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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1913
Page
1
President Wilson has selected men who know their work for important cabinet positions, signaling a focus on capable administration. The appointments aim to strengthen governance and implement policy priorities.
Washington reporting on Woodrow Wilson's cabinet highlights five trusted members for delivering results. James C McReynolds Franklin K Lane and Albert S Burleson receive emphasis for competence. The piece details McReynolds past as assistant attorney general and his evolving tobacco case involvement and subsequent rewards.
Tonight will be fair with clear skies. Wednesday brings increasing cloudiness and warmer temperatures across the region.
The note recalls a political rift as a figure opposed to the Republican line in 1896 backed Palmer and Buckner. A payment of a fee followed by continued obligation reflects the era’s factional divisions and lingering administration ties.
President Wilson faces a potential expansion of the April 1 special session agenda beyond tariff reform as urgent pleas on currency reform and Alaska development reach the White House. Senate leaders remain focused on tariff only, while progressive Republicans may join to support the agenda. Dockery nomination moves to the Senate after a White House push.
Plans for a home of a newspaper drawn and contract ready to let. Doors of penitentiary closed to state health board inspectors.
The News-Star plans a two story brick plant facing Grammont Street with new presses and a modern press room. A Goss Comet Webb Perfecting press will be installed with the building completion to print 4 6 and 8 page formats from a large roll. The upgrade aims to raise standards and competitiveness in North Louisiana.
New Orleans March 11 reports say the penitentiary barred State Sanitary Engineer J H O Neill and Health Inspector R B Sadler from access. Attorney General Pleasant to interpret the Health Board’s authority to inspect prisons as Dr Dowling seeks legal clarity on the right to inspect state and parish institutions. Colonel Parker disputes recent insanitary claims and defends penitentiary administration.
New Orleans dispatch reports Governor Hall denying any pursuit of a U.S. district judgeship. In New York he says no vacancy exists and he has made no moves toward candidacy while focusing on state issues. The Item had teased a possible vacancy and Hall’s alleged “fences” in Washington.
Mexico City reports charges that an American syndicate funds the revolt of former Sonora Governor Jose Maytorina. Deputy Modena presented the charges in the Chamber of Deputies last night. Mr. T. W. Robison, a longtime Ruston resident, is spending the day in Monroe.
The speaker urges Gov. L. E. Hall to accompany him to inspect prison facilities in the city and Angola to verify a harsh report about the state institution. He seeks dismissal of the author of the document and withdrawal of the report from public records, but delays arise from busy schedules until the governor returns from Washington. The speaker criticizes the publication for demanding public discussion without firsthand verification.
The Ladies' Co operative Club of Columbia Louisiana held a well attended public meeting Saturday night to aid school improvements. President Mrs C C Penn outlined goals while Miss Zadie Jones and Miss Staley Toombs led a popularity contest. Proceeds fund finishing trees, fencing, and a bell for the school as the group continues improving the grounds and building.
Governor Cole Blease threatens to take over the police department and place Columbia under martial law after a clash with Chief of Police Cathcart over the arrest of the Governor's negro chauffeur for speeding. The driver claimed he was simply giving the Governor a ride.
Associated Press reports a plot to trigger U S intervention in Mexico was blocked after the suppression of disorders at Santrosa in Vera Cruz state. Camerino Men doza, former Rural Guards chief, was killed. Documents allegedly outline plans to appeal to the U S president to restore Madero with possible attacks on foreign residents.
Counsel for the New York Journal of Commerce petitioned the Supreme Court to restrain the Postmaster General Burleson from enforcing the new newspaper publicity law. The measure requires biannual sworn filings of bond holders and stockholders, daily circulation figures, and designation of paid articles as advertisements.
Based on a report concerning conditions for women workers in cotton mills, the opposition group and Doctor Neill address issues raised and call for scrutiny. The document summarizes findings and possible reform measures affecting female labor in textile factories.
Southern Democratic senators unite against Dr. C P Neill confirmation citing his 1911 report on Southern cotton mills and the treatment of women and child workers. The clash marks a potential early Senate obstacle for President Wilson.
James Mythen of Baltimore testified before a Senate committee about abuse endured by Maryland marchers in the March 3 suffrage pageant. He said jeers and obscene remarks greeted the marchers along the line and a police officer told him to go to hell after he complained.
London reports five suffragettes who yesterday tried to deliver petitions to King George while he traveled to parliament were jailed for 21 days to one month. The magistrate offered suspended sentences for future good behavior, which the women rejected in defiant terms.
Mexico City reports a February 9 battle in front of the National Palace resulted in 506 deaths. Of the dead 170 were women 6 children 208 non combatants 10 military students and 40 Federal soldiers with the rest Rebels.
Thomas F. Proctor, chief counsel for the defense, argues in summing up that Julian Hawthorne and co defendants did not receive a fair trial on charges of using the mails to defraud in mining claims. He accuses the government of suppressing evidence and intimidating witnesses. One man reportedly refused to testify, warned he was lucky not to be behind bars with the defendants.
Chicago on March 10 saw Marshall Fields vice president Simp son testify before the State Vice Commission. He admitted the firm could raise the minimum wage for women to 22 dollars per day without increasing prices. Joseph Busch of Siegel Cooper & Co. argued wages and immorality are unrelated and that immorality is a state of mind.
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