NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering THE expected happened on the 23d when the United States Senate passed the President's Canadian agreement by a vote of 53 to 27. The Senate's action settles the agreement so...
...In his letter to Mr...
...Greater New York has taken definite steps to extend the subway transportation system...
...The idea is not new, of course, having been a part of the Wisconsin Republican platform of 1910 and a subject of discussion these many years among those interested in drawing the teeth of the trusts...
...On August 22 the government will open to entry nearly two hundred thousand acres of Indian lands in Minnesota...
...The passage of the veto law means that Great Britain practically will be governed by the House of Commons with the hereditary House of Lords possessing only a veto with a time limit of two years...
...While some of the witnesses have testified to certain alleged facts, others have refuted their statements and given the gist of conversations that have a different meaning...
...that all election expenses must be made public before, as well as after, election...
...Wickersham's speech followed the energetic efforts of these two trust heads to make the American people believe that the trusts now were willing to let the government fix prices...
...Speaking of Democratic support throughout his fight, the President said: "Without this support reciprocity would have been impossible...
...The bill was passed by the upper house practically without a dissenting vote...
...but it must be ratified by the Canadian Parliament before it becomes effective...
...President Taft, who watched the voting down of amendments with close scrutiny, made this statement: "I an much gratified and delighted that the bill is passed...
...The city of Des Moines is fighting high prices by assuring the erection of a market house where consumers may buy direct from the producers...
...The bill carries a penalty of $500 for each violation...
...Settlers will pay $1.25 an acre...
...Flies at 10 Cents a Quart Boys and girls of Baltimore have been given a fine opportunity to achieve wealth for themselves and health for their baby brothers and sisters...
...He made his announcement in a speech at Duluth, Minnesota, on the 18th...
...The memberships on this Commission are but a few of the places opened up to Congressmen and Senators who did "faithful service" during their terms in Congress...
...The King's method would have been to create new lords whose political beliefs would insure a majority against the opponents of the important measure...
...Only three Democrats voted against it...
...that no candidate for the Senate shall spend more than $10,000 in the primary and general election and that no candidate for the House shall spend more than $5,000...
...NEWS NOTES —The Bricklayers International Union No...
...The Senate's action settles the agreement so far as the United States is concerned...
...The bill as passed in the Senate provides that no candidate for the House of Representatives or the Senate shall spend in the election more than 10 cents for each voter in his state or district...
...Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania who handled the agreement in the Senate for the President made the laconic statement that "it was easy...
...I did it myself, personally...
...The memorial is to cost $2,-000,000...
...2 of Seattle, Washington, have passed resolutions protesting against the manner in which McNamara was taken to Los Angeles to stand trial in the Times explosion case...
...Several witnesses who had been called at the request of Hines, denied many of the reports that preceded their appearance on the stand...
...The common •council has found evidences of a combine to keep prices at a high elevation...
...Without interference it might have continued on the pay-roll of the Federal government until 1914...
...Lorimer Committee Puzzled Recent developments in the Lorimer investigation at Washington have brought out the obvious truth that someone is lying...
...This, commision has cost about a third of a million to date...
...For the last two weeks Paris has been suffering from intense heat...
...Senator Penrose said that he had met Hines in connection with matters relating to the tariff...
...Of late, however, the idea of federal control has been used in publicity campaigns by Theodore Vail of the telephone and telegraph trust and by Chairman E. H. Gary of the steel combine...
...that complete publicity must be given to all campaign contributions and expenditures...
...But Senator Cummins interfered...
...British Lords Yield Whipped into line by Premier As-quith and the King himself, the British House of Lords has surrendered to the popular demand for the lords veto bill...
...Under oath before the committee, Frame said that he had heard Edward Hines say: "I have elected Lorimer our next Senator...
...The bill now goes to the House of Representatives for concurrence...
...This phrase has a familiar sound ft has been heard before from others...
...Ten years ago the value was placed at less than half this figure...
...The census bureau announces that farm lands in this country now are valued at $28,384,821,000...
...The present plans look to an expenditure of $234,000,000 for now subway lines to accomodate the masses...
...The Women's Civic League of that city has made an offer of ten cents a quart for flies, dead flies of course...
...Off Uncle Sam's Pay-Roll As the direct result of Senator Cummins' fight to require the Monetary Commission to make its long-delayed report to Congress, several members of both houses in Congress who were given easy berths after their repudiation at the polls, will find themselves without substantial pay-checks at the end of each month...
...On the 20th lorimer Senator N. W. Aldrich of Rhode Island took the stand to deny the authenticity of the report that President Taft had indicated his wish to him (Aldrich) that Lorimer might be elected Senator from Illinois...
...Congressman Talcott, of New York, has introduced a bill in the lower house making it unlawful after January 1, 1912 for any common carrier engaged in interstate commerce, or in carrying United States mail, to locate or run in any train between adjoining steel ears, or between the engine and steel car adjoining, any wooden mail car, or any wooden express car, used in interstate traffic, or any wooden car used for the interstate transportation of passengers...
...It was passed only after the Premier had given written notice of the King's intention to force the bill through if the lords continued to resist passage of the act...
...As a result of the offer, the dealers have run out of fly-traps, poisons and "swatters" and the campaign goes merrily onward...
...The Fine Arts Commission of Washington, D. C, has chosen a site on the Potomac river for the Abraham Lincoln memorial recently authorized by Congress...
...Balfour, leader of the opposition in the House of Commons, Premier Asquith said: "Should the necessity arise, the government will advise the King to exercise his prerogative to secure the passage of the law and his majesty has been pleased to signify that he will consider it his duty to accept and act on that advice...
...On the 24th, two days after the passage of the reciprocity agreement, President Taft gave out the statement at his Beverly home in which he gave full credit to the Democrats for passage of the pact...
...Each of these men has been drawing $7,500 a year...
...It indicates the increase of mutually beneficial relations between Canada and this country...
...Cardinal Gibbons passed his 77th birthday on the 23d at Westminister, Maryland, where he celebrated mass in a private chapel...
...Among the Monetary Commission members who will miss their vouchers at the end of the year are Senators Aldrich, Burrows, Hale, Teller, Money, Flint, and Taliaferro, and Representatives Bonygne and McLaughlin...
...The League has carried its campaign to a point where practically every housekeeper, no matter how poor, has been persuaded to keep the garbage can covered, thus lessening the plague to a considerable degree...
...that all promises of political jobs must be made public...
...thirty-two voted for it...
...The Senate roll-call shows that twenty-four Republicans voted against the agreement while twenty-one voted for it...
...He then ventured the prediction that Congress would adjourn not later than August 10...
...During the quizzing of witnesses, the committee caught the name of Richard (Dick) J. Shields of Superior, Wisconsin, who is said to have sacrificed several days from his work in order to visit the different Persons who have been mentioned in connection with Hines' statements at the Union League club and in a sleeping car smoking . Among the witnesses who spoke highly of the business ability of Edward Hines during the week was Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania...
...It would not have been difficult for them to fasten upon the bill amendments affecting the tariff generally in such a way as to embarrass the Executive and to make it doubtful whether he could sign the bill, and yet to claim popular approval for their support of reciprocity in its defeat...
...One of the witnesses on the 18th was a young man, Donald M. Frame, keeper of the cigar stand at the Union League club in Chicago...
...Wickersham in "Follow-up" Attorney General Wickersham, casting about for a progressive programme for the administration, has advocated federal control of trust prices of general commodities...
...Only one section of the agreement becomes operative at once, this being the section relating to reduced duties on paper and pulp...
...The temperature is said to be higher than at any time in the last twenty-five years...
...It was a significant fact that the majority of Republicans in the Senate, as in the House of Representatives, voted against the Canadian pact...
...Senate Passes Publicity Bill Recent scandals connected with the election of United States Senators had much to do with the passage in the Senate on the 17th of a most drastic bill limiting the amounts to be spent hereafter in campaign expenses...
Vol. 3 • July 1911 • No. 30
