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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1911
Page
16
Washington December 3 The first regular session of the Sixty second Congress will convene at noon tomorrow with nearly all members in their seats and packed galleries. Leaders including Speaker Clark predict a long session possibly running beyond the national party conventions, a longer stoppage than since 1888.
Tomorrow Congress begins amid party maneuvering over tariff trust and other major issues. Speaker Clark predicts a long session into summer or fall as Underwood signals urgent Ways and Means action. Focus will fall on tariff revisions including wool cotton iron and steel and possibly sugar with look to the American Sugar Refining Company report. The Senate balance rests with insurgent Republicans whose stance will shape Senate outcomes. In the House all eyes on Littleton as he faces steel trust probe scrutiny and party unity tensions rise.
Oswald Garrison Villard of the New York Evening Post condemns Harvard for refusing Mrs. Pankhurst a lecture hall. The Harvard Crimson notes the rebroadcast of his critique as tensions flare in the dispute.
Oswald Garrison Villard 1893 argues Harvard’s response to Mrs. Pankhurst shows disgraceful reactionary attitude. He praises the speaker and urges undergraduates to attend a Brattle Hall event in her honor, calling the university’s action a lamentable blunder and a test of its courtesy and taste.
Walter Ballantyne of Salem Street urged opening public playgrounds for recreation on Sunday afternoons year round. He proposed consolidating management under one head, adding lights and supervision from morning to night, while criticizing current use by older youths that excludes small children.
State police will again seek the sealed inquest records on vote buying from 1908 held in New Bedford. Judge Milliken holds the papers, which are now to be used by David I. Walsh in his ongoing investigation. The file, including testimony from 94 witnesses, implicates prominent city figures and could lead to warrants.
Local church leaders denounce vote buying and urge citizens to vote on Tuesday free from corrupting influences. Sermons by Rev. Frank Ramsdell, Rev. Lester M. Conrow, and Rev. J. J. Bartholomew urge a church backed crusade to stamp out corruption and protect republican government. They condemn ward heelers and political bosses and call for concerted action by all city churches.
Prominent Boston suffragists led by Miss Margaret Foley Miss Eleanor Garrison and Miss Edna Cliff used white chalk to inscribe sidewalk notices calling for a suffrage rally. The message labeled Mrs Pankhurst Tremont Temple December 5 at 8 pm.
Massachusetts Woman's Suffrage Association planned to chalk chalky notices on sidewalks and steps to advertise a rally. Miss Florence Luscomb and colleagues posted on Ford Hall Bowdoin Beacon City Hall and Newspaper Row before being halted by a Post reporter citing a city ordinance.
The Metropolitan Plan Commission proposes a bill to create a metropolitan planning commission of five members. The group was set to present suggestions for legislation to mayors city councils and hundreds of officials across 38 towns in the metropolitan parks district.
A Boston commission outlines establishing a permanent central planning authority to coordinate regional development while preserving local autonomy. It calls for state and district funding, a metropolitan survey, radial highways, circumferential routes, and a planning board of three appointees to balance suburban interests with Boston.
Hilda Carlson, 20, broke through the ice on Greene pond in Fitchburg while skating with companions. About 200 skaters frantically helped, but she drowned. Police recovered the body in seven feet of water an hour later. medical examiner viewed it. The girl's mother, an invalid, was left in serious condition by the shock.
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