NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering ALL THREE bills on the Administration trust legislation program passed the House June 5 and were sent to the Senate. The Covington interstate trade commission bill was passed...
...Johnson, Wash...
...Payne...
...The commission on railway mail pay, of which ex-Senator Jonathan Bourne is chairman, has completed its deliberations and put...
...The majority of this committee were school men...
...Since 1902 the increase has been about 36 per cent...
...Ledyard protested that the New Haven directors were not dummies...
...Without legislative enactment, it cannot be...
...Asked "Did you go to see Mr...
...Lewis Cass Ledyard, who was a director of the New Haven at the time of the Grand Trunk deal, took the stand voluntarily to accuse Charles S. Mellen of misrepresentation in testifying that he as president of the New Haven allowed himself to be indicted in the Grand Trunk case to shield the late J. Pierpont Morgan...
...Governor George W. Clark, Republican, was renominated over his two rivals...
...But you regarded Mr...
...Hinebaugh...
...Morgan, Rockefeller and Miller...
...As indispensable conditions of admission the mediators, adhering to their original position, which President Wilson has beea unable to change, declared: (a) That hostilities must be suspended by the constitutionalists...
...On the nfw basis they will receive about $61,000,000 for carrying matter for which they are now paid $51,000,000...
...Mon-dell...
...In a special message he urges the necessity of immediate action by the legislature to come to the aid of small farmers who desire money loans...
...It will assure the full and careful consideration of the plan and its thorough understanding before it can be put into operation...
...Fairchild...
...Why don't all toilers enjoy the world's superabundance of wealth...
...ONE might have come to the perception of the need of unification of the...
...Towner...
...Kent...
...But he cited no instance where the will of the late J. Pierpont Morgan did not prevail...
...Porter...
...Congressman Kirkpatrick of Ot-tumwa, sixth district, was the only one of the three Democratic congressmen renominated...
...Thomson, Ill...
...Temple...
...Mr...
...That might indicate the necessity of teaching life's most important lesson: how to earn a living and accumulate wealth without injury to a fellowman...
...This, he said, was because the members usually discussed matters before the meetings and arrived at conclusions...
...Borah, who read from the Congressional Record of August 6, 1912, to show that Senator Simmons at that time assiduously worked in behalf of tolls exemption...
...Following the lead of Wisconsin, an attempt will be made to enact a law in New York at this session of the legislature for the establishment of land banks...
...Frear...
...Sutherland...
...In proof of their contention that they are the conquerers of Mexico they point to what they have already accomplished in the way of driving the federals from two thirds of the area of the country...
...Kinkaid, Neb...
...He spoke of his connection with the acquisition by the New Haven of the Boston and Maine...
...News Notes —The Democratic State Central Committee of Wisconsin decided by a vote of 12 to 10 that no state convention would be held this year by the Democratic party...
...Moss, W. Va...
...The money wages of farm labor increased about 2.5 per cent, during the past year, and about 11 per cent, duririg the past four years...
...On this board are: D. W. Mead, professor of hydraulic engineering of the University of Wisconsin...
...b) That the constitutional representatives must accept the measures already agreed to by the American and Mexican delegates...
...Action against the company was started by the United States government and Judge John Rellstab in the federal court at Trenton, New Jersey, on June 2, issued a decision affecting not only the main company but twenty-four other corporations and individuals now associated in the trust...
...All of the Bull Moose Representatives voted for it except Representative Chandler of New York...
...4. The mediators issued a statement formally denying reports of a deadlock over the question of the proposed participation by the constitutionalists in the conference...
...They were: REPUBLICANS Anderson...
...The Covington interstate trade commission bill was passed without a record vote...
...You see, I did not pretend to be a railroad man...
...Wherefore, they wrote: "Because the public school system cannot succeed in its prime function of effectively training children for citizenship and promoting their morality unless the adults and older youth of the community make use of the school-house as centers of organized civic expression and wholesome recreation, and because the full use of the public school system as the machinery of the- city's comprehensive self-organization depends absolutely upon the unification of its municipal and public school administration...
...Curry...
...Cary...
...Many thousands starve to death...
...G. N. Haugen, fourth district...
...Colonel William L. Seibert, a member of the Panama canal commission, and A. P. Davis, chief of the U. S. reclamation service...
...Amusement was occasioned when Senator Simmons of North Carolina, a Democrat to whom President Wilson deputed the task of putting the tolls repeal bill through the Senate, made an extended answer to the critics of the repeal bill...
...Business men are behind the movement...
...Some of them may lose their jobs...
...A similar provision-was in the measure as it passed the House, but it had been eliminated from the bill by the Senate committee...
...McKenzie...
...That may help them to sympathize with the despised strikers and labor agitators...
...Barton...
...Cummins Wins Senator Albert B. Cummins of Iowa was renominated in the primaries of June 1 by a majority of about 35,000 by the Republicans over his standpat rival, A. C. Savage...
...Note the fact that the great shortage is in cattle...
...I discussed the matter," said he, "with Richard Olney, who was interested largely in the Boston and Maine, personally and as trustee...
...Helgesen...
...lore Pay to Railroads for Mail Service Congress is asked to allow the railroads of the country more compensation for carrying the mails...
...It has been contended by the carriers that they were losing about $15,000,000 on the transportation of the mails before the parcel post system was created...
...Stafford...
...The people are most of the time in a very pitiable state...
...Dunn...
...Another incident of import was the issuance of a semi-official statement from General Carranza's headquarters at Durang which defied the A-B-C peace mediators at Niagara Falls and declared, the constitutionalists would tolerate no outside interference with internal problems of Mexico...
...Morgan with reverence...
...Kelly, Pa...
...Haugen...
...Why were you afraid to make objections at the meetings...
...Let them preach sermons from it...
...This great corporation has been operating for years in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law...
...This decrease is dramatic and almost astounding...
...That suggestion is pronounced impractical and costly...
...Las Casas, the Apostle to the Indians was opposed to the methods of Columbus and other exploiters of the human flesh...
...Ledyard said it was the fall of 1908 when he first took an active part in New Haven affairs...
...Morgan at any meetings...
...Pretty nearly...
...The basic importance of the Ogden Plan is in the fact that, while it makes a stronger appeal to the...
...The result is that while the country is very productive, and if relieved of flood ravages would give two crops year, it has not averaged two crops in five years...
...Taft...
...When this plan was presented at Ogden to the two boards most immediately effected—the municipal and the school commissions— so necessary did it appear, so desirable from the view point of efficiency in municipal administration on the one hand and of efficiency in education on the other that the members of both boards declared individually that they would resign if necessary to secure its adoption by and for that beautiful, thriving, intensely American city...
...Morgan, Okla...
...the finishing touches to a eport of its investigation and to a bill providing a new basis of compensation, which was introduced in both houses of Congress...
...The investigation into the financial affairs of the New Haven was practically concluded last week...
...therefore we find, after careful study of all the elements of the situation, that the key to the solution of Ogden's educational problem, which is its civic, moral, and economic problem, is the consolidation "and identification of its municipal commission and its board of education...
...In The American Commonwealth James Bryce notes as eternally basic the opposition between the centralizing tendency whose ideal is concentration of power for efficiency and the de-centralizing tendency whose ideal is personal freedom and the widest distribution of authority...
...So the need of unifying the political and the educational sections of the city's system of co-operation might have been arrived at from either end...
...compared with the low year of 1894, about 67 per cent, higher...
...Copley...
...Scott...
...Wick-ersham in the Grand Trunk matter...
...The Department speaks of the loss in hogs by cholera...
...Good...
...While it is proposed that congress Bhall fix the basis of compensation, the commission's bill provides for a review of the rates by the interstate commerce commission upon the complaint of any railroad...
...The Bull Moose candidate, George C. White, had no opposition...
...I also suggest that teachers and preachers of all kinds should be required to hunt jobs at common labor for six months or a year before being allowed to enter their chosen professions...
...Cramton...
...Arbitration of Canal Tolls...
...American Experts to Aid China in Flood Prevention To study the situation in the fam-ine district of China and suggest work leading to its reclamation, a board of three engineers appointed by the Red Cross society, at the request of the Chinese government, left for China on June 11 for an absence of four months...
...Wal-lin—8...
...that he felt proud of being one of the principal founders of the slave trade, and that he was an honest and a pious man...
...This report condemns the present system of compensating the railroads for carrying the mail as antiquated, inaccurate and unfair to both the government and the transportation lines...
...But, what is the chance of its adoption there...
...Elton admitted the board usually acquiesced in recommendations made by Mr...
...French...
...For each hundred people in the nation it would take nine beef cattle, three hogs, and seven sheep to give us as many as we had four years ago...
...Quick goes on to say: "The chief reason lies in the fact that the farms of the nation are going into the hands of tenants under a lease system which forbids the growing of sheep and cattle, and renders it more profitable to the farmers to skin off as much as possible in the year or so of tenancy, sell it and get the money...
...James S. Elton, another director of the New Haven, testified he was at the meeting at which Messrs...
...The commission decided that the transportation of" the mails is more analogous to the transportation of passengers than to the transportation of either freight or express...
...F. P. Woods, tenth district...
...by the parcel post business...
...General Villa also issued a statement reiterating his allegiance as a military leader to Carranza...
...Garner...
...Ledyard replied, "No, I went to see Mr...
...J. I. Nolan, Cal...
...Hawley...
...However, it was not from the study of the needs of governmental efficiency that the committees of investigation came to this recommendation of unification...
...The postoffice department denied the truth of the railroad contentions, and estimated that the carriers were being paid about $9,000,000 too much for mail service before the institution of the parcel post...
...Farr...
...Congressman Maurice Connolly won the Democratic senatorial nomination from E. T. Meredith of Des Moines...
...By a vote of 8 to 6 this committee ordered a favorable report of Senator Sutherland's amendment referring the whole controversy to arbitration...
...You felt he was nearly almighty in finance...
...The agrarian problem, which the peace commission has been seeking to solve, is held to be an internal problem which requires no outside interference for settlement...
...MacDonald...
...The cat-tie business requires long tenancy and years for the return of the money invested...
...John T. Hamilton won the Democratic nomination for governor...
...2. General Huerta accepted "in principle" the plan for the pacification of his country agreed upon by the American and Mexican delegates last week...
...Asked who was the dominating figure at the New Haven board meetings, the witness replied: "I think Mr...
...He remembered no instance where the wishes of Mr...
...The statement holds that the constitutionalists, the conquerors of Mexico, are being dictated to by the conquered, as it is declared that the only obstacle to the entrance of the rebels to Mexico City is the destruction of the railroads...
...A year or two ago some investigational work was done...
...This Is looked upon as a defeat for the adherents of Judge John C. Karel, a candidate for governor with the support of the reactionary forces...
...in this controversy are so clearly established as to be beyond arbitration...
...We are told that Sir John Hawkins, a famous English sailor, on being made a knight, took as part of his coat of arms the picture of a captive negro bound with a eord...
...Indeed, this is the attitude of the constitutionalists with regard to the entire proceedings of the mediators," the statement declares...
...Thread Trust "Dissolved" The American Thread Company, the thread trust, one of the biggest combinations in the United States, has been ordered to dissolve...
...The Chinese government has appropriated $25,-000,000 for the work of reclamation and placed this work in the hands of the Red Cross society...
...Roberts, Nev...
...This," concludes the report, "instead of being disadvantageous, is a positive advantage...
...Morgan, Rockefeller and Miller were appointed a committee in the New York, Westchester and Boston transaction and also when they reported...
...asked Counsallor Folk...
...Hulings...
...Their approach was from the study of the problem of educational efficiency...
...Moore...
...business" element of the community than either the Commission Plan or the City Manager Plan, by providing more than either for the economy1 and efficiency of more complete concentration of administrative functions," it, at the same time makes ah equally strong appeal to that larger element in" the community whose ideal is actual popular control and genuine democracy, for it puts into the hands of the citizens the effective and adequate equipment for self-realization as the supreme body of the government...
...REPUBLICANS Cramton, Mich...
...PROGRESSIVES Bell, Cal...
...To appeal to him to grow cattle is useless while the tenant system makes cattle-growing for millions positively out of the question...
...a country whose wealth producing qualities are so great that it has been the prey of exploiters ever since its discovery by the European sold seekers, referred to in our histories as explorers...
...H. M. Towner, eighth district...
...Ledyard, "that Mr...
...The indictments charge conspiracy in restraint of trade in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law...
...Uncompromising opponents of surrender like Senator O'Gorman voted against this amendment, holding that the rights and sovereignty of the United States Life's Most Important Lesson By WILLIAM E. CLARK THE other day, this item appeared in a Chicago paper regarding Dr...
...S. H. Bashor took the lead for the Bull Moose nomination...
...Bartlett...
...Why are there only two or three hundred splendidly built homes in a city of 40,000 people while there are always several thousand humble homes where live the toilers whose labor produces the city's wealth...
...Elton was asked...
...Woods—43...
...Forty-three Republicans and sixteen Progressives joined the Democrats in supporting the measure...
...Two occurrences of the week which tended to arouse apprehension in certain quarters were the landing of ammunition at Tampico for the constitutionalist forces and the order of Huerta sending two Mexican warships to blockade that port At the same time the American navy department under orders of President Wilson made preparations to use force if necessary to keep Tampico an open port and to prevent the Huerta gunboats from interfering with the docking of the steamship Antilla, at this writing approaching Tampico With a cargo of war munitions for the constitutionalists...
...Why is There a Shortage of Meat Animals...
...Parker...
...How could such a man be honest and pious...
...Mead, "by the fact that the district is little above the sea level and subject to great overflows...
...At the last moment an amendment was added to create a special committee to report on the location and cost of a government armor plate factory...
...Mellen did not offer himself as a vicarious sacrifice for Mr...
...The commission's report includes a finding adverse to the proposal that the government construct and maintain its own postal cars...
...The companies and individuals concerned in the litigation have agreed to the terms of business dissolution set down in the decision...
...Oh, yes," replied Mr...
...Campbell...
...Morgan...
...This Bible text had much to do with shaping his opinions: "He that taketh away his neighbor's living slayeth him: and he that defraudeth the laborer of his hire is a murderer...
...Morgan Was Almighty" That the late J. Pierpont Morgan was "nearly almighty in finance" and that $2,748,000 was not an unreasonable price for a man putting through a stock deal were two of the remarkable sworn statements before the Interstate Commerce Commission last week in its investigation into the affairs of the New Haven Railroad...
...HERBERT QUICK, editor of Farm and Fireside, comments on the report of the Department of Agriculture that the country is 18,000,000 meat animals short...
...Murdock...
...Representative White ot Ohio was the only Democrat to vote against the Clayton bill...
...The provision as understood by the President and by most people who have read its mild language simply declares the right of unions to organize...
...Unifying School House and City Hall Continued from page 5. preme merit of the Ogden plan lies, however, not in these administrative advantages, but in the fact that this plan points the way that has not hitherto been mapped out...
...Vare...
...Rupley...
...It is recommended that the basis of compensation be char.ged from weight to space, the postoffice department determining the number of cars and half-cars that shall be used for carrying the mails...
...Commissioner McChord announced on Saturday that the inquiry would be discontinued for the present...
...Mr...
...Clifford Thorne and James H. Wilson won the nomination on the Republican ticket as railroad commissioners...
...The trouble is caused," said Mr...
...W. R. Green, ninth district...
...The total compensation, however, will be greatly increased above this amount by payment for the growing volume of the parcel post...
...Governor Glynn is back of the movement...
...The opposition of these two tendencies, the love of liberty and the love of order is permanent and necessary, because it Springs from differences in the intellect and feelings of men which one finds in all countries and at all epochs...
...Labor Unions Recognized by House Trust unions and farmers' associations would be specifically legalized in their existence and declared not to be combinations in restraint of trade, according to a paragraph which the House of Representatives adopted last week by a vote of 207 to 0 incorporated in the Clayton bill to plement the anti-trust laws...
...Compensation proposed is 22 1/2 cents a car mile...
...Since that time this loss has been greatly increased, they say...
...WILL the plan be adopted by Ogden...
...Give the American farmer a land system which will make cattle-growing profitable and he will grow cattle...
...This is 10 per cent, less than the 25 cents a car mile earned by the railroads for carrying passengers...
...Mor gan were opposed...
...We both were of opinion that it was -a wise thing for the New Haven to acquire the Boston and Maine...
...Kelley, Mich...
...Lindbergh...
...For instance, the man lamiliar with Ostragorski's diagnosis, recognizing that our political trouble ilies fundamentally in "the separation of politics from life" would be led to this plan because it makes of the political or civic co-operation something, not apart from the social and recreational co-operations of the people, but a part of, indeed the very heart of the gathered activities of neighborhood...
...Burke, S. D...
...The United States Senate last week passed the annual naval appropriation bill, carrying about $141,-000,000...
...Walters...
...J. M. C. Smith, Mich...
...James W. Good, fifth district...
...The following Republican Congressmen were renominated: C. A. Kennedy, first district...
...the Clayton omnibus anti-trust measure was passed 275 to 54, and the vote on the Rayburn railroad capitalization bill was 325 to 12...
...Sinnott...
...Free Omnibus Ride to Attend Social Center A practical step in the evolution of the village school as a social cen-ter has been taken by the people ot Frederic, Wisconsin, Recently tha school board of that place adopted the suggestion of Advisor E. J. Ward, of the University of Wisconsin Extension department and made arrange-ments to use the three omnibuses, which daily bring children to the school from a territory of fifteen miles about Frederic, for the trans-portation of all the residents in the school district to the community for lectures, motion picture shows and other social center programs at the Frederic high school...
...3. In compliance with the insistent request of President Wilson the mediators have sent a reply to ±he reauest of Senor Zubaran, agent of General Carranza in Washington, that constitutional delegates be granted admission to the conference...
...That is, allowing for increase in population, we are short of sheep, cattle, and swine to that enormous number as compared to 1910...
...Morgan...
...Mapes...
...Witherspoon—4...
...But these plans have been regarded with suspicion by the people who have recognized that the main thing that we are after in America is not merely Good Government but good Self-Government...
...the way to efficiency in municipal administration WITHOUT THE SACRIFICE OF DEMOCRACY...
...Woodruff—16...
...The Karel faction was in favor of the convention and entered the meeting confident of car-lying its point —Indictments were returned against thirty-five officials and members of the National Association of Master Plumbers and officials of state organizations in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan,' Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa by the federal grand jury at Des Moines last week...
...McLaughlin...
...Mr...
...two sections of what is now the Union Pacific Railroad from either end...
...Mellen was...
...His complete reversal of position on this specific point was covered over with the plea that he had seen "new light...
...Constitutionalist's Resent A. B. C. "Interference" in "Internal Affairs" Developments of importance in connection with the settlement of the Mexican situation by the A-B-C mediators during the past week may be summarized as follows: 1. Through the Mexican delegates General Huerta issued his first formal statement to the world announcing his willingness to retire from office...
...His address was attacked by Mr...
...On account of its emphasis on efficiency, the "Business" element of American cities has favored the Commission or City Manager plans, in spite of the fact that, as hitherto oganized, efficiency was gained through them at the loss of democracy...
...They hops to provide not only entertainment for the people, but to develop a commun-ity spirit for the commercial advance of the Frederics and the outlying territory...
...Natural timidity, I suppose," was the reply...
...Stelzle himgelf rose from the humblest surroundings, his friends say, and worked his way into a high church position...
...William Skinner, a director of the New Haven, testified that as a rule the votes taken at meetings of the New Haven directors were unanimous...
...Davis...
...Our mission will be to see what can be done by modern engineering to stop the destructive overflows and make of the land a safe, productive district," The Red Cross society suggested to the Chinese government gome time, ago that an examination be made looking toward permanent relief so as to stop the immense waste of life...
...but in spite of this, in hogs, which the tenant farmer can grow more successfully, the shortage is only a third as much in numbers as in cattle, and probably not a twentieth as much in meat...
...I think the answer to such a question is, because men have not been taught that life's most important lesson is learning how to accumulate wealth without injury to a fellowman...
...Lenroot...
...The railroads now are receiving about $51,000,000 for carrying the mails, exclusive of a slight increase allowed for transportation of parcel post matter...
...When one stops to think that the only way to a comfortable position today is by RISING from the ranks Qf the TOILERS, seriojns thoughts enter serious heads...
...President Wilson explained that the labor union provision had his sanction but the President was positive that the provision would not exempt, labor unions from prosecution under the Sherman act if they appeared guilty of violating it...
...These estimates are based upon reports of correspondents of the bureau of statistics (agricultural forecasts) of the department of agriculture...
...Falconer...
...While on the stand Mr...
...I recommend that text to the 170, 000 clergymen of America...
...Gillett...
...It is thought that witnesses already heard have furnished the Commission with enough material on which to frame its report to the Senate called for by the Norris resolution directing the inquiry...
...The measure is now in conference...
...Skinner...
...He felt the expenditure of more than $11,000,000 for the road was extravagant but had absolute confidence in Messrs...
...They will take assistants with them to make examinations, and surveys and expect to make a report to the Red Cross society and the Chinese government...
...Dillon...
...Smith, Idaho...
...Respect is the word I would use...
...Governor Francis FA McGov-ern of Wisconsin on June 4 issued a statement formally announcing his candidacy on the Republican ticket for the United States Senate...
...H. F. Barker is superintend-ent of the high school and Judge Louis A. Copeland president of the school board...
...Gardner...
...Kennedy, Iowa...
...Sloan...
...Green, Iowa...
...Charles Stelzle, the well known preacher friend of union labor: "Dr...
...Ledyard brought the name of Richard Olney, formerly Attorney General of the United States and formerly Secretary of State, into the inquiry...
...Bryan...
...Farm wages now compared with those of the eighties, are about 15 per cent, higher...
...Did you differ with Mr...
...The eight Republicans and four Democrats who voted against the Rayburn bill were: DEMOCRATS Buchanan, Tex...
...providing for the two-battleship construction program of the Administration and authorizing in addition the building of a third modern dreadnaught with money to be derived from the sale of the battleships Idaho and Mississippi...
...Why, for instance, is there so much bitter poverty among the peons of Mexico while fifty families own nearly all of that country's fabulous wealth...
...I want to say in the most unqualified terms," declared Mr...
...La Follette...
...Although it is designed only to clarify existing law, organized labor leaders say the final passage of this amendment will mark the culmination of a fight waged by them for fourteen years for exemption from prosecution under the laws against monopolies and restraints of trade...
...President Wilson's insistence upon surrender to Great Britain and the railroads in the matter of the Panama Canal tolls was disregarded last week in a formal vote of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations...
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