Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1912 — BRIEF NEWS NOTES FDR THE BUSY MAN [ARTICLE]

BRIEF NEWS NOTES FDR 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 All Parts of the Globe —Latest Home and For» elgn Items. Washington

The federal incorporation of all concerns engaged in Interstate commerce ■whose capitalization or value exceeds $50,000,000, is the keynote recommendation of the Republican minority members of the Stanley steel investigation committee. ■* * * ■ The U. S. senate by a vote of 52 to 3, parsed the Bristow bill with an amendment offered by Senator Lodge, eliminating the Dutch standard .9-nd the differential, and reducing the duty from $1.90 to $1.60 per hundred pounds. This result Was achieved through a combination of Progressive and regular Republicans. * * * The 1 eef trust, which the government has fought for ten years, is no longer in existence in the opinion of the department of justice. Attorney General Wickersham has accepted the plan proposed by the packers for the voluntary dissolution of the National Packing company, a holding concern Owned by the Morris, Swift and Armour packing companies. ♦ ♦ ♦

Democrats and insurgents united in the senate and by a vote of 36 to 18 passed the Democratic excise tax bill, extending the present tax on corporations to the business of individuals, private firms and copartnerships. Attached to the measure were amendments for the repeal of the Canadian reciprocity law and the fixing of a $2 per ton tariff on print* paper, and for the establishment of a permanent nonpartisan tariff commission. • • • The United States senate defeated the Cumming wo.pl tariff bill by 34 to 32, adopted the Penrose compromise measure and finally passed the La Follette wool hill of 1911 by a vote of 46 to 20, the Democrats and Insurgents voting together. '. ♦ •» • George R. Sheldon of New York, treasurer of the Republican national committee, testifying before the senate committee investigating the source of campaign funds, flatly denied that President Roosevelt knew anything about the Harriman contribution of $250,000 to the campaign fund of 1904. He further declared that no such contribution was ever made. ♦ • * .Confident the troubles in Cuba are at an end, the navy department gave orders that all marines at Guantanamo, with the exception of 100 which will be maintained there as a permanent garrison, be returned to their home posts in the United States. • • •

By a vote of 70 to 62 the Democratic members of the house in caucus decided to oppose the authorization of any battleships at the present session of congress. ♦ ♦ • The sundry civil, appropriation bill, carrying approximately $116,000,000 for the support of various bureaus and branches of the government, passed the United States senate. It contains Increases of about $6,000,000 over the appropriations authorized by the house. • ♦ ♦ .?>■. The Alaskan civil government bill, establishing a legislature of one house in the territory, with authority to enact local laws, passed the senate in Washington with practically no opposition. The house has passed the bill, but a conference will be necessary to adjust differences. * •• • Domestic

John D. Rockefeller Is making deterniined efforts to stop the advance of business into the private residence district of New York where his city house is located. For a long time retail trade has been moving slowly up Fifty-fourth street, toward the Rockefeller home, but the Rockefeller agents have been bidding In every parcel that was offered for sale at a price higher than the business buyer cared to pay. t •' • • i The arbitration commission In the controversy between locomotive engineers and 52 railroads east of Chicago finished its hearings in New York. Warren S. Stone said that whatever award was made It would be accepted by the Brotherhood of Engineers. • ♦ ♦ Slain and thrown into the Calumet river by thugs, the body of P. R. Holland, a private detective employed as watchman on a nonunion tugboat near Chicago, who disappeared the first night he was assigned to work, was found floating in the river. i -k • • • ■ ” v . ■ V i As the result of his refusal to ifesign at the request of Secretary MaoVeagh, Joseph O. Thompson was removed as collector of internal revenue for Alabama and Mississippi, rwlth headquarters, at Birmingham.