NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING

...This would help to bring upon the newspapers the corrective power of publicity which they are wont to recommend and apply for other interests and other institutions...

...He made a statement explaining that he had become convinced that the election was attended by corruption...

...The President upholds the position of Secretary MacVeagh...

...Governor Deneen in an interview said he had never given any consideration to the matter of appointing a successor to Lorimer...

...A. Piatt Andrew, in submitting his resignation to the Secretary and to the President...

...Nor is the best of intentions a guarantee of success...

...The United States is the fourth country to restrict the absinthe traffic...

...But it is a line of endeavor as well worth while as to subscribe to charities, settlements, opera or Sunday Schools...

...His opponent was Miss Grace C. Strachan of New York...

...It would facilitat that interplay of ideas and that thrust and parry of opinions out of which truth evolves...

...The letter of Andrew to Secretary MacVeagh is similar to another letter which he addressed to the President...

...Andrew...

...But the public newspaper would standardize truth telling in the public interest, which is the service now needed...

...No wonder John D. says he never felt better in his life.—Johnstown Democrat...

...The Wisconsin law commonly called the upper berth law was declared invalid recently by Circuit Judge E. Ray Stevens...

...Public intelligence and conscience are keener, that's all.—Stockton Record...

...He appeared dejected and depressed...

...When the announcement of the vote was made there was no sound of approval or disapproval...

...Another fatal railroad wreck occurred last week, this time at Western Springs, Illinois...

...to include them, as Mr...

...Richard said: "It is not accident nor the special depravity of publishers but the cold logic of commercial necessity which brings into being the fact that in most of the great battles against special privilege the big newspapers are found openly or stealthily lined up on the side of privilege...

...Speaking of the commercialization of the daily press, Mr...

...That the subordinates in the treasury are hampered by Mr...

...and drastic reforms in regulation and in operation...

...Superintendent Fairchild was the candidate of the "progressives...

...The bill has been signed by the Governor...

...We quote from his speech: "As a check upon masked ownership and influence, we can establish a stronger public regulation...

...He braced his shoulders, threw his head in the air, allowed a strange sort of a smile to come over his face and walked heavily toward the door...

...The law provided that whenever a person occupied a lower berth in a sleeping car and the upper berth of the same section was not engaged or occupied, the upper one must remain closed...

...After a whitewash by the Senate committee picked by the Old Guard to investigate these charges, the Senate voted on March 1, 1911, in favor of Lorimer's right to his seat by the close margin of 46 to 40...

...Cullom Changes His Vote Senator Cullom, who was defeated for renomination in the Illinois primaries because of his vote for Lorimer a year ago voted against him this time...

...MacVeagh has from time to time displayed an aversion, suspicion, and distrust of his subordinates, which "would seem inexplicable in a man of normal mind...

...Lorimer, no longer a Senator, declared to have been elected corruptly, arose slowly...

...If you say that this is Socialism, I care not what you call it—it is an exact parallel with the public school...

...The minority report in favor of unseating Lorimer prevailed...

...This problem of publicity in its relation to the public welfare was discussed before the Sixth Sagamore Sociological Conference by Livy S. Richard, editor of the Boston Common...

...What can be done to bring the newspapers along with our other great business enterprises in touch with the new spirit of service...

...Only two dissenting votes were recorded against the bill...

...The Massachusetts Supreme Court recently decided that owners of patents are not, by word or phrase, excepted from the sweeping provisions of the Sherman Anti-trust law against monopolistic combinations...

...While the vote was being taken he sat in his seat in the back row on the Republican side of the chamber...

...As Mr...

...That Secretary MacVeagh labors under the delusion that his subordinates are in a cabal, conspiring against him...

...So that, while these companies operate separately and compete with each other for traffic, the express business of the United States is managed by not more than three groups of interests...

...On its public side, it is breaking down...

...Finally, as Los Angeles is showing us, we can have the public newspaper, supported by taxation, free to all, obligated by law to be, as nearly as possible, a vehicle of information without bias, and always subject to public control in the public interest...

...The Chicago Record Herald reports the culmination of this notorious case as follows: "There was a deathly silence in the Senate chamber while the roll was being called...

...In these letters he charges: That subordinates in the treasury department have been hampered and discouraged by Secretary MacVeagh's "idiosyncracies" and his "incapacity for decision...

...The case is now in the hands of the Senate, which sits as a court in impeachment cases...

...The public newspaper would take from no individual now in the news publishing business any existing right to peddle his wares on such terms as he and his patrons could arrange, nor would it be desirable that this liberty to print should be restricted...

...At a recent dinner in Boston, Cardinal O'Connell, replying to the toast, "Civil and Religious Liberty," paid a high tribute to President Taft and bitterly opposed the recall of judges...

...One of the significant features of this report is the evidence of the consolidation of the express business of this country, justifying the expression, "the express trust...

...Thirteen persons were killed and nearly a score injured...

...Funk Acquitted Clarence S. Funk, general manager of the International Harvester Company, was acquitted last week of charges brought against him last October by John C. Henning, a former hotel employee, in a $25,000 suit for the alleged alienation of affections of the latter's wife...

...He names important cases where public interest was ignored by reactionary and precedent ridden courts and declared that "public opinion isn't going to stand for it...

...I can think of no more useful form of publicity for public service...

...That he has treated his subordinates with harsh ingratitude and with a lack of consideration, little short of brutality...

...Senator Lorimer concluded his speech at 1:30 o'clock...

...Senator Smoot, who himself barely escaped expulsion a few years ago, threw his arm over Mr...

...That Mr...

...NO BROTHERS, the Republican party to-day is not any worse than it has been ofttimes before...

...Rumpus in Treasury Department Friction in the Treasury Department was experienced last week when Secretary MacVeagh was subjected to bitter denunciation by his assistant, Dr...

...This was followed by other confessions...

...unseat him because he was the victim of a "gigantic conspiracy" participated in chiefly by the "trust press" of the country, the Senate voted 2 to 1 to evict Lorimer, whose whole public career is marked by a trail of lumber and lard...

...that it is injurious to health, and that it is an adulterated product...

...After several days of argument during which Senator Lorimer made a final emotional plea to the Senators not to Whose seat in the United States Senate was declared vacant on the ground that his election by the Illinois legislature was brought about by "corrupt methods and practices...

...It would be a common council...

...Thomas Taggart of Indiana, who in the 1904 campaign was chairman of the Democratic national committee, testified before the Senate committee investigating campaign expenditures that in 1908 he destroyed the treasurer's books...

...It was a solemn proceeding...

...The grounds for the decision are: that its sale is forbidden in countries in which it is made...

...Lorimer's shoulder and walked a few steps with him...

...Richard sees three things...

...On April 30, 1910, the Chicago Tribune published the confession of Charles A. White that bribery and corruption had brought about Lorimer's election...

...From information gathered it is shown that during November and December, 1911, and January, 1912, there were 2,760 accidents attributable to rail failures, and of this number 936 occurred as the result of defective rails...

...Henning has already confessed a passive part in the alleged plot and several witnesses in the suit have confessed to receiving money for their testimony...

...Wayman and his associates are now said to be seeking the "man higher up...

...The special session of the legislature which was called by Governor Osborne of Michigan has passed the employers' liability and workmen's compensation act, endorsed by the labor organization of the state...

...NEWS NOTES — The Prohibition party in convention at Atlantic City, New Jersey, on July 12, nominated the party standard bearers of four years ago, Eugene W. Chafin of Arizona for President and Aaron S. Watkins of Ohio for Vice-President...

...E. T. Fair-child, State Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kansas, as president of the National Educational Association, one of the most stirring conventions in the history of this organization was brought to an end last week at Chicago...

...After prolonged hearings attended by many sensational disclosures, the committee voted 5 to 3 in favor of Lorimer on the flimsy pretext of res adjudicata...

...Briggs and Curtis are Republicans, while Simmons and Watson are Democrats...

...But democracy saw the need of universal instruction and therefore it established the free common school...

...A NAMELESS DELEGATE in the Democratic Convention called Bryan a "marplot...

...Of the 108 members of the Illinois legislature who elected William Lorimer in 1909, 75 have been retired to private life...

...It is worthy of note that special emphasis was laid upon the educational problems of the rural districts, the heart of which was expressed by Herbert Quick, editor of Farm and Fireside, when he declared for a better system than that "which makes the rural school a bad copy of a poor city school...

...France, it is said, soon will prohibit its manufacture or sale...

...The discussions at this convention were stimulating and progressive...

...Since that other vote last year, 10 of the Senators have been retired by their constituents for their record of servility to special privilege and Lorimerism...

...Funk was part of a political plot to besmirch his character and thus discredit his testimony before the Helm investigating committee early in 1911, when Mr...

...WILLIAM I.Orimer Judge Archbald on Trial By a vote of 222 to 1, the House of Representatives on July 11 adopted articles of impeachment against Judge Robert W. Archbald of the United States Commerce Court...

...This incident has caused a division among the members of the Old Guard in the Senate, many of whom, like Senators Smoot, Crane, Root, Lodge, Gallinger, support Mr...

...A National Scandal This ends a case that has occupied the attention of the entire nation for more than two years...

...This bill had already passed the lower house and now goes to the governor for his signature...

...There is an exemption in this law which provides that fruit and vegetable canneries can operate during certain seasons of the year in excess of eight hours, but it is designed only to aid establishments handling perishable products...

...A significant provision in the Commission's report is that which states "that in the fixing of its rates an express company should not be allowed to charge more than a railroad company if the latter undertook to and did give the same service...

...Originally schools were private enterprises, run to 'make money.' There are private schools still, with the same motive...

...When the announcement of the vote was made shortly after 2 o'clock, Mr...

...Fairchild New Head of N. E. A. With the election of Mr...

...Judge Stevens held that the law is void because it takes the defendant's property without just compensation and without due process of law...

...Lorimer was elected to the United States Senate by the Legislature of Illinois May 27, 1909, after a four months' deadlock...

...The upper branch of the Maryland State Legislature has passed the ten-hour bill for working women without a vote in opposition...

...Experts connected with the Interstate Commerce Commission have for many months been conducting an investigation for the purpose of securing data relative to defective railroad rails...

...On June 20, 1910, the United States Senate ordered an investigation...

...Eighteen of twenty-five Senators who have taken their seats since the Lorimer vote was taken a year ago voted against Lorimer...

...It would do something, but not much, to promote their public welfare value...

...The Commission has fixed October 9 as the date for the beginning of a hearing of the representatives of the express companies and shippers as to why the rates prescribed by the Commission should not go into effect...

...The state supreme court of Washington has rendered a decision that the eight-hour law for women, passed by the last session of the legislature, is constitutional...

...The test case was that of a forewoman in a Seattle box factory who kept a girl at work nine hours a day...

...Only three members had spoken in defence of the judge...

...The Senate was continuing with other business, and the other Senators were remaining in their seats...

...A Solemn Proceeding There was no demonstration during the roll call on the ousting of Lorimer...

...The report finds that while the thirteen companies are separate legal entities, "they are, by stock ownership and otherwise, so interlocked that it is with difficulty we can trace any one of the greater companies as either wholly independent in its management or the agency of a single railroad system...

...As a check upon the sacrifice of service to profit, voluntary associations of persons, organized co-operatively, after the example of the stockholders of The Boston Common, can form to establish and maintain publications 'absolutely free from partisanship, sectarianism, prejudice and the control and muzzling of influence.' This sounds easy though it isn't...

...Absinthe has been barred from the United States...

...Almost immediately thereafter new evidence was made public and a committee of the Illinois legislature set to work to investigate the case...

...Many attempts were made to add amendments to the bill in the Senate, but all were voted down, making the bill a straight ten-hour measure...

...Harvey W. Wiley, who recently resigned as Uncle Sam's Chief Chemist, told a committee of the House that a bill should be passed to require the net weight of food packages to be stamped upon them...

...But the Senate repudiated the majority of this committee and refused to keep Lorimer in his seat on the plea that the Senate had already rendered one decision in the case...

...Most of the new Senators are progressives, who took the places of reactionary Republicans and Democrats...

...JOHN D. celebrated his 73rd birthday in a very happy manner, jumping gasoline a cent a gallon...

...Express Rates Cut After an investigation into the business of the 13 great express companies of the United States, the Interstate Commerce Commission issued a report last week prescribing reductions in express rates averaging 15 per cent...

...Mayor Gaynor of New York in a recent speech declared that the judiciary of this country is the most inefficient branch of government...

...He said the consumer should buy food by the weight or measure, because in buying by the package he is often cheated...

...His face was flushed and for the first time since he began his long, game fight he seemed to grow nervous...

...The law is not the people—the people are not the law...

...A mail train on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, hurrying into Chicago through a fog at a speed of a mile a minute, ran past the block signal and over a series of torpedoes into the rear of the overland limited...

...Lorimer reached the door Senators Smoot, Crane and Bailey, three of those who stood by him to the last, shook his hand...

...The defects i the rails are due to the process of manufacture, and H. W. Belnap, chief inspector of safety appliances of the Interstate Commerce Commission, states that "present specifications and tests of rails, in so far as the detection of longitudinal seams is concerned, appear to be inadequate It would seem to be time that some definite action be taken toward eliminating this source of danger and securing structurally sound rails...

...The board of food and drug inspection has decided that after October 1 the importation, interstate shipment or sale in the District of Columbia or territories of this deadly nerve and brain destroying intoxicant will be prohibited...

...Representative Farr of Pennsylvania, a personal friend of Judge Archbald, cast the single vote against the bill of impeachment...

...The mere existence of such a publication in a community, however limited its circulation, is a standing indictment of commercialism and an irritant of improvement...

...Official inquiries were begun immediately...

...Dr...

...The opinion relates to a suit in which the United Shoe Machinery Company, one of the most vicious trusts in the country, is involved...

...The resolution upon which the vote was taken was introduced by Senator Luke Lea of Tennessee and was as follows: "Resolved, That corrupt methods and practices were employed in the election of William Lorimer to the Senate of the United States from the state of Illinois and that his election was therefore invalid...

...MacVeagh't astounding procrastination, his incapacity for decision, and the peculiar moods of suspicion and aversion to which he is constantly subject...

...Richard phrases it, "in the contemporary recoil from business for profit to business for service...

...Following Funk's acquittal, charges of perjury were brought against the principal witness for the plaintiff in an effort to prove that the suit against Mr...

...Newspapers point out that Secretary MacVeagh has on every possible occasion spoken publicly against the Aldrich scheme as a device to concentrate still further the con-t ol of the moneys and credits of the nation in the hands of the Wall Street bankers...

...Other Senators who voted for him last year, but changed to the other side, were Briggs of New Jersey, Curtis of Kansas, Simmons of North Carolina and Watson of West Virginia...

...The only Senator who voted against Lorimer last year and voted for him last week was Senator Jones of Washington...

...On June 1, after a three days' speech by Senator La Follette, reviewing the evidence and urging the Senate to purge itself of this corruption, the Senate ordered a new inquiry...

...They were Representatives Farr, Bowman and Focht, all Republicans of Pennsylvania...

...A Political Blight It was a chastened Senate that cast this second vote on the Lorimer case...

...He certainly did somewhat mar the plot of the Interests represented there.—San Francisco Star...

...For example, the postal privilege can be denied to publications the ownership and control of which are not publicly avowed, the avowal to be under oath, with penalty as for perjury...

...In his reply to this letter, Secretary MacVeagh denies the charges in a scathing letter, declaring that Andrew did not resign voluntarily but had been asked repeatedly to resign...

...Secretary of the Treasury Mac-Veagh, in a speech at Atlantic City recently expressed the belief that the House Committee investigating the Money Trust would find an evolution in financial affairs tending toward a concentration of larger power in the hands of a few institutions or men...

...Absinthe is condemned by the laws of Brazil and its importation is forbidden...

...In Belgium, Switzerland, and Holland its manufacture, sale, and importation is forbidden...

...It so happened that the next order of business after the Lorimer case was disposed of was the announcement from the House of the impeachment proceeding brought against Judge Archbald...

...Andrew is one of Senator Aid-rich's aides and assisted in drafting the Aldrich currency scheme...

...This impeachment grows out of charges that while occupying a federal bench, Judge Archbald was connected with a negotiation for valuable culm bank properties in Pennsylvania and with other questionable financial transactions and with using his official position to attempt the enrichment of himself and certain friends...

...Funk asserted that he had been approached by Edward Hines with a request of a $10,000 contribution to the "slush fund" used to make William Lorimer a United States Senator...

...Representative W. A. Rodenberg of Illinois was in the cloakroom and was one of the first to extend his hand to the ousted Senator...

...It would mean no closed door to any point of view...

...Our Problem of the Press THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER, though still successful, and in instances greatly successful, as a means to the enrichment or aggrandizement of its owners, has largely ceased to be a trusted instrument of public service...

...It would provide a forum in which any citizen could state a case...

...No one spoke to him while the roll call was in progress...

...He said: "The very life of the people's liberties, religious and civic, is always in danger when the foundations of the law and the independence of judges, be they civil or ecclesiastical, is imperiled...