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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1913
Page
8
Clark refuses a Taft debate as tensions rise, triggering a clash over campaign tactics and public speaking roles. The dispute centers on who should lead the discussion as both campaigns consider competing venues and dates.
President Taft sharply attacks the pending House bill granting eight year independence to the Philippines. He warns the Democratic Party against reversing a decade of policy, urges informed judgment and cautions that self government is not yet ready for the islands. Speaker Clark declines to debate the policy.
Washington January 2. The house adopted without amendment the joint resolution approving the fine arts commission plans for a Lincoln memorial. The resolution, already passed by the senate, now goes to the president for signature.
The Senate failed to break the Taft appointment deadlock as Republicans and Democrats battled over 31 to 31 tie votes and an executive session. Democratic allies Bristow La Follette and Poindexter aided in stalling action amid absent members. Republicans anticipated no quick path to advancing or blocking hundreds of nominations.
Frederick O. K. Beach, a New York millionaire, and his wife flown to Aiken South Carolina for trial on charges of assaulting Mrs Beach at their winter home about a year ago. The case has drawn wide interest with sensational expectations as Mrs Beach suffered severe slashing to head and neck. Authorities shifted the indictment from an attack by a black man to the husband.
Springfield reports the Illinois legislature broke a deadlock by electing William McKinley of Chicago on the seventy sixth ballot to the U S Senate. The vote involved a Democratic and Republican coalition amid bribery rumors. McKinley denied any deal and pledged impartial presiding. Barrett, Kinley’s law partner, was elected speaker.
Helena January 2 The attorney general says a new county created by legislature would be unconstitutional this session if based on a special act. He notes chapter 112 laws of 111 shows a general law applies, with three counties already created under it. A special act to create a county would fail.
Des Moines Iowa January 2 A state plan to require screening of every film by the state censor before showing in any picture houses is to be presented to the legislature tomorrow by Representative Burt The Burt bill calls for exhibition of each film prior to public display in Iowa theaters.
Philadelphia January 29 Former Senator Joseph Bailey warned that anarchy will prevail in the United States unless politics are checked He criticized reliance on government and urged voters to debase bosses and demagogues who he said strip power from the people in public affairs
A Chinese laborer died in the surf at Point of Rocks after a fatal accident with a closing abalone shell. Fishermen found the body. authorities note the man likely drowned while trying to free his fingers. Separately, Au puptic school closures due to a measles epidemic halt classes citywide. Eighty measles cases reported to health authorities to date.
Dispatches from Constantinople and London describe stalled peace talks over Adrianople and potential Turkish surrender terms. Mutinies and troop shortages threaten campaigns while diplomats, led by Entente plenipotentiaries, anticipate a new framework. The Greek premier Venizelos tours Vienna Belgrade Sofia and Salonika amid alliance unity efforts.
Sast Correspondence of the Standard reports the Montana senate will debate the educational consolidation bill after committee action. Senators Dearborn Selway and Leighton voted to report unfavorably while Htout and Duncan backed a favorable report. The White side measure splits the chamber as tomorrow’s sessions at the Helena Commercial Club host house hearings on four adjournment acts and districting plans for two congressional districts.
Albany is N.Y. Jan. 22. Attorney General Carmody states General Sickles should not deter New York from pursuing $22,476 misused as chair of the state monuments commission. He notes Sickles appropriated funds for private use and that justice must apply equally to all, despite revered Civil War service. The letter addresses Mrs. Helen Longstreet of Ville, Ga, widow of Ina Longstreet.
Militant suffragettes Drummond and nine others face 14 days in jail for storming the House of Commons in an effort to force Chancellor Lloyd George to meet them. Police report their preparations. many carried boxes and blankets as they were processed at London stations. Miss Rankin, Montana advocate, announced plans for the suffrage movement and upcoming campaigns including a Washington parade.
Judge Judie Sabath fined Mesmar Johnson for abusive remarks made to Mrs Minnie Brooks over the phone. The court held that telephone abuse carries the same disorderly conduct weight as face to face harassment, calling Johnson a jealous woman and noting the conduct was flagrant comparable to visiting Brooks to insult her.
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