Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-08-21
WORLDS
EVE N is
TERSELY and
BRIEFLY TOLD
Washington

A story OF bribery. petty and large,
OF conferences with lobbyists and of
campaign funds raised by manufac-
turers, involving Representative James
T. McDermott of Chicago, was told
by ]. H. McMichael, former chief page
of the house, before the house lobby
investigating committee. McMichael
swore that McDermott stold him that
he received $500 for his efforts to
of Columbia amended so that 1t would
not iniure pawnbrokers.
The isthmian canal commission at
Washington announced that the total
amount of excavation from the Pan
anna canal in, July was 3,241,96S cubic
yards, as against 2,659, 424 cubic yards
in June, the average daily output be-
ing 124,691 yards.
President Wilson at his desk in the
White House In Washington, pressed
a button that completed an electric
circuit that fired gun on the Lake
Michigan front in Chicago, and the
Perry celebration and second annual
water carnival was formally open.
Congress will remain In session "un-
til snow flies" and. II necessary, pro-
long the extra session until the regu-
lar term begins in December to dis-
pose of tariff and currency legisla-
ton. This was the decision OF Demo
Garlic senators at Washington.
President Wilson issued state
ment from the White House announc-
ing that he believed II not advisable
to amend the administration currency
measure at present with provisions
for rural credits. and urged postpon-
ing that phase Of banking reform until
the December session, when the gov
eminent commission now studying
the subject in Europe will have re-
ported.
The president sent to the senate the
nomination OF William ]. Price Of Ken
lucky as minister to Panama.
c. Leslie Reynolds, famous In horti-
cultural circles as the perfector Of the
American Beauty rose, dropped dead at
Washington while chasing some boys
In the National botanical gardens. Mr..
Reynolds was superintendent of the
gardens. He was fifty-nine years old.
The senate at Washington confirm
ed the nomination of James M. Sulli-
van e. New YORK &c be minister te tie
Dominican republic. ~
Henry D. Clayton. member Of con-
gress from the Third district Of Ala
bama, was named by Governor O'Neal
as United States senator to fin the
vacancy caused by the death Of Sen
ator Joseph f. Johnston. Senator Oy-
erman OF the senate at Washington de-
clared he did not believe Clayton
could be seated.
That the tobacco trust, instead Of
being dissolved by the decree Of the
federal supreme court, has increased
its monopolistic control of tobacco
manufacture was asserted in the SEN
ate at Washington by Senator Hitch
cock of Nebraska in discussing the
tobacco schedule of the tariff bill.
Martin M. Mulhall became Ill while
testifying before the lobby investigat-
ing committee of the house at Wash
ington, which adjourned until Thurs
day to allow him to recuperate.
Domestic
While newspaper photographers
we're trying to take pictures Of Maury
!. Diggs as he left the federal building
at San Francisco somebody punched a
photographer in the face. In an In
slant there was free-for-all fight. Sew
eral persons, including Diggs, were ta-
ken to police station. Diggs was re
leased.
Martin H. Glynn. acting governor,
replying to a formal proposal by the
impeached executive to submit the is
sue to adjudication on an agreed state
ment of facts. Mr.. Glynn declared 1t
was beyond his power to barter away
any of the functions attaching to the
Office in which am placed by your i'm
parchment"
st. Mary's home at Binghamton, N,
Y, was destroyed by fire. All the
occupants, including 200 children, got
out safely.
The big annual rife matches at
Camp Perry, Ohio. opened with those
of the National Rife association Of
America, to be followed by the presi-
dents match and the international
contests, In which the marksmen of
ten nations will compete.
A coroner's jury in Chicago exon
Grated Edward ]. Duprey. who shot
and killed Henry Groninos. and en-
tered statement that he killed the
man because of an attack upon Stel-
la Duprey, thirteen.
The board of directors of the Pana-
ma-Pacific exposition has accepted the
resignation Of N. II. De Young as
chairman of the concessions and ad-
missions committee. Mr.. De Young
is proprietor of the San Francisco
Chronicle.
Nine men were killed and one was
probably fatally injured when cable
pin snapped at the Coronado mine at
Clifton. Ariz, and two ore cars, carry
ing IL tons OF ore and 13 miners, dash
ed down a S8 degree grade for a dis
lance Of $500 feet