Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-05-13
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Shifting of Tariff Fight to
Senate Leaves the House
With Nothing to Do for a
Short Time.
tBY E. H. HANSON.1

Washington, D. c., May 12.-With
the shifting of the tariff fight to the
senate wing Of the capitol, there will
be little doing in the house for the
next few weeks. AS result OF the
, inactivity there, most OF the Iowa
members will avail themselves of their
leisure and visit their districts. Rep
Preventative Good Of the fifth having led
the outgoing procession on Friday. He
does not expect to return before the
middle Of June or the first of July.
The three democratic representa-
tives will probably stay here because
of their interest in the committee as
signments. Representative Peppers
friends are urging him for one of the
chairmanships which will be vacated
under the new rule Of the house and
Representative Connolly has his lines
out for several good places, anyone Of
which will eliminate all OF the others.
lowan at Capital.
DR.. e. L.'Lews of Dubuque, presi-
dent of the Dubuque Industrial corpor-
alton, spent the week In Washington
attending medical congress-, and
studying problems of civic admins
tration.
Together with Representative Con-
molly he visited the Office of good roads
in the agricultural department and
made arrangements for the extension
of good roads work in his county.
Also, he took up the proposition Of get
ting a crop expert for Dubuque and
when he goes home will likely at
tempt to organize the farmers of his
county for one.
Will Have Appointments.
Representative Kirkpatrick has ask
ed the postmaster general to hasten
the appointments Of Roy Fl. Lyon and
William Frew as postmasters at Col
fs,x and Hiteman, In the sixth district.
He learned that complaints had been
lodged against both men by certain
residents Of the district, but on going
to the bottom OF these he found them
petty and personal. The postmaster
general determined to comply with his
request
Now that the tariff fight is out Of
the way, Mr.. Kirkpatrick has several
ideas which he is going to put In the
form Of bills. He will shortly ask an
appropriation OF $4,000 to pay the ex-
penses of the old soldiers of the Dis
trict Of Columbia to the Gettysburg
national encampment and fiftieth cele-
bration Of the battle Of Gettysburg
this year.
Two other measures which he will
advance shortly deal with postal af-
fairs. He wants, penny postage and
he wants delivery service extended to
small rural towns, and most particu-
larly he wants box rent abolished in
these towns, regarding that as an un-
Just and Unequal burden of taxation
on the patrons CT small offices.
Makes Maiden Speech.
Representative Connolly made his
maiden speech in the house near mid
night on Wednesday, just before
Minority Leader Mann forced the
house to wait until Thursday to vote
on the bills Although Connolly wait
ed until he thought the galleries would
be empty, because of his personal dis
like for all grandstanding, he talked
to the largest assemblage of the
whole tariff fight. for the seats were
packed and jammed with those who
thought they were to watch the first
passage Of what will probably go
down into history as an epochal
measure The galleries evidently
liked the speech, for they broke the
rule Of silence and applauded long and
vigorously.