Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1905 — LANDIS HAS A TOUGH JOB. [ARTICLE]

LANDIS HAS A TOUGH JOB.

Delphi Herald: „ Congressman Charlie B- Landis is meeting; with a bard proposition in his efforts to rednoe the printing bills of congress. As chairman of committee on printing of the Hcuse, Landis is seeking to have a measure passed whereby every line of oupv sent to the government printing office will be passed upon by a committee of three, wheseduty it sba'l be to ‘•kill” all copy that doev not possess the requisite value. This, it is olaimed, is the only coarse by which the printing bill osn be reduced.

Mr. Landis baa just received a let'er from his son John, who is iu Eun pe. John is a philosopher of no mean ability. Commenting on the reoent senatorial race in Indiana and his father’s defeat. John says: "Never mind, papa; your time ia ooming. When it does cone yon mast sail in and do busirn ss.’’ Mr. Landis has applied to the war dr partmeut to have some of the Filipino students who are being sent to the United States assigned to Wabash College at Crawfordville, chief ofjthe Insular Bureau, tays that this probably wll be done.