NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering THE PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICANS and the Democrats, under the leadership of Senator La Follette, discomfited the "regulars" in the United States Senate last week and passed the La...
...The Hanford case and the Archbald case are arguments for the recall of judges...
...In numerous states in the last few months, laws have been enacted for a direct vote in party primaries for candidates for President and Vice-President...
...That he abused justice and law in disfranchising Leonard Olsson, Socialist, because of Olsson's political beliefs...
...The La Follette bill will go to conference and it is expected that an agreement will be reached and a measure similar to the one agreed upon last year will be passed by Congress and sent to President Taft...
...In a statement to the public, explaining his resignation under fire, Judge Hanford said: "The almost constant strain under which I have worked more than twenty-two years has taxed, but not exhausted my power of endurance...
...That came when Senator La Follette at the psychological moment offered his wool bill—the same one that was passed in the Senate last summer—and by the aid of the combined votes of the progressive Republicans and the Democrats, passed his bill by a vote of 40 to 26...
...He read statements showing that the profit of Armour & Company in 1909 was 35.6 per cent...
...Bartenders in Seattle saloons testified against Hanford...
...A congressional committee was appointed to investigate the charges...
...asked the newly appointed rector hopeful that he had made a good impression...
...Senator Bourne's statement says: "The National Progressive Republican League was organized in January, 1911 for the promotion of five principles of popular government, namely: 1. Popular election of United States Senators...
...The present system of impeachment is unsatisfactory, cumbersome and costly...
...The 268 contests were reduced by abandonment, formal or in substance, to seventy-four...
...If a corporation lowers the price of an article in order to destroy its competitor...
...Penrose explained that although the bill was drafted and printed last June, it was "not until this morning did I get the consent of my colleagues to present the bill...
...He gives ill health as the reason...
...Collier's * * * "Do you think they approved of my sermon...
...Taft Defends His Nomination From the White House was issued a statement last week approved by President Taft defending his nomination at the Chicago Convention...
...I am not likely to have a vacation or rest, but a change of occupation will be a welcome relief...
...Judge Hanford had been federal judge in Washington since 1890...
...The very fact of these 164 frivolous contests itself reflects on the genuineness and validity of the remainder...
...Substitutes were in order...
...This insured the acceptance on the final vote of the Bristow-Lodge measure...
...The Democratic wool bill which had passed the House was before the Senate...
...Since that time, this organization has kept up a continuous campaign of education in the several states for the enactment of laws in accordance with these principles...
...The National Progressive Republican League will be glad to supply literature in support of these principles to any popular government advocate who is willing to attend to its distribution...
...The eight-hour bill which has now been approved by the President was passed unanimously by the House of Representatives on December 14, 1911...
...Penrose, on behalf of the regular Republicans, brought into the Senate a bill revising Schedule K, which was received with apparent astonishment by many Republicans and with affected surprise by the Democratic "reserves...
...The "Hanford" cocktail contained an onion in place of the conventional olive...
...The Hanford Irrigation Company was shown to have obtained thousands of acres of land in Washington which the federal reclamation service drained to reserve...
...That he abused his office to grant exorbitant receiverships and attorneys' fees...
...All the Democrats except Pomerene of Ohio voted against this amendment, while all the Republicans except Heyburn of Idaho supported it...
...The Initiative and Referendum amendment has been adopted or submitted in more than a dozen states since the organization of this League...
...Senator Bourne voted against the La Follette amendment as a substitute for the Penrose measure, but later voted for the bill on its final passage...
...He offered as a substitute a bill that had been prepared by Senator Lippitt of Rhode Island...
...of the net income in excess of $5,000...
...The next change occurred a little over four years later, when the eight-hour law was strengthened by specific provisions requiring the government to not "permit" any laborer or mechanic to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day, except in cases of extraordinary emergency, this provision becoming operative on August 1, 1892...
...Penrose and his allies expressed pleasure at what seemed on the surface to be a new working basis on which the progressives could join with the regulars...
...if it does this and similar things, will it be heard to say that the boundary line between restraint and open competition in trade is sometimes difficult to define...
...Excise Bill Passes On the following day, progressive Republicans and Democrats again united in the Senate and by a vote of 36 to 18 passed the Democratic excise tax bill, extending the present tax on corporations to the business of individuals, private firms and co-partnerships...
...All of the progressive Republicans except Clapp, Kenyon and La Follette voted for the Lippitt-Penrose measure and it was adopted by a narrow margin of two votes, 34 to 32...
...He called upon the Oregon National Guard, of which he is by virtue of his office commander-in-chief, and swooped down upon the offensive establishments...
...This was rejected by a vote of 57 to 14...
...Representative Berger commented upon Hanford's resignation as follows: "I take Judge Hanford's resignation as an admission of his guilt...
...But in impeaching him I was fighting corruption on the bench generally, not Hanford personally...
...It would be a mighty good thing if a couple of dozen more federal judges would resign or be recalled by the people...
...This statement, which received the approval of the President's official family, reviews every contest before the Republican National Committee and the Credentials Committee of the Convention and sets forth that each contest was settled logically on its merits...
...There were instituted against 238 of the delegates regularly elected for Taft, contests on behalf of Roosevelt...
...To perpetuate the judge's fame for conviviality, one bartender artist named a cocktail after him...
...In connection with this statement readers of La Follette's will find another view of the evidence presented in Mr...
...The first of these was offered by Senator Cummins, which materially reduced the duties below the existing law but kept them considerably higher than the Democratic rates...
...Judge Hanford's troubles started with his decision depriving Leonard Olsson of citizenship on the ground that Olson was a Socialist...
...The Senate changed the bill so that the tax would not apply to labor organizations, agricultural associations or fraternal organ-zations of an insurance character...
...And that is no figure of speech, either...
...Scotsman...
...The keepers of these resorts, which the Governor's proclamation described as "being maintained, conducted and operated without due regard for the laws of decency or the laws of this state, much to the discomfort and embarassment of good people living in that vicinity and to the detriment of the whole state," hurriedly signed the agreements with General Finzer that they would hereafter conduct their houses in a lawful manner...
...The pen with which the President signed the bill was presented to President Gompers...
...But the League will continue to confine its work to advocacy of popular government legislation and will urge voters in all states to support only those candidates for legislative offices who pledge themselves to aid in the enactment of popular government laws...
...The Old Guard machine appeared to be again in working order...
...Several amendments were then added, among them one by Cummins providing for a permanent tariff commission...
...if it puts millions into competing plants, covers the investment with stock and then dismantles them...
...The wheels were set in motion to suppress damaging evidence before it could reach the investigating committee...
...On the 27th, a bill reducing the tariff on sugar was passed in the Senate by a vote of 52 to 3. This was the Bristow bill with an amendment offered by Lodge, eliminating the infamous Dutch standard and the differential and reducing the duty from $1.90 to $1.60 per hundred pounds...
...La Follette's Coup The Washington correspondent of the New York Sun wrote on July 26, "Republican regulars have hardly recovered to-day from their first gasp of astonishment over the grand coup sprung after hours of senatorial battle over wool schedules, bills and amendments, by that pugnacious and persistent Senator from Wisconsin, the Hon...
...Ignorance of the Law" THERE IS agreement, among most independent observers to-day that certain proceedings ought to be clearly decided to be illegal and firmly punished...
...Concerning the Roosevelt contests the President's statement asserts in substance that: "The total number of delegates summoned to the Convention under its call was 1,078, with 540 necessary to a choice...
...Taft had 561 votes on the first and only ballot and was declared the nominee...
...Yes, I think so," replied his wife...
...For nearly a month the conduct of Judge Hanford on the bench has been under investigation by a sub-committee of the Committee on Judiciary of the House of Representatives...
...Senator Williams declared that President Taft "could not" veto such a woolen bill as the La Follette measure if it were passed by both houses and sent to him...
...they were all nodding...
...On May 31, 1912, the House bill, with several amendments, passed the Senate...
...The National Packing Company is the most iniquitous trust ever devised by the skillful minds of the greedy rich," said Representative Kinkead of New Jersey in a recent speech in the House...
...He was the last chief justice of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory...
...4. Initiative, Referendum and Recall...
...Of especial value to the American consumer is the elimination of the Dutch standard...
...This is what happened on the 25th...
...testified to in the beef trust trial...
...He said the La Follette substitute conforms so closely with the tariff board's recommendations that the President would be compelled to sign it...
...The proprietors capitulated when their amazed eyes fell upon the troops of uniformed soldiers stationed outside, and, upon the Governor's proclamation tacked upon the doorway, declaring the premises to be under martial law...
...Unless they abide by this agreement, Governor West declares that he will put a patrol of the National Guard to watch their houses each night between ten P. M. and 2 A. M. Progressive Republican League Active The National Progressive Republican League proposes to take an active part in the present political campaign, according to a statement issued to-day by Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr., President of the League...
...If a man lies in wait and falls upon his unwarned adversary and slays him," he said, "will it be any defense for his lawyer to say to the court that his client has always had difficulty in distinguishing between voluntary and involuntary manslaughter...
...Gilbert E. Roe's article printed on another page of this magazine...
...Attached to the measure were amendments for the repeal of the Canadian reciprocity law, for the fixing of a two dollar a ton tariff on print paper and for the establishment of a permanent, non-partisan tariff commission...
...This measure proposes to levy on all persons, firms or co-partnerships an annual tax equal to one per cent...
...The first sugar bill voted upon was the Bristow-Lodge substitute for the Democratic House measure...
...It was adopted by a vote of 37 to 25...
...instead of the 5 per cent...
...Senator McCumber offered an amendment to repeal the Canadian reciprocity law but this was defeated 36 to 30...
...2. Direct primaries...
...Roosevelt had more votes than he really had, as the conventions and primaries were in progress for the selection of delegates...
...We have been gratified to see submitted to the several states, a constitutional amendment for the direct election of Senators...
...if it foments strikes in competing mills...
...This law will go into effect on January 1, 1913, with the single exception that the law will not be in force and effect in the Panama Canal Zone until after January 1, 1915...
...The big corporation lawyers in Washington were pressed into service...
...Then the bill agreed upon by the Democratic members of the Finance Committee, who declined to accept the House measure, was brought forward and refused by a vote of 36 to 24...
...Senator Borah spoke an opinion, which will generally be accepted, when he said that he did not desire to punish business men for breaches of law which were unintentional, but that theoretical ignorance was not to be used as an ambush for obviously intended breaches...
...Senators Nelson and Clapp protested against the Penrose tactics...
...These contests were avowedly instigated not for the purpose of really securing seats in the Convention, not for the purpose of adducing evidence which would lead any respectable court to entertain the contests, but for the purpose of deceiving the public into the belief that Mr...
...Eight Hour Bill Signed Labor's eight-hour bill has been signed by the President...
...Hanford was accused of trying to sell a patent salmon can topper to Frank Burfee, while Burfee was a defendant in a patent infringement case in Hanford's court...
...In one he took beer, in another sherry and egg and in a third benedic-tine...
...if it seeks favors in rebates or divides territory...
...Then it was that Senator Penrose sprung his "surprise...
...That in a collusive injunction suit he attempted to enforce exorbitant carfare rates on an inter-urban line which had been declared illegal by the State Supreme Court...
...It is our purpose to continue the campaign for popular government, and we urge that in the campaign which will end in November, advocates of popular government question their legislative candidates as to their attitude upon the five principles for which we stand, and notify all candidates that they will not receive support unless they pledge themselves in writing that, if elected, they will support these measures...
...The bill then went to the President for his approval or disapproval...
...It provides for a rate of two dollars a ton on print paper imported from Canada in place of the present duty of $3.75...
...Resolutions were "steam-rollered" through the Chamber of Commerce and other organizations endorsing the judge's sobriety, integrity and ability...
...The regulars were treated to a genuine surprise...
...War Measures in Oregon Governor West of Oregon recently declared war on disorderly roadhouses in Multnomah County...
...Olsson is alleged to have said, as a witness for a man seeking naturalization, in reply to a question whether he was attached to the constitution, that he was not...
...Robert M. La Follette...
...I intend to practice law in Seattle...
...That he has acted as the tool of corporations in personal injury damage cases...
...This was agreed to by a vote of 40 to 26...
...3. Presidential primaries...
...News Worth Remembering THE PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICANS and the Democrats, under the leadership of Senator La Follette, discomfited the "regulars" in the United States Senate last week and passed the La Follette bill revising downward the woolen duties of Schedule K. The strategy employed and its successful outcome were exactly the same as that which brought about the passage of the La Follette wool bill last summer...
...It was doomed at the outset...
...But the felicitations were short-lived...
...Representative Victor Berger of Wisconsin, the only Socialist in Congress, took the matter up and demanded the impeachment of Judge Hanford on the ground that Olsson's deprivation of citizenship was illegal...
...That he has been guilty of injunction abuses...
...Roosevelt's chief financial and newspaper supporter...
...Munsey, who has been Mr...
...The charges brought against Judge Hanford are briefly as follows: That he has been intoxicated both on and off the bench and has otherwise been guilty of immoral habits...
...Witnesses said that Hanford had a special saloon for each drink...
...Judge Hanford Resigns Judge Cornelius H. Hanford of the United States District Court at Seattle, Washington, telegraphed his resignation last week to President Taft...
...Sugar Duties Lowered The business of tariff revision —downward—begun by the passage of the La Follette wool bill did not stop there...
...The Canadian reciprocity amendment was offered by Senator Gronna of North Dakota and adopted by a vote of 37 to 26...
...On June 19, 1912 the President affixed his signature, thus making the eight-hour day a federal enactment...
...The following Republican Senators voted for the excise bill: Bourne, Bristow, Clapp, Crawford, Cummins, Gronna, Jones, Kenyon, La Follette, Nelson, Poindexter, Townsend and Works...
...Senator Cummins offered the tariff commission amendment which was attached to the excise bill by a vote of 38 to 29...
...He is a Republican, of the "regular" persuasion, and has been notorious for years as a servitor of the System...
...This is not only a necessary inference from the character of the contests, but it was boldly avowed by the chief editor of the newspapers owned by Mr...
...When the House of Representatives set about to investigate the charges against him, "big business" set about desperately to save the judge from impeachment...
...The law was extended to include the letter carriers on May 24, 1888...
...The first eight-hour law adopted by Congress included all laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the government of the United States, and became a law on June 25, 1868...
...5. A thoroughgoing corrupt practices act...
...if it by express agreement limits the output of a product...
...The Senate then passed from what is known as Committee of the Whole into the Senate, where the final parliamentary stages were to be completed...
...At the investigating committee's hearings in Seattle charges of corruption, drunkenness and using his official position to carry on private business deals were preferred against him...
...On June 5, 1912, the House of Representatives concurred in the amendments added by the Senate...
...The history of the enactment of this legislation is interesting...
...That he attempted to throttle by injunction the Seattle recall elections...
Vol. 4 • August 1912 • No. 31
