The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-10-05

ship and other veterans, Represent
alive Kelley was urged by some of
the most influential men to be a
candidate for House leader.
At home, as we'll as in Congress.
Kelley, is extremely popular, as is
shown by the vote he got last year,
majority of more than 10000. He
has never had opposition in the pri-
maries and sometimes no opposition
at the polls. He was victim of
the radical waves sweeping Michi-
gan. He is going back to resume
the practice of law in Lansing.
Government employees, and this in
cludes organized labor in all the
crafts engaged in Uncle Sans work
shops, have, by formal resolutions
and spontaneous demonstra 5ions and
letters, expressed their extreme re-
gret over the defeat for renomina-
ton of Representative A. P. Mel
son of Wisconsin. Briefly, Nelson
failed, in spite of an unusually good
record in the House, because he re-
fused to train with the La Toilette
following. The thumbs down"
sign was given in the last few days
of the campaign after it looked as
though he would win three to one.
The high esteem in which Nelson
is held b yhis colleagues was shown
in notable demonstration on the
floor fthe House when he returned,
defeated. Leading democrats join
ed with the republican leaders in ex-
pressing amazement at the way in
which he had been turned down by
his constituents.
Representative Nelson endeared him
self to the government employees par
ticularly by his activity in the pas
sage and perfecting of the retirement
act. Robert HI. Alcorn, chairman of
the joint conference on retirement,
United States civil serv-
ice employees, including he National
Federation of Federal Employees, the
national associations of letter car
riers, post office clerks, the Railway
Mail Association, the joint retire
ment association of all navy yard en-
ployes, the plate printers from the
bureau of engraving and printing.
pressmen. Typographical Union
and practically all trades paid this
tribute to Representative Nelson.
"He is one of the best friends of
labor who ever came from
any state,> especially for the civil
service employees, in getting better
while a member of the
on reform in the civil SER
vice. His speech on the retirement
bill in the House on April %, 1920,
was probably the best ever made for
the government workers."
The latest achievent for Repre-
sentative Nelson was in. getting put
the Fairfield amendment to
the retirement act, to do justice to
hundreds of veteran employees of the
navy yard who were summarily dis
missed when within a few months of
the retirement age.
In progressive general legislation
also preventative Nelson took
leading part. Some of the things
he did in Congress are:
Secured more than one million
pounds of INT and picric acid for
northern Wisconsin farmers; wrote
the 25,000,000 farm loan act bill";
voted for amendments liberalizing the
farmers federal land bank act; sup
ported amendments to war risk in
surance act, war finance agricultural
loan act, grain futures act, packers
control act, old soldiers pensions,
soldiers bonus bill, emergency tariff
bill protecting the farmers and in
dustry; voted and fought for amend
ment to the tariff bill; voted for
peace resolutions; for farmers" CO.
operative marketing organizations;
to recommit House revenue bill to
increase surtax so per cent; for