Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1907 — WASHINGTON LETTER. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and General Gossip of the National Capital. Special Correspondence to The Democrat. An appeal has been made to President Roosevelt by the society of Friends of Philadelphia for the establishment of a permanent arbitration congress with the consent and co-operation of the other nations of the world. This plan is not so visionary and emotional as a good many of the peace plans put forward by international arbitration exponents. It recognizes the excellent work that has al ready been done by the Hague tribunal and does not propose to supplant that institution, but rather to supplement its work by creating an international congress from which would emanate a code of international law. International law as now understood is a somewhat hazy system. It is based entirely upon precedent and is interpreted variously according as suits the convenience of nations dealing with it. The plan submitted to the president provides for an international congress to meet at stated intervals with duly accredited representatives from the various adhering governments and empowers this congress to work ont a fixed and definite international code which could be applied in practice before the Hague tribunal whenever occasion arose. President Roosevelt has expressed himself as heartily in favor of the plan and has already laid the papers in the case, before Secretary Root with a request that he sound the various foreign governments on the subject aud if possible formulate a treaty which it would be agreeable for all of the m to sign.

of treaties, the extra session discussion has now assumed the phase where it is definitely announced in a good many papers that an extra session will be called after the 4th of March, at which the Japanese school question with its resulting Japanese treaty, the Santq Domingo treaty and currency reform may all be calmly and leisurely discussed and disposed of without fuss or hurry Howcorrect this forecast will prove can be told better after the 4th of March. It is quite certain that there can be no serious attempt to consider the Santo Domingo treaty at the present session. The Japanese situation is in such a shape that the President and the State Department probably would rather have Congress out of the way while the details were being settled. Treaties, of course, are always discussed in executive session and equally, of course, the reports of these discussions are printed in the next issue of the newspapers to the inconvenience of the State Department and the pleasure of such senators as have anything to gain by muddying the waters of diplomacy. The exchanges between this government and that of Japan are now in such shape that a treaty can very probably be framed that will meet the ideas of both governments and eventually get through the Senate. But it will take several weeks more of deliberation and negotiation before this solution is definitely reached.

Without even a division the House last week passed a bill modifying the denatured alcohol act in such a way as is thought will make it more to the advantage of the farmers. It is a little remarkable that with all the hiss made in anticipation of the passage of the free alcohol bill nothing at all should have come of it up to date. It was predicted that the Act would be the most beneficent piece of legislation ever passed for the oppressed and down trodden farmer, and that it would enable him to use up all the surplus farm supplies even to the weeds in the fence corners for making denatured alcohol from which he could obtain heat, light and power. But since the free alcohol bill has passed it has been utterly nullified by the plans for its enforcement worked out by the Bureau of International Revenue. The Bureau has made such regulations governing the production of such alcohol as effectually prevents any but the already established distillers from taking advantage of the law. The amended act provides for centrally located bonding and denaturing warehouses whore the farmer can deliver his alcohol and get the benefit of government supervision free of tax. It was stated when this amended bill was passed that there were but three interests against it. The whisky trust, the wood alcohol manufacturers and the Standard Oil Company. Whether the new law will prove any more benefit to the farmer

than the old one can only be proved by experience. ttt

Postmaster General Cortelyon has been working on a new scheme in connection with the dead letter office that is greatly expediting the work of that division of the Postoflice Department and ought to result in giving a much more prompt and effective service than has ever been given to the public by the Department befqre. Instead of holding letters in the dead letter office for months at a time as has heretofore been the practice, a large force of clerks has been put at work opening and inspecting misdirected mail as soon as it reaches the office. All of the letters which can be returned to the senders are immediately forwarded and the aggregate value of this mail is shown from the fact that from $6,000 t? $lO,000 a month is thus restored to small transmitters in the inspected letters. Last month 80 cent of the mail which was returnable was sent back under the new system and in a little tvhile it will be possible for all of the mail having the address of the sender inside to be returned as soon as it reaches the dead letter office. ,

Senator Beveridge has expressed himself very forcibly over the report of the Judiciary Committee of the House which returned his anti-child labor bill to the House Appropriation Committee with an adverse indorsement. The Judiciary Committee decided that it was impossible for the federal government to interfere with the internal affairs of the various states by prohibiting the products of child labor fiom entering Interstate Commerce. Senator Beveridge says that the action of the Committee was a mere subterfuge and aimed to prevent the bill from ever coming to a vote, and relieve the members of congress from the necessity of placing themselves on record in opposition to the measure.

“WHISKY” COLD CURES Danger of Using Alcoholic Hixtures Or Coal Tar Tablets. 5 Laying aside all moral objections against filling up the system with whiskey or drugs because one has a cough or cold, the dangerous physical effects should be sufficient to keep one from using these strong medicines. A thoroughly scientific way to treat a cough and cold as well as a sensible method is to breath Hyomei through the neat pocket inhaler that comes with every outfit. The first breath of its healing medication relieves the irritation, and its continued use soon effects a thorough cure.

The best people in Rensselaer always keep Hyomei in the house during the winter months, and at the first symptoms of a cold or bronchial troubles, use the remedy and prevent serious and lasting illness. The guarantee that B. F. Fendig gives with every Hyomei outfit should convince you of its curatiye powers. A complete Hyomei outfit costs but SI.OO, extra bottles if needed, 50c, and B. F. Fendig guarantees to refund the money if it does not give satisfaction.