The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-04-10
WEEK IN THE WORLD.
Great Events and Movemsass which
Are Making History.

Are Making History.
Thema. y. Wsisaa Il Georgia Tor nFesi'
.lsn, and sA,aarl williaas Il indsaaA Zoe
s,sr ,.spsidont aeFe nominated FRIDAY b.
tho i.eai.ses parry s8Ess lsilaz AZ ~ is,eiss
alter tao stormy sessions danhs Ahlrh
The Nebraska and Minnesota drinsailons
l,allai because they could mol htths ahoai
I.osi Ionrinrhi AZ the oanNrnlion nnlil
after nominations had haen made by The
democratic naiional convention 80 thai
The p@or,ls's party might nominate WI
liam J, lipan for president should he b
defeated Al the Democratic sensshsloh'
The meAey plank Al the raRalis,s Plat,
form dsflafrs that the issuing IT melrt
4 a faneilsn al the government alone that
should not l@ delegated 90 any corpora
ilon az individual, The demand Is mAdr
that money he issued direct "a the people
Wiihoul the Intervention II hanks, and "
a fnll LEGAL tender for all debts, public and
prVate. The Aldnrh hill and the Fowler
Ian arr both denounced. The plank on
trusts demands that the government own
and oonirol the railroads aud all public
utilities which Ia their nature are monolse'
lies, Ownership IL the eeneral telegraph
aud telephone lines aud a pafsels post arr
also asked. The TAXATION IL monopoly
privileges while they remain n private
hands Is ano,her feature q this plank,
Other planks favored aWl Initiative aud
referendum and the power 10 fceall nom
Office inefficient representatives. the en-
afimrnt 81 legislation looking 10 the i'm
pfoycment III conditions for wage rafnefs
abolition q child labor and suppression 81
swcat.hois; abolition 81 convict a. op'
posed 20 frec labor; eight hour work day;
an employer liability act within oohsii'
tuiinnal bounds; work on public improve
menis In times of depression for nnem'
ployed men; a law prohibiting courts from
issuing jurisdiction involving the consliin'
tionality Of any law enacted by congress
and approved by the president; the main
tanning Of farmers organizations.
The vote 81 Senator Owen Cassidy 81
SCHUYLER county, a republican, ~ Albany
"Wednesday created tie vote Of - 10 -.
and defeated. for the time NJ least, the
two Agncw,llari bills embodylng the re,
concentration 81 Governor Hughes that
the legal protection be abolished which
since lsa5 has protected public gambling
NJ raee,tncks. while II j. a felony else
where in the state. Later Lieutenant
Governor CHAMBER. in the chair. cast his
vote 20 brak the tie upon parliamen.
tary motion. which. but for him, would
have resulted in killing the bill for the
balance OF the session, and saved the
bills for another vote at the discretion
Of their introducer, Senator Agnew, AZ
any time when the order OF business per
mits him 90 call up the matter. The
importance Of this bit Of subsidiary pro.
cedurc may prove 10 be- very great and
il by any means the friends OF the bill
can gain vote from the opposition and
at the same time hold the - they had
Wednesday they might pass the bills and
send them 10 the governor.
Announcement was made last week that
Andrew Carnegie would add SW0,OD TO
the fund Of the Carnegie Foundation, or
whatever sum might he necessary TO in.
clude as pension benefeiaries eligible pro
fessors OF state universities. No provision
was made for this class of educators in the
original gift for the reason. given by. Mr..
Carnegie at the time, that the donor
thought il possible that such institutions
might prefer that their relations should
continue. exclusively with the state from
which their chief support was derived:
This view was not taken by the national
association Of state universities, which in
the year following the establishment OF the
foundation petitioned the trustees for par
ticipation in the benefits OF the retiring
allowance system. II was then proved that
the earnings OF the original fund OF sl0,-
UNU,WNI nal btpn cNndusltu tHt
outlet already planned and that II the fac
ulties of all state universities were to be
benefited, an additional 100000 would
be required
Lieutenant Colonel Goethals, chairman
and chief engineer of the Isthmian canal
commission, and his fellow laborers made
great Roadway in moving dirt last month.
The return of the dry season gave them an
opportunity, and they improved 1t, TO
break the record of any previous month
since the United States has been engaged
in digging the canal According to an Of
fetal report received at the Washington
office. 3,49S. $50 cubic yards of dirt were
removed from the canal in the month OF
March. The weather was exceptionally
favorable, there having been 20 working
DAYS. and the total rainfall during the
month being only 9l-l00 of an inch But
even with the favorable weather condi-
tions it was big pile of dirt to move in
single month, and the work could not
have been accomplished il the force of la
borers and everything connected with the
enterprise had not been in the best posi-
BILE shape to take advantage OF the sltua'
ton.
The resignation of Sir Henry Campbell
Zimmerman. prime minister VI bltdt DIV
ain, was officially announced Sunday night,
his action being due to the urpent recon-
mendatons of his medical advisers. Her
bert II. Asquith, chancellor the ex-
chequer, who has been acting premier for
some time past, was summoned at once to
Biarritz to see the king. According to pre-
cedent the whole cabinet resigns with the
premier. Sir Henry became prime minis
ter in December 1905, and was the first
liberal prime minister of England since
Lord Roseberry gave up 10 years previous.
He had always been a radical in politics
and was a staunch believer in Irish home
rule Mr.. Asquith was appointed premier
Wednesday.
Under suspension of rules the house of
representatives passed Monday the Ster-
ling employers liability bill providing that
railroad companies engaged in interstate
traffic are liable for personal injuries re-
ceived by employees in the service of such
carriers 1t abolishes the strict common
law rule of liability which bars a recovery
for personal injury or death of an employe
occasioned by negligence of fellow-ser- {
want and relaxes the common law rule
which makes contributory negligence de-
fence to claims for such injuries. Mr.. Lit
tlefeld of Maine recorded the only vote {
against the bill.
The great liquor contest in Illinois !
Tuesday resulted in a drawn battle, with