Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-11-12

ion tho lnterss STATE CONNIE ce Com;
mission sreducings freig zrates.o on lem
ons from California to the Atlantic
seaboard from 81. j 3 to 81 .0O. d; hun
dred. IN decid ding, the Court held
that questions Of reasonableness 81
rates involving mere facts were for
the Commission. not for the courts,
to pass upon. ==:.
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5 More than $50 students from differ
.ent parts of India are now studying in
the various Institutions Of America.
These are for the most part earnest,
spirited young men striving to mas
ter western ideals, with q view to
carrying them to their native land for
the purpose. of elevating the helpless
masses Of India. It was !: thus the
young; men Of Russia, filed with
ideals from the Swiss universities,
put new life into the Russian peas:
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Attorney General McReynolds de
cided on October 81 that the 5. per.
cent preferential on goods imported
IN american ships provided for in the
new tariff bill must be granted to i'm
ports in vessels OF all nations with
which the United States has CONNER
cial treaties The operation OF this
clause has for the present been sus-
pended. When put in operation it
will mean, under the Attorney-Gener-
ais ruling, practical reduction Of 5
per cent in all duties. 8. :.
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The National Council of Congrega-
tional churches in session at Kansas
City on October; 20 adopted by a vote
of IA to 80, resolutions disappearing
international rivalry in creation Of
armies and navies and calling on
President Wilson to stop the swell.
| ing expenditures for the parapher.
MALTA of war The council also vot:
ed to establish a social service com.
mission to extend "the aid Of the
church to Labor in its struggle: fol
industrial Justice" The secretary OF
the new commission will be Henry A
Atkinson Of Chicago. Y = Iz. ~.
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Mrs. Pankhurst, after making ad
dresses in, New York and Cleveland
arrived in Chicago on November j
on the End addressing a large audi
ence on the Social Evil. During hel
four days stay in Chicago, Mrs. Pank
! hurst was at various times the guess
of the President and Board of Direc
tors Of the Illinois Equal Suffrage AS
ISOLATION, the Political Equality
League, the Women's Trade Unio1
League; Mrs. Raymond Robins, Mis-!
Jane Adams, the Woman's Party o.
Cook County, the Woman's Right.
Party, and the Institutional church.
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Saskatchewan will vote on Novem
Der ~ on adoption of the Initiative
and Referendum. The measure which
has been submitted by the Provincial
/ Legislature to a popular vote, is no
e.
bills are exempted from it's provision
In order to carry, it must not onl.
receive a majority, but the numbe
of affirmative voters must equal a
. least 80 per cent Of the number. o
names on the voters list. That thi
will be difficult appears from the fac
that the successful party at the las
election only polled 80 per cent of thu
total list. 40
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: The State Railroad COMMISSIONS
of Iowa, Clifford Thorne, in arguing
before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission on October 80 against an in
q crease in railroad rates, gave SOM
figures to show the advantage Of pub
: lie ownership. He has personally in
;, vestigated IS representative railroad
during the past year. He found th
market value of their stocks to be
: trifle over IS per cent Of par valu
and Of their bonds to be 1911 pc
cent of par. From these figures h
judges the market value Of stock
and bonds to be $13,969, 432,7 5z
3 whereas their par value is $15,286
: 1O1,947. Dividends on stock last yea
!, amounted to $460,432,752 and: inter
est on bonds was $422, 1872 ,629. He fig
;, ures that if the government woul,
: buy the railroads at their presen
:. market value, issuing 3 per cen
bonds in payment, there could be
! saving of $293,794,60S in dividend
: and $170,345,602 in interest.
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The United States Supreme Cour
:: on November 8, by q six to three vote
" upheld the right of State to tax
foreign corporation for the |privileg
Of doing business with in its borders
The decision was one sustaining
Massachusetts, law taxing the busi
ness of a mining and of a manufau