The Green Forest tribune., 1911-05-26

becomes provisional president in sue csssion to President Diaz.
 The government was sharply criti- cised by the Earl of Selborne in the house of lords for extraordinary su- piness' in failing to safeguard the interests of the United Kingdom in the American-Canadian reciprocity agreement.
 Railroads operating in Central pas senger association territory--includ- ing the states of Ohio, Illinois, Indi- ana and Michigan-are permitted, by an order issued by the interstate com | merce commission, to exact higher passenger fares for interstate than | for intrastate business where state legislation or state commissions have established a 2-cent-amile rate. A resolution calling on the secre- | tary of war for information regard ing shoe contracts for the army since | 1901 was passed by the hoTse. It was introduced by Representative l Diferderff (Rep.), Pennsylvania, fol- | lowing his declaration in the house that the fir moi Hermann & Go. of Boston virtually monopoliZed the army and navy trade in shoes.
 The publication in all the capitals of the world of the terms of the pro- posed arbitration treaty with Great ] Britain and France is in effect an an- | nouncement of the attitude of the | United States toward all civilized na- tions. It was declared at the state de- partment that negotiations would be opened with any nation signifying it's desire to enter into such treaty. Tom L. Lewis, former president of the United Mine Workers, defeated | last February by John White of Iowa, and refusing all kinds of offers at big salaries, returned to his old occupa- | tion as a digger of coal in Wheeling Creek mine, where he worked before being elected to his official position h the mine workers organization. A position of direct opposition to A bill to amend the Sherman anti | trust act was introduced by Gore | Dem.), Oklahoma, in the senate, pro- l viding that every contract, combina- tion or conspiracy of any kind in re- straint of trade, declared illegal by the Sherman law, shall be presumed and adjudged to be unreasonable. It also provides that no such restraint shall be construed as reasonable and i'm prisonment for violation.
 Colorado will be represented by only one United States senator until the 1 legislature of the state itself chooses representative. This was the state ment made by Governor Shafroth. My impression, gained from hasty reading of the senatorial precedents, is that I have no power to appoint senator after the failure of the legisla- ture so to do.''
 l President Taft was asked to end the boycott for all time by seeking the punishment or dissolution of organiza- tions enforcing it. The petitioners were the National Association of Man. ufacturers, and the American Fedora | tio nof Labor was said to be present ly prosecuting and intending to fur ther prosecute such boycotts.'
 With view of placing state sen- ators on record who favored the anti pass bill in the recent Illinois legis. | lative fight, State Senator Beall of | fereG a resolution providing that all senators who voted for the measure should be compelled to give up their mileage books.
 Holding that the imposition of jail sentences on Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison, presi- dent, vice-president and secretary, re- spectively, of the American Fedora tion of Labor, was unwarranted by the nature of the contempt, and that the District supreme court should enly have imposed a fine, the supreme court of the United States freed the labor leaders and directed that the cases against them be dismissed.
 The deadlock in the attempt to elect a president pro tempore of the senate still continues. Senator Gal | finger, the Republican caucus candi- date, polled 33 votes, his Democratic opponent, Senator Bacon, the same number, while six progressive Repub- licans voted for Senator Clapp.
 The bankers of Texas held their twenty-seventh annual convention at Dallas, with large attendance.
 Miss Katie Schwartz, Miss Abbie Darden and Charles Patterson West were drowned and Palmer Lanneau narrowly escaped when 6 party of | young society folk at Natchez, Miss. were whirled by Mississippi river current against a coal barge, which sank their motor boat.
 A concerted effort of manufacturers of New York to reduce the great num- Der of industrial accidents annually | occurring in this country will be made at the sixteenth annual convention of | the National Association of Manufac- turers, which opened at the Waldorf Astoria.
 Fifteen thousand men are idle in | Chicago in the busiest season of the l year, and buildings contracted for to cost $35.000,00O are virtually tied up as the result of the petty jurisdiction al war being waged between plumbers and steamfitters. Every trade in the | building industry is paralyzed and
 work on 1900 buildings is halted.
 At least score of policemen were | injured and many members of a mob of 1000 striking furniture workers | and sympathizers were hurt in a riot | at the plant of the Widdicomb Furni-
 ture company at Grand Rapids, Mich | Several of the injured may die. Near | ly 100 persons are believed to have heau w0unded