NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering ON July 1, the already sorely scourged city of Messina, Italy, together with its sister ruin, Reggio, was devastated by another earthquake. Ten shocks were recorded in less...
...Senate Drops Schedules and Attacks Excises On June 28 the Senate closed its deliberation on the schedules, after 70 days of debate...
...A City Crisis in New York The fight on Police Commissioner Bingham of New York, which was commenced some weeks ago by Justice Gaynor, who published an open letter charging General Bingham with tyrannical excesses and abuse of power in the case of George Duffy, a boy whose picture the police insisted in keeping in the rogue's gallery, has culminated in the removal of General Bingham from office by Mayor McClellan...
...These seem to be parts of the campaign which the trusts are making all over the country to break up the labor unions...
...1. The theory that they know the offenders but dare not arrest them is entertained by many who realize that the "protection" of outlawry is likely to place the police under the thumb of law-breakers...
...The bill will now go to the conference committee of the two houses and the Senate will be relieved for a few days of its long and arduous labors...
...It is one of the two railways affected...
...In this country the extreme heat chronicled last week still continues over the east, but at this writing the cool wave following it has crossed the meridian of Chicago, bringing relief to the people...
...On June 29 occurred in London another of the violent demonstrations of those English supporters of universal suffrage known as "suffragettes...
...The assassination is a political one, and grows out of the agitation for the independence of India...
...4) It discriminates between corporations, taxing some and exempting others...
...3) The law will not add to the present facilities of the government for securing publicity of the affairs of corporations...
...Prices for cattle are not far from those of last week, the best beeves being quoted somewhat higher than then, and the poorest canners a little lower...
...The New York situation seems to be partially cleared up, while in Chicago the plot is still unresolved...
...The police, after thirty-one chances are at this time quite as unable to arrest the dynamiters as in the case of bomb No...
...Business seems to be steadily picking up notwithstanding that the tariff tinkering of Congress is not yet over...
...2) The burden of the tax will be shifted to consumers...
...British Officer Assassinated A young Hindu student assassinated Lieutenant Colonel Wyl-lie of the British Army and Dr...
...It is asserted that the Mayor was obliged to call in the services of outside detectives to uncover the abuses in the police department, and that both the mayor and Justice Gaynor were subjected to police espionage, blackmailing and threatening letters and other impositions at the hands, it is asserted, of the police, who were enlisted as a body in the defense of their department from overruling by the judiciary and the mayor...
...It will form a side company for the carrying on of its coal mines...
...The public seemed to feel an intense sympathy with the strikers...
...By seven o'clock of the 29th, the 3,500 cars of the city were running on schedule time...
...The reports of the commercial agencies indicate active fall trading...
...The closing day was marked by advarices in the rates on structural iron and steel valued at more than nine-tenths of a cent a pound, and half a cent a. pound on zinc pigs...
...On the 5th the Senate adopted a resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution that will give to Congress power to levy and collect a tax on incomes without apportionment among the states according to population...
...The charge was insubordination in refusing to remove a chief clerk whose dismissal was demanded by Mayor McClellan...
...Reports of the condition of corn have been generally favorable...
...Pittsburgh Strike Ends Suddenly What bade fair to be a very serious street car strike in Pittsburgh—mentioned herein last week—came to an end with gratifying suddenness on the 28th...
...Weather Affects Prices July comes in with slightly lower prices for most agricultural staples, owing to fine harvest weather in the southwest with its promise of heavy marketing of produce...
...The indictments charge criminal violations of the Sherman law.—The Standard Oil Company has been sued for $22,000,000 by the state of Mississippi for alleged violations of the Mississippi antitrust law...
...Lalcaca of Shanghai in London this week...
...The mayor went to a hospital, where it was stated one day that he was at death's door from an operation for appendicitis, and the next that he had been helped to a chair by his brother and was sitting up...
...December corn has dropped about a cent a bushel, selling now at 57 to 58 cents...
...Special honor was accorded to the Scandinavian nations for their progressive-ness in this respect, and the passage of a universal suffrage law by the Swedish house of commons was alluded to as the last of eighteen victories in five years...
...The bulk of sales of hogs at last reports were at prices from $7.60 to $7.85—about the same as a week ago...
...Shaw, the national president...
...More than 100 women were arrested...
...On the vote which developed the full strength of the opposition to the measure, forty-five Republicans voted with Aldrich, and twenty-four Democrats and seven Republicans—thirty-one in all, voted against him...
...6) It is a mere device to defeat a legitimate and proper income-tax measure...
...Under such conditions wheat has fallen since last week on the average nearly two cents on all deliveries, now ruling a little better than $1.14 for July, $1.10 for September, and $1.08 for December at Chicago...
...It is noteworthy that the only political assassinations for many years in England grew out of the denial of self government to the people of Ireland and India...
...In a tumultuous attempt by a mob of women to invade the office of the premier, a policeman was slapped by Mrs...
...Many deaths and prostrations were occasioned by the last and hottest two days of the period...
...General Bingham has made, in many respects, a good record as commissioner...
...Rioting had begun, and the situation looked rather dark, when an adjustment was made, the credit of which seems to be given to Mayer Magee...
...The occurrence of these two acute crises in the affairs of two cities containing seven millions of people or more is of interest as throwing light on the sort of government achieved by our modern Babylons...
...Senator Cummins failed to secure even the slightest reduction in the iron and steel rates...
...B. Thomas, its president, Arthur Donner, Charles H. Senff, John Mayer, and George H. Frazier, its directors, John E. Parsons, its director, and the counsel of the Sugar Trust who is charged with managing the scheme by which Adolph Segal, the confiding refiner of Philadelphia, was lured into borrowing a huge sum of money from the Trust thinking he was getting it from a friend, Thomas E. Harned, Segal's counsel, and Gus-tave E. Kissel, the man from whom Segal borrowed the $1,-250,000 by means of which he was put out of business...
...Last week the thirty-first of these bombs went off near the premises of a notorious gambler, several people were injured, and damage to the extent of $100,000 was done...
...Small grain is reported as turning out better than was expected...
...Chicago, Too, in Agitation There has always been a sinister aspect to the administration of Mayor Busse of Chicago...
...There was talk of vigilance committees...
...Senator Aldrich, after bluntly stating that he favored the tax as a means of defeating the income tax amendment, though asserting the need of the country for the revenue it will bring in, went for a sea trip as a means of relaxing from the strain of his labors, leaving the management of the corporation tax amendment in the hands of his lieutenants of the finance committee, and of Senator Root of New York...
...As a part of the operation of so reorganizing its business as to be able to do the same thing in a different way, it has declared a stock dividend of 15 per cent., and a cash dividend of 50 per cent...
...The fight of the Progressives and Democrats on the Taft measure as a club with which to beat the income tax to death was so earnest, however, that Aldrich returned earlier than was expected, and on July 2, by a resort to a motion shutting off debate, said to be unprecedented, he jammed the amendment through and it became an integral part of the Payne-Aldrich bill...
...Pank-hurst, a woman of prominence, and a great uproar was created...
...Catt pointed out the steady spread of the suffrage sentiment for the last five years...
...The company seems to have yielded every important demand of the men...
...The culprits have always been supposed to be the gamblers who were discriminated against...
...Catt, the international president, was read by Mrs...
...Just what the rule has been by which the favors have been granted is a mystery to all who are ignorant of what "protection" means in such cases...
...Shipments of wheat from India, Australia, and Argentina since May 1 aggregate about 60,000,000 bushels more than for the corresponding period last year...
...It caused one or two companies some temporary inconvenience, but has done no good to the public, except, perhaps, in the way of education...
...The Chief of Police had gone away to a health resort to recuperate...
...Elizabeth Hauser's report as headquarters secretary mentioned the American Federation of Labor as the strongest ally of the Association in the suffrage movement, and gave as other important allies the National Council of Women, the Socialist Party, the International Bricklayers' and Stonemasons' Union, the John Hopkins Alumni Association, and the International Cotton Spinners' Union...
...Only a few weeks after his inauguration, gambling houses which were allowed to operate began to be blown up with dynamite...
...The down-town district was terrorized...
...In an interview accorded to a news bureau, Senator Borah of Idaho gave several reasons why he opposed the tax as follows: (1) It is not a tax on wealth, though it pretends to be...
...The Taft tax on the net incomes of corporations was the next measure to engross the attention of the Senate...
...Trusts and Magnates in Trouble On July 1 indictments were found by the Federal grand jury of New York against the American Sugar Refining Company— the trust—W...
...The former are selling at from $6.75 to $7.50, and the latter even lower than $3.00...
...Sales of securities on the flew York stock exchange at the end of the week ending July 3 show an excess for the year thus far over 1908 of nearly fifty per cent, in value...
...On the vote by which the amendment finally passed, eight Republicans—Borah of Idaho, Bristow of Kansas, Bulkeley of Connecticut, Clapp of Minnesota, Cummins and Dolliver of Iowa, Heyburn of Idaho, and La Follette of Wisconsin, voted with only three Democrats—Hughes of Colorado, Chamberlain of Oregon, and Shively of Indiana—against the measure...
...The official head of the chief of police was demanded in some quarters...
...At this time a strike is on at the Argo plant of the Corn Products Refining Company of Chicago, and another in the tin plate mills of the Steel Trust in the Pittsburgh district...
...On the other hand, it is asserted that the removal of Bingham is a part of a plan to give Tammany absolute control of the police...
...Thus the Commodities Clause of the law which was designed to prevent the railways from engaging in general business practically ceases to exist...
...Ten shocks were recorded in less than as many hours...
...Woman Suffrage Movements The 41st annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association met at Seattle on July 1. The annual address of Mrs...
...The very important "maximum and minimum" provisions were disposed of in a few hours on the 3rd...
...The tottering wrecks of buildings went down under the impulse of the vibrations, and the too-familiar scenes of guards against looting, panic, distress and some few deaths were re-enacted...
...The grievance of certain runs which the men claimed demanded many more hours of duty than were paid for was abolished, and the union men who had struck or been discharged were reinstated...
...An investigating committee to probe the city administration was due to be appointed, but could not be named on account of the Mayor's sudden illness...
...By these provisions, all schedules are advanced horizontally 25 per cent, ad valorem unless on goods coming from a country as to which the President has made proclamation that it does not discriminate against American goods...
...Just how much revision upward this may result in is an interesting question...
...5) It tends to legalize the holding company— one of the instruments by which monopolies are built up...
...Immediately on assuming office he seems to have selected certain violators of law to be protected, and others to be restrained...
...Suits for the winding up of the trust are foreshadowed...
...The offenses are said to have been committed by the Gulf Refining Company and the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky, but the claim is made that they are merely puppets of the trust.—The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railway, which has for years been piling up a huge surplus by its coal mining operations, has been forced to go out the coal business by the Supreme Court decision in the Commodities Clause cases...
...but in the matter of the Duffy boy's picture, the case seems to present the aspect of a police outrage on the privileges of a private citizen...
Vol. 1 • July 1909 • No. 27
