Lawmakers Enter Last Week of Uneventful Action
Naming of steering committees in Senate and House today is expected to expedite work of solons during the final week of the session.
10 Mar 1913
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1913
Page
1
Naming of steering committees in Senate and House today is expected to expedite work of solons during the final week of the session.
The calendar highlights the fair bill together with the Taxation Amendment and Creation of Sumner County as the most important matters for passage today.
Santa Fe March 9 The compromise note is sounded as Republicans seek to avoid a lengthy extra session. They propose reducing salaries for county officials and waiving certain county posts to 500, hoping the governor will sign. If vetoed they plan to block funding for mileage and per diem to deter an extended session.
State capitol actions focus on closing sessions with salary, appropriation and tax measures. Lawmakers review crossing of bills, with Senate and House awaiting governor signature on the raised salary bill and potential veto, while finance committees push the Albuquerque fair funding and taxation amendment prospects improve.
Lawmakers weigh house and senate steering panels as key bills move through. Names like Clark Holt Cramp ton and Llewellyn surface as probable members while Vargas and Llewellyn are tipped for chair. Coal oil inquiry may end with a partial report and a possible discharge order. Prospects for Summer County look favorable though Coronado County appears unlikely this session.
New York March 9 Archbishop Novel provisional president of Santo Domingo resigns and leaves for Europe. The collapse of the Novel administration, formed with U S assistance after the revolution, is blamed on revolutionary hostility over his failure to call a popular election per the November compact with the American commission and revolutionary leaders.
Brigadier General Frank McIntyre head of the Bureau of Insular Affairs and an American Commission member returned from Santo Domingo where a provisional government was set up after a revolution. He said Archbishop Nouvel may have been pressured into resigning by office seekers but no agreement with the commission on elections existed. He saw no US interference unless disorder followed. No official word yet on Nouvel's resignation.
President Wilson has accepted the resignation of William Marshall Bullitt as solicitor general, to take effect March 11. Abram S. Elkus of New York, counsel for the Democratic National Committee, is mentioned as Bullitt’s probable successor.
Enver Bey at San Stefano mobilizes forces to block a mutinous advance from the Tchatalja Lines toward Constantinople, aiming to preserve the capital amid rising unrest.
Reports from Constanti nople and Janina recount Greek gains from the Epirus campaign and Turkish resistance under Esad Pasha. Greek losses near 1,800 in Janina, overall 15,000 killed and wounded. Turkish forces exhausted yet not starving despite shortages. Serb reinforcements sail toward San Giovanni di Meda as Scutari fronts tighten.
Constantinople reports Allied artillery shelled Adrianople on Thursday and Friday while Turkish forts replied. Bulair batteries repulsed an enemy battalion with heavy losses, and the Turkish cruiser Torgut Reis silenced allied guns. No new word on Tehatalfa. News note mentions Janina surrender rumors to the Greeks.
Athens reports sustained enthusiasm in Janina as Greeks rejoice over a rescuer. Daily celebrations rise, Greek princes receive ovations, and stories tell of Turkish officers receiving bread cheese and tinned meat when a white flag flew over the Turkish fort. Turks respond with gratitude via their officers.
Union men of Kansas City pledged themselves to day to give 1 each to finance a cooperative store selling produce at cost to union men. They hope to reduce the cost of living and expect about 12 000 to start the store.
Louis St. Gaudens a sculptor and assistant to his brother Augustus Saint Gaudens died in Cornish New Hampshire from pneumonia. He was 59 and born in New York. His best known work includes the arch at the new Washington railroad station.
Cairo reports ex-president Porfirio Diaz departed for Mexandria en route to Italy. Diaz, a former Mexican head of state, traveled from Cairo on March 9 as part of his international itinerary.
Panama reports that after April 1 the Isthmian decommission will hinder workers bringing families to the zone. The action aims to relieve congestion in employee quarters amid planned abandonment of Gorgona housing. An executive Taft order restricting entry from Canal Zone to the continental U S was received.
Washington March 9 spring weather with fair skies and normal temperatures is forecast for the coming week by the Weather Bureau. The weekly bulletin notes distribution of pressure over the northern hemisphere indicates the week will be generally formal in temperature with light precipitation and no widespread stormexpected.
The national anti opium congress aims to aid China in ending the opium trade. It will appeal to the Young Men's Christian Association and missionary societies worldwide to raise funds to purchase large opium stocks at treaty ports for burning.
Levi P. Morton former vice president passed a comfortable night and was decidedly better today his condition though improved remains grave at New York hospital on March 9.
Prantikes a Greek condemned for killing two policemen at San Quentin asks to hear Neapolitan and Greek street songs from a female singer before his hanging. He told Warden John Hoyle he wants coffee and a cigar and a singer to perform Malian and Greek tunes, then he will be ready.
Havana March 9 President Gomez vetoed the general amnesty bill after a remonstrance from American Minister heaupre. Congress may pass the bill stripped of objectionable features. Overcrowded jails prompt calls for release of hundreds of negroes captured during last year’s Oriente revolt.
Provisional President Huerta works to conciliate where possible while taking decisive action where necessary, amid Mexico's struggle to restore order after a period of unrest and anarchic conditions.
Mexico City March 9 reports show improvement across the republic outside Coahuila and Sonora. Zapatista outrages lessen while Zapata stays covert though open to peace. several hundred rebels have laid down arms and amnesty-law talks continue with congress.
New York report says Francisco Madero and Ernesto Madero visited friends and indicated intentions to retain ownership of their substantial Mexican real estate valued around 160 million dollars. Mrs. Francisco Madero and the widow of the late president expected to join from Havana.
London dispatch reports General Porfirio Diaz, before leaving Cairo, expressing strong disapproval of the death of Francisco I. Madero. Diaz condemned the violence and called for stability amid the upheaval in Mexico.
Dispatch to the Express reports General Diag warning of a grave Mexican situation especially in finance. He notes the treasury held 26 million dollars in specie before his resignation and only 45 thousand remained after Madero was deposed. He mentions a planned 50 thousand loan.
Report says all federals captured by Carranza forces at Lampasas Texas were executed late today in Mexico. The claim remains unconfirmed.
Paris reports Duchess de Talleyrand Anna Gould insists she never wrote a letter alleged to show intent to remain Protestant for a divorce. She protests the trial for lack of notice and counsel. Count Castellane declines to discuss trial phases revealed by indiscretion and says Vatican actions did not aim to wed an American heiress.
William D. Haywood president of the Industrial Workers of the World spoke to a large crowd in a Paterson grove urging all labor to unite for higher wages and better conditions. He pledged to stay in the east until the strike succeeds as engineers and teamsters prepare to join.
Suffragettes burned the wooden pavilion of the Bowling club at Heaton Park Newcastle this morning. They left a card inscribed No peace until votes for women.
Searcely audible speeches by Mrs Flora Drummond and colleagues as five thousand residents gathered at Hyde Park and Wimbledon common. Mounted and foot police protected speakers after crowds surged, with eggs thrown at spectators and Hampstead Heath meeting adjourned in confusion.
A marked improvement was noted today in Pope Pius X condition with less throat inflammation and hoarseness. The Pope said he feels relieved and hopes his tyrants would enable him to resume the ordinary course of life soon.
President Wilson will take a hand in framing legislation with Congress to back tariff revisions and currency reform. He plans to work with party leaders to shape measures before introduction and use administration influence to secure support from Democrats and progressive Republicans.
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