The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1914-01-02
At NATIONAL CAPITAL
Paragraphs on Important Gov.
eminent Affairs.
The Tribune Bureau.
BY j. e. JONES


remembered that few years ago
the banking interests OF the coun.
try were in ieverish excitement
over the proposed postal savings
banks. Now that this system is
in operation, it. is found that it has
not been success and has lost
practically one million dollars to
the government since it was in.
stalled. The principal reasons as
signed 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 60
to the private banking interests.
Hog cholera is creating great
havoc in the country, and it is de-
clared that there is loss OF two
billion pounds OF meat every year.
the results of the disease. Sena-
tor Kenyon Of Iowa is back OF
bill to appropriate one million dol.
lars to enable the federal govern
ment 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 agri
culture to the importance Of vigor-
Gus action.
One Of the new inventions that
came along just ahead OF the auto.
mobile and the moving picture and
few other common necessities Of
the time, was the cigarette. From
government statistics it appears
that over fourteen billion cigarettes
were consumed in the United
States during the last fiscal year.
The revenue tax on cigarettes is
considerably over a million dollars
a year.
Senator Ashurst OF Arizona, in
explaining his bill asking an ap-
preparation of 5000, 900 for /! a
barbed wire fence along our Mexi.
can boundary, has left the people
in doub. as to whether it is to keep
out Mexican rebels or cattle ticks. /
Chantauqua ''gets" the best of.
them, and now Vice President
Marshall has followed the exam pie
OF the illustrious William Jennings
Bryan. Champ Clark, Captain
Hohson anil Others. and has signed
contract TO deliver from thirty to
forty FIVE lectures in Missouri,
Iowa and Kansas next summer. A
good deal Of sympathy has been
bestowed upon the vice president
Uecause OF the facr that he is com.
PEELED 70 live on his salary, and
this restricts him to a palatial |
suite OF rooms and board in one Of !
tie most aristoceatic hotels in the
United States, where the charges
are so high that he undoubtedly
has to take up the Chautauqua to
"piece out"expenses.
In emphasizing the determine
ton OF the federal government to
enforce the food and drugs act,
recent large shipments OF tomato
pulp from Baltimore to Galvest on, |;
Texas, have been destroyed. II
IS charged that it is a common
hing among shippers to can filthy,
decomposed, aud putrid vegetable
natter.
We all remember the teachers
pets in the public schools, and now
I appears that this feature o. Ia
human nature has been asserting
tself at West Point, resulting in "a !
esolution by Senator Cham berlain
II Oregon. asking for an invect; 6
,ation. s
ltappears that there is a sus
'icion in New England that
'olygamy exists even outside Of {
Utah, and Senator Weeks of I
Massachusetts has introduced a
esolution in the senate asking fc
IN investigation.