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Newspaper
Madras Pioneer
Location
Madras, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1909
Page
7
A digest of international items notes J. Willm’s comments on Taft, Belgium’s Albert, and worldwide events. Panama Expo in San Francisco and United States Steel move jobs to Gary Indiana. Queenly headlines touch labor disputes, rail plans, and public works from Honolulu to Indiana and beyond.
Washington reports a potential US and possibly Mexico backed protectorate in Nicaragua. The move would respond to insurgent and local instability, aiming to secure elections and a constitutional president, with marines possible off the Nicaraguan coast.
Pittsburg leaders of organized labor across the United States and Canada formally declared war on United States Steel for its open shop policy. Samuel Gompers presided as the measure was placed on AFL records after hours of debate. The resolution forwards labor grievances to President Taft the U.S. Senate and the House, with copies to state governors.
Wallace E. Tillinghast vice president of a Worcester firm announces he built and tested a monoplane capable of carrying three passengers. He says he has flown from Worcester to New York to Boston and back, reaching speeds around 120 mph. The inventor will reveal the machine in Worcester for a public demonstration, but identifiers of its location are withheld.
Cincinnati reports that Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railway telegraphers demand a 15 percent wage increase and improved working conditions amid company opposition. Meanwhile Big Four telegraphers head toward a strike, with 90 percent of votes in favor and two thirds of total votes cast.
Secretary Alcot announced at the annual meeting that Roosevelt headed an expedition that has recovered 6.6 skins by December 10. The Smithsonian African expedition includes 248 large mammals 1 500 small mammals and 1 356 birds with a series of human skulls found along ancient slave trails. The work is being documented by the Smithsonian board of regents.
Buffalo December 15 three famous aviators Wilbur and Orville Wright and Glenn H Curtiss of the Herring Curtiss company clash in U S circuit court Judge Hazel presiding. The Wrights seek a preliminary injunction to stop Curtiss and associates from making and selling airplanes alleging patent infringement.
A conference opened in Harbin between Russian consulate officials and Chinese representatives to work out details of the Manchurian railway zone under the peace era agreement.
Washington reports from December 17 note denunciations of executive officials overstepping limits in speeches by Representatives Mann of Illinois and Fitzgerald of New York. The District of Columbia appropriation was to be read but not yet acted, with playground funding added. Ballinger faces a likely congressional probe, while Army engineers seek 0,000 for Cowux river dredging and a 2,000 annual maintenance grant. The canal zone authority dispute prompts pressurized exchange between Mann and Harrison.
The House of Representatives today's session began by referring the president's annual message to its committees. Representative Payne offered an amendment to send paragraphs on appropriations to the department expenditure committees, one per department.
The House spent nearly five hours today debating the District of Columbia appropriation bill, valued at 10,196,478 dollars for district expenses. Representative McCredie introduced bills authorizing public buildings at Vancouver and Aberdeen in Washington, each costing 150,000 dollars, with identical measures in the Senate by Senator Jones.
Representative Fornes of New York introduced a bill to create a central bank of America in Washington with branches across the United States. The bank would have a 100 million dollar capital with three-fifths subscribed by the treasury via 60-year bonds and two-fifths offered to national banks. Branches would be located in New York Ohio New Orleans Boston Denver St Louis Atlanta San Francisco and Portland Oregon. The article notes support for free wood pulp by Representative McDermott of Illinois and reports on a District of Columbia appropriation bill of over 10 million dollars for fiscal 1911 plus several invalid pension bills. The House voted to reconvene on January 4 after holidays and adjourned at 2:47 p.m.
The Washington senate approved Cullom's resolution seeking Interior Department information on mining disasters and federal aid. Foster introduced a joint resolution allowing the War Department to return the original Louisiana secession ordinance to the state, signaling possible claims by other former Confederacy states. Piles proposed bills to raise public building costs in Hellingham and Everett, fund Eliva Island light and Puget Sound launch, and Jones sought sites for new public buildings in Wenatchee Waterville and Ellensburg. Idaho postmasters confirmed include Jones Kellogg Curtins Blackfoot Wyman Mullan Presley Hailey land office.
Secretary Dickinson ordered all branches of the war department to cease contracting with Standard Oil and its subsidiaries. The ban follows a court finding that the company is an illegal trust, extending to Panama Canal supplies as well.
Washington lawmakers passed the Esch bill mandating full monthly rail accident reports to the Interstate Commerce Commission and granting power to require uniform equipment for railroad cars. The House also opened debate on the Panama Canal bill, facing strong opposition to plans for an Isthmian canal commission abolition and a single director general. Debate covered canal jurisdiction and proposals to vest judicial power in a single circuit court with potential abolition of the Supreme Court of the canal zone.
The white slave traffic bill introduced by Mann of the house interstate commerce committee will be taken up today with aims to regulate and prevent transportation of alien women and girls for immoral purposes across interstate and foreign commerce. Supporters anticipate passage in both houses, with the main hurdle a jurisdictional question over the interstate commerce law.
Washington reports 1908 navy and marine corps fatalities total 305. Drownings caused 47 deaths, the most of any cause, with 5.76 per thousand. Other leading deaths were tuberculosis 30, pneumonia 24, and heart disease 21.
Washington December 14 Representative Mann chairman of the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce stated that regardless of opinion on the measure if a bill passes the house amending the anti trust law that law would be strengthened rather than weakened by such action He did not express personal views on the probability of passage.
A final agreement was reached today between counsel for both sides in the lumber rate cases. Argument will be heard either in Washington or Chicago. The cases appear to challenge the power of the common carrier more than the rates, though rates are the stated issue.
Washington Des 13 The Mann bill to govern the canal zone and oversee canal construction was discussed by the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce and ordered favorably reported to the house.
Senator Heyburn will depart Wednesday with the naval committee aboard the cruiser Dolphin for a tour of the Panama Canal. They plan to inspect the canal and return to Washington around January 4.
Count Schwerin von Teewitz addresses the Berlin conservative convention criticizing concessions on American meat in exchange for tariff rates. He argues higher duties harm Germany and urges government restraint, citing public health and German livestock interests. He questions the chancellor's stance amid treaty talks.
Omaha reports Willett M. Hays and associates will launch a magazine on scientific breeding of plants and animals. A new heredity department in the American Breeders' Association will be led by David Starr Jordan with a broader funding drive to support a business publication.
John D. Druillard, ex first assistant engineer of the steamer St. Croix, testified to federal inspectors that seven and a half barrels of oil leaked into the bilge during a trip after tanks were loaded to the top. He said leaks were present but orders to limit loading were countermanded, and he noted open lights below decks and a possible cigarette causing the fire. The inquiry closed today.
Negotiations between the railroads conference committee and the switchmen's committee begin in Chicago Monday as per an unauthorised statement from the General Managers' association. An Interstate Commerce Commission and Labor Department official will also hear the dispute between the Illinois Central Railroad and its telegraphers seeking a 10 percent wage increase.
Mrs Roxen B Sutton mother of Lt James N Sutton who died at Annapolis plans to press for indictment of officers connected to the Annapolis inquiry. She will proceed with her lawyers before the Maryland grand jury when its Baltimore sessions resume next month.
King Leopold II of Belgium, gravely ill, prepared for last resort surgery. He received confession and Holy Communion at The Palms as relatives and officials gathered, with doctors doubtful and public hope fading. His private affairs were settled with Count Oultremont before a final farewell to family.
A midnight blaze in a Cincinnati tenement at Third and Sycamore streets killed two women two men and three children and seriously injured seven others. Inmates crowded windows and roofed over. several attempted jumps as firemen restrained others. Loss estimated around 25000 dollars.
In Camas Washington on December 14 a governor on a high speed dynamo engine tore itself apart at the Crown Columbia paper mill. A large flywheel piece flew through the second floor wrecking timbers and seriously injuring worker Sam McKever. A paper machine was badly damaged and part of the mill is shut down for repairs.
Wesley Haughtelin an 11 year old dies after a schoolyard marble dispute with 16 year old Truman Flint the cause described as an accident by W E Haughtelin the boy's father who says he will not prosecute.
A blaze consumed the Mon Astery home of scientists and staff, burning valuable observatory records and papers, along with Professor Hale’s scientific library. The loss includes rare documents and core research materials.
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