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MAT 10, 1912
The Commoner.
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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.
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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. The
bill reported by tho appropriations
committee is an attempt at whole
sale reduction of- government ex
penses. Tho bill proposes a reduc
tion of the salary of the secretary
to the president from $7,500 to $G,
000, the old figure, and the abolition
in the department of commerce and
labor of the bureaus on manufac
tures and statistics. It is further
proposed to abolish the mints at San
Francisco and New Orleans and Car
son 'City, Nev., and the assay offices
at Boise, Idaho; Charlotte, N. C;
Deadwood, S. D.; Helena, Mont.;
Seattle, Wash., and Salt Lake, Utah.
San Francisco would get an assay
office in lieu of its mint.
Specific instruction against the ex
penditure of public money for tele
phones in private residences is in
corporated in the bill.
The bill carries $33,519,194, ap
proximately $2,C'40,000 less than for
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