NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering WITH the passage by the House of the railroad bill on May 10, the legislative situation becomes less complicated. The Senate is expected to pass a rail biir embodying the...
...In time he turned his energies toward the publishing business, and succeeded in building up a chain of papers that became a powerful factor in national affairs...
...The lower house of the Massachusetts legislature has passed resolutions favoring the amendment of the federal Constitution so that United States Senators may be elected by the direct vote of the people...
...Hereafter no railroad corporation engaged in interstate commerce may issue any stocks or bonds for any purpose not connected with or relating to its business as a common carrier, and then only in an amount sufficient to secure the sum of money which the Interstate Commerce Commission finds is necessary for the purposes stated...
...Shipper May Choose Route Where now the shipper is forced to send his goods by the route which the railroad designates, even though the service may be slower or inadequate in other ways, the new bill gives to him a choice where the goods may be sent by two or more routes...
...Governor Draper has signed a law passed by the Massachusetts legislature, which gives the voters of the state the right to nominate directly in each district candidates for the state senate and assembly if ten per cent, of the voters in the district so petition...
...The parliament of Norway has passed a law granting all women over 25 years of age the right to vote in municipal elections...
...On May 12 the battleship Florida was launched at the Brooklyn navy yard...
...Regulars Meet Defeat On May 13, but a few days after the railroad rate bill passed the House, the Senate machine suffered an unexpected defeat when it was unable to knock out the provisions for governing long and short hauls, desired by the progressives...
...Spo:la System Condemned A report of the Civil Service Reform Association made public on May 11, censures both President Roosevelt and President Taft for appointments in conflict with the civil service idea...
...The senior Senator analyzed the new tariff law, pointing out its iniquities, and the falseness of the figures put forward in its defense by regulars...
...The Senate bill differs from that of the House in that the provision requiring publication in advance of election is stricken out...
...While the progressives were not able to secure the adoption of the original Dixon amendments, the principle for which they were fighting was incorporated in the measure...
...Congressional Notes The rivers and harbors bill f.ow in conference of Senate and House is said to carry so much in the way of pork in its appropriation of $52,000,000 that unless it is pared down the President is likely to veto it when given to him.— The House has passed resolutions calling on the War Department for information as to the purchasers of the Philippine Friar lands under the guise of the "Mindora Development Company," which is charged to be merely another name for the American Sugar Refining Company.-Senator Burrows has reported to the Senate the house bill providing for the publicity of campaign contributions...
...The Russian government is determined to force all Jews into "the pale," the Polish provinces and Ukraine, the only territory where they may legally reside...
...Aldrich and other regular leaders of the Senate had assured the President that they would be able to defeat any short and long haul amendments that i might be offered, but when the time came for the consideration of these amendments they found it impossible to muster a majority and were forced to yield...
...In 1S6U he opened a book store...
...Agree on Postal Bill The committee on postoffices and post-roads of the House of Representatives has reached an agreement on a postal savings bill and President Taft has approved the measure which has been formulated, according to a dispatch of May 12 from Washington...
...Stop Exporting Fertilizers Serious consequences will ensue, says Dr...
...Taft Takes a Hand The presence in Washington of President Taft during the time when the fight in the Senate and House was hottest last week, indicated the attitude which it is stated the chief executive has decided to assume toward the enactment of legislation by the legislative branch of the government...
...He showed conclusively that, "so far as the public is concerned, the tariff revision in fact carries rates as high, or higher, than the Dingley tariff law on most articles of general use in their finished condition...
...A native of Ge many, he immigrated to this country in 1857, going almost immediately to Milwaukee...
...The committee condemns the activity of office holders in partisan politics and commends Mayor Gaynor of New York for his adherence to the principles of civil service...
...The most important development of the week was the beginning of an investigation of the Tribune charges by a Springfield grand jury...
...Formerly the commission was authorized to make investigations of rates alone, and only upon the complaint of a skipper, but now it is given the power to institute investigations on its own initiative and is given the additional authority of supervision of classifications and railroad regulations of all kinds...
...The bill as passed provides for a commerce court...
...Hopkins of the University of Illinois, an authority on land fertility and agronomy, unless exportation of American fertilizers ceases, and a limitation is put on the reproduction of unfit population...
...In many respects, the life of Mr...
...Labor Items On May 14 federal arbitrators began the taking of testimony in the dispute between 27,000 firemen and enginemen employed on forty-nine western railroads...
...A short and long haul amendment, which the President opposed and which is said to be unconstitutional, was added...
...Heretofore the number has been restricted...
...News Notes Fires in the northern parts of Michigan and Wisconsin last week imperiled many lives and played great havoc with standing and growing timber...
...Professor Hopkins says that the "common people" will soon have to strike from their bill-of-fare beefsteak and other meats, and depend on cereals for sustenance...
...On the 16th, Lee O'Neille Browne, Pcmrcrati...
...After but a few days the two bodies conflicted in their work a"d mutual charges of "bad faith" were made by the states attorneys...
...Former President Roosevelt was received with enthusiasm by the Berlin public and by the imperial court...
...Telegraph and telephone companies are placed under the provisions of the measure and all provisions of the law are made applicable to them that can be made applicable...
...A9> Democrats from the Aldrich ranks that the regular organization was forced to beat a retreat...
...neral of King Edward, by appointment of President Taft...
...A mass meeting will be held in Chicago for the purpose of protesting against a recent decision of the Appelate court which declared illegal the calling of a strike because employers refused to discharge workers who refused to become or remain members of the union...
...His life was a model of thrift, perseverance, integrity, and good citizenship...
...Formerly a railroad filed a change of rate with the commission and thirty days af^er the filir.g, the rate went into effect...
...The University of Minnesota has just provided for the establishment of a college of Forestry...
...It Is said that the President will use his influence toward securing a fulfillment of the party pledges, and to this end has already had conferences with a large number of western regular senators who have shown a disposition to bolt on the rail and conservation measures...
...News Note...
...Before the commission can grant the authority it must make a thorough inquiry to determine whether "circumstances or conditions of the longer haul are dissimilar from those of the shorter haul...
...He began as a carpenter but soon turned his interests from boards to books...
...Brumder typifies the winning of the West...
...Senator Cummins devoted his address to an exposition of the motives and methods of the regular organization members of Congress and appealed to the voters to support progressivism and their own rights by defeating for reelection the standpat Congressmen from Iowa, Hull, Smith...
...The hill also provides that when a railroad company has caused loss to a shipper by quoting a wrong rate, in writing, it shall be penalized by the commission, the penalty going to the government...
...The bill, as it passed the House, differed in several important respects from that which was introduced with the President's approval...
...Seven states are investigating similar complaints, and twelve states have already investigated and materially lowered express rates...
...Says the report: "Where the spoils system in the selection of officers thus dominates the service, the failure of subordinates to remain honest and efficient cannot be fairly charged to the merit system...
...The House will probably consider the postal savings measure within a short time, now that the railroad bill is temporarily out of the way...
...The jury heard several witnesses, and examined one assemblyman in regard to his sudden display of affluence shortly after the election of Lorimer...
...Long and Short Haul The long and short haul amendment adopted by the Senate prohibits any railroad from charging a lower rate for a long haul than it does for a short haul over the same line, unless the Interstate Commerce Commission authorizes it to do so...
...He belonged to the sturdy German stock which, has contributed so much to the progress and upbuilding of the nation, particularly throughout the Middle West...
...The bill seeks to legalize the investment of the deposits in the two and one-fourth per cent, bonds now held by the national banks, and which are the greatest barrier to the adoption of the central bank scheme of Senator Aldrich...
...Roosevelt was shown unusual honors...
...Towner and Kennedy...
...Express Rates Attacked Illinois merchants and manufacturers are protesting against unreasonable express rates, charging that the rates are excessive and discriminatory, and alleging that the profits of the express companies range from 25 to over 100 percent, on their capital, which is grossly inflated...
...The traffic agreement clause and the provision permitting railroads to purchase the controlling share of the stock of other common carriers had been cut out...
...Jury Continues Bribery Probe No new indictrntnts were returned during the week by the Cock County grand jury, which is investigating the election of Senator Lorimer...
...The President spoke at Passiac, New Jersey, on the night of May 9 and said that he expected the passage by the present congress of the bills giving statehood for Arizona and New Mexico, postal savings banks, anti-injunction, the bill validating the withdrawal of lands for conservation purposes by the President, and the publicity of campaign expenditures, in addition to the railroad bill...
...minority leader in the la?t H'st-ion of the Illinois legislature, was placed on trial on the indictment returned by the Chicago grand jury charging him with having paid to Representative Charles A. White, another Democrat, $850 for voting for Senator Lorimer...
...The growing scarcity in the United States of wood suitable for the making of print paper has caused the price of that article to rise very rapidly and within a few years the situation will become serious unless the government experts shall have found a means of making cornstalk paper on a commercial scale, in the meantime...
...Under existing law the railroads themselves are allowed to decide this important point...
...Much property was destroyed, and several small towns were for a time threatened with extinction by the flames...
...It is to consist of five judges of the circuit court appointed by the Supreme court, which will decide all cases now arising between the Interstate Commerce Commission and shippers and the railroads...
...The Interstate Commerce Commission is investigating the same subject in what are known as the Sundberg cases...
...The Senate is expected to pass a rail biir embodying the President's recommendations within a week and then the two bills will go to conference between the Senate and the House...
...The vessel is the largest of the navy...
...As the guest of the Kaiser, Mr...
...Aldrich was reported to have under his wing failed to materialize to any extent, and, indeed, it was through the defection of fifteen <A9>GEORGE BRUMDER BY THE death of George Brum-der at his home in Milwaukee on May 10, a notable career was ended...
...He will represent the United States at the fu"Mr...
...The House bill gives the Commission power to suspend the new rate for 120 days after it would have gone into effect under the old law, pending a hearing on the reasonableness of the new tariff by the commission either of its own motion or on the complaint of a shipper...
...The bill differs radically from that passed by the Senate, particularly in regard to the way in which money received as deposits may be invested in government securities...
...Paper From Corn Stalks Farmers and publishers alike were interested in the news given out last week that experts of the Department of Agriculture had discovered a process of making paper from corn stalks and that there is likelihood of finding means whereby cotton stalks, rice straw and other fibrous substances may be transformed into print and other kinds of paper...
...The men demand an increase in wages of twelve and a half per cent.— Charles P. Neill, commissioner of labor, in a statement issued on May 11, stated that the conditions of labor existing at the Bethlehem Steel Works, are common to the whole steel industry.—With the signing of a new wage scale on May 14, Iowa miners returned to their work...
...Bntmder was owner of a line of German publications, including the Milwaukee Germania, the Lincoln Freie Presse, the Chicago Rundschau, the Deutsche Warte, the Deutsch amerikani&che Farmersfreund, the Moderne Journal and the Sheboygan Zeitung...
...They are in this way enabled to charge lower rates for long hauls to points on the Pacific coast than on short hauls to inland points on the same route, on the ground that water competition constitutes "dissimilar conditions...
...Six councilmen have been sentenced to terms of from four to six months in jail and to pay fines of from $500 to $2,500 for participation in the bribery and corruption of the common council of Pittsburg...
...Taft has told fi lends that he la tired of the presidency...
...The resolution failed of passage in the Senate, however...
...The expulsion of Jews living in Kiev, Russia, marked by the usual horrors 'f Russian persecution, has aroused a worldwide protest from Jews...
...His enterprise prospered...
...Most of the appointments made were in the customs service, where corruption has been revealed very recently...
...Iowa Progressives Open Campaign The fight between the progressives and the standpatters of the Republican party of Iowa was opened in Des Moines on the night of May 10...
...The new and powerful organization of Republicans that Mr...
...Senators Dol-liver and Cummins addressed an audience of ten thousand citizens...
Vol. 2 • May 1910 • No. 20
