NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering DISPATCHES from Washington announce that President Taft will present a heavy program of legislation to the last session of the 61st Congress. This session will begin December...
...Taft'sPanama Visit Ends President Taft ended his visit to Panama on November 17...
...Garment Workers Still Out The Federation may decide to give assistance to the striking garment workers of Chicago...
...During an aviation meet in Denver, Colorado, on November 17, Ralph Johnstone, holder of the world's record for altitude, attempted to perform some difficult aerial tricks, fell to the ground in his disabled machine from a height of 500 feet and was instantly killed...
...Wayman Cleared of Charges The Chicago Bar Association after investigation of charges brought by Attorney Charles Erbstein that State's Attorney Wayman had been guilty of bribery of a juror in a case tried several years ago, decided on November 16 that the complaint was unsupported by evidence...
...Gompers Criticizes Taft At the thirtieth annual convention of the American Federation of Labor, held in St...
...Much has been done to improve living conditions in the canal zone and the death rate has been reduced to a marked extent through sanitary measures...
...Much secrecy surrounds the outbreaks and their import...
...Speaker Cannon and the House of Representatives were also criticized because of their attitude toward labor legislation, and the Moon anti-injunction bill was declared to be a fraud...
...This means that while a corporation may expend thousands of dollars during a campaign in order to insure the reelection of "special interest" representatives or the defeat of men of progressive tendencies, so long as it confines its activity to one state, no accounting is mandatory under the terms of the "publicity" law...
...The legislature, in June, will select a man to fill the remainder of the unexpired term...
...Several organizations for this purpose, already exist...
...restriction on the issuance of injunctions...
...He asserted, in a defense of the bill, that the woolen interests of the country had such strong influence in Congress that it would have been impossible to secure tariff legislation of any kind if this section had not been retained...
...Precautions are being taken to guard against its further spread, and general vaccination may be resorted to in the hope of checking or preventing an epidemic...
...Former Governor G. M. Terrell was appointed on November 17 to serve in place of U. S. Senator clay of Georgia, who died on the 13th...
...Joker" in Publicity Law Although the bill passed at the last session of Congress providing for "publicity" of campaign fund contributions and expenditures, required that the expense accounts should not be filed with the clerk of the House of Representatives until after the elections were over, its passage was expected to result in the throwing of much-needed light on the methods employed by Congressmen to gain election...
...Colonel Goethals also believes that the Canal will be completed without appropriations in addition to the $375,000,000 already provided...
...Governor Hadley of Missouri soon will call a conference of governors and immigration officials of the southwest to urge national legislation that will divert alien immigration from the crowded cities of the east to the undeveloped agricultural sections of the west...
...It is also probable that the President will recommend in his message to Congress, that an additional sum of $500,000 be granted to the tariff board in order that it may carry on its work...
...From 35,000 to 40,-000 men are constantly employed in the canal zone by the government, and despite discouraging landslides, breaks and floods, the progress of the work has been steady and rapid...
...Further Revision of the Tariff It is possible that the President may ask Congress to revise the woolen schedule of the tariff during the short session, on the basis of the information which the tariff board has gathered concerning the cost of production and manufacture of wool and its products, here and abroad...
...This session will begin December 5 and end March 4. The program is said to include the following measures: the establishment of a new currency and banking system...
...the matter of traffic agreements and installation of safety appliances...
...reorganization of the Alaskan territorial form of government...
...This "joker" makes it necessary only for the two national campaign committees and persons who in-dependly expended more than $50 to influence the outcome of the election in "two or more states," to file statements...
...Many other subjects of interest to workers were considered...
...Following the example set by Wisconsin, which abolished the public drinking cup several months ago, the New York state department of health has asked the railroads operating within its boundaries to banish from their stations and trains this instrument for the spread of disease germs...
...Socialism also came in for an attack at the hands of President Gompers...
...This strike seems no nearer settlement at the present time than a month ago, and 35,000 or 40,000 clothing makers are still out of employment...
...ship subsidy legislation...
...His writings have been translated into many languages, and are widely read by English-speaking people...
...The President is said to be much pleased with the progress of the work on the Canal and has been told by Colonel Goethals, the army engineer in charge of its construction, that the great project will be completed a year before the time set for its opening, 1915...
...revision of the tariff, a single schedule at a time...
...Within a minute, spectators swarmed on the field and fought to secure scraps of the broken machine and even blood-stained parts of the dead aviator's apparel, as "souvenirs...
...It has been estimated by many engineers that the cost would total at least $500,000,000...
...Bjasan, Russia, after a week's illness...
...The delegates to the convention discussed employer's liability and workmen's compensation acts, laws designed to prevent occupational diseases, labor struggles in Los Angeles and Chicago, and the fight against the steel trust...
...Investigation is said to have disclosed that more than 5,000 strikers' families in which there are babies, are without enough milk for the children...
...News Notes Rioting occurred in several Mexican cities last week, and led to rumors that a general uprising against the Diaz government had been prevented only through the adoption of extreme measures by the authorities...
...amendment of the anti-trust law, and the passage of a federal incorporation act...
...Erbstein made the accusation after he had been indicted by the grand jury, working with Wayman, on a charge of bribing a juror in one of the Lorimer senatorial corruption trials...
...An epidemic of smallpox is threatening Michigan...
...On November 15 it became known that many cases were in existence, that several people already had died from smallpox, and that the disease exists in cities throughout the state...
...specific laws for the conservation and development of mineral and oil lands, and water power sites now owned by the government...
...An attempt may be made to establish a new set of rates for the carriage of magazines and other second-class mail matter, by the postal department...
...Although rules intended to eliminate danger of injury in the game of football, during the past season fourteen players had been killed and forty seriously hurt at the close of the season on November 19...
...an adjustment of tariff relations with Canada upon the principle of reciprocity...
...Count Leo Tolstoi, the Russian author and philosopher, died on November 20 at Astapova...
...Although much money has been contributed for the relief of the destitute strikers, there still is much suffering...
...This schedule is one which puts a tax on the clothing of every Ar-erican man and woman, and was labeled by President Taft, himself, as "indefensible...
...Victor Berger the Socialist Congressman-elect from Milwaukee, was among the delegates who heard Gompers' attack...
...The same situation prevails as to the personal expenditures of candidates for Congress, and only in those states which have campaign fund publicity laws will it be necessary for Congressional candidates to file statements of receipts and expenditures for political purposes...
...During last week there was occasional rioting in which stones were thrown, the police used their clubs, and men and women strikers were arrested...
...It now develops that the law will be of little value in this connection because of a "joker" contained in it...
...Louis last week, President Gompers condemned President Taft for his successful attempt to defeat the provision of an appropriation bill, passed at the last session, exempting labor unions from the operations of the anti-trust act...
...During the year which will elapse before the formal opening is made, the system of admitting ships to the Canal will be worked out and perfected...
...He not only inspected the work on the Canal in a thorough manner, but prepared part of his message to the coming short session of Congress...
Vol. 2 • November 1910 • No. 47
