The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-08-04

10 the SENATE and the resignation was ac-
cepted without comment. ToNfriends he
said afterward that he could not consent
to enter upon the work required in the
investigation of the charges against
Senator STEPHENSON.
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With Republican majority of 10
against them in the Senate, the minority
of 40 Democrats united, joined with the
little band of Insurgents and on Thursday
adopted substitute for the Underwood
Wool Revision bill after the combined
Republican forces of the Senate had kill
ed that measure by majority of eight
The next investigation to be under
taken by the House of Representatives
will be to determine whether there is a
great banking combination with power to
control credit, exchanges and deposits,
and cause business depression and panics.
After hearing Representative Lihdbergh,
of Minnesota, today, the House Rules
Committee decided to report fayorably a
resolution at its next meeting.
The investigation will be made either
by the monetary commission or the House
Committee on Banking and Currency,
probably the latter.
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tThe Presidents defense of his course
in the Controller Bay affair shows how
hard it is to make a good excuse for a
bad mistake"
This was the opinion expressed by
Clifford Pinchot on the Executives ex-
PLANTATION of the alleged "grab" of the
key to Alaska's transportation.
Mr.. Pinchot asserted that the explain
alton did not explain.
''In spite of all explanations, . be said,
'the fact remains that Mr.. Taft has given
the interests behind R, an an opportunity
to acquire the key to the channel Of Con
troller Bay before the public knew what
was going on.
1t was the Presidents duty to hold up
the terminal lands around Controller
Bay iu government ownership. AS with
the coal lands. the title to the harbor
lands. which are the key to the coal
lands. should have been held in any
event until Congress could act.''
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Organized labor proposes to prosecute
the Burns detective agency for its part in
arresting the men charged with destroy
ing with dynamite the newspaper plant
of the Los Angeles Times. In an appeal
for funds with which to defend the
alleged dynamiters at their forthcoming
trial issued July Fl, by the American
Federation of Labor, it is declared that
every man who was connected with the
kidnapping Of the McNamaras will be
prosecuted to the full limit of the law,
and that punishment will be meted out
Ito detective agencies that assume to be
superior to the law"
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Preparations for magnificent memoir
ial fountain to Christopher Columbus on
the plaza of the new Union Station here
received impetus with the opening of
bids for its construction. Arthur L
Smith & Co., of this city, was the lowest
of IL bidders. offering to erect the
memorial in granite, complete the plumb
ing, for $50. $50, -oriin marble for $48, 4o1.
The memorial will consist of life.size
statue of the discoverer against back
ground formed by an enormous fountain
and several allegorical figures
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presidential politics, seems to be more
prominent now than ever before. With
strong candidate for the democratic
nomination in Governor Harmon, she
has also putative candidate in former
Secretary Of the Interior Garfield, pro-
gressive who may be put forward to split
the Republican vote and possibly defeat
Taft for denomination. This does not
exhaust the chances for Ohio to cut a
figure in the Presidential game, hut with
two Republican and one Democratic can
didate for the Presidency one would
think any State would be satisfied.
The attempts to get DIR. Wiley have
been numerous, but thus far they have all
been unsuccessful. DIR. Wiley has the
friendly regard of practically all the
housewives in the country and of most of
their husbands. He has made great
hgnt for pure foods and drugs. and his