National Congress Daily Summary of Proceedings
Senate debates currency bill and constitutional term change hearings. Resolutions urge anti trust measures and self rule for Philippines and Africa war stance. House debates currency bill, adopts holiday recess, addresses pension, land, and Alaska governance, with multiple bills on states and veterans.
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Washington
Mason
Senate
Great Britain
Foreign Committee
Mec
Cullom
Interstate Commere Commission
Pettit ‘Graw
Admiral Dewey
Philippine Republic
Leonard Wood
Volunteers
Gallinger
N.H
GAR
United States
Hawaii
Mass
Lington
Pettigrew
P . Christ
Philippines
Donlvey
DeArmond
Grosvenor
Cochran
Newlands
Williams
Spain
Arizona
Alaska
Naval Academy
Bulger
South Africa
Notable Severe Fires and Crimes in Early December
Minor news items list disasters and incidents from across the U S including a fire damaging Lincoln penitentiary and a San Francisco theater, a lynching in Jones La, deaths of author William H Carpenter and others, a 100 year old frame house loss in Williamsburg NY with three killed, a suicide by Henry Landis, and a San Francisco swim record. Also mentions an International Farmers union organizing in Binghamton NY and various political figures' deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Neb
Jones
San Francisco
William H. Carpenter
Baltimore
Frank Walker
Moundsville
W. Va
Thomas Sanders
Williamsburg
N. Y
R.,p. Shick
United States
John J. Ingalls
Reading
Nelson
Hamilton
Alliance
International Farmers’ Union
Binghamton
Henry Landis
Baltimore Board of Trade
Williams
Pawnee County
Perry
D. S
H. W. Widemann
Svar
William
Ohio
Campbell Administra Bellefontaine
William F. Rogers
Suede Pively Comptroller
Mene Oe
Eugene Pe Gineville
D. the. Tynes
Convention site vote and upcoming events in 1900
The national committee chose Chicago, St. Louis and New York as finalists for hosting the convention. Philadelphia led 24 to 23 in final ballots. McKinley’s renomination was urged as the convention’s purpose, while other items note a guilty plea in a separate murder case and Chicago set to host the prohibition convention at the Coliseum in June 1900.
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National Republican Committee
Chicago
St. Louis
New York
Philadelphia
McKinley
New Coliseum
Oliver W., Stewart
National
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