NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering LAST week the special grand jury called by State's Attorney Wayman of Chicago began an investigation of the charges made by Representative Charles A. White that the election...
...A d^patch from Washington on the 4th bore the news that Senator Aldrich had been able to effect an organization, said to consist of 47 Senators, which will make war upon the insurgent forces, attempting to retain Sections 13, 14, and 15 of the pending bill, which give the Interstate Commerce Commission control over the issues of railroad securities and which are said by progressives to contain provisions as bad as any proposed in the original bill, and which they intend to expose by a series of speeches similar to those which proved so effective in securing the elimination of the traffic agreement and merger sections of the measure...
...The Senate also eliminated that portion of the bill which provides that in cases where a road has secured fifty per cent, of the stock of another line it may obtain complete control without fear of interference under the terms of the anti-trust law...
...The peace palace, erected at a cost of $100,000 by Andrew Carnegie, was totally destroyed...
...The increases made by western roadB range from thirteen to fifteen per cent, and in many cases seem out of proportion to the advance made in wages, on which the new rates are based...
...This was done on the 3d, both houses of Congress striking out the provisions of the bill legalizing rate agreements...
...Labar union officials have attempted to secure an investigation of the condition of the employees of the steel trust and recently succeeded in securing this investigation by the bureau of labor...
...a parcels post, the restriction of foreign immigration by a head tax on each immigrant, the abolition by congressional enactment of dealing in futures, the restriction of the white slave traffic, and an increased appropriation for the agricultural department...
...Bryan by the press of the country...
...Wages were raised by all of these systems to uniform amounts, varying from six to twelve per cent., and the possibility of a great railroad strike, which seemed imminent a month or two ago, is no longer to be feared...
...The State's Attorney has declared that he will pursue the investigation until every one connected with the charges of corruption is either vindicated or brought to justice...
...The two bodies will cooperate to secure relief and reformatory legislation "necessary to conserve the rights and freedom to which the workers as men and citizens are entitled under the Constitution of the United States...
...Taft Praise* Knox President Taft has returned to Washington after another trip into the West At Pittsburg, the President spoke in praise of the work of Secretary of Stat* Knox...
...The Association of Retail Lumber Dealers in Mississippi and Louisiana is ordered to disband for violating the anti-trust law in restraining trade, and the order of the Supreme Court of Tenness e, ousting the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky from Tennessee, was sustained.—American bankers have succeeded in effecting the sale of over $100,000,000 of American railroad bonds in Paris.—Governor Fort of New Jersey has refused to issue requisitions on the governor of Illinois for the extradition of packers indicted by the Hudson County, New Jersey, grand jury some time ago...
...Steel Trust Hours of Work The Bureau of Labor made a report on May 4 upon the conditions existing at the Bethlehem steel works of the United States Steel corporation...
...His death will undoubtedly cause great confusion in England owing to the contest that is impending between the Jords and commons, and liberals and tories...
...The control of telegraph and telephone companies, and instructions to make a physical valuation of the railroads of the country are also features of the House bill, which bears only slight resemblance to the original administration measure...
...After a conference between officials of the two organizations, it was decided to submit the question of merging the Educational and Cooperative Union with the American Society of Equity to a referendum of the 3,000,000 members...
...Taft said that it was the purpose of the state department to protect the rights of the citizens of the country wherever they may be...
...Another amendment by the House requires an investigation by the Interstate Commerce Commission of alleged discriminations and unjust practices against certain communities...
...The report states that "of the men whose normal week consisted of only six days, 1,413, or 14.5 per cent, of the entire number on the pay roll, were required to do extra work on one or more Sundays during the month...
...The Cummins amendment to Section 7 of the railroad regulation bill provided that all traffic agreements and all changes of rates should be approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission before taking effect...
...Representative Robert E. Wilson, the man accused by White of having paid the "jackpot" money to him and other legislators at the Southern Hotel in St...
...Under the present system railroads are allowed to charge less for a haul of 2,000 miles to the coast than one of 1,500 miles to inland points on the same route...
...The nation was still disturbed as the result of the Boer war, b»t King Edward succeeded in reestablishing order in his own land and then began to improve foreign relations...
...The Senate regulars, under the leadership of Aldrich, counted the votes at their command and found that they would be unable to pass the provision to which the progressives were opposed...
...The senior Senator from Illinois, Cullom, has signified his readiness to present to the United States Senate, if asked to do so by Illinois authorities, a resolution for an official investigation of the charges, which if true, would invalidate his colleague's seat...
...The Prince of Wales, succeeds his father to the throne of England, with the title of George V. The late king was born November 9, 1841, but did not ascend the throne until the death of Queen Victoria in January, 1901...
...They will average from eight to twenty per cent, it is said...
...King Edward Dead Edward VII, King of England, died on the night of May 6, after an illness of but three days...
...The bureau found that of somewhat over nine thousand persons on the pay roll of the Bethlehem company, over fifty per cent, worked in positions regularly requiring twelve or more hours of labor per day...
...White appeared before the grand jury and gave testimony to the same effect as the statements made In the Tribune...
...The House has added a provision restraining railroads, after reducing rates because of water competition, from raising them unless the Interstate Commerce Commission finds that the proposed increases rest upon changed conditions other than the elimination of water competition...
...Resolutions were adopted demanding postal savings banks, provided the deposits are not centralized...
...Farmers Organize The most important thing resulting from the convention held in St...
...He declared that the statement that Mr...
...the Delaware, Lackawanna* and Western...
...Representatives Michael S. Link and Henry A. Shepard, also accused by White cf having participated in the division of the "jackpot," denied that they had done so...
...The Massachusetts legislature also has killed a resolution for the amendment of the United States constitution for the purpose of levying an income tax...
...Happenings in Congress A resolution has been introduced in the House by Representative Harrison, Democrat, of New Yoik, calling upon tY> President to firrvrn to the Hr-use the information bearing cn the prep iration of the Attorney General's summary of the Glavis charges.—On May 2, Charles E. Hughes, governor of New York, was confirmed by the Senate, as associate justice of the federal Supreme Court to succeed Justice Brewer.—A reply to President Taft's objection that the franchise might be monopolized by undesirable women is incorporated in a memorial asking Congress to submit to the states an amendment to the constitution providing that sex shall not constitute a bar to the right of franchise.— Congressman Lundin of Chicago has introduced a bill providing for the appointment of a commission to investigate old age pension systems in use in foreign countries and report the feasability of a similar plan in this country.—The appropriation asked for by President Taft to enable the tariff board to make a thorough investigation of the cost of production at home and abroad, has been reported at the head of the sundry civil appropriation bill...
...Railroads Raise Rates Following the action of the Western Trunk Line association increasing freight rates, Eastern roads have made a gen...
...White's story was partly corroborated by a friend who testified that he had stayed with White on the night when the latter had been approached in his room by Browne and offered a bribe of $1,000 for his vote...
...Defends Hughes Appointment At St...
...Contest Over Railroad Bill While President Taft was in the Wett, on a speaking tour, last week, the administration railroad bill was being vitally altered, and the Senate machine in order to save its face held numerous conferences and even considered the advisability of securing Democratic aid for the fulfillment of its plans...
...On May 4 the grand jury received the testimony of other members of the legislature, who said that they had heard rumors in Springfield of the use of money in behalf of the candidacy of Lorimer...
...The Elkins-Craw-ford provision made traffic agreements lawful under the Sherman law, and did not require that rates made by railroads should be submitted to the commission in advance of their going into effect...
...Hughes was a friend of great combinations of wealth was unsupported by evidence...
...On May 6 the investigation came to a climax with the indictment of Lee O'Neil Browne, leader of the democratic minority in the House, on the charge of bribery of Representative White...
...A suit has been brought in Ohio to test the constitutionality of the primary election law, while in Massachusetts, a bill providing for direct nominations of members of the legislature has gone to third reading...
...The House h:\s also added amendments to the bill which will prohibit railroads from making the present low transcontinental rates to the Pacific coast or force them to lower all intervening rates...
...The proceeds of the fund will be expended in full upon the workers who become aged or disabled in the service of the corporation...
...Thus a total of 4,041 or 43-5 per cent, of those appearing on the January pay roll were required to work on Sunday...
...This report comes a few days after the announcement that the United States Steel Corporation will attempt to do away with Sunday work as far as that is possible, and coincident with the news that it has added $8,000,-000 to the $4,000,000 pension fund created by Andrew Carnegie for the benefit of the employees in all the subsidiary concerns of the corporation...
...The latest companies to settle differences concerning wages are the new York Central...
...The farmers pledge themselves to give preference to the products of union labor, and, in turn, labor men will buy the products of organized farmers In preference to those of others...
...News Worth Remembering LAST week the special grand jury called by State's Attorney Wayman of Chicago began an investigation of the charges made by Representative Charles A. White that the election of Senator William Lor-imer had been accomplished by the bribing of members of the Illinois legislature...
...2,322 men were obliged to work twelve hours a day for seven days a week, a large percentage earning only 12.5 cents an hour...
...The President said that the policy of the government would be to keep open the door of the Orient for American goods, in accordance with its established principle, and would resist the efforts of any nation to close the Eastern market to our manufactures and products...
...He ascends the throne at a time when the country is facing the gravest internal crisis that has developed in many decades...
...Knox has been criticized for being an advocate of "dollar diplomacy," said the President, who defended the Secretary's efforts to secure a share of the world's commerce for the United States, declaring that such a policy strengthened the bonds of peace uniting nations, and inured to the benefit of the nations concerned...
...The increases in wages already granted on the fifteen lines will involve a total increase in the pay rolls of the companies of $44,-700,000, and on this fact the railroads are basing their demand for higher freight rates...
...The new bureau will carry on the work which in the past has been done by the Geological Survey, and is intended to foster, promote and develop the mining industry of the United States, especially with reference to the safety of miners...
...Knox's efforts in connection with the application of the maximum and minimum sections of the tariff law and spoke of the negotiations now under way to perfect a reciprocal trade agreement with Canada, He defended the Secretary's course in connection with the disturbance in Nicaragua...
...As yet Governor Deneen has taken no action, nor has the attorney general...
...Next week the grand jury of Sangamon County, Illinois, the county in which Springfield is located, will begin an investigation of the charges made by White...
...He commended Mr...
...Louis and confessed that he had received part of the money...
...Trusts Hit by Courts The Unif?d States Supreme Court on May 2 upheld two state courts in decisions involving trusts...
...The investigation in Chicago will continue and new and more startling developments are predicted...
...46 per cent, of the men worked for less than 16 cents an hour...
...He advocated the making of arbitration treaties between nations, and the limitation of armaments...
...He declared that peace between labor and capital was a matter of deep concern...
...Representative Wilson was indicted on the charge of perjury in his testimony before the Cook County grand jury in regard to the payment of the "jackpot" money...
...Louis meeting at which he was alleged to have been present and to have received a share of the "jackpet...
...One of the witnesses before the grand jury testified that he had been offered several hundred dollars if he would cast his vote against the direct primaries bill...
...It will pay particular attention to the treatment of ores, the use of explosives, and will investigate the causes of mine explosions...
...The convention heard President Taft's conservation address, and many addresses an the subject of dealing in futures in farm products, the cost of living, freight rates, marketing methods, and scientific farming...
...He was sincerely loved by his people...
...Its passage is uncertain...
...The King was regarded by all Europe as a statesman who earnestly desired peace among the nations...
...After the defeat last week of the Cummins amendment to the rail bill, by a margin of six votes, Senator Cummins announced that the amendment would be introduced in another form...
...An alliance was entered into between the farmers' organization and the American Federation of Labor...
...Newt Notei Theodore Roosevelt delivered an address on peace at Christiana, on May 5. Mr...
...It will be remembered that employees of this plnnt struck on February 4, although unorganized, in an effort to secure better working conditions...
...How he will deal with the political crisis in which England finds itself is a matter of conjecture...
...Representative Link after being convicted of perjury, secured immunity on this charge by appearing before the grand jury and retracting his former testimony...
...FraF.ce and Italy joined with England in a triple alliance, a treaty was made with Japan, and after the war between Russia and Japan, Russia was conciliated...
...He pleaded for fairness in passing judgment...
...A considerable amount of overtime work was required of the ten and a half hour men on days other than Sundays...
...Roosevelt was the recipient of the Nobel Peace prize during his second term as President, and in this address took occasion to express his views on the subject of international amity...
...Louis, appeared before the grand jury and denied everything regarding this phase of the scandal...
...and the Delaware and Hudson...
...The cause of his death was stated to be pneumonia, following an attack of bronchitis...
...Representative Link was also indicted for perjury because of his testi-moF.y regarding the St...
...Accordingly it was decided to defeat the Cummins amendment if it should come before the Senate and then strike out from the bill the section permitting traffic agreements...
...On May 4 an earthquake laid waste the town of Cartago, Costa Rica, and resulted in the death of over five hundred of the inhabitants...
...Mining Bureau Created A Bureau of Mines in the Interior Department is created by a bill which has passed the House and the Senate...
...On May 8 the second confession of tke inquiry was received from Representative H. J. C. Beckemeyer, who corroborated White's testimony as to the "jackpot" meeting in St...
...In the House it seems likely that the commerce court section will be thrown out before the bill is passed by that body, and a fight may be made in the Senate to prevent the authorization of such a court...
...Before the farmers' convention he spoke on conservation and said that the most important measure now in Congress to conserve the resources of the nation was that giving the President power to withdraw land from entry until adequate laws have been.passed for the purpose of insuring wise development of resources and yet preventing their exploitation at the expense of the public for the benefit of a few moneyed men...
...Railways Raise Wages Following the action of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in March, fourteen other great railways have come to agreements on a new wage scale with employees...
...The congress of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis last week passed a resolution favoring the establishment of a public health department...
...Louis the President replied to the attack on the appointment of Governor'Hughes as ascribed to Mr...
...Louis last week by delegates to the Farmers' National and Cooperative Union, was the forming of affiliations which will make the organized farmers of the country, more influential in the affairs of the nation...
...He admitted in his confession that he had been paid $1,000 by Lee O'Neil Browne for voting for Lorimer for United States Senator, and that he had received from Robert E. Wilson $900 as his share cf the "jackpot...
...Governor Fort bases his refusal on the grounds that the packers are not fugitives from justice and that it is essential that the accused persons were in fact in the state of New Jersey at the time of the commission of the alleged offense...
...The new ruler is forty-five years old and is of frail health...
...eral advance in classified freight rates, to go into effect about July 15...
Vol. 2 • May 1910 • No. 19
