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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1912
Page
2
Report notes a White House conference to approve a platform for the president. The purpose was to inform Mr. Harding that Ohio State convention delegates-at-large are chosen to ensure control and no compromise. Harding left Washington tonight.
The scout cruiser Chester will depart Philadelphia on May 31 to relieve the Birmingham and patrol North Atlantic routes for ice packs and bergs. Three Bureau of Standards officials will join to carry temperature measuring apparatus and seek a method to detect iceberg proximity.
Bert H. Franklin testified in Los Angeles that Darrow gave him $4,000 intended to influence jurors in the McNamara trial. He described meetings, conflicts with White about Lockwood, and negotiations with Darrow, Kruger, and others as prosecutors pressed for bribe details.
President Taft urged swift legislation to curb habit forming drugs in a message to Congress. Secretary Knox warned the nation risks being seen as half hearted in fighting opium evils without quick action on pending bills. He noted the United States would withhold ratification of the opium convention until 34 more countries sign.
In Washington on May 31 the senate voted 45 to 11 to pass the house bill extending the eight hour day to government contracts. The measure requires that future government contracts include a clause prohibiting laborers or mechanics from working more than eight hours in a calendar day. A $5 penalty is set for each violation.
In Washington on May 31 the house debated Canadian reciprocity during the Military Academy appropriation bill. Democratic Rep Shackleford blamed Taft for the measure while Republican Rep Prince accused the Democratic leadership of alignment with Taft. Roosevelt was praised by Prince and criticized by Hardwick for a late endorsement. Gubernatorial lines and party tensions surfaced amid taunts and a Missouri brag about electoral impact.
Representative Edwards of Georgia introduces a bill demanding the attorney general immediately investigate the beef trust. The measure seeks an honest inquiry into whether the trust controls meat prices and imposes penalties including fines and imprisonment.
Senate plans to add repeal of the Canadian reciprocity act as an amendment to every tariff revision bill. Senator Gronna argues the act was partisan and provides lawmakers a chance to purge themselves. House Ways and Means to consider the metal bill amendments tomorrow. Commerce Court funds contested in conference. Sloan nomination to Arizona district court discussed in executive session.
Senator Kern of Indiana, leading the minority challenging Lorimer’s election, announced the case would be pushed to Monday for a two week discussion. He said he would keep the case before the Senate, with Lorimer’s arrival expected early next week.
Macon Ga May 31 Following federal inquiry a warrant is to be issued tomorrow charging Thomas E Watson former Populist leader and Democratic convention delegate at large with sending abstinence matter through the mails The material in Watsons May issue of his magazine under The Roman Catholic Hierarchy is cited as the basis for the charge
The Republican National Committee grapples with seat distribution as 226 contests emerge from 204 previously listed. Illinois delegates head to Oyster Bay to meet Colonel Roosevelt amid tension with Dixon. Roosevelt hints at possible Chicago travel if circumstances demand.
In Clifton Springs New York on May 31 the annual missionary session of the International Missionary Union was led by Mrs W H Belding of Bulgaria and Mrs Alice M Williams of China. Speakers included missionaries from China Japan Korea India and Africa. Evening session was led by the Reverend Sumner Stone of Indiana and featured F L Brown of Brooklyn associate general secretary of the World's Sunday School Association.
Mrs. Russell Sage and Mrs. BH Harriman donated to Mayor Gaynor's Southern flood relief fund. Sage gave 2500 dollars and Harriman contributed 1000. The day’s gifts raised the fund to 4519 dollars and the overall total to 18776 dollars.
C. Roddy and George Raul were sentenced to one year in prison for larceny in Atlanta after pleading guilty to stealing $20,000 worth of jewelry from a Cincinnati salesman. The jewelry was recovered in New Orleans.
A government report shows a sharp fall in Ohio corporate incomes for the 1912 fiscal year compared with 1911. First district tax base drops to 457,700.07 from 470,021.72, with other districts like Tenth, Eleventh, and Eighteenth also recording sizable declines in tax assessed.
unofficial returns show Dwight W. Morrow of Englewood leading Taft in several districts while Roosevelt voters miss delegations. A lone Taft delegate for Chicago could result if Morrow wins, surprising him as final tallies await several days. He is a New Jersey lawyer with New York offices.
Official tabulation shows Harmon with 100 090 votes and Wilson with 89 116 in the Democratic presidential preference primary. Bryan counts 2 466 votes, Clark 2 467, Taft and La Follette also receive scattered votes as write-ins. Total ballots 194 246.
The subcommittee on arrangements released the official program for Ohio's Democratic state convention at the new Terminal auditorium in Toledo. Delegates from 88 counties totaling 9352 seats will attend with preliminary meetings Tuesday led by Edward W. Hanley. The convention aims to nominate the state ticket and presidential electors and select the Ohio Big Six for the national convention, with key sessions Tuesday and Wednesday.
At a senate territories committee hearing on Alaska’s path to an elected legislature, Gifford Pinchot urged self-government for residents and endorsed government leases of 3,000 acres for coal, with taxes on sailing prices and government ownership of railroads. Delegie Wickersham argued for a legislature and noted Alaska’s strategic coal for navy ships, proposing coal stations and navy yards as national defense measures. Since the territory’s purchase Alaska has yielded about 440 million dollars in wealth, including 195.6 million in gold and 147 million in salmon, with the US bearing government costs.
A report from Columbus outlines seven Republican county conventions scheduled for today to determine which Taft or Roosevelt faction will influence the state convention Monday. Delegates will be chosen in Champlain Fairfield Madison Morgan Richland Shelby and Montgomery counties.
Washington May 31 Director McKinley of the Taft bureau issued a statement on Roosevelt’s bid to recall Republican national committee members by states that elected Roosevelt delegates. He argues there is no precedent in the committee for such action and that vacancies must be filled by the regular method, leaving no alternative to changing personnel.
Washington reports a new forest fire preventive system mobilizing 55000 rural and star route mail carriers to aid forest rangers and state wardens. The order by Postmaster General Hitchcock directs carriers to report fires observed on daily routes totaling about 1200000 miles, with postmasters also required to report fires.
Washington May 31 A Norris bill would bring oper ations of the coffee trust under Interstate Commerce laws. The measure would amend the antitrust statute to declare as illegal any conspiracy by two or more persons importing articles from foreign countries that restrains commerce or raises prices.
Mrs. Jes sie Barnes killed Mrs. W. W. Judd on a Buffalo Valley Tennessee passenger car platform after rumors of Judd's alleged attentions to Barnes' husband. Barnes, a former distiller and Putnam county landowner, was arrested shortly after the shooting. Judd died instantly. Barnes' husband was in Nashville at the time.
Senator Joseph M. Dixon, Roosevelt campaign manager, may bring a demand for 250 convention tickets before the Republican national committee in Chicago on June 6. Dixon sent long telegrams protesting subcommittee chair Harry B. New's refusal. New said the request was for the Roosevelt national committee, not for Colonel Roosevelt, and was refused like other candidates’ managers' applications.
Denver leaders of progressive Republicans issued a call for a state progressive Republican convention in Denver on June 6. The event aims to elect a protesting delegation favoring Roosevelt to be sent to the Republican convention.
Ex-State Senator Walter J. Alsdorf of Licking county announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for congressman-at-large. Alsdorf authored the first tax commission bill in the legislature.
Colonel Roosevelt returned to Sagamore Hill after a Gettysburg trip and a day in New York. He conferred with supporters on the Chicago convention delegate lineup. Roosevelt’s manager Chauncey Deeney and Chicago’s Medill McCormick were among those involved.
New York May 31 Cornélius Vanderbilt was named lieutenant colonel of the national guard with brevet title after his appointment as inspector general. Vanderbilt joined the guard in 1901 when elected a second lieutenant of the Twelfth Regiment.
May 41. Charles Wille's neck was broken and his mother, Mrs. Charles Schermerhorn, was severely injured when their automobile turned turtle near Newcomb today. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lacé and Miss Nora Driscoll were slightly injured.
Lucas County Democrats in Toledo May 31 selected twenty six delegates and twenty alternates to the state convention without endorsing Governor Harmon for president. The convention approved a resolution backing Judson Harmon as Ohio governor and directing the secretary to notify him. O'Dwyer and Lucas County backing Cox for governor. delegates remain uninstructed and will follow orders from O'Dwyer.
Early returns show Speaker Champ Clark ahead of Governor Falton in Rhode Island with Clark about three to one. At 11 pm, one third of the state reported from 28 of 76 districts giving Clark 98 and Falton 24.
Randiph Katz a Socialist candidate for Congress from New Jersey's Seventh District and an Industrial Workers of the World organizer was jailed for six months in Paterson county jail for interfering with employees at a Bilk mill. He said he would appeal to continue his campaign.
Yale Harvard Princeton and Cincinnati alumni gathered yesterday for a joint afternoon at LeSanteville Country Club in Pleasant Ridge, enjoying golf tennis baseball and a dinner and smoker. Committee leaders included G B Sykes Harvard Joan W Heriot Jr Yale and William Cooper Procter Princeton with transport golf and baseball coordinators named.
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