NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering LAST WEEK the newspapers reported the announcement of President Taft's latest program. It is his purpose, first, to veto the Arizona and New Mexico statehood bill: second, to...
...This remark is credited to Governor Osborn of Michigan who had just been listening to Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Charles Nagle, who bemoaned the tendency of the American people to adopt such measures as the initiative, referendum and recall...
...All other crops are reported to be hard hit...
...A determined effort was made by President Taft and the regular Republicans to have the provision for the recall of judges in Arizona's constitution stricken out of the joint resolution...
...The overwhelming vote for statehood for Arizona and New Mexico does not, of course, indicate that the Senate by that majority favors the recall of judges...
...What is the difference in the two cases...
...Wiley, have besmirched themselves with the very tar they sought to spread upon Dr...
...Word came from the White House that if this were done the President would sign the bill...
...The crop report for August says the lack of rain and intense heat caused the corn yield to shrink a third of a million bushels in July...
...He said Hitchcock had ordered all proceedings against Lewis stopped pending the result of an investigation, but that the St...
...Altogether the members of the Department, headed by Secretary Wilson and Solicitor McCabe, who have lent themselves to this attack upon Dr...
...The President, it is reported, is so incensed at the idea of incorporating the fecall of judges in the fundamental law of any state that he is determined to emphasize his opposition to this measure by denying Arizona and New Mexico statehood...
...Taft to Veto Statehood The President's veto of the statehood bill will over-ride the action of the Senate by a 53 to 18 vote...
...Wool Bill up to Taft The wool bill will undoubtedly go to the President some time this week...
...Louis inspector had acted before receiving this information...
...The fight to limit the power of the predatory lords, begun two years ago, when that august body rejected the Lloyd-George budget, ended in a victory for the liberals...
...Wiley...
...The most amazing admission made last week before the House Committee, investigating this affair, was that by Solicitor McCabe that he had altered a court judgment...
...Senator Nelson introduced an amendment to accomplish this, but it was rejected 43 to 26...
...After denying 'vehemently that he had ever said to the food manufacturers that the Remsen Board was created to protect their interests, Secretary Wilson was shown by a stenographic report to have made such a statement...
...upon wool cloths...
...In 1896 he was elected president pro tempore and was reelected to that position of honor three times...
...As the measure passed the Senate the duty was fixed at 35 per cent, on raw wool and as passed by the House it was fixed at only 20 per cent...
...fifth, to appeal to the country to force the Senate to ratify the government treaties of arbitration between Britain and France, without the slightest change...
...A duty of 34 per cent...
...Not the least important among the interesting bits of evidence produced by the committee is the fact that Wilson's own Remsen Board is drawing its pay by the very procedure which McCabe sought to fasten upon Dr...
...At this writing it is reported that President Taft is on his way to Washington with a vigorous veto message containing his personal objections to the recall...
...Large crop losses are reported by the government...
...From this country he will proceed to Canada, stopping at Niagara Falls on the way...
...It is, of course, possible for Arizona to incorporate such a provision into her constitution at any time after she may have become a state, just as California has done, for example...
...When he resigned at the beginning of the present session because of ill health, a deadlock ensued and no successor has yet been chosen...
...It shows a net profit to the city during the past year of nearly $35,-000.00...
...McCabe was asked...
...First is printed the Senate proceedings, next the House proceedings, and then are included the set speeches of members who have held them out for revision...
...On August 10 the annual report of this enterprise was filed...
...The late Senator Frye was prominent among the regular Republicans and belonged to the old school of politics...
...He maintains however that none of this was expended corruptly...
...Lords Pass Veto Bill The English House of Lords has "drunk the hemlock" of the veto bill...
...The agreement is upon the following basis: A duty of 29 per cent, on raw wool, carpet wools, wool rags and waste...
...Wiley as an "irregularity" meriting, in the opinion of Attorney General Wickersham, "condign punishment...
...He was the only coffee expert the government could get to do the work...
...The Wisconsin Legislature thought differently, however, and, upon the report of the committee which investigated this election two years ago, requested the United States Senate to conduct an inquiry...
...This action was unanimously decided by the Senate on the 12th in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee on Privileges and Elections...
...What is reported to be the first instance of its kind was the action of Judge Smeltzer of Iola, Kansas, in sentencing at woman to work out an unpaid fine in the chain gang with men prisoners...
...All the "jokers" and pernicious compensatory duties now contained in Schedule K of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law are eliminated...
...Explanations were made by Third Assistant Postmaster General Britt...
...Senator Frye Succumbs Senator William Pierce Frye died on the 8th at the home of his daughter in Lewiston, Maine...
...Stephenson Election Questioned The election of Senator Isaac Stevenson of Wisconsin is to be investigated by the United States Senate to determine whether it was attended by bribery and corruption...
...This agreement is a victory for the Senate conferees...
...Complaint was made to the House Committee on Post Office Department Expenditures that the Post Office Department had not suspended operations against the Lewis Publishing Company of St...
...Says the Chicago Tribune correspondent: "There is no doubt the agreement constitutes a substantial victory for Senator La Follette...
...Kenosha, Wisconsin, has a municipal water plant...
...A new page is opened in the constitutional history of England —a page on which is destined to be written "the will of the people IS the law of England...
...It is his purpose, first, to veto the Arizona and New Mexico statehood bill: second, to veto the wool bill: third, to veto the free list bill...
...On the 11th, the conferees, Senator La-Follette for the Senate, and Congressman Underwood for the House, agreed upon a msrasure...
...He surrendered to the House upon the classification of wools adopted by that body but on the other hand retained the relation between the duties on raw wools and those on manufactures, which, he insisted, was necessary and desirable from a scientific point of view...
...Wiley had been framed by three members of the personnel board of the Department of Agriculture in conference...
...The Senate on the following day adopted resolutions of respect and sorrow...
...It is speeches such as Secretary Nagle has just made and others by Attorney General Wickersham that have kept President Taft apologizing ever since he has assumed office...
...Upon his arrival in Washington he was feted by President Taft and taken to the navy yards and other points of interest, with which he was visibly impressed...
...Louis...
...McCabe's explanation of this deed was that he wanted the judgment to conform to the original citation of the Department of Agriculture...
...It does indicate that 53 Senators, and more, balk at the idea of so abusing their constitutional power as to dictate to Arizona and New Mexico what their state policies shall be...
...His successor will be a Democrat...
...He expressed his delight at the reception accorded him everywhere...
...During the past week he paid a visit to West Point and to Colonel Roosevelt at Oyster Bay...
...At this writing he is reported stronger and in no immediate danger...
...He has been in the United States Senate continuously since 1881...
...Thousands of people throughout the Middle West used this opportunity to see with their own eyes how the man-birds fly...
...Speeches of Senators and Congressmen will no longer be found on the first pages of the Congressional Record...
...The Harris case was an unusual one," he said...
...Togo Visits Uncle Sam Since Admiral Togo, naval-hero of the Russo-Japanese War, set foot upon American soil, Uncle Sam has spared no pains to make his visit an interesting one...
...and the greatest barrier to complete democracy in England is now removed...
...fourth, to veto the cotton and any other tariff bills that might be passed...
...McCabe also admitted that the charge against Dr...
...But in such event the President would not find it possible to indicate his displeasure in so striking a manner as by his use of the veto...
...All Kansas divided into two camps over this sentence—those who say women should not be sent to the rock pile in bloomers, and those who say that women should be punished as men are punished...
...The make-up of that publication has been changed...
...Rusby, whose employment by Dr...
...Wiley was made the excuse for the assault upon him by the protectors of food poisoners in the Department...
...It was shown that before circulating a judgment against a food manufacturer rendered in a Missouri court, McCabe had removed the words "benzoic acid" and substituted the words "caffein...
...The mayor has pardoned her...
...Duties of 49 per cent, and less upon manufactures of wool...
...Wiley's Accusers Besmirched Wiley's enemies in the Department of Agriculture are squirming under the very charges they manufactured to force the resignation of the vigilant Chief Chemist...
...This judgment sentenced a food manufacturer for using "deleterious substances, to-wit: cocaine, benzoic acid, and coal tar dyes" in a food product...
...H. Harris, a coffee expert, is employed by Vie Bureau of Chemistry under exactly the same terms as the employment of Dr...
...Senator Stevenson admitted in his statement of expenditures that his election cost him more than one hundred thousand dollars...
...He admitted further that Wm...
...McCabe held that the department had found that some coal-tar dyes are not harmful and that the charges against this particular food manufacturer were not based on the use of benzoic acid...
...Pope Pius III Pope Pius suffered last week from a severe illness that at times gave rise to grave fears...
...NEWS NOTES — Last week Chicago gave itself over to the enjoyment of an aviation meet...
...On the 10th this bill which practically limits the power of the House of Lords to a two years' suspensory veto and vastly increases the power of the House of Commons was passed by the Lords, 131 to 114...
...In this the President takes a position squarely at odds with that of the Congress he used so successfully to put the stamp of approval upon his deal with Canada...
Vol. 3 • August 1911 • No. 33
