Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-01-02
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The NATIONAL CAPITAL
Events of Interest from the Seat
of Government.
by j. T.. JONES.
Postal Banks Not n Success.
by j. T.. JONES.

Postal Banks Not II Success.
1t will be remembered that a few
years ago the banking interests of the
country were in feverish excitement
over the proposed postal savings
banks Now that this system is in op-
GRAFTON, it is found that it has not
been success and has lost practically
$1,000,000 to the government since it
was installed. The principal reasons
assigned are ascribed to the limit of
$500 which any individual may de-
post. The postoffice department is
getting all the small change while the
| larger accounts still go to the private
banking interests.
Great LOSSES from Hog Cholera.
Hog cholera is creating havoc in the
country and it is declared that there
is loss of 2,OO0.OOO,OOO pounds of
meat every year, as the results of the
disease. Senator Kenyon of Iowa is
back of bill to appropriate $1,000,000
to enable the federal government to
cooperate with the states in stamping
out hog cholera. Senators Reed of
Missouri and Pomerene of Ohio have
called the attention of the secretary of
agriculture to the Importance of Wig
orous action.
Startling Revenue Facts.
One of the new inventions that came
along just ahead of the automobile and
the moving picture and few other
common necessities of the time, was
the cigarette. From government sta
tistics it appears that over 14,000,000,-
+ 600 cigarettes were consumed in the
! United States during the last fiscal
year. The revenue tax on cigarettes is
considerably over $1,000,000 a year.
BY the same figures it appears that the
use of whisky in the United States has
doubled in the last Is years.
Looks Toward Government Ownership.
Already the railroads are shaking in
their boots, since the attitude of the
interstate commerce commission has
lead the railroad managers into the be-
lief that the commerce commission
wants practically to run the land
transportation lines, as evidenced by
regulations provided for the parcel
post and the fixing of express and rail-
road rates as we'll as the investigation
of wrecks. The complaining railroad
companies are telling Washington that
the methods of the commerce commits
sion entirely point to eventual govern
ment ownership.
! Ashurst's Barbed Fence.
| Senator Ashurst of Arizona in ex-
planning his bill asking an appropria-
alton of 100000 for a barbed wire
fence along our Mexican boundary. has
left the people in doubt as to whether
it is to keep out Mexican rebels or
cattle ticks.
Another Chautauqua Victim.
Chautauqua "gets" the best of them,
and now Vice President Marshall has
followed the example of the illustrious
William Jennings Bryan, Champ Clark,
Capt. Hobson and others, and has
f, signed contract to deliver from 80 to
As lectures in Missouri, Iowa and Kan
sas next summer. A good deal of SYM
pathy has been bestowed upon the
vice president because of the fact that
he is compelled to live on his salary,
and this restricts him to a palatial
suite of rooms and board in one of the
most aristocratic hotels in the United
/ States, where the charges are so high
that he undoubtedly has to take up the
Chautauqua to piece out" expenses.
An Indian in statunry Hall.
The contribution of the state of Ok
lahoma to the Hall of Fame in the ma
tional capitol will be life size statue
of Sequoiah, said to be son of Hes
sian soldier and his Cherokee wife,
who served under Gen. Braddock and
rendered distinguished service, after
ward living in what is now the state of
Oklahoma. Sequoiah was the inventor
of the Indian alphabet which is used to
this day in the West. His remains rest
in cave on the Pacific Coast Mrs.
Winnie Reanhoxie has received her
commission to perform the task
There are great many unusual
statues in Statuary Hall, among which
is that of Susan B. Anthony, which
was placed there by the state of New
York Wisconsin contributed the
statue of Father Pere Marquette who