NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering VERMILLION COUNTY, the home of Speaker Cannon, is in a state of turmoil over vote-buying scandals. Judge Kim-brough of Danville, whose instructions to a grand jury had to do...
...The Iowa situation remains unchanged and the struggle over the election of the late Senator Dolliver's successor continues...
...The result was a whole day wasted in parliamentary debate...
...The Michigan legislature carried out the desires of the people as expressed at the primaries by electing Charles E. Townsend, present congressman, to succeed Julius Caesar Burrows...
...He was stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage and died an hour later without regaining consciousness...
...His retiremeent from Congress will undoubtedly insure the election of a progressive to succeed him...
...The Union of American Hebrew Congregations meeting in New York, decided to ask President Taft to take action relating to the alleged disregard in Russia of American passports...
...Commission form of government of cities was advocated, and the creation of a public utilities commission to supervise and control all corporations that may be classed as public utilities...
...Their action Was the subject of condemnatory resoPUT HIM OUT By WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD HOW LONG, ignoble warders, will ye mock the faith of those Who trained ye unto justice for the nation's porticoes...
...In the past, a package that has been transferred from one company's system to another has been charged the double rate...
...THE TRADESMEN of the roadsides from Florida to where The cars sweep past the villagers in clear Montana air, The housewives of a people who rear our young and bear, East, west, and 'round about...
...But the Progressive Republicans and Democrats won...
...In this event no action could be taken upon the Lorimer matter until some time after the opening of the new session...
...Carnegie also announced that the institution's big observatory in California, under the direction of Prof...
...Two Democrats were in the Lodge column on the final returns...
...One Washington correspondent, Gil-son Gardner, writes as follows about this Aldrich scheme: "The proposed bill might be called 'a bill to turn over all important powers and duties of the United States treasury to a syndicate of national bankers controlled by J. P. Morgan and his successors.' " Smith, Standpatter, Goes to the Bench Walter I. Smith, congressman from Iowa, was appointed on the 17th by President Taft to succeed Judge Willis Van Devanter as United States Circuit Judge in the Eighth circuit...
...Three Cities in Line As the result of elections, three more cities entered the commission column...
...In a caucus of lower House Democrats at Washington, Champ Clark was unanimously chosen speaker of the new House which forms in March...
...And sent ye forth to Washington to fend us from our foes?— Will ye stilt pretend to doubt...
...The next thing of interest in the matter of elections of United States senators was the election by the Massachusetts legislature of Henry Cabot Lodge to succeed himself...
...The Chicago Tribune finds a wide discrepancy between the prices of foodstuffs in the downtown district and the outlying residence portions of the city...
...THE MINERS in Nevada, the fishermen in Maine, The lumberjacks in Michigan, the harvesters of grain And herders of the cattle upon the Texan plain, Even all the ragged rout Along the mighty river that cuts the land in twain, Cry: "Put him out...
...The ugly case is sifted, and an angry country knows: Put him out...
...The income for the year just closed was more than twelve million dollars...
...BY THE BATTLEFIELDS of yesterday, beneath the grass and leaves, By the peace that is tomorrow and the hope of honest sheaves...
...If the candidate for whom he was paid to vote won the election, the holder of the slip called around at headquarters the next day and collected the balance of his bonus...
...The capital of this assocation is to be $300,-000,000 and is to be controlled by a board of directors having in its membership the representatives of national banks, the federal government and the industrial and commercial interests...
...Tener Urges Liability Laws Governor John K. Tener of Pennsylvania in his inaugural address, delivered on the 17th, recommended a compulsory arbitration law to settle differences between capital and labor, and favored the appointment of a commission to investigate every phase of the employers' liability question...
...This organization will have the power to issue notes...
...It now is the plan of the Lorimer forces to delay action until the coming in of the new Congress...
...Aldrich's Bank Scheme One of the most remarkable pieces of newspaper press agency work in this day of press agents was consummated last week when, in one day, the country was apprised of the Aldrich scheme of a new national bank system...
...The arbiters who are to adjust the differences of employers and employees were named this week and they will enter immediately upon the work of reaching a final decision...
...It was announced at Washington that the United States and Canadian commissioners had reached an agreement regarding customs duties that involve several notable decreases...
...The bill gives full authority to the present railroad commission of Kansas to collect the facts...
...Charles F. Johnson was elected by the Georgia Democratic legislature...
...The big express companies of the country have announced a change in rates that will effect a material reduction when a package is transmitted through more than one of the organizations...
...While the fight of the western railroads before the Interstate Commerce Commission to raise their freight rates continues, the Kansas legislature has before it a bill providing for the early physical valuation of railways...
...Lorimer's Case Unsettled The procrastinating tactics of the Lorimer forces in the United States Senate continue...
...The election by the Rhode Island legislature of Henry F. Lippitt to succeed Aldrich is mentioned elsewhere in this issue...
...The account of the scheme was sent out by the Associated Press several days in advance of the printing of the story in order that the papers might have editorials and headlines in readiness...
...All trades and all the homes of ours, upbuilt by playing fair, Cry: "Put him out...
...Without unreasonable delay, efforts are making to the final settlement of the garment makers' strike in Chicago...
...This association also is to have the power to issue additional notes to be protected by a reserve of one-third gold or other lawful money and two-thirds by United States bonds or "bankable commercial paper" The Aldrich plan includes the organization of the country into fifteen groups, divided into smaller groups...
...Lodge Goes Back At this writing William F. Sheehan continues to hold the lead in the senatorial fight in New York...
...Charles D. Norton, who became private secretary to President Taft last spring and of whom it then was said that he would be an "assistant president," announced his coming resignation and it is said that he will become an official of a large corporation at an early date...
...The record was previously held by A. Welsh, who stayed in the air 3 hours, 11 minutes and 55 seconds at St...
...With T. P. O'Connor, Joseph Devlin and Daniel Boyle, Irish members of Parliament, he was guest of honor at a great meeting in Dublin to celebrate the success of the parliament members' visit to America...
...Lodge was elected by a bare majority that included members of the opposition party...
...Ottawa, Dixon and Decatur, all prosperous cities in Illinois, voted to adopt the commission form of government under the new Illinois law...
...WHILST YE toy with legal fictions in the solemn slow debates, Ye are toying with our honor and our high imperial fates, By housing still the man of bribes within the goodly gates...
...Under this system the voter, as soon as he left the voting booth, was handed an amount agreed upon and also a printed slip...
...The indications continue to give the impression that the legislature will be impeded in its work by a long drawn out fight over the successor to Chauncey W. Depew...
...That the jury will go at the subject with the intention of "getting" the vote buyers and the vote sellers, was indicated last week when more than a hundred subpoenas were served...
...Speaker Cannon, in an interview at Washington, reassured the reporters in his characteristic way that he knew nothing of the alleged system...
...The American endurance record in aviation was broken January 22 at San Francisco, by Philip 0. Parmalee...
...The jury's investigation, if opposition to the inquiry does not prevent the probe, will reach back three years...
...The Associated Press for two years has been a great aid to Aldrich in making public the things which he desired the people read...
...Judge Kim-brough of Danville, whose instructions to a grand jury had to do with matters closely resembling the distasteful expose in Adams county, Ohio, is said to be determined to go to the bottom...
...Ope the fetid senate-house from grunsel to the eaves!— Will ye still pretend to doubt?— Gagged by lords of lumber and barons of the beeves?— Put him out...
...Sailing in a Wright biplane, he remained in the air for 3 hours, 39 minutes, and 491/5 seconds...
...Governor Deneen of Illinois called a special election in the Forty-second senatorial district, January 18, for the election of a state senator to succeed W. D. Holstaw of bribery fame, who has resigned...
...Put him out...
...Congressman Smith is a standpatter and one of Cannon's most faithful allies in the House...
...Newspapers of all political complexion denounce the tactics of the Lorimer crowd and demand that his colleagues throw him out without delay...
...The account of the Aldrich scheme appeared on the front pages of hundreds of daily papers...
...The scheme was submitted to the monetary commission the day before his press notices appeared in the Associated Press papers of the United States...
...Hear ye not the sturdy shout— The roaring referendum of the fifty banded states?— "Put him out...
...His new plan involves the establishment of a centralizing bank mechanism to be known as the "Reserve Association of America...
...Congressman Fitzgerald made a motion to call from committee his bill to place meats upon the free list...
...It is commonly reported in Danville that the leaders of so-called political clubs make it a regular practice to distribute thousands of dollars on election day by means of the coupon system...
...He said further that he did not prophesy war with Japan but the only guarantee of peace is to be prepared for war...
...The navy of the revolutionists in Honduras, which consisted of the gunboat Hornet, has been seized by the United States cruiser Tacoma because of a violation of the neutrality laws...
...This brings his gifts to that institution to $25,000,000...
...Andrew Carnegie took another step toward poverty by giving $10,000,000 to the Carnegie institution in Washington...
...A nation is exalted alone by righteousness— Put him out...
...Jara, minister of war in Paraguay, has assumed the presidency after forcing the resignations of President Gondra and Vice President Gaona, who were elected to office last September...
...George E Hale, was to have a new telescope with a lens 100 inches in diameter...
...He has saved the Associated Press thousands of dollars by giving to this organization his press bulletins several days in advance of publication, thus enabling it to send the matter out by mail instead of by telegraph...
...Cost of Living Cropping...
...Lawyer's offices in Speaker Cannon's home city are keeping open house day and night and the ward leaders in past campaigns are moving rapidly to keep their lieutenants informed of the status of affairs...
...The rescue corps, so often mentioned in the press despatches, is booked for several speeches in support of the white-wash vote of the committee of the senate and it is said that these speeches, with the usual intervals of delay, will stretch over a period of several weeks...
...The municipal dance in Milwaukee, in its present form, is to be abandoned...
...lutions at the hands of the Montana legislature...
...The real control goes back to a board of nine members, five of whom are to be appointed from among the bankers and the other four to be government officials...
...The Socialist leaders are convinced that the dances are not harmless to the young people, as it has been difficult to keep out the undesirables...
...Rejects Commission Plan — On January 18, Champaign, Ill., rejected the commission form of city government by a majority of 21 votes...
...John E. Redmond has been reelected president of the United Irish league...
...Interest in the cost of living gains headway in Chicago with the news last week that butter had descended two cents a pound while eggs had dropped one cent...
...Senator Burrows agrees to the demand for a vote, but, with his well-known astuteness, refuses to have the date set for this final vote...
...The same situation prevails in West Virginia...
...As in some other states within recent memory, Mr...
...Paul C. Morton, president of The Equitable Life Assurance Society, and Secretary of the Navy under President Roosevelt, died suddenly in the Hotel Seymour, New York City, January 19...
...According to the Aldrich press matter, his plan puts a quietus on his original central bank scheme...
...IT SOUNDS from many a campus by lake and green recess, It rings from many a belfry tower that never rings for less, It thunders from the rollers of a now awakened press: "Put him out...
...The Chicago newspapers point out that a year ago today the price of these necessities was soaring skyward and housewives were in a state of consternation...
...AND THOSE who weave the coats for us in red New England mills, And those who forge our engines under Pittsburg's iron hills, And those who bolt our bridges and bake our bricks in kilns, All grimy men and stout (Who earn with sweat the cash they get, and pay no pander's bills) Cry: "Put him out...
...Speaker Cannon held that the Hull motion to proceed with the consideration of the army appropriation bill was in order...
...Clark assured his friends that they never would have cause to regret their generosity...
...One of the Chicago papers explains to its readers that the drop in prices is the result of the necessity of bringing butter and eggs out of their hiding places (the cold storage houses) to help their owners realize cash...
...Representative W. E. Humphrey of Washington in an address at Detroit, Michigan, January 19, made the following statement: "Japan could seize Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, The Bremerton government navy yard, five great transcontinental railways, fortify mountain passes and have an empire upon which to live before the United States could get 75,000 troops to the Pacific Ocean...
...The report of membership in the convention of United Mine Workers of America at Columbus, Ohio, showed that 308,660 miners belonged to the organization at the end of 1910...
...Louis...
...This will be the world's premier telescope...
...Cannon Trounced Again Speaker Cannon, was given another indication that the house does not like his czar methods when the Democrats and progressives voted down his decision, 155 to 126, that the "discharge committee rule" worked even when an appropriation bill was on for passage...
...NEWS NOTES — Col...
Vol. 3 • January 1911 • No. 4
