Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-09-10

receive him at the White House. Now
Harrison takes Mr.. Taft's former
position. The new governor favors
early independence for the Filipinos.
Crop Bulletins for Post Offices.
The crop bulletins issued by the
Department of Agriculture, have
kept the country posted as to proba-
BILE yields. These bulletins have be-
come so popular that Senator Griest
| of Pennsylvania is the author of the
measure to post the reports in $4,000
post offices through the United
States. The bill will come up next
winter.
Stuffing the Congressional Record.
Congressman Mondell of Wyom-
ing recently raised a very interest
ing point in connection with the edit
ing Of the Congressional Record.
Time and again there have been COM
plants because of the insertion of
parenthetical notes such as laugh
ter, laughter and applause, "pro-
longed applause, etc. Mondell comes
from suffrage state and his parti-
cular complaint is that Representa-
tive Hefflin's attitude in opposing
womans suffrage provoked ''long and
continuous applause on the Demo-
cratic side", but when the Record
was made up there was no reference
to the demonstration in the House.
Mr.. Murdock, the Progressive leader.
substantiated Mondell and said that
there was general hilarity on the
Democratic side' to which rnere
was no reference in the Record. The
point raised in the House is tnat it
is no worse to manufacture Con-
gressional enthusiasm than it is to
suppress it.
Wilson and the Mexican Policy.
The new diplomacy of moral su-
aston is being put to most severe
test in Mexico, and though it has ap-
parently lacked in it's convincing
power, yet it is urged that the rea-
son is due to the present lack OF or
ganized constitutional government
in our neighboring republic. In
Washington, every member Of the
two Houses of Congress patriotically
upheld the position of the President
With no suggestion of party, DIVISION.
However, since the failure of the Lind
mission, the old time statesman who
believe in the old time plan of physi-
cal force have again emerged from
cover and are expressing themselves
strongly. President Wilson in his
appearance before Congress produc-
ed more thrills than have been no.
ticed since the days when Colonel
Roosevelt pul'ad off his spectacular
performances. While there is plen-
ty of difference in opinion as to the
value of the peace policy, still its
most severe critics hope for II, sue
cess.
Lower House to Tackle Currency.
The House OF representatives has
been marking time for several
months, but with the currency meas
ure now on the calendar, those Con-
gressmen who have long been suffer
ing from enforced silence can work
off their accumulation of speeches,
and thereby demonstrate to the coun-
try and to thei" constituents, just
what they know about the financial
problem. Democratic caucuses, which
have been in charge of Leader Un-
derwood for the past three years
have always been able to get things
down to a fine point, and when any
legislation like the currency bill EN-
erges from the secret chamber, only
the formal ratification is left for the
House of representatives. The
tariff bill is practically finished II
the Senate, and it is expected thai
the House will hand over the curren
cy bill in a remarkably short time