La Follette Opens Second Fight to Expel Lorimer
Wisconsin senator La Follette renews attack on Lorimer in the senate. He reads names of those who voted for and against seating the "blonde boss" and urges a full investigation into bribery and corruption claims. Two resolutions propose sweeping inquiry into Lorimer’s entitlement to his seat.
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Cabinet shifts predicted as Taft seeks progressive addition
Insurgent leaders predict another cabinet resignation soon to make room for a more progressive figure of the Fisher or Stimson type. The president is believed to favor adding a progressive to his official family, likely replacing a conservative member such as Secretary Knox or Secretary MacVeagh.
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Woman's eight hour bill limits DC jobs for young workers
In Washington on May 23 Representative Berger of Wisconsin introduced a bill restricting women and children in the District of Columbia to work no later than six o clock p m Girls under eighteen are prohibited from working after that hour to protect young labor.
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Freight rate war looms over New York to Chicago shipping
Washington reports the Delaware and Hudson seeks to cut New York to Chicago freight rates to 62 cents per hundred pounds first class, effective June 15. The move, aimed at longer hauls, prompts possible litigation and resistance from other carriers and shippers fearing a volatile rate battle.
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Two Killed In Soo Wreck Near Gray's Lake
In Waukegan Illinois on May 23 two Soo Line freight trains collided head on near Gray's Lake. Fireman James Carey of Fond du Lac Wisconsin was killed and conductor Ed Miller of Fond du Lac buried under debris. Brakeman Ray Davis jumped but was fatally injured and expected to die.
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Presbyterians for Union Move and Pension Fund
Atlantic City N J May 23 The 128th annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian church unanimously adopted a report urging union with the Reformed church protested government acceptance of the silver service for the battleship Utah bearing an engraving of Brigham Young and the Mormon tabernacle a fund of six million dollars was started to finance pension increases for disabled ministers and widows and testimony was taken in the heresy trial of Rev W D Grant of Northumberland Pa.
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Bishop attacks Ibsen and Shaw at Iowa convention
Bishop Morrison of Davenport denounces Ibsen and George Bernard Shaw in a diocesan address in Sioux City urging Episcopalians to oppose depictions of human nature as animal and to defend religious values.
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