Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — EPITOME OF A WEEK'S NEWS [ARTICLE]

EPITOME OF A WEEK'S NEWS

Most Important Happenings Told in Brief.

Washington Former Governor Odell of New York told the senate committee investigating campaign contributions that Mr. Harriman after a visit to the White House made at the request of President Roosevelt during the campaign of paign. * * Following President Taft’s disapproval of the steel tariff revision bill the house, bv a vote of 173 to 83, passed the measure over his veto. Sixteen Progressive Republicans made an alliance with Democrats to make the two-thirds majority necessary to override the veto. • * • President Taft sent to congress a Bpeclal message asking it to appropriate $400,000, hall to be paid to Great Britain and half to Japan, to carry out the agreement under the fur seal convention, ratified by the senate last December. * * * President Taft’s veto was overridden and the house of representatives again passed the compromise woolen tarifT revision bill by a vote of 174 to 80. There were 21 Republican members voting with the Democrats to enact the' bill into law despite the president’s opposition. * * * President Taft sent to the senate the nomination of Jacob Schurman, president of Cornell university, to be minister from the United States to Greece and Montenegro.

The United States senate passed the post office appropriation bill, carrying in the neighborhood of $160,000,000. The bill establishes a parcels post and also permits employes of the post office department to organize, provided they do not affiliate with any outside labor organization. • • • Representative Theron E. Catlln of Missouri, Republican, was unseated as a member of the house of representatives and big Democratic opponent, who contested the election, Patrick F. Gill, was seated. The charge against Mr. Catlin was that he and his family had spent SJO,£CM) to elect him to con.gress, when the Missouri law prohibited an expenditure by candidates of ! wore than $062. -• • • • Commissioner Davenport of the pension bureau is receiving hundreds of appeals from old soldiers for their pension checks. To as many as he can the commissioner is sending wofti that congress has appropriated no money as yet. It will before it adjourns. * • • Constitutional amendment to provide one six-year term for the president and vice-president will be pushed for consideration in the senate at Washington.

Domestic J. E. Park broke into a carpenter Bhop at Trinidad, Colo., took some tools and a short time later was arrested with tb* tools in his possession. One hour after he had been lodged in jail the prisoner learned the stolen tools belonged to E. M. Park, a brother, whom be had not seen for fifteen years. * * * Judge H. L. Shattuck of Denver set aside the sentence of five days in jail and a fine of SI,OOO imposed on former Mayor W. Speer for contempt of court in connection with articles published in,, a newspaper of which Mr. Speer is editor. The defendant was purged of contempt. » * • The arrest of Sam Schepps in Hot Springs, Ark., has given a new impetus to the Rosenthal investigation in New York. It is considered the most important development since the confessions of Jack Rose and “Bridgie” Webbenl&d to the indictment of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker as the alleged instigator of the murder. The eighth name was added to the toll exacted this week by the elect Tic chair when Johu Maruszewski, an Erie county murderer, was executed at Sing Sing, N Y. Maruszewski killed Policeman Frank Shafer and Charles Kosack. Several thousand people saw Elizabeth Lebar, eighteen years old, a balloonist, drown In Lake Michigan, at Muskegon. Her parachute landed in the lake and by the time rescuers arrived in boats the young woman had disappeared. • • • V . ' : .! The steamer Corsican of the Allan line, with 200 passengers aboard, struck an iceberg off the northwest coast of New Jftmndland in a dense fog, but was not seriously damaged, and proceeded.