NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering LAST week's battle in Europe appears to have been on the whole in Germany's favor. After several days of severe bombardment, the ring of forts surrounding Antwerp were...
...They shared the view of Senator Reed, who contends that any bill which omitted penalties would be useless...
...When the land re-clamationists, water power interests, dredgers, contractors, and last but not least, when a $50,000,000 war cry for annual plunder is echoed throughout 171 cities and their respective states that contribute, is it fanaticism to demand the facts...
...A model municipal corporation act to organize cities where there is no municipal home rule...
...Woman suffrage in Illinois is safe, at least to the extent it has already been won...
...From German sources, however, come reports of victories at many points along the battle line, and is declared to be "satisfactory...
...Another act of this Congress which is of considerable public importance is the passage of the bill regulating the transactions in cotton futures on the various exchanges...
...Our forces have taken prisoners, but the number is not yet available...
...In seventy days the Germans have carried the war across Belgium and had advanced 100 miles into France before being forced back to the present lines...
...Both of these bills have been passed and the Clayton bill, which is known as the omnibus anti-trust bill, contains the prohibition of interlocking directorates which, according to the original program, was to have been a separate measure...
...While the federal reserve act was not passed at the special session, it had been approved by the House and hearings on it were being held by the Senate banking and currency committee at the time the extra and regular sessions merged in December, and it was passed by the Senate just before the Christmas recess...
...Workers for World Peace By SAMUEL GOMPERS President of the American Federation of Labor AMERICA with free institutions and opportunity for those of all walks of life has been an ideal and an inspiration to many millions...
...She now becomes the world's greatest breadmaker...
...In the south the Russians have captured the eastern half of Galicia and have occupied the passes through the Carpathian Mountains...
...Allen is at present directing a survey of the University of Wisconsin, as an agent of the state Board of Public Affairs...
...As framed by the Senate committee, the bill would have levied two dollars for every thousand dollars of banking capital and surplus...
...In spite of being appreciably inferior to the, allies in numerical strength, they have been able to make the important gain of the capture of Antwerp, with the result of strengthening their general position...
...Peter and Paul of Chicago, has accepted a call as Episcopal bishop of Oregon...
...King Albert of Belgium and his army evacuated the city and hastened to join the French and British armies...
...From now until election day I shall devote my time to this business...
...This is the America that holds our thought with a peculiar power...
...It is not probable, therefore, that rural credits will be considered before the next Congress which meets in December, 1915...
...That was passed after heated debates in both the House and the Senate in which a number of prominent Democrats opposed the wishes of the President...
...Senator Root of New York, Republican, and Senator Poindexter of Washington, Progressive, voted against the motion to recommit...
...On October 8 he gave his reason for not pressing Congress to establish a rural credit system to meet the demand of farmers for loans on easy terms...
...Now se-cuse in her isolation and her maintenance of justice and freedom, apart, undeafened by the roar of musketry, unblinded by the smoke of battle, unshaken by the passion of the battlefields, she stands ready to hear the cries for mercy and fairness, ready to give her good offices for the establishment of peace...
...In an interview Mr...
...Cardinal Dominic Ferrata, the papal secretary of state, died at Rome October 10...
...The latter act was passed in June, to avoid a threatened strike of trainmen on the eastern railroads...
...While outside of the border districts of Alsace and Lorraine, the allies have not anywhere Inflicted a loss on German population...
...The vote was 35 to 24...
...General von Beseler has received the order: 'Pour la Merite' for his taking of the city...
...Cardinal Ferrata was stricken with appendicitis soon after his appointment by Pope Benedict on September 4. The death of the cardinal, although not unexpected, greatly affected the pontiff...
...In the great work ahead I desire the co-operation of every Progressive no matter what may be his party affiliations...
...Later Mr...
...It also struck out the automobile sales tax which it was estimated would have raised about $10,-000,000, The caucus also revised the tax on banking capital...
...Ia it fanaticism to shout 'burglars' when you see the treasury is being looted under the guise of waterway improvements...
...In his annual message to Congress, President Wilson coupled rural credits with the federal reserve banking system and declared that each was of equal importance...
...They have thrown the major part of the strain of the theater of operations upon hostile territory...
...The amendment ol-fered by Senator Williams of Mississippi to increase the House beer tax from $1.50 to $1.75 was adopted...
...The appropriations for the fiscal year of 1915, made by this congress, exceed those of the previous year by $51,803,173 and exceed those of the fiscal year of 1913 by $121,055,437...
...After several days of severe bombardment, the ring of forts surrounding Antwerp were battered down by the heavy German guns, and the city occupied...
...Next to the federal reserve act and the anti-trust laws the measure which provoked the widest interest was the resolution to repeal the free tolls provision of the Panama canal act...
...Blaine's invitation to act as chairman of his campaign committee...
...Root voted against the bill and Senator Poindexter voted for it...
...Six Democrats voted to commit the bill again to conference because they were not pleased with it...
...Clayton Bill Passes The Clayton anti-trust bill was passed in the Senate October 5, in the form agreed upon in conference...
...The supreme court has denied a rehearing of the case of Scown vs...
...Among the garrison was one British marine brigade...
...In amount of hostile territory occupied the opposing forces are nearly balanced...
...The committee recognizes that for certain things there must be a state policy and a state administrative control, notably in such matters as education, health and sanitation...
...Trailing Pork Barrel Lobbyists Lobbyists for "pork barrel" appropriations came in for severe denunciation in a speech by Representative James A. Frear of Wisconsin in the House of Representatives, October 8. Following the defeat of what was no torious as the "$93,000,000 pork barrel," Mr...
...There were a few other bills of public importance passed by both branches of the national legislature, including the two appropriation bills that had been carried over from the previous session and the bill to amend the Erdman act, providing for a federal board of mediation and conciliation...
...She may become the world's great carrier of commerce...
...It will also have broken all previous records for extracting money from the public treasury, having appropriated $1,109,408,777 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915...
...Longest Session Is Nearing an End Congress is scheduled to adjourn during the present week...
...Whether that power and influence shall be used as befits a great and a free people will determine her future greatness...
...The river and harbor congress Mr...
...Our headquarters at Madison will make plans to have all Progressives vote in November...
...News Worth Remembering LAST week's battle in Europe appears to have been on the whole in Germany's favor...
...It was pointed out repeatedly that "the teeth had been taken out of it...
...Many fled into Holland and returned to Belgian soil...
...Olbrich Heads Blaine Campaign Committee Michael B. Olbrich has been appointed campaign manager for John J. Blaine of Boscobel, who is the independent progressive candidate for governor of Wisconsin...
...After considerable controversy in both the Senate and the House, a bill was passed authorizing the use of the Hetch Hetchy basin in a government reservation of the same name to be dammed and used as a reservoir to supply water for the city of San Francisco and other California towns...
...The constitutional amendment provides for granting to the cities the largest possible powers of local self-government, so that their dependence on the whim of legislatures will become a thing of the past...
...This bill was reduced to one dollar a thousand by a vote of 26 to 11...
...On the other hand the city should be free to determine a larger number of matters than is now the case...
...Dean Sumner has long been identified with movements in Chicago and elsewhere for social betterment...
...In order to give force and character to the new waterway loot, trust officials were chosen who had great legislative influence directly and indirectly at Washington...
...Good, bad, or indifferent, all were welcome in order to insure a $50, 000,000 annual grab...
...She controls resources not yet realized...
...He said this legislation had been halted by lack of a definite plan...
...A collateral bill to provide for the leasing of government owned mineral resources in Alaska has been passed by both branches of Congress, but the conference report on it has not been adopted by the Senate, although it is expected that it will be before adjournment...
...A trust organization of all the waterway associations was formed that chose for its battle cry, '$50,000, 000 annually for waterways,'" he said...
...The puny efforts of Mulhall and the Manufacturers' association sink into insignflicance when compared with the $50,000,000 annual pork barrel, the guardianship of which amount the federal congress delegates to the rivers and harbors congress, according to modest admissions of the latter body...
...The indictment contains thirty-six counts...
...The Indian appropriation bill and the sundry civil bill were passed in the spring of 1913, thus bringing the actual total of money appropriated by the extraordinarily long session of Congress up to approximately $1,235,000,-000...
...With the overwhelming progressive sentiment of this State expressed John J. Blaine will be Wisconsin's next Governor...
...Shaping War Tax Bill Northern Senators clashed with southern Senators in the Democratic caucus over the tax on beer...
...Poindexter was the only Senator not a Democrat to vote for the bill...
...News Notes —Delegates from eight southern states attending the Southeastern Cotton and Food Products Conference at Atlanta, Georgia, agreed that the cotton problem should be solved by the states themselves and that it would be unwise for the national government to interfere...
...Frear directed attention to the activities of the national Rivers and Harbors Congress and allied organizations, and demanded a congressional investigation of the lobbying methods and expenditures of these organizations, whose influence in fostering support of the annual river and harbor grabs and in intimidating opponents the congressman traced in detail...
...These measures were considered: A constitutional amendment to give cities adequate powers to run their own affairs...
...Her great power and influence are moral...
...The situation in the east, according to Russian sources, is "unchanged...
...The bill was passed by unanimous vote in both branches of- Congress...
...They can now enter the campaign with good heart as they no longer have to decide between two reactionaries and they will vote for a real Progressive...
...The list of major laws enacted include tariff revision, federal reserve act, trade commission and supplemental anti-trust laws, repeal of free tolls in Panama canal, Alaska railroad act...
...After two hours discussion, the caucus voted 20 to 17 to strike from the bill the proposed tax on gasoline...
...The Smith-Lever agricultural extension act, which grants federal aid to state agricultural schools, was passed during the regular session, after having failed to pass in the last session of the Sixty-second Congress on account of a filibuster conducted by Senator Page of Vermont...
...The Belgian troops, by forced marches, succeeded in escaping from the Germans who were trying to encircle them...
...It recites six loans made to the Lorimer and Gallagher Construction Company, declared to be insolvent at the time...
...In the Republican National Convention of 1912 he was the delegate who made the nominating speech placing Senator LaFollette's name before the convention...
...Southern Senators won...
...Germany is well ahead in her campaign, but the losses of Austria about even the count...
...The Sixty-third congress was convened in extraordinary session on April 7, 1913, by the proclamation of President Wilson...
...After ten weeks of war the allies in the field have proved that they can withstand the German attacks...
...While the President ostensibly called Congress together to revise the tariff, the special session was actually made necessary by the fact that two of the big supply bills, one vital to the existence of the government, had not been passed during the short session of the previous Congress...
...Hers is the responsibility of using these, all these, for humanity— humanity that recognizes neither race nor nationality...
...Their present superiority in numerical strength will steadily grow, and hereafter matters should be more and more in their favor...
...If the Republicans in the Senate, with the moral support of President Wilson, had not defeated the river and harbor bill as passed by the House and amended by the Senate committee, the appropriations for the year would have been $73,000,000 larger...
...This measure as agreed upon in conference and later as approved by the Senate, was great ly weakened...
...In the east the Russians hold a narrow strip at the southeast corner of East Prussia, while the Germans hold all of the western half of Poland and have advanced 150 miles from the border to the Vistula River...
...At present, however, the advantage lies very largely with the Germans...
...A partial triumph was gained by the northern Senators, however, when the caucus voted to put a rectifier's tax of five cents a gallon on spirituous liquors...
...America is to become the clearing house for all international intercourse...
...Her industries and manufactures alone remain undisturbed...
...Her citizens, gathered from all of the nations of thb earth, are true and able and honorable...
...The buy-a-bale movement, to tide the southern cotton growers over the crisis caused by the European war, has made great headway in all parts of the country...
...Preliminary work on the anti-trust bills was undertaken in the House and in the Senate late in the fall of 1913, although the President had not at that time delivered his address to Congress outlining the scope of such legislation, and none of the administration bills were introduced until after the regular session commenced...
...Olbrich is a Progressive Republican...
...THE STATUS of the great war was thus summarized on October 11 by the associate editor of the Army and Navy Journal: "This ending to the tenth week of the war is a good time to summarize the positions of the contending forces in the French theater of operations and in that of Russia...
...These six Democrats were Reed of Missouri, Lane of Oregon, Martine of New Jersey, Thomas of Colorado, Vardaman of Mississippi and Williams of Mississippi...
...Olbrich said: "I have accepted Mr...
...Great opportunity is now within our grasp...
...If It be fanaticism to say this astounding condition surrounding a great appropriation bill is wrong, then I am to blame...
...Just prior to this vote, the Senate refused to recommit the bill to the conference committee on a motion by Senator Reed of Missouri, by a vote of 35 to 25...
...From Berlin, by wireless, on October 12, came the following official report from the German war office: "The general staff reports that a very strong garrison defended Antwerp at first with great energy and then fled in full rout after an engagement with the German infantry and marine divisions...
...The complete break down of the Anglo Belgian troops and the capitulation of the city was negotiated with the Burgomaster...
...Within the last few months it has been announced from the White House and by Democratic leaders in Congress that the bill to regulate the issuance of railroad securities which was in the original anti-trust program has been "indefinitely postponed...
...and, A model charter to be adopted by cities having the right to frame their own framework of government...
...We desire for her wisdom that she may cleave to, the part of a great people and may spurn the lesser things of selfish gain and passion...
...This bill was indorsed by the National Conservation association...
...Dr...
...William Lorimer, former Senator of Illinois who was ousted from the United States Senate, and Joseph P. Gallagher, his associate in a construction firm, were indicted last week by the federal grand jury probing the La Salle Street Bank failure...
...May she prove to the world that there is such a thing as international morality, and may she help the warring nations back to a plane of peace and justice is the earnest desire of America's workers and all her citizens...
...She has the opportunity to become the world's banker...
...For weeks they have held the line entirely on hostile territory, which at its most advanced point is 150 miles from Germany...
...The anti-trust program, which started out, according to President Wilson's outline, with five separate measures, finally dwindled down to two, the trade commission bill and the Clayton bill, to supplement the existing laws against restraint of trade...
...The bill authorizing the President to build a railroad in Alaska and appropriating $35,000,000 for the purpose was another achievement of this Congress...
...America has in her hands well-nigh limitless wealth...
...The dominance of the activities of this Bureau by the Rockefeller interests is the reported reason of Dr...
...Immediately upon taking possession of the city, the German commander permitted the local officials to conduct administrative affairs but issued warnings that any hostile act on the part of the citizens would be met with severest reprisals...
...From an humble beginning it grew in aggressiveness until it dominated the framing of annual 'pork barrels.'" The congressman showed that the agents of the river and harbor congress always had "inside knowlelge" of items and changes in items in the pork barrel bills made behind commit-tee room doors...
...William H. Allen has resigned from the Bureau of Municipal Re search of New York City, of which he was one of the founders...
...Allen's withdrawal...
...Czarnecki, in which it upheld the constitutionality of the woman suffrage act...
...A Municipal Program A municipal program for American cities has been drafted by a committee of the National Municipal league, which will be discussed at the league's convention, in Baltimore, November 18...
...It will then have completed a session of more than eighteen months, the longest continuous sitting of the national representative body in the history of the nation...
...Her future depends upon how she uses this opportunity...
...Frear characterized as a trust formed of numerous organizations lobbying for pork barrel appropriations...
...The special session, which merged into the first regular session of the Sixty-third congress on December 1, actually accomplished one major piece of legislation, the passage of the tariff act...
...The Rev...
...The news was conveyed to him by telephone and his comment was: "God's will be done, but it takes from me a dear friend and my right hand...
...Walter T. Sumner, dean of the Cathedral SS...
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