NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering WHILE the United States war department continues to send regular troops to the Mexican border, President Diaz and his minister of finance, Senor Li-mantour, are said to be...
...Socialist Organization Protests The first sign of organized protests against the action of the United States government apropos of the Mexican disturbance came on the 15th from the national executive committee of the Socialist party, which joined with labor unions and Socialist locals in a demand that the United States troops be withdrawn from the border...
...Vote Buyers Escape After a six weeks' inquiry into charges of buying and selling votes in former Speaker Cannon's district, the Vermillion county grand jury on the 14th abruptly ended its work...
...G. A. Ball, of Muncie, Indiana...
...The capture of several Americans who have joined the insurrectos has furnished an interesting theme for students of the Mexican uprising...
...The commission form of government went into effect in Spokane, Washington, on the 14th when the five commissioners elected a week previously, took their offices...
...The Mexican government has not yet seen fit to execute any of the Americans so far captured although it has threatened to deal with them without regard to their nationality...
...News Worth Remembering WHILE the United States war department continues to send regular troops to the Mexican border, President Diaz and his minister of finance, Senor Li-mantour, are said to be endeavoring to settle upon a plan of entering into negotiations with Gen...
...Frank Watson, of Seattle...
...On every ballot during the last few days the supporters of Kenyon have won votes, several standpatters going over to his side upon demands of their constituents...
...Belief in Peace Grows Twentieth century ideals for world peace have been encouraged in the last two weeks in two continents...
...Those indicted are: A. C. Frost, formerly of Chicago and now in London...
...More Alaska Indictments Following closely upon the voting of several indictments for alleged land frauds by the Michigan federal grand jury, another federal jury in Chicago on the 16th handed down nine indictments in connection with an alleged attempt to grab $50,000,000 worth of Alaskan coal lands...
...It returned only fourteen indictments dealing with election corruption...
...Another interesting phase of the war comes from the United States Department of Justice, which holds that there is no federal statute that justifies any attempt to stop the shipment of arms and ammunition from the United States to Mexico...
...The department is making an investigation of the building organizations in New York and it is said in Washington that swift prosecution will follow any evidence that the new trust is evading the law...
...It is said that several Americans hold rank in the insurgent army and have led marauding bands with disastrous results to property...
...The indictments charge the nine alleged land grabbers with conspiracy to obtain title by fraud to 10,000 acres of lands in the rich Matanuska district...
...Selecting Illinois as fertile ground for reform work, the National Republican Progressive league will send its speakers out from Washington to urge the passage of the referendum and initiative bill now before the Illinois Legislature...
...Employees of the United States and the Wells-Fargo companies are out...
...Bread Trust Under Scrutiny The United States Department of Justice on the 16th permitted it to become known that it was making an inquiry into the attempts of John W. Gates and others to organize a baking trust...
...At El Paso, Texas, the report was given out that no proposition for an end of hostilities would be listened to until Diaz agreed to annul his election of 1910 and to submit to a new election under a free ballot...
...P. G. Beach, of Chicago...
...It is purposed to hold meetings in every city and village in the state...
...The London newspapers appear to be unanimous in favoring President Taft's suggestion for a general Anglo-American arbitration treaty...
...They hope to save $100,000 a year by wiping out certain well-known commissions that have had as members several politicians who won repudiation at the polls after long service to others than their constituents...
...In the meantime the insurrectos have executed several persons suspected of being federal spies...
...A. J. Balfour, leader of the opposition in the House of Commons, came out openly in favor of Grey's views on arbitration, while the press of Berlin on the same day expressed its approval of utterances of Grey and Taft...
...Liman-tour left New York for the Mexican capital on the 16th after a series of conferences with Secretary of War Dickinson and representatives of the insurrectos and the federal government of Mexico...
...Gomez, its representatives will make a formal request that the United States recognize its existence...
...Immediately after the announcement of indictments, there was a sudden increase in passenger traffic on railways from the north, several important witnesses having had sudden calls out of town when the jury began its investigation...
...Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary, made a notable speech in the English House of Commons on the 13th in which he said that disarmament would come about when nations, like individuals, learned to resort to law instead of to arms...
...G. L. Francis, of Toronto...
...Vas-quez Gomez, head of the confidential agency of the insurgents in Washington, announced that the organization of a provisional government was being perfected with General Madero as president...
...He now is making a special study of problems before the department and in the meantime declines to discuss the Cunningham claims or his future policy...
...William J. Hindley, a Congregational minister, was elected mayor...
...A renewal of the express drivers' strike in New York has taken five thousand men from their posts and has demoralized business in the metropolis...
...Kenyon Nears Senatorship At this writing W. S. Kenyon appears to be approaching success in his campaign to succeed the late Senator Dolli-ver as United States Senator from Iowa...
...Scores of civic, religious and student organizations in Illinois passed resolutions within the last week denouncing him...
...An attempt was made to destroy the federal barracks at Jaurez...
...H. C. Osborne, of Toronto...
...The actual movements of official representatives of the Mexican government and the rebels have been accompanied by reports of an interesting nature from the Mexican capital, and from the United States capital...
...Recognizing that there has been wholesale election corruption in Danville and the surrounding country, the jury recommended that the state laws be changed so that disfranchisement for five years may be made the penalty for vote selling or buying...
...In New York there is no apparent prospect of an early breaking of the senatorial deadlock in the Legis-lature...
...Senator Cul-lom, his colleague, who voted for the seating of Lorimer, shares with him in the resolutions of censure...
...The protest demands an explanation of the formidable military display brought about immediately after the adjournment of Congress and denounces the "plundering and enslaving" methods of Diaz and then charges that the action of the war department resulted from fear that loss might be suffered by the Rockefellers, Guggenheims, J. P. Morgan, and Henry W. Taft...
...With the organization of this provisional power, said Dr...
...It is generally believed that Diaz would not be re-elected if an honest election were granted...
...House-Cleaning by Congress Democratic leaders in Congress who have been working out their organization plans in Washington, have allowed their colleagues to gain the information that the next Congress will bring about a general house-cleaning of sinecures long held by standpatters...
...Mayor Gaynor disapproves of their action and promises drastic treatment in case of trouble...
...Osborne, Francis and the two Stewarts are said to have furnished Frost with most of the funds for carrying out his plans...
...Even while those quasi-official conferences were being held under the pro-tecting arm of important financial interests in New York, the insurrectos in North Mexico continued to carry on their intermittent warfare...
...Railroad bridges were burned, rolling stock was destroyed and telegraph stations were put out of commission...
...On the 18th Dr...
...Walter L. Fisher of Chicago, successor to R. A. Ballinger as Secretary of the Interior, took the oath of office on the 13th and made a tour of his department...
...NEWS NOTES — Senator William Lorimer continues to be the subject for plain-spoken denunciations in his home state...
...David Coates, formerly governor of Colorado, now a socialist editor, will have charge of public works...
...Francisco I. Madero, provisional insurrecto president...
...The Rev...
...Although the jury's work is considered a failure in that the "men higher up" were not caught, the jurymen claim that much evidence was secured that would enable a future jury to go further into the disgraceful conditions...
...The Democrats have found several faithful friends of "Joe" Cannon occupying positions at good pay but with little work to do...
...It now is understood that the Democrats will pass a resolution requiring an official investigation of the so-called "lame-duck graft...
...G. M. Steward, of Chicago...
...They also have come to doubt the advisability of placing certain ex-Congressmen on commissions paying them salaries of five or ten thousand dollars a year...
...D. M. Stewart, of Seward, Alaska, and F. M. Stewart, of Toronto...
...On the 17th the National Council of Free Churches in England inaugurated an international movement in favor of efforts to force international arbitration...
Vol. 3 • March 1911 • No. 12
