NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering IX FOB REPAIRS — Journal FOR MORE than a week the Wilson administration has been greatly troubled with what has come to be known as the "Caminetti affair." Out of it has...
...Another feature agreed upon was that provision should be made for a determination during the term of the franchise by the courts as to whether there is any private ownership of riparian rights...
...Secret Caucus Approves Sugar and Wool Schedules Free sugar in 1916 and free raw wool were approved by the Democratic caucus of the United States Senate after a two days' fight...
...The act of 1911 abolished only the two defenses of assumption of risk and negligence of a fellow servant...
...The man who irrigates his land should have the easier terms from the government, because he is the one who is giving the public the benefit of that land...
...Why should he resign...
...Outside of dealing out a little bunk about new freedom there was nothing to the message...
...The use of salts of copper in food products was decided by the Referee Board to be injurious to health...
...Spurred to action by an editorial in the New York World, one of the leading Democratic newspapers of the country, in which it was declared that Attorney General McReynolds ought to resign from President Wilson's cabinet, Mr...
...Following the lead of a score or more states, the new act abrogates the defense of contributory negligence...
...assistant secretary, Representative Murray, Massachusetts...
...This plan was negotiated by Attorney General McReynolds and railroad attorneys in compliance with the Supreme Court decision holding that this merger must be dissolved under the Sherman anti-trust law...
...The following printhere were fewer accident this YEAR THAN EVER before but still What Will It Be This Year...
...Some of the larger interests of the country," he said, "having set their heart upon the passage of the Aldrich bill and having expended large effort in educating the country in favor of the Aldrich plan, have been discontented in two very important particulars: First, the Aldrich bill gave control of the proposed system to the banks of the country, and, secondly, authorized the banks to issue the currency to the country under this system as bank currency...
...In discussing the President's address and the proposed currency legislation Mr...
...The measure prohibits the manufacture, distribution and sale of all distilled spirits, but exempts beer and wines until a later time...
...The fact that the father of one of the defendants is a public official ought not to alter the case...
...Thomas J. Hay-den and Mat I. Sullivan were selected as prosecutors...
...1 can assure the country that this item will neither limit nor in any way embarrass the actions of the Department of Justice...
...K. C. Babcock, in the yearbook of the Commissioner of Education, just issued...
...10 ciple to be incorporated in a state water Bower bill was agreed upon: No franchises shall be granted hereafter except to public utilities organized under the proposed bill and to be regulated by the general public utility law...
...Secretary Wilson says he therefore asked the Attorney General to postpone the prosecution of the son on the white slave charge until the next term when the father would be capable of inspecting the stations intelligently...
...This new plan is somewhat similar to one of the proposals submitted to the court a month ago, but it is "said to be more definite in form and surrounded by greater safeguards to prevent the Southern Pacific stock from going to Union Pacific shareholders or remaining under the control of the Union Pacific Railroad for an unlimited time...
...Trout...
...The new Alaskan railways bill, as finally redrafted by the senate committee on territories, leaves the construction of the road in the hands of the president and abandons the idea of an Alaskan railways commission...
...When the Governor had signed the bill, Mrs...
...Caminetti, the father, has recently been appointed Commissioner General of Immigration because of his prominence in Democratic politics and not for any known efficiency...
...This is the bill that President Taft vetoed in the closing days of the last Congress because it contained the labor union and farmers' society exemption clause...
...As for Mr...
...I do not know...
...these are inferences that may be clearly drawn from the report of Dr...
...1, 1912, which will be delinquent Dec...
...It discourages industry and enterprise and believes in jailing the men Who created its industries...
...He declares that he was considering the interests of his de-partment and that he made the request on his own initiative and without solicitation from Mr...
...Mann said that the President and the Attorney General, as soon as public sentiment developed, ran like "frightened rabbits...
...The most serious defects under the previous limitations occurred when the peas ripen suddenly and are carried to the canning factories in tremendous quantities which require immediate packing...
...If President Wilson believes in the Mann act, and does his duty, he will appoint a new Commissioner General of Immigration, on the ground that the "present commissioner has used both his political and official influence to prevent his son from being brought to a speedy trial under the Mann act for one of the most horrible of all offenses—the ruination of a young girl...
...Has the President the nerve to do this...
...The one thing we will not stand for is partisan political control of banks or the issuance of currency...
...I did what I thought was just and right...
...U. P.-S...
...Recently his son, Drew Caminetti, together with Maury L. Diggs, was indicted under the federal white slave law...
...New Wisconsin Law Wipes Out Old Defense in Work Accidents Supplementing the Wisconsin workmen's compensation law which has been in successful operation for two years, a new bill has been passed by the legislature and signed by the governor which goes into effect September 1. This bill provides that every employer of four or more persons will be subject to the provisions of the act unless he specifically elects not to be so subject The benefits to injured employees or their dependents remain almost unchanged, the chief exceptions being in the case of workmen who are totally permanently disabled, in which event the compensation is extended over a period of six years from the date of the injury...
...Free raw wool as submitted by the majority and exactly as it passed the House went through the Senate caucus by a vote of forty-one to six...
...Out of it has come a demand from some quarters (the New York World, for example) for the resignation of Attorney General McReynolds...
...Caminetti, we have known him for more than twenty years and have no hesitation is saying that there is not a more upright or honorable man in public life...
...President Wilson accepted the resignation of District Attorney McNab in the following telegram: "I greatly regret that you should have acted so hastily and under so complete misapprehension of the actual circumstances, but since you have chosen such a course and have given your resignation the form of an inexcusable intimation of injustice and wrongdoing on the part of your, superior, I release you without hesitation and accept your resignation to take effect at once...
...order that it may be determined whether there has been any other crooked work in the enforcement of the white slave law," said the Chicago congressman...
...The six Democratic senators who voted against free sugar on the final vote approving the schedule were Hitchcock of Nebraska, Newlands of Nevada, Ransdell and Thornton of Louisiana, Shafroth of Colorado and Walsh of Montana...
...He added: "They have accepted the resignation of the District Attorney and have dismissed the white slave officer who was familiar with all the facts in the cases...
...He said: "The Republicans will call on the Attorney General through a House resolution for a statement of all the facts in his possession relating to the Caminetti case under the Mann white slave act...
...Representative Mann, author of the white slave law, in heated speeches, condemned the action of the administration in ordering a postponement of the case...
...The real need of a currency bill is not because of new business which will come with the new tariff law, but because of a threat of disaster impending over the country by reason of tariff legislation and Democratic incompetency...
...The two young men, both wealthy and married, eloped to Reno, Nevada, with two nineteen-year-old school girls, daughters of wealthy Sacramento families...
...I feel sure they will prove worthy of the trust and confidence you have inspired...
...He may select any terminus he pleases on tide water...
...But I could not separate it "I do not understand that the limitation was intended as either an amendment or an interpretation of the antitrust law, but merely as an expression of the opinion of the Congress—a very emphatic opinion, backed by an over-Whelming majority of the House of Representatives and a large majority of the Senate, but not intended to touch anything but the expenditure of a single small additional fund...
...Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of the President, who has been visiting at the home of Commissioner of Corporations Joseph E. Davies of Madison, Wisconsin, recently took part in a social center gathering at one of the school houses...
...Whereupon the storm broke...
...A bill embodying these features will be drafted in the Senate July 8. Wilson Signs Sundry Civil Bill President Wilson has signed the SunI dry Civil Appropriation Bill...
...Mr...
...The decision does not revoke the order of ouster issued some time ago as a result of proceedings instituted by the state under the antitrust law, but merely suspends the order for so long a time as the company complies with laws of the state...
...Caminetti No one who knows Secretary Wilson will question either his honesty or his veracity...
...It was further agreed that at the time of the granting of the franchise a valuation is to be fixed upan the riparian rights and that after a period of five years, in addition to the amount permitted to be earned under the public utility law, the water power owners will be allowed to set aside an amortization fund, such fund to the completed within twenty years...
...P. "Dissolution" Plan A plan of "dissolving" the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroad systems has been approved by President Wilson...
...It also has warned the public against eating the leaves of celery upon which the dried Bordeaux mixture clings...
...May the divine power that guides us all keep, direct and bless you and every one of us forever...
...The remaining $88,357,600 of Southern Pacific will be disfranchised and placed in the hands of a trust company as trustees and against this stock will be issued certificates with no voting power to shareholders of the Union Pacific...
...He signed the bill, he said, because of the departmental need of the moneys appropriated in the bill and for the further reason that there are other funds available for bringing prosecutions under the antitrust act...
...Secretary Lane announced that he would urge upon Congress the passage of some act giving a further extension of time for the payment of the building charges under present limitations and conditions...
...A telegram from Clayton Harrington, special agent of the Department of Justice in charge of the federal bureau of investigation at San Francisco, was sent to President Wilson demanding the removal from office of Attorney General McReynolds...
...Doremus is understood to have been President Wilson's choice...
...Imagine a man in that position, whose principal object at this time seems to be to leave his office and go to the side of his son, under indictment and soon to be tried for white slave offenses...
...I demand that the administration shall make public all information which has been sent by Mr...
...The President has given out all that is material and there is nothing of consequence in the files of the department bearing directly on the affair which has not been made public...
...Demands were made in both houses of Congress and by President Wilson himself for full explanation by the Attorney General...
...secretary, representative Pepper, Iowa...
...i Lane Places Parmer Above Speculator on Irrigated Lands Secretary of the Interior Lane has announced that special consideration will be given to farmers who actually cultivate land on government reclamation projects, as against speculators...
...Not one of the water users desires the government to waive his debt, but less than one-half of them have paid the building charges due Dec...
...The abrogation of the third defense places Wisconsin upon an economic equality with several states whose industries are similar to Wisconsin's...
...And calling upon Commissioner Caminetti to resign, Congressman Mann said: "In order that a law may be effective, is must be put upon the statute books, it must be constitutional and it must be enforced by the administrative officers through the aid of the courts...
...And when we hear that the chief law officer of the government and the chief magistrate of the country have permitted themselves to be used to prevent the enforcement of a great moral reform law like the white slave law, we have a right to make inquiries and give consideration to the case...
...Miss Wilson is deeply interested in the wider use of the school plant for community gatherings...
...This statement was made after Mr...
...If I could have separated from the rest of the bill the item which authorized the expenditure by the Department of Justice of a special sum of $300,000 for the prosecution of violations of the anti-trust law I would have vetoed that item, because it places upon the expenditure a limitation which is, in my opinion, unjustifiable in character and principle...
...For the first time the new administration found it necessary to offer profuse explanations in response to a keenly aroused public interest and attacks in and out of Congress...
...The new schedule permits a longer work day when exceptional conditions require extensions of the period of employment...
...Dunne Signs Suffrage Bill The last step in extending the ballot to the women of Illinois was taken last week when Governor Dunne signed the woman suffrage bill...
...that much duplication of work is going on...
...The unpaid balance will be added to the last installments for water-right applications...
...Resolutions were introduced in both the Senate and the House for an investigation of the affair...
...Heretofore the law has not contained provisions which recognize so-called acts of God, sudden rain storms or other phenomena beyond human control...
...The new Indian appropriation bill provides that no contract with the Indians to be paid out of private funds shall be valid unless approved by the Secretary...
...While Congress has had no help from the President's message on banking and currency matters and has received no enlightenment or suggestion of ideas from the President, still I do not wish to judge in advance the proposed bill because of lack of intelligent presentation by the President "It is evident that the measure is to be considered a Democratic partisan bill, but even so if it will advance the interests of the country the Republicans will support it...
...admit that he has done injustice to Attorney General McReynolds, Secretary Wilson and Immigration Commissioner Caminetti Mr...
...The Democratic House leaders decided that an investigation would not be ordered because the facts in the case had all been told...
...Royalties from their sale will go toward a $25,000 fund which the women are raising to make an educational campaign in Illinois...
...He has a long record of service to the people of California...
...The Department has issued a circular requesting that all spraying of celery plants with Bordeaux mixture be done with efficient apparatus working under high pressure,—one hundred pounds or more...
...What sort of a Department of Jus-time have we...
...Caminetti, the son, is under indictment for violation of the Mann act...
...The President came before Congress like a schoolmaster before fourth grade school-children and told the members to be good, but he did not dare to analyze what goodness in this case consists of...
...McNab replied with a heated telegram in which he charged that influence was being brought to bear from Washington to protect defendants of wealth and influence, and sent in his resignation...
...It is permitted under a new law passed by the present legislature...
...The administration has decided to push the case against the younger Caminetti and Diggs...
...They returned to Madison, re-enforced in their idea that the state should maintain complete cantrol of water power franchises hereafter granted...
...The plan provides for the sale of these certificates within a definite time and their exchange for the stock under such conditions, it is declared, that it will be impossible for stockholders of the Union Pacific to acquire a substantial proportion of Southern Pacific stock...
...Clash on Currency Bill The attitude of the Republican organization in the House toward proposed currency legislation was indicated, it is reported, in a speech of minority leader Mann...
...of 550,000 acres, all irrigable, but unirrigated, is land in private speculative ownership," said the Secretary...
...An entirely new section of the act requires all employers to carry insurance unless exempted by the Industrial Commission, Making Laws Meet Conditions After an investigation made during the 1912 season, the Wisconsin Industrial Commission has given relief to the canning industry under the law limiting hours of labor of women...
...sergeant at arms, Joseph A. Sinnott of Virginia...
...McReynolds continued the case at the request of Secretary Wilson and it was a reasonable request...
...Attorney General McReynolds directed McNab to postpone the trial of the Caminetti case...
...It was announced that Secretary of Labor Wilson had declined to permit Commissioner Caminetti to leave Washington to attend the trial of his son because Caminetti was not sufficiently acquainted with his new duties to be able to inspect the Public coast immigration stations while in California...
...It will be a jumble of discordant ideas...
...Neither can Secretary Wilson be fairly blamed...
...Upon signing the bill, President Wilson outlined his positionin the following statement: "I have signed this bill because I can do so without in fact limiting the opportunity or the power of the Department of Justice to prosecute violations of the law by whomsoever committed...
...Harrington was immediately suspended and asked to explain his action...
...According to the chemical experts who made the analysis, a careful washing of celery would remove practically all of the copper resulting from dried Bordeaux mixture, or reduce the amount present to such a small quantity as to be entirely negligible...
...All four were arrested and taken back to Sacra-mento...
...I wish to assure you that in signing this bill I disregarded all political consequences," said Governor Dunne in reply...
...This youth of twenty-seven (the younger Caminetti), with children of his own, is of such tender age and inexperience as to make it necessary to have his father at the trial to protect him, he having only seven lawyers retained in his case...
...The law will be interpreted in the determination of what the department should do by Independent and, I hope, impartial judgments as to the true and just meaning of the substantive statutes of the United States...
...He did so, however, under protest He declares that the provision declaring that no part of the moneys appropriated shall be used in prosecuting labor unions or associations of farmers under the Sherman anti-trust law is "unjustifiable...
...The influence of the new Commissioner General of Immigration and his political friends has already affected the present administration in this case...
...Spraying should be stopped when the leaves are covered with fine drops, and before these begin to run down the stalks and accumulate in the base of the plant...
...All three defenses are restored only to those em-ployers whose employees refuse to accept the act...
...The President did not do Congress the courtesy to express any opinion concerning the principles upon which a banking and currency bill should be based...
...and that there could be a profitable merging of existing institutions to the resultant benefit of the institutions and the community...
...While no official announcement has been made, it is understood the plan, as one step, provides for the exchange of $38,292,400 of Southern Pacific stock for the Pennsylvania's holdings in the Baltimore and Ohio, which are approximately of the same value...
...It is both unjust and ungenerous to say that he should retire from politics because of his son's conduct, even though the son has been guilty of gross and criminal immorality...
...The six who opposed free raw wool to the end were Chamberlain of Oregon, Newlands, Ransdell, Thornton, Shafroth and Walsh...
...We feel that the public has been satiated with the publication already given the matter," said Chairman Clayton of the House Committee on Judiciary...
...The Republicans will oppose the proposed board of control, and will insist that the banking business shall be represented upon the board...
...Under the Supreme Court's mandate the plan must be presented to the judges of the United States court for the eighth circuit by July 1, although there is no limit within which the court must enter a decree of dissolution...
...That was sophomorical...
...The only way the son can be acquitted is by tampering with the case...
...Celery not sprayed with Bordeaux mixture during its growth, according to the Government specialists, is liable to reach the market in a state of partial decay...
...The Bryan administration through its Chinese and South American policy is doing everything it can to prevent, American business going abroad, and if the same sort of administration had control of banking and currency in this country it would be absolutely ruinous to every business interest and would lead to chaos...
...That is the policy of the American government toward its corporations...
...The violations of the white slave law in these cases were uader such circumstances and conditions as to make all men blush who are men...
...The committee of the House has had no bill before it and has had no meetings to consider a bill...
...He erred in saying that the committees of Congress had consulted with him and had prepared a bill...
...W. C. Woodward, Health Officer of the District of Columbia, and the health officers of other states, has found by careful analysis that a great deal of table celery which came to market during the last season contained slight amounts of copper in the form of dried Bordeaux mixture (lime and copper sulphate) which farmers have to use to spray celery plants to prevent the destruction of the crop by blight...
...Governor Dunne, in signing this bill you have won the everlasting gratitude of the women of Illinois," said Mrs...
...Senator Works of California has introduced in the Senate a constitutional amendment to wipe out the distilled liquor business...
...Mann to state that in addition to the other charges, District Attorney McNab asserts the government, through its representatives in California, has been guilty of failure to deport alien prostitutes...
...Anthony Caminetti is Commissioner of immigration, appointed by President Wilson...
...If the court approves the plan the alternative of a receivership will be avoided...
...McReynolds' motives were honorable...
...Woman suffrage in Illinois is limited to the extent that women are debarred from voting upon constitutional officers...
...owned by the Guggenheims, Morgans, and Kuhn, Loeb & Co...
...He may build new or buy existing lines, the principal of which is the Copper River & Northwestern...
...Representative Frank E. Doremus of Michigan was elected chairman of the Democratic Congressional Committee last week...
...Should there be none nothing shall be allowed therefor...
...Moving pictures were taken of the scene...
...If it threatens to go still further than the tariff bill in breaking down the prosperity of the last few years, however, we cannot support it, but will try to amend it...
...The Department has also issued a warning to consumers to break bunches of celery open and wash and scrub the stalks thoroughly before they are eaten...
...According to Congressman Mann, the Republicans will oppose anything that looks like partisan political control of banks and the issue of currency...
...The elder Caminetti was recently appointed Commissioner of Immigration and one of his principal duties is to enforce the white slave law in the cases of aliens brought to the country for prostitution...
...Mann said: "The President's message is a fine example of classic English, but there is nothing more to it unless it be considered as a threat that patronage will be withheld until a banking and currency bill is passed...
...That there are too many colleges in the United States with inadequate equipment and support, attempting to give full courses for the bachelor's degree...
...George W. Perkins, former partner of the late J. Pierpont Morgan and one of the principal figures in the Bull Moose party, declared recently in an interview, "I firmly believe that I am on my way to the penitentiary...
...In line with this policy the Secretary ordered a temporary reduction to one-third of the amount due from present settlers on final building charges installments, providing no payments shall be less than fifty cents an acre...
...Bryan wrote an editorial for the Commoner, which he made public on June 29...
...So far as we have been able to learn the bill will be in the main pieces stolen from the Aldrich monetary commissioner's report, with a few radical provisions from the Bryan platform mixed in...
...A defense of Attorney General McReynolds, Secretary of Labor Wilson and Immigration Commissioner Caminetti was written by Secretary of State Bryan...
...He declares that the banking and currency of this country must be independent of politics and not be subject to the domination of the political party which may be in power...
...Special provision is made, however, for the contractor to protect himself against losses...
...The New York World says that it does not doubt that Mr...
...The sugar schedule as reported by the majority members of the Finance Committee and practically as it passed the House was approved by a vote of forty to six...
...Senator Owen, chairman of the banking and currency committee, issued a statement on June 29 explaining the terms of the administration currency bill, which he believes will be enacted into law before the end of September...
...Wisconsin Senators Hold That State Should Control Waterpowers A special conservation committee of the Wisconsin Senate composed of Senators Husting, Tomkins and Bosshard made a flying trip to Washington last week to consult with President Wilson, Senator La Follette, Secretary Lane, Louis D. Brandeis and others upon water power legislation...
...The President has examined into the facts and approved the action taken by the Attorney General...
...I shall strongly oppose any such ideas...
...I wish to co-operate with those in favor of passing a reasonable banking and currency bill, but the President evidently intends to treat the subject as one purely partisan, and he did not take the trouble even to discuss or analyze the principles involved in banking and currency legislation...
...Perkins had undergone a severe examination in the hearings of the government suit against the International Harvester Company...
...What kind of an attorney general is it who, having on file from a district attorney statements that people are endeavoring to thwart the administration of justice and to bribe and buy the witnesses of the government, should, on a telephone message from so great a man as even a cabinet officer, without investigation, without any reference in his department, without stopping to examine the files, orders the cases postponed, which in all probability would have led to the cases being dismissed...
...We have been unable to approve these principles of the Aldrich bill, be-lieving that the federal reserve banks, having been established purely for the purpose of stablizing the commercial and financial operations of the people of the United States, should be governed exclusively by the people of the United States...
...When the public has had an opportunity to consider the entire ease, the administration's course will be sustained...
...This was the principal provision in the bill originally drawn by the committee which met with the determined opposition of the water power interests...
...Representative Kahn interrupted Mr...
...Trout as President of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, expressed the appreciation of the women for his action...
...McNab to the Department of Justice in...
...A message from President Wilson to Mayor Harrison of Chicago was carried from Washington by relays of boy scouts...
...It has been suggested that some of the largest national banks might go out of this system and become state banks because of their displeasure at not having representation on the governing federal reserve board...
...More than 95 per cent...
...If his motives were honor-able how can his act justify a demand for his resignation...
...Is he the proper man to be placed in charge of the enforcement of the white slave law in its bearing upon immigrants...
...Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, proposes to exercise a rigid surveillance over counsel fees charged by his Indian wards...
...Besides the chairman, the other officers elected were: vice-chairmen, Representative Cline, Indiana, Senator Chamberlain, Oregon, Senator Hollis, New Hampshire, Representative Goldfog'le, New York, Representative Raker, California...
...Under these conditions, however, the period of extra hours of labor daily is very brief...
...Other appropriations supply the department with abundant funds to enforce the law...
...Copper on Table Celery The Department of Agriculture, acting on the complaint of Dr...
...Works characterized the revenue derived by the government through the liquor traffic as "blood money...
...This latest attempt of the many made to dismember the combination provides for the disposition of the entire $126,650,000 of Southern Pacific stock held by the Union Pacific...
...I suppose the older Caminetti and the younger Caminetti will now be willing to have the case speedily go to trial when the few officers familiar with the matter have been fired out of the service...
...The new act contains provisions of considerable importance to contractors who are made liable for injuries to employees of subcontractors...
...News Notes —The Standard Oil Company, of Indiana, which had been ousted from the state of Missouri, will continue to do business in that state under a decision handed own last week by the state supreme court...
...It is in part as follows: "The editor of the Commoner has read with deep regret the editorial which appeared in the New York World of this morning and is sure that the editor will, on reflection...
...The prosecution was in the hands of United States District Attorney John L. McNab...
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