The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-06-28
WASHINGTON NEWS
OF STATE INTEREST


Washington letter would not be COM
plete this week, nor express the heart
felt sentiment of the national capital,
If 1t neglected to say something about
hot weather. The first full-hedged
Summer day (June 20 this year,
started in with a maximum tempera-
ture of 104 degrees on the street.
Some overpaid autocrat who sits in
high place, with spurs in his boots
to keep his feet from slipping off the
desk, where an oscillating electric fan
whirrs in each corner of the room,
and colored servitor brings in tink-
ling glasses of iced orange pecoe tea,
with lemon and sugar and goodness
knows what else in it, every fifteen
minutes-somebody like this handed
down an official statement that the
temperature was "a, about twenty
degrees higher than on the corre-
spending date last year. But he cared
nothing for the feelings of common
folks.
Our old relative Humidity began
business Wednesday morning at eight
o'clock with a demonstration of the
thirty-second degree He kept his
class under instruction all night and
had reached Degree No. 72 at eight
o'clock Thursday. At this point
everybody in the District of Columbia
yelled Murder" but the deadly de-
gree-work went on until all regalia
was ruined and good tempers had gone
to- join the great majority. Then
Nevada newspapers were discovered
telling of snowstorms at Tonopah,
Reno. Winnemucca, and probably
everywhere else in the Silver State.
That was the Browning insult" as
old-time political writer's used to say.
Although the House committee on
ways and means had announced that
all schedules for the forthcoming
general tariff bill had been finished,
Senators and Representatives from the
West. in Connection with the Southern
Tariff Association. have been making
determined effort to have the matter
Of hides reconsidered. 1t now apears
that their work will meet with sue
cess. An incident affecting this result
was the receipt by Congressman
Arentz of beautiful rug, made of
hide of a two-year-old Holstein steer
The gift came from Julius Schwarz-
child. manager for Bissinger & Com
pany of Reno. 1t is a splendidly
marked black -and-white thing, thick
with three-inch hair, and mounted on
green cloth. The Congressman call
ed his colleagues to see it. and ex-
planned, This is the kind of stuff
we cannot sell in Nevada for cost
price, because hides are on the free
list" He scored rapidly and effec-
lively, and it is understood the ways
and means committee has definitely
promised to reopen the schedule on
! hides.
Just before the House adjourned
Monday the Democrats began ques-
tioning the majority leader, Repre-
sentative Mondell of Wyoming, as to
when the tariff bill is to be taken up.
Mondell replied: I'm the very near
future" It's difficult thing for
the minority to "get rise" out of the
austere Mondell, and when they do
succeed they string him along" as
far as possible. Mr.. Garner of Texas
demanded:
what does the gentleman mean
( by the near future'?"
Mr.. Mondell: THAT depends some
what upon the gentleman who inter-
prets that term"
Mr.. Garner: II want the gentle
man from Wyoming to interpret that
term of the near future"
Mr.. Mondell: "Out in my country.
when the Indians want to refer to
something that is quite near they
say 'mee-teet-se.' If 1t is little
further away they say 'mee-teet-se."
and if it is very far away they say
'mee-teet-se.' with a somewhat differ
ent intonation' Laughter)
Monde!l, however. was finally pre-
vailed upon to say that the general
tariff bill would be taken up "about
the first of the month"
The Eastern misunderstanding, or
lack of understanding, of the West is
condition which gives everlasting
amusement to those who are looking
for 1t. Sometimes when ones mind