NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering CONVINCED at last of the necessity of resigning if Mexico is to avoid anarchy, General Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico, has agreed to resign. The announcement was given...
...McNamara Brothers Arraigned John J. McNamara, secretary of the International Bridge and Structural Iron Workers' association, and his brother, James B. McNamara, were arraigned in Los Angeles on the 5th to answer to nineteen indictments charging them with complicity in the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building...
...The revolutionary gangs were not driven back until hundreds lay dead in the narrow streets...
...While the McNamara brothers and McManigal, whose trial also will take place in June, are awaiting the fight in court, labor unions throughout the country are pledging them their moral and financial support...
...In his absence the Presidency would go to Minister de La Barra...
...The pay of railway clerks, compared with that of post office clerks, is much lower, and it is contended that with the higher cost of living the difficulties of a married railway clerk have greatly increased...
...It is the intention of the new body to hold meetings every other year...
...The statement is said to have resulted from recent declarations in Latin-American republics that their administrations suspected the United States of desiring to make further conquests...
...Up to the present time five members are under indictment and the Prosecuting Attorney promises that there will be many more...
...At the time of the announcement Madero had just issued orders to all his forces to concentrate and march toward the Mexican capital...
...While the grand jury is holding frequent sessions over the evidence submitted by detectives, lobbyists who have thronged the capitol for years are making haste to leave the state...
...Their work is backed by the people of Illinois, who long ago voted 4 to 1 for the initiative and referendum...
...One of the most important demands made by the insurrectos is that Diaz resign...
...The Railway Clerks' association has issued a pamphlet entitled "The Life of the Railway Clerk," which gives the wage schedules of several railways, showing that weekly salaries range from $5.25 to $8.90 with an average of $6.70...
...While Diaz makes no direct reference to General Madero's revolutionary movement, it is apparent that he has reference to the disturbance in the north...
...Lorimer Again on Defensive If the United States Senate upholds the report of the committee on audit and control of contingent expenses, there will be an honest investigation of the election of Senator William Lorimer of Illinois...
...nor interfere when, in the exercise of its discretion, congress establishes the forest reserves for what it decides to be national and public purposes...
...nor to suffer them to be used for agricultural or grazing purposes...
...Ohio Grafters Trembling Such a mass of incriminating evidence against members of the Ohio legislature has been stacked up by detectives that the grand jury in Columbus is hardly able to go through it...
...Immediately upon arrest his lawyers secured a writ of habeas corpus and at the hearing on the writ Judge Petit ruled in Tilden's favor...
...nor to suffer them to be used for settlement...
...Federal Conservation Upheld American conservationists won a great victory in the United States Supreme Court on the 1st when the Court upheld the constitutionality of the establishment of reserves for any national and public purpose and held particularly that the Federal Government and not the states may say how the reserves shall be used...
...Governor Wilson told his audience that the initiative and referendum would serve most powerfully to check the influence now exerted upon both great parties by the interests...
...Tilden, who was charged with having been the official collector and disburser of the $100,000 fund to elect Lorimer, fought against appearing as a witness in answer to the legislative subpoena...
...Speaking of these two measures, he said: "They are being proposed now as a means of bringing our representatives back to the consciousness that what they are bound in duty to do is to represent the sovereign people whom they profess to serve and not the private interests...
...At its session on the 3d the conference was addressed by President Taft who took advantage of the occasion to announce that the United States does not seek to acquire new lands and that this country would keep its hands off neighboring countries so far as political conquest was concerned...
...The House of Representatives considered the advisability of bringing about a thorough investigation with a view to determining whether any of the big combinations mentioned were violating any of the anti-trust laws...
...The work of the Illinois body was seriously impeded on the 8th by a court decision which relieved Edward Tilden from the necessity of placing his books and records before the investigators...
...The Lloyd.-George scheme includes appropriations for the crusade against consumption and for the building of public sanitariums...
...One of these relics is said to have been the ark of the covenant...
...This insurance is to be compulsory, the worker being required to pay about half the cost of the insurance, the employer paying the balance...
...Panic stricken legislators are rushing to the prosecutor in their anxiety to make a clean breast of their complicity in order to gain immunity but their newly developed attitude of candor is being ignored...
...The decision says in part: "The United States can prohibit absolutely and fix the terms on which its property may be used, as it can withhold or reserve the land indefinitely, for the constituton declares that 'Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or property belonging to the United States.' "The courts cannot compel the government to set aside the lands for settlement...
...Their second important demand is that the administration arrange to hold an honest election of a new President...
...Low Wages in England A movement in England to improve the conditions of 77,000 railway clerks is gaining in importance and strength...
...The measures were voted down in the lower house despite the fact that both reforms would have gone to the people for ratification...
...The United States Senate, however, has broader powers and if the La Follette resolution is passed, there is every likelihood that Tilden and his crowd will be forced to reveal their connection with the election of Lorimer...
...This leaves the state without power to go further...
...If properly regulated and devised it is a means of restoring to administrative officials what the initiative and referendum restore to legislators— namely: a sense of direct responsibility to the people who choose them...
...Congressman J. G. Cinnon celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday last week by executing a double shuffle for the newspapermen who called to congratulate him...
...The recall is a' means of administrative control...
...The bill provides for sickness pensions of $1.20 weekly for ail workers earning $800 a year or less...
...The debate was directed for the most part toward the United Shoe Machine Company, the American Sugar Refining Company, the American Woolen Company and the United States Steel Corporation...
...The question goes to the Supreme Court in connection with the government's prosecution against the men who, by "cornering" the cotton market in 1910, made a clear profit of between $10,000,000 and $12,000,000...
...Revolution Shakes China A revolutionary movement originating in Canton has caused the deaths of hundreds of persons in the cities and provinces...
...A fund now is being raised for their defense...
...Follows German Example David Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the 4th introduced into Parliament his plan for relief against unemployment, sickness and invalidity among the working people of Great Britain...
...The Lloyd-George plan as submitted to Parliament is termed the greatest application of state socialism ever attempted...
...Is This a Violation...
...Another order by Madero takes all his troops away from the border...
...In the Kwang Tung province bands of rebels have cut telegraph wires, burned homes and destroyed crops and property of all kinds...
...One member is said to be connected with a demand for a $10,000 bribe for his vote...
...In the event of the resignation of Diaz, his natural successor, pending an election, would be Vice-President Corral, who is in Europe at this time seeking a recovery to health...
...The rebels in Canton fought with a frenzy that made it almost impossible for government troops to overcome them...
...These men were James A. Patton, Eugene C. Scale's, Frank B. Hayne and William P. Brown...
...The announcement was given out after a long session with his cabinet on the 7th and it has been accepted at its face value by the people of Mexico, including the insurrectos...
...The Senate Commerce Committee took its first steps towards a searching inquiry into the cold storage business with special reference to the storage of eggs, butter and fish...
...The committee last week made a report recommending passage of the resolution by Senator La Follette which provides for a thorough probing of the Lorimer case, including the notorious action of two months ago when Lorimer was "vindicated...
...Missouri's interest in the initiative and referendum has been increased by Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, who spoke in Kansas City on the 5th...
...It is believed that foreigners in China are safe...
...That General Madero places faith in the promise of the President is indicated in the report that he has checked the mobilization of his troops and the march toward Mexico City...
...The United States Supreme Court has another knotty question to answer...
...The unemployment and invalidity features of the bill are said to be as complete as those included in the workmen's code of Germany, which is the best in the world today...
...The announcement of the Mexican President is that he will resign his office just as soon as his country shall have re-established complete peace...
...Illinois Delays Referendum The Illinois Legislature on the 3d decided to ignore the will of the people and voted against giving them the initiative and referendum...
...This order was the result of continued protests from the United States that Americans were endangered by frequent skirmishes between the rebels and government troops just across the boundary...
...Their attorney asked for a month in which to make plans for the defense and the court fixed the trial for June 1st...
...The startling statement was made last week that there was a possibility that as many as fifty senators and lower house members might be involved in the wide-spread scandal...
...A Chinese brigand who was educated in Japan is said to be the leader in the uprising and reports from Chinese capitals say that the object of the rebel bands is to secure loot...
...National Peace Movement Efforts to co-ordinate the efforts of all American organizations devoted to the abolition of war will be made by the American Peace Congress as a result of the conference in Baltimore last week...
...The Senate committee's action was due largely to the astonishing revelations made in Illinois before the Helm investigating committee...
...The Senate Finance Committee was told that the shoe machine company held patents upon certain inventions and that this company practically controlled the shoe manufacturing industry by leasing and not selling these machines...
...It is estimated that the proposed scheme will be of direct benefit to 15,-000,000 English subjects...
...Here is the question: Does a conspiracy to fix the price of a commodity by "cornering" the market constitute a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law...
...The question reached the high Court on a writ of error obtained by the Government from the recent decision of Judge Noyes of New York in regard to the indictments against these men who cornered the market...
...the officers of the law say that they do not need more evidence than they already have in their possession...
...Big Combine Under Fire Congress last week gave considerable time and attention to the consideration of proposed investigations into four great business combinations that have much to do with setting the price of certain necessities of life...
...While the advocates of these measures for the restoration of representative government felt keen disappointment at their failure to put the measures through, they have renewed their fight with a determined purpose to get favorable action in the next Legislature...
...NEWS NOTES — Reports from Jerusalem, not authenticated, give the information that a party of English archaeologists has despoiled the Mosque of the Covenant of priceless relics...
...Traffic on some of the railways has been suspended entirely because of the revolution...
Vol. 3 • May 1911 • No. 19
