Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 1, 1911, Page 9

PAGE EIGHT MAIL CLERKS IN SECRET SESSION Form Organization at Meeting in St. Paul DECIDE TO ACT AS A UNIT Resignations of Majority of Men Em- ployed in Northwest Placed in Hands of Officers. St. Paul, Jan. 28.—Forming a per- manent secret organization to be known as he Brotherhood of Rail- way Postal Mail Clerks,” 200 railway mail clerks, representing 2,000 clerks from different cities in the Northwest, met in ret session in St. Paul and adopted resolutions demanding radi- eal changes in the present system. As an evid > of their intention to see that their demands are given a hear- ing the c turned over to officials ef the new organization signed resig- mations to become effective when 75 per cent of the signers deem it ad- visable The clerks explain that they cannot strike and that their only resource is to resign. The formation of the organ- iwation, however, indicates that the men have determined to act as a unit im their opposition to the present atti- tude of the department. The resolu- tions adopted were sent to the de partment at Washington. The clerks demand an eight-hour day, full pay for men filling vacancies, the rein- statement of suspended clerks and a method of arbitrating differences. Requirements of membership in the Brotherhood of Railway Postal Clerks is contained in the following pledge, signed by each of the 200 men pres- ent: ‘We, the undersigned railway pos- tal cle . do hereby pledge ourselves to support whatever action is deemed advisable by 75 per cent of the sign- ers for the purpose of enabling the officers of this organization to execute the will of said organization. We kkereby place our resignations at the disposal of the officers with the fore- going restrictions.” The object of this action was de clared by the clerks not a threat of a strike, but to create public sentiment That will demand a thorough investiga- tion of conditions under which they work NOT A VOTE IN OPPOSITION House Committee Approves the Tariff Board Bill. Washington, Jan. 25.—A permanent rd of five members to investi- questions for the benefit of 5 »rovided for in a bill unan- greed upon by the house tee on ways and means. The ective July 1, contains sub ly the provisions of the Long: worth aid Dailzell bills. When the White House learned that the committee had agreed unanimous ty to report favorably on the bill Presi- dent Taft expressed great gratifica- tion. He informed by telephone from the Capitol that, with slight modi- fications, the bill he approved of had been agreed to by both Republican and Democratic members of the commit- tee. One change is made in the measure, which will allow the senate as wel) as the house to call upon the commission for information THREATEN TO GO ON STRIKE Street Railway Employes Dissatisfied. Chicago, Jan. 29.—Eight thousand employes of the Chicago City Railway eompany threaten to strike unless agreement is reached within the next few days on a dispute over the inter- pretation of a clause in the working agreement relative to maximum and minimum hours of work and minimum rates of pay The working agreement contains a elause providing that the men shal! be employed a minimum of nine hours a day and a maximum of eleven hours Chicago This clause is interpreted by the men to mean that the motormen and eenductors shall receive nine hours’ pay for any number of hours work less than nine hours. ROOSEVELT TO MAKE TOUR Fifteen Engagements to Speak on Ex. tensive Trip. New York, Jan. 26.—Theodore Roosevelt’s next tour will begin here March 8 and will sweep around the boundaries of the country, through the South Atlantic and Gulf states, the new Southwest, up the Pacific coast to Idaho and Montana and then direct home. Colonel Roosevelt has accepted fifteen engagements to speak, and probably will make more. The subject matter of his speeches has not been made public. Schenk Jury Disagrees. Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 28.—The jury in the triai of Mrs. John O. Schenk, charged with the attempted poisoning of her husband, has @is- agreed. The jury stood 11 to 1, pre- eumably for acquittal. SENATE KILLS RESOLUTION Reapportionment Plan Loses in Min- nesota Upper House. Legislative reapportionment is as dead as the vote of the Minnesota state senate can make it. By a vote of 22 to 39 the senators declared as plainly as possible that they will not consent to legislating themselves out of office two years ahead of time. The vote was on the resolution by Senator George P. Wilson, reported to pass by the reapportionment commit- tee. It merely fixed a maximum limit of 63 senators and 126 representatives. No senator voting against the reso- lution even suggested that there »hould be a larger membership. The “no” votes came from men who do not want: reapportionment at all and will vote to kill any proposition of the kind that comes up. Thorough investigation of charges against the work of the state drain- age commission, which has been in prospect for some time, will be under- taken by a subcommittee of the house committee on drainage. Government Will Appeal Judge Wil lard’s “Lid” Decision. ernment trom the decision of United midji liquor case. This announcement was made by a member of the Minne- sota delegation who has been follow- ‘mg the liquor situation closely. It also is understood President Taft will issue an order before the end of the week annulling all the Indian treaties, so far as the liquor pro- visions are concerned, save that of 1855, which is involved in the Bemidji ease. annulled save by action of congress. No action of that character will be necessary if Judge Willard’s decision is upheld by the supreme court. WALKE? DEPUTY SHERIFF KILLED Shot by Man for Whom He Had Warrant, While endeavoring to serve a war- rant on Charles H. Smith, caretaker at the summer home of A. W. Morris of St. Louis, located near Walker, this state, Deputy Sheriff Harry McCabe was shot and fatally injured. He died as a result of the wound while en route to a Bemidji hospital and in his dying statement accused Smith of the crime. He stated in order to quiet the sus- picions of the Smiths, who have been accused of petty thievery, that he walked to the Morris home three miles from the city, instructing Mike Mount- briand, a local livery man, to follow with a team. As the deputy sheriff entered the guaming the door with a rifie. This McCabe took away from her. He later placed handcuffs on her wrists and en- deavored to make a search of the premises for goods which were sup- posed to have been stolen and con- cealed there. As he entered one of the side rooms Smith, who had been hiding in it, shot charge taking effect in McCabe’s ab- domen. DULUTH PIONEER IS DEAD Captain C. H. Green Settled in Zenith City in 1871. Captain C. H. Green, eighty-five years of age, is dead at Duluth. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1826. As 4 sailor he circled the globe five times. Captain Green served in the signal corps on the Cumberland of the British navy during the Crimean war. He is survived by four daugh- ters and three sons. Captain Green hamlet and has made Duluth his home since 1871. He spoke ten languages. DULUTH TO BE SECOND GARY Stee! Corporation to Spend $40,000,- 000 on Piant There. About $40,000,000, according to the latest information, will be expended this year in the plant to be erected by the Minnesota Steel company, a sub- sidiary of the United States Steel cor- poration, at Duluth. It is the ultimate intention of the steel corporation to make Duluth a second Gary, increasing the size of the plant from time to time. Street Cars Collide. Five men were injured, one perhaps | fatally, in a head on collision of two railway. The cars came together with great violence, the south bound car crashing through the vestibule of the north bound car and pinning the mo- torman of the latter, Charles J. Lucier, against the side of the car. He was severely crushed and may die. St. Paul Manufacturer Dead. Richards Gordon, eighty-two years old, president of Gordon & Ferguson, wholesale furriers and hat manufac- turers of St. Paul, died in New Rochelle, N. Y., of old age. His only daughter, Mrs. Catherine Gordon French, the novelist, was at his bed- | side. ( GOES TO SUPREME COURT An appeal will be taken by the gov-) States District Judge Willard in the Be | The treaty of 1855 cannot be| Morris home he found Mrs. Smith) him with a sawed off shotgun, the, visited San Francisco when it was a| street cars of the Minneapolis street , GRAND RAPIDS HERALD REVIEW ‘WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY, 1, 1911. FREE TRADE IN FOOD PRODUCTS Terms of Agreement Between Canada and United States, eee PUBLISHED IN BOTH LANDS | | Reciprocity Plan Simultaneously Laid | Before American Congress and Canadian Parliament. Washington, Jan. 27.—Within less | than ten months after the initiation | by President Taft of negotiations with | the Canadian government there was laid simultaneously before the Ameri- | can congress at Washington and the Ottawa a | Canadian parliament at reciprocity arrangement. { Usually such arrangements take the | form of a treaty, but in the present instance this was not done. with the | result that considerabie time will be | | saved in the consummation of the | agreement, which can be made effect- | ive by a simple majority vote in each | of the two legislatures. | The animating purpose of Secretary | Knox appeared to have been to secure | a reduction of the “high cost of liv- | ing” by greatly enlarging the free list | so far as it relates to foodstuffs com- | ing from Canada. The intention of the commissioners ' to remove all duties on printing paper ‘and wood pulp was effected so far as | the Dominion government could do it | outside the limitations existing in the laws of the Canadian provincial gov- | ernments imposing an export duty on wood cut on crown lands in Canada. The agreement, to become effective, must be put in the shape of law amendatory of the existing tariff acts in the United States and in Canada and it will require sharp work to ac- complish this, so far as congress is concerned, in the brief period of time remaining of the present session. ¢ The terms of the agreement were | made public simultaneously at Wash- | ington and Ottawa. President Taft sent it to congress with an extended | message urging the confirmation of the proposed treaty. The state depart- ment gave out a summary of the tariff changes as follows: Summary of Tariff Changes. “The basis of the agreement is this: “Reciprocity on leading food prod- | ucts such as wheat and other grains; dairy products, fresh fruits and vege- tables, eggs and poultry, cattle, sheep and other live animals. Also certain commodities now free in one country are to be made free by the other, such as cottonseed oi] by Canada and rough lumber by the United States. “Tin and terns plates, now dutiable in both countries, are made mutually free; barbed wire fencing, now exempt- ed from duty by Canada, is also ex- empted by the United States. Some new materials, such as mica and gyp- sum, which enter into numerous in- dustries, are to be made free by the United States. “Printing paper is to become free on the removal of all restrictions on the exportation of pulpwood. “Mutually reduced identical rates on secondary food products such as fresh | Meats, canned meats, bacon and hams, lard and lard compounds, canned vege- tables, flour, cereal preparations, and other foodstuffs partly manufactured. “Mutually reduced rates on a list of | manufactured commodities which in- chides motor vehicles, cutlery, clocks | and watches, sanitary fixtures, satch- {els and similar leather goods, plate | glass, brass band instruments, print- ‘ing ink and miscellaneous articles. Ag- ricultural implements, such as plows, harvesters, threshing machines and | drills are reduced by Canada to the United States rates. “A small list of articles is given as | special by each country. Canada re- duces coal to 45 cents per ton and cement to 11 cents per hundred pounds. The United States reduces iron ore to 10 cents per ton, lowers the rate on aluminum products, and / on dressed lumber.” | i | | SAYS ROYAL PAIR ARE HAPPY | Envoy Denies Story of Break Between Alfonso and Victoria. | Washington, Jan. 29.—The attention of the Spanish legation having been attracted by certain publications that domestic infelicity has brought about an estrangement between King Al- fonso and his royal spouse, Queen Victoria, Minister Rieno entered an emphatic denial of the story. The minister asserts unhesitatingly that the royal pair enjoy the happiest of relations. gael The rumors of separation are be- lieved by him to have been set afioat maliciously by anti-dynastic influences. 4 SIR CHARLES DILKE DEAD England Mourns Loss of One of Great Political Leaders, London, Jan. 27.—Sir Charles Went- worth Dilke is dead. The immediate cause of death was heart trouble. 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Another murder mystery developed {for the Minneapolis police depart- ment to solve in the finding of the mu- tilated body of a man probably sixty years old near Glenwood Park, two blocks beyond the city limits. The timber, and, according to the coroner, The house passed a bill to appro- the provision of the constitution that , P°dY Was mutilated and the head priate $636,000 for the completion of reapportionment shall be based on | *TUShed in various buildings for the University population. of Minnesota and for other purposes. Representative Ole Peterson's pill |SUbscribe for the Herald-Review. °