The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-29
NEWS Of A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF MOST IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
AT HOME AND ABROAD
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered From All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In Few Lines.
Washington

Washington
The house of representatives re-
fused to accept the bill for direct cleo
ton of United States senators in the
form in which 1t passed the senate,
and by a vote of 172 to 112 sent the
measure to conference. The Bristow
amendment was the only change made
by the senate, and it was because Of
refusal to accept this amendment that
the house voted for conference.
In a special message to congress-,
President Taft scathingly arraigned
the manufacturers of what he de-
nounced as dangerous drug frauds"
and urged congress to amend at this
session the pure food and drug law
of weakness recently pointed out by
decisions of the United States Su-
preme court.
By vote of 80 to Is, the United
States senate referred the house bill
revising the wool schedule to the COM
mittee on finance with instructions to
report it back before July 10. Sixteen
Republicans voted with the Democrats
in favor of the motion, and one Demo
crat voted against it. Progressive Re-
publitans in their speeches declared
a purpose of insisting upon sweep
ing revision of the tariff at this ses-
sion.
Cyrus H. Mccormick, president of
the International Harvester company,
told the Lorimer investigation COM
mittee at Washington Of Edward
Hines request that the harvester
company contribute $4,000 to the
100000 'slush fund.-" said to have
been used to elect William Lorlmer to
the United States senate.
The consolidation of the National,
the New York and the Yonkers Rein
ing companies into the National Sugar
Refining company of New Jersey. In
1900, was effected by Henry O. Have
meyer, late president of the American
Sugar Refining company, as IAN act of
philanthropy" according to his son
Horace Havemeyer, who testified at
Washington before the house investi-
eating committee.
The Democratic bin reducing the
tariff on wool and wooden goods more
than so per cent. was passed by the
house of representatives by vote of
Poi to 100 Twenty-four Republicans,
mostly progressives from the west,
voted for the bill, and one Democrat
Francis of Ohio-voted against It.
Domestic
Speaking at the Yale alumni lunch
con at New Haven, Conn, President
Taft declared that the decisions of
the United States Supreme court in
the Standard Oil and American To
bacco cases have pointed clear road
over which the honest business man
may travel in safety.
Search is being made by his friends
in Boston and New York for Christian
Sandborg, noted Danish engineer,
who has been missing since early in
June. He started from New York for
Boston June 5.
Rev. Frank T. Luce, pastor OF
Dorchester (Mass.) Congregational
church, has filed a petition in volun-
tary bankruptcy in which he admits
owing s20,45S and schedules assets of
$850.59, all In unliquidated claims.
Marshall Soetield, whose name is on
record In the patent Office as an in.
ventor and manufacturer of burglar
alarms, Is under arrest in New York,
charged with burglary.
For the first time in its ninety
three years of existence both the vale
dictory and salutatory honors at the
New York Institute for the Deaf and
Dumb were awarded this year to stu.
dents who not only are deaf mutes,
but also blind. Miss Ella M. Hopkins
was valedictorian and Miss Catherine
Peterson salutatorian.
John j. DAILY, for ten years trust.
ed employee of the Chicago postoffice
was sentenced to serve
five years in the federal prison at
Leavenworth by United States Judge
Lands and fined $8,740, the amount
he embezzled from the government.
The United States district court for
the district of Delaware handed down
a decision declaring the powder trust,
which is dominated by the E. I, Du-
Point de Nemours company, combfna-
ton in restraint of trade and ordering