office that would have to seek the
luan.
Hereafter the marines will be pro-
vided with pajamas and if that
doesn't act to increase enlistments
the corps will be disbanded.
President Taft has been asked by
Representative Rucker, of Colorado,
10 issue an executive order permit
ting automobiles to travel over the
roads of Yosemite and other nation
al park reservations.
That ''the suckers are not IL
dead is emphasized by report made
ITO thet postmaster general to the effect
that during the fiscal year ending
June 80, $120,0O0,OO0 was taken
from the American people by swind-
lers of various breeds. This is an
increase of $50, 900 over the pre-
yious years pickings.
The Washington chamber of COM
merce has grand scheme for the es-
tablishment in the District OF Column
bia of permanent exposition, in
which all the states may display agri-
cultural and manufactured products.
The states will be asked to erect their
own buildings and furnish the mater
ials, while congress will be expected
to set aside the necessary land.
During the progress of the debate
on the sundry civil bill, Senator Ken
yon sought to have an amendment
added providing that no part of the
money for the maintenance of tie
senate Office building should be used
for free baths, but when the senate
got through jumping on the PROPOSE
ajon the Iowa senator couldn't rec
ognize his own child. rf
The back to the SOIL movement
is receiving material aid from the
department of commerce and labor
in the form of series of pamphlets
entitled Agricultural Opportunities"
compiled and issued by the bureau
of immigration and naturalization.
The series contains information con-
rerning the resources, products and
physical character of the various
states and is intended primarily for
distribution to immigrants, but will
be supplied to anyone on request
Senator Cummns has been author
ized by the senate judiciary commit
tee to report favorably bill giving
to dry" states power to intercept
shipments of liquor from wet"
states. The bill to be reported is a
combination of the Kenyon bill, much
amended, and the Sanders bill, and
will prohibit shipments of liquor
where any person interested in them
intends to violate the law OF the
state into which the shipment Is
made. The new bill will revise the
existing Wilson law to meet re-
cent decision of the supreme court
and make liquor in interstate COM
merce subject to the laws of single
state upon arrival within its limits
and before delivery to consignee.
For the avowed purpose of break
ing up the practice of using the post
Office general delivery for carrying
ON fiirtations and clandestine CORES
pondence, Postmaster General Hitch
cock has issued orders that existing
postal regulations forcing persons
desiring to use the general delivery
to give their names, addresses and
reasons for the wish be more strict
ly enforced. Numerous complaints
from various cities that minors. par
ticularly young girls, were using the
general delivery, often under assum-
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unknown to their parents caused the
Issuance of the order.
The house committee ON agricul-
ture has recommended an appropria-
tion of. $4,000 to stop the ravages OF
the army worm in southern corn
fields. Secretary Wilson told the
committee that the worm is at work
on the corn throughout the south
and that a little arsenic and flour
will kill it off. and the money Is need
ed to show the farmers how to apply
the remedy. Representative Heuin
of Alabama, told the committee that
the worm is stopping railroad trains
in his district. but Representative
Haugen, of Iowa, said that the army
worm had nothing on the Iowa grass
hopper for interfering with inter-