Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1904 — Old-Man-Wlio-Does-Things. [ARTICLE]

Old-Man-Wlio-Does-Things.

Congressman Charley Landis is no longer “Th- Old Man on the Corner” at Delphi, but he might be called ‘‘The Old Man Not Afraid to Do Things” down at Washington Heretofoie, among his accomplishments was to work up the evidence and make the speeches which kept the practical bigamist, Brigham H Roberts, of Utah, out of Congress, and be also is the man who has totally and evidently for all time, abolished all places in the Capitol building where intoxicating liquors are sold, and that too, in the Senate end as well as the House end of the building. This winter he has scored another big strike in unearthing and causing the abolition of an extravagant abuse that has been

gradually growing up ever since the war, and continued through al administrations. It was the custom -of permitting a huge army of officials to have constantly waiting at their call cabs and hacks wth their drivers, which they used for their private pleasure, such as making social calls, going to and from their homes, picnic excursions and all that, all at the government expense Landis says their were enough of the hacks regularly paid for by the government, to extend a mile, placed side by side. The whole system will be abolished Another place where Landis is expected to put his ax in deep,, is in the government printing office. It is stated that it co-ts $6,000,000 a year to run this office, and that several millions of this money is spent in printing official reports and documents Of absolutely no use to anyone on earth, and which are dumped into the waste paper room as soon as printed. As chairman of the House committee on public printing, Landis will have a chance to hit this abuse good and hard A law of Congress requires all reports and documents of this kind to be printed, and its repeal and extensive modification is the next thing needed. Congressman Hemenway who caused the order for many thousands of clerks who heretofore have grown weary and went riding in the free carriages, after six hours wok, to put in another half hour every day, had the able help of Mr. Landis in that reform also.