NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING

...Warren was convicted on legal technicalities and upon obviously inaccurate testimony of which the prosecution took advantage...

...The board of trade of Montreal has passed resolutions againrt the proposed agreement...

...The President reduced the penalty to a $100 fine to be collected by civil process only, and erased the prison sentence...

...Senator Root ridiculed the majority report of the privileges and elections committee and pointed straight to the indication that there actually was corrupt practice in the election of a United States senator by the Illinois legislature...

...The obstacles placed in Borah's way while he was making a fight to have the resolution placed on the calendar as unfinished business, lesulted in a vote by which Borah won a point by a small margin...

...Between 5,000 and 10,000 strikers still are without work...

...Only three of the members may be of one political party and the chairman of the board is to be designated by the President...

...Vote Buyers Still Nervous The Vermillion county grand jury, which is sitting in Danville, shows no sign of giving up its inquiry into the selling and buying of votes...

...The members are to receive $7,500 a year...

...The court's ruling made it impossible to correct the testimony and the prosecution took advantage of it...

...Unofficial advices are to the effect that the jury will make no report for at least three weeks...

...So thorough had been the canvass of the two cities for influence that scores of businessmen from every large city in the nation went to Washington to urge upon Congress the claims of one of the two candidates...

...Since the passage of the subsidy bill in the Senate, the opponents of Lorimer have been making estimates as to the extent of the obligation under which Lorimer has put the friends of ship subsidy...

...In view of the recent formation of the National Progres-bive Republican League, among the founders of which the name of Colonel Roosevelt does not appeal, newspapers throughout the country are attaching significance to this recent message of Mr...

...Doubtless his writings are read with pleasure by a number whose views are as wild and as perverted as his...

...Senatorial deadlocks in the legislatures of Iowa, New York, Montana and Colorado have not been relieved and there are indications that the sixty-second Senate may be organized without the new members from these states...

...Rooseveltj as an indication that he is not unfriendly to most of the principles and purposes of the new organization...

...NEWS NOTES — Following closely upon Aviator Latham's successful feat off California when he rose from the surface of the ocean and alighted several times, J. A. D. McCurdy set a new record in over-sea flights when he flew from Key West to within ten miles of Havana...

...Want and suffering rising out of the strike are said to have been so severe that these thousands of workers will feel the effects for years to come...

...Last Saturday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Horace Greeley and ceremonies were held at the former home of the editor, Amherst, N. H., and in several large cities...

...Big Publishers Combine Announcement was made last week of the amalgamation of the Phillips Publishing company, owners of the American Magazine, and the Crowell Publishing company, owners of the Woman's Home Companion and Farm and Fireside...

...Tariff Board Approved The House of Representatives passed the Dalzell-Longworth tariff board bill last week, the solid support of the Republicans and that of many Democrats being given in the vote...

...If it can delay the vote beyond March 4 there is every possibility that Lorimer will spend six years in the Senate...

...When the bill reaches the Senate, there will be a strong opposition, Senator Bailey, Big Business Democrat, having announced his intention to fight it...

...At the same time he answered every objection brought out on the same day by F. T. Holman of Oregon, who spoke before the Chicago Civic association...

...Trouble with his motor forced him to descend to the water, where his pontoons held him up until the arrival of a gunboat...

...In an address before the City club he told of the success with which the voters have used these instruments of popular government since 1908...

...Previously to the murder there was a bitter dispute as to the nationality of the financial advisory committee to be appointed...

...We must work and we must fight for the restoration of popular rule, secure the adoption of such instruments of popular rule as direct primary, strict election law, corrupt practices act and the popular election of United States Senators...

...The San Francisco resolution does not ask an appropriation but merely directs that foreign nations be invited to take part in the proposed fair...

...He termed the sentence excessive, and then added a statement pronouncing the writings of the editor "destructive and reckless...

...Oakland, California, adopted the commission form of government in an election held on December 8, by a vote of almost three to one...

...It is expected that the Senate will take similar action...

...The twelve Chicago distillers convicted in the Chicago federal court on charges of defrauding the government in payment of internal revenue taxes, have been in Washington to plead for a mitigation of the sentence of fines and imprisonment...

...Were this a prosecution for criminal libel in a State court," the President says, "the sentence might perhaps be justified, because of the destructive and reckless purpose of the defendant in his publication...

...Eight hundred guests sat down to the banquet in Springfield and an address was made by the President...

...A total of $154,-000, contributed by union labor, was spent in behalf of the strikers...

...Both the attorney general and the president received calls from the distillers and their counsel...

...Hampton's will publish a retraction of the statement which served as basis for the libel suit...

...The unions will be without the slightest authority so far as working conditions are concerned...

...That this obligation is not felt by all of the thirty-eight was manifested on the day after the subsidy vote, when Elihu Root of New York made one of the most telling speeches so far delivered against the member from Illinois...

...Coast City Wins Fair After months of importuning by representatives of New Orleans and San Francisco, who sought the aid of Congress in locating the 1915 Panama exposition in one of the two rival cities, the San Francisco delegates won in the lower house with twenty-nine votes to spare...

...The new board is to have five members to be named by the president...

...I am a Progressive"—Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt has again asserted with vehemence that he is a "progressive," This time he does so in a letter sent to the New Idea Republican Committee of Hudson County, New Jersey, on the occasion of its annual dollar dinner on January 30...

...but for all persons of average common sense a reading of his articles is the best antidote for the poison he seeks to instill...

...Dooley") Ray Stan-nard Baker, and others will continue to write for that publication...

...As I have said elsewhere, I am a Progressive...

...Ignoring the demands of good taste, Lorimer contributed his "yea" to the thirty-eight others for the bill, thus making the vote a tie of 39 to 39 and permitting the President of the Senate to cast the deciding vote...

...News from the northern border of Mexico that the revolutionists again are planning attacks, has caused the dispatch of United States troops to the scene of the predicted uprising...

...Big business does not like the initiative...

...Several days before the finale of the big strike, the entire fund contributed by unions of Chicago had become exhausted...

...neither does the Civic association...

...He was arrested because he printed on his business envelopes this legend: "One thousand dollars reward will be paid to any person who kidnaps ex-Gov...

...News Worth Remembering SIGNIFICANT developments in the Lorimer fight in the Senate at Washington include Lorimer's vote in favor of the ship subsidy bill and a notable attack by Senator Root upon the Illinois man's claim...

...Holman brought to Chicago the objections raised against direct legislation by big business in Oregon...

...Testimony at Warren's trial was that the indictment was voted in 1907...

...as much more was contributed from other sources...

...The proposed sixteenth amendment to the constitution paving the way for a federal income tax, now is before several state legislatures and within three or four months the results will be known...

...Shipping was shattered by the shock and bodies of workmen were hurled hundreds of feet...

...More than thirty are said to have been killed by the explosion...

...Warren based his right to send out the offer upon the United States Supreme court's decision that the kidnapping of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone and transporting them from Colorado to Idaho for trial was not an illegal act...

...Sizing up the speeches of King and Holman, the Chicago newspapers give precedence to King's logical array of facts over Holman's generalities...

...Stories that President Taft will call an extra session if the Canadian reciprocity agreement is n)t approved by the present Congress, are unconfirmed...

...One of the most forcible sentences in the speech of Senator Root came in the form of a warning: "If we would preserve the honor and integrity of the Senate, if we would do our full duty under our oaths, we are not at liberty to reject the testimony in this case, which shows this seat to be filled as the result of corruption...

...Moffett and Hampton Retract The suits of Standard Oil against Benjamin B. Hampton, publisher of Hampton's Magazine, and Cleveland Moffett will not come to trial, the editor and writer having agreed to make a retraction of the statement that Standard Oil was responsible for alleged wrongs of glucose manufacturers...

...Oregon's Example Cited George Judson King, field representative of the National Referendum league, on the 4th, successfully combatted an effort to discredit the operation of the initiative and referendum in Oregon...

...Under the terms of the settlement, the unions will be absolutely without recognition from employers, the open shop will be maintained, and disputes must be settled between employers and individuals...

...Rosoevelt's letter follows: "I am sorry not to be able to accept your invitation to speak at your dinner next Monday night...

...The total value this year is about 8.5 per cent, less than in 1909...

...The total value of the principal cereal and other crops of the country, exclusive of cotton, for the year 1910 is $3,735,000,000, according to the estimate of the government crop reporting board...

...It is announced that the present staff of the American, including Ida M. Tarbell, F. P. Dunne ("Mr...

...The New Orleans resolution asked for a million dollar appropriation...

...Deneen and other officials of the nation and the state of Illinois, assembled at Springfield, Illinois, today to pay honor to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday falls on Feb...

...Frederick Upham Adams, who assisted in giving wide publicity to this case, is authority for the statement that Warren's publication is read "with pleasure" or otherwise, by more than half a million subscribers...

...But because Warren is a Socialist and editor of a Socialist paper, he was made the subject for persecution such as seldom has been seen in our country...

...Lincoln's Birthday Celebrated President Taft, Gov...

...Danger to Americans from the plague now prevalent in China has inspired United States authorities to offer to send expert commissions to the infected districts...

...The Lorimer crowd in Washington— and the crowd includes some of the most powerful individuals in Chicago business circles—now is bending every endeavor to put off the final vote on the Lorimer case...

...John S. Phillips, editor-in-chief of the American Magazine, will be a director and officer of the Crowell company...

...The vote is pointed to by Progressives as an encouraging sign that the final contest will put the constitutional amendment up to the various legislatures...

...or if the Senate does stand with its members holding their places by such a tenure, the government of the United States cannot stand...

...While the jury is calling in businessmen and county officials to tell what they know of the traffic in recent elections, leaders of both parties are predicting that the probe will come to nothing...

...The board is empowered to hold sessions anywhere in the United States or in foreign countries...

...Warren Saved From Prison Bowing to the demands of the American public, which, through thousands of letters to the President and to the Department of Justice, made known its desire for justice, President Taft has granted clemency to Editor Fred D. Warren of the Appeal to Reason Warren recently was sentenced by a Federal court to serve six months in prison and to pay a $1,500 fine...

...Later, in his warning to the upper house, he added: "The result cannot stand, or if it does stand, the senate cannot stand...

...Court records show that Taylor was indicted in 1900...

...Gain for Direct Elections Senator Borah's campaign for direct election of United States senators has been given another advance in the Senate and late indications are that the resolution will have a good chance for passage when it comes to a vote...

...Without going into these plainly unjust phases of the Warren conviction, President Taft, in grafting clemency, took occasion to make public his own personal animus toward Warren...

...An error in testimony which made it appear that the Warren reward was offered before instead of after Taylor's indictment in connection with the Goebel murder in Kentucky, played an important part in his conviction...

...Taylor and returns him to Kentucky authorities...

...But even in such a case I would question the wisdom of making the defendant conspicuous and feeding his vanity by treating him seriously, when his violence, his exaggeration, his wild accusations and his mock heroics ought to be treated with ridicule...

...I could not be anything else, for the Progressives are those who really believe in the people, who stand for the fundamentals of popular rule...

...More than $10,000 of the union fund was spent for milk for the babies of strikers...

...Before sending out the printed notices he submitted the form to the postal authorities and was told that the plan offered no affront to regulations...

...These means are good only if, when they are adopted, we use them so as to secure the true object of government, by the people, which is the welfare of the people...

...Shah's Advisor Killed On the eve of the appointment of American financiers to reorganize the fiscal system of Persia, the advisor of the Persian shah, Sani-Ed-Dowleh, has been assassinated...

...Pickets were called off duty and all the striking workers were notified that the fight was over...

...Garment Workers Lose The real end of the Chicago garment workers' strike came last week when the directors of the union organization made unconditional surrender...

...Forty tons of dynamite exploded last week on the Jersey waterfront and Manhattan Island was shaken from one end to the other...

...Eruptions of Mount Taal, thirty-four miles from Manila, are said to have brought death to three hundred Filipinos...