Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-04-24
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.


anoe Association of Washington will
erect a S35O,000 home.
The twenty-frst annual wrangle of
the Daughters of the American Re-
public is on in Washington.
Women ought to rise up and call
that man blessed who has invented
pocket for a stocking.
Senator Bailey has walking ty-
phoid fever; other members are Of
fiicted with the talking brand.
twenty-five cents is the sum total
of the campaign expenses of Moses
Stern, of the Third Philadelphia dis
trict
Eastern papers make the interest
ing announcement that motorcycles
are being used by western rural mail
carriers in their daily mail distribu-
tions.
Some anonymous Chicago person,
after wrestling with the silent moni-
bursed the treasury to the extent of
$4,000, which has been added to the
Conscience Fund"
House Election Committee No. 8
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 service in
connection with the War and Navy
Departments, an expert junkman,
under whose system of junk disposal
it is expected an annual saving of
$1,250,000 may be effected.
State Railroad Commissioner of
Iowa, Thorne, appeared before the
Senate committee on interstate COM
merce and made strong argument
for the passage of the Kenyon bill
authorizing the Interstate Commerce
Commission to make uniform classl-
fication of freights throughout the
United States.
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
country more sanitary money and
also effect great economy, as thou
sands of old bills now destroyed can
be put through the washing ma
chimes and reissued.
Representative Bulkley of Ohio
of Scent pieces. The new coin is
said to be needed in Cleveland, where
the street car companies charge a
3-cent fare. The new piece would
be 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
out the United States is contemplate
ed. Boys corn clubs will be organ
lied in some sections of the north
and west and other boy farming
organizations will be built up where
corn would not serve the communi-
ties to the best advantage.
The public roads division of the
Department of Agriculture is making
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 a waste
product.
The Senate committee on public
health has ordered a favorable re.
port on Senator Owens bill to create
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 cen,
sus bureau, and including new divi
sions TO deal With other phases oi
the health problem.
President Taft has sent to Con
gress a special message asking fol
an appropriation of $1,000.OO0 be-
yond the present permanent appro
priation for the meat inspection ser
vice of the Department of Agricul
ture "This increase is necessary,
reads the message, ''to enable the
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