NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING

...The faculty included men from most of the large American universities, from the Austrian Imperial College of Agriculture, and from the University of Edinburgh...

...They were worth $160,000,-000, according to an estimate of the United States Geological Survey...

...Their homes were in some cases found to be barely fit for human habitation...

...The Committee met in Muskogee, Oklahoma, on August 4 and heard Senator Gore testify that he had been offered, first $25,000, and later, $50,000, by Jacob L. Hamon, former chairman of the Oklahoma state Republican committee, as a bribe not to block certain legislation legalizing the payment of $3,000,000 to J. F. McMur-ray of Oklahoma and his associates...

...These bills, Senator Gore vigorously opposed and he charges that to secure his acquiescence to the proposed legislation, the bribe was offered...

...Congressmen Offered Bribes...

...Much enthusiasm was shown at mention of Mr Roosevelt's name and the standpat element in the convention was unable to gain a single point except when allowed to by the Progressives, in the interests of harmony, on points involving no vital principle...

...High labor leaders violated the court's injunctions, were convicted of contempt, and sentenced to serve prison terms...

...Governor Stubbs, progressive, was renominated by a majority of 20,000...

...Sherman...

...Governor Patterson has fallen into disfavor because of the freedom with which he has exercised the right of pardoning convicted criminals...

...On August 5, Jacob L. Hamon appeared before the committee and denied every charge that had been made against him in connection with the Indian contracts...

...People of Tennessee Revolt In Tennessee Governor Patterson and his "machine" were decisively defeated in the elections held on August 4. The principal issue was the election of a Supreme Court free from the domination of the executive...

...The creation of a permanent, non-partisan tariff commission was urged as the means of securing a tariff that will protect but that will not extort...

...The Board of Review has been un:'er attack before, notably by the Socialists who charge that it is made up of men chosen by the "Interests" of Chicago...

...Although it was denied that he bad asked for the resignation of the head of the Interior Department, the administration is said to realize that the Secretary is regarded with distrust throughout the country and that his voluntary resignation would brighten the party's chances at the fall elections...

...Mayor Gaynor of New York was shot by an assassin, on the morning of August 9, as he was about to sail for Europe on a month's trip...

...It is charged by the Illinois Tax Reform League that the Board of Review of Chicago has failed to assess the millionaires of that city on stocks and bonds held by them, valued at $200,000,000, which they are said to have failed to declare...

...News Notes The Graduate School in Agriculture closed its session, on July 30...

...He aroused nation-wide discussion several months ago by pardoning one of his political henchmen a few moments after the Supreme Court had upheld his conviction on a charge of murder...

...Mc-Murray and the others had made 10.000 individual contracts with the Indians, after they had failed to secure approval by President Roosevelt of their contracts with the tribes as a whole...

...At the time we go to press, it is reported that his condition is net serious and that he will recover...

...In Oklahoma the three insurgent Republican candidates for Congress were defeated, as was the one progressive Republican candidate in Missouri...

...The national administration was referred to in the following words: "They (the Republican state delegates) indorse such efforts as President Taft and his advisers have made to fulfill the promises of the national platform and which have been in harmony with the declarations of this convention...

...The Buck Stove and Range Company and officials of the American Federation of Labor have settled their long standing differences...

...The reason for the attack is unknown...

...The testimony of Senator Gore and Congressman Creager was partially corroborated by their clerks, and others...

...Most of the houses are owned by the companies.—The Chicago Federation of Labor has decided to take a referendum among its 250,000 members, in order to determine whether organized labor of the city shall form a new political party or shall affiliate with the Socialist party...

...The Supreme Court now has the cases...

...On the next day several Indians, representatives of their tribes, testified that they had been offered enormous sums of money to withdraw their opposition to the contracts...

...It is stated that although the Buck company will drop the litigation the American anti-Boycott Association will continue the warfare on the unions...

...The individual contracts sought to authorize the payment to them, as a commission, of ten per cent, of the price they obtained for the Indians' lands...

...Their majorities were reduced, however...

...Ballinger to Resign...

...All were defeated for the Republican nominations by men who are pledged against Cannon, and the system which he represents...

...The four defeated standpat Congressmen are Charles F. Scott, J. M. Miller, W. A. Calderhead, and William A. Reeder...

...Senator Curtis of Kansas, and Representative Bird McGuire also denied that they had been "interested" in the contracts, after hearing Senator Gore's declaration that Hamon had stated this to be the case...

...Senators Dolliver and Cummins were heartily endorsed for their work upon the tariff, the railroad, and the postal savings bank bills, and the platform, after expressing the convention's disapproval of Cannonism, continues: "The Republicans of Iowa are the best judges of the Republicanism of the senators and representatives whom they send to Congress and they resent any attempt to exclude any of them from the honors and privileges which properly attach to membership in the Republican party...

...The Immigration Commission, of which Senator Dillingham of Vermont is chairman, has made a report covering an investigation into the conditions of life of miners in the bituminous fields of Pennsylvania...

...The refusal of this company several years ago to maintain a "closed shop" led to a boycott enjoined by the courts...

...The sensation created a few hours before Congress adjourned by Senator Gore's charges of attempted bribery of himself and a member of the House of Representatives by men financially interested in the sale of Indian mineral and asphalt lands, was eclipsed by the effect of the testimony given at the first session of the House committee appointed to investigate the matter...

...Failing to secure approval of the contracts by officers of the executive department of the government, as required by law, Mc-Murray and his agents had bills introduced in Congress approving them...

...Senator Crane of Massachusetts, who last week undertook a tour of the West for President Taft in order to ascertain the political views of that section of the country, went no further than Minneapolis, where he met and conferred with Secretary Ballinger...

...The early return of Senator Crane, who was scheduled to go as far as Seattle, Washington, may have been caused by the results of the Kansas primary, which may be regarded by the administration as an indication of the political thought of the West...

...The investigation will be thorough and may not be completed for several months...

...Progressive Platform Adopted in Iowa In Iowa another Insurgent victory indicates what the majority of voters desire in the way of legislation and representation...

...Victor Murdock and E. H. Madison, insurgents, were renominated without opposition...

...It finds that the men are paid very low wages,—the average yearly earnings of heads of families is only $431—and that lack of education and a low standard of i.ving prevent the majority of the foreigners from becoming citizens of the country in which they earn their livelihood...

...News Worth Remembering THE RESULTS of the primary election held in Kansas last week were especially pleasing to progressive Republicans because they followed so closely the adoption of standpat platforms by Republican conventions meeting in Ohio and Nebraska the preceding week...

...Speaker Cannon, who, with other regulars, toured the state speaking for his henchmen, refused to comment on the results, but progressives freely expressed their elation...

...Only two standpat representatives were able to secure renomination: D. R. Anthony, and Philip P. Campbell...

...Railroad Employees Win Strike The terms of the settlement between the Grand Trunk Railway and its striking employees were made public on August 4 and were declared to be practically a complete victory for the men, very few of whom returned to work before the agreement was reached...

...His statement that Hamon had declared Vice-President Sherman and other high officers of the government were financially interested in the approval of the contracts, brought forth a denial from Mr...

...The Republican state convention which met in Des Moines on August 3, not only refused to endorse the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, but specifically declared that the majority of the Republican party of Iowa did not recognize the revision of 1909 as a satisfactory fulfillment of the party promises...

...For the $3,000,000 "attorney's fee," McMur-ray and his associates would render practically no service, for the government stood ready to sell the lands for the tribal owners without charge to them...

...The attendance, which was restricted to those who had had a college course in agriculture, was over 150...

...Direct election of U. S. Senators was approved, as well as the levying of an income tax...

...The defeat of four standpat Congressmen for renomination by insurgent opponents gives an insight of the political views of the voters of the country, and especially of that section where there is free opportunity to register opinion through the operation of primary election acts...

...Hereafter the Buck plant will employ union men only...

...The railroad is said to have been forced to yield because of inability to operate its freight trains...

...Congressman Creager of Oklahoma took the stand and testified that he had also been offered an "interest" in the contracts, provided that he would withdraw opposition to them...

...A New York syndicate was ready to buy these tracts for $30,000,000...

...The Congressional Campaign Committee not only sent "regular" speakers into the state, but expended much money in an effort to hold back the popular tide of disapproval of the tariff legislation,, and the character of the lower house of Congress...