The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-07-04
DOWN AT WASHINGTON
Interesting Notes from the National
Capital by G. A. Wood, Special \
Reporter Correspondent.

Washington, D. c., June 80, 1912.
The house has cut from $3.50 to
$50 month the special pension
proposed for the widow of Admira!
Schley.
The New Jersey man who fed pep
per to an elephant can sympathlse
with the man who monkeyed with
the G.. O. p. animal at Chicago.
By vote of 81 to 20 the demo
Gratis of the house Wa!lopcd the re-
publicans in q thrilling game OF
baseball last Saturday.
Brigadier General Wetherspoon
has been named by the president as
major general ofill the place OF
Gen. F. D. Grant.
Stokes Jackson, Sergcant-at-Arms
of the house. died at his home III
Greenfield, Ind, June 22, after an
illness of several weeks.
The total number OF persons OF
school age (1 to 20 years. in the
United States in 1910 ives -, 75O,-
500. according to figures just issued
by the census bureau.
Frederick W. Lehman. Solicitor
General of the United States, has
rendered his resignation to President
Taft, and William. Marshall Bullitt,
of Louisville, will be appointed to
the place.
The sundry civil appropriation bill,
CARRYING 09,577,414, or $33,OO0,-
900 under the estimates and the cur
rent bill, passed the house.
The house judiciary committee
has voted unanimously to report ar
ticles of impeachment against Judge
Robert w. Archbold; Of the Com
merce Court, who has been under in
vestigation for alleged misbehavior
in office in connection with a "culm
bank" transaction with the Erie
Railroad.
AS a result of recent agitation
against the practice of allowing Unit
ed States district attorneys to re-
sign and accept places as special
counsel in trust prosecutions at
greatly enhanced salaries, the sun
dry civil appropriation bill, which
has lust passed the house, contains
a provision prohibiting the employ
ment of such persons as special at
torneys.
If proper means can be found and
the local Society of Ancient and Un-
accepted females can be clrcumvent-
ed, Washington authorities will curb
the cacophonous calls of the peripa-
thetic tomcat and his lady friends.
The S. A. U. Ms protest vigorously
against the proposed cat crusade,
and the poundmaster, logical cat
chaser, threw up his job when order
ed to expose himself to scratches
from pussy and mistress; and beldes
there was no appropriation to pay for
wings or aeroplanes or other para
phernalia with which to follow the
festive feline over the fences.
In the cases of the Superior Com
mercial Club against the Great
Northern, the Milwaukee Chamber
of Commerce against the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul, and the Du-
luth Board of Trade against the
Great Northern, the Interstate Com
merce Commission has decided that
the rates on grain and grain products
from points in Minnesota, North and
South Dakota, and northern Iowa
through Duluth, Superior and Mil
waukee to Atlantic seabord points,
alexandria,, are not discriminatory
as compared with rates from Chlca-
go.
Justice Wright of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia has
rendered a decision holding guilty OF
contempt of court Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, John Mitchell, one OF It's
vice presidents, and Frank Morrison,
secretary of the federation. Terms
of imprisonment in the District Jail
were set as punishment for the al
legged violations of a decree OF the
court passed December %, 1907.
Mr.. Gompers was sentenced to serve
, one year and Mr.. Morrison six
months. The sentence on Mr.. Mitchell
was withheld in his absence.
The nomination of presidential
candidates through a direct primary
election under the supervision OF a
national commission of five members
and state commissions of three men,
bers each is provided for in bill in
troduced in the house of representa-
tives by Congressman Holland, of
Ohio. The bill provides for the NOM
nation of presidential candidates
only and does not provide that the
names of candidates for delegates to
national conventions shall go on the
ballot. The candidate receiving the
preference vote in. any district is
permitted to name two delegates to
the national convention, and the can
didate who carries the state as a
whole is permitted to name four del
egates and four alternates.
With a national convention but
forty miles away little could be ex-
pected of congress, and that body,
together with a great proportion of
the official and social life of the
Capital has moved to the Monumental
City to act either in the capacity
of participants or innocent bystand-
ers. So far congress has taken no
action to renew the supply bills for
the coming fiscal year, and the var
ious departments are cup in the air"
as to how business is to be conducted
on and after July until the appro-
priation bills have been put through
or some sort of "continuing' act
made applicable to the current ap-
preparations.