Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-08-21
news OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF MOST IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
I HOME and ABROAD
Happenings That Arc Making History
-lnformatlon Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
Washington

Given In Few Lines.
Washington
The house failed to pass the legislar
tive, executive and judicial appropria-
ton bill over the veto of President
Taft by vote of 1853 to 107. The de-
lection of II Democrats prevented the
house from passing the bill containing
clause limiting government en-
ployes to seven year terms and abol'
tshing the commerce court.
Former Governor Odell of New York
told the senate committee Investigate
Ing campaign contributions that Mr..
House made at the request of Presi-
dent Roosevelt during the campaign of
1904 raised $4,000 for the state cam
paign.
Following President Taft's disap-
prevail of the steel tariff revision bill
the house, by q vote Of 178 to 80,
passed the measure over his veto.
Sixteen Progressive Republicans made
an alliance with Democrats to make
the two-thirds majority necessary to
override the veto.
President Taft sent to congress a
special message asking tt to appropr1-
ate 100000, half to be paid to Great
Britain and half to Japan, to carry out
the agreement under the fur seal con-
vention, ratified by the senate last
December.
President Taft's veto was overrid.
den and the house of representatives
again passed the compromise wooden
tariff revision bill by vote of 174 to
30. There were 81 Republican mem
bers voting with the Democrats to
enact the bill into law despite the
presidents opposition.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nomination of Jacob Schurman.
president of Cornell university, to be
minister from the United States to
Greece and Montenegro.
The United States senate passed
the post Office appropriation bill, car.
rying in the ne1ghborhood of 60,000,-
900. The bill establishes a parcels
post and also permits employees of
the post Office department to. organ
lie, provided they do not affiliate with
any outside labor organization.
Representative Theron E. Catlin OF
Missouri, Republican, was unseated as
a member Of the house of representa-
tives and his Democratic opponent,
who contested the election, Patrick F.
Gill. was seated. The charge against
Mr.. Catlin was that he and his family
had spent $4,000 to elect him to con-
gress, when the Missouri law prohib-
tied an expenditure by candidates Of
more than 1862.
Commissioner Davenport of the pen
sion bureau is receiving hundreds of
appeals from old soldiers for their
pension checks. To as many as he
can the commissioner is sending word
that congress has appropriated no
money as yet. It will before it ad-
Journs.
Domestic
Harry Million, aged sixteen years, Of
Guide Rock, Neb., who has been in
st. Joseph (Mo.) hospital for six
weeks with broken neck, is gradual
ly regaining the use of his body.
Friel Allen, one of the mountain out
laws charged with completely in the
Hillsville (Va) courthouse murders
last March, pleaded guilty to murder
In the second degree and was SEN
fenced to 10 years in the penitentiary.
Two others have been convicted Of
first degree murder.
The Equitable Life Assurance 80
ciety has sold to syndicate headed
by Gen. T. Coleman DUPONT of VIII
mtngton, Del, the block known as
100 Broadway, New York, the site Of
the society's old home, destroyed by
fire last winter. The purchasers will
erect a 36-story Office building.
Fire in the terminal room of tho
plant of the Indianapolis Telephone
company independently put out of
commission it's entire local service
and the system of the new long dis
lance telephone company of Indiana
for an indefinite period.
Sustained by a small pole he had
Erasped when he fell into the mine,
and suspended $50 feet from the bot
tom of the shaft, Martin Stewart,
miner, dangled for five hours at Jop-
lin, Mo. Stewart held on until rescued
by miners, who heard his cries.
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