Sugar tariff fight looms as Louisiana backs bounty repeal
Washington May 6 Special. House Ways and Means calls a special meeting to report the Dockery resolution repealing the sugar bounty as an amendment to the legislative bill. Louisiana senators press for protection so sugar prices stay favorable, while Democrats push a rapid tariff bill passage. Colquitt memory honored. Georgia seeks large federal exhibit funds for Atlanta. river and harbor appropriations favor Georgia projects across multiple rivers and harbors, with Savannah and Brunswick among key sites.
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House
Senate
Louisiana
Ways and Means Committee
Alten Fort
Americus
Interstate Commerce Commission
Thomas W. Hardwick
Tenville
Henry
Rickering
Hill
Alhance
Facn
Smith
New Jersey
Senator Hill
New York
Fhm
Bourke Cochran
Georgia
Atlanta
Livingston
Colauitt
Confederate Veterans’ Association
Colquitt
Association
Walsh
Colonel Livingston
Major Black
J. Nathan Monroe
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Savannah Harbor
Rhor
Savannah
Secretary of War
Tybee Roads
Brunswick
Cumberland Sound
Carlten
Altamaha River
Chattahoochee River
Alabama
West Point
Franklin
Flint River
Ocmulgee
Macon
Hawkinsville
Oconee
Milledgeville
Central Railroad
Savannah River
Savan
Augusta
Jekyl Creek
Doosa River
Rome
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Wetumka
Ala
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Fernandina
Fla
In Congress This Week Senate Tariff and Debate
Washington May 6 The Senate will meet after routine business to discuss the Chinese treaty in executive session. The finance committee will consider tariff amendments Tuesday and report them favorably. Hoar will speak on revenue features, while debates focus on late amendments and minority tactics.
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House
Washington
Finance Committee
Hoar
Massachusetts
Senate Committee
Hnes
Harris
Poth
Widow of Chief Justice Waite Supports Martha Washington Monument
Washington May 6 Mrs Waite widow of the late chief justice of the United States remains in the city and voices strong support for the Martha Washington monument planned for Fredericksburg Virginia to be unveiled May 10. Fredericksburg has given five acres of ground and 1000 dollars while the Mary Washington Society of Washington has raised about 20000 dollars. The society aims to build a keeper and superintendent house to protect the new monument from vandals and plans to reclaim swampy grounds around the rock where Mrs Washington rested as a girl. Mrs Waite is seeking funds for these purposes.
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Waite
Ralec
Washington
A High Old Time in Albany Ends in Debauchery Scandal
New York legislators adjourn amid a drunken orgy in Albany with many rural Republicans taking part. A dancing girl was brought to a prominent Delavan House suite, later found in a bathtub with water on after a drunken spree. The incident harmed several members, with tremens attacks reported and suspicions of coverups. Senator Hill clashed with Senator McPherson in Washington, culminating in a slap, while Blackburn advised no further action.
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Senate
Assembly
House
Albany
Delavan
Capitol
Delavan House
Committee On Immigration
Theelligerents
McPherson
Joe Blackburn
Blackburn
Peter Simpson
West
Man attacked by large tom cat at 216 116th st dies
Ailing Simpson of 214 West One Hundred Sixteenth Street is dying from wounds after a ferocious tom cat leaped from a coal bin during a battle in a crowded tenement. He fired five shots at the animal and was found unconscious. doctors fear blood poisoning as he remains bedridden.
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Simpson
Dr. Lombard
Eight Avenue
One Hundred
Ffteenth Street
Lombard
International bimetalism debate shocks London and Washington
In London the House of Commons rejected a motion for an international gold silver standard pact. In Washington Senator Hill urged a global bimetallic standard, saying silver should share money with gold and predicting the movement will shape future policy. A New York anarchist rally stirred by speakers including Mrs. de Cleyre and John Most drew police attention.
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London
Samuel Smith
House of Commons
Bill
Washington
Hill
England
Voorhees
Friends of Silver Money
Friends of
Silver Money
Representative Hatch
Missouri
Allget
Cox
Tennessee
McCreary
Kentuckyia
T Haive
English Labor Demonstration at Trafalgar Square May Day
London reports show eight hour workday protest as thousands march from Poplar to Hyde Park led by gas workers and dockers with speakers including John Burns and Keir Hardie. French and Belgian socialists address the crowd. Eleanor Marx translates. In St Louis coal supplies inch toward normal as mines reopen under protection. Paris notes General Ferron dies from a horse accident in Lyons with a military career spanning Crimea Algeria and the Franco Prussian War.
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London
East End
Poplar
Bow
Deptford
Woolwich
Hackney
Battersea
Hyde Park
Gas Workers
General League of Laborers
Trafalgar Square
Pouare
Wall
Jules Guesde
Lafargue
Volders
Eleanor Marx-Aveling
Karl Marz
St. Louie
Simpson
Consolidated Coal Company
Staunton
Lil
Clinoia
Vandalia
St. Louis
General Ferron
Paris
Lyons
Theonile Adrien Ferron
Algeria
Bouvier
Commodore Kelly's Flatboat Fleet Near Ready for Washington
Reports from Des Moines and surrounding towns describe Commodore Kelly's navy yard at the Des Moines and Racion rivers. About fifty of the planned one hundred fifty flatboats are completed and ready to transport the army, with remaining boats due tomorrow. Wealthy citizens guaranteed materials. hundreds tour the yard as carpenters and shipbuilders work.
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Coxey
Kelly
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Racion
Sovereign
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Homestead
Thomas Galvin
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Prosprietor Hunter
St. James
Randall
Valparaiso
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Normal School
Westville
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