Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-01-19
That the United states senate is


became evident when the advocates
Of the plan won on q test vote Of 43
to II. The matter arose in connec-
ton with the joint resolution for the
amendment of the constitution recent
ly reported from the committee on
judiciary.
President Taft, In an address at
the banquet Of the National Tariff
Commission association at Washing
ton openly Endorsed the Longworth
bill, characterizing 1t "as concilia-
tory measure embodying all the i'm
portant features that are necessary
to make the tariff commission ef-
fective." He had previously sum-
moned the Republican members Of
the ways and means committee to
, the White House, and urged them to
harmonic their differences.
The gift of 100000 to the "Moth.
er" Church of Christ. Scientist, de.
vised in the win OF Mrs. Mary G.
Baker Eddy, may be null and void.
and the estate may go to her sons.
The residuary clause in the will Is
not legal, In the opinion of ex-United
States Senator William e. Chandler.
Hannis Taylor, the professor of con.
stitutional law at George Washing.
ton university, and others.
In an address before the annual
meeting of the National Civic fedora
ton at New York city, Samuel I'm
termyer attacked the governments
attitude toward the trusts as mon
strous sham" According to him the
large and vicious" corporations go
unmolested while 1.-The little fellows
are being pursued with brass band
and the greatest press bureau ever
put in action"
Another serious battle between the
Mexican revolutionists and the fed
eral forces has been fought just
across the border and the dead are
estimated at more than forty, accord
ing to advices received al San An.
tonic, Tex.
John Michels, young cooper. Is
dead in Brooklyn hospital because
he was suddenly deprived of cigarettes
for two days after he had been ad.
dicted to their use for fifteen years.
He had been in the habit of smoking
so day, he said.
The recent tidings from Wellesley
| college that half of the young women
students there are deficient in spelling
has aroused a sympathetic response
from Andrew Carnegie, and in an open
letter he hastens to congratulate the
bad spoilers on their independence.
Prof. s. J. Hunter of the University
OF Kansas says the solution of the
grasshopper problem Is to disk the
alfalfa fields in the spring. just after
the frost has left the ground. This.
he says, kills the eggs Of the hoppers.
The Union Pacific Railroad company
has equipped its passenger trains on
the Utah division with an armed guard
in preparation for attempted robbery.
following the hold up Of the Overland
Limited last week
Bubonic plague has caused 600
deaths in Hardin, Manchuiia, within
fifteen days. according to consular re-
ports received by the state department
at Washington.
Hubert Latham, the young French
aviatorShad remarkable escape from
| death on the San Francisco aviation
field. In his second flight he encoun-
tered adverse winds that forced him
suddenly to the ground He crashed
into a fence. wrecking his monoplane
Senator David w. Holstlaw was
dropped from the Illinois senate by
Lieutenant Governor Oglesby, acting
on communication from Governor
| Deneen. The communication and the
ruling of the chair that the Iuka bank
er is no longer a member of the SEN
ate foresttalled the report of the COM
mittee investigating the reports Of
bribery In connection with Senator
Lorimer's electiGn.
The most powerful argument ever
submitted to the United States senate
advocating the election of senators by
direct vote of the people LIS found in
the report written by Senator Borah
on behalf Of the judiciary committee
when he favorably reported the joint
resolution providing for the submis-
sion of constitutional amendment to
/ the various states.
Louis d. ,Brandeis OF Boston. appear
ing for the shippers against the rail-
roads In the northern part of the
| country, told the interstate commerce
| commission at Washington that ii the
railroads would stop their wasteful
\ expenditures they could save $18o ,000,-
| 900 year, and would not need 70 ad-
vance their freight rates, as they ask,
and which will bring them only ST.
100000 year.
A fire which will probably exceed
| 100000 In the value of the property
damaged totally destroyed the Gin
cinnati Chamber of Commerce build.
ing.
Almost "a per cent. of the increase
in population of Illinois the last ten
| years was contributed by the mum.
cipalities having population in ex.
cess of 5000. they having increased
almost 76S, 600. compared with the
states total OF sl7.o4t.
| The senate passed . hill introduced
In December by Senator CGiiom OF Illi-
| nois. providing for the erection CT a
magnificent memorial or monument to
Abraham Lincoln at cost not ito ex
| coed $2000,000 The memorial will
be erected at Washington.
In a seathing review Of the test.
mony taken by the senate committee
| on privileges and election In the case
of William Lorimer of Illinois. who is
charged with having obtained his ksat
| in the United States senate by cor