NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering THE culmination of the fight on Cannonism resulted last week in the repudiation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives by the members of that body, and developments...
...conservation meaaago in The passage of laws that will safeguard the nation's resources from waste and unscrupulous exploitation, and yet will admit of their immediate development, is recommended by President Taft, in his special message on conservation, which was sent to Congress on the 14th...
...Pinchot declares: "The recommendations of the commission still wait for action...
...Rata Expert for Spokane Spokane now has a traffic expert to see that her business men get a square deal from the railroads...
...Pinchot's statement makes no direct reference to the President or Secretary Ballinger, but he declares that he will remain in the fight for the conservation of natural resources...
...The dangers which confront the conservation movement today must be met by positive action in Congress...
...The issue of bonds for this work is not considered in the message, but the improvement of fte Ohio River is urged...
...Other Trusts Attacked While the sugar trust feels it necessary to defend its transactions, other combines find an aroused public feeling of no material benefit to their dividends...
...He defeated the leading candidate of the reform element, James J. Starrow, by 1,323 plurality...
...Unless Congress acts, the water powers will pass into the hands of special interest without charge and without limit of time...
...7. The President repeats his well-known views on the inland waterway question, namely, that definite projects for waterway improvement should be taken up one by one as it is proved that...
...The "regulars" of the House had intended to hold a conference from which the "insurgents" should be barred, on the ground that they were not Republicans, but it seemed certain that in this case the Insurgents would combine with the minority of the House to defeat any proposals growing out of a caucus of this character and it was finally through the intercession of President Taft that the plan for a caucus of all members of the House "elected as Republicans" was agreed upon, for the purpose of selecting the members of the investigating committee...
...All of the stock is held in the Mitchell and Lewis family lines and there will be no bonds or floating indebtedness...
...In Chicago it is planned to fight the milk trust by the establishment of independent agencies for the distribution of dairy products...
...It is expected that other state delegations will follow this example...
...It seems very likely that the movement will result in reduced prices to the consumers of these commodities...
...It is charged that Heike was aware of the discrepancies which existed between the invoice weights of importations and the weights obtained by tampering with the government scales, but took no action to inquire into the matter...
...3. Laws authorizing the disposal of agricultural lands as such, and the reservation by the government of the right to the minerals lying beneath their surface, are recommended...
...A recent dispatch states that Mr...
...6. Appropriations for a period of five to ten years for the purpose of furthering the work and development of the forest service are recommended...
...The Tawney amendment was more than a mistake—it was a deliberate betrayal of the future...
...In a hearing by the House naval committee on January 12, the vice president of the du Pont Powder Company denied that that company was a trust...
...The committee is considering the advisability of establishing a factory for the manufacture of the powder needed by the government, instead of purchasing from the "trust...
...Neither concern has been able to fill the rapidly-increasing demand for its products...
...The President declares that it is not necessary for Congress to await the results of the investigation ©f the Interior Department and the Forest Service, but that the measures recommended should be taken up promptly and passed at this session...
...It is expected that one known insurgent will be given a place on the committee...
...been continued...
...The new concern will be known as the Mitchell-Lewis Motor Co...
...4. The danger of a water power monopoly is pointed out, and it is stated that if the disposal of the power sites now in the possession of the government is sufficiently safeguarded, the power which may be developed from them will make such a monopoly impossible...
...Sugar Trust Official Indicted On January 14 a federal grand jury in New York, returned an indictment against Charles R. Heike, Secretary of the American Sugar Refining Company...
...It is capitalized at $10,000,000...
...Chief among the specific recommeadationfl contained in the message are the following: 1. The principal land statutes now in effect were enacted more than a quarter of a century ago...
...Treasurer, Frank L. Mitchell...
...On the election of councilmen, however, incomplete returns seem to indicate that the non-partisans and reformers had triumphed over the Fitzgerald organization overwhelmingly...
...With the right kind of a man in charge, the employment of an expert may become a practical means of solving local shipping difficulties in large industrial and jobbing centers...
...This step on the part of the Spokane business men serves to emphasize the growing activity of merchants' associations in large cities to obtain by collective effort what cannot be obtained individually in the way of fair rates and service...
...Already various members of the House have announced their candidacy to fill the Speakership and in congressional circles there seems to be no doubt of the overthrow of the "Czar...
...Fitzgerald Wins in Boston Boston held her first election under the new form of city government on the 11th...
...The feeling that the high cost of living may be due to the existence of combines controlling the price of foodstuffs and other necessities of life is apparent in a special message to the legislature in which Governor Harmon of Ohio asked for the appointment of a joint committee to investigate the rapidly rising prices of foodstuffs...
...5. Congress is asked to authorize bonds of not more than $30,000,000 for the completion and extension of reclamation projects...
...This appointment was made upon the recommendation of George S. Loftus of Minneapolis, who has given close study to the freight rate question and to practical methods of solving it in the interest of the shippers...
...Mitchell Company Expands Announcement was made on the 14th of the amalgamation of Mitchell Motor Car Co., and the Mitchell and Lewis Co., Ltd...
...J. H. Kane, formerly chief of the tariff department of the Wisconsin Central railroad, has been appointed by the Chamber of Commerce as traffic manager for the merchants of the city...
...No action will be equivalent to bad action and will have the same results...
...The Senate refused to uphold the Speaker by passing a resolution designating the way in which the House should choose its representatives on the committee, and it is now planned to hold a caucus of all Republicans of the House for the purpose of determining who shall compose the delegation from that body...
...of Racine, Wis...
...2. The power of the Secretary of the Interior to withdraw lands for the purpose of safeguarding the public interest in them, is not clear or satisfactory...
...The minerals could be disposed of either by lease or on a royalty basis, with provisions requiring a certain amount of development each year, and the forfeiture of the interests of the persons who participate in the monopolizing of such resources...
...Sales Manager, James W. Gilson...
...It is recommended that Congress pass laws validating the withdrawals which have already been made by the Interior Department and giving the Secretary of the Interior authority to temporarily withdraw other lands, pending the passage of legislation covering the whole situation...
...To remedy the evils to which they have given rise, Congress should pass laws to "secure the best disposition of public lands to private ownership, under conditions offering on £he one hand sufficient inducement to private capital to take them over for proper development, with restrictive conditions on the other which shall secure to the public that character of control which will prevent a monopoly or misuse of the lands or their products...
...He points out the danger of bad legislation and the opposition of special interests and repeats his warning of the formation of a water power trust...
...It is a most striking example of prosperity," states the announcement...
...Chairman of the Board of Directors, William T. Lewis...
...Especially is Representative Tawney of Minnesota attacked for the introduction of a bill at the last session of Congress, which prevented the continuance of the work of the national conservation commission...
...The message deals with the subject of conservation in a general way, outlining the policy of the administration...
...Vice-President, Henry G. Mitchell...
...The combination of the two companies was effected in order to meet the expansion of business...
...It resulted in the success of John F. Fitzgerald, who was elected mayor for a four-year's term...
...Vice-President, George B. Wilson...
...Designer and Superintendent, John W. Bates...
...On January 11, the Republican members of the Ohio delegation, Taft's state] held a caucus at which they pledged themselves to work for the overthrow of Cannon if reelected...
...Comment is made on the relation of Waterways to railway rates...
...So with the phosphate deposits on public lands, when the withdrawals which now protect them are removed...
...He declares that the work of conservation was among.the most noteworthy of the reforms instituted by President Roosevelt, and that during the present administration the work has...
...Pinchot Still at Work On the 13th of January was issued the long expected and eagerly awaited statement of Gifford Pinchot, who was ousted from the Forest Service for "insubordination...
...So with the enormously valuable coal deposits in Alaska, which the present law would sell for $10 per acre...
...He also suggested that laws enacted by Congress may be partly responsible for the trouble...
...A recent example of this is the action of the Merchants & Manufacturers Association of Milwaukee in filing complaint with the railroad commission to secure a reduction of express rates in Wisconsin...
...Naming of Committee Difficult Task When the House of Representatives refused to allow its Speaker to appoint the Committee to investigate the Bal-linger-Pinchot controversy, the action was hailed as a move toward the appointment of an unbiased and impartial delegation from the House...
...Secretary, G. Vernon Rogers...
...All wise men will agree that the situation is serious...
...they would be practicable and useful for commerce, and recommends that provision be made in the river and harbor bill for the carrying on of such work...
...As yet the Speaker has given no indication that he is aware of the state of mind of the members of the House, but it is expected that he will save himself the humiliation of a defeat by announcing that he will not again be a candidate for the office which he now holds as head of the House...
...Fitzgerald, who was mayor of Boston in 1906 and 1907, conducted a "whirlwind" campaign and his personal popularity, together with his plea for "vindication" carried him through to success...
...It is the intention of Taft to send special messages later in the session dealing with the specific measures which he believes ought to be passed to further the work of conservation...
...The total vote was 95,225, which is said to be record-breaking...
...Up to date several minor employees of the company, weighers, checkers, and others of no influence in the management of the trust, have been convicted of conspiracy to defraud the government, but Heike is the first of the higher officials to be brought to trial...
...The officers of the new corporation are: President, William Mitchell Lewis...
...News Worth Remembering THE culmination of the fight on Cannonism resulted last week in the repudiation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives by the members of that body, and developments since that time have made it certain that Cannon is serving his last term as Speaker...
Vol. 2 • January 1910 • No. 3
