NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering SINCE the passage by the Senate of the postal savings bank bill, the railroad regulation bills have taken first place in point of importance. The majority report of the...
...The Republican members of the committee from which the bill was reported seemed to be desirous of delaying it and far from anxious for its passage...
...During the week a few people were injured by strike-breakers and the police clubbed many in breaking up a parade, but otherwise the situation is the same, with the public and business men in general attempting to secure arbitration, and the traction company steadily adhering to its refusal to such a course...
...The House railway bills, which are still in committee, embody many of the features favored by the Senate progressives...
...It provides for the publication ten days before election and after election of itemized accounts of the receipts and expenditures of national and congressional campaign committees and individual candidates in elections covering two or more states...
...Taft for "Regularity" While this is being written, preparations are going on for the President's reception in Chicago on March 17...
...Already speakers have been sent into Kansas for the purpose of helping the standpat Congressmen of that state in their fight for reelection and it is believed by "regulars" that such support by Mr...
...The real fight on the bills will begin this week when they will be considered by the Senate as a whole...
...Publicity Bill Reported The McCall bill, providing for the publicity of political campaign contributions and expenses, was favorably reported to the House on March 12...
...There is every indication that a hard fight will be waged upon some of the provisions of the administration bills, especially those providing for a court of commerce, and governing traffic agreements and mergers...
...It gives the Interstate Commerce Commission power to determine the fair value of the road or roads...
...Roosevelt would turn the tide against insurgency...
...This attitude seems to reflect that of the House as a whole...
...A dispatch of March 8 from Washington stated that efforts were being made to have Mr...
...The Democrats are said to be unanimously for the bill...
...One provision adopted in the House committee which meets with the approval of the progressive senators aims to squeeze the water out of the capitalization of roads which merge or are reorganized after bankruptcy...
...The street car company claims that its business is almost normal while union leaders are planning for an even more wide-spread demonstration...
...Roosevelt on his return make six speeches in the principal cities of the Middle West* endorsing the policy of the Taft administration and the Payne-Aldrich tariff...
...Car Company Refuses to Arbitrate The general strike in Philadelphia haB continued throughout the week, but has been characterized by less violence than at the start...
...The majority report of the Senate committee on interstate commerce was submitted on March 7. A minority report signed by Senators Cummins and Clapp was submitted on March 3. The majority report endorses what are known as the administration bills, while the recommendations of the two western Senators are, of course, more far-reaching...
...The President has been urged by standpat members of Congress" coming up for reelection in the fall to make another plea for party regularity and again endorse the tariff act...
...Demand Higher Wages President W. S. Carter of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine-men on the 14th served notice on the general managers of 49 western roads, employing 27,000 firemen and enginemen, that unless the differences which have arisen were submitted to arbitration a strike would be ordered.—On March 12 President Lewis of the United Mine Workers of North America issued a statement declaring that a strike order affecting hard and soft coal miners alike would be issued if the demands for increased wages were not granted.—In Ohio a general strike of all members of the garment worker's union employed in Cleveland, some 8,000 in number, has been decided upon.—The United States Circuit Court of Appeals of Virginia handed down a decision on March 12, declaring that sympathetic strikes are unlawful...
Vol. 2 • March 1910 • No. 11
