NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering HUMAN LIVES to the number of 150 were sacrificed in New York City on the 25th when fire suddenly spread through the plant of a clothing manufacturing plant in the ninth floor...
...It was charged that he gave Holstlaw $2,500 for voting for William Lorimer for United States Senator...
...The indictments were made under the Sherman anti-trust law and the court's ruling was on the motion of the defendants to quash...
...With the exception of Senor Liman-tour, minister of finance, the whole Diaz cabinet has resigned...
...This order urges recruiting officers to exert special endeavors by saying that "large numbers of infantry recruits are required...
...Both proposed amendments to the constitutions, must, of course, be ratified by the voters of the two states.—The importunings and perpetual presence of lobbyists before the Wisconsin Legislature have been so noticeable and so obnoxious to members that both houses last week passed resolutions demanding an official investigation of illegal lobbying...
...Premier P. A. Stolypin, who also has acted as minister for the interior of the Russian ministry, resigned on the 20th following a disagreement with his colleagues but the Emperor refused to accept his resignation and the resignations of Trepoff and Durnovo, members of the council of empire, were demanded...
...Would Deal With Tariff With Senator Cummins' speech in mind, the reports from Washington bearing on the plans of the Democrats are of peculiar interest...
...Postal Workers Win Again Following the success of the railway postal clerks in pressing their demands for fair treatment in working hours, wages and line-promotion, the postoffice department has been moved to act upon th nation-wide protest for Sunday closing in all postoffices...
...The rickety old fire-escape, a sad commentary on the law of the metropolis, served no purpose...
...Negotiations have been going on between Representative Underwood for the Democrats and Senator Murray Crane on behalf of the Senate Republican organization...
...The jury panel from which was chosen the Broderick jury, was drawn under the direction of the Sangamon county branch of the Lorimer gang...
...The Iowa Senate has passed a resolution favoring $1,000 and it is likely that the Wisconsin Legislature will do the same...
...Most of those killed in the New York tragedy were women under 30 years of age...
...The decision has such a close bearing on the constitutionality of the Illinois act that the latter may have to be withdrawn and redrafted...
...More than a hundred of them were instantly killed, or died a few moments after they struck the ground...
...It is said that the Democratic organization is planning to take up tariff revision in addition to Canadian reciprocity...
...The recent tragedy has proved to New Yorkers that certain classes of employers must be forced by law to provide that which humanity demands...
...Mexican Situation Tense With the resignation of the Diaz cabinet in Mexico, with orders sent to the United States troops to be in readiness for marching, and with the early convening of the new United States Congress, the Mexican situation has become more tense...
...The elevators, manned by heroes, carried but a trifling proportion of the workers to safety...
...Cummins regretted the President's calling of an extra session to force through the agreement and said that he believed the next regular session could deal with the problem with less peril to the public interest...
...The cotton pool news also came from a United States Circuit Court, Judge Noyes of New York overruling the motion to quash the indictments against James A. Patton of Chicago, Eugene E. Scales and others who are charged with having been connected with the notorious 1910 cotton pool...
...There is every indication that the Wisconsin bill will not share the fate of the New York law...
...Speaking generally of the advisability of at new tariff agreement with Canada, Mr...
...I know that he is determined that order shall be restored by one side or the other in Mexico with the alternative of intervention...
...Jury Frees Lorimer's Friend State Senator John Broderick was acquitted on the 24th by a jury at Springfield, Illinois...
...The interest of the latter in a change of administration seems obvious...
...There is not so much assurance that the Illinois lower house will act so favorably...
...The Senator explained that for ten years he had urged that tariff agreements with our neighbor to the north should be different from those in effect with other nations...
...Tentative announcements of House chairmanships include Fitzgerald for the Ways and Means Committee and Adam-son for the Interstate Commerce Committee...
...The Democrats refused to consider the Crane proposition that the special session deal only with reciprocity and the statehood of New Mexico and Arizona...
...Broderick was tried on a charge of having bribed State Senator D. W. Holstlaw...
...The trouble that brought about the crisis in the cabinet was due to the rejection of Stolypin's demands that self-government be bestowed upon several western provinces...
...Caricristi, the diplomatist of the insurrectos and directing head of the junta in San Antonio, Texas, gave out the following statement on the 23d: "I have reason to believe that President Taft has set May 1st for a termination of the disorders south of the Rio Grande...
...The indictments charge the packers with conspiracy to control meat prices by the formation of the National Packing Company...
...The order will go into effect April 2. In Chicago alone 1,670 carriers will have an all-day holiday every week...
...The real cause was the lack of adequate facilities for escape from the roaring furnace...
...These two have been connected with an alleged attempt to discredit the premier...
...The Wisconsin and Iowa Legislatures are considering resolutions to amend the constitutions so that members of the Legislatures will be compensated according to modern standards...
...Madero, head of the revoutionists, however, reports that the rebels will not lay down their arms until Diaz also gives way to their demands...
...Arbitration between the enginemen's organization and the Rio Grande at Denver has resulted in a 9 per cent, wage increase for the men, better working rules and a year's contract...
...A public mass meeting was held in Cooper Union on the 29th at which steps were taken toward the adoption of adequate fire-escape ordinances...
...scores of them were between 16 and 20 years old...
...Beyond the admission that a serious state of affairs prevails in Mexico, the authorities at Washington are silent and no official notice of the real intentions of the government has been issued for public information...
...Fire Chief Croker, stirred by emotion and resentment as he viewed the bodies, told the newspapermen that there are more than three thousand other buildings in New York as poorly provided with fire-escapes as was the Asch building...
...On the same day the Wisconsin Senate received the committee's recommendation that a similar bill be passed...
...Illinois Senate for Suffrage The Illinois Senate on the 23d passed the woman's suffrage bill which places before the electors the question of granting the ballot to women...
...The campaign of postal clerks throughout the country has brought forth from Washington a general order closing all postoffices on the Sabbath...
...Cummins said: "My conclusion is that if we put the farmer of the United States upon even terms with the farmer of Canada with respect to the things he buys, the proposed agreement will not injure him...
...I can swear that the revolution started within Mexico's borders of its own force, however, because I helped start it...
...New York Accident Law Void The action of the Illinois Senate in passing the workmen's compensation bill was followed closely by the New York Court of Appeals' decision that New York's compulsory compensation act is unconstitutional...
...In the original list of names drawn for jury service there were 110 saloonkeepers and the jury was not agreed upon until the state's attorney had exhausted his peremptory challenges...
...The trial of Broderick did not bring out the facts relating to his sudden acquisition of $2,500 shortly after Lorimer's election...
...The final agreement provides that four banking groups in the United States, England, Germany and France shall participate equally and that a financial advisor shall be named by a neutral European state...
...Foreign News Notes — Negotiations for the loan of $50,-000,000 to China by American financiers have reached a final stage...
...Several lobbyists have not obeyed the law in full...
...Another interest with more money and an eye to a certain great natural resource, has been antagonized at court by the former...
...The employers of there women who met such a horrible death, had not looked to their safety in case of emergency, say the New York authorities...
...Judge Carpenter promises that the cases will be brought to trial before the middle of May...
...Both are old-time reactionaries...
...The Wisconsin Senate will pass the bill and there is hope that the Assembly will do likewise...
...News Worth Remembering HUMAN LIVES to the number of 150 were sacrificed in New York City on the 25th when fire suddenly spread through the plant of a clothing manufacturing plant in the ninth floor of the Asch building in Washington square...
...The discharge of ninety miners in one of the larger districts and the installation of labor-saving machinery are said to have contributed to the trouble...
...The stairways offered no escape because of heavy doors that served as barricades against the panic-stricken rush of women and men obeying the first instinct...
...Cummins on Reciprocity Speaking in Des Moines on the 25th, Senator A. B. Cummins of Iowa insisted that the Canadian reciprocity agreement should not be ratified until several important changes had been made in the proposed tariff pact...
...Fire was but indirectly the cause of the tragedy...
...An interesting side-light on the preparations along the border lies in the orders issued to United States army recruiting officers last week...
...With all means of escape cut off, the terrified prisoners ran for the windows in droves and leaped to the pavement...
...the last indications are that the new House of Representatives will ignore the President's special message and cover a wide range of subjects...
...Conductors and engine-men struck because they believed that negro firemen were given preferred runs...
...It took the jury twenty minutes to reach its verdict...
...Mine Riots in Illinois Rivalry between American miners and foreigners in the coal mines near Gillespie, Illinois, on the 21st, brought about a demonstration and four companies of the Illinois National guard were hastened to the scene of possible disorder and riot...
...The decision affects the proposed Minnesota measure in the same way...
...The financial interest of the United States in Mexico is immsnse...
...One of the interests which has millions invested in Mexico has always been on the friendliest terms with Diaz and has received many concessions from him...
...The trouble between China and Russia regarding the freedom of Russian trade in Mongolia has reached so serious a stage that the continental press expresses fear of hostilities...
...Railroac Strike Settled The National Mediation board at Washington, D. C, succeeded last week in settling the railroad strike on the Texas Pacific...
...If the special investigating committee finds open violations it is probable that penalties will follow.—The Colorado Legislature on the 22nd ratified the proposed amendment to the federal constitution providin for an income tax...
...The Wisconsin bill to force fair compensation for injured workingmen or their dependents is drawn along different lines, in that it is entirely optional...
...In both states the members get $500 for the session...
...Two Trusts Trembling Heads of the beef trust and the 1910 cotton pool read some alarming court news last week from Chicago and New York...
...In Chicago, United States Circuit Judge Carpenter sustained indictments against ten Chicago meat packers, including J. Ogden Armour, Louis F., and Edward F. Swift, Edward Morris and Arthur Meeker...
...Wisconsin has a law requiring all lobbyists to register their names and the objects for which they are working...
...If the United States had entered into an agreement a decade ago, he said, it could have been done at a much greater advantage than now...
...The indictments against these men charge a conspiracy to corner the cotton market...
...There is a billion dollars of American money in Mexico, and the European interests amount to half that sum...
...New York Roused to Action As a result of the Asch fire, New York has awakened suddenly to its civic duty and the coroner and district attorney, meanwhile, are making investigations that may bring about criminal prosecutions of those directly responsible for the deplorable conditions that cost the lives of scores...
...The resignations are significant in view of the demands of the insurrectos that these aged advisors of the President give up their portfolios...
Vol. 3 • April 1911 • No. 13
