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the house of commons, contains the
announcement in formal official
terms that a message has been re
ceived from the house of lords stat
ing that they will not insist on their
amendments to the parliamentary
bill, to which the house of commons
had disagreed, and have agreed to
the consequential amendment to the
bill proposed by the house of com
mons. This will be recorded in the
records of parliament the greatest
victory achieved by a liberal prime
minister in a century, for, although
unionist votes passed the bill in the
upper chamber, history will give the
credit to Premier Asquith's auda
cious policy. The struggle ended
when the house of lords, by a vote
of 131 to 114, adopted Viscount
Morley's resolution not to insist on
the lords' amendments to the bill.
The purpose is to restrict the powers
of the upper chamber over legisla
tion originating in the lower house
and which may Tesult, among other
things, in home rule for Ireland.
The veto bill practically eliminates
the authority of the house of lords
to a two years' suspensory veto and
greatly increases the prerogatives of
the house of commons. The measure
could not possibly have passed the
house of lords except as it was
known that its rejection would be
followed immediately by the creation
of sufficient new peers to enforce the
will of the lower chamber ,and which,
the government asserts, is' the will of
tho people.
tion at a primary election This
unique plan, originating with tho
Woodrow Wilson club, has been in
dorsed by the supporters of others
mentioned in connection with the
nomination and members of the state
executive committee have expressed
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the method. Heretofore as in other
states the state convention has made
the selection. Guy B. Tucker, demo
cratic national committeeman, how
ever, does not sanction the presiden
tial primary proposition. In a card
addressed to the voters he asked
that it be sidetracked for the present.
Several interesting campaign con
tests are also in prospect. United
States Senator Jeff Davis will be op
posed by former Congressman S.
Brundige.
John W. Gates, the American
financier, died In Paris.
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John Jacob Astor is engaged to
marry a seventeen-year-old girl and
New York clergymen are up in arms
and declare that ho has not monev
enough in which to hire any clergy
man to perform the ceremony.
A New York dispatch, cuTried by
the Associated Press says: William
R. Laidlaw, for twenty years maimed
by a bomb thrown at Russell Sage by
H. W. Norcross of Boston, was re
ported dead at the home for incur
ables in tho Bronx, where he had
been for a long time. Laidlaw is
said to have died penniless. When
Laidlaw funds were exhausted in
his suits against Sage, his sisters
supported him, and after Russell
Sage's death they made an appeal to
Mrs. Sage. The siBters said that Mrs.
Sage refused to assist Laidlaw. When
Norcross hurled the bomb at Sage
in his office, Laidlaw declared that
the age financier thrust him In front
of him as o, shield. Sage was not
injured. Laidlaw, who was a book
keeper for Saga, sustained 180
wounds and has been an invalid ever
since. He sued Sage in several
courts and once obtained judgment
for $.40,000 but a higher court re
versed this.
An Associated Press cablegram
from Gibraltar says: The French
steamer Emir foundered five miles
east of Tariffa, Spain, in the straits
of Gibraltar. Ninety-three persons
were drowned. The ship sailed from
here at 3 o'clock on the morning of
August 3 for a Moroccan port. An
hour later in a dense fog she collided
with the British steamer Silverton,
bound from Newport, England, for
Taranto, Italy. The crew of the lat
ter rescued twenty-seven of the
Emir's crew and passengers. The
Silverton later put in here with her
starboard bow stove in and her fore
-peak full o water. The -Emir floated
only a few minutes after the- colli
sion. Sixty-one passengers and twenty-four
of the crew went down With
the ship. Twelve of the crew and
fifteen passengers were saved. All
the passengers were French.
Gen. George W. Gordon, com
mander In chief of the United Con
federate veterans, died at Memphis,
Tenn.
General Lecorito will, it is pre
dicted., bo the new president of
Haytl
A Little Rock dispatch, carried by
the Associated Press says: In all
probability the democrats of Ar
kansas will determine the stato'R
I choice for the presidential nomlna-
An Iola, Kan., dispatch to , the
Denver News says: Iola city officials,
with the exception of Municipal
Judge Smeltzer, are up in arms be
cause a woman has been sentenced
to don a pair of blooiners and join
the street gang from the city jail.
Magistrate Smeltzer sentenced Mrs.
Ella Reese to the street gang, and
ordered that the city officials provide
her with bloomers. Street Commis
sioner Glynn refuses to have a wo
man in the chain gang. Mrs. Reese
did not go to work breaking rock or
sweeping the streets that day be
cause the bloomers had not been pro
vided, and the officials say they will
not allow the woman to carry out
the sentence imposed upon her. The
city commissioner, Mayor Bollinger
and Glynn poured over the statutes
to find some law which would invali
date the sentence. They failed.
Smeltzer insists that Mrs. Reese must
work upon the streets as ordered by
him, and says the law will uphold his
decision. "Mrs. Reese," said he, "is
just as guilty as men companions ar
rested with her. They are working
on the streets, and she must do so.
It is no punishment to allow her to
go to jail and do nothing but live at
the expense of the city." Finding no
law to aid them tho city officials are
attempting to compromise. One com
missioner suggested that Mrs. Reese
be made to darn the ocks and re
pair the clothing of tho other pris
oners, while Mayor Bollinger has
suggested that she scrub the Jail
floors, wash the jail windows and
the jail dishes. But with the talk
of compromise Magistrate Smeltxer
remains firm. "Mrs. Reese was sen
tenced to work on the streets," says
he, "and this court's order must b
carried out."
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