The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-01-11
Washington

Washington
Nothing but death can keep me
out Of the fight now President Taft
is reported to have made this state
ment to White House callers and to
have added that he had no objection
to the statement being made public.
Secretary Nagel in his annual report
to President Taft at Washington de-
clares that the Sherman law has been
proved to be an effective statute and
that the next step in the control OF
great industrial corporations will be
the establishment of permanent fed
eral agency.
Representative Underwood, Demo
cratic leader of the house, has re-
turned to his office at Washington al
most recovered from the illness which
aroused apprehension last week.
President Taft has decided not to
grant pardon to Charles w. Morse,
the convicted New York banker, who
was reported to be dying in the army
hospital at Fort Mcpherson, Ga. This
decision was reached after the presi-
dent had carefully digested the report
of the army surgeons who We're sent
to Atlanta.
About 1000 census bureau employees
in Washington are expected to receive
notices of dismissal during January as
the result of the house of representa-
tives to sanction the $1,000,000 appro-
priation asked by Director Durand for
the maintenance of the bureau.
j. Pierpont Morgan, according to
statement made by an eminent men,
Der of congress in Washington, practi-
cally fed the country to avoid being
subpoenaed before the Stanley inves-
tigating committee and forced to testi-
fy on mysterious points not yet reveal
ed in the purchase by the United
States Steel corporation of it's great
est rival, the Tennessee Coal and Iron
company.
Viewing with alarm the protests
from three great states and the OPP
position Of senators, representatives
and other public men to the appoint
ment "a Judge Hook, President Taft
has decided to hold up the nomination
for successor to Justice Harlan until
the return from Panama of Attorney
General Wickersham.
Domestic
Harry Andrews, striking Illinois
Central shopman of Clinton, ILL.,, was
tried before Judge Humphrey Of the
federal court at Springfield and found
guilty of violating the order restrain
ing strikers from interfering with the
men employed by the company. He
was sentenced to thirty days in the
workhouse at Peoria.
National labor officials affiliated
with Samuel Gompers and the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor were in.
formed two years ago by Charles A.
BookWalter, who as mayor OF Indian.
apolis at that time conducted Sc
cret investigation, that John j. McNa-
mara had directed series dynamite
explosions.
Mrs. Charles B. Morrow is under
arrest in Chicago charged with the
murder OF her husband, whose body,
with two bullet wounds in it. was
found frozen on the rear porch OF
their home. Detectives are seeking
row home.
Progressive Republicans of Ohio met
at Columbus, O., formed perma.
nent organization, adopted a declara-
tlon OF progressive principles, but
voted 50 to 80 not to give their in
dorsement to United States Senator
Robert M. La FoFllette as candidate
Tor the presidential nomination.
President Samuel Gompers of the
Federation of Labor denies most en-
phatlcally that he stood on an Ameri.
can flag while making a speech at a
labor meeting in Oakland, Cal. Il
would" he declared, las lief insult the
memory OF my revered mother as the
nag OF my country"
-Four persons were burned in a fire
on the ground floor of an east side
tenement in New York. All, 1t is
feared, will die. The victims were a
man and wife and two children Of a
widowed mother.
Because he feared that he was to he
dropped a grade at school when If
opened following the Christmas recess
Harold E. Hubbard, sixteen-year.old
pupil at the Amherst (Mass.) high
school. took his life by chloroform.