NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering THE last or "short" session of the Sixty-first Congress met on Monday, December 5. The fact that it will be the last session in two years controlled in both branches by the...
...He declared that should the board be forced to perform its functions under an administration not in sympathy with its efforts, its value in securing \ a satisfactory solution to the tariff quea1 tion would be lessened...
...Governors Discuss Live Problems The third annual conference of governors of American states came to a close at Louisville, Ky., on December 1. Twenty-four state executives and a large number of governors-elect were present...
...Dr...
...The Unionists, on the other hand, believe in allowing the House of Lords to reform itself as to composition and not general powers, and the submission of the tariff question to a referendum...
...The Pullman company took an appeal to the courts and has thus far been able to prevent the Commission's order from becoming effective immediately...
...It now proposes to make a 20 per cent, reduction in its rates for "uppers," throughout the entire country, and a slight decrease in the charge for | lower berths...
...Emery also touched upon the fact that at present the board is not authorized to make regular reports of its findings to Congress...
...It has also begun work on the chemical, iron .and steel, and cotton schedules...
...He declared that that body believes a physical valuation of all the railroad property in the United Sttes is the first step toward adequate regulation of rates...
...The taking of testimony was concluded on December 1 in the hearings before the Interstate Commerce Commission as to whether or not the railroads of the country shall be allowed to make general advances in class rates east of the Mississippi River...
...Emery spoke of the difficulty of sectoring touch information rapidly, and said that in foreign nations commissions have been at work for twenty years, compiling the data on which their governments now base import duties...
...ship subsidy legislation...
...In this country, too, the board has no authority to summon witnesses and examine them under oath, or to call for the books of business concerns...
...Pullman Rates Come Down Some months ago the Interstate Commerce Commission decided, in the Loftus cases, that the Pullman Car Company would have to reduce its sleeping cars rates and charge less for an upper than a lower berth...
...As a result of a conference held on November 29 between President Taft, Senator Aldrich and the leaders of the House "machine," a definite program of legislation was formulated and announced...
...The agreement was reached as a result of the work of a committee of its own members appointed by the common council of Chicago on November 28...
...Every school will have its doctor or corps of doctors and physical directors, who will devote themselves entirely to helping the pupils under their care to advance toward the goal of perfect manhood and womanhood...
...and the Senate will be asked to confirm the men to be appointed by President Taft to fill the two vacancies existing in the Supreme Court...
...I believe the same principle applies to the establishment of a basis for the control of stock and bond issues," he said...
...Emery Discusses Tariff Board In a speech which had the official sanction of the President, Henry C. Emery, Chairman of the tariff board authorized by Congress, told of the work and aims of the body over whose labors he presides, before the Chicago Association of Commerce on the night of December 3. He said that the board had in its employ men trained to statistical and economic investigation, some of whom are in the centers of industry working on the books of manufacturing companies in an effort to ascertain the cost of production in this country of certain manufactured goods...
...In a pitched battle at Pedernales, Mexico, on November 27, revolutionists who had fled to the mountains defeated the government troops sent against them...
...For information as to prices and costs in foreign countries, the board is dependent, for the most part, upon the good will of the foreign manufacturers...
...the passage of measures to insure and further the work of conservation of the nation's natural resources...
...On the night of December 3 Mrs...
...Those interested in the numerous pending cases against the Pullman company declare that the reductions j would still leave rates exorbitantly high...
...News Notes — The commission appointed by Governor Hay of Washington to draft an employers' liability law will submit a bill to the state legislature providing for a state tax on industries, to raise a fund for the compensation of injured workers...
...an anti-injunction bill...
...The importance of this session in connection with the presidential election of 1912 is realized by the administration and it is understood that a determined effort will be made to "harmonize" Republican factions during the present session...
...The examination of veniremen for the purpose of selecting a jury to try Charles Erbstein on a charge of bribinf a juror to vote for the acquittal of Lee O'Neille Browne, accused of buying the votes of members of the Illinois legislature in order to secure the election of William Lorimer to the U. S. Senate, had not proceeded far before it became apparent that an effort had been made to tamper with and influence the members of the jury panel...
...The first witness heard was Judson C. Clements of the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...Foss Out to Defeat Lodge On December 1 Governor-elect Eugene N. Foss of Massachusetts began a speaking campaign for the purpose of preventing the reelection of Senator Lodge, who is a candidate before the legislature for reelection...
...It consists of an appropriation for the continuance of the work of the tariff board...
...He cautioned his hearers not to lay too much stress upon the statistical information the board is able to gather, dodaring that although figures as to cost of production here and abroad are important, common sense and practical business judgment must be exercised in revising duties, and conditions of competition in each industry, local conditions affecting businesses, and other factors not of a mathematical nature must be known and considered...
...They also have agreed to support home rule for Ireland...
...On November 28 the railway securities commission, authorized at the last session of Congress, began taking the testimony of railroad men, and state and federal rail commissioners...
...Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Religion of Christian Science, died at her home at Chestnut Hill, Mass...
...News Worth Remembering THE last or "short" session of the Sixty-first Congress met on Monday, December 5. The fact that it will be the last session in two years controlled in both branches by the Republican party adds importance to its work...
...Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry of the department of agriculture, in an interview given to a Washington correspondent on November 26 said: "The time will soon be here when 'progress in health' will be rated on every school examination along with progress in other lines...
...appropriations (devoid of "pork") for river and harbor improvement, and authorization and appropriation for the fortification of the Panama canal...
...Congress will also consider the reapportionment of congressional districts on the basis of the census completed during the summer...
...Governor Foss declares that the recent election in Massachusetts was an emphatic repudiation of Lodge's fidelity to the System and its tariff law...
...He emphasized the point that to be really effective, the board must be made permanent in character...
...The latter stand for the taking away of the veto power of the House of Lords and other limitations upon its legislative power, making the House of Commons superior...
...These reductions are not as great as those ordered by the Commission but they apply to rates throughout the country and recognize the differential principle, established by the commission, as between lower and upper berths...
...the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy and the Lorimer election investigating committees will report...
...Thus far the board has concentrated an the pulp and paper, the woolen, and the farm products schedules of the tariff law of 1909, Chairman Emery stated...
...The results of the first day's voting in England showed a small gain for the Conservatives or Unionists, and a corresponding loss for the Liberals...
...Desultory fighting is still going on in the mountains, but the danger of a general revolution is past...
...An agreement which may result in the settlement of the great garment makers' strike in Chicago was submitted on December 5 to a referendum vote of the workers affected, after having received the approval of the Chicago Federation of Labor, and the executive strike committee of thirty-five, representing the workers...
...The religion which she proclaimed to the world for the first time in 186G, is now represented by more than a thousand churches and probably a million people in this and foreign nations are adherents...
...Garment Strike Near End...
...Legislation dealing with conservation, labor, direct primaries, educational matters, good roads, and the many other subjects in which the people of all states are vitally interested, were discussed...
Vol. 2 • December 1910 • No. 49
