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TV V "?" lBMr,r'Tw"",'',,w'" 1 MAT 10, 1912 The Commoner. 11 i their morning editions printed with! the aid or non-union pressmen, the union wagon drivers struck and re fused to deliver bundles. Also the union newsboys declined to work, and distribution was impossible over most of the city and all the suburbs. The union pressmen made the charge that the publishers were mak ing earnest efforts to install open shop conditions in all their offices. The publishers declare that the union men are at fault and that they broke the contract under which they were working by refusing to allow their differences to be submitted to arbitration. Union men call the situation a lock out; the publishers call it a strike. A meeting of members of the al lied printing trades was planned at which time the question of a sympa thetic strike by the printers lino typo operators and compositors was to be considered. It was stated before the meeting that the local typographical union has sufficient funds to finance a strike if it is de cided to call the men out, irrespec tive of the attitude of the national officers. At a night mass meeting of pressmen a large number of printers attended and took active part. An extra force of 250 policemen was on duty about the newspaper offices. When non-union pressmen employed on the morning papers went to lunch early in the morning, policemen accompanied them, but there were no moves on the part of strikers to indicate that violence was intended. The strike at this time has proven a boon to the Daily Socialist. A few days" ago the paper was compelled to suspend publica tion for a day for lack of funds. Now its circulation figures show that more than 100,000 papers were sold in a day. A morning edition had wide circulation. Officers of,tlie local typographical union ordered its members back to .work. Some of the men returned to ' the composing rooms, but a number of them refused to work, saying that their chapels had decided against working and they would obey their decision. Nevada delegates to the national convention were instructed, for Taft. The contest among republicans in Texas was so close between Taft and Roosevelt that the result will not be known until the state convention on May 28th. Champ Clark carried the Maryland primaries. The result of the republican pri maries of Maryland is said to be for Theodore Roosevelt by a narrow margin. A Spartanburg, S. C, dispatch, carried by the Associated Press, says: Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, "Pitchfork Ben" to friends and ene mies and one of the inost picturesque figures of the United States senate has published a sentimental appeal to tho people of this state to return him to office. His term xpires March' 3, 1913. "I am asking you to re-elect me, although my health is broken and I am no longer tho strong and vigor ous man 1 once was," says his appeal In ntirt "1 have a strong desire to illo In tho harness for sentimental mgmw only." TU ftoort conditions on the lower Ml&gUtiltyl ftVd tuo worst in history. WooflVOW W'itaon carried the $& prtmartog wlUi Qltiiiun Clark iteQQM aiul JHtm Harmon third. I WASHINGTON NEWS I A dispatch to the Cincinnati En quirer says: Becauso of criticisms of his recitation to the senate of a political parody on the Apostle's Creed Senator Williams, of Missis sippi, ordered that the parody be struck out of his speech in tho per manent copies of the congressional Record. Senator Williams expressed astonishment at what he said he re garded as a misconstruction by many Christian people. " An interesting debate took placo in the senate on the workmen's com pensation bill. The following is taken from the Associated Press re port: Senator Reed, concluding his speech, characterized tho bill as a monstrosity, fraught with iniquity. Senator Ashhurst of Arizona, in his first senate speech, freely criticised the federal courts. Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas condemned the bill in unmeasured terms, declaring ho would resign his seat in the senate before voting for it. Mr. Davis charged the railroad lobbyists with a persistent. effort to have the measure railroaded through tho senate. "Stop, stop, stop," he crfed, "be fore you do this thing, stop before it is too late. Put on the brakes, the emergency brakes, wave the red light, give the laboring man a chance to be heard." Asserting that President W. C. Brown, of the New York Central lines and his claim agent, had been sitting "too close to the throne" in the preparation of the bill, he de clared the measure was "loaded." "In the hands of professed friendship is concealed the dread dagger of the railroads," he con cluded. "Federal judges are under sus picion of being in league with big business," said Senator Ashhurst of Arizona, during a debate on the workman's compensation bill in the senate. "That is because railroad attorneys and presidents take them fishing. Let me take the judges fish ing antl I care not who makes the laws." An Associated Press dispatch says: The senate adopted the Cul berson resolution calling for a full report on tho contributions made to the national committees of "all par ties in tho presidential and congres sional campaigns of 1904 and 1908. Tho inquiry is. entrusted to the com mittee on privileges and elections, which is instructed to supply tbo senate with full information as to amounts as well as to give the names of the contributors. The committee, of which Senator Dillingham is chairman, is clothed with the usual powers of senate investigating committees. Tho government filed its suit against the Harvester trust in St. Paul, Minn., asking for the com pany's dissolution and seeking to bar its products from interstate com merce. The capital stock of tho In ternational Harvester company is $140,000,000. The house aided the good roads movement by passing a provision in the post office, appropriation bill which would grant a subsidy to all highways used in the rural free de livery service. Following is an Associated Press dispatch: William Jennings Bryan, just returned from the south, visited the capitol, conferred with Speaker Champ Clark and with other demo cratic leaders and was facetiously callod "Satan" by Former Speaker Cannon. Mr. Bryan, disclaiming that ho was on any political mission, an nounced ho had discussed with democratic leaders the bill to pro vide for tho election of Unitod States senators which has been in con ference since last summer. Spealcor Clark also said Mr. Bryan discussed nothing but that subject with him. The Nebraskan talked on this mat ter with Representative Rucker of Missouri, In charge of the bill for the house conferees; Representative Clayton of Alabama, chairman of tho judiciary committee; Represen tative Henry of Texas, chairman of the rules committee, and others. "Mr. Bryan prefers the direct elections bill as passed by the house," said Representative Rucker later, "but since we can not have that bill on account of the persistent opposition in tho senate, Mr. Bryan is willing, like the rest of us, to ac cept tho situation and t,ake the senato amendment in order to get the bill upon the statute books." The senato amendment preserves to the federal government the supervision of the time, manner and placo of holding senatorial elections in the various states. This is the Bristow amendment which the house conferees agreed to accept after six teen conferences. Mr. Rucker will present the conference report in the house and ask its adoption -next week. While Mr. Bryan was, conferring in the lobby, Former Speaker Can non entered unaware of tho Ne braskan's presence. He had just referred to Mr. Bryan in remarks on the floor and as tho latter rose to greet him, tho former speaker shook his hand and exclaimed: "Well, well, talk about satan and ho shows up." Everybody laughed and Mr. Can non explained that in his remarks relating to the salary of the secre tary of the president, he had said, "I don't know who will be in the White house next March, it may be a democrat; it may be a republican, it may be a what-not I did not mean to call Mr. Bryan by name." President Taft affixed his signa ture to tho bill' appropriating $1, 500,000 for the repair of the levees of tho Mississippi river. The democrats of the house of rep resentatives have refused, through their committee on appropriations, to make appropriations for the re cently created commerce court. 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