NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering FOLLOWING serious illness of only a few days, Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver, United States Senator from Iowa, died on the night of October 15 at his home in Fort Dodge, Iowa....
...U. S. Senator Gear of Iowa died in 1900, and the then Congressman Dolliver was appointed to fill out the unexpired term...
...He was elected to the Fifty-first Congress from the Tenth Iowa District and reelected five times...
...Later he became a national campaign speaker...
...The result of the first enumeration gave the population of the city as 116,248, an enormous gain...
...Political Notes On October 10 the Supreme Court of Colorado declared unconstitutional a measure passed by the last regular session of the legislature which provided that the state should furnish campaign funds for all political parties, the funds to be based upon the number of votes cast by each party for governor at the last previous election...
...banishing the Braganza dynasty, and secularizing charitable institutions...
...In Tacoma, Washington, a recount already has been taken...
...When Congress convened for the regular session, Senator Dolliver continued to fight for government for the many, as opposed to government by the few for the predatory interests...
...The increases have been so great as to make it cheaper to ship grain from Chicago to New York by an all-rail route instead of by rail and water, although the all-rail rate is alleged to be highly extortionate...
...In the tariff session of 1909 he acknowledged this course as an error and fought with all his great ability for true downward revision of the tariff...
...At the age of 21 he was admitted to the bar, and, having political ambition, he moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa, a state controlled by the Republican party, in whose principles he believed...
...The court also decided that the numination of Frank T. Tucker for Attorney General was illegal...
...Many of the clergy have fled to Spain for protection and refuge...
...The cause of his death was dilation of the heart, the direct result of an attack of acute indigestion...
...More than 80,-000 men were on strike by October 11 and the number of strikers was constantly increased...
...He worked his way through the state university and then took up the study of law...
...News Notes Paris and a large part of France were seriously affected on October 8 by strikes of employees on the government and the privately owned and operated railroads of the north and west...
...Minneapolis, Minnesota...
...In the Senate his powerful personality, real ability, and exceptional powers as a debater and orator, attracted wide attention and won for him national distinction...
...Education in secular schools will be made compulsory...
...They sent him through the state speaking for the party ticket...
...Many Democratic nominees failed to receive the required number of votes in the primary e'ection held in September...
...Census "Padded" The Census Bureau has discovered that many towns and cities which according to the census completed a lew months ago, had grown remarkably during the last decade, have been guilty of gross frauds by "padding" methods...
...In a special election held in Lynn, Massachusetts, on October 12, the voters decided to adopt the commission form of government...
...Portugal Under New Government The new Portugese Republican government has begun to reorganize the educational and financial systems of the country...
...The board declares that this has been accomplished by raising the rail rates on grain transferred at Buffalo from the lake boats to the roads, for shipment by rail to New York...
...It is probable that those responsible and connected with the frauds, will be prosecuted by the government...
...A short time ago ill health forced him to abandon this plan...
...The complaint avers that the lake grain dealers are deprived of the advantages of the cheap water transportation, to which they are entitled by reason of geographical location, through the control by the railroads of all means of transportation, including that by way of water...
...For a time he practiced law, and the remarkable oratorical powers which were displayed in his courtroom arguments and pleas attracted the attention of the state political leaders...
...Tucker was drowned a few days before the primary election...
...Boise, Idaho...
...Roosevelt will continue to speak throughout the state, with hardly a pause, until election day, November 6. Railroads Stifle Water Competition The Chicago Board of Trade has filed a complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission alleging that the Pennsylvania, Baltimore and Ohio, New York Central and seventy-four other eastern railroads have conspired to restrain cheaper water transportation of grain between Chicago and New York...
...The case will be watched with interest he-cause of the charges made a few weeks ago, by Commissioner of Corporations: Herbert Knox Smith, that the railroads of the country controlled water trans- portation and stifled water competition...
...The campaign" committees of the state were to receive 25 cents for each vote polled for the head of their state tickets...
...In 1902 he was elected to the United States Senate, and reelected in 1908...
...Although his health had been bad since Christmas, Senator Dolliver labored incessantly during the last session, and when it adjourned came into Wisconsin and made a speaking campaign...
...Seattle and Aberdeen, Washington...
...Roosevelt Campaigns for Beveridge On October 13 former President Roosevelt ended a speech-making tour of several southern and a few middle-western states...
...He was a progressive Republican and so in order to prevent the nomination of either of the standpat candidates for attorney general on the Republican ticket, progressives throughout the state cast their ballots for the dead man...
...The former governor said that progressive members of the legislature, Democrats and Republicans alike, should vote together for Senator Clapp's re-election...
...Decrees were issued on October 17 abolishing the house of peers, the council of state and the titles of nobility...
...His speeches during that session were widely read, and were regarded as among the ablest discussions ever made in the Senate...
...At a meeting of the Grain Dealers' National Association in Chicago on October 12, it was stated that an improvement in the quality of seeds used by the farmers of the country would increase crop production enormously...
...The recount shows that these figures were "padded" to the extent of 33,296...
...He became a leader among the progressive Republicans in Congress...
...Religious orders and their members have been outlawed and the property confiscated by the government...
...Law Valid In a decision handed down by fhe Supreme Court of Wisconsin on October 15, the law which requires the candidate for a party nomination to poll at least 20 per cent, of the party vote for governor at the last preceding election in order to qualify as the party nominee, was upheld as constitutional...
...In Indianapolis on the 13th he addressed an immense audience with an earnest plea for the reelection of Senator Beveridge...
...During the tariff session and at the last regular session of Congress, Senator Dolliver undermined his health by intense study of and prolonged speaking on public questions...
...On the 14th he began his campaign in New York State in support of the Republican ticket...
...His death was entirely unexpected, however, for his illness, while serious, was not regarded as critical...
...Dolliver'* Inspiring Career Senator Dolliver was born in 1858 near Kingwood, Preston County, West Virginia...
...and Fort Smith, Arkansas, are under special suspicion and a recount will probably be made in these places...
...Twenty Per Cent...
...At the Iowa convention, Senator Dolliver announced that during the campaign he would make speeches in every county of the state...
...On the 15th the railroads affected granted the chief demand of the men—for a minimum wage of $1.00 a day to all employees of the lines running out of Paris...
...Portland, Oregon...
...A Great Statesman Gone For many years he followed the advice and example of the leaders of the House and Senate, voting as they did, and agreeing with them on matters of public import...
...The states of Kansas and Wisconsin were commended for their work in this direction...
...Former Governor John Lind, Democrat, of Minnesota, who had been urged to become a candidate for election to the United States Senate, declared on October 12 that Moses E. Clapp as a progressive had done great work for the people...
Vol. 2 • October 1910 • No. 42
