NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering CONSIDERATION of the President's Canadian pact continued last week to occupy the time of the Senate. Senator Cummins concluded his masterly and spirited argument against its...
...Burton: "The real basis for reciprocity with Canada is the proximity of two peoples of the same language, customs, habits, and needs, and what is more vital to the question under consideration, among whom the same general economic conditions exist...
...Mr...
...Also in case of specific articles of agricultural production the price may be lowered and the American farmer subjected to some slight degree of hardship...
...At the conclusion of his speech, a vote was taken, somewhat precipitately, on one of the amendments Senator Cummins had submitted for the purpose of changing the pact so as to give at least a modicum of relief to the consuming public...
...Senator Gronna on the 6th and 7th spoke against the bill...
...Child mortality mounted to a point not recorded in many years...
...The bureau therefore sent to Germany, where the briquetting of lignite is much farther advanced, and obtained a powerful briquetting machine...
...Mr...
...A great many witnesses had been subpoenaed before-hand, including several who are expected to throw light on the obvious perjury at the committee's last hearing...
...Burton...
...But this did not solve the problem of the transportation of the lignite...
...Senator La Follette plans to make a thorough analysis of the character of the pact and to offer his amendments to the manufactured wool, cotton and other notoriously high schedules...
...Con-neau alighted at Vincennes, France, and received $50,000 in prizes for winning the notable 1000-mile flight which began June 18...
...Thus far I have conceded for the sake of argument that there may be some variance in the price of agricultural products...
...Unless there is a general exodus of Lorimer's close friends when the committee reaches the western metropolis, some interesting developments may be expected...
...The results of the experiments are contained in a bulletin "Briquetting Tests of Lignite," just issued by the Bureau of Mines...
...I think it may to some extent...
...There is said to be 150,000 square miles of territory underlain by lignite and millions of acres belong to the government...
...And we did not get it...
...Borah...
...A New Source of Fuel...
...Borah...
...The Republicans who voted against it are: Brandegee Jones Burnham Lippitt Burton Page Crane Poindexter Cullom Smoot Curtis Wetmore Heyburn The Democrats who voted against it are: Martine Bryan Myers Chilton Owen Fletcher Pomerene Gore Reed Hitchcock Shively Johnson Smith (S...
...And the butchers and packers of the United States did not think that they wanted to compete...
...The butchers and packers of Canada did not think that they could compete with the highly organized packing concerns of this country...
...We did not get it...
...Burton...
...The Non-Smoker's Protective league has been incorporated in New York city by several distinguished persons including Dr...
...He thinks that the great United States concern and the European steel industries are attempting to form a league that will neutralize any possible action by the present Congress on the steel tariff...
...Borah...
...Steel Trust Forestalls Congress Congressman Stanley of Kentucky, Chairman of the special committee appointed to investigate the steel trust, believes that the recent international steel congress in Brussels had to do with the establishment of a "golden rule" policy...
...H. W. Wiley of Washington, D. C, Dr...
...In the big cities, notably Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and St...
...In the poorer districts of these cities the suffering was intense and at night the open streets were crowded with sleeping humanity...
...Two Great Conventions San Francisco during the last week has been crowded with members of the National Educational association for the annual convention of that body.Just at the time the western convention was getting under way the convention of the Young People's Soeiety of Christiar Endeavor was closing at Atlantic City, four thousand miles away...
...Admits Injury to Farmer The contention was made by Senator Burton that the so-called Reciprocity agreement would not work any hardship on the agricultural interests of the United States...
...The difficulty heretofore with the manufacture of briquets has been the cost of the pitch which is considered necessary to hold the coal dust together...
...and on the other hand there are portions of Canada which can more readily obtain supplies from the United States...
...Old Sol Relentless The Mississippi valley and whole eastern slope of North America suffered intensely from a hot spell that lasted for more than a week beginning with the advent of July...
...It has succeeded in making briquets without the use of a binding material out of the lignite from California, Texas and North Dakota...
...Burton Defends Canadian Bill A speech in defense of the President's Canadian bill was made in the United States Senate on July fifth...
...Rural Carriers Get Raise Forty thousand rural mail carriers in the United States soon will receive substantial increases in their salaries...
...The average temperature in that city for the first ten days of July was 95 degrees...
...Two weeks ago Harry Atwood, rsost daring of American flyers, went from New London, Connecticut, down the shore line, crossed from Long Island to Manhattan and startled thousands by circling above the tall building in the Wall street districts...
...On the 4th and 5th the mercury mounted to 102...
...Its use has been greatly restricted because if its tendency to slack or turn to dust shortly after it is mined...
...I should like to ask the Senator if he thinks this measure will lower the price of meat and bread in view of the duty that is left upon those articles and the manner in which they reach the people—that is, through trusts and combines...
...Because the Canadian commissioners did not desire to have it done...
...Senator Burton, however, in the course of the debate admitted that in particular instances the farmers would be materially injured by the ratification of this pact...
...On the 7th, Lieut...
...This was an amendment placing meats of all kinds coming from Canada on the free list...
...Arfti-Tobacco League Formed A crusade against tobacco smoking in public places has been launched following the successful progress of similar campaigns against spitting in public places...
...Burton...
...We took the agreement which would be accepted by the other side, recognizing the fact that it requires two to make a bargain...
...During the present week, the debate will be continued...
...Thirteen machines, forming the most wonderful covey of "birds" ever seen, crossed the channel from Holland...
...It is inevitable that the general result must be an approximation of prices in the two countries...
...Because of the great amount of moisture it contained, between 30 and 40 per cent, the lignite has been difficult to burn...
...Mr...
...Borah...
...The amendment was defeated 32 to 14, many of the Senators being absent at the moment the vote was taken...
...This hardship, however, will be confined to a limited number and to a small area...
...A few few days later his machine suffered an accident at Atlantic City and he almost lost his life...
...Mr...
...On Lorimer's Home Grounds The United States Senate sub-committee which is investigating the election of Senator William Lorimer of Illinois reassembled on Thursday of this week to continue it probe...
...All we know for sure is that it did not...
...In both countries some prices will be raised or lowered, tho only in a slight degree...
...I am not in their confidence, but I fancy that was their reason...
...It is expected that the additional salary will compensate the carriers for extra work involved in carrying parcels when Congress sees fit to enact a parcels post law...
...Mr...
...During the course of the debate, the following interesting colloquy occurred: Mr...
...He contended, however, that this injury to the farmers would be "over-balanced by the substantial benefits which will be conferred upon the whole people...
...The author, Charles L. Wright, says, "The results of the briquetting investigations conducted by the government are expected to prove of considerable value, not only to the government itself as the owner of extensive lignite deposits and the largest single purchaser of fuel, but also to the people in the regions where lignite is found...
...Borah...
...In their thousand mile flight the aviators crossed Belgium and Holland, then crossed the English channel, continued on to London and returned to France...
...In their normal development, the resources as well as the activities of the two countries would supplement each other in much the same manner as those of the different States of this Union...
...The multiplication of the sources of supply will aid in distribution and prevent those dangerous opportunities for monopoly or excessive profits to middlemen...
...Burton...
...C.) Johnston Swanson Martin Williams Taft and Senators on Sea Cruise Meanwhile President Taft and several Republican and Democratic Senators are enjoying the sea breezes from the deck of the President's yacht, Mayflower, finding amusement in sending wireless messages to Washington where the delights of a cool cruise are denied those Senators at work in the oppressive heat trying to make over this measure so as to afford a semblance of relief to a tariff-burdened public...
...Mr...
...The experiments have gone far enough to indicate that lignite can be satisfactorily briquetted at a cost that makes the manufacture commercially possible...
...During the early part of the week votes will be taken on other amendments presented by Senator Cummins...
...The government's expenditure in salary increases will amount to $4,000,000 a year, the exact sum authorized by the last Congress...
...The league expects to further its work by means of lectures, newspaper and magazine articles and the organization of local branches throughout the country...
...Senator Cummins concluded his masterly and spirited argument against its ratification in the form submitted by the Administration...
...Lignite is a poor form of coal, brown in color, and is found in great abundance in several western states, notably, North and South Dakota, Montana and Texas...
...Airmen Startle World New records for aeroplanes have been established within the past week in both hemispheres...
...The benefit of higher prices has not inured exclusively to the good of the farmer in the past few years, but I think the settlement of that question lies in a different direction...
...in the Union which can more readily obtain what they need from Canada...
...The league intends to start a national campaign for the enforcement of existing laws and ordinances regulating smoking in public and semi-public places...
...Predictions are made that the Democrats will refuse to vote for any amendments to the President's bill, however meritorious, through a fear that any changes will result in defeating the pact...
...Two were killed shortly after the race started...
...There are State...
...It was estimated that in Chicago alone there were more than four hundred deaths due to the heat...
...Mr...
...But it would be unwise to hold out the prospect that any material change in the cost of living will be accomplished by this agreement...
...Jenkin Lloyd-Jones of Chicago, Chancellor J. H. Day of Syracuse, President David Starr Jordan of Leland Stanford university and several other university and college presidents...
...nine reached the goal...
...Whatever their thought might have been on the subject, I am satisfied this agreement would have come to us with meat reciprocally free between the two countries if it had not been for the attitude of Canada on that point:" Mr...
...Burton: "I am far from saying that tariffs should not be imposed where there are essential differences in the scale of wages and cost of living, but such differences afford no barrier to this agreement...
...On the day that the long race ended, four German airmen crossed the Harz mountains...
...The latter convention was held at the same time and the same place as the convention of the Benevolent and Proctective Order of Elks...
...Said Mr...
...Senator Theodore E. Burton of Ohio delivered it...
...The Bureau of Mines, sometime ago, conducted a series of experiments and succeeded in developing a furnace that would burn the lignite satisfactorily...
...Louis, hundreds died of heat prostration while thousands suffered in hospitals and homes...
...I have some material here that will possibly answer the Senator's question more fully...
...The announcement was made early this week that the carriers on standard routes now receiving $900 a year would be raised to $1,000, while the carriers on shorter routes would get proportionate increases...
...It now is the plan of the committee to go to Chicago as soon as Congress adjourns, which may be about the first of August...
...Concluded Mr...
...The Bureau of Mines believes that it has developed a fuel supply that will be of immense value...
...Prices will be somewhat lower whenever there is scarcity by reason of deficent crops on the one side or the other...
...If this was designed for the purpose of lowering the price of meat and lowering the price of bread, why were not those articles put on the free list...
...Fifty airmen started in the race...
Vol. 3 • July 1911 • No. 28
