NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering AT THIS WRITING, the decks appear to be cleared for early adjournment of Congress. Important events followed one another in quick succession at Washington last week....
...Reports on the 20th indicate that the threatened tie-up of England by the strikes of railway and transport men may be averted...
...Croix Johnstone and W. R. Badger losing their lives on August 15...
...Its approval by Congress was the work of the Democrats, and President Taft publicly expresses his gratitude to the Democrats for insuring this ratification...
...With the recall of the judiciary eliminated, Arizona will enter the Union and New Mexico will become a state with her constitution more easy of amendment by the people...
...An-nother feat was accomplished last week by Harry N. Atwood, who flew a distance of 959 miles in six days, on his way from St...
...The bill is still in conference...
...It has become to me positively indispensable...
...The wording of the resolution made it necessary for the people of Arizona again to vote upon this feature of their constitution, but the President used his constitutional power to defeat statehood for both these territories, because of his violent antagonism to the recall, as applied to the judiciary...
...The Best Magazine for Women IHAVE ENJOYED your valuable publications so thoroughly that I feel constrained to send you a word of appreciation...
...Lincoln Beachy set a new mark for altitude on the 20th by reaching a height of 11,578 feet, and by carrying a passenger for three hours and twenty minutes, on the 19th W. G. Beatty established a record for duration...
...Harvey W. Wiley testified last week before the House investigating committee that practically all of his power to hunt down and punish violators of the pure food law had been surrendered to Associate Chemist Dunlap and Solicitor McCabe...
...One other measure given consideration at this session is that of direct election of United States Senators for the first time in the history of this country...
...Of the twenty-four accidents which marred the success of the meet, two were fatal, St...
...Wiley found that Secretary Wilson invariably supported the decision of his solicitor...
...The House has had special committees investigating the Steel Trust, the Sugar Trust, the Controller Bay scandal, and Indian land scandals, the Wiley case, including the work of the Department of Agriculture, railway mail service troubles, the charges against Attorney-General Wickersham, in connection with the alleged Alaska Syndicate frauds, and the parcels post...
...The Senate opened up a new investigation of the alleged corruption in Senator Lorimer's election...
...Louis to New York...
...Consumers Must Wait Sincere and determined efforts to relieve the consumer from the excesses of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law were made during this session, and had it not been for President Taft's veto, the consumers of the United States would, within a month or two, find themselves relieved from unnecessary burdens, to the extent of many hundred million dollars a year...
...But they must wait...
...They regard this step as a victory for themselves...
...Personally I cannot see how any woman in the legal profession can get along without this paper to hold her to higher impulses and ideals than are fostered by the commercial grind of a modern legal practice.—Eugenie N. Raye Smith, Editor of The Women Lawyers' Journal, New York...
...Following are a few of the important investigations, the results of which will be presented more fully at a later time in this magazine...
...Indeed, I believe La Follette's is the best magazine for the "woman of to-day"—the woman in public life who must keep abreast of the times and the woman of culture, who should keep abreast of the times and the woman of the home, who, on account of her withdrawal to the fireside and the cradle, needs a medium to keep her abreast of the times...
...What prospects they have for securing adequate relief from the next session of Congress remains to be seen...
...This agreement was ratified...
...Great Strike Averted...
...Two-thirds of his cases have been over-ruled by these two men and Dr...
...This bill was also vetoed by President Taft...
...Taft Vetoes Wool Bill President Taft, as he had intimated some weeks ago, vetoed the wool bill, passed by Congress...
...The announcement was made that the managers and their employees had agreed to permit a commission to settle their difficulties...
...Important Laws Passed This extra session of Congress just drawing to a close was called by the President for the purpose of approving, without change or consideration, his so-called Reciprocity agreement with Canada...
...Aviation Meet Closes The aviation meet at Chicago, with its string of broken records and broken bodies, has ended...
...On the 17th, the Democrats and the Regular Republican leaders made a compact by which the Regular Republicans left the Senate chamber when the cotton bill was up for consideration, and by their absence enabled the Democrats to pass the measure as it came from the Democratic House...
...The vote on the wool bill was 227 to 129, less than the necessary two-thirds majority...
...The vote on the free-list bill was 226 to 127, also less than the requisite two-thirds...
...On the 18th, the Senate, by a vote of 53 to 8, passed the resolution granting statehood to Arizona and New Mexico, without the judiciary recall provision...
...Before adjourning, the Senate also voted to make an investigation of anti-trust laws, to begin in the fall...
...On the following day, a determined effort was made in the House of Representatives to override his veto of the wool bill, and also his veto of the free-list bill...
...The reason he gives for vetoing this downward revision of Schedule K, of the Payne-Aldrich law which he himself says is "indefensible," is that he wanted no tariff revision, until the board he appointed under the maximun and minimum clause of the Payne-Aldrich law submits its report to him...
...Besides this Reciprocity measure, three other important measures were passed: the campaign publicity and corrupt practices act, the re-apportionment of the House of Representatives, and statehood for Arizona and New Mexico...
...On the 19th, the House took similar action, and a new statehood bill was sent to the President...
...Beginning on Tuesday, the 15th, when the wool bill, adopted by the conference, was accepted by the House, by a vote of 206 to 90, and ending on Saturday with an unsuccessful attempt to pass this bill over the President's veto, the week was fraught with great significance...
...The United States Senate approved this more democratic and representative method of choosing its members...
...Taft Vetoes Other Bills On the same day, the 17th Congress agreed upon the so-called free-list bill, passed by the same combination of Progressive Republicans and Democrats as insured the passage of the wool bill...
...The bill, however, was amended in the Senate which made it necessary to send it back to the House...
...It also voted to investigate the election of Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin...
...Wiley also charged that three cabinet officers—Cor-telyou, Straus and Wilson—set aside the finding that "corn syrup" was not properly labeled, and this, too, after the corporation had offered money to chemists to endorse the product...
...Thus the efforts of the Progressive Republicans to secure the passage of a bill cutting the high and exorbitant cotton duties, in the same way as the woolen duties were revised, came to naught, and because of that a strictly Democratic bill was put up to the President, who will veto it...
...Many Investigations Held Not the least important of the work of the present session has been the series of investigations by House and Senate...
...Pending peaceable settlement the men, it is said, are willing to return to work and wait for the outcome...
...He vetoed it because the joint resolution contained a provision for the recall of judges...
...Wiley's Work Hampered Dr...
...Taft Vetoes Statehood Bill On the 15th, President Taft vetoed the joint resolution, providing for full statehood for Arizona and New Mexico...
...The House rejected the Senate amendment...
...There are still many men out and conditions are far from being settled...
...It is felt that the present conflict has served to strengthen the cause of union labor...
Vol. 3 • August 1911 • No. 34
