President's swipe at lobbyists fuels tariff talk
Washington May 26 President Wilson denounced the industrious insidious lobby in Washington as efforts against free raw wool and sugar receive new attention. Senators and representatives weigh bills to regulate lobbyists with penalties for violations. Debates focus on Underwood tariff schedules including wheat duties and removal of duties on cattle and meats. Manufacturers from Ohio urge delay in tariff effect dates to adapt to new rates as committees hear many witnesses.
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Morning Journal
Washington
Wilson
Simmons, Phairman
Finance Committee
House
Senate
Kenyon
Iowa
C. B. Smith
New York
al Smart
Democratic Caucus
Agso
Williams
Finance
Pomerene
Ohio
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Johnson
Stone
Darwin P. Kinsley
Kinsley
New York Life Insurance Company
Cummins
Finance panel bills ad valorem rate shift sparks dispute
Experts on the finance committee reduced Payne Aldrich bill rates to ad valorem equivalents in the Underwood bill. The substitutes were called misleading in many cases. Senator Simmons said he would seek to determine the method used by the experts.
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Perts
Finance Committee
Payne-Aldrich
Underwood
Simmons
Mexicans Accused of Conspiracy Freed in Arizona Court
In Nogales on May 26 seven Mexicans arrested on conspiracy charges against Sonora’s government were released by a U S commissioner’s court after a Mexican-American arrestee testified his confession was coerced. The confession linked others arrested by U S authorities. In New Jersey, Chancellor-Sheriff reform bill passed the Senate by party lines after clearing the General Assembly two weeks earlier.
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Ariz
Sonora
Wee
United States Commissioner's Court
Jose Maruel
Arizona
Manuel
United States
Trenton
N. J
Senate
General Assembly
Sonora Seizure Orders Confederate Property Confiscation
Governor Pesquiera and secretary of state announce confiscation of all Sonora state property tied to the Cientifico party. Lands, mines, cattle to be seized with proceeds to state treasury in ninety days. Francisco Elias plans a Sonora state bank with 1,000,000 capitalization, $400,000 from Elias family, to issue 1,000,000 in paper currency backed by gold. Generals Maas and Miguel Gil reportedly arrested. Ojeda leads federal forces at Guaymas.
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OUPN
Doughis
Ariz
Pesquiera
Sonora
Cientifico" Party
Porfirio Diaz
Mexico
United States
Francisco Elias
Revolution Committee
Elias
Nogales
Maas
Miguel Gil
Guaymas
Mexico City
Pedro Ojeda
Rabago Resigns Governor Post in Chihuahua Mexico
El Paso May 26 General Antonio Rabago resigns as military governor of Chihuahua state effective immediately. He will travel to Mexico City pending unspecified reasons and successor. Rabago, a regular army general, was appointed after the Mexico City revolt.
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Il Paso
Texas
Antonio Rabage
Chihuahua
Mexico City
Rabage
Secretary Lane to Revise Land Regulations
Secretary Lane signals an inquiry into land office rules to favor bona fide settlers and homemakers while hindering dummy entrymen and speculators. A hearing set for June 5 in Salt Lake City will involve personal representatives of the secretary and state governors.
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Washington
Lane
Land Office
South Dakota
Salt Lake City
Patent Monopoly Receives Death Blow by Court
A high court ruling strips proprietary medicine firms of power to set retail prices. The decision declares price controls a violation of fair trade, challenging dominant firms’ grip on pharmaceutical pricing and distribution.
Supreme Court voids patent price restraints on retailers
Washington May 26 The Supreme Court destroyed the patent monopoly claim that allowed patent owners to control resale prices for patented articles. The decision, applying to a nerve tonic, reverses the mimeograph precedent, with Day joining White Hughes and Lamar in overruling the prior policy. The majority held patent owners cannot fix retailer prices except where specific conditions existed in the mimeograph case.
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OY Momning Journal
Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
McKenna
Lurten
Holmes
Vandeventer
White
Hughes
Lamar
Justice Day
Justice Pitney
Nebraska Man Saved From Jail By Wilson
President Wilson granted an indefinite stay of sentence to Dr. Theodore Khuras of Minira New York who was convicted at Omaha of using the mails to defraud. He was sentenced to four months in prison and a $400 fine for selling stock in a company promoting an invention Congressmen Bremmer and Baker of New Jersey said had proved successful, saving Khuras from jail tomorrow.
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Morning Journal
Washington
Wilson
Theodore Khuras
Minira
N. Y
Omaha
Kharas
Bremmer and Baker
New Jersey
President Wilson Nominates Two for Senate
Washington May 26 President Wilson sent to the senate nominations for an appraiser of merchandise in the district of Portland Oregon George KE Welter and for a collector of internal revenue in the district of Montana William Whales.
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Morning Journal Special
Washington
Wilson
Senate
District of Portland
Ore
George Ke, Welter
Internal Revenue
District of
Montana
William
Motion to interpellate Mexican president over Arizona land bill
In Mexico City on May 26 a motion to interpellate the president was introduced in the chamber of deputies. It asks what is being done or what the president proposes to do regarding Arizona's bill prohibiting Mexicans and other foreigners from owning land in that state. The motion was referred to a committee.
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Mexico City
Chamber of Deputies
Arizona
Supreme Court rules fraud orders immune from court review
Washington May 26 The supreme court held that fraud orders issued by the postmaster general are not subject to judicial review as a general rule. The decision concerns W G Dewee of Boulder Colorado and several companies in which he was interested who faced such orders.
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Washington
Postmaster General
Supreme Court of the United States
W. G. Dewee
Boulder
Colo
Aviator Volplanes to Safe Landing in Flaming Plunge
In Salisbury England a Drilieh aviator Cologne Pizey and passenger H Fellows bailed out of a biplane after a carburetor fire ignited the fuel line. They leveled off into a steep descent, escaped with minor scorching, and exited as the gas tank exploded behind them.
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OY Morning Journal Special
Wink
Salisbury
England
Drilieh
Cologne Pizey
H. Fellows
Fellows
Pizey
Long Beach Pier Disaster Probed By Coroner Jury
May 26 Los Angeles relief efforts focus on blame for the Long Beach pier collapse that killed nearly twenty and injured about two hundred. A coroner's jury will begin testimony Thursday. graft allegations and pier construction history to be scrutinized. experts named by city and British societies to assess damage.
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Soening Journal
Specia
Los Angeles
Long Each Pier
Long Beach
Austin
Beach City
Calvin Hartwell
John J. Fredericks
Municipal Pier
City Auditorium
Joh. Losee
Eno
Losee
John Baird
Hatch
Longreach
Hartwell
Fredericks
Pope Comes Into Sunshine at Vatican Gardens
In Rome on May 26 the pope, ill previously, enjoyed half an hour of sun in the Vatican gardens. Vatican authorities rushed to pay homage upon learning he had left his apartments.
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Rome
Vatican Gardens
Vatican
Balkan Powers Press War Over Macedonia as Crises Worsens
Dr Daneff, Bulgarian delegate chief, presses allied powers at the peace talks warning that Bulgaria faces intolerable conditions. Britain appears to back Bulgaria while Russia resists breaking the Balkan league, and Servia, aided by Greece, plans to retain Macedonia districts amid conflicts with Greek outposts along the railway to Serres.
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Bulgaria
Edward Gres
Te Chronicle
Great Britain
France
Russia
Servia
Greece
Macedonia
Daily Telegraph
Serres
Greek Bulgarian fighting near Saloniki slams forces
Athens May 26. Official Greek losses show three officers and fifty six men killed and three officers and 134 men wounded in the clash with Bulgars near Saloniki. Fighting has ceased after King Constantine's arrival. Greece proposes a wide neutral zone demarcation between armies. Bulgarian premier pledges strict orders to limit clashes.
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Athens
Saloniki
Constantine
Greece
France denies being shut out of talks on Asia Minor settlement
Paris May 26 The French foreign minister M Pichon told the senate France is not being ignored in negotiations over the Asiatic Turkey settlement. He asserted France would secure recognition of its special position before the talks conclude despite the Baghdad railway concession to Germany. He warned that appeals for collaboration would be in vain if France’s rights in neighboring regions are not respected.
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Paris
M. Pichon
Senate
France
Turkey
Bagdad
Germany
Servia Demands Abrogation of Alliance in Treaty Review
Sofia May 26 The Servian demand for a revision of the alliance treaty in essential parts amounts to abrogation The Mir ce nter says Russia could be closely involved as an official arbiter though arbitration may avert Russian intervention Russia with support from other powers aims to prevent a conflict between the allies
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Sofia
Mir
Russia
Bulgaria Sees War as Inevitable Amid Alliancetense Tension
Vienna dispatches report Bulgaria regards war as inevitable. Serbia demands a revision of the alliance treaty, seen as an ultimatum. The Bulgarian cabinet is expected to refuse and demand strict treaty compliance. About eighty thousand troops are massed near Sofia with rapid redeployments toward Macedonia.
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Bulgaria
Sofia
Servia
Macedonia
Colorado Official's Children Expelled for Secret Societies
Teller Ammons son of Governor Elias Ammons and Evelyn Arnold daughter of Denver mayor Henry Arnold, with 58 students from Denver's five high schools, were expelled by Superintendent Smiley for alleged secret society ties. Ammons planned a referendum petition to ban fraternities and sororities in state high schools. Mike Arnold linked to student faculty clashes over sorority membership. Kern Resolution Reported Out. Washington, May 26.—Senate education and labor panel backs investigation into West Virginia coal strike zone. Vice President Marshall says agreed by unanimous consent but it becomes unfinished business and will be taken up after morning business.
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Morning Journal
Denver
Colo
Teller Ammons
Elias M. Ammons
Evelyn Arnold
Henry J. Arnold
Smiley
Young Ammons
Assembly
Mike Arnold
Kern
Washington
West Virginia
Senate
Education and Labor Committee
Marshall
AtteauX Renewed Pay From Wool Boss Questioned
May 26 report from Deston outlines defense asserting Frederick Atteaux received checks from American Woolen in legitimate employment. Prosecution alleges payments by William M Wood aided a conspiracy to taint textile strikers at Lawrence by dynamite planting. Witness William H Dwelly Jr testified Atteaux visited Woolen factories to discuss labor troubles and that two checks totaling 2260 were recorded as legitimate disbursements.
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Deston
Frederick Atteaux
American Woolen Company
Atteaux
William M. Wood
Wood
Dennis J. Collins
John J. Breen
Ernest W. Pitman
Lawrence
William H. Dwelly, Jr
Woolen Company
William M. Butler
Grasshopper Pest Invades Eastern New Mexico
A grasshopper column five miles wide and eighteen miles long moves northeast through northeastern New Mexico between Elida and Texline. Reports say millions of insects spread as they travel and strip land of grass and foliage. Livestock, especially sheep, suffer from lack of pasture. Government, state, and railroad experts join to fight the infestation.
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Morning Journal
Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
West
Oklahoma
Elida
Texline
Roosevelt Sues Ishpeming Publisher For 16000 Damages
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt sues George A. Newett publisher of the Iron Ore for 16000 alleging drunkenness in an editorial. The Marquette jury of eight men begins with Roosevelt expected as first witness. The judge orders the jurors kept from outsiders until verdict. Roosevelt’s presence draws little reaction from locals.
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Marquette
Mich
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
George A. Newett
Joseph Roberr
Teameter
Ishpeming
Thomas Pryor
Thomas Howard
Chocolay Township
Robert Bruce
Powell Township
William H. Matthews
William M. Fashbender
John Frederickson
Negaunee
William Garrow
Ely Township
Andrew P. Johnson
Humboldt Township
Derecaro
John A. Johnson
Skendia
William Sharp
taam@ster
England
Gus Polden
Wells Township
Richard C. Flannigan
Newett
Roosevelt
Iron Ore
Ishpeming, Mich
William P. Belden
Ishépeming
Horace Andrews
Cleveland
James R. Garfield
Myron Sherwood
Sherwood
Minneapolis
Jacob Miles
Judge Flannigan
Frank Tyree
Colonel Roosevelt
Tyree
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