Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-06-08
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Washington

Il. III. Gary, chairman OF the united
States Steel corporation directorate.
told the house committee investigat-
ing the steel industry that enforced
publicity and government control Of
corporations must come, even as to
prices. He said he believed the Sher-
man antitrust law was too archaic to
deal with modern situations and never
could fully prevent great combinations
of capital.
A lively controversy over the execu-
itive's right to withhold confidential
papers from a congressional investi-
eating committee was precipitated by
q fat refusal of Secretary of State
Knox, on the instruction of President
Taft, to lay before the house commit
tee on Expenditures in the state depart
ment books showing the record of the
payment for the portrait of ex-Secre-
tary of State Day.
The senate of the United States
passed the resolution offered by Sem
ator Martin of Virginia. directing the
standing committee on privileges and
elections for the second time to as
certain If corrupt methods were used
in the election of William Lorimer as
senator from Illinois, and to probe into
the world-famous Jackpot" fund Of
the Illinois assembly. The vote was
4s to 20.
Offering to lay bare all the facts
concerning the United States Steel
corporation, denying that he is plan
ming to form monopoly to control
steel products of the entire world.
and frankly admitting that the steel
corporation has absolute domination
of subsidiary companies. Ebert H.
Gary appeared as witness In the in
quiry being conducted by the steel
investigating committee of the house
of Representatives.
Criminal prosecution Of the officials
of the Standard Oil company, the
American Tobacco company and their
constituent companies Is proposed In
a concurrent resolution introduced by
Senator Pomerene of Ohio. The reso-
luton would instruct the attorney
general to proceed against the Off
Gals at once under the recent de-
cisions of the Supreme court.
The decisions of the Supreme court
in the Standard Oil and American To
bacco company cases will result in a
sweeping attempt to secure criminal
conviction of violators of the antitrust
law, according to Attorney General
.Wickersham, who appeared before the
house committee on expenditures In
the department of Justice.
Domestic
President Taft went to Chicago as
the guest of the Western Economic
society to deliver an address on the
Canadian reciprocity measure.
Expressing the belief that any flu
ture war in which the United States
may engage will be decided largely
by battles on the sea, Assistant Secre-
tary of the Navy Winthrop in an ad-
dress to the graduates of the Annap-
oils naval academy said he was i'm
pressed strongly with the necessity of
maintaining a navy sufficient in power
to diminish to a minimum any danger
Of losing control of the sea.
The bitter taste of so grains of
strychnine in less than a pint of milk
saved Mrs. Ralph Rafel. the young
mother of a six-months-old baby at
Los Angeles, Cal, from death by poi
The national anthem, sung on the
streets of Denver by 100000 people,
will be one of the features of the
safe and sane" Fourth of July cele-
bration planned for that city.
Nine hundred cans Of opium, valued
at $4,000. were seized by United
States customs officials on the Japan
csc liner America after the vessel
passed San Francisco quarantine.
An amicable adjustment has been
reached between representatives of
the car men, boilermakers, black
smiths and sheet metal workers of
the Southern railway and other lines,
according to statement issued by
the American Federation of Labor.
Capt. A. j. Renkel, a jeweler of Au-
gusta, Ca, was killed. his wife suf-
fered severe injuries and his son
Louis and daughter Vivian we're
bruised in a collision between their
automobile and buggy near Otis
Creek, Ga.
Edward Moyse G. Co., a cotton
brokerage house, was expelled from
membership in the New York cotton
exchange following an investigation
extending over many months. AL
legged violation of customers order
was given as the cause.
Mrs Catherine M. Gallagher OF
Washington has set afoot movement
TO prevent "turndowns" of enlisted
men in the United States military serv-
ice on account Of their uniforms. Mrs.
Gallagher has written forty-three gov
errors OF states.