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


er Ancon, belonging to the Panama rail-
road, passed from ocean to ocean in ten
hours. In September the railroad rate
case showed increased activity. The roads
east of the Mississippi and north of the
Potomac again petitioned the interstate
commerce commission for permission to
advance freight rates per cent, and the
commission consented to reopen the case.
The commission granted the increase.
with certain exceptions, on December 49,
A delegation of railroad presidents Wis
tied President Wilson at the White House
and laid before him the unsatisfactory
situation which confronted American
roads. The president was sympathetic,
but expressed his confidence in the inter
state commerce commission to regulate
the matter satisfactorily.
On September % Secretary McAdoo
aroused great interest in banking circles
by announcing his intention to withdraw
government patronage and assistance
from national banks known to be hoard
ing currency or demanding excessive in
terest.
In October the court dismissed all but
one of the governments charges in its
suit to dissolve the Atlantic steamship
trust. Final argument in the suit to dis
solve the Steel trust was made at Phila-
de1phia, and the discussion of increased
railroad freight rates was resumed before
the interstate commerce commission.
At the elections held on November the
Democratic majority in the house of rep
resentatives was reduced from 147 to rs.
although the Democratic majority in the
senate was increased from 10 to is. Con-
stitutional amendments giving the suf-
frage to women were carried in Nevada
and Montana and prohibition triumphed
in Washington, Oregon, Arizona, and
Colorado. In Missouri the so-called "full
crew. law passed by the legislature was
rejected.
Politics in Other Lands.
On January 27 Michel Oreste, president
of Haiti, warned of the approach of a
large body of revolutionists, abdicated has
lily and took refuge on German cruiser.
On February Orestes Zamor was elected
president of Haiti, and on the same day
Jose Vicente Concha was elected presi-
dent of Colombia
Early in the year the Chinese admins
trative council re-established Confucian-
ism as the state religion of the republic.
At the opening of parliament February Il
King George urged mutual concessions in
the Irish home rule controversy. On
March the home rule bill was introduced
for its third passage through the COM
mons. On May 25 the bill passed the COM
mons for the third time. On September
IS King George signed the home rule and
Welsh disestablishment bills and the. par
lament was prorogued.
On March II, as the finale to a bitter
political and personal controversy, the
wife of the French minister of finance
Nine. Caillaux. shot and killed the editor
of Figaro CASTOR Calmette. Her hus-
band resigned his office at once and a
new cabinet was formed. The trial OF
Nine. Caillaux resNlted in her acquitta
on July g. On March IA treaty Of peace
between Turkey and Servia was signed al
Constantinople, a sequel to the Balkan
war, On May 1 the new Chinese consti-
tuition was published. 1t abolished the
premiership and gave increased power tc
the president. On May Prince Alexan
| der of Teck, Queen Mary's brother, was
appointed governor general of Canada.
| On May Is Colonel Benavides, leader
of the Peruvian faction which expelled
President Billinghurst, was elected pro
visional president. Three days later g
group of senators and deputies declared
Roberto Leguia provisional president. The
Peruvian supreme court, however, recog
nized Benavides. On July 21 Ahmed Mir
"a, sixteen years of age, was crowned
| shah of Persia. On August 26 the French
| cabinet was reconstructed on commit
tee of national defense basis. Rene vi
| viani, Socialist, remained premier
| On September 10 Turkey notified thu
| outside world that she had done away
with the arrangement whereby foreigner!
in that country have been exempt from
local jurisdiction in civil and crimina
cases and under which many special priv
ileges have been enjoyed by citizens o
| other countries residing in Turkey.
Two days later note was presented t,
4 the Turkish government by Great Britain
France, Russia and italy, in which it wa,
| affirmed that the special rights of alien
| can be abolished only by the powers tha
were parties to the original contract
Austria and Germany presented a-sspa
rate protest.
| On September 2S the Albanian senate
which had driven it's recently elected rule
Prince William of Wied-out of tn,
country, chose Turk for king--Princ
| Burhan-Eddin, son of the deposed Abdu
IIamid of Turkey. The European power
protested. but ihelr wishes were disre
| garded. On October 4, after four months
! exile, Essad Pasha, accompanied by al
armed force entered Albania and tool
possession of the government. On tn
| day following the death of King Charlie
of Roumania his nephew, Ferdinand, tool
\ the oath of Office as sovereign.
4 On October 10 a rebellion broke out nea
| the border of German Southwest Africa
but was frustrated by the loyalty of tn
Beers of the Union. On October A. Rus
| tenn Bey, Turkish ambassador to the Uni
ted States,s left Washington, where h
had incurred criticism by his frank view
of American affairs.
Industrial Trials and TriumpFls.
The Ford Motor company at the begin
lining of the year adopted profit-sharini
plan by which s1oooO.0oO is to be distrib
| uted annually among the 2e.000 wage-earn
| ers of that concern The great South Afri
can railroad strike came to an end. Of
| January 10 a strike of the Delaware an,
Hudson railroad men, as a protest agains
/ the discharge of two employees, was set
| tied within sixteen hours by the fedora
board of mediation and conciliation.
| Two great labor controversies had bee
| left. over from the preceding year-one Il
| the Michigan copper mines, which begal
July %, 1913, and another in the Colorad
coal fields, where $4,000 men had been Of
strike since September % of the previou
year. Violence ensued and federal ali
was demanded. On April 20 the strikin
| miners clashed with the state militia nea
Trinidad, Colo, and twenty-five person
were killed or burned to death in fir
which followed. President Wilson ordere
federal troops to the scene. 1t was nc
until September Is that the strikers an
/ JnolT employers dCCepleO 1TGSluGnL WI
sons offer for settlement of their dis
pute, but his plan was rejected. On tn
last day of November the president name
a commission of three, headed by Set
Low, to deal with the strike. Shortly al
ter the strike was declared off.
On April 1 all the coal mines Of Obi
were closed down on account of the fai
ure to unite on an agreement as to
basis of payment to supersede the on
already in use. On the following day tn
Yorkshire coal miners, to the number {
10000 men, went on strike to supper
their demand for a minimum wage. Jun
u strike among the West Virginia Coz
miners, which had been on since the prs
vious September, was declared off, til
miners waving recognition of the unio
in order to obtain other important COZ
cessions. On July II the federal boar
of mediation and Cancellation again prove
its ability as peacemaker. The engineer
and firemen of ninety eight Western raj
roads accepted the mediation of the boar
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