The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-06-03
FROM WASHINGTON
Congress Is "Rrnn.ng Itself'
By j. E. Jones.


Congress is Running ITSELF
The bonus act. the tax measure
and the Japanese exclusion provision
OF the immigration law. seems to have
settled III questions about Congress
running Itself" Every once in awhile
during the past twenty years. congress
has broken away from the guiding
influence OF the president to do things
in its own way. But at no time has
the Executive been so completely de-
fed as in recent occurrences.
Political students regard II rs pccu-
liar that while congress has evidently
been priding itself on doing the popu-
lar thing" that this branch OF the
government has all the time been los
ing in its own popularity with the
people. On the other hand the Re
publican members who have dcicd
President Coolidge, are counting mos,
on the ~latter's popularity with the
people to pull the party through the
elections. Consistency" certainly can
not lay claim to being a jewel in this
instance.
Fattening the Soil
A generation or more ago the Or
ark mountains were famous for the
ra~zor-baokcd hogs. The Arkansas
Traveller spun yarns and hddled tunes
about them. Smi;hfcld, Virginia. is
still noted because it markets hams
secured from hogs that forage for a
living in peanut fields and among the
acorns. In the middle west they used
10 york the oxen down to skin and
bones in the winter logging opera
tins. and then sell the poor animal for F,
beef in the Spring. These practices
have changed and every stock-raiser
now fattens his animals for market.
and the proof is abundan; that no other
method is profitable.
But while American stock-raisers {
have learned their lesson. as much
cannot be said OF the practices in Am
erican agriculture In a recent series
OF experiments in the sug.ar beet fields !,
OF Michigan. where nitrate OF soda :
was used in fertilization, the ground !
was prepared to the somewhat lavish
extent OF drilling in with the seeding F.
as high as $40 to Sl4 worth of fer,ii- !
izer, principally nitrate. to the acre. :
The increased yield Of sugar beets :
was two to four times as much as :
cost of the fertilizer. Thus. RICH, ,
of the bat, there vas an added pro :
running into hundreds OF percent gain Y
I'd from "fa,tening the soil" :,
Il is said that in some parts o. :
Nishigan. and indeed in some parts ~ !,
most St,tes commercial fer Hiizers ,-e :
title known II ore m;rht belle, e :
II that is said about fertilizer produc-
ion % he made possible ~ Nrsc' :
shoals the problem might be tiour' r.
o be well on the way towards solu- :.
ion. But Muscle Shoals is onlv eN. :
'ecied to cheaper the cost OF fert'i- r
zers' and there is no absence OF qaun- =.
lily OF II even now. The Chilcan in. :.
erests that arranged the Michigan !,
experiments gave a practical demon !.
traiion of what can be done TO re- !
the soil. II Europe did not
sc fertilizer on all It's lands the whole 4,
,pulation would s'.arve 10 death. The 70
States evidently has not d. !.
the constant illustration and =,
arning made by the Department OF
griculture concerning the necessity =.
keeping our farm lands from slid =,
back into the 'razor-back' per- i,
I'm
Spiitung-up Railroad Profits. tn,
The recent decision OF the SUI
Court in the Kansas City. Mex
and Orient case. commonly called nc
Orient" made clear the right Tor
the Interstate Commerce Commits vo
n 10 increase the divisions OF rates p,
be paid by more prosperous roads hes
the losses Of a poor little De
thcr railroad like the Orient. Al Sta
ugh there was an adverse decision obi
the Orient. the Supreme Court wit
passed favorably upon the the
omissions assertion OF power over civ
division OF rates. The adverse de- lis
IN was affirmed upon ooms ara viii