NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering WITH Senators Beveridge and Cummins and President Taft and his cabinet supporting it, while Speaker Cannon of the House of Representatives, with several others are openly...
...In the Senate there was but one adverse vote...
...Another Fortune Sails Another American daughter has been taken to the court of St...
...There also have been speeches in his favor...
...In the last ten days there have been several speeches demanding his expulsion...
...In New York, Montana and Colorado the legislatures continue to take ballots without results...
...The Chicago common council has adopted a resolution limiting the height of new buildings in the "loop" district to 200 feet...
...News Worth Remembering WITH Senators Beveridge and Cummins and President Taft and his cabinet supporting it, while Speaker Cannon of the House of Representatives, with several others are openly opposing it, the late reciprocity agreement between the commissioners of the United States and Canada has awakened wide interest and no small amount of conjecture regarding the virtues of the agreement...
...The New York story, seemingly based on logical grounds, set forth that Lorimer, in his desire to spare his close friends embarrassment, had decided to resign gracefully and thus relieve the Senate from the duty of going on record through a ballot, as to his right to sit in the chamber...
...In concluding his address the President said: "We have taken up those things that are involved in a Canadian reciprocity treaty because opportunity offered...
...They urged that the idea was an affront to the constitution...
...Young's plan was to win in the primary by splitting the total vote among several "opposing" candidates...
...The report mentions the Pullman Company, Morris & Co., and several other large concerns as being among those which have "grabbed" great tracts...
...Bartholomew's Episcopal church in New York with a large cordon of police outside the entrances...
...Now is the accepted time...
...Two Cities for Commissions Pekin, 111., adopted the commission form of government on the 7th by a majority of 196...
...Must Explain Bad Service Agitation by postal employees is bearing fruit...
...King George for the first time used the new declaration of faith which omits mention of the Catholic church...
...There has not, however, been any direct proof that the Illinois member would carry out the predicted program...
...The legislature will be asked to appropriate $50,000 to supply the attorney general with additional help to prosecute the corporations...
...The Wisconsin legislature also passed a similar resolution...
...The country has been on a protection basis nearly all the time since 1861, and the tremendous strides in industrial progress which it has made seem to me to vindicate the wisdom of the policy...
...S» much objection had been raised to the alliance in advance of the wedding and so many threatening letters were received that the ceremony was performed in St...
...A similar bill has been introduced in the Wisconsin legislature...
...Appleton, Wis., voted by a majority of 202 to adopt the' Wisconsin commission form of government...
...That is, I believe that there are certain industries in this country which need the encouraging effect of a tariff upon imports from foreign countries to enable them to pay good wages and furnish a reasonable profit to those who engage in them...
...The fact that Lorimer numbers among his close personal friends several members who feel in duty bound to vote against him, gave the story strong indications of truth...
...Official records were destroyed and the legislature and state officers were left without quarters...
...David Lloyd-George, chancellor of the exchequer, is suffering from a breakdown and is resting in Italy...
...The action was brought about by several Republican Standpatters with the Democrats...
...The King's first speech from the throne was the occasion for a public demonstration, crowds lining the streets when the king and queen rode in state in the gilded coach used by their predecessors...
...Adds 42 New Members By a vote of 433 to 391 the House of Representatives on the 9th decided to increase its membership by adding foty-two members to the present body...
...When writing to advertisers please mention La Follette's...
...Missouri's shortsightedness in not building a new fire-proof capitol was rewarded February 5 by the total destruction of the antiquated building by fire...
...Owing to her advanced age, 89 years, there have been grave fears that she could not recover...
...It is promised in Edgar county that if a grand jury investigation comes about, there will be an expose of vote selling and vote buying that will make the Adams county (Ohio) scandal look like child's play...
...The bill was passed on the 7th and the Senate is expected to concur...
...Senators Beveridge and Cummins have spoken openly in approving the agreement...
...the British husband is 42...
...Lorimer Makes His Plea Senator Lorimer as his own defending advocate is expected to be the next chapter in the Illinois senator's fight to retain his seat in the United States Senate...
...Direct Election Progresses The Iowa legislature on the 7th adopted a resolution favoring direct election of United States Senators...
...Shall she be an isolated country, as much separated from us as if she were across the ocean, or shall her people and our people profit by the proximity that our geography furnishes and stimulate the trade across the barrier that nothing but a useless, illogical and unnecessary tariff wall creates...
...The difference in condition which generally makes this tariff necessary is the lower price of labor in the foreign country as compared with the price of labor in our own...
...The Senate has had placed before it a resolution by Senator La Fol-lette calling upon Postmaster General Hitchcock to explain the causes for complaints...
...In the meantime the press of the country finds that Speaker Cannon, not openly, but by means of letters, opposes the agreement and does not wish to see it approved by Congress...
...The American bride is 18 years old...
...Asks Peace in Parliament What promises to be a most historic session of the English parliament opened on the 6th with the address from the throne by King George...
...While several communities on both sides of the border, through local business organizations have passed resolutions opposing the proposed reductions, the great masses of the people in Canada and the United States have not had time to study the terms of the agreement nor to form an appreciation as to the effect on the whole country of the proposed reductions...
...Elaborate plans for a subway transportation system now are under consideration by a council committee...
...Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas and Washington each gain two new members...
...The Wisconsin law does not provide for the recall or the initiative, and the present legislature is expected to remedy this defect...
...Taft Favors Reciprocity In his speech at Springfield, where he spoke before the two houses of the Illinois legislature, President Taft said that the reciprocity agreement was in exact line with the Republican party platform of 1908...
...At present all United States ministers and ambassadors are required to rent their own quarters and to pay for them themselves...
...James in the person of Miss Vivien Gould, daughter of George Gould, who on the 7th was married to Lord John Graham Hope de La Poer Horsley-Beresford...
...President Taft, in his addresses en route to the Lincoln celebration in Springfield, III., gave unqualified approval and urged that Congress "O...
...The present report is separate from that charging the Illinois Central railroad with holding vast acreage illegally...
...Nothing in the news regarding Lorimer's struggle has awakened greater interest than the report emanating from New York that he intended to resign his seat...
...He said in part: "I am a protectionist...
...The matter now will be fought out by the legislators...
...He urged a speedy settlement of the dispute between the two houses over the veto power of the house of lords and announced that proposals would be submitted at an early day looking to an effective working organization...
...Charges Big Land "Grabs" The Illinois legislature has had placed before it the official report of the Chiper-field committee which asserts that large corporations in the state have taken illegal possession of thousands of acres of bottom lands adjacent to inland lakes...
...NEWS NOTES — Latest reports of the condition of Miss Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross, are that she is steadily improving from her recent attack of bronchitis...
...The coming two weeks are expected to expose the voters' prostitution of years' standing...
...The Postmaster General also is asked to tell whether penalties for delays have been collected from railroads and to give a list of the roads having contracts that do not provide for penalties...
...In the middle western states several legislatures are on the brink of passing resolutions memorializing the federal legislative branch to withhold approval...
...A woman's suffrage bill has been favorably reported to the Illinois senate and the women who are urging its passage have high hopes of success...
...Progressives in the house for the most part opposed the enlargement of the lower branch of Congress...
...K." the commissioners' action...
...Galesburg on the same day turned down the proposition by a heavy vote...
...Meanwhile countless numbers of trade and business associations are sending in resolutions to Congress for and against the ratification of the agreement...
...The bill, which was drawn by Representative Lowden of Illinois, limits the cost of buildings to $150,-000...
...Another Illinois Scandal Efforts to get politicians to testify and to tell just what they know of vote buying, precedes the calling of a special grand jury in Edgar county, which like Vermilion county, is in the congressional district of one Joseph G. Cannon, speaker of the House of Representatives...
...Builds Embassies Abroad After a ten-year fight the advocates of government-owned embassies in foreign capitals have won their fight in the House of Representatives...
...The resolution calls upon the department to answer charges that in its desire to cut down expenses it has hampered the service and worked injustice to employees...
...The building is to be completed in 1916...
...While the preliminaries are going on in Edgar county, the Vermilion county jury continues to burrow into the disgraceful conditions...
...The Indiana legislature has taken favorable action on the erection of a building to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the state's admission in the union...
...His absence at the opening of the British parliament has given rise to wide uneasiness...
...Young's Ruse is Beaten Senator "Lafe" Young's attempt to get permanent possession of the late Senator Dolliver's seat in the United States Senate was given a set-back on the 5th when the Iowa legislature by an overwhelming vote refused to place the election of Senator before the people...
...She is at the parting of the ways...
...The states which make pains of three or more by a new apportionment include California, New York, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania...
...Senators Lodge and Root in the United States Senate added a chapter to the fight for direct elections by speaking against the change...
Vol. 3 • February 1911 • No. 7
