Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN [ARTICLE]

BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN

MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK, TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From Ail Parts of the Globe—Latest Home and Foreign Items. Washington Sherman P. Alien of Vermont retired as assistant secretary to the president at Washington and was ■worn in as assistant secretary pf the treasury to succeed A. Piatt Andrew.

• • • President Taft accepted an invitation extended by Representative Weeks of Massachusetts to speak at the banquet of the International Chamber of Commerce in Boston September 26. • • • > • ■> By a vote of 6 to 3 the national house election committee voted to unseat Representative Theron Catlin of the Eleventh Missouri district because of fraud in his election. The committee then seated his opponent, Patrick Gill, by a vote of 5 to 3. Catlin is a Republican. Gill is a Democrat. • • • The national house of representatives by a vote of 197 to 5 passed the senate bill prohibiting the interstate transportation of prize fight pictures. The bill now awaits the signature of the president to become a law. • • • To stem the tide of the Jiigh cost of living and other evils, the creation of a hew standing committee is proposed in a resolution introduced by Representative Lindbergh of Minnesota. The committee would be known as the committee on industrial relations.

• • • The Democratic .caucus of the house of representatives formally elected Charles M. Riddell of Indiana ser-’geant-at-arms to succeed the late Stokes Jacksbn. • • • President Taft named sLuther Conant, present deputy commissioner of corporations, to succeed Herbert Knox Smith, resigned. The president also named Sherman Page Allen of Vermont to be assistant secretary of the treasury vice A. Piatt Andrew, resigned. • • • The unseating of Senator Lorimer creates no vacancy and Governor Deneen of Illinois has no power to appoint a successor. Thus holds Attorney General Stead in a voluminous opinion rendered to the governor. Whether a special session of the legislature will be called at once, so that Lorimer’s successor may be elected, has not been decided. • • • By a unanimous vote the Sulzer bill creating a department of labor with a secretary and cabinet member at its bead passed the house of representatives. It is to be carved out of the presnt department of commerce and lyabor. which is to be continued as the department of commerce.

• • • The conferees on the river and harbor appropriation bill reached a complete agreement on an amended bill carrying a total appropriation of $33,-> 000,000. The $6,000,000 appropriation for levee work along the Mississippi river was agreed to. Lincoln Steffens, the magazine writer, testified in the Darrow case at Los Angeles that on Saturday before the arrest of Bert Franklin, on the following Tuesday. November 28. Darrow consented that if it was necessary in order to affect a settlement of the McNamara cases, he would let J. J. McNamara plead guilty, as well as J. B. McNamara. The statement that Capt. E J. Smith, commander df the 111-fated Titanic, was not drowned, but was •sen recently in Baltimore, was made by Peter Pryal of that city, who was quartermaster of the steamship Majestic of the White Star line thirty years ago. when Captain Smith com manded that vessel. • • • lowa Maywood, aged fifteen years; Erma Ferguson, fourteen, and Helen Johnson, eighteen, were killed and Herman Maywald, eighteen years old. was hurt when an eastbound Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul tram, near Cambridge, lowa, struck a machine. About 500 delegates from Minnesota and northern Wisconsin attended the annual convention of the Vasa order held in Duluth. Minn. The annual banquet was served by members of Sophia lodge, ladies’ auxiliary. More than seven-eighths of the excavation work on the Panama canal has been completed. June 1, according to the Canal Record, t2.0M.816 cubic yards, or less than one-eighth of the amount of earth and rack ta ba taken out oCtb*. eval raata I