03 Mar 1913
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1913
Page
1
The State Board of Equalization has decided to set all assessments at full value, complicating tax computations for Solon residents and businesses. The ruling affects appeal rights and may raise tax bills for property owners statewide.
In Santa Fe the senate debates taxation reforms drafted by the attorney general for the state board of equalization. Aimed at universal and fair valuation, the bills would broaden board authority, require post assessment levies, and permit special agents to inspect counties. The measure would empower the board to oversee assessors, collectors, and county boards, and to correct wrongful assessments while ensuring levies adjust with value changes.
Preparations are complete for a national suffrage parade in Washington with more than five thousand women expected to march. Organizers say the event will showcase coordinated banners and a show of support across multiple advocacy groups.
In Washington a suffrage gala and pageant unfolds with 5000 women marching from Peace Monument to the treasury, then Continental Hall for a monster meeting. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt and “General” Rosalie Jones headline, with Inez Mulhalland and others speaking on equal franchise and the world movement for women’s rights.
Carl Browne, a former Coxey's Army lieutenant, heads about 60 men from San Francisco toward Sacramento to press for poverty abolition legislation. Each marcher carries a blanket and an empty tomato can as a coffee pot. Browne says he could gather 1,000 but seeks 100 now, with more to join along the way. An odd Berkeley stop is planned for a wedding.
Arab assault on Tripoli is repulsed with heavy losses reported by Stalian authorities. Post says 35 wounded and additional casualties among attackers after two native squads engage the defenders. An officer among the Stalian force is said to be wounded.
Princeton Rah Rah Boys to act as guard of honor for the next president. Five hundred students expected to participate in the escort and ceremony marking Washington's arrival.
President elect Woodrow Wilson leaves Princeton after a day of farewells as he packs for Washington. A Princeton train will carry Wilson and family to the capital with students greeting them. counts of trunks and a ceremonial sendoff mark the final hours before the inauguration.
A Porto Rican Democratic delegation plans to meet New York leaders to press for a definite definition of Porto Rican products in the sugar tariff bill. They seek immediate appointments to fill vacancies in the United States district court and island executive council. Members include Henry O. Dooley and three native Porto Ricans Texider Guerre and Amado.
The president elect sworn in and the successor to be inaugurated. The retiring president departs for the White House and attends the court of honor pageant. Tammany Hall forces from New York join the inaugural parade for the first time in twenty years, arriving on six special trains tomorrow. About 30 000 people are expected to march.
The fifth International Good Roads Congress in Chicago urged states to employ convicts on public highways with a commutation of ten days off per thirty days worked. It also supported national road construction and a Lincoln Memorial highway linking Washington to state capitals, with the next congress set for San Francisco in 2015 during the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
Morning Journal reports a border engagement near De las Ariz between Mexican soldiers and US cavalry. Four Mexican troops were killed, several American soldiers wounded, and a tense mob of Douglas and Derby residents armed for potential invasion.
A border clash near Douglas Arizona involved sixty Mexican soldiers and about a dozen Ninth Cavalry troopers led by Lieutenant Michaelson. Reports vary on casualties with six Mexicans reported killed by city officials and authorities in Phoenix. The fight prompted calls for urgent orders to protect Americans on the frontier. Newspaper reporters searched the scene for dead or wounded but found none.
Washington reports no official detail on a border running fight near Douglas Artz between Mexican troops and Ninth Cavalry. Major General Leonard Wood asked for full facts, expressing belief that any U.S. firing would imply an attack on American forces.
The sixty second congress nears its end with adjournment imminent. Two years of legislative work conclude as lawmakers wrap up key votes and pending measures before the session ends.
As Congress adjourned, sweeping statutes, tariffs, and probes defined two years of activity. Key actions included the Panama Canal law, a workers bureau, canons of public finance, and the Lorimer and Archbald cases shaping political theater amid calls for anti trust reform and monumental investigations.
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