WM L.WARD NAT COMM. OF NY. COL. CHAS DICK THE TAFT COL HARRY C NEW LEGAL EXPERT VICTOR ROSEWATER A FEW OF THE NOTABLES AT THE CHICAGO CONVENTION RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS (From May 17 to June 11, 1912) PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS May 17.-The Senate discusses the Steel bill. May 18.-The House confers additional powers on the committee investigating the Money Trust. May 20.-The Senate committee investigating the election of Mr. Lorimer (Rep., Ill.), by vote of 5 to 3, reports that no evidence had been submitted to show that the election was brought about by corruption. May 22. In the Senate, Mr. Smoot (Rep., Utah) concludes a four-day speech against the Metal bill and in defense of the Payne-Aldrich tariff. . . . The House passes a measure placing the so-called Friar Lands under the jurisdiction of the Philippine Government. May 23.-The House passes the Panama Canal bill, admitting American-owned ships free, fixing a toll of $1.25 per net registered ton on foreign ships, and debarring vessels owned directly or indirectly by railroads. May 27.-The conference report on the Army bill is presented in both Houses, the clause affecting Major-General Wood being retained. . . . The House adopts an amendment to the Naval appropriation bill, applying the eight-hour law to the mining of coal used by the navy. May 28. In the Senate, the special committee which investigated the causes leading to the wreck of the Titanic makes its report; a resolution is passed, conferring the thanks of Congress upon the officers and crew of the Carpathia for rescuing the survivors. . . . The House passes the Naval appropriation bill ($119,000,000) without provision for new battleships. May 29. The Senate adopts, as an amendment to the Steel bill, a provision repealing the Canadian reciprocity measure and reducing the duty on print paper to $2 a ton. . . . In the House, Mr. Difenderfer (Dem., Pa.) introduces a resolution calling for a thorough investigation of the anthracite coal trade. June 7.-The House votes not to appropriate money for the defense of the Tariff Board. June 8. In the Senate, Mr. Kern (Dem., Ind.) concludes his speech on the Lorimer case; July 6 is fixed as the date for final action. ... In the House, the resolution directing an investigation of anthracite coal prices and wages is unanimously reported from committee. June 10.-The Senate adopts the conference report on the Army appropriation bill, which legislates General Wood out of office as Chief of Staff. June 11.-The Senate votes to retain in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial appropriation bill the provision abolishing the Commerce Court. POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT-AMERICAN May 17.-The Socialist National Convention, at Indianapolis, nominates Eugene Victor Debs, of Indiana, for President, and Emil Seidel, of Wisconsin, for Vice-President. District Attorney at New York to break up the May 18.-A suit is brought by the United States alleged Coffee Trust. May 21. In the Ohio Presidential preference primary, Colonel Roosevelt defeats President Taft by more than 30,000 votes, electing thirty-four of the Democratic contest.... The Louisiana Legisthe district delegates; Governor Harmon carries lature elects Representatives Joseph E. Ransdell (Dem.) and Robert F. Broussard (Dem.) to the United States Senate for the terms beginning 1913 and 1915, respectively. . . . Henry J. Arnold is elected mayor of Denver on the Citizens' ticket. May 31.-The Senate passes the House bill... United States Senator W. Murray Crane (Rep., applying an eight-hour day to all contract work Mass.) announces that he will not be a candidate performed for the government; the conference for reëlection. May 30.-The Senate passes the House Steel bill, with the amendment repealing the Canadian reciprocity act. May 22.-A conference committee of the Senate and House adopts a provision in the Army appropriation bill which would make Major-General Wood ineligible as Chief of Staff. May 24. The Massachusetts Senate passes a bill establishing a minimum wage for women and minors in manufacturing mercantile establishments.... The defendants in the government's suit against the alleged Wall Paper Trust, at Chicago, are acquitted of the charge of conspiracy in restraint of trade. May 28.-Colonel Roosevelt carries the New Jersey Presidential primary by 16,000 votes over President Taft; Governor Wilson wins in the Democratic contest. . . .The Ohio Constitutional Convention adopts a proposal granting the suffrage to women. May 31. The twenty-eight New Jersey delegates to the Republican National Convention select Borden D. Whiting as national committeeman and agree to vote-first, last, and alwaysfor Mr. Roosevelt. June 1.-The Ohio Constitutional Convention adjourns, having prepared forty-two constitutional amendments (see page 83). June 3.-The Ohio State Republican Convention is controlled by the Taft forces, although Walter F. Brown, the Roosevelt leader, is reëlected SENATOR JAMES A. REED OF MISSOURI (Who was selected to make the speech nominating Champ Clark, of his State, at Baltimore) Senate Committee on Naval Affairs restores to the appropriation bill the provision for two new battleships, which had been dropped by the House Democrats. . . . President Taft urges that the Republican National Committee dispose of all contests in open sessions. June 4. In the South Dakota Presidential primary, Colonel Roosevelt received 33,600 votes, Senator La Follette 17,900, and President Taft 10,100. The Ohio Republican Convention elects six Taft men as delegates-at-large to the national convention. June 6.-The Republican National Committee meets in Chicago, elects Victor Rosewater, of Nebraska, chairman, and decides to admit press representatives to hearings of contested delegations. June 7.-Twenty-four contested seats in the Republican National Convention are decided in favor of President Taft. . . . The United States Supreme Court unanimously reverses the Commerce Court in several cases, and declares that that court must not substitute itself for the Interstate Commerce Commission. June 8.-The second day's hearings of the cases of contested delegations to the Republican National Convention result in the seating of fortyeight Taft delegates. June 10.-The Republican National Committee Photograph by the American Press Association, New York the Taft men. . . . The United States Supreme Court adjourns for the summer. June 11.-The contests for Kentucky's delegation to the Republican National Convention are decided in favor of the Taft men, with the exception of one seat. . . . Governor Oddie of Nevada appoints George Wingfield to succeed the late United States Senator Nixon. POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT-FOREIGN May 18.-The draft of the constitution of the Chinese Republic, which will be submitted to the National Assembly, is made public at Peking... The Japanese elections result in a return of the Seiyukai government. May 20. It is reported at Havana that an outbreak of negroes is imminent throughout Cuba, because of discontent in the matter of political rewards. . . . The Mexican rebels are forced to evacuate the town of Escalon. . . . The governor of Sin-Kiang province, China, is murdered by Mohammedan reactionaries. May 21. The German Reichstag passes the bills increasing the army and navy.... A new ministry (coalition) is formed in Chile. . . . The $41,000,000 Paris bond issue is oversubscribed eighty times. May 22. During the final session of the German Reichstag, the Emperor is severely criticized May 23-As a protest against the election of Count Tisza as president of the lower House in Hungary, a general Socialist strike is called, with serious rioting and loss of life in Budapest. . . . Paul Deschanel is elected president of the French Chamber of Deputies. ... Tang Shao-yi, Premier of China, resigns; the budget shows a deficit of $200,000,000.... The Mexican insurgents are decisively defeated in a battle near Rellano. May 24. The negro uprising in Cuba assumes serious proportions. May 26.-The Presidential election in Peru is declared off because of rioting. . . . A large force of Moroccan tribesmen attack the French garrison at Fez. May 28.-Efforts are made by government officials to settle the dock strike in London. May 29.-President Gomez issues a proclamation belittling the Cuban insurrection.... An attempt is made to blow up with dynamite the House of Parliament at Budapest. May 30.-Several skirmishes are reported between the Cuban insurgents and the government forces. June 2. The parliamentary elections in Belgium result in an increased majority for the Clerical party.... President Gomez requests the Cuban Congress to suspend constitutional guaranties. . . . It is reported that the Moorish tribesmen have been repulsed from Fez with the loss of six hundred men. June 4.-Serious political disturbances occur throughout Belgium.... Sixty Hungarian Deputies are ejected from Parliament for violence in obstructing the passage of government measures. June 5.-Count Tisza suspends the sittings of the Hungarian Diet. Chancellor Lloyd-George advocates, in the British House, a conciliation board to settle the dock strike. . . . The Vasconcelles cabinet in Portugal resigns. June 6.-The rioting continues in Belgium; 100,000 men are reported to be on strike. June 7.-The Chihuahua legislature in Mexico authorizes the issuance of $1,000,000 bonds, carrying the guarantee of the state and of General Orozco, to be used in financing the revolution.... An attempt is made to assassinate Count Tisza, president of the Hungarian Diet, by an opposition member. June 8.-A Bosnian student attempts to assassinate the Governor of Croatia, at Agram. June 9.-Mexican rebels are routed near Torreon by federal cavalry. June 10. Col. John E. B. Seely is appointed Secretary of State for War in Great Britain, Viscount Haldane becoming Lord High Chancellor. The Czar of Russia visits Moscow for the first time in nine years. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS May 17.-The Turkish garrison at Rhodes surrenders to the Italian troops after an eight-hour battle. May 18.-A British cruiser is sent to the island of Ormuz, in the Persian Gulf, which is threatened by a force of Arab tribesmen. May 20.-The Turkish island of Symi, near (From left to right: Representatives Brown, W. Va., Neeley, Kan., Byrnes, S. C., Pujo, La. (chairman), Daugherty, Mo., Hayes, Cal., and Heald, Del.) THE PUJO "MONEY TRUST" COMMISSION IN SESSION IN NEW YORK CITY May 23. The situation in Cuba is deemed so acute that two battalions of United States marines are sent to protect American interests. May 25. A fleet of nine United States war vessels, with extra marines, is ordered to assemble at Key West for possible service in Cuba. . . . The United States consul-general at Mexico City is warned by Zapata, the revolutionary leader, that he plans to attack the city and that all Americans should leave. May 27.-President Taft informs the Cuban President that the mobilizing of the fleet at Key West is not a step toward intervention. May 28.-Seven hundred American marines are landed at Guantanamo, Cuba. May 31.-Consul Letcher, at Chihuahua, Mexico, is ordered to investigate the reports that Orozco, the revolutionary leader, had threatened American life and property. June 1.-Americans at El Cobre, Cuba, appeal to the State Department for help, and a gunboat with marines is rushed to their assistance. June 3.-The German battleship squadron, visiting the United States, is received by President Taft in Hampton Roads. June 4.-The German Emperor cables to President Taft his thanks for the hearty greeting accorded the German fleet. June 6.-A convention is signed at Washington which provides a parcels-post arrangement between the United States and Panama. June 7.-The United States battleships Ohio and Minnesota arrive at Guantanamo, Cuba. June 10.-The officers of the German squadron are entertained at a banquet in New York given by Mayor Gaynor. OTHER OCCURRENCES OF THE MONTH May 17.-Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, dean of Brown University, is elected president of Amherst College. May 18. The battleship Texas, the greatest yet at Newport News. . . . The anthracite mine workers, in convention at Wilkes-Barre, ratify the wage agreement and will return to work. . . Eight persons are killed and sixty injured in a railroad accident outside the Gare du Nord, Paris. May 19.-Melville, La., is inundated by the breaking of a levee on the Atchafalaya River, and five hundred persons are made homeless. May 20.-A new working agreement is signed at Philadelphia between representatives of anthracite miners and operators.... The French dirigible Clement-Bayard III ascends to a height of more than 9500 feet near Paris. May 22.-Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the suffragette leader, and Mr. and Mrs. F. Pethick Lawrence, the editors of Votes for Women, are found guilty of conspiracy and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. May 23. A strike is called of all transportation workers throughout Great Britain. . . . The Presbyterian General Assembly, at Louisville, refuses to open the pulpit to women. . . . The twelfth International Congress of Navigation begins at Philadelphia. May 24.-The strike of transport workers, affecting 100,000 men, begins in London. . . . The last three of the eight new Methodist bishops are elected at the general conference in Minneapolis (see page 42). . . . The Board of Estimate of New York City approves the new subway system. . . . After a serious riot in Budapest, the government induces the manufacturers to take back the locked-out metal workers. . . . Edson J. Chamberlain is chosen president of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada. May 27. Rev. Dr. James M. Buckley retires as editor of the Christian Advocate, after thirtytwo years of service. . . . Henry B. Bond, of Vermont, is elected president of the Northern Baptist Convention, at Des Moines. May 29.-A committee representing the survivors of the Titanic present a silver loving cup to Captain Rostron, of the Carpathia, and medals to every officer and member of the crew. . . . The Carnegie Foundation for International Peace ends associated with Ericcson in the designing of the at Paris. . . . A strike is declared by the street- Monitor, 76. railway employees of Lisbon. May 29-30. Many of the London dock employers and shipowners refuse the government's invitation to a joint conference. June 1. The New German military dirigible, Zeppelin III, makes her maiden voyage from Friedrichshaven to Hamburg, a distance of 450 miles. . . . M. Robi is killed by the capsizing of his aeroplane at Savigny-sur-Orge, France. June 2. The Zeppelin III flies without stop from Hamburg to Bremen and back.... Two German aviators, Albert Buchstaetter and Lieutenant Stille are killed by a fall in their machine at Bremen. June 3.-Fire in Stamboul, the Mohammedan section of Constantinople, destroys 2000 houses. June 6.-Gottlieb Rost, a German aviator, is mortally injured by a fall at Hamburg. June 7.-The leaders of the London dock strike threaten to call a nation-wide strike unless the employers agree to the men's demands. June 8. An imposing monument to Christopher Columbus, in the plaza before the Union Station in Washington, is unveiled by the Italian Ambassador.... The French submarine Vendemiaire rises under the bows of a battleship during maneuvers off Cherbourg, and sinks, twenty-three lives being lost. June 9.-A strike of elevated railway employees in Boston necessitates the presence of police on all cars. The German battleship squadron, with its American escort, anchors in the Hudson River off New York City.... Two French aviators, Kimmerling and Tonnet, are killed at Mourmelon. The departure of La France from Havre for New York is postponed on account of a strike of the crew. June 10.-A general strike affecting 300,000 transport workers in Great Britain is called. The scamen's strike at Havre grows more serious. ... The acroplane race between Berlin and Vienna is won by Helmuth-Hirth; the 330 miles are covered in 395 minutes. June 11--Lieut. Leighton W. Hazelhurst, Jr., U. S. A., and Al Welsh, a professional aviator, are killed following an accident to their machine at the army aviation field, College Park, Md. OBITUARY May 18.-Brig.-Gen. Paul A. Oliver, U. S. A., retired, 80.... James D. Porter, formerly governor of Tennessee and later minister to Chile, 84. ... Dr. Ferdinand Herff, a noted Texas surgeon,92. May 19.-Henry Ware Putnam, one of the founders of the Germanic Museum at Harvard.... John Clay Ferriss, founder of the famous Ferriss Nursery in Nashville, 75... Alexander Glowacki "(Boleslaus Prus"), the Polish novelist and publicist, 65. May 20.-Associate Justice Christopher M. Lee, of the Superior Court of Rhode Island, 57. May 21.-Sir Julius Charles Wernher, head of the De Beers Diamond Syndicate, 62.... David Brainerd Perry, president of Doane College (Nebraska), 73. May 22.-Count Nicolai Dmitrijevietch von der Osten-Sacken, Russian ambassador to Germany, 81.... George H. Peabody, of New York, a May 23. Frank Davis Hill, United States Consul-General at Frankfort-on-Main, Germany, 50.. John Wesley Hoyt, formerly territorial governor of Wyoming, 80. May 24.-Alexander Stewart, a former member of Congress from Wisconsin, 82. May 25.—Ex-Governor Austin Lane Crothers, of Maryland, 52.... Edward E. Kilbourn, inventor of hosiery machines, 81. May 26.-Jan Blockx, the noted Belgian composer, 61 May 27.-Matthew Chaloner Durfee Borden, the prominent cotton goods manufacturer, 59. Mrs. Katharine Stark Tyler, formerly professor of music at Syracuse University.... Alejandro Lopez de Romana, a former President of Peru. May 28.-Dr. William McMichael Woodworth, of Harvard University, an authority on zoology, 48. May 30.-Wilbur Wright, the noted inventor of the acroplane and the first man to fly in an enginedriven, heavier-than-air machine, 45 (see page 44). ... Gen. Henry Moore Baker, formerly Congressman from New Hampshire, 71. June 1.-Daniel Hudson Burnham, the noted architect, 66.... P. O'Neill Larkin, of Massachusetts, a well-known Irish Nationalist leader, 68. Major William H. Lambert, of Philadelphia, prominent in insurance circles, and a noted collector of Lincoln relics, 70. . . . Dr. John Arthur Irwin, of New York, a well-known writer on medical subjects, 59. June 2.-Sidney Thomas Fuller, an expert on railroad engineering, 76. . . . Col. Joseph E. Caven, formerly a prominent newspaper proprietor, 67. June 3. Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster, the noted author and editor, 74.... Rt. Rev. John Sheepshanks, formerly Bishop of Norwich (England), 78. . . . Henry S. Dickinson, a prominent paper manufacturer of New England, 49. ... June 4.-Gen. Duncan S. Walker, of New Jersey, formerly a well-known newspaper writer. Representative Elbert Hamilton Hubbard, of Iowa, 63.... Royal Chapin Taft, formerly governor of Rhode Island, 89. Senator from Nevada, 52.... Brig.-Gen. Aquila June 5.-George Stuart Nixon, United States Wiley, U. S. A., retired, 80. Rev. Dr. Wilson Amos Farnsworth, the oldest missionary of the American Board, 89.... Professor Arthur Herbert Merritt, of Trinity College, a leading Greek scholar. ... Mrs. Mary D. Lowman, the first woman mayor in Kansas, 70. June 6.-Giulio di Tito Ricordi, the noted Italian music publisher, 72.... Judge Thomas John Morris, of the federal District Court of Maryland, 74.. Stephen A. Chase, treasurer of the Christian Science Church of America, 73. June 8.-Rev. Abraham C. Levinson, of Baltimore, a noted Jewish scholar. . . . Capt. Alvin C. Norcross, of Boston, builder of one of the first automobile carriages, 69. June 9.-Rear-Admiral Benjamin Peffer Lamberton, Ú. S. N., retired, 68. June 10.-Miss Sophie B. Wright, the noted charitable worker and educator of New Orleans, 46.... Justice William Schofield, of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, 55. June 11.-Representative Robert C. Wickliffe, |