NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering PRESIDENT TAFT will veto the La Follette bill reducing the duties in Schedule K. That is the story given out at the White House. The woolen schedule which Aldrich called the...
...Originally the bill provided that meat products, flour and cereal products from all countries should be admitted free of tariff duty into the United States...
...Varda-man's announced intention is to work night and day to see if he can secure the repeal of the fourteenth and fifteenth a-mendments to the United States Constitution...
...One important fact brought out was that the ore and coal holdings acquired by the Steel Trust when it absorbed the Tennesee Coal and Iron Company in 1907 have a valuation of $200,000,000, for which the Trust paid only $29,000,000...
...ut will continue doing business "at the same old stand...
...White insisted throughout the hearing that his only motive had been the public good...
...A Step Toward World Peace As a result of President Taft's suggestion three of the world's greatest powers on August 3 took a long step toward universal peace...
...The Democratic measure will be rejected and the La Follette bill passed in its place by the combined vote of Progressive Republicans and Democrats...
...In case the governments concerned or the appointed commission decide the case to be justiciable, either government may demand a year's delay, pending an effort to satisfactorily settle the question without resorting to the arbitration proposed...
...Compensation Bill Wins The Saunders-Parks Workingmen's Compensation Bill, which was referred to the Massachusetts state Supreme Court to determine its constitutionality prior to its passage, has been declared constitutional...
...Reciprocity Campaign in Canada Over in Canada the Reciprocity agreement with the United States, which is to be decided by popular vote, is setting the Dominion into political furore...
...This amendment changed the provision relating to the manner of redistricting the states...
...Immediately upon the court's decision, the bill passed the Senate and House...
...White told his story calmly, despite the efforts of Judge Hanecy, Senator Lori-mer's lawyer, to shake him on cross-examination...
...He admitted telling lies to Browne and Senator Lorimer, but he said he did this as part of his scheme to uncover the bribery...
...It is stated that out of 90,000 employees covered in the report, the customary working week of one-third of the number is a seven-day week, and that one-fourth of the 90,000 work 84 hours, or over, per week—in effect a twelve hour day every day in the week, including Sunday...
...As far as the other corporations are concerned—those not in the manufacture of oil—in which Standard Oil owns stock, the chief counsel of the Standard Oil Company, M. F. Eliott, makes no suggestion...
...If either of the nations concerned regard the dispute as justiciable, it shall be submitted for arbitration at the Hague or before a special tribunal, which after careful investigation, will make a recommendation acceptable to both countries...
...God Almighty," Vardaman is quoted as saying, "intended the negro to till the soil under the direction of the white man...
...Eliott, "that the Standard Oil Company is not proposing to go out of the business...
...On the 4th, the House agreed to the amendments adopted by the Senate and it was sent to President Taft, who will sign it...
...Cotton Bill Passes House Meanwhile, on August 3, supported by all the Democrats and by 30 insurgent Republicans, the Democratic cotton tariff bill, the third of the big tariff revision measures passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 202 to 91...
...It is not expected that wars will be utterly impossible under these treaties, but they will be improbable...
...It admits the manufactured articles made from farm products free from Canada, an end which the insurgents repeatedly tried to gain in the reciprocity fight...
...On August 1, the stockholders in this great trust were informed as to the plan by which the company is going to change itself into a "reasonable" trust in obedience to the decision of the Supreme Court...
...Great interest was manifested in White's testimony...
...The House Free List Bill was beaten on a tie vote of 39 to 39, was then reconsidered, changed by a compromise amendment offered by Senator Kern of Indiana, former Democratic candidate for Vice-President, and with progressive Democratic support finally passed as a-mended by a vote of 48 to 30...
...Officials of the Tobacco Trust are likewise engaged in figuring out a plan whereby they may come within the new rule of law laid down by the Supreme Court without affecting their dominance in the manufacture and sale of tobacco...
...This makes it certain that in addition to the La Follette wool bill and the farmers' free list bill, President Taft will be confronted with the duty of either signing or vetoing the La Follette cotton bill, which makes deep cuts in the cotton schedule—a schedule that is almost, if not quite, as "indefensible" as the woolen schedule...
...Another interesting fact that was brought out was that when Gary and Frick of the Steel Trust hurried to Washington to see the President about taking over the Tennessee Company for the purpose of preventing a crash of the brokerage firm of Moore and Schley, one of the members of that firm, Mr...
...They are informed that, by December 1, they will have certificates of stock in thirty-three corporations which, at the time of the decision, were owned by the Standard Oil Company...
...Instead of having the redistricting done by the legislature of each state as the House bill piovided, Burton's amendment provides that the redistricting should be done in the manner prescribed by the laws of the state...
...The committee room was crowded with spectators who came to see what manner of man was this who accepted bribes, as he himself testified, in order to uncover the wickedness and corruption of Big Business in the Illionis Legislature...
...Wool Bill in Conference The House was unwilling to accept the La Follette wool bill in the form it passed the Senate, so it was sent to conference together with the original House bill...
...Since the standpat Republicans on the conference committee frankly said they would submit a minority report, no matter what action was agreed upon, it was decided to turn over the work of drawing up a compromise measure acceptable to both the Progressive Republicans and the Democrats to Senator La-Follette and Congressman Underwood...
...His boyhood was a long struggle with poverty...
...White, it will be remembered, is the Illinois legislator whose confession of having received a bribe to vote for Lorimer, as published in the Chicago Tribune, opened up the notorious Lorimer scandal...
...Senator Clapp and other insurgents, who voted for the Free List Bill after the Kern compromise amendment had been adopted, said tonight that the amendment accomplishes what they tried to effect by amendments to the Reciprocity Bill...
...It is admitted that this provision applies only to Canada, after the new reciprocity agreement shall have become effective between the two countries...
...The treaties were sent the following day to the Senate, where they will be acted upon, following the investigation and report of the committee on foreign relations...
...Right on the heels of this threat from the President, last week, came the news that Senators and Congressmen are considering the possibility of passing this bill over the President's veto...
...McCumber's compromise amendment, limiting the membership of the House to 405, was beaten by a vote of 22 to 47...
...At this writing they are still at work, with prospects of an entirely satisfactory bill...
...This bill will undoubtedly follow the same course in the Senate as that taken by the wool bill...
...New Senator from Mississippi James K. Vardaman is Mississippi's new United States Senator...
...The bill that came from the House was voted down, but the bill that finally passed differs only slightly from the original...
...The bill reduces the average tariff on cotton manufactured goods from 48 to 27 per cent...
...The Burton amendment, however, was adopted by a vote of 39 to 28...
...The Kern amendment provides that this free admission shall apply only to meats, flour and cereal products "coming from any foreign country with which the United States has a reciprocal trade agreement and which shall admit from the United States free of duty, cotton, corn, wheat, oats, horses, cattle and hogs...
...Seven Progressive Republicans—Bourne, Bristow, Dix-in, Kenyon, La Follette, Poindexter, and Works,—and one Democrat—Clarke, of Arkansas,—voted against this increase in membership...
...In six weeks the election will be held...
...Wickersham would have consented if the salary had been what he wanted, and, he added, "I think I would have saved them a lot of trouble," by advising them not to commit illegal acts...
...He denied that the Brussels Conference of steel manufacturers of the world, from which he returned recently, had anything to do with fixing prices...
...Wickersham admitted that the syndicate had negotiated with him to be its attorney...
...Steel Trust's Good Bargain Additional information regarding the operations of the Steel Trust was secured last week by the House investigating committee...
...Vardaman served as governor of Mississippi from 1904 to 1908...
...Long Hours in Steel Works Secretary Nagel of the Department of Commerce and Labor has submitted a special report to the Senate on conditions of employment in the iron and steel industry in the United States...
...Root's amendment, providing that the present membership of 391 should be retained, was defeated by a vote of 23 to 46...
...White Story Unshaken The Lorimer investigation was given over during the week to an examination of Charles A. White...
...You may believe," says Mr...
...ad valorem...
...More Members for House On the same day the Senate passed the House measures increasing the membership of the House of Representatives from 391 to 433...
...It is thought that other treaties of a like nature will be negotiated before long in which Germany and Japan will figure...
...The woolen schedule which Aldrich called the "very citadel of protection" but which President Taft later characterized as "indefensible," is not to be disturbed if a veto can prevent it...
...He practiced law for a while, edited a country newspaper, and in 1889 was elected to the legislature...
...It is clear that the Democrats in the Senate, realizing that out-and-out Democratic tariff measures can not pass, have decided to serve the country and the consumer by uniting under the leadership of Senator La Follette and going as far as the Progressive Republican tariff principles will permit them to go in reducing the notoriously high trust schedules...
...Schley, said he knew nothing at all about the expedition in behalf of his company...
...Assurances have been had that the Governor will affix his signature, thus making the Workingmen's Compensation Bill a law...
...Wickersham Assails Guggenheims That the Guggenheims "practically own the government of Alaska and that they have acquired everything else that was loose around there" was the statement made by delegate Wickersham of Alaska in his testimony before the House judiciary committee...
...The main features of the treaties are: In all disputes that cannot be settled by diplomacy, a commisson will be appointed consisting of an equal number of citizens from each country who will recommend a settlement to be submitted to the two governments for approval...
...This scheme of making over the Oil Trust will in no wise affect its business, nor will it lessen the grip of this great monopoly on the oil business of the world...
...On the 4th, Charles M. Schwab admitted to the committee that the Steel Trust was the "child of his own brain...
...He is a pronounced exponent of white supremacy...
...Standard Oil Obeys Supreme Court Standard Oil is to "dissolve...
...Aside from determining whether or not the trade agreement is to be accepted by Canada, the election will also determine whether Laurier shall continue to be Prime Minister or whe.ther he shall be replaced by R. L. Borden...
...Free List" Bill Passes Following the passage of the ,La Follette wool bill, the Senate on August 1 passed the so-called "farmers' free list bill...
...On that day treaties were signed at the White House and at the ministry of foreign affairs in Paris, by representatives of England, the United States and France respectively, which it is thought will provide a way out of any difficulties that may arise between any of these nations in the future...
...The committee refused to recommend that the House investigate delegate Wickersham's charges that Attorney General Wickersham had shielded and protected "Alaska's Syndicate criminals...
Vol. 3 • August 1911 • No. 32
