Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-01-29
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Washington
Accepting. as an argument, length.
statement denying the existence OF ,
money trust and charging the cooper
alton among financial interests to tn,
weak banking law" framed by Henri,
P. Dawson OF J. P. Morgan & Co., thu
house money trust committee CLOSED
for the time being It's inquiry.
H. F. Dawson, managing partner IL
the firm OF ]. P. Morgan & Co., told
the Pujo committee in Washington
that the trusts are great blessing
to the country and would be a still
greater blessing If they were not in
terfered with by the courts and thu
law.
AS the result of a general canvass
OF the U. s. senate, announcement waa
made that in all probability there
will be no general public reception ia
President Wilson following his inau
guration on March 4.
Attorney General Wickerpham hal
informed congress that it will cost
the government $4,000 to investigate
the condition of the Crow Indians In
Montana, as proposed In resolution
adopted by the senate few days ago
Secretary Of War Stimson has ap
proved the plans for a reunion Of the
Union and Confederate survivors OF
the battle Of Gettysburg. The reunion
is to be held on the battlefield next
July in celebration of the fiftieth an.
niyersary of the battle.
After secret session Of the Pujo
committee In Washington 1t was de-
cided that the chairman and Samuel
Untermyer, the committees counsel
must 90 to Palm Beach, Fla, after the
work of the committee in Washington
is concluded and there determine
whether or not it will be safe to ex
anime William Rockefeller as to what
he knows about the copper corner.
Domestic
Twenty-six persons were injured
when the Daylight special of the I'LL
nois Central was derailed near Melvin,
Ill. Representative Frank Ryan, Dem
ocratic candidate for speaker of the
Illinois house, was seriously injured,
and Harry Woods, Democratic secre-
tary OF state-elect, and Edward B.
shurtleff, former speaker, were slight
~ hurt.
Electrocution was substituted for
hanging as the official form Of capital
punishment In Vermont when Cover
nor Fletcher signed bill to this Of.
feet.
The assembly Of the Nevada legisla.
ture passed the woman suffrage
amendment by an overwhelming ma
jortty.
A bill prohibiting the intermarriage
Of negroes and whites, Caucasians and
Mongolians and Mongolians and, ne.
groes in Kansas was passed by tho
house Of representatives at Topeka.
Strong resolutions denouncing a
plan to locate the Western college OF
Macon, Mo-, a negro educational insti.
tute. in Kansas City, were adopted at
= mass meeting at Kansas City.
Despondent over the loss Of a $780,
900 fortune In speculation, Samuel
Newberger, once prosperous jeweler,
ended his life in the balcony of down.
town theater in New York during the
performance. He drank poison.
James Darling, young student at
Hackensack, N. j., found a pair OF
gloves belonging to John D. Rockefel.
Ter. He sent them by parcel post to
the magnate. Mr.. Rockefeller replied:
Il trust that you will always be able
to make right decisions where mat.
ters Of honesty are concerned"
The United States Steel corporation
and the Bethlehem Steel company par
ticipated for four years in an interna
tional pool in armor plate which d.
vided up the business of neutral mar
kets." according to William Il. Corey
former president Of the steel corpora
ton. who testified at the hearings in
New York in the governments suit to
dissolve the corporation under the
Sherman antitrust law.
Eugene V. Debs, Socialist candidate
for president Of the United States In
the last election, was arrested al
Terre Haute, Ind, on an indictment re-
turned against him in the federal court
In Kansas. Debs was charged with
obstructing Justice.
When Secretary Charles D. Hilles
opened the White House mail he
gasped with establishment on readins
frank and free confession from 9
Washington woman that she had
broken into" the White House recep
lions for years under false colors.
Lieut. J. H. Tower, u. 8. N, com
manding the navy aviation camp a,
Guantanamo. Cuba. has reported t