The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-12-28
1911 |

This country has enjoyed a laidly
bappv year. Looking backward, ONE
must admit that 1911 has been PEA
sonably we'll behaved We have pass
ed through no elections that causeo
serious alarm or which were OF grea'
importance, have had no very grave
hank or business failures, no over
whelming disasters. We have had III
wars, and leaving out Mexico anu
| Hobson, no rumors OF war.
The chief events of the year III the
United States have been the passage
| of the reciprocity treaty and It's feJec
| ton by our Canadian neighbofs; ohe
passage of the tariff revision o'iiS
| and their veto by the president, 'ht
| mobilization of a part of our army III
Texas during the Mexican revolution
the supreme court decision dissoiVihs
fine Standard Oil and tobacco trusts
the bringing of suit against 'he
steel trust and criminal prosecution
of tbe heads of the beef trust, the au-
mission to statehood of New MEXICO
and Arizona. the signing of the arpi-
tration treaties with France aho
Great Britain, the record breaking
tour of President Taft, the adoption
of the initiative, referendum, recall
and woman suffrage by California III
assembling of the largest war flee'
ever gathered in American waters
the flight of an aeroplane across the
continent the creation of three he\
American cardinals, the raising OF INC
Maine, and the finding that 1t was
blown up from the outside, and the
semiccntennial of the first Bull Kun
and the opening of the civil war, an
two sessions of congress.
The special session of congress, a.
ter disposing of the presidents pei
measure-tile Canadian reciprocity
treaty. proceeded to revise several
schedules of the PayneAldfich tariff
law. The measures passed were
one revising the wool schedule and
third known as the farmers free
list bill. which sought 10 make up
for some of the inequalities claimed
to exist in the reciprocity measure.
All three of these bills were vetoed by
President Taft.
The direct election of United States
senators, so long sought after by the
American people, Was an Issue in
both congresses, the constitutional a.
mendment being defeated by iour
votes in the senate during the sixty
first congress, but passing both
houses of the siXty-second. II for III
other event of the past year, our
people might be grateful for this one
which brings the election of members
of the upper house of congress closer
to the people, and which deserves I'M
iyersal commentator. 1t will pre-
vent the elevation OF the Lorimers,
Clarks, Depews,, Stevensons, and 9TH
Ell money-bags, and their attendant
disgraceful senatorial campaigns.
Joe CannOnism was done away witt
and the speaker of the house OF rep
resentatives did not select the stand
| ing committees as in the past, put
this was left to the ways and means
committee. For the first time in six
teen years the Democrats had con
troll of the house and with the prog
ressive Republicans mustered a major
| ity in the senate. Champ Clark OF
Missouri was elected speaker and Os
car W. Underwood majority flOO
| leader.
Trust Investigations and court deci
siOns were one of the features of III,
year. The supreme court ordered thu
Standard Oil company and the Ameri
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