Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-07-24

val SUPP macy, by building the great
est dread aught possible under mod
ern naval conditions. The resolution
directs the committee on naval af-
fairs to determine how far shipbuil-
ders and armorers can go to secure
the maximum size, draft, armament,
and thickness of armor, to make the
very best battleship or cruiser the
world has ever seen or ever will see'
Representatie Victor Berger, the
lonesome socialist of the house, was
given an hour on Thursday in which
to tell the republicans and democrats
exactly what he thought of them and
their pr ocipals and why his party
should f. Given control of things.
After refte to President Taft and
Governor N$x as being allied to
capital and boA "a. Nr. Berger said:
but glance at n of the honest
progressives' who ar. He setting out
to purify politics will ce DEM
onstrate that Robin Hoo, famous
assemblage of outlaws had nothing
on the gang that are now rallying
around Theodore Roosevelt"
The importation of absinthe into
the United States and it's sale in in
terstate commerce will be prohibited
after October / next under a decision
of the pure food board just signed
by Secretary Wilson.
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
peachment trial on the part of the
house.
In anticipation of the coming
Christmas demand, 75,000,000 Red
Cross seals are now being printed.
Last year 22,000,00O of the Santa
Claus stamps were sold.
What's the use of the other fellows
going through the campaign, now
that the democratic women have ta-
ken up Wilson's cause and are rails
ing money for him.
All bars restricting the admission
to the United States of minor foreign
born children of naturalized citizens,
whether imbeciles, idiots, or other
forbidden classes are swept away by
far reaching Interpretation of the
immigration. and naturalization laws
! by Secretary Nagel -of-the department
of commerce and labor. The decision
was rendered In the case OF an elev-
en-year-old Russian girl detained at
Ellis Island and threatened with de-
portation on the certificate of phys
/ leans that she is an imbecile. The
secretary holds that, granting she is
an imbecile, the immigration laws
are not applicable to her because her
father is a naturalized citizen and
the law Is interpreted to mean that
the naturalization of man confers
citizenship upon all his minor child
rem as soon as they relinquish their
residence abroad. This decision is
complete reversal of the previous
policy of the government.
Reductions in express rates aver
aging approximately Is perscent, the
elimination of roundabout hauls
which increase the cost of shipment,
the division OF the entire country in-
to common rate blocks fifty miles
square, and comprehensive changes
in the methods of operation, are
among the orders contained in re-
port made public by the Interstate
Commerce Commission following its
investigation of express companies.
To the average person the most i'm
portant reduction is that made on
packages weighing less than twelve
pounds. The new rates are based
on minimum charge of 21 cents
for one-pound package, and this
charge increases in ratio to the in
crease OF weight and distance, at
rates varying from 3-10 Of cent a
pound to about - cents pound.
Packages weighing pounds may be
shipped 1000 miles for "a cents, p
900 miles for 81 cents; packages
weighing 3 pounds, 1000 miles for
81 cents, 1000 miles for 81 cents;
while a package weighing % pounds
may be shipped 1000 miles for AZ
cents and 1000 miles for n cents
the present rates on the last named
weight being 70 cents and Sl.2o to'
the respective. distances. Also o.
great Importance is the provision
that all express companies shall Jou
routes by the quickest lines of com
munication and giving the shippe'
in the establishment OF through
, the privilege of naming the route DA
which his property shall be shipped
In the report Commissioner Lane
who conducted the investigation, eX
} presses the belief that the ordered
: reduction of charges on small packa
ges will work material relief IRON