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The Commoner
SEPTEMBER, 3913
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with bronze panels representing
heroic scenes in connection with the
Pilgrims. The cost was defrayed
from public subscriptions in the
United States and England.
some of the largo hotels, pretentious
residences and public buildings.
Hundreds of people were made
homeless and tho losses will amount
to millions of dollars.
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Completion of dry excavation on
the Panama canal September 6, just
ten days ahead of schedule time, ad
vanced the work on the great water
way almost to the final stage.
Much digging and cleaning out re
mains to be done in Culobra cut and
along the route, but this will be ac
complished by the mammoth dredges
floating on the surface of the canal.
William J. Gaynor, mayor of New
York city, voyaging over the sea on
the steamer Baltic in the hope of
regaining his strength for the mu
nicipal campaign as a candidate for
re-election, died suddenly on the
Baltic, September 11, as the steamer
was within a few hundred miles of
the Irish coast. The mayor suc
cumbed to heart failure. He was
accompanied on the trip by his son,
Rufus.
The governments of France and
Haiti have signed an agreement to
submit for arbitration the claims
made against Haiti In 1910 by
France co-jointly with the United
States, Germany, Great Britain and
Italy. The agreement also covers
the claims of Syrians and Ottomans,
who are the proteges of France in
Haiti.
Justice Hasbrouck, of the supremo
court of New York, decided that
Governor Sulzer was regularly im
peached and while awaiting impeach
ment trial was divested of the right
to exorcise his executive functions,
including the power of pardon. -The
question of the legality of Sulzer's
impeachment came up before Justice
Hasbrouck in accordance with
habeas corpus proceedings brought
to compel New York city authorities
to honor Governor Sulzer's pardon
of Joseph G. Robin, the banker con
vict. He decided that Robin's par
don was invalid. Justice Hasbrouck's
decision was the first ruling made
by any court of the legality of tho
impeachment. The impeachment
charges are yet to be tried.
A summary of the reclamation
enterprises in progress in four states
of the northwest showed that $11,
000,000 was being expended in fif
teen projects.
Tho annual convention of the
Pennsylvania federation of demo
cratic clubs was held at York,
September 2. Secretary of State
Bryan, Secretary of Labor Wilson
and National Committeeman Palmer
were the principal speakers.
In a wreck on the New Haven line
near Wallingford, Conn., September
2, twenty-one persons were killed
and over fifty were injured. The
first section of the White Mountain
express, bound for New York, speed
ing along at forty miles an hour in
a thick fog, crashed into the rear of
the second section of the Bar Har
bor express, standing 100 feet be
yond the block signal. This wreck
has caused a widespread agitation In
favor of better measures for the pro
tection of the traveling public and
way be the subject of congressional
Investigation and legislation. .
. Ex-President Yuan Shi Kai of
China issued a decree announcing he
would resign on the restoration of
peace, according to a Mukden dispatch.
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Hot Sprlnga, Ark., was swept by
disastrous fire, September 5, cover
ing an area more than a mile in
length and from seven to ten blocks
.wide. In the path of the flames were
What is said to bo the world's
largest dam was opened with two
days of celebration at Keokuk, Iowa,
August 25 and 2G. Tho dam
stretches nine-tenths of a mile
along from the bluff on the Illinois
side of the Mississippi to tho newer
house in Iowa, and will create a new I
power zone from Burlington, Iowa,
to St. Louis. The cost of the pro
ject was $27,000,000, and it is esti
mated that the concrete In the work
is equal to all tho masonry in the
great pyramid of Cheops. Tho total
length of concrete, including power
house, lock, sea wall, ice fender and
dam, is two and a half miles. Deep
water navigation will be bettered
for sixty-five miles up the river.
The Great Northern and Northern
Pacific companies have revoked all
passes issued to Montana state offi
cials and their deputies, numbering
about GOO, and it is expected that
all other roads operating through
the state will take like action. A de
cision of the interstate commission,
with reference to Colorado, gave the
railroads to understand that applica
tions to advance rates would be dis
allowed whenever it appeared that
the carrier was wasting Its revenue
by issuing free transportation. A
new schedule of rates has been filed
with the commission by the trans
continental railroads operating in
Montana.
An increase of 3.9 per cent in the
production of wheat in the northern
hemisphere was reported by the in
ternational institute of Rome.
Tho people of San Francisco voted
overwhelmingly at an election
August 25, to build and operate a
series of street railway lines in
tended to help furnish transportation
to the Panama canal exposition
grounds and also to furnish a
nucleus for a permanent municipal
street railway system. The victory
was won by a vote of 3 to 1. The
women took a lively interest in the
election and polled a heavy vote.
When the new lines have been com
pleted the city will be a formal com
petitor of the United Railways which
at present practically control street
railway traffic in that city. A bond
issue of $3,500 was voted for the
new project.
Governor Baldwin of Connecticut,
in addressing the recent conference
of governors at Colorado Springs,
Colo., urged state resumption of
some of the expenses incident to elec
tions of state officers, even in pri
maries, if they are open to the whole
people.
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Miss Jessie Wilson, daughter of
the president, was thrown from her
horse while riding near White River
Junction, Vt August 26, with her
fiance, Francis B. Sayre, and was un
conscious for some time, but her in
juries were not serious.
Governor Fielder of New Jersey
came to the rescue of the women's
suffrage cause in New Jersey and
overruled an opinion that the failure
to advertise properly the proposed
change in the state constitution ren
dered impossible the ratification of
suffrage by this winter's legislature,
and ordered its readvertisement at
once. The constitution of New Jer
sey provides that an amendment
adopted by one legislature shall be
published in the newspapers for at
least three months prior to the elec
tion of members to tho succeeding
legislature, which must approve it
before it goes to the voters. For
some reason the advertising, which
should have begun August 4, was
delayed, and Assistant Attorney
General Gaskill held that its ad
vertisement now was too late to
comply with the provisions of the
constitution.
Viscount Haldane, the first lord
high chancellor of Great Britain to
leave his country since Cardinal
Wolsey went to France 400 years
ago, arrived in New York, August
29, for a week's visit in this coun
try and Canada. Tho lord high
chancellor, whose position corres
ponds to that of chief justice of the
supreme court of the United States,
came here aB a guest of the Ameri
can Bar association, before which he
delivered a notable address at its
annual meeting in Montreal.
1,182; agricultural pursuits, 55;
professional service, 2,009; domestic
and personal service, 13,475. Here
are some of tho facts adduced by the
investigation: Seventeen per cent
are married women; 14 per cent are
separated; divorced or widows; 09
per cent are unmarried girls; 75 per
cent are living at homo or with rela
tives. Twenty-five per cent receive
less than $C per week. A wage of
$8.50 is necessary for a girl living
Jn boarding or lodging houses to live
comfortably; $G a week means a
bare existence. Somo factories wore
found to have increased the speed of
their machines in order to produce
as much in nine hours as formerly
produced in a longer day.
Ex-President Taft was chosen
president of the American Bar as
sociation in Its closing session at
Montreal.
According to a report of the board
of public welfare of Kansas City,
Missouri, mado public recently,
twenty-five per cent of the women
workers of Kansas City receive less
than $6 per week, the wage declared
needed for a "bare existence." The
women workers are thus classified:
Manufacturing and mercantile pur
suits, 4,500; mercantile establish
ments, 3,900; telephone exchanges,
A rOWER FOR GOOD, NO MATTER
IN WHAT FORM
William Jennings Bryan has
changed The Commoner from a week
ly to a monthly.
No matter what shape Tho Com
moner may take, nor at what inter
vals it may be published, it will con
tinue to be what it always has been
a great forco for good In this na
tion; a potent element in the up
building and advancement of hu
manity; a worthy, unsel-sh, sincere,
and eminently sane counselor, ever
pointing the citizenry of this coun
try to higher and better things.
For Bryan is The Commoner,
And Tlie Commoner ia Bryan.
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