NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering PRESIDENT DIAZ has sailed from Mexico. He has stepped down. He is an old man; in a few years, possibly a few months, this hemisphere will read of his demise in some old world...
...He expressed surprise at the statements by so many Englishmen that the Dominion might become a part of the United States and said that while he loved America and the Americans, he loved England still more...
...The resolut'on requires the voters of Arizona to pass upon the amendment removing the recall provisions as applied to judges and requires New Mexico voters to vote on an amendment making the constitution more easily amendable in the future...
...Darrow was retained only a short time ago as attorney for the chief defendant in the dynamiting cases and he found it necessary to secure more time in which to work up his defense...
...On the 29th the high court handed down a decision holding the American Tobacco company to be an organization in restraint of trade...
...In Chicago nine deaths and an untold number of prostrations resulted from a three day spell of heat ending on the 28th...
...Bureau of Mines Active "Failure to appreciate the seriousness of mine fires and a lack of adequate fire protection has resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives and destruction of property in the last few years," says Herbert M. Wilson, chief engineer of the federal bureau of mines...
...In St...
...Portugal Faces Rebellion Advices from Paris and other European capitals are ts the effect that the new government of Portugal faces imminent danger through a revolution fostered by the monarchists...
...Manufacturers in states which have passed workmen's compensation laws are particularly interested in the latest attitude of these insurance companies and many of them fear that rates will be put up to a level that may jeopardize the successful operation of the new compensation systems...
...He spoke also of the appalling loss of life in fires in America and assured his listeners that in no other civilized country were conditions so bad as in the United States...
...Seek to Hush Ohio Graft Witnesses before the special investigating committee of the Ohio legislature, which is seeking to uncover the wholesale corruption that has existed during the present session, have refused to testify before the committee...
...Tobacco Trust Also Illegal For the second time within two weeks the Supreme court of the United States has held a great trust to be illegal and in restraint of trade...
...Sir Edward Grey, the foreign secretary, proposed "Anglo-American arbitration...
...Russia Grows Tolerant Right on the eve of congressional action looking to the enforced recognition of American passports in Russia, the Czar's representatives in legislative circles of St...
...So far he has not done his full duty in protecting our natural resources, but otherwise he has been a careful and far-seeing guardian of his other property...
...The United States government is the owner of buildings costing more than $300,000,000 and is spending each year more than $20,000,000 in new buildings...
...The forms of insurance affected by the increase include employers' liability insurance...
...This form of insurance, through numerous court decisions of recent years, has grown to be one of the most important items in the average manufacturer's expense account and therefore the raise in rates has caused a significant outcry...
...The whole difficulty would be solved if the giving of tips were entirely prohibited...
...It has been charged that Wickersham's agents have been perniciously active on the Mexican border and that they have been unduly friendly toward Diaz...
...It is a notable fact that Justice Harlan again dissents as he did in the Standard Oil decision...
...Reynolds' newspaper, one of the foremost English publications, in an editorial paragraph, remarks: "It would appear that the tipping system is at the bottom of the London taxi-cab trouble...
...It is a fact that while the north sweltered, the cities of Vicksburg, Mobile and New Orleans enjoyed comfortable weather...
...He has been absolute ruler of the republic to the south...
...The mining engineers have made a careful study of fires in mines, and have concluded that the introduction of comparatively inexpensive fire fighting appliances, the adoption of preper regulations and the institution of a reasonable system of fire drills may minimize fires and confine others to a brief period of time with little dama'ps to life and property...
...It is assumed tl-.at they based their refusal on the advice of attorneys who were in touch with the situation in Illinois when Judge Petit announced from the bench that the Illinois senatorial committee was overstepping its powers...
...The National Association of Manufacturers, in session in New York, has taken action to oppose the La Follette bill in relation to the removal of government employees without a hearing, and allowing them to become members of the American Federation of Labor...
...The dinner was in contrast to the one held during a former imperial conference, because that was of purely British imperialistic tone...
...The resignation of President Diaz and his subsequent departure from his palace on the 26th are the direct results of the revolution inaugurated a few months ago on the northern border by General Ma'dero and his army...
...McNamara Case Postponed The trial of John J. McNamara and others on charges of having dynamited the Los Angeles Times building, causing the death of several persons, has been postponed to July 5 on motion of Clarence S. Darrow, attorney for the secretary of the iron workers' union...
...To add to the present feeling of the monarchists against the new republican government, there has been a rupture between the church and the state...
...Hottest May in History When Uncle Sam's weather observers in many cities north of Mason and Dixon's line averaged up the daily temperatures for the month of May, they found that it had been the hottest May in the history of the weather bureau...
...Wickersham, it is said, will be asked to give his reasons for large expenditures in maintaining an alleged system of "vicious espionage...
...The defendants included twenty-nine individuals, sixty-five American corporations and two English corporations...
...Fisher said: "Uncle Sam, first of all, should set the example by properly protecting that which is his...
...The constitutions will stand approved regardless of the result of these special votes...
...His "reign" on the North American continent has been longer than that of any other ruler in America, if Wall Street and Queen Elizabeth are to be excepted...
...The chief executive of the republic will act until the next election...
...Speaking of the example set by the federal government, Mr...
...Petersburg have seen the error of past systems and are on the way to a change in the obnoxious system so often denounced by naturalized Americans...
...With Diaz it has been different...
...Laurier Reassures Britons Premier Laurier of the Dominion of Canada on the 23d told the banqueters at the Pilgrim's club banquet that the citizens of Canada were loyal to the mother country and had no intention of furthering any movement toward annexation to the United States...
...There is an interesting little phase of the Mexican revolution in Washington, D. C. Attorney General Wickersham is to be asked to explain several of his past actions to the committee on expenditures of the lower house of Congress...
...Disorder already has been noted in many cities of the newest republic and hundreds of families are leaving the seaports every day...
...The end of the Diaz presidency was one of the demands of Madero...
...National Peace Council After several days of discussion at one of the most notable peace conferences ever held in this country, the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration on the 26th named a special committee to bring about co-operation between the nations in securing international peace...
...The bishops of Portugal have given out a signed statement by way of a protest against the separation law...
...This attorney, who defended Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone in the famous prosecution against the Western Federation of Miners a few years ago, is expected to carry through the McNamara defense to the end...
...He told something of the efforts of the federal government to reduce this unpardonable waste by advocating the use of fire-proof building materials...
...He said: "This is the first time since that historic declaration," he continued, "that the representatives of all English-speaking countries have been gathered together, forming a sort of informal social Anglo-Saxon parliament, and have had the opportunity of expressing their complete approval of these memorable words...
...Statehood Resolutions Passed The resolution admitting Arizona and New Mexico to the Union was passed by the lower house of Congress on the 23d in a form which withholds complete statehood until the people of these two territories shall have voted on certain amendments to the proposed constitutions...
...in a few years, possibly a few months, this hemisphere will read of his demise in some old world capital, probably Madrid, where he will be received with open arms by the king, or in France, where the Parisians would greet him as another millionaire from Latin America...
...Investigation at Washington brings out the statement from the Department of Justice that the federal government can do nothing...
...In New York and Washington there also were sacrifices of life because of the unseasonable heat...
...The efforts to compel witnesses to tell the facts before the Ohio Committee have resulted in court proceedings with varying results...
...Letters have been opened by his agents, it is alleged, and examined or copied by these agents...
...Why Are Tips Demanded...
...Tipping demoralizes the men and annoys the public...
...Why should it be necessary to subsidize the taxi man who conveys him from Picadilly to King's Cross...
...The decision handed down in the tobacco trust case, which will be reviewed in a later issue, is the outcome of suits started by the United States Department of Justice in 1907 to prevent continuance of alleged violations of the anti-trust act...
...By stress of circumstances, Queen "Bess" was able to maintain but a semblance of regal power...
...the swearing in of De La Barra as President was another of the insurrecto demands...
...It is reported from Rome that the Pope soon will issue an encylical against the law...
...Lord Roberts presided and welcomed the premiers...
...War on Casualty Rates A fight on what has come to be known as the "casualty trust" has been inspired by a recent raise in casualty insurance rates by practically all the large companies in America...
...Nearly every large business organization in the cities of the United States has taken part in the conference and the work of the special committee is expected to receive general support from a great variety of classes and communities Fisher Gives a Warning In his first public address as the new Secretary of the Interior, Walter L. Fisher, speaking in New York on the 24th, told his hearers that the loss to every man, woman and child in America was $2.51 annually through fire...
...The Canadian premier elicited great applause when he said that "the day will come when there will be an alliance of all lands springing from England's loins, insuring the peace of the world forever...
...The American consul general, John L. Griffiths, responded...
...Diaz, dictator of Mexico for three decades, has relinquished his "throne...
...The associate justice speaks frankly against "judicial legislation" and criticises the use of the word "reasonable" which again is read into the law against restraint of trade...
...One doesn't tip an engine driver for steering him from King's Cross to Edinburgh...
...It remands the case back to the lower court with instructions to hear those concerned, "for the purpose of ascertaining and determining upon some plan or method of dissolving the company and of re-creating out of the elements now composing it a new condition which shall be honestly in harmony with and not repugnant to the law...
...It is reported in Washington that the Russian Douma is about to amend the present laws so that passports of foreigners will not be inspected frequently by suspicious and officious representatives of the secret service...
...Paul, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Pittsburg and New York, in fact, all through the cities of the north, the temperature in May, 1911, averaged higher than in any other year since the federal weather bureau began its system of daily reminders...
...Anti-republican feeling is said to be strong in the northern part of Portugal and it is expected that if there is to be a. revolution, the" first signs will come from that section of the country...
...Two of the most serious disasters in coal mines, the one at Cherry, 111., in which 262 lives were lost, and the other at the Pan-coast mine, near Scranton, where seventy-four miners were killed, leaving forty-five widows and 137 orphans, originated from trivial causes and ought to have been quickly extinguished without the sacrifice of human life...
...Railway Mail Clerk ta Testify That the postoffice department has a controversy on its hands that will not be easily disposed of is evident from the fact that information is being collected which will put the department in an unfavorable light...
...that the various states must act to prevent the assessment of exorbitant rates...
...Carl Van Dyke, one of the mail clerks demoted for "pernicious activity," is in Washington to give in detail the situation from the standpoint of the railway mail clerks of his district...
...Both concessions were granted in the peace pact noted in the last number of this magazine...
...The delegates to the convention also declared that the eight-hour day had led to extravagance in government expense...
Vol. 3 • June 1911 • No. 22
