NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering OF MORE than ordinary interest is the gradual revealing of the battleship Maine, which was sunk by an explosion in Havana harbor in 1898. After thirteen years during which...
...Lucy Hayes Herron Laughlin, who was baptised in the White House while Hayes served as the nation's chief executive...
...Reciprocity Reaches Senate On the 13th the bill embodying the Administration's trade agreement with Canada, the so-called reciprocity bill, came to the Senate from the Committee on Finance...
...Among the guests will be Mrs...
...It is said that at several conferences between Democratic leaders, the idea has been put forward of abolishing the big express companies and forcing the railway companies to carry out the functions now performed by these organizations...
...Continuing he said: "The courts have held the government may compel the railroads to carry all the merchandise and other matter now carried by the express companies with the exception of mail matter...
...It seems to me this clearly is within the power of the government, and it is a power which ought to be exercised for the protection of the people...
...He emphasized the fact that the American wheat raiser has an advantage now in the home market he has developed and that the influx of Canadian wheat would destroy this advantage and lower our prices to the world level...
...The special sub-committee named to investigate his election began its formal hearings on Tuesday In the effort to reach the truth about reports of legislative corruption and the $100,000 slush fund...
...A few days probably will bring the entire wreck to view and shortly thereafter there will be a report pointing to the exact manner in which the ship was blown up, carrying 252 men to death...
...Debate opened on the floor of the Senate immediately...
...In many cases the results have been serious" Lorimer Hearing Reopens Senator William Lorimer's career as a politician, candidate for United States Senator and as the "choice" of the Illinois Legislature, again was delved into this week...
...The fact is that patent medicines are too promiscuously scattered about...
...Senator La Follette's views are presented in full on another page of this magazine...
...For weeks the committee held hearings on the bill...
...It has taken six years to build the station on Lake Michigan and the cost has been $3,000,000...
...I have complaints every week from people who find patent medicine samples have been left at their houses in packages transmitted in the mail...
...The drafters of the measure apparently kept the Lorimer case in mind...
...The bill applies alike to United States Senators and Representatives...
...Robins, "and it seems to have been reserved for this generation to work out new standards of social justice and develop a new basis for our industrial civilization...
...Latest reports from Havana are that no bodies have been found and that the engineers have been unable to explain the origin of the explosion...
...The ruse by which Lorimer's friends hid their records from the legislative committee will not outwit the federal committee, it is said...
...No finer buildings are in any army or navy reservation in America...
...For instance, the flying of aeroplanes above the city during coronation week will result in heavy fines, the home secretary having issued strict orders against this form of innocent amusement...
...They express their approval, however, of the purpose of the amendments designed to throw open a freer market for the consumer, but not as amendments to this bill because they would be likely to jeopardize its passage...
...He emphasized the fact that the American wheat raiser has an advantage now in the home market he has developed and the influx of Canadian wheat would destroy this advantage and lower our prices to the world level...
...It is his opinion that the ratification of the President's pact would work great injustice upon the agricultural interests...
...All women who honor their sex and love their country should unite with us and our working sisters in the struggle for industrial freedom...
...It is the expectation that Edward Hines and several other leading Chicagoans Will be asked to tell all they know...
...Police regulations to insure public safety on coronation day are becoming so rigorous as almost to deter the general public from any attempt to witness the procession...
...He declared the passage of the bill would work such damage to farming that it would drive our young people in increasing numbers to the cities...
...The White population pay 90 per cent of the total amount of money expended on the education of children in the state, and it is a strange anomaly, if the statement be true, that a greater percentage of white children than of the colored do not take advantage of the opportunities afforded...
...Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture...
...The measure," he said, "is subversive of the whole idea of protection, and if enacted into law will inevitably lead to the overthrow of that policy...
...The capacity of the station is 1,500 and it is expected that two or three hundred recruits will be registered by the middle of the month...
...White Children Illiterate At the convention of the State Federation of labor at Richmond, Virginia, a statement was made by John B. Oline-dinst that in the course of his travels he had discovered more white boys who were unable either to read or write, than he had found among the colored population...
...They support it on the theory "that some sort of reciprocal trade arrangement between us and our nearest neighbor, Canada, is better than none at all...
...Naval Station Opened On July 1st the naval training station just north of Chicago will be opened and a small body of United States recruits will take up their quarters in the splendid new buildings...
...Raymond Robins of Chicago was one of the principal speakers...
...for the bill makes promises of appointments exceedingly dangerous to the candidate for senatorial honors...
...Liverpool Seamen Strike From an international viewpoint, the two most important events in labor in the last week have been the strike of ocean seamen in England and the Convention in Boston of the National Women's Trade Union League of America...
...London Crowds in Check In addition to being charged the most exorbitant prices for seats, the crowds now in London for the coronation of the King and Queen are being warned against a great variety of demonstrations...
...The views of Dr...
...Senators Williams, Stone, and Kern, (Democrats), submitted views favorable to the agreement...
...On the 14th Senator Mc-Cumber made a vigorous and enlightening speech demonstrating how great a price the farming interests, particularly in the northwest, will have to pay for this arrangement in case the pact is ratified by congress...
...In point of acreage the Chicago station is the largest, but it is second to Newport in barracks facilities...
...Children find these packages, open them and taste the contents...
...Senators McCumber and La Follette opposed the bill in its present form and their democratic colleagues of the committee, Senators Williams, Stone and Kern, favored it...
...a recent decision of the United States Supreme Court indicates that Congress can adopt drastic legislation along this line...
...Freedom, maternity, education, and morality—all the blessed and abiding interests of childhood and the home—are in issue in this supreme struggle...
...The Boston conference of women was notable because of expressions of the speakers bearing on the wave of reform throughout the country for the conservation of the health of women workers...
...Senator McCumber expressed the opinion that the ratifications of the President's pact would work great injustice upon agricultural interests...
...Horace Taft, who was the President's best man twenty-five years ago, and Henry Taft, will be present at the anniversary celebration, while Charles P. Taft will be absent because of his presence in London...
...The big ocean liners got away on time despite the strike but it is promised that the coming weeks will see considerable trouble in shipping circles...
...Wiley are best expressed in the following statement: "I would not only bar patent medicines from the mails but I would bar out also all newspapers and other periodicals which advertise nostrums...
...The bill was reported to the Senate last week by the Committee on Privileges and Elections...
...It is significant that at the cross-examination of Nathan B. Williams of Arkansas, who has made a study of the express situation, he said that the express companies were a parasite growth, a carpetbag excressence on the railroad system...
...When the hearings were completed the committee could not agree to a report, so the bill came back to the Senate without recommendation...
...To this end it is planned to carry on an extensive investigation of the express companies with the idea of ascertaining just what it costs to transport parcels and what the express companies having been laying aside in profits during the few short years of their existence...
...The bill requires publication of campaign expenses ten days before the primary election and again ten days before election...
...The express companies should be abolished and the business divided between the railroads and the government—the heavy articles going to the former and the light to the latter...
...The Wiley legislation is aimed particularly at the medicines for which manufacturers make extravagant claims...
...It is declared to be the most complete training school of either the army or navy of the United States, excelling Annapolis and West Point in modern features of building and equipment...
...Bar Nostrums from Mails Legislation barring from the government mails all patent medicines and periodicals which advertise them is proposed by Dr...
...President's Silver Wedding President and Mrs...
...Delegations of farmers from the great agricultural sections testified as to the injury the proposed pact would work upon the agricultural interests, presenting information and statistics to prove their contention...
...The strike of seamen was opened in Liverpool on the 14th when hundreds of men attached to the big ocean lines left their posts and refused to work pending the settlement of wage disputes...
...It is said to be the work of Senators Kenyon, Sutherland and Kern...
...Would Abolish Express It was reported from Washington last week that the Democratic leaders in Congress were opposed to the parcels post in connection with the postal service and that they would seek to use the railways in carrying out the wish of the people for a cheap means of transportation of parcels...
...It is now announced that all the barrier gates will be closed not later than 8 o'clock in the morning—possibly much earlier—and all seat holders must be in their places by 7 o'clock...
...Also, when the committee desires records for purposes of examination, it is expected to get them...
...Newspaper publishers, paper makers, lumber men, representatives of business organizations appeared before the committee to discuss the measure...
...The expense statement must contain the names of all contributors to campaign funds and the names of all persons to whom disbursements were made...
...Check on Election Frauds Following the lead of several progressive states that have reached the conclusion that individuals should not buy public offices, a special sub-committee of the United States Senate has drafted a bill on corrupt practices of far-reaching importance...
...It was announced last week that the committee intended to subpoena every individual who was believed to be in possession of any knowledge whatever relating to the Illinois boss and his senatorial campaign...
...One of the features of the invitation list was the inclusion of all the names of descendants of every president of the United States who has occupied the White House since 1861...
...More than four thousand invitations were issued for the affair and the guests included most of the distinguished persons of the country in addition to all the foreign representatives in the national capital...
...Taft celebrated their silver wedding on the 19th at one of the most pretentious affairs held in the White House these many months...
...That is what should be done eventually...
...Individual members of the committee, however presented written statements of their views...
...There still is some hope that it will be possible to float a part of the steel hull...
...The nature of the attack of modern industrial despotism upon the integrity and promise of our individual and national life is such as makes a special call upon the women of our country," said Mrs...
...After thirteen years during which only the conning tower has testified to the position of the wreck, contractors have built a cofferdam around the ship and the water is being pumped from the interior...
Vol. 3 • June 1911 • No. 25
