NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering NO MEASURE passed by Congress during the present session is of greater interest to the people at large than the postal savings law which will go into effect within sixty days...
...Wages have not advanced as rapidly as have prices, and practically all labor difficulties which have been the subject of mediation in the United States during the last two or three years have had as their basis the advanced cost of living," is the finding of the committee on this important phase of the question...
...reduced fertility of land, resulting in lower average production or in increased expenditures for fertilization...
...Court Reform Abolishment of the justice of the peace system, involving the loss of office by 3.300 justices and as many constables of the state, was advocated as one essential of reform of court procedure and organization in Illinois by Justice Olson of Chicago on June 6...
...He moved that the general deficiency bill which, had not been concurred in by the House be recalled for further action by the Senate, and then, in a speech which electrified the Senate, explained his purpose...
...The rate of interest will be 2 per cent., but not more than $100 may be deposited in any one month, and accounts of more than $500 are barred...
...The President, of course, would have little knowledge of conditions and McMurray hoped to find his way easy with such a law...
...The funds deposited in the local banks may be withdrawn by the President if he deems it necessary for the welfare of the nation...
...The United States at last has adopted a measure in the public interest which has been in force in most European countries for many years...
...He has made many enemies among those who before his assumption of authority had broken the law with impunity...
...Although the expenditure is authorized no appropriation is actually made...
...High Prices "Explained" The Senate Committee which was appointed to investigate and ascertain the causes of the increased and high cost of living, made its report on June 23...
...about 38 per cent, earned less than $1.68 a day...
...The minority or Democratic report is expected soon...
...Pork Barrel" Goes Through Among other measures passed by Congress and receiving President Taft's approval was the Mann bill to suppress the white slave traffic...
...In signing it he abandoned a previously formed decision to veto any legislation which was in the nature of a "pork barrel...
...Progressive Senators opposed several provisions for the disposal of the funds of the postal banks, but were unable to gain their points...
...One cake of Fels-Naptha will prove this to you next washday...
...It is stated that the board of trustees provided for by law will establish the system slowly, at first creating depositories in only a few communities now without adequate banking facilities...
...The Interstate Commerce Commission has decided to grant the Pullman car company a rehearing in the cases in which it ordered sleeping car rates to be reduced...
...Taft sent a message to Congress, however, declaring that in order not to delay and injure the necessary projects provided for in the bill, he would approve it, but that he would feel obliged to veto any measure passed at future sessions which carried "pork" in such large quantities...
...during' last January 43 per cent, of all the men worked seven days a week...
...Gore Charges Bribery Charges of the gravest nature, i n-volving the integrity of members of Congress, were made by Senator Gore of Oklahoma on June 24, the day before Congress adjourned...
...Accounts may be opened by any person over ten years of age...
...Several investigations are already under way, including those in regard to the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, and ship-subsidy lobbying methods...
...Gore says that McMurray made over 10,000 individual contracts with the Indians for the disposal of their lands...
...The com* mittee points out the impossibility of decent living under such conditions...
...Kohler has gained a national reputation by his administration of the police department of Cleveland...
...the increased demand for farm products and food...
...He said that no appropriation should be made unless engineers had approved of the project provided for, and unless the intention was to provide for the completion of the work...
...a survey will be made by a commission regarding the desirability of legislation defining the liability of employers for personal injuries to employees...
...News Notes The indictment found last spring in Chicago against the National Packing company and ten subsidiaries composing the so-called trust, was dismissed last week by Judge Landis of Chicago because of its faulty wording and form...
...He has now served thirty years...
...Forest Reserve Bill Killed The Appalachian Mountain forest reserve bill was smothered by the Senate after passing the House, and a bill providing ship subsidies was made the "favored legislation" to come first before the upper House at the next session...
...Protection" for People or Trusts...
...The next Congress will probably provide the money...
...Few witnesses were called and the attack on the state's case consisted mainly in charges as to the character of its witnesses...
...National, congressional and other political committees or associations must keep an account of the funds received and disbursed and make a detailed, sworn statement to the clerk of the House of Representatives within thirty days after an election has taken place...
...The bill authorizing the issuance of $20,000,000 in certificates of indebtedness to complete reclamation projects under way, was passed...
...It is predicted that this report will not absolve the tariff, but will lay to it the chief responsibility for the high prices of commodities which the people must have...
...The amount appropriated by the session of Congress just closed totals over a billion dollars...
...Gore says that Representative C:eager of Oklahoma and other members of Congress had been approached on the same matter...
...Then the clothes are cleaner and sweeter than you can get them in any other way...
...Senator Gore, in order to protect the interests of his constituents introduced a bill providing that contracts for the disposal of the Indian lands must be approved by Congress before becoming effective...
...The House bill provided for publicity before election, but the Senate refused to pass such a measure and as a result of a conference the statements will not be made until after the elections have taken place...
...His views on political, social, industrial, educational and religious questions were always of keen interest to the public and to scholars...
...of the men employed earned less than 18 cents an hour or $2.16 for a twelve hour working day...
...He said that the people feel that a lower tariff would be a benefit to the whole nation and that the industries of the nation can now compete on equal terms in foreign markets and need no excessive "protection...
...It's easier on the clothes, easier on you, saves fuel, time and bother...
...More than a score of factors are named as entering into the increase but no fundamental cause for the present condition is found...
...His work has been conducted with the same object in view as that actuating Judge Lindsey of Denver: To reform rather than to punish...
...the shifting of population from the farm to the city...
...Professor Smith's literary style was clear and trenchant...
...He has tried to protect the people, not alone from criminals but from the evil of police usurpation of power and authority...
...In order to prevent its adoption he made the speech which astounded the Senate and the whole nation...
...At the time this is written the jury is still out...
...With Fels-Naptha soap you can wash clothes in cold or lukewarm water in about half the time it takes by the old-fashioned boiling, hard-rubbing way...
...Agitation for a postal savings bank system has continued ceaselessly for more than a decade, and now that it has been secured, the operation of the law will be watched with interest...
...cold storage houses, and the material decrease in the amount of government owned land suitable for agriculture...
...The rehearing, however, will not take place until a period of three or four months has elapsed in which to judge of the effect of the new rates...
...The Rivers and Harbors bill, carrying $52,000,000 was signed by the President on the last day of the session...
...At the time the charges were brought against Chief Kohler it was publicly stated that they were inspired by those who found his vigilance and policy harmful to their interests...
...65 per cent, of the funds received at the postal banks will be redeposited in state and national banks, which will pay 21/4 per cent, interest, and will be required to give as security bonds or other securities approved by the board and subject to the taxing power...
...5 per cent, of the funds will be deposited in the treasury of the United States as a reserve fund, and the remaining 30 per cent., may be invested by the board in securities of the United States...
...The board will designate the postoffices where money will be received...
...He has repressed the social evil, obliterated gambling and has instructed his men to make as few arrests as possible...
...During this time he has been in reality an absolute monarch, although called President...
...another survey for the purpose of securing information to help congress regulate the issuance cf railroad stocks and bonds is authorized...
...A new grand jury will investigate the operations of the companies...
...Those accused by Senator Gore of participation in the "grab" deny his statements...
...The investigation of the sale of Philippine friar lands to the sugar trust, demanded by Congressman Martin, was killed by the House...
...The report states that while the advance in prices within the last decade has been universal the increase in the United States has been far greater than in Europe, although prices are still much higher in the older countries...
...The greatest increases have occurred in products coming either directly or indirectly from the farm, the committee finds, and an attempt is made to ascertain the causes of this...
...In the course of his speech he said: "The old argument that protection was necessary to encourage American industries in what might otherwise have been a purely agricultural country has lost its force in the tremendous industrial development in all branches of trade...
...61 per cent...
...In conference a substitute was adopted which Senator Gore declares would legalize the McMurray contracts...
...He will be remembered for his combattance of religious bigotry and intolerance and for his advocacy of the principles of the liberal party in England and the cause of the Union in the Civil War in America at a time when both movements were extremely unpopular among associates in his native land...
...The bill which was passed and signed by the President on June 23, provides for the organization of a system of postal savings banks by a board of trustees, consisting of the postmaster general, the secretary of the treasury, and the attorney general...
...After the contracts were secured an obstacle presented itself in the shape of approval of the contracts...
...Persons expending more than $50 in a campaign, unless contributed to a committee, are required to file similar statements with the cierk of the House...
...The $22,000,000 public buildings bill passed the two Houses and was signed by Mr...
...The Oklahoma Senator gained the floor on a point of personal privilege...
...4,203 of the men had an eleven-and-a-half-hour day with an occasional Saturday afternoon holiday...
...The woman who does has the easiest time...
...in many departments a seven day week for 28 per cent, of the employees was in existence...
...Cloth and clothing advanced 12 per cent, and lumber and building materials 19.6 per cent...
...They agreed to pay him, as a fee, ten per cent, of the amount they received, a sum approximating $3,-000,000...
...Before adjourning, committees were appointed by the two houses to make a searching investigation of the whole matter, including the charges of attempted bribery...
...an examination will be made by three engineers into the feasibility of the deep waterway project as it pertains to the Illinois and Desplaines river...
...The greatest increase in the period from 1900-1910 is in the price of farm products—39.8 per cent...
...The report is based on a comparison of prices charged in the year 1900 and those charged at the present time...
...Industrial combines, a higher standard of living, and an i n-crease in the supply of money are also put forth in explanation of the prevailing high prices...
...The bill providing publicity for campaign expenditures and contributions was one of these...
...The statement must contain the names of contributors and the amount given by each...
...Following close upon reports of a revolt along the border, President Diaz of Mexico was elected last week for another term...
...Here are a few of the facts: Before striking, 51 per cent, of the employees worked twelve hours a day...
...Senator Gore said that the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians of Oklahoma have asphalt, coal, and timber lands worth in their estimation about $60,000,000, but estimated conservatively at a value of $40,000,000...
...It contains many provisions in the interest of Wall Street and it remains to be seen how much benefit the public will reap from this kind of a measure...
...News Worth Remembering NO MEASURE passed by Congress during the present session is of greater interest to the people at large than the postal savings law which will go into effect within sixty days of the date on which it received the President's signature—June 23...
...The majority, which was composed of Senators who have given the new tariff law ardent support, occasioned no surprise by finding that "The tariff has been no material factor in causing the advance in prices during the last decade...
...These lands are sought by a syndicate...
...Golden Rule" Chief Vindicated Fred Kohler, Cleveland's "Golden Rule" police chief, who recently was suspended from office and brought to trial before the civil service commission on charges of drunkenness and immorality, has been acquitted and reinstated...
...John F. McMurray of South McAlcster, Okhhoma, who is known in Washington a- a member of a firm which obtained from the Interior Department some years ago a fee of $750,000, over the protest of Ethan Allen Hitchcock, then secretary, is charged by Senator Gore with seeking to obtain another enormous fee from the Indians...
...the increase of banking facilities in agricultural localities which enables farmers t0 hold their crops and market them to the best advantage...
...Senator Gore's bill to safeguard the Indians' interests was attached to the general deficiency bill, which went to conference...
...Do You Make Your Head save your hands...
...Publicity of Campaign Expenditures Before Congress adjourned on June 25, a number of important measures passed by both houses in the closing days received the signature of the President...
...The defense in the trial of Lee O'Neille Browne, charged with having bribed Charles White, an Illinois legislator, to vote for William Lortmer for United States Senator, closed its case last week...
...His bill was ordered reported favorably from committee, and on May 6, the following day, says the Senator, he was approached by a warm personal friend who intimated that $50,000 would be forthcoming for help to secure the passage of the bill McMurray wanted...
...Taft...
...Do a little thinking...
...In recent years he aroused widespread discussion by a prediction that eventually the United States and Canada, because of their similar interests and populations, would become one nation...
...The smallest deposit received will be $1 but stamps for lesser amounts will be sold, in order to enable the buyer to save the amount necessary to open an account...
...A depositor by surrendering his deposit in sums of from $20 to $500 may secure bonds of the United States bearing interest at the rate of 21/2 per cent...
...Steel Workers Oppressed An investigation just completed by a; committee of the commission on church and social service, reports worse conditions at the Bethlehem steel works than disclosed by the Pittsburg Survey, and serves to confirm the facts, summarized in these columns, made known by the government investigators some time ago...
...During the summer a Senate committee will investigate the reclamation service...
...The Springfield grand jury during the week indicted a number of men charged with participation in the distribution of "slush funds...
...It loses its reason and plausibility whenever Industries grow so big as to get their feet on us...
...They found not a trace of "the high standard of living of the American workingman" so often referred to in tariff discussions...
...Witnesses who were "brought against him showed animus and failed to establish the slightest case...
...On June 23, the same day that the cost of living committee reported its findings to the Senate, Congressman Foss of Chicago made a plea in the House for a permanent tariff commission...
...Be sure to follow directions on the red and green wrapper...
...The President was determined to have the House bill made the law, and was able to gain the votes of enough Senators to prevent the passage of amendments requiring all of the funds of the postal banks to be deposited In local banks...
...No service worth even the smallest fraction of this amount would be rendered, but McMurray was able to deal with the Indians because of their lack of knowledge of conditions...
...an investigation by the labor commissioner of conditions of employment in the steel industry is provided for, as well as a survey of the question of preserving the navigability of rivers by forest conservation and an investigation of the "third degree" police methods...
...Responsibility is placed upon the increased cost of production of farm products by reason of higher land values and higher wages...
...McMurray is said to have tried to secure the approval by the Commissioner of Indian affairs, the Secretary of the Interior, the Attorney General, and even the President, and organized a lobby for the purple of securing the passage of a bill which would enable the President to approve of contracts affecting tribal money and the property of the two tribes...
...Distinguished Publicist Dead Professor Goldwin Smith, distinguished alike in America and England for his literary efforts and social and economic views, died at his home in Toronto, Canada, on June 7. Professor Smith was born in England in 1823, educated at Oxford, where he took high honors and was made regius professor of History in 1858, came to the United States in 1868 to accept the chair of English and constitutional history at Cornell University, and after three years removed to Canada where he began his career of publicist...
Vol. 2 • July 1910 • No. 26
