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A Remarkable New Book
by Woodrow Wilson
Tho publication, on Monday, February 17, of a book by Woodrow
Wilson, Is tho most Important political event of the spring. It is
ono of tho most striking events of the political history of the na
tion. Novor before had a president-elect, on the eve of his inaugu
ration, addressed to tho country a profession of faith and a state
ment of his intentions.
Speaking of this remarkable book, the Mobile (Ala.) Item says:
"Tho work Is ono of the most remarkable ever put in the field, both
by reason of the bitterness of its arraignment of the present financial
system and by its exploitation of a futuro presidential policy. No
other chief executive of tho United States since tho declaration of
independenco has performed tho feat of Mr. Wilson on the eve of
taking oillce. He not only attacks tho trusts and monopolies of tho
country, but makes it clear that ho will do all in his power to legiti
mately restore trade competition and individual opportunity and to
disentanglo community centralization "which, he says, has become
dangerously co-ordinated."
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WASHINGTON NEWS
An Associated Press dispatch
under date of June 9th says: The
power of the states to flx reasonable
intrastate rates on interstate rail
roads, until such time as congress
shall choose to regulate these rates
was upheld by the supreme court of
the United States in the Minnesota
freight and passenger rate cases.
At the same time the court laid
down far-reaching principles, gov
erning the valuation of railroad
property for rate making purposes,
and, according to these, held that
tho state of Minnesota would con
fiscate the property of the Minne
apolis & St. Louis Railroad company
by its maximum freight and two
cent passenger law. It enjoined the
state from enforcing these laws as
to this road for the present. In the
cases of the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern, however, the court
held that these roads had failed to
show that the rates were "unreason
able" or "confiscatory" and conse
quently reversed the United States
district court of Minnesota which had
enjoined their enforcement as both
confiscatory and a burden on inter
state commerce.
The decision, regarded as one of
the most important ever announced
by tho court, had been under con
sideration for fourteen months. Rail
road commissions from eight states
and the governors of all the states
filed briefs in support of the state in
the cases, recognizing that the prin
ciple involved affected them all.
Rate cases from Missouri, Ar
kansas, Oregon, Kentucky, Nebraska
and West Virginia were not decided
today, but the points announced in
the Minnesota cases are regarded as
governing them generally. These
cases probably will be disposed of to
morrow when the court will hold an
other session, as it will also do Mon
day, June 16, the final day of ad
journment for the term.
The criticism of the apportion
ment of value between interstate and
intrastate business on a gross rev
enue basis and the apportionment of
express by regarding intrastate
freight business as two and a half
times as expensive as interstate busi
ness was regarded here as favorable
to the state of Missouri in its fight
to uphold the validity of the maxi
mum freight and two cent passenger
law enacted by it.
The states of Oregon and Ken
tucky were regarded as almost cer
tain tO Win thfilr rnta nneoo 1l
ing the validity, of state freight rates
because in each instance practically
the only objection to the laws was
their reputed interference with in
terstate commerce.
ni,t U ASSOciated Press dispatch says:
China- became tho fourteenth nation
nnd(S6 1 Secretary Bryan's peace
Plan. Minister Chang chatted with
Representative Ben Johnson of
Kentucky, was unanimously elected
Tan 0f he democratic congres
sional committee. He declined to
the house CVou
the sub-committee, compost r
Senators Williams, Shively and Ve
It was decided in carrying out t
determination to perfect the Und
wood bill by equalizing raw H
terials and their products that it
would be wiser to levy nominal duties
on meat and flour products than to
put live stock and. grain on the tri
In accordance with this decision
the sub-committee, in revising the
schedule, took from the free list in
the house bill fresh meats boef
mutton and pork and made ihenl
dutiable at 10 per cent ad valorem
Wheat flour was restored to the duti
able list at the specific rate of 43
cents a barrel, with o'her wheat pro
ducts at 10 per cent ad valorem, and
the Underwood duty on oats was re
duced from 10 cents per bushel to
6 cents per bushel, with a compensa
tory duty on oatmeal, said to be ap
proximately 5 per cent ad valorem.
This recommendation will be to talco
oatmeal from the free list.
Ambassador Chinda, of Japan, has
conveyed to Secretary of State Bryan
formal notification of the acceptance
in principle by his country of the
proposed plan for universal peace.
An Associated Press dispatch says:
A class of sixth grade school girls
showed Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife
of the president, how well they havo
learned to clean house and how
much they have learned of domestic
science.. The president's wife and
Mrs. Archbald Hopkins, both of
whom are taking a keen interest in
the domestic science courses in the
public schools here, visited one of
the schools to see a class actually at
work. They inspected the model
home, in which the little girls were
working. The girls receive a lesson
each week in the art of making beds,
sweeping and cleaning the rooms and
preparing a simple meal and in doing
other things that a good housekeepr
must know.
Government revenues from cus
toms receipts fell off more than $6,
000,000 in May, compared with the
same month of last year.
Secretary McAdoo has asked for
the resignation of Fred S. Stratton,
collector of customs at San Francisco.
An Associated Press dispatch says:'
Japan's rejoinder to tho United
States' reply to her protest against
the California anti-alien land law,
delivered personally by Ambassador
Chinda to Secretary Bryan, sets out
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