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Maguire fines and prison in St Louis whisky case
Maguire, linked to the late St. Louis Whisky ring, was fined 5000 dollars and sentenced to six months in county jail. A San Francisco paper notes a bill to ban liquor sales within four miles of California University. The act mockingly named promotes pedestrianism among students. The Heathen Chinee cast his initial vote in Cincinnati, supporting the Democratic ticket, revealing intellectual decline. Government salary cuts and anti political contributions by employees are criticized as symbolic. Witnesses testifying before House committees sell claims to brokers at ten percent. Van Vort, on Indian Affairs, submitted a minority report opposing moving the Indian Bureau to the War Department. General Schenck sought twenty witnesses to prove charges against him false.