The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-12-26
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Washington

Washington
Eighteen banks and trust companies
control, through interlocling director
ates, consisting of $50 men, of 134
concerns, $25. 100000 of the capita
of the country invested in industrial
transportation and general financial
enterprises. Such is the report of &c
statistical experts, which was made
public by the house committee investi
eating the so-called money trust
Former Senator j. B. Foraker pro
duced a statement before the senate
campaign expenditures investigating
committee, prepared by Gilchrist
Stewart, of how w. w. WINFIELD and
Charles Stump took the "Archbold let
tiers" from the Standard Oil offices and
sold them to representative of Will
lam R. Hearst for $4,000.
William ]. FLYNN of New York was
appointed chief of the United States
secret service by Secretary MacVeagh
of the treasury department, succeed
ing John e. Wilkie, now chief super
yising agent of the customs service.
President Taft sent to the senate
tho name of Judge G. A. Carpenter to
succeed Judge Peter S. Grosscup as
judge of the Seventh circuit in Illi'
nois and Charles S. Cutting to sue
coed Judge Carpenter in the North
ern district of Illinois.
William r. Hearst, who published
the "Archbold letters" gave the SEN
ate campaign funds committee in
Washington Photographic copies Of all
letters in his possession indicating a
connection between John D. Archbold
of the Standard Oil company and leg
islative and campaign activities. The
list contained several not heretofore
published. He said John Eddy of Lon
don gave him the photographs of the
original Archbold letters.
Because of the little time which re-
mains before President-elect Wilson
will appoint new men to all the i'm
portant positions in the diplomatic
service, President Taft has decided
not to name successor to Ambassa-
dor Whitelaw Reid at London, but to
let the post remain vacant until after
March next.
The Supreme court of the United
States Cancelled as violative of the
Sherman antitrust law the contracts
by which railroad-owned coal COM
panies in the Pennsylvania anthracite
fields had purchased the output for
all time of independent mines" The
charge Of a general combination"
was not sustained.
In their annual reports Secretary of
the Interior Fisher urges the need
of new public land laws and Secretary
of Commerce and Labor Nagel rec
ommends the establishment of board
to adjudicate the difference between
railways and their employees.
The annual report of the interstate
commerce commission contains
caustic arraignment of the lax meth
DDS prevalent among the railroad COM
panles with reference to providing
protection for their passengers and
employees.
Il
Imports of luXuries into the United
States during October were probably
the highest on record. The bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce of the
department of commerce and labor
estimates that Injuries are coming
into his country at the rate Of $1,000
900 day
Domestic
Driven insane, the police say, by
hunger and poverty, John Mageio,
mute, shot and kille dhis deaf and
dumb wife, Mary, in their home in
Kansas City, Mo.
AS a protest against the convict
lease system Governor Donaghey of
Arkansas broke all pardon records by
pardoning BIG state convicts and Al
county convicts.
Abandonment of the Fulton market.
which has been public market place
in New York since colonial times, is
being urged by city officials. An ex-
pert's report to the board of alder
men shows that the market is being
operated at a loss.
Mrs, Mary j. Wilson, eighty-two
years old, and Mrs. Georgia Moore,
sixty-one years old, both widows, were
murdered at their home at Columbia,
Mo. The slayer used an ak and prob
ably knife. Lee Moore, son of Mrs.
Moore, was arrested