Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-03
WASHINGTON LETTER
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WALKER asllissSsl2RE SP0NDENT
Differ ON CURRENCY, Nor ON "PLuMso

and give the postmaster general the
job Of managing them. Postmaster
General Bureson has Admitted this
week that a part of the admnistra-
ton program is for the government
10 take over the entire express bust
ness of the country and probably the
telephone and telegraphs, but he says
the plan for doing so has not yet been
worked out. In the meantime. Rep
resentative David G. Lewis, of Mary
land, who has made a special study
of parcel post and other postal meth
DDS in this and other countries, has
announced that regardless of what
the administra ton purposes, he will
introduce bills at the opening of
the next session of Congress, pro-
posing that the parcel post he ox>
tended to a hundred pound limit, at
greatly reduced rates. and that Uncle
Sam build new telephone and tele-
graph lines and operate them i'm com
petition with the old companies.
Lewis and other advocates of his
plan, point out that the limited par
Gel post system now in effect has al
ready greatly reduced transportation
rates, and been operated at profit
by the government, and that the
same thing can be done with the tele-
phones and telegraphs.
As soon as the tariff conference
committee report was adopted by
the House this week members began
to leave for home. with the under
standing that there will he no more
business transacted in the representa-
tive branch of Congress until the
Senate has passed the currency bill
Less than half the membership at
tended Yesterdays House session. and
by the last of the week there will be
hardly a corporaIs guard of repre-
sentatives in the city. About the only
New Jersey representatives who are
not planning to go home or some
where else on a vacation. until winter
arc Congressman Mccoy. of East Or
ange, and Townsend. of Montclair.
who announced today that they would
Stay in Washington Townsend is
sitting up nights nowadays, schem-
ing how 10 hurry the adoption of
tho plans for the New Jersey navy
yard. and Mccoy spends much of his
waking hours at the treasury depart
ment. clamoring for action to hasten
the erection of Newark's new post
Office.
"Thc new tariff cannot help but re-
ducC cost Of living, at least to some
extent" said Senator William Hughes
TO-DAY Just to what extent there
viii be reduction depends somewhat,
of course, upon other things" con-
tmued Mr.. Hughes. but there are
some prices that will have to go
down. Take meats of all kinds for
example. Unless there is such a
scarcity Of meat that the market is
undersupplied, there will surely be a
reduction. | know of one man who
has in bond a very large quantity of
canned meats that will be brought in
as soon as the new law is signed.
The tariff on these is % per cent.
and under the new rates they will
come in free. That will surely mean
lower prices, Wooden and cotton
clothing will be cheaper. just how
much cheaper nobody can say until
experience tells lis, but that there
will be saving is certain. J firmly
believe that within a very few weeks
after the new law goes into effect
there will be some reduction in cost
of living that will be appreciable.