The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-03-15

Herbert L. Brigeman Of New York
City, president OF the Artic Club OF
America, is not surprised at the dis
coyery of the south pole by Amund-
sen. and says he will notsbe surprised
to learn that Scott also has won his
way to the southernmost point.
President Taft, in an address at To
ledo, Ohio, on Friday, declared his OPP
position to the recall Of judges and to
the recall OF judicial decisions. His
speech was regarded as an answer to
Colonel Rooseyelt's Columbus speech.
Cold storage is The commission
mems weapon, Mayor Samuel l..
Shank OF indianapolis told the farm
ers' cooperative marketing conYen.
ton in session at st. Paul. 4 am an
advocate of the 'direct.from-tl e-pro-
acknowledgements idea," he said
All previous speed records for bat
tleships in the United States navy has
been broken by the battleship Utah.
with an average speed OF twenty-five
knots In her four-hour full-power run
off Proylncetown.
WASHINGTON
Stripped of the clause which, II is
claimed, would invade the constitu-
tional treaty-making power Of the
senate and with many other limita-
tons added, the general arbitration
treaties between the United States
and Great Britain and France, pro-
posed by President Taft and Secre-
tary Knox as forerunners Of universal
peace, were ratified by the senate
Thursday by vote OF 76 to 3.
John Mitchell. vice-president of the
American Federation Of Labor, has
declined to give to Judge Wright OF
the supreme court OF the District of
Columbia any assurance that he ex-
pected Thereafter to lend adherence
to the DEGREES OF the judicial tribunals
Of this land
The house has passed a bill grant
Ing to the president power 70 set
aside the loss of citizenship now inn
posed on deserters from the military
service. 1t confines such clemency,
however, only to those offenders who
avoid or escape military or naval SER
vice In times of peace.
A slaughter of Americans in Mexico,
II Mexicans get the idea that the
United States has designs on Mexico,
is predicted by Secretary of War Slim
SON The same prediction applied to
China, he said.
On account of the serious condition
of his eyes, Senator Hepburn of
Idaho has given up his work in the
senate temporarily and has gone to
Atlantic City He expects to remain
there at least q month.
FOREIGN aa s... 49,
Premier Asquith has invited repre-
sentatives OF both sides of the coal
controversy in England to hold q Joint
conference with view to free dis
cussion of the whole situation" What
the governments proposals are has
not been divulged.
While there is bitter disappoint-
ment everywhere in England over the
fact that Captain Robert Scott, head
of the British Antartic expedition, has
yet to report on his quest for the
south pole, there is nowhere anything
but praise for the achievement OF
Captain Roald Amundsen in reaching
the south pole.
The vanguard of the insurrecto
army modified at Chihuahua depart
ed for the south in two trains Friday
1t was the real beginning of the cam
paign to take the City of Mexico, al
though the immediate destination OF
the column was announced as Jiminez
about halfway between chihuahua
and Torreon.
Captain Raould Amundsen tele-
graphs from Hobart, Tasmania, that
he had succeeded in winning his way
to the south pole, arriving at the pole
ON December Ia, 1911.
The possibility is widely discussed
of the Manchus taking over the city
of Pekin and proclaiming monarchy
again. Chinese papers make this sug
gestion, but as no Manchu leader has
been forthcoming in the last six
months, 1t seems hardly probable thai
one now can be found.
= A general strike in the Westphaliar
coal district on March II now is re
garded as a certainty. Many Goa
owners have offered their men II
per cent increase in wages, but thu
unions want Is per cent
Cabinet changes intended to placat'
the various warning elements in Mex
leo are to be made soon, II repor
from an apparently we'll authenticated
source proves true. The substitution
: will affect six of the eight portfolio
and are calculated to amalgamate tn
: Vasquistas, Liberals, the army ele
: ment and the Maderistas.
A wreck on the Canadian Pacific
few miles west of Revelstoke. B. G
d resulted in the death of Firema
|, Duckworth and minor injuries to
), number of passengers.
n Secretary of State Philander {