NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering AFTER holding a conference on July 2 with Senator Bristow and Representatives Murdock and Madison of Kansas, all known as "insurgents," former President Roosevelt held a...
...Roosevelt has endorsed Governor Hughes' advocacy of the primary principle...
...During the session of Congress which ended a few weeks ago he consistently voted with the Progressives on provisions of the rail bill and other measures where differences of opinion arose within the Republican ranks...
...The Bethlehem Company is not part of the United States Steel Corporation...
...He stated, however, that Mr...
...In a signed editorial in the Outlook Mr...
...Ballinger Resign...
...Lodge is a close personal friend of the ex-President...
...The date for the speech has not yet been set...
...The announcement aroused interest because of the fact that Mr...
...Roosevelt would also enter the Washington contest in behalf of Representative Poindexter's candidacy for Senator...
...Taft Withdraws Land The passage by Congress of the land withdrawal act made it possible for President Taft to withdraw from entry on July 3, 8,495,731 acres of public land containing water power sites, phosphate, and petroleum...
...By the 9th of July the union officials estimated that more than 75,000 garment workers had struck, and it is said that if employers attempt to sublet their work in other cities of the East and West, a strike will be called in those places as well...
...It will be remembered that President Taft and Secretary Ballinger concluded that the law failed to give them specific authority to make such withdrawals, and therefore they could not act even if the public welfare required...
...This was done at the time of the shirt waist makers' strike of last winter and proved an effective means of gaining victory for the workers...
...The Secretary refused to state what would be done with Director Newell of the Reclamation Service, who testified against him before the investigating committee...
...This statement aroused the shippers of the country and it is now announced that as a result of the protests made to the commission against this policy, it has been decided to suspend practically all of the new rates filed with the commission and to give all a thorough examination before allowing them to become operative...
...Among the famous opinions written by the late Chief Justice was the decision in which the income tax was declared unconstitutional, and that in the Danbury hat case, by which labor unions are held to be amenable to the anti-trust law...
...The garment makers are not all organized but it expected that if the strike continues over a long period of time many non-union workers will strike in sympathy with their organized brethren...
...After Mr...
...It is rumored that he will be asked to resign within a short time...
...For 22 years he had served as head of one of the three branches of the national government...
...The trade affected is one which includes an immense amount of "sweatshop" labor...
...No As an indication that the recent investigation has not quieted the affairs of the Interior Department, an interview given by Secretary Ballinger to representatives of the Chicago press on July 9, is interesting...
...The "Sane Fourth" idea, which is gaining a wide foothold, seems to have reduced the number killed or maimed, but the record is still formidable...
...A prompt denial came from Mr...
...The total number of those injured and killed will not be known for a number of weeks, because of the period which ensues between the time of infection by tentanus germs and death...
...Roosevelt and Poindexter Agree A report appeared after a meeting on July 5 of Representative Poindexter and the former president, to the effect that Mr...
...He is a rank Socialist or if he is not one, he will be one soon...
...Ballinger merely stated that his case was being "attended to...
...This is an erroneous statement...
...Chief Justice Fuller Dead Melville W. Fuller, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died at his home in Sorrento, Maine, on July 4 at the age of 77 years...
...The convention framed a platform and passed resolutions in accord with his sentiments, failing to endorse the tariff law commended by the President and supported in Indiana by a faction of the party...
...A Correction In the weekly news summary of the May 14 issue of La Follette's reference was made to the Bethlehem Steel Company as a part of the United States Steel Corporation...
...The dispatch also conveyed the "information" that Mr...
...The records of the company showed such enormous profits under the old rates that their claim of "confiscation" became an absurdity and the injunction was denied...
...This faction, the so-called "Fairbanks-Hemonway machine" is said to contemplate administering a rebuke to Senator Beveridge, whose opponent, the candidate for the vice-presidency on the Democratic ticket in the last national election, is backed by the Taggart Democratic machine...
...For this reason the President made the land withdrawal act one of the measures which he determined must be passed during the last session...
...He also signed orders covering public lands and lands in national forests in Alaska in which there is workable coal...
...He predicts the ultimate victory of those who urge the adoption of primary elections, in the face of determined opposition from both party machines...
...Pullman Company Gets Rehearing Several weeks ago the Pullman Car Company was refused an injunction against the new berth rates promulgated by the Interstate Commerce Commission, by the United States Circuit Court in session in Chicago...
...Recently, however, the Pullman Company secured another hearing on a plea for an injunction, and the railroads which carry the Pullman sleepers between the points affected by the reductions, appeared in court and claimed that if the reductions went into effect they would suffer great loss because of their agreements with the Fullman company...
...News Worth Remembering AFTER holding a conference on July 2 with Senator Bristow and Representatives Murdock and Madison of Kansas, all known as "insurgents," former President Roosevelt held a conference with Senator Beveridge of Indiana, the result of which caused widespread discussion...
...Taft took action again because of the doubt which he entertained of the legality of his predecessor's action...
...For these reasons it seems that while Senator Beveridge represents the views of the great majority of the people of the state, the contest for the Senatorship will be a close one...
...The ex-President regards it as a democratic movement—one that will bring the government closer to the people and give them control of the party organizations which he considers necessary to a republican form of government...
...Beveridge had left Oyster Bay Mr...
...Several months ago he strongly denounced the Payne tariff law in his address to the state convention which renominated him...
...At that time the Pullman Company claimed that the new rates were confiscatory and would not give a fair return on the capital invested...
...The CouTt decided that an injunction ought to be granted on account of the new evidence presented by the railroads and accordingly enjoined the new rates...
...Ballinger had been mentioned in the report as one of the leaders of the opposition to Poindexter...
...Roosevelt had thus definitely and irrevocably bound himself to the cause of "insurgency...
...Poindexter's views on conservation and "similar subjects" coincided with his own...
...Lodge in his fight for reelection to the Senate from Massachusetts...
...The report which brought forth Mr...
...Roosevelt's denial led Secretary Bal-linger to issue a statement in which he said: "I do not consider Representative Poindexter a Republican...
...Roosevelt would support Mr...
...These had been withdrawn by President Roosevelt in 1906 but Mr...
...Roosevelt replied in answer to a question, that he had promised to speak in behalf of the Senator's candidacy for reelection...
...He denied that he contemplated resigning after the investigating committee had made its report...
...He again charged that Gifford Pinchot and James R. Garfield had entered into a "conspiracy" to drive him from office, and paid high tribute to President Taft...
...The Fatat "Fourth" Up to midnight of July 5, 43 persons had been killed as a result of the celebration of the Fourth of July...
...It was also said that the Commission would suspend only a few of the new rates which have been filed with it to go into effect on August X —only those rates that were plainly excessive and unreasonable...
...Uncle Sam Purchased Bad Plate Last winter, when labor leaders made a plea to the President for a Congressional investigation of the condition of labor in the steel mills of the country, it was charged that the companies were in the habit of selling defective armor plating to the government, and employed a special night force to work in secret in order to cover the defects...
...Garment Makers Strike What is said to be the greatest strike in the industrial history of New York City began on July 7. At that time, 50,000 garment and cloak makers, many of them women, walked out on call of the union...
...The government has secured the promise of the company to replace the plating but is in dispute as to who shall bear the cost of the labor involved in taking off the old and placing on the new steel plates...
...Roosevelt to Support Standpatter On the day following his interview with Senator Beveridge, it was announced that Mr...
...The strikers demand an eight-hour day, an increase in wages, and a guarantee that contractors shall stand behind subcontractors for wage payments...
...Roosevelt has had conferences with a number of progressives and many "regulars" and is expected to confer with Governor Hughes of New York within a few days of the time when this is written, to formulate ways and means for saving the New York section of "the party of Lincoln" in the next elections...
...Last week defects were discovered in the armor plating on two of the largest battleships of the United States...
...Beveridge took a leading part in the fight against the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill as it was introduced in the Senate and as it came from conference and was passed...
...About 2,500 had been injured at the time the figures were given out...
...He was one of the Progressives of the Senate who voted against the bill on final passage...
...The defects impair the armament resistance efficiency and new plates will be substituted...
...Lodge's views on the tariff and on practically every other subject of legislation, are diametrically opposed to those of the Indianian, and "regulars" of the Republican party point to this fact as an indication that the ex-president has not "gone over to the Insurgents...
...The railroads are censured by the court for withholding their evidence until the rates were scheduled to go into effect instead of appearing before the commission at the time the hearings were held...
...Commission to go Slow After Chairman Knapp of the Interstate Commerce Commission had a conference with President Taft in regard to the application of the new powers vested in that body, it was stated that the Commission would exercise with care its power of suspending rates arbitrarily and without complaint...
...The Commission has decided to give the Pullman Company and the railroads affected another hearing within a few months, at which time the new evidence will be presented...
Vol. 2 • July 1910 • No. 28
