Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-03-23
The United States supreme court

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When the august body will render the
momentous decision that will either
perpetuate the great Rockefeller cor
! porat1on or else dismember it, is a
| matter that the court will make
known at its own good pleasure.
| During the debate on the admin
stration railroad bill In the senate,
Senator Aldrich made a statement
which senators construed as an at
| tempt to read the Iowa senator out
of the Republican party. Senator
! Cummins came back with the declar-
alton in effect that the Rhode Islander
was not representative of his party
After paying second visit to On
durham, Col. Roosevelt, accompanied
by Slatin Pasha, proceeded to the
| American mission at Khartum and ad-
dressed the students, numbering more
than 200, and several hundred old
Syrian Protestant collegians. The
former wore tarbooshes, red silk caps
with tassels, while many of the latter
were picturesquely attired.
In statement at Detroit, Mich,
Rev. Newell Dwight Hills of Brook
Ign, N. Y. says Speaker Cannon is
| the "most unpopular man in the coun-
| try today" and that Taft will "fall
| lamentably with weights like Cannon
| Aldrich tied to his feet"
Pending the announcement Of the
secret verdict in the death inquiry at
Manila, P. l., the widow of Lieut..
Clarence M. Janney has been request
ed by the authorities to defer her
return to America. She will testify
at the inquest.
That he would fight the Taft rate
bill to the finish even though it might
result in an effort to read him out of
the party, Senator Cummins of Iowa,
In effect, declared in the senate he
was making the initial speech on the
! railroad bill and commenting espe-
cially upon the history of the measure,
which he said had originated in the
executive branch of the government
rather than in congress-
Democrats, Republicans, "Wets."
"Drys," Socialists, Prohibtionists and
independent candidates seeking office
went forth into the highways and by
ways and rolled up the heaviest regis
tration in Chicago's history. While
many factors contributed to the result
it Is conceded on all sides that tho
enormous registration is due to the in
tense interest with which the vote on
the saloon question is awaited.
Sweeping Democratic successes in
town elections throughout New York
state were reported to legislative
leaders at Albany. Towns that never
went Democratic before are reported
as having "flopped."
After the hour for calling a strike
OF $1,000 railroad employees had been
fixed w. s. Carter, president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Engineers, announced that the
railroad men would accept Commits
sioner Neill and Chairman Knapp as
mediators. He said, however, that
the men would not countenance need
less delay or sacrifice any Of their
rights
If the Standard Oil Company is
not combination in restraint of
trade, then what in heavens name is
1t?" was the conclusion of Frank B.
Kellogg, lawyer for the government,
after he had spent three hours and
half before the United States Supreme
court going over the evidence in the
case.
The Republican insurgents" of the
house, lining up with the Democrats,
sent the legislative appropriation bill
back to committee with instructions
to cut out all expense accounts for
automobiles for Speaker Cannon and
Vlce-President Sherman and to re-
quire Secretary Knox to explain in
detail what he proposed to do with
100000 he had asked under the gen.
eral title of "miscellany."
With his patience at the straining
point over the stubbornness of Canada
in discriminating against the United
States, despite the favorable oppor-
tun1t1es for commercial reciprocity
under the minimum rates of the Payne
tariff act, President Taft, after
numerous conferences, has practically
decided to place the maximum rate on
all lmportations from the British
dominion.
thirty boy experts In wireless teleg-
raphy will go to Washington this week
to protest against proposed legislation
aiming to prevent amateurs from set
ting up instruments in the government
zone.
The Cleveland elm at Caldwell. N.
j., under which Grover Cleveland spent
many pleasant hours when a boy,
has been felled to make way for a
butcher shop and fruit store. The
tree was planted by Rev. Stephen
Grover, first pastor of the old Presby-
terrain church, and for whom Cleve-
land was named.
All legislation imposing educational
tests and head taxes on immigrants
was ordered deferred until next ses.
sion OF congress by the house commit
tee on immigration. This action was
taken to await the report Of the i'm
migration commission.
BENJAMIN Bundy, a negro of Cincjn-
natl. who passed an examination for
the consular service, has relieved
the state department at Washington
of an embarrassing situation by his
agreement to accept secretaryship.
A telegram from President Taft and
letters from Speaker Cannon and
Senator Cullom were read at the
meeting of the Illinois Republican Edi-