Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-06-13

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Issued on Friday of Each Week.
Washington Correspondence.
The three Democratic Congressme'
from Iowa are in favor Of keeping Con
gress ii, session through the summe
and up to tho time the regular, session
oosns in December in order to y pas
President Wilson'S currency bill. Will
the organization Of the House com
pleted by the appointment o! commit
tees that body is now ready to receive
President Wilson's message 90 the cur
rancy question, which is scheduled tt
he sent this week. The administration
bill. which the President, members OF
his cabinet and Congressional leaders
have been working on, then will be in
troduced and the House will start to
work on the measure, which it is ex'
pected to pass by the time the Senate
is ready to vote or the tariff bill.
President Wilson insists that curren'
~ legislation should be enacted at thlf
special session. In letter to one OF
the Senate leaders the President said
This is the time to pass currency
legislation and l think we are IN q
sense bound in loyalty to the country
to pass it 10 that any attempt to ere
ate artificial disturbances after the
tariff shall have become law may be
offset by free system of credit which
will mske it possible for men big and
little to take care of themselves IN
business. -
1nspite Of the Presidents desire it
!. believed to be doubtful if the slen-
der Democratic majority in the Senate
can force through currency: legislation
1t this session. The senate viii not
be trsady, to vote on the tariff bill until
sou time in August, and the strong
Retublican opposition. not only to the
tarim. but to the currency legislation
NAV prevent action on.the latter though.
President Wilson and some OF tn the :
Democratic leaders have expressed
theirlwillingness TO forego vacations
this year and stay through the dog
DAYS to pass the currency measure as
a companion act TO the tariff bill.
There Is no doubt xhatever that the
tariff bin will pass the Senate at the
present session, and Senate leaders IN
sist II will pass in substantially the
SAME form in which it went through
the House, with provisions tor free
supar in three years ard free raw WOOL
included. The bill is now in the hanos
of sbteommittees from which it is ex-
peetedrto be reports to:the full finance
comm;ttee BY the Arst q next week
Il HbSitsyed that the bill viii be re-
portsd'to1 Tho Senate about June Is.
cSSeiisss, iIam,ai1 Pepper Of the Second
Ista district vas intensely interesteo
IN tbs charges msds against Frank OK q.
Hitchcock. tie former Postmaster
Geperal by.a committee On postaall. AZ IN, !,
quiEy composed Of Postmaster Genera ''r'
Builsson and four assistant postm'as'tt;-i 4,
en- general, % Congressman Pepper
has inst been made chairman OF the
committee on expenditures in the post
Office department, which will in Y
Rats lthsse charges if they ' are
brought before congress. Postmaster
General Burleson and his aids charge
Hitchcock, as Postmaster General, dur
ing the Taft administration made mis-
leading reports involving almost mil
lion dollars, that he withheld promo
tions, allowed vacancies to 60 untitled
to the detriment of the service. and
made q deficit Of $3.50, 600 appear to be
q surplus of 600, 900 by "unjustif'ab'e
bookkeeping methods. )" Postmaster
General Burleson had heard so much
about that 500, 600 surplus that, when
he took the Office, he was surprised to
! find that there not only was no surplus,
hut big deficit. The report be has
lust made throws another light on the
economy program which, in the ab'
sence Of anything else to boast OF, was
made much Of by the Taft administra-
tion. Ill ,;sl-.. ........- 4s.
Congressman Pepper has reason to
consider himself extremely fortunate
in landing the Craftsmanship Of the pos
tai expenditures committee, as It is
one Of the few cases On record where
second tesmer has won chairmanship,
anc the only case on record, 80 far as
the records at hand show, where an
Iowa democratic member has had .
craftsmanship. Congressman Connolly
Of the Third Iowa district was slated
for position on either the military
sffairs or currency committee. either
of,which carries with it position of
power. Congressman Kirkpatrick, the
Democratic member from the sixth
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