Holbrook argus., 1912-04-09

diODS CtEtdlu s. will perhaps meet with encouragement. Mir. Wickersham hurt the dignity of the Senate the other day in another matter wherein certain information yas asked concerning the International Harvester Company, which the Attorii- ey General replied that he had besn directed by the President to say that in my opinion it is not compatible with the public interest to furnish the in formation called for" This reply pnt quite crimp in the dignity of some
 of the stiff old Senators and might
 have been strenuously resented but for the fact that the Members are not
 resting very easily on their oars in
 these unsettled times when maioriii.s
 are tipped up-side-down and when so
 many trials of old Members are neces-
 sarily pulled of.
 i Congress has taken official notice of
 the fact that the American hen having
 demonstrated her ability to produce
 eggs at sixty cents a dozen, is entitled , to the highest marks of respect. And
 no less person than Representative
 Mann has said: "Hhe American hen
 has long been oppressed and afflicted by
 the heartless corporations whose re-
 gard-or lack of regard-for the rights of
 the travelling public has long since be-
 come by-word." Mir. Mann emphetic- ally declared that it had become the duty of Congress to strike out fearless
 ly for the hens rights and Judge Adam SOD, the semi-wag of the House, went to add to the measure of MT. Mann, compelling railway companies to pro-
 vide transportation facilities for hens, sort of independent feature granting suffrage to hens laying more than one egg per day.
 Senator LaFollette, who has been absent from the session for many
 weeks, turned up just in time to vote against Senator Stephenson of his State. A good many of MT. LaFollette's
 warmest friends express the belief that it would have quite becoming upon his
 part to have added one more day to his absence in the upper chamber, and thus avoided casting his vote agsinstthe man
 who IS quite generally supposed to have financed political campaigns In
 Wisconsin in the days when the senior
 Senator offered no objections to all the
 help he could get
 State Sanitary Inspector Wallis of
 Idaho has denounced as false the re
 port of a Chicago retail mail-order
 house that the stores of Twin Falls.
 Idaho, are filthy. The Payette, Idaho.
 Independent, commenting says that
 starvation wages paid by retail m4il- order houses lead to immortality and degredation.
 Learing that the Senate Postoffice Committee had practically discarded , all idea of a iat-rate system for Par 3 cells Post, big retail mail-order houses t began to lombard the House Post 3 offices Committee and representative; } in some cases with telegrams and let : ters but more generally through rep 8 resentatives of organizations largely r supported by such houses.
 Kansas Democrats instructed for
 Speaker Clark; Oklahoma Repu blicans
 for Col Roosevelt.
 ,- Wm. R. Hearst quoted Gov. Wilson at l. length here and charged that the Gov e ernor at heart is ''Federalist". Newspaper publishers of many small . Ter cities and towns have protested un- T successfully against the Postotfice T Department furnishing printed enve- T 1opes. The Government paid of mapu- ' facture of printed and stamped enve- T lopes for the fiscal year 1911 $1 ,4SS, ,49l.' IT Il. If the Government enters into the 5 carriage of merchandise upon the huge g scale conten plated invasion of other 6 fields of private business may be ex- e pected. An advocate of Parcels Post D demand: "Give us something with i- teeth in it"l An opponent asks, "Can
 the OOusIlIutlOu WltnSIoAu biic sSctn y of Socialism?
 J. The Cedar Falls. Iowa, Commercial r. Club recently burned many retail mail- ). order catalogs publicly. These were e contributed voluntarily by citizens e- who responded to the appeal of the the n Commercial Club to support home r. industries. Meanwhile. the House " Postoffice committee has reported 8 e bill to protest and subsidize distant 3. concerns at the expense of those of the D districts which they represent by pro d viding the former with carriage tol J. long hauls into the trade territory ol If their home industries and dealers wit [
 general system of Parcels Post at as