Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-10-30
(By J. E. Jones) .

WASHINGTON, D. O., Oct. 29.- Special to the Yuma Daily Exaimner) The condition in the house of rep resentatives is peculiar in that bare ly one hundred members have been answering their names at roll call. While Leader Mann of the Republi- cans has been remonstrating vigorous ly, MT. Underwood, who is proprie- tor of the Masters Voice" says it is all right. "You can work good team of horses every day." declared MT. Underwood, "but if you keep the team working days and nights and Sundays, too, you will soon find that it has become good for nothing. Con- gressmen are not machines. They are human beings. They cannot work all the time. The older members have been here since last December, and the new men have been here since April. The workers have been here all the time, even though some of the others have been occasionally away. There is nothing before Congress at the present time except the currency bill, and that is in the senate The appropriation bills will not be ready until the regular session because the estimates will not be in until Decem- Der l. Mysbelief is that if the mem bers are given rest they will come back to the regular session better pre- pared to work and will have no trou- ble in maintaining a constant quorum. They are entitled to rest They have had no time to attend to their private affairs or to go home. do not believe we would really gain any thing. If we worked right along, without breathing spell everybody would be tired out by next February or March, and the result would be unsatisfactory. We could adjourn now were it not for the currency bill, and I am sure that the country reali- zes that we have been faithfully at tending to our legislative duties for six months I do not fear any criti- cism of our course"
 Sweet Potato Growers Told How
 A warning has been sent out by the Department of Agriculture to sweet potato growers, directing their attn tion to tht fact that. now while the harvest is going up, is the best time to prevent disease in next years crop.
 The preventive step advised by the Department of Agriculture is for farm CTS to be exceedingly careful in se- lecting their seed potatoes. Patholo- gists in the department have figured that the annual loss to sweet potato growers is about $10,000,000, due to the ravages of disease In spite of this enormous reduction of the annual crop, it is estimated that this years harvest amounts to nearly 65,000,000 bushels, valued at S40,000,000. Farm CTS are warned especially against se- lecting potatoes with black-rot, stem rot or foot-rot for seed potatoes, and a warning also is issued against using the earth which has come in contact with such diseased plants. It is not known how long the soil retains these diseaes, but it has been proved that it is not necessary for the sweet po- tato plant to be present in order that the germs may live.
 Central Bank Plan Suggested
 The committee hearings have been enlivened by the appearance of some of the great bankers of Philadelphia. New York and Chicago, among whom was Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip, presi- dent of the National City Bank of New York, who told the senators that he favored a complete new syseem of financial reform to take the place of the administration measure pend ing in congress. This is the central bank idea, pure and simple, and it looks as though the senators who are opposed to the administration plan are preparing to get behind the Van derlip suggestion, believing they can use it to splendid advantage in view of the fact that many of the big bank ing institutions of the country have given it their tentative approval.
 Latin American Commerce
 Exports from the United States to