Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-01-01


function to provisional substitute and
himself becoming candidate.
On September % Villa declared war up
on the provisional president. The const
tutionalists held a meeting at Mexico
City on October 4 and refused to accept
their chiefs resignation. At a. conVen-
ton of the party held at Aguas Calientes
on October IA, Carranza again presented
hia resignation and few days later Villa
promised to support a provisional presl-
dent named by the convention. At that,
Gen. Eulalio Gutierrez was appointed by
the convention, but Carranza refused to
recognize him. The new president ap-
pointed Villa commander in chief of the
government forces and ordered him to
proceed at once against Carranza. AS
Villa and his men neared the capital,
Carranza and his soldiers withdrew.
On November % the American forces
We're withdrawn from Vera Cruz and
soon afterward Carranza and his follow
ers took possession of the seaport. Villa
and Zapata united in support of the
Gutierrez interests, and the prospect OF
peace in the immediate future is far from
encouraging.
On December IS, 5000 United States
troops we're sent to Naco to stop continued
firing by the Mexican factions into United
States territory. The struggle between
the combatants in northern Mexico con-
tinues unabated
Longest Congressional Session.
The first regular session of the Sixty
third congress was the longest since that
great law-making body came into exist
ence-from December /, 1918, to October
"a, 1914. After the holiday recess both
branches were addressed by President
Wilson upon the regulation Of corpora
tons In his address the president recon-
mended the formation of a. trade commits
sion, the doing away with interlocking di-
rectorates and holding companies, and an
antitrust law. On January "a the senate
passed bill authorizing the government
to construct a railroad in Alaska. On
February Is the house passed the bill.
During this month. also, the admins
tration introduced a measure into both
houses to establish a rural credit system
by means of cooperative banks On Feb
ruary 3 a bill was introduced into both
branches which provided that the govern
ment might mine or lease on a royalty
basis certain coal lands in Alaska.
On March the president delivered an
other address to congress in the house
chamber, in which he urged the repeal
of the provision in the Panama Canal act
Of August, 1912, exempting vessels en-
gagged in coastwise trade from the pay
ment of tolls. With a senate amendment
10 IDe eILecI I1ldL Tic OI1llSO 0ldtCS iV-
linquished no rights under treaties with
Great Britain and with Panama, the tolls
repeal bill became law.
On April 20 the president again ad-
dressed congress, giving the facts in the
Tampico affair and asking authority to
use force in compelling settlement Both
houses passed the necessary measures
without delay. On June 5 the three
measures prominent in the presidents an
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commission, the Clayton bill. and the rail-
road capitalization biIl-were passed, but
it was not until August that the senate
adopted the measure creating a federal
trade commission. The Clayton antitrust
bill did not become law until October.
August both houses unanimously
adopted an amendment to the federal re-
serve act, by which the secretary of the
treasury was given power to issue addi-
tional bank currency in such amount as
would be necessary to protect the busi-
ness situation and avoid financial panic.
On September the president once more
addressed congress, pointing out the need
of raising additional revenue to meet the
deficit causd by the decline in imports
due to the European war.
The closing days of the congress passed
in an active effort conducted by members
from the cotton growing states to obtain
itSlSldIlOI lOT lL6 IGldii VI Tie STOWcTS
of the staple.
On October "a the first. regular session
of the Sixty-third congress came to an
end
American Government and Politics.
On January 2 Secretary McAdoo and
Secretary Houston began a series OF
hearings to determine where the new fed
eral reserve banks were to be established
Tho fodaro1 roebrxyo ha MI cxycfo in,
to effect November is. On January II
the Washington authorities and the New
York, New Haven and Hartford railroad
officials came to an agreement by which
the railroad relinquished it's trolley lines
its control of the Boston and Maine. and
most of its steamship lines, in order to
avoid further conflict with the Sherman
antitrust law. President Wilson nomi-
mated John Shelton Williams, then assis-
tant secretary of the treasury, to be
comptroller of the currency and ex-officio
member of the new federal reserve board
On January 27 the president signed an
important order which established a per-
nanent civil government in the Panama
Canal Zone. to go into effect April 1. A
few days later he nominated Cob George
W. Goethals to be first governor. On
February II the government brought suit
at Salt Lake City to compel the Southern
Pacific railroad to relinquish its control
of the Central Pacific.
In March government proceedings were
begun against two railroads; The inter
state commerce commission accused the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul road
with overstatement of income and other
| financial irregularities, and suit was
drought against the Lehigh Valley road
under the charge that it was monopoliz.
| ing the anthracite coal industry through
| subsidiary companies. In this month. also
| the department of justice announced thai
a plan for breaking up the transportation
monopoly practiced by the New York
New Haven and Hartford had been ar.
ranged satisfactory 10 all parties.
| Early in April the government met witt
| defeat In it's attempt to prove that the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western roat
and the coal-mining company of the same
name existed as an illegal and monopolis
| tic combination, On April the commit
| tee appointed for the purpose announced
that it had selected twelve federal re-
serve districts, with their central bank
ing cities, under the new currency law
| On June the American Thread com
| pany, which was proved to be combina
| ton of manufacturers which practically
| controlled the output, forestalled the ac
| ton contemplated by the department O
| justice by dissolving. In June, also, th'
4 United States supreme court affirmed tn,
| power of the interstate commerce com
| mission to fix rates, and held that pip,
| lines are common carriers and must carr,
| products at rates fixed by the commission
On June Is the president made publi
charge that big business interests hat
been trying to force congress to adjourn
He declared that he should do everythin.
in his power to keep congress in session
until the proper business legislation ha.
been enacted.
In July the commission found that tn
former management of the New Havel
road was criminally wasteful and negli
gent. President Wilson directed the at
torney general, July q, to begin civil an
criminal proceedings against the Ney
| York, New Haven and Hartford road, an
two days later the suit was begun in tn
United States district court at New York
On the first day of August the interstat
commerce commission denied the petition
of the eastern railroads for a general in
crease of per cent in freight rates, bu
allowed certain increases in the middl
West. On August 12 the dissolution of tn
International Harvester company, desig
mated as monopoly in restraint of trade
was ordered by the United States distric
court at st. Paul, MINI.