The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-08-11
NEWS OF WORLD.
important Events Of the Week
In Condensed Form
CONGRESSIONAL DolNGs.

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Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin, a
modification of both his W and the
house bill, was passed by the senate,
48 to 80, through the union of Demo-
Gratis and Republican insurgents. The
measure adopted reduces the raw wool
duty to IS per CEN ad valorem and
correspondingly reduces the duties on
wooden articles. The bill will now go
into conference, where a still further
reduction is likely to be agreed on.
President Taft, it is said, will veto
the measure.
T%estifying before the senate's Lor.
inner committee, Lawrence B. Stringer,
who was a Democratic candidate for
United States senator before the leg
lature that elected William Lorimer,
failed under cross-examination to con-
tinue the favorable testimony he had
given for Lorimer in direct examina-
ton. Mr.. Stringer vas grilled by Sem
ators Kern and Kenyon and under
their cross fire made admissions that
are considered hurtful to Senator Loc-
'mer's case.
Following an attack by Senator b.
rah Of Idaho upon the enforcement
of the Sherman antitrust law in the
twenty years that it has been in ex-
istence the senate adopted a resolu-
ton offered by Senator Clapp of Min
nesota, calling for an investigation
into the operation of the law to de-
termine what changes or amendments
are necessary to make it an adequate
protection against unlawful mOnopolies
and trusts.
Democrats of the house of represen-
t%atives, after a prolonged caucus, rat
flied by more than a two-thirds ma
jority the cotton tariff revision bill
drafted by the Democratic members
of the ways and means committee,
reducing by nearly one-half the sched-
ules of the Payne-Aldrich law on
manufactures of cotton. The bill has
been introduced in the house and its
passage will be expedited.
A sensational aspect was given the
Lorimer hearing when James Kelley
of Chicago, editor and manager of the
Tribune, testified that George O..
CLAWS told him that the records Of a
Washington lobbying firm would dis
close facts duplicating Senator Lor-
inner and former Representative James
A. Tawney of Minnesota in getting
fees for handling legislation.
The charges against Willis l..
Moore, chief of the weather bureau.
by James Bury, a former employe of
the bureau, to the effect that money
had been expended unlawfully for the
employment of experts, will be inves-
penditures in the department of agri-
| culture.
Reciprocity with Mexico similar to
Canadian reciprocity is proposed in a
| resolution introduced by Representa-
| tive Burleson Of Texas, calling on
President Taft Immediately to start
negotiations with Mexico looking to
freer commerce between the two oun
tries"
Severe criticism of the supreme
court of the United States marked
the speech of Senator Owen of Okla
homa, who advocated before the sen
ate the adoption of his bill providing
for the election and recall of federal
judges.
Because he does not believe in the
senate's method Of taking testimony
in Investigations Senator Bailey lc-
signed from the committee on privi-
leges and elections. He made no e.
PLANTATION and the resignation was &C.