JANUARY 12, 191
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The Commoner.
guarding the government arsenal at
Lanchau has revolted, the feeling
prevails at Pekin that the government
has taken a new lease of life, the
empress dowager having contributed
$2,000,000 to the war fund.
The loom fixers at Lowell, Mass.,
have demanded an advance of 10 per
cent in wages. This action may in
volve 20,000 cotton operatives.
The provisional government pro
claimed at Guayaquil by Gen. Pedro
Montero has been recognized by the
coast provinces of Ecuador.
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WASHINGTON NEWS
Laundries ministering to 400,000
New York persons are affected by a
secret strike order promulgated by
laundry workers.
Dr. Arthur Vincent Meigs, noted
physician, died in Philadelphia.
Daniel Howard was inaugurated as
president of Liberia".
Letters, the authenticity of which
was not denied, were introduced at
the packers' trial, indicating that the
price of meat was fixed and the busi
ness apportioned at weekly meetings
of the packers' representatives.
Governor Osborn, of Michigan,
spoke at Lansing, to an audience
gathered to hear Senator La Follette,
advising Senator La Follette and
President Taft both to retire from the
race for president.
District Attorney John D. Freder
icks and Special Prosecutor Oscar
Lawler arrived in Indianapolis to
assist in the grand jury investigation
of the alleged McNamara dynamite
conspiracy.
The protective committee for the
'4 per cent refunding bonds of the
Wabash Railroad company is plan
ning to oust George Gould and his
financial associates from control.
The population of Belgium is 7,
23,784, according to the census of
1910, an Increase of 730,236 since
1900.
Bight Persians were hanged at
Tabriz by order of the Russian court-martial.
An Indianapolis dispatch, carried
by the Associated Press, says: En
tire control of the Indiana demo
cratic organization passed into the
hands of the faction headed by
Thomas Taggart, national committee
man, when the state committee met
and elected Mr. Taggart's candidate
for chairman, Benard Korbly, brother
of Congressman Charles A. Korbly.
Governor Thomas R. Marshall, candi
date for the democratic nomination
for president, who opposed the selec
tion of Korbly, said: "In the words
of Lincoln to his cabinet, 'I guess I
have not much influence with this
administration.' " Leaders of the
Taggart division announced the
Indiana delegation in the democratic
national convention "would be solid
for the governor on the early ballots
and to whatever candidate it;might
be swung If it was found he could
not win."
Concluding his tour in' Ohio Sena
tor La Follette made a tour in Illinois.
Alfred Tennyson Dickens, eldest
gurviving son of Charles Dickens, the
novelist, died suddenly of acute in
digestion at the Hotel Astor, in New
York.
Mr. Norris, a republican, of Ne
braska, introduced a bill in the house
to place every employe of the post
office department, except the post
master general, under the competi
tive classified service rules. Mr.
Norris declares that the postofflce
department is now a big political
machine and that the roll call of the
average republican convention was
simply a list of postmasters.
An investigation by the secretary
of commerce-and labor to determine
the feasability of establishing labor
exchanges in conjunction with state
governments was asked for in a
resolution introduced by Represen
tative Littleton of New York.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans
died of acute indigestion at Wash
ington City.
Associated Press correspondents
announced that Oscar W. Underwood
would not attend- the Jackson Day
banquet at the national capital. A
press dispatch says: Mr. Under
wood's letter to the managing com
mittee announcing he would not
attend was sent after it became
known that Bryan was. to speak.
The arrangement did not meet the
approval of many leaders, but it will
stand. Some of Mr. Underwood's
friends pointed out that Mr. Bryan,
speaking last on-the program, would
be in a position of decided advantage
to make declarations which would of
necessity remain unanswered and
that such a contingency was to bo
avoided. Others said Mr. Under
wood did not wish to enter an ora
torical contest with Mr. Bryan.
Senator Hitchcock, democrat, of
Nebraska, made a speech in the
senate against the peace treaties.
The United States government has
been asked to send troops to China
to help police the country.
Champ Clark, in returning from
his western trip, decided to take to
his bed on account of a severe cold.
Representative Bartholdt of Mis
souri introduced a bill to appropriate
$50,000 for erecting a monument
overlooking the Panama canal, to
commemorate the 400th anniversary
of the discovery of the Isthmus of
Panama by Balboa, the Spanish explorer.
The house committee on foreign
affairs concluded hearings on the
Sulzer bill intended to carry into
effect the recently promulgated
treaty between the United States,
Great Britain, Russia and Japan for
tbe protection of fur seals and sea
otter in the north Pacific ocean.
The interstate commerce commis
sion of the senate resumed its hear
ings on the trust problem after a
recess during the holidays.
A Berlin cablegram, carried by the
Associated Press, sayB: Official
circles here and the newspapers
generally display deep Interest in
the speech delivered by Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska in the senate
on the arbitration treaties. Ab
stracts of his address have reached
Berlin and these contain what are
considered such rash statements that
government officials have decided to
wait for a full report of his speech
before expressing any opinion. It is
emphasized, however, in these cir
cles that if Senator Hitchcock rep
resented Germany as' opposing ratifi
cation of the arbitration treaty be
tween Groat Britain and the United
States he is absolutely incorrect. The
only reason a similar treaty has not
been negotiated with Germany, it is
stated is that Germany 1b waiting to
see the fate of the British and
French treaties. If theso are ac
cepted by the United States sonato,
Germany will be willing and oven
anxious to negotiate a similar treaty.
The gross revenues of the post
office department for the year
amounted to $237,879,824, while the
expenditures were $237,648,927,
leaving a net surplus of $219,118
President Taft has signed an ex
ecutive order forbidding rural letter
carriers from "pernicious" activity in
politics.
Representative Oscar Underwood
was taken ill, being threatened with
appendicitis. He recovered prompt
ly, however, and resumed his duties.
The atmosphere at Washington is
full of rumors. Many believe that
Mr. Roosevelt is a candidate for the
presidential nomination and others
that he is ready for war with Mr.
Taft. Mr. Taft does not appear to be
in hiding for Washington dispatches
quote him as saying to the White
house visitors "nothing but death
can keep me out of the fight now."
There were 7,340 national banks
in the United States at the close of
the year 1911. The capitalization
was $1,033,302,135.
Norman E. Mack, of Buffalo, has
announced that ho will retire as
chairman of the New York state
committee on account of ill health.
Four thousand heirs of John Sevier
are seeking to collect $6,000,000
from the federal treasury for Ten
nessee lands they claim the govern
ment took from the revolutionary
general.
Secretary Nagel, of the department
of commerce and labor, In his an
nual report to President Taft, com
mends -the effectiveness of the Sher
man anti-trust law and recommends
a permanent federal agency to con
trol Industrial corporations.
Senator William O. Bradley issued
a statement indorsing President Taft
for the republican nomination for
president.
A DAMAGING CONFESSION
Washington (D. C.) Star: If the
Harmonites are to open headquarters
in Washington they have decided
wisely. This is the town for observa
tion. Politicians from every section
of the country run in and out here,
and leave much interesting informa
tion. It requires sifting, of course,
but that may be done by experienced
men without difficulty. Speaker
Clark and Mr. Underwood are on
hand, Governor Wilson's friends are
looking out for him, and there are
residents of Washington so devoted
to Mr. Bryan's interests that never
a word spoken about presidential
candidacies escapes prompt transmis
sion to him. Now when Governor
Harmon is cared for, everybody will
be on equality so far as Washington
is concerned.
The anti-Harmonites have opened
a now line of attack. There was
little done against the trusts by the
second Cleveland administration,
and during a portion of that tlmo
Judson Harmon was attorney gen
oral. Would such a record aid a
democratic nomlneo for the presi
dency next year with the trust ques
tion prominent?
Woll, lot us all bo reasonable
about tho matter. What chance was
thoro for Attorney General Harmon
to distinguish himself? A stream
can not rise higher than its source.
Mr. Cleveland was no trust buster,
and Mr. Olnoy, who preceded Mr.
Harmon in tho department of Jub
tico, did not regard tho Sherman law
as a workable proposition.
The trusts wore in clover. With
tho cats asleep, tho mice, and tho
long-tailod rats, did play. At that
time the sugar trust was at tho head
of tho trust procession, and tho open
charge was made that it had power
enough in this town to write tho
sugar schedule incorporated into tho
Gorman-Wilson tariff bill. At any
rate, it was mightily tickled with
that schedule and thrived under it.
Should Judson Harmon, picked by
Mr. Cleveland and succeeding Rich
ard Olney, have signalized his ap
pearanco in office by taking tho Sher
man law in hand and laying about
him right and left? Such a course
would havo been a robuke both to
his chiof and to his predecessor.
Could ho have remained in the cabi
net after such a demonstration?
Would not the combined power of
tho trusts have been exerted to call
him off and send him back to Cin
cinnati? The trust question of that day was
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