NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering SENATOR Lorimer's predicament continues to be the chief matter of interest at the national capital. The vote of the upper House to decide whether or not the Illinois man's...
...The independents can exist only under the protection of the law...
...J. Hughes, Jr., junior senator from Colorado, died at his home in Denver at the age of 58 years...
...He cited this important fact: That one of the big items of cost was steel rails and that there was no co-operation among the roads to buy rails cheaply...
...Madison, Wis., is the home of the newest organization of this kind...
...He said: "I am not taking this victory as one personal to myself...
...New Saturday Lunch Club The "Saturday Lunch Club" idea is spreading...
...Garment Workers End Strike While they have not won all that they demanded at the beginning of what has been a most expensive and disastrous strike, the garment makers of Chicago have scored a partial victory...
...that he paid money to individuals which was used by them to induce others to vote in the primaries for Stephenson...
...He cited one important telegram that has a vital bearing on the case...
...He also made this point: "Take away the fear of prosecution by the government and the Standard Oil company would put every independent in this country out of business in five years...
...Two thousand workers are out with the petitions and it is expected that the needed signatures will be ready to file within two weeks or less...
...The success of the first meeting of the new Madison club promises future usefulness and influence...
...At the beginning of the week about ten thousand resumed work on a basis of arbitration...
...If United States senators were elected by the direct ballot, said the Idaho senator, there would be no more scandals like the Lorimer case...
...He said that it had been "born and reared in oppression" and that it "hangs today over this country like a threatening cloud...
...In the presence of his colleagues he asked Senator Gamble of the subcommittee about the omission Senator Gamble admitted that he had noted the omission and said he did not know what had become of the important document...
...Senator Crawford exposed the latter truth...
...In my opinion, one act of bribery makes the whole election foul...
...This is the question before us—not the conduct of the officers, of justice...
...Reports on Stephenson Case The 1909 Wisconsin state senate committee of three members which was appointed to investigate the nomination of Senator Stephenson in the primary election after a joint committee had failed to make a thorough probing, reported to Gov...
...Farrell, Ramsey and Towne, reduced the total attendance to a point where Stephenson's solid block of votes made a majority of the whole...
...Then he tlaborated: "The four big steel companies have altogether sixty-five directors...
...The vote of the upper House to decide whether or not the Illinois man's seat should be declared vacant has been expected daily but the powerful lobby's tactics for procrastination have been successful in large measure...
...The new report, contrary to statements in the press, is not a minority report but is a separate and distinct report by a Senate committee composed of the three Senators who served on the original committee of eight...
...The school teachers of Chicago recently have added $700 to the fund1 to help the strikers and under a new plan the several unions of the metropolis have donated enough to raise a $10,000 total...
...Brandeis Talks on Economy Louis D. Brandeis of Boston made good his promise to tell the railroads how to economize, in an address before the Interstate Commerce Commission apropos of the hearing on the proposed freight advances...
...One tainted vote, he said, was enough to make a Senator's election morally void...
...In Rochester, N. Y., and in Minneapolis, Minn., there are Saturday Lunch Clubs that have come to be important factors in public affairs...
...California's New Senator On January 11 Judge John D. Works of Los Angeles was elected United States Senator by a large majority...
...Only the five assemblymen signed this report...
...This election, it will be recalled...
...Under the Illinois law the league must secure the signatures of 73,000 voters before the liquor question can be placed before the people on the ballot...
...His study of the testimony, Senator Beveridge said, had convinced him that eleven of Lorimer's votes were tainted...
...that he paid money to a supporter of his opponent, F. E. McGovern, who subsequently switched from McGovern to Stephenson...
...They expressed their belief that the Senate committee on privileges and elections not only had made a mistake in declaring Lorimer innocent of wrongdoing but actually had signed the majority report without even reading all the testimony before the subcommittee...
...He was sworn in on January 9. — Because the commission form of government has been a success in Kansas City, the county commissioners of Wyandotte county, Kan., have taken the first step toward placing the affairs of the county under commission government...
...As the speeches against the Senator piled up, the lobby is said to have sought to intimidate other senators by threatening investigation of other cases in the event of Lorimer's unseating...
...It is a triumph of right principles in politics over boss rule and the elimination of the interests...
...Kellogg told the supreme court justices of his difficulty in learning the truth from Standard Oil officials...
...Glasscock of West Virginia as United States Senator to fill out the unexpired part of his father's term...
...He told his colleagues that certain important testimony had been omitted in the printed proceedings of the subcommittee...
...Saloon Fight Reopened Chicago's annual fight on rum was opened last Sunday with sermons from scores of pulpits...
...That he approved of these methods cannot be doubted...
...Governor Stubbs urged the Oregon system...
...The committee's report alludes to the eventful election of Stephenson in the legislature...
...Senator Beveridge's expressions in his report as dissenting member of the committee on privileges and elections, stirred the upper house to its foundations...
...Brandeis said that the economies proposed for the railroads might result in a saving of $1,000,000 a day, which, he said, might also make up for the proposed increase in freight rates...
...was accomplished by the sudden departure from the joint session of three Democrats...
...As a result of a meeting of the strike leaders last Sunday more than fifteen hundred strikers doing picket duty left their "sentry posts" or changed their stations to the smaller shops...
...The Senate committee makes these charges against Senator Stephenson in its report: That he premeditately violated the law requiring candidates to file under oath an account of campaign expenditures...
...Chas...
...that the civil service statute was violated when he paid money to employees of the state to serve in his campaign...
...that he violated the statute forbidding the giving of money to a legislative candidate residing outside the contributor's district...
...The ineffective character of the California primary law opened the way for a contest as to whether or not the legislature should regard Works or Spaulding as the popular choice...
...The stated purpose of the club is that of providing an open forum for the untram-meled discussion of matters of interest to the state as a whole and to the nation...
...The original committee of three progressive Senators and five reactionary assemblymen made its report last spring, practically clearing the Senator...
...Dramatic moments in the case came last week when Senators Beveridge and Owen spoke...
...Direct Ballot the Cure Senator Borah of Idaho and Governor Stubbs of Missouri were the authors of strong expressions on the direct ballot and primary elections last week...
...In the primary election last summer Judge Works received the largest popular vote, although his opponent, A G. Spaulding, the millionaire sporting goods manufacturer, carried the advisory vote in a majority of the districts...
...Forty of these sixty-five directors are also directors in fifty-two railroads, including the most important systems...
...The committee reports that the failure to keep accounts or records of the disbursement of Stephenson's campaign fund (more than $109,000 was spent in his fight) made it clear that "there was premeditation and method on the part of Stephenson and his managers to cover up their methods of conducting the campaign...
...Kellogg told the court that John D. Rockefeller either had not told the truth when he made an affidavit in 1880 or that he gave false testimony when he took the stand in the present case...
...The departure of these three men...
...Employees of some of the smaller shops, however, have not resumed the exercise of their earning power because their former employers have not acceded to the terms given out by their big competitors...
...McGovern last week...
...Here is his language in laying down the duty of the Senate: "What the Senate must determine is whether it believes, as a matter of fact, that these men (the Illinois indicted legislators) actually did receive the money which they testified to having received, and large amounts of which were found in their possession in bills of large denominations about the time they testified to having received it...
...Judge Works Is a vigorous progressive—a Republican—and has been a leader in the insurgent movement on the Coast...
...The expression was made in the upper house at Washington in his argument furthering the reso-olution for direct elections...
...He added: "If only one case of bribery be clearly established in the election of a Senator, I hold that this invalidates the entire election...
...Is it a wonder that the railroads did not direct their combinations to secure a reduction in the price of steel...
...The airing of the Lorimer case has increased the activity of the Lorimer lobby in Washington...
...On January 14, more than sixty men, in-cludng Governor McGovern, President Van Hise of the state university, and other men of prominence in politics, education, and business gathered to lunch, and to listen to excellent addresses by President Van Hise and State Forester Griffith on aspects of conservation of prime importance to the state...
...This week was taken up largely in speeches by members of the Senate committee in defense of their votes to clear Lorimer...
...Five minute discussions, following the addresses, are a feature of the club...
...News Notes — Davis Elkins, son of the late Senator Stephen B. Elkins, was appointed by Gov...
...Doubts Rockefeller's Word In a notable onslaught in the Supreme Court on the Standard Oil Company's methods, Frank B. Kellogg, special prosecutor in the federal government's plea to dissolve the corporation, characterized the oil trust as a concern having a "record of oppression unequalled in commercial history...
Vol. 3 • January 1911 • No. 3
